00:00:52.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:10.00020 hours or so ago, Business Insider leaked a story with some information on Twitter's stock prices going down on Monday evening.
00:01:20.000It tumbled as much as 12% yesterday on Monday, which erased $5 billion from its market capitalization after they banned the president permanently last Friday.
00:01:34.000So there is something called fiduciary responsibility that all CEOs are supposed to have towards their shareholders.
00:01:42.000It'll be very interesting to see how Jack Dorsey responds to lawsuits that are definitely coming saying that the banning of the president from the site was not in the best financial interest of the company.
00:01:56.000And I expect this will be a market response sort of across the board when it comes to suppression of conservative voices in big tech and on social media platforms.
00:02:04.000Look, if investors across the board say they're losing faith in the ability to allow all people to have a platform, there's a market response to what's happening right now.
00:02:13.000Forget about the legal response in Section 230 and going through the courts.
00:02:16.000This is a very simple way that consumers of the product can tell the CEO of Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, everything.
00:02:23.000We could go down the list that they're not okay with what's happening right now.
00:02:29.000And what we saw in the last week, not only losing the Georgia runoffs, the deadly events that happened in Capitol Hill, but then also big tech decided to really do a massive push against anyone on the center right in this country.
00:02:50.000We see this on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter.
00:02:53.000But the two actors that have now participated that have kind of been outside of the focus was Apple and Amazon.
00:03:04.000Apple and Amazon were not traditionally kind of looped into this kind of whole tech tyranny issue.
00:03:10.000Apple, which is mostly a hardware company, but they got involved and they showed that they are not immune to the pushes of the mob and of the left.
00:03:22.000And so Apple came out and said to Parler, it's threefold.
00:03:28.000I mean, it was bad enough that all of a sudden Parlor couldn't be found in the Apple App Store or in the Google App Store.
00:03:50.000Let's pretend you're a startup business, which Parlor is, and you're a restaurant.
00:03:55.000And you have an agreement with your landlord that if something goes wrong, you at least have 30 days to move all of your, let's say, ovens and all of your kitchen supplies, right?
00:04:09.000Your tables, your chairs, your restaurant, right?
00:04:12.000However, let's pretend that you don't own the building.
00:04:14.000You're just renting it because you're a startup company.
00:04:17.000You're like, I can't afford to buy a building yet, so I'm renting.
00:04:20.000And then you get a knock on the door on Friday night saying, if you do not totally change your menu, and let's pretend you serve Chinese food to Italian food, by tomorrow night, I'm kicking you out of the building.
00:04:33.000And you're like, I don't know what to tell you.
00:05:16.000Completely related, you know, but it's interesting to see that Amazon, as such a power player in this industry, is now, through their actions, inspiring other companies to do the same thing.
00:05:27.000I'm anticipating a lot of this behavior to sort of spiral out of control in the next few weeks.
00:05:32.000And so now Parlor is registered through Epic, E-P-I-K, an internet web hosting company known for working with right-leaning websites.
00:05:44.000And so Parlor has found a new landlord.
00:05:48.000I do not think that they're going to be kicked off any soon, anytime soon, from Epic.
00:05:52.000However, Amazon was the best, fastest, cheapest option for a company like Parlor.
00:05:58.000Looking back at it from the kind of leadership of Parlor, they never should have used Amazon in the first place.
00:06:03.000But I don't think they ever anticipated this kind of backlash or this kind of response.
00:06:07.000Well, this has never happened before in the history of our country.
00:06:10.000You know, you and I were talking casually in a commercial break yesterday that political affiliation has never been a protected class against discrimination because it's never been a problem before in our nation.
00:06:19.000And it could go, you know, if all of a sudden you were not allowing political discrimination, then how are you supposed to have the Republican Party?
00:06:37.000Yeah, which is why we've never really considered something like this before.
00:06:40.000But all of a sudden, now we're seeing conservatives as an entity be discriminated against from providing services to them simply because of their voter history, how they're registered to vote, if they've ever worn a red MAGA hat.
00:06:52.000And if you're remotely associated, not even the loudest voice in that community, all of a sudden you're being completely disenfranchised, not just in big tech and hosting websites on certain servers, but as we saw yesterday trending on Twitter, the hashtag no fly list even.
00:07:07.000People are saying conservatives shouldn't be able to fly on commercial airlines, which is absolutely absurd and completely ridiculous.
