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June 7, 2021 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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How One Brave Democrat Bucked his Party and Killed H.R. 1
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Momentum, Hope, and Optimism 00:05:09
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Joe Manchin has now sent the defining signal that HR1 is not going to pass.
What does that mean for our country?
Why are two Democrats, Cinema and Manchin, seemingly standing up against the Democrat Party?
This episode is about momentum, hope, and optimism.
Things are turning around.
And when Americans rally, we cannot lose.
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This weekend was the memorial services of my dear friend, Foster Freeze.
It was also the nine-year anniversary of Turning Point USA on Saturday.
And it was also the one-month anniversary and celebration party for my marriage.
So this weekend was unpredictable, filled with the Holy Spirit, and beyond anything I could have imagined.
So I'm in Wyoming right now, and I have to tell you, yesterday, for about six hours, was the most incredible celebration of life I think a human being could possibly have.
Foster Freeze, who many of you have seen on television or at events across the country, was remembered by legends in our country.
Started at a church in Jackson, Wyoming, with incredibly moving speeches from Senator Santorum and his family.
Went up to a ranch about an hour north of Jackson, Wyoming, where Tucker Carlson gave probably one of the most incredible eulogies I've ever heard, followed by a black soul choir from Chicago of a celebration of Foster's life, speeches from family and friends, moving tributes.
The people that were present, I mean, there must have been half a dozen governors and senators there.
But it wasn't just the important people.
It was the busboys.
It was the people that were in the muscular class in America, that Foster looked at all people equal in the eyes of God.
And to cap off the evening, I kid you not, this was done in the most Foster style imaginable.
You had the four tenors come up singing hallelujah in a way that could only bring you to tears.
And the shade started to go up in this beautiful ranch setting.
And at the climax of the song, there must have been 15 beautiful horses that stormed by at that moment, just signaling as the sun brilliantly shined over the Grand Teton Mountains as we celebrated and remembered Foster Freeze.
The Manchin Signal to Congress 00:06:30
And so one of the biggest news stories that broke over the weekend is one that should give all of you hope.
Do you feel a little bit of momentum right now?
Now, if you don't, you're not looking closely enough.
I know that there's been a lot of bad news.
I know there has been a barrage of negativity.
I know that there has been cynicism and even nihilism that has been seeping into the conservative movement.
But over the weekend, we have received news from the blue dog Democrat, Joe Manchin himself, who wrote a piece in the Charleston Gazette.
He said, why I am voting against the For the People Act, which is HR1.
Now, this is a pretty remarkable thing for a Democrat to say.
Now, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, they want to assume power for power's sake.
Power for them is an end, not a means.
They want to create Washington, D.C. and Congress into a permanent Democrat majority like California, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York.
And one of the ways they want to do that is to universalize mail-in voting from the federal level.
Joe Manchin wrote a piece this weekend that is sending Democrats and Democrat activists in a tailspin.
This is a signal that they are not going to get their HR1 power grab through Congress.
It's not going to happen.
It wasn't going to happen because the filibuster protection, but even if they wanted to break the filibuster, Joe Manchin will not give them the needed 50th vote.
He wrote in the Charleston Gazette, quote, the right to vote is fundamental to our American democracy.
We are a republic, but you know what, Senator Joe Manchin, you're doing the right thing.
I'm not going to over-edit your op-ed.
And protecting the right that should not be about party or politics.
Least of all, protecting this right, which is a value I share, should never be done in a partisan manner.
He goes through and talks about how he has a great amount of credibility on the subject, but then he gets to the point that matters.
He says, quote, unfortunately, we are witnessing the fundamental right to vote as itself becoming overly politicized.
And so then he goes on to say that congressional action on federal voting rights legislation must be the result of Democrats and Republicans coming together to find a pathway forward or to risk further dividing and destroying the republic we swore to protect and defend as elected officials.
I think this man met Foster Freeze because that is something that would have made him very, very happy.
