The Charlie Kirk Show - Woke Corporates Come for Texas Pro-Life Law with Rep. Diane Black and Dr. David Black

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00:02:50.000 Welcome back, guys.

00:02:53.000 Thank you, Charlie.

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00:03:05.000 We do this every couple weeks to kind of give an update of what's going on with woke corporations.

00:03:11.000 What's going on in our multi-trillion dollar economy of how these companies are increasingly waging war on our values and our worldview.

00:03:21.000 And I'm really glad we do this because I think it's important that people at home realize that the companies that they might be spending a fair amount of money with actually might not be representing their value.

00:03:33.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:03:33.000 And I, you know, we were right before we started this interview, we were hearing about the success of this audience and what they, what the engagement with Second Vote that's already happening as a result.

00:03:47.000 So, Charlie, you know, with your permission, I thought we'd just start right there.

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00:03:57.000 Well, yes.

00:03:58.000 And thank you very much.

00:03:59.000 Tyan and I really want to thank the audience, your followers.

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00:04:37.000 Charlie, I got to tell you too, that we are here in Middle Tennessee, and I've had friends that I didn't know even listened to your show.

00:04:45.000 And they said, oh, we were listening to Charlie and we heard you guys talking.

00:04:48.000 So you're very popular in Middle Tennessee.

00:04:51.000 We love Middle Tennessee.

00:04:53.000 That is real.

00:04:54.000 That's real America there.

00:04:55.000 Tennessee is one of my favorite states in the whole country, truly.

00:04:58.000 And so let's get into it.

00:05:00.000 And just for everyone that might not have listened to this episode or this type of conversation before, we go through specifics of kind of what's going on in corporate America.

00:05:10.000 And some people are really surprised by it.

00:05:12.000 So Andrew, why don't you take the lead and we'll go from there?

00:05:14.000 Yeah, we call this the rise of the corporate villains.

00:05:17.000 My words, not yours.

00:05:18.000 I'm not going to, you know, but really, I mean, this whole last year, when it, you know, we came from the all-star break or the all-star game getting moved from Atlanta to Colorado.

00:05:30.000 I mean, we saw this rise in the power of corporations and the power of the MLB in that instance to really push back against common sense reforms.

00:05:39.000 And it just, it seems, it seems like the news cycle can't keep up with it.

00:05:42.000 I mean, every day there's a new article about some corporation somewhere doing something that completely grates against the values of traditional Americans, conservative, Christian, social conservatives.

00:05:54.000 And so, you know, I thought, you know, Diane, with your expertise on the pro-life issue, I thought we'd just jump in right there.

00:06:04.000 There is a lot of news coming out of Uber and Lyft.

00:06:07.000 I know you're well versed in that.

00:06:09.000 Tell us about it.

00:06:11.000 I want to put a little context behind that because many of you know there was a law recently passed in the Tennessee legislature.

00:06:18.000 It was a Tennessee abortion law. 1.00

00:06:20.000 And it then says now that you cannot have an abortion after what would commonly be six weeks, but after a heartbeat is found.

00:06:29.000 And is that the Texas law?

00:06:30.000 Not Tennessee.

00:06:31.000 Excuse me.

00:06:32.000 That's the Texas, the Texas law.

00:06:34.000 And so we are seeing now corporations that are getting involved in this issue by saying, for instance, Lyft and Uber say if the person who performs the abortion illegally, because it is past the time of the heartbeat, that they will pay the legal fees for the folks who are riding in their vehicles or for the folks that are sued.

00:06:56.000 And so we have a corporation that is supposed to just be providing you a ride now getting involved in what the Texas law was passed.

00:07:07.000 Yeah.

00:07:08.000 And so just as a side note to this, one of the ways that people are attacking the Texas law is they say, oh, well, even an Uber driver could end up getting looped into the civil complaint if he's driving someone to the abortion clinic.

00:07:22.000 Where the answer is, well, of course, if you knowingly drive someone to a place of murder, then of course you're going to be possibly looped into a criminal or civil complaint.

00:07:32.000 For example, if you get into a taxi after you land at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport and you tell the taxi cab driver, like, hey, can you drive me to my boyfriend's house?

00:07:42.000 I got to go murder him.

00:07:43.000 And the taxi cab driver knows that. 1.00

00:07:45.000 They are a co-conspirator.

00:07:47.000 And so one of the complaints people have been giving against this law is that it unnecessarily loops in people that could be accessories to this.

00:07:56.000 Now, what you're talking about, though, is that Uber and Lyft are saying that they are going to pay the legal fees for anyone that might get looped into this.

00:08:03.000 But however, that's kind of strange because if they actually read the law, women themselves are actually exempt from any sort of civil complaint under the Texas law. 0.89

00:08:13.000 That's correct.

00:08:14.000 So it is now up to the physicians and those who are encouraging abortion to be held responsible because many of these women are so vulnerable.

