00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Ask Me Anything Monday.
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00:03:50.000I want to start with kind of a general question that we have been receiving, not one in particular, which is all around what is happening on January the 6th.
00:04:04.000There's been a lot of questions around that.
00:04:06.000We did some very in-depth podcasts last week on this topic, so I encourage you to check those out.
00:04:13.000But I want to just go through it again for purposes for some people that haven't listened to this podcast.
00:04:19.000You're listening to this one, obviously, right now, if you're hearing what I'm saying.
00:04:22.000And you want to dive into exactly what is the significance of this week.
00:04:26.000So let me just put it as simply and as bluntly, as plainly as possible.
00:04:33.000This week, we will find out whether or not Joe Biden will become the next president of the United States.
00:04:41.000January 6th is the final step before an inauguration is planned and quite honestly implemented.
00:04:52.000January 6th is when the results from the Electoral College physically make their way to the Congress of the people of the United States in big boxes.
00:05:07.000They are delivered physically to Congress.
00:05:11.000They are counted by the President of the Senate, who is the Vice President of the United States.
00:05:17.000That's a fun, trivial question for a lot of you.
00:05:19.000If you're with friends and family in the coming days or weeks, say who's the president of the Senate?
00:05:24.000Some people might say Mitch McConnell.
00:05:26.000Some people might say, hopefully, never Chuck Schumer.
00:05:30.000Hopefully, Georgia goes our way so we never have to say that.
00:05:32.000But it's actually the Vice President of the United States.
00:05:34.000Unitary executive theory teaches us that the Vice President is both the second in command of the executive branch and also the head of the United States Senate.
00:05:49.000They are counted in a manner and fashion that is very specific, but also open for interpretation, where the president of the Senate, the vice president has a significant amount of leeway.
00:06:01.000And then there's an opportunity to hear objections.
00:06:05.000Once this process plays itself out, then a president is selected.
00:06:10.000And if not, then it goes to the House of Representatives.
00:06:15.000And the House of Representatives with each state getting one vote will vote in a manner or a fashion to select the next president of the United States.
00:06:27.000So the Constitution says this very clearly.
00:06:32.000Upon such reading of any such certificate or paper, the President of the Senate shall call for objections.
00:06:41.000If any, every objection shall be made in writing.
00:06:44.000Let me actually correct myself before I continue.
00:06:51.000This is statute, which is interpretation of the Constitution through House and Senate rules.
00:06:58.000And shall state clearly and concisely and without argument the ground thereof and shall be signed by at least one senator and one member of the House of Representatives before the same shall be received.
00:07:11.000When all objections so made to any vote or paper from a state shall have been received and read, the Senate shall thereupon withdraw and such objections shall be submitted to the Senate for its decision.
00:07:23.000And the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, shall in like manner submit any objections to the House for its decision.
00:07:32.000So in essence, there is a protocol for how Vice President Mike Pence has to follow this process.
00:07:44.000The protocol and the process warrants and necessitates the allowance of objections.
00:07:52.000Now, Nancy Pelosi famously objected to the results in 2004, which she specifically objected to the Ohio election results, where George W. Bush won Ohio.
00:08:07.000If Ohio's electors would have been put into John Kerry's category or not awarded to any candidate, it would have went to the House and possibly John Kerry would have become president in 2004.
00:08:21.000That's how narrow the 2004 presidential race was.
00:08:25.000In fact, let's listen to Nancy Pelosi in 2004 objecting to the presidential results.
00:08:34.000People must have confidence that every vote legally cast will be legally counted and accurately counted.
00:08:43.000But constantly shifting vote tallies in Ohio and malfunctioning electronic machines, which may not have paper receipts, have led to additional loss of confidence by the public.
00:08:57.000As elected officials, we have a solemn responsibility to improve our election system and its administration.
00:09:05.000We cannot be here again four years from now discussing the failings of the 2008 election.
00:09:13.000So if a member of the House and a member of the Senate both object in writing to the results, then a debate ensues.
00:09:26.000Now, the breaking news over the weekend, which was quite honestly surprising to a lot of us that thought that Senate Republicans were going to follow the marching orders of Mitch McConnell, was a group of senators followed Josh Hawley's lead, including Senator Ted Cruz, Bill Haggerty of Tennessee, who has just been sworn in as a U.S. Senator, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, who's terrific,
00:09:54.000Roger Marshall of Kansas, new senator, and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.
00:09:59.000I think we have a new fighting crew in the United States Senate.
