The Charlie Kirk Show - January 28, 2021


How America's Elite Keep Getting Away With It


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In this episode, Charlie talks about how the White House is trying to manipulate the stock and bond markets, and why the idea of a free market should be less dogmatic about what it means to be a market and more pragmatic about how we talk about it.

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00:01:45.000 Hey, everybody.
00:01:45.000 Welcome to today's show.
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00:01:51.000 We want to get right into it.
00:01:53.000 What is a market?
00:01:55.000 Well, a market, in the ideal sense, is a place where people can trade ideas, they can trade products, services, and find what they need, what they desire, and create new things.
00:02:09.000 A market, in its ideal sense, and even in practice in most places, really has three different ways to characterize it.
00:02:19.000 The price system, the profit incentives, and the protections of private property.
00:02:25.000 Prices are critically important in markets.
00:02:28.000 It's how we communicate.
00:02:29.000 It's how you communicate value.
00:02:30.000 Something's too high.
00:02:31.000 I'm not going to buy it.
00:02:32.000 Something's too low.
00:02:34.000 I'm going to buy a lot of it.
00:02:36.000 Profit is the reward that a producer gets when they create something of value and somebody wants to voluntarily purchase it.
00:02:46.000 Profit is the reason we're able to have markets at all.
00:02:49.000 And then, of course, private property.
00:02:51.000 I own this.
00:02:53.000 I can prove I own this.
00:02:55.000 And I'm free to do whatever I wish with it.
00:02:59.000 Markets, in the ideal sense, are the greatest wealth creating engine and poverty elimination machine in world history.
00:03:10.000 Now, in the last couple of years, I, alongside many conservatives, have said that we need to be less dogmatic about how we talk about markets, less ideal and more pragmatic.
00:03:25.000 What is actually the result of some of this policy that we've been implementing?
00:03:33.000 With that being said, entrepreneurship, taking risks, fresh creative energy is always a better solution than top-down government control, where big bureaucrats with bad incentive structures wrongly participate in voluntary transactions.
00:03:53.000 And so what's been really interesting to see over the last 24 hours in particular, in the last couple days, is how a market has been manipulated.
00:04:04.000 No one's arguing that.
00:04:07.000 The market that's currently being manipulated are around three stocks, BlackBerry, AMC, and GameStop.
00:04:13.000 This is the front page of the Wall Street Journal today.
00:04:17.000 Individual investors route hedge funds.
00:04:20.000 Shares of GameStop and AMC have risen more than 400% this week as investors piled into momentum trades with volume rivaling that of giant tech companies.
00:04:30.000 GameStop, as of yesterday's close, was up 1,641.9%.
00:04:36.000 And no, GameStop did not cure cancer yesterday.
00:04:40.000 Instead, a group of motivated retail investors decided to combine their energy and their organizing capacity to try and manipulate GameStop to go up.
00:04:55.000 Now you'd say, why GameStop?
00:04:58.000 Well, because certain hedge funds were shorting that stock.
00:05:03.000 So someone found out about it.
00:05:05.000 They said, let's stick it to the man.
00:05:07.000 AMC, the same thing.
00:05:09.000 AMC is up 769%.
00:05:14.000 769%.
00:05:16.000 Most movie theaters are still closed.
00:05:18.000 AMC was on the verge of bankruptcy.
00:05:21.000 And if you're owning any AMC stock today, just call it a win and run.
00:05:26.000 It's pure manipulation.
00:05:29.000 BlackBerry, which I don't even know is still a company.
00:05:32.000 I have not seen anyone use a BlackBerry device in like a decade, up 229%.
00:05:42.000 And the people that were going out of their way to manipulate this, as we predicted, are already being investigated by the Security Exchange Commission, already being investigated for a variety of different reasons.
00:05:52.000 And they likely will be held accountable.
00:05:56.000 We predicted that yesterday.
00:05:58.000 And we encourage people to kind of be very careful with the way they handle this situation because there's a lot of laws and there's a lot of regulation when it comes to market behavior and market manipulation.
00:06:08.000 But that's not even the point about all this.
00:06:12.000 There's a couple ways to view this that I believe everyone is missing.
