The Charlie Kirk Show - Andrew Cuomo Wags the Dog and FINALLY Some Good News From the US Senate

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, on this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, good news out of the U.S. Senate.

00:00:04.000 Finally, some good news.

00:00:06.000 All things, Andrew Cuomo, and we even pipe in his live conference throughout this program.

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00:04:06.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

00:04:08.000 Welcome today with heavy, busy news day, important news day.

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00:04:20.000 There's so much happening here, and there's actually some really good news.

00:04:23.000 There's a piece here about how Democrats are worrying the United States Senate will become a graveyard for the Biden agenda, which was the big reason for why we wanted Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue to win in Georgia so that we could stop the Biden agenda.

00:04:38.000 So we're going to get into that.

00:04:40.000 There's this professor at Rutgers University, Brittany Cooper.

00:04:44.000 We're going to cover that.

00:04:45.000 But I want to start with something that was emailed to us at freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:04:51.000 One of our listeners by the name of Laura, I don't want to say her last name out of fear for her losing her career.

00:04:58.000 Some of the most wise commentary that I see in American politics comes from our listeners.

00:05:06.000 And we get thousands and thousands and thousands of emails a week, and I read them all.

00:05:10.000 I don't respond to them all, but this was so well put by Laura.

00:05:14.000 It was deeper, more sophisticated than almost everything I've seen on cable news about this topic.

00:05:22.000 Here's what she said.

00:05:23.000 Charlie, the Cuomo double scandal reminds me of the Northam double scandal.

00:05:29.000 Cuomo killed thousands in nursing homes, but let's talk about harassment instead.

00:05:35.000 Northam said it's okay to let babies die outside the womb, but let's talk about who's under the KKK hood.

00:05:41.000 Results, the scandals do not multiply.

00:05:45.000 They disperse.

00:05:46.000 Northam is still governor of Virginia.

00:05:49.000 This is a very counterintuitive strategy.

00:05:52.000 Can you talk more about how it works?

00:05:54.000 I'm still trying to wrap my head around it.

00:05:55.000 Thanks.

00:05:57.000 I want to reread this.

00:05:58.000 There's so much wisdom here, and it's exactly right.

00:06:02.000 The scandals don't multiply.

00:06:04.000 They disperse.

00:06:06.000 So in the news cycle that we are in, actually the better way to say it is the way that we are doing news in America today, it is short bursts of information almost for an increasingly attention deficit population that really doesn't care about the depth, the nuance, the detail, or the evidence behind a story.

00:06:28.000 Instead, the clickbaity headlines.

00:06:31.000 You see, the story of the nursing homes is actually a very complicated story.

00:06:36.000 The nursing home story is one that we warned about on this program and the great one Mark Levin warned about back in March.

00:06:46.000 I remember listening to the Mark Levin radio program and a woman called into the Great Ones radio show and said, Mark, I work for a nursing home association and Andrew Cuomo is now ordering Chinese coronavirus infected patients to be put into nursing homes.

00:07:06.000 At the time, Andrew Cuomo was doing his multi-hour slow daily briefings.

00:07:17.000 Mark Levin asked the caller, this can't possibly be true.

00:07:20.000 And Janice Dean, who works for Fox News, claims that both of her parents were killed as a result of this policy.

00:07:29.000 So this was a scandal that we knew was occurring.

00:07:34.000 Now, putting Chinese coronavirus infected patients into nursing homes is bad enough.

00:07:41.000 But Andrew Cuomo decided to do something worse than that.

00:07:47.000 He doubled down on the policy, lied about it ever happening, and then covered it up.

00:07:55.000 You see, early on in the virus, it's understandable that mistakes are going to be made.

00:08:00.000 Some Republican governors made some mistakes.

00:08:03.000 And you, of course, correct.

00:08:05.000 You say, we shouldn't have done that.

00:08:08.000 And you adjust.

00:08:09.000 That's what being a leader is all about. 0.99

00:08:12.000 So do I think that Andrew Cuomo was a fool to sign off on this policy? 0.99

00:08:17.000 Absolutely. 0.98

00:08:18.000 But if it would have just been a mistake that he then corrected, it wouldn't be a scandal.

00:08:24.000 The real scandal is how he doubled down on it, lied about it, and then covered it up.

00:08:30.000 So Andrew Cuomo is under serious potential backlash and investigative threat.

00:08:48.000 First and foremost, from Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York.

00:08:52.000 Letitia James has launched an investigation.

00:08:55.000 She issued a report.

00:08:56.000 And basically, Andrew Cuomo did his best Hillary Clinton impersonation.

00:09:00.000 And Andrew Cuomo said, What difference does it make?

00:09:04.000 They're dead.

00:09:05.000 So I want to focus in on this very important point that Laura emailed us about.

00:09:13.000 Because the way that our media operates now, you would think that the more scandals, the more negative news, the worse for the principal or the worse of the subject that is going through it.

00:09:25.000 When in reality, it turns to be the exact opposite.

00:09:29.000 In reality, it looks as if you're able to almost fatigue the population by stringing out the scandal, distracting from the scandal by having other more clickbaity style news items still about you that are still embarrassing pop up, and then the page can be metaphorically turned and people lose interest.

00:10:00.000 You see, unfortunately, the way that many of these investigations work, unfortunately, the way that our system is functioning, if the people lose interest, and most importantly, and it's not a good thing, if the New York Times, the Washington Post loses interest, then the story basically disappears.

00:10:22.000 So what is getting more press attention right now? 0.95

00:10:26.000 The fact that Andrew Cuomo is a sexually deviant pig? 0.97

00:10:32.000 Or the fact that Andrew Cuomo put infected patients in nursing homes, resulting in anywhere between tens of thousands of deaths, we don't know the number. 0.99

00:10:42.000 An investigation would tell us that.

00:10:44.000 Lied about it, covered it up, then wrote a book about it and won an Emmy while calling the virus the European virus and endlessly lecturing other states.

00:10:58.000 Now, Democrats right now are looking for a new strategy, and the only playbook that they know where this works is the Governor Ralph Northern scandal.

00:11:11.000 Because usually the traditional playbook for Democrats is distracting from scandals by blaming Trump. 0.80

00:11:20.000 So I was on Fox News yesterday with Leslie Marshall, and Leslie Marshall, instead of answering the question about Andrew Cuomo being a pig, she says, well, Donald Trump did much worse stuff.

00:11:32.000 Donald Trump is sipping Diet Cokes at Mar-a-Lago, Poolside, after he got done golfing.

00:11:42.000 It's irrelevant.

00:11:44.000 So Trump is not around, so the Democrats now have to focus elsewhere.

