The Charlie Kirk Show - Why the Left Needs January 6th

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00:00:00.000 On a longer episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, we dive into events that have changed the American way of life.

00:00:09.000 Major changes do not happen on their own.

00:00:11.000 And on this anniversary of January 6th, we talk about how they're trying to create January 6th in a Pearl Harbor for a very specific reason.

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00:01:45.000 Major changes don't happen on their own.

00:01:48.000 Major changes to a constitution, to a country, to a system does not just happen because it's a Thursday in April.

00:01:57.000 We as conservatives are conservatives because we understand what should be preserved and conserved, and we're willing to fight, say no, so that certain things can remain the same.

00:02:10.000 Now, not everything that is old is good.

00:02:14.000 This is one of the things that I debate with some people that would call themselves traditional conservatives.

00:02:20.000 They say, Charlie, what is old that isn't good?

00:02:24.000 How about murder?

00:02:28.000 How about communicable diseases?

00:02:29.000 Not everything that's old is necessarily good, but there are some things that are old that are beautiful, like the family, like religion, like a belief in a higher eternal order, things like that.

00:02:41.000 But major changes happen when you have a mandate.

00:02:45.000 Some of the major changes in American history almost always have events correlating with them.

00:02:54.000 Changes and events go hand in glove.

00:02:58.000 It's like the old expression that a man and woman go together in marriage like a horse and carriage.

00:03:07.000 It's an event and a change must happen through a catalyst.

00:03:16.000 It doesn't naturally occur.

00:03:18.000 So let's take one very simple example.

00:03:21.000 Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, which restructured the federal government, which empowered independent regulatory agencies, that strengthened unelected bureaucrats, that was almost the permanent implementation of what is known as the fourth branch of government.

00:03:40.000 Started with Woodrow Wilson.

00:03:41.000 It started a little bit before that with Teddy Roosevelt, but it was really Franklin Delano Roosevelt that had the mandate to expand the federal government.

00:03:51.000 What was it that gave him the public support that gave him the congressional support to restructure and massively expand the leviathan of the federal government?

00:04:05.000 Well, it was October 29th, 1929, otherwise known as Black Tuesday.

00:04:09.000 Stock market crashed in an unprecedented manner, led to a massive economic destabilization, a 10-year economic slump that affected basically every industrialized country around the world.

00:04:21.000 The New Deal was made possible because of the Wall Street crash that happened in the late 20s.

00:04:27.000 There was so much misery, so much suffering, not to mention the Dust Bowl and the higher expectations that were set by presidents in the 1920s, such as Warren G. Harding and Herbert Hoover.

00:04:41.000 Warren G. Harding actually wasn't as bad of a president as you might think, despite his suspicious death in office.

00:04:46.000 He was actually okay, despite the teapot dome scandal.

00:04:49.000 We look at another restructuring, a massive program.

00:04:54.000 We talk about World War II, but America was very reluctant to get into World War II.

00:05:00.000 In fact, there was protest after protest because we were involved in World War I, and it was a mess.

00:05:05.000 We lost tens of thousands.

00:05:06.000 I think over 100,000 people Americans lost in the trench warfare of World War I.

00:05:10.000 It was a messy war.

00:05:12.000 It was a war where both sides felt as if they were losing countless men to gain almost nothing.

00:05:21.000 But in World War II, everything changed, of course, in Pearl Harbor.

00:05:24.000 That event led to massive and systemic change in the military, culturally, and we responded with force.

00:05:37.000 Catalysts create change.

00:05:40.000 And so when you have an entire political party and their promise to the American people is not to conserve the Constitution, which is the greatest political document ever written.

00:05:51.000 When you have a political movement or a political party, the American left, it's not to say that, you know, we really appreciate separation of powers and we appreciate the decentralization of a state-based sovereignty or the independent judiciary or consent of the governed.

00:06:07.000 No, instead, their promise to their voters, whether it be in Manhattan or in Glendale, California with Adam Schiff or Rhode Island, wherever it is their mandate is, the Constitution's actually really flawed and we want to change it.

00:06:26.000 Well, that's not easy because actually built into the DNA of the average American citizen, first and foremost, is just kind of a desire to actually love the country you live in.

00:06:35.000 I know that's a radical proposition, but there is a yearning in the human soul, not to hate where you're from.

00:06:40.000 That's why before they went really woke, the Olympics were a unifying project because people want to cheer for the place that you grew up in.

00:06:48.000 This is why people give almost inexplicable figures to their alma mater, their college, because they feel almost connected through the identity of the college they went to.

00:06:59.000 The same could be said for their nation.

00:07:02.000 But in order to obliterate the Constitution, in order to steamroll the consent of the governed, in order to break apart what is the promise of the founders, it takes an event.

00:07:15.000 Now, in our lifetime, my lifetime, started in 1993, there have been two events that have done more to erode the promise of the Constitution and the American way of life than any others.

00:07:27.000 Those two events led to political changes.

00:07:31.000 Those two events led towards domestic changes and are large in part why we're living through what we're living through.

00:07:39.000 Actually, I could say three now that we're still living through one of them.

00:07:41.000 The first, of course, was 9-11.

00:07:43.000 Our reaction to 9-11 immediately was correct. 1.00

00:07:45.000 We bombed the heck out of the terrorists.

00:07:47.000 We went with a skeletal crew of Navy SEALs and Army Rangers, and we killed more terrorists in the first couple months after 9-11 than we did in the next 15 years.

00:07:57.000 But then the military-industrial complex started to lick their chops, and they wanted to try to recolonize northern Iraq to go teach people that have no association with our country math literature and women's rights of a 2,000-year-old Islamic culture.

00:08:12.000 Good luck.

