00:00:29.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:37.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:00:49.000With the Turning Point USA movement, I've had the honor of traveling across America to visit college campuses and engage in rigorous debate with the next generation.
00:00:57.000When you talk to as many students as I do, there are several familiar themes.
00:01:02.000I see disillusionment with the media, a lack of hope in their job prospects.
00:01:06.000I hear them claim that they're victims and deserve better.
00:01:10.000Whether college students realize it or not, they're forming ideologies that will affect the way they think and treat others for a lifetime.
00:01:16.000I'd like to recommend a great book to any young person in this time of life.
00:01:21.000It's called Reflections on the Existence of God by best-selling author Richard Simmons III.
00:01:26.000This guy never shies away from the hard questions of life.
00:01:29.000Reflections on the Existence of God is a collection of short essays that tackles the biggest questions of all.
00:02:00.000Then drop me a line with your thoughts.
00:02:05.000Hey, everybody, this is Isabel Brown, Turning Point USA contributor here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:02:10.000And I want to continue unpacking a little bit of what we talked about in relation to big tech and the lack of ability for startup companies to get into the space and provide for a platform that's truly built on free speech.
00:02:23.000Just recently, we've seen the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, issue a statement on banning Trump, saying that he's definitely not backtracking on the decision, but he certainly doesn't celebrate it as well.
00:02:34.000On his platform, Dorsey tweeted out basically a thread of tweets, starting with a statement that says, I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban at real Donald Trump from Twitter or how we got here.
00:02:48.000And he goes on to explain the circumstances that led Twitter to make this decision, which ultimately ended up seeing President Trump's accounts be banned from other platforms as well.
00:02:57.000He stated, we have faced an extraordinary and untenable circumstance, forcing us to all focus on our actions on public safety.
00:03:05.000He says, offline harm as a result of online speech is demonstrably real and what drives our policy and enforcement above all.
00:03:16.000Offline harm as a result of online speech.
00:03:20.000I find it incredibly fascinating that platforms have interestingly focused on President Trump's accounts above all, let alone any other content that threatens the potential for offline harm off of their platforms.
00:03:34.000Quickly, President Trump's accounts were almost erased overnight, as was his digital footprint almost instantly.
00:03:40.000But we've seen a lack of ability from almost all of these platforms over time to remove any other violent content.
00:03:47.000When we see physical threats be propagated against conservatives and the president of the United States directly, I myself and other conservatives I work with being at the receiving end of those things.
00:03:57.000Literal child pornography can't seem to be taken off social media accounts, yet we can ban the account of the president of the United States.
00:04:04.000We see violent videos go viral, including some from just this last week as well.
00:04:08.000But those things haven't been removed, only the account of the president of the United States.
00:04:13.000And we're seeing the market start to respond a bit to these decisions to de-platform the president and other outspoken conservatives.
00:04:20.000But I'm unsure how much the market will be able to dictate where we go forward from here.
00:04:24.000Facebook has now seen a $34 billion decline in their market shares after they decided to deplatform the President of the United States.
00:04:32.000And we spoke the other day about Twitter losing $5 billion in market value.
00:04:36.000That's about 12% of their market shares erased almost overnight after they've decided to go after conservative space online.
00:04:44.000But the problem is there's really no space in the market for competition.
00:04:48.000We touched on this a bit in the last hour, but when you look at these startup companies for social media that are trying to promote free speech as much as possible, Parlor and Rumble, just to name a few, there seems to be a lack of space for them to compete with these multi-trillion dollar companies, largely because of Section 230, which is a provision of the Telecommunications Act and currently exists under federal law.
00:05:09.000There's a civil liability shield where you can't sue these big companies for deplatforming people or taking off their domains from their website server provision.
00:05:18.000You can't really go after them for First Amendment violations because that's specifically stated in Section 230.
00:05:24.000So the reality is these are not just private companies.
00:05:28.000This is the very definition of big government.
00:05:35.000And look, you look at this one tweet from the World Health Organization.
00:05:39.000It says preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities one year ago today have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus.
00:05:49.000Yet that tweet is still allowed to be up.
00:05:52.000And you want to talk about offline harm?
00:05:55.000You want to talk about millions of people dying and billions being displaced?
00:06:00.000That, I mean, how much damage do you think that tweet did?
00:06:03.000And speaking of misinformation and disinformation, which AOC seems to be keenly focused on, that tweet is still available today on Twitter.
