Charlie takes aim at Joe Biden's new $2.5 trillion infrastructure bill, and dismantles its noble claims of being a "once in a generation" attempt to restructure the American economy. Far from being a job creator and an engine of innovation, the bill is a grab bag of far-left wish list goodies, proof that the Democrats are uninterested in safeguarding the America we all know and love. Charlie also explains why the same old Republican talking points will not be enough to defeat this bill. Finally, Charlie touches on new updates from the George Floyd trail, and why a Chicago High School refuses to be named after "oppressor" President Obama. Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey, everybody.
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Joe Biden announced a new $2 trillion infrastructure package.
Now, how does the New York Times describe this?
A Biden plan stresses jobs, roads, and growth.
Included in the plan would be Joe Biden raising corporate taxes to be the highest effective tax rate in the world.
Now, the first thing that the left and the Democrats are not telling you, and the reason why they are advocating for tax increases, is because they know inflation is coming.
When you have inflation coming, you must restrict the money supply.
One of the ways to do that is through taxation.
George H.W. Bush famously did that after he promised not to raise taxes.
He said, read my lips, no new taxes.
And he raised taxes because he felt pressure under inflation.
So the fact that Joe Biden is advocating for higher taxes is not because Joe Biden actually cares about how to pay for these programs.
Deficits do not matter to Democrats.
Instead, Joe Biden is worried that he might have to explain away 8% inflation next year.
And by the way, an 8% inflation, which very well might be coming, might already be here.
You want to talk about a tax on the middle class?
You want to talk about suppressing working people?
That's what you're going to get when you create $6 trillion out of thin air, like Joe Biden has.
His plan, $2 trillion infrastructure package that has been announced, is one of the largest in American history.
He says it's all about union jobs, which, of course, we know that's not true.
Joe Biden didn't write this plan.
It was written by Ron Klain and the people running our government.
And everyone should familiarize themselves with Ron Klain, who's the chief of staff for the president and what he did before he became president and the industries he's connected to.
But there's one part of this in particular that I think explains this entire infrastructure package.
And the activist media, the Washington Post, and the New York Times are completely ignoring it.
It has here what's in the infrastructure package.
$46 billion for clean energy manufacturing.
$50 billion for the semiconductor industry.
Let me pause there.
Semiconductor industry.
What is that?
Silicon Valley.
Does Silicon Valley represent the values of the left or the right?
Of course they're going to put $50 billion for Silicon Valley.
Where do you think we got the term Silicon Valley from?
Semiconductors would be a massive handout to the Bezoses and the apples of the world.
And I'll get to that in a second.
$100 billion for public schools.
$100 billion for public schools.
Joe Biden is making good on his promise to the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, the two largest teacher unions in the country, that he is going to pay them back for what they did for him and the indoctrination that they are putting forward.
Here's one: $10 billion for federal buildings.
I'm very curious the rationale for this.
What federal building needs updating so badly?
We need to spend $10 billion on it.
$12 billion for community colleges.
$213 billion for affordable housing.
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When we were in, I was in Palo Alto once, and all these people complain about the price of housing and that we need more affordable housing.
And they have all these committees about how they can do it.
You know how you get housing to be more affordable?
You build more homes.
And you don't build vertically, you build horizontally.
But the environmentalists don't like that.
And you know who else doesn't like that?
The people that already have their homes because it decreases their property value.
More homes, more supply.
Therefore, the $6 million home in downtown Stanford is not worth as much.
Other.
I kid you not.
The front page of the New York Times about Biden's infrastructure plan has $35 billion for other.
$35 billion for other.
He's proposing a plan to Congress with $35 billion for other.
Could you imagine if Trump submitted a budget that said we need $35 billion for other?
$20 billion for underserved communities.
It's awfully unspecific.
But here's the most important one: $174 billion for electric vehicle incentives.
And then I was reminded when I read that exactly what's going on here.
Markets.businessinsider.com.
Nancy Pelosi's husband has invested over $1 million into bullish bets on Tesla's stock.
This was two months ago.
House Speakers, Nancy Pelosi's husband has placed $1 million worth of bets on the stock of Tesla.
