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Hey everybody, today the Charlie Kirk show, is any amendment absolute?
What did you think of Senator Tim Scott's remarks?
Because the way the left has been treating him is reprehensible and awful against a good man.
Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
We have some instant response.
We dive into a lot of different topics here as we continue to unpack the Joe Biden address to Congress.
And just one quick number that came out right after we got done recording.
Donald Trump had 48 million people in 2017 watch his speech.
In 2018, 46 million.
In 2019, 46 million.
In 2020, 37 million.
Joe Biden, 11.6 million.
There's something to that.
Again, send us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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So last evening, I did a live stream and a podcast, and I encourage all of you guys to check out our podcast on your podcast app, Charlie Kirk Show.
And my immediate response during Senator Tim Scott's speech was not necessarily negative, but I want more.
I want more from the Republican Party in regards to holding China accountable for the origination of the virus of a self-sufficiency agenda.
With that being said, I think Senator Tim Scott has a lot of talent.
I'm glad he's in the Republican Party.
And there are some parts I thought that were very powerful.
And feedback that I've received from a lot of you is a lot of people love Senator Tim Scott's speech.
Where I'm at, and as I see what the left is really doing to our country as they are on the move, I want a Republican Party who is willing to have a call to action for a counteroffensive legislatively, politically, and otherwise, from a communication strategy against what Joe Biden and the Democrats are doing to our country.
And so Senator Tim Scott, who has a terrific story, has come under massive attack from the American left.
You see, there's one thing you are not allowed to be in America, especially, which is a black conservative.
You are not allowed to be a black conservative.
Now, I personally did not love the overtures to try and even accept the premise of the left that we need a national police bill.
I don't love the fact that Senator Tim Scott feels the need to have to compensate for something that doesn't exist.
However, the way that he has been treated by the American left actually might disprove one of his statements last night.
I say this somewhat sarcastically, but Senator Tim Scott said, America's not a racist country.
I agree.
But if there were any racists, they'd be in the Democrat Party in their reaction to Senator Tim Scott.
It's reprehensible, disgusting responses on Twitter, social media, and television.
Let's listen to Joy Reed, who is the bigot herself, cut 109.
I was surprised, to be honest with you.
This was standard Republican pabulum.
This could have been delivered by Tom Cotton or Mike Lee.
America's not a racist country.
There's no racism here.
I'm not sure what the purpose of this was.
His audience to me appeared to be conservative white Republicans who were angry over certain things of cancel culture and the same sort of cultural nods that we hear on Fox News.
And he was out here to throw them a lifeline.
It was disappointing.
And Glenn Kessler, who is a reporter for the Washington Post, said an extensive piece saying that Tim Scott often talks about his grandfather in cotton.
There's more to that tale.
An expose saying that, ah, Senator Tim Scott really hasn't had to pull himself up by the bootstraps.
So there's a long story in the Washington Post saying that Senator Tim Scott actually had more privilege than he ever leads on.
You see, Senator Tim Scott in a lot of different ways is a threat to the American left.
Now, with that being said, I stand by my comments that I made initially.
Senator Tim Scott, who was going to receive backlash and hatred no matter what he said, he should have been much more aggressive against the Democrat Party.
He should have said it was the Democrat Party that is preventing black and Hispanic children from going to school.
Instead of saying common ground, Senator Tim Scott should say, you know what?
I want to say we should find common ground, but I'll find common ground as soon as we can find common morals and values.
And we don't have that right now at the Democrat Party.
You know, a good friend of mine from Chicago, he sent me this morning, this this morning.
I thought it was so wise.
He said, this is a political knife fight, not a debating society.
I think that's perfectly put.
And so the way that the media and the left has responded, they have trending on Twitter, Uncle Tim, which is a play obviously of Uncle Tom, which is an idea of a race traitor, a black person who was betrayed, betrayed the black community for racist southern whites.
There was one take in particular by one of these guys that goes on television.
I think he's a professor.
I've actually met him before.
He's a professor from trying to see which one it was.
And by the way, the whole crazy thing is that Uncle Tom was actually the hero of that story, which no one ever actually realizes and was the protagonist.
But it does come under that story, but that's a detail that they don't actually like.
