Ep. 1819 - "I Forgive Him": Over 100 Million View Charlie Kirk's Memorial

Hundreds of thousands of people, including virtually the entire U.S.

government, turned up to Phoenix for Charlie Kirk's memorial, which was one of the most remarkable events I've ever seen, much less attended.

Charlie's widow, Erica, gave one of the most powerful speeches I've ever heard in my life.

Not any of these statements has even a hint of hyperbole.

We will get into all of it, including the most significant aspect of an already remarkable memorial: namely that the top leaders of our nation, which started out Christian,

which started out Christian, but which has become quite secular and even hostile to Christianity, and the faith of our founding for at least my entire life, spent five hours proclaiming the gospel.

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I'm now in Minneapolis.

I'm no longer in Phoenix.

I flew last night from Phoenix to Minneapolis because Charlie and I had an event at the University of Minneapolis today,

and the event will go on.

TPUSA said that the speaking tour will go on.

I thought that was the right decision.

We will not let these people silence us.

So we'll be at what Charlie called the University of Mogadishu the last time that he and I were on air together.

We will now, of course, not be having a conversation between me and Charlie, but I will be having a conversation with the audience about Charlie, but we will also have an open discussion.

People who disagree can cut to the front front of the line.

That will be at the University of Minnesota tonight.

I'll just get right into

the biggest, most shocking news: the clip that broke the internet,

just the most soul-stirring moment many of us have seen in a very, very long time, which was when Charlie's widow, Erica, got up on the stage at the memorial yesterday

and forgave her husband's assassin.

Father, forgive them,

for they not know what they do.

That man,

that young man,

I forgive him.

I was sitting there with some of the toughest politicians in the world.

These are grown men who are not given to sappy sentiment or anything like that, I don't think there was a dry high in the house.

That was,

there were many such moments in Erica's speech when

even for those of us who are a little tough, a little jaded, you know, the water comes right to the eyes,

but that moment.

Even just seeing it again, even just thinking about it, brings tears back to the eyes.

That is a glimpse of Calvary.

That is a woman living out her Christian faith.

And there's a big misunderstanding, I think, about what this means, especially in our secular culture.

We used to be a Christian nation.

We used to understand what that meant.

Now we live in a secular culture.

Most people don't even understand what it means to forgive your enemies, to love your enemies.

A lot of people think that forgiving your enemies means you just let them off the hook.

Erica Kirk forgave that man yesterday.

If he is convicted, the state of Utah will inject him with poison until he's dead.

Both of those things are true.

Forgiving your enemies

is

something that we're called to do because vengeance belongs to the Lord.

Vengeance is mine, says the Lord, and I will repay.

When we have a personal enemy and when we hate our personal enemies,

then

we

find ourselves falling into sin because we are commanded by our Lord to love our enemies and because because charity is a theological virtue.

We all sin, we all fall short of the glory of God.

Our Lord commands us to pray, the Our Father prayer, to

ask our Father to forgive us our sins as we forgive those who trespass against us.

So, inasmuch as we forgive the trespasses that others commit against us, so too our Lord will forgive our sins.

That's the personal side of things.

Justice

remains.

The civil authority still doesn't bear the sword in vain.

The government is there, appointed by God, for our own good.

That is true also.

And so when we forgive

our

personal enemies,

the common good, the political matter, the question of justice remains.

And

even that is for the person's own good.

I mean, this is also where people misunderstand what it means to love your enemies.

Because we in our modern culture think that love is just some happy, clappy thing where, you know, you hold hands or you write each other poems.

But that's not it.

You have a warm and fuzzy feeling.

That's not what love is.

Love has a precise definition.

Love is willing the good of the other.

So when Erica says, I forgive this man, what she's saying is, I don't want to...

I don't want to torture you until you're dead.

I don't want to inflict as much pain on you as possible just to try to vent my frustration because that won't do anything.

And it's just a very practical matter.

That won't do anything.

Eventually that guy will die and it won't matter and then you will have been contorted into a darkened will that is bereft of love.

So it doesn't really hurt the other guy all that much and it does hurt you.

