The Charlie Kirk Show - Retaking the Culture, One Film At a Time with Jeremy Boreing and Rep. Andy Biggs

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00:00:00.000 Today in the Charlie Kirk show, Andy Biggs joins the program to talk about the latest out of the U.S. House of Representatives and Jeremy Boring from DailyWire.com to talk about an amazing revolution happening in children's content.

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00:01:15.000 It's been a tough news day.

00:01:16.000 You know, people say, Charlie, you're too depressing.

00:01:18.000 I'm like, we just tell the truth that things are not great right now.

00:01:21.000 But there is some really good news.

00:01:23.000 And one of my favorite people, one of my favorite entrepreneurs who has had an unbelievable amount of success in this space and is only getting started, joins the program because he's now getting into children's programming.

00:01:33.000 Jeremy Boring from Daily Wire now launching Bent Key.

00:01:37.000 Jeremy, I got to get this whole thing figured out.

00:01:39.000 I have a one-year-old, so I don't want her watching any of this trans nonsense from Disney. 1.00

00:01:44.000 So I'm going to be a very loyal customer.

00:01:47.000 Tell us all about that launch and then also the Snow White news, which is awesome.

00:01:51.000 Jeremy Boring, tell us all about it.

00:01:53.000 Hey, Charlie, thanks for having me on.

00:01:55.000 Yeah, it's the biggest initiative ever undertaken by the Daily Wire.

00:01:58.000 We've launched an entirely new company called Bent Key.

00:02:01.000 And as you described it, it's an entertainment app for kids.

00:02:04.000 Right now, there are over 150 episodes of 18 series on the app, and five of them are original things that we created.

00:02:11.000 The rest are things that we cultivated and licensed from around the world and carefully vetted to make sure that there are no left-wing sucker punches, that you can trust us when you put your kids in front of this content, that they're not going to be treated like political pawns or social experiments in a pet tree dish.

00:02:26.000 They're not going to have values antithetical to your own inculcated in them as they're trying to be entertained.

00:02:31.000 They're just going to get to experience adventure and wonder and imagination and joy and be children.

00:02:37.000 And so talk, Jeremy, this shouldn't be an issue, right?

00:02:37.000 Yeah.

00:02:40.000 I mean, you're here going to build a sustainable business and let boys be boys and girls be girls.

00:02:46.000 But how did this become a market proposition, right?

00:02:49.000 Because it should be just okay.

00:02:50.000 Disney does its thing.

00:02:51.000 It's like, it's as if you shouldn't have to be doing this, right?

00:02:54.000 It's expensive.

00:02:55.000 It's hard work.

00:02:56.000 So walk us through this where things really got bad, where you as an entrepreneur met with your team and said, okay, we have to now create children's content.

00:03:04.000 Walk us through the timeline, please.

00:03:06.000 Well, obviously, Disney turned 100 years old on October 16th, the day that we launched our company.

00:03:12.000 And for most of that 100 years, Disney has been building goodwill and trust with parents across multiple generations.

00:03:19.000 They're the most important and powerful media company, entertainment media company that's ever existed.

00:03:23.000 And they have the greatest catalog of content ever created.

00:03:27.000 Disney is innovative.

00:03:28.000 They make beautiful content.

00:03:29.000 They make wonderful music.

00:03:31.000 They make the kind of content you were raised on and I was raised on, even that our parents were raised on.

00:03:35.000 This goes all the way back, like I say, a century.

00:03:39.000 So yes, there should be no reason why we have any opportunity in this space.

00:03:43.000 And yet, a little over one year ago, Chris Ruffo leaked footage from inside Disney where they said the quiet part out loud, which we all were beginning to realize, but now we couldn't deny it any longer.

00:03:54.000 And that's that executives and producers at Disney were inserted, quote, inserting queerness into their shows, had a quote, not so secret gay agenda, were inserting radical racial politics in their show, and were essentially being governed both at the corporate and content level with all the worst excesses of the woke left. 0.54

00:04:11.000 And what we thought is, yeah, this content is for children.

00:04:15.000 If you don't have Disney, if Disney has now betrayed its audience, not only is there a financial opportunity to get involved in this space, but there's a moral obligation to get into this space.

00:04:25.000 That's exactly right.

00:04:26.000 And I mean, the market is tens of millions of families, tens of millions of families that are looking for this type of content.

