00:00:00.000Today in the Charlie Kirk show, the great Newt Gingrich joins us to talk about the upcoming midterms and our chances and why he thinks we need to brand the Democrats as weird.
00:00:11.000Also, Pedro Gonzalez joins us to talk about why is it that our leaders are infatuated with foreigners, but really are annoyed by our own citizens.
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00:01:48.000It seemed like the Democrats' spending spree over the summer and their kind of synthetic raising of their candidates, it's collapsing all around them.
00:01:57.000What's your diagnosis heading in November where we stand right now?
00:02:00.000Well, we're about where I thought we would be back in the spring when you have this level of a cost of living crisis.
00:02:09.000You have the price of food going up 13.5% in one year.
00:02:13.000You have the gasoline prices going back up.
00:03:09.000And I discovered yesterday, I was in Des Moines, Cindy Axney, who is the Democratic congresswoman from Des Moines, was supposed to be voting in August.
00:03:20.000She signed a note saying that because of COVID, she couldn't come.
00:03:23.000She was actually vacationing in Paris when she was supposed to be voting.
00:03:28.000So you have all these different swirling things.
00:03:32.000And that leads me to believe we'll probably be plus 20 to plus 50 in the House and plus three to plus seven in the Senate.
00:03:40.000So one of the, let's say, concerns our audience has that maybe you can help clarify is why is it then with all of the momentum, Democrats are outspending us so significantly?
00:03:51.000Is it because they've really become the party of the oligarchs?
00:03:53.000What's your take on that, Mr. Speaker?
00:03:55.000Well, I think there are three big things underway.
00:03:59.000One, Act Blue was founded years before Wynn Red.
00:04:03.000So they've had time to build a really large online donor base that's more than twice the size of the Republican donor base.
00:04:42.000On the other hand, the Democrats represent the college professors, the trial lawyers, the Hollywood elites, the New York billionaires who sold out to China.
00:04:51.000And that collective group has tons of money and they're not affected.
00:04:55.000And then, third, the immediate reaction to the Supreme Court decision on Roe versus Wade triggered on the left a huge surge of donations.
00:05:08.000And I think that it's finally, I should say, I think they understand that their entire effort to turn America into a weird country is going to go crashing and burning if they lose this fall.
00:05:21.000And so they see much greater threat than we do.
00:05:25.000I mean, they understand that, you know, Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, Mitch McConnell as majority leader, setting the stage for a 2024 where we take back the White House.
00:06:06.000I think normal people can relate to that, especially when you hear about black-only dormitories on campuses and affirmative action, racial hiring quotas, and men can become pregnant, and Katangi Brown Jackson's inability to tell you what a woman is.
00:06:21.000I just don't think that the average plumber electrician looks at that and says, you know, that's the political party I want to be part of.
00:06:28.000It's a very, you know, very powerful, but, you know, small group of people that have high earning potential.
00:06:36.000I suppose that's why they're able to finance these campaigns so generously.
00:06:39.000Well, and for them, it's an alternative religion.
00:06:43.000You know, I think it's important to understand that literally this is a secular religion, and they have the fervor of a brand new religion, the passion of missionaries, the intensity of going after the people like us who are heretics.
00:07:00.000And I decided a couple of weeks ago, when I was reading about an effort to get kindergartners to talk about their gender, it hit me that the word weird is better and more accurate than the word woke.
00:07:14.000People don't have any idea what woke means, but they understand what weird is.
00:07:19.000We fought for years to end segregation.
00:07:22.000We fought for years to get to a colorblind society.
00:07:25.000And now these people in a weird way want to reestablish racism as the national model.
00:07:32.000You know, you can't have the Bible in a school, but you can have pornography because after all, children should be exposed to the many options they have sexually.
00:07:46.000The weird religion of the left has glorified strange behaviors at the same time that they have deeply opposed every traditional American value, starting with saluting the flag and saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
00:08:00.000That is one of the most concise summaries I've heard of what we're living through right now.
00:08:04.000Do you have confidence that this Republican leadership group, and I know you've spent a lot of time workshopping with them, are ready to govern and also hold this administration accountable if we take back the House?
00:08:17.000Because just to be very honest, our audience is very skeptical of Republican leadership because it just seems as if they've been let down by Republican leadership kind of post-you being speaker in the 90s.
00:08:30.000No, no, I'm, I think skepticism is legitimate as long as you remember that if you don't elect them, what you get is infinitely worse.
00:08:47.000I expect that the morning after the Republicans win the House and the Senate, everybody who voted for them ought to say, now deliver.
00:08:55.000And I like what Kevin McCarthy's done with a commitment to America, which was modeled on our contract, because they put it there in writing.
