The Charlie Kirk Show - March 11, 2025


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In this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, I sit down with the President of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, to discuss his views on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and why it was bad for our country.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
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00:00:21.000 Here we go.
00:00:22.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:01:18.000 Hello.
00:01:21.000 Be respectful, guys.
00:01:25.000 He can do what he wants.
00:01:27.000 Oh, can I start now?
00:01:29.000 Nice to meet you, Charlie.
00:01:31.000 I'm a big fan.
00:01:32.000 I think you're a very beautiful man.
00:01:33.000 I admire you physically.
00:01:36.000 No homo! 1.00
00:01:40.000 I did have a question.
00:01:41.000 Something I don't find very interesting about you, something I find kind of repulsive, is that I believe you said that the Civil Rights Act was bad and that we shouldn't have that.
00:01:52.000 Okay.
00:01:53.000 Oh, thank you.
00:01:53.000 I appreciate that.
00:01:54.000 I don't like you as much as Charlie, though.
00:01:56.000 First of all, what's your name?
00:01:57.000 Oh, oh.
00:01:58.000 Sorry.
00:01:59.000 I don't want to be, like, filmed and stuff.
00:02:00.000 Too late.
00:02:00.000 I'm anonymous, number one.
00:02:02.000 Anonymous guy.
00:02:04.000 Okay.
00:02:05.000 Well, hello.
00:02:06.000 Nice to meet you, anonymous guy.
00:02:07.000 Thank you.
00:02:07.000 Thank you.
00:02:07.000 Nice to meet you, too.
00:02:08.000 Yeah.
00:02:09.000 I believe in part of the essence of the Civil Rights Act.
00:02:11.000 Went way too far, way too wide.
00:02:13.000 Oh, how'd it go too far?
00:02:14.000 Well, for example, it created an entire civil rights leviathan that gave us affirmative action.
00:02:18.000 Civil rights leviathan? 0.96
00:02:19.000 What do you mean?
00:02:20.000 Yeah, so if you can let me finish three words in.
00:02:22.000 Sorry.
00:02:22.000 It allowed the Department of Justice to go after people that have different skin color, a.k.a.
00:02:28.000 white people, and prevent them from getting jobs in college admissions. 0.61
00:02:31.000 You have a job.
00:02:31.000 I'm sorry?
00:02:32.000 You have a job.
00:02:33.000 No, you're right.
00:02:34.000 I do.
00:02:35.000 Right.
00:02:35.000 But just until Trump came around, until the Supreme Court decision, thanks to the Civil Rights Act.
00:02:41.000 If you have white skin color, it's much harder to get into a college than if someone has black skin color. 1.00
00:02:45.000 Much harder.
00:02:45.000 You have to get higher test scores.
00:02:46.000 It's a much harder pool, largely thanks to the precedent set by the Civil Rights Act.
00:02:51.000 Not to mention all the trans stuff that we're seeing. 0.99
00:02:53.000 We're seeing men be able to win trophies and medals from women across the country, and they use the Civil Rights Act to justify it.
00:03:00.000 Okay, I think I see where you're coming from.
00:03:01.000 So you think that it's harder for white people, because black people, they could have lower tech scores?
00:03:07.000 That's not what I think.
00:03:08.000 That's what you're saying.
00:03:09.000 Okay.
00:03:10.000 Well, I guess what I would say, too, I think perhaps, you're familiar with the term equity, right?
00:03:15.000 Where different people have different circumstances.
00:03:18.000 It's Marxism.
00:03:19.000 I reject the framing.
00:03:21.000 Whether you reject it or not, I think it's a prescient concept in this argument.
00:03:26.000 Because what you have to understand is that when you're, for example, you're born in like a black name.
00:03:30.000 You're born in like Oblock or something. 0.77
00:03:33.000 Oblock?
00:03:34.000 You don't know what Oblock is?
00:03:36.000 Oh, if you're born there, if you're born in a very poor area like that, with very low economic opportunity, very poor schools, very low ratings, where the average test score is much lower, when you're in that environment, you have the whole system up against you, right?
00:03:49.000 So when you say in that kind of circumstance, when you're facing the whole, I guess, leviathan of systemic racism, when you say it's fair to, for example, lower the standard because knowing that their circumstances were like that, perhaps based on What they had was presented to them.
00:04:07.000 They had the correct amount of merit to get into a school.
00:04:10.000 Okay, so are you a student here?
00:04:12.000 I'm guessing you are.
00:04:12.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:04:13.000 I'm a student here.
00:04:13.000 Are you a pretty good student?
00:04:14.000 Oh, yeah.
00:04:15.000 I would say I'm a good student.
00:04:15.000 I have a pretty high GPA. Okay.
00:04:17.000 Can you give your GPA to her because she's a woman of color, please?
00:04:19.000 Oh, well, you want me to give you a...
00:04:21.000 I mean, I can.
00:04:22.000 Would you be willing to do that?
00:04:23.000 Yeah, sure, yeah, sure.
00:04:24.000 You'd be cool with that?
00:04:26.000 Yeah, I'm fine.
00:04:26.000 Wait, wait.
00:04:27.000 You mean, like, tell her or, like, give it to her?
00:04:29.000 No, by force.
00:04:29.000 Like, we're swapping it.
00:04:30.000 Let me tell what I'm going to do.
00:04:31.000 By force, white man. 0.53
00:04:33.000 Okay, yeah.
00:04:33.000 I'm going to take your GPA. I'm going to give it to a woman of color.
00:04:36.000 Okay.
00:04:37.000 You're cool with that.
00:04:38.000 I mean, yeah, I can just work back up.
00:04:40.000 No, there's no working back up.
00:04:42.000 I can pull myself out of my boots.
00:04:44.000 No, there's no working back up.
00:04:45.000 What do you mean you can't work back up?
00:04:46.000 That's the whole point of conservatism, isn't it?
