The Charlie Kirk Show - The Michigan Maneuver with Tudor Dixon and Alfredo Ortiz
Aired: 2022-10-27
Duration: 31:00


=== Michigan Schools and Parent Concerns (13:55) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk Show, we have Tudor Dixon, who's going to be the next governor of Michigan, Alfredo Ortiz, to talk about inflation and more.
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[00:01:20]  Joining us now is someone who I believe is going to be the next governor of Michigan.
[00:01:24]  She has run an amazing race, and people thought she had no chance whatsoever.
[00:01:29]  And she is right within the margin of error, and no matter which way you look at it, Tudor Dixon joins us right now.
[00:01:35]  Tudor, welcome back to the program.
[00:01:37]  Thank you for having me.
[00:01:38]  Tudor, how's the race going?
[00:01:39]  It looks like you got a lot of momentum.
[00:01:41]  It's going great.
[00:01:42]  We had a debate the other night and we were able to hold her accountable for a lot of the things that she's done in the state.
[00:01:47]  Although she tried to convince people that she hadn't done any of those things, which I think actually helped us even more.
[00:01:53]  We talked about the schools during the debate and she came out and said the schools were only closed for three months.
[00:01:59]  Let me tell you, in Michigan, we had schools closed into 2022.
[00:02:04]  We had schools closed earlier this year in Ann Arbor, in Detroit, in Flint.
[00:02:10]  Schools were still closed.
[00:02:11]  And she tried to tell people schools were only closed for three months.
[00:02:14]  I think it's just made people even more angry that she won't admit to what she's done to our state.
[00:02:19]  Yeah, and I mean, she's, I mean, Whitmer has, more than almost any other governor in America, been so arrogant and been such a leading voice of this lockdown travesty.
[00:02:29]  Let's play Cut 124.
[00:02:31]  This is a mashup of you just handling all the different questions from reporters.
[00:02:35]  Play cut 124.
[00:02:37]  What would have to happen with the Secretary of State for you not to accept those results?
[00:02:41]  If she runs an illegal election, again, that would be a problem.
[00:02:43]  I'm hoping that she won't do that.
[00:02:45]  But as governor, what would you have done for school districts?
[00:02:48]  Their school boards decided we are going to remain in a virtual posture instead of going in person.
[00:02:53]  What could you have done?
[00:02:54]  What would you have done?
[00:02:55]  Well, if we saw other states like Florida that said we are going to have schools in person, that that's critical.
[00:03:00]  And that's what we should have done in the state of Michigan.
[00:03:02]  I was wondering if you could clarify what content you would want removed from public school curricula and how that would impact sex education.
[00:03:08]  If you've been talking to parents, they are concerned about the content that is pornographic in our schools.
[00:03:15]  Tudor, you're handling them like a masterclass.
[00:03:17]  Does Whitmer take questions like that?
[00:03:19]  She's very rarely taking questions.
[00:03:22]  I will tell you, she did take questions after the debate.
[00:03:25]  In fact, she had about four elected officials there with her, I think, trying to make sure people said at the end of the day that she won.
[00:03:34]  But I don't think that's helping her.
[00:03:36]  People were pretty shocked with her.
[00:03:37]  I think arrogance, your term arrogance is probably the best way to describe the way she acted in the debate.
[00:03:44]  And people are looking for someone who's going to understand, who's going to empathize with what they went through and going to try to bring the state back.
[00:03:51]  And she has had plenty of opportunities to do so.
[00:03:53]  She's had opportunities to put money back into the pockets of people.
[00:03:56]  She's had opportunities to pass a reading scholarships bill to get the kids back on track.
[00:04:01]  Charlie, our schools are in such bad shape right now that the recent NAPE scores just showed that Michigan is in the bottom 10 in the nation.
[00:04:08]  For fourth and eighth graders, reading and math, we are failing our kids.
[00:04:13]  But our spring scores came back for reading scores for third graders.
[00:04:17]  And 60%, nearly 60% of our third graders across the state failed their reading exams.
[00:04:23]  This is absolutely catastrophic.
