The Charlie Kirk Show - The $10 Trillion Company that Rules the World with James O'Keefe

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, down to Charlie Kirk Show.

00:00:01.000 BlackRock, the 10 trillion, $10 trillion company that is controlling so much.

00:00:08.000 Larry Fink is exposed in this video.

00:00:11.000 Well, not him, but his company is.

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00:00:14.000 We talk about BlackRock and then we are joined by James O'Keefe in this episode on a BlackRock-focused ESG episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.

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00:01:40.000 Full transparency, this is a weird news day.

00:01:45.000 It is a weird news day.

00:01:46.000 You know, I watch and listen to the news ahead of this program to prepare.

00:01:51.000 No one agrees on what the lead story is there.

00:01:53.000 You got John Durham in front of Congress.

00:01:55.000 We'll talk about that.

00:01:56.000 You got this very interesting.

00:02:00.000 You can't look away, but it's just tragic.

00:02:02.000 This submarine story with a billionaire who says he doesn't want white people working on a submarine. 0.73

00:02:06.000 The whole thing is very, very sad and strange.

00:02:10.000 We have the Arizona State University story that we will highlight in the coming hour, where my appearance talking about honoring the Sabbath triggered a revolt on campus and the termination of an entire center at Arizona State University, because at Arizona State University, Dennis Prager and Charlie Kirk coming on campus to talk about health, wealth, and happiness is too controversial for Arizona State University.

00:02:35.000 So we'll talk about that.

00:02:36.000 But I think a very important lead today, and we will have James O'Keefe to talk about this story, is what BlackRock is doing to our country.

00:02:46.000 So James O'Keefe came out with a video which showed that a recruiting director of BlackRock was bragging about how BlackRock is able to purchase politicians, how war is good for business.

00:02:58.000 Now, most Americans do not know about BlackRock.

00:03:02.000 You, the audience, though, you're hyper-engaged.

00:03:05.000 You're very well educated.

00:03:08.000 You're starting to realize and recognize that it's not just Congress.

00:03:12.000 It's not just the executive branch.

00:03:14.000 That there is a puppeteer class, people that are making things happen.

00:03:20.000 And one of those institutions is BlackRock.

00:03:23.000 Now, remember, BlackRock and organizations like BlackRock used to come under a lot of scrutiny from Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

00:03:31.000 Do you notice how Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and AOC, they don't attack the big banks nearly as much as they used to?

00:03:37.000 Yeah, they'll do some patty cake and hearings, but where's the forceful calls for breaking them up or chipping them away or investigating them?

00:03:47.000 They've quieted that down.

00:03:49.000 Well, it's because Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Elizabeth Warren and the radical progressive base, they realize how helpful BlackRock is being.

00:03:58.000 They realized that instead of trying to break up BlackRock, which was always a massive wish, a big wish, instead, why don't you just take it over?

00:04:09.000 So, BlackRock was founded in 1988 by Larry Fink and a couple of other people.

00:04:14.000 Larry Fink is still running BlackRock.

00:04:17.000 There's really nothing that sexy about what BlackRock does from a business model.

00:04:22.000 They take pension funds, they take endowment funds, they'll take funds from universities, they manage it and invest it.

00:04:29.000 And they've done it by all objective financial metrics rather well in a disciplined way.

00:04:36.000 They deliver returns.

00:04:38.000 And now, all of a sudden, here, we're on 2023.

00:04:42.000 BlackRock has $10 trillion under management.

00:04:47.000 $10 trillion.

00:04:50.000 BlackRock, which started as just kind of a simple, boring, okay, yeah, they are managing the California Pension Fund.

00:04:59.000 They are managing the Iowa Pension Fund.

00:05:01.000 Who cares about BlackRock?

00:05:03.000 Okay, they invest in stocks and private equity deals, and people roll their eyes.

00:05:07.000 Why would we care about them?

00:05:09.000 Okay, they have assets under management.

00:05:11.000 They do a 2 in 20 split.

00:05:12.000 So they do a 2% management fee, 20% of the gains.

00:05:16.000 That's basically how all Wall Street deals are structured, some with a little bit different variation, and no one really thinks about it.

