The Charlie Kirk Show - Cracks Emerge in the Radical 'Woke' Coalition

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00:03:42.000 A lot happened in the last couple of days.

00:03:44.000 Over the weekend, President Trump was acquitted by the United States Senate.

00:03:50.000 Former President Trump was being tried for the charge of inciting an insurrection against the United States government.

00:04:00.000 The trial was full of inconsistencies, tampered with evidence.

00:04:07.000 Due process was not afforded to the president.

00:04:09.000 There were six amendment violations.

00:04:13.000 The president still was able to survive impeachment with seven Republicans who voted for impeachment, some of whom include Ben Sass, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, and many others.

00:04:26.000 Richard Burr, Pat Toomey, Susan Collins.

00:04:31.000 I think I'm forgetting one or two.

00:04:34.000 Did Bill Cassidy vote for impeachment?

00:04:37.000 Seven Republicans.

00:04:40.000 And what was amazing to me is I was thinking to myself, how many senators, Republican establishment senators, wanted to vote to convict the president, not based on evidence, not based on data or information, but instead on revenge.

00:05:06.000 How many senators actually wanted to go alongside these seven other Republican senators?

00:05:11.000 And the answer is quite a lot, probably dozens.

00:05:17.000 So why didn't they?

00:05:19.000 Why didn't these senators, some of the people that have total and complete contempt for President Trump, always did, why didn't they go along?

00:05:31.000 The answer is based in how the vote actually occurred.

00:05:37.000 About a week and a half before the impeachment vote, Liz Cheney, who wrongly and baselessly said that former President Trump incited a mob against our government, not a mob, an insurrection against our government, she faced a vote to remove her as the leader of the Republican Leadership Conference, effectively third in control of the House of Representatives for the House Republicans.

00:06:02.000 She survived that vote.

00:06:05.000 She survived that vote because the vote occurred in private.

00:06:12.000 She survived that vote because the representatives were able to use what's called a secret ballot.

00:06:19.000 They met privately, they met secretly, they met discreetly, and they were able to voice their support of Liz Cheney, even though their constituents would have been very upset if they would have seen themselves voice their support behind a corporate mouthpiece like Liz Cheney.

00:06:39.000 Now, Liz Cheney might be a very nice person, but the Cheney family believes in a form of governing that is centered around pandering to corporate interests and corporate donors above the interests of the American people.

00:06:56.000 So how did Liz Cheney survive and Donald Trump survive?

00:07:02.000 The reason and the answer is how the balloting actually occurred.

00:07:10.000 Senator Chris Coons from Delaware admitted this.

00:07:13.000 In fact, I told our team as soon as the impeachment vote was announced to be one that was going to be public, which of course it needs to be.

00:07:19.000 It's constitutionally required that the impeachment vote be public.

00:07:24.000 I said, I believe President Trump will survive this because there will not be the necessary amount of Republican defectors that will go back to their states and be able to justify impeaching a private citizen who did not do what he was accused of doing.

00:07:41.000 No way will senators from Missouri or North Dakota or South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Kansas, Arkansas, Alabama go along with us.

00:07:53.000 No way.

00:07:54.000 And we were proven right.

00:07:57.000 But if that was done in private, in secret, and if there would have been a guarantee to these senators that no one would ever know how you voted, how would they have voted?

00:08:08.000 Of course, speculation can only answer that question, but Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, agrees with me.

00:08:15.000 He said that if this ballot, if this vote happened in private and in secret, Donald Trump would have been acquitted.

00:08:24.000 Democrat Senator Chris Coons makes my point perfectly because he talks to those senators.

00:08:31.000 He talks to those Republican senators in private.

00:08:33.000 And they confide in him and they say, you know, Senator Coons, you know, Chris, I would remove Donald Trump, but I got a problem.

00:08:42.000 My problem is I have to go face my constituents.

00:08:47.000 The problem is I have to answer for my actions.

00:08:51.000 The problem is I can't do what the Republican leadership did in support of Liz Cheney.

00:08:58.000 I can't hide behind a secret ballot.

00:09:00.000 There's a certain publication, The Washington Post, where their tagline is democracy dies in darkness.

00:09:09.000 Ironically, I agree with them.

00:09:10.000 I just with the Washington Post actually acted consistent with their beliefs.

00:09:18.000 Democracy does die in darkness, but we are not a democracy.

00:09:22.000 We're a constitutional republic.

00:09:24.000 We use Democratic means to elect our leaders.

00:09:28.000 Big difference that we'll build out at another show at another time.

00:09:32.000 We've done it extensively on our podcast.

00:09:35.000 The issue that is at the forefront of why Liz Cheney survived and Donald Trump survived was simply and solely on whether or not politicians had to face public responsibility for their actions.

00:09:58.000 James Madison touched on this in the Federalist Papers.

00:10:02.000 James Madison, the father of the United States Constitution, James Madison, the fourth American president, James Madison, one of the most brilliant thinkers and great leaders in American history.

00:10:13.000 If you don't know James Madison, you're missing out.

00:10:16.000 James Madison talked extensively about the need for the citizenry to know what their representatives were doing.

00:10:25.000 When you have a record that is public, that is searchable, that is transparent, that the citizenry can make informed choices about who is representing them.

00:10:40.000 That's critical.

00:10:41.000 Citizen, going back to the original Greek, literally means co-ruler.

00:10:48.000 It means that they have a vested interest.

00:10:51.000 It's a cooperative.

00:10:53.000 It's a partnership. 1.00

00:10:57.000 Liz Cheney survived because she never had to face the people, and we'll see if she'll be able to politically survive in Wyoming. 0.92

00:11:08.000 But the people that supported her, if they would have had to go publicly with their vote in support of Liz Cheney, they would have been faced with primary campaigns.

00:11:20.000 They would have been faced with millions of dollars of opposition and an angry grassroots response for good reason.

00:11:30.000 The Senate acquitted Donald Trump because There is transparency.

00:11:41.000 So, what does that teach us about how Washington, D.C., operates?

00:11:47.000 There's a lot to unpack there.

00:11:49.000 There's a lot of truth there.

