00:00:33.000How many people are you getting out to the polls?
00:00:35.000Just sit on your couch right now, press pause on the podcast, and text 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 of your friends and say, hey, I think you should vote on Tuesday.
00:01:30.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:19.000It's been my most unpopular policy crusade ever, and most unsuccessful policy crusade, I should say, but that's fine because I talk about it a lot and people just roll their eyes.
00:04:10.000And so this is all interconnected, by the way.
00:04:13.000So people say, well, how does that impact me?
00:04:16.000Okay, so your price at the pump, groceries.
00:04:19.000It actually is directly tied together with the purchasing power of your dollar.
00:04:23.000Because if the Federal Reserve or the masters of the economy, masters of the universe, they look at the balance sheet and they say, well, we have a couple of ways we can handle a $30 trillion debt.
00:04:34.000They're certainly not going to do that.
00:04:36.000They could raise taxes, which they'll do a little bit of, but you can't raise enough taxes to compensate for that.
00:04:41.000Or they can inflate their way out of the debt, which is the scariest, but quite honestly, the most realistic or the thing we should expect the most.
00:04:52.000What is inflating your way out of having a big debt look like?
00:04:56.000We've seen it in other countries, and it has disastrous results.
00:05:42.000And so we're left in a set of circumstances where if our leaders don't actually make prudent fiscal decisions and balance the budget, or I mean, we're not going to have a balanced budget in the near future, but at least get this under control.
00:05:55.000I mean, you could talk about a currency reset.
00:05:58.000You could talk about the mass elimination of wealth, because then you have such a disconnect between actual asset prices and the amount of dollar bills.
00:06:06.000So no one actually knows what anything is worth because everything is, I mean, there was this story in the 1970s when we had mass inflation where, you know, you used to go buy feed, you know, if you're a rancher, and literally they would cross out prices on the feed bags because over a week, because they couldn't keep up with the inflation so quickly.
00:06:27.000So talk just more, just expand on this more.
00:06:29.000The reckless deficit spending that our regime has been focused on in both political parties the last 20 years is finally materializing in Americans' pocketbooks.
00:08:37.000Ultimately, you have to reform Social Security and Medicare because, as I said, the entire long-term deficit is because the Social Security and Medicare systems are going to run $116 trillion shortfall.
00:08:51.000We're not saying kick people off Social Security and Medicare, but we're going to have to look at raising the eligibility age, slightly trimming benefits for people at the top.
00:09:00.000You can protect people at the bottom, but you can't continue the Social Security and Medicare systems at their current rate because there's not enough spending to cut or taxes to hike outside of that system.
00:09:12.000If we move now, we can do it gradually and not hit poor seniors, or we can wait 10 years and have to do something drastic to people who've already retired.
00:09:23.000Yeah, and that's, it also takes political will, though, as well, right?
00:09:27.000I mean, we've had these debates for a while, and it just doesn't seem to be happening.
00:09:31.000It's the metaphorical kicking the can down the road, generational theft and all of that.
00:09:36.000But it has civilizational implications all the way across the board.
00:09:40.000And then you're going to have stagnant economic growth because of this, too, right?
00:09:46.000When the deficit gets this big, it raises interest rates, which means your taxes go up to pay more interest on the debt, and there's less business investment.
00:09:58.000There's fewer car loans because the government is soaking up all the savings and spending it themselves.
00:10:04.000But, you know, you hit on an important point of how hard it is to have a national conversation on this.
00:10:10.000Because if you turn on Twitter or listen to the president for five minutes, he is completely panicking that some Republicans have said we probably need to take a look at Social Security and Medicare before they go bankrupt.
00:10:23.000Sounds pretty basic, but these programs are heading towards bankruptcy.
00:10:27.000If we want to preserve them, we should take a look at them.
00:10:30.000And instead, you have the Lincoln Project running ads saying Republicans are going to eliminate Social Security and Medicare and kick off seniors in January.
00:10:38.000This is why we can't have a nice rational conversation on this because the president and his allies are demagoguing it.
00:10:45.000Yeah, and it's so, I mean, it's just robbery of future generations if you can't have a conversation on how to balance budgets and all this.
00:10:53.000And then we bail out the blue states that have recklessly borrowed money for years.
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00:12:01.000We're getting a lot of different emails here.
00:12:11.000I think what we're talking about is potentially future conversations and changes to make it solvent and to make it there for future generations.
00:12:19.000But don't want to misinterpret what we are, what we're saying here.
00:12:26.000I want to welcome Brian back to the program.
00:12:28.000Brian, so we kind of look at these issues here.
00:12:32.000What's so interesting is that for every dollar you have to spend servicing the debt is a dollar you can't spend on something else, which hilariously left-wingers should be really worried about, right?
