The Charlie Kirk Show - Populism Explained and the REAL Root Causes of Spiking Crime Rates
Aired: 2021-02-02
Duration: 01:04:40

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk show.
[00:00:01]  What is the history of populism in our country?
[00:00:03]  Also, why are National Guard troops still in DC?
[00:00:07]  Did you know the crime rate is spiking dramatically?
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[00:02:18]  We are here on hopefully what will be a good week to be an American.
[00:02:23]  The month of January was tough for a variety of different reasons, as we have talked about in great detail, the Georgia runoffs, the Capitol tragedy, Joe Biden becoming president.
[00:02:33]  So here we are with a new month, and we are going to come after it with positivity and good spirit and optimism.
[00:02:39]  We are hoping that February is start of something new and good.
[00:02:45]  Some people are saying it's a slow news day.
[00:02:47]  There is a storm raging in the northeast of our country, which is so obviously Trump's fault.
[00:02:52]  So that's the end of that news story.
[00:02:54]  So anytime anything ever bad happens, it's definitely the guy in Florida that's golfing.
[00:02:58]  So it's his fault.
[00:03:00]  But I want to go deeper into kind of some of the themes that we're seeing here.
[00:03:04]  There's a couple stories I do want to hit on.
[00:03:06]  I want to talk about how more and more information goes to show that the people that were involved in the Capitol tragedy were actually not necessarily ideological.
[00:03:18]  In fact, a lot of them didn't even vote in the presidential election.
[00:03:21]  I want to get into that.
[00:03:22]  I also want to get into something that we started to build out last week, which is the growing populist rancor and backlash in our country.
[00:03:35]  What does it actually mean to be a populist?
[00:03:38]  Is being a populist a good thing or a bad thing?
[00:03:42]  Well, being a populist is not necessarily ideological in nature.
[00:03:48]  You could be a populist for good or a populist for bad.
[00:03:52]  Being a populist simply means that you are willing to suspend pre-existing ideological beliefs to try and do what is best for the people.
[00:04:04]  Now, that doesn't mean you have to eliminate those beliefs.
[00:04:07]  It doesn't mean you have to go against your beliefs.
[00:04:10]  But it also means that certain circumstances might challenge deeply held ideology.
[00:04:18]  Populist energy is one of the most powerful political forces a party, a person, a politician, or a movement can tap into.
[00:04:29]  There's been many different populist movements in American and world history.
[00:04:34]  Some people in the intelligentsia in Washington, D.C. act as if populist movements are nothing more than less than educated people that are trying to mobilize their grievances.
[00:04:50]  While some populist movements might fit into that box, that is not an accurate description of most American populist movements.
[00:05:01]  Some people in the intelligentsia in Washington, D.C., and both the Republican and the Democrat intelligentsia, are annoyed by these sorts of movements.
[00:05:10]  They're irritated by them.
[00:05:12]  They feel as if that the more the people are given a voice, the more it might actually jeopardize their current schemes.
[00:05:22]  And for that, they're actually right.
[00:05:25]  Liberals have not seized populist energy since Barack Obama in 2008.
[00:05:33]  Barack Obama won because of his charm and his charisma and his style and how smooth of a communicator he was.
[00:05:41]  But he also won because he happened to run in a moment of heightened populist energy where there was an anti-war movement, an anti-Wall Street movement, an anti-George W. Bush movement.
[00:05:58]  There were multiple institutional points of energy going against the institutions that were running our country in 2008.
[00:06:07]  The Tea Party movement, Occupy Wall Street movement, Trump and the Make America Great Again movement.
[00:06:12]  All of them were different manifestations of the same sorts of complaints.
[00:06:19]  The people in charge are not looking after the people that are being ruled.
[00:06:26]  We are angry.
[00:06:28]  Don't condescend us any longer.
[00:06:29]  Tell us the truth.
[00:06:31]  Things have got to change.
[00:06:35]  And if you look back at the history of American populism, probably the most important election that we can look to is the election of 1896 of President McKinley versus William Jennings Bryan.
[00:06:49]  William Jennings Bryan was probably the first American populist that we can point to.
[00:06:59]  He was only 36 years old when he ran for president, barely old enough to hold office.
[00:07:05]  And he saw America at a great moment of change.
[00:07:08]  He, of course, gave the very famous cross of gold speech and was a harsh critic against industrialization.
[00:07:15]  Now, he used that populist energy to usher in a lot of the mainstreaming of progressive reforms.
[00:07:24]  But basically, William Jennings Bryan in 1896 asked the question, how do you reform a country?
[00:07:32]  I believe we're in another moment similar to that that will be looked at like the era of 1896 to 1910.
[00:07:42]  Now, thankfully, we had Teddy Roosevelt become president.
[00:07:46]  He became president, actually by mistake.
[00:07:49]  He was vice president.
[00:07:51]  And I believe it was President McKinley who got shot.
[00:07:55]  And Teddy Roosevelt took office.
[00:07:57]  Now, Teddy Roosevelt was unafraid to embrace this people-centered energy while also condemning and rejecting Lenin-based socialism.
[00:08:09]  It wouldn't yet be Lenin-based socialism.
[00:08:12]  One of the main reasons why America remained free in the 20th century is because Teddy Roosevelt successfully transitioned us from the farms to the factories, holding some of what was called then the robber barons accountable without disintegrating the American culture.
[00:08:28]  He held the line.
[00:08:31]  These sort of massive economic transitions are not to be underestimated.
[00:08:37]  When you have 95% of a population that works on family farms, and then a decade later, you're telling them you're going to have to go work in the factories, you're going to have to leave the five generations that preceded you, what they did and what they built, there's going to be a little bit of disruption around that.
[00:08:58]  There's going to be a lot of economic dislocation.
[00:09:02]  Teddy Roosevelt gave people the confidence and the certainty that this transition will be managed.
[00:09:09]  This transition will still respect private property.
[00:09:13]  This transition will still respect entrepreneurship.
[00:09:16]  It will reject socialism and any of these wacky social Marxist movements, but also retain the American way of life.
[00:09:28]  Actually, William Jennings Bryan started something called the People's Party.
[00:09:31]  A lot of people are looking to start a new political party right now.
[00:09:35]  I kind of like the name the People's Party.
[00:09:37]  It sounds somewhat Marxist, but it doesn't have to be.
[00:09:41]  And basically, what William Jennings Bryan did, which was his longest-lasting legacy, that Teddy Roosevelt picked up and how it applies today, was he challenged the economic model of the new industrial era.
[00:09:53]  No different than 1896 to 1910, which was the era of economic reform that launched us into the 20th century, albeit at times with plenty of problems.
