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00:01:13.000So I had a very busy day yesterday as we set up a table at University of Texas Austin for a couple hours.
00:01:18.000Then I spoke for a couple hours in our wonderful Turning Point USA chapter was out there recruiting and educating and doing what we do best.
00:01:26.000It's all about talking about morals and values and philosophy and talking about what really matters and having conversations where obviously you're going to disagree, but maybe by using reason and dialogue, you can come to some sort of middle ground.
00:01:39.000I was told that I was trending on Twitter during all of that, which was interestingly enough because of something I said on this program about empathy.
00:01:46.000Don't have time to get into that, but on our Ask Me Anything episode tomorrow, I'm going to explain what I meant by that when I said empathy is a new age term that I really, I think, is rather useless.
00:01:55.000Sympathy, I have a lot of use for that word, but empathy, I don't.
00:01:59.000We're going to explain that in our Ask Me Anything.
00:02:02.000But the real reason why I was trending is because I tweeted about Alex Jones.
00:02:07.000Now, some of you might have saw the news yesterday with Alex Jones.
00:02:10.000Alex Jones received a ruling that he has to pay nearly $1 billion in damages.
00:02:20.000Now, understand, I tweeted out about this yesterday, about the injustice of having to force somebody to pay a billion dollars for having a wrong opinion and wrong perspective about something.
00:04:15.000And I was young and I thought, okay, you know, Alex Jones, you know, InfoWars, all that sort of stuff.
00:04:20.000And, you know, I don't need to speak out because they're not going to come for me.
00:04:22.000And what a mistake that was as I look back.
00:04:27.000As I look back and I see that that was setting the precedent.
00:04:30.000That was setting the groundwork, if you will, laying the foundation is a better way to say it to be able to have these social media companies work in tandem, work in harmony, to be able to kick people off of social media, to shut us up.
00:04:47.000And the next thing you know, I'm getting suspended from Twitter.
00:04:50.000And then a president of the United States gets banned from Twitter.
00:04:53.000And it started with us being silent when Alex Jones was kicked off of social media.
00:04:58.000When all these different companies came together and they banned him, when CNN led that campaign, again, we're going to get the kind of article when that all happened.
00:05:08.000All these different companies that had nothing in common except the fact that they were told that Alex Jones is the worst thing ever.
00:05:14.000And people were silent, myself included.
00:05:17.000And I remember now, and I look back at that and I've learned from it.
00:05:20.000I said, the next time a situation like this happens where they try to set a precedent against Alex Jones or somebody like Alex Jones, I am not going to be silent again.
00:05:28.000And that is exactly what is happening here.
00:05:31.000Because, you know, it's kind of in vogue now to kind of talk about social media tech censorship and the banning of people and all that sort of stuff.
00:05:37.000And oh, yeah, it's kind of the new thing we could talk about.
00:05:40.000But what if we would have united and said this is unacceptable early when they went after Alex Jones?
00:05:47.000Would they have been as successful at doing that?
00:05:49.000At once, Alex Jones was kicked off of every single social media site all at once.
00:05:55.000And we were almost never given any sort of explanation for it.
00:05:58.000Alex Jones stands to have to pay a billion dollars to Sandy Hook families.
00:06:01.000Let me reiterate: for the degenerate Media Matters people out there that intentionally try to misrepresent what I have to say.
00:06:08.000I don't like what Alex Jones said about Sandy Hook.
00:06:11.000He doesn't like what he said about Sandy Hook.
00:06:16.000The point is: should a precedent be set that if you say something that is wrong or have an opinion that people do not like, should you be able to crush them financially?
00:06:26.000Is that a precedent that we are willing to set?
00:06:30.000Alex Jones acknowledged he was wrong repeatedly and is now ordered to pay $1 billion.
00:06:38.000Meanwhile, the largest fine paid by a banking executive responsible for the 2008 financial crisis, $67 million.
00:07:06.000And remember, after January 6th, when all of a sudden Spotify and TikTok and Pinterest and all these other weird social media companies all came together and they banned Trump together at the same time, Alex Jones was patient zero for the censorship regime back in 2018.
00:07:25.000And now Alex Jones is patient zero for lawfare strategies to be able to shut people up that they don't like.
00:08:20.000Should you be able to shut somebody up because of it?
00:08:23.000Rachel Maddow accused One America News Network of being funded by the Russian government and a judge tossed that away because under free speech provisions.
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00:11:29.000Do you think that it's right to stand up for Alex Jones despite whether you think he said something right or not?
00:11:36.000I want your emails, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:11:39.000Most of you agree, because if you don't stand up for the principle of speech when it's hard, when are you going to stand up for it?
