The Charlie Kirk Show - The Ruling Class Is Demoralized

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00:00:00.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, the ruling class is demoralized.

00:00:05.000 And what does it mean to be anti-fragile?

00:00:08.000 Write that word down, anti-fragile.

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00:00:33.000 Not because the country is going in the good direction.

00:00:35.000 It's actually falling apart.

00:00:36.000 But no, the conservative movement is becoming not tougher, not resilient, but anti-fragile.

00:00:44.000 What does that word mean?

00:00:46.000 Where did it come from?

00:00:47.000 It's very important.

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00:03:20.000 Is the ruling class getting demoralized?

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00:04:23.000 I want to lead with something that I think is an overarching theme, and it's some good news, everybody.

00:04:30.000 And if you're like me, you could use some good news right now, which is the ruling class is getting demoralized.

00:04:39.000 They thought the implementation of Biden, let me say that again, not the election, but the implementation, it was the most interfered with election in American history.

00:04:49.000 $400 million from Mark Zuckerberg from the Center for Technology and Civic Life.

00:04:55.000 The interference from big media and tech companies into our last election.

00:05:02.000 Biden was implemented.

00:05:05.000 They also thought that their posture and the authoritarian turn post-January 6 would result in conservatives and just regular Americans backing down.

00:05:18.000 They thought that we would be giving up, that we would be suing for peace.

00:05:22.000 Instead, conservatives have more energy, more activism, more resolve than ever before.

00:05:32.000 You see, the leaders of this slow-motion revolution that we are living through envisioned a much different state of affairs.

00:05:41.000 They envisioned conservatives not showing up to school board meetings in massive numbers, but instead trying to do some soul searching and looking for Liz Cheney or Mitt Romney to lead our party.

00:05:54.000 They envisioned conservatives doing what we did after John McCain lost in 2008, which was let's go to the middle.

00:06:02.000 Let's try to become more moderate.

00:06:03.000 Now, there was a temporary moment when the Tea Party rose up, but the Tea Party was squashed by both establishment Republicans and the media in a variety of different ways.

00:06:15.000 You see, the ruling class right now, they are losing faith in their own project.

00:06:22.000 The ruling class is realizing that this is not like storming the Bastille.

00:06:27.000 You have to keep on winning elections.

00:06:28.000 You have to keep on persuading people.

00:06:32.000 Remember, the United States Constitution spreads power over space and time.

00:06:39.000 It's over a lot of different states.

00:06:41.000 You have to win a lot of elections in a lot of different places and convince a lot of different people to give you power.

00:06:47.000 It's number one, over space.

00:06:49.000 And then over time, you have to win a lot of elections over many years, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten years to keep that hold on power.

00:07:02.000 The ruling class hated Donald Trump so much, they said, we're going to cut corners, engage in shenanigans, and we'll figure out the rest once we get power.

00:07:12.000 And almost every single goal that the Democrats have had legislatively has been put into jeopardy.

00:07:19.000 The $4.7 trillion spending package, in jeopardy.

00:07:23.000 The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, in jeopardy.

00:07:28.000 In actual total freefall.

00:07:30.000 The border is wide open.

00:07:31.000 Supply chain issues are disrupting buying basic products here in our country.

00:07:37.000 Afghanistan, a total humiliation and disaster, giving $87 billion to the Taliban. 0.99

00:07:44.000 And so the people in charge are starting to say this out loud in two ways.

00:07:48.000 The people in charge are saying this out loud by repeating the incantation of Trump hatred or getting out of the equation altogether.

00:07:56.000 So, the first is, let's start getting out of the equation altogether.

00:08:00.000 Do you notice how many people are resigning and backing away?

00:08:04.000 Francis Collins, head of NIH, NIH, right?

00:08:07.000 Head of NIH, resigning.

00:08:09.000 He wants nothing to do with this anymore.

00:08:11.000 He's done.

00:08:13.000 Jon Stewart has come out, the comedian, who actually was once funny, and he said Donald Trump could easily win in 2024.

