Charlie Kirk Q&A: From January 6th to Animal Rights

[00:00] hello hello uh my name is Dominic Mr

[00:02] Kirk it's lovely to have this

[00:04] conversation with you uh in the interest

[00:06] in the interest of time I have three

[00:07] questions for you and it has to do with

[00:09] January 6th okay so the first question

[00:12] is do you acknowledge or believe that

[00:15] Trump incited uh violence no no okay do

[00:19] you acknowledge that Trump waited 187

[00:22] minutes before he said anything to the

[00:24] protesters home that's debated yeah okay

[00:27] because remember the instructions he

[00:29] gave were to peaceful and patriotically

[00:30] March sure but he also said to the

[00:33] protesters uh the speech I think it was

[00:36] at the oval or I can't remember what it

[00:37] was specifically but he also said make

[00:39] your voice heard is what he said right

[00:40] but he also said to fight like hell

[00:41] you're going to lose your country right

[00:42] but I think we both agree time out kamla

[00:45] Harris's phrase right now is when we

[00:46] fight we win so fight is a open-ended

[00:49] term do we agree with that sure yeah

[00:51] okay KLA Harris litered the DNC had a

[00:52] big thing that said when we fight we win

[00:54] so telling somebody to fight we

[00:56] shouldn't that's a little bit Ticky Tech

[00:59] right

[01:00] sure yeah I would say they're different

[01:02] contextual but just you can't you can't

[01:04] emphasize that word but third third

[01:05] question on that you had third question

[01:07] um do you acknowledge that many of

[01:08] Trump's staffers uh including Donald

[01:10] Trump Jr were begging him during those

[01:12] three hours to stop call off the protest

[01:14] or stop the riot I don't know that

[01:15] that's that's going to come out I I

[01:17] don't think so though okay all right

[01:18] well thank you thank you very much

[01:20] appreciate it yes ma'am thank you yeah

[01:22] thank you yes yes okay do you mind if I

[01:26] film uh without a doubt all right all

[01:30] right all right um Camas everywhere so

[01:32] yeah it's a pleasure to meet you Mr Kirk

[01:33] would you sign this for me really quick

[01:35] okay great yes what is this is this a

[01:38] it's the poster from your booth oh is

[01:40] that right yeah

[01:41] yeah go ahead all right um okay sorry I

[01:47] signed G P's face all right thank you so

[01:49] much thank you

[01:50] so great I just have one question for

[01:53] you um would you mind answering um what

[01:54] is your thought on the new Minecraft

[01:56] movie

[01:58] trailer no idea what you're talking

[01:59] about thank you that's it thank you next

[02:02] question you're not even a good troll

[02:04] next question thank you Mr Kirk thank

[02:06] you first I'll start with the fact that

[02:08] I don't agree with affirmative action I

[02:10] agree it's kind of wrong try to talk

[02:12] right into the mic um so I have a

[02:16] question about the underlying issues

[02:17] that the other girl mentioned the um

[02:19] socioeconomic statuses of different

[02:21] people from different groups and I just

[02:24] wanted to ask you why you think that

[02:25] issue that underlying issue is still a

[02:28] problem in America and how we should

[02:29] solve it biggest issue is lack of

[02:30] fathers and no one wants to talk about

[02:32] it so let's take the black community 75%

[02:34] of black youth will grow up without a

[02:36] father

[02:37] around and that we have spent trillions

[02:39] tens of trillions of dollars on social

[02:41] welfare program it's not a matter of

[02:42] stuff it's not a matter of having access

[02:45] to care from welfare to housing Urban

[02:47] Development to Medicaid we have we've

[02:49] spent more money on the Great Society

[02:52] project than ever it's a matter of

[02:54] values and if you do not have a strong

[02:56] father around uh imparting those values

[02:58] saying no and teaching discipline

[03:00] especially to young men then uh you're

[03:02] going to have a major cycle of violence

[03:04] and poverty and despair and so that's

[03:06] what makes us diff us as conservatives