00:04:47.000 I'm going to keep on taking it from you because that's equity.
00:04:50.000 And you're cool with that.
00:04:51.000 What?
00:04:51.000 This is equity in practice.
00:04:53.000 Equity isn't taking.
00:04:53.000 Equity is applying the equal standard.
00:04:55.000 If you give, how do you get?
00:04:56.000 You must take and then you give.
00:04:58.000 Wait, what do you mean?
00:04:59.000 That which is given must first be taken.
00:05:01.000 Well, what's being taken?
00:05:03.000 Well, in this case...
00:05:04.000 Grades from you to grades to her.
00:05:06.000 No one's taking my grades, though.
00:05:07.000 That's not what affirmative action is.
00:05:09.000 No one takes your grades.
00:05:10.000 Hold on a second.
00:05:11.000 You only have so many positions at University of South Florida to come in, right?
00:05:16.000 There's a set number.
00:05:18.000 Let's say it's 20,000 people, okay?
00:05:20.000 And we're going to say we're going to lower the test standards so that somebody that's a woman of color can come in, and therefore it's harder for you. 1.00
00:05:27.000 So it's a higher bar for you, lower bar for them.
00:05:30.000 Definitionally, that's a redistribution of test scores to somebody else.
00:05:33.000 Just buy the definition.
00:05:35.000 And you're okay with that.
00:05:36.000 Well, I guess I would ask then, if we were to do what you're doing, I guess that's what's happening under Trump, right?
00:05:41.000 Well, no, it's actually been happening the last 40 years.
00:05:43.000 Oh, okay, actually, yeah, whatever.
00:05:44.000 Okay, so when you say that, if you do that, then, well, black people aren't going to get into school, and then they won't be able to uplift themselves, they won't be able to have prosperous families, they won't be able to, you know, equalize the economic status, because you need to give them a little jump start.
00:05:56.000 You know what, you have a car, right?
00:05:57.000 How is that, how is that, well, no, now I know who you are.
00:06:00.000 No, no, no, no, no, it's good.
00:06:01.000 But no, how has that worked the last 40 years?
00:06:03.000 We've had robust affirmative action, we've had higher...
00:06:07.000 Oh, I can answer that easily.
00:06:09.000 It's because...
00:06:10.000 Oh, sorry.
00:06:11.000 It's because...
00:06:12.000 Sorry.
00:06:13.000 What am I going for?
00:06:14.000 I don't know.
00:06:17.000 You're a funny guy.
00:06:19.000 So, what happened is, even after the Civil Rights Act...
00:06:22.000 You know what I believe?
00:06:23.000 I believe the term is massive...
00:06:25.000 It was a movement after the Broad v.
00:06:29.000 Board of Education in Virginia where essentially the legislature, which was still white supremacist, which is still extremely racist, they decided that, no, we're going to do everything that's feasibly possible within our means to stop black people from going to white schools.
00:06:42.000 You even see this in...
00:06:43.000 I believe it was the Little Rock Nine, right?
00:06:45.000 Even after it was legalized at the state level, white supremacist mobs still mobilized to prevent it.
00:06:51.000 So even if de facto it's gone, it still exists.
00:06:54.000 Let me ask you a very simple question, a term you keep on throwing around.
00:06:58.000 Got you.
00:06:59.000 What is racism?
00:07:00.000 What is racism?
00:07:01.000 That's a very complicated question.
00:07:03.000 No, it's not.
00:07:05.000 I mean, there's a simple answer, and then there's the highly theoretical answer.
00:07:08.000 Give me the simple.
00:07:08.000 The simple answer will essentially be because...
00:07:13.000 Because we have, like, different skin colors that he's treated a different way than me.
00:07:16.000 He has, like, a different...
00:07:17.000 I'm bringing to me...
00:07:18.000 No, no, no.
00:07:19.000 But what is racism in practice?
00:07:21.000 Oh, it's discrimination.
00:07:22.000 Based on the color of the skin.
00:07:23.000 Based on the color of the skin, yeah.
00:07:24.000 Got it.
00:07:24.000 Thank you.
00:07:25.000 So isn't it racist, then, to then penalize white people to come into college or to get jobs based on the color of their skin?
00:07:31.000 Wouldn't that be racist?
00:07:33.000 So you're arguing for a very racist policy, which is that we should actively discriminate against people based on the color of their skin, which is affirmative action and DEI in practice.
00:07:42.000 I just don't...
00:07:42.000 I just disagree with the premise that you can do, like, anti-white racism because, uh...
00:07:48.000 Wait, can you be racist against white people?
00:07:51.000 No, bro, I'm a cracker, bro.
00:07:53.000 What the f***?
00:07:53.000 No, you can't be racist.
00:07:54.000 Bro, there's so many crackers here, bro.
00:07:58.000 There's your clip, bro.
00:07:59.000 There's your clip You're going to do political violence to me bro?
00:08:08.000 Like, why are you saying that to me?
00:08:10.000 You're making me scared.
00:08:14.000 So let me tell you what we believe, because you tell us what you believe.
00:08:17.000 Your worldview is indistinguishable from the KKK. That you want to organize the world based on skin color. 0.97
00:08:24.000 We want to organize the world based on merit and character.
00:08:28.000 Based on how hard you work.
00:08:29.000 What you bring to the table.
00:08:31.000 I believe it's destructive and wrong to say that people are going to be organized or have their future set based on the color of their skin.
00:08:39.000 I think it's tribalistic.
00:08:41.000 I think it is divisive.
00:08:42.000 And I think it hurts the excellence of a country.
00:08:45.000 You asked a question, well, how are we going to help other communities?
00:08:48.000 You know how you help other communities?
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00:10:01.000 Okay, so do you think when Trump is now a nice president, now that racism is gone now because Trump is back, we're no longer pandering, right?