00:08:22.000 If you just type into Google, which I don't encourage you to use Google, but it's interesting to see kind of what they're prioritizing.

00:08:28.000 Type Trump threat to democracy.

00:08:32.000 There are dozens of new articles just in the last couple of days.

00:08:36.000 I'll read from The Guardian: a xenophobic autocrat, Adam Schiff, on Trump's threat to democracy.

00:08:42.000 Washington Post, a stunning report reveals Trump's threat to democracy.

00:08:47.000 TheHill.com Press, where's Merrick Garland when we need him?

00:08:50.000 On Trump's threat to democracy.

00:08:53.000 Newsweek, Trump's second term would be an existential threat to democracy.

00:08:57.000 Opinion from Madison.com: Two ideas to combat Donald Trump's existential threat to democracy.

00:09:04.000 You think they got the memo?

00:09:06.000 CNN, Trump's appeasers only make his assault on democracy worse.

00:09:10.000 Let's go to the second page.

00:09:12.000 New bombshells show that Trump's coup was real and the threat to democracy hasn't passed.

00:09:18.000 Politico, what if 2020 was just a rehearsal on the threat to democracy?

00:09:23.000 You see, they're now repeating this incantation: Trump threat to democracy, Trump threat to democracy.

00:09:29.000 The only way they can try to rebound their total failure of managing the country.

00:09:35.000 But the resignations are mounting, and you're going to see more and more congressional resignations soon of House members that want nothing to do with the impending collapse of the Democrat Party.

00:09:47.000 And I know things feel like they are falling apart because they are.

00:09:51.000 The country's in bad shape right now.

00:09:53.000 I do not sugarcoat it.

00:09:56.000 We got plenty of bad news to go through today.

00:09:58.000 Some good things that are happening, some pushing back.

00:10:01.000 I don't even want to call it bad news.

00:10:02.000 It's honest news.

00:10:03.000 We say it as it is.

00:10:06.000 But the people in charge, the multi-billionaire trans-continental elites, they're asking themselves, why aren't these people giving up?

00:10:18.000 Why haven't they surrendered?

00:10:20.000 Because they're dealing with a different type of conservative, everybody.

00:10:25.000 They're dealing with a type of conservative that went back to work after things looked really dim and grim.

00:10:31.000 They're dealing with a type of conservative that keeps the drumbeat going, that continues to organize.

00:10:38.000 They're dealing with a conservative movement that is not intimidated by Merrick Garland marching in, the Praetorian Guard from the Department of Justice.

00:10:45.000 And by the way, notice how I've opened up this hour.

00:10:49.000 I said the ruling class is getting demoralized, not just Democrats.

00:10:54.000 Do you notice Rhino Republicans are resigning too? 0.98

00:10:57.000 Do you notice that the moderate Republicans are giving up?

00:11:01.000 Front page of political playbook yesterday: Democrats warned that the president's decline is alarming.

00:11:07.000 In a focus group last week, Pennsylvania Democrats, one after the other, articulated the issue vexing top White House aides, party operatives in Virginia, and voters in Georgia.

00:11:16.000 Why isn't President Joe Biden's diminished job rating rebounding?

00:11:20.000 All nine participants from Tuesday's session gave the similar answer, C-minus grades for Joe Biden or lower.

00:11:26.000 And their answers circle back to a similar point.

00:11:28.000 The pandemic and many ways it continues to hinder normal life is souring their views of Biden.

00:11:34.000 That would be one of many complaints that I would give.

00:11:37.000 Let me be very clear.

00:11:40.000 But I think that the overarching theme, the private conversations that are now happening between the $100 billion Individuals, the elite ruling class, the people running the media, the people running CNN, the people running Pfizer, the people running AstraZeneca, is this.

00:11:58.000 What do we have to do to make these people go away?

00:12:02.000 And they're realizing we're not going to go away.

00:12:05.000 We're growing.

00:12:06.000 Our arguments are getting better.

00:12:08.000 We're becoming more convincing.

