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Gun Control and Domestic Terror
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| Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, Jack Pasobic back from a scenic tour of Europe. | |
| Goodness, he was all over Ukraine. | |
| He was in Rome. | |
| He was in Budapest. | |
| He was in Davos. | |
| He was in Geneva. | |
| The great Jack Pasobic gives us an update from the front lines. | |
| We talk about red flag laws and Joe Biden's just nonsensical meandering when it comes to gun policy, that and so much more. | |
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| I want to talk kind of about gun control and pushback against a lot of Biden's kind of incoherent ramblings about this. | |
| It would be not even newsworthy if Joe Biden didn't have power, but he does have power. | |
| And Joe Biden is going to try to pass some form of federal gun confiscation, including what he calls increased background checks and red flag laws. | |
| And so I want to just repeat the point. | |
| These things might sound reasonable if you haven't been paying attention the last couple of years. | |
| If you have not been paying attention about what the federal government does to try to put you on lists and then act on those lists, whether it be vaccination lists, whether it be COVID surveillance, moms and dads being classified as domestic terrorists. | |
| So anytime now they act as if expanding the reach of the federal government, like, oh, well, we don't want these certain people to be able to own guns. | |
| What's the criteria? | |
| Who decides it? | |
| Who's in charge of it? | |
| Do you trust those people? | |
| Do the federal government response to COVID give you more trust of the government or less trust of the government? | |
| So the best example against gun control that I always make is pick a random federal bureaucrat and then fill in the sentence of the power you're about to give them. | |
| So I think some of you listening might say, Charlie, come on, we have to have waiting times and red flag laws. | |
| Like, okay, would you trust Anthony Fauci to execute such a policy? | |
| Would you trust Merrick Garland to execute such a policy? | |
| Would you trust Kamala Harris to execute such a policy? | |
| If the answer is yes, then you have far more trust in these Democrat operatives that call themselves cabinet secretaries than I do. | |
| It's kind of like trusting Nancy Pelosi's husband to be your chauffeur. | |
| Not exactly wise. | |
| Joe Biden just starts rambling here. | |
| Okay, play cut nine and then we'll play cut 42. | |
| Play cut nine. | |
| And they showed me an extra who said a .22 caliber board will live in a lung, and we can probably get it out. | |
| Maybe I'll get it and save the life. | |
| A nine millimeter bullet blows the lung out of the body. | |
| So the idea of these high caliber weapons is simply no rational basis for it in terms of what they see about self-protection, money. | |
| I mean, I guess I don't know. | |
| The Constitution of the Second Amendment was never absolute. | |
| So at the time, actually, the ratification, the Second Amendment was absolute. | |
| There were no state-based or federal-based gun control laws until early in the 1800s. | |
| So he has his constitutional history wrong. | |
| And you actually could buy a cannon, by the way. | |
| He says you could buy a cannon at the time. | |
| So Joe Biden said something interesting, at least it's interesting to push back against it, where he says, why do you need these high-caliber rifles or high-caliber munitions? | |
| Now, later in that clip, he mentions being able to push back against your government. | |
| But it's okay. | |
| We don't have that clip. | |
| We have a different clip of him saying the identical, the exact same thing. | |
| So let's play CUT 42, and then we'll dive into it. | |
| As I said, as a senator and vice president, while they clearly will not prevent every tragedy, we know certain ones will have significant impact and have no negative impact on the Second Amendment. | |
| Second Amendment is not absolute. | |
| When it was passed, you couldn't own a cannon. | |
| You couldn't own certain kinds of weapons. | |
| It's just always been limitations. | |
| Again, not true. | |
| So Biden says in a different speech, the Marine One one, but we'll connect it. | |
| I'll just paraphrase. | |
| Basically, he's like, what? | |
| I mean, come on, you want to be able to push back against your government? | |
| And I say this as carefully as one possibly can. | |
| I hope not. | |
| But the reason why we have the Second Amendment is to defend ourselves against tyranny. | |
| It is a safeguard. | |
| It is a firewall. | |
| It is a last resort. | |
| It is in case the federal government gets out of control. | |
