The Charlie Kirk Show - October 12, 2020


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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Charlie Kirk is the President of Turning Point USA, one of the most powerful youth organizations in the country. He is also the founder of The New York Times bestselling book, "The MAGA Doctrine" and has been named one of Time Magazine s 30 Most Influential People in American History.

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00:00:51.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:01:02.000 I want to thank Charlie.
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00:02:37.000 Hey, everybody, happy Monday.
00:02:38.000 I'm taking your questions that you emailed us, freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:02:42.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:02:44.000 Since it's Monday and I select your question, if you are selected, you win a signed copy of the New York Times bestseller, The MAGA Doctrine.
00:02:54.000 So let's get into a question right here.
00:02:56.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:02:57.000 I'd love to hear your thoughts.
00:02:59.000 I'm struggling with an issue concerning my church.
00:03:01.000 They have finally reopened, but have done so with the following instructions.
00:03:05.000 5 p.m. service, masks required.
00:03:07.000 9 p.m. and 11 a.m. service, masks required.
00:03:10.000 I'm sorry, 9 a.m., 9 a.m., and 11 a.m. services, masks expected.
00:03:15.000 Those are their exact words, required and expected.
00:03:17.000 I don't believe those words were just thrown out.
00:03:19.000 I believe they were carefully chosen.
00:03:21.000 To me, they seem to mandate masks.
00:03:23.000 I've not attended in person since they released these instructions.
00:03:26.000 My question is, how can I take a stand in a Christ-honoring way? 0.99
00:03:30.000 Viet Mail My Concerns. 1.00
00:03:31.000 I was told I could come without a mask, but not during singing. 0.73
00:03:34.000 Geez.
00:03:34.000 I feel like they are handing our religious liberties over.
00:03:37.000 Please help me know how to stand against this.
00:03:39.000 Thank you, Michelle.
00:03:40.000 Michelle, your concern is rooted correctly.
00:03:43.000 So I'm not going to get into the efficacy of masks here.
00:03:46.000 Instead, I just encourage you to do your own research.
00:03:48.000 And I encourage you to read Heather McDonald's article that we have here on CharlieKirk.com.
00:03:53.000 By the way, everyone, check out the new and improved CharlieKirk.com.
00:03:56.000 We 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.
00:04:12.000 Michelle, 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?
00:04:31.000 Just ask what their intentions are.
00:04:33.000 Because 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.
00:04:42.000 This is complete and total unscientific nonsense.
00:04:47.000 And the left always likes to say, well, we trust the science.
00:04:49.000 No, they trust the scientists that they like.
00:04:53.000 They listen to the scientists that confirm their deeply held political opinions.
00:04:59.000 So, 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.
00:05:13.000 The Bible tells us this.
00:05:15.000 And lean in on this and say, liberty requires trust.
00:05:20.000 And when you trust a citizenry, you protect their liberty.
00:05:26.000 When you don't trust a citizenry, you take away their liberty.
00:05:30.000 That's why we take liberty away from prisoners.
00:05:32.000 That's why we do not allow eight-year-olds to have a firearm or 10-year-olds to drive.
00:05:39.000 Liberty requires trust.
00:05:42.000 When you don't trust a population, you take away their liberty.
00:05:46.000 A simple question to ask your pastors is: do you trust us to make good choices?
00:05:51.000 Do you trust people that might be afraid of getting the virus and they believe that masks work to wear a mask?
00:05:58.000 Do you trust people to make informed decisions?
00:06:01.000 And if the answer is no, then why?
00:06:05.000 And do you think you can micromanage us and control us?
00:06:09.000 Great question, Michelle.
00:06:10.000 Hey, Charlie, I've been looking for a good book to describe modern history and how we got here.
00:06:10.000 Thank you.
00:06:16.000 What would you recommend?
00:06:17.000 Thanks so much, Carl from Cincinnati.
00:06:19.000 Well, congratulations, Carl from Cincinnati.
00:06:21.000 You win a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.
00:06:23.000 I did actually select this question for a reason because it segues nicely to our sponsor that all of you know about.
00:06:30.000 That I have, by the way, we say no to a lot of sponsors here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:06:34.000 We're very careful who we partner with.
