The Charlie Kirk Show - Silicon Valley’s Coordinated Attack On Conservatives Explained

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, what is Section 230?

00:00:02.000 And why does it matter? 0.67

00:00:04.000 Big Tech has engaged in a blue terror.

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00:00:26.000 Section 230, big tech and so much more.

00:00:29.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:30.000 Here we go.

00:00:31.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:33.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:35.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:39.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:42.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:43.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:44.000 His spirit, his love of this country.

00:00:46.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.

00:00:51.000 Turning point USA.

00:00:52.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

00:01:01.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:05.000 If you are a shareholder of Twila, you're not doing too well right now.

00:01:09.000 You're not doing too well right now.

00:01:10.000 20 hours or so ago, Business Insider leaked a story with some information on Twitter's stock prices going down on Monday evening.

00:01:20.000 It tumbled as much as 12% yesterday on Monday, which erased $5 billion from its market capitalization after they banned the president permanently last Friday.

00:01:31.000 12%.

00:01:32.000 12% in one weekend.

00:01:34.000 So there is something called fiduciary responsibility that all CEOs are supposed to have towards their shareholders.

00:01:42.000 It'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.

00:01:56.000 And 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.

00:02:04.000 Look, 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.

00:02:13.000 Forget about the legal response in Section 230 and going through the courts.

00:02:16.000 This is a very simple way that consumers of the product can tell the CEO of Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, everything.

00:02:23.000 We could go down the list that they're not okay with what's happening right now.

00:02:26.000 And so, and they shouldn't be.

00:02:29.000 And 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.

00:02:48.000 And we've seen this now on YouTube.

00:02:50.000 We see this on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter.

00:02:53.000 But the two actors that have now participated that have kind of been outside of the focus was Apple and Amazon.

00:03:04.000 Apple and Amazon were not traditionally kind of looped into this kind of whole tech tyranny issue.

00:03:10.000 Apple, 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.

00:03:22.000 And so Apple came out and said to Parler, it's threefold.

00:03:28.000 I 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.

00:03:35.000 That's bad.

00:03:36.000 The worst part of that, though, is that all of a sudden the hosting capability.

00:03:41.000 And so what's the best way that I could equate this?

00:03:48.000 Here's a good example.

00:03:48.000 Let's use this example.

00:03:50.000 Let's pretend you're a startup business, which Parlor is, and you're a restaurant.

00:03:55.000 And 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?

00:04:09.000 Your tables, your chairs, your restaurant, right?

00:04:11.000 That's what you do.

00:04:12.000 However, let's pretend that you don't own the building.

00:04:14.000 You're just renting it because you're a startup company.

00:04:17.000 You're like, I can't afford to buy a building yet, so I'm renting.

00:04:20.000 And 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.

00:04:33.000 And you're like, I don't know what to tell you.

00:04:36.000 I mean, can you give me 30 days?

00:04:37.000 Can we figure this out?

00:04:38.000 I'm going to start a business.

00:04:39.000 That's the analogy that just happened with Amazon because Amazon is the landlord of the server space.

00:04:44.000 Yeah, and they are the gold standard.

00:04:46.000 They are the place everyone is going because it's the best product on the market.

00:04:50.000 So they know they can get away with behavior like this.

00:04:52.000 And interestingly now, within the last day or so, we've seen Amazon partners start to take on some of this behavior as well.

00:04:59.000 GoDaddy.com is another server provider which hosts domains, basically websites for these companies.

00:05:05.000 And yesterday, they actually ended up booting off a site that had something to do with the Second Amendment community.

00:05:10.000 AR15.com is no longer listed.

00:05:13.000 That had so much to do with what happened last week.

00:05:16.000 Exactly.

00:05:16.000 Completely 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.

00:05:27.000 I'm anticipating a lot of this behavior to sort of spiral out of control in the next few weeks.

00:05:32.000 And so now Parlor is registered through Epic, E-P-I-K, an internet web hosting company known for working with right-leaning websites.

00:05:42.000 This is from the Washington Examiner.

00:05:43.000 It's a really good piece.

00:05:44.000 And so Parlor has found a new landlord.

00:05:48.000 I do not think that they're going to be kicked off any soon, anytime soon, from Epic.

00:05:52.000 However, Amazon was the best, fastest, cheapest option for a company like Parlor.

00:05:58.000 Looking back at it from the kind of leadership of Parlor, they never should have used Amazon in the first place.