[00:10:04]  The People's Party got a lot wrong.
[00:10:07]  They wanted to get rid of the state legislatures appointing senators.
[00:10:12]  They brought in the direct election of senators.
[00:10:15]  However, we survived that transition.
[00:10:19]  Well, let me tell you right now, we're going through another transition that in some ways will be even more disruptive and have more economic dislocation than from the farms to the factories.
[00:10:31]  We are going from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy to a purely digital economy, which will disenfranchise and dislocate 150 million people.
[00:10:45]  If people had economic certainty, if people had belief in what's next to come, they would not be acting the way they are.
[00:10:58]  And so now, as we are in this moment of 2021 with a peacetime kleptocrat as president, Joe Biden, who is actually the first president in my lifetime to enter office and try and kill jobs, where he enters office and his goal is to actually get people unemployed.
[00:11:15]  It's a stunningly stupid way of governing a country.
[00:11:20]  I am now president.
[00:11:21]  How do I destroy jobs?
[00:11:24]  Where Joe Biden will be the Woodrow Wilson of this moment.
[00:11:32]  Have you noticed lately people seem increasingly irritated with the people in charge?
[00:11:43]  Now, that's not to say that's not anything new.
[00:11:45]  It's been happening for the last decade.
[00:11:47]  And that's, I think, how historians are going to categorize this decade right now: is the continual outrage from the people against the ruling class.
[00:11:57]  And while you're in that moment of history, it's hard to see that.
[00:12:00]  When you take a step back, you say, oh, wow, that really did define the last decade.
[00:12:05]  And the failure of our rulers to address that meaningfully or significantly.
[00:12:11]  A lot of people are asking the question: they're saying, What is the proper way then to view all of this pent-up energy?
[00:12:18]  Look, it could be used for good or it could be used for bad.
[00:12:22]  It could be used for reinvigorating our country around family creation, conservative values, and the American dream, or it can be used for something that is gaining steam in our country.
[00:12:38]  Which I heard someone say this on television the other day.
[00:12:40]  I don't know who said it.
[00:12:41]  Or it could be around building and strengthening the woke industrial complex.
[00:12:46]  I just love that term.
[00:12:48]  The military industrial complex, of course, is a term that was coined by President Dwight D. Eisenhower warning us against the forever war machine in our country.
[00:12:57]  But the woke industrial complex, they control our corporations, they control our colleges, they control universities, our means of communication, social media, every single part of American life.
[00:13:10]  And so, the danger of a people-centered movement, the danger of giving voice to previously disenfranchised working people is that they could embrace really, really bad ideas and they could be mobilized to destroy everything around us.
[00:13:29]  That is a valid concern.
[00:13:31]  It happens in countries all the time.
[00:13:33]  However, that critique assumes a false given.
[00:13:39]  That critique assumes the populist energy is going away.
[00:13:44]  That critique assumes that with the right op-eds and carefully crafted arguments, the 75 million people that are worried that their way of life and their economic condition will disappear are somehow going to want us in charge, and we can go back to the Chamber of Commerce way of ruling.
[00:14:05]  You see, our parents, when I was growing up in the 1990s and early 2000s, lived in a completely different economy than we live today.
[00:14:15]  We experienced the dot-com boom, the housing boom.
[00:14:19]  Jobs were abundant, wages were rising, and it was relatively easy to make not just a living, but make a stable life.
[00:14:29]  It's not to say it's impossible today, and I don't like the entire victimhood narrative that seeps in far too often.
[00:14:37]  However, we'd be fooling ourselves if we did not recognize that the economic conditions in 2021, especially the debt burden that is being carried by most young people, is totally different.
[00:14:53]  And since it's completely different, and we're now in that next transition phase economically, we went from the farms to the factories to corporate boardrooms to now what?
[00:15:04]  We're not really sure, but it's this quasi-digital technological economy that seems to reward whatever company owns the servers, the correct algorithms, and computer engineers.
[00:15:24]  Where the peacetime kleptocrats are wrong is they believe so firmly, they believe that they can make all of this anger go away.
[00:15:38]  They can make all this resentment go away.
[00:15:41]  Instead, address the concerns directly, tell the truth, take the concerns seriously, put together an agenda of public policy items that you know will make people's lives significantly better.
[00:15:59]  You take on the titans of big tech.
[00:16:01]  You secure our borders.
[00:16:03]  We tried doing that, and it came under such unbelievable opposition from people in both parties.
[00:16:07]  Now our borders are wide open.
[00:16:10]  The concerns are valid, and they're valid for a reason.
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[00:17:32]  I want to get to a story here from CNN of all places that really caught my attention as we were prepping for this week.
[00:17:40]  Quote, some arrested in Capitol Siege didn't vote in 2020.
[00:17:46]  It goes on to detail a couple people that stormed the Capitol, some of which, some of them stole some stuff or were carrying it, and they didn't vote.
[00:17:58]  There's a lot here to think about.
[00:18:00]  So I want you to imagine something.
[00:18:03]  You book a ticket to Washington, D.C. to go be part of the peaceful event at the ellipse, or maybe not.
[00:18:13]  This guy's dressed as an oathkeeper, paramilitary, whatever.
[00:18:17]  You go through all the logistics of that.
[00:18:21]  You then are so enthusiastic, allegedly, about the cause that you storm the Capitol, but you won't vote?
[00:18:32]  Well, this tells me one of two things.
[00:18:34]  The most important thing, and this is something that the media needs to now reference their own reporting, is that these were not necessarily ideological people.
[00:18:45]  That instead, some of them that were participating had their own motivations that were beyond politics.
[00:18:56]  Some of them were even wearing Trump hats and they didn't vote.
[00:19:00]  Others were posting Instagram pictures saying, I can't wait to tell my grandkids I was here.
[00:19:07]  They were just there for the Insta, okay?
[00:19:10]  They were just there for the social feed.
[00:19:13]  Other people, this one other guy posted a selfie and said, pepper spray really does wonders for your complexion.
[00:19:21]  Hashtag 1776.
[00:19:25]  And he's smiling.
[00:19:27]  I think it's a very interesting takeaway for one of two reasons.
[00:19:30]  Number one, this nuance now needs to be communicated that not every single person there was a Trump supporter.
[00:19:37]  They didn't even vote.
[00:19:39]  Number two, though, if they were a Trump supporter and they didn't vote, maybe instead of dressing up like Rambo and getting zip ties and running into the Capitol, maybe you should have just went and knocked on doors and become a precinct committeeman.
[00:19:57]  You want to effectuate change?
[00:20:00]  Don't go storm the Capitol like a paramilitary guy, like this one guy who's in the article, who didn't even go through the process of registering to vote or going to vote.