00:06:36.000 But thinker.org is an amazing site where you consume great ideas quickly and thinker.org/slash Charlie.
00:06:44.000 So I'm picking a book that's very interesting for this week, the book of the week, at thinker.org/slash Charlie.
00:06:52.000 It's called Salt.
00:06:54.000 Salt by Mark Kurlansky.
00:06:57.000 Have you been in a restaurant recently?
00:07:00.000 Probably no, if you live in California, it's a bad thing to say.
00:07:03.000 Do you remember when you used to be in a restaurant?
00:07:07.000 And do you remember when you used to be in a restaurant and they used to have salt shakers?
00:07:11.000 I want you to remember these times in Chili's or Applebee's.
00:07:16.000 When 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?
00:07:29.000 You probably said salt, I mean, why would I be thankful for salt?
00:07:34.000 Interestingly enough, salt many thousands of years ago was used as currency, incorporated into religious ceremonies, and the cause of political unrest and wars.
00:07:46.000 That's right.
00:07:48.000 That 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.
00:08:07.000 Such has been the influence of the edible rock we call salt.
00:08:12.000 This 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.
00:08:21.000 Here's some of the key insights from salt.
00:08:23.000 For most of our history, there were few compounds as precious as salt.
00:08:28.000 You want to see how human beings have progressed?
00:08:31.000 I would say that 99.9% of all human beings don't say, wow, I'm really glad we have a lot of salt around.
00:08:37.000 But why did salt matter?
00:08:39.000 Well, for millennia, people of disparate cultures have assigned remarkably similar religious and sexual significance to salt.
00:08:48.000 So central was salt to ancient Chinese politics that the character for salt contains the symbols for brine and government officials.
00:08:58.000 During the Middle Ages, innovations in salt production saved parts of Europe from starvation.
00:09:04.000 Salt was used to store food.
00:09:06.000 It was used to be able to keep things to be non-perishable for a longer period of time because it dehydrated food.
00:09:12.000 That's what salt does.
00:09:14.000 Gandhi's salt march was one of the most successful protests because India's rich and poor alike were dependent on salt.
00:09:24.000 I 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.
00:09:36.000 It's Mark Kulansky's book, Salt, a World History, at thinker.org/slash Charlie.
00:09:42.000 I encourage all of you to go to thinker.org/slash Charlie, but you have to spell thinker correctly.
00:09:47.000 It's T-H-I-N-K-R.org/slash Charlie.
00:09:51.000 And I like this book for one other final reason.
00:09:55.000 You actually should be thankful after you read this book.
00:09:59.000 We argue about a lot in our country.
00:10:01.000 We have lots of squabbles.
00:10:03.000 None of them were about those little rocks that you have on a table in chilies or Applebee's.
00:10:11.000 Instead, our squabbles are about ideas and about how to govern.
00:10:16.000 But for a lot of human history, almost all rebellions and wars and conflicts were over salt.
00:10:24.000 Check it out: thinker.org/slash Charlie.
00:10:26.000 Hey, Charlie, can you explain the 25th Amendment? 0.72
00:10:29.000 What does Nancy Pelosi mean when she says she's looking into it? 0.98
00:10:32.000 Can she even do that?
00:10:32.000 Nielsen from Anchorage Love Your Show.
00:10:34.000 Check out our episode on Friday that aired.
00:10:37.000 I encourage you to download it.
00:10:38.000 But I'm just going to give a quick refresher course on the 25th Amendment.
00:10:41.000 The 25th Amendment has only been used a couple times in American history.
00:10:46.000 In fact, it was first used to replace the vice president.
00:10:50.000 The 25th Amendment is divided into four sections.
00:10:52.000 Number one, Section 1, the vice president becomes president after the removal, resignation, or death of a president.
00:10:57.000 Section 2: If the vice president's office is vacant, the president nominates a successor.
00:11:02.000 Both chambers of Congress must establish a majority vote to confirm the nomination.
00:11:06.000 Section 3: establishes protocol if the president is too ill or disabled to serve, but only needs a temporary replacement.
00:11:13.000 In this situation, the president gives a written declaration to Congress.