00:06:11.000So I find it hard to believe that they're actually interested in the business of preventing offline harm by censoring online speech.
00:06:47.000He will till his last hour as president.
00:06:50.000Unfortunately, absent something that I'm missing and I don't think exists, Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States.
00:06:59.000That is not something that gives me any form of delight or satisfaction.
00:07:02.000I fought very hard for this president.
00:07:04.000I did everything I possibly could to get him reelected.
00:07:08.000And for a variety of different reasons that we've gone through, I think, extensively here on this program, it looks like Joe Biden will be the next president.
00:07:31.000And we're going to keep moving forward with joy and optimism and positivity, even though at times it seems as if everything around us is absolutely and totally terrible.
00:08:10.000We can keep advocating, for lack of a better word, for the things that we believe in.
00:08:16.000And ultimately, it just comes down to the people that show up as being change makers in this country and being the individuals who can continue making a difference.
00:08:51.000All of a sudden, you win North Carolina.
00:08:53.000Look, Georgia and Arizona have its own set of problems, obviously.
00:08:57.000But then you win House seats in Orange County, California in Mike Garcia's race.
00:09:03.000We got a lot of good things happening, everybody, in the conservative movement and in our country.
00:09:07.000And so if I were to just kind of look at this just analytically, these are the 10 Republicans that voted for impeachment.
00:09:15.000I'm not even going to make it about them because I actually think they want the attention, so I'm not going to do that.
00:09:19.000What I'm saying, though, is at the lowest point that President Trump will ever probably be politically, at the lowest point, 10 Republican members of the House defected from him.
00:09:31.000And they're already receiving a lot of backlash from their constituents for doing so.
00:09:35.000And I'm sure that the president's going to have many opportunities in the media to talk about what happened and his speech and how he was stunned and shocked by what ensued.
00:09:47.000I'm sure all of that is going to happen and unfold.
00:09:52.000And I think it's very interesting that President Donald Trump and his party is still very much intact.
00:10:01.000I mean, this was an opportunity for a lot of these Republicans to turn their back on not just him, but the voters that want that, quite honestly, gave them the opportunity to be congresspeople.
00:10:14.000And so there's going to be a lot more kind of unfolding and unpacking from there.
00:10:23.000Why hasn't someone introduced a bill to classify social media as a public utility?
00:10:27.000Just as phone companies have been allowed to use each other's lines, social media, yeah, use each other's lines, social media and app stores should have other social media apps and companies to be available.
00:10:38.000I'm just curious as to why this hasn't occurred.
00:10:40.000Well, people like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have introduced those bills.
00:10:44.000The danger of that is that all of a sudden you're going to create three or four permanent social media companies, no different than the electronic, you know, the power utilities in a lot of these states like Florida Power and Light or the Arizona Utility Board, the Corporation Commission that sets those rates, and you'll never have another competitor again.
00:11:06.000So, however, I do believe that there is time, it is time, I don't think it's going to happen, to start to regulate these companies, that they have to live under a set of rules.
00:11:16.000When you have hundreds of millions of users, when you have hundreds of millions of users in the Western world and tens of millions of users in just some states, you're no longer just a private company.
00:11:29.000The idea of what a private company should be and its intent is a bakery, is a mid-sized business, even a large business, a couple thousand people.
00:11:38.000They shouldn't be told what they should do.
00:11:40.000But as soon as you're providing a service to the whole country, then it impacts everybody, especially when there is no competitors.
00:11:50.000Look, let's talk about censorship on social media sites and what you can do about it.
00:11:54.000The left wants to silence and remove any voices they don't agree with.
00:11:58.000Twitter and Facebook were supposed to be open platforms, but I don't need their content moderators acting like the op-ed section of the New York Times.
00:12:06.000So instead of letting social media sites revoke your right to free speech, how about revoking their right to your data?
00:12:12.000Now you could just deactivate all your social media accounts, but that would be giving the left exactly what they want in the first place.
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00:13:11.000The House has voted to impeach the president yesterday, and with it was an impeachment manager unlike any other before we've ever seen, for sure.
00:13:25.000So to try and satisfy, this is Mark Stein's take, the diversity requirements, now every foreign dictator gets an impeachment manager.
00:13:34.000So Xi Jinping had his impeachment manager.
00:13:37.000Putin will get his impeachment manager.
