The Charlie Kirk Show - Is The World Economic Forum Evil?
Aired: 2023-01-17
Duration: 34:49


=== Davos Elite Meeting (03:25) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, today Charlie Kirk Show.
[00:00:01]  I give you some of the latest news out of the World Economic Forum.
[00:00:04]  I say something that people disagree with.
[00:00:06]  I believe that most of the people in charge of the World Economic Forum have convinced themselves they are doing good even though they are doing evil.
[00:00:12]  I want your thoughts on that question.
[00:00:13]  Email me freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:00:15]  And Congressman Jim Banks attempts to become the next senator from Indiana.
[00:00:19]  I'm behind him 100%.
[00:00:21]  I think very highly of him and he joins us.
[00:00:23]  Email me freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:00:25]  Buckle up, everybody.
[00:00:25]  Here we go.
[00:00:26]  Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
[00:00:28]  Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
[00:00:30]  I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
[00:00:34]  Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
[00:00:37]  I want to thank Charlie.
[00:00:38]  He's an incredible guy.
[00:00:39]  His spirit, his love of this country.
[00:00:41]  He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
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[00:00:47]  We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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[00:01:08]  Davos continues.
[00:01:10]  The World Economic Forum is meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
[00:01:14]  Over 1,000 private jets have descended into the very small, idyllic mountain town in eastern Switzerland.
[00:01:25]  They are discussing everything from climate change to ESG to the war in Ukraine to border policy to international monetary policy.
[00:01:36]  The world's most powerful people are meeting right now and they're saying some of the private parts out loud.
[00:01:43]  Listen to Klaus Schwab, who is the head of the World Economic Forum, an 84-year-old German historicist, steeped in German philosophy of Hegel, of Nietzsche, of the attempted, in his own view, view that science is not just a process, but it is an end in itself, that the scientific method can actually give us morality, direction, and the answers to some of the more life's deeper questions.
[00:02:13]  This is a German belief that we have not been able to shake, regardless of the horrors of the 20th century.
[00:02:19]  Klaus Schwab greeting the World Economic Forum.
[00:02:24]  And for those of you that are fans of James Bond, this guy is straight out of the archetypal Bond villain type.
[00:02:34]  Play Cut 44.
[00:02:35]  And a very cordial welcome to the annual meeting 2023.
[00:02:44]  We couldn't meet at a more challenging time.
[00:02:48]  We are confronted with so many crises simultaneously.
[00:02:55]  What does it need to master the future?
[00:02:59]  I think to have a platform where all stakeholders of global society are engaged.
[00:03:09]  What does it mean to have mastering the future?
[00:03:13]  It's a very interesting question.
[00:03:14]  Master the future.
[00:03:17]  So as they are meeting, the World Economic Forum in Davos, they're identifying what they consider to be threats to democracy.

=== Democracy Under Threat (05:24) ===

[00:03:25]  Now, we are not a democracy in America.
[00:03:28]  We are a constitutional republic, as we say repeatedly.
[00:03:32]  Despite that, people still say we're a democracy.
[00:03:35]  And that's not correct.
[00:03:36]  Democracy is a bad idea.
[00:03:38]  It leads to dictatorship.
[00:03:40]  Democracy is unsustainable.
[00:03:42]  Democracy is not lasting.
[00:03:44]  Democracy is an up or down vote of whether or not you get rights, of whether or not you recognize checks and balances, consent to the governed, separation of powers.
[00:03:54]  We've said this repeatedly on this program.
[00:03:56]  But of course, the World Economic Forum, they like democracy because they know democracy is a transitory phase towards eventual despotic digital dictatorship.
[00:04:09]  Now, one of the threats that they continually focus on at the World Economic Forum and at Davos is this idea of the threat of freedom of speech.
[00:04:22]  Our United States Constitution talks about the moral necessity to be able to speak.
[00:04:28]  There are only two ways that you can govern a people.
[00:04:32]  You can govern them by using force or govern them by using speech.
[00:04:37]  By using speech, that means you have to persuade people.
[00:04:40]  You have to convince people.
[00:04:41]  You have to make good arguments.
