The Charlie Kirk Show - September 11, 2023


Ask Charlie Anything 159: Limousine Liberal Poverty Simulation? Call It Quits, McConnell?

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In this episode, Charlie Kirk talks about growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in Wheeling, WV, and Highland Park, IL, and how that shaped him into the man he is today. He also talks about his experience growing up as a minority in his own high school and why he believes that race is not really a factor in valuing a person.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:01.000 Happy Monday Ask Me Anything episode.
00:00:03.000 What is a luxury belief?
00:00:04.000 And what if I told you that there are rich people at a country club that pretend to be poor?
00:00:09.000 It's really something.
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00:00:12.000 And we ask the question: what causes poverty?
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00:01:23.000 Many of you know I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago in Wheeling, Illinois, despite how the media has tried so very hard to say, Charlie, you grew up in a very lily white upbringing.
00:01:34.000 Well, no, actually, I didn't.
00:01:37.000 I grew up in Wheeling, Illinois, working-class area.
00:01:40.000 In fact, I was a minority in my own high school.
00:01:44.000 I remember once there was one of these reporters that I said this, they did not believe me.
00:01:51.000 It was a political reporter.
00:01:52.000 It's before Andrew started working with us.
00:01:53.000 And I said, Yeah, I was a minority in my own high school.
00:01:56.000 He literally refused to believe it.
00:01:58.000 And he pulled up the staffs, like, oh, wow, Wheeling High School, 58% Hispanic, 58% English as a second language.
00:02:03.000 This is one of the reasons why I find all this race politics so repulsive.
00:02:07.000 I don't care about your skin color.
00:02:09.000 I grew up around people, all different backgrounds, and I'm unafraid to talk about race. 0.65
00:02:13.000 Like, so many white people are afraid to talk about race.
00:02:16.000 I don't care because I grew up around people all different racial backgrounds, and I know that race is not really a relevant characteristic in valuing a person.
00:02:16.000 I'm so afraid.
00:02:24.000 Not important.
00:02:26.000 In fact, I find anyone that says that to be repulsive.
00:02:28.000 So, anyway, grew up in Wheeling, Illinois.
00:02:31.000 And know anything about Wheeling, working class, great folks, great upbringing.
00:02:34.000 Really, despite the high school used to be a great high school, and they've gone super woke, unfortunately, in recent years.
00:02:39.000 The left destroys everything that they touch.
00:02:43.000 But down the street from Wheeling, Illinois, if you take Route 68, Dundee Road, or if you take Lake Cook Road, which I've probably taken over a thousand times in my life, and you go east and you go east, all of a sudden you'll enter what is known as the North Shore. 0.57
00:03:01.000 Now, the North Shore is where the ruling class of Chicago lives.
00:03:05.000 And eventually, you know, you'll go through Bannockburn and Deerfield, and you very well might end up in a town called Highland Park.
00:03:17.000 Now, Highland Park is a very interesting place.
00:03:19.000 It's a very affluent area.
00:03:21.000 It's a very, very liberal area, very liberal.
00:03:26.000 It is one of the most affluent liberal centers in all of Illinois and extremely white. 0.70
00:03:33.000 Tends to be more Jewish, but that's not really relevant here. 0.88
00:03:35.000 It's just that white, affluent, liberal, very, very elitist, very smug. 0.82
00:03:44.000 Highland Park, Illinois.
00:03:46.000 And so if anyone who grew up in Chicago knows Highland Park as not exactly in touch with the working man of Chicago, let's just put it that way.
00:03:57.000 And they, whether it be sending your kids to North Shore Country Day School, I mean, yes, so Blake, thank you for that.
00:04:03.000 In 2020, Highland Park voted 80% Democrat, 80% Democrat, 8-0.
00:04:09.000 Very helpful figure.
00:04:11.000 Presidential election results.
00:04:13.000 And they are by far one of the wealthiest zip codes in all of Chicago.
00:04:17.000 Just to give you an idea how liberal Highland Park is.
00:04:22.000 I mean, they vote almost as liberal as the city of Chicago itself votes.
00:04:27.000 Okay.
00:04:28.000 So the environmental toxin of wokeism is housed in the community of Highland Park.
