The Charlie Kirk Show - Cracks Emerge in the Radical 'Woke' Coalition
Aired: 2021-02-16
Duration: 01:00:21

[00:00:00]  Hey, everybody.
[00:00:01]  Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we dive into what was the difference between Liz Cheney and Donald Trump's votes in the last couple weeks when it came to acquittal and the Republican leadership vote.
[00:00:11]  There's a deeper lesson here that is critically important.
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[00:00:22]  And also, what is going on with the great freeze across the country and how ideologues have run our country, that and so much more.
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[00:03:42]  A lot happened in the last couple of days.
[00:03:44]  Over the weekend, President Trump was acquitted by the United States Senate.
[00:03:50]  Former President Trump was being tried for the charge of inciting an insurrection against the United States government.
[00:04:00]  The trial was full of inconsistencies, tampered with evidence.
[00:04:07]  Due process was not afforded to the president.
[00:04:09]  There were six amendment violations.
[00:04:13]  The president still was able to survive impeachment with seven Republicans who voted for impeachment, some of whom include Ben Sass, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, and many others.
[00:04:26]  Richard Burr, Pat Toomey, Susan Collins.
[00:04:31]  I think I'm forgetting one or two.
[00:04:34]  Did Bill Cassidy vote for impeachment?
[00:04:37]  Seven Republicans.
[00:04:40]  And what was amazing to me is I was thinking to myself, how many senators, Republican establishment senators, wanted to vote to convict the president, not based on evidence, not based on data or information, but instead on revenge.
[00:05:06]  How many senators actually wanted to go alongside these seven other Republican senators?
[00:05:11]  And the answer is quite a lot, probably dozens.
[00:05:17]  So why didn't they?
[00:05:19]  Why didn't these senators, some of the people that have total and complete contempt for President Trump, always did, why didn't they go along?
[00:05:31]  The answer is based in how the vote actually occurred.
[00:05:37]  About a week and a half before the impeachment vote, Liz Cheney, who wrongly and baselessly said that former President Trump incited a mob against our government, not a mob, an insurrection against our government, she faced a vote to remove her as the leader of the Republican Leadership Conference, effectively third in control of the House of Representatives for the House Republicans.
[00:06:02]  She survived that vote.
[00:06:05]  She survived that vote because the vote occurred in private.
[00:06:12]  She survived that vote because the representatives were able to use what's called a secret ballot.
[00:06:19]  They met privately, they met secretly, they met discreetly, and they were able to voice their support of Liz Cheney, even though their constituents would have been very upset if they would have seen themselves voice their support behind a corporate mouthpiece like Liz Cheney.
[00:06:39]  Now, Liz Cheney might be a very nice person, but the Cheney family believes in a form of governing that is centered around pandering to corporate interests and corporate donors above the interests of the American people.
[00:06:56]  So how did Liz Cheney survive and Donald Trump survive?
[00:07:02]  The reason and the answer is how the balloting actually occurred.
[00:07:10]  Senator Chris Coons from Delaware admitted this.
[00:07:13]  In fact, I told our team as soon as the impeachment vote was announced to be one that was going to be public, which of course it needs to be.
[00:07:19]  It's constitutionally required that the impeachment vote be public.
[00:07:24]  I said, I believe President Trump will survive this because there will not be the necessary amount of Republican defectors that will go back to their states and be able to justify impeaching a private citizen who did not do what he was accused of doing.
[00:07:41]  No way will senators from Missouri or North Dakota or South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Kansas, Arkansas, Alabama go along with us.
[00:07:53]  No way.
[00:07:54]  And we were proven right.
[00:07:57]  But if that was done in private, in secret, and if there would have been a guarantee to these senators that no one would ever know how you voted, how would they have voted?
[00:08:08]  Of course, speculation can only answer that question, but Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, agrees with me.
[00:08:15]  He said that if this ballot, if this vote happened in private and in secret, Donald Trump would have been acquitted.
[00:08:24]  Democrat Senator Chris Coons makes my point perfectly because he talks to those senators.
[00:08:31]  He talks to those Republican senators in private.
[00:08:33]  And they confide in him and they say, you know, Senator Coons, you know, Chris, I would remove Donald Trump, but I got a problem.
[00:08:42]  My problem is I have to go face my constituents.
[00:08:47]  The problem is I have to answer for my actions.
[00:08:51]  The problem is I can't do what the Republican leadership did in support of Liz Cheney.
[00:08:58]  I can't hide behind a secret ballot.
[00:09:00]  There's a certain publication, The Washington Post, where their tagline is democracy dies in darkness.
[00:09:09]  Ironically, I agree with them.
[00:09:10]  I just with the Washington Post actually acted consistent with their beliefs.
[00:09:18]  Democracy does die in darkness, but we are not a democracy.
[00:09:22]  We're a constitutional republic.
[00:09:24]  We use Democratic means to elect our leaders.
[00:09:28]  Big difference that we'll build out at another show at another time.
[00:09:32]  We've done it extensively on our podcast.
[00:09:35]  The issue that is at the forefront of why Liz Cheney survived and Donald Trump survived was simply and solely on whether or not politicians had to face public responsibility for their actions.
[00:09:58]  James Madison touched on this in the Federalist Papers.
[00:10:02]  James Madison, the father of the United States Constitution, James Madison, the fourth American president, James Madison, one of the most brilliant thinkers and great leaders in American history.
[00:10:13]  If you don't know James Madison, you're missing out.
[00:10:16]  James Madison talked extensively about the need for the citizenry to know what their representatives were doing.
[00:10:25]  When you have a record that is public, that is searchable, that is transparent, that the citizenry can make informed choices about who is representing them.
[00:10:40]  That's critical.
[00:10:41]  Citizen, going back to the original Greek, literally means co-ruler.
[00:10:48]  It means that they have a vested interest.
[00:10:51]  It's a cooperative.
[00:10:53]  It's a partnership.
[00:10:57]  Liz Cheney survived because she never had to face the people, and we'll see if she'll be able to politically survive in Wyoming.