[00:04:25]  And she's not saying she's going to do anything about it.
[00:04:28]  Then I don't know if you saw this, but last night Stephen Colbert is making fun of the fact that we're talking about books in schools that are pornographic and saying that this is never, this is not really happening.
[00:04:38]  Keep doing it.
[00:04:38]  I love it.
[00:04:39]  I would love for the leftist media to continue to make a mockery out of parents' concerns in the classroom and say that this is no big deal because we have people rising up across the state of Michigan and saying our kids can't read, but they're getting books on how to have sex.
[00:04:54]  Let's go back to the basics of teaching kids reading, writing, and math.
[00:04:58]  And this is not a radical discussion to go back to the basics and actually teach kids to read.
[00:05:03]  In fact, Charlie, if our kids knew how to read, we would have a much better state overall because our kids would be succeeding in life, but we're robbing them of an education and the Democrats laugh.
[00:05:14]  That's great.
[00:05:15]  That sounds like, I mean, look, Stephen Colbert is a very evil person and he's become very smug and really self-righteous.
[00:05:23]  And he should go.
[00:05:24]  I mean, but I don't know if he has children or not.
[00:05:26]  I don't know about his own personal biography, but there are multiple examples of pornography of gay people having sex for eight-year-olds that have to read this.
[00:05:38]  I mean, just so, and graphic, not just talked about, but images of it, one after the other, after the other, after the other.
[00:05:45]  And I mean, you have this one book, for example, Gender Queer, where if we showed this up on screen, we would get fined by our TV partners, just so we're clear.
[00:05:54]  And it shows two men having oral sex together.
[00:05:56]  Maybe Stephen Colbert should talk about that.
[00:05:59]  Or how about this one from Christopher Rufo, which is, which really sparked the protests in Dearborn, Michigan, which is, quote, this is for eight and nine year olds.
[00:06:11]  I can't even say it on air.
[00:06:12]  If I said this, it would make people like out of control.
[00:06:15]  Talk about what's happening in Dearborn.
[00:06:16]  Very interesting.
[00:06:17]  You got the Muslim community rising up.
[00:06:19]  Are Democrats taking them for granted?
[00:06:22]  Absolutely.
[00:06:23]  So I love that you brought up Dearborn because the book that you're talking about, it's written in childlike language.
[00:06:30]  That's the most disturbing part about it.
[00:06:32]  It's talking about how to have all kinds of different sexual experiences in childlike language.
[00:06:38]  So it's very, very disturbing.
[00:06:39]  And that's what set off the parents in Dearborn, Michigan.
[00:06:42]  So Dearborn, Michigan has historically been a heavily Democrat area that has a strong Muslim population.
[00:06:50]  And I had one of the gentlemen from the Dearborn community come to one of our events the other night.
[00:06:56]  And he said, he stopped me and he said, we found this stuff in our schools and I was so upset about my children.
[00:07:01]  He said, to be honest with you, no matter what happens, whether it's inflation or whatever is on the ballot, at the end of the day, the most important thing is always going to be my children to me.
[00:07:11]  He says, so I went to our Democrat elected officials.
[00:07:14]  And the reason he went to the elected officials is because he was actually running for office as a Democrat.
[00:07:21]  He said, I went to them and I said, you got to help me with this stuff in our schools.
[00:07:24]  We got to get it out.
[00:07:25]  He said, they turned around and called me a bigot and a racist.
[00:07:28]  He said, I'm done.
[00:07:29]  I'll never vote Democratic.
[00:07:31]  Good.
[00:07:31]  I will, I know.
[00:07:32]  He said, I will support the Republicans and I will get as many people in our community as possible to support the Republicans because my kids come first.
[00:07:41]  And I think that's the part that they are taking for granted is that for parents, your kids are always going to come first.
[00:07:47]  That's going to be your major concern.
[00:07:48]  And they're laughing at parents.
[00:07:50]  They're just making a mockery out of this.
[00:07:52]  Yes, they are.
[00:07:53]  And by the way, it's so interesting how they are condescendingly talking to these Muslim families.
