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00:00:16.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:00:27.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:28.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:29.000 His 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.

00:00:37.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

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00:00:49.000 With the Turning Point USA movement, I've had the honor of traveling across America to visit college campuses and engage in rigorous debate with the next generation.

00:00:57.000 When you talk to as many students as I do, there are several familiar themes.

00:01:02.000 I see disillusionment with the media, a lack of hope in their job prospects.

00:01:06.000 I hear them claim that they're victims and deserve better.

00:01:10.000 Whether college students realize it or not, they're forming ideologies that will affect the way they think and treat others for a lifetime.

00:01:16.000 I'd like to recommend a great book to any young person in this time of life.

00:01:21.000 It's called Reflections on the Existence of God by best-selling author Richard Simmons III.

00:01:26.000 This guy never shies away from the hard questions of life.

00:01:29.000 Reflections on the Existence of God is a collection of short essays that tackles the biggest questions of all.

00:01:34.000 Does God exist?

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00:01:39.000 One of the most important things a young person can do is to solidify their worldview.

00:01:43.000 Our worldview informs our personal, social, and political lives.

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00:02:05.000 Hey, everybody, this is Isabel Brown, Turning Point USA contributor here on the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:02:10.000 And 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.

00:02:23.000 Just 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.

00:02:34.000 On 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.

00:02:48.000 And 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.

00:02:57.000 He stated, we have faced an extraordinary and untenable circumstance, forcing us to all focus on our actions on public safety.

00:03:05.000 He says, offline harm as a result of online speech is demonstrably real and what drives our policy and enforcement above all.

00:03:15.000 Interesting.

00:03:16.000 Offline harm as a result of online speech.

00:03:20.000 I 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.

00:03:34.000 Quickly, President Trump's accounts were almost erased overnight, as was his digital footprint almost instantly.

00:03:40.000 But we've seen a lack of ability from almost all of these platforms over time to remove any other violent content.

00:03:47.000 When 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.

00:03:57.000 Literal 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.

00:04:04.000 We see violent videos go viral, including some from just this last week as well.

00:04:08.000 But those things haven't been removed, only the account of the president of the United States.

00:04:13.000 And we're seeing the market start to respond a bit to these decisions to de-platform the president and other outspoken conservatives.

00:04:20.000 But I'm unsure how much the market will be able to dictate where we go forward from here.

00:04:24.000 Facebook has now seen a $34 billion decline in their market shares after they decided to deplatform the President of the United States.

00:04:32.000 And we spoke the other day about Twitter losing $5 billion in market value.

00:04:36.000 That's about 12% of their market shares erased almost overnight after they've decided to go after conservative space online.

00:04:44.000 But the problem is there's really no space in the market for competition.

00:04:48.000 We 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.

00:05:09.000 There'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.

00:05:18.000 You can't really go after them for First Amendment violations because that's specifically stated in Section 230.

00:05:24.000 So the reality is these are not just private companies.

00:05:28.000 This is the very definition of big government.

00:05:31.000 And good job, Isabel.

00:05:31.000 That's well said.

00:05:32.000 That was awesome.

00:05:35.000 And look, you look at this one tweet from the World Health Organization.

00:05:39.000 It 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.

00:05:49.000 Yet that tweet is still allowed to be up.

00:05:52.000 And you want to talk about offline harm?

00:05:54.000 Yep.

00:05:55.000 You want to talk about millions of people dying and billions being displaced?

00:06:00.000 That, I mean, how much damage do you think that tweet did?

00:06:03.000 And speaking of misinformation and disinformation, which AOC seems to be keenly focused on, that tweet is still available today on Twitter.

00:06:11.000 So I find it hard to believe that they're actually interested in the business of preventing offline harm by censoring online speech.

00:06:19.000 I completely agree.

00:06:20.000 And so email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:06:26.000 Here is one here that I do want to ask, answer, I should say, that someone is asking.

00:06:32.000 Let's go to this one right here.

00:06:35.000 Does Trump have any options left or is he done fighting for the United States?

00:06:38.000 Where do we go from here?

00:06:40.000 And how bad do you think it'll get now that we have slowly had our constitutional rights stripped away?

00:06:46.000 He's still fighting for the country.

00:06:47.000 He will till his last hour as president.

00:06:50.000 Unfortunately, absent something that I'm missing and I don't think exists, Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States.

00:06:59.000 That is not something that gives me any form of delight or satisfaction.

00:07:02.000 I fought very hard for this president.

00:07:04.000 I did everything I possibly could to get him reelected.

00:07:08.000 And 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.

00:07:15.000 So what do we do?

00:07:17.000 We keep acting.

00:07:18.000 We keep pushing back.

00:07:20.000 I'm going to use every word except the F word because all of a sudden that's a really bad word to use.

00:07:24.000 We're going to organize.

00:07:25.000 We are going to run people for office.

00:07:27.000 And we're not going to give up.

00:07:28.000 That's what we have to do.

00:07:29.000 We're not going to give up.

00:07:31.000 And 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.

00:07:41.000 This is one here.

00:07:43.000 Charlie, can you talk about all of the conspiracy theorists?

00:07:46.000 I'm tired of people saying it's coming.

00:07:48.000 Trump will be your president on January 20th.

00:07:50.000 Isabel, have you gotten some of these messages?

00:07:52.000 Oh, I absolutely have.

00:07:53.000 I've been called a conspiracy theorist more in the last few days than I ever anticipated I would ever be called in my lifetime.

00:08:00.000 I know you've had the same circumstances with your social media accounts too, Charlie.

00:08:05.000 But, you know, I think we just have to keep doing what we can do.

