Why The Left is So Miserable + Unraveling the Saga of ‘Scarf Lady’ with Rep. Andy Biggs
As we continue to wrap-up and recap SAS 2022 and with Charlie launching his new book, “The College Scam,” the show is coming to you from the road with a fascinating conversation between Charlie and author Eddie Scarry all about the truly miserable and unhappy nature of American Leftists and liberals—why are they so unhappy, angry, and miserable? Eddie pulls from his latest book, “Liberal Misery,” to answer these questions and more. But first, Charlie is joined by Congressman Andy Biggs from the great state of Arizona to discuss new, shocking revelations surrounding the Shady Scarf Lady, Dr. Debra Birx, and the potentially treasonous nature of her actions. Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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College Scams and Living Costs00:03:58
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We have Andy Biggs from Arizona and we have Eddie Scary, author of Liberal Misery.
We talk about why are liberals so miserable?
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So I want to just kind of get to some questions here really quick.
Hello, Charlie.
While I agree that college is indoctrinating students and it's very costly, do you give people viable alternatives?
My son is 19 in community college right now.
Although he's gifted intellectually, he's not together enough to make things happen without a paper degree.
He's so scattered with so many ideas, he can't complete anything.
What alternatives do you suggest for students who don't get a degree?
Love the work you're doing.
So this might sound harsh, but you must release your son into the wild and have him figure it out.
It's that simple.
Pressure creates men.
I would say you got to go start paying for your rent.
Go get a job.
Figure it out.
So there's a very fascinating chart here that I believe is one of the reasons why America is becoming significantly less free.
Modern families and how households have changed since the 1970s.
So for example, I'll narrate this and then we'll put it up on screen.
The percentage of 25 to 34 year olds living with a spouse in the United States in the 1970s, 82% of 25 to 34-year-olds were living with a spouse.
Now it's 38%.
That's right.
Not only have marriage rates gone down since 1970, but a dramatic decline, a 44% decline of who young people are living with.
It's going to be put up on screen.
The percentage of 25 to 34-year-olds living with parents or relatives.
In 1970, 11% of 25 to 34-year-olds were living with their parents.
Now 29%.
But in addition, cohabitation has increased.
Living with an unmarried partner, 17% of young people are living with an unmarried partner, whereas that number was about 1% in the 1970s.
10% of people are just living alone, whereas in 1970, it was 5%.
So America is less married than ever before.
More people are living with spouses, living without spouses or living with their parents or their relatives, or they're living with roommates or living with a cohabitated partner, and yet we're more miserable.
Isn't it interesting how that all works?
So to answer your question, and I don't want to be too blunt about it, but a paper degree to this person that emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
It's Brenda.
It's a simple, nice question.
I don't think it's going to make any difference, which is, again, this is not, you don't have to overthink this.
What is something you're good at?
Find a skill, any skill, and then go find somebody that is good at that skill and ask them for an unpaid internship for one year and say, I will do anything.
I will clean the floors.
I will show up at 6 a.m.
Now, that's harder than college, by the way.
College is way easier than that.
But let's say that you're like, hey, I really want to be, I want to own a business.
I want to own car dealerships.
Then go into a car dealership, go find the owner and say, I'm 18 years old.
I'll work for free for a year.
Investigating the Dangerous Congressman00:09:51
Anything that I will show up early.
I'll stay late.
Anything you need.
I haven't seen that scrappiness out of many young people.
But that hustle is a defining characteristic.
Okay, collegescam.com.
We'll keep on talking about it.
Now we have Congressman Andy Biggs to join us about Dr. Deborah Burks and other topics as well.
Congressman Biggs, welcome to the program.
Thanks, Charlie.
Good to be with you.
So, Congressman, I want to play cut three of something about something Dr. Burks said, and then I'll allow you to elaborate on it for our audience.
Play cut three.
I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection, and I think we overplayed the vaccines, and it made people then worry that it's not going to protect.
She knew they weren't going to work.
Did she lie under oath, Congressman?
Should she be prosecuted for that?
What are your thoughts?
First of all, I think she probably did lie under oath.
And then the DOJ probably should investigate in terms of they're going to prosecute.
I doubt that they will.
I mean, DOJ is extremely friendly to the left, and she certainly is in the left.
I think it also reveals exactly what people like you and I said for a year and a half, two years, that what was going on was a pandemic, that it was designed to gain control over the American people, and they got control to an incredible degree, took away freedoms, attacked freedom and liberty, and that they did it so they would get that power.