He continues by saying that he will reject the For the People Act because he believes that partisan voting legislation, I'm quoting, will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy.
And for that reason, I will vote against the For the People Act, which is killing HR1.
This is a big deal, everybody, because I got a chance to catch up with a couple of senators over the weekend, including Senator Barroso from Wyoming.
And I said, Senator, it's one thing that the left, they want to push forward all of these aggressive and massive spending bills.
We can survive those, but we must fight those.
It's the fundamental change pieces of legislation that we must really pinpoint.
It's the HR1, the HR5, adding DC and Puerto Rico as states.
It is abolishing the Electoral College.
Now, you might not feel the momentum, but if you're looking closely, HR1 is now dead.
Over the weekend, and we're going to get into this story, Governor Ron DeSantis announced that cruise ships do not have to require vaccine passports.
Mask mandates are dying at a record pace.
In fact, they're being repealed.
Even in Teton County, Wyoming, which is basically Berkeley, California, I'm seeing people walk around without masks on.
Packing the court is dead on arrival.
DC becoming a state is dead on arrival.
We are seeing big pharma getting exposed.
We are seeing Fauci and his credibility going down.
Audits are continuing across the country.
Parents are stepping up and taking action at school board meetings.
We are seeing more and more people organically come up to me, everyday citizens, and they know the term critical race theory.
We have people that come up to me when I'm at a restaurant near an airport and they know what critical race theory is, and they might have read James Lindsay's book and they want to do something about it.
And I just kind of give a little chuckle because I say a year ago, that was a fringe theory that no one knew about.
Now, it's important to reiterate with HR1, even if the filibuster were killed and Democrats try to pass this through reconciliation, meaning it could pass with 51 or 50 votes, Manchin coming out as a hard no is why it's dead.
Even if they broke the filibuster, they wanted to go nuclear option, Manchin says no way.
And Manchin will not also agree to DC becoming a state because that would only disenfranchise the voters of West Virginia and make him less important.
They're one vote short, and they're also going after Senator Kirsten Sinema as well from Arizona for opposing the filibuster.
So now Democrats are not going to be able to put forward their fundamental transformation agenda through Congress.
So the question is, what are they going to do?
And the answer is they're going to have to govern.
Democrats are not good at governing.
They're good at holding on to power.
They're good at demagoguing.
They're very good at dividing.
They're good at putting us in these conversations that are turning one against each other when they actually have to deliver results for people.
They don't do what Governor DeSantis does well.
They don't actually deliver results for people.
Instead, they are able to demagogue.
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Irony of Power in the Senate 00:15:49
You see, what's really going on here with HR1 now being dead on arrival is a question is as old as Athens versus Rome of direct democracy versus a republic.
You see, Joe Manchin has come out and he has said he is not going to support HR1.
Now, he calls himself a defender of American democracy, but Joe Manchin is actually a defender of the American constitutional republic.
It's a very big difference.
You see, in an op-ed that was published in response to Joe Manchin by, I don't actually know the author of this.
Oh, it's Jennifer Rubin.
Ah, of course.
If it's foolish and using big words and long form, you can better believe it's written by Jennifer Rubin.
She calls herself a Republican.
Sure.
And in this piece, she says that our democracy is under attack.
That it's time for Manchin to put up or share the blame for Republican subversion of democracy.
I am here to submit to you that Joe Manchin is a defender of our republic.
He's actually pushing back against this idea of direct democracy.
So in its total form, a direct democracy, which really does not exist anywhere, but it's where the far-left-wing radical Democrats eventually want to take us because of technology, which is that every person votes on every piece of legislation.
So maybe you have to pick up your smartphone and you're going to say, yes, I vote for HR1 or no vote for HR1.
But in ancient Greece or in the times of the American founding, it would have required every citizen to go to a town council meeting and voting.
In fact, the term idiot comes from the Greek term idios, which means someone who does not show up for the town meeting because they were not familiar with what was happening around.
