Ask Charlie Anything 36: Netflix’s Social Dilemma, SCOTUS Term Limits? Is the Executive Branch Too Powerful? Does Democracy Move Too Slowly? And So Much More…
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00:03:08.000This ties into another question that we got where someone was confused about the idea of packing the courts.
00:03:14.000So first and foremost, in the United States Constitution, it, of course, establishes the legislative and the executive and the judicial branch.
00:03:23.000Each one of those branches are there for a very specific reason and to have checks and balances against the other branch.
00:03:30.000This is an idea that was first written by Montesquieu and before that by Cicero.
00:03:34.000We take this idea of checks and balances for granted in our country.
00:03:38.000And it is very easy to do so when you live under a system that has checks and balances.
00:03:43.000The Founding Fathers guiding belief was that man was flawed by nature.
00:03:47.000You can't really trust human beings too much.
00:03:49.000Therefore, you must have a system to be able to make sure that the worst impulses of human behavior do not go unchecked, that there must be security mechanisms for human beings.
00:04:00.000And as Lord Acton used to say, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
00:04:05.000And so I don't know if I necessarily agree, Danica, that the Supreme Court is more important than the presidency.
00:04:13.000However, I think at this period of time, an argument could be made that a majority on the Supreme Court for the coming years can be an insurance policy against Joe Biden possibly becoming president.
00:04:24.000We built that out in our previous Ask Me Anything episode.
00:04:27.000However, in the United States Constitution, it says clearly what congressional representation looks like, what presidential representation looks like.
00:04:36.000It does not say clearly what Supreme Court representation looks like.
00:04:41.000Nowhere in the United States Constitution does it say how many U.S. Supreme Court justices should there be.
00:04:50.000It does say how many senators each state should have.
00:04:53.000It does say how House of Representatives members should be selected.
00:04:56.000And eventually it did come to say how long a president can serve.
00:05:01.000But the number of justices is something that started small, eventually grew to nine.
00:05:07.000Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the courts back in the 1930s and was unsuccessful in trying to do so.
00:05:14.000And that number nine kind of stayed as the standard.
00:05:19.000Now, I want to play tape from Ken Starr.
00:05:21.000Ken Starr is on our honorary board here at Turning Point USA.
00:05:26.000Now, Ken Starr kind of rose to fame when he was the Bob Mueller of the Clinton era.
00:05:33.000He was the special prosecutor against Bill Clinton's shady real estate dealings and eventually, let's say, unearthed Bill Clinton's adultery in the White House with intern Monica Lewinsky.
00:05:48.000Ken Starr has argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:05:51.000Ken Starr himself was a federal judge.
00:05:54.000Ken Starr was the president of Baylor University.
00:05:56.000Ken Starr was also a lawyer for President Trump, very reputable guy.
00:06:00.000And so he was on Fox News and he made a really good point.
00:06:03.000Why nine justices in practices has worked and that should continue to be the case.
00:06:59.000He went on to say that the judiciary chair, Senator Graham, would not even have to hold a hearing for the nominee, says the process will go quickly.
00:07:07.000React on that, and do you believe Senator Dianne Feinstein, the age of 87, will chair this committee, the hearings for the Democratic side?
00:07:19.000I appreciated, by the way, her comment that she was not in favor of packing the court in terms of the filibuster and so forth.
00:07:28.000But no, there has to be a hearing with all due respect to the president.
00:07:31.000This is too important for there not to be a confirmation hearing where all of the senators get to ask questions and then the nation gets to assess the nominee.
00:07:46.000As you heard there, Ken Starr made the argument that nine was enough to be able to have differences of opinion, but it wasn't too much where all of a sudden people couldn't sit around a table and deliberate.
00:07:57.000Ken Starr made a very good point that I had not heard previously, that being able to sit around a table and have a discussion with nine people, it's just a pretty good number.
00:08:08.000Where if you get to 11 or 13, when you sit around a table, all of a sudden you kind of have factions and people break into different beliefs at that point.
00:08:16.000And so what packing the courts means, we got a separate question about this that wasn't completely related, Danica, to your question, where someone said, what does packing the courts even mean?