This actually relates to what we were discussing last week from Plato's Gorgias,

which is his treatise on

justice, one of his treatises on justice, but a treatise on how we deal with criminals, how it's, in fact, how it is better for the criminal to be punished than for the criminal to get off the hook.

It's better even for the criminal.

So when we will the good of the other, as in the case of this assassin, we're saying, look, I don't want to

torture you.

I don't want to...

I don't hate you.

I don't will the opposite of your good, which we cannot do.

That would be sinful for us.

I will your good.

And in the case of this killer, the state of Utah says that what is good for the killer is to face capital punishment.

And I agree with that.

What is good for the killer, what is good for society to protect society from the killer is for the person to be killed.

What is good for future people who might be considering a political assassination is to see that the political assassins are killed.

But also what is good for the killer.

Because as Dr.

Johnson says, depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he's to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

There are people, there have been many people who have been in prison, who have been on death row, who are looking at the gallows and saying, well, I have to get my life in order.

I have to convert.

That is good for that person's soul.

So there's no contradiction whatsoever.

That was an amazing example yesterday of Christian charity.

And in Christian charity,

you see even more clearly justice.

One last point on Erica.

When she said that, notice everyone in the stadium stood up.

This shows you the political divide.

The left is trying to both sides this.

Leftists keep killing us.

They keep targeting us.

They keep killing us with political violence, widespread political violence like BLM, targeted political violence like the assassination of Charlie Kirk, sexually deviant political violence like the many shootings of trans-identifying people by trans-identifying people against non-trans-identifying people, and the religious violence, the consistent attacks on Christians.

You are seeing very, very large-scale political violence coming from the left.

And how does the right respond?

We pray for their good.

We forgive them.

We forgive them as a personal matter.

We need justice.

We need a greater enactment of justice, but we forgive them as a personal matter.

Of course, on the flip side,

you see the opposite.

You see conservatives and Christians doing ordinary things.

In fact, doing and

stating matters of virtue.

I believe in marriage.

I don't think a man can become a woman.

I think nations should have borders.

Just normal kind of stuff.

And how does the left react?

I think criminals should be arrested, for example.

And how does the left react?

The left reacts by rioting and murdering and robbing and looting and all the rest of it.

The difference could not be more stark.

And this is very fitting for Charlie because Charlie was a man of stark contrasts.

Not that he himself,

he was pretty clear.

He was a Boy Scout, he was a Christian, he didn't drink, he didn't smoke, he was pretty clear.

Didn't go to school, somehow founded the biggest youth organization, campus organization in the country.

But he painted a stark picture of the world.

Said, there's truth and there's falsehood.

You should pick truth, not falsehood.

There's good and there's bad.

And you should do the good stuff and not the bad stuff.

It's very, very clear, very helpful, because clarity is charity.

And in this case, it's clear.

If yesterday's memorial didn't show it to you with

the cultural right and

the political right, obviously, the whole top of the government, if that didn't show it to you, I don't know what will.

No one is good, no, not one.

But if you're looking as a political matter at which side is the good side and which side is the bad side, that's the good side.

And the leftists and the radicals and the sexual ideologues and the deviants and the violent people, that's the bad side.

The choice is that simple.

The guys who in the political debates wear the red ties and the American flags, they're on the good side.

And the ones

with the weird imagery, yelling the weird things,

they're the bad side.

It's simple as that.

It really doesn't have to be much more complicated.

Now, speaking of that political order,

After Erica gives this amazing display of Christian charity, President Trump gets up there and he

apparently gives the alternative point of view, although it's more complicated than that.

We'll get to that one second.

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shows so beautifully how to love your enemies.

Here's what President Trump says.

Missionary with a noble spirit and a great, great purpose.

He did not hate his opponents.

He wanted

the best for them.

That's where I disagreed with Charlie.

I hate my opponent.

And I don't want the best for them.

I'm sorry.

I am sorry, Erica.

But now Erica can talk to me and the whole group, and maybe they can convince me that that's not right.

But I can't stand my opponent.

Charlie's angry.

Looking down.

He's angry at me now.

I loved this bit, and I know that's an unpopular view.

I loved this bit.

Some people hated it.