00:08:08.000 Ultimately, we can keep telling the truth.

00:08:09.000 We can keep showing up.

00:08:10.000 We can keep advocating, for lack of a better word, for the things that we believe in.

00:08:16.000 And 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.

00:08:24.000 And the left is going to overshoot.

00:08:27.000 The left is going to not be able to properly organize themselves.

00:08:32.000 And we are going to have lots of opportunities and openings to be able to fight for our country and our Constitution.

00:08:40.000 Look, it's far from over, everybody.

00:08:42.000 I'm talking about the country.

00:08:44.000 You win Florida by 400,000 votes.

00:08:46.000 You win Ohio by eight points.

00:08:48.000 You win Iowa like the way we did.

00:08:51.000 All of a sudden, you win North Carolina.

00:08:53.000 Look, Georgia and Arizona have its own set of problems, obviously.

00:08:57.000 But then you win House seats in Orange County, California in Mike Garcia's race.

00:09:03.000 We got a lot of good things happening, everybody, in the conservative movement and in our country.

00:09:07.000 And so if I were to just kind of look at this just analytically, these are the 10 Republicans that voted for impeachment.

00:09:15.000 I'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.

00:09:19.000 What 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.

00:09:29.000 That's pretty incredible.

00:09:31.000 And they're already receiving a lot of backlash from their constituents for doing so.

00:09:35.000 And 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.

00:09:47.000 I'm sure all of that is going to happen and unfold.

00:09:52.000 And I think it's very interesting that President Donald Trump and his party is still very much intact.

00:10:01.000 I 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.

00:10:14.000 And so there's going to be a lot more kind of unfolding and unpacking from there.

00:10:20.000 Here's a good question from Diana.

00:10:22.000 Hi, Charlie and Isabel.

00:10:23.000 Why hasn't someone introduced a bill to classify social media as a public utility?

00:10:27.000 Just 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.

00:10:38.000 I'm just curious as to why this hasn't occurred.

00:10:40.000 Well, people like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have introduced those bills.

00:10:44.000 The 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.

00:11:06.000 So, 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.

00:11:16.000 When 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.

00:11:29.000 The 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.

00:11:38.000 They shouldn't be told what they should do.

00:11:40.000 But as soon as you're providing a service to the whole country, then it impacts everybody, especially when there is no competitors.

00:11:50.000 Look, let's talk about censorship on social media sites and what you can do about it.

00:11:54.000 The left wants to silence and remove any voices they don't agree with.

00:11:57.000 It's true.

00:11:58.000 Twitter 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.

00:12:06.000 So instead of letting social media sites revoke your right to free speech, how about revoking their right to your data?

00:12:12.000 Now 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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00:13:11.000 The 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.

00:13:23.000 Eric Swawell.

00:13:25.000 So to try and satisfy, this is Mark Stein's take, the diversity requirements, now every foreign dictator gets an impeachment manager.

00:13:34.000 So Xi Jinping had his impeachment manager.

00:13:37.000 Putin will get his impeachment manager.

00:13:40.000 Ayatollah Khamenei gets his impeachment manager.

00:13:43.000 Everyone gets an impeachment manager if you are a foreign adversary dictator to the United States.

00:13:49.000 Eric Swawell was one of the impeachment managers because I think Nancy Pelosi just wanted to stick it to us. 0.93

00:13:56.000 I 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. 0.71

00:14:09.000 Let's go to Cut 73.

00:14:10.000 Jim Jordan says the Democrats double standards towards Trump's impeachment vote.

00:14:15.000 Play tape.

00:14:16.000 They can object, they can object to Alabama in 2017, but tell us we can't object to Pennsylvania in 2021.

00:14:23.000 And they tell us we tried to overturn the election.

00:14:25.000 Guess who the second objector was in 2017?

00:14:29.000 The individual managing the impeachment for the Democrats.

00:14:34.000 Americans are tired of the double standard.

00:14:36.000 They are so tired of it.

00:14:37.000 Democrats object to more states in 2017 than Republicans did last week, but somehow we're wrong.

00:14:43.000 Democrats 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.

00:14:56.000 And Cut 79 is Congressman Hoyer basically looping in all Trump supporters and comparing it to 9-11, Pearl Harbor, and Fort Sumter.

00:15:05.000 We played this tape yesterday.

00:15:07.000 It's very chilling.

00:15:08.000 Play 79.

00:15:09.000 MAGA Civil War.

00:15:14.000 Oh my gosh.

00:15:15.000 They had the hats on of the Army of MAGA, which I refer to as Make America Grieve Again.

00:15:26.000 We grieved at Fort Sumter.

00:15:31.000 We grieved On December 7th, 1941, and we grieved on 9-11.

00:15:39.000 And yes, we grieved on December, excuse me, January 6th.

00:15:46.000 Just so reckless and dangerous to loop everyone into that same category.

00:15:53.000 And so, Isabel, I think it's more important than ever that we start to push back against this.

00:16:00.000 Absolutely, Charlie.

00:16:01.000 And Jim Jordan really said it best.

00:16:03.000 Americans are sick and tired of the double standard.

00:16:07.000 We're done.

00:16:07.000 We're done being called deplorable.

00:16:10.000 Now 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.

00:16:19.000 They 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.

00:16:28.000 And I think this is only going to make Americans more passionate about the things they believe in.

00:16:32.000 Well, and just like when they called everyone a racist, when they start doing this, is it cheapens legitimate domestic terrorism?

00:16:39.000 For example, the guy with the pipe bomb, yeah, that's a domestic terrorist.

00:16:43.000 The guy that killed a police officer, that's a domestic terrorist.