[00:07:58]  And I think they're going to be in for a reckoning, Tudor.
[00:08:01]  I really do.
[00:08:02]  I think that, look, obviously, I have religious differences personally with Muslims, but if they're going to fight side by side with us against pornography in our schools, I mean, let's go.
[00:08:11]  That's great.
[00:08:12]  I mean, this is an issue that impacts everybody.
[00:08:15]  And the left, they are so arrogant.
[00:08:17]  And I keep on using that word.
[00:08:18]  And they are just so focused on the perversion of our children.
[00:08:22]  I think it's a massive winning issue.
[00:08:24]  And so, so, Tudor, how could people help you?
[00:08:26]  We're in kind of this final stretch.
[00:08:28]  Whitmer is very nervous.
[00:08:29]  She's calling in the big guns.
[00:08:30]  I wouldn't be surprised if she asked Fauci to come stump for her very soon because they're very close.
[00:08:37]  How could we help?
[00:08:38]  Barack Obama is coming in on Saturday.
[00:08:40]  So you know they're trying to get the base out, but they are bringing in a lot of money.
[00:08:44]  So anything can help us.
[00:08:45]  If you go to tutordixon.com, if you have $10, $20, please donate to tutordixon.com because we don't want Gretchen Whitmer to go to higher office.
[00:08:54]  We don't want them to continue to laugh about parents' issues.
[00:08:58]  And I think it's interesting that you bring up the issue with the Muslim community because I, as governor, I would be here to represent everyone.
[00:09:05]  And their small businesses have been shut down.
[00:09:08]  Their kids have been getting pornographic information in school.
[00:09:11]  We are here to represent them and make sure that we take care of parents and business owners and farmers, whoever it is.
[00:09:19]  They should be able to achieve the American dream in the state of Michigan and educate their children.
[00:09:23]  It's tutordixon.com.
[00:09:25]  I think Tudor could be a total rock star for the Republican Party and for the conservative movement.
[00:09:30]  Michigan is a great state.
[00:09:31]  Michigan has a great track record of electing Republicans for governor, even though it's a very tricky state in some ways.
[00:09:38]  It's not a blue state, though.
[00:09:39]  It's not even a purpose state.
[00:09:41]  We haven't had a red legislature for 20 years.
[00:09:43]  We go back and forth on governor, but it's time for us to go back to a Republican governor.
[00:09:48]  I love it.
[00:09:48]  Gretchen Whitmer has got to go.
[00:09:49]  Tudor, keep campaigning hard.
[00:09:50]  We're 100% behind you.
[00:09:52]  That's tutordixon.com.
[00:09:53]  Tudor, I think, is going to surprise a lot of people on election night.
[00:09:56]  Thank you, Tudor, so much.
[00:09:57]  Thank you.
[00:10:01]  Look, in the good old days, we Americans argued about which policies to pursue to improve this beautiful country.
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[00:11:00]  Oh, by the way, we also have an impending diesel shortage.
[00:11:04]  U.S. diesel shortage increasingly likely until economy slows.
[00:11:10]  As if the economy hasn't slowed Reuters is such a dishonest paper.
[00:11:14]  What has happened to all these places?
[00:11:15]  There is a question I had, which is, does the media have any self-awareness of how much we hate them?
[00:11:23]  And I don't think they do.
[00:11:24]  I don't think they care.
[00:11:25]  They are so awful, these reporters.
[00:11:28]  They have done such damage to our country, I could tell you.
[00:11:32]  It is unbelievable how much damage reporters have done to America.
[00:11:35]  They are so dishonest.
[00:11:37]  Anyway, I want to get to the story here.
[00:11:39]  Of course, the media won't cover this very much.
[00:11:41]  Now, remember, the turtle is spending a lot of money in Alaska.
[00:11:46]  I actually did an amazing event yesterday, a Zoom event with the, I think I want to get the name right, Anchorage Baptist Church or the Anchorage Baptist Temple, I think.
[00:11:57]  I'll get it right.
[00:11:58]  A really great organization, Jerry Prevost Church.
