The Charlie Kirk Show - August 08, 2022


Economic Nationalism and the Case for Ending The Fed with Steve Bannon


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The Senate passes a despicable piece of legislation, Steve Bannon joins us to talk about ending the Federal Reserve, and we learn that climate change is a Trojan horse designed to make people fear something they don't actually have to fear.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:00.000 Today, the Charlie Kirk Show, the Senate passes a despicable piece of legislation.
00:00:05.000 Steve Bannon joins us to talk about ending the Federal Reserve.
00:00:08.000 It's so funny.
00:00:09.000 When Steve comes on the show, I don't know what he's going to talk about.
00:00:12.000 He just comes roaring out like, we got to add the Fed.
00:00:14.000 I'm like, whoa, okay, here we go.
00:00:16.000 Super entertaining.
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00:01:01.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:01:43.000 I want to start this program by going into what happened over this last weekend.
00:01:50.000 According to NPR.org, the propagandist publication funded by our taxpayer dollars, Democrats passed a major climate health and tax bill.
00:02:00.000 Here is what is in it.
00:02:02.000 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer gives the thumbs up as he leaves the Senate chamber after passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.
00:02:09.000 Senate Democrats, after weeks of negotiations to revive the core of their election year agenda, passed a spending bill which would attempt to tackle climate change, the high cost of prescription drugs, and lower the deficit by roughly $300 billion.
00:02:26.000 So let's go through actually what's in the bill.
00:02:28.000 This NPR does a pretty poor job of detailing it, but we'll dance around with this.
00:02:32.000 But let's start with this idea of climate change.
00:02:36.000 I have to say, whoever came up with the branding around climate change is brilliant.
00:02:45.000 It's an unbelievably brilliant strategy.
00:02:48.000 You can call it a Trojan horse.
00:02:50.000 You could call it a wolf in sheep's clothing.
00:02:53.000 What's so brilliant about climate change is that you don't have to define it.
00:02:58.000 Is that you have an unspecified fear that you could spend an unlimited amount of money on, like AOC, $100 trillion?
00:03:06.000 Why stop there?
00:03:07.000 Why not $130 trillion?
00:03:09.000 You see, climate change is so brilliantly duplicitous, and it's a scheme to make people afraid, but they'll never actually get to the end point.
00:03:18.000 That's what's so brilliant about it.
00:03:20.000 So no matter how much you spend, there might be somebody with a fossil fuel somewhere in Midland, Texas who need to spend another $100 billion to go find them.
00:03:27.000 You see, if they completely change the economy into a green economy, destroying our energy supremacy, by the way, which is one of the most civilizational, suicidal things that we could possibly do, they'll just then create a surveillance state to find out if someone still is using fossil fuels or natural gas.
00:03:45.000 Even though natural gas we have in abundance and is the most environmentally friendly, lowest emission energy source that we have, that is in the carbon fossil fuel category.
00:03:58.000 There are two ways to control a civilization.
00:04:01.000 Tyrants always use these two ways to control people: fear and free stuff.
00:04:08.000 Fear and free stuff.
00:04:10.000 Those are the two ways tyrants control their citizens or their subjects because they're trying to erode citizenship and they're trying to create a country of subjects.
00:04:23.000 Climate change accomplishes both of them by making you in a state of fear the same way that they had the emergency use authorization and the emergency fear porn.
00:04:33.000 That they never get there.
00:04:34.000 They're always extending the goalposts and extending the cycle of fear.
00:04:42.000 Fear and free stuff are the two ways that people are always controlled, that subjects are micromanaged by tyrants.
00:04:52.000 In this bill, it starts with just $300 billion on climate change.
00:04:57.000 No one actually talks about how it's going to fix climate change or what climate change actually is.
00:05:04.000 You see, it's so non-defined.
00:05:06.000 You ask these senators, and they're welcome on this program, to what portion is man's activity contributing to rising global temperatures?
00:05:16.000 How about sunspots?
00:05:18.000 Do they contribute to rising global temperatures?
00:05:20.000 How did the environment or the atmosphere change prior to man's carbon emissions?
00:05:26.000 How would the $300 billion that was passed over this last weekend play a role in that?
00:05:32.000 More than $300 billion would be invested in energy and climate reform, the largest federal clean energy investment in U.S. history.