Trump's critics, of course, hated it.

But even I saw a lot of Christians hated this.

They said, Trump is preaching an anti-gospel.

This is the opposite of the message of Christ.

Pay more attention, folks.

You're not listening.

You didn't hear that.

Maybe, I don't know, maybe it's because I'm a New Yorker by birth and upbringing.

Maybe I speak this language a little bit better.

If your takeaway from President Trump's statement was this is contrary to the message of the gospel,

I don't know, you got to get the cotton out of your ears.

You misheard something.

What does he say?

He said in his eulogy to Charlie, where he's saying all the good things about Charlie, he says Charlie didn't hate his enemies.

He loved his enemies.

And then he goes off the cuff.

He says, and that's where I disagreed with Charlie, because me, I hate my enemies.

I hate them.

I don't wish what's best for them.

I wish what's worst for them.

And everyone laughs.

And then what does he say?

He says, but maybe Erica she can have a talking to with me.

And I know Charlie's looking down.

He's angry at me.

In other words, Charlie's in heaven.

His idea was the right idea.

What I do is the bad thing.

But it's very human.

And we all fall prey to these temptations because it's a fallen human nature.

And

me, I'm not as good as Charlie.

Charlie is the good one.

Erica is the good one.

Me, I'm not as good.

And they got to talk to me.

And I know, Charlie, I'm sorry.

I know you're angry with me.

Maybe I'll try to do better.

I'm just confessing to you that I hate my enemies.

That is a very Christian statement.

That is a deeply Christian statement.

And the people who misheard it, you just,

I don't know, you need a little levity or something.

G.K.

Chesterton said the angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.

What would have been dishonest, which would have been contrary to the Christian spirit, would be if Donald Trump got up there and he said, and I, too, like all the politicians, oh, and I love my enemies, holier than thou, pious, but it's not real.

For a lot of them, it's not real.

That would be a lie.

That would be contrary to the Christian spirit.

Some holier than thou kind of speech from someone who is personally depraved, that would be contrary to the Christian spirit.

Pretending you're so much better than you really are.

Trump, if anything, does the opposite.

He pretends to be a little worse than he is.

I don't think that he's a really bad guy.

But he goes out there.

Do you remember, I use use this example a lot.

He was asked if he was going to have a beer, I think for St.

Patty's Day or something.

He said, nah, I've never had a beer.

It's the only good thing you can say about me.

Can you imagine if I drank, I'd be the worst?

That's a statement of humility.

This is a statement of humility.

Yeah, hey, guys, I'm a human, and I hate my enemies.

I hate them.

I am tempted to hate them.

And I don't want to wish their best.

I wish they're, I hate them.

But I know that's wrong.

I'm telling you that's wrong.

What Charlie and Eric are doing are better.

That's why I'm saying Charlie's in heaven right now.

I got to do better.

Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner.

That's what he's saying.

He's making people laugh.

There's a little levity while he's doing it.

It's okay.

We can laugh.

Now,

there were so many good speeches yesterday.

I'm not going to be able to get to all of them.

Just a little...

a little smattering of what was said.

Stephen Miller, I thought,

gave a rousing political call, very much in the spirit of Charlie.

And Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, was very, very close with Charlie.

And

he did what he does best.

We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil.

They cannot imagine what they have awakened.

They cannot conceive of the army that they have arisen.

in all of us

because we stand for what is good, what is virtuous, what is noble.

And to those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to foment hatred against us, what do you have?

You have nothing.

You are nothing.

You are wickedness.

You are jealousy.

You are envy.

You are hatred.

You are nothing.

You can build nothing.

You can produce nothing.

You can create nothing.

We are the ones who build.

We are the ones who create.

We are the ones who lift up humanity.

You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk?

You have made him immortal.

You have immortalized Charlie Kirk.

And now millions will carry on his legacy.

I was sitting next to a guy, kind of a prominent person, so I'm not going to, I'm not going to say who it was.

He turns to me after Stephen's speech.

He goes, man,

the Jews really do the Old Testament better.

This guy was not, it was not Jewish.

He says, the Jews really do the Old Testament better.

That was bringing some fire, wasn't it?

