The Charlie Kirk Show - 19 Senate Republicans Betray America & Cuomo Crumbles

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00:00:28.000 Today in the Charlie Kirk show, Senate Republicans engage in betrayal, deceitful behavior, double dealing, treachery, and you name it.

00:00:36.000 Around passing this infrastructure bill, why are they so focused on making Pete Buddha Jej powerful? 0.90

00:00:43.000 Explore that.

00:00:44.000 And also, while we were doing our show, Andrew Cuomo has resigned.

00:00:48.000 We go through that breaking news and so much more here on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

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00:01:34.000 Andrew Cuomo resigns.

00:01:35.000 Republicans make Pete Buttigieg a Russian oligarch and so much more.

00:01:39.000 Buckle up. 0.96

00:01:40.000 Here we go.

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00:02:13.000 Look, we all complain about the woke industrial complex.

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00:05:04.000 Right now in Washington, D.C., just moments ago, Senate Republicans have approved a $1.2 trillion green energy infrastructure bill.

00:05:16.000 That is what the Senate Republicans have been focused on.

00:05:20.000 Now, all laws passed by the legislative branch need somebody to enforce them, to oversee their implementation.

00:05:32.000 So, for example, if there was an environmental regulation bill, it would go to the Environmental Protection Agency or the Employment Prevention Agency, otherwise known as.

00:05:43.000 If there was a border security bill, it would go to the Department of Homeland Security or Border Patrol.

00:05:49.000 If there was a tax cut bill, you might remember during the tax cuts, Steve Mnuchin was front and center.

00:05:58.000 If there was a bill around funding of the Department of Defense, Lloyd Austin would be front and center, or Jim Mattis was front and center.

00:06:07.000 If there was a bill around foreign diplomacy, Mike Pompeo was front and center.

00:06:14.000 So Senate Republicans worked overnight.

00:06:17.000 They burned the midnight oil.

00:06:18.000 They worked really hard to make sure they dishonored your vote.

00:06:24.000 So the first thing that should have just kind of been an alarm, that should have been a little bit of a concern for Senate Republicans, is they should have went through the public debate and also the recognition that they were going to give a certain cabinet secretary a trillion-dollar slush fund.

00:06:55.000 So who oversees the $1.2 trillion slush fund?

00:06:59.000 Well, I'm here to tell you right now that your Republican senators just made Pete Boot Edge Edge king.

00:07:08.000 That's right, the five-foot-five Alfred E. Newman looked alike, technocrat, never said anything inspiring, transportation secretary, has just been made one of the most powerful people in American government.

00:07:22.000 Why would Senate Republicans do something like that?

00:07:25.000 Why would Senate Republicans go out of their way to push power to Alfred E. Newman?

00:07:33.000 Now, if you don't know who Alfred E. Newman is, I have Mikey here.

00:07:35.000 He's not laughing because he doesn't know who Alfred E. Newman is.

00:07:39.000 He grew up in a world without mad magazine.

00:07:42.000 You say he doesn't know.

00:07:43.000 This is one of the, they know TikTok, which we are going to cover how the White House has been having, let's just say, interesting characters coming and doing TikTok videos.

00:07:53.000 So let's talk about what's actually in the bill.

00:07:55.000 It's 2,700 pages long.

00:07:58.000 They read the whole bill.

00:08:00.000 Do you know that this infrastructure package is larger than the Obama stimulus that almost every single one of these Republicans said was too big?

00:08:10.000 So these Republicans said, oh, Obama's a big spender.

00:08:15.000 We don't like debts and deficits.

00:08:17.000 But then they go out of their way to go spend $1.2 trillion.

00:08:21.000 By the way, that's your children's and grandchildren's money they're spending.

00:08:25.000 So what's in the bill?

00:08:26.000 Let's go through five specifics.

00:08:28.000 John Solomon from justthenews.com has a great article on this.

00:08:32.000 The bill includes a mandate for vehicle manufacturers to install drunk and impaired driving prevention technology as a standard feature inside of the new vehicles.

00:08:42.000 Might sound somewhat non-controversial.

00:08:46.000 So basically, the government can come in and turn off your car if they think you're impaired.

00:08:51.000 The legislation contains a $118 billion bailout for the Highway Trust Fund, which is currently funded primarily through federal taxes on gas and diesel fuel.

00:09:01.000 As the text of the bill does not specify a revenue source, funds would just be transferred from the Treasury General Fund to the Highway Trust Fund.

00:09:10.000 You do know that every single year as well, we have infrastructure and transportation spending as part of the general fund of our budget.

00:09:19.000 Senate Republicans don't care about that. 0.98

00:09:22.000 Senate Republicans have decided to make Pete Budag the czar of a vehicle miles travel tax.

00:09:29.000 A pilot program will be created for a vehicle miles travel tax, which is a system for taxing drivers based on their annual vehicle mileage, is hidden away in the bill Section 13002 entitled the National Motor Vehicle Per Mile User Fee Pilot.

00:09:47.000 Remember when Pete Budejej floated out that idea earlier this year during his confirmation process and Republicans got very upset?

00:09:55.000 Now, again, I'm not an expert, but I do know that North Dakota has a fair amount of oil and natural gas.

00:10:01.000 Do you think this will help oil and natural gas exploration or hurt oil and natural gas exploration if you are taxing people driving by the mile?

00:10:10.000 It also includes a cryptocurrency provision.

00:10:14.000 It allows the IRS to report requirements for brokers of cryptocurrency transactions.

00:10:20.000 What does that have to do with infrastructure?

00:10:22.000 Oh, it doesn't.

00:10:24.000 Instead, all of the decentralized movement around currency, which I fully support, by the way, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo and the power grabbers on Wall Street, they're very upset that all of a sudden there might be alternative ways to transfer wealth and actually challenge the dollar.

00:10:44.000 Now, we just got a breaking news alert.

00:10:46.000 I don't know if this is true or not.

00:10:47.000 We're going to have to double-check this.

00:10:49.000 It's unrelated to infrastructure, but everything is infrastructure.

00:10:52.000 It says that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is resigning.

00:10:57.000 Connor says it is correct.

00:10:58.000 It's true.

00:11:00.000 Well, then Connor is never wrong.

00:11:03.000 Andrew Cuomo is resigning.

00:11:04.000 So we're going to get to that in a second.

00:11:06.000 Yeah, it looks like it's verified.

00:11:09.000 But I was really on a roll railing on Republicans.

00:11:12.000 You know, kind of like pervy, weird, you know, septage.

00:11:17.000 Is Cuomo 70?

00:11:19.000 I think he's like 68.

00:11:22.000 Not exactly the top focus.

00:11:25.000 But yeah, Andrew Cuomo is resigning, which is a surprise.

00:11:28.000 I thought he was going to go down and fight.

00:11:30.000 He's 63.

00:11:31.000 He looks a lot older than 63.

00:11:33.000 He does not look like a good 63.

00:11:35.000 Andrew Cuomo, just like Elliot Spitzer and just like Schneiderman, goes the way of other New York politicians.

00:11:45.000 I'm sorry to say New York is going to get an even more liberal governor as response.

00:11:51.000 Andrew Cuomo has resigned as governor of the state of New York.

00:11:58.000 I guess it asks, I also begs the question of why did it take a Me Too scandal and not the nursing home scandal to take him out?

00:12:08.000 Because in the Democrat Party, being accused of Me Too type stuff is far worse than potentially killing grandma at the nursing home.

00:12:21.000 A lot more to get to, including why are Republicans betraying their voters?