There's your now useful, once useless factoid that you can use for the day.
So a democracy is a place where the majority determines the trajectory and quite honestly, the morality of a nation.
A republic starts with a belief in certain irrefutable, unalienable rights.
And of course, our founders believe those to be life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness in the tradition of John Locke.
In a republic, power is spread over space and time.
A republic is deliberate.
A republic is slow.
A republic is intentional.
A republic appreciates the gridlock.
A republic believes that you should not change things for the sake of changing them.
A republic also appreciates how it is founded.
Remember, the states created a federal government.
The federal government did not create the states.
And Joe Manchin, despite being a Democrat, knows this.
He knows that West Virginia gave up its sovereignty to create a federal government.
The federal government did not all of a sudden say West Virginia should be allowed to be created.
Now, of course, the American colonies, which became the American states, started by religious pilgrims and some of them Puritans, which then created the states.
William Penn started Pennsylvania.
Roger Williams started Connecticut.
Virginia was started by Christian pilgrims and eventually became one of the most populous states in the American founding.
Every state had its own tradition, its own customs, and even Virginia had its own Bill of Rights well before the American Bill of Rights.
In fact, the Virginia Bill of Rights, I believe, was passed in 1776 by George Mason.
We can get a fact check on that.
And George Mason was actually the person who pushed for the American Bill of Rights in 1791.
But the response to Joe Manchin now saying, hey, I don't support HR1, is Joe Manchin actually saying, I believe a state-based constitutional republic, a deliberate system, where yes, of course the people have the power, but just because 51% of people believe something does not mean we should diminish the rights of the minority.
Does not mean we should be able to steamroll all debate.
And this is probably one of the greatest contrasts between the French system and the American system.
The French system is the majority wins everything.
In the American system, it says, hold on, you have to go through the check and balance.
You have to go through the process that we have put in place.
We have to go through the protection of individual rights.
We have to go through the state-based model, the independent judiciary.
These attributes of a Republican-style system, small R Republican-style system, is designed to protect rights, human flourishing, human diversity, not just skin color diversity, but viewpoint diversity.
And that is the actual debate that's going on here.
Because Jennifer Rubin says that we have a subversion of our democracy.
In fact, it's a protection of our republic.
That's what we have.
We have a democratic mean of electing our leaders, and we should.
We're never going to have a direct democracy.
But this idea of representation, I'm going to send somebody to DC to fight for me, is an attribute of a republic.
But the Democrats don't want that because how can you possibly stage a revolution when you have all these checks and balances, an independent judiciary, and a slow and deliberate process?
And the answer is it's hard.
And Joe Manchin today has said he wants it to be hard to revolutionize America.
And he deserves credit for that.
So Joe Manchin has said that he is going to stand up against HR1.
And I can tell you right now, the knives are out for Joe Manchin.
They are coming after Joe Manchin because they realize that Joe Manchin is getting in the way of the revolution.
You see, Democrats are saying, Joe, why are you preventing us from turning America into California?
Why are you preventing us from always being in power?
And Joe Manchin is basically saying, well, it's because I actually understand what our country is.
Our country is not a direct democracy.
Our country is a republic that protects state sovereignty.
And now you are seeing very low IQ, hyper-aggressive pundits on television go after Joe Manchin.
Representative Jamal Brown said that Joe Manchin has become the new Mitch McConnell, which I suppose is their highest level of insult they can give a U.S. senator.
Let's play cut too, please.
Joe Manchin has become the new Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell, during Obama's presidency, said he would do everything in his power to stop Obama.
And now Joe Manchin is doing everything in his power to stop democracy and to stop our work for the people, the work that the people sent us here to do.
And that is Representative Jamal Brown, who is trying his best to intimidate and bully Joe Manchin.
I got to be honest, Joe Manchin is holding the line rather well.
He will not be intimidated by these people that want to revolutionize the country at all costs.
So I want to be the first one to say the most obvious thing in front of us.