00:11:45.000Why is it that very few conservatives, God bless Tucker Carlson, God bless Steve Bannon, that even say there's something insane about this for wrongthink?
00:11:55.000You have a bad opinion, you say something wrong.
00:12:21.000But he probably believed what he said.
00:12:23.000And so here's a very basic question I tweeted out.
00:12:26.000If Alex Jones owns a billion dollars for saying mean things on a show, how much should the Stalinist propagandists at CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, and the New York Times pay to all Americans they pressured to inject their kids, saying it would prevent transmission to grandma?
00:12:47.000Of course, not a judge would throw that out in an instant.
00:12:49.000Here's the thing: one of the reasons they like going after Alex Jones is because of his style.
00:12:57.000He can come across as unreasonable to some people.
00:13:01.000And as we've talked about in the practice of persuasion, the more reasonable person in a discussion wins the argument in the view of the audience.
00:13:14.000Now, Alex at times can come across as someone who gets very excited.
00:13:22.000Okay, that's his style, and it's worked for him, by the way.
00:13:26.000But Jones is a means to the end, a means to an end, I should say.
00:14:12.000At least if they ever come after us with this sort of barrage and this sort of ridiculous lawfare strategy, I will be able to look you, the audience, in the eye and say, I stood up for the tough case when it actually mattered.
00:14:26.000And if the conservative media can't do that, then what on earth is the conservative movement or media good for?
00:14:32.000It's not about whether you like Alex Jones.
00:14:37.000What is relevant is, do you think that the law-industrial complex in collusion with the media can work in harmony to completely obliterate somebody financially for saying something wrong and then therefore apologizing afterwards?
00:14:54.000The New York Times had a quote that is very, very telling.
00:15:00.000Quote, lawyers say the three trials hold lessons for other cases against conspiracy-minded defendants, from the January 6th insurrectionists to Trump allies sued for falsely claiming that voting machines manufacturers helped steal the 2020 election.
00:15:17.000Oh, so they're going to go for Mike Lindell next.
00:15:20.000Or are they going to go for Steve Bannon?
00:15:21.000Are they going to go for this program?
00:15:23.000Are they going to go for Tucker Carlson?
00:15:24.000The New York Times says this now holds lessons.
00:15:41.000Alex Jones is just getting them refined to be able to do what they actually want to do.
00:15:47.000It says it in the New York Times article.
00:15:49.000Lawyers for the Sandy Hook families say a verdict will send a signal to other conspiracy purveyors about the cost of online lies and set in emotion a chain of events that could shut info wars down.
00:16:05.000So basically, the New York Times is saying this is a lot bigger than just Alex Jones.
00:16:09.000And you might be out there and say, I hate Alex Jones and he's a whackadoodle and all this sort of stuff.
00:16:21.000You know who the conspiracy purveyors are?
00:16:23.000Every single one of those mockingbird maniacs on television that was telling us Donald Trump is a Russian agent.
00:16:28.000You're the conspiracy theorist, but they'll never be held accountable.
00:16:31.000No, what they mean by conspiracy theorist is someone who asks questions against the core tenants as Friedrich Nietzsche, the pieties that you can't ask, like election integrity or the alphabet mafia.
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00:18:53.000Which is look carefully in the next 24 hours to all your podcasts you watch, all the shows that you watch, all the radio programs you listen to.
00:19:03.000And if they are silent on the issue of Alex Jones, I hope you ask them why.
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00:20:12.000I remember off of that first call, but you know, when Charlie calls it, Jack, you're going to Davos and say, All right, we're going to Davos.
00:20:27.000We have to say the police assigned to the World Economic Forum.
00:20:30.000So you get Eros Reuters gets very, very upset about this.
00:20:32.000And so they don't have the freedom of speech over there in Switzerland, by the way, which is something that we get into in the documentary that I think ties back to Charlie, what you were just talking about about Alex Jones.
00:20:42.000Is you don't have to say that you defend every single thing that Alex or you agree with every single thing that Alex Jones ever said to say that you support freedom of speech and that you're very concerned with this obvious attack by the regime on the principle of freedom of speech in our country.
00:21:17.000So the United States is actually very unique in terms of world history by having something like the First Amendment.
00:21:25.000And when we have situations like this, you will find people who will come from traditions like Simon Jenkins or the police over in Switzerland that don't have freedom of speech, don't have freedom of the press.
00:21:34.000And they're going to use that to erode our freedoms again and again and again here back home.
00:22:25.000And it's going to be a test to the conservative media landscape of who speaks out, who has the courage to do that, because they're using this as a test case and a blueprint to be able to do this to other people.
00:22:37.000They say that in the New York Times article.
00:22:39.000So shifting gears here, Jack, I want to talk about OPEC and Quid Pro Joe.