00:12:26.000 And Bill Haggerty has a lot to say about that.

00:12:26.000 That's an interesting one.

00:12:28.000 On this breaking news day of Andrew Cuomo resigning as governor of New York.

00:12:32.000 And again, people are celebrating.

00:12:34.000 I'm not really going to celebrate.

00:12:36.000 You're going to get someone a lot worse.

00:12:38.000 The question is, did he make a deal to resign if they go easy on him on the nursing homes?

00:12:43.000 And the real question is, what about his book?

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00:15:21.000 Andrew Cuomo Dancoelloni, the heir apparent to the Italian mob political family that runs New York.

00:15:31.000 And the trains run on time.

00:15:32.000 You better believe it.

00:15:34.000 But not anymore.

00:15:35.000 In 14 days, Andrew Cuomo is resigning.

00:15:39.000 Now, for Senate Republicans out there that think you can all of a sudden breathe a sigh of relief.

00:15:43.000 Oh, good.

00:15:44.000 Thank goodness the PERV is resigning.

00:15:47.000 No, I'm not going to keep my focus off Senate Republicans.

00:15:50.000 We are going to come back to you.

00:15:51.000 We got a lot of red states listening on radio right now, and they're wondering why their Republican officials have decided to just kind of make Pete Buttigieg king.

00:16:01.000 Like, oh, let's, you know, here's a good idea.

00:16:03.000 Let's make the most unimpressive cabinet secretary who basically thinks he was built in a laboratory to be president by the Silicon Valley companies.

00:16:14.000 Let's make him the most important person in Washington, D.C.

00:16:17.000 But let's focus on Cuomo for a couple minutes.

00:16:18.000 I'm going to play Cut 30, just the news report.

00:16:21.000 Andrew Cuomo resigning.

00:16:23.000 Cut 30.

00:16:24.000 This is one of the most challenging times for government in a generation.

00:16:30.000 Government really needs to function today.

00:16:34.000 Government needs to perform.

00:16:37.000 It is a matter of life and death, government operations.

00:16:44.000 And wasting energy on distractions is the last thing that state government should be doing.

00:16:52.000 And I cannot be the cause of that.

00:16:57.000 New York tough means New York loving.

00:17:01.000 And I love New York.

00:17:04.000 And I love you.

00:17:06.000 And everything I have ever done has been motivated by that love.

00:17:13.000 And I would never want to be unhelpful in any way.

00:17:18.000 And I think that given the circumstances, the best way I can help now is if I step aside.

00:17:26.000 You know, first, just ideologically and philosophically, do you notice how much he mentions government, not the people?

00:17:32.000 Just interesting.

00:17:33.000 Government needs to do this.

00:17:38.000 It's just such a philosophical difference that we have with someone like Andrew Cuomo, where he thinks the heavy hand of government is the reason he got elected.

00:17:47.000 I'd love for him to go read the original draft of the New York Constitution way back in the 1780s, where it was about liberty and the people and pursuing virtue and creating strong families.

00:18:02.000 But am I, I mean, there's some politicians that I think are treated unfairly.

00:18:07.000 I mean, with this kind of me too thing, if this is the new standard, Joe Biden should resign, by the way.

00:18:11.000 Joe Biden has been credibly accused of the same things that Andrew Cuomo has been accused of.

00:18:15.000 But by the way, so have so many of these Senate Republicans as well.

00:18:19.000 Unfortunately, when you get these highly egotistical, narcissistic people in office or positions of power, they're going to act in morally questionable or degenerate ways.

00:18:33.000 I'm more worried about what they do with their power, like actual political power.

00:18:41.000 And I'm not making an excuse, obviously, for Andrew Cuomo.

00:18:44.000 Him leaving is the right choice. 0.98

00:18:46.000 I mean, I think he should go, especially for what he's done with the nursing homes.

00:18:49.000 But the thing that no one's going to talk about, the thing that fired me up the most that got almost no backlash is who writes the book in the middle of the crisis.

00:18:58.000 Could you imagine if Winston Churchill wrote a book in the middle of the German Blitz?

00:19:06.000 Oh, yes, coming out this afternoon is Winston Churchill's book, Leadership and Crisis in the Midst of the Blitz here on the British Broadcasting Corporation.

00:19:14.000 We'll be back.

00:19:15.000 Could you imagine Winston Churchill publishing a book in the middle of a crisis?

00:19:24.000 Andrew Cuomo, leadership lessons in crisis from COVID-19.

00:19:29.000 While the pandemic was still going and lockdowns were still happening, he had time to go publish a book.

00:19:35.000 But I do think this is a sobering lesson for a lot of people, not just politicians, is that it's a good lesson of life that you can feel as if you are running the world.

00:19:49.000 You are untouchable.

00:19:51.000 I remember during the lockdown, I spent about two months, about six weeks, two months, in Phoenix.

00:19:56.000 And I'd drive to the office every morning on these beautiful Arizona mornings.

00:20:00.000 And I would turn on Siri XM on Fox News for Fox business, and it'd be Andrew Cuomo.

00:20:05.000 And I would listen.

00:20:06.000 And some people said, Oh, his voice is so calming.

00:20:08.000 I never found his voice to be calming.

00:20:10.000 But I did find it his communication style to be convincing.

00:20:15.000 And I did find the whole kind of theatrics of his display to be something to learn from.

00:20:24.000 And the way he acted was like, I'm President Trump isn't.

00:20:26.000 You remember that?

00:20:27.000 When he turned away the USS Mercy ship, he was the center of the world.

00:20:32.000 People were floating him as the last-minute presidential pick because Joe Biden was senile.

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00:22:17.000 He has a great expression where he says, you could tell a lot about a person based on what they love, based on what they care the most about.

00:22:28.000 Great leaders love things that are good and true and beautiful.

00:22:32.000 Great leaders throughout history prioritize things that matter, like Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Winston Churchill, Marcus Aurelius.

00:22:42.000 Leaders that are questionable, at best, will say they prioritize the right things, but privately be conflicted.

00:22:51.000 The ones that you really have to look out for make power and political prestige their ultimate value, their ultimate goal.

00:23:02.000 So Andrew Cuomo made power the most important thing in his life.

00:23:09.000 His father was governor of New York.

00:23:12.000 At age 24, Andrew Cuomo became an aide to his father, almost chief of staff type.

00:23:20.000 He was a brass knuckle enforcer of his father's agenda.

00:23:26.000 He climbed the ranks of New York politics, eventually became housing secretary under Bill Clinton in the Clinton administration, and then eventually ran for governor unsuccessfully and then ran for it successfully in 2008.

00:23:44.000 And ever since, I don't know if it was 2008 or 2009, we get the years.

00:23:49.000 He's been governor of New York for quite a while.

00:23:52.000 Ever since he's enjoyed every moment of it, people who overly enjoy being in charge politically, usually you should have some caution towards those people, especially in a state as dirty and as corrupt as the state of New York.

00:24:13.000 Andrew Cuomo has outlasted many attempts against his political future.

00:24:18.000 He has been governor since 2011.

00:24:22.000 It's almost 10 years.

00:24:26.000 And Andrew Cuomo has ruled New York almost like an Italian city-state.

00:24:33.000 Founding Fathers actually wrote extensively about Italian city-states in the Federalist Papers.

00:24:38.000 It was one of the few places they could actually point to of small R Republican-style government being tried.

00:24:45.000 And Andrew Cuomo thought of himself as the czar of the state of New York.

00:24:52.000 And I don't think Andrew Cuomo, in his moments of most vulnerable paranoia, ever thought that it would be his advances towards women that would be what would take him down.