I want to be the first one to say the thing that I think Joe Biden actually wants.
Joe Manchin wants to hear, not Joe Biden, Joe Manchin wants to hear, Joe, you're welcome to join the Republican Party at any time.
Joe Manchin, you are welcome to switch parties and all that, just like your governor Justice did, Governor Jim Justice, Joe Manchin, in a melodramatic turn of events, Joe Manchin, you could do a press conference and you could say, you know what?
I did not leave the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party left me.
In this press conference with coal miners and gun owners, Joe Manchin can say, I now am an independent and I will caucus with the Republicans and he will tilt the power in a way that would make Chuck Schumer and the people that hate him pay.
You see, Joe Manchin, you have to understand you have allies and your allies are not Democrats.
I don't, I actually will think, I think Joe Manchin has more allies that are conservative Trump voters and supporters than Joe Biden voters and Democrats.
So, Joe Manchin, I just want you to know that there is a place for you here in the Republican Party.
Now, you're totally wrong on abortion.
You're wrong on big spending.
You're rather wrong on immigration.
However, the fact that you've been willing to stand up to these apparatchiks and do so clearly and confidently is worthy of respect and support.
And I would just love nothing more than to see Chuck Schumer have to lose the mantle of being majority leader because of a party switch.
And I do have to say, there has been a tradition of people switching parties before in the U.S. Senate.
We could get into that.
Let's go to Cut Eight.
Chris Wallace asked Manchin if he thinks threatening to end the filibuster would work better to give Republicans an incentive to not be obstructionists.
Joe Manchin is quite honestly alongside Kirsten Cinema, who's she's at times nuttier than a fruitcake.
I'm not going to lie.
They are the ones that are standing up against what you fear the most.
And people come up to me and say, man, our country's going down fast.
I say, you think it's going down fast now.
Just wait.
If we didn't have Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema, who's she's, she's all over the place.
Okay.
She wears, honestly, she wears tutus to rallies.
She's a character.
Honestly, totally respect the fact she's standing up against Chuck Schumer.
And Arizona has had a tradition of senators that just make your head scratch.
The Chris Wallace asks Manchin if he thinks threatening to end the filibuster would work better to give Republicans an incentive to not be obstructionists.
Listen to what he has to say.
And hear me out on this.
If you were to keep the idea that maybe you would vote to kill the filibuster, wouldn't that give Republicans an incentive to actually negotiate?
Because old Joe Manchin's out there and who knows what he's going to do by taking it off the table, haven't you empowered Republicans to be obstructionists?
I don't think so because we have seven brave Republicans that continue to vote for what they know is right and the facts as they see them, not worrying about the political consequences.
Now, some people say Joe Manchin is just doing this because he wants power.
Of course he does.
That's Washington, the highest form of currency in Washington, D.C., is power.
So, Joe Manchin, allow me to introduce a plan for you.
Elizabeth Warren hates you.
Bernie Sanders hates you.
Jamal Brown hates you.
AOC hates you.
Nancy Pelosi hates you.
So Joe Manchin should say, you know what?
I will now run for majority leader.
And every single Republican and a few Democrats would elect him majority leader.
And it would stop this incredibly disturbing, rapid, accelerated policy agenda that is being pushed forward by the Democrat Party and Joe Biden.
And Joe Manchin said right there, he says, no, I am not going to break the filibuster because seven Republicans will vote based on what they believe is right, despite the political consequences.
And they are going after Kirsten Cinema as well.
Just listen to this advertisement that they are playing in the state of Arizona right now, going after Kyrsten Cinema.
Now, what's so amazing is I don't think these Democrats realize how Republican some of these states actually are.
I don't think they realize that Georgia and Arizona are very likely to have all of those Senate seats flipped back, all four of them flip back sometime soon.
Listen to this attack ad against Kyrsten Cinema playtick.
I'm Kyrsten Cinema.
I found the time to train and run the Boston Marathon.
I think it'll be the most emotional run of my entire life.
