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00:01:41.000Well, first, do you remember how Muriel Bowser treated the National Guard and Nancy Pelosi treated the National Guard after January 6th?
00:01:49.000Do you remember that they had them sleeping in parking garages and in basements, totally abusing them while D.C. was under legitimate military occupation, completely unnecessary, when the entire capital became a military zone?
00:02:03.000We were under a form of martial law in Washington, D.C., post-January 6th?
00:02:09.000Number two, it does beg the question: how and why is the Democrat mayor of Washington, D.C., able to mobilize the National Guard, but Greg Abbott isn't able to mobilize the National Guard, or Doug Ducey is not able to mobilize the National Guard?
00:02:30.000Why is a Democrat allowed to use the National Guard, but Republicans are not?
00:02:35.000Now, we've said this for quite a while.
00:02:36.000We have a no-excuse policy here on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:02:40.000We believe that Republican state leaders should give the first deference for a period of time to the federal government.
00:02:47.000For example, you're the governor of Texas and Joe Biden gets sworn in after being implemented as president, not elected, getting implemented as president on January 20th or whatever it was, 2021.
00:02:59.000You give him a month saying, okay, the federal government, the border, what are you going to do?
00:03:20.000Republican leaders are far more comfortable.
00:03:25.000And that's an interesting word, isn't it?
00:03:26.000They're more comfortable writing press releases and sending out memos and doing photo ops than actually mobilizing the government to go fix a problem.
00:03:36.000Democrats, on the other hand, they love mobilizing the National Guard.
00:03:40.000Like, sure, National Guard, let's do it.
00:03:42.000Why haven't Republicans done that in Texas, Arizona?
00:03:46.000Cut 88 is Muriel Bowser, Washington, D.C. mayor, calling for the National Guard amid illegal migrants being sent into the city.
00:05:39.000Democrats are far more willing to use political power to actually get something done than Republicans are.
00:05:49.000The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, a couple weeks ago, did indeed authorize the Texas National Guard, Department of Safety, to return illegal immigrants to the border under Title 42 expulsion.
00:06:03.000Now, to what extent and why it took him so long, about 12 months too late, is a mystery.
00:06:11.000Governor Abbott has said he's going to secure $4 billion in funding for Texas border security efforts, allotting resources that include up to 1,700 unused steel panels to help build the border wall in Texas.
00:06:25.000It took Bowser about a week to get to the point to ask the National Guard for help.
00:06:29.000And by the way, I doubt that Texas is doing nearly enough with this.
00:06:33.000We need an army on the southern border.
00:06:35.000We need 100,000, 150,000 people to have a zero tolerance policy of anybody invading America.
00:06:41.000And it's not just Muriel Bowser who is talking about this.
00:06:46.000New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and if I can say, he has been the greatest political disappointment over the last 12 months.
00:08:43.000But I care less about the statistics because just from being in New York City, it felt like a completely different country, a different nation, different country, different city.
00:12:30.000Hu Xuang said, quote, if U.S. fighter jets escort Pelosi's plane into Taiwan, it is an invasion.
00:12:40.000The PLA has the right to forcibly dispel Pelosi's plane and the U.S. fighter jets, including firing warning shots and making tactical movement of obstruction.
00:13:24.000First, though, I want to just read out that concerning suggestion from Chinese state media that the Chinese could potentially shoot down Pelosi's plane.
00:13:33.000They said on Twitter: if U.S. fighter jets escort Pelosi's plane into Taiwan, it is an invasion.
00:13:39.000The PLA has the right to forcibly dispel Pelosi's plane and the U.S. fighter jets, including firing warning shots and making tactical movement of obstruction.
00:14:24.000And just so you understand what happened here, the Republic of China was driven out of China into Taiwan, and they consider Taiwan to be the continuation of that Republic of China.
00:14:40.000And then the communist revolution happened in mainland China with Mao Setong creating the PLA and now the Chinese Communist Party.