00:25:03.000 He'd say, listen, I'm just going to explain away.

00:25:05.000 I'm this way with everybody.

00:25:08.000 I slobber over all of them.

00:25:11.000 He wrote in his book because it wasn't just enough to be the governor of New York, very powerful.

00:25:18.000 It wasn't enough just to be a daily critic against Trump.

00:25:22.000 No, he needed to make sure it was in writing and make money off of it.

00:25:26.000 You see, Andrew Cuomo, he wanted to be a best-selling author.

00:25:30.000 He wanted to be J.K. Rowling.

00:25:32.000 He wanted to try to push Harry Potter down in the importance of the central canon of Western civilization.

00:25:39.000 And he wanted to be known as the man who was able to manage the crisis, which he didn't.

00:25:44.000 He did a horrendous job, and also write a book.

00:25:48.000 This is what he wrote in his book: while the crisis was still going on, people who call themselves progressives must be examples of why Americans should trust us.

00:25:57.000 Their service must be honorable and productive.

00:26:00.000 They must be willing and able to make hard choices to affect change and deliver results.

00:26:03.000 They must make things better.

00:26:05.000 If they fail to do that, or one reason or the other, they set the progressive cause back and they give Americans more of a reason to distrust us.

00:26:12.000 He writes on page 256: I'm part of the system because I want to change the system.

00:26:18.000 You need to be part of the system to be the most effective in changing it.

00:26:21.000 But don't ever suggest that I am part of the failure in the system.

00:26:24.000 I consider myself a counter-politician.

00:26:27.000 That may sound like a nuanced difference, but to me, it's all the difference in the world.

00:26:32.000 Page 239, he says, accountability matters.

00:26:36.000 If you don't want to be accountable, you shouldn't be in a government position.

00:26:38.000 Well, I guess you have now lived that out, Mr. Cuomo.

00:26:42.000 You don't want to be accountable, and you're no longer going to be in a government position.

00:26:46.000 He says, I've learned something as I have gotten older.

00:26:49.000 Ultimately, the truth wins out.

00:26:53.000 He says, it still amazes me and heartens me that people just want truth, competence, and confidence from their leaders.

00:27:00.000 It's all about the details and achieving results, especially when it's life or death, making the bureaucracy work.

00:27:08.000 Unbelievable hoobers. 0.86

00:27:10.000 I understand why some state governments and the federal government ran from the challenge.

00:27:14.000 It's really hard.

00:27:15.000 Well, Andrew Cuomo, you're running from something else right now, and it's a completely different challenge.

00:27:21.000 Andrew Cuomo has resigned as the governor of New York.

00:27:26.000 Quite honestly, good riddance. 0.84

00:27:29.000 The self-righteous narcissist, mob boss, king. 0.97

00:27:33.000 And yes, the replacement will be worse. 0.98

00:27:36.000 But it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be more corrupt.

00:27:40.000 Corrupt machine-style politicians like Andrew Cuomo, the corruption of the George Washington Bridge, the corruption of the nursing home scandal.

00:27:47.000 Andrew Cuomo is going to have to find a new job.

00:27:50.000 Don't be surprised, by the way, if he resigns and then re-enters into politics in this kind of come from behind type saga.

00:27:59.000 When you make power the most important thing in your life, it usually doesn't end well.

00:28:04.000 Okay, back to politicians that are making terrible mistakes.

00:28:08.000 Senate Republicans have decided to pass a $1.2 trillion spending bill.

00:28:12.000 I told you I wouldn't lose sight of these Republicans, even in this breaking news day.

00:28:16.000 Isn't it interesting?

00:28:17.000 Republicans decide to betray their voters, and then Andrew Cuomo resigns a couple minutes later.

00:28:21.000 Total coincidence.

00:28:23.000 Not saying that this was planned or not to say that they were all kind of coordinating it.

00:28:30.000 The system we have right now is supposed to function on trust.

00:28:38.000 It's built on trust that our leaders are going to fulfill their basic promise of citizen government.

00:28:44.000 What do the voters want?

00:28:46.000 And should I do that?

00:28:48.000 Now, maybe I'm out of touch, but I don't think the voters in South Carolina that just voted for Lindsey Graham, I don't think the voters in Texas, I think actually, John Cornyn voted against this.

00:29:03.000 I don't think the voters in Maine that came out for Susan Collins or the voters in North Carolina that came out for Tom Tillis.

00:29:15.000 I don't think they said, you know what, we want we want to make Pete Buttigedge the most powerful person in Washington, D.C.

00:29:20.000 I don't think that was actually in the mandate to govern.

00:29:24.000 I don't think that's why people went and knocked on doors and made phone calls.

00:29:29.000 Bill Haggerty was on Tucker Carlson's program last evening.

00:29:34.000 He said this infrastructure bill is a gateway to Bernie Sanders' Transformation of America package.

00:29:39.000 If that's true, which I believe it is, why are Senate Republicans voting for this?

00:29:44.000 And why are we putting up with this?

00:29:46.000 Cut 19.

00:29:48.000 This bill has become rather obvious what it really is.

00:29:51.000 It's been shielded with the veneer of bipartisanship, but what it really has become is the open gateway to lead right into this $3.5 trillion package, the Bernie Sanders Transformation of America package that they're trying to set up.

00:30:04.000 And they gave us a 2,700-page bill in only a few days to look at it.

00:30:09.000 And then the very afternoon that we got the CBO score that tells what the bill actually cost, it fell short by a quarter of a trillion dollars.

00:30:17.000 In Cut 20, Senator Bill Haggerty says that Republicans under Trump were criticized for not respecting our institutions, but now Democrats move to federalize our elections and the beginning of court packing.

00:30:27.000 And I want to reiterate what I said earlier.

00:30:30.000 Your Republicans that you put into office, and I'm going to, let's read off the list.

00:30:36.000 Why don't we do that?

00:30:37.000 Roy Blunt, Missouri, Richard Burr, North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capital, West Virginia, Bill Cassidy, Louisiana, Susan Collins, Maine, Deb Fisher, Nebraska, Lindsey Graham, South Carolina, Chuck Grassley, Iowa, John Hoeven,

00:30:52.000 North Dakota, Mitch McConnell, Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski, Alaska, Rob Portman, Ohio, James Risch, Idaho, Mitt Romney, Utah, Dan Sullivan, Alaska, Tom Tillis, North Carolina, Mike Crapo, Idaho, Kevin Kramer, North Dakota, Roger Wicker, Mississippi.

00:31:13.000 They've just made Pete Buttigieg an oligarch.

00:31:17.000 Here, Pete Buttigieg, who's a bunch of money, a bunch of power, a bunch of phrases that you can interpret.

00:31:25.000 Go make a name for yourself.

00:31:26.000 Is that what Republicans should be doing?

00:31:29.000 To go make a 5'5 want to be tech oligarch who wants to be president more than anything else's life, which, by the way, timeout.

00:31:36.000 Anyone who wants to be president that much probably shouldn't be near political power.

00:31:39.000 It's like Andrew Cuomo, destined to fail.

00:31:42.000 They just handed Pete Buttigieg a $1.2 trillion wire transfer larger than the Obama stimulus that includes the following provisions.

00:31:52.000 It grants select cabinet secretaries the authority to fully fund select infrastructure projects with taxpayer dollars by waiving cost-sharing rules.

00:32:01.000 It's in the bill.

00:32:03.000 If one of your senators that I just named voted for this, you should ask, why did you just make Pete Buttigeg so powerful?