[00:11:08]  But the people that supported her, if they would have had to go publicly with their vote in support of Liz Cheney, they would have been faced with primary campaigns.
[00:11:20]  They would have been faced with millions of dollars of opposition and an angry grassroots response for good reason.
[00:11:30]  The Senate acquitted Donald Trump because There is transparency.
[00:11:41]  So, what does that teach us about how Washington, D.C., operates?
[00:11:47]  There's a lot to unpack there.
[00:11:49]  There's a lot of truth there.
[00:11:52]  But generally, our leaders cannot stand being under a microscope.
[00:12:01]  Sunlight is indeed the best disinfectant.
[00:12:05]  When the American people can see what their representatives do, they will trust the system more.
[00:12:15]  One of the reasons why people's trust in their government has plummeted to all-time lows is because there are so many backroom deals, movement in the shadows, and borderline treachery that occurs.
[00:12:30]  Trust is built and strengthened when people's actions, votes, voices, comments occur in public.
[00:12:45]  And we saw this incredible juxtaposition all surrounding backlash politically from the January 6th Capitol tragedy from Liz Cheney to former President Trump.
[00:12:59]  Liz Cheney would have been removed as Republican Leadership Conference chair if it would have been a public roll call vote, and Donald Trump would have been convicted if it would have been a private vote.
[00:13:13]  I can't say that definitively, but Chris Coons does.
[00:13:17]  Let's go to Cut 22, Senator Chris Coons, Democrat from Delaware, who actually makes my point, but for a different reason.
[00:13:28]  I'll explain that.
[00:13:29]  Let's play Cut 22.
[00:13:31]  What about a secret ballot?
[00:13:33]  Would there have been 67 votes?
[00:13:36]  Yes.
[00:13:37]  I'm fairly certain there would have been a vote to convict with a secret ballot.
[00:13:42]  So that's Senator Chris Coons asked by George Stephanopoulos laughing, saying, Of course, there would have been a secret ballot.
[00:13:48]  Why is Chris Coons laughing?
[00:13:50]  He's laughing because he says, Of course, George, a lot of things would be different if we didn't have to face the voters.
[00:13:57]  Of course, George, a lot of things would be different if I didn't have to justify my actions to my constituents.
[00:14:03]  Of course, George, a lot of things would be different if I didn't have to be monitored by concerned citizens.
[00:14:12]  We'd be able to do whatever we want.
[00:14:14]  We could have impeached him years ago if we could have done this in darkness.
[00:14:19]  We could have done this years ago if we could have operated in the shadows.
[00:14:26]  That is the wish of the ruling class in this country.
[00:14:30]  The ruling class, from the corporate elite to the senators, to the members of Congress to the financial elite, they detest any attention that they themselves have not asked for.
[00:14:48]  They get nervous when pointed questions are presented to them.
[00:14:54]  You see, the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives are similar, but they both conducted their business differently, one for a constitutional requirement, the other out of their own choice.
[00:15:11]  Republicans could have done the vote against Liz Cheney publicly.
[00:15:14]  Why didn't they?
[00:15:16]  Because the people that were behind making that a secret ballot knew that they actually wanted Liz Cheney in that position, and they didn't want to see their other members be held accountable for supporting her, and they wanted to give them cover fire.
[00:15:34]  This should be unacceptable for those of us that want representative government.
[00:15:40]  You see, Chris Coons was laughing because he said, of course, George, could you imagine what we could get done if we could do things in private?
[00:15:49]  In fact, Chris Coons is probably saying, you know how many Republicans wish they could act differently if it wasn't for the people they represent.
[00:15:58]  It is completely and totally irrelevant what Chris Coons wants for the world.
[00:16:04]  What is relevant is what he promised to the people that put him in power to do to the rest of the world and do to our country.
[00:16:13]  Representatives are supposed to be a reflection of the citizens of the state they represent, not the other way around.
[00:16:21]  The citizens of Wyoming are not supposed to represent Liz Cheney.
[00:16:27]  That's Stalinism.
[00:16:29]  The citizens of Delaware are not supposed to represent Chris Coons.
[00:16:33]  They're supposed to represent the people of Delaware or the people of Wyoming.
[00:16:39]  I feel as if we have this inverted, as if Mitt Romney is acting as if the people of Utah better sort themselves out and start acting like him, unlike what's supposed to happen is Mitt Romney is supposed to actually act like the people of Utah, or at least act in their best interests.
[00:16:55]  And the violation of that very simple compact is one of the reasons we're in the mess that we're in.
[00:17:02]  There is a winter storm raging across the country, and I hope everyone listening to this is staying warm and staying safe.
[00:17:08]  I know many friends in Dallas and Houston, they do not have homes that are necessarily built for snow or built for 10-degree weather, so I hope everyone stays very safe.
[00:17:21]  But a problem that we always pose to the environmentalists and to the advocates of the Green New Deal is what happens in increasingly harsh winters?
[00:17:30]  How are you going to power your hospitals, your schools?
[00:17:34]  How are you going to keep the lights on?
[00:17:36]  They always called that a red herring or a false flag.
[00:17:40]  Well, now we see all across the Great Plains the consequence of what happens when you criminalize oil natural gas extraction, coal-powered power plants.
[00:17:56]  Let's go to Cut 14, Tucker Carlson reporting on the frozen wind turbines in Texas.
[00:18:00]  Aren't you glad you have these bird killers all throughout Texas?
[00:18:03]  Play Cut 14.
[00:18:04]  Well, the Green New Deal has come, believe it or not, to the state of Texas.
[00:18:08]  And we're here with the report.
[00:18:10]  How's it working out so far?
[00:18:11]  Well, the good news is all that alternative energy seems to have had a remarkable effect on the climate, as intended.
[00:18:18]  Last night, parts of Texas got to temperatures that we see in Alaska.
[00:18:23]  In fact, they were the same as they were in Alaska.
[00:18:25]  So global warming is no longer a pressing concern in Houston.
[00:18:29]  We've solved that problem.
[00:18:31]  The bad news is they don't have electricity.