00:16:47.000 If you came to Washington, D.C. with plans and schematics to go into the Capitol building, yeah, that's exactly right.

00:16:55.000 And, you know, I think that the looping everyone into that category is a strategic political move on behalf of the Democrats.

00:17:07.000 They don't actually want to have to debate ideas.

00:17:10.000 They don't want to actually have to have policy discussions.

00:17:13.000 You look at the three most catastrophic states in the country, California, Illinois, New York.

00:17:19.000 They're all Democrat strongholds.

00:17:21.000 Instead, they would rather talk about how awful the other side is and we don't have to talk about policy.

00:17:27.000 Just give us more power and we're going to keep on screwing stuff up.

00:17:30.000 But at least we're not them. 0.86

00:17:31.000 You see how awful those people are?

00:17:34.000 And a question needs to be asked to these Democrats.

00:17:36.000 Are 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?

00:17:48.000 Or are you just going to intentionally lie, mislead, and slander?

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00:18:55.000 Isabel, there, the internet wars are raging on.

00:18:57.000 Raging indeed, Charlie.

00:18:59.000 We are hearing a great story coming out of North Idaho, which I know you've visited several times.

00:19:04.000 I spent part of my childhood growing up in that region.

00:19:07.000 It's a beautiful area and very conservative.

00:19:10.000 And 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.

00:19:26.000 They are.

00:19:26.000 And 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.

00:19:40.000 So 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.

00:19:47.000 This seems to be the new precedent.

00:19:49.000 The internet wars are on.

00:19:51.000 The impeachment conversation continues.

00:19:53.000 Adam Kinzinger from Illinois has come out and said, quote, it was not a hard decision to impeach.

00:19:58.000 We didn't need to look for evidence.

00:20:00.000 It was brought right to us.

00:20:02.000 Even if that was true, that is not the way that we do anything of concern in our country.

00:20:11.000 Look, 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.

00:20:22.000 It's supposed to be thoughtful.

00:20:25.000 It's not supposed to be like a parliamentary vote of no confidence.

00:20:29.000 The House has set a terrible precedent with this.

00:20:32.000 Impeachment 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.

00:20:39.000 Like, impeach, and you're going to be like, did we really just do that?

00:20:42.000 After 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?

00:20:54.000 And the answer is yes.

00:20:55.000 And one of the impeachment managers was Eric Swawell.

00:21:00.000 Let's look at Mark Stein here, who brilliantly talks about how Xi Jinping had his own impeachment manager, play tape. 0.85

00:21:09.000 There'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. 0.91

00:21:20.000 His paramour, Fang Fang, the martyr Hari of the California Democrat Party, has planted an intern in his office. 0.66

00:21:30.000 He embodies the complete fraudulence and dysfunction of the American system. 0.92

00:21:37.000 And let's go to the next tape. 0.89

00:21:39.000 We've got some third-rate summer stock 007 pretending to be undercover, quizzing this dirty, corrupt head of the big, powerful agency, James Comey.

00:21:52.000 They 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. 0.74

00:22:01.000 It's all pointless.

00:22:02.000 It's all completely pointless, fraudulent, dysfunctional.

00:22:06.000 It's a perversion of a self-governing Democrat society.

00:22:12.000 Now, they impeached the president because they said they were riots that were trying to stop a peaceful transition of power.

00:22:18.000 Let's go to Cut 89 when Democrat riots were actually trying to do this right after President Trump was inaugurated.

00:22:25.000 I don't think many of these people were arrested.

00:22:28.000 Play tape.

00:22:29.000 The anger reaching a boiling point in the nation's capital after President Trump took the oath of office.

00:22:35.000 Police in riot gear facing off against the protesters just six blocks from the inaugural parade.

00:22:42.000 Burning cars and smashed windows.

00:22:45.000 A small group of protesters dressed in black, their faces covered, armed with hammers and bricks.

00:22:51.000 Before the swearing-in ceremony even began, protesters tried to block checkpoint entrances.

00:22:57.000 During President Trump's speech, several demonstrators were escorted out of the area.

00:23:02.000 Several officers injured during the protest today.

00:23:06.000 Okay, so let's just be clear.

00:23:07.000 The disruption of a peaceful transition of power, check.

00:23:11.000 The blocking of entrances, check, the burning of cars, the smashing of windows.

00:23:17.000 That violence was wrong then, and the violence is wrong last week.

00:23:21.000 However, that wasn't part at all of the coverage whatsoever.

00:23:27.000 I knew of very little law enforcement follow-up from that.

00:23:31.000 I'm sure some people got arrested.

00:23:33.000 However, it's very clear that the double standard of this is worse than ever.

00:23:45.000 Let's go to cut 90, Representative Green, the silent majority in this country is fed up.

00:23:51.000 Look, the Republican Party needs to change things up.

00:23:54.000 The 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.

00:24:04.000 The Democrats, their plan is to tear this country down with socialism.

00:24:08.000 And you can see what happened yesterday with impeachment.

00:24:13.000 They have no intention of creating unity.

00:24:16.000 They have no intention of healing.

00:24:19.000 They 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.

00:24:31.000 That is right.

00:24:32.000 They want censorship because they know when they have blanket mass censorship, then all discussion, all conversation will disappear.

00:24:42.000 That's what they want.

00:24:43.000 And it's tempting.

00:24:45.000 Look, if you're in power and you want to stay in power, censorship is a very tempting tool.

00:24:55.000 This is why every single totalitarian leader has done it.

00:24:59.000 Because speech, as the founding fathers knew, was not just moral, but it also was very effective in holding powerful people accountable.

