The Charlie Kirk Show - The One Issue Republicans Must Run On in 2022

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00:00:01.000 Violent crime is on the rise in our country.

00:00:05.000 If Republicans address it, they will win back the House and the Senate.

00:00:08.000 What is driving this?

00:00:11.000 And was this something we did to ourselves or that somebody did to us?

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00:02:12.000 There'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.

00:02:21.000 Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of George Floyd, and it was sparked by protests and yes, gunshots even at George Floyd Memorial Plaza.

00:02:31.000 Let's go to Cut 46.

00:02:33.000 Gunshots rang out at George Floyd Memorial while an ABC News reporter was recording Cut 46.

00:02:39.000 This bill of comprehensive police reform to be just got to be careful here with some gunshots.

00:02:46.000 Excuse us.

00:02:54.000 It sounds like gunshots.

00:02:55.000 I'll never know what this is.

00:02:58.000 These seem to be gunshots.

00:03:00.000 That's not a car backfiring.

00:03:02.000 Now, what better way to honor the legacy, I guess, of George Floyd than going to go do a drive-by shooting.

00:03:12.000 And so a year ago, the incident happened.

00:03:16.000 Derek Chauvin was tried by a jury of his peers.

00:03:20.000 And we'll see if there was a mistrial or not.

00:03:22.000 I think there might be something to that because of the juror who admitted he participated in BLM Incorporated protests.

00:03:32.000 And also, of course, Maxine Waters possibly interfering with the jury deliberations.

00:03:38.000 But 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.

00:04:02.000 Because of that, we are now experiencing a wave of something across the country that we did to ourselves.

00:04:11.000 So there's two different types of problems that you can encounter in government or even in life.

00:04:19.000 There's problems that happen to you, and those are unpredictable.

00:04:24.000 Those are things you must handle.

00:04:27.000 Those are things that can come like a hurricane or a tornado or the Chinese coronavirus.

00:04:32.000 And then it will be a test of your preparedness.

00:04:35.000 It'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.

00:04:47.000 Those are things that happen to you.

00:04:50.000 This, 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.

00:04:59.000 This was self-inflicted.

00:05:02.000 We willfully decided to embrace a wave of crime across America.

00:05:10.000 We have said on this show that the bloody 20s are forthcoming, that this will be the most dangerous and violent decade in American history.

00:05:20.000 Technology plays a role in this.

00:05:22.000 Social isolation plays a role in this.

00:05:24.000 Alienation plays a role in this.

00:05:26.000 And now we are seeing the numbers unfold in a way that show the most dramatic increase in violent crime since 1960.

00:05:39.000 19 children in Minneapolis have been shot this year.

00:05:42.000 19.

00:05:43.000 An increase of 171% over the same time period.

00:05:47.000 So 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?

00:06:10.000 The answer is very obvious.

00:06:11.000 It is more dangerous to live in America because we have decided to embrace a pathological, ideological movement driven by guilt, driven by emotional politics.

00:06:30.000 We're not sure exactly how this is going to end.

00:06:32.000 Minneapolis homicides between January 1st and last week were up 108% compared with the same time period in 2020.

00:06:38.000 Shootings were up 153% and carjackings 222%.

00:06:45.000 Drive-by shootings and homicides have jumped nationwide in almost every single city across the country.

00:06:51.000 Homicides are up 50% in Chicago from last year, 46% in New York City.

00:06:57.000 This is 2020 numbers.

00:06:58.000 And 38% in Los Angeles.

00:07:00.000 The United States saw the largest annual percentage increase in homicides in recorded history in 2020.

00:07:06.000 That increase has continued in 2021.

00:07:10.000 The number of shooting victims in Chicago was up 43% in the first three months of 2021, compared with the same time period in 2020.

00:07:20.000 Through May 16th, the number of shooting victims in New York City is up 78.6% over a year ago.

00:07:25.000 In the Bronx, the number was up 165.7%.

00:07:31.000 In Portland, let's say this again: in Portland, murder rates are up 800%.

00:07:42.000 In Philadelphia, murder rates are up 40%.

00:07:44.000 Minneapolis, up 50%, New York City, up 22%, Chicago, up 22%, Los Angeles, 27%, Washington C. 35%.

00:07:51.000 So the Democrats are doing this to try to force the hand for a national police force.