[00:18:33]  The windmills froze, so the power grid failed.
[00:18:36]  Millions of Texans woke up to spoil their water because with no electricity, it couldn't be purified.
[00:18:41]  Tucker Carlson, of course, being appropriately sarcastic towards the idea of transitioning from global warming to climate change.
[00:18:52]  And Cut 15 Tucker says, instead of using their state's natural resources, Texas lawmakers implemented wind farms as if it was a good thing.
[00:19:00]  Cut 15.
[00:19:01]  Rather than celebrate and benefit from their state's vast natural resources, politicians took the fashionable route and became recklessly reliant on so-called alternative energy, meaning windmills.
[00:19:14]  15 years ago, there were virtually no wind farms in Texas.
[00:19:17]  Last year, roughly a quarter of all electricity generated in the state came from wind.
[00:19:22]  Local politicians were pleased by this.
[00:19:24]  They bragged about it like there was something virtuous about destroying the landscape and degrading the power grid.
[00:19:31]  Now, we're telling you all of this, not to beat up on the state of Texas.
[00:19:34]  It's a great state, actually.
[00:19:36]  But to give you some sense about what's about to happen to you, to every state.
[00:19:41]  And so what's the consequence of that?
[00:19:42]  When you have a massive winter storm, windmills start to freeze up, and just the energy cost to build a windmill does not even make it necessarily carbon neutral long term, unless you're positioned in one of the windiest parts of the entire world.
[00:19:59]  And in Cut 16, Tucker says, everything was going great until it got cold and the windmills failed.
[00:20:04]  Cut 16.
[00:20:05]  Just last week, Governor Greg Abbott proudly accepted something called the Wind Leadership Award, given with gratitude by a company getting rich from green energy.
[00:20:15]  So it was all working great until the day it got cold outside.
[00:20:18]  The windmills failed, like the silly fashion accessories they are, and people in Texas died.
[00:20:24]  And people are still without power.
[00:20:26]  Millions of people are still without power because instead of using a form of energy that has worked since the Industrial Revolution, the ideologues that run our government that are more concerned with checking the boxes of the wish list of the professors of the University of Texas Austin, they put in windmills and they close down power plants.
[00:20:54]  And then people die as a consequence of that.
[00:20:56]  And this is only going to repeat itself in many different manifestations.
[00:21:00]  We have to ask ourselves the question is, why did they do this?
[00:21:03]  Why did they do something so foolish and silly when it comes to energy in America when it's so obvious that this was not the right move?
[00:21:13]  Why replace a quarter of all energy in Texas, one-fourth, to be wind?
[00:21:22]  It's an eyesore on the entire landscape.
[00:21:26]  They're also incredibly expensive to build.
[00:21:29]  The main reason is nothing to do with the efficacy of green energy.
[00:21:35]  Instead, it's about the ideology behind it.
[00:21:38]  And this is a moment where we have to take pause and ask ourselves the question, why are we allowing a small pack of highly activistic ideologues create, steer, and control the public policy of an entire nation?
[00:22:03]  Any rational person, an actually rational person approaching the energy conversation will ask some very simple questions, such as, are rising global temperatures tied with an increase in human activity?
[00:22:18]  Can you prove that?
[00:22:20]  The answer is you can't.
[00:22:21]  You can suspect it.
[00:22:23]  You can infer it.
[00:22:24]  You can try to draw a correlation and a causation, but you can't prove it.
[00:22:29]  There are dozens of other factors that could potentially play into it.
[00:22:33]  Number two, which is, what have we proven that we can do?
[00:22:38]  If the first question is yes, and we take that as a given, what can we do to lessen our carbon emissions to potentially lower global temperatures that might potentially result in a normalization of the climate, which is a false flag anyway, because we have such a short window of measuring global temperatures.
[00:23:00]  We've only been doing it for about 100 years, and we've only been doing it super accurately for 30 years, and we've only been doing it at the level we're doing it with satellite reconnaissance in the last 15 or 20 years.
[00:23:11]  But let's even take the 100-year window as a given.
[00:23:15]  Have there been any variations?
[00:23:17]  Of course there have been.
[00:23:18]  We went from a global ice age fear-mongering narrative in the 1970s and 80s in the front page of Time magazine.
[00:23:25]  It said the ice age is near to the global warming fear-mongering in the early 2000s of Al Gore, where I was forced to watch inconvenient truth in sixth grade.
[00:23:36]  So now where we are in 2021, where they are now blending together to climate change, calling an existential threat to humanity.
[00:23:44]  There is more greenery on the planet than there ever has been in the history of recording such metric.
[00:23:55]  The third question we must ask ourselves, which is a rational question because this entire conversation has been hijacked by irrational people, is at what cost?
[00:24:04]  What's the cost?
[00:24:06]  This is what people who slow down and use reason, which is given to us by God to be able to make sense of a chaotic world.
[00:24:16]  We use reason to make informed choices.
[00:24:20]  Nothing about installing windmills at the expense of human flourishing is reasonable.
[00:24:29]  It's ideological.
[00:24:30]  It's pathological in nature.
[00:24:33]  And so now we are living to the consequence of that.
[00:24:37]  Now, the devil's advocate argument, the socialist activists would say, we are now living through the weather patterns because we didn't make these decisions earlier.
[00:24:49]  There is no evidence to support that.
[00:24:52]  That is speculative.
[00:24:53]  That is not science.
[00:24:56]  That is a theory.
[00:24:57]  And that theory very well might be right.
[00:24:59]  I'm a skeptic, and we should be, because there's about 582 questions that I could think of the top of my head, such as, is every single region getting warmer?
[00:25:11]  Are there any positives to areas getting warmer?
[00:25:14]  Are the ice caps really melting at the rate you thought they were?
[00:25:18]  Why is the polar bear population increasing?
[00:25:20]  There's so many questions that you could be asked.
[00:25:22]  These are reasonable questions.
[00:25:23]  And so this goes to a broader and deeper point that we're going to continue to build out, which is, I thought science was all about asking questions.
