00:01:09.000We believe our country is in the wrong trajectory.
00:01:11.000We want to change her trajectory by reaching young people with the truth, all people with the truth, with two podcasts a day, one on Saturday, one on Sunday, giving 300 speeches a year.
00:01:21.000We do radio, we do podcasting, but you know what?
00:03:02.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:25.000Bambi, spelled B-A-M-B-E-E, was created specifically for small business.
00:03:30.000You can get a dedicated HR manager, craft HR policy, and maintain all of your compliance all for just $99 a month.
00:03:37.000With Bambi, you can change HR from your biggest liability to your biggest strength.
00:03:41.000Your dedicated HR manager is available by phone, email, or real-time chat.
00:03:44.000From onboard interminations, they customize your policies to fit your business and help you manage your employees day to day, all for just $99 a month.
00:03:52.000Month to month, there are no hidden fees.
00:04:33.000And so we still deliver this podcast content for you two times a day.
00:04:38.000On top of that, I'm also doing two hours of radio every single day.
00:04:43.000And so if you guys are in major cities across the country, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, New York, ever in the car, you might be able to catch me on radio as well.
00:04:53.000And so I want to just share that news with you.
00:04:57.000And for all of you that support us at charliekirk.com slash support.
00:05:00.000That's why I am up very late right now on Sunday evening getting the AMA done for Monday morning to make sure that you have your questions answered.
00:05:11.000This weekend, I got some pretty bad news.
00:05:14.000Sunday afternoon, a dear friend of mine and mentor, someone who was a very generous donor to Turning Point USA, had given millions of dollars to our cause.
00:05:24.000But more than that, he was such a clear thinker and he was sharp.
00:05:29.000He was tough, loved his country, but someone that I truly adored and someone we got along so well.
00:05:35.000Tom Patrick, he passed away this past weekend.
00:06:27.000Blake, hey, Charlie, love the show and what you're doing for the country.
00:06:29.000My question is about the State of the Union address, or in this case, the traditional address to the joint session of Congress for a first-year president.
00:06:36.000How are Joe Biden and his handlers getting away with avoiding it?
00:06:39.000Where is the media and their push for transparency and accountability?
00:06:43.000Is there any reason not to believe that they are avoiding it because Joe Biden is incapable of presenting a coherent thought?
00:06:49.000Thank you for your thought or your insights.
00:07:06.000And Joe Biden is not constitutionally bound to give a State of the Union address until next year.
00:07:14.000Whether or not he gives a State of the Union address remains whether or not the House will invite him.
00:07:20.000Technically, the House of Representatives invites the President to give an address, and then the President accepts to go address a joint session of Congress.
00:07:28.000However, President Trump gave a joint session of Congress address back early in his presidency that was just called an address to Congress.
00:07:35.000This is part of a growing theme that Joe Biden is willing to break the customs and the traditions that predated him if he is not totally pressured to do so.
00:08:14.000It's annoying, it's frustrating, but it's also really bad for the country.
00:08:18.000If a media is not asking the correct questions, if the media is not putting together freedom of information requests, if a media is not seeing where the money is coming from, then corruption and tyranny will run wild.
00:08:34.000Thomas Jefferson famously said, if I had to choose between a government without newspapers and a newspaper without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter.
00:08:44.000Meaning that Thomas Jefferson would much rather have newspapers without a government to cover than a government without newspapers.
00:08:52.000Now, some would say, oh, well, we still have newspapers.
00:08:54.000No, what Thomas Jefferson's really saying is a press that holds the government accountable.
00:09:01.000A press that asks the questions, a press that gets in front of a president and says, so why haven't you visited the southern border?
00:09:08.000How many people are crossing every day?
00:09:46.000Do you think D.C. and Puerto Rico should be a state?
00:09:49.000These questions and so many more would be asked hourly by the press in front of Donald Trump's White House.
00:09:57.000Instead, we get questions such as, so tell us about the restaurant that Kamala Harris visited recently.
