The Charlie Kirk Show - June 08, 2021


GEORGIA BOMBSHELL: Allegations of Voter Fraud Make Front Page News


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A judge in Georgia has found that Stacey Abrams won the governor's race in a recount, and a Democrat judge even agrees that there was voter fraud. Is this evidence of massive fraud? Or is there something else going on here?

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00:00:26.000 Hey, everybody, breaking news out of Georgia.
00:00:30.000 Real Clear Politics, a mainstream down-the-middle website is exposing what we all knew to be true in Georgia, and it's pretty unbelievable.
00:00:38.000 We go through this fact by fact and piece by piece, and we are here on the front lines to make sure that we have real justice for what happened in the 2020 election.
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00:01:05.000 Maybe you're listening to this and you're a skeptic.
00:01:07.000 Maybe you're like, I don't want to hear about voter fraud.
00:01:10.000 I encourage you to listen to this and just say all of my biases, I'm going to check because this is written by Paul Sperry, who's a phenomenal reporter for a mainstream publication, realclearpolitics.com.
00:01:23.000 It's going to open up a lot of your eyes.
00:01:25.000 And a Democrat judge even agrees.
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00:02:47.000 Georgia, breaking, bombshell, nothing but facts that will open your eyes and hopefully compel you to action.
00:02:53.000 Buckle up.
00:02:55.000 Here we go.
00:02:57.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:02:58.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:03:01.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:03:04.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:03:07.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:03:08.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:03:09.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:03:18.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:26.000 That's why we are here.
00:03:29.000 This is a topic that is considered to be a thought crime in the eyes of the American press.
00:03:36.000 What I'm about to walk through here is beyond compelling.
00:03:41.000 It is evidence.
00:03:43.000 It is real traction and real movement when it comes to discovering what happened in the 2020 election.
00:03:50.000 RealClearPolitics.com.
00:03:54.000 Realclearpolitics.com is considered by Democrats and Republicans to be the ultimate bipartisan site.
00:04:03.000 It is a place where people go for polling data, for aggregation of articles.
00:04:08.000 If you go to realclearpolitics.com, you will see the top articles from leftists and from people on the right.
00:04:15.000 RealClearPolitics has no stated agenda.
00:04:18.000 In fact, if you asked me what the most fair, down-the-middle, and fact-driven website on the internet is, I would tell you it'd be realclearpolitics.com.
00:04:29.000 Real Clear Investigations, which is a project of Real Clear Politics, came out with an unbelievably remarkable story today, which is why a judge has Georgia voter fraud on his mind.
00:04:46.000 Now, this story goes through in phenomenal detail what we always suspected.
00:04:56.000 And there's real movement happening, and it's making Stacey Abrams and the con artists that have been running Georgia Democrat Party very nervous.
00:05:05.000 So I just want to re-emphasize this as I read through this article by Paul Sperry for Real Clear Investigations.
00:05:13.000 This is not some random message board that you found on 4chan.
00:05:17.000 This is not some forwarded email from some person in the dark webs of the internet.
00:05:22.000 This is mainstream, fact-driven, empirically based evidence.
00:05:30.000 I'm going to read for quote by quote: When Fulton County, Georgia, poll manager Susie Voyle sorted through a large stack of mail and ballots last November, she noticed an alarmingly odd pattern of uniformity in the markings for Joseph R. Biden.
00:05:46.000 One after the other, the absentee votes contained perfectly filled-in ovals for Biden, except that each of the darkened bubbles featured an identical white void inside them in the shape of a tiny crescent, indicating they'd been marked with toner ink instead of a pen or pencil.
00:06:08.000 Real Clear Investigations continues by saying, adding to suspicion, she noticed that all of the ballots were printed on different stock paper than the others she had handled as part of a statewide hand recount of a razor-thin November 3rd presidential election and a razor-thin Georgia runoff.
00:06:28.000 That if David Perdue would have just gotten a couple thousand more votes, he would not have had to go to a runoff and John Ossip would never have become U.S. Senator in the runoff on January 5th.
00:06:39.000 Let's not forget the Senate race.
00:06:44.000 I'm going to read a quote here.
00:06:45.000 It says, In short, the Biden votes looked like they'd been duplicated by a copying machine.
