The Charlie Kirk Show - Southwest On Strike: How Airlines Became the Frontlines in the Fight for Medical Freedom

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.

00:00:01.000 Southwest Airlines is in bedlam right now.

00:00:04.000 What's causing it?

00:00:05.000 When we go through the truth of the strike out or the sick out happening right now at Southwest Airlines in this breaking news episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, if you want to support our program, it's charliekirk.com slash support.

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00:02:14.000 We had a packed weekend.

00:02:16.000 I gave four speeches, one on Saturday evening in Arizona, three yesterday at Calvary Chapel Diamond Bar.

00:02:23.000 We are heading back on the road tomorrow, going to the great state of Texas while it is still great.

00:02:28.000 We will be broadcasting live from San Antonio tomorrow.

00:02:31.000 I am keynoting a pro-life speech tomorrow evening.

00:02:34.000 And then Wednesday, we'll be speaking at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

00:02:39.000 And here's a fast fact for you.

00:02:41.000 Dr. Pepper started in Waco, Texas, everybody.

00:02:45.000 And so did the Branch Davidians. 0.87

00:02:47.000 And so those are two things that came out of Waco, Texas.

00:02:50.000 I'm half kidding.

00:02:51.000 Love Waco, Texas.

00:02:52.000 We're going to have a lot of fun.

00:02:53.000 I want to get to the number one news story in the country right now.

00:02:56.000 And there's so much to unpack in this story.

00:02:59.000 And it impacts everybody.

00:03:01.000 And it is a people-powered story.

00:03:04.000 It is a story about the power of workers against government oligarchs, regulators, and corporate planners that are suddenly being exposed for attacking their workers for no good reason whatsoever.

00:03:22.000 So this story was starting to gain traction on Saturday, and it kind of hit a climax on Sunday, and it's still happening right now, which is Southwest Airlines.

00:03:33.000 Now, there's some phenomenal people that fly for Southwest Airlines.

00:03:37.000 So anything I say about Southwest Airlines, I know I'm going to get all these angry emails.

00:03:40.000 I can't stand flying Southwest Airlines.

00:03:44.000 People from Texas, they get so animated when I say this.

00:03:47.000 You put your life in your own hands.

00:03:49.000 You got to be at the right place when you board at the right time.

00:03:51.000 If you go to the restroom and you miss it, people are very aggressive.

00:03:55.000 They're elbowing you.

00:03:56.000 And I think one of the worst parts about flying Southwest Airlines is how people abuse, in my personal opinion, the non-questioned status of getting extra boarding time.

00:04:10.000 And this is a new phenomenon.

00:04:11.000 So if you've never flown Southwest Airlines, you don't have an assigned seat.

00:04:14.000 You're like cattle.

00:04:16.000 So you're between A1 and A15.

00:04:19.000 And you ask the person, are you A1?

00:04:20.000 Are you A2?

00:04:21.000 Are you A3?

00:04:22.000 But before that, you can just say, I need extra time to board.

00:04:26.000 And they're not allowed to question it.

00:04:29.000 And so the last time I flew Southwest Airlines, there were like 35 people, very able-bodied people.

00:04:34.000 Now, maybe they had problems.

00:04:35.000 I don't know.

00:04:36.000 But it was very frustrating when you pay more to get A1 and there's 35 people in front of you.

00:04:41.000 So Southwest Airlines, not a fan.

00:04:43.000 I will say, usually, though, I will say in defense of Southwest Airlines, I've never had massive delays with Southwest Airlines.

00:04:50.000 They're typically on time.

00:04:51.000 Would you agree with that, Connor?

00:04:52.000 They're typically on time.

00:04:54.000 You know, despite the fact that you feel like you're about to get branded when you walk on the airline and you got to kind of fend for your own seat, it's incredible anxiety.

00:05:04.000 I'm six foot four.

00:05:06.000 I have some back issues.

00:05:08.000 And so getting a good seat is very important.

00:05:11.000 And so when I board on Southwest Airlines, it's always like, I got to get the exit seat, got to get the exit seat.

00:05:16.000 And if it's taken, it's like the whole day is ruined.

00:05:19.000 Can you, so Southwest Airlines, I got my own reservations, we'll stop with that.

00:05:24.000 But this weekend, Southwest Airlines has experienced unprecedented disruptions, delays, and cancellations.