00:08:24.000 And it is really difficult for them.

00:08:26.000 They're in a situation that's very hard with making that decision.

00:08:30.000 And so we hold physicians now accountable for that.

00:08:34.000 If they hear a heartbeat and they continue to do the abortion, they're going to be held accountable for that.

00:08:39.000 Yes.

00:08:39.000 And what's interesting, go ahead, is they call this pro-choice, but oftentimes the women are not provided the choice when they go to these clinics.

00:08:46.000 They're really convinced at the clinic that their only real option is to go through that abortion, which, yeah, there's so many aspects of this that are so troubling with regard to the manner in which this is acted out.

00:08:59.000 But then now we have Lyft and Uber providing additional financial support.

00:09:05.000 They're big, huge companies.

00:09:07.000 But what's really remarkable too, that's not their money.

00:09:11.000 You know, that's the money of the investors.

00:09:15.000 You know, these are publicly traded companies and their investors are the ones.

00:09:20.000 These CEOs that are making these decisions are really, you know, I call this business egonomics, not economics.

00:09:28.000 These guys use other people's money to put themselves in the news and get this camera attention, acting like they're these great benefactors or compassionate people.

00:09:40.000 But really, they're using other people's money.

00:09:42.000 And the CEO of Uber in 2015 was the highest paid CEO in America.

00:09:48.000 And he's not using his money.

00:09:51.000 He's using the money of hardworking Americans who are invested in a company where they're looking for a good return on their investment.

00:09:57.000 So I just want to list some of the companies that have now spoken against the Texas law who are pro-abortion companies.

00:10:05.000 Yelp, Lyft, Ben ⁇ Jerry's Patagonia.

00:10:08.000 And this is not an exhaustive list, by the way.

00:10:10.000 Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics, Bumble Benefit Cosmetics, The Body Shop, let's say La Columba Coffee Roasters.

00:10:20.000 The list goes on.

00:10:21.000 There's over 50 companies that have done this.

00:10:23.000 And it seems as if they're trying to pander to some sort of pro-abortion market there.

00:10:29.000 And if we continue on, we will see that there's a lot happening around this Texas drama.

00:10:38.000 So can you talk about Salesforce that is now offering to relocate employees and their families after the Texas abortion law goes into effect?

00:10:47.000 Yes.

00:10:48.000 Isn't that just really something that you have Salesforce now that says that if we will pay for you to move if you want an abortion, we will pay for you to move because of what Texas has done. 1.00

00:11:01.000 And here's the other thing, Charlie, you know, I'm a little bit older and back in 1973 when Roe v. Wade was decided and science did not show us that this really was a baby.

00:11:12.000 And now we know we have much better information to say this is a baby and in six weeks, it has a heartbeat.

00:11:20.000 It's no longer what was said back then, just a blob of tissue.

00:11:24.000 And by the way, the abortion industry then said, we want it to be legal.

00:11:28.000 We want it to be safe, which we know is not safe even now because we have people like Gosnell who are just doing procedures that make my stomach turn and rare.

00:11:40.000 And we know it's not rare.

00:11:41.000 So we have free birth control.

00:11:43.000 There is no reason why there can't be a lesser number of unwanted pregnancies.

00:11:51.000 So there's so much out there that has changed over the last 50 years now that we know that this is a baby.

00:12:00.000 We know that at 15 weeks, which is, by the way, the Dobbs case now coming out of Mississippi, we know at 15 weeks that these babies suck their thumb.

00:12:09.000 We actually have video of twins playing with one another in the womb.

00:12:14.000 So science has really changed this whole issue of abortion and birth control being free to everyone really should be stopping the number of necessary unwanted pregnancies.

00:12:28.000 Well, you know, see, I have a, I have a contrarian take on this.

00:12:31.000 I'm actually, you know, I think it's abhorrent.

00:12:33.000 Don't get me wrong, but I actually, my take is good riddance.

00:12:36.000 I mean, yeah, get them out of here.

00:12:38.000 Yeah, get the liberals out of Texas.

00:12:40.000 This is, so we have an ongoing conversation on this show about how do you keep Texas red?

00:12:46.000 How do you keep Florida red?

00:12:48.000 How do you, yeah, Tennessee red?

00:12:50.000 How do you keep all of these states?

00:12:51.000 Because the, you know, people are fleeing all the liberal, you know, strongholds like New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania.

00:12:58.000 Well, Pennsylvania is kind of half and half, but California.

00:13:02.000 And they're moving into the red states where life is still good, the land is still free, and it still feels like America.

00:13:09.000 Well, how do you keep, how do you do that?

00:13:10.000 Well, you pass laws that the left finds so onerous that they're willing to spend their corporate money to move out the liberal Democrat voters out into the hinterlands of back to California.

00:13:22.000 So on the one hand, I find this abhorrent.