[00:20:12]  I think it tells us a lot in those two ways.
[00:20:16]  The president, the former president, Trump, is about to be impeached.
[00:20:21]  Legal briefs are due tomorrow from his team.
[00:20:26]  Next week, the impeachment proceedings will begin.
[00:20:31]  All around this idea that President Trump incited a mob.
[00:20:38]  I want you to watch, though, this very informative video from the Wall Street Journal that goes to show that there were already people pushing back and penetrating the police line while the president was still giving his remarks.
[00:20:51]  Play tape.
[00:20:52]  At around 12:50 p.m., while President Trump has taken the stage at a nearby rally, another live streamer captures the Proud Boys approaching the Capitol from the Northwest and encountering a small police presence behind a temporary barrier.
[00:21:15]  Proud Boys can be seen in the crowd.
[00:21:17]  Porter told the journal that he participated in a protest, not a riot, and that he did not enter the Capitol.
[00:21:23]  12:53.
[00:21:25]  That's why the president is just taking the stage, according to the Wall Street Journal.
[00:21:30]  They're already pushing back on police barricades.
[00:21:33]  So the beginning instigation, the first push against police, began while all the people were still at the crowd miles away.
[00:21:46]  That piece of evidence is awfully important as this narrative needs to be challenged.
[00:21:56]  The video goes on.
[00:21:57]  There's more parts of the video that goes to show that some of the Proud Boys were congregating on the east side of the Capitol very early.
[00:22:05]  And by the way, there's a couple of questions I have still at large about all of this.
[00:22:11]  Why has the pink hat woman not been arrested yet?
[00:22:14]  We have done, I think, more in-depth analysis of what happened that day than most shows, and the pink cat woman has still not yet been arrested.
[00:22:22]  Secondly, the other piece of information that shows that this was, no doubt, premeditated, the pipe bombs at the DNC and the RNC the night before.
[00:22:34]  And we have still not found the people that placed the pipe bombs at the DNC or the RNC the night before.
[00:22:41]  So while many people did get caught up in this for a variety of different reasons, the fact of the matter is that it is an inarguable fact that there were people that were coming to Washington, D.C. with the intent to try and blow something up, the pipe bombs, penetrate police lines, whatever it might be.
[00:23:05]  And the sheer volume of people actually made some of their goals and their ambitions more likely than not.
[00:23:15]  Now, I think we need to take a pause and ask ourselves the question: then why are there still National Guards people in Washington, D.C. with the numbers that they have?
[00:23:29]  There are 6,000 National Guards people, 25,000 were there near the inauguration.
[00:23:36]  Where they were on the date of this incident, I don't know.
[00:23:41]  And the issue that I think is the biggest takeaway of the current military occupation in Washington is that it creates an appearance of a police state, of a military state.
[00:23:59]  It makes people afraid, quite honestly.
[00:24:02]  And when people are afraid, they are easier to control.
[00:24:06]  And if you know the left and if you know the Democrat Party, you know they are always seeking control over the citizenry.
[00:24:15]  They are always seeking to be able to manipulate behavior and have themselves in power nearly perpetually.
[00:24:27]  And so the National Guard presence in Washington needs to be explained.
[00:24:36]  Thousands and thousands and thousands of military troops in our nation's capital.
[00:24:43]  And they say the reason is, well, it's because of what happened on January the 6th.
[00:24:47]  You need 5,000 troops to prevent that.
[00:24:50]  And where were the couple hundred troops?
[00:24:51]  Can we play that video again?
[00:24:53]  You want to see how thin the line was that they pushed through?
[00:24:59]  And I think that there needs to be a thorough series of questions of why was the police force that day so thin?
[00:25:10]  Why was it so sparse?
[00:25:11]  Play tape.
[00:25:12]  At around 12.50 p.m., while President Trump has taken the stage at a nearby rally, another live streamer captures the Proud Boys approaching the Capitol from the Northwest and encountering a small police presence behind a temporary barrier.
[00:25:34]  Proud Boys can be seen in the crowd.
[00:25:37]  Porter told the journal that he participated in a protest, not a riot, and that he did not enter the Capitol.
[00:25:43]  There is all but 10 or 15 police officers there with a very flimsy fence.
[00:25:50]  Now, maybe the National Guard and the permanent fencing that is being proposed is trying to create a narrative ahead of impeachment to show that there's still a great threat to our country.
[00:26:04]  Maybe that's why.
[00:26:05]  Congressman Lance Gooden said, quote, 7,000 National Guard troops will still be in D.C. in February.
[00:26:11]  Permanent fencing is being proposed around the Capitol.
[00:26:13]  Funny.
[00:26:13]  They want to build a wall around the Capitol, but not on our southern border.
[00:26:16]  Stunning.
[00:26:18]  Many security perimeters are still in place.
[00:26:21]  Where was all this protection for American businesses when their stores were looted for weeks last summer?
[00:26:26]  The answer is they don't care about that.
[00:26:29]  Additionally, isn't it interesting how the Democrats demand all of the people that protect them are armed?
[00:26:35]  Why don't they just have a bunch of social workers protecting the Capitol?
[00:26:40]  I love when the Democrats all of a sudden become the party of law and order.
[00:26:44]  Or they try to be.
[00:26:46]  We need to lock away these people that did this forever.
[00:26:48]  Well, look, I actually kind of agree in harsh sentencing when people commit violent acts, like when they kill police officers.
[00:26:56]  I totally agree.
[00:26:57]  But these are the very same Democrats like Kamala Harris, who created a bail fund, the Minnesota Freedom Fund she donated to.
[00:27:04]  She didn't create it.
[00:27:05]  She donated it to it to release criminals, many of whom were violent, from Minnesota jails after they burned down large parts of Minneapolis.
[00:27:18]  Senator Kennedy from Louisiana is asking this very same question.
[00:27:21]  Why are the National Guard troops still there?
[00:27:23]  Play tape.
[00:27:25]  We brought in National Guard troops to ensure that President Biden had a safe inauguration.
[00:27:30]  He did.
[00:27:31]  Inauguration is over.
[00:27:33]  But if you look around Capitol Hill, parts of it look like a scene from Mad Max.
[00:27:40]  I mean, there's razor wire, there's fences, there's barricades, they're Humvees, they're automatic weapons.
[00:27:46]  At one point, they had tanks.
[00:27:49]  A cynical person might surmise that the Democratic leadership with the news media is trying to send a message to the American people.
[00:27:58]  And that message might be: the Republicans couldn't keep you safe, but we, the Democrats, can.
[00:28:05]  That is the message.