00:11:48.000 They have to fill the vacuum.

00:11:52.000 So, they can't necessarily blame Trump, but they'll still try to have a couple people on cable news say that as a way to try to create a smokescreen, if you will, cover fire.

00:12:04.000 A sleight of hand is basically what goes on.

00:12:09.000 But you must understand that there is a playbook on how to deal with Me Too.

00:12:17.000 There is a playbook on how to survive accusations, either racial accusations or MeToo accusations.

00:12:30.000 There is no playbook on how to survive infants being relaxed and possibly terminated, or nursing homes being the center of an entire political scandal.

00:12:53.000 So, what we're seeing here is a counterintuitive press strategy, one that Cuomo's actually a little bit happy about.

00:13:01.000 He'd much rather be attacked for saying things to women than possibly killing thousands of elderly people.

00:13:10.000 You see, the Democrats are going to the only playbook they know on how to protect and potentially bail out an embattled governor.

00:13:23.000 You see, corrupt Democrat governors, it's not anything new.

00:13:29.000 I grew up in Illinois, where we have term limits in Illinois.

00:13:33.000 It's one term in office, one term in jail.

00:13:39.000 I remember Governor Rod Blogoevich, who I actually was pleased to see pardoned just because he's so entertaining to see on television.

00:13:47.000 And he had some very good things to say about Donald Trump.

00:13:49.000 And I do believe he was over-prosecuted by the Obama machine.

00:13:53.000 I really do.

00:13:55.000 Rod Bogojevich was a very corrupt Democrat governor.

00:13:59.000 You remember Elliot Spitzer?

00:14:03.000 Elliot Spitzer was forced to resign as governor of the state of New York.

00:14:12.000 Now, for those of you that are just getting involved in politics, you missed the joy of watching the Elliott Spitzer story unfold.

00:14:27.000 It was one of the most entertaining, hard-to-believe political scandals in American history.

00:14:37.000 So, Elliot Spitzer was a very popular governor of New York.

00:14:47.000 And it came out that Elliot Spitzer, during a six-month span, had at least seven or eight liaisons with women from an agency and paid them more than $15,000.

00:15:05.000 According to published reports, investigators allege that Spitzer paid up to $80,000 for prostitutes over a period of several years while he was attorney general and later as governor.

00:15:18.000 Spitzer first drew attention of federal investigators when his bank reported suspicious money transfers under the anti-laundering provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act and the Patriot Act.

00:15:31.000 Elliot Spitzer was forced to resign after that.

00:15:37.000 Remember Anthony Weiner?

00:15:40.000 Another New York politician that almost became mayor.

00:15:44.000 You see, people forget this.

00:15:46.000 Anthony Weiner had his scandal with Chuma Abedin and Hillary Clinton, and then he had an attempted comeback where he was actually leading in the polls to become mayor of New York until it came out that he was not, let's just say he's not correcting his behavior.

00:16:09.000 Let's put it that way.

00:16:14.000 The issue of politicians under scandal is nothing new.

00:16:22.000 Where the Democrats are nervous, and they should be, is that if a real investigation, especially from the media, was done into the nursing homes, into what happened in New York, Andrew Cuomo and the Cuomo political machine would be ruined.

00:16:43.000 I want you to imagine if the New York Times did one-tenth the amount of reporting into the nursing home scandal of Andrew Cuomo that they did around Donald Trump's visits to Bedminster and Mar-a-Lago, which actually impacted the future of our republic, the livelihood of the citizens of our country.

00:17:09.000 And so if you look up Andrew Cuomo online, you don't see anything to do with the nursing homes.

00:17:31.000 Instead, it's all about the Me Too scandal, which I'm not saying it's not legitimate, but it's not overly shocking.

00:17:47.000 And of course, the groups that all push the Me Too movement, Planned Parenthood, Women's March, National Abortion Rights, Action League, American Association, University of Women, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, all silent on Governor Cuomo's allegations.

00:18:02.000 But the playbook that Cuomo is now using is a sleight of hand that he learned from Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia, where you distract from the legitimate scandal that is in policy that has real implications, and you go to something that makes for good headlines for the tabloids.

00:18:30.000 This is a pattern from the Democrats to distract away from policy, from the consequences of their ideas, and instead focus on either identity politics, mass movements, or issues that really don't have anything to do with the livelihood of the citizens that they are sworn to protect and serve.

00:18:59.000 And so, Andrew Cuomo, of course, comes from the Cuomo political family.

00:19:06.000 His father, Mario Cuomo, very questionably corrupt man.

00:19:14.000 Do you know that Andrew Cuomo ran the Department for Housing and Urban Development while his father was governor of New York?

00:19:24.000 I wonder if there were any favorable housing contracts that were given New York or New York City when that arrangement was made.

00:19:32.000 But that's literally before I was born that was happening.

00:19:38.000 You see, the Democrat strategy Is not just to deflect, but try and run out the clock on the attention span of the news media and with it the American populace.

00:20:03.000 The thing that we as conservatives do not do a good job of is Solinsky's rule: keep the pressure on.

00:20:14.000 If you don't know who Solinsky is, Solinsky was a community organizer, wrote rules for radicals.

00:20:18.000 It's basically the Bible of the left.

00:20:21.000 It is the book that they follow.

00:20:22.000 It is, I believe, 13 rules for radicals, some of which include find a tactic your people enjoy doing, find an effective tactic, accuse the enemy of what you yourself are actually doing, keep the pressure on, amongst many other rules.

00:20:39.000 The left is very good at keeping the pressure on.

00:20:42.000 I mean, how long did they focus on Trump's tax returns?

00:20:50.000 That was a five-year fight.

00:20:54.000 Whereas we as conservatives, mainly because the conservative movement actually believes in Judeo-Christian values, we offer grace and we kind of move on.

00:21:06.000 I'm not saying that's a good thing.

00:21:08.000 I think it's a good thing at times.

00:21:10.000 But let me tell you one thing we should not have forgot about.

00:21:15.000 And of course, there are other issues that pop up.

00:21:17.000 There are other issues that arise.

00:21:21.000 But the Governor Ralph Northam scandal in Virginia never got settled.

00:21:30.000 Remember when Governor Ralph Northam came out and said, you see, when a baby is born, we are going to relax that baby, and then we're going to give it to the mother, and a decision will be made on how to proceed.

00:21:45.000 He, of course, is explaining in great detail infanticide, the murder of children.

00:21:54.000 You might remember this tape, and regardless of her views on abortion, I am pro-life.

00:21:58.000 This is child murder, play tape. 0.61

00:22:02.000 So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen.

