The Charlie Kirk Show - March 24, 2025


Ask Charlie Anything 216: No Taxes Under $150k? Elon Musk Army?


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This is an Ask Me Anything episode where I take your questions and we dialogue directly. I talk about behavioral problems in schools, the Epstein scandal, the Constitution, and much more. Thanks for the prayers and support. God bless!

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, coming on to the Charlie Kirk Show, an Ask Me Anything episode.
00:00:02.000 I take your questions and we dialogue directly.
00:00:07.000 We talk about behavioral problems in schools.
00:00:10.000 I read a heartbreaking email, the Constitution, the Epstein files, and more.
00:00:14.000 If you want to ask questions, become a member, members.charliekirk.com.
00:00:19.000 That is members.charliekirk.com.
00:00:22.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:23.000 Here we go.
00:00:24.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:26.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:27.000 I want you to know we are lucky.
00:00:29.000 To have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:31.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:34.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:35.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:36.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:45.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:27.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com Members.CharlieKirk.com Members.CharlieKirk.com Members.CharlieKirk.com Alright, coming up first is Caleb and Michelle, two great friends and Patriots.
00:01:53.000 Guys, thank you for being a member.
00:01:55.000 What is on your mind?
00:01:57.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:01:58.000 How are you doing?
00:01:59.000 Good. How are you?
00:02:00.000 March Madness.
00:02:01.000 We want to know how your bracket is doing.
00:02:03.000 And Michelle has... 1.00
00:02:05.000 Daisy, bring it in. 1.00
00:02:06.000 She got Gonzaga to win.
00:02:07.000 That's a good one.
00:02:09.000 They looked great yesterday.
00:02:11.000 So I did call McNeese over Clemson, so that was a good day. 1.00
00:02:15.000 Some of my other picks didn't do too well.
00:02:18.000 I begrudgingly...
00:02:19.000 Here, Daisy's bringing my bracket in, so I'm going to...
00:02:21.000 I actually haven't graded.
00:02:22.000 Have we graded it yet?
00:02:23.000 No? It hasn't been graded.
00:02:25.000 See, Daisy, she had Alabama State winning it all.
00:02:29.000 Which, yeah, a little rough.
00:02:31.000 That was against Auburn.
00:02:33.000 So let me think.
00:02:34.000 Creighton won.
00:02:35.000 Michigan won.
00:02:36.000 I was right about that.
00:02:36.000 I was wrong about Yale.
00:02:37.000 I thought Yale was going to do it.
00:02:40.000 A lot of games today yet.
00:02:42.000 High Point.
00:02:42.000 I thought High Point was going to be a sleeper.
00:02:45.000 And I was incorrect.
00:02:46.000 I have McNeese going to the Sweet 16, though.
00:02:49.000 I had Xavier.
00:02:50.000 Actually, I'm doing pretty well.
00:02:51.000 I only missed a couple yesterday.
00:02:53.000 I think I missed two.
00:02:53.000 So that's a good day.
00:02:54.000 That is a good March Madness day if you only miss two games.
00:02:57.000 So I'm loving it, by the way.
00:02:59.000 I got the games up right now.
00:03:01.000 I can't get enough of it.
00:03:02.000 So what's on your mind, guys?
00:03:04.000 Nope, that was our question.
00:03:06.000 Yeah, we just wanted to see how we were doing with March Madness.
00:03:10.000 Do you have another question, Michelle?
00:03:11.000 No. No, we're good.
00:03:13.000 You guys are the greatest.
00:03:14.000 Thank you, guys.
00:03:15.000 Thanks for the prayer and the support.
00:03:16.000 It means so much.
00:03:17.000 God bless you guys.
00:03:18.000 Talk to you soon.
00:03:18.000 Thanks. Yeah, you too.
00:03:20.000 Okay, who is next?
00:03:22.000 Let me see what Miss Daisy has. 1.00
00:03:23.000 She has to run back.
00:03:25.000 Patty. Patty, thank you for being a member.
00:03:28.000 What is on your mind?
00:03:29.000 Hey, Charlie.
00:03:30.000 How are you?
00:03:31.000 Hope you can hear me.
00:03:31.000 Yes. Good.