00:13:40.000Ayatollah Khamenei gets his impeachment manager.
00:13:43.000Everyone gets an impeachment manager if you are a foreign adversary dictator to the United States.
00:13:49.000Eric Swawell was one of the impeachment managers because I think Nancy Pelosi just wanted to stick it to us.
00:13:56.000I just think that she wanted to just rub it right in our face and let us complain about it because she says I'm in power and you're not and sit down and shut up.
00:14:37.000Democrats object to more states in 2017 than Republicans did last week, but somehow we're wrong.
00:14:43.000Democrats can raise bail for rioters and looters this summer, but somehow when Republicans condemn all the violence, the violence this summer, the violence last week, somehow we're wrong.
00:14:56.000And Cut 79 is Congressman Hoyer basically looping in all Trump supporters and comparing it to 9-11, Pearl Harbor, and Fort Sumter.
00:16:10.000Now that term has escalated into domestic terrorist or radicalized terrorist, as we heard from Eric Swalwell on the floor yesterday of the House of Representatives.
00:16:19.000They don't realize that it's precisely this behavior that led to President Donald Trump's rise in the Republican Party and election to begin with.
00:16:28.000And I think this is only going to make Americans more passionate about the things they believe in.
00:16:32.000Well, and just like when they called everyone a racist, when they start doing this, is it cheapens legitimate domestic terrorism?
00:16:39.000For example, the guy with the pipe bomb, yeah, that's a domestic terrorist.
00:16:43.000The guy that killed a police officer, that's a domestic terrorist.
00:16:47.000If you came to Washington, D.C. with plans and schematics to go into the Capitol building, yeah, that's exactly right.
00:16:55.000And, you know, I think that the looping everyone into that category is a strategic political move on behalf of the Democrats.
00:17:07.000They don't actually want to have to debate ideas.
00:17:10.000They don't want to actually have to have policy discussions.
00:17:13.000You look at the three most catastrophic states in the country, California, Illinois, New York.
00:17:34.000And a question needs to be asked to these Democrats.
00:17:36.000Are you going to actually begin to admit that not every single Trump supporter was part of what happened last week, despite the denunciations, despite the repudiations?
00:17:48.000Or are you just going to intentionally lie, mislead, and slander?
00:17:55.000You may not know this about me, but I love studying the global economy.
00:18:59.000We are hearing a great story coming out of North Idaho, which I know you've visited several times.
00:19:04.000I spent part of my childhood growing up in that region.
00:19:07.000It's a beautiful area and very conservative.
00:19:10.000And we're hearing that a major internet service provider that provides internet to the areas in North Idaho as well as eastern Washington and the Spokane region is now blocking access to Facebook and Twitter for customers that request service providers are doing that.
00:19:26.000And so they're hearing that customers are upset about the issue of censorship, and more than two-thirds of the company's customers have now requested firewalls against Facebook and Twitter in their household because they don't want to be censored anymore.
00:19:40.000So now Facebook and Twitter are going to have to fight internet service providers across the country if people say, I don't even want to get near that thing.
00:20:02.000Even if that was true, that is not the way that we do anything of concern in our country.
00:20:11.000Look, if you wanted to say, I didn't like what he said, we know that impeachment, as designed by our founders, was never designed as a venting mechanism.
00:20:25.000It's not supposed to be like a parliamentary vote of no confidence.
00:20:29.000The House has set a terrible precedent with this.
00:20:32.000Impeachment is going to be like that text message you sent your friend when you're angry, and then you regret it after you cool down.
00:20:39.000Like, impeach, and you're going to be like, did we really just do that?
00:20:42.000After not allowing any cross-examination of witnesses, not allowing any form at all whatsoever of people to be able to submit evidence to the other side?
00:20:55.000And one of the impeachment managers was Eric Swawell.
00:21:00.000Let's look at Mark Stein here, who brilliantly talks about how Xi Jinping had his own impeachment manager, play tape.
00:21:09.000There's any number of hack mediocrities who could have taken the place of Swalwell among the House impeachment managers, but she's just deciding to twist the knife.
00:21:20.000His paramour, Fang Fang, the martyr Hari of the California Democrat Party, has planted an intern in his office.
00:21:30.000He embodies the complete fraudulence and dysfunction of the American system.
00:21:39.000We've got some third-rate summer stock 007 pretending to be undercover, quizzing this dirty, corrupt head of the big, powerful agency, James Comey.
