The Charlie Kirk Show - A Southern Invasion and the Democrat War on the American Citizen
Aired: 2022-07-06
Duration: 37:10


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[00:00:05]  We are being invaded.
[00:00:06]  Why won't they do anything about it?
[00:00:08]  We talk about how the Biden regime wants to remove a citizenship requirement when you register to vote and more.
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=== Citizenship and Voting Rights (15:30) ===

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[00:02:27]  We're going to explore this topic.
[00:02:29]  It's extraordinary and we've asked the question before.
[00:02:32]  What is a citizen?
[00:02:34]  A citizen is different and distinctly separate than a serf, a subject or a slave.
[00:02:42]  A citizen means you are a co-ruler of your nation.
[00:02:47]  A citizen is somebody who is bought into the social contract, the fabric of the nation that they are in.
[00:02:53]  We are called to be good citizens.
[00:02:55]  In fact, being an active and alert citizen, I believe, is a moral prerogative, both biblically and also.
[00:03:03]  You could even make an argument just rooted in natural law, that being a citizen of your nation is a good thing.
[00:03:10]  Jeremiah 29, 7 says that demand the welfare of the nation that you are in, because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
[00:03:16]  And when we talk about citizenship, it's important to recognize and realize that there's limitations on citizenship, that not everyone gets to be a citizen just because they want to be a citizen.
[00:03:27]  That citizenship, yes, you could be born into it, therefore you're tied to the prior social contract of your parents, or you must earn citizenship.
[00:03:36]  Now, when you decide to structure the fundamental elements of a society, it's fair to say that when you decide who should have political power, that citizens, the co-rulers, need to be the ones that decide who have political power.
[00:03:50]  Now, this might sound so unbelievably patently obvious that the people that are the ones in the society that are citizens, they and they alone are the ones that get to decide who's in power.
[00:04:04]  For example, the French, the Saudis, the Iranians, the Chinese, or the Philippine, the Filipinos, they don't get to decide who's our president.
[00:04:14]  They don't get to decide who your governor is.
[00:04:16]  That only American citizens get to decide who's actually in charge of America.
[00:04:22]  I know that sounds to be a radical thing to say in America today that only citizens should be voting in our elections.
[00:04:32]  Now, in California, illegals and non-citizens have been voting for quite some time in local elections.
[00:04:37]  In fact, this is not some conspiracy theory.
[00:04:40]  It's actually law.
[00:04:41]  They allow them to vote in local elections.
[00:04:43]  The New York Supreme Court has recently overturned a measure in New York that would have allowed non-citizens or illegals to vote in state elections.
[00:04:53]  And remarkably, there's controversy about this.
[00:04:57]  Incredibly, we are seeing a development and a theme that is emerging to the surface where mostly Democrats, most of the Democrats, I should say, and people on the left, say that it is wrong and immoral to say that only citizens should be able to vote in such elections.
[00:05:16]  Now, let's build out this moral argument further.
[00:05:18]  You see, borders matter.
[00:05:20]  Borders are where good ideas can begin and bad ideas end.
[00:05:25]  Borders are a physical line of demarcation of your nation.
[00:05:30]  Having sovereign nations is a guarantee towards peace, not these internationalist, globalist, borderless experiments.
[00:05:38]  The idea of a nation, especially a nation that has many parts, as the United States of America, actually allows people to feel more connected to their land and their fellow countrymen.
[00:05:47]  Now, what if I told you that there is a massive push from our own regime, the Biden regime, to upend and reverse this moral tradition of only citizens voting in our election?
[00:06:03]  In an extraordinary move, the Department of Justice has intervened in an Arizona law that will blow your mind, but it shows you exactly where we are as a country.
[00:06:13]  The Department of Justice sues Arizona over election law that requires proof of citizenship for federal voting.
[00:06:21]  A citizen is a co-owner or a co-ruler of a nation.
[00:06:26]  The idea that we get to be citizens is a profound miracle in the story and history of government.
[00:06:34]  The idea that we have a self-government, but we have limitations on that self-government.
[00:06:39]  For example, we don't get to vote in Brazilian elections.
[00:06:42]  We don't get to vote in Polish elections.
[00:06:44]  Hungarians don't get to vote in American elections.
[00:06:47]  You vote in the country that you are in.
[00:06:50]  But the Department of Justice finds a problem with that.
[00:06:53]  You see, if only Americans were voting in American elections, well, then those pesky Republicans might continue to win elections.
[00:07:01]  The Department of Justice wants to legally block a recently passed law in Arizona that requires proof of citizenship to vote in some federal elections.
[00:07:12]  This is from the New York Post.
