00:00:01.000We dive into detail about how the founding fathers laid some roadblocks that now Democrats are running into.
00:00:09.000We talk about the beauty of the Constitution and the breaking news out of D.C. around Joe Manchin and the Democrats' dream to transform the country and restructure the nation.
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00:02:03.000It is breaking up in front of our very eyes.
00:02:07.000Right now in Washington, D.C., there is a somewhat private, because the activist press will not cover it like they should, civil war happening in the Democrat Party.
00:02:21.000Late last night, it was announced that there was going to be no vote on either the infrastructure package, the reconciliation bill.
00:02:28.000And it seems they might have the votes for a continuing resolution, but distrust is running high, distrust, as Politico says.
00:02:35.000A lot of Hill Democrats were stunned by an unusual written agreement by Chuck Schumer and Manchin signed in late July laying out the West Virginia's terms, West Virginia senators' terms for a reconciliation deal.
00:02:52.000Some members felt blindsided, not just rank and file backbenchers, but senior Democrats who had no idea Manchin told Schumer two months ago that his top line number was $1.5 trillion.
00:03:04.000Others were just perplexed that a leader and a senator would sign such an agreement.
00:03:09.000So essentially, they have this kind of strange contract.
00:03:12.000Long gone are the days of handshake deals and trust.
00:03:16.000And I think that's actually a very interesting example and microcosm of how the country has fallen apart.
00:03:21.000Used to be able to do land deals and real estate deals on handshakes in the American West.
00:03:25.000Now you got to bring in platoons of lawyers and 30 days closing, and you have to get all sorts of other parties involved.
00:03:31.000And Congress, I guess, is no different.
00:03:33.000In the Senate, they used to say, I trust you, I trust you.
00:03:36.000Now they have signed written agreements between senators of the own political party because they don't trust each other at all.
00:03:43.000So the moderates have come up short for now, the moderates in the Democrat Party, put that in air quotes.
00:03:48.000House centrists have said many times that the speaker would keep her word and would hold the bipartisan infrastructure package vote regardless of the status of the massive build back better plan, the $3.5 trillion.
00:04:03.000But on Thursday night, we saw that Pelosi, confronting the reality within her caucus, wasn't eager to decouple the two votes as moderates once thought.
00:04:13.000Some moderates are not happy at all in the House of Representatives, with the thinnest of all margins.
00:04:21.000And now you're starting to see members of the Democrat Party go at each other.
00:04:28.000The comrade himself is leading the charge.
00:04:33.000Bernie Sanders is executing a full court press.
00:04:37.000He was up early this morning talking about how this is completely and totally unacceptable on how the revolution is hitting a little bit of a speed bump.
00:04:50.000As we cover what's happening in Washington, D.C., as the regime's legislative agenda deteriorates and falls apart and gets put into jeopardy, let's find out what's really happening here.
00:05:00.000Because we'll get into the drama and the palace intrigue and all of that.
00:05:03.000What's happening here is the founding fathers and framers, hundreds of years later, preventing these maniacs from getting their way.
00:05:16.000You see, every banana republic across the planet has a Bill of Rights.
00:05:22.000The Bill of Rights does not keep us free.
00:05:24.000Constitution, if you go back to the actual word constitution, it means structure.
00:05:31.000It means how we govern oneself within a specific architected way of legislation.
00:05:43.000More specifically, it's separation of powers.
00:05:46.000Separation of powers is the way and the reason why America has remained, at least for now, a country that has not been taken over by these Marxist insurgents.
00:06:02.000This is dividing the political branches is a defining characteristic of American constitutionalism.
00:06:12.000And so here you have Bernie Sanders, who comes out and issues this press release or tweet, I should say.
00:06:20.000He says, two senators cannot be allowed to defeat what 48 senators and 210 House members want.
00:06:26.000We must stand with the working families of our country.
00:06:58.000You see, Bernie Sanders wants the American system to not be a constitutional system.
00:07:04.000He wants a parliamentarian system where the executive and the legislative are one, where the separation of powers is basically destroyed.
00:07:12.000And Woodrow Wilson and Lyndon Baines Johnson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke about how separation of powers truly was and is the great roadblock towards widespread and aggressive, progressive reform.
00:07:30.000And just a side picture, this is one of the advantages of having President Trump de-emphasize, because now Democrats have to fight amongst themselves.
00:07:39.000They actually have to figure out their own differences.
00:07:42.000So Bernie Sanders is upset that 52 people don't want this bill, but 48 people want the bill.
