The Charlie Kirk Show - May 09, 2022


Ask Charlie Anything 104: Is Overturning Roe Too Radical? Will the Reaction Turn Violent? The Remote Learning Verdict Is In? And MORE

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How the Church Can Build Something New in America—LIVE from Cornerstone Church in Fresno, California Lori Lightfoot Raises a Big, Gay Army Over Roe v. Wade Decision

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In this episode, I answer your questions that you sent in about Roe v. Wade, generational abuse, and more. Thank you so much for all of the amazing questions you submitted, and I hope you enjoy this episode!

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00:02:03.000 So let's get to this first one.
00:02:05.000 This is Tina.
00:02:07.000 Tina says, quote, Charlie, I read a column of one of my conservative friends shared on Twitter that was written by someone on the right.
00:02:17.000 Apparently, it said overturning Roe versus Wade wasn't conservative.
00:02:21.000 Okay.
00:02:22.000 So this is a column by Brett Stevens, who used to be a really smart person, and he's just become almost unreadable in recent years.
00:02:32.000 And this Brett Stevens now writes for the New York Times.
00:02:36.000 And Brett Stevens wrote this for the New York Times.
00:02:40.000 Overturning Roe is a radical, not conservative choice.
00:02:45.000 Now, he calls himself a conservative.
00:02:47.000 He's just about the same type of conservative as Bill Crystal.
00:02:50.000 That should tell you everything you need to know.
00:02:52.000 Dear Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Barrett, Gorsuch Kavanaugh, and Thomas, as you'll no doubt agree, Roe versus Wade was an ill-judged decision when it was handed down January 22nd, 1973.
00:03:03.000 It continues by saying, Roe versus Wade diminished the standing on the court by turning it into an even more political branch of government.
00:03:11.000 But a half century is a long time.
00:03:13.000 America is a different place with most of its population born after Roe was decided.
00:03:18.000 After a decision to overturn Roe, which the court seemed poised to do, according to the leak of a draft of a majority opinion by Justice Samuel Lito, would do more to replicate gross damage than to reverse it.
00:03:29.000 He says it would be a radical, not conservative choice.
00:03:33.000 So Brett Stevens, who I assume is very highly educated, I would like him to tell me what is the definition of radical.
00:03:41.000 It means to the root, to the core, to the basis.
00:03:45.000 Brett Stevens asks the question in the New York Times.
00:03:49.000 What is conservative?
00:03:50.000 He says.
00:03:51.000 It is, above all, the conviction that abrupt and profound changes to established laws and common expectations are utterly destructive to respect for the law and institutions established to uphold it.
00:04:06.000 And especially when those changes are instigated from above with neither Democrat consent nor broad consensus.
00:04:13.000 Okay, that is not what a conservative is, okay?
00:04:16.000 If there is an immoral or destructive law, a conservative has a moral obligation to try to repeal it and get rid of it quickly.
00:04:25.000 A conservative is the defender, not of the, not of the orthodoxy of the time.
00:04:31.000 A conservative is a defender of what is beautiful, good, and true.
00:04:36.000 So let me just ask Brett Stevens, was abolishing slavery conservative?
00:04:42.000 Because according to his argument, he says, look, a conservative believes that abrupt and profound changes to established laws are utterly destructive.
00:04:51.000 Well, I'm sorry to say that abolishing slavery, according to Brett Stevens, would have been utterly destructive.
00:04:57.000 Yes, big changes in favor of humanity can be very radical.
00:05:03.000 It's exactly right.
00:05:05.000 Brett Stevens calls himself a Biden conservative for the New York Times.
00:05:11.000 He wrote an article in August of 2020.
00:05:13.000 He said, it's about upholding your principles at the expense of your politics.
00:05:18.000 What a joke.
00:05:19.000 He says, to be a Biden conservative isn't easy.
00:05:22.000 It's about upholding your principles at the expense of your politics and embracing mediocrity to ward off malevolence.