00:22:45.000It's a little confusing to most people.
00:22:47.000Walk us through it with your foreign policy expertise.
00:22:50.000So the timeline on this is important, right?
00:22:53.000So over the summer, when gas prices were getting really bad, Joe Biden and his crack team at the White House decided to go over to something called the Strategic Oil Reserve.
00:23:02.000They're these giant caverns down in the Louisiana bio.
00:23:05.000They're underneath the Louisiana bayou, these actually salt caverns, limestone.
00:23:10.000One of them used to be owned by Mortensalt, really interesting story.
00:23:12.000And we, in the 1970s, our country started filling these up as a reserve in case OPEC ever conducted another embargo against the United States or ever looked to cut production.
00:23:23.000Pay attention to that because that's going to come up later.
00:23:26.000So Biden decided that he didn't like where his approval numbers were.
00:23:31.000He started releasing oil from the strategic oil reserve into the markets, and prices dipped for a little bit, but now they're back on the upswing again.
00:23:41.000So, last week, Biden calls for OPEC to increase their production.
00:23:47.000And of course, we remember OHIB, you know, he goes over there, he has the fist bump with MBS, who's the crown prince that's basically in charge of how to right now.
00:23:52.000Saudi Arabia's government is basically run by like Game of Thrones.
00:23:55.000It's Game of Thrones rules over there.
00:23:57.000So, you know, the king is pretty much down, but he's not out yet completely.
00:24:01.000But MBS is, you know, the prince is really running the government.
00:24:20.000We don't like the things that you've been doing.
00:24:22.000We've decided that we're going to push off.
00:24:23.000And Charlie, you had Steve Bannon on here yesterday for that incredible discussion about the collapse of the Anglo-American financial system worldwide.
00:24:31.000This is part and parcel of that because, of course, everyone knows that system, and maybe we should do some more episodes explaining this for people.
00:24:40.000It's backed by the fact that all oil transactions, petroleum, LNG, must be conducted around the world in U.S. currency, even if the United States is not involved in the transaction.
00:24:49.000Obviously, this creates an artificial demand for U.S. dollars.
00:24:53.000So, when the Saudis tell Joe to pound sand over this, Biden comes back and the Wall Street Journal reports this last week.
00:25:00.000They say, Okay, if you're going to do it, can you at least delay it one month?
00:25:47.000We hear Blumenthal come out as well and say, We will drop the military sales to Saudi Arabia.
00:25:55.000This is congressionally appointed military sales.
00:25:56.000I'm going to put aside the issue of whether we should be doing that right now.
00:26:00.000But just to point out, this was approved by Congress.
00:26:02.000This is something we've been doing for a very long time.
00:26:04.000And they asked Joe Biden about this while he's on the lawn, while he's walking into the White House.
00:26:10.000And he says, Yes, we are going to look at that when Congress comes back after the elections.
00:26:14.000And so I'm just sitting there watching all of this and saying, Well, wait a minute, isn't this the exact same thing that President Trump was impeached for?
00:26:25.000The only third impeachment that we've ever had in the United States of America, U.S. history, was over coercing.
00:26:32.000Remember their allegation, not what the facts were, but their allegation they had the whistleblower.
00:26:36.000His name was Eric Charamela, by the way, the whistleblower.
00:26:38.000Then they had Vinman, and Vinman had a feeling, he had a strong feeling.
00:26:42.000Remember, he had a rustling in his Jimmies that Trump was trying to coerce and Zelensky, right?
00:27:02.000Earlier, we know there was another situation where a prosecutor general had been fired in Ukraine that may or may not have actually been looking in to Hunter Biden and this burisma company.
00:27:12.000So they impeached Trump over that and they claimed it was over withholding military aid to Ukraine.
00:27:18.000We're now hearing Joe Biden publicly state that he is planning to withhold military aid from Saudi Arabia, again, congressionally approved, if they do not essentially lower the price of oil, which would lower the price of gas going into the election.
00:27:35.000Now, all of this is flying around on social media, and it's like I'm the only person in America that actually connects the dots on it.
00:27:41.000And then suddenly the Saudis come out last night with this giant statement.
00:27:45.000It looks like they wrote it on a scroll.
00:27:46.000If you see this thing, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, you don't usually see them put out statements like this, where they completely confirm everything that went on and they publicly reject the offer.
00:27:58.000They say, we will not delay this one month.
00:28:07.000I'm waiting for Reuters to come out and say, oh, Poseobic is, you know, reading between the lines too much again.
00:28:11.000The AP and the Wall Street Journal, as of this morning, four hours ago, have both come out and completely corroborated everything I reported.
00:28:21.000I want to play Cut 80 really quick for some context.