[00:04:42]  You have to debate.
[00:04:43]  You have to have dialogue.
[00:04:44]  You have to say, hey, I would like political power and here is why.
[00:04:47]  Please vote for me.
[00:04:49]  Speech is what keeps us from violence, discord, civil war.
[00:04:55]  Speech is what keeps us from the beasts.
[00:04:58]  Speech requires reason.
[00:05:00]  Speech requires rationality.
[00:05:03]  It requires nuance.
[00:05:04]  It requires building of consensus.
[00:05:07]  Force is easy.
[00:05:09]  Force is, I have more weapons than you do.
[00:05:12]  I control the military and you do not.
[00:05:14]  I am going to use political power and I'm going to extinguish you.
[00:05:17]  Every single political project in the history of the human species can be broken in to one of two categories.
[00:05:25]  Either you are governing people with a preference of speech or governing people with a preference using force.
[00:05:35]  The one thing that dictatorships and despotic governments all had in common prior to the American Revolution is that, yes, there were serfs and there were slaves and they were subjects, but there were always more serfs, slaves, and subjects than there were leaders and rulers.
[00:05:53]  The American Revolution changed everything and said that one of the main arguments was that the consent of the government, the permission of the people is necessary.
[00:06:01]  But one of the big complaints coming out of Davos is that a fruit of the American Revolution is what is making it hard for us to continue to progress towards some sort of heaven on earth and some sort of inevitable utopia.
[00:06:14]  Listen to the New York Times columnist or writer talking here on Davos, Cut 35.
[00:06:21]  They call this disinformation, but anytime you hear them complaining about disinformation, you should instead replace that term with free speech.
[00:06:30]  When they say disinformation, they are really attacking freedom of speech.
[00:06:34]  Play Cut 35.
[00:06:36]  How does this discussion of disinformation relate to everything else happening here today in Davos?
[00:06:42]  So I think if you look at this question of disinformation, I think it maps basically to every other major challenge that we are grappling with as a society, and particularly the most existential among them.
[00:06:56]  And, you know, that immediately undermines pluralism.
[00:07:02]  And, you know, the undermining of pluralism is probably the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy.
[00:07:08]  Now, I'm sure pluralism is not something, it's not a kitchen table issue for many of you.
[00:07:13]  Pluralism, they're trying to use these kind of more abstract terms as a way to make themselves seem more intelligent when in reality they're a pack of fools.
[00:07:20]  But pluralism is a political philosophy and the recognition and affirmation of diversity within a political body.
[00:07:27]  So basically they're saying disinformation, the ability to speak freely, the ability to challenge authority, that is the fundamental challenge in front of all challenges.
[00:07:38]  That is the one that supersedes them all.
[00:07:40]  And if you think about it, look at how they have continually focused on suppressing speech, censoring different ideas, whether it be through Twitter, the Department of Homeland Security, through COVID on the vaccines.
[00:07:54]  They have to be able to shut you up, regardless of your argument, regardless of how important it is to be able to speak.
[00:08:07]  The masters of the universe, the philosopher kings that run the World Economic Forum are saying the great threat to our society, the great threat to our aims and our ambitions and our goals is the fact that dissidents can speak their mind.
[00:08:24]  They're pinpointing the fight for our time.
[00:08:26]  They want to get us closer towards a regime that is not focused on convincing people to give up political power or to delegate political power.
[00:08:35]  No, they want to invert the entire premise of the American Constitution.
[00:08:41]  Instead, they want people, they want to live in a society where you are able to use force to control other people.

=== Fight For Political Power (17:44) ===

[00:08:49]  Why?
[00:08:50]  Because their ideas are so bad.
[00:08:52]  Their ideas are so unpopular.
[00:08:54]  They know this, that the idea of 15-minute cities and digital passports, vaccine passports, digital ID, they will not be able to convince people to be able to participate in them, though.
[00:09:06]  They must use force.
[00:09:07]  And speech is a threat to their aims and their ambitions by using force.
[00:09:13]  Whether it be carbon footprint trackers, the global warming siege against any sort of production of natural gas, which is environmentally friendly, abundant, cheap, and affordable.