00:04:38.000 Some of the most smug, and I'll be very honest with you, just kind of awful people I've ever dealt with politically are from Highland Park.
00:04:48.000 Okay, so I saw this story, and I wasn't sure at first if it was Highland Park, Texas, which is right outside of Dallas, or Highland Park, Illinois.
00:04:55.000 And it's honestly one of my favorite stories that I've come across because it just embodies everything.
00:05:01.000 It embodies this idea of luxury beliefs.
00:05:03.000 I'm going to tell you about that.
00:05:04.000 We've mentioned it before on this program.
00:05:05.000 This idea of LARPing, live-action role-playing, and virtue signaling to make yourself feel better.
00:05:13.000 Okay.
00:05:14.000 So in Highland Park, Illinois, at the Highland Park Country Club, an event was supposed to take place this weekend.
00:05:25.000 They canceled it after a big backlash.
00:05:28.000 And I'm going to read you the invite of the event.
00:05:31.000 The Alliance for Human Services of Highland Park is hosting at the Highland Park Country Club a poverty simulation event.
00:05:44.000 The city of Highland Park is partnering with the Alliance for Human Services to host a poverty simulation event to increase residents' understanding and awareness of what it's like to be poor.
00:05:59.000 Participants in this immersive experience will begin to experience what a month in poverty feels like.
00:06:06.000 Now, mind you, you go to the invite, it goes from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
00:06:13.000 So, in between pickleball and golf, you waltz all over into the ballroom and you get to experience for two and a half hours what it's like to be poor at the Highland Park Country Club.
00:06:26.000 The invite continues: Participants are put into situations in which they do not have enough resources and are forced to make difficult choices that can negatively impact them and their families.
00:06:39.000 The outcome is an increased awareness of the need for resources to support those living in poverty to create a more resilient health, human, and education sector in our local area.
00:06:50.000 Participation is free, but registration is required.
00:06:55.000 If you want to experience poverty, by the way, they should just re-elect Joe Biden as your president for another four years.
00:07:01.000 It wants extreme poverty, just have Democrats in charge.
00:07:04.000 But I have a couple thoughts here.
00:07:07.000 Number one, friend, if you know anything about Chicago, 15 minutes to the north is Waukegan, which is an incredibly poor area. 1.00
00:07:14.000 So instead of actually going to help people doing food drives, you could drive 15 minutes up the street to Zion Benton, Waukegan, very poor, very black. 0.73
00:07:26.000 But the wealthy white liberals of Highland Park would rather LARP live action role play at a country club to pretend what it's like to be poor.
00:07:36.000 And I could just the map, I mean, I wish this would have actually happened.
00:07:39.000 I'm sure this happens somewhere where we could get a film. 1.00
00:07:42.000 Where you have these 45-year-old smug secular wine moms who have like all nine boosters wearing a mask and they show up at the Highland Park Country Club to live through a simulation of what it's like to be poor. 0.99
00:08:01.000 What exactly is involved in one of these simulations?
00:08:04.000 I'm curious.
00:08:05.000 Like, here's your, you have to use this thing.
00:08:07.000 Now, it's called a coupon coupon.
00:08:12.000 What's a coupon?
00:08:14.000 No, no, you use it to you use it as a discount sticker.
00:08:24.000 Would I have to like cut it out of the newspaper?
00:08:27.000 I don't understand.
00:08:29.000 A coupon?
00:08:32.000 Yeah, if you go to the grocery store, you get...
00:08:37.000 What?
00:08:40.000 And you continue onward where you have to budget.
00:08:46.000 You have to make hard choices.
00:08:49.000 You can just imagine these secular, Xanax, addicted, Chardonnay wine moms just kind of saying, wow, this is really hard.
00:09:02.000 You're trying to tell me I can't have Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, all those accounts?
00:09:11.000 So what do I do with the American Express card?
00:09:14.000 I thought when I swipe it, the stuff arrives.
00:09:19.000 I don't have an Amazon Prime account?
00:09:21.000 I could just imagine them going through this, like having cognitive dissonance.
00:09:25.000 Instead of actually helping people, they don't want to do that.
00:09:30.000 But there's a couple thoughts here.
00:09:32.000 This plays in.
