The Charlie Kirk Show - May 26, 2023


The Billion-Dollar Primary + 3 Years Since Floydapalooza


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Ron DeSantis announces his presidential bid, Tim Scott Scott Scott announces for the presidency, and Trey Gowdy decides to run for president. This is a big week for the Republican primary, and it's a huge one for the Democratic primary.

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00:01:39.000 What a week, a historic week.
00:01:42.000 And let's just ask the most important question.
00:01:46.000 The most important question is not how much money did Ron DeSantis raise.
00:01:49.000 We'll talk about that.
00:01:50.000 The most important question is not even, what do the polls show?
00:01:53.000 The most important question is: did anything this week make victory against the Democrat crime syndicate more likely?
00:02:03.000 Did anything that happened this week make victory in November of 2024 easier?
00:02:11.000 Did we move closer or further away from taking out this current regime electorally, of course?
00:02:19.000 Or did we put that further into jeopardy?
00:02:22.000 Well, this week, of course, Senator Tim Scott announced for the presidency, an honorable man.
00:02:27.000 And then Ron DeSantis had his, well, failure to launch on Twitter and eventually was able to announce for the presidency and then decided to go do Trey Gowdy's program.
00:02:39.000 Mystery.
00:02:40.000 I listened to Ron DeSantis on Glenn Beck last evening.
00:02:43.000 I thought he did great.
00:02:45.000 When he was talking about the administrative state, fourth branch of government, that's where he's at his best.
00:02:48.000 That kind of policy wonkery, I think that can resonate with a lot of voters.
00:02:52.000 Ron DeSantis has raised well over $8 million so far, an impressive haul.
00:02:58.000 Let's play Cut 95.
00:03:00.000 He raised 8.2 million in the first 24 hours after announcing that's online contributions and that donor summit that he had down in Miami.
00:03:08.000 And this is just pure enthusiasm because it's historic.
00:03:11.000 The top, who tops the previous record?
00:03:13.000 That was Joe Biden.
00:03:14.000 In the first 24 hours, he raised $6.3 million in 2019.
00:03:19.000 So this is $2 million more.
00:03:21.000 With Biden's inflation, the numbers are probably pretty close to the same, actually.
00:03:25.000 Probably.
00:03:26.000 You're right.
00:03:26.000 This is not good news.
00:03:28.000 Even if you're a Ron DeSantis fan, that is not good news.
00:03:30.000 You know what that means?
00:03:31.000 That means there's going to be a war chest to prolong an unnecessarily bloody Republican Civil War.
00:03:39.000 So did we get closer to taking out Joe Biden and defeating them in the 2024 election or further away?
00:03:47.000 This week, unfortunately, shows that we are going to have a $1 billion primary.
00:03:55.000 Did we invest money in ballot chasing operations?
00:03:58.000 Did we invest money in voter registration and better data?
00:04:02.000 Did we invest money in trying to target the voters that we need to persuade in Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia?
00:04:08.000 No.
00:04:09.000 Instead, this week shows us that the Republican donor class, they really do not like Donald Trump, and they're willing to spend their money and deploy the money in that direction.
00:04:21.000 So let's start with Senator Tim Scott.
00:04:22.000 Senator Tim Scott announces for the presidency.
00:04:26.000 And Larry Ellison, who is the founder of Oracle, pledges tens of millions of dollars.
00:04:31.000 That's right, tens of millions of dollars behind Tim Scott's candidacy.
00:04:36.000 Ron DeSantis announces, raise $8 million.
00:04:38.000 Ron DeSantis will raise $200 to $300 million in super PAC plus hard money.
00:04:43.000 So there's two types of money you can raise.
00:04:45.000 You can raise money up to $3,300 per donor.
00:04:49.000 That's called hard money.
00:04:50.000 That is directly controlled by Ron DeSantis.
00:04:52.000 And then there is soft money, outside groups, super PACs.
00:04:56.000 And I think it's called the Never Back Down PAC.
00:04:58.000 Is that Ron DeSantis' PAC?
00:04:59.000 And they're going to raise probably well over $150 to $200 million.