00:21:52.000They both know the reality that the only one who's been compromised by a honey trap isn't Trump, but him, and yet they know their lines and they're going through this acting thing.
00:23:33.000However, it's very clear that the double standard of this is worse than ever.
00:23:45.000Let's go to cut 90, Representative Green, the silent majority in this country is fed up.
00:23:51.000Look, the Republican Party needs to change things up.
00:23:54.000The silent majority in this nation is fed up with being the target and not having representatives, not having people in Congress stand up for them.
00:24:04.000The Democrats, their plan is to tear this country down with socialism.
00:24:08.000And you can see what happened yesterday with impeachment.
00:24:13.000They have no intention of creating unity.
00:24:19.000They only have full-scale plans to make everyone lay down, sit down, and shut up, and just go along with whatever they want to do, which is censorship.
00:24:45.000Look, if you're in power and you want to stay in power, censorship is a very tempting tool.
00:24:55.000This is why every single totalitarian leader has done it.
00:24:59.000Because speech, as the founding fathers knew, was not just moral, but it also was very effective in holding powerful people accountable.
00:25:08.000So when you don't have speech, let alone the platforms to speak, do you actually have the ability to push back against people that are corrupt, that are doing things improperly?
00:25:23.000And when only the left is allowed to speak, then do you actually even have a country anymore?
00:25:50.000Look, there's something to be said about fighting for the place you call home.
00:25:54.000If you love it, if that's where your roots are, where your family is from, there's absolutely something to be said for that.
00:26:00.000But eventually, there lacks that ability when the left gains complete control of the state.
00:26:05.000I saw that happen before my eyes in my lifetime in Colorado, which was incredibly disappointing.
00:26:10.000And I think ultimately, conservatives need to find a safe haven for the things that they believe in and a community of people who will have their back.
00:26:19.000I left Illinois proudly, and now we have our offices in Arizona.
00:26:26.000I'm a resident of Florida, and I could tell you that there is something to be said to fight for the state that you're currently in.
00:27:02.000Before the last presidential impeachment, President Trump rightly pointed out the improper activities of the Biden crime family, and subsequently he's been proven right.
00:27:13.000And don't think for a moment, Madam Speaker, that we're going to drop that or stop our pursuit.
00:27:18.000And let's go to Cut 98 where Matt Gates continued.
00:27:22.000The left in America has incited far more political violence than the right.
00:27:27.000For months, our cities burned, police stations burned, our businesses were shattered, and they said nothing.
00:27:34.000Or they're cheerled for it, and they fundraised for it, and they allowed it to happen in the greatest country in the world.
00:27:41.000Now, some have cited, some have cited the metaphor that the president lit the flame.
00:27:45.000Well, they lit actual flames, actual fires, and we put them out.
00:28:16.000I think we can find this Instagram post, where she was giving rioters tips on what they should wear, what they should do with their phone before they went into certain places of combat.
00:28:28.000This was a sitting member of Congress that was giving rioters tips: deactivate facial recognition on your phone, don't make it easily accessible, make sure you wear gloves, make sure you wear clothing that is non-identifiable.
00:28:46.000Why would you have to do that, Alexandria Casio-Cortez, unless if you were getting in trouble?
00:28:58.000They proved that southern states are not red states, they are suppressed states, which means the only way that our country is going to heal is through the actual liberation of southern states, the actual liberation of the poor, the actual liberation of working people from economic, social, and racial oppression.
00:29:26.000So, her viewpoint is that we'll only be able to heal when every state is a Democrat state.
00:29:43.000Now, it'll be very interesting to see, and I'm not getting my hopes up, what Joe Biden will do when he gets sworn in this coming Wednesday.
00:29:55.000Will he give a speech about we must go after half the country that are domestic terrorists?
00:31:39.000I think what does concern people, Peter, though, is the sense of unaccountable power.
00:31:44.000Whether you agree with what Twitter has done, whether you think it's biased, that it tends to go for those on the right rather than the left.
00:31:53.000The bigger issue is unaccountable power, particularly when they seem to act in concert.
00:31:58.000I mean, these are companies far bigger than the oil, the railways, the steel, the robber barns at the end of the 19th century in America.
00:32:07.000They've got much more money and much more influence.
00:32:10.000And yet, Twitter bans Trump for life, and you've given the reason why.
