The Charlie Kirk Show - March 16, 2021


The US Military Goes to War with Tucker Carlson Over Dangerous Wokeism


Episode Stats


Length

1 hour and 13 minutes

Words per minute

156.38356

Word count

11,416

Sentence count

837

Harmful content

Misogyny

11

sentences flagged

Toxicity

15

sentences flagged

Hate speech

41

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

Tucker Carlson is targeted by the U.S. China is getting their way. We talk about Piers Morgan, the Second Amendment, and what are Republicans doing throughout all of this? It will disappoint you.

Transcript

Transcripts from "The Charlie Kirk Show" are sourced from the Knowledge Fight Interactive Search Tool. Explore them interactively here.
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Toxicity classifications generated with s-nlp/roberta_toxicity_classifier .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:01.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk show, Tucker Carlson is targeted by the United States military. 1.00
00:00:06.000 China is getting their way.
00:00:08.000 We talk about Piers Morgan, the Second Amendment, and what are Republicans doing throughout all of this? 0.92
00:00:14.000 It will disappoint you.
00:00:15.000 Please listen to this episode all the way through.
00:00:18.000 It's comprehensive and has a through line throughout the entire episode.
00:00:22.000 If you want to support our program and get behind the work we are doing, go to charliekirk.com/slash support.
00:00:28.000 If you think to yourself, boy, I just wish more students heard this, then support us at charliekirk.com/slash support.
00:00:35.000 That support allows this podcast to be heard literally by millions of people every single month.
00:00:41.000 Millions of human beings are consuming this information on a monthly basis thanks to your support, charliekirk.com/slash support.
00:00:49.000 I'm going to Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, Nashville, Vegas, and San Jose with Turning Point USA.
00:00:57.000 If you want to come see me in person alongside some pretty awesome special guests, go to tpusa.com/slash gen free.
00:01:07.000 That's tpusa.com/slash gen free.
00:01:11.000 Check it out.
00:01:12.000 Also, if you're a young woman leader and you want to come to our young women's leadership summit, it's one of the most amazing events that we do.
00:01:21.000 Go to tpusa.com/slash ywls.
00:01:26.000 That's tpusa.com/slash ywls to go to the young women's leadership summit in Dallas, Texas.
00:01:33.000 Maybe you want to send your daughter there.
00:01:35.000 Maybe you want to go with your daughter.
00:01:36.000 Maybe you want to send your granddaughter.
00:01:38.000 There are some massive speakers, and Kaylee McEnany will be there.
00:01:42.000 So you do not want to miss it at tpusa.com/slash ywls.
00:01:48.000 Also, get involved with Turning Point USA.
00:01:50.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:01:53.000 Please give us a five-star review on Apple Podcast.
00:01:55.000 And as always, we are sending away free books to random people that email us your subscription, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:02:04.000 Very important episode.
00:02:05.000 Tucker, China, Piers Morgan, First Amendment, Second Amendment, and more.
00:02:08.000 Buckle up.
00:02:09.000 Here we go.
00:02:10.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:02:12.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:02:14.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:02:18.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:02:21.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:02:22.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:02:23.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:02:31.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:40.000 That's why we are here.
00:02:43.000 There is so much going on in the news today that we want to cover.
00:02:47.000 Over the weekend, a story that kept growing of great importance and significance is this drama with Tucker Carlson and the United States military.
00:03:00.000 Now, whether Tucker Carlson realizes it or not, Tucker Carlson is running the Republican Party.
00:03:07.000 Tucker Carlson is the most powerful person that is not a leftist in the country, even more so than Donald Trump right now.
00:03:13.000 Right now.
00:03:15.000 What Tucker Carlson says, what Tucker Carlson does, his thoughts and his ideas impact an entire political movement.
00:03:22.000 No other cable talk show hosts.
00:03:24.000 And with the unfortunate passing of my friend Rush Limbaugh, all eyes are on Tucker Carlson.
00:03:30.000 And Tucker Carlson is so smart, clever, intelligent, and wise, the mainstream media doesn't really know what to do with him.
00:03:40.000 In fact, a new article that just came out, I'm going to pull it up here.
00:03:43.000 It says that Tucker Carlson is the new Donald Trump.
00:03:48.000 Every comedian, every single talk show host has made it their almost minute-by-minute duty to try to attack Tucker Carlson.
00:03:58.000 Now, Tucker Carlson has something that most people do not have in American politics.
00:04:02.000 He has courage and he has clarity.
00:04:05.000 He understands why he believes what he believes, and he understands why he's in this fight at this moment.
00:04:11.000 And so Tucker Carlson got in a great deal of controversy for saying nothing wrong.
00:04:17.000 And we're going to break this down piece by piece.
00:04:20.000 In fact, what he said was deemed so controversial that the United States military, that's right, the United States military that can literally launch a Tomahawk missile to any square inch of land on the planet decided to make this their primary focus over the weekend.
00:04:36.000 Hear what Tucker Carlson had to say. 0.79
00:04:38.000 So we've got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits. 1.00
00:04:42.000 Pregnant women are going to fight our wars. 1.00
00:04:44.000 It's a mockery of the U.S. military. 1.00
00:04:47.000 While China's military becomes more masculine as it's assembled the world's largest navy, our military needs to become, as Joe Biden says, more feminine.
00:04:55.000 Whatever feminine means anymore, since men and women no longer exist.
00:04:59.000 The bottom line is it's out of control. 1.00
00:05:02.000 And the Pentagon's going along with this.
00:05:03.000 Again, this is a mockery of the U.S. military and its core mission, which is winning wars.
00:05:08.000 Now, what is Tucker Carlson really talking about here?
00:05:11.000 He's talking about this disturbing trend of critical race theory and wokeism that is finding its way into the greatest military ever assembled in the history of the world.
00:05:20.000 Tucker Carlson is a talk show host.
00:05:23.000 He's also an intellectual.
00:05:24.000 Tucker Carlson knows exactly what he's doing here.
00:05:28.000 He is starting a robust and factual conversation, a fire alarm, if you will, around how our U.S. military is becoming a college campus.
00:05:36.000 It's becoming a social experiment.
00:05:38.000 And he's exactly right.
00:05:39.000 Now, mind you, Tucker Carlson never attacked women in the military.
00:05:42.000 He didn't. 0.76
00:05:43.000 There are some phenomenal women that have served in the U.S. military and still do, courageously.
00:05:48.000 It says right here at Desert, yeah, I've never heard of this website before. 0.99
00:05:53.000 Tucker Carlson, after host, puts down women in the military.
00:05:56.000 He never did that.
00:05:57.000 What he did was say, wait a second, should pregnant women be serving in the U.S. military?
00:06:02.000 So what is the mission statement of the United States military?
00:06:05.000 The mission statement is to win wars, kill people, and break things.
00:06:11.000 And that might be a brutal description, but it's not about effectuating social change.
00:06:17.000 It's not about making friends.
00:06:18.000 It's not around trying to find the ties that bind us together.
00:06:25.000 The United States military is about protecting the homeland, winning wars quickly and hopefully decisively.
00:06:35.000 So what Tucker Carlson is doing here is he's setting off a siren, a warning sign saying, hey, this is not heading in the right direction.
00:06:46.000 Just so we're clear, pregnant women are not even recommended to ride roller coasters or get x-rays. 0.57
00:06:54.000 Why should they be recommended to serve in the United States military?
00:06:57.000 Now, that is not an attack on pregnant women.
00:06:59.000 I'm one of the most outspoken pro-life advocates out there.
00:07:02.000 In fact, this last weekend, I spoke in Cleveland at a pro-life conference.
00:07:06.000 And hello again to everyone listening on 1420 in Cleveland.
00:07:10.000 Instead, it's about who should be serving in the United States military.
00:07:14.000 And so this idea of critical race theory, wokeism, and social justice ideology is now forefront in the U.S. military.
00:07:23.000 So how does the U.S. military respond?
00:07:25.000 Well, the fact that they did respond was troubling.
00:07:29.000 Usually the United States military will just, if at anything, offer a press release and say, we decide not to comment.
00:07:37.000 We're going to continue with our mission.
00:07:38.000 Instead, a member of the military, here's Cut 10, U.S. Space Command senior enlisted leader, goes and responds to Tucker Carlson as if this is a social media dispute.
00:07:50.000 This guy acts as if this is Tucker Carlson versus Brian Stelter.
00:07:54.000 Wearing the United States military uniform, commenting on a domestic talk show host with an informed factual opinion, play tape.