00:04:33.000 And the problem is, and talk about this, Jeremy, is that Disney has been able to take advantage of their incumbency.

00:04:41.000 They're able to spend more on design, music, editing.

00:04:45.000 And so it's just, you're kind of almost suckered in because it does look better than just some rink-a-dink thing.

00:04:50.000 So, therefore, Jeremy, you guys have spent and raised a considerable amount of money to compete on the aesthetics.

00:04:57.000 Tell us about that, Jeremy.

00:04:58.000 It's a huge investment.

00:05:00.000 Yeah.

00:05:00.000 Well, truly, Disney invented this space.

00:05:03.000 I mean, the first animated feature in the world is Snow White and the Seven Dwarves from Walt Disney.

00:05:08.000 He, it went 400% over budget.

00:05:10.000 He almost bankrupted the company.

00:05:12.000 He risked everything on the belief that this kind of an industry could exist.

00:05:16.000 And since that moment, that company has been innovating.

00:05:19.000 You know, every Pixar movie is a technological leap.

00:05:23.000 Beautiful animation, beautiful music, beautiful visual, beautiful story.

00:05:27.000 They spent hundreds of millions of dollars on single pieces of content.

00:05:32.000 So I have no delusion that we are today what Disney is today.

00:05:35.000 But my hope is that over time, we might be what they were once upon a time.

00:05:39.000 And that is an organization with a vision that will risk it all to pursue that vision and that you can trust with your kids, that your kids will be, that they'll want to watch it, Charlie.

00:05:48.000 That they won't watch it.

00:05:49.000 What I don't want is to meet some kid 15 years from now at a TPUSA event who says, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Bent Key, my parents used to make me watch that stuff.

00:06:00.000 I want to meet kids at TPUSA events 15 years from now who say, I grew up with a wonderful day with Mabel McClay.

00:06:07.000 I grew up with Chip Chilla.

00:06:09.000 These are some of our shows that we're releasing right out of the gate.

00:06:12.000 That is the content of my childhood.

00:06:14.000 Those are the songs of my childhood.

00:06:16.000 That's how you'll know that we succeeded with this venture.

00:06:20.000 I want to play one of the trailers here.

00:06:22.000 It is with Brett Cooper, who many of you might recognize through YouTube videos.

00:06:27.000 She's been doing a great job.

00:06:28.000 Congratulations, Jeremy, for creating another very popular personality.

00:06:32.000 It's Cut 79.

00:06:34.000 And it's just, I just want to compliment for people that are not in, you know, I'm not in the movie business, but I know enough of what it takes to even get this trailer set up.

00:06:43.000 Just literally millions of dollars in cameras, equipment, actors, you know, costumes, you name it.

00:06:49.000 It's beautifully shot.

00:06:51.000 A Snow White type competitor with Brett Cooper.

00:06:53.000 This will break the internet.

00:06:54.000 Play Cut 79.

00:07:00.000 Once upon a time.

00:07:09.000 In time, a prince would come.

00:07:16.000 Once upon a time, but now that time is gone coming soon.

00:07:42.000 Jeremy, tell us about that project and also plug how people can get Bent Key children's content.

00:07:47.000 Absolutely.

00:07:49.000 Rachel Ziegler, the star of Disney's live-action adaptation of their own classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, started making headlines back in July saying that she wasn't a fan of the original movie, that the original movie needed some PC inserted into it, that it wasn't going to be about true love.

00:08:04.000 It wasn't going to be about all of these antiquated ideas.

00:08:07.000 And I thought, what a betrayal.

00:08:08.000 Walt Disney said Snow White is, quote, the perfect story.

00:08:13.000 And she's now, and Disney more broadly has betrayed that legacy.

00:08:17.000 So in true Daily Wire fashion, you know, when Hershey's released their Hershey bar, we released a chocolate company.

00:08:23.000 When Harry's Razors started promoting teaching your daughter how to shave her beard, we launched a razor company.

00:08:29.000 And so if Disney is going to betray Snow White, we're going to launch Snow White.

00:08:32.000 It happens that I have the perfect Snow White already working for me, Brett Cooper.

00:08:36.000 Brett and I were in northern Italy in the Trento region shooting that teaser only three weeks ago.

00:08:42.000 I wrote that little song on an app.

00:08:44.000 I was sitting in Italy working on a whole other film that Daily Wire is producing, writing that little song, working with Brett after hours on singing it, shooting all of that footage.

