The Charlie Kirk Show - Biden's Massive Fracking Betrayal of America

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, what did Joe Biden run on?

00:00:02.000 Also, what's happening in Illinois schools?

00:00:04.000 And finally, Isabel and I answer your questions at the end of this episode.

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00:01:59.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

00:02:01.000 Welcome back here with Isabel Brown.

00:02:02.000 So I want to ask this question is what did Biden run on?

00:02:08.000 Now we all know around the shenanigans and the tomfoolery that surrounded the way we do elections in our country.

00:02:15.000 We've been through that in great detail.

00:02:18.000 I think more so than almost any other program.

00:02:21.000 But the question should be, what did Biden actually run on?

00:02:26.000 What if Biden went to Pennsylvania and he told the potential voters of Pennsylvania, you know what?

00:02:37.000 Let me tell you my day one plan.

00:02:40.000 On day one, I'm going to abolish the Keystone XL pipeline.

00:02:46.000 And then I'm going to sign an executive order so all of your daughters can have men in their locker rooms.

00:02:53.000 Vote for Biden.

00:02:54.000 You think that that would fly in Wisconsin, Michigan?

00:03:01.000 It really, it's very interesting.

00:03:03.000 And Biden reminds me, at least the campaign that they ran, and I know that there was very little exposure.

00:03:09.000 You couldn't talk about him on social media.

00:03:11.000 He did very few interviews.

00:03:12.000 They were all tightly controlled.

00:03:14.000 He didn't have any sort of adversarial kind of conversations or interviews, I think is a better way to word that.

00:03:22.000 But Biden reminds me of Barack Obama in the sense that he is willing to disguise his radicalism just to get to power.

00:03:35.000 Hillary Clinton was not as convinced of this.

00:03:38.000 Hillary Clinton was all over the place, calling people deplorables.

00:03:42.000 I mean, she was a walking political mess.

00:03:46.000 Joe Biden is too, and he was super tightly controlled, but the Democrats basically said, Joe, just say the right things, get in power, and then you go govern like a radical.

00:03:59.000 I want to go to cut 26, where it shows that Joe Biden did slip up occasionally when he was just screaming at this union worker.

00:04:09.000 Play tape.

00:04:10.000 Hey, wait, There's a lot of guys.

00:04:20.000 A lot of guys want in this.

00:04:21.000 I'm not worried.

00:04:23.000 Just scream AR-14s, not sure what that is.

00:04:26.000 I don't work for you.

00:04:28.000 And remember this tape where Biden said clearly that he will abolish fossil fuels.

00:04:36.000 Go away with it.

00:04:37.000 And then he said he misspoke afterwards.

00:04:39.000 That alone should have lost Joe Biden the presidency.

00:04:44.000 But Joe Biden tried to convince people he was a moderate.

00:04:49.000 I know a lot of people that are realizing and regretting their vote because they're seeing that he is not exactly the calm-speaking moderate that he pretended to be.

00:05:03.000 Joe Biden said multiple times throughout his campaign that he was going to take care of the virus.

00:05:11.000 We're going to handle the virus because I have a plan, man.

00:05:15.000 But then Joe Biden comes out and says, in cut three, there's nothing we can do to change the trajectory of this pandemic in the next several months.

00:05:22.000 Could you imagine if Joe Biden said this in the campaign trail?

00:05:25.000 Because his whole campaign was around, I'm not Donald Trump and I can handle the virus better than you.

00:05:30.000 Cut three.

00:05:31.000 If we fail to act, there will be a wave of evictions and foreclosures in the coming months as this pandemic rages on.

00:05:39.000 Because there's nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.

00:05:44.000 But this is what he said when he was on the campaign trail.

00:05:47.000 Let's play cut four.

00:05:49.000 We're in a situation now where the New England Medical Journal, one of the most serious journals in the whole world, said for the first time ever that the way this president has responded to this crisis has been absolutely tragic.

00:06:04.000 And so, folks, I will take care of this.

00:06:06.000 I will end this.

00:06:07.000 I will make sure we have a plan.

00:06:10.000 Two completely different ways of describing what's happening.

00:06:13.000 And Cut 33, remember when he said, I'm promising I will shut down the virus if I'm elected.

00:06:19.000 Cut 33.

00:06:20.000 We need a president who's going to bring us together, not pull us apart.

00:06:25.000 I'll put in place a plan to deal with this pandemic responsibly.

00:06:28.000 I've already done it.

00:06:30.000 And bring this country together around testing, tracing, and masking.

00:06:33.000 And I'm going to shut down the virus.

00:06:38.000 You got a bunch of people honking their horns.

00:06:42.000 Okay, Isabel, you had a thought?

00:06:45.000 Just when it comes to all of this, I find it fascinating that the entire fall for several months, all we heard was that there was a failure to act when it came to the previous administration, which is nothing but a complete lie.

00:07:00.000 Having studied healthcare policy myself, they were one of the most robust administrations ever in responding to a pandemic in a very effective way.

00:07:08.000 You saw a million people being vaccinated every day in the United States of America by the time President Trump left office.

00:07:14.000 And yet now, all of a sudden, there's nothing we can do when it comes to fighting a virus.

00:07:19.000 And no matter how hard we try, it's inevitable.

00:07:22.000 Right.

00:07:22.000 It's predictable because, and we knew a couple things were going to happen.

00:07:28.000 And out of all of them, if Joe Biden ran honestly, then he would have lost.

00:07:35.000 You see, Donald Trump ran honestly.

00:07:38.000 Everything Donald Trump campaigned on in 2016, he ended up doing.

00:07:43.000 Everything he campaigned on this last cycle, he meant and he was doing.

00:07:47.000 Joe Biden had to assume power through deceiving you and deceiving the American people.

00:07:55.000 By deceiving voters by saying, I'm going to end the virus.

00:07:59.000 And now he's like, Well, there's really nothing we can do.

00:08:01.000 It's a virus.

00:08:02.000 That's the whole point that we've been making.

00:08:05.000 And now you're seeing people open up their open up the states.

00:08:09.000 What has changed here?

00:08:10.000 If we had an honest media in our country, which we don't, if we had an honest group of reporters, which we don't, they would be outside of the office of Gretchen Whitmer and asking a sequence of questions as following: What epidemiologically has changed from January 19th to January 26th?

00:08:27.000 Your virus rates are actually worse based on all the numbers that you've been using.

00:08:31.000 In California, they're worse.

00:08:32.000 Yet, Gretchen Whitmer in Cut 21 says this: Today, the Department of Health and Human Services is issuing an epidemic order to resume indoor dining on Monday, February 1st.

00:08:44.000 I know this pandemic has hurt our restaurant owners, our restaurant workers.

00:08:49.000 I want you to know that I will continue to do everything in my power to support you and your families.

00:08:54.000 I think that the Michigan State House should hold hearings to find out when that speech was written.

00:09:02.000 I think that the Michigan State House should hold hearings and start asking witnesses when that started to get floated out.

00:09:09.000 Because in the restaurant industry, January 10th versus January 22nd, February 1st, that's the difference between making it or getting it or folding completely.

00:09:17.000 So, let me get this straight, Gretchen Whitmer.

00:09:19.000 You could not open up restaurants during one of the most busiest times of the year where the restaurants make or break all their money, the Christmas season and New Year's.

00:09:27.000 But once Joe Biden becomes president, the virus epidemiologically becomes more under control.

00:09:32.000 We know exactly what's happening here.

00:09:34.000 This is a group of people that want power at all costs and they're willing to put political purposes over the moral good of a nation.

00:09:43.000 And where I think that we need to start making the case is Joe Biden is governing on an agenda that no one voted for.

00:09:51.000 Whereas when Donald Trump was governing in 2017 and he got sworn in, he was governing on an agenda that was so explicitly clear on what he was going to do.

00:10:00.000 None of the stuff Joe Biden communicated when he was running.

00:10:04.000 None of it.

00:10:05.000 I mean, it slipped out here and there, but the massive advertising and the majority of people that I know that voted for Biden were like, well, don't you see his wonderful ads about healing and bringing the country together?

00:10:16.000 And yeah, you spend $900 million on the same advertisement in the state of Michigan.

00:10:21.000 It's going to move the dial.

00:10:24.000 And so Joe Biden is a president governing without a mandate.

00:10:30.000 Now, that might seem like it's inconsequential to you, but it's actually really important.

00:10:37.000 So what ends up happening is when a president governs without a mandate, there's kind of a lagging effect.

00:10:44.000 Where now, all of a sudden, some of these stories are going to spread.

00:10:47.000 Conversations are going to happen.

00:10:49.000 Some of the honest journalists and podcasts are going to talk about this.

00:10:53.000 And then 60 days from now, you're going to have 10 million people say, I didn't vote for any of this.

00:10:59.000 And you'll start to see that reflected in approval ratings and voter registration and so much more.

00:11:04.000 Joe Biden is governing like a completely different person than what he campaigned for.

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00:12:07.000 I gave Isabel a homework assignment about the state I grew up in, Illinois, and District 214.

00:12:15.000 I got an anonymous email from a teacher around there, and it turns out it's more than District 214.

00:12:21.000 And I will not say this teacher's name because they'll probably, I don't know if they're allowed to get fired because they have tenure, but they were alerting us to what was happening in the state of Illinois.

00:12:30.000 I said, Isabel researched this as she's kind of our campus investigative correspondent.

00:12:34.000 And by the way, if anyone's watching from the Chicagoland area or Illinois area, please email me freedom at charliekirk.com because your mind is about to get blown.

00:12:43.000 You guys are not going to believe what is going on in Illinois right now.

00:12:47.000 Shocking that I have to say that.

00:12:49.000 It's that bad, you guys.

00:12:50.000 It's beyond your wildest.

00:12:51.000 I actually, I'm only like peripherally aware of this, so please go ahead.

00:12:55.000 So recently the Illinois State Board of Education approved this new rule for statewide curriculum mandates called the Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards.

00:13:05.000 And right now it's pending before the Illinois General Assembly and will be voted on on February 16th to put into all curriculum for K through 12 schools in Illinois.

00:13:14.000 But essentially, it's a new law that forces teachers to, in their words, embrace and encourage progressive viewpoints and perspectives.

00:13:23.000 That's, you know, fancy buzzwords, but what does that actually mean?

00:13:26.000 Essentially, teachers are mandated by law to discuss current political controversies in class.

00:13:32.000 They have to organize what they call action civics, which are field trips, student protests, lobbying expeditions on behalf of causes like gun control or the Green New Deal.

00:13:42.000 They have to admit that there's unlimited numbers of genders and prioritize representation in the classroom.

00:13:47.000 This is in a state legislative bill.

00:13:50.000 State legislative bill.

00:13:51.000 And they're doing everything they can to bring this to the national level and essentially implement it as part of Common Core for all public schools nationwide.

00:13:59.000 This is in addition to critical race theory, which is already a problem in Chicago.

00:14:03.000 Oh, it's terrible.

00:14:04.000 If you guys aren't familiar with the 1619 project from the New York Times, that's among the most woke curriculum you could possibly imagine.

00:14:11.000 But that's already been implemented to all Chicago public schools.

00:14:14.000 So this is in addition to that reality.

00:14:16.000 This is statewide stuff.

00:14:17.000 And this would be statewide for the state of Illinois.

00:14:20.000 This would be in District 211.

00:14:22.000 This would be all across the state of Illinois.

00:14:24.000 And you might ask, what happens if a teacher, a bold, brave teacher who's rational, says no?

00:14:29.000 They get their teaching license taken away permanently.

00:14:32.000 They have no opportunity to practice what they love.

00:14:35.000 They can't be in the classroom with students.

00:14:38.000 Current events.

00:14:39.000 Current political controversies, not just events, controversies, whatever that means.

00:14:44.000 Admitting that there's unlimited numbers of genders, prioritizing critical race theory, taking their kids to protest for gun control or lobby for things like the Green New Deal for a left-wing social justice and go above and beyond to mitigate their unearned privileges like being white.

00:15:03.000 Don't ask me how a teacher is supposed to mitigate the identities that they're born with necessarily, but that is legally mandated if you want to teach in the state of Illinois.

00:15:12.000 If you're watching this in the state of Illinois or you're hearing this, and my goodness, I'm telling you everybody, what is this called, Isabel?

00:15:19.000 How can people learn about this?

00:15:20.000 Yeah, this is important.

00:15:21.000 So remember this name.

00:15:22.000 It's currently pending before the Illinois General Assembly for a few more weeks.

00:15:25.000 It's called the Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards.

00:15:32.000 I would be in a very ironic turn of events.

00:15:36.000 I think it would be interesting to see kind of the very, very liberal, you know, upper middle class schools in Illinois all of a sudden get a little taste of their own voting.

00:15:46.000 But at the same time, this will destroy the state of Illinois, and they will replicate this all across the country.

00:15:53.000 The whole country.

00:15:54.000 They have to mobilize their students to protest.

00:15:56.000 Yes.

00:15:56.000 Student protests, they're called action civic systems.

00:15:59.000 So let me get this straight.

00:16:00.000 So let's say that there's like a climate change, whatever happening in downtown Chicago, and you go to Hersey High School, right down the street.

00:16:08.000 You're probably going to your climate change.

00:16:10.000 Hersey high school will have to load up a bus and go to the climate change protest.

00:16:14.000 It just says it's a requirement.

00:16:15.000 Yes.

00:16:17.000 I wish I was joking.

00:16:19.000 And then you have to teach there are unlimited genders.

00:16:21.000 Yep.

00:16:22.000 You have to admit that there are unlimited opportunities for representation.

00:16:26.000 That includes gender, obviously.

00:16:27.000 So conservative, Christian, rational thinking, maybe science teachers have to go against their better judgment to do so.

00:16:36.000 And biology teachers.

00:16:39.000 You know, back when I was in high school, nine years ago, none of this nonsense was discussed.

00:16:50.000 Isabel, how long were you in high school?

00:16:51.000 I graduated high school in 2015, so a while ago, but three years later than me.

00:16:56.000 Same thing.

00:16:56.000 When I was in high school, our teacher said, there's only two genders, and no one thought anything of it.

00:17:03.000 I don't even think they had to say there were only two genders.

00:17:06.000 You know how they explain gender?

00:17:08.000 With chromosomal structures, XX and XY.

00:17:10.000 And don't for a second, liberals watching this, like, oh, you grew up in the Jim Crow era.

00:17:14.000 Okay, I grew up in 2010, okay?

00:17:16.000 And everything was great.

00:17:17.000 Okay?

00:17:18.000 No one had these stupid smartphones, and no one was on social media, and everyone talked to each other.

00:17:24.000 And now none of this garbage was being taught in our schools.

00:17:27.000 Critical race theory.

00:17:29.000 And I would love if they tried to bring me to a protest in high school for gun control or climate change.

00:17:38.000 That would have been a sight to see.

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00:18:28.000 Okay, so let's go to a couple things here.

00:18:31.000 I want to go to impeachment.

00:18:33.000 So impeachment looks like it's heating up.

00:18:35.000 Our trial is imminently starting on February 8th here.

00:18:35.000 It is.

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00:18:50.000 And so Biden is now looking like he's signaling support for the impeachment trial.

00:18:56.000 Nothing says unifying the country like impeaching a guy on the back nine at Trump International Golf Course in Florida.

00:19:02.000 He says, quote, I think it has to happen.

00:19:04.000 He acknowledged the effect it could have on his legislative agenda and cabinet nominees, but said there, quote, be a worse effect if it didn't happen.

00:19:10.000 Do we have sound on this?

00:19:11.000 I don't know if we do or not.

00:19:13.000 Biden then told CNN he believed the outcome would be different if Trump had six months left in his term, but he said he doesn't think 17 Republican senators will convict Trump.

00:19:22.000 Well, if he doesn't think it's going to happen, then why go through the process of it?

00:19:25.000 The Senate has changed since I was there, but it hasn't changed that much.

00:19:30.000 And so that's what Joe Biden has said about impeachment.

00:19:33.000 Now, in a very interesting turn of events, John Roberts has said he will not show up for the impeachment proceedings.

00:19:42.000 The reason he is giving, at least based on some press reports that are available, is he might actually have to rule on the constitutionality of this impeachment of a former president.

00:19:54.000 Now, Isabel, doesn't the Constitution say civil officer?

00:19:58.000 It defines someone who's eligible for impeachment as a civil officer, and the legal definition of that word is so important, Charlie.

00:19:58.000 It does.

00:20:05.000 It essentially says it's someone who holds, present tense, holds federal office in the executive branch as well as the judicial branch.

00:20:13.000 There's some extra language there as well, but it doesn't at all apply to individuals who are private citizens, and that's what we would classify former President Trump as being right now.

00:20:22.000 The Constitution also does say in presidential impeachment trials, the Chief Justice of the United States from the Supreme Court has to preside over the process.

00:20:29.000 So if the Chief Justice isn't presiding over it, it might just eliminate the constitutionality of it just right off the bat.

00:20:39.000 Which would be a really interesting tactic for the Supreme Court to take if it eliminates that constitutionality up front.

00:20:45.000 Yeah, and so the Senate is never really, the Senate's not meant just to try any civilian.

00:20:50.000 That's not the point.

00:20:52.000 This process, we have courts for that, okay?

00:20:54.000 So if you are of the opinion that Donald Trump broke the law, well then allow the courts to play out that process and allow a D.C. prosecutor to go proceed with that.

00:21:10.000 It looks like the senators need to appease their base and they're not really sure what they're doing, quite honestly.

00:21:18.000 This is a show trial.

00:21:20.000 And any Republican that votes in favor of impeachment actually is not making this about Trump.

00:21:26.000 They are now saying they don't care about the United States Constitution.

00:21:31.000 Great legal minds, and my favorite, the great one, Mark Levin, went off on this the other day, saying that this is a non-starter.

00:21:38.000 This is nowhere near what the founding fathers thought impeachment should be for.

00:21:44.000 Can the United States Senate just start hosting trials for every civilian?

00:21:48.000 Is that the point of the United States Senate?

00:21:51.000 Maybe the United States Senate should host a trial for Gheline Maxwell.

00:21:54.000 I don't know.

00:21:55.000 It'd be interesting to see that.

00:21:57.000 That's not what the Senate's supposed to do.

00:21:59.000 And you might say, well, she was never a civil office holder.

00:22:02.000 Yeah, but Trump's no longer.

00:22:04.000 He's a former.

00:22:09.000 The Senate is now playing jury, judge, and executioner with a private citizen.

00:22:13.000 The process of impeachment was always set up to try and handle high crimes and misdemeanors for current office holders.

00:22:23.000 Now, granted, this is uncharted constitutional terrain that we're in.

00:22:28.000 What we're saying has not been ruled by the courts because it's never been done before.

00:22:34.000 I'm hesitant to say what we're saying is wrong because I don't see how it could be.

00:22:39.000 I don't.

00:22:40.000 And if the Supreme Court rules in a different direction, then so be it.

00:22:43.000 We'll stand corrected.

00:22:44.000 But the fact that John Roberts is not showing up goes to show that there's something suspicious of the constitutionality of this.

00:22:53.000 Can we play tape of Rand Paul, who just gave a wonderful speech from the United States Senate floor?

00:22:57.000 Play tape.

00:22:59.000 Hyper-partisan Democrats are about to drag our great country down into the gutter of rancor and vitriol, the likes of which has never been seen in our nation's history.

00:23:11.000 Instead of doing the nation's work with their new majorities in the House, the Senate, and the executive branch, Democrats are wasting the nation's time on a partisan vendetta against a man no longer in office.

00:23:25.000 It's almost as if they have no ability to exist except in opposition to Donald Trump.

00:23:31.000 Without him as their boogeyman, they might have to legislate and to actually convince Americans that their policy prescriptions are the right ones.

00:23:41.000 Senator Rand Paul is phenomenal, and he made the point that we have been making.

00:23:47.000 Without Donald Trump as kind of this archetype of the personification of evil and everything wrong with the country, you remove him from that equation, all of a sudden the American people are going to say, okay, so you're in power.

00:24:04.000 What are your solutions?

00:24:05.000 What are your ideas?

00:24:06.000 What do you want to do for our country?

00:24:07.000 Wait a second.

00:24:08.000 You want to let men go into women's locker rooms?

00:24:11.000 You want to get rid of fossil fuels?

00:24:14.000 And so Rand Paul hits it perfectly.

00:24:20.000 And we actually made this point last week.

00:24:22.000 We came to the same conclusion.

00:24:24.000 The Democrats are scared right now.

00:24:28.000 The Democrats are fearful.

00:24:31.000 The Democrats are worried because their agenda is now going to be put under a microscope because their agenda is now going to become under intense cross-examination.

00:24:42.000 But the one thing that could prevent that from happening is you don't understand there's a clear and present danger in our country, and it's the guy down in South Florida in Paul Beach.

00:24:53.000 He's the problem.

00:24:55.000 And they're going to try and keep this narrative going for as long as possible.

00:25:00.000 And I find it really interesting.

00:25:02.000 You know, Donald Trump, without any social media, you know, immorally being removed from all public communication, President Trump's silence has been very loud lately.

00:25:12.000 It has.

00:25:12.000 Deafening almost.

00:25:14.000 Because the media doesn't know how to deal with their morning news cycle without a new Trump tweet or a retweet cycle.

00:25:22.000 And maybe President Trump is preparing for his Senate trial.

00:25:26.000 Who knows what he's doing?

00:25:27.000 Former President Trump, who knows?

00:25:30.000 However, it is kind of driving the media to go to new lengths to try and attack him and attack his supporters.

00:25:39.000 And at the crux of the entire impeachment is whether or not Donald Trump incited a mob that participated in the tragic events on January the 6th.

00:25:54.000 And if I could, we've broken this down before, but here's the nuance that is so sorely missing.

00:26:03.000 One group of people are legitimate militants that didn't attend the rally that were there beforehand, and they didn't have Trump gear on, they had military tactical gear on.

00:26:14.000 The second group of people were professional instigators, people that are always looking for a fight.

00:26:19.000 Some were BLM, some were Antifa, whatever.

00:26:23.000 Some were far-right-wing people.

00:26:26.000 And the third category was a crowd and a mob gone terribly wrong.

00:26:35.000 All of those got mixed together and turned into this tragic event.

00:26:42.000 More and more evidence is coming forward from the FBI and other organizations that the sophistication of planning well predated the president's remarks at the ellipse.

00:26:56.000 That's not to say every single person that went into the ellipse didn't do something wrong.

00:27:00.000 That's not the argument.

00:27:02.000 The argument is: was any portion or part of this pre-planned?

00:27:07.000 Or was this all just a spontaneous crowd that turned into a mob that turned into a domestic terror attack?

00:27:15.000 And more and more it's turning out, based on all public reports, that there were people that came to D.C. with the intention, with the pre-planning, with the premeditation, with the walkie-talkies and the zip ties and the gas masks and all sorts of different measures that they wanted to go take the Capitol building.

00:27:36.000 And interestingly, you broke this down the other day, Charlie, but just as a reminder for everyone listening, the more we investigate the situation of January the 6th and we find out that at least some of the people there had some sort of planning mechanism in place to execute what they did, there's less and less evidentiary support that Trump's speech had anything to do with the event happening, which is counterintuitive to their argument of impeachment.

00:28:00.000 But as you said, they can't let go of this idea of impeachment.

00:28:03.000 They're holding on to it so tight, even if there's absolutely no logic behind it whatsoever.

00:28:08.000 Because if they did let it go, they'd have to start answering to the state of affairs in our country.

00:28:12.000 That 8 million people in our country fell into poverty last year because of lockdowns.

00:28:16.000 That we saw the greatest increase in murder in a single year ever in 2020 in our country, largely because of lockdowns and associated problems with that.

00:28:24.000 And it is the left that is inherently responsible for all of those things that took place in our country last year.

00:28:30.000 So they're the ones to answer for this.

00:28:31.000 They're also the ones in charge now.

00:28:32.000 So they're easily the ones to blame.

00:28:34.000 So I find this interesting that we want to know what happened on January the 6th.

00:28:38.000 Everybody needs to know.

00:28:39.000 But the more we investigate it, the less likely it looks that President Trump is even remotely responsible.

00:28:44.000 And that harms their cause of impeachment.

00:28:46.000 So we're at sort of an impasse here.

00:28:48.000 Yeah, and as we've mentioned before, their desire to kind of create a new security state is actually inversely related with their case for impeachment.

00:28:58.000 So what do I mean by that?

00:28:59.000 So they want to pass a new Patriot Act.

00:29:02.000 And the argument for their Patriot Act is that there's a premeditated intention that is rooted in these awful groups, and they're going to do it again.

00:29:14.000 Their argument for impeachment is that it was a spontaneous crowd gone wrong.

00:29:18.000 Now, mind you, it's not either or.

00:29:21.000 It's a mixture of both, actually.

00:29:24.000 And what I would like to see in this impeachment trial is President Trump's lawyers have the ability to call some witnesses.

00:29:31.000 So someone that should be called as a witness is the head of the Washington, D.C. National Guard.

00:29:36.000 Big piece today with him.

00:29:38.000 If you could find his name.

00:29:40.000 And he said, look, I wanted to send more National Guard troops, but I wasn't allowed to.

00:29:46.000 There's a huge piece in that.

00:29:47.000 We know that someone told me not to.

00:29:50.000 And look, we've gone through in a previous episode last week what the president said correctly and what he said incorrectly.

00:29:57.000 And I think we gave one of the most honest assessments of his speech that he gave at the ellipse, where he should not have told the supporters he was going to the Capitol with them six or seven times.

00:30:08.000 And the question really remains, and this is going to be up for the prosecution to determine, which is the House, is if the agencies had noticed that something was going down, why didn't they brief the head of the executive branch?

00:30:23.000 And if they did, that opens a different set of questions that puts President Trump on defense.

00:30:28.000 That's the whole crux of the entire impeachment debacle.

00:30:31.000 But to lazily and sloppily label it as just the spontaneous event that went wrong is not accurate.

00:30:38.000 Before we get into that, there was something else I wanted to get into, Isabel.

00:30:41.000 And this was where you mentioned we saw the largest increase in homicides in American history.

00:30:46.000 2020 was a tough year for many reasons, as I think we can all agree.

00:30:51.000 But what's really frustrating is just how disappointing it is to see this rise in not only homicides, but also poverty.

00:30:58.000 So to break this down for you guys, 2020 saw the largest increase in homicides ever in American history in a calendar year.

00:31:05.000 Murder was up nearly 37% across the board in our country.

00:31:10.000 I don't think many of us are surprised by that.

00:31:12.000 We saw so much civil unrest last year.

00:31:14.000 We saw such an attack on our police officers across the board.

00:31:17.000 So I think that's definitely related to that.

00:31:19.000 But it is disappointing to see and certainly impacts all of us, regardless of where we live.

00:31:24.000 And similarly, we also saw the largest increase in poverty in 2020, up to 11.7% poverty rate in the United States this year.

00:31:32.000 It's because of the lockdowns.

00:31:33.000 And this is one of the biggest conflations, the great conflation.

00:31:37.000 We talked about this at length on our podcast, where the Democrats and the liberals intentionally conflate two things: the virus and the lockdowns.

00:31:47.000 The virus is an epidemiological threat to a certain group of people that will infect you and possibly kill you if you're over a certain age and you have certain underlying health conditions.

00:31:56.000 It's a real thing.

00:31:58.000 But then you also have a reaction to the virus.

00:32:02.000 We tried to kill a mouse with a Tomahawk missile.

00:32:05.000 And with it, we destroyed an entire generation of wealth, job creators, and entrepreneurs.

00:32:11.000 And guess what?

00:32:12.000 Wealthy people are doing better than ever before.

00:32:16.000 We went in great detail yesterday.

00:32:18.000 The wealthiest people in our country are $500 billion richer now than they were a year ago.

00:32:24.000 Meanwhile, America saw the largest increase in poverty.

00:32:27.000 So where does this lead us?

00:32:29.000 What happens next then?

00:32:31.000 So you have Bezos, the Louis Vuitton guy, the Google people, they all get $500 billion richer.

00:32:40.000 The Louis Vuitton guy are not $76 billion richer.

00:32:45.000 $76 billion.

00:32:45.000 Yeah.

00:32:48.000 What's happening because of the sloppiness of the ruling class, because of the, and I'm going to say this word, and I do not say this word lightly, but because of the greed of the ruling class, and I don't say that lightly, you are now going to, you are making the economic argument for Bernie Sanders.

00:33:07.000 Now, we have a different way to address it as conservatives.

00:33:11.000 It's going to be really hard for me to try to convince somebody not to be sympathetic with the AOC economic redistribution argument.

00:33:19.000 It's going to be really hard.

00:33:21.000 Because someone's going to say, wait a second, hold on.

00:33:24.000 I reentered poverty in the last year.

00:33:27.000 I did everything.

00:33:28.000 I played by the rules.

00:33:30.000 I kept my family together.

00:33:32.000 I had a wait in line in a food bank, but my job shut down.

00:33:39.000 And you're supposed to say that I'm supposed to pay more in taxes and Louis Vuitton guy has to pay less.

00:33:48.000 Where Louis Vuitton guy is now worth, how much is he worth now?

00:33:51.000 Like $135 billion or something?

00:33:58.000 And so that sort of dramatic income and wealth inequality only ends in one way.

00:34:04.000 You know how it ends?

00:34:06.000 With unrest.

00:34:09.000 That's how it ends.

00:34:11.000 And so sometimes the unrest, the economic unrest, it manifests itself in like social justice causes, like BLM Inc.

00:34:19.000 What they're really protesting is the economic conditions.

00:34:22.000 They just found a different way to communicate it in a way that the media and the corporate masters aren't upset about.

00:34:28.000 Louis Vuitton guy's worth $148.8 billion for selling you moet champagne and clothes you don't need.

00:34:40.000 Yeah, you want to see the great reset?

00:34:42.000 Keep it up.

00:34:44.000 You want to destroy the family?

00:34:45.000 Keep it up.

00:34:46.000 You want to destroy private property?

00:34:48.000 Keep it up.

00:34:51.000 It's almost as if this was all part of a strategy to try and erode the system that we have grown to love over a period of time.

00:35:03.000 And if you're listening to this right now on a podcast, please listen to the other podcast where it says finally some good news.

00:35:10.000 And it's about the filibuster.

00:35:11.000 And some of you are emailing us, Charlie, you're talking about the most depressing things.

00:35:14.000 Why is your YouTube labeled finally some good news?

00:35:17.000 Fair point.

00:35:19.000 The first hour was all about the good news of the Senate filibuster.

00:35:23.000 Senator Kirsten Sinema and Senator Joe Manchin have said they will not vote to lift the filibuster.

00:35:32.000 Therefore, the big structural changes they want to make to our country are becoming increasingly less likely.

00:35:40.000 Right.

00:35:41.000 And so the state edition, electoral college abolition, and Supreme Court editions, HR1, Green New Deal.

00:35:48.000 And I know some of you are saying, Charlie, this is not good news.

00:35:51.000 Okay.

00:35:52.000 I'm going to implore you guys, find the sweet little victories in the things that aren't happening, okay?

00:35:58.000 I know you're used to offensive wins.

00:36:00.000 We have to get used to defensive wins right now.

00:36:01.000 At least for a little while.

00:36:03.000 And these are Democrats that are standing up courageously for the institution of the Senate.

00:36:08.000 Here's a question right here from Rachel Cook about it.

00:36:10.000 So only the majority party can call the filibuster.

00:36:13.000 Also, you were going to talk about current things happening in Arizona, Georgia regarding legislative stuff.

00:36:18.000 Thank you, Rachel.

00:36:18.000 That is such a good point.

00:36:20.000 So, hey, Connor, can you get up the Georgia state bill they have about voting reform?

00:36:20.000 I am.

00:36:23.000 I do want to go into that.

00:36:24.000 Thank you for reminding me of that, Rachel.

00:36:26.000 That's why we have the best listeners out there.

00:36:28.000 We love you.

00:36:28.000 I know.

00:36:29.000 They're very active.

00:36:30.000 And also, we stay in good touch at freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:36:34.000 Yes, so the majority party, whoever has more votes, can technically break the filibuster.

00:36:40.000 And the filibuster is just a procedural step, right?

00:36:42.000 So the filibuster is a barrier before you can get to a majority vote.

00:36:48.000 Basically, it's cloture, like the end of the debate.

00:36:51.000 And I'm way oversimplifying this right now, by the way, everybody, because if I were to explain it as it's written, I'd be here till Saturday, okay?

00:37:00.000 The Senate rules are there.

00:37:02.000 You ever read the book, The Neverending Story?

00:37:05.000 You ever read that book?

00:37:06.000 Yes, that was the same thing.

00:37:07.000 The Senate rules are longer than that.

00:37:08.000 The Never Ending Story.

00:37:09.000 Yeah, we read that in fourth grade.

00:37:11.000 It really was very, very long.

00:37:12.000 It was a great book.

00:37:13.000 It was very long.

00:37:14.000 But the point is this, is that the fact that cinema and mansion aren't going to go along to it, if Schumer got every Democrat, they would lose the vote to end the filibuster at 48 votes.

00:37:27.000 Right.

00:37:28.000 Now, I have been putting a lot of praise on Manchin and Cinema.

00:37:33.000 They still might be changed on certain votes where they might say, okay, you don't want to get rid of the filibuster.

00:37:38.000 Just get rid of the filibuster on just this one state.

00:37:40.000 Please, we really need Puerto Rico or D.C. states to be added.

00:37:43.000 They're not signaling any wavering at all whatsoever on this.

00:37:47.000 And if they hold the line, they will go down as some of the most consequential, brave Democrats that kept the American Republic together.

00:37:57.000 I don't say that lightly.

00:37:58.000 I don't.

00:38:00.000 Because if they were to go along with it, they'd get 50 votes and D.C. and Puerto Rico would become new states.

00:38:05.000 And you'd have four new Democrat senators almost instantaneously, two new Democrat congresspeople, and new electoral college votes that would only favor the Democrats.

00:38:13.000 So understand the Democrats are disinterested in governing.

00:38:16.000 This is a really important point.

00:38:18.000 They're interested in expanding or changing the rules of engagement so that they can strengthen their own power.

00:38:26.000 Right, because it's precisely their policies that are not popular and that end up harming individual people on a day-to-day basis.

00:38:33.000 When you have higher taxes, you have less to provide for your family.

00:38:36.000 When minimum wage goes up, inflation goes up and then everything costs more.

00:38:40.000 So again, you can't provide for yourself and your family.

00:38:42.000 It's harder to get a job, especially for everybody in the fossil fuels industry now.

00:38:47.000 I feel terrible.

00:38:48.000 My heart just goes out to you if you're affected by that.

00:38:51.000 But these policies aren't popular.

00:38:53.000 They drive people apart.

00:38:54.000 They push you down.

00:38:55.000 They put the government back on top and start saying that we are ruling you.

00:38:59.000 We're not accountable to you.

00:39:01.000 Take what we say and run with it.

00:39:03.000 So I think that's so important, Charlie, because this idea of changing the rules of engagement limits their ability to be held responsible for these unpopular policies.

00:39:11.000 That is such a good point, Isabel.

00:39:13.000 And so I want to ask about the fossil fuel thing.

00:39:17.000 So they're kind of on a they're on a really diabolical campaign to eliminate fossil fuels.

00:39:27.000 Okay, yeah, let's go to Cut 29, please.

00:39:30.000 I guarantee you, I guarantee you, we're going to end fossil fuel, and I am not going to clock it.

00:39:38.000 Man, those people clapping.

00:39:39.000 And so that was during the campaign.

00:39:41.000 And then, of course, he said after, I'm not going to ban fracking no matter what.

00:39:44.000 But the Keystone XL pipeline, how many jobs that eliminate?

00:39:47.000 20,000?

00:39:48.000 Just over 15, I believe, is the exact amount.

00:39:51.000 But, you know, this elimination of not just that pipeline, but the attack on fossil fuels in general is estimated to eliminate more than a million jobs in our country this year.

00:39:59.000 Well, you know what's really interesting about this?

00:40:02.000 Do you know that anti-fracking measures outside of New York have never succeeded on a ballot referendum?

00:40:11.000 So, Isabel, do you remember when they put fracking on the ballot in Colorado?

00:40:14.000 Oh, yeah.

00:40:15.000 I will never forget.

00:40:16.000 And it failed miserably.

00:40:18.000 Yeah, so talk about that.

00:40:19.000 So Colorado, environmentalist state, very, very greeny state.

00:40:23.000 And we're proud of it.

00:40:24.000 Granola greeny.

00:40:26.000 Oh, yeah.

00:40:26.000 We're all granola.

00:40:27.000 We love it.

00:40:28.000 I love Colorado, and I love the outdoors.

00:40:30.000 And so I really do.

00:40:32.000 Colorado is a gift of a state.

00:40:34.000 It's been abused by Democrats, but that's a different topic for a different time.

00:40:39.000 But really interestingly, though, there was a big effort by the greenies, by the social justice, what do they call themselves?

00:40:46.000 Not the Paris Climate Accord people, the Sierra Club people.

00:40:49.000 That's who.

00:40:50.000 The Sierra Club people.

00:40:52.000 And they came and they wanted, they got ballot.

00:40:54.000 No, they got fossil fuel fracking on the ballot.

00:40:59.000 Right.

00:41:00.000 They wanted to completely eliminate fracking in the state of Colorado, which would have destroyed hundreds of thousands of jobs and, frankly, prohibited our state from running effectively.

00:41:09.000 You know, I find it so interesting that these environmentalists go after oil and gas, they go after fossil fuels, they go after fracking, not realizing that it's the taxes from those industries that pay for trail maintenance, that pay for state parks, that pay for our national parks, the clothes that you're wearing, this water bottle, your phone, your computer.

00:41:25.000 None of that would be possible without fossil fuels.

00:41:28.000 And it's also environmentally friendly.

00:41:31.000 You actually know the process of what fracking actually is.

00:41:34.000 I can't stand the term fracking.

00:41:36.000 I told the fossil fuel people a long time ago, find a new name.

00:41:38.000 Just like the school choice people stopped calling it vouchers.

00:41:41.000 They started calling it scholarships.

00:41:42.000 It got super popular.

00:41:43.000 Fracking sounds dirty, okay?

00:41:45.000 It just is the way it comes off the tongue.

00:41:48.000 They need a rebrand.

00:41:49.000 It sounds awful.

00:41:50.000 I mean, you might as well just call it, you know what?

00:41:53.000 I'm really in favor of death.

00:41:54.000 Like that might as well be the branding, okay?

00:41:57.000 You just need new words, okay?

00:42:00.000 Just come up with a new word.

00:42:01.000 It just sounds fracking.

00:42:02.000 It just sounds so dark.

00:42:03.000 Yeah, marketing experts, please help us.

00:42:05.000 Sounds idiotic.

00:42:06.000 Send us your suggestions.

00:42:08.000 Again, this is just a complete, there's just certain words that don't sound, they do not resonate phonetically well with the human ear, and fracking is one of those.

00:42:18.000 Anyway, in the state of Colorado.

00:42:19.000 That's the new word.

00:42:20.000 Anyway, back to the actual merits of fracking.

00:42:22.000 We miserably killed that on our state ballot.

00:42:25.000 I think that was on the ballot in 2016, if I remember.

00:42:28.000 That's a really important point, though, right?

00:42:30.000 Because people realize, wow, we're not going to have trail maintenance anymore.

00:42:34.000 We're not going to have jobs to pay for things.

00:42:36.000 We won't have tax revenue to help with our schools.

00:42:38.000 We're not going to have any opportunity to push through these environmental policies that we are passionate about.

00:42:43.000 And Colorado is a bit of a unique place where conservatives are equally as concerned about that stuff.

00:42:48.000 So I find this so interesting that that was such a unique test subject of a state where you have this very environmentally friendly culture, people who are very interested in public land conservation and protecting the environment and green energy, and yet overwhelmingly pushed back against this ban on fracking.

00:43:06.000 That is a microcosm for how we are as America.

00:43:09.000 And banning fracking on a large scale nationwide is a horrible idea.

00:43:13.000 It's a horrible idea.

00:43:14.000 And it's also, again, it's super unpopular.

00:43:17.000 So, if a state like Colorado, when given a ballot referendum, will not ban fracking, then what mandate is Joe Biden using to try and abolish fossil fuels and try to end leases and to try to get rid of the Keystone XL pipeline?

00:43:30.000 He's operating without a mandate from the people.

00:43:35.000 Only state, I believe, and our team could fact-check this, and maybe Connecticut did this, but they don't have oil and natural gas, is New York.

00:43:41.000 I think New York is the only state that had significantly had fracking abolishing with the support of the people.

00:43:51.000 New York.

00:43:52.000 And by the way, New York shares a gift from God called the Marcellus Shale.

00:43:57.000 So the Marcellus Shale is half in Pennsylvania, half in New York.

00:44:01.000 So Pennsylvania, not being insane, decided to extract the oil and natural gas, mostly natural gas.

00:44:09.000 They literally have a city in Pennsylvania called Oil City.

00:44:12.000 I kid you not.

00:44:12.000 It's an oil city.

00:44:13.000 It's in kind of north central Pennsylvania.

00:44:17.000 Because of this, billions of dollars of tax revenue have been given in Pennsylvania.

00:44:22.000 It might not be billions, but they're on pace for that.

00:44:25.000 They have a tremendous amount of job creation.

00:44:27.000 It's super popular.

00:44:28.000 Remember, it's so popular, Joe Biden went around saying, I'm not going to ban fracking.

00:44:31.000 In fact, let's play the tape of Joe Biden saying that.

00:44:34.000 I'm not going to ban fracking 20, Cut 27.

00:44:37.000 Look, let me be clear also.

00:44:39.000 I'm not banning fracking in Pennsylvania or anywhere else.

00:44:45.000 And I can protect Pennsylvania jobs, period.

00:44:49.000 No matter how many times Donald Trump lies.

00:44:53.000 And so the narrative Joe Biden was pushing is, I'm not getting rid of it.

00:44:59.000 So Pennsylvania is super popular there.

00:45:00.000 And if you look at a map of the Marcellus shale, it goes throughout Pennsylvania, southern New York, a little bit of Ohio, West Virginia, and parts of Virginia.

00:45:08.000 But really the bulk of it, where the real deposits are, is right in Pennsylvania.

00:45:13.000 So New York has made the clueless and ridiculous, not clueless, that's the right way to do it, just the stupid, can I say that word?

00:45:21.000 I don't use that word very often.

00:45:22.000 Stupid decision to not extract oil and natural gas.

00:45:26.000 So this is kind of a sidebar, but do you know what New York has been building instead to compensate to try to make up for their lost tax revenue?

00:45:34.000 Casinos.

00:45:36.000 So again, I'm all for gaming.

00:45:38.000 I think that I guess the right to game, I don't really do it, but I think we can all agree that the more casinos, you're probably not making your community richer, right?

00:45:47.000 That's probably a really good rule of thumb.

00:45:49.000 There's that expression, the house always wins, the house always wins.

00:45:51.000 So the fact they're building 20 new casinos in New York is, oh, we're out the tax revenue.

00:45:55.000 Why don't you just use the Marcellus shale that's been given in front of you?

00:45:58.000 So New York, they decided to get rid of it.

00:46:01.000 It wasn't, they're not the only, I think they're the only major state that's done it.

00:46:06.000 Ohio and Pennsylvania has decided to do the common sense thing and just let's extract the minerals we have.

00:46:11.000 It creates a lot of wealth.

00:46:12.000 It creates a lot of jobs, build the middle class, not to mention not just the jobs that are involved, but the restaurants and the schools and all the economic multipliers of it.

00:46:19.000 So Joe Biden is now doing something that no state except New York has actually decided to do.

00:46:26.000 The Dakotas love fracking.

00:46:28.000 Wyoming loves fracking.

00:46:29.000 Montana loves fracking.

00:46:31.000 Colorado, that has two Democrat senators and a Democrat governor, and I think a Democrat House and a Democrat Senate.

00:46:37.000 It's very blue these days.

00:46:39.000 They even shut down the idea of getting rid of fracking.

00:46:43.000 What mandate is Joe Biden acting on?

00:46:46.000 It would be one thing like it was the gay marriage thing and every state was kind of unfolding it and there's no momentum.

00:46:51.000 It's the opposite momentum.

00:46:53.000 There's no momentum.

00:46:54.000 Well, it's not a mandate from the people, Charlie.

00:46:56.000 It's a mandate from the radical left who's in power as politicians.

00:47:00.000 And this extends far beyond the concept of oil and gas, too.

00:47:03.000 Joe Biden's entire campaign strategy was let's beat Donald Trump.

00:47:08.000 And that was the entire strategy from the Democrat Party to get people to show up and vote was we're going to beat Donald Trump.

00:47:14.000 We're going to get him out of the White House, and then we'll figure out what we're doing later.

00:47:17.000 Well, guess what?

00:47:18.000 We're at later, and the people determining what we're doing now are people like Kamala Harris, who was the most far-left senator in the United States Senate beyond Bernie Sanders.

00:47:27.000 People like Bernie Sanders, who admitted yesterday that he's pushing to make Joe Biden further to the left on the political spectrum.

00:47:34.000 You're looking at things that destroy jobs, that implement insane policies in education, that raise your taxes, that make it harder for you to get an education.

00:47:43.000 These policies are not coming from the people, regardless of whether you're a Republican or a Democrat and who you voted for in 2020.

00:47:50.000 Fracking makes two sentences true.

00:47:52.000 And Joe Biden wants nothing to do with this.

00:47:54.000 Number one, the United States leads the world in producing oil and natural gas.

00:47:57.000 Number two, the United States leads the world in reducing energy-based CO2 emission.

00:48:01.000 Both were made possible thanks to fracking.

00:48:05.000 We're going to find a new word for fracking eventually.

00:48:06.000 Don't worry.

00:48:07.000 We're on it.

00:48:08.000 Email us your suggestions, by the way, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:48:11.000 Whoever emails us the best suggestion to replace the word fracking and also is subscribed to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast on Spotify or Apple podcasts.

00:48:19.000 I will give you a signed copy of my book.

00:48:21.000 The best suggestion.

00:48:22.000 Okay?

00:48:22.000 So I want to see them come in, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:48:25.000 But there is no mandate for this at all.

00:48:28.000 There's no popularity.

00:48:30.000 In fact, there's the opposite.

00:48:32.000 There is support to keep fracking in place and oil and natural gas development.

00:48:37.000 Okay, let's get to a question here.

00:48:42.000 Let's go to here.

00:48:44.000 Someone says, should I, okay, hi, Charlie.

00:48:47.000 As an Arizona resident, would you suggest we reach out to Kirsten Cinema and thank her for her support of retaining the filibuster?

00:48:52.000 Yes.

00:48:52.000 When a Democrat decides to do something to protect individual liberty and freedom in the American Republic, yes.

00:48:59.000 Absolutely.

00:49:00.000 I would recommend that.

00:49:01.000 That's a very good question.

00:49:01.000 Thank you.

00:49:03.000 Let's get to some questions here.

00:49:05.000 Let's go to here's one here.

00:49:08.000 Okay.

00:49:09.000 Hey, Charlie and Isabel, my name is Steve.

00:49:10.000 Can Nancy Pelosi be called to testify?

00:49:12.000 She was a witness.

00:49:13.000 Was she warned of a possible threat of violence on January the 6th?

00:49:16.000 And if so, why didn't she take action?

00:49:18.000 It's a really good question.

00:49:20.000 I think that she can be called as a witness.

00:49:24.000 And I think she should be, if that's true, if that's what you're saying.

00:49:27.000 I think she's in charge of capital security, Speaker of the House.

00:49:30.000 At least the highest level of representative.

00:49:30.000 I'm not sure.

00:49:32.000 That's floating around there.

00:49:34.000 But if she had aforementioned briefings on this, that would be something worth seeing.

00:49:39.000 Yeah.

00:49:40.000 I think the Senate can subpoena whoever they would like to to these impeachment trials.

00:49:40.000 Finding out.

00:49:45.000 So if they are interested in gathering information on the truth of what happened on January 6th, I say they absolutely should.

00:49:52.000 It sounds like this press conference is actually not our new White House press secretary.

00:49:56.000 It's President Biden talking about racial equity and his agenda to address that.

00:50:02.000 Racial equity.

00:50:03.000 Got it.

00:50:04.000 They're wasting no time to go right into the BLM Incorporated critical race theory agenda.

00:50:11.000 Our team's telling us, we can just fill you guys in quickly, that the president is explaining how many blacks and Latinos in America are completely out of work, but he isn't mentioning that lockdowns contributed in any way to having those Americans lose their jobs.

00:50:24.000 He's saying this is the time to address systemic racism and inequity.

00:50:29.000 Can I just say this concept of systemic racism that we hear about 24-7 from the left, it's just all the time, all the time.

00:50:36.000 That's all I hear.

00:50:37.000 If it's systemic, who controls the system?

00:50:40.000 Every single sphere of influence, academia, Hollywood, film industry, politics.

00:50:40.000 That's right.

00:50:46.000 I mean, we could go down the list over and over and over again.

00:50:48.000 The left overwhelmingly controls all of that.

00:50:51.000 Even the church now, frankly, in the United States, they control every sphere of influence and every system that could possibly have systemic racism.

00:51:00.000 So where is this coming from?

00:51:02.000 The left.

00:51:03.000 That's right.

00:51:03.000 And so if they were to root out systemic racism, they should start with their own institutions, the own corporations they control, and the own colleges that they govern.

00:51:13.000 And there's a difference between equality versus equity.

00:51:15.000 The difference between equality and equity must be emphasized.

00:51:18.000 This is written by producer Andrew.

00:51:20.000 I don't know if he got it for somewhere else or if he wrote it himself.

00:51:22.000 Although most promote fairness, equality achieves this through treating everyone the same, regardless of the need, while equity achieves this through treating people differently dependent on need.

00:51:32.000 And remember, Camela, she posted that graphic, that weird video, the day before the election.

00:51:39.000 It was very bizarre.

00:51:39.000 Remember that?

00:51:40.000 It was like this cartoon video explaining equality versus equity, but she understands this differentiation very clearly.

00:51:48.000 And make no mistake about it, they might use the word equality, but the left is actually advocating for equity.

00:51:53.000 They want equality of outcome, not of opportunity, and they're willing to do just about anything to make that happen.

00:51:58.000 So someone has a pretty good suggestion for fracking.

00:52:01.000 I actually like this one: harvesting.

00:52:03.000 Oh, I like it.

00:52:04.000 Harvesting is now the new frontrunner.

00:52:06.000 I like it better than fracking.

00:52:08.000 We're pro-harvesting.

00:52:09.000 How could you be against harvesting?

00:52:10.000 I love that.

00:52:11.000 I kind of think that's really good.

00:52:12.000 You're onto something.

00:52:13.000 I think we're on to something.

00:52:14.000 Okay, someone says, hey, Charlie, I saw your speech at Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills.

00:52:18.000 What is the three-point checklist you discussed?

00:52:20.000 I wasn't able to write it down when I heard it.

00:52:22.000 I'm very interested in your suggestions on involvement.

00:52:24.000 Give me one second.

00:52:25.000 I will find the exact wording on it in just a second here.

00:52:29.000 In the meantime, Isabel, can you tell people how to get involved with Turning Point USA?

00:52:33.000 I absolutely can, Charlie.

00:52:34.000 TPUSA is growing at just an alarming rate this year, you guys, and we're really excited to get more involved with all of you.

00:52:41.000 Alarmingly, great rate is the good news.

00:52:43.000 We're trying to start a bunch of new high school chapters across the country this year.

00:52:47.000 We're expanding a lot more into the digital space as we're interacting more digitally online in these recent times with COVID-19 and lockdowns.

00:52:55.000 We're trying to get older individuals involved in our alumni programs.

00:52:58.000 There's lots of ways to get involved.

00:53:00.000 If you just go to tpusa.com/slash get involved, a member from our team can help you figure out where you best fit here.

00:53:08.000 That is the way to do it.

00:53:09.000 And so I'm just pulling up this list.

00:53:11.000 And I encourage everyone to get involved with Turning Point USA.

00:53:14.000 You know, start a chapter all this.

00:53:15.000 Someone just said, don't use harvesting.

00:53:16.000 It sounds like organ harvesting.

00:53:18.000 Well, I think it sounds more like agriculture.

00:53:20.000 Yeah, I think we mean it more like the agricultural harvesting.

00:53:23.000 But point taken, we're exploring here.

00:53:25.000 We're brainstorming in real time, everybody, okay?

00:53:28.000 So here are three things.

00:53:29.000 I call this checking the boxes, okay?

00:53:31.000 The three things I encourage every patriot to do.

00:53:33.000 People say, what can I do?

00:53:35.000 What can I do?

00:53:36.000 Well, here are three things that every single patriot needs to do and every single American needs to do.

00:53:42.000 Every single taxpayer needs to do.

00:53:44.000 Every single Christian needs to do.

00:53:45.000 It's called checking the boxes.

00:53:47.000 Number one, list out all of your school board members, make a plan, get to know them, and influence local government.

00:53:52.000 Isabel, you went through that ridiculously insane Illinois curriculum.

00:53:57.000 Yeah, you know how you fix that?

00:53:58.000 Run for school board.

00:53:59.000 Talk to your school board members.

00:54:01.000 But on your refrigerator, on your phone, you should have every school board member in your area, you should be praying for them, taking them out to lunch, getting to know them, looking them in the eyes, asking them tough questions, going to their meetings.

00:54:12.000 Get involved in that.

00:54:13.000 Just show up to the meeting.

00:54:14.000 Ask a question.

00:54:15.000 Say, hey, you know, my name is Sally Su.

00:54:17.000 I'm a taxpayer in this local school district.

00:54:18.000 Is the 1619 project being taught in these schools?

00:54:21.000 Because I would like to put a FOIA request down, which you're allowed to as an American taxpaying citizen, to find out if any of our taxpayer dollars are going through the 1619 project.

00:54:30.000 That's all you have to do.

00:54:31.000 It's literally it.

00:54:32.000 Just ask the question.

00:54:33.000 It's amazing how many conservatives are like, I don't know what to do.

00:54:36.000 Just go do that.

00:54:37.000 Second thing, learn something new every day.

00:54:39.000 Learn something concrete, exciting, and new every day about our country and our challenges.

00:54:44.000 That's what we try to do here on the Charlie Kirk show.

00:54:45.000 If you watch the stream in its entirety, we went through fracking, we went through curriculum, we went through filibuster.

00:54:51.000 There's a lot to learn.

00:54:52.000 Why is learning important?

00:54:54.000 And informed citizenry is an act of citizenry.

00:54:57.000 At Turning Point USA and all the work we do on campuses across the country, I could tell you this, that the best activists we have are the most informed activists.

00:55:06.000 The best activists we have are the ones that are the most well-read, most aware, and know the most about philosophy.

00:55:15.000 And the last thing is this: list the individual fighters in the movement, metaphorical fighters, of course.

00:55:21.000 Pray for them, support them, and help them daily.

00:55:23.000 We're talking about the people that are going above and beyond and sacrificing for our movement.

00:55:27.000 People like Larry Elder, people like Candace Owens, people like Tucker, people that are really going above and beyond because they need your support.

00:55:34.000 Just check the boxes.

00:55:35.000 Do that every day.

00:55:36.000 Say, did I do those three things every day?

00:55:38.000 The school board and local government, everybody, is so important because a lot of conservatives, I find, are just waiting for salvation and Air Force One.

00:55:46.000 Meanwhile, the city around them is up for grabs.

00:55:48.000 And they wait to get involved in the process until a few months before every presidential election.

00:55:53.000 But those few years in between, imagine what you could do and the difference you could make on a national scale if you went to all of your neighbors' houses and made sure they were registered to vote.

00:56:02.000 That's exactly.

00:56:03.000 I completely agree.

00:56:04.000 And so now let's get into the Arizona election law changes.

00:56:08.000 And Arizona, we're reading from Tucson.com/slash news, the Arizona Daily Star, another swing state that Biden narrowly carried.

00:56:15.000 Republicans in the state Senate have advanced legislation that would result in more automatic recounts.

00:56:19.000 Some Republicans have also introduced legislation to abolish the state's permanent early voting list, which is a supermajority of voters who are registered for, although a co-sponsor of the legislation told the Arizona Republic, quote, it can't pass and I don't want to waste my time with it.

00:56:33.000 So we are now personally in Arizona.

00:56:35.000 I'm already talking to legislatures.

00:56:37.000 I'm talking to members in the House and the Senate.

00:56:39.000 We are going to do everything we possibly can to lobby and pressure for voting reform here in Arizona.

00:56:44.000 We are going to be solution-oriented.

00:56:47.000 If you're in Georgia, you have to do the same.

00:56:49.000 We have to fix the way we do elections in this country.

00:56:52.000 Well, and frankly, beyond just Arizona and Georgia, too, even if your state wasn't one of the ones in question when it came to integrity during this last election cycle, voter fraud happens in every election in every state in the United States.

00:57:03.000 So take it upon yourself to get involved.

00:57:05.000 States like North Carolina, states like Nevada.

00:57:08.000 I mean, we could go on and on and on, but no matter where you live, work with your state legislature.

00:57:12.000 You have a lot more power than you think.

00:57:14.000 That's exactly right.

00:57:15.000 Email us your questions, everybody, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:57:17.000 We are getting a lot of interesting suggestions on what we need to name fracking.

00:57:22.000 Someone says, I agree at the statement that harvesting sounds too much like organ harvesting.

00:57:26.000 How about garnering or collecting resources?

00:57:28.000 Simple with positive connotations.

00:57:30.000 Not bad.

00:57:31.000 I don't hate garnering.

00:57:32.000 I like that.

00:57:33.000 Garnering.

00:57:34.000 Sounds like gardening.

00:57:34.000 Okay.

00:57:35.000 Yeah.

00:57:36.000 Anyway, I just think we need a rebranding because fracking is not, this is not a good word.

00:57:40.000 Okay.

00:57:41.000 Not that it's not a good thing.

00:57:42.000 It's just the description I think we've been through.

00:57:43.000 Okay, here we go.

00:57:45.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:57:46.000 I'm a huge fan of your show.

00:57:47.000 And Isabel, Peter says, hi.

00:57:49.000 Do you think there is a chance at any other Democrat senators could say no to repealing the filibuster?

00:57:49.000 Hi.

00:57:55.000 Yes.

00:57:56.000 And so it could be John Tester as well, and maybe even Mark Kelly.

00:57:59.000 It might end up becoming the popular thing if Republicans start getting some momentum in the next couple months to all of a sudden be against the filibuster.

00:58:06.000 I think people in Congress are much more in tune with what their mandate, we're using that word a lot today, is from their constituents.

00:58:06.000 Right.

00:58:13.000 So if you are in one of these states represented by one of these Senate Democrats, say something about it.

00:58:18.000 Call their office, send them a letter, show up at their office and ask for a meeting.

00:58:21.000 Yes.

00:58:22.000 The more you make your voice known and what your opinion on this issue is known and that it's going to affect their reelection campaign, the more you're going to be able to move the needle on this issue.

00:58:30.000 Especially if you're a swing voter or a Republican going towards these Democrats in Republican states.

00:58:35.000 Just so you guys know, if you look at voter registration numbers in Arizona, Republicans are still out registering Democrats.

00:58:42.000 I mean, Arizona feels like this deep blue state.

00:58:44.000 It could flip like this.

00:58:45.000 And Kirsten Sinema knows that, and Mark Kelly knows that, and future presidential candidates know that, that Arizona is not done yet.

00:58:53.000 Same with Georgia.

00:58:54.000 There's more Republicans than Democrats.

00:58:56.000 And so Democrats, especially that are representing in Arizona, they're very worried that a Republican resurgence with a good candidate.

00:59:04.000 So that's why Kirsten Sinema is doing what she's doing.

00:59:06.000 And same with Joe Manchin, who's in a very, very red state of West Virginia.

00:59:10.000 Like one of the most Republican states in the country.

00:59:10.000 Yeah.

00:59:12.000 And they're making, you know, they're making a good move here.

00:59:16.000 So, okay, let's go to here.

00:59:19.000 It says, don't replace it with harvesting, not to be confused with ballot harvesting.

00:59:24.000 Oh, okay.

00:59:24.000 That's good feedback, you guys.

00:59:26.000 Thank you.

00:59:26.000 We got maybe garnering gas or gas garnering instead of fracking.

00:59:30.000 Hope you'll consider.

00:59:31.000 Let's, okay, here's a good one.

00:59:34.000 This one is from actually, one of our listeners did this.

00:59:37.000 They CC'd freedom at charliekirk.com eight days ago.

00:59:40.000 And he emailed all of his Georgia representatives.

00:59:40.000 Lewis did.

00:59:43.000 And this is what he said.

00:59:44.000 This is what a true patriot does and a good American.

00:59:46.000 Lewis, God bless you.

00:59:48.000 He says this, hi, I was just watching the Charlie Kirk show.

00:59:50.000 And he said, the number one thing to focus on is to get estates vote the way that Florida does.

00:59:54.000 You're right.

00:59:56.000 I think this is really encouraging and will empower future voters if, quote, a Florida-style system is on its way by June.

01:00:01.000 He puts our YouTube clip in with a time stamp.

01:00:04.000 Saw some of your hearings and liked how they were efficient and cool-headed.

01:00:07.000 A Florida-style system is a clear goal and one that could be accomplished and can help.

01:00:11.000 I'm a voter from Brooklyn, New York, but every state matters in national elections.

01:00:14.000 See, he's not even a Georgia voter contesting for the future of a republic.

01:00:18.000 Lewis, I'm going to send you a signed copy of the book.

01:00:22.000 The representative responded and said this.

01:00:22.000 You know why?

01:00:24.000 Good evening.

01:00:25.000 Thank you.

01:00:25.000 Agree with you.

01:00:26.000 Florida does have a really good model for sure.

01:00:28.000 I appreciate you reaching out.

01:00:29.000 All your best to you and your family.

01:00:31.000 Best regards.

01:00:32.000 A member of the state house.

01:00:33.000 That is our system at work.

01:00:35.000 And so thank you guys.

01:00:36.000 Thank you for that.

01:00:37.000 And I'm going to send you a signed copy of the book.

01:00:39.000 Okay, let's go to one here.

01:00:44.000 A lot of questions about, okay, here we go.

01:00:48.000 It says, you mentioned going into Georgia and Arizona legislature, but never went into detail about Arizona.

01:00:52.000 What's going on?

01:00:53.000 Basically, what's going on, there's a couple bills proposed.

01:00:55.000 One of them is likely to fail.

01:00:56.000 Another one we're going to push for.

01:00:58.000 I think we need even more aggressive reforms than what's being pushed there.

01:01:02.000 And so we need to go contact our state legislators respectfully and directly in the House and the Senate in Arizona and say, hey, you have to post this.

01:01:12.000 You have to post these bills and you have to put them up for a vote in the state legislatures.

01:01:18.000 Yeah, it's going to take a mobilization of the people and constituents to make that happen, I think, in several of these states.

01:01:24.000 So get to work, everybody.

01:01:25.000 Amen.

01:01:26.000 Everyone, email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:01:30.000 Let's get to one here.

01:01:31.000 Basically, they're saying, there's one of these questions here.

01:01:34.000 You know, I'm in college.

01:01:36.000 I'm under a lot of attack.

01:01:37.000 I'm being doxxed.

01:01:38.000 How do I deal with that?

01:01:38.000 Isabel.

01:01:39.000 You're not alone.

01:01:40.000 I have to say that every time because I know how isolating that feels.

01:01:43.000 I lived that every day when I was in college, you guys.

01:01:46.000 And so many of our activists for Turning Point USA have to live that reality every day.

01:01:50.000 The best way that you can fight back against it is by continuing to get up every single day.

01:01:56.000 I know that's exhausting and it's hard and scary sometimes, but the left calls you all these names.

01:02:01.000 They attack you.

01:02:02.000 They shut you down.

01:02:02.000 They try to isolate you in an attempt to get you to be quiet about what you believe in, to stop raising your hand in class, to stop saying things in student government, to stop tabling out on campus and handing out turning point materials, stop inviting people like Charlie to come speak On your campus, if you don't back down, that's when those people start to shy away from everything that they're doing.

01:02:21.000 So keep doing everything you're doing.

01:02:23.000 We're always here to support you, and you're never alone.

01:02:25.000 tpusa.com slash get involved.

01:02:27.000 And in addition to that, those of you that have sort of issues and problems, you guys can email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:02:35.000 We'll try and help you the best we can.

01:02:37.000 And yes, there's also an Arizona audit underway in Maricopa County.

01:02:41.000 Isn't it funny now that the election is over, all of a sudden audits start to get done?

01:02:44.000 Yeah.

01:02:44.000 It's kind of strange and suspicious how that all works out.

01:02:47.000 And then Isabel, you have a new show coming up, don't you?

01:02:49.000 I do.

01:02:49.000 We announced it yesterday.

01:02:50.000 I'm so excited.

01:02:51.000 I'm working with our Turning Point Productions team, who is amazing, by the way.

01:02:55.000 You guys, they do so much great work and they often go unthanked for that.

01:02:59.000 So we love the support that we can show to them.

01:03:01.000 My new show is going to be coming out every single day starting next Monday.

01:03:05.000 It's called Freedom Seeds.

01:03:06.000 And the entire concept is to give you guys metaphorical ammo to win our culture war.

01:03:12.000 Things like facts and data and statistics that you're not hearing in the mainstream media, from your college professors, on your social media feeds.

01:03:18.000 And every day, in just about a minute, you're going to be given a fact that you can take out into the world and help us with this culture war.

01:03:25.000 Amen.

01:03:25.000 Email us your questions as always: freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:03:28.000 Thank you for supporting us at charliekirk.com/slash support.

01:03:32.000 Today's a good day.

01:03:33.000 It's a great day to be alive.

01:03:34.000 Joe Biden's going to keep on doing stuff by executive action that could be sued and overturned by the courts or undone by another president.

01:03:41.000 But the big structural changes, state additions, Supreme Court changes are not going to happen.

01:03:47.000 Insofar the Democrats are telling the truth of cinema and mansion.

01:03:51.000 And that is a reason for celebration because it was a real fear the filibuster would get lifted.

01:03:56.000 And so now it's time to recruit candidates, organize our local communities, win arguments, not give up.

01:04:03.000 Our will will never be broken, and we have brighter days ahead.

01:04:07.000 You know how to get involved.

01:04:09.000 If you guys want to get involved with Turning PointUSA, it's tpusa.com/slash get involved.

01:04:15.000 God bless America.

01:04:16.000 God bless you.

01:04:17.000 We'll be back very soon.

01:04:18.000 Today's a good day.

01:04:19.000 Enjoy the small little victory.

01:04:21.000 We'll be back later.

The Charlie Kirk Show - January 27, 2021

Biden's Massive Fracking Betrayal of America

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