WEBVTT - MAGA Abusing Charlie Kirk's Murder for Personal Gain 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:05.920 It is Tuesday, September sixteenth. This is the morning our 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:10.680 country it's in big trouble. Yesterday the American people were 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:15.440 witnessed to a disgrace without precedent. There are some things 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:17.479 that need to be said, and I will do my 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:22.400 best to say them clearly. Charlie Kirk, during his public ministry, 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:27.720 divided the United States. He humiliated and he degraded people. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.600 He did not stand for the proposition that we are 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:35.559 all created equal. He stood for the idea that some 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:40.640 are above others, more equal than others. And he went 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:46.600 about his business not trying to spread reason, not embracing dissent, 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:51.360 but engaged in a type of performance. Theerer that sought 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:55.160 to punch down. Charlie Kirk's legacy is not something that 0:00:55.280 --> 0:01:00.160 at the moment of his assassination was particularly interesting. It 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.560 was enough to deplore the killing, to say that it 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:07.480 has no place and a free in democratic society. That 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:12.399 the killer had no right to steal from Charlie Kirk's children, 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:17.160 from his wife, from his family, Charlie Kirk's life. It 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:21.560 was not his. The author of Charlie Kirk's life was 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:25.760 the supreme judge of the universe, not some hate filled 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:29.200 twenty two year old Charlie Kirk. When I look at 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:33.720 his life from the perspective of midlife, had many many years, 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.840 including in those years, was the possibility, from my perspective, 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.759 that he would have turned his perspectives around and seen 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.840 something that helped him grow up. But that was taken 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.160 away in an instant. And I'll say this, if I 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.240 had an employee and on their social media account in 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.480 public was celebrating the death of this young man, I 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:58.040 would fire them immediately because I wouldn't trust their judgment. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:02.240 I wouldn't trust their decency and their morality. I would 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:06.440 know that there was something broken within them. There is 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:10.720 no question that we live in an idiotized era that 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.360 is beyond the dimensions of most of us to be 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:19.240 able to articulate. The reaction to the Charlie Kirk assassination 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:25.079 proves this. When Charlie Kirk lived, he said what he believed, 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.160 and here is what he believed. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.120 For these blacks trying to go rob her happening all 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.200 the time in urban America. Prowling blacks go around for 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:35.639 fun to go target white people. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:36.320 That's a fact. 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.360 Black crime is a major issue in our country. Why 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.840 are you pushing criminal justice reform exactly? Joy Reid and 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:47.240 Michelle Obama and Shila Jackson Lee and Catangi Brown Jackson. 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.120 They're coming out and they're saying, I'm only here because 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.320 of affirmative action. We know you do not have the 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.280 brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:02.320 These quotes demonstrate what he believed and the things that 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:06.720 he believed, right down to the idea that empathy is 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:12.560 weakness should be deplored. And this pastor understands that. 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:18.959 Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated. But I'm 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:25.000 overwhelmed seeing the flags of the United States of America 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:31.840 at half staff, calling this nation to honor and venerate 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:37.560 a man who was an unapologetic racist, has spent all 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:42.400 of his life sowing seeds of division and hate, and 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:43.240 to this land. 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:49.640 Everybody in America should appreciate that two things can be 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:54.360 true at once. We have to condemn the violence, but 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:59.200 not at the point of threat on our knees in 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:04.760 submission and to the causes and ideas that Charlie Kirk's 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:10.960 life served, because those ideas were indecent. It is not 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.960 fair to impose on Charlie Kirk at the hour of 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:21.880 his death, responsibility for the actions of the living who 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:26.359 have sought to fundraise and profit off of his open casket, 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:32.000 have sought to assign blamed for his murder on every 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:37.040 person who opposes Donald Trump. The reaction of the Vice 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:41.440 President of the United States, it is terrible crime, demonstrates 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:47.080 his utter and absolute unfitness for high office. That he 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.800 is there is the result of a misjudgment of the 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:55.720 American people that will carry tragic consequences for our nation 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:57.560 for a very long time. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.120 So when you see someone celebrating charlie murder, call them 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.240 out in hell, call their employer. We don't believe in 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.880 political violence, but we do believe in civility, and there 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:12.880 is no civility in the celebration of political assassination. Get involved, 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.239 Get involved, Get involved. It's the best way to honor 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:17.200 Charlie's legacy. 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:21.720 The Attorney General of the United States is a buffoon 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:26.800 who is threatening the erasure of the free speech right, 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:31.359 as if the First Amendment doesn't exist, But it does. 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:36.039 Across the depth and breadth of the government. At the 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:42.600 hour of a man's death, in a premeditated and calculated campaign, 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:49.160 we have seen fascists seek to expand their political power, 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:54.240 and they have done so by making demands, by threatening, 0:05:54.600 --> 0:06:00.280 and using propaganda to intimidate. And every American should being 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.000 prepared to say enough is enough. 