00:01:04.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:21.000I guess this is some form of a rapid response DNC podcast.
00:01:25.000I'm with my good friend Michael Knowles, and I was just, boy, I was so fired up with watching whatever that just was tonight and last night.
00:01:40.000Michael, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:42.000Instant reaction from the second night of the Bolshevik rally revolution.
00:01:47.000Charlie, it occurs to me that what we're doing right now could just as well be the Democratic National Convention because the whole thing is basically just a glorified Zoom call at this point.
00:01:57.000So our rapid response just hopping on the stream right now, I think pretty much is the DNC with this one exception.
00:02:04.000There's at least a chance that we can be entertaining and inspiring at no chance from the DNC.
00:03:46.000She's a pretty clever politician in that she walked this line of seconding.
00:03:50.000I forget if she proposed or seconded Bernie's nomination.
00:03:54.000And then obviously she's going to vote for Biden anyway, but she still gets to keep some of that progressive cred, even though obviously it's not going to have any effect.
00:04:39.000Can you explain to me the wisdom of having Bill Clinton speak in a party that invented Me Too?
00:04:47.000I don't have the capacity to process that one.
00:04:50.000It's interesting because the Democratic Party is in a certain sense very conservative.
00:04:55.000I mean, lowercase C conservative in that they don't really change.
00:04:59.000They've had this machine now for over 100 years, and they're the longest continuously extant political party in the world.
00:05:08.000So there are parts of it that they just can't shake from the past, one of which is Bill Clinton.
00:05:13.000I mean, obviously the Democratic Party today has taken a sharp leftward turn since the 1990s, but Bill is still there.
00:05:20.000You know, obviously they've got these super delegates, right?
00:05:22.000That's an anti-democratic element of the Democratic National Committee.
00:05:26.000But when you combine the Bill Clinton general baggage with what we found out today, there's an image of one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims giving Bill Clinton a neck massage that dropped today.
00:05:39.000Maybe it's time to drop old Bubba from the DNC.
00:05:43.000Well, I guess that's the new Democrat Party.
00:05:46.000I mean, it's a little bit, it's hard to, I mean, it's such a blatant power grab, and it just goes to show that every one of the movements that they make us be held accountable for, that they will never hold their own accountable at all for that.
00:05:58.000I mean, Andrew Cuomo today, and just one of the things that just irritated me the most about the news cycle today, Andrew Cuomo came out and he said he's writing a book on October 13th about coronavirus, the Chinese coronavirus that he called the European virus last night.
00:06:14.000They have created months of free campaign content in like 60-second intervals.
00:06:19.000I didn't think it was possible to have this much opposition research done.
00:06:22.000And by the way, it's so amazing is that these are like pre-rehearsed, pre-written speeches, and they're giving a phenomenal amount of material there.
00:06:31.000And so Andrew Cuomo's coming out with the book on October 13th.
00:06:34.000And he's like, oh, Donald Trump's profiting off this virus.
00:06:37.000Who's the one selling a book before the election about the virus?
00:06:40.000Like, could you imagine if Trump even joked about something like that?
00:06:44.000Well, you know, Cuomo, obviously, as we know, handled the coronavirus worse than any governor in America.
00:06:50.000His policies are directly responsible for thousands, at least several thousand senior citizens being killed from the virus because he sent the sick people into nursing homes.
00:07:00.000It's called American Crisis, Leadership During Coronavirus, which makes me want to read Harvey Weinstein's book on relationships or Jeffrey Dahmer's book on nutrition, right?
00:07:10.000But this actually shows you a serious point, which is that they do not care about having a relationship to reality, right?
00:07:19.000The Democrats believe that they have such cultural hegemony, they have such control over the institutions that they can tell you that up is down and two plus two equals five.
00:07:30.000They can tell you whatever they want and you will believe them because they control the messaging.
00:07:34.000I mean, Cuomo, I think, sums it up better than anybody.
00:07:38.000Well, I think it's also they really think they're that important of people.
00:07:42.000I mean, they think that they are, they, you know, it's kind of funny.
00:07:45.000I thought the divine right of kings was basically ended in the early 1800s, but no, it still is very much alive and well today, where these Democrats feel as if there's something so special about their capacity to govern that they rules, us, standards?
00:08:21.000I think that just from, look, it's kind of when I watch a convention like this, it's almost like kind of watching The Godfather or The Matrix.
00:08:31.000So, everything there is there for a reason.
00:08:33.000It's either trying to compensate for a political deficit, it's trying to make up for a deficiency, it's trying to make something, it's actually trying to get votes that they wouldn't otherwise have.
