The Charlie Kirk Show - August 11, 2020


Terror in Chicago


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00:00:08.000 Chicago is on fire.
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00:01:12.000 We take on Chicago.
00:01:14.000 Lori Lightfoot, Joe Biden, and all the Democrats buckle up.
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00:01:51.000 Terror in Chicago.
00:01:53.000 Chicago is burning.
00:01:55.000 Again, I woke up pretty early on Monday morning and I started to watch footage of what was happening the night prior in my original hometown, Chicago.
00:02:08.000 I'm originally from the suburbs of Chicago.
00:02:10.000 I went to Wheenling High School.
00:02:13.000 And I love the city.
00:02:14.000 I love everything about Chicago.
00:02:16.000 I love the people.
00:02:17.000 I love the history.
00:02:19.000 At least at one point, I loved everything about Chicago.
00:02:23.000 It's really hard for me to be proud of this city anymore.
00:02:27.000 I'm a huge Cubs fan.
00:02:29.000 I'm a huge Bears fan.
00:02:30.000 I think that the hardest working people in the country are from Chicago.
00:02:35.000 I really believe that.
00:02:35.000 I've always said it, that Chicago has a unique and special work ethic, a Midwestern work ethic.
00:02:42.000 We're going to be talking about this at length during this episode.
00:02:47.000 It is easier for you to just go look at the video footage yourself.
00:02:50.000 This is from Fox News.
00:02:52.000 Widespread looting in Chicago caught on video after police involved shooting.
00:02:55.000 I encourage you to go look at the footage.
00:02:59.000 I encourage you to go look at the footage of what has just been happening in Chicago.
00:03:03.000 Hundreds of people were seen looting stores such as Nordstrom, Walgreens, and Macy's.
00:03:08.000 I was getting text messages from friends in Chicago that were completely apolitical.
00:03:12.000 Some of them had completely woken up.
00:03:14.000 They said, Charlie, I've been listening to some of your podcasts.
00:03:17.000 You've been warning about the crime spree.
00:03:19.000 What happens if we do not stand up against it?
00:03:21.000 And now it's in the best neighborhood of Chicago, Street of Ville.
00:03:24.000 What do we do?
00:03:25.000 I said, well, stop electing Democrats.
00:03:26.000 That would be a good start.
00:03:28.000 And there are a lot of people that are very afraid.
00:03:30.000 I also got texts from people that said, Charlie, this crime spree is out of control.
00:03:35.000 This is all Trump's fault.
00:03:37.000 Just so you know, I've got plenty of messages like that.
00:03:40.000 People that are blaming President Donald Trump for the crime spree of criminals and thugs and gangbangers.
00:03:48.000 Somehow that's President Donald Trump's fault.
00:03:51.000 I really believe America is the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:03:56.000 And I want to continue to believe that.
00:03:59.000 And if people continually vote these people into office, I don't know what I'm going to think anymore.
00:04:04.000 This is from the article, quote, videos circulating online show widespread looting and clashes with police across Chicago's Magnificent Mile Shopping District early Monday, sparked by an officer involved shooting hours earlier that left a 20-year-old man wounded.
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00:06:22.000 So what started all of this nonsense?
00:06:24.000 And again, I really encourage you to look at this footage yourself.
00:06:27.000 You're going to see this and you're going to say, this is not America.
00:06:30.000 This is something out of Nicaragua or Southeast Asia or something that looks like a revolution.
00:06:34.000 This is not America.
00:06:36.000 So what started all of this insanity?
00:06:40.000 Well, Attorney General Bill Barr referred to it as urban guerrilla warfare.
00:06:46.000 Now, some people are calling that racist.
00:06:48.000 Well, they don't know what the term guerrilla means.
00:06:50.000 And if you all of a sudden hear guerrilla and you think it is racist, then you're actually the racist.
00:06:55.000 Because guerrilla means underground.
00:06:57.000 It doesn't mean an animal.
00:06:58.000 It's not trying to make any sort of racial implications.
00:07:01.000 That is a lazy and sloppy analysis.
