The Charlie Kirk Show - The Bravery of Riley Gaines with Riley Gaines and Jack Posobiec

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show.

00:00:01.000 Riley Gaines herself joins us after she was attacked at San Francisco State University and she talks about her next plans.

00:00:07.000 Pretty amazing and chilling details that we discuss.

00:00:10.000 And then we have Jack Pesobic to discuss China and also a case in Texas that will get your attention.

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00:00:21.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:04.000 Jack Pesobic is with us.

00:01:06.000 Jack, welcome.

00:01:07.000 Lots to cover.

00:01:08.000 What is going on right now with Taiwan and China?

00:01:10.000 Phyllis in.

00:01:12.000 Yeah, Charlie.

00:01:13.000 So what you're seeing right now, and we've been covering this on Human Events Daily quite a bit, is essentially a naval standoff between the Chinese Navy.

00:01:23.000 You're seeing Taiwanese warships out there.

00:01:26.000 The United States, USS Nimitz aircraft carrier battle group is just off the coast of Taiwan.

00:01:33.000 Also, the Chinese aircraft carrier, the Shandong, is also off the coast of Taiwan at this very time.

00:01:40.000 So you're seeing a huge, as well as the Koreans, the Japanese, their respective naval fleets are in the area. 0.52

00:01:47.000 So this is a complete envelopment of Taiwan Island.

00:01:52.000 This is a standoff right now.

00:01:54.000 Now, we will see, Charlie, we will see as to whether all of it comes on the heels of Speaker McCarthy meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan.

00:02:04.000 And we'll see, of course, whether or not this comes to a fruition moment as to whether or not actual barrages take place or actual shots are fired.

00:02:14.000 We've had some close, close calls between the U.S. and Taiwan before vis-à-vis the Taiwanese Strait that I've sailed through when I was in the Navy, but I've been to Taiwan many times, obviously, was spent two years in China.

00:02:28.000 But this is probably the closest that I've ever seen the U.S. and China go to blows over Taiwan Island.

00:02:35.000 So let me ask you, Jack, do you think a kinetic invasion of Taiwan is imminent?

00:02:43.000 Because a lot of people are speculating that, but it's far from an easy military maneuver.

00:02:47.000 It's a serious island with significant terrain issues.

00:02:52.000 Do you think we're seeing the kind of overtures towards that, or is that largely bluster?

00:02:58.000 What are your thoughts?

00:02:59.000 No, Charlie, I don't think so right now because I think what you're going to see more along the lines of, keep in mind that Taiwan's unique, not unique, I mean, it's an island, right?

00:03:09.000 So it's an island off the coast of China.

00:03:12.000 Truman had this famous quote that if the U.S. ever wanted to invade China, it would essentially be a floating aircraft carrier for us, a physical aircraft carrier.

00:03:20.000 But Taiwan is not Ukraine.

00:03:23.000 China can't just march into there, but also on the back end, were there to be a kinetic war with Taiwan and the U.S. gets involved, we would also not be able to resupply Taiwan the way that we are able to with Ukraine.

00:03:36.000 There's no physical border between Taiwan and, you know, of course, you know, Ukraine has the back door with Poland and Hungary.

00:03:44.000 We can't do that in Taiwan.

00:03:45.000 Essentially, Charlie, what you would see is not necessarily an amphibious assault, which of course would be very bloody.

00:03:52.000 I mean, go look at the history of island hopping, the campaigns in World War II, some of the more the bloodiest days of the war in the Pacific took place there taking those islands, even the invasion of Guam, Iwo Jima, et cetera, et cetera.

00:04:04.000 And so when you're looking at this, most effectively, you'd see a blockade by the Chinese military, People's Liberation Army Navy around Taiwan.

00:04:13.000 It would prevent the resupply.

00:04:15.000 Charlie, their food is imported.

00:04:17.000 85% of Taiwan's energy supplies. are imported, completely imported to that island.

00:04:24.000 So if you don't need to fire a shot and win, you're following Sun Tzu's most famous adage.

00:04:29.000 And of course, the Chinese military all read Sun Tzu when they're going through the academy. 0.80

00:04:34.000 This is exactly what they want. 0.98

00:04:36.000 They'll sit there and say, we will envelop you.

00:04:38.000 We will blockade you.