00:12:10.000 We're fielding better candidates.

00:12:13.000 And in fact, the conservative movement is tougher and more anti-fragile than ever before.

00:12:19.000 And I want you to write down that term, anti-fragile, because we're going to talk about what that means.

00:12:24.000 Because as the conservative movement is anti-fragile, we are going to win.

00:12:29.000 Probably haven't heard that term on radio.

00:12:31.000 It's a great book by Nassim Taleb.

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00:13:44.000 Some things benefit from shocks.

00:13:47.000 They thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors.

00:13:54.000 And love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.

00:13:57.000 Yet, in spite of the ubiquity of this phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile.

00:14:05.000 Let us call it anti-fragile.

00:14:08.000 Anti-fragility is beyond resilience or robustness.

00:14:12.000 The resilient resists shock and stays the same.

00:14:15.000 The anti-fragile gets better.

00:14:19.000 That is where the conservative movement is.

00:14:22.000 Nassim Taleb wrote one of the most phenomenal books ever written.

00:14:25.000 I encourage it.

00:14:26.000 It's called Anti-Fragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.

00:14:31.000 He also wrote The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness.

00:14:35.000 Black Swan is a phenomenal book, and it is, that phrase is overused.

00:14:39.000 Happy to do a whole podcast and radio show on why I think that phrase is overused.

00:14:43.000 Where I think you could make an argument that Donald Trump was a black swan event in 2016.

00:14:50.000 Fooled by randomness, do not read that book if you are having difficulty understanding faith.

00:14:56.000 We'll get into that at a different time.

00:14:57.000 But anti-fragility, as Nassim Taleb would say, again, let me read this again.

00:15:01.000 The resilient resists shock and stays the same, but the anti-fragile gets better.

00:15:06.000 The conservative movement is getting better.

00:15:09.000 It's not just that the conservative movement is resilient.

00:15:11.000 It's this new term that the more we are beat down, vaccine mandates, supply chain disruptions, arming the Taliban, China's going to take Taiwan, shutting down our businesses, mask mandates, we're getting better and stronger.

00:15:26.000 Now, what does this mean for the future of the country?

00:15:29.000 Very good things.

00:15:31.000 This means that we have to embrace all of the stressors, all of the uncertainty, the risk.

00:15:38.000 And that is what is going to make the conservative movement strong long term.

00:15:45.000 Nassim Taleb continued by saying, simply, anti-fragility is defined as a convex response to a stressor or source of harm leading to positive sensitivity to increase in volatility, leading a negative sensitivity to an increase in volatility.

00:16:03.000 Put simply, the party of Mitt Romney is a fragile Republican party.

00:16:10.000 Fold at once, Chuck Schumer wants what he wants.

00:16:12.000 Mitch McConnell, give him what he wants.

00:16:15.000 But the conservative movement I'm seeing shows that Merrick Garland sends a letter from the Department of Justice and more parents are showing up at school board meetings, anti-fragile.

00:16:25.000 The conservative movement of Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, and George Bush, and I hate to put Mitch McConnell in that category in that bucket, but he certainly has deserved it this last week because he wavers.

00:16:36.000 Sometimes he's tough.

00:16:37.000 Let's just say the conservative movement of Mitt Romney and George Bush, when they get kicked off social media, they'd be begging for mercy.

00:16:46.000 The conservative movement that gets kicked off social media and the president gets kicked off social media, we understand we are now in a different mindset.

00:16:54.000 Create new platforms.

00:16:55.000 We need to regulate these companies.

00:16:57.000 We need to sue these companies.

00:17:01.000 And we need to understand that if you then become anti-fragile, the more they throw at us, the stronger we get.

00:17:09.000 Now, I'm going to use an example of an anti-fragile organization.

00:17:14.000 And it's provocative, but it's true.

00:17:17.000 It is the Taliban. 0.89

00:17:21.000 The Taliban, the more we attacked them, the stronger they got. 0.99

00:17:25.000 They are an anti-fragile organization.