00:05:33.000 28% of all Southwest Airlines flights on Sunday were canceled and 11% delayed.

00:05:42.000 So Southwest Airlines comes out and they blame the weather.

00:05:46.000 They blame air traffic control, the play tape.

00:05:48.000 In a statement, Southwest blamed air traffic control issues and bad weather in Florida from Friday, but the FAA said its traffic control issues were long resolved.

00:05:57.000 Southwest then released another statement saying after cutting back flights during the pandemic, recovering during operational challenges is more difficult and prolonged.

00:06:07.000 And so they immediately blame air traffic control and weather issues.

00:06:11.000 Now, interestingly, if you look at the weather map from this last weekend, I never knew Southwest Airlines had such incredible frequency of flights through Central, North, and South Dakota.

00:06:21.000 They must have had an entire fleet of airplanes.

00:06:24.000 It is the cleanest weather map I have ever seen.

00:06:27.000 So Southwest Airlines had 28% of all flights canceled.

00:06:31.000 American Airlines, 2%.

00:06:34.000 Now, here's the kicker.

00:06:34.000 Two.

00:06:36.000 You said, okay, American, they got their act together. 0.98

00:06:39.000 Spirit Airlines had 4% of all flights canceled.

00:06:42.000 Okay.

00:06:43.000 If Spirit is worse than anything you've ever flown, I kid you not.

00:06:49.000 Spirit Airlines, they charge you for water.

00:06:51.000 Okay, I'm half kidding.

00:06:52.000 At Spirit Airlines, if you wear too baggy of clothing, I think they charge you.

00:06:56.000 It is within the ethos of Spirit Airlines that we are delayed.

00:07:01.000 And because you're paying $75 to fly, stop complaining.

00:07:06.000 Spirit Airlines, only 4% of their flights were canceled, yet 28% of Southwest Airlines flights were canceled.

00:07:13.000 China Eastern, 12% of their flights were canceled, 7%.

00:07:17.000 So why was it that Southwest Airlines had such an incredible, unprecedented disruption?

00:07:24.000 Well, the media was in a really tough spot this last weekend because them being the regime media, not doing an ounce, not caring about an inch of investigation, they kept on sending out Apple News notifications, unprecedented disruptions increase.

00:07:39.000 And you read these articles and they say one after the other, well, it's because of weather and air traffic control or internal internal operation problems at Southwest Airlines.

00:07:51.000 Now, we know this is a lie.

00:07:52.000 We know it.

00:07:53.000 We know what's really going on here.

00:07:55.000 Southwest Airlines has come out and they said they want all of their pilots and flight attendants vaccinated by force by early December.

00:08:05.000 And Southwest employees are fighting back.

00:08:09.000 And right now you are seeing workers and you are seeing everyday rank and file members of the Southwest team say, go run your own airline.

00:08:20.000 You think you can work without us?

00:08:22.000 Good luck.

00:08:24.000 And Southwest, from a corporate standpoint, their unwillingness to admit this has been very revealing. 0.99

00:08:31.000 They think you are so stupid that you are not able to look at a weather map and say, yeah, there really is no weather anywhere. 0.95

00:08:38.000 Or that every other airline is running on time and running rather well, that only 2% of all American airline flights were canceled on Sunday. 0.99

00:08:48.000 28% of Southwest Airline flights were canceled.

00:08:53.000 And what's going on here is that regular normal workers for Southwest Airlines are saying to the vaccine-mandated, mandating corporate oligarchs, you are not going to be able to do this to us and ruin our careers without us fighting back.

00:09:14.000 And the media blackout component of this has been very instructive as to the place our country is in.

00:09:25.000 We're going to go through that because the media's just colluding with the pharmaceutical companies, trying to cover up this sick out, grinding planes to a halt, has been, I think, one of the most interesting and important takeaways from this entire couple day saga.

00:09:49.000 Most people that are looking at this story are saying, oh yeah, it's air traffic control.

00:09:54.000 It's weather.

00:09:56.000 Where would we be without social media?

00:09:58.000 Social media actually shows that the Southwest Airline pilots and they are lacking for labor.

00:10:06.000 Southwest Airlines unnecessarily created an ultimatum.

00:10:09.000 They created a hostage situation with their workers.

