The Charlie Kirk Show - 19 Senate Republicans Betray America & Cuomo Crumbles
Aired: 2021-08-10
Duration: 01:10:11


=== Fighting Woke Banking Culture (05:16) ===

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[00:00:28]  Today in the Charlie Kirk show, Senate Republicans engage in betrayal, deceitful behavior, double dealing, treachery, and you name it.
[00:00:36]  Around passing this infrastructure bill, why are they so focused on making Pete Buddha Jej powerful?
[00:00:43]  Explore that.
[00:00:44]  And also, while we were doing our show, Andrew Cuomo has resigned.
[00:00:48]  We go through that breaking news and so much more here on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.
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[00:01:34]  Andrew Cuomo resigns.
[00:01:35]  Republicans make Pete Buttigieg a Russian oligarch and so much more.
[00:01:39]  Buckle up.
[00:01:40]  Here we go.
[00:01:41]  Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
[00:01:42]  Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
[00:01:44]  I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
[00:01:48]  Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
[00:01:51]  I want to thank Charlie.
[00:01:52]  He's an incredible guy.
[00:01:53]  His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
[00:02:00]  Turning point USA.
[00:02:01]  We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
[00:02:10]  That's why we are here.
[00:02:13]  Look, we all complain about the woke industrial complex.
[00:02:16]  The woke Marxists that are running our schools, that are running media, and yes, also running our banks.
[00:02:26]  You see, look, the real estate market, it's red hot.
[00:02:29]  Tyler, he just sold his home and he said, Charlie, I've never seen the market so unbelievable.
[00:02:34]  So maybe you want to go buy a home.
[00:02:36]  Maybe they're taking advantage of low interest rates.
[00:02:38]  With all the economic uncertainty underway, people need to invest in real stuff.
[00:02:43]  So here's a rule of thumb.
[00:02:45]  We here are a solution-based show.
[00:02:48]  So if you don't like the woke nonsense, stop using the woke banks.
[00:02:53]  It's that simple.
[00:02:54]  No more Wells Fargo.
[00:02:56]  No more JP Morgan.
[00:02:57]  No more Goldman Sachs.
[00:02:59]  No more big bank culture.
[00:03:02]  Instead, I have these two great friends, and they do a great job.
[00:03:05]  It's Andrew and Todd, Andrew Del Rey and Todd Avakian.
[00:03:09]  They love the Lord.
[00:03:10]  They are Christians.
[00:03:11]  They are honest.
[00:03:11]  They are straight shooters.
[00:03:13]  And they are on a mission to make sure that you guys can refinance, but be told the truth.
[00:03:18]  Look, when I took out mortgages for the properties that I have, it was one of the worst experiences I've ever been through.
[00:03:24]  Yeah, some of the people were very nice, but I could tell you the bank itself was just so bureaucratic and hard to work with.
[00:03:31]  My producer, Andrew, is working right now with Andrew and Todd to fight against the woke banking culture.
[00:03:37]  And he tells me that they're part counselors, part financial counselors, planners, and they're really helping him.
[00:03:42]  So here's the thing.
[00:03:43]  Andrew and Todd are mortgage bankers.
[00:03:45]  They're not brokers.
[00:03:46]  That means Andrew and Todd and their team can take care of your loan personally from start to finish.
[00:03:51]  You'll likely actually talk to Andrew and Todd yourself.
[00:03:54]  So right now, maybe you're walking or you're like, I want to refinance the home, or maybe I'm under the process.
[00:03:59]  Stop it.
[00:03:59]  No more Wells Fargo.
[00:04:00]  They're funding a billion dollars.
[00:04:01]  The BLM Incorporated drives me nuts.
[00:04:04]  Bank of America shut off a U.S. Senate candidate who was running in Senate in Delaware to shut off their bank account.
[00:04:09]  Instead, let's support the good guys.
[00:04:11]  I know a lot of you right now say, Charlie, I want to support the good guys.
[00:04:14]  Let's do it together, okay?
[00:04:15]  So here's how you do it: go to andrewandodd.com.
[00:04:17]  That's pretty easy to remember, right?
[00:04:19]  Andrew, Todd, AndrewandTodd.com, or call III, 888-1172.
[00:04:23]  That's 888 888 1172 and say, hey, I want to talk to Andrew and Todd.
[00:04:27]  Charlie Kirk told me to call.
[00:04:29]  In fact, I just had this unbelievable meeting with them.
[00:04:31]  We talk theology.
[00:04:32]  We talk the church.
[00:04:34]  They're conservative.
[00:04:35]  They're unbelievable.
[00:04:36]  And all you have to do is call them up.
[00:04:38]  Just go to andrewandodd.com, call 888, 888, 1172.
[00:04:41]  That's 888, 888, 1172, and say, Andrew or Todd, I would like to speak to you.
[00:04:46]  Charlie Kirk sent me.
[00:04:47]  And I'm telling you, you'll probably get them on the phone unless they're traveling or handling some crisis.
[00:04:51]  They take a lot of the phone calls themselves.
[00:04:52]  Great people.
[00:04:53]  AndrewandTodd.com.
[00:04:54]  No more woke banks.
[00:04:56]  Let's work together to crush the back of woke Wall Street and support the good guys.
[00:05:00]  AndrewandTodd.com.
[00:05:04]  Right now in Washington, D.C., just moments ago, Senate Republicans have approved a $1.2 trillion green energy infrastructure bill.

