The Charlie Kirk Show - January 26, 2021


FINALLY...Some Good News!


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Two Democrats have made a courageous pledge to save the American Republic, and if they actually do what they say they're going to do, it's going to buy us this beautiful gift we've been given a little bit of time.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, finally some good news.
00:00:02.000 No, actually some really, really good news.
00:00:05.000 We go through how two Democrats have made a courageous pledge to save the American Republic.
00:00:11.000 And if they actually do what they say they're going to do, it's going to buy this beautiful gift we've been given a little bit of time.
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00:00:34.000 A reason to celebrate.
00:00:36.000 Finally, some really good news.
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00:00:39.000 Here we go.
00:00:40.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:02:44.000 Hey, everybody, welcome to this, I guess you could call it an episode.
00:02:50.000 Just today on the Charlie Kirk show, we're thrilled to be with you guys.
00:02:53.000 There is a lot to be down about.
00:02:55.000 We got men who think they are women that are going to be competing in women's sports.
00:02:59.000 We're destroying jobs like they're going out of style.
00:03:02.000 We are, we got a lot of problems in this country, but actually we have some good news today.
00:03:07.000 That's right.
00:03:08.000 Not just some average news, but some great news to share.
00:03:13.000 And we are going to be one of the only programs, I think, in the entire country celebrating today.
00:03:18.000 Now, I don't want to celebrate too preemptively because some people could be misleading us.
00:03:23.000 Some people could be saying some things that are not true.
00:03:26.000 However, anytime that we get even the smallest victory in the coming months and years, we're going to take a moment to enjoy it and to appreciate it.
00:03:40.000 So right now, there is a lot of fear in the conservative movement for good reason.
00:03:48.000 A lot of people are very worried that now The Democrats in total and complete control of our country with the United States House of Representatives, the Senate, and the White House, are going to do everything they possibly can to fundamentally change our country.
00:04:06.000 We're already seeing what Joe Biden has done in less than a week, wasting no time with transgender executive orders, with the destruction of the Keystone XL pipeline, with many other executive actions and orders, what he is trying to do with just his own power and control.
00:04:32.000 However, the thing that we as conservatives should be most worried about, the things that we should be most concerned about is not just Joe Biden signing executive orders.
00:04:45.000 Those are bad, but they can be undone.
00:04:48.000 But instead, the dramatic changes to how our country is run, to how we do our elections, and to how we have representation in government.
00:05:05.000 The major concerns that most conservatives have are the following.
00:05:12.000 Joe Biden's going to try to add new states to the Union, like Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
00:05:17.000 Joe Biden's going to try to eliminate the Electoral College.
00:05:22.000 Joe Biden is going to try to have universal vote by mail, H.R. 1, in the United States House of Representatives.
00:05:33.000 Joe Biden is going to fundamentally change the way that we do freedom of speech in this country, or freedom of speech is allowed and protected.
00:05:41.000 All of these fears are understandable.
00:05:46.000 And with Chuck Schumer going around saying that we win Georgia, we are going to change the world, and now a New York Liberal Democrat is running the United States Senate, with a San Francisco liberal running the United States House of Representatives, most conservatives are seeking metaphorical shelter right now.
00:06:05.000 They're saying, that's it, the Republic is over, we're done.
00:06:09.000 I actually have some good news to share.
00:06:12.000 You see, the Founding Fathers put in provisions.
00:06:16.000 They put in safeguards for liberty and freedom to make a complete and total revolution in our country very difficult.
00:06:29.000 It takes time.
00:06:31.000 It takes widespread public support.
00:06:35.000 And it takes more than just 50 votes with the vice president as a tiebreaker.
00:06:44.000 You're going to hear this word thrown around a lot.
00:06:48.000 And believe it or not, far-left-wing activists are actually angrier than grassroots conservatives should be today.
00:06:58.000 That's right.
00:07:00.000 Grassroots conservatives today, at least at the very moment we're in, can take a small and brief sigh of relief.
00:07:12.000 Whereas far-left-wing activists that want to fundamentally redefine the country, they got a lot of yelling, screaming, protesting, and lobbying to do.
00:07:21.000 And there's a word that you're going to hear quite a lot, and that word is filibuster.
00:07:27.000 I have found that a lot of people talk about the filibuster.
00:07:30.000 A lot of people mention it, but very few people actually know what the filibuster is.