00:08:25.000It would mean that whomever then controls the United States Senate and the houses of Congress, they would vote to expand the number of Supreme Court justices from 9 to 11 to 13 or 15.
00:08:38.000Basically, the Democrat approach is: if you do not give us what we want, we will change the rules of engagement.
00:08:46.000We will pack the courts and we will make it increasingly difficult for you to be able to ever get back to a position of power.
00:08:54.000Now, that's not a good reason not to confirm President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court.
00:09:00.000In fact, that's a really bad reason to reward that kind of quasi-extortionist behavior from the Democrats as they are plainly threatening the fabric of the Constitution if they do not get what they want.
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00:10:46.000Congress, in a lot of different ways, has abdicated its responsibilities to the executive branch, and therefore it has made the Supreme Court more important.
00:10:57.000I think the executive Executive branch actually has too much power.
00:11:01.000There are over 140 agencies that work in some form of a quasi-lawmaking capacity where they almost make their own rules and their own regulations outside of the acts of Congress.
00:11:15.000Because of this, you need an independent arbiter to decide whether or not the EPA, which is the Environmental Protection Agency, or as I call it, the Employment Prevention Agency, as to whether or not the water acts that they're putting forward are constitutional,
00:11:31.000or the Federal Trade Commission, or the FDIC, all of these different sub-agencies within our government have been given more and more power because Congress has been at an impasse or Congress has been serving the interests of the rich, the wealthy, the few, the elites, and the lobbyists.
00:11:50.000A lot of the power has concentrated within the executive.
00:11:54.000Therefore, the Supreme Court has only been elevated in its importance of adjudicating these differences.
00:12:03.000Congress was not able to come to any form of deal with DACA.
00:12:06.000I think that was probably a good thing generally.
00:12:09.000I don't think a deal for DACA should be established.
00:12:12.000I think that if people come into our country illegally, they should leave.
00:12:15.000I don't think it's that controversial of an opinion to say that.
00:12:18.000However, the fact of the matter is that Congress could not come to a conclusive opinion or decision, I should say, on how to move forward legislatively.
00:12:30.000So Barack Obama moved forward with DACA, and then that puts the Supreme Court in primary focus to figure out whether or not that order by the Obama administration was constitutional or not.
00:12:44.000And so, Danica, you make a great point that the Supreme Court actually plays a bigger role because Congress has not done their job to oversee the actions of the executive branch with their unconstitutional executive power from these federal agencies.
00:13:00.000By the way, President Trump has actually deregulated a lot of that authority.
00:13:04.000President Trump has relaxed a lot of the rulemaking flexibility of the executive branch, which I think is one of his least talked about accomplishments in the time that he has been president.
00:13:19.000And so we have to understand that the construction of our Constitution, the executive, the legislative, and the judicial branch, they all have checks and balances against each other.
00:13:32.000For example, if a Supreme Court justice acts incorrectly, that Supreme Court justice can be impeached by the United States Senate.
00:13:40.000If a president acts incorrectly, they can be impeached by the United States Senate.
00:13:45.000If the Senate or the House passes a bill that is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court can strike down that bill.
00:13:52.000The architect of the United States Constitution, Madison, argued in many different Federalist papers, which I encourage all of you to check out the Federalist papers.
00:14:03.000You guys can do that at thinker.org, thinker.org slash Charlie.
00:14:08.000He argued that we must have a system that is deliberative in nature, that tries to prevent the worst instincts of human nature from being able to abuse power.
00:14:24.000In the 63rd Federalist, Madison argues that the United States Constitution was the first purely representative body in human history.
00:14:38.000See, when they lived under British rule, the sovereign was King George.
00:14:45.000The sovereign prior to the creation of the United States of America and the United States Constitution was never the people.
00:14:52.000But the sovereign, according to the United States Constitution, is the constitutional majority.
00:15:00.000Madison also argued in the Federalist Papers that we must have a longer process to try to effectuate change.
00:15:13.000Madison in Federalist 49 argued that there must be a premium on deeply held opinions for a long time.
00:15:21.000So if you actually play this out, in order for your particular opinion to really be enacted, it takes six years of advocacy and successful elections.