[00:25:32]  I thought science was all about challenging the predominant narrative.
[00:25:40]  Isn't that how we discovered germ theory?
[00:25:42]  Isn't that how Newtonian physics was proven?
[00:25:50]  The idea that we must now unquestionably accept whatever narrative that is being put forth by the ideologues without even asking what the cost might be of that narrative, if that narrative might even be true, is pathological in nature.
[00:26:07]  And that's how you get to a set of circumstances where the entire Great Plains is now without power.
[00:26:13]  They have to resort to backup generators at hospitals.
[00:26:16]  People will die as a consequence of this in hospitals, in nursing home facilities.
[00:26:24]  And yet, what is the Democrat answer to this?
[00:26:26]  What is the, and I don't even like using the term Democrat because it's beyond that.
[00:26:30]  What is the climate change alarmist answer?
[00:26:33]  It's not to admit that they might have made some mistakes in energy distribution and consumption.
[00:26:40]  It's the exact opposite.
[00:26:41]  It's that we did not do enough early enough, and now we must embrace what we did wrong more.
[00:26:47]  And this is the great irony.
[00:26:48]  And I have so many friends in California.
[00:26:51]  My pastor, Pastor Rob McCoy, is in California.
[00:26:53]  And people in California ask me this question all the time.
[00:26:56]  They say, when will the people of California wake up?
[00:26:59]  And I hope the answer is very soon, which is why all of you should sign the petition to recall Gavin Newsom.
[00:27:04]  Maybe he might get a notice of the recall signatures increasing in number in between bites at French laundry.
[00:27:11]  But California can go one of two ways.
[00:27:13]  It can either wake up and go back to reasonable, rational governance, or This is the way that sometimes it goes.
[00:27:23]  And you're seeing this in some of these other liberal states like Oregon and Washington, New York, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
[00:27:28]  They can say, the reason that you're unhappy is we didn't go left enough.
[00:27:34]  We didn't go radical enough.
[00:27:36]  We didn't abolish enough fossil fuel.
[00:27:38]  We did not get rid of enough different aspects of energy.
[00:27:42]  And let me be clear, I'm for free market, entrepreneurial-driven solutions.
[00:27:48]  Elon Musk, free of government subsidies, wants to come up with solutions to be able to make energy consumption more efficient, so be it.
[00:27:57]  But windmills are typically not built by private industry.
[00:28:00]  They are done in public-private partnerships, specifically through government edicts.
[00:28:04]  And in the heartland of the country near the Permian Basin, to go build a grid of wind turbines that then need to be de-iced by helicopters that are made possible thanks to fossil fuels of oil and natural gas that was extracted from the Permian Basin.
[00:28:21]  The only answer that we can offer to that is that we are allowing ID logs to run the country.
[00:28:29]  Where they believe falsely a narrative that the entire world is falling apart and their dramatic action against the capitalist private property Western economy is the only way that we're going to fix that.
[00:28:45]  It's complete and total rubbish.
[00:28:47]  The activist media is spinning this as saying, see, we told you that weather patterns are getting worse.
[00:28:56]  You see, we told you that this was going to happen when their coverage should be the opposite, which is, what did we overreact to that makes the reaction to this event even worse?
[00:29:13]  Cancel culture is a big problem.
[00:29:14]  We just saw it with Lucasfilm, and we're seeing it all over the place.
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[00:30:29]  There have been people this last year, the last 12 months, that had a really difficult year.
[00:30:37]  And they still continue to pay their taxes and they continue to still pay for essential government services.
[00:30:43]  You see, one of the lies of the left, and this is what happens when you go to college, is they don't teach you economics, they don't teach you supply and demand, they don't teach you what money actually is, what money represents, is they believe that the entire country should basically be connected to a leviathan albatross of a government.
[00:31:03]  This is something that AOC and Talib and Elon Omar all believe.
[00:31:06]  That if we just expand the civil service, if we expand government payroll, things will get a lot better.
[00:31:13]  And the question that I can't stand that is asked all the time is, well, how are you going to pay for that?
[00:31:17]  That's the wrong question.
[00:31:20]  They'll find a way to pay for it.
[00:31:21]  They'll create the money out of thin air.
[00:31:23]  They'll deficit spend.
[00:31:24]  They'll tax you.
[00:31:25]  They'll find a way to pay for it.
[00:31:27]  Instead, you should ask, is it right?
[00:31:30]  That's the question you should ask.
[00:31:32]  Not how can you pay for it.
[00:31:34]  If you get into a question of how can you pay for it, you've already admitted that it's a good idea.
[00:31:39]  Instead, you should say, is it right?
[00:31:41]  Is it right to expand the government civil service to millions of more people like the Democrats want to do?
[00:31:47]  You see, the tension that we see between private industry and government civil service is more dramatic than any other time in my life.
[00:31:58]  The muscular class of our country, the entrepreneurs, the people that own their businesses, the people that have to sign the front of a paycheck, not just the back of a paycheck, they are being squeezed.
[00:32:11]  And they had a little bit of a reprieve.
[00:32:13]  They had a little bit of a time to breathe under President Donald Trump.
[00:32:17]  Now Joe Biden is offering a deflated currency, higher taxes, more regulation, and it will be the small business person.
[00:32:25]  I don't even like that term small business person.
[00:32:27]  I think it's overused.
[00:32:28]  I call it the backbone business person.
[00:32:31]  They are the backbone of our country.
[00:32:34]  How would we thank our taxpayers for once?
[00:32:37]  How do we thank the people that go pay the six-figure tax bills to the IRS so that you're able to get your $1,000 stimulus check?
[00:32:45]  When's the last time we said thank you to them?
[00:32:49]  What if they just took a couple months off?
[00:32:51]  They said, you know what?
[00:32:52]  I'm not going to create any value for the economy.
[00:32:54]  I'm going to shut down all my businesses.
[00:32:56]  I'm going to shut down the supply chain.
[00:32:58]  I'm going to not pay my taxes.
[00:33:00]  You want to talk about catastrophic?
[00:33:02]  That would be catastrophic.