=== The Second Vote Bill Explained (10:18) ===

[00:05:16]  That is what the Senate Republicans have been focused on.
[00:05:20]  Now, all laws passed by the legislative branch need somebody to enforce them, to oversee their implementation.
[00:05:32]  So, for example, if there was an environmental regulation bill, it would go to the Environmental Protection Agency or the Employment Prevention Agency, otherwise known as.
[00:05:43]  If there was a border security bill, it would go to the Department of Homeland Security or Border Patrol.
[00:05:49]  If there was a tax cut bill, you might remember during the tax cuts, Steve Mnuchin was front and center.
[00:05:58]  If there was a bill around funding of the Department of Defense, Lloyd Austin would be front and center, or Jim Mattis was front and center.
[00:06:07]  If there was a bill around foreign diplomacy, Mike Pompeo was front and center.
[00:06:14]  So Senate Republicans worked overnight.
[00:06:17]  They burned the midnight oil.
[00:06:18]  They worked really hard to make sure they dishonored your vote.
[00:06:24]  So the first thing that should have just kind of been an alarm, that should have been a little bit of a concern for Senate Republicans, is they should have went through the public debate and also the recognition that they were going to give a certain cabinet secretary a trillion-dollar slush fund.
[00:06:55]  So who oversees the $1.2 trillion slush fund?
[00:06:59]  Well, I'm here to tell you right now that your Republican senators just made Pete Boot Edge Edge king.
[00:07:08]  That's right, the five-foot-five Alfred E. Newman looked alike, technocrat, never said anything inspiring, transportation secretary, has just been made one of the most powerful people in American government.
[00:07:22]  Why would Senate Republicans do something like that?
[00:07:25]  Why would Senate Republicans go out of their way to push power to Alfred E. Newman?
[00:07:33]  Now, if you don't know who Alfred E. Newman is, I have Mikey here.
[00:07:35]  He's not laughing because he doesn't know who Alfred E. Newman is.
[00:07:39]  He grew up in a world without mad magazine.
[00:07:42]  You say he doesn't know.
[00:07:43]  This is one of the, they know TikTok, which we are going to cover how the White House has been having, let's just say, interesting characters coming and doing TikTok videos.
[00:07:53]  So let's talk about what's actually in the bill.
[00:07:55]  It's 2,700 pages long.
[00:07:58]  They read the whole bill.
[00:08:00]  Do you know that this infrastructure package is larger than the Obama stimulus that almost every single one of these Republicans said was too big?
[00:08:10]  So these Republicans said, oh, Obama's a big spender.
[00:08:15]  We don't like debts and deficits.
[00:08:17]  But then they go out of their way to go spend $1.2 trillion.
[00:08:21]  By the way, that's your children's and grandchildren's money they're spending.
[00:08:25]  So what's in the bill?
[00:08:26]  Let's go through five specifics.
[00:08:28]  John Solomon from justthenews.com has a great article on this.
[00:08:32]  The bill includes a mandate for vehicle manufacturers to install drunk and impaired driving prevention technology as a standard feature inside of the new vehicles.
[00:08:42]  Might sound somewhat non-controversial.
[00:08:46]  So basically, the government can come in and turn off your car if they think you're impaired.
[00:08:51]  The legislation contains a $118 billion bailout for the Highway Trust Fund, which is currently funded primarily through federal taxes on gas and diesel fuel.
[00:09:01]  As the text of the bill does not specify a revenue source, funds would just be transferred from the Treasury General Fund to the Highway Trust Fund.
[00:09:10]  You do know that every single year as well, we have infrastructure and transportation spending as part of the general fund of our budget.
[00:09:19]  Senate Republicans don't care about that.
[00:09:22]  Senate Republicans have decided to make Pete Budag the czar of a vehicle miles travel tax.
[00:09:29]  A pilot program will be created for a vehicle miles travel tax, which is a system for taxing drivers based on their annual vehicle mileage, is hidden away in the bill Section 13002 entitled the National Motor Vehicle Per Mile User Fee Pilot.
[00:09:47]  Remember when Pete Budejej floated out that idea earlier this year during his confirmation process and Republicans got very upset?
[00:09:55]  Now, again, I'm not an expert, but I do know that North Dakota has a fair amount of oil and natural gas.
[00:10:01]  Do you think this will help oil and natural gas exploration or hurt oil and natural gas exploration if you are taxing people driving by the mile?
[00:10:10]  It also includes a cryptocurrency provision.
[00:10:14]  It allows the IRS to report requirements for brokers of cryptocurrency transactions.
[00:10:20]  What does that have to do with infrastructure?
[00:10:22]  Oh, it doesn't.
[00:10:24]  Instead, all of the decentralized movement around currency, which I fully support, by the way, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo and the power grabbers on Wall Street, they're very upset that all of a sudden there might be alternative ways to transfer wealth and actually challenge the dollar.
[00:10:44]  Now, we just got a breaking news alert.
[00:10:46]  I don't know if this is true or not.
[00:10:47]  We're going to have to double-check this.
[00:10:49]  It's unrelated to infrastructure, but everything is infrastructure.
[00:10:52]  It says that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is resigning.
[00:10:57]  Connor says it is correct.
[00:10:58]  It's true.
[00:11:00]  Well, then Connor is never wrong.
[00:11:03]  Andrew Cuomo is resigning.
[00:11:04]  So we're going to get to that in a second.
[00:11:06]  Yeah, it looks like it's verified.
[00:11:09]  But I was really on a roll railing on Republicans.
[00:11:12]  You know, kind of like pervy, weird, you know, septage.
[00:11:17]  Is Cuomo 70?
[00:11:19]  I think he's like 68.
[00:11:22]  Not exactly the top focus.
[00:11:25]  But yeah, Andrew Cuomo is resigning, which is a surprise.
[00:11:28]  I thought he was going to go down and fight.
[00:11:30]  He's 63.
[00:11:31]  He looks a lot older than 63.
[00:11:33]  He does not look like a good 63.
[00:11:35]  Andrew Cuomo, just like Elliot Spitzer and just like Schneiderman, goes the way of other New York politicians.
[00:11:45]  I'm sorry to say New York is going to get an even more liberal governor as response.
[00:11:51]  Andrew Cuomo has resigned as governor of the state of New York.
[00:11:58]  I guess it asks, I also begs the question of why did it take a Me Too scandal and not the nursing home scandal to take him out?
[00:12:08]  Because in the Democrat Party, being accused of Me Too type stuff is far worse than potentially killing grandma at the nursing home.
[00:12:21]  A lot more to get to, including why are Republicans betraying their voters?
[00:12:26]  That's an interesting one.
[00:12:26]  And Bill Haggerty has a lot to say about that.
[00:12:28]  On this breaking news day of Andrew Cuomo resigning as governor of New York.
[00:12:32]  And again, people are celebrating.
[00:12:34]  I'm not really going to celebrate.
[00:12:36]  You're going to get someone a lot worse.
[00:12:38]  The question is, did he make a deal to resign if they go easy on him on the nursing homes?
[00:12:43]  And the real question is, what about his book?
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[00:15:21]  Andrew Cuomo Dancoelloni, the heir apparent to the Italian mob political family that runs New York.
[00:15:31]  And the trains run on time.
[00:15:32]  You better believe it.

=== Lessons From Andrew Cuomo's Fall (04:15) ===

[00:15:34]  But not anymore.
[00:15:35]  In 14 days, Andrew Cuomo is resigning.
[00:15:39]  Now, for Senate Republicans out there that think you can all of a sudden breathe a sigh of relief.
[00:15:43]  Oh, good.
[00:15:44]  Thank goodness the PERV is resigning.
[00:15:47]  No, I'm not going to keep my focus off Senate Republicans.
[00:15:50]  We are going to come back to you.
[00:15:51]  We got a lot of red states listening on radio right now, and they're wondering why their Republican officials have decided to just kind of make Pete Buttigieg king.
[00:16:01]  Like, oh, let's, you know, here's a good idea.
[00:16:03]  Let's make the most unimpressive cabinet secretary who basically thinks he was built in a laboratory to be president by the Silicon Valley companies.
[00:16:14]  Let's make him the most important person in Washington, D.C.
[00:16:17]  But let's focus on Cuomo for a couple minutes.
[00:16:18]  I'm going to play Cut 30, just the news report.
[00:16:21]  Andrew Cuomo resigning.
[00:16:23]  Cut 30.
[00:16:24]  This is one of the most challenging times for government in a generation.
[00:16:30]  Government really needs to function today.
[00:16:34]  Government needs to perform.
[00:16:37]  It is a matter of life and death, government operations.
[00:16:44]  And wasting energy on distractions is the last thing that state government should be doing.
[00:16:52]  And I cannot be the cause of that.
[00:16:57]  New York tough means New York loving.
[00:17:01]  And I love New York.
[00:17:04]  And I love you.
[00:17:06]  And everything I have ever done has been motivated by that love.
[00:17:13]  And I would never want to be unhelpful in any way.
[00:17:18]  And I think that given the circumstances, the best way I can help now is if I step aside.
[00:17:26]  You know, first, just ideologically and philosophically, do you notice how much he mentions government, not the people?
[00:17:32]  Just interesting.
[00:17:33]  Government needs to do this.
[00:17:38]  It's just such a philosophical difference that we have with someone like Andrew Cuomo, where he thinks the heavy hand of government is the reason he got elected.
[00:17:47]  I'd love for him to go read the original draft of the New York Constitution way back in the 1780s, where it was about liberty and the people and pursuing virtue and creating strong families.
[00:18:02]  But am I, I mean, there's some politicians that I think are treated unfairly.
[00:18:07]  I mean, with this kind of me too thing, if this is the new standard, Joe Biden should resign, by the way.
[00:18:11]  Joe Biden has been credibly accused of the same things that Andrew Cuomo has been accused of.
[00:18:15]  But by the way, so have so many of these Senate Republicans as well.
[00:18:19]  Unfortunately, when you get these highly egotistical, narcissistic people in office or positions of power, they're going to act in morally questionable or degenerate ways.
[00:18:33]  I'm more worried about what they do with their power, like actual political power.
[00:18:41]  And I'm not making an excuse, obviously, for Andrew Cuomo.
[00:18:44]  Him leaving is the right choice.
[00:18:46]  I mean, I think he should go, especially for what he's done with the nursing homes.
[00:18:49]  But the thing that no one's going to talk about, the thing that fired me up the most that got almost no backlash is who writes the book in the middle of the crisis.
[00:18:58]  Could you imagine if Winston Churchill wrote a book in the middle of the German Blitz?
[00:19:06]  Oh, yes, coming out this afternoon is Winston Churchill's book, Leadership and Crisis in the Midst of the Blitz here on the British Broadcasting Corporation.
[00:19:14]  We'll be back.
[00:19:15]  Could you imagine Winston Churchill publishing a book in the middle of a crisis?
[00:19:24]  Andrew Cuomo, leadership lessons in crisis from COVID-19.
[00:19:29]  While the pandemic was still going and lockdowns were still happening, he had time to go publish a book.
[00:19:35]  But I do think this is a sobering lesson for a lot of people, not just politicians, is that it's a good lesson of life that you can feel as if you are running the world.

