The Charlie Kirk Show - February 01, 2025


THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?


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Jack, Tyler, and Blake join me to discuss the helicopter crash over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. and the search and recovery efforts for the missing Coast Guard helicopter involved in the crash.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, what a great thought crime discussion this is.
00:00:02.000 We talk about the tragedy over the Potomac.
00:00:05.000 We have a great discussion with Jack, Tyler, and Blake.
00:00:08.000 Also about Reddit, you'll learn a lot.
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00:00:20.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:21.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:23.000 I want you to know we are lucky.
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00:00:30.000 I want to thank Charlie.
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00:01:18.000 Joining us is Blake, Tyler, and Jack.
00:01:21.000 Much to discuss, and three of us are in Arizona.
00:01:25.000 Jack is in D.C., if I were to speculate.
00:01:29.000 Is that right, Mr. Jack?
00:01:31.000 It is, although I was just in Canada for, like, three hours ago, and now I'm here.
00:01:37.000 Why were you in Canada?
00:01:39.000 Yeah, so it looked like you were in front of a U.S. government plane at Joint Base Andrews.
00:01:44.000 Am I correct?
00:01:45.000 Actually, that was DCA. You were at DCA today flying to Canada.
00:01:50.000 Wow, I thought that all air travel was shut down.
00:01:52.000 I was at DCA today and I flew to Canada.
00:01:53.000 Yeah, we got one of the first flights.
00:01:56.000 It was a Coast Guard plane and we flew right over the wreckage.
00:01:59.000 Coast Guard.
00:01:59.000 And I was embedded with Secretary Noem and we went up to visit the border station in Vermont where the border agent was killed on Trump's inauguration day.
00:02:11.000 Yeah, so tell us more about that, Jack.
00:02:13.000 Give us kind of the inside baseball.
00:02:15.000 Both of us had government flights this week.
00:02:17.000 I'm actually more interested in yours.
00:02:19.000 There's a fleet of DHS flights.
00:02:21.000 Kristi Noem has been off to a very, very quick start.
00:02:24.000 So tell us what you saw and kind of walk us through that, flying up to Vermont for the day.
00:02:29.000 Well, it was interesting, you know, so we, you know, Coast Guard flight, so Coast Guard is under the Department of Homeland Security.
00:02:36.000 A lot of people think even though the Coasties are part of the military that they're under the DOD, but no, it's actually under Homeland Security.
00:02:42.000 It kind of falls under the Border Patrol mission.
00:02:43.000 It makes sense for them to work hand in hand.
00:02:45.000 So got to participate in a sort of a back brief on the NTSB situation.
00:02:52.000 Obviously, we flew from right next to where the NTSB was meeting, where they were having the...
00:03:00.000 Well, what started as a recovery mission and then later turned to, or excuse me, started as a rescue mission and later turned to a recovery mission and got to be with the secretary while she met with the Coast Guard, met with the team that's in charge of that.
00:03:12.000 Obviously, did not go as a lot of people had hoped and they were not able to recover any survivors, but still digging down.
00:03:20.000 And what exactly took place.
00:03:21.000 Got to see the fuselage of the plane that flew over the fuselage of the helicopter.
00:03:26.000 Apparently one of the issues with the helicopter is that it's actually upside down in the Potomac River and they're right in that channel.
00:03:33.000 So it's...
00:03:34.000 Just horrific.
00:03:35.000 Completely horrific.
00:03:36.000 And then flying up to Vermont, people might not realize this, but that sector there between Montreal and New York City, that is the highest traffic sector on the entire northern border because that's your corridor to Boston and New York and so much of the Canadian population is there.
00:03:54.000 And what people will do now is, because they think the southern border is more guarded, that you will have Mexicans, Chinese, sometimes even Iranians and Venezuelans that will fly into Canada and they can get this sort of temporary visa for Canada for like $7 through this ETA system.
00:04:11.000 And then they'll come down through the northern border where, and I posted a video of this earlier, in some areas, it's completely unguarded.
00:04:19.000 You could just drive a car across a field or drive a car from one road onto another.
00:04:24.000 And then, boom, you're suddenly inside the United States. 0.70
00:04:27.000 And this, of course, is where we had that.
00:04:30.000 And the story is just kind of coming out now, but where apparently the suspect in the shooting of the Border Patrol agent last week has, and the New York Post has the headline, was a member of a transgender cult.
00:04:47.000 And was possibly planning this as some sort of an attack rather than just being a random thing that's happened by chance.
00:04:55.000 So that's a segue.
00:04:56.000 Who wants to kick us off?
00:04:58.000 How about Blake?
00:04:59.000 Blake, the audience is probably almost assuredly well aware of what happened in...
00:05:05.000 The Potomac.
00:05:06.000 Actually, it was right outside my hotel room last evening.
00:05:09.000 It woke up my son, actually.
00:05:11.000 It was so loud outside of our hotel room.
00:05:13.000 Woke him up and we weren't sure what was going on.
00:05:16.000 Obviously, we found out.
00:05:17.000 We were looking at the emergency lights almost all evening.
00:05:21.000 Blake, President Trump had a press conference where he went after DEI. Is that connected to this at all?
00:05:29.000 And more broadly, what does DEI have to do with air traffic control?
00:05:34.000 Kind of coming full circle here for the thought crime program.
00:05:36.000 Yeah, exactly, Charlie.
00:05:37.000 Exactly.
00:05:38.000 It's been almost exactly one year since we got a lot of attention because we talked about our feelings about pilots.
00:05:44.000 And then I believe Joy Reid today got very angry.
00:05:48.000 I can't remember my name.
00:05:49.000 I think it was Joy Reid.
00:05:50.000 She was... 0.97
00:05:51.000 She was bashing Charlie.
00:05:53.000 She's like, President Trump is really listening to Charlie Kirk.
00:05:56.000 Yeah, so what Trump was doing with the press today, he was doing one of his classic Trump Free Association things where he was just like, you know, they've been talking to me about this.
00:06:07.000 We've heard about this.
00:06:08.000 They have this DEI in the federal government, in the air traffic controllers.
00:06:14.000 And it's all stuff that's real.
00:06:16.000 Now, did it have to do with what happened today?
00:06:18.000 The answer is we don't know.
00:06:19.000 It has to be investigated.
00:06:20.000 We will be investigating it in the days and weeks to come.
00:06:25.000 Maybe it will.
00:06:26.000 Maybe it won't.
00:06:27.000 But what's natural and very, very true is there is a ton of worrisome DEI stuff.
00:06:34.000 That has happened in the piloting space and the air traffic control space.
00:06:39.000 And that deserves attention because it's sort of...
00:06:41.000 It's the perfect encapsulation of how insane the ideology is.
00:06:46.000 I think a lot of people...
00:06:47.000 There are people out there who I think would be okay with basically DEI reasoning.
00:06:51.000 They're like, okay, yeah, we can give preferences for the sake of diversity because we're just hiring janitors, right?
00:06:58.000 Or we're hiring this stuff that doesn't really matter.
00:07:01.000 You have to tell people, no, we're actually doing this for life and death situations.
00:07:05.000 We are changing the rules to lower standards and focus on diversity over ability in things where if you screw it up, you will die.
00:07:14.000 That's why we've talked about it with medical school admissions, because they've done it there.
00:07:17.000 But they've also been doing it for a decade at this point in stuff related to air transportation.
00:07:24.000 So we were tweeting about this today.
00:07:26.000 We've talked about it on this show before.
00:07:28.000 We've had guests on your show, Charlie.
00:07:31.000 Like, for example, the Obama...
00:07:33.000 Blake, we talked about it on this show?
00:07:36.000 I don't remember.
00:07:37.000 Have we ever talked about this subject on this show?