00:08:54.000 We're pouring ourselves into this.

00:08:57.000 We don't just want to troll Disney, although we certainly want to do that.

00:09:00.000 We want to compete with Disney and over time, out-compete Disney.

00:09:05.000 I want in 50 years people to think of their Snow White as Brett Cooper.

00:09:10.000 That's the level of quality we're going to aspire to and actually change the paradigm for kids' entertainment in this country.

00:09:19.000 You can get the app at anywhere where there are apps.

00:09:21.000 It's called Bent Key.

00:09:23.000 Bent Key and check it out.

00:09:26.000 And they do beautiful stuff.

00:09:28.000 It's really amazing.

00:09:29.000 Bent Key app.

00:09:30.000 And also, if you go to dailywire.com, I think you guys have all the links there as well that you guys can check out.

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00:10:39.000 Jeremy, you could take this wherever you want.

00:10:42.000 When I first met you 10 years ago, you were doing work for a series of websites explaining and also exposing Hamas sympathizers and Students for Justice of Palestine, Muslim Brotherhood being embedded here in the Middle East.

00:10:55.000 We've kind of taken our eye off that topic.

00:10:57.000 There's been so many other domestic fights, but now that sleeper cell is awake and it is angry after the atrocities and the massacre of what happened in Israel.

00:11:07.000 Jeremy, your reaction to what we've been seeing on these college campuses, I know it is not a surprise to you.

00:11:12.000 You've been doing this work for quite a while.

00:11:14.000 Yeah, Ben and I were working when you and I first met Charlie with the David Horwood's Freedom Center.

00:11:19.000 And David was doing, I think, some of the earliest and most important work on this topic for many, many years.

00:11:25.000 And even then, it was frightening, but I never would have guessed we'd be seeing the kind of images that we're seeing today.

00:11:31.000 You're right.

00:11:31.000 We took our eye off the ball and this cancer really spread, I think, beyond any of the proportions that we might have expected.

00:11:38.000 But it's really not surprising in retrospect.

00:11:40.000 And here's why.

00:11:41.000 I think what we're seeing is intersectional hierarchy ideology coming into direct conflict with itself.

00:11:49.000 They built a thought trap and now they're stuck in it.

00:11:51.000 And the thought trap is this.

00:11:53.000 It's that the powerful are intrinsically bad and the weak are intrinsically virtuous.

00:12:01.000 And anything that diminishes the power of the powerful is therefore a good and anything that enhances the power of the weak is inherently good.

00:12:09.000 And this was created as a way of defending minorities against predominantly in the West, white Christian men who occupy a position of power in the majority. 0.65

00:12:20.000 But there is an inherent flaw in intersectional hierarchy, and that is that one of the smallest minorities in the world, that is the Jews, have disproportionate success and power within most of the spheres in which they operate.

00:12:35.000 And this has led the very movement that purports to defend the minority against the majority to be aligned on the side of the destruction of one of the smallest minorities that exists in the world.

00:12:49.000 It's all because of one bad idea baked into the core of their ideology.

00:12:53.000 That's exactly right.

00:12:54.000 Jeremy, you hit it perfectly.

00:12:56.000 Intersectionality.

00:12:57.000 If you understand intersectional hierarchy, you can understand what otherwise an outsider would say is a contradiction and makes sense.

00:13:04.000 For example, one of the girls that was taking down posters of kidnapped Israelis was an ADL intern, was someone who worked for the Anti-Defamation League intern and is taking down posters of something that you would think that would fit their worldview.

00:13:18.000 So, Jeremy, in closing here, and I want to just reiterate everyone, check out Bent's Key Children's Content.

00:13:23.000 I'm going to be doing it.

00:13:24.000 I'm going to become a member.

00:13:25.000 I'm also a Daily Wire member.

00:13:26.000 Just to brag, Jeremy, I think the best thing you guys have ever produced is the Exodus series.

00:13:31.000 It's unbelievable.

00:13:32.000 It's game-changing.

00:13:34.000 Seeing Prager and Peterson and groups of professors that I otherwise did not know about that I became aware of, it was just amazing.

00:13:41.000 And you guys just keep on throwing up amazing content at dailywire.com.

00:13:45.000 Check it out.

00:13:46.000 Huge fan.

00:13:47.000 Jeremy, how do we beat the intersectional coalition, the hierarchy?

