The Charlie Kirk Show - A Next Generation Conservative with "Based" Blake Masters Aired: 2021-12-13 Duration: 41:26 === Meeting Candidates in Arizona (05:28) === [00:00:00] Hey, everybody, we're continuing with our series of people running for office that we think that we want you to learn about. [00:00:05] And in Arizona, we're interviewing all the Senate candidates. [00:00:07] Friend of mine, Blake Masters, is running for the United States Senate seat in Arizona. [00:00:11] Based Blake is what we call him. [00:00:14] And we're not endorsing an Arizona Senate race. [00:00:16] We have a lot of good friends all over the race, but Blake's a good man. [00:00:20] I think you'll really enjoy hearing from him. [00:00:22] And he understands the tech issue, the family issue, and the culture issue better than anyone else. [00:00:26] You can email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com. [00:00:29] AmericaFest, everybody. [00:00:30] I hope you're coming this weekend. 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[00:02:07] Hey everybody, welcome to the episode. [00:02:08] This episode of the Charlie Kirk Show with us today is a friend of mine, someone i've known for quite a while. [00:02:12] He's a great American patriot and he's running for senate in Arizona. [00:02:17] We've had him on before. [00:02:18] Can't wait to explore these ideas further. [00:02:20] Blake Masters, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk show. [00:02:22] Thank you Charlie, great to be here. [00:02:23] How's the trail going? [00:02:24] It's fun. [00:02:24] I'm actually having fun. [00:02:25] I think you can tell which candidates are having fun and which candidates are going through the motions. [00:02:30] What do you enjoy most about it? [00:02:32] Um, cliche as it sounds, just like meeting voters, meeting people and people. [00:02:36] Actually, it's really interesting. [00:02:37] Like after just three or four minutes of conversation um, you know, if people feel like they like me and trust me, they open up to me with stories. [00:02:45] You know my kid od'd um and I was in a dark place and you know it's Republican Party activism becoming a precinct committee man, that kind of put me, you know, like these stories. [00:02:54] Or my kid was shot in Afghanistan and is recovering and it's like it gets actually pretty emotional sometimes. [00:02:59] But just meeting people and and it's um, it's a real blessing to be able to do this. [00:03:03] Arizona is an awesome state. [00:03:04] It's my home state, your home state. [00:03:06] What do you think makes Arizona a unique kind of uh place Not just to live and all that, but kind of where America is right now. [00:03:15] It's somewhat split 50, 50 down the middle. [00:03:18] Almost every crisis has kind of come home to Arizona. [00:03:21] Immigration, tech, schools. [00:03:24] Yeah, it's fascinating too. [00:03:26] I mean, I feel like this is, I'm biased, but I think this is the most important Senate race, Arizona, 2022. [00:03:31] I mean, I totally agree. [00:03:32] That in Georgia. [00:03:33] In the country. [00:03:33] Sure. [00:03:35] Arizona is more important. [00:03:36] For you. [00:03:36] Arizona is more important. [00:03:38] And I think as goes Arizona. [00:03:40] Totally. [00:03:41] As goes the country, right? [00:03:42] It's the bellwether. [00:03:43] It's a real swing state. [00:03:44] You know, we have this huge interesting history, right? [00:03:47] Rich sort of conservative, maybe populist libertarian history. [00:03:50] This is the state of Goldwater, right? [00:03:52] And it's the Wild, Wild West. [00:03:54] So many people, like I grew up here, but I'm not quite from here. [00:03:56] We moved to Arizona when I was four, but most people aren't from Arizona. [00:04:00] You meet like a lot of seventh generation Arizonans, but then a lot of people who came here in the last 10, 20 years. [00:04:04] And so it's this, it's this real reflective mix of America and which way do we want to go here? [00:04:10] So I find that fascinating, but also dangerous. [00:04:13] Because like if we become California, right, then I think the whole country becomes California. [00:04:17] So I have a good friend who's in real estate and he owns apartments. [00:04:22] Do you know the average rent has gone up 33% in Phoenix the last year? [00:04:28] People are moving here from all across the country. [00:04:30] And that kind of is then a stress test. [00:04:33] Not just from an infrastructure standpoint, which I think actually Arizona's infrastructure is okay. [00:04:37] It's not awful. [00:04:38] Could be better. [00:04:39] But also from a political standpoint. [00:04:42] Like, what's the future of Arizona going to be? [00:04:44] Yeah. [00:04:44] Well, I meet so many people from California, right? [00:04:46] California refugees, I call them. [00:04:48] Some are conservative. [00:04:49] And some are conservative, right? [00:04:50] Because people forget there's a lot of conservatives in California. [00:04:52] That's right. [00:04:52] It's not only Democrats. [00:04:54] And look, it may be 30 or 40%. [00:04:56] So it's an electoral minority. [00:04:57] You get demolished in elections, whatever. [00:04:58] It's a one-party state. [00:04:59] But the conservatives there really are active and they move here and they register as PCs and it's all good. [00:05:05] And so I welcome them if they remember why they came. [00:05:07] But I also meet a lot of people who come from California, also refugees. [00:05:11] And I'm like, why'd you come? [00:05:12] And they say, well, the heroin needles were, you know, it's just getting a little much for me to find these things on the sidewalk and the homeless encampments were encroaching on my kids' school and taxes were sky. [00:05:21] So I say, great. [00:05:22] So you're going to be active in the Republican Party. [00:05:23] You're going to help me get elected. [00:05:24] And they're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. [00:05:26] I'm a Democrat. [00:05:27] And it's like, what are you doing? === Political Will and Economic Issues (13:27) === [00:05:28] So I don't know which way it breaks. [00:05:29] Yes. [00:05:30] But I'm cautiously optimistic, at least with our activism, that we can remind people why they left. [00:05:35] And part of what makes your candidacy different is you know how to use the Facebook. [00:05:41] The Facebook. [00:05:42] Well, you know, the internet, Charlie, is a series of tubes. [00:05:45] Did Al Gore put them together? [00:05:47] He invented them. [00:05:47] I'm joking because one of my favorite memes ever was seeing one of the old bulls in the Senate, like Chuck Grassley