00:07:35.000 Of course, a filibuster is a tactic, a tactic of obstruction, specifically used in the United States Senate.
00:07:43.000 I think it comes from the Dutch word pirate.
00:07:46.000 Not exactly sure how they connected those two together, but there's your Tuesday trivia.
00:07:54.000 The filibuster is best known when one or more senators attempt to delay or block a vote on a bill by extending debate on the measure.
00:08:05.000 Now, if you go back to the Federalist papers, the founding fathers, some of them, including Alexander Hamilton, argued for a simple majoritarian vote to be able to pass legislation.
00:08:27.000 The filibuster was really adopted in a debate that happened right around 1820 called the Missouri Compromise.
00:08:39.000 It was a theoretical option, but then as America became, some would say more divided, the filibuster then became more and more used.
00:08:54.000 In 1917, on a simple roll call vote in the United States Senate, cloture emerged.
00:09:01.000 Now, what is cloture?
00:09:03.000 Well, cloture is the motion or process in a parliamentary procedure aimed at bringing debate to a quick end.
00:09:12.000 Let's end the debate.
00:09:14.000 Let's move on.
00:09:15.000 Let's proceed.
00:09:18.000 So, from 1917 to 1949, because of a simple vote on arming merchant vessels in the United States Senate, a requirement to end the debate was two-thirds of senators voting.
00:09:34.000 And you might say, well, how long could they possibly debate?
00:09:37.000 The answer is: because the way the Senate is structured, they could debate for weeks or months.
00:09:42.000 They could keep an open debate floor.
00:09:45.000 In order to end that debate, it would require two-thirds of the United States Senate to vote. 0.94
00:10:00.000 The filibuster is most famous for being used in the civil rights era.
00:10:12.000 President Obama has called the filibuster a civil, no, I'm sorry, a Jim Crow relic.
00:10:18.000 Southern Democrats attempted to block the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 by filibustering for 75 hours, including a 14-hour and 13-minute address by Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who Hillary Clinton, I believe, spoke at his funeral.
00:10:39.000 From 1917 to 1970, the Senate took cloture, took a cloture vote about once a year.
00:10:48.000 There were about 49 cloture votes.
00:10:52.000 From 1970 onward, they moved it down to 60 votes, where it stayed in order to get nominations and big pieces of legislation to get anything really to move forward.
00:11:05.000 And I'm going to explain in the next segment the technicalities of it because it's really important to be able to proceed and move legislation and debate, because without ending debate, you can't actually vote on legislation.
00:11:18.000 So it is a barrier, if you will, a parliamentary barrier from just getting to a majority vote.
00:11:30.000 Now, all of that actually changed because of a Democrat.
00:11:34.000 All of the history and the precedent in the United States Senate changed because of one man, Harry Reid.
00:11:43.000 Harry Reid in 2013 got a little greedy.
00:11:49.000 Harry Reid wanted to confirm a couple, I think they were appellate judges.
00:11:56.000 There were four of them, circuit court judges.
00:11:59.000 And so then he invoked the nuclear option, saying we will go to a simple majority vote.
00:12:08.000 In the next segment, I will play you the clip of Senator Mitch McConnell saying that he will regret it.
00:12:14.000 But now the precedent has been set.
00:12:17.000 And so for nominations, a simple majority vote was needed.
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00:13:35.000 We've been going through the historical background of the filibuster.
00:13:42.000 So basically, what ended up happening in 2013 is Harry Reid came out and said, I am going to get rid of the 60-vote threshold minimum in order to confirm circuit court judges.
00:14:01.000 Harry Reid did this and was really met with harsh criticism and a be careful what you wish for response from men's Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell.
00:14:14.000 Play tape.
00:14:15.000 Say to my friends on the other side of the aisle, you'll regret this, and you may regret it a lot sooner than you think.
00:14:21.000 You may regret this a lot sooner than you may think.
00:14:25.000 Well, Senator Mitch McConnell was correct.
00:14:28.000 In 2017, Republicans regained control of the White House and the United States Senate.
00:14:33.000 And Senator Mitch McConnell did not do any dramatic rules changes, just took the precedent set by Harid for appointments.
00:14:43.000 Not major pieces of legislation, but appointments.
00:14:47.000 Now, every single appointment and every debate takes the removal of cloture.