| The only reason we did not have Shanghai-style lockdowns where 26 million people were locked down is because we had a Second Amendment. | |
| The Second Amendment protects all the other amendments. | |
| The federal government does not respect the people, but they would obliterate the people, Australia or New Zealand-style, if we did not own weapons. | |
| In fact, the Second Amendment actually brokers peace. | |
| It's a deterrent from potential authoritarianism and tyrannical behavior without ever actually having to fire a bullet, without ever actually having to, quote-unquote, arm up, just the thought or the possibility that that is in the calculus or in the equation makes a tyrant less likely to try and implement the vast, let's say, anti-freedom, | |
| anti-liberty agenda that has been attempted in our country. | |
| So gun control is now at the top of the mind of a lot of people. | |
| Senator John Cornyn, inexplicably from Texas, is negotiating with Democrats on this. | |
| This is how the negotiation should go. | |
| You sit down and say, we're done. | |
| Thank you, and leave the room. | |
| You don't negotiate with Democrats on gun control. | |
| You see, this is one of the reasons why they've been trying to expand the lists. | |
| If they can expand the definition of who's considered an extremist or a danger to society, then they're able to expand who is able to be disarmed. | |
| So, if every mom and dad that showed up at a school board meeting or complained about their child's curriculum is now a domestic terrorist, and they put in the bill that people that are classified as domestic terrorists can't own weapons, if you're not aware of kind of the game that's going on there, you say, well, yeah, of course, if you're a domestic terrorist, you shouldn't be able to own a weapon. | |
| And then some mom is like, I'm being called a domestic terrorist. | |
| So, the premise and the kind of push to radically expand what is defined as a terrorist is directly tied together to the gun control debate. | |
| Thought crimes of complaining about your child's curriculum could now potentially prevent you from being able to own a firearm to protect your family. | |
| Let's not forget that moms for liberty were labeled with the domestic terrorist labeling during the school board debates by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with a threat assessment tag. | |
| Robert Francis O'Rourke, the trust fund baby who wants to be Hispanic, who's an Irishman, and will soon be a three-time failed candidate, can't win a Senate race, can't win a presidential race, and he certainly can't win a governor's race. | |
| He thinks that if you own semi-automatic rifles, we should have them confiscated. | |
| Bold strategy, Beto. | |
| Let's see if it works for you. | |
| Play Cut 31. | |
| I just took the position that may not be politically popular, maybe too honest: that not only should no one be able to purchase an AR-15 or an AK-47 because they're designed to kill humans in that high-impact, high-velocity round will just tear up everything inside. | |
| You'll bleed out before we can get you back to life. | |
| But I don't think that the people who have them right now in civilian use should be able to keep them. | |
| His misunderstanding of the technical nature of weapons is extraordinary considering how confident he talks about this. | |
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The Inflation Reporting Problem
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| Let's talk a little bit about economics. | |
| Economics, which means the business of the house. | |
| Oikos Nomos. | |
| Where is my article here? | |
| Yes, there it is by Chris Salizza. | |
| The Republican wave is building fast. | |
| Just over five months before the 2022 midterm elections. | |
| You see, that's where they're wrong. | |
| It's not five months. | |
| Voting begins in four months, actually. | |
| Since we have voting month in America, it's kind of this perpetual voting season. | |
| On Thursday, the Cook political report, Amy Walter, a nonpartisan handicapping service, moved 10 of its House races in favor of Republicans and adjusted its GOP gains in the fall upward between 20 to 35 seats. | |
| Given that Biden's approval rating is underwater and dozens of districts he carried in 2022, any Democrat sitting in a single digit Biden seat or Trump seat is at severe risk. | |
| And even a few seats that Biden carried by 10 or 15 points could lose. | |
| Chris Eliza writes at CNN.com, the confluence of these predictions are built on several historical trends that have been predictive over decades. | |
| The first is that midterm elections tend to be bad for the president's party. | |
| Since World War II, the average seat loss for a president's party in the midterms is 26. | |
| I think Republicans are going to far exceed that. | |
| The generic ballot tends to favor Democrats marginally in a neutral political year. | |