00:08:10.000Democrats are continuing to tear each other apart, being able to agree on basically nothing.
00:08:17.000Senator Joe Manchin has come out and he said, look, I don't know who you think I am, but I've never been a liberal in any way, shape, or form.
00:08:26.000So if you want a bigger reconciliation bill, you're going to have to elect more liberals.
00:08:30.000Let's play cut 110 of Senator Joe Manchin basically saying, I don't know who you think you're talking to, but I'm no liberal.
00:10:12.000And that actually allows us to remain free, that our liberty is protected by how difficult it is to pass a $4.7 trillion spending package.
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00:11:37.000Liberty is never safe when the legislature is in session.
00:11:43.000You see, the framers, they knew that political bandits and robber barons would always be trying to pass multi-trillion dollar or at the time million dollar bills to steal our freedom and liberty.
00:11:57.000Gridlock forces the process to go slower than your intentions.
00:12:29.000Mitch McConnell has forced the hand of legislative stalemate amongst the Democrats.
00:12:35.000He said, I'm not going to give you any help in this.
00:12:39.000You fight amongst yourself, moderates versus the radicals.
00:12:42.000Mitch McConnell is playing this brilliantly.
00:12:45.000So legislative stalemate, which is what's happening right now, is a check on our passions and zeal when people want to transform and restructure the nation.
00:12:59.000The Founding Fathers knew that there would be this excitement, that there would be this drive at times amongst the revolutionary types like Bernie Sanders to try and restructure the nation.
00:13:13.000Now, you might think that AOC and Bernie Sanders are a new phenomenon.
00:13:19.000The Founding Fathers dealt with maniacs like them in different forms back in the 1780s and 1790s, specifically Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.
00:13:30.000Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin visited France many times.
00:14:23.000It was a complete and total chaotic mess within the French Revolution.
00:14:27.000And Robespierre, who led the French Revolution, Maximilian Robespierre, he himself was killed by his own revolutionaries where the applause lasted for more than 10 minutes.
00:14:38.000So the Founding Fathers, they saw the AOC and Bernie Sanders types coming from a mile away.
00:14:43.000They think that they're kind of this new player on the block.
00:14:46.000Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Jefferson, and Franklin.
00:14:50.000Now, Jefferson and Franklin had less of a role in developing the actual details of the Constitution.
00:14:55.000But make no mistake, Thomas Jefferson and Franklin were very generous contributors to the system that we know as a constitutional republic today.
00:15:07.000And so the gridlock that is happening right now, the horns that are locking between Chuck Yu Schumer and AOC, or Pramilla Jayapal and Joe Manchin, is intentional.
00:15:37.000Because the founding fathers realize that your natural state, the state of nature, the social contract that we are going to engage in, natural rights given to you by God, that you are free.
00:15:47.000And that the only thing that could take away your freedom, absent a tyrannical corporation that we obviously speak out a lot on this program, is government.
00:15:57.000Is government coming in and passing voluminous laws and legislation that take away your liberties and freedoms?
00:16:05.000Bernie Sanders, being the same sort of Jacobin French revolution type Robespierre that Jefferson and Franklin saw from a mile away, says, who cares?
00:16:32.000Your intentions have to correlate with the structure.
00:16:36.000This is why they want to add justices to the Supreme Court.
00:16:41.000This is why they want to disintegrate the Constitution as we know it.
00:16:45.000They think that one of the attributes of the Constitution that spreads power over space and time, which means it takes a lot of time to do things and a lot of states to agree, is an unnecessary annoyance to the revolution.
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00:19:55.000The House doesn't know what's going on as the legislative stalemate that we are seeing in Washington, D.C., is causing the Democrat regime to try to ask the question: do we want to push forward a multi-trillion dollar spending bill, $4.7 trillion, or do we want to have at least some sort of an excuse that we are still political moderates?
00:20:17.000Well, the structure of the United States Constitution is what is forcing the hand here.
00:20:22.000And make no mistake, if they win enough seats, if the Democrat regime gets enough power, they're going to want to disassemble the structure one day as well.
00:20:31.000They're going to want to pick this thing apart from within.
00:20:35.000We must fall in love with the political gridlock.
00:20:39.000Now, it's very frustrating when Republicans control the chambers when they almost can get nothing done, or they seemingly are afraid of their own shadow to get something done.
00:20:51.000But when we are in the minority, it's rather refreshing to have the U.S. Constitution and the structure behind it as a backstop.