00:04:39.000 We will not allow any supplies to come to the site. 0.91

00:04:42.000 And Charlie, what they're going to do is they'll go around to every maritime shipping company in the world and say, your ships are not allowed in here, or they have to be, they will be interdicted by Chinese military vessels.

00:04:53.000 Charlie, they're not going to be able to get the insurance to do that.

00:04:56.000 Swiss Re is not going to be coming in with the reinsurance.

00:04:59.000 Those captains, because the captains are all unionized now, they're not going to come out and say we want to run a Chinese military blockade.

00:05:05.000 What are they going to do?

00:05:06.000 The chambers of commerce around the world, and you're already starting to see this with the World Economic Forum's whipping boy, Emmanuel Racron, over there in Beijing saying, you know, we really don't need this.

00:05:18.000 We really need to make sure that we maintain.

00:05:20.000 He says we shouldn't be dependent on America, which is amazing.

00:05:23.000 Europe shouldn't be dependent on America.

00:05:26.000 But he doesn't call out the point that he's making Europe dependent on China.

00:05:32.000 And Charlie, I guess what I would have to say in response to Emmanuel Macron is that it shouldn't surprise us that the French were the first to surrender to China. 0.81

00:05:40.000 So, I mean, the Taiwan issue seems correct.

00:05:45.000 I mean, just from the CCP's perspective, they really think they're going to dominate Taiwan.

00:05:49.000 I mean, they have a different culture.

00:05:51.000 They don't care for the CCP. 0.99

00:05:53.000 What's their end game with Taiwan?

00:05:55.000 Well, so the endgame with Taiwan is similar to what you saw in Hong Kong, right?

00:05:59.000 So Charlie, you could have said the exact same thing about Hong Kong 50 years ago, that Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau never became part of the Chinese Communist Party or the People's Republic, I should say.

00:06:11.000 So the CCP never took power there.

00:06:14.000 But what they did with Hong Kong was a slow assimilation, which was gradual, gradual, gradual.

00:06:19.000 And then sudden, right in December of 2019, just days before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, before all the lockdowns came in, that's when the freedom fighters were going out because it looked like the CCP was taking full control of Hong Kong.

00:06:33.000 Eventually they did.

00:06:34.000 The protests were shut down by the lockdown procedures and history has already been written in that case.

00:06:40.000 They're trying to do the exact same thing with Taiwan. 0.93

00:06:43.000 They want to slowly envelop it, slowly assimilate it, isolate them from the world economy, isolate them from world diplomacy.

00:06:50.000 This began back in the 1970s when they got the United States and the United Nations to switch diplomatic recognition from the Republic of China, which is the government of Taiwan, the official government of Taiwan, to the CCP so that their vote at the United Nations Security Council Went from Taiwan being in control of that vote to Beijing being in control of that vote. 0.50

00:07:10.000 And they've continued to economically and diplomatically and even socially isolate Taiwan Island from the rest of the world in order to make them only able to do business with mainland China.

00:07:21.000 They were able to do so in all but one industry, that, of course, being semiconductors and superconductors in order for them to fully take over that industry, which, Charlie, if the CCP were able to do that, right? 0.63

00:07:33.000 And this is a huge difference between Taiwan and Ukraine.

00:07:36.000 Again, for those people looking at the real politic of all of it, to say, look, if China gets access to those semiconductor prefab sites, and I know there's one even with a Taiwanese company that's looking to potentially put up sticks and open a prefab facility right there in Phoenix, Arizona, where you are, that this would give the CCP control over just about every device that's out there.

00:07:59.000 It doesn't, at that point, it won't matter that if you've got TikTok or whatever app you've got downloaded on your phone, they've already got your phone from the actual hardware level.

00:08:09.000 The spyware, the monitoring would be absolutely worldwide because they'd have the chipset inside your own hardware by the time that the device actually gets to you, whether it be a laptop or a phone or an F-150.

00:08:23.000 They've all got chips in them these days.

00:08:25.000 So that is the big prize.

00:08:27.000 About a minute I have remaining.

00:08:28.000 Explain the significance between Brazil and China no longer using the dollar for exchanges.

00:08:35.000 Well, Charlie, what it shows is that the U.S. can't just walk around the world poking their finger in everybody's chest and saying this is how it's going to be now.

00:08:43.000 No, other countries are saying they're sick of the United States.

