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Spending Control and Debt Ceiling
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| Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, a strong take in opposition against medically assisted suicide. | |
| And then also we have Senator Rick Scott who joins the program to discuss his opposition to the debt ceiling bill. | |
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| I share the frustration towards D.C. | |
| This man should be the leader of the Republicans in the Senate. | |
| I sure hope that happens sometime soon. | |
| I'm going to do everything I possibly can to make it so. | |
| Senator Rick Scott, who is a businessman entrepreneur, and was an excellent governor of Florida, and I think we need to remind people of that and is doing a great job as a senator. | |
| Senator Rick Scott, welcome back to the program. | |
| Charlie, it's always great to be with you. | |
| Stop and think about this. | |
| I've spent the last two weeks traveling my state. | |
| What do people bring up? | |
| Inflation, inflation. | |
| They're worried about retirement benefits, worried about medical bills. | |
| It's all about cost, right? | |
| It's all about government is causing costs to be too high. | |
| So what's happening? | |
| Oh, we have a debt ceiling bill that's going to raise the debt by at least $4 trillion, which is going to cause more inflation. | |
| It does nothing to do with inflation. | |
| It has nothing to stop inflation, does nothing to help people get comfortable that retirement benefits are going to be there or that we're going to get medical bills down. | |
| So this makes no sense. | |
| We have forgotten who we represent up here. | |
| So, Senator, the Senate has, in my opinion, been kind of MIA in this whole thing. | |
| It's been framed as McCarthy v. Biden, McCarthy v. Biden. | |
| When there's an upper chamber here and it takes 60 votes to pass, have you personally been a little frustrated about the absence of Senate, let's just say, voice? | |
| Was that an intentional thing by Leader McConnell? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| He said, we're not going to, he said, you know, Republican senators are not going to be involved. | |
| I was. | |
| Mike Lee was. | |
| Ron Johnson was. | |
| Rand Paul was. | |
| Ted Cruz was. | |
| Mike Braun were. | |
| But so many people just sat on the sidelines and said, well, whatever they do will be fine with us. | |
| Well, it's not fine. | |
| It's not helping Americans get their life back in order. | |
| So I think we have to be vocal about, one, we should support the House when they're doing something logical. | |
| We should do everything we can to make things better when we can. | |
| But we have a voice and it takes 60 of our votes. | |
| It'll take nine Republicans to pass this. | |
| So just playing this out and gaming this out, do you anticipate Republicans and Democrats coming together to get 60 votes? | |
| I mean, if 41 Republicans were in agreement, this could potentially have some issues. | |
| Well, you would hope, but let's remember, two years ago, Mitch McCollum came to Republican lunch and said, hey, it takes 10 of us to help the Democrats vote for a debt ceiling increase. | |
| So here's what we're going to do. | |
| 11 of us are going to vote to let them do it on their own. | |
| So think about it. | |
| We unfortunately have people in the Senate that are not willing to fight to deal with the issues of the country. | |
| I mean, we have a spending problem. | |
| We do not have a revenue problem. | |
| We have record revenue. | |
| We have a spending problem. | |
| And we've got to get our spending under control. | |
| And do what you do. | |
| Charlie, you say, you know, this is my income. | |
| And so this is how I'm going to spend my money. | |
| There's going to be, there's always, there's always a nice to have that you don't do. | |
| Your government's got to do the same thing. | |
| And by the way, let's get people back to work. | |
| Let's do some basic things here. | |
| Make it easier for companies to grow. | |
| When I was governor of Florida, I walked in with a budget deficit, right? | |
| We had a big budget deficit, $4 billion. | |
| I said, we're going to get people back to work and grow the economy. | |
| And guess what? | |
| I was able to basically grow the economy every year and almost no increase in per capita cost of government. | |
| Why do we do that here? | |
| Charlie, since 2019, we've had a 1.8% increase in our population in the country. | |
| The Biden budget, which is what we're negotiating on, is up 55% in five years. | |
| 55%. | |
| I mean, this is what we fought against. | |
| We fought against the government running our entire lives. | |
| We won when we beat the Soviet Union, who did this. | |
| And we're doing the same stuff. | |
| We're letting our government control every bit of our lives. | |
| We're giving away our freedoms all the time. | |
| They're telling us, oh, you have to have this permit and that permit and this. | |
| You have to comply with this regulation. | |
| We've got to stop making it easier for people. | |
| And by the way, if you're able-bodied, get your button to work. | |