00:05:04.000 So the question is, why is none of that money going to go spent, not being spent on Scott Pressler's in Fulton County, Cobb County?
00:05:10.000 We're going to keep on repeating that because that is the operative question.
00:05:14.000 So let's take a step back and then say, wait a second, who's the real winner this week?
00:05:19.000 Okay, the Democrat Party is loving this civil war, but let's just isolate then the Republican primary.
00:05:26.000 Donald Trump is the real winner of this week, period.
00:05:29.000 Hard stop.
00:05:30.000 Therefore, if this is going to be a bloody civil war, why are we engaging in this primary?
00:05:34.000 The primary should be ended.
00:05:36.000 It's going to end in a Trump victory. 0.87
00:05:38.000 He's a ferocious political lion that will eat you alive.
00:05:42.000 You do not want to go up against this guy.
00:05:44.000 He's better at it than you.
00:05:45.000 He's a street brawler.
00:05:47.000 You do not want to go into opposition to Donald Trump politically, but these people are willingly doing that.
00:05:53.000 There's a great piece in Politico that I want to explore with you.
00:05:56.000 Are the anti-Trump GOP forces starting to implode?
00:06:02.000 Will this week go down as the week that the grand plan to deny Donald Trump the nomination fell apart?
00:06:06.000 Politico asks the question.
00:06:08.000 You look at the amount of money that will now be deployed.
00:06:11.000 It's shocking to me.
00:06:12.000 And then now there is another candidate, Doug Bergham from North Dakota, who is a geeky rhino, failed governor from North Dakota, who's not even popular in the great state of North Dakota, who's going to go spend $30 to $40 million to go finish fourth in Iowa.
00:06:33.000 Doug Burnham might as well go wear a MAGA hat at this point, but it's completely unnecessary.
00:06:39.000 You're not going to be president, my friend.
00:06:41.000 You're not.
00:06:42.000 Asa Hutchinson, not going to be president.
00:06:44.000 You have to wonder, are some of these people actively trying to do the work of the American Democrat Party?
00:06:50.000 I don't say that with any sort of exaggeration or hyperbole.
00:06:54.000 Politico writes, Ron DeSantis muff launched the fitting, sad trombone conclusion to a pre-announcement period in which his stock sagged, at least among political insiders.
00:07:06.000 Political continues and says, shortly before DeSantis began his bid for the office of Washington and Lincoln in a chat room with other very online influencers, Senator Tim Scott entered the race in a fashion that further underscored why it's going to be so hard to dethrone Trump.
00:07:23.000 So what are we doing here?
00:07:24.000 Is this some sort of vanity project?
00:07:27.000 Is this some sort of just race for vice president?
00:07:32.000 No, this is consultant driven.
00:07:34.000 You know who the other winners this week?
00:07:36.000 The consultant class, they are saying, yes, it is the year of jubilee.
00:07:41.000 It is the harvest.
00:07:43.000 They are going to make hundreds of millions of dollars, definitely tens of millions of dollars.
00:07:48.000 Points on an ad buy, research fee here.
00:07:51.000 Oh, man, it is feeding season at the consultant class.
00:07:56.000 They are thrilled.
00:07:58.000 And look, Republican donors, portions of them, there is a major appetite amongst some wealthy Republican donors to displace Trump.
00:08:06.000 They don't get it.
00:08:07.000 They don't understand it.
00:08:08.000 They don't like his style.
00:08:09.000 They don't like his tone.
00:08:10.000 They don't like who he is.
00:08:12.000 They find it objectionable.
00:08:13.000 They do not like how they cannot brag about their political donations to their friends in Kenny Bunkport or Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard or in Aspen or Jackson Hole or in Big Sky, Montana, when they're vacationing over the summer and they go out to dinner with their liberal friends that they might have built a company with or went to college with and the topic of politics comes up.
00:08:36.000 They want to be able to say, oh, no, no, no, don't worry.
00:08:39.000 I'm not supporting that Trump guy.
00:08:41.000 It is so socially unacceptable.
00:08:44.000 It is socially toxic.