00:14:54.000 Now, some of you might be saying, well, Charlie, how can they do all of this constitutionally?
00:14:58.000 Well, nowhere in the United States Constitution does it say how many votes you need in the United States Senate to do anything.
00:15:04.000 All of this is United States Senate precedent.
00:15:08.000 The people that are fighting against changes in the filibuster are best described as institutionalists.
00:15:15.000 They're people that want to protect the rights of the minority in the United States Senate.
00:15:23.000 And so in order to pass a piece of legislation, like adding Washington, D.C. as a state, it takes a simple one vote more than the other party in the House of Representatives.
00:15:38.000 But when it goes to the Senate, there'll be debate.
00:15:43.000 There will be objections.
00:15:46.000 And in order to end that debate, they have to go invoke something called cloture.
00:15:54.000 Now, Chuck Schumer can say, I want D.C. to be a state.
00:16:02.000 I'm doing the nuclear option.
00:16:08.000 Well, here's the good news.
00:16:12.000 If Chuck Schumer wants to do the nuclear option, he's going to need 50 votes to do that, which would be an incredibly aggressive move by him.
00:16:30.000 But here's the wonderful news I have to share with you today.
00:16:34.000 Senator Kirsten Sinema from Arizona and Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia, if you believe them, which we have no reason not to because they have fought for the filibuster protections previously, have said, under no circumstances, we will not change our mind and we are going to keep the filibuster.
00:16:55.000 So what does that mean?
00:16:58.000 The Daily Caller, I think, summarizes this the best.
00:17:04.000 With Democrats retaking the Senate, they'll be able to control congressional committees, allowing them to hold hearings and issue subpoenas of their choosing.
00:17:11.000 They'll have enough votes to confirm judicial nominees without Republican support.
00:17:15.000 But they will likely not have enough support to pass many progressive priorities, like court packing, Green New Deal, state additions, since Senate rules allow lawmakers to filibuster most pieces of legislation, essentially allowing them to block its passage.
00:17:31.000 Democrats can, however, pass certain legislation with a simple majority called budget reconciliation, which attempts legislation pertaining to taxes and broader government spending, which was used to the Tax Cut Act back in 2017.
00:17:45.000 So while Democrats likely do not have the votes to enact policies like D.C. statehood, gerrymandering reforms, and still, they still theoretically could pass parental leave, infrastructure spending, coronavirus relief.
00:17:58.000 So there's a lot of nonsense that would be packed, but nothing that couldn't be reversed and nothing that dramatically alters the trajectory of the nation.
00:18:09.000 You want to know what would change the trajectory of the nation?
00:18:11.000 New seats on the United States Supreme Court, new states being added, the abolition of the Electoral College and H.R. 1.
00:18:19.000 Because Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin have said, we are not going to change Senate precedent on that, Chuck Schumer is now left with now having to find 60-vote consensus on all major pieces of legislation.
00:18:31.000 What does that mean?
00:18:33.000 The Democrat wish list to fundamentally destroy America is temporarily put on hold.
00:18:39.000 That's actually a reason to say thanks.
00:18:46.000 Truth is very important to me.
00:18:47.000 Pursuing truth is a huge part of who I am and what I stand for.
00:18:50.000 When you look around at what's happening to our country, you can see why many people are experiencing real frustration with the news media, along with feelings of uncertainty and a lack of hope for the future.
00:18:59.000 How can we know which is true and where or in whom we can place our trust?
00:19:02.000 The only place I've found unwavering truth and peace is my faith in Jesus Christ.
00:19:07.000 If 2020 has beaten down your spirit, I'd like to recommend a book called Reflections on the Existence of God by best-selling author Richard Simmons III.
00:19:15.000 Reflections on the Existence of God is a collection of short essays that tackles the biggest questions of all.
00:19:19.000 Does God exist?
00:19:21.000 This book is well researched and easy to read.
00:19:22.000 Former White House aide Wallace Henley says, quote, I've taught apologetics for many years and have read many scholars, every scholar mentioned in this book.
00:19:29.000 Of all books on apologetics, Simmons is the best I've ever heard.
00:19:32.000 If you want to challenge yourself to spiritual intellectual growth, then be willing to ask yourself life's toughest questions.
00:19:37.000 I would challenge you right now to get your copy of Reflections on the Existence of God by Richard Simmons III.