00:07:04.000 The violence and the rioting began Sunday afternoon after police responded to a report of a man with a gun in the city's Englewood neighborhood.
00:07:12.000 Police pursued the suspect, who was on foot when he turned, quote, and turned and fired shots at officers before being struck himself and taken to a local hospital.
00:07:22.000 Deputy Chief of Police Dolanda Talley told Fox 32 Chicago.
00:07:28.000 To make a situation even worse, a crowd which had gathered at the scene started throwing objects at officers like concrete, bricks, and blocks.
00:07:36.000 Why?
00:07:37.000 Over a false rumor that the suspect who is 20 years old, who was actually a young child, he's 20 years old, and he shoots at police.
00:07:44.000 He should be in prison.
00:07:46.000 The suspect had previously been arrested four times for charges, including burglary, child endangerment, and domestic battery.
00:07:56.000 Seems like a real winner for society.
00:07:58.000 Listen, we never celebrate when a life is lost.
00:08:02.000 But from all indications, this was a justified shooting.
00:08:06.000 So the same rumors that agitated the crowd surrounding the scene of the shooting started spreading online.
00:08:11.000 These false rumors were quickly spread on social media, followed by calls for looting and rioting.
00:08:17.000 And then overnight, Chicago burned.
00:08:20.000 This is terrorism.
00:08:21.000 This is insurrection.
00:08:23.000 This is not time to play nice or to say, oh, they had to get their feelings out.
00:08:26.000 This is no different than if al-Qaeda came into our country and started to burn storefronts and to shoot police officers.
00:08:33.000 It is no difference.
00:08:34.000 The only difference is that these people happen to be citizens of the United States.
00:08:38.000 They need to be arrested.
00:08:39.000 They need to be tried and put in prison for the rest of their life.
00:08:41.000 There's going to be a zero tolerance policy at all whatsoever.
00:08:44.000 And if a police officer is threatened in any way, shape, or form, they should be able to defend themselves.
00:08:48.000 I know people in Chicago, including many people I'm very close to, that were texting me about this and they said, the country is out of control.
00:08:56.000 It's spiraling out of control.
00:08:57.000 I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
00:08:59.000 I know this city.
00:09:00.000 We would visit there once a week.
00:09:01.000 I know the streets that have just turned into absolute bedlam.
00:09:06.000 And for those of you that have never been to Chicago or you only visited once or twice, you might say, oh, what is the difference?
00:09:10.000 Chicago has always been a city where controversies and riots have happened.
00:09:17.000 But it's Chicago's ability to be able to overcome that, despite all the institutional and political corruption, that made Chicago a safe place to live, generally in certain parts, despite the gang neighborhoods like Englewood.
00:09:29.000 But that's not where this happened.
00:09:31.000 You have to understand where the looting and the rioting, the arson was happening.
00:09:37.000 It would be as if the rioters went straight into Beverly Hills, which they have in recent weeks, or the rioters went straight into Madison Avenue.
00:09:45.000 This was in Streeterville in Chicago, one of the nicest parts of one of the greatest, once great cities in the world.
00:09:51.000 Police arrested over 100 people so far on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to battery against police.
00:09:58.000 However, the district attorney for Chicago, Kim Fox, who is another incredibly dangerous person, she's letting first-degree murderers out on cash bail.
00:10:09.000 And we're all surprised all of a sudden that crime is running the streets in Chicago.
00:10:13.000 13 officers were injured or hurt in the rioting.
00:10:15.000 This includes a sergeant who was struck in the face of the bottle, another officer who had his nose broken from looters who assaulted him, and a security guard and a civilian who are now in critical condition after being hit with gunfire during looting overnight.
00:10:29.000 Five guns in total have been recovered from those arrested.
00:10:32.000 The Chicago police superintendent David Brown said, quote, this was an incident of pure criminality.
00:10:37.000 This was an act of violence against our police officers and against our city.
00:10:41.000 I, for one, refuse to allow these cowardly acts to hold our city hostage.
00:10:44.000 CPD will not stand by as our beautiful downtown becomes someplace that people fear.