00:06:20.000 Number one, do you see how fast all of the power structures mobilized nearly simultaneously as soon as the little guy tried to do something to disrupt the big guy?
00:06:36.000 Did you notice how every single power structure in our country, from federal regulators to who runs NASDAQ to Robinhood itself, which is a retail trading app, to Discord to Reddit, almost all simultaneously decided this cannot happen.
00:06:56.000 Why?
00:06:57.000 Now, some people would say it's against the law.
00:06:59.000 It probably is, to manipulate the market behavior.
00:07:04.000 But why the sudden rush to intervene?
00:07:08.000 Where's been the sudden rush to intervene to reopen our schools when the little guy is getting crushed?
00:07:13.000 So let me get this straight.
00:07:14.000 We keep schools closed for 11 months with suicides going through the roof.
00:07:18.000 We're going to cover that at length this show.
00:07:22.000 And it takes committees and it takes protests to just get schools remotely open.
00:07:27.000 But the minute a multi-billion dollar hedge fund has a tough day, you have a massive Marshall Plan-like mobilization to make sure that a bunch of guys in their basement that can't go find work that are trolling the market, they must be shut down.
00:07:45.000 You see, they're the problem.
00:07:47.000 Because the hedge funds need to make their earnings estimates.
00:07:50.000 You understand that, right?
00:07:52.000 And this is not anything new.
00:07:54.000 This is something that is only confirmation of how we know the system works.
00:08:01.000 If you have wealth, if you have any sort of institutional advantage, the government is designed to protect you.
00:08:11.000 Who financed Joe Biden's campaign?
00:08:14.000 Melvin Capital, or whatever the heck this company's called, that Janet Yellen conveniently received millions of dollars to speak at from. 1.00
00:08:24.000 That's who runs the instruments of power.
00:08:28.000 But there's a much deeper point here that I think people are missing.
00:08:32.000 None of this is actually about making money on this chart here that I'm showing on the live stream.
00:08:36.000 None of it.
00:08:37.000 Yeah, people are kind of laughing.
00:08:38.000 They're like, I'm making some money and all this.
00:08:39.000 Do you know the real reason they are doing this?
00:08:42.000 The real reason that this has broad support, and this should be a fire alarm for those of us that want to prevent socialism from coming to our country, is that most people under the age of 35, they think this entire system is so rotten to the core and so rigged, they want to see it broken.
00:09:11.000 They want to see it disrupted.
00:09:14.000 They want to see it broken.
00:09:16.000 For example, they remember reading stories of a guy who I'm sure he's a really good guy, Bill Ackman.
00:09:28.000 Bill Ackman, back in May, I'm sorry, back in April, he put a $27 million short on the market, which turned into a $2.6 billion profit.
00:09:43.000 That's right, you heard me right.
00:09:45.000 Bill Ackman, who's best known for only buying and sharing like eight companies, that's what his firm does.
00:09:52.000 He picks eight companies and he stays focused on it.
00:09:54.000 It's like eight to 10 companies.
00:09:55.000 It's what he does.
00:09:57.000 Very smart guy.
00:09:59.000 Didn't do anything illegal.
00:10:01.000 Put a $27 million short on the market, meaning he was betting that it was going to go down right before the virus intensified.
00:10:08.000 He made $2.6 billion.
00:10:11.000 The people that are manipulating the market right now and participating, they've seen the Louis Vuitton guy, Arnaught, get $76 billion richer this year.
00:10:22.000 Really?
00:10:23.000 In a year that has locked down global economies, we have hundreds of millions of people re-entering poverty.
00:10:31.000 The Louis Vuitton guy has $76 billion of new wealth, not just his whole net worth.
00:10:37.000 He's gotten $76 billion richer.
00:10:41.000 $76 billion.
00:10:42.000 That's probably more than the GDP of Hungary.
00:10:45.000 We can get a fact check on that.
00:10:48.000 He could buy an Eastern European country.
00:10:52.000 No, no, but you don't understand.
00:10:54.000 As soon as you try to manipulate a manipulated market, you're going to get crushed.
00:11:01.000 But there's an even deeper point here that I think I want to explore with all of you.
00:11:06.000 And it goes into politics, it goes into society, it goes into culture.
00:11:10.000 Okay, Hungary's GDP is $168 billion, but that's near Arnaut's entire net worth, right?