00:10:13.000 They said, if you do not get the vaccine, we will ruin your career.

00:10:17.000 We will terminate you.

00:10:19.000 And they said, okay, if that's the case, we're going to use whatever power we have left to make sure that we send a message to you.

00:10:26.000 That if you think you can bully us after the sacrifice, the early mornings, the late nights that we've put in for this airline, for this enterprise, for this company, good luck running an airline.

00:10:36.000 And the result, 28% of all flights yesterday were canceled from Southwest Airlines.

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00:13:01.000 The flight cancellations continue for Southwest Airlines, yet they're saying there's nothing wrong here.

00:13:07.000 It's the weather.

00:13:09.000 It's the tsunami, even though the weather is not affecting other airlines.

00:13:13.000 348 flights canceled Monday with a further 303 delayed beyond that.

00:13:20.000 And we have said on this program, good luck trying to mandate the vaccine because running an airline is a very fickle business.

00:13:28.000 It's a very specific skill set that takes a lot of training to get pilots and flight attendants.

00:13:33.000 And you start to get 5%, 10%, 15% labor disruptions.

00:13:37.000 What are you going to do, Southwest?

00:13:40.000 Well, they're denying they even have a problem.

00:13:44.000 You read some of these articles and how the regime media has refused to even just pick up the phone and do some investigative journalism has been so telling how the media is owned by the pharmaceutical companies.

00:13:57.000 Here's what's really going on here before I play this next tape here.

00:14:00.000 What's really happening, and we're going to play cut three of the full tape, is that they do not want this to set off a chain reaction of strikes and sick outs happening at every major company across the country.

00:14:14.000 So the media is intervening and trying to prevent a workers' rights revolution happening around the vaccine mandate, especially going into the busy Christmas season.

00:14:25.000 They don't want this to happen at Amazon, Walmart.

00:14:28.000 So the media is trying to clamp this down.

00:14:30.000 They are trying to suppress this story.

00:14:32.000 We know what's going on.

00:14:33.000 I've heard from Southwest employees personally, they say, of course we're taking time off intentionally, obviously.

00:14:39.000 Now they're trying not to say this publicly because it could be considered an illegal action, according to the National Labor Relations Board.

00:14:48.000 Southwest Airlines pilot talking about how he is a victim of a corporate hostage situation.

00:14:54.000 Play tape.

00:14:56.000 I've been an airline pilot for 18 years and now I'm facing an ultimatum.

00:15:00.000 Not a choice, but an ultimatum.

00:15:02.000 I'm being told in order to continue my career as an airline pilot, I must be vaccinated, which really means I have to choose between putting food on the table for my family and my freedom of choice.

00:15:12.000 Whether you believe in vaccination is the right thing to do or not, this situation goes far beyond health.

00:15:18.000 We, the American people, have fought for freedom for 257 years.

00:15:22.000 We go around the world spreading ideas of freedom and democracy.

00:15:26.000 We help other countries and people fight for their freedoms while ours are being stripped away.

00:15:32.000 You may think being forced to wear a mask or give vaccination is insignificant, but when you begin to compile mandate after mandate and loss of freedom after freedom, it becomes very significant.

00:15:46.000 As each thing is taken away, we face what is known as the shifting baseline syndrome.

00:15:52.000 This syndrome changes our idea of a new and acceptable normal.

00:15:56.000 Soon, we will not remember what it was like to have the freedoms we once did.

00:16:01.000 Our children and our grandchildren will experience less freedom, and they won't have the privilege or the pleasure to enjoy the same choices our parents had or that we have.

00:16:13.000 If we give into these mandates and we do not stand up for our freedom of choice, we dishonor every armed service person over the last 257 years.

00:16:23.000 A disservice to the people who have fought and bled for the very freedoms we enjoy.

00:16:29.000 Whether you believe in vaccination or not, I'm standing up for your freedom of choice.

00:16:34.000 You may support the vaccine mandates because they fall in line with your current beliefs.

00:16:39.000 But if we let this happen now, there will be a day when what you're told to do will not fall in line with your beliefs.

00:16:47.000 If we do not stand together and fight back in one voice, soon we could be told where to live, what job we will do, what religion to believe, and how many children we can have.

00:16:59.000 Do you really want someone telling your children or your grandchildren what, when, and how they will live every minute of their lives?

