00:01:12.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:21.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:52.000And we have to go through a process of what is tweeted and what is approved upon and all of that.
00:01:57.000So there was this tweet that came out in our chat, and we went back and forth and I read it four or five times.
00:02:05.000We even watered it down, just so you know.
00:02:07.000We watered it down significantly because we don't want, look, Lekwalessa famously said when he was trying to topple the Soviet Union, we have enough martyrs.
00:02:16.000Don't try to just run into a machine gun nest with your hands up saying, I hate Stalin, and they shoot you.
00:02:26.000But if you get martyred for a good purpose and it moves the ball forward and you're still trying to be prudent about it, that's a separate issue.
00:02:33.000So enough kamikaze pilots, I suppose is what I'm getting at.
00:02:37.000So we word shopped this tweet that said, I want you to listen carefully.
00:02:43.000Richard Levine spent 54 years of his life as a man.
00:03:11.000Now that sentence I just read to you, I tweeted.
00:03:14.000And as a result, we have lost access to our Twitter.
00:03:18.000We have been suspended from Twitter for that specific tweet.
00:03:22.000It says, quote, you may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.
00:03:42.000I get threatened all the time on Twitter, people wishing me death, attacking me because of my conservative beliefs, because of my Christianity and all that.
00:03:50.000Twitter doesn't do anything about it, nor do I want them to, nor do I care about it because I don't actually define myself by being a victim of some sort of group.
00:03:58.000I think that's a waste of time and a bad, it's just a poor way to exist or to live your life.
00:04:04.000So then Twitter kind of offers this choice.
00:04:07.000They cock the gun, they put the gun to your forehead, and they say, okay, you can either click delete, and then you get your Twitter back.
00:04:18.000Basically, you can acknowledge you did wrong and submit to us, or you're not going to get your Twitter back.
00:04:24.000So we've refused to delete it because we did nothing wrong.
00:04:28.000In fact, not only did we do nothing wrong, we went above and beyond to try to be compliant to their silly and stupid rules.
00:04:54.000There's nothing incorrect about that, by the way, at all.
00:04:57.000In fact, I think we went too above and beyond and acknowledged that he transitioned to be a woman, which I actually don't think you can do.
00:05:04.000The narrative industrial complex is not happy with us at all.
00:05:09.000So we have lost access to our entire Twitter account.
00:06:19.000There's nothing about it that is harassing.
00:06:22.000There's nothing about it that is ridiculing.
00:06:24.000It's simply saying that 54 years are spent as a man.
00:06:27.000He had a wife and a family, transitioned to a woman in 2011.
00:06:31.000And basically, this is supposed to be a open-air ridicule session that is going to make you say, oh, wow, I'm now going to be less likely to speak at work.
00:06:45.000They want to put us on public display, the Charlie Kirk Twitter operation, which was quite sizable back in the day, I might add.
00:06:54.000100,000 retweets a day back when Twitter was really a fair platform.
00:06:58.000I don't know if it was ever fair, but it was fairer than it is now.
00:07:06.000Dave Rubin, who's been on our program before, who's a great patriot and a lover of liberty, said, looks like Charlie Kirk 11 was suspended by Twitter for what seems to be an accurate assessment of the timeline and then asking a legitimate question.
00:07:34.000So this is Levine talking, just so you know who we're talking about here.
00:07:38.000This person's in charge of the health policy in some branch of the Department of Defense.
00:07:47.000And just as a reminder, by the way, the last time we got suspended was when we were tweeting about Hunter Biden's laptop because we were accused of Russian disinformation, even though obviously we know it wasn't.
00:08:01.000I'm truly honored to join the ranks of men and women across this great nation who have committed to defend the United States against small and large threats, known and unknown.
00:08:13.000I am honored to serve as the first female four-star officer of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
00:08:20.000I mean, this whole thing is just such a joke.
00:08:22.000I mean, I think it's actually designed to irritate you and to make you go mad.
00:09:57.000In fact, the conversation gets to be such a fever pitch, you wonder if there's another agenda behind this, which actually segues perfectly into a topic that we've built out here before, and it drives the media nuts when we do this.
00:10:14.000The New York Times, the Huffington Post, they can't stand when we talk about how there is an agenda behind the trans movement that is more than just people that are trying to find their deep identity.
00:10:27.000No, There's a reason why the tech companies and the trans activists or whatever you want to call them, they get along so well.
00:10:39.000We're suspended by Twitter because we said something factual, but it's this topic in particular.
00:10:44.000The Babylon Bee was recently suspended for saying something, just a joke about Levine being the man of the year or whatever, woman of the year.