[00:28:07]  But now that they have set the precedent of mobilizing the National Guard to try and solve problems, we need to ask ourselves the question: what other cities might need the National Guard?
[00:28:18]  How many more lives could be saved?
[00:28:20]  Or is the Capitol just more important than other parts of the country?
[00:28:25]  Maybe it is.
[00:28:25]  Maybe that's their argument.
[00:28:27]  Do you know how many people were shot last week in Chicago?
[00:28:32]  57.
[00:28:34]  Why has the National Guard not been called into Chicago?
[00:28:38]  Why is Joe Biden or Lori Lightfoot or Governor J.B. Pritzker, who might be America's worst governor, and I don't say that lightly.
[00:28:46]  Well, I wouldn't say anything lightly with J.B. Pritzker.
[00:28:49]  He's born on third and thought he hit a triple.
[00:28:52]  Why wouldn't we mobilize the National Guard?
[00:28:55]  Do you know that every two hours and 59 minutes, someone is wounded in the city of Chicago?
[00:29:01]  Do you know someone is murdered every 14 hours and two minutes in Chicago?
[00:29:06]  Just in January, Chicago saw an 86% increase in people shot and killed, a 43% increase in total homicides.
[00:29:19]  Just in 2020, Chicago saw a 51% increase in people shot and wounded, a 52% increase in total shot, 4,174 people total shot, with, get this, 792 homicides in Chicago.
[00:29:37]  Why is the National Guard not being called in to stop the slaughter in the streets of Democrat Chicago?
[00:29:42]  And before anyone starts blaming Republicans, I can't find a Republican in the city of Chicago.
[00:29:47]  Democrat city council, Democrat mayors, Democrat state representatives, Democrat congresspeople, and 792 homicides last year, 792.
[00:30:00]  Yet 500 Illinois National Guard people, where were they sent?
[00:30:05]  Where were the National Guardsmen sent?
[00:30:06]  Do you know?
[00:30:07]  To Washington, D.C.
[00:30:09]  And anytime Trump tried to send the National Guard into Chicago, people said, we don't need your help here.
[00:30:15]  Well, Mary Lori Lightfoot, you are overseeing one of the most inexplicable slaughters in American urban history.
[00:30:25]  But for Lori Lightfoot, don't worry.
[00:30:27]  She's more worried about transgender bathrooms and appeasing the Chicago teacher unions.
[00:30:33]  That's Lori Lightfoot's priority.
[00:30:35]  Or J.B. Pritzker is more worried about bailouts for the Hyatt Hotel fortune.
[00:30:41]  Oh, no.
[00:30:41]  J.B. Pritzker wanted to raise the taxes of Illinois workers that lost by 15 points in the state of Illinois.
[00:30:49]  When you have a tax increase that needs to get 60% and only gets 45%, you know something's changing in the state of Illinois.
[00:30:58]  But the bigger point is now we've set a precedent.
[00:31:01]  We've set a precedent that the National Guard can be deployed to go solve domestic problems.
[00:31:06]  I'm all for that.
[00:31:08]  If there is a clear, incredible threat against the United States Capitol, then deploy the National Guard.
[00:31:13]  Fine.
[00:31:14]  However, why would we not use the National Guard to go stop the slaughter in Chicago?
[00:31:20]  I could tell you the neighborhoods where it's happening.
[00:31:22]  I can tell you the areas that needs it.
[00:31:24]  Englewood and Garfield Park in particular.
[00:31:27]  Just in Englewood, There have been five homicides, 22 wounded.
[00:31:32]  In Garfield Park, six homicides, 17 wounded.
[00:31:35]  At Grand Crossing, four homicides, 17 wounded.
[00:31:38]  Austin neighborhood, Humboldt Park, North Lawndale.
[00:31:41]  And it goes down from there.
[00:31:42]  What we're talking about is about a 40-block radius.
[00:31:48]  The National Guard has proven they can now secure a 40-block radius.
[00:31:52]  The Chicago police are not capable of stopping the slaughter.
[00:31:55]  I'm just looking at the numbers.
[00:31:57]  It is inexcusable.
[00:31:59]  And people say, oh, it's just gang violence.
[00:32:01]  That's not correct, first of all.
[00:32:03]  Second of all, it's a really bad, it's a bad answer for anything.
[00:32:07]  But the Democrats don't actually care about mobilizing the National Guard to go actually help their own communities.
[00:32:13]  Instead, they'll use the National Guard in Washington, D.C. to prove a point.
[00:32:21]  We're in charge and you aren't.
[00:32:23]  Meanwhile, you have Democrat congressmen coming back to Chicago and they get the murder reports that show that 792 people were murdered in Chicago last year.
[00:32:35]  Make a third world country go into chaos.
[00:32:39]  But for Democrats, the National Guard is not to be used to go help our communities.
[00:32:43]  No, no, no, no.
[00:32:44]  It's to show that we're in control.
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[00:33:46]  2020 was the largest percentage increase in homicides in American history.
[00:33:53]  Murder was up nearly 37% in a sample of 57 large and medium cities, size cities.
[00:34:00]  Based on preliminary estimates, at least 2,000 more Americans, most of them black, were killed in 2020 than in 2019.
[00:34:09]  You would think that would be a heavy focus or primary focus for the ruling class media.
[00:34:18]  The local murder increases in 2020 were as following: 95% in Milwaukee, 78% in Louisville, 74% in Seattle, 72% in Minneapolis, 62% in New Orleans, and 58% in Atlanta.
[00:34:38]  A lot of people blame it just purely on the pandemic stress.
[00:34:41]  Do you not remember the defund the police narrative that swept our country for months?
[00:34:50]  And Minneapolis basically did defund their police.
[00:34:53]  One of the reasons why some of the police officers in Washington, D.C. at the Capitol tragedy did not have lethal weapons is because some of them were disarmed by Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C.
[00:35:09]  The largest increase in homicides in American history.
[00:35:14]  What we are heading towards will be one of the most violent decades in American history.
[00:35:21]  Why?
[00:35:22]  Massive wealth and income inequality is one reason because of the lockdowns and because of leaders that do not care about the well-being of their subjects.
[00:35:33]  A war on police officers and a war on law enforcement, and quite honestly, a war on the law in general.
[00:35:41]  And also an unmanaged transition from the corporate boardroom industrial economy to the digital economy.
[00:35:54]  When you have this much economic dislocation, when you have this much disruption, do not be surprised when murder rates and homicide rates skyrocket.
[00:36:07]  New York City is becoming a place that is completely unrecognizable.
[00:36:12]  Just some of my buddies in Chicago that I grew up with said they do not feel comfortable going to downtown Chicago.
[00:36:19]  They feel their car will almost assuredly be carjacked, or whatever is in their car will be stolen.