00:17:08.000 It's time we take a stance.

00:17:10.000 It's time we fight for our freedom of choice while we still can.

00:17:15.000 Join us.

00:17:16.000 And that is a pilot from Southwest Airlines.

00:17:19.000 And what he's talking about is the baseline syndrome.

00:17:21.000 It's usually used when talking about the baseline of the ocean, as the ocean used to be more populated with certain types of fish.

00:17:31.000 But as we continue to extract and harvest certain parts of the ocean, the baseline changes year to year.

00:17:38.000 So you have a different reference point, but it has a broadened meaning, especially when it comes to psychology and the application of, well, we're not unfree because all we have to do is wear masks, where two years ago, that would have been an unthinkable proposition.

00:17:52.000 So this kind of ties into the Overton window theory and frame theory, which is what is the frame that we actually operate by.

00:17:59.000 And they're trying to change the paradigm that we live under.

00:18:03.000 Like, yeah, it's not a big deal that you have to go get an emergency youth authorization vaccine that the CDC director has said itself actually won't prevent you from getting the virus.

00:18:11.000 What matters is do you listen to us or not?

00:18:14.000 And God bless the Southwest Airlines employees for standing up and using the muscle that they have.

00:18:22.000 And there's three or four more points I want to make about this.

00:18:25.000 As Southwest Airlines grapples with their own totalitarianism, they're getting a little taste of their own medicine as they thought they could be a tyrant and now they're in chaos.

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00:19:41.000 They are coming for your children next.

00:19:44.000 We've said that on this program for quite some time.

00:19:48.000 Fauci, unelected, unknown before the pandemic, and unaccountable, the highest paid employee in the federal government.

00:19:57.000 Let me say that again.

00:19:58.000 Fauci is the highest paid employee in our entire government, and no one questions it. 0.90

00:20:03.000 Fauci is a narcissist.

00:20:05.000 We know that.

00:20:05.000 His new movie is not doing well.

00:20:08.000 He has a new movie out with Disney Plus and National Geographic, is that right?

00:20:13.000 What is National Geographic doing a film on Fauci for?

00:20:17.000 I thought National Geographic is more about trying to find the lost Mesopotamian civilization or trying to map the Yangstee River Valley.

00:20:29.000 It's usually what National Geographic is best at, not long biopics on unelected bureaucrats that should be in jail.

00:20:39.000 Maybe for some credibility that Fauci never earned and does not deserve.

00:20:45.000 So Fauci goes on television and he says, Hey, kids, you can go trick-or-treating only if you're vaccinated, though.

00:20:57.000 Now, this focus on getting children vaccinated should send a chill to every single person listening to this.

00:21:05.000 Children are not at a serious or significant risk of getting seriously ill from the Fauci virus, let alone dying from the virus.

00:21:14.000 Children are statistically in more danger riding as a passenger in a car than contracting and dying from the Chinese coronavirus.

00:21:25.000 But instead, this is about a couple things: the two P's that drive Fauci: power and profits.

00:21:33.000 This is not about trying to save children's lives.

00:21:38.000 In fact, we have more evidence to show, according to a news story out of California, of two children that had adverse events to the Chinese coronavirus vaccine.

00:21:48.000 Other countries are pulling the vaccine for children.

00:21:53.000 Many Scandinavian countries are saying we're no longer going to use the vaccine for children.

00:21:57.000 Too many adverse events that are happening.

00:22:01.000 Let's go to cut eight. 0.82

00:22:02.000 Fauci grants permission for kids to go trick-or-treating only if they are vaccinated.

00:22:08.000 Let me say this: this is a very obvious question.

00:22:11.000 If they're wearing a costume, isn't that kind of like a mask?

00:22:14.000 That's too much thinking for them.

00:22:15.000 Cut eight.

00:22:16.000 Halloween is just around the corner.

00:22:18.000 A lot of parents are wondering how to trick-or-treat.

00:22:22.000 Do they hand out candy?

00:22:24.000 Do they walk around with their children?

00:22:26.000 What's your guidance?

00:22:27.000 So, I mean, particularly if you're vaccinated, if you're not vaccinated, again, think about it: that you'll add an extra degree of protection to yourself and your children and your family and your community.

00:22:39.000 So, it's a good time to reflect on why it's important to get vaccinated.

