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So do police officers need firearms or weapons at a traffic stop? I'm not going to show the video on the live stream, but if you watch the recent video out of New Mexico of the guy that got pulled over at the AR15 and he just turns around and murders the cop with an AR15, yes, police officers need to be armed when they do traffic stops. This is not about. This whole situation was preventable if Dante Wright decided not to be a criminal. It's that simple. Once a situation of chaos is created, then unpredictable, less than desirable outcomes that are almost guaranteed. Let's go to a cut here. BLM Incorporated, they are now using white people as human shields. Cut 55. Nah, get the white people in the front, bro. White people on the front, white allies in the front. What's hilarious is that the white liberals were willingly doing that, is that the white liberals were okay being in the front the police to go guard the black people. And this segues to something I've been wanting to talk about for the last couple days. And I've been waiting for the right opportunity, which is this idea of guilt. I believe that guilt is one of the strongest beliefs that is driving human behavior in our country, whether we realize it or not. The left is dominated by guilt, or at least the people that follow the. Follow the left. What do I mean by guilt? Well, guilt is a feeling, somebody mostly irrational, that what you have or where you are is not something you Earned. Now that might be the case, but to all of a sudden feel a need to repatriate or redistribute your position or your resources because of that, and then with it society's resources is immoral. Why not open the borders? Well, if you feel that your position in life is not worthy or not earned, then why wouldn't you want to open the borders to the entire third world? Now mind you, that disregards that your position is probably largely in part because of a sacrifice somebody else made in some other generation so that you might be able to live quiet and peaceable lives. I truly believe that our inability to explain the wealth that we have, the position that we have in our country, our inability to communicate our values, is this constant guilt ridden campaign to try to pay penance and assuage ourselves of a not in the stomach that many upper middle class white liberals feel every single day. Maybe they didn't sacrifice to be where they are. Maybe they didn't actually have to work to go drive around in Range Rovers in Paradise Valley and be able to lecture other people about how good of people they are. And we see this in this recent ridiculous advertisement in the New York Times. Remember, I read the New York Times so you don't have to. This advertisement in the New York Times says we stand for democracy. And it is this double page, full page ad of corporations, people and even nonprofits that say that they are opposing Georgia's voter law. This is a mixture of power hungry zealots and self righteous activists, but most importantly, guilt ridden wealthy people. One thing I love about the Christian ethic and one of the few things I love about Ayn Rand's objectivist philosophy is its de emphasis on guilt. I think that if you take the Randian ethic too far, obviously you get to a place of just materialism and self indulgence. However, I do appreciate some of her literature. I think it's very interesting. I think the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. As far as an individual challenging a power structure and what it means to be daring and take risk, I really enjoy it from a narrative standpoint. I don't endorse it as a worldview. Obviously I'm a Christian. But one thing that Christianity and Objectivism has in common, which again this is a nuanced view that very few people will ever tell you, is that they say why would you feel guilty for what you have? Did you steal it? Did you do something immoral to get it? If you did not do something immoral to get what you have, then why would you feel guilty? Well, it was given to me. Well, if it was given to you, did that person sacrifice for it? Did that person wake up at 5am and go to bed at midnight so that you might be able to live a good life? And what are you? Maybe you are lacking purpose and you're trying to take away other people's purpose so you can feel good. So this two page advertisement in the New York Times is a list of corporations, CEOs and celebrities that are deciding to say, look how good of a person I am. This says we stand for democracy. A government of the people, by the people. This is an Alinsky tactic. Use the language of the enemy against them. Use the symbology. That's not the right word. Use the symbols. That's all I have to say, right? Use the symbols or the themes of us against us. Now we've talked about this many times. We are not a democracy. And that's the one piece of, that's the one edit I give towards Tucker Carlson every time he says that. Because we're not a democracy. So here's what they only say democracy 19 times here. We stand for democracy. It says here in the New York Times. However, regardless of our political affiliations, we believe the foundation of our electoral process rests upon the ability for each of us to to cast our ballots for the candidate of our choice. How is that not something we believe? What kind of strange posturing, gaslighting, do the people who have signed this garbage think that we actually believe? You see, we believe in the right to vote so much. We want to make sure that our votes are not being shredded, that illegals are not voting, and that our votes are not being diluted by a broken process. Which is why we support the Georgia election law. So in case you need a refresher of the companies you shouldn't buy products from. And by the way, we're working on our Buycott page on charliekirk.com so you'll be able to find the products that you should actually support. Here's who signs it. Accenture, aig, Airbnb, Alphabet, Amazon. Big surprise. American Airlines, American Express, Apple, Bain Company, bank of America, Berkshire Partners, Best Buy, Biogen, BlackRock, BMC Software, Boston Consulting Group, Cambridge Associates, Cisco, Civic Entertainment Group, Climb Credit, Cowboy Ventures, Dell Technologies, Deloitte. Of course, Deloitte has done more damage shipping jobs overseas and making tons of money than any of their company in the last couple decades. Dropbox, SD, Lauter, Eventbrite, Ernst Young, Facebook, of course, Ferrara, FirstMark Capital, Ford Motor Company, General Catalyst, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, Harry's