00:10:48.000 He's a total loser, this guy David Brown, okay?
00:10:52.000 I've had enough of these guys' statements.
00:10:53.000 Now, he might be on the right side generally.
00:10:56.000 None of these people wanted President Trump's support.
00:10:58.000 None of these people.
00:10:59.000 President Trump wanted to bring in federal forces and federal agents, and all of them, including Mary Lori Lightfoot, who might have said something nicely, all of a sudden, they don't want it.
00:11:09.000 We get to that in a second.
00:11:10.000 And look, we're also getting reports that the Chicago Police Department detectives will comb over high-definition footage of suspects and vehicles from the looting scenes, suggesting that more arrests are coming.
00:11:20.000 I hope so.
00:11:21.000 I mean, look, I might be too hard on David Brown, but my patience is wearing so thin.
00:11:26.000 I mean, they're not doing their job.
00:11:27.000 They're just not.
00:11:28.000 They're overseeing an entire city where there are hundreds and hundreds of black people that are shooting hundreds and hundreds of other black people every single summer.
00:11:38.000 He said this, I pledge to pursue these offenders to the fullest extent of the law.
00:11:42.000 A heavy police presence will continue throughout the downtown area today until further notice.
00:11:46.000 I guess that sounds all right, but why now?
00:11:49.000 Why all of a sudden now, tough guy?
00:11:51.000 I mean, the city is done.
00:11:52.000 Chicago is gone.
00:11:53.000 If you live in Chicago, get out as quickly as you possibly can.
00:11:56.000 This will not get better.
00:11:57.000 It won't.
00:11:58.000 This will turn into some form of a dystopian Gotham city.
00:12:01.000 It will not turn around because Democrats are continually in control.
00:12:07.000 This isn't a protest about justice, by the way.
00:12:09.000 This isn't poor people looking for money to feed their family.
00:12:14.000 This is lawlessness.
00:12:16.000 This is widespread chaos.
00:12:19.000 So let's play a clip of David Brown talking to reporters.
00:12:22.000 Frankly, sounding sensible, but I'm tougher on David Brown than most conservatives because I've seen the Chicago police be completely inactivated for so long during the riots and during the arson.
00:12:35.000 And some of it's political.
00:12:36.000 Some of it is just because the police do not want to go into certain neighborhoods and they've not taken responsibility for what they're supposed to do.
00:12:43.000 Play tape.
00:12:44.000 It almost sounds as though you were saying this is the reason we have it is because the courts and the prosecutors were not doing their job, that they were going too easy on the looters from the last time around.
00:12:59.000 Don't take it from me.
00:13:00.000 Just go by what's been done.
00:13:02.000 I'm just asking.
00:13:03.000 I don't want to do a job for you, but just go by what's been done.
00:13:05.000 There were no consequences for the people arrested.
00:13:08.000 But now let's play the absolute disgrace to America, the new worst mayor on the planet.
00:13:14.000 Play tape of Lori Lightfoot.
00:13:16.000 Let's be clear.
00:13:17.000 Don't bait us, okay?
00:13:21.000 Do not bait us.
00:13:22.000 Do not bait us.
00:13:23.000 This is a serious situation.
00:13:25.000 People are concerned about their safety.
00:13:28.000 Officers are concerned about their safety.
00:13:30.000 So don't bait us.
00:13:31.000 What we're saying is, as a result of what happened last night, there have to be consequences.
00:13:36.000 We've got teams of people that are aggressively out there identifying the people responsible, looking at the plates, and we're going to bring them to justice.
00:13:46.000 But when we do, and we do make those arrests, our expectation is that this is going to be treated with the level of seriousness that it should be, period.
00:13:54.000 Don't try to bait us, mischaracterize, pit one against the other.
00:13:58.000 We're not playing that.
00:13:59.000 We are in a serious situation here, and we need a serious response.
00:14:04.000 That's what we're saying, period.
00:14:06.000 Lori Lightfoot is a disgrace.
00:14:09.000 In fact, the president has offered to send in the National Guard many times to protect my hometown of Chicago.