[00:12:01]  And really impressed with them.
[00:12:03]  And we had a Zoom event, and they asked me my thoughts on Lisa Murkowski, and I let it rip.
[00:12:08]  I know we have a lot of Alaska watchers, a lot of Alaska viewers, I should say, and listeners.
[00:12:12]  We're live on radio in Alaska, actually.
[00:12:14]  Very honored and touched by that.
[00:12:16]  I love Alaska, one of my favorite places on the planet.
[00:12:17]  So anyway, the Turtle is spending a lot of money in Alaska, $9 million.
[00:12:23]  And this story has just come out about how over 400 government officials allegedly have engaged in COVID-19 insider trading.
[00:12:33]  So while you have been getting poorer despite working harder, your leaders are getting very, very rich.
[00:12:40]  Play cut 116.
[00:12:43]  It's now been learned that some 400 officials traded stocks at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic with the accuracy of a Wall Street pro.
[00:12:52]  Recent documents reveal that if the NIH top administration officials traded stocks to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, what experts are saying is the timing here was exquisite, especially in regard to top administration officials like Elaine Chow and her husband, Mitch McConnell, who traded some $600,000 in stocks that they knew companies in the United States would be benefiting from because of the billions that would be invested to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
[00:13:20]  Oh, no, but instead we get Department of Justice raids on Donald Trump's home and we get raids of pro-life activists that pray outside of abortion clinics.
[00:13:30]  But the people that then create public policy for our country are then able to trade stocks in correlation with that.
[00:13:39]  You want to know why people hate politicians?
[00:13:42]  It's because of nonsense like this.
[00:13:45]  And then McConnell is spending $9 million on the fraud uniparty mascot of Lisa Murkowski.

=== Stagflation Hurting American Families (14:46) ===

[00:13:56]  That should anger you at a deeply fundamental level.
[00:14:00]  It should be illegal for Congress people to do any investing like any of this.
[00:14:04]  Illegal for them to trade stocks.
[00:14:07]  And how is it that you could sit on committees and design policy based on stocks that you are?
[00:14:13]  How is that not flagrantly insider trading?
[00:14:17]  Business insider, 72 members of Congress have violated a law designed to prevent insider trading and stop conflict of interest.
[00:14:23]  They break the law all the time.
[00:14:26]  But Congress people are more important than you are.
[00:14:28]  But if you're a pro-life leader that has sung a hymn outside of a clinic, they're going to come raid your family.
[00:14:35]  If you're James O'Keefe, we're raiding you.
[00:14:37]  Ruda Giuliani, we're raiding you.
[00:14:38]  Steve Bannon, we're going to throw you in prison.
[00:14:40]  Peter Navarro, we're throwing you in prison.
[00:14:43]  But if you're a member of Congress, we're going to protect you.
[00:14:47]  We're going to allow you to get endlessly rich.
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[00:15:05]  We talk a lot about labor in the media, and we're always respondering to the complaints of labor.
[00:15:11]  And that's fine.
[00:15:11]  Obviously, it's important.
[00:15:12]  But who actually creates the jobs that labor actually is able to enjoy?
[00:15:17]  Big business has their lobbyists, but small ones don't always have the time or money to defend themselves against the forces of global corporations and their crony capitalist pals in the kingdom of Washington, D.C. Job Creators Network, that's right, Job Creators Network, fights for small business owners across America, and they're looking for a few good men and women to join their growing army of small business advocates.
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[00:16:14]  Joining us now is Alfredo Ortiz from jobcreatorsnetwork.com, also the greatopportunityproject.com.
[00:16:23]  And Alfredo does such a great job.
[00:16:25]  I just saw Alfredo this last weekend.
[00:16:27]  Alfredo, how is your mouth doing?
[00:16:29]  I know you just had dental surgery.
[00:16:30]  That's the most important question.
[00:16:32]  Hey, Charlie, it's hanging in there.
[00:16:35]  It's still hurting a bit.
[00:16:37]  So I apologize for that, but hopefully you can hear me loud and clear.