00:11:37.000Now, through the study of the classics, through literature that has beauty built within it, that answer actually isn't overly complicated.
00:11:45.000But the answer to the question of what is a human being is one of the most instructive to actually how we view our existence here on earth.
00:11:56.000And most importantly, how do we view our relationship to machines?
00:12:02.000So one way to answer that we are a human being would be a secular, so I would say atheistic, but I'm not going to even go there.
00:12:10.000I'm not going to get into that right now.
00:12:12.000Let's just say a secular answer and very humanistic type answer where they'd say, look, a human being is a collection of cells full of impulses and desires.
00:12:22.000Basically, you are a creation of beneficial organic chemistry.
00:12:28.000Basically, you are a beneficiary of chance and error.
00:12:35.000Now, that, of course, will lead you to a belief that if you're nothing more than just a bunch of chemicals bouncing around, if you're nothing more than a bunch of impulses, well, then there's really nothing deeper to yourself as a human being.
00:12:49.000You're really no different than a dog, a cat, a rat.
00:12:53.000But if you understand the human being properly, especially in the Western tradition, you believe the human being is a mind, a body, and a soul or a spirit.
00:13:32.000We believe that human beings were intelligently designed.
00:13:35.000We believe that within our existence, there, of course, is the mind that gives us reason, the body that allows us to operate in the natural world, but a soul, something that is deeper, that is beautiful, and is eternal.
00:13:48.000So a human being must be looked at through a proper lens.
00:13:52.000This is one of the reasons why our education system has done so much damage to our entire country.
00:14:01.000And so because of this, we now have a false interpretation of what a human being is, therefore a false interpretation of what gender and sex is.
00:14:10.000And if a human being is nothing more than, let's say, you won the casino round in the universe, then who's to say that not only can you change your gender, but you could change your species.
00:14:29.000And the reason why the transgender alphabet mafia people are happily partnering with the tech companies in Silicon Valley is because some of the not-so-secret but not well-publicized projects in Silicon Valley are designed to turn you and merge you into a cyborg.
00:14:52.000Now, it drives people crazy when I say that.
00:14:54.000But you just look very clearly at this person by the name of Martine Rothblot, quote, he, she said, there are 5 billion people in the world and 5 billion unique sexual identities.
00:15:05.000Genitals are irrelevant as to one's role in society and skin tone.
00:15:08.000Hence, the legal division of people into males and females is as wrong as the legal division of people in the black and white races.
00:15:14.000In the new book, quote, Virtually human, the promise and peril of digital immorality, she, he argues that the progress being made by humans to extend life from penicillin to organ transplants will reach a point where we can be prolonged indefinitely.
00:15:28.000Futurist Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, shares that belief.
00:15:34.000There's this idea now not just of transgenderism, but an increasing community in Silicon Valley where a lot of the private equity money is going, by the way, to transhumanism.
00:15:44.000If you are nothing more than a bag of bones, of nothing more than a chance creation of chemicals, then you're not a soul.
00:15:51.000Why can't you go merge with a machine?
00:17:18.000It's going to be happening in the next five to 10 years, and it is a vested monetary interest, a profit incentive for Silicon Valley to try to say, no, there's no such thing as biological reality because there's no such thing as human reality.
00:17:31.000Play Cut 48 to see what's coming next.
00:18:06.000But if you're missing the soul, then eventually that's going to have to have equal rights and footing as what a human being is.
00:18:14.000Okay, with us right now, Sean Davis from The Federalist, who has dealt with social media censorship and is the new CEO of The Federalist quite a lot.
00:18:22.000Sean, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:18:24.000We're currently suspended from Twitter.
00:18:27.000Walk us through kind of this unfree country that we now all find ourselves in.
00:18:31.000Well, thank you for having me, Charlie.
00:18:33.000Yeah, it's an interesting little dystopia we found ourselves in 2022, especially regarding big tech, who now believes it has the authority, the responsibility to censor anyone it wants from inconvenient truths, from information that's unhelpful to the regime.
00:19:04.000The sooner we all accept that these oligarchs are going to ban us, that there's nothing we can do to prevent it, as long as we speak the truth, I think the better, because that frees us up.
00:19:14.000It kind of liberates us from thinking we have to operate in this little box that these big tech oligarchs have created for us.
00:19:38.000I mean, especially from reaching broad audiences.
00:19:41.000Might be good for like really irritating New York Times journalists or talking to people that work for the Washington Post, I guess, but generally it's not where kind of the base of the movement is.