00:05:27.000 Above all, it's about curbing your enthusiasm.
00:05:29.000 If that isn't conservative, what is?
00:05:31.000 So this idea, really the argument that Brett Stevens is making, and this is a, again, he's just kind of going through the motions of whatever the New York Times wants him to do, is that he says, look, if you want to change things and make them better, there's no way you could be a conservative.
00:05:49.000 And since when is that ever true?
00:05:52.000 So we as conservatives believe that some things should not be abruptly changed, like gender norms, like the nuclear family, like homeschooling, like going to church, because those things are beautiful, true, and good.
00:06:06.000 And so then becomes the most important question, what is beautiful, true, and good?
00:06:12.000 I'm glad you asked.
00:06:13.000 How much time you got?
00:06:14.000 Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:06:15.000 We talk about it every day.
00:06:17.000 What is good is the essence of the thing.
00:06:20.000 We could talk for hours, years, decades about how the classical Western canon has contemplated over the idea of what is true.
00:06:33.000 What is true is what could be proven.
00:06:35.000 What is true is what points you to a better and happier life.
00:06:38.000 What is beautiful, that which is perfected in being.
00:06:40.000 Now, a classical education, which our country was founded on, a biblical classical education, John Adams actually spoke Hebrew.
00:06:48.000 You couldn't graduate Harvard at the time without actually understanding Hebrew.
00:06:52.000 There was no debate in the Founding Fathers what was beautiful, good, or true.
00:06:55.000 There was no debate.
00:06:56.000 So let me ask this question, Brett Stevens.
00:06:58.000 What is conservative?
00:07:00.000 It is above all the conviction that abrupt and profound changes to established laws and common expectations are utterly destructive to respect for the law.
00:07:07.000 Was the American founding conservative?
00:07:10.000 Now, hilariously, Edmund Burke, the first conservative, was a British member of parliament and his counterpart, William Pitt, who actually, they were not in favor, but they were sympathetic to the American revolutionary cause.
00:07:25.000 They understood it.
00:07:26.000 Very against the French Revolution, as Edmund Burke wrote in his book, Reflections on the French Revolution.
00:07:31.000 I think that's the title of the book.
00:07:33.000 It's very good.
00:07:35.000 Brett Stevens continues, the fact that he continues by saying, Roe versus Wade and Planned Parent of V. Casey says this, quote, as conservatives, you are philosophically bound to give considerable weight to judicial precedence.
00:07:47.000 No, we're not.
00:07:50.000 No, not if the precedent is bad, particularly when they have been ratified and refined, as Roe was by the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision over a long period of time.
00:08:02.000 Now, he knows nothing about the actual decision.
00:08:05.000 The deciding vote was by Anthony Kennedy, who literally wrote in his decision that anyone can define their own meaning.
00:08:13.000 There's a famous phrase in the Anthony Kennedy decision there.
00:08:17.000 It was something like, you are the master of your own morality or something, or abstract morality or something like that.
00:08:25.000 The fact that Planned Parenthood v. Casey somehow somewhat altered the original scheme of Roe, a point that Justice Alito makes much of his draft opinion, doesn't change the fact the court broadly upheld the right to an abortion.
00:08:36.000 We never have helped the, this is what's so ridiculous, is that we nationalized abortion, Brett Stevens.
00:08:41.000 So Brett Stevens, wouldn't the conservative thing, because you living in New York and being a Biden conservative are such an authority on this, wouldn't the conservative thing actually bringing back to the states, which this reversing of Roe versus Wade would actually do?
00:08:55.000 Wouldn't that be the conservative thing?
00:08:58.000 Brett Stevens writes, again, the conviction that abrupt and profound changes to established laws and common expectations are utterly destructive to respective law would be challenging the Holocaust, be conservative.
00:09:09.000 No, we're not supposed to challenge laws.
00:09:12.000 Can't do that.
00:09:14.000 Anthony Kennedy wrote, quote, at the heart of liberty is the right to define one owns concept of existence, of meaning of the universe, and the mystery of human life.