00:11:16.000 His net worth is like $132 billion.
00:11:20.000 And this is a warning for things to come.
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00:12:25.000 So I found it really interesting: as soon as the hedge funds who put these big positions of shorts on GameStop, AMC, and BlackBerry, as soon as their positions started to lose them extraordinary amounts of money, because a short you can actually lose infinitely as it keeps going up.
00:12:50.000 It's a very risky position.
00:12:51.000 That's where the hedge funds kind of intentionally position themselves.
00:12:57.000 Whereas to give you an idea of how this crushed the hedge funds, when GameStop was trading at more or less $90 a share, then it goes up to $400 a share, you have to cover that short all the way up through.
00:13:21.000 So the hedge funds were pretty upset.
00:13:23.000 But where did the hedge funds run to first?
00:13:27.000 And now we're starting to see a pattern emerge in our country.
00:13:32.000 We're starting to see a pattern emerge in how we run the economy.
00:13:41.000 Where did the hedge funds immediately go to for help?
00:13:47.000 Who did they ask to intervene on their behalf?
00:13:52.000 Was it other hedge funds?
00:13:54.000 Did they think, hey, maybe we should now put positions that are long against what Reddit is doing?
00:14:00.000 Of course not.
00:14:01.000 The guys that say, we love free markets, who's the first, what's the first phone call those hedge funds made?
00:14:10.000 To government regulators.
00:14:13.000 The guys that say they love free markets, yeah, we love free markets.
00:14:17.000 Go look at my statue of the bull and the bear on my desk.
00:14:21.000 Have you ever read Milton Freeman?
00:14:23.000 By the way, go get the head of the SEC on the phone right now, as we predicted, by the way.
00:14:27.000 We predicted this entire thing.
00:14:29.000 The very same guys that have Ayn Rand's fountainhead and Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged, all about being a rugged individual and being an objectivist and fighting the system against government intervention, the first phone call they make, their in-house counsel is, get the SEC on the phone.
00:14:45.000 This can't be legal.
00:14:46.000 And we knew that was going to happen.
00:14:48.000 Because whether it be medicine, health, schooling, education, transportation, communication, finance, or banking, if you are part of the ruling class, the government works for you.
00:15:04.000 The word citizen is supposed to mean co-ruler. 0.65
00:15:10.000 That is the idea of a citizen going back to its original Greek roots.
00:15:18.000 Co-ruler, not subject.
00:15:21.000 It's a big difference that you have an equal say in how this government works.
00:15:28.000 You want to see the mass mobilization of powerful people start playing with their capacity and their ability to deliver unrealistic 25% returns by hedging a market.
00:15:46.000 That's when you start to see the Calvary come in.
00:15:49.000 Now, by the way, the Calvary doesn't come in when opioid deaths are coming up.
00:15:53.000 The Calvary doesn't come in when factories are shuttered and closed.
00:15:56.000 The Calvary doesn't come in when schools are shuttered and parents can't make ends meet.
00:16:00.000 It took us seven months to get a Chinese coronavirus relief bill. 0.99
00:16:03.000 Most of it was garbage. 0.97
00:16:06.000 But it took seven months. 0.85
00:16:07.000 It's now taken 24 hours for Reddit, Discord, Robinhood, all these different companies to either shut down or to change their behavior, which actually is alarmingly similar to something that we saw two weeks ago.
00:16:28.000 Or was it three weeks ago?
00:16:29.000 It's about three weeks ago.
00:16:31.000 What does that sound familiar?
00:16:33.000 What does that sound familiar?
00:16:34.000 How is that something we just saw?
00:16:36.000 Oh, remember when Parler tried to represent the little guy?
00:16:39.000 Remember when Parlor tried to disrupt a power structure?
00:16:45.000 What happened?
00:16:46.000 Three different companies or three different CEOs with three different formation documents or three different ticker symbols all said, we don't want you to exist anymore.
00:16:53.000 You're giving a voice to people we don't like.
00:16:54.000 We're going to shut you up.
00:16:58.000 It's no different than a mass populist surge of manipulation, which very well, by the way, probably is against the law.
00:17:10.000 And the people that are organizing this are probably going to go to jail because they're going to make public examples of this.
