The Globalist Co-Opting of Post-COVID Freedom with Jack Posobiec
With Charlie at the Southern Border, documenting Biden’s disastrous mess, Producer Andrew steps in to discuss the COVID-19 flip-flop happening all across America’s Bluest States. He dives into Biden’s approval ratings and the true motivation behind the pandemic policy whiplash we’re witnessing as well as their latest attempt to make terrorists out of average American citizens. Jack Posobiec joins him later on in the show to discuss Ukraine, Russia, and the global reset happening with COVID and lockdowns which ultimately begs the question: who will get credit for re-introducing freedom back to the globe and why we should question the motivations of those who do. Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Elites Care About Credit00:10:20
Hey everybody, producer Andrew Colvet here filling in for Charlie Kirk.
I got a question for you.
Who gets credit?
There's an old expression that goes, it's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit.
Sadly folks, our elites really care a lot.
And we're seeing this dynamic play out all across the world.
We talk about this exact thing with Jack Poseobic.
They're telling us that the science has changed.
Mandates are falling.
But guess what?
The truckers don't get the credit.
Jack Poseobic, Human Events Daily, joins us to break all that down.
And is freedom of speech dying or is it even dead in the United States?
DHS memos, spying on congresspeople.
There's lots of disturbing trends out there, folks.
We break it down for you right here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
You're not going to want to miss it.
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Here we go.
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So I want to talk about the First Amendment.
I want to ask the question, is the First Amendment truly alive and well in the United States?
I think many people listening to this show would have trouble believing that that is the case.
And yet, our State Department, along with over a dozen other Western governments, posted a joint statement on its website regarding free speech in Hong Kong.
Quote, the undersigned members of the Media Freedom Coalition expressed their deep concern at the Hong Kong and mainland Chinese authorities' attacks on freedom of the press and their suppression of independent local media in Hong Kong.
Read the statement.
This included countries like Australia, many others across the West that have been quite impressive in their clampdown of misinformation.
Now, one doesn't have to look far to find out just why exactly this is so rich.
We have seen in just the last week the White House call on Spotify to censor Joe Rogan for having honest conversations with doctors that have dissident opinions from the mainstream narrative.
You've got aging Canadian folk artists like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell boycotting and pulling their songs off of Spotify.
Neil Young is doubling down, by the way, and telling Spotify employees that they should quit before it steals their very souls.
And for what?
For having Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough, both doctors of which have been on this show, speak out about how they are treating COVID and speak out about why early treatment will save lives.
And mind you, Dr. Robert Malone holds eight of the original patents to the mRNA technology upon which these vaccines are built and based.
Now, all of this would be well enough that you would say, hey, well, why don't you look into the mirror, State Department, Western democracies?
We're a Republican out of democracy.
Nevertheless, why don't you look in the mirror and see what you're doing to your own people?
Social media is clamping down.
I mean, we have a whole list.
Just so you folks have an inside understanding of what we have to deal with at the Charlie Kirk show.
There's a whole list of topics that we instantly know if we're going to post a video on social media, we better be darn careful about the way that it's phrased, the titling, all of that, because the fact checkers will come down, especially on large accounts like Charlie Kirk's show and Charlie himself personally.
So that would all be well and good.
Look in the mirror.
But then on Monday, the DHS posted a National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin.
Duration from yesterday from Monday to June 17th.
That's how long the threat list.
I mean, I don't know where they come up with these arbitrary dates.
I thought that was funny.
Now, we talked about this a little bit yesterday on the show, but it's worth stating again: what is the number one threat assessment of our esteemed leaders at the DHS?
Is it the Chinese Communist Party?
No.
Is it Al-Qaeda and ISIS?
No.
Well, that's right.
It's you.
It's a lot of the people that listen to this show.
It's a lot of people that follow Charlie Kirk on social media.