[00:09:26]  They have a very specific end goal.
[00:09:28]  And the goal they have in mind is they are in charge and you are not.
[00:09:34]  To remake the world in an image that is their own.
[00:09:37]  As Yoval Harari says, we are going to make human beings gods to become like the divine.
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[00:10:48]  One of our incredible listeners poised a very important question.
[00:10:52]  They said, Charlie, I love the show.
[00:10:53]  Don't these people know they are doing evil?
[00:10:55]  No, they don't know that.
[00:10:58]  In fact, it's the exact opposite.
[00:11:00]  They believe they are doing good.
[00:11:04]  In the first line of Aristotle's ethics, he said, every art, every inquiry points towards some good.
[00:11:11]  The argument that Aristotle was making is that outside of the mentally insane and the clinically disturbed, the people that legitimately need to be in insane asylums, people think they are doing well.
[00:11:23]  They think they're doing good.
[00:11:24]  It points towards some good.
[00:11:25]  The question is, what is good?
[00:11:26]  And if you can't define what is good, then everyone will do right what is in their own eyes, as it says in the scriptures.
[00:11:33]  But no, John Kerry to Al Gore to Klaus Schwab, the people in charge of the World Economic Forum, they truly believe that they are on a moral crusade to improve the world.
[00:11:45]  In fact, they're telling us this.
[00:11:47]  One of the most dangerous things you can hear a powerful person say is, I am here to save the world.
[00:11:57]  More damage has been done in the name of trying to save the world in the last 100 years than any other promise.
[00:12:07]  Play cut 36, John Kerry admits and acknowledges, he says, how incredible that we get to be gathered here to save the planet.
[00:12:19]  Play Cut 36.
[00:12:22]  And when you stop and think about it, it's pretty extraordinary that we, a select group of human beings, because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives, are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet.
[00:12:42]  I mean, it's so almost extraterrestrial to think about, quote, saving the planet.
[00:12:48]  And you said that to most people.
[00:12:49]  Most people, they think you're just a crazy, tree-hugging, lefty, liberal, you know, do-getter, whatever.
[00:12:56]  And there's no relationship.
[00:12:57]  But really, that's where we are.
[00:13:00]  And what touched us?
[00:13:01]  Yeah, Heinz Ketchup touched you, John Kerry.
[00:13:03]  Without marrying into a certain family fortune, you would be completely irrelevant.
[00:13:08]  You would be a draft-dodging Vietnam war protesting smug hippie if it wasn't for your access to a certain trust fund.
[00:13:19]  We select group of human beings.
[00:13:22]  We select group of human beings.
[00:13:25]  Now, by the way, some people might attack me for calling him a draft dodger.
[00:13:30]  There was some controversy.
[00:13:32]  The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, though, there was something there, though.
[00:13:36]  One of our team members says that he fought in Vietnam.
[00:13:39]  I don't know.
[00:13:40]  I remember there was a huge controversy with John Kerry and the Swiftboat veterans.
[00:13:44]  I would go back and look at that, but that's, I think I was in fourth grade at the time.
[00:13:48]  So if I'm incorrect, I apologize.
[00:13:50]  But there's plenty of other things you could attack John Kerry on.
[00:13:52]  But go look up the Swift Boat veterans.
[00:13:55]  They are not fans of John Kerry.
[00:13:57]  I'll tell you what.
[00:13:59]  But I'll tell you, the essence of what John Kerry is saying is that I am able to be part of the club with you to help save the world.
[00:14:10]  We select group of human beings, masters of the universe, the people that deserve to have power, not because we are elected, not because we have been selected by the people, but because we want to save the world.
[00:14:28]  That should send chills down your spine.
[00:14:31]  That we deserve to have more authority under this guise of environmentalism.
[00:14:38]  Anytime you hear a push for environmentalism, it is a camouflaged effort to bring us closer towards a differentism, totalitarianism.
[00:14:49]  It's just so interesting when John Kerry says, we, the select group of people, we in the country club, we within the chamber of the select.
[00:15:04]  It's fascinating.