00:09:33.000 We're going to get into the next segment here because it's just so deep.
00:09:35.000 There's so much here.
00:09:36.000 And by the way, the whole premise of this entire thing is wrong because no one actually wants to admit what causes poverty, which I'll get to in a second. 0.93
00:09:43.000 But so the Highland Park Chardonnay wine moms, let's be honest, almost all women would show up to this.
00:09:54.000 Well, Highland Park men are not exactly men, but this is a very feminine thing, like incredibly feminine.
00:10:00.000 Let's go experience the feelings of what it's like to be poor.
00:10:04.000 What is really going on here?
00:10:06.000 Again, I have like nine different takes I need to go through you.
00:10:08.000 Number one, this is to alleviate guilt.
00:10:12.000 Religious people would never do this.
00:10:16.000 If you are a religious person, you would find this objectionable.
00:10:22.000 This is completely a creation of secularism.
00:10:27.000 If you're religious, you'd say, well, why don't we actually go help the people?
00:10:30.000 This is about them. 0.96
00:10:33.000 This is narcissistic.
00:10:35.000 That's what this is.
00:10:37.000 Look how good of a person I am.
00:10:38.000 Could you imagine?
00:10:39.000 They go to their, they go out to eat afterwards at Lovell's, which is in Lake Forest.
00:10:46.000 Oh, yeah, I went through a poverty simulation event this morning and it was hard.
00:10:56.000 It's about them.
00:10:58.000 It's about vanity, not helping others.
00:11:01.000 I'm curious how many of the people planning the poverty simulation are religious.
00:11:07.000 I guarantee very, very few.
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00:14:16.000 Okay, so we found actually some pieces of tape of what these poverty simulations look like.
00:14:24.000 Let's go cut 119.
00:14:27.000 Sorry to let you know, but if you do need glasses, you're going to have to have your parent pay $50 to the bank and bring back a receipt.
00:14:33.000 So when you come back, if you could bring that receipt.
00:14:36.000 We don't have it with the idea.
00:14:38.000 So thankfully, we were able to use our EBT card to purchase them at double the value so that I could get a transportation ticket to go to the quick cash place to purchase transportation tickets, but I've already lost my job.
00:14:50.000 So now I'm considering my options.
00:14:55.000 This simulated experience actually puts them in a situation where they have to advocate for themselves as a family member.
00:15:02.000 They have to figure out transportation.
00:15:05.000 They have to figure out how to feed their family members.
00:15:07.000 They have to worry about getting their child to and from school.
00:15:11.000 Okay, so that was in Dearborn, Michigan.
00:15:14.000 Just got to found this whole idea of poverty simulation.
00:15:18.000 So what is a luxury belief?
00:15:20.000 This is what's so interesting.
00:15:21.000 And a luxury belief is coined by this social commentator, Rob Henderson.
00:15:28.000 He wrote a very powerful piece in the New York Post a couple years ago.
00:15:30.000 And a luxury belief is a term coined by Rob Henderson, where he describes a trend among affluent Americans who use their beliefs as a way to display their social status, but they don't actually believe it.
00:15:43.000 So, for example, this is a great, I was in Aspen this summer and was raising money there, and you would get across some liberals.
00:15:51.000 And I'll just kind of give you an example, right?
00:15:53.000 So, they'll tell you that the family and the stability of family doesn't matter, and therefore marriage doesn't matter.
00:16:00.000 But then you ask them, are you going to get married?
00:16:02.000 They say, oh, yeah, family is super important.
00:16:03.000 But so then the beliefs almost become social markers.
00:16:07.000 So they don't actually believe it.
00:16:10.000 They say it.
00:16:11.000 And so instead of collecting cars or yachts or planes, they collect these fringe academic beliefs that they fund that give them self-righteousness.
00:16:24.000 Like the legalization of drugs.
00:16:26.000 Or that everyone should send their kids to public schools, even though they send their kids to private schools or boarding schools.
00:16:33.000 That's what a luxury belief is.
00:16:37.000 Let's play another clip.
00:16:38.000 Here's another clip of the City of Columbia strategic plan of central Missouri.
00:16:43.000 Apparently, poverty simulations are kind of popular.
00:16:48.000 Play cut 120.