00:32:11.000 Is that why people are rising up in record numbers to go vote and campaign?

00:32:19.000 What happens when leaders don't listen to their voters or their constituents?

00:32:24.000 Well, this was a legislative act of deception.

00:32:28.000 And what it does is it erodes and decays and diminishes people's trust in the system, mine included.

00:32:38.000 I love Governor Ron DeSantis.

00:32:40.000 You know why?

00:32:40.000 He says what he's going to do and he implements it.

00:32:44.000 He's a leader.

00:32:45.000 He's honest.

00:32:46.000 He's clear.

00:32:49.000 Senate Republicans have done the opposite.

00:32:51.000 Senate Republicans go to the country club.

00:32:54.000 They roll into work around 10 a.m.

00:32:57.000 And there's some very good ones.

00:32:59.000 Senator Cruz is terrific.

00:33:01.000 Senator Ram Paul has been phenomenal.

00:33:02.000 In fact, we're going to play a clip from Senator Rampaul.

00:33:05.000 But generally, the Senate Republicans are just kind of there to be part of the phrase good old boys club doesn't resonate as much as it used to, but that's really what it is.

00:33:16.000 It's a country club with legislative movement every once in a while.

00:33:21.000 And many of them don't care.

00:33:22.000 They just want a bridge named after them, go be a lobbyist for some think tank afterwards.

00:33:27.000 The power is still in your hands, everybody.

00:33:31.000 But it does erode trust in the system.

00:33:34.000 It does make me feel as if the senators think they have a divine right of kings to rule over you.

00:33:42.000 There is no explanation to make Pete Buttigieg oligarch of our transportation system.

00:33:48.000 That is what every single Republican that voted for this just did.

00:33:52.000 And they should hear from you because of it.

00:33:54.000 Just getting warmed up on that.

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00:35:37.000 Even if it was about roads and bridges and tunnels and towers, even if that was the case, there's problems with this.

00:35:46.000 You're handing Pete Buttigieg the power.

00:35:50.000 And I'm all for actually, I'm for an ambitious infrastructure package, trust me.

00:35:55.000 I would love to have our airports completely redone.

00:35:58.000 The problem is you use union labor, the graft, the corruption, and by the way, the aesthetic of these buildings are the ugliest things you've ever seen.

00:36:07.000 So the way we do infrastructure in this country is a disaster.

00:36:11.000 And then, of course, the Democrats are going to say, okay, instead of infrastructure, let's use this as a gateway drug to try to have a green energy revolution in our country.

00:36:20.000 That's what's so stunning to me is that senators who are from these red states that have oil and natural gas production, they're the ones that are the ones pushing for this.

00:36:32.000 How about Way Back in the Way Machine?

00:36:35.000 I love this.

00:36:36.000 So because we have such a dishonest media that doesn't do any journalism, I have to rely on my life experiences, which are very limited, by the way, to go kind of remember things.

00:36:49.000 So I woke up early this morning and I said, okay, I remember this.

00:36:54.000 I remember Trump sent out this tweet about infrastructure and everyone on the right lost their mind.

00:36:58.000 You can't do infrastructure, too much money.

00:37:00.000 I said, I've got to find it.

00:37:01.000 So, of course, Google is burying this, obviously.

00:37:04.000 And our team found it.

00:37:07.000 Mitch McConnell, in 2016, right after Trump won, McConnell says he doesn't want Trump to propose, quote, trillion-dollar stimulus for infrastructure.

00:37:18.000 The Senate top Republican, Mitch McConnell, said he wants to avoid a trillion-dollar stimulus to fund an infrastructure package, sending out a marker for the next Congress as lawmakers prepare to work with President-elect Donald Trump.

00:37:30.000 Trump pledged to have millions of our people to work by rebuilding highways, bridges, and tunnels and other infrastructure.

00:37:37.000 But Mitch McConnell says what I hope to clearly avoid, and I'm confident we will, is a trillion-dollar stimulus package.

00:37:48.000 Oh, really?

00:37:48.000 You just voted for a trillion-dollar stimulus package.

00:37:54.000 So let me get to, and Paul Ryan said that the infrastructure package, no-go.

00:38:00.000 It says here that there's some evidence that Trump's infrastructure plan remains a work in progress.

00:38:08.000 But Mitch McConnell says we want to avoid that.

00:38:10.000 Nope, we just want to cut corporate taxes.

00:38:12.000 What we want to do is make Google and Facebook and Amazon have more resources to continue their corporate oligarchy. 0.51

00:38:22.000 So Mitch McConnell vehemently came against Donald Trump's infrastructure package, which, by the way, was clean, non-green energy, legit investment in our country.

00:38:33.000 But then Mitch McConnell and his gang of other 19 Republicans have just come out and they said, you know what?

00:38:39.000 Forget Donald Trump.

00:38:41.000 Which, by the way, can I just say something hilarious?

00:38:43.000 Mitch McConnell didn't even want to give his wife the money because his wife would have been transportation secretary under this infrastructure package.

00:38:50.000 How does that work?

00:38:52.000 Now they go vote for this massive trillion-dollar boondoggle to go lay the groundwork for the electric vehicle renaissance. 0.91

00:39:00.000 If you work in oil and natural gas, your senators just voted for a $1.2 trillion slush fund to begin the end of your industry.

00:39:09.000 Whatever industry you're in, your senators just voted for that.

00:39:14.000 Why?

00:39:14.000 Well, because they're going to get their wives and their kids and their family members will be treated very well by the lobbyist class because they were good and obedient members of the cartel.

00:39:26.000 By the way, I'm not the only one saying this.

00:39:27.000 It'd be one thing if every Republican voted for this.

00:39:29.000 Listen to what Senator Ted Cruz has to say about this, what Senator Michael Lee has to say about this.

00:39:33.000 You know what frustrates me is that I spend time in Real America.

00:39:36.000 I avoid Washington, D.C. at all costs.

00:39:38.000 Mike will tell you, Producer Andrew, I can't stand it.

00:39:40.000 The attitude, the language, the ruling class mentality, I love being in America.

00:39:46.000 And you know what?

00:39:47.000 The people of this country deserve way better than this.

00:39:50.000 They work their tail off.

00:39:51.000 They get up early.

00:39:52.000 They do the right thing.

00:39:53.000 They raise their kids.

00:39:54.000 They go to church.

00:39:55.000 They don't do sly, deceptive, serpent-like deals in the back room.

00:39:59.000 Oh, we won't do infrastructure with Trump, but we're going to do infrastructure with Joe Biden to make Pete Buttigieg like a Russian oligarch over our transportation program.

00:40:08.000 No.

00:40:08.000 Regular everyday Americans in the muscular class of this country, if they act the way our senators did, they'd go to jail.

00:40:15.000 If they lied and they betrayed their promises, they'd lose their jobs, lose their mortgage, lose their marriage, and they'd go to jail.

00:40:21.000 Instead, these people get re-elected and get elevated on platforms.

00:40:25.000 There is no reason.

00:40:25.000 There is no excuse why this bill should have passed.

00:40:28.000 Pete Buttigej is now the most powerful person in Washington, D.C., outside of the president, Joe Biden, and Lloyd Austin.

00:40:35.000 He's just been given $1.2 trillion to spend, basically as he sees fit, because the bill allows that to happen.

00:40:43.000 So what did Pete Buttigieg have to say about these senators before?

00:40:47.000 Remember Cut 32 when Pete Buttigieg said so-called Christian conservative senators right now in the Senate are blocking a bill to raise the minimum wage when scripture says that whoever oppresses the poor taunts their maker.