00:05:25.000 But BlackRock has now metamorphosized, it's transformed into something completely different.

00:05:33.000 BlackRock is not strictly a financial services firm.

00:05:36.000 BlackRock is now the tip of the spear in transforming Western society into a globalist, technocratic uniparty regime.

00:05:48.000 This is largely driven by Larry Fink.

00:05:52.000 So BlackRock, again, is a little bit unusual.

00:05:56.000 I want to reiterate this.

00:05:58.000 We kind of know what Pfizer is, we know what Walmart is, but by revenue, BlackRock doesn't have that much revenue.

00:06:03.000 They're only 184th in revenue amongst members of the Fortune 500.

00:06:08.000 They make $5 or $6 billion a year, which is a lot, but it's not mind-blowing.

00:06:12.000 Apple turns 20 times that in profit.

00:06:15.000 So where does BlackRock's power come from?

00:06:19.000 How does a company that turns $5 or $6 billion in profit, which is not nothing, but it doesn't blow you away?

00:06:24.000 There are private companies that turn more profit than that.

00:06:26.000 Cargill, for example, turns more profit than that.

00:06:30.000 Where does their power come from?

00:06:32.000 Well, here's the way it works: BlackRock gets all of these assets under management, $10 trillion.

00:06:41.000 And then BlackRock is able to call shots with publicly traded companies on board spots and positions, behaviors, and political attitudes.

00:06:53.000 So, for example, if BlackRock is going to go buy a stock, let's say they go buy Coca-Cola, which has always been a favorite of Warren Buffett's.

00:07:01.000 It's stable, it turns a profit, not that sexy, it's going to give you a good return over 10 years.

00:07:07.000 It's a relatively well-run company. 1.00

00:07:09.000 Well, BlackRock will come in and say, okay, we're going to go buy $8 billion of Coca-Cola stock, but Coca-Cola, how many lesbians do you have on your board of directors? 1.00

00:07:19.000 What's your racial composition of your HR department? 1.00

00:07:23.000 So BlackRock uses this massive asset pool, $10 trillion, as a bludgeoned force object to remake corporate America in their image.

00:07:38.000 Global wealth is estimated to be about $460 trillion.

00:07:43.000 BlackRock by itself is managing more than 2% of that.

00:07:47.000 That is a lot.

00:07:48.000 They control 2% of all the wealth on planet Earth.

00:07:51.000 Now, BlackRock very explicitly now no longer invests their assets on expected profitable returns.

00:08:00.000 They invest their assets based on ideology.

00:08:05.000 So James O'Keefe has this video that is going viral and we're going to talk to him about it, but I want to play it for you.

00:08:10.000 This is a recruitment director for BlackRock talking about how war is good and we purchase politicians.

00:08:17.000 Very illuminating.

00:08:18.000 You wonder who, Charlie, who runs the country?

00:08:20.000 Is it Soros?

00:08:21.000 Is it this person?

00:08:22.000 On the short list of the people with the most power is Larry Fink, the $10 trillion man.

00:08:28.000 Why is it that companies that used to share your values have more pride flags than American flags?

00:08:33.000 Why is it that they're so worried about climate change?

00:08:36.000 Who is the conductor, the grand maestro of the ESG regime?

00:08:43.000 It's Larry Fink, PlayCut 60.

00:08:46.000 They don't want to be in the news.

00:08:48.000 They don't want people to talk about them.

00:08:50.000 They don't want to be anywhere on the radar.

00:08:52.000 Why not?

00:08:54.000 Don't know, but I suspect it's probably because it's easier to do things when people aren't thinking about it.

00:09:00.000 All of these financial institutions, they buy politicians.

00:09:03.000 You can take this big sum of money, and then you can start to buy people.

00:09:08.000 You can buy politicians and then you can buy people.

00:09:12.000 I hope you know what ESG is.

00:09:15.000 ESG is a corporate social credit score system that is derived from Maoism as a way to rank companies on their environmental social government.

00:09:28.000 Governance, ESG.

00:09:30.000 Environmental, are you fighting climate change?

00:09:34.000 Social, are you, how diverse are you within your social policy?

00:09:40.000 One of their planks is community engagement.

00:09:42.000 Are you donating the BLM?