00:19:41.000 Go to reflectionscharlie.com.
00:19:43.000 That's reflectionscharlie.com.
00:19:49.000 The massive changes to our country that Democrats want to see are going to hit some roadblocks.
00:19:56.000 And in fact, if Senator Kirsten Sinema and Senator Joe Manchin are not pathologically lying to us, they will not be able to add seats to the United States Supreme Court, add D.C. and Puerto Rico as states, pass H.R. 1, amongst other left-wing fantasy plans to try to fundamentally change America.
00:20:21.000 Senator Kirsten Sinema came out and said, quote, that she's against eliminating the filibuster and she is not open to changing her mind.
00:20:30.000 Now, for those of us that spend a lot of time in Arizona, we are, let's say, familiar with Senator Kirsten Cinema.
00:20:42.000 She labels herself as a moderate, and in some things she is, in other things, she's very radical, but she's not dumb.
00:20:50.000 That is one thing I've never heard anyone say about Senator Kirsten Cinema.
00:20:54.000 And by her now saying that she's supporting the filibuster, she has made herself one of the most powerful senators in Washington.
00:21:09.000 So someone like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who don't really work across the aisle, who just vote straight partisan all the way through, are nowhere near as powerful now as Senator Kirsten Sinema or Senator Joe Manchin.
00:21:27.000 So the filibuster, keeping the filibuster in place, getting to 60 votes, or at least the threat of it, makes every single one of Senator Cinema's wishes and demands more likely to happen.
00:21:39.000 Any one of the pet projects that she wants to see implemented, whatever that might be.
00:21:45.000 But let's say you're Chuck Schumer and you want to add D.C. as a state.
00:21:50.000 Because Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin will not vote to abolish the rule change to get to the vote, and all Republicans will likely vote 50, Chuck Schumer attempting to do that would lose, at least at first glance, only getting 48 votes if every other Democrat voted alongside of it.
00:22:11.000 Where John Tester, we're not sure where he will go, who's a Democrat senator from Montana.
00:22:16.000 So what's the significance of this?
00:22:19.000 Democrats are going to pass increased economic social welfare programs.
00:22:25.000 They're going to pass all sorts of nonsense.
00:22:28.000 But the stuff that makes it where conservatives and Republicans can never compete again, it does not look like that is going to happen in the United States Senate this year or next year.
00:22:43.000 That's amazing news because it feels as if we are just waiting and it's imminent that the filibuster is going to get lifted and we are going to see D.C., Puerto Rico become states, the Electoral College get eliminated, new additions to the United States Supreme Court, and next thing you know, we won't have the country that we thought we did.
00:23:01.000 I'm not saying they're not going to do damage.
00:23:03.000 Trust me.
00:23:04.000 They're going to get plenty of pressure from their left-wing flank to do damage.
00:23:10.000 But Senator Rand Paul, I remember vividly speaking to him.
00:23:13.000 He's a friend of mine.
00:23:15.000 Last year, he said, no matter what, we must keep the filibuster in place.
00:23:18.000 Now, it's worth remembering and going through that President Trump wanted the filibuster to be lifted.
00:23:29.000 President Trump wanted the filibuster to be lifted because he said, we can't get big stuff done quick enough.
00:23:34.000 Democrats are getting in our way.
00:23:36.000 Let's go.
00:23:36.000 And I understand the temptation to do that.
00:23:39.000 And in fact, at times, I thought to myself, yeah, why do we have this silly filibuster?
00:23:45.000 But now it makes a lot of sense.
00:23:48.000 Because if you want to jam everything through in two to four years and say whatever, what happens after that way, then every party will just rule and govern with an iron fist.
00:24:03.000 Can you show me one major piece of legislation that Democrats are proposing right now that would expand freedom and liberty and preserve the American Republic?
00:24:14.000 No, not at all.
00:24:16.000 And so because of this measure, it slows the process down.
00:24:22.000 It gives a voice to the moderates.
00:24:24.000 It gives representation to the minority.
00:24:26.000 Because the Democrats, including Kirsten Cinema and Joe Manchin, know this.
00:24:31.000 Republicans could retake control of the Senate in 2022.
00:24:34.000 In fact, they're probably likely to.
00:24:36.000 There's some great flip opportunities, including Georgia and yes, Arizona, Kirsten Cinema, amongst other states where Republicans can really compete, I think, quite well.