00:09:03.000And I think we can hold them to account for that.
00:09:05.000And I was very delighted when Senator McConnell and Senator Rick Scott both came out and endorsed the concept.
00:09:11.000And I think it gives us the beginning.
00:09:14.000But I can tell you, I'm not going to talk with them about how to govern as a congressional majority until they win.
00:09:23.000I don't want them worrying about next year until we get through this year.
00:09:26.000And we still have about 35 days of tough campaigning ahead of us.
00:09:47.000I'm going to vote for a Democrat in the next 30 days.
00:09:50.000I think they've hit their peak and it is a diminishing return.
00:09:53.000They know that, where Republicans have a massive ceiling of new voters that they can win over in the next 30 days, people they could persuade independents.
00:10:03.000And there was a CNN article yesterday that's a fire alarm for Democrats, which is not the number one, I think you probably saw this article, the number one issue for voters Republicans lead historically on, which is jobs inflation.
00:10:16.000Because if you talk to a random independent voter, they might think Republicans are, you know, I don't like their tone and all this, but they know deep down the economy runs better when Republicans are in charge.
00:10:26.000That by almost a three to one margin, independents believe that.
00:10:30.000And so if this economic carnage continues, I think that's going to really benefit Republicans.
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00:11:58.000Mr. Speaker, I'm going to ask you about something you mentioned in a state you know rather well, the state of Georgia, with one of the most expensive Senate races in history, Raphael Warnock against Herschel Walker.
00:12:08.000An article came out alleging that Herschel Walker paid for an abortion.
00:12:12.000He denies those claims, emphatically denies them.
00:12:15.000And it has kind of turned into this entire media circus as Herschel is surging in the polls, raising a lot of money, and Warnock is becoming increasingly desperate.
00:12:24.000How should we, as conservatives, view this race?
00:12:27.000And some conservatives are saying, I can no longer vote for Herschel Walker based on these accusations of which he denies.
00:13:01.000You had an anonymous story in a publication, which then becomes an excuse for other publications, which would never deal with an anonymous source, to quote the story, because the story is not anonymous.
00:13:21.000One, that he did have problems at points in his life.
00:13:24.000He'd had a number of concussions as a football player.
00:13:27.000He went through the equivalent of PTSD.
00:13:29.000When he recovered, he, in fact, went around and gave over 400 speeches on military bases, helping people, helping young people deal with their own challenges.
00:13:41.000He's been a very big mental health advocate.
00:13:44.000And Warnock is such a despicable, dishonest, slimy person.
00:14:04.000Well, the next part of the video, Herschel's sitting next to her, and they're talking about how, at the darkest point in their lives, they found Christ.
00:14:18.000Now, how can you call yourself a pastor and cut a commitment to Christ in such a way that you only take the negative piece, totally distort what it meant?
00:15:06.000He thinks Georgia needs a senator who genuinely is religious, who genuinely is conservative, and who genuinely cares about the issues.
00:15:15.000And he's willing to take the beating in order to offer himself as that senator.
00:15:20.000And I think Georgians are going to look at that and they're going to say, okay, over here, I've got this left-wing cuckoo pretending to be a preacher who clearly doesn't behave like a preacher.
00:15:29.000And over here, I've got a guy who is solid, who is a state hero, the greatest athlete ever to play at the University of Georgia.
00:15:37.000And he is sincere and he's happy and positive.
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00:16:40.000Now you go to the average Arizona and say, given all they've suffered from illegal immigration, do you think we need people to protect us or people to investigate us?
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00:18:11.000Pedro, I want to talk about Ukraine and Republicans' continued support of this proxy war without ever able to tell us why it's in our national interest.
00:18:18.000But first, I want to ask a more philosophical question that I think you can help me with and our audience with.
00:18:23.000Why is it that America's elites are more interested in what's happening abroad than domestically?
00:18:39.000Well, I think it's important to kind of understand everything that our ruling class does as foreign policy, which is to say that what they want to do abroad is also what they want to do here.
00:18:50.000So you're right in the sense that it seems like they're neglecting the border, they're neglecting crime and things like that.
00:18:56.000But in a way, they're not really in the sense that they're actually getting what they want here and abroad.
00:19:02.000So I think all of these things are connected.
00:19:05.000But I think that the threat of a country like Russia is not that Russia is, I think, a real material threat.
00:19:14.000I mean, the war has shown that Russia is kind of like a second-rate regional power that has difficulty mobilizing its military to handle the challenges that it's facing in Ukraine.
00:19:25.000So really, apart from its nuclear arsenal, which we seem to be encouraging it to use, Russia really doesn't pose a material threat to the United States.