00:08:13.000 Well, a couple trillion dollars later, thousands of lives lost.

00:08:18.000 It's fair to say that the adventures in the Middle East were a complete and total disaster. 1.00

00:08:23.000 Not to say the veterans who sacrificed themselves and sacrificed their time were not anything but heroes, but the leaders took advantage of them.

00:08:32.000 9-11 was a catalyst for the security state and the warmongering industry to make trillions of dollars.

00:08:38.000 The 2008 financial crisis is the second event.

00:08:41.000 The 2008 financial crisis, of course, happened in the fall of 2008.

00:08:46.000 Now, some of you are actually probably not old enough, some of our younger listeners, to realize what was really the mandate after the 2008 financial crisis.

00:08:58.000 Yes, there was Dodd-Frank and the nationalization.

00:09:00.000 No, no, no.

00:09:01.000 Barack Obama was in a tight race against John McCain until the 2008 financial crisis.

00:09:06.000 If you go look at the public tracking polls, John McCain and Barack Obama were very close to one another until the 2008 financial crisis hit and Barack Obama became president.

00:09:16.000 Now, who knows if John McCain would have been probably the same type of president, but I think it's fair to say that Obama brought in a certain type of Chicago thuggery into the federal government that was basically not seen until Lyndon Baines Johnson.

00:09:28.000 The third event that we've lived through in our life that was used as try to a mandate to change the American way of life, we're still living through it.

00:09:36.000 Hopefully it's going away is the Chinese coronavirus.

00:09:39.000 Is that the virus that was done through gain of function research by our own funding in Anthony Fauci in a far and distant land that got spread around the world, that epidemiological Pearl Harbor that killed 800,000 of our own citizens, that then that tried to reshape the American way of life?

00:09:55.000 And thanks to the federalist system, it hasn't totally been successful.

00:09:59.000 But boy, do the pharmaceutical companies make a lot of money out of this.

00:10:02.000 Major changes don't happen on their own.

00:10:05.000 How do we get mail-in balloting in the 2020 election?

00:10:07.000 Chinese coronavirus.

00:10:09.000 How do we get Barack Obama, 2008 financial crisis?

00:10:12.000 How do we get a massive military doing adventures around the world, as John Quincy Adams would say, going around the world in search of monsters to destroy 9-11?

00:10:21.000 Well, today, one year ago, one of those events occurred.

00:10:26.000 One of those events occurred where it was intentionally and disproportionately taken out of context to try to create the mandate to obliterate the Constitution and change the American way of life.

00:10:37.000 And we're going to go through that.

00:10:38.000 We're going to go through what Biden has said about January 6th, and we're going to put it in context of how they're looking at this as a catalyst, as a means to the end.

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00:12:30.000 Catalysts create change.

00:12:32.000 When you have moments that all of a sudden you remember where you were, typically those moments mean something big is coming after that.

00:12:43.000 So there's only a couple moments like that that define a generation.

00:12:46.000 For my parents' generation, it's where were you when Kennedy was shot?

00:12:51.000 My parents could tell you growing up.

00:12:52.000 They would say, I was here and I remember hearing it on the radio, or I was here and I remember seeing that.

00:12:57.000 9-11, I remember exactly where I was.

00:12:59.000 I was in a second-grade classroom at Quest Academy in Palatine, Illinois.

00:13:03.000 I remember where I was when the 2008 financial crisis was unfolding.

00:13:09.000 Gulf of Tonkin was an event, highly suspicious, I want to say, was an event that led to the official declaration of the United States getting involved in the Vietnam War.

00:13:22.000 World War I, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, who was the presumptive heir to the throne of the Austria-Hungary Austrian-Hungary Empire.

00:13:34.000 He died in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and everything else unfolded from there.

00:13:40.000 One of the messiest catastrophic wars in human history.

00:13:45.000 So you look through these dates and then you see what comes next.

00:13:49.000 When you have those moments, it creates a mandate for rulers to dramatically change things.

00:13:59.000 And January 6th was no different.

00:14:00.000 Now, I am by no means saying that what happened on January 6th is anywhere in the orbit of the catastrophe of World War I, World War II.

00:14:15.000 However, that is what Kamala Harris and Biden are saying.

00:14:19.000 We'll get to that in a minute.

00:14:22.000 Because if you look at January 6th, we're one year later, it created this opening.

00:14:28.000 It created a window for the worst characters and darkest corners of our government and our ruling class to be empowered and to be given a platform.

00:14:41.000 It created this opening where all of a sudden all the ideas were on the table.

00:14:48.000 Now, in certain conservative circles, it's rather cliche to say this, but it amazes me, despite how many times people say it, still people don't remember it.

00:14:58.000 Tiny Dancer, the first chief of staff to Barack Hussein Obama, Rahm Emmanuel, the five-foot-five ballerina failed mayor of Chicago.

00:15:08.000 He had a famous saying when Obama became president, which he said, never let a crisis go to waste.

00:15:18.000 Never allow something falling apart to not turn into something bigger.

00:15:24.000 And not allowing a crisis to go to waste is precisely how we got the new deal.

00:15:29.000 It's also how we got Lyndon Baines Johnson of the Great Society.

00:15:33.000 The Great Society program passed by Lyndon Baines Johnson, a bitter southern racist, might I add, was passed because no one would dare oppose Kennedy's vice president's legislative agenda after the nation was mourning Kennedy.

00:15:46.000 Lyndon Baines Johnson saw his opportunity and went for it.

00:15:50.000 After Kennedy was shot, what, 1963?

00:15:52.000 Is that right?

00:15:52.000 1963 he was shot.

00:15:54.000 Baines Johnson took over and changed the entire way inner cities operate and basically destroyed the black family.

