00:00:00.000Hey everybody, there's something happening with the military.
00:00:02.000The Democrats and the left are trying to send you a message, and it's time to get noisy and clear about what's really happening in our country.
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00:02:45.000In fact, that is higher than almost any poll that Donald Trump had throughout his entire presidency.
00:02:52.000We have described this as the lullaby presidency.
00:02:56.000That the media is trying to have you go to sleep, watch Netflix Hulu, disengage from politics while the great plunder of American society ensues.
00:03:08.000And so I want to get into the crisis on the border.
00:03:11.000We're going to get into how critical race theory has taken over Texas schools, Loudoun County schools.
00:03:18.000But there's something that is happening in the country right now, and there's three examples of this.
00:03:55.000I remember the second time I visited Israel, I went to the Golan Heights.
00:03:59.000And the Golad Heights is right near Syria.
00:04:01.000It's in the northeast corner of Israel.
00:04:05.000When you walk some streets in Israel, it's very customary, it's normal to see IDF, Israeli Defense Force soldiers, walking the streets with fully automatic weapons.
00:04:20.000And I remember asking our tour guide, who was an IDF soldier himself, Amit, very good guy, friend of mine.
00:04:28.000Why is it that it's necessary for the IDF soldiers to walk the streets with fully automatic weapons?
00:04:37.000He said, well, the first reason is psychological, because we want everyone in Israel to know that war could break out at any moment.
00:04:45.000We want every person in Israel to have the reminder that we were almost taken over in the Six-Day War or the Yom Kippur War.
00:04:52.000It's almost a psychological, in-your-face reminder that we might not be firing bullets, we might not be under mortar fire, but we're actually still at war, a quiet, soft war with all of our Arab neighbors.
00:05:06.000I thought that to be very interesting.
00:05:08.000And then Amit said to me, he said, Charlie, one of the things I love about America is that you guys don't have to have this.
00:05:15.000He said, it's necessary for Israel because of where we're located.
00:05:19.000It's necessary because of all of our enemies.
00:05:21.000It's necessary because of the way of life we're trying to protect and preserve in a sea of tyranny.
00:05:27.000He said, but in America, I love the fact that you do not have members of your military walking the streets.
00:05:36.000I thought to myself, that is kind of a positive about America.
00:05:41.000And then I remember my tour guide being an IDF soldier, Amit, again said, Charlie, it's also a warning to the Arab enemies that might work in the West Bank and they come through on guest or work visas and they travel in and out.
00:06:02.000It's a warning to them that if they attack Israel, we're going to punch back twice as hard.
00:06:09.000I thought to myself, that is a different way of life than what we have grown accustomed to in America.
00:06:19.000And Amit fully admitted that the IDF and the Israeli Defense Force and that sort of civilian military culture comes at a price.
00:06:29.000And that price is that you must have a military mindset take over at everything you do.
00:06:35.000That it's not a typical Western liberty mindset, but it is we are surrounded by enemies.
00:06:43.000We must be willing to do whatever it takes to defend our way of life and our culture.
00:06:51.000And that experience left an imprint on me.
00:06:57.000And so now, since Joe Biden has become president, there are three examples that are so disturbing, so terrifying, and so troubling.
00:07:08.000And no one seems to be talking about this, Tucker Carlson being the only exception.
00:07:12.000Number one, the Capitol is still under perpetual military occupation.
00:07:18.000You cannot visit your congressional leaders while they're spending trillions of dollars, while they are mortgaging future generations, while they are passing HR5, HR1.
00:07:28.000You cannot visit them and tell them your thoughts on pieces of legislation without going through a South North Korea equivalent of the demilitarized zone.
00:07:41.000If you go look at the Capitol today, it looks as if we are bracing for a war of 1812 equivalent of a foreign enemy about to storm our capital.
00:07:57.000Number two, as we covered a couple days ago, the Department of Defense singled out and targeted a talk show host, Tucker Carlson, because they did not like his remarks or his comments when it came to pregnant women in the military.
00:08:17.000The Department of Defense, which is supposed to be about defending the Constitution, they swear an oath of the Constitution. and never engaging in domestic or civil disputes, offered multiple press releases and did multiple PR stunts against a domestic talk show host.
00:08:40.000Not a foreign military leader, not a dictator from afar, not Kim Jong-un, not North Korea, not China, not Iran.
00:08:50.000No, the United States military decided to use their taxpayer-funded communication arm to go after an American talk show host.