00:10:03.000Only a further argument as to why we should do everything we can to win Georgia.
00:10:09.000Also included on the list, Marsha Blackburn, Mike Braun, who we have been very critical of on this program when he said good things about the insurrectionist terrorist organization BLM Incorporated, but we will say good for you, Mike Braun, for signing on to this.
00:10:25.000John Kennedy from Louisiana, as well as long-serving senators, Steve Daines, a friend of mine, congratulations, Steve, on getting six more years, and Jim Inhoff in Oklahoma.
00:10:37.000In addition, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and James Lankford of Oklahoma.
00:10:45.000And we do plenty of criticizing here of Republicans on this program when Republicans do not have a backbone or a spine.
00:10:54.000These senators deserve our appreciation and quite honestly deserve credit.
00:11:01.000Cynthia Lummis, Roger Marshall, Bill Haggerty, Tommy Tuberville, Marsha Blackburn, John Kennedy, Steve Daines, James Lankford, Ron Johnson, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley.
00:11:14.000They are simply objecting and saying the claims of voter fraud are so great, the changes in the election law in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan are unconstitutional.
00:11:28.000We will not put our name behind without substantial and significant objection to these results, something that Democrats have done multiple times before.
00:11:40.000Now, 12 senators is a lot more than I thought we would have.
00:12:16.000Matt Gates, Congressman Madison Cawthorne, the youngest person ever to be elected to the House of Representatives, Madison Cawthorne, will all be objecting on January the 6th.
00:12:27.000So this is open to interpretation, but some readings show that per objection, there are two hours of debate that will be granted.
00:12:36.000That debate has this following provision in the provisions of the U.S. Constitution and statutory code.
00:12:46.000When the two houses separate to decide upon an objection that have been made to the counting of any electoral votes or votes from any state or question arising in the matter, each senator and representative may speak to such objection or question five minutes and not more than once.
00:13:03.000But after such debate shall have lasted two hours, it shall be the duty of the presiding officer of each house to put the main question without further debate.
00:13:13.000So there is an expediency that is built in to this process.
00:13:19.000All the real power here is in Mike Pence's hands.
00:13:22.000We are going to be talking about this frequently this week.
00:13:26.000Anyone who tells you, including Mike Pence himself, that he does not have the constitutional authority to count the votes in the manner that he chooses is not looking at legal precedent.
00:13:43.000I don't like the fact that our election has now come to a pseudo-parliamentary process that involves the discretion of the Vice President of the United States while he is conflicted and involved in possibly serving another four years, including the House, including the Senate, when state certifications show a certain result.
00:14:08.000However, this election is not like one we have ever seen with changes in state law, mail-in balloting, fraudulent claims, access to vote counting process, the amount of irregularities, the amount of data and evidence that goes to show this election was unlike anything we've seen before, goes to show that certain measures need to be taken.
00:14:36.00049% of Americans say their top New Year's resolution is to save money in the next year.
00:15:31.000If I could give some very directly worded constructive criticism to the Trump team, on November 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th, when we started to see the vote tally slowly but surely go in Joe Biden's direction in all of those states, the opening argument from President Trump and from his legal team should have been this.
00:15:58.000We are not going to support certification via Mike Pence, who is the president of the Senate on January 6th.
00:16:07.000Joe Biden will not reach that 270 unless the claims of this fraud and these irregularities are answered.
00:16:14.000Boom, that should have been the opening argument.
00:16:16.000Now, chaos and Bedlam would have unsued.
00:16:22.000However, that opening argument would have prevented Joe Biden from ever assuming a mantle of president-elect.
00:16:29.000Anytime anyone in the media would have challenged or pressed President Trump, he'd say, my vice president Mike Pence will do what Richard Nixon did in 1960.
00:16:42.000He will ignore the state certification of Hawaii and either not count the votes or put them in a separate category.
00:16:49.000Our vice president, Mike Pence, will do what Thomas Jefferson did in 1800, which is count the votes of Georgia in a manner in a fashion consistent with voter integrity.
00:17:01.000We have precedent of Richard Nixon and Thomas Jefferson using the powers as the president of the Senate of counting or not counting votes in a way that is in the pursuit of voter integrity.
00:17:48.000However, if we are honest with ourselves of what we are dealing with with the American Democratic Party, of the fraud, of the amount of illegitimate ballots that have been uncovered in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona,
00:18:04.000Wisconsin, and Michigan, that the very credible Armistad project led by the former Attorney General of Kansas Phil Klein has uncovered, then don't we have a duty and obligation to our republic and all the sacrifices that were made to hold the line and to say very clearly, we're not going to put the votes of Georgia in Donald Trump's category.