[03:08] different than liberals they think it's

[03:10] a material problem they think oh just

[03:11] give more stuff and you're going to

[03:12] break out of poverty we've tried that

[03:14] since the 1960s Great Society we spent

[03:16] $25 trillion try to eradicate poverty

[03:18] and we have more poverty than before we

[03:20] started it's because we subsidized

[03:22] single motherhood and dads aren't around

[03:24] it's a major problem is there like a

[03:26] proven correlation to that like

[03:27] statistical record yeah absolutely I

[03:29] mean well first of all it's it's rather

[03:31] common sense right it's rather

[03:33] self-evident that if you don't have two

[03:34] parents around but every major study

[03:36] shows the Brookings institution is the

[03:38] best that's done this which shows that

[03:40] if you have a mother and a father around

[03:42] stable you are far more like far less

[03:44] likely to go to jail graduate from high

[03:46] school have a higher wage every possible

[03:49] um outcome that would be uh considered

[03:51] to be uh desirable all right thank you

[03:54] can I lean for a selfie yes we're at of

[03:56] hats I think yes next question um so I'm

[04:00] a gay conservative and I just want to

[04:02] kind of ask you like what do you have to

[04:04] say for people like me who kind of feel

[04:06] like I guess it's kind of hard for gay

[04:10] conservatives because there's not a lot

[04:11] of us so like what do you have to say to

[04:12] other gay people who who need to realize

[04:14] like they do have a choice like yeah

[04:17] first of all welcome to the conservative

[04:18] movement but I want to be clear um I

[04:20] don't agree with your lifestyle and I

[04:21] don't think you should introduce

[04:22] yourself just based on your your sexual

[04:24] attraction I like that's not who you are

[04:26] I like to be thought of as a person and

[04:28] for sure I'm not I think you're actually

[04:30] way more interesting based on your your

[04:32] sexual Tendencies right so I think we

[04:34] should get away from this idea that your

[04:36] identity is based on your bedroom

[04:37] Behavior yes I you have a you you you

[04:40] are a complete human being and I'm sure

[04:41] you treat people well and you're

[04:43] studying something so I want to get away

[04:45] with this idea that you're gay anything

[04:48] right first you should say I'm a

[04:49] conservative I also have you know same

[04:51] seex attraction that's fine I just think

[04:52] that we have gone a long way in the

[04:54] negative direction of this country where

[04:55] we act as if the most important part of

[04:57] your identity is what you do in the

[05:00] bedroom it doesn't mean that much to me

[05:02] but if you ask from a perspective as a

[05:04] Christian and conservative I I I don't

[05:06] agree with that lifestyle but politics

[05:08] is about addition and multiplication I

[05:09] imagine you agree with a lot of what we

[05:11] talk about right strong borders strong

[05:13] country and for that you know we we

[05:15] welcome you into the conservative

[05:16] movement thank you could could I get a

[05:18] hat yes you can absolutely yes yes oh

[05:20] hey Charlie I'm talking yeah um so I saw

[05:24] on a video the other day so a little kid

[05:25] came up to you and he said oh I heard

[05:27] you said that the Civil Rights bill

[05:28] should and I was just kind of wondering

[05:30] and then you said no I said it was a

[05:32] mistake I was just kind of wondering if

[05:33] you could maybe taken out of context or

[05:35] maybe no I just didn't want to debate a

[05:36] 12-year-old of DNC honestly was the time

[05:39] like it was 12 and he was super sweet

[05:42] and super nice like I'm not going to

[05:43] debate you like Michael lell ended up

[05:44] debating him it was a disaster so um

[05:47] yeah look very clear of course we needed

[05:48] to end evil segregation the way we did

[05:50] it was with a wide ranging over-the-top

[05:54] bill called the Civil Rights Act that

[05:56] has now created the prerequisite of what

[05:58] we now call woke and so so for example