00:07:14.000Well, it's something that we used as an outrageous example in kind of a metaphor towards social media companies, but now people are actually legitimately suggesting it.
00:07:24.000And this is where someone like Elon Musk could come in.
00:07:27.000And I don't think Elon even cares about making money.
00:07:30.000I mean, he is the richest man on the planet, which I'd much rather have Elon be the richest man than Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos, where Elon could just kind of keep decent society together.
00:07:39.000If he all of a sudden decided to get in the hardware business of cell phones, get into the server space.
00:07:44.000If all of a sudden Tesla said, you know what, we're starting an airline and we're not going to discriminate against you.
00:07:57.000The capital flows into BLM Incorporated, the amount of backlash that these corporations have put towards mainstream and middle America and towards Trump supporters.
00:08:09.000And this recent tragic event that happened last week is just the latest of that.
00:08:16.000And they are only reinforcing kind of a narrative that pre-existed the riot.
00:08:22.000And I want to just make that very clear that there are people within these companies that have wanted to kick Parlor off before this happened.
00:08:30.000It wasn't as if all of a sudden they didn't have this sentiment within.
00:08:34.000And so what I think we as conservatives need to realize is that we have to go build new stuff, is that we don't just have to, you know, have the best ideas.
00:08:41.000No, we have to actually go build new infrastructure, right?
00:08:46.000We have to, you know, and I'm trying to find a competitor to Apple right now.
00:08:49.000I'm trying to migrate off Apple because I think what they did to Parlor is so awful.
00:08:53.000Easier said than done while I give them millions of dollars of free advertising on our live stream, both of us, every single day.
00:08:59.000But I mean, look, Apple has kind of been left alone by the entrepreneurial competitive space because there really hasn't been any reason to compete against them.
00:09:09.000However, I could tell you this: if Apple all of a sudden is going to be taken over by the woesters, then they're going to be really open for disruption.
00:09:15.000I mean, 74 million people is a massive consumer market.
00:09:46.000Apple kept running this ridiculous commercial with like Lady Gaga.
00:09:51.000And have you seen this commercial with Stephen Colbert?
00:09:53.000It's actually a really good commercial.
00:09:55.000If I look at it objectively, despite all the fact that they're all a bunch of Machiavellian Marxists, you know, in the, I think John Legend is in the commercial.
00:10:03.000And it's all about like fighting the system and like, these are for PL pushback.
00:10:09.000There's no ideological diversity whatsoever.
00:10:12.000And the point is this: Apple, if they make the decision, which they have based on that commercial, to be nothing more than a social justice warrior hardware delivery mechanism, that's not going to, that's not actually the best marketing strategy for them.
00:10:26.000And I, again, I think for shareholders that have significant positions in these companies, I really do, I think that they have a significant potential legal claim saying that you are not acting in the best interest of this publicly traded stock.
00:10:41.000Instead, you're acting in your own political interest.
00:10:46.000With the Turning Point USA movement, I've had the honor of traveling across America to visit college campuses and engage in rigorous debate with the next generation.
00:10:54.000When you talk to as many students as I do, there are several familiar themes.
00:10:59.000I see disillusionment with the media, a lack of hope in their job prospects.
00:11:04.000I hear them claim that they're victims and deserve better.
00:11:07.000Whether college students realize it or not, they're forming ideologies that will affect the way they think and treat others for a lifetime.
00:11:14.000I'd like to recommend a great book to any young person in this time of life.
00:11:18.000It's called Reflections on the Existence of God by best-selling author Richard Simmons III.
00:11:23.000This guy never shies away from the hard questions of life.
00:11:26.000Reflections on the existence of God is a collection of short essays that tackles the biggest questions of all.
00:12:57.000The only reason they want this is because it will give them two senators in a state that is 96% Democrat.
00:13:05.000So, how are states added to the Union, Isabel?
00:13:08.000Well, Charlie, this process has changed significantly throughout time, not based on constitutional framework, but just how they decided to do it in the United States Congress.
00:13:18.000It goes back to Article 4, Section 3, Clause 1 in the Constitution, which essentially says new states can just be admitted by an act of Congress into the Union.
00:13:26.000You can't change the makeup of any existing states in any way without a convention of states.
00:13:50.000And so, Manchin was a little bit wishy-washy on this when he was asked about it.