00:16:06.000 It was the destruction of the Black Families Act by Lyndon Baines Johnson.

00:16:10.000 So what change do the Democrats want post-January 6th?

00:16:17.000 What adjustments are they trying to put forward?

00:16:20.000 So you have Pearl Harbor, World War II.

00:16:24.000 You've 9-11.

00:16:26.000 Just so you know, for all the children out there, you know there was a time where you didn't have to go through TSA to fly in an airplane.

00:16:34.000 9-11 gave us the TSA.

00:16:35.000 9-11 gave us the Department of Homeland Security.

00:16:37.000 9-11 gave us the NSA.

00:16:39.000 9-11 gave us a domestic spy agency.

00:16:41.000 9-11 gave unprecedented funding to the CIA and to the FBI, might I add.

00:16:46.000 9-11 gave all of these assets to people that, quite honestly, never earned them, but under the suffering of 3,000 Americans that were killed on 9-11, whatever you need, let's just get it done.

00:17:00.000 2008 financial crisis passed Dodd-Frank, which only made the big banks stronger.

00:17:08.000 2008 financial crisis was a mandate for whatever reason.

00:17:11.000 Let's reorganize the American healthcare system.

00:17:13.000 We got Obamacare, hand out to big insurance companies and big pharmaceutical companies and big hospital lobbies.

00:17:22.000 Chinese coronavirus, hand out to Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, not to mention the tech companies.

00:17:26.000 The tech companies were massive beneficiaries of the Chinese coronavirus.

00:17:31.000 People staying at home, staring at their screens all day long.

00:17:33.000 Stock prices of tech companies have never been higher.

00:17:37.000 And so Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are saying this is comparable to January.

00:17:41.000 January 6th is comparable to Pearl Harbor and 9-11.

00:17:45.000 I want you to think about that because from their perspective, they're not wrong.

00:17:51.000 In reality, they're wrong.

00:17:52.000 But I'm going to tell you what they mean when they say that.

00:17:56.000 So we're talking about the Democrats trying to destroy the Constitution.

00:18:00.000 And I mean, I've always been a fan of the Constitution.

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00:20:04.000 So when a major event happens like January 6, it is, we should expect the other side to try to capitalize on that.

00:20:13.000 Now, a lot of people are attacking Kamala Harris for comparing January 6th to the attack on Pearl Harbor in 9-11, which of course is patently insane. 1.00

00:20:24.000 They said it was a deadly attack on the Capitol.

00:20:28.000 The only deaths actually that occurred at the Capitol was Ashley Babbitt.

00:20:33.000 The death of Officer Brian Seitlik was not at all, they said it was a fire extinguisher of the head.

00:20:40.000 That was not true.

00:20:42.000 But I want to take a different take here.

00:20:44.000 We could mock Kamala Harris and talk about the death tolls and the differences.

00:20:48.000 Okay, 3,000 people died at 9-11.

00:20:50.000 But I want to take a different tack because for her purposes, for the purposes of the regime, this absolutely was a Pearl Harbor moment.

00:21:00.000 Play cut 55.

00:21:02.000 Certain dates echo throughout history.

00:21:06.000 Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory.

00:21:15.000 December 7th, 1941, September 11th, 2001, and January 6th, 2021.

00:21:26.000 Those dates mean change.

00:21:31.000 Kamala Harris is saying out loud that, hey, there's now a reference point.

00:21:36.000 We have a mandate to change things.

00:21:41.000 9-11 gave us Department of Homeland Security, the Iraq War, and 20 years in Afghanistan.

00:21:46.000 Pearl Harbor gave us an invasion, not an invasion, but a two-front war in Europe and in the Pacific, and an atom bomb developed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Battle of Iwo Jima, the storming of Normandy Beach, and eventually the Marshall Plan and a Cold War.

00:22:04.000 And for Kamala Harris and the regime's purposes, she's spot on.

00:22:13.000 She's spot on in the sense that they do want the same sort of structural and permanent historical change post-January 6th that we saw 9-11, that we saw post-the assassination of JFK, that we saw the post-assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, that we saw post-2008 financial crisis.

00:22:42.000 So what kind of change do they actually want?

00:22:45.000 What kind of catalyst are they looking for?

00:22:49.000 What is the game that they're trying to institute?

00:22:55.000 Let's play some more sound here.

00:22:57.000 Merrick Garland, who is the Department of Justice, the head of the Department of Justice, the Attorney General of the United States, has been saying that this is the most ambitious, greatest domestic manhunt in the history of our country.

00:23:19.000 Let's go to Cut 50 where he says the actions we have taken will not be our last.

00:23:26.000 We remain committed to hold all the perpetrated accountable at any level accountable under the law.

00:23:31.000 That sounds like a purge.

00:23:34.000 It sounds like a Bolshevik versus the Menshevik moment. 0.69

00:23:39.000 We'll get into that history later on in the show.

00:23:42.000 Play cut 50.

00:23:44.000 The actions we have taken thus far will not be our last.

00:23:50.000 The Justice Department remains committed to holding all January 6 perpetrators at any level accountable under law, whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy.

00:24:08.000 We will follow the facts wherever they lead.

00:24:13.000 In Cut 49, Merrick Garland connects what they consider to be Pearl Harbor 9-11, which of course is preposterous, but for their own purposes, they're right, with what is one of their current and major goals.

00:24:28.000 Cut 49, he says there's been a dramatic increase in legislative enactments that make it harder for millions of eligible voters to vote.

00:24:35.000 What?

00:24:36.000 Wait, hold on a second.

00:24:37.000 I thought it was an insurrection.

00:24:39.000 I thought it was about domestic violent extremists.

00:24:42.000 Oh, I see.

00:24:43.000 It's about changing our voting laws.