00:09:00.000And the third example happened just a couple days ago, which was glamorized and written up positively by Huffington Post and BuzzFeed, and you probably didn't even see this article.
00:09:32.000When Hank Johnson said that Guam was going to tip over because of troop deployments, no one did this.
00:09:39.000They didn't send troops to his office.
00:09:43.000And so Marjorie Taylor Greene wrongly says that.
00:09:47.000And then somebody somewhere, all of a sudden, as a PR stunt, sent National Guard members to her office from Guam to send a message, play tape.
00:10:09.000There is dozens of National Guard members from Guam with dramatic music marching towards a duly elected, constitutionally sworn in officer of the United States, Marjorie Taylor Greene, with this dramatic music, kind of doing the social media stunt as if this is what our United States military is for, is going after a United States Congresswoman.
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00:11:50.000The military is now being used as a political, I don't want to say weapon, but it's very close to weapon.
00:12:00.000It's being used as a political posturing PR tool for the Democrat Party.
00:12:07.000The military, by definition, is not just supposed to be apolitical.
00:12:12.000It's supposed to be patriotic and country-focused, first and foremost.
00:12:17.000And so while there are so many different stories happening in the country, the one that is disturbing that we must have every single Republican leader talk about are these three things.
00:12:31.000Number one, why is the Capitol still under perpetual military occupation?
00:12:36.000Number two, why did the Department of Defense target a talk show host?
00:12:40.000Number three, who ordered, under what authority, the military and the National Guard to go pay a visit in a PR stunt against Congresswoman Greene from Georgia.
00:12:53.000You see, what's really going on here is a psychological operation by the Democrats.
00:12:59.000And it's similar to what I learned in Israel.
00:13:04.000It's similar to exactly what my friend Amit told me when we were in the West Bank, when we were in Judea and Samaria, when we were in the Golan Heights.
00:13:13.000And it's that if you want to send a clear message to your political opponents, show them that we have more force than you do.
00:13:22.000Show them that we're in control and that you aren't.
00:13:26.000And that's exactly what they are doing.
00:13:28.000And it's ironic because the social justice warrior activists and the leftists for so long, they have told us that they are skeptical of the militarization of our police.
00:13:44.000They've told us that they want to defund the police, when in reality, they just want to be in control.
00:13:52.000They want to be the ones waving their hands while the military parade goes in front of them so they can deploy it at their will.
00:14:02.000A country that feels as if you're perpetually at conflict with each other is much easier to command and more willing to obey.
00:14:15.000The Democrat Party wants to intimidate you.
00:14:18.000They want to intimidate all of us to never have another public rally again.
00:14:23.000They want to intimidate us to not speak out against their unilateral power grab in our country with almost a menacing type approach to citizen dialogue.
00:15:07.000And it is not just disappointing, but it is an existential threat that the American Democrats and the left control Google and Facebook and Twitter, academia, the civil service, our corporations, Hollywood.
00:15:21.000But the fact that the military, which a friend of mine from Chicago just emailed us at freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:15:28.000He said, Charlie, the military was the only institution I trusted.
00:15:33.000There are millions of wonderful patriotic members of the military that love their country above everything else and they're willing to sacrifice for it.
00:15:42.000Unfortunately, they are being used as political pawns and as intimidation tools by the Democrat Party.
00:15:51.000You see, the Democrats are trying to remake America in their image.
00:15:54.000They want to have DCB a state universal vote by mail, HR1, fundamentally change our religious liberty laws, Equality Act, and grab our guns.
00:16:05.000The only way they will be able to get that done is if they restrict dissent.
00:16:10.000You see, dissent only happens when you're able to have dialogue, which is only able to happen when people feel confident enough to speak.
00:16:21.000And whether you realize it or not, one of the main reasons why it seems as if conservatives have been quieter in the last couple months than usual, it's because subconsciously, there is that image of a masked man in a turret in front of the Capitol saying, if you dare speak out against us, we have the guns and you don't.
00:16:48.000That's the message that they're sending.
00:16:50.000They're sending the message that if you dare speak out against us, Marjorie Taylor Greene, you're going to get visited by National Guard members.
00:16:58.000If you call out anything we don't like, Tucker Carlson, the Department of Defense is going to send out a press release against you.
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00:18:11.000How do you make a citizenry that is used to being able to speak its mind obey?
00:18:31.000You see, this pattern has already been happening for the last couple of years.
00:18:36.000This idea of singling out people that say things that they do not like is nothing new.
00:18:45.000One of the guiding beliefs and truths that we have here on the Charlie Kirk show is what happens on college campuses does not stay on college campuses.