00:21:00.000Anton and Scalia, one of the great men ever to live in American history, cut 117, saying why political gridlock is a good thing.
00:21:28.000We wanted this to be power contradicting power because the main ill that beset us, as Hamilton said in the Federalists, when he talked about a separate Senate, he said, yes, it seems inconvenient, but inasmuch as the main ill that besets us is an excess of legislation, it won't be so bad.
00:22:03.000Anton and Scalia continues by saying, We must fall in love with the gridlock.
00:22:07.000This is so critically important, everybody, that the stalemate that is occurring in D.C. is a gift given to us by a few good men who designed our system.
00:22:20.000So, unless Americans can appreciate that and learn to love the separation of powers, which means learning to love the gridlock, which the framers believed would be the main protection of minorities, the main protection.
00:22:37.000If a bill is about to pass that really comes down hard on some minority, they think it's terribly unfair, it doesn't take much to throw a monkey wrench into this complex system.
00:22:48.000So, Americans should appreciate that, and they should learn to love the gridlock.
00:22:56.000It's there for a reason, so that the legislation that gets out will be good legislation.
00:23:20.000I know we're all committed to the same goal.
00:23:23.000The Progressive Caucus Chair, Pramila Jayapal, says, I've consistently said that we need a vote in the Senate because I want to make sure there are no delays, that there are no mix-ups, there are no mixed understandings about the deal.
00:23:39.000You see, Pramil Jayapal or Pramila Jayapal.
00:23:44.000Delays is what the system is built for.
00:23:46.000We want to make sure that when you're going to pass trillions of dollars, that you measure twice and cut once.
00:23:56.000Now, you know exactly what you are going to do before you do it.
00:23:59.000Politico continues by saying, Jayapal, like centrist Senator Joe Manchin, said she's sticking around in Washington, D.C. to keep the negotiations going.
00:24:12.000But earlier this morning, progressives won the immediate battle over Joe Manchin as the infrastructure vote got delayed.
00:24:20.000You see, the moderates want the infrastructure package because it's a bipartisan infrastructure bill.
00:24:24.000The progressives want them both together right now, spend as much money as we possibly can and throw everything that we have at it.
00:24:33.000And last night, there was a quote from somebody in the Democrat Party that says, there is no limits to what government can do because government can spend what government wants to spend.
00:24:45.000Senator Rand Paul in Cut 24 calls out the squad and the socialism in the Democrat Party and this anti-liberty, anti-freedom movement that we have seen in Cut 124 says that they have not read their history or understand it.
00:25:32.000People say, oh, Hitler wasn't a socialist.
00:25:33.000Well, his party was the National Socialist Workers' Party.
00:25:37.000Celebrate the gridlock and the deliberate process of passing laws.
00:25:41.000We're going to keep our eyes on what's happening in Washington, D.C. with Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema.
00:25:47.000And as the progressives go into civil war and they hit a roadblock that was designed hundreds of years before, there's more drama happening around the vaccine mandates.
00:26:14.000In fact, he has some here's a good factoid about Spartan basketball.
00:26:20.000They actually literally put on football pads when they do full court press drills because that's how physical Tom Izzo wants his players to play at Michigan State University.
00:27:04.000I suppose there's a new kind of wise philosophical community of NBA players speaking out against vaccine mandates.
00:27:11.000And what's amazing is how the media remains either ignoring or antagonistic towards every single one of these professional athletes that are speaking out against the vaccine being mandated, despite the fact I could list plenty of people that were fully vaccinated and then get the virus.
00:27:35.000Brett Kavanaugh, just in the last 24 hours, had a breakthrough case of the Fauci virus despite being fully vaccinated.
00:27:45.000And yet breaking this morning, it's a massive story.
00:27:48.000What if I told you that there was a small molecule pill that could reduce hospitalizations and help people fight the Fauci virus?
00:27:57.000Nope, not ivermectin, not hydroxychloroquine, not azithromycin, not melatonin, not vitamin D, not zinc.
00:28:05.000All those things are wonderful, by the way.
00:28:07.000Instead, as if nothing existed before, the pharmaceutical companies are now focusing on what we on this program and this podcast, and we haven't been alone, other programs and podcasts have said the same.
00:28:18.000They're now saying, okay, well, since the vaccine is not doing what we thought it would, we need to focus on treatments.
00:28:59.000Oh, so you're trying to now say that therapies and treatment should be the focus?