=== Anchoring On What Matters (02:27) ===

[00:19:49]  You are untouchable.
[00:19:51]  I remember during the lockdown, I spent about two months, about six weeks, two months, in Phoenix.
[00:19:56]  And I'd drive to the office every morning on these beautiful Arizona mornings.
[00:20:00]  And I would turn on Siri XM on Fox News for Fox business, and it'd be Andrew Cuomo.
[00:20:05]  And I would listen.
[00:20:06]  And some people said, Oh, his voice is so calming.
[00:20:08]  I never found his voice to be calming.
[00:20:10]  But I did find it his communication style to be convincing.
[00:20:15]  And I did find the whole kind of theatrics of his display to be something to learn from.
[00:20:24]  And the way he acted was like, I'm President Trump isn't.
[00:20:26]  You remember that?
[00:20:27]  When he turned away the USS Mercy ship, he was the center of the world.
[00:20:32]  People were floating him as the last-minute presidential pick because Joe Biden was senile.
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=== Corruption In New York Politics (10:29) ===

[00:22:17]  He has a great expression where he says, you could tell a lot about a person based on what they love, based on what they care the most about.
[00:22:28]  Great leaders love things that are good and true and beautiful.
[00:22:32]  Great leaders throughout history prioritize things that matter, like Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Winston Churchill, Marcus Aurelius.
[00:22:42]  Leaders that are questionable, at best, will say they prioritize the right things, but privately be conflicted.
[00:22:51]  The ones that you really have to look out for make power and political prestige their ultimate value, their ultimate goal.
[00:23:02]  So Andrew Cuomo made power the most important thing in his life.
[00:23:09]  His father was governor of New York.
[00:23:12]  At age 24, Andrew Cuomo became an aide to his father, almost chief of staff type.
[00:23:20]  He was a brass knuckle enforcer of his father's agenda.
[00:23:26]  He climbed the ranks of New York politics, eventually became housing secretary under Bill Clinton in the Clinton administration, and then eventually ran for governor unsuccessfully and then ran for it successfully in 2008.
[00:23:44]  And ever since, I don't know if it was 2008 or 2009, we get the years.
[00:23:49]  He's been governor of New York for quite a while.
[00:23:52]  Ever since he's enjoyed every moment of it, people who overly enjoy being in charge politically, usually you should have some caution towards those people, especially in a state as dirty and as corrupt as the state of New York.
[00:24:13]  Andrew Cuomo has outlasted many attempts against his political future.
[00:24:18]  He has been governor since 2011.
[00:24:22]  It's almost 10 years.
[00:24:26]  And Andrew Cuomo has ruled New York almost like an Italian city-state.
[00:24:33]  Founding Fathers actually wrote extensively about Italian city-states in the Federalist Papers.
[00:24:38]  It was one of the few places they could actually point to of small R Republican-style government being tried.
[00:24:45]  And Andrew Cuomo thought of himself as the czar of the state of New York.
[00:24:52]  And I don't think Andrew Cuomo, in his moments of most vulnerable paranoia, ever thought that it would be his advances towards women that would be what would take him down.
[00:25:03]  He'd say, listen, I'm just going to explain away.
[00:25:05]  I'm this way with everybody.
[00:25:08]  I slobber over all of them.
[00:25:11]  He wrote in his book because it wasn't just enough to be the governor of New York, very powerful.
[00:25:18]  It wasn't enough just to be a daily critic against Trump.
[00:25:22]  No, he needed to make sure it was in writing and make money off of it.
[00:25:26]  You see, Andrew Cuomo, he wanted to be a best-selling author.
[00:25:30]  He wanted to be J.K. Rowling.
[00:25:32]  He wanted to try to push Harry Potter down in the importance of the central canon of Western civilization.
[00:25:39]  And he wanted to be known as the man who was able to manage the crisis, which he didn't.
[00:25:44]  He did a horrendous job, and also write a book.
[00:25:48]  This is what he wrote in his book: while the crisis was still going on, people who call themselves progressives must be examples of why Americans should trust us.
[00:25:57]  Their service must be honorable and productive.
[00:26:00]  They must be willing and able to make hard choices to affect change and deliver results.
[00:26:03]  They must make things better.
[00:26:05]  If they fail to do that, or one reason or the other, they set the progressive cause back and they give Americans more of a reason to distrust us.
[00:26:12]  He writes on page 256: I'm part of the system because I want to change the system.
[00:26:18]  You need to be part of the system to be the most effective in changing it.
[00:26:21]  But don't ever suggest that I am part of the failure in the system.
[00:26:24]  I consider myself a counter-politician.
[00:26:27]  That may sound like a nuanced difference, but to me, it's all the difference in the world.
[00:26:32]  Page 239, he says, accountability matters.
[00:26:36]  If you don't want to be accountable, you shouldn't be in a government position.
[00:26:38]  Well, I guess you have now lived that out, Mr. Cuomo.
[00:26:42]  You don't want to be accountable, and you're no longer going to be in a government position.
[00:26:46]  He says, I've learned something as I have gotten older.
[00:26:49]  Ultimately, the truth wins out.
[00:26:53]  He says, it still amazes me and heartens me that people just want truth, competence, and confidence from their leaders.
[00:27:00]  It's all about the details and achieving results, especially when it's life or death, making the bureaucracy work.
[00:27:08]  Unbelievable hoobers.
[00:27:10]  I understand why some state governments and the federal government ran from the challenge.
[00:27:14]  It's really hard.
[00:27:15]  Well, Andrew Cuomo, you're running from something else right now, and it's a completely different challenge.
[00:27:21]  Andrew Cuomo has resigned as the governor of New York.
[00:27:26]  Quite honestly, good riddance.
[00:27:29]  The self-righteous narcissist, mob boss, king.
[00:27:33]  And yes, the replacement will be worse.
[00:27:36]  But it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be more corrupt.
[00:27:40]  Corrupt machine-style politicians like Andrew Cuomo, the corruption of the George Washington Bridge, the corruption of the nursing home scandal.
[00:27:47]  Andrew Cuomo is going to have to find a new job.
[00:27:50]  Don't be surprised, by the way, if he resigns and then re-enters into politics in this kind of come from behind type saga.
[00:27:59]  When you make power the most important thing in your life, it usually doesn't end well.
[00:28:04]  Okay, back to politicians that are making terrible mistakes.
[00:28:08]  Senate Republicans have decided to pass a $1.2 trillion spending bill.
[00:28:12]  I told you I wouldn't lose sight of these Republicans, even in this breaking news day.
[00:28:16]  Isn't it interesting?
[00:28:17]  Republicans decide to betray their voters, and then Andrew Cuomo resigns a couple minutes later.
[00:28:21]  Total coincidence.
[00:28:23]  Not saying that this was planned or not to say that they were all kind of coordinating it.
[00:28:30]  The system we have right now is supposed to function on trust.
[00:28:38]  It's built on trust that our leaders are going to fulfill their basic promise of citizen government.
[00:28:44]  What do the voters want?
[00:28:46]  And should I do that?
[00:28:48]  Now, maybe I'm out of touch, but I don't think the voters in South Carolina that just voted for Lindsey Graham, I don't think the voters in Texas, I think actually, John Cornyn voted against this.
[00:29:03]  I don't think the voters in Maine that came out for Susan Collins or the voters in North Carolina that came out for Tom Tillis.
[00:29:15]  I don't think they said, you know what, we want we want to make Pete Buttigedge the most powerful person in Washington, D.C.
[00:29:20]  I don't think that was actually in the mandate to govern.
[00:29:24]  I don't think that's why people went and knocked on doors and made phone calls.
[00:29:29]  Bill Haggerty was on Tucker Carlson's program last evening.
[00:29:34]  He said this infrastructure bill is a gateway to Bernie Sanders' Transformation of America package.
[00:29:39]  If that's true, which I believe it is, why are Senate Republicans voting for this?
[00:29:44]  And why are we putting up with this?
[00:29:46]  Cut 19.
[00:29:48]  This bill has become rather obvious what it really is.
[00:29:51]  It's been shielded with the veneer of bipartisanship, but what it really has become is the open gateway to lead right into this $3.5 trillion package, the Bernie Sanders Transformation of America package that they're trying to set up.
[00:30:04]  And they gave us a 2,700-page bill in only a few days to look at it.
[00:30:09]  And then the very afternoon that we got the CBO score that tells what the bill actually cost, it fell short by a quarter of a trillion dollars.
[00:30:17]  In Cut 20, Senator Bill Haggerty says that Republicans under Trump were criticized for not respecting our institutions, but now Democrats move to federalize our elections and the beginning of court packing.
[00:30:27]  And I want to reiterate what I said earlier.
[00:30:30]  Your Republicans that you put into office, and I'm going to, let's read off the list.
[00:30:36]  Why don't we do that?
[00:30:37]  Roy Blunt, Missouri, Richard Burr, North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capital, West Virginia, Bill Cassidy, Louisiana, Susan Collins, Maine, Deb Fisher, Nebraska, Lindsey Graham, South Carolina, Chuck Grassley, Iowa, John Hoeven,
[00:30:52]  North Dakota, Mitch McConnell, Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski, Alaska, Rob Portman, Ohio, James Risch, Idaho, Mitt Romney, Utah, Dan Sullivan, Alaska, Tom Tillis, North Carolina, Mike Crapo, Idaho, Kevin Kramer, North Dakota, Roger Wicker, Mississippi.
[00:31:13]  They've just made Pete Buttigieg an oligarch.
[00:31:17]  Here, Pete Buttigieg, who's a bunch of money, a bunch of power, a bunch of phrases that you can interpret.
[00:31:25]  Go make a name for yourself.
[00:31:26]  Is that what Republicans should be doing?
[00:31:29]  To go make a 5'5 want to be tech oligarch who wants to be president more than anything else's life, which, by the way, timeout.
[00:31:36]  Anyone who wants to be president that much probably shouldn't be near political power.
[00:31:39]  It's like Andrew Cuomo, destined to fail.
[00:31:42]  They just handed Pete Buttigieg a $1.2 trillion wire transfer larger than the Obama stimulus that includes the following provisions.
[00:31:52]  It grants select cabinet secretaries the authority to fully fund select infrastructure projects with taxpayer dollars by waiving cost-sharing rules.
[00:32:01]  It's in the bill.
[00:32:03]  If one of your senators that I just named voted for this, you should ask, why did you just make Pete Buttigeg so powerful?
[00:32:11]  Is that why people are rising up in record numbers to go vote and campaign?
[00:32:19]  What happens when leaders don't listen to their voters or their constituents?
[00:32:24]  Well, this was a legislative act of deception.
[00:32:28]  And what it does is it erodes and decays and diminishes people's trust in the system, mine included.
[00:32:38]  I love Governor Ron DeSantis.
[00:32:40]  You know why?
[00:32:40]  He says what he's going to do and he implements it.
[00:32:44]  He's a leader.
[00:32:45]  He's honest.