[00:07:15]  The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday to stop the legislation that was signed into law by Governor Ducey in March and is supposed to take effect at the beginning of next year.
[00:07:26]  Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clark in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division said the Arizona law is a textbook violation of the National Registration Act that requires each state to establish federal election voting procedure, voting registration procedures.
[00:07:44]  The Biden Department of Justice is suing Arizona for saying, how dare you ask your voters to prove they're American citizens.
[00:07:56]  They continue by saying, quote, for nearly three decades, the National Voter Registration Act has helped move, helped to move states in the right direction by eliminating unnecessary requirements that have historically made it harder for eligible voters to access the registration rolls.
[00:08:14]  Quote, Arizona has passed a law that turns the clock back on progress by imposing unlawful and unnecessary requirements that would block eligible voters from the registration rolls for certain federal elections.
[00:08:30]  What requirement is that?
[00:08:33]  You mean that illegals should be on our voter rolls?
[00:08:36]  Yes, it's exactly what they mean.
[00:08:38]  According to the Department of Justice, they're saying in so many words, they believe foreign nationals who did not grow up here, that are not paying appropriate taxes, that broke the law to get into here, that trespassed into our country, that are illegally domiciled in our country, that are illegally harboring themselves in our country, that they should be able to vote in our elections.
[00:09:01]  Quote, the Justice Department will continue to use every available tool to protect all Americans' right to vote and to ensure that their voices are heard.
[00:09:09]  The question is, what is an American, according to the Department of Justice?
[00:09:13]  Is an American someone that is here or someone that is a citizen, that is either born here and then therefore connected to the social contract that pre-existed them, or someone that naturalized and went through a process to become a citizen of this great country.
[00:09:30]  Just coming here from Turkey or Azerbaijan or from Russia and walking across the line does not make you an American.
[00:09:39]  The Biden administration disagrees.
[00:09:41]  And this is the furtherance of what we call the divide in America.
[00:09:46]  What is America?
[00:09:47]  Is America a country or is America a colony?
[00:09:51]  You see, in a colony, being a member of a colony is easy.
[00:09:54]  You just got to pay the price of admission.
[00:09:56]  And it's just kind of a mixed bag of whomever you want it to be.
[00:10:00]  A country has to have requirements and prudence in saying, who do we allow into our nation?
[00:10:08]  Now, look, I've said many times that I believe immigration done properly, very limited, small amount of immigrants every year, can help the country grow into a beautiful and amazing state.
[00:10:20]  But the way we've done immigration has been foolish and wrong and immoral to the people that are here, to the people that are going to come here.
[00:10:28]  It brings down wages.
[00:10:30]  It has issues of assimilation, has cultural impact issues.
[00:10:34]  In fact, that's why I've said we have to have a moratorium on immigration, both legal and illegal, until we figure out what the heck is going on.
[00:10:41]  Now, why would Arizona pass such a law?
[00:10:45]  Well, because it has become very easy to get a driver's license in states like California and Arizona.
[00:10:51]  I just registered to vote in Arizona.
[00:10:53]  I think I missed the deadline for the primary, but I definitely get it on the general.
[00:10:56]  Just officially moved here and got my residency here as COVID kind of delayed a lot of that.
[00:11:04]  But on the Arizona voter registration form, it asks the question, are you a U.S. citizen?
[00:11:11]  Yes or no, under penalty of perjury or felony, a felony.
[00:11:15]  It also asks for your driver's license identification number.
[00:11:18]  And it's not just conceivable, it is practical to believe that the very voter registration form that I filled out yesterday, in Arizona, filled out by an illegal, absent the citizenship question at the end, with the driver's license identification number there put in place, that you could have a lot of non-citizens registering to vote in our elections.
[00:11:44]  And so under a 1996 Arizona law, anyone seeking a driver's license must prove identity and legal presence in the country.
[00:11:53]  The same requirement exists for non-operator identification cards issued by ADOT.
[00:11:59]  So illegals cannot get driver's licenses in Arizona.
[00:12:01]  I know they can get them in Texas.
[00:12:04]  They can get in-state tuition in Texas, but they can certainly get them in California.
[00:12:08]  I know for sure they can get them in California.
[00:12:11]  So to be able to require proof of citizenship is necessary to just fix the most practical part of our elections.
[00:12:22]  Quote, the article continues.
[00:12:25]  Arizona wants to require applicants to show documents that prove they are a citizen before they can vote in a presidential election or vote by mail in any federal election when applicants use the uniform federal registration.
[00:12:36]  The DOJ argued that the new law ignored a 2013 Supreme Court ruling that shot down an earlier attempt in 2005 for Arizona to improve similar documentary proof of citizenship on residents that want to vote in federal elections.