or whatever. [00:05:55] Yeah. [00:05:56] Basically, and they didn't say it, but they were asking Mark Zuckerberg if they could unlock their phone. [00:06:00] Right. [00:06:00] Yeah. [00:06:01] Yeah. [00:06:01] So my staff tells me the Facebook. [00:06:04] Yes. [00:06:04] But all kidding aside, you would be one of the youngest senators ever, if not the youngest senator ever. [00:06:09] You're right near there, right? [00:06:10] Close. [00:06:11] Yeah. [00:06:12] And, but you would also be prepared to actually talk about some of these incredibly complex yet important tech issues that honestly confuse most U.S. senators. [00:06:26] Right. [00:06:26] And you see it. [00:06:27] You see it in these hearings that you're talking about. [00:06:28] You get Zuckerberg on the hot seat and it's like, what an opportunity that is. [00:06:32] Totally. [00:06:32] And then just they flop. [00:06:34] And like Hawley does a great job. [00:06:36] Holly, it's Cotton. [00:06:37] Even Ted Cruz gets in the good questions. [00:06:39] It's the younger ones, actually. [00:06:40] But the older ones, it's just there's a lot of, there's a language barrier too, though, right? [00:06:44] Right. [00:06:44] Where just from what is an algorithm to kind of social media manipulation, a lot of it, it would be as if I was sitting on some sort of hearing around some sort of super wonky, like pharmaceutical issue. [00:06:56] Right. [00:06:57] And I would be confusing kind of like proteins to gene sequencing, right? [00:07:01] Right. [00:07:02] It's just not. [00:07:03] And there is a sense in which if you don't have the basic vocabulary, then like you're not, God help you. [00:07:07] You're not. [00:07:07] That's a really important point, though, isn't it? [00:07:09] It's a, you could call it a starting point. [00:07:11] Yeah. [00:07:12] Yeah. [00:07:13] So, no, a lot of work to do. [00:07:14] And some of this stuff is complex. [00:07:15] Some isn't, like the censorship issue. [00:07:17] I think a lot isn't. [00:07:18] It's pretty simple. [00:07:19] They ripped President Trump off these platforms while he was president. [00:07:22] That should be illegal. [00:07:23] You can treat them as common carriers. [00:07:24] Like, that's not a technologically innovative solution. [00:07:26] That just takes political will. [00:07:28] I think we know how to do that. [00:07:29] But what do you do when Facebook is, yeah, basically serving targeted advertising to teenagers and kind of addicting? [00:07:35] You know, you see, they have the data on what it does to teenage women and their brains, and it makes them more depressed and suicidal to have the endless scroll feed, right? [00:07:43] It's manipulating them in these ways that are very profitable for Facebook, but very bad for the children involved. [00:07:48] And regulating that the right way is probably going to be harder, right? [00:07:52] That's what I'm saying. [00:07:52] I'm saying the R-word, regulation, which some Republicans don't want to say. [00:07:56] Right. [00:07:56] Which I appreciate. [00:07:58] So Da Nang Dick, who's from Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal. [00:08:02] Okay. [00:08:02] Right? [00:08:03] Never served in Vietnam. [00:08:04] Yeah. [00:08:04] Total liar. [00:08:05] I was working out and he came on Anderson Coop. [00:08:08] He came on Cuomo's old show, Wolf Blitzer, was hosting. [00:08:11] R.I.P. Cuomo, yeah. [00:08:12] Yeah, exactly. [00:08:12] Very sad. [00:08:13] What a loss to the American project. [00:08:16] And so here's Richard Blumenthal, and the Chiron is super interesting, which is that we can no longer trust Facebook. [00:08:23] So I went back and I found the clip. [00:08:25] Basically, Richard Blumenthal was saying, we now have to regulate Facebook because of some of the stuff you said. [00:08:32] Now, of course, but there's a different agenda when Richard Blumenthal wants to regulate. [00:08:37] Can you talk a little bit about that? [00:08:38] Well, and like I permitted myself to be cautiously optimistic about Lena Khan being appointed to the FTC, right? [00:08:44] It's like she'd written some intelligent things about maybe we need to restrain some of these companies. [00:08:49] And look, I'm not naive. [00:08:51] I'm not like some, let's work in a bipartisan fashion. [00:08:54] I think you can't work with most Democrats, but I'm happy to work with Democrats if they're actually going to be commonsensical and reasonable. [00:08:59] So I'm like, maybe there was some sort of left-right alliance on meaningfully restraining big tech. [00:09:04] And I've just come to believe so far, no, the left wants to hold the antitrust threat out over Facebook to extract compliance. [00:09:11] Yes. [00:09:11] Right. [00:09:11] It's like Facebook, we will break you up if you don't take out that and that and that piece of COVID misinformation from your platform, right? [00:09:18] So Facebook plays along and you get this sort of fusion of I think left-wing corporate power with the Biden administration. [00:09:24] We just call that fascism. [00:09:26] They don't want to call it that anymore, but that's basically what it is, right? [00:09:29] And so I don't think the left is meaningfully serious about restraining these companies for the benefit of the normal American. [00:09:35] They just want to co-opt these companies to become Democrat super PAC public utilities. [00:09:40] That's right. [00:09:40] Which they basically are. [00:09:41] Which they already are, but they're not enough to them. [00:09:43] That's right. [00:09:43] The fact that Charlie Kirk still has a Facebook account is a threat to democracy. [00:09:50] Capital D. 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[00:10:33] Go right now and sign up with promo code Kirk. [00:10:35] That has a special offer for a four-week trial, free postage, and a digital scale. [00:10:39] Just go to stamps.com, click on the microphone at the top of the page, enter promo code Kirk, stamps.com, click on the mic at the top of the page, promo code Kirk. [00:10:49] And so when Richard Blumenthal goes on CNN and starts to bash Facebook, he's not doing that because he wants Facebook to become a free and open platform or Facebook to actually become a place where you and I can talk. [00:11:02] He wants it for it to become a one-party utility, even more so than it already is. [00:11:06] That's right. [00:11:06] And that's an important distinction, right? [00:11:08] Because when you say that we want to restrain Facebook, you actually don't want, you actually would love to break it up. [00:11:14] I think it would be phenomenal to break up these companies. [00:11:17] They don't go as far to