00:13:54.000If they get two new states, if they get even one new state, that means two new senators, one congressperson, which again, they're not actually interested in the representation.
00:14:06.000If they were, they would say that Washington, D.C. can become a part of Maryland.
00:14:10.000Now, that would take an act of a convention of states, right?
00:14:13.000Correct, because it would change the current complexion of, is that right?
00:14:17.000Of certain, is it only the adjoining states or all the states?
00:14:20.000It's if you're trying to form any state within the jurisdiction of another state or by conjoining two or more states or parts of the state.
00:14:33.000Let's go to Joe Manchin here when he was asked one-on-one.
00:14:36.000Joe Manchin's getting a lot of TV time.
00:14:38.000He is proudly going to get every, I mean, I'm telling you right now, if I was a lobbyist, which I am not, I would get very close with Joe Manchin because this guy is going to get whatever he wants done in every single massive spending bill because he's going to exert an extraordinary amount of power because he is not necessarily going to tow the party line.
00:14:59.000Now, the interesting thing is that prior to Barack Obama, there used to be like 12 Democrats like Joe Manchin.
00:15:06.000There was that guy from South Dakota who lost because he voted for Obamacare.
00:15:11.000There were blue dog Democrats all across the country.
00:15:16.000As Republicans have done worse in the suburbs, but better in the rurals, Republicans have all Republican senators in North Dakota, in Missouri, in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Iowa.
00:15:29.000Yeah, so that kind of whole part of the country is nothing but Republican senators, where Democrats actually used to do really well there, believe it or not.
00:15:35.000Democrats used to do super well in Iowa and really, really well in Nebraska and really well in the Dakotas.
00:15:40.000But as Democrats have become more out of touch with their anyway, so let's play tapier of Joe Manchin, who's getting a lot of TV time.
00:18:11.000And they are very heavily blaming those three individuals, despite the fact that I'm guessing they were negative for COVID-19.
00:18:17.000Well, also, though, there is a woman that was COVID positive.
00:18:25.000Yes, Representative Moore, who's a Democrat from Wisconsin, tested positive for COVID-19 on December 28th and just a few days later attended a session of Congress in person to cast her ballot for Nancy Pelosi as the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
00:19:31.000You're in some form of a bunker and someone is distributing masks and you see that Republicans don't want them and you take out your phone.
00:19:40.000That's Congress's priorities right there.
00:19:43.000But it is important to note, Representative Moore, who was the COVID-positive individual who came to the Capitol to vote for Nancy Pelosi, needed to be there for Pelosi to retain the Speaker of the House position.
00:19:54.000I think she won by either a one or two margin vote.
00:20:06.000Senator Chuck Schumer, Cut 59, says that anyone involved in the Capitol breach should be immediately be added to the TSA no-fly list because they're a threat to our homeland.
00:20:17.000Ahead of a concern for ahead of the concern for possible future attacks and with the law on our side, we are to say that these insurrectionists, many of whom are known to be at large, should not be able to hop on a flight.
00:20:36.000We are today, we are here today because the folks, the people, the insurrectionists who breach the U.S. Capitol fall under the definition of threats to the homeland and should be immediately added to the TSA no-fly list.
00:20:53.000We are calling on the authorities, the FBI, the TSA.
00:21:02.000So only if Madonna gets added, play Cut 55.
00:21:06.000I will only agree as Senator Chuck Schumer if Madonna can never fly again.
00:23:18.000The reason is because Glenn Greenwald has warned against this, which is you overuse the term terrorist.
00:23:24.000And let me, again, I said this earlier in the segment.
00:23:26.000For the people that planted pipe bombs and knew about it at the RNC and the DNC, yeah, that's domestic terror.
00:23:31.000For the people that had schematics of the U.S. Capitol and came there with the intent of trying to penetrate, yeah, that's domestic terror.
00:23:39.000For some 67-year-old guy from Ohio that waved a flag on the steps of the Capitol and realized he made a mistake and retreated, unwise.
00:23:58.000Well, one thing I think that we're clearly seeing is the initiation of a new war on terror, which I don't say lightly.
00:24:04.000I say that because the Biden administration, what will be the Biden administration in about a week, is saying explicitly that they want, first of all, a new law to further criminalize domestic terrorism, even though every act that constitutes domestic terrorism is already criminalized.
