00:00:45.000This is not a good or positive change.
00:00:48.000Instead, this is a very dangerous and serious moment.
00:00:53.000In fact, it might be one of the most dangerous and serious moments of my lifetime.
00:00:59.000The most radical, fundamentally bitter, and hateful elements of society are being platformed and showered with millions of dollars from corporate America.
00:01:10.000Our media companies are treating vandals like victors.
00:01:15.000Our tech companies are treating arsonists like angels.
00:01:18.000And our political elite are treating terrorists like holy beings.
00:01:24.000There's a shift happening right now in our country.
00:02:04.000What could possibly be so dangerous and different today than anything that might have happened a couple weeks ago?
00:02:13.000Last week, the Sacramento Kings announced that Grant Napier, their longtime television play-by-play broadcaster, had resigned two days after a, quote, insensitive tweet in an exchange with one of the team's former players.
00:02:27.000What did he tweet that was so horrendous?
00:02:45.000When did that become so controversial or insensitive?
00:02:48.000Meet the CEO of CrossFit, Greg Glassman.
00:02:52.000This past weekend, Glassman responded to a tweet which read, quote, racism and discrimination are critical public health issues that demand an urgent response, end quote.
00:03:01.000His response, it's Floyd 19, end quote.
00:03:06.000Three words, barely if you count the hyphen.
00:03:09.000Because of those three words, people are now writing in the New York Times, quote, will CrossFit survive?
00:03:15.000As a result, Reebok said it will end its relationship with CrossFit when its contract is up at the end of the year.
00:03:22.000Another major sponsor, Rogue Fitness, is considering to do the same.
00:03:25.000This also means that they'll stop paying the company affiliate fees.
00:03:29.000Several top athletes, including three-time defending CrossFit games champion Tiara Claire Toomey, has spoken out and indicated that they might not participate in future competitions.
00:03:39.000All of what could have been described as a bad joke.
00:03:44.000Drew Bees came out and said, quote, never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America, end quote.
00:03:52.000Let it sit for 24 hours, and then, all of a sudden, the mob came after him.
00:03:56.000Aggressively, Drew Brees was panned as a racist, bigot, and capable of leading a team.
00:04:02.000He was savaged by the media, the league, everybody.
00:04:05.000So instead of him standing up for his beliefs and standing up for America, Drew Brees is in like the fourth or fifth iteration of the apology.
00:04:13.000And even with that, the mob is still not happy.
00:04:16.000Former New Orleans Saint Malik Jackson said, quote, he doesn't believe that Breeze is genuine and promised to deliver a message when the two teams meet this season, end quote.
00:04:25.000This is one of the lessons that I'm going to talk about in this podcast, but never give an inch to the mob.
00:06:22.000This is what we want our young people to be saying, coming to their own conclusions and allowing their moral faith to guide them.
00:06:28.000Meet Stasi Schroeder and Kristen Dote.
00:06:31.000They were recently just fired from the popular Bravo reality TV show after news broke about their past, quote, racially insensitive behavior, end quote, against a fellow cast member.
00:06:42.000This comes apparently after Schroeder called the cops on a former castmate of hers who was black and said she, quote, looked like a woman cops were searching for in relation to a robbery.
00:06:53.000The woman had apparently had an affair with the other cast members, so there was animosity between the cast, which had nothing to do with race, at least for what we can tell.
00:07:11.000He was recently suspended by UCLA, the University of California at Los Angeles, after he has now just recently refused to exempt black students from final exams after the death of George Floyd.
00:07:23.000He is now under police protection because of so many threats because he dares to make black students still take final exams.
00:07:31.000Here's the email response to the students' requests by Professor Gordon Klein.
00:07:36.000Thank you for your suggestion in the email below that I give black students special treatment given the tragedy in Minnesota.
00:07:42.000Do you know the names of the classmates that are black?
00:07:44.000How can I identify them since we're having online classes only?
00:07:48.000Are there any students that may be of mixed percentage, such as half black, half Asian?
00:07:52.000What do you suggest I do with respect to them?
00:08:00.000I assume that they probably are especially devastated as well.
00:08:04.000I'm thinking that a white student from there might possibly be even more devastated by this, especially because some think that they're racist even if they're not.
00:08:11.000My teacher assistant is from Minneapolis, so if you don't know, I can probably ask her, can you guide me on how you think I should achieve a, quote, no harm outcome, since our sole course grade is for final exam only?
00:08:52.000So the Washington Post and the Twitter mafia are currently engaged in a digital assassination campaign against Tucker Carlson.
00:08:59.000He's a bold journalist and a prolific truth teller.
00:09:02.000Yet when he rightly points out that the violent protests were, quote, not about black lives anymore, which is the truth, an objective truth.
