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Kyle Rittenhouse, Daniel Penny, Douglas Mackey, and Is Fox News panicking about their post-Tucker ratings collapse? Is alternative media supplanting the establishment? And did Ron DeSantis take too long to announce his presidential run? Kane of Citizen Free Press joins Charlie to answer all those critical 2024 questions, and many more. Plus, Donald Trump Jr. endured bogus accusations of treason during the Mueller probe. Now, he hits back following the Durham Report's vindication, and Charlie breaks down how a new ranking of the America's best places to live obliterates the left's narratives on diversity as America's "strength."Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Welcome back, everybody.
One of my favorite guests here.
He runs one of the fastest growing websites on the planet, citizenfreepress.com.
And millions and millions and millions of page views.
It is now 60% the size of Drudge.
I go to Citizen Free Press about five or six times a day.
I do my show prep on citizenfreepress.com.
And joining us now is the mastermind behind it all, Citizen Kane.
Mr. Kane, how are we doing?
Doing fantastic, Charlie.
How's it going?
I'm ready to win in 2024.
Can I say that enough?
Yes.
So, but do you have confidence in the current RNC regime to get us there?
Oh, you mean Ronna McDaniel and her fact-checking website?
I saw her on Fox News two weeks ago, I think it was, and they were promoting.
She was talking about the millions they had spent on this Joe Biden fact-checking website.
And anytime Joe said something that perhaps might not be true, all you'd have to do is go to this website and you'd get the real story.
And that's going to turn out 25 million new voters, Charlie.
Yeah.
So the question is: are the investments actually happening?
And so my question is, you know, on your website, you know the CFP community really well.
Are the grassroots like kind of over the RNC?
Have they turned the page?
Oh, completely.
By the way, that was sarcasm before about bringing out 25 million new voters.
If listeners can't tell, I'm not a huge fan of Ronald McDaniel.
Yes, they are over the RNC.
You have no idea.
You know, one of the things about CFP Nation and the people who comment there is it's straight MAGA.
It's pure MAGA.
And it's also people who are really, really well informed.
So they were involved in the Harme Dylan versus Ronna McDaniel RNC chairmanship battle.
And they are absolutely over the RNC.
They don't pay any attention.
They consider it a rhino organization if you want to know the truth.
Yeah, and we have to win, right?
And win at all costs.
And we have to build the infrastructure, invest in the outside groups.
And Kane, you and I were texting back and forth.
I think you sent me a text like 2 a.m. or 3 a.m.
And it was really smart where you said, you know, I'm thinking, this is what keeps me up at night.
Kane, is it time for us to prep the audience, prep the grassroots that one year from today, two things will likely be simultaneously true.
Trump will be the nominee, and he'll probably be facing anywhere between three to four separate criminal indictments.
Is that what we need to prep people for, Kane?
Yeah, well, that's what I try to do on the website.
You know, it's hard to be a truth teller.
People shoot the messenger.
And believe it or not, I wasn't staying awake extra at 3 a.m. when I texted you.
I was still working.
It's amazing.
That's how ridiculous my life is.
So I was still working.
And it just, yeah, it was an article that I just read on the Fannie Willis case.
And, you know, we both, you and I have discussed, there's a large indictment coming there.
It's going to be a conspiracy indictment.
Trump won't be convicted.
Jershowitz kind of confirmed what you and I have said in our previous discussions on this.
She's not going to get a conviction there, but she's going to become famous with the indictment.
And then we're looking at, you know, Jack Smith and DOJ special prosecutor.
And it seems obvious based on the fact that he spent seven hours sitting in on the Mike Pence J6 testimony, that he sat in personally on that.
And then what Julie Kelly has been reporting, it seems obvious to me that he's going to try to get some sort of conspiracy or even possibly, you know, seditious conspiracy charge against President Trump.
And then the fourth possibility is the Mar-a-Lago documents.
That's still out there.
And he's kind of signaled that he's moving into this idea of did Trump tell AIDS to move boxes?
There were a couple of Washington Post stories in the last 10 days about moving boxes.
And there was an implication there that that's an obstruction of justice.
So yes, to answer your question, we have to be prepared.