do that. [00:11:18] They want the threat of that to get what they want. [00:11:20] That's right. [00:11:21] Nope. [00:11:21] That's exactly right. [00:11:22] And that's why I don't think we can work with them on it. [00:11:25] This is why I think we need a real majority. [00:11:27] Do you think that the Republican Party is there as far as the voters? [00:11:32] Let's start there to restrain the corporate oligarchy, especially in the tech space. [00:11:37] Yes. [00:11:38] The voters are. [00:11:38] So you're traveling a lot. [00:11:39] I speak to a lot of voters. [00:11:40] You speak to a lot of voters. [00:11:41] Talk about that. [00:11:42] Well, I mean, I tell people, like, look, I'm a pro-market guy. [00:11:45] Like, I have this sort of libertarian, you know, classic background. [00:11:49] Like, I was deep in the Austrian school in college, right? [00:11:51] Like, we're into this stuff. [00:11:52] We don't want to regulate it. [00:11:54] Was. [00:11:54] Yeah. [00:11:54] I mean, I'm sympathetic. [00:11:55] I think it's important to start. [00:11:56] And some of it's really interesting. [00:11:58] Some of it's really interesting. [00:11:59] A lot of it's sort of directionally right. [00:12:01] And then I think it's the right place to start from. [00:12:03] And then you inch towards like looking at how is it actually working with prudence. [00:12:06] Exactly. [00:12:07] With prudence. [00:12:08] And I tell people, like, when I invest in a startup, I want it to do well. [00:12:13] I don't want to regulate businesses willy-nilly. [00:12:14] I don't even mind if a company becomes big. [00:12:16] If Caterpillar, the tractor company, wants to like buy another tractor company for $50 billion and merge, like great. [00:12:21] As long as they're not going to like, you know, jack up the prices. [00:12:25] That's great. [00:12:25] But it's especially big tech. [00:12:27] And it's, you know, these huge multinationals that control the flow of information. [00:12:31] And I'm sorry, but like when these companies have left-wing politics, they're censoring sitting presidents. [00:12:36] They're, I think, engaging in all sorts of election interference. [00:12:39] When they do that, we have to be able to treat them differently than like a local bakery or local hair salon. [00:12:43] Yes. [00:12:43] And that's still pro-market. [00:12:45] It's precisely because you want markets to be free and open that you need to break some of these companies up. [00:12:50] Well, markets are supposed to serve us. [00:12:51] We don't serve markets. [00:12:52] That's right. [00:12:53] Yeah. [00:12:53] They're tools for human flourishing. [00:12:54] They're not the end-all. [00:12:55] And too much of the Republican Party, of course, is always just focused on GDP. [00:12:58] And we have to sacrifice ourselves so that we can hit some sort of number on a chart. [00:13:02] Right. [00:13:02] And the byproduct of that, just, I mean, the tech space, it's so obvious, is that you have tech companies that are worth more than ever before that are doing so much damage and they're largely untouchable. [00:13:12] They're basically governments of themselves. [00:13:14] Yep. [00:13:14] More powerful than most national governments. [00:13:17] And so the voters are there. [00:13:18] Voters are there and they get it. [00:13:20] They get it. [00:13:20] They're like, and I think they're happy to have a messenger and me and like a candidate who's getting up and saying like, no, I'm pro-business, but this is out of hand. [00:13:28] Of course. [00:13:29] And that's just common sense. [00:13:30] Do you think the Republican Party is there? [00:13:31] Not quite. [00:13:32] Or that's the battle. [00:13:33] What are you hearing or seeing? [00:13:34] Or what's your I think there's a whole lot of establishment forces in the Republican Party that just want to go back to Paul Ryanism. [00:13:40] What is Paul Ryanism for you? [00:13:41] Just as long as you have a corporate tax cut, you don't need anything else in your platform. [00:13:45] Don't talk about any social issues. [00:13:47] Those are unpopular. [00:13:48] People just want high GDP and low tax cuts, and that's it. [00:13:51] And I think that is, you're basically just controlled opposition for the left at that point. [00:13:56] You're an ostrich with your head buried in the sand, and it doesn't work. [00:14:00] That's actually not what voters care about. [00:14:02] I mean, I want low taxes. [00:14:04] Sure. [00:14:04] But I'd rather have a country. [00:14:06] I'd rather have a country. [00:14:07] And maybe we can have a country and low taxes. [00:14:10] My God. [00:14:10] We need a country first, though. [00:14:11] Yeah, country first. [00:14:12] We're a country that has an economy in it. [00:14:14] Yep. [00:14:14] We're not an economy that has a country in it. [00:14:17] Totally right. [00:14:17] Two totally different things. [00:14:18] Totally right. [00:14:19] We're a people, a tradition, a history, a culture, not just a bunch of people that are trading products. [00:14:24] Like, oh, yeah, the flag, that's nice. [00:14:26] The economy is a byproduct of civil society, actually. [00:14:29] Right. [00:14:29] It's the economy is something that we get to participate in if you have a country first and foremost. [00:14:34] So I want to ask you, there's a lot of different issues out there. [00:14:39] What do you think are first and foremost on the voters' minds as you travel Arizona? [00:14:42] Border, border security. [00:14:44] People are just, I mean, I tell people it's the biggest crime scene in the country, biggest crime scene. [00:14:49] Joe Biden just created it. [00:14:50] It's 225,000 people coming here illegally, right? [00:14:52] Just in Arizona. [00:14:53] Just in Arizona. [00:14:55] So, I mean, we spend a lot of time talking about the border, even though, again, the solution there is not innovative. [00:15:01] It's just like finish the wall, reimplement all the old trust policies. [00:15:06] And we should, yeah, have new technology stuff, triple on reconnaissance, triple the size of Border Patrol, but like, it's just do it. [00:15:10] Like, it takes the will. [00:15:12] We know how to do it. [00:15:13] We just need to do it. [00:15:14] Other things, I mean, obviously, like where to start, right? [00:15:18] Inflation is going out of control. [00:15:20] Vaccine mandates, everybody's up in arms about that for good cause, right? [00:15:24] It appears that we at least have a reprieve now. [00:15:26] The federal courts are finding those unconstitutional, putting stays on those, but it's kind of everything, honestly. [00:15:32] So you add up all these issues, and I quickly, in