00:13:50.000 What is their weakness?

00:13:51.000 You've been fighting them for longer than I have.

00:13:52.000 You've been doing it successfully.

00:13:54.000 What have you learned that you could share with our audience of how we beat these intersectional activists, groups, organizations, et cetera?

00:14:01.000 Jeremy, boring.

00:14:02.000 Ultimately, what they want to do is tear down all of the institutions.

00:14:04.000 And one of the challenges that we have is that ironically, they already control all of the institutions.

00:14:10.000 And so on the right, as a reaction to the fact that we've lost control of the institutions, we also want to tear down the institutions.

00:14:16.000 And that has created a peculiar alliance between the radical left and the right in this moment.

00:14:23.000 We share the same goal, which is always a bad idea for a movie, right?

00:14:26.000 Movie never works when the good guys and the bad guys actually want the same thing.

00:14:30.000 So I think the only way to beat them is for us to continue going through this painful moment that we're going through on the right of really coming to understand what it is fundamentally that we believe.

00:14:39.000 And I would offer that what we should do is any institution that is beyond redemption, we tear down and replace, but we don't do so cavalierly.

00:14:50.000 Instead, we begin by asking the question, can the institutions on which we built our civilization, can the institutions that have historically undergirded our civilization be redeemed?

00:14:59.000 Because we have to have institutional power in order to defeat the left.

00:15:05.000 You can't just beat them with tweets and you can't just beat them with nonprofit or for-profit organizations.

00:15:13.000 We have to long-term be building institutions on which you can actually support the kind of civilization that we want to see.

00:15:19.000 And a huge part of that is self-reflection about exactly what it is that we're endeavoring to do and risk taking, that we on the right have to once again get into the building business, not just the criticizing business.

00:15:34.000 For the last decade, most of our work on the right has been about criticizing the culture.

00:15:39.000 Instead, we actually have to create a culture.

00:15:43.000 I couldn't agree more.

00:15:44.000 That's why what the Daily Wire is doing is so important.

00:15:46.000 Well, over a million subscribers.

00:15:47.000 Can you believe it?

00:15:48.000 One of the largest media companies, and they're going up.

00:15:50.000 Check it out.

00:15:51.000 Bent's Key.

00:15:52.000 It's incredible.

00:15:53.000 Children's Programming.

00:15:54.000 They got the Snow White movie, Exodus series, Candace's show, Ben, Matt, all of it.

00:15:58.000 It's amazing.

00:15:58.000 Jeremy, thanks so much, man.

00:16:00.000 Appreciate it.

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00:17:05.000 Joining us now is Andy Biggs.

00:17:07.000 Andy, as I said, if we had 380 Biggs, we'd have a secure border balance budget and none of this nonsense happening. 0.73

00:17:12.000 Andy, I'll be very honest.

00:17:13.000 My first hour, I'm getting a little demoralized.

00:17:16.000 So I need a pep talk here.

00:17:17.000 Do you think that we're going to be able to get Jim Jordan as Speaker of the House?

00:17:22.000 Lift my spirits, Andy Biggs.

00:17:25.000 I will tell you, Charlie, I think we're going to get him.

00:17:28.000 There's a chance even on the next ballot.

00:17:30.000 There's really three groups that are holding out.

00:17:33.000 You've got the appropriators, some of the appropriators, some of the Warhawks, and New York.

00:17:39.000 Jim can get the New York.

00:17:41.000 I think New Yorkers are ready to come over, but they just don't want to come over until they know he's got the votes.

00:17:45.000 They'll be the last people to come on.

00:17:47.000 You saw some people come on the last note, but I'll tell you, if Jim can make peace with Steve Scalise and Scalise releases those last seven and persuades them, I think the next thing you go to see is that Jim Jordan is going to become the speaker.

00:18:00.000 So can you explain the deal with Scalise, kind of where he is?

00:18:04.000 He's been a little bit of a mystery for some of us that have been watching.

00:18:08.000 Can you explain that one?

00:18:09.000 And also, Andy, why so many members are shifting back and forth and back and forth and back and forth.

00:18:15.000 From an outsider, it's just confusing.

00:18:17.000 Help us understand.

00:18:19.000 Okay, so Steve Scalise, he and Jim need to get together and sort out any differences that may linger between the two of them.

00:18:28.000 If they're able to do that, then I think that Scalise would be more zealous in his advocacy for Jim, and those people would come over.

