The Charlie Kirk Show - This Is Personal

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00:00:40.000 Life is rapidly changing in America.

00:00:45.000 This is not a good or positive change.

00:00:48.000 Instead, this is a very dangerous and serious moment.

00:00:53.000 In fact, it might be one of the most dangerous and serious moments of my lifetime.

00:00:59.000 The most radical, fundamentally bitter, and hateful elements of society are being platformed and showered with millions of dollars from corporate America.

00:01:10.000 Our media companies are treating vandals like victors.

00:01:15.000 Our tech companies are treating arsonists like angels.

00:01:18.000 And our political elite are treating terrorists like holy beings.

00:01:24.000 There's a shift happening right now in our country.

00:01:28.000 This is not a moment that will fade.

00:01:30.000 This is a digression into despotic groupthink.

00:01:35.000 Consider this podcast right here, right now, as your fire alarm, your red alert, your danger signal, your crisis siren.

00:01:48.000 America is now entering a new chapter.

00:01:51.000 And it very well might be our darkest moment if we don't identify and eliminate it now before this monopolizes modern society.

00:02:03.000 What am I talking about?

00:02:04.000 What could possibly be so dangerous and different today than anything that might have happened a couple weeks ago?

00:02:13.000 Last 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.

00:02:27.000 What did he tweet that was so horrendous?

00:02:29.000 What did he tweet that was so awful?

00:02:32.000 What did he say that also made the radio station at which Napier co-hosts a sports show part ways?

00:02:40.000 He tweeted this.

00:02:42.000 All lives matter, every single one.

00:02:45.000 When did that become so controversial or insensitive?

00:02:48.000 Meet the CEO of CrossFit, Greg Glassman.

00:02:52.000 This 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.

00:03:01.000 His response, it's Floyd 19, end quote.

00:03:05.000 That's it.

00:03:06.000 Three words, barely if you count the hyphen.

00:03:09.000 Because of those three words, people are now writing in the New York Times, quote, will CrossFit survive?

00:03:15.000 As a result, Reebok said it will end its relationship with CrossFit when its contract is up at the end of the year.

00:03:22.000 Another major sponsor, Rogue Fitness, is considering to do the same.

00:03:25.000 This also means that they'll stop paying the company affiliate fees.

00:03:29.000 Several 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.

00:03:39.000 All of what could have been described as a bad joke.

00:03:42.000 You guys know Drew Brees.

00:03:44.000 Drew Bees came out and said, quote, never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America, end quote.

00:03:52.000 Let it sit for 24 hours, and then, all of a sudden, the mob came after him.

00:03:56.000 Aggressively, Drew Brees was panned as a racist, bigot, and capable of leading a team.

00:04:02.000 He was savaged by the media, the league, everybody.

00:04:05.000 So 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.

00:04:13.000 And even with that, the mob is still not happy.

00:04:16.000 Former 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.

00:04:25.000 This is one of the lessons that I'm going to talk about in this podcast, but never give an inch to the mob.

00:04:30.000 Stand for your beliefs.

00:04:31.000 These people will never be satisfied.

00:04:33.000 And just right now, Cops, one of the most popular TV shows ever created, has been canceled.

00:04:42.000 That's right, cops.

00:04:44.000 Gone.

00:04:44.000 Canceled.

00:04:46.000 What does that mean for civil discourse in society?

00:04:49.000 What does this mean for cinema?

00:04:52.000 Are they going to start canceling every single show that ever had a police officer in it?

00:04:56.000 Are they going to cancel anyone that dares mention something favorable at America?

00:05:01.000 Where do you think this ends?

00:05:04.000 It's been on air for 31 years since 1989.

00:05:09.000 What else are they going to cancel?

00:05:11.000 What else are they going to eliminate?

00:05:12.000 What else are they going to try to make disappear?

00:05:16.000 The left is going for the jugular.

00:05:20.000 Meet Reagan Escude. 1.00

00:05:23.000 She's a turning point USA ambassador.