00:08:47.000 They're sick of this foreign policy, which has been largely outsourced to people like Victoria Newland, who should be arrested, not Donald Trump. 0.66

00:08:54.000 And we have seen an absolute relative diminishment of the United States's power and influence compared to the relative rise of BRICS.

00:09:02.000 Jack, what is the story with Daniel Perry?

00:09:05.000 Who is Daniel Perry and why is this catching the media's attention?

00:09:10.000 Well, Charlie, Daniel Perry is another one of the individuals who, like Kyle Rittenhouse, was involved in these riots of 2020, which engulfed the nation.

00:09:21.000 Pretty much every single major city saw these. 0.83

00:09:24.000 Now, while Kyle Rittenhouse was in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and was forced to use an AR-15 to defend himself against a violent mob, this was a situation where an individual, a Boogaloo boy, who was marching with the BLM rioters. 0.92

00:09:40.000 Now, Boogaloo, they're an anti-government organization that are also pro-BLM. 0.75

00:09:45.000 So the media will tell you that Boogaloos are all far right, but the pro-BLM SARF side and the complete anti-government, anti-police side doesn't necessarily make them fit one of the boxes just nicely. 0.85

00:09:57.000 So this guy's marching with the BLM rioters. 0.63

00:10:00.000 Daniel Perry is a serving U.S. sergeant in the U.S. Army, and his car is driving Uber on the side trying to make a few extra bucks.

00:10:09.000 His car gets surrounded by these guys.

00:10:11.000 And this individual, Garrett Foster, had been carrying a and actually slung around two-point sling of an AK-47, approaches Perry's car at the low ready.

00:10:25.000 Perry claims that the barrel started to move up.

00:10:29.000 He then withdrew his sidearm, fired five shots, and shot and killed Foster and then drove away in his car.

00:10:37.000 Foster, this Foster was killed.

00:10:40.000 Perry later claimed self-defense, spoke with police officers claiming self-defense, and actually said to them at one point, said to them one point, this phrase: I wasn't going to give him a chance to aim the rifle at me, which was later used to go to the jury by this Soros prosecutor.

00:10:58.000 Great example, folks, of why you shouldn't talk to the police without a lawyer, because they used that statement in court to say that Foster wasn't presenting a threat, even though he marched up to him with a mob of people, surrounded his car, and had an AK-47 within inches of his face.

00:11:13.000 I mean, I want to just reinforce that point that AK-47 pointed in his face with a mob around his car.

00:11:20.000 Why is this even a problem?

00:11:21.000 It's obviously self-defense.

00:11:23.000 Well, so what they're saying is because the AK-47 remained at the low ready, which means it was shouldered and pointed essentially lower at the car, that it didn't constitute an imminent threat, even though he was completely surrounded.

00:11:38.000 And again, an AK-47 would only have just moments of, you'd need merely milliseconds to be able to bring that up and fire the tool.

00:11:47.000 When did this happen?

00:11:48.000 When did this happen?

00:11:49.000 And is there any footage of it, like the Grittenhouse deal, or not really?

00:11:53.000 There's summer of 2020, but the footage is not as, well, I wouldn't say good, but I wouldn't say it's not necessarily as clear as the Kyle Rittenhouse footage.

00:12:02.000 That footage and that event was, it was a unique phenomenon that you have almost every single step of that incident of the Kyle Rittenhouse coverage done by these Daily Call reporters and independent reporters who are all there filming the whole thing.

00:12:19.000 I later broke on Human Events Daily that the FBI actually had a surveillance plane up in the sky that was collecting footage that was withheld from Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:12:27.000 But with that massive bevy of footage that we have there in this case, we only have one.

00:12:32.000 I don't know if you guys have the clip, but they have a very short, grainy piece of footage that you're only able to see from kind of across the street.

00:12:42.000 That's why we need more citizen journalists.

00:12:45.000 And so, Jack, this is just gaining attention.

00:12:47.000 Why?

00:12:48.000 And he's seeking a pardon, but it's a very complex process in Texas.

00:12:52.000 Right.

00:12:52.000 So he was convicted on Friday of this.

00:12:55.000 He was given a murder conviction.

00:12:57.000 Sentencing is yet to happen, though life in prison certainly would be, I think, on the table.

00:13:02.000 I don't necessarily think that he would get the death penalty for this.