| God, get it if you got young kids. | |
| But otherwise, get to work. | |
| You don't get to go get all these government freebies that are supposed to be for the people that are struggling. | |
| Let's talk about that. | |
| So one of the contentions right now, and again, we've had people all across the board, and I have to tell you, Senator, it's unclear, is work requirements. | |
| Are we getting work requirements in this bill? | |
| Or are we not getting work requirements in this bill? | |
| And Senator, why is it that we have to write these things in a way where I can't get a solid answer? | |
| I've been asking, I get totally different answers. | |
| I mean, yes, no, completely opposite. | |
| It seems like sometimes it's intentional. | |
| But so here's what we did. | |
| What we should be doing is if you're able-bodied, okay, and I have a bill. | |
| It's called Let's Get to Work, which is my slogan back in 10 and 14, actually when I ran for the Senate too, is if you're able-bodied, you know, you can pick a logical age, but let's say 60. | |
| All right, you don't go on food stamps if you're not willing to go get a job and you can't, you shouldn't do public housing. | |
| I lived in public housing. | |
| I don't think it's right that people get subsidized housing if they just want to sit home and play video games or something. | |
| Get your button geared. | |
| I get it if you have young kids. | |
| So here's what we did. | |
| In this bill, it's going to increase it, but not to 60, increase it to 54. | |
| But then there's other groups, right? | |
| And these are good groups, veterans, as an example. | |
| I think we ought to do everything that we can to help veterans. | |
| But you don't get to just be a veteran and then, if you don't want to apply for a job, you get food stamps. | |
| I mean, that doesn't make sense. | |
| That's not fair to the rest of us. | |
| If you're homeless, you don't have to do it. | |
| You know, you can apply for a job, you know, and there's a lot of jobs out there. | |
| So, yeah, even the CBO said what they ultimately are going to do is going to cost us more money, not less. | |
| You think that if we put in real work requirements, our costs will go down. | |
| But no CBO even said, oh, this is going to, what they propose is going to cost more money. | |
| Now, look, I'd agree that this is probably very difficult for Kevin McCarthy to negotiate because Biden doesn't care. | |
| The Democrats don't care. | |
| I get how hard that is. | |
| But we have got to stop and say to ourselves, what's good for the American public? | |
| Getting people back to work is good for the American public. | |
| My mom, my mom told me, and we grew up, we lived in public housing. | |
| My mom had no money. | |
| I had a single mom. | |
| She said, you're not going on government programs. | |
| You're going to go get a job. | |
| Senator, this is such rational stuff. | |
| And so let me just read this here. | |
| And the speaker's office released this. | |
| They said that this reclaims $50 billion in unobligated, unspent COVID funding. | |
| It has the full Reigns Act to ensure Congress approve every major regulation, stronger work requirement for SnapTanf and Medicaid. | |
| And then they say it's $1.5 trillion in cuts. | |
| Senator, is it cuts or is it slowdowns in the rates of the expected growth of government? | |
| So I think most Americans would say if you cut something, you actually reduced, you know, if you spent $10, a cut would be if you got it for $8, right? | |
| So up here, what they want to say is, well, we anticipated spending a lot more. | |
| So if we don't quite spend as much more, we got a cut there. | |
| So I don't think that's how the American public think, but that's how they talk about it up here. | |
| The Biden budget is going to take us to, I think, almost $50 trillion worth of debt. | |
| There's a day of reckoning here. | |
| Interest rates are already ridiculously high because of government spending. | |
| So yeah, the cuts are reduced anticipated future spending. | |
| We're not actually, if we're cutting, actually, we wouldn't have to raise the debt ceiling, right? | |
| If we actually reduce the expenditures, we would have to have a bill here. | |
| We wouldn't have to raise the debt ceiling. | |
| So we know that's not true. | |
| It's a reduction in what they anticipate increased spending would be. | |
| So, and we don't have the Reigns Act is not in the bill, right? | |
| The Reigns Act would actually help our companies reduce the regulatory environment and grow jobs in the country. | |
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Focus on Summer Meats
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| It's not going to do that. | |
| So, I mean, it's, look, I'm appreciative that people tried hard. | |
| But if you look at what this does, it does nothing to help people in my state. | |
| It does nothing to reduce inflation. | |
| That's the biggest issue we've got. | |
| It does nothing to help people get comfortable. | |
| They have retirement benefits that are going to be there or their medical bills are going to go down. | |
| We need to pass a bill that focuses on the things that the American public cares about. | |
| And if we do, guess what? | |