Quote: Key factors contributing to the current heightened threat environment: the proliferation of false or misleading narratives which sow discord or undermine public trust in the U.S. government.
Now, you know, you might be thinking that that would actually involve people that are pointing guns at the government or federal officials.
No, no, no.
Just people spreading COVID misinformation and election fraud misinformation online.
This is what it says.
For example, there is widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19.
That is the top of the DHS's terror watch list.
Now, again, you might say, well, okay, it's just Biden being Biden.
It's just the regime regime.
Not going to really do anything about it.
Well, earlier this week, according to the Federalist, they reported that the Capitol Hill Police Inspector General is launching a probe into allegations that one congressman, Rep. Troy Nels, and we have that clip 74, is claiming that the Capitol Hill police are breaking into his office and taking pictures of his private information inside his office.
Cut 74.
So they're weaponizing these federal law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies.
We can't, it's making my heartbeat faster.
We can't put up this is the red line that you can't tolerate in a free society.
You cannot use federal law enforcement agencies to go after your political enemies, period.
That's what they do in Africa.
We cannot allow that here, obviously.
I hope you get every one of these Cretans fired.
I mean it.
And then yesterday, as if that wasn't enough, Louis Gohmert, who's been on this show, been to Turning Point USA events, issued a statement on what he says is the apparent unconstitutional tampering of my private constituent mail.
He said, in January, my staff received a letter addressed to my official office from a Christian missionary, which was already opened and stamped DOJ Mailroom with a date and quote unquote x-rayed on the stamp.
Last week, my office received a second piece of mail from a constituent mailed from East Texas in postmark September 2021.
It took four and a half months to reach my office and was also opened and bore a stamp from the DOJ.
That's right, folks.
And we have many instances that I just went through.
Louis Gohmert, Representative Troy Nels from Texas as well.
The DHS memo and the shocking lack of self-awareness from the State Department saying that we're worried about freedom of speech in Hong Kong.
Right here in the United States, the First Amendment is under attack like never before.
Now, this all happens upon the backdrop of the Sergeant of Arms Office sent an internal memo, quote, behavioral monitoring to detect internal security threats.
Now, the House Sergeant of Arms is the they lead security for the Chamber of Commerce of Congress.
And they sent this memo reported by Politico that they are now pushing to be able to investigate internal threats.
That means staffers and even congressmen.
I don't know about you folks, but this is not the America that I grew up in.
None of this would have been tolerated just a few years ago.
Now, with the onset of COVID, Floyd Apalooza, and now January 6th, they have used all of these elements to rob us of our God-given rights and freedoms enshrined in the Constitution.
One by one, they are challenging them, and it is extremely disturbing to say the least.
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Now, there is a fairly, you know, I was going to say I don't think it's been getting enough coverage, but I do actually think that it's starting to gain traction.
And that is this crackpite giveaway story out of the Biden regime.
So this is according to their plan.
A lot of people are calling this the Hunter Biden plan for obvious reasons.
According to their reporting, a $30 million grant program that begins in May will give money to nonprofits and local governments to help make drug use safer for addicts.
Applicants for the grants are prioritized if they treat a majority of, quote, underserved communities, end quote, including African Americans and quote, LGBTQ plus persons, as established under Joe Biden's executive order on advancing racial equity.
Not sure what LGBTQ plus has to do with advancing racial equity, but I digress.
Part of this plan includes providing crack pipes to addicts.
Yes, that's right.
Crackpipes to addicts.
The Health and Human Services Department says that agency says that this will, quote, reduce the risk of infection when smoking substances with glass pipes, which can lead to infections through cuts and sores.
Now, many people have noted that San Francisco, which has 50% more addicts than high school students, has already implemented this policy.
But here's the funny part, and I think it's illustrative for some of our friends that don't do this every day for a living listening around the country.
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This claim was met by a mostly false fact check from Snopes.
That's right.
Snopes that is tasked with identifying misinformation on the interwebs and shutting it down.