[00:15:06]  Someone says, Charlie, you don't really believe that John Kerry and the rest of the people think they're on a moral crusade?
[00:15:11]  This is about control, Charlie.
[00:15:12]  You're totally wrong.
[00:15:13]  This is the first time I've heard you say something totally naive.
[00:15:15]  Of course it's about control.
[00:15:16]  But Charles, you emailed me.
[00:15:17]  John Kerry thinks he's doing good.
[00:15:19]  On his private jet back to America, John Kerry's convinced himself that what he is doing is the right thing.
[00:15:27]  They don't think they're doing evil.
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[00:16:32]  Joining us now is Congressman Jim Banks, who is now officially running for Senate in the great state of Indiana.
[00:16:41]  Congressman, welcome to the program.
[00:16:43]  Hey, Charlie, good to be with you.
[00:16:45]  Glad to make this formal announcement with you today.
[00:16:47]  I'm running for the United States Senate.
[00:16:49]  You and I both know we need to shake up the Senate.
[00:16:52]  We need more conservatives in the United States Senate.
[00:16:55]  I've been a conservative fighter in the House.
[00:16:58]  And with the open Senate seat in Indiana, this is an opportunity for me to go and be a conservative fighter in the United States Senate, too.
[00:17:05]  Well, we're thrilled and I'm 100% behind you.
[00:17:08]  I think you're going to do a great job.
[00:17:09]  And it's going to be, we'll see how tough the primary is, but we're behind you.
[00:17:14]  And you've been a fighter in the House on a lot of different issues, thinking about the erosion of the American middle class and the restoration of manufacturing.
[00:17:21]  But let me kind of just take a step back.
[00:17:23]  Let's talk about the why you are running.
[00:17:27]  And I also want to talk about one of the things that angered me most in the last month and a half, which is this omnibus bill.
[00:17:32]  Business as usual is unacceptable.
[00:17:35]  And we have Republican leadership that seems to enthusiastically embrace the worst of all ideas that put us further into debt, keep our borders open, but secure the borders of far off distant land.
[00:17:44]  The omnibus, you as a senator, would you put up with something like that?
[00:17:49]  Not at all.
[00:17:50]  I vote against it.
[00:17:50]  I fought against it in the House.
[00:17:52]  And we need fighters in the Senate for this reason.
[00:17:56]  It angered me: $1.7 trillion, but also the left-wing woke agenda was planted in that spending bill, too.
[00:18:04]  Where was the fight?
[00:18:05]  Where were the fighters in the Senate pushing back against it?
[00:18:09]  That's as I spent the holidays with my wife praying about running for Senate, thinking about it when Mike Braun, who is a reliable conservative, by the way, told me that he's running for governor.
[00:18:19]  And I found out this Senate seat was going to be open.
[00:18:22]  I spent a couple of months thinking about it.
[00:18:24]  But when I found out, when I saw some Republicans in the Senate go along with Democrats and pass a $1.7 trillion omnibus at a time when our inflation is already historically high and not fight back against it, I knew I was being called to run for the Senate at that moment.
[00:18:40]  So that's one of the big reasons why I want to do it.
[00:18:42]  Yeah.
[00:18:42]  And one of the issues is that it seems as if there's vote trading going on where certain retiring senators provide cover fire for other senators.
[00:18:51]  And it's so incestuous and it's so broken.
[00:18:55]  But increasing the ranks of people like you and JD Vance and Mike Lee and Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, I am starting to see some momentum.
[00:19:05]  I'm starting to see some change that the business in the Senate of the old bulls, we're not going to put up with this anymore.
[00:19:13]  Totally right.
[00:19:14]  That's why I'm running, Charlie.
[00:19:17]  We need a new generation of conservative fighters like JD Vance, a number of others, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, the guy, Rand Paul, the guys that you just mentioned.
[00:19:27]  Josh Hawley.
[00:19:28]  Josh Hawley, a great conservative leader.
[00:19:31]  So I want to be a part of that.
[00:19:33]  We got to shake it up.
[00:19:34]  We need new conservative leadership there.
[00:19:36]  Go to banksforSenate.com today.
[00:19:38]  Help me out because the establishment is already fighting against me.