00:15:33.000You have to win the House, you have to win the presidency, and you have to win back the Senate over a period of six times without a reaction or response from the opposing opinion.
00:15:43.000This is how civil rights legislation was passed in the 1960s.
00:15:57.000We do have a Democrat means of electing leaders.
00:16:00.000But a democracy would mean that your God-given rights could be put on referendum by the will of the majority next election.
00:16:07.000That is not the way this works in our country.
00:16:10.000Instead, we have the courts that interpret the law under a prism of natural God-given rights that can strike down unconstitutional measures even from 51 plus percent of the voters.
00:16:25.000And now, some people say the critics of our system say that this moves too slow, that it's wrong, it's too deliberative.
00:16:34.000Madison thought that was an attribute of our system, and I completely agree.
00:16:39.000For people that want immediate change, for people that want things to happen instantaneously, we want Medicare for all right now.
00:16:46.000They get frustrated that our system has so many checks and balances to be able to have that long march of the institutions, almost a Hegelian way to go about effectuating change in the Western world.
00:17:00.000I think the Founding Fathers were brilliant.
00:17:03.000They were ahead of their time, and Madison agreed that this was not a weakness in the system.
00:17:13.000Instead, it was a strength of the system.
00:17:16.000And he talks about this in Federalist 49 and the 63rd Federalist.
00:17:20.000The question also goes: how do we elect our leaders?
00:17:25.000You see, if we just elected our leaders through the will of the majority, and we are going to do an in-depth episode on the Electoral College, so I'm just going to tease that right here, right now, that's coming up in the next couple weeks.
00:17:40.000It's very important that all of you understand the Electoral College, how to defend the Electoral College, the need for the Electoral College, the moral case for the Electoral College, the utilitarian case for the Electoral College.
00:17:53.000If we just had straight-up democracy, you would not have a representative government.
00:17:58.000Remember, the states created the federal government.
00:18:00.000The federal government did not create the states.
00:18:03.000I think we need to give actually more power back to the states.
00:18:08.000We, the people, have the power through our representatives.
00:18:12.000And if our representatives do not do our job, they should be recalled and they should be held accountable.
00:18:20.000So going to this question that you have, Danica, do I think the Democrats will be successful in packing the court, adding states to the Union?
00:18:42.000It takes long, drawn out, thoughtful, convincing, persuasive political movements to be able to have this kind of massive change, such as packing the court or adding states to the union.
00:18:55.000Even Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with the mandate that he had, was unable to pack the courts.
00:19:01.000Even FDR was unable to add justices to the Supreme Court.
00:19:05.000It is unlikely, in fact, it is almost inconceivable that Joe Biden and Senate Democrats will have that sort of political power behind them.
00:19:14.000Remember, Madison said it takes six years of persuasive activism.
00:19:20.000And he argued: if you have a very good contribution that you want to bring to the American system and you can persuade people for six years, then you deserve that contribution.
00:19:33.000For example, women's suffrage, Civil Rights Act.
00:19:37.000It took many years of activism and of deliberation, and they won.
00:19:59.000And it was Phyllis Schlafly and her incredible activism.
00:20:04.000And we're going to do a whole podcast on Phyllis Schlafly at some point.
00:20:06.000I don't know if we'll get to it before the election, but we're going to do a whole podcast on it.
00:20:10.000Where she argued, why do we need a new amendment to the Constitution that singles out just women?
00:20:17.000She made the brilliant constitutional argument and completely changed all the momentum that the ERA had by saying the Constitution is a gender-neutral document and it should stay a gender-neutral document.
00:20:28.000As soon as you start to select women versus men or black versus white, it destroys the brilliance of the U.S. Constitution as being an equally applicable document.
00:20:38.000Of course, the 14th Amendment later clarified equal protection under the law, which again, Madison argued that those sorts of amendments should be allowed for.
00:20:48.000You just have to have really good reasoning.
00:20:49.000I have to win people over for a long period of time.
00:20:52.000It's almost the system that the founders argued for was you can't get really excited for one election under a bunch of promises without a counter argument happening.
00:21:04.000This makes us fundamentally different than the French and the Spanish and the Portuguese and the Greeks and the Italians.