[00:33:05]  And some teachers deserve phenomenal credit.
[00:33:08]  They really do.
[00:33:09]  Other teachers that are refusing to open up their schools or being part of movements not to open up their schools, they don't deserve that same form of credit.
[00:33:20]  Thank you, taxpayers.
[00:33:22]  Thank you, hardworking business people.
[00:33:23]  The muscular class is keeping this whole thing going.
[00:33:27]  Two things happened in the last 10 days that would not have happened if Donald Trump was still president.
[00:33:35]  A prominent Democrat staffer resigned after yelling at a reporter, TJ Ducklow, who got very angry at, I think her name is Tara Palmieri at Politico, who does a nice job there.
[00:33:53]  And she was writing a story about him potentially having a relationship with a former Biden staffer.
[00:34:04]  He got very angry and said, quote, I will destroy you.
[00:34:08]  Got put on leave, and then he was asked to resign or he resigned himself.
[00:34:11]  It was very interesting.
[00:34:14]  And Democrats have been rather insistent the last year and a half to never allow some sort of press controversy to impact one of their own being criticized or attacked.
[00:34:35]  And then on top of that, you have another story here that we did not cover, but it was a national news story of Mark Cuban, who I've actually debated before.
[00:34:45]  You guys should check that out online.
[00:34:47]  In fact, I'm going to make a note of myself to make sure that video is uploaded.
[00:34:51]  I haven't seen that video in quite some time.
[00:34:53]  Mark Cuban and I debated for about an hour and a half.
[00:34:55]  It was fun.
[00:34:56]  It was at our turning point USA high school leadership summit.
[00:35:01]  Mark Cuban said he was not going to play the national anthem at the Dallas Mavericks game.
[00:35:07]  No one was coming anyway, but standard respect to play the national anthem for the country that you're in, obviously.
[00:35:16]  He got overruled by the National Basketball Association, and they said that's a little bit too woke even for us.
[00:35:22]  You see, you're starting to see the Democrat coalition, the Democrat Party, the Democrat movement start to splinter a little bit.
[00:35:31]  You're starting to see the Democrat ruling class and the Democrats' elites start to get worried that maybe their movement will not be unified.
[00:35:44]  Which kind of made me thought for a minute as I was processing this theory.
[00:35:49]  Maybe when Joe Biden was talking about unity, he was not talking about national unity.
[00:35:54]  Maybe he was talking about Democrat Party unity.
[00:35:59]  Maybe he was talking about not allowing the different factions or the different parts of the Democrat Party to splinter.
[00:36:09]  I'm starting to see more and more evidence of this.
[00:36:11]  The New York Times came out with a piece by Eric Kaufman, who's a professor who studies and writes about demographics, partisanship, and ideology, which says, quote, how stable is the Democratic coalition?
[00:36:25]  Quote, the party may control the elected branches in Washington, but it may be facing some slippage in support from minority communities.
[00:36:34]  It starts by saying, quote, Democrats are riding high in Washington with control of the White House and Congress.
[00:36:40]  They got there with the broad coalition that included suburban white and minority voters.
[00:36:43]  I estimate, based on exit poll data, that nearly half of the Democrat Party, roughly 81 million voters, came from the latter group.
[00:36:50]  For Republicans, it was just 18%.
[00:36:53]  The argument that he makes is that, therefore, all Republicans have to do is increase their number from 18% to 22%, continue to invigorate and expand their base, and you're going to have a pretty sizable and formidable political opposition.
[00:37:08]  The article continues by citing many pieces of data by saying, quote, many minorities that no longer identify as Democrats have become independents rather than Republicans, much like their white Catholic predecessors initially did.
[00:37:22]  But this means their loyalties are increasingly up for grabs on Election Day.
[00:37:27]  Talks about how Hispanics went in the Republican direction historically in the 2020 presidential election.
[00:37:36]  You also see this with the strange amount of propaganda that no one asked for, but just seems to be emerging and bubbling to the surface, saying that Republicans want a third party.
[00:37:49]  No, we don't.
[00:37:51]  It sounds nice, but when rational people are presented with that proposal, they always reject it.
[00:37:59]  They know it will splinter the party.
[00:38:00]  They know it will give totalitarians more power, and they walk away from it.
[00:38:05]  And so the question is, who's actually pushing this third-party narrative?
[00:38:11]  And the answer is Democrat operatives that are seeing the fault lines within their own party.
[00:38:17]  They're starting to see the most ideological members of the Democrat Party starting to create political liabilities for them.
[00:38:26]  With no Trump, what is the message of the Democrat Party?
[00:38:30]  Certainly not going to be very popular to talk about the Green New Deal as people have to shovel themselves out in Texas where they have no power thanks to the solar panel windmill operation.
[00:38:44]  It's certainly not going to be transgender policies that are now being forced in elementary and high schools across the country.
[00:38:53]  What is their policy agenda?
[00:38:56]  You see, Democrats always view everything through a power struggle.
[00:39:01]  That's part of their philosophy.
[00:39:03]  It's very postmodern, that it's not about a battle of ideas.
[00:39:08]  It's not about the pursuit of truth.
[00:39:11]  Instead, it's who's in power, who isn't in power, and we must try to overthrow the quote-unquote oppressor, the fallow, logo-centric Western patriarchy, which is a common talking point of the activist left.
[00:39:26]  So, because of this, they are trying to implement a strategy to give themselves more political power.
[00:39:33]  And that strategy is very simple.
[00:39:36]  That strategy is instead of worrying about the fault lines in our own party, Let's just try to make the Republican Party fracture right now.
[00:39:45]  We will elevate any Republicans that oppose the now former President Trump and his coalition, like Adam Kinzinger, like Liz Cheney, like Bill Cassidy, like Susan Collins, like Ben Sasse.
[00:39:58]  We will probe articles and stories around the creation of third parties, which is something that is completely out of nowhere.
[00:40:07]  That's their strategy.
[00:40:09]  But what Biden was warning about was not national unity.
[00:40:13]  That is very clear.