00:24:46.000 Okay.

00:24:47.000 It's not about Chewbacca and the QAnon shaman, whatever, who stormed the Senate and now wants vegan food in his 38-month prison sentence.

00:24:57.000 It's not about the guy that didn't make the cut for MASH 20 years ago that came in with a hard hat that he bought at some sort of antique store in Tupelo, Mississippi, acting as if he's some sort of strong-armed commando walking around with zip ties.

00:25:16.000 Watch out, everybody.

00:25:18.000 No, this is about voting laws.

00:25:21.000 That's a stretch.

00:25:22.000 Play cut 49.

00:25:24.000 There has been a dramatic increase in legislative enactments that make it harder for millions of eligible voters to vote and to elect representatives of their own choosing.

00:25:36.000 Those enactments range from practices and procedures that make voting more difficult, to redistricting maps drawn to disadvantage both minorities and citizens of opposing political parties, to abnormal post-election audits that put the integrity of the voting process at risk.

00:25:57.000 Broaden, broaden, broaden.

00:25:59.000 If you learn anything from the people that I grew up studying, unintentionally studying, because I just grew up watching the news every single day, the people that gave us the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war, you must broaden the horizon of the threat. 0.86

00:26:16.000 So it's not just that Osama bin Laden was a threat.

00:26:19.000 It's not just that al-Qaeda was a threat.

00:26:21.000 No, It's a goat herder in central Afghanistan who married a seven-year-old.

00:26:30.000 He's a threat to America.

00:26:31.000 Why? 0.94

00:26:32.000 Because he speaks Arabic.

00:26:33.000 Well, that's weird.

00:26:35.000 Doesn't matter.

00:26:36.000 Broaden the horizon.

00:26:38.000 And neoconservatives are really good at this. 0.99

00:26:42.000 Colin Powell was, again, I don't make a habit out of speak ill out of people that have passed, but he's a liar.

00:26:49.000 He went to the United Nations Security Council and he famously held up that little vial of anthrax, right? 0.83

00:26:56.000 It was either anthrax.

00:26:57.000 He said just this one little vial could kill 20,000 people.

00:27:02.000 And Colin Powell had a lot of credibility.

00:27:06.000 Condoleezza Rice was working in cahoots.

00:27:08.000 It was this whole cartel, by the way, of neoconservatives.

00:27:11.000 You had Colin Powell, you had Rumsfeld, you had Dick Cheney, obviously George W. Bush, and you had Condoleezza Rice.

00:27:18.000 And you had this whole kind of network, if you will, of people that just couldn't wait to go invade a sovereign country.

00:27:26.000 But it was all about broadening.

00:27:28.000 Remember, this is the same playbook.

00:27:30.000 It's exactly the same.

00:27:31.000 It's the same people.

00:27:31.000 You know why?

00:27:34.000 It's the same people that saw 9-11 and used that as a blueprint to go lie in front of the United Nations Security Council.

00:27:42.000 And by the way, I'm all for holding terrorists accountable. 0.99

00:27:44.000 I'm all for killing terrorists. 0.96

00:27:47.000 And that's what we did the first couple months after 9-11.

00:27:50.000 There was a mandate for justice, but I'm not really concerned about an infrastructure project of building electric vehicle charging stations in central Iraq.

00:28:04.000 But that's where a lot of people made money.

00:28:06.000 Or the literacy of teenage girls in Pakistan.

00:28:09.000 Like, that doesn't, I don't really think that's a role of the federal government while our own borders open and schools are closed in Chicago.

00:28:16.000 It doesn't matter.

00:28:16.000 The neoconservatives wanted it.

00:28:19.000 And you look who's leading the current January 6th committee.

00:28:23.000 It's Liz Cheney.

00:28:25.000 Same people.

00:28:28.000 Broaden, broaden.

00:28:29.000 What does Chuck Schumer do?

00:28:30.000 No, no, no.

00:28:31.000 It's not about domestic violent extremists, this new term they gave us.

00:28:35.000 It's not just about, you know, people that get really excited and they do war games in their backyard, the oath keepers, whoever they are, the proud boys or whatever.

00:28:45.000 No, no, no.

00:28:46.000 It's about anyone who questions our elections.

00:28:51.000 And this is where they're going to be in a really tough spot.

00:28:54.000 And it just made sense to me last night.

00:28:56.000 I kind of had this moment where it all came together.

00:28:59.000 Play Cut 52.

00:29:00.000 And make no mistake, the root cause of January 6th is still with us today.

00:29:07.000 It is the big lie pushed by Donald Trump that is undermining faith in our political system and making our democracy, our country, less safe.

00:29:20.000 But without addressing the root causes of the violence on January 6th, the insurrection will not be an aberration.

00:29:30.000 It could well become the norm.

00:29:34.000 Root causes.

00:29:35.000 When else did they use that language?

00:29:37.000 Oh, yeah, you know what the root cause is?

00:29:39.000 9-11 happened because teenagers in Afghanistan don't have access to clean water.

00:29:46.000 That was the argument they made.

00:29:48.000 It's laughable now that we look back at it, obviously.

00:29:52.000 But this is one of the great, the fact that these people get away with it. 0.97

00:29:57.000 So Schumer says we have to pass voting rights legislation because black people can't vote.

00:30:03.000 And the next day he comes out and says, it's a big lie that there's anything wrong with our election system.

00:30:08.000 Which one is it, Schumer?

00:30:09.000 Chuck Schumer comes out and he says, it's the big lie.

00:30:14.000 It's the big lie from Donald Trump. 0.93

00:30:17.000 Meanwhile, if you don't pass our voting rights legislation, you're a racist. 0.88

00:30:21.000 Wait a second.

00:30:22.000 So I want you to listen carefully.