00:32:14.000And incitement to violence is something that has, there's not a right to that in free speech.
00:32:22.000But Trump's people then say, all right, we're going to move to parlor and we can do stuff there.
00:32:27.000And then immediately, the rest of big tech closes that done as well.
00:32:33.000The apps you cannot get either from Google or from Apple.
00:32:36.000And Amazon says, we ain't hosting you anymore.
00:32:47.000I love when non-Americans tell us about our laws.
00:32:50.000No, I actually mean that non-sarcastically, because I feel as if we get so wrapped up in our own political circus at times that we lose kind of a connection to exactly what is happening in our own country.
00:33:07.000And whether the Department of Justice will investigate cartel-like behavior remains to be seen, probably unlikely with the new administration that is coming in.
00:33:17.000However, as Andrew Neal pointed out, the behavior of these companies is that one hand washes the other.
00:33:25.000That is literal cartel-type behavior, that they don't put profits and even their own fiduciary interests first.
00:33:32.000Instead, they put the incumbent economic protection of the combined interests of their companies first.
00:33:45.000Just so we're clear, that is a different threshold than monopolistic behavior.
00:33:49.000So monopolies are illegal because you dominate in one space.
00:33:53.000Cartels are illegal, even more so than monopolies, because then you have different types of companies that are leaning on each other to then go after competitors wherever they might arise.
00:34:05.000And so we've seen this now with Amazon that dominates the server space.
00:34:09.00049% of all rented-out server space goes through Amazon Web Services.
00:34:14.000We've seen that through Apple, which provides a majority of the smartphones in this country.
00:34:20.000We saw that through Google, that has 92% of all search results in the country.
00:34:23.000So all of a sudden, you have Google plus Apple plus Amazon.
00:34:32.000Yeah, we've reached a new level of antitrust violations here.
00:34:35.000And obviously, we created antitrust laws in response to monopolistic behavior from corporations in the past.
00:34:41.000But honestly, that's not even touching what's happening right before our eyes today.
00:34:45.000And frankly, we may need a different way to come at this particular problem than our existing antitrust laws simply because there's no legal capacity to hold these companies accountable for what they're doing, which is in blatant violation of the United States Constitution.
00:36:25.000And we know exactly how this is going to be used.
00:36:28.000And so this new article from the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, told the Washington Post that this was a watershed moment for the far-right extremist movement and that groups involved are certainly not going anywhere.
00:36:41.000And it says we're dealing with terrorists.
00:36:42.000We need a new counterterrorism strategy that will require a new domestic terrorism law.
00:36:49.000Very skeptical, Charlie, but I have a hard time believing that an additional 53rd domestic terrorism law would be primarily focused on preserving civil liberties, as this article is suggesting.
00:37:00.000I think more so it's going to be used as a newfound mechanism to continue taking away civil liberties from a certain percentage of the population, whether that only applies to the people who are in the Capitol rotunda or not.
00:37:13.000We kind of are anticipating that it's a much bigger population that they're going after, remains to be seen.
00:37:18.000But I know that we can expect something like this from the Biden team probably within the first 100 days of his presidency.
00:37:26.000It is very aggressively written saying that there needs to be new departments created under the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, that are beyond anything we've seen that exist solely for the purpose of infiltrating, monitoring, and prosecuting what they call domestic terrorists.
00:37:54.000They push back against civil libertarian writer Glenn Greenwald, who they say mockingly declared the Capitol insurrection as, quote, the Liberals 9-11, likening it to the jingoistic security panic that filled George W. Bush's conservative presidency.
00:38:09.000The article continues by saying, but knee-jerk reactions removed from any specific detailed proposals, reflexive denunciations are no more helpful than mindless cheerleading for new laws.
00:38:19.000We should have clear-eyed understanding of the Constitution, the current law, and the growing terror threat and proceed accordingly.
00:38:26.000And it goes on to continue to mention all of this.
00:38:29.000And so this is, we actually call, remember this, Isabel, when I talked about this in real time on the live stream?
00:38:35.000So they are going to use this as an excuse.
00:38:38.000And it continues by saying the always suspicious Greenwald asserts that during the so-called Liberals 9-11, quote, if you question all the new powers they want, it means you love terrorists, end quote.
00:39:04.000If all camps accept both premises while recognizing that domestic terror bread is real and not over-hyped propaganda from an Orwellian one-party duopoly, we can have a constructive debate.