00:13:24.000 On the other hand, it's like, well, what else could we pass that will offend them so mightily?

00:13:28.000 How about open carry?

00:13:30.000 That sounds like a good start.

00:13:32.000 But the point being is, this is such a reveal by the woke corporates that they would be willing to take shareholder value away from their shareholders to relocate.

00:13:43.000 That's right.

00:13:44.000 Relocate their employees.

00:13:46.000 Well, I must confess, I haven't heard that before, but I like it.

00:13:49.000 But I will tell you too, you know, like Salesforce, big, big organization.

00:13:55.000 Their company, CEO, their CEO also is another individual spending corporate money.

00:14:02.000 When he says we're going to move you from Salesforce, he's using shareholder money too.

00:14:07.000 Exactly.

00:14:07.000 It's not his money, but the guy's worth about $9 billion.

00:14:11.000 So he's not using his money.

00:14:13.000 Totally.

00:14:13.000 He's using my money, your money, whoever is a customer of them.

00:14:17.000 But also, they're very bad also on religious liberty.

00:14:20.000 You know, when Indiana passed their Religious Freedom Act, it was Salesforce that real, among others, that really went after the state of Indiana and pushed back on there where the Indiana legislature did change that law that they had passed for religious liberty.

00:14:36.000 So these are anti-First Amendment people.

00:14:38.000 These are bad actors across the board.

00:14:40.000 Well, I'm reminded of something.

00:14:44.000 This is not the first time that we've seen something like this.

00:14:49.000 And I'm reminded now of Georgia, when Georgia passed a similar sort of measure that was trying to curtail the period in ingestation that you could have an abortion.

00:14:59.000 And remember what happened.

00:15:00.000 Hollywood threatened to boycott.

00:15:02.000 Hollywood tried to move out of Georgia.

00:15:04.000 They said that they would.

00:15:05.000 They were going to shut down filming and all these Marvel movies that are filming in Atlanta and this and that.

00:15:10.000 Fast forward to 2020.

00:15:12.000 And then the special election, the runoff.

00:15:15.000 It's like, how much do you wish Georgians now looking back would have said, good riddance, Hollywood? 0.76

00:15:22.000 Yeah, actually, you can take all those jobs. 0.65

00:15:23.000 You know what?

00:15:24.000 We'll be fine.

00:15:25.000 You go your way.

00:15:26.000 We're going to go ours.

00:15:27.000 I mean, this is, I think, a new era in the conservative movement where we have to, you know, as Charlie always calls them, ribbon-cutting Republicans where we just want to make, you know, we, and this is happening in Miami, by the way, right now.

00:15:40.000 We got a, the mayor there is luring all of the Silicon Valley big, big tech to Miami.

00:15:47.000 It's like, well, listen, we're just getting Florida back into a place where we, you know, this might be a predictably conservative state for a decade.

00:15:54.000 So, what we're going to just bring in all the corporate and their employees.

00:15:58.000 So, anyways, the point is, I think the whole paradigm needs to be shifted.

00:16:02.000 And we need to start looking at not all company, all jobs, good.

00:16:08.000 As conservatives, we need to say, hey, some industries, some jobs are good.

00:16:11.000 And if they're going to represent our values, and I think that's the whole point of second vote and your guys's mission is to sort of, you know, separate the wheat from the chaff.

00:16:22.000 So, anyways, we've got lots more stories here.

00:16:24.000 I don't mean to monologue.

00:16:26.000 I don't mean to monologue.

00:16:29.000 I just get so passionate about these ribbon cutters.

00:16:33.000 So, well, we could easily spend the rest of the show talking about vaccines if we want to go on to vaccines yet, if you guys are ready.

00:16:40.000 But there's a lot of news coming out, especially with United Airlines.

00:16:45.000 I saw that story.

00:16:47.000 Tell us what's going on with United.

00:16:51.000 Well, again, we have these major big international corporations that are in collusion with big government, really attacking our government, big business socialism attacking our liberty, individual liberties.

00:17:07.000 And these mandates are not good science, they're not good medicine, but they are controlling and they do deny individuals their rights.

00:17:17.000 But these mandates make no sense.

00:17:20.000 There is no, and by the way, I still hold academic appointments in immunology and bacteriology and pathology and pharmacology and toxicology.

00:17:29.000 So I'd like to think that I'm an educated speaker on this issue, but we're giving no credit for natural immunity.

00:17:38.000 We've got 100 million people in America that have had COVID.

00:17:42.000 And if you've had COVID, you don't need the vaccine unless you've got some unusual circumstance that is going on in your health.

00:17:50.000 But that health issue ought to be between you and your doctor.

00:17:53.000 These corporations are inserting themselves between the patient and the doctor.

00:17:58.000 And it is denying good medicine.

00:18:00.000 It's denying the individual to control their own health.