=== Erosion Of Public Trust (02:29) ===

[00:32:46]  He's clear.
[00:32:49]  Senate Republicans have done the opposite.
[00:32:51]  Senate Republicans go to the country club.
[00:32:54]  They roll into work around 10 a.m.
[00:32:57]  And there's some very good ones.
[00:32:59]  Senator Cruz is terrific.
[00:33:01]  Senator Ram Paul has been phenomenal.
[00:33:02]  In fact, we're going to play a clip from Senator Rampaul.
[00:33:05]  But generally, the Senate Republicans are just kind of there to be part of the phrase good old boys club doesn't resonate as much as it used to, but that's really what it is.
[00:33:16]  It's a country club with legislative movement every once in a while.
[00:33:21]  And many of them don't care.
[00:33:22]  They just want a bridge named after them, go be a lobbyist for some think tank afterwards.
[00:33:27]  The power is still in your hands, everybody.
[00:33:31]  But it does erode trust in the system.
[00:33:34]  It does make me feel as if the senators think they have a divine right of kings to rule over you.
[00:33:42]  There is no explanation to make Pete Buttigieg oligarch of our transportation system.
[00:33:48]  That is what every single Republican that voted for this just did.
[00:33:52]  And they should hear from you because of it.
[00:33:54]  Just getting warmed up on that.
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=== Currency Manipulation And Stimulus (15:45) ===