And then I guess the third thing is, if you want a great expose about Dr. Burks, Dr. Scott Atlas's book about the working on COVID issues, I think really reveals that she was intransigent and she wanted power and she was an egotist and arrogant.
And all of that is revealed in her recent testimony and in the excerpts from her book that are out there, Charlie.
This is a person who is dangerous, and it shows how tyrannical our own government can be.
And yes, what's so troubling to me, though, is how she was largely not held accountable.
It was her and Dr. Fauci that were able to run the entire medical apparatus of our country for quite a long time under Donald Trump.
I mean, what is the lesson here?
I mean, I was trying to warn people about Burks in the White House at the time, Scarf Lady, and I was not taken seriously.
A lot of people were not.
A lot of the personnel in the White House still defend Burks to this day and still defend Fauci to this day.
Is Burks really now admitting when we knew the vaccine was not what we said it was this entire time?
How can we ever trust these institutions again?
I think, Charlie, you're right.
We should learn some things about bureaucracy, that you can't trust these bureaucrats.
You cannot trust them.
You and I, I was on the same page with you, and we were talking about Dr. Burks.
So just like Dr. Fauci needs to be held accountable, Deborah Burks needs to be held accountable.
And we have to keep going to find out because the bureaucracy has taken over our government to a certain extent.
And the bureaucrats like that control, and they'll never relinquish that control.
And it doesn't matter.
One lesson to learn here is it doesn't matter who the occupant of the White House is because the bureaucrats tend to act independently and alone and they're all leftists.
So you can put your anointed people in here.
They anointed two bad people in Fauci and Burks, but everybody underneath them was going to support that position.
So when Scott Atlas is brought in, they hate Scott Atlas because he is, they've created this mindless orthodoxy of control and misinformation to the American people.
And Atlas is telling the truth.
And so he's heterodox to them.
And so they're going to persecute him.
And we as American people were misled and lied to by the people who we thought we'd trust.
So when you say, will we ever trust him again?
I don't know how we do.
It's going to take a generation, my opinion, a generation or more to build that trust back.
And I, quite frankly, don't see the type of leadership that's going to come in and help us rebuild trust.
And I think we should just dismantle the bureaucracy altogether.
Yeah, I mean, look, it's terrible when you think about it.
And it's hard for me to kind of get over it.
She has mass amounts of new people and poverty on her hands.
She has blood on her hands.
All the businesses that were closed, all the disruptions that happened.
And then she lied blatantly and completely.
And Republicans are still defending her.
It's just extraordinary to me.
How is it that when the new Congress takes over, because I think we are going to take over in November, I'm not sure by what margin, what do you think can actually be done to hold these medical tyrants accountable?
You've got several things, Charlie.
Number one is we have to have real oversight hearings in both the oversight and the judiciary committees.
We'll have control of those committees.
We can bring them in.
We can expose them.
DOJ is not going to do anything to them.
Let's be honest with you.
But we have something if we reinstitute, it's called the Holman Rule.
And what it does is it basically zeroes out specific positions.
And that's what we should do, zero out specific positions of people who lied or misled to the American public.
So they don't get any fiscal reward for lying to the people as we have taxpayers with taxpayers' money.
Congressman Biggs, what is your take?
The primary is just right around the corner.
I would say, looking right now, all the polling I've seen and you know, Charlie, I get all over the state, talk to groups.
I would say Blake has the edge right now.
I think he probably has a little better than a margin of error edge.
I would say Jim Lehman's probably second.
I think falling down a little bit, it would be the AG Mark Bernovich.
But I would say right now, it looks to me like this is going into the last week.
It's probably Blake Masters' race to lose.
What do you think about the governor's race?
It's been awfully nasty, hard to watch.
What do you think?
It has been nasty and very difficult to watch.
And I don't know how we're going to come together after it's over.
I hope we can because nothing would be worse than a Katie Hobbs governor governorship, regardless of who the Republican candidate is.
I would say this looks to me like a photo finish right now, Charlie.
The last polling I saw had this a neck and neck.
I've actually seen, it looks to me like Kerry was up a little bit on the last poll I saw and Karen was behind.
But I did see a poll right before that where Karen had edged up.
And so I'm looking at it as a photo finish.
And what I would tell you too, Charlie, is that the mail-in ballot return is exceptionally low.
And I don't know for it tells me a couple of things.
Number one, people still don't trust the elections, but I would tell people get your ballot in sooner rather than later.