Snopes says that this is mostly false.
Says this was just one of around 20 components of the grant program, and far from its most prominent or important one, despite being the primary focus of outraged news reports.
The purpose of the program was to reduce harm and the risk of infection among drug users, not to advance racial equity, although that was a secondary consideration.
So, yes, you read that right.
Snopes is admitting that Biden's crackpipe giveaway is in fact true.
It just doesn't like that it's hurting the perception in the administration.
So, just so we're clear, the regime fact-checkers, the elite fact-checkers, that Silicon Valley experts and pajama boys that dictate the rules of what's true, what's moral, what's good for the universe, they have determined that if something negatively impacts the Biden administration, that it's mostly false, even if it's true.
It literally admitted that it was true, and yet the fact-checkers are out in force to say that it's false.
That is the kind of craziness we are dealing with.
Now, here's the good news: the Biden approval rating, something that we talk about a lot.
Now, we try not to get too bogged down in this discussion because you can, polls have been historically wrong.
There's lots that you could make of them, there's lots that people can extrapolate that are actually untrue.
But according to Real Clear Politics Average, which again aggregates all of the polls, Biden's job approval rating has fallen below 40%, the aggregate.
Now, we have seen some polls that have him at 36, 38, 39.
We had our good friend Rich Barris on the show who's saying that he was being generous at 38.
So, it's not a surprise necessarily that he's below 40.
But what is a surprise is that even the polling that has historically put Joe Biden, you know, or Dem has been Dem friendly, as we call it, by like plus four, plus seven, all of that baked into this average for Real Clear Politics still has him officially below 40.
39.8% of voters polled approve of Joe Biden's leadership of this country.
54.4% disapproved.
That's basically a 15-point delta.
15 points.
Let's go ahead and bring Jack in.
Jack, welcome to the show.
Producer Andrew, boy, you know, when they told me I was coming on the Charlie show today, I didn't expect to see your handsome mug shining off me across the setup.
What's going on?
Have you annexed?
Right?
This is the occupation of the studio, apparently.
Just call me Chaz.
This is exactly.
This is occupied territory.
No, so we on purpose didn't tell you because we, you know, we didn't want you to ghost us here, Jack.
Although I know you wouldn't because you're a gentleman and a scholar.
No, no, no.
It's certainly not for you.
What time is it again?
And you're Polish.
So, hey, Jack, we had so much to talk about, but I told you just a second ago, I wanted to start with this clip.
I think it's going viral everywhere.
Now, as backdrop, we all know that the narrative is collapsing before our very eyes.
The COVID mass mandate narrative, I think a lot of it started honestly with these truckers.
Now the science is changing, Jack.
And the media is here to back that play.
But they weren't just a few weeks ago with Governor Junkin.
Let's go ahead and play clip 80.
Glenn Young campaign as if he were an ordinary suburban flea-swearing dad with moderate and ineffensive views.
Yunkin did exactly what a Republican does when they get into power.
Let's look at what's going on.
Let's move this state back 50 years.
Virginia Governor and Trump in training Glenn Youngkin.
COVID politics makes a lot of Republican governors stupid.
We know Glenn Young's true colors.
It's that.
It's MAGA red.
New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, Oregon, and California all moved to relax their mask mandates.
These are all states led by Democrats and once hard-hit COVID zones, and they seem to be decisions driven by science, not politics.
The reaction so far has been broadly, if not overwhelmingly, positive.
The facts are great.
We're headed in the right direction, as I think we hoped we would be.
More signs.
The country is pushing to get back to normal.
Now, we have to give the Washington Free Beacon credit for that clip.
They put that compilation together.
What a dichotomy, Jack.
Now, you are a member of the media.
I mean, this is just facts, right?
They're just reporting unbiased.
So what's amazing to me, and the fact that you mentioned the truckers there as well, and the fact that there is one place that's not dropping mandates, even though we're seeing these mandates fall like dominoes across the United States, state by state, city by city.