00:09:44.000 And then finally, governance is your governance.

00:09:48.000 How many trans people do you have on your board?

00:09:51.000 So BlackRock controlling all of these assets then uses it to force behaviors.

00:09:59.000 And this is not some sort of conspiracy theory.

00:10:01.000 This is not some sort of abstraction.

00:10:04.000 Larry Fink himself has stated that you have to force behaviors.

00:10:11.000 So much of our politics, so much of what's going on in Ukraine, so much of what is going on domestically here with corporate America is being driven by a company most Americans do not know.

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00:11:37.000 So BlackRock is running the American economy.

00:11:41.000 It's very interesting.

00:11:42.000 When I started in the conservative movement, one of the biggest complaints was that we can't have central planners running our economy.

00:11:50.000 I largely agree with that.

00:11:51.000 It's a great argument against the Federal Reserve.

00:11:54.000 It's a great argument against this ridiculous infrastructure planner, having people like Pete Buttigieg or whatever calling shots.

00:12:02.000 But I think one of the fault lines, one of the failings, one of the shortcomings of the DC-based, quote-unquote, conservative movement, I put in air quotes, is they've completely ignored how non-government institutions can do the central planning too.

00:12:25.000 You see, when I got my start in 2012 or 13 with Turning Point USA, I was immersed in Austrian economic literature.

00:12:34.000 It's very interesting.

00:12:35.000 I encourage you guys, if you are bored and want to challenge yourself intellectually, you can read it.

00:12:40.000 Some of it is not exactly applicable.

00:12:43.000 Some of it is really, really helpful.

00:12:45.000 Luddon Nises, Murray Rothbard, Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, great stuff, really built a foundation to how to understand economics.

00:12:56.000 But again, you shouldn't only make decisions politically through an economic lens.

00:13:00.000 It should be incorporated.

00:13:02.000 But one of the major contentions of Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Nises in particular is that central planning is evil and that that is going to erode human liberty and flourishing.

00:13:16.000 However, if I were to offer a little bit of a critique, they would only possibly entertain, Milton Friedman made, I think, he didn't quite see this either.

00:13:25.000 The only type of short central planning that could come is through the government.

00:13:28.000 But what about a private company that ends up central planning your entire economy?

00:13:33.000 They would say that's never going to happen because there will be competition and market forces.

00:13:38.000 Now, mind you, the devil's advocate to my own contention here is, you're right, BlackRock can be disrupted by financial services companies like Strive or non-political actors.

00:13:49.000 But sometimes it's very hard to dethrone a corporate oligarchy that literally owns your politicians.

00:13:57.000 And you could also say that these private companies are too big because the government is too big, because they're able to get benefits from the government.

00:14:04.000 So don't blame the free market or don't blame private actors because the government itself, the Leviathan, is too big.

00:14:13.000 I have said before in my speeches that capitalism is the most moral and effective force in human history.

00:14:20.000 I still believe that.

00:14:21.000 It is the greatest poverty elimination machine ever.

00:14:26.000 Markets work.

00:14:27.000 Liberalizing your markets is generally a very, very good idea.

00:14:32.000 It would be good for poor people in North Korea to be able to own stuff and to be able to trade and to start businesses and to create value.

00:14:41.000 Simultaneously, we should be able to say that a $10 trillion company, well, that's not their value, but how many assets they have under management, that power is going to corrupt absolutely.

00:14:53.000 So Larry Fink, this is an incredible piece of tape here, was asked about this, and he says you have to force behaviors.

00:15:01.000 When we think of a tyrant, when we think of a despot, we think of a Mussolini, we think of somebody in government.

00:15:09.000 But what I think what we are all starting to realize is that the behavior of a tyrant is not limited to government.

00:15:16.000 That Larry Fink is acting like Mussolini, yet nobody voted for him.

00:15:21.000 He never had to get petitions signed.

00:15:24.000 He never had to be on a ballot.

00:15:25.000 He never had to engage in a debate.

00:15:27.000 Instead, he took the labor of police officers, the labor of firefighters, the labor of teachers via their pension funds to use it as a blunt force instrument to force you To become more left-wing, multicultural, open-border, whatever term you want to fill it with.