Look, let's not be surprised when this stuff happens.
He's going to be indicted by Fannie Willis this summer, and Jack Smith is most likely also going to indict before September.
I hope and pray that, you know, I can't remember if we talked about this last time, but there's no way they can keep Trump in prison pre-trial.
I know Julie has warned about.
No.
Yeah.
I just can't see a judge doing it.
Let's walk through this from, because you know the base super well, and I'm in touch with the base too, and we are in this program.
Kane, I think this only helps Trump in a primary.
Do you agree?
I think in a primary, it almost makes his case stronger.
They hate me so much.
I'm such a threat.
They have to indict me in separate jurisdictions.
And I try to drain the swamp and now they're out for revenge.
In a primary, I actually think this makes him ascend in popularity.
Do you agree?
Well, so far, the evidence points to that.
I mean, obviously, we're going to find out as these months pull, you know, as we move forward the next 60 days.
But yeah, look, I've told you before, Trump has gotten 20 to 30 points stronger in most of the polls since December.
DeSantis was close with him.
A lot of it was.
It was neck and neck and it just ended.
The question is, can it get neck and neck again, though, Kane, right?
I mean, if you were to kind of be the DeSantis Brain Trust, you know the base really well, is there a path towards making this competitive again?
Because this seems like a blowout.
And DeSantis is likely going to announce in the next week or two.
That's the biggest open secret in politics right now, right?
So, but is there a path there?
I'm not seeing the desire from the base.
I see people actually coalescing is the word I'm looking for around Trump, not really looking for other options.
Yeah, I don't think, you know, I was thinking about this last night and, you know, and DeSantis having 15 days now to fight, you know, to announce officially.
I don't really know why he's doing it.
I don't believe like others.
I do not believe that DeSantis is a rhino.
I do not believe that he's controlled by the rogues in the bushes.
I really, really like the guy.
I think he's done some fantastic work in Florida.
But the manga base has spoken.
They have coalesced.
That's a good word.
They've coalesced around Trump.
No, I do not see a path for him.
He might, you know, maybe after the Jack Smith indictments, DeSantis may be able to close the, you know, close the numbers by 10 points or so.
But I, look, the reaction of most people, we've seen it from the Durham stuff, right?
The reaction is to get pissed off and to dig deeper.
You know, this is caught, this really, really, on an emotional level, causes people to gravitate more towards Trump.
So I do not see a path for DeSantis.
And so I'm, in a sense, I'm a little bit worried about him because I feel like, look, he went out and raised a bunch of money last fall.
We know that he got, and a lot of people, I think it's disingenuous of people to say, look, that's all rhino money.
Well, you know what?
All of that money was supporting Trump in 2020 because that was the big deal, right?
Oh, these former Trump donors are now backing DeSantis.
So I don't want to criticize DeSantis for that, but he went out, he got money, and I think he's feeling pressure from those groups who are telling him we have to have someone other than Trump.
And he's feeling pressure, and that that's what's sort of pushing him to announce because the numbers do not show a path.
No, I agree.
And DeSantis has objectively been a fabulous governor of Florida, but look, you don't want to run into the Trump chainsaw, man.
Like, it's very hard, it's hard to heal and remedy your political reputation after Trump does what Trump does, right?
It's unique.
There is no precedent.
There is no parallel.
There is nothing like it, right?
He is relentless.
He is engaged.
He's ferocious, right?
And I'm afraid that one of our best governors is about to go through the ringer largely unnecessarily, right?
And so the question of why he's running, he might think he can win.
And maybe the DeSantis calculation is that, hey, you know, these indictments are going to weigh down Trump.
And, you know, DeSantis thinks he's going to attack him on popularity or electability.
And look, I've said before I want DeSantis to run, but I'll be honest, DeSantis missed his moment.
90 days ago, he should have elected.
If he wanted to really run, he should have run in February and March and made this a race, right?
Kane, at this point, we're looking at like 60-point deltas in some of these states.
60, 60, 30 seconds.
Those are big numbers.
Yeah, it's a huge risk, Charlie.
I wonder if you're inside my brain, man, because we think exactly the same.