00:08:45.000 And make no mistake, that kind of social pressure is driving a lot of this.
00:08:50.000 They want to be able to say, no, no, no, look, see, there's Tim Scott.
00:08:53.000 Or there's a more moderate, more acceptable version of our views.
00:08:58.000 And by the way, hilariously, amongst those people, Ron DeSantis is now radioactive.
00:09:07.000 Ron DeSantis is actually too conservative for the Aspen Ski Lift crowd or the wine moms of Nantucket.
00:09:15.000 It's just too much.
00:09:17.000 He's too conservative and he puts migrants, aka criminals, to Martha's Vineyard.
00:09:26.000 And so now Tim Scott is the more palatable option.
00:09:30.000 Don't discount the upper elite Republican donor class.
00:09:34.000 And look, some of these people are wonderful people and they support us at Turning Point USA.
00:09:38.000 We just see things differently, but there is a huge desire to get somebody else besides Trump.
00:09:43.000 And some of it is social pressure driven.
00:09:45.000 Some of it are some legitimate complaints.
00:09:47.000 I hear it from some of our donors.
00:09:49.000 They don't like Trump because they didn't like the lockdowns, didn't like Fauci, didn't like the vaccine.
00:09:54.000 It's like, okay, that I think is fine.
00:09:56.000 But I have to hear, well, Charlie, come on.
00:09:58.000 It's just norms and customs and tradition.
00:10:01.000 I just try to focus on an argument a little more substantive than that.
00:10:05.000 But we're going to build this out a little bit more because as we are going to have this incredibly contentious primary, now guarantee $1 billion primary that will be brutal.
00:10:15.000 It will make the English Civil War look like patty cake.
00:10:20.000 We got to ask ourselves the question, are we getting closer or further away day to day to taking back the White House in 2024?
00:10:29.000 The answer is we have basically done a U-turn and said, ah, who cares?
00:10:36.000 I want my guy to finish third in Iowa.
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00:11:34.000 Look, the Tim Scott appeal is real amongst a lot of Republican donors.
00:11:38.000 And look, we're going to talk about George Floyd in the next segment, but because of the left's nonstop pathological campaign to try to misrepresent America as a racist country and the Republican Party as Nazis and conservatives as racist, there is a desire to overcorrect and overcompensate.
00:11:56.000 And even Politico recognizes this, by the way.
00:11:58.000 This is not a controversial take.
00:11:59.000 Politico says basically black Republicans running for office are able to raise money pretty easily.
00:12:05.000 It says here, black Republicans have had boomlets before. 0.80
00:12:08.000 Herman Cain and Ben Carson didn't begin with $22 million in the bank and have Senate leaders and plutocrats to say nothing of respected moderates such as Governor Bill Haslam and former Colorado Senator Corey Gardner at their announcements.
00:12:21.000 And yeah, I mean, look, Republicans have been in search of their own Obama since 2008, as if that's going to solve all of our problems.
00:12:28.000 And it's too bad that you have to look at everything through a racial lens because Senator Tim Scott, regardless of his race, has a lot actually to offer in a very, very powerful and charismatic way.
00:12:39.000 I think he's a thoughtful person, even though he's far more moderate than I am on certain issues.
00:12:44.000 And so Senator Tim Scott certainly will continue to resonate with a more moderate Republican donor that they want center-right policies.
00:12:56.000 They definitely want someone who they would consider to be presentable to the Aspen Jackson hole, Kenny Bunkport kind of summer crowd, the Hamptons crowd.
00:13:06.000 Oh, you know, this is Senator Scott.
00:13:09.000 And, you know, he's not like that guy that you don't like.
00:13:13.000 He's a moderate and he's center-right.
00:13:16.000 There's a lot of white guilt, too, that pervades some of these donor decisions, make no mistake.
00:13:21.000 And by the way, that's the major financing motivation of BLM was white guilt.
00:13:27.000 But it's too bad because I think actually Senator Scott has earned that money and I'd hate to mislabel earned raising that money, mislabel as, oh, it's just people are giving it because they feel bad.
00:13:35.000 But that's a major motivation.