00:18:04.000 And this is just wrong on so many different levels.

00:18:08.000 The corporations, of course, are being pushed now by big government, but they're willing actors to participate with big government to go through these exercises.

00:18:19.000 So this is a very disturbing story that's replicating itself all across the United States.

00:18:27.000 And what's amazing to me, too, in the healthcare industry, where there are doctors and nurses refusing to get the vaccine.

00:18:33.000 And, you know, allegedly, we've got all this demand on our healthcare system, and yet big hospitals and all are dismissing employees when it's a health system.

00:18:44.000 They should know about natural immunity.

00:18:46.000 They should also know about the right for an individual to determine their own health care between themselves and their physician.

00:18:54.000 So this is extremely disturbing that these corporations now in collusion with big government are really interfering with your individual liberty, your own health.

00:19:08.000 I don't know if you saw the physician declaration that came out several days ago, where thousands of doctors worldwide are calling for this to stop.

00:19:17.000 Yes.

00:19:17.000 And they're saying we've got to restore good medicine and good science.

00:19:20.000 We've got to restore the patient-client relationship.

00:19:24.000 We've got to get politics out of medicine.

00:19:27.000 And hopefully, more and more, I signed it.

00:19:31.000 Many, many, many scientists and physicians have signed it.

00:19:35.000 And hopefully, we can get enough steam up to really push back on this.

00:19:39.000 Good for you.

00:19:40.000 This is the headline: United Airlines set to terminate 593 workers for refusing COVID-19 vaccine.

00:19:48.000 So we are now in the midst of a pandemic, right?

00:19:52.000 This is what the left always likes to say.

00:19:53.000 In the midst of a pandemic, where we're just trying to get the economy back, we have companies in the military, the Border Patrol.

00:20:04.000 I mean, the list goes on.

00:20:07.000 They're firing people.

00:20:08.000 They're putting them at is this what's in the best interest of these employees?

00:20:13.000 Is this, you know, is this what's in their best interest, Charlie?

00:20:18.000 Well, I mean, of course not, but these companies have become so big that they really don't care.

00:20:24.000 And I mean, except for the airline, the airline's going to be very interesting.

00:20:28.000 Those are not easy businesses to run.

00:20:30.000 And if you lose 10% of your workforce, especially if it's in a skilled area, it's very difficult to replace that.

00:20:37.000 And let's just stop fooling ourselves.

00:20:39.000 The vaccine is not preventing these people from getting COVID.

00:20:42.000 It's not.

00:20:43.000 It might be a treatment for certain people, but it's certainly not preventing anyone.

00:20:47.000 This also goes to this story where you mentioned the 5,000 doctors and scientists signed the declaration, but now there's all these evictions, except, and the Democrats oppose the attendant evictions, except for the unvaccinated.

00:21:00.000 I guess my question is: in all the research you've done, is there any major company that is protecting the rights of their employees?

00:21:09.000 You know, that's a great question.

00:21:13.000 We are seeing small companies, we are seeing some companies trying to push back, but the fines that you're going to be subjected to, we do know of a company in Colorado who's a rather good, medium-sized company that's saying, no, we're not going to do this.

00:21:28.000 They're going to fight it legally.

00:21:31.000 But this is what it's all about.

00:21:33.000 It's all about intimidation.

00:21:35.000 It's all about losing your job or being fined out of existence, seeing such onerous fines.

00:21:42.000 And the hypocrisy of evicting this eviction issue of, after spending a year that nobody could be evicted for non-payment of their rent, now we're going to evict people who are deciding on their own health care with their physician or perhaps just even on their own that they're going to be evicted if they choose not to take this injection.

00:22:06.000 And you may, you know, Israel's about ready, I think, to move into their fourth shot.

00:22:12.000 You know, where does this end?

00:22:14.000 The vaccines, by the way, are very limited in the protection they generate.

00:22:20.000 First of all, they're experimental.

00:22:21.000 They're messenger RNA vaccines.

00:22:24.000 They're something brand new.

00:22:25.000 This is not a traditional vaccine.

00:22:27.000 But when you're injected with that, you get a very limited antibody response.

00:22:30.000 It's not like natural immunity where you get a whole family of antibodies.

00:22:35.000 Here, you're getting just a limited response of antibodies to that particular spike protein that's being developed by the messenger RNA.

00:22:44.000 The net result is you're not fully protected.

00:22:46.000 And you're definitely not protected against the variants because you don't have that broad set of antibodies to respond to the next generation infection with the variants.

00:22:57.000 So I don't know where the endgame is here. 0.67

00:23:00.000 This is like Afghanistan. 0.99

00:23:01.000 There was no plan on how to exit. 1.00

00:23:04.000 I have yet to read of any plan on how we're going to exit ourselves out of this.

00:23:09.000 And so this is not science.

00:23:12.000 This is bad medicine.