00:11:52.000 But generally, our leaders cannot stand being under a microscope.

00:12:01.000 Sunlight is indeed the best disinfectant.

00:12:05.000 When the American people can see what their representatives do, they will trust the system more.

00:12:15.000 One of the reasons why people's trust in their government has plummeted to all-time lows is because there are so many backroom deals, movement in the shadows, and borderline treachery that occurs.

00:12:30.000 Trust is built and strengthened when people's actions, votes, voices, comments occur in public.

00:12:45.000 And we saw this incredible juxtaposition all surrounding backlash politically from the January 6th Capitol tragedy from Liz Cheney to former President Trump.

00:12:59.000 Liz Cheney would have been removed as Republican Leadership Conference chair if it would have been a public roll call vote, and Donald Trump would have been convicted if it would have been a private vote.

00:13:13.000 I can't say that definitively, but Chris Coons does.

00:13:17.000 Let's go to Cut 22, Senator Chris Coons, Democrat from Delaware, who actually makes my point, but for a different reason.

00:13:28.000 I'll explain that.

00:13:29.000 Let's play Cut 22. 0.96

00:13:31.000 What about a secret ballot?

00:13:33.000 Would there have been 67 votes?

00:13:36.000 Yes.

00:13:37.000 I'm fairly certain there would have been a vote to convict with a secret ballot.

00:13:42.000 So that's Senator Chris Coons asked by George Stephanopoulos laughing, saying, Of course, there would have been a secret ballot.

00:13:48.000 Why is Chris Coons laughing?

00:13:50.000 He's laughing because he says, Of course, George, a lot of things would be different if we didn't have to face the voters.

00:13:57.000 Of course, George, a lot of things would be different if I didn't have to justify my actions to my constituents.

00:14:03.000 Of course, George, a lot of things would be different if I didn't have to be monitored by concerned citizens.

00:14:12.000 We'd be able to do whatever we want.

00:14:14.000 We could have impeached him years ago if we could have done this in darkness.

00:14:19.000 We could have done this years ago if we could have operated in the shadows.

00:14:26.000 That is the wish of the ruling class in this country.

00:14:30.000 The ruling class, from the corporate elite to the senators, to the members of Congress to the financial elite, they detest any attention that they themselves have not asked for.

00:14:48.000 They get nervous when pointed questions are presented to them.

00:14:54.000 You see, the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives are similar, but they both conducted their business differently, one for a constitutional requirement, the other out of their own choice.

00:15:11.000 Republicans could have done the vote against Liz Cheney publicly.

00:15:14.000 Why didn't they?

00:15:16.000 Because the people that were behind making that a secret ballot knew that they actually wanted Liz Cheney in that position, and they didn't want to see their other members be held accountable for supporting her, and they wanted to give them cover fire. 0.99

00:15:34.000 This should be unacceptable for those of us that want representative government.

00:15:40.000 You see, Chris Coons was laughing because he said, of course, George, could you imagine what we could get done if we could do things in private?

00:15:49.000 In fact, Chris Coons is probably saying, you know how many Republicans wish they could act differently if it wasn't for the people they represent.

00:15:58.000 It is completely and totally irrelevant what Chris Coons wants for the world.

00:16:04.000 What is relevant is what he promised to the people that put him in power to do to the rest of the world and do to our country.

00:16:13.000 Representatives are supposed to be a reflection of the citizens of the state they represent, not the other way around.

00:16:21.000 The citizens of Wyoming are not supposed to represent Liz Cheney.

00:16:27.000 That's Stalinism.

00:16:29.000 The citizens of Delaware are not supposed to represent Chris Coons.

00:16:33.000 They're supposed to represent the people of Delaware or the people of Wyoming.

00:16:39.000 I feel as if we have this inverted, as if Mitt Romney is acting as if the people of Utah better sort themselves out and start acting like him, unlike what's supposed to happen is Mitt Romney is supposed to actually act like the people of Utah, or at least act in their best interests.

00:16:55.000 And the violation of that very simple compact is one of the reasons we're in the mess that we're in.

00:17:02.000 There is a winter storm raging across the country, and I hope everyone listening to this is staying warm and staying safe.

00:17:08.000 I know many friends in Dallas and Houston, they do not have homes that are necessarily built for snow or built for 10-degree weather, so I hope everyone stays very safe.

00:17:21.000 But a problem that we always pose to the environmentalists and to the advocates of the Green New Deal is what happens in increasingly harsh winters?

00:17:30.000 How are you going to power your hospitals, your schools?

00:17:34.000 How are you going to keep the lights on?

00:17:36.000 They always called that a red herring or a false flag.

00:17:40.000 Well, now we see all across the Great Plains the consequence of what happens when you criminalize oil natural gas extraction, coal-powered power plants.

00:17:56.000 Let's go to Cut 14, Tucker Carlson reporting on the frozen wind turbines in Texas.

00:18:00.000 Aren't you glad you have these bird killers all throughout Texas?

00:18:03.000 Play Cut 14. 0.83

00:18:04.000 Well, the Green New Deal has come, believe it or not, to the state of Texas.

00:18:08.000 And we're here with the report.

00:18:10.000 How's it working out so far?

00:18:11.000 Well, the good news is all that alternative energy seems to have had a remarkable effect on the climate, as intended.

00:18:18.000 Last night, parts of Texas got to temperatures that we see in Alaska.

00:18:23.000 In fact, they were the same as they were in Alaska.

00:18:25.000 So global warming is no longer a pressing concern in Houston.

00:18:29.000 We've solved that problem.

00:18:31.000 The bad news is they don't have electricity.

00:18:33.000 The windmills froze, so the power grid failed.

00:18:36.000 Millions of Texans woke up to spoil their water because with no electricity, it couldn't be purified.

00:18:41.000 Tucker Carlson, of course, being appropriately sarcastic towards the idea of transitioning from global warming to climate change.

00:18:52.000 And Cut 15 Tucker says, instead of using their state's natural resources, Texas lawmakers implemented wind farms as if it was a good thing.

00:19:00.000 Cut 15.