like, you know, the campaign talks, get to this meta-issue where we're just losing the country. [00:15:39] Like, the left has taken over every single institution in our country, even formerly neutral ones, like the military or the FBI, DOJ. [00:15:46] I mean, these things have been like weaponized against, I think, like average Americans. [00:15:51] It's really dangerous. [00:15:52] And I think if we don't get them back in the next two or three years, it's all over. [00:15:55] And so part of it is that we need people that are willing to go to D.C. and not just write letters, but actually reframe what Republicans are supposed to be. [00:16:04] Is that right? [00:16:04] Yep. [00:16:05] Absolutely. [00:16:05] Which is a legitimate opposition party to every institution now being controlled by diversity, equity, inclusion, wokeism, whatever. [00:16:13] Yep. [00:16:14] That's it. [00:16:15] And I'm not naive. [00:16:15] I know that's going to be really hard. [00:16:17] And people say, like, so when I, when I finish speaking on the campaign trail, people say, like, Blake, that sounds great. [00:16:22] And, and, okay, you're the guy, but like, you're one vote, you're one vote in the Senate. [00:16:27] How do we fix this? [00:16:28] And I'm sympathetic to that because like I am one vote in the Senate. [00:16:30] I can't just like legislate unilaterally. [00:16:32] Like, that's the constitutional design, right? [00:16:34] For better or worse, and mostly for better. [00:16:36] But I also tell people you got to get a new generation. [00:16:40] You've got to get people in there who understand that we're playing for all the marbles. [00:16:43] We're playing for the future of the country. [00:16:44] And so I spend a lot of time talking about cultural issues or talking about the unfair treatment of the January 6th protesters. [00:16:51] Contrast that with the people who were burning down police precincts in the summer 2020, the left-wing Antifa people who did not get arrested. [00:16:58] And if they did get arrested, then Kamala Harris was right there to bail them out of jail, right? [00:17:01] Like this two-tier justice system. [00:17:03] We are very close to losing it all. [00:17:05] And yeah, it's going to be hard for me as one senator to get in and clean up the FBI. [00:17:09] And I think 2022 and 2024, they go together, right? [00:17:12] Unfortunately, when I take office in January 23, we'll still be playing defense a little bit because Joe Biden or whatever, Harris, maybe they have their regime will be in power and it'll take until 2024, January 25, to get a strong Republican back in the White House. [00:17:28] But we just have to start playing offense and take back these institutions. [00:17:31] And it takes oversight, too. [00:17:33] Yeah, it takes oversight. [00:17:34] It takes wisdom, responsibility, and mainly courage. [00:17:36] It's like people go to D.C. [00:17:38] And look, I know D.C. is going to try to get its hooks into me. [00:17:40] You know, I know they'll try to compromise me right away. [00:17:42] This is how it works. [00:17:43] You want a long career in D.C., you fall in line. [00:17:47] You just go along to get along. [00:17:49] And I'm in a privileged position, frankly, where I like, I don't have to do that. [00:17:53] And I think I've just seen decades of that. [00:17:55] And it leads to this point where we're about to lose the country. [00:17:57] So I have no interest in doing that. [00:17:58] And I intend to find out how much one person in opposition can actually do. [00:18:02] Yeah. [00:18:03] And maybe more than one. [00:18:04] JD's also running. [00:18:05] You get me and JD in. [00:18:06] Josh Hawley's already there. [00:18:08] Tom Cotton. [00:18:08] I think Senator Cruz's politics have gotten better. [00:18:10] Like we have a good and cohort. [00:18:12] Rand Paul's been great on the foul. [00:18:13] Rand Paul's great, right? [00:18:14] So many things. [00:18:15] Especially also civil surveillance. [00:18:17] He's probably been the best. [00:18:18] Yep. [00:18:18] Like as far as spying on people. [00:18:20] And there's coalitions, right? [00:18:21] Coalitions. [00:18:22] And so you can imagine five or six people. [00:18:23] Cotton on the war stuff might not be as good as Rand, but you know what I mean. [00:18:27] All of a sudden, you can snowball and you can change the balance of power. [00:18:31] There's a new sheriff in town, right? [00:18:32] Because if you ask an average American, name five U.S. senators, it'd be like Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, like Mike Lee, Josh Hawley, right? [00:18:38] Maybe Marco Rubio and maybe McConnell. [00:18:41] But like there's kind of that middle cohort of like the old bulls that really they don't say much. [00:18:45] They don't go on TV much. [00:18:46] They don't really move public opinion. [00:18:49] They're good guys and they it would work in a high trust country that would work in a 1950s America. === Supporting Good Ranchers Now (03:19) === [00:18:56] It doesn't work when you have a progressive onslaught and the left is just capturing. [00:19:00] And I don't think any of I think some of them are nice people. [00:19:02] Some of them are super corrupt. [00:19:03] But the nice people, some of whom have, you know, joined our program, and I try my best to, you know, be respectful, but still firm, is like, I don't think they realize we're kind of on war footing domestically. [00:19:12] Right. [00:19:13] And I don't use that as like, you know, civil war, but you know what I mean? [00:19:17] No, and David Brooks just wrote this column and I lashed out a little bit on Twitter about it. [00:19:21] But he wrote this column bemoaning the lost conservatism. [00:19:24] Like, I fell in love with conservatism as a young man, as like a gentleman. [00:19:27] And what happened? [00:19:27] Yeah, it's like I liked it better when I had my cozy books and we just listened to whatever huge corporations on the left did, you know, whatever they want to do. [00:19:34] But it's like he failed. [00:19:35] And I think he's got this quote where like, my preferred perch is on the rightward edge of the leftward trajectory or something. [00:19:41] And he like, he says the quiet part out loud. [00:19:42] It's like, you just, he just wants to be a, you know, a Democrat that goes the speed limit or something. [00:19:49] Yes. [00:19:50] And that doesn't, that doesn't work. [00:19:52] And he basically has this. [00:19:53] He wants to be the doorman at Drag Queen Story Hour. [00:19:55] Totally. [00:19:56] I'm not participating. [00:19:57] Yeah, yeah. [00:19:57] But I'll put it all right to do that in this public space. [00:20:01] And it's the argument is a little bit of sophistry. [00:20:04] He, he, he basically says, like, America is pluralism, right? [00:20:09] We've never had just one monolithic cult. [00:20:11] Like, you know, there's some individual freedom here. [00:20:13] And because America is pluralism, it is conservative to love pluralism. [00:20:16] He defines pluralism as like anything that progressives want to do. [00:20:19] And therefore, it's conservative to just like go with progressivism. [00:20:22] You know, it's like this is where the lie of that argument is: is that it's always, despite any of the racial demographics and all that, whatever, it's that actually it's not been pluralistic of the love of the country. [00:20:32] That's right. [00:20:35] Christmas is here, everybody. [00:20:36] And you're probably looking for perfect gifts. [00:20:39] I know the team behind Good Ranchers. [00:20:41] In fact, I just hung out with them over this last weekend. [00:20:43] They're so great. 