00:10:09.000 Do you think that the conditions of black people, do you think O-Block is going to become a much nicer place? 1.00
00:10:17.000 Do you think that these very downturned sort of black neighborhoods that have been sort of left behind, do you think they're going to become revitalized now?
00:10:24.000 Is that what you think is going to happen?
00:10:25.000 Yeah, they'll do better for sure.
00:10:26.000 Do you think they're going to do better?
00:10:28.000 Now that we've stopped helping them, they're going to do better.
00:10:30.000 Well, see, that's an interesting thing.
00:10:32.000 Because that seems, like, contradictory to me, just on basic logic.
00:10:34.000 Well, actually, black Americans under Donald Trump in the first term saw the greatest economic renaissance that they saw since the 1950s.
00:10:41.000 Do you don't think that's due to Obama, though?
00:10:42.000 Highest wage increases, lowest unemployment, revitalization, amazing investment in their communities, opportunity zones.
00:10:48.000 But that's when we had affirmative action, so wouldn't that be bad? 0.98
00:10:51.000 Well, again, we actually got rid of affirmative action now.
00:10:53.000 It's going to do even better.
00:10:54.000 Those are unrelated things, though, just to be perfectly clear.
00:10:57.000 They don't seem unrelated to me.
00:10:59.000 Affirmative action is...
00:11:01.000 Affirmative action is...
00:11:02.000 I'm sorry, I don't mean to interrupt you.
00:11:06.000 Affirmative action is largely federal government hiring practices and the adjacent institutions.
00:11:11.000 I think that all communities will do even better when we stop living under the soft bigotry of low expectations.
00:11:18.000 Inherent in your argument...
00:11:20.000 Is that we have to pander to certain communities based on the color of their skin because they can't do as well as white people. 0.89
00:11:25.000 I reject the premise.
00:11:26.000 I think that we should try to say, I don't care about the color of your skin. 0.99
00:11:29.000 I care about what you bring to the table.
00:11:31.000 And stop pandering to people based on special criteria, points, and acceptance to college, saying that we're going to make it easier for one group and harder for another group.
00:11:39.000 I don't think it's pandering, though.
00:11:40.000 I think it's understanding.
00:11:41.000 I think it's understanding the respective circumstances and working based on that.
00:11:45.000 Do you think that we should have black-only dormitories in America? 0.97
00:11:48.000 No, why would I want that?
00:11:49.000 Okay, well, there's hundreds of schools that have those, actually.
00:11:52.000 White people are not allowed in. 1.00
00:11:54.000 No, white people are not allowed in.
00:11:55.000 White people, yeah, that's why I said white people are not allowed in. 1.00
00:11:57.000 Correct.
00:11:57.000 We have black-only graduation ceremonies across the country.
00:12:00.000 Well, those are from, I believe those are most likely like HBCUs, right?
00:12:04.000 No.
00:12:05.000 The University of Michigan has one.
00:12:06.000 Harvard has one.
00:12:08.000 So we're agreeing that that is wrong.
00:12:10.000 That is the furthest extension of hyper-race obsession.
00:12:13.000 So you can choose one or the other.
00:12:15.000 You can be race-obsessed or merit-obsessed.
00:12:17.000 We, as conservatives, decide to be merit-obsessed.
00:12:20.000 To build a country based on how hard you work and what you're able to deliver.
00:12:25.000 Okay, well, uh...
00:12:28.000 So, wait, here, just...
00:12:29.000 Final point?
00:12:30.000 Yeah, final point, sure, okay.
00:12:33.000 This thing's a little close...
00:12:34.000 Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend your wonderful setup here.
00:12:38.000 Yeah, so I guess I'll just restate my point that I don't believe...
00:12:43.000 You mentioned, like, all-black dormitories, right?
00:12:46.000 I mean, I don't really comment on that.
00:12:48.000 I mean, I don't know if that's real.
00:12:49.000 To me, that sounds fake, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here.
00:12:52.000 It's very real.
00:12:53.000 Okay.
00:12:53.000 But I just think it's a very irrelevant kind of, like, aesthetic-focused thing.
00:12:57.000 It doesn't really affect the material conditions of, like, black people.
00:13:00.000 But if you heard there were white-only dormitories, there'd be marching in the streets, right?
00:13:03.000 Oh, well, because, okay.
00:13:05.000 What's the difference?
00:13:06.000 The difference is, like, for example, if you want to go back to segregation, the all-white dormitory was nice as s*** and the all-black one was s***. 0.84
00:13:11.000 So if that's...
00:13:13.000 If that was brought back, if we were to do it all by dormitory...
00:13:16.000 I'm not recommending it.
00:13:17.000 I think actually segregation is wrong and evil and we're heading...
00:13:19.000 Until Donald Trump, we were heading in that direction.
00:13:22.000 Until...
00:13:23.000 But, like, okay, I'll go back to, because I did let it slip by, but you mentioned that, like, in the early years of the Donald Trump presidency, right, that the conditions for the employment and stuff were going up for black people.
00:13:33.000 What I would say is the economy works slow.
00:13:36.000 It works at, like, a time dilation for policies initially enacted.
00:13:39.000 So what I would probably assume, based on what you said to me, is that it was the Obama-era policies that actually led to that and not the Trump policies, because stuff like tax cuts for the rich doesn't really help black people.
00:13:49.000 In a year from now, we're going to have the greatest economy ever.
00:13:51.000 They're going to say it's all Biden.
00:13:53.000 It's all Biden.
00:13:54.000 Well, I mean, if we...
00:13:55.000 I don't think that's going to happen.
00:13:56.000 Personally, I think the economy's going to s*** with what all Elon Musk is doing.
00:13:58.000 But if that was to happen, I mean, s***.
00:14:02.000 I guess my whole world view, but I'm pretty certain it's not going to happen.
00:14:05.000 What about what Elon's doing bothers you?
00:14:07.000 Do you not want to see the government efficient?