00:13:05.000 But then again, it is Texas.

00:13:06.000 So let's see.

00:13:06.000 However, Governor Abbott has come in immediately, come hard swinging, saying he will issue a pardon the minute the recommendation is placed on his desk.

00:13:16.000 Now, Texas, along with the other southern states, don't exactly have this direct unilateral ability for the governor to be able to issue a pardon the way you would see at the presidential level or some other states.

00:13:29.000 They have essentially a pardon board that has to review the cases and then present their recommendations to the governor.

00:13:36.000 And then what is the process there?

00:13:38.000 Then what ends up happening?

00:13:39.000 They vote on it or who puts the people on the pardon board?

00:13:42.000 Do we know that?

00:13:42.000 I'm sure we'll learn.

00:13:44.000 Right, the board, and I'd have to get the exact requirements of how you get on the board.

00:13:48.000 I imagine the governor or lieutenant governor play a huge role in that, the way they do in many states.

00:13:52.000 I believe the lieutenant governor is on the board.

00:13:54.000 And then you see this across the country.

00:13:56.000 I'm more familiar with Pennsylvania, where the lieutenant governor essentially leads that board.

00:14:00.000 And so what Gabbitt has said, though, is that he wants this to be expedited.

00:14:06.000 He wants Ken Paxton, the attorney general, to be involved.

00:14:09.000 They've all been very vocal on social media.

00:14:11.000 And the governor has said that immediately when that hits his desk, he will be issuing a pardon.

00:14:16.000 Because essentially, Charlie, the question here for us, beyond the specific facts of the case, which we have and which we're going over in court many times, we also have to look at the broader picture.

00:14:28.000 This is a left-wing mob that was allowed to operate.

00:14:31.000 And then a Soros DA comes in and tries to put him in prison.

00:14:34.000 Jack Pesobic, thank you so much.

00:14:36.000 Check out his show every night at 10 p.m.

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00:16:27.000 The biggest story in the nation over the weekend was Riley Gaines speaking at a turning point USA chapter event at San Francisco State University.

00:16:36.000 She was terrorized by trans activists, and she's here right now to share her story and what she has planned next.

00:16:43.000 Riley, welcome to the program.

00:16:44.000 I'm glad you're doing okay.

00:16:46.000 Walk us through the events that occurred Thursday evening at San Francisco State University.

00:16:52.000 Absolutely.

00:16:53.000 So I had arrived to the event.

00:16:56.000 I was supposed to meet the campus police an hour and a half before, but they did not show up.

00:17:02.000 And so I carried on.

00:17:04.000 I did my speech.

00:17:06.000 It, of course, was filled with protesters, but for the most point, or for the most part, at this point, they were pretty peaceful.

00:17:13.000 It was after the event when it turned not peaceful.

00:17:17.000 Ambushers rushed into the room.

00:17:19.000 They turned off the lights.

00:17:20.000 They were flickering the lights and they rushed me.

00:17:23.000 I was physically and verbally assaulted, to which I was rushed out of the room and I couldn't exit the building because they were coming from every direction.

00:17:33.000 And so I was barricaded in a separate classroom building for three hours after this.

00:17:39.000 So Riley, were these students or were these outside agitators or do you not know?

00:17:44.000 I believe for the most part they were students.

00:17:47.000 Most of them were relatively young.

00:17:49.000 So I think they were students.

00:17:51.000 And is it correct that they were asking for money while they were holding you hostage, almost ransom payments?

00:17:57.000 As crazy as that sounds, yes.

00:18:00.000 For they were trying to negotiate with the dean of students.

00:18:04.000 They were saying that if I am getting paid to be there from the school, which I wasn't getting paid to be there from the school anyways, but if I was getting paid to be there, then it's only fair that they get paid.

00:18:15.000 If I wanted to make it to home safely, it's only fair that I pay them money.

00:18:20.000 That's kidnapping.

00:18:21.000 I mean, literally, that's extortion.

00:18:22.000 It's kidnapping.

00:18:23.000 So I'm just confused.

00:18:25.000 I mean, the police, they were protecting you in this room for multiple hours.

00:18:29.000 I'm sure after 10, 15, 20 minutes, you probably struck up a conversation with them.