Premier of Alberta, so in Alberta province, just dropped some of the mandates last night.
But Justin Trudeau is digging his heels in.
Now, why?
The question is, why is Justin Trudeau doing that?
Because what you're seeing right now is a power play.
It's a struggle for legitimacy between the people and the elites.
Now, here in the United States, the elites will never apologize.
They will never say anything to admit that they were wrong when it came to lockdowns, when it came to mandates, or any of these things.
They will say, this ended because we ended it.
So as long as the power to end the pandemic comes through them, then the rightful legitimacy is restored to their place of power.
However, in Canada, because the power of the government is questioned, vis-à-vis these truckers and farmers and cowboys and the families that are coming out now to support this thing in Ottawa, the bridges across the border in Windsor, Detroit, in Alberta, in Calgary, down in Montana.
That is why Trudeau is digging his heels in, because he is, at the end of the day, one of the assets of Davos.
He is someone who totally believes in this great reset, this build-back better agenda.
And so he's gotten his marching orders now to not give in, to not let these truckers get a victory, because if you do, then it will spread like wildfire.
Because look, we've had protests before, but not in a 5GW, fifth-generation warfare-type scenario.
We've got literally narrative trench warfare going on between the truckers and between Trudeau.
And he set it up this way for a very specific reason.
He could easily compromise and bring in a mediator or do any of those things, but he won't.
And there's a reason why, because he doesn't want it to spread.
Now, so something you said I found really interesting there, Jack.
You said that basically he's getting his marching orders from Davos.
But yet, here's the interesting part: we're seeing across Europe.
Now, the latest domino to fall was Boris Johnson.
He said he's going to be moving up the elimination of COVID restrictions in the UK by a week because, you know, I guess the numbers are looking good or whatever.
It might be a political calculation.
So, Boris is an interesting situation because he's got a massive personal scandal that's going on where essentially he broke COVID protocol.
And this is something that the left is really going after him for.
It's something that even the Tories, the Conservative Party, is going after him for.
So he is on his last legs.
He's potentially facing a vote of no confidence and maybe even downfall as prime minister.
So because of his personal scandal, he's now trying to divert two things.
He's trying to wag the dog visit Ukraine-Russia, and he's trying to do everything he can to act as if, oh, no, I get credit for taking out the restrictions.
I get credit for the mandate as a way to cover up for the fact that he is facing this personal scandal with his new wife.
Yeah, I mean, I genuinely don't understand it.
You know, I've, you know, backstory on me slightly.
I've actually lived in the UK for the better part of a year.
I mean, I'm well aware of the.
What did you eat?
Yeah.
McDonald's.
No, I'm kidding.
No, you're not.
No, I didn't frequent McDonald's.
I didn't frequent McDonald's.
But every so often you need a good hamburger, not that McDonald's has them.
No offense.
No offense.
But the point is, listen, I'm well aware of the tablet culture.
I'm well aware of how they can rip your political head off in an instant.
Actually, when I was there, Boris was mayor of London.
So I'm well aware of his background.
Now, this being said, I don't get the scandal.
To me, Boris Johnson was simply being a human being like everybody else was doing.
I mean, yeah, there's no pictures of it, but I can guarantee you, you know, the British.
I actually think a picture did just drop this morning from the Daily Mirror.
Yes.
So for the very first time, we do have, it's kind of blurry, but it appears to be a picture.
Right, there's a champagne bottle.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, some other things.
I saw that.
But the point I'm trying to make is, you know, I would just lean into it if I was him.
I would just say, listen, I'm a human being.
Nobody likes these restrictions.
We've all messed up.
Now, I understand.
I've got, you know, people are watching me.
I have to set an example.
But, you know, here's the deal.
These restrictions aren't working.
Omicron swept through the nation anyways.
And by the way, that's what this virus does.
It goes into an area.