00:10:04.000You know, we joke around and say it's a lapdog media, but it's actually very dangerous because the theft and the plunder of our country is happening now in plain sight, and the media is covering for it.
00:10:14.000The media is not covering any of the actual crises that's happening in America.
00:10:19.000Small business is declining, the mental health issues happening in our country.
00:10:23.000Instead, the activist press is enjoying the fact that they won.
00:10:29.000They have a certain worldview, and they are happy.
00:10:33.000They are content that they no longer have to cover this government.
00:10:37.000As Thomas Jefferson, again, said, if I had to choose between a government without newspapers, which is basically what we have, we have a government where no one is holding them accountable.
00:10:49.000We have a couple other very courageous people out there, but we do not have institutions.
00:10:55.000The Washington Post, the New York Times, USA Today.
00:10:59.000Now, what conservatives should have done a couple decades ago is conservatives should have bought a bunch of newspapers and made sure they did not have an aggressive leftward tilt.
00:11:10.000There's a great story that actually came out this weekend, and I've been predicting this for quite some time.
00:11:16.000And I'm not the only one that has been saying this, but it's very important, which is, why buy a yacht when you can buy a newspaper in the New York Times?
00:12:10.000Why not go buy a channel of communication?
00:12:13.000That's why the Washington Post, where it says democracy dies in darkness, they're not looking into Jeff Bezos.
00:12:18.000In fact, we now have a media that is for sale, which is so hilarious to me because the Democrats and the socialists of the Democrats, they always used to warn endlessly about powerful people influencing our media, which is why they wanted to build national public radio, NPR, taxpayer-funded, government-subsidized media communication.
00:12:40.000Same with PBS, public broadcasting stations.
00:12:43.000Well, we now know the tilt that they have.
00:12:45.000They are more liberal than the New York Times because the people that were staffed by it are no different than the people that staff our universities.
00:12:53.000And so to go back to the question of, is this just another example of a lack of transparency?
00:13:00.000Joe Biden has done one press conference, one press conference since he has become president.
00:13:06.000They are trying to run the country in the shadows.
00:13:09.000Their new strategy is to put a blumbering, incoherent man in front of a cameras once a quarter or once or twice a year and hope that Americans want to go back to sleep.
00:13:23.000And I understand a lot of you listening to this, and maybe not if you're listening to this, but a lot of your friends are exhausted.
00:14:01.000They are trying to waterboard an entire civilization.
00:14:06.000Now, waterboarding is a graphic example, but it's a true one.
00:14:10.000Waterboarding is what was very controversial back in the early 2000s after 9-11, where we used to put terrorists' head underwater to try to get information out of them until they cried mercy.
00:15:51.000Their fundamental transformation and takeover is only complete when you give up.
00:15:56.000So, the question about the State of the Union is a really good one.
00:15:58.000The deeper point, though, is that there's no pressure on him because the media has decided they enjoy what's happening.
00:16:04.000Now, the question is, and the reason I brought up the billionaires purchasing media is: is this profitable?
00:16:11.000The answer is no, unless they're subsidized by the ruling class.
00:16:13.000See, The Washington Post, they don't care about profits.
00:16:16.000They have the richest man on the planet that will cover their $20 million shortfall every single year.
00:16:22.000They have the richest man on the planet worth $15 million for a couple reporters to go investigate Trump, but of course, not investigating Amazon.
00:16:46.000I'm not talking about a press release or, no, I'm talking about talking to former employees.
00:16:50.000I'm talking about getting in the weeds of Google's monopolistic ambitions and aims.
00:16:55.000When's the last time that was done for Microsoft?
00:16:58.000No, because the ruling class purchases the media in a variety of ways.
00:17:03.000They either own them or Google spends millions of dollars of advertising with these companies.
00:17:09.000So they go to the New York Times and they'll sit down with their ad department and they'll say, hey, we're going to go purchase $15 million of ads a year in the New York Times.
00:17:16.000And they'll walk down the street and say hi to the editor in a wink and a nod.
00:17:19.000And he'll tell his investigative reporters to instead go after Mike Lindell than Google.