00:18:38.000 And when those people, and that's how you get the Scalise people, Jim's got to work through Steve to get that done.

00:18:43.000 The New Yorkers, they come from Biden districts.

00:18:48.000 They know that there is no really choice for them but to vote for Jim Jordan.

00:18:52.000 But in their district, they don't feel comfortable voting for Jim Jordan unless they know Jim's going to get over the top.

00:18:58.000 So you guess if Jim gets the Scalise vote, then I think the New Yorker vote comes along and Jim wins.

00:19:05.000 The issue of why people go back and forth, each one has different deals.

00:19:11.000 Like some of them had felt like they had to vote for Jim Jordan the first time around.

00:19:15.000 And after they voted for Jim Jordan, then now they were free.

00:19:18.000 I see me.

00:19:19.000 Kevin McCarthy or someone else.

00:19:21.000 Once they had done that, then they were now free to vote for Jim Jordan.

00:19:24.000 And I think that's what you saw with a couple of them.

00:19:26.000 The others, I mean, two of them, I vote, I view those as kind of nonsensical votes.

00:19:31.000 I mean, you voted for Boehner and voting for Kay Granger.

00:19:35.000 That didn't make any sense to me.

00:19:39.000 That's just a protest vote.

00:19:40.000 And some of them are actually, let's just, this would be to be honest, some of them are mad at us for forcing them to have to vote for someone for a new speaker.

00:19:50.000 And so they're mad at eight of us, and they think if they vote against Jim, somehow that retaliates against us.

00:19:56.000 It doesn't do that.

00:19:57.000 What it does is it retaliates against the body and the institution and also the American people.

00:20:06.000 So, Andy, help me understand one part of this, which, and I totally understand, you know, New Yorkers, they're in Biden districts.

00:20:14.000 I get all that.

00:20:15.000 But I'm hearing from some people that there's this Joyce resolution that potentially that Democrats could align with some of the moderate Republicans and build a coalition government.

00:20:27.000 Is that a baseless kind of bluster?

00:20:30.000 I know that we talked about it back in January, and I introduced that.

00:20:33.000 And Andy, you were right.

00:20:34.000 That was not that big of a threat back then.

00:20:36.000 But is that more of a threat now, given that we're in October, the moderates are losing patience?

00:20:41.000 Walk us through, Andy, if you think that is a possibility on the horizon of Republicans effectively losing their majority through a process of not being able to select a speaker.

00:20:53.000 Well, what they're talking about doing, Charlie, is there's several of them that have said that they want to give Patrick McHenry, who is Speaker Pro Tem, they want to give him broader power.

00:21:07.000 And quite frankly, if you give the, given the power that you that they're talking about, you've effectively elected a new speaker in Patrick McHenry.

00:21:17.000 That's the way I think the parliamentarian would kind of put it there with kind of a legal nuance, and that's the way I put on with a legal nuance as well.

00:21:26.000 The question, of course, is, would those people do that?

00:21:32.000 And some of them, if they were going to do it, I thought they were going to do it this morning, and they didn't do it.

00:21:37.000 So we'll see if they're going to make that play.

00:21:38.000 Now, what would happen, Charlie, is Patrick McHenry would be effectively the speaker.

00:21:44.000 He would be the speaker of the house.

00:21:47.000 And that's just the way it is.

00:21:49.000 And they would try to do that by a voice vote, which we won't allow.

00:21:52.000 And then once they did that, what do the Democrats think they get out of it?

00:21:57.000 So the Democrats would be asking for something.

00:22:00.000 The Republicans would still have their majority, but it's already kind of fractured and has been fractured for a long time.

00:22:07.000 I think what's happening, Charlie, is, well, I'll just leave that answer there.

00:22:11.000 And if you want to expand, we can discuss some other things related to it.

00:22:15.000 But that's what they're proposing.

00:22:18.000 I don't know if it's real or not because I anticipated, it looked to me like on the floor, there was floor activity indicating this morning that they were going to go that way.

00:22:27.000 And then they suddenly pulled it.

00:22:29.000 So I don't know why they pulled it, but it didn't happen.

00:22:33.000 All right.

00:22:34.000 So, Andy, in closing here, what are the marching orders for the grassroots for the rank and file?

00:22:39.000 What is the best help?

00:22:40.000 Because I've heard from some people that the pressure campaign is actually not helping Jim Jordan.