00:22:43.000 He keeps on being taken seriously, and it is a reflection of not the American people.

00:22:50.000 Fauci is not a reflection of the wonderful American people.

00:22:54.000 He is a reflection.

00:22:55.000 In fact, he is the mascot of a broken ruling class.

00:23:00.000 Now, when Gavin Newsom was asked whether or not his 12-year-old child was vaccinated, he said, no, she isn't.

00:23:08.000 And some people are calling this hypocrisy.

00:23:12.000 This is not hypocrisy.

00:23:14.000 This is hierarchy.

00:23:17.000 This is them believing they are above you, that they are better than you.

00:23:23.000 That how dare you question our class of existence.

00:23:31.000 And this is why the Southwest airline strike is so profound.

00:23:35.000 Because the ruling class, part of the C-class, C-suite class of Southwest Airlines, they need labor. 0.90

00:23:44.000 Now, as I was prepping for this story, I couldn't help but chuckle because the entire economic narrative traditionally stemming from people who call themselves socialists are all about workers' rights.

00:23:59.000 My whole life, last 10 years, I should say, debating people on the left, debating people who would call themselves Marxists, they would always say that workers need more rights.

00:24:10.000 They need the ability to organize, they need the ability to picket, they need the ability to strike.

00:24:16.000 Now, someone who is a capitalist, which I am, I always found this to kind of be somewhat of an annoying point.

00:24:21.000 Like, yeah, okay, just go find another job type thing.

00:24:24.000 But as I realize that we are entering into this state-run capitalist, which is not capitalist, state-run cronyist environment where the largest companies are working in tandem, they are working in harmony, they are colluding with the levers of government.

00:24:44.000 I realize that where are workers supposed to go?

00:24:48.000 Now, mind you, many of these companies are issuing these vaccine mandates because they think that Joe Biden issued an OSHA mandate.

00:24:57.000 He didn't.

00:24:58.000 There is no mandate.

00:25:00.000 Nothing.

00:25:01.000 Biden has signed nothing.

00:25:02.000 He gave one speech.

00:25:04.000 There's no directive.

00:25:05.000 There's no guidance.

00:25:07.000 It's a press release.

00:25:09.000 There is no executive order because they know that that would be overturned in court immediately.

00:25:14.000 So they use the threat of government power by just saying the words without actually putting pen to paper.

00:25:21.000 But this is not just Southwest Airlines.

00:25:25.000 Air traffic controllers in Jacksonville reportedly walked out Friday night protesting the Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandates as well.

00:25:34.000 This is now happening in multiple different industries, and the media is totally blacking this out because the regime media that takes significant amount of advertising dollars from Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson ⁇ Johnson, AstraZeneca, you see, they're all in on this together.

00:25:51.000 All these corporations, they're not competing with one another.

00:25:54.000 And I have to say that being puritanical about market principles is dangerous, and I hope conservatives do not do that anymore.

00:26:03.000 Again, I say this as someone who's a capitalist and I love free markets, but do not be dogmatic about this because saying that competition will solve everything is a lie when companies collude with one another.

00:26:16.000 That's what cartels do. 1.00

00:26:18.000 So we say, oh, well, you know, these airlines, they just need more competitors and they'll compete against each other.

00:26:23.000 What happens when all five of the airlines decide to work together?

00:26:28.000 I'll take our profits, you take your profits, we'll kind of do things a little bit differently, but when it comes down to it, we'll protect the industry.

00:26:36.000 They are not protecting the industry of flying airplanes. 0.99

00:26:40.000 That's garbage. 0.94

00:26:42.000 They're protecting the industry of flying inefficient, government-sponsored state-run airlines. 0.97

00:26:49.000 You see, as free market capitalists, in the pure sense, dogmatists, they say all we need is to deregulate everything, which, of course, unfortunately is not going to happen anytime soon.

00:27:00.000 And all this new competition will spring out.

00:27:04.000 But in this moment, as you look prudently at the situation in front of you, what exactly are you supposed to say to Southwest Airlines colluding with United Airlines, working in tandem with American Airlines, with the Biden regime to crush their workers?

00:27:20.000 And this is where the workers' rights folks, many of whom on the left are silent right now, and this kind of completes my point, that if you go to the Jacobin magazine, which is as far left of an intellectual rag that you can get, there's nothing about the Southwest strike.