00:06:03.000 But I don't think they ever anticipated this kind of backlash or this kind of response.

00:06:07.000 Well, this has never happened before in the history of our country.

00:06:10.000 You 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.

00:06:19.000 And 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?

00:06:29.000 You know, Phoenix, right?

00:06:30.000 And so are the Maricopa County.

00:06:32.000 And so political discrimination, how do you have political parties without political discrimination?

00:06:37.000 Exactly.

00:06:37.000 Yeah, which is why we've never really considered something like this before.

00:06:40.000 But 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.

00:06:52.000 And 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.

00:07:07.000 People are saying conservatives shouldn't be able to fly on commercial airlines, which is absolutely absurd and completely ridiculous.

00:07:14.000 Well, 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.

00:07:23.000 So here's where we're at.

00:07:24.000 And this is where someone like Elon Musk could come in.

00:07:27.000 And I don't think Elon even cares about making money.

00:07:30.000 I 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.

00:07:39.000 If he all of a sudden decided to get in the hardware business of cell phones, get into the server space.

00:07:44.000 If all of a sudden Tesla said, you know what, we're starting an airline and we're not going to discriminate against you.

00:07:48.000 That'd be kind of cool.

00:07:49.000 A social media company.

00:07:50.000 The point is this, is that we have now realized that we've been warning against this for quite some time.

00:07:55.000 The corporations are against us.

00:07:57.000 The capital flows into BLM Incorporated, the amount of backlash that these corporations have put towards mainstream and middle America and towards Trump supporters.

00:08:09.000 And this recent tragic event that happened last week is just the latest of that.

00:08:16.000 And they are only reinforcing kind of a narrative that pre-existed the riot.

00:08:22.000 And 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.

00:08:30.000 It wasn't as if all of a sudden they didn't have this sentiment within.

00:08:34.000 And 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.

00:08:41.000 No, we have to actually go build new infrastructure, right?

00:08:44.000 We have to go build new phones.

00:08:46.000 We have to, you know, and I'm trying to find a competitor to Apple right now.

00:08:49.000 I'm trying to migrate off Apple because I think what they did to Parlor is so awful.

00:08:53.000 Easier said than done while I give them millions of dollars of free advertising on our live stream, both of us, every single day.

00:08:59.000 But 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.

00:09:09.000 However, 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.

00:09:15.000 I mean, 74 million people is a massive consumer market. 0.93

00:09:19.000 It just is.

00:09:20.000 And you start to look at someone that can all of a sudden get into the hardware space that can compete against Apple.

00:09:26.000 Apple might change their ways, or Apple might say, we just want to be nothing but a liberal company.

00:09:29.000 You know, I watched the national championship last night.

00:09:32.000 Alabama might be the best football team last night with Mac Jones that I've ever seen.

00:09:38.000 Close to the LS.

00:09:39.000 LSU last year with Joe Burrow is right there.

00:09:42.000 I have to say, it was just dominant.

00:09:44.000 However, why am I bringing this up? 0.99

00:09:46.000 Apple kept running this ridiculous commercial with like Lady Gaga.

00:09:51.000 And have you seen this commercial with Stephen Colbert? 0.70

00:09:53.000 It's actually a really good commercial.

00:09:55.000 If 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. 0.86

00:10:03.000 And it's all about like fighting the system and like, these are for PL pushback. 0.85

00:10:06.000 All of you agree on everything.

00:10:08.000 Okay.

00:10:09.000 There's no ideological diversity whatsoever.

00:10:12.000 And 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.

00:10:26.000 And 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.

00:10:41.000 Instead, you're acting in your own political interest.

00:10:46.000 With 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.

00:10:54.000 When you talk to as many students as I do, there are several familiar themes.

00:10:59.000 I see disillusionment with the media, a lack of hope in their job prospects.

00:11:04.000 I hear them claim that they're victims and deserve better.

00:11:07.000 Whether college students realize it or not, they're forming ideologies that will affect the way they think and treat others for a lifetime.

00:11:14.000 I'd like to recommend a great book to any young person in this time of life.

00:11:18.000 It's called Reflections on the Existence of God by best-selling author Richard Simmons III.

00:11:23.000 This guy never shies away from the hard questions of life.

00:11:26.000 Reflections on the existence of God is a collection of short essays that tackles the biggest questions of all.

00:11:32.000 Does God exist?