00:16:50.000 Community Action Duluth hosted a poverty simulation event recently at Myers Wilkins School in West Duluth.
00:16:56.000 The immersive experience exposes participants to the realities of poverty.
00:17:01.000 Hello.
00:17:02.000 What does the utility company do?
00:17:04.000 You will pay your debts.
00:17:08.000 You telephone in your luxury.
00:17:10.000 $190.
00:17:11.000 I'd like to take that out of my cash management.
00:17:14.000 The role that I was playing was of a 14-year-old.
00:17:17.000 Mom was away.
00:17:18.000 Literally, me and my brother were sitting at home saying, when is she going to get back?
00:17:22.000 We need food.
00:17:23.000 So this whole experience of trying to just survive, just make it through the week was challenging.
00:17:31.000 Okay, so now let's go to the next issue here.
00:17:36.000 And at least that one was in a high school gym, not a country club.
00:17:41.000 Not at the Highland Park Country Club, which just drives me crazy.
00:17:44.000 Let's get to the real issue here.
00:17:45.000 I want to reread their memo.
00:17:48.000 The city of Highland Park is partnering with the Alliance of Human Services to increase residents' understanding of what it's like to live in poverty.
00:17:55.000 Participants are put into situations where they do not have resources for us to make difficult choices that can negatively impact them.
00:18:00.000 The outcome is increased awareness of the need for resources.
00:18:03.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:18:04.000 What is the issue here?
00:18:07.000 Why do people remain poor?
00:18:12.000 Why do people stay poor?
00:18:17.000 It's because of values, not because of stuff.
00:18:22.000 There's a very powerful book called Life at the Bottom, The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Dr. Theodore Dalrymple.
00:18:31.000 He spent decades in the United Kingdom as a first response doctor treating very, very poor people.
00:18:39.000 And he argues in his book, Life at the Bottom, that it's values, not stuff or lack of stuff that makes people poor.
00:18:48.000 So instead of acting as if it's about resources, it's about how are you acting?
00:18:54.000 Are you saving money?
00:18:56.000 Are you doing drugs?
00:18:57.000 Are you doing alcohol?
00:18:58.000 Are you eating crummy food?
00:18:59.000 That's why when I say all the time, stop being poor, I mean stop acting poor. 1.00
00:19:06.000 Stop spending money on stupid stuff. 1.00
00:19:08.000 Start saving more money. 1.00
00:19:10.000 A lot of people go through difficult financial situations, but are you going to delay gratification?
00:19:19.000 Are you going to save money?
00:19:21.000 Are you going to keep on going out to eat?
00:19:24.000 The issue with all this is we act as if poor people are just lacking stuff when in reality they're lacking a coherent value system to get them out of poverty.
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00:20:36.000 Let's get some questions here.
00:20:37.000 Charlie, can you go through the new CNN poll?
00:20:39.000 I don't think you covered it.
00:20:40.000 So I'm not a big poll watcher, as you guys know.
00:20:43.000 I personally focus too much on polls in the 2022 midterms.
00:20:48.000 I focus too much on polls in 2020.
00:20:50.000 But this one's hard to resist.
00:20:51.000 And so we're going to play a series of clips here about this new CNN poll because it is part of a macro trend that pushes back against a uniparty narrative.
00:20:59.000 So I'm kind of breaking my own rules here because I think polling is overcovered by the media, to be perfectly honest, when there's a lot of their stories going on.
00:21:07.000 Okay, let's play one by one by one.
00:21:09.000 This is a question.
00:21:11.000 Nathan from Arkansas.
00:21:12.000 Let's play cut 43.
00:21:14.000 But there are some troubling figures in there for President Biden.
00:21:18.000 On one issue, the economy.
00:21:20.000 The White House is really in the campaign have really been making this push to try to promote Bidenomics, trying to show American voters that their policies are working for them.
00:21:29.000 But this polling found that 58% of Americans think that Biden's policies have worsened the economic conditions in this country.
00:21:36.000 Now, the White House says that this will take time for Americans to feel the impact of the president's efforts, of the president's policies, and that they will have to continue, they acknowledge, to communicate that to try to move the needle there.