00:27:39.000 There's nothing about workers striking in response to the vaccine mandates.

00:27:46.000 The Jacobin, the front page of issue 42 of the Jacobin magazine.

00:27:52.000 And just, if you don't know what a Jacobin is, the Jacobins were the people who led the French Revolution.

00:27:56.000 Didn't end well.

00:27:57.000 Tens of thousands of people had their heads cut off.

00:28:00.000 Their leader, Maximilian Robespierre himself, got killed.

00:28:04.000 You know what issue 42 of the Jacobin magazine was?

00:28:07.000 Quote, the working class.

00:28:09.000 It says, he who was previously the money owner now strides in front as capitalist.

00:28:13.000 The possessor of labor power follows as his laborer.

00:28:16.000 The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business, the other hesitant like the one who's bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect by hiding.

00:28:24.000 Karl Marx from his writings on capital.

00:28:29.000 What's incredible is to see all of the workers' rights people on the left be completely silent when you see everything that they pretend to stand for.

00:28:39.000 Workers standing up against corporations that are doing something bad, doing something evil.

00:28:45.000 Why is the left so silent on this?

00:28:47.000 And I wrote a long piece on this.

00:28:49.000 It's because there is a hierarchy to what matters the most to the left.

00:28:55.000 And the cult of science and this belief in German historicism is far superior in importance than workers' rights.

00:29:08.000 It's much more important to make sure that history is continually and possibly unfolding, that we need more experts experimenting on more different things to usher us into the inevitable Marxist utopia.

00:29:21.000 If you think that sounds nonsensical, go read their literature.

00:29:25.000 And the vaccine mandate is a core component.

00:29:28.000 In fact, the vaccine mandate is the crucible.

00:29:31.000 The vaccine mandate is the staple of how the left views the modern world.

00:29:41.000 If all of a sudden the vaccine mandate gets questioned and the people who ushered in the vaccine all of a sudden get met with skepticism, then the entire unelected technocratic scientific class itself all of a sudden starts to lose legitimacy.

00:29:59.000 And that's a big deal.

00:30:01.000 Because the left's true ambitions, the big bet they are making to try to improve humanity, to try to bring us into the perfection of the human being itself, lies within a class of unelected people that are just like Anthony Fauci.

00:30:19.000 They believe that human nature is malleable.

00:30:21.000 They can change it.

00:30:22.000 They can shift it as they want.

00:30:24.000 And this is why when there's a moment for the media to stand with workers, do you notice how the media stands with workers any other time they're protesting a conservative business?

00:30:33.000 Do you notice that?

00:30:35.000 They're walking off.

00:30:36.000 They're heroes.

00:30:37.000 The teacher strike in Chicago.

00:30:39.000 The teacher strike in Washington, D.C.

00:30:41.000 We stand with workers, organized labor, UAW against Ford, UAW against Cadillac.

00:30:47.000 And yet when there's organized labor trying to stand against an unelected scientific technocratic elite that is pushing forward an emergency use authorization vaccine for many people have already had the Chinese coronavirus, they don't just not cover it.

00:31:01.000 It's worse than that.

00:31:03.000 They cover it up.

00:31:06.000 It is worse than saying, oh yeah, we're not going to cover it.

00:31:09.000 They cover the opposite of the truth.

00:31:12.000 They go full and total propagandist.

00:31:17.000 Now they try to gaslight you and saying, oh, no, no, no, it's actually the weather.

00:31:22.000 And this actually goes back to this Soviet thing.

00:31:24.000 It's so interesting how it all comes full circle.

00:31:27.000 The Soviet Union used to push out on Pravda, their newspaper, what a wonderful harvest it was this year. 0.99

00:31:33.000 Beautiful weather and bountiful products for all.

00:31:37.000 And people would say, it's a famine.

00:31:39.000 They say, no, no, no, no, it was a wonderful harvest.

00:31:41.000 And if you disagree, you're going to the gulag.

00:31:44.000 It's raining in Houston and Dallas, and there's tornadoes.

00:31:47.000 No, actually, it's sunny.

00:31:48.000 No, it's not.

00:31:49.000 And you're going to like it.

00:31:51.000 It's sunny in Dallas and Southwest Airlines is collapsing because workers are fighting back.