[00:16:41]  I can very well.
[00:16:42]  So look, last week, Biden tried to make the case for his bribe, otherwise known as the student loan bailout, by comparing it to PPP.
[00:16:52]  JCN was actively involved in PPP.
[00:16:54]  How is your lawsuit bailout going?
[00:16:57]  And what do you make of this Biden comparison?
[00:17:00]  Well, first of all, we are feeling great about the actual lawsuit.
[00:17:06]  We had our hearing on Tuesday, and so we are anxiously awaiting for the outcome of that hearing.
[00:17:13]  It could come at any moment now.
[00:17:16]  But we feel very good about the odds.
[00:17:18]  We feel good about standing, and we feel good about where we're going to come out on this one.
[00:17:23]  I'm sure that the administration is going to appeal it should it come out in favor of us.
[00:17:29]  But at least hopefully we'll stop this madness before it gets out of control.
[00:17:35]  But as soon as I hear something, Charlie, I'll let you know.
[00:17:40]  Well, yeah.
[00:17:40]  So last week, from what I understand, is you placed a new billboard blasting Biden over his comment when he said the economy is strong as hell.
[00:17:47]  Tell us about that billboard and why is that comment so misleading?
[00:17:52]  Yeah, that's right.
[00:17:53]  I mean, he said the economy is strong as hell.
[00:17:55]  And you and I both know, I mean, Charlie, I mean, you're at the grocery stores, you're out talking to people day in and day out like we are.
[00:18:02]  The economy is not strong as hell.
[00:18:04]  I know the GDP showed today, the first estimate, that it was up, you know, like 2.6%.
[00:18:10]  But that was all pretty much because of trade exports.
[00:18:13]  It doesn't really talk to the domestic economy in any way, shape, or form.
[00:18:17]  And you and I both know that Americans are hurting day in and day out right now.
[00:18:22]  I mean, inflation is sky high.
[00:18:24]  I mean, our small business owners, restaurateurs, for example, they are dying.
[00:18:29]  I mean, many of these are barely breaking even, or most of them are losing money.
[00:18:33]  I mean, I talked to a small business owner this morning, and she said her box of lettuce, and she owns a sub-shop, went from $20 a box to $90 a box in the past two weeks.
[00:18:46]  I mean, these kinds of increases are killing our small business owners, and really it's killing the American Americans across the country.
[00:18:54]  And wait till the heating oil really, really takes ground in the fourth quarter as the temperatures rise.
[00:19:00]  I mean, 60, 70% increases, Charlie.
[00:19:03]  I mean, this is going to be a disaster.
[00:19:05]  And so I don't take any solace in the number that came out today.
[00:19:09]  Yeah, I mean, and people are just getting crushed, right?
[00:19:10]  I mean, across the board.
[00:19:12]  And it is economic conditions, the likes of which we have not seen in quite some time.
[00:19:18]  And I'm very afraid that if we're not going to make some serious changes, we're not going to be able to fix it.
[00:19:22]  Let's play cut 120, 114.
[00:19:24]  Fox Business Dagon McDowell.
[00:19:26]  Dagon is great.
[00:19:27]  Play cut 114.
[00:19:28]  The consumer and the corporate sector are barely growing here.
[00:19:33]  And Cheryl pointed this out.
[00:19:35]  Core capital goods orders fell seven-tenths of 1% month over month.
[00:19:41]  Is very negative for the economic outlook moving ahead.
[00:19:46]  Longer-term interest rates coming back down and shorter-term interest rates staying elevated.
[00:19:50]  That might be an indication that once again, investors are betting that there's a recession.
[00:19:56]  People are betting that there's a recession.
[00:19:57]  Alfredo, do you think we're already in the midst of a recession?
[00:20:00]  Charlie, 100%.
[00:20:02]  I mean, we are definitely in the middle of a recession.
[00:20:05]  Quite frankly, I think we're in the middle of stagflation.
[00:20:08]  And I know that Biden didn't want to use that word recession, so I keep throwing the word stagflation at him because that's where we're in.