00:19:01.000 Rather than celebrate and benefit from their state's vast natural resources, politicians took the fashionable route and became recklessly reliant on so-called alternative energy, meaning windmills.

00:19:14.000 15 years ago, there were virtually no wind farms in Texas.

00:19:17.000 Last year, roughly a quarter of all electricity generated in the state came from wind.

00:19:22.000 Local politicians were pleased by this.

00:19:24.000 They bragged about it like there was something virtuous about destroying the landscape and degrading the power grid.

00:19:31.000 Now, we're telling you all of this, not to beat up on the state of Texas.

00:19:34.000 It's a great state, actually.

00:19:36.000 But to give you some sense about what's about to happen to you, to every state.

00:19:41.000 And so what's the consequence of that?

00:19:42.000 When you have a massive winter storm, windmills start to freeze up, and just the energy cost to build a windmill does not even make it necessarily carbon neutral long term, unless you're positioned in one of the windiest parts of the entire world.

00:19:59.000 And in Cut 16, Tucker says, everything was going great until it got cold and the windmills failed.

00:20:04.000 Cut 16.

00:20:05.000 Just last week, Governor Greg Abbott proudly accepted something called the Wind Leadership Award, given with gratitude by a company getting rich from green energy.

00:20:15.000 So it was all working great until the day it got cold outside.

00:20:18.000 The windmills failed, like the silly fashion accessories they are, and people in Texas died.

00:20:24.000 And people are still without power.

00:20:26.000 Millions of people are still without power because instead of using a form of energy that has worked since the Industrial Revolution, the ideologues that run our government that are more concerned with checking the boxes of the wish list of the professors of the University of Texas Austin, they put in windmills and they close down power plants.

00:20:54.000 And then people die as a consequence of that.

00:20:56.000 And this is only going to repeat itself in many different manifestations.

00:21:00.000 We have to ask ourselves the question is, why did they do this? 0.95

00:21:03.000 Why did they do something so foolish and silly when it comes to energy in America when it's so obvious that this was not the right move? 0.94

00:21:13.000 Why replace a quarter of all energy in Texas, one-fourth, to be wind? 0.97

00:21:22.000 It's an eyesore on the entire landscape.

00:21:26.000 They're also incredibly expensive to build.

00:21:29.000 The main reason is nothing to do with the efficacy of green energy.

00:21:35.000 Instead, it's about the ideology behind it.

00:21:38.000 And this is a moment where we have to take pause and ask ourselves the question, why are we allowing a small pack of highly activistic ideologues create, steer, and control the public policy of an entire nation?

00:22:03.000 Any rational person, an actually rational person approaching the energy conversation will ask some very simple questions, such as, are rising global temperatures tied with an increase in human activity?

00:22:18.000 Can you prove that?

00:22:20.000 The answer is you can't.

00:22:21.000 You can suspect it.

00:22:23.000 You can infer it.

00:22:24.000 You can try to draw a correlation and a causation, but you can't prove it.

00:22:29.000 There are dozens of other factors that could potentially play into it.

00:22:33.000 Number two, which is, what have we proven that we can do?

00:22:38.000 If the first question is yes, and we take that as a given, what can we do to lessen our carbon emissions to potentially lower global temperatures that might potentially result in a normalization of the climate, which is a false flag anyway, because we have such a short window of measuring global temperatures.

00:23:00.000 We've only been doing it for about 100 years, and we've only been doing it super accurately for 30 years, and we've only been doing it at the level we're doing it with satellite reconnaissance in the last 15 or 20 years.

00:23:11.000 But let's even take the 100-year window as a given.

00:23:15.000 Have there been any variations?

00:23:17.000 Of course there have been.

00:23:18.000 We went from a global ice age fear-mongering narrative in the 1970s and 80s in the front page of Time magazine.

00:23:25.000 It said the ice age is near to the global warming fear-mongering in the early 2000s of Al Gore, where I was forced to watch inconvenient truth in sixth grade.

00:23:36.000 So now where we are in 2021, where they are now blending together to climate change, calling an existential threat to humanity.

00:23:44.000 There is more greenery on the planet than there ever has been in the history of recording such metric.

00:23:55.000 The third question we must ask ourselves, which is a rational question because this entire conversation has been hijacked by irrational people, is at what cost?

00:24:04.000 What's the cost?

00:24:06.000 This is what people who slow down and use reason, which is given to us by God to be able to make sense of a chaotic world.

00:24:16.000 We use reason to make informed choices.

00:24:20.000 Nothing about installing windmills at the expense of human flourishing is reasonable.

00:24:29.000 It's ideological.

00:24:30.000 It's pathological in nature.

00:24:33.000 And so now we are living to the consequence of that.

00:24:37.000 Now, the devil's advocate argument, the socialist activists would say, we are now living through the weather patterns because we didn't make these decisions earlier.

00:24:49.000 There is no evidence to support that.

00:24:52.000 That is speculative.

00:24:53.000 That is not science.

00:24:56.000 That is a theory.

00:24:57.000 And that theory very well might be right.

00:24:59.000 I'm a skeptic, and we should be, because there's about 582 questions that I could think of the top of my head, such as, is every single region getting warmer?

00:25:11.000 Are there any positives to areas getting warmer?

00:25:14.000 Are the ice caps really melting at the rate you thought they were?

00:25:18.000 Why is the polar bear population increasing?

00:25:20.000 There's so many questions that you could be asked.

00:25:22.000 These are reasonable questions.

00:25:23.000 And so this goes to a broader and deeper point that we're going to continue to build out, which is, I thought science was all about asking questions.

00:25:32.000 I thought science was all about challenging the predominant narrative.

00:25:40.000 Isn't that how we discovered germ theory?

00:25:42.000 Isn't that how Newtonian physics was proven?

00:25:50.000 The idea that we must now unquestionably accept whatever narrative that is being put forth by the ideologues without even asking what the cost might be of that narrative, if that narrative might even be true, is pathological in nature.

00:26:07.000 And that's how you get to a set of circumstances where the entire Great Plains is now without power.

00:26:13.000 They have to resort to backup generators at hospitals.

