00:00:11.000And was this something we did to ourselves or that somebody did to us?
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00:02:12.000There's a lot of different stories I want to get to, but the one that I want to lead off with, which I think is the most obvious issue that was so preventable.
00:02:21.000Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of George Floyd, and it was sparked by protests and yes, gunshots even at George Floyd Memorial Plaza.
00:03:02.000Now, what better way to honor the legacy, I guess, of George Floyd than going to go do a drive-by shooting.
00:03:12.000And so a year ago, the incident happened.
00:03:16.000Derek Chauvin was tried by a jury of his peers.
00:03:20.000And we'll see if there was a mistrial or not.
00:03:22.000I think there might be something to that because of the juror who admitted he participated in BLM Incorporated protests.
00:03:32.000And also, of course, Maxine Waters possibly interfering with the jury deliberations.
00:03:38.000But what we're experiencing now all across the country because of that singular incident, because George Floyd, who was high on drugs, was trading counterfeit currency, and Derek Chauvin did what he did because of that incident that was a lot more complicated and nuanced than anyone in the smear merchant media ever would allow us to believe.
00:04:02.000Because of that, we are now experiencing a wave of something across the country that we did to ourselves.
00:04:11.000So there's two different types of problems that you can encounter in government or even in life.
00:04:19.000There's problems that happen to you, and those are unpredictable.
00:04:27.000Those are things that can come like a hurricane or a tornado or the Chinese coronavirus.
00:04:32.000And then it will be a test of your preparedness.
00:04:35.000It'll be a test of whether or not you built a structure worthy to withstand high velocity winds, whether you have personal protection equipment or you have a self-sufficient manufacturing base.
00:04:50.000This, what's happening right now all across the country is unlike any other issue regarding things happening to us, because this is something we did to ourselves.
00:05:02.000We willfully decided to embrace a wave of crime across America.
00:05:10.000We have said on this show that the bloody 20s are forthcoming, that this will be the most dangerous and violent decade in American history.
00:05:43.000An increase of 171% over the same time period.
00:05:47.000So while Nancy Pelosi thanks George Floyd for dying, thanks him for dying, as being a martyr, as being a gateway for power for the left, the very obvious question is: are black people, are Hispanics, or anyone in the country, is it more safe or less safe to live in America because of George Floyd and the reaction of George Floyd?
00:06:11.000It is more dangerous to live in America because we have decided to embrace a pathological, ideological movement driven by guilt, driven by emotional politics.
00:06:30.000We're not sure exactly how this is going to end.
00:06:32.000Minneapolis homicides between January 1st and last week were up 108% compared with the same time period in 2020.
00:06:38.000Shootings were up 153% and carjackings 222%.
00:06:45.000Drive-by shootings and homicides have jumped nationwide in almost every single city across the country.
00:06:51.000Homicides are up 50% in Chicago from last year, 46% in New York City.
00:08:02.000I hear more and more people stating the obvious.
00:08:04.000I wrote a piece for Human Events on this.
00:08:08.000But what's so fascinating to me, and which no one on television really has this discussion because everyone is just saying the same thing back and forth with each other in these short soundbites, is we did this to ourselves.
00:08:22.000This was not something that happened to us.
00:08:24.000It was not that criminals met and they said, you know what, we're going to go dramatically take back the country.
00:08:28.000No, we had a system of law and justice.
00:08:32.000We had a system that worked, and we decided to discard all prudence, all practical wisdom for the sake of progress.
00:08:38.000And now people are dying as a result of that.
00:08:41.000So what I've always been very interested in is the politics of crime.
00:08:46.000The politics of crime is not something that most leaders enjoy talking about.
00:08:53.000They prefer talking about corporate tax rates, job creation, things that are important.
00:09:01.000However, you're able to talk about job creation and entrepreneurship and all these other issues if you're not worried about your child getting raped or murdered on their way to school in New York City.
00:09:12.000I know someone who's an 11-year-old was held up in the Tribeca neighborhood at knife point in broad daylight, 11-year-old, and they stole a cell phone.
00:09:21.000It's only going to take another couple hundred incidents like that where even the most pathological Democrats say, I might be next.
00:09:30.000And a smart liberal that writes for the New York Times is pulling the fire alarm on this.
00:09:39.000He knows that because the Democrats have decided to be governed by a bunch of college professors that have never done anything meaningful in their life, that the consequence of that is all of a sudden we have now created America into this abstraction experiment.
00:09:57.000And real people are dying, and real criminals are now on the loose in ways that are so incomprehensible.