00:09:24.000 Anthony Kennedy.
00:09:26.000 The famous quote that gave us the decision of Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
00:09:31.000 Brett Stevens writes in the New York Times, the pro-lifers will soon rediscover the meaning of another conservative truism.
00:09:37.000 Beware of unattended consequences.
00:09:41.000 Those return to the old, often unsafe, illegal abortions and abortions in Mexico, the entrenchment of pro-life majorities in blue states, and the likely consolidation of pro-choice majorities in purple states, driven by voters newly anxious over their reproductive rights.
00:09:56.000 Oh, wait, so blue states will become bluer and red states will become redder and children's lives will be saved?
00:10:02.000 Interesting.
00:10:03.000 That sounds pretty good.
00:10:04.000 Americans are almost evenly divided on their personal views of abortion, but only 19% think illegal abortion should be illegal under all circumstances.
00:10:12.000 It shouldn't be hard to imagine how Americans will react to the court conspicuously providing aid and comfort to the 19%. 0.97
00:10:18.000 That's not what they're doing, Brett Stevens.
00:10:20.000 That's not what they're doing.
00:10:21.000 They're sending it back down to the states.
00:10:23.000 How did this pass a New York Times editorial board?
00:10:25.000 This doesn't make abortion illegal. 1.00
00:10:27.000 It doesn't.
00:10:27.000 I wish it would.
00:10:28.000 It brings it back down to the states.
00:10:32.000 The word conservative, again, this is such a drive-by shooting of conservatism.
00:10:36.000 The word conservative encompassed many ideas and habits, none of more important than prudence, which comes from the Greek word prudentia.
00:10:43.000 Justices, be prudent.
00:10:46.000 Yes, the prudent thing would be to save the lives of the unborn.
00:10:51.000 The prudent thing would be able to protect those that can't protect themselves.
00:10:56.000 That would be the conservative thing to do.
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00:12:15.000 Norma from Queens says, Charlie, I heard that we're going to face, I heard you say we're going to face confrontation and chaos like we haven't seen since Floyda Palooza once Roe is overturned.
00:12:25.000 What are some of your ways to respond to an argument to the left?
00:12:28.000 The left likes to use to justify killing children.
00:12:31.000 Thanks, Norma from Queens. 0.64
00:12:33.000 Look, the reaction has been extreme.
00:12:35.000 Let's go to Cut 65, Chuck Schumer, about the outrage about the upcoming repealing of Roe versus Wade, which again just sends it back down to the states.
00:12:44.000 There will be plenty of babies still murdered in New York City. 0.99
00:12:47.000 Don't worry, Chuck.
00:12:48.000 I know that's a big concern for him.
00:12:49.000 Play Cut 65.
00:12:50.000 I am just, I cannot tell you the outrage I feel at this decision and the outrage I feel that Republicans who did it won't own up to it.
00:12:59.000 And duck it.
00:13:00.000 It's despicable.
00:13:02.000 We're not talking about anything inconsequential.
00:13:05.000 We're talking about women's health, a women's right to choose, and the millions and millions and millions of American women who have felt the need to have an abortion.
00:13:15.000 Just about every one of us knows someone in that situation.
00:13:18.000 Yeah, actually, I don't, Chuck Schumer.
00:13:21.000 But again, the one thing that really wakes him up and really fires him up is this issue.
00:13:26.000 Okay, so I'm going to kind of pepper in some clips throughout all of this and kind of talk about this.
00:13:35.000 The first of which is this, which is there's some talking points about Roe v. Wade.
00:13:41.000 And again, I'm not really on social media.
00:13:43.000 I'm told that there's just an enormous amount of chatter happening on social media about these issues.
00:13:49.000 And we've had the great Lila Rose on here, Seth Gruber, Kristen Hawkins, who has one of the best pro-life videos I've seen in a long time.
00:13:56.000 Turning Point USA posted it.
00:13:58.000 I saw it on YouTube.