And that line, we are the ones who build.

That's a line.

You could put that on a sign and put it over your office door.

We are the ones who build.

That's a line like in Breaking Bad, Walter White, I am the one who knocks.

We are the ones who build.

It's such a powerful line because it gives you a positive vision of the future and because it rings true.

The left destroys, the right builds.

That's just how it works.

That's how it's worked since the French Revolution.

French Revolution was the left, the atheists and the secularists who sat on the left side of the National Assembly, who burned down buildings and who slaughtered people, who chopped off people's heads, who destroyed the government, who attempted to destroy the church.

That's what they did.

And it was the right.

that builds.

It was the right.

It was the Christians and it was the defenders of the

government and civil society that would build the cathedrals and the palaces and the businesses and the statues and the everything.

That's really what it comes down to.

And it rang even truer because we were sitting there at TPUSA.

TPUSA, which is not just like a petition thing on the internet.

TPUSA, which is not just a group chat.

TPUSA, which is a massive, powerful organization that Charlie Kirk built.

A proper institution.

They really built that.

What the left usually does is goes into pre-existing institutions and destroys them.

The left goes in and takes over the universities or takes over movie studios or takes over big corporations and destroys them, eats away at them like termites in a wall.

What the right does, what Charlie certainly did with TPSA, is build something.

He goes, we're the ones who build, we're the ones who create.

This is another reason not to waste your time personally hating your enemies.

Forget about your enemies.

Let the civil authority deal with your enemies.

Leave vengeance to the Lord.

He will repay.

And their foot shall slide in due time.

You go build.

You go create.

That is a powerful message.

But the biggest portion of it to me,

the biggest takeaway, is that we saw something that none of us have seen in our lifetimes.

We saw the top levels of the government preaching preaching the gospel.

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Marco Rubio gets up there.

Secretary of State brings down the house.

His deep belief

that we were all created, every single one of us, before the beginning of time, by the hands of the God of the universe, an all-powerful God, who loved us and created us for the purpose of living with Him in eternity.

But then sin entered the world and separated us from our Creator.

And so God took on the form of a man and came down and lived among us.

And he suffered like men.

And he died like a man.

But on the third day, he rose unlike any mortal man.

And then,

and to prove any doubters wrong, he ate with his disciples so they could see and they touched his wounds.

He didn't rise as a ghost or as a spirit, but his flesh.

And then he rose to the heaven, but he promised he would return.

And he will.

And when he returns, because he took on that death, because he carried that cross, we were freed from the sin that separated us from him.

And when he returns, there will be a new heaven and a new earth, and we will all be together, and we are going to have a great reunion there again with Charlie and all the people we love.

Thank you, and God bless you.

Absolutely beautiful.

And for everyone who's blackpilling and who's all doom and gloom all the time and says our country is over and the West has fallen and all, how do you make sense of that?

Our nation was founded by people who called themselves pilgrims and then was developed by people who said that we would be a model of Christian charity and then was founded in the late 18th century by people who said that we are endowed by our Creator with certain rights.

And then in our national anthem, we hear the phrase, Conquer we must, when our cause is just, and this be our motto in God is our trust.

Then we put in God we trust on our money.

And then

by the middle to the late 20th century, we start taking all that stuff away.

And we pretend that there's some firm separation between church and state.

We pretend that religion is no longer permitted in the public square.

We pretend that we can never know anything about religious truth.

We can pretend that

the government has to be practically atheist.

That was a recent invention in American history.

And what we saw yesterday

was a little closer to what it used to be like.

And that's a beautiful thing.

I know there are going to be some people, obviously on the left, who hate God, but people on the right who,

or I don't know, they're a little squishy, they're under the sway of liberal ideology, who say, I don't want my government officials talking about religion.

Okay, well, what do you want them talking about?

This is not just any religion.

We're talking about the Christian religion, the Christian religion which says, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

What would you like them to say?

In politics, you have to have some idea.

In politics, you have to be motivated by some kind of spirit, by some kind of ideology, at least.

You have to have some view of morality, because the law is just practical morality.

You have to have some conception of justice.

Justice is what the government does.