00:18:35.000 I know that you're thankful that you didn't get hurt and they were there, but at some point, did you be like, yo, can you just like get some handcuffs and solve this?

00:18:43.000 Absolutely.

00:18:45.000 I asked them, you know, why are you guys not asserting force to get me out of this building?

00:18:49.000 Because I had a flight that I missed, which I didn't want to miss.

00:18:52.000 I didn't want to get stuck in San Francisco an extra day.

00:18:55.000 And so I was telling them, you know, I need to get out.

00:18:57.000 I need to go to the airport.

00:18:58.000 And they said, we don't want to assert any kind of force.

00:19:01.000 Clearly, it was because they didn't want to be seen as anything other than an ally to that community because they knew what it meant for them.

00:19:08.000 They knew it put their job at risk if they were to be accused of any of these things.

00:19:13.000 And so they would rather not do their job than be seen as, again, anything other than an ally.

00:19:19.000 They didn't want to be racist or transphobic or any of these other things.

00:19:23.000 So just to make sure I understand correctly that while they are demanding money, the police officers were intimidated by these.

00:19:31.000 Is that fair to say the police officers were intimidated by the people who assaulted you?

00:19:38.000 I believe so, yes.

00:19:40.000 They truthfully did a very poor job.

00:19:43.000 I'm always grateful for law enforcement, of course, but I do believe these campus police did not accurately and effectively do their job.

00:19:51.000 It wasn't until three hours later when the city of San Francisco police stepped in, I was able to safely evacuate the building, which was still surrounded by protesters and people yelling terrible, obscene things at both myself and the officers.

00:20:06.000 But I thank the city of San Francisco police for getting me out safely.

00:20:09.000 Yeah, and that's an important distinction.

00:20:11.000 But the people that were basically in the hostage situation with you, they were police officers or the actual campus police officers?

00:20:21.000 Yes, they were.

00:20:23.000 But again, they were supposed to go over an exit plan with me if something like this were to happen, to which they never showed up to alert me.

00:20:31.000 The officer who helped me escape the first classroom building where I was ambushed, she was in nothing that indicated she was an officer, no clothing that indicated such.

00:20:42.000 And so I didn't truthfully trust that she was an officer.

00:20:45.000 And so I didn't want to follow her because I didn't believe her.

00:20:48.000 So it was just a whole slew of things that they could have done better to get me out of that environment safely that they did not do.

00:20:55.000 A comedy of errors.

00:20:56.000 You were assaulted.

00:20:57.000 Walk us through specifically how you were punched.

00:21:01.000 You know, the lights were flickering on and off.

00:21:05.000 I was hit twice.

00:21:06.000 I was hit once in the shoulder the second time, also in the shoulder, but grazing my face.

00:21:10.000 The turning point field rep, her name is Amber.

00:21:13.000 She was shoved in the face as well. 0.70

00:21:15.000 These people, they were relentless.

00:21:17.000 They were violent.

00:21:18.000 I think it's worth noting that even the press secretary of the White House the day before told these people to fight back.

00:21:25.000 Those were her words.

00:21:26.000 That's right.

00:21:28.000 In the hallway during my speech, I could hear the protesters yelling, trans rights are under attack.

00:21:34.000 What do we do?

00:21:35.000 We fight back.

00:21:36.000 And the police, again, did nothing to de-escalate this situation prior to the ambush.

00:21:41.000 So I just want to, one part of the story I think that hasn't really been focused on, these people stood outside there for three hours.

00:21:48.000 I mean, and then I have to be told by conservatives they don't have time to go vote.

00:21:52.000 I mean, I just, these people really care about this.

00:21:55.000 I mean, three hours to go hold you hostage on a college campus.

00:21:59.000 Do you have any thoughts on that?

00:22:02.000 It's amazing that people put this much effort and time into something that they don't like.

00:22:07.000 I don't even know if I put this much time and effort into things that I do like.

00:22:11.000 So it's amazing that people will go to these lengths to silence.

00:22:15.000 Well, and we know why they don't.

00:22:16.000 Yeah, we know why, but Riley, I have to interrupt you.

00:22:18.000 This is why they've taken so much ground, though.

00:22:21.000 They care.

00:22:22.000 I mean, here it is.

00:22:23.000 It's a Thursday night before Good Friday.

00:22:25.000 I don't think these people exactly observe Easter, but that's a separate issue.