00:11:17.000 The vice president becomes acting president and remains so until the president writes another declaration to resume office.
00:11:23.000 Section 4 further explains what happens if the president is unable to give temporary power to the vice president.
00:11:30.000 That and more are detailed in the 25th Amendment.
00:11:34.000 And the 25th Amendment was first used in 1973 when President Richard Nixon nominated Gerald Ford as vice president after the resignation of Spiro Agnew.
00:11:43.000 A few months later, it was used again when Nixon resigned and Ford became president.
00:11:48.000 And then Ford then nominated Nelson Rockefeller as his vice president, but he actually remained without a vice president for a couple months.
00:11:55.000 And 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.
00:12:05.000 Congratulations, you win a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine because you emailed us your question, freedomatcharlykirk.com.
00:12:12.000 Natalie from Queens, congratulations.
00:12:14.000 What people does the swing voter group consist of?
00:12:18.000 What group does the Trump campaign need to be giving special attention to?
00:12:22.000 Swing voters are typically college-educated suburban voters.
00:12:26.000 They are the most elastic of all voting groups.
00:12:29.000 They are the least inelastic, meaning they're the least likely to be one party.
00:12:35.000 They go from moderate Democrat to moderate Republican.
00:12:38.000 They care about kitchen table issues, health care, security, foreign policy, and sometimes size and scope of government.
00:12:45.000 Almost 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.
00:13:05.000 This is who President Trump must win over.
00:13:07.000 This is a core group that must get behind the president's reelection campaign.
00:13:13.000 Natalie from Queens, terrific question.
00:13:16.000 Gardner 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?
00:13:24.000 Is this just another ploy to get votes?
00:13:25.000 Gardner from Oklahoma.
00:13:27.000 I got an email recently from someone, and whoever this email is, thank you for emailing it saying that Joe Biden is the Christian candidate.
00:13:34.000 Let me be very clear. 0.63
00:13:35.000 If you're a Christian that votes for Joe Biden, I question your Christianity.
00:13:38.000 It's that simple.
00:13:40.000 I'm not saying that if you don't vote for Trump, I question your Christianity.
00:13:44.000 Some people would say that.
00:13:45.000 But 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.
00:14:00.000 Gorsuch Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court in direct contrast, Sotomoyor, Kagan, and Breyer.
00:14:06.000 The question remains: who exactly is going to be defending people of faith?
00:14:11.000 It's not going to be Joe Biden.
00:14:13.000 And I'm not going to comment on Catholicism.
00:14:16.000 I am not a Catholic.
00:14:17.000 Some of my best friends in the world are Catholic, and I have a lot of appreciation and respect for Catholics and the Catholic tradition.
00:14:24.000 However, I do not understand how Joe Biden can say he is a practicing Catholic and also believe in the ruling of Roe versus Wade. 0.58
00:14:33.000 It says very clearly in the scriptures that we must protect those that cannot protect themselves.
00:14:39.000 When does life begin, Joe Biden?
00:14:42.000 When does life begin?
00:14:44.000 Does life begin in the womb?
00:14:46.000 Does life begin at birth?
00:14:49.000 Because 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.
00:15:02.000 Jonathan Weatherby from Billings, Montana says, Charlie, where can I find unbiased news that's not influenced by the left's agenda?
00:15:11.000 Thank you for standing up for truth, Billings, Montana.
00:15:14.000 Two websites that I enjoy, RealClearPolitics.com.
00:15:18.000 We are going to try to have Tom Bevin on an upcoming episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:15:22.000 I keep saying this, but he's actually a really, really good guy.
00:15:24.000 I love Tom.
00:15:25.000 He's really awesome.
00:15:26.000 And RealClearPolitics.com is great because they actually don't report the news.
00:15:29.000 They kind of disaggregate the best and most trending opinion pieces from the right and the left, and they have all the latest polling.
00:15:36.000 They're just kind of a splash page.
00:15:38.000 Think of it as what Drudge Report used to be.
00:15:41.000 Also, I like justthenews.com.
00:15:43.000 Justthennews.com is a terrific website run by John Solomon, where they do real journalism that is, quite honestly, just the news.