00:15:51.000 Listen to this: PlayCut 42.

00:15:53.000 Well, behaviors are going to have to change.

00:15:54.000 And this is one thing we're asking companies.

00:15:58.000 You have to force behaviors.

00:16:00.000 And at BlackRock, we are forcing behaviors.

00:16:03.000 And if you don't force behaviors, whether it's gender or race or just any way you want to say the composition of your team, you're going to be impacted.

00:16:14.000 We're going to force you.

00:16:15.000 Larry Fink and BlackRock, they are major institutional investors in Apple, Chevron, and Disney.

00:16:24.000 Maybe that explains why they've been acting so strange.

00:16:28.000 That's not the only reason, but it is an element.

00:16:32.000 ESG will spread to every aspect of your life, to your travel, to your diet, to housing, to what you own, to what you can buy, to what you can watch.

00:16:42.000 So many of you are afraid.

00:16:43.000 Charlie, I'm afraid of socialism.

00:16:44.000 I'm afraid of socialism.

00:16:45.000 Well, I'm going to tell you, there's another thing you should be afraid of.

00:16:48.000 You should be afraid of a $10 trillion company acting like an oligarch, acting like a left-wing fascist against our values.

00:16:56.000 And that is Larry Fink and BlackRock.

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00:18:06.000 Yeah, I got to tell you that the hunger and the appetite and the desire to hear the truth, it is growing.

00:18:15.000 In the last week, I'd say that we on the spicy meter were probably eight out of 10 on our podcast.

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00:18:46.000 We are the sixth conservative podcast right now out there, which is great.

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00:18:53.000 Joining us now is James O'Keefe from OMG Media, O'Keefe Media Group.

00:18:58.000 James, congratulations on this new story.

00:19:01.000 You do not stop.

00:19:02.000 You have not allowed all the nonsense you've been through to deter you.

00:19:05.000 Tell us about your latest story.

00:19:07.000 Well, this was a BlackRock recruiter guy who recruits all the people in the financial world, and he's talking about things that we all know to be true.

00:19:17.000 Does not shock you or I, but it's shocking that he's saying it.

00:19:21.000 That these places, they run the world.

00:19:23.000 They bribe senators. 1.00

00:19:25.000 They own politicians.

00:19:26.000 He talks about the Ukraine war.

00:19:28.000 He says it's good for their business.

00:19:30.000 It's effing good for our business.

00:19:32.000 When Russia bombs Ukraine, the price of wheat goes up because they're a major supplier of wheat and grain.

00:19:38.000 And he says all these horrible things.

00:19:40.000 He said, it's almost dark and evil to see him saying it, but it confirms a lot of our suspicions.

00:19:46.000 So, this is a part one of a series we have in these large financial institutions that own such a large stake in everything from Google to Fox to Time Warner to Comcast to Pfizer.

00:19:58.000 This is a company that most people are learning more about now, the Equality Index, as they call it.

00:20:04.000 So, we're looking into all these things, and it's just part one.

00:20:07.000 So, who was this individual?

00:20:10.000 What was his title?

00:20:11.000 Because you know how this works, James.

00:20:12.000 The immediate response is low level, no duties, bluster under the influence of alcohol.

00:20:17.000 What's the truth?

00:20:18.000 I mean, I think if I caught the CEO himself, they would say the same thing.

00:20:22.000 Even if they are caught on tape saying the horrible things, they'll say, well, nothing ever happens to them.

00:20:27.000 They need to be arrested and so forth and so on.

00:20:29.000 But he's a recruiter and he's on his LinkedIn profile.

00:20:33.000 He's responsible for bringing in a lot of the people, a lot of the hiring, the financial people that do these things.

00:20:37.000 And he's just one of many that we will and are being exposed.

00:20:41.000 But of course, they're going to say that.

00:20:44.000 But in order to expose the collective, you have to expose the individuals in the collective.

00:20:48.000 If you just talk about the collective, nothing will ever happen.

00:20:50.000 This is Alinsky, though, right, James?

00:20:51.000 Let's talk about this.

00:20:52.000 So, you know, Alinsky really well.

00:20:54.000 The left knows this very well.

00:20:56.000 BlackRock is this abstraction, right?