| A recent poll from Quinnipiak, university showed Republicans a four-point edge on the generic ballot. | |
| The reality of this current political moment is that things appear to be getting worse for Democrats the closer we get to the election. | |
| Fears of a wave washing away even incumbents previously considered safe now seems entirely justified. | |
| CNN is trying to warn people what we have seen build throughout this entire year. | |
| Joe Biden thinks it's just about inflation. | |
| It is about inflation, but it's also just about the overly arrogant lectures that are being given. | |
| Janet Yellen being one of them. | |
| And look, I don't like the I told you so stuff and all this, but man, if I could show, if I had a candid camera of the meals that I had in Palm Beach or Los Angeles or San Francisco or New York with very, very wealthy people that said, oh, there's, this is a year ago. | |
| No inflation, not going to happen. | |
| That's a mass hysteria. | |
| Inflation is wrong. | |
| And now we're living to the worst inflation of our lifetime. | |
| The government is under-reporting inflation, which is actually a good thing, believe it or not. | |
| I'm going to tell you why it's a good thing the government is under-reporting inflation. | |
| But first, let's go to cut 24. | |
| I think I was wrong then about the path that inflation would take. | |
| As I mentioned, there have been unanticipated and large shocks to the economy that have boosted energy and food prices and supply bottlenecks that have affected our economy badly that I at the time didn't fully understand. | |
| So she didn't quite understand because she's never actually worked in business. | |
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| You understand what inflation is. | |
| You understand the flow of goods. | |
| Janet Yellen has been an academic. | |
| Remember, we are living under the tyranny of the economic academics, the people that just look at supply and demand curves. | |
| We have to find equilibrium. | |
| Like, okay, how about you get in the real world and you stop just looking at the clouds and you get into the weeds, what it's like to actually create jobs and move capital. | |
| Now, I teased this a little bit. | |
| This is going to be a different podcast for a different time. | |
| Why would it be a good thing that the government is under-reporting inflation? | |
| Like, why would it be a good thing the government is lying to us? | |
| Well, it's bad because it's really insulting to our intelligence, but it's actually good in one sense. | |
| State and local governments have what is called automatic pay adjustment scales based on what the national federal reported inflation number is. | |
| So, for example, in Scottsdale, they have to increase teacher pay. | |
| I don't know if this is the case in Scottsdale, but I know it's the case for a lot of public sector workers. | |
| They get an automatic boost every single year based on what the national inflation rate is. | |
| It's built into their contract. | |
| So, years prior, it was like a 1% or 2% increase that was barely noticeable. | |
| The fact that we're not actually reporting inflation, which is it's actually 30% in certain cities, especially in Phoenix, inflation is easily 30 to 35% in the last year in Phoenix. | |
| The fact that isn't being reported is actually going to save taxpayers a ton of money in future tax increases to actually restrain these massive increases that would happen for public sector workers and for teachers and teacher unions. | |
| So it's one unintended consequence of the lying deceit of the National Bureau of Economics. | |
| It's a good thing, actually. | |
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| Jack Posobiec is, I don't know if he's back from Europe. | |
| He might still be in Europe. | |
| Jack, are you still in Europe? | |
| Charlie, I can report that we have returned. | |
| We are back on the territory of the United States of America, this glorious land. | |
| You got your rights back. | |
| Congratulations. | |
| Believe it or not, man, we were not asked two and a half weeks. | |
| We were gone, not asked once for a COVID test, for a vaccine pass, anything like that, either going into Europe. | |
| We were in 10 countries or coming back to the U.S., not asked once. | |
| Not asked for your papers, not even going to Ukraine? | |
| Not even. | |
| Oh, no, they didn't ask for anything going to Ukraine, just password. | |
| I want to ask about that. | |
| So you did the scenic tour of Europe. | |
| You went from Rome to Hungary to Davos to Geneva to Poland, and then you ended up in Ukraine. | |
| Let's start at the end. | |
| Why did you go to Ukraine? | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Hey, Charlie, I went to Ukraine last weekend. | |
| I didn't actually tell anybody I was going to go. | |