00:03:33.000 So my question to you is about the proposal for the $150,000 tax break.
00:03:40.000 You know, is it going to be a credit?
00:03:43.000 Is it going to be everybody under 150?
00:03:46.000 How do you think that's going to impact our revenue as far as income tax?
00:03:51.000 I mean, personally, I think everybody needs to contribute at least a little.
00:03:55.000 Right. So I think this comes out of something that Howard Lutnick said, where he said the president's plan is for anybody under $150,000 to pay no tax.
00:04:05.000 I don't quite know what...
00:04:06.000 The plan is it might be no income tax.
00:04:09.000 Remember, you also pay FICA tax.
00:04:10.000 There's Social Security tax.
00:04:12.000 There's income tax.
00:04:13.000 I think the proposal is no tax on anything made under $150,000.
00:04:20.000 I hear what you're saying.
00:04:21.000 I personally think that there's way too much taxing for the working class in this country, people that work with their hands, people that work in trades.
00:04:29.000 So I'm very much supportive of that.
00:04:32.000 And I also think it shows a great mindset, regardless of the details.
00:04:36.000 I think it's a really good mindset that they want to cut taxes for working people, for people that are in the middle class specifically.
00:04:45.000 So, thank you, Patty.
00:04:46.000 Really appreciate it.
00:04:47.000 Thank you.
00:04:48.000 Thank you.
00:04:49.000 Appreciate all you do.
00:04:50.000 All right, James.
00:04:51.000 James, thanks for being a member.
00:04:52.000 What's on your mind?
00:04:53.000 I just wanted to know what we could do to try to...
00:04:57.000 Because we're based as a Christian nation.
00:05:01.000 I'm just trying to figure out what we can do to get back to...
00:05:05.000 Being more Christly.
00:05:08.000 I see that how our nation is going, it's just not like it should be.
00:05:15.000 We constantly are having so much arguments with each other.
00:05:22.000 Everybody wants to just be at odds.
00:05:26.000 I don't know what we can do to fix it.
00:05:29.000 It's a good question.
00:05:31.000 Arguing is okay, actually.
00:05:32.000 I'm okay.
00:05:33.000 Arguing is...
00:05:35.000 It's fine.
00:05:36.000 Condemnation for no good reason is not.
00:05:38.000 A couple things.
00:05:39.000 I try to point everyone back to the Ten Commandments.
00:05:42.000 If you want to honor God, Christ our Lord says, follow my commands.
00:05:46.000 The Ten Commandments are the eternal rubric.
00:05:49.000 It is the baseline for a free society and a flourishing life.
00:05:53.000 And we can go through them if you'd like.
00:05:55.000 It is, you shall have no other gods before me, that you shall have no idols.
00:06:00.000 You shall not take the Lord's name in vain.
00:06:05.000 For six days you shall work, and the seventh day you shall rest, and the Sabbath day you shall keep it holy.
00:06:10.000 Honor your mother and father so that you may live long in the land of which you are in.
00:06:14.000 The only one of the Ten Commandments, that includes a promise and also your country.
00:06:19.000 You shall not steal.
00:06:20.000 You shall not murder.
00:06:22.000 You shall not commit false testimony.
00:06:24.000 You shall not commit adultery.
00:06:25.000 And finally, you shall not covet.
00:06:27.000 It's all from memory, by the way.
00:06:29.000 And by the way, everyone in this audience, you should have the Ten Commandments committed to memory.
00:06:34.000 I want to be able to study the Ten Commandments and know as much as a human being can know about those Ten Commandments.
00:06:41.000 As one of kind of my life's passion and my life's work, I read entire books on just the Ten Commandments, on just a singular commandment.
00:06:48.000 Look, you have to dedicate your time to a certain genre of stuff.
00:06:53.000 I think knowing the Ten Commandments is a really good place to start.
00:06:56.000 Every one of our founding fathers knew them, committed their life to them.
00:07:00.000 They had them on the walls of Congress.
00:07:01.000 They still have them on the walls of Congress and the Supreme Court.
00:07:05.000 It is a moral guide in a moral abyss.
00:07:09.000 Now, as far as bringing people back to Christ, this is where our churches are failing terribly.