00:21:00.000 It's just this big thing.

00:21:01.000 That's right.

00:21:02.000 But if you personalize it and then you polarize it, all of a sudden there's a face.

00:21:07.000 Explain that.

00:21:08.000 Yep.

00:21:09.000 Alinsky wrote in Rules for Radicals.

00:21:11.000 One of his rules was pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it.

00:21:15.000 Conservatives are horrible at this.

00:21:17.000 They'd rather just go on and just bloviate about these large abstract topics as if that's going to make a difference. 0.99

00:21:24.000 It's quite ironic they say that this doesn't matter, but them talking crap about abstract topics is going to matter.

00:21:31.000 The only way that you can change things is to individualize it and personalize it and make it about one individual at a time.

00:21:38.000 Because what's happening right now is we broke this story.

00:21:41.000 It's got hundreds of thousands of likes, tens of millions of views, hundreds of thousands of tweets, and it's inspiring other people within BlackRock to go to o'keefmediagroup.com, submit a tip.

00:21:53.000 In fact, just three today inside the company want to blow the whistle, maybe not overtly, but vis-a-vis undercover recordings or anonymously through me about what's happening there.

00:22:06.000 People are waking up to this, the ownership that, and the reason why it matters is it affects journalism when media corporations cannot report on pharmaceutical companies because that's where the lion's share of the revenue comes from.

00:22:19.000 Or when, like, for example, today, Charlie, if you Google my name and this story, you won't actually see anything about this story.

00:22:27.000 You'll see about, you know, the Project Veritas thing from February on being sued because you know what?

00:22:33.000 BlackRock owns 6.5% of Google.

00:22:36.000 That's $45 billion out of a $1.56 trillion market cap.

00:22:41.000 So people need to know about this.

00:22:42.000 And this guy, Sergei, Sergey is his name, a recruiter at BlackRock, he says it.

00:22:47.000 He says, we run everything.

00:22:50.000 We own these politicians.

00:22:52.000 War is good for us. 1.00

00:22:54.000 Bad things happening.

00:22:55.000 People dying over in Ukraine helps our bottom line.

00:22:59.000 He's the one saying it, and it matters. 0.72

00:23:02.000 We have said for a while, it's obvious, but now we have evidence that companies are profiting off of the slaughter of innocents in eastern Ukraine.

00:23:11.000 This is the undercover video that OMG O'Keeffe Media Group has put out, where this individual, Sergei, Sergey, Serge, whatever, says that you could buy a senator for a mere $10,000.

00:23:25.000 If you were wondering if your politicians are for sale, your suspicion is largely correct.

00:23:30.000 PlayCut 61.

00:23:31.000 First, there's the sentence.

00:23:33.000 This guy's f ⁇ ing.

00:23:34.000 You got 10 grand you can buy.

00:23:35.000 So I can give you 500K right now.

00:23:38.000 Don't question that.

00:23:39.000 Yeah.

00:23:39.000 I did it too.

00:23:49.000 So, I mean, the obvious is that your reporter was obviously a girl way out of his league. 0.97

00:23:54.000 So, he was trying to, you know, over-impress her, but sometimes you slip the truth.

00:23:58.000 So, James, is he really bragging that BlackRock is engaged in bribery of politicians?

00:24:04.000 Yeah, he says these senators are, quote, effing cheap, 10 grand, you can buy a senator.

00:24:09.000 And again, I'm quoting him here.

00:24:11.000 You can take this big F ton of money and buy people, buy people.

00:24:16.000 It's not who the president is.

00:24:17.000 It's who's controlling the wall to the president.

00:24:19.000 You buy your candidates.

00:24:20.000 He says it doesn't matter who wins.

00:24:23.000 They're going to be in my pocket is what he says.

00:24:26.000 Now, what's interesting about this guy is he actually deleted his LinkedIn account.

00:24:30.000 They always delete their LinkedIn accounts, Charlie.

00:24:32.000 But I spoke to a managing director at BlackRock of Corporate Communications.

00:24:37.000 I spoke to him yesterday.

00:24:38.000 He talked to me for a while, but declined to comment.

00:24:41.000 I also sat down with this guy, Sergei is his name.