00:18:56.000It will export itself and then manifest itself in many different ways.
00:19:02.000We are seeing now what's happening at the United States military is very similar to tactics that were used at Harvard University, Stanford, UC Berkeley in the last couple of years.
00:19:14.000All the way in the highest levels of the United States military.
00:19:18.000I got a terrific email yesterday from a veteran who said he didn't exactly agree with some of our analysis earlier in the week when it came to pregnant women in the military, but he was very thoughtful about it and very respectful.
00:19:35.000He made a point that in the United States military, the reason why it's becoming so liberal, so woke, so social justice oriented, is that the people who are making the decisions, the officers, almost all of them have been college educated.
00:19:52.000Is that the officers, the ones that are making the consequential decisions in the military, they have graduated from these indoctrination factories?
00:20:00.000Few of them have actually seen legitimate combat, and they have very, very few of them actually started as being enlisted members of the military and then working their ways up, their way up.
00:20:15.000And so you start to see this throughout every level of the ultimate force that our country has.
00:20:24.000Where are the Republicans speaking out against this?
00:20:28.000You see, Republicans are very quick to go send out a press release saying they want to go repeal the estate tax, which is, okay, we want billionaires to pay less in tax.
00:20:54.000This is not even a piece of legislation.
00:20:56.000What's happening here is a slow, yet and subtle, not just an agenda, but a campaign to show the rest of the country that if you speak out in a certain way, we are going to come after you using the ultimate level of force imaginable.
00:21:26.000You see, this entire belief is rooted in totalitarianism.
00:21:33.000Donald Trump completely changed the game.
00:21:36.000He changed the game in many different ways, but he was such a different type of leader.
00:21:43.000He called out the plunder and the fraud and the theft of the ruling class in such broad, vivid, transparent, and public terms that the Democrats have permanently lost patience.
00:22:01.000They never want to be out of power again.
00:22:05.000They're not going to be out of power again in their own political calculus.
00:22:09.000So now they are resorting to medieval-style 20th-century dictator tactics.
00:22:16.000We take over the United States military and we use it as an intimidation force against American conservatives.
00:22:26.000So what can you possibly do about this?
00:22:29.000Well, number one, hopefully your representatives, your congresspeople, and your senators can start to realize what's actually happening here.
00:22:39.000You see, after the FBI spied on Donald Trump, they launched a soft coup against Trump.
00:22:45.000The Department of Justice spied on Cheryl Atkinson, which never got any coverage.
00:22:52.000Andrew McCabe, James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, they all got off on all of it.
00:23:00.000The highest levels of our Justice Department were weaponized against Donald Trump and his movement.
00:23:08.000We know what they're willing to do on that front.
00:23:11.000We now see what they're willing to do with the military.
00:23:16.000You see, Democrats view everything that they control as an extension of their long-term power goals.
00:23:25.000Conservatives, to our credit, we tend to be much more fair-minded and skeptical about using power for our own political purposes.
00:23:34.000This is why it's so disappointing to see certain Republicans want to all of a sudden pass massive gun control legislation.
00:23:42.000So the first thing that can be done is we have to get much noisier.
00:23:50.000You see, I got my start in the Tea Party movement.
00:23:53.000I was a sophomore in high school when I started to see inspiring stories of patriotic Americans take to the streets, plan rallies, mobilize pent-up frustration.
00:24:10.000Andrew Breitbart, the great Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, they led a voice to all of this.
00:24:17.000It was a noisy, patriot, focused movement.
00:24:25.000And everything that you're seeing right now, whether you realize it or not, from Marjorie Taylor Greene getting visited by the National Guard members, which, just so you were clear, is so unprecedented and outrageous, it's hard for me to even tell you the significance of that.
00:24:43.000That a congresswoman gets visited by National Guard members for a PR internet stunt.
00:24:53.000If that's not a muscle flex saying, hey, we have the guns and you don't, sit down, obey, and shut up, I don't know what is.
00:25:02.000To Tucker Carlson and the DOD, to the permanent occupation of our capital.
00:25:11.000All of that ties in to a broader goal and objective, which is they learned their lesson from 2010.
00:25:22.000They do not want another Tea Party movement.
00:25:25.000The Democrats plan right now is we're going to have universal vote by mail, register all the prisoners to vote, get everyone on the voter rolls, illegal or not, a ballot, fund it all with the U.S. taxpayer.
00:25:39.000And then we are going to intimidate the entire country through humiliation, through forced obedience, to vote for us.