00:13:59.000 And I have a very, I'm a tough grader.
00:14:03.000 And that is one of the best videos I've seen.
00:14:05.000 She did an unbelievable job against this incredibly just mean activist. 1.00
00:14:10.000 And so one of the arguments is this, is that outlawing abortion doesn't end abortion.
00:14:15.000 It ends safe abortion. 0.83
00:14:17.000 So in Texas, we saw that just a heartbeat bill in Texas, allow it to happen, actually has decreased the number of abortions.
00:14:25.000 It's really positive.
00:14:26.000 There are more babies than ever before.
00:14:29.000 And the question is, do you believe that abortion is a medical procedure or do you think it's something different?
00:14:35.000 I believe life begins at conception.
00:14:36.000 Not just that I believe, it's what's true.
00:14:38.000 Life does begin at conception.
00:14:42.000 And when life begins is the most important question.
00:14:44.000 When does the human life become worthy of protection?
00:14:47.000 And so we have laws to protect the innocent of a three-year-old or a two-year-old, one that cannot protect themselves.
00:14:54.000 So why is that, though?
00:14:55.000 What is the reason for it?
00:14:57.000 And so this was something the Berkeley people never thought of.
00:15:00.000 And I asked them a question.
00:15:01.000 I said, do you believe in the moral principle, in the moral principle of creating law that says that the strong have a moral obligation not to crush the weak or that the strong need to prevent the weak from being crushed?
00:15:16.000 And if you say no, then you're a eugenicist, which actually is where the abortion movement came from, or you're a Darwinist.
00:15:24.000 So you believe that the survival of the fittest.
00:15:26.000 I believe that there is a moral obligation that all human beings created in the image of God, image bearers, should have the protection of the strong of the older and the bigger.
00:15:38.000 That's baked into all of our laws, by the way.
00:15:41.000 Our laws are already codified with a moral code.
00:15:43.000 One of my favorites is they say, Charlie, you can't legislate morality.
00:15:47.000 That's all you do, is your legislating morality.
00:15:49.000 All laws point to some morality.
00:15:51.000 Of course, to some good or what you think is good.
00:15:54.000 Aristotle wrote that in the ethics, that all human behavior points towards some good, whether it be anti-murder laws, anti-theft laws, or arson, or a good example is, I mean, just to kind of take a sidestep that's seemingly unrelated.
00:16:08.000 Why is it that you must slow down in a school zone?
00:16:12.000 Why are you not able to go 75 miles an hour when passing an elementary school?
00:16:17.000 It's because there's a moral claim that the children that will be crossing on the sidewalk matter.
00:16:25.000 Why do buses have to stop before they cross a railroad or a rail track?
00:16:30.000 I guess railroad.
00:16:31.000 Why is that?
00:16:33.000 They open up their door just in case the bus is not able to move.
00:16:39.000 There needs to be built into the law that children have a way to escape that bus, just in case.
00:16:46.000 All laws point to some morality.
00:16:48.000 There's no such thing as an agnostic law.
00:16:50.000 Now, whether you think that should be done at a federal level or state level, totally appreciate that.
00:16:50.000 There isn't.
00:16:55.000 That's where the Constitution allows a lot of different safeguards and a lot of different of that.
00:16:59.000 But this idea that laws can be kind of morally agnostic is just not true.
00:17:06.000 And if that would be true, then we wouldn't have the very basic laws that have built our civilization.
00:17:10.000 Don't take people's stuff, don't murder them.
00:17:13.000 Even seatbelt laws are focused on the preservation of the human.
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00:18:19.000 Ramona from North Carolina.
00:18:21.000 Charlie, are we ever going to get justice for what they did during the lockdowns?
00:18:26.000 She has some pretty, let's say, aggressive four-letter words in there, some swear words. 1.00
00:18:32.000 So I'm not going to continue that.
00:18:34.000 So I'm just going to summarize her question like that.
00:18:37.000 There's a new story out that pairs nicely with Ramona's question.