[00:40:14]  If Biden wanted national unity, he would not have banned new fracking on federal lands.
[00:40:19]  He would not have signed the radical transgender executive order.
[00:40:23]  If Biden wanted national unity, he would have had a completely different way of governing.
[00:40:28]  When was the last time Joe Biden looked in the eyes of someone that supported and voted for Donald Trump?
[00:40:34]  He had some Republican senators come meet with him, some of whom were Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski.
[00:40:41]  When was the last time Joe Biden, under his mission to unify the country, actually did something to unify America?
[00:40:49]  It's because Joe Biden was never concerned about unifying America.
[00:40:52]  He was concerned about unifying the Democrat Party.
[00:40:55]  The Democrats' big gamble is playing out right now.
[00:41:00]  Their big gamble is this.
[00:41:02]  If we play our cards right, we will never be out of power.
[00:41:07]  Their big gamble is to engage in propagandist techniques and tactics that will result in the bitter division of the country.
[00:41:18]  But they'll be in power forever.
[00:41:20]  We're going to change the way we vote.
[00:41:21]  We're going to change the way we talk.
[00:41:23]  We're going to change the way we communicate.
[00:41:25]  We're going to change the way we educate.
[00:41:27]  We're going to change the way that we do business.
[00:41:29]  All so that we remain in power.
[00:41:31]  Not what's actually best for the country, but Democrats have never been interested in what's best in the country.
[00:41:36]  I get so exhausted when I hear people say, well, you know, Charlie, we all want the same thing.
[00:41:40]  We just have different ways of getting there.
[00:41:42]  No, we don't.
[00:41:44]  Democrats do not want the same thing that I do.
[00:41:47]  They want men in women's locker rooms.
[00:41:49]  I don't.
[00:41:51]  They want post-birth abortions.
[00:41:53]  I don't.
[00:41:54]  They want open borders.
[00:41:55]  I don't.
[00:41:56]  They want private property to erode and disappear.
[00:41:59]  I don't.
[00:42:01]  So the Democrats' big gamble is that they know the fault lines are happening, that if the rules stayed in place that allow backlash from the people, they will eventually be out of power.
[00:42:10]  Their big gamble is not to unify the country, but unify the party and rule with an iron fist and create a one-party state like California.
[00:42:17]  That's their definition of unity, the absence of opposition.
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[00:43:12]  We just got some breaking news here.
[00:43:14]  Looks like a U.S. military contractor was killed in Iraq from Shiite militants, Shiite militia.
[00:43:24]  So Shiite are almost always tied in one way or the other to Iran.
[00:43:31]  Saudi Arabia and most of the countries on the Arabian Peninsula are Sunni.
[00:43:37]  Shiite is almost all Iranian.
[00:43:39]  Shiite is a small fraction of all of the Muslims across the world.
[00:43:44]  So this is probably connected with the number one sponsor of terrorism on the planet, Iran.
[00:43:50]  So why is Iran doing this?
[00:43:52]  Well, of course, they smell weakness.
[00:43:54]  That's why.
[00:43:55]  And they also want to have negotiating and bargaining position over Joe Biden.
[00:44:03]  You see, the way the Obama-Biden foreign policy worked is whatever Iran wants, they get.
[00:44:09]  We have to even the playing field.
[00:44:12]  If Iran wants a bomb, we'll give them a bomb.
[00:44:14]  If Iran wants $500 million, we'll give it to them too.
[00:44:17]  So now Iran is opening with a warning shot saying, if you do not give us the Iranium to enrich, if you do not give us the permission of the international community, Americans will die.
[00:44:27]  Now, Iran will deny responsibility for this, but any person in the foreign policy space, and I've been texting with just a couple of them here, will tell you that anyone connected with Shiite militia is in one way or the other funded, supported, trained, or even in direct communication with Iran.
[00:44:45]  And one of the problems with this, too, is Joe Biden might react disproportionately.
[00:44:51]  Joe Biden might act in a way to prove people that he is not a foreign policy dove, and he might get us entangled in another foreign war.
[00:44:59]  You see, the brilliance of the administration that just ended, the Trump administration in their foreign policy approach is they isolated Iran.
[00:45:06]  They put sanctions on Iran.
[00:45:08]  They unified the entire Arab world around Iran because Iran was and is the greatest enemy in the Middle East.
[00:45:15]  So as soon as you start to give other Arab allies, like the UAE, confidence that the closer they grow to America, the more support they'll have against Iran, UAE then becomes likely to do things they otherwise would not have done, things that otherwise would have been considered uncharacteristic, such as negotiating a peace deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel.
[00:45:38]  Something that still bothers me how President Trump never got credit for literally brokering and achieving Middle East peace.
[00:45:46]  That is now all being put into jeopardy under Joe Biden and his administration.
[00:45:51]  And so this rocket attack in Iraq, I'm reading from the New York Times, as it just broke.
[00:45:56]  It was aimed at an airport in the northern city of Erbil on Monday, killed a civilian contractor with the American-led military coalition.
[00:46:05]  They knew what they were doing.
[00:46:07]  They might claim responsibility and say that this is retaliation for Soleimani, when Qassam Soleimani, who killed hundreds of Americans, was killed by a drone strike right outside of an airport in Baghdad.
[00:46:21]  And so Joe Biden's response to this will be very, very interesting.
[00:46:25]  Will he react with Tomahawk missiles peppered all throughout Iran?
[00:46:29]  Will he support a ground invasion, or will he try to get to a negotiating position with Iran?
[00:46:38]  What President Trump realized, and Mike Pompeo and his entire team realized, was that negotiating with Iran was not working.
[00:46:47]  The way to prevent war with Iran, the way to put your country first, is actually put crippling sanctions on them, which will destroy their industrial base, their manufacturing ability, and will bring them back to the negotiating table, not with confidence, but in crisis.
[00:47:06]  And so now the exact opposite is happening.
[00:47:08]  Iran is now bragging that they are close to enriching uranium to get a nuclear weapon.
[00:47:13]  They know that the Joe Biden administration will give them a path to do that.