00:22:46.000 Is it to kind of let this process fold out, contact the representative, just go 10 out of 10 type scorched earth?

00:22:53.000 Andy Biggs, what is the best way the grassroots can help this process to make Jim Jordan the next speaker of the House?

00:22:59.000 Well, I would say don't go scorched earth because that is going to lock in some of these people a little bit harder.

00:23:06.000 I think if you're going to call your own, you don't need to necessarily call any others, but call your own member and just say, look, I don't know why you're where you are, but I would respectfully request that you vote for Jim Jordan and you do it sooner rather than later.

00:23:23.000 Those two things with a lot of respect that you vote for Jim Jordan, you do it sooner rather than later.

00:23:30.000 I think that might be helpful.

00:23:32.000 Andy, thanks so much for joining us.

00:23:34.000 We'll have you on again soon.

00:23:35.000 Thanks.

00:23:35.000 Thanks, Charlie.

00:23:38.000 Want to name some of the names here?

00:23:42.000 Don Bacon voted against Jim Jordan, Buchanan, Buck Chavez, D.S. Posito, Diaz Balter, Balatar, Elzi, Ferguson, Garberino, Jimenez, Gonzalez, Granger, James, Kelly, Kiggins, Lalota, Lawler, Miller, Meeks, Rutherford, Simpson, Stoiber, and Womack.

00:24:05.000 Respectfully call them.

00:24:07.000 We've tweeted out all of the names.

00:24:09.000 Somebody said here, why did John James not vote for Jordan?

00:24:14.000 I gave to John James' campaign.

00:24:15.000 I can't believe he voted against Jim Jordan twice.

00:24:18.000 It's awfully perplexing.

00:24:20.000 Doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:24:23.000 Maybe the establishment is intentionally holding back their votes because they want a coalition government.

00:24:27.000 Maybe that's what's going on here.

00:24:29.000 Maybe Jim Jordan would be too effective, too energetic, and too impactful.

00:24:36.000 Some people are saying that John James' district got redrawn, and the margins are very, very tight, so he's very worried.

00:24:43.000 So would he not a Republican anymore?

00:24:47.000 You're not going to vote for a Republican Speaker of the House?

00:24:51.000 It's perplexing.

00:24:53.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com. 0.82

00:24:57.000 Pamela says, Charlie, this whole speaker fight is bloody ridiculous.

00:25:01.000 Why am I even a registered Republican anymore? 0.73

00:25:04.000 I'm a staunch Trump supporter, but I'm so done with the House of Representatives, so disappointed and upset.

00:25:09.000 Love your show, but I've just about had it.

00:25:11.000 Boy, that is a common attitude that we are seeing here.

00:25:14.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:25:17.000 Let me read another one here.

00:25:19.000 Charlie, enjoy your show.

00:25:20.000 Why has Joe Biden not been impeached?

00:25:22.000 It seems just disappeared.

00:25:23.000 Honestly, we haven't impeached Joe Biden because there's a civil war happening in the Republican Party.

00:25:28.000 All of those impeachment proceedings, remember impeachment inquiry, all that stuff, it's gone.

00:25:32.000 It's over.

00:25:32.000 It's dead.

00:25:33.000 It's disappeared.

00:25:34.000 If you don't have a speaker, there's no business of the House.

00:25:37.000 Even the subcommittees are basically in suspense right now.

00:25:43.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

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00:26:46.000 Speaker of the House vote.

00:26:48.000 You're not going to get any updates in the next couple minutes.

00:26:51.000 We're just going to keep our eyes on it.

00:26:53.000 Hearing internally that they're going to pressure Jim Jordan to drop out, and I sure hope he does not.

00:26:59.000 I sure hope he does not.

00:27:00.000 But we are not close to a consensus for Speaker of the House as of right now.

00:27:07.000 Okay, back in the 2016 election, can you believe it?

00:27:11.000 Seven years ago?

00:27:12.000 Seven years ago, a young man who's a humorist, he was a satirist.

00:27:17.000 He made a joke.

00:27:18.000 It's Douglas Mackey.

00:27:20.000 Douglas Mackey posted on Twitter a meme, a meme that Democrats have also used against us, that Democrats have used on social media.

00:27:30.000 And the meme was very simple.

00:27:33.000 The meme was: text your vote in for Hillary Clinton to this phone number.

00:27:37.000 That was it.