00:25:08.000 So 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?

00:25:23.000 And when only the left is allowed to speak, then do you actually even have a country anymore?

00:25:29.000 Let's go to this question here.

00:25:31.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:25:31.000 I'm a homeschool mom of four living in the Central Valley of California.

00:25:34.000 I'm very concerned about the kind of future my children will have in the state.

00:25:37.000 We have a solid church and a great Christian community here.

00:25:40.000 Yet when I think about the direction the state heads in, I start to question why I live here.

00:25:45.000 Do you think it's time to leave?

00:25:47.000 You left the blue state.

00:25:48.000 What do you think, Isabelle?

00:25:49.000 I did leave a blue state.

00:25:50.000 Look, there's something to be said about fighting for the place you call home.

00:25:54.000 If you love it, if that's where your roots are, where your family is from, there's absolutely something to be said for that.

00:26:00.000 But eventually, there lacks that ability when the left gains complete control of the state.

00:26:05.000 I saw that happen before my eyes in my lifetime in Colorado, which was incredibly disappointing.

00:26:10.000 And 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.

00:26:19.000 I left Illinois proudly, and now we have our offices in Arizona.

00:26:26.000 I'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.

00:26:34.000 However, California, I'm not so sure.

00:26:37.000 California is, let's just say, not exactly a likely exercise to be able to turn in the short term right here, right now.

00:26:48.000 Let's get to more sound here.

00:26:51.000 Let's go to Matt Gates here.

00:26:54.000 Do we have that one, Connor?

00:26:55.000 Cut 94?

00:26:57.000 Let's go to cut 94 when he gave his speech on impeachment yesterday.

00:27:00.000 Cut 94.

00:27:02.000 Before the last presidential impeachment, President Trump rightly pointed out the improper activities of the Biden crime family, and subsequently he's been proven right.

00:27:13.000 And don't think for a moment, Madam Speaker, that we're going to drop that or stop our pursuit.

00:27:18.000 And let's go to Cut 98 where Matt Gates continued.

00:27:22.000 The left in America has incited far more political violence than the right.

00:27:27.000 For months, our cities burned, police stations burned, our businesses were shattered, and they said nothing.

00:27:34.000 Or they're cheerled for it, and they fundraised for it, and they allowed it to happen in the greatest country in the world.

00:27:41.000 Now, some have cited, some have cited the metaphor that the president lit the flame.

00:27:45.000 Well, they lit actual flames, actual fires, and we put them out.

00:27:54.000 They cut him off pretty quick.

00:27:56.000 Congressman Matt Gates is one of the few fighters in the United States House of Representatives.

00:28:01.000 He's a good friend, and he does a wonderful job for our country and for our cause.

00:28:06.000 And Matt Gaetz is right.

00:28:07.000 They lit actual fires.

00:28:09.000 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, do you know what she said?

00:28:13.000 She posted on Instagram back in June.

00:28:16.000 I 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.

00:28:28.000 This 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.

00:28:46.000 Why would you have to do that, Alexandria Casio-Cortez, unless if you were getting in trouble?

00:28:52.000 Let's play tapier of AOC. 0.61

00:28:58.000 They 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.

00:29:26.000 So, her viewpoint is that we'll only be able to heal when every state is a Democrat state.

00:29:31.000 That's basically her perspective.

00:29:33.000 Peace and unity.

00:29:34.000 Peace and unity only when everyone is a registered Democrat. 1.00

00:29:38.000 And if you're anything but a registered Democrat, you're an awful person. 1.00

00:29:40.000 We're going to destroy you. 1.00

00:29:42.000 That's their idea of peace and unity.

00:29:43.000 Now, 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.

00:29:55.000 Will he give a speech about we must go after half the country that are domestic terrorists?

00:30:00.000 Will he separate the two?

00:30:04.000 Will he go after the entire Trump Make America Great Again movement?

00:30:12.000 We'll see.

00:30:13.000 He has an opportunity to calm down tensions, but at every single turn, he and the Democrats do the exact opposite.

00:30:21.000 How to protest safely.

00:30:22.000 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put this on her Instagram.

00:30:28.000 What to wear, what to bring. 0.96

00:30:30.000 Don't bring facially recognized devices.

00:30:33.000 Don't bring identifiable necklaces.

00:30:35.000 Don't bring switchblades because, yeah, we walk around with those all the time.

00:30:38.000 Don't bring contacts.

00:30:40.000 What to wear.

00:30:41.000 Make sure you wear a mask.

00:30:42.000 Make sure you wear gloves.

00:30:44.000 This is a riot guide 101 that AOC put on her Instagram.

00:30:49.000 How to riot anonymously.

00:30:51.000 And yet we now have to hear from the defund police people that were protected by police officers that they have no interest whatsoever in.

00:31:06.000 They always hate rioting.

00:31:08.000 Our position is very clear.

00:31:10.000 We said it the day of the broadcast.

00:31:12.000 If you're there, go home.

00:31:14.000 We don't like it.

00:31:15.000 Rioting is awful and terrible.

00:31:17.000 And we didn't even know the extent of a lot of it back then, like we do now.

00:31:21.000 This tape here of I think Andrew Neal is his name, a very serious journalist from England.

00:31:27.000 I wish our country had someone as serious as him in a high position.

00:31:30.000 He's very tough on both sides, talking to the head of Twitter advertising, former head of political advertising at Twitter.

00:31:37.000 Play tape.

00:31:39.000 I think what does concern people, Peter, though, is the sense of unaccountable power.

00:31:44.000 Whether 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.

00:31:53.000 The bigger issue is unaccountable power, particularly when they seem to act in concert.