And it tells me also that there's a lot of undecideds out there.
And that means that the sprint to the end here, this last week, is going to determine the whole outcome because people have waited so long.
Maybe there's a lot still who haven't decided.
Yeah, I find that to be true.
At least with some of my family members in Scottsdale, they refused to put it in the mail.
They said, no, no, no, no.
Next week, I'm driving to the local Secretary of State's office.
I'm going to look the person in the eye.
I'm going to make sure it's processed.
I get the number that I get to check up on it on the internet.
I am not playing any games at all.
And then President Trump just had a rally and he endorsed Kerry Lake and Blake Masters there.
It was a huge rally.
One of his focuses was the border.
Andy, this is something that is just a constant invasion of our beautiful state of Arizona.
Are we seeing any improvements?
What's the estimate of how many people are crossing every single day across the southern border?
Well, the estimate, if you include non-gotaways, known gotaways and getaways that we just estimate, you're probably looking at 9,000 to 12,000 a day on average all across the southern border.
And right now, Charlie, we're seeing something we hadn't seen recently, and that is two things.
Number one, sometimes Yuma leads the whole country in border encounters.
Sometimes it's Del Rio.
Most of the times it's RGV.
But something you're seeing in Yuma that we hadn't seen until the last few months, last couple of months, is actually runners, getaways.
And so last time I was there, just about two and a half weeks ago, 300 people.
And all of a sudden, the Border Patrol, there were two Border Patrol agents there, and one has to leave to go chase runners, while the other one is left there with, you know, almost 300 people there.
And he's trying to maintain control and order of those 300 people, which is somewhat, it's easier because those people know they're going to be released into the country.
So it's as bad as ever, going to get worse, I fear.
Well, Andy Biggs from the great state of Arizona, thank you for speaking out against the invasion.
And as President Donald Trump says in regards to the Arizona primary, we'll see what happens.
God bless you, Andy.
Thanks so much.
Thanks, Charlie.
Appreciate it.
Hey, everybody.
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With us right now is Eddie Scary.
He's author of a new book, Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone.
Getting straight to the point by Eddie Scary.
Eddie, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
Hey, happy to be here.
So, basically, I mean, I haven't read the book, but the summary scenes that explain what drives America's left to be such a wet blanket.
Liberals, Democrats, and leftists' tendency to zealously spread discomfort and misery has been somewhat of a mystery.
You even say that conservatives are showing to be have better mental health than liberals.
So, if I could just cut straight to the chase, if you're dealing with depression and you're a liberal, stop being a liberal and become a conservative.
Is that about right?
Um, I think that's that's a question for a doctor, but I will say, yes, I, I, as you said, it was this whole concept of liberal misery and liberal anger and bitterness was something that I think me, and I'm sure you and every one of your listeners and viewers have experienced, and I would say experienced to some degree for quite some time.
But when I really started to notice, it was in 2020.
I live in Washington, D.C., so it's all liberals all the time.
Most of the people I associate with are just going to happen to be liberal.
But I noticed that in that year, it was just becoming very, very obvious that there was something wrong here.
And I felt that the politics and the bad nature of the whole thing was only coming from one side.
And I kept asking myself, why are liberals so miserable?
Why do I keep having these, even just normal social, what should be normal, pleasant social interactions?
If the pandemic came up, if any of the Black Lives Matter stuff came up, if the campaign came up and discussion, suddenly it's an all-out war with these people.
And I kept thinking, why is this?
Why, what is this anger about?
So I start looking around and I find that there's all these studies, all this data, all this research about showing, and every facet of life, no matter what you ask about, ask, break it down by ideological or by party, Democrats versus Republicans, liberals versus conservatives, also independents.
Every single time, liberals are more likely to express a dissatisfaction with their life, whether it's their job, their marriage, where they live.
They're more likely to block people on social media because they came across something they didn't like, they didn't agree with.
They're more likely to say, I don't want to have anything to do with a Trump supporter, and on and on and on.
And just finding that there's actual research and a way to demonstrate, no, this is true.
This feeling that I and you and so many people have had about liberals and the misery that they just tend to carry with them is actually borne out by data.
So what do you think is the driving element of that?
Do you think it's part of their philosophy, such as you must be miserable if you want to change everything?
Or is it because of their overemphasis on feelings or emotion, whereas conservatives would be more, I would say, rationality and reason and prudence?
What do you think the reason for that is?