00:12:43.000Because they want to fund all these different things.
00:12:45.000But what percentage of our budget will be spent actually just servicing the debt, not even paying the principal, just the interest?
00:12:54.000Yeah, the interest is rising right now as interest rates rise.
00:12:57.000Right now, it's about 10% of all federal spending, but it's going to get a lot worse.
00:13:05.000Even if you just assume the baseline, a couple decades from now, you'll be paying half of your taxes will be going to interest on the debt.
00:13:14.000If interest rates rise one more point, two-thirds of your taxes will pay interest on the debt.
00:13:20.000And if interest rates rise two points, 100% of your taxes will be paying interest on the debt.
00:13:25.000It's going to become within a couple, within about two decades, the single biggest part of the entire federal budget.
00:13:32.000And again, even that's under low interest rates, because when you have that much debt, it doesn't take much of an interest rate rise to push the cost through the roof.
00:13:56.000There's a difference between debts and deficits, but that's kind of like saying, you know, I really started to, I ate five Whoppers for the last six months and now I only eat two and a half.
00:14:06.000Well, it's like, okay, wait, you increased up to five and now you're at two and a half.
00:14:10.000That doesn't, you've increased it and then you get to take credit for cutting it.
00:14:14.000Yeah, what the president did, this is amazingly cynical.
00:14:18.000He pushed up the 2021 deficit with the huge American Rescue Plan.
00:14:23.000It was a $1.9 trillion bill to push the deficit way back up, well over $2.5 trillion.
00:14:31.000And then when his own spending bill expired the next year, he patted himself on the back for deficit reduction.
00:14:41.000This year's deficit that just ended was 40% higher than what the deficit was before the pandemic.
00:14:48.000So if you ignore the pandemic spending, which spiked up and then spiked back down, we're still 40% higher than we were before the pandemic.
00:14:57.000And he's patting himself on the back as a deficit reducer.
00:15:25.000And so, yeah, I don't even know how to make sense of that, but America willingly contributed to spending six or seven trillion dollars unnecessarily.
00:15:37.000Yeah, inflation is a global phenomenon in part because a lot of other countries made the same mistake we did.
00:15:44.000But inflation, the inflation has been worse in the United States because of policies like the American Rescue Plan, like the tariffs, the Buy America provisions, the oil and gas limitations, the rest of the runaway spending, the ethanol mandates, and on and on.
00:16:04.000The Federal Reserve of San Francisco did a study that said the American Rescue Plan alone added three percentage points to the inflation rate.
00:16:52.000The end of the year is right around the corner, and it's time for you to consider a change in your investment plan.
00:16:57.000This is Charlie Kirk, and I strongly recommend you go right now and see my friends at PAX to review your investments.
00:17:04.000They are the one firm I know that focuses on biblical, responsible investing and does not force you to invest in companies that literally attack Christian values.
00:17:13.000If we want religious liberty in our country, we have to stop investing in companies that are trying to suppress our freedoms.
00:18:33.000We said, hey, we might as well organize and gather.
00:18:37.000So, Paul, you got a lot of things that you could talk about.
00:18:40.000I want to just kind of share a concern I have.
00:18:42.000You're retired Major General, great American patriot.
00:18:45.000You've done a lot of great things for America, and thank you for that.
00:18:48.000But I'm very worried about our military readiness.
00:18:50.000This is one of my concerns about us bumbling into a proxy war in Ukraine: I just don't trust our people in charge.
00:18:57.000Paul, is that a fair thing to believe to say that our military is not properly being led, equipped, or ready for a kinetic conflict against a major power?
00:19:07.000Charlie, I think that's an understatement.
00:19:10.000Retention is down considerably, re-enlistments, the troops downline.
00:19:17.000They understand what's going on with these woke generals and admirals like General Milley and the other others who have bought into this.
00:19:25.000And so they're more concerned about equity, diversity training, CRT critical race theory training.
00:19:34.000And it's permeated, Charlie, all the way down to the academies, West Point, Coast Guard Academy, Annapolis, Air Force Academy.
00:19:44.000And I get an update almost every day on the military, but we have got to remove almost all of these generals because they came in under the Obama cloak when Obama basically purged 120 senior officers.
00:19:57.000So the officers you see now were colonels then.
00:20:00.000Now they're generals and they're all Obama followers.
00:20:17.000And it's hard for me to answer because I don't want them.
00:20:20.000I don't want to deter them from service to America.
00:20:22.000I think it's honorable and heroic to have duty to your nation.
00:20:27.000At the same time, I don't feel confident to send some of these young men into the current apparatus that is the United States military, which is just becoming a social experiment.