So which one would you prefer?

You don't like the love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you religion.

You don't like the one that says that

if you believe in Christ, you will have everlasting life.

You don't want that religion of hope and faith and charity.

Which one would you prefer?

The religion of if it feels good, do it?

The religion of make as much money as you can and then hoard it?

The religion of do weird sex stuff so long as it tickles you?

The religion of go out and get yours and forget about everybody else?

The religion of don't have any kids and let your whole civilization die off?

Which religion do you want?

Because for me, I think that broadly speaking, the men who settled this continent, the men who founded our early projects in colonial government, the men who founded our country in the late 18th century, the men who built our country, I think they broadly speaking had it right.

And I think that this modern religion that sought to supplant that has been a disaster, has led to a lot of degradation.

And I think this could be, forgive the phrase this really could be a turning point a turning point back in the right direction

because if you as C.S Lewis says if you go in the wrong direction the first guy to turn around and start walking backward is the most progressive person he's the most forward-thinking person last point on on

Charlie's memorial speeches J.D.

Vance gives gives a really practical call for the people in that room and the some hundred million people around the country who were streaming.

It is better to die a young man in this world than to sell your soul for an easy life with no purpose, no risk, no love, and no truth.

Christ told us in the Gospel of John, I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace.

In the world, you will have tribulation.

But take heart, I have overcome the world.

This is what's bothering a lot of us.

It's bothering me.

I'll be totally transparent about it.

We think, man, Charlie was so young, and he had so much.

He had this beautiful wife, these beautiful children, all of this influence, this big organization, plenty of money.

He had so much,

and now it's gone.

Ah, if only he played it a little safer.

If only he'd been a little bit more timid, not quite so brash, not quite so ambitious, not quite so courageous.

Then

he'd still have all that stuff.

And J.D.

says, what are you talking about?

He says, it is much better to die a young man than to live some aimless, pointless life of comfort.

We're all going to die eventually.

In the scope of eternity, what's 31 versus 71 versus 91?

The question is, what is life for?

And the Baltimore Catechism gives us a good answer to this.

The purpose of life is to know God and love him and to serve him in this world and enjoy him forever in eternity.

That's the purpose of life.

People sometimes joke, I say, what's the purpose of life?

Of 48?

I don't know.

What's the purpose?

Oh, it's this question.

We have to scratch our heads.

It's not actually that complicated a question.

The practicality of how to do those things

leads to some debate, I suppose.

But the answer is pretty simple, to know God.

We can know that God exists, merely as a matter of reason, though God then reveals himself and we have to do something with that.

We know that God exists, so therefore we need to love him, we need to serve him, and we want to enjoy him forever in heaven.

That gives a shape to your life.

That gives a shape to your life that is much closer to the shape of Charlie Kirk's life than it is to the shape of some couch potato doing nothing who typifies modernity.

Good, good advice.

And to see the top brass of the most powerful nation in the history of the world preaching the gospel to 100 million people live, many, many more in the days to come.

So cause for hope.

Okay,

another

lovely little aspect here, and this occurred about 11 feet from where I was sitting, President Trump and Elon Musk made up.

They came together.

Musk posted this picture of the two of them.

It says, for Charlie.

They get up there, they're sitting, they're talking.

It was beautiful to see.

Charlie brought people together.

He did a lot of things.

He broadcast, he published books, he did debates, he did this, he did that.

To me, the most impressive thing he did was bring people together.

And I'm not talking about kumbaya BS.

I'm talking about smart coalition building.

I'm talking about not bringing everybody together.

He didn't create a one-nation party of every single person on the left and the right where you don't stand for anything, you don't advance anything, you don't believe in anything.

No, no, no.

He built a right-wing coalition that was expansive enough to win elections.

Susie Wiles, chief of staff of the White House, said that Charlie made the winning difference in 2024.

He brought that together

in such a way that the coalition remained coherent and could actually pursue goals.

He did that.

And he did that yesterday.

He even brought Trump and Musk back together.

Musk, who then went on to recite the Lord's Prayer, at least part of it, he tweets that, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Wow.

Is Charlie going to turn Elon Musk into a Christian?