| Yeah, especially, you know, your turning point USA productions team. | |
| And I asked our team, I said, do we have like war insurance? | |
| Okay. | |
| Well, there was a number of people that did know. | |
| One person on the productions team did know, but we were trying to keep this really good. | |
| It didn't make it all the way up the ladder, but that's okay. | |
| So how is Ukraine right now? | |
| Besides awful and terrible and warmth. | |
| When we got across to Lviv, right, that's that main city where you're seeing a lot of people. | |
| Western part, right? | |
| Western reporters. | |
| It's directly across the border from Poland. | |
| My family lives just on the other side of the border in Poland. | |
| So we were visiting with them, stayed with them, and then we went across the border the next day. | |
| Lviv is still a hustling, bustling city, very open, very free. | |
| We were there on a weekend, a beautiful, gorgeous city. | |
| But then as we got further and further east, we ended up taking a night train down to Odessa, and then we're able to take a car through the checkpoints. | |
| That's what you're seeing in this video right now, into the city of Mikolaev. | |
| Now, Mikolaev is only a few kilometers, just a couple of miles from the front lines where in Russian-occupied territory of Kherson, which is the very next city over. | |
| So we made it about as far as the highway to Kherson, and we were essentially stopped by military saying, you know, we cannot allow any civilians to go further than this point. | |
| But the city of Mikolaev itself has received shelling, has been struck a few times. | |
| In fact, it was struck just the day after we left, the morning after the shipyards there at Strategic Shipyard City on the Black Sea. | |
| And conditions absolutely deteriorating the closer you get to Russian forces. | |
| So is Odessa still under Ukrainian control? | |
| No, Odessa is. | |
| Yes, that's right. | |
| So Odessa is completely under Ukrainian control. | |
| The beach is there. | |
| So Odessa, huge, probably the biggest port city in all of Ukraine, one of the biggest ports. | |
| Historically speaking, there are the Greeks and the Byzantines had a settlement there thousands of years ago. | |
| At this point, it's currently under Ukrainian control. | |
| A lot of mines in that seaport, though, the seaport is closed. | |
| So that's where that 20 million tons of grain and wheat are waiting at the city of Odessa or within Ukraine. | |
| They can't get out because of the mining of the ports. | |
| We even went and saw on the beach itself that the beaches have been mined. | |
| There's a sign up that says morning mines on the beach. | |
| Meanwhile, you turn over and there's people jumping off the pier. | |
| There's kids, there's families. | |
| And then there's a sign right next to that saying, don't go on the beach, mines. | |
| Wow. | |
| So this is still an active war zone in that part of Ukraine. | |
| I mean, it's far from Lviv, right? | |
| I mean, there's fighting happening in that region. | |
| So this is a, we went about 600 miles deep into Ukraine. | |
| Right. | |
| So quite far from Lviv. | |
| I haven't really been keeping up with it, but very much because it's so confusing and the Western press is just awful. | |
| Didn't Russian forces attempt to try to take Odessa at some point? | |
| There were some reports early on of an amphibious assault on Odessa, but that later turned out to be sort of just rumors that bubbled up. | |
| And so there's been attacks on Odessa. | |
| There have been strikes on some of the strategic and critical infrastructure. | |
| But I can certainly confirm that cell phone signals are up, trains are running. | |
| You are able to get in and out. | |
| But Charlie, going around the city, they understand that they're getting ready for a potential attack. | |
| There's bunkers everywhere. | |
| There's barricades that are being built right in the city squares on, you know, in front of shopping centers and shopping malls. | |
| You see these armed guards everywhere. | |
| And by the way, never saw more AK-47s than I've seen in my entire life than when I was in Odessa and Mikhailaev just now. | |
| So the question I think a lot of people have is where does this war exactly stand? | |
| I mean, there was early attempts for Russia to try to take over Kyiv. | |
| I guess that's been unsuccessful. | |
| Again, you could spend an hour trying to read news reports and you can't quite figure out where troop formations are. | |
| Where does this stand? | |
| Is this getting closer to an end or is it still escalating throughout the summer? | |
| Well, I think it is escalating throughout the summer. | |
| And I think the real, as you stated correctly, that they're pulling those troops or they have pulled those troops away in the north. | |