00:26:16.000 People will die as a consequence of this in hospitals, in nursing home facilities.

00:26:24.000 And yet, what is the Democrat answer to this?

00:26:26.000 What is the, and I don't even like using the term Democrat because it's beyond that.

00:26:30.000 What is the climate change alarmist answer?

00:26:33.000 It's not to admit that they might have made some mistakes in energy distribution and consumption.

00:26:40.000 It's the exact opposite.

00:26:41.000 It's that we did not do enough early enough, and now we must embrace what we did wrong more.

00:26:47.000 And this is the great irony.

00:26:48.000 And I have so many friends in California.

00:26:51.000 My pastor, Pastor Rob McCoy, is in California.

00:26:53.000 And people in California ask me this question all the time.

00:26:56.000 They say, when will the people of California wake up?

00:26:59.000 And I hope the answer is very soon, which is why all of you should sign the petition to recall Gavin Newsom.

00:27:04.000 Maybe he might get a notice of the recall signatures increasing in number in between bites at French laundry.

00:27:11.000 But California can go one of two ways.

00:27:13.000 It can either wake up and go back to reasonable, rational governance, or This is the way that sometimes it goes.

00:27:23.000 And you're seeing this in some of these other liberal states like Oregon and Washington, New York, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

00:27:28.000 They can say, the reason that you're unhappy is we didn't go left enough.

00:27:34.000 We didn't go radical enough.

00:27:36.000 We didn't abolish enough fossil fuel.

00:27:38.000 We did not get rid of enough different aspects of energy.

00:27:42.000 And let me be clear, I'm for free market, entrepreneurial-driven solutions.

00:27:48.000 Elon Musk, free of government subsidies, wants to come up with solutions to be able to make energy consumption more efficient, so be it.

00:27:57.000 But windmills are typically not built by private industry.

00:28:00.000 They are done in public-private partnerships, specifically through government edicts.

00:28:04.000 And in the heartland of the country near the Permian Basin, to go build a grid of wind turbines that then need to be de-iced by helicopters that are made possible thanks to fossil fuels of oil and natural gas that was extracted from the Permian Basin.

00:28:21.000 The only answer that we can offer to that is that we are allowing ID logs to run the country.

00:28:29.000 Where they believe falsely a narrative that the entire world is falling apart and their dramatic action against the capitalist private property Western economy is the only way that we're going to fix that. 0.94

00:28:45.000 It's complete and total rubbish.

00:28:47.000 The activist media is spinning this as saying, see, we told you that weather patterns are getting worse. 0.98

00:28:56.000 You see, we told you that this was going to happen when their coverage should be the opposite, which is, what did we overreact to that makes the reaction to this event even worse?

00:29:13.000 Cancel culture is a big problem.

00:29:14.000 We just saw it with Lucasfilm, and we're seeing it all over the place.

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00:30:29.000 There have been people this last year, the last 12 months, that had a really difficult year.

00:30:37.000 And they still continue to pay their taxes and they continue to still pay for essential government services.

00:30:43.000 You see, one of the lies of the left, and this is what happens when you go to college, is they don't teach you economics, they don't teach you supply and demand, they don't teach you what money actually is, what money represents, is they believe that the entire country should basically be connected to a leviathan albatross of a government.

00:31:03.000 This is something that AOC and Talib and Elon Omar all believe.

00:31:06.000 That if we just expand the civil service, if we expand government payroll, things will get a lot better.

00:31:13.000 And the question that I can't stand that is asked all the time is, well, how are you going to pay for that?

00:31:17.000 That's the wrong question.

00:31:20.000 They'll find a way to pay for it. 0.97

00:31:21.000 They'll create the money out of thin air. 0.59

00:31:23.000 They'll deficit spend.

00:31:24.000 They'll tax you.

00:31:25.000 They'll find a way to pay for it.

00:31:27.000 Instead, you should ask, is it right?

00:31:30.000 That's the question you should ask.

00:31:32.000 Not how can you pay for it.

00:31:34.000 If you get into a question of how can you pay for it, you've already admitted that it's a good idea.

00:31:39.000 Instead, you should say, is it right?

00:31:41.000 Is it right to expand the government civil service to millions of more people like the Democrats want to do?

00:31:47.000 You see, the tension that we see between private industry and government civil service is more dramatic than any other time in my life.

00:31:58.000 The muscular class of our country, the entrepreneurs, the people that own their businesses, the people that have to sign the front of a paycheck, not just the back of a paycheck, they are being squeezed.

00:32:11.000 And they had a little bit of a reprieve.

00:32:13.000 They had a little bit of a time to breathe under President Donald Trump.

00:32:17.000 Now Joe Biden is offering a deflated currency, higher taxes, more regulation, and it will be the small business person.

00:32:25.000 I don't even like that term small business person.

00:32:27.000 I think it's overused.

00:32:28.000 I call it the backbone business person.

00:32:31.000 They are the backbone of our country.

00:32:34.000 How would we thank our taxpayers for once?

00:32:37.000 How do we thank the people that go pay the six-figure tax bills to the IRS so that you're able to get your $1,000 stimulus check?

00:32:45.000 When's the last time we said thank you to them?

00:32:49.000 What if they just took a couple months off?

00:32:51.000 They said, you know what?

00:32:52.000 I'm not going to create any value for the economy.

00:32:54.000 I'm going to shut down all my businesses.

00:32:56.000 I'm going to shut down the supply chain.

00:32:58.000 I'm going to not pay my taxes.

00:33:00.000 You want to talk about catastrophic?

00:33:02.000 That would be catastrophic.

00:33:05.000 And some teachers deserve phenomenal credit.

00:33:08.000 They really do.

00:33:09.000 Other teachers that are refusing to open up their schools or being part of movements not to open up their schools, they don't deserve that same form of credit.

00:33:20.000 Thank you, taxpayers.

00:33:22.000 Thank you, hardworking business people.

00:33:23.000 The muscular class is keeping this whole thing going.

00:33:27.000 Two things happened in the last 10 days that would not have happened if Donald Trump was still president.