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[00:22:19] We're seeing it happen right now. [00:22:20] That's why conservatism has always been necessary for a counterbalance because we're not going to say that every fruit the enlightenment is wrong. [00:22:27] Like free speech is nice and individual rights, but absent any sort of anchoring of tradition and order, you start to get Drag Queen Story Hour everywhere. [00:22:37] And I use that as like a provocative example, right? [00:22:39] But, or you get pedophilia books in Loudoun County schools, or you get kids that have to put condoms on cucumbers in California. [00:22:46] That's right. [00:22:47] Right. [00:22:47] Or you get people that have to cast out spells every time they hear All Lives Matter in California schools. [00:22:53] Where it's like this liberalism actually really quickly turns into authoritarianism, really quickly. [00:22:58] Well, yeah, and you're not free to criticize any of those practices. [00:23:00] That's right. [00:23:00] You just mentioned, right? [00:23:01] You'll get deplatformed from the modern town squares, right? [00:23:03] You'll get a Twitter mob raged up against you to go to your employer and demand yourself. [00:23:08] This is the question I ask of like James Lindsay and Peter Boghogian, who are liberals I really respect, who do want to live in that liberal America. [00:23:15] And I think you would agree. [00:23:16] That's really nice. [00:23:16] You know, go to coffee with your left-wing friend. [00:23:18] Like, don't tell my kid what to do. [00:23:20] It's like, okay, it's really ideal. [00:23:21] I think they're starting to realize that the left violated the liberal peace treaty. [00:23:27] Yep. [00:23:28] The domestic liberal priest. [00:23:30] That's right. [00:23:30] I mean, I think conservatives at this point, we believe in free speech and the left doesn't. [00:23:34] Yes. [00:23:35] It's just that simple. [00:23:38] They seem very and eerily focused on shutting up political dissidents. [00:23:43] Yep. [00:23:43] And again, we could go deeper into kind of how liberalism sowed its own destruction starting with Machiavelli. [00:23:49] But anytime you allow liberalism to go its own devices without the restraint of order, tradition, and kind of a push on modernity, you will go to French Revolution, Russian Revolution super fast. [00:24:00] Totally. [00:24:00] And this is, as far as I can tell, the biggest difference between the conservative mindset and the progressive mindset is how they deal with imperfection. [00:24:07] So I think like the founding fathers knew they weren't perfect, right? [00:24:10] Like they were conscious of the slavery debate. [00:24:12] And even if many were wrong, obviously. [00:24:14] But they knew they weren't perfect. [00:24:15] We know they weren't perfect. [00:24:16] Our society is not perfect now, but they knew it was like about an ever more perfect union, right? [00:24:22] That's right. [00:24:22] You're supposed to make it better slowly over time. [00:24:24] This is the Burkean conservatism that David Burks purports to love. [00:24:27] Yes. [00:24:27] Russell Burkeism, yes. [00:24:29] Yeah, exactly. [00:24:30] And the left-wing or the progressive, it's that Bolshevist mentality. [00:24:34] It's no, because the founding fathers own slaves, you know, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, they're irredeemable and you must throw them out, right? [00:24:41] Because society is not perfect. [00:24:42] You either see some actual injustice or often it's a trumped up injustice, fake, you know, hoax. [00:24:48] We have to talk about Justice Smollett, but that's beside the point. [00:24:51] They want to throw the baby out with the bathwater and say, burn it all down. [00:24:54] It's this revolutionary rage. [00:24:56] And I think that's childish. [00:24:58] I think it's... [00:24:59] And so they call us reactionary. [00:25:01] I actually don't mind it that much to be called that. [00:25:04] I know that's like a pejorative, but I do think there's something that said that, yeah, we're actually going to be a little bit more dramatic in our counter move because you guys are deciding to just destroy everything. [00:25:14] Yeah. [00:25:15] And playing defense against someone who's just attacking you. [00:25:17] Like, yeah, you got to do it, but you got to find some way to stop playing. [00:25:21] Ultimately, you'll lose. [00:25:22] Ultimately, it'll just kill you and our backs are against the wall. [00:25:24] So it's like, you got to play offense. [00:25:26] And if they want to call that reaction instead of conservatism, it's like fine. [00:25:29] But actually, no, we want voter ID and we want a border and we want your kids to be the national language in the United States. [00:25:36] This stuff is like common sense. [00:25:37] And like 70% of Americans agree on this. [00:25:39] That's right. [00:25:39] And there is something that's the trope of the silent majority. [00:25:42] But like, I think if the Democrats keep pushing the way they're pushing, the silent majority is about to become very, very vocal. [00:25:47] And it's a tyrannical minority, extremely small, by the way, but very, very influential. [00:25:52] Was it David Sachs who said someone said the greatest trick the progressives ever pulled was convincing the population that they were more than 5%? [00:26:00] Yes. [00:26:00] It's actually just a small tyrannical majority, but again, they own the Academy and Hollywood and sort of all the opinions. [00:26:07] They propagandize on these ridiculous fringe issues. [00:26:10] But I think that's actually starting to. [00:26:13] I think it's unwinding. [00:26:14] I think