Well, I would say that it looks as if more and more, and I would say, again, that 2020 was kind of where this kind of thing went on, went on steroids.
The difference and the overriding difference in the pattern that I noticed in looking at all this research and data was that politics is part of a liberal and a Democrat's identity.
This is all consuming of their life.
And there was one study that I cite in the book, Liberal Misery, that's showing how, regardless of race, regardless of income, regardless of social status, if you are a liberal or Democrat, you are more likely to donate money to a political cause you believe in, whether it's abortion, environmentalism, some kind of political campaign.
Whether you're a janitor or a CEO, you compare the two, including independents, well, I guess the three, independents and Republicans.
If you are a liberal or a Democrat, you are just more likely to be invested in those causes.
And I think that that's the, again, the pattern that I notice in all the data.
It's I don't want my kids marrying someone who doesn't agree with our politics.
I don't want to associate with these people.
They no longer view disagreement on politics, especially disagreement on really anything, as chances to engage, maybe even learn something.
They actually view those as reasons to shrink their social circles and actually lash out at people to demonstrate, again, this is what I believe.
We can't agree to disagree.
It's not just do an election, that's going to resolve our issues.
No, this is politics all the time, all-consuming on the left.
Yeah, and just to pinpointing the reason why is still somewhat of a mystery to me.
I mean, liberals are more likely to believe that if it feels good, then it must be good policy.
And it seems as if there is this driving force in left-wing ideology that could be best compared to just religious intolerance.
And what I mean by that is just as if it was back to a return to scholasticism or just purging the non-believers, tolerance is not a value of theirs.
It never has been, even though they pretend it's not.
They pretend it is.
And so go through some of the other examples of how miserable liberals actually are.
And I think their misery is one of the reasons why they're not going to stop the destruction of our great country.
No, that is the point I'm making with this book: this is here to stay.
I think that the best example was 2020.
Once again, if you live in a big city, and they're all run by Democrats.
It's all Democrat attorneys general, mayors, governors.
If you live in one of these places, as we were getting closer to the election, all of their storefronts, small businesses, offices, all of them were boarded up because of the election.
And that was not in anticipation of a possible Biden win.
That was anticipation of a Trump win.
Because we saw throughout the summer of 2020, the mostly peaceful George Floyd protests.
We saw exactly how they were willing to act and behave.
The vandalism, destroying private and public property, assaulting police officers, violently assaulting them.
I think some of them were fatal.
We saw how the left will operate when they're not getting their way.
Another example is Brett Kavanaugh.
The decisions come out from the Supreme Court that upset the left.
What do they do?
They harass a sitting Supreme Court justice, threaten him with actual political violence.
And the thing is, this side, the left side, Democrats, liberals, they actually believe that that is justified.
And that is the stunning development in our politics.
I think in the history, certainly as long as I've been alive, that now there is one side of politics in this country that actually believes a certain type of political violence is completely justified.
And again, the boarding up of all the storefronts, the shops, that was because if Trump won, the left is going to go insane.
And they're going to do it all over again.
The destruction, the threatening, the harassment, the intimidation.
That's now how they operate.
And it's as if there's no checks and balances.
Let me ask you, has the left always been this way?
And you kind of mentioned this and you said no, but then what changed and when did it change?
Sure.
I would say when we go back to 2016, that's when you get the birth of the resistance and how the screaming in the streets, the pussy hats, all of that type of stuff, the crying.
That's when you really notice the change that this is becoming a little bit different.
I would say that there were studies, Pew and Gallup, they asked the same questions over a period of years.
I could say that even going back to the Obama years, when they should have been fairly happy, they had the presidency, even then they were still likely to express this dissatisfaction with their lives, their marriages, where they live, their jobs.
Still more likely to say that I'm going to block somebody on social media because I don't agree with something they said.
More likely to say they don't want to associate with the other side.
People who vote a different way.
They don't want to associate with them.
And so, yes, it goes back quite some time, but just again, the fact that it has become so consuming and overwhelming dynamic on the left and in our politics.
And again, it's very clearly here to stay.
They got the White House, they got all of Congress, and yet still, yet still, they're still behaving this way.
So this is an interesting point, which is we know the left is miserable, but does the left know they're miserable?
I mean, in your research, do they admit that they're less happy?
Do they admit that they are dealing with an issue?
And I'm not saying that they ever come to the conclusion that their politics is the reason for that, but is there at least any recognition that you're seeing that the left admits that they're less happier than other people in the country?