00:11:35.000 This book is well researched and easy to read.

00:11:37.000 One of the most important things a young person can do is to solidify their worldview.

00:11:41.000 Our worldview informs our personal, social, and political lives.

00:11:45.000 It helps us understand our purpose.

00:11:46.000 So, I'm challenging college students to ask themselves life's toughest questions.

00:11:51.000 Dive in and get this book today, Reflections on the Existence of God.

00:11:54.000 Go to reflectionscharlie.com.

00:11:56.000 That's reflectionscharlie.com.

00:11:58.000 Then, drop me a line with your thoughts.

00:12:02.000 Really, there needs to be four big political goals in the next two years, and we need to outline them.

00:12:07.000 We need to mention them.

00:12:08.000 And they're not really going to get you very excited because they're all defensive goals because we lost Georgia.

00:12:13.000 Number one, no new states to the Union.

00:12:17.000 Number two, no new seats to the United States Supreme Court.

00:12:21.000 Number three, no HR1, which is taxpayer-funded universal mail-in voting.

00:12:27.000 Number four, no abolition of the Electoral College.

00:12:30.000 That's very unlikely that's going to happen.

00:12:32.000 But the one that is the most likely is the admission of new states to the Union.

00:12:38.000 Most specifically, it looks like Washington, D.C. is going to be on the short list to try to get push-through as a new state.

00:12:45.000 Now, the Democrats don't care for a second about representation of D.C.

00:12:50.000 The only reason they want this is because it increases their power.

00:12:56.000 It's the only reason.

00:12:57.000 The only reason they want this is because it will give them two senators in a state that is 96% Democrat.

00:13:05.000 So, how are states added to the Union, Isabel?

00:13:08.000 Well, 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.

00:13:18.000 It 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.

00:13:26.000 You can't change the makeup of any existing states in any way without a convention of states.

00:13:32.000 Got it.

00:13:32.000 So, that involves the consent of the state legislatures as well as Congress.

00:13:36.000 But when it comes right down to it, the only necessary framework you need is an act of Congress to create a new state.

00:13:41.000 So, technically, it needs to pass the House of Representatives, pass the Senate, and be signed by the president.

00:13:47.000 That's all it takes.

00:13:48.000 That's very interesting.

00:13:50.000 And so, Manchin was a little bit wishy-washy on this when he was asked about it.

00:13:54.000 If 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.

00:14:04.000 Let me prove it to you.

00:14:06.000 If they were, they would say that Washington, D.C. can become a part of Maryland.

00:14:10.000 Now, that would take an act of a convention of states, right?

00:14:13.000 Correct, because it would change the current complexion of, is that right?

00:14:17.000 Of certain, is it only the adjoining states or all the states?

00:14:20.000 It'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.

00:14:27.000 Got it.

00:14:27.000 So, that would take a meeting of the Convention of States.

00:14:33.000 Correct.

00:14:33.000 Let's go to Joe Manchin here when he was asked one-on-one.

00:14:36.000 Joe Manchin's getting a lot of TV time.

00:14:38.000 He 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.

00:14:59.000 Now, the interesting thing is that prior to Barack Obama, there used to be like 12 Democrats like Joe Manchin.

00:15:06.000 There was that guy from South Dakota who lost because he voted for Obamacare. 0.55

00:15:11.000 There were blue dog Democrats all across the country. 0.92

00:15:14.000 They are now an endangered species. 0.66

00:15:16.000 As 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.

00:15:29.000 Yeah, 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.

00:15:35.000 Democrats used to do super well in Iowa and really, really well in Nebraska and really well in the Dakotas.

00:15:40.000 But 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.

00:15:47.000 Talk to Jake Tapper.

00:15:49.000 Statehood for Washington, D.C.

00:15:52.000 I don't know enough about that yet.

00:15:53.000 I want to see the pros and cons.

00:15:54.000 So I'm waiting to see all the facts.

00:15:56.000 I'm open up to see everything.

00:15:57.000 Statehood for Puerto Rico.

00:16:00.000 Same thing.

00:16:02.000 Okay.

00:16:04.000 So basically, he's saying, you give me the right committees.

00:16:07.000 You take care of my projects.

00:16:09.000 I'll give you statehood.

00:16:12.000 That's the way that the system, unfortunately, works in certain ways.

00:16:16.000 That a senator from West Virginia, because he's the only blue dog Democrat left, wields that kind of power.