Why is he going to put himself through the ringer?
Trump is ferocious.
Look, we had, I've got savage.
He's the best at it.
He's completely savage.
And I got the story up from Bobby Kennedy saying Trump is the greatest debater since Lincoln.
Like, why put if your opportunity to win is so small, if your odds are so low, why risk destroying your reputation and your future in order to take him on?
So I'm with you in that boat.
Is there a way for Trump to use the Durham report to preempt the indictments?
I think that if I were to give advice, I think Trump has to get ahead of the summer of indictments against him.
Make it no surprise saying these things are coming.
They're coming after me.
I think you almost have to make it less scintillating news story, right?
Because that's how the media is going to play it.
Independent media is ascendant and corporate media is struggling to find a place.
It's really interesting as we enter 2024.
Websites like Citizen Free Press, Charlie Kirk Show, Rumble are gaining steam and increasing in traffic and notoriety and trust.
Kane, do you have just any thoughts on this?
Top, you know, top of mind.
We're seeing the kind of corporate media Goliaths go under Vice, this expensive model, and the entrepreneurs, the guys like you that grind at 2 or 3 a.m., the shows like ours that work relentlessly.
It seems as if we're the ones that are increasing.
I think this is good for the conservative movement.
Do you agree?
Yeah, absolutely.
I think we got over the hump.
It takes a while.
You have to build up a certain level of momentum and reach out there.
But with Bannon's show, with the success of War Room, with the success of your show, independent media.
Yeah, look, I mean, if you really want to get into it, Washington Times and Washington Examiner were the two biggest conservative websites 15 years ago.
They're now both practically forgotten.
They both do under 20 million page views a month.
And they've been replaced by, you know, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, MySight, Daily Wire, a number of, you know, and then, so, yes, in general, it's the rise of independent media.
It's gaining strength every month, and it's going to help us in 2024, I think.
And so, how do you think Tucker plays into that?
You know, you and I have not a chance to dialogue on Tucker.
The CFP audience, I know, is really fired up on that.
And look, there's some new news out of Fox News.
Why don't you share our audience what the news out of Fox News is?
Well, this is Drudge claiming inside source.
And Mediaite has decided to repeat it.
Please continue.
Exactly.
Mediaite is going with the Drudge, the huge Drudge headlines.
I'm guessing it's Suzanne Scott.
That's likely his source at Fox News.
He's claiming that Fox News is shaking up the primetime lineup completely.
They're going to move Hannity to the 8 p.m. slot where Tucker used to be, and Gutfeld and Jesse Waters will be moved further up after Hannity into primetime.
Now, when Fox was reached for comment in that Mediaite story, they said that they're still looking at things.
But it looks like, you know, I think we at least discussed that Fox's ratings are down dramatically.
Over 50% in the 8 p.m. hour.
They thought this was going to be another Bill O'Reilly.
That was their mistake.
They thought we can get rid of this guy and our audience will forgive us.
They'll go on.
They didn't understand that Tucker brought this entirely new younger audience to Fox News and that viewership has left.
So I believe this is a move born out of panic.
They've been beaten in the, you know, in the important younger demographics multiple times in the past few weeks.
So I think this is a move out of panic.
Look, Hannity does some good stuff.
I don't want to, I'm not against, you know, I understand why people criticize him, but Hannity does good stuff, but he's not going to replace Tucker at eight o'clock.
Yeah, and I think Tucker also brought an ideological excitement to the network that was contrarian and really is where the American people are critical of Ukraine involvement.
Why do we have so many people coming to the country?
Hey, this vaccine thing is not what we said it was.
Panic Drives Fox News Move00:02:04
We're going to challenge corporate power.
And Tucker was unafraid and, of course, ridiculously articulate and just in once in a generation talent.
So you kind of combine the correct ideological approach, an amazing inquisitive talent with just his ability to write monologues and dialogues.
So he's going to Twitter or independent media.
Kane, what does 2024 look like if Tucker is unable to shake his Fox News contract?
Well, that would be horrible.
I was just going to comment.
Apparently, none of us know the details for sure, but rumors are leaking out that Fox News did not put Twitter in the non-compete.