00:22:28.000 You know, in downtown San Francisco, you're going to ask you about your speech in a second, but they're willing to basically dedicate four or five hours.

00:22:36.000 If you count the prep time, sit through your speech, and then stand outside where you are for three hours.

00:22:42.000 These people are just hostages.

00:22:43.000 Like it's Sodom and Gomorrah, right?

00:22:46.000 And demanding that you come out, obviously wishing you harm because they assaulted you.

00:22:51.000 And so let's kind of then build it out.

00:22:53.000 What was your speech about?

00:22:54.000 What was your argument?

00:22:56.000 What did you say that made them so full of rage and fury and anger that made them want to kidnap you?

00:23:05.000 Of course, what has thrusted me into this position of being some sort of a public figure is taking a public stance and acknowledging that men and women are different in ways that give males advantages when competing in something that requires sheer athleticism or strength.

00:23:21.000 It's that simple.

00:23:22.000 Men should not compete against women. 0.97

00:23:24.000 And so my speech, I highlighted the work that you put in as a female athlete.

00:23:28.000 I, of course, am 22.

00:23:30.000 I just graduated college, but I swam since I was four years old.

00:23:33.000 I swam in college six hours every single day, three hours before 8 a.m.

00:23:37.000 And so I highlight this.

00:23:38.000 I highlight, of course, our national championships.

00:23:40.000 I highlight what that locker room piece looked like.

00:23:43.000 I highlighted the silencing that other female athletes are dealing with, coaches, parents, what that looks like, and why denying objective truth is harmful, to which I was met with, again, violence. 0.95

00:23:58.000 You met with violence.

00:23:59.000 And now you're not backing down, and we're not backing down at Turning Point USA.

00:24:03.000 We're going to have much better security in Albany because, you know, we relied on the campus police, fool me once, whatever.

00:24:09.000 We're not going to put that back in.

00:24:10.000 But you're going to do more campus events, right?

00:24:11.000 You're going up.

00:24:12.000 I don't know if it's Albany, but you're going to Buffalo.

00:24:14.000 I'm sorry, I get my New York City, New York City's messed up.

00:24:17.000 You're going to State University of New York, Buffalo, and they're already using your image for hate, obviously. 1.00

00:24:23.000 The trannies are coming after you big time. 1.00

00:24:26.000 So what do you plan to do at State University, New York, Buffalo? 1.00

00:24:31.000 Same thing.

00:24:33.000 I will not be deterred. 0.73

00:24:34.000 I would take a right hook from Mike Tyson if it meant defending girls and women and protecting their rights.

00:24:40.000 And so this will not stop me.

00:24:41.000 It will not slow me down.

00:24:43.000 It only assures me that I'm doing the right thing.

00:24:46.000 Even right now, I'm here in Louisville, where, of course, there was a tragic shooting this morning.

00:24:50.000 But typically when these kind of events happen, it draws out people who want to be destructive in different ways.

00:24:58.000 And so I'm here doing some different events to which I was just five minutes ago met with protesters who had to be escorted because they were trying to hurt me.

00:25:08.000 But it doesn't scare me.

00:25:10.000 It only, again, encourages me.

00:25:12.000 It assures me that when they want you silenced, it only means that you should speak louder.

00:25:18.000 That's exactly right.

00:25:19.000 And, you know, we have your back 100% at Turning Point USA.

00:25:23.000 We want to send you to every chapter imaginable.

00:25:25.000 And she's not backing down.

00:25:27.000 You're emboldened and you have more conviction than ever.

00:25:30.000 I hope all of you in the audience draw some inspiration from this because Riley is now going to metaphorically punch back twice as hard, even though she got punched.

00:25:39.000 And she said, listen, I'm willing to take a hit from Mike Tyson.

00:25:44.000 By the way, you might have to one day. 1.00

00:25:45.000 Mike Tyson in a dress might show up to you, some tranny activist that is able to be a man. 0.98

00:25:50.000 I'm curious, though, the people that were assaulting you and doing this, were these men posing as women or women posing as men, or just wasn't clear. 0.99

00:25:58.000 I'm asking for a reason.

00:26:01.000 Who were these people that would just dedicate hours of their time to try to kidnap you?

00:26:06.000 Both and everything in between.