00:07:58.000 We were one of the first programs, not the first program to say that.

00:08:01.000 It's finally getting out there.

00:08:02.000 I hear more and more people stating the obvious.

00:08:04.000 I wrote a piece for Human Events on this.

00:08:08.000 But 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.

00:08:22.000 This was not something that happened to us.

00:08:24.000 It was not that criminals met and they said, you know what, we're going to go dramatically take back the country.

00:08:28.000 No, we had a system of law and justice.

00:08:32.000 We had a system that worked, and we decided to discard all prudence, all practical wisdom for the sake of progress.

00:08:38.000 And now people are dying as a result of that.

00:08:41.000 So what I've always been very interested in is the politics of crime.

00:08:46.000 The politics of crime is not something that most leaders enjoy talking about.

00:08:53.000 They prefer talking about corporate tax rates, job creation, things that are important.

00:09:01.000 However, 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.

00:09:12.000 I 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.

00:09:21.000 It's only going to take another couple hundred incidents like that where even the most pathological Democrats say, I might be next.

00:09:30.000 And a smart liberal that writes for the New York Times is pulling the fire alarm on this.

00:09:37.000 He understands where this is going.

00:09:39.000 He 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.

00:09:57.000 And real people are dying, and real criminals are now on the loose in ways that are so incomprehensible.

00:10:02.000 We're going to dive into the numbers and the statistics.

00:10:04.000 And how J.B. Pritzker released 4,000 criminals from jail.

00:10:12.000 Why?

00:10:13.000 Racial justice. 0.97

00:10:16.000 I am hope I am overwary, but if I am not, there is even now something of ill omen amongst us. 1.00

00:10:24.000 I mean the increasing disregard for law, which pervades the country.

00:10:29.000 The 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.

00:10:41.000 This 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.

00:11:01.000 Abraham Lincoln before he was president.

00:11:08.000 What's happening now is a wave of violent crime across our country that is completely and totally unprecedented.

00:11:15.000 Ezra Klein, who writes for the New York Times, did a podcast and wrote a piece, Violent Crime is Spiking.

00:11:22.000 Do liberals have an answer?

00:11:25.000 So if Republicans were smart, I'm waiting for them to do this, they would go on offense on the violent crime issue.

00:11:31.000 They want to take back the House.

00:11:32.000 They want to take back the Senate.

00:11:34.000 This is an issue that will transcend all other political issues.

00:11:38.000 People have the Black Lives Matter sign in their yard until their car gets jacked. 0.95

00:11:46.000 Crime is a very interesting thing. 1.00

00:11:48.000 There'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.

00:12:01.000 This is why they were perfectly fine with Mayor Rudy Giuliani cleaning up the streets in New York in the 1990s.

00:12:06.000 That, of course, then gave it back to Democrats.

00:12:08.000 They could destroy it.

00:12:09.000 Now New York City is becoming a third world city.

00:12:12.000 And 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.

00:12:32.000 But for the revolutionaries, that's a great thing.

00:12:35.000 That's the beginning of exciting things to come, of discord, of anarchy.

00:12:40.000 And all of this has a bend to it.

00:12:43.000 And this is something that we must understand.

00:12:45.000 When crime goes up, when uncertainty goes up, it's not just Republicans that can benefit from this.

00:12:53.000 Democrats can benefit from this as well.

00:12:55.000 You see, we as Republicans, we would want to, in a decentralized fair and pursuit of justice, I should say those are conservatives.

00:13:04.000 I don't identify as a Republican, at least whatever that means today.

00:13:07.000 Those of us that love the country, how about that?

00:13:10.000 We want police officers to be empowered.

00:13:14.000 We want district attorneys to act fairly.

00:13:17.000 We want people to be able to go to school and not have the thought or the threat of being murdered and killed.

00:13:26.000 You see, but the Democrats, they see themselves, they have an opportunity to then embrace their inner authoritarian.

00:13:36.000 You see, the chaos they're creating in the streets.

00:13:38.000 For example, just this week in Chicago, nine homicides, 50 total shot, 41 shot and wounded, and nine shot and killed.

00:13:46.000 Just in May in Chicago, 54 shot and killed, 278 shot and wounded, 332 total shot, and 57 homicides.

00:13:53.000 And in Chicago so far this year, 241 shot and killed, 1,138 shot and wounded, 1,379 total shot, and 256 total homicides.