00:13:36.000 And Politico agrees, by the way, Politico agrees that black Republicans do quite well when they raise capital.
00:13:44.000 And there's multiple reasons for that, as I just articulated it.
00:13:46.000 So, but Ron DeSantis is pretty upset about it.
00:13:49.000 Governor DeSantis doesn't want more of these candidates sucking up donor money, sucking up attention.
00:13:55.000 By the way, Governor Yunkin might run for office from Virginia.
00:13:59.000 As I mentioned, you got Governor Doug Burnham from North Dakota, who's going to go spend $30 or $40 million.
00:14:05.000 He's super rich.
00:14:06.000 He did a lot of deals with Bill Gates.
00:14:08.000 He's very close with Bill Gates.
00:14:11.000 That dog's not going to hunt.
00:14:12.000 That play's not going to play in Peoria.
00:14:14.000 But sure, go to Iowa and go to New Hampshire.
00:14:17.000 Chris Christie might run for the presidency, which the Chris Christie one is very interesting to me for a variety of reasons.
00:14:26.000 Chris Christie is saying, based on reports, that he will be financed primarily by billionaire Steve Cohen, worth $20 billion, owner of the New York Mets.
00:14:35.000 And the way that campaign finance law basically works now is you can kind of run a very thin campaign political operation, and then you can have a plutocrat oligarch just underwrite your entire campaign via a super PAC.
00:14:48.000 And meanwhile, at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump and his team are looking around and they are delighting in this.
00:14:55.000 And I say this as a Trump guy, I mean, the more of these candidates that are going to divide themselves and fracture themselves from a primary standpoint, it's excellent.
00:15:03.000 From a general election standpoint, which needs to be the prime directive, the prime directive, the North Star, the telos, the purpose, the mission statement, the thing that orients all of our action needs to be winning the White House in 2024.
00:15:19.000 This is a catastrophe for that effort.
00:15:22.000 That is why I have said on this program that the odds of us winning the White House in 2024 are decreasing in likelihood the more that we have these third and fourth and fifth and sixth and seventh and eighth tier candidates going into the arena and spending money on what is a vanity project.
00:15:40.000 Chris Christie, you're not going to be president.
00:15:43.000 Doug Burnham, you're not going to be president.
00:15:44.000 Asa Hutchins, you're not going to be president.
00:15:46.000 And by the way, can we just spend a second and say, has Nikki Haley's presidential campaign been one of the most depressing and underwhelming announcements?
00:15:54.000 This is a woman who I thought was the future of the Republican Party for quite some time.
00:15:59.000 I still text with her, and I think she's a nice person.
00:16:02.000 We disagree vehemently on foreign policy and other things.
00:16:06.000 So I'm not going to say anything necessarily negative about her because I really don't have anything negative.
00:16:10.000 She's always been really nice and sweet, but she's not gaining traction at all. 0.51
00:16:15.000 I mean, there was some idea like, oh, maybe Nikki Haley could consolidate support.
00:16:19.000 And there is not a market right now for what Nikki Haley is selling.
00:16:24.000 She says, well, people want a choice, not an echo.
00:16:26.000 I say, go to a diner in Iowa and ask them that.
00:16:31.000 No, they want an insurgent.
00:16:32.000 They want a rebel.
00:16:33.000 They want a street fighter.
00:16:34.000 They want someone who's going to take the administrative state and tear it in half and represent voters in a populist nationalist way, close the border, end the war, put tariffs on China, and revitalize and restore the country, and not someone who is going to pander to donors, interests, wants, and needs from a Chamber of Commerce-filtered perspective.
00:16:34.000 They want a brawler.
00:16:53.000 Donald Trump is the winner this week.
00:16:55.000 These people are going to fight amongst themselves.
00:16:56.000 It's bad for our efforts in 2024, but for those of us that want to see Donald Trump be the nominee, this is just going to be a bloody English-French-Spanish Civil War.
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00:18:24.000 Okay, a couple of closing thoughts on this presidential circus that's happening here.
00:18:28.000 And then I want to talk about St. George Floyd and how our country has fundamentally changed in the last three years.
