00:00:05.000When 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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00:03:04.000It 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.
00:03:22.000So 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.
00:03:33.000Now, there's some phenomenal people that fly for Southwest Airlines.
00:03:37.000So anything I say about Southwest Airlines, I know I'm going to get all these angry emails.
00:03:40.000I can't stand flying Southwest Airlines.
00:03:44.000People from Texas, they get so animated when I say this.
00:03:56.000And 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.
00:04:54.000You 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.
00:05:08.000And so getting a good seat is very important.
00:05:11.000And so when I board on Southwest Airlines, it's always like, I got to get the exit seat, got to get the exit seat.
00:05:16.000And if it's taken, it's like the whole day is ruined.
00:05:19.000Can you, so Southwest Airlines, I got my own reservations, we'll stop with that.
00:05:24.000But this weekend, Southwest Airlines has experienced unprecedented disruptions, delays, and cancellations.
00:05:33.00028% of all Southwest Airlines flights on Sunday were canceled and 11% delayed.
00:05:42.000So Southwest Airlines comes out and they blame the weather.
00:05:46.000They blame air traffic control, the play tape.
00:05:48.000In 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.
00:05:57.000Southwest then released another statement saying after cutting back flights during the pandemic, recovering during operational challenges is more difficult and prolonged.
00:06:07.000And so they immediately blame air traffic control and weather issues.
00:06:11.000Now, 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.
00:06:21.000They must have had an entire fleet of airplanes.
00:06:24.000It is the cleanest weather map I have ever seen.
00:06:27.000So Southwest Airlines had 28% of all flights canceled.
00:06:52.000At Spirit Airlines, if you wear too baggy of clothing, I think they charge you.
00:06:56.000It is within the ethos of Spirit Airlines that we are delayed.
00:07:01.000And because you're paying $75 to fly, stop complaining.
00:07:06.000Spirit Airlines, only 4% of their flights were canceled, yet 28% of Southwest Airlines flights were canceled.
00:07:13.000China Eastern, 12% of their flights were canceled, 7%.
00:07:17.000So why was it that Southwest Airlines had such an incredible, unprecedented disruption?
00:07:24.000Well, 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.
00:07:39.000And 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.
00:08:24.000And Southwest, from a corporate standpoint, their unwillingness to admit this has been very revealing.
00:08:31.000They 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.
00:08:38.000Or that every other airline is running on time and running rather well, that only 2% of all American airline flights were canceled on Sunday.
00:08:48.00028% of Southwest Airline flights were canceled.
00:08:53.000And 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.
00:09:14.000And the media blackout component of this has been very instructive as to the place our country is in.
00:09:25.000We'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.
00:09:49.000Most people that are looking at this story are saying, oh yeah, it's air traffic control.
00:10:19.000And 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.
00:10:26.000That 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.
00:10:36.000And the result, 28% of all flights yesterday were canceled from Southwest Airlines.
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00:13:40.000Well, they're denying they even have a problem.
00:13:44.000You 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.
00:13:57.000Here's what's really going on here before I play this next tape here.
00:14:00.000What'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.
00:14:14.000So the media is intervening and trying to prevent a workers' rights revolution happening around the vaccine mandate, especially going into the busy Christmas season.
00:14:25.000They don't want this to happen at Amazon, Walmart.
00:14:28.000So the media is trying to clamp this down.
00:14:30.000They are trying to suppress this story.
00:14:33.000I've heard from Southwest employees personally, they say, of course we're taking time off intentionally, obviously.
00:14:39.000Now they're trying not to say this publicly because it could be considered an illegal action, according to the National Labor Relations Board.
00:14:48.000Southwest Airlines pilot talking about how he is a victim of a corporate hostage situation.
00:15:02.000I'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.
00:15:12.000Whether you believe in vaccination is the right thing to do or not, this situation goes far beyond health.
00:15:18.000We, the American people, have fought for freedom for 257 years.
00:15:22.000We go around the world spreading ideas of freedom and democracy.