00:20:41.000We have to restore it, Charlie, and we have to have new leadership.
00:20:45.000That's why a new president selecting new generals and admirals who go by the code duty honor and country, which we learned at West Point, as you know, and have taken their oath.
00:20:55.000And they have basically subjugated themselves to inferior set of officers.
00:21:01.000And that was the hallmark of that was the surrender in Afghanistan.
00:21:23.000And so, I mean, right now we have a lot of people that are wondering whether or not to enlist or what to do while they're within it.
00:21:30.000And so it really does come down to the president, doesn't it?
00:21:33.000Is there a role Congress going to have in the meantime if we take back the House and the Senate?
00:21:37.000Well, we do have about four representatives in Congress and the Senate who are going to do investigations into the continued vaccine of our troops, where we have found a tremendous amount of illness and even deaths within the military.
00:21:53.000And so from that standpoint, we have set up a legal support fund for the troops.
00:22:00.000But this mandatory vaccine and everything, these young, healthy people don't want it and they're being forced to do it, which is a violation, in my opinion, the Nuremberg Codes of 1947.
00:22:13.000I mean, it just is infuriating to me where you take the most masculine, the most dedicated, the most courageous population, and they're the ones that you have to force an experimental shot on.
00:22:28.000I mean, I got to be honest, it's one of the most maddening issues that just really hadn't got the hearing it deserved.
00:23:11.000I mean, it is widespread and it's a serious threat.
00:23:16.000And part of this is the wokeism stuff that's within it.
00:23:19.000I mean, and just explain to us, though, Paul, how does someone like Mark Milley get in charge of the armed forces?
00:23:26.000He seems to be more, he seems to be closer to a university president or a college professor than the head of the greatest fighting force the world has ever known.
00:23:34.000Can you just speak to a little bit of how these hyper-ideological academics have found their way into the United States military?
00:23:42.000It's very confusing to a lot of people.
00:23:44.000Yeah, well, Milley's a Princeton graduate.
00:23:51.000He's not a West Point graduate, but Gordon Austin's a West Point graduate.
00:23:55.000So when you go back, even to the Clinton years when they started politicizing the promotions of generals at the Pentagon, we then go up all through the way to Obama, which I had mentioned earlier, purged almost 120 senior officers.
00:24:09.000Purse and right out, these were colonels on the bottom.
00:24:11.000And so what happened now, you had these majors, lieutenant colonels who got promoted under Obama.
00:24:17.000That's when they started getting this locism.
00:24:22.000Of course, locism wasn't the term used back then, but they started becoming hydrologs.
00:24:52.000It is widespread and it really just blows people away that you would think the military would be the one place that this stuff wouldn't be able to get a hearing.
00:25:02.000Well, they're concerned about promotions.
00:25:04.000They're concerned about will they get a job in the defense industry?
00:25:08.000Even the defense industry contract crackers are following this locism and mandatory vaccine.
00:25:23.000We haven't had one general yet stand up to be counted.
00:25:27.000We've had lieutenant colonels like Lieutenant Colonel Lohmeyer and a few others, Teresa Long, out of the Army, flight surgeon, but none of the senior officers, not a full colonel or above or admiral, have stood up against this.
00:26:17.000Aiding by giving him information that I'll have your backside if our president makes a decision to attack not Taiwan, but China in any way.
00:26:28.000And so that's aiding and abetting the enemy.
00:29:33.000The other one is Reality Prism and The Mindless War, the Information Warfare Program.
00:29:38.000The Mindless War and Reality Prism, the two other books I have out now.
00:29:43.000So let's get to a, I want to talk about the midterms here, Paul.
00:29:46.000What do you think is the kind of major message of the midterms when it comes to some of these things we're talking about here?
00:29:54.000Charlie, I'm going to break something to you that I just got this morning from our intelligence group.
00:30:00.000The word is the Democrats are going to go full aisle out on exercising Hammer and Scorecard, which is a cybersecurity platform that Obama sold to the Chinese, and they're going to go full force on it.
00:30:13.000We understand they used it in Brazil last week.
00:30:16.000So don't assume that this red wave is going to go down nice and sharp.
00:30:22.000They're going to do everything to cheat and to cause a cyber attack on some of these polling stations, just like they did in 2020.
00:30:57.000But when you have ballot harvesting going on, then that just lays out the whole carpet for cheating and fraudulent voting.
00:31:06.000And so just I just pray that everybody's doing their job at the precincts, Charlie, and we're on top of everything, realizing there's going to be a big attack on the day of the election by the Demons.
00:31:17.000You're going to do everything they can to pull it out.
00:31:19.000So you got to show up and make sure you use a paper ballot in person, right?