00:21:10.000That if you get really excited in those elections and you win in a parliamentary system, you can change the country in one election cycle there.
00:21:18.000There's very little countermeasure because as soon as you win those elections, let's just use in the United Kingdom, you actually control when the next election is.
00:21:27.000You control when the next election actually gets to be called.
00:21:30.000And you can then push forward government-run health care, gun confiscation.
00:21:35.000In our system, there is a higher standard to change everything.
00:21:42.000So, no, I don't think they'll be able to do that.
00:21:48.000There will be a, and we use this word a lot, and I don't mind using it, I just think it's overused, a backlash, where if they try to pack the courts, these Democrat senators in West Virginia, in Arizona, in Montana will hear from us.
00:22:04.000There will be marching in the streets, good marching in the streets.
00:22:10.000And I think that's part of the brilliance of the United States Constitution that we don't talk about enough.
00:22:14.000That this thing is not easy to change overnight, nor should it be.
00:22:18.000Because, look, the Founding Fathers were very ambitious people, incredibly ambitious.
00:22:25.000But even what we have been able to do in our country over the last 200 plus years would have blown the Founding Fathers away.
00:22:36.000Our economic success, our charitable success, scientific progress, what we've done for the world, military might, the standard for human rights all across the planet would have blown them away.
00:22:51.000And so I think we need to do a better job of clearly communicating the difference between a republic and a democracy and why our government should be deliberative in nature.
00:23:07.000And again, you guys can check out thinker.org/slash Charlie to do a great job of that.
00:23:10.000We talk about that quite often through the Federalist Papers.
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00:25:20.000I did see Social Dilemma, and I'm really glad I watched it.
00:25:23.000I actually deleted my Netflix account, so I wanted to watch it because I got so many emails from listeners and from all of you that listen to us and support us saying, Charlie, can you watch this?
00:26:24.000There's an argument made at the beginning that I sympathize with that these tech companies, Facebook in particular, Google, Twitter, TikTok, they are benefiting from a form of surveillance capitalism.
00:26:36.000They make an argument that I've long said that they are selling their users.
00:26:40.000There's another great quote in the film that I thought was so brilliant, which is: only social media and illegal drugs call the people that use their products users.
00:26:56.000Pretty incredible when you think about it.
00:26:59.000And so, if you are not paying for the product, the movie The Social Dilemma argues that you are the product.
00:27:07.000They had some very fascinating firsthand testimony from the programmers that built these social media applications, from Pinterest to Instagram, Facebook, and Google, where they argue that within their experiences in these tech companies, they went through daily and deliberative meetings on how they could gradually, slightly,
00:27:31.000but eventually dramatically change your behavior.
00:27:38.000Tristan Harris, who is in the movie, very compelling story.
00:27:44.000He argued that the social media apps and these phones are making us less human.
00:27:50.000He argued that they sell a form of almost slot machine certainty, that if you use these devices, it almost guarantees a dopamine rush the minute that you open up your phone.
00:28:03.000The entire premise of the first part of the film is the amount of data that they collect from you.
00:28:09.000Tristan Harris argues in the film that it gives you a positive intermittent reinforcement.
00:28:16.000I thought this was a really clever way to put it.
00:28:18.000In Silicon Valley, we went from a place that created hardware, almost tools-based technology, computers, servers, phones, to now manipulation and addiction-based technology.
00:28:33.000The film then transitions to almost a docudrama style, where there's a family that deals with addiction to social media.
00:28:43.000Social Dilemma makes no qualms whatsoever saying that social media is a drug.
00:28:50.000They profile an 11-year-old girl that is addicted to probably something that could be Snapchat or TikTok.
00:28:56.000They don't use the exact companies in this kind of docudrama lens for obvious reasons.
00:29:01.000And then a young man who is 16 years old, 17 years old, that is very into an equivalent of Instagram or YouTube.
00:29:11.000The most powerful part of the film, where I have to tell you, of all the documentaries I've ever watched, and I've watched hundreds of documentaries, I have to say this is the very best.
00:29:21.000They win the gold medal in the way that they portrayed the tech companies monitoring and monetizing their users.