00:17:15.000 You understand that?
00:17:16.000 They are going to want to have a show trial for some guy that lives in eastern Kentucky who goes to bed at 7 a.m. and drinks monster and Red Bull all day long.
00:17:27.000 And his idea was to try to troll the hedge funds.
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00:18:50.000 What is the deeper and broader lesson from this rather insane flurry of market activity?
00:19:01.000 The kind of conventional way it's being portrayed on some of the market channels is how this is going to change trading forever.
00:19:11.000 And we need new laws and new regulation to, of course, protect the hedge fund guys, who, by the way, are mostly all Democrats, who, by the way, are almost all on the left.
00:19:20.000 And they don't care about markets.
00:19:22.000 They care about their own power and making themselves rich.
00:19:25.000 If they actually cared about markets, they wouldn't call the SEC immediately.
00:19:30.000 They'd say, how do I innovate?
00:19:31.000 How do I try to use my own creative talents to adjust to this situation?
00:19:42.000 But no, these guys are nothing.
00:19:44.000 They're no different than a little bit more motivated government civil bureaucrats.
00:19:50.000 That's basically who these hedge fund guys are.
00:19:53.000 They're ideologically apathetic.
00:19:56.000 They do not have a driving ideology.
00:19:59.000 Basically, it's all about just power and money, but they hide behind this idea of free markets to try to win conservatives over so that we don't regulate them or that we don't overly criticize them.
00:20:12.000 But let me tell you, this entire situation is only another piece of evidence that the trust in our system is eroding very, very quickly.
00:20:29.000 I don't mean just the trust in the market, the trust in the stock market or the way that we buy and sell securities.
00:20:38.000 I'm talking about the trust in our entire system.
00:20:44.000 Somebody said something to me the other day that really resonated with me.
00:20:47.000 They said, Charlie, I do not trust any major institution of power left in our country.
00:20:52.000 And I thought about that.
00:20:54.000 Our colleges, our government, most of law enforcement, our multimedia, financial institutions.
00:21:03.000 So then who stands to benefit from that?
00:21:08.000 Who stands to benefit from a multi-institutional rot?
00:21:15.000 Well, the answer is we don't know yet, but I can tell you who won't benefit from it.
00:21:21.000 You want to see where the energy of the next political movement is brewing. 0.83
00:21:25.000 It's not in the Liz Cheney types where they want to go back to the Chamber of Commerce way of doing things.
00:21:30.000 What this entire, quite honestly, market circus has demonstrated to us is that people are so angry at the system, they really don't care whether or not they're going to make money on it.
00:21:48.000 They just want to see the tables overturned.
00:21:53.000 They just want to see the system flip up on its head.
00:21:57.000 You know why?
00:21:57.000 And I've talked about this quite a lot.
00:22:01.000 That the main driver of the BLM Incorporated riots over the summer and in the fall had nothing to do with racism.
00:22:10.000 It was economic anxiety. 0.51
00:22:12.000 The main reason why the people in Brooklyn or in the Bronx or in Beverly Hills or in Denver were taking to the streets and were saying America's a racist country.
00:22:26.000 That was just the temporary incantation that expressed them saying, I'm working, I have no money, I have no wealth, I'm in debt, and I'm angry.
00:22:41.000 The incantation was just, BLM, feel bad about it.
00:22:44.000 And I'm sure some of those people were upset about it.
00:22:47.000 But the reason why that mass mobilization was able to happen, and quite honestly, on the other side, the reason why Trump was able to get hundreds of thousands of people to show up to his rallies is because you have 200 million people in this country that don't trust any institution of wealth creation anymore.
00:23:08.000 They don't.
00:23:12.000 And for a 29-year-old that went to college, went into debt, has no skills, was trying to get their life organized, moved to a major metropolitan area to go pay an inflated rent where they're renting, not owning, they're not building equity.
00:23:34.000 They're paying, they have to buy expensive groceries, expensive cost of living expenses.
00:23:42.000 And then you shut down their country for 10 months for a virus that statistically does not threaten their generation.
00:23:50.000 And what do you do in response?
00:23:51.000 You go bail out the big banks.
00:23:53.000 You go bail out the big airlines, what I should say, big airlines, big cruise ships, big companies.