[00:20:14]  And as we see interest rates today, for the first time in over 20 years, mortgage rates hit above 7%, Charlie.
[00:20:21]  I mean, this is really, really hurting consumers.
[00:20:24]  And by the way, the consumer spending that we are seeing right now, it's on credit card debt.
[00:20:29]  I look at the credit card debt.
[00:20:31]  It is rising exponentially, and savings rates are at the lowest levels they have been even pre-pandemic.
[00:20:37]  They went from 8% pre-pandemic to now 4%.
[00:20:41]  They were up at 31% during the pandemic, which means that all those trillions of dollars that we shoved out there really weren't needed.
[00:20:48]  And we always were saying that.
[00:20:50]  But now it's gone down to 4% and credit card rate is doubling.
[00:20:53]  It's up at 14% increase.
[00:20:56]  I mean, so now people are living paycheck to paycheck and barely getting by and using this credit card.
[00:21:02]  Unfortunately, they got on this drug of government money, right?
[00:21:07]  And they got used to spending the money.
[00:21:09]  So they're trying to keep up that lifestyle, but they can't afford it.
[00:21:13]  So what do you think the actual inflation rate is?
[00:21:15]  I think it's a lot higher than what the government's reporting.
[00:21:18]  I think the government is misleading us.
[00:21:19]  What are your thoughts?
[00:21:21]  Yeah, 100%.
[00:21:23]  It's well above 11% is what I'm thinking.
[00:21:27]  I mean, when you see the rates that are happening day in and day out across the board, I mean, you go to your grocery store, Charlie, I'm sure you're seeing this.
[00:21:36]  I mean, the other day, I walked out with two, I'm not kidding, two small bags, and it was $75.
[00:21:42]  And I wasn't buying, you know, anything that was, you know, branded products.
[00:21:47]  I mean, these are all private label products.
[00:21:48]  I mean, the costs are astronomical.
[00:21:51]  Eggs, bread, milk, cheese, I mean, you name it.
[00:21:54]  It's going up.
[00:21:55]  I mean, these consumers, American consumers are getting hit every day now, and it's going to get worse, unfortunately.
[00:22:03]  And then, honestly, Charlie, wait till next year because we had a major problem on grain supply.
[00:22:11]  A lot of planters in Ukraine, where we get about 40% of our grain supply, they didn't plant.
[00:22:17]  And here in America, fertilizer was up so high, Charlie, that they didn't plant either.
[00:22:23]  And so we're going to have a big grain shortage come next year.
[00:22:26]  I'm afraid you're right.
[00:22:28]  I mean, it is all these different ramifications that are hitting at once.
[00:22:31]  Okay, let's play another piece of tape here.
[00:22:34]  Let's go to this one, Nancy Pelosi talking about inflation.
[00:22:39]  She says we just need to change the topic.
[00:22:41]  Play cut four.
[00:22:43]  The fact is, is that when I hear people talk about inflation, as I heard them there, we have to change that subject.
[00:22:50]  Inflation is a global phenomenon.
[00:22:53]  It's not, the fight is not about inflation.
[00:22:56]  It's about the cost of living.
[00:22:58]  Oh, yeah.
[00:22:59]  Are those things separate, Alfredo?
[00:23:01]  Oh, my God.
[00:23:03]  I mean, that just shows how clueless it is.
[00:23:05]  I mean, how she can separate inflation and the cost of living.
[00:23:10]  I mean, she should look at what the Social Security Administration did.
[00:23:13]  I think they just passed an 8.5% cost of living adjustment.
[00:23:18]  I mean, 8.5% from the Social Security Administration.
[00:23:21]  I mean, they see it.
[00:23:22]  They know what's happening.
[00:23:24]  She doesn't see it.
[00:23:25]  I mean, come on.
[00:23:26]  I mean, she is so out of touch.
[00:23:27]  I mean, with her, we're $40 a pint, whatever I think, ice cream that she loves eating.
[00:23:32]  I mean, of course she's not feeling any of this impact.
[00:23:35]  But every day, Americans are working two jobs, three jobs down to make ends meet.