00:08:04.000 Let me offer you my opinion.
00:08:06.000 And so he was talking specifically about pregnant women in the armed forces today and how it makes us less lethal and less fit and less ready.
00:08:13.000 Let me tell you where he's wrong.
00:08:15.000 Those decisions were made by medical professionals, by commanders, and our civilian leadership that allows for women to have more time with their children, to recuperate, to get fit and ready, to take that time that's necessary that our medical professionals know is needed, which actually makes us a more lethal and ready and fit force.
00:08:36.000 So why is it even necessary for him to respond?
00:08:39.000 The reason is because Tucker Carlson is a threat to what they are trying to do to the United States military.
00:08:46.000 If you were pro-China and if you were trying to encourage the Chinese Communist Party to take over the West, you would be cheering for this social justice warrior ideology to infiltrate the U.S. military.
00:09:02.000 And I want to build that out even more. 0.90
00:09:06.000 Because what's really happening here is no different than an existential military threat to our country within our own United States military.
00:09:18.000 A provocative yet true statement is that the United States military, by definition, must have standards.
00:09:26.000 And some of those standards are: our mission statement is to win wars, kill people, and break things.
00:09:32.000 If you asked some Democrat politicians, what is the mission statement of the United States military?
00:09:38.000 They'd say, well, it's to try and diversify its ranks.
00:09:43.000 And in response, the Defense Department comes out with a social media response to Tucker Carlson, as if the Department of Defense's social media department must be engaged in trying to one-up a domestic talk show host.
00:10:03.000 Tucker Carlson runs the Republican Party.
00:10:05.000 The sooner that you admit it, the sooner you realize it, the more this all makes sense.
00:10:10.000 Brian Stelter from CNN, Reliable Sources, comes out and says that Tucker Carlson is the new Donald Trump.
00:10:18.000 Now, what is Brian Stelter really saying?
00:10:20.000 He is telling all of his friends that watch his show on Sunday, which is just basically looking at his viewership numbers, only liberal journalists on Twitter watch his show.
00:10:30.000 He must now be our primary focus.
00:10:33.000 Tucker Carlson is the existential threat to our country, and we must go after him.
00:10:38.000 And let me be very clear: Tucker Carlson is someone they do not know how to deal with.
00:10:44.000 He's very clever, extraordinarily wise, and he has the one thing that I find lacking in almost every single public persona, including establishment Republicans.
00:10:54.000 He has courage.
00:10:56.000 He's unafraid to say what is right and what is wrong, and he has been so ahead of his time in diagnosing the true problems that have been plaguing our country. 0.99
00:11:07.000 The Chinese Communist Party is doing everything they possibly can to take over the West. 0.97
00:11:12.000 The Chinese Communist Party has the world's largest Navy and military.
00:11:17.000 They're building islands in the South China Sea. 0.96
00:11:20.000 They're trying to infiltrate our country at every cost, Confucius Institutes, paying off professors, hijacking our corporations. 0.93
00:11:29.000 If our leaders were smart, they would be growing closer to Japan and trying to have a vocal alliance, even more so with Japan, and allowing Japan to build up their military right near the Chinese Communist Party. 0.87
00:11:47.000 We have a base in Japan.
00:11:48.000 We should double, triple, and quadruple Japan's own ability to increase their civilian military force, a country with a rich tradition and history of having a warrior spirit.
00:12:01.000 Instead, the United States military is sending press releases trying to condemn Tucker Carlson.
00:12:09.000 The United States military is the greatest military in the history of the world because of its ability to be around a unified objective, the best technology, the best training, and of course, yes, the most funding.
00:12:26.000 The United States military sent out a press release and they said, the diversity of our military is one of our greatest strengths.
00:12:35.000 Now, while I agree, racial diversity is a strength. 0.62
00:12:38.000 It's what makes the United States military different than other militaries.
00:12:43.000 I don't think segregation of our armed forces was ever moral and ever correct.
00:12:47.000 However, is all forms of diversity good for the military?
00:12:51.000 Is ideological diversity good for the military?
00:12:54.000 Let me prove it to you.
00:12:56.000 The military is one of the few things where you do want unity and conformity over diversity.
00:13:05.000 The United States military should be a place where there is no dissension.
00:13:09.000 If everyone had their own opinion of when you attack the enemy, you wouldn't have a military.
00:13:15.000 You would have millions of armed people doing whatever they want.
00:13:19.000 And so while I think what Kirby here is saying, who runs John F. Kirby, is saying, there should be a lot of clarification offered here, much clarification.
00:13:35.000 Because if you have a military that focuses on differences and not on what brings us together, then that by definition weakens the strength and the power of the United States military.
00:13:51.000 The condemnation of Tucker Carlson continues by saying, to be sure, we will have a lot more work to make our military more inclusive, more respectful of everyone, especially women.
00:14:05.000 Why should the military seek to be more inclusive?
00:14:08.000 Now, that's a very honest question.
00:14:10.000 How does being more inclusive help the three-point mission statement of the United States military?
00:14:16.000 Win wars and win them quickly, kill people and break things.
00:14:20.000 How does a more inclusive military help us accomplish that?
00:14:24.000 The military is not a college campus, nor it should be.
00:14:27.000 The military should be preparing daily for looming conflict against the Chinese Communist Party.
00:14:33.000 Now, if you can make an argument that inclusivity allows us a better chance of those three things, then fine, so be it.
00:14:40.000 That argument is never made.
00:14:42.000 This is an emotionally based argument.
00:14:44.000 Now, everything I'm saying here is deemed politically incorrect by the gatekeepers, the social media tech titans, and the cancellation culture people.
00:14:51.000 I don't care.
00:14:53.000 The military is the one thing where we must draw a red line, and we must say we have uncompromising standards, physical standards, standards of belief, uniformity, and conformity, and a unified mission.
00:15:06.000 And if all of a sudden the United States military is going to become a social experiment, we will lose before a bullet is ever fired.
00:15:20.000 The word is out.
00:15:21.000 People are running away and abandoning their overpriced wireless carriers and flocking to PeerTalk for the same coverage.
00:15:28.000 But at a fraction of the price, if you're with Verizon ATT or T-Mobile, switching to PeerTalk could save your family over $800 a year.
00:15:36.000 And switching is very easy.
00:15:38.000 You can keep your phone, keep your number, or get huge discounts on the latest iPhones and Androids.
00:15:42.000 Like right now, you can get a new iPhone SE for just get this, $7 a month.
00:15:47.000 Plus, right now, taking advantage of unlimited talk text and six gigs of data for just $30 a month.
00:15:52.000 There's a reason why PeerTalk is the highest-rated wireless company by Consumer Affairs.
00:15:56.000 Stop giving your money to overpriced wireless carriers and start saving money.
00:15:59.000 From your cell phone, dial pound250 and say Charlie Kirk.
00:16:03.000 That's it.
00:16:03.000 Save on your wireless and get a brand new iPhone SE for just $7 a month.
00:16:07.000 That's pound250 and say Charlie Kirk.
00:16:13.000 We got an email asking for more clarification on the diversity comment.
00:16:19.000 Again, the U.S. military, having diversity of backgrounds and upbringings, racial diversity, is very, very admirable, and it does make the U.S. military strong and different.
00:16:31.000 Just spending the last couple days with a U.S. Marine, I grew in respect for the commitment the Marines have for our country and their sacrifice.
00:16:39.000 But diversity of mission, ideological diversity, is a very different thing.
00:16:46.000 And the U.S. military must have uniformity and not just centralized command, but the lack of any form of ideological diversity in the sense of what is our mission?
00:17:04.000 Why are we here?
00:17:05.000 That's a very important distinction.
00:17:08.000 Bill Maher has commented on this in a different way.
00:17:11.000 I think we have a cut from this.
00:17:12.000 He says that China is dominating the world while the United States is wasting time in a never-ending woke competition.
00:17:20.000 Play tape. 0.99
00:17:22.000 And finally, new rule, you're not going to win the battle for the 21st century if you are a silly people. 1.00
00:17:28.000 And Americans are a silly people. 0.99
00:17:30.000 Do you know who doesn't care that there's a stereotype of a Chinese man in a Dr. Seuss book? 1.00
00:17:36.000 China. 0.83
00:17:37.000 All 1.4 billion of them could give a crouching tiger flying f ⁇ . 0.99