00:16:24.000 Right, absolutely. 0.72

00:16:25.000 And frankly, this is just how Congress works at the end of the day.

00:16:28.000 A lot of it is behind the scenes trading.

00:16:31.000 What can you give me to give you?

00:16:33.000 I'm sure that that will drive this decision to make Washington, D.C. and or Puerto Rico a state.

00:16:38.000 But I'm anxious to see what the final vote count might look like and what our representatives are.

00:16:43.000 Well, every Republican will likely be against it.

00:16:45.000 Mitt Romney might vote for it, but I think.

00:16:47.000 I could see that.

00:16:47.000 Yeah, I could see Mitt Romney possibly doing that.

00:16:50.000 But yeah, look, in addition to the state would structurally change the way we do things.

00:16:55.000 So again, no new states, no abolition of the Electoral College, no HR1, no new seats to the United States Supreme Court.

00:17:03.000 Okay, maybe you can help settle a Silicon Valley social media dispute for us.

00:17:08.000 So are we allowed to stream the president or not?

00:17:11.000 I guess we'll find out.

00:17:11.000 You're pretty sure.

00:17:13.000 Can you give us some guidelines of whether or not we're allowed to hear from the president of the United States?

00:17:19.000 That is something they're just trying to act as if he doesn't exist, right?

00:17:22.000 Yeah, they've literally erased his digital footprint overnight.

00:17:25.000 Yeah, that is a common tactic amongst the Maoist left to try and destroy and eliminate people in history.

00:17:35.000 One of our team members says, I think it's risky.

00:17:37.000 I think it's risky too.

00:17:38.000 But this is the president, for God's sakes.

00:17:41.000 He still has a week left.

00:17:43.000 Okay, let's get to some sound here.

00:17:47.000 Let's go to, oh, yeah, I want to get to this whole COVID outbreak thing in the Chinese coronavirus outbreak in Congress.

00:17:55.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:17:57.000 So there have been some members that have got infected with the Chinese coronavirus.

00:18:02.000 We hope that they get through that.

00:18:05.000 The reason, though, we don't know, they are blaming three Republicans that didn't wear masks.

00:18:10.000 Is that right?

00:18:10.000 They are.

00:18:11.000 And they are very heavily blaming those three individuals, despite the fact that I'm guessing they were negative for COVID-19.

00:18:17.000 Well, also, though, there is a woman that was COVID positive.

00:18:25.000 Yes, 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.

00:18:41.000 Who is the one?

00:18:42.000 Okay, here, Moore.

00:18:42.000 That's right.

00:18:43.000 Gwen Moore from Wisconsin. 1.00

00:18:45.000 So she was COVID positive, travels to D.C. And then quarantines with the entire United States Congress. 0.91

00:18:56.000 But don't blame her. 0.86

00:18:58.000 Blame the maskless Republicans.

00:19:01.000 Let's go to Pramil.

00:19:03.000 I can never say her name.

00:19:04.000 I mean, no disrespect by this, but it is a tough one.

00:19:07.000 Let me see if I can get this one here.

00:19:09.000 Jayapal.

00:19:11.000 But of course, the Democrats are very quick to want to blame all the Republicans on this because they didn't want to wear masks.

00:19:19.000 And I think there's a video of the Republicans saying they don't want to wear masks.

00:19:22.000 Who was actually taking video of that during that moment while the Capitol was under siege?

00:19:26.000 Just think about, think about your priorities, right?

00:19:28.000 The Capitol is under attack.

00:19:31.000 You'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.

00:19:38.000 He's like, I'm going to film you.

00:19:40.000 Really?

00:19:40.000 That's Congress's priorities right there.

00:19:43.000 But 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.

00:19:54.000 I think she won by either a one or two margin vote.

00:19:57.000 It was razor thin.

00:19:59.000 So honestly, she needed that COVID-infected vote very, very badly, despite the fact that person was positive for COVID.

00:20:05.000 That's right.

00:20:06.000 Senator 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.

00:20:16.000 Play Cut 59.

00:20:17.000 Ahead 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.

00:20:36.000 We 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.

00:20:53.000 We are calling on the authorities, the FBI, the TSA.

00:21:02.000 So only if Madonna gets added, play Cut 55.

00:21:06.000 I will only agree as Senator Chuck Schumer if Madonna can never fly again.

00:21:09.000 Play tape.