00:10:02.000We're going to dive into the numbers and the statistics.
00:10:04.000And how J.B. Pritzker released 4,000 criminals from jail.
00:10:16.000I am hope I am overwary, but if I am not, there is even now something of ill omen amongst us.
00:10:24.000I mean the increasing disregard for law, which pervades the country.
00:10:29.000The growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions in lieu of sober judgment of courts, and the worse than savage mobs for the executive ministers of justice.
00:10:41.000This disposition is awfully fearful in any community, and that it now exists in ours through grading to our feelings to admit it would be a violation of truth and an insult to our intelligence to deny accounts of outrages committed by mobs that form the everyday news of the times.
00:11:01.000Abraham Lincoln before he was president.
00:11:08.000What's happening now is a wave of violent crime across our country that is completely and totally unprecedented.
00:11:15.000Ezra Klein, who writes for the New York Times, did a podcast and wrote a piece, Violent Crime is Spiking.
00:11:48.000There's been a phenomenal, there's actually a lot of very meaningful scholarship done on this topic when liberals actually used to care about safe streets and the betterment of the country.
00:12:01.000This is why they were perfectly fine with Mayor Rudy Giuliani cleaning up the streets in New York in the 1990s.
00:12:06.000That, of course, then gave it back to Democrats.
00:12:09.000Now New York City is becoming a third world city.
00:12:12.000And this goes back to this broader problem of what's happening in America, which is, are you going to resort towards ideology and pander to ideologues or just look empirically in the world around you and say, huh, that's not a good thing when we now have an 800% increase in murder rates in Portland.
00:12:32.000But for the revolutionaries, that's a great thing.
00:12:35.000That's the beginning of exciting things to come, of discord, of anarchy.
00:12:43.000And this is something that we must understand.
00:12:45.000When crime goes up, when uncertainty goes up, it's not just Republicans that can benefit from this.
00:12:53.000Democrats can benefit from this as well.
00:12:55.000You see, we as Republicans, we would want to, in a decentralized fair and pursuit of justice, I should say those are conservatives.
00:13:04.000I don't identify as a Republican, at least whatever that means today.
00:13:07.000Those of us that love the country, how about that?
00:13:10.000We want police officers to be empowered.
00:13:14.000We want district attorneys to act fairly.
00:13:17.000We want people to be able to go to school and not have the thought or the threat of being murdered and killed.
00:13:26.000You see, but the Democrats, they see themselves, they have an opportunity to then embrace their inner authoritarian.
00:13:36.000You see, the chaos they're creating in the streets.
00:13:38.000For example, just this week in Chicago, nine homicides, 50 total shot, 41 shot and wounded, and nine shot and killed.
00:13:46.000Just in May in Chicago, 54 shot and killed, 278 shot and wounded, 332 total shot, and 57 homicides.
00:13:53.000And in Chicago so far this year, 241 shot and killed, 1,138 shot and wounded, 1,379 total shot, and 256 total homicides.
00:14:04.000And so the Democrats are, of course, ignoring what's happening in Chicago because they're either friends with the gang leaders or they have some sort of unspoken agreement or some sort of non-public agreement, I should say, and Lori Lightfoot is more worried about the type of journalist that is interviewing her, whether or not they are white or black, instead of actual decency and peace on the streets.
00:14:23.000And Republicans, instead of pandering to an ever unpopular corporate agenda of saying, oh, we need to go cut corporate tax rates, they should be very clear.
00:14:33.000The one thing Republicans can say that will resonate with people is, we want to create an America where you don't have to lock your doors.
00:14:39.000We want to go back to a time where you do not have to lock your doors.
00:14:42.000One of the fastest growing industries in America is private security.
00:14:47.000That should make most conservatives say, well, maybe there's something behind that.
00:14:52.000You see, as soon as you get held up at gunpoint or your daughter gets mugged, all of a sudden all your ideology disappears and you care about what's present in front of you.
00:15:02.000So, if conservatives are serious about winning back power and earning power from the people, also reforming our elections, talking about things that actually matter that are outside of the clouds and the abstractions, is a way to actually do that.
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00:16:23.000George Floyd's family advocates for legacy.
00:16:26.000It says relatives press for police reform bill, meet with President Biden.
00:16:31.000Well, George Floyd's legacy will always not be about any sort of racial justice, it will be about massively increasing crime, more black people being killed, discord, chaos, disunity, disharmony.
00:16:45.000George Floyd's legacy will be about confusion.
00:16:49.000It'll be about mayhem, and it will be about blood in the streets.