00:29:02.000This should have been the focus from March of last year.
00:29:04.000From March of last year, this whole focus on ventilators and inoculation and vaccines was always a profit-making scheme for a small collection of companies.
00:29:18.000By the way, just so you know, Merck invented ivermectin.
00:29:22.000So if Merck invented ivermectin, are they taking the patent from ivermectin and now implementing it into this new Merck daily pill?
00:29:35.000We never have been able to talk about treatments until they realize that the vaccine is not doing what they said the vaccine would do, but they want to keep on making money so you can be dependent by taking the little pill they tell you to take.
00:29:46.000Meanwhile, we've been talking about vitamin D, zinc, azithromycin, hydroxychloroquine, and ivermectin for months.
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00:31:01.000Benjamin Franklin wrote, We have viewed the modern states all around Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances.
00:31:09.000We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings that, quote, except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain and build it.
00:31:16.000The founders studied Israel under the judges, the Phoenician Islands, the democracy of Athens, the Doric city-states of Crete, the India city-states of Karu, of Haddadspur, republics of early Rome, Carthage of North Africa, Burma city-state of Paiu, Icelandic Commonwealth, the Russian city-states of Nova Gorod and Peskov, the Italian city-states, republics of Genoa, Genoa, I should say, Venice, Pisa, India's small republics, the Swiss cantons,
00:31:46.000the three German cities, the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, the Batavian Republic, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the French city-state of Gauss, the English Commonwealth, and the Iroquois Confederacy.
00:32:00.000Do you know what all of those nations had in common?
00:32:04.000They all had in common that as times change, man does not.
00:32:09.000The founding fathers built the structure, the system, the checks and balances on the natural law.
00:32:16.000I want to get into this tape here as we monitor what's happening in Washington, D.C. Merck has just come out with their new Iver Merkden pill.
00:32:28.000I want to go, remember when Bernie Sanders and the media used to be anti-pharmaceutical?
00:32:36.000Remember when they used to have skepticism towards the medical industrial complex?
00:32:42.000Play cut 112, Bernie Sanders, pharmaceutical industry is guilty of enormous amounts of fraud.
00:32:50.000Every single year, the major drug companies are ripping off the American people to the tune of billions of dollars a year because of fraudulent practices.
00:33:03.000Virtually every major pharmaceutical company in this country has either been convicted of fraud, i.e., ripping off federal government, state government, or individuals, or else has reached a settlement.
00:33:21.000How I learned to stop worrying and love the vaccine.
00:33:26.000Cut 113, Anderson Cooper, Pfizer too big to nail, $2.3 billion fine.
00:33:32.000Remember when the media used to hate the pharmaceutical companies?
00:33:36.000But then the pharmaceutical companies got smart.
00:33:38.000They started buying advertising on CNN.
00:33:40.000They started buying advertising in the New York Times.
00:33:43.000They started influencing journalists and public opinion.
00:33:49.000But I mean, you look at this thing, and I mean, if Pfizer is too big to fail, and even the biggest fine in history is just a few months' profit, then what's going to stop it from illegally promoting other drugs?
00:34:02.000They think that this is really, even though it's a big, big fine, you know, what, $2 billion?
00:34:06.000They say, look, it is a cost of doing business.
00:34:09.000And even the prosecutor, until and unless somebody goes to prison, somebody high up goes to prison, and or the company is banned from selling drugs to Medicare or Medicaid, this activity, like it has in the past with so many other companies, will continue.
00:34:25.000And then finally, cut 114, Bill Maher rants against the pharmaceutical industry.
00:34:32.000Now, every one of these guys are now saying, get vaccinated.
00:34:35.000In fact, you now have Stephen Colbert dancing around like a crazy person with people in full syringe costume paraphernalia celebrating the vaccine.
00:35:19.000A fact brought home last week by a new Duke University study that showed exercise, yes, exercise, is just as effective a cure for depression as Paxil and Zoloft.
00:35:31.000So ask your doctor if getting off your ass is right for you.
00:35:37.000Back when comedians used to be funny and did not pander and shill for the pharmaceutical company.
00:35:43.000So now that Merck says they have a new pill, I ask myself, what took you so long?
00:35:49.000Treatments should have always been the focus.
00:35:52.000Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, zinc, and vitamin C. Free your mind.
00:36:01.000Ask yourself, are they making money on this?
00:36:04.000Or are they trying to do the right thing with this?
00:36:09.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:36:10.000Email me directly, freedom at charliekirk.com.