00:21:49.000 Okay, so part of the poll showed that 67% of Democrats wish somebody else was the nominee.
00:21:56.000 67% of Democrats.
00:22:00.000 So the obvious question before we go further into how awful this polling is for Joe Biden, why aren't the Democrats pulling out Joe Biden and put somebody else in?
00:22:10.000 The easy, simple answer is that is way harder than you realize.
00:22:16.000 Who?
00:22:16.000 Kamala Harris?
00:22:17.000 She's even worse.
00:22:19.000 But I think there's actually an even easier explanation.
00:22:23.000 Joe Biden's not going willingly.
00:22:27.000 That he is not playing ball.
00:22:30.000 That Joe Biden and his team, Ron Clain, they're holding on to power.
00:22:34.000 This is their ballgame.
00:22:37.000 That they're not playing team ball.
00:22:39.000 It's not as easy as just flipping a switch.
00:22:43.000 Now, they're trying to threaten Joe Biden via Hunter Biden and this impeachment stuff.
00:22:47.000 And Joe Biden says, look, I'm going to be dead in five years probably anyway.
00:22:51.000 I give Joe Biden at most a decade.
00:22:53.000 I don't wish death upon him, but the averages are not good for him.
00:22:56.000 Let's just be honest.
00:22:56.000 Like, Joe Biden is not exactly a spring chicken.
00:22:59.000 That's a fact, okay?
00:23:01.000 So, Joe Biden's like, what do I have to lose?
00:23:04.000 I'm going to be in a cemetery soon anyway.
00:23:06.000 I might as well just see this thing out.
00:23:08.000 And honestly, I don't, you can't blame him.
00:23:10.000 As a non-president, he's probably more likely to be criminally prosecuted for his crimes against America.
00:23:17.000 Okay, new CNN poll shows that Donald Trump is beating Joe Biden.
00:23:22.000 Play cut 46.
00:23:24.000 Within the margin of error, no clear leader.
00:23:26.000 Donald Trump, 47%, Joe Biden, 46%.
00:23:29.000 They're basically in a statistical tie.
00:23:31.000 But what I will note was there was not a single poll conducted by CNN during the entire 2020 cycle in which Donald Trump got a higher share of the vote than Joe Biden did.
00:23:41.000 So this is a vastly different picture from what we saw four years ago.
00:23:45.000 So the other thing is this, is that it's easier to run an incumbent than it is a new presidency, president.
00:23:51.000 You get Air Force One.
00:23:53.000 You get a lot of taxpayer benefits.
00:23:54.000 It's just the way it is.
00:23:55.000 They try to create laws.
00:23:56.000 It's just not, there's no getting around it.
00:23:59.000 Donald Trump used it to his advantage in 2020.
00:24:01.000 Barack Hussein Obama used it to his advantage in 2012.
00:24:04.000 Like, it's just the way it is, right?
00:24:06.000 You get a taxpayer funded plane.
00:24:07.000 You get a taxpayer funded entourage.
00:24:09.000 You get press releases whenever you want.
00:24:11.000 You get covered as the president.
00:24:12.000 Running as an incumbent is a superforce.
00:24:15.000 It just is.
00:24:16.000 So they look at that.
00:24:18.000 But they also, there's another thing here that this is why I don't love looking at polling, is that they think they can turn it around.
00:24:26.000 But remember, where is all of this Democrat money going?
00:24:30.000 To the boring stuff.
00:24:31.000 Everybody, this is important. 1.00
00:24:33.000 They believe they can elect a brain-dead moron even if he's unpopular. 1.00
00:24:37.000 Look at John Fetterman. 1.00
00:24:39.000 They can chase ballots.
00:24:40.000 They can register voters.
00:24:42.000 They are not betting on Joe Biden.
00:24:45.000 They're betting on the infrastructure, the plumbing that they've developed, the plumbing of the elections, the stuff that's happening behind the scenes that makes the gears go.
00:24:55.000 So to them, it's not about Joe Biden.
00:24:58.000 We're falling for a trap if we think that's the case. 0.99
00:25:01.000 I will say, though, that it's awfully helpful to run up against a brain-dead moron and not a Gavin Newsom. 0.99
00:25:08.000 That's actually good. 0.98
00:25:10.000 They also are one, I think that there is an element, I don't know how widespread this is, but I know this to be true, that there are some people that actually look at it as if we can re-elect this guy, we will be unbeatable for a century.