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[00:35:37]  Even if it was about roads and bridges and tunnels and towers, even if that was the case, there's problems with this.
[00:35:46]  You're handing Pete Buttigieg the power.
[00:35:50]  And I'm all for actually, I'm for an ambitious infrastructure package, trust me.
[00:35:55]  I would love to have our airports completely redone.
[00:35:58]  The problem is you use union labor, the graft, the corruption, and by the way, the aesthetic of these buildings are the ugliest things you've ever seen.
[00:36:07]  So the way we do infrastructure in this country is a disaster.
[00:36:11]  And then, of course, the Democrats are going to say, okay, instead of infrastructure, let's use this as a gateway drug to try to have a green energy revolution in our country.
[00:36:20]  That's what's so stunning to me is that senators who are from these red states that have oil and natural gas production, they're the ones that are the ones pushing for this.
[00:36:32]  How about Way Back in the Way Machine?
[00:36:35]  I love this.
[00:36:36]  So because we have such a dishonest media that doesn't do any journalism, I have to rely on my life experiences, which are very limited, by the way, to go kind of remember things.
[00:36:49]  So I woke up early this morning and I said, okay, I remember this.
[00:36:54]  I remember Trump sent out this tweet about infrastructure and everyone on the right lost their mind.
[00:36:58]  You can't do infrastructure, too much money.
[00:37:00]  I said, I've got to find it.
[00:37:01]  So, of course, Google is burying this, obviously.
[00:37:04]  And our team found it.
[00:37:07]  Mitch McConnell, in 2016, right after Trump won, McConnell says he doesn't want Trump to propose, quote, trillion-dollar stimulus for infrastructure.
[00:37:18]  The Senate top Republican, Mitch McConnell, said he wants to avoid a trillion-dollar stimulus to fund an infrastructure package, sending out a marker for the next Congress as lawmakers prepare to work with President-elect Donald Trump.
[00:37:30]  Trump pledged to have millions of our people to work by rebuilding highways, bridges, and tunnels and other infrastructure.
[00:37:37]  But Mitch McConnell says what I hope to clearly avoid, and I'm confident we will, is a trillion-dollar stimulus package.
[00:37:48]  Oh, really?
[00:37:48]  You just voted for a trillion-dollar stimulus package.
[00:37:54]  So let me get to, and Paul Ryan said that the infrastructure package, no-go.
[00:38:00]  It says here that there's some evidence that Trump's infrastructure plan remains a work in progress.
[00:38:08]  But Mitch McConnell says we want to avoid that.
[00:38:10]  Nope, we just want to cut corporate taxes.
[00:38:12]  What we want to do is make Google and Facebook and Amazon have more resources to continue their corporate oligarchy.
[00:38:22]  So Mitch McConnell vehemently came against Donald Trump's infrastructure package, which, by the way, was clean, non-green energy, legit investment in our country.
[00:38:33]  But then Mitch McConnell and his gang of other 19 Republicans have just come out and they said, you know what?
[00:38:39]  Forget Donald Trump.
[00:38:41]  Which, by the way, can I just say something hilarious?
[00:38:43]  Mitch McConnell didn't even want to give his wife the money because his wife would have been transportation secretary under this infrastructure package.
[00:38:50]  How does that work?
[00:38:52]  Now they go vote for this massive trillion-dollar boondoggle to go lay the groundwork for the electric vehicle renaissance.
[00:39:00]  If you work in oil and natural gas, your senators just voted for a $1.2 trillion slush fund to begin the end of your industry.
[00:39:09]  Whatever industry you're in, your senators just voted for that.
[00:39:14]  Why?
[00:39:14]  Well, because they're going to get their wives and their kids and their family members will be treated very well by the lobbyist class because they were good and obedient members of the cartel.
[00:39:26]  By the way, I'm not the only one saying this.
[00:39:27]  It'd be one thing if every Republican voted for this.
[00:39:29]  Listen to what Senator Ted Cruz has to say about this, what Senator Michael Lee has to say about this.
[00:39:33]  You know what frustrates me is that I spend time in Real America.
[00:39:36]  I avoid Washington, D.C. at all costs.
[00:39:38]  Mike will tell you, Producer Andrew, I can't stand it.
[00:39:40]  The attitude, the language, the ruling class mentality, I love being in America.
[00:39:46]  And you know what?
[00:39:47]  The people of this country deserve way better than this.
[00:39:50]  They work their tail off.
[00:39:51]  They get up early.
[00:39:52]  They do the right thing.
[00:39:53]  They raise their kids.
[00:39:54]  They go to church.
[00:39:55]  They don't do sly, deceptive, serpent-like deals in the back room.
[00:39:59]  Oh, we won't do infrastructure with Trump, but we're going to do infrastructure with Joe Biden to make Pete Buttigieg like a Russian oligarch over our transportation program.
[00:40:08]  No.
[00:40:08]  Regular everyday Americans in the muscular class of this country, if they act the way our senators did, they'd go to jail.
[00:40:15]  If they lied and they betrayed their promises, they'd lose their jobs, lose their mortgage, lose their marriage, and they'd go to jail.
[00:40:21]  Instead, these people get re-elected and get elevated on platforms.
[00:40:25]  There is no reason.
[00:40:25]  There is no excuse why this bill should have passed.
[00:40:28]  Pete Buttigej is now the most powerful person in Washington, D.C., outside of the president, Joe Biden, and Lloyd Austin.
[00:40:35]  He's just been given $1.2 trillion to spend, basically as he sees fit, because the bill allows that to happen.
[00:40:43]  So what did Pete Buttigieg have to say about these senators before?
[00:40:47]  Remember Cut 32 when Pete Buttigieg said so-called Christian conservative senators right now in the Senate are blocking a bill to raise the minimum wage when scripture says that whoever oppresses the poor taunts their maker.
[00:40:59]  So basically, Pete Buttigieg was calling Senate Republicans heretics.
[00:41:03]  This is who your leaders have just empowered.
[00:41:05]  Cut 32.
[00:41:06]  The minimum wage is just too low.
[00:41:08]  And so-called conservative Christian senators right now in the Senate are blocking a bill to raise the minimum wage when scripture says that whoever oppresses the poor taunts their maker.
[00:41:23]  Remember recently, Pete Buttigieg said that the necessity of the infrastructure bill is to push the green agenda and getting cars off of the road.
[00:41:37]  This is what Pete Buttigieg said.
[00:41:40]  And Republicans just were eager and flocking towards this.
[00:41:47]  So Pete Buttigieg is now taking a victory lap because he now knows they are one step closer to eradicating oil and natural gas to push the green agenda once and for all.
[00:42:04]  Cut 33.
[00:42:06]  Here's the way I think of it.
[00:42:07]  Transportation is the biggest sector in our economy when it comes to emitting greenhouse gases.
[00:42:12]  So to me, that means we have to be the biggest part of the solution.
[00:42:15]  And what's exciting about that, even though it's daunting, is that we can also create a lot of jobs as we go, whether it's jobs making the electric vehicles of the future that are going to provide clean transportation, or whether it's the jobs in the transit systems that we're funding that are going to help give people alternatives and take cars off the road.
[00:42:34]  Take cars off the road.
[00:42:36]  Not to mention the economic impacts of this.
[00:42:40]  Are you experiencing inflation?
[00:42:41]  Are you experiencing rising prices?
[00:42:45]  Well, you can thank Senate Republicans for that.
[00:42:48]  Instead of standing for sound currency, instead of standing for a stable dollar, Senate Republicans basically are now saying inflation, so what?
[00:42:59]  We're rich and powerful.
[00:43:00]  It's not like we're our constituents.
[00:43:02]  It's not like we care about our voters.
[00:43:05]  Senator Mike Lee, who's one of the good guys and a very decent person.
[00:43:11]  I disagree with Senator Mike Lee on immigration.