00:14:17.000 But she only used it as an opportunity to attack the president.
00:14:20.000 Play tape.
00:14:21.000 And again, no, we do not need federal troops in Chicago.
00:14:26.000 Period, full stop.
00:14:27.000 I'm sure the president will have his way with this incident, but I'm calling upon him to do the things that we do need.
00:14:34.000 We need common sense gun control.
00:14:36.000 We cannot continue to have circumstances where anybody and their brother can go across the border or in other parts of Illinois and bring illegal guns into the city of Chicago.
00:14:47.000 That is something that the federal government is uniquely qualified to handle, and we need the president to step up and do that.
00:14:54.000 So she said, we don't need more federal troops.
00:14:56.000 The president is going to have his way with violence, and she blames gun violence on Indiana.
00:15:00.000 Lori Lightfoot doesn't care about black people.
00:15:02.000 She doesn't.
00:15:03.000 She happens to be black.
00:15:04.000 She doesn't care about black people.
00:15:06.000 And this is the same note she's been sounding since the beginning of BLM Incorporated.
00:15:10.000 Let's play the clip from the 17th of June where she's trying to score points, where she claims Trump is trying to score points at his base and that the mayors are getting it done.
00:15:20.000 Play tape.
00:15:21.000 That they're going to take us on and make us look bad because that'll score points with their base.
00:15:25.000 And to that, I've said, and I'll say again, good luck.
00:15:28.000 The mayors are getting it done.
00:15:30.000 Yeah, sure you are.
00:15:31.000 You're getting it done.
00:15:33.000 You're allowing black lives to just be killed innocently by other black people, by the way.
00:15:38.000 You don't care about them.
00:15:39.000 You don't.
00:15:40.000 Here's another clip from the absolute dangerous individual by the name of Lori Lightfoot calling Trump sending in federal peacekeeping law enforcement officers tyranny and dictatorship.
00:15:51.000 Play tape.
00:15:52.000 That's not democracy that we saw unfolding on the streets of Portland as a result of this federal action.
00:15:58.000 That's what we call tyranny and dictatorship.
00:16:02.000 And we are not having it in Chicago.
00:16:05.000 No, the real tyrants are the micro-tyrants enabled by you, Mayor Lightfoot.
00:16:10.000 President Trump actually cares about black people.
00:16:13.000 Mayor Lightfoot doesn't care about black people.
00:16:15.000 I hate to be that blunt.
00:16:17.000 I hate to be that honest.
00:16:18.000 But if you see a city you care about burn like Chicago is right now, you've just come, I've come to the conclusion the Democrats, they couldn't care less about the citizens that they are pledged to oversee.
00:16:30.000 They just don't.
00:16:31.000 They do not care about the people they are supposed to govern.
00:16:37.000 Chicago politics is the most corrupt system on the planet.
00:16:43.000 It is.
00:16:44.000 I don't know if the planet is fair.
00:16:46.000 There might be some Central American banana republics that are more corrupt, but they're pretty close.
00:16:51.000 Chicago is on fire.
00:16:53.000 They are blaming Republicans for this and Donald Trump.
00:16:57.000 But they have a Democrat mayor, and they've had a Democrat mayor since 1931.
00:17:02.000 The governor of Illinois is a Democrat.
00:17:04.000 The entire legislature is a supermajority of Democrats.
00:17:08.000 Every single alderman in the city of Chicago is a Democrat.
00:17:13.000 All the congressmen that represent Chicago are Democrats.
00:17:17.000 Now, I do have to say, maybe Elon Omar's native Mogadishu in Somalia might be worse than Chicago, but it's a coin toss.
00:17:25.000 Do you see the pattern that is happening in Chicago?
00:17:28.000 Democrat control city.
00:17:29.000 If there's any city where we could say, man, where have Democrats ruled with absolute monopoly and authority?
00:17:35.000 That is Chicago.
00:17:37.000 You know when Democrats take control, things will burn, children will die, and black people will be in perpetual poverty.
00:17:43.000 I wish it wasn't the case.