00:25:24.000 That it's kind of almost like this, they look at it as a challenge.
00:25:28.000 Like if we're able to do this, we're going to be unbeatable.
00:25:33.000 They're confident his polling will improve.
00:25:35.000 Play cut 98.
00:25:39.000 Is there any reason to think Biden's approval numbers will get better?
00:25:45.000 There is.
00:25:45.000 There's a new campaign ad out today.
00:25:47.000 I hope you've seen it.
00:25:49.000 It shows how President Biden made an unannounced visit to a war zone, one not controlled by the United States, when he went to Kiev a number of months ago.
00:25:58.000 First time a president in the modern era has gone to a war zone.
00:26:02.000 And it does in the background of the ad describe that he left Washington at 4 a.m.
00:26:06.000 He traveled 40 hours to get to Kiev.
00:26:09.000 It shows him striding forcefully, having a pointed conversation with President Zelensky, fearlessly engaging in Kyiv.
00:26:19.000 This is Joe Biden's campaign co-chair, Chris Coons.
00:26:22.000 I got to be honest with you.
00:26:24.000 If you're a sales pitch, is that Joe Biden left Washington, D.C. on the most luxurious aircraft ever created, Air Force One, and had to sleep in a bed while you flew over the Atlantic to then go take a train to go meet with a foreign leader.
00:26:41.000 That's pretty weak.
00:26:43.000 You really must think that you can micro-target voters.
00:26:46.000 So here's what they believe, though, is that through their outside infrastructure, through a series of emotional issues, they can micro-target people to get them to fill out that piece of paper and then get it to completion, especially on the issue of abortion.
00:27:02.000 They think they can micro-target the issue of abortion.
00:27:05.000 Joe Biden is going all in.
00:27:07.000 I'll protect Roe.
00:27:08.000 I'll protect abortion. 0.97
00:27:09.000 I'll protect this.
00:27:10.000 And then they micro-target specifically young, childless, 30- to 40-year-old women who are super depressed.
00:27:20.000 They're on antidepressants.
00:27:22.000 They might meet partners at law firms.
00:27:24.000 They don't have children, lots of cats.
00:27:26.000 They make perfect Democrat voters. 0.91
00:27:28.000 And then they micro-target them with ads at Hulu or Amazon where they wish they had a man in their life.
00:27:34.000 They're watching, you know, these, you know, they're watching Emily and Paris on Netflix or whatever.
00:27:38.000 And they're like, okay, I guess I'll go fill out a ballot.
00:27:41.000 I'm not kidding.
00:27:42.000 That's their strategy. 0.99
00:27:43.000 They're going to go find five to seven million resentful 35-year-old women crying into their Chardonnay to go fill out ballots in Fulton County. 1.00
00:27:54.000 Play cut 100.
00:27:56.000 And when you look here about President Biden now serving as president, his actions in the Hunter Biden probe, have they been appropriate or not?
00:28:07.000 55% of Americans, a majority believe Biden's actions related to the Hunter Biden probe inappropriate.
00:28:13.000 24% of Democrats, again, a majority of Independents, 52%, and nearly all Republicans at 90% believe that.
00:28:21.000 So I struggle with this because this should not even be close, but it will be.
00:28:31.000 I mean, this guy can't speak in sentences.
00:28:33.000 He's done an awful job as president, and this will be within 10,000 to 20,000 to 30,000 to 40,000 votes.
00:28:40.000 They have completely hijacked our elections.
00:28:43.000 They've completely manipulated them.
00:28:46.000 You see, it used to be where if you have an uninspiring candidate like Joe Biden, you'd have to show up at a ballot box.
00:28:52.000 Now you just have to fill out a piece of paper and a Democrat-paid operative will come knock on the door and help you get the ballot through or take the ballot from you, depending on what state you're in.
00:29:02.000 They have closed the enthusiasm gap in elections where it used to be that you needed to care enough to get into your car to go to a physical polling place.
00:29:12.000 They said that's too, that's that advantages Republicans too much because they care and they're responsible and our voters are largely irresponsible.