It sits for six weeks, four to six weeks.
It spikes.
It comes down.
It moves on.
This is the fifth wave, technically, of the virus that we've seen in the nation.
So I'm not, listen, I don't understand the controversy, frankly, but you're right.
He is fighting for his political life.
He's making money.
What it is, is that UK politics, they just have a different, it's their hierarchy of scandals is different than the hierarchy of scandals in the U.S., right?
So in the U.S., you know, we would see something like that, which we do on a pretty regular basis if you're paying French laundry or SoFi Stadium or Biden.
I mean, it's pretty regular and it's in your face.
Whereas stuff like Hunter Biden, that's pushed to the side, yet it's obviously riles up the right, as well as, of course, his not only his drug use and crack pipes.
You can make lots of jokes about that, but also his deep financial ties with members of the Chinese elite, with Places in Ukraine, whether it be Barisma or other oligarchs that he's involved with.
So, those are the scandals that get traction in the U.S. Whereas in the UK, there is still this idea that if you've set a policy in place and then you break your policy, that you have to fall on your sword over that.
They still do have that culture.
And it's just something that we don't really have in the American tradition, or at least not in the modern tradition.
It almost happened in California.
Almost.
We had a recall, and then he, you know, obviously he blew out our friend Larry Elder in the recall.
But nevertheless, we're not going to get into any speculation there on voting integrity.
That being said, I just, while we're on that side of the pond, I do want to finish my point: that other nations are starting to lift COVID restrictions.
Now, European liberal democracies, part of the West that has, I think, been a part of this collective insanity that we've seen in the last two years, this collective mental break across the West.
Are we seeing a return to sanity?
You're saying that Davos is sending marching orders, and I know what you mean by that, but we are seeing a break in the dam, and yet Trudeau is doubling down.
And, you know, you've even got this because it's not about keeping the restrictions in place.
It's about who gets credit for ending the pandemic.
It's about who gets to say, who gets to say we go back to normal versus who gets to say we really, there was actually a Democrat lawmaker in upstate New York.
I caught him on Twitter earlier today saying this.
He said, it's time to give people their lives back.
It's time to give people their lives back, which is like, hey, no, no, no, that's not the thing you're supposed to say.
You say in the quiet part out loud.
You took people's lives away.
Now you're giving them back as if you are the unreproachable, right?
The oracle of science, the oracle of truth, the oracle of all that is good and right and just in the world through political power.
And yet if the truckers are able to be the ones that shift the fault, if they are able to be that fulcrum that shifts the ordinances, Archimedes said that, you know, give me a big enough lever in a fulcrum and I can move the world.
The truckers aren't supposed to be the ones to be that fulcrum.
That fulcrum is supposed to be the government and that fulcrum is supposed to be the elites.
So I guarantee you, this is why you're going to see, look, Trudeau, he didn't talk about de-escalating.
He went out there yesterday at the floor of the House of Commons in Ottawa and said they're all a bunch of swastika waivers and racists and extremists and everything else out there.
Why?
Because he can't give them credit.
I think you're spot on.
I think that's spot on, Jack.
The regime cannot be seen as weak or as the ones that didn't give you your life back.
I think that's so well put.
It's about who gets credit for this.
You reminded me of this clip, clip 43.
This is Representative Hakeem Jeffries crediting Biden for all of this recent movement on the science.
Clip 43: Job creation is up.
Wages are up.
Unemployment is down.
And the Omicron variant is in retreat.
And that's not by accident.
That's because under President Biden's leadership, a public health infrastructure was put into place, beginning with the American Rescue Plan without a single Republican vote to ensure that we can do everything possible to crush the virus.
And that is what has been happening.
What a complete and utter hack.
I mean, none of that is remotely the case.
None of the lockdowns did anything.
There was that John Hopkins study that just came out saying it was, I think 0.2% of deaths maybe were prevented by lockdowns.