He also put a bunch of money into Apple semiconductors.
Pelosi is supposed to not be able to trade stocks like this, but she does, and her husband gets away with it.
And that best summarizes this entire infrastructure package put forward by Biden.
The only way that we will defeat this is not on the merits of infrastructure.
And let me be very clear: I'm pro-infrastructure.
This bill does not accomplish any of that.
If there's one place that we should spend domestically to make our country strong and put our country first, it's in infrastructure.
These projects will take a decade.
It'll be a handout to union labor and crony special interests.
And that's where we must focus.
The $174 billion for electric vehicle incentives, this might as well be a direct deposit in ACH right into the ruling class's bank account.
That's what this is.
This right here is wire instructions for the billionaires in America.
$35 billion for other.
How could you possibly get away with that?
Other.
I mean, that's literally a blank check.
And the New York Times editors, didn't anyone catch this?
Did anyone from the New York Times, when they published other, not pick up the phone or a request for comment to the White House?
Dear Gensaki, what is Other in your plan?
Best regards, Maggie Haberman.
No, is that not a thing?
$35 billion.
That's the GDP of a small Eastern European country.
$35 billion for other.
Research at HBCUs, $25 billion.
Community investment, $20 billion.
What does that mean?
$50 billion, semiconductor industry.
We are becoming so desensitized to these numbers, and there's a reason for all of this, everybody.
And I'm going to walk you through exactly what's really happening here.
And not only is it a direct deposit to the ruling class, there's something more, may I say, Machiavellian going on here.
What's going on is Democrats are relentlessly playing offense to pummel conservatives into submission and remake America in their image.
People ask all the time, Charlie, what do they want?
They haven't thought that through.
Most of them want power.
Some of them truly believe that America is so broken, so backwards, and that they possess the right answers that they must be in charge.
And unfortunately, this last year, we have seen that people value safetyism far more over liberty.
They regard the Leviathan, as Thomas Hobbes warned us against, that people do not actually want to make rational decisions, but instead, they would much rather prefer to be provided for or taken care of.
This infrastructure package, alongside H.R. 1 and HR5, and D.C. as the 51st state, shows that Democrats are uninterested in preserving an America that you and I love.
They're trying to remake it, as Barack Obama said, to fundamentally transform America in their image.
The New York Times is right on board.
And Republicans, the way Republicans are going to respond to this is totally wrong.
Do you want me to tell you my least favorite talking point in the conservative movement?
So how are we going to pay for it?
That's what I'm hearing from the chattering class and the talking heads and the establishment Republicans.
So how are we going to pay for it?
Do you know what that talking point means to me?
You've already conceded the point that it's a good idea.
Now it's just a matter of finding financing.
It's saying like, look, we should go buy the home.
Now we just got to find a bank to underwrite the loan.
It's basically what you're saying.
Instead, you should say, I reject the premise.
This is a bad idea morally.
It's bad for the country.
Even if we were completely financially solvent and we had a balanced budget, which we have not had in quite some time, that we weren't running $4 trillion deficits.
Even if all those things were true, I would oppose this vehemently because this is a bad idea.
It's a bad idea, and it's bad morally to go give $174 billion in electric car incentives, which is basically a direct deposit to Democrat donors.
It's a bad idea to give $100 billion to public schools, which is a handout to the public sector teacher unions trying to destroy charter schools.
It's a bad idea to give $50 billion, if not any dollar amount, to the semiconductor industry.
This is not government's role.
It's not.
If we were to do anything like this, you know what that Donald Trump wanted to do $200 billion on infrastructure, and he was told that that amount was too big.
That Donald Trump had a $200 billion infrastructure package, and Democrats told him to go pound sand.
Joe Biden is proposing something 10 times that after a $2 trillion stimulus, after the $1.9 trillion stimulus, after the $3 trillion stimulus, after the $4.4 trillion continuing resolution, and after the $1 trillion stimulus, I could you not, all of that has been done in one year.
John Maynard Keynes may have lost the battle, but he is winning the war.
Deficit spending.