00:24:23.000What they want to do is increase their power to monitor political groups, to infiltrate them, to criminalize activities that currently are not criminalized, nor should they be, whether it be advocacy of speech or other things.
00:24:36.000They're saying they want a new law similar to the way that the 9-11 attack and the emotions surrounding it was instantly seized upon to institute a whole series of new laws that endure to this very day.
00:24:49.000Glenn Greenwald is a traditional liberal.
00:24:53.000He and I probably disagree on quite a lot of topics.
00:24:56.000However, he's been wonderful on the civil representation side about talking about the rights of Americans to not be spied on, infiltrated, or monitored.
00:25:07.000And so the language that is now being used by this woman who is not just a random commentator, she's the former assistant secretary for intergovernmental affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, where she said, no money, none of this, none of that.
00:25:23.000You're talking about the people that are about to take over the government in seven, eight days, next Wednesday.
00:25:30.000When they take over the government in eight days, all of a sudden this language is not just going to be bluster and going to be vapor on CNN.
00:25:39.000This is now going to have the full force of the United States government.
00:25:43.000With it, the full force of social media.
00:25:46.000Industry and industry and corporations and academia and most of churches.
00:25:51.000So you're going to have basically they control every single major institution.
00:25:56.000But Glenn Greenwald, and I think this is one of the most important fights, and he's highlighting this, is that the current criminal justice system works in the benefit of the accused.
00:26:12.000And I think that even some Republicans would admit that it went too far, that the Patriot Act was a mass surveillance operation that was even used against President Trump.
00:26:56.000Yeah, so our team just informed us that there were actually two individuals in the House of Representatives who voted for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House, who literally broke their COVID-19 quarantines.
00:27:06.000I'm not sure if Frederica Wilson, who is one of our members of the House, was COVID positive, but she definitely was in quarantine status when she came to the House to vote for Speaker Pelosi.
00:27:17.000Without those two votes, she would have tied.
00:27:20.000So interesting to see how the outcome really changed.
00:27:24.000But nobody's calling the House Speaker vote a super spreader event, interestingly enough.
00:27:28.000Now, a third Democrat, Brad Schneider, who is my former congressman when I used to live in Illinois when I was raised, but he has tested positive, blames the maskless Republicans, does not blame Frederica Wilson or the other Democrats for that.
00:27:45.000And this just kind of goes to show: this is what he says: quote: I am now in strict isolation, worried that I have risked my wife's health and angry at the selfishness and arrogance of the anti-maskers who put on their own contempt and disregard for decency ahead of health.
00:28:00.000Where is his strong repudiation for Frederica Wilson or for Gwen Moore, who were both tested positive and possibly contagious?
00:28:10.000And is it Permia Jayapal that he's upset about, which is the anti-masker that was in the House of Representatives?
00:28:23.000Look, I use ExpressVPN all the time, but when you anonymize your connection, you can surf the internet freely without wondering who will get a hold of your search history or viewing habits or what they will do with that information.
00:28:33.000Do you want the government to be reading over your shoulder every time you go online?
00:28:37.000There's never been a more important time to protect your internet activity, which is why I urge all my listeners to download ExpressVPN like I have on my phone.
00:28:46.000When you search for something online, watch a video or click a link, it all gets tracked by the big tech companies.
00:28:52.000They can match your activity to your true identity using your device's unique IP address.
00:28:56.000When I use ExpressVPN, these companies can't see my IP address at all.
00:29:00.000My identity is anonymized by a secure VPN server, and my data is encrypted for maximum protection.
00:29:06.000And besides hiding my internet activity, what I like most about ExpressVPN is how easy it is to use.
00:29:11.000Just download the app on your phone or computer, tap one button, and boom, you're protected.
00:29:15.000So stop handing over your data to big tech companies and to the government.
00:29:19.000Defend your rights with the VPN I trust for online protection.
00:29:41.000My name is Kate, and I'm 17 years old from Baltimore, Maryland, and I'm in my senior year of high school.
00:29:46.000What do you say to lost teenagers that have just begun their political journey?
00:29:50.000He goes on to talk about how he's told to kill himself and they're racist, disgusting, all of that.
00:29:55.000Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to Turning Point USA and America as a whole.
00:29:59.000Oh, well, thank you so much for all of those kind words, Kate.
00:30:02.000I think you are not the only teenager in America facing that reality.
00:30:06.000Unfortunately, conservative young people, not just teenagers, but young adults as well, are told that stuff all day, every day.