Meanwhile, we had the devastation of the American economy, the American worker, skyrocketing inflation, deaths of despair, suicide, drug use up.
Jack, who gets the credit for this?
Who rightfully gets the credit for what we're seeing happen right now?
At the end of the day, it's the American people.
And if we're going to be a voice to the people out there, you have to understand all along, you have been the ones who have the power.
There are always more of us than there are of them.
They only have power if you give it to them.
You are the ones who are endowed with your rights.
You are the ones who are endowed with power.
They can only give it if you give up a little of your sovereignty, your family sovereignty, your community sovereignty to them.
Well said, Jack.
Look, everybody, I know you love freedom and you want to defend it.
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I want to talk about Russia and Ukraine.
There was an op-ed that Bernie Sanders wrote today, and we saw Glenn Greenwald is commenting on it, basically saying, hey, this is like usual Russia bashing that's become, you know, sort of like the throwaway line that Democrats have to put in anything that they say or do.
But then he makes some great points about how in 1962, we were on the brink of a nuclear war with Russia when they put nuclear warheads 60 miles off the coast, 90 miles off the coast of the United States.
Now, we're talking about bringing Ukraine into NATO, potentially.
This was started under Bush.
And if we observe the spheres of influence argument, what are we to make of that?
Does Russia have valid concerns to be nervous about what the U.S. is doing with our partners in NATO?
Look, I almost spit out my coffee when I was reading it this morning because I'm like, this is Bernie Sanders, right?
The same Bernie Sanders, you know, we know he's a Russia expert.
He took his honeymoon there in Moscow back in the, I believe back in the 60s when it was full-on communist USSR.
We would know that he loved the politics over there.
But it seems that, again, you get these glimmers every once in a while of nationalism from Bernie Sanders, these glimmers of populism where he realizes that, you What?
War isn't always the answer the way it seems to be for so many in Washington, D.C.
And so, this is something where I think that just like TPP, I'm going to have to go ahead and say Bernie Sanders, like you said, is making some very good points because he says Russia as a state does feel concerned about the encroachment of NATO.
I'm just reading from this.
To put it simply, Russia, like the United States, still has an interest in the security policies of its neighbors.
Does anyone really believe that the United States would not have something to say, for example, if Mexico was able to form a military alliance with a U.S. adversary?
So, if anyone remembers the plot of the original Red Dawn written by John Milias, the father of Amanda Milius, that was about Russia and Mexico and Cuba, by the way, joining up together for an invasion of the United States up through the middle.
That it's set in Colorado.
Today, you'd have the same idea if Mexico was joining a military alliance with, say, the People's Republic of China and that China was going to be suddenly stationing missiles and soldiers along the southern border.
I guess if Charlie's down there now, maybe he can give us a look and tell us exactly how far across that would be if the PLA was having soldiers there.
It's also the same kind of situation that you saw with the Zimmerman telegram, which is, of course, what led to the United States participation in literally into World War I.
We went to war over the Zimmermann telegram of Germany just asking Mexico if they wanted to join a military alliance.
We declared war on Germany after that.
So we have a long history.
And obviously, that is in our strategic interest.
So the question really then becomes: if Ukraine is to join NATO, does that mean a military conflict over the peninsula of Crimea?
That's really what it all comes down to.
And so because Putin is looking at this from a geopolitical strategy and saying, look, he wants that port access to the Black Sea.
He knows, you know, the Arctic, by the way, is going to be the next fight over the next 15 to 20 years, but the sea ice just hasn't been melting fast enough for it to become the major power player that they need for exports and for military transport up through the Northeast Passage across the Arctic.
Russia is going to become a major power player there, but they're not yet.
They still need access to warm water ports, and that's what Crimea gives them access to.
That's exactly what this is all about.
I think that was a really good breakdown.
What if China was forming a military alliance with Mexico?
What would that feel like to America?
We need to keep that in mind.
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