00:27:38.000 It was a joke.

00:27:39.000 Now, not a single person was disenfranchised because of this meme.

00:27:44.000 Not a single person who texted that number ended up saying that they were stripped or they were prevented from voting, disenfranchised.

00:27:53.000 Now, there are other memes of left-wing accounts that did this for Trump supporters.

00:27:56.000 Make sure you vote by text message Trump supporters.

00:27:59.000 They're never touched by the government ever.

00:28:00.000 One of the first acts of the Biden regime, this was in January 2021, two and a half years ago, they arrested Douglas Mackey and they arrested him and charged him in the southern district of New York.

00:28:12.000 Mind you, a crime with no actual victims.

00:28:14.000 But the DOJ circled back to prosecute him four years later, motivated by hate and vengeance and a Soviet show trial.

00:28:21.000 They want to make an example that speech can land you in federal prison.

00:28:27.000 That speech can get you locked up. 0.84

00:28:31.000 Douglas Mackey went through what I would consider to be a very rigged trial in a very Democrat part of the world, and they tried him using the Ku Klux Klan Act.

00:28:41.000 Not an exaggeration.

00:28:44.000 That his joke that impacted nobody was a violation of blacks' civil rights.

00:28:55.000 And so Douglas Mackey was found guilty.

00:28:59.000 And today, Douglas Mackey was sentenced to seven months in federal prison for making a joke.

00:29:08.000 They equated it to passing a law, a law passed to imprison people who committed terrorism.

00:29:13.000 So they used a law where, for example, some people might go to a polling place and prevent blacks from voting.

00:29:22.000 Not acceptable.

00:29:24.000 That's why the law was written.

00:29:27.000 So they use that law and apply it 150 years later to Douglas Mackey, who made a joke on the internet that no one took seriously, that no one was disenfranchised with no victims to put him in federal prison.

00:29:43.000 No one who wrote that law could have predicted it would have been used and corrupted for something like this.

00:29:48.000 The more laws, the less justice, as Mr. Cicero would say, one-year Roman Council of the Roman Republic.

00:29:55.000 Why did they do this?

00:29:57.000 Yes, it's obviously out of justice.

00:29:59.000 It's not out justice out of revenge. 1.00

00:30:01.000 It's also the buried lead, is how dumb the prosecutors think black people are. 0.99

00:30:07.000 That's the buried lead, honestly. 1.00

00:30:09.000 The buried lead is that the federal government basically thinks blacks are so stupid that they see something where they say you have to text your vote in, and they must automatically believe they're so gullible that they need a federal law preventing that you can't text your vote in. 0.99

00:30:25.000 Anyway, that's the buried lead. 0.99

00:30:28.000 It's not the main point.

00:30:29.000 A couple of thoughts.

00:30:31.000 Of course, they go after the satirists.

00:30:33.000 Stalin imprisoned the joke tellers because at the root of joke telling and humor is truth.

00:30:41.000 One of the most effective ways to challenge tyranny is by telling a joke.

00:30:46.000 And number two, they're trying to quelch speech.

00:30:51.000 It used to be that we had a robust First Amendment.

00:30:54.000 By any measure, Douglas Mackey should never have been indicted, never been arrested, never should have been tried, never should have been convicted.

00:31:02.000 This is a historic judgment.

00:31:07.000 Historic, in a bad way.

00:31:09.000 It basically says that political speech can land you in federal prison. 0.98

00:31:15.000 Even though you have Snoop Dogg saying, I want to shoot President Trump and Kathy Griffing, Kevin Griffin with the decapitated head of Donald Trump. 0.85

00:31:22.000 They all, whatever, they get away from it. 0.98

00:31:24.000 Democrats do this all the time.

00:31:25.000 This right here of Douglas Mackey, who now has to serve seven months in federal prison, a young man who's already been through seven years of hell, is an example of the breakdown of our Constitution.

00:31:37.000 Douglas Mackey will be going to jail as a political prisoner.

00:31:40.000 We say, oh, Marxism is coming.

00:31:42.000 It's coming.

00:31:42.000 It is here.

00:31:44.000 This is not a free society, a country that locks up a joke teller for seven months because he put a meme on social media that no one took seriously.

00:31:56.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:31:57.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:32:01.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

00:32:06.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - October 18, 2023

Retaking the Culture, One Film At a Time with Jeremy Boreing and Rep. Andy Biggs

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