00:07:13.000 One of the reasons why our churches are failing terribly is they talk only about a Savior and not about what you need a Savior from.
00:07:22.000 They talk only about the sweetness of the gospel, but not the bitterness of sin.
00:07:27.000 And so I think the church needs to do a much better job of that, and the church needs to lean in and fill that existential void.
00:07:34.000 And I'll be very honest, even my non-Christian great friends, they said, Charlie, COVID was a really bad look for the church, and I completely agree. 1.00
00:07:42.000 The fact that the church was saying that we are filled with the Spirit and that we believe in God and that this world is not our own...
00:07:50.000 And they were quick to shudder in fear and mask and vax, I think was a great indictment of the moral cowardice of what the American church had become and is.
00:08:01.000 You could buy booze, you could go to a strip club, you could go to a marijuana dispensary, but you couldn't go to church to sing a hymn.
00:08:08.000 I think it's terrible.
00:08:09.000 I think it's wrong.
00:08:10.000 And I think the church has yet to repent and to properly atone for the failure.
00:08:20.000 Thank you.
00:08:21.000 Great question.
00:08:22.000 Connie, what is on your mind?
00:08:23.000 Thanks for being a member.
00:08:24.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com.
00:08:26.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:08:27.000 I wrote my question there.
00:08:29.000 I'm wondering why the government can't push back against organizations like Soros and the money that they're infiltrating into things like common cause.
00:08:39.000 I saw online read that India had rated a common cause institute there in India, and I'm wondering why we cannot do that.
00:08:50.000 So a couple things.
00:08:55.000 You're right.
00:08:56.000 Common Cause is a big organization.
00:08:57.000 It's growing.
00:08:58.000 It's kind of the new moveon.org.
00:09:00.000 You guys can check it out.
00:09:02.000 I'm not going to even give you their website.
00:09:03.000 They have a website.
00:09:04.000 Why should I plug their website, right, Connie?
00:09:07.000 You guys can look at it.
00:09:08.000 They're all about going after Musk and all this.
00:09:09.000 The key with Soros.
00:09:12.000 You have to find things that he's done that's illegal, not just things that we don't like.
00:09:16.000 I do not have any evidence of this, and that's not fair to say.
00:09:21.000 I have circumstantial evidence, but I think a proper FBI and Department of Justice investigation into the Open Society Foundation and into the George Soros Network, into the BLM activities in 2020, Floydapalooza, is beyond necessary.
00:09:40.000 And then secondly, is there an orchestrated campaign of who is burning down these Teslas, who is going after these Tesla dealerships?
00:09:47.000 That is orchestrated potentially funding domestic terrorism.
00:09:51.000 And so Kash Patel and Dan Bongino should make it a top priority to go after anybody that is financing terror and financing the destruction of the United States of America.
00:10:03.000 Thank you, Connie, so much.
00:10:04.000 Really appreciate it.
00:10:04.000 Thank you.
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00:11:09.000 Okay, we're going to go to a member email first.
00:11:13.000 members.charliekirk.com I'm going to read this entire email.
00:11:16.000 It's worth it.
00:11:17.000 And before I read it, let me just tell you, for anyone out there, be very careful sending your kids to college.
00:11:23.000 You may not get grandkids because of it.
00:11:25.000 Be very careful sending your kid to college.
00:11:27.000 It might not be worth it.
00:11:29.000 I wrote an entire book called The College Scam.
00:11:31.000 I called this shot early.
00:11:33.000 And with time, we've been proven more and more correct.
00:11:36.000 90% of kids that go to college should not be there.
00:11:40.000 They exit dumber, angrier, with far less wisdom, and a lot more hatred of core values.
00:11:47.000 And of America.
00:11:48.000 Now, Turning Point USA is helping change that.
00:11:51.000 But let me read this email.
00:11:54.000 On a previous episode, we talked about, by the way, the problem with college-educated women. 0.99
00:11:59.000 And here is this email.
00:12:00.000 Charlie, I'm sorry to say that you are so right on with the selfishness of white college-educated women. 1.00
00:12:06.000 I sent my own daughter to a private Christian university in Texas where I live, thinking this would be a safe place for her.