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Larry Elder did a really great job.
There's another reaction here I want to get to from this professor.
Let me see if I can find this here.
Where he said that his ancestors are ashamed of him.
Yeah, this is it right here.
Jason Nichols, a black guy who goes on television, says Tim Scott is a clown and his ancestors are ashamed of him.
A white man by the name of Scott Nevins said Senator Tim Scott is uncle Tomming it for his life.
So sad, South Carolina should be so ashamed.
And then Leslie Mack, who's a black woman on Twitter, has a picture of a raccoon.
And it says, live look at Tim Scott prepping for this response earlier today.
The reaction from white liberals, Cheryl Dunn, says, Hi, Uncle Tim.
How does it feel to spread disinformation and be a traitor to your race and to your country?
There's hundreds of these examples.
Reprehensible, disgusting.
So, my question then, Senator Tim Scott: why are you trying to have overtures of common ground for the people that are calling you a race traitor?
What common ground do we have for these people, this guy that is a full-time lecturer, a professor in black studies at the University of Maryland College Park?
And he's the one that calls you a race traitor.
So, I guess this opens up a variety of different questions, which is what should the correct Republican response be?
I think it should be a solution-oriented response.
I actually would have liked to see the Republicans' response call Joe Biden on his own bluff on a couple different things.
Number one, foreign wars.
Say, you know what, Joe Biden, we think it's a good thing you're ending the war in Afghanistan.
Why didn't you thank Donald Trump for that?
That Donald Trump was the one that began brokering that peace.
Number two, instead of giving Congress the credit for Operation Warp Speed, which is what Senator Tim Scott did, why didn't he give any credit to the administration that actually facilitated that?
Not one mention of Donald Trump in Senator Tim Scott's remarks.
That was intentional, by the way.
It was intentional.
They're trying to delete him from political history.
Number three, they should have called Joe Biden's bluff and say, look, we're not willing to go spend $6 trillion, but why don't we start with $100 billion targeted for a self-sufficiency agenda?
That we want to make stuff in our country again with our hands.
The muscular class, the people that lift boxes and put together automobiles and assemble our products, they need help and support a lot more than the Zoom and Skype and tech class.
You see, that's what playing offense looks like.
Now, some people are reacting very favorably, though, to Senator Tim Scott, because I think they yearn for a politic of decency.
I do too.
I want that.
I'd love to be able to get coffee with liberals, joke around about the weather, and have wonderful, long-form discussions and leave as friends.
But when you have a president that is embracing HR1, HR5, not denouncing court packing, not mentioning the southern border crisis, and possibly D.C. as an addition of a state, and we're talking about common values.
I say timeout here.
We don't have common ground here.
And so Ronald Reagan, I think, is the most instructive lesson here.
Ronald Reagan was able to find common ground against Tip O'Neill because he had the people on his side.
You see, Tip O'Neill found common ground on the Reagan agenda.
Tip O'Neill, a Massachusetts Boston Democrat, moved in the direction of the grassroots.
Bill Clinton moved in the direction of Newt Gingrich because of the direction of the grassroots.
When the Republican Party is clear for what it stands for and why it stands for that, there will be a political reward.
I want to get to some more cut here.
Let's go to Cut 116, CNN Gloria Borger saying, Tim Scott, saying that the tide has turned the pandemic, saying getting vaccines into arms was a Biden operation, cut 116.
He said the tide had already turned on COVID-19 when Biden became president.
And of course, everybody understands that Operation Warp Speed happened under Joe Biden, but getting vaccines into arms was a Biden operation.
I'm not even sure what her point is here.
It was Donald Trump and his presidency that was overseeing Operation Warp Speed.
And Joe Biden literally got vaccinated while Donald Trump was president.
Let's go to another cut here.
Let's go to...
I do want to play some cut here of Joe Biden actually speaking.
We're going to do that throughout.
Let's go to this cut here, cut 115 of how the media is fawning over Joe Biden's speech, cut 115.
Visually, there will be two women behind the president during the speech, the vice president and the house speaker.
That's a first.
Want to see history tonight?
Just look behind the president during his big speech.
Woman of color and a woman speaker.
It kind of happened kind of without comment.
It's weird how it's just happened, and it's not controversial or remarkable anymore.