So Tucker may have figured out a way to get paid $20 million a year by Fox, continue the contract, and then run his show on Twitter every night at 8 p.m. opposite Hannity.
So that would be a bit of revenge.
But what would 2024 look like without a voice like Tucker, an independent voice?
I don't want to think about it.
It would be horrific.
We can't lose.
Look, the guy was essentially the leader.
We all watched him every night.
He writes that monologue.
He writes, he spends all day doing it.
He does a fantastic job.
And that was where Patriot, that's where the mocker crowd gathered at 8 o'clock every night.
So if we don't have him, it's very, very bad news.
Yeah.
And you have to wonder who's actually going to be able to successfully then and effectively referee this primary, expose whoever the Democrat nominee is, which will likely be Biden and the entire regime.
Nobody did it quite like Tucker.
We've got to get him back into the arena, and it seems as if there's some lingering contractual issues there, and I hope he can get released soon.
Check out citizenfreepress.com.
Mr. Kane, we're out of time.
Thanks so much.
Loved it.
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We have Donald Trump Jr. joining us now.
Do we have Don on the phone?
We got everything good?
Don, how you doing?
I'm here, buddy.
I'm doing well, man.
How are you?
Yeah, good.
Don, I'm pretty fired up about this.
And, you know, in the previous segment, I was talking about, because I lived through it, and I remember when this was happening to you, the great injustice of the Russia hoax.
I believe this was a seditious conspiracy.
But Don, you lived through it in the sense with the Mueller investigation, which was completely unnecessary.
The lies against you, the Time magazine article and all that.
Don, what is your kind of reaction to how they tried to destroy your life based on a total, complete fabrication and a lie?
Well, listen, I think, obviously, I'm upset about it.
I went through a lot during that period of time.
That was certainly not easy.
I mean, you know, they wanted to try me for treason, Charlie, just so we're clear.
That's a crime punishable by death over nothing.
And they knew it was nothing.
And they all knew, and it didn't stop them.
And then, you know, then you get to the lesser things like millions and millions and millions of dollars on legal fees and getting dragged through the mud and the social and societal stuff that comes along with that kind of stuff.
But if you've been watching the way the left, the deep state, the uni party, if you watch the way that they behave and function, none of this should surprise anyone.
And what should really surprise no one is that absolutely nothing will happen to these people.
That's correct.
You have people who created memes on social media getting, you know, Ricky Vaughn is the character, at least on Twitter.
You had a great Twitter account.
He created a couple of memes.
He's going to go to jail for 10 years for a meme for disinformation.
But the leader of the FBI, people from the CIA, the same people who lied before Congress, whether it's Strzok and those guys, McCabe, lied before Cotton.
Not only do they not have consequences, Charlie, they get jobs at CNN and MSDNC.
They live happily ever after.
Where are the people that I've heard for the last seven years since we got into this stuff?
Where are the people screaming about democracy and the dies in darkness and all the hyperbole that we hear about those things?
Because they're strangely silent this week.
And they get cable news contracts.
They don't have their security clearances pulled.
Put up that Time magazine cover.
That was right when the lie against Don was coming out.
And they were doing everything they possibly can around this.
This was a seditious coup, a seditious conspiracy launched by the deep state itself.
And Don, my frustration with the whole Durham thing is like, okay, we have this report.
It confirms what we already knew five years ago, thanks to Kash Patel and Devin Nunez, right?
It's not exactly like it was new information.
And where was Durham's gusto that we see against Douglas Mackey?
I think that's such an important point, Don, where you have Douglas Mackey, who made memes, faces a decade in prison.
They go after Steve Bannon for lying to Congress, who now he faces prison time.
They go after Dinesh D'Souza for illegal campaign contributions.
They raid James O'Keefe's home.
I mean, the list continues on.
They're going to increase, according to all public reporting, the dragnet of January 6th defendants.
And so, Don, how should we approach this then, right?
Because some people are getting rather cynical and upset.
What is the best way the MAGA base can react to this repeated pattern of injustice?
Well, listen, I think you have to re-elect Donald Trump first and foremost.
I think that's the one guy who now gets it.