00:07:39.000 A few times, Jack.
00:07:40.000 Believe it or not.
00:07:42.000 It was the most viral moment in the history of thought.
00:07:45.000 It was number one viral.
00:07:46.000 It was number one viral in thought crime history.
00:07:49.000 Yeah.
00:07:49.000 And we're going to bring it back.
00:07:51.000 I got so many high fives.
00:07:52.000 It was pinned.
00:07:53.000 It was pinned on all the left-wing accounts that track this show.
00:07:58.000 I think it might still be pinned on Patriot Takes.
00:08:00.000 I should go check.
00:08:01.000 It actually might still be.
00:08:02.000 It was my favorite because every time I... It was after that, very poignantly, every pilot I ever came across would fist bump me coming off the plane while wearing my Turning Point gear.
00:08:15.000 They're like, hey, hey.
00:08:18.000 Would they tell you, like, this is what's going on?
00:08:21.000 It was clear.
00:08:22.000 We didn't even have to, like, see, we didn't have to verbalize it.
00:08:25.000 They didn't have to, but did any of them?
00:08:27.000 I don't think they could.
00:08:28.000 We didn't have time.
00:08:28.000 It was just more of like a head nod onto the plane of, hey, what's up?
00:08:35.000 Almost all airline employees, it was after this conversation.
00:08:40.000 They're giving you the nod.
00:08:41.000 It was like it went around and everybody was talking.
00:08:44.000 And for the record, Daryl Scott and I have made up, meaning he was a big attacker on this whole thing.
00:08:50.000 And even Daryl Scott tweeted out, not necessarily about this, but he said Charlie Kirk was right and we're all friends, so it's all good.
00:08:58.000 So let's actually play this.
00:09:00.000 This is Joy Reid, who kind of comes back and says that...
00:09:04.000 I must be in Trump's ear about this.
00:09:07.000 No, I've actually not spoken to the president about this topic.
00:09:10.000 Other things I have spoken to him about, but not this thing.
00:09:13.000 So you're wrong on this one, Joy, but keep guessing.
00:09:16.000 Play cut 209. And so this idea that the current president would infer that DEI or that really anyone at this point, Joy, is to blame for this tragic mishap.
00:09:31.000 I mean, we're still...
00:09:34.000 Pulling bodies out of the river.
00:09:37.000 Think about that.
00:09:39.000 An investigation will happen.
00:09:41.000 It will take probably a month, maybe more.
00:09:45.000 There's a number of things that could have happened.
00:09:47.000 This is a very busy airspace.
00:09:49.000 Military flying is also very dangerous.
00:09:52.000 We have the potential for pilots to have been on night vision goggles.
00:09:56.000 There's lots of things.
00:09:57.000 But you know what?
00:09:58.000 Anybody making blame right now.
00:10:02.000 It's wrong, it's irresponsible, and it's particularly shameful for the President of the United States to make it.
00:10:09.000 It seems that he's listening to Charlie Kirk, right?
00:10:11.000 Charlie Kirk back in 2024 said when he sees a black pilot, he wonders if they're even qualified at all. 1.00
00:10:16.000 Donald Trump came out and essentially tried to blame diversity for this and throw it on their favorite DEI, which is their favorite little thing to beat all the time.
00:10:26.000 For the record, the totality of my comments.
00:10:30.000 We're that if you are going to hire based on race and not merit, it begs such lower questions that none of us like.
00:10:38.000 And I even continued the sentence to say, that's not who I am.
00:10:41.000 I don't like it.
00:10:41.000 But you obviously can't say that.
00:10:44.000 And we actually never did the forced apology thing.
00:10:47.000 So let me ask you this question, Jack.
00:10:51.000 Jack, what do we know about this situation?
00:10:56.000 And the president seemed very clear.
00:11:00.000 We want merit, merit, merit.
00:11:02.000 The press has lost their mind.
00:11:04.000 Jack, what do we know as of this conversation right now?
00:11:08.000 So, as of this conversation right now, and by the way, I'm getting most of this from what's been released publicly.
00:11:15.000 This has nothing to do with anything that I learned while on my trip with the Secretary today, but we are hearing some reports that it was in fact, so two pieces, right?
00:11:26.000 One from one piece of the helicopter and then one piece of the air traffic control.
00:11:31.000 And I believe it was the New York Times broke the story earlier and Fox had it as well that the air traffic control staffing was, quote, not normal for the...
00:11:42.000 Time of day and the volume of traffic, which I take that to mean that staffing was low compared to the amount of traffic that they had going in and that it was understaffed and has been understaffed for years, by the way.
00:11:54.000 There's a similar incident that happened last year, about just under a year ago.
00:11:59.000 I think it was last April when something like this happened and became a huge viral video.
00:12:05.000 And then with the helicopter itself, There was reporting that came out that the helicopter was on, and another report in front of me right now, but there was reporting that came out that said the helicopter itself was on a training flight, so that it was out of Fort Belvoir, which is right there.
00:12:25.000 That's a huge army base.
00:12:26.000 Tons of military, obviously, in the area of Fort Belvoir.
00:12:28.000 It's a large army base in the area.
00:12:31.000 Joint Base Andrews is nearby.
00:12:32.000 So this helicopter would have been out of, the Black Hawk would have been out of Belvoir.
00:12:38.000 And that the pilot was conducting some training that may have included night vision training.
00:12:45.000 So it was a situation where there was a trainer and there was a pilot and the trainer was essentially the main conductor of the flight, but it was the trainee who was getting the required flight hours.
00:13:01.000 It's been reported that it's a female co-pilot and that she was training on some night vision nighttime training.
00:13:09.000 So we do have this report here, and then I want to play some tape.
00:13:14.000 It says, initial FAA report indicates staffing at air traffic control was not normal.
00:13:20.000 Now, I remember back during our controversy last year, of which we are being proven correct, that we said that there were lots of near misses.
00:13:30.000 So I want to play this from the Deputy Administrator for the FAA in 2023. And then, Blake, I want you to walk through how near misses has become a pattern.
00:13:38.000 We've been talking about how at Chicago Air Airport that there's been tons of near misses, there's been whistleblowers about how ATC controllers are not qualified.
00:13:47.000 Apparently, people who know what they're talking about are saying the ATC did not intervene nearly as aggressively or decisively as they should have when they saw this kind of potential collision.
00:13:58.000 I can't speak to that, I'll be perfectly honest.
00:14:01.000 I don't know what is normal or what is not.
00:14:03.000 Let's play this first, though.
00:14:05.000 Let's play what the FAA has been hiring.
00:14:07.000 This is the type of talent they have been trying to attract.
00:14:11.000 Play Cut 180. Hi, I'm Brad Mims, Deputy Administrator at the Federal Aviation Administration.
00:14:17.000 We are looking for the best and brightest to join us as air traffic controllers.
00:14:23.000 We need a diverse group of air traffic controllers to bring distinct perspectives to handle the ever-changing aerospace landscape.
00:14:32.000 I'm calling on students and alumni from HBCUs, Hispanic-serving institutions, and tribal colleges to apply now to become air traffic controllers.
00:14:44.000 We need a diverse, next-generation air traffic workforce with people from all backgrounds.
00:14:54.000 The air traffic controller thing, it's one of those things where once you start describing it, you get weird looks because it so much overwhelms people's understanding of how things should be that they're just creeped out.
00:15:06.000 They reject the knowledge because this is all true.
00:15:11.000 This goes back to Obama.
00:15:13.000 The Obama administration, what they did is we had an old meritocratic system where it was basically you went to an air traffic trainer And instead,
00:15:40.000 we're going to adopt this biographical questionnaire, is what they called it.
00:15:43.000 And they made this a massive part of hiring.