00:21:11.000 Yes, I'm angry.

00:21:15.000 Yes, I am outraged.

00:21:19.000 Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.

00:21:29.000 So I'm game, Chuck Schumer.

00:21:30.000 If Madonna can never fly again and the people that went into the Capitol, I will strike that bargain.

00:21:35.000 How about Eric Holder?

00:21:37.000 Should he be allowed to board airplanes?

00:21:38.000 Play Cut 56.

00:21:40.000 Michelle always says, Michelle Obama, I love her.

00:21:42.000 You know, she and my wife like really tight, which always scares me in Barack.

00:21:49.000 But Michelle says that, you know, when they go low, we go high. 0.67

00:21:55.000 When they go low, we kick them.

00:22:08.000 That's what this new Democratic Party is about.

00:22:10.000 We're proud as hell to be Democrats.

00:22:12.000 We're willing to fight for the ideals of the Democratic Party.

00:22:16.000 We're proud of our history.

00:22:17.000 We're proud of our present.

00:22:18.000 And we're proud of the future that we can create for this country.

00:22:22.000 There's that word again.

00:22:24.000 They're chanting fight.

00:22:25.000 Fight, fight, fight.

00:22:26.000 And I don't think it's a winning message while you're in the South to say you're proud of the history of the Democrat Party.

00:22:34.000 Not a winning message, Eric Holder.

00:22:36.000 Let's go to Cut 57, Juliet Kaym, who says Trump is the spiritual leader for domestic terrorists.

00:22:42.000 Let's play Cut 57.

00:22:43.000 Trump is the spiritual, but I will also say operational leader of this domestic terrorism effort.

00:22:50.000 He tells them where to go.

00:22:51.000 He tells them what to do.

00:22:53.000 He tells them why they're angry.

00:22:55.000 And so we need to start at the top, like any counterterrorism effort, which is total isolation of the president of the United States.

00:23:02.000 Impeachment, yes.

00:23:03.000 25th Amendment, yes.

00:23:04.000 Deplatforming, yes.

00:23:06.000 All of the above.

00:23:07.000 No money, no access to campaign funds.

00:23:10.000 No money, no food, no shelter, no water.

00:23:13.000 Oh my gosh.

00:23:14.000 Let's go to Glenn.

00:23:15.000 Do we have that Glenn Greenwald clip?

00:23:18.000 The reason is because Glenn Greenwald has warned against this, which is you overuse the term terrorist.

00:23:24.000 And let me, again, I said this earlier in the segment.

00:23:26.000 For the people that planted pipe bombs and knew about it at the RNC and the DNC, yeah, that's domestic terror.

00:23:31.000 For 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.

00:23:39.000 For 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.

00:23:50.000 Don't loop them into the same thing.

00:23:52.000 This is exactly what Glenn Greenwald warned about.

00:23:57.000 Play tape.

00:23:58.000 Well, one thing I think that we're clearly seeing is the initiation of a new war on terror, which I don't say lightly.

00:24:04.000 I 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.

00:24:23.000 What 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.

00:24:36.000 They'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.

00:24:49.000 Glenn Greenwald is a traditional liberal.

00:24:51.000 He's not a leftist.

00:24:53.000 He and I probably disagree on quite a lot of topics.

00:24:56.000 However, he's been wonderful on the civil representation side about talking about the rights of Americans to not be spied on, infiltrated, or monitored.

00:25:07.000 And 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.

00:25:23.000 You're talking about the people that are about to take over the government in seven, eight days, next Wednesday.

00:25:30.000 When 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.

00:25:39.000 This is now going to have the full force of the United States government.

00:25:43.000 With it, the full force of social media.

00:25:46.000 Industry and industry and corporations and academia and most of churches.

00:25:51.000 So you're going to have basically they control every single major institution.

00:25:56.000 But 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.

00:26:08.000 The Patriot Act Bush system did not.

00:26:12.000 And 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.

00:26:27.000 FISA was formed after that.

00:26:29.000 And Glenn Greenwald's trying to say, time out here.

00:26:32.000 Are we really willing to weaponize our entire government to try and destroy an entire political movement that we don't like?

00:26:45.000 Frederica Wilson, is that the same woman that we talked about from Wisconsin?

00:26:52.000 I was going to say, I don't remember this one.

00:26:54.000 Can you talk about this?

00:26:56.000 Yeah, 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.