00:14:09.000 The government is efficient.
00:14:10.000 He's just firing everybody.
00:14:12.000 Looks like he did to Twitter, right?
00:14:13.000 Y'all see what happened?
00:14:13.000 The Twitter brat's racist s*** now.
00:14:15.000 It's the Nazi haven. 0.92
00:14:16.000 It went from, like, a pretty accepting place to, like...
00:14:21.000 Where, like, the average blue checkmark is saying, like, Elon Musk himself has replied to, like, well, he did the Nazi salute.
00:14:27.000 Like, we're not going to forget about that, are we?
00:14:28.000 No, he didn't.
00:14:29.000 What do you mean?
00:14:30.000 Y'all see that clip, bro?
00:14:31.000 Y'all see when he did that?
00:14:33.000 All right.
00:14:33.000 Oh, okay.
00:14:34.000 And by the way, I just want to thank you for something.
00:14:36.000 You're welcome.
00:14:37.000 I want to thank you.
00:14:37.000 Do I get a portion of, like, the TikTok revenue you're going to get from this?
00:14:40.000 I want to thank you.
00:14:41.000 I want to thank you for something.
00:14:42.000 Oh, yeah.
00:14:43.000 You are a perfect reminder why we won in November.
00:14:47.000 So thank you for that.
00:14:48.000 I really appreciate it.
00:14:48.000 Thank you.
00:14:49.000 Yes.
00:14:56.000 Hi.
00:14:57.000 Yes.
00:15:02.000 Charlie, can you sign my hat?
00:15:04.000 I feel like I'm just going to be like, I keep thinking.
00:15:08.000 Yes.
00:15:09.000 We got 15 minutes.
00:15:11.000 Let's stick with disagreements, guys.
00:15:16.000 Yes ma'am.
00:15:21.000 Hi, I'm starting my senior thesis this semester on political polarization and the effects social media and echo chambers has on political polarization.
00:15:29.000 Talk right in the mic, and guys, please give her a chance to speak, okay?
00:15:32.000 Bring your mic down a little bit.
00:15:36.000 Hi.
00:15:37.000 So I'm starting my senior thesis this year on political polarization and the effects social media and Echo Chambers has on it.
00:15:43.000 So my question is, how would you describe the relationship between social media and political polarization, especially now that Elon Musk owns X and has advocated for freedom of speech?
00:15:54.000 Yeah, I mean, I think that more speech is always better.
00:15:57.000 Again, this is going to sound somewhat polarizing, but I don't think it's the right that's polarized in the country, and I'll prove it to you.
00:16:02.000 Donald Trump has two people in his cabinet that ran for president as Democrats.
00:16:07.000 Tulsi Gabbard and Bobby Kennedy.
00:16:09.000 It's the Republican Party that is the unity party welcoming more people in.
00:16:12.000 We're the ones that go to these campuses and have an uninterrupted mic for two hours.
00:16:16.000 I mean, do liberals come to campus and have an open mic for two hours, we can say?
00:16:20.000 Really?
00:16:20.000 That's interesting.
00:16:21.000 They say no.
00:16:23.000 Well, thank you.
00:16:24.000 And so we are the party of free speech.
00:16:26.000 They're the party that's not.
00:16:27.000 And look, we welcome all ideas and we agree to disagree.
00:16:30.000 And, yeah, look, we are becoming more polarized.
00:16:32.000 I think we're becoming less polarized because we won in November, thankfully.
00:16:35.000 There's all this clamoring minority of people that are angry because USAID doesn't exist.
00:16:39.000 But the majority of people support President Trump, what he's doing.
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00:18:05.000 Yes, my vaccine friend.
00:18:06.000 How are you?
00:18:11.000 All right, Charlie.
00:18:16.000 So, I ran for State Senate because our government doesn't work well.
00:18:21.000 There's a lot of waste.
00:18:22.000 There's a lot of bloat.
00:18:23.000 And yet, the things that you're advocating about going against are what help people.
00:18:28.000 Everybody here is...
00:18:30.000 Everybody's here because they support freedom.
00:18:32.000 Because, as you say, we want a freer market.
00:18:33.000 We want a freer place.
00:18:34.000 And yet these policies, like destroying the Department of Education, which I'm a teacher for, hurts our ability to take power in the marketplace.
00:18:41.000 It just adds to the few rich people owning all of us.
00:18:45.000 Right now in America, the top 0.01% have an average $600 million of wealth.
00:18:49.000 The bottom half have an average $7,000.
00:18:52.000 And by destroying the Department of Education, the Consumer Protection Bureau, that is actively helping those...
00:18:59.000 Rich people take all of our money.
00:19:02.000 Prove me wrong.
00:19:04.000 Okay, so Trump's been president for six weeks.
00:19:06.000 Sure.
00:19:07.000 Right.
00:19:07.000 So we had an oligarchy as Donald Trump was becoming president.
00:19:10.000 Yes.
00:19:11.000 We had all these agencies.
00:19:12.000 How did they prevent the oligarchy?
00:19:13.000 They didn't.
00:19:14.000 No, we have a bad oligarchy. 0.92
00:19:16.000 But Trump is increasing our oligarchy.
00:19:18.000 He had Jeff Bezos.
00:19:19.000 He had Tim Cook.
00:19:20.000 He had the richest people on earth who have more money than the bottom half of the country combined sitting right behind him.
00:19:26.000 Hold on a second.
00:19:26.000 And Elon Musk is helping those regulations get destroyed so that they can take even more power.
00:19:30.000 So they attended his inauguration as an attendee.
00:19:31.000 But let's go through one by one.
00:19:33.000 And they donated to it.
00:19:33.000 So let's go one by one.
00:19:35.000 Sure.
00:19:35.000 Let's first go to the Department of Education.
00:19:37.000 So, the Department of Education, which I'm guessing you're in favor of like $47 million going to improving learning outcomes in Asia?