00:17:42.000 On a national level, we've been having infrastructure week every week since 2009, but we never do anything.
00:17:49.000 Half the country is having a never-ending woke competition deciding whether Mr. Potato Head has a and the other half believes we have to stop the lizard people because they're eating babies. 0.93
00:18:02.000 So what is Bill Maher talking about here?
00:18:04.000 The trend of the weakening of the American spirit.
00:18:10.000 China is on pace to surpass the United States economically very soon. 0.94
00:18:17.000 They launched this virus on us that is well known. 0.96
00:18:21.000 Whether it was intentional or not, we will find out hopefully in the coming months and years as more investigations and more whistleblowers come out. 0.99
00:18:29.000 The Chinese coronavirus, more and more evidence is coming forward that it was a biological weapon developed in the laboratory of Wuhan. 0.98
00:18:40.000 But the virus that we must be vigilant about is wokeism. 0.98
00:18:47.000 The woke virus is infiltrating every single level of our culture.
00:18:53.000 And what's so stunning to me is how this has no consistency whatsoever.
00:19:00.000 And so, for example, the woke industrial complex says that we must remove Dr. Seuss because it is offensive to children.
00:19:10.000 The woke industrial complex says that we must remove Gone with the Wind because it's offensive and it's racist.
00:19:17.000 Aunt Jemima, Mr. Potato Head.
00:19:20.000 However, the woke industrial complex is perfectly fine with Cardi B, who's not a very smart person at all, doing one of the most graphic performances that I think you're allowed to put on network television.
00:19:36.000 But the point is that the dominant Power structure in our country.
00:19:43.000 They use as an excuse to try and censor other content because they say it's too offensive.
00:19:51.000 It harms our society.
00:19:52.000 But when it comes to legitimately offensive material that might harm the innocence of our children, they're perfectly fine with it.
00:20:01.000 In fact, I think, what was the news article that was sent this morning?
00:20:05.000 Yeah, Mr. Producer is right in my head.
00:20:09.000 CNN. 0.72
00:20:10.000 Cardi B and Megan the stallion served up a very sex-positive performance.
00:20:18.000 And again, I will spare you from the imagery or from the video of it.
00:20:22.000 In fact, if I probably showed this on my YouTube channel, I think that we'd be taken down by YouTube and the masters of Menlo Park for sensitive material.
00:20:33.000 Now, mind you, Tucker Carlson saying that our military might become weak deserves a response from our U.S. military.
00:20:40.000 Cardi B and Megan V stallion doing something that looks like an X-rated film, and that's not even my own description of it.
00:20:50.000 The New York Post says, quote, Cardi B's 2021 Grammys performance gets X-rated with stripper pole dancing.
00:20:58.000 That is the role model that millions of young women saw last evening at the Grammys. 0.92
00:21:05.000 Millions.
00:21:08.000 That's a reflection of the direction of our country.
00:21:12.000 It is parallel of where the country is going.
00:21:15.000 And so I think if we are honest about the contradiction of the censorship campaign that's happening, you will see that there is not just no consistency, there's inherent contradiction in how they go about this.
00:21:41.000 So some people call it cancel culture.
00:21:45.000 I call it the woke industrial complex.
00:21:47.000 It's taking over every single institution in our country.
00:21:49.000 And the people that dare call it out are then circled and they are targeted for potential cancellation.
00:21:59.000 And Tucker is in a lot of different ways uncancelable.
00:22:03.000 He's far too clever for Brian Stelter and for all those people to go after.
00:22:08.000 But what's really going on here?
00:22:10.000 What's really going on here is you have people that want to see the moral degradation of our society continue.
00:22:18.000 So Cardi B is praised for that X-rated performance.
00:22:22.000 Meanwhile, any sort of defense of traditional American history and culture is removed as being offensive.
00:22:29.000 So what is offensive to the left or offensive to the secular gatekeepers or the gatekeepers of our society and our culture, the people that control what your children consume, is indulge your worst impulses, but no matter what, do not get loyally married to somebody and have children.
00:22:50.000 That is very offensive.
00:22:52.000 And that is one of the main reasons why they're trying to remove every piece of literature and film that came before them.
00:22:59.000 This is the postmodernist disease that has infected every single institution in our country.
00:23:04.000 And we must not just stand back, stand up against it.
00:23:07.000 We must clearly call it out courageously, as Tucker Carlson has done, for what it actually is.
00:23:13.000 And right now, Xi Jinping, and what are they, 18 hours ahead of us, he's probably drinking a bottle of champagne right now, laughing and chuckling.
00:23:23.000 Because what the United States military has admitted, and they look at everything that we do, everything, they monitor it, is more of an admission of our weakness than any battle that we could possibly lose or war that we could flounder.
00:23:37.000 The Chinese Communist Party now knows that it's just a matter of time before they take us over, not necessarily militarily. 0.59
00:23:45.000 You see, the Chinese Communist Party are huge fans of globalism and wokeism, and they work together.
00:23:53.000 Globalism is the erosion of borders and a one-world government coming in.
00:23:59.000 Now, you might say, why would China be a fan of that?
00:24:02.000 Well, China actually never wants to enter into that agreement.
00:24:05.000 China wants the rest of the world to weaken itself voluntarily while they violate that agreement and then they take over the entire world. 0.67
00:24:13.000 They're also fans of wokeism. 0.71
00:24:15.000 They know that if it came to a conflict, currently China would probably lose. 0.94
00:24:20.000 But if they are able to convince the American population that their history, their language, their culture, their beliefs, and a pursuit of American greatness is actually evil, then we will do to ourselves what China wants to do to us. 0.96
00:24:36.000 They are trying to inflict an American suicide, and it's currently working. 0.90
00:24:42.000 You see, the Chinese Communist Party has plenty of vulnerabilities, lots of them. 0.55
00:24:47.000 If China even embraced a little bit of Western culture and freedom of speech, the Chinese Communist Party ruling class would be challenged and would probably topple from within.
00:24:58.000 However, China's trying to preempt that through a surveillance state, through a security state, and through a military state.
00:25:07.000 And so the question remains, or the real question we should be asking is, what's the best way to counter this?
00:25:17.000 And the best way to counter it is exactly what Tucker Carlson did.
00:25:21.000 Bold, definitive public statements against an existential threat to our country.
00:25:27.000 And what is that existential threat?
00:25:30.000 It is the social justice warrior woke competition that Bill Maher also called out.
00:25:36.000 John Oliver comes out and called Tucker Carlson a vessel for white supremacist talking points.
00:25:44.000 You're starting to see every single talentless, replaceable media hack and comedian gather together because they realize that Tucker and what he represents, which is a return to traditional American values and an unapologetic defense of the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world, resonates with millions of people and it must be stopped at all costs.
00:26:08.000 I want to reinforce something.
00:26:10.000 Our United States military is now commenting on domestic political talk shows.
00:26:16.000 The military.
00:26:18.000 They have aircraft carriers, tomahawk missiles, submarines, B-52 bombers, and drones at their disposal.
00:26:26.000 And they are issuing press releases as if Tucker Carlson is al-Qaeda, as if Tucker Carlson is ISIS.
00:26:38.000 What I have seen out of our leadership is calling China an adversary.
00:26:45.000 I see harsher press releases from our own military under this administration towards Tucker Carlson than to Xi Jinping.
00:26:54.000 That should tell you something. 0.60
00:26:55.000 Or to the Mullers of Iran.
00:26:58.000 Why is that?
00:26:59.000 It's because the true aims and objectives now of the people in charge is not American greatness.
00:27:09.000 It's an American power struggle.
00:27:15.000 Senator Tammy Duckworth wrote on Twitter, F. Tucker Carlson.
00:27:20.000 His comments are being misrepresented as if he said women should not serve.
00:27:23.000 He never said that.
00:27:24.000 He does not believe that. 0.87
00:27:26.000 Instead, he was signaling a fire alarm, a siren saying, hey, the direction this is heading, Which is the erosion of standards and the pursuit of inclusivity is going to make the American military weaker, more vulnerable to attacks, and it's a gift to the Chinese Communist Party. 0.99
00:27:48.000 That was his statement, and his statement is true. 0.97
00:27:51.000 So, the question should be: what are Republicans doing in response to this?
00:27:55.000 Are Republicans standing up?
00:27:58.000 Ted Cruz is.
00:27:59.000 But what is the legislative priority for Republicans right now?
00:28:02.000 It will shock you.
00:28:07.000 Look, we all know that the internet never forgets.
00:28:09.000 There has never been a more important time to protect your internet activity.