so. [00:26:15] They're also going to start to fight amongst themselves. [00:26:16] You're seeing that a little bit, especially because, and again, this is the hilarious part of kind of utopianism. [00:26:24] Let's just call it that, is that the road to utopianism is filled with a lot of needles and dead bodies. [00:26:28] Yep. [00:26:29] It's just like, it really doesn't smell nicely. [00:26:32] That's the thing. [00:26:32] Conservatives know it's not perfect. [00:26:33] It's not going to be perfect. [00:26:34] I think it can be better. [00:26:35] I think it'd be better progressively over time. [00:26:38] This is why they're willing to put their foot on the accelerator, though. [00:26:41] Right. [00:26:42] Despite the empirical evidence and everything around them is unwinding because they say, oh, yeah, it's okay. [00:26:46] After we destroy the currency, open up all the borders and have 35 million Central Americans and everyone just works for a collection of three companies. [00:26:54] It's actually going to be perfect. [00:26:55] Then we can have real socialism, which, as you know, has never been tried. [00:26:59] Yes. [00:26:59] And it's just it is this belief, though, in this kind of Rousseauian view of human existence. [00:27:07] We're just one revolution away from perfection. [00:27:09] Right. [00:27:10] And it requires you to go to a college campus to believe something like this. [00:27:14] Yes. [00:27:14] But the whole Democrat Party is actually largely embracing this. [00:27:18] And so let's talk about what, you know, we call you based Blake around here because you're willing to say the one line that drove people nuts. [00:27:27] What is that line? [00:27:28] What is it? [00:27:29] You tell me. [00:27:30] You should be able to have. [00:27:31] Yeah. [00:27:32] In America, you should be able to raise a family on one single income. [00:27:35] People lost their mind. [00:27:36] People lost their mind. [00:27:36] Everywhere. [00:27:37] Like from every corner of the political spectrum. [00:27:42] It's so funny, but it's really revealing. [00:27:44] Everyone hated you for a different reason for it, by the way. [00:27:46] Like, why would you want to have families? [00:27:50] And it's fascinating. [00:27:51] I got two sort of principal pushbacks. [00:27:53] One was like a good faith, like skepticism, like, okay, that's a good goal, but like, how do we get there? [00:27:59] Right. [00:27:59] And that's fair. [00:28:00] And I should explain policies that, you know, increase wages and decrease costs and stuff. [00:28:04] But to the left-wing response was sort of like, oh, yeah, it's on a transcript. [00:28:09] It would look the same. [00:28:10] You know, it's the same words, but it's like, oh, yeah, Blake, how are you going to get there? [00:28:12] Like, you can't possibly get there. [00:28:14] And they don't want to get there. [00:28:16] That's right. [00:28:16] They don't want to get there. [00:28:17] Meanwhile, they get $100 trillion for the Green New Deal. [00:28:19] And get rid of all fossil fuels. [00:28:22] Yeah. [00:28:22] But the fact that you can affordably have a family. [00:28:24] Yeah. [00:28:24] Forget. [00:28:25] But I do think even the left finds it inconvenient to attack the family because actually most people love their family and want families if they don't have them. [00:28:34] Like it's obviously a good goal. [00:28:35] The left can't dispute the goal. [00:28:36] So they have to invent some. [00:28:39] They basically have to squirt up a bunch of squid ink about how that's hard. [00:28:42] And well, the best attack they had against me was that was sexist. [00:28:47] And that's what they default to. [00:28:48] This is sexist. [00:28:49] Well, because they assumed that I was saying it wouldn't work for them until 345 or something. [00:28:54] It's like. [00:28:56] Well, women should think long and hard about that. [00:28:58] Jordan Peterson has a great riff about it. [00:28:59] Of course. [00:29:00] Yeah. [00:29:01] But I didn't say like, who should do what? [00:29:02] Like, laissez-faire, man, do what you want, but like, we ought to have a society where you should be prosperous enough to have to get married and have kids. [00:29:08] Well, most do. [00:29:09] And most on the margin would prefer to raise their kids. [00:29:12] You can go leave JP Morgan and take the mask off of like, you know, making change for a $100 bill for some weirdo and Nihalis and like go raise a family. [00:29:21] Turns out most people aren't actually so fortunate to have some job that they love and some boss that they love. [00:29:26] And, you know, most people find fulfillment through family and through hobbies and through spirituality, through the religion. [00:29:32] That's why markets are immensely listening to your boss. [00:29:35] Yeah. [00:29:35] That's why, okay, you go to work. [00:29:36] Hopefully it's not miserable. [00:29:38] Right. [00:29:38] Hopefully there's something you enjoy with it. [00:29:40] But the best part of the day is when you go home to the things that are eternal and beautiful. [00:29:43] Right. [00:29:45] Yeah, man. [00:29:45] I think more people would choose to raise children and have more children if they could. [00:29:51] They can't. [00:29:51] We used to be able to do it in this country, raise a family on one income, can't do it anymore, but politicians don't. [00:29:56] So let's talk about what it means, what that looks like. [00:29:58] I say it very bluntly, I'm not running for office. [00:29:59] We should pay people to have kids. [00:30:01] People say, well, Charlie, you're going to be subsidizing single motherhood. [00:30:03] I say, well, then we should have a component where you have to have a man in the home. [00:30:08] I'm not rejecting that there will be externalities. [00:30:12] Thomas Sowell's terrific at this. [00:30:13] I'm just saying the externalities are worth it. [00:30:16] What from a public policy perspective? [00:30:17] I think directionally right, like actual generous family policies are interesting. [00:30:21] I know Republicans are increasingly interested in exploring this stuff, and I am too. [00:30:24] I don't think we can just tweak around a little bit at the marketing. [00:30:27] We need a Marshall plan. [00:30:28] It's not just, yeah, more like that. [00:30:30] It's not just like $750 extra and child tax credits will on the margin solve our fertility crisis. [00:30:35] It won't. [00:30:36] And there is a fertility. [00:30:37] And there is. [00:30:38] I think it's more of a Marshall plan. [00:30:40] I think also it's just, it's policies that raise wages and reduce costs. [00:30:44] Right. [00:30:44] And raising wages, it's