00:33:35.000 A prominent Democrat staffer resigned after yelling at a reporter, TJ Ducklow, who got very angry at, I think her name is Tara Palmieri at Politico, who does a nice job there.

00:33:53.000 And she was writing a story about him potentially having a relationship with a former Biden staffer.

00:34:04.000 He got very angry and said, quote, I will destroy you.

00:34:08.000 Got put on leave, and then he was asked to resign or he resigned himself.

00:34:11.000 It was very interesting.

00:34:14.000 And Democrats have been rather insistent the last year and a half to never allow some sort of press controversy to impact one of their own being criticized or attacked.

00:34:35.000 And then on top of that, you have another story here that we did not cover, but it was a national news story of Mark Cuban, who I've actually debated before.

00:34:45.000 You guys should check that out online.

00:34:47.000 In fact, I'm going to make a note of myself to make sure that video is uploaded.

00:34:51.000 I haven't seen that video in quite some time.

00:34:53.000 Mark Cuban and I debated for about an hour and a half.

00:34:55.000 It was fun.

00:34:56.000 It was at our turning point USA high school leadership summit.

00:35:01.000 Mark Cuban said he was not going to play the national anthem at the Dallas Mavericks game.

00:35:07.000 No one was coming anyway, but standard respect to play the national anthem for the country that you're in, obviously.

00:35:16.000 He got overruled by the National Basketball Association, and they said that's a little bit too woke even for us.

00:35:22.000 You see, you're starting to see the Democrat coalition, the Democrat Party, the Democrat movement start to splinter a little bit.

00:35:31.000 You're starting to see the Democrat ruling class and the Democrats' elites start to get worried that maybe their movement will not be unified.

00:35:44.000 Which kind of made me thought for a minute as I was processing this theory.

00:35:49.000 Maybe when Joe Biden was talking about unity, he was not talking about national unity.

00:35:54.000 Maybe he was talking about Democrat Party unity.

00:35:59.000 Maybe he was talking about not allowing the different factions or the different parts of the Democrat Party to splinter.

00:36:09.000 I'm starting to see more and more evidence of this.

00:36:11.000 The New York Times came out with a piece by Eric Kaufman, who's a professor who studies and writes about demographics, partisanship, and ideology, which says, quote, how stable is the Democratic coalition?

00:36:25.000 Quote, the party may control the elected branches in Washington, but it may be facing some slippage in support from minority communities.

00:36:34.000 It starts by saying, quote, Democrats are riding high in Washington with control of the White House and Congress.

00:36:40.000 They got there with the broad coalition that included suburban white and minority voters.

00:36:43.000 I estimate, based on exit poll data, that nearly half of the Democrat Party, roughly 81 million voters, came from the latter group.

00:36:50.000 For Republicans, it was just 18%.

00:36:53.000 The argument that he makes is that, therefore, all Republicans have to do is increase their number from 18% to 22%, continue to invigorate and expand their base, and you're going to have a pretty sizable and formidable political opposition.

00:37:08.000 The article continues by citing many pieces of data by saying, quote, many minorities that no longer identify as Democrats have become independents rather than Republicans, much like their white Catholic predecessors initially did.

00:37:22.000 But this means their loyalties are increasingly up for grabs on Election Day.

00:37:27.000 Talks about how Hispanics went in the Republican direction historically in the 2020 presidential election.

00:37:36.000 You also see this with the strange amount of propaganda that no one asked for, but just seems to be emerging and bubbling to the surface, saying that Republicans want a third party.

00:37:49.000 No, we don't.

00:37:51.000 It sounds nice, but when rational people are presented with that proposal, they always reject it.

00:37:59.000 They know it will splinter the party.

00:38:00.000 They know it will give totalitarians more power, and they walk away from it.

00:38:05.000 And so the question is, who's actually pushing this third-party narrative?

00:38:11.000 And the answer is Democrat operatives that are seeing the fault lines within their own party.

00:38:17.000 They're starting to see the most ideological members of the Democrat Party starting to create political liabilities for them.

00:38:26.000 With no Trump, what is the message of the Democrat Party?

00:38:30.000 Certainly not going to be very popular to talk about the Green New Deal as people have to shovel themselves out in Texas where they have no power thanks to the solar panel windmill operation. 0.56

00:38:44.000 It's certainly not going to be transgender policies that are now being forced in elementary and high schools across the country. 0.85

00:38:53.000 What is their policy agenda?

00:38:56.000 You see, Democrats always view everything through a power struggle.

00:39:01.000 That's part of their philosophy.

00:39:03.000 It's very postmodern, that it's not about a battle of ideas.

00:39:08.000 It's not about the pursuit of truth.

00:39:11.000 Instead, it's who's in power, who isn't in power, and we must try to overthrow the quote-unquote oppressor, the fallow, logo-centric Western patriarchy, which is a common talking point of the activist left.

00:39:26.000 So, because of this, they are trying to implement a strategy to give themselves more political power.

00:39:33.000 And that strategy is very simple.

00:39:36.000 That strategy is instead of worrying about the fault lines in our own party, Let's just try to make the Republican Party fracture right now.

00:39:45.000 We will elevate any Republicans that oppose the now former President Trump and his coalition, like Adam Kinzinger, like Liz Cheney, like Bill Cassidy, like Susan Collins, like Ben Sasse.

00:39:58.000 We will probe articles and stories around the creation of third parties, which is something that is completely out of nowhere.

00:40:07.000 That's their strategy.

00:40:09.000 But what Biden was warning about was not national unity.

00:40:13.000 That is very clear.

00:40:14.000 If Biden wanted national unity, he would not have banned new fracking on federal lands. 0.63

00:40:19.000 He would not have signed the radical transgender executive order. 0.77

00:40:23.000 If Biden wanted national unity, he would have had a completely different way of governing.

00:40:28.000 When was the last time Joe Biden looked in the eyes of someone that supported and voted for Donald Trump?

00:40:34.000 He had some Republican senators come meet with him, some of whom were Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski.

00:40:41.000 When was the last time Joe Biden, under his mission to unify the country, actually did something to unify America?