00:19:50.000So, I want to ask you just kind of more broadly about kind of the conservative movement's reaction to Russia and Ukraine.
00:19:59.000It seems as if there seems to be a little dying of intensity.
00:20:03.000People are losing interest a little bit.
00:20:06.000And kind of, have you seen a disconnect between kind of the almost uniparty in Washington, D.C. that is calling for a no-fly zone and increased aid?
00:20:13.000And polling shows that actually their constituents back home are not as enthusiastic as them.
00:20:19.000Well, I think I've seen the same thing as you.
00:20:22.000What's interesting is how much the corrupt media and big tech influence all the things we talk about just by putting things on the screen.
00:20:33.000There's a huge number of people in this country who will do and think whatever their screens tell them.
00:20:37.000And I think this Ukraine-Russia thing is a prime example.
00:20:40.000Here in America, we have record high gas prices.
00:20:43.000I filled up yesterday, cost me more than $100 to fill up the tank, which is crazy.
00:20:48.000That would have been a week's worth of work at the wage iron in my very first job as a janitor.
00:20:54.000So it now takes roughly a week of wages to fill up your car.
00:20:58.000You look at inflation making our money worth less and less and goods more and more expensive.
00:21:03.000You look at what's happening with crime and with the border.
00:21:05.000Those are the things that people actually care about in this country because those are the things that impact our daily lives.
00:21:10.000They impact how we're able to take care of our families, provide for our kids.
00:21:15.000Russia and Ukraine is probably not even in the top 10 of people's actual concerns.
00:21:19.000But when the corrupt media decide they need a distraction for Joe, they do wall-to-wall flood zone coverage with Russia and Ukraine.
00:21:28.000And then all the typical interventionists who really, really enjoy getting up on their high horse and moralizing about how they're better people because they're willing to send pretty much anyone other than themselves to a war that they're not willing to fight.
00:21:40.000That ends up kind of driving the conversation.
00:21:44.000So I think this divide you're talking about between the uniparty is really between people who kind of get everything, get all their direction.
00:21:52.000They make their conversations based on what the screens tell them, what the media tells them, with the combination of those who really, really enjoy scolding everyone else for not wanting to send other people to fight wars and die in battle and lose limbs and lives because they think it's important.
00:22:10.000That's the divide here is between those who understand the concerns of everyday Americans and those who really are just kind of interested in going along with whatever the corrupt media tells them to.
00:22:21.000So you just retweeted a tweet here all about, and shifting gears a little bit from another issue that I want to touch on you with is ESPN.
00:22:28.000So ESPN says they believe in inclusivity and denounces legislation and actions across the United States that infringe on any human rights.
00:22:36.000So there's this whole kind of like Disney revolt happening right now because Ron DeSantis seems poised to sign an anti-grooming bill, which is not like a don't say gay bill.
00:23:03.000You talked at the beginning about kind of philosophical differences.
00:23:07.000I actually think what's going on is theological.
00:23:11.000I think it's a lot bigger than ideological or philosophical.
00:23:14.000And there are ideologies that are straight up evil.
00:23:17.000I know that'll offend the ears of the people in the corrupt mainstream media, people who live in New York and D.C. and think they're perfect.
00:23:35.000It's evil to go and say that men can become women.
00:23:39.000It's evil to say women can become men.
00:23:41.000And so, what I actually think you're seeing here is a fight between good and evil.
00:23:46.000And I'm sorry, Disney and ABC and ESPN, they're on the side of evil here.
00:23:51.000And in my tweet there that you mentioned, talked about how ESPN pretends to care about inclusivity and caring and compassion and empathy.
00:23:59.000The Chinese Communist Party could go execute a bunch of Uyghur slaves right in front of ESPN cameras, and they wouldn't do anything other than turn the cameras off, play possum, and pretend it never happened because all they care about is sucking up to the CCP so they can get access to Chinese money.
00:24:35.000They don't give two craps about human rights or inclusivity or compassion or anything.
00:24:41.000What they care about is doing whatever they have to do to make money in this particular moment.
00:24:46.000And it's why they'll scold Ron DeSantis and they'll scold Republicans while sitting silent, sitting on their hands when you see the CCP doing things that would never even be dreamed of in this country.
00:24:59.000Because despite all of the things that are going on now, this country actually has a soul.
00:25:03.000Yeah, so I'm optimistic while also being super frustrated at the same time.
00:25:07.000So we're seeing great movement in Florida, but then I see Indiana's governor.
00:25:10.000I don't know if you saw the story or not, this guy, Governor Holcomb, who calls himself a Republican, who is rather worthless, who vetoes the bill that comes up to protect female sports.