00:14:04.000 And 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.

00:14:23.000 And 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.

00:14:33.000 The 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.

00:14:39.000 We want to go back to a time where you do not have to lock your doors.

00:14:42.000 One of the fastest growing industries in America is private security.

00:14:46.000 Huh.

00:14:47.000 That should make most conservatives say, well, maybe there's something behind that.

00:14:52.000 You 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.

00:15:02.000 So, 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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00:16:23.000 George Floyd's family advocates for legacy.

00:16:26.000 It says relatives press for police reform bill, meet with President Biden. 0.74

00:16:31.000 Well, 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. 0.84

00:16:45.000 George Floyd's legacy will be about confusion. 0.83

00:16:49.000 It'll be about mayhem, and it will be about blood in the streets.

00:16:53.000 That will be George Floyd's legacy.

00:16:57.000 And so, in Chicago, on this very same day of George Floyd's legacy, or they were remembering it, this is what happened.

00:17:06.000 A 28-year-old had just finished changing a friend's flat tire, the 4,700 block of West 64th Street.

00:17:15.000 Stay away from that part of Chicago, but you probably live there.

00:17:19.000 He was helping change a tire.

00:17:22.000 He saw someone that had a flat tire and he started to go change it.

00:17:26.000 This was on Monday evening.

00:17:28.000 And a carjacker came up and shot him in the head in the West Lawn neighborhood on the southwest side.

00:17:37.000 A young man wearing a ski mask and dark clothing came up to the man, and the two started talking.

00:17:42.000 The man in the mask tried to snatch the 28-year-old's keys.

00:17:46.000 Struggle happened between the two of them.

00:17:47.000 The man with the ski mask pulled out his handgun with the 28-year-old knocked him to the ground.

00:17:53.000 The attacker was able to snatch the car keys, and the gun got into the man's blue Nissan Ultima and then shot him.

00:18:01.000 He's still not in custody.

00:18:03.000 The 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.

00:18:10.000 He's still at large.

00:18:11.000 We'll see if we find them.

00:18:13.000 Evidence 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.

00:18:21.000 So 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.

00:18:27.000 I want to thank Joe, who emailed us the story freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:18:31.000 Laurie Lightfoot, totally silent on this, because this is just, this is perfectly acceptable.

00:18:37.000 But 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.

00:18:46.000 We are seeing story after story after story.

00:18:50.000 Madeline emailed us freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:18:52.000 Charlie, the stats you read today are horrifying.

00:18:54.000 Are the numbers in direct correlation with Democrat-run cities?

00:18:57.000 Of course they are.

00:18:59.000 St. Louis crime is up.

00:19:00.000 Chicago crime is up.

00:19:01.000 Milwaukee crime is up.

00:19:02.000 Detroit crime is up.

00:19:03.000 Minneapolis crime is up.

00:19:04.000 San Francisco crime is up.

00:19:05.000 Los Angeles crime is up.

00:19:06.000 DC crime is up.

00:19:07.000 Portland crime is up.

00:19:08.000 Seattle crime is up.

00:19:09.000 New York crime is up.

00:19:10.000 So the question is: why was crime manageable?

00:19:12.000 Why was violent crime manageable?

00:19:14.000 Well, because in the 1990s, there was a massive push towards neoliberalism on trade and on economics and on immigration and foreign policy.

00:19:24.000 But 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.

00:19:39.000 That 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.

00:19:45.000 And 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.

00:19:58.000 You very well might get confronted or you might get mugged.

00:20:02.000 That's in Manhattan.

00:20:04.000 There was a time when New York was anything but a safe city.

00:20:08.000 New 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.

00:20:22.000 All that stuff flows downstream from there.

00:20:24.000 If there was ever a role for government, it is to keep the streets safe.

00:20:28.000 It's not to redistribute tax policy.

00:20:32.000 It's not to remove fossil fuels from the world.

00:20:35.000 You must start with the proper role of government.

00:20:39.000 And 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?

00:20:55.000 So, this is why you're seeing property values go down in New York City.

00:20:58.000 It's why you see people flee.

00:21:00.000 And yet, the ideologues have taken over because they need to use racial politics as a reason to justify their power grab.

00:21:06.000 This is not just some radicals at a university.

00:21:10.000 I spoke to Harvard University this morning on a Zoom call.