[00:43:14]  That's about it.
[00:43:16]  Senator Mike Lee is amazing on the size and scope of government and really good on monetary policy.
[00:43:22]  And honestly, he's a very good person.
[00:43:25]  He is.
[00:43:25]  He's honest.
[00:43:27]  He is fair.
[00:43:30]  And he was just terrific on our podcast recently.
[00:43:33]  Play cut 29, Senator Michael Esau: inflation is going up because the federal government's been spending too much money it doesn't have.
[00:43:40]  Cut 29, please.
[00:43:42]  Look, inflation's going way up because the federal government's been spending way too much money that it doesn't have.
[00:43:47]  When it does that, we effectively just print more money.
[00:43:50]  I mean, look, I know U.S. Treasuries are issued and everything, but it has the same effect as just printing more money.
[00:43:56]  We've got the same basket, more or less, of goods and services in the economy.
[00:44:00]  But when you dramatically expand the money supply in the way that they're doing, that means the price of everything will go up.
[00:44:08]  That's really bad for poor middle-class Americans, especially people who live paycheck to paycheck, because every paycheck goes less far.
[00:44:15]  If you want to destroy your currency, we'll create more of it.
[00:44:20]  Yahoo.com, front page, consumer inflation expectations, consumer inflation expectations hit eight-year high in Fed study.
[00:44:28]  Now, I don't like to do the I told you so thing, but a year ago, we did an entire podcast just on inflation.
[00:44:35]  In fact, I want to get that inflation episode back up on charliekirk.com because we walked through the basic economics of this.
[00:44:46]  There's very little I agree with libertarians on, but the things I do agree on is a sound currency.
[00:44:51]  I think it's pretty important.
[00:44:52]  I think for middle-class workers to know that their dollar is not going to decrease in value month to month actually creates order and it creates societal stability.
[00:45:04]  If you want unrest in the streets, just destroy people's currency.
[00:45:08]  If you want families to fall apart, destroy people's currency.
[00:45:13]  We are seeing inflation go up dramatically and the creation of new dollars, thanks to Senate Republicans, is part of this.
[00:45:22]  By the way, just so you know, they're not done.
[00:45:24]  Just so you know, this is a warm-up act.
[00:45:26]  They're just, they're just, this is nothing more than a stretching routine.
[00:45:30]  You know what's coming next?
[00:45:32]  Lindsey Graham and many others are negotiating a $3.5 trillion continuing resolution.
[00:45:47]  So, just for all of you keeping score at home, the first stimulus package, a couple trillion dollars.
[00:45:53]  The next stimulus package, another trillion dollars, another continuing resolution of $3 trillion, and then another stimulus package of a trillion dollars, and then an infrastructure package of a trillion dollars and $3.5 trillion on top of it.
[00:46:08]  Clip 14 is really good on this.
[00:46:09]  It's Senator Ted Cruz.
[00:46:10]  It's $9.5 trillion if you count all the spending from December of 2020.
[00:46:16]  And one of the things I have not changed on is I remain a fiscal realist.
[00:46:23]  So people say, Charlie, why do you believe marriage should be between one man, one woman?
[00:46:28]  I believe in the natural law.
[00:46:30]  Charlie, why do you believe that life begins at conception?
[00:46:32]  I believe in the natural law.
[00:46:34]  Charlie, why do you believe we shouldn't create money out of thin air?
[00:46:37]  Because I believe in the natural law.
[00:46:39]  This is not complicated.
[00:46:40]  You don't have to overthink this stuff.
[00:46:41]  You don't have to go to Harvard and start to get all these charts and graphs.
[00:46:45]  And, well, maybe human beings are malleable and maybe money is a construct.
[00:46:48]  Well, yeah, money's a construct, obviously.
[00:46:51]  But if you have something represented as value, you can't have an infinite amount of that thing.
[00:46:56]  Not hard.
[00:46:58]  Cut 14.
[00:47:00]  And when you add up the spending from December 2020 to now, with the Biden budget request, with the Democrats' tax and spend reconciliation proposal, with this infrastructure bill, with the so-called COVID relief bill, and with the emergency spending in December, you hit a whopping $9.5 trillion.
[00:47:25]  And this all comes from a theory called modern monetary theory.
[00:47:30]  And some people on the right are embracing this.
[00:47:33]  I'm talking about legitimate conservatives too, not the fake conservatives that ask for your vote every couple of years and then betray their voters.
[00:47:40]  It's tempting to want to do this, right?
[00:47:43]  I remain a monetary realist.
[00:47:45]  I believe in stable currency, and I believe a gold standard or a metallic basing of currency is fundamental because I want a longevity for our country.
[00:47:57]  Currency and moral decline, both of which in foreign wars and bad immigration policy, are the reasons why countries fall apart.
[00:48:05]  Okay, so moral decline.
[00:48:07]  I think we've dealt with that pretty in-depth here on this program.
[00:48:11]  But also, laws need to be related to moral decline.
[00:48:14]  It can't just be like, oh, yeah, we need to fix the culture.
[00:48:15]  No, no.
[00:48:16]  Your laws must reflect the culture.
[00:48:18]  So happy to reflect where you want the culture to go.
[00:48:22]  And the original founding of our country, by the way, the founding fathers wrote extensively about licentiousness.
[00:48:29]  Nations fall also because of uncontrolled immigration.
[00:48:32]  Well, you could thank Republicans for that.
[00:48:33]  They're just chomping at the bit for another amnesty deal.
[00:48:37]  Then the other one is currency manipulation.
[00:48:40]  This is one where I remain to be a realist.
[00:48:46]  I remain as someone who does not believe that you can print wealth, that creating more dollar bills, by definition, creates more economic activity.
[00:48:55]  Noah Webster Dictionary in 1806 had a compendium.
[00:49:00]  That's a fun word, right?
[00:49:01]  A compendium of words.
[00:49:04]  And licentiousness is not a word that you're going to use very often.
[00:49:07]  A contempt of just restraint.
[00:49:10]  So it's very important because usually licentiousness is used in the moral domain of kind of personal sexual behavior.
[00:49:16]  And that is true.
[00:49:17]  But it's not just about that.
[00:49:20]  Benjamin Rush, who is phenomenal, by the way, addressed to the people of the United States in January 1787.
[00:49:28]  So this is nine months before the ratification of the Constitution on September 17, 1787, where he says, quote, in opposition to monarchy, we forgot that the temple of tyranny, I want you to, the language they use.
[00:49:43]  Only politicians talk like this.
[00:49:45]  We just have such dumb people that we send to D.C., they would never even think to read.
[00:49:50]  Instead, they're too busy cutting deal with lobbyists.
[00:49:51]  Think about the language of this.
[00:49:52]  Benjamin Rush.
[00:49:53]  We forgot that the temple of tyranny has two doors.
[00:49:58]  We bolted one of them by proper restraints.
[00:50:03]  We left the other one open by neglecting to guard against the effects of our own ignorance and licentiousness.
[00:50:13]  Most of the present difficulties of this country arise from the weakness and other defects of our governments.
[00:50:23]  So what he's saying is that tyranny has two doors.
[00:50:27]  One is the framework.
[00:50:30]  And he's like, all right, we're figuring that out.
[00:50:32]  But the other one is whether or not we are going to be able to restrain ourselves.
[00:50:39]  And we don't talk about this idea of licentiousness when it comes to fiscal policy.
[00:50:43]  Usually we're like, oh, yeah, all the degeneracy, which by the way, is totally legitimate, by the way.
[00:50:47]  And we're going to kind of show an example of that of the new TikTok influencer who's making a fool of our country at the White House.
[00:50:54]  But instead, I want to focus on what happens when you don't have the restraints on yourself fiscally or financially.