00:15:46.000 And so biographical questionnaire, it's literally, they'd ask you questions about your life to sift your resume.
00:15:52.000 And then what they did is, instead of wanting the answers that would indicate capability, I'm not making this up.
00:15:59.000 This is all totally real.
00:16:00.000 They had it where the answers you wanted to give were basically the ones that would make it more likely you were a diverse candidate, as it were.
00:16:08.000 So they would say, how many sports did you play in high school?
00:16:12.000 And if you played a lot of sports in high school, you got...
00:16:16.000 What does playing sports in high school have to do with being an air traffic controller?
00:16:20.000 Nothing.
00:16:21.000 But it has a lot to do with hitting diversity quotas.
00:16:23.000 And infamously, what they would do is they would ask you what your worst subject in high school was.
00:16:30.000 And if you said science was your worst subject, you got a better score on this quiz.
00:16:35.000 So it would reward you for having science as your worst grade in high school.
00:16:41.000 And it was...
00:16:42.000 All bizarre stuff like this.
00:16:43.000 And there were other crazy things, too.
00:16:45.000 There was an employee at the FAA. I forget his name, so I don't want to go off the top of my head.
00:16:51.000 But an employee at the FAA who was also involved in an affinity group for black aviation employees.
00:16:58.000 He sent out an email that was like, wink, wink, nudge, nudge everyone.
00:17:02.000 Here are some buzzwords you should include in your resume to make sure it gets picked out by our automatic sorter.
00:17:10.000 By the way, don't share this with people who aren't minorities or women because we don't want too much competition. 0.94
00:17:16.000 I'm not making this up.
00:17:18.000 This all happened.
00:17:20.000 100%.
00:17:21.000 So did this actually cause what happened yesterday?
00:17:25.000 Actually, almost certainly not, is my guess.
00:17:27.000 It would be very difficult to draw a direct line.
00:17:30.000 But what's so true with Trump all the time is Trump has that power to get at the big picture of what's going on.
00:17:38.000 And what everyone's asking is, okay, why did we suddenly have the worst airplane crash in America in 20 years?
00:17:46.000 Well, we should at least be talking about the fact that we have had a systematic effort.
00:17:51.000 Four years under two Democrat presidents and under, frankly, some of it continued under Trump because these are the bureaucrats and they're all left wing.
00:18:00.000 These people have done a systematic effort to downplay merit so that they can just hire people based on bogus BS diversity quota factors.
00:18:10.000 And then they get mad at us when we say, gee, when you hire people based merely on skin color and not their ability.
00:18:18.000 It makes me nervous to go on a plane and they're like, how can you say that?
00:18:23.000 How can Charlie Kirk do that?
00:18:25.000 Why is he sowing distrust of our beautiful planes that are falling out of the sky as we speak?
00:18:33.000 Man.
00:18:35.000 How dare you?
00:18:36.000 How dare he?
00:18:39.000 Has Charlie Kirk no honor?
00:18:44.000 We see it all the time when I visit college campuses.
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00:19:47.000 So let's, whoever wants to take this, go ahead.
00:19:50.000 But Donald, President Trump in that press conference kind of went after the state-run religion of DEI. And it wasn't just like tampering on the edges.
00:20:00.000 It was like a full, metaphorical, political and cultural execution.
00:20:07.000 Being like, this has no place in society.
00:20:09.000 We need smart people.
00:20:11.000 And by the way, in the very Trumpian way, it was awfully persuasive.
00:20:15.000 He's like, you got 60 planes going and supercomputers.
00:20:18.000 Do we have President Trump from the press conference?
00:20:21.000 I thought he was awesome on this topic, to be honest with you.
00:20:24.000 And because you could tell President Trump was mad, and he wasn't necessarily mad at any particular person.
00:20:33.000 He was just mad that a system would put up with mediocrity, a system that would allow this to occur, a system that does not have merit.
00:20:42.000 And he almost is kind of like a new CEO or new manager that comes into a company and something bad happens like a week and a half onto the job.
00:20:49.000 He's like, no more.
00:20:51.000 This is unacceptable.
00:20:52.000 And we're not going to put up with it.
00:20:54.000 So let me see the clip sheet here.
00:20:56.000 Ryan just said, reference the clip sheet.
00:20:58.000 Let me see here.
00:20:58.000 What do we have?
00:20:59.000 Do we have the President Trump?
00:21:00.000 Yeah, we do.
00:21:01.000 Okay.
00:21:01.000 Yeah, this is it.
00:21:02.000 This is great.
00:21:02.000 Let's play cut 192, please.
00:21:04.000 Upon entering office, I signed something last week that was an executive order very powerful on restoring the highest standards of air traffic controllers and others, by the way.
00:21:18.000 And my administration will set the highest possible bar for aviation safety.
00:21:22.000 We have to have our smartest people.
00:21:25.000 It doesn't matter what they look like, how they speak, who they are.
00:21:29.000 It matters intellect, talent, the word talent.
00:21:32.000 You have to be talented, naturally talented geniuses.
00:21:37.000 You can't have regular people doing that job.
00:21:39.000 They won't be able to do it.
00:21:41.000 But we'll restore faith in American air travel.
00:21:45.000 Let's play another here.
00:21:47.000 I think this is Caitlin Collins, Dylan Mulvaney.
00:21:51.000 Is that right?
00:21:53.000 We'll cut 194. That's why I'm trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash.
00:22:01.000 Because I have common sense, okay?
00:22:04.000 And unfortunately, a lot of people don't.
00:22:07.000 We want brilliant people doing this.
00:22:09.000 This is a major chess game at the highest level.
00:22:12.000 When you have 60 planes coming in during a short period of time, and they're all coming in different directions, and you're dealing with very high-level computer...
00:22:26.000 I love how everyone's speechless, too.
00:22:29.000 When Trump talks about this stuff and it's like he goes off script and nobody's really expecting it and he keeps going and going.
00:22:38.000 It's like everybody that's there is sitting there and the media is all just frozen because they don't know what to say because if they ask the wrong question, they're going to get destroyed, possibly fired.
00:22:50.000 If they ask the wrong question and, you know, bring dishonor to their entire news network.
00:22:55.000 And it's just so funny to watch because this is what we were missing for so long was Trump's not afraid to talk about it.
00:23:02.000 He's going to go off.
00:23:02.000 he could be in the middle of you know you know reading books books to children in an elementary school and then go on like you know have his own inner monologue come out about whatever's going on and nobody's ready for it nobody can answer it it's it speaks directly to the american people and we've missed it for so long what's fascinating to me and stands out to me is i think if this were happening in 2017
00:23:29.000 the lead shrieking hysterics all night on every cable channel or at least you know cnn msnbc and then the banners on new york times and all that it would be on trump's remarks where Trump goes on unhinged rant against minorities and jobs or something like that.
00:23:46.000 It's much more muted this time.
00:23:48.000 Like, I can go, you go to CNN, and their angle is just, they have both black boxes found, and then they just have in a smaller article to the left, Trump jumps right to the blame game over deadly mid-air collision.
00:24:00.000 Like, that's a pretty muted way of putting it, where they're just, they're doing the, oh, he's going too quickly.
00:24:06.000 It's like the inverted version, you know, and if there's like a tragedy, like a mass shooting, where they would say, we can't talk about this.
00:24:13.000 Oh, no way!
00:24:13.000 Yeah, but just flipped around now, basically.
00:24:16.000 He's going too quickly.
00:24:17.000 They're not even really mad about what he said, just that he did it too quickly.
00:24:20.000 And then New York Times, they're leading with that the control tower was possibly understaffed.
00:24:27.000 And then they just say, fact-checking Trump's plane crash news conference and remarks about DEI. Way more muted.