| But in the south and in the east, that's where you're seeing this steady battle of attrition and the steady onward push of Russian forces. | |
| So even while we were there, the day we left, we know there was fighting going on just outside the city of Mikolaev and Russian forces getting closer and closer in that region in the south. | |
| So it seems as though they've abandoned or maybe it was a feint or some type of deception ploy for this lightning strike on Kyiv. | |
| That's been pulled back now. | |
| But what we're going in towards is the more traditional Russian form of fighting, where it's the low, slow crawl of the military as they just go town by town, street by street. | |
| What kind of casualties do you think have been amounted so far on both sides? | |
| This is another thing you can't quite get accurate numbers on in Western press. | |
| Right. | |
| And that really is a question that, so Zelensky did an interview the other day where he said 60 to 100 soldiers per day are being killed. | |
| No, obviously it's Zelensky's side. | |
| He's going to downplay that. | |
| He's going to play up Russian casualties. | |
| And for Russia, the flip side, they're going to downplay Russian casualties and try to exaggerate Ukrainian casualties. | |
| But I mean, clearly, thousands and thousands of people have been killed in this thing by now. | |
| We know for sure that thousands of POWs are being taken, particularly in that east, in that Donbass, Donetsk, Lugansk region right now, where there was a massive battle just fought over the city of Severodonetsk. | |
| And then the city of Mariupol, which is sort of the eastern version of Odessa, if you will. | |
| They're the main port on the Sea of Azov on the other side of the Black Sea. | |
| That city has now been completely occupied and taken over by Russian forces. | |
| How do you see this ending? | |
| It's a tough question, right? | |
| It really comes down to whether or not there will be. | |
| So you have the two schools of thought. | |
| We saw this when I was in Davos just before I went to Ukraine, right? | |
| One idea was by Kissinger, of all people, right? | |
| People call this guy a warmonger, but he actually came out and said, look, let's go for a negotiated settlement. | |
| Let's seek rapprochement with Moscow. | |
| Let's seek balance. | |
| But then you've got also, everyone's favorite Hungarian billionaire came up at Davos and said, we need to press on until the government of Vladimir Putin is collapsed, until Putin falls and is taken out, right? | |
| So two vastly different sides. | |
| I don't see any indications that Russia is slowing down their advance, certainly not in the South and in the East. | |
| And on the other side, Ukraine, those situations are deteriorating. | |
| This $40 billion that Americans particularly, I guess, had sent over or that Biden said he was sending over, I'm not seeing where it is unless it's all the way down at the front lines because I'm not seeing it. | |
| But I will tell you this, Charlie, the people down there in Ukraine, what they were selling us was, we want AR-15s, we want AK-47s, and why? | |
| Because we want to be able to defend ourselves. | |
| So it was kind of an interesting, interesting take because I know back in the U.S., everyone's talking about gun rights and the Second Amendment. | |
| Why do we have these things? | |
| Why do you need assault rifles? | |
| Well, the people of Ukraine will tell you right now, we need these things immediately because we are in danger of losing our sovereignty. | |
| Yeah, and that's kind of interesting, right? | |
| So Nancy Pelosi is quick to try to send AR-15s over to a foreign land, yet confiscate our own. | |
| Second Amendment is necessary to fight tyranny. | |
| God willing, please, it will never happen domestically here, but also potentially foreign. | |
| I mean, countries get invaded. | |
| Countries can fall apart, unfortunately. | |
| Mass chaos is not foreign to humanity, unfortunately. | |
| And yet we're quick to try to send weapons internationally, but try to disarm our own population. | |
| Why do you think that is? | |
| Well, I think it's kind of what, to your point, right? | |
| It's the regime in the U.S. realizes that just from a practical perspective, there's too many guns in the U.S. to really do anything about it. | |
| And we're not like New Zealand, right? | |
| You're not going to have people lining up to turn over their guns if they ever posted anything like that or pass anything like that. | |
| So it just wouldn't happen. | |
| That's why you've got Trudeau running around screaming that, you know, hyper signaling that he's going to take away all the guns of Canada, all the handguns, right? | |
| Joe Biden saying he's going to declare war against nine millimeter ammunition. | |
| Because at the end of the day, they know the American people won't actually stand for this, number one. | |