I found the time to train and complete the Iron Man competition in New Zealand and almost a dozen other races.
And I had plenty of time to summit Mount Kilimanjaro.
But I just couldn't find the time to come to Washington, do my job, and vote for the January 6th Commission to investigate the domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol.
So that's an attack ad against Kirsten Sinema.
I think she had a pretty legitimate excuse as to why she wasn't there.
She knew it wasn't going to pass anyway.
Kirsten Sinema wants to be a senator for life.
And what I think to be the great irony that is so obvious, and it's in front of us right now, the irony that is making the Democrats go mad is that they have people that want power that are preventing them from getting ultimate power.
You see, Kirsten Sinema's motives are the same as Chuck Schumer's.
She just doesn't want Chuck Schumer in charge.
So now the monolith, the Leviathan, the Democrat Party that relies on complete and total solidarity amongst comrades, there's some fault lines that are emerging.
You see, when you make power your ultimate value, when you consider success to be control of one another or in charge, don't be surprised when all of a sudden another person says, no, I want to be in charge.
And I'm not going to all of a sudden vote for your filibuster, breaking the filibuster, because I think you're doing a poor job.
And so what's happening is the Democrats are now unable to actually keep their caucus together when they used to be, because now they have a struggle over who's in charge and who gets the credit.
And that just goes to show that maybe not every single Democrat senator is a true believer of this agenda.
Maybe some of them just want their own certain policy items or their own committee assignments to be achieved.
And so in the pursuit of being in charge and quite honestly, having power, you are having Senator Sinema and Senator Manchin use their own lust for power against Chuck Schumer's lust for power.
And that collision course is one that is showing that the Democrats rule over Washington, D.C., and with it over a lot of the federal bureaucracies in our country, is a lot more fragile than they might think.
You know, we were having a breakfast this morning and I said, I can't believe how the Democrats, they are governing the country as if they have 70 Senate seats.
They're making decisions as if they have so much flex in the joints.
We got plenty to lose.
They got a 50-50 margin in the U.S. Senate and they barely won those Georgia Senate races and they shouldn't have won those sort of Georgia Senate races.
And now the Senate maps are up and Mark Kelly is very vulnerable in Arizona and Warnock is very vulnerable in Georgia.
Ron Johnson is very popular in Wisconsin.
Pennsylvania is very winnable.
New Hampshire is very winnable and Nevada is winnable.
North Carolina is very winnable.
President Trump just did an event there.
Next thing you know, Chuck Schumer is scrambling and he says, so how do I replicate 2020?
And the answer is, hold on a second.
There's an inspired class of parents that are ready to reject all things, critical race theory in the Democrat National Party.
The audits are rolling along as we are revealing what happened in the 2020 election.
Mail and balloting, unrestricted mail and balloting is being pushed back against and reform is occurring.
And the National Democrats are starting to realize that if they don't actually come to some sort of consensus and persuade the voters in the middle, they are going to get steamrolled in this next election.
And it's not any for the reason that is so amazing that they are now fighting at the feast table, which we predicted very early on in this program.
The fundamental transformation agenda, the one that makes your grandkids live in a completely different America, has now been killed.
Critical Race Theory on Defense 00:07:28
It is now dead on arrival.
Now, are they still doing damage?
Of course they are.
They're passing trillion-dollar spending packages.
They're putting in awful people to federal agencies.
They're still doing immense damage to our country, but nothing that we can't reverse.
You see, there's reversible and irreversible damage.
When you add a state to the union, there's no way to unadd that state to the union.
Once that bridge is crossed, once the Rubicon, the Rubicon is crossed, there's no saying, you know what, we're now going to withdraw statehood from DC, or all of a sudden we're going to undo HR1.
And so the fact that these items on the Democrat wish list have been slowed down to a grinding halt is evidence that their policy goals and objectives are likely not going to get made through.
And it's because of two rather stubborn Democrats that have decided to do the right thing for America.