00:19:43.000 Yeah, because helping other people helps us.
00:19:51.000 I'm a teacher.
00:19:52.000 When other people don't match our economy, when they can't participate in it, everybody's hurt by that.
00:19:58.000 So, I do have a question, though.
00:20:00.000 We're not even helping ourselves.
00:20:02.000 Why should we help other countries?
00:20:04.000 You're right!
00:20:05.000 We should help ourselves more.
00:20:06.000 And then he's funding the Department of Education, funding healthcare.
00:20:09.000 Let me finish.
00:20:10.000 How does one help oneself?
00:20:12.000 Have educational outcomes gotten better or worse since the creation of the Department of Education?
00:20:17.000 The bloated Department of Education, you are right.
00:20:19.000 We're spending way too much money on administration.
00:20:21.000 That money needs to be funding school meals.
00:20:23.000 That needs to be reducing class sizes.
00:20:24.000 You sound like a Doge advocate, man.
00:20:26.000 No, because Doge is not doing that.
00:20:27.000 By destroying the Department of Education, they're not funding Title I classrooms.
00:20:30.000 If we funded Title I classrooms with the money that we promised, every single classroom would get a paraprofessional, which would help my students immensely.
00:20:38.000 They are failing.
00:20:39.000 And as you're saying...
00:20:42.000 It's not.
00:20:43.000 The richest students get $2,000 more to their schools every year than the fourth quartile students.
00:20:48.000 I am curious, though, that the Department of Education, we've seen standards go down.
00:20:54.000 They want to send it back to the states.
00:20:57.000 By definition, we have the Department of Education.
00:20:59.000 11 million people are in education like yourself.
00:21:02.000 11 million of them.
00:21:04.000 6.7 million are administrators.
00:21:06.000 6.7 million are administrators.
00:21:08.000 Can we agree we should fire most of those administrators?
00:21:12.000 I can't say that because I don't know what those administrators do.
00:21:14.000 I think we have way too much money going to that.
00:21:15.000 You're a teacher.
00:21:16.000 Time out.
00:21:16.000 I got to interrupt you.
00:21:16.000 Are you a teacher?
00:21:17.000 Yeah.
00:21:17.000 What do the administrators in your school do?
00:21:19.000 They help us out a lot.
00:21:20.000 I mean, do you think I could manage my classroom?
00:21:22.000 Yes!
00:21:22.000 Absolutely!
00:21:22.000 You are wrong!
00:21:23.000 I mean, I could not manage my classroom unless I had an administration helping me out.
00:21:28.000 You need five administrators every one teacher.
00:21:30.000 That's the ratio.
00:21:31.000 That's bad.
00:21:32.000 You're right.
00:21:32.000 That's bad.
00:21:33.000 Okay, but that's the current ratio.
00:21:34.000 Five to one.
00:21:35.000 But secondly, let me ask you, this is a very important point.
00:21:37.000 It should be reduced, but it's showing the Department of Education is not the answer because then you hurt the American economy by not allowing people to build up their human capital.
00:21:43.000 Time out, time out.
00:21:43.000 We already have the evidence.
00:21:45.000 From the advent of Department of Education, we are now 26 in education.
00:21:48.000 We were top five when it started.
00:21:50.000 We're the lowest in reading, math, arithmetic in the Western world.
00:21:53.000 Department of Education has made our standards substandard.
00:21:56.000 And we spend $250 billion a year on the Department of Education, and yet our kids can't – we can't find a single kid that can read at grade level in a Baltimore public school or that can do math in a Chicago public school.
00:22:06.000 We keep on spending billions of dollars on it.
00:22:08.000 So maybe the solution is crush the current system, send the money back to the states, empower families and parents, moms and dads to spend the money as they see fit, more choice, more competition, and make it localized, not federalized.
00:22:20.000 The state of Florida introduced a bill.
00:22:22.000 My opponent introduced a bill to provide $7,000 for school choice in Florida.
00:22:27.000 That's government waste.
00:22:28.000 A lot of that money is going to Disney, to cruises.
00:22:31.000 That's increased waste.
00:22:32.000 It's also, every dollar that's taken out of the Florida public education system given to private families, 75% of that is going to families that can already...
00:22:41.000 You're against school choice?
00:22:42.000 75%.
00:22:43.000 I'm not against school choice as long as we fund education properly.
00:22:45.000 But 75% of the money is going to families that can already afford an education.
00:22:49.000 Which means my students are getting $3 billion taken out of their education to go directly to the richest Floridians.
00:22:56.000 Hold on, I just want to make sure I understand.
00:22:57.000 So you're against the money going to homeschooling?
00:22:59.000 Like, what do you mean by this Disney thing?
00:23:00.000 You're talking...
00:23:00.000 So, we need money going to where it's needed.
00:23:04.000 To school meals.
00:23:05.000 What is your critique?
00:23:06.000 You're saying $3 billion going to what?
00:23:08.000 So, $3 billion is being taken out of the public education system and given directly to the people who can already afford a private education.
00:23:15.000 For what reason?
00:23:16.000 To help people get their private education.
00:23:18.000 The problem is there also weren't restrictions on that to limit what the private schools could raise their tuition by.
00:23:24.000 You're totally wrong.
00:23:24.000 I got what you're saying.
00:23:25.000 How?
00:23:26.000 Show me the facts.
00:23:27.000 It's their taxpayer dollars that are coming back as a refund, right?
00:23:29.000 It's also the public taxpayer dollars that are putting their public money and they were giving back to private individuals that are going to the public system.
00:23:36.000 It's their own money that's coming back.
00:23:37.000 No, because you're advocating for rich people stealing our tax dollars.
00:23:39.000 Hold on.
00:23:39.000 It's easy to say, like, the rich people, right?
00:23:41.000 Yeah.
00:23:42.000 The 75% of the money that's going to private education.