00:08:43.000So, when I see the incredible overindulgence in black identity politics, number one, then also trying to get former Republicans to speak, I interpret this, love your thoughts on this, that they have both a base problem and also a persuadable middle problem, that the Democrats are trying to solve two problems simultaneously that actually might be self-defeating and also might be so incongruent because they're trying to blend leftism and liberalism together.
00:09:08.000Outside of, of course, all the nonsense, the radicalism, as you look into the hood underneath the Democrat Party going in November, what are you gathering that might be a little below the surface?
00:09:17.000So, something that no one else has talked about yet is I haven't seen this anywhere on Twitter or anything during the debate.
00:09:38.000And they opened up tonight by referring to John Lewis, you know, the civil rights icon who recently passed away, as he got into good trouble, meaning he broke some laws, but it was actually for the ultimate good and it was in defense of the natural law or something like that.
00:09:53.000The reason they are doing this is because they have to defend, they have to make some excuse for the BLM rioters and terrorists who are burning down the country and killing people.
00:10:04.000And so, the only way that they can do that, they have to acknowledge that there is some trouble here.
00:10:08.000But what they are basically trying to say is, yes, they're breaking all these laws and harming people and burning down the whole country, but it's for the good.
00:10:24.000And the second part, which is kind of connected, is this other stupid expression.
00:10:29.000It's the slogan of the Biden campaign, which is build back better.
00:10:34.000And there's no, you know, obviously they have to rebuild because they just tore down the whole country and you've got shattered pieces of George Washington statues all over the place.
00:10:42.000But the trouble is, what can they get Trump on?
00:10:44.000You'll notice the only issue they hit Trump on tonight was that Trump tried to overturn Obamacare or to rescind parts of Obamacare or to abolish it, but he didn't succeed.
00:10:56.000Remember, John McCain put his thumb down and so it didn't work.
00:10:59.000So the only thing they can hit him on is a hypothetical.
00:11:01.000It's something that he tried to do, but didn't.
00:11:04.000And the one question I would have, I don't know if you heard this anywhere of the last two nights.
00:11:08.000Did anyone give an affirmative, positive reason for what Joe Biden, what Joe Biden would do if he is elected and why we should vote for Joe Biden?
00:11:18.000Not because Trump is bad, but because of Joe Biden?
00:11:23.000No, and you won't, because their entire political strategy, and this is more and more clear, and this was, you and I hypothesized this over the summer, is that they want to turn this into a House of Commons vote of no confidence, like Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher style, that they actually want to destroy the electoral system of binary choices.
00:11:40.000And they want to make it like this person's so bad.
00:11:42.000Therefore, if you manifest any or harbor any sort of discontent towards this person, therefore go show up in record numbers to go vote for the senal guy.
00:11:50.000That, and look, I mean this without any, like without trying to, you know, trivialize mental decline.
00:11:55.000But when you're running for the presidency, I think it's pretty much fair game.
00:11:59.000He has so much effort just to make a sentence.
00:12:01.000I mean, even when he was accepting the nomination, he stood up so awkwardly in some form of a library and all of his grandkids came out around him.
00:12:07.000I think there was five, but I think he actually has seven.
00:12:16.000And it just looked like he was in such laborious pain.
00:12:19.000And the only way that this is working is because the entire Democrat trajectory, their whole arc over the last couple of years, is they really believe that they can defeat an incumbent based purely on dissatisfaction towards that incumbent, not for the replacement, right?
00:13:14.000I'm not convinced that this kind of enthusiastic underbelly of the Democrat Party that has been really reliable for the last couple of elections, you and I know this population really well.
00:13:23.000First of all, the campuses are closed.
00:13:25.000So ballot harvesting is taken off the table.
00:13:27.000Secondly, I'm not convinced that they're going to be motivated.
00:13:31.000When I look at this, where do you interpret like that average college socialist that you and I have to re-educate, or at least, you know, stop telling them to be so bitter or arrogant?
00:13:39.000Do you think they're going to show up in big numbers?
00:13:42.000How is that exactly going to play out?
00:13:43.000No, they're not going to show up in part because they're not on campus, right?
00:13:48.000So, you know, I think a part of the Democrats' strategy has been to continue this lockdown, even when there is no medical or scientific reason to continue the lockdown, but it's to keep the economy depressed, keep society depressed, keep everyone agitated, and enforce this mail-in ballot issue nationwide.
00:14:05.000But one negative side effect for them is the campuses are closed, so they can't rally all of the students.