00:18:03.000The 28-year-old, who was trying to do the right thing, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oaklawn, where he's in critical condition.
00:18:13.000Evidence personnel also spent time talking to a woman and her children who were at the scene, giving one of the children several bottles of Gatorade.
00:18:21.000So here's a man who tried to do the right thing, tried to be a good neighbor, gets shot in the head in the southwest side of Chicago.
00:18:27.000I want to thank Joe, who emailed us the story freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:18:31.000Laurie Lightfoot, totally silent on this, because this is just, this is perfectly acceptable.
00:18:37.000But if a police officer dare does something that they minorly don't like in a high-pressure situation, they're going to revolutionize the entire country.
00:18:46.000We are seeing story after story after story.
00:18:50.000Madeline emailed us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:18:52.000Charlie, the stats you read today are horrifying.
00:18:54.000Are the numbers in direct correlation with Democrat-run cities?
00:19:14.000Well, because in the 1990s, there was a massive push towards neoliberalism on trade and on economics and on immigration and foreign policy.
00:19:24.000But the one thing that I have to say that we got right in the 1990s, again, I have a whole thesis I've been building out of how we got things wrong in the 1990s was that we were really tough on crime in the 1990s.
00:19:39.000That when I grew up and I visited New York City, I walked the streets with my father and I wasn't worried about getting mugged.
00:19:45.000And now my good friend who runs King Church in New York City, Pastor David Engelhardt, who lives in the Wall Street area, kind of southern tip of Manhattan, says that you cannot go out past 10 p.m.
00:19:58.000You very well might get confronted or you might get mugged.
00:20:04.000There was a time when New York was anything but a safe city.
00:20:08.000New York became the center of the world when people like Rudy Giuliani, and yes, even moderate Democrat at the time, but super tough on crime, Michael Bloomberg, said that if the streets are not safe, if people do not feel safe walking the streets, then you cannot have commerce.
00:20:22.000All that stuff flows downstream from there.
00:20:24.000If there was ever a role for government, it is to keep the streets safe.
00:20:32.000It's not to remove fossil fuels from the world.
00:20:35.000You must start with the proper role of government.
00:20:39.000And this is perfectly harmonic with what the founding fathers believed: that if you do not have a government that can intercede and convict criminals and enforce the law and protect natural rights, then what good is government?
00:20:55.000So, this is why you're seeing property values go down in New York City.
00:21:17.000And it was by the Free Enterprise Club.
00:21:18.000We talked about the future of the conservative movement and kind of some things that I think conservatives can do a lot better.
00:21:24.000Super, I mean, obviously, they're really smart.
00:21:26.000And one of the things that they told me is that the woke people have totally taken over Harvard, even Harvard Business School.
00:21:34.000That the critical race theory, these ideas that are a deep cancer and a virus, dare I say, against our values, have completely infiltrated Harvard University.
00:21:47.000So, yesterday, the State Department of the United States, instead of worrying about the rising threat of Iran, instead of holding China in check, the State Department, which is about representing our nation abroad, they decided at every single embassy, I know every single embassy, but almost every single embassy across the world that they were going to fly Black Lives Matter flags.
00:22:24.000For the United States to be a credible force for human rights around the world, we have to face the realities of racism and hatred here at home.
00:22:31.000We can't sweep our shortcomings under the rug or pretend they don't exist.
00:22:36.000We need to face them openly and honestly, even if that's ugly, even if that's painful.
00:22:43.000That's how we live up to our values and how we're able to effectively stand up for them worldwide.
00:22:49.000Today and always, let's commit to accountability, healing, and doing the concrete work of advancing equity and justice for all.
00:23:02.000And so that is Secretary of State Tony Blinken on the anniversary of George Floyd's death, saying that basically America is racist, and they flew these Black Lives Matter flags on embassies across the country.
00:23:20.000And so there's a phrase that we say, and I actually want to push back this a little bit, that they're laughing at us.
00:23:29.000That's somewhat true, that these other countries are laughing at us, that they're laughing at us when we flew the Black Lives Matter flag in Sarajevo.
00:23:39.000Yeah, they're probably laughing at us.
00:23:41.000But do you know what else is happening when in Belgrade or Minsk or in any place we have a diplomatic operation, they see the Black Lives Matter flag?
00:24:05.000That Black Lives Matter flag being flown at that embassy for most of the rest of the world is a fire alarm.
00:24:14.000It's a distress signal saying, oh boy, America has been taken over by something we don't recognize.
00:24:20.000The America that we admired, the beacon of freedom for the planet, has now become a cesspool and a hotbed for racial identity politics.