00:22:08.000 The infant would be delivered.

00:22:10.000 The infant would be kept comfortable.

00:22:12.000 The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired.

00:22:18.000 And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.

00:22:22.000 Delivered, made comfortable, and then a decision would be made whether or not to murder the child or keep the child alive.

00:22:31.000 This was the number one news story in the country.

00:22:37.000 That news story was one that the Democrats and the left were very scared about because the reality of abortion was then front and center of every single political discussion in America.

00:22:54.000 So what ended up happening, and I'm not saying the Democrats wanted it this way, but it ended up working accidentally, was that Governor Ralph Northam and his racist past came center, front and center, where we still have never received an answer of whether or not Ralph Northam was in the KKK hood or wearing blackface.

00:23:21.000 We still don't know.

00:23:23.000 One of those two still has not given an answer.

00:23:27.000 The media lost interest.

00:23:28.000 Ralph Northam decided to go above and beyond for the Black Lives Matter BLM Incorporated riots over the summer, pandering to them. 0.76

00:23:39.000 And Northam survived.

00:23:40.000 And the media basically said, not a big deal.

00:23:44.000 We'll just focus on Trump.

00:23:46.000 They are trying the same playbook now for Andrew Cuomo.

00:23:49.000 But instead of delivering a baby, relaxing the baby, and then ending the baby's life, it's the most vulnerable elderly among us that were put in harm's way with infected Chinese coronavirus patients, and then Cuomo lied about it.

00:24:14.000 This should be one of the biggest political scandals in modern American history.

00:24:21.000 We knew it was happening.

00:24:23.000 We saw it happening.

00:24:24.000 We have testimonials.

00:24:25.000 There's data.

00:24:25.000 There's evidence.

00:24:27.000 Letitia James, who's a very ambitious Attorney General in New York, is doing this, I believe, purely and solely for her own political future and political purposes, but at least she's doing it.

00:24:37.000 She issued the report which showed that Andrew Cuomo enacted this policy and then played games of the numbers on how it actually unfolded.

00:24:50.000 Now, will Cuomo face a political consequence?

00:24:54.000 Very unlikely.

00:24:56.000 But when you type Cuomo into Google, almost every single story is about Andrew Cuomo with three accusations.

00:25:14.000 Now, Andrew Cuomo is going to hold a press conference today.

00:25:17.000 His Emmy Award-winning press conference.

00:25:20.000 This is from the New York Post.

00:25:21.000 Andrew Cuomo to hold first news conference, sexual harassment scandal broke.

00:25:26.000 Even the New York Post is falling for it.

00:25:28.000 I love you guys.

00:25:29.000 Don't fall for it.

00:25:31.000 The real scandal is not sexual harassment.

00:25:35.000 That's not news.

00:25:37.000 He's a 63-year-old ruling class member who runs the second largest state in the country. 0.99

00:25:44.000 He has a reputation of being a pig and a deviant towards women. 0.97

00:25:54.000 The real story is how he used his moral high ground, his absolute authority as governor to infect and potentially kill thousands of his own citizens and then cover it up and then lie about it. 0.98

00:26:17.000 There's a lot of energy in the Democrat base, especially from Alexandria Acasio-Cortez, Rashida Talib, Elon Omar, but more specifically in New York, kind of the AOC crew to get rid of Andrew Cuomo.

00:26:33.000 Cuomo and his multi-decade political machine is now in total and complete jeopardy.

00:26:42.000 Chris Cuomo has admitted he's not going to cover this at all.

00:26:46.000 Chris Cuomo went on television and said, of course, I know it's happening with my brother.

00:26:51.000 I can't talk about it.

00:26:52.000 CNN has covered it extensively.

00:26:54.000 First of all, CNN has not covered it extensively.

00:26:56.000 That's just not true.

00:27:02.000 And Andrew Cuomo was rewarded every single step of the way by mass media, by Hollywood, for his handling of the Chinese coronavirus.

00:27:16.000 And here's a question that we brought up earlier.

00:27:20.000 And I don't know if we actually ordered his book or not.

00:27:22.000 How did he get away with writing a book in the midst of a scandal?

00:27:28.000 In the midst of a crisis?

00:27:32.000 Could you imagine if Donald Trump published a book in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus?

00:27:40.000 Andrew Cuomo, cut 51, says, who cares people died in nursing homes or hospitals? 0.91

00:27:49.000 The Hillary Clinton way of looking at it.

00:27:51.000 What difference does it make? 1.00

00:27:53.000 Play tape.

00:27:54.000 But we're below the national average in number of deaths in nursing homes.

00:27:59.000 But who cares?

00:28:01.000 33, 28 died in a hospital, died in a nursing home.

00:28:07.000 They died.

00:28:10.000 So why does that matter?

00:28:11.000 That's actually a really important point.

00:28:14.000 Since we do not have any form of an honest press in our country, a follow-up question would say, well, Mr. Cuomo, let me tell you why that matters.

00:28:24.000 Because in densely populated nursing homes of people over the age of 80 with comorbidities, if you were putting infected patients into those environments, it matters a lot.

00:28:37.000 Whereas in hospitals, they're far more equipped to handle people that are currently fighting upper respiratory illnesses or diseases than a nursing home.

00:28:50.000 Wouldn't you agree at that, Mr. Cuomo?

00:28:53.000 That's the point.

00:28:54.000 The point is not some sort of clerical error.

00:28:59.000 The point is, did Andrew Cuomo willingly put infected patients into a nursing home environment?

00:29:10.000 And then why did he lie about it and celebrate his handling of it?

00:29:16.000 So this is going to be a very interesting testing moment for the Democrats.

00:29:22.000 The Democrats are in control of the House, the Senate, and the presidency.

00:29:26.000 Republicans have the data to prove that their handling of the Chinese coronavirus was not a little bit better, but dramatically better than every single Democrat.

00:29:40.000 The only Democrat in the country that I say handled it better than most is Jared Polis in Colorado.

00:29:48.000 He didn't do well, but he opened up his businesses earlier, and he actually handled it better than Governor Sisilak in Nevada.

00:29:59.000 But who has been under more pressure from the activist press?

00:30:06.000 Ron DeSantis or Andrew Cuomo?

00:30:09.000 It's not even close.

00:30:11.000 Ron DeSantis came under more scrutiny for drinking a beer without a mask on during the Super Bowl than Andrew Cuomo did for putting infected Chinese coronavirus patients into nursing homes.

00:30:25.000 Florida is the second oldest state in the country with a more densely urban population than New York.

00:30:32.000 That's a fact.

00:30:33.000 It is the third largest state.