00:18:24.000Instead, we are going to say these are polluted, poisoned, illegitimate electoral votes.
00:18:31.000We are not going to count them in either category.
00:18:36.000Instead, the way that this should have unfolded, which would have limited civil unrest, media backlash, and Democrat opposition, is the opening argument should have been, we will not certify.
00:19:01.000Every single state, as per the United States Constitution, gets a singular vote.
00:19:07.000If Republicans voted for President Trump, there are more states that have more Republican representatives than states that have more Democrat representatives.
00:19:19.000Therefore, the system would necessitate and warrant a Donald Trump victory.
00:19:29.000None of this is easy, and a lot of it would have taken long-term strategic planning.
00:19:35.000However, let me tell you, based on conversations that I've had with my sources, people that are very close to the people making these decisions and the people doing these actions, Mike Pence will allow objections during him overseeing this process as the president of the Senate.
00:19:55.000However, Mike Pence is under the belief, which I believe is not a correct constitutional interpretation based on the 1960 precedent set by Richard Nixon, that he will do anything but fulfill what the Electoral College has decided.
00:20:13.000Because of that, we are stuck in a situation where unless we get to 50 Republican senators or Mike Pence holds the line and refuses to count these ballots that are poisoned and polluted, we will be put in a situation where Joe Biden will become the next president of the United States.
00:20:39.000Do I think the country is ready for a parliamentarian constitutional stress test right now?
00:20:48.000I think that it would have taken 60 days of us, including our program, doing this, of us preparing the American people for this moment.
00:20:58.000If that would have been our opening argument in November, we could have gotten to a point now where the Democrats and the media would not have been shell-shocked by this.
00:21:08.000But now they are using descriptors such as you are acting seditiously.
00:21:15.000You are a traitor to the United States, is what they are saying.
00:21:19.000Funny how they didn't call Nancy Pelosi a traitor or Maxine Waters a traitor when they objected to these results in 2004 and 2017.
00:21:28.000This will be the largest group of senators to object to presidential election results, I think, in American history or in recent memory.
00:21:38.000We also have the election of 1876 of President Hayes versus Samuel Tilden, where the House and the Senate refused to come to terms of the true winner.
00:21:47.000And as the great compromise ensued, we found Reconstruction ending in the South, a very bad thing, and President Hayes, a Republican, becoming president of the United States.
00:21:59.000There is precedent in 1800, 1876, and 1960 of Congress getting directly involved in election results.
00:22:25.000That is not what I believe is the constitutional or the moral thing to do.
00:22:31.000However, to make sure I set all of your expectations correctly, the likelihood of Republicans getting 50-plus votes in the Senate to object, to hold the line, the likelihood of Mike Pence not counting the votes from just the states in question is very low.
00:22:57.000I'm going to be publicly encouraging the president of the Senate, Mike Pence, to not necessarily put the Georgia votes in Trump's category.
00:23:10.000Just to say, I took an oath to protect the United States Constitution.
00:23:17.000I have served to protect the Constitution in the Congress as a governor and now as the vice president and the president of the Senate, and I will not certify and count the votes from states that changed their laws unconstitutionally.
00:23:35.000This is what the United States Constitution said.
00:23:37.000The president of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and the House of Representatives, open all certificates, and the votes shall then be counted.
00:23:44.000He can count them in any manner or fashion you want whatsoever.
00:23:47.000It has never been challenged by the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:23:50.000The honorable Mike Pence, a friend of mine, will disagree with that reading.
00:23:57.000How you would explain the electoral process in 1960, I'm not totally and completely sure.
00:24:04.000And so here's what's likely going to happen: there's a massive rally the president is having on January the 6th.
00:24:11.000Hundreds of thousands of people will show up and rally.
00:24:14.000There will be objections in the House, objections in the Senate.
00:24:16.000This could go late into the wee hours of the morning, which we will be covering live on the Charlie Kirk Show YouTube channel.
00:24:23.000So make sure you guys subscribe to that.
00:24:43.000But let me be clear: that is not what I think should happen, and that is not what I want to have happen.
00:24:48.000I believe the House of Representatives should decide this election.
00:24:52.000Whatever the House would decide, so be it.
00:24:55.000I am not of the opinion that Mike Pence should put the electoral votes from one category to the other.