00:05:26.000 She was recently fired from her job for posting a video of saying why, because of her faith, she couldn't stand up for Black Lives Matter.

00:05:34.000 A few social justice warriors found the post and alerted her employer.

00:05:38.000 Within hours, they were inundated with threats to not only the business, but to other employees.

00:05:42.000 Listen to what she said that ultimately cost her job.

00:05:45.000 Play tape.

00:05:47.000 And we should be devastated at the thought that a man made in the image of God was murdered unjustly by a corrupt cop.

00:06:00.000 The cop is not, the cop's actions are not a result of systemic racism.

00:06:05.000 It is not a result of racial prejudice discrimination within law enforcement.

00:06:12.000 It's a reflection of his heart and a problem that is deep within his heart that can only be reconciled through Jesus Christ.

00:06:20.000 This is not controversial.

00:06:22.000 This is what we want our young people to be saying, coming to their own conclusions and allowing their moral faith to guide them.

00:06:28.000 Meet Stasi Schroeder and Kristen Dote.

00:06:31.000 They 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.

00:06:42.000 This 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.

00:06:53.000 The 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.

00:07:00.000 They both apologized.

00:07:02.000 Nevertheless, this incident, which happened a few years ago, is being painted as racism and had cost them the job on television.

00:07:09.000 Meet Professor Gordon Klein.

00:07:11.000 He 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.

00:07:23.000 He is now under police protection because of so many threats because he dares to make black students still take final exams.

00:07:31.000 Here's the email response to the students' requests by Professor Gordon Klein.

00:07:36.000 Thank you for your suggestion in the email below that I give black students special treatment given the tragedy in Minnesota.

00:07:42.000 Do you know the names of the classmates that are black?

00:07:44.000 How can I identify them since we're having online classes only?

00:07:48.000 Are there any students that may be of mixed percentage, such as half black, half Asian?

00:07:52.000 What do you suggest I do with respect to them? 1.00

00:07:54.000 A full concession or just half.

00:07:56.000 Also, do you have any idea if any students are from Minneapolis?

00:07:59.000 Question mark.

00:08:00.000 I assume that they probably are especially devastated as well.

00:08:04.000 I'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.

00:08:11.000 My 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?

00:08:23.000 One last thing strikes me.

00:08:25.000 Remember that Martin Luther King famously said that people should not be evaluated on, quote, color of their skin.

00:08:31.000 Do you think that your request would run afoul to Martin Luther King's admonition?

00:08:35.000 Thanks, G. Klein.

00:08:37.000 Professor Klein raises logical questions, of course, but logic does not apply in today's marketplace of ideas.

00:08:43.000 Instead, race and virtue signaling are the only form of currency currently exchanged and accepted.

00:08:49.000 You've probably heard of Tucker Carlson before.

00:08:51.000 Probably seen him on TV.

00:08:52.000 So the Washington Post and the Twitter mafia are currently engaged in a digital assassination campaign against Tucker Carlson.

00:08:59.000 He's a bold journalist and a prolific truth teller. 0.86

00:09:02.000 Yet when he rightly points out that the violent protests were, quote, not about black lives anymore, which is the truth, an objective truth. 0.97

00:09:10.000 Black lives are currently being left to die in the streets. 0.99

00:09:12.000 Black businesses are being destroyed. 1.00

00:09:14.000 Black war memorials are being vandalized. 0.99

00:09:17.000 The entire Washington Post and Twitter mob comes after him.

00:09:20.000 And so now one of these hit home.

00:09:22.000 Let me read from Breitbart story I saw this morning.

00:09:25.000 The largest church in the state of Alabama has been canceled by the Birmingham Housing Authority.

00:09:30.000 Why?

00:09:31.000 Why would the Church of the Highlands be canceled by the Birmingham Housing Authority?

00:09:36.000 Well, because the pastor of that church liked my content on social media.

00:09:41.000 This is content that the Birmingham Housing Authority of commissioners found, quote, do not reflect the values of HABD and its residents.