00:17:44.000 I actually don't like being overly partisan on this podcast.
00:17:47.000 Many of you listen, and you know that I am very, very intense against Republicans a lot.
00:17:53.000 In fact, I went after Senator Mike Braun.
00:17:56.000 I've gone after many people on this program that are Republicans.
00:18:00.000 But I'm just going to tell you as clearly as I possibly can without saying team red good and team blue bad, that when you just have one party that it happens to be the most corrupt political party in the history of our country rule a city for almost 90 years, this is what you get.
00:18:17.000 You get widespread terror, thuggery, and criminality.
00:18:21.000 And I wish it wasn't the case.
00:18:23.000 I wish that Democrats could actually be reasonable governors and governors and people that were able to actually oversee civil society.
00:18:30.000 Mayor Daly, who was a Democrat, was an okay mayor, but he was incredibly corrupt.
00:18:35.000 He never would have let this happen.
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00:19:45.000 And so, look, in the last clip that we played for you, Mayor Lori Lightfoot referenced the city of Portland.
00:19:52.000 It's not a great city.
00:19:53.000 It was a once-great city.
00:19:54.000 Portland is an absolute dumpster fire.
00:19:57.000 It is a city that might have been nice in the past.
00:20:03.000 But again, I don't want to, I think some people might think this is a little strange, but that's fine.
00:20:08.000 I don't really care.
00:20:09.000 It can be the sunniest, brightest day in Portland.
00:20:13.000 It can be the brightest, sunniest day in San Francisco, and it's the darkest day of the year for me because of just how much anti-Christianity, anti-West, anti-Americanism, and just widespread darkness there is across those cities.
00:20:29.000 And I don't mean any offense to anyone that might be in those cities right now, but my goodness, when I go to the city of Portland, I see things that I don't see anywhere else.
00:20:37.000 And we have plenty of supporters, by the way, that listen from San Francisco and Portland, and we love you guys.
00:20:42.000 I'm just saying that there is, there is, it's a very dark place.
00:20:45.000 And I'm sure I hope you be a light in those dark places.
00:20:47.000 And God bless you for that.
00:20:49.000 Now, look, another feckless mayor from Portland, Mayor Ted Wheeler, he apparently changed his tone on the so-called peaceful protesters terrorizing a city.
00:20:58.000 Listen to Kaylee McEnany.
00:20:59.000 She did an amazing job.
00:21:00.000 She destroyed the mayor of Portland in Monday's press conference, play tape.
00:21:04.000 And then finally, one thing I want to leave you guys with is that 18 days ago, Mayor Ted Wheeler tweeted, What I saw last night in Portland was powerful in many ways.
00:21:14.000 I listened, heard, and stood with protesters, and I saw what it means when the federal government unleashes paramilitary forces against its own people.
00:21:22.000 He, in fact, called our federal agents paramilitary forces.
00:21:26.000 And around this same time, our federal officers were facing rioters, barricading officers inside the courthouse, trapping officers inside, launching of commercial-grade fireworks.
00:21:37.000 A federal agent's hand was impaled by planted nails.
00:21:40.000 Three officers were likely, were at least temporarily, I should say, blinded when a laser was put in their eyes.
00:21:47.000 This has been an ongoing tactic by the rioters.
00:21:50.000 That was 18 days ago when Mayor Wheeler stood with the rioters and against the, quote, paramilitary forces.
00:21:57.000 But just four days ago, it appears Mayor Wheeler had a change of heart as local officers took over the situation in Portland.
00:22:04.000 And he now, I guess, this is what he believes now: quote, when you commit arson with an accelerant in an attempt to burn down a building that is occupied by people who you have intentionally trapped inside, you are not demonstrating, you are attempting to commit murder.
00:22:20.000 He could not be more right about that.
00:22:22.000 It is a drastic change.
00:22:24.000 It took him 73 days, I suppose, to come up with that realization.
00:22:28.000 And what we're seeing in Portland with six nights in a row, riots being declared on Wednesday, you had some of these rioters shining lasers in officers' eyes, disable security cameras, broke windows, used boards to barricade the doors and start a fire with 20 sworn officers and civilian employees inside.