[06:00] the Civil Rights Act is now being used

[06:02] to shut down people's business if they

[06:04] have a certain belief on uh one man one

[06:07] woman marriage saying that that is

[06:08] discrimination under the Civil Rights

[06:09] Act so of course my perspective is it

[06:11] should be illegal to actively

[06:12] discriminate against somebody based on

[06:14] their skin color that's not what the

[06:15] Civil Rights Act only did though that's

[06:17] one portion of the Civil Rights Act

[06:18] there's nine or 10 components that

[06:20] people don't even recognize or realize

[06:22] that effectively created this massive

[06:25] anti-racist anti-racist is the term the

[06:27] left use uses uh monstrosity that is now

[06:31] being used for things that it was never

[06:33] intended for including affirmative

[06:35] action and and what's like can you name

[06:37] a maybe a few specific cases where

[06:38] people have cited

[06:40] like doesn't relate to Great ex great

[06:43] question so Merrick Garland recently the

[06:45] the Attorney General of the United

[06:46] States recently said that North Carolina

[06:50] and Georgia cannot have voter ID laws so

[06:53] asking somebody to provide

[06:54] identification when they vote because

[06:56] it's a violation of the Civil Rights

[06:58] Act because they say that it

[07:00] disproportionately impacts black

[07:02] Americans so the issue with the Civil

[07:04] Rights Act is um is not just the not

[07:09] just the action of being of racially

[07:12] segregating or of being uh racially

[07:15] insensitive or to somebody it is the

[07:17] impact so if it impacts a certain group

[07:20] therefore it's also then called illegal

[07:22] under the Civil Rights Act does that

[07:23] make sense yeah so it most certainly

[07:25] wasn't wasn't a mistake though well of

[07:27] course it was a mistake The Way It Was

[07:28] Written the intent was not though okay

[07:30] but at the time of course it was not a

[07:33] mistake yes it was the the way that it

[07:34] was written what people have used it for

[07:36] now maybe yes but back then it wasn't a

[07:38] mistake though because no but you have

[07:39] to judge the law as it is now right so

[07:42] it's like saying well the law might have

[07:44] been good 20 years ago okay but so you

[07:46] did say oh I'm against discrimination

[07:48] but I don't think the Civil Rights bill

[07:49] should have be signed so one provision I

[07:51] think should have been passed so one

[07:53] provision but it should you're saying it

[07:54] should have been like like should have

[07:56] been Whitted down and it should have

[07:57] been this massive over ing uh

[08:01] monstrosity okay okay thank you thank

[08:03] you appreciate it yes yes sir um so

[08:06] first off I'm a republican voting for

[08:07] trump super excited about that but there

[08:10] is a obviously a huge issue in the

[08:12] country with health care

[08:14] prices and I know Trump had the

[08:16] transparency uh uh executive order but

[08:20] what do you think is the best way to

[08:22] lower costs for families yeah I mean

[08:25] this is huge first of all you just have

[08:26] to lower inflation more broadly that's

[08:28] number one number two you have to go

[08:29] after the hospital Lobby uh where the

[08:31] hospitals are gouging prices

[08:33] significantly um number three this is

[08:35] why I'm wearing the make America Health

[08:36] the make America healthy shirt um we

[08:39] have to try to get at the root cause

[08:41] which is the food that we are feeding

[08:43] ourselves and our kids we have to we

[08:45] have to get to the fact that we are an

[08:47] increasingly sedentary country we aren't

[08:49] walking enough we're not exercising

[08:51] enough and health care costs are

[08:53] exploding because we don't actually

[08:55] address the root cause 20 or 30 years

[08:57] prior how do we how do we take those

[09:00] huge food companies well the first thing

[09:01] is we should have a real conversation

[09:02] about banning pesticides in when we're

[09:04] making our food um Ultra ultr processed

[09:07] food ultr processed food should not be