00:24:36.000So some are laughing at us totally, but then they turn to themselves and they say, oh boy, this world is about to get a lot more chaotic.
00:24:48.000So they're not just laughing at us, which of course there are plenty of people who are that we fly these ridiculous Black Lives Matter flags outside of our embassies as if this is some sort of core value that you must say the incantation.
00:25:00.000And how this is even legal, I don't know.
00:25:03.000It's directly correlated with more black people being killed in our country.
00:25:35.000I see parents standing up against critical race theory.
00:25:37.000I see school boards actually backing down.
00:25:39.000I'm starting to see a renewed sense of activism where I think that the front lines to save our republic are in school boards and audit rooms.
00:25:47.000I think those are the two most important fights right now.
00:25:51.000And so as we try to wrestle with this wave of violent crime, and it is coming to a city and a neighborhood near you, it's coming to suburbs, by the way.
00:26:02.000Because as long as the ideologues are governing, crime knows no boundaries.
00:26:07.000And the worst thing you can do is embolden criminals.
00:26:09.000Once they think they can smash a window and steal a car, they will murder your child.
00:26:15.000And as soon as you move those moral relativism, and we have these videos out of St. Louis of these hooligans and these thugs celebrating and dancing on police cars on Monday, where do you think that goes?
00:26:29.000The true mark of tyranny is when you do not know the place you live in, the state of being, the state of condition, I should say, one day from the other.
00:26:47.000Because in order to live quiet and peaceable lives, in order to live productive lives, you need to know that the street you're going to drive to work on is not going to get shot up by some gangbanger.
00:26:57.000It's probably an important critical component of living.
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00:29:00.000Also, there is some school board drama happening in Arizona.
00:29:06.000I'm not going to say it right now because my team wants me to be more methodical in how we're going to do this.
00:29:12.000I want to tell you that what's happening in Scottsdale, of which I pay property taxes in Scottsdale, I publicize, I'm going to show up to the Scottsdale meeting.
00:29:21.000And we said, we're going to bring all these people.
00:29:23.000And then they cancel the meeting for safety concerns.
00:29:38.000For all the Scottsdale board meeters, I'm going to follow you guys.
00:29:41.000Now, obviously, we're going to do everything the right way, but you guys can only go virtual for so long.
00:29:46.000Eventually, you're going to have to face real human beings.
00:29:50.000And I'll be right there waiting with a big smile and a lot of people.
00:29:54.000Here's the way that all of us have to handle the school board drama across the country.
00:29:58.000And by the way, it's directly correlated with crime.
00:30:01.000These apparatchiks that are teaching your children and the useless cowards that sit on these school boards that are pushing forward critical race theory and doing nothing meaningful, they need to be challenged.
00:30:38.000You're an employee of the taxpayers of Scottsdale Unified School District.
00:30:42.000And so if you're teaching critical race theory or making children wear masks or forcing vaccinations or still have school closings or have these ridiculous measures as if you're not bringing schools back to where they should be, then you should have to answer questions.
00:30:56.000Whether you're listening in Riverside, California, WABC, what makes this program different than the other radio programs and other podcast programs is that we are in the arena here.
00:31:05.000Tonight, I'm going up to Banger, Maine.
00:31:10.000I'm going to Banger, Maine, because I want to stand with Pastor Ken Graves, who is suing the state of Maine, and his case is probably going to the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:31:44.000We know how to handle crime in this country.
00:31:46.000We actually, that's one of the few things that I could say that we were doing well, which is, I kind of have this broad overarching indictment of modernity post 2000 of, oh, we shouldn't have declared this war.
00:32:00.000We shouldn't have this immigration policy.
00:32:01.000We should have made stuff in our country.
00:32:03.000We should have represented the muscular class.
00:32:05.000The one thing I will say that we actually did rather well is we didn't allow thugs and gangbangers to run our streets in most parts of the country.
00:32:14.000And now we've decided the one thing we did well is, you know what?
00:32:17.000Why don't we have a little bit of El Salvador in our country?
00:32:22.000If you do not have predictability and permanence in the state of living of which you're trying to have children, go to church and build a decent society, then everything then becomes an abstraction.
00:32:38.000So it's time for us to do something about this.
00:32:48.000Are you going to make it safer or more dangerous in the place where I live?
00:32:52.000And if Republicans are serious about winning back the House of Representatives, I'm asking you guys, stop talking about trillion-dollar infrastructure bills.
00:32:59.000Stop talking about corporate tax rates.