00:27:06.000 I'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.

00:27:17.000 Without those two votes, she would have tied.

00:27:19.000 That's right.

00:27:20.000 So interesting to see how the outcome really changed.

00:27:24.000 But nobody's calling the House Speaker vote a super spreader event, interestingly enough.

00:27:28.000 Now, 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.

00:27:45.000 And 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.

00:28:00.000 Where is his strong repudiation for Frederica Wilson or for Gwen Moore, who were both tested positive and possibly contagious?

00:28:10.000 And is it Permia Jayapal that he's upset about, which is the anti-masker that was in the House of Representatives?

00:28:19.000 I don't think so.

00:28:23.000 Look, 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.

00:28:33.000 Do you want the government to be reading over your shoulder every time you go online?

00:28:36.000 Exactly.

00:28:37.000 There'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.

00:28:46.000 When you search for something online, watch a video or click a link, it all gets tracked by the big tech companies.

00:28:52.000 They can match your activity to your true identity using your device's unique IP address.

00:28:56.000 When I use ExpressVPN, these companies can't see my IP address at all.

00:29:00.000 My identity is anonymized by a secure VPN server, and my data is encrypted for maximum protection.

00:29:06.000 And besides hiding my internet activity, what I like most about ExpressVPN is how easy it is to use.

00:29:11.000 Just download the app on your phone or computer, tap one button, and boom, you're protected.

00:29:15.000 So stop handing over your data to big tech companies and to the government.

00:29:19.000 Defend your rights with the VPN I trust for online protection.

00:29:22.000 Visit expressvpn.com/slash Charlie.

00:29:24.000 That's E-X-P-R-E-S-S VPN.com/slash Charlie to get three extra months free.

00:29:29.000 Go to expressvpn.com/slash Charlie right now to learn more.

00:29:36.000 We are taking your questions here, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:29:39.000 Isabelle, you can help with this one.

00:29:40.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:29:41.000 My name is Kate, and I'm 17 years old from Baltimore, Maryland, and I'm in my senior year of high school.

00:29:46.000 What do you say to lost teenagers that have just begun their political journey? 0.89

00:29:50.000 He goes on to talk about how he's told to kill himself and they're racist, disgusting, all of that.

00:29:55.000 Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to Turning Point USA and America as a whole.

00:29:59.000 Oh, well, thank you so much for all of those kind words, Kate.

00:30:02.000 I think you are not the only teenager in America facing that reality.

00:30:06.000 Unfortunately, conservative young people, not just teenagers, but young adults as well, are told that stuff all day, every day.

00:30:13.000 You 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.

00:30:20.000 That'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.

00:30:30.000 Don't let them.

00:30:31.000 They're only effective if you continue to be silent and you continue to hide the things that you believe in.

00:30:37.000 I would say join a Turning Point USA chapter.

00:30:39.000 That's how I made some of my best friends in college and lifelong friends that I still have today.

00:30:44.000 And it just gave me so much courage that I didn't have before to continue advocating for what I believed in.

00:30:49.000 It's a great point.

00:30:50.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:30:54.000 Vivian, who has subscribed to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast and shows us that she is, she says, make the switch from Apple to Samsung.

00:31:01.000 I'll look into it.

00:31:02.000 There we go.

00:31:03.000 Here we go.

00:31:05.000 Here is one here.

00:31:07.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:31:08.000 I'm a stay-at-home mom in the suburbs of Chicago.

00:31:10.000 I wanted to get your book from the library.

00:31:12.000 I looked it up and saw that it was on the shelf.

00:31:13.000 So I called and reserve it.

00:31:15.000 And she said it was only available as an e-book.

00:31:17.000 And I had to be a student at the local college to get it.

00:31:20.000 That's on their website.

00:31:21.000 She looked, you looked like you worked really hard to get my book.

00:31:24.000 So I'll send you a free copy of the book.

00:31:25.000 Okay.

00:31:26.000 So thank you for that.

00:31:27.000 And thank you for emailing us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:31:31.000 There's a lot happening in the country, and the president is speaking in Alamo, Texas, not at the Alamo.

00:31:37.000 I guess that's a distinction that I need to make, right, Connor?

00:31:39.000 Is it Alamo, Texas, or the Alamo?

00:31:41.000 I don't know.

00:31:42.000 But I want you to understand that there was an attack on the White House this summer that was called a mostly peaceful protest.