[00:47:21]  And this is absolutely a test for the Biden administration.
[00:47:25]  How much are they going to involve ourselves in this region?
[00:47:27]  One of the things that President Trump also never got credit for is ending the endless wars, is de-escalating conflict in Afghanistan, withdrawing troops.
[00:47:37]  He did that all the while of negotiating peace in the region and putting Iran on defense.
[00:47:46]  What did the Middle East look like before Donald Trump took office?
[00:47:51]  We had the failed military intervention in Libya with Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
[00:47:57]  We had the failure in Syria, and Iran was running the entire Middle East, and Israel was on defense.
[00:48:03]  Now, I'm of the opinion that we need to get ourselves divested generally from a permanent military occupation in the region.
[00:48:09]  The best way to do that, broker peace.
[00:48:12]  So, this will be a very, very fascinating first chapter in the Joe Biden foreign policy portfolio.
[00:48:21]  As Iran has now killed an American, will Joe Biden, who was known for signing off on the deal that sent hundreds of millions of dollars to Iran, stand up to them?
[00:48:30]  And if he will, how will he do that?
[00:48:33]  Ron DeSantis is getting national headlines, and I'll tell you right now that the difference between Andrew Cuomo and his handling of the nursing home scandal, which is real and it is a major scandal, versus the brilliance of Ron DeSantis handling everything in Florida is dramatic.
[00:48:53]  And Ron DeSantis is not stopping there.
[00:48:55]  The best governor of America is now stepping up and challenging the big tech companies.
[00:49:02]  Do you know why I love this?
[00:49:04]  It's one thing to complain.
[00:49:05]  It's one thing to point out problems.
[00:49:08]  It's another thing to offer solutions, to start to be a leader with courage.
[00:49:15]  You see, leadership requires clarity and requires the capacity to find solutions to entrenched problems.
[00:49:28]  One of those problems that we've talked about extensively here on this program is how a small collection of big tech companies worth trillions of dollars control the minds of our young people, control the information flow in our country, the news flow of our country, and they must be challenged and stopped.
[00:49:49]  Let's go to cut seven of Ron DeSantis saying Floridians should not have to give up their most intimate information to use a mobile device.
[00:49:58]  Now, before we go to cut seven, I have to say this: Donald Trump should have given this speech two years ago, and he should have rallied states to do this two years ago, and he might have gotten re-elected.
[00:50:09]  If Donald Trump would have done what Ron DeSantis did in this speech right here, he very well might have been re-elected.
[00:50:19]  Why do I say that?
[00:50:20]  Because his election was the most interfered-with election in American history.
[00:50:24]  The Time magazine article admits it.
[00:50:26]  The secret shadow campaign to save the 2020 election.
[00:50:31]  We did an entire podcast on it.
[00:50:32]  I encourage you to check out that podcast.
[00:50:34]  I think it was a week and a half ago on Friday.
[00:50:36]  I encourage you to check it out.
[00:50:38]  And I'm not faulting Donald Trump for not doing this, saying he could have done more, and he should have done more on this.
[00:50:46]  Let's go to cut seven.
[00:50:48]  Floridians should not have to give up their most intimate information to use a mobile device, surf the internet, or connect with friends and families on social media.
[00:50:56]  The status quo has all been a one-way street with big tech, where they have all the power, they dictate all the rules, they take whatever data they want, when they want, and consumers get virtually nothing except the, quote, privilege of using their own devices that they've already paid for.
[00:51:14]  But we can't let it go on any longer.
[00:51:16]  The states are rising up against the tech elites.
[00:51:19]  The Washington, D.C. Country Club, otherwise known as the United States Senate, is completely missing in action when it comes to this.
[00:51:28]  A lesson for all of us is let's stop looking to D.C.
[00:51:31]  We should ignore them.
[00:51:33]  Still hold them accountable.
[00:51:34]  Make sure they don't pass big gun control measures.
[00:51:37]  But when you see a U.S. Senator, you should say, if they're just kind of vanilla, say, you understand how ineffective you are, right?
[00:51:49]  You understand that you've gotten nothing done.
[00:51:54]  And there's some good ones.
[00:51:55]  I like Rand Paul.
[00:51:56]  I like Ted Cruz, you know, Josh Hawley, God bless him.
[00:51:59]  But for most of these guys and women, what have they done?
[00:52:03]  Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis is giving a long press conference, holding up a mobile phone saying, we in Florida, the fourth largest state in the country, we're not going to allow the citizens of Florida's information to be mined by these big tech companies.
[00:52:18]  We're going to pass a law to push back against them.
[00:52:20]  That's heroic.
[00:52:22]  And we've gone into great detail why Senate Republicans have not done that before.
[00:52:26]  It's because a lot of them are financed by Google.
[00:52:27]  A lot of them are financed by these big tech companies.
[00:52:30]  Ron DeSantis, he is not.
[00:52:34]  And Governor Greg Abbott has signaled other support, but where's also the Republican Party?
[00:52:39]  Where's the Republican Party coming up and saying we are now going to organize 20 governors to do the same?
[00:52:46]  In fact, we were talking about this at Turning Point Action.
[00:52:49]  We very well might go on a roadshow very soon to my friend, Governor Greg Gianforte, to Montana, my friend Governor Christy Noam, and meet with these governors and say, hey, let's do this together.
[00:53:00]  Let's make a broad-based coalition.
[00:53:03]  We happen to know a lot of these governors.
[00:53:04]  They're great people.
[00:53:05]  Governor Gianforte in Montana is doing a great job, self-made businessman and supporter of Turning Point.
[00:53:10]  I've known him for years.
[00:53:11]  What a great opportunity for Montana to all of a sudden become a thorn in the side of Menlo Park.
[00:53:18]  Man, that's a winner.
[00:53:19]  The guy who's starting all of this is a governor that is doing what the consultant class would advise against.
[00:53:27]  Ron DeSantis is picking new fights.
[00:53:30]  That's why Ron DeSantis is going to win reelection by five to ten points in November 2022.
[00:53:36]  Courage is so lacking right now.