00:17:24.000Let me ask you a question: who's a bigger threat to Western civilization?
00:17:50.000I don't think they'd accept his dollars, though.
00:17:52.000Nor do I think the people who read the New York Times are going to want a beautifully made pillow that you can get at mypillow.com promo code Kirk.
00:18:03.000So are you making full use of your savings?
00:18:05.000Think of the times you've yearned for better returns.
00:18:08.000After real inflation, charges, and taxes, are you even making a profit?
00:18:11.000With food, clothing, and rent all more than doubling over the last 10 years, you need to do something different.
00:18:17.000Gambling on Robinhood or stocks might lose you the lot.
00:18:20.000And like thousands of others, you want to retire stress-free.
00:18:23.000A precious metals IRA with Noble Gold could be the answer.
00:18:26.000And this month, Noble Gold is gifting a genuine, rare, Carson City-minted Morgan silver dollar with every qualifying IRA or 401k.
00:18:35.000These coins were around in a time where an ounce of silver was worth a dollar.
00:18:39.000For example, in 1893, a mint condition coin is now worth more than $3,250, a staggering 325,000% increase.
00:18:49.000That's a return of over 2,500% a year.
00:18:53.000This is the power of long-term precious metal investing.
00:18:56.000So get in touch with the experts at Noble Gold and talk through your options today.
00:19:00.000That's noblegoldinvestments.com or call 877-646-5347 and mention the Charlie Kirk Show special offer, noblegoldinvestments.com.
00:19:13.000Hey, Charlie, Eric here from Pennsylvania.
00:19:16.000My professor is telling me there is nothing unique about the American founding.
00:19:22.000In essence, can you help explain to me why America's founding was different and the unique approach it had?
00:19:39.000And we spend two hours a day, phones off, just studying and learning.
00:19:43.000So I'm able to clarify the news of the day for all of you and answer your questions about this.
00:19:47.000So it's actually very opportune that this question came across, and I selected it basically and mainly and partially for that reason, I should say.
00:19:58.000America's founding was different because it was liberty-seeking people deciding to push back against tyranny, comfort, safetyism to go to something uncertain.
00:20:11.000The American Revolution was not about tea.
00:20:59.000We're going to do an entire podcast on beauty soon.
00:21:02.000Because I don't think we talk about that enough.
00:21:04.000In a world where you say there's no difference than right and wrong, then is there anything between beauty and something that isn't beautiful?
00:21:15.000And I don't mean beauty in the terms of what we talk about on movies or Netflix.
00:21:20.000No, I'm talking about a beautiful piece of music, a beautiful piece of art.
00:21:25.000Anyway, we'll get into that in a future podcast.
00:21:28.000But the Constitution is a beautiful document.
00:21:30.000And in the Constitution, it clearly says that if you are to be deprived of your money, your property, or your freedom, the government must make the case against you.
00:22:27.000Lying to a federal agent is illegal, and it should be.
00:22:31.000But there are things that are wrong that are not illegal, nor should they ever become illegal.
00:22:36.000That would be probably an over-enforcement of the security state, mostly from peer-to-peer type stuff.
00:22:43.000For example, if you were at a dinner party and all of a sudden you started acting like a jerk, started making a lot of noise or talking too much, that's not illegal, but it's not necessarily right.
00:23:22.000What comes from a biblical principle that neither slave nor Greek nor Jew, we are all one in Jesus Christ, that the poor man has the same rights in front of a judge and a jury as someone who is wealthy.
00:23:36.000Due process is a deliberate Where you cannot be deprived of your money, your property, your freedom without that system finding you necessary to be deprived of that.
00:23:48.000So the founding fathers created a system.
00:23:51.000And actually, I'm going to get to the title of this episode of the two things that give me hope right now.
00:24:29.000But the Constitution is a document that is supposed to allow your natural rights.
00:24:34.000There was a renaissance of natural rights in the 1710s in our country, mainly thanks to John Locke, where people who were Protestant Christians, Bible believers, and there were others that were not, of course, but that was the main belief system in the country, started to ask really good questions.