| We'll win elections. | |
| But it's actually not just about winning elections. | |
| It's about doing the right thing. | |
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Pipeline Justice and Answers
00:06:27
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| So, Senator, what can change then? | |
| Because we want solutions. | |
| This is going to pass, but people want answers. | |
| What structurally needs to change? | |
| I mean, I know you did your best to try to change Senate leadership. | |
| Would it have meant something if Senator McConnell said, no, no, no, no, I want a seat at the table? | |
| Because would that have meant something? | |
| Instead, it was just kind of this, ah, whatever. | |
| I want time off or something. | |
| Yeah, Charlie, it takes nine Republicans to pass something in the Senate. | |
| So those nine Republican votes, we should make this better. | |
| And that's what we should do. | |
| So we have got to start saying we are part of the solution and we're going to demand action that improves the lot for Americans. | |
| I mean, why are we here? | |
| I say to myself, what's my purpose every day? | |
| Why am I here? | |
| I am here because I've told Floridians that I would work my butt off every day to make their lives better. | |
| Now, it wasn't to give them free money. | |
| People won't send me to go give them free money. | |
| What they do is they want good government. | |
| They want somebody that's going to follow the Constitution. | |
| They want somebody that's going to say, I'm going to do my best to create an economy where every Floridian can flourish and do well, that their kids can get a great education, live in a safe community, make sure we have a strong military. | |
| That's what they sent me to do, not to give away their money to somebody. | |
| So what can you do? | |
| You need to be very vocal of what your expectations are. | |
| People are going to come for your votes. | |
| They're going to come for your donations. | |
| They're going to come to ask you to volunteer for their campaign. | |
| Be demanding. | |
| Demand what you want out of your government, and you're going to get it. | |
| If all Americans demand better government, accountable government, responsible government, that's what you're going to get. | |
| If we're bystanders and we say, oh, there's not much we can do here. | |
| This is too hard. | |
| You know, just think something bad could happen. | |
| I could be accused of things. | |
| It might not work perfectly. | |
| Guess what? | |
| Then the wrong people control our destiny. | |
| I want the people that care about every Floridian and every American to control our destiny. | |
| And that's what you should make sure you elect. | |
| Senator, I want to get your thoughts on this. | |
| I know it's some breaking news, and the NRSC has released a press release on it. | |
| I'm sure you saw it. | |
| Jim Justice, who is the governor of West Virginia and wants to become the senator, a poll comes out that shows he's up 25 points on Joe Manchin in a perspective one-on-one. | |
| Today, the Department of Justice, run by Joe Biden, announces civil action into his coal companies. | |
| Senator, this is getting wildly out of control. | |
| And I mean, one of the complaints that I have to have about this debt ceiling thing personally is why didn't we use it as leverage to defund the police state that we're living in? | |
| So, Senator, now this is the Department of Justice actively involving themselves in a Senate election in West Virginia. | |
| Well, let's think about what do these totalitarian governments do? | |
| Well, they use the departments of their government to attack opponents. | |
| So, what do we have? | |
| We have IRS doing it. | |
| We have DOJ doing it. | |
| We have FBI doing it. | |
| And so we have got to stop and say to ourselves, this is really bad. | |
| We cannot have a government that attacks their opponents. | |
| I mean, that's not how we thought this country was going to be created and run. | |
| So we have to be vocal that this has to stop. | |
| And by the way, in this deal, Joe Manchin gets a win, right? | |
| And it might actually be something that is good policy. | |
| But what we're doing is we reward Joe Manchin for doing bad things last year by supporting a bill and then doing The big spending bill that they did. | |
| And so now he gets his pipeline, which might be good policy that we have that pipeline. | |
| But why don't we, why didn't we do the Keystone pipeline? | |
| Why didn't we do others? | |
| Because it was just the Biden administration helping Joe Manchin. | |
| And then you look at this, and it sure looks like your federal government is attacking Republican opponents. | |
| When the FBI will not explain why they raided Mar-a-Lago, all right, they can't explain that, and they, and they have to. | |
| The FBI DOJ worked for us. | |
| Every time I talked to them, I said, you guys don't understand. | |
| Americans are losing trust in you because you're not open and direct about the people. | |
| Why do you more than distrust the cynicism, Senator? | |
| And I know you're on the right side of this, but if Leader McConnell is watching all this, they're going to come for you next. | |