00:23:16.000 This is just not the proper approach. 0.99

00:23:19.000 The administration also doesn't want to talk about those that are coming over the border that they're not requiring to have vaccines and they're letting them go throughout our country. 0.88

00:23:27.000 So if you want to not have to worry about taking a vaccine, just go down and come over the Mexican border and then you're okay. 0.91

00:23:34.000 Well, it's all backwards. 0.79

00:23:36.000 It's all backwards, isn't it?

00:23:38.000 We have gotten into this mode where we are punishing law-abiding citizens and we are rewarding lawbreakers.

00:23:45.000 It's all upside down.

00:23:46.000 Anarcho-tyranny is a good word for it.

00:23:48.000 And this is this is, yeah, and this is from Reuters.

00:23:51.000 Biden vaccine mandates, Republicans angry, business groups muted.

00:23:55.000 And guess what?

00:23:56.000 The Chamber of Commerce has even said, by the way, they do oppose Biden's tax and spending proposal.

00:24:04.000 They're always about that.

00:24:05.000 But they said it would quote carefully review the vaccination mandate.

00:24:10.000 Carefully review.

00:24:12.000 Incredible.

00:24:13.000 Yeah.

00:24:13.000 So I want to get.

00:24:15.000 Go ahead, please.

00:24:16.000 Well, no, I'm just going to say it is so interesting that all through the COVID experience, there has been various forms of suppression of individual rights.

00:24:26.000 And, you know, what's happened to the churches during COVID, where they were shut down, but bars were allowed to be open, or yeah, which I'm not in favor of shutting anything down, but they shut down churches and but other operations, abortion clinics could stay in business.

00:24:41.000 It's just, it is all arbitrary.

00:24:44.000 And for those leaders at the federal level or state level or corporate level that say they're following the science, it's just not true.

00:24:55.000 Any corporation should have access to physicians or any scientist of their choosing to give them an opinion on this.

00:25:03.000 And privately, I can tell you, many doctors are going to say what is being done is not real medicine.

00:25:10.000 It's just, this is just a matter.

00:25:13.000 They found a real loophole in our system that gets around our constitutional rights and all of our protections under the First Amendment.

00:25:21.000 So let's now get into Ben and Jerry's.

00:25:26.000 So Ben and Jerry's has come out as openly anti-Semitic and basically going against Israel.

00:25:34.000 But there's some good movement, isn't there, Andrew, of some people that are now saying we're going to divest from Ben and Jerry's because you're trying to divest from Israel.

00:25:41.000 Yeah, I mean, I love this story too, just as context here, because so many emails that we get to the show, freedom at charliekirk.com, are what can we do?

00:25:51.000 How do we fight back?

00:25:53.000 What can we do to push back?

00:25:54.000 What can we do to be more vocal?

00:25:56.000 And for those of you listening who don't know, this is part of what Second Vote does.

00:26:03.000 And I love this because this story about Ben and Jerry's is a real life example of how pushing back works, how getting loud works, sending letters, making phone calls, making your voice heard.

00:26:15.000 So what's going on with Ben and Jerry's?

00:26:17.000 Can we spike the football yet?

00:26:19.000 I mean, is there a victory here that we can celebrate?

00:26:23.000 We, well, what's interesting is we're seeing good activity by states divesting from Ben and Jerry's.

00:26:31.000 We've had New Jersey and Texas and, you know, we have states, you know, Ben and Jerry's is advocating this boycott of Israel and sympathy. 0.72

00:26:39.000 They're being sympathetic to the Palestinians, even after the Palestinians are always the aggressor against Israel.

00:26:47.000 But understand too, Ben and Jerry's is owned by Unilever. 0.89

00:26:51.000 So you're really divesting yourself of Unilever to divest your ownership and Ben and Jerry's.

00:26:57.000 But states are doing it and they're big players.

00:26:59.000 They buy lots of stock.

00:27:01.000 They put lots of money into corporations through their pension funds.

00:27:05.000 And yes, individuals are doing that as well.

00:27:08.000 We're promoting people to contact Unilever through our website because we have this portal capability.

00:27:15.000 And by the way, just to backtrack to Uber and Lyft, for the next seven days, we're opening up our research to anybody and everybody that wants to come on our website and directly communicate to Uber and Lyft about what they're doing.

00:27:29.000 So you don't have to be a subscriber.

00:27:31.000 You don't have to be an investment council member to get to that information.

00:27:35.000 Anybody who's listening can come on and directly communicate to them.

00:27:39.000 But we've had a lot of activity going on with contacting Unilever.

00:27:43.000 And you're right.

00:27:44.000 Typically, we're silent.

00:27:46.000 We don't speak up.

00:27:47.000 But when we do speak up, the message, then we get a balance in the messaging.

00:27:55.000 And this can make a difference and it will make a difference.