00:40:49.000 It's because Joe Biden was never concerned about unifying America.

00:40:52.000 He was concerned about unifying the Democrat Party.

00:40:55.000 The Democrats' big gamble is playing out right now.

00:41:00.000 Their big gamble is this.

00:41:02.000 If we play our cards right, we will never be out of power.

00:41:07.000 Their big gamble is to engage in propagandist techniques and tactics that will result in the bitter division of the country.

00:41:18.000 But they'll be in power forever.

00:41:20.000 We're going to change the way we vote.

00:41:21.000 We're going to change the way we talk.

00:41:23.000 We're going to change the way we communicate.

00:41:25.000 We're going to change the way we educate.

00:41:27.000 We're going to change the way that we do business.

00:41:29.000 All so that we remain in power.

00:41:31.000 Not what's actually best for the country, but Democrats have never been interested in what's best in the country.

00:41:36.000 I get so exhausted when I hear people say, well, you know, Charlie, we all want the same thing.

00:41:40.000 We just have different ways of getting there.

00:41:42.000 No, we don't.

00:41:44.000 Democrats do not want the same thing that I do. 1.00

00:41:47.000 They want men in women's locker rooms. 1.00

00:41:49.000 I don't. 1.00

00:41:51.000 They want post-birth abortions. 0.65

00:41:53.000 I don't.

00:41:54.000 They want open borders.

00:41:55.000 I don't.

00:41:56.000 They want private property to erode and disappear.

00:41:59.000 I don't.

00:42:01.000 So the Democrats' big gamble is that they know the fault lines are happening, that if the rules stayed in place that allow backlash from the people, they will eventually be out of power.

00:42:10.000 Their big gamble is not to unify the country, but unify the party and rule with an iron fist and create a one-party state like California.

00:42:17.000 That's their definition of unity, the absence of opposition.

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00:43:12.000 We just got some breaking news here.

00:43:14.000 Looks like a U.S. military contractor was killed in Iraq from Shiite militants, Shiite militia.

00:43:24.000 So Shiite are almost always tied in one way or the other to Iran. 0.71

00:43:31.000 Saudi Arabia and most of the countries on the Arabian Peninsula are Sunni. 0.96

00:43:37.000 Shiite is almost all Iranian.

00:43:39.000 Shiite is a small fraction of all of the Muslims across the world. 0.87

00:43:44.000 So this is probably connected with the number one sponsor of terrorism on the planet, Iran. 0.90

00:43:50.000 So why is Iran doing this? 0.90

00:43:52.000 Well, of course, they smell weakness. 1.00

00:43:54.000 That's why.

00:43:55.000 And they also want to have negotiating and bargaining position over Joe Biden.

00:44:03.000 You see, the way the Obama-Biden foreign policy worked is whatever Iran wants, they get.

00:44:09.000 We have to even the playing field. 0.90

00:44:12.000 If Iran wants a bomb, we'll give them a bomb. 0.88

00:44:14.000 If Iran wants $500 million, we'll give it to them too.

00:44:17.000 So now Iran is opening with a warning shot saying, if you do not give us the Iranium to enrich, if you do not give us the permission of the international community, Americans will die.

00:44:27.000 Now, Iran will deny responsibility for this, but any person in the foreign policy space, and I've been texting with just a couple of them here, will tell you that anyone connected with Shiite militia is in one way or the other funded, supported, trained, or even in direct communication with Iran.

00:44:45.000 And one of the problems with this, too, is Joe Biden might react disproportionately.

00:44:51.000 Joe Biden might act in a way to prove people that he is not a foreign policy dove, and he might get us entangled in another foreign war.

00:44:59.000 You see, the brilliance of the administration that just ended, the Trump administration in their foreign policy approach is they isolated Iran.

00:45:06.000 They put sanctions on Iran. 0.80

00:45:08.000 They unified the entire Arab world around Iran because Iran was and is the greatest enemy in the Middle East. 0.55

00:45:15.000 So as soon as you start to give other Arab allies, like the UAE, confidence that the closer they grow to America, the more support they'll have against Iran, UAE then becomes likely to do things they otherwise would not have done, things that otherwise would have been considered uncharacteristic, such as negotiating a peace deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel.

00:45:38.000 Something that still bothers me how President Trump never got credit for literally brokering and achieving Middle East peace.

00:45:46.000 That is now all being put into jeopardy under Joe Biden and his administration.

00:45:51.000 And so this rocket attack in Iraq, I'm reading from the New York Times, as it just broke.

00:45:56.000 It was aimed at an airport in the northern city of Erbil on Monday, killed a civilian contractor with the American-led military coalition.

00:46:05.000 They knew what they were doing.

00:46:07.000 They might claim responsibility and say that this is retaliation for Soleimani, when Qassam Soleimani, who killed hundreds of Americans, was killed by a drone strike right outside of an airport in Baghdad.

00:46:21.000 And so Joe Biden's response to this will be very, very interesting.

00:46:25.000 Will he react with Tomahawk missiles peppered all throughout Iran?

00:46:29.000 Will he support a ground invasion, or will he try to get to a negotiating position with Iran?

00:46:38.000 What President Trump realized, and Mike Pompeo and his entire team realized, was that negotiating with Iran was not working. 0.57

00:46:47.000 The way to prevent war with Iran, the way to put your country first, is actually put crippling sanctions on them, which will destroy their industrial base, their manufacturing ability, and will bring them back to the negotiating table, not with confidence, but in crisis. 0.68

00:47:06.000 And so now the exact opposite is happening. 0.79

00:47:08.000 Iran is now bragging that they are close to enriching uranium to get a nuclear weapon.

00:47:13.000 They know that the Joe Biden administration will give them a path to do that.

00:47:21.000 And this is absolutely a test for the Biden administration.

00:47:25.000 How much are they going to involve ourselves in this region?

00:47:27.000 One of the things that President Trump also never got credit for is ending the endless wars, is de-escalating conflict in Afghanistan, withdrawing troops.

00:47:37.000 He did that all the while of negotiating peace in the region and putting Iran on defense.