It's pretty exciting, and it's all wonderful to make history.
It's about time.
So rather hyped up.
And so I suppose we need to ask ourselves, what is their end game?
And what should the proper response be?
And how do we activate the grassroots?
What should our agenda in response to this be?
Wall Street Journal says Biden urges broad economic plan.
That's an understatement.
The New York Times has a pie chart, which of course they've been working on for quite some time.
And it says this, quote, Biden seeks shift in how the nation serves its people.
What's wrong with that?
Well, I'm going to philosophically deconstruct that.
But understand the Democrats have a short window to win this political war because they know they're going to lose the House in 2022.
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Let's play some of that.
Cut 101.
Republicans made a big mistake.
Joe Biden talks about ending the forever war in Afghanistan, and Republicans sat silently and idly by.
Now, Joe Biden's motives for ending the war in Afghanistan are probably not pure.
But when something that is good for our nation gets done, I don't care who does it.
I will say that is a good thing.
Play tape.
Stern deterrence.
An American leadership means ending the forever war in Afghanistan.
We have.
We have without hyperbole, the greatest fighting force in the history of the world.
I'm the first president of 40 years who knows what it means to have a son serving in a war zone.
Today, we have service members serving in the same war zone as their parents did.
We have service members in Afghanistan who are not yet born on 9-11.
The war in Afghanistan, as we remember the debates here, were never meant to be multi-generational undertakings of nation building.
That is a winning message.
Now, Joe Biden contradicts some of his America-first ethos that he trickles in there at times, and he doesn't have an America-first ethos.
Let me rephrase that.
Let me say one-liners when he says that we need to open up our borders and become globally focused.
But the two strongest parts of Joe Biden's speech is where Republicans should call the bluff ending the war in Afghanistan and creating a self-sufficiency America-first investment agenda.
That we're not going to make t-shirts, vitamin C, in Wuhan, Beijing, Bangladesh, or Ho Chi Minh City.
Instead, we're going to make it in Middleton, Ohio, in Des Moines, Iowa, in Normal, Illinois.
We don't even have the spinners in our country to make sheets anymore.
And so, Republicans were not applauding that last night.
They should be.
It's a popular thing with their voters.
Every single time the question of ending foreign nation building comes up, voters resoundingly, resoundingly support ending the perpetual occupation in Afghanistan.
Republicans sat silently as Joe Biden announced that.
And maybe they didn't want to give him a political win.
That's fine.
But I also believe that voters have a great disdain for supporting things that are so unpopular and against the best interest of our nation for some abstract goal that no one can define in Afghanistan.
So Joe Biden's on the move, is what he said.
The most important part of his speech is one that most people are not talking about.
His full-fledged endorsement of H.R. 1, House Resolution 1.
It was the most radical part of his speech, to change elections as we know it.
And Joe Biden just uses this repeated phrase: well, we have to have our democracy, our democracy, our democracy.
First of all, we are a republic.
We are not a democracy.
The fact that Republicans don't fight on that terrain is disappointing.
But Joe Biden wants to change elections for good.
He wants to restructure the way that we actually have representative government.
So the response is coming in of whether or not people thought Joe Biden did well or not.
He's actually far underperforming even Donald Trump in 2017 in a similar type of address.
But the Democrats are not actually interested in persuasion.
They're interested in pummeling Republicans.
This speech was not about winning over moderates.
It was about motivating the base, changing election law, and trying to just get enough, maybe 3% or 4% of people that still don't like Republicans in their category.
Joe Biden is governing as the president of the Democrat Party, not as the president of our country.
It was interesting to see Joe Biden's perspective is that we're probably going to lose the House in the midterms in 2022.
And we might as well go big or go home.
The most ambitious Democrat agenda, I think, in American history, if not since Woodrow Wilson or FDR.
Doesn't matter if it's bad for the country.
Doesn't matter if it's going to destroy the American dollar.
All of that is irrelevant.
Instead, a $6 trillion spending bill on top of a $4 trillion budget.
Now, some people have a problem with me calling it ambitious.
Obviously, it's evil and it's vile and it's malicious and it's pernicious.
But I will say it's ambitious.
It's not ambitious for the country.