00:27:58.000 I love this.

00:27:59.000 Go ahead, David.

00:28:01.000 No, I'm very pro-boycott when it comes to boycotting the other side.

00:28:05.000 I never used to be that way, but it works.

00:28:07.000 And why, I mean, you and I, we boycott Planned Parenthood, don't we?

00:28:11.000 And so why wouldn't we boycott companies that associate with Planned Parenthood?

00:28:15.000 This idea that, oh, we don't do boycotts on our side.

00:28:17.000 You do boycotts every day.

00:28:18.000 I mean, you don't buy things that are, you don't go to the church of, you know, the temple of Satan and give and tithe to them.

00:28:24.000 Of course not.

00:28:25.000 So you not going is a form of boycott.

00:28:27.000 It's a choice.

00:28:28.000 Yes, it's a choice.

00:28:29.000 As conservatives, we've always been very tentative with that word.

00:28:32.000 And we don't want to put that word on you guys, of course.

00:28:35.000 But I'm saying it all.

00:28:36.000 But yeah, I mean, I've gotten to the point where, you know, you see that it is effective.

00:28:41.000 And when you raise the alarm bell about a company that, hey, this doesn't represent your values, I think ultimately at the end of the day, whether we call it that or not, there is that taking place.

00:28:51.000 So at secondvote.com, everyone could check it out, secondvote.com.

00:28:55.000 I have to talk about this because I just had a, we had a turning point USA event in the panhandle.

00:29:01.000 And I don't know how the topic came up, but all of a sudden Chick-fil-A came up.

00:29:05.000 And I had to just inform the audience that Chick-fil-A is a woke Southern Poverty Law Center contributing drag queen story hour supporting organization.

00:29:16.000 And most have they gone full drag queen story hour?

00:29:18.000 I'm going to read it right here.

00:29:20.000 And so most people don't know that.

00:29:21.000 Most people that, and I just have to always reiterate this, because there's this kind of love affair that conservatives have with Chick-fil-A.

00:29:29.000 But Chick-fil-A, which used to be very strong, Christian, and conservative, is woke, weak, and pro-transgender. 0.50

00:29:36.000 I'll read it to you.

00:29:37.000 So Chick-fil-A, as you guys know, cut off all their donations to the Salvation Army.

00:29:41.000 Remember when they did that a couple years ago?

00:29:44.000 Well, they also sent a check to Covenant House.

00:29:47.000 So they support Covenant House, a group that supports local drag queen story hours across the country and celebrates LGBTQ Pride.

00:29:55.000 Further, Chick-fil-A has donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is one of the most gross and they are a hate group and they come after conservatives professionally. 0.89

00:30:06.000 And Christians.

00:30:07.000 If you believe in traditional marriage.

00:30:08.000 Yes, that's right.

00:30:09.000 And that's just a little bit of that. 0.95

00:30:10.000 Not to mention the CEO of Chick-fil-A went to a church and got on his knees and says that it's time for white people to start to atone for what they did wrong against the sins of black people.

00:30:21.000 And so that's, I just want to say this.

00:30:22.000 And I'm happy to say Second Vote reflects that with a negative score of 2.08 on Chick-fil-A.

00:30:29.000 Do you guys want to, I know you guys weren't prepared to talk about Chick-fil-A, but I just want to make sure everyone knows that when you get those chicken sandwiches, you're funding Drag Queen Story Hour.

00:30:37.000 Yeah.

00:30:38.000 And we did report on all of this at the time.

00:30:40.000 And you mentioned Covenant House, which is very interesting.

00:30:44.000 This was another bait and switch organization.

00:30:46.000 Covenant House, when they send out their mailings, and I don't know how my dear wife got on their mailing list, but we see their mailings directly to our home.

00:30:55.000 But they represent themselves as a Christian organization.

00:30:58.000 And you're absolutely right. 1.00

00:31:01.000 They work with sex change operations. 0.95

00:31:04.000 They work with directing teenage pregnant females to abortions.

00:31:09.000 Covenant House, you may get a mailing at your, you know, at home and you read it and you think, oh, this is a great Christian organization.

00:31:17.000 It is not.

00:31:19.000 Just as Chick-fil-A has been in the process of changing who they are.

00:31:24.000 And it is not only did they, they also, Campus Crusade for Christ or one of the college Christian programs, they also withdrew funding from them, which was significant.

00:31:36.000 It was not just Salvation Army.

00:31:38.000 So they really defunded out of their donation list a number of great Christian organizations that help America every day through the Salvation Army, through these.

00:31:53.000 putting Christ on the campuses.

00:31:55.000 And it is a change.

00:31:57.000 And sad to say, I mean, I used to go there all the time because we've got Chick-fil-A's all around us here in Middle Tennessee, but I don't do it anymore.

00:32:05.000 It's just, and to go back to the boycott thing, you know, we're advocating be a good steward of your what you have and shop your values.