00:47:46.000 What did the Middle East look like before Donald Trump took office?

00:47:51.000 We had the failed military intervention in Libya with Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

00:47:57.000 We had the failure in Syria, and Iran was running the entire Middle East, and Israel was on defense. 0.65

00:48:03.000 Now, I'm of the opinion that we need to get ourselves divested generally from a permanent military occupation in the region.

00:48:09.000 The best way to do that, broker peace.

00:48:12.000 So, this will be a very, very fascinating first chapter in the Joe Biden foreign policy portfolio.

00:48:21.000 As Iran has now killed an American, will Joe Biden, who was known for signing off on the deal that sent hundreds of millions of dollars to Iran, stand up to them?

00:48:30.000 And if he will, how will he do that?

00:48:33.000 Ron DeSantis is getting national headlines, and I'll tell you right now that the difference between Andrew Cuomo and his handling of the nursing home scandal, which is real and it is a major scandal, versus the brilliance of Ron DeSantis handling everything in Florida is dramatic.

00:48:53.000 And Ron DeSantis is not stopping there.

00:48:55.000 The best governor of America is now stepping up and challenging the big tech companies.

00:49:02.000 Do you know why I love this?

00:49:04.000 It's one thing to complain.

00:49:05.000 It's one thing to point out problems.

00:49:08.000 It's another thing to offer solutions, to start to be a leader with courage.

00:49:15.000 You see, leadership requires clarity and requires the capacity to find solutions to entrenched problems.

00:49:28.000 One of those problems that we've talked about extensively here on this program is how a small collection of big tech companies worth trillions of dollars control the minds of our young people, control the information flow in our country, the news flow of our country, and they must be challenged and stopped.

00:49:49.000 Let's go to cut seven of Ron DeSantis saying Floridians should not have to give up their most intimate information to use a mobile device.

00:49:58.000 Now, before we go to cut seven, I have to say this: Donald Trump should have given this speech two years ago, and he should have rallied states to do this two years ago, and he might have gotten re-elected.

00:50:09.000 If Donald Trump would have done what Ron DeSantis did in this speech right here, he very well might have been re-elected.

00:50:19.000 Why do I say that?

00:50:20.000 Because his election was the most interfered-with election in American history.

00:50:24.000 The Time magazine article admits it.

00:50:26.000 The secret shadow campaign to save the 2020 election.

00:50:31.000 We did an entire podcast on it.

00:50:32.000 I encourage you to check out that podcast.

00:50:34.000 I think it was a week and a half ago on Friday.

00:50:36.000 I encourage you to check it out.

00:50:38.000 And I'm not faulting Donald Trump for not doing this, saying he could have done more, and he should have done more on this.

00:50:46.000 Let's go to cut seven.

00:50:48.000 Floridians should not have to give up their most intimate information to use a mobile device, surf the internet, or connect with friends and families on social media.

00:50:56.000 The status quo has all been a one-way street with big tech, where they have all the power, they dictate all the rules, they take whatever data they want, when they want, and consumers get virtually nothing except the, quote, privilege of using their own devices that they've already paid for.

00:51:14.000 But we can't let it go on any longer.

00:51:16.000 The states are rising up against the tech elites.

00:51:19.000 The Washington, D.C. Country Club, otherwise known as the United States Senate, is completely missing in action when it comes to this.

00:51:28.000 A lesson for all of us is let's stop looking to D.C.

00:51:31.000 We should ignore them.

00:51:33.000 Still hold them accountable.

00:51:34.000 Make sure they don't pass big gun control measures.

00:51:37.000 But when you see a U.S. Senator, you should say, if they're just kind of vanilla, say, you understand how ineffective you are, right?

00:51:49.000 You understand that you've gotten nothing done.

00:51:54.000 And there's some good ones.

00:51:55.000 I like Rand Paul.

00:51:56.000 I like Ted Cruz, you know, Josh Hawley, God bless him.

00:51:59.000 But for most of these guys and women, what have they done?

00:52:03.000 Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis is giving a long press conference, holding up a mobile phone saying, we in Florida, the fourth largest state in the country, we're not going to allow the citizens of Florida's information to be mined by these big tech companies.

00:52:18.000 We're going to pass a law to push back against them.

00:52:20.000 That's heroic.

00:52:22.000 And we've gone into great detail why Senate Republicans have not done that before.

00:52:26.000 It's because a lot of them are financed by Google.

00:52:27.000 A lot of them are financed by these big tech companies.

00:52:30.000 Ron DeSantis, he is not.

00:52:34.000 And Governor Greg Abbott has signaled other support, but where's also the Republican Party?

00:52:39.000 Where's the Republican Party coming up and saying we are now going to organize 20 governors to do the same?

00:52:46.000 In fact, we were talking about this at Turning Point Action.

00:52:49.000 We very well might go on a roadshow very soon to my friend, Governor Greg Gianforte, to Montana, my friend Governor Christy Noam, and meet with these governors and say, hey, let's do this together.

00:53:00.000 Let's make a broad-based coalition.

00:53:03.000 We happen to know a lot of these governors.

00:53:04.000 They're great people.

00:53:05.000 Governor Gianforte in Montana is doing a great job, self-made businessman and supporter of Turning Point.

00:53:10.000 I've known him for years.

00:53:11.000 What a great opportunity for Montana to all of a sudden become a thorn in the side of Menlo Park.

00:53:18.000 Man, that's a winner.

00:53:19.000 The guy who's starting all of this is a governor that is doing what the consultant class would advise against.

00:53:27.000 Ron DeSantis is picking new fights.

00:53:30.000 That's why Ron DeSantis is going to win reelection by five to ten points in November 2022.

00:53:36.000 Courage is so lacking right now.

00:53:40.000 And that's where anytime I can, I don't want to just turn our program into just relentlessly talking about how the left is ruining everything.

00:53:46.000 I like talking about people that are offering solutions.

00:53:48.000 And another solution, which is a crisis in our country, let me be very clear.

00:53:52.000 The fact that schools are not open in America is a moral travesty.

00:53:56.000 Every school should be open.