00:24:35.000 I think maybe they're learning a little bit.
00:24:38.000 We've seen that.
00:24:39.000 We saw over and over where they would flip out about something Trump said, and then...
00:24:43.000 It would be surprisingly popular.
00:24:45.000 I think the best example was when Trump did his off-the-cuff thing about Kamala where she's not really black or whatever and everyone came unglued about that and then they found the people in the barbershops and stuff saying like, yeah, Trump's right! 0.98
00:24:59.000 She's not! 1.00
00:25:01.000 So I think they finally realized, wait, if we hyperventilate about this, it will just make more people raise their eyebrow and go, wait, wait, we've been hiring air traffic controllers for diversity reasons?
00:25:13.000 That sounds really bad.
00:25:14.000 Wait a minute.
00:25:17.000 They're learning, finally.
00:25:19.000 That was also the same issue, if you remember, in the H-1B debate where the more people were talking about it, the more people were actually looking into how the program works.
00:25:31.000 And it really just did not stand up to scrutiny.
00:25:35.000 People were finding all sorts of stuff in there.
00:25:37.000 So, yeah, it's kind of a...
00:25:40.000 It's kind of one of those situations where the more you fight it, the worse it actually gets.
00:25:48.000 And so the only way to fight it is to sort of like not...
00:25:51.000 Talk about it or not allow it to be criticized in any way.
00:25:54.000 So that's, of course, what Joy Reid is trying to do.
00:25:57.000 She's trying to say, oh, how dare you? 0.91
00:25:59.000 You're talking about diversity.
00:26:01.000 You're talking about women. 0.87
00:26:02.000 You're talking about minorities, etc., etc.
00:26:04.000 Because that's their only response is to woke scold you into not actually talking about it.
00:26:10.000 But in reality, the more you, as Blake, as you say, and...
00:26:15.000 You know, the more you look into it, the worse it gets.
00:26:17.000 I remember, by the way, we were talking about just a couple of weeks ago.
00:26:21.000 What was it?
00:26:21.000 It's only been a month since New Year's Eve, and we had the FBI agent with the nose ring, and we were going into Miranda Devine's reporting on the FBI trainees, and I think it was even worse, by the way, than the FAA one, where, you know, people were overweight, weight, they couldn't fill out an FD 302 form, they didn't have proper grammar, all these horrible things that were coming through.
00:26:45.000 But if they were the right gender, the right race, or the right sexual orientation, Chris Ray's FBI was saying like, oh, yeah, that person needs to be put through.
00:26:54.000 You're not allowed to fail them because we got to reach our quotas.
00:26:56.000 It's completely insane.
00:26:58.000 And by the way, the point is, and Charlie, this is what you were getting at a year ago, was this isn't the...
00:27:04.000 We're not talking about any of those people.
00:27:07.000 We're talking about a system that is going to get people hurt.
00:27:10.000 It's going to get people killed.
00:27:11.000 It could have gotten 67 people.
00:27:18.000 We want the safest airplanes.
00:27:20.000 We want the best surgeons.
00:27:22.000 It's as simple as that.
00:27:24.000 It's about keeping people safe and having systems that work properly.
00:27:28.000 We don't want trains crashing into East Palestine. 0.95
00:27:31.000 We don't want planes crashing into helicopters.
00:27:33.000 All of these things.
00:27:34.000 We want the best of the best, and that's obviously what you were saying last year, Charlie, what we were saying here on this program, and it's clearly what President Trump is talking about today.
00:27:43.000 Let's go to cut 2-1-1 right now.
00:27:47.000 Vaughn Hilliard, 2-1-1, doing more of my press.
00:27:51.000 2-1-1.
00:27:52.000 I think when we're talking about individuals and allies of Donald Trump, I think that so many of the stories that we are looking at, including this one, come down to who is that nucleus around Donald Trump.
00:28:05.000 And one other name that I would throw out there would be Charlie Kirk.
00:28:07.000 And the reason I bring up Charlie Kirk is because one year ago, I, along with a few other NBC colleagues, reported a story in which Charlie Kirk, the right-wing provocateur and ally of Donald Trump, he had put out in the public sphere on a podcast.
00:28:21.000 That he was concerned when he got on airplanes, when he saw a black pilot, because he questioned whether they were hired because of DEI hiring initiatives and not because they were qualified.
00:28:32.000 And at that time, there were some allies of Donald Trump's, including RNC chairwoman Ron McDaniel, who went directly to then candidate Donald Trump with that specific remark.
00:28:43.000 And they wanted to make sure that Donald Trump heard that because they thought that he would not want Charlie Kirk around him.
00:28:50.000 Because of that suggestion that somehow black camp pilots were not qualified to be flying in America.
00:28:57.000 And instead, one year later, when I heard those remarks from the White House, it took me back to that story one year ago, because instead of Donald Trump pushing Charlie Kirk away, he fundamentally embraced that very ideology of questioning the aviation industry and the extent to which individuals are in it, whether they be pilots or air traffic controllers or even members of the military, because of DEI. All of these things are amazing to me because they're always like...
00:29:25.000 They completely get the causality backwards.
00:29:27.000 Guys, our position is we should have the same hiring standard for everyone and then there will be no doubt about the qualifications of anyone to do any job because they will have passed the qualifications to do it.
00:29:41.000 You guys are the ones who say in the name of diversity, in the name of this or that political goal...
00:29:49.000 We should have different standards for different people.
00:29:52.000 And then you have this dumb, surprised look on your face.
00:29:55.000 Oh, people have noticed what's going on.
00:30:02.000 They're so dumb, I bet they could pass that fake test that the Obama administration was giving the air traffic controllers.
00:30:10.000 They would be like, yeah, I always found science really hard in school.
00:30:13.000 It had a lot of numbers.
00:30:14.000 It made my head hurt.
00:30:17.000 They should just all go work as Obama air traffic controllers. 0.78
00:30:21.000 I have a lot of thoughts on this, but I'm going to let other people talk.
00:30:24.000 By the way, that was a pretty comprehensive clip by Vaughn, as if I'm some sort of, like, whisper on FAA policy.
00:30:31.000 Like, I convened a meeting in the White House.
00:30:33.000 All right, guys, listen to me.
00:30:35.000 We've got to talk about pilots.
00:30:36.000 Like, I mean, it's just laughable.
00:30:39.000 You're not much of a whispering guy, Charlie, except when your voice goes out because you talk at too many campuses.
00:30:44.000 That happened twice this last semester.
00:30:47.000 It's no joke.
00:30:47.000 Can you confirm?
00:30:48.000 I was there.
00:30:50.000 Jack bailed me out.
00:30:51.000 He did.
00:30:53.000 Jack.
00:30:53.000 Until Penn State canceled the event.
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00:32:51.000 Okay, let's go to the little Al Sharpton.
00:32:55.000 Let's go to a second topic here.
00:32:56.000 Do we want to do the Redditors, guys?
00:32:59.000 That's a pretty fun topic.
00:33:00.000 There's so many good stuff.
00:33:02.000 Guys, we have to talk about the Reddits.
00:33:05.000 You know what Reddit is, right, Charlie?
00:33:09.000 I actually, yeah.
00:33:10.000 I want to say I've never used it, but there was a moment when there was the R the Donald.
00:33:17.000 Was unbelievably great.
00:33:19.000 R the Donald was so good, they had to...
00:33:22.000 Did I just earn Jack's respect a little bit?
00:33:24.000 Did I just learn Jack's respect a little bit?
00:33:27.000 That's such a deep pull from the early days of OG 2016 MAGA. I don't remember seeing any of your posts on there, Charlie.
00:33:37.000 Charlie, do you know what a centipede is?
00:33:38.000 Do you know what a nimble navigator is?