00:28:13.000 That's why I urge you to get Express VPN.
00:28:17.000 Everything you search for, watch, or click online can be tracked by big tech companies.
00:28:23.000 You need your own secure, anonymized server.
00:28:27.000 When I switch to ExpressVPN with my computer or phone, my IP address is masked by their secure VPN server.
00:28:34.000 The ExpressVPN application also encrypts my network data to protect my sensitive information from being compromised.
00:28:41.000 The ExpressVPN app, it's amazing.
00:28:44.000 You can use up to five devices simultaneously.
00:28:48.000 What I like most is how easy it is to use.
00:28:51.000 It just takes one click to protect all your devices.
00:28:55.000 That's why they're rated the number one VPN by CNET and Wired.
00:28:59.000 So stop handing over all of your data to big tech companies.
00:29:02.000 Go with the VPN that I trust for online protection.
00:29:06.000 Visit expressvpn.com/slash Charlie to get three months free on a one-year package.
00:29:12.000 That's expressvpn.com/slash Charlie to get a three extra months free.
00:29:19.000 Go to expressvpn.com/slash Charlie right now to learn more.
00:29:27.000 So what are Republicans doing that right now? 0.57
00:29:30.000 Our military is targeting a talk show host.
00:29:35.000 Our borders are wide open.
00:29:37.000 Millions of people are out of work.
00:29:39.000 Our children are not in school.
00:29:41.000 Suicide rates are going up.
00:29:42.000 Drug use is going up.
00:29:43.000 Alcoholism is going up.
00:29:45.000 Tech companies are censoring conservatives.
00:29:48.000 Newt Gingrich lost access to his Twitter account for doing nothing wrong.
00:29:52.000 So what are Republicans doing right now?
00:29:55.000 What's the Republican response to all this?
00:29:58.000 Because the Republicans, they're the ones that we work so hard to get into office.
00:30:01.000 And don't get me wrong, I voted for Republicans up and down the ballot.
00:30:04.000 I campaigned for Republicans because they're not Democrats and they're able to stop legislation.
00:30:10.000 But what's the agenda that they are presenting to the American people?
00:30:14.000 Well, while our borders are open, talk show hosts are being targeted by our military, and social media tech companies are doing what they want, Republicans have decided that their big new idea for America is to go repeal the estate tax.
00:30:30.000 The estate tax is a tax that happens with wealthy people that want to pass down their wealth or their assets to their kids.
00:30:40.000 Now, if you ask me, Charlie, do you want to get rid of the estate tax?
00:30:43.000 Yeah, sure.
00:30:44.000 That would be my answer.
00:30:46.000 I guess, okay, that's not exactly top priority right now.
00:30:50.000 The legislation was unveiled on Tuesday by Senators John Kennedy and John Thune and has been co-sponsored by 20 other Republican senators or about half of Senate Republicans, including Mitch McConnell and Representative Jason Smith from Missouri.
00:31:03.000 The federal estate tax, current tax rate, is 40%, but thanks to exemptions that grow every year, an estate in 2021 would have to be worth $11.7 million for individuals and $23.4 million for married couples before the estate tax kicks in.
00:31:16.000 Okay, their argument is that it hurts family farms.
00:31:19.000 I think that's probably right.
00:31:21.000 That's not a priority.
00:31:22.000 You want to stop being made fun of as the Chamber of Commerce ruling class billionaire party.
00:31:27.000 By the way, the billionaires hate you.
00:31:29.000 The billionaire class does not share the values of the pro-American party.
00:31:35.000 But instead of saying, like, hey, maybe we should stop this illegal immigration crisis, maybe we should work on rebuilding the nuclear family, maybe we should rebuild our urban cities, maybe we should have school choice, maybe we should have educational vouchers, maybe we should talk about challenging a corporate oligarchy that's raging in our country.
00:31:53.000 Maybe we should end the war in Afghanistan.
00:31:56.000 Maybe we should continue to do everything we possibly can to make sure the United States military doesn't target Tucker Carlson.
00:32:04.000 No, John Kennedy from Louisiana, who's typically pretty good, and John Thune, their new big idea is: hey, rich people are paying too much in tax.
00:32:14.000 And look, again, I'm a free market guy.
00:32:16.000 I agree with that if we were doing some sort of chalkboard whiteboard session.
00:32:20.000 But the wealthiest Americans had a wonderful year.
00:32:24.000 The wealthiest Americans increased their net worth by $750 billion in the last year.
00:32:32.000 And the Republicans' message is: we need to cut their taxes even more.
00:32:36.000 We need to make sure that the wealth can continue through many generations.
00:32:40.000 And again, I agree at that.
00:32:41.000 That's fine.
00:32:43.000 That is not a priority.
00:32:44.000 And this is why Republicans lose.
00:32:46.000 Republicans deserve election losses when you make this a legislative priority.
00:32:51.000 Instead of saying that we want to rebuild families, we want to give families money to have more children, we want to restrict immigration into our country, want to protect religious liberty, instead of saying we're going to stand next to pastors who are being threatened with imprisonment for opening their churches, that we are going to help small businesses to flourish and we're going to challenge the corporate oligarchy.
00:33:09.000 I have to be lectured from John Thune from South Dakota that billionaires might have to pay too high of a tax when they die.
00:33:17.000 That's the top priority of the Republican Party.
00:33:21.000 And this is why they lose.
00:33:22.000 And you want to know why Tucker Carlson is the most powerful person in the Republican Party?
00:33:26.000 Because he rejects this corporate oligarchy and he talks about things that matter.
00:33:31.000 This is why John Thune is not taken seriously by the mainstream media and Tucker Carlson is considered a threat.
00:33:37.000 Because Tucker Carlson knows that this set of ideas is going extinct and his new idea of a vibrant people-based conservatism is actually popular, which is why the military is targeting Tucker and why the entire activist media is trying to deplatform and debase him.
00:33:52.000 And they won't be successful.
00:33:57.000 There's so many different threats happening, and we're trying to monitor them.
00:34:00.000 And we're always going to tell you which ones are worthy of your attention and your focus.
00:34:04.000 H.R. 1, House Resolution 1, just happens to be the biggest threat.
00:34:08.000 And Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, two Democrats, are still saying the right thing: that they are going to protect the filibuster.
00:34:16.000 We're getting lots of questions at freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:19.000 And I love seeing your emails come in asking, well, what can I possibly do?
00:34:24.000 Well, prayer is helpful.
00:34:25.000 It really is.
00:34:26.000 But if you have a line of communication or you're just willing to say to Sinema and Manchin, please do the right thing, stand for the filibuster, stand for the rights of the minority in the U.S. Senate, I don't think HR1 will pass.
00:34:44.000 However, if they do something called the democracy reconciliation, it very well might pass.
00:34:51.000 I think it's H.R. 51 also that just got passed in the House that is trying to make, or they're about to pass it, I'm sorry, Washington, D.C., a state, which really should be unconstitutional.
00:35:05.000 And there's many different reasons for that.
00:35:10.000 Most specifically in the Constitution, it says that the capital must be a district.
00:35:15.000 However, there's been a piece of legislation that was passed that I want to focus on that was not met with uniform Republican opposition.
00:35:27.000 Spend a lot of time going after Joe Biden, the postmodernists, the woke industrial complex.
00:35:33.000 However, I also spend a good amount of time going after establishment weak Republicans that say one thing and they do another.
00:35:44.000 Now, if you understand the significance of the Bill of Rights and you understand how rare it is to have a First and a Second Amendment, then at any measure whatsoever that is proposed to try to take away our speech or our weapons should be made with fierce and intense opposition.
00:36:10.000 Now, later on in the hour, I'm going to talk about a chilling example of a country that does not have the First Amendment and how it actually pertains to a news item that I was involved in last week.
00:36:22.000 But let's start with the Second Amendment.
00:36:26.000 There is no First Amendment without the Second Amendment.
00:36:28.000 The Second Amendment is the one that protects all the other amendments.
00:36:32.000 The only reason why our leaders, or I don't even want to call them leaders, someone sent us an email.
00:36:38.000 The only reason why the people in charge is a correction there don't completely and forcibly go about their power grab like they did in Hong Kong is because we have armed citizenry.
00:36:51.000 If all the people in Hong Kong had AR-15s, it would be a negotiation, not a hostage situation.
00:36:58.000 Now, I'm not calling for anything ever of violence or armed rebellion.
00:37:03.000 That is not what I'm saying, to be very, very clear.
00:37:07.000 But the thought behind the Second Amendment and the truth behind the Second Amendment is that if a citizenry does not have their ability to protect themselves and the government has a monopoly on force, then they will get whatever they want.