00:12:14.000 She came out of it as a raging feminist. 1.00
00:12:16.000 She's not a bad person.
00:12:18.000 She's a generous person on some matters.
00:12:20.000 But in those basic ways, she's very much about self.
00:12:23.000 Despite attending a Christian university, she came out of it as an agnostic.
00:12:28.000 I love her forever, but we've simply agreed that we absolutely cannot talk about many matters involving politics or religion as we end up in huge arguments.
00:12:37.000 I have no idea where she gets her ideas.
00:12:40.000 She's been out of college for 10 years.
00:12:43.000 She did move to the most liberal city in the state of Texas after graduation, and her circles of people are like-minded.
00:12:49.000 Because of her ideology, I will never have a grandchild, which brings me great sadness.
00:12:55.000 My daughter worked hard to get into college and did very well there.
00:12:58.000 She, of course, obtained a generally useless degree.
00:13:01.000 My $40,000 of student loans brought me a daughter that definitely thinks my generation, I am Jan X, are a bunch of racists that don't understand how the world actually works.
00:13:11.000 College was not just a scam, but it absolutely ruined my daughter and made her into a miserable person.
00:13:18.000 No husband, no kids, just constant travel in search of something.
00:13:22.000 I know what that something is, but she's of course not open to God, and that is the saddest part of all.
00:13:26.000 Keep spreading the news.
00:13:28.000 Maybe it will prevent someone else's daughter from being ruined by college professors. 1.00
00:13:32.000 God bless.
00:13:32.000 That is my life's work.
00:13:33.000 One of my life's work, I have five or six things that I focus my life on, is to hopefully save young people from going to college.
00:13:41.000 To become a tragedy.
00:13:45.000 All right, David.
00:13:46.000 David, what is on your mind?
00:13:48.000 We are doing poor with the unmuting today.
00:13:51.000 Otherwise, it's a great program.
00:13:52.000 David, what's on your mind?
00:13:53.000 Hey, you did it.
00:13:54.000 Good for you.
00:13:54.000 You broke the stage.
00:13:55.000 Yeah, I figured it out.
00:13:56.000 Thanks. Hey, Charlie, thank you for this.
00:13:58.000 So I live in New York, unfortunately.
00:14:02.000 I was wondering if you're hearing anything or see anything.
00:14:07.000 You know, with RFK and Trump regarding trying to bring back religious exemptions for the states that, you know, demand this, you know, vaccine schedule.
00:14:20.000 It's really important, you know, to me because, yeah, you know, my particular school, I mean, I saw some crazy stuff during COVID.
00:14:31.000 Those vaccines that were pushed.
00:14:34.000 True story.
00:14:36.000 Three staff members died in the span of two months after these shots went out.
00:14:42.000 Multiple kids have collapsed.
00:14:45.000 Nobody talks about it.
00:14:46.000 I tried to bring it up at board meetings and they just stay silent.
00:14:50.000 And I've been trying to speak up and trying to, you know, contact my politicians.
00:14:55.000 Nobody calls back.
00:14:57.000 Nobody does anything.
00:14:58.000 The excuse from the Republicans are, oh, the Democrats run the state and we can't bring those bills to the floor to bring back religious exemptions.
00:15:09.000 It's like nobody cares.
00:15:13.000 What state are you in?
00:15:15.000 New York, New York.
00:15:16.000 It's a tragedy.
00:15:18.000 I think, and let me interrupt you because we're running out of time here, and that's a great question.
00:15:22.000 I live in an amazing medical freedom state here in Arizona, so I take this stuff for granted.
00:15:27.000 I want to try to work with Bobby Kennedy and President Trump to use some sort of federal money to say that you cannot force these extra vaccines on kids, especially those in religious environments.
00:15:40.000 It's a serious issue, and I know Producer Andrew is dealing with this right now in the free state of California.
00:15:47.000 And anything beyond the 1980s schedule.
00:15:52.000 And that is with, I mean, you were talking about, they're mandated in the COVID shot now for six months old.
00:16:01.000 I mean, this is outrageous stuff.
00:16:02.000 And so I think there has to be a role for the federal government.
00:16:05.000 And my other piece of advice is try to work through the courts.