00:30:23.000 This is Schumer pushing for voting rights legislation.

00:30:27.000 That we need to change our election system.

00:30:29.000 I thought our elections were so robust and so safe and so secure.

00:30:35.000 Remember when they said that after the 2020 election?

00:30:38.000 This was the safest, most secure election ever.

00:30:41.000 If that's the case, why do you need to change our voting laws? 0.99

00:30:44.000 If everything was perfect in the 2020 election, what are you trying to change?

00:30:48.000 Play 26.

00:30:50.000 Voting rights in the past was a bipartisan issue.

00:30:53.000 How quickly they forget.

00:30:56.000 Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush supported voting rights.

00:31:04.000 When voting rights extensions came up in this body in the past, they passed by large majorities, bipartisan.

00:31:12.000 The resistance we see from modern day Republicans is a beast of an entirely different nature.

00:31:21.000 Maybe some of them are scared of Trump, but too many of them see this as a way to win advantage to get their hard-right views enacted, even though the public doesn't support them by jaundicing our election process and saying and putting barriers in the way of particular people, not all people, of voting.

00:31:42.000 People of color, poor people, people who live in big cities, young people, handicapped people, elderly people.

00:31:55.000 As I said in my dear colleague earlier this week, if Republicans continue to hijack the rules of the chamber to prevent action on something as critical as protecting our democracy, then the Senate will debate and consider changes to the rules on or before January 17th, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

00:32:16.000 Voting laws are one of the things they want to change.

00:32:21.000 Voting laws are one of the things that they want to use the date of January 6th as a mandate to change.

00:32:26.000 I just am failing to see in what world are those connected.

00:32:33.000 So you have some guy that probably needs some psychiatric help and some counseling who thinks he's a Star Wars character who storms the U.S. Senate.

00:32:44.000 And somehow that has something to do with the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

00:32:48.000 It's more and more clear as we look at the dates that have changed history the last hundred years.

00:32:55.000 They want January 6th to be part of it.

00:32:57.000 But guess what?

00:32:58.000 It's falling really flat.

00:33:01.000 On this day, January 6th, 2022, the over-rehearsed teleprompter readers that are trying to compare 9-11 to January 6th, people are dismissing it as political hyperbole.

00:33:20.000 But that doesn't mean they're not going to stop.

00:33:23.000 But there's a deeper game here.

00:33:27.000 And the same way that after 9-11, they wanted to start a domestic manhunt against anyone that might have been connected to terror cells.

00:33:38.000 They want to try to redefine what a terror cell actually is.

00:33:43.000 And you saw that this last summer.

00:33:44.000 They redefined what a terror cell actually was when parents started to show up at school board meetings.

00:33:50.000 That was only made possible because of January 6th is the argument.

00:33:52.000 It's like, hey, when people get really passionate about something, they might storm your school board meeting and they might stand on desks.

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00:34:58.000 We're unpacking January the 6th as we are one year removed from that.

00:35:03.000 We were broadcasting live right here.

00:35:07.000 You know, some low IQ people that are the keyboard warrior types.

00:35:15.000 Charlie, where were you on January 6th?

00:35:19.000 I was right here denouncing it.

00:35:22.000 I don't like when people destroy property, and I certainly don't like when people destroy the U.S. Capitol.

00:35:28.000 I didn't like it.

00:35:30.000 I still don't.

00:35:31.000 Was it a terror attack?

00:35:33.000 No.

00:35:34.000 No one's been charged with insurrection, let alone terror.

00:35:37.000 Mostly misdemeanors and trespassing charges.

00:35:41.000 Despite that, though, and you're starting to hear more and more people say that it's a terror attack.

00:35:46.000 It's a terror attack.

00:35:48.000 Now, why is that?

00:35:51.000 Why is that such an important thing?

00:35:53.000 Is that just language?

00:35:55.000 Because everyone's always kind of charged with hyperbole, right?

00:35:58.000 Let me tell you the difference.

00:36:01.000 Because as soon as you start to describe something as a terror attack, you're now entering a legal argument.

00:36:07.000 You're now entering something that could be charged with a totally different threshold of the law.

00:36:15.000 The difference would be saying that Alec Baldwin is Charlie Manson or Ray Lewis.

00:36:25.000 Which one is he?

00:36:26.000 Did he accidentally kill somebody or did he intentionally kill somebody?

00:36:30.000 Huge difference, by the way.

00:36:33.000 But for whatever reason, more and more politicians, and both parties, by the way, are calling this a terror attack, just like baselessly pandering to the New York Times and to the Wall Street Journal.

00:36:45.000 Well, here's the significance of it, though.

00:36:48.000 Then you get very dangerous people like Brad Schneider, a man who I actually, I don't know, but one of my first kind of campaigns I worked on was Bob Dold with a D, not an E, in Illinois' 10th congressional district going from Des Moines, Displains.

00:37:07.000 I'm sorry, not Des Moines, Displains, Illinois, all the way up to Zion Benton, right up to the border where Kyle Rittenhouse was from.

00:37:12.000 And Brad Schneider, real sneaky guy, and won the district against Bob Dold.

00:37:20.000 And he's been a carbon cutout Democrat the whole time, despite saying he's going to be a moderate.

00:37:26.000 It is a moderate district.

00:37:27.000 It's probably a fiscally conservative, socially liberal district, North Shore of Chicago, Highland Park type area.

00:37:34.000 But Brad Schneider came out last year and he said, look, here's what we need.

00:37:39.000 We need a new piece of legislation that will be a domestic terrorism prevention act.

00:37:47.000 We need a whole new division of our government that just prevents conservatives from organizing. 0.82

00:37:55.000 That's effectively what he said.

00:37:57.000 All right, let's first play Cut 78.