00:17:27.000 They, despite being in the seventh century with machine guns and pickup trucks, they outlasted the Soviet Union and the United States of America.

00:17:37.000 That's one example of what an anti-fragile organization would.

00:17:41.000 But you know who else were?

00:17:42.000 The American revolutionaries.

00:17:45.000 Where?

00:17:45.000 And this is a very important thing.

00:17:47.000 If you study the American Revolution, some people say, well, we beat the British.

00:17:51.000 That's technically true.

00:17:54.000 But we beat the British by not losing.

00:17:57.000 You see, when you're defending the homeland, you win by not losing.

00:18:01.000 You can lose a bunch of battles like the Viet Cong and still win the war because it's the invading force that needs to win everything. 1.00

00:18:09.000 It's the invading force that needs to take over all things and change the hearts and minds.

00:18:14.000 And make no mistake, the left right now in America is an invading force.

00:18:19.000 The ruling class is getting demoralized, no different than the demoralization of the British against the American revolutionaries in the 1776, 1780s.

00:18:28.000 They're like, how much more do we have to go through?

00:18:31.000 The more they persecute us, the stronger they get.

00:18:35.000 The more we throw at them, the more they're standing up against us.

00:18:39.000 The more that we send mandates at them, the more that we send these issues and these guidances, all of a sudden, the more they're talking about freedom and liberty, the more we try to call them domestic terrorists, the less seriously they take the mandates.

00:18:54.000 Anti-fragile.

00:18:56.000 And this is a conservative movement.

00:18:58.000 I'm telling you, if I see this, if this continues and the courage continues, and I'm seeing out of Southwest is unbelievable, out of these pilots is incredible.

00:19:05.000 We're going to get to that in a second.

00:19:07.000 We're going to win because the future, the future is in the hands of those that bend but do not break.

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00:21:04.000 How bad are Biden's numbers?

00:21:07.000 They're so bad that Politico, The Hill, and Axios are saying Democrats' dwindling path in 2022.

00:21:16.000 And deep down, you're going to see an outrage level, and it's going to get very serious.

00:21:20.000 I'm going to tell you what's about to happen that we have not seen because the plan was always just to defeat Trump, and all of the Trump people are going to go away.

00:21:31.000 They're going to stop caring.

00:21:32.000 They're going to stop doing rallies.

00:21:34.000 There'll be no backlash.

00:21:36.000 And we can elevate Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney to become the new head of the controlled opposition, and nothing's going to happen.

00:21:44.000 Instead, breaking last night, and this is a good thing by him.

00:21:49.000 And I think we've been tough.

00:21:50.000 We've been pretty tough on him.

00:21:52.000 The governor of the state that we're in right now, Governor Greg Abbott, issued an executive order saying that no one can mandate vaccines.

00:21:59.000 No one.

00:21:59.000 Executive order.

00:22:00.000 Good for you, Governor Abbott.

00:22:03.000 That companies cannot and governments cannot.

00:22:06.000 Now, that's going to be interesting for Southwest Airlines now, headquartered in the state of Texas.

00:22:10.000 So is American Airlines, right?

00:22:12.000 And ATT and now Tesla.

00:22:15.000 I would love to see all these liberal companies that are headquartered in Texas now pay their employees to go leave the state because they are worried that people are not being mandated to take a vaccine that the CDC even says does not prevent you from getting the virus itself.

00:22:34.000 We are seeing a collapse of the Biden regime, and we know this.

00:22:38.000 It's being pretty well covered by conservative media.

00:22:41.000 What's not being covered, though, which is the theme of our opening thoughts here, is how demoralized they are deep down.

00:22:48.000 You can see it in their commentary.

00:22:50.000 You can see it in their op-eds they're writing.

00:22:54.000 That there is this worry that they might have been able to implement Biden and cut the corners, but normal people are not going to put up with this.

00:23:02.000 CNN.com, the front page of CNN.com, and I do not make it a habit to go there.

00:23:08.000 The sentence that sums up Biden's mounting political problems.