00:40:59.000 So basically, Pete Buttigieg was calling Senate Republicans heretics.

00:41:03.000 This is who your leaders have just empowered.

00:41:05.000 Cut 32.

00:41:06.000 The minimum wage is just too low.

00:41:08.000 And so-called conservative Christian senators right now in the Senate are blocking a bill to raise the minimum wage when scripture says that whoever oppresses the poor taunts their maker.

00:41:23.000 Remember recently, Pete Buttigieg said that the necessity of the infrastructure bill is to push the green agenda and getting cars off of the road.

00:41:37.000 This is what Pete Buttigieg said.

00:41:40.000 And Republicans just were eager and flocking towards this.

00:41:47.000 So Pete Buttigieg is now taking a victory lap because he now knows they are one step closer to eradicating oil and natural gas to push the green agenda once and for all.

00:42:04.000 Cut 33.

00:42:06.000 Here's the way I think of it.

00:42:07.000 Transportation is the biggest sector in our economy when it comes to emitting greenhouse gases.

00:42:12.000 So to me, that means we have to be the biggest part of the solution.

00:42:15.000 And what's exciting about that, even though it's daunting, is that we can also create a lot of jobs as we go, whether it's jobs making the electric vehicles of the future that are going to provide clean transportation, or whether it's the jobs in the transit systems that we're funding that are going to help give people alternatives and take cars off the road.

00:42:34.000 Take cars off the road.

00:42:36.000 Not to mention the economic impacts of this.

00:42:40.000 Are you experiencing inflation?

00:42:41.000 Are you experiencing rising prices?

00:42:45.000 Well, you can thank Senate Republicans for that.

00:42:48.000 Instead of standing for sound currency, instead of standing for a stable dollar, Senate Republicans basically are now saying inflation, so what?

00:42:59.000 We're rich and powerful.

00:43:00.000 It's not like we're our constituents.

00:43:02.000 It's not like we care about our voters.

00:43:05.000 Senator Mike Lee, who's one of the good guys and a very decent person.

00:43:11.000 I disagree with Senator Mike Lee on immigration.

00:43:14.000 That's about it.

00:43:16.000 Senator Mike Lee is amazing on the size and scope of government and really good on monetary policy.

00:43:22.000 And honestly, he's a very good person.

00:43:25.000 He is.

00:43:25.000 He's honest.

00:43:27.000 He is fair.

00:43:30.000 And he was just terrific on our podcast recently.

00:43:33.000 Play cut 29, Senator Michael Esau: inflation is going up because the federal government's been spending too much money it doesn't have.

00:43:40.000 Cut 29, please.

00:43:42.000 Look, inflation's going way up because the federal government's been spending way too much money that it doesn't have.

00:43:47.000 When it does that, we effectively just print more money.

00:43:50.000 I mean, look, I know U.S. Treasuries are issued and everything, but it has the same effect as just printing more money.

00:43:56.000 We've got the same basket, more or less, of goods and services in the economy.

00:44:00.000 But when you dramatically expand the money supply in the way that they're doing, that means the price of everything will go up.

00:44:08.000 That's really bad for poor middle-class Americans, especially people who live paycheck to paycheck, because every paycheck goes less far.

00:44:15.000 If you want to destroy your currency, we'll create more of it.

00:44:20.000 Yahoo.com, front page, consumer inflation expectations, consumer inflation expectations hit eight-year high in Fed study.

00:44:28.000 Now, I don't like to do the I told you so thing, but a year ago, we did an entire podcast just on inflation.

00:44:35.000 In fact, I want to get that inflation episode back up on charliekirk.com because we walked through the basic economics of this.

00:44:46.000 There's very little I agree with libertarians on, but the things I do agree on is a sound currency.

00:44:51.000 I think it's pretty important.

00:44:52.000 I think for middle-class workers to know that their dollar is not going to decrease in value month to month actually creates order and it creates societal stability.

00:45:04.000 If you want unrest in the streets, just destroy people's currency.

00:45:08.000 If you want families to fall apart, destroy people's currency.

00:45:13.000 We are seeing inflation go up dramatically and the creation of new dollars, thanks to Senate Republicans, is part of this.

00:45:22.000 By the way, just so you know, they're not done.

00:45:24.000 Just so you know, this is a warm-up act.

00:45:26.000 They're just, they're just, this is nothing more than a stretching routine.

00:45:30.000 You know what's coming next?

00:45:32.000 Lindsey Graham and many others are negotiating a $3.5 trillion continuing resolution.

00:45:47.000 So, just for all of you keeping score at home, the first stimulus package, a couple trillion dollars.

00:45:53.000 The next stimulus package, another trillion dollars, another continuing resolution of $3 trillion, and then another stimulus package of a trillion dollars, and then an infrastructure package of a trillion dollars and $3.5 trillion on top of it.

00:46:08.000 Clip 14 is really good on this.

00:46:09.000 It's Senator Ted Cruz.

00:46:10.000 It's $9.5 trillion if you count all the spending from December of 2020.

00:46:16.000 And one of the things I have not changed on is I remain a fiscal realist.

00:46:23.000 So people say, Charlie, why do you believe marriage should be between one man, one woman?

00:46:28.000 I believe in the natural law.

00:46:30.000 Charlie, why do you believe that life begins at conception?

00:46:32.000 I believe in the natural law.

00:46:34.000 Charlie, why do you believe we shouldn't create money out of thin air?

00:46:37.000 Because I believe in the natural law.

00:46:39.000 This is not complicated.

00:46:40.000 You don't have to overthink this stuff.

00:46:41.000 You don't have to go to Harvard and start to get all these charts and graphs.

00:46:45.000 And, well, maybe human beings are malleable and maybe money is a construct.

00:46:48.000 Well, yeah, money's a construct, obviously.

00:46:51.000 But if you have something represented as value, you can't have an infinite amount of that thing.

00:46:56.000 Not hard.

00:46:58.000 Cut 14.

00:47:00.000 And when you add up the spending from December 2020 to now, with the Biden budget request, with the Democrats' tax and spend reconciliation proposal, with this infrastructure bill, with the so-called COVID relief bill, and with the emergency spending in December, you hit a whopping $9.5 trillion.

00:47:25.000 And this all comes from a theory called modern monetary theory.

00:47:30.000 And some people on the right are embracing this.

00:47:33.000 I'm talking about legitimate conservatives too, not the fake conservatives that ask for your vote every couple of years and then betray their voters.

00:47:40.000 It's tempting to want to do this, right?

00:47:43.000 I remain a monetary realist.

00:47:45.000 I believe in stable currency, and I believe a gold standard or a metallic basing of currency is fundamental because I want a longevity for our country.

00:47:57.000 Currency and moral decline, both of which in foreign wars and bad immigration policy, are the reasons why countries fall apart.

00:48:05.000 Okay, so moral decline.

00:48:07.000 I think we've dealt with that pretty in-depth here on this program.

00:48:11.000 But also, laws need to be related to moral decline.

00:48:14.000 It can't just be like, oh, yeah, we need to fix the culture.

00:48:15.000 No, no.

00:48:16.000 Your laws must reflect the culture.

00:48:18.000 So happy to reflect where you want the culture to go.

00:48:22.000 And the original founding of our country, by the way, the founding fathers wrote extensively about licentiousness.

00:48:29.000 Nations fall also because of uncontrolled immigration.

00:48:32.000 Well, you could thank Republicans for that.