00:15:26.000We help other countries and people fight for their freedoms while ours are being stripped away.
00:15:32.000You 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.
00:15:46.000As each thing is taken away, we face what is known as the shifting baseline syndrome.
00:15:52.000This syndrome changes our idea of a new and acceptable normal.
00:15:56.000Soon, we will not remember what it was like to have the freedoms we once did.
00:16:01.000Our 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.
00:16:13.000If 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.
00:16:23.000A disservice to the people who have fought and bled for the very freedoms we enjoy.
00:16:29.000Whether you believe in vaccination or not, I'm standing up for your freedom of choice.
00:16:34.000You may support the vaccine mandates because they fall in line with your current beliefs.
00:16:39.000But 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.
00:16:47.000If 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.
00:16:59.000Do you really want someone telling your children or your grandchildren what, when, and how they will live every minute of their lives?
00:17:16.000And that is a pilot from Southwest Airlines.
00:17:19.000And what he's talking about is the baseline syndrome.
00:17:21.000It's usually used when talking about the baseline of the ocean, as the ocean used to be more populated with certain types of fish.
00:17:31.000But as we continue to extract and harvest certain parts of the ocean, the baseline changes year to year.
00:17:38.000So 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.
00:17:52.000So this kind of ties into the Overton window theory and frame theory, which is what is the frame that we actually operate by.
00:17:59.000And they're trying to change the paradigm that we live under.
00:18:03.000Like, 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.
00:18:11.000What matters is do you listen to us or not?
00:18:14.000And God bless the Southwest Airlines employees for standing up and using the muscle that they have.
00:18:22.000And there's three or four more points I want to make about this.
00:18:25.000As 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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00:20:08.000He has a new movie out with Disney Plus and National Geographic, is that right?
00:20:13.000What is National Geographic doing a film on Fauci for?
00:20:17.000I thought National Geographic is more about trying to find the lost Mesopotamian civilization or trying to map the Yangstee River Valley.
00:20:29.000It's usually what National Geographic is best at, not long biopics on unelected bureaucrats that should be in jail.
00:20:39.000Maybe for some credibility that Fauci never earned and does not deserve.
00:20:45.000So Fauci goes on television and he says, Hey, kids, you can go trick-or-treating only if you're vaccinated, though.
00:20:57.000Now, this focus on getting children vaccinated should send a chill to every single person listening to this.
00:21:05.000Children are not at a serious or significant risk of getting seriously ill from the Fauci virus, let alone dying from the virus.
00:21:14.000Children are statistically in more danger riding as a passenger in a car than contracting and dying from the Chinese coronavirus.
00:21:25.000But instead, this is about a couple things: the two P's that drive Fauci: power and profits.
00:21:33.000This is not about trying to save children's lives.
00:21:38.000In 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.
00:21:48.000Other countries are pulling the vaccine for children.
00:21:53.000Many Scandinavian countries are saying we're no longer going to use the vaccine for children.
00:21:57.000Too many adverse events that are happening.
00:22:27.000So, 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.
00:22:39.000So, it's a good time to reflect on why it's important to get vaccinated.
00:22:43.000He keeps on being taken seriously, and it is a reflection of not the American people.
00:22:50.000Fauci is not a reflection of the wonderful American people.
00:23:17.000This is them believing they are above you, that they are better than you.
00:23:23.000That how dare you question our class of existence.
00:23:31.000And this is why the Southwest airline strike is so profound.
00:23:35.000Because the ruling class, part of the C-class, C-suite class of Southwest Airlines, they need labor.
00:23:44.000Now, 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.
00:23:59.000My 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.
00:24:10.000They need the ability to organize, they need the ability to picket, they need the ability to strike.
00:24:16.000Now, someone who is a capitalist, which I am, I always found this to kind of be somewhat of an annoying point.
00:24:21.000Like, yeah, okay, just go find another job type thing.
00:24:24.000But 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.
00:24:44.000I realize that where are workers supposed to go?