00:18:40.000 Remote learning, according to freebeacon.com, had an even worse effect on U.S. students' education than was previously known.
00:18:47.000 K-12 students who attended school from home in the 2021 school year lost 50% of their typical math curriculum learning, according to a Harvard study.
00:18:58.000 Quote, Emily Oster from Brown University said, It's pretty clear that remote school was not good for learning.
00:19:03.000 Oh, who would have possibly been able to predict this?
00:19:06.000 Anthony Fauci and all these people.
00:19:07.000 Deborah Burks, the scarf woman, did so much damage to our country. 1.00
00:19:11.000 Children are at a low risk of severe illness from death from COVID-19 in school transmissions is also extremely rare.
00:19:19.000 Quote, in places where schools reopened that summer and fall, the spread of COVID was not noticeably worse than in places where schools remain closed.
00:19:27.000 Schools also reopen in parts of Europe without seeming to spark outbreaks.
00:19:30.000 This is intergenerational abuse.
00:19:34.000 While grandparents were able to still go golf outside and see their property values increase, their grandkids had masks on being abused in schools.
00:19:44.000 Now, I'm not blaming the grandparents.
00:19:46.000 But there were plenty of people that receptogenarians and octogenarians that were perfectly fine with locking down the country, while their kids and their grandkids and grandkids in particular have been totally and completely and permanently damaged by the lockdown agenda.
00:19:46.000 I'm not.
00:20:04.000 This is from 2020, just a little flashback, and our leaders did very little to fix this.
00:20:10.000 Young girl explaining how she couldn't live like this anymore.
00:20:13.000 Masks not seeing friends and family, not going to school, and it, of course, created the most suicidal, depressed, alcohol-addicted generation in history.
00:20:22.000 PlayCut 82.
00:20:23.000 We need to do something about it because I can't keep living this life.
00:20:29.000 It's too much for me.
00:20:32.000 What life are you living?
00:20:34.000 Lamps down going in the store, not being able to touch anyone or anything.
00:20:44.000 I can't be in school and I can't keep friends.
00:20:52.000 And I especially can't see family.
00:20:55.000 So it's hard.
00:20:57.000 Do you miss school?
00:20:58.000 Yes, I miss school very much.
00:21:01.000 It's back from 2020.
00:21:03.000 Here's a report on how parents are happy kids are back in school because online learning was challenging.
00:21:09.000 PlayCut 83.
00:21:11.000 Monica Weitz is happy her son Elrod is back in school with his fourth grade classmates because learning online at home had its challenges.
00:21:18.000 You like getting to see your friends and have recess and gym.
00:21:21.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:21:22.000 Columbia University professor Aaron Palace focuses on educational resources and how they're distributed in New York City.
00:21:28.000 He says there's no question the pandemic shutting down schools, then hybrid learning has been disruptive for students.
00:21:34.000 Social, emotional, and academic development.
00:21:37.000 Third graders in 2017, 2018 probably were in much better shape academically than third graders in 2021 and 2022.
00:21:47.000 One more cut here, Cut 84.
00:21:49.000 ABC contributed on how online learning has been a disaster.
00:21:53.000 And we're at a place where online learning doesn't have to be happening anymore.
00:21:56.000 PlayCut 84.
00:21:58.000 Yeah, so first of all, remote learning has been a disaster for America's kids.
00:22:01.000 And I think we have to acknowledge that and we have to do everything we can to minimize any further remote learning.
00:22:07.000 Even without those other upgrades, which I would like to see, it still is safe for kids and teachers to be back in school.
00:22:13.000 So I think at this point, there's really no good explanation for having remote schools.
00:22:17.000 And yet, Randy Whitegarten, who is largely responsible for this, is now saying, look, kids are in crisis.
00:22:22.000 You created the crisis.
00:22:24.000 You created the lockdowns.
00:22:25.000 You pushed for the lockdowns.
00:22:27.000 You refuse to have these schools be reopened.