It could happen.

Stranger things have happened.

How powerful would that be?

Okay.

One thing that was floated during the memorial yesterday that we're waiting on now, and there will be an announcement momentarily, is that President Trump has apparently cured autism.

We didn't see that one coming.

It's going to be absolutely devastating for the online right.

Autism, I think, is actually a prerequisite for being part of the online right.

I kid, I kid.

Do I kid?

But

President Trump announced that the driver of autism, one of the drivers of autism, is not as many, I mean, I suppose it could be vaccines, but a lot of people think it's the vaccines, or it's this, or it's, I don't know, microplastics, or it's this, or that, or the other thing.

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Using Tylenol during pregnancy can contribute to autism risk.

So they will advise pregnant women only to use it, or the generic version, acetaminophen, for high fevers, according to two senior administration officials.

Those officials, granted anonymity, said that President Trump would also highlight

leucovorin, a cancer and anemia drug, as a potential therapy for people with autism.

So it's President Trump

and his administration not only finding one of the causes, if not the chief cause, of one of the

biggest public health problems to arise in recent decades, but also apparently a treatment for people who have autism.

And we joke about it, you know, that

many people today will say, oh, I'm autistic.

Oh, yeah, I'm a little spurgy, got a touch of the tism.

And it's a way to just excuse having eccentric personality traits.

But autism is actually a very terrible ailment to deal with.

It's a very, very difficult condition for the person suffering and also for the family of those people.

And so it is weird that the autism rates have spiked orders of magnitude in recent decades, and there has to be some cause for this.

And if the Trump administration identified the cause, that's just another feather in the cap and another way to confound his opponents because it means that President Trump's administration has achieved some of the greatest scientific progress in our lifetimes.

But all of these assumptions are just being overturned.

Here's another one.

The assumption that Democrats and the left are the party of kindness and warmth and peace, and of course not, they're burning the cities down, they're assassinating their opponents, they're cheering on the assassination of their opponents, all the rest of it.

And the left, they're the party of science.

Trump is anti-science.

He's defunding Harvard.

Yeah, he's defunding Harvard and curing autism.

I don't know.

Isn't that

a reminder that the political divide in this country is not really all that complicated.

It's not, as it may have been in years past, about weighing pros and cons.

Well, I like this from the Republicans, but I like that from the Democrats.

And there's a little give and a take.

And I don't.

It's like, are you on the side of child-abusing, Satan-worshiping, politically violent terrorists?

Or are you on the side of the people who forgive their enemies, pray for those who persecute them, discover scientific inventions,

build things, create things, arrest the criminals, criminals, and give you a flourishing society.

Which side are you on?

To me, it's not that hard.

It's not to say that the Democrats are pure evil.

It's not to say that the Republicans are perfect.

Certainly neither of those things are true, but like, come on, guys.

Come on.

He cured autism.

That's crazy.

Tonight, I was supposed to join Charlie Kirk on his American Comeback Tour at the University of Minneapolis.

We were going to have a conversation, open it up for Q ⁇ A.

Obviously, that will not happen after his murder 12 days ago.

The tour will continue.

The left thought that they could silence Charlie Kirk, that they could stop him and the movement that they've built.

They will not even succeed at stopping his speaking tour.

We'll be there.

Now I will be doing the event solo.

It will be a tribute to Charlie.

And then we will have the open Q ⁇ A.

And we will have conversations, and people who disagree can still cut to the front of the line.

You can watch it all live, Daily Wire Plus.

Watch every minute from Minneapolis, 7.15 p.m.

Eastern, Daily Wire Plus.

Okay,

even this,

and then we'll move on, even this has a Charlie connection to it because RFK Jr., last week when J.D.

Vance was hosting Charlie's show,

RFK Jr.

credited Charlie with him even taking this job.

You know what the transition is like.

You never kind of know what's going to happen.

And he was a critical ally for me in calling President Trump.

And at first, you know, when President Trump asked me whether I wanted this job, I was tentative.

I didn't know whether I wanted to handle the Medicaid and Medicare portion, which is the biggest, you know, economic BMF.

Sure.

And he really persuaded me that I should do it.