00:31:49.000 And in fact, they got even closer than that.

00:31:50.000 They got right up to the gates.

00:31:52.000 And the only way they were able to clear that is with tear gas and with riot gear.

00:31:56.000 It was wrong then.

00:31:57.000 It was wrong.

00:31:58.000 It happened last week.

00:31:59.000 Both can be true and both are true.

00:32:02.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:32:05.000 Here's one here.

00:32:07.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:32:07.000 My name is Chris.

00:32:09.000 I'm a proud conservative from central Nebraska.

00:32:11.000 I'm currently a sophomore at UNL.

00:32:13.000 I'm planning to get involved with Turning Point USA this upcoming semester.

00:32:16.000 Awesome.

00:32:16.000 I want to, he says fight back.

00:32:18.000 He means it figuratively and preserve what this beautiful country stands for.

00:32:23.000 What are your best suggestions?

00:32:24.000 I would also like to know how you conduct research, find articles, so on and so forth.

00:32:30.000 So we go through a variety of different sources.

00:32:32.000 We 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.

00:32:47.000 And the thing I really suggest you do, I like realclearpolitics.com.

00:32:51.000 I like justthenews.com.

00:32:54.000 They both do a really good job.

00:32:55.000 And I think the less time that you get your news from social media, the better.

00:32:59.000 I think that, Isabel, where do you get your information from?

00:33:02.000 It's not a fancy, flashy answer, but honestly, a great resource that's available to you guys comes from our Library of Congress.

00:33:08.000 They have honestly the best research team, I think, in the world.

00:33:11.000 We employ people from every country around the world who are very good experts at their subject, which are pretty niche topics.

00:33:19.000 They put together really easy to read briefings that are two to four pages, mostly bullet points.

00:33:23.000 They're super easy to read and they're available to everybody online.

00:33:25.000 So that's my favorite place to go.

00:33:27.000 I'll have to check that out.

00:33:28.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:30.000 Look, this is a moment of action.

00:33:32.000 This is a moment of building.

00:33:33.000 And that's exactly what we are doing here at Turning Point USA.

00:33:36.000 I want to get to some more questions here.

00:33:38.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:33:41.000 Here is, here's a good question.

00:33:43.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:33:43.000 What is so beneficial of the Electoral College for us?

00:33:46.000 It's always seemed overly complicated to me, and I never really fully understood what it does for us.

00:33:50.000 Thank you for all you do.

00:33:51.000 I look forward to supporting your efforts in the future.

00:33:53.000 Thank you, Cody.

00:33:54.000 Well, look, the Electoral College is really important because it's the states that should determine a president.

00:33:59.000 And that is, and the left all of a sudden became huge fans of the Electoral College this last time.

00:34:04.000 They said all these states certified it.

00:34:06.000 And 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.

00:34:13.000 No, look at it differently.

00:34:14.000 Now it's a chance to fix it through these Republican states, right?

00:34:18.000 Yes, we allowed a lot of stuff to happen in these states.

00:34:24.000 I have to be very careful the way I say things, stuff to happen in these states.

00:34:29.000 And the stuff that happened in those states needs to be fixed.

00:34:32.000 And it needs to be fixed through these state legislatures.

00:34:34.000 And so the Electoral College is critical because it is a firewall against mob rule.

00:34:39.000 It is a firewall against just whoever can promise the most amount of stuff to the most amount of people.

00:34:44.000 And 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.

00:34:52.000 We would never win another election again.

00:34:54.000 So thank you for your question.

00:34:55.000 I really appreciate it.

00:34:57.000 This is a great point that we're getting.

00:34:59.000 And this is something that I've heard from a couple of times.

00:35:01.000 And I just love the wisdom of some of the people that email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:05.000 Twitter can choose what they want to do because it's a private business.

00:35:08.000 However, small businesses are forced to remain closed.

00:35:10.000 Yeah, the irony of that is absolutely alarming to me.

00:35:14.000 So you have small businesses that are told, you're no longer a small business.

00:35:19.000 We're all in this together.

00:35:20.000 Shut down your doors.

00:35:22.000 And 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.

00:35:29.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:34.000 We're hearing actually from Twitter that they're condemning internet shutdowns.

00:35:38.000 The 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.

00:35:46.000 And Twitter has issued a statement saying we strongly condemn internet shutdowns.

00:35:51.000 They are hugely harmful, violate basic human rights and the principles of the open internet.