[00:36:29]  When I was in San Francisco, a year and a half ago, two years ago, parked on the side of the street, nice part of San Francisco, everything we had in there completely and totally stolen.
[00:36:41]  Windows smashed, all of our stuff stolen.
[00:36:45]  Do not be surprised when civil society starts to unravel when you attack every single core institution that keeps civil society together.
[00:36:57]  There's a lot of people that are condemning what happened on January the 6th, and they should.
[00:37:02]  One of them is AOC, who said that Ted Cruz tried to murder her.
[00:37:06]  She's never shy about taking an opportunity to engage in unrealistic hyperbole.
[00:37:14]  But what if I told you just a couple months ago, Alexandria Ecasio-Cortez was actually in favor of rioting and looting?
[00:37:24]  Quote, I believe injustice is a threat to the safety of all people.
[00:37:28]  Because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalized and marginalized, once someone doesn't have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot.
[00:37:37]  And it doesn't have to be that way.
[00:37:39]  By the way, I'm not even talking about Palestinians.
[00:37:41]  I'm talking about communities in poverty in the United States.
[00:37:44]  I'm talking about Latin America.
[00:37:46]  I'm talking about all over the world.
[00:37:49]  When she was asked to condemn the attack that was a domestic terror attack at the ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington, she refused to give an answer.
[00:37:59]  Do you remember when our ICE facility, our federal building, was attacked by Antifa?
[00:38:03]  How is that not an insurrection against our government?
[00:38:06]  It's a federal government building paid for by taxpayers.
[00:38:10]  The 69-year-old armed man killed by Washington State Police as he attacked a local ICE detention center Saturday, sent a manifesto to friends the day before the assault in which he wrote, I am Antifa, and was being lionized by members of the left-wing group as a martyr.
[00:38:25]  The group Seattle Anti-Fascist Action described a salient Wilhelm van Sprossen, Wilhelm von Sprossen, either a good Dutch or German name, a good friend and comrade, and quote, took a stand against the fascist detention center in Tacoma and became the martyr who gave his life in the struggle against fascism.
[00:38:49]  And AOC refused to condemn that.
[00:38:52]  Why wasn't the congressional baseball shooting deemed a terror attack?
[00:38:57]  He was inspired by Bernie Sanders.
[00:39:00]  He nearly killed Steve Scalise.
[00:39:02]  He shot at Rand Paul and many of the other congressional members.
[00:39:08]  Isn't it incredible how quickly we forgot about this incident?
[00:39:13]  It was in June of 2016 or 17.
[00:39:17]  A Bernie Sanders supporter comes to a congressional baseball practice with Rand Paul and other members of Congress and starts opening fire.
[00:39:26]  That was not considered a domestic terror threat, inspired by Bernie Sanders.
[00:39:33]  Now, some people say, well, Charlie, you're just engaging in whataboutism?
[00:39:38]  Well, I denounced all form of violence, and I always will.
[00:39:42]  But all of this is taking place in the context of the left validating violence for their own political purposes and means.
[00:39:50]  Madonna saying, I want to blow up the White House.
[00:39:55]  Every single person that burned cars and smashed windows and engaged in violence during the Trump inauguration were released with no charges.
[00:40:04]  None.
[00:40:06]  No jail time.
[00:40:07]  No prosecution.
[00:40:09]  No charges.
[00:40:11]  Do you remember that the Dayton, Ohio shooter was an Elizabeth Warren fan?
[00:40:18]  Remember how quickly that story left the news cycle?
[00:40:24]  Versus, of course, the El Paso shooter, who they said was pro-Trump and Trump is trying to incite these sort of things in our country.
[00:40:33]  The selective outrage by so many people in the Democrats and the media.
[00:40:40]  I'm not even just talking about January 6th, because I think that is widespread.
[00:40:46]  That was condemned by everybody.
[00:40:48]  But how the Democrats have remained silent on so many acts of mass crime when it's done in their own name and they've been allowed to get away with it is reprehensible.
[00:41:01]  And AOC says clearly they have no choice but to riot.
[00:41:05]  And I'm not just talking about overseas.
[00:41:07]  I'm talking about poverty in the United States.
[00:41:10]  AOC adding legitimacy to mass violence in pursuit of social change.
[00:41:20]  She gets away with this.
[00:41:22]  I want you to imagine if a Republican member of Congress said, if you have issues with an election, you have no choice but to riot.
[00:41:31]  Could you imagine what the reaction from the Democrats to the media would be?
[00:41:38]  It would be understandably over the top.
[00:41:42]  I want to get to a couple questions here that you've emailed us.
[00:41:46]  I also have some other news stories I want to hit today.
[00:41:50]  Let's see here.
[00:41:52]  Hey, Charlie, this is Carly, 15-year-old from San Diego, California.
[00:41:57]  Do you think that the Democrat Party will go against their own president to try and get Kamala Harris in office?
[00:42:02]  They could totally state that he has dementia and they could take him out of office.
[00:42:06]  Camela and love your channel.
[00:42:07]  I'm subscribed to your podcast on Spotify and YouTube.
[00:42:10]  Thank you, Carly.
[00:42:11]  You should get involved with Turning Point USA.
[00:42:13]  I think so.
[00:42:14]  You know, every time I see a picture of Joe Biden, he just looks like he's in pain.
[00:42:17]  And I don't mean that jokingly.
[00:42:18]  He just always looks like he's wincing.
[00:42:20]  And I think that there's definitely going to be a concerted push by the Democrats at some point to try to get Joe Biden to resign, invoke the 25th Amendment, and try to get Kamala Harris as president.
[00:42:35]  And so Joe Biden was nothing more than a means to the end.
[00:42:38]  Joe Biden is not the primary choice of the Democrat Party in any way, shape, or form.
[00:42:44]  I want to get to Brian Stelter, who is now a scholar on free speech.
[00:42:49]  Brian Stelter of CNN has now decided to be, let's just say, our generation's Montesquieu, play cut eight.
[00:42:57]  Now, do these private companies have too much power?
[00:42:59]  Sure.
[00:43:00]  And many people would say yes, of course they do.
[00:43:02]  But reducing a liar's reach is not the same as censoring freedom of speech.
[00:43:07]  Freedom of speech is different than freedom of reach.
[00:43:10]  And algorithmic reach is part of the problem.
[00:43:14]  So I don't know Brian Stelter.
[00:43:18]  I don't think he's a bad guy or a good guy.
[00:43:19]  I just think he's unbelievably confused about life.
[00:43:21]  I just think that a certain statement like that just shows just deep-seated misdirection in one's philosophical belief.