00:25:23.000I don't understand what his rationale would potentially like, not even close to what it would be, except I do know one thing.
00:25:29.000He wants to have those beautiful final fours at Lucas Oil Arena and national championships at Lucas Oil Arena.
00:25:36.000And I'm sure he got a call from the NCAA and said, hey, we might pull the national title games from your oversized arena that you built in the Midwest because Chicago can't get their act together to build one.
00:26:06.000Well, I actually think we have Christy Noam in South Dakota to thank for that.
00:26:10.000This was the governor who everyone kind of assumed was conservative, who had a very similar bill on her desk, promised to sign it repeatedly, said, I'm going to protect women's sports.
00:26:19.000I'm not going to let men pretend to be women and beat up a bunch of women for medals.
00:26:24.000And then when the NCAA and Amazon got to her, she magically overnight thought, oh, wait, no, this bill's bad.
00:26:32.000But rather than actually arguing the principle, which seemed to be what the problem was, she went and pretended that the real problem was some technical language in the bill.
00:26:40.000And Holcomb in Indiana is doing the same nonsense.
00:26:44.000Hutchinson down in Arkansas did it too.
00:26:49.000They have to ask themselves, who do we work for?
00:26:50.000Do we work for the voters in the state or do we work for big corporations who hate this country, hate the Constitution, hate the values we stand on, like the NCAA, like Amazon, like Nike, like Disney?
00:27:12.000I haven't looked into it, but I agree.
00:27:15.000She shouldn't have done that back last year.
00:27:16.000So let me just ask you one quick question as we close up this conversation, Sean.
00:27:22.000What do you think are the major stories that we're missing right now?
00:27:25.000I always ask our guests this: like, it seems as if the media is throwing smokescreen at all times.
00:27:30.000What are you looking at that might be up something that's bubbling up to the surface that our base needs to keep their eyes on?
00:27:36.000I think it's the total hollowing out of the middle class in this country.
00:27:40.000We've been outsourcing manufacturing, which was the foundation of the middle class in this country for 50, 60 years.
00:27:45.000We've hollowed it out and sent it over to China so we can get TVs for a couple bucks cheaper.
00:27:50.000But this hollowing out of the American middle class, it happened with manufacturing.
00:27:55.000It's happening with gas prices, with inflation.
00:27:58.000People feel like they have lost their way of life, that they're losing control over things.
00:28:03.000They can't even trust that when they send their kids to school, that they're not going to get told they're racist or that boys can become girls or that kindergartners need to be taught about sex.
00:28:11.000The entire way of life that's built this country is being under attack, is under attack and is being hollowed out.
00:28:17.000And that's the thing nobody in Washington seems to want to talk about.
00:28:20.000They want to talk about whatever the DC media wants to talk about.
00:28:23.000But the things that are terrifying Americans right now are what are happening in their neighborhoods, what are happening with prices, with their jobs, and with their kids.
00:28:30.000And unfortunately, our leaders in this country seem completely AWOL on it.
00:28:37.000Well, then make sure that people actually believe in the system that is around them.
00:28:41.000If people don't own anything and their dollars are worthless, socialism starts to sound really good for people in the middle class because they have no other choice.
00:28:48.000They're going to want to confiscate other people's stuff.
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00:31:55.000Some women are naturally tall, even though the one that was 462nd ranked as a man and instantly transitions to a female is now a national champion.
00:32:06.000So there's kind of two different components to the trans entire lobby.
00:32:09.000There's one that actually believe this stuff.
00:32:11.000These are the young activists that have no purpose and no real understanding of their place in the world, and they end up creating a cardboard sign outside of an event because it gives them something to do.
00:32:21.000And then there's the real Machiavellian types.
00:32:25.000They're the ones at the top of society, like Cut 51, who's the Klaus Schwab advisor, who uses those types of activists that you just heard that Turning Point USA's John Root was interviewing.
00:32:36.000That says, oh, no, no, no, the next phase of surveillance, it's going to go under your skin.
00:32:41.000You see, the trans issue is directly related to the great reset.
00:32:46.000They cannot reset the world if biological genders and sex remains.
00:33:54.000If you propagandize millions of young people to hold up cardboard signs outside of the NCAA championship and say anybody can become a woman, it's not like your identity is rooted in your biological structure.
00:34:37.000If we don't get access to our Twitter account, but at least I don't have to lie, that's a win.
00:34:42.000I hope that's a word of encouragement for all of you right now that are experiencing the same sort of tyranny of the tech or the tyranny of the alphabet mafia.
00:34:51.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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