00:24:49.000 And if Republicans don't take it back in 2022, maybe they could do it in 2024, where Democrats have a lot of seats also at risk across the Rust Belt and across the country.
00:25:02.000 And so the question remains: why celebrate this news?
00:25:07.000 Some people are saying.
00:25:09.000 Why is this good?
00:25:13.000 It's phenomenal news because the things that we fear the most, if these senators are telling the truth, will not happen.
00:25:24.000 And instead, what will happen is the Democrat Party is now going to fight over why they won't lift the filibuster.
00:25:33.000 So now cinema and manchin will go from very powerful moderates to hated Democrats who say, you're getting in the way of our once-in-a-century progress cinema and mansion.
00:25:47.000 Don't you understand how much money we spent to get the House and the Senate and you just want to pass more COVID relief?
00:25:54.000 That's not what the Senate's for.
00:25:55.000 The Senate's not for COVID relief.
00:25:57.000 The Senate's for D.C., Puerto Rico estates.
00:25:59.000 The Senate's for getting rid of the Electoral College. 1.00
00:26:00.000 That's how the Radicals think. 0.95
00:26:02.000 That's how AOC thinks. 0.71
00:26:05.000 That's how Warren thinks.
00:26:06.000 That's how Warnock thinks.
00:26:08.000 That's how Osoff thinks.
00:26:11.000 When in reality, the Senate has always been a deliberative body.
00:26:17.000 And it always should be.
00:26:19.000 The Senate should be a place where you weigh the costs of: are we really willing to pass this major piece of legislation that might fundamentally transform the country forever?
00:26:39.000 And so that's why Senator Cinema and Senator Manchin's announcement is reason for celebration.
00:26:48.000 The founders made it intentionally difficult to get anything done in government.
00:26:53.000 As Justice Anton and Scalia said, we must fall in love with the gridlock.
00:27:00.000 Are they going to still pass through a bunch of nonsense?
00:27:04.000 No doubt.
00:27:05.000 Are they going to still be able to get to 50, maybe on certain budget reconciliation?
00:27:13.000 Sure.
00:27:15.000 But the pipe dream issues are not going to happen if Manchin and Cinema hold the line.
00:27:21.000 And quite honestly, I have respect for them.
00:27:24.000 I have respect for cinema and manchin because it would have been a lot easier for them to do the typical Washington, D.C. thing as usual.
00:27:33.000 Just cow to the Washington Post.
00:27:35.000 Don't hold the line. 1.00
00:27:36.000 But Kirsten Sinema actually wants to be a U.S. Senator in Arizona. 1.00
00:27:39.000 I say this as someone who will probably be campaigning in favor of somebody against her one day. 0.99
00:27:46.000 She's going to be tough to beat because she'll be able to go back to Arizona and say, I'm a Democrat, but I ensured minority representation for Republicans in government.
00:27:56.000 I'm a Democrat, and I made Arizona's voice more powerful in government by making me a swing vote over any personnel decisions, any piece of legislation decisions.
00:28:07.000 And she would be telling the truth if she said that.
00:28:12.000 The critics of our system complain it takes too long to make changes.
00:28:22.000 That's part of the design.
00:28:24.000 And look, I'll be honest.
00:28:25.000 When we controlled the House, the Senate, and the presidency back in 2016, 2018, it was frustrating that all we could get done is tax cuts.
00:28:35.000 We wanted big picture stuff.
00:28:38.000 And it just kind of got slowed down and got grinded to a halt.
00:28:41.000 Do I think Republicans could have thought bigger?
00:28:44.000 Yes.
00:28:45.000 Do I think that Republicans could have had a different set of priorities?
00:28:54.000 No doubt.
00:28:54.000 Yes.
00:28:56.000 But am I happy now that Senator Mitch McConnell kind of said, Mr. Trump, President Trump, we're not going to eliminate the filibuster.
00:29:05.000 You better be thanking God that we did not get rid of the filibuster.
00:29:10.000 Because if we would have, they would have just took the precedent and they would have said, look, look what you did, McConnell.
00:29:16.000 You took the precedent.
00:29:18.000 Therefore, we are going to put all this stuff through on a simple majority vote.
00:29:23.000 And so that's where Manchin was kind of tap dancing around the state edition stuff.
00:29:28.000 It's like, well, I'm not going to give you an answer on that.