00:23:12.000 The problem for Biden and his party is that voters know that Democrats are in charge of everything in DC.

00:23:18.000 They expect that means results.

00:23:23.000 It's all on you, Mr. Biden.

00:23:25.000 It's all on you, ruling class. 0.85

00:23:27.000 And it's not just Biden, though.

00:23:30.000 Is that they thought they could carpet bomb conservatives into obedience?

00:23:38.000 They thought they could execute the shock and all blitzkrieg campaign.

00:23:42.000 And we actually called it that back in the spring.

00:23:44.000 We said, buckle up, everybody, it's about to get real rocky.

00:23:48.000 Vaccine mandates, firing people because of different beliefs, the implementation of all these new cultural norms.

00:23:57.000 And what now I am able to say conclusively in October, nine months later, is that we as the conservative movement have grown stronger.

00:24:10.000 When I go and I visit these meetings, I see people that are spending their free time studying the beauty of American history, going deep into why we need to fight and how we need to fight, which actually is a beautiful segue to one of our partners of this program that I'm so enthusiastic about: Hillsdale College.

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00:25:00.000 Instead, it's how to go be an activist.

00:25:01.000 Hillsdale develops the soul of a human being.

00:25:05.000 True Western education.

00:25:07.000 Number two, though, is the online courses.

00:25:09.000 I personally take these online courses.

00:25:11.000 It's charlie4hillsdale.com.

00:25:13.000 That's charlieforhillsdale.com.

00:25:15.000 I'm about to finish the Western Heritage from the book of Genesis to John Locke.

00:25:19.000 I just finished an unbelievable lecture on the Roman Empire and the Greeks.

00:25:24.000 They have the best American history course.

00:25:26.000 If you're homeschooling your kids or you know people around you that need to know the history of America, it's called The Great American Story: A Land of Hope.

00:25:34.000 Charlie4Hillsdale.com.

00:25:36.000 They just released a new story on David, the David story, Father, Shepherd, and King.

00:25:41.000 They have Dante's Divine Comedy, a phenomenal one on the introduction to Western philosophy.

00:25:48.000 And if you're just saying, hey, I want the basics of the Constitution, Charlie, you're always talking about what is a republic versus a democracy.

00:25:54.000 Constitution 101, everybody.

00:25:57.000 Constitution 101, charlie4hillsdale.com.

00:26:00.000 Check it out right now, charlie4hillsdale.com.

00:26:03.000 It's free of charge.

00:26:04.000 There is no cost.

00:26:05.000 So check it out right now, charlie4hillsdale.com.

00:26:09.000 I'm reading this story right here from the Washington Post.

00:26:11.000 As a stunning new report reveals Trump's threat to democracy, Republicans shrug.

00:26:16.000 So as they realize that the morale of their own troops, that the people around them are losing hope, they are now going back to the only play that they know.

00:26:31.000 The only play that they have is to go bring back Donald Trump and to try to demonize him.

00:26:37.000 The New York Times said yesterday: Democrats have been unable to deliver much to make their voters happy, and their major agenda items have been stalled in Congress for so long that many of those voters are growing impatient and disillusioned.

00:26:52.000 As a matter, many recent polls have shown Biden's approval ratings plummeting to the lowest levels of his young presidency.

00:26:59.000 I don't know if it's a young presidency.

00:27:02.000 Yeah, it's probably the oldest, but I understand what they mean by that.

00:27:05.000 More than half of the disapproved of the handling of the economy.

00:27:09.000 And by the way, just so you understand how bad the economy actually is right now, I want to read some headlines of how bad it is right now.

00:27:15.000 Food shortages affecting schools across Wisconsin.

00:27:19.000 Plane delays all across America.

00:27:22.000 Prices are going up like you wouldn't believe.

00:27:24.000 13% inflation in certain areas.

00:27:28.000 And meanwhile, Republicans have pulled in $146 million for Republican candidates for $400 million total dollars raised for this calendar year.

00:27:40.000 There will not be a resource problem for Republican candidates coming up in this next election cycle.