00:14:10.000Nobody, nobody is excited about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
00:14:14.000Not one person in the country, including Joe Biden.
00:14:16.000Maybe Kamala Harris is, but that's about it.
00:14:18.000You know, I think she was a bad choice for him.
00:14:57.000Every time I see Joe Biden speak, he does the stoic glaze really well, the kind of where he looks off into the distance.
00:15:03.000I say, either he's doing his best Maoist kind of caricature, or he's just incredibly confused at what's happening around him, just to kind of look into the distance, kind of gazing.
00:15:14.000He's either like, yeah, it might be a little mixture of both.
00:15:18.000And so, so, Michael, what is so as we look at the rest of the week, if you were trying to analyze exactly what the Republicans need to do next week, what do Republicans need to do, right?
00:15:28.000So we have 40, we've now had two days of this circus.
00:15:32.000And by the way, for those that missed it, Pocahontas, I thought this was parody, by the way.
00:15:52.000The Native American coalition call as a featured guest speaker had who.
00:15:56.000Featured guest speaker, Liawatha herself, Pocahontas, Elizabeth, because she's what coming in hot.
00:16:05.000I think she's what, one, maybe she is one 1,024th Native American, which, you know, in today's Democratic Party, I guess that qualifies you.
00:16:30.000A party convention is supposed to rally the base, get everybody excited, present a coherent message to the public generally.
00:16:38.000It seems to me that this infomercial of a DNC has not accomplished any of that.
00:16:44.000I mean, I would not be surprised if Biden's numbers actually go down after the convention, even though the whole reason they hold convention, so the numbers go up.
00:16:53.000Well, and here's the open secret here, Michael, and here's the takeaway.
00:17:25.000In fact, and I don't say this, I don't see it.
00:17:28.000I don't say this lightly, trust me, because I'm extremely critical of Republicans, like very much so, when they don't do what they're supposed to do.
00:17:36.000But the Republicans are in a much better place, much better place.
00:17:39.000And it's almost manifesting itself very similar to the 1984 Republican Party.
00:17:44.000Now, I'm not saying the election will be similar.
00:17:51.000It might be the one state that Ronald Reagan has won.
00:17:53.000But the thing in 84 that was so interesting, Michael, is that the Republicans played nice with each other, like the gun people played nice to the pro-life people who played nice with the fiscal conservative people, all because there was kind of this agreement that Soviet communism must be crushed and Reagan's doing a great job of that.
00:18:10.000And I think that in a weird way, Donald Trump has now become the anti-leftist domestic equivalent of that, where the Republicans have far more of a unified movement or party.
00:18:19.000Now, we still have the corporate Republican types, but they're following.
00:18:22.000They are not leading the party, make no mistake.
00:18:25.000They follow kind of the energy behind.
00:18:27.000The Democrats don't really have a party.
00:18:31.000They have to continue to almost remind you, like not to turn off the TV, like it's some sort of like Stockholm syndrome.
00:18:37.000Remember, we're for environmental justice, racial justice.
00:18:40.000I mean, like, how many justices are there?
00:18:42.000I mean, the Vermont thing, they had this guy that looked like he was, you know, he lives in the northern hills of Vermont in some commune, like he just stumbled into civil society in the last couple of weeks.
00:18:51.000Now, remember, everybody, racial justice, environmental justice, food, what are the other justices we believe in?
00:18:57.000Don't turn off the TV because we're actually really radical.
00:19:00.000And so I think that's a very, so if I were to do political organizing and I were trying to, which I do, and I would just take a diagnosis of this, it's an incredibly unhealthy party.
00:19:08.000And I think you bring up such a good point on all the ever-multiplying types of justice.
00:20:00.000They have all these ever-multiplying values.
00:20:03.000If I had one recommendation for the RNC, which I've been suggesting now from my platform for a little while, it's you have to do a live convention.
00:20:32.000This Zoom meeting convention thing is pathetic.
00:20:36.000It is giving in to the leftist premise that we all need to stay home and we need to mail in our ballots so that the left can steal this election.
00:20:44.000If even the exalted Dr. Fauci, peace be upon him, says that we can show up to the ballot box and we can go out, we can do things, you know, wear the mask or whatever, say, stay a few feet away, fine.
00:20:55.000If even Fauci is saying that, then there's no argument, right?
00:20:58.000Even the public health professionals are saying it.
00:21:00.000You need some sort of a live convention.
00:21:03.000I think that if the president zooms this in, this is going to be a big wasted opportunity.