00:16:09.000 There has to be some decision somewhere.
00:16:12.000 It used to be 10 vaccines.
00:16:14.000 Now it's 72 shots for our babies.
00:16:17.000 Something's not right, and our kids are sicker than ever.
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00:17:24.000 I want to read an email really quickly, and then we're going to get to our next member.
00:17:27.000 This is a member email.
00:17:29.000 Charlie, thanks for everything Turning Point is doing in Wisconsin to help save our state during this critical Supreme Court race.
00:17:35.000 I was at your town hall and appreciate you and Don Jr. making the time.
00:17:38.000 Let me just say, as I mentioned earlier, that event was brought to you by Big Pharma.
00:17:43.000 Every drug in the world I took just to be able to do that event.
00:17:45.000 I was sick, sick, sick, and so glad I was able to do that.
00:17:49.000 Thanks to the amazing mentors.
00:17:51.000 Brett in Milwaukee County and Brandon and Dane.
00:17:53.000 Great guys.
00:17:54.000 I'm newly elected vice chair here in Crawford County.
00:17:57.000 I know you've been speaking.
00:17:58.000 Please mention the importance of why Wisconsin needs to vote.
00:18:01.000 Again, well, Kelly, me even mentioning this is why.
00:18:05.000 And I believe, Daisy, are we going to post that episode of Don Jr. and I on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast page?
00:18:12.000 If you are listening to this, we are going to post our entire episode in Wisconsin with Donald Trump Jr. and I. So it's going to be great.
00:18:19.000 Okay, Lisa, Lisa, thank you for being a member.
00:18:22.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com, what's on your mind?
00:18:24.000 Can you hear me?
00:18:25.000 Yes, what is on your mind?
00:18:26.000 Okay, so I just have a question about with the sort of the taking apart of the Board of Education.
00:18:33.000 Do you think that giving the power back to the states will not only increase our kids' academics, but help with the significant behavior problems we're seeing in the classrooms?
00:18:45.000 Yes. I mean, the behavior problems are partially phone induced.
00:18:50.000 Secondly, teachers are not able to discipline kids the way they used to because of fear of reprisal and political correctness.
00:18:57.000 Hyper localizing things is always a better option.
00:19:01.000 Abolishing the Department of Education won't, I think, have any way either way on behavioral problems.
00:19:09.000 I'm curiously.
00:19:10.000 So what are what are you hearing from your experience regarding some of the behavioral problems?
00:19:16.000 because...
00:19:19.000 Blake reminded me.
00:19:21.000 The Obama administration's civil rights office at the Department of Education would go after local school districts for suspending kids too much and saying, oh, you're suspending black kids too much.
00:19:32.000 Well, maybe those kids, not because they're black, just because they're not acting correctly, should be suspended. 1.00
00:19:39.000 So getting rid of that would be great.
00:19:41.000 But Lisa, tell me what you're hearing and seeing regarding this issue.
00:19:44.000 Well, I'll tell you what I'm seeing because I do work in an elementary school.
00:19:48.000 I'm an occupational therapist, and so I'm in and out of classrooms, and specifically mostly with special ed.
00:19:54.000 But, I mean, the behaviors are—you can't even make this stuff up.
00:19:57.000 And I'm in one of the better counties in Georgia.
00:20:00.000 But, I mean, kids are kicking, hitting teachers, throwing things at teachers, peeing on the floor.
00:20:07.000 I mean, it's unbelievable.
00:20:10.000 I mean, I would never let my kids act like this.
00:20:12.000 My kids would— Never do something like this.
00:20:15.000 But teachers are leaving in droves because they can't do anything about it.
00:20:19.000 They really don't like to suspend.
00:20:22.000 And this is elementary school.
00:20:25.000 So I want to be clear.
00:20:26.000 So there are kids that will hit teachers.
00:20:28.000 What grade?
00:20:29.000 Third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade?
00:20:31.000 Well, we had a kindergartner a couple years ago that threw a stapler across the room and hit the teacher in the head with it.
00:20:37.000 So it goes all the way down to preschool, kindergarten.
00:20:42.000 Kindergarten and first grade really are the toughest because a lot of these kids have, they come from no structure at home.