00:33:41.000 It was so complicated.
00:33:44.000 The technology of Reddit was always so like...
00:33:51.000 It was so confusing of like how to post, how to comment.
00:33:54.000 They were all anons.
00:33:56.000 However, I did have the Reddit app on my phone only for R the Donald because during like 2017, 2018, 2019, before it got banned, that was like way better than Twitter for processing like based flow of information.
00:34:12.000 So yes, Blake, I do know Reddit.
00:34:15.000 As soon as they got rid of R the Donald, I got rid of Reddit on my phone.
00:34:18.000 By the way, it's now patriots.win for anyone who's looking for it.
00:34:24.000 If you go to patriots.win, they've sort of like some quasi-recreated R the Donald.
00:34:29.000 Alright, so for those of you who have a life, what Reddit is, Reddit is an online discussion forum and it has things called subreddits on it that are on an infinite number of topics.
00:34:42.000 So there's ones on the NFL, there's ones on cooking, there's ones on...
00:34:46.000 Every video game we've made.
00:34:48.000 All that sort of stuff.
00:34:48.000 But there's one called Fed News.
00:34:51.000 And it's basically news and discussion for people who are employees of the federal government.
00:34:58.000 And if you're not on Reddit, you're blissfully unaware of this.
00:35:02.000 But there's kind of a stereotype of Redditors as a class.
00:35:06.000 Redditors is what they call themselves, people on Reddit.
00:35:09.000 That they're the people who are the most unironic.
00:35:13.000 True believer, like, the word NPC was created to describe the median Redditor.
00:35:19.000 They get, like, the latest propaganda narratives downloaded into their brain.
00:35:24.000 They're, like, very, they're always freaking out about everything, like, every bad thing that Trump Hitler has done.
00:35:31.000 All of that.
00:35:32.000 Just every bad stereotype you could think of for them as like a kind of dim but very earnest liberal would apply to the media and Redditor.
00:35:40.000 And they did things.
00:35:41.000 I remember this is a great one.
00:35:43.000 I'll confess.
00:35:44.000 I would post on the subreddit for the NFL. And in 2021, players were missing games because they weren't getting vaccinated.
00:35:54.000 And they made it.
00:35:55.000 You got banned for life from the NFL subreddit.
00:36:00.000 If you questioned the need to mandate the vaccine.
00:36:04.000 And so I got banned for life because I said I didn't think Kirk Cousins needed to take the vaccine.
00:36:10.000 From the NFL, too.
00:36:11.000 Wasn't the whole appeal of Reddit that it kind of flirted above?
00:36:18.000 4chan and the more unregulated parts of the internet.
00:36:21.000 Wasn't that the appeal that it almost like semi-dipped into that, but it was kind of like the cross-section?
00:36:27.000 I have a theory.
00:36:27.000 Maybe I'm wrong, but...
00:36:29.000 I'll just answer Charlie's question quick.
00:36:31.000 So it was like that.
00:36:32.000 So Reddit was one of those ones.
00:36:34.000 You might remember, it's so recent, really.
00:36:37.000 Like 15 years ago, the left was very radically pro-free speech, especially in tech.
00:36:41.000 So you had totally unmoderated Twitter.
00:36:44.000 And Reddit was, in its early days, totally...
00:36:47.000 It was all user-moderated.
00:36:49.000 So if you created a subreddit, the mods of that subreddit could set whatever rules they wanted, and Reddit's position was basically anything goes, you can do your own thing.
00:36:58.000 So there were basically, I'll be blunt, there were hate subreddits.
00:37:02.000 So you would have a subreddit that would literally just have the N-word in it.
00:37:06.000 And that was allowed on Reddit back in the day.
00:37:08.000 And then what killed this, it's extremely funny what killed it, there was an extremely popular subreddit.
00:37:16.000 Thousands and thousands of people on it that was called fat people hate.
00:37:20.000 And they would post hatred of fat people and talk about all the fatties that they saw and all the problems they did and just relentless bashing.
00:37:29.000 And this is what broke it because all the hate ones had been like obscure ones that no one was on.
00:37:33.000 But this was one of the most popular pages on the site was bashing.
00:37:37.000 Fat people.
00:37:38.000 And if you were to look at it today, it would feel so much...
00:37:41.000 It was like a very early wave of what you'd call the anti-woke backlash of all the fat acceptance stuff.
00:37:48.000 They were just calling it all BS. We can say what's really going on here.
00:37:52.000 All of that.
00:37:52.000 Anyway, people freaked out and it got so bad, they fired their CEO and brought in a new CEO and she banned fat people hate.
00:38:01.000 And once they banned that...
00:38:02.000 The dam broke and they started banning all sorts of other stuff and that kind of it closed the Redditor mind and it just became a much more lib group drink site.
00:38:12.000 The other thing that happened is transgender people became the mods of a bunch of subreddits and started policing things.
00:38:17.000 Well so but but we have to we have to so just in the interest of time we All the insanity of Reddit.
00:38:23.000 What is this Fed News subreddit that has now sort of like really come to massive prominence since Trump took office?
00:38:31.000 You should definitely follow...
00:38:34.000 Fed News.
00:38:35.000 Everyone should follow and comment.
00:38:37.000 You have to comment as well because what Blake is saying is exactly right.
00:38:42.000 Reddit has become like Wikipedia where all the mods are uber, uber, uber lib.
00:38:47.000 So that's why you can get nothing through.
00:38:49.000 People don't realize this.
00:38:50.000 And Reddit, I actually have a theory.
00:38:52.000 Reddit is awful today because remember Twitter in like 2010, 2008?
00:39:00.000 Twitter in 2008, it was like 95% lib.
00:39:05.000 And I actually think as people have gone on Twitter and X, and it's become more balanced, that all those liberal S posters are now just exclusively on Reddit.
00:39:19.000 But anyways, going back to this.
00:39:20.000 So Fed News is the federal workers subreddit.
00:39:25.000 And what it's become is we had all those Trump What really happened is Trump issued the executive order that you have to go back to the office.
00:39:33.000 You can't keep doing work from home.
00:39:35.000 And this instantly turned into like they're going full les miserables.
00:39:40.000 Do you hear the people saying absolute cataclysmic nuclear meltdown about the prospect of having to go back into the office?
00:39:49.000 And it's become resistance central.
00:39:51.000 This is the hub for the hashtag resistance at the moment is the federal workers.
00:39:56.000 And they're posting.
00:39:57.000 A lot of stuff that is truly, profoundly embarrassing.
00:40:00.000 Let me get from Charlie's one.
00:40:06.000 We highlighted this where it was someone where they were...
00:40:13.000 By the way, before we get too into these, I'm just going to put out as a disclaimer, we don't actually know...
00:40:20.000 Whether or not this is true, because again, it's all anonymous, it's all posts.
00:40:25.000 So just like anything on Reddit, you always have to take it with a grain of salt.
00:40:29.000 That being said, the amount of specificity on these comments and the sheer...
00:40:36.000 This existed for years and years, and some of these users have been posting like this long before President Trump returned to office.
00:40:43.000 So that's what gives it a level of credibility beyond just, say, going on 4chan where anyone can post anything.
00:40:49.000 So, this was one of the ones we highlighted.
00:40:52.000 This was one of the top posts about a week ago or so, where this person was reacting to the return to work order.
00:40:59.000 And so they say, and you have to read this in a monkey voice, Boycott using local businesses around worksite if forced back to office.
00:41:08.000 For those that end up being forced back to their respective offices, I would avoid patronizing the local businesses in those areas.
00:41:19.000 Bring your own lunch to avoid using the eateries and grocery stores.
00:41:26.000 Avoid parking in pay parking.
00:41:29.000 And don't buy anything at the shops or gas stations.