00:37:22.000 Then the laws will not be written for the benefit of the people, but instead the laws will be written for the benefit of the rulers.
00:37:32.000 And so a very aggressive, unconstitutional, and immoral piece of gun control and gun confiscation legislation was passed through Congress for what they call gun background checks.
00:37:48.000 Now, mind you, there is already a background check bill that exists called the Brady Bill.
00:37:55.000 But this bill, H.R. 8, expanded background checks for individuals planning to purchase or transfer firearms.
00:38:03.000 Transfer.
00:38:04.000 Think about that.
00:38:05.000 Father wants to give a weapon to his child.
00:38:09.000 That would now require a federal background check, the transfer of weapons.
00:38:16.000 H.R. 8, also titled the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021, passed at a 227 to 203 vote.
00:38:26.000 And the most upsetting and frustrating part of all this is that seven, I'm sorry, eight Republicans alongside Adam Kinzinger supported this bill.
00:38:38.000 We should have a no-tolerance policy on gun confiscation.
00:38:44.000 Their playbook is very simple.
00:38:48.000 Limit the freedoms and liberties of Americans at every single possible corner and turn.
00:38:57.000 Fourth Amendment, get rid of that because the libertarians and the white supremacists are the ones that are hurting America.
00:39:04.000 The First Amendment, they're already trying to destroy that through H.R. 5, the Equality Act.
00:39:11.000 But now H.R. 8 goes after potential confiscation of weapons and more gun control measures.
00:39:23.000 This is more of the Overton window moving.
00:39:27.000 I talked at length about the Overton window in my speech that I gave in Cleveland, and we're going to post that on our podcast feed and our YouTube channel in the coming days.
00:39:36.000 I encourage you to check it out, which is everything that we're dealing with right now is a byproduct of the Overton window.
00:39:42.000 Now, what is the Overton window?
00:39:44.000 Well, Joseph Overton came up with a brilliant theory that everything moves on a spectrum of public approval from unthinkable to radical to debatable to acceptable to policy.
00:39:59.000 The point is that everything moves along that spectrum.
00:40:02.000 One of the biggest problems is Republicans who go to Washington, D.C. for the desire to be liked by the Washington Post and the New York Times.
00:40:12.000 I tell this to every single young member, including Madison Cawthorne, who deserves to be thanked and applauded, and we will play his tape in the next segment of him courageously pushing back against this gun control piece of legislation.
00:40:25.000 As soon as you release yourself from the urge, from the temptation, from the desire to be liked by the Washington Post and MSNBC, you will think clearly.
00:40:38.000 They will never like you unless you pander to them.
00:40:41.000 Like Adam Kinzinger, who, by the way, I will be personally involved in whomever ends up going up against Adam Kinzinger.
00:40:49.000 They're redrawing the maps in Illinois.
00:40:51.000 I'm from Illinois.
00:40:52.000 Adam, I'm coming back to make sure that you are no longer a member of Congress.
00:40:56.000 And I hope thousands of other people join me in that.
00:40:59.000 Adam Kinzinger has never found a war that he does not want to deploy American troops for.
00:41:06.000 He has never found a Democrat policy he does not want to pander for.
00:41:09.000 Adam Kinzinger has got to go.
00:41:11.000 Now, Catalina has announced against him.
00:41:13.000 There might be some other people.
00:41:15.000 Whomever it is, we're going to make sure that Adam Kinzinger has to go become a lobbyist for Raytheon or Northrop Grumman or Lockheed Martin after this, alongside Liz Cheney.
00:41:25.000 Now, I'm not saying every single Republican that I'm going to mention here is worthy of a primary, but I am going to mention their names.
00:41:31.000 And one of these names is a friend of mine.
00:41:33.000 And I've already privately messaged her, and I hope that she's going to reconsider in future votes because at Turning Point Action, we helped her, and she won convincingly.
00:41:44.000 The eight Republicans who voted to take away your guns are Adam Kinzinger, Vern Buchanan of Florida, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Maria Salazar of Florida, which is a big disappointment for me.
00:41:58.000 I've already privately messaged her.
00:41:59.000 She's generally very, very good, but I'm saddened by this and I'm frustrated.
00:42:04.000 Andrew Garberino of New York, Chris Smith of New Jersey, Fred Upton of Michigan, and Carlos Jimenez of Florida.
00:42:14.000 Now, their defense, at least Carlos Jimenez or Maria Salazar privately might be, look, this was going to pass anyway.
00:42:21.000 I voted for it so that I can go to my constituents and say that I support something that they support.
00:42:28.000 It's a very bad reason to publicly endorse the infringement of our precious liberties and freedoms.
00:42:36.000 Now, I know a lot of people out there are saying, Charlie, I'm not that big into guns.
00:42:40.000 It's not about the guns.
00:42:43.000 It's about who gives you rights and where do rights come from.
00:42:49.000 Rights come from your creator, not from government.
00:42:53.000 And with the massive amount of gun control that already exists, any further gun control will only strengthen the federal bureaucracy to come knocking on your door to come take away your weapons, which will inherently, but will automatically, I should say, make us a less free country and give the power over to the woke industrial complex and the social justice warrior ruling class.
00:43:20.000 So are you making full use of your savings?
00:43:22.000 Think of the times that you've yearned for better returns.
00:43:25.000 After real inflation, charges, and taxes, are you even making a profit?
00:43:30.000 With food, clothing, and rent all more doubling over the last 10 years, you need to do something different.
00:43:36.000 Gambling on Robin Hood or stocks might lose you everything you have.
00:43:40.000 And like thousands of others, you want to retire stress-free.
00:43:44.000 A precious metals IRA with Noble Gold could be the answer you've been looking for.
00:43:48.000 And this month, Noble Gold is gifting a genuine, rare Carson City minted Morgan silver dollar with every qualifying IRA or 401k.
00:43:56.000 These coins were around in a time when an ounce of silver was worth a dollar.
00:44:01.000 For example, in 1893, a mint condition coin is now worth more than $3,250, a staggering 32,500% increase.
00:44:12.000 That's a return of 2,500% a year.
00:44:15.000 It is a hedge against inflation.
00:44:17.000 We know inflation is coming.
00:44:18.000 So if you want something you can touch, and something you can feel, and something you can trade, and something that is real, go to noblegoldinvestments.com and tell them the Charlie Kirk show sent you.
00:44:28.000 NobleGoldInvestments.com or call 877-646-5347.
00:44:34.000 That's noblegoldinvestments.com.
00:44:40.000 Adam Kinzinger and seven other Republicans vote for the gun background check bill.
00:44:46.000 Vern Buchanan, Brian Fitzpatrick, Maria Salazar, Andrew Garberino, Chris Smith, Fred Upton, and Carlos Jimenez to take your weapons away.
00:44:56.000 Kinzinger, who, by the way, I believe represents Illinois' 16th congressional district, is probably one of the highest gun-owning per capita congressional districts in the entire country.
00:45:08.000 I know that area very well.
00:45:10.000 Rockford, it's a very nice part of the world.
00:45:15.000 And yes, I did say Rockford, Illinois is nice, which was rated the most miserable city in America at one time.
00:45:20.000 But I always liked Rockford.
00:45:22.000 I thought the people are wonderful there.
00:45:23.000 And I don't think it gets the credit it deserves.
00:45:26.000 So Adam Kinzinger releases this on gun reform responsibility.
00:45:31.000 Whenever there is a consequential moment where we need conservatives to step up, you can rest assured that Adam Kinzinger will let you down.
00:45:42.000 And so one of my friends that's listening and emailed us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:45:47.000 They say, Charlie, what is that Overton window?
00:45:48.000 You went over that rather quickly.
00:45:51.000 Well, the Overton window is a spectrum of which all political conversation flows on or operates on.
00:45:59.000 It's a system to organize political conversation.
00:46:03.000 So basically, Joseph Overton, who's now passed away, worked for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which is a Michigan think tank, argued that all political ideas are on a spectrum from unthinkable to policy.
00:46:17.000 So it goes from unthinkable to radical to acceptable to sensible to popular to policy.
00:46:22.000 So I did it from memory.
00:46:23.000 I did it pretty well.
00:46:24.000 So basically, let's take the example of defund the police.
00:46:28.000 Defund the police went from unthinkable three years ago to now policy in Minneapolis, which hilariously, Minneapolis is now asking for more money to fund their police.
00:46:39.000 Let's think of the Green New Deal, where spending $127 trillion on environmental justice, whatever that is, was unthinkable, but now it's somewhat sensible or popular in certain circles and almost policy.
00:46:52.000 So how does one move the Overton window?