[00:23:39]  I mean, this is absolutely ridiculous.
[00:23:41]  And the fact that she says, let's just change the conversation.
[00:23:45]  Let's change the topic.
[00:23:46]  It's a global phenomenon.
[00:23:47]  Well, you know what?
[00:23:48]  It is a global phenomenon, but mostly it started with the fateful decision that Biden did on the first day of his administration, which is declaring the war on domestic fossil production.
[00:24:01]  That's right.
[00:24:03]  It started with that because Charlie, he destabilized the global energy market by doing that.
[00:24:09]  And Putin took advantage of it.
[00:24:10]  And Putin went forward with his attack on the Ukraine because he knew that he had the upper hand on the rest of Europe because of what Biden did.
[00:24:20]  It is remarkable.
[00:24:21]  Let's play another piece of tape here.
[00:24:22]  Ron Klain trying to tell us things are actually great.
[00:24:24]  Play cut 113.
[00:24:28]  I know some of the polling about the economy, I think, is also out of date since some of those polls were taken.
[00:24:33]  Again, the price of gas has come down dramatically.
[00:24:36]  We're seeing economic growth.
[00:24:37]  We're seeing prices come down.
[00:24:39]  We're seeing real income go up.
[00:24:41]  So I think we have to bring up to date the narrative to where it is today.
[00:24:46]  Are things really getting better?
[00:24:48]  Minute remaining, Alfredo.
[00:24:49]  What is he talking about?
[00:24:50]  Real income going up.
[00:24:51]  It's still negative.
[00:24:52]  You have 8.5% inflation and you only have wages going up 5.5%.
[00:24:56]  That's to me is simple math.
[00:24:57]  It's called negative 3% real wage decrease.
[00:25:01]  I mean, this guy, I mean, the way they love gaslighting the American public, they should be ashamed of themselves.
[00:25:07]  I mean, the only thing that they should be winning is awards for fiction because it is the best fiction writing that I've ever seen, Charlie.
[00:25:15]  Yeah, that's well said.
[00:25:16]  Alfredo, tell our audience again about the website, how people can support your great organization.
[00:25:21]  Yeah, that'd be great.
[00:25:22]  It's joinjcn.com.
[00:25:24]  And if they want a little bit more information about the organization, it's jobcreatorsnetwork.com.
[00:25:30]  That's jobcreatorsnetwork.com.
[00:25:32]  Yeah, so check out joinjcn.com.
[00:25:35]  Alfredo, thank you for partnering on our program.
[00:25:37]  You do such a great job.
[00:25:38]  We really appreciate it.
[00:25:40]  Thank you, Charlie.
[00:25:40]  Have a great one.
[00:25:41]  Yep.
[00:25:41]  Thank you.
[00:25:45]  One of my biggest just irritants is code switching.
[00:25:53]  If I did it, I would be mocked by the media and attacked all the time.
[00:25:59]  Code switching, otherwise known as pandering or cultural appropriation, is done by Democrats all the time.
[00:26:08]  So this is when Democrats go into in front of different audiences and just change the slang, the accent of which they communicate with.
[00:26:18]  Hillary Clinton did all the time.
[00:26:19]  She's talking jive around black audiences.
[00:26:22]  AOC does it all the time.
[00:26:24]  AOC is probably one of the worst offenders.
[00:26:26]  So AOC goes to the Conman's convention.
[00:26:30]  I think it's at the National Action Network, which is run by the Rev, Al Sharpton.
[00:26:34]  I'm going to talk about Raphael Warnock in a second, by the way.
[00:26:37]  It's a point I wanted to make.
[00:26:40]  And it's actually a connection to Al Sharpton, who's equally morally degenerate.
[00:26:45]  Play cut nine, AOC, Alexander Casio-Cortez, in a southern accent.
[00:26:50]  How do they get away with this?
[00:26:52]  By the way, Maya Flores in the Rio Grande Valley, strong conservative, is more popular among Hispanics than Cortez.
[00:27:02]  Play cut nine.
[00:27:03]  I'm proud to be a bartender.