00:30:36.000 California and New York per capita have higher deaths than Florida, also with their schools closed.

00:30:46.000 Governor Christine, Ron DeSantis, now Greg Abbott is fully opening his state.

00:30:52.000 So Democrats have a lot of soul searching to do.

00:30:57.000 They're going to have to decide this.

00:30:59.000 Do we want Cuomo gone or not?

00:31:02.000 They have the power.

00:31:04.000 The French Revolution mob can remove Robespierre.

00:31:11.000 They can use the guillotine that he created against him.

00:31:19.000 Look, big tech has come after conservatives like we've never seen before.

00:31:24.000 My entire CPAC speech, which many of you were very kind In praising, so thank you for that, was all about big tech.

00:31:34.000 Now, look, every device, whether you're on your phone, laptop, or television, has a unique string of numbers called an IP address.

00:31:41.000 When you search for stuff online, watch videos, or even click a link, big tech companies can use that IP address to track all your activity and tie it back to you.

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00:32:42.000 You know, I get a lot of emails and a lot of questions where people say, Where did all these ideas come from?

00:32:51.000 Why is it that our corporations are embracing critical race theory?

00:32:56.000 Why is it that our politicians are saying that we must eradicate whiteness? 0.69

00:33:04.000 How is it possible that Coca-Cola, a publicly traded company, sponsored Robin DiAngelo to come say that we must eradicate whiteness in our country? 0.95

00:33:20.000 And being white, according to Coca-Cola, is being arrogant, divisive, and oppressive.

00:33:29.000 The answer is that what happens on college campuses does not stay on college campuses. 0.93

00:33:35.000 We talk about this all the time at Turning Point USA. 0.54

00:33:39.000 That one of the greatest failures of conservatives over the last couple decades has been the education of our children and the lackluster involvement from conservatives and yes, Christians in the building of institutions, specifically higher education.

00:33:58.000 So, since we've been talking so much about New York, I want to talk about the State University of New Jersey. 0.70

00:34:04.000 You might say, What is the State University of New Jersey?

00:34:06.000 It's called Rutgers University.

00:34:08.000 It's actually the official name of the college.

00:34:09.000 A lot of people don't know that. 0.50

00:34:11.000 This woman is teaching your children. 0.70

00:34:14.000 Now, this woman is a professor.

00:34:19.000 She is given a mantle of credibility to publish articles, to write journals, to lecture, to teach potential teachers.

00:34:32.000 This woman, Brittany Cooper, is teaching teachers.

00:34:36.000 Brittany Cooper is an associate professor of Africana and women's and gender studies at Rutgers University.

00:34:42.000 Much of her research and writing centers around the intersections of race, feminism, and gender.

00:34:48.000 Cooper's work has led to a couple of very bizarre opinions.

00:34:51.000 Now, by the way, I am reading from professorwatchlist.org, which is a project of TurningpointUSA, TPUSA.com.

00:35:00.000 And if you have questions about any professors that might be teaching your children from schools you went to, go to professorwatchlist.org.

00:35:07.000 This is what Brittany Cooper is teaching her students, teaching potential teachers.

00:35:16.000 She claims that American Christians worship a God of quote white supremacy and patriarchy. 0.99

00:35:21.000 She chooses to worship Jesus, but says that he, quote, was a queer and quote, married a prostitute. 0.97

00:35:30.000 There is no evidence at all that Jesus ever married anyone. 0.95

00:35:37.000 I think she's talking about Mary Magdalene.

00:35:39.000 I'm guessing that's what she's talking about, right, Connor? 0.98

00:35:43.000 She says that white families like Mitt Romney's can't properly raise black children. 1.00

00:35:48.000 Yeah, so this is a really interesting argument. 0.99

00:35:50.000 We heard this from Ibram X. Kendi and some of these other fools that are educating your children and the students of America, where it's, hey, white people, stop adopting black kids. 0.98

00:36:02.000 Oh, sorry if a white family wants to be helpful to Western civilization for trying to extend a hand. 0.98

00:36:10.000 So she believes that is white colonialization. 0.99

00:36:16.000 She says that the founding principle of our nation is that black people are inhuman. 0.96

00:36:21.000 Therefore, riots are really just resistance against an unjust system. 0.78

00:36:24.000 Of course, someone should tell Brittany Cooper that in the original draft of the U.S. Constitution, Thomas Jefferson argued against slavery.

00:36:32.000 Someone should tell Brittany Cooper that Francis Scott Key, who wrote the national anthem, was not just an abolitionist, but an anti-slavery lawyer and activist.

00:36:41.000 Someone should tell Brittany Cooper that John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States and son of John Adams, was a fierce anti-slavery advocate whose father was a founding father.

00:36:56.000 In fact, he was so committed to the anti-slavery cause, after losing the presidency to Andrew Jackson, the seventh president, he entered Congress and served another nine years just for the cause of trying to abolish slavery.

00:37:11.000 Someone should tell Brittany Cooper about Thaddeus Stevens, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver.

00:37:21.000 She continues by saying: obesity in the black community is caused by racism.

00:37:29.000 I'm not going to get into that one. 0.65

00:37:31.000 But all I have to say is Brittany Cooper looks like Stacey Abrams. 0.97

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00:39:14.000 I love when I read articles when I do my show prep in the morning that say that Democrats are worried and Democrats are upset about something.

00:39:22.000 That makes a day worth living.

00:39:26.000 Democrats worry Senate will be graveyard for Biden agenda.

00:39:32.000 I'm reading from the Hill by Alexander Bolton.

00:39:35.000 Liberal Democrats are growing more and more worried that the Senate will serve as a legislative graveyard for President Biden's agenda unless he and other centrists rally behind doing away with the filibuster.

00:39:48.000 The tensions for now are mostly under the surface as the party approaches an initial victory under Biden, passing into law this giant $1.9 trillion Chinese coronavirus relief bill.

00:39:57.000 Tomorrow or on Friday, as soon as I get an opportunity to really go through it, I will do what we have done, I think, more clearly than any other program in the last year.

00:40:10.000 Oppose any and all stimulus.

00:40:13.000 Stimulus does not help the American economy.

00:40:16.000 It is not targeted.

00:40:17.000 Most of the money from the December stimulus is not even spent.

00:40:21.000 It will result in inflation, increased debts, deficits, bailouts of broken states.

00:40:28.000 We oppose the first stimulus, the second stimulus, and the stimulus.

00:40:32.000 And by the way, all of the stimulus is on top of a $4 trillion federal budget.

00:40:38.000 You want to stimulate the American economy?

00:40:41.000 Open everything up.

00:40:43.000 We never should have locked down.