00:29:34.000Where they show a young man that is using his Instagram feed, and on the back end of the screen, they show three individuals that are dressed in all black, that are monitoring everything he's doing and programming the screen time, the content, and trying to make it more addictive for him.
00:29:58.000There's some statistics that were shared by Jonathan Height from the Heterodox Academy that said since mobile social media use began in 2010, we've seen 189% increase in hospitalizations with pre-teen women in self-harm, 62% increase in hospitalizations for self-harm with late teenagers.
00:30:19.000Driver's licenses are dropping for 16-year-olds.
00:30:32.000One of the most telling parts of the entire film is when they had a engineer say that since 1960, planes go basically the same speed, cars might go twice as fast.
00:30:45.000However, the processing power for a computer is up one trillion percent.
00:30:54.000Another woman engineer argued that algorithms are not agnostic.
00:30:58.000She called them opinions that are written in code.
00:31:03.000So the thesis of the movie changed about 80% of the way through.
00:31:07.000It started as a very well-documented, thoughtful, empirically backed indictment of the social media tech companies of how they are chemically addictive, how they are selling our children, how they are pushing forth content that does not make us wiser, smarter, or more likely to pursue truth.
00:31:37.000Not 80% of the way of the film, though, they started into an extended dramatization of this young man, I think his name was Ben, where he was spending too much time on YouTube.
00:31:48.000And all of a sudden, they made this entire argument.
00:31:50.000It was so obvious that if these young men, white men, spend too much time on YouTube, they're going to get radicalized down the rabbit hole.
00:31:57.000Then he gets involved in protesting and social isolation and bad political movements.
00:32:02.000It was very obvious all of a sudden where this film was going, that somehow YouTube and the content that's being put out there is sowing the seeds of political division.
00:32:11.000Now, I have to give the social dilemma credit.
00:32:39.000There is nothing in the film about how opposing ideas from mainstream doctrine were being stunted, were being suppressed, were being demonetized.
00:32:50.000We have been through that at length with the terrific work from Alam Bakari from Breitbart.com.
00:32:55.000We've had him on our podcast here before, and we're going to have him on again.
00:33:02.000Instead, Social Dilemma should have been a longer film with more concrete criticisms from every perspective.
00:33:11.000The film also did not talk about the massive amount of economic monopolization that these companies control.
00:33:19.000Instead, it took a different approach towards the end.
00:33:23.000Instead, Tristan Harris was saying, I actually don't mind these companies.
00:33:26.000I just want them to work for the benefit of humanity.
00:33:29.000And this really kind of fun guy who I enjoyed throughout the film, don't remember his name, long braided hair, he totally lost me towards the end.
00:33:38.000Towards the end of the film, he's talking about all these things I completely agree with about how these apps are destroying humanity, how they're making young people less likely to mature, less likely to interact with other human beings.
00:33:49.000And then he says, and because of all this, we're never going to be able to fight climate change.
00:33:55.000All of a sudden, he hit the whole kind of crescendo of the film was, we can't make America in our socialist image because of these tech companies.
00:34:06.000Maybe I don't hate these companies as much as I thought they do.
00:34:09.000And it was at this moment I thought, we got to be really careful how we approach this tech issue.
00:34:16.000Because if you give this regulatory power to some of these people, they're going to shut us all up.
00:34:22.000And so while I agree with the criticism, and I think it's completely correct, that these tech companies are actually making us less likely to engage in meaningful dialogue, more likely to be outraged, more tribal, I think it is a timeout and it's a non-starter if all of a sudden you make the argument that we must now shut down the tech companies so we can now have Medicare for all.
00:34:49.000We take the guns away, shut down the churches, and put forth some sort of radical environmentalist agenda.
00:34:56.000So I actually really enjoyed the film.
00:34:58.000I just think that there was definitely a slippage towards the end.
00:35:02.000But if I were to say, if I were to give a piece of feedback to the social dilemma people, I would say they should cut off the last part of the film.
00:35:09.000They should condense it down to 40 minutes, either make it longer and make the criticism more broad and more fair, because they did not talk at all about the censorship or the monopolization issue.