00:14:49.000And so they believe Taiwan, which also I believe is the island of Hermosa, if I'm not mistaken, the beautiful island, something like that.
00:15:28.000The point is, this is that Taiwan then had their own sovereign government, which is far more, let's say, civilized than the Chinese Communist Party.
00:15:35.000They had a Chinese Civil War, you might remember, in the 1940s, 1949, after losing control of mainland China.
00:15:43.000Then the ROC, the Republican of Republic of China, under the KMT, then they basically retreated to Taiwan.
00:15:52.000And so the KMT, otherwise known as the Kuwamun Tong, ruled Taiwan and basically formed the nation otherwise known as Taiwan.
00:16:03.000Some people considered all of this growth and economic industrialization to be known as the Taiwanese miracle.
00:16:12.000They held their first ever presidential election in 1996.
00:16:17.000And Taiwan is an island, just for all the geography buffs out there.
00:16:21.000And Taiwan is very, very close to mainland China.
00:16:25.000The South China Sea is what divides mainland China from Taiwan.
00:16:35.000Taiwan has a serious population, obviously nothing similar to China or mainland China, but it's not something that could be taken over immediately.
00:16:45.000The population of Taiwan is 23 million people with some major cities such as Taipei.
00:16:52.000But the Chinese Communist Party views Taiwan the same way that Vladimir Putin views eastern Ukraine.
00:17:08.000I think it's very important, but I just find it ridiculous.
00:17:10.000The Chinese Communist Party can threaten to shoot our airplanes out of the sky, and yet we can't tell them they can't find farmland in North Dakota, and yet the Republican governor of North Dakota wants them to buy farmland.
00:17:24.000So to complete the point, I do think that Pelosi should go, obviously.
00:17:30.000I think that Republicans should join here and we should make it a big show of support.
00:17:35.000However, I doubt that Pelosi is actually afraid that she's going to get shot down.
00:17:40.000There is an expression that Peter Schweitzer used in his book, Red Handed, that the Chinese Communist Party is actually okay with talking back and forth.
00:17:50.000A lot of back and forth, talking, talking, talking, talking.
00:17:54.000What they are not okay with is action.
00:18:00.000So they call it little bad mouth big help.
00:18:03.000I'm just distracted because Andrew just sent us something that we are, are we number four overall?
00:19:37.000Anyway, I'm sorry I got distracted there, but it was kind of a cool little moment there.
00:19:43.000And honestly, a good thing for humanity.
00:19:44.000The more people that buy this book, it's a good thing for the civilization, I believe.
00:19:50.000I do not believe that China has any intent to shoot down Nancy Pelosi's plane.
00:19:56.000I think that all of this is a welcomed public relations dispute to make it seem as if they really are concerned that a speaker of the House goes to Taiwan to prevent against a serious forensic examination of the origins of the Wuhan virus, of punitive sanctions, of the restricting of their Belt and Road Initiative.
00:20:17.000Said plainly, I'm doing my best to articulate this: the Chinese Communist Party is intentionally trying to make a mountain out of a molehill to distract from all the other crimes they've committed against humanity.
00:20:32.000It's in China's best interest to draw the line early than to act as if they're okay with the Taiwan thing and eventually get pushed around.
00:20:43.000We have a piece of tape I want to play in just a second of the great Peter Ducey asking Jean-Pierre about the Taiwan situation.
00:20:58.000But I also do not believe for a second that this is, I make no mystery and no mistake of this, I don't actually think this is a huge threat to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:21:10.000I think this is actually a welcomed controversy.
00:21:12.000It gets their hatred of Taiwan back into the news cycle.
00:21:16.000No one's talking about the Chinese coronavirus and the fact that it was likely manufactured in a laboratory.
00:21:23.000This is Peter Ducey asking about Taiwan, Play Cut 104.
00:21:30.000An official who is associated with Chinese state media is suggesting that if Speaker Pelosi tries to go to Taiwan, her plane could be shot down.
00:21:39.000Does the president have a response to that?