00:37:58.000 But unlike after the 9-11 attacks, the greatest threat is now from domestic terror groups and radicalized, often racially motivated, violent extremists.

00:38:07.000 America must be vigilant in identifying, tracking, and thwarting groups and individuals who don't share our values and seek to do us and our nation harm.

00:38:17.000 Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act gives our government important tools to do just that.

00:38:22.000 DTPA aims to improve the federal government's prevention, reporting, response, and investigation of domestic terrorism by authorizing offices in each of the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

00:38:37.000 These offices will monitor, investigate, and prosecute cases of domestic terrorism.

00:38:42.000 He wants to create a whole new mandate and division of the federal government to go after political opponents that he didn't like.

00:38:53.000 Now, of course, no one in that party wanted something similar with the BLM riots or Floyd of Palooza, which were far more deadly, far more dangerous than anything that we saw on January 6th.

00:39:07.000 But it's all intentional.

00:39:10.000 And CNN, of course, is leaning right into this.

00:39:14.000 Go Cut 58.

00:39:16.000 This is them dramatically laying out their long plan to commemorate January 6th because they do want January 6th to get into the pantheon of dates that turned history.

00:39:29.000 They want it to be remembered like December 7th or 9-11.

00:39:37.000 They want it to be remembered more than the day that Kennedy was shot.

00:39:40.000 Play Cut 58.

00:39:42.000 And to all of our viewers, thanks very much for joining us as CNN.

00:39:45.000 Special coverage of the anniversary of the January 6th insurrection continues all day.

00:39:51.000 I'll be back, by the way, at 6 p.m. Eastern in the Situation Room.

00:39:55.000 We'll be live from the U.S. Capitol.

00:39:57.000 And later tonight, please join Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper for a truly unprecedented gathering inside the U.S. Capitol right after a quick break.

00:40:10.000 Now, when you listen to that music and then I say they're trying to beat the drums of war, sure sounds like they're actually beating the drums of war, doesn't it?

00:40:20.000 What does that remind me of?

00:40:21.000 It reminds me of, you know what?

00:40:22.000 I know, the Hunger Games.

00:40:24.000 It sounds like the drums that they would play when Katniss Everdeen would be announced.

00:40:29.000 The drums of war.

00:40:31.000 Okay, you got a bunch of soccer moms walking into the Capitol. 1.00

00:40:37.000 They're using it as an opportunity.

00:40:39.000 It's increasingly obvious.

00:40:42.000 But it's very dangerous.

00:40:45.000 Now, I don't think that this is resonating at all with the American people.

00:40:51.000 American people have this as a very, very low priority, but it's still incredibly important because if we do not effectively tell the true story of what happened on January 6th, then their mandate will go uninterrupted.

00:41:04.000 Then it will just be another one of those votes that they have on Capitol Hill, like the Stop Asian Hate Bill or whatever.

00:41:10.000 Where next thing you know, there's a whole division of the Department of Justice that can police speech and the Senate votes for it 97 to nothing.

00:41:16.000 It's not insignificant.

00:41:18.000 Mayorkis, who's the head of Department of Homeland Security, says that ideologies of hate, false information, and false narratives are primary sources to the threat landscape that we confront in the United States.

00:41:29.000 Cut 48.

00:41:30.000 I think there are a number of things at play, Jake.

00:41:33.000 You know, ideologies of hate, false information, false narratives are primary sources of the threat landscape that we confront in the United States today.

00:41:46.000 The divisiveness in our country is really fueling it as well.

00:41:52.000 And there's a very important additional element.

00:41:55.000 Words matter.

00:41:57.000 And this goes to the issue of false narratives, of false information.

00:42:01.000 Not only that, they're trying to broaden it now to political speech.

00:42:05.000 Let's get to a tape here, and it's really important.

00:42:09.000 So Don Lamon, who's a failed talk show host, says January 6th is the closest we've ever come to losing our democracy.

00:42:18.000 Play Cut 73.

00:42:20.000 Telling the truth in the face of all the gaslighting and the whitewashing is very difficult.

00:42:25.000 But the truth is that January 6th was as close as we have ever come in modern history to losing our democracy.

00:42:32.000 And that threat is not over.

00:42:34.000 So it's time to explain why we are not a democracy.

00:42:40.000 We're not a democracy.

00:42:41.000 A democracy, we have forms of our constitutional republic that allows for democratic representation, but a democracy intentionally does not protect the rights of the minority, which is what I always find so interesting about the left wanting to insist that we're a democracy.

00:43:03.000 And they're also the ones that are allegedly saying that they want to protect the rights of minorities.

00:43:09.000 You see a republic, one of the characteristics of a republic that make it so difficult to sustain is that it's intentionally slow.

00:43:22.000 So in a pure democracy, as Don Laman would say, and far too many people on the right would say, the power would be the population as a whole, otherwise known as sprawling inner cities.

00:43:36.000 In a republic, the power is held by individual sovereign citizens.

00:43:41.000 Big difference.

00:43:43.000 In a democracy, a voting majority has almost unlimited power to make laws, whereas a republic, the people elect representatives to make laws according to the restraints of a constitution.

00:43:57.000 Do you see the difference?

00:43:59.000 In a pure democracy, there would be no rules for the road.

00:44:04.000 This constitution that I hold up every time we do our show, brought to you by Turning Point USA.

00:44:12.000 Beautiful Constitution, I might add.

00:44:15.000 This is a starting point to stop the democracy activists from doing certain things.

00:44:25.000 Let me give you a great example, okay?

00:44:28.000 Let's say right now, the U.S. Senate and the House come together.

00:44:32.000 They say, you know what we're going to do?

00:44:34.000 We're going to confiscate all the guns.