00:41:34.000 Which I think perfectly gets into the Redditor mind.
00:41:37.000 Like, these people are extremely angry at the idea of having to work.
00:41:40.000 But...
00:41:41.000 Naturally, the way they express this is channel their rage into attacking ordinary people who have real jobs they have to go to during the day.
00:41:49.000 Like, screw you!
00:41:50.000 I'm not going to go eat at a restaurant!
00:41:52.000 How dare you?
00:41:53.000 How dare you make me leave my house because productivity has completely crashed down into the basement ever since we got permanent COVID mode four years ago.
00:42:04.000 These people are...
00:42:07.000 Unbelievable.
00:42:08.000 And there's all these threads like this.
00:42:10.000 And apparently, the top thread of the past week is, my supervisor told us to stop posting on Reddit.
00:42:16.000 Which, if you check the data, by the way, the busiest hours for Fed News is the eight hours of the American weekday workday.
00:42:27.000 They're all on Reddit while at their job.
00:42:29.000 Which, I will say, I found that while on Reddit at my job.
00:42:33.000 But I've always had a job where I'm allowed to be on Reddit.
00:42:36.000 I could get away with that.
00:42:37.000 This is pure comedy, and I was telling the group, I actually have a favorite podcast I listen to, and they do the subreddit stakeout.
00:42:44.000 So what they do is during sports games, they read the opposing team's subreddit, and then they make fun of them crying and moaning.
00:42:51.000 We should just go through some of these real quickly and throw these up.
00:42:55.000 Some of these are hilarious.
00:42:57.000 I guess we could just start with 203 or wherever it starts here.
00:43:00.000 Oh, we got 202. Blake just said, stop posting on Reddit.
00:43:05.000 If you go on here, you can just start reading and do it with a voice.
00:43:08.000 But let's go to 203 real quick.
00:43:10.000 We can throw it up.
00:43:13.000 Some of these are hilarious.
00:43:14.000 They're focusing on the wrong thing.
00:43:16.000 The federal government has been significantly more efficient over the past 60 years.
00:43:22.000 Ooh, super efficient.
00:43:24.000 Yep, super efficient.
00:43:26.000 204. This non-buyout seems to really have backfired.
00:43:30.000 I'll be honest, before that email was...
00:43:32.000 When out, I was looking for any way to get out of this fresh hell.
00:43:35.000 But now I'm fired up to make these goons as fresh as possible. 1.00
00:43:39.000 RTO be damned.
00:43:40.000 Hold the line.
00:43:41.000 Oh, no.
00:43:42.000 The line.
00:43:43.000 Oh, no.
00:43:44.000 Yeah.
00:43:44.000 Oh, no.
00:43:45.000 Now they're threatening to actually work.
00:43:47.000 They're going to work so hard to show us how dumb we are.
00:43:50.000 I think this is my favorite.
00:43:52.000 This is my favorite.
00:43:53.000 To my fellow feds, especially veterans, we are at war.
00:43:58.000 We watched this goon try to overthrow the government on live TV four years ago. 0.99
00:44:04.000 Now, we are witnessing him try to overthrow it from within.
00:44:09.000 We are the last line of defense against fascism.
00:44:14.000 If we leave, we will be replaced by loyalists.
00:44:19.000 Read Project 2025, and for the love of God...
00:44:23.000 Please believe what is written because that is what is happening.
00:44:27.000 All the EOs are directly from that document.
00:44:31.000 I didn't dedicate years of my life serving this country to be bullied into quitting my career by a bunch of fascists.
00:44:38.000 We are being led by the same types of people our grandparents fought against in World War II. Which, guarantee, this person thinks that his grandparents are racist and shouldn't have been invited to Thanksgiving near the end of their lives.
00:44:54.000 Every frickin' time.
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00:46:00.000 I've got a friend who has a sort of, like, liberal side of the family, but he was, I'm just going to leave it at this, and he was telling me some of the stuff that they were saying to him recently just about how they all actually believe that, like, the, you know, the authoritarian fascist government has taken over.
00:46:21.000 They're in full force, and it's their job to be the resistance.
00:46:24.000 He said they were, like, sending messages of encouragement to each other.
00:46:30.000 Like, it's going to be okay.
00:46:33.000 We'll get through this.
00:46:34.000 We will fight and history will learn that we stood in the breach against the takeover.
00:46:40.000 Like, libs are not doing very well.
00:46:43.000 And here's the thing is, and, you know, Tyler, you had that one that you were showing me the other day of talking about, I'm not an activist, but, you know, and was that the one with the poem?
00:46:52.000 I think that was the one with the poem, actually.
00:46:55.000 And it's, no, they're all activists.
00:46:57.000 And I say this as a guy who's a former federal employee, I was a member of the intelligence community, and they're all like this.
00:47:04.000 They're all, especially in D.C., especially in D.C., they're like this.
00:47:09.000 Oh, yeah, here's the one.
00:47:10.000 I'm not a politician.
00:47:12.000 I'm not an activist.
00:47:14.000 I'm just someone trying to make sense of this betrayal.
00:47:18.000 And the only way I could to deal with it was to write.
00:47:21.000 This poem came out of that, a raw, unfiltered reflection of how angry and heartbroken of how I feel.
00:47:27.000 Here's the thing.
00:47:28.000 I need to know if this resonates with anyone else.
00:47:31.000 Does it make sense to you?
00:47:32.000 Does it feel like it matters?
00:47:34.000 Or am I screaming into the void?
00:47:36.000 Here's the poem.
00:47:37.000 Guys, should I read the poem?
00:47:38.000 Yes, please read it.
00:47:39.000 Do we do the poem?
00:47:40.000 Please.
00:47:41.000 Oh, man.
00:47:42.000 You stood beneath a stolen flag a coward's grin behind your mask breaking glass like you broke your oath spilling blood spilling truth spilling Both.
00:47:55.000 The Capitol stood like a sentinel of time until you tore it down.
00:48:00.000 Crime by effing crime.
00:48:03.000 The floors ran red where history walked and democracy bled as your chance marked.
00:48:09.000 I think this is actually just Joy Reid probably writing this with Rachel Maddow.
00:48:13.000 This is not exactly Macaulay, I've got to say.
00:48:16.000 Yeah, no, no, no.
00:48:17.000 It's not even James Joyce.
00:48:20.000 It's just over and over and over.
00:48:24.000 2-14.
00:48:25.000 Walt Whitman is turning in his grave right now.
00:48:29.000 You are the ghost of the dying nation.
00:48:31.000 Mute accomplices to its damnation.
00:48:39.000 It's so bad.
00:48:43.000 But this is what they do.
00:48:44.000 It reminds me of all those stupid poems and songs.
00:48:48.000 This is actually worse than ChatGPT.
00:48:49.000 If ChatGPT made this, it would probably be better.
00:48:52.000 Oh no, this wasn't ChatGPT.
00:48:54.000 This is those same guys that were singing songs to Dr. Fauci in the middle of COVID saying, we love you, Dr. Fauci.
00:49:02.000 It's the same guy.
00:49:03.000 It's the same guys.
00:49:05.000 214, and this is how you know.
00:49:07.000 You gotta read the names of the handles.
00:49:10.000 214, if we have it pulled up.
00:49:11.000 I think this is the right one that we put in the chat.
00:49:15.000 Yeah.
00:49:16.000 Gay and confused. 0.97
00:49:20.000 Federal employee, gay and confused. 0.90
00:49:23.000 Yeah, I mean, you're going to have to narrow it down, Tyler.
00:49:26.000 You're going to have to narrow it down.
00:49:27.000 No, I mean, it's very descriptive of gay and confused, the federal employee. 0.72
00:49:32.000 The only way to defeat fascism is to work against it from the inside.