00:06:56.000 That's RealClear Politics writing that.
00:07:00.000 Quote, all of them were strangely pristine, said Voyles, who said she's never seen anything like it in her 20 years monitoring elections in Fulton County, which includes much of Atlanta.
00:07:13.000 She was not alone.
00:07:14.000 At least three other poll workers observed the same thing in the stacks of absentee ballots for Biden processed by the county.
00:07:21.000 And they have joined Voyals in swearing under penalty of perjury that they looked false.
00:07:27.000 Now, here is the two paragraphs that are the kicker.
00:07:32.000 And again, we're reading from Real Clear Politics Investigations.
00:07:36.000 And by the way, this is more than an investigation.
00:07:38.000 We're about to get some big answers on June 21st.
00:07:42.000 Now, election watchdogs have used their affidavits to help convince a state judge, a Democrat donor state judge, to unseal all of the 147,000 mail-in ballots counted in Fulton County and allow a closer inspection of the suspicious Biden ballots for evidence of counterfeiting.
00:08:03.000 They argue that potentially tens of thousands of ballots may have been manufactured in a race that Biden won by just 12,000 votes, thanks to a late surge of mail-in ballots counted after election monitors were shooed from the state farm arena in Atlanta.
00:08:19.000 Let me read that again.
00:08:21.000 They argue that potentially tens of thousands of ballots, now you might saying, I don't believe it.
00:08:27.000 This is the big lie is what you say.
00:08:29.000 Maybe you watch CNN or NPR and maybe you wear two masks when you shower and you don't think there's any truth here.
00:08:36.000 I continue.
00:08:38.000 We have what is almost surely major absentee ballot fraud.
00:08:44.000 We have what is almost surely major absentee ballot fraud in Fulton County involving 10,000 to 20,000 probably false ballots.
00:08:52.000 Said Gerald Favorito.
00:08:54.000 Now remember that name.
00:08:55.000 Favorito is peppered all throughout this bombshell piece.
00:09:00.000 The lead petitioner in the case and certified poll watcher who runs voterga.org.
00:09:06.000 The piece continues, and it gets better, trust me.
00:09:10.000 He said that the suspect ballots remained in the custody of the election officials, inaccessible from public view.
00:09:17.000 Favorito says, quote, we have confirmed that there are five pallets of shrinked wrapped ballots in a county warehouse.
00:09:27.000 He and other petitioners were ordered to meet at the warehouse May 28th to settle the terms of the inspection, but the day before the scheduled meeting, the county filed a flurry of motions to dismiss the case.
00:09:36.000 I wonder why.
00:09:38.000 Favorito said, quote, we'll be in court on June 21st to resolve these motions, calling them another roadblock.
00:09:45.000 He expects talks over the logistics of the inspection to resume.
00:09:49.000 As part of the 21st order, this judge, Brian Amero, someone get Brian Amero private security, please.
00:09:56.000 He is a Democrat judge who granted the inspection of these ballots.
00:10:00.000 It's a big deal.
00:10:02.000 But strangely, just eight days later, there was a breach in security of the building where all these ballots were.
00:10:10.000 The front door was found unlocked and wide open in violation of the court orders.
00:10:16.000 Probably a coincidence, right?
00:10:18.000 Probably no one was probably defined of ballots.
00:10:20.000 It was just, you know what?
00:10:21.000 It was the wind.
00:10:22.000 We all know Georgia is known for their wind.
00:10:28.000 The story continues by saying that Favorito is not convinced and he believes that the ballots very well might have been compromised.
00:10:41.000 And of course, Epstein killed himself, right?
00:10:46.000 Just listen to what you're told.
00:10:48.000 Dr. Fauci's never been wrong.
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00:10:51.000 Epstein killed himself.
00:10:53.000 Everything you've been told is the truth. 0.99
00:10:56.000 And if you disagree, you're a racist.
00:11:00.000 The article continues by saying the 38 drop boxes throughout Fulton County in the November election will be cut to eight in the future.
00:11:09.000 The boxes have been largely unregulated and unattended.
00:11:11.000 Now, let me just say, Brad Rothensberger and Brian Kemp are very unimpressive people.