| They will not stop. | |
| And this is them. | |
| This is a warning shot that, okay, you know, yeah, okay, Trump, we don't say anything, or Steve Bannon, we don't say anything, or Dinesh D'Souza, or James O'Keefe. | |
| You know, those are the fringe MAGA people. | |
| Oh, really? | |
| Now, one of the chosen, which I support, by the way, Jim Justice, I think, will win by big points. | |
| Whatever. | |
| He's not with me on every issue, but whatever. | |
| I want to win. | |
| Now it comes for an NRIC chosen candidate. | |
| You know this, Senator. | |
| We got to fight now. | |
| This FBI is a super PAC of the Democrat Party with subpoena and arrest power. | |
| It is Soviet, pure, and simple. | |
| Senator Scott, thank you for your courage. | |
| I appreciate it. | |
| Joey, thanks for what you do each and every day. | |
| Thank you. | |
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Terminal Diagnosis in Secular Society
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| It's an issue that I have not commented on in quite some time. | |
| I've had strong opinions on it, but it's one of those issues that's kind of out on the fringes and you talk about in more philosophical discussions, and you don't always get into the weeds of just how evil it is, but it seems to be accelerating. | |
| Similar to the trans thing and the LGBT thing, this is now something that you just can't escape. | |
| And it's not some sort of thing that is just an abstraction. | |
| It is real. | |
| So some of you may or may not know about a doctor that I put doctor in a doctor in quotes, Dr. Kvorkian. | |
| Dr. Kvorkian was known as Dr. Death. | |
| Anytime there's a last name that ends in IAN, you can almost guarantee they're Armenian. | |
| I love Armenians. | |
| And it says in his bio, he's an Armenian-American pathologist. | |
| I think it's an insult to all Armenians because I think he was an evil man. | |
| Dr. Kvorkian was the pioneer of modern physician-assisted suicide or medical assisted suicide, saying that people have a right to die. | |
| Kvorkian said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that end. | |
| He was convicted of murder for good reason in 1999 and was portrayed in the media with the name Dr. Death. | |
| In 1998, Kvorkian was arrested and tried for his role in voluntary euthanasia of a man named Thomas Yook, who had Lou Gehrig's disease, or ALS. | |
| He was eventually convicted of second-degree murder and served eight years of a 10 to 25-year prison sentence. | |
| It was kind of the test case of can you use the guise of medicine to do something immoral and wrong. | |
| One of the great challenges that I have in my advocacy and my discourse is trying to deprogram people's fascination and, quite honestly, idolatry of doctors for doctors' sake. | |
| There are some amazing doctors that have helped me tremendously. | |
| There's also some crummy doctors. | |
| Not every doctor knows what they're doing. | |
| Not every doctor is an expert. | |
| At the same time, there are life-saving doctors that have operated on me and I'm sure have operated on you. | |
| So I don't want to paint with too broad of a brush. | |
| But just because you are a doctor, just because it's done in a medical setting, does not automatically give you the medical equivalent of papal infallibility. | |
| Same as people that say, well, you know, you have to trust the medicine when it comes to the medical experts, when it comes to trans surgeries. | |
| Trust the science. | |
| We saw that with early treatments and masks and locking down schools. | |
| They're using the same coded language. | |
| They are piggybacking on the unearned but given trust that scientists and medical experts have to now legalize and popularize one of the more disgusting things that I think a society can embrace, which is to intentionally murder our old people. | |
| That is not an exaggeration. | |
| Suicide is evil. | |
| Now, I'm not trying to bash people that struggle with that sort of ideation. | |
| I'm not even trying to make you feel bad if you have a son or a daughter that committed suicide. | |
| I feel really sorry for you. | |
| Beyond some of my closest friends growing up committed suicide. | |
| Someone I literally played football with and I consider one of my closest friends killed himself. | |
| But there really is no way around it morally. | |
| Suicide is murder. | |
| And outsourcing that suicide in a medical context is also evil. | |
| So medical assisted suicide, other cause euthanasia, is now legal in seven states in America. | |
| But it really is catching fire in a super creepy way in Canada. | |
| I don't think there's any audio to this video. | |
| So I'm going to do the best I can to narrate it. | |
| But this is a TikTok video that makes you cry, honestly. | |
| It pokes at your humanity. | |
| If you have a soul, you cannot watch this video and say, yeah, this is perfectly fine. | |
| This is why I truly believe that you can't always measure everything between charts and graphs and peer-reviewed studies. | |
| That is not the only form of knowing. | |
| That sort of empirical data is important. | |
| If you ask a college kid, well, prove to me that this is wrong or right. | |
| They try to go to some study. | |