It's ambitious for the Democrat Party.
They want to stay in power.
They're willing to use political power that was given to them or taken, depends on how you view it.
I'd probably say taken to make America in their image.
And we have been repeating this refrain for the last couple of weeks and months, which is, when will Republicans do the same?
Things that Barack Obama never would have said, Joe Biden says unapologetically.
For example, Cut 86.
And by the way, while you're thinking about sending things to my desk, let's raise the minimum wage to $15.
No one, no one working 40 hours a week, no one working 40 hours a week should live below the poverty line.
We need to ensure greater equity and opportunity for women.
And while we're doing this, let's get the Paycheck Fairness Act to my desk as well.
Equal pay.
They spent much too long.
And if you wonder whether it's too long, look behind you.
Barack Obama hesitated to ever call for a $15 minimum wage or sign executive orders around it.
Let's go to cut 94, where Joe Biden refused to ever mention where the virus came from.
What was the point of the origination?
Where did it come from?
Cut 94.
We can't be so busy competing with one another that we forget the competition that we have with the rest of the world to win the 21st century.
Secretary Blinken can tell you, I spent a lot of time with President Xi.
Traveled over 17,000 miles with him.
Spent they tell me over 24 hours in private discussions with him.
When he called to congratulate him, we had a two-hour discussion.
He's deadly earnest about becoming the most significant consequential nation in the world.
Earnest is what he calls America's greatest enemy, the Chinese Communist Party.
And Joe Biden repeated this refrain that China is our competitor.
It's our rival, not our geopolitical enemy.
And then Biden says, no amendment to the Constitution is absolute.
We're not changing the Constitution.
I don't know if he actually said that last night, or was that a different speech, 107?
It was last night.
Is any amendment to the Constitution absolute?
For example, you can't yell fire at a crowded theater, can you?
What does he mean by that?
Let's explore that.
Cut 107.
This shouldn't be a red or blue issue.
And no amendment to the Constitution is absolute.
You can't yell fire in a crowded theater.
From the very beginning, there are certain guns, weapons, that could not be owned by Americans.
Certain people could not own those weapons ever.
We're not changing the Constitution.
We're being reasonable.
Now, the yelling fire in a crowded theater was actually overturned in a court decision in 1969.
But this is a really important part, and I want to focus on this.
No amendment to the Constitution is absolute.
Let's focus on that sentence because I actually think it's really interesting and very troubling.
No amendment to the Constitution is absolute.
What is he saying?
What is Joe Biden getting at here?
He's saying, no freedom you have without permission from us.
You see, Joe Biden has a different view of the U.S. Constitution.
He thinks that the Bill of Rights and the amendments are rules for you.
He thinks that the amendments are what you can and cannot do.
No, no, there's restrictions on you, citizen.
We give them to you.
When a very basic view of natural rights doctrine, of which the U.S. Constitution is written, is based on, James Madison being the author of the United States Constitution, Thomas Jefferson the author of the Declaration, and I actually take a view that the Declaration and the Constitution are intertwined.
The Constitution completed the original promise of the Declaration is that first and foremost, these are rules for the government, not for citizens.
So, Joe Biden, let me read you the Second Amendment, for example, because he seems as if that this is the one that he is the most focused on.
A well-regulated militia, let's stop there.
Does that mean that only the government gets guns?
No.
A militia, back when the Constitution was written, was any man between the ages of 18 to 30, so everybody, being necessary to the security of a free state.
Let's stop.
Not necessary for hunting, because Joe Biden said, oh, you know, even deer hunters don't need 100 rounds.
Not even necessary for self-defense.
No, no, no.
Necessary to the security of a free state.
What are the founding fathers getting at here?
A free people is an armed people.
That's a different argument than Joe Biden was making.
He's like, oh, no, no, no.
You only need a gun maybe to go shoot deer or protect yourself.
Six rounds is all you need.
No, no, no.
The founding fathers were very clear being necessary to the security of a free state.
They're explicit about it.
That the security of our state is intertwined with the people's ability to protect themselves against a usurpatious government.
And here's the kicker, Mr. Biden.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms.
What does that mean?
Well, the Second Amendment acknowledges that that right pre-exists the Second Amendment.