00:31:58.000 I 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.

00:32:07.000 They've got much more money and much more influence.

00:32:10.000 And yet, Twitter bans Trump for life, and you've given the reason why.

00:32:14.000 And incitement to violence is something that has, there's not a right to that in free speech.

00:32:22.000 But Trump's people then say, all right, we're going to move to parlor and we can do stuff there.

00:32:27.000 And then immediately, the rest of big tech closes that done as well.

00:32:33.000 The apps you cannot get either from Google or from Apple.

00:32:36.000 And Amazon says, we ain't hosting you anymore.

00:32:40.000 That's a cartel.

00:32:42.000 In America, cartels are illegal.

00:32:46.000 Amen. 1.00

00:32:47.000 I love when non-Americans tell us about our laws. 0.98

00:32:50.000 No, 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.

00:33:07.000 And whether the Department of Justice will investigate cartel-like behavior remains to be seen, probably unlikely with the new administration that is coming in.

00:33:17.000 However, as Andrew Neal pointed out, the behavior of these companies is that one hand washes the other.

00:33:25.000 That is literal cartel-type behavior, that they don't put profits and even their own fiduciary interests first.

00:33:32.000 Instead, they put the incumbent economic protection of the combined interests of their companies first.

00:33:40.000 That is not legal.

00:33:43.000 That's beyond monopolies.

00:33:45.000 Just so we're clear, that is a different threshold than monopolistic behavior.

00:33:49.000 So monopolies are illegal because you dominate in one space.

00:33:53.000 Cartels 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.

00:34:05.000 And so we've seen this now with Amazon that dominates the server space.

00:34:09.000 49% of all rented-out server space goes through Amazon Web Services.

00:34:14.000 We've seen that through Apple, which provides a majority of the smartphones in this country.

00:34:20.000 We saw that through Google, that has 92% of all search results in the country.

00:34:23.000 So all of a sudden, you have Google plus Apple plus Amazon.

00:34:28.000 That's a cartel, to say the least.

00:34:30.000 What do you think, Isabel?

00:34:32.000 Yeah, we've reached a new level of antitrust violations here.

00:34:35.000 And obviously, we created antitrust laws in response to monopolistic behavior from corporations in the past.

00:34:41.000 But honestly, that's not even touching what's happening right before our eyes today.

00:34:45.000 And 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.

00:34:59.000 Yeah, in Section 230.

00:35:01.000 And the real target of this, I hope you guys realize this, is not President Trump.

00:35:07.000 They hate him.

00:35:08.000 He's an excuse.

00:35:09.000 It's President Trump's voters.

00:35:11.000 It's if you support his agenda, you've always been the target.

00:35:14.000 Hillary called you the target.

00:35:16.000 She called you deplorable because they know that they could suppress you, but you're really not going away.

00:35:22.000 Now, there's already calls to deprogram you.

00:35:25.000 There's already calls for camps.

00:35:26.000 That's already been done.

00:35:27.000 Yeah.

00:35:29.000 Probably a really, really awful, horrible, illegal, bad, immoral, evil idea, just based on just a surface reading of the 20th century.

00:35:40.000 But absent that sort of dramatic behavior, then we're not going to see any form whatsoever of Trump supporters going away.

00:35:59.000 So instead, they're going to try to mislabel all Trump supporters as domestic terrorists.

00:36:07.000 There's a new article in the Washington Monthly saying it's time for a new domestic terrorism law.

00:36:13.000 The Biden's team is reportedly working on one.

00:36:15.000 That's good because we can meet the domestic terror threat and preserve civil liberties.

00:36:19.000 There's already 52 domestic terrorism laws on the books.

00:36:23.000 We hated what happened last week.

00:36:25.000 And we know exactly how this is going to be used.

00:36:28.000 And 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.

00:36:41.000 And it says we're dealing with terrorists.

00:36:42.000 We need a new counterterrorism strategy that will require a new domestic terrorism law.

00:36:49.000 Very 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.

00:37:00.000 I 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.

00:37:13.000 We kind of are anticipating that it's a much bigger population that they're going after, remains to be seen.

00:37:18.000 But I know that we can expect something like this from the Biden team probably within the first 100 days of his presidency.

00:37:24.000 That's right.

00:37:25.000 And so you read this article.

00:37:26.000 It 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.

00:37:54.000 They 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.

00:38:09.000 The 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.

00:38:19.000 We should have clear-eyed understanding of the Constitution, the current law, and the growing terror threat and proceed accordingly.

00:38:26.000 And it goes on to continue to mention all of this.

00:38:29.000 And so this is, we actually call, remember this, Isabel, when I talked about this in real time on the live stream?

00:38:34.000 I absolutely do.

00:38:35.000 So they are going to use this as an excuse.

00:38:38.000 And 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.

00:38:48.000 Well, it doesn't mean that at all.

00:38:49.000 People hold sincere civil libertarian views and detest terrorism, like me.

00:38:54.000 I hate terrorism.

00:38:55.000 The flip side is also true.

00:38:57.000 People can support new domestic terrorism law and still revere our Constitution and the freedom it protects.

00:39:02.000 I'm skeptical of that.

00:39:04.000 If 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.

00:39:16.000 It says demagoguery and hysteria are not necessary.

00:39:19.000 American democracy is not at imminent risk of disintegration, nor is America on the verge of becoming a police state.

00:39:26.000 At 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.

00:39:35.000 That part I agree with, but the language he's using here can be very, very dangerous.

00:39:39.000 I'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.

00:39:49.000 And we have seen, remember what they did with President Trump and other things whatsoever.

00:39:56.000 What's coming out of Chicago here, Isabel?