00:46:56.000 By big, bold statements and putting the other team on defense.
00:47:01.000 Noam Chomsky, who's a communist, also a professor at the University of Arizona, says, quote, the smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but also, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.
00:47:18.000 Even encourage the more critical and dissident views.
00:47:21.000 That gives more people the sense that there's free thinking going on when all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits being put on the range of the debate.
00:47:32.000 And Noam Chomsky is right.
00:47:33.000 We are always operating in that Overton window.
00:47:38.000 And so what Nancy Pelosi is doing, what Adam Kinzinger and these other seven Republicans are doing, is they're playing into a moving of the Overton window.
00:47:47.000 So their goal is policy of the confiscation of all weapons like they have in Great Britain.
00:47:53.000 And so they want to move something that is unthinkable or radical to acceptable, sensible, popular, and policy.
00:47:58.000 Now, things can also go from policy to unthinkable.
00:48:01.000 And sometimes the Overton window can benefit humanity.
00:48:04.000 For example, slavery used to be policy, and now it's unthinkable.
00:48:10.000 So it went from policy to unthinkable.
00:48:12.000 That's a good move backwards in the Overton window.
00:48:15.000 But do you want to see a bad move on the Overton window? 0.73
00:48:18.000 When something that went from policy segregation to unthinkable segregation to now it's policy again, where Columbia University has black-only and Latino-only graduation ceremonies.
00:48:34.000 So everything, whether you realize it or not, operates on this Overton window, which is precisely why when Republicans go out of their way to pander to the moving of the Overton window, to pander to the narrative, and this is this, the whole theory behind the Overton window, I think, is so important and it resonates with me because it has to do with communication, has to do with the spread of ideas that actually ends up implementing, impacting public policy and the implementation of public policy.
00:49:04.000 Remember, Trump moved the Overton window on immigration and trade positively.
00:49:09.000 And in the next segment, I'm going to tell you one Republican that deserves to be applauded for stopping the move of the Overton window when it comes to weapons and how it impacts our other freedoms and liberties.
00:49:20.000 As eight Republicans decide to take your weapons away, one courageous Republican, not just the only one, but a friend of mine who deserves to be complimented for a phenomenal speech he gave on the House floor, the youngest ever member of the House of Representatives to be elected, Madison Cawthorne, listen to his remarks, play tape.
00:49:39.000 I specifically speak for 700,000 plus Americans in my district.
00:49:43.000 When I say that if you think this bastardization of the Constitution will be met with silence, then you know nothing of the America I know.
00:49:51.000 You want my guns.
00:49:53.000 I know it.
00:49:54.000 We all know it.
00:49:55.000 Well, Mr. Speaker, you can come and take them.
00:49:58.000 With that, I yield back.
00:49:59.000 And good for him.
00:50:00.000 Calling out the other Republicans as well that decided to try and win favor with the Washington Post, New York Times crowd.
00:50:07.000 The Second Amendment is the amendment that protects all the other amendments.
00:50:12.000 And we have a robust First Amendment in our country.
00:50:15.000 So last week, and all this ties together, I'm going to tie it all together.
00:50:18.000 Don't worry.
00:50:19.000 So last week, I went after Megan Markle and Prince Harry. 0.93
00:50:25.000 Apparently struck a nerve because I said, I don't believe Megan Markle and I think she's a liar.
00:50:30.000 And I stand by that.
00:50:31.000 And I could tell by all the fallout in the last week, do you notice how there's been no details yet from Megan Markle?
00:50:37.000 I said, I think she was being Jussie Smollett, Justice Smollett.
00:50:41.000 And the whole world lost their mind.
00:50:43.000 It's as if you're not allowed to say anything about a self-indulgent, narcissistic, wannabe Hollywood celebrity pseudo-politician sitting down with a billionaire complaining about how awful life is.
00:50:56.000 It's as if that's the third rail of American politics.
00:50:58.000 Cardi B doing strip dancing or whatever she did at the Grammys, perfectly cool.
00:51:03.000 Asking a question or calling Meghan Markle a liar, you can't do that.
00:51:07.000 However, there is lots of backlash and all that.
00:51:10.000 Thankfully, I've said more controversial things, so it's not exactly as if I'm prone to potential cancellation for those remarks because I said nothing wrong.
00:51:19.000 However, I read this story this weekend.
00:51:23.000 In fact, Jake, one of our team members, brought this to my attention.
00:51:26.000 I couldn't believe it.
00:51:28.000 And it really set in something that is a very important point.
00:51:32.000 And here's the article from The Blaze.
00:51:33.000 Piers Morgan refuses to back down after Megan Markle criticisms, despite UK agency launching investigation.
00:51:42.000 I thought to myself, what are you talking about?
00:51:44.000 Launching an investigation.
00:51:46.000 It says, offcome, the United Kingdom media regulator revealed Tuesday that it had opened an investigation into Morgan's comments after fielding more than 40,000 complaints.
00:52:00.000 So Piers Morgan and I agreed on something for a change.
00:52:03.000 Again, he's not wrong about everything.
00:52:05.000 I think he's actually very fun to listen to.
00:52:08.000 And so Piers Morgan, he stormed off the stage of Good Morning Britain.
00:52:11.000 I'm reading from The Blaze.
00:52:14.000 And he says that he does not believe Markle generally, that she was attacking the royal family and she was attacking the crown and the British monarchy that has wonderful and beautiful history.
00:52:25.000 And anyone that just wants to throw it away is an arrogant, ungrateful, probably college-educated activist.
00:52:33.000 Megan Markle represents a destruction of that.
00:52:38.000 And so we have cut 11 here of Piers Morgan responding to this.
00:52:43.000 But I want to reinforce this before we get to this tape.
00:52:46.000 He goes after Megan Markle, and now he is under a government investigation for this.
00:52:55.000 A government investigation.
00:52:58.000 Play tape.
00:52:59.000 I believe in freedom of speech.
00:53:01.000 I believe in the right to be allowed to have an opinion.
00:53:05.000 If people want to believe Megan Markle, that's entirely their right.
00:53:09.000 I don't believe almost anything that comes out of her mouth.
00:53:12.000 And I think the damage she's done to the British monarchy and to the Queen at a time when Prince Philip is lying in hospital is enormous and frankly contemptible.
00:53:24.000 So if I have to fall on my sword for expressing an honestly held opinion about Meghan Markle and that diatribe of bilge that she came out with in that interview, so be it.
00:53:36.000 That's phenomenal.
00:53:38.000 What wonderful courage and clarity.
00:53:40.000 Now, that's a very big statement.
00:53:42.000 Apparently in Great Britain, that's not very, that's not a publicly held belief.
00:53:50.000 A lot of people are quietly saying it.
00:53:51.000 I got thousands of emails of people saying, Charlie, thank you for calling Megan Markle a liar. 0.96
00:53:56.000 I said, of course she's a liar.
00:53:58.000 No details, meandering narrative, victimization, oppression Olympics, feel sorry for me because I married into the royal family, all of it. 0.71
00:53:58.000 Totally tell. 0.71
00:54:07.000 And however, for me, I never thought that I would ever come under a government agency response.
00:54:14.000 I guess that the United Kingdom could come after me.
00:54:16.000 I don't really know how that could work.
00:54:18.000 But the point is this, and here's how it all ties together, is that Piers Morgan now has the government, the sovereign government, coming after him for something he said that was an opinion.
00:54:31.000 Now, he opened up his remarks with something that is not a belief in the United Kingdom.
00:54:37.000 He says, I believe in freedom of speech.
00:54:40.000 Pierce, you should get out of that country quickly just because I don't think your fellow citizens do.
00:54:47.000 Libel laws and defamation laws in the United Kingdom are much stricter, much stricter.
00:54:54.000 Now, he said he had an opinion.
00:54:55.000 He did not report on something that was factually false with the intent of being false.
00:55:01.000 And of course, now Megan Markle is saying that she wants to possibly run for office in the United States.
00:55:07.000 No one saw that one coming.
00:55:10.000 No talent, full of deceit, arrogance, and resentment.
00:55:14.000 And so We take for granted here in this country our First Amendment freedoms.
00:55:22.000 Now, before I take a victory lap for our country, let me tell you how what Piers Morgan is facing from Ofcom is already here.
00:55:34.000 So, Piers Morgan has to worry about a government investigation.
00:55:37.000 This government agency, Ofcom, received 40,000 complaints.
00:55:42.000 Therefore, their full-time federal agents are now investigating Piers Morgan.
00:55:46.000 Investigating him for what?
00:55:47.000 I don't know.
00:55:49.000 But this is already here.
00:55:53.000 Because if Piers Morgan was in the States and he said that, and he worked for CNN or NBC, they would just be calling for boycotts of his advertisers, a cancellation of his book deal, and trying to ruin his life that way.