00:09:50.000 And Hodges' values are not in line with those of HABD residents, end quote.

00:09:54.000 My tweets.

00:09:56.000 Now, Chris Hodges, who's the pastor of the Church of the Highlands, liked my tweets.

00:10:00.000 One of them, I've been saying for over five years, is rooted in truth.

00:10:05.000 It is rooted in facts.

00:10:07.000 It is rooted in reality. 0.82

00:10:11.000 Where I said, white privilege is a racist lie, not rooted in truth, designed to divide America. 0.84

00:10:20.000 I've been saying that for five years.

00:10:22.000 The 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.

00:10:51.000 Another 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.

00:11:00.000 Another screenshot that Hodges liked was a photo of Kirk donating blood.

00:11:05.000 Oh, what a horrible thing to do to help people.

00:11:07.000 Above the sentence, quote, we must do our part to defeat the China virus.

00:11:12.000 Chris Hodges did a public apology campaign at his church where he did not defend me.

00:11:20.000 He did not defend what I said, even though he liked my posts.

00:11:23.000 I did not send him my posts to like them.

00:11:24.000 I didn't ask him to like my content, but he did.

00:11:28.000 He made the very deliberate decision not to stand up to the mob.

00:11:32.000 And the mob didn't give up.

00:11:33.000 The mob is still going after him.

00:11:35.000 And Chris Hodges said this in his statement on stage, white supremacy or any supremacy other than Christ is of the devil.

00:11:42.000 Quote, some have even brought our church or even me into the question.

00:11:46.000 They're wondering, where do you really stand?

00:11:48.000 I think some saw something on social media that questioned my character, and I'll own it, by the way.

00:11:53.000 But that is not what I believe, end quote.

00:11:56.000 So effectively not standing up for me or defending me. 0.98

00:11:59.000 Putting an equivalency of my posts, my character, and my work with white supremacy, which is a disgusting, evil lie. 0.98

00:12:12.000 Pointing out the hypocrisy of how white liberals like Ralph Northam once wore blackface. 0.98

00:12:20.000 Or did he wear a KKK hood? 0.95

00:12:21.000 We don't know.

00:12:23.000 But instead, the radical mob, who Chris Hodges made the decision not to stand up to, they're not giving up.

00:12:30.000 So 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.

00:12:43.000 And 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.

00:13:04.000 So 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?

00:13:32.000 Instead, a capitulation to the mob ensued.

00:13:35.000 And now poor people at the Housing Authority of Birmingham are not going to get help because of the surrendering to the mob.

00:13:43.000 Poor people will suffer because of the wishes of the ruling class elites.

00:13:47.000 Poor people will suffer because of a social media post that a pastor liked and the unwillingness to stand up to the mob.

00:13:59.000 Now the swarm of the self-righteous, mostly suburbanites, have set upon a siege to completely shatter our current normal.

00:14:12.000 This is the absolute and official definition of the Overton window.

00:14:20.000 The Overton window, better known as the window of discourse, was named after Joseph P. Overton.

00:14:27.000 He 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.

00:14:40.000 Now on the spectrum, it goes from unthinkable to radical to acceptable to sensible to popular to policy.

00:14:50.000 The Overton window can track and can categorize certain ideas in society.

00:14:59.000 For example, something that is totally unthinkable, something that we aren't even allowed to discuss, would be legalizing pedophilia.

00:15:08.000 But there was an op-ed in the New York Times in the last couple years, and there have been movements now to legalize pedophilia.

00:15:16.000 No, that's a real thing, if you haven't heard that yet.

00:15:19.000 Op-ed in the New York Times, which has now gone from unthinkable to radical.

00:15:24.000 So the spectrum is very useful in categorizing where things currently are in the political discourse.

00:15:33.000 Now, 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.

00:15:44.000 It gives the permission to the moral umpires to eject you from the stadium.

00:15:50.000 What was once unthinkable is now actually becoming policy.