00:27:48.000 And I want you to put yourself in the shoes, though, of Ron Klain, Valerie Jarrett, Barack Obama, one of these ruling class members.

00:27:56.000 They thought this would be easier because they didn't know who they were dealing with.

00:28:01.000 Remember, they are trying to conquer the American project, no different than the British Empire had to conquer and win back the colonies because of such a separation from it.

00:28:11.000 And again, all we have to do is not lose.

00:28:14.000 We are winning is not losing because they will eventually give up.

00:28:18.000 Now, we're all far away from that.

00:28:21.000 But here's the amazing thing of what we're dealing with on the other side.

00:28:24.000 We are anti-fragile.

00:28:25.000 They are incredibly fragile.

00:28:28.000 They are the definition of it.

00:28:31.000 They are paranoid, fighting amongst themselves.

00:28:34.000 They are largely leaderless.

00:28:37.000 They have warring factions within their own troops.

00:28:41.000 They are unable to be able to pinpoint a path forward.

00:28:46.000 And Republicans or conservatives, let's just say conservatives, the conservative movement, we are already saying we're in this for the long haul.

00:28:56.000 Let me ask you a question.

00:28:58.000 Is the side that gets offended because they get gendered incorrectly going to win, or the side that's willing to get fired because they don't want to take a vaccine going to win?

00:29:08.000 Which side's tougher?

00:29:10.000 Which side is actually going to win whatever we're in right now?

00:29:15.000 We are.

00:29:16.000 And they did it to us because we had a decision to make.

00:29:18.000 And I want to compliment all of you that have not given up.

00:29:23.000 Because we had a decision to make after the implementation of Biden.

00:29:26.000 Ballots going everywhere.

00:29:29.000 Got all sorts of shenanigans happening, signature verification problems.

00:29:33.000 Then all of a sudden, January 6th happens, and it just looks like it can't get any worse.

00:29:38.000 But I want to compliment each and every single one of you.

00:29:40.000 And this is why talk radio is so important.

00:29:42.000 This is why podcasting is so important.

00:29:44.000 This is why our campus work is so important.

00:29:47.000 Because it catches the movement when it's falling and gets it back into an active posture.

00:29:53.000 Because we could have entered into a period where I believe most bad behavior actually stems from self-pity.

00:30:00.000 The conservative movement could have done a self-pity parade in February, March, April, May, June, July.

00:30:07.000 They could have got all their legislative items done.

00:30:09.000 Self-pity is what we did when Barack Obama won in 2009 and 2013, or was implemented in 9 and 13, 1 and 8 and 12.

00:30:17.000 Everything's terrible.

00:30:19.000 It's fallen apart.

00:30:20.000 Instead, what do we do?

00:30:21.000 School boards.

00:30:22.000 Instead, what do we do?

00:30:23.000 FOIA requests.

00:30:24.000 City council meetings.

00:30:26.000 What do we do?

00:30:27.000 Draft new candidates.

00:30:28.000 Audits.

00:30:29.000 We are active.

00:30:30.000 We are creative, entrepreneurial, solution-oriented.

00:30:36.000 And the Democrats didn't expect this.

00:30:38.000 They expected the Republican posture of years past.

00:30:41.000 They expected a compliant, obedient, and submissive.

00:30:44.000 And I have to say, the man that deserves credit for a lot of this is Donald Trump.

00:30:48.000 He changed the way conservatives view this.

00:30:51.000 He really did.

00:30:52.000 The Republican Party used to be a top-down party.

00:30:55.000 Now we are a bottom-up party.

00:30:57.000 The Democrats expected demographics to carry them across the line.

00:31:01.000 Now they're losing on the southern border.

00:31:02.000 They're losing the Rio Grande Valley.

00:31:06.000 Which side is going to win?

00:31:08.000 The side that gets offended by Dave Chappelle or the side that is willing to give up their livelihood for principle?

00:31:16.000 That's the anti-fragile side.