00:23:58.000 You go send them $1,000 in their bank account so that they don't revolt against you.
00:24:03.000 Basically, that's the only reason they did that. 0.63
00:24:07.000 And then all of a sudden, you're really surprised when 5 million people take to the streets repeating the same line: America's a racist country, BLM.
00:24:16.000 It's not about that.
00:24:17.000 Yes, of course, they were filled with those bad ideas in college and they're just now acting on it.
00:24:21.000 The real reason they're doing that is because they own nothing.
00:24:26.000 They own nothing.
00:24:27.000 They're renting.
00:24:29.000 They're in debt.
00:24:30.000 They have no job.
00:24:31.000 You shut down their country.
00:24:32.000 They can't go to the gym.
00:24:33.000 They can't see their friends.
00:24:35.000 They can't go to school.
00:24:36.000 And you are all of a sudden surprised when they start to have this massive pseudo-revolt.
00:24:44.000 This market activity is just the latest chapter in a non-ideological populist rebellion against the power structure.
00:24:53.000 That's all this is.
00:24:56.000 BLM from the MAGA movement, all that, it's actually less about ideology.
00:25:02.000 It has very little to do with philosophy, very little to do with conservative versus liberal.
00:25:06.000 It's not about that.
00:25:07.000 It's about 50 million people that are saying, I'm mad as heck and I'm not going to take it anymore.
00:25:14.000 How many years do I have to keep on doing the thing you tell me to do while my bank account continues to go south?
00:25:22.000 Taxes go up.
00:25:23.000 Job opportunities aren't there for me.
00:25:26.000 And so the question will now be: this can go three ways.
00:25:32.000 We can, as a country, go back to the Chamber of Commerce, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Liz Cheney way of governing, which is big government, big business, open borders, no culture, no cultural protections whatsoever, no common language.
00:25:51.000 All that matters is the corporate dominance of our country.
00:25:54.000 That's one way.
00:25:55.000 That's Joe Biden's preference because it's easy.
00:25:58.000 You make a lot of money that way.
00:25:59.000 You sit on corporate boards.
00:26:01.000 All the powerful people protect you.
00:26:03.000 That's one way.
00:26:04.000 The second way is if Republicans and conservatives got serious about this economic anxiety, got real about entrepreneurship versus corporate dominance, took on the big robber barons and did not treat every single company the same.
00:26:19.000 Meaning, you know what, Google?
00:26:21.000 You're not the same as my local grocery store.
00:26:24.000 It's a different thing.
00:26:25.000 That Google should be treated differently.
00:26:27.000 We talk about family creation.
00:26:28.000 We talk about lowering taxes on working people. 0.99
00:26:31.000 That's a winner. 0.99
00:26:32.000 Or the third option, which quite honestly is the most likely option at its current trajectory.
00:26:40.000 Because what we are seeing is a gradual, pent-up buildup of an economic restructuring and quite honestly, rebellion that no one is prepared for.
00:26:56.000 You're about to see inflation.
00:26:58.000 You're going to see economic stagnation.
00:27:00.000 And you're going to see wealthy people get even wealthier.
00:27:03.000 The wealthiest people in our country, $500 billion richer since the pandemic.
00:27:07.000 The average working class family has lost net worth, lost wealth. 0.65
00:27:12.000 They can't even send their kids to school. 0.95
00:27:14.000 So who's going to benefit from this?
00:27:16.000 Answer.
00:27:20.000 The politicians and the rulers and the leaders that professionally mobilize grievances.
00:27:27.000 They're really good at it.
00:27:29.000 AOC is really good at it. 1.00
00:27:31.000 Her entire political playbook is the mobilization of grievances. 1.00
00:27:35.000 That's it. 0.77
00:27:36.000 It's, you have a problem.
00:27:38.000 You should be angry about it.
00:27:40.000 Vote for me and support me, and we're going to go not try to right the wrong, but seek revenge.
00:27:46.000 You see, that's a very big difference.
00:27:48.000 Trying to fix a problem and seeking revenge are two completely different things.
00:27:56.000 AOC is actually not about fixing a problem.
00:27:59.000 The way AOC is talking about this market manipulation is not about actually protecting markets or private property or entrepreneurship or profits or any of that.