And you know what, John Maynard Keynes, his most famous quote was: We're all dead in the long run.
Do you know how evil that is to say?
I don't care about my kids.
I don't care about future generations.
We're all dead.
We're all dust.
Might as well spend, live a little.
And while we're here, I want to be in control.
I want to be on the top of the power dynamic.
I want to be the person in the ivory tower.
I want to be the person calling the shots.
That's what this is all about.
This right here is the fulfilling of the promises of people that helped get Joe Biden into the presidency.
As we mentioned, semiconductors, Center for Technology and Civic Life spent $400 million helping mail-in balloting across the country.
The National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers, spent millions of dollars.
University of California is the number one donor to the Democrat Party per profession in the entire country, which would make sense for all the handouts for higher education in this bill.
This is not about infrastructure for the country.
This is about building the infrastructure of the Democrat Party.
That's what this is about.
This is about building sustainable infrastructure to win elections, not create jobs, and not create economic growth.
I want to get to a couple stories here.
There's a lot happening.
But one in particular caught my eye that I don't think anyone else is talking about, which is what we try to do here.
Cashier who took George Floyd's counterfeit 20-bill dollar says that he felt disbelief and guilt watching arrest.
This is from KTLA, rewritten.
I think it was an AP story.
Yeah, it was Associated Press.
After the ambulance took George Floyd away, the Minneapolis police officer had pinned his knee on the black man's neck defended himself to a bystander saying Floyd was a sizable guy and probably on something, which he was.
Not only was he on something, he was on a lot of something.
And his lawyer is trying to explain it away by saying, well, he had a lot of tolerance, also known as George Floyd, who was a drug addict.
We know that.
And that George Floyd asked seven times.
He said, seven times, I can't breathe.
And he wanted to be put on the ground at his request.
I am not justifying the length of time that Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd's neck.
That's up for the jury to decide.
What I am saying is that there's a lot more to the story than all of a sudden a racial profiling incident of a police officer finding a random black man.
But here's the most important thing of this particular story: is that this young man, 19-year-old Christopher Martin, who reported George Floyd to his boss for having fake currency, is now saying that he has guilt about what happened.
So, what does that really mean?
The media loves this story.
Do you know why?
Because the media is trying to say that if we just decriminalize crime, George Floyd would still be alive.
That's what they're trying to say.
They're trying to say, so what if he's using fake currency?
So, what if it's a fake $20 bill?
And this 19-year-old Christopher Martin shouldn't feel guilt at all.
He should be lifted up and said, you did the right thing, young man.
Instead, the media is playing into it and will probably result in this young man having more guilt for the rest of his life.
Well, I'm going to defend Christopher Martin right here.
When anyone comes in and commits a crime, let alone counterfeit currency, which is not a small thing, you should do something about it.
Martin said this: quote, if I would have just not touched the bill, this could have been avoided.
You're wrong, Martin.
That is the wrong way to view this.
What you're trying to say, Martin, is you should have excused a crime and none of this would have happened.
Now, Martin, Christopher Martin, if you would have done something illegal, that's fine.
You did something moral.
Your job is to protect the fiduciary future of your employer.
The media loves this story.
Continues, Martin said he immediately believed that George Floyd's $20 bill is fake, but he said he accepted it despite believing the amount would be taken out of his paycheck by his employer because he didn't think Floyd knew it was counterfeit.
And quote, I thought I'd be doing him a favor.
Martin said he initially planned to just put the bill on his own tab, but then second-guessed himself from there and told the manager who sent Martin outside to ask Floyd to return to the store.
But Floyd, who is likely high on drugs and a passenger in his SUV, twice refused to go back into the store to resolve the issue.
That's funny.
If George Floyd would have just went back into the store to resolve the issue, maybe this whole thing could have been avoided.
Maybe that's the narrative that should be used.
Not saying he deserved to die, but what they're trying to say here is that all we have to do is decriminalize the small crimes and the big stuff will go away.
It's the opposite.
Rudy Giuliani proved this when he was mayor of New York.
Graffiti, broken windows, and panhandling will not be allowed.