00:11:19.000 See?
00:11:19.000 I stopped myself.
00:11:21.000 How they let this entire thing happen shows that they couldn't run a hot dog stand in Coney Island.
00:11:30.000 They could not run an ice cream joint on a hundred degree day heat in Savannah, Georgia.
00:11:40.000 Continues by saying that there are many, many affidavits that reinforce this.
00:11:49.000 Of course, the Democrat chairman says this is nothing more than a circus that's being put on by people who promote the big lie.
00:11:55.000 Yeah, of course.
00:11:58.000 This guy would have made a phenomenal Stalinist. 0.51
00:12:01.000 Rob Pitts, Joseph Stalin appreciates your service to the mother Russia. 0.93
00:12:07.000 But it gets better. 0.78
00:12:08.000 Judge Amero, who oversees federal election records, again, a Democrat donor, he felt compelled to unseal the records because maybe Judge Amero has a conscience.
00:12:19.000 Maybe he has a soul.
00:12:20.000 Maybe he's actually wondering, who am I when he looks at himself in the mirror?
00:12:25.000 Remember, for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.
00:12:29.000 Susie Voyles, as I mentioned, in a swore affidavit under penalty of perjury, said that, quote, she examined several stacks of ballots of about 100 ballots from each of the cardboard boxes marked box number five.
00:12:43.000 She said these ballots came from a ballot drop box that had been placed throughout Fulton County, but all but three of the 110 ballots in the bundle had been strangely labeled, quote, state farm arena.
00:12:56.000 Who labeled them that?
00:12:59.000 Were marked for Biden, and according to her, were marked identical ballots.
00:13:06.000 The most alarming peculiarity was the identically marked ovals next to Biden's name.
00:13:14.000 In every ballot, the quote bubble next to Joseph R. Biden had a slight white eclipse in the bubble.
00:13:23.000 So let me just kind of tell you what that means.
00:13:26.000 So you guys all took the ACT and the SCT, or you took some standardized test.
00:13:31.000 And if you take those, not every single one of your bubbles is going to look the same, obviously.
00:13:36.000 Some you'll fill in totally, some you'll overly fill in.
00:13:39.000 And so that shows that you're working through the test.
00:13:42.000 What she's saying is that the bubble to fill in Biden was all of them were filled in 75% precisely.
00:13:52.000 It's almost like the entire bubble with a little bit missing.
00:13:54.000 What do you think the chances of that are?
00:13:56.000 What do you think when you put a bunch of people to go fill in a bubble, they're all going to fill in the bubble precisely exactly the same?
00:14:05.000 Voyles speculated that, quote, additional absentee ballots have been added for Biden in a fraudulent matter.
00:14:12.000 Those are her words.
00:14:14.000 The void that she and other auditors witnessed in the exact same spot on the oval filled on 107 ballots for Biden was, quote, very alarming to us.
00:14:23.000 Every single bubble was precisely alike.
00:14:28.000 I had never seen that in 20 years of election monitoring.
00:14:33.000 But she and other recount workers raised concerns and they were fired.
00:14:40.000 One in particular, after Boyles, again, blew the whistle, she got the boot by the Fulton County Department of Elections, silenced, canceled, put out to pasture.
00:14:52.000 Nothing to see here.
00:14:53.000 I mean, come on, of course, thousands of people fill in the bubbles exactly the same. 0.91
00:14:57.000 And if you disagree with us, you're a racist.
00:15:01.000 Robin Hall said something similar.
00:15:03.000 So did Judy Aubb and Barbara Hartman.
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00:15:08.000 Who was orchestrating this?
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00:16:33.000 Robin Hall, a certified Fulton County record recount observer, testified she witnessed a number of absentee ballots marked, quote, 100% for Biden that appeared to be, quote, perfectly filled out as if they were pre-printed with the presidential candidate selected.
00:16:48.000 She said that, quote, they did not look like a person had filled it out at home.
00:16:51.000 All of them looked alike.
00:16:53.000 Judy Abb, who worked at the World Congress Center on November 14th, where she observed the same thing, she said, quote, suspicious batches of mail and ballots for Biden whose markings appeared identical.