[00:53:40]  And that's where anytime I can, I don't want to just turn our program into just relentlessly talking about how the left is ruining everything.
[00:53:46]  I like talking about people that are offering solutions.
[00:53:48]  And another solution, which is a crisis in our country, let me be very clear.
[00:53:52]  The fact that schools are not open in America is a moral travesty.
[00:53:56]  Every school should be open.
[00:53:58]  But they are open in Florida, thanks to Ron DeSantis.
[00:54:01]  Cut 8.
[00:54:02]  Florida schools are open for in-person instruction.
[00:54:06]  Every single parent in this state has a right to send their kid to in-person instruction.
[00:54:12]  We have done it the right way.
[00:54:14]  We are not going to turn back.
[00:54:16]  We've been open the whole time since August.
[00:54:19]  We had kids doing camps and athletics and all that over the summer.
[00:54:24]  And we've been in person as much as anybody in the country.
[00:54:27]  And yet, we're 34th out of 50 states in D.C. for COVID-19 cases on a per capita basis for children.
[00:54:36]  33 states have more cases per capita than Florida for children per capita.
[00:54:44]  And many of those don't have a lot of in-person instruction in school.
[00:54:50]  34th out of 50.
[00:54:52]  And the one thing Florida has that these states don't have is freedom.
[00:54:56]  They have liberty.
[00:54:57]  They have people's livelihoods that are preserved and protected.
[00:55:00]  So I'm here on the west coast of Florida in an undisclosed location, and I could tell you that the real estate market here is red hot.
[00:55:08]  Property values are going up.
[00:55:10]  People want to be here.
[00:55:13]  And what you're going to start to see is the greatest exodus from blue states to red states in American history.
[00:55:18]  And we already saw that trend pick up in the Obama years.
[00:55:22]  But now that you have Illinois that is trying to raise taxes even further, now you have Illinois that has high property tax, high sales tax, broken pensions, and then awful weather.
[00:55:35]  You say, what am I doing here?
[00:55:38]  Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island have very similar situations.
[00:55:46]  So every Republican governor in the country should look at the tale of two governors.
[00:55:52]  I always love this kind of framing.
[00:55:55]  Tale of two cities, tale of two Americas, tale of two governors.
[00:55:58]  Brian Kemp and Ron DeSantis.
[00:56:01]  Brian Kemp is an awful governor.
[00:56:05]  Ron DeSantis is a phenomenal governor.
[00:56:08]  One of them is a leader with clarity and courage.
[00:56:11]  The other one is a typical transactional business chamber of commerce appeasing politician.
[00:56:19]  Brian Kemp did a fine job opening the economy earlier than most.
[00:56:22]  Florida led on that.
[00:56:24]  Brian Kemp mishandled the entire election integrity conversation.
[00:56:29]  Brian Kemp oversaw two senators become Democrats, Raphael Warnock and John Ossif.
[00:56:38]  Neither have business becoming U.S. senators.
[00:56:40]  Brian Kemp defied the wishes of Donald Trump and instead appointed one of his good friends and campaign donors, Kelly Loffler, to be the U.S. Senator, and she lost to Raphael Warnock dramatically.
[00:56:54]  Ron DeSantis delivered his tape for Trump.
[00:56:57]  Brian Kemp delivered his state for Biden.
[00:57:00]  Ron DeSantis has two Republican senators, and Ron DeSantis increased the Republican delegation to add, I think, two new Republican, maybe even three new Republican congresspeople in Florida, Elvira Salazar, one in downtown Miami.
[00:57:15]  This is a lesson for Republicans out there.
[00:57:17]  It's also a lesson for Republican voters, for conservatives.
[00:57:22]  Just because someone has an R next to their name doesn't mean they're going to do what they say they're going to do.
[00:57:28]  And what is Ron DeSantis doing in this next cut?
[00:57:31]  Pushing back against teacher unions.
[00:57:33]  God bless this man.
[00:57:34]  Play cut nine.
[00:57:36]  If you want to open schools, open them.
[00:57:39]  Open the door.
[00:57:40]  Let them come in and let them learn.
[00:57:43]  And the only reason that that is not happening across this country like it is in Florida, like it is in a handful of other states, it's one reason and one reason only.
[00:57:56]  Because the Democratic Party puts the interests of education unions and special interests ahead of the well-being of our children and of our families.
[00:58:08]  I have been waiting for a Republican to say this my whole life.
[00:58:12]  And they always tap dance around it.
[00:58:14]  Ron DeSantis calls it out so clearly.
[00:58:17]  They put the interest of teacher unions and education unions over the interests of students and families.
[00:58:23]  That framing, by the way, wins you every election.
[00:58:27]  Blacks, Hispanic, single, white, old, young, they can all agree that the entrenched public sector teacher unions do not put the interests of the students or the families first.
[00:58:40]  And so, for some of these other states that remain closed, like Governor DeWine in Ohio, with schools that are still closed, what are you afraid of?
[00:58:48]  And the answer is they're afraid of quite a lot.
[00:58:50]  They're afraid of losing reelection.
[00:58:52]  They're afraid of bad articles being written about them in the local paper.
[00:58:55]  Courage is the most important virtue.
[00:59:00]  Because without courage, there are no other virtues.
[00:59:03]  You're alone in a room.
[00:59:05]  You could be wonderfully honest, full of integrity.
[00:59:08]  But if you never have anyone to be honest to, then what good is your honesty?
[00:59:13]  You could be ethical, and you should be.
[00:59:16]  But it requires courage for all those other virtues to exist.
[00:59:21]  We are now going to be looking at this very carefully the next coming weeks and months.
[00:59:25]  How states handle the one-year anniversary of the 15 Days of Slow the Spread.
[00:59:30]  We're almost one year into 15 Days of Slow the Spread.
[00:59:34]  Florida is booming.
[00:59:37]  Illinois is crumbling.
[00:59:39]  Georgia is a mess.
[00:59:41]  You get the government you deserve.
[00:59:44]  We need more leaders like Governor Ron DeSantis.
[00:59:50]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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