| But deep down, they all understand this, that, you know, and people know that I'm a student of Chinese history, Chairman Mao, right? | |
| He had it right. | |
| Political power grows from the barrel of a gun. | |
| It's true in the United States. | |
| It's true in Ukraine. | |
| It's true in China, right? | |
| Guns and steel. | |
| That is where this sovereignty of whether it be the United States, whether it be Ukraine, whether it be Russia, whether it be these various breakaway republics, that's where it's decided on the battlefield. | |
| That's number one. | |
| Number two, if you want to be able to defend yourself, defend your home, defend your rights, right? | |
| That's the entire point of the Second Amendment as well. | |
| And there is a huge power play going on right now inside the United States over it. | |
| But honestly, I think it's going to be completely fruitless because when push comes to SOV, the ability of people to be able to own individual firearms in the United States is extremely popular. | |
| You're never going to see a major push in the United States. | |
| And this is a huge difference, by the way, between Americans and Europeans, right? | |
| European conservatives aren't really on board with the Second Amendment and the love of guns the way you see in America. | |
| It's something I get questioned about a lot when I'm in Europe. | |
| It's like, why do you guys care so much? | |
| Why do you care so much? | |
| Well, right now I can point to Ukraine and say, look, they weren't ready for this. | |
| They weren't ready in terms of that. | |
| United States could never happen. | |
| Well, think about it. | |
| I mean, it's conceivable to believe that Vladimir Putin very well might not have invaded if ever Ukraine had an AR-15 in their closet. | |
| It's a part of the calculus. | |
| It's not that Putin wouldn't have necessarily not have done it, but it would have been now all of a sudden like, hey, I mean, you know, 30 million people. | |
| What would have driven up the cost? | |
| Right. | |
| So 100,000, maybe 100,000 troops wasn't enough. | |
| Now you've got to do, now you have to field 200,000 men in the field or 300,000. | |
| Now you've got more tanks, more ammo, more gasoline, more, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. | |
| So if you drive, wars break out when the cost of war is cheaper than the cost of peace, right? | |
| So if you can drive up the cost of war in any way possible, like for example, I don't know, arming your populace, then it's more likely that war isn't going to happen. | |
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| Yeah. | |
| And Russia's actually gotten wealthier since this war. | |
| The ruble is up. | |
| They're making tons of money on the higher price of oil. | |
| So they have an inverse incentive structure here, perverse one, I should say. | |
| Jack Pesobic from Human Events Daily, brought to you by Turning Point USA. | |
| Jack, I want to ask you more about Geneva and your wild scenic tour throughout Europe. | |
| And you went everywhere. | |
| You went to Budapest, you went to Rome, you went to Geneva, you went to Davos. | |
| It's really interesting. | |
| It's terrific. | |
| And then you said, hey, let's go to Poland. | |
| And then you said, hey, let's go to Odessa. | |
| I hear it's nice this time of year. | |
| Not exactly sure about that, but we're glad you're okay. | |
| I mean, if you look at a map, I mean, Jack, you went 600 miles on a night train. | |
| I mean, that train could have been intercepted, blown by a mortar shell. | |
| You knew that going in there. | |
| So that was an act of boldness. | |
| We're glad you're okay. | |
| Jack, stay right there. | |
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| Jack, what happened at the World Health Assembly in Geneva? | |
| We covered it extensively. | |
| It seemed as if all the amendments failed. | |
| Help color in the details for us. | |
| Well, Charlie, at the World Health Assembly, right, which is held there in Geneva, Switzerland, concurrently with the World Economic Forum that was going on in Davos, just a few hours across the Alps there. | |
| They are pushing forward with this new treaty, essentially a pandemic treaty that would push the sovereignty of our countries at risk because it would allow the World Health Organization to have the ability to declare when there is a pandemic in your country. | |
| Now, we know that the IHRs, these were the international health regulations that were promulgated and supported by the Biden administration. | |
| In fact, some of them even submitted by the Biden administration. | |
| Those are the ones that were going down here at this iteration of the World Health Assembly. | |
| But their plans are still in place for a pandemic treaty for by essentially 2024 is their target date for this. | |