00:21:14.000 It was a great call, actually.

00:21:16.000 Really thoughtful questions.

00:21:17.000 And it was by the Free Enterprise Club.

00:21:18.000 We talked about the future of the conservative movement and kind of some things that I think conservatives can do a lot better.

00:21:24.000 Super, I mean, obviously, they're really smart.

00:21:26.000 And one of the things that they told me is that the woke people have totally taken over Harvard, even Harvard Business School.

00:21:34.000 That 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.

00:21:45.000 But it's more than that. 0.51

00:21:47.000 So, 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. 0.55

00:22:15.000 Let's play Cut 40.

00:22:18.000 And then I want to play the new video from the State Department on the anniversary.

00:22:21.000 It might be the same cut.

00:22:22.000 Let's play Cut 40.

00:22:24.000 For 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.

00:22:31.000 We can't sweep our shortcomings under the rug or pretend they don't exist.

00:22:36.000 We need to face them openly and honestly, even if that's ugly, even if that's painful.

00:22:43.000 That's how we live up to our values and how we're able to effectively stand up for them worldwide.

00:22:49.000 Today and always, let's commit to accountability, healing, and doing the concrete work of advancing equity and justice for all.

00:23:02.000 And 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.

00:23:20.000 And 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.

00:23:29.000 That'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.

00:23:39.000 Yeah, they're probably laughing at us.

00:23:41.000 But 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?

00:23:54.000 They're scared.

00:23:56.000 The rest of the world gets scared when they see America become weak.

00:24:02.000 They know what that really means. 0.92

00:24:05.000 That Black Lives Matter flag being flown at that embassy for most of the rest of the world is a fire alarm. 0.87

00:24:14.000 It's a distress signal saying, oh boy, America has been taken over by something we don't recognize. 0.90

00:24:20.000 The America that we admired, the beacon of freedom for the planet, has now become a cesspool and a hotbed for racial identity politics.

00:24:36.000 So 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.

00:24:48.000 So 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.

00:25:00.000 And how this is even legal, I don't know. 0.99

00:25:03.000 It's directly correlated with more black people being killed in our country. 0.80

00:25:06.000 It's a highly politicized movement. 0.95

00:25:08.000 But anyway, what it's really saying to the rest of the world is we value destroying ourselves than preserving our republic.

00:25:18.000 And so the only way this is going to reverse itself, and I'm starting to see actual positive trend and trends.

00:25:24.000 We had a great conversation with Christopher Ruffo on our podcast.

00:25:28.000 I encourage you to check out.

00:25:29.000 We just had a great conversation with Jason Riley, who talks about a new book with Thomas Soule.

00:25:33.000 I do see some positive trends.

00:25:35.000 I see parents standing up against critical race theory.

00:25:37.000 I see school boards actually backing down.

00:25:39.000 I'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.

00:25:47.000 I think those are the two most important fights right now.

00:25:51.000 And 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.

00:26:02.000 Because as long as the ideologues are governing, crime knows no boundaries.

00:26:07.000 And the worst thing you can do is embolden criminals.

00:26:09.000 Once they think they can smash a window and steal a car, they will murder your child.

00:26:13.000 It's that simple.

00:26:15.000 And 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?

00:26:29.000 The 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.

00:26:38.000 That's where tyranny presents itself.

00:26:40.000 We call that chaos or mayhem, uncertainty, upheaval.

00:26:45.000 Now, why does that matter?

00:26:47.000 Because 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.

00:26:57.000 It's probably an important critical component of living.

00:27:00.000 This is why Montana's population is going up and New York's population is going down.

00:27:06.000 People are voting with their feet.

00:27:08.000 But if we do not clean up our streets, what's going to come next is an authoritarian power grab that none of us want to live through.

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00:28:20.000 I love when people push back against bigotry and hatred, which is also known as critical race theory.

00:28:26.000 I want to thank and applaud.

00:28:28.000 And if you live in the great state of Tennessee, please go to the governor's website and say thank you.

00:28:34.000 And say thank you to all of the state legislatures and all the state senators that were behind this.

00:28:40.000 Governor Bill Lee, just right now, actually it's on Monday.

00:28:43.000 I just got news of it, signed a law prohibiting public schools from teaching critical race theory in the volunteer city.

00:28:50.000 Thank you, Governor Bill Lee.