He knows where the bodies are buried.
He knows who he can trust.
He's not, you've seen, you know, sort of the billionaire donors that don't exactly want what the MABA base wants, try to abandon him and these sorts of things.
He's the one guy that can burn it all down to the ground because that's what has to happen, Charlie.
I mean, this is stage four cancer.
You've got to cut this stuff out.
You can't just say, okay, well, maybe we'll remove one guy's security clearance.
No, no, he'll get a job at Raytheon in two weeks.
His buddy will take care of him.
That's how this system works.
It's all driven around money.
And that's not money to benefit the American people.
That's money in the pockets of these people, these players.
That's why they're playing the game that way.
And again, when they're constantly rewarded, despite being bad actors, despite if they were conservatives, if they were a small guy that wasn't part of the club, they'd be in jail.
But the fact that nothing's going to happen to them, that this report gets slowrolled, I mean, we knew all this information five years ago, Charlie.
This is nothing new or surprising.
Exactly, people.
But it takes five years to do it.
And that's the problem.
We do, you know, and I get it.
Listen, I'm guilty of it myself.
We were right about the Wuhan Lab League theory.
Of course, we were right.
There was never a point where that wasn't like 100% the most plausible answer.
We were right about this.
But guess what?
We sit there, we told you so.
We knew we were right.
You know, every conspiracy theory, like virtually everyone, I mean, has been proven to be about 100% accurate two years later.
The problem is the other side got what they wanted from it at the time.
They notched the win.
They're laughing their asses off at us, Charlie, because they get the win.
You know, a couple of years later, you know, there's been exactly zero mainstream coverage of the Durham report, of the conclusions that we all knew.
Didn't stop them from doing any of these things.
And it's not going to stop them again because, again, they continually, they're rewarded for these kinds of behaviors.
They're not penalized.
No, that's exactly right.
And in fact, they are more emboldened than ever before.
And so, look, we got 2024 in front of us, Don.
It feels as if, I must feel for you, Don, you've had kind of like the BC and AD part of your life, like before the escalator and after the escalator, right?
I mean, like, what was that life even before?
And I think your attitude is correct.
It's like, look, this is my new life.
We're going to play to win.
We're not going to complain.
And so, Don, they're going to do everything they possibly can to launch, you know, Crossfire Hurricane 2.0 to try to throw kind of a new COVID issue into the 2024 election.
But first, we have to get through the primary.
Don, any initial reaction to the results out of Kentucky last evening?
It could show the power of a certain person's endorsement and the lack of power from somebody else.
What is your reaction?
Well, I think without question, you see that.
You saw the, you know, the Jacksonville mayor's race.
You know, we lost a Jacksonville mayor race, the town where Ron DeSantis was going to have his campaign headquarters when he eventually launches the largest, I believe it's the largest city in America that has been controlled by conservatives.
But he throws an endorsement, but then does nothing because he's on a perpetual book tour.
It's literally the longest book tour I've ever seen, Charlie, and I've written a couple of bestsellers.
It's longer than McCain's future.
You understand how that works.
That's like a book tour is three or four days over a period of 10 days.
You do a little bit of push on social afterwards, but no one's ever seen a six-month-long book tour while, you know, again, Florida or the people of Jacksonville or the candidates supposedly endorsed is neglected.
So we handed over the largest city in America in a red state controlled by Republicans right back over to the Democrats.
I'm sure that will work out well.
But that's what happens.
You know, the people of Florida, and I'm one of them, you know, the people of Florida elected Ron DeSantis to be governor, not to be running for two.
Is this going to happen for the rest of two years where there's going to be absentee leadership so he can fulfill something else after literally campaigning about fixing Florida and working on the things in Florida about five months ago?
I mean, that seems like a pretty serious bait and switch, and people have to think about that.
Yeah, and this seems as if, look, I'm getting frustrated because this is an unnecessary primary exercise in a lot of different ways.
Then you have all these one percenters that have almost no appeal whatsoever.
And the issue is this, Don.
They're going to have a coronation.
We're going to have a bidder primary, right?
Unless something changes, which doesn't seem as if that's going to happen.