Inc. Hess, IBM, Insight Partners, Leadership, Instacart, J&J, JetBlue, Levi Strauss, which is an anti American denim import company that makes Wuhan rich and America poor. Never buy Levi jeans. I can get in that later. Lyft, Mt MNT Bank, Mastercard, McKinsey Co. Merck, Microsoft Corporation, Netflix, Nordstrom's Paper Source, PayPal, Peloton, Pinterest, Plaid, PwC, Reddit, Bizarre Co Signer, REI, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Smith Company, Sodexo, Sonos. No longer buying Sonos speakers, that's for sure. Square, Starbucks, Survey Monkey, T. Rowe Price, Target, Tory Burch, TripAdvisor, Twilio, Twitter, Under Armour, United Airlines, UTA, Vanguard, Viacom, CBS, Wells Fargo, Zendesk and Zolo. And then there's an entire list of celebrities from Queen Latifah, who's a talentless hack, and Gwyneth Paltrow and many others. Amy Schumer. Yeah, Amy Schumer is the Plato of our time, right? You must understand Plato's Republic pales in comparison to the wisdom of Amy Schumer. Aristotle trembles in the shadows of Amy Schumer. I hope you all understand that. I read this list I left. Demi Lovato, George Lucas. What a fall from grace that guy has had. This is a two page, a multimillion dollar advertisement. And who is it written? Who is it paid for this two page advertisement in the New York Times? Which is. We feel guilty. Follow us. We're a good person. It's actually paid for by my least favorite type of person in public commentary right now. Paid by a bunch of people. But the first name is someone that I actually wrote glowingly about for years because I thought this person actually believed in the American system because she was such a beneficiary of it. Her name is Ursula Burns. You might not know that name. I've known this name for years. She's a black woman who was raised by a single mother in a New York City housing project. Her parents were Panamanian immigrants and she was born in poverty. Of poverty. I used this example for years as someone who grew up in rags, started as an intern at Xerox and went all the way up to the CEO of Xerox. She's a black woman. That's someone who grew up with nothing. But the American system afforded this black daughter of immigrants, of a single mother a life of luxury because she earned it. So now Ursula Burns is taking out double page ads in the New York Times, intentionally gaslighting and attacking a very vanilla Georgia law. Ursula Burns also says, quote, when it comes to police brutality, this is a woman who has actually done it. So now we have to be lectured by people like Oprah, Taha, Nisi, Coates, Patrisse, Cullors, Khan, all of which have tens of millions of dollars of net worth, Oprah, billions of dollars that you can't succeed in the country, Black America, you don't understand. Focus on your circumstances more than on yourself. We're all victims. Meanwhile, Ursula Burns and Oprah Winfrey, two black women, can fly around the planet on their global expresses and their Gulfstream jets. Spare me the swan song. Here's what she says. Ursula Byrne, the New York Times, of course, writes this. Ursula Burns says, despite being a successful black CEO, she says, quote, unquote, I dress like the 1%, I drive like the 1%, I wear watches and jewelry like the 1%, she says, but, quote, I worry every day if a policeman is near me. They look at me as first and foremost a threat to their place in society. How do you know that, Ursula Burns? And by the way, if police officers were the problem, how are you able to succeed in America? How is a black woman who grew up in a housing project a daughter of an immigrant to single mother? How are you able to become the CEO of Xerox, you ungrateful activist? Only in America could you do that. Ursula Burns, why don't you go move to the highly racist country of Germany and go try to become CEO of Mercedes Benz? Please, Ursula Burns, tell me how that works out. Why don't you go to France and go try to become the CEO of Louis Vuitton? Go tell me how that one works out. You think a black woman could become CEO of Louis Vuitton in France? Go try another country. Only in America could someone as ungrateful as Ursula Burns take out a double page, afford to take out a $400,000 ad in the New York Times and then go lecture the rest of us? And here's what bothers me the most. I don't care that she's lecturing us because I don't listen to her. What I care is that other black people are seeing what she has to say and they're playing into this victimhood narrative. Tahanese Coates has a pessimistic view of black society. You know what she said? Ursula Burns says? Police cracking down violently on protesters. I'm sorry, you mean rioters and terrorists attacking police officers. She said, quote, it is the scariest moment I've ever Been in my entire life. Okay, Ursula Burns, why don't you go back to where you were raised in Brooklyn. Go back. Go spend a year in downtown New York without police presence. Tell me how that one works. And go wear your watches to. No, no, no. You're probably live in Greenwich, Connecticut or Malibu or on the 70th floor of some apartment complex in downtown Manhattan. And so now Ursula Burns is part of what I call a victimhood industrial complex in our country. And it bothers me because her message should be the opposite. Her message should be, you know what? I became CEO of Xerox because I had delayed gratification. I learned how to read. I had a wonderful mother. I believe in education, opportunity. You know what? Now her big push is now she says, quote, corporate America have generally not distinguished themselves as moral leaders. Quote, they generally have gone along with the flow. And for a time that's all we expected them to do. Their responsibility to their shareholders. Then how did you become CEO Ursula Burns? If Xerox was so racist, how did you become? By the way, she was a terrible CEO. She screwed up the company. But if how did you become CEO of Xerox? How did you become a leader in corporate America? If America was so systemically racist, how did you as a daughter of immigrants become worth tens of millions of dollars? Same for Oprah, same for Patrisse Cullors. You know what the moral of the story is? Only in America could race baiting grifters like these people actually become somewhat of a success. In America. There's a marketplace for everyone, including self righteous activists like Ursula Burns. We're a bad example to black Americans and a bad example to the rest of us. Email us your questions. Freedom@charliekirk.com if you want to support us, it's charliekirk.com support. God bless you. Speak to you soon.