00:30:13.000You should see some of the messages that myself and Charlie and Alex and Graham and Rob and people we work with get because we do this professionally.
00:30:20.000That's the left's most effective tactic: they will say the scariest, craziest things to you in an attempt to get you to stop sharing what you believe in and influencing your peers.
00:32:24.000I would also like to know how you conduct research, find articles, so on and so forth.
00:32:30.000So we go through a variety of different sources.
00:32:32.000We have an unbelievable research team here on the Charlie Kirk show that goes through every single major article, not just from the mainstream press, but dives deep into different angles and different stories and all sorts of different things.
00:32:47.000And the thing I really suggest you do, I like realclearpolitics.com.
00:33:54.000Well, look, the Electoral College is really important because it's the states that should determine a president.
00:33:59.000And that is, and the left all of a sudden became huge fans of the Electoral College this last time.
00:34:04.000They said all these states certified it.
00:34:06.000And it's some of it you guys might be, well, that's what just happened is really bad because the states have been totally and completely corrupted.
00:34:14.000Now it's a chance to fix it through these Republican states, right?
00:34:18.000Yes, we allowed a lot of stuff to happen in these states.
00:34:24.000I have to be very careful the way I say things, stuff to happen in these states.
00:34:29.000And the stuff that happened in those states needs to be fixed.
00:34:32.000And it needs to be fixed through these state legislatures.
00:34:34.000And so the Electoral College is critical because it is a firewall against mob rule.
00:34:39.000It is a firewall against just whoever can promise the most amount of stuff to the most amount of people.
00:34:44.000And if you want to see real claims of that kind of shenanigans, get rid of the Electoral College and empower New York, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco.
00:34:52.000We would never win another election again.
00:35:22.000And then you also have these big multi-trillion dollar companies that are allowed to do whatever they want to do whenever they want to do it.
00:35:29.000Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:34.000We're hearing actually from Twitter that they're condemning internet shutdowns.
00:35:38.000The Ugandan election is this week, and there's been reports that internet service providers are blocking social media and messaging apps to influence the election in some way.
00:35:46.000And Twitter has issued a statement saying we strongly condemn internet shutdowns.
00:35:51.000They are hugely harmful, violate basic human rights and the principles of the open internet.
00:36:10.000Curious, what's your opinion on conservatives that want to move out of blue states?
00:36:14.000My family has talked about moving over to Idaho.
00:36:16.000Paige, well, if you're in Oregon, I would get out.
00:36:19.000Oregon does not look too good, which is too bad because I think actually the people of Oregon are more conservative than actually they vote.
00:36:26.000But I think there's a lot of nonsense that happens there.
00:36:38.000But I was like, I'm not going to pay a 5% flat income tax.
00:36:42.000We're a state where I travel all the time and no one wants to live here and it's a declining business environment and it's more and more hostile to conservatives.
00:37:34.000I would rather see more people like Rand Paul in the Republican Party than more people like Rand Paul try to run for office in the Libertarian Party.
00:38:10.000So the big change with Section 230 is, first of all, that we just need to get rid of it, in my opinion.
00:38:15.000It's really not, frankly, a constitutional law from my perspective, but it's not doing anybody any favors other than these multi-trillion dollar tech companies.
00:38:24.000Essentially, what Section 230 does is it shields these companies like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, even Amazon from civil liability.
00:38:34.000It means they have the complete control to deplatform someone, to delete posts, to take content off of their sites that they deem to be harassment or inappropriate or violence, even if they're not actually considered violence or inappropriate, even if it violates the Constitution.
00:38:50.000And the law actually has that language baked right into it.
00:38:53.000And there's absolutely nothing that the consumer can do.
00:38:58.000You can't take it through the judicial system to prove that you have First Amendment rights.
00:39:02.000Essentially, your First Amendment rights don't exist because of Section 230 when it comes to these, I believe they call them, information service providers.
00:39:09.000So that includes social media companies as well as other companies like Amazon, who currently we're seeing be sued in federal court right now because they deplatformed Parlor from their internet servers.
00:39:22.000And so Section 230 is a provision of the Communications Decency Act, which is a government-created regulation that, quite honestly, has made these social media companies more powerful than they otherwise would have been, which protects them against lawsuits and protects them against potential civil and criminal liability.
00:39:43.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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