And so, Don, the message of the MAGA base is that we should try to end this primary as quickly as possible, build a sizable operation and infrastructure in the early states.
And Don, you're the one saying it.
We're trying to do this at turning point action.
We need ballot chasers.
We need early voting operations.
Every dollar, Charlie, every dollar that we spend in a bidder primary so that a couple of really, really rich consultants can take 20% of every commercial that they put up for DeSantis or the others, that they can take 20% of every dollar raised when people send in campaign contributions to that.
Those guys are going to see $20, $30, $40, $50 million this cycle to themselves.
That's not raised.
That's into their pockets.
Campaign consultants, many of them, not exactly stellar records for success, but it doesn't matter.
They're getting rich.
They could care less about the ideology or the mission.
They're going to use it for fuel for their private plans.
That's the game, and people don't understand that.
And so every dollar, those guys need people like Aron DeSantis to run.
That's how they're going to get rich this cycle.
If they don't run, they don't make that money.
Therefore, they're going to do whatever they can to make sure that there's a campaign.
They're going to make sure they spend as much money as possible because they're going to earn umpteen.
You know how big some of those percentages are for some of these guys.
This is the hardest.
They get kickbacks and all the other pieces.
So every dollar that we waste in a bidder primary doing something that seems futile to me, maybe they can drag it out and make it more bitter and make it harder.
But every dollar we waste on that is a dollar we're not spending playing the game the Democrats have been playing, creating a ballot harvesting operation, making sure we get out there to those people, making sure we don't just say, hey, great, you love our ideas, that's wonderful.
But making sure we show up on their doorstep and be like, okay, give us your ballot.
We'll take it.
We'll submit it for you like the Democrats are doing.
We got to do that.
Each state is different and we're legal.
We got to do it.
But we need a serious war chest.
The other side is funded to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
The average race in America, we're being able to spend two, three, four, many times more than five to one.
Okay.
So it's not their ideas versus our ideas in a vacuum, in an equal space.
It's their ideas versus our ideas when they have 5x the spending.
They have a mainstream media that's almost 100% functioning as their marketing department.
They have a big tech enterprise that will smother anything negative like you see with the Durham report.
I mean, if it wasn't for a few people in social like you and me talking about this stuff, the mainstream media will cover it exactly zero.
Big tech will bolster that.
Big social will do the same.
And, you know, we're not in a fair fight, guys.
If you think that, you know, that's an opportunity that they're pushing these days.
We're actually winning culturally, in my opinion, right now.
But you can't win culturally when you have insurmountable obstacles, you know, like 10x, the money being spent, plus all the boosting from multi-trillion dollar organizations that are literally the most partisan and corrupted places, you know, outside of the FBI and DOJ that we could ever imagine.
In closing, Don, about one minute remaining, you do a show on Rumble.
I think independent media is going to be the key to the 2024 election.
What is your reaction?
I know you said you're no longer, you're not doing Fox anytime soon.
I'm just paraphrasing some of your tweets.
What can you share with your audience on the changing media landscape or our audience about that?
I think it's fascinating.
Yeah, listen, you know, I think, you know, I think we've seen a lot.
I think our eyes have been open to a lot in the media and both conservative and otherwise.
I think if we're not paying attention right now, then it is futile.
But I think people's eyes have to be open.
People have to also then get involved.
I mean, the biggest thing and so much of the design of so many of the things that they have done is to make us afraid, make you afraid to speak up, make you afraid to donate, make you afraid to voice your opinion and push back on the insanity that they're pushing.
I mean, again, whether it's the trans crap and the, you know, men and women's sports and all, like, the other side's lost their mind.
That's why I do think we're winning the culture wars.
We must, though, become unafraid, Charlie.
We have to be out there.
We have to be vocal.
We can do that respectfully.
But if you send one guy out there with Donald Trump by himself and you and me backing him up, like they can take us out.
They've proven that.
They can't do that if half the country, 175 million Americans.
I'm sure there's plenty of independents that are watching this stuff and saying, oh, my God, what's going on here?
We must become unafraid.
We must mobilize or it will all disappear and they will get what they want.
Donald Trump Jr., check out his show on Rumble.