And then he helped me not only making calls to the president himself, but telling me people that I should call

operating strategic.

Even this, even in this,

Bobby Kennedy's been on a jihad to cure autism and prevent autism for decades now.

And he's Trump's HHS secretary.

Now they might have cured autism.

We'll find out.

Even that, Charlie Kirk was instrumental in that.

Without Charlie Kirk, that might not have happened.

Shows you what one man can do, even a young kid, even a kid 18 years old, two days after graduating high school.

Before we get to the membrane segmentum, one more story, because we've only talked about the right really today.

We've focused on the right.

Gavin Newsom on the left is showing you what our political opponents are up to right now.

Gavin Newsom, amid this period of national mourning as right-wingers are facing threats of assassination, actual assassination, the celebration of right-wing assassinations from the left, from the mainstream left even, while all this is going on, Gavin Newsom, governor of California, decides that he is going to pass a law to prevent ICE agents from covering their faces with masks.

Now, this is really, really rich coming from Gavin Newsom.

Gavin Newsom forced two-year-olds to wear masks for no reason, totally contrary to medical necessity during COVID, for years.

Forced little two-year-olds on airplanes to wear masks.

Last time I checked, last time I lived there, and I was one of his constituents, Gavin Newsom loved masks.

Now he doesn't like masks.

He doesn't like masks when it's federal agents who are arresting criminals, cartel members, illegal aliens wearing masks.

Why are they wearing masks in the first place?

They're wearing masks to cover up their identities because they're dealing with very, very bad ombres.

They're dealing with people who are connected to the cartels.

They're dealing with gangsters.

They're dealing with criminals.

They're dealing with radical leftists.

And actually, I don't know which is worse, Trende Aragua or the purple-haired leftists.

I don't know which is more violent and presents the greater threat.

They're both very violent against people who are pursuing justice.

And so the agents are wearing the masks.

And Gavin Newsom is saying you can't wear the masks

in order to threaten them.

That's the only explanation I can see.

We know Newsom loves masks.

He's a big fan of masks in the first place.

So what is it about these masks?

The masks to prevent doxing, the masks to prevent identification, the masks to prevent harassment and the harassment of these people's families.

Those are the ones that have to go.

It's so tone deaf.

It's so threatening.

Here's what he had to say.

Unmarked cars, people unmasks, people quite literally disappearing, no due process, no rights.

This is a disgrace.

This is an outrage.

What we have allowed to happen in this country.

To ICE, unmasked.

What are you afraid of?

What are you afraid of?

We're afraid of Mexican gangsters and you people murdering us because that's what you do.

Not a servile kind of fear.

It's called prudence.

Kevin Newsom wore masks for years

because of the nonsense COVID regulations.

But

what are you guys afraid of?

Even that is so taunting.

It's so clear what he's saying.

He's saying, we're going to kill you.

Either the Mexican gangsters are going to kill you, or the Venezuelan gangsters are going to kill you, or the leftists and the trans activists are going to kill you.

But some of them are going to kill you.

Show us who you are.

We want to go kill you.

Just like we tried to kill Brett Kavanaugh, just like we tried to kill Donald Trump, just like we did kill Charlie Kirk,

just like we killed dozens of people during the BLM riots, just like we threatened to kill other conservative speakers on campus, we want to kill you.

Take your masks down so we can kill you.

At this moment, when America has suffered the single most prominent political assassination in over half a century?

This is sick stuff.

He's a sick person, Gavin Newsom.

He's a psycho is what he is.

I've called him American psycho.

He looks like it.

This is just the latest piece of evidence, evidence number 3,250,851,

that the mainstream left promotes political violence, the only thing this is for.

He can't even get away with it because of the supremacy clause.

Gavin Newsom, as the governor of California, cannot overrule federal regulations on how federal law enforcement does its job to enforce federal law.

He has no right to do that.

It's a complete joke.

Why?

All he's doing it for is to taunt them and to threaten them and to try to intimidate them.

You even hear it in his language.

What are you so afraid of?

What are you so afraid of, guys?

Come on, take your masks down.

What?

No, we're not going to kill you.

Are we?

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