Usually we use stubborn as an insult.
Today, we use stubborn as a compliment and with gratitude.
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What are your children learning at school?
Well, at Turning Point USA, we talk about this quite a lot.
We have our professor watch list project at professorwatchlist.org.
I encourage all of you to check that out.
But it seems as if, thanks to brave students and interested parents and a resurgence of what is actually happening in this great country, there are more and more professors that now have to explain what they have been teaching your children for a lot of money every single year.
Well, caught on tape, Professor Dr. Sam Richards admits during his lecture on white discomfort.
So if you go to Penn State, you get to learn from this highly enlightened individual.
I wish one day to be as smart as Dr. Sam Richards.
That he has an entire white privilege education.
And he says, look, our goal is not about ending racism.
It's about power.
And Dr. Sam Richards said the quiet part out loud.
Dr. Sam Richards told this group of students at Penn State University that all this stuff about white privilege and racism, it's not really about that.
It's about who's in charge.
Listen to the type of problem, the type of nonsense that you could have your child learn for only $35,000 a year at Penn State University.
Enjoy.
So if you're sitting in a group and you're sort of pissed, it's like Sam shouldn't have done this and he shouldn't have done that and he should approach this differently and he shouldn't talk about these issues like that and he's making people feel uncomfortable and he's all these things and you're white.
What's actually happening is you're lifting yourselves up.
And then when we pretend that nothing exists, power doesn't ever move.
Power stays the same.
In the world of race, what it means is white people continue to be empowered because white people never have to look in the mirror and say, wow, what's going on?
We don't have to wrestle.
We don't have to engage.
He says the quiet part out loud.
Of course, the overemphasis on race is intentional.
And this professor at Penn State University says, well, white people are in charge of our country.
This is, of course, without any sort of evidence.
The richest people in America are immigrants from Asia, from Southeast Asia, Vietnam, from China, Japan, Korea, India, Bangladesh.
In fact, the richest immigrant group in America, even more than the Asians, are Nigerian Americans.
If America was such a racist country, why is it that Nigerian Americans are able to succeed at such high levels in America?
You see, what this professor is really getting out is about dismantling power systems.
And that is a word we've been repeating a lot: power.
What does that mean?
Well, we're not the first people ever to struggle with what does it mean to have power.
Power, in one way or the other, means that you have the authority to strip away God-granted natural rights from another person.
You have the ability to control the life, liberty, property, or pursuit of happiness of another person.
Now, power is necessary.
We need government, and we give up some of our liberty to have the consent of the governed.
And that is really what the American separation was all about.
Some people call it the American Revolution.
It really was more like the American separation.
We tried to peacefully separate from the British colonies, and they didn't want from the British control, and they didn't want any part of that.
But consent is what it was all about: permission.
You can't do this unless I tell you that you can.
And that is a key characteristic of the American republic system.
And this professor here at Penn State University is trying to portray his students that all we know to be true in the metaphysics and in this world is one person being able to control another.
And the way that he sees it is that people that have white melanin content controlling people that have black melanin content.
If you wanted to start a race war, you would have people like Dr. Sam Richards at Pennsylvania State University teach your children.
What's so amazing is I'm seeing people wake up to this.
Critical race theory is now on defense.
You are now seeing Nicole Hanna-Jones not get tenure at University of North Carolina.
You are seeing parents step up in Texas and Georgia and in Nebraska and get rid of critical race theory in schools because it is an evil ideology that cares about how people look, not how they act, their character or their soul and their spirit.
And don't you, haven't you noticed how little they mention Martin Luther King Jr.?
Haven't you noticed that this is a person they don't quote or they don't lift up?
Because his ultimate quote is one that is the American ideal, that we look inward, not on the exterior.
And I'm optimistic today because I'm starting to see that this Democrat power grab, the cultural blitzkrieg, is finally going to be put on defense.
And it's time for us to continue it.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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God bless you guys.
Speak to you soon.
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