It does a great job.
And Rumble Independent Media is doing very, very well.
Finally, a competitor to YouTube.
Don, thanks so much.
Really appreciate it.
Thank you, Charlie.
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What are the best places to live in America?
I mean, they come up with these reports all the time, but it's fascinating that U.S. News, who they think, where they think the best places to live in America are come move to these places.
What is desirable right now?
It's very interesting, and it's against so many of the mantras, so many of the orthodoxies, so many of the incantations that we hear.
Time and time again, people tell us what, oh, this is what makes America the best.
Do you know this?
But when they put together the list, it doesn't necessarily harmonize with the bumper sticker crowd.
It's fascinating.
U.S. News ranks the best places to live in the United States in 2023, 2024.
And we're going to commit some thought crimes.
I'm going to do so very carefully, but we're going to go through what they consider to be the best places to live in America.
How often have you heard diversity is our strength?
Diversity is our strength.
Diversity is our strength.
And I've always said, no, it's not.
That's not our strength.
Unity is your strength.
Intellectual diversity is nice, but racial diversity, just for the sake of it, is not anybody's strength.
It could be interesting, but it's not necessarily strength because racial makeup doesn't mean a lot, but the left thinks it does.
So U.S. News and Report has come out, ranks the best places to live in the United States in 2023 and 24.
And you can't help but notice when you go through the list of the top 10 of the best places to live, it goes completely against the left's cultish incantation of diversity is our strength.
So U.S. News Reports come out with the top 10 places to live.
Number one, Fayetteville, number 10, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Number nine, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Number eight, Charlotte.
Seven, Portland, Maine.
Six, Naples, Florida.
Five, Sarasota.
Four, Boulder, Colorado, which I got to be honest, I strongly disagree with.
Three, Raleigh in Durham, North Carolina, two, Huntsville, Alabama.
And number one, Green Bay, Wisconsin.
That's an interesting one to pick.
And so you have to ask the question.
They say, well, why did they pick that as number one?
It's just so funny.
They say, well, Green Bay, Wisconsin is a great place because of low crime, housing affordability, and they say high air quality.
Okay.
Right.
I'm sure that that really plays a big role in it.
Or is it just that Green Bay, Wisconsin is similar to the country that we have destroyed?
Green Bay still feels like the country that once existed.
I've been to Green Bay many times.
I love Green Bay, Wisconsin.
I've been there for Trump rallies.
I've been there to meet friends.
I've actually never gone to a Packer game there, planned to.
But what you notice when you go to Green Bay, Wisconsin, which strikes you and you moves you, is it's not an urban metroplex.
It's not an urban metropolis.
When I first went to Green Bay, the first time I ever went to Green Bay, I grew up in Chicago.
It's not too far away.
You're like, this is like Schomburg.
This is like a suburb.
And it's actually really nice.
It's very orderly.
You see, Green Bay, which is now independently called the nicest place to live in the country, is a country, is a city that believes in the rule of law, that doesn't believe in unlimited mass migration.
Green Bay is also against the demographic changes that they're pushing forward.
It's just a fact.
I'm not saying there's any reason for this, but they're celebrating Green Bay, Wisconsin.
They're really big into Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Okay.
Well, did you know that Green Bay, Wisconsin is 71% white?
It's interesting.
Are you allowed to even say that out loud?
I'm not saying there's a reason for that, but it also is against this idea that diversity is necessarily our strength.
And if you go through the list, you know what you notice in the top 10 best cities to live?
They're far away from the urban centers of San Francisco and Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago.
Those used to be some of the best places to live.
Now the best places to live are the farthest away you possibly can get from these urban centers.
Maybe Green Bay, Wisconsin, is popular because it's intimate.
It hasn't been overly industrialized.
The buildings aren't that tall.
People still drive.
They own land.
Maybe Green Bay, Wisconsin is considered the nicest place to live because there is a memory of what used to be.
The best places to live in America are largely the ones on the U.S. News Report list, places that have avoided becoming too popular, too urban, and too overcrowded.
Maybe the rush to the cities has been a very bad idea.
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Maybe importing millions of foreigners into our country is a bad idea.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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