The small crimes result into the big crimes.
The carjackers of today are the rapists of tomorrow.
It's true.
And statistics show that.
Martin said he initially planned to just put the bill on his.
Okay, Martin said that Floyd was inside the store buying cigarettes.
He spoke so slowly, so, quote, it would appear that he was high, but he described Floyd as friendly and talkative.
So, first of all, why put this young man on the stand?
I don't understand.
It's completely irrelevant.
What they're trying to do is build a narrative of George Floyd being a victim of not just Derek Chauvin, but being a victim of an overly zealous criminal justice system that wants to go find counterfeit currency.
You know, counterfeit currency could be argued as one of the most serious financial crimes.
You know why?
Something that we don't talk about enough.
Who accepts cash?
Small businesses.
Most cash transactions happen in small minority neighborhoods, and their margins are really thin.
So when you come in with counterfeit currency, first of all, who's making the counterfeit currency?
Who's creating the fake bills?
Who's distributing them?
And very well, it might have been an opportunity to go find out where George Floyd was getting these bills from.
This young man, the cashier, needs to find someone who will support him right now.
And there's no one.
The media is loving the fact that he is feeling guilty about the whole thing.
But make no mistake, this is exactly what's happening in Baltimore right now.
Baltimore, which has one of the highest murder rates in the country, they just basically said they will not prosecute, and I quote, prostitution, drug possession.
What was the other one?
It's prostitution, drug possession, and one other.
There is a belief amongst the left, oh, public defecation.
That's how you're going to make Baltimore great again.
Allow public defecation.
There's a deeper issue going on with this, and I just wanted to touch that.
Another story out of Chicago.
Immigration activists are objecting to renaming a Chicago school after Barack Obama.
Oh, I love this.
I will not be part of renaming a school after someone who did not and does not represent the undocumented community, the illegal community.
Waukegan, which is North Chicago, right near the Wisconsin border, met Tuesday evening to debate renaming Thomas Jefferson Middle School and Daniel Webster Middle School, after who's decided historical figures either owned slaves or supported slavery.
Let me be very clear.
Thomas Jefferson did not support slavery.
This is a lie.
He did own slaves, but he argued in the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, blaming King George for slavery, saying it was immoral.
Thomas Jefferson signed a moratorium disallowing new slaves to be brought into the United States in 1803.
Thomas Jefferson's own document, the Declaration of Independence, in 1777, inspired the abolition of slavery in Vermont.
Thomas Jefferson argued for the abolition of slavery in the Virginia House of Commons.
Of course, this nonsense in Waukegan, Illinois, for all my friends listening on AM 560, The Answer, none of that truth of the brilliance of Thomas Jefferson being an architect, a founder of the university, an American president.
He was something else under Washington.
I want to say Treasury?
No, no, it wasn't.
It was Secretary of State or something.
I'll think of it.
No, he was a vice president.
He was Secretary of State.
That's right.
That was okay.
Something foreign.
You're right.
It's a pretty exceptional man.
But for the postmodernists, anything that has come before me is a mistake and they're all racist.
Well, at least they're judging Barack Obama by that same standard.
Julie Contreras says, quote, from the time Barack Obama became president until 2017 when he left, he today is still the highest ranking president with deportations in our nation.
We feel that Barack Obama did a disservice to us.
He denied us.
He didn't stop the deportations the way he promised.
If you're removing the name of Thomas Jefferson, one oppressor, Thomas Jefferson was not an oppressor.
He was a liberator, you spoiled brat.
The name of Obama is another oppressor.
Well, I agree with that.
And our families do not want to see that name.
Another woman, Mauricio Sanchez, said naming the school after Obama would serve as a painful reminder of her father's deportation under the Obama administration in 2015.
It was something very sad.
We couldn't even say goodbye to our dad.
We just hoped for him to be able to get out.
Sanchez said her father is still tied up in immigration hearings.
Let me just say this.
Her father probably committed a crime.
Let me just say that.
The blanket deportations were not happening under Barack Obama.
Only people that were committing crimes were being deported, which was the pre-existing law.
And why did Obama do it?
