Ask Charlie Anything 38: Nancy Pelosi and the 25th Amendment, Where to Go for Real News? Stimulus Spending and Trump, When Churches Open but Mandate Masks and MORE
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00:03:40.000Michelle, your concern is rooted correctly.
00:03:43.000So I'm not going to get into the efficacy of masks here.
00:03:46.000Instead, I just encourage you to do your own research.
00:03:48.000And I encourage you to read Heather McDonald's article that we have here on CharlieKirk.com.
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00:03:56.000We have spent a good amount of time and energy and resources revamping CharlieKirk.com, where Heather McDonald made the point that there is zero correlation between countries that have worn masks and not worn masks and hospitalization rates, ICU rates, or death rates.
00:04:12.000Michelle, my piece of opinion to you, and congratulations, you win a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine, is to privately ask the pastors, are you doing the masks for health reasons or to try to not be attacked and condemned and repudiated?
00:04:33.000Because if it's around health reasons and they say you have to wear a mask during singing, but not singing, I mean, this is horsepucky.
00:04:42.000This is complete and total unscientific nonsense.
00:04:47.000And the left always likes to say, well, we trust the science.
00:04:49.000No, they trust the scientists that they like.
00:04:53.000They listen to the scientists that confirm their deeply held political opinions.
00:04:59.000So, Michelle, my piece of advice to you would be don't make a scene publicly and just tell the pastors, religious expression, the gathering of believers shall not be forsaken.
00:06:57.000Have you been in a restaurant recently?
00:07:00.000Probably no, if you live in California, it's a bad thing to say.
00:07:03.000Do you remember when you used to be in a restaurant?
00:07:07.000And do you remember when you used to be in a restaurant and they used to have salt shakers?
00:07:11.000I want you to remember these times in Chili's or Applebee's.
00:07:16.000When was the last time you said thank you or that you had appreciation that you had salt that probably never really even passed on your radar screen?
00:07:29.000You probably said salt, I mean, why would I be thankful for salt?
00:07:34.000Interestingly enough, salt many thousands of years ago was used as currency, incorporated into religious ceremonies, and the cause of political unrest and wars.
00:07:48.000That Little vessel, that little vial of eight ounces of little rocks that you put on your french fries used to shape trade and the formation of cities in unexpected ways.
00:08:07.000Such has been the influence of the edible rock we call salt.
00:08:12.000This book at thinker.org/slash Charlie, salt, is one of the most interesting quick reads that you can consume, and thinker.org allows you to consume it.
00:08:21.000Here's some of the key insights from salt.
00:08:23.000For most of our history, there were few compounds as precious as salt.
00:08:28.000You want to see how human beings have progressed?
00:08:31.000I would say that 99.9% of all human beings don't say, wow, I'm really glad we have a lot of salt around.
00:09:14.000Gandhi's salt march was one of the most successful protests because India's rich and poor alike were dependent on salt.
00:09:24.000I love this book because it uses something we all know, we all use, we all consume, and it paints a very interesting historical picture in a way that you might not expect.
00:09:36.000It's Mark Kulansky's book, Salt, a World History, at thinker.org/slash Charlie.
00:09:42.000I encourage all of you to go to thinker.org/slash Charlie, but you have to spell thinker correctly.
00:10:38.000But I'm just going to give a quick refresher course on the 25th Amendment.
00:10:41.000The 25th Amendment has only been used a couple times in American history.
00:10:46.000In fact, it was first used to replace the vice president.
00:10:50.000The 25th Amendment is divided into four sections.
00:10:52.000Number one, Section 1, the vice president becomes president after the removal, resignation, or death of a president.
00:10:57.000Section 2: If the vice president's office is vacant, the president nominates a successor.
00:11:02.000Both chambers of Congress must establish a majority vote to confirm the nomination.
00:11:06.000Section 3: establishes protocol if the president is too ill or disabled to serve, but only needs a temporary replacement.
00:11:13.000In this situation, the president gives a written declaration to Congress.
00:11:17.000The vice president becomes acting president and remains so until the president writes another declaration to resume office.
00:11:23.000Section 4 further explains what happens if the president is unable to give temporary power to the vice president.
00:11:30.000That and more are detailed in the 25th Amendment.
00:11:34.000And the 25th Amendment was first used in 1973 when President Richard Nixon nominated Gerald Ford as vice president after the resignation of Spiro Agnew.
00:11:43.000A few months later, it was used again when Nixon resigned and Ford became president.