00:21:08.000Yeah, I'm not sure the technical part of that might be too late.
00:21:12.000I agree that generally a live convention.
00:21:15.000However, some of the speakers they've already announced, I like the direction this is heading, Michael.
00:21:19.000This is a cultural conservative convention.
00:21:22.000I got to give the Trump campaign and the convention a lot of credit.
00:21:25.000This could have been a typical technocratic corporate wing Republican party where they're, you know, like the Romney convention.
00:22:17.000And so, additionally, Michael, so the point that you were making about the convention and what I was trying to title together, you have Abby Johnson, who is the Planned Parenthood whistleblower who's speaking, Nick Sandman, and the McCloskeys.
00:23:30.000I totally reject what these guys are saying.
00:23:33.000And then, and then, frankly, to me, the most important one is Nick Sandman.
00:23:37.000Nick Sandman was that kid at the time, I think he was 17 or something.
00:23:40.000Now, that was a couple years ago, who was just minding his own business, was at a pro-life rally, was standing on the mall, had the MAGA hat on.
00:23:47.000A bunch of black supremacists yelled a bunch of crazy stuff at him.
00:23:51.000And then this Native American lunatic started banging a drum in his face.
00:23:54.000The kid actually showed great restraint, got smeared by the media.
00:23:58.000And I think having him speak there shows what Trump has exposed.
00:24:04.000He's exposed that the media are just absolute cretins, that the media are nothing but staffers for the Democratic Party and more broadly for the liberal establishment.
00:24:15.000So to have him here, that is going to be a finger in the face of CNN, of the Washington Post, and broadly speaking, what do we call them?
00:25:16.000I mean, in northern Wisconsin, they are a pro-life part of the country.
00:25:20.000And so when they hear Abby Johnson communicate to it, I think what I'm really pleased about, what the Republicans are doing next week, what the Democrats have not done a good job of at all, is the Republicans actually take next week as a teaching moment to persuade people on core cultural issues.
00:25:34.000Like Abby Johnson, that would not be a typical pick where she's actually going to make more people pro-life by the end of next week than the beginning of the week.
00:25:42.000The Democrats are like, screw persuasion.
00:25:43.000Let's just try to just play it easy, plays it safe, and then say, virus every like 25 seconds, virus, like virus, like don't leave your home, right?
00:25:50.000And then go where, you know, go do what we're told.
00:25:52.000And I think that there's a risk in that because I think that what the Trump campaign is believing, and I, this is totally true, is that it's not as monolithic as you might think.
00:26:01.000There's a lot of people that are still trying to land the plane, if you were, on how they're going to vote.
00:26:06.000You know, I've knocked over on 100,000 doors for candidates, and I'll ever forget some of these people I knock on the door of.
00:26:35.000They're just kind of vacillating or they're disinterested.
00:26:38.000And so thematically, Michael, what do you want the Republicans to hit?
00:26:42.000And where do you think the Democrats have missed the mark so terribly?
00:26:46.000If you were even to put your Democrat hat on and you're like, if I were the Democrats, I would have done this.
00:26:51.000So the Democrats are very afraid that they've been exposed as hating their own country.
00:26:56.000I think it's pretty clear they genuinely hate their own country.
00:26:58.000You heard years ago with Obama saying he wants to fundamentally transform America.
00:27:03.000You generally don't want to fundamentally transform things that you love.
00:27:06.000You saw the flag protest, which started out with Colin Kaepernick, and now you've got mainstream Democratic politicians cheering on the desecration of the American flag.
00:27:15.000And so you had Andrew Cuomo during yesterday's part of the DNC.
00:27:19.000He said, look, America, it's a great country.
00:31:04.000And I think what we've got to remember is that this election is not just Republicans versus Democrats.
00:31:11.000I don't think people like Republicans that much.
00:31:13.000And I don't think the Democratic Party is even the primary issue.
00:31:16.000What this election is, is the conservative, now you call it the kind of Trump movement, the pro-America movement versus the liberal establishment, which includes the Democratic Party.
00:31:28.000It includes the administrative state, the bureaucracy, this titanic 2.6 million member bureaucracy that effectively writes our laws for us and that is unaccountable to us.
00:31:41.000And they don't care what we have to say and we can't vote them out of office.
00:31:44.000And I think a lot of the Trump movement was from this frustration that it doesn't matter.
00:31:48.000Republicans win, Democrats win, but we get more and more open borders.