It wasn't granted by the Second Amendment.
The creation of the Second Amendment doesn't say, oh, you have a right to own a gun because we give it to you.
No, they're acknowledging it.
You see, the Constitution is an acknowledgement document.
It is not an administrative document.
Let me say that again.
It is an acknowledgement document, not an administrative document.
It's not a document that says, we are now giving you your rights.
Instead, it's recognizing them.
But here's the most important part, Mr. Biden.
Shall not be infringed.
Who's that a rule for?
Is that a rule for us, the people, the citizens, the co-rulers?
No, no, no.
Joe Biden, it's a rule for you.
That's what makes this document different.
This idea of negative rights, that these are rules for the road, not for us, but for the bureaucrats, for you, for the people that we put in charge.
He says no amendment to the Constitution is absolute.
What he is trying to say in a deceiving, treacherous, treacherous, deceitful way is we give you your rights, and they're actually only as real as we say they are.
That's a violation of the promise of the United States Constitution.
It's completely contradictory to every single foundational element of this beautiful republic we live in.
And we're going to keep on exploring this because that statement right there is one of the inflection points of his speech.
It is the whole ballgame, everybody.
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And now we're zeroing in on why that sentence matters so much.
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Now to an untrained population or an uneducated or miseducated population who thinks that the amendments to the Constitution are rules for you, that sounds right.
It sounds as if the amendments are rules that are supposed to be put on the American people.
So how about the First Amendment?
Often quoted.
Who is the First Amendment directed at?
Who's the First Amendment trying to slow down?
Who's the First Amendment trying to say, you're not allowed to do this?
Congress shall make no law.
Huh, let's stop there.
The founders were so worried that Congress, the people Joe Biden was speaking to last night, were going to use their power to restrict their political opponents, they had to not just say, there shall be no law, they had to point out Congress.
It's pretty powerful.
Congress shall make no law.
Respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise of, so let's just stop there.
Some people say that this means separation of church and state.
That's nowhere in the Constitution, by the way.
They were worried about Episcopalian or Presbyterian or Anglican church.
Thomas Jefferson himself allowed worship in the halls of Congress and in the Supreme Court.
In fact, my good friend Jack Kibbs sent me this beautiful thing the other day.
I want to read this.
That, I don't know where this is from.
In fact, Congress approved the use of the Capitol for worship services at the prompting of the House and Senate chaplains under the leadership of the Speaker of the House, Theodore Sedgwick, on December 4th, 1800, soon after moving the government into the new capital city.
At the time of January 3rd, 1802 worship service, the House was meeting in a temporary South Wing chamber, nicknamed the oven, partially because of how hot it was.
The Speaker's podium was used at the pulpit.
That's right.
The Speaker's podium was the pulpit for church services in 1802.
How far we have fallen.
Representative Manasseh Cutler, a congregational minister and Federalist congressman from Massachusetts, records in his diary that Baptist Elder John Leland preached the sermon of the text of the Sermon on the Mount in the halls of Congress at Jefferson's invitation.
That was one letter that's misrepresented.
Thank you, Jack Kibbs.
God bless you.
Good man.
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or of the right of the people to peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress or grievances.
That's a rule for you, Joe Biden.
That's a rule for the government.
You see, the way Joe Biden frames it is like, look, none of your rights are absolute.
We're the government.
We are.
We're in charge.
How about the Third Amendment?
Actually, one of my favorite amendments that no one talks about.
It was a huge problem in revolutionary times.
When British soldiers used to just come into people's homes and say, we live here now.
Now, what is the Third Amendment really about?
Well, let's read it.
No soldier shall in the time of peace be quartered in any house.
Let's stop there.
Who controls soldiers?
The government.
So, this right here, again, is a rule for the government.
Do you see a through line here?
The founding fathers were saying, You can't do that, government.
You can't do that.
The Constitution is the firewall for your life, your dreams, your imagination, your ambitions against someone that has absolute power.
This, in the time of peace, be courted in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in the time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
I mean, that's a pretty definitive defense of private property, isn't it?
It's a pretty definitive sense of that you are not allowed in here, government, without my permission.
The Fourth Amendment expands on that.
One of my favorite amendments.