like you can reduce immigration. [00:30:47] I think the left used to be able to talk about this. [00:30:49] Now they don't really talk about it. [00:30:50] It's legal and illegal. [00:30:51] Legal and illegal. [00:30:52] Illegal immigration. [00:30:53] Which is easy. [00:30:53] Everyone agrees on the right. [00:30:54] But the work you start to get people's eyes raised. [00:30:57] Well, sure. [00:30:57] But I've seen in the Silicon Valley context, the H-1B visa system, it's just sort of corporate welfare for Facebook at this point. [00:31:03] No shoot would rather pay like legions of coders from India way less money to do these software programs. [00:31:09] I think that's a good thing. [00:31:09] I'm not sure if I can do it. [00:31:10] Who they now they don't have to train, or if he is trained, they don't have to hire him for all this money, right? [00:31:15] That's pretty bad too. [00:31:16] Like, that's actually just bad. [00:31:18] And not saying we should have absolutely zero legal immigration. [00:31:22] Obviously, there should be some. [00:31:23] I want the world's best and brightest people who are not displacing Americans because they're truly exceptional. 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[00:32:50] And if you throw open all borders and you just say, congratulations, like your son is now competing with 7 billion people. [00:32:57] Welcome to globalism. [00:32:58] Like, that doesn't actually work for the median American wage earner. [00:33:01] But that also violates a promise, isn't it? [00:33:04] And a social contract. [00:33:05] Yeah, totally. [00:33:06] You're supposed to have benefits by being an American. [00:33:08] It's like you have access. [00:33:09] Well, let's just look at it from a super like technocratic side, which I don't like doing, that you pay taxes for 18 years. [00:33:15] Right. [00:33:15] You funded the schools. [00:33:16] You bought in. [00:33:17] You bought in and you didn't commit horrendous crime. [00:33:20] And you're still buying in and they're giving your country away. [00:33:22] And then some person from, you know, wherever Panama City can just come into the country and be like, no, actually, I'm entitled to that. [00:33:31] Like, no, you actually didn't pay your property taxes. [00:33:35] You seem like a nice person, but that's a violation of the social contract, isn't it? [00:33:39] I can't go to Germany or Madagascar or China and just like demand to vote in their elections. [00:33:44] You see, New York City. === Housing, Wealth, and Class (07:40) === [00:33:45] 800,000 people. [00:33:47] Yeah. [00:33:48] I mean, the immigration is illegal and non-citizens can now vote in local elections. [00:33:52] In New York. [00:33:53] Yep. [00:33:53] It's nuts, which is like actually unconstitutional. [00:33:57] Always been something they said, oh, we're not going to go there. [00:33:59] This is what they did. [00:34:00] They wrote an op-ed one year saying, like, you know, non-citizenship. [00:34:03] It's all Overton window. [00:34:04] And then they just shift it. [00:34:05] They just shift it over time. [00:34:06] So the immigration thing is crazy. [00:34:08] We need to focus on onshoring and stopping offshoring, right? [00:34:11] And there's a carrot and stick approach to take. [00:34:12] But I find it crazy that we invented computer chips in Silicon Valley. [00:34:16] That's why it's called Silicon Valley. [00:34:18] We shipped all that productive industrial capacity. [00:34:20] All the semiconductors to Southeast Asia, half the good stuff, the low nanometer stuff has made in Taiwan. [00:34:24] Obviously, that's like a national security threat too at this point. [00:34:27] We need to reonshore it. [00:34:28] We're doing some of that in Arizona. [00:34:29] That's good. [00:34:31] But yeah, we need to make things here again. [00:34:32] And if you make things here again and you sort of, you know, in intelligent and wise and humble ways, protect American industry, that's half the equation. [00:34:40] The other half of the equation is healthcare, education, housing. [00:34:42] Why does this stuff keep getting so expensive every year? [00:34:44] We've become so habituated to this that we think it's like an iron law of physics. [00:34:49] Like, of course, housing has to get more expensive every year. [00:34:51] But like, what if it didn't? [00:34:52] You know, I met with the Arizona Home Builders Association, and they were telling me like they had some project that they were aware of. [00:35:01] It was like a $10, $20 million building project in Arizona, and it was next to a wash. [00:35:05] And the wash is bone-dry. [00:35:06] It's not a river, it's a wash. [00:35:08] But and the whatever EPA classification, that was like a wet river that had some endangered fish in it. [00:35:13] And so, like, this project, $20 million, you can't build houses, even though there's like tons of demand for it, uh, because the EPA over in DC is worried about some non-existent endangered fish in this wash that will probably never be a river again, you know. [00:35:26] And we're just drowning in bureaucracy. [00:35:28] You look at housing, education, healthcare, these systems, they have like monopolies, it's cardinalization, it's regulatory capture, right? [00:35:35] You got to get in there with a proverbial machete and hack away at some of this stuff to get some dynamism back in these industries so that people can innovate and prices can come down. [00:35:43] Yes. [00:35:44] And then also just being honest with young people about what's actually a virtuous life. [00:35:50] And it's not renting in downtown Denver and doing weed all day long. [00:35:55] Yeah. [00:35:55] It's enjoy your postmates, enjoy your Netflix. [00:35:58] Yeah, and you own the bugs. [00:35:59] And you own nothing and you're going to like it. [00:36:01] That's the 2033 reset. [00:36:03] Arizona's a unique state. [00:36:04] Like you know this because it's one of the more horizontally expansionist states in the country and it's it's actually ceasing to be that way. [00:36:12] Where for years, Arizona, if you wanted to add more development, you would go outward, east or west. [00:36:19] And that's why Maricopa is so expansionist, right? [00:36:22] From Queen Creek all the way to Glendale, it's this massive development. [00:36:26] But now, because of the EPA and government lands, developers are like, yeah, we can't do many more of these. [00:36:32] We can't do any more Del Webb communities. [00:36:34] And so if you see in Scottsdale, you know, North Scottsdale, especially, they're going up. [00:36:39] Yep. [00:36:40] Now, going up is great for developers. [00:36:43] I personally