00:39:59.000 Predictably, 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.

00:40:12.000 I think we predicted that a long way away.

00:40:14.000 We'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.

00:40:34.000 I 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.

00:40:43.000 We 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.

00:40:51.000 But it's time to reopen.

00:40:52.000 But it's time to reopen.

00:40:53.000 I agree, but it's only because of Joe Biden.

00:40:55.000 That's the only reason.

00:40:56.000 Exactly.

00:40:56.000 Because they know that Joe Biden is going to be coming into the White House and they want to give him a little bit of an economic boost.

00:41:02.000 And also, they don't want to be blamed for these widely unpopular draconian lockdowns.

00:41:08.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:41:10.000 Here's a great question.

00:41:11.000 What's the biggest threat to America's future, China or big tech?

00:41:15.000 Ryan from Grand Rapids.

00:41:17.000 It's a great question. 0.69

00:41:18.000 I 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. 0.99

00:41:25.000 Without the ability to communicate, you don't have a country. 0.97

00:41:27.000 And 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.

00:41:37.000 With that being said, China is not a small threat at all whatsoever. 0.83

00:41:42.000 China is our biggest enemy. 0.72

00:41:43.000 We've been saying that on this program for quite some time.

00:41:48.000 Natalie says this: Hi, Charlie.

00:41:49.000 My name is Natalie.

00:41:50.000 I'm 18 years old from North Carolina.

00:41:52.000 I love your show and your resilience to share a conservative message despite the challenges that come with that task.

00:41:57.000 The road ahead looks challenging and concerning for the next few years.

00:42:01.000 And 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.

00:42:07.000 Thank you for all you do.

00:42:08.000 God bless.

00:42:09.000 So thank you, Natalie.

00:42:12.000 I appreciate that.

00:42:12.000 And by the way, please email us your questions with a subscription to the Charlie Kirk show.

00:42:17.000 Show us at freedom at charliekirk.com if you guys want to win a signed copy of my book.

00:42:22.000 So, Natalie, what's going to happen next is not socialism.

00:42:27.000 I want to be very clear.

00:42:29.000 Socialism might end up happening as a byproduct of this.

00:42:33.000 What's going to happen next is much closer to fascism.

00:42:36.000 What'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.

00:42:50.000 That's what's coming next.

00:42:52.000 What is looming next is not a massive Marxist takeover of every single private company yet.

00:43:02.000 Instead, what is going to happen is Google, Facebook, Twitter, Johnson ⁇ Johnson, the biggest companies out there, they are going to get incumbent protection control.

00:43:14.000 And 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.

00:43:29.000 Instead, they want to see a corporate kleptocratic revolution, which is arguably even more dangerous because that's where corruption comes from.

00:43:38.000 That's where special carve-outs come from.

00:43:40.000 That's where special favors come from.

00:43:42.000 It's arguably even more dangerous.

00:43:45.000 Twitter CEO Jack has come out and said that banning President Trump from social media sets a dangerous precedent.

00:43:50.000 Well, I wonder who set that dangerous precedent.

00:43:54.000 You can't even take your own advice.

00:43:55.000 It's hard for me to have a lot of respect for you as a leader culturally, which clearly he is.

00:44:01.000 I mean, this individual has a substantial amount of influence when it comes to culture in the United States and resources.

00:44:07.000 He's worth $12 billion as his net worth.

00:44:10.000 And 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.

00:44:22.000 I agree with that completely and totally.

00:44:25.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:44:27.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:44:29.000 I want to get to some more sound here.

00:44:30.000 I wanted to go back to Glenn Greenwald because I think that's actually a really good kind of baseline here.

00:44:36.000 Let'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.

00:44:44.000 Play cut 25.

00:44:46.000 Well, one thing I think that we're clearly seeing is the initiation of a new war on terror, which I don't say lately.

00:44:52.000 I say that because the Biden administration, what will be the Biden administration in about a week, is saying explicitly that they want, first of all, a new law to further criminalize domestic terrorism, even though every act that constitutes domestic terrorism is already criminalized.

00:45:11.000 What they want to do is increase their power to monitor political groups, to infiltrate them, to criminalize activities that currently are not criminalized, nor should they be, whether it be advocacy of speech or other things.

00:45:24.000 They're saying they want a new law, similar to the way that the 9-11 attack and the emotions surrounding it was instantly seized upon to institute a whole series of new laws that endure to this very day.

00:45:37.000 And so they are questioning Americans' patriotism, accusing everyone of sedition, accusing everyone of conspiracy against the United States government.

00:45:47.000 And Cut 86 is Jake Tapper, who attacks Congressman Brian Mast, who lost both of his legs, by the way, fighting for our country.

00:45:57.000 And then Jake Tapper says, well, I don't know about his commitment to our country, though, here in our own country.

00:46:02.000 Play tape.

00:46:03.000 That's relevant.

00:46:04.000 What 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.

00:46:12.000 Although I don't know what is, I don't know about his commitment to it here in the United States.

00:46:18.000 So 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.

00:46:31.000 Please consider supporting us at charliekirk.com slash support, charliekirk.com slash support.

00:46:37.000 And as always, email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:46:41.000 Patrick says this, hey, Charlie, thanks for everything you've done to fight for the Conservative Party and educate young people.

00:46:46.000 I'm 32 and ashamed of how ignorant I was in college.

00:46:48.000 And even after you're doing amazing work, I love your podcast.

00:46:50.000 Thank you.

00:46:51.000 I saw a congresswoman moving to impeach Biden on January 21st.

00:46:55.000 If that is actually successful, wouldn't that just leave us with Campbell in office?