00:15:51.000 Martha from Newport Beach, what is your opinion of Trump stopping stimulus negotiations?
00:15:56.000 I'm no fan of the stimulus spending necessarily, but is this the right political move?
00:16:00.000 Is it the populist thing to do, or do you think the GOP establishment is misleading the president?
00:16:05.000 Martha from Newport Beach.
00:16:07.000 Well, 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.
00:16:19.000 I was not a fan of the first stimulus at all whatsoever.
00:16:22.000 I am not a fan of continually pouring on more deficit spending onto the economy.
00:16:28.000 I was very outspoken against the first stimulus.
00:16:31.000 I'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.
00:16:45.000 I don't like it.
00:16:46.000 People do need help.
00:16:48.000 The question is, how do we help them?
00:16:50.000 I have the greatest stimulus idea out there.
00:16:54.000 I will put my stimulus idea up against Nancy Pelosi, up against Mitch McConnell, up against House Republicans.
00:17:00.000 My stimulus idea is so incredibly blunt.
00:17:04.000 And guess what?
00:17:05.000 It requires zero new spending from Washington, D.C. Open the country up completely, fully, right now.
00:17:15.000 That's it.
00:17:17.000 You want to stimulate the American economy?
00:17:19.000 Open the country up.
00:17:20.000 You want to stimulate the American economy?
00:17:22.000 Open up New York.
00:17:23.000 You want to stimulate the American economy?
00:17:26.000 Open up Los Angeles.
00:17:28.000 Deficit spending on unemployment assurance and free checks to people.
00:17:35.000 All of that is just central planning politics that is actually not going to help people.
00:17:39.000 You want to help people?
00:17:40.000 Go back to what we had in January.
00:17:42.000 What did we have in January?
00:17:43.000 A robust economy with the lowest ever.
00:17:45.000 Black, Latino, Asian American unemployment, wages going up. 1.00
00:17:48.000 We were finally energy independent.
00:17:50.000 A DAO that was scratching the surface to 30,000.
00:17:54.000 Trillions of dollars of wealth coming home.
00:17:56.000 Manufacturing jobs being created.
00:17:58.000 And the highest income earners were people on the bottom 30% of the income distribution ladder.
00:18:04.000 5 million people that were taken off of food stamps.
00:18:06.000 People say, Charlie, why don't you support a stimulus?
00:18:09.000 I say, I do.
00:18:10.000 I 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.
00:18:22.000 Instead, the stimulus that I support is doing what South Dakota did: open up your economy.
00:18:28.000 Trust people to make good decisions.
00:18:30.000 Empower entrepreneurs to come up with solutions.
00:18:33.000 If people don't feel safe at a certain place to go shop there, then they won't go there.
00:18:37.000 If people don't feel safe to go to a certain restaurant, they won't eat there.
00:18:41.000 These 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.
00:18:51.000 And 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.
00:19:02.000 Stimulus spending has never worked in our country's history.
00:19:05.000 I oppose it under President Trump.
00:19:07.000 I understand why he had to do it politically.
00:19:09.000 And I opposed it under Barack Obama.
00:19:12.000 Deficit stimulus spending is Keynesian economics gone wrong.
00:19:17.000 John Maynard Keynes, who is the author of obviously Keynesian economics is his name, but he believed in deficit spending.
00:19:24.000 His quote was that, quote, we are all dead in the long run.
00:19:27.000 He did not believe that deficits mattered.
00:19:29.000 He does not at all.
00:19:30.000 He did not believe that debt matters.
00:19:32.000 He believed in a heavy-handed role of government.
00:19:35.000 He 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.
00:19:49.000 So under the Krugman, Paul Krugman, Keynesian economic model, when Minnesota and Kenosha were burning, that should have been a stimulus.
00:20:01.000 Look, people are starting to drive again.
00:20:03.000 That's the beauty of reopening the economy and getting rid of these lockdowns.
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00:21:30.000 Paul 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.
00:21:42.000 And he, by the way, Paul Krugman writes a lot of the textbooks for children across our country.
00:21:46.000 I was in an economics class at Wheeling High School in the suburbs of Chicago learning Krugman economics for the AP.