00:32:16.000You've got to hit even the beautiful, vaunted public health experts and any other bureaucrat in Washington who thinks that they can run your life and keep you out of your church and keep you out of your school and keep you out of your job and out of your life.
00:32:31.000I think this election's got to be a big middle finger to them.
00:32:34.000And it's got to be a message that we can empower the people, even still, even in this second term.
00:32:40.000I think if Trump runs on that, he'll have a great message.
00:32:43.000And then related to that is he's got to make sure that this universal nationwide mail-in voting doesn't happen.
00:32:49.000That's related, by the way, to the bureaucracy that is going to administer that.
00:32:54.000That is how the left is going to try to steal this election.
00:32:56.000And it should be quashed any way possible, any legal way possible.
00:34:35.000The post office, our wonderful, vaunted post office that nobody really seemed to like very much until it became a political issue two days ago.
00:34:43.000They are part of a bureaucracy, right?
00:35:39.000And if they can show up in the streets to protest in-person voting, then they can go vote.
00:35:44.000I mean, that's probably one of the greatest cell phones that we've ever seen.
00:35:48.000I mean, they have people, they have thousands and thousands and thousands of people.
00:35:52.000And from an epidemiological standpoint, it is the wokest virus we've ever seen in our life, where if you happen to be protesting something that is righteous enough, somehow it will not infect you.
00:36:02.000However, we're starting to look at infection numbers and we look across the Sunbelt, they're going down.
00:36:07.000And this is something that is ever-changing, obviously.
00:36:09.000But the president is actually going to be able to, I think, be able to pivot towards a very uncomfortable position for Joe Biden here, where he can be like, look, things a couple months ago, the numbers weren't great, but now look where the numbers are.
00:36:21.000And so I really agree with you that the more kind of in-person rallies, he did one today in Arizona, did two yesterday in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
00:36:29.000And if Trump can visit Wisconsin, why can't Joe Biden visit Wisconsin?
00:36:32.000Like, that's probably a pretty, you know, respectable question.
00:36:36.000And so I think, look, you're exactly right with the mail and voting is because when the Democrats want something this bad, the question should be, why do they want it this bad?
00:36:44.000Do they really care about the disenfranchised and they really care about the least of these?
00:36:55.000There is no looking out for the innocent.
00:36:57.000There is no trying to help the least of these.
00:37:00.000It's how do I get myself to be the most important person in perpetual political power for the longest personal time I possibly can and try to build an infrastructure so I can turn myself into some form of a Roman emperor.
00:37:12.000And anything besides that gets in the way.
00:37:14.000We have another question here, Michael.
00:37:15.000I'd love to get your thoughts in just the couple minutes we have remaining, but we're crushing it.
00:37:19.000We have like 5,000 live viewers right now.
00:37:59.000I won't go into too many of the specifics yet because we're trying to deal with this in as clever a way as we can.
00:38:08.000Big tech across the platforms, every single one, is trying not just to take you down for some copyright thing or you played a little piece of a song or you showed it.
00:38:19.000They're trying to take you down for things you're saying.
00:38:21.000If you're making political arguments, if you're making observations, if you're reading scientific studies, they're trying to take you down.
00:38:27.000We saw this the other day with those doctors who were talking about how for their patients, hydroxychloroquine worked very well in treating coronavirus.
00:39:05.000And so they told them, okay, it's not going to happen again.
00:39:09.000Google had a, just days after the election, you know, in that kind of afterwards, it was their first big meeting with all the heads of Google in the room.
00:39:17.000They said this nationalism, this rise of populism, we can't let this happen again.
00:39:22.000And they're trying to make sure that that's the case.
00:39:24.000The one thing I can promise you is that from now until November 3rd, the censorship is going to get much worse.
00:39:29.000And I think a lot of conservatives finally are waking up to this fact.
00:39:32.000They used to say, well, Twitter's a private company.
00:41:31.000We were thrown around like five or six books.
00:41:34.000The trouble, as you know, Charlie, because you're like an autodidact, you've always got some book going, is you could do any number of books.
00:41:42.000So we'll like spin the wheel, do a roulette wheel and figure out which one we're doing.
00:41:45.000Yeah, as long as we don't do the phenomenology of spirit by Hegel, I think we'll be just fine.
00:42:18.000We're all talking about how he's in decline.
00:42:21.000If you ask me right now, put money, yes or no, will he debate?
00:42:24.000I think he will debate in part because early voting, mail-in voting, is going to happen before even the first debate, which was a complete mistake.
00:42:31.000I mean, I don't know how I don't know how we got into that situation, but that's a big misstep.