00:26:09.000 It was truthfully, it's obviously extremely confusing when all of the different aspects of what goes into this gender spectrum that people are looking to.

00:26:20.000 So there was both men dressed as women and women dressed as men claiming that identity.

00:26:27.000 And there was hundreds, hundreds of people holding me hostage.

00:26:30.000 So definitely both.

00:26:32.000 Riley, in closing, the vice president of whatever said that the students were brave and courageous.

00:26:40.000 Your response.

00:26:42.000 It blows my mind.

00:26:44.000 It blows my mind the lengths people are willing to go to to lie or to virtue signal.

00:26:49.000 Or does she really believe this?

00:26:51.000 Does she really believe these people were peaceful?

00:26:54.000 Um, if that's the case, then I guess she'll be hearing from my lawyer because that was not peaceful.

00:26:59.000 What I experienced was not peaceful.

00:27:01.000 I was, of course, I feared for my life in that situation when you're ambushed in that way.

00:27:07.000 Um, and then to come out and applaud them and tell them how hard it can be to have a conservative speaker on your campus.

00:27:12.000 And here are some resources that you can seek because it's so difficult to listen to someone who has a different perspective than you.

00:27:20.000 It's setting these kids up for failure, and we're seeing it at institutions and universities all over the country.

00:27:27.000 So chilling.

00:27:28.000 Jamila Moore, Vice President of Student Affairs of Enrollment, apologizes that you were allowed on campus, calls the students that were terrorists towards you brave.

00:27:38.000 It's really something.

00:27:39.000 Riley, we're going to see you soon.

00:27:40.000 And I know you have another campus event coming up this week.

00:27:44.000 I hope it remains peaceful and we're going to have a good security presence there to help you out because the campus police can't be trusted.

00:27:50.000 Thank you, Riley.

00:27:51.000 Appreciate it.

00:27:52.000 Thank you so much.

00:27:57.000 Hey, everybody, this is Charlie Kirk.

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00:29:03.000 We are just seeing the beginning stages of the damage that this trans movement will do. 1.00

00:29:09.000 And it's so interesting how it started, right? 1.00

00:29:11.000 It started with Jenner on, I think it was Vogue, the front page of Vogue or whatever.

00:29:16.000 One of those fashion magazines that nobody reads.

00:29:18.000 And everyone said, oh, yeah, you know, live and let live.

00:29:21.000 And it was never about that.

00:29:24.000 No, it's about tyranny.

00:29:27.000 It's about conformity.

00:29:28.000 It's about imposing their viewpoint on you.

00:29:35.000 And we see this trend repeatedly.

00:29:39.000 Because if it really was about tolerance, then it wouldn't be an issue. 0.95

00:29:46.000 If the trans people were actually tolerant themselves, then they wouldn't show up to Riley Gaines and act the way they did. 0.72

00:29:52.000 So they, so let me get this straight. 0.99

00:29:54.000 They demand tolerance with force.

00:29:56.000 It's a very strange equation, isn't it?

00:29:59.000 Tolerate me, and I'm going to force you to tolerate me.

00:30:04.000 That's the opposite of voluntary tolerance, isn't it?

00:30:09.000 No, there is a very disturbing, now well-documented decline in the West.

00:30:13.000 And we're about to show you something from the Netherlands that you won't believe. 1.00

00:30:18.000 I want to get this Dutch TV from the Netherlands, from Holland, of what's happening there where they're showing naked trannies to kids on television. 1.00

00:30:27.000 It's considered art. 1.00

00:30:29.000 Again, when you remove Christianity as the anchor of the West, something really evil and dystopian, broken, and damaging will replace it. 0.74

00:30:38.000 And these secular views are replacing it. 0.84

00:30:41.000 And, you know, it's really interesting.

00:30:43.000 I've been giving this speech across the country, and even secular conservatives who maybe don't believe in Christianity and they're not convinced on that.

00:30:53.000 I think there is a growing movement that at least Christianity created a freer society.

00:31:05.000 Okay, so when you remove Christianity and you remove the bedrock of the Bible in society, what do you get in place of that? 0.63

00:31:15.000 Well, in the Netherlands, they are showing on television naked trans people in front of kids. 0.90

00:31:24.000 Play cut 23. 1.00

00:31:41.000 Yeah, I mean, for all of you that don't speak Dutch, I think that would be right. 1.00

00:31:48.000 Is that right?