00:35:18.000They talked a little bit about how wealthy these companies are, but they really didn't get into it enough.
00:35:22.000But the part that is so powerful and the reason why this film has been viewed so many times, for good reason, by the way, they did a great job here, was when they deliberately walked through how that smartphone that your 12-year-old has or your 14-year-old has is no different than giving them cocaine.
00:35:42.000That they will become addicted and they will become a worse person because of it.
00:35:47.000And I thought there was actually a really good part at the end where they said, delete these apps, turn off notifications.
00:36:31.000It's completely, it's actually my day is exactly the same when I wasn't trending on Twitter.
00:36:36.000I'm not connected to some sort of cyborg external matrix.
00:36:39.000It's actually really freeing to know I think the same things I thought whether I knew I was trending on Twitter or I wasn't trending on Twitter.
00:36:47.000It's actually one of the most liberating feelings ever.
00:36:49.000And I think that so many people are no different than Neo or Morpheus in the Matrix.
00:36:57.000Once you disconnect from that, and all I care about is what I push out into Twitter, not what I get in from Twitter, I have thought more clearly.
00:37:48.000If you are not willing to give your child a firearm, do not give them a smartphone.
00:37:56.000I equate the potential damage that a young person can do with a firearm, the same that they could do with a smartphone.
00:38:03.000I do believe in firearm ownership once someone is mature enough to understand what it can do, how it can be used, and how dangerous it is, and why you must always treat a firearm in a certain way.
00:40:36.000So look, I don't try to talk about the polls too often.
00:40:39.000I think that polling can be very misleading.
00:40:41.000I think the horse race is something that we should kind of stray away from.
00:40:45.000I think that it is generally kind of a distraction issue.
00:40:49.000But look, let me go through some of the recent polls that I find to be very promising.
00:40:52.000An ABC News poll has President Trump up four points in Florida, also one point up in Arizona.
00:41:01.000These are very positive trends done by two polling agencies, ABC News, Washington Post, that would not be talking about positive trends for the president unless it was true.
00:41:10.000Some of the most important Senate races, Susan Collins in Maine, Corey Gardner in Colorado, Tom Tillis in North Carolina, Martha McSally in Arizona, amongst many others.
00:41:20.000With the new announcement of Amy Coney Barrett, I'm literally wearing an ACB shirt right now, and you guys can check out that shirt at tpusa.com.
00:41:29.000If you go to tpusa.com and you want an ACB shirt, you guys can go to tpusa.com, tpusa.com.
00:41:35.000I believe that the Amy Coney Barrett nomination and appointment by President Trump and hopefully confirmation by the Senate will help Martha McSally in Arizona, will help Tom Tillis in North Carolina.
00:41:47.000I think it will hurt Corey Gardner in Colorado, amongst other people at risk.
00:41:51.000I think it will help Steve Daines in Montana as well.
00:41:54.000And so while I don't want to get too much into the polls, I think that it doesn't factor in enthusiasm, doesn't factor in turnout, I will say this.
00:42:01.000I am hearing from a lot of people on the ground that Democrats are growing increasingly nervous and uneasy that they are not having the absentee ballot requests, the early voting turnout, or the enthusiasm that they would have thought.
00:42:15.000Now, the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett could change all of that, and we should be ready for that fight.
00:42:23.000But I actually think that it will disperse and win out a lot of the forces.
00:42:27.000And Amy Coney Barrett will be a phenomenal replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
00:42:33.000If you care about freedom of speech, if you care about the lives of the unborn, if you care about the lives of the pre-born, if you care about the sanctity of those that cannot protect themselves, if you care about the Constitution and our country, get involved in the confirmation fight for Amy Coney Barrett.
00:43:28.000Hi, my name is Grace, and I really love studying history, especially the 20th century.
00:43:32.000As I've been watching the recent events in Belarus unfold, riots against a fake election, Russia on one side of the EU and the United States on the other hand.
00:43:39.000And now Russian troops have actually moved into Belarus.
00:43:41.000This seems eerily similar to the events that started around World War I. Do you think there's much of a chance for war to break out in Europe?
00:45:52.000Thank you guys so much for listening today.
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