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How do you make a citizenry that is used to being able to speak its mind? Obey you intimidate them. You put on a menacing aesthetic. You single out the dissidents, you publicly humiliate them. You see, this pattern has already been happening for the last couple of years. This idea of singling out people that say things that they do not like is nothing new. One of the guiding believes and truths that we have here on the Charlie Kirk show is what happens on college campuses does not stay on college campuses. It will export itself and then manifest itself in many different ways. We are seeing now what's happening with the United States military is very similar to tactics that were used at Harvard University, Stanford or UC Berkeley in the last couple years, all the way in the highest levels of the United States military. I got a terrific email yesterday from a veteran who said he didn't exactly agree with some of our analysis earlier in the week when it came to pregnant women in the military. But he was very thoughtful about it and very respectful. But he made a very good point. He made a point that in the United States military, the reason why it's becoming so liberal, so woke, so social justice oriented, is that the people who are making the decisions, the officers, almost all of them have been college educated, is that the officers, the ones that are making the consequential decisions in the military, they have graduated from these indoctrination factories. Few of them have actually seen legitimate combat. And they have very, very few of them actually started as being enlisted members of the military and then working their way up. And so you start to see this throughout every level of the ultimate force that our country has. Where are the Republicans speaking out against this? You see, Republicans are very quick to go send out a press release saying they want to go repeal the estate tax, which is okay. We want billionaires to pay less in tax. I'm all for that. Republicans are trying to pass a massive amnesty bill that Senator Rick Scott Republicans are trying to pass a gun grabbing, gun confiscation bill. But this is not policy. This is not even a piece of legislation. What's happening here is a slow yet and subtle, Not just an agenda, but a campaign to show the rest of the country that if you speak out in a certain way, we are going to come after you using the ultimate level of force imaginable. You see, this entire belief is rooted in totalitarianism. Donald Trump completely changed the game. He changed the game in many different ways, but he was such a different type of leader. He called out the plunder and the fraud and the theft of the ruling class in such broad, vivid, transparent and public terms that the Democrats have permanently lost patience. They never want to be out of power again. They're not going to be out of power again. In their own political calculus. So now they are resorting to medieval style 20th century dictator tactics. We take over the United States military and we use it as an intimidation force against American conservatives. So what can you possibly do about this? Number one, hopefully your representatives, your congress people and your senators can start to realize what's actually happening here. You see, after the FBI spied on Donald Trump, they launched a soft coup against Trump. The Department of Justice justice spied on Cheryl Atkinson, which never got any coverage. Andrew McCabe, James Comey, Peter Struck, Lee, Lisa Page, they all got off on all of it. The highest levels of our Justice Department were weaponized against Donald Trump and his movement. We know what they're willing to do on that front. We now see what they're willing to do with the military. You see, Democrats view everything that they control as an extension of their long term power goals. Conservatives, to our credit, we tend to be much more fair minded and skeptical about using power for our own political purposes. This is why it's so disappointing to see certain Republicans want to all of a sudden pass massive gun control legislation. So the first thing that can be done is we have to get much noisier. It's my first complaint. You see, I got my start in the Tea Party movement. I was a sophomore in high school when I started to see inspiring stories of patriotic Americans take to the streets, plan rallies, mobilize, pent up frustration. Andrew Breitbart, the great Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, they led a voice to all of this. It was a noisy, patriot focused movement. And everything that you're seeing right now, whether you realize it or not, from Marjorie Taylor Greene, getting visited by the National Guard members, which, just so you were clear, is so unprecedented, outrageous. It's hard for me to even tell you the significance of that, that a congresswoman gets visited by National Guard members for a PR Internet stunt. Whoa. If that's not a muscle flex saying, hey, we have the guns and you don't sit down, obey and shut up. I don't know what is. To Tucker Carlson and the DoD, to the permanent occupation of our capital. All of that ties in to a broader goal and objective, which is they learned their lesson from 2010. They do not want another Tea Party movement. The Democrats plan right now is we're gonna have universal vote by mail, register all the prisoners to vote, get everyone in the voter rolls, illegal or not, a ballot, fund it all with the US taxpayer, and then we are going to intimidate the entire country through humiliation, through forced obedience to vote for us and the People that don't and the people that speak out, like Tucker Carlson, like this program right here, we are going to make them miserable in every way possible. We have to get noisier. We are. This is the quietest I have ever seen the conservative movement since I got my start 11 years ago. There is not enough outrage out there. And I'm not one just to say that we should have outrage for no reason. I understand that people right now are a little bit depressed. I understand that people right now are a little bit uncertain about the next proper course of action. I understand all of that. But when you have the military, you have HR1 being passed and the best we can do is send out a couple angry tweets. We need to start mass mobilizations, peaceful, of course, to show our disdain and disgust for all of this. And one positive amongst this entire trend is what's happening in California. More of what's happening in California. Governor Gavin Newsom, in one of the most liberal states in the country, the the largest state in the country, is likely going to face a recall. Over 2 million people have signed the petition. They needed 1.5 million signatures. He's already saying that white supremacists are behind it and it's a Republican recall. He's saying all the things that we would anticipate him to say. But God bless the California conservatives, many