00:15:56.000 Like that, in three weeks.

00:15:59.000 For example, what was unthinkable three weeks ago would be the Minneapolis City Council abolishing their police department.

00:16:10.000 It was unthinkable, now it's policy.

00:16:12.000 It moved across the entire Overton window and almost skipped the radical, acceptable, sensible popular policy progression straight into policy.

00:16:23.000 And the Overton window has worked opposite.

00:16:26.000 What was once sensible has now become radical, if not unthinkable.

00:16:32.000 For 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.

00:16:45.000 It was sensible when I said it two years ago.

00:16:47.000 And it was sensible when I said it three months ago.

00:16:49.000 Now it's unthinkable.

00:16:51.000 Now it will get you kicked out of a job.

00:16:55.000 And now it will get you kicked out of modern society.

00:16:58.000 When America typically experiences Overton window movements and moments, they traditionally happen over time.

00:17:07.000 They're mostly slow, messy, unhurried, and rather inconclusive.

00:17:15.000 Rarely, if ever, does the window move overnight.

00:17:20.000 Some examples where the window did move very quickly would be maybe Pearl Harbor or 9-11 or possibly Kennedy being shot.

00:17:29.000 Those are just a few examples.

00:17:32.000 But 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.

00:17:57.000 We have run out of ways to stop this. 0.95

00:18:01.000 Our politicians are mostly corrupt or cowardly. 0.84

00:18:04.000 That's basically the two categories you can put our politicians in. 0.99

00:18:08.000 Corrupt or cowardly.

00:18:10.000 Our media is purchased or totally propagandized. 0.98

00:18:16.000 And all we have left is you.

00:18:20.000 Yes, you listen to this podcast right now.

00:18:25.000 The incredible number of amazing patriots listening to my words right now.

00:18:30.000 You're the only hope we have at stopping this.

00:18:32.000 Because 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.

00:18:47.000 I 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.

00:19:03.000 If this goes unchecked, we do not have a country in 10 years.

00:19:11.000 If this goes unchecked, we do not have a country in a decade.

00:19:16.000 This cancer will metastasize.

00:19:20.000 This tumor will overwhelm our entire American experiment.

00:19:27.000 I repeat this with intentional severity.

00:19:32.000 Our leaders do not care.

00:19:35.000 Their kids will be protected.

00:19:39.000 They will hire more armed guards.

00:19:42.000 Their kleptocracy will remain intact.

00:19:47.000 Most in both parties actually applaud the moving of the window.

00:19:51.000 The ruling class wants voices that speak reasonably to disappear.

00:19:56.000 The beach is being stormed.

00:19:59.000 We are going to lose the fort.

00:20:02.000 Right 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.

00:20:16.000 Why?

00:20:17.000 Because their pastor liked some of my tweets.

00:20:22.000 The 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.

00:20:36.000 Former 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.

00:20:48.000 This must not stand.

00:20:53.000 The forces that for years dwelled in the outskirts of civil dialogue are on the cusp of storming the Bastille.

00:21:02.000 Storming 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.

00:21:19.000 At this rate, left unchecked, they will silence me.

00:21:24.000 Me, our efforts, and anyone who does not bow or pay penance to the idol of group guilt humiliation.

00:21:35.000 The only tool we have is truth.

00:21:40.000 But that's actually not enough.

00:21:44.000 Privately knowing truth is very useful for you.

00:21:49.000 In fact, it's critical.

00:21:53.000 Standing and fighting for truth is a categorically different thing.

00:22:00.000 Jonathan 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.

00:22:14.000 However, it is being lost to an emerging radicalism that challenges people to prove their faith by endorsing farce.

00:22:23.000 This metamorphosis of America is not something you're able to change at the ballot box.

00:22:32.000 The left has crossed the Rubicon.

00:22:35.000 The left has lost their Alinskyite cover.

00:22:39.000 They're embracing the deepest, darkest parts of their ideology.

00:22:45.000 This is not something that you can recall by collecting petitions.