00:48:33.000 They're just chomping at the bit for another amnesty deal.

00:48:37.000 Then the other one is currency manipulation.

00:48:40.000 This is one where I remain to be a realist.

00:48:46.000 I remain as someone who does not believe that you can print wealth, that creating more dollar bills, by definition, creates more economic activity.

00:48:55.000 Noah Webster Dictionary in 1806 had a compendium.

00:49:00.000 That's a fun word, right?

00:49:01.000 A compendium of words.

00:49:04.000 And licentiousness is not a word that you're going to use very often.

00:49:07.000 A contempt of just restraint.

00:49:10.000 So it's very important because usually licentiousness is used in the moral domain of kind of personal sexual behavior.

00:49:16.000 And that is true.

00:49:17.000 But it's not just about that.

00:49:20.000 Benjamin Rush, who is phenomenal, by the way, addressed to the people of the United States in January 1787.

00:49:28.000 So this is nine months before the ratification of the Constitution on September 17, 1787, where he says, quote, in opposition to monarchy, we forgot that the temple of tyranny, I want you to, the language they use.

00:49:43.000 Only politicians talk like this. 0.96

00:49:45.000 We just have such dumb people that we send to D.C., they would never even think to read. 1.00

00:49:50.000 Instead, they're too busy cutting deal with lobbyists. 1.00

00:49:51.000 Think about the language of this.

00:49:52.000 Benjamin Rush.

00:49:53.000 We forgot that the temple of tyranny has two doors.

00:49:58.000 We bolted one of them by proper restraints.

00:50:03.000 We left the other one open by neglecting to guard against the effects of our own ignorance and licentiousness.

00:50:13.000 Most of the present difficulties of this country arise from the weakness and other defects of our governments.

00:50:23.000 So what he's saying is that tyranny has two doors.

00:50:27.000 One is the framework.

00:50:30.000 And he's like, all right, we're figuring that out.

00:50:32.000 But the other one is whether or not we are going to be able to restrain ourselves.

00:50:39.000 And we don't talk about this idea of licentiousness when it comes to fiscal policy.

00:50:43.000 Usually we're like, oh, yeah, all the degeneracy, which by the way, is totally legitimate, by the way.

00:50:47.000 And we're going to kind of show an example of that of the new TikTok influencer who's making a fool of our country at the White House.

00:50:54.000 But instead, I want to focus on what happens when you don't have the restraints on yourself fiscally or financially.

00:51:02.000 That is bad.

00:51:03.000 I'm not going to say it's just as bad or it's worse.

00:51:05.000 Let's just say it's all bad.

00:51:07.000 It's dangerous.

00:51:08.000 And what our Senate Republicans have been doing is at every single level immoral.

00:51:14.000 I am going to create money with nothing backing it for my own purposes, not for my voters' purpose, to deteriorate and diminish the value of the dollar.

00:51:27.000 That is not being prudent, nor is it being disciplined.

00:51:32.000 There's another quote here, and by the way, I'm reading here from this wonderful document from the Claremont Institute.

00:51:38.000 It does terrific work.

00:51:40.000 But 15 pages of excerpts of original founding documents of the founding fathers warning what happens when leaders live outside of their means, when leaders or the government is not disciplined or they don't have the just restraints.

00:51:56.000 Do you think that Senate Republicans are worried about the cost of living beyond one's means?

00:52:03.000 James Monroe said in May of 1788: to form a government that shall shield you from dangers from abroad, promote your general and local interests, protect in safety the life and liberty and property of the peaceful and virtuous and the weak against the encroachments of the disorderly and the licentious.

00:52:21.000 They love that word.

00:52:23.000 Patrick Henry said, from this situation, he could have furnished us with the instances in which licentiousness trampled on the laws.

00:52:33.000 It's the Virginia Convention in June of 1788.

00:52:37.000 It's right after the Federalist papers were written.

00:52:40.000 The Founding Fathers were very clear that if you do not have the wise restraints, you will not be free.

00:52:48.000 This is totally lost on Senate Republicans, by the way.

00:52:52.000 JD Vance, who I have personally endorsed for the Ohio Senate race, who's a friend of mine, has said that the infrastructure bill has language that includes transportation equity in it, which can be applied to critical race theory.

00:53:07.000 J.D. does a wonderful job explaining how the reconciliation bill is pretty much the reconciliation bill that is amnesty for 11 million illegals.

00:53:15.000 Actually, that tape's a little long.

00:53:16.000 We're going to play that in the next tape so you guys can wait for JD's commentary on this.

00:53:20.000 And we're getting lots of emails.

00:53:22.000 I want to read one of these emails.

00:53:23.000 We'll answer this question as well.

00:53:24.000 It's just so frustrating to see these emails where people are saying, Charlie, I have a career, and now I'm being forced to take the vaccine.

00:53:36.000 What do I do?

00:53:38.000 The only real answer is that people in political power need to start standing up for you.

00:53:43.000 They're willing to use political power to crush and ruin your life.

00:53:46.000 Our side is not willing to use political power to even defend your way of life.

00:53:51.000 And it's really interesting.

00:53:53.000 This is right within the mission statement of the United States.

00:54:00.000 Secure the blessings of liberty.

00:54:03.000 The government's supposed to offer security for you against those that wish to threaten your liberty.

00:54:08.000 Think about that.

00:54:09.000 One of the lies about the founding fathers is that they were strictly small L libertarians, that they had no sort of commentary or respect for a transcendent moral order.

00:54:24.000 That's just not true.

00:54:26.000 And I'm going to kind of parlay this into fiscal policy.

00:54:30.000 We can obviously talk about it at a different time when it comes to moral type issues.

00:54:37.000 For example, let me just tell you this.

00:54:39.000 If Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, or John Adams saw Drag Queen Story Hour, they would mobilize the Minutemen. 0.90

00:54:48.000 If Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, or Thomas Jefferson, or John Adams, would see what Joe Biden just invited into the White House, they would be displeased.

00:55:03.000 Let's put it that way.

00:55:05.000 And they wrote extensively about this.

00:55:07.000 So one of the writings here: the characteristics of mild government are liberty without licentiousness and government without tyranny of a vigorous one, unanimity, consistency, and uniformity in the councils.

00:55:23.000 It's beautifully written.

00:55:25.000 They were worried that if leaders do not have the ability to restrain themselves, the country will lead to ruin.

00:55:31.000 And so we've been through this before.

00:55:33.000 It's nothing novel, but it's rather important, to be perfectly honest with you, which is what are the ways that civilizations decline.

00:55:44.000 And we're in the middle of one of these cycles of civilizational decline.

00:55:47.000 I wish we weren't.

00:55:48.000 We can reverse it.

00:55:49.000 Trump tried.

00:55:50.000 Trump did a lot to reverse that.

00:55:52.000 And I think he actually made more progress back towards revival and greatness.

00:55:57.000 There were just some strategic things that I think I would have done differently, not just me, but really thoughtful people would have done differently.

00:56:04.000 And it's not just on him, the people around him and some of the sneakiness and also the virus and the handling of it and keeping Fauci around.

00:56:10.000 But he was a phenomenal president, a phenomenal president, best president of my lifetime.

00:56:15.000 But this cycle of civilizational decline is brought, of course, by a moral decline, then really bad immigration policies where you change, there's matter and there's form.

00:56:26.000 So the form of a government is the Constitutional Republic.

00:56:30.000 But then the matter is the actual people in the form of it, which are the culture, the language, the background, the history, the ability to assimilate.

00:56:30.000 That's being violated.