00:05:40.000 It's not about energy.
00:05:43.000 It's not about climate change.
00:05:45.000 It's about control.
00:05:47.000 Climate change is the perfect issue to make themselves feel good to brand a status totalitarian takeover of the American way of life. 0.56
00:05:58.000 Environment.
00:05:59.000 Climate experts experience an odd sensation after the Manchin budget deal, optimism.
00:06:05.000 Oh, experts.
00:06:06.000 Are we still treating, we're still trusting the experts and treating the experts as if they know what they're talking about?
00:06:13.000 The expert class, as we call it on this program, has been wrong about everything.
00:06:20.000 They've been imprecise about the most basic and fundamental truths, deceitful in their self-dealing.
00:06:29.000 The portion of the bill, NPR writes, takes on transportation and electricity generation.
00:06:34.000 It includes $60 billion for growing renewable energy infrastructure and manufacturing, like solar panels and wind turbines.
00:06:42.000 The bill would, according to Democrats, lower greenhouse gas emissions by 40% based on 2005 levels by the end of the decade.
00:06:49.000 Quote, it puts us within a close enough distance that further executive action, state and local government efforts and private sector leadership could plausibly get across the finish line by 2030, but it won't.
00:07:01.000 They'll just have another goal.
00:07:03.000 They'll extend it further.
00:07:04.000 Climate change engages in the Hegelian dialectic of we're never there till we reach utopia.
00:07:12.000 That's what's so brilliant about the messaging around climate change is that as soon as you think you're there, they say, oh no, we need another $100 trillion.
00:07:23.000 The bill also raises taxes.
00:07:27.000 There's now a $6.5 billion tax on natural gas production.
00:07:31.000 One of the most insane things someone could do is tax the asset that you have the most of, that is also the cleanest that the rest of the world wishes they had.
00:07:42.000 16.4 cents per barrel tax on crude oil and imported petroleum products.
00:07:49.000 It also raises taxes on corporations, otherwise known as small businesses.
00:07:54.000 The bill includes a 15% minimum tax on large corporations, argues it will be passed on ATR Americans for tax reform, argues it will be passed on to consumers.
00:08:06.000 Raises taxes on medium-sized businesses.
00:08:10.000 It extends a limit on loss deductions for pass-through businesses, S-corporations and sole proprietorships for two years.
00:08:19.000 There's an indirect tax on pensions through taxing stock buybacks.
00:08:24.000 There's also a tax on pharmaceuticals unless they accept price caps.
00:08:29.000 And of course, the kicker of it all, this bill, as we mentioned last week and tried to warn, adds $80 billion to the IRS's budget and 87,000 new staff members to the Internal Revenue Service.
00:08:50.000 87,000 new IRS agents.
00:08:56.000 That makes the IRS larger than the FBI, Border Patrol, and the State Department combined.
00:09:04.000 That's what happened over this last weekend.
00:09:07.000 And remarkably, Democrats in tough Senate races like Mark Kelly and Raphael Warnock, they don't care.
00:09:15.000 They voted for it because they know that they're still going to get over $100 million in Democrat cash as the Democrats are now representing the white wealthy party.
00:09:25.000 Republicans are getting outspent in almost every race across the country because the values of wokeism are most consistent with miserable, wealthy white people that live in Malibu and Manhattan and they want to spread their misery imperialistically upon the rest of us.
00:09:46.000 The IRS adds $87 billion to their budget.
00:09:55.000 Look, we talk about current events a lot on this show, but there's other things that are in life that are bigger than current events, bigger things.
00:10:01.000 We try to do some shows every so often on these things.
00:10:04.000 But look, what am I talking about when I say that?
00:10:06.000 How about good and evil?
00:10:07.000 Right and wrong?
00:10:08.000 Prayer and the Bible or heaven and hell?
00:10:10.000 So look, the great C.S. Lewis, who's one of the most amazing minds ever to exist, was a master at addressing these questions.
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00:10:59.000 The answers may even surprise you, even if you think you know everything about C.S. Lewis.
00:11:03.000 They surprised me, my goodness.
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00:11:10.000 So take the C.S. Lewis quiz, charlie4hillsdale.com.
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00:11:32.000 At Turning Point USA and at Turning Point Action, when we find a student and we train them up and we educate them, we look at them as a potential activist, a worker, someone that can make meaningful change for the freedom movement.