00:49:37.000 Again.
00:49:38.000 The age-old fascism is shrinking government concept here.
00:49:48.000 Man.
00:49:49.000 So he's gay and confused, so he's going to fight against it from the inside? 0.99
00:49:53.000 Are we the baddies?
00:49:54.000 Yeah, but that's what you're going to have.
00:49:55.000 This is what you're going to have.
00:49:57.000 This was Vinman.
00:49:58.000 Don't go there, Blake.
00:49:59.000 This was Charamella.
00:50:00.000 This was all the people who don't leave or don't accept this buyout or do something else.
00:50:07.000 They're going to be sitting there thinking, how can I undermine this?
00:50:11.000 They literally think they're fighting against Mussolini and we've got to stop them.
00:50:18.000 It's all going to happen.
00:50:19.000 Let me tell you one thing that they are underestimating and I've had a chance to meet with them.
00:50:25.000 The intensity of the Doge people is really remarkable.
00:50:30.000 Understand, it's not just Elon.
00:50:31.000 Elon has brought in this platoon of lieutenants.
00:50:37.000 That are, I mean, you don't want to mess with these guys.
00:50:41.000 And they have done turnarounds.
00:50:43.000 They've come, like, Elon has used them replicated over in companies before.
00:50:47.000 And I'll tell you, there is a sequence to how they've planned this out.
00:50:52.000 And I guarantee you that some of these people that are posting this stuff on Reddit, they could be found out of who they are.
00:50:59.000 Insubordination will not be tolerated.
00:51:01.000 Saying you're not going to follow a president's orders is against the law and certainly against your contractual agreement.
00:51:07.000 And so, yeah, they can yammer all they want.
00:51:10.000 I think a lot of this is performative, but do not underestimate Elon and the Doge team.
00:51:15.000 Be able to find these people, root them out, and hopefully be able to shrink the size of government.
00:51:19.000 And this also begs this other question.
00:51:21.000 It drives me nuts.
00:51:23.000 I wish I was able to do this more on the mainstream networks.
00:51:27.000 But we keep on falling into this trap that the bureaucracy and the Department of Justice and the CIA is independent.
00:51:34.000 This is a bunch of crap.
00:51:37.000 It is under Article 2. There is not a fourth branch of government.
00:51:41.000 It is under the sole discretion of the President of the United States.
00:51:45.000 You hear these hearings.
00:51:46.000 Well, you know, Kash Patel's nomination might interfere with the interference of the FBI. The FBI is not independent.
00:51:53.000 First of all, it's never chartered by Congress.
00:51:55.000 It was an act by the president.
00:51:57.000 So it is a mythology.
00:51:59.000 It is an administrative state modern fiction that we must live under this idea that all of these bureaucracies are like a super government over the executive branch and like the president can offer suggestions.
00:52:14.000 And I think it's time for us to be an Article 2 absolutist.
00:52:18.000 It's either the...
00:52:20.000 And by the way, just so we're clear, they do believe the bureaucracies operate under a Democrat president.
00:52:26.000 But when it's a Republican president, it's like the total independence.
00:52:29.000 You can't do anything.
00:52:30.000 And so I think it's really important we reclaim the language on this.
00:52:33.000 And these federal workers, they don't call the shots. 0.98
00:52:37.000 And there's also this final point where we live under this legislative Article 1 supremacy where...
00:52:44.000 For example, there was this Senate confirmation question.
00:52:47.000 They're asking somebody about the Impoundment Act.
00:52:50.000 I don't know who they were asking.
00:52:51.000 It was asking Bobby Kennedy about it.
00:52:53.000 They said, well, do you think that the executive branch is able to not spend money that Congress sends?
00:52:57.000 And the answer is, of course.
00:52:59.000 Meaning that the tension between the branches is actually what the founders wanted.
00:53:04.000 There is not a hierarchy where the legislative branch is superior to the executive or the Supreme Court.
00:53:11.000 They are co-equal branches.
00:53:14.000 And restraining and reigning in the federal bureaucracy is one of the most important things that we can do to restore the founders' intent of Article 2. Yeah.
00:53:24.000 Totally.
00:53:26.000 And there's one.
00:53:28.000 Let's see.
00:53:29.000 What's our last topic?
00:53:31.000 Oh, we want to get to the last one?
00:53:32.000 All right.
00:53:33.000 Let's go.
00:53:35.000 We got to play.
00:53:36.000 I think we just got to jump straight into it.
00:53:39.000 All right.
00:53:40.000 So, Charlie, this is a film clip.
00:53:42.000 It's been nominated for, I think, 13 Oscars.
00:53:46.000 We're going to give you that prelude.
00:53:49.000 The clip you are about to see is from a movie that has been nominated for 13 Oscars, which I think is one short of the record.
00:53:54.000 I think the record is 14. Some of the most it's ever been.
00:53:58.000 We're going to see how many it's going to win.
00:54:00.000 But this is already one of the most honored films in history, and it contains this scene.
00:54:07.000 Do we have it ready to go?
00:54:09.000 All right, play it.
00:54:11.000 Be nice to meet you.
00:54:13.000 I'd like to know about sex change operation.
00:54:16.000 I see, I see, I see.
00:54:17.000 Men to woman or woman to men. 0.91
00:54:22.000 Men to woman. 0.90
00:54:23.000 From penis to vagina. 0.86
00:54:25.000 Would you like to know about it, madam?
00:54:31.000 I want to know it all.
00:54:33.000 Control laryngoplasty.
00:54:34.000 What is that?
00:54:35.000 Adam's upper reduction.
00:54:37.000 Yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:54:41.000 did a federal employee write this so I'm not Speaking of federal employees.
00:54:47.000 At work.
00:54:48.000 While they're at work.
00:54:49.000 This is, I think, a French director, but it's about, so the movie is Amelia Perez.
00:54:53.000 The plot of it is that a Mexican, a fictional Mexican drug cartel warlord gets a sex change operation, becomes a woman.
00:55:03.000 Legally.
00:55:03.000 And then, like, gets involved.
00:55:05.000 And, like, I guess as part of becoming a woman, realizes that being a murderous drug lord is bad or something like that.
00:55:10.000 But one of the best things about it is there's two amazing things.
00:55:14.000 One, Selena Gomez is in the movie.
00:55:16.000 No wonder why she got so vocal. 0.99
00:55:19.000 She was crying.
00:55:19.000 But the best part is this is a great aspect of it.
00:55:23.000 So Selena Gomez is from America.
00:55:25.000 She was born in America.
00:55:25.000 And she actually can't speak Spanish, which...
00:55:28.000 I personally find kind of inspiring.
00:55:30.000 I like that.
00:55:32.000 I like it when they don't know how, because that means they have assimilated, they have become American.
00:55:37.000 That is good.
00:55:38.000 I don't know how to speak German.
00:55:41.000 That's all gibberish to me, because I'm American.
00:55:43.000 I speak American.
00:55:45.000 And Selena Gomez is American.
00:55:47.000 She speaks American.
00:55:48.000 Anyway, she's in this movie, but they have her speak Spanish in it, and because she's not fluent in Spanish, she speaks incorrect Spanish.
00:55:58.000 Mexicans have seen this movie and they're like, I did not like how Selena Gomez, she did not use correct Spanish. 1.00
00:56:05.000 It's not grammatical Spanish in Mexico.
00:56:08.000 So one, that's great.
00:56:09.000 Two...
00:56:10.000 Right now, Mexico's federal government, the Mexican Federal Consumer Protection Agency, is investigating because so many Mexicans saw this movie and they filed complaints against a theater chain, Sinopolis, because Sinopolis has a quality guarantee and people are calling their bluff and saying they want refunds after seeing this movie.