[00:12:50]  The Department of Justice also argued the law violates the Civil Rights Act.
[00:12:54]  Interesting how it always goes back to the civil rights regime, doesn't it?
[00:12:57]  Of 1964 because it mandates election officials to reject voter registration forms that have minor errors.
[00:13:03]  Clark sent a June 27th letter to Arizona Attorney General Mark Bernovich threatening litigation, but the Department of Justice hopes to resolve the issue, quote, amicably and avoid protracted litigation.
[00:13:14]  In a letter Bernovich sent Clark on July 1st, obtained by Fox News, he said the newly passed law, quote, was common sense and questioned if the federal government is, quote, attempting to undermine our sovereignty and destabilize our election infrastructure.
[00:13:26]  That's well said.
[00:13:29]  Not only is this happening, they're giving free rooms and transportation for those illegally entering our country.
[00:13:36]  And now the Department of Justice wants to give them a gateway to potentially vote.
[00:13:41]  You cannot have a nation while you have foreigners able to vote in your elections, period.
[00:13:50]  You are no longer a country.
[00:13:52]  You become a colony.
[00:13:54]  If I'm able to vote in Nicaraguan elections or able to vote in Japanese elections as a non-citizen, that by definition destroys the sovereignty and their own moral, self-directed, self-governing prerogative to be able to decide who's in their country and who's not in their country.
[00:14:11]  The Democrats have moved the Overton window so effectively where they want you to believe that anybody should be able to come into America for any reason whatsoever.
[00:14:20]  That's not right.
[00:14:22]  There must be a process to come in, and we the citizens, that's right, we the citizens can decide whether to put a pause on immigration, increase immigration, have no immigration at all.
[00:14:33]  Every sane country feels this way, by the way.
[00:14:36]  That immigration must serve the nation state first and foremost and the people that are already there.
[00:14:45]  Assimilation is an act of patriotic affection.
[00:14:49]  What happens when you have millions of people that don't assimilate?
[00:14:52]  Maybe you should press pause and say, we're not going to be a country any longer.
[00:14:55]  The Biden regime is intentionally inserting themselves by saying that if you ask anyone to prove they're a citizen of the country, it's somehow racist against the Civil Rights Act.
[00:15:06]  I want to just say the episode we did yesterday, I was so touched by many of you that emailed us about our show yesterday on antidepressants and how antidepressants are having an incredibly damaging effect potentially on our nation's young people and how they're being over-prescribed.
[00:15:24]  Again, judgment-free zone.
[00:15:26]  I'm not here to say people are making mistakes.
[00:15:27]  I'm merely making a societal observation that I think largely goes, let's just say, ignored on that.
[00:15:35]  So I want to thank all of you for that.
[00:15:37]  So to kind of continue on this topic we're talking about, here's a story that was back in February, but it builds out the point.
[00:15:44]  Non-citizen voting rights gain traction as immigrants vote in San Francisco Unified School Board recall.
[00:15:52]  Quote, the push for voting rights to be extended to non-citizens.
[00:15:56]  You notice how they call them non-citizens?
[00:15:59]  So let me just ask a question.
[00:16:00]  If there's a tourist from Tokyo visiting San Francisco, can we just register them to vote?
[00:16:05]  They're a non-citizen.
[00:16:06]  They've been here for three hours.
[00:16:08]  Like, hey, you, why don't you go vote in our local school board election?
[00:16:11]  No, because they have no ties to the land of which they're in.
[00:16:14]  Now, some of you might say, well, Charlie, they live here and they work here.
[00:16:18]  Completely irrelevant.
[00:16:20]  Are they a citizen of the country?
[00:16:22]  And if not, we have a naturalization process that allows people to go through that.
[00:16:26]  Now, I do not believe in mass amnesty at all.
[00:16:29]  But at the very least, people that go through a naturalization process, at least there something to make them go to become an American citizen.
[00:16:39]  At a time when 19 states have passed more restrictive voter laws, it's so deceivingly written by ABC News, have passed more restrictive voter laws to make it more difficult for United States citizens to cast a ballot, there is a push to expand voting rights in local elections to non-citizens in cities both large and small across the country.
[00:16:58]  Siva Raj says, quote, everybody wants the same thing.
[00:17:02]  They want their kids to have a good education and they want them to have a successful life.
[00:17:06]  So let's play this out.
[00:17:08]  If I were to take, if my wife and I were to go move to Zurich and just say, hey, we're going on vacation to Zurich.
[00:17:14]  We're just going to get a traveler's visa and not leave.
[00:17:17]  Switzerland's a very wealthy country.
[00:17:19]  Switzerland's a beautiful country.