[00:43:31]  This is what he said: reducing a liar's reach is not the same as censoring freedom of speech.
[00:43:37]  Freedom of speech is different than freedom of reach.
[00:43:40]  First of all, how do you determine a liar, Brian Stelter?
[00:43:45]  Because if I was using a certain analysis, I would say you're a liar, but it rhymes, therefore it must be true.
[00:43:56]  You see, at CNN, if it rhymes, then it must make a lot of sense.
[00:44:02]  Let's go to cut nine, Brian Stelter, who says, you have to see, it's not aimed at shutting it down.
[00:44:07]  It's about making Fox better.
[00:44:08]  Oh, yeah, that's right.
[00:44:09]  Brian Stelter is in the, let's make sure Fox is a better product business now.
[00:44:14]  Play cut nine.
[00:44:16]  And most of the criticism of Fox News is not aimed at shutting it down, which will never happen anyway.
[00:44:20]  It's about making Fox better.
[00:44:23]  Putting the news back in Fox News.
[00:44:25]  They could go another way.
[00:44:27]  If Fox is going to keep transitioning into the 24-7 Tucker channel, then maybe it belongs next to sci-fi on your channel lineup, not MSNBC.
[00:44:36]  These need to be nuanced conversations, not edicts, not orders.
[00:44:42]  This is complicated, but harm reduction is possible.
[00:44:46]  Well, I will say this.
[00:44:48]  I think that our pushback is actually working because they realize how unpopular, unconstitutional, and immoral it is just to eliminate certain pieces of speech like they did with the president.
[00:45:00]  So now they're trying to admit, well, we have to be more nuanced.
[00:45:03]  You see, we want you gone, but we'll just put you on channel 955 on direct TV instead of 360.
[00:45:09]  Is that what Fox is on?
[00:45:10]  360 or 180, whatever it is on DirecTV.
[00:45:14]  That's what we'll do.
[00:45:16]  And you could kind of see in real time Brian Stelter on both of these cuts try and he's just wrestling with these ideas saying, I don't like them, but I can't get rid of them.
[00:45:27]  It's not going to happen.
[00:45:29]  So what can we possibly do?
[00:45:31]  Well, we could put them next to the science fiction channel.
[00:45:35]  Good one.
[00:45:37]  In reality, though, what Brian Stelter knows, despite being profoundly confused about life, that conservative content is actually really appealing.
[00:45:49]  That Fox News and other conservative channels are doing really, really well.
[00:45:54]  Newsmax, OAN, this show and this program, doing extraordinarily well.
[00:46:01]  Why?
[00:46:02]  Because every other channel espouses the same poorly constructed, morally questionable viewpoint that America is terrible and that we need a mass mobilization of social justice action to try to address pre-existing grievances and nothing else will possibly effectuate any change in our country that is meaningful.
[00:46:26]  It's just kind of the same thing.
[00:46:28]  Okay, we're a racist country.
[00:46:29]  I got it.
[00:46:30]  Whereas these other channels are talking about a different point of view when it comes to the virus, when it comes to lockdowns, when it comes to our country, when it comes to patriotism in general.
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[00:48:04]  Let's get to a question here from Laura.
[00:48:06]  Hello from California here.
[00:48:07]  Loved hearing you speak at Godspeak.
[00:48:09]  Awesome.
[00:48:09]  My pastor's church, Rob McCoy.
[00:48:12]  My question is: why can Biden sign so many executive orders?
[00:48:16]  One has to go through Congress and one has to be signed as an executive order.
[00:48:20]  It's a great question.
[00:48:21]  There's a lot of power given to the executive, given to the president of the United States.
[00:48:26]  A lot of what Biden is doing is undoing what Trump already did via executive order, but that's why we have the courts.
[00:48:32]  The courts are really the deciders of what is constitutional or not when it comes to these executive orders.
[00:48:38]  And so, for example, what is constitutionally permissible is instructing an agency of the executive branch to do something or to not do something.
[00:48:47]  For example, not build the border wall.
[00:48:49]  That did not go through Congress.
[00:48:50]  Therefore, Biden can end it through executive order.
[00:48:53]  However, when it gets to other things, such as spending money, distribution of money, allocation of funds, that's where you have to go through Congress and the legislative branch.
[00:49:04]  And so it's a very good question.
[00:49:06]  Joe Biden spent his first couple of days just signing document after document trying to undo what was done by President Trump.
[00:49:16]  Here's a question from Nat.
[00:49:18]  Was Stacey Abrams really nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize?
[00:49:22]  Yes.
[00:49:23]  This is from Reuters.com.
[00:49:24]  This is how they describe it.
[00:49:25]  U.S. voting rights activist Stacey Abrams nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.
[00:49:30]  U.S. voting rights activist and Democrat Party politician Stacey Abrams has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote nonviolent change via the ballot box, a Norwegian lawmaker said on Monday.
[00:49:41]  Abrams, who was credited with boosting voter turnout last year, helping Joe Biden win the U.S. presidency, joins a long list of nominees, including both former President Trump and his son-in-law, former White House advisor, Jared Kushner.
[00:49:56]  This is what it says.
[00:49:57]  Abrams' work follows in Dr. Martin Luther King's Jr.'s footsteps in the fight for equality before the law and for civil rights.
[00:50:03]  So, yes, Stacey Abrams, who never conceded the take, never conceded the race, never conceded what happened in Georgia, is now possibly being rewarded with the Nobel Peace Prize.
[00:50:22]  That is correct.
[00:50:24]  Let's go to a question here.
[00:50:27]  Good afternoon, sir.
[00:50:28]  My name is Brad.
[00:50:29]  I just had a quick question: Who determines the new vice president when Camilla takes over?
[00:50:34]  I just had a great fear she would appoint Hillary Clinton.
[00:50:37]  Thank you for all you do and God bless.
[00:50:38]  That would be a great fear.
[00:50:40]  So there is a line of succession.
[00:50:43]  So if my memory serves me correctly, the vice president gets to pick their president, vice president.
[00:50:50]  But in the line of succession, the Speaker of the House becomes president if the vice president's office is vacated.
[00:50:59]  However, I actually think, no, the president can choose what vice president he wants.
[00:51:03]  That would only be if the vice president and the president are incapacitated.
[00:51:07]  Then the speaker of the house becomes president.
[00:51:10]  And so the last time this really came into question was with Spiro Agnew, who resigned.
[00:51:16]  And then Richard Nixon appointed the House Minority Leader, Gerald Ford, to become vice president.
[00:51:21]  Richard Nixon resigned.
[00:51:23]  Gerald Ford became president, shortly served without a vice president.
[00:51:27]  Then Rockefeller, I think, became his vice president.