00:20:48.000 They've been sitting on their iPads since the day they were born.
00:20:51.000 And, you know, neurologically, they're just messed up.
00:20:55.000 Jeez, I am far from a child behavioral therapist.
00:20:59.000 I'm a parent.
00:21:01.000 I know that even my two-year-old, there needs to be discipline and order and time out.
00:21:08.000 Like, no, you actually don't get that.
00:21:09.000 And no, you don't always get what you want.
00:21:11.000 And it's a battle.
00:21:12.000 It requires active battling.
00:21:15.000 And then the most important is no screen time.
00:21:18.000 Matt Walsh said something really good.
00:21:20.000 We're going to post the Matt Walsh episode at some point too.
00:21:22.000 And I really like it.
00:21:23.000 We're going to put it into our family as well.
00:21:25.000 Which is there is one screen for the entire family.
00:21:27.000 It's a shared family screen.
00:21:29.000 And there's no iPads.
00:21:31.000 There's no iPhones.
00:21:32.000 Each parent has a phone.
00:21:35.000 And that's it.
00:21:35.000 And at least for our kids, there is no show time.
00:21:39.000 There's no screen time.
00:21:40.000 The only time that my daughter has watched TV was with me last evening because we were watching March Madness.
00:21:48.000 And that was very important.
00:21:50.000 Keep that up, Charlie.
00:21:51.000 That's great.
00:21:52.000 So yeah, as an occupational therapist, would you see the screen time is a big, big issue?
00:21:58.000 Without question.
00:21:59.000 And there's getting to be a lot of research and data to show that kids is...
00:22:03.000 Brains are just, they're developing completely differently because of screens.
00:22:09.000 Yeah, I mean, and you could even say, you made such a good point, that kindergartners who were basically born in COVID, they didn't see people, and they were on their phones.
00:22:17.000 They have to be so behind right now.
00:22:20.000 Just so behind, right?
00:22:22.000 I mean, we're talking about a generational time bomb.
00:22:25.000 Kids can't pick, they don't know how to hold a pencil.
00:22:27.000 I mean, they come into, they've never colored, they've never tried to write their letters. 0.99
00:22:33.000 It's truly, it's devastating, actually.
00:22:37.000 So I am, I mean, I am curious.
00:22:41.000 I mean, my daughter is a great artist for her age, as I might say.
00:22:45.000 No, but I mean, we're constantly always, you know, parenting, how to hold.
00:22:48.000 What do these parents do with their kids?
00:22:50.000 They send them to daycare, I guess, when they were growing up.
00:22:53.000 What are the daycares doing?
00:22:55.000 That's a great question.
00:22:56.000 I don't know.
00:22:57.000 I never sent my kids to daycare, and my kids now are 18 and 20, so that's a great question.
00:23:04.000 I can't answer that.
00:23:05.000 Well, you're very sweet, and thank you for being a member, and keep up the great work for special ed.
00:23:09.000 It's really, really important, and a really great call.
00:23:12.000 Okay, Scott is next.
00:23:14.000 Scott, thank you for being a member.
00:23:15.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com.
00:23:16.000 What is on your mind?
00:23:18.000 Hey, Charlie.
00:23:19.000 Dittos, by the way.
00:23:21.000 Oh, thank you.
00:23:21.000 Major dittos.
00:23:22.000 That is a good rush.
00:23:23.000 That is a rush-ism.
00:23:25.000 And I will accept it.
00:23:27.000 And by the way, you've got your Jim Rockford look going today and you're rocking it.
00:23:31.000 Good job.
00:23:32.000 Well, thank you.
00:23:32.000 Hey, listen, the reason I called is I noticed that there's a lot of stock price manipulation going on, both with elected officials, mutual funds, that sort of thing.
00:23:43.000 And I was just curious if you thought that going to a zero tax on dividends would shift investment away from...
00:23:51.000 Kiting stocks into more well-run companies.
00:23:54.000 I haven't thought about it much.
00:23:55.000 So are dividend stocks now taxed at ordinary income, not capital gains?
00:23:59.000 I would imagine that's the case.
00:24:01.000 Is that right?
00:24:01.000 Correct. So I think that the gravitation away from stocks giving or companies giving dividends has been a bad move.