00:28:51.000 Thank you.

00:28:53.000 You deserve credit and you deserve support for this.

00:28:58.000 Thank you.

00:29:00.000 Also, there is some school board drama happening in Arizona.

00:29:06.000 I'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.

00:29:12.000 I 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.

00:29:21.000 And we said, we're going to bring all these people.

00:29:23.000 And then they cancel the meeting for safety concerns. 0.93

00:29:27.000 Cowards, all of it. 0.90

00:29:28.000 I'm not going to let them go. 0.97

00:29:29.000 I'm telling you, I actually am a, let's just say I pay property tax in Scottsdale.

00:29:35.000 I have a place in Scottsdale.

00:29:36.000 We have our office in Phoenix.

00:29:37.000 I'm not going to let this go.

00:29:38.000 For all the Scottsdale board meeters, I'm going to follow you guys.

00:29:41.000 Now, obviously, we're going to do everything the right way, but you guys can only go virtual for so long.

00:29:46.000 Eventually, you're going to have to face real human beings.

00:29:50.000 And I'll be right there waiting with a big smile and a lot of people.

00:29:54.000 Here's the way that all of us have to handle the school board drama across the country.

00:29:58.000 And by the way, it's directly correlated with crime. 0.93

00:30:01.000 These 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. 0.97

00:30:16.000 They need to be called out. 0.98

00:30:18.000 You do so respectfully.

00:30:19.000 You do so with charm and good cheer, being happy warriors.

00:30:25.000 But we did a whole segment on Scottsdale recently.

00:30:29.000 And they just happened to, because we said something, they're going virtual or we can't have the meeting because of safety concerns.

00:30:35.000 I'm sorry, what?

00:30:36.000 You work for us, okay?

00:30:38.000 You're an employee of the taxpayers of Scottsdale Unified School District.

00:30:42.000 And 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.

00:30:54.000 Be relentless, everybody.

00:30:56.000 Whether 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.

00:31:05.000 Tonight, I'm going up to Banger, Maine.

00:31:07.000 You ever been to Banger, Maine?

00:31:08.000 It's awesome, Lumberjack country.

00:31:10.000 I'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.

00:31:18.000 That takes courage.

00:31:19.000 I want to go support him in that fight.

00:31:22.000 And so all of us here that feel like we're losing our country, we're going to, I'm going to say what I say quite often.

00:31:28.000 This is a call to action.

00:31:30.000 This is not just where we talk about everything wrong.

00:31:32.000 Oh, violent crime is increasing.

00:31:33.000 Things are, let's do something about it.

00:31:35.000 Now, as far as the violent crime thing, how about this?

00:31:37.000 Don't elect sociopaths, ideologues, or narcissists to city boards or school boards.

00:31:43.000 Pretty simple.

00:31:44.000 We know how to handle crime in this country.

00:31:46.000 We 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. 0.97

00:32:00.000 We shouldn't have this immigration policy. 0.74

00:32:01.000 We should have made stuff in our country.

00:32:03.000 We should have represented the muscular class.

00:32:05.000 The 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.

00:32:14.000 And now we've decided the one thing we did well is, you know what? 0.99

00:32:17.000 Why don't we have a little bit of El Salvador in our country? 1.00

00:32:21.000 Bad idea. 0.99

00:32:22.000 If 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.

00:32:38.000 So it's time for us to do something about this.

00:32:43.000 No more ideologues.

00:32:45.000 No more distant out theories.

00:32:47.000 Very simple.

00:32:48.000 Are you going to make it safer or more dangerous in the place where I live?

00:32:52.000 And if Republicans are serious about winning back the House of Representatives, I'm asking you guys, stop talking about trillion-dollar infrastructure bills.

00:32:59.000 Stop talking about corporate tax rates.

00:33:00.000 Stop talking about spend and borrow.

00:33:02.000 Be very simple.

00:33:04.000 We're going to restore peace to the streets.

00:33:06.000 Vote for me.

00:33:09.000 Thanks so much, everybody, for listening.

00:33:11.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:13.000 I love hearing from you.

00:33:14.000 And if you want to support us, go to charliekirk.com slash support.

00:33:18.000 God bless you guys.

00:33:19.000 Speak to you soon.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - May 26, 2021

The One Issue Republicans Must Run On in 2022

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