00:29:29.000 It's irrelevant because he doesn't support removing the filibuster.
00:29:36.000 So now Democrats are now going to have to worry less about how are we going to structurally redefine America.
00:29:42.000 And now they're actually going to have to govern.
00:29:44.000 You see, the Democrats wanted to use this opportunity of newfound political power to not actually deliver results for the American people, but change the rules of the game.
00:29:56.000 Now, you know what else is going to take?
00:29:57.000 60 votes?
00:29:58.000 It's going to be very, very interesting. 0.76
00:30:01.000 Amnesty. 0.94
00:30:02.000 Now, a lot of Republicans support amnesty because the corporate types do.
00:30:06.000 A lot do.
00:30:09.000 But going from 50 to 60, getting 10 Republicans to support amnesty, I guarantee you there's going to be some red states in there with a lot of backlash. 0.50
00:30:18.000 You'll get the Rob Portmans and you'll get the Romneys and you'll get those types.
00:30:23.000 But then once you get to 55, 56 votes, a lot of Republicans know that if they are going to be voting for amnesty, they might be signing their letters of retirement.
00:30:34.000 That is a no-go zone in Republican conservative politics.
00:30:39.000 But because we have a filibuster, it's going to require 60 votes to get there.
00:30:46.000 So what does this mean for the legislative fights to come?
00:30:49.000 This means Democrats are going to get immensely frustrated very quickly.
00:30:53.000 This means Democrats who are riding high that they won in Georgia thanks to Warnock and Osoff are going to realize and be disappointed and have a sense of reality set in that they don't actually control the government like it's some form of a dictatorship.
00:31:07.000 That they actually have a process they have to follow, that they have procedural votes to overcome.
00:31:11.000 Now, what does that mean as a consequence?
00:31:14.000 They are going to overshoot the target.
00:31:24.000 They are going to overreach.
00:31:25.000 I think that's a better way to word it.
00:31:30.000 And then Democrats are going to go after people like Cinema and Manchin. 0.93
00:31:34.000 The Radicals can't stand Cinema today. 0.98
00:31:38.000 They are saying that she's preserving a Jim Crow relic. 0.82
00:31:41.000 Manchin is preserving a Jim Crow relic.
00:31:45.000 Well, I'll say this as a grassroots conservative Republican, that Manchin and Cinema deserve credit because even them as Democrats, if they said get rid of the filibuster, we'd be having a completely different conversation today.
00:32:00.000 And guess what?
00:32:02.000 I'm going to say something controversial, that cinema and manchin have more of a backbone than some establishment Republican senators that I've seen recently.
00:32:10.000 This takes real courage to do what Cinema and Manchin are doing.
00:32:16.000 They are going to have an onslaught of pressure from people.
00:32:19.000 Come on, just lift the filibuster for the D.C. Puerto Rico vote.
00:32:23.000 Just do it this one time.
00:32:24.000 And they said, under no circumstances will that happen.
00:32:29.000 I never thought I would be complimenting a Democrat on this program.
00:32:34.000 Former President Barack Obama spoke at John Lewis' funeral.
00:32:38.000 What a weird time to call for the ending of a filibuster.
00:32:42.000 I mean, with all possible due respect, who speaks at a funeral about parliamentary reforms in the United States Senate?
00:32:50.000 What a strange connection.
00:32:51.000 I guess he was trying to say it's a Jim Crow relic.
00:32:54.000 But Barack Obama wanted this filibuster gone.
00:32:58.000 Cut 36. 0.57
00:33:00.000 And if all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic, in order to secure the God-given rights of every American, then that's what we should do.
00:33:14.000 Well, of course, I mean, it's been a while since I've had an opportunity to dissect one of President Obama's speeches.
00:33:18.000 What God-given rights to Americans are exactly being prevented by the filibuster?
00:33:23.000 You see, it's gaslighting projection.
00:33:25.000 It's the opposite.
00:33:26.000 The filibuster is actually protecting God-given rights, former President Barack Obama.
00:33:29.000 The filibuster is actually protecting freedom of speech and Second Amendment rights and the right to privacy, not the other way around.
00:33:35.000 The filibuster slows down the process to make the Bill of Rights more important, not less important.
00:33:41.000 Mitch McConnell warned against eliminating the filibuster.
00:33:45.000 Cut 35.
00:33:47.000 We placed our trust in the institution itself in a common desire to do the right thing.
00:33:57.000 I'm grateful that's been reciprocated by at least a pair of our colleagues across the aisle.
00:34:04.000 I'm glad we've stepped back from this clip.
00:34:09.000 Taking that plunge would not be some progressive dream.
00:34:15.000 It would be a nightmare.
00:34:18.000 And Senator McConnell is right.
00:34:20.000 Now, you can have plenty of valid criticisms against Senator Mitch McConnell, and I'm willing to entertain all of them.
00:34:26.000 In fact, I mentioned plenty of them here on this program.
00:34:29.000 I don't think that Senator McConnell is immune to criticism on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:34:34.000 However, he deserves credit for resisting the temptation to end the filibuster when he was given a lot of pressure to do so.
00:34:43.000 Because if the filibuster would have been lifted previously, we would have a completely different set of circumstances.
00:34:52.000 So now all of a sudden, this buys us a little time, everybody.
00:34:56.000 So for those of you that wanted to just throw it in and give up, I'm telling you right now, your excuses are running thin.
00:35:01.000 We got time.
00:35:02.000 The founding fathers bought us time.
00:35:04.000 The institutionalists have bought us time.
00:35:08.000 Senator Sinema and Senator Manchin have bought us time.
00:35:10.000 So what are we going to do with time?
00:35:12.000 Are we going to complain?
00:35:13.000 No.
00:35:14.000 We're going to say, let's organize our local communities.
00:35:18.000 Let's get our precincts figured out. 0.83
00:35:19.000 Let's try to fix the way we do voting in our country, specifically in Arizona and Georgia.
00:35:23.000 And I want to give you an update on that in a second hour because there's pieces of legislation going through the Georgia State House and the Arizona State House that are very important to change the way we do elections in our country.
00:35:34.000 Because you're all of a sudden going to wake up on a bright, sunny day in August and realize when the Senate's out of session, they didn't add new states, they didn't get rid of the Electoral College, they didn't add seats to the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:35:44.000 Okay, they gave everyone $1,200 checks.
00:35:46.000 Trump did that too.
00:35:47.000 Okay.
00:35:48.000 They didn't get rid of fossil fuels despite Biden's best attempts. 0.98
00:35:52.000 And all of a sudden, you're going to say, okay, they passed some ridiculously immoral transgender stuff. 0.77
00:35:56.000 They changed the way pronouns are done in the United States Senate, but the country's not completely and totally lost yet. 0.99
00:36:05.000 And that's good news.
00:36:06.000 Because I read all of your emails you send to me at freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:36:10.000 I talk to a lot of you.
00:36:12.000 I get your text message.
00:36:12.000 I get your phone calls.
00:36:14.000 And there is basically just a, we are done.
00:36:17.000 It's over.
00:36:17.000 We're never going to come back from the brink.
00:36:19.000 And that's wrong.
00:36:21.000 And the evidence today shows that the most radical voice in the Democrat Party are angry today, and we should be thankful today.
00:36:29.000 AOC's not having a good day.
00:36:33.000 And we are.
00:36:36.000 That's a reason for celebration. 0.99
00:36:38.000 Rashida Tlaib is not having a good day.
00:36:40.000 Elon Omar is not having a good day.
00:36:42.000 Ianna Presley, they are meeting and politically plotting and scheming of how they can try and influence Kirsten Cinema.
00:36:52.000 Influence the fossil fuel braber baron Joe Manchin, who's getting in the way of the Green New Deal.
00:37:00.000 You better believe he's getting in the way of the Green New Deal.
00:37:03.000 And Joe Manchin, who represents a state that is heavily dependent on fossil fuel development, coal and natural gas, half his state is basically connected.
00:37:13.000 I'm not sure half, but I'm sure like 20 or 30% of his state is probably connected to that to fossil fuel development.
00:37:23.000 So it buys us time.
00:37:25.000 What are we going to do with it?
00:37:26.000 Are we going to complain and kind of just sit around and say the country's lost?
00:37:32.000 Are we going to say, wow, because of this process and this precedent, our country is not done.
00:37:40.000 Let's do something about it and save the country and win elections in the future.
00:37:45.000 And that is a gift that we should be thankful for.
00:37:51.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:38:06.000 God bless.
00:38:07.000 Speak to you soon.