00:17:03.000 Barbara Hartman, another election official auditor, also doubted the authenticity of the absentee ballots she handled and she said were never folded, as would normally be the case for ballots returned in an envelope by mail or dropped in a box.
00:17:15.000 Quote, the absentee ballots looked as though they had just come from a fresh stack.
00:17:19.000 She swore in her affidavit, quote, I could not observe any creases in the ballots.
00:17:24.000 Did not seem like they were folded and put in envelopes or mailed out.
00:17:28.000 They looked as if they were stamped.
00:17:31.000 Some say that they might have been photocopied.
00:17:35.000 All of the veteran poll watchers say, quote, there was no plausible explanation for the anomalies other than possible fraud.
00:17:46.000 Favorito says, quote, there's always a chance it was an insider job.
00:17:51.000 He suspects the hundreds, if not thousands, of allegedly duplicate absentee ballots for Biden might be connected in spikes in votes for Biden he observed late on election night.
00:18:01.000 Now, of course, don't count on Rothensberger or Brian Kemp to even say a word about this.
00:18:07.000 Incompetent, gutless wonders, all of them.
00:18:12.000 On November 3rd, Fulton County election officials informed monitors they were shutting down the State Farm Tabulation Center.
00:18:19.000 And for those of you at home, I'm reading from Real Clear Politics.
00:18:23.000 This is a mainstream outlet, as neutral down the middle as you can get.
00:18:31.000 It continues, but Favorito says, quote, where did all these ballots come from and why did they handle them so suspiciously?
00:18:38.000 Once scanning was completed, an election line feed showed an unprecedented vote spike that turned the election in favor of Biden.
00:18:44.000 Just over a half hour after workers scanned the potentially fraudulent ballots, an election-line feed showed a hundred thousand-plus vote spike for Biden.
00:18:54.000 Voyels noted that the county election supervisor oversaw the secret scanning of the cases of full ballots also helped run the warehouse where the suspected ballots are being stored.
00:19:04.000 Phone calls and emails to Fulton County went unanswered from RealClearInvestigations.com.
00:19:11.000 This judge is allowing an inspection, and I would love to have an explanation from any Democrat out there.
00:19:16.000 They are welcome on this program anytime.
00:19:19.000 And we are going to finally get some calling mechanism.
00:19:22.000 I'd love to talk to a Democrat about this.
00:19:24.000 How they think that every bubble was identically filled in if they think that's normal.
00:19:29.000 And I'm going to read quote again from Real Clear Investigations and Real Clear Politics.
00:19:36.000 All of them, the ballots, were strangely pristine.
00:19:40.000 In short, the Biden votes looked like they'd been duplicated by a copying machine.
00:19:49.000 We're going to get to the bottom of this.
00:19:51.000 And if we had law enforcement that actually cared about our elections, they'd be investigating who was sending these ballots.
00:20:01.000 You know, we have laws about this.
00:20:03.000 Be nice to use them, which we don't. 1.00
00:20:05.000 Because there's the untouchables.
00:20:07.000 If you are a major Democrat, you don't get investigated by the power class.
00:20:11.000 You don't get investigated by that.
00:20:12.000 But no, if you are an ally of Donald Trump, like Rudy Giuliani, you get a 6 a.m. raid of your door kicked in as if you are El Chapo or if you're Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.
00:20:27.000 Since law enforcement is not doing their job in investigating any of this, of all the affidavits, it's going to come down to the courts, the independent judiciary that our founding fathers gave us in this constitutional framework.
00:20:42.000 And I pray, and this is where you come in, that we can keep up the public pressure because if we can find what I think exists in those 147,000 mail-in ballots, identical, non-folded, pristine, ballot-filled in for Joe Biden, 75% of the same half ellipse, we might uncover the beginning of what all of us deep down in our spirit and our soul knew existed.
00:21:07.000 Shenanigans, cutting of the line, and that word that you're not allowed to say on the YouTube live stream, fraud.
00:21:16.000 That's what Real Clear Politics Investigation says, and I'm just asking questions.
00:21:20.000 But I'm here to tell you on this program, we will never lose sight of how our elections are conducted.
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00:22:04.000 A very interesting piece from ProPublica, publication I'm somewhat familiar with, ProPublica.org has this story about the never-before-seen records reveal how the wealthiest people in our country avoid income tax.