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00:12:00.000 That's how we increase our ranks.
00:12:02.000 How do the Democrats increase their ranks?
00:12:06.000 The Democrats increase their ranks by hiring IRS agents.
00:12:11.000 We increase our movement by persuasion and energy, voluntary exchange of ideas, by getting into the grassroots, starting high school chapters, starting college chapters.
00:12:23.000 The left, they pass a multi-hundred billion dollar spending bill to get more IRS agents on the payroll.
00:12:32.000 Their ranks increase, their power increases, the more the IRS is able to get dominion over your life.
00:12:46.000 Dare I use a biblical word.
00:12:49.000 Fox's Mike Emmanuel asked a phenomenal question out of Senator Ben Cardin.
00:12:55.000 He asks a very good question.
00:12:57.000 He said, can you understand how 87,000 new IRS agents would scare the heck out of millions of Americans?
00:13:09.000 Senator Cardin responds to it, but before I play this tape, remember, Democrats are not afraid of new IRS agents because they look at themselves as exempt from the wrath of the regime.
00:13:23.000 That's their team members.
00:13:25.000 The IRS agent, they wear the same jersey.
00:13:29.000 No, no, this will be used against dissidents.
00:13:33.000 This is not the Inflation Reduction Act.
00:13:37.000 This is the Dissident Imprisonment Act.
00:13:41.000 This is the let's choke off the capital flows to the MAGA movement act.
00:13:48.000 The 87,000 new IRS agents will not be used to audit BLM or the ACLU or the Alphabet Mafia.
00:13:57.000 The 87,000 new IRS agents will be used to go after mom-and-pop restaurants, donors to MAGA candidates, people like you.
00:14:07.000 Play cut nine.
00:14:09.000 Can you understand how 87,000 new IRS agents would scare the heck out of millions of Americans?
00:14:15.000 Millions of Americans aren't going to be impacted by that other than getting better service from the IRS, having their telephone answer, getting the questions they need in order to comply with our tax laws.
00:14:26.000 The auditing is going to be focused on those of high income, the large corporations, et cetera.
00:14:31.000 So there's no reason to be fearful.
00:14:34.000 And if you have paid your taxes and if you comply with our laws, you should want to make sure everyone else does that.
00:14:40.000 Oh, yeah, if you pay your taxes, you have nothing to worry about.
00:14:43.000 I chuckle at a Soviet phrase.
00:14:46.000 There's a phenomenal book called Darkness at Noon by Arthur Kessler.
00:14:50.000 It's all about the baseless imprisonment of a political dissident.
00:14:55.000 And there's a phrase in the book, which is the Soviet official says, if you've done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to worry about.
00:15:01.000 Of course, it is a farce.
00:15:03.000 It's a fallacy.
00:15:04.000 It's a fabrication.
00:15:05.000 It's a joke.
00:15:08.000 Because, of course, you show me the man, I'll show you the crime.
00:15:11.000 So tell me, Senator Cardin from Delaware, for the couple thousand email testimonials we received last week from people that were abused by the IRS, and please feel free to keep emailing them to me, by the way, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:15:25.000 When the IRS is wrong, who pays the penalty?
00:15:29.000 The IRS does not reimburse somebody.
00:15:30.000 Say, oh, sorry, I wasted five years of your life.
00:15:33.000 For example, if you get audited and you've done everything right, who pays for your representation against the IRS?
00:15:39.000 Does the IRS reimburse you?
00:15:42.000 Senator Cardin says, well, you have nothing to worry about if you've paid your taxes. 0.99
00:15:45.000 That is rubbish. 0.94
00:15:46.000 And that sounds like someone who's never owned a business, taken a deduction, or has a stance that might be a threat to the regime. 0.98
00:15:54.000 No, no, the IRS Expansion Act is all about trying to quell dissidents.
00:16:01.000 They know that there is a movement right now.
00:16:03.000 This bill was passed for a reason.
00:16:05.000 Yes, the climate change thing is there.
00:16:07.000 But the real sneaky part is the 87,000 IRS agents that they want in every corner, every restaurant, every small business, they want to create a blitzkrieg of audits against people that they consider and deem to be a threat.
00:16:26.000 That's what Mark Kelly just voted for.
00:16:28.000 That's what Raphael Warnock just voted for.