[00:17:20]  Switzerland's one of my favorite countries.
[00:17:22]  And all of a sudden we said, you know what?
[00:17:23]  We want benefits.
[00:17:24]  We want to be able to vote.
[00:17:25]  You know what the Swiss would say?
[00:17:27]  Get out.
[00:17:29]  You're not a citizen of Switzerland.
[00:17:31]  You came here because you wanted to take advantage of our nation.
[00:17:35]  If my wife and I just moved to Budapest, Hungary, say, you know what?

=== Invasion, Money, and Governors (17:29) ===

[00:17:39]  It's nice here.
[00:17:40]  We like how they're strict immigration.
[00:17:41]  It's a mostly Christian country.
[00:17:44]  And we say, we just want to vote here.
[00:17:45]  And they'd say, wait a second, are you a citizen?
[00:17:47]  Have you gone through our process?
[00:17:48]  You said you were just visiting here and you lied.
[00:17:51]  If we just decided to move to Japan, which takes like eight immigrants a year, by the way, Japan has one of the lowest rates of immigration in the entire world.
[00:17:59]  That's why Japan has a very low crime, I would argue, but that's a separate issue.
[00:18:05]  You're not allowed to say that out loud, but anyway.
[00:18:07]  Immigration can play a positive role, by the way, but we never talk about the negative role ever.
[00:18:12]  You never talk about the negative impacts of how mass immigration can actually raise crime and deteriorate your public infrastructure.
[00:18:18]  And so Arizona in particular, where we're doing our show right now, is being invaded on the southern border.
[00:18:24]  That's right.
[00:18:24]  Arizona is being invaded.
[00:18:27]  And as a proper response, Arizona legislatures are saying, no, if you're being invaded with 7,000 people a day, 7,000 people a day, then you should be able to say, you know what?
[00:18:38]  No, you're going to have to prove if you're going to vote in our next election, because it's one thing to break into our country and send your kids to our schools and fill up our hospitals and clog our highways.
[00:18:48]  But it's another thing to say that all of a sudden you're going to be able to cast ballots and dilute the sovereignty of the citizens that were here before you.
[00:18:58]  Now, a lot of Republicans are totally messed up on the immigration issue.
[00:19:03]  Some of them will say, legal, good, illegal, bad.
[00:19:06]  Like, okay, that's such a silly argument, honestly.
[00:19:08]  Let's go a level deeper, which is mass immigration right now in its current form is making America less free.
[00:19:16]  It is tearing apart our culture.
[00:19:17]  It's all about assimilation.
[00:19:19]  And if you are continually bringing people like Elon Omar, who do not assimilate to your country and do not assimilate to the ties that we have together, you can't have a country that way.
[00:19:29]  A country requires, again, not a colony.
[00:19:32]  If you want to live in a colony, go to Hong Kong.
[00:19:34]  No one has anything in common except money.
[00:19:37]  I want things in common deeper than just finance and money.
[00:19:41]  I want values, morals, a tradition.
[00:19:46]  We're blessed to live in the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
[00:19:49]  Luke 12, 48 says, quote, to whom much has been given, much will be required.
[00:19:54]  We as Christians can shape our world.
[00:19:56]  One of these ways is how we steward our finances and our money.
[00:19:59]  If you have money and stocks, you have the power to affect change through your investments.
[00:20:03]  Jesus spoke about money in roughly 15% of his teachings and 11 out of 39 of his parables.
[00:20:09]  How do we follow his teachings about money?
[00:20:11]  Well, my friends at PAX Financial can help.
[00:20:13]  I've opened an account with them.
[00:20:14]  I think very highly of them.
[00:20:16]  They are fiduciaries that will make sure you have a responsible plan to retire.
[00:20:20]  I trust them with my money, and I hope you will as well.
[00:20:23]  But look, they'll also help you invest in companies that align with your beliefs.
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[00:20:34]  If you have $150,000 to invest, please text my name, Charlie, to the number 74868.
[00:20:40]  And even if you don't have $150,000, maybe they'll make an exception for you.
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[00:20:57]  The border is wide open, but the administration is admitting they're doing wonderful because for them, they are.
[00:21:05]  You see, we must drop this fake and this false one-liner.
[00:21:12]  I hear it all the time in Republican circles.
[00:21:14]  Oh, they're just incompetent.
[00:21:16]  No, they aren't.
[00:21:18]  They're evil and they happen to be stupid.
[00:21:22]  It's a lethal combination.
[00:21:24]  Now, you should be actually very thankful that the malevolent are actually as idiotic as they are.
[00:21:31]  Because if they were German, for example, and they were running on time and working, whoa, forget it.