00:25:02.000I think that would be in defiance to the will of the Electoral College.
00:25:06.000Instead, I think the President of the Senate should say, I will not accept these votes from these five states because of the unprecedented, insurmountable, historic amount of evidence that goes to show this election was tampered with significantly.
00:25:35.000And the problem with how a lot of the people have been talking about this in Congress and in the media, the media has been allowed to frame us as if we're trying to overturn an election.
00:25:47.000We're trying to get to the bottom of the election, and we want the true last line constitutionally to decide this election, the House of Representatives.
00:25:57.000So, a lot of you guys are emailing us this.
00:26:02.000As you're listening to this episode, 12 o'clock Eastern, every day this week, we are going to be streaming live, explaining all of this, calling out the good guys.
00:26:11.000We're going to be doing a roll call in the U.S. Senate of who votes for this, who objects to it, who has the courage to step up, all of it.
00:26:22.000And so, please make sure you're subscribed to our YouTube channel.
00:26:25.000It's one of the reasons why I'm not going to the rally on January the 6th.
00:26:30.000Turning point action is being financially supportive of that rally.
00:26:33.000We are sending buses, but I felt the millions of people that we reach on this podcast and on our live stream, a lot of people are going to need interpretation and analysis of exactly what is happening, what is going on.
00:26:46.000So, that is precisely why I'm going to be behind the desk all week.
00:26:50.000So, make sure you stay on top of that.
00:26:52.000I pray that the results from the Electoral College in its current fashion and form are rejected, and the House gets to determine this election.
00:28:08.000For example, they have books that you've heard of that you just might not have time to read or listen to, but you want to understand the ideas behind it, like the Federalist Papers, like How to Win Friends and Influence People, like Mere Christianity, like Live Not by Lies, like Man Search for Meaning, like intellectuals are up from slavery at thinker.org/slash Charlie, T-H-I-N-K-R.org slash Charlie.
00:28:29.000You can listen to summaries of them in eight minutes or nine minutes or less.
00:28:33.000So, this book, The Case Against Education, Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money.
00:28:37.000It talks about that very little what students learn in school will actually ever be used on the job.
00:28:44.000Why most teachers are people who have never left school and why we put up with it?
00:28:49.000The author Brian Kaplan thinks this is unacceptable.
00:28:52.000So, how can they prepare students for the real world?
00:28:54.000One of the most interesting parts of the book is something called signaling.
00:28:58.000It's that signaling is the explanation for the gap between education and job skills.
00:29:03.000A part that I really enjoyed is it talks about the inflated power of a diploma and how that doesn't benefit society.
00:29:11.000It also talks about the social returns on education are not nearly as grand as the propaganda suggests.
00:29:17.000And finally, that there's so much waste in the education industry that everyone's afraid to say it.
00:29:40.000I believe that we are encouraging a generation to borrow money they do not have to study things that don't matter, to find jobs that don't exist.
00:29:48.000And this book at thinker.org/slash Charlie talks just about, talks about that and more.
00:29:53.000In fact, I'm going to do an entire podcast once all this January 6th stuff boils down and settles down, and we have an idea of where our country's headed in the next couple of weeks.
00:30:02.000I'm going to get deeper into the college cartel, what you can do about it.
00:30:06.000If some of you are looking for guidance or wisdom or advice, or you just say, Charlie, I want to at least send you some thoughts or ideas of where I'm going with my life.
00:30:15.000You guys can do that at freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:31:03.000So, look, I'm not going to be able to even unpack Nietzsche's ideas if I had an hour.
00:31:09.000But I have got a couple emails about this and people that have been learning about it.
00:31:13.000I encourage every single Christian out there and every single free thinker, every single conservative or American, regardless of your political or religious affiliation.
00:31:23.000We have people of all different faiths that listen to our podcast here to at least be familiar with the writings and the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche.
00:31:34.000He has been one of the most influential writers, thinkers, and philosophers that you've probably never heard of.
00:31:40.000He was heavily influenced by Charles Darwin, who, of course, wrote The Origin of Species in 1859.
00:31:47.000Up to his time, he was the most openly hostile critic of Christianity, even more so than Karl Marx.
00:31:54.000Friedrich Nietzsche believed that God was a creation of the slaves to give meaning to their existence and hopes their masters will one day be punished.
00:32:05.000Now, again, if you want to be able to debate your professors, understand where the left is coming from, it is incredibly important that you are at least somewhat aware of Friedrich Nietzsche.
00:32:19.000He started the American atheist movement.