[00:51:29]  Rockefeller then became Gerald Ford's president, a vice president, and they lost re-election.
[00:51:34]  And Dick Cheney was actually their chief of staff.
[00:51:37]  There's your presidential trivia for today.
[00:51:40]  Okay, let's get to some sound from the failing upwards Dr. Anthony Fauci.
[00:51:47]  Let's go to cut 10, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
[00:51:50]  Let's go to cut 10.
[00:51:52]  This is a physical covering to prevent droplets and virus to get in.
[00:51:58]  So if you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on.
[00:52:02]  It just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective.
[00:52:06]  And that's the reason why you see people either double masking or doing a version of an N95.
[00:52:12]  That would be calling wearing two masks after Dr. Anthony Fauci said wear no mask at all whatsoever.
[00:52:20]  Let's go to cut 11 when he says, but there's no data that it's actually going to make a difference.
[00:52:25]  Cut 11.
[00:52:26]  There are many people who feel, you know, if you really want to have an extra little bit of protection, maybe I should put two masks on.
[00:52:35]  There's nothing wrong with that, but there's no data that indicates that that is going to make a difference.
[00:52:41]  So just basically no data, but it just might make you feel good.
[00:52:45]  So over the weekend, a story that should have been top line news that was not covered at all whatsoever is when Camela started doing this press routine in West Virginia and Arizona.
[00:52:59]  Is that the best way to say it?
[00:53:00]  Like a press circuit?
[00:53:02]  So they started to deploy the most radical member of our government, Kamala Harris, to do basically television and newspaper interviews and radio interviews in Arizona and West Virginia.
[00:53:14]  Of course, the two states of the senators that are refusing to break the filibuster.
[00:53:18]  Do you think the White House is in favor of breaking the filibuster?
[00:53:21]  Of course they are.
[00:53:22]  And so Senator Harris then went into West Virginia remotely and said that we need to reclaim the abandoned landmines.
[00:53:33]  Play cut one.
[00:53:35]  Job creation around, for example, all of those skilled workers who are in the coal industry and transferring those skills to what we need to do in terms of dealing with reclaiming abandoned landmines.
[00:53:51]  What we need to do around plugging leaks from oil and gas wells and transferring those important skills to the work that has yet to be done that needs to get done.
[00:54:02]  So that is Senator Harris going into Joe Manchin's home state remotely doing press interviews, trying to put pressure on Senator Manchin.
[00:54:12]  And I think Senator Manchin pushed back rather aggressively, said, who do you think you are?
[00:54:16]  Yeah, I know that you're the vice president and all, but I used to be governor of West Virginia.
[00:54:20]  I'm elected pretty overwhelmingly here in this state.
[00:54:23]  And so calm down.
[00:54:27]  You are not the governor of West Virginia.
[00:54:30]  Basically, it was just kind of like the modern day equivalent of get off my lawn, basically.
[00:54:35]  So Senator Harris comes in and says, quote, we need to reclaim abandoned land mines.
[00:54:42]  Now, I think what she meant to say is mine lands or coal mines.
[00:54:49]  Don't think she meant to say land mines, unless there is a part of West Virginia history that I might not be familiar with.
[00:54:57]  Let's get to some other questions here.
[00:54:59]  Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
[00:55:02]  Let's go to this one.
[00:55:03]  School reopening.
[00:55:03]  Dear Charlie, this is a long question.
[00:55:05]  I have started listening to your podcast.
[00:55:07]  Thank you.
[00:55:07]  I'm interested in your opinions.
[00:55:08]  The past couple days, you have stated several times that schools should be open everywhere.
[00:55:12]  Yes, primarily blaming teacher unions for their continued closure.
[00:55:15]  I know little about such unions, and I wonder if there's not an alternative reason.
[00:55:19]  You point out quite correctly that children are not at risk, but I think you may have missed an important point.
[00:55:23]  Even if it's harmless, the disease must surely spread if and when schools reopen.
[00:55:27]  Children will contract it, although they may remain asymptomatic.
[00:55:30]  However, what poses no threat to children may well affect their parents or worse, their grandparents.
[00:55:35]  The AP reported in 2018, the Kaiser Foundation studying 6% of U.S. seniors live in the same home as one or more school-aged children, but our safety to protect the lives of those of who we are.
[00:55:46]  Shall we not continue with the inadequate online learning to safeguard that which matters more?
[00:55:50]  No.
[00:55:50]  Thank you for your question, though, Daniel.
[00:55:52]  There is no evidence whatsoever that children are super spreaders.
[00:55:55]  Zero.
[00:55:56]  In fact, there is no evidence that schools have actually spread the Chinese coronavirus to community-wide spread or to their parents.
[00:56:04]  In fact, it goes to show that the kids get herd immunity very quickly.
[00:56:08]  And for these teachers that are saying that we do not feel safe, there is no documented widespread of any place that schools have been open showing community spread.
[00:56:18]  And my other argument of this, and we'll get some of the data to support this, that the Chinese coronavirus, not just being basically harmless to most children, is even for the average age of teachers, they are not generally at risk of dying from the Chinese coronavirus.
[00:56:38]  They are not.
[00:56:39]  And for those teachers, if they want to take time off, then fine, so be it.
[00:56:43]  The future of our children, mentally, socially, emotionally, spiritually, has been so unbelievably damaged by these closures.
[00:56:51]  The rise in suicide, drug usage, social isolation, the stunt to their development.
[00:56:55]  Any sort of costs that might be baked into the spread of the Chinese coronavirus to adults that might get it somewhere else anyway is well worth it.
[00:57:07]  And lockdowns are anti-scientific.
[00:57:10]  Lockdowns have proven not to stop the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.
[00:57:14]  Lockdowns have a greater cost than actually any sort of mitigation effort.
[00:57:21]  Nowhere did lockdowns work.
[00:57:23]  Nowhere.
[00:57:23]  The states that lock down most severely still have the highest ICU rates, the highest hospitalization rates, and the highest death rates.
[00:57:29]  It's a virus.
[00:57:30]  It's going to spread.
[00:57:31]  If you're afraid of it, stay at home.
[00:57:32]  We'll take care of you.
[00:57:34]  The average age of teachers in our country is about 42.4 years, well below the average death, the average rate of dying from the Chinese coronavirus in our country.
[00:57:48]  So I appreciate your question, Daniel, very much, but I push back that the most important thing a society can do-not the most important, one of the most important thing-is making sure that our children are adequately educated, protected, and their well-being preserved.
[00:58:04]  And right now, with schools continually being shuttered and closed, none of those things are actually being accomplished anyway whatsoever.