00:09:10.000Black lives are currently being left to die in the streets.
00:10:22.000The controversy also extended when, according to AL.com, the activists, not even in Chris Hodges' church, that made a controversy about my social media posts, was one of President Trump standing next to Muhammad Ali and Rosa Parks with the caption, quote, the racist Donald Trump in the 1980s, of course, sarcastically, and the Democratic Virginia Governor Raltham with the two men wearing blackface and a KKK costume, with the caption, progressive leftist Ralph Northam in the 1980s.
00:10:51.000Another one that really bothered the activists was a screenshot that showed former President Obama playing golf beneath a quote from Michelle Obama urging people to stay home except for essential activities.
00:11:00.000Another screenshot that Hodges liked was a photo of Kirk donating blood.
00:11:05.000Oh, what a horrible thing to do to help people.
00:11:07.000Above the sentence, quote, we must do our part to defeat the China virus.
00:11:12.000Chris Hodges did a public apology campaign at his church where he did not defend me.
00:11:20.000He did not defend what I said, even though he liked my posts.
00:11:23.000I did not send him my posts to like them.
00:11:24.000I didn't ask him to like my content, but he did.
00:11:28.000He made the very deliberate decision not to stand up to the mob.
00:12:23.000But instead, the radical mob, who Chris Hodges made the decision not to stand up to, they're not giving up.
00:12:30.000So now the Housing Authority of Birmingham is going to break ties with the largest and the most racially diverse church in Alabama, all because he engaged in wrongthink, all because of my social media posts.
00:12:43.000And anyone who knows my character and knows who I am knows that I pioneered alongside Candace Owens the first ever black leadership summit in the conservative movement as someone that has gone out of my way to denounce any form of radical identitarianism in any form or fashion.
00:13:04.000So instead of standing on truth and instead of saying that I am currently the most followed podcast of an outspoken Christian in the Apple podcast charts, instead of saying that, hey, Charlie Kirk is a Christian that stands for the gospel of Jesus Christ in the face of the mob, you might not have to agree with what he said, but why don't you get to know the guy that you are trying to couple me with?
00:13:32.000Instead, a capitulation to the mob ensued.
00:13:35.000And now poor people at the Housing Authority of Birmingham are not going to get help because of the surrendering to the mob.
00:13:43.000Poor people will suffer because of the wishes of the ruling class elites.
00:13:47.000Poor people will suffer because of a social media post that a pastor liked and the unwillingness to stand up to the mob.
00:13:59.000Now the swarm of the self-righteous, mostly suburbanites, have set upon a siege to completely shatter our current normal.
00:14:12.000This is the absolute and official definition of the Overton window.
00:14:20.000The Overton window, better known as the window of discourse, was named after Joseph P. Overton.
00:14:27.000He postulates in the Overton window that there is a spectrum, a spectrum that goes from an idea that is considered unthinkable to all the way where it becomes policy.
00:14:40.000Now on the spectrum, it goes from unthinkable to radical to acceptable to sensible to popular to policy.
00:14:50.000The Overton window can track and can categorize certain ideas in society.
00:14:59.000For example, something that is totally unthinkable, something that we aren't even allowed to discuss, would be legalizing pedophilia.
00:15:08.000But there was an op-ed in the New York Times in the last couple years, and there have been movements now to legalize pedophilia.
00:15:16.000No, that's a real thing, if you haven't heard that yet.
00:15:19.000Op-ed in the New York Times, which has now gone from unthinkable to radical.
00:15:24.000So the spectrum is very useful in categorizing where things currently are in the political discourse.
00:15:33.000Now, when something gets into the unthinkable range and actually goes in a digression, that then gives license to the referees of moral society to kick you out of the game.
00:15:44.000It gives the permission to the moral umpires to eject you from the stadium.
00:15:50.000What was once unthinkable is now actually becoming policy.
00:16:12.000It moved across the entire Overton window and almost skipped the radical, acceptable, sensible popular policy progression straight into policy.
00:16:23.000And the Overton window has worked opposite.
00:16:26.000What was once sensible has now become radical, if not unthinkable.
00:16:32.000For example, when I said white privilege is a racist lie rooted in untruth designed to divide America, that was sensible when I said it five years ago.
00:16:45.000It was sensible when I said it two years ago.
00:16:47.000And it was sensible when I said it three months ago.
00:17:32.000But never in the history of our country or the history of Western society have we seen an isolated incident involving a death of a civilian trigger such a multi-dimensional mass media campaign to transition the unthinkable, like abolishing the police, into policy so immediately.
00:18:20.000Yes, you listen to this podcast right now.