00:24:48.000Now, mind you, many of these companies are issuing these vaccine mandates because they think that Joe Biden issued an OSHA mandate.
00:25:09.000There is no executive order because they know that that would be overturned in court immediately.
00:25:14.000So they use the threat of government power by just saying the words without actually putting pen to paper.
00:25:21.000But this is not just Southwest Airlines.
00:25:25.000Air traffic controllers in Jacksonville reportedly walked out Friday night protesting the Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandates as well.
00:25:34.000This 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.
00:25:51.000All these corporations, they're not competing with one another.
00:25:54.000And I have to say that being puritanical about market principles is dangerous, and I hope conservatives do not do that anymore.
00:26:03.000Again, 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.
00:26:18.000So we say, oh, well, you know, these airlines, they just need more competitors and they'll compete against each other.
00:26:23.000What happens when all five of the airlines decide to work together?
00:26:28.000I'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.
00:26:36.000They are not protecting the industry of flying airplanes.
00:26:42.000They're protecting the industry of flying inefficient, government-sponsored state-run airlines.
00:26:49.000You 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.
00:27:00.000And all this new competition will spring out.
00:27:04.000But 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?
00:27:20.000And 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.
00:27:39.000There's nothing about workers striking in response to the vaccine mandates.
00:27:46.000The Jacobin, the front page of issue 42 of the Jacobin magazine.
00:27:52.000And just, if you don't know what a Jacobin is, the Jacobins were the people who led the French Revolution.
00:28:09.000It says, he who was previously the money owner now strides in front as capitalist.
00:28:13.000The possessor of labor power follows as his laborer.
00:28:16.000The 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.
00:28:24.000Karl Marx from his writings on capital.
00:28:29.000What'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.
00:28:39.000Workers standing up against corporations that are doing something bad, doing something evil.
00:28:49.000It's because there is a hierarchy to what matters the most to the left.
00:28:55.000And the cult of science and this belief in German historicism is far superior in importance than workers' rights.
00:29:08.000It'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.
00:29:21.000If you think that sounds nonsensical, go read their literature.
00:29:25.000And the vaccine mandate is a core component.
00:29:28.000In fact, the vaccine mandate is the crucible.
00:29:31.000The vaccine mandate is the staple of how the left views the modern world.
00:29:41.000If 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.
00:30:01.000Because 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.
00:30:19.000They believe that human nature is malleable.
00:30:24.000And 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?
00:30:39.000The teacher strike in Washington, D.C.
00:30:41.000We stand with workers, organized labor, UAW against Ford, UAW against Cadillac.
00:30:47.000And 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.
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00:35:09.000Well, 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.
00:35:26.000Christopher Columbus was a very complicated man.
00:35:31.000Part of being a human being means that we all enter a world we did not create.
00:35:41.000Christopher Columbus found a new world.
00:35:45.000Now, 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.
00:35:58.000But history, as we know it, started with Herodotus, started with the Greeks 2,700, 2,800 years ago.
00:36:07.000Civilization, 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.
00:36:24.000Western civilization, respect for the individual, allows for medical innovation, for the capacity to trade, to improve one's life.
00:36:38.000As the West expanded even further west, it hit the shores of what is now known as America.
00:36:45.000This is not an insignificant discovery.
00:36:49.000This 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.
00:37:15.000This 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.
00:37:26.000Ride a ship all the way across the Atlantic Ocean.
00:37:29.000It'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.
00:37:41.000Christopher Columbus went west not sure what he was going to discover or what he was going to reveal.
00:37:52.000I'm not going to get into the Christopher Columbus apologist stuff.
00:37:56.000There's been plenty of books written on that.
00:37:59.000Was he intentionally trying to harm people or not?
00:38:02.000I say no based on the reading and the research I have done.
00:38:05.000But there's this great article in the Washington Examiner by Dan Daniel Hannon, who I really respect.
00:38:10.000He 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.
00:38:33.000History requires an honest reading, including the people who made our civilization possible.
00:38:39.000And Christopher Columbus was one of those people.