=== Transportation Equity Critique (15:00) ===

[00:51:02]  That is bad.
[00:51:03]  I'm not going to say it's just as bad or it's worse.
[00:51:05]  Let's just say it's all bad.
[00:51:07]  It's dangerous.
[00:51:08]  And what our Senate Republicans have been doing is at every single level immoral.
[00:51:14]  I am going to create money with nothing backing it for my own purposes, not for my voters' purpose, to deteriorate and diminish the value of the dollar.
[00:51:27]  That is not being prudent, nor is it being disciplined.
[00:51:32]  There's another quote here, and by the way, I'm reading here from this wonderful document from the Claremont Institute.
[00:51:38]  It does terrific work.
[00:51:40]  But 15 pages of excerpts of original founding documents of the founding fathers warning what happens when leaders live outside of their means, when leaders or the government is not disciplined or they don't have the just restraints.
[00:51:56]  Do you think that Senate Republicans are worried about the cost of living beyond one's means?
[00:52:03]  James Monroe said in May of 1788: to form a government that shall shield you from dangers from abroad, promote your general and local interests, protect in safety the life and liberty and property of the peaceful and virtuous and the weak against the encroachments of the disorderly and the licentious.
[00:52:21]  They love that word.
[00:52:23]  Patrick Henry said, from this situation, he could have furnished us with the instances in which licentiousness trampled on the laws.
[00:52:33]  It's the Virginia Convention in June of 1788.
[00:52:37]  It's right after the Federalist papers were written.
[00:52:40]  The Founding Fathers were very clear that if you do not have the wise restraints, you will not be free.
[00:52:48]  This is totally lost on Senate Republicans, by the way.
[00:52:52]  JD Vance, who I have personally endorsed for the Ohio Senate race, who's a friend of mine, has said that the infrastructure bill has language that includes transportation equity in it, which can be applied to critical race theory.
[00:53:07]  J.D. does a wonderful job explaining how the reconciliation bill is pretty much the reconciliation bill that is amnesty for 11 million illegals.
[00:53:15]  Actually, that tape's a little long.
[00:53:16]  We're going to play that in the next tape so you guys can wait for JD's commentary on this.
[00:53:20]  And we're getting lots of emails.
[00:53:22]  I want to read one of these emails.
[00:53:23]  We'll answer this question as well.
[00:53:24]  It's just so frustrating to see these emails where people are saying, Charlie, I have a career, and now I'm being forced to take the vaccine.
[00:53:36]  What do I do?
[00:53:38]  The only real answer is that people in political power need to start standing up for you.
[00:53:43]  They're willing to use political power to crush and ruin your life.
[00:53:46]  Our side is not willing to use political power to even defend your way of life.
[00:53:51]  And it's really interesting.
[00:53:53]  This is right within the mission statement of the United States.
[00:54:00]  Secure the blessings of liberty.
[00:54:03]  The government's supposed to offer security for you against those that wish to threaten your liberty.
[00:54:08]  Think about that.
[00:54:09]  One of the lies about the founding fathers is that they were strictly small L libertarians, that they had no sort of commentary or respect for a transcendent moral order.
[00:54:24]  That's just not true.
[00:54:26]  And I'm going to kind of parlay this into fiscal policy.
[00:54:30]  We can obviously talk about it at a different time when it comes to moral type issues.
[00:54:37]  For example, let me just tell you this.
[00:54:39]  If Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, or John Adams saw Drag Queen Story Hour, they would mobilize the Minutemen.
[00:54:48]  If Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, or Thomas Jefferson, or John Adams, would see what Joe Biden just invited into the White House, they would be displeased.
[00:55:03]  Let's put it that way.
[00:55:05]  And they wrote extensively about this.
[00:55:07]  So one of the writings here: the characteristics of mild government are liberty without licentiousness and government without tyranny of a vigorous one, unanimity, consistency, and uniformity in the councils.
[00:55:23]  It's beautifully written.
[00:55:25]  They were worried that if leaders do not have the ability to restrain themselves, the country will lead to ruin.
[00:55:31]  And so we've been through this before.
[00:55:33]  It's nothing novel, but it's rather important, to be perfectly honest with you, which is what are the ways that civilizations decline.
[00:55:44]  And we're in the middle of one of these cycles of civilizational decline.
[00:55:47]  I wish we weren't.
[00:55:48]  We can reverse it.
[00:55:49]  Trump tried.
[00:55:50]  Trump did a lot to reverse that.
[00:55:52]  And I think he actually made more progress back towards revival and greatness.
[00:55:57]  There were just some strategic things that I think I would have done differently, not just me, but really thoughtful people would have done differently.
[00:56:04]  And it's not just on him, the people around him and some of the sneakiness and also the virus and the handling of it and keeping Fauci around.
[00:56:10]  But he was a phenomenal president, a phenomenal president, best president of my lifetime.
[00:56:15]  But this cycle of civilizational decline is brought, of course, by a moral decline, then really bad immigration policies where you change, there's matter and there's form.
[00:56:26]  So the form of a government is the Constitutional Republic.
[00:56:30]  That's being violated.
[00:56:30]  But then the matter is the actual people in the form of it, which are the culture, the language, the background, the history, the ability to assimilate.
[00:56:37]  And if you change that too dramatically, then the country actually changes itself.
[00:56:41]  The other one is currency manipulation and decline.
[00:56:45]  Is that if you erode your currency, you're going to have civilizational unrest.
[00:56:52]  And I would make an argument: our moral decline is directly related with our leaders' kind of indifference towards whether or not we have sound currency, whether or not our dollar means anything.
[00:57:03]  And it only allows us to participate in these long-term debt cycles.
[00:57:09]  Who cares if we steal from our children?
[00:57:11]  That's a moral issue, by the way.
[00:57:13]  That's a moral issue no different than Drag Queen Story Hour.
[00:57:17]  Drag Queen Story Hour should be illegal in libraries across the country.
[00:57:20]  Period.
[00:57:21]  End of discussion.
[00:57:22]  So Rob has completely convinced me.
[00:57:26]  Also, debasing our currency should be illegal.
[00:57:31]  Let's go to JD Vance, who I teased in the earlier segment, how the infrastructure bill has language including transportation equity in it.
[00:57:39]  So Senate Republicans, being eager participants in the civilizational decline cycle, they voted for a bill that has a phrase that says transportation equity in it.
[00:57:55]  Oh, so this will be used against white people.
[00:57:59]  Play cut 26.
[00:58:01]  Hey, guys, I'm reading through this new infrastructure bill, and it includes all these ridiculous references to things called transportation equity, which is basically just importing critical race theory into our nation's infrastructure programs.
[00:58:13]  It's totally ridiculous, and it's obvious that Republicans have been had in supporting this bill.
[00:58:17]  But then you realize that there's more on top of it because Nancy Pelosi has said, we're not going to support the infrastructure bill unless there's a reconciliation bill after it.
[00:58:26]  Well, what's in the reconciliation bill?
[00:58:28]  Turns out, amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens.
[00:58:31]  You give those people permanent amnesty, you give them the right to vote.
[00:58:35]  First of all, Republicans will never win another national election.
[00:58:38]  But second of all, you're inviting millions more illegal aliens to come across the southern border by offering to legalize the people who are here right now.
[00:58:46]  That's what your Senate Republicans voted for.
[00:58:48]  I love the preamble to the Constitution because it's the beginning of the mission statement of our government and how we're supposed to live.
[00:58:55]  We, the people, three transformative words, by the way, of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and my favorite, secure the blessings of liberty.
[00:59:10]  Those are my five favorite words.
[00:59:12]  Secure.
[00:59:13]  Within that word security is almost an idea of defense.
[00:59:16]  That's why I think President Donald Trump, the description of him as the bodyguard of Western civilization, was perfect.
[00:59:24]  I mean, obviously, I said it in my RNC speech, but I think it was spot on because his idea was that I'm going to secure something transcendent.
[00:59:32]  I'm going to then have to not just open up the floodgates so you can do whatever you want.
[00:59:37]  No, I'm going to prevent the bad guys from taking what has been given to you.
[00:59:42]  And JD Vance's big point was because the bill includes fast track to legalize immediate family members.
[00:59:48]  If you illegalize 11 million more, you can get all their immediate family members as well.
[00:59:54]  So, what do they mean by transportation equity?
[00:59:56]  Will all the whites now have to pay higher tolls when they're driving on highways?
[01:00:00]  Or maybe the white cars have to pay higher tolls?
[01:00:03]  Well, the person to kind of figure that out is Pete Buttigieg.
[01:00:07]  So, Senate Republicans, instead of doing the hard and the detailed work, instead of defending their voters, who, by the way, you know how many hundreds of thousands, and not millions, probably hundreds, estimate, hundreds of thousands of active service members in the military right now are not vaccinated, that live in Republican states, are going to be forced to be vaccinated against their will.
[01:00:27]  Why are Republicans even having a conversation with Democrats while this is happening?
[01:00:31]  They want a convenient life.
[01:00:33]  They don't want to save the civilization.
[01:00:34]  That's nothing new.
[01:00:35]  Cowardice and corruption is the human condition, unfortunately.
[01:00:42]  If you choose to believe Google, then all you need to do is surf the internet privately in incognito mode in your browser.
[01:00:48]  And we're supposed to think that big tech trusts you with that, or that we trust big tech?
[01:00:52]  Well, wrong.
[01:00:53]  It doesn't matter what the browser mode you have or your clear browsing history, your internet service provider can see every single website you've ever visited.
[01:01:01]  And they can even sell your data to advertisers.
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[01:01:47]  Okay, let's get to some more sound here.
[01:01:50]  So I want to go to cut 27.
[01:01:51]  CBS reports that migrants are testing for COVID have been overwhelming, and yet Senate Republicans, instead of actually trying to wave the flag and say we're not even negotiating, while we have 1.5 million, as many as 2 million people, we don't know the exact number, illegally crossing into the country.
[01:02:09]  I want you to think about that.
[01:02:11]  So for all of you listening in North Dakota right now, I want you to think about this.
[01:02:16]  The population of North Dakota is 762,000 people.
[01:02:21]  So I want you to understand, just in the last year, just in the last year, two North Dakotas have illegally passed into the country.
[01:02:31]  So some estimates are at 1.2 to 2 million.
[01:02:33]  So let's say it's 2 million.
[01:02:35]  That would be about almost 3 million North Dakotas.
[01:02:39]  Yeah, it's about 2.5.
[01:02:40]  Two and a half North Dakotas that have come in.
[01:02:43]  Why aren't your leaders doing something about it?
[01:02:45]  I'm not talking about just going on television and complaining about it.
[01:02:48]  I'm talking about really doing something about it.
[01:02:50]  You want to do something about it?
[01:02:52]  Don't vote for the Democrats' infrastructure bill.
[01:02:54]  That would be doing something about it.
[01:02:56]  Instead, the Democrats are getting everything they want.
[01:02:59]  They're fundamentally transforming the country.
[01:03:01]  They're bringing millions of people into the country.
[01:03:03]  They're getting their green energy infrastructure bill to make Pete Buttigieg a Russian oligarch.
[01:03:08]  The tech companies are doing whatever they want.
[01:03:10]  They're mandating vaccines, by the way.
[01:03:13]  Mandating vaccines for service members.
[01:03:16]  And most Republicans don't care about it.
[01:03:18]  So I've been responding to some emails.
[01:03:20]  People have been emailing me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[01:03:22]  I feel bad because I wish I had an email.
[01:03:26]  This one woman, she said, my son has finally had his promotion and his dream job in the military.
[01:03:29]  However, yesterday's news, the Pentagon, he has to make a very difficult decision.
[01:03:33]  For those who choose to put their lives on the line for us, they are having no choice for their personal body.
[01:03:38]  It's well said.
[01:03:38]  It's very wise.
[01:03:39]  How can our representatives help them?
[01:03:41]  How can we help?
[01:03:42]  Can this be stopped?
[01:03:43]  And I responded: I said, Your representatives should be focused on this and defending their voters and our veterans and our service members instead of passing massive spending bills.
[01:03:52]  But honestly, they don't care about their voters.
[01:03:54]  And they don't.
[01:03:55]  I had dinner last night with some friends and really great people.
[01:03:59]  And they said, Charlie, obviously, you're not vaccinated.
[01:04:01]  It's kind of well news.
[01:04:02]  I'm well-known news.
[01:04:03]  I'm not getting vaccinated.
[01:04:04]  Proud to say that.
[01:04:05]  And not judging anyone who gets vaccinated.
[01:04:07]  Obviously, we've been through that thousands of times on this program.
[01:04:10]  But they're like, well, how are you going to travel to Europe?
[01:04:12]  I'm like, well, might never go to Europe again.
[01:04:14]  How are you going to travel to New York?
[01:04:15]  Might never travel to New York again.
[01:04:16]  And so, yeah, excuse me while I get a little bit kind of upset while these Republicans just kind of act in this ruling class mentality.
[01:04:25]  Like, oh, yeah, the unvaccinated unwashed people, like, they'll figure it out.
[01:04:28]  They'll go to Wendy's or Arby's or Cracker Barrel or whatever they do.
[01:04:32]  Charlie, I've lived in North Dakota my whole life.
[01:04:34]  This is what Greg says.
[01:04:35]  We have been one of the last bastions of conservatism.
[01:04:37]  Our Senate delegation stabbed North Dakota and the United States in the back with their votes on the infrastructure bill.
[01:04:42]  They are empty suits.
[01:04:43]  I'm now looking at candidates to primary these two.
[01:04:45]  Senator Kramer has an invite on the show.
[01:04:47]  He's a very nice person.
[01:04:49]  I'm not going to say anything about him personally.
[01:04:50]  He's been really kind to respond on my text messages.
[01:04:52]  Truly, he made a big mistake here.
[01:04:55]  Mistakes have consequences.
[01:04:57]  You could tell a lot by somebody's actions and compare them to their statements.
[01:05:03]  Obama doesn't believe the Delta variant's a threat.
[01:05:06]  He held a super spreader event at Martha's Vineyard.
[01:05:09]  Rashida Tlaib, exactly the same, but your children must wear a mask at school and sit down and obey.
[01:05:15]  I will say the one thing that gives me hope, I keep going back to that one thing.
[01:05:19]  There are a couple things that give me hope.
[01:05:20]  There's a lot of things that really frustrate me, like the entire Republican Party doing the bidding of Democrats.
[01:05:25]  But this recall effort in California, I just feel compelled to keep mentioning it.
[01:05:32]  This is a real grassroots movement.
[01:05:35]  And it started, it started kind of because of the lockdowns, but it was an example of what happens when a leader, even in a comfortably Democrat state, defies his own orders and goes to French laundry, maskless with lobbyists, and the recall becomes a reality very quickly.
[01:05:56]  I'm personally behind LarryElder, ElectElder.com.
[01:05:59]  Other people have their own preferences.