00:24:55.000Why can't I steal my neighbor's stuff?
00:24:57.000How do we exercise our own system of government?
00:24:59.000And the founding fathers wrestled with this.
00:25:02.000And Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield and the founding pastors of our country, which, by the way, is a term we should talk about more.
00:25:08.000There should be the founding fathers and the founding pastors.
00:25:11.000The founding pastors of our country started to wrestle with these questions and instruct their citizenry to demand more.
00:25:19.000Once you started to demand more, this idea of a nation came and they said, wait a second, we're more than just a bunch of colonies that are here to go make King George rich.
00:25:28.000We are freedom-loving, independent people.
00:26:42.000There are three types of social contract theory.
00:26:44.000We've gone through this before, and I hope that some of you have written this down or you've taught your kids about this, or maybe I've inspired you to read more about these things.
00:26:52.000And I try not to get too intellectual here.
00:26:54.000Happy to if there's people that have questions about that.
00:26:56.000If you guys ever see me at events, but I also want to keep this near the ABC so that everyone's able to digest it.
00:27:03.000But the three types of social contract theory: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
00:27:35.000However, Thomas Hobbes' conclusion was not so good.
00:27:39.000He said, since human beings are so terrible with each other, they need a dictator.
00:27:46.000Many of the 20th century leaders, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, they never said this publicly, but that's how they justified their power grab.
00:27:56.000People are so bad, they need me in charge to be able to regulate their behavior.
00:28:01.000Then Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who's closest to an American leftist that you might have living near you or teaching your children or teaching you, which is the idea of heaven on earth, utopia, a vision that we can create something beyond earth.
00:28:15.000In fact, we can do better than the angels.
00:28:18.000Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the social contract theorist, he preferred the primitive over the civilized, the infant over the adult.
00:28:24.000In fact, he preferred the adulteress over the loyal spouse.
00:28:28.000Here's an interesting question for you.
00:28:30.000What was the second best-selling book in Europe in the 1800s?
00:30:19.000If you want to support Mike Lindell and get something made in America, that's awesome, mypillow.com, promo code Kirk.
00:30:25.000Support Charlie Kirk, Mike Lindell, mypillow.com, promo code Kirk.
00:30:33.000I want to get to the two reasons why I'm optimistic because Holly from Indiana and Andy from Texas and so many other people are saying, Charlie, why are you so optimistic?
00:32:04.000The fact that certain states are booming and thriving, happy and prosperous with balanced budgets, and others are not, should give you hope that there is still a state-based model that is working in our country, and states still have a fair amount of power in our country.
00:32:19.000That's a really good thing that we have not eroded all of our states' rights.
00:32:22.000Now, anyone who talks about states' rights, immediately, the left will say, oh, you just want to go back to civil rights or the era before civil rights where it's just segregation, which is just nonsense.
00:32:33.000There have been so many reforms that have started in the states that have been positive for our country.
00:32:42.000That a states-based system is one of the few reasons why America has some more staying power than Belgium or France, Nicaragua, Japan, the Federation of States, the United States of America.
00:32:57.000We cannot forget our states-based system and the Constitution.
00:33:01.000The tyrants and the despots, the dictators and the people that wish us harm, they're going to be running into some judges appointed by President Trump that are all of a sudden going to look at the Constitution and say, you can't do that.
00:33:41.000Sydney from Vero Beach, we get some emails from her.
00:33:43.000Charlie, what is the basis of providing foreign aid in light of our astronomical national debt?
00:33:48.000There is no basis at all, except for the fact that our leaders get kickbacks and favors, both internationally and domestically, to give away your tax dollars and leverage your future children or generations' money and capital to go give it halfway around the world for people that do not share our values, that have no national security interest at all whatsoever.
00:34:09.000There is no basis, and we should talk about that more.
00:34:12.000That we should not give a dollar of federal aid, foreign federal aid, as long as Americans are out of work, our borders are wide open, and we can't even balance our own budget.