00:39:16.000It says demagoguery and hysteria are not necessary.
00:39:19.000American democracy is not at imminent risk of disintegration, nor is America on the verge of becoming a police state.
00:39:26.000At the same time, domestic terror threats with the intent of subverting democracy are real, and the great constitutional care is always needed when crafting laws that expand police powers.
00:39:35.000That part I agree with, but the language he's using here can be very, very dangerous.
00:39:39.000I'm in Glenn Greenwald's camp here because we've already seen what these people are willing to do with the power that is vested within them.
00:39:49.000And we have seen, remember what they did with President Trump and other things whatsoever.
00:39:56.000What's coming out of Chicago here, Isabel?
00:39:59.000Predictably, we are hearing from Mayor Lori Lightfoot, one of our favorite people to talk about, that's saying Chicago restaurants and bars now need to be allowed to reopen, in her words, as quickly as possible.
00:40:12.000I think we predicted that a long way away.
00:40:14.000We've been saying for several months that this would probably be the playbook of the left, that as soon as Biden would be elected president of the United States and we get closer to inauguration day, places like New York City, Chicago, Southern California all of a sudden are going to rush to reopen the economy, even though the circumstances with COVID-19 really haven't changed all that much.
00:40:34.000I was watching the news before I came here this morning to do our radio show, Charlie, and they were saying that Governor Cuomo said this week that New York needs to be reopened as quickly as possible.
00:40:43.000We can't wait until the vaccine is rolled out into higher numbers, but they're actually experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases in the state of New York right now.
00:41:18.000I would say big tech because if we do not solve the big tech issue, we will not even be able to fight back against the Chinese issue.
00:41:25.000Without the ability to communicate, you don't have a country.
00:41:27.000And without the ability to have real alternatives and real platforms with the ability to process information and get viewpoints out, then you do not have a country.
00:41:37.000With that being said, China is not a small threat at all whatsoever.
00:41:52.000I love your show and your resilience to share a conservative message despite the challenges that come with that task.
00:41:57.000The road ahead looks challenging and concerning for the next few years.
00:42:01.000And I was wondering if you could dedicate some time to explain socialism, how it's going to impact us, and how we could take our country back.
00:42:29.000Socialism might end up happening as a byproduct of this.
00:42:33.000What's going to happen next is much closer to fascism.
00:42:36.000What's going to happen next is a small subset group of companies that have trillions of dollars in market cap value are going to get all the special favors, handouts, and treatment that will only be afforded to them.
00:42:52.000What is looming next is not a massive Marxist takeover of every single private company yet.
00:43:02.000Instead, what is going to happen is Google, Facebook, Twitter, Johnson ⁇ Johnson, the biggest companies out there, they are going to get incumbent protection control.
00:43:14.000And what we are dealing with is not a group of people that want to see, at least from the outset in the Biden administration, a Marxist revolution happen.
00:43:29.000Instead, they want to see a corporate kleptocratic revolution, which is arguably even more dangerous because that's where corruption comes from.
00:43:38.000That's where special carve-outs come from.
00:43:40.000That's where special favors come from.
00:43:55.000It's hard for me to have a lot of respect for you as a leader culturally, which clearly he is.
00:44:01.000I mean, this individual has a substantial amount of influence when it comes to culture in the United States and resources.
00:44:07.000He's worth $12 billion as his net worth.
00:44:10.000And yet if he even says this is a dangerous precedent, if Germany says this is a dangerous precedent, if Russia, which they're now saying, says that this is a dangerous precedent, we all should be wildly concerned.
00:44:22.000I agree with that completely and totally.
00:44:25.000Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:44:29.000I want to get to some more sound here.
00:44:30.000I wanted to go back to Glenn Greenwald because I think that's actually a really good kind of baseline here.
00:44:36.000Let's go to cut 25 of Glenn Greenwald, where he's warning against how there's going to be a new security state and war on terror focused on Americans.
00:44:46.000Well, one thing I think that we're clearly seeing is the initiation of a new war on terror, which I don't say lately.
00:44:52.000I say that because the Biden administration, what will be the Biden administration in about a week, is saying explicitly that they want, first of all, a new law to further criminalize domestic terrorism, even though every act that constitutes domestic terrorism is already criminalized.
00:45:11.000What they want to do is increase their power to monitor political groups, to infiltrate them, to criminalize activities that currently are not criminalized, nor should they be, whether it be advocacy of speech or other things.