00:46:58.000 Isn't that worse?

00:46:59.000 Thanks again.

00:46:59.000 It'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.

00:47:11.000 I don't like the trivialization of impeachment.

00:47:14.000 However, Joe Biden probably has done some of those things that is probably warranting of that.

00:47:20.000 President Trump breaking this morning has more pardons ready to go, as well as executive orders, plans to declassify Ukrainian intel, and appoint special counsels.

00:47:30.000 That's via CNBC.

00:47:32.000 So he still is very much your president.

00:47:34.000 We're going to see where he does from this point forward in the last couple days of the Trump presidency.

00:47:41.000 That'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.

00:47:51.000 And as all the constitutional measures were exhausted that, of course, we supported, it is now time to plan and watch that transition occur.

00:48:06.000 Let's go to another question here from California.

00:48:13.000 I'm struggling as a conservative teacher working in California.

00:48:13.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:48:17.000 It's hard to find other teachers that don't buy into the lies of the media.

00:48:19.000 I really appreciate what you guys do.

00:48:21.000 I 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.

00:48:28.000 My opinion, great question.

00:48:29.000 Thank you.

00:48:30.000 My opinion is just teach the history of the United States properly, read the Federalist Papers, and teach the Constitution.

00:48:37.000 So many kids are not learning about the United States Constitution.

00:48:40.000 So many kids have no understanding, or students are actually really diving deep into the history of our country.

00:48:46.000 So that would be my advice to you.

00:48:47.000 And just stay strong. 1.00

00:48:48.000 We need conservative teachers.

00:48:50.000 We need conservative everything.

00:48:51.000 We need conservative teachers.

00:48:52.000 We need conservative pastors.

00:48:54.000 We need conservative everything.

00:48:55.000 So stay strong.

00:48:56.000 Stay on top of that.

00:48:57.000 I highly encourage it.

00:48:58.000 And email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:49:03.000 Okay, let's get to some other news here.

00:49:07.000 It looks like the New York Attorney General has sued someone.

00:49:10.000 Yes, they sure have.

00:49:11.000 New 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.

00:49:25.000 Interesting.

00:49:26.000 Wow.

00:49:27.000 So they are.

00:49:28.000 New York Attorney General going after the New York Police Department.

00:49:32.000 Again, 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.

00:49:45.000 Okay, here's a question.

00:49:47.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:49:48.000 A pattern that I see within my own church is a more liberal approach to the Chinese coronavirus.

00:49:52.000 We 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.

00:49:58.000 And it's causing division within our own church.

00:50:00.000 We've had people find it very disrespectful to wear a mask while at church.

00:50:03.000 And we have others who will literally go around measuring that you are six feet apart.

00:50:07.000 Geez, 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?

00:50:14.000 I unfortunately see people of great faith falling into the lies of the liberal left.

00:50:17.000 What is your thought on that, Isabel?

00:50:19.000 I 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.

00:50:38.000 So I've seen a lot of this behavior across the country in the last few months in particular.

00:50:43.000 It's not unique, unfortunately, which is really disappointing.

00:50:46.000 But 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.

00:51:01.000 Yeah, 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.

00:51:15.000 And I'll also be at Jack Hibbs Church next week.

00:51:18.000 A lot to talk about, that is for sure.

00:51:21.000 We also want to get to this news here.

00:51:22.000 What's going on in Wuhan?

00:51:24.000 So finally, one year later, that's a long time.

00:51:28.000 Let's just reminisce on that for a second.

00:51:30.000 The 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.

00:51:41.000 Just 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.

00:51:53.000 That's not new behavior.

00:51:54.000 This is exactly how China reacted with investigations after the fact to the SARS pandemic in the early 2000s.

00:52:01.000 But 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.

00:52:09.000 It's incredible.

00:52:10.000 Sean has a question for you, Isabel.

00:52:12.000 You keep referring to 1984.

00:52:13.000 What do you mean?

00:52:14.000 What do I mean?

00:52:15.000 This is a great question.

00:52:16.000 If 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.

00:52:29.000 This 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.

00:52:42.000 So 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. 0.69

00:52:51.000 But 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.

00:52:58.000 I would highly recommend any of you read that.

00:53:00.000 George Orwell is a phenomenal author.

00:53:02.000 He has other books that I would recommend as well, Animal Farm being one of them.

00:53:06.000 But if you haven't read 1984, it's time to go pick up a copy.

00:53:09.000 Yeah, 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.

00:53:21.000 This idea of Big Brother came from George Orwell.

00:53:23.000 George 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.

00:53:34.000 And he was very, very worried about surveillance state, police state, and he just, he thought that is where things eventually would lead.

00:53:43.000 And he has been so incredibly ahead of it on that.

00:53:47.000 Do we have a clip from Ronald Reagan here?

00:53:48.000 Is that what I'm seeing?

00:53:50.000 Is that Ronald?

00:53:52.000 Let's play some Ronald Reagan.

00:53:56.000 You know, someone very profoundly once said many years ago that if fascism ever comes to America, it'll come in the name of liberalism.

00:54:04.000 And what is fascism?

00:54:05.000 Fascism is private ownership, private enterprise, but total government control and regulation.

00:54:11.000 Well, isn't this the liberal philosophy?

00:54:13.000 The conservative, so-called, is the one that says less government.

00:54:16.000 Get off my back.

00:54:18.000 Get out of my pocket.

00:54:20.000 He was great.

00:54:21.000 Fascism comes via liberalism.

00:54:23.000 He's exactly right.

00:54:25.000 Email us your thoughts and your questions.