00:24:46.000 Serge actually sat down with me at a restaurant and then proceeded to walk down the street.

00:24:51.000 I was talking to him.

00:24:52.000 He walked into a police station, the 50th precinct in New York City.

00:24:57.000 It was bizarre.

00:24:59.000 He invited me into the police station with him.

00:25:01.000 So he kind of had this, it could have blew his mind seeing me the way, I don't know, usually people don't run towards the police in these circumstances, but they always call the police on me, Charlie, when I'm asking them questions.

00:25:12.000 But it's one of a series of exposés that we're doing. 0.99

00:25:16.000 I found the most profound comment from Serge Varley to be, quote, normal people don't give a SHIT about these harsh realities. 0.99

00:25:28.000 It's beyond them. 0.99

00:25:29.000 Sergey was suggesting most people are asleep.

00:25:32.000 Most people don't care about how the way the world really works.

00:25:35.000 And I think that is changing.

00:25:36.000 I agree with what you said in the beginning of this program that I think people are waking up and becoming angrier.

00:25:42.000 I think the rise of RFK is an indicative barometer of that.

00:25:45.000 And the removal of all these people like me and Tucker and many others, it's an indication people are waking up.

00:25:52.000 Yeah, and the bad guys are getting paranoid and they're freaking out.

00:25:55.000 They're not acting disciplined and they're starting to get exposed.

00:25:58.000 You know, think about this.

00:25:59.000 It's an obvious question that everyone in the audience is thinking.

00:26:02.000 Could you pick more powerful opponents?

00:26:05.000 I mean, you're basically, you know, just think about this.

00:26:08.000 You go after Pfizer and then that whole nonsense happens to you at Veritas.

00:26:13.000 And then now you're going after BlackRock.

00:26:16.000 I think it's really courageous, but I want to ask you about how you process that.

00:26:19.000 You know, you're picking the fights with the biggest of the big.

00:26:24.000 And you know what that comes with.

00:26:26.000 It comes with a price and a cost.

00:26:28.000 I hope everyone in the audience knows James O'Keefe does not have to be doing this.

00:26:31.000 Most people in right-wing politics or the conservative movement are as worthless as I'll let you fill in the blank.

00:26:40.000 James, you are picking the biggest enemies.

00:26:43.000 You could go lower.

00:26:44.000 You could just kind of do a Fetterman thing here.

00:26:45.000 That's important, but you're going after the institutions, James.

00:26:48.000 What motivates you?

00:26:49.000 And are you afraid?

00:26:52.000 I choose not to be afraid, although sometimes it's terrifying.

00:26:57.000 I mean, we had a denial of service attack today and yesterday on every tip line inundated with thousands, tens of thousands of bizarre government messages, state, municipal, federal.

00:27:08.000 I try to focus on the passion and the artistry and the storytelling and the inspiration that I talk to people, but it's terrifying, Charlie.

00:27:17.000 And I think you know what I mean.

00:27:19.000 There is, you know, to quote the scene from Apocalypse Now, behind every behind inside every human heart, there's a line that kind of separates good and evil.

00:27:30.000 And there's some evil.

00:27:31.000 And a lot of people, even good people out there, have a temptation to be evil.

00:27:35.000 So it's terrifying the world that we're living in.

00:27:38.000 However, I don't really pick these stories.

00:27:40.000 They pick me.

00:27:41.000 And there's nobody else that's really willing or able or put in a position the way that I've been put in.

00:27:49.000 Because if you're a journalist working for ABC or Disney or any of these companies that are ostensibly owned by a pharmaceutical company or owned by BlackRock, literally 20% of the company is, you can't tell the truth.

00:28:04.000 And I think the biggest reason why I'm so attacked is because I can't be controlled.

00:28:10.000 People really want to control me, and they're threatened by the fact that I cannot be controlled.

00:28:15.000 So I've leaned into that.

00:28:20.000 Rather than give in or compromise on my core tenants, I've just run towards the fire.

00:28:26.000 And you're right, there's a powerful company.

00:28:28.000 And it can sometimes be terrifying.

00:28:30.000 But I'm very inspired by the fact that we've had a few BlackRock insiders reach out to us even today, even today at O'KeefeMediaGroup.com.