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.200 And while our side of the aisle certainly has its crazies, 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.760 it is a statistical fact that most of the lunatics 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:14.560 in American politics today are proud members of the far left. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:19.760 Charlie Kirk was a devisive figure of a fascist faction. 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.560 He is not a national hero, and it is inappropriate 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:28.000 to try to impose upon the nation him as one. 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:32.960 The ceremony in Yankee Stadium under the uniform number of 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:38.160 Jackie Robinson was a disgrace. Charlie Kirk embraced the philosophy 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.240 of the Yankee Ben Chapman. If you don't know who 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.520 Ben Chapman is, look him up and see what he 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.800 did to Jackie Robinson standing on the sidelines in a 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:54.039 Philly uniform. Charlie Kirk embraced a long running poison in 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:58.880 American life. Charlie Kirk denied an election result, which is 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:03.480 the keystone of American life. None of those things gave 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.880 that young man in Utah the right to kill him 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.320 to assassinate him. It was an attack on liberty in 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.720 this country. It was an attack on free speech. And 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:19.000 instead of de escalating the situation, and instead of making 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:23.800 an argument about liberty, an argument about free speech, what 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.440 we have seen from the Trump regime are threats from 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:32.400 fascists like Steven Miller, insanity from the FBI director, an 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:37.440 incompetent loom, a bug eye freak show, in competence from 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:42.920 the Attorney General, and more threats, threats everywhere. Here's the deal. 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:47.920 Many years ago, in Nazi Germany, there was a perfection 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:53.280 of the public mourning ritual, and no person personified it 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:57.080 more than a man named horse Vessel. What you're seeing 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:01.200 is something that is is un american, is anything that 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:05.560 has ever been witnessed. You are watching a fascist movement 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.560 try to cloak a member of their faction in the 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:16.280 national cloth, in the American flag, trying to impose upon 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:21.520 the nation the idea that the appropriate response to a 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:26.120 murder is the seizure of political power and the stifling 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:32.360 of dissent lest there be more violence. By incredibly, the 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:38.040 people making the argument are the chief instigators of political violence. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.880 On a ten year basis, bar none and against any 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.640 standard in American history. There has never been a political 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:50.760 leadership that is called more consistently, more often for violence 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:55.679 than has the MAGA leadership. When we meet our creator, 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.560 we will all be judged, And in that moment of judgment, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.120 what is said about us here whom I'm matter at all? 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:07.000 Charlie Kirk deserves to have a long life, and it 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.440 was cut short in an act of terrible malevolence and 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:15.040 violence and evil and hate. But it is deeply unfair 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:20.040 to involve Charlie Kirk into debate that has raged in 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.240 the world that he is no longer a part of 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:26.440 the world that exists after his death, the world in 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:30.880 which his absence from it has become the springboard a 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:38.120 rationale for mass murder, concentration camps in prison meant professional 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:43.440 obliteration for anybody who dared to disagree with such hateful 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.480 notions as the fact that Donald Trump lost the election 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:51.520 in twenty twenty. This madness, all of it, must be rejected. 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:56.920 I want to share with you a brilliant eulogy by 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:01.880 the Reverend Jesse Jackson of the American I Jackie Robinson. 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:06.200 Watch it, appreciate it, and know this In the end 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.520 what we do with our time here does not get 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:13.880 washed away at the moment of our expiration. The record stands. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:18.200 Jackie Robinson's life was about justice, and there should never 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.960 be a baseball stadium in America where a crowd of 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:27.160 baseball fans and baseball players from all over the world 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.480 are made to salute an idea that is poisonous, that 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:36.120 is obnoxious and steeped in the racial arrogance that has 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.720 hurt and harmed and killed so many. Still within the 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:45.360 living lifetime of so many watch this and contemplated. 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:49.439 Today, we must balance the tears of some with the 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:56.280 tears of joy, nix the bitter with the suite death 0:10:56.320 --> 0:11:03.120 and life. Jackie has a in history. Was a rock 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:11.280 in the wall, creating concentric circles and ripples of new possibility. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:16.720 He was medicine. He was immunized by God from catching 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.760 the diseases that he thought. The Lord's arms of protection 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:26.120 enabled him to go through dangers seen and unseen, and 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:32.439 he had the capacity to wear glory with grace. Jack's 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:37.760 body was a temple of God, an instrument of peace. 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:44.640 We would watch him disappear into nothingness and stand back 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:50.960 as spectators and watch the suffering from a far the 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:56.040 mercy of God, antercepted this process. Tuesday, he committed him 0:11:56.120 --> 0:12:02.280 to steal away home where referees out of place. Only 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.480 the stream of judge of the universe. 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:08.640 Speaks, And I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.800 invite you to join this community where I promise to 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.720 be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening in 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:20.320 this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.680 this channel and on substack. Thank you.