00:22:47.000 This is unacceptable, and it is encouraging to see that the liberal mayor of Portland finally seems to realize that.
00:22:53.000 Thank you, everyone.
00:22:54.000 Wheeler is yet another mayor who tried to play tough with President Trump, who is now admitting what should have been plainly obvious, that this is crime.
00:23:03.000 This is violence.
00:23:05.000 This is the destruction of our cities.
00:23:07.000 This is not, quote, peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights.
00:23:12.000 And this is a perfect segue to Attorney General Barr's amazing interview on Life Liberty in Levin.
00:23:20.000 Barr called the left's insatiable need for power a, quote, new form of domestic guerrilla warfare.
00:23:27.000 Attorney General Barr went on with the great one on Mark Levin.
00:23:30.000 I've been on the show before.
00:23:31.000 It was great to see the Attorney General to discuss the crime wave that is infecting our cities like Chicago, like Portland, like New York City, and so many others.
00:23:39.000 He called BLM Incorporated a, quote, revolutionary group that is interested in some form of socialism or communism.
00:23:46.000 They're essentially Bolsheviks.
00:23:48.000 Their tactics are fascistic, which means fascist.
00:23:51.000 Their tactics are what he called a new form of urban guerrilla warfare.
00:23:56.000 Play tape.
00:23:57.000 In this document, this research, they talk about the roots of Antifa in the Bider-Meinhof gang and Germany and other really violent radical organizations in the United States, similar to the Black Panthers, similar to the Weather Underground, except they're more network.
00:24:14.000 They're better organized.
00:24:16.000 They seem to have more ammunition of sorts to use against police officers and so forth.
00:24:23.000 And apparently they get a lot of their funding online.
00:24:27.000 I have to believe that our agencies and so forth are really trying to construct some kind of scenario about what we're dealing with and how to undo this.
00:24:39.000 Am I close?
00:24:40.000 It's a form of sort of a new form of urban guerrilla warfare.
00:24:45.000 You know, Mao used to speak, Mao Te Tong used to speak about the guerrilla being like fish swimming in the ocean, the way the guerrilla moves through the people.
00:24:56.000 The guerrilla hides out among the people as a fish in the ocean.
00:25:01.000 And what they do is they are essentially shielding themselves or shrouding themselves in First Amendment activity.
00:25:09.000 They go into the demonstrations, which are exercising First Amendment activity, and they insinuate themselves in there to shield themselves.
00:25:18.000 That's where they swim.
00:25:20.000 And what they do is they hijack these demonstrations and they provoke violence and they have various tiers of people from the sort of top provocateurs down through people who are their minions and sort of run the violent missions.
00:25:37.000 But it's a difficult phenomenon to deal with.
00:25:41.000 They're highly organized at these demonstrations.
00:25:45.000 So he makes some very important points here, a distinction, actually, that is really being overlooked.
00:25:51.000 That these rioters and domestic terrorists are co-opting what could have been a peaceful movement.
00:25:57.000 Like we've always said before in this show, the phrase Black Lives Matter is a true statement, a factual statement.
00:26:03.000 Every life matters.
00:26:04.000 All lives matter.
00:26:06.000 Every race matters.
00:26:07.000 The problem with BLM Incorporated, and people are finally waking up to this, is that they're a Marxist insurgency organization operating under the guise of a humanitarian pro-America cause.
00:26:19.000 And it goes all the way up to the top of our institutions that prop up these guerrilla warriors.
00:26:25.000 Rudy Giuliani went on Fox News and called BLM Incorporated a domestic terror group.
00:26:31.000 Play tape.
00:26:34.000 It's a very, very strange society they want to set up.
00:26:37.000 And so far, they haven't said a single word, even when the terrible violence is taking place by Antifa or by Black Lives Matter, both of whom are domestic terrorist roots, without any doubt.
00:26:51.000 So this is a new level for a politician, as Rudy Giuliani, to say this.