=== Hope Amidst Political Frustration (04:08) ===

[01:06:02]  As long as you vote no to get Newsom out, you guys can make your own decision on that.
[01:06:08]  I want to mention something.
[01:06:10]  My friend Mike Lindell is doing an event in South Dakota.
[01:06:13]  I know nothing about the event or the specifics.
[01:06:15]  The media is going to lose their mind.
[01:06:17]  I don't care.
[01:06:17]  He's a friend of mine, and I refuse to not mention a person because he's been canceled by the media.
[01:06:22]  So take a look at what he's doing, quite honestly.
[01:06:24]  And we're going to see if we can stream some of it on our Rumble page.
[01:06:27]  Obviously, not YouTube.
[01:06:28]  That thing will get taken down very quickly.
[01:06:32]  And so we will keep an eye on that.
[01:06:35]  We'll see what's happening, as people say.
[01:06:37]  We'll see what happens.
[01:06:38]  So the White House doesn't have the money to secure the southern border.
[01:06:43]  They pass a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, yet they keep on having these TikTok influencers come to the White House.
[01:06:51]  Wait till you see who's representing your government to try to get people vaccinated.
[01:06:56]  Cut 31.
[01:06:58]  This is actually the entrance to the West Wing.
[01:07:00]  This is so fun, and it's really prestigious.
[01:07:04]  Is Olivia Rodrigo still here?
[01:07:06]  No.
[01:07:08]  We've come a long way in our fight against this virus.
[01:07:10]  We've vaccinated 160 million Americans.
[01:07:13]  Are you getting this all down?
[01:07:14]  Don't worry, Queen.
[01:07:15]  It's all right here.
[01:07:16]  Cooper.
[01:07:17]  Sorry, Miss Jen.
[01:07:19]  Jen, don't forget to have fun.
[01:07:21]  Spirit figures, Mama.
[01:07:22]  We need to get shots in the arms of every single American.
[01:07:26]  I'm heading to a haircut.
[01:07:27]  If you want me to make more of these.
[01:07:29]  So, Jen Saki literally starred in this video.
[01:07:32]  This is a man in a dress with claws.
[01:07:35]  I'm going to pray for this young man.
[01:07:37]  He needs salvation.
[01:07:38]  And truly, there's a disturbed individual.
[01:07:43]  So I'm going to pray.
[01:07:43]  I mean that non-sarcastically.
[01:07:45]  Just not something that should be platformed and should be taken seriously.
[01:07:53]  I actually don't want to make fun of it because making fun of it would be cruel.
[01:07:58]  I don't like cruelty, quite honestly.
[01:08:00]  I don't.
[01:08:01]  I think cruelty is not something we should engage in.
[01:08:04]  But it's sad.
[01:08:04]  It's embarrassing and it's sad.
[01:08:06]  China, of course, loves it.
[01:08:07]  It's on TikTok.
[01:08:08]  That's an example.
[01:08:09]  The generations that you go wear a dress as a man waltz throughout the White House with these long, claw-like things.
[01:08:16]  You're something out of Edward scissor hands.
[01:08:19]  And prayer and reconciliation and finding an eternal meaning is important.
[01:08:25]  And you want to talk about licentiousness?
[01:08:27]  There you are.
[01:08:29]  So in closing, I want to play one more tape here.
[01:08:31]  I promise this.
[01:08:31]  Play cut three.
[01:08:32]  Senator Ram Paul on pandemic lockdowns.
[01:08:34]  It's time for us to resist.
[01:08:36]  They can't arrest all of us.
[01:08:37]  God bless Rand Paul.
[01:08:39]  I want to end on a positive note because Senate Republicans, please, everybody, go primary them, challenge them, communicate with them.
[01:08:48]  Do what you need to do.
[01:08:49]  But honestly, the good guys need to be elevated more.
[01:08:51]  And you can say whatever you want about Senator Ram Paul and some of his drug views, which honestly is kind of a cheap accusation.
[01:08:58]  Senator Ram Paul is a good person and a dear friend of mine.
[01:09:01]  And I love Senator Ram Paul.
[01:09:03]  Because listen to this.
[01:09:04]  He's a fighter and he'll stand up for your children and he'll stand up for the American way of life.
[01:09:08]  Cut three.
[01:09:10]  It's time for us to resist.
[01:09:12]  They can't arrest all of us.
[01:09:14]  They can't keep all of your kids home from school.
[01:09:16]  They can't keep every government building closed.
[01:09:20]  We don't have to accept the mandates, lockdowns, and harmful policies of the petty tyrants and bureaucrats.
[01:09:26]  We can simply say no, not again.
[01:09:30]  We can say no, not again.
[01:09:31]  That's a U.S. Senator talking.
[01:09:33]  Thank you, Rand.
[01:09:35]  Thank you for having the courage, for having the clarity, and the willingness to stand up for your voters.
[01:09:41]  Thank you for saying what we all want our leaders to say, which is you will not lock us down again.
[01:09:46]  You will not mask our children.
[01:09:47]  You will not mandate masks.
[01:09:49]  This is still a semblance of a free country.
[01:09:51]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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[01:10:02]  God bless.
[01:10:02]  Speak to you soon.
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