00:23:44.000 How do you define rich, by the way?
00:23:45.000 How much money a year?
00:23:46.000 If you can afford a private education, which is anywhere from $15,000 to $40,000 a year, you are rich.
00:23:51.000 And 75% of the money going to the private...
00:23:53.000 Wait, and 75% of the money...
00:23:56.000 Half of all Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
00:23:59.000 If you can afford $40,000, you're richer than most people.
00:24:03.000 Now, 75%...
00:24:05.000 75% of the money that is going from the public education system into the private system is going to those who can already afford private education.
00:24:13.000 What is the number one predictor of student success?
00:24:16.000 How many years a teacher has been an educator.
00:24:18.000 Actually, the quality of this teacher.
00:24:20.000 Can we agree at least, because we'll not agree on everything, that we should be able to fire teachers at will?
00:24:25.000 At will is...
00:24:26.000 What do you mean at will?
00:24:27.000 For what cause?
00:24:27.000 If you're a bad teacher.
00:24:29.000 What do you mean by a bad teacher?
00:24:30.000 I mean, you're on the line.
00:24:32.000 No, what do you mean by bad teacher?
00:24:34.000 Someone who doesn't listen to their students, is not good at what they do.
00:24:38.000 Graded by other teachers.
00:24:39.000 So for cause, not at will.
00:24:40.000 Yes, we should fire teachers for cause. 0.83
00:24:43.000 Okay, but I think that...
00:24:44.000 Do we have too many teachers or not enough teachers?
00:24:46.000 In Hillsborough County alone, we're missing 1,200.
00:24:49.000 See, I reject the premise.
00:24:50.000 Across the state of Florida, there are 5,000 teachers.
00:24:52.000 That's 50,000 students without an educator.
00:24:55.000 You asked me a question.
00:24:55.000 Let me finish.
00:24:56.000 We need better, higher-paid teachers.
00:24:58.000 Yes, absolutely.
00:24:59.000 And Florida has the 48th lowest average teacher paid.
00:25:02.000 Why do you think that is?
00:25:03.000 Because we have a Republican-controlled state for the past 30 years that are increasingly taking away money for teachers.
00:25:08.000 But hold on.
00:25:09.000 If I'm not mistaken, Florida is in the top five, if not the number one, on educational outcomes for students, right?
00:25:15.000 On them passing, not actual outcomes.
00:25:17.000 On them passing.
00:25:18.000 So that's number one in the country, I think, though, right?
00:25:20.000 And it was like number 30 or 40 back before school choice was.
00:25:23.000 So I'm just curious at your complaint here.
00:25:25.000 It's fine.
00:25:26.000 Let's just kind of go back to the thing and we'll go to the next question.
00:25:27.000 Department of Education, why should the federal government have any role in education?
00:25:31.000 Because spending that money on helping people...
00:25:35.000 Helps the entire economy.
00:25:36.000 No, wait, wait.
00:25:36.000 Let me finish.
00:25:37.000 Helping people helps the entire economy.
00:25:40.000 How has that worked?
00:25:41.000 When you let people fall through the cracks, it destroys our economy.
00:25:44.000 It's more expensive.
00:25:45.000 When you take away the Consumer Protection Bureau that helps $16 billion of scams go back to the American people, that helps our economy because then they can take place in the marketplace.
00:25:56.000 What you're advocating for is to reduce the things that push people into the marketplace, to increase the barriers, and to destroy the freedom of our marketplace.
00:26:04.000 Again, you have not answered the question.
00:26:06.000 Let's just reiterate it.
00:26:07.000 Department of Education got started in 1979. The same sort of nice-sounding stuff we started to do over the last 35, 40 years.
00:26:15.000 And we have the lowest standards ever had.
00:26:17.000 We have childhood poverty all over the place.
00:26:20.000 We have broken public schools.
00:26:21.000 Because spending money from D.C. does not solve the problem.
00:26:24.000 Empowering parents does.
00:26:26.000 Parental agency is the solution. 0.66
00:26:28.000 Not bureaucratic empowerment.
00:26:31.000 Spending money on...
00:26:33.000 Gotta get to the next one.
00:26:34.000 One second.
00:26:35.000 The federal government spending money based solely on tests hurts people because then we don't get the money going to critical thinking, which your misinformation machine succeeds on.
00:26:47.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here.
00:26:49.000 There's a lot of excitement in Washington, D.C. as we start the year, but I wanted to talk to you about something just as exciting happening outside the D.C. Beltway, a revolution in the states.
00:26:59.000 It's the education freedom movement.
00:27:01.000 It's real, it's growing, and growing because some states, as they should, are putting parents in charge of the education of their kids.
00:27:08.000 Everyone knows education has the power to change a kid's life, and anyone who raised a child knows each has different needs, learning styles, and God.
00:27:18.000 The fact is, parents know their own children best, knows what's best for their development and future.
00:27:24.000 Education freedom legislation puts parents, not zip codes and politicians, in charge of these important family decisions.
00:27:32.000 It's why I strongly support making universal education freedom a reality for every parent in every state.
00:27:38.000 To find out where your state legislature stands and to make sure your voice is heard.
00:27:43.000 Go to EducationFreedomUSA.com now.
00:27:46.000 EducationFreedomUSA.com So you would say I'm a misinformation machine.
00:27:52.000 That's fine.
00:27:52.000 Yeah.
00:27:52.000 Fine.
00:27:53.000 You're a teacher.
00:27:54.000 Yes.
00:27:54.000 What is a woman?
00:27:55.000 What is a woman? 1.00
00:27:59.000 Oh, buddy.
00:28:00.000 All right.
00:28:01.000 So we define gender as a set of preferences that you have.
00:28:05.000 Excuse...
00:28:05.000 Gender...
00:28:12.000 Gender is a set of preferences we have.