00:21:42.000You know, I've been asked about, I know you're asking specifically about the rhetoric that we're hearing from China, but as it relates to the speaker's travels, it's something that we're just not going to speak to.
00:22:05.000We're just not going to speak on her schedule.
00:22:07.000As we have said multiple times, we give advice and guidance to any members of Congress where they travel, to the region they travel, whether an advice on geopolitical situation in the region or in the country, and any national security issues that may arise.
00:22:25.000But again, I'm not going to speak to a hypothetical.
00:22:39.000I think you should always stick the Chinese, poke them in the eye if possible.
00:22:45.000Not a fan of the Chinese Communist Party at all, but also Pelosi has been carrying the water to the Chinese Communist Party the last couple of years.
00:22:52.000I think this whole thing is theatrics.
00:24:49.000You cannot have a country where a majority of people distrust the police, the medical system, the church, the public schools, organized labor, banks, tech companies, Supreme Court, the presidency, newspapers, criminal justice system, big business, television news, and Congress.
00:25:04.000What is happening is I believe this is the greatest threat to the great reset.
00:25:09.000The great reset hinges on people trusting the big and the powerful.
00:25:15.000I take this a little differently than most.
00:25:17.000The fact that small businesses are valued and trusted more than television news by a 57-point margin, I think is a wonderful thing.
00:25:28.000The fact that small businesses are trusted by a 61-point margin more than Congress, I think is a great thing.
00:25:35.000People are demanding smaller and local things that they can touch and they can trust by looking in the eyes.
00:25:43.000And the far-off distant power centers of Silicon Valley and New York City and Washington, D.C., people are getting increasingly repulsed by them.
00:25:55.000Every single institution lost trust this last year.
00:26:14.000We have to rebuild these institutions and recapture them.
00:26:17.000But what does the medical system, public schools, banks, tech companies, the presidency, newspapers, big business, television news all have in common?
00:26:29.000They have been wholly taken over and infected by the woke idea pathogen, every single one of them.
00:26:37.000And what this shows us is that these major institutions, once a bedrock of American society that were allowed a platform, people don't want to deal with them anymore.
00:26:48.000What an amazing entrepreneurial opportunity, by the way, to go build new institutions.
00:32:27.000Gender-affirming care is life-saving, medically necessary, age-appropriate, and a critical tool for health care providers.
00:32:37.000As a pediatrician, when it comes to making sure kids are healthy and happy, I know how important care that affirmed someone's true identity can be.
00:32:48.000Yeah, I mean, I don't need to be lectured by a dude who thinks he's a woman about medical care and taking care of children.
00:32:59.000In fact, you shouldn't be in our government.
00:33:02.000Wish the best for you, finding sympathy with a psychologist or someone who knows what they're doing to make you stop doing this whole thing.
00:33:09.000Same goes with the dude running our nuclear arsenal that wears dresses all the time.
00:33:28.000Talk about the congressional baseball game.
00:33:30.000Now, traditionally, Democrats win the congressional baseball game.
00:33:33.000And Republicans the last couple years have been winning and winning big.
00:33:37.000So some freak went by the Republican side and flicked them off.
00:33:41.000I don't know who this is, a Representative Linda Sanchez.
00:33:43.000But I think you're going to see a lot more Republican victories for years to come.
00:33:47.000Because as the Democrat Party has become increasingly androgynous with the men that they recruit to run for Congress, they just don't have the testosterone to win the congressional baseball game anymore.
00:34:02.000Yeah, I know they got Representative, was that guy Heard or whatever his name is or the football player from Dallas.
00:34:10.000But let's just be honest that as the Democrat Party continues to recruit people like Eric Swalwell and Republicans elect strong men and strong women, let's just be honest.
00:34:25.000I wouldn't run a run-up against the Republicans.
00:35:09.000But over the next 10 years, if you were on betting odds, as the Democrats embrace more of the androgynous woman, I think you're going to see more and more victories out of the more alpha males that are running for Republicans and the don't mess with me moms like Kat Kamick.