00:22:29.000 Now, remember, not only do they not let a crisis go to waste, as Tiny Dancer Realm Emmanuel would say, they are the crisis makers.
00:22:36.000 They create the crisis themselves.
00:22:39.000 PlayCut 44.
00:22:41.000 Our kids are in crisis.
00:22:44.000 And we had a mental health crisis before COVID, but with, and Dr. Ng will talk about this far better than I do, but within, but for two years of disruption, two years of looking at the screens, two years of not having a normal kind of routine and rhythm, recovery is really tough.
00:23:10.000 And yet she created it herself.
00:23:13.000 She's the architect behind all of these policies that shut down the schools. 1.00
00:23:18.000 She's the head of the American Federation of Teachers that has eight to 10 million members, teacher union members.
00:23:23.000 She was pushing for school closures. 0.99
00:23:25.000 And she said it was because of COVID.
00:23:27.000 It was not because of COVID.
00:23:28.000 It was because of our reaction to COVID.
00:23:31.000 The damage that this will have done to this generation, it will, I'm not sure if we'll ever find out for the next five to 10 years.
00:23:38.000 We will have a generation just totally controlled by the pharmaceutical companies for antidepressants, for anxiety disorders, social anxiety disorders, and for what?
00:23:54.000 What was the positive?
00:23:56.000 Nothing.
00:23:58.000 Pairs nicely to this question, Brian from Michigan.
00:24:02.000 Charlie, explain more about where you think the economy is right now.
00:24:05.000 Well, that pairs actually our reaction to COVID, which we're still living through to what we're living through with inflation right now.
00:24:13.000 Play cut 66, Rick Santelli, prices are not going back to where they were.
00:24:17.000 Play Cut 66.
00:24:19.000 But prices are not, and I underscore are not going back to where they were.
00:24:24.000 You need months and months and months of minus signs on year over year, on month over month, CPI and PPI.
00:24:30.000 Don't think you're going to get months and months of those.
00:24:33.000 Cut 68, CNBC panelists, I'm concerned about the decline in the labor force participation rate.
00:24:38.000 People ask me, do you think a recession is coming?
00:24:41.000 I think we're in a recession right now.
00:24:44.000 Play Cut 68.
00:24:45.000 I am concerned about the decline in the participation rate.
00:24:49.000 We shouldn't read too much into one month's report, but this is part of the reason we've been seeing pressures on wages.
00:24:57.000 And so forkers are dropping out. 0.99
00:24:59.000 Again, I think the pressure on wages could continue.
00:25:03.000 So I think there are some signs there of concern.
00:25:07.000 Maybe the quiet before the storm.
00:25:09.000 Economic advisor for Joe Biden was asked about this about, do you think we're heading towards a recession?
00:25:13.000 Well, we can't rule anything out. 0.96
00:25:15.000 What a ridiculous question. 0.97
00:25:16.000 We're heading into a recession. 0.99
00:25:17.000 We are in a recession right now.
00:25:19.000 Play Cut 61.
00:25:21.000 Americans, they don't feel good about it, right? 0.93
00:25:24.000 You're looking at the Easter feeling and they don't feel good about it.
00:25:27.000 Can you tell the American people that we're not headed for a recession?
00:25:33.000 I can tell the American people that we are much better positioned when it comes to that recession question than pretty much any other advanced economy I've seen.
00:25:42.000 But probably more importantly, you can't rule it out is what I'm saying.
00:25:47.000 Hold on.
00:25:48.000 You can never rule anything out.
00:25:50.000 So that's not really a relevant question.
00:25:53.000 You can never rule anything out.
00:25:54.000 Okay.
00:25:55.000 Got it.
00:25:56.000 And who are they blaming?
00:25:58.000 Well, thankfully, the American people are blaming Joe Biden.
00:26:00.000 The economy, inflation, created by our response to COVID.
00:26:05.000 We did this.
00:26:07.000 It did not happen to us.
00:26:08.000 It wasn't an asteroid that came out of nowhere.