00:35:56.000 Unbelievable.

00:35:57.000 Here's a question from Oregon.

00:36:00.000 Hi, Charlie, big fan.

00:36:01.000 Thank you.

00:36:02.000 My name is Paige, and I'm from Oregon.

00:36:04.000 Okay.

00:36:04.000 Hi.

00:36:05.000 I'm a college student taking some time off right now because I'm not sure what I want to do.

00:36:09.000 That's a perfectly okay thing to do.

00:36:10.000 Curious, what's your opinion on conservatives that want to move out of blue states?

00:36:14.000 My family has talked about moving over to Idaho.

00:36:16.000 Paige, well, if you're in Oregon, I would get out.

00:36:19.000 Oregon does not look too good, which is too bad because I think actually the people of Oregon are more conservative than actually they vote.

00:36:26.000 But I think there's a lot of nonsense that happens there.

00:36:28.000 I moved out of Illinois.

00:36:29.000 I love the state of Illinois.

00:36:31.000 Despite the winters, it's great people, wonderful, just culture is just phenomenal.

00:36:36.000 I love Illinois.

00:36:38.000 But I was like, I'm not going to pay a 5% flat income tax.

00:36:42.000 We'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.

00:36:49.000 We're out of here.

00:36:50.000 You grew up in Colorado.

00:36:51.000 I did.

00:36:52.000 And I obviously left Colorado first for graduate school and then to move here to Arizona where we work with our Turning Point USA team.

00:36:59.000 Just make us a promise: if you do leave a blue state to anyone listening to this, don't bring those policies with you.

00:37:05.000 Do not bring them with you.

00:37:06.000 So I want to thank those of you that are supporting us at charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:37:10.000 Here's a question.

00:37:11.000 Another 15-year-old from Oregon.

00:37:13.000 I don't know like what's happening in the Republican Party.

00:37:14.000 What are your thoughts on the Libertarian and Constitution Party?

00:37:17.000 My advice is try to fix the Republican Party.

00:37:19.000 Don't splinter ourselves.

00:37:20.000 That's what the Democrats want.

00:37:22.000 They're going to stay united through this broad-based coalition.

00:37:25.000 If you want to see more libertarian or if you want to see more principles stands, go through the Republican Party.

00:37:31.000 Don't go to the Libertarian Party.

00:37:32.000 Work through the Republican Party.

00:37:34.000 I 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.

00:37:42.000 That is my opinion on that.

00:37:44.000 Some people say, How do I subscribe via Android?

00:37:47.000 Well, go to the Google Podcast app that should be there.

00:37:50.000 Type in the Charlie Kirk show or if you have Spotify.

00:37:53.000 Thank you for your question, Teresa.

00:37:56.000 Here is another question here.

00:37:57.000 Here's a good one.

00:37:59.000 Hey, Charlie, can you help explain what Section 230 is?

00:38:02.000 I've heard that it needs to be abolished and that it's not good.

00:38:05.000 What changes need to be made to Section 230?

00:38:07.000 Can you help explain this as well?

00:38:08.000 And then I'll go from there.

00:38:10.000 Yeah.

00:38:10.000 So the big change with Section 230 is, first of all, that we just need to get rid of it, in my opinion.

00:38:15.000 It'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.

00:38:24.000 Essentially, what Section 230 does is it shields these companies like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, even Amazon from civil liability.

00:38:33.000 So what does that mean?

00:38:34.000 It 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.

00:38:50.000 And the law actually has that language baked right into it.

00:38:53.000 And there's absolutely nothing that the consumer can do.

00:38:56.000 You can't sue them in court for that.

00:38:58.000 You can't take it through the judicial system to prove that you have First Amendment rights.

00:39:02.000 Essentially, your First Amendment rights don't exist because of Section 230 when it comes to these, I believe they call them, information service providers.

00:39:09.000 So 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.

00:39:20.000 That's exactly right.

00:39:22.000 And 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.

00:39:43.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:39:44.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:39:47.000 If you want to get involved with Turning PointUSA, go to tpusa.com, where we play offense with a sense of urgency to win America's Cultural War.

00:39:54.000 Start a chapter, get engaged, get involved.

00:39:56.000 And as always, you can support us at charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:40:00.000 Thank you so much, everybody.

00:40:02.000 God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - January 13, 2021

Silicon Valley’s Coordinated Attack On Conservatives Explained

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