00:21:55.000 And in it, it said that the Reagan tax cuts did not accelerate economic growth.
00:21:59.000 Categorically untrue and easily disproven.
00:22:02.000 In fact, a little bit of a flashback.
00:22:06.000 Charlie, how did you get your start in politics?
00:22:08.000 April 27th, 2012.
00:22:10.000 Liberal bias starts in high school economics textbooks.
00:22:14.000 I wrote my first piece for Breitbart.com.
00:22:17.000 Quote, all across the country, students are studying for advanced placement exams coming in the middle of May.
00:22:23.000 Students in AP economics are taught with Krugman's Economics for the AP by Margaret Ray and David A. Anderson, adapted by Paul Krugman.
00:22:33.000 Our public education system is supposedly one without bias, a place where any student can come and learn without any form of partisanship.
00:22:40.000 Instead, our classrooms are slowly becoming political lecture halls with teachers being pawns to further the doctrine of liberalism and equality.
00:22:47.000 Throughout the entire textbook, there are historical, factual, and statistical distortions.
00:22:51.000 For example, chapter 36, the modern macroeconomic consensus, contains 16 sweeping generalizations, such as nearly all macroeconomists now agree.
00:22:59.000 There is now broad consensus.
00:23:01.000 Today, most macroeconomists believe.
00:23:03.000 Almost all macroeconomics now accept.
00:23:05.000 None of these assertions are backed up with even a single citation.
00:23:08.000 If a student were to submit an essay with such a disregard for basic evidence, it would ensure a failing grade.
00:23:13.000 I 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.
00:23:22.000 The main reason for this dismissal is lack of evidence.
00:23:24.000 Referring 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.
00:23:33.000 Here's what I wrote.
00:23:34.000 Unfortunately, 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.
00:23:50.000 I 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.
00:23:59.000 And that is exactly what liberals want.
00:24:03.000 That was written eight and a half years ago when I was a senior in high school.
00:24:07.000 And 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.
00:24:19.000 So, no, I don't support more deficit spending.
00:24:21.000 I don't support Keynesian economics.
00:24:23.000 I don't support spending money we do not have mounting deficits.
00:24:27.000 I support reopening our country and trusting people with the God-granted right of liberty.
00:24:33.000 Hey, Charlie, I know you're an Eagle Scout.
00:24:35.000 Me too.
00:24:35.000 I wanted your take on what happened to the Boy Scouts of America more broadly being an Eagle Scout.
00:24:40.000 What is your take on conservation?
00:24:42.000 Thanks, Brian, from Phoenix.
00:24:44.000 Dennis Prager famously said the left destroys everything it touches. 0.56
00:24:48.000 This is absolutely true when it comes to the Boy Scouts of America.
00:24:53.000 The Boy Scouts of America used to be a wonderful organization where only boys were part of the Boy Scouts of America.
00:24:59.000 Now, girls are part of the Boy Scouts of America, despite their being the Girl Scouts of America.
00:25:03.000 Some of my greatest experiences growing up were going to Boy Scout camp, getting my Eagle Scout merit badges.
00:25:11.000 It was very influential in character development, in building strong people.
00:25:18.000 Now, the Boy Scouts of America is a completely and totally destroyed organization that I am ashamed to say that I was ever part of.
00:25:26.000 It 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. 1.00
00:25:40.000 Girls should not be in the Boy Scouts. 1.00
00:25:42.000 When boys are around girls, they're less likely to take risks and they're less likely to build relationships with other boys. 1.00
00:25:50.000 They act differently when one singular female gets entered into the equation. 0.66
00:25:56.000 The Boy Scouts are under financial pressure.
00:25:58.000 They're in financial ruin.
00:26:00.000 And I hope no one helps bail them out.
00:26:02.000 The Boy Scouts of America has unfortunately slipped into one of the most disappointing deviations of an organization.
00:26:11.000 I'm sure there's some good troops out there that are still doing a good job.
00:26:15.000 Boy Scouts have produced presidents, military generals, astronauts, CEOs, and more.
00:26:21.000 The 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.
00:26:37.000 There are some things you never forget.
00:26:39.000 That would be one of them.
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