| And we were looking at it because I remember seeing that some people saying, oh, there was no pandemic treaty. | |
| There's nothing to talk about, Charlie. | |
| No, they've been holding active open session hearings on this thing. | |
| They've been holding discussions on it. | |
| And, you know, Tedros will make some of these comments saying as if it's, well, it's, you know, it's just going to be a legally enforceable writ or some type of resolution. | |
| No, it's clearly being done under the guise of a treaty. | |
| They were trying to slow walk this thing and get it in under the radar. | |
| But because so many people, so many of the great people of this program and the other programs out there in this movement have called attention to it. | |
| And it's really international, right? | |
| Because you're seeing people all across Europe, even the UK speak out against this, that people do not want this treaty to go forward. | |
| But the WHO does have, according to the Brownstone Institute, a target date of 2024 to have something in place. | |
| So it didn't pass in this assembly, but they're going to try again in November. | |
| Is that right? | |
| They're going to be trying again for the next couple of years. | |
| It's funny because this initially started, I didn't realize this at first, but this initially started because of the criticisms of China and the fact that the CCP at the beginning of this pandemic wasn't being forthcoming with their information about COVID-19, the origins. | |
| And if you remember, Charlie, even early on, they were lying to the WHO about human-to-human spread, about so many different types of the ability of COVID-19 just to infect people, right? | |
| We have the mass debates and the vaccine mandate debates now, but early on, they were saying that humans couldn't even infect other humans with this thing. | |
| So the idea for a pandemic treaty supposedly was inculcated as an idea to get around that problem: what happens if you have an epidemic that's breaking out in one country that isn't being reported and then the WHO trigger system can't go in place the way these organizations are supposed to work. | |
| But instead, once they opened up the Pandora's box of saying we're going to have international regulations and international controls for the WHO, now, just like everything else, just like you would see in Washington, D.C. with one of these things, people are adding everything they can to this thing because they want to empower the WHO far more than any of our own elected national governments. | |
| Keep in mind, this isn't just for the United States. | |
| This is for the 194 member nations of the WHO. | |
| It's extraordinary. | |
| So the team is pressuring me very hard to talk about a very controversial topic of which I couldn't care less about. | |
| Johnny Depp and Amanda Heard. | |
| You have a hot take on this, Jack? | |
| Is that right? | |
| Oh, is the thing out yet? | |
| Did they have the verdict? | |
| I don't know. | |
| No, not yet. | |
| Everyone's watching it on pins and needles. | |
| Charlie, here's the way I look at it. | |
| I think it's a red pill in a sense, because when you look at these situations, right, this is the end result of the Me Too movement, right? | |
| This idea that all men should be, you know, all men are the villains and that all women should be believed without having any evidence, without having any proof, any due process, any investigation whatsoever. | |
| We saw it with Kavanaugh, we saw it with Trump again and again. | |
| And even more so beyond women, right? | |
| It's also this idea of false accusations and how damaging they can be to someone's career. | |
| But on another level, folks, I just want to say this. | |
| I would say this to Prince Harry out there. | |
| I would say it to people like Johnny Depp. | |
| If you are with somebody like an Amber Heard or a Megan Markle, who has all the red flags in the world, do not think you can fix them. | |
| You need to walk away, boys. | |
| You need to walk away and walk away fast. | |
| Don't end up with Johnny Depp because believe me, you don't got pockets like he does. | |
| They will take you to the cleaners and leave you with nothing. | |
| That is a red flag law I could get behind. | |
| That's one red flag law. | |
| We'll have to see if Dr. Oz is up for that one. | |
| Jack Bisobic, everybody. | |
| Human Events Daily does a great job. | |
| He survived Ukraine. | |
| Geneva, Davos, Budapest in Rome. | |
| He's special. | |
| Thank you, Jack. | |
| Appreciate it. | |
| Appreciate it, Charlie. | |
| Take care, man. | |
| Thank you, guys. | |
| Thank you so much for listening, everybody. | |
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| Thank you so much for listening. | |
| God bless. | |
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