[00:19:41]  They're trying to recruit a candidate in Indiana to run against me because I have been a conservative fighter in the House and they want to block me from going to the Senate.
[00:19:50]  So I need your help.
[00:19:51]  That's why I wanted to talk to you today to tell you I'm running.
[00:19:54]  I want to be a conservative fighter in the Senate, but I need your help by going to banksforsenate.com, help me out, donate, volunteer, get involved today.
[00:20:03]  I won't let you down.
[00:20:05]  Yeah, and I know that because you've been a great voice in the House.
[00:20:09]  And I mean, look, you.
[00:20:11]  Who knows who's going to run up against you?
[00:20:13]  I'm sure there's massive efforts to try to draft Mitch Daniels, who I always found to be a very pleasant, I mean, the perfect caricature of what an Indiana gentleman is, but he's a Republican from a time long gone.
[00:20:25]  That's what excites me about your candidacy.
[00:20:27]  And, you know, I'm going to encourage everyone to keep this focused on policy, but Mitch Daniels would probably, you know, if he runs, and I don't want to make this all about him, but would represent a neoliberal view of the world where there's nothing wrong with sending our jobs overseas.
[00:20:42]  Border protection should not necessarily be a priority.
[00:20:45]  And we should just send money abroad while our own country falls apart.
[00:20:49]  You've been a very articulate voice for the restoration of American manufacturing and the middle class.
[00:20:55]  In fact, I'm going to butcher the title, but you sent out a document as the head of the Republican Study Committee.
[00:20:59]  I mean, last year or something.
[00:21:01]  Walk our audience through that.
[00:21:02]  That was very bold of you.
[00:21:04]  Yeah, and Charlie, you're so right.
[00:21:06]  I mean, it was old school Republicans, establishment Republicans who are beholden to multinational corporate interest who sold us out to China and sent our jobs overseas.
[00:21:17]  And Donald Trump was the first president of my lifetime who said China is a threat to the United States.
[00:21:22]  We're going to do something about it.
[00:21:24]  And for four years, I fought alongside him to restore American manufacturing, working class jobs back here at home.
[00:21:32]  I'm the son of a factory worker.
[00:21:33]  My dad made axles all of his life.
[00:21:35]  My mom was a cook in a nursing home.
[00:21:37]  I grew up in a trailer park.
[00:21:39]  And this country gave me incredible opportunities.
[00:21:42]  But it was these old school Republicans who sold us out to China that killed jobs like the one, like jobs like my dad had and other blue-collar Americans had.
[00:21:52]  So we got to do something about that.
[00:21:54]  The memo that I gave to Kevin McCarthy a couple of years ago was simply said that if we want to keep the blue-collar working class voters that grew the Republican Party when Donald Trump was in office, we have to have a Republican Party agenda that reflects and represents the values of those voters.
[00:22:14]  That's the America first agenda, putting America first in our trade deals, putting America first in our foreign policy, securing the border and stopping illegals from taking American jobs.
[00:22:26]  So those are the policies that we have to go back to fighting for.
[00:22:30]  And I don't see enough leadership and conservative fighters in the Senate who are doing that.
[00:22:36]  That's why I'm running for the Senate and announcing my candidacy today.
[00:22:39]  Yeah, and I think that's so important.
[00:22:41]  And so, you know, we look at an issue, for example, like the open border, and I'm starting to see some really good movement in the House.
[00:22:49]  In fact, I think the House, because of people like you and because of some of these new freshmen, it's actually becoming a more centered representative body.
[00:23:00]  I'll be honest.
[00:23:01]  I'm thrilled with some of the stuff I'm seeing, the anti-CCP committee, Swawel, Elon, and Schiff off committees, you know, a church and pike committee.
[00:23:11]  But as my optimism grows for the House, I am bearish on the Senate.
[00:23:16]  I feel as if there is an attitude that we don't care, that from John Thune and from all the Mitch McConnell, and I'm not going to expect you to say anything about that.
[00:23:28]  These are my own personal editorializing of their own view of things, but part of it is going to have to be introducing new energy into the Senate, saying business usual is over.