[09:09] on the FDA recommended food pyramid

[09:12] right this is why I love Bobby Kennedy

[09:14] coming and joining teams with Donald

[09:16] Trump is that it's his life mission to

[09:18] make America healthier we have a chronic

[09:20] disease epidemic half of all America's

[09:22] kids are chronically obese or overweight

[09:25] in Japan it is 3% it's not because our

[09:28] kids are lazier it's because we are

[09:30] actively poisoning our kids with food

[09:33] from Big A that is that we're spraying

[09:36] with all these pesticides these

[09:37] chemicals and if you look at the

[09:38] ingredient list of just a Lunchables box

[09:41] we we are basically giving kids the

[09:42] worst thing possible for their

[09:43] metabolism for their Endocrinology so

[09:46] that I I'm more interested in a

[09:48] healthcare conversation that tries to

[09:49] make sure that a 12-year-old doesn't

[09:52] have to get on OIC by the time they're

[09:53] 18 years old and just so you know

[09:55] they're giving pediatric OIC now for 12

[09:58] and 13 year olds they are they're now

[10:00] treating obesity as a genetic disorder

[10:03] that you cannot do anything about and

[10:05] they just want a 12-year-old to now have

[10:07] to take a shot every week to try to curb

[10:09] their obesity which has all other sorts

[10:10] of very very negative Health

[10:12] implications so um every day potentially

[10:15] right and so so how do we solve that

[10:18] well my personal Crusade we have to blow

[10:21] up the food pyramid that we have way too

[10:23] many carbohydrates in our diet not

[10:25] enough healthy fats and not enough

[10:27] protein whoever made that was obviously

[10:29] ly bought by the big a companies and you

[10:31] should just say I'm not going to have

[10:32] any more high fructose corn syrup I'm

[10:34] not going to have any more processed

[10:35] sugars and if there are ingredience I

[10:37] can't pronounce I should resist it and

[10:39] in the ideal we should have a government

[10:41] that promotes the question did God make

[10:43] it or did man make it have more foods

[10:45] every day that God made more so than

[10:47] what man made and you'll be a lot

[10:49] healthier because of it so thank you

[10:50] very much appreciate it thank you can I

[10:53] get yeah wearing on

[10:55] campus for a Republican party that

[10:58] Prides itself on person responsibility

[11:00] protecting the sentient unborn and free

[11:02] markets I was curious your thoughts on

[11:05] animal rights just because the

[11:07] government subsidizes animal agriculture

[11:09] far more than fruits and vegetables and

[11:11] plant foods which inhibits the free

[11:13] market and ends up slaughtering lots of

[11:15] animals and animals are also sentient

[11:17] beings like The Unborn so I was curious

[11:19] your thoughts on all of that yeah so the

[11:22] question is first is an animal a

[11:24] human no okay so does it therefore have

[11:27] rights I mean we all already have rights

[11:30] for animals for dogs cats and even for

[11:32] some but do you get First Amendment

[11:33] protections for your dog does can your

[11:35] dog own a firearm right no no of course

[11:37] not so it's it's not the same thing as a

[11:39] human I'm not saying now as a Christian

[11:42] we're also not allowed to torture or to

[11:45] slaughter that's in the noic Covenant

[11:47] and repeatedly out the scriptures we

[11:48] must be Humane in our treatment of

[11:50] animals but as far I don't know where

[11:52] you're coming out from this perspective

[11:53] but some people would say that animals

[11:56] and humans are on the same moral plane I

[11:58] don't think that's what you're saying

[11:59] right um however there is a push though

[12:03] to say that we should no longer eat meat

[12:05] because it's bad for the life of animals

[12:08] we should do what's best for human

[12:09] beings first and foremost and it's good

[12:12] for human beings to eat meat it's good

[12:13] for human beings to be able to eat

[12:14] animals it's good for human beings to

[12:16] not just eat Pro like this synthetic