00:45:24.000They're saying they want a new law, similar to the way that the 9-11 attack and the emotions surrounding it was instantly seized upon to institute a whole series of new laws that endure to this very day.
00:45:37.000And so they are questioning Americans' patriotism, accusing everyone of sedition, accusing everyone of conspiracy against the United States government.
00:45:47.000And Cut 86 is Jake Tapper, who attacks Congressman Brian Mast, who lost both of his legs, by the way, fighting for our country.
00:45:57.000And then Jake Tapper says, well, I don't know about his commitment to our country, though, here in our own country.
00:46:04.000What you're saying right now is relevant because Congressman Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida, who lost his legs, by the way, fighting for democracy abroad.
00:46:12.000Although I don't know what is, I don't know about his commitment to it here in the United States.
00:46:18.000So if Congressman Brian Mast, who lost both of his legs, is open game for the Democrats, everyone is open game when they start to loop everyone into one category.
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00:46:37.000And as always, email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:46:41.000Patrick says this, hey, Charlie, thanks for everything you've done to fight for the Conservative Party and educate young people.
00:46:46.000I'm 32 and ashamed of how ignorant I was in college.
00:46:48.000And even after you're doing amazing work, I love your podcast.
00:46:59.000It'll probably not be successful, but the articles are indeed being introduced by Marjorie Greene the day after Biden is being sworn in, kind of as a, if you can do it, we can do it type thing.
00:47:11.000I don't like the trivialization of impeachment.
00:47:14.000However, Joe Biden probably has done some of those things that is probably warranting of that.
00:47:20.000President Trump breaking this morning has more pardons ready to go, as well as executive orders, plans to declassify Ukrainian intel, and appoint special counsels.
00:47:32.000So he still is very much your president.
00:47:34.000We're going to see where he does from this point forward in the last couple days of the Trump presidency.
00:47:41.000That's going to be a tough transition to see, but albeit what makes our country different and special than other ones is that peaceful transition of power.
00:47:51.000And as all the constitutional measures were exhausted that, of course, we supported, it is now time to plan and watch that transition occur.
00:48:06.000Let's go to another question here from California.
00:48:13.000I'm struggling as a conservative teacher working in California.
00:48:21.000I was wondering how a middle-aged school teacher, a middle school teacher, I'm sorry, as a middle school teacher, you think I could affect change in my area.
00:49:11.000New York's Attorney General, as of a few hours ago, it appears, has sued the New York Police Department, alleging rough treatment of protesters against racial injustice last spring as part of a long-standing pattern of abuse.
00:49:28.000New York Attorney General going after the New York Police Department.
00:49:32.000Again, I never want to hear the Democrats attack police again after the police officers really helped them, helped a lot of those people in the halls of Congress last week.
00:49:48.000A pattern that I see within my own church is a more liberal approach to the Chinese coronavirus.
00:49:52.000We have people wanting to control all ministries within our church to make sure everyone is, quote, obeying the mask mandate that our governor gave us.
00:49:58.000And it's causing division within our own church.
00:50:00.000We've had people find it very disrespectful to wear a mask while at church.
00:50:03.000And we have others who will literally go around measuring that you are six feet apart.
00:50:07.000Geez, why are our church leaders not standing up for our trust in God and pushing for our freedom as the Lord created us with free will?
00:50:14.000I unfortunately see people of great faith falling into the lies of the liberal left.
00:50:19.000I think unfortunately, Charlie, the church is no longer an institution of conservatism, but even sometimes of Christianity, which is really disappointing to see, especially in modern-day America, sadly, the church has largely started subscribing to the religion of leftism a lot more than the religion of the Bible and the religion of Christianity.
00:50:38.000So I've seen a lot of this behavior across the country in the last few months in particular.
00:50:43.000It's not unique, unfortunately, which is really disappointing.
00:50:46.000But between heralding the BLM riots that we saw over the last six months and going around measuring six feet apart between churchgoers, sadly, many, many pastors have fallen into the trap of leftism instead of just sticking to what they know and objective truth.
00:51:01.000Yeah, it's and I will be speaking at Calvary Chapel San Juan Capistrano this Sunday evening in California, also at Calvary Chapel Godspeak and also in Thousand Oaks.
00:51:15.000And I'll also be at Jack Hibbs Church next week.
00:51:18.000A lot to talk about, that is for sure.