Fourth Amendment.
The right of the people.
Whoa.
Starts pretty.
You have to understand how transformational this was at the time.
The founding fathers were exploring a system of governance that no one had tried, that John Locke theorized, I think, 80 years earlier, 70 years or 80 years, early 1700s, 80 years earlier.
I think that's when he wrote Tolerance and Natural Rights Doctrine.
And they said, hey, we're going to give this a try.
Articles of Confederation sort of imploded.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, house papers, and effects against unreasonable search and seizure shall not be violated.
So is there any amendment that's absolute?
Wrong question.
The question is: where do rights come from?
And are those rights absolute in that state of nature?
That's the question.
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I just want to read a quote from James Monroe, the fifth president.
When the people become ignorant and corrupt, they become the willing instruments of their own ruin.
I'll let you mull over that.
We're getting a lot of questions on Rudy Giuliani.
Look, I've met him a couple times.
Mayor Giuliani, we had him on our program.
Definitely a committed supporter of President Trump.
Very outspoken.
Decided to go all in on multiple different parts of the Trump era.
We were joking around Rudy Giuliani as kind of the forest gump of the Trump era.
No matter what was happening, he was in the middle of it.
The impeachment, the Ukraine deal, the voter fraud, Hunter Biden's laptop, smack dab in the middle.
Look, Rudy Giuliani was America's mayor, and it really bothered the American left that Rudy Giuliani would use that platform and that credibility to then go endorse Donald Trump.
Not just endorse Donald Trump, become his lawyer and his attack dog on cable television.
I'm not going to get into the details whether I think Rudy did something wrong or not.
That's not for me.
I don't know.
Did Rudy have a lot of contact, a lot of Ukrainian people?
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I don't know.
However, I do know after looking at Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Dinesh D'Souza, amongst many others, and that's not an exhaustive list.
It's not impossible to believe that that same group of vengeful driven radicals that run the top apparatus of our Justice Department, they've been having Rudy on their list for quite some time.
That's not a hard thing to believe.
However, there's one interesting part of Rudy Giuliani's statement that he just released, which is really, really interesting.
And this is the part that I think everyone should focus in on.
Not whether or not did Rudy do something wrong or not.
My advice to people is, look, if someone does commit a crime and you, again, it's all allegations, right?
They go through a process, drew their peers.
You don't have to compulsory defend people on that.
You don't.
Instead, I'll say, why is the government with the full force of a search warrant going at, is that the best use of government resources?
You show me the man, I'll show you the crime.
More laws, the less justice.
And if you all of a sudden you become a political opponent of the state, they will crush you, boot on the neck until you squeal.
That's how it works.
That's what they did to Michael Cohen, and now all of a sudden he's this big anti-Trump activist like that.
This is a playbook that has been used before.
However, here's the part that I think was very interesting.
I'm going to read from Rudy's website.
I'm sure you'll not be surprised that the FBI left behind the only electronics that contained evidence of crimes, the Hunter Biden hard drives.
Mayor Giuliani, this is Robert Costello, his lawyer that wrote this.
Mayor Giuliani offered them to the FBI on several occasions, but the agents steadfastly declined.
Keep in mind that the agents could not read the physical hard drives without plugging them in.
But they took Mr. Giuliani's word.
The hard drives were copies of Hunter Biden's hard drive and did not contain anything pertaining to Mr. Giuliani.
Think about what that tells you.
Their reliance on Mr. Giuliani's credibility tells you everything you need to know about this case.
So basically, according to the account of Robert Costello, Rudy Giuliani had piles of hard drives he was begging agents to take.
And he said, these are Hunter's hard drives, and we're not going to take them.
So all Rudy Giuliani had to say is, hey, these are my travel logs, and they would have took them.
Why are FBI agents unwilling?
Maybe they already have them.
Maybe there's a huge investigation.
Now, according to Rudy Giuliani, this is what Rudy Giuliani has to say.
The Biden Department of Justice has completely ignored clear evidence, which the FBI has had for over a year, in texts and emails on Hunter Biden's hard drive of failing to register numerous times as a foreign agent, child pornography, money laundering, and 30 years of the Biden crime family taking millions of dollars in bribes to sell to public officials.