00:24:15.000 For example, a company that still gives dividends is Campbell Soup.
00:24:18.000 They're well-known for giving a good dividend.
00:24:20.000 I think ExxonMobil used to give a really good dividend, and they still do, maybe.
00:24:24.000 I could be wrong.
00:24:25.000 I'm drawing from memory here.
00:24:26.000 But the incentive, of course, when you have a dividend, is to hold.
00:24:32.000 Is to hold that asset.
00:24:33.000 And it disincentivizes the kind of hedging and the kind of stock manipulation that we're currently seeing.
00:24:41.000 I am far from an expert on the stock market.
00:24:44.000 I leave that to a lot of other much smarter people.
00:24:46.000 I will do private investments.
00:24:48.000 But generally, We need to reward risk takers and decrease taxes on our good faith investors.
00:24:55.000 That is, in general, what we need to do.
00:24:58.000 And I will encourage anybody, though, if you're young, get in on the market at some level.
00:25:05.000 Learn the market.
00:25:06.000 Learn how it works.
00:25:07.000 And if you don't know anything else, buy companies that you use.
00:25:12.000 Very simple rule for life.
00:25:14.000 Buy companies that you use.
00:25:17.000 Thank you, my friend.
00:25:18.000 I will think about that, and it's a great question.
00:25:20.000 Thank you.
00:25:21.000 Okay, let's get to the next one here.
00:25:23.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com.
00:25:25.000 What do we have?
00:25:26.000 Jim. Jim, thanks for being a member.
00:25:28.000 Make sure you unmute.
00:25:29.000 Jim, what's on your mind?
00:25:30.000 Oh, yeah.
00:25:31.000 Thanks for all you do.
00:25:33.000 But I have kind of a question.
00:25:34.000 I don't know if you have any evidence or anything, but I was wondering about the Epstein files.
00:25:40.000 We haven't heard anything about that.
00:25:43.000 Yeah, go ahead, please.
00:25:44.000 I'm wondering if there's some kind of leverage that Trump is using with those.
00:25:49.000 In other words, he had quite a few Democrats vote with him on the last, the deficit, you know, raising the debt ceiling.
00:26:02.000 The debt ceiling.
00:26:04.000 I want to say deficit.
00:26:06.000 So, I don't know about that.
00:26:08.000 I will say, though, that we need to get these files out.
00:26:10.000 Now, whether they need to go through redacted court records, which is something I've heard, there is no excuse whatsoever.
00:26:17.000 At some point in time, hopefully sooner rather than later, we need a release of all the Epstein files.
00:26:22.000 All of them.
00:26:23.000 No redactions.
00:26:25.000 No big black squares or boxes.
00:26:28.000 But also, we need the tapes.
00:26:29.000 We need all of the correlated evidence.
00:26:33.000 We deserve it.
00:26:34.000 And President Trump signed an executive order releasing it.
00:26:36.000 What are they hiding exactly?
00:26:38.000 What are they hiding?
00:26:40.000 And President Trump has demanded it, and President Trump should get what President Trump has asked for.
00:26:45.000 And there's a lot of questions around the Epstein thing.
00:26:49.000 A lot.
00:26:50.000 And I look forward to getting some answers.
00:26:52.000 And no, I do not believe that Epstein committed suicide.
00:26:55.000 Blake, do you think Epstein killed himself?
00:26:56.000 That's actually an interesting question.
00:26:59.000 Which side Blake is on the Epstein question?
00:27:02.000 Is Blake a normie on the Epstein question?
00:27:05.000 He says, eh, probably.
00:27:06.000 So he definitely killed himself.
00:27:08.000 Kidding, Blake.
00:27:09.000 I'm giving you a hard time.
00:27:10.000 Thank you so much for being a member, my friend.
00:27:12.000 I appreciate it.
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00:28:32.000 Joining us now is Scott.
00:28:34.000 Scott, thank you for being a member.
00:28:36.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com.
00:28:38.000 What is on your mind?
00:28:39.000 Well, my first question is, do you believe the framers called for a simple majority of impeachment from the People's House and that that was put into the Constitution so that we, the people, could defend our own rights?