00:56:37.000 And if you change that too dramatically, then the country actually changes itself.

00:56:41.000 The other one is currency manipulation and decline.

00:56:45.000 Is that if you erode your currency, you're going to have civilizational unrest.

00:56:52.000 And I would make an argument: our moral decline is directly related with our leaders' kind of indifference towards whether or not we have sound currency, whether or not our dollar means anything.

00:57:03.000 And it only allows us to participate in these long-term debt cycles.

00:57:09.000 Who cares if we steal from our children? 0.98

00:57:11.000 That's a moral issue, by the way.

00:57:13.000 That's a moral issue no different than Drag Queen Story Hour.

00:57:17.000 Drag Queen Story Hour should be illegal in libraries across the country. 1.00

00:57:20.000 Period.

00:57:21.000 End of discussion.

00:57:22.000 So Rob has completely convinced me.

00:57:26.000 Also, debasing our currency should be illegal.

00:57:31.000 Let's go to JD Vance, who I teased in the earlier segment, how the infrastructure bill has language including transportation equity in it.

00:57:39.000 So Senate Republicans, being eager participants in the civilizational decline cycle, they voted for a bill that has a phrase that says transportation equity in it.

00:57:55.000 Oh, so this will be used against white people. 0.62

00:57:59.000 Play cut 26. 0.87

00:58:01.000 Hey, guys, I'm reading through this new infrastructure bill, and it includes all these ridiculous references to things called transportation equity, which is basically just importing critical race theory into our nation's infrastructure programs.

00:58:13.000 It's totally ridiculous, and it's obvious that Republicans have been had in supporting this bill.

00:58:17.000 But then you realize that there's more on top of it because Nancy Pelosi has said, we're not going to support the infrastructure bill unless there's a reconciliation bill after it.

00:58:26.000 Well, what's in the reconciliation bill?

00:58:28.000 Turns out, amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens.

00:58:31.000 You give those people permanent amnesty, you give them the right to vote.

00:58:35.000 First of all, Republicans will never win another national election.

00:58:38.000 But second of all, you're inviting millions more illegal aliens to come across the southern border by offering to legalize the people who are here right now. 0.76

00:58:46.000 That's what your Senate Republicans voted for.

00:58:48.000 I love the preamble to the Constitution because it's the beginning of the mission statement of our government and how we're supposed to live.

00:58:55.000 We, the people, three transformative words, by the way, of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and my favorite, secure the blessings of liberty.

00:59:10.000 Those are my five favorite words.

00:59:12.000 Secure.

00:59:13.000 Within that word security is almost an idea of defense.

00:59:16.000 That's why I think President Donald Trump, the description of him as the bodyguard of Western civilization, was perfect.

00:59:24.000 I mean, obviously, I said it in my RNC speech, but I think it was spot on because his idea was that I'm going to secure something transcendent.

00:59:32.000 I'm going to then have to not just open up the floodgates so you can do whatever you want.

00:59:37.000 No, I'm going to prevent the bad guys from taking what has been given to you.

00:59:42.000 And JD Vance's big point was because the bill includes fast track to legalize immediate family members.

00:59:48.000 If you illegalize 11 million more, you can get all their immediate family members as well.

00:59:54.000 So, what do they mean by transportation equity?

00:59:56.000 Will all the whites now have to pay higher tolls when they're driving on highways? 0.96

01:00:00.000 Or maybe the white cars have to pay higher tolls?

01:00:03.000 Well, the person to kind of figure that out is Pete Buttigieg.

01:00:07.000 So, Senate Republicans, instead of doing the hard and the detailed work, instead of defending their voters, who, by the way, you know how many hundreds of thousands, and not millions, probably hundreds, estimate, hundreds of thousands of active service members in the military right now are not vaccinated, that live in Republican states, are going to be forced to be vaccinated against their will.

01:00:27.000 Why are Republicans even having a conversation with Democrats while this is happening?

01:00:31.000 They want a convenient life.

01:00:33.000 They don't want to save the civilization.

01:00:34.000 That's nothing new.

01:00:35.000 Cowardice and corruption is the human condition, unfortunately.

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01:00:48.000 And we're supposed to think that big tech trusts you with that, or that we trust big tech?

01:00:52.000 Well, wrong.

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01:01:47.000 Okay, let's get to some more sound here.

01:01:50.000 So I want to go to cut 27.

01:01:51.000 CBS reports that migrants are testing for COVID have been overwhelming, and yet Senate Republicans, instead of actually trying to wave the flag and say we're not even negotiating, while we have 1.5 million, as many as 2 million people, we don't know the exact number, illegally crossing into the country.

01:02:09.000 I want you to think about that.

01:02:11.000 So for all of you listening in North Dakota right now, I want you to think about this.

01:02:16.000 The population of North Dakota is 762,000 people.

01:02:21.000 So I want you to understand, just in the last year, just in the last year, two North Dakotas have illegally passed into the country.

01:02:31.000 So some estimates are at 1.2 to 2 million.

01:02:33.000 So let's say it's 2 million.

01:02:35.000 That would be about almost 3 million North Dakotas.

01:02:39.000 Yeah, it's about 2.5.

01:02:40.000 Two and a half North Dakotas that have come in.

01:02:43.000 Why aren't your leaders doing something about it?

01:02:45.000 I'm not talking about just going on television and complaining about it.

01:02:48.000 I'm talking about really doing something about it.

01:02:50.000 You want to do something about it?

01:02:52.000 Don't vote for the Democrats' infrastructure bill.

01:02:54.000 That would be doing something about it.

01:02:56.000 Instead, the Democrats are getting everything they want.

01:02:59.000 They're fundamentally transforming the country.

01:03:01.000 They're bringing millions of people into the country.

01:03:03.000 They're getting their green energy infrastructure bill to make Pete Buttigieg a Russian oligarch.

01:03:08.000 The tech companies are doing whatever they want.

01:03:10.000 They're mandating vaccines, by the way.

01:03:13.000 Mandating vaccines for service members.

01:03:16.000 And most Republicans don't care about it.

01:03:18.000 So I've been responding to some emails.

01:03:20.000 People have been emailing me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:03:22.000 I feel bad because I wish I had an email.

01:03:26.000 This one woman, she said, my son has finally had his promotion and his dream job in the military.

01:03:29.000 However, yesterday's news, the Pentagon, he has to make a very difficult decision.

01:03:33.000 For those who choose to put their lives on the line for us, they are having no choice for their personal body.

01:03:38.000 It's very wise.

01:03:38.000 It's well said.

01:03:39.000 How can our representatives help them?

01:03:41.000 How can we help?

01:03:42.000 Can this be stopped?

01:03:43.000 And I responded: I said, Your representatives should be focused on this and defending their voters and our veterans and our service members instead of passing massive spending bills.

01:03:52.000 But honestly, they don't care about their voters.

01:03:54.000 And they don't.

01:03:55.000 I had dinner last night with some friends and really great people.

01:03:59.000 And they said, Charlie, obviously, you're not vaccinated.

01:04:01.000 It's kind of well news.

01:04:02.000 I'm well-known news.

01:04:03.000 I'm not getting vaccinated.

01:04:04.000 Proud to say that.

01:04:05.000 And not judging anyone who gets vaccinated.

01:04:07.000 Obviously, we've been through that thousands of times on this program.

01:04:10.000 But they're like, well, how are you going to travel to Europe?

01:04:12.000 I'm like, well, might never go to Europe again.

01:04:14.000 How are you going to travel to New York?

01:04:15.000 Might never travel to New York again.