00:22:21.000 Now, I pay more in taxes some years than Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
00:22:30.000 In 2007, Jeff Bezos, a multi-billionaire and now the world's richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes.
00:22:37.000 He achieved the feat again in 2011.
00:22:40.000 In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second richest person in the world, also paid no federal income tax.
00:22:46.000 Now, there's a couple places I want to go with this story, but the first place is the most obvious.
00:22:51.000 Why didn't this story come out in October of last year when they hit Donald Trump for not paying any federal income tax?
00:22:57.000 Do you remember that whole story?
00:22:59.000 Do you remember when there was a story after story of Donald Trump not paying income tax and they had all these billboards?
00:23:05.000 It was the New York Times and they said, Donald Trump did not pay any income tax.
00:23:09.000 We acted as if that was unusual amongst American billionaires.
00:23:14.000 It would have been helpful if all of a sudden this treasure trove of never-before-seen records would have been published then.
00:23:21.000 Was this story withheld?
00:23:22.000 Would this story sat on for a couple months?
00:23:25.000 Why was it that we were not able to say, well, Donald Trump is no different than Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk, the people you lift up and elevate?
00:23:34.000 So it was considered to be a political attack against Donald Trump last, when did that story come out?
00:23:40.000 I think it was like October 3rd or something.
00:23:41.000 It was like a month out from the election.
00:23:43.000 Last October actually seems to be standard operating procedure for America's ruling class.
00:23:51.000 So that's the first takeaway.
00:23:53.000 And it's a very interesting thing.
00:23:55.000 So this story by ProPublica, and good for them for publishing this, challenging very wealthy people is something that is not done enough, especially those on the left.
00:24:03.000 And so this is very good.
00:24:07.000 Now, ProPublica says they are a newsroom that investigates abuses of power.
00:24:10.000 The secret IRS files is an ongoing reporting project.
00:24:13.000 Signed up to be notified when the next installment publishes.
00:24:17.000 Now, the Washington Post, I don't think, did this, was very happy to see this because it's going after Jeff Bezos.
00:24:24.000 And the obvious takeaway is the first obvious takeaway when it comes to this story, and I'm going to get into some of the details because it's pretty amazing, is any sort of attack they used against Donald Trump could be used against almost any other multi-billionaire in the country.
00:24:40.000 That's number one.
00:24:41.000 Number two, it's been very interesting to see how conservatives and how Democrats have taken this very same story, all the same factual information, and are handling it completely differently.
00:24:56.000 So Democrats are taking the story of all this new information about IRS tax records, and they're saying, see, this is why we need higher taxes on the rich.
00:25:08.000 And conservatives are taking this information.
00:25:10.000 They say, see, this is why we can't have people to game the system.
00:25:15.000 And I think there's some truth to actually both sides.
00:25:18.000 When you read this and you see that, quote, most Americans earn $70,000 annually and paid 14% in federal income taxes.
00:25:26.000 The highest tax rate is 37% for any earnings above $628,000 a year.
00:25:34.000 And it says you may be paying a higher tax rate than a billionaire.
00:25:37.000 I know I am.
00:25:39.000 And I know a lot of our employees are too.
00:25:41.000 And America's billionaires avail themselves of tax avoidance strategies beyond the reach of ordinary people.
00:25:50.000 And it's a little bit deceiving throughout this piece here that got published.
00:25:54.000 And it's the number one story because they're also saying that they're only paid a small percentage of their assets.
00:25:59.000 I'm not a big fan of asset taxes.
00:26:01.000 I'm not.
00:26:02.000 Income, still not a huge.
00:26:04.000 I would restructure the entire way we do taxes in our country.
00:26:07.000 But I'm also not a fan of someone that's earning $70,000 a year paying a higher rate on their income than Elon Musk because Elon Musk can show a bunch of losses against his assets.
00:26:18.000 And that's a very fair argument.
00:26:22.000 But I think the argument that people are missing, and Bernie Sanders is having a field day with this story, of course, is this question of loyalty.
00:26:32.000 So Warren Buffett, it seems, paid $23 million in federal income taxes while having a $24 billion net worth.