00:26:11.000 It was a self-inflicted economic set of conditions.
00:26:14.000 The economic misery that you're living through, the declining of your purchasing power, the inflation of your rent, the inflation of your grocery bill, and weakening of your wage power was done by your leaders to ourselves.
00:26:30.000 It was a self-inflicted set of economic catastrophes.
00:26:34.000 Play cut 71.
00:26:35.000 But Americans, a majority of Americans actually think President Biden's policies have hurt the economy.
00:26:41.000 They don't feel like he is doing enough on inflation.
00:26:44.000 And of course, all of this is going to be top of mind for voters as we head closer and closer to those November midterm elections.
00:26:51.000 And 67 on CNN completes the point, 67.
00:26:56.000 You cover the president.
00:26:56.000 He's aware of these numbers.
00:26:57.000 This is a trajectory you do not want.
00:26:59.000 Disapproval of the president's handling of the economy.
00:27:02.000 Look at that.
00:27:02.000 You go back to April 2021 on the left, 66% now in a brand new CNN poll.
00:27:09.000 I mean, that line is heading in the wrong direction and heading in the wrong direction when we are now inside six months to Election Day.
00:27:15.000 It gets hard to improve the numbers in time.
00:27:18.000 So what do you do when you're in a recession?
00:27:20.000 Just be careful what you spend money on.
00:27:21.000 But they're going to try.
00:27:22.000 They're already raising rates because they, so people ask, actually, there's a question here.
00:27:26.000 Isaac says, what does it mean when they raise rates?
00:27:28.000 Rates are the price of money.
00:27:29.000 So they're going to make it more expensive now to be able to get to borrow money.
00:27:33.000 So when it's more expensive of our money, people will borrow less.
00:27:36.000 And that will be a tightening of the belt, but I think it's way too little, way too late.
00:27:42.000 We decided to indulge in these artificially low interest rates, and we got the sugar high of high stocks, high real estate, incredible wealth and income inequality.
00:27:50.000 And what goes up must come down.
00:27:54.000 And boy, are we going to start to see it come down.
00:27:56.000 Now, I think America's resilient.
00:27:57.000 I do agree with this numbskull, Jared Bernstein.
00:28:01.000 I think America is better positioned, not because of you, but because of the four years of harvest we got under Donald Trump of the incredible pro-growth policies that got us close to it.
00:28:10.000 But we're heading towards a very dangerous set of economic conditions.
00:28:14.000 And I'm not celebrating it.
00:28:15.000 That's the thing: the left celebrates when Donald Trump was getting close to a recession.
00:28:20.000 They celebrated when COVID came.
00:28:21.000 They said it was God's gift to the left.
00:28:23.000 I think it's a disaster when Americans suffer.
00:28:26.000 And anyone who disagrees with that, I want the well-being of my country more than the well-being of my political party because I hope my political party hopefully will help the country.
00:28:37.000 Okay.
00:28:38.000 Got another question here from Carl in Tennessee.
00:28:44.000 Charlie, can you explain more about the Supreme Court leak and the unprecedented nature of it?
00:28:48.000 I can't think of a better person to help unpack that than Ted Cruz, play cut 74.
00:28:54.000 This leak is the most egregious violation of trust at the Supreme Court in the history of our nation.
00:29:02.000 It has never happened even once that a draft opinion leaks from the court before it issues in over 200 years of our nation's history.
00:29:10.000 I fear for the court's ability to continue to function as it was designed to function if justices cannot circulate opinions and have deliberation and have discussions.
00:29:23.000 The way the Supreme Court works, an initial opinion circulates, but there are hundreds and sometimes thousands of changes as the justices negotiate back and forth, sometimes sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, footnote by footnote.
00:29:38.000 But don't expect the other Democrat senators to care.
00:29:41.000 They're too busy like Chuck Schumer screaming at the top of his lungs about how this is the highest of all stakes in an attack on women's health or whatever.
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00:30:49.000 So crime is increasing all across the country.