00:19:33.000I don't view Russia as a model for what America could be at all.
00:19:46.000But I think the hatred for Russia from our elites stems from the fact that the existence of a country that does not subscribe to the fundamentals of the U.S. regime of the people that are overseeing it is a kind of existential threat because it poses the possibility of just an alternative.
00:20:07.000It may not be a good alternative in Russia's case, but just the fact that there is another way to organize your society, a way that you do not organize your society in such a way that it, you know, it normalizes transgenderism for kids and all of these different crazy things that you're seeing that are actually kind of integral aspects of the existing globalist American empire.
00:20:28.000I think that just that it kind of incenses our elites because we might get ideas as Americans that maybe actually we don't have to live like this.
00:20:37.000Maybe there's a different way that we could organize our political affairs.
00:20:39.000And I think that that is ultimately at the heart of the hatred that our ruling class has for an otherwise, like I said, regional power like Russia that can't really hurt us.
00:20:49.000Yeah, and that's a good philosophical answer.
00:20:51.000Of course, there's a lot of people getting rich off of this too.
00:20:53.000There's a lot of defense contractors, the war machine.
00:20:56.000And I do find it interesting, though, because, you know, under that circumstance, you know, whether it be the kind of nation building in Ukraine and how Russia has a lot of problems, obviously, domestically, and we're not fans of that, but they have been very clear about social conservatism and let's just say the strong family and against transgenderism and all that other nonsense that we see infecting our society.
00:21:19.000I could see why that would bother the American ruling class and elites.
00:21:23.000So I want to play a piece of tape here.
00:21:25.000There's despite all of the issues that we see happening in Ukraine and kind of how we further get entangled here, it seems as if we're doubling and tripling and quadrupling down.
00:21:37.000And there's almost a fawning in the American elite, which is, I care a lot more about kind of something 5,000 miles away than the American southern border, which is so interesting to just continue to unpack philosophically.
00:21:49.000But there is this clip, I don't know if we have it, of the British prime minister.
00:22:00.000It's like this repeated incantation over and over and over again.
00:22:04.000But let me instead play this one here, one that I do know we have.
00:22:07.000Let's play this one of our media sitting down with the first lady of Ukraine showing pictures of Americans with bumper stickers and flags in support of Ukraine.
00:22:35.000This is a picture I took on Fifth Avenue in New York.
00:22:41.000This is a bumper sticker where I buy my groceries.
00:22:48.000I took this picture on the east side of Manhattan.
00:22:52.000What do you say to the American people?
00:22:56.000It's good journalism, Pedro, isn't it?
00:22:59.000It's just funny because, you know, like New York is undergoing this crime wave right now, and you literally have people, Americans, that are being killed in the streets of their own communities.
00:23:08.000But it's fine because you stand with Ukraine and you wear a mask.
00:23:24.000This kind of obsession with the other, whether the other is this country that we've created this kind of Marvel universe narrative around Ukraine, or the other in the sense of the illegal aliens that are getting kind of shipped around the country right now, right?
00:23:40.000We create these myths about the other, and we're told that somehow we have, as Americans, it's our kind of obligation to sacrifice ourselves to the other, whether again, it's someone who crosses the southern border or this distant country that has no meaningful impact on American life.
00:24:02.000And I think related to this is the election in Italy, right?
00:24:06.000I think what you're seeing from the new rising star in Italy, Maloney, is that her wager seems to be that I will pledge allegiance, and she might actually really sincerely believe this, but there's another element to this, right?
00:24:23.000Basically, if I pledge allegiance to the U.S. foreign policy interest, then I can have kind of social conservatism at home.
00:24:33.000Italy can do what it wants domestically as long as Italy subscribes to the foreign policy agenda of the United States, which means, you know, full support for NATO, you know, unflinching support for Ukraine.
00:24:46.000Poland, until recently, for example, was being demonized by liberals in the United States as this kind of regressive country.
00:24:53.000And although Poland has kind of actually jumped the shark in a lot of ways with its support for Ukraine, you know, it's now talking about welcoming U.S. nuclear arsenal into its territory.
00:25:04.000Like that, that's a crazy, provocative move.
00:25:06.000But although Poland is doing that, Poland is still getting punished by the EU over its refusal to change its laws and its refusal to take in migrants from overseas and stuff.
00:25:17.000So I think Italians, Maloney, are going to learn really quickly, you can't actually have it both ways.
00:25:23.000If you pledge allegiance to the U.S. foreign policy interest in Washington, you can't have socially conservative politics at home.
00:25:31.000The United States government, the State Department, won't allow it.
00:25:36.000There's this seismic shift happening politically that really has our elites confused.