00:32:22.000He was an open critic in the belief in the idea of God.
00:32:26.000He believed that if you believe in God, that destroys your life.
00:32:32.000He believed that morality should be about the effect on the actor, not the recipient.
00:32:39.000He came up with this idea of the superman, that we are waiting for the Übermensch, that is a German term for the superman.
00:32:48.000He heavily influenced fascists, including the National Socialist Workers' Party in the 1930s.
00:32:54.000He influenced Ayn Rand, even though she hated Friedrich Nietzsche.
00:32:59.000And he also had this idea of eternal recurrence, that we are destined to repeat this life over and over again.
00:33:05.000I think that was probably when Friedrich Nietzsche was losing his mind later in life.
00:33:11.000Nietzsche was heavily influential to the postmodernist garbage heap of Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault.
00:33:20.000But more than anything else, Friedrich Nietzsche is known for two major quotes.
00:33:24.000And you might not even know that he was responsible for this.
00:33:28.000He's known for the quote that God is dead, and also known for the quote of whatever does not kill you makes you stronger.
00:33:38.000Friedrich Nietzsche, there's different ways that people pronounce it, but Nietzsche or Nietzsche is the most correct or most well-known pronunciation.
00:33:48.000But the thing that really made him well-known is this idea of the will, that the true essence of human expression is something that is supernatural called the will.
00:33:59.000That if you do not embrace your will, the will of humanity, then you are denying the full essence of what it means to live.
00:34:08.000It's really hard to encapsulate this in just a singular podcast, but Nietzsche was probably one of the first moral relativists ever to write.
00:34:19.000Some people would call him nihilistic.
00:34:22.000Some people would call him kind of the first existentialist writer.
00:34:29.000All of these are kind of buzzwords that are thrown around.
00:34:32.000More than anything else, Friedrich Nietzsche was a provocateur.
00:34:36.000He didn't mean to be one, or maybe he did, but he inspired dozens and hundreds of other writers to challenge the Western tradition.
00:34:47.000He thought that people would only believe in God to reinforce this idea of the master-slave morality.
00:34:56.000He thought that something that is evil is a label to describe things that slaves do not like.
00:35:03.000He thought that the slave life has no meaning.
00:35:05.000He thought the only reason someone would remain being a slave is because they did not want to get punished by God who would then do the punishing of their masters.
00:35:43.000Now, of course, the idea of good and beautiful is something that we as Christians will chuckle at because those are inherently objective terms, something that is somewhat contradictory in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
00:35:56.000Friedrich Nietzsche had such an impact in the 20th century, from the rise of 1930s Germany to the rise of post-modernism, post-structuralism, and eventually existentialism, he could be the equivalent of Father Abraham of the nihilistic, post-modernist American left.
00:36:21.000He believed that every organism must maximize its own power.
00:36:25.000Sound familiar to Jacques Derrida or Michelle Foucault?
00:36:29.000Friedrich Nietzsche thought that each individual needs morality that fits their own life.
00:36:35.000Sounds very New Agey or post-modernist.
00:36:41.000Looking back at the teachings and the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, it is chilling as he concludes in one of his fictional writings that God is dead, proclaiming the death of God.
00:36:56.000He realized that Christian tradition was starting to fall, that secularism was starting to grow.
00:37:03.000And now we are almost living in the world that he wanted, where people are arguing for their own truth, that I'm the most important person in the world.
00:37:15.000This is embodied by a story of two people called Leopold and Loeb, two disciples of Friedrich Nietzsche, who were students at the University of Chicago.
00:37:25.000To try to attain this idea of the Übermensch, they planned and plotted a premeditated kidnapping and murder of a 14-year-old child.
00:37:36.000Because there is no such thing as absolute right and wrong.
00:37:39.000And to prove this, Leopold and Loeb thought that they might be able to get to a higher level of existence by believing there is no absolute morality.
00:39:14.000Dive deep into these ideas, and you'll realize that almost with evangelistic fervor, the people that we are contesting against, they're fighting for something that is rooted in nothing.
00:39:30.000Started by a couple people that preceded him, but articulated and perfected by a cultural critic, a poet that probably had more impact on where we are today, and most people don't even know he even existed.
00:39:49.000I call him an evangelist for nothingness and for darkness, but someone that probably had more navigational impact on the trajectory of where we are in the West than anyone else.
00:40:03.000Understand him, study him, especially for Christians out there, and you will be better equipped than ever to be able to win arguments and spread truth.