00:16:30.000 That's what Cortez Mastro just voted for.
00:16:33.000 Their big bet is that they can get you to bend the knee if you get an audit notice from the IRS.
00:16:39.000 But this needs to be a message to D.C.
00:16:41.000 That is not going to break our will.
00:16:43.000 87,000 IRS agents, bring it on.
00:16:46.000 This movement's a lot stronger than government bureaucrats who take Arbor Day off.
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00:18:08.000 I stand corrected.
00:18:11.000 Senator Cardin is from Maryland, not Delaware.
00:18:14.000 Apologize for that.
00:18:15.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:18:18.000 Joining us right now is Steve Bannon.
00:18:20.000 Steve had a very big weekend at CPAC.
00:18:23.000 Steve, welcome to the program.
00:18:24.000 I want to play a piece of tape of you at CPAC, and we'll go from there.
00:18:27.000 Let's play Cut 10.
00:18:29.000 We don't need to audit the Fed.
00:18:31.000 We need to end the Federal Reserve.
00:18:36.000 The Federal Reserve has usurped, has usurped, has usurped its power and the power of the American people and our elective representatives.
00:18:46.000 And no, they do not have the consent of the government.
00:18:49.000 We will not comply.
00:18:50.000 We will not submit.
00:18:51.000 And it must be ended.
00:18:54.000 Steve, that sounds like Ron Paul.
00:18:55.000 Floor is yours.
00:18:58.000 Exactly.
00:18:59.000 I hope to take it.
00:19:00.000 You know, he was a great inspiration, but we hope to take it one step up.
00:19:05.000 Ron Paul, who had his entire presidential campaign around money and currency, is a great warrior and a brave man.
00:19:14.000 I'm not a libertarian, but I understand that the administrative state, and particularly the global apparatus, is funded by these central banks, and it's outrageous.
00:19:22.000 The evidence today is so much even more overwhelming than when Ron Paul laid it out for us.
00:19:27.000 From 2008 to right now, Charlie, what the $23 trillion they've printed, the $9.5 trillion they put on the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve, has just increased the power and concentration of wealth in our nation.
00:19:40.000 0.5% of the American population own more assets and wealth than the bottom 90%.
00:19:50.000 This is exactly what the Framers fought a revolution to avoid.
00:19:55.000 They wanted to get away from the landed aristocracy in Great Britain and the mercantile class in Great Britain. 0.69
00:20:02.000 And we are back to this oligarchy.
00:20:04.000 What we have is a combination of state capitalism and authoritarian government fueled by just free money that they print, and it's on the backs of our children and grandchildren.
00:20:14.000 It's got to stop.
00:20:17.000 We will end the Fed.
00:20:18.000 We will deconstruct the Fed along with the administrative state.
00:20:22.000 And Charlie, what we will do is break it up from being owned by 24 prime brokers.
00:20:29.000 24 major banks own the Fed.
00:20:31.000 We'll break that up, put the ownership back into the American people. 1.00
00:20:35.000 A little news I want to break in your show.
00:20:37.000 I'm also working on a sub-analysis about what I call repatriation of the money the prime brokers made.
00:20:43.000 Remember, the prime brokers didn't have to do any work here.
00:20:46.000 The Fed just printed the money.
00:20:47.000 They passed it through their system.
00:20:49.000 They've made hundreds of billions of dollars of profits off this, of just being a middleman with no work.
00:20:55.000 That needs to be repatriated back to the American people. 1.00
00:20:58.000 And I hate to use the reparations word, but we can actually go back and we can point specifically to where each dollar was created by the Federal Reserve and how it flowed through the system to specific hedge funds.
00:21:11.000 I think you got to have, I think the next step in ending the Fed has also got to be the reparations to the American people.
00:21:17.000 We have to, this is not income redistribution.
00:21:20.000 This is asset reallocation, not income redistribution.
00:21:23.000 That's what they always thought.
00:21:24.000 This is asset reallocation.
00:21:27.000 It was stolen from the American people by putting obligations on them.
00:21:31.000 I mean, this is the greatest crime of the century.
00:21:34.000 We're going to expose it all.
00:21:36.000 And I got to tell you, and the Fed is going to be a new, it's going to be bigger than Build the Wall because it is the source.
00:21:44.000 It's the source of all the problems.