00:32:16.000 You know, we don't use boycott and boycott because Christians and conservatives don't do that very well.

00:32:22.000 You know, we tried to boycott Disney years ago, and that was a real failure.

00:32:26.000 So what we need to do is to just shop our values.

00:32:30.000 And that's what we tried to show at second vote is this is what's going to happen with your money if you spend your money here or if you donate your money there or if you invest in that company.

00:32:40.000 Well, Dr. Black, I want to kind of go back to this story from with Ben and Jerry's.

00:32:45.000 I mean, you know, we, something we say on this show is that the conservative movement, it's not to say that people weren't putting a lot of effort in and there wasn't, you know, battles fought and waged in the past, but in many ways, the conservative movement is only just now waking up to the depth and the seriousness and the urgency of the threat that we're facing.

00:33:06.000 Corporate tyranny.

00:33:06.000 So I mean, you know, maybe certain tactics didn't work before, but I do think that there is a growing sense of urgency on the right.

00:33:14.000 And I do think that there's something about boycotting, it definitely strikes against the conservative disposition.

00:33:21.000 I totally grant you that.

00:33:23.000 It's not something that we're inclined to do.

00:33:25.000 It's not something that we want to do.

00:33:27.000 But the point is, you know, we're just now starting to really fight back.

00:33:32.000 And tools like Second Vote are so important because of that, because it actually gives a chance to raise your voice.

00:33:37.000 And I completely agree.

00:33:39.000 Step one, two, and three should be write notes, make phone calls, tell these people in power in charge of these corporates that we do care and we are watching and this will affect you.

00:33:52.000 So I mean, I think this is why I love this Ben and Jerry story so much, because it's proof that our efforts, our energies are working.

00:34:00.000 I think so many times conservatives feel like we're yelling into the abyss.

00:34:03.000 It's like we keep telling everybody how bad things are getting, but it keeps getting worse.

00:34:07.000 Well, at some point, there's going to be an inflection point.

00:34:11.000 And I think this is part of the story, part of the success story that we can take with us.

00:34:16.000 But you're, well, I do agree with you, but I think the issue is, you know, we're about 10 or 20 years behind the curve on what the left has been doing.

00:34:28.000 Totally.

00:34:29.000 You know, while we've been busy living and raising families, building businesses, going about life, for the left, their religion is their politics.

00:34:40.000 And that is our disadvantage.

00:34:43.000 They are very well organized.

00:34:45.000 They're very well funded.

00:34:47.000 This CEO of Lyft, he's a World Economic Forum, Davis, one world government kind of guy.

00:34:55.000 Salesforce, every time you spend a dollar for Salesforce, you're spending money with a company that has a CEO that really does not care about America at all.

00:35:07.000 He doesn't care about the United States.

00:35:09.000 He doesn't care about those small investors that are trying to save money for retirement.

00:35:15.000 He's got a larger agenda.

00:35:17.000 And a lot of these big international companies are led by CEOs that are adopting that, gee, we might have been birthed in America, but now we're an international company.

00:35:29.000 And, you know, we're going to engage in a agenda that ultimately is really an attack on Western civilization and on America itself.

00:35:40.000 Well, and there's the pipeline from college campuses to corporate boardrooms.

00:35:43.000 What happens on college campuses does not stay there.

00:35:45.000 It goes to corporate boardrooms.

00:35:47.000 And I think everyone needs to go to secondvote.com and become a partner and a member.

00:35:53.000 And I agree, conservatives, we are really bad at boycotts, but we better be good at it.

00:35:58.000 We better get good at it really soon.

00:36:00.000 And this is to put it bluntly, and Christians and conservatives don't like it when you say this, we need to inflict pain on our opponents and give support to our friends.

00:36:12.000 We need to make it hurt when they do stuff like this.

00:36:14.000 And the reason they do stuff like this is they laugh and they chuckle in their boardrooms because they know we won't, because they know that we'll keep on going and going to Chick-fil-A and funding transgender drag queen story hour.

00:36:27.000 They know that conservatives are still going to have Disney Plus subscriptions.

00:36:30.000 You know, they know we're going to keep on buying iPhones.

00:36:33.000 And so until we start to say we want to make them suffer, things won't change.

00:36:39.000 But I do think that communicating to them through second vote and getting the information is going to make a big difference, especially in today's time.

00:36:48.000 Closing thoughts, Andrew?

00:36:49.000 No, I totally agree with what Charlie said.

00:36:53.000 I think a lot of people go, well, you know, if we just, you know, if we don't really have any levers at our disposal to really push these companies around.

00:37:03.000 And I think there is an underestimation of the power of just making your voice heard, sending the letters and the notes.

00:37:10.000 You know, at the end of the day, there are still a few sane people at many of these companies, right?

