The Charlie Kirk Show - March 01, 2023


How is El Salvador Better Than Chicago?


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Lori Lightfoot has been the mayor of Chicago for the past four years. She lost her bid for re-election yesterday and now faces a runoff with her challenger, Paul Vallis. Today, Charlie talks about why Democrats are so comfortable running cities that are becoming more messy.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:00.000 Today in the Charlie Kirk show, Sweet Homes Chicago, Lori Lightfoot is sent into political oblivion.
00:00:06.000 That's some good news.
00:00:07.000 But will Chicago in the runoff make a prudent choice to do some very basic things like stopping the criminals from running the city?
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00:01:18.000 Sweet Home Chicago.
00:01:20.000 Yesterday, the first round of voting happened in the Chicago mayor's race, and Beetlejuice, Lori Lightfoot, has been defeated.
00:01:29.000 Now, we should enjoy that for just a second, and we should talk about why that is the case.
00:01:34.000 Why is it that Lori Lightfoot was soundly defeated?
00:01:40.000 She finished third place, not even to make the runoff. 0.72
00:01:44.000 In first place was Paul Vallis, who is a Democrat.
00:01:50.000 And for years, he was considered to be not exactly a moderate Democrat, but by new standards, he's actually more moderate than the Marxist Brandon Johnson, who is also going to make the runoff.
00:02:01.000 So it went Vallis, Johnson, and Lightfoot.
00:02:05.000 Lightfoot has been the mayor of Chicago the last couple years, and she is, without a doubt, the worst mayor in Chicago history. 1.00
00:02:12.000 And that says something because there's been some pretty bad leaders in the history of Chicago.
00:02:17.000 And one of the things that frustrates me the most as someone who grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and loves Chicago is that this is not that hard.
00:02:25.000 There are three very basic things that you have to do as mayor, just really basic things.
00:02:32.000 Make the streets safe.
00:02:34.000 Try to improve your schools every single year.
00:02:37.000 And don't borrow money you don't have.
00:02:39.000 And basically, have some sort of a vibrant economic plan or model that is implemented.
00:02:48.000 That's it.
00:02:48.000 Really simple.
00:02:49.000 And basically, any city is like that.
00:02:51.000 You take New York City.
00:02:53.000 New York City was declining.
00:02:55.000 Rudy Giuliani became mayor and turned that place around.
00:03:00.000 And Bloomberg, to his great credit, was a moderate mayor.
00:03:04.000 And New York was a safe place for years.
00:03:07.000 Now, there's other issues too: homelessness.
00:03:11.000 That plays into clean and safe streets.
00:03:15.000 And it does beg a question: why is it that Democrats are so comfortable running cities that are becoming so enjoyable, so messy?
00:03:25.000 It's because their ideology actually is more important than the reality.
00:03:31.000 So Lori Lightfoot lost her reelection yesterday, and she lost it badly.
00:03:36.000 She only had to finish in the top two of the first round to make the runoff, and there were more than half a dozen candidates, but she still couldn't even manage that.
00:03:44.000 And that is worthy of celebration, but not so fast because there's a second round of voting.
00:03:49.000 Chicago has a very long history, and it's a city that has gone through many different troubled spots.
00:03:55.000 She was without a doubt the worst mayor in the history of Chicago. 1.00
00:03:59.000 Now, and the data bears it out.
00:04:01.000 Every year now, Chicago and Cook County loses population.
00:04:04.000 In the old days, Chicago lost people because they were just going to the suburbs.
00:04:08.000 They were going to DuPage County, they were going to other parts of Cook County, they were going to Lake County, they were going to McHenry County.
00:04:14.000 But now they're killing off the entire metro area thanks to mismanagement.
00:04:19.000 So Cook County and the entire state of Illinois are bleeding residents.
00:04:24.000 100,000 people left Illinois in 2022.
00:04:29.000 100,000 people.
00:04:33.000 Now, if my math is right, that's almost, boy, is that about right?
00:04:38.000 3,000 people a day, more or less, 2,800 people a day are leaving Illinois.
00:04:43.000 I'm one of them.
00:04:44.000 I left Illinois.
00:04:46.000 Arizona, by the way, is one of the kind of refugee camps of proud Chicagoans.
00:04:51.000 Do you know how I can?
00:04:52.000 First of all, you just know that because the data shows it.
00:04:54.000 But also, all of the famous Chicago restaurants end up reopening here: Portillo's, Culver's, all the Chicago-based restaurants, not to mention the Chicago spring training.
00:05:10.000 I see more Cubs flags in my neighborhood than I see Arizona Diamondbacks flags.
00:05:16.000 I see more Bears jerseys than I do Cardinals' jerseys.
00:05:21.000 And people say, Oh, Charlie, it's all the weather.
00:05:24.000 That plays a role.
00:05:26.000 But I could say this as somebody who grew up in the crummy, awful weather of Chicago.
00:05:30.000 I would move back there in a second if it was not an awful, Democrat, infested, dystopian nightmare of a city.
00:05:41.000 The weather plays a role, but it's not everything.
00:05:44.000 It was a great place to grow up, and it's lost its way.
00:05:47.000 Hopefully, somebody can bring it back.
00:05:49.000 100,000 people left Illinois in 2022.
00:05:52.000 In 2019, the year Lightfoot took office, Chicago had 521 homicides.
00:06:00.000 That already made Chicago one of the most dangerous cities, but Lightfoot made it even worse.
00:06:04.000 In 2020, Chicago had 798 homicides.
00:06:09.000 In 2021, it had 855.
00:06:12.000 That was close to an all-time record set in the 1970s.
00:06:15.000 But remember, today, we now have surveillance cameras, far better trauma medicine.
00:06:21.000 We should be better at saving lives.
00:06:22.000 That should be going down.
00:06:23.000 That should be actually not increasing by any way.
00:06:26.000 It should be minuscule.
00:06:28.000 It should be a fraction.
00:06:29.000 In one single day in 2020, while Lori Lightfoot was telling us America was systemically racist, Chicago had 18 murders, the most in a single day in its entire history.
00:06:41.000 Worse than the 60s race riots, worse than the days of Al Capone.
00:06:44.000 Lightfoot has consistently set a standard of terrible leadership.
00:06:50.000 During the Chinese coronavirus, she imposed mass lockdowns on the city.
00:06:54.000 She closed basically every small business that she could, including every hair salon.
00:07:00.000 But then she went to get her own hair done privately.
00:07:03.000 And when she was caught, she said that she had to be the exception because she had to go on television.
00:07:08.000 Lightfoot City bled itself dry.
00:07:13.000 She called for making $80 million in the Chicago police.
00:07:18.000 She protected herself with a special detail of 71 police officers.
00:07:23.000 Those 71 were in addition to her official 20 bodyguards.
00:07:28.000 And you could not go to the west side of Chicago in the evening without hearing gunshots or tragically seeing a lot of people get murdered in the streets.
00:07:38.000 She couldn't care less.
00:07:39.000 Lightfoot cannot run on her own accomplishments.
00:07:42.000 So in January, she sent an email pressuring public school teachers to give students extra credit if they volunteered on her campaign.
00:07:49.000 That's a fact.
00:07:51.000 Lori Lightfoