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00:01:23.000He's going to wait to summer to step down for a variety of reasons.
00:01:30.000Obviously, the most obvious is that he wants to play out this term and he wants to have his successor be confirmed while the Democrats still control the Senate.
00:01:42.000Now, there's a couple different ways that we can analyze this.
00:01:44.000The first is the Democrats are worried they're going to lose control of the United States Senate because of good candidates like Herschel Walker and Ron Johnson running.
00:01:55.000The second is that they're going to try to use this to motivate their base to try and, let's say, lessen the loss or try and mitigate the damage, I should say, of the pending red wave.
00:02:08.000They're trying to thwart the red wave.
00:02:09.000And it does go to this deeper point that I think the Democrats have a variety of different surprises they are going to roll out.
00:02:17.000They are not going to give up power easily.
00:02:20.000It's likely that Republicans are going to take back power.
00:02:30.000And to think that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are just going to willingly give up power without deploying every single trick they have at their disposal, you're fooling yourself, especially people that are near the end of their career.
00:02:44.000This is why they have the January 6th Commission.
00:02:46.000This is precisely why they're trying to now do this nonsense with the Supreme Court.
00:02:51.000They're going to try to politicize Roe versus Wade, amongst many other things.
00:02:55.000Now, another poll has Biden under 40% approval.
00:02:59.000A Harvard-Harris poll has Biden approval at 39%.
00:03:03.000The gender gap has also disappeared, and Biden is upside down with both men and women by 14 points.
00:03:10.000If Democrats felt confident that they would hold the Senate, they would want Breyer to stay on until they have a more secure vote and a larger margin.
00:03:20.000So then they could confirm a less moderate nominee.
00:03:24.000And so we don't know who the nominee is going to be.
00:03:27.000CNN already has seven black women on screen, right?
00:03:31.000Saying this is who should be the next Supreme Court justice.
00:03:35.000Cut 63, Fox News reports on Biden's 40% approval rating and other abysmal stats.
00:05:04.000We are now at 29 Democrats that are retiring.
00:05:06.000There are 15 House Republicans that are retiring.
00:05:09.000And some of those 15 House Republicans are kind of these moderate Republicans that voted to impeach Donald Trump.
00:05:16.000Nancy Pelosi said, look, I think it's an indication that Republicans know that they'll probably be serving in the minority in Congress coming up in November.
00:05:32.000I think it's an indication that the Republicans know that they'll probably be serving in the minority in the next Congress and most likely with a Democrat in the White House.
00:05:45.000So I think it's maybe they think it's time to spend more time with their family.
00:05:50.000And so Nancy Pelosi has an announcement of her own.
00:05:53.000Now, look, Nancy Pelosi, I could make fun of how she talks pretty well.
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00:06:48.000But as we say, we don't agonize, we organize.
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00:07:16.000So I, you know, having grown Turning Point USA with an amazing team, it's not just me, but in the first couple of years traveling the country, I went to almost every single state, spent a lot of time in New York, a lot of time in LA, good amount of time in San Francisco.
00:07:30.000I grew up in 2012, 13, 14, 15, when I was 18, 19, 20, 21 years old.
00:07:35.000These cities had problems, but I never felt unsafe.
00:07:58.000I don't, I don't find pleasure in saying Chicago, San Francisco, LA, Seattle, and Portland are deteriorating third-world dystopian cities, which they are.
00:08:11.000In fact, I think a country that doesn't have at least some form of, I don't want to say vibrant cities, because I think urban areas are super depressing sometimes, but they should have some sort of energy.
00:12:04.000When there is risk associated with something, then you must trust agency.
00:12:09.000You must trust an individual to make the choice appropriate for their own life and their own sovereignty.
00:12:17.000Enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, articulated in the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and reasserted in the United States Constitution with the extension of the American U.S. Bill of Rights that came in 1791, is this idea of human equality.
00:12:34.000It's not that all people have the same gifts and talents, that everyone is the same size or same height.
00:12:41.000No, instead, it's that we're all the same sort of thing.
00:12:44.000We have the same duties, obligations, and rights.
00:12:50.000That is what a constitutional system establishes and sets up.
00:12:56.000In Cut 60 from Senator Ron Johnson's panel, Dr. Paul Alexander walked through how vaccines do not sterilize the virus or stop transmission and how that will make it impossible to ever reach herd immunity.
00:13:13.000The key point he was making is: had we been using a vaccine that could sterilize the virus, that could stop transmission, we would not be in this situation, whether or not the vaccine is needed.
00:13:25.000And the problem here is this vaccine does not stop infection, does not sterilize the virus, it does not stop the transmission.
00:13:32.000You can never ever get to population herd immunity 100% with these vaccines.
00:13:39.000So when there is risk and also what you are pushing is not even working, why would you still mandate it?
00:13:47.000And that's where all of a sudden the centralization of power, the likelihood that a central authority is wrong more than right is actually much higher.
00:13:57.000You're just dealing in pure percentages and pure probability, especially when you have the conflict of interest and the not-so-innocent inclinations of a group of bureaucrats that are highly corrupted or heavily corrupted, I should say.
00:14:16.000The chance that they are going to get the mandate wrong is far better than you to be able to make the decision correctly.
00:14:25.000This is very logical when you think about it because you have the ability to adapt.
00:14:32.000You also have a vested interest in looking after yourself.
00:14:36.000And so if all of a sudden you start to see a sequence of medical decisions that are being pushed upon you that don't make any sense, then you should be able to establish your individual sovereignty and say, yeah, I'm not doing that.
00:14:48.000Now, vaccine mandates, thankfully, are falling apart.
00:14:53.000Tragically, when we pushed a vaccine on people, we've already started to see some of the adverse events.
00:14:59.000And I'm afraid we're going to see more mounting adverse events for years and decades and generations to come from that for a vaccine that is not even protecting people against the very virus that they got the vaccine to try and prevent.
00:15:14.000When there is risk, there must be choice.
00:15:20.000Look, everybody, I know you love freedom and you want to defend it.
00:15:24.000It's a beautiful document, and so do I.
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00:16:41.000It really is a constitutional question, isn't it?
00:16:43.000And the Constitution should be our guide in all this.
00:16:46.000I had someone ask me the other day, said, Charlie, how are you ever going to unite all the different factions of the conservative movement?
00:16:52.000And I'm not totally interested in that, to be perfectly honest at times.
00:16:56.000But I will say that the Constitution is the non-negotiable.
00:17:00.000The Constitution recognizes God-granted rights, separation of powers, independent judiciary, consent to the governed, checks and balances.
00:17:09.000The Constitution also is not a document that says you can't do anything about existential threats.
00:17:15.000This is something that's really important, is that if you understand the promises and the truths that are articulated in the United States Constitution, all of a sudden you might feel more empowered to actually handle some of the issues that are in front of us.
00:17:27.000Let me give you a great example of this.
00:17:28.000In the United States Constitution, it articulates both in the first seven articles of the Constitution and also in the First Amendment, it articulates a right to political speech, religious affiliation, and your ability to speak freely.
00:17:42.000Now, this is so typical of the left, right?
00:17:45.000So the left takes the First Amendment and they immediately say, how can we make America a more degenerate place based on a promise of the First Amendment?
00:17:53.000So they had all these lawsuits in the 70s and 80s, and they won a lot of them to say that, oh, pornography and swearing and all these things, that's First Amendment.
00:18:04.000If you actually go to what the founders said is free speech, it was really two groups of people.
00:18:09.000And Jim Acosta is going to really love this.
00:18:13.000It's people that are journalists and people that are newspaper writers and truth seekers to hold politicians accountable and religious officials.
00:18:23.000That really is the two buckets of people the First Amendment was designed to write.
00:18:26.000Now, I'm not saying there should be a pull-up bureau of censorship that goes around and shuts everyone up.
00:18:30.000I actually would be open to turning off some of the garbage that our nine-year-olds are actually consuming on the internet.
00:18:35.000They're like, oh, no, that's free speech.
00:18:38.000But let's kind of take that one step at a time.
00:18:42.000Speech that questions and challenges the regime is not just protected, it is imperative.
00:18:53.000If you do not have speech that questions people in charge, then you have nothing more than an obedient population within the people that own the lines of communication, or you have a propaganda arm.
00:19:08.000And so I'll give you a great example, which is kind of this Biden press conference that has gotten, you know, received a lot of attention.
00:19:14.000Do you notice that almost no one interrupts Joe Biden when he's doing his answers?
00:19:19.000With Donald Trump, they would interrupt him almost relentlessly.
00:19:22.000That's not a media that is in need of constitutional protection.
00:19:29.000What is an example of a media that is in need of constitutional protection?
00:19:32.000How about Project Veritas with James O'Keefe?
00:19:36.000James O'Keefe's home was raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, because he dared to publish articles with Pfizer and DARPA and the Department of Defense.
00:19:48.000And also, James O'Keefe happened to be a recipient of an alleged diary that was Ashley Biden's that he did not even publish.
00:19:58.000But the Constitution being the centerpiece, and they always talk about the great reset.
00:20:03.000I think we need a constitutional reset.
00:20:06.000It doesn't mean you have to be stuck in a state of paralysis when it comes to existential threats to our liberties.
00:20:15.000So when Google and Facebook start to restrict political speech, such as they did in October, that should be a violation of the promise and of the contract and the compact of the First Amendment.
00:20:29.000You see, an improper reading of First Amendment is like, oh, that's a private business.
00:20:35.000Actually, that's as much of a public forum where you're saying that the New York Post can't publish negative articles against Hunter Biden.
00:20:41.000You go read the Federalist Papers, go dive deep into the literature of the Founding Fathers.
00:20:48.000At the time, it was mostly pastors, but it applies to other religious officials, rabbis, et cetera.
00:20:54.000Religious officials must have unquestioned, let's say, completely protected ability to speak, assemble, communicate as they see fit.
00:21:08.000And so should journalists and members of the media.
00:21:11.000Now, what's the significance of those two things?
00:21:13.000Why would the founding fathers, as they were designing a constitutional construct, why would they point out religious officials and journalists or people that are commenting about those sorts of issues?
00:21:25.000Not just the officials, but let's say those categories, not pornography or swear words or some sort of lunatic trying to pervert your children to go become a transgender person or whatever, right?
00:21:35.000Oh, yeah, the blessing of liberty includes drag queen story art.
00:21:44.000One, holds power accountable and fulfills the, let's say, not the promise, but it holds in check the truth articulated by Lord Acton: absolute power corrupts absolutely.
00:22:00.000That's the point of having communication and having discourse and having dialogue and having publication and having journalists that are willing to go after those stories.
00:22:12.000And secondly, if you do not have a moral underpinning of a society, then liberty turns to license within a couple months.
00:22:26.000James Wilson, who's not as much of a sighted person, knew this.
00:22:31.000Gubiner Morris knew this as part of the Founding Fathers kind of group of authors and writers.
00:22:37.000They knew that if you do not have the ability for pastors and priests, rabbis and religious officials to be able to pursue virtue and instill virtue on a society, then limited government is a temporary mirage.
00:22:54.000It is built on a metaphorical house of cards.
00:23:04.000And so when we look at this idea of holding powerful people accountable, I believe in small government, a small but strong government.
00:23:12.000We should also believe in small pharma.
00:23:16.000Big pharma is not something that we as Republicans should automatically support.
00:23:23.000Cut 61, Dr. Robert Malone, shares that he met with Nancy Pelosi's office and recommended that the CDC aid stratify the vaccine risks versus benefits, but no action was taken.
00:24:36.000Because we've participated in way too many thought crimes.
00:24:39.000So we are not able to communicate to our 561,000 subscribers or our 2.4 million fans on Facebook, a combined audience of nearly 3 million people, because we are mentioning facts, circumstances, and ideas that would be censored or canceled by the regime media.
00:25:02.000Now, it's easy to complain about it, but the real question is, why didn't Republicans do anything about that in 2017, 2018 when they controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House?
00:25:11.000Instead, they cut corporate taxes for these companies.
00:25:15.000Number one, it's because of the corruption.
00:25:16.000But number two, Republicans really had convinced themselves that it's not a role of government to protect your rights.
00:25:23.000Republicans had really convinced themselves amongst the intelligentsia that, hey, we might be here, but it's really not our role to protect your rights.
00:25:31.000This is where people read the Constitution incorrectly.
00:25:35.000The founding fathers envisioned government as the ultimate, let's say, entity that will restrict your freedoms and liberties.
00:25:44.000But now we have seen a new government created out of Silicon Valley.
00:25:48.000And the fact that a sitting U.S. Senator mentioning the government's own vaccine adverse event database would get us censored should be totally unacceptable.
00:26:10.000Like, Wisconsin, really, we hate that place.
00:26:13.000This is one of the reasons why I think Ron Johnson is going to win reelection by three, four, five, six points is just Wisconsin is going to reassert their pride of being a state.
00:26:24.000That it's like, yeah, I don't know if I like Ron Johnson, everything he's doing, but I know he loves Wisconsin and I love Wisconsin and I live here and I hate Manhattan and I can't stand Malibu and I don't like how they talk down to us.
00:26:37.000The Constitution allows plenty of opportunities for action as long as they're protecting natural rights.
00:26:49.000And the most important of which is the right to speech.
00:27:10.000And the word logos means reason, speech.
00:27:16.000There's lots of different interpretations for that.
00:27:18.000Though you think about it, it's like, wow, our ability to reason, our ability to make sense of the natural world, our ability to communicate, our ability to use common nouns, which I've talked about the common noun miracle many times on this program, is what makes us uniquely human.
00:27:37.000So, what do you say to a government that doesn't allow you to do the thing that makes you human?
00:27:43.000What do you say for a government that doesn't allow you to speak?
00:27:48.000That's why the Founding Fathers took it as the First Amendment.
00:27:51.000They knew that if you are not able to challenge authority or pursue virtue, all the other promises of the U.S. Constitution, all the other aspects of the constitutional order shatter.
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00:29:44.000I think Democrats are probably likely to screw this up, but I think that there's a potential that they could use this as a base motivator, especially in certain districts.
00:29:55.000Now, I promised I would play this tape, and not everyone remembers this, but one of the great moments of all time when Donald Trump heard that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed away, done with just incredible class and with remarkable instincts, as it happened, play tape.
00:31:36.000It's going to be effective after the summer term.
00:31:38.000So we are going to have a summer Supreme Court fight.
00:31:42.000I think Republicans would be very wise not to dig in too deep and to make this about mansion and cinema.
00:31:49.000Know the votes you have, hold the line.
00:31:52.000I think it would be disappointing if Mitt Romney and Susan Collins decided to try and win over the moderates by trying to signal that they might vote for this.
00:32:03.000We don't even know the nominee, but we know it's going to be someone who's super radical, kind of a soda mayor.
00:32:08.000This does not upset the balance of the court.
00:32:44.000So this very well might be them indicating that they're afraid that they're going to lose power very soon, that they are increasingly worried that this might fall apart.
00:32:55.000Now, they need to solidify 50 votes first.
00:32:57.000And so I think Republicans need to just kind of say, you control the apparatus, have at it.
00:33:05.000I think McConnell needs to be careful not to look like a hypocrite here because he's going to be like, oh, why are you doing this in an election year?
00:33:11.000Just basically, I think that McConnell needs to say, look, you guys control the Senate right now after two very suspicious election wins in Georgia.
00:33:22.000We'll see how much longer you control it.
00:33:25.000Try to pull this off without a single Republican vote.
00:33:34.000Have fun winning over Tester and winning over cinema and winning over Mansion.
00:33:40.000And also, have fun trying to explain to the voters of Arizona, Mark Kelly, that you just voted for a radical Supreme Court justice 90 days before polls open.
00:33:49.000Like, good luck, Raphael Warnock, explaining that one to the great people of Gainesville, Georgia, that, yeah, vote for me so you get a radical takeover of the United States Supreme Court.
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