00:56:36.000 And meanwhile, the Academy has nominated it for 13 Academy Awards.
00:56:40.000 And I think it's a perfect sign of how quickly things change.
00:56:45.000 Because what are we getting now?
00:56:46.000 What we are getting in theaters right now are the movies they greenlit for production in 2020 and 2021. They're like, alright, Floyd happened, Biden won, Trump is gone.
00:56:59.000 Peak woke forever.
00:57:00.000 Long live the revolution.
00:57:02.000 Alright, start making the weird movie about the transgender drug lord. 1.00
00:57:05.000 And they're like, great!
00:57:06.000 Let's go!
00:57:07.000 And they made the movie, and it came out, and they're like, Hollywood's like, ah!
00:57:11.000 This is the greatest movie ever made!
00:57:14.000 It's gonna completely change the culture, and then, you know, events have passed them by a little bit, but we'll always have the musical number.
00:57:24.000 Where they sing asking them to recite all the different sex change operation things.
00:57:30.000 We didn't even have it in the clip we showed, but there's a part where they're literally going back and forth where they're like, Vaginoplasty, yes!
00:57:37.000 Pinoplasty, yes!
00:57:38.000 Rhinoplasty, yes!
00:57:40.000 Yes, yes, yes!
00:57:40.000 So it's not like a mockery?
00:57:44.000 I mean, I was looking at this trailer.
00:57:46.000 It's not a parody is what I'm getting at.
00:57:48.000 It's not, but there's a good rule of thumb that like...
00:57:55.000 A sufficiently authentic portrayal of lunatics is indistinguishable from parodies.
00:58:01.000 The right-wing parody version of this would not have been as extreme and it would not have been as funny.
00:58:07.000 Hollywood's really done us a big solid on this one.
00:58:09.000 They always make themselves look more ridiculous.
00:58:13.000 They wonder why they lost the election.
00:58:15.000 They wonder why they lost the election.
00:58:18.000 I mean, this has Zoe Saldana in it. 0.51
00:58:21.000 Are you going to go see it now?
00:58:23.000 No.
00:58:23.000 Do you want to go see it with me, Tyler?
00:58:24.000 I think that would be pretty fun.
00:58:26.000 Well, something doesn't end up.
00:58:27.000 They say the budget was only $25 million.
00:58:31.000 There's no way they have all these A-list actresses and actors. 1.00
00:58:33.000 It's a musical.
00:58:35.000 Actors will sign up for prestige projects.
00:58:38.000 They're like, this is the big thing.
00:58:39.000 It's going to win every Oscar.
00:58:41.000 It turns out it costs very little just to sing about penises being transformed into vaginas. 0.99
00:58:47.000 That's true.
00:58:49.000 Alright, we'll play cut 218 and then we're gonna call this show a wrap.
00:58:52.000 Let's play cut 218. What
00:59:24.000 is that?
00:59:27.000 Yes, yes, yes, yes. yes.
00:59:57.000 Oh, my gosh.
01:00:03.000 Charlie, you've got to say what you just messaged to us.
01:00:06.000 I'm going to play this in churches.
01:00:09.000 When I go speak at a church, I'm going to play this in a church and say you have a moral obligation to vote for Republicans for the rest of your life because of this video.
01:00:20.000 They're going to come after your children. 0.82
01:00:22.000 They're going to come after your dog. 0.99
01:00:24.000 They're going to come after everybody.
01:00:27.000 It speaks for itself.
01:00:29.000 I've maintained that Lord of the Rings was the gayest movie ever in all history. 1.00
01:00:33.000 This takes the cake.
01:00:34.000 Wait, what?
01:00:35.000 How is Lord of the Rings?
01:00:37.000 What are you talking about?
01:00:39.000 Wait, this is like Lord of the Rings?
01:00:42.000 There's a pretty gay movie out there.
01:00:45.000 The fight has started.
01:00:46.000 You have begun the war, Tyler.
01:00:48.000 I will finish this war.
01:00:50.000 Explain yourself.
01:00:52.000 You have to prove this point.
01:00:55.000 There's the full clip.
01:00:57.000 Sam and Frodo are so gay together. 0.96
01:00:59.000 If you replaced it with a female, they'd be in love with each other. 1.00
01:01:03.000 Yeah, but they didn't, and they're not.
01:01:05.000 So you can't sit through 15 hours of those movies and not be like...
01:01:09.000 I think that's where America turned severely more gay was after the Lord of the Rings trilogy came out. 0.88
01:01:15.000 No, you are high.
01:01:16.000 You are on drugs.
01:01:18.000 Tyler, you are out of control.
01:01:20.000 This is unacceptable.
01:01:22.000 I'm saying this takes it.
01:01:23.000 This beats it, okay?
01:01:24.000 That's good, but no.
01:01:27.000 What?
01:01:29.000 Tyler, you have made a powerful enemy today.
01:01:32.000 Listen, it all started with Glee and Frozen, okay?
01:01:36.000 It was Glee and Frozen.
01:01:37.000 We talked about this so many times that it's Glee.
01:01:39.000 I know, 100%.
01:01:40.000 That was the original cultural sin of modernity, okay?
01:01:44.000 Glee ruined America.
01:01:45.000 Glee was the flagship of Wokely all the time.
01:01:48.000 I have no opinion on Glee because I never watched Glee.
01:01:52.000 We've covered it on the program.
01:01:55.000 And Charlie, you pointed out first that it was actually the High School Musical that kind of started the genre.
01:02:01.000 Oh, and I have a whole thing on Zac Efron, the whole thing.
01:02:04.000 And then Glee took that and made it Woke.
01:02:07.000 Hold on, now the people in the chat are saying they agree with Lord Wings being gay.
01:02:11.000 I'm going to go to war against you.
01:02:13.000 The chat says...
01:02:16.000 I could not be in more agreement with Blake.
01:02:18.000 I think Lord of the Rings is one of the greatest artistic accomplishments of the species.
01:02:22.000 Yeah, it's great.
01:02:23.000 Okay, it's called male friendship, and it's a thing that existed long before.
01:02:28.000 I never even thought of that until Tyler just said it.
01:02:31.000 If you go back and watch it now, you're going to be grossed out by the entire thing.
01:02:36.000 I actually watched it.
01:02:37.000 I read the books for the first time this year, so I actually re-watched it.
01:02:41.000 No, it's not gay.
01:02:42.000 I reject your interpretation.
01:02:44.000 I won the whole chat over, the entire chat.
01:02:45.000 No, it's not true.
01:02:47.000 Chat, we're going to have a stern talking to with the chat.
01:02:51.000 They're going to get onside.
01:02:54.000 Lord of the Rings is straight, and they're going to have to accept this.
01:02:59.000 Lord of the Rings is not gay. 0.97
01:03:01.000 Mighty of Mormons is not.
01:03:05.000 It's really not.
01:03:08.000 I don't.
01:03:10.000 I don't share that.
01:03:12.000 Okay, so thank you guys.
01:03:14.000 That was like a nuclear bomb thought crime for the record.
01:03:17.000 I'm like still processing that.
01:03:19.000 That's like pilot level thought crime.
01:03:22.000 Just like drop the freaking thermonuclear weapon in the middle.
01:03:27.000 We have to defend Lord of the Rings properly.
01:03:32.000 Yeah!
01:03:34.000 So next week.
01:03:39.000 Straight as an arrow.
01:03:42.000 Straight edge.
01:03:44.000 Not like a $3 bill.
01:03:47.000 We'll see you guys next week.
01:03:49.000 Keep committing thought crimes.
01:03:50.000 The crime is death.
01:03:51.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
01:03:59.000 Email us, as always, at freedom at charliekirk.com.
01:04:01.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.