00:28:06.000 It's we have to go punish these people.
00:28:12.000 And what we have learned from the French Revolution, amongst many other type rebellions, is revenge is very attractive to the masses.
00:28:24.000 AOC, Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tolb, Elon Omar stand to benefit from this.
00:28:30.000 This is a canary in the coal mine.
00:28:32.000 This is a warning for things to come.
00:28:32.000 This is a harbinger.
00:28:34.000 And I cannot say this any more clearly, everybody.
00:28:37.000 Take this seriously.
00:28:38.000 Because, yeah, this is kind of a funny thing.
00:28:39.000 Some people are making jokes, all this.
00:28:41.000 You know, people are going to be held accountable.
00:28:42.000 All this.
00:28:43.000 You don't understand.
00:28:44.000 This is just the latest chapter in what's about to come into a volcanic explosion that people will not be able to control.
00:28:54.000 We saw this in different variations.
00:28:56.000 We saw this in the Occupy movement and the Tea Party movement and the MAGA movement and BLM Incorporated, where people just are so upset at the power structure and they want to voice and they want to voice their opinion.
00:29:07.000 Now, one of the pressure release valves that all of us witnessed and saw was the capacity to communicate.
00:29:19.000 Well, you take Trump off Twitter, you take Trump off all these things, you take Parlor away, and all of a sudden people can't communicate.
00:29:27.000 What do you expect them to do?
00:29:30.000 Just take their $2,000 check and go away?
00:29:35.000 And by the way, that $2,000 is worth less than it ever has been in American history with our hyper-inflated currency that's about to hit everyone in a way that no one is prepared.
00:29:49.000 And so now this is a real choice for the Republican Party.
00:29:52.000 And I guarantee you this: the Republicans are going to screw this up unless we tell them specifically what to do.
00:29:58.000 They want to go back to the crony corporate, pseudo-fascist way of governance where they have carve-outs for big companies and they protect their incumbency, where the people are trying to send them an SOS signal right now.
00:30:12.000 We are not flourishing.
00:30:16.000 We don't like you.
00:30:17.000 We don't like your system.
00:30:19.000 Help us.
00:30:20.000 And guess what?
00:30:21.000 Most people, when presented with the option, they don't just want free money as help.
00:30:26.000 They actually want to build earned success.
00:30:28.000 It's still there in the American spirit and the American ethos.
00:30:32.000 They don't just want some redistributed AOC-style revenge-driven stimulus sent to them.
00:30:41.000 They want the capacity to buy and sell products.
00:30:45.000 They want to be able to build equity.
00:30:46.000 They want to build wealth themselves.
00:30:48.000 They want to say, I own this.
00:30:50.000 And that's quickly slipping away.
00:30:52.000 And that's the lesson here that people are missing.
00:30:56.000 It's a fire alarm.
00:30:58.000 I just hope people wake up to it.
00:31:02.000 In our fast-paced world, it's tough to make reading a priority.
00:31:06.000 At least it used to be at thinker.org, T-H-I-N-K-R.org.
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00:31:15.000 Read or listen to hundreds of titles in a matter of minutes, from old classics like Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People to recent bestsellers like Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life.
00:31:24.000 I can tell you, thinker is the way that I am able to distill a lot of information quickly.
00:31:29.000 It's important to take a break from mindless social media scrolling and learn something.
00:31:33.000 If you want to challenge your preconceptions, expand your horizons, and become a better thinker, go to thi NKR.org to start a free trial today.
00:31:41.000 Again, that's thinkr.org, thinker.org, slash Charlie.
00:31:47.000 Senator Ted Cruz sent out a tweet agreeing with Alexandre Acasio-Cortez, where AOC said this is unacceptable.
00:31:54.000 We need now more people.
00:31:56.000 We need more about Robin Hood's decision to block retail investors from purchasing stock while hedge funds are freely able to trade the stock as they see fit.
00:32:04.000 As a member of the Financial Services Committee, I'd support a hearing if necessary.
00:32:08.000 Ted Cruz says, fully agree.
00:32:11.000 And then AOC, like a petulant child, responds and says this.
00:32:16.000 I'm happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there's common ground, but you almost had me murdered three weeks ago, so you can sit this one out.