Well, these studies are broken down by people who will self-identify, self-identify as liberal, self-identify as Democrat, and they just happen to be more likely, I shouldn't say just happen to be, they are more likely to say that they are less happy with things than people who are independent, people who are on the right side.
Do they acknowledge or kind of admit that this is a problem that they have?
I don't think so.
And I think that's, again, going back to the point of this is all justified.
The anti-social behavior, any idea that they're going to act out and harass people because they have political disagreements or they didn't get their way, they actually have come to believe this is justified.
And as another example of that, I will say it's the pandemic and the environmental issue.
You had time and time again, Democrats, mayors, attorneys, governors, Gavin Newsome, take your pick and forcing these rules and saying, you need to stay home, you need to wear your mask.
And then what do they do?
They go out and have a party.
They go to a dinner.
They're going out and hanging with their friends.
They're flying across the country.
And that's to say nothing of John Kerry, if you remember that clip when he took a private flight across seas and he was asked, well, why are you doing that if you think that the carbon emissions issue is such a big deal?
And he said, someone like me can't fly commercial.
When he says someone like me, he means that he is special.
They actually believe that this, when they do it, it's okay.
When they do it, it's justified.
What the mental issue is there, I can't speak to, but I know that they actually, there is this tendency and this overriding pattern that whatever they have to do or whatever, however they act out, however, whatever rules they break, they honestly believe that that is okay.
It's completely justified when it's them.
And when it's the other side, well, they're going to put the full weight of the federal justice department in prosecuting them.
Yeah.
And so to piggyback on that, it's as if it's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy.
They believe they are better than us.
And because they've reached some level of enlightenment that we, the normal folk, exactly haven't.
Is there a way to make America less miserable while it remains as liberal as it is?
What I'm really asking you is this might be one of the roots of America's mental health crisis.
We see the most depressed, suicidal, alcohol-addicted, and drug-addicted generation in history.
It might actually not be a mental health crisis.
It could be a political crisis.
Really quick, your thoughts.
What we all have to do, especially independents, is stop believing that you can feed the animals.
No, stop feeding the animals.
The way that they're behaving, it doesn't go away just because you say we're going to appease them.
I knew people who voted for Biden in 2020, voted for Democrats because they believe if everything can just calm down, we're going to vote that way and it'll be okay.
No, we've actually seen it just the dial goes up.
It gets worse and worse.
So first, everyone, especially independents, we've got to stop playing their game.
Chapter five, Thou Shall Not Speak Unless Truly Boring in Eddie's book.
Eddie, what do you mean by that?
Well, that's actually very timely.
We just saw that Samantha B's show was canceled.
I don't know if you saw that development.
No, the whole point of that is that talk about sucking the joy out of everything.
Liberals have completely destroyed the entertainment industry, especially comedy.
What do they do when actually something genuinely funny comes out?
If a little risque, but the Dave Chappelle comedy, everyone very popular, very popular, but not among the liberals, not among the hardcore liberals.
What'd they do?
They started social media campaigns to destroy the special, to get Netflix to pull it.
The Netflix employees organize, the liberal ones organize a walkout.
Hollywood, the entertainment, the award ceremonies.
Those used to be fun to watch.
You could see fun music acts.
The host was usually funny.
Now it's just raging political, liberal political activism.
The same thing with movies.
It has to be, politics has to be the overriding message.
One of my favorite examples is Ghostbusters.
They didn't think anything about how to make another Ghostbusters that would actually be genuinely a good movie.
They said, oh, let's just replace the cast with all women.
And the movie bombed.
And when it bombed, the new producers, or I don't know if they were the same producers or not, said, well, we're going to make another one, but we're not married to the all-female cast thing.
We're not doing that.
I guess they might have learned their lesson.
But the one of the actresses, Leslie whatever, who one of the characters in the show, I think she's also a Saturday Night Live person.
She then goes on this Twitter rant about, well, that sends the message that boys are better than girls and we can't, we're not the same.
But again, this goes back to what we were talking about earlier: that politics has to touch every corner of their lives, all-consuming.
And when it's not, and when they're not making decisions based on that, and when the decision doesn't go their way, when the results don't go their way, they're very angry, very bitter, and they act out.
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That's well said.
Well, Eddie Scary, thank you so much for joining us.
Liberal Misery.
You guys can check it out.
That is Liberal Misery.
Eddie, thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
Email me your thoughts as always: freedom at charliekirk.com.
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