00:25:48.000And the people that don't, and the people that speak out like Tucker Carlson, like this program right here, we are going to make them miserable in every way possible.
00:26:31.000But when you have the military, you have H.R. 1 being passed, and the best we can do is send out a couple angry tweets, we need to start mass mobilizations, peaceful, of course, to show our disdain and disgust for all of this.
00:26:55.000And one positive amongst this entire trend is what's happening in California.
00:27:03.000More of what's happening in California.
00:27:06.000Governor Gavin Newsom, in one of the most liberal states in the country, the largest state in the country, is likely going to face a recall.
00:27:15.000Over 2 million people have signed the petition.
00:27:20.000He's already saying that white supremacists are behind it and it's a Republican recall.
00:27:24.000He's saying all the things that we would anticipate him to say.
00:27:29.000But God bless the California conservatives, many of whom I know, that are not giving up and they are playing offense against an incumbent Democrat power structure.
00:28:42.000So we could have opened the schools if we just opened the windows last May.
00:28:45.000That's the front page of the New York Times today.
00:28:49.000Not the fact that our capital is under perpetual occupation.
00:28:53.000Could you imagine if Donald Trump called in the national military after the BLM Incorporated insurrection riots that legitimately happened in Portland when he called federal agents into Portland?
00:29:07.000They were called jack-booted thugs and they were told to leave immediately.
00:29:16.000The only difference is that they're the ones on the balcony in the military parade and we're the ones that are afraid in our basements that the military is going to come knocking on the door, intimidate us, and tell us to obey.
00:29:37.000And I can't say this any more clearly.
00:29:40.000If we do not speak out right now, history tells us what comes next is really bad.
00:29:48.000The Democrats have convinced themselves that they're just not on the moral high ground.
00:29:54.000But the use of the United States military, the use of ultimate force, the use of the people that can send tomahawk missiles halfway across the planet, the people that have the keys to the nuclear weapons, the people that have B-52 bombers, the people that have unmanned drone reconnaissance, they're the ones that are now the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party.
00:30:47.000Parents are supposed to lead forth their children.
00:30:51.000Well, as the military is engaging in a psychological operation to tell you to sit down and shut up, the real damage that's happening long term is what's happening with critical race theory in our schools.
00:31:06.000What's happening in the suburbs of Chicago, where I grew up.
00:31:09.000We broke that in Naperville, Illinois, which used to be a Republican collar county, which is now a far left-wing place.
00:31:17.000Naperville School District 203, they brought in a bigot, Dina Simmons, to teach all the white kids in the school district that they're racist just for being white, which is an incredibly racist thing to teach.
00:31:32.000In response to this, Dan Bridges, who is the superintendent of Naperville School District 203, quadrupled down.
00:31:40.000And he says, we will not be intimidated in our school district by parents telling us what to do.
00:31:48.000And he said that we will not tolerate hateful comments and threats.
00:32:24.000Don't use that as a reason not to have a debate or an argument.
00:32:27.000Instead, Dan Bridges basically has said that, who's the head of Naperville Schools, District 203, that critical race theory is going to be the norm of curriculum in the suburbs of Chicago.
00:32:40.000That politics is now going to be all within this teaching of our kids at Naperville North High School and all of the formerly great schools in the suburbs of Chicago.
00:32:51.000Critical race theory is being implemented in every major school system in the country.
00:32:56.000And I understand why parents are not fighting back.
00:33:00.000It goes back to what I talked about all throughout the hour.
00:33:02.000The Democrats are flexing their political muscle.
00:33:07.000They are showing you and telling you in more ways than one, we're in charge, you aren't.
00:33:12.000And if you cross the Rubicon, if you cross the line, we will destroy you.
00:33:30.000This is, we have the tanks, we have the drones, both literally with the U.S. military and figuratively and metaphorically.
00:33:38.000We control what companies can hire your children.
00:33:42.000We control what social media companies you can go on.
00:33:44.000We control what platforms you can consume information.
00:33:47.000And if you cross this line, you might not have a drone that will shoot a missile at you, but you might lose your Facebook page.
00:33:58.000You might not have a member of the U.S. military knock down your door yet, but your child might not get into college.
00:34:09.000And that entire culture of fear, intimidation, the psychology behind it, is what's driving the entire body politic in our country right now.
00:34:19.000The fear of discourse, the fear of dialogue, and they have all of us in a place of submission.
00:34:24.000Let me tell you the greatest compliment and the most depressing compliment I get every day.
00:34:28.000Charlie, thank you for saying what I cannot say.