00:32:23.000 Can you believe she's saying this?
00:32:25.000 Happy to work with almost any other Republican that aren't trying to get me killed.
00:32:29.000 In the meantime, if you want to help, you can resign.
00:32:31.000 Okay.
00:32:34.000 The narrative and the weight of what she is saying is so unbelievably sinister.
00:32:43.000 Saying this, quote, you almost had me murdered three weeks ago, acting as if Ted Cruz, in a stunning turn of events, became the Viking shaman Chewbacca guy.
00:32:58.000 Or that Ted Cruz was marauding the House floor with zip ties.
00:33:05.000 Or that Ted Cruz, in a shocking turn of events, was one of the guys that was trying to break through the windows of the SWAT team.
00:33:18.000 AOC is now revealing one of the major reasons why normal and common sense reform has escaped us in the last couple of years.
00:33:34.000 AOC, a gesture from Ted Cruz.
00:33:36.000 I fully agree with you, AOC.
00:33:37.000 Let's try to fix this rigged financial system.
00:33:40.000 You try to have me murdered.
00:33:42.000 What?
00:33:45.000 So basically, AOC's position as per this tweet is: I will never work with another Republican. 0.61
00:33:51.000 We must dominate all government and destroy all of them.
00:33:55.000 What did Ted Cruz do to make her all of a sudden accuse him of being the zodiac killer?
00:34:03.000 He simply stood up and objected to the counting of the Electoral College results, something that Senator Barbara Boxer also did in 2004, something that Nancy Pelosi also did in 2004.
00:34:16.000 That, in the eyes of Alexandria Acasio-Cortez, is morally equivalent of being the Columbine shooter.
00:34:27.000 She said, you tried to murder me and get me killed.
00:34:37.000 This is a little bit of a window into how the left is going to justify coming after all of you. 0.99
00:34:46.000 She actually thinks, I actually, I think Alexandria Casio-Cortez is so unbelievably dumb that she actually thinks that Ted Cruz is one of the masterminds of Chewbacca man, Viking shaman, zip tie guy,
00:35:00.000 and the MASH guy flooding into the Senate floor, that it was really Ted Cruz that was running air traffic control for the JV team that was dressing in gas masks and whatever, that it was Ted Cruz that was the conductor of the insurrectionist orchestra. 0.93
00:35:23.000 I actually think she believes this.
00:35:26.000 I hope she doesn't.
00:35:27.000 I hope that she's actually just playing a part. 1.00
00:35:30.000 I hope that AOC is doing her best to try to fill a Broadway position for left-wing professional agitator. 0.55
00:35:40.000 Because any person in their right mind that actually thinks that Ted Cruz tried to murder AOC, let alone should be in Congress.
00:35:48.000 They shouldn't be allowed in decent or polite society.
00:35:51.000 This is what AOC just tweeted.
00:35:54.000 When Ted Cruz tries to say, hey, let's go fix the financial markets, murderer.
00:36:02.000 Pretty hard to have a conversation past that point. 0.69
00:36:05.000 You know, we as conservatives are used to like, hey, you're a bigot.
00:36:08.000 Okay, no, I'm not. 0.99
00:36:09.000 You're a racist.
00:36:10.000 No, I'm not. 1.00
00:36:10.000 You're a xenophobe. 1.00
00:36:11.000 No, I'm not.
00:36:12.000 Now they're just going straight for the jugular. 1.00
00:36:14.000 You're a murderer. 0.99
00:36:20.000 Tells us a lot of exactly what the left is going to try to do. 0.99
00:36:24.000 When you view other people in the other political party as murderers, you can justify anything that comes after that.
00:36:32.000 Sure, we'll spy on them.
00:36:33.000 We'll infiltrate their groups.
00:36:34.000 We'll do whatever it takes.
00:36:37.000 So much for the nice bipartisan unity, Alexandria Casio-Cortez. 0.92
00:36:41.000 Nothing says unity like calling your political opponents columbine shooters. 1.00
00:36:47.000 Of course, she'll get away with it. 0.92
00:36:48.000 In fact, here's a prediction.
00:36:50.000 The Huffington Post will say AOC roasts Ted Cruz on Twitter, comparing him to mass murderer.
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