01:04:16.000 And so, yeah, excuse me while I get a little bit kind of upset while these Republicans just kind of act in this ruling class mentality.

01:04:25.000 Like, oh, yeah, the unvaccinated unwashed people, like, they'll figure it out. 1.00

01:04:28.000 They'll go to Wendy's or Arby's or Cracker Barrel or whatever they do.

01:04:32.000 Charlie, I've lived in North Dakota my whole life.

01:04:34.000 This is what Greg says.

01:04:35.000 We have been one of the last bastions of conservatism.

01:04:37.000 Our Senate delegation stabbed North Dakota and the United States in the back with their votes on the infrastructure bill.

01:04:42.000 They are empty suits.

01:04:43.000 I'm now looking at candidates to primary these two.

01:04:45.000 Senator Kramer has an invite on the show.

01:04:47.000 He's a very nice person.

01:04:49.000 I'm not going to say anything about him personally.

01:04:50.000 He's been really kind to respond on my text messages.

01:04:52.000 Truly, he made a big mistake here.

01:04:55.000 Mistakes have consequences.

01:04:57.000 You could tell a lot by somebody's actions and compare them to their statements.

01:05:03.000 Obama doesn't believe the Delta variant's a threat.

01:05:06.000 He held a super spreader event at Martha's Vineyard.

01:05:09.000 Rashida Tlaib, exactly the same, but your children must wear a mask at school and sit down and obey.

01:05:15.000 I will say the one thing that gives me hope, I keep going back to that one thing.

01:05:19.000 There are a couple things that give me hope.

01:05:20.000 There's a lot of things that really frustrate me, like the entire Republican Party doing the bidding of Democrats.

01:05:25.000 But this recall effort in California, I just feel compelled to keep mentioning it.

01:05:32.000 This is a real grassroots movement.

01:05:35.000 And it started, it started kind of because of the lockdowns, but it was an example of what happens when a leader, even in a comfortably Democrat state, defies his own orders and goes to French laundry, maskless with lobbyists, and the recall becomes a reality very quickly.

01:05:56.000 I'm personally behind LarryElder, ElectElder.com.

01:05:59.000 Other people have their own preferences.

01:06:02.000 As long as you vote no to get Newsom out, you guys can make your own decision on that.

01:06:08.000 I want to mention something.

01:06:10.000 My friend Mike Lindell is doing an event in South Dakota.

01:06:13.000 I know nothing about the event or the specifics.

01:06:15.000 The media is going to lose their mind.

01:06:17.000 I don't care.

01:06:17.000 He's a friend of mine, and I refuse to not mention a person because he's been canceled by the media.

01:06:22.000 So take a look at what he's doing, quite honestly.

01:06:24.000 And we're going to see if we can stream some of it on our Rumble page.

01:06:27.000 Obviously, not YouTube.

01:06:28.000 That thing will get taken down very quickly.

01:06:32.000 And so we will keep an eye on that.

01:06:35.000 We'll see what's happening, as people say.

01:06:37.000 We'll see what happens.

01:06:38.000 So the White House doesn't have the money to secure the southern border.

01:06:43.000 They pass a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, yet they keep on having these TikTok influencers come to the White House.

01:06:51.000 Wait till you see who's representing your government to try to get people vaccinated.

01:06:56.000 Cut 31.

01:06:58.000 This is actually the entrance to the West Wing.

01:07:00.000 This is so fun, and it's really prestigious.

01:07:04.000 Is Olivia Rodrigo still here?

01:07:06.000 No.

01:07:08.000 We've come a long way in our fight against this virus.

01:07:10.000 We've vaccinated 160 million Americans.

01:07:13.000 Are you getting this all down?

01:07:14.000 Don't worry, Queen.

01:07:15.000 It's all right here.

01:07:16.000 Cooper.

01:07:17.000 Sorry, Miss Jen.

01:07:19.000 Jen, don't forget to have fun. 0.98

01:07:21.000 Spirit figures, Mama. 0.63

01:07:22.000 We need to get shots in the arms of every single American. 0.98

01:07:26.000 I'm heading to a haircut. 0.91

01:07:27.000 If you want me to make more of these.

01:07:29.000 So, Jen Saki literally starred in this video. 1.00

01:07:32.000 This is a man in a dress with claws.

01:07:35.000 I'm going to pray for this young man.

01:07:37.000 He needs salvation.

01:07:38.000 And truly, there's a disturbed individual.

01:07:43.000 So I'm going to pray.

01:07:43.000 I mean that non-sarcastically.

01:07:45.000 Just not something that should be platformed and should be taken seriously.

01:07:53.000 I actually don't want to make fun of it because making fun of it would be cruel.

01:07:58.000 I don't like cruelty, quite honestly.

01:08:00.000 I don't.

01:08:01.000 I think cruelty is not something we should engage in.

01:08:04.000 But it's sad.

01:08:04.000 It's embarrassing and it's sad.

01:08:06.000 China, of course, loves it.

01:08:07.000 It's on TikTok.

01:08:08.000 That's an example.

01:08:09.000 The generations that you go wear a dress as a man waltz throughout the White House with these long, claw-like things.

01:08:16.000 You're something out of Edward scissor hands.

01:08:19.000 And prayer and reconciliation and finding an eternal meaning is important.

01:08:25.000 And you want to talk about licentiousness?

01:08:27.000 There you are.

01:08:29.000 So in closing, I want to play one more tape here.

01:08:31.000 I promise this.

01:08:31.000 Play cut three.

01:08:32.000 Senator Ram Paul on pandemic lockdowns.

01:08:34.000 It's time for us to resist.

01:08:36.000 They can't arrest all of us.

01:08:37.000 God bless Rand Paul.

01:08:39.000 I want to end on a positive note because Senate Republicans, please, everybody, go primary them, challenge them, communicate with them.

01:08:48.000 Do what you need to do.

01:08:49.000 But honestly, the good guys need to be elevated more.

01:08:51.000 And you can say whatever you want about Senator Ram Paul and some of his drug views, which honestly is kind of a cheap accusation.

01:08:58.000 Senator Ram Paul is a good person and a dear friend of mine.

01:09:01.000 And I love Senator Ram Paul.

01:09:03.000 Because listen to this.

01:09:04.000 He's a fighter and he'll stand up for your children and he'll stand up for the American way of life.

01:09:08.000 Cut three.

01:09:10.000 It's time for us to resist.

01:09:12.000 They can't arrest all of us.

01:09:14.000 They can't keep all of your kids home from school.

01:09:16.000 They can't keep every government building closed.

01:09:20.000 We don't have to accept the mandates, lockdowns, and harmful policies of the petty tyrants and bureaucrats.

01:09:26.000 We can simply say no, not again.

01:09:30.000 We can say no, not again.

01:09:31.000 That's a U.S. Senator talking.

01:09:33.000 Thank you, Rand.

01:09:35.000 Thank you for having the courage, for having the clarity, and the willingness to stand up for your voters.

01:09:41.000 Thank you for saying what we all want our leaders to say, which is you will not lock us down again.

01:09:46.000 You will not mask our children.

01:09:47.000 You will not mandate masks.

01:09:49.000 This is still a semblance of a free country.

01:09:51.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:09:52.000 Email us your thoughts for you at charliekirk.com.

01:09:55.000 If you want to support our program, you can do so at charliekirk.com slash support.

01:10:00.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:10:02.000 God bless.

01:10:02.000 Speak to you soon.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - August 10, 2021

19 Senate Republicans Betray America & Cuomo Crumbles

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