00:40:45.000 I get the first two weeks of lockdowns maybe.

00:40:47.000 By April 1st, the entire country should have been open.

00:40:51.000 Act responsibly.

00:40:55.000 Focus on therapeutics, social distance.

00:41:00.000 Stay at home if you need to, but do not restrict the liberties granted to us by God for a constantly moving target and objective, 15 days to slow the spread.

00:41:13.000 You know, we're coming up on two years, on one year, or 15 days to slow the spread.

00:41:19.000 Then it was six weeks to slow the spread.

00:41:21.000 Shut down businesses, shut down churches, imprison pastors, mount unsustainable fines. 0.76

00:41:31.000 Meanwhile, you allow BLM Incorporated to march through the streets. 0.83

00:41:35.000 You want to stimulate the American economy?

00:41:38.000 Open everything up.

00:41:40.000 Deficit spending does not work.

00:41:43.000 And it'd be one thing if they proposed an infrastructure package where we could touch and see and use some of the money spent.

00:41:51.000 Still, it's probably a huge handout to unions. 0.71

00:41:54.000 Some of those unions are very corrupt.

00:41:55.000 Other unions are ones that are more of the muscular class.

00:41:59.000 They've had a tough time the last couple of years, and they actually produce something of value, unlike the SEIU and AFSCAMI and a large portion of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association that are ruining children's lives by not opening schools.

00:42:17.000 This relief bill will relieve the next generation of their future.

00:42:23.000 That's all it's going to do.

00:42:25.000 This will not offer substantial relief to the people suffering in our country.

00:42:33.000 There is a law of economics that is so obvious, you should not have to say it.

00:42:40.000 Printing dollars does not create wealth.

00:42:45.000 Creating money does not create goods or services.

00:42:49.000 It only creates the number of dollars in circulation, therefore making those dollars worth less.

00:42:57.000 Do you know only 9% of this bill actually goes to the Chinese coronavirus?

00:43:04.000 There is unspent PPP money.

00:43:07.000 There's unspent dollars from the first stimulus bill.

00:43:10.000 So why are they doing this?

00:43:12.000 Democrats are using a crisis as an opportunity.

00:43:17.000 Never let a crisis go to waste.

00:43:19.000 Housing crisis, healthcare crisis, auto crisis.

00:43:23.000 This is why they're licking their chops for their real power grab. 0.98

00:43:30.000 The Chinese coronavirus, they know people are going to get over this in the next nine months. 1.00

00:43:36.000 How are they really going to achieve the great reset?

00:43:39.000 This is why the great Rush Limbaugh was at times overly fixated, but I actually think he wasn't on the environmental movement.

00:43:53.000 That issue is how they are going to achieve their great reset.

00:43:58.000 However, back to the good news: the $1.9 trillion bill should not be passed.

00:44:03.000 Any Republican that voted for it is doing a disservice to their constituents.

00:44:09.000 It will do nothing to stimulate economic growth or middle-class incomes.

00:44:13.000 Nothing.

00:44:15.000 Or help the muscular class in our country. 0.97

00:44:19.000 The Senate is expected to pass it this week.

00:44:21.000 And when it becomes law, it will serve as an unmistakable victory in Biden's first 100 days.

00:44:26.000 And nothing says unmistakable victory like ruining the country.

00:44:29.000 Yet this initial victory will cover up fears among Democrats that big ticket items passed in the House will die in the Senate unless the party greases the gears for change by ending the filibuster.

00:44:42.000 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is insisting the Senate won't be a graveyard.

00:44:46.000 The term Mitch McConnell welcomed in describing what would happen to legislation passed by the Democrat House to the Senate if he controlled the Senate over the past two years.

00:44:55.000 Schumer says, I believe, and I believe my caucus believes that we need big, bold action, and we're going to figure out the best way to get big, bold action on a whole lot of fronts.

00:45:05.000 But the White House on Tuesday wanted to avoid this, where Biden didn't take questions from Democrat senators on Tuesday during a brief eight-minute call to their weekly luncheon.

00:45:17.000 Wait, so Biden doesn't take questions from senators.

00:45:19.000 He doesn't take questions from the press.

00:45:21.000 Does Biden take questions from anybody?

00:45:23.000 You see, if I was a Democrat senator like the snow woman, Amy Klobuchar, and I worked really hard to get Joe Biden elected, and he's not even going to take questions. 0.57

00:45:35.000 The call ended serving as a pep rally.

00:45:38.000 Well, congratulations, Joe Biden.

00:45:40.000 You finally have put together a rally.

00:45:45.000 Ahead of the vote this week on the relief measure.

00:45:47.000 But by taking no questions, Biden also avoided from hearing from liberal senators about the filibuster or the push on the $15 minimum wage.

00:45:56.000 This is not leadership by Joe Biden.

00:45:58.000 The Democrat caucus, the Democrat Party is going to splinter soon.

00:46:07.000 I'm reading between the lines for you guys here.

00:46:10.000 I'm telling you what's happening.

00:46:12.000 Schumer said, he said we need to pass this bill and pass it soon.

00:46:16.000 He said the Senate, quote, will have the votes, and we just need to pass the bill.

00:46:20.000 And that Congress is on track to send the measure to Biden's desk for federal unemployment benefits that expire March 14th.

00:46:26.000 However, the big issue is the filibuster.

00:46:31.000 We have gone through this in great detail of what the filibuster is.

00:46:35.000 And essentially, the filibuster is a procedural precedent that requires 50 votes to allow you to get 50 votes to pass certain legislation.

00:46:46.000 I know that sounds weird, but to get rid of the filibuster, you have to vote to get rid of the filibuster.

00:46:51.000 In order to do so, you need every Democrat to agree.

00:47:03.000 So, Senator Joe Manchin and Senator Kirsten Sinema from Arizona say there is no chance they will remove the filibuster.

00:47:12.000 So, what does that mean?

00:47:14.000 The piece continues by saying: Democrats expect pressure on lawmakers to repeal the filibuster to mount after the House passes H.R. 1, a sweeping campaign finance reform measure, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, both of which are expected to run into Senate filibusters.

00:47:32.000 Good.

00:47:38.000 Jen Saki says that the White House is not going to get ahead of the process.

00:47:44.000 The president's view of the filibuster is well known.

00:47:46.000 Well, no, actually, it isn't, circleback woman.

00:47:49.000 He has not changed that point of view.

00:47:51.000 But certainly, any step to protect voting rights to ensure that it's easier and not harder for people to vote in the country.

00:47:57.000 Do you see?

00:47:57.000 H.R. 1 is about basically saying Democrats never should lose a national election again.

00:48:02.000 That's what H.R. 1 is.