Because Obama was still operating under this paradigm of the left that you can't go scorched earth.
Under Donald Trump, this new left was created that we can just burn the whole country to the ground and the media will defend us because Trump was so bombastic and he gave us the cover fire to do it.
It's true.
It's probably one of the worst things that came out of the Trump era: the left had no shame, no disregard, and will do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, and we'll just blame Trump and racism.
Activists protest renaming Chicago school after oppressor Barack Obama.
Well, Obama was an oppressor for different reasons.
So what's the real story here?
Can we start to see a little left-on-left arguments going on here?
We start to see a little bit of a Democrat disunity campaign.
We know that the Democrats deep down hate each other.
Joe Manchin, Kirsten Cinema, AOC, Schumer.
I would like to see in a little bit some primary campaigns, some public fights.
You see, the Democrats and the people running the Democrat Party, they're being very smart.
They are not allowing their differences to define the current Democrat Party.
I read a story like this.
I mean, Barack Obama is nearly the pope in certain parts of Chicago.
You know what's so funny about this?
If you wanted to go name a white school after Barack Obama, they would love it in a second.
If you wanted to go rename Glenbrook North or Glenbrook South or Hersey High School, they'd do it in a second.
Waukegan, Hispanic community, not so much.
The Republican-led Arizona State Senate on Wednesday announced that four firms have been hired to audit election results and count the 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County's 2020 general election to ensure the legitimacy of Joe Biden's win.
This is from Epic Times I'm reading.
The announcement from Senator Karen Phan comes just weeks after Arizona legislators order a recount of the ballots from the state's most populous county.
The state senate released a statement on March 18th stating that it will conduct a broad and detailed audit, adding that it will test voting machine scam ballots and look for IT breaches.
Now, with this, all of a sudden there's been an emergency meeting called in Arizona last minute about this.
Now, what's so strange about what's happening in Arizona, I spend a lot of time in Arizona.
We have our offices here.
I really enjoy Arizona.
I hope that it doesn't become fully totalitarian, unlivable here, which unfortunately is because of multiple reasons.
Why are the leaders of Arizona so afraid to actually open up the books?
If there's nothing to hide in the Arizona election, let everyone in and end the mythology of the steal.
Instead, this only creates more conspiracy theories.
I am a big believer that the left actually wants conspiracy theories.
I really am.
I think that they cook them up intentionally to be consumed so then they can say, oh, look at all the crazy people, what they believe.
If you want people to have distrust in the system, don't open up the books.
Don't allow auditing.
If you have nothing to hide, why are you hiding it?
So Maricopa right now is going through a lot of just a lot of turbulence.
I might even have Tyler or Austin come on here and explain this to me because a lot of it's in Maricopa County and I don't quite understand all of it.
But essentially, there's an emergency meeting of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.
It's at the emergency executive and possibly open session of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors may consider legal advice regarding board responsibilities and authority regarding elections, election equipment audits, Senate subpoenas, and litigation.
The emergency is due to the need to get legal advice regarding newly received information from the Senate concerning compliance for election-related subpoenas.
We need answers.
We need answers to what happened in Arizona.
And I'm pleased to see that there's finally some movement on this.
Finally.
The Senate said leadership will not be directly involved in the process to maintain integrity and transparency.
Two separate forensic audits of last year's election results have been conducted by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.
However, the Senate, State Senate maintains a separate audit must be carried out with a trusted group in order to restore faith in the voting system.
This is mission critical.
And I want to give you guys some hope.
They're starting to listen to us.
Georgia did not want to have to pass this voter integrity bill.
They did it because we kept the pressure on.
They did it because programs like right here, we did not give up this issue.
You emailed, you called, you kept the pressure on.
Now, let's do more.
Let's get real voter ID passed.
Let's clean the voter rolls.
Now, we got to stop HR1, which Kirsten Cinema can probably do if she holds the line on the filibuster.
I was with Senator Blackburn and Senator Haggerty last night, two great senators from Tennessee, and they believe that Manchin and Cinema are going to hold the line for now.
But it remains to be seen beyond that how things will unfold.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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