00:18:36.000 Okay, so let's get to some.
00:18:37.000 I want to just get this piece of tape here.
00:18:38.000 Asked on Fox, Mark Simone asked, who's running DeSantis' campaign, PlayCut 103?
00:18:45.000 He's not great as far as campaign skills.
00:18:47.000 He may get there, but he doesn't have them yet.
00:18:50.000 Who's running his campaign?
00:18:52.000 The Bushes are all tangled up with him.
00:18:54.000 Bush can raise him a billion dollars and get him all kinds of money to involve Karl Rove will be involved.
00:19:02.000 Karl Rove is involved.
00:19:03.000 I assume he'll be the coach on the field.
00:19:05.000 I think he is.
00:19:06.000 But do you know that he's been advising DeSantis?
00:19:08.000 He's been advising.
00:19:10.000 So I don't know the accuracy or the truth of that.
00:19:12.000 I will defend DeSantis, though.
00:19:14.000 DeSantis is a legit conservative, far more than George Bush.
00:19:17.000 One of the attack vectors that is legitimate against DeSantis is he does have some neocon tendencies when it comes to foreign policy.
00:19:26.000 But to always loop around DeSantis in the same conversation as the Bushes, not fair.
00:19:30.000 He's a legit conservative.
00:19:32.000 The Bushes wouldn't want the CRT stuff or the woke stuff.
00:19:35.000 No, no, no.
00:19:36.000 And so DeSantis is a true conservative and he believes it.
00:19:40.000 Now, who he surrounds himself with, remember, in politics, personnel is policy.
00:19:48.000 And so I have not seen evidence yet that the Bushes are staffing around there.
00:19:52.000 I've seen some chatter that there's some advising.
00:19:54.000 And if I were to say to Ron DeSantis, wherever Karl Rove is, run the opposite direction, man.
00:20:00.000 That guy has not been relevant since his successful election in 2024.
00:20:04.000 He is completely out of touch with the Republican base.
00:20:06.000 I would stay far away from that.
00:20:08.000 But I think it's important to notice and recognize, though, that the Bush, Cheney, Rove cartel, they are looking for a candidate to attach to.
00:20:21.000 And DeSantis, being in Florida, makes that proximity because Jeb Bush has his whole political operation and the donor class, you know, very tightly knit in Miami in particular.
00:20:31.000 They're looking for someone to attach to.
00:20:33.000 Ron DeSantis will be the more, the more Ron DeSantis is unscripted and does not listen to what the Chamber of Commerce wants, the more successful he'll be.
00:20:42.000 But this is the question is, well, at some point, Ron DeSantis is going to have to make a decision.
00:20:48.000 Am I going to communicate to voters or am I going to communicate to donors?
00:20:54.000 Now, sometimes those are exactly the same thing.
00:20:57.000 I mean, praise the Lord.
00:20:58.000 At Turning Point USA, we tell the truth and we have more support than ever before.
00:21:04.000 Praise God, from the top levels and really big gifts to $5 a month.
00:21:08.000 We have 240,000 grassroots donors at Turning Point USA.
00:21:11.000 So they do not have to be mutually exclusive.
00:21:13.000 They do not.
00:21:14.000 And Donald Trump raises a ton of money from both people that have a lot of money and people that are giving, you know, dutifully $10 a month.
00:21:21.000 But there is a question of, you know, as there's more and more competition in the field, as you have more and more people trying to raise money, which is Ron DeSantis going to build a campaign driven by consultants and money raising or for votes and representing a mandate from the voters?
00:21:41.000 That's a question.
00:21:42.000 I want to play a piece of tape here that I think is important.
00:21:46.000 Donald Trump is taking this very seriously.
00:21:48.000 Donald Trump has already spent more money against Ron DeSantis through his PAC than he did in the midterms.
00:21:55.000 I wish he would have spent more than the midterms.
00:21:57.000 I think that's actually a fair piece of feedback.
00:21:58.000 Play cut 67.
00:22:00.000 So the question will be whether he closes the gap with the former president or whether this becomes a real brawl.