[00:21:37]  These are incredibly lazy, dumb, evil people.
[00:21:40]  Now, you might say, Charlie, I reject the notion that they're evil.
[00:21:44]  If you keep a country wide open to invasion, that is an act of immorality, period.
[00:21:51]  Now, they're spinning it as they think they're doing a good job.
[00:21:54]  Remember, more evil has been done in the last 100 years under the guise of people thinking they are doing good.
[00:22:04]  It's a very short clip.
[00:22:05]  Play cut 18.
[00:22:06]  Mayorkis, I think we're doing a good job.
[00:22:09]  Do you think it's working?
[00:22:12]  I think that we are doing a good job.
[00:22:16]  I think we're doing a great job.
[00:22:17]  The border's wide open.
[00:22:19]  Anywhere between 5,000 to 8,000 people illegally coming into your country every single day, invading your country.
[00:22:26]  States are doing very little, even though they should be doing something.
[00:22:30]  They should be doing a lot more.
[00:22:32]  I believe this is borderline treasonous, what is happening on the southern border.
[00:22:37]  And we get a lot of talk from Republicans in Washington.
[00:22:40]  We do not get action from governors in states like Arizona or Texas.
[00:22:44]  Yeah, I know Abbott's done a little things.
[00:22:46]  Hey, Abbott, why haven't you built a border wall yet?
[00:22:48]  Abbott, how many illegals have you deported?
[00:22:50]  Not sent to Washington, D.C. Why have you not deported them back to Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras?
[00:22:55]  We've been waiting about a year.
[00:22:56]  A lot of talk, a lot of chirping, a lot of chatter.
[00:22:59]  Oh, well, I can't do that as governor of Texas.
[00:23:01]  Okay, let's play that out.
[00:23:02]  First of all, why do you believe that?
[00:23:04]  So let's ask the question: where in the United States Constitution does it say how immigration policy needs to be outlined?
[00:23:12]  Makes vague mention of it in either the 15th or 16th Amendment.
[00:23:15]  I can't remember, maybe the 18th Amendment.
[00:23:17]  But it really isn't clear.
[00:23:19]  Therefore, the 10th Amendment is very clear.
[00:23:21]  Anything that is not specifically enumerated is left to the states and the people.
[00:23:26]  But let's just ask this from a moral standpoint, because we believe in a natural law, things that are always true.
[00:23:32]  What happens when someone invades your home?
[00:23:35]  Do you ask, do you just blame other people, sit on your hands?
[00:23:39]  Oh, I'm the governor of Texas and I hope things get better.
[00:23:42]  Why have you not mobilized the National Guard yet?
[00:23:45]  Why have you not started raids of illegals and getting them out of the country, at least out of Texas?
[00:23:50]  Oh, well, we're working with our federal partners.
[00:23:52]  No, no, the federal partners want the states, they want the invasion.
[00:23:56]  They're subsidizing the invasion, not the Border Patrol themselves, not DHS.
[00:24:00]  God bless them.
[00:24:02]  You know, and some people are saying, well, he had buses to D.C. for a week or so.
[00:24:08]  Send them back to where they came from.
[00:24:10]  You see, where the states needed now to take leadership is they now need to be self-governed.
[00:24:14]  I know this is a lot of work for Republicans.
[00:24:17]  They're not used to it.
[00:24:18]  Republicans having to govern?
[00:24:20]  No, no, no.
[00:24:20]  We just, here's what Republicans do, okay?
[00:24:23]  And Abbott's fine.
[00:24:24]  He's going to be better than Robert Francis or Rook, whatever, but he could be so much better.
[00:24:28]  What a disappointment in certain ways.
[00:24:30]  He's been good on some things, bad on other things.
[00:24:32]  This is what Republicans do: they see a problem, and their consultants say, don't solve the problem, just write a press release.
[00:24:40]  Just write a letter and blame Biden, and then you'll be able to have more political power.
[00:24:45]  Ron DeSantis doesn't do this.
[00:24:47]  God bless him.
[00:24:47]  Ron DeSantis sees a problem and he fixes a problem.
[00:24:51]  But if you're the governor of Texas or if you're the governor of Arizona and you are continually blaming the federal government, that works for the first 60 days.
[00:25:01]  I get it.
[00:25:01]  Okay.
[00:25:02]  So Biden comes in.
[00:25:03]  You blame the federal government for the first month, two months, maybe three months.
[00:25:07]  But eventually you have to realize sovereignty goes down to the states.
[00:25:10]  The states created the federal government.
[00:25:12]  The federal government did not create the states.
[00:25:16]  And we get a lot of talk, don't we?
[00:25:17]  Well, I'm going to work with our federal partners.