00:29:22.000 So we need to try to just send out a lot of pieces of paper.
00:29:26.000 Of course it opens the window for fraud.
00:29:28.000 Of course it opens the window for cheating.
00:29:30.000 That's not my words.
00:29:31.000 That's Jimmy Carter who said that. 0.98
00:29:33.000 Jimmy Carter's presidential foundation, the same one that wrote the stupid protection of oligarchy presidential library thing, came out and said, oh, by the way, mass mail and voting opens the door for fraud. 1.00
00:29:46.000 They have a very smart Democrat machine and a moron candidate. 0.99
00:29:50.000 We do not have a smart Republican machine, and we have an unbelievably charismatic candidate who can galvanize people. 0.97
00:29:56.000 If we just invest a little bit in the infrastructure, a little bit in the boring stuff, I really believe it could be the marginal difference.
00:30:05.000 But I'm constantly updating what I'm seeing.
00:30:08.000 I am seeing no evidence that they're going to replace Joe Biden.
00:30:15.000 None.
00:30:17.000 That's shocking.
00:30:18.000 But it goes to show that they have done a wager that the downside of removing an incumbent, albeit an unpopular one, albeit a corrupt one, is much greater than the potential upside of running an outsider who doesn't get Air Force One, that doesn't get the presidency, that can't use the whole federal bureaucracy as a GO TV operation.
00:30:41.000 So unless something dramatically changes and there's some black swan event and Joe Biden drops dead, which again, I'm not wishing, but he's in that window.
00:30:52.000 If that happens, unless that happens, I think he's going to be the Democrat nominee. 0.98
00:30:58.000 They might insert a better vice president because Kamala Harris is a disaster. 1.00
00:31:02.000 Disaster.
00:31:03.000 This is why I hesitate about the impeachment of Biden.
00:31:05.000 I like the slow drip-drip against Biden.
00:31:09.000 Because in some ways, will we ever get a candidate as damaged and as terrible as Biden as a chance to win?
00:31:16.000 Will we ever get a chance like this again?
00:31:21.000 I would be really afraid to run against Gavin Newsom versus Joe Biden.
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00:32:38.000 Hank from Kentucky, Charlie.
00:32:40.000 Mitch McConnell does not look well.
00:32:42.000 What are your comments?
00:32:43.000 Love the show.
00:32:44.000 You look, I'm not a big fan of McConnell, especially lately.
00:32:49.000 I don't like anything he's doing.
00:32:50.000 I don't wish medical harm on anybody.
00:32:52.000 That's just not how I do things.
00:32:54.000 I don't think he should be a U.S. Senator, especially Senate leader.
00:32:57.000 I mean, come on, get out of the way, man.
00:32:58.000 Seriously.
00:33:00.000 It's not healthy.
00:33:01.000 It's not good.
00:33:01.000 It's not good for you.
00:33:02.000 It's not good for us.
00:33:03.000 It's not good for the country.
00:33:04.000 Yeah, I have compassion.
00:33:06.000 Please just go back to a farm in Kentucky, okay?
00:33:09.000 Josh Hawley agrees.
00:33:10.000 Play cut 50.
00:33:11.000 I don't think you can have it both ways.
00:33:13.000 I mean, if you're concerned about the president's ability to do his job, and I am, and a lot of Republicans say they are, then you've got to be concerned when it's somebody from your own party, right?
00:33:20.000 I mean, it can't be sauce for the goose, but not for the gander.
00:33:24.000 Is he able to do the job?
00:33:25.000 I mean, he's going to have to answer that question.
00:33:27.000 Do I think he should be leader?
00:33:29.000 No.
00:33:30.000 So the Kentucky's governor's race is really becoming an important race.
00:33:34.000 I think it's Andy Bashir who's running for re-election versus Daniel Cameron, who's the current AG.
00:33:40.000 According to the United States Constitution, a governor replaces a vacant Senate seat.
00:33:48.000 Now, they'll probably end up having a runoff.
00:33:53.000 But if you have, if McConnell just drops dead, let me just say this.
00:33:57.000 I hope he doesn't, obviously.
00:33:59.000 But it's really sad that I have to keep on wondering if our politicians are going to drop dead because of age.