00:26:56.000 But Mayor Giuliani is completely right.
00:26:58.000 The chaos has spread across these cities, and he knows how to stop it because he did it in the early 90s in New York City.
00:27:04.000 Do you see the tone shifting?
00:27:05.000 People are finally waking up to what we have been saying on this program for quite some time.
00:27:10.000 The revolutionary spirit of chaos.
00:27:13.000 Now, in the same interview, Attorney General Bill Barr makes a point that we've been making here since late May.
00:27:19.000 I want to thank those of you that have been listening to us and have been subscribed and supporting our program at charliekirk.com/slash support because you have helped get our message out to millions and millions of people since this arson and terror has started in late May.
00:27:32.000 And here's the point that we said: is that the Democrat Party has devolved into the party of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the absolute fool from France, who so many Democrats find inspiration from.
00:27:44.000 If you don't know who Jean-Jacques Rousseau is, you can stay subscribed to our program.
00:27:47.000 We will continue to mention him.
00:27:49.000 We've done some programs on him in the past, and we'd love to walk you through who he is if you are a new listener.
00:27:54.000 The left doesn't care about people.
00:27:57.000 They only care about power.
00:28:00.000 And their blind lust for power is propped up by what Attorney General Bill Barr described as a monolithic, mainstream, activist media.
00:28:10.000 And so the left and the media tacitly, if not expressly, condone the exact type of terror that overtook Chicago this weekend.
00:28:19.000 And I want to get further into that, especially some of the headlines that how people were describing what was happening in Chicago.
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00:30:02.000 And so now what's happening in these cities?
00:30:04.000 As these mayors and city governments have failed to protect the basic safety of their citizens and of you, if you're listening to this, your city governments, if you're in a big city, they failed you.
00:30:14.000 You are in danger.
00:30:15.000 So go buy a firearm, number one.
00:30:17.000 And that's a nice transition to exactly a point I had written down here in some research I did.
00:30:21.000 And those of you that support us at charliekirk.com slash support, you allow us to have the best research team in the entire podcast space.
00:30:28.000 In July of 2020, we saw nearly 1.8 million new gun sales, 1.795 to be specific.
00:30:35.000 A new record and an increase of over 133% over July 2019.
00:30:40.000 July is the fifth consecutive month to set a new gun sales record.
00:30:44.000 FBI background checks indicate in 2020 has now seen at least 10 million guns sold.
00:30:50.000 Many of these sales are to first-time buyers, including minorities.
00:30:53.000 Maybe this will be a new winning issue for conservatives with minorities, gun rights, and it should be.
00:30:59.000 81% of black Americans want police to maintain or increase a local presence.
00:31:04.000 A new Gallup poll revealed Thursday.
00:31:06.000 We talked about this in our previous AMA.
00:31:08.000 I encourage you guys to download that episode as well or Ask Me Anything.
00:31:11.000 We talk about how black Americans do not want police out of their neighborhoods, but it's the white liberals who think that black Americans need less police.
00:31:19.000 And I went through some of the news coverage.
00:31:21.000 And instead of talking about the looting and the rioting and the vandalism, how are people talking about this?
00:31:30.000 How are people covering this?
00:31:33.000 NBC News Chicago, access to downtown Chicago to be restricted overnight.
00:31:38.000 Oh, I wonder why.
00:31:40.000 The Washington Post said this.
00:31:43.000 Looters smash business windows along Chicago's magnificent mile after police involved shooting.
00:31:48.000 Yeah, that's all they did.
00:31:49.000 They just smashed windows.
00:31:51.000 CNN, a fence goes up in Chicago after the mayor scolded residents gathered at Montrose Beach.
00:31:56.000 That's the CNN headline when it comes to Chicago.
00:31:59.000 They had another one they wrote later, which was just as ridiculous.
00:32:03.000 You look at the coverage of what has been happening in Chicago.
00:32:08.000 The media, the activist media, is covering for them.
00:32:12.000 The activist media does not want to tell you that Chicago is now a terror zone.