[00:23:37]  Why is it that, I mean, the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell had the power to say, listen, okay, you want to send border security to Lebanon.
[00:23:46]  You want to go send border security to Syria.
[00:23:48]  You want to go send money.
[00:23:49]  I don't know if Syria's on the list, but Lebanon, I think it was Pakistan.
[00:23:53]  It was Oman and some other obscure Middle Eastern country.
[00:23:58]  And more money to Ukraine.
[00:24:00]  And he could have said, okay, I'll do all that, but we need $10 billion for the border immediately.
[00:24:04]  And then Mitch McConnell tells us we got everything we wanted.
[00:24:08]  Yeah, this is why I voted against the big Ukraine supplemental spending bill when it came to the House.
[00:24:14]  We can't lead around the world when we're so weak at home.
[00:24:17]  We have to solve our problems at home to make America strong again before we can play the role around the world that America has historically done.
[00:24:26]  This is what President Reagan meant by peace through strength.
[00:24:29]  He meant not just a strong military, but a strong America.
[00:24:32]  And with Joe Biden and the radical Democrats controlling this country and some spineless Republicans going along with it, America is as weak at this point as it has ever been in my lifetime.
[00:24:44]  That, Charlie, is why I'm running for the United States Senate.
[00:24:47]  I'm going there to be a conservative fighter, to shake it up.
[00:24:50]  I need your help.
[00:24:51]  Go to banksforsenate.com today.
[00:24:52]  Help me out.
[00:24:53]  I won't back down.
[00:24:54]  I'll never back down from a fight.
[00:24:56]  I didn't back down from Nancy Pelosi when she kicked me off of this, the fake sham January 6th committee.
[00:25:02]  I'm not going to back down from the establishment or anybody that's trying to block me from going to the Senate to do what needs to be done to restore America.
[00:25:09]  So part of the U.S. Senate is personnel.
[00:25:12]  I pray and I hope that we're able to flip the Senate.
[00:25:14]  If we can get rid of McConnell, that will definitely be easier.
[00:25:17]  But let's pretend we get that White House as well.
[00:25:20]  And Supreme Court Justice of personnel.
[00:25:22]  Just for some of our listeners, you know, just build out some of your conservative credentials on the Second Amendment, on life.
[00:25:28]  These are issues that, as senators, they actually tend to appear to the surface even more than in the House.
[00:25:34]  Yeah, I think this is so important.
[00:25:36]  I'm a social and cultural conservative as much as I'm an economic conservative.
[00:25:41]  And I believe that the fight to protect our American way of life, which is a cultural fight, is the fight of our time.
[00:25:49]  And that's why putting judges on the bench at the federal level who understand that, who protect our constitutional rights, our Second Amendment, our First Amendment, protect the right to life.
[00:26:02]  Those are all issues that I'm passionate about.
[00:26:04]  And I can't wait to be a part of that fight in the United States Senate to go back to the Trump era, where those were the types of judges that we got on the bench.
[00:26:13]  So I'm not going to go along to get along with Democrats or, God forbid, another Democrat president who would appoint justices to the Supreme Court.
[00:26:24]  I'm not going to go along and vote for judges at any level to confirm them if they don't live up to the constitutional principles that we agree with.

=== True Intentions Matter (08:14) ===

[00:26:34]  Yeah, that's so important.
[00:26:36]  And the Senate.
[00:26:39]  I never get it.
[00:26:40]  These Republicans that will vote for a Supreme Court justice or to put a judge on the bench who doesn't reflect our values, I'll never understand why they're there voting to go along with that agenda.
[00:26:52]  I've never gotten it.
[00:26:53]  I don't get it.
[00:26:54]  And that's not the type of senator that I'm going to be.
[00:26:56]  Yeah.
[00:26:56]  And that's happened.
[00:26:57]  It always happens on one side, right?
[00:26:59]  So it's Republicans that are voting for Katangi Brown Jackson, like Willard Mitt Romney.
[00:27:05]  And did Graham vote for Katanji?
[00:27:08]  I can't remember.
[00:27:09]  But there were Republicans that voted for Katangi Brown Jackson, and she can't tell us what a woman is.