So that's Rudy's words.
We'll see if the Department of Justice gets interested in that or not.
I'm not saying these people didn't do anything wrong.
That's not my contention.
My contention is that if you get into that orbit and you're a threat to the power or say things that they don't like, it seems as if they're going to use whatever power they have at their disposal to make America in their image.
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I want to get to this other question here.
Here's one.
David, hi, Charlie.
Did you pick up on Biden's comments on we the people?
He made it sound like the government was the people.
Thoughts, David Scottsdale.
I think Ted Cruz had some comments on this.
I'm doing a lot of thinking about that because I think I see it a little bit differently, but I want to see what Ted Cruz has to say on this.
And I think I agree with Ted Cruz on the essence of this playtape.
Tell you, Sean, the most radical line tonight was when Joe Biden said, We the people is the government.
No, Joe, you seriously misunderstand the Constitution.
We the people is not the government.
We are not a country of dictators in Washington running the people.
We the people is the people, damn it, who are in charge of the government, whose freedom you're taking away, whose liberty you're stripping away.
And it showed the arrogance of the hard left that they think that l'estasse moi, he is the state, is what he said, and he's we the people.
I mean, holy cow, that was radical.
And that's where today's Democrats are.
Now, of course, if my memory serves me correctly, l'estasse moi was said by Louis XIV, a French king.
I can get that fact-checked by Mr. Connor.
And yeah, the French had a repeated history of French monarchs that One of my favorite French phrases is also apré neuge, now that we're all exchanging French phrases, which means after us the flood can mean two different things, which basically means it's about to get pretty tough.
So, the question I'm going to read, this is from David, David from Scottsdale.
Thank you, David.
Did you pick up?
Was I right on 14th, Louis 14th?
Wah.
We.
On de toile consensus in D'Orti.
All right.
Hey, Charlie.
So he said, did you pick up on the we the people?
He made it sound like the government was the people.
So I totally agree with what Senator Cruz said.
I don't actually think that's what Joe Biden meant.
And I'm not defending Joe Biden.
I think Joe Biden was saying that we are a government for, by, and of the people.
But I think that Joe Biden had a slip where all of a sudden he said, we are now all the government.
We are a government nation.
In government, we trust.
And I think Ted Cruz highlighting that was absolutely correct in doing that.
And the question I think that many of us have is: what will Republicans do in response to this?
So I did a podcast last evening, and Luke just emailed us.
He said, Hi, Charlie, I agree with most of what you said about Tim Scott last night.
The only thing is, yes, you're right that we only need the right to be more from and not talk about common sense and common ground.
I don't believe that anybody's willing to get angry about it like you are.
People want something who is someone who is soothing and even to think that Biden is the most comatose president ever.
People like that he's all soft-spoken where Trump wasn't.
I think there's some truth to that, Luke.
There's a lot of wisdom.
I think the Trump presidency is kind of going through an era that is choppy.
Some would say it's chaotic.
But Trump ran on upheaval.
Trump's promise to the American people is hire me and things are going to all of a sudden start flying.
Hire me, and I don't know what's going to happen, but it's not going to be the same.
Business as usual is over.
That's his mandate.
And the media played into that, and they made it seem as if it was frenetic, shooting from the hip.
And I think Trump could have played into this kind of caricature of chaos.
I think Trump could have played in as saying, look, changing the trajectory of a corrupt institution is not something you do in just one board meeting.
There's going to be leaks.
There's going to be entrapments like Peter Strzok, Stroke, Smirk.
And by the way, Peter Strzok, did the FBI ever raid Peter Strzzok's apartment?
Man, how about Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, James Comey?
And Donald Trump promised that he was going to be an ambassador of disruption.
Hire me, and we're all of a sudden going to make things different happen.
In fact, I know so many people that texted me on election day back in 2016, and they said, I just voted for Trump.
I hope he just sticks it, sticks it to him.
I'm going to say one thing that someone said to me and they texted me.
It was metaphorical, okay?
Media matters.
Hello.
Is I voted for Trump.
I hope he blows it all up metaphorically, okay?
But that was the promise.
And some people grew exhausted from that.
And Democrats weared us down like a full court press.
Democrats metaphorically waterboarded a nation.