00:21:45.000 Look, Charlie, your generation, you've done such an extraordinary job for when I first met you.
00:21:50.000 Thank you.
00:21:50.000 And building and no, and building turning point, literally out of an idea on college campuses.
00:21:55.000 And it's so much bigger than that today.
00:21:56.000 Thank you.
00:21:57.000 But that generation, it breaks my heart to see that generation.
00:22:02.000 Maureen went down with Jane Zirkle, and she just told me, Dad, the energy is incredible.
00:22:07.000 The one you had in Florida, and I know you had this great one at Phoenix.
00:22:10.000 And I look at that generation and where we have Lao Baijing, the great Chinese common man who is enslaved labor to the CCP and therefore to the world's economic system, you have bondage.
00:22:24.000 The Judeo-Christian West youth is in nothing but bondage to these central banks.
00:22:29.000 You're nothing more than a Russian serf. 1.00
00:22:30.000 Think about that.
00:22:31.000 We've fought for 12 or 13 generations in this country, all these patriots, everything we've accomplished.
00:22:36.000 And our generation, the generation that goes to turning point, is in financial and debt slavery and financial bondage to central banks that are printing obligations that they're going to have to pay off and basically stripping their chance for wealth, just like a Russian serf, up to the elites.
00:22:53.000 It will end.
00:22:54.000 I'm the farthest thing from a communist.
00:22:55.000 I'm a capitalist, but we're going to infuse real capitalism, entrepreneurial capitalism, not financial capitalism, entrepreneurial capitalism into this system.
00:23:03.000 We're going to break the Federal Reserve.
00:23:05.000 We're going to take away the ownership by the 24 prime brokers that made all the money.
00:23:09.000 It's the greatest scam and con in the country.
00:23:11.000 We're going to do it.
00:23:11.000 It's going to be a major part of the MAGA move.
00:23:14.000 And here's why.
00:23:15.000 To deconstruct the administrative state, we have to take away the funding mechanism and to, quite frankly, get economic nationalism and to get our America first.
00:23:22.000 The three lines of work, the central beating heart of how the apparatus funds is they have a central bank that can just print money on the backs of the deplorables and their children, and they get the what I do love about it, though, Steve, is that this is actually how we build a broad-based coalition.
00:23:41.000 A lot of libertarians will just like be standing in applause with you.
00:23:44.000 I'm not a libertarian, nor are you, but the deterioration of our currency and the money supply over the last couple decades has been intentional.
00:23:54.000 And so, let me ask you a question here, Steve.
00:23:56.000 Hold on, hold on, hold on, Charlie, Charlie.
00:23:57.000 Don't bury the lead.
00:23:58.000 Don't bury the lead.
00:23:58.000 This is where I think we get 50% of the Bernie bros.
00:24:02.000 I think they join us because we say, hey, look, we disagree on a lot of stuff.
00:24:05.000 We disagree on a lot of cultural stuff.
00:24:07.000 We even agree about a lot of fiscal stuff.
00:24:09.000 But on the monetary stuff, here's what we're trying to do.
00:24:12.000 From the founding of the nation until the beginning of the Federal Reserve, the essential politics of the country was the politics of money.
00:24:23.000 But the Hamilton debates with Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and the charter of the First and Second Bank of the United States, really Abraham Lincoln and the economic nationalism of Abraham Lincoln and Henry Clay.
00:24:35.000 Then later, the rise of William Jennings Bryan, you had every aspect of from the liberal to the right, all focused on the politics of money.
00:24:44.000 This is one of the reasons that the Wall Street crowd wanted to stop it.
00:24:47.000 It wasn't just the booms and bust.
00:24:49.000 It was we need to take this away from being a hot political issue because the people want to control their currency. 0.99
00:24:54.000 Remember, we've had bigger booms and busts since the Federal Reserve's been around that from 2008 to today has just been a catastrophe.
00:25:03.000 All for the wealthy because of an apparatus they own.
00:25:06.000 We are bringing that.
00:25:07.000 And by the way, we will bring in half of, just like we have half of the Hispanics and we've got half of the African-American men for our economic policies and our law and order policies and our family policies.
00:25:18.000 We're going to take half of the Bernie bros, half of the libertarians, you know, all of MAGA, America first.
00:25:24.000 That's going to be a combination.