[00:25:19]  I'm going to sue.
[00:25:20]  No, no, you have to do it.
[00:25:22]  Mobilize the National Guard, create a Texas Border Patrol, begin the deportations, arrest on site, send them back to the country they came in.
[00:25:30]  Now, mind you, a lot of people will say that this is a defiance of federal law.
[00:25:38]  Need I remind you that San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York, Boston, and D.C. have created and still have quasi-secessionist movements called sanctuary cities, meaning federal law does not apply here.
[00:25:54]  So if sanctuary cities are allowed to defy federal law, why are border states not able to enforce federal law?
[00:26:00]  We're not saying to defy federal law.
[00:26:02]  No, we're saying states need to start to enforce it.
[00:26:04]  The federal government's not actually enforcing it.
[00:26:06]  What are they going to do?
[00:26:07]  Go arrest a sitting governor of Arizona or Texas?
[00:26:10]  They're going to go tell a bunch of Texas Border Patrol, stop it.
[00:26:13]  You guys need to stop it.
[00:26:13]  Yeah, okay, have a nice day.
[00:26:14]  Thanks.
[00:26:15]  You're not going to be able to arrest all of them.
[00:26:17]  Instead, this would all of a sudden change the power balance.
[00:26:20]  Now, I'll be very honest.
[00:26:22]  We've been saying this for how long, Connor?
[00:26:24]  10 months, and nothing has really been done.
[00:26:26]  They've been largely useless.
[00:26:28]  You see, I have a different way of viewing this.
[00:26:30]  And this is why when politicians come on my show and they say, the Biden administration, I'm like, just stop, fix the problem.
[00:26:36]  Stop making excuses.
[00:26:37]  I know you feel the same way.
[00:26:38]  I'd love your thoughts.
[00:26:39]  Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
[00:26:41]  Maybe all of you listening are like, you know what?
[00:26:42]  I love the excuses.
[00:26:44]  We'll wait it out.
[00:26:46]  Here's like a big memo that I think needs to be distributed widely.
[00:26:50]  We don't have till 2024 to fix our border crisis.
[00:26:52]  Period.
[00:26:53]  End of story.
[00:26:54]  It must be fixed now.
[00:26:55]  And we have political power.
[00:26:57]  Voters go and elect Republicans to fix problems, but instead we get press releases and one-liners on cable television.
[00:27:06]  I'm running out of patience and you should as well because political power has been given to these leaders and they're doing nothing with it.
[00:27:12]  Okay.
[00:27:14]  Let me play another piece of tape here.
[00:27:16]  Mayorkas says the reason this is all happening is because of climate change.
[00:27:20]  Play cut 22.
[00:27:21]  The migration that is occurring throughout the hemisphere is reflective of the economic downturn, increase in violence throughout the region, the result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the results of climate change.
[00:27:40]  The results of climate change.
[00:27:41]  I don't say this lightly.
[00:27:42]  That man is a traitor to the United States.
[00:27:44]  Period.
[00:27:44]  End of story.
[00:27:45]  Impeach Mayorkis.
[00:27:46]  Forget Biden.
[00:27:46]  He's a waste of time.
[00:27:47]  They'll get rid of him.
[00:27:48]  They'll put a Newsom.
[00:27:48]  They'll put Camilla.
[00:27:49]  They'll put Hillary.
[00:27:50]  He has overseen the intentional invasion of America and has spun it as a good thing.
[00:27:54]  That man has done more to destroy American sovereignty in a year and a half than anybody in the cabinet position that I've seen in a long period of time.
[00:28:00]  And I don't say that lightly.
[00:28:02]  He has intentionally and knowingly allowed cartels, human smugglers, traffickers, rapists, and fentanyl flow into America while he goes on television and allows himself to look like some sort of open border zealot.
[00:28:14]  And guess what?
[00:28:14]  Democrats love him.
[00:28:16]  Mayorkis is a star because Democrats want the illegals into America, want them for a variety of reasons because they've told us why they want them.
[00:28:26]  The Castro brothers say that this is going to help us politically.
[00:28:30]  And every time you say that out loud, they say it's the great replacement theory.
[00:28:33]  No, no, we're just using your own words time and time again.
[00:28:37]  And not to mention it makes America more dangerous.
[00:28:40]  It makes our schools overrun, our hospitals overrun.
[00:28:43]  And not to mention the fentanyl, which is produced in China, organized and filtered by the cartel and put into our country.
[00:28:50]  And our leaders sit on their hands and write a bunch of press releases.
[00:28:53]  I'm kind of sick of Republicans writing angry.
[00:28:56]  I'm going to send them an angry worded letter.
[00:29:00]  Hey, guess what, Republicans?