00:56:09.000 The only difference is that what we call cancel culture is in the rule of law in Britain, and that's what they want to bring here.
00:56:18.000 They want to bring the very same heavy hand of government that Piers Morgan now has to face for saying something about Megan Markle that she's a pathological liar, which very well might be true.
00:56:31.000 I believe it's totally true, and we'll see.
00:56:33.000 Because Pierce is a wise guy, and he could see it for what it is.
00:56:38.000 No details and all this.
00:56:39.000 And the Queen's remark was perfect, by the way.
00:56:42.000 She says, we all have a different recollection of certain events.
00:56:46.000 Perfect. 0.75
00:56:47.000 Perfectly said.
00:56:48.000 Prince Philip, I think, is 99 years old in the hospital.
00:56:48.000 And he's exactly right.
00:56:52.000 Now, some of you might be emailing us, and I can see your emails.
00:56:55.000 Charlie, enough of the monarchy.
00:56:56.000 It's not about the monarchy.
00:56:58.000 It's about a system of laws that they are now trying to implement domestically here in the United States.
00:57:04.000 And it's directly connected with the gun control fight happening right now in the U.S. House of Representatives.
00:57:11.000 In the United Kingdom, they do not have a Second Amendment.
00:57:15.000 In the United Kingdom, they don't have a First Amendment, and they don't have a Fourth Amendment.
00:57:19.000 We should be abundantly and eternally thankful for our founding fathers to have the clairvoyance, to have the foresight, hundreds of years ago, to know that there would be power-hungry dictators and tyrants that want to shut you up, take your ability to defend yourself away, and spy on you and walk directly into your private property.
00:57:42.000 And so all of this, in some sense, at least Megan Markle's response to this, is about her trying to run for president of the United States.
00:57:52.000 I read the other day that Michelle Obama is going to retire. 0.79
00:57:55.000 What are you retiring from?
00:57:55.000 She's thinking of her.
00:57:58.000 You don't do anything.
00:57:59.000 You do like a Netflix special once a quarter and sit at your mansion in Martha's Vineyard and call everyone a racist.
00:58:05.000 Say, well, now we could take a mental break now that Joe Biden is president.
00:58:10.000 Donald Trump was living rent-free in your head.
00:58:13.000 What are you retiring from?
00:58:15.000 Have you worked in the last decade, Michelle Obama?
00:58:17.000 I don't understand what you're retiring from.
00:58:19.000 Tough life it must be to fly around on private jets, sign book deals.
00:58:25.000 This idea that it's so difficult to be very wealthy as a minority in America is quite honestly a reprehensible disgrace.
00:58:37.000 It is.
00:58:38.000 Megan Markle complaining to billionaire Oprah Winfrey about how terrible everything is.
00:58:43.000 And Michelle Obama unrelated to this, that she's going to retire.
00:58:45.000 Okay, go ahead.
00:58:50.000 And so how is Piers Morgan responding to this?
00:58:52.000 Courageously.
00:58:56.000 Thanks for all the love and hate.
00:58:57.000 I'm off to spend more time with my opinions.
00:59:01.000 He said, quote, on Monday, I said I didn't believe Megan Markle in her Oprah Winfrey interview.
00:59:06.000 I've had the time to reflect on this opinion, and I still don't.
00:59:08.000 If you did, okay, freedom of speech is a hill.
00:59:10.000 And good for you, Piers Morgan. 0.58
00:59:10.000 I'm happy to die. 0.58
00:59:12.000 You are fighting for the right thing.
00:59:14.000 While I disagree with you a lot on politics, and I think he was very unfair towards Donald Trump in the election, the liberation of speech is a moral crusade for anyone to be on.
00:59:24.000 And that is really a point of continuity.
00:59:31.000 That's not the right word, but it's something that we have in common.
00:59:33.000 Point of commonality.
00:59:34.000 That's the one I'm looking for.
00:59:35.000 Between the United Kingdom and America right now, it's a similar culture war.
00:59:40.000 And so while I go after Megan Markle and Piers Morgan goes after Megan Markle, and we have different threats, you see, Piers Morgan now, I guess he could go to jail.
00:59:49.000 Is that what Ofcom potentially has is criminal penalties?
00:59:52.000 That's probably unrealistic, but I'm guessing he could be fined.
00:59:57.000 Yeah, fines.
00:59:58.000 Civil or criminal fines.
01:00:00.000 More fines is what I'm being told.
01:00:03.000 Is that that's what he has to worry about.
01:00:05.000 But understand that the new ruling class that wants to govern our planet, and most specifically the Western world, and even more specifically than that in America, what's the one thing that they can't handle?
01:00:22.000 Mockery, accusation, and honesty.
01:00:26.000 You see, it's very interesting.
01:00:28.000 If you study dictators and tyrants, they always shut up the comedians and the truth tellers.
01:00:36.000 Always.
01:00:36.000 It's a reason why they had Socrates killed, and there's a reason why they had Cicero killed.
01:00:41.000 Of course, there's a reason why they had Jesus killed.
01:00:44.000 Truth tellers throughout time, Galileo is another example.
01:00:49.000 They had him in prison, not killed.
01:00:53.000 They are a bother.
01:00:55.000 They're a threat to tyrants that have, possess, and display unwarranted power over the citizenry.
01:01:05.000 So Megan Markle says, how dare you accuse me?
01:01:07.000 What have you ever done in your life, Megan Markle?
01:01:10.000 You were on suits?
01:01:10.000 I don't even heard of this show before.
01:01:12.000 Suits. 0.61
01:01:13.000 The heck is that? 0.61
01:01:16.000 You married Prince Harry.
01:01:17.000 Congratulations.
01:01:19.000 You want the whole world to pander and cater to you because you signed a Netflix deal.
01:01:22.000 It's not how it works in this country.
01:01:28.000 And the inability to even ask questions is under attack from every power center in the Western world.
01:01:36.000 And God bless Piers Morgan for standing against it.
01:01:39.000 And God bless Madison Cawthorne for standing against the other infringement on our liberties and our freedoms.
01:01:44.000 There's two stories I want to get to here.
01:01:47.000 This one in particular.
01:01:49.000 Washington Post, Amazon, Washington Post.
01:01:51.000 Remember the whole saga around Donald Trump pressuring a Georgia election investigator in a call legal experts could call could amount to obstruction.
01:02:05.000 You remember this whole thing?
01:02:06.000 Where Donald Trump called Georgia and everyone condemned it?
01:02:10.000 Now, this is January 9th, January 9th, 2021.
01:02:15.000 And without issuing a new story, you have to go back to the original story.
01:02:21.000 Is that right, Connor?
01:02:22.000 Go back to the original story.
01:02:25.000 And it says, two months after, correction, two months after publication of the story, the Georgia Secretary of State released an audio recording of President Donald Trump's December phone call with the state top election investigator.
01:02:38.000 The recording revealed that the Post misquoted Trump's comments on the call based on information provided by a source.
01:02:44.000 Trump did not tell the investigator to, quote, find the fraud or say she would be a national hero if she did so.
01:02:49.000 Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize the ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, asserting she would find dishonesty there.
01:02:56.000 He also told her that she had the most important job in the country right now.
01:02:59.000 A story about the recording can be found here.
01:03:01.000 The headline and the text of the story have been corrected and removed quotes misattributed to Trump.
01:03:05.000 Two months later, no one will be held accountable for this.
01:03:09.000 No one will be fired.
01:03:12.000 And they slandered Donald Trump.
01:03:15.000 He should sue.
01:03:16.000 And I think he would win on this, actually.
01:03:19.000 In other news, the Vatican got something right. 0.94
01:03:23.000 The Vatican came out and said that priests can't bless gay unions because God cannot bless sin. 0.99
01:03:30.000 It's well-accepted Catholic teaching.
01:03:32.000 And then Don Laman came out and he said that the Vatican declaring God cannot bless same-sex unions is: quote, God is not about hindering people or even judging people.
01:03:45.000 Interesting. 0.99
01:03:46.000 Hindering people.
01:03:48.000 Well, maybe Don believes in an Eastern religious God, but the God of the Bible says very clearly that there are laws, and if you follow them, those laws will set you free.
01:03:59.000 Watch Don Laman with Megan McCain.
01:04:01.000 Well, I think there are, listen, I respect people's right to believe in whatever they want to believe in, their God.
01:04:07.000 But if you believe in something that hurts another person or that does not give someone the same rights or freedoms, not necessarily under the Constitution, because this is under God, I think that that's wrong.
01:04:19.000 And I think that the Catholic Church and many other churches really need to re-examine themselves and their teachings because that is not what God is about.
01:04:28.000 God is not about hindering people or even judging people.
01:04:32.000 Go out and meet people and try to understand people and do what the Bible and what Jesus actually said if you believe in Jesus, and that is to love your fellow man and judge not lest ye be not judged.