00:25:42.000And by no means does this mean should we be allowed to continue to have southern porous borders, but Latinos in America, Hispanics, which you're a subject matter expert on, right, Pedro, are becoming radical right-wingers, it seems.
00:25:57.000And the explanation by kind of normie Republicans is, well, it's because of gas prices.
00:26:17.000Yeah, I think it's complicated because I think Latinos are not a monolith, right?
00:26:21.000Like you're just going to see different attitudes among different groups.
00:26:27.000I think it's certainly true that you're seeing this phenomenon mostly in Tejanos and Latinos in Florida, that you're kind of seeing this turn to the right.
00:26:38.000But I'm always wary of trying to read too much into it because in our politics, it's just the way things are, it gets used as a kind of excuse to promote more immigration, right?
00:26:51.000These are natural conservatives and therefore we can, that's exactly, which is really frustrating because it actually makes it so that we're, it kind of taints our analysis of these things.
00:27:02.000I think it's certainly true that it's a kind of reaction to the left going too far and specifically going too far with regard to the family.
00:27:14.000I think that you have this kind of willingness to fight among Latinos that white liberals just don't have.
00:27:22.000When it comes to things like, you know, like, for example, this is in the news right now, these major medical associations have asked the DOJ to look into the threat, the supposed threat posed by parents and groups who are railing against transgenderism for kids.
00:27:40.000And I think that obviously it's not just Latinos who are, that's not true at all.
00:27:45.000It's not just Latinos that are angry about this, but I think there seems to be a kind of like strong familial sense that a lot of Latinos that basically when you threaten the family, whether that's through rioting or transgenderism, you're going to provoke a reaction that's not necessarily ideological.
00:28:00.000It's more of just like, you know, you have to do it.
00:28:31.000We have to resist this from becoming a mass amnesty play because I could totally see it where Republicans say, hey, look, now there are people.
00:28:56.000We can read it, but your thoughts first.
00:28:58.000Well, like you said, I think the Elon Twitter saga has always been interesting because of what it reveals.
00:29:05.000Because like you said, we don't know if Elon is actually going to pull the trigger on this.
00:29:08.000And we also don't know if it'll bring meaningful, lasting change to the platform and make it better.
00:29:14.000But that's kind of secondary to the fact that a lot of things are revealed in just the shakeup of this whole thing.
00:29:23.000And the most recent example is Ben Collins, who is a reporter for NBC News.
00:29:27.000His Twitter bio says that he's on the dystopian beat.
00:29:30.000And I like to say that irony is kind of dead because irony is when something is set up to kind of deliberately contradict our expectations.
00:29:39.000But we know exactly, like it's not a surprising at all.
00:29:44.000In other words, we expect it when we see a title that says dystopia beat that this person is not actually covering the machinations of the dystopian regime.
00:29:59.000Like, okay, well, this guy is just kind of a shill for the system.
00:30:03.000And so that this thread that he that he wrote about Elon is really interesting, not because it's surprising, but it's because it's so honest.
00:30:42.000He's admitting it because, and this is important for some of our listeners that don't spend time on Twitter because we have some listeners that are in their 60s or 70s are not on social media all the time.
00:30:50.000Twitter, it's not about the volume of people, which is not insignificant, but it's kind of the top of the tributary.
00:31:01.000Twitter is interesting because, like you said, we don't know how many people are actually on it because the whole question of bots and all that stuff.
00:31:26.000Well, actually, what happens on Twitter and what is said on Twitter actually does seem to have an outsized influence on real world outcomes.
00:31:33.000And so here you have a reporter for NBC News saying losing control of Twitter could basically make it more difficult for Democrats to win elections.
00:31:44.000But again, you have to accept that Twitter is already helping Democrats win elections, if that's true.
00:31:51.000And that's, I think, the most kind of amusing aspect of this is that Collins just comes out and says it.
00:31:57.000And then, of course, he doubles down on why that's good.
00:31:59.000Well, because the opposite is authoritarianism and, you know, racism and things like that.
00:32:05.000Because they don't recognize, like, kind of going back to the discussion about foreign policy, these people don't recognize in domestic politics any alternative to their preferred policies and outcomes.
00:32:43.000You don't even have to be transparent.
00:32:44.000You could secretly ban one party's candidate or all of its candidates, all of its nominees, or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else.
00:32:55.000And the rest of us might not even find out about it until after the election.
00:33:00.000Elon Musk says this is all to help people because he is just a free speech, philosophically clear, open-minded helper.
00:33:16.000And it's bad when the other side wants to do it.
00:33:18.000That's literally what Ben Collins, that's the essence of his thread, which is obviously the opposite of what that person, that punnett just said.