[00:29:04]  The people that are remembered in history are the ones that stand up in difficult circumstances and don't just write letters.
[00:29:11]  Play cut 23.
[00:29:13]  DEA Administrator Ann Milgram says that by the numbers, this is unlike anything she's ever seen.
[00:29:20]  DEA has interdicted fentanyl counterfeit pills in every single U.S. state and territory.
[00:29:26]  It's everywhere in Mexico, criminal drug trafficking networks.
[00:29:30]  They're sourcing chemicals from Chinese chemical companies that's then flooding into the United States.
[00:29:37]  We are at the deadliest moment in what is the deadliest drug epidemic in American history.
[00:29:42]  More than three quarters of all teens who are dying of overdoses have fentanyl in their system.
[00:29:48]  It's killing America's youth.
[00:29:50]  If these political clowns were in power, I don't know who's on the video.
[00:29:54]  I'm just saying generally, we would have lost World War II.
[00:29:58]  Let me say that again.
[00:29:59]  If the clowns running many parts of the Republican Party were running America back in the 1940s, we would have lost World War II.
[00:30:06]  These people don't know how to fight.
[00:30:08]  They don't know how the will to win.
[00:30:11]  I think most Republicans right now like their cushy title, their chauffeur cars, their designer clothes, their catered lunches, their staff around them.
[00:30:25]  I think I personally believe spending some time around politicians, of which I have very little respect for many of them.
[00:30:31]  There's a few I like.
[00:30:31]  Ron Johnson was great yesterday and he was terrific.
[00:30:34]  He fought against the vaccine.
[00:30:35]  God bless him for that.
[00:30:37]  Ted Cruz is right on a lot of stuff.
[00:30:38]  He's been great to us.
[00:30:40]  Disagree with him on Ukraine, but really, really good on most things.
[00:30:42]  Rand Paul's been amazing.
[00:30:43]  Josh Hawley's been great, but just the whole swath of them.
[00:30:46]  But I honestly have a different opinion, though.
[00:30:48]  I hold senators to a different standard than I do governors.
[00:30:52]  You see, a senator, you vote and you give a speech.
[00:30:55]  You filibuster and you investigate.
[00:30:57]  Great.
[00:30:57]  Okay.
[00:30:58]  Just don't be like Lindsey Graham.
[00:30:59]  Okay.
[00:31:00]  Josh Hawley, investigate, all that great stuff.
[00:31:03]  But a governor, do not run for governor thinking you're going to be a senator.
[00:31:09]  A governor needs to be a person of action, a person of direction, a person of executive power.
[00:31:18]  We have governors that act like legislators.
[00:31:20]  We have governors that say, well, the federal government's allowing my state to turn into a third world country.
[00:31:26]  I'll write a letter.
[00:31:27]  Maybe this letter will get their attention.
[00:31:30]  All they understand is power.
[00:31:32]  I wish that wasn't the case.
[00:31:34]  So fix it.
[00:31:36]  We do not have till 2024.
[00:31:38]  We get an invasion, Normandy-size invasion every single month.
[00:31:45]  A lot of your emails, freedom at charliekirk.com, you agree with me.
[00:31:51]  And we need to now start to demand more out of our governors in particular.
[00:31:56]  And the next governor of Arizona, and hopefully Greg Abbott.
[00:31:59]  And yes, I do hope Greg Abbott beats Robert Francis O'Rourke.
[00:32:02]  They need to, look, the future of America will largely be decided and determined, not by senators.
[00:32:08]  I hope they vote no on all the garbage and they investigate Fauci and they prosecute that.
[00:32:12]  And I hope JD Vance is a great senator and he will be.
[00:32:15]  I'm not saying he won't play a role.
[00:32:16]  But let's be honest.
[00:32:17]  If we don't stop the invasion on our southern border, I think all of this becomes immaterial.
[00:32:21]  We do not have till the next presidential election.
[00:32:23]  So here's just a good rule for how to engage with politicians.
[00:32:27]  And then I'm going to tell you how you can make a difference.
[00:32:29]  Okay.
[00:32:30]  Which is when a politician tells you you need to wait to the next election cycle, reject the premise.
[00:32:37]  Well, we're going to need to wait till 2024.
[00:32:40]  I used to be naive.
[00:32:42]  I know a lot of you were too.
[00:32:44]  This is what Paul Ryan and all those guys said.
[00:32:46]  And then guess what?
[00:32:47]  We gave them the House and the Senate and the presidency.
[00:32:49]  Did we get a wall?
[00:32:51]  Did we get deportations?
[00:32:53]  Couple.
[00:32:54]  A little bit here.
[00:32:55]  Did we get border security?