And people said, enough.
I can't handle it.
The tweets, the press conferences, the leaking, the bad articles from the New York Times, the masks, all of it.
I want boring.
This was their political strategy.
Make America boring again.
Now, the trouble with boring, because Barack Obama was never boring, I found him actually kind of be boring at times.
But versus Joe Biden, he's like, share, okay?
It's like Madonna.
It's completely different.
Is that the Democrats said, ah, what's the best way to destroy something in darkness?
Now, if only there was a paper whose ethos was a democracy dies in darkness.
If only that was something that they cared about.
Too bad.
Their new strategy is we are going to make America sleep and full of pleasure, sedate them temporarily, the buzz, the rush of feeling good, and then our plunder will be uninterrupted.
Now, the question is: are Republicans going to be a buttoned-up version of that?
Or is there an equal and opposite reaction brewing?
Is there a demand for representation?
And that's really the question that remains.
How do you keep a population sleepy?
How do you keep a population from challenging the status quo?
How do you keep a population in line?
Well, the Soviet Union actually sort of perfected this.
Many people don't know this, but the Soviet Union had the highest rates of alcoholism in the world.
In fact, many people that traveled behind the Iron Curtain, they'd comment on how vodka was unbelievably cheap and the communist government used alcohol to placate the masses.
In fact, a study done showed that vodka came to Russia around the 15th century.
Soviet citizens consumed around 11.2 liters of pure alcohol per year, making them the world's heaviest drinkers in 1987.
Regular heavy drinking occurs in all of the strata of the Soviet population, is growing steadily among women and young people.
Get this.
Between 1940 and 1980, the USSR experienced the highest rate of increase in the amount of alcohol consumed per person among developing countries.
Consumption increased by 600% while the population grew only 25%.
In a piece in the Atlantic that says how alcohol conquered Russia, it says that 6.2% of people globally die of alcohol-related deaths.
One in five in Russia die of alcohol-related deaths.
It says that 20 million Russians in a nation of just 144 million are alcoholics.
Now, this is a strategy.
This is a strategy that was pushed forward by Joseph Stalin and many others to keep the population from questioning their policies.
And as we are seeing alcoholism go up in our country, we are seeing weed go up and drug usage, I can't help but think, is there a strategy to lull America to sleep?
It's easier to allow a sleepy president to destroy the country if everyone is chemically sedated, or at least a large part of the population is.
Weed has now been legalized in Arizona, and Arizona will soon see what happens when you legalize weed.
Weed culture comes in.
Nine-year-olds will be doing edibles.
You'll start seeing more driving under the influence, an entire viewpoint change towards a more liberal direction.
But even beyond that, I think it's very interesting.
Because I've been doing a lot of studying about the Soviet Union, and I'd always ask people that travel to the Soviet Union, Dennis Prager being one of them, why didn't the people, the Soviet Union, rise up?
And many people would say they're too busy being chemically medicated, pursuing pleasure over virtue.
You could decide for yourself if that's what's happening here in our country.
But we have a president who is a little bit vanilla, less than energetic, and wants to lull you to sleep.
Don't worry, you got your little buzz.
You got your check.
Vote for me.
You'll get another one.
I know people that got their stimulus check, and they even messaged me, Charlie, I feel guilty about this, but I feel good getting the money.
And I chuckled.
I said, of course free money feels good for now.
Until that money expires and the dollar is worth less.
And then you are going to come back to its source.
The Democrats know this.
It's no different than what the Romans did to their citizens.
Just enough to get by, not enough for you to improve your life.
Big displays of sport.
Bathhouses, which meant pleasure for the masses, and the decline of a great society, and the crumbling of a civilization.
There's actually a lot of parallels to Rome.
They deteriorated the currency.
They let foreigners in.
They declared foreign wars.
There was corruption in the capital.
They decided no longer to be a republic and then an empire.
But history doesn't teach us anything, right?
History is just a Western construct.
Insofar America pursues pleasure over virtue, we will be in inevitable decline.
It's up for those of us that know this idea of liberty and freedom to say it's time to wake up.
Dare I say it's time for us to get woke.
They want America to sleep again while their plunder and their treachery goes unchallenged.
It's up to you to do something about it.
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