[00:27:15]  In fact, she scoffs and laughs at the question.
[00:27:18]  And so, but then Democrats, they hold the line.
[00:27:21]  They don't break.
[00:27:23]  And, you know, some would say, well, you know, Joe Manchin voted for, I think he voted for Gorsuch or one of them, but they never had the deciding vote.
[00:27:30]  They only ever do that after they know Republicans are going to get it passed.
[00:27:34]  And then they might do a show vote.
[00:27:35]  It might have been Mansion voting for Kavanaugh.
[00:27:37]  It was one of those that broke rank.
[00:27:39]  Certainly wasn't for Amy Coney Barrett.
[00:27:41]  And so it seems as if there's always uniformity in the caucus.
[00:27:45]  And so finally, just talked about the great state of Indiana.
[00:27:48]  I love Indiana.
[00:27:49]  Wonderful people.
[00:27:50]  And Indiana is one of those states that is robustly conservative, but certainly has some liberal influences throughout.
[00:27:58]  Walk us through Indiana values, fighting for those in D.C.
[00:28:02]  Yeah, Charlie, Indiana is a great state, very conservative.
[00:28:06]  Who's your values or conservative pro-family values?
[00:28:10]  And I've reflected those values in my fight in the House.
[00:28:14]  I'm going to do the same in the United States Senate.
[00:28:16]  As I said, I grew up in a small town, son of a factory worker, a nursing home cook, grew up in a trailer park.
[00:28:22]  And look where I am today because of the values, the hard work of my parents who wanted to pursue the American dream to them, which was to give me a better opportunity than what they had.
[00:28:33]  That's Indiana.
[00:28:34]  That's America.
[00:28:36]  That's worth fighting for.
[00:28:37]  And we need more conservative fighters in the Senate who are going to fight for that.
[00:28:40]  So please, please, please go to forsenate.com, donate, volunteer, help me out.
[00:28:46]  So let me map this out.
[00:28:48]  And it's very simple.
[00:28:50]  You're first in the race.
[00:28:51]  You're a true conservative.
[00:28:52]  My guess is that the more establishment forces are going to try to draft a moneyed candidate to try to go up against you.
[00:28:59]  But the earlier you can consolidate support, you could raise money, the harder that will be and the further ahead you can get so that you could be a true conservative like Josh Hawley and like JD Vance in the U.S. Senate.
[00:29:11]  Congressman Jim Banks, thanks so much.
[00:29:13]  Good luck.
[00:29:13]  We're behind you.
[00:29:17]  Someone says here, Charlie, yes, of course, John Kerry, Klaus Schwab, and others think they are doing good.
[00:29:22]  God made us to do good to act rightly.
[00:29:24]  When we decide to do something evil, we have to use mental gymnastics to make it seem good to ourselves.
[00:29:29]  So they truly believe they're saving the planet by grabbing more power for themselves.
[00:29:32]  That is exactly right, John.
[00:29:33]  That is my point.
[00:29:35]  Someone says here, Charlie, don't agree.
[00:29:37]  The elite and the Adabos think they're doing good.
[00:29:39]  They know they're doing evil.
[00:29:42]  Yeah, I just, no, that's not right.
[00:29:45]  They don't brag publicly or privately at their champagne parties like, yes, look at how evil we are and look at how we are doing things that are against our morality.
[00:29:55]  It's not true.
[00:29:56]  They think they're doing good.
[00:29:57]  That is the question of what is actually good.
[00:29:59]  It's a very important point.
[00:30:01]  You know why it's important?
[00:30:02]  It means intentions mean nothing.
[00:30:06]  It's also, in my personal opinion, very flawed and troubling to say that John Kerry is gleefully being evil.
[00:30:14]  Why?
[00:30:15]  It's because it's just not statistically possible to have that many people that are sociopathic working together.
[00:30:25]  It's just so against sociopathic borderline tendencies.
[00:30:29]  What's more likely is a bunch of very weak people that are doing evil things that think they have good intentions and they do stuff that is so unspeakably awful.