00:44:37.000 Well, they have to get through this.

00:44:39.000 Second Amendment says a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of free state, the right of the people to keep and bear harm shall not be infringed.

00:44:46.000 Okay, can't do that.

00:44:49.000 Let's say that the Congress wants to gather just because they have the votes and they want to say that they want to abolish Christianity.

00:44:58.000 Congress shall make no religion, respecting and established a religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

00:45:02.000 Oh, can't do that.

00:45:04.000 That's a republic.

00:45:07.000 A republic says it doesn't matter if you have 95 votes in the Senate.

00:45:10.000 The rules of the road, the Constitution, the eternal principles, the guardrails, the speed bump, the wall do not allow you to get it passed.

00:45:20.000 That's a fundamental difference between a democracy and a republic.

00:45:24.000 This is the longest-lasting compact between citizens in the history of the world for a reason.

00:45:29.000 Free government is hard.

00:45:32.000 Protection of rights is something that the left used to care about.

00:45:38.000 We now are the ones that are the protectors of God-granted natural rights.

00:45:41.000 Well, in a democracy, rights can be overridden by the will of a majority.

00:45:46.000 You got 51 votes, you could take rights away.

00:45:48.000 But in a republic, a constitution protects the rights of all people from the will of the majority.

00:45:57.000 And it has to be a balance.

00:45:58.000 Obviously, sometimes the will of the majority and voters are necessary as long as they don't infringe upon your naturally granted rights.

00:46:05.000 That's the difference.

00:46:08.000 We are not a democracy.

00:46:10.000 We need to say that time and time again.

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00:47:20.000 James Madison described the difference between a democracy and a republic perfectly.

00:47:25.000 He said, the difference is that in democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person.

00:47:30.000 In a republic, they assemble and administer it by the representatives and agents.

00:47:35.000 A democracy, consequently, must be confined to a small spot.

00:47:39.000 A republic may be extended over a large region.

00:47:41.000 So, of course, the founding fathers started a representative democracy, but that's still not the system that we are in.

00:47:50.000 It's a constitutional republic with the means of a representative democracy to delegate authority.

00:47:55.000 The people are still the sovereign.

00:47:56.000 The individual citizens themselves have untouchable natural rights.

00:48:02.000 And this is one of the things that we're really going to have at a collision point in the next decade, which is my big complaint against most conservatives, is that we are going to get into a truth debate with the other side. 0.85

00:48:16.000 You know, this idea that you can be politically agnostic or politically neutral and still preserve something that is beautiful is silly.

00:48:24.000 I'll give you an example.

00:48:25.000 People say, oh, the Constitution is a neutral document.

00:48:28.000 No, it's not.

00:48:29.000 It makes moral claims that speech is necessary for human flourishing.

00:48:34.000 It makes a moral claim that you need to be able to protect yourself against your government.

00:48:38.000 It makes a moral claim that the government is not allowed to put soldiers into your home.

00:48:44.000 The Third Amendment makes a moral claim that your privacy is paramount and the government cannot go into your private effects.

00:48:52.000 It makes a moral claim that privacy is necessary for freedom.

00:48:55.000 Makes a moral claim that you do not have to testify against yourself.

00:49:00.000 You have the right to remain silent or you have the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

00:49:04.000 Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Amendment, all around speedy and quick trial and things to do with the court of law.

00:49:09.000 Ninth Amendment, what is called by Robert Bork the mysterious amendment, which is that it doesn't cover everything, which I love that amendment.

00:49:17.000 We've covered that before on the show.

00:49:18.000 We don't have to do it again.

00:49:19.000 10th Amendment, everything not detailed goes to the states or the people.

00:49:23.000 That's the Bill of Rights.

00:49:24.000 Again, we've talked about the structure of the Constitution, that the Constitution really happened in two different buckets.

00:49:29.000 It started, of course, in 1787, and then the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791.

00:49:37.000 But when you have Don Laman from CNN say, our democracy is under attack, what democracy are you talking about exactly?

00:49:43.000 And this is the most important point, which is that they want loose voting laws.

00:49:48.000 They want mail-in ballots going every direction to make it seem as if they have a majoritarian body to be able to squash the rights of the rural minority.

00:49:56.000 That's really what this is all about.

00:49:57.000 What it's all about is trying to use this idea that we're a democracy so we outnumber you so we can shut you up.

00:50:06.000 We're a democracy so we outnumber you so we could take your weapons away.

00:50:10.000 We're a democracy so we outnumber you because there's more of us in Manhattan. 0.90

00:50:14.000 We're all super miserable.

00:50:15.000 But the reason we're miserable is because someone owns a shotgun in Pure South Dakota.

00:50:21.000 Like that's the problem.

00:50:23.000 That some guy goes to church and shoots pheasants.

00:50:26.000 Like we need to go after him.

00:50:29.000 It's very imperialistic if you actually think about it.

00:50:32.000 But as we look at January 6th, they're trying to frame that this was a threat to our democracy or attacking our democracy.

00:50:38.000 And you have to think to yourself, hold on a second.

00:50:41.000 If we were just a pure democracy, then the states wouldn't have any sort of say in this at all whatsoever.

00:50:48.000 The decentralization component wouldn't exist.

00:50:54.000 Biden spoke, cut 60, and he said the exact same thing, cut 60.

00:51:02.000 I did not seek this fight brought to this Capitol one year ago today, but I will not shrink from it either.

00:51:12.000 I will stand in this breach.

00:51:14.000 I will defend this nation.

00:51:16.000 I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.

00:51:21.000 We will make sure the will of the people is heard, that the ballot prevails, not violence.

00:51:28.000 Throat of democracy.

00:51:31.000 What exactly fight is that?