00:25:25.000 We're going to say, hey, look, let's all fight to get control of the money, control of the money printing apparatus of which we'll stop down.
00:25:33.000 Well, and with new technology, Bitcoin, I think people are finally liberated from prior kind of monetary frameworks.
00:25:40.000 As William Jennings Bryan said, you will not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
00:25:45.000 It was his rallying cry, the populist movement that deemed actually to be unsuccessful.
00:25:50.000 So, Steve, let me ask you, though, some people 65 plus, they get a little nervous when you start talking like this.
00:25:55.000 I could say it, for example, in our audience.
00:25:58.000 They just, they don't necessarily agree that there has been a mass generational theft of young people.
00:26:03.000 I hear a lot.
00:26:03.000 Some people say, oh, young people just need to work harder.
00:26:06.000 They need to do what we did in the 70s and 80s.
00:26:08.000 The argument you're making, though, is the game is different.
00:26:10.000 It's profoundly different for this generation.
00:26:13.000 I agree.
00:26:14.000 How do you persuade 65-plus voters of that message?
00:26:18.000 The simple reason is, is that it's been stolen from them, too.
00:26:21.000 Are they in the, if you're a middle-class person, you're in the bottom 90%?
00:26:25.000 Remember, all this, they've extracted wealth from you.
00:26:29.000 You're part of this revolution.
00:26:31.000 You're part of this revolution.
00:26:33.000 They've devalued.
00:26:34.000 Remember, the Federal Reserve just does a rolling devaluation on your money and on your assets.
00:26:39.000 Okay.
00:26:39.000 They've done a rolling devaluation.
00:26:41.000 Your currency is worth what we offer is actually your freedom.
00:26:46.000 We want the Pulse 65s to be at the forefront of this. 0.65
00:26:49.000 I actually think, because I think they understand this boom and bust cycle and how you've had this concentration of wealth.
00:26:56.000 I also think, Charlie, not just the 65s.
00:26:58.000 I think a lot of people remember President Obama was supposed to be the most progressive president in history.
00:27:05.000 A big part of this happened on his watch, right?
00:27:07.000 A big part happened in his watch.
00:27:09.000 We cannot have the Federal Reserve be as strong as it is in the lives of people 65 and older and people 25 and younger.
00:27:17.000 It cannot be.
00:27:18.000 And so I think the understanding of the 65-plus crowd will actually be, I think many of these will actually be at the forefront of this revolution.
00:27:26.000 Yeah, I mean, the necessary steps to become a middle-class American are so out of reach for the younger generation, buying a home, getting married, having children.
00:27:38.000 In fact, we have people here in our own orbit at Turning Point.
00:27:42.000 They work super hard.
00:27:43.000 They're getting poorer, Steve, because of the devaluation cycle, as you put.
00:27:47.000 Despite working hard and saving money, year over year, they get poorer because of 25 to 30% inflation, Steve.
00:27:53.000 A 25, 30% inflation.
00:27:55.000 Remember, and also heretofore zero interest rates.
00:27:58.000 You had no ability to have any capital formation.
00:28:00.000 They don't have the ability to buy the home.
00:28:02.000 That's what World Economic Forum says.
00:28:04.000 You're not going to own anything.
00:28:05.000 You're going to be happy.
00:28:06.000 That messaging, who's buying the underlying assets and real assets today throughout the country?
00:28:10.000 BlackRock.
00:28:11.000 That's right.
00:28:11.000 Larry Fink.
00:28:12.000 BlackRock.
00:28:12.000 Larry Fink.
00:28:13.000 Steve Schwartzmann.
00:28:14.000 Steve Schwartzmann just announced the other day.
00:28:15.000 Big story in CNBC.
00:28:16.000 I put it out for everybody.
00:28:17.000 Steve Schwartzmann, now BlackRock is in there.
00:28:20.000 Steve Schwartzman's in there.
00:28:22.000 Blackstone.
00:28:23.000 They're all buying the assets to then rent to your employees who will barely be able to make rent.
00:28:28.000 But when you're that, you're just a debt slave.
00:28:31.000 You've seen this over the last two weeks, an explosion of credit card debt. 0.54
00:28:34.000 You're a debt slave. 0.95
00:28:35.000 You're a hamster on a wheel. 1.00
00:28:37.000 Okay.