00:48:03.000 It's not the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

00:48:06.000 It's not the we are going to usher in Heaven on Earth Act.

00:48:09.000 It's Democrats will perpetually be in power if you pass it.

00:48:12.000 Now, the only thing that will get in the way of HR1, the filibuster.

00:48:18.000 And a wacky liberal senator from Arizona and a blue dog Democrat from West Virginia might be the guardians of our republic.

00:48:28.000 This is good news.

00:48:30.000 I'm going to tell you even more about this because this is not being reported in a lot of the press.

00:48:33.000 We've got to focus in on the process and less on the politics.

00:48:39.000 We have Andy Biggs coming on exclusively on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast to talk about HR1.

00:48:43.000 And I know a lot of you on radio and on the live stream are very worried for good reason about what happened in the 2020 election.

00:48:53.000 I know a lot of you are worried about the ballot process, signature verifications, all the shenanigans around that.

00:49:02.000 And we just had an amazing interview with Phil Klein, former attorney general of Kansas, runs the Amistad project.

00:49:10.000 We talk about $400 million coming in at the last minute that was unaccounted for, the changing of election laws.

00:49:18.000 There's a lot there that we have to go through.

00:49:22.000 Alexandria Acasio-Cortez came out and tweeted that she's very angry.

00:49:27.000 You see, this is this article I'm reading from thehill.com.

00:49:31.000 Democrats worry Senate will be graveyard for Biden agenda.

00:49:34.000 And most, one of the things that we're talking about here is, of course, the $15 minimum wage, which might as well be called the Black Unemployment Act.

00:49:45.000 If you want to have blacks and Hispanics be disenfranchised from getting an entry into the workforce, arbitrarily raise the minimum wage. 0.64

00:49:53.000 This is what happens in Seattle and Portland and New York.

00:49:55.000 A raising the minimum wage only temporarily helps people that were already on their way to get promotions.

00:50:02.000 It does not help middle-class workers.

00:50:05.000 It does not help working families at all.

00:50:08.000 Instead, if you had a payroll tax cut, that would help everyone up and down the socioeconomic ladder.

00:50:15.000 So during Tuesday's conference call, Biden expressed strong support for raising the federal minimum wage, but he stopped short of endorsing scrapping the filibuster.

00:50:23.000 Now, this is not going to pass in the Senate the $15 minimum wage because there's someone called a parliamentarian.

00:50:31.000 So it's not a very heavily covered news story.

00:50:35.000 But this person, the parliamentarian, ruled that raising the minimum wage couldn't be included under the special budgetary rules that Democrats are using to sidestep the filibuster in the Senate.

00:50:46.000 That led some Democrats to call for overruling the parliamentarian, a step rejected by Biden and the Senate Democrat leaders.

00:50:55.000 AOC tweeted, quote, it is utterly embarrassing that pay people enough to live is a stance that's even up for debate.

00:51:07.000 Override the parliamentarian and raise the wage.

00:51:10.000 McDonald's workers in Denmark are paid $22 an hour plus six weeks paid vacation.

00:51:16.000 $15 an hour is a deep compromise, a big one, considering the phase-in.

00:51:23.000 Is that the role of government, AOC?

00:51:26.000 What is the role of government?

00:51:28.000 Where do rights come from?

00:51:31.000 Is it the role of government to arbitrarily interject itself into wage disputes between employers and employees?

00:51:39.000 I think a reasonable position is that there should be some form of an agreed-upon wage for workers.

00:51:47.000 We already have that.

00:51:49.000 States and municipalities have decided to increase black unemployment by raising the minimum wage. 0.89

00:51:55.000 There's a direct correlation between the arbitrary raising of minimum wage and blacks being unemployed and minorities going on government programs.

00:52:04.000 Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, and Shelby Steele, who many of you are enjoying on our live stream, have written extensively about this. 0.60

00:52:13.000 For AOC, she has a completely different philosophical worldview of what she thinks government should do.

00:52:22.000 You see, to her, she believes the Danish model, which by the way, has incredibly strict immigration policies and no national military and actually a more free market environment excluding tax policy when it comes to regulatory policy.

00:52:43.000 I'll get to that either in the next seminar or a different time.

00:52:46.000 That Denmark and McDonald's workers are the blueprint for America.

00:52:53.000 What's the cost of that?

00:52:56.000 The cost is in Copenhagen, a city I don't think AOC even knows exists.

00:53:04.000 Maybe she does.

00:53:05.000 Maybe she knows her Scandinavian capitals.

00:53:07.000 Maybe she knows Stockholm and Oslo, Helsinki, and Copenhagen.

00:53:11.000 Maybe she could tell you the difference between the Scandinavian countries and the Baltic states, which actually Finland, I think, is more of a Baltic.

00:53:16.000 Finland could be either Scandinavian or Baltic, Estonian, Latvia, Lithuania, or Baltic state.

00:53:21.000 The points are: if you would like a hamburger to cost $22, go.

00:53:28.000 Go ahead.

00:53:30.000 Pay the worker making the hamburger $22.

00:53:34.000 You see, for AOC and her six-figure salary, who cares?

00:53:39.000 For the working-class person, raising prices is a tax on working people.

00:53:47.000 All right, Andrew Cuomo is trying to win another Emmy.

00:53:51.000 I don't want to spend a lot of time on this, but let's just go in.

00:53:54.000 I want to hear just a little bit of his tone, and then we'll go back to other news.

00:53:59.000 Plate, let's cut in life.

00:54:00.000 Touching the faces of people all over the state, young and old, whatever.

00:54:04.000 And I wonder what you make of those pictures.

00:54:07.000 Yeah.

00:54:09.000 Thank you very much, Marcia.

00:54:10.000 Let me take both questions.

00:54:11.000 First, you're right about the state budget.

00:54:15.000 It is critically important.

00:54:17.000 The state budget is going to turn the page to the rebuilding phase.

00:54:23.000 We've been working very hard to get funding from Washington to fill the gap.

00:54:30.000 And that has been going well.

00:54:32.000 We have to see what we actually get.

00:54:34.000 But we then have tremendous financial needs on top of that.

00:54:37.000 People have to pay their rent.

00:54:39.000 They need food, etc.

00:54:41.000 You also have New York City, which is in a very precarious situation.

00:54:48.000 It's teetering to use a word.

00:54:51.000 Crime is way up.

00:54:53.000 Homelessness is way up.

00:54:56.000 Many people have left New York City.

00:55:00.000 Hamptons, Mid-Hudson Valley, other states.

00:55:07.000 We have to get New York City functional again and safe again and viable again.