00:30:53.000 And what is the Attorney General of the United States doing?
00:30:56.000 Well, Oscar from Iowa asked us about Merritt Garland.
00:31:02.000 And I actually have a way to tie into this.
00:31:04.000 Play cut 70.
00:31:05.000 This is what Merrick Garland is concerned about: play cut 70.
00:31:08.000 I'm pleased to announce that we are launching the Justice Department's first ever Office of Environmental Justice to oversee and help guide the Justice Department's wide-ranging environmental justice efforts.
00:31:20.000 You cannot make like all parts of government, it will get its own acronym, OEJ.
00:31:27.000 Oh, now that it has an acronym, you know, I couldn't have figured out that myself, Merrick Garland.
00:31:32.000 Thought it would have been, I thought it would have been, I don't know, DNA or side.
00:31:36.000 Come on.
00:31:37.000 I have to repeat the acronym.
00:31:38.000 Thank you.
00:31:39.000 Appreciate that.
00:31:40.000 Like all parts of government.
00:31:42.000 I think they're proud of all the acronyms, the alphabet soup.
00:31:46.000 When Republicans regain Congress in November, which it looks like they will, they need to impeach Merrick Garland.
00:31:54.000 Impeach the cabinet.
00:31:56.000 Merrick Garland needs to be impeached and removed from office for targeting parents for his very corrupt dealings with his son-in-law, potentially being involved in critical race theory curriculum.
00:32:11.000 Been a while since we've talked about that story.
00:32:13.000 We're going to have to dust that off soon by how Merrick Garland is the worst attorney general in American history.
00:32:18.000 That says something.
00:32:19.000 America said some terrible attorney generals before.
00:32:22.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:32:23.000 I see liberals outraged over news that Donald Trump apparently wanted to blow up the drug houses of Mexican cartels when he was in office, but his Secretary of Defense shut down the idea.
00:32:31.000 Why would anyone be opposed to that?
00:32:33.000 And why would our military leaders who are responsible for keeping us safe kill an idea that would objectively keep America safer and healthier?
00:32:39.000 None of it makes sense.
00:32:40.000 Orinthal from Del Rio.
00:32:42.000 Okay, so look, in principle, I agree going after the Mexican drug cartels.
00:32:48.000 The Mexican government wouldn't be totally supportive of that, unfortunately, because a lot of them are captured by the Mexican drug cartels.
00:32:54.000 But it does beg the question: why are we more interested in fighting the borders 5,000 miles away from us in Ukraine when Mexican drug cartels are a far greater threat to the American way of life for drugs, for guns, for human trafficking?
00:33:10.000 Why exactly is that?
00:33:12.000 Well, the Mexican drug cartels control a lot of American politicians.
00:33:15.000 They control flows of capital into America, and a lot of people benefit from remittances.
00:33:21.000 Over $40 billion is remitted back from America to Mexico.
00:33:25.000 Look, if an American president wants to declare a war that I would be in favor of, let's declare war against the cartel. 0.99
00:33:31.000 We'd wipe them out. 0.86
00:33:34.000 Mexican government doesn't want that. 0.99
00:33:35.000 Cartels have killed more Americans, either directly or indirectly over the past 10 years than ISIS, than Russia, than any other place.
00:33:43.000 Of course, we should treat them like terrorists.
00:33:45.000 Seize their weapons, seize their money, and a drone or two, I don't think, would hurt if it was within the parameters of informed engagement and if it was done properly and correctly.
00:33:58.000 But I guarantee you that if the American Marines, the beautiful Marines, were given a green light, 100,000 Marines, they could wipe out those coward cartels and the northern hemisphere would be a safer and better place.
00:34:14.000 But the Mexican government is complicit with the Mexican drug cartels. 0.66
00:34:19.000 It's been that way for quite a while.
00:34:21.000 Okay, I want to close with this.
00:34:23.000 So I'm, depends on when you're listening to this, I'm heading on a 10-day rest.
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