think they're beautiful buildings. [00:36:45] But what's the problem with that is you create more renters or more displaced high-income people coming from California that might not be rooted to the ground. [00:36:54] Talk a little bit about the like this BlackRock thing, renting versus owning. [00:36:58] And should we as conservatives even care about it? [00:37:00] Who are we to care about? [00:37:01] Who are you to have an opinion, right? [00:37:02] Yeah, just let the pre-market. [00:37:03] Like, just blind yourself. [00:37:04] That's right. [00:37:05] Whatever happens is puritanical. [00:37:06] Yeah. [00:37:08] No, I think, look, homeownership has always been the path to the middle class. [00:37:11] I mean, not always, maybe, but in recent memory, it's been the path to the middle class. [00:37:15] And it's bad to overdo it. [00:37:19] It's bad to just qualify everybody for a bad loan, right? [00:37:22] Then you get 2007 all over again. [00:37:24] But it is good to pursue wise policies that actually allow people to own some piece of dirt, right? [00:37:30] Some equity that, yeah, maybe appreciates over time. [00:37:33] I'm very, I mean, I know, you know, when the BlackRock thing blew up a few months ago, all these people wanted to point out and say, oh, well, BlackRock only owns like, you know, point whatever, 05% of the U.S. housing stock. [00:37:44] But I think like now is the time to pay attention to that. [00:37:46] Like all these private equity interests and hedge funds are pursuing these strategies to buy up single-family homes. [00:37:51] And okay, maybe that's not like meaningfully reflective. [00:37:54] And rent them back, though. [00:37:56] Rent them back. [00:37:56] And, you know, and then they're just in control, right? [00:37:58] Like, I think you want decentralization in society. [00:38:01] I think you want individual Americans to own their homes. [00:38:03] I don't think you want 10 or 20 firms to control half the housing stock in 15 or 20 years. [00:38:09] And if that's the way the economics are breaking in this world that we have, I think wise policymakers should be paying attention to that and putting the brakes on it because it's bad. [00:38:18] Like you want people to be able to own stuff. [00:38:20] And it's becoming increasingly hard to do that. [00:38:22] Yeah. [00:38:22] And I, I want like a nation of 70 million capitalists, not like seven or even seven million. [00:38:29] Like it's, you know, we don't want to become a Latin American country where like, I and Republicans don't talk about the wealth inequality. [00:38:35] They have no understanding. [00:38:36] We don't want to just have a few wealthy people repo. [00:38:38] We have $3.8 trillion wealth transfer in the last 18 months. [00:38:41] $3.8 trillion. [00:38:42] Over 100 new billionaires. [00:38:44] Yep. [00:38:44] Billionaires have seen their wealth increase by 62% since the pandemic. [00:38:48] Yep. [00:38:49] And we're supposed to be told it's a wonderful thing. [00:38:50] No, it's actually awful. [00:38:52] It's not good. [00:38:52] But let's pretend they all earned all their money that Bezos didn't game the system and pay zero in tax. [00:38:57] What do they do with their resources? [00:38:59] Well, most don't do anything at all. [00:39:01] Let's put it this way: they're not building classical education schools or giving money to Hillsdale College, Zuckerberg, or Turning Point USA, right? [00:39:08] 420 million in Zuckbucks. [00:39:10] Or for a Center for Technology Civic Life, or they're giving money to Black Lives Matter, or they're giving money to woke curriculum. [00:39:15] And so I would turn a blind eye to some of this wealth expansion. [00:39:18] If it was actually reinvested, it's not Carnegie building libraries. [00:39:22] No, it's not. [00:39:23] Or it's not hospitals that allow ivermectin to be prescribed, right? [00:39:28] Instead, it's if someone wants it. [00:39:30] Instead, it's this basically ATM nonstop flow of capital to stuff that's destroying the country. [00:39:37] NGO Grift. [00:39:38] Yeah. [00:39:39] So let's close with this. [00:39:40] First, your website, blakemasters.com. [00:39:42] Is that right? [00:39:42] Yes. [00:39:42] Give a little pitch, and then I'm going to ask you about wealth. [00:39:44] One question about wealth inequality. [00:39:45] Yeah, go to blakemasters.com. [00:39:47] You know, I mean, I think I'm getting traction in my campaign. [00:39:49] There's a lot of momentum. [00:39:50] A lot of momentum. [00:39:51] I'm up and to the right in the polls, and certainly anecdotally, people are excited to finally have like a non-politician who's smart and capable and actually understands these problems. [00:40:00] So that's why I'm doing well. [00:40:01] And if you can afford to chip in $10, $5, just get on blakemasters.com and do it. [00:40:07] If you want to see something new in politics, here it is. [00:40:09] Definitely new. [00:40:10] Why should we care about wealth inequality? [00:40:12] I think that at the current clip, we look more like Brazil in 20 years than America. [00:40:17] This is what the Dems want. [00:40:18] They want a thin slice of elite at the top. [00:40:20] And surprise, surprise, they get to control the elite. [00:40:22] They want a hollowed out middle class, and then they want a permanent underclass that's on the dole, whether it's conventional welfare or UBI or stimulus checks or whatever. [00:40:30] And I think that that's A, dystopian and bad. [00:40:33] Like, I don't want the United States to look like Brazil. [00:40:35] I want it to look like the United States as we know it and love it. [00:40:37] And B, it's not even stable, right? [00:40:39] That's actually how you get some sort of crazy, you know, Bolshevist left-wing revolution. [00:40:43] The elite might be complacent that they can manage that resentment and manage the under. [00:40:47] No, like that'll turn really ugly. [00:40:49] And I just don't want to be, I don't want to be any part of that. [00:40:53] So you need a strong middle class. [00:40:55] You need a restrained sort of, you know, political class responsive to that middle class. [00:40:59] And you need mobility so that people can actually live normal lives and yeah, raise a family, hopefully on one income in this country. [00:41:07] Very good. [00:41:07] BlakeMasters, blakemasters.com. [00:41:09] Thanks so much, Blake. [00:41:10] Great to see you. [00:41:13] Thank you so much for listening, everybody. [00:41:14] Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com. [00:41:17] Thank you so much for listening. [00:41:18] God bless. [00:41:21] For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.