00:55:16.000 And we have to do that quickly.

00:55:19.000 We have a new mayor that's going to be selected basically in June, I guess.

00:55:24.000 Something could happen in November, but basically in June.

00:55:28.000 And that work has to start right away.

00:55:30.000 So yes, the budget is very important.

00:55:33.000 Having said that.

00:55:34.000 So I go and let somebody else handle it?

00:55:36.000 Yeah, having said that, I'm going to cooperate with the Attorney General's investigation and do the budget.

00:55:45.000 Remember, we did a budget last year in the spring in the heat of COVID, where it was the most intense period of my life, of this government's life, of this state's life.

00:56:00.000 And we did both and will do both here.

00:56:04.000 On the pictures, Marsha, I understand the opinion and feelings of Ms. Ruhr.

00:56:18.000 And you are right.

00:56:19.000 You can find hundreds of pictures of me making the same gesture with hundreds of people, women, men, children, etc.

00:56:36.000 You can go find hundreds of pictures of me kissing people, men, women.

00:56:43.000 It is my usual and customary way of greeting.

00:56:48.000 You know that because you've watched me for, let's just say, more years than we care to remember.

00:56:57.000 By the way, it was my father's way of greeting people.

00:57:00.000 You're the governor of the state.

00:57:01.000 You want people to feel comfortable.

00:57:03.000 You want to reach out to them.

00:57:08.000 I do it.

00:57:09.000 I kiss and hug legislators.

00:57:12.000 I was at an event in Queens the other day.

00:57:16.000 Hugged the pastors and the assembly members who were there.

00:57:21.000 So that is my way to do that.

00:57:24.000 However, what I also understand is it doesn't matter.

00:57:30.000 It doesn't matter my intent.

00:57:35.000 What it matters is if anybody was offended by it.

00:57:41.000 And I could intend no offense, but if they were offended by it, then it was wrong.

00:57:50.000 And if they were offended by it, I apologize.

00:57:55.000 And if they were hurt by it, I apologize.

00:58:00.000 And if they felt pain from it, I apologize.

00:58:04.000 I apologize.

00:58:06.000 I did not intend it.

00:58:09.000 I didn't mean it that way.

00:58:12.000 But if that's how they felt, that's all that matters, and I apologize.

00:58:19.000 Next question, operator.

00:58:23.000 Governor, your next question comes from Deep.

00:58:25.000 Okay, well, that was a mess.

00:58:27.000 So I think Andrew Cuomo has created more problems for himself. 0.98

00:58:31.000 And look, I'm not going to, in any way, feel sorry for him because I think he's a liar and a self-serving machine Democrat politician. 0.86

00:58:39.000 First of all, at least we no longer have to debate that New York City is a mess. 0.97

00:58:46.000 Cuomo.

00:58:48.000 Crime is up.

00:58:49.000 Homelessness is up.

00:58:51.000 People are jumping off buildings.

00:58:53.000 They're going to the Hamptons.

00:58:55.000 Buildings are on fire.

00:58:58.000 You can't walk through Central Park.

00:59:01.000 My mom can't make ZD for me and Fredo.

00:59:04.000 Like, it's really bad.

00:59:06.000 At least we've come to the conclusion, there's no debate that New York City has become Gotham City under Andrew Cuomo's governorship.

00:59:16.000 Maybe he's trying to create another scandal to distract from it.

00:59:19.000 That's number one.

00:59:21.000 Number two, you see, my typical way of greeting is I just slobber all over.

00:59:31.000 I find any person that has a pulse.

00:59:35.000 And I learned this from my father.

00:59:39.000 And I just, I kiss them.

00:59:42.000 Hundreds of.

00:59:44.000 And I think to myself, hundreds of photos.

00:59:46.000 The heck are you doing?

00:59:47.000 Like, are you opening up?

00:59:49.000 You're opening up the floodgates here a little bit, man, more than I think you should.

00:59:54.000 And then he goes in and he says, I was just with pastors.

01:00:00.000 And we were slobbering all over.

01:00:02.000 Isn't it the virus?

01:00:03.000 I thought you're not supposed to get within 25 nautical miles of each other.

01:00:10.000 So that doesn't seem to be a very good defense.

01:00:12.000 And yes, I know that in Italian culture, they kiss and hug a lot.

01:00:17.000 I'm just merely adding some factual levity to what I think Cuomo is trying to convince people that he just does such a wonderful job with everything.

01:00:26.000 But there's a deeper point to this.

01:00:28.000 Despite the fact that Cuomo now on the record has admitted that New York is a third world city, he can't stand de Blasio.

01:00:36.000 They hate each other, and I'm there for all of it.

01:00:37.000 I think de Blasio's term limited out, right?

01:00:40.000 That's basically what's happening.

01:00:41.000 Andrew Yang could become mayor or whatever.

01:00:44.000 Okay.

01:00:45.000 So, and de Blasio will go down as one of the worst mayors in American history, no doubt.

01:00:53.000 And the fact that Cuomo just comes out of nowhere and then says, and then children, I'm like, hold on.

01:00:59.000 Little word of advice.

01:01:00.000 Stay away from that one.

01:01:02.000 Okay.

01:01:03.000 That should be a no-fly zone for you, Mr. Cuomo.

01:01:06.000 There's a deeper philosophical point here.

01:01:09.000 Andrew Cuomo, in 2019, Andrew Cuomo created a guillotine.

01:01:21.000 In 2019, Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill which lowered the bar for proving harassment claims.

01:01:31.000 The bill signed in the law in 2019 says harassment, quote, needs not to be severe or pervasive to be considered unlawful.

01:01:38.000 Any action that rises above, quote, petty slights and trivial inconveniences.

01:01:45.000 All of that could be a basis for a claim.

01:01:48.000 So you might be saying, well, Charlie, how is that a guillotine?

01:01:55.000 The French Revolution was led in part by a man by the name of Robespierre.

01:02:02.000 Robespierre was part of a group called the Jacobins, a grassroots movement mostly focused in Paris and other urban centers across the beautiful country of France, inciting rage and fervor, and some would say revenge-driven action against the French ruling class.

01:02:25.000 Over 10,000 people were publicly executed in show trials using the guillotine, almost the modern-day equivalent of Antifa. 0.71

01:02:38.000 Jacobins are Antifa. 0.52

01:02:42.000 Robespierre was a revolutionary inspired by a French philosopher by the name of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 0.95

01:02:51.000 Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously valued the primitive over the civilized, the infant over the adult, the chaotic over the orderly, the bloody over the peaceful.

01:03:01.000 Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a French philosopher who laid the philosophical groundwork for the massive social action that resulted in the French Revolution.