| No, no, no, no. | |
| Sometimes you can know things through your natural reason, the logos that the Lord has given you. | |
| So there is sound to this video. | |
| Thank you. | |
| What you'll see here is a young lady and her grandmother in a TikTok video. | |
| Basically, she says, This is the last time I'm able to take my grandmother out to a restaurant because my grandmother wants to do euthanasia, medically assisted suicide. | |
| And then she sort of quasi-celebrates it. | |
| What is going on in the West? | |
| I'll explain in a second. | |
| PlayCut 36. | |
| What are your thoughts as you move closer to the day? | |
| It's like the light at the end of the tunnel. | |
| What is the actual day like? | |
| I know, like they said, an appointment, digital injection, putting you to sleep. | |
| And the big pain is a trip in the hand to provide for the little vowels. | |
| And then once you're in a deep sleep, there are other two other injections you get. | |
| At that point, you don't know. | |
| So it's painless. | |
| Are you nervous? | |
| Are you excited? | |
| How do you feel? | |
| Looking forward to it. | |
| Just putting an end to being dependent. | |
| I've always made my own decisions for myself. | |
| In living, I trust I will end death. | |
| I do believe my husband is there saying it's about time. | |
| And I'll say, hi, Arn. | |
| I'm here. | |
| That's it. | |
| This is what you get in secular society. | |
| When you believe life is an accident, yeah, why not end it? | |
| I don't want to be dependent. | |
| If you believe life is a series of obligations to the divine, then you want to maximize every breath that you have been given. | |
| If you believe that the divine have invested in you to do something, then you would not seek out an end to that with your will. | |
| You would do the opposite. | |
| You would try to spend as much time that you have with what you control to help other people. | |
| What she is saying to her grandmother, Allie Tate Cutler, who's a plus-size Victoria Secret model and self-love coach, ah, that's what leads to this. | |
| I'll talk about that in a second. | |
| She's doing something incredibly immoral. | |
| She's saying to her granddaughter, I've given you all that you need. | |
| There's nothing more you can learn from me. | |
| There's nothing else I can give to you. | |
| No more duty or obligation stories I could share, a shoulder to cry on. | |
| I just, I'm done. | |
| If life is about self-pleasure and self-love, you can logically come to that conclusion. | |
| If life is more about duty and obligation, then you would find that repulsive. | |
| You'd say, it doesn't matter if I'm in pain. | |
| I have more to do. | |
| I have more to give. | |
| I have more to serve. | |
| Do you see the service mentality versus the pleasure mentality? | |
| You see, the Ten Commandments, the only one of the Ten Commandments that laid out, I had a promise and also involved your nation is honor your mother and father so that you may live long in the land of which you are in. | |
| Honor comes from a Hebrew word to treat heavily or to take heavily. | |
| To go lightly also means to curse. | |
| That's not treating your elders heavily or to take them seriously. | |
| It is institutional disregard for your elders. | |
| This is not liberty. | |
| This is eventually going to institutionalize and glorify the further continuation of a culture of death. | |
| One out of three of suicides in Canada are medically assisted according to rebel news. | |
| Now, some people might say, well, in this clip, the grandmother seems fine, that she just kind of wants to release herself into death. | |
| And I say to this, you should not have laws, a culture, or public propaganda that plays into the selfish need, wants, or desires of that elderly woman. | |
| She's basically saying, I've given all I possibly can. | |
| Really? | |
| You have? | |
| There's nothing else that you can contribute to society? | |
| That your duty is totally fold? | |
| No, no. | |
| She wants to do the one thing that we as Christians believe only the divine gets to do. | |
| She wants to referee life and death, which is the exact same animating force of the trans and the abortion situation. | |
| Instead of saying, I want to model how to finish the race with grace, I want to keep giving my life to my grandkids. | |
| I'm going to show that you are going to keep on contributing. | |
| Another problem with this, if I have not persuaded you with you, which I think is totally something that is a fact, is it makes it easier for young kids to think it's no big deal to kill yourself. | |
| Life is just something to kind of be discarded. | |
| You don't like it. | |
| You're in pain. | |
| You want to be a dependent? | |
| You just kind of push a button. | |
| You're done with it. | |
| As if life is just some sort of happy accident of Darwinian evolution. | |
| You look up to your elders and now a TikTok video. | |
| I guarantee you that a young person either killed themselves or got closer to suicide because of that video. | |
| It's been everywhere. | |
| It's viral. | |
| So someone who is struggling with suicidal ideation sees an elder totally at peace with exiting their own life. | |