[00:30:40]  Okay, and Yuri Bezmanov, remember, who was a Soviet defector, said that this is exactly the strategy that the Marxists use.
[00:30:48]  They find useful idiots who think they are doing good when in reality they are vessels for treachery and for deceit and evil.
[00:30:56]  John Kerry is a useful idiot who thinks he's here to save the planet when in reality he's here to do something far more sinister.
[00:31:04]  Play cut 50 of Yuri Bezmanov.
[00:31:06]  Simply because you see the useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of Soviet socialists or communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies.
[00:31:19]  That's why my KGB instructors specifically made the point, never bother with leftists.
[00:31:25]  Forget about these political prostitutes.
[00:31:27]  Aim higher.
[00:31:29]  This was my instruction.
[00:31:30]  Try to get into Large circulation, established, conservative media, rich, filthy-reach movie makers, intellectuals, so-called academic circles, cynical, egocentric people who can look into your eyes with angelic expression and tell you a lie.
[00:31:49]  These are the most recruitable people, people who lack moral principles, who are either too greedy or too suffer from self-importance.
[00:31:58]  They feel that they matter a lot.
[00:32:02]  These are the people who KGB wanted very much to recruit.
[00:32:06]  And they did.
[00:32:07]  They recruited people like John Kerry.
[00:32:08]  Someone says, Charlie, how can you not see that John Kerry is evil?
[00:32:11]  For the fourth time, I do believe he is evil.
[00:32:14]  I've said that.
[00:32:15]  I think what he is doing is evil.
[00:32:17]  However, I think he has personally convinced himself that he's doing good.
[00:32:20]  Why does it matter?
[00:32:22]  You might say, Charlie, it means absolutely nothing.
[00:32:23]  No, no, it's super important because we've designed so much of our judgments of people based on intentions.
[00:32:30]  And what I am submitting to you, what I am contesting, is that I don't care if John Kerry thinks he is doing good.
[00:32:40]  And you shouldn't care either.
[00:32:42]  You should care about what is he doing.
[00:32:44]  Is he doing something that is good?
[00:32:46]  And no.
[00:32:47]  And you should use that framework to judge leaders in public office.
[00:32:53]  It does not matter if they mean well.
[00:32:56]  And I don't even think John Kerry necessarily means well, but he's convinced himself that he's a good person.
[00:33:01]  Why is that so dangerous?
[00:33:04]  Because that could catch on to other people.
[00:33:06]  That's why.
[00:33:08]  Because the person who is sneering in the corner saying, I want to torture puppies or whatever, not exactly easy to catch on as a movement.
[00:33:18]  But no, no, no, no.
[00:33:20]  The person who is willing to say, I'm here to save the planet.
[00:33:25]  Let's go do some good.
[00:33:26]  Whoa.
[00:33:28]  You could do a lot of bad stuff that way.
[00:33:31]  So let me be very clear.
[00:33:32]  I think what he is doing is evil.
[00:33:35]  Someone says, Charlie, you are so naive.
[00:33:36]  Of course, John Kerry knows what he is doing.
[00:33:38]  He's intentionally evil.
[00:33:39]  They are a satanic cult.
[00:33:41]  They're doing this for Lucifer.
[00:33:43]  It's actually, the Bible doesn't say that, actually.
[00:33:46]  The Bible says even those people under the influence of Lucifer think they're doing good, very few of them intentionally know what they're doing is evil.
[00:33:57]  Very few.
[00:33:58]  That's a very rare psychological category.
[00:34:03]  Email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:34:05]  Someone says, Charlie, you cite Aristotle, but you say something unsubstantiated.
[00:34:09]  For example, when you say environmentalism means totalitarianism, that is not true.
[00:34:14]  Well, it is true.
[00:34:15]  Environmentalism is a bridge, is a transitory phase to be able to erode private property, destroy any sort of incumbent natural gas advantage that the West has to get us towards a despotic, technological-centered, dystopian future.
[00:34:28]  Besides that, everything's wonderful.
[00:34:30]  A lot of people think that they're doing good.
[00:34:31]  Are you actually doing good?
[00:34:35]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
[00:34:36]  Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:34:40]  Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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