00:11:48.000And then Ford then nominated Nelson Rockefeller as his vice president, but he actually remained without a vice president for a couple months.
00:11:55.000And so the 25th Amendment is being threatened to be used by Nancy Pelosi for a couple reasons, but I'm only going to tempt you a little bit, so you got to go back to the episode on Friday, check it out, and download it yourself.
00:12:05.000Congratulations, you win a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine because you emailed us your question, freedomatcharlykirk.com.
00:12:14.000What people does the swing voter group consist of?
00:12:18.000What group does the Trump campaign need to be giving special attention to?
00:12:22.000Swing voters are typically college-educated suburban voters.
00:12:26.000They are the most elastic of all voting groups.
00:12:29.000They are the least inelastic, meaning they're the least likely to be one party.
00:12:35.000They go from moderate Democrat to moderate Republican.
00:12:38.000They care about kitchen table issues, health care, security, foreign policy, and sometimes size and scope of government.
00:12:45.000Almost every mass change of power of the House of Representatives and the presidency is determined based on suburban voters, people that have a mortgage, earn about $90,000 to $130,000 a year per household, take a couple weeks off a year for a vacation, and they are invested in the American way of life.
00:13:05.000This is who President Trump must win over.
00:13:07.000This is a core group that must get behind the president's reelection campaign.
00:13:13.000Natalie from Queens, terrific question.
00:13:16.000Gardner from Oklahoma, what do you have to say about Camela saying that she has faith yet supports abortion or her saying Joe Biden is a practicing Catholic?
00:13:24.000Is this just another ploy to get votes?
00:13:27.000I got an email recently from someone, and whoever this email is, thank you for emailing it saying that Joe Biden is the Christian candidate.
00:13:45.000But if you vote for someone that supports abortion, I do not understand how you can justify the belief in protecting the innocent, someone that believes that cannabis dispensaries is more critical and more essential than the assembly of believers.
00:14:00.000Gorsuch Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court in direct contrast, Sotomoyor, Kagan, and Breyer.
00:14:06.000The question remains: who exactly is going to be defending people of faith?
00:14:49.000Because you cannot give an answer to that, we, as Christians, doubt that you are actually contesting for the defense of those that cannot defend themselves.
00:15:02.000Jonathan Weatherby from Billings, Montana says, Charlie, where can I find unbiased news that's not influenced by the left's agenda?
00:15:11.000Thank you for standing up for truth, Billings, Montana.
00:15:14.000Two websites that I enjoy, RealClearPolitics.com.
00:15:18.000We are going to try to have Tom Bevin on an upcoming episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:15:22.000I keep saying this, but he's actually a really, really good guy.
00:16:07.000Well, just so you know, if you read this bill that Nancy Pelosi is trying to pass in the stimulus, which is bailouts for cities and local governments and major states, you would agree with President Trump.
00:16:19.000I was not a fan of the first stimulus at all whatsoever.
00:16:22.000I am not a fan of continually pouring on more deficit spending onto the economy.
00:16:28.000I was very outspoken against the first stimulus.
00:16:31.000I'm still a constitutional small government guy that does not like to see our freedoms and liberties infringed upon by the debts and deficits of today or inflation and quite honestly, serfdom and restricted liberty tomorrow.
00:18:10.000I just don't support another act of Congress to put my generation further into debt so we can spend stuff on silly state bailouts so Nancy Pelosi can keep Gavin Newsome and Governor Cuomo in power.
00:18:22.000Instead, the stimulus that I support is doing what South Dakota did: open up your economy.
00:18:30.000Empower entrepreneurs to come up with solutions.
00:18:33.000If people don't feel safe at a certain place to go shop there, then they won't go there.
00:18:37.000If people don't feel safe to go to a certain restaurant, they won't eat there.
00:18:41.000These one-size-fits-all draconian lockdowns where we stuffed people that were already infected into nursing homes and shut down the schools will go down as one of the worst mistakes in American history.
00:18:51.000And the solution is not going to continue to spend money we don't have on things that don't matter to try to accomplish things that will never happen.
00:19:02.000Stimulus spending has never worked in our country's history.
00:19:32.000He believed in a heavy-handed role of government.
00:19:35.000He also believed in the broken window fallacy that if a thug walks the streets and throws a brick through the window, that's a good thing because then all of a sudden the window repairman gets a job the next day.
00:19:49.000So under the Krugman, Paul Krugman, Keynesian economic model, when Minnesota and Kenosha were burning, that should have been a stimulus.