00:34:04.000 This is not good.
00:34:06.000 There are a lot of qualified people in their 40s and 50s and early 60s that should give it a chance.
00:34:12.000 I actually have a whole generational argument with this.
00:34:14.000 Is Gen X going to get any love? 0.84
00:34:16.000 Like ever? 0.92
00:34:17.000 It's like Gen X just keeps on getting passed over as boomers are holding on. 0.98
00:34:22.000 I mean, Nancy Pelosi is running for reelection. 0.95
00:34:25.000 Nothing against people that are capable of doing the job. 0.99
00:34:28.000 McConnell is short-circuiting in front of us.
00:34:32.000 It's sad.
00:34:34.000 Nothing to make fun of.
00:34:35.000 He's just sad.
00:34:36.000 And so if McConnell is unable to do his duties, then the governor replaces the senator.
00:34:45.000 Now, there'll probably be a special election that will be won by a Republican.
00:34:49.000 But McConnell, he's not going anywhere.
00:34:51.000 He's saying that I'm going to serve out my entire term through 2027.
00:34:57.000 But McConnell is, he's punching Joe Biden.
00:35:02.000 He's criticizing Joe Biden.
00:35:04.000 What is he criticizing Joe Biden for?
00:35:06.000 Keeping the border wide open, spending trillions of dollars on a half?
00:35:09.000 No, no, no.
00:35:10.000 McConnell says Joe Biden's been too slow giving money to Ukraine.
00:35:15.000 Play cut 45.
00:35:18.000 The president has, I think, been too slow to keep the commitments that he's made publicly, but at least he's supporting the effort.
00:35:29.000 I think he could have done it more skillfully, but he is supporting the effort.
00:35:34.000 And I intend to continue to support it.
00:35:36.000 And I hope the majority of my colleagues will feel the same way.
00:35:41.000 Now, put the McConnell thing aside.
00:35:43.000 Let me kind of end the show with this.
00:35:44.000 And I wanted to get to some religious stuff.
00:35:46.000 I don't think we're going to have time for it today.
00:35:48.000 There's a very, there's a panic right now in D.C. Washington Post article, George Will.
00:35:53.000 Why Republicans should support Ukraine?
00:35:55.000 Bill Crystal has a new super PAC, and they're running out, they're running ads.
00:35:58.000 There is real fear that they are not going to be able to keep the grift going to Ukraine because Republican voters have woken up.
00:36:06.000 There is real fear.
00:36:08.000 And by the way, if you want to try to win over Republican voters, here's a little bit of advice.
00:36:13.000 Don't have George Will write op-eds in the Washington Post.
00:36:15.000 Probably doesn't help your cause.
00:36:17.000 Don't have Billy Crystal, formerly from the Weekly Standard, run a bunch of ads.
00:36:22.000 That's not exactly persuasive.
00:36:23.000 And the ads are so nasty.
00:36:28.000 They're like, if you don't support sending money to Ukraine, you're a bad conservative.
00:36:34.000 It's like, really?
00:36:37.000 We're being invaded right now.
00:36:39.000 Do you have that George Will piece?
00:36:40.000 It's extraordinary.
00:36:41.000 I only got through the first couple paragraphs.
00:36:43.000 Now, let me say, George Will is just another example.
00:36:46.000 It's like Jonah Goldberg and George Will.
00:36:49.000 I grew up reading these guys.
00:36:50.000 I used to like George Will.
00:36:51.000 He used to write about baseball all the time.
00:36:52.000 He was super interesting. 0.98
00:36:53.000 Now he's a very nasty person. 0.96
00:36:55.000 And it's sad. 0.92
00:36:57.000 He's one of the more talented writers in the conservative movement.
00:37:00.000 For years, he was great.
00:37:02.000 And Donald Trump broke this guy.
00:37:04.000 I think George Will wrote a whole book on baseball.
00:37:07.000 I think he's a Cubs fan, if I remember correctly.
00:37:10.000 I used to really like Jonah Goldberg, and I used to really like George Will.
00:37:13.000 And now George Will is like, if you don't support Ukraine, you hate the country.
00:37:16.000 Like, really?
00:37:19.000 Really something.
00:37:20.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:37:25.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.
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