00:22:07.000 We've already seen the former president Donald Trump spend more money on Ron DeSantis through his PAC and ads than they spent on supporting candidates in the midterms of 2022.
00:22:20.000 That's a pretty staggering fact.
00:22:22.000 A brawl is coming.
00:22:24.000 A fight is coming.
00:22:25.000 And right now, and this is what Politico basically concludes, and they did a good job.
00:22:30.000 I mean, I'm not one to praise Politico.
00:22:31.000 They're the one that shilled the fake Intel story of 51 former Intel officials, Hunter Biden laptop, and they never apologized and they never retracted.
00:22:40.000 So, and Politico deserves to be held accountable for that.
00:22:42.000 But this is a good article.
00:22:43.000 When you read a good article, you have to recognize it.
00:22:45.000 Are the anti-GOP forces starting to implode?
00:22:47.000 It's a disaster.
00:22:48.000 If you're in the audience and you do not want Trump to be the nominee, this is a bad week for you.
00:22:52.000 If you're in the audience and you want DeSantis, this is a bad week.
00:22:57.000 Because now you're going to have a bunch of people scrapping over 5%, 6%.
00:23:00.000 By the way, Vivek is ascendant.
00:23:02.000 Vivek Ramaswamy, to his great credit, is starting to get on message.
00:23:05.000 He's going up in the polling.
00:23:06.000 I mean, I just find it, it's just so interesting to me.
00:23:08.000 Vivek Ramaswamy, who's been like on the scene for maybe six months or a year, is out-polling Mike Pence and Nikki Haley, who have consultants and tons of money.
00:23:19.000 That just goes to show the party is done with those people.
00:23:22.000 Okay.
00:23:22.000 So as a closing point, then I want to get into St. George Floyd.
00:23:27.000 This is going to be a bitter primary, which, by the way, as I host a radio program and a television program and our podcast downloads are up, praise God.
00:23:35.000 And we're behind Trump and all this.
00:23:38.000 I'm actually actively advocating against the interest because a bloody primary is really good for ratings.
00:23:45.000 A boring primary would not be as good for ratings.
00:23:48.000 I don't care.
00:23:49.000 I love my country more than I like being highly ranked on the podcast charts.
00:23:53.000 Yeah, this is, you know what, we're going to have a lot of people listening.
00:23:55.000 We're going to have a lot of coverage.
00:23:56.000 We'll do live shows from Iowa.
00:23:57.000 We're going to do all sorts of stuff.
00:23:58.000 It's going to be, we're going to be right in the middle of it.
00:24:01.000 We'll be telling the truth at all times.
00:24:03.000 I prefer boring and machine building, infrastructure building, than, ooh, a spirited primary.
00:24:09.000 I wish our consultants felt that way.
00:24:12.000 I wish our consultants were like, you know what, I stand to make a lot of money, but this is probably really damaging to the republic.
00:24:18.000 I'm not going to do this.
00:24:19.000 Horse race is a lot of sound.
00:24:22.000 It's a lot of back and forth.
00:24:24.000 It's super entertaining.
00:24:25.000 We'll certainly indulge in that entertainment.
00:24:27.000 We'll certainly cover it.
00:24:28.000 We'll referee it.
00:24:29.000 We'll tell you the truth and the fiction, the lies.
00:24:30.000 We'll do all that stuff.
00:24:31.000 It's really damaging, in my personal opinion, at this moment of the new era of politics where we have such a significant disadvantage to the Democrats when it comes to building a political operation and machine.
00:24:44.000 I wouldn't feel this way if we had an amazingly robust in-person early voting, get out the vote operation, and ballot chasing in Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin.
00:24:52.000 If we had a machine in these states, I'd say, hey, let the primary unfold.
00:24:54.000 Let's do it.
00:24:55.000 Let's see who wins.
00:24:56.000 It's not the case.
00:24:57.000 The RNC complete waste of rations, as we know.
00:25:00.000 We don't have that early state infrastructure, that early money infrastructure.
00:25:04.000 And so this is actively damaging to our efforts in 2024, despite it being actually very good for the Charlie Kirk show and for our views and our downloads.