00:51:21.000We also want to get to this news here.
00:51:24.000So finally, one year later, that's a long time.
00:51:28.000Let's just reminisce on that for a second.
00:51:30.000The WHO has finally been allowed to send researchers into the Wuhan province to try to unpack what the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic actually were.
00:51:41.000Just a few weeks ago, by the way, and you didn't hear about this on the news because it wasn't flashy enough of a headline, they were actually denied entry into China by the Chinese Communist Party as an entire entity from the WHO.
00:51:54.000This is exactly how China reacted with investigations after the fact to the SARS pandemic in the early 2000s.
00:52:01.000But now, just finally, it appears we may start to get some answers theoretically on the COVID-19 pandemic there in the Wuhan province in China.
00:52:16.000If you guys have never read George Orwell's book, 1984, which many of you unfortunately have not because they're no longer teaching it in many schools, I believe it is required reading to understand what it means to live in a free society.
00:52:29.000This book was written well before our lifetime, obviously, if you're a Gen Zer, but it's important to note that this was a prediction from Western Europe of what the future might look like if the government were to gain too much power.
00:52:42.000So it's sort of a dystopian novel talking about what the grim future may look like if people no longer retain the power and if we gave the government all the power.
00:52:51.000But frankly, it's really been an instruction manual for the left, as we said earlier in this stream, for just how far the government can go.
00:52:58.000I would highly recommend any of you read that.
00:53:02.000He has other books that I would recommend as well, Animal Farm being one of them.
00:53:06.000But if you haven't read 1984, it's time to go pick up a copy.
00:53:09.000Yeah, a lot of the terms you hear, such as police state, surveillance state, news speak, ministry of truth, all that stuff stems from George Orwell's book, 1984.
00:53:21.000This idea of Big Brother came from George Orwell.
00:53:23.000George Orwell was a socialist, but the more he got involved in socialism, he came up with a great quote which said, socialism is much more about hating the rich than helping the poor.
00:53:34.000And he was very, very worried about surveillance state, police state, and he just, he thought that is where things eventually would lead.
00:53:43.000And he has been so incredibly ahead of it on that.
00:53:47.000Do we have a clip from Ronald Reagan here?
00:56:04.000The question is: will this, quote, new domestic terrorism, as the leftists are calling the conservatives, will make these people, the left, look the other way when even worse domestic terrorism happens.
00:56:13.000Note, I do not agree at the Capitol storming, nor am I saying it wasn't an act of terrorism.
00:56:18.000The reason why I ask this is because I feel that the left is just going to go to look over everything.
00:56:23.000But the things they oppose, the conservative values, which I have a feeling includes domestic terrorism.
00:56:29.000And as a side note, he's looking to go into law, and he says, God bless.
00:56:45.000But when you have Alexandria Casio-Cortez sending out riot instructions publicly, and she gets applauded and she gets vogue magazine shoots and nothing even happens to her yet, you should pause and say what exactly is going on here.
00:57:00.000And so, of course, this is going to be used against people that they find to be disagreeable or that they don't like politically.
00:57:08.000Has President Trump made an announcement in Afghanistan?
00:58:23.000Start a company, start an organization, start a movement.
00:58:26.000It's going to get tough for us conservatives.
00:58:28.000Tough on social media, tough culturally, tough all this.
00:58:30.000So now it's time for us to rise up and organize and build and to create new and to be able to find problems that are out there and come up with solutions for them.
00:58:43.000Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:59:13.000I love your show, and I'm truly thankful to that people can rely on you for real news.
00:59:17.000My name is, why are the Democrats so adamant to impeach Trump for, quote, inciting violence when they themselves was actually doing that last year?
00:59:26.000Well, truth is not a left-wing value, as Dennis Prager would say, and they have no concern whatsoever into impeaching President Trump for stuff they themselves have actually done.
00:59:42.000Therefore, we are going to take this political opportunity to try and punish him.
00:59:46.000Well, and truthfully, the left looks at the exact same actions with two sets of circumstances very, very differently.
00:59:52.000They say the circumstantial reason for why an action took place is the reason why it did, and that's what should be focused on, not anything that actually occurred.
01:00:01.000And if you look at how the media treated the Molotov cocktail-throwing lawyers that tried to kill police officers, they wrote them up beautifully.
01:00:11.000They had this long piece, I think, in New York magazine about how it happened to them.