00:20:01.000Look, people are starting to drive again.
00:20:03.000That's the beauty of reopening the economy and getting rid of these lockdowns.
00:20:06.000With it, I'm sure a lot of your cars are acting in very strange ways, and you probably need some parts for your car.
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00:21:30.000Paul Krugman, who writes for the New York Times, never has been called out for being economically wrong about every single piece of prediction he has ever written, despite winning a Nobel Prize.
00:21:42.000And he, by the way, Paul Krugman writes a lot of the textbooks for children across our country.
00:21:46.000I was in an economics class at Wheeling High School in the suburbs of Chicago learning Krugman economics for the AP.
00:21:55.000And in it, it said that the Reagan tax cuts did not accelerate economic growth.
00:21:59.000Categorically untrue and easily disproven.
00:22:10.000Liberal bias starts in high school economics textbooks.
00:22:14.000I wrote my first piece for Breitbart.com.
00:22:17.000Quote, all across the country, students are studying for advanced placement exams coming in the middle of May.
00:22:23.000Students in AP economics are taught with Krugman's Economics for the AP by Margaret Ray and David A. Anderson, adapted by Paul Krugman.
00:22:33.000Our public education system is supposedly one without bias, a place where any student can come and learn without any form of partisanship.
00:22:40.000Instead, our classrooms are slowly becoming political lecture halls with teachers being pawns to further the doctrine of liberalism and equality.
00:22:47.000Throughout the entire textbook, there are historical, factual, and statistical distortions.
00:22:51.000For example, chapter 36, the modern macroeconomic consensus, contains 16 sweeping generalizations, such as nearly all macroeconomists now agree.
00:23:05.000None of these assertions are backed up with even a single citation.
00:23:08.000If a student were to submit an essay with such a disregard for basic evidence, it would ensure a failing grade.
00:23:13.000I continued by writing, I find it troubling that Krugman's economics for the AP concludes that Reagan's supply-side economics is generally dismissed by economic researchers.
00:23:22.000The main reason for this dismissal is lack of evidence.
00:23:24.000Referring to economic growth and output, our textbook goes on to state that there was, quote, no sign of an acceleration in growth after the Reagan tax cuts.
00:23:34.000Unfortunately, most of my classmates accept what's in our textbooks as the truth and are unaware of other points of view, such as the conclusion: quote, by the end of the Reagan years, the American economy is almost one-third larger than it was when it began.
00:23:50.000I finished by saying the continuation of this propaganda will create a youth so misinformed and clueless that they'll have no choice but to turn to the government.
00:23:59.000And that is exactly what liberals want.
00:24:03.000That was written eight and a half years ago when I was a senior in high school.
00:24:07.000And I'm afraid that Paul Krugman teaching bad economics is one of the main reasons why we're seeing the radicalism of our country happen in almost a slow-motion car crash.
00:24:19.000So, no, I don't support more deficit spending.
00:24:44.000Dennis Prager famously said the left destroys everything it touches.
00:24:48.000This is absolutely true when it comes to the Boy Scouts of America.
00:24:53.000The Boy Scouts of America used to be a wonderful organization where only boys were part of the Boy Scouts of America.
00:24:59.000Now, girls are part of the Boy Scouts of America, despite their being the Girl Scouts of America.
00:25:03.000Some of my greatest experiences growing up were going to Boy Scout camp, getting my Eagle Scout merit badges.
00:25:11.000It was very influential in character development, in building strong people.
00:25:18.000Now, the Boy Scouts of America is a completely and totally destroyed organization that I am ashamed to say that I was ever part of.
00:25:26.000It wasn't that way when I was growing up, but now letting girls into the Boy Scouts, deteriorating and destroying the backbone of what was once a very functioning and flourishing organization.
00:25:40.000Girls should not be in the Boy Scouts.
00:25:42.000When boys are around girls, they're less likely to take risks and they're less likely to build relationships with other boys.
00:25:50.000They act differently when one singular female gets entered into the equation.
00:25:56.000The Boy Scouts are under financial pressure.
00:26:00.000And I hope no one helps bail them out.
00:26:02.000The Boy Scouts of America has unfortunately slipped into one of the most disappointing deviations of an organization.
00:26:11.000I'm sure there's some good troops out there that are still doing a good job.
00:26:15.000Boy Scouts have produced presidents, military generals, astronauts, CEOs, and more.
00:26:21.000The Boy Scouts of America now has fallen far from its commitment to, as a scout would say, be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
00:26:37.000There are some things you never forget.