00:28:14.000 Woman is a social construct that we've agreed upon. 1.00
00:28:20.000 Typically, we imagine womanhood as makeup or whatever. 0.99
00:28:27.000 There is a difference between the word woman and being a biological female. 1.00
00:28:33.000 Woman is a social construct that we use. 1.00
00:28:36.000 Listen for a second.
00:28:38.000 I'm telling you what it means.
00:28:41.000 Woman is a social construct. 1.00
00:28:43.000 We agree on these set of preferences.
00:28:44.000 If I tell you that I'm a man, it's because I want you to know that I like these set of preferences.
00:28:50.000 If I tell you I'm a woman, it's because I want you to know that I agree with these set of preferences.
00:28:53.000 Can men give birth? 0.99
00:28:55.000 Can men or can males? 0.98
00:28:58.000 Because males can't.
00:29:01.000 Listen for a second.
00:29:03.000 If you listen to your bio professors, you'd understand there's a difference between biology and what we think about.
00:29:09.000 So I want to thank you for proving a great point.
00:29:11.000 You are why we should eliminate the Department of Education.
00:29:14.000 Thank you very much.
00:29:17.000 So you want my kids to not have a teacher?
00:29:21.000 We'll go to the next question.
00:29:21.000 Thank you.
00:29:22.000 How are you?
00:29:34.000 Good.
00:29:34.000 I just want to drill in a bit about Doge and some of the...
00:29:41.000 Quick, we've done it like five or six times.
00:29:44.000 And about some of these hirings and some of the unconstitutional moves they've been making, I don't like to be more useful here. 0.59
00:29:52.000 When your claim is that you're trying to make the government more efficient, and then you arbitrarily fire a bunch of people.
00:29:59.000 For example, for the nuclear people, a bunch of them were fired, and then they had to get them back.
00:30:04.000 You're wasting time and effort by randomly and arbitrarily picking how to handle these cases.
00:30:09.000 If your claim is that you want to be efficient, you should just go and immediately start firing people.
00:30:14.000 You have to go over this with a lot more methodical effort, and that's not what's happening.
00:30:17.000 And on top of that, the Doge administration will not save enough money.
00:30:21.000 Even if you were to fire every single government employee, they would not even be able to get to a fraction of how much revenue we...
00:30:28.000 I mean, it's $115 million for equity assessment programs.
00:30:41.000 That's a lot of money.
00:30:43.000 No.
00:30:43.000 It does not.
00:30:46.000 This is not a lot of money?
00:30:47.000 Compared to how much we need to run the country.
00:30:50.000 Hold on.
00:30:51.000 This is a very important point you're making.
00:30:52.000 We're talking about scale here.
00:30:55.000 About $2.6 trillion of revenue comes from our income taxes.
00:30:59.000 If you're going to make these cuts, you need to meaningfully account for them.
00:31:04.000 Hold on.
00:31:04.000 This is a false argument.
00:31:05.000 I'm glad you're making it.
00:31:07.000 So then we shouldn't cut it because it's not that big of a deal?
00:31:10.000 No.
00:31:10.000 That's not what I mean.
00:31:11.000 So should we cut this?
00:31:13.000 $115 million for equity assessment of existing program policies.
00:31:17.000 One day, one cut.
00:31:19.000 I'm going to make the point, but do you think this should be cut?
00:31:21.000 It depends.
00:31:22.000 You need to make the argument that it's actually good.
00:31:24.000 You can't just flash the dollar sign.
00:31:27.000 Equity assessments of existing program policies, $115 million.
00:31:30.000 You have to justify that this program is helpful or not.
00:31:33.000 You have to justify the existence of the program.
00:31:35.000 Yes, it should not exist.
00:31:37.000 Why?
00:31:38.000 Why does it not exist?
00:31:39.000 Well, first of all, the president signed an executive order saying no more DEI. Equity assessment should have no place in the U.S. government because equity is not constitutional.
00:31:46.000 It's not in the U.S. Constitution.
00:31:47.000 It's not American value.
00:31:48.000 It's got redistribution.
00:31:51.000 And $115 million is a grotesque amount of money to spend on it, so you should get rid of it to save taxpayer money.
00:31:56.000 It's not saving taxpayer money.
00:31:57.000 It's $115 million to get rid of this.
00:31:59.000 Now, it's also $144 million here.
00:32:02.000 Of empty buildings.
00:32:03.000 How about empty buildings?
00:32:04.000 Again, you can't just say empty buildings.
00:32:06.000 You have to go over a detailed policy.
00:32:07.000 No, we did.
00:32:08.000 That's why there's 97 of them.
00:32:09.000 They reviewed the leases.
00:32:10.000 They're vacated because of COVID. That's $144 million.
00:32:14.000 So right here, I have $330 million.
00:32:16.000 We're going to keep going, right?
00:32:17.000 You can keep doing that, but you have to actually justify why the policies are helpful or not.
00:32:21.000 This is what's interesting.
00:32:22.000 You can say how much they cost, but if they do something useful for the government, then their prices make sense.
00:32:28.000 They're empty buildings.
00:32:30.000 What use is happening for them, other than landlords getting rich for nothing?
00:32:34.000 The point is this.
00:32:35.000 You think the government is innocent until proven guilty.
00:32:37.000 I think the government, after what we've learned, is guilty until proven innocent.
00:32:41.000 They have to justify why this money is being spent in the first place.
00:32:44.000 Wait a minute.
00:32:45.000 That's how the law works.
00:32:46.000 Innocents are proven guilty.
00:32:47.000 That's not how taxpayer money works, though.
00:32:49.000 It's that if we find waste, you're going to have to over-justify why this exists in the first place.
00:32:54.000 But you just get rid of the program automatically before you've done the work.
00:32:59.000 Let me go back to a more thing.
00:33:00.000 This is an argument they're making.
00:33:02.000 Oh, it's not that much money.
00:33:03.000 Even if you only save $100 in taxpayer money, that is a moral fight worth having.