00:28:39.000Look, we clearly communicated our views to OPEC members that we thought it was short-sighted for them to take the action that they were contemplating and they announced.
00:28:49.000Yeah, and look, this is very clear to me.
00:29:01.000And so, yeah, and just kind of one other thought that, you know, we've been pushing forward here with, you know, Saudi Arabia not wanting to play ball here.
00:29:09.000Saudi Arabia is very upset at the Biden regime over multiple things with kind of them cuddling up to Iran.
00:29:17.000And also, you know, Russia kind of getting involved with the production cut with Saudi Arabia.
00:29:22.000Russia does not want an all-blue Congress either right now.
00:29:26.000Not to say that, you know, a red Congress would be a friend of Russia, but the non-stop flow of billions of dollars to Ukraine, obviously Russia has some vested interest to try to slow that down right now.
00:29:38.000And so you've got to think that there's some foreign, there's some foreign interests here in more ways than one.
00:29:48.000But then Joe Biden goes out of his way to just so nakedly and blatantly try to do a quid pro quo for political gain when it comes to energy production.
00:29:56.000I mean, how is this not impeachable compared to what they went after Donald Trump for?
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00:30:57.000Jack, switching gears for a second, the Pennsylvania Senate race is something you're obviously very passionate about, defeating Mr. Fetterman.
00:31:08.000Do you think that we have a chance to defeat Mr. Fetterman?
00:31:12.000Well, Charlie, when I look at both Pennsylvania races, the Senate race, the governor's race, I think that things stand at possibly the best place they could be right now for both of these.
00:31:23.000You've seen Fetterman, both himself physically and his campaign actually collapse over the timing of this.
00:31:30.000And Dr. Oz, and I know there are a lot of people, obviously myself, you know, pretty much on the record about him during the primary, but I think there are a lot of people just objectively weren't sure what his chances would be in a Pennsylvania race.
00:31:42.000Now it looks like he's on the path to becoming a United States senator.
00:31:47.000I'm going to be going up to Pennsylvania tomorrow.
00:31:49.000I'm speaking in Erie, Pennsylvania, so all the way up in the northwest quarter of Pennsylvania, right there in the Great Lakes.
00:31:55.000Remember, Pennsylvania is a border state.
00:31:57.000People forget that, but it's actually true.
00:31:59.000And what we're seeing is we're going to be going hard in the paint because this is the final three weeks of the election.
00:32:07.000And so I don't want people to just sit back and think, oh, things are looking good.
00:32:10.000Cary Lake's looking good, wherever you are.
00:32:12.000Florida obviously has a governor's race as well.
00:32:14.000And when you look at Pennsylvania, Real Clear Politics has an article up today by Athen Kutzerumbus, and it states that the Pennsylvania suburbs are actually experiencing a Molotov cocktail of anger in terms of the place where the country is at right now.
00:32:31.000Because when you're looking at their inflation, when you're looking at the economy, when you're looking at the fact that they can't get jobs, plus, you're also seeing more and more numbers of millennials, particularly in the collar counties around Philadelphia, where I'm from, by the way, you're seeing more and more millennials move back in with their retired parents.
00:32:51.000Sometimes these millennials might have children of their own.
00:32:53.000So you're sort of seeing this inverse multi-generational trend of families living together in the same household, but not in the way that they used to in the past in traditional societies.
00:33:03.000That all of this represents a break in what they were told and what so many people were told would be the American dream for them.
00:33:11.000Go to college, go to high school, or go to get your master's, you'll be competitive, you'll get a job, you'll be able to afford a giant house in McMansion right out of it.
00:33:20.000You're seeing the real anger in the Philadelphia area.
00:33:24.000And in the suburbs, by the way, that's where the violence of Philadelphia comes to play because that violence is now spilling out into the suburbs.
00:33:33.000You're seeing gang initiations of people.
00:33:37.000Charlie, they showed up outside of a high school football game to murder some players as a gang initiation.
00:33:44.000These were adults, by the way, adult gang members that were killing children in order to do this.
00:33:49.000And so people in the suburbs, they're looking at this and saying, look, we need change.
00:33:58.000And maybe you do need somebody who's not going to be soft on crime like John Fetterman has been, someone who's, by the way, soft in the head, like John Fetterman is actually can't, you know, you actually, he actually can't hold a conversation in real life without being hooked up to a computer.
00:34:12.000And I don't mean like the way that you and I are, you know, talking over a computer in terms of the internet.
00:34:17.000I mean, literally, he needs a cybernetic appendage, you know, talk about transhumanism to be able to have a conversation.
00:34:23.000Doug Mastriano, when you just talked about the economy there, when you talked about energy, the Marcella Shale find, Doug Mastriano has a plan, pipelines.