00:54:26.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

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00:55:11.000 Here's a question for Isabel: Is it George Orwell's 1984 or Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged?

00:55:16.000 Oh, I mean, if I had to pick between the two, Atlas Shrugged is one of the greatest books written of all time.

00:55:21.000 You've got to be a pretty dedicated reader to make it all the way through.

00:55:24.000 It's a very thick book, but I would absolutely recommend you guys read that one too.

00:55:28.000 It's phenomenal.

00:55:31.000 I think 84 is a little bit more topical, but that's not to say that Ayn Rand's books can't be relevant.

00:55:40.000 Absolutely.

00:55:41.000 Looks like there's a picture of a National Guard member reading Atlas Shrugged.

00:55:45.000 Scarily relevant reading material, is what everyone is saying.

00:55:48.000 So those books are about to become more and more relevant in the coming years here.

00:55:53.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:55:56.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:55:58.000 Here's one here.

00:56:00.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:56:01.000 Thanks for all you're doing.

00:56:02.000 I've been watching them for a couple months.

00:56:03.000 Thank you.

00:56:04.000 The 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.

00:56:13.000 Note, I do not agree at the Capitol storming, nor am I saying it wasn't an act of terrorism.

00:56:18.000 The reason why I ask this is because I feel that the left is just going to go to look over everything.

00:56:23.000 But the things they oppose, the conservative values, which I have a feeling includes domestic terrorism.

00:56:29.000 And as a side note, he's looking to go into law, and he says, God bless.

00:56:33.000 Thank you, Caleb.

00:56:34.000 God bless you.

00:56:35.000 Love to send you a book.

00:56:36.000 And thank you for showing your subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:56:39.000 So look, there's just a different set of rules for the left than there is for conservatives.

00:56:43.000 I wish it wasn't the case here.

00:56:45.000 But 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.

00:57:00.000 And so, of course, this is going to be used against people that they find to be disagreeable or that they don't like politically.

00:57:08.000 Has President Trump made an announcement in Afghanistan?

00:57:11.000 About Afghanistan.

00:57:12.000 Yes, we have a new statement from the president saying that United States military troops in Afghanistan are at a 19-year low.

00:57:20.000 Likewise, Iraq and Syria are also at the lowest point in many years.

00:57:24.000 President Trump says he will always be committed to stopping endless wars.

00:57:27.000 It has been a great honor to rebuild our military and support our brave men and women in uniform.

00:57:32.000 There's been $2.5 trillion invested, including in beautiful new equipment, all made in the USA.

00:57:39.000 God bless him.

00:57:40.000 Let's go to Jake here.

00:57:42.000 Hello, Charlie.

00:57:42.000 I'm a junior in high school.

00:57:44.000 I kind of just started getting into political science, and I find it a little demoralizing.

00:57:48.000 Is there anything conservatives can look for for hope?

00:57:51.000 What can I hold on to that Americans, oh my goodness, is so sad.

00:57:54.000 What can I hold on to in America that won't be destroyed in 10 or 20 years? 1.00

00:57:58.000 Wow.

00:57:58.000 Well, hold on to your faith.

00:58:00.000 That will not be destroyed.

00:58:01.000 So I don't know if you're a believer or not, but I encourage you just to get your Bible.

00:58:06.000 That will withstand whatever the left throws at you.

00:58:08.000 No matter what they throw at you, that will not go away.

00:58:11.000 That will always be true, and it will predate you and it will be there beyond whatever you do.

00:58:20.000 In addition to that, just build something new.

00:58:22.000 That's the big thing I tell people.

00:58:23.000 Start a company, start an organization, start a movement.

00:58:26.000 It's going to get tough for us conservatives.

00:58:28.000 Tough on social media, tough culturally, tough all this.

00:58:30.000 So 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.

00:58:43.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:58:46.000 Here's a question here.

00:58:48.000 Here is, hi, Charlie. 0.56

00:58:51.000 Can Trump lock everyone up and still be Prez? 0.77

00:58:54.000 People are talking about this.

00:58:55.000 No, that's not going to happen.

00:58:59.000 So that's a rumor that keeps on getting emailed to me.

00:59:04.000 And so that's not happening.

00:59:07.000 Okay.

00:59:08.000 So here's one here.

00:59:11.000 Hello, my name is Shandy.

00:59:13.000 I love your show, and I'm truly thankful to that people can rely on you for real news.

00:59:17.000 My name is, why are the Democrats so adamant to impeach Trump for, quote, inciting violence when they themselves was actually doing that last year?

00:59:25.000 Thanks so much, and God bless.

00:59:26.000 Well, 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.

00:59:37.000 They don't care about it.

00:59:38.000 They just say, look how terrible this was.

00:59:40.000 It must be Donald Trump's fault.

00:59:42.000 Therefore, we are going to take this political opportunity to try and punish him.

00:59:46.000 Well, and truthfully, the left looks at the exact same actions with two sets of circumstances very, very differently.

00:59:52.000 They 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.

01:00:01.000 And if you look at how the media treated the Molotov cocktail-throwing lawyers that tried to kill police officers, they wrote them up beautifully.

01:00:11.000 They had this long piece, I think, in New York magazine about how it happened to them.

01:00:17.000 They didn't actually do it.

01:00:18.000 They were victims.

01:00:19.000 They got caught up in it.

01:00:21.000 Which, of course, is not excuses that we're making here for any of the people that were trying to harm police officers.

01:00:27.000 Could you imagine if we were trying to justify anyone that was throwing Molotov cocktails last week?

01:00:32.000 Instead, that is what a lot of people did and have done in their justification of what happened over the summer.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - January 15, 2021

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