01:03:12.000 And eventually, after the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte took over and conquered most of Europe.

01:03:18.000 Robespierre, actually, 17,000 people are estimated to be killed by the guillotines.

01:03:25.000 Robespierre, not dissimilar to Julius Caesar and other leaders that want power and enable those around him or her, grew out of favor with the Jacobins.

01:03:48.000 So the Jacobins said, you're next, Robespierre.

01:03:53.000 The man who created the whole show, the man who put on the idea of we will no longer allow Louis the 14th, 15th, 16th?

01:04:03.000 Can never get the number right.

01:04:07.000 To rule any longer. 1.00

01:04:09.000 They want us to eat cake sarcastically, Marie Antoinette. 1.00

01:04:14.000 The blood will roll in the streets.

01:04:18.000 16th.

01:04:19.000 Thank you.

01:04:22.000 One of my favorite French quotes is opre no les deluge, which means after us, the flood, which was famously said by, I think, Louis XIV.

01:04:35.000 And so Andrew Cuomo pandered to the Jacobins.

01:04:41.000 He said, sure, I'll give you your guillotine with no trial and no due process. 0.98

01:04:45.000 I'll give you the ability to metaphorically decapitate people for any reason. 0.93

01:04:52.000 Remember, this entire thing that Andrew Cuomo was pandering to was because of Brett Kavanaugh.

01:05:01.000 Brett Kavanaugh, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby.

01:05:04.000 So now Andrew Cuomo is going to suffer the fate of Robespierre.

01:05:11.000 Do you know what happened to Robespierre?

01:05:14.000 He was killed by the Jacobins, by the guillotine he built, he created, and he supported, and the crowd applauded for 15 minutes. 1.00

01:05:24.000 If you think you can control the mob, you're a prideful fool. 1.00

01:05:29.000 They will come for you next. 0.99

01:05:33.000 And for Mr. Cuomo, who has played a dangerous game with the vengeful mob, is now experiencing their rage.

01:05:50.000 I want to praise Governor Greg Abbott for announcing that he is going to fully open the state of Texas.

01:05:55.000 He's been a little bit slow to the draw.

01:05:57.000 He locked down too much back in the spring, but he is doing the right thing.

01:06:01.000 Brenna has emailed us, and it's a great question.

01:06:05.000 Charlie, Governor Abbott, finally stepped up and had the courage to open Texas 100%.

01:06:09.000 You're right.

01:06:10.000 He also removed the mask mandate, and we can breathe again.

01:06:14.000 I'm thinking he took notes from Ron DeSantis.

01:06:16.000 You're right.

01:06:18.000 So proud of his courage.

01:06:19.000 However, many people are saying he made the wrong choice.

01:06:23.000 How can this be?

01:06:24.000 Why would people not want their freedom back?

01:06:30.000 Love the show.

01:06:31.000 Listen to you every day.

01:06:32.000 Brenna from Little Elm, Texas.

01:06:34.000 Brenna, you have asked the best question of the day.

01:06:37.000 I'm going to send you a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine because you are pursuing truth.

01:06:44.000 People don't want to be free.

01:06:47.000 They want to be taken care of.

01:06:50.000 Our natural, sinful state is not one of liberty.

01:06:58.000 There's a phenomenal quote at the law school in Harvard that says, the law is the wise restraints that keep men free.

01:07:10.000 It's a little counterintuitive, isn't it?

01:07:13.000 That the law, limitations, restraints, is actually what keeps you free.

01:07:21.000 The prevailing viewpoint over the last couple decades is that people want to be free.

01:07:28.000 No, they don't.

01:07:31.000 They want to be provided stuff and taken care of.

01:07:35.000 They want to be beneficiaries of a welfare state.

01:07:38.000 Any glimmer of people wanting to be free is because they either have responsibility, they understand what freedom is, or they have a worldview that mandates them to be active and productive, like the Christian worldview.

01:07:59.000 Whereas the secular worldview does not require you to be active and productive.

01:08:04.000 Instead, it would require you to be complaining and stationary.

01:08:08.000 Shelby Steele said on our live stream, you might have heard it, that the challenge today is not slavery, it is freedom.

01:08:16.000 When God, through Moses, brought the Israelites out of Egypt into the wilderness, they were being fed.

01:08:26.000 What did they start to do?

01:08:28.000 They started to complain and they said, take us back to Egypt.

01:08:34.000 There was meat there.

01:08:37.000 As soon as people have a taste of freedom, most want to go back.

01:08:43.000 Freedom and liberty can be very dangerous.

01:08:52.000 Thinking that other people might not be wearing masks?

01:08:54.000 Yeah, that's right.

01:08:56.000 You might have to make decisions to adjust to that.

01:08:59.000 To think that people are not going to be locked down in their homes and then go to restaurants?

01:09:02.000 Yes, you might have to make adjustments to that.

01:09:04.000 By the way, do you notice that Greg Abbott did not say you must go to a restaurant next week?

01:09:08.000 He says you can.

01:09:11.000 The way that it's being portrayed, the fear-mongering around it is almost as if there was a mandate that every Texan must go into a public park and do an Andrew Cuomo impersonation and start slobbering over each other.

01:09:26.000 You see, liberty means that you are in a vulnerable position by definition.

01:09:34.000 Liberty is a loaded gun.

01:09:36.000 In the wrong hands, people will abuse it.

01:09:39.000 Liberty requires ethics.

01:09:41.000 It requires what knowledge of what it means to be a good person, to live a purposeful life, to have a telos, which is a Greek word for purpose, which is where we get the word telescope from.

01:09:53.000 Out in the distance, where am I going?

01:09:56.000 You see, for a directionless, meandering, confused generation who has no purpose, no telos, I can see why they're scared of liberty.

01:10:07.000 They want to be given a government-mandated excuse to sit and do nothing, because at the very least, they don't have to make difficult choices.

01:10:19.000 So, to answer your phenomenal question, Brenna, freedom is a value.

01:10:24.000 It's not in the bloodstream.

01:10:25.000 It's not in our DNA.

01:10:25.000 It's not in the natural human condition.

01:10:27.000 If you don't teach people the need to fight for freedom or what freedom actually is and why you should live a free and full life of liberty, it will disappear.

01:10:36.000 Phenomenal question.

01:10:41.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:10:43.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:10:45.000 Get involved with Turning PointUSA at tpusa.com and support us at charliekirk.com/slash support.

01:10:52.000 God bless.

01:10:53.000 Speak to you soon.

The Charlie Kirk Show - March 04, 2021

Andrew Cuomo Wags the Dog and FINALLY Some Good News From the US Senate

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