00:28:37.000 They give you a little bit of credit card capacity, and then you borrow to make ends meet.
00:28:42.000 You never have capital formation.
00:28:44.000 You never get to own a house.
00:28:46.000 You never get to really have equity into the system.
00:28:48.000 You never really get to be able to buy stocks.
00:28:51.000 That's got to stop.
00:28:52.000 We have to have an ownership society, but most importantly, the way you do that is break the cartel.
00:28:57.000 Right now, you have a cartel of 24 prime brokers, 24 major banks, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, right?
00:29:03.000 Morgan Stanley.
00:29:05.000 City Banks.
00:29:06.000 All of them.
00:29:07.000 They're the cartel.
00:29:09.000 They control the money printing apparatus and they can print what, and they have.
00:29:13.000 It's not me, it's just evidence.
00:29:15.000 $23 trillion since the collapse in 2008, a collapse they brought on.
00:29:20.000 That's right.
00:29:21.000 And not one person held accountable.
00:29:24.000 Not one person.
00:29:25.000 Not one conviction.
00:29:27.000 Not one conviction.
00:29:28.000 First off, the commission that was set, the commission and the house that did it referred criminal, I think 200 criminal referrals to the Justice Department.
00:29:39.000 I think there was a real estate appraiser in Las Vegas and maybe in Miami, some real estate appraisers, super grandoons that got in there.
00:29:46.000 This is out in the open.
00:29:48.000 It's in your face, and it's not getting better.
00:29:50.000 It's getting worse.
00:29:51.000 NPR had the NPR had their lead story last week was, Charlie, believe it, the most unknown institution that has the most power, like it's some secret about the Fed.
00:30:03.000 Ron Paul is heroic.
00:30:07.000 He came up and put it out there.
00:30:09.000 We have to execute, execute, execute, Charlie.
00:30:11.000 No, Ron Paul will go down as the guy who made the argument and was unpopular. 0.54
00:30:15.000 He opened the Overton window.
00:30:16.000 Now we carry it forward.
00:30:17.000 But he saw what we are now living through, which is the intentional, multi-generational, century-long deterioration of purchasing power for regular everyday Americans and the kind of calcification of Wall Street's dominance over our life.
00:30:30.000 Steve, we got an email, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:30:32.000 Charlie, I wanted you to tell Steve, I'm pregnant and due in November, and we're naming our child Bannon.
00:30:36.000 Great show, guys, Ashley.
00:30:38.000 So there you go.
00:30:39.000 So, Steve, I want to ask you a question about the politics of the moment.
00:30:44.000 MAGA is ascendant.
00:30:45.000 We talked a little bit about this on our live stream.
00:30:48.000 There is this kind of subterranean movement that the media is totally miscategorizing, I think, intentionally, that seems to be taking over the Republican Party.
00:30:56.000 My fear, though, is establishment moderates are actually cheering, in fact, even worse, helping Democrats in states like Arizona or even Georgia to try to see.
00:31:06.000 I told you so.
00:31:07.000 This is what happens when you nominate good, strong MAGA candidates.
00:31:11.000 Your thoughts?
00:31:12.000 I think your analysis the other night, I listened to, I don't know when somebody got it to me, but about Arizona is absolutely the heart of the beast.
00:31:18.000 I mean, I think we look, we won in a coalition in 16, right?
00:31:23.000 We do have to, we do have to unite, and people have to understand, particularly the establishment, we've got the momentum, and we're going to bring in more voters than they could ever bring in, okay?
00:31:33.000 Those that want to be with us, and they're going to have to make some, obviously, some big concessions.
00:31:37.000 We're much more populist.
00:31:38.000 We're much more economically nationalist than they are.
00:31:41.000 And we're very anti, you know, we're very anti-these multinational military arrangements, right?
00:31:47.000 We've got to get control of it.
00:31:48.000 We can't spend a trillion dollars on national defense.
00:31:51.000 But I think when they look at the alternative, and this is why I see the shattering, and I see the shattering of the Democratic Party into this populist, this progressive green left-wing movement with the squad and this kind of centrist, neoliberal neocon, and then the ascendant MAGA.
00:32:06.000 But we shouldn't make any compromises at all.
00:32:08.000 We're ascendant right now.
00:32:09.000 And I got to tell you, Charlie, when I look at things like Turning Point, when I look at CPAC, when I look out there, and the candidates were having more African Americans, more Hispanics, right?