01:04:45.000 So he is talking about the God of the Bible.
01:04:47.000 He's not talking about some Zorastrianism Middle Eastern sun worshiping God or some Eastern meditative God.
01:04:55.000 Now, Don Laman probably is reading a different book.
01:04:58.000 I would encourage Don Laman to read the book of Leviticus.
01:05:01.000 There's a couple rules there.
01:05:03.000 This idea that God is a God that wants you to be self-indulgent limitlessly and endlessly is not even close to being true.
01:05:12.000 You see, God gave a moral framework for all people to live by.
01:05:17.000 Include not just the Ten Commandments, but all the laws throughout the Bible.
01:05:24.000 So according to Don Lemon or Don Laman, God is not about hindering people or even judging people.
01:05:30.000 So according to Don Lemon, God does not speak clearly about child pedophilia or about murder, about genocide or rape, because God's not a judging God.
01:05:41.000 And according to Don Lemon, God is not about hindering people.
01:05:44.000 Why would we prevent Stalin from killing 50 million people?
01:05:48.000 What Don Lemon is really talking about is a moral relativist God.
01:05:53.000 It sounds good in New York City social circles.
01:05:56.000 You see, love is not the acceptance of all things.
01:06:00.000 Love is truth and the clear, transparent guidelines of how human beings are supposed to live on this earth.
01:06:11.000 And Don Lemon introducing, not just introducing, but this is a growing trend in American Christianity, is why we have so much moral confusion in our country.
01:06:21.000 What is the truth of the George Floyd controversy?
01:06:25.000 Well, a phenomenal article was written by Unwoke Narrative, and we are going to do an entire video from unwokenarrative.com of the truth of the George Floyd death, and it will stun you.
01:06:40.000 I learned a lot in this article, and it's different than what the media is telling you.
01:06:46.000 And it's going to be exclusively on our YouTube channel and also on our podcast feed.
01:06:51.000 And especially subscribe to our podcast feed because just looking at the fact hurricane that is in this piece of document from Unwoke Narrative, we might lose our YouTube channel.
01:07:03.000 I hope I don't.
01:07:03.000 But it's just so much facts, they won't be able to handle it because it goes right up against the narrative.
01:07:13.000 Let's take a couple questions here.
01:07:17.000 Let's say here, hi, Charlie.
01:07:18.000 The spread of critical race theory and anti-American sentiment has taken over most churches in my area.
01:07:23.000 How do I find Christ in a Bible-centered and pro-Western civilization church?
01:07:27.000 I don't know what church, what area you're in, but look, please email us if this is something you're dealing with.
01:07:33.000 We are building a network of churches that are non-woke, that are biblical-based.
01:07:37.000 Please email us where you are and basically the troubles and the difficulties as you have in your local area.
01:07:45.000 Here's one.
01:07:46.000 Noah says, hey, Charlie, absolutely love your show.
01:07:49.000 Thank you for always speaking facts and biblical truth.
01:07:52.000 I'm possibly going to be moving to New York, and I need a church to attend you while you're there.
01:07:56.000 I have a very good one for you.
01:07:57.000 I currently attend Pastor Jack's Calvary Church, Geno Hills.
01:08:01.000 I'd love to find a church in New York City that is also fully open.
01:08:04.000 Do you have any recommendations?
01:08:05.000 Noah from University of San Diego.
01:08:07.000 First of all, thank you, Noah.
01:08:08.000 Yes, Pastor David Engelhart's King's Church is phenomenal.
01:08:13.000 Check it out.
01:08:14.000 Pastor David Engelhart's church is terrific.
01:08:18.000 So thank you, Noah, for that in the New York area.
01:08:21.000 How about this?
01:08:22.000 Let's go to another question here.
01:08:27.000 This is one about Mayo Clinic, actually.
01:08:30.000 I'm going to try to find this one out.
01:08:31.000 Where's this Mayo Clinic one?
01:08:32.000 This is an unbelievable email that we got.
01:08:36.000 Okay.
01:08:36.000 I'm not going to share this person's name because they asked us not to, which is that Mayo Clinic, which is supposed to be a place about healing and finding scientific breakthroughs.
01:08:47.000 Mayo Clinic approves use of personal pronouns in email signatures and on buttons, basically endorsing this idea that your gender is merely an opinion, which is anti-science.
01:09:01.000 Mayo Clinic now says personal pronouns can be used in email signatures, in keeping with the email signature policy and on buttons in compliance with address and decorum policy.
01:09:11.000 The left will destroy everything they touch.
01:09:14.000 So here's the real question.
01:09:16.000 Will Mayo Clinic now allow children to declare as non-binary when they come out of their mother's womb?
01:09:23.000 Will they declare a male or female on a birth certificate?
01:09:28.000 Man and woman. 1.00
01:09:30.000 There are only two genders. 1.00
01:09:32.000 It's that simple.
01:09:34.000 People might suffer from gender dysphoria.
01:09:36.000 I hope they find healing, counseling, and compassion to help them with that tragic condition if they think they are something other than they are not.
01:09:45.000 And Mayo Clinic is playing right into it.
01:09:48.000 Next question here.
01:09:49.000 Hey, Charlie, my name is Chase.
01:09:51.000 I'm not going to say the last name.
01:09:52.000 I almost did.
01:09:53.000 I shouldn't do that just because I don't want people to lose their livelihood.
01:09:56.000 I'm a proud patriot and conservative.
01:09:58.000 Love your show and love your insight on a question that came up over the weekend.
01:10:01.000 Coming up in late June of last year, I'll be traveling with my fiancé and her family to Disney World.
01:10:06.000 I then brought up to my fiancé, her family, who is left-leaning, that I'd be even more excited because the free state, you don't have to wear masks there.
01:10:14.000 My fiancé's mom said that's not true and that Texas was the only state that has gone fully open, though masks. 0.99
01:10:18.000 She then decided to throw in that they were idiots for doing so, so I had to hold my tongue. 0.89
01:10:22.000 Anyways, I've been listening for about a year and I got the impression that Ron DeSantis was the people's governor and that Florida was the best state to be in at that moment. 0.94
01:10:28.000 Could you clear that up for me, please?
01:10:29.000 Florida is a fully open state.
01:10:31.000 Masks are optional in most business establishments.
01:10:34.000 I don't think, I don't know what Disney World and what their guidelines are.
01:10:37.000 I was just in Florida for the last two weeks.
01:10:39.000 There is no mask Stasi in Florida.
01:10:41.000 But you should ask your fiancé's family, why is it that Florida, with the second elderliest population, has a better virus death rate and hospitalization rate than almost any of these other states?
01:10:52.000 And why is it that California with mask mandates and lockdowns has a higher death rate and higher hospitalization rate?
01:10:59.000 And why is it that you need a mask mandate?
01:11:01.000 If you think masks work, why don't you still wear a mask?
01:11:04.000 Why do you need to use the full force of the government to impose what you think is right, even though there is no scientific data to show that masks have any sort of impact of the spread of the Chinese coronavirus?
01:11:18.000 And if you think they work, so be it.
01:11:19.000 I am mask agnostic.
01:11:21.000 Agnostic comes back from the Greek word, agnosis, without knowledge.
01:11:28.000 I want to thank some of our supporters at charliekirk.com slash support.
01:11:32.000 Wow.
01:11:33.000 I want to thank Francis from Scottsdale for just giving us $250 at charliekirk.com slash support.
01:11:40.000 Thank you so much.
01:11:41.000 That is so awesome.
01:11:42.000 Jesse says she is in the western Twin City, Minnesota suburbs.
01:11:46.000 Jesse, I do have a church for you.
01:11:47.000 I will respond to you after the show.
01:11:49.000 Thank you.
01:11:50.000 Let's see here.
01:11:51.000 Another question around churches.
01:11:53.000 It seems as if this is a big issue.
01:11:55.000 Hey, Charlie, we are searching for a church home exactly as you described.
01:11:58.000 We're located in the New Orleans, Baton Rouge area.
01:12:01.000 Any hope you could give us in locating an Ecclesia network would be greatly appreciated.
01:12:04.000 We'd love what you're doing at Turning Point USA.
01:12:06.000 And they continue by saying, perhaps you could share with your listeners and their resources how to be better Christians.
01:12:12.000 We absolutely will.
01:12:14.000 And I love Wall Builders and Dave Ramsey's Baby Steps.
01:12:17.000 So Ben and Tiffany, thank you for watching.
01:12:19.000 I will send you a church recommendation.
01:12:21.000 And I'm going to send this to myself just as a reminder.
01:12:24.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com right here.
01:12:32.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
01:12:33.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
01:12:36.000 And again, go to tpusa.com slash genfree if you want to come hear me speak in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, Nashville, Vegas, or San Jose.
01:12:45.000 And our Young Women's Leadership Summit is coming up in June, tpusa.com slash YWLS.
01:12:51.000 God bless you guys.
01:12:52.000 Talk to you soon.
01:12:56.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.