00:25:14.000 Okay, let's talk about George Floyd.
00:25:15.000 It has now been three years, three years since the death of George Floyd.
00:25:20.000 Remember, let's just remember the context of what happened with George Floyd.
00:25:25.000 The context.
00:25:27.000 Lockdowns.
00:25:28.000 People were not able to go to sporting events, gymnasiums, social clubs, bars.
00:25:32.000 There's a lot of pent-up energy.
00:25:36.000 There was a desire for purpose.
00:25:38.000 Churches were closed.
00:25:40.000 So people wanted to be part of something.
00:25:41.000 Remember, as Aristotle would say, we are social beings.
00:25:45.000 We desire for some form of community.
00:25:46.000 He believes politics.
00:25:47.000 Aristotle argued that politics is the highest form of community because it combines morality and sociability.
00:25:54.000 And so when you lock down all of society and there's no churches and people are saying aren't screens all day long, it set the table, had all of the ingredients for a mass social movement explosion.
00:26:07.000 It was just, it was just ready.
00:26:09.000 Plus, it was 2020.
00:26:11.000 It was the race issue that most white people are completely uncomfortable talking about, and it just hit it perfectly. 0.99
00:26:17.000 Now, whether, I mean, it's a tragedy when somebody dies.
00:26:22.000 Okay?
00:26:23.000 George Floyd did not deserve to die.
00:26:25.000 Now, how he died is still a little bit of a debate.
00:26:28.000 I mean, the original Hennepin County Medical Examiner report said he did not die from any sort of external force.
00:26:34.000 And then another autopsy came out and said he did.
00:26:37.000 Derek Chauvin was convicted by a jury of his peers and is in prison.
00:26:42.000 I'm not going to get into that.
00:26:43.000 Okay.
00:26:43.000 I do think that there's more to the story that people miss.
00:26:46.000 The fact that George Floyd very well might have been overdosing during that point.
00:26:49.000 He was a drug addict. 0.98
00:26:50.000 He was a criminal. 1.00
00:26:52.000 And as I've said before, he's a scumbag, and I'll reiterate that. 1.00
00:26:55.000 But here's the more important point. 0.99
00:26:57.000 We basically ignited a cultural revolution centered on the idea that America was in a crisis of racism and that rooting out this racism has to be the number one goal of American life.
00:27:10.000 So what was the outcome of this crusade three years later?
00:27:13.000 Well, the most immediate impact, ironically and tragically and devastatingly, was black America. 1.00
00:27:22.000 White America is actually doing fine. 0.94
00:27:25.000 Upper middle class, white liberal America is richer than ever before.
00:27:28.000 And you know I hate dividing things based on race.
00:27:32.000 But white liberals on the Upper East Side, white liberals in the Hamptons, white liberals in you take your community, Menlo Park, the laptop class, white liberals that wore masks all day long, they're fine.
00:27:46.000 They're richer than they were three years ago.
00:27:49.000 They're more financially solvent than they were.
00:27:51.000 White liberals did not feel the damage of this.
00:27:54.000 You know who did? 0.52
00:27:54.000 Black America. 0.52
00:27:55.000 And black America have always been the pawns of white liberal Democrats. 0.96
00:27:59.000 They were the pawns when they owned them as slaves. 0.95
00:28:01.000 They're the pawns when they segregated society.
00:28:04.000 And they're the pawns still to this day. 0.96
00:28:05.000 They use black America for their own interests. 0.98
00:28:08.000 And so, what is the result?
00:28:11.000 Three years later, we have gone through our own cultural revolution.
00:28:14.000 Are we freer?
00:28:15.000 Is black America stronger?
00:28:16.000 Are there more blacks reading at grade level and graduating high school?
00:28:20.000 Are more blacks forming families?
00:28:22.000 Are more kids being raised by black fathers? 0.78
00:28:24.000 No, the opposite.
00:28:26.000 Is there less gang violence?
00:28:27.000 No, no, no.
00:28:28.000 We have seen the damaging of our urban core.