of whom I know that are not giving up and they are playing offense against an incumbent Democrat power structure. That's exactly what we need to do. California is leading the way right now. We have never seen this level of infringement of our freedoms and liberties as, as we have seen today. And the military component is not just troubling, it's not just worrisome. It is a game changer. It shows that they are willing to use maximum ultimate totalitarian dictator style force. It's just a matter of when, not if. Mobilize the National Guard from Guam to go visit Marjorie Taylor Greene. Could you imagine if Donald Trump mobilized the National Guard to go visit Nancy Pelosi or Alexandria Ocasio Cortez? It would be the front page of the New York Times. You know what's on the front page of the New York Times? The key to safe classrooms. Open the windows. Oh, really? So we could have opened the schools if we just opened the windows last May? That's the front page of the New York Times today. Not the fact that our Capitol is under perpetual occupation. Could you imagine if Donald Trump called in the national military after the BLM Incorporated insurrection riots that legitimately happened In Portland, when he called federal agents into Portland, they were called jackbooted thugs and they were told to leave immediately. What's the difference? Well, there is no difference. Democrats haven't changed their mind. The only difference is that they're the ones on the balcony in the military parade. And, and we're the ones that are afraid in our basements that the military is going to come knocking on the door, intimidate us and tell us to obey. And that is not an exaggeration. This moment right now, this is still in flux. This has not been made permanent. And I can't say this any more clearly. If we do not speak out right now, history tells us what comes next is really bad. The Democrats have convinced themselves that they're just not on the moral high ground. But the use of the United States military, the use of ultimate force, the use of the people that can send Tomahawk missiles halfway across the planet, the people that have the keys to nuclear weapons, the people that have B52 bombers, the people that have unmanned drone reconnaissance, they're the ones that are now the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party. Forget antifa, they have the Marines. And if we do not speak out against it right now, the Praetorian Guard will come for you next. Who is in charge in this country? Is it the citizens or is it the rulers? It's supposed to be the citizens. It's supposed to be the people, the sovereign. On a local level, it's supposed to be the taxpayers and for the education of our children. Education comes from a Latin term to lead forth. It's supposed to be parents. Parents are supposed to lead forth their children. Well, as the military is engaging in a psychological operation to tell you to sit down and shut up. The real damage that's happening long term is what's happening with critical race theory in our schools. We broke on our program last week what's happening in the suburbs of Chicago, where I grew up. We broke that in Naperville, Illinois, which used to be a Republican collar county, which is now a far left wing place. Naperville School District 203, they brought in a bigot, Dina Simmons, to teach all the white kids in the school district that they're racist just for being white, which is an incredibly racist thing to teach. In response to this, Dan Bridges, who is the superintendent of Naperville School District 203, quadrupled down. And he says we will not be intimidated in our school district by parents telling us what to do. And he said that we will not tolerate hateful comments and threats. No one is threatening you. And if they are, it's a very isolated example. I guarantee you the parents of Naperville 203 are not threatening you. Okay? While everyone is entitled to their own opinions, threats to the safety of our staff and presenters will never be tolerated. This is exactly the same playbook that Pelosi and the National Guard deploying Democrats are using. Don't actually talk about the issue and say that you're constantly under threat. Well, guess what? We all get death threats. It's part of the game. I don't endorse it. I get plenty of them. Don't use that as a reason not to have a debate or an argument. Instead, Dan Bridges basically has said that who's the head of Naperville Schools District 203, that critical race theory is going to be the norm of curriculum in the suburbs of Chicago. The politics is now going to be all within this teaching of our kids at Naperville North High School and all of the formerly great schools in the suburbs of Chicago. Critical race theory is being implemented in every major school system in the country. And I understand why parents are not fighting back. It goes back to what I talked about all throughout the hour. The Democrats are flexing their political muscle. They are showing you and telling you in more ways than one, we're in charge. You aren't. And if you cross the Rubicon, if you cross the line, we will destroy you. We will demolish you. We will punish you. We will humiliate you. And that threat is very real. We call this cancel culture. But it's more than that. This is junta culture. This is. We have the tanks, we have the drones, both literally with the US Military and figuratively and metaphorically. We control what companies can hire your children. We control what social media companies you can go on. We control what platforms you can consume information. And if you cross this line, you might not have a drone that will shoot a missile at you, but you might lose your Facebook page. You might not have a member of the US Military knock down your door yet, but your child might not get into college. And that entire culture of fear, intimidation, the psychology behind it, is what's driving the entire body politic in our country right now. The fear of discourse, the fear of dialogue. And they have all of us in a place of submission. Let me tell you the greatest compliment and the most depressing compliment I get every day. Charlie, thank you for saying what I cannot say. It's wonderful to hear. It's also depressing to hear why can't you say this? It's because metaphorically, the military represents and also literally, what's happening in the country. We're in charge. We occupy the country. And there is a soft totalitarianism to all of it. So what do we do about it? We're going to build that out even more. But it's very simple. Until you have courage and you're willing to make noise and sacrifice for this, they will have won. It's that simple. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us your questions freedomarliekirk.com if you'd like to support us, go to charliekirk.com support thank you so much for listening, everybody. God bless. Speak to you soon. For more on many of these stories and news you can Trust, go to charliekirk.com.