| A religious society, in more particular, one that is based on the truths of the Bible, which built the West, would find this repulsive, of which it is. | |
| It would be challenging and say, look, I know you don't want to be dependent. | |
| I know not your pain. | |
| You have consciousness. | |
| You have agency, you have free will. | |
| What else can you give? | |
| Are there letters you can write to future generations? | |
| Are there memories you can recollect? | |
| Are there speeches that you can give? | |
| Are there young people you can counsel? | |
| What she's basically saying in the video, with all due respect, is that I've mentored enough people. | |
| I've helped enough people. | |
| Nah, I'm done with this world. | |
| Doesn't matter if other people are suffering. | |
| Why are you here, grandma? | |
| Are you here just for yourself? | |
| Or maybe you're here to ease the suffering of another? | |
| She's saying, nah, I'm done. | |
| A religious society would say only God knows the time and place. | |
| It is not up to the human will. | |
| And now, unfortunately, this sweet woman, by all accounts, she looks sweet. | |
| This will be her legacy. | |
| Her legacy will be pulling the plug on her own terms, as if I'm in charge of that. | |
| I want your thoughts. | |
| Do you think there's any redeeming qualities to medically assisted suicide? | |
| I think it's sad. | |
| I think it's tragic. | |
| I don't mean to bash this woman. | |
| I mean, she's likely deceased by now. | |
| If she hasn't, maybe she'll reconsider. | |
| I hope she does. | |
| I don't like any of this. | |
| I don't like a culture of death. | |
| I don't like the celebration of disregarding what the divine has given us. | |
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| One of the more depressing aspects of this story of the grandmother that was celebrating her willful plan. | |
| I don't know if it was followed through. | |
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| If she's still alive, I hope you reconsider. | |
| You can reconsider. | |
| Was the comments. | |
| Now, they say that she has a terminal diagnosis. | |
| That's nothing to be toyed with. | |
| Terminal diagnosis means you're going to die. | |
| Guess what? | |
| We're all going to die. | |
| The question is, are you then going to go out of your way to first, and I think the part of this that animates me the most is yes, the moral decision of killing yourself is bad. | |
| But even worse than that is the popularization and the celebration of what that does to a young person or a younger generation that is already the most suicidal generation in history. | |
| So, you have the most suicidal generation in history, and you got this elderly woman who seems by all accounts very sweet, super misinformed by secular society with her Victoria's secret model, granddaughter. | |
| Now, based on her TikTok account, oh, she died around last Wednesday. | |
| Well, it's too bad. | |
| It's really a tragedy. | |
| She didn't have to do that. | |
| She could have followed all the way through the end. | |
| She had more to give. | |
| What arrogance to say, I'm done. | |
| Man. | |
| The comments are celebrating her decision and seeing how strong she is for making the decision she made. | |
| Oh, that's terrible. | |
| The comments in the video show how more, honestly, how morally sick this country is. | |
| I'm going to stand on principle here, and some of you will disagree because you say, Oh, body sovereignty, that's fine. | |
| You can have that belief. | |
| I do not ever want to embrace a society through our laws or customs or how we talk that ever makes suicide acceptable. | |
| That is a country of death. | |
| I'm sad. | |
| I'm mourning her loss because what if she had an extra day of potential? | |
| I want you to think about something. | |
| There was probably a day where you were like, you know what? | |
| I really contributed something. | |
| I counseled a friend. | |
| I helped mend a broken heart. | |
| I counseled somebody that needed it. | |
| I was compassionate. | |
| Imagine if God had in store another day for her and she said, Meh, physician-assisted suicide or suicide in general is using the human will against the divine, saying, I'm on my own terms. | |
| Again, as I would say, I'll repeat myself: I'm done serving, I'm done contributing, I'm done giving. | |
| And some people say, Well, Charlie, they should have a full and complete right to do that. | |
| Should the laws point towards that? | |
| I understand if you're in pain. | |
| I get that. | |
| Meaning, I understand that's a tough spot to be in. | |
| But I would just challenge you: what does that video do? | |
| Does that video save us towards celebrating a cultural life or getting us closer to a culture of death? | |
| Some people might say, Well, Charlie, what about putting dogs to sleep? | |
| Human beings are not dogs. | |
| We have a soul. | |
| And I believe we're here to serve. | |
| And we have a duty to live our life until God calls our ticket, not on our terms. | |
| Thanks so much for listening, everybody. | |
| Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
| Thanks so much for listening, and God bless. | |
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