00:18:25.000The incredible number of amazing patriots listening to my words right now.
00:18:30.000You're the only hope we have at stopping this.
00:18:32.000Because if you think that this culture of metaphorically assassinating people that are not within the Overton window of sensible and acceptable thinking won't come to you, you are wrong.
00:18:47.000I am getting hundreds of messages at freedom at charliekirk.com of people that are losing their jobs, of people that are getting kicked out of fraternities and sororities, of young people that are becoming almost suicidal because they hold views that are against the swarm.
00:19:03.000If this goes unchecked, we do not have a country in 10 years.
00:19:11.000If this goes unchecked, we do not have a country in a decade.
00:20:02.000Right now, we just got breaking news that the Birmingham Board of Education is preparing to vote on whether to terminate lease agreements with the Church of the Highlands, ending church services at the campuses of Parker High School and Woodland High School.
00:20:17.000Because their pastor liked some of my tweets.
00:20:22.000The Birmingham Board of Education is going to dissolve ties potentially with the largest church in Alabama because their senior pastor liked my tweets where I used facts.
00:20:36.000Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions tweeted out: The radical left and politically correct crowd is trying to silence and cancel one of the great pastors and ministries in the state of Alabama.
00:20:53.000The forces that for years dwelled in the outskirts of civil dialogue are on the cusp of storming the Bastille.
00:21:02.000Storming the Bastille is what actually happened in the French Revolution, where the radicals, led by Robespierre and others, stormed the top levels of government and killed the opposition.
00:21:19.000At this rate, left unchecked, they will silence me.
00:21:24.000Me, our efforts, and anyone who does not bow or pay penance to the idol of group guilt humiliation.
00:21:53.000Standing and fighting for truth is a categorically different thing.
00:22:00.000Jonathan Turley, who is a wonderful legal mind, very fair, has said this: quote: The tragic killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis resulted in an important focus on race relations and justice in this country.
00:22:14.000However, it is being lost to an emerging radicalism that challenges people to prove their faith by endorsing farce.
00:22:23.000This metamorphosis of America is not something you're able to change at the ballot box.
00:22:35.000The left has lost their Alinskyite cover.
00:22:39.000They're embracing the deepest, darkest parts of their ideology.
00:22:45.000This is not something that you can recall by collecting petitions.
00:22:51.000This is not something that you can countersue.
00:22:55.000This is an intellectual and cultural melee for America.
00:23:01.000One of the reasons this is happening is because the left is on offense.
00:23:09.000While the president is not doing his rallies because of the lockdowns, while those of us are not able to communicate and be on the road, like we are able to have the flexibility that we typically have had, the left sees this as their chance to take out our country.
00:23:49.000And those of us like myself that are trying to launch a counteroffensive, that are trying to talk about truth and data and statistics, anyone who associates with us, usually on social media, by the way, which all the social media platforms are run by the left, they get canceled and they get eliminated.
00:24:07.000Our TV anchors are at risk of getting boycotted, one by one.
00:24:12.000When they trap you in the home, they trap you in the box, and the left controls the box.
00:24:18.000There's no water cooler discussion over how good of a job President Trump is doing.
00:24:24.000When you limit human contact, the left controls the instruments of communication.
00:24:30.000The left is playing a very intentional game of perpetual offense.
00:24:35.000The reason why Trump was able to succeed the way he was is for three and a half years, he had the left on defense.
00:25:26.000But now they're bringing the digital assassination campaign that they had on Twitter for so many years where they could silence other opinions into real life.
00:25:36.000Just like Vlad the Impaler, they put our heads on a virtual stake for the world to see, a warning for the right.
00:25:46.000They want to show all the rest of the conservatives and people listen to this podcast, you dare associate with Charlie Kirk, we're coming for you.
00:25:53.000You dare say anything that is not within what we, as the ruling class, deem acceptable, you can't have a job.
00:26:29.000This was an important message I needed to share.
00:26:32.000It's one of the most consequential times in American history.
00:26:35.000We've never seen the window and the reality with it move so quickly, so dramatically, and so dangerously.
00:26:45.000I know so many of you are up to the challenge, but without speaking up, without rising up and fighting for truth, we will not have a country anymore.
00:26:56.000And that's exactly what the left wants.
00:26:59.000Email me your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:27:02.000And if you want to do something about this and you say, Charlie, I'm ready.
00:27:04.000This is not the country I want to live in.
00:27:07.000That's why you got to go to TurningpointUSA, tpusa.com, tpusa.com.
00:27:11.000If you're a student, get involved, or else you won't have a country.
00:27:14.000You'll look around and you will see cultural carnage, the likes of which none of us want to live through.
00:27:19.000You can chip in some money if you're an adult.