00:22:51.000 This is not something that you can countersue.

00:22:55.000 This is an intellectual and cultural melee for America.

00:23:01.000 One of the reasons this is happening is because the left is on offense.

00:23:09.000 While 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.

00:23:27.000 We are now on perpetual defense.

00:23:29.000 We're not able to set the tone.

00:23:31.000 We're not able to set the rules of engagement.

00:23:36.000 We as the right, we've lost our home field advantage.

00:23:40.000 The churches are closed.

00:23:41.000 Our moral institutions are shuttered.

00:23:43.000 We don't have our rallies.

00:23:47.000 And we feel as if we're on defense.

00:23:49.000 And 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.

00:24:07.000 Our TV anchors are at risk of getting boycotted, one by one.

00:24:12.000 When they trap you in the home, they trap you in the box, and the left controls the box.

00:24:18.000 There's no water cooler discussion over how good of a job President Trump is doing.

00:24:24.000 When you limit human contact, the left controls the instruments of communication.

00:24:30.000 The left is playing a very intentional game of perpetual offense.

00:24:35.000 The reason why Trump was able to succeed the way he was is for three and a half years, he had the left on defense.

00:24:42.000 That is not the case right now.

00:24:44.000 We are on defense.

00:24:46.000 This is why this is happening.

00:24:48.000 And the left is taking metaphorical scalps one by one, creating precedents.

00:24:55.000 If you're a pastor and you like Charlie Kirk's tweets, we're coming for you.

00:25:00.000 If you work in corporate America and you use your faith to go after Black Lives Matter, you will lose your job.

00:25:08.000 If you say all lives matter, you're no longer allowed to be a commentator for the Sacramento Kings. 0.51

00:25:12.000 If you say something good about the flag, you can't be an NFL quarterback.

00:25:15.000 They will cancel you.

00:25:17.000 Dave Rubin has in his Twitter bio, or at least he had, I don't know if he changed it.

00:25:23.000 Twitter is not real life.

00:25:25.000 I used to agree with that.

00:25:26.000 But 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.

00:25:36.000 Just like Vlad the Impaler, they put our heads on a virtual stake for the world to see, a warning for the right.

00:25:46.000 They 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.

00:25:53.000 You dare say anything that is not within what we, as the ruling class, deem acceptable, you can't have a job.

00:26:02.000 You can't exist.

00:26:04.000 You can't speak. 0.77

00:26:06.000 The left is ready to deal a death blow to America, to suffocate the soul, spirit, and future of our country.

00:26:20.000 You are what can stop this.

00:26:24.000 Will you?

00:26:26.000 I hope so.

00:26:28.000 Thanks for listening, everybody.

00:26:29.000 This was an important message I needed to share.

00:26:32.000 It's one of the most consequential times in American history.

00:26:35.000 We've never seen the window and the reality with it move so quickly, so dramatically, and so dangerously.

00:26:45.000 I 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.

00:26:56.000 And that's exactly what the left wants.

00:26:59.000 Email me your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:27:02.000 And if you want to do something about this and you say, Charlie, I'm ready.

00:27:04.000 This is not the country I want to live in.

00:27:07.000 That's why you got to go to TurningpointUSA, tpusa.com, tpusa.com.

00:27:11.000 If you're a student, get involved, or else you won't have a country.

00:27:14.000 You'll look around and you will see cultural carnage, the likes of which none of us want to live through.

00:27:19.000 You can chip in some money if you're an adult.

00:27:21.000 You can support our students.

00:27:23.000 But tpusa.com is the mothership that will launch the most important counteroffensive against the left in American history.

00:27:32.000 You guys can support our show at charliekirk.com, charliekirk.com.

00:27:37.000 But I want to thank all of you for your commitment.

00:27:40.000 This is your fire alarm.

00:27:42.000 If we do nothing, we will not have a country.

00:27:46.000 Thanks for listening, everybody.

00:27:47.000 God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - June 10, 2020

This Is Personal

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