[00:32:56]  Do we get drone surveillance?
[00:32:58]  No, we got corporate tax cuts for companies that hate you.
[00:33:02]  That's what we got.
[00:33:03]  So no more, you got to go win more elections.
[00:33:06]  We control 31 governors' mansions.
[00:33:08]  We have political power.
[00:33:10]  Why won't we use it to enforce the law?
[00:33:12]  I'm not talking about doing anything dramatic or anything outrageous.
[00:33:16]  I'm simply saying they're violating federal immigration law and they're being invaded.
[00:33:19]  So let me ask you a question.
[00:33:22]  If a government invaded America, do you think it's a moral response to respond?
[00:33:29]  Let me just ask a question.
[00:33:31]  So let's just play this out.
[00:33:32]  Because for whatever reason, based on the country, America has like a different reaction.
[00:33:36]  Okay.
[00:33:37]  If the Iranian Revolutionary Guard was smuggling human beings across the southern border and dirty bombs and tanks, do you think we should just let them and give them amnesty?
[00:33:48]  Or do you think we should respond in kind?
[00:33:52]  Now, what do I mean by in kind?
[00:33:53]  Build the wall, deport them, and mobilize the military.
[00:33:57]  It's that simple.
[00:33:58]  Now you might say, Charlie, that's not an equal analogy.
[00:34:01]  Have you been down to the border?
[00:34:02]  Go down to Yuma.
[00:34:03]  You'll see for yourself.
[00:34:04]  Cartel, cars, drones, helicopters.
[00:34:09]  They're monitoring the border with military precision and technology.
[00:34:12]  The cartels make their most amount of money and their most amount of power, not on drug trafficking.
[00:34:17]  That's a little bit.
[00:34:17]  It's on human trafficking.
[00:34:19]  It's taking a poor person from Veracruz, Mexico, or a poor person from El Salvador and smuggling them up to the border and getting them to cross the border.
[00:34:33]  That's where they make their money.
[00:34:36]  And it's a continuous invasion.
[00:34:38]  And so the big takeaway is this, is that we have been hearing words and words and words from our Republican officials.
[00:34:47]  And so Arizona is going to have a new governor.
[00:34:50]  Texas is going to probably have the same governor.
[00:34:52]  Those two people in the next 18 months can very well determine the future of American sovereignty in the question of will we be a colony or a country.
[00:35:00]  Now, New Mexico is a short part of the border, and it's actually a very difficult part of the border to cross.
[00:35:05]  Unfortunately, unless New Mexico has a big sea change, not going to happen.

=== Defying Federal Orders on the Border (02:02) ===

[00:35:08]  California is a part of the border.
[00:35:10]  But here's the thing about California that you must recognize and realize is that California, being so far to the west and kind of being part of Baja California, does not get the same amount of border crossings.
[00:35:21]  Now, yes, they're going to fly to Mexicali and maybe go in there.
[00:35:26]  But if California remains completely and totally wide open, but Arizona and Texas do their job, the 7,000 people crossing our border a day can get down to 1,000.
[00:35:35]  Yeah, that makes a very big difference, huge difference.
[00:35:38]  And by the way, if all of a sudden Arizona starts deporting the illegals in their own state, which they should be doing, forget the feds.
[00:35:45]  The feds are a waste of time.
[00:35:46]  Do it yourself.
[00:35:48]  And here's just a general question of morality.
[00:35:51]  If something you love is being destroyed, do you write letters about it?
[00:35:58]  If something you care about is being incinerated, do you just write letters and do press releases?
[00:36:07]  If your home is being trampled and is being incinerated, do you just hope for the next election?
[00:36:15]  No.
[00:36:16]  So it's one of two things, or one of three things.
[00:36:19]  Either the Republicans don't care, Republicans are complicit, or Republicans are cowardly.
[00:36:26]  I'm done with their press releases.
[00:36:28]  I sued the Biden administration.
[00:36:30]  I don't care.
[00:36:31]  Have you built the wall?
[00:36:32]  Have you done it yourself?
[00:36:33]  Have you defied the federal government who's going to come in and say, oh, yeah, you can't do that.
[00:36:38]  Actually, I'm going to enforce their own border and have a nice day.
[00:36:41]  Because it's the same way that sanctuary cities defied federal law when it came to immigration law.
[00:36:45]  They'll defy it.
[00:36:46]  We're going to enforce it.
[00:36:48]  The moral argument is simple.
[00:36:50]  When the big refuses to protect the small, the small must act.
[00:36:58]  Thank you so much for listening to everybody.
[00:36:59]  Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:37:02]  Thanks so much for listening.
[00:37:03]  God bless.
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