00:53:58.000 But they are open in Florida, thanks to Ron DeSantis.

00:54:01.000 Cut 8.

00:54:02.000 Florida schools are open for in-person instruction.

00:54:06.000 Every single parent in this state has a right to send their kid to in-person instruction.

00:54:12.000 We have done it the right way.

00:54:14.000 We are not going to turn back.

00:54:16.000 We've been open the whole time since August.

00:54:19.000 We had kids doing camps and athletics and all that over the summer.

00:54:24.000 And we've been in person as much as anybody in the country.

00:54:27.000 And yet, we're 34th out of 50 states in D.C. for COVID-19 cases on a per capita basis for children.

00:54:36.000 33 states have more cases per capita than Florida for children per capita.

00:54:44.000 And many of those don't have a lot of in-person instruction in school.

00:54:50.000 34th out of 50.

00:54:52.000 And the one thing Florida has that these states don't have is freedom.

00:54:56.000 They have liberty.

00:54:57.000 They have people's livelihoods that are preserved and protected.

00:55:00.000 So I'm here on the west coast of Florida in an undisclosed location, and I could tell you that the real estate market here is red hot.

00:55:08.000 Property values are going up.

00:55:10.000 People want to be here.

00:55:13.000 And what you're going to start to see is the greatest exodus from blue states to red states in American history.

00:55:18.000 And we already saw that trend pick up in the Obama years.

00:55:22.000 But now that you have Illinois that is trying to raise taxes even further, now you have Illinois that has high property tax, high sales tax, broken pensions, and then awful weather.

00:55:35.000 You say, what am I doing here?

00:55:38.000 Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island have very similar situations.

00:55:46.000 So every Republican governor in the country should look at the tale of two governors.

00:55:52.000 I always love this kind of framing.

00:55:55.000 Tale of two cities, tale of two Americas, tale of two governors.

00:55:58.000 Brian Kemp and Ron DeSantis. 0.71

00:56:01.000 Brian Kemp is an awful governor.

00:56:05.000 Ron DeSantis is a phenomenal governor.

00:56:08.000 One of them is a leader with clarity and courage.

00:56:11.000 The other one is a typical transactional business chamber of commerce appeasing politician.

00:56:19.000 Brian Kemp did a fine job opening the economy earlier than most.

00:56:22.000 Florida led on that.

00:56:24.000 Brian Kemp mishandled the entire election integrity conversation.

00:56:29.000 Brian Kemp oversaw two senators become Democrats, Raphael Warnock and John Ossif.

00:56:38.000 Neither have business becoming U.S. senators.

00:56:40.000 Brian Kemp defied the wishes of Donald Trump and instead appointed one of his good friends and campaign donors, Kelly Loffler, to be the U.S. Senator, and she lost to Raphael Warnock dramatically.

00:56:54.000 Ron DeSantis delivered his tape for Trump.

00:56:57.000 Brian Kemp delivered his state for Biden.

00:57:00.000 Ron DeSantis has two Republican senators, and Ron DeSantis increased the Republican delegation to add, I think, two new Republican, maybe even three new Republican congresspeople in Florida, Elvira Salazar, one in downtown Miami.

00:57:15.000 This is a lesson for Republicans out there.

00:57:17.000 It's also a lesson for Republican voters, for conservatives.

00:57:22.000 Just because someone has an R next to their name doesn't mean they're going to do what they say they're going to do.

00:57:28.000 And what is Ron DeSantis doing in this next cut?

00:57:31.000 Pushing back against teacher unions.

00:57:33.000 God bless this man.

00:57:34.000 Play cut nine.

00:57:36.000 If you want to open schools, open them.

00:57:39.000 Open the door.

00:57:40.000 Let them come in and let them learn.

00:57:43.000 And the only reason that that is not happening across this country like it is in Florida, like it is in a handful of other states, it's one reason and one reason only.

00:57:56.000 Because the Democratic Party puts the interests of education unions and special interests ahead of the well-being of our children and of our families.

00:58:08.000 I have been waiting for a Republican to say this my whole life.

00:58:12.000 And they always tap dance around it.

00:58:14.000 Ron DeSantis calls it out so clearly.

00:58:17.000 They put the interest of teacher unions and education unions over the interests of students and families.

00:58:23.000 That framing, by the way, wins you every election.

00:58:27.000 Blacks, Hispanic, single, white, old, young, they can all agree that the entrenched public sector teacher unions do not put the interests of the students or the families first.

00:58:40.000 And so, for some of these other states that remain closed, like Governor DeWine in Ohio, with schools that are still closed, what are you afraid of?

00:58:48.000 And the answer is they're afraid of quite a lot.

00:58:50.000 They're afraid of losing reelection.

00:58:52.000 They're afraid of bad articles being written about them in the local paper.

00:58:55.000 Courage is the most important virtue.

00:59:00.000 Because without courage, there are no other virtues.

00:59:03.000 You're alone in a room.

00:59:05.000 You could be wonderfully honest, full of integrity.

00:59:08.000 But if you never have anyone to be honest to, then what good is your honesty?

00:59:13.000 You could be ethical, and you should be.

00:59:16.000 But it requires courage for all those other virtues to exist.

00:59:21.000 We are now going to be looking at this very carefully the next coming weeks and months.

00:59:25.000 How states handle the one-year anniversary of the 15 Days of Slow the Spread.

00:59:30.000 We're almost one year into 15 Days of Slow the Spread.

00:59:34.000 Florida is booming.

00:59:37.000 Illinois is crumbling.

00:59:39.000 Georgia is a mess.

00:59:41.000 You get the government you deserve.

00:59:44.000 We need more leaders like Governor Ron DeSantis.

00:59:50.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:59:51.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:59:54.000 If you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, go to tpusa.com where you can get involved on high school and college campuses to push for the values of free markets, America, and the Constitution at tpusa.com.

01:00:06.000 And email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:00:09.000 Any questions, comments, or concerns.

01:00:11.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:00:12.000 God bless you.

01:00:13.000 Speak to you soon.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - February 16, 2021

Cracks Emerge in the Radical 'Woke' Coalition

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