00:37:15.000 And if they, and they want to push back against this younger middle management crowd that's coming up and going into senior leadership roles as well, a lot of these people are sane.

00:37:23.000 They just probably feel powerless within these company structures, right?

00:37:28.000 Because there is a sort of moral certitude that comes out of the young culture warriors and the activists that are coming up through the ranks.

00:37:35.000 And so they probably get isolated.

00:37:37.000 When they start getting letters, bombarded with letters from places like Second Vote, and all of you listening are making that happen.

00:37:45.000 You're giving the sane ones in the room, the adults in the room, if you will, Charlie, you're giving them an opportunity to say, look, I'm right here and we need to stop this or we're going to see real, real pain inflicted upon the company and our shareholders.

00:37:58.000 So I'm all for being loud and doing everything you can.

00:38:01.000 It's like, well, what do you do?

00:38:02.000 You do all of the above.

00:38:04.000 You spend your money wisely.

00:38:06.000 You raise a stink for these companies.

00:38:10.000 And so final word to you guys.

00:38:14.000 How should people take what we just talked about?

00:38:17.000 Is there hope?

00:38:18.000 How can they get involved?

00:38:21.000 Charlie, I do believe that there is hope and I'm always going to have hope.

00:38:26.000 And I will tell you when I was in Congress, if I got a call on a particular issue of 10 people, I knew there were a whole lot of other people out there that were looking and watching what was happening.

00:38:36.000 And so it doesn't take every single person in the country to call someone or call a company to let them know how they feel.

00:38:45.000 And your voice out there too is really helping with this.

00:38:48.000 But we need to make sure that we're doing just that.

00:38:51.000 We're letting those companies that we know are woke, that we don't like it and we know it and that we are going to spread the word and we're not going to buy their products.

00:39:02.000 So I'm not going to give up.

00:39:04.000 I think this is a great way to get the message out.

00:39:06.000 You all have done a great job.

00:39:08.000 And as Dave has already said, we are seeing results.

00:39:10.000 Amen.

00:39:11.000 And you just heard from a woman who loves Ben and Jerry's.

00:39:15.000 Oh my gosh.

00:39:16.000 She will not be past 10 and Jerry's.

00:39:19.000 Well, I don't know if they're I don't know if they're woke or not.

00:39:24.000 Not too far from you guys, but if you've never had Grader's ice cream, you are missing out on something.

00:39:30.000 So, well, that's a great, yeah.

00:39:32.000 This is a great example of a category that's got lots of alternatives.

00:39:36.000 You don't need to buy Ben and Jerry's. 1.00

00:39:38.000 I think Ben and Jerry's is average compared to Graders.

00:39:40.000 I completely Graders is more expensive.

00:39:43.000 It's more expensive.

00:39:44.000 It's a good Cincinnati company.

00:39:45.000 If I'm not mistaken, I think it's Cincinnati.

00:39:47.000 You're right.

00:39:48.000 You're right.

00:39:49.000 And they are, it is the best ice cream.

00:39:52.000 I'm a big salt and straw fan.

00:39:53.000 It's a West Coast thing.

00:39:54.000 I haven't had Graders.

00:39:55.000 Oh, but yeah, here's the thing.

00:39:59.000 I think the moral of the story today is don't buy Ben and Jerry's, buy Graders or something.

00:40:04.000 And then hail a cab, I guess.

00:40:06.000 I'm on Graders' website and I haven't been offended yet.

00:40:09.000 So that's something.

00:40:12.000 Offend is the wrong word.

00:40:13.000 I haven't been angered yet.

00:40:14.000 But I'm telling you, Grader's ice cream gets you to another level of existence.

00:40:18.000 It's terrific.

00:40:19.000 See, we ended on a high note here.

00:40:21.000 There is hope.

00:40:22.000 Secondvote.com, everybody.

00:40:23.000 Check it out.

00:40:24.000 Secondvote.com.

00:40:25.000 Boycott the bad companies.

00:40:26.000 Bycott the good ones, even though it's not in our nature.

00:40:28.000 But secondvote.com gives you the information to do that.

00:40:31.000 They do a wonderful job.

00:40:32.000 Check it out.

00:40:33.000 Promo code Charlie, $2 a month.

00:40:34.000 You guys can afford that to be able to support the good guys.

00:40:37.000 Secondvote.com.

00:40:38.000 God bless you guys.

00:40:40.000 See you next time.

00:40:40.000 Thank you guys.

00:40:41.000 Thank you.

00:40:42.000 God bless you.

00:40:43.000 Bye.

00:40:43.000 Thank you.

00:40:46.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:40:47.000 Email us your thoughts.

00:40:48.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:40:50.000 God bless you guys.

00:40:51.000 Speak to you soon.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - October 02, 2021

Woke Corporates Come for Texas Pro-Life Law with Rep. Diane Black and Dr. David Black

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