00:31:18.000 Every single war, and I use a metaphorical war, is won by the side that wants it more.

00:31:25.000 Right now, they say that they want it a lot.

00:31:27.000 They are going full court press.

00:31:28.000 They're implementing it.

00:31:29.000 But you're starting to see a little bit of a letting up strategy.

00:31:34.000 You're starting to see all of a sudden the other side start to resign.

00:31:36.000 The Haitian ambassador resigns.

00:31:39.000 Francis Collins resigns.

00:31:41.000 Biden's numbers, almost unfixable.

00:31:48.000 Townhall.com, frustration with Biden among black voters is at an all-time high.

00:31:52.000 Even his black support is waning.

00:31:55.000 Jon Stewart, many other commentators coming out saying, you know, Trump can win in 2024.

00:31:59.000 They're saying that part out loud.

00:32:02.000 And so when we're dealing with this other side, what do we now need to do?

00:32:05.000 We need to play offense.

00:32:06.000 We need to seize this moment.

00:32:07.000 We are in a better position than anyone could have possibly imagined politically.

00:32:11.000 The country's falling apart.

00:32:12.000 Don't get me wrong.

00:32:14.000 I'm not sugarcoating it.

00:32:15.000 We don't do hopium on this show.

00:32:16.000 It's tough.

00:32:17.000 It's bad.

00:32:18.000 It's fixable, though.

00:32:19.000 With statesmanship, prudence, wisdom, very little sleep, good people being committed to it.

00:32:24.000 It could be done.

00:32:26.000 But understand in the private musings and text messages, the Peter Struckstroke smirk texting Lisa Page type text messages, you know, the insurance plan type text messages, they're saying to themselves, I don't know how much longer I can do this.

00:32:39.000 I'm losing patience with these people.

00:32:41.000 Good.

00:32:42.000 We're not going anywhere.

00:32:43.000 We're growing.

00:32:44.000 The numbers are increasing.

00:32:46.000 Our biggest problem when we visit college campuses at Turning Point USA is finding rooms big enough for the amount of students that want to show up and attend our events.

00:32:55.000 School board meetings are having to turn parents away because they don't have time to hear from all of them.

00:32:59.000 This is not part of their plan.

00:33:02.000 Their plan was to have empty rooms when I came up to show, show up and speak, to have no parents care about anything, and they could bulldoze us into tyranny. 0.94

00:33:12.000 But guess what?

00:33:13.000 We got a lot more fight left into us.

00:33:15.000 They're going to give up.

00:33:17.000 And when they do, it'll be delightful.

00:33:22.000 Charlie Kirk here, and I've warned you about home title theft, where cyber thieves remove you from your home's title and become the owner.

00:33:29.000 I said you better get home title lock because it's coming.

00:33:31.000 Well, if you're on Facebook, that big breach is here.

00:33:34.000 Facebook had 500 million accounts exposed to cyber thieves.

00:33:37.000 And according to a retired FBI cybercrime expert, everything thieves need to take over as the new owner of your home was leaked.

00:33:43.000 Name, address, personal information, it's out there.

00:33:45.000 The thief forges your signature on a quit claim deed stating you sold your home to him.

00:33:49.000 He'll leave you in debt or he'll even have you evicted.

00:33:52.000 Do what I did and protect your home's title with home title lock.

00:33:55.000 Go to hometitaloc.com and register your address to see if you're already a victim.

00:33:59.000 Then sign up for 30 free days of protection during this high-risk breach.

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00:34:05.000 Again, home titlelock.com.

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00:34:10.000 We have lifted up a fake hero in sports, someone I am not a fan of for quite some time. 0.99

00:34:16.000 And that is Colin Kaepernick, total loser. 0.86

00:34:20.000 But do you want to know someone who's actually sacrificing right now? 0.99

00:34:25.000 A legitimately good athlete, Kyrie Irving.

00:34:30.000 Kyrie Irving plays for the Brooklyn Nets.

00:34:32.000 Is that the name of their team now?