00:28:30.000 White liberal America is more powerful than ever before. 0.67
00:28:33.000 And yet, the other part of this is the lie has made more progress in the last three years in our textbooks, our cultural institutions, and our narratives.
00:28:42.000 Is America in a better place since Floyda Palooza, when we decided to burn down our country based on a lie from the pit of hell?
00:28:53.000 So we ignited this massive cultural revolution.
00:28:56.000 And then we were gaslit into being told these are mostly peaceful protests.
00:29:01.000 We defunded the police in certain jurisdictions and areas.
00:29:04.000 We allowed Soros DAs to take over our country. 0.99
00:29:07.000 And white liberals went along, and so many white conservatives went along.
00:29:11.000 You know how many white pastors went along too?
00:29:13.000 Pastors like Rick Warren, who marched in the BLM parade.
00:29:17.000 People that were virtue signaling time and time again about racial destruction and how we as white people must repent.
00:29:24.000 Let's go to this piece of tape here: Cut 108.
00:29:29.000 There was a religious element to this, though.
00:29:31.000 As soon as Floyd died, the power-hungry zealots, the white liberals who are always looking at something to attach to, to make themselves more powerful and to try to criminalize the conservative movement, they saw George Floyd as a martyr.
00:29:46.000 They framed George Floyd's death as an assassination by the conservative, mostly white Christian movement.
00:29:56.000 Nancy Pelosi was thankful for George Floyd's death. 1.00
00:29:59.000 It made Nancy Pelosi's job easier to pillage and plunder the entire country. 0.85
00:30:02.000 And meanwhile, we were not able to have robust conversations on ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D levels, ozone, lockdowns. 0.90
00:30:10.000 No, it distracted the whole conversation away from mass COVID and tyranny to focus on race because most white people are afraid to be called the racist.
00:30:22.000 Here is Nancy thanking George Floyd for his martyrdom, Play Cut 108.
00:30:27.000 So again, thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice, for being there to call out to your mom.
00:30:37.000 How heartbreaking was that?
00:30:38.000 Call out for your mom.
00:30:40.000 I can't read, but because of you, your name will always be synonymous with justice. 1.00
00:30:47.000 Look, Nancy Pelosi is no different than a southern plantation owner. 0.99
00:30:50.000 She's never cared about black people. 1.00
00:30:52.000 She still doesn't care about black people. 1.00
00:30:53.000 She uses them as political pawns for her own purposes. 0.99
00:30:57.000 It is so tragic.
00:30:58.000 Look at what happened since BLM took over the country.
00:31:03.000 Just these beautiful diners, these beautiful shops.
00:31:06.000 It looks as if the virus of anti-racism, the bacterial infection of BLM, Black Lives Matter, did more damage than Russian forces have done in Bakhmut. 0.62
00:31:25.000 You literally could not, you could not replicate the damage that BLM did to black America. 0.92
00:31:32.000 More people have died in the Floyd crime wave, black people, than ever died at the hands of lynching in America.
00:31:41.000 That is a fact.
00:31:43.000 But white liberals are doing just fine. 0.68
00:31:45.000 White liberals this summer will be in the Hamptons whining and dining the champagne with their gated communities, full-time security, miles away from gang activity, while their kids go to private schools saying that the real problem is white supremacy. 0.93
00:32:03.000 Joe Biden will repeat that the biggest problem is white supremacy. 0.97
00:32:06.000 No, there's a lot bigger problems than white supremacy, like black dads not being around, like black crime, like racial division, racial arson, BLM, dividing the country, the BLM mission statement that we exist to destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family. 0.93
00:32:20.000 The only positive that I can share with this, and I have to do this super quick, is that I think 2020 and the race cultural revolution did wake up enough decent people to see what we're up against. 0.90
00:32:32.000 I think that is a positive.
00:32:33.000 I think that the cultural revolution has succeeded in some ways.
00:32:36.000 They took over the military, academia, and so many things.
00:32:38.000 But I think normal, ordinary people now have a reference point for how savage and cruel, brutish these people are.
00:32:48.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:32:49.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:32:53.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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