[12:19] fake meat that Bill Gates wants to make

[12:20] all day long um and so yeah we where do

[12:23] I stand on animal rights I mean I don't

[12:25] think any living being should be

[12:27] tortured or should be cruy treed um at

[12:30] the same time we should always do what's

[12:32] best for human beings and human beings

[12:33] first so for example when there's an

[12:34] environmental question the question

[12:36] should first be what is best for the

[12:38] human species not what's best for you

[12:40] know the trees or for the the snake

[12:43] those things are important but it's more

[12:44] important about uh for humans does that

[12:46] answer your question or in part is okay

[12:47] if I follow yeah I mean in terms of what

[12:50] rights we give to animals of course we

[12:51] wouldn't give animals the right to drive

[12:53] a car vote because it's not relevant to

[12:55] them but the rights that would be

[12:56] relevant to them are basic negative

[12:57] rights the right not to be treated or

[12:59] killed and we already have that for cats

[13:01] and dogs and even cruelty laws on farm

[13:03] animals well well we're allowed to kill

[13:04] dogs that's not true we have kill

[13:06] shelters for dogs right we also kill

[13:08] dogs that bite their owners and dogs

[13:09] with rabies right so if a human being

[13:11] gets rabies what do we

[13:13] do we we treat the human if a dog gets

[13:16] rabies unless there's like a miraculous

[13:19] treatment which there usually isn't

[13:20] right so you're right the negative

[13:22] rights we do have rights to be able to

[13:24] for better for worse because we do not

[13:26] treat dogs and cats as the same moral

[13:29] level because we as human beings have a

[13:31] soul we have reason we have the ability

[13:33] to make sense of the natural world dogs

[13:35] do not right dogs only have senses they

[13:38] do not have reason and so for example a

[13:41] dog cannot tell that it's a dog it now

[13:43] there's some disagreement about that but

[13:45] we as human beings can make sense in the

[13:47] natural world we are the speaking beings

[13:48] to to say differently but no no animal

[13:50] should be mistreated but to say that

[13:53] animals are not allowed to be killed

[13:55] would be therefore an argument against

[13:56] meat correct right yeah

[13:59] andu against right that's very unpopular

[14:02] probably at you know W Madison to get

[14:04] rid of bacon right so just guessing yeah

[14:07] yeah and I mean the reason I'm I'm

[14:09] bringing this up ultimately is these

[14:12] animals that we kill on factory farms we

[14:14] kill them pigs in gas Chambers we ground

[14:17] up male chicks alive for the egg

[14:19] industry because only the female hens

[14:20] lay eggs all these different things is

[14:22] because we view animals on not having

[14:26] enough rights to actually protect their

[14:28] livelihood I'm making an argument that

[14:30] we shouldn't obviously give animals

[14:31] rights that aren't relevant to them yeah

[14:35] if if you were a dictator would you say

[14:37] we cannot kill pigs no I think that

[14:40] should be left up to the free market the

[14:41] reason I'm concerned about it is the

[14:43] government is spending billions of

[14:45] dollars yeah I I I think factory farming

[14:47] has a lot of problems more because of

[14:49] the health of the human that eats the

[14:50] meat less than about the animal because

[14:53] it's just not as good for uh the human

[14:55] so thank you real quick do you think

[14:57] ultimately that Republican party that is

[15:00] pro- free market should be propping up

[15:02] billions of dollars towards subsidies

[15:04] for I'm not a huge subsidy fan of things

[15:06] that make people fat and unhealthy so

[15:07] would you if you were in a voting

[15:08] position either if you were an elected

[15:10] leader would you vote against and should

[15:11] Republicans vote against that I'm not in

[15:13] a voting position but yeah I I would

[15:15] advocate for I advocate against most of

[15:17] our current agricultural subsidies for

[15:19] sure okay thank you thank you