00:51:33.000 That sounds like someone who is beating the drums of war against the citizens that he's pledged to actually serve.

00:51:40.000 Biden continued in Cut 61 to commemorate January 6, blaming Trump, casting a web of lies, saying he can't accept he lost.

00:51:50.000 Play Cut 61.

00:51:52.000 And here's the truth.

00:51:54.000 A former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election.

00:52:05.000 He's done so because he values power over principle, because he sees his own interest as more important than his country's interest, than America's interest.

00:52:17.000 And because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our Constitution, he can't accept he lost.

00:52:26.000 Cut 56, Biden says, from the brutality of Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge came historic voting rights legislation.

00:52:34.000 Remember, we opened up, talked about the dates that turn history, that major changes don't happen on their own.

00:52:40.000 It's typically an event occurs.

00:52:41.000 That catalyst creates change.

00:52:44.000 Well, Biden was just continuing the argument of Kamala Harris perfectly by saying, look, the brutality of Bloody Sunday gave us historic voting rights legislation.

00:52:54.000 So now we need to use January 6 to go and pass mail-in voting and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

00:53:01.000 What do those two things have together?

00:53:02.000 It doesn't matter to do it because I'm in charge of your name.

00:53:05.000 That's what. 1.00

00:53:06.000 And you're a racist. 1.00

00:53:07.000 Play Cut 57. 0.97

00:53:09.000 From the brutality of Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge came historic voting rights legislation.

00:53:17.000 So now let's step up, write the next chapter in American history, where January 6th marks not the end of democracy, but the beginning of a renaissance of liberty and fair play.

00:53:31.000 It's the beginning of a new era where we say goodbye to the Constitutional Republic.

00:53:36.000 Again, what are the difference between the Constitution Republic, a Constitutional Republic and democracy?

00:53:42.000 Constitutional Republic protects rights for all individuals, regardless of the will of the majority.

00:53:48.000 The Constitution reigns supreme because that was created by the sovereign, by the states.

00:53:51.000 And those are eternal and beautiful things that are always true.

00:53:54.000 Those are claims that are claims on human nature.

00:53:58.000 Whereas pure democracy, rights can be overridden by the will of majority.

00:54:03.000 That's what Biden wants.

00:54:05.000 In fact, he wants an oligarchy.

00:54:08.000 He wants rights that could be overwritten by the will of the leaders and the rulers.

00:54:14.000 John Brennan, who used to run our security apparatus, says that we need to quell this insurgency.

00:54:21.000 It's kind of like no different than if they were playing war games in Burma or in Sierra Leone.

00:54:29.000 We need to quell the angry chattering class right now. 1.00

00:54:34.000 In fact, it includes libertarians, like just randomly inserting that into there.

00:54:39.000 PlayCut 81.

00:54:41.000 No, looking forward that the members of the Biden team who have been nominated or have been appointed are now moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we've seen overseas,

00:54:57.000 where they germinate in different parts of a country and they gain strength and it brings together an unholy alliance frequently of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians.

00:55:13.000 And unfortunately, I think there has been this momentum that has been generated as a result of, unfortunately, the demagogic rhetoric of people that's just departed government, but also those who continue in the halls of Congress.

00:55:26.000 It's just, let's just open a political science book and just start reading things out.

00:55:30.000 I get to see he has all the notes on his wall when he's doing the cable news hit.

00:55:34.000 Nativists, religious extremists, and even libertarians.

00:55:38.000 What?

00:55:40.000 Okay.

00:55:41.000 But it all comes together, and this is the good news.

00:55:45.000 The good news is that this has fallen completely flat.

00:55:49.000 This is a dud on a dud on a dud for them.

00:55:53.000 There is no social media chatter.

00:55:55.000 There is no consensus.

00:55:56.000 And Ron DeSantis said it perfectly.

00:56:00.000 Ron DeSantis basically was like, look, in Florida, people care about whether or not they could fill up their car with gas.

00:56:11.000 They can get their supply chain figured out.

00:56:13.000 Whether that their kid has a good education.

00:56:16.000 How about crime?

00:56:18.000 Play cut 79.

00:56:19.000 Today is going to be, I mean, honestly, I'm not going to watch any of it, but you're going to see the DC New York media.

00:56:25.000 I mean, this is their Christmas, January 6th, okay?

00:56:29.000 They are going to take this and milk this for anything they could to try to be able to smear anyone who ever supported Donald Trump.

00:56:38.000 The DC New York's Christmas, and it is.

00:56:40.000 And again, this is the same pattern.

00:56:42.000 They do this every couple years.

00:56:44.000 They can't help themselves.

00:56:45.000 And Twitter is a very destructive tool.

00:56:49.000 I used to love Twitter.

00:56:50.000 Connor and I loved it.

00:56:51.000 We were pretty dominant, quite honestly, for years.

00:56:53.000 We used to have 100,000 retweets a day, and then obviously everything happened.

00:56:56.000 And I don't really care that much about Twitter.

00:56:58.000 We tweet every so often, but there's other platforms to build on.

00:57:01.000 But I really think that one of the things that Twitter has done is that it's done this mass psyop operation where people actually think that's public opinion.

00:57:12.000 That some reporter that gets 2,000 likes on some sort of strongly worded thing, it's like, yeah, okay, half those people are, they live in Brooklyn and LA, and the other half are reporters.

00:57:25.000 Like, I don't think that's really a good litmus test of public opinion at all.

00:57:30.000 But I think we underestimate the amount that Twitter actually dictates, dictates DC public policy.

00:57:36.000 I really do.

00:57:36.000 As Dave Chappelle said, Twitter is not the real world.

00:57:42.000 Thank you so much for listening.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - January 07, 2022

Why the Left Needs January 6th

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