00:26:42.000 Bezos paid $973 million while having a $99 billion net worth.
00:26:48.000 Bloomberg, $292 million while having a $22 billion net worth.
00:26:52.000 And some years they paid nothing at all.
00:26:56.000 This idea of loyalty is why is it that the people that have benefited so much and created so much wealth and have been able to navigate our financial tax system through the IRS seem so intent on then using the wealth that wasn't taxed to then destroy the country?
00:27:11.000 You see, I would have a little bit more of a likelihood to defend these people like Bloomberg, Bezos, and Buffett, the three Bs, who have a combined net worth, by the way, of, let me do some math, $250 billion, Bloomberg, Bezos, and Buffett, $250 billion combined net worth.
00:27:32.000 I would have a little bit more, I don't want to say a soft spot, but I'd be more likely to defend them if they use their assets and their resources to defend the American Republic, not to buy the Washington Post and protect their own power advantage.
00:27:50.000 Warren Buffett is an example of that.
00:27:54.000 He's always said, I want to pay higher taxes.
00:27:57.000 Well, then why don't you, Warren Buffett?
00:27:59.000 You are able to give more money to the Internal Revenue Service if you so choose.
00:28:04.000 Bezos, the exact same.
00:28:07.000 Now, this just gets, it's a joke.
00:28:09.000 Bezos had a $99 billion net worth.
00:28:13.000 He had $4 billion in income.
00:28:16.000 He paid $973 million in taxes, but he also claimed his $4,000 child deduction.
00:28:24.000 Jeff Bezos also claimed a $4,000 tax credit for his children.
00:28:31.000 That's what really matters here, everybody, that the tax credit was built for people like Jeff Bezos.
00:28:38.000 $4,000 tax credit for a man that's shooting himself into space, because that's really what matters.
00:28:44.000 What matters is whether or not you get the $4,000 tax credit when you are worth $100 billion.
00:28:52.000 And this has been a shift.
00:28:54.000 America's ruling class in the early 1900s of Carnegie and Rockefeller and JPMorgan, they used to have a reverence, a loyalty to the nation and the republic that made them so wealthy.
00:29:05.000 Our ruling class has no such loyalty.
00:29:09.000 And what is going to then be presented against them is most likely a bipartisan consensus to tax them.
00:29:17.000 Now, I actually prefer the assets to be in the private sector.
00:29:20.000 Of course I do.
00:29:21.000 I think that that's probably better for economic growth and entrepreneurship.
00:29:25.000 But do I actually want Jeff Bezos to have more money to be able to spend on Democrat politics?
00:29:30.000 Of course I don't.
00:29:31.000 Do I want Jeff Bezos to have more money to be able to buy newspapers?
00:29:36.000 No.
00:29:37.000 And so what sort of economic stimulus am I advocating for for Jeff Bezos to have his own little Democrat super PAC fund that he could put $200 million a year without even ever missing it?
00:29:49.000 So the Democrats are pushing forward this on economic justice.
00:29:53.000 And I agree with them partially on some of this, to be perfectly honest with you.
00:29:57.000 I think that some of the wealth that is created, especially, and this is an interesting point, we'll get into this.
00:30:02.000 And there's so many other stories I want to get into.
00:30:04.000 But Bezos, Buffett, and Bloomberg, how did they make their money?
00:30:09.000 Well, Bloomberg made his money off of trading software.
00:30:12.000 Buffett made his money off of very precise and wise and sophisticated trading practices.
00:30:22.000 And Bezos made his money off of building a server company and a package delivery company, largely benefited thanks to the U.S. Postal Service.
00:30:30.000 I'm not saying those people deserve, don't deserve to make any money, but what I am asking, though, is, do you think that Bezos, Bloomberg, and Buffett, do you think their contribution to the United States has been generally positive or generally negative?
00:30:49.000 That's a provocative question.
00:30:51.000 The three B's worth $250 billion. 0.99
00:30:54.000 Has what they done made America better or worse?
00:30:59.000 Has the world become a better place because of Bezos, Buffett, and Bloomberg?
00:31:05.000 A combined net worth of over $250 billion.
00:31:10.000 Let's start with Bezos.