00:33:08.000 That attitude is why we're $35 trillion in debt.
00:33:11.000 Secondly, which is very important, if you annualize Doja's savings, you know how much they're on pace to save this year?
00:33:16.000 A trillion dollars.
00:33:18.000 One trillion dollars, which would then get us on path for a balanced budget.
00:33:21.000 They're on pace because you say, oh, it's only a billion here.
00:33:24.000 They've been in for six weeks.
00:33:25.000 They've already saved $100 billion.
00:33:28.000 By December, they'll be at a trillion.
00:33:30.000 Our deficit is 1.6 trillion.
00:33:32.000 We're going to lower our deficit in such an increasingly important way.
00:33:35.000 And you're going to learn that you actually don't need these government agencies to run a country.
00:33:39.000 That these people are unnecessary.
00:33:40.000 It's bloated.
00:33:41.000 These bureaucrats don't do anything all day long. 1.00
00:33:44.000 And we need to right-size it because we're a nation in debt.
00:33:46.000 We know we're $35 trillion in debt.
00:33:48.000 In debt?
00:33:49.000 And the only way we're going to get out of it is if we're honest, be like, how about no more empty buildings?
00:33:53.000 No more $115 for equity assessment program?
00:33:56.000 Biodiversity in Nepal?
00:33:58.000 $19 million?
00:33:59.000 Again, those can be important.
00:34:01.000 Those can be helpful.
00:34:03.000 Okay, so how could biodiversity in Nepal for $19 million?
00:34:07.000 We spent $20 million for a new Sesame Street in Iraq.
00:34:12.000 It's true.
00:34:13.000 You guys can look it up.
00:34:13.000 $20 million for new Sesame Street in Iraq.
00:34:15.000 And because no one has ever had the courage to look through the books and look and examine the expenditures.
00:34:20.000 That's not what's happening.
00:34:21.000 No, it has happened.
00:34:22.000 Biden, Obama, they never looked through any of the federal expenditures.
00:34:27.000 And we got to $35 trillion in debt.
00:34:29.000 This is the first time in my lifetime we have an administration going after the waste, going after the size of government to balance the budget so that you guys don't live as indentured servants and Russian serfs for the rest of your life. 0.96
00:34:42.000 Well, I just want to say, like, what?
00:34:45.000 Go ahead.
00:34:46.000 You don't need to interrupt people.
00:34:47.000 Thank you.
00:34:48.000 The point is, when you want to deal with this problem, you can either increase taxes or cut spending massively.
00:34:54.000 Like, the point is that, like, these programs aren't efficient and helpful for getting to that goal.
00:35:01.000 Yes, I just proved to you that they're on pace for a trillion dollars a month.
00:35:05.000 But even if it's only a billion or two billion, that's admirable and noble.
00:35:09.000 Just so we're clear...
00:35:11.000 My point is twofold.
00:35:11.000 You have to both justify that these programs are bad.
00:35:14.000 No, you can just...
00:35:16.000 This is a program.
00:35:17.000 It costs this much money.
00:35:17.000 We should cut it.
00:35:18.000 That's not an argument.
00:35:19.000 $1.5 million for voter confidence in Liberia?
00:35:22.000 Again, you can say that...
00:35:24.000 Do you know anything about Liberia?
00:35:26.000 I mean, no.
00:35:28.000 I happen to know a lot about it, but that's a separate issue.
00:35:29.000 It's not about what I know.
00:35:31.000 It's about the people in the government making these decisions.
00:35:33.000 Yes, and they...
00:35:34.000 They have proven themselves to be robber barons over the last 20 years.
00:35:37.000 That they are spending your money with reckless abandon and total indiscretion.
00:35:42.000 And it's time that this is what's important.
00:35:44.000 It's we the people, not we the government workers.
00:35:46.000 And we've taken back the government.
00:35:48.000 The government workers are also American people.
00:35:51.000 Yes, but who works for who?
00:35:52.000 Do we work for them or do they work for us?
00:35:55.000 Which one?
00:35:56.000 Yes.
00:35:57.000 They work for us.
00:35:58.000 They work for us, yes.
00:35:59.000 So we voted in November, by popular vote and electoral vote landslide, that this crap is over.
00:36:04.000 And that's what we're doing.
00:36:05.000 We overwhelmingly spoke.
00:36:07.000 And so we're going to go piece by piece, department by department, and this is why it's important.
00:36:11.000 You guys deserve a future where you don't have $35 trillion in debt.
00:36:16.000 Where you don't have a trillion dollar deficit.
00:36:17.000 You're not solving that problem by doing this.
00:36:18.000 Again, a trillion dollars.
00:36:21.000 You have to address this.
00:36:22.000 They're on pace to cut a trillion by December.
00:36:24.000 That's big.
00:36:25.000 Big.
00:36:27.000 That's 75% of our deficit.
00:36:30.000 Okay.
00:36:31.000 My point is that you have to meaningfully increase taxes or cut something.
00:36:36.000 Yes, you do.
00:36:37.000 That's what he's doing.
00:36:38.000 They are meaningfully cutting spending.
00:36:40.000 Do you have to raise taxes or massively cut spending?
00:36:45.000 Got it.
00:36:45.000 Let me just ask one final question.
00:36:49.000 If Trump and Elon get this done and balance the budget and cut all this, will you give them credit?
00:36:54.000 It depends on how successful...
00:36:55.000 Wait!
00:36:56.000 I'm not finished speaking.
00:36:57.000 Oh my god.
00:36:58.000 It depends on how successful the country is afterwards.
00:37:00.000 It depends.
00:37:01.000 If you make a lot of cuts and the country becomes worse, then you didn't do your job.
00:37:06.000 Okay.
00:37:07.000 We'll see what happens.
00:37:07.000 Thank you.
00:37:08.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:37:09.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:37:12.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.