00:28:54.000 I do.
00:28:55.000 Well, I think they designed it through two chambers.
00:28:59.000 But yes, I do believe a simple majority in the House was sufficient.
00:29:02.000 But they designed it to a 66-vote threshold, I believe, in the Senate.
00:29:08.000 Yes. And I think the reason they did that was so that undulations and differences of opinions and excitement in the public wouldn't cause the impeachment process to be used excessively.
00:29:23.000 But it appears to me that they would put it in the House and they would make it just a simple majority because it is the people's house, which implies that we have a say in these impeachments.
00:29:37.000 And we say that through our representatives and then ask them to remove somebody who's trying to remove our rights under the Constitution.
00:29:48.000 Hear what you're saying.
00:29:49.000 The issue is that I believe in the Constitution it prevents...
00:29:55.000 Thank you, sir.
00:29:56.000 We're running out of time.
00:29:57.000 Really appreciate that question.
00:29:58.000 Thank you.
00:29:59.000 Okay, Benjamin.
00:30:00.000 Benjamin, thank you for being a member.
00:30:02.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com.
00:30:04.000 What's on your mind?
00:30:05.000 Hey there, Charlie.
00:30:06.000 How are you?
00:30:07.000 Great audio.
00:30:07.000 I'm a big fan.
00:30:08.000 I'm a member.
00:30:09.000 You're the man, okay?
00:30:12.000 I have a few questions.
00:30:13.000 I'm not sure which way to go, but I think my main one is that I feel like the Christian church is being infiltrated by Leftists and all these organizations, LGBTQ and so forth.
00:30:28.000 How do we help unmask them to show that they're doing more damage to Christianity than what they say?
00:30:38.000 I think the unmasking is happening.
00:30:40.000 I love that term.
00:30:41.000 I would first encourage everybody, though, to make sure the local church that you are going to is one that is not woke and is not involved in this. 0.97
00:30:48.000 It is not enough just to say that, oh, you know, it's a big problem, but your local church is like, well, I still like the music, even though that they have a gay pride flag flying. 0.96
00:30:55.000 So you have to make sure that your local church is a reflection.
00:31:00.000 My second question is with Elon Musk.
00:31:06.000 Even though, aside from Doge and him having a super technology company, has President Trump ever thought about having Elon help out with the military as far as developing technology for the armed forces?
00:31:24.000 It's a great question, and the answer is he already is.
00:31:27.000 Now, he's not going to get classified briefings as far as how we're going to attack or whatever against China.
00:31:34.000 However, Space Force is primarily an Elon Musk production.
00:31:38.000 Space Force right now is primarily just satellites, and that is almost all Elon Musk.
00:31:43.000 And so, as far as developing better technologies, we have a crisis right now in our military.
00:31:48.000 We have a crisis, of course, with the rank and file, with the wokeism, the DEI.
00:31:52.000 Hegseth is cleaning all that up.
00:31:53.000 The bigger crisis, though, is we have a military manufacturing crisis.
00:31:59.000 What we are producing for warfare is antiquated.
00:32:04.000 Full disclosure, everybody, aircraft carriers are an antiquated way of fighting.
00:32:08.000 It's going to be all about drones.
00:32:10.000 And artificial intelligence.
00:32:12.000 It's going to be less about really expensive F-35 fighters or even the new fighter that they just came out with, which is fine.
00:32:17.000 And it's going to be more about, can you have a $200 drone fly into the front lines?
00:32:22.000 Tanks are becoming antiquated.
00:32:24.000 And so there was this fake news story from the New York Times suggesting President Trump was giving classified briefings to Elon Musk.
00:32:31.000 That is not true.
00:32:32.000 But to create the finest fighting force on the planet, we have to fix the actual weaponry.
00:32:40.000 That our troops need.
00:32:42.000 Warfare is becoming more and more of an unmanned game of who has the best gadgets.
00:32:49.000 And I certainly hope we can keep up.
00:32:51.000 Thank you, Benjamin.
00:32:52.000 Great question to end up.
00:32:53.000 Thank you.
00:32:53.000 God bless.
00:32:54.000 Take care.
00:32:54.000 Excellent. Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:32:56.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:32:59.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.