00:28:39.000 That's what keeps me going.

00:28:40.000 I hope you all appreciate this.

00:28:42.000 A hundred days ago, James O'Keefe was experiencing board fights and all that.

00:28:48.000 Everyone knows the story.

00:28:48.000 It's all out there.

00:28:49.000 100 days later, James O'Keefe is laying shots on target against a $10 trillion company.

00:28:56.000 That's unbelievable.

00:28:58.000 To be able to get the reporters to get the story out there, I mean, this guy is a magician.

00:29:04.000 And so I want to ask James for people out there that are afraid.

00:29:11.000 You walked through this.

00:29:12.000 Here you are.

00:29:13.000 You've exposed Pfizer, exposed BlackRock, exposed Fetterman, which I just found to be hilarious.

00:29:19.000 Previously, you've done DHS, HHS, ACT Blue, which is a huge story.

00:29:24.000 What's your advice to the person out there?

00:29:26.000 I am afraid.

00:29:28.000 I am afraid.

00:29:29.000 James O'Keefe.

00:29:31.000 I would say, what exactly are you afraid of?

00:29:35.000 I would say there's a cost to doing nothing.

00:29:38.000 So he'll say, well, I have kids.

00:29:40.000 I'm going to go live in some part of Texas where I'm not affected by this.

00:29:44.000 If you think you're not going to be affected by this, you're wrong.

00:29:47.000 I mean, it's like that old cliche.

00:29:49.000 First, they came for this person, then they came for that person, and then they came for you.

00:29:54.000 So I would say, I don't know what world we're going to be living in, but I'm an optimist.

00:29:58.000 I think that things are getting better.

00:29:59.000 I think people are certainly waking up.

00:30:02.000 I think RFK actually might beat Biden.

00:30:04.000 That's my belief.

00:30:05.000 And I think that people are not so much asleep, but afraid. 0.97

00:30:11.000 This guy in the video, Surge, I think the most profound thing he said again is that normal people don't give a crap, that this is beyond their understanding. 0.85

00:30:20.000 So I think this country was never intended to have everyone so focused on politics.

00:30:25.000 But I do believe that if you're afraid, understand that one day, you know, that heart in your chest will stop beating.

00:30:33.000 We're all going to die.

00:30:34.000 All going to die.

00:30:36.000 And I've lived 100 lives in my 38 years on this planet.

00:30:39.000 I have been so fortunate to see and experience so many things that have strengthened me.

00:30:44.000 And I think suffering is part of life.

00:30:46.000 Pain is part of life.

00:30:48.000 It's part of the human condition.

00:30:50.000 But it really, it's good for your soul to tell the truth and to live not by lies, as Soltz and Neeson once famously said.

00:31:01.000 It's a great, that's correct.

00:31:02.000 A great thing for the human soul to live not by lies.

00:31:05.000 And I encourage everyone to not live by lies.

00:31:08.000 James, the most profound thing you said is you choose not to be controlled by fear.

00:31:13.000 You have a choice.

00:31:14.000 You have free will.

00:31:16.000 Victor Frankl says in Man's Search for Meaning, an equally important book as the Gulag Archipelago, is you could choose what to make of your pain.

00:31:25.000 So all of us are going to experience pain, heartache, sudden death, you know, collision, health issues.

00:31:31.000 But what do you make of that pain?

00:31:33.000 Well, if you find meaning in your pain to point towards something good, true, or beautiful, well, that is, he calls it logotherapy.

00:31:40.000 Then all of a sudden, you are able to be in charge of your life.

00:31:44.000 Other people are not.

00:31:46.000 I hope the conservative movement takes notes because a lot of people on the right are afraid of BlackRock and Pfizer.

00:31:51.000 James O'Keeffe is not, and he's exposing the deeds of darkness, which I believe is one of the most virtuous and biblical things a human being can do.

00:31:58.000 God bless you, James O'Keefe.

00:31:59.000 Check it out, O'KeeffeMedia Group.com.

00:32:02.000 Thanks.

00:32:05.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:32:06.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:32:09.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

00:32:14.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk dot com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - June 21, 2023

The $10 Trillion Company that Rules the World with James O'Keefe

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