[00:27:07]  Ain't nothing wrong with that.
[00:27:09]  There's nothing wrong with working retail, folding clothes for other people to buy.
[00:27:15]  There is nothing wrong with preparing the food that your neighbors will eat.
[00:27:22]  There's nothing wrong about proving food that your neighbor's going to eat.
[00:27:26]  You really talk like that?
[00:27:27]  No, you don't, actually.
[00:27:29]  You're pandering dimwit code switching.
[00:27:35]  And the audience, it should just be so offended.
[00:27:39]  Come on, girl.
[00:27:41]  Just talk like a normal person.
[00:27:43]  It's one of the things I love about Trump.
[00:27:45]  He never pandered to anybody.
[00:27:48]  He would always wear the same suit and tie.
[00:27:51]  I always, one of my favorite things ever that I saw, I went to the Iowa State Fair very early on in the summer of 2015 after Trump announces, and it's like 102 degrees outside, and it's the Iowa.
[00:28:01]  And Donald Trump comes and he's giving kids helicopter rides in his helicopter.
[00:28:06]  And it's blistering hot, and all the other candidates, you know, Marco and John Kasich, they're doing like the politician thing where they roll up their sleeves and they pretend that they're one of the people and they're wearing like the untucked farmer shirt with the jeans and the whole thing.
[00:28:22]  And Donald Trump is wearing an all-black suit with a red tie.
[00:28:25]  It's like the guy doesn't change.
[00:28:27]  There is zero pandering.
[00:28:29]  In the middle of Iowa, he looks like he's ready to close a real estate deal.
[00:28:34]  And so I do want to close on one thing.
[00:28:36]  So that was Reverend Al Sharpton's event, I believe.
[00:28:37]  I think that looks like the logo of the National Action Network, which is Al Sharpton Steel.

=== Religious Leaders Endorsing Candidates (02:18) ===

[00:28:42]  And it does remind me of Raphael Warnock.
[00:28:44]  And I have not spent enough time on Raphael Warnock.
[00:28:47]  And so if you read the Ten Commandments, one of the Ten Commandments is, Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain.
[00:28:54]  But if you go back to the original Hebrew, it actually says, Thou shalt not carry the Lord's name in vain.
[00:29:00]  Otherwise, said you should not do evil in the name of the Lord.
[00:29:04]  You should not say that this is the Lord's wish or the Lord's doing.
[00:29:08]  For example, performing abortions in the name of the Lord, things like that.
[00:29:13]  Raphael Warnock is a daily violator of thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain.
[00:29:20]  He runs as a reverend, yet every policy position that he espouses and that he articulates is directly contradictory to that of the natural law and God's wishes for us to flourish and to preserve those that can't preserve the good, the true, the beautiful, and protect those that can't protect themselves.
[00:29:37]  Raphael Warnock is carrying, if you will, the name of the Lord to try and say that, well, it's God's wish that we should be able to terminate pregnancy all up until the time of birth.
[00:29:47]  And Herschel Walker is under a relentless character assassination attack.
[00:29:51]  And we got to continue to have Herschel Walker's back.
[00:29:54]  We got to continue to back him against Reverend Raphael Warnock, who claims to be a pastor and yet supports the most insidious and toxic policies imaginable in the American body politic.
[00:30:09]  And this is happening right now unfolding in Georgia.
[00:30:14]  It's a very, very tight race.
[00:30:15]  And this is last week, we had T.D. Jakes, who calls himself a pastor, endorse Robert Francis O'Rourke.
[00:30:23]  That's right.
[00:30:24]  For all of you that might be T.D. Jakes fans out there, just let it be known that T.D. Jakes, the black Christian pastor, very well known.
[00:30:32]  Some people used to respect him, openly endorses Robert Francis O'Rourke for governor.
[00:30:40]  That's T.D. Jakes for you.
[00:30:42]  That is carrying the name of the Lord to do evil.
[00:30:47]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
[00:30:48]  Email me directly, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:30:51]  Thank you so much for listening.
[00:30:52]  God bless.
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