00:32:19.000 I mean, I'm getting live reports from people that I know in the Chicago Police Department.
00:32:23.000 I'm getting live reports from detectives that I know all across the Chicagoland area and incredible people.
00:32:29.000 You know what they've been saying?
00:32:31.000 They've been showing me pictures.
00:32:33.000 The pictures I'm getting and the videos I'm getting in Chicago, the bridges are all drawn up.
00:32:38.000 They have Chicago police in full military tactical gear.
00:32:42.000 I mean, you feel as if the entire city has turned into a war zone because it has.
00:32:47.000 And this is what happens when you do not clamp down on problems.
00:32:52.000 Problems that are not addressed multiply.
00:32:55.000 That is the case in your marriage.
00:32:56.000 It's the case in a relationship.
00:32:58.000 It's the case with a friend.
00:32:59.000 It's the case in a city.
00:33:00.000 It's the case in a community.
00:33:02.000 And we have seen a massive skyrocketing effect of crime.
00:33:08.000 We have now normalized terrorism in the biggest cities across our country.
00:33:13.000 Chicago will never be the same.
00:33:15.000 Property values will plummet.
00:33:16.000 The rich will go live in Aspen or they'll go live in Palm Beach.
00:33:20.000 Property taxes will go up.
00:33:21.000 Schools will fail.
00:33:23.000 And we will now have a collection of 15 to 20 continually Democrat-run cities where a black person is more likely to join a gang than graduate high school, where a young black person is more likely to probably unfortunately be raised without a father than with a father.
00:33:38.000 But the Democrats, all they want to do is blame Donald Trump.
00:33:42.000 Lori Lightfoot does not want any sort of federal help at all whatsoever.
00:33:46.000 Lori Lightfoot is much more interested in making sure that black individuals cannot go to church instead of making sure that the looting and the rioting and the arson and the terrorism discontinues.
00:34:00.000 This from NBC Chicago, updated just a couple minutes ago, it says this.
00:34:06.000 Republican leader urges Chicago to bring in National Guard.
00:34:08.000 Lightfoot says no.
00:34:11.000 Lori Lightfoot continues by saying, we do not believe this is an incident that requires the National Guard.
00:34:17.000 And J.B. Pritzker, who if he ever had to outrun somebody, he would lose.
00:34:22.000 Just look, J.B. Pritzker is a total spoon-fed socialist loser.
00:34:29.000 Let's just say he was born on third and he thought he hit a triple.
00:34:32.000 J.B. Pritzker has not, he has not worked an honest day in his entire life.
00:34:36.000 He comes from the Pritzkert Hyatt family fortune.
00:34:40.000 He is a complete and total limousine liberal socialist and probably one of the worst individuals I could possibly think in all of government.
00:34:51.000 So as we're doing this podcast, there are going to be people right now that are alive in Chicago that will be murdered because of the arson, the looting, and the terrorism.
00:35:01.000 And Lori Lightfoot does not care.
00:35:03.000 And Democrats do not care.
00:35:06.000 What happens next?
00:35:07.000 Well, we're going to cover that all throughout this week.
00:35:10.000 But they're going to go to the suburbs.
00:35:12.000 The criminals and the thugs will not stop.
00:35:14.000 In fact, criminals and thugs love Joe Biden because he's going to allow criminals and thugs off easy, criminals and thugs without any sort of intense prosecution, and innocent people will die.
00:35:25.000 We're going to cover this even more this week.
00:35:27.000 It's time for us to start fighting for a decent and reasonable and civil society because this will not get better unless we demand law and order in a country that functions for the innocent, for the people that cannot defend themselves.
00:35:41.000 And right now, we do not have that, especially in the once great city of Chicago, that I am so incredibly disgusted at what has happened at the city that used to be a place of opportunity and a place of entrepreneurship.
00:35:56.000 And some of my greatest friends have come from there, and I have talked to them today, and they are gone, and they are done.
00:36:02.000 That's why I'm a Florida resident.
00:36:03.000 Chicago, you're going to burn to the ground, and it makes me so sad because innocent people are going to suffer because of it.
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