00:31:49.000 Yeah, that don't speak the native tongue.

00:31:52.000 Let me just tell you kind of what that is. 0.88

00:31:54.000 So, effectively, that is what was being shown on TV is a group of trans people with no clothes on in front of 10 and 12 year olds with a host, kind of a television host, celebrating it. 0.73

00:32:10.000 And the kids get to look at the naked trans people and ask questions about their top and bottom surgeries. 0.71

00:32:17.000 This is what is passing for art in the Netherlands with cut lines all over their chests. 0.97

00:32:29.000 It's happening here.

00:32:33.000 It's going to come here very soon.

00:32:34.000 I mean, if it's not on television already, I mean, effectively already is.

00:32:38.000 You can see that stuff all over social media.

00:32:43.000 When you don't have a true north, when you do not have what the Greeks used to call a telos or a teleological purpose, where are you heading?

00:32:52.000 You see, how do you know a line is crooked if you do not have a straight line to compare it to, as C.S. Lewis would famously say?

00:33:00.000 So, who's to say that's wrong?

00:33:02.000 Who's to say that a bunch of naked people on TV in front of kids is wrong?

00:33:06.000 The left finds it to be funny, they find it to be illuminating.

00:33:10.000 They think it's good.

00:33:11.000 You know, the kids get exposed to sexual matters.

00:33:13.000 This is a good thing.

00:33:15.000 You remove a standard, something will fill the void.

00:33:21.000 And you are living through what Nietzsche predicted.

00:33:24.000 And it was not a proclamation.

00:33:25.000 It was not celebration.

00:33:27.000 In fact, I think it drove him mad.

00:33:30.000 He saw the end of the West before anybody else.

00:33:33.000 And Joe Biden wants to use that sort of perverse ideology to try to get him another term.

00:33:39.000 We made a prediction that Joe Biden would not run for re-election.

00:33:43.000 That prediction might end up being wrong.

00:33:45.000 We'll see.

00:33:45.000 It still could end up being right.

00:33:46.000 But Joe Biden is certainly looking like he's going to run for re-election because candidates don't matter.

00:33:50.000 Just look at John Fetterman.

00:33:51.000 What matters is ballot chasing and the machinery.

00:33:53.000 And they feel so confident in their machinery in Georgia, Wisconsin, and Arizona that this doesn't matter.

00:34:00.000 And so Joe Biden wants to mobilize woke influencers to be able to win the White House.

00:34:08.000 Who is he talking about?

00:34:09.000 Play Cut 22.

00:34:10.000 This is who he thinks is going to help win the White House for him.

00:34:12.000 Play Cut 22.

00:34:14.000 Hi.

00:34:15.000 Impressive carrying skills, right?

00:34:17.000 I got some Bud Lights for us.

00:34:19.000 So I kept hearing about this thing called March Madness, and I thought we were all just having a hectic month, but it turns out it has something to do with sports.

00:34:29.000 This month I celebrated my day 365 of womanhood and Bud Light sent me possibly the best gift ever, a can with my face on it.

00:34:44.000 Cheers.

00:34:45.000 Go team.

00:34:46.000 Whatever team you love, I love too.

00:34:53.000 That's who Joe Biden thinks is going to help win him in the White House.

00:34:59.000 By the way, there's a new Mario movie out in theaters.

00:35:01.000 It got very poor reviews, but audiences love it and it made a ton of money because people are indulging in nostalgia.

00:35:06.000 Who can blame them?

00:35:07.000 I heard a 90s song the other day at a restaurant.

00:35:09.000 I was like, wow, I miss that country. 1.00

00:35:11.000 It's like immediately I have like a flashback to a country where trannies weren't able to do Bud Light commercials. 1.00

00:35:17.000 It was a better country back then. 1.00

00:35:19.000 I'm sorry, it was.

00:35:21.000 It was a better country when people like Riley Gaines would show up at San Francisco University and say men are women.

00:35:26.000 They'd be like, okay. 0.54

00:35:28.000 Nostalgia is a very powerful political tool.

00:35:31.000 It's going to be used more and more.

00:35:33.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:35.000 Email us your thoughts.

00:35:35.000 As always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:38.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - April 10, 2023

The Bravery of Riley Gaines with Riley Gaines and Jack Posobiec

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