00:31:58.000 Look, if you've been keeping up with the news, or even if you haven't been, you might hear the word tapering being used a lot.

00:32:05.000 It's the new Federal Reserve new buzzword, and you'll hear all kinds of meaning and definition for it.

00:32:13.000 But what does it really mean?

00:32:15.000 If Washington has to repay around $30 trillion it borrowed, guess where that's coming from?

00:32:20.000 You guessed it, your pocket.

00:32:23.000 Janet Yellen said we'd never see another financial crisis in our lifetime when she ran the Fed.

00:32:28.000 Now just four years later, she's warning of a catastrophe.

00:32:32.000 And here we are.

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00:33:39.000 And I know many of you are sending your son or daughter off to college, and we're hearing feedback from campuses which are turning into indoctrination factories and terrible places for people of faith.

00:33:51.000 Public universities all over America are muzzling freedom of speech and adopting rules of conduct targeting Christian students, especially.

00:33:58.000 That's why I'm asking for your help as we generate the support of the Freedom Fund, the Alliance Defending Freedom, the nonprofit legal defense organization.

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00:35:04.000 Indigenous Peoples Day or Columbus Day?

00:35:07.000 That is the question.

00:35:09.000 Well, I can tell you that Indigenous Peoples Day, whatever that is, is just the latest chapter in the book of renaming our history and recategorizing our history. 0.55

00:35:26.000 Christopher Columbus was a very complicated man.

00:35:31.000 Part of being a human being means that we all enter a world we did not create.

00:35:37.000 Few of us find new worlds.

00:35:41.000 Christopher Columbus found a new world.

00:35:45.000 Now, people in the American Academy don't like that because they say that it's colonialist to even argue, to conjecture that it would be a new world.

00:35:58.000 But history, as we know it, started with Herodotus, started with the Greeks 2,700, 2,800 years ago.

00:36:07.000 Civilization, civil society that respects freedom of speech, dialogue, private property rights, an independent judiciary, consent of the governed, separation of powers, sprung out of a combination between Athens and Jerusalem, reason and revelation.

00:36:24.000 Western civilization, respect for the individual, allows for medical innovation, for the capacity to trade, to improve one's life.

00:36:38.000 As the West expanded even further west, it hit the shores of what is now known as America.

00:36:45.000 This is not an insignificant discovery.

00:36:49.000 This led and started the foundation for the eventual pilgrims, for the people that, the pilgrims and the colonialists that settled in 1620 and eventually wrote the Mayflower and wrote the Mayflower Compact, which started the revolution of self-government.

00:37:15.000 This was all thanks to a brave man who decided to do something that many activists who tear down statues of Christopher Columbus would never have the backbone, the spine, or the capacity to do.

00:37:26.000 Ride a ship all the way across the Atlantic Ocean.

00:37:29.000 It's easy for them to sit in a seat on United Airlines from Newark Airport to Madrid and act as if traveling across the sea or the ocean is a very simple thing.

00:37:41.000 Christopher Columbus went west not sure what he was going to discover or what he was going to reveal.

00:37:48.000 That took courage.

00:37:49.000 It took clairvoyance.

00:37:52.000 I'm not going to get into the Christopher Columbus apologist stuff.

00:37:56.000 There's been plenty of books written on that.

00:37:59.000 Was he intentionally trying to harm people or not?

00:38:02.000 I say no based on the reading and the research I have done.

00:38:05.000 But there's this great article in the Washington Examiner by Dan Daniel Hannon, who I really respect.

00:38:10.000 He said, quote, whatever the explanation as to why America and the West is getting rid of Christopher Columbus, we have reached a strange cultural moment when the countries that did the most to spread personal freedom and representative government across the globe are the ones most embarrassed about their achievements.

00:38:33.000 History requires an honest reading, including the people who made our civilization possible.

00:38:39.000 And Christopher Columbus was one of those people.

00:38:42.000 It's too bad he's been erased.

00:38:44.000 But he won't be forgotten here.

00:38:46.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:38:47.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com, and get involved at TurningPointUSA Today at tpusa.com.

00:38:53.000 God bless you guys.

00:38:54.000 Speak to you soon.

00:38:58.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - October 11, 2021

Southwest On Strike: How Airlines Became the Frontlines in the Fight for Medical Freedom

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