00:31:12.000 Do you think America is more competitive, more agile, in a better position to flourish and live complete lives because of what Jeff Bezos has been able to do?
00:31:22.000 Has it been a good thing that nearly 40% of American small businesses have gone under as Amazon has grown its oligopolic dominance across the country?
00:31:31.000 Is it a good thing that Amazon Web Services has been able to shut off competitors to Twitter like Parlor?
00:31:38.000 Is it a good thing that Amazon bought Whole Foods and controls everything from the food you eat to the things you say in your home through Amazon Alexa?
00:31:48.000 I would argue that Jeff Bezos, his worldview, is one of corporate tyranny.
00:31:54.000 I actually don't think Jeff Bezos is an ideologue.
00:31:56.000 I don't.
00:31:57.000 I think Bezos is someone who's a deeply troubled, small man.
00:32:01.000 I don't mean that physically, just a small person, that wants to win the material game.
00:32:07.000 Buffett is not different than him.
00:32:09.000 If you watch that documentary on Warren Buffett, I think it's on HBO or Showtime.
00:32:14.000 I've watched it three times.
00:32:17.000 Buffett does not really have an ideology.
00:32:19.000 He lives in the same home that he did when he started.
00:32:22.000 He doesn't really do much with his money.
00:32:23.000 To him, it's all about putting points on the board.
00:32:26.000 Buffett is a very corrupt person, and I could go into great detail about Burlington, Northern Santa Fe, and the railroad that benefited greatly through the abolishing of the Keystone XL pipeline.
00:32:38.000 How about Mike Bloomberg?
00:32:40.000 Has the world become a better place because of Mike Bloomberg?
00:32:42.000 I actually think he was generally a pretty good mayor.
00:32:44.000 But what about his wealth?
00:32:46.000 Well, Mike Bloomberg famously defended the Hitler of our time, Xi Jinping in China, and said that the Chinese Communist Party was worthy of being recognized as a legitimate government, that no leader will do anything that is not in the best interest of its citizens.
00:33:03.000 Just ask Joseph Stalin or Mao Sedong.
00:33:06.000 Mike Bloomberg has been pictured many times as the highest leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, has done open business with the Chinese Communist Party, and has all but been an ambassador or a foreign agent for them in our country, amassing wealth well over, I think his net worth is over $70 billion.
00:33:22.000 Michael Bloomberg spent over $200 million to try to get Democrats elected.
00:33:28.000 Mike Bloomberg is pushing the most restrictive gun control measures in the entire country, and he spent a billion dollars to go win Guam.
00:33:37.000 Remember, he ran for president?
00:33:39.000 Which was probably, I actually think it would be one of the most fun documentaries ever made.
00:33:44.000 I really do.
00:33:45.000 If they could get insider footage of a billion to lose, how Mike Bloomberg tried to purchase the presidency.
00:33:53.000 I just think that would be so interesting.
00:33:54.000 The inside story, how Napoleon himself thought that he could become president because if he stood on his checkbook, he is the tallest man in America.
00:34:03.000 I would have gotten a chuckle out of that.
00:34:06.000 And so I will say very clearly that the world is not a better place because of Jeff Bezos, Buffett, and Bloomberg.
00:34:14.000 Elon Musk, I'd say generally yes.
00:34:16.000 Elon Musk has been an ambassador of free speech.
00:34:18.000 He's been creative.
00:34:19.000 He goes after government handouts here and there.
00:34:22.000 But I have respect for Musk.
00:34:24.000 Not every billionaire, just because they're a billionaire, is in that category.
00:34:29.000 But if you look at the life work of Bezos, Buffett, and Bloomberg, there's one common denominator, which is they want to expand the amount of material wealth while not caring about the well-being of the nation, the republic, or the country that gave them the freedom to accomplish or achieve it.
00:34:44.000 They use their discretionary income to buy the Washington Post, to influence Democrat politics, or confiscate your guns and weapons.
00:34:51.000 So as we learned today that Bezos, Buffett, and Bloomberg sometimes pay lower taxes than you, I think there's an argument to be made that if you do not have a loyalty to our nation and you use your hundreds of billions of dollars to do the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party, you have lost respect from me.
00:35:09.000 And I say you should pay more in taxes. 0.52
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