00:32:20.000 More Asian Americans.
00:32:21.000 We're going to start getting some of the Bernie bros.
00:32:24.000 We're ascendant because the message is a broader message than just tax cuts and this bizarro deregulation.
00:32:30.000 So we're ascendant, and we just got to kind of gravel up.
00:32:33.000 But you're absolutely correct.
00:32:34.000 In 2008, their message is you've nominated all these unelectable people from Ohio to Arizona to Joe Kent up in Washington.
00:32:44.000 They're going to point at every one of our candidates.
00:32:47.000 We got to force the issue here.
00:32:48.000 These candidates can all win and they can win big.
00:32:50.000 Remember, Kerry Lake's going to end up winning by five or six points or maybe more. 1.00
00:32:54.000 Blake Masters by 12 or 13.
00:32:56.000 Yeah.
00:32:57.000 Blake Masters by 12 points plus, right?
00:33:00.000 These are winners.
00:33:01.000 And Arizona, that's why I say the railhead of this whole experiment is Arizona.
00:33:05.000 That's right.
00:33:05.000 And that's why Arizona in November, your analysis the other day of the issues with the issues with the establishment out there.
00:33:13.000 Remember, the Republican establishment are a little bit throughout the country, but particularly Arizona is like the Bourbons before the French Revolution.
00:33:21.000 They've learned nothing and they've forgotten nothing.
00:33:24.000 So somehow we have to have a couple of peacemakers sit down and say, hey, look, we're not changing our policies, but get on this because this is a winning, this program is a winning program.
00:33:34.000 Lead follower, get out of the way, as Patton would say.
00:33:36.000 When I talk to establishment Republicans every so often, their eyes glaze over when we talk about these sorts of topics.
00:33:42.000 Either they don't want to understand it or they're so afraid of it.
00:33:45.000 How do we navigate that or we just win, baby, as Ray Davis would say from the Oakland Raiders and say, look, you could get the cheap seats if you want, but this train isn't stopping.
00:33:55.000 Your thoughts?
00:33:56.000 100%.
00:33:56.000 That's it.
00:33:57.000 You got to show them.
00:33:59.000 Al Davis, just got to put our heads down and just do it.
00:34:01.000 We've got to be like Fresno State, Charlie, like you are.
00:34:04.000 We'll play anywhere, anytime, any opponent.
00:34:07.000 Let's bring it, baby.
00:34:08.000 Let's just go.
00:34:09.000 We have to, look, the energy at Turning Point, the energy at CPAC, the energy of the cadres in the Vanguard is as high as I've ever seen it, higher than 2010, higher than really the 16 Trump campaign, higher than 2010, the Tea Party.
00:34:23.000 It's time now.
00:34:24.000 Our moment is, this is our moment.
00:34:26.000 We have to meet it.
00:34:27.000 And I just say, everybody, for the next 90 days, put everything else aside, maniacally focus on winning.
00:34:33.000 You know, as Napoleon said to his marshals, when you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
00:34:38.000 That's exactly right.
00:34:40.000 Steve Bannon, everybody.
00:34:41.000 Steve, thanks for being generous with your time.
00:34:43.000 And I got to thank you.
00:34:44.000 You do an amazing job for our program, building an unbelievable audience.
00:34:48.000 So thank you for that.
00:34:50.000 And we're going to have you at our next event in Phoenix.
00:34:52.000 It's going to be awesome.
00:34:53.000 Thanks, Steve.
00:34:54.000 Look forward to it.
00:34:54.000 Thanks, Charlie.
00:34:55.000 Thanks.
00:34:56.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:58.000 Boy, I'm just geeking out at the end, the Fed topic.
00:35:01.000 One of my favorite topics is talking about monetary policy and the unelected, largely unknown for the American people, private-public partnership that manipulates our money and deteriorates your purchasing power.
00:35:13.000 Ron Paul, God bless him, literally wrote a book called End the Fed.
00:35:16.000 I think he wrote it back in 05 or 06 or 07.
00:35:19.000 He was way ahead of this time.
00:35:20.000 With digital technology, this is more in our grasp than I think most people realize.
00:35:28.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:35:29.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:32.000 Thanks so much.
00:35:33.000 Talk to you soon.
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