00:34:33.000 See, I grew up when it was the New Jersey Nets, when it was the New Jersey Nets, and they had Jason Kidd as their point guard.

00:34:42.000 Is Steve Nash the coach of the Brooklyn Nets?

00:34:45.000 I think he is.

00:34:46.000 Steve Nash, I don't think, ever won an NBA title.

00:34:50.000 He was for the Phoenix Suns, right?

00:34:51.000 Yeah, he played for the Phoenix Suns, and they had Shaq.

00:34:53.000 No, they had Shaq for a couple of years.

00:34:54.000 He played for the Mavs with Shaq.

00:34:56.000 No, that's not true.

00:34:57.000 No, he played for the Lakers, right?

00:34:59.000 He's all over the place.

00:35:01.000 He is the head coach in the Nets.

00:35:03.000 Steve Nash, I think, played for the Lake.

00:35:05.000 He definitely played for the Mavs.

00:35:07.000 He played with Dirk.

00:35:09.000 He played with Dirk, I think, at Dallas.

00:35:13.000 And then he went to the Suns.

00:35:15.000 Great basketball player, super liberal.

00:35:17.000 But now Kyrie Irving says, I do not want to take the vaccine.

00:35:22.000 The Nets have banned him from the team.

00:35:25.000 Where's BLM?

00:35:28.000 Where is the owner of the Nets?

00:35:29.000 Why?

00:35:29.000 I think it's that weird Russian dude.

00:35:31.000 I think it's like a Russian oligarch, right?

00:35:32.000 It's literally, I think it is.

00:35:34.000 I don't want to.

00:35:35.000 Last I remember, it was literally a Russian-owned thing.

00:35:38.000 It was like Vidoridor something.

00:35:40.000 No?

00:35:42.000 It was owned by some Russian guy a couple years ago.

00:35:45.000 I promise you.

00:35:45.000 We could look it up.

00:35:47.000 Anyway, I promise you this.

00:35:49.000 Anyway, who's the where is the controversy?

00:35:53.000 I guess it was sold.

00:35:55.000 Go to the previous owners of the Nets.

00:35:57.000 I'm telling you, there was this Russian guy that owned it at some point.

00:36:01.000 See?

00:36:02.000 I wasn't that far off.

00:36:04.000 Mikhail Prokov.

00:36:05.000 See?

00:36:07.000 The memory, something.

00:36:08.000 Mikhail Prohorov.

00:36:11.000 Get Mike in here.

00:36:13.000 He speaks Russian.

00:36:14.000 He'll be able to tell you.

00:36:15.000 Russian's third richest man.

00:36:16.000 Okay, good.

00:36:17.000 We made our point.

00:36:18.000 Fine.

00:36:18.000 The point is this.

00:36:19.000 Kyrie Irving is standing against the tyranny of the vaccine mandate in the state of New York City.

00:36:27.000 And he is not giving up.

00:36:29.000 They've banned him because of the vaccination status.

00:36:33.000 Even though we know, according to the CDC, the vaccine does not prevent you from getting COVID.

00:36:38.000 Even though we know the rising number of questions people have about it, we know about azithromycin, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, regeneron, monoclonal antibodies, and the study yesterday, aspirin.

00:36:53.000 That's right, aspirin.

00:36:55.000 The local New York media is going to try to make Kyrie Irving seem like a selfish villain. 1.00

00:37:00.000 I see it the opposite.

00:37:02.000 I see him as a courageous, principled athlete who's willing to sacrifice money, prestige, and playing for doing the right thing.

00:37:12.000 I think I've insulted Kyrie Irving before, but on this issue, you're courageous, Kyrie.

00:37:16.000 This is not easy.

00:37:18.000 This is sticking it to the man.

00:37:20.000 And you deserve kudos for that.

00:37:21.000 Well done.

00:37:22.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:37:23.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:37:26.000 And if you want to support our program, you can do so by going to charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:37:31.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:37:32.000 God bless.

00:37:35.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - October 12, 2021

The Ruling Class Is Demoralized

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