[00:58:14]  Schools should have been opened immediately back in April or May.
[00:58:17]  That is the way that a brave and a wise society handles conflict, not by shutting down and running to the hills.
[00:58:23]  Okay, here's a quick question: We, the people, are paying taxes to be able to see every day how much our federal government is spending and receiving.
[00:58:29]  We should be able to see all agencies receiving funds.
[00:58:31]  I think it would be a wake-up call for all of us.
[00:58:33]  We should be able to vote on issues with a clear amount of how much will come to us, our taxes due to this issue.
[00:58:38]  Any ideas?
[00:58:38]  This has been an idea that's been floated before that you should be able to allocate your tax dollars.
[00:58:42]  I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon.
[00:58:45]  However, you can go to openthebooks.com, which is run by my friend Adam Ngieski.
[00:58:49]  They do a great job foying and auditing the federal government.
[00:58:52]  It's openthebooks.com.
[00:58:53]  But if you guys had any idea the amount of waste, fraud, abuse, and graft that exists in the federal government, it would make you sick to your stomach, which is exactly why I suppose I oppose these massive federal government spending bills.
[00:59:05]  They are done in the middle of the night.
[00:59:07]  Done to reward crony behavior.
[00:59:08]  They are done to reward insider dealings, and they are not stimulative at all in nature.
[00:59:13]  Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:59:17]  Let's take some of your questions here.
[00:59:18]  Hey, Charlie, I was on YouTube and got a whole list of videos and news sources involved in the impeachment.
[00:59:23]  I don't trust them, so can you give me an update on how the trial is going?
[00:59:26]  You bet.
[00:59:27]  Thank you for asking so bluntly.
[00:59:29]  And whether or not our former President Trump still has three days to defend himself, if that, thank you for your time.
[00:59:34]  Love from California.
[00:59:34]  Thank you, Kenzie, and thank you for admitting that there's people that make stuff up on YouTube, which is incredibly true.
[00:59:41]  Alarmingly true, actually.
[00:59:42]  Yeah, so the trial hasn't started yet.
[00:59:44]  The trial is next week.
[00:59:45]  President Trump has to submit his initial legal briefs tomorrow, which I think can be amended, but they do have to be submitted tomorrow.
[00:59:53]  He had a little bit of a mix-up, not mix-up, shake-up on his legal team and has some new lawyers.
[00:59:59]  Basically, the new lawyers are David Schoen, a Georgia-based lawyer.
[01:00:03]  And Mr. Schoen, I think, represented Roger Stone in last fall, former district attorney in Pennsylvania and known for all sorts of different things.
[01:00:20]  And then also Bruce Caster, the former acting attorney general of Pennsylvania, will be representing the president.
[01:00:27]  Now, the strategy for the impeachment, though, is going to be very simple.
[01:00:31]  And this is the way that Trump's legal team is signaling it: basically, they are not going to talk about the merits of what happened on January the 6th.
[01:00:40]  They're not going to get deep into what President Trump said or didn't say.
[01:00:43]  Instead, they are going to just dismiss this as an unconstitutional impeachment altogether, that you cannot impeach a private citizen.
[01:00:51]  If you get too deep into the merits of it, you might have some exposure.
[01:00:55]  And also, you're going to lose people.
[01:00:57]  The Republicans will vote alongside Rand Paul's vote that we saw last week.
[01:01:03]  And by the way, a majority of the Senate will probably vote to convict.
[01:01:08]  That does not mean that you're convicted.
[01:01:10]  You need 66 votes to convict.
[01:01:12]  Is that right?
[01:01:13]  66?
[01:01:14]  67.
[01:01:15]  They're not going to happen.
[01:01:17]  They are not going to get 67 votes to convict former President Trump.
[01:01:24]  Now, with that being said, I'm not exactly sure how the Democrats are going to be able to reconcile.
[01:01:30]  Well, we want to bring the country together.
[01:01:31]  We want unity.
[01:01:32]  We want bipartisanship.
[01:01:34]  Now's the time to heal.
[01:01:35]  If now's the time to heal, why are you bringing back all of the resentments and the hatred and the bad feelings from the 2020 election race, bringing them front and center to try and make it so he can never run for office again?
[01:01:52]  You know it's not going to work, by the way, Democrats.
[01:01:54]  You know that this is a failure from launch.
[01:01:59]  So what's the agenda here?
[01:02:01]  Answer.
[01:02:02]  They want to create a 24-7 cable news spectacle to try and continue to focus on President Trump as the worst part of American society.
[01:02:13]  The front page of the New York Times today, A1, is not about the Chinese coronavirus.
[01:02:20]  It's not about the COVID relief bill.
[01:02:23]  It's not about school closures, an increase in suicide rates.
[01:02:28]  It's not about any of those things, tech censorship.
[01:02:30]  Instead, it is a, and I kid you not, a 20-page article when you print it out all about Donald Trump.
[01:02:38]  20-page, 20-page article of Trump's campaign to subvert the election.
[01:02:44]  And it is thorough.
[01:02:45]  Let me tell you what.
[01:02:47]  It actually is written more fairly than I thought it would be, to be perfectly honest, but it's still, of course, written in New York Times language.
[01:02:54]  But this is the front page of the Times today.
[01:02:57]  A1.
[01:03:00]  And we predicted all of this.
[01:03:02]  We predicted this back in December and January, that they will not be able to lose focus on President Trump.
[01:03:09]  Why?
[01:03:10]  He sells newspapers.
[01:03:12]  He gets people fired up.
[01:03:14]  He also makes people afraid and scared.
[01:03:16]  When people are afraid or scared, they're easier to control, and people look for answers.
[01:03:23]  People look to be taken care of.
[01:03:26]  That's exactly the kind of archetype that they have painted Donald Trump to be.
[01:03:32]  That he is this wannabe Mussolini within our own country, and we must never take our eye off of him or else he's going to rise to power again.
[01:03:41]  Meanwhile, you have a current president who's whispering to his son and his brothers that you better cut out these foreign business deals.
[01:03:48]  He's the first incoming president ever to try to kill jobs, just killed tens of thousands of jobs with a stroke of a pen.
[01:03:55]  That does not apparently warrant A1 coverage.
[01:03:58]  Instead, let's go cover the previous guy.
[01:04:01]  This is actually a terrible political strategy for them.
[01:04:04]  People are going to have Trump fatigue very soon.
[01:04:07]  Not in the way that you might think.
[01:04:08]  They're going to be tired of having to hear about it from the activist media.
[01:04:15]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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[01:04:34]  Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[01:04:36]  Thanks so much, everybody, for listening.
[01:04:38]  God bless.
[01:04:39]  Speak to you, sir.