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A (0:03)
My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You gotta stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA College chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA High School chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life. And I encourage you to do the same. Here I am, Lord. Use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. The Charlie Kirk show is proudly sponsored by Preserve Gold. But the leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends and viewers.
B (1:09)
All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. Hour two is underway. We are joined by Jason Rantz, a Seattle survivor, longtime Seattle resident, and he's got a website, seattlered.com seattlered.com Jason, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. It's good to see you.
C (1:26)
Good to see you. Thanks for having me.
B (1:27)
You know, we were on a show last night together with Katie Pavlich and News Nation, arguing about the virtues of sanctuary cities. We had the. What is that guy's name? Chris Hahn, the aggressive progressive. And I couldn't hear you half the time because he kept interrupting us. So I was like, jason, we have to have you back on the show. So explain to us what is going on in Seattle. Then relate it to Minnesota. You have been around these communist front groups longer than just about anybody in the country. See it up close and personal in the Pacific Northwest. How big is this movement? How militarized are they? How organized are they? Explain it for our audience, please. Jason Rance.
C (2:09)
So it is very organized, but it's not nearly as large as it once was. And I was thinking about it this morning for a column I'm doing. I mean, go back to Black lives matter in 2020. And this was right at the start, really, of the pandemic before a lot of people came to their senses and they were terrified to go outside because we were told not to. And yet there were millions of people wide who actually did in fact, take to the streets. And that was all based on a lie. Cut to what's been going on for the last few months, the organizing has arguably gotten even more favorable press coverage. There's still a lot of misinformation and just flat out lies happening. And yet we're not seeing the same number of people out on the ground. It's the same folks over and over and over again who are showing up. And sure, it's grown a little bit, there's no doubt about that. And not everyone who shows up to these protests are sort of that professional activist class. But the same level of organizing, the same level of strategy is at play. And it's this progressive protest industrial complex where you've got a bunch of folks, in this case, either activists within the community who are part of the organization, or it's Democrat lawmakers, far left lawmakers, who are encouraging you, in this case, to interfere with ICE operations. Go out there, get in their faces, put your bodies on the line. That's a quote from some of these lawmakers and activists. And they end up creating a situation in which someone likes Alex Freddy ends up getting killed. Then they use that death to create more outrage. That then just creates that vicious circle to get more people to then go out and interfere with ICE and put their bodies on the line and then lead to this next confrontation that ends up taking someone's life. And it just makes folks a whole bunch of money. It gets people more follows on social media, and it gets them more favorable press coverage. And we see this happening over and over and over again. It's not going to stop. But it's certainly not growing at the same level that the BLM movement grew. And that's obviously a good thing because it means at least some of the American voters, the average person who's looking at this, are saying, okay, we want sensible immigration reform. We want some semblance of immigration law being enforced. And they're not falling for the far left position that underlines everything that they're doing here. They are against, on the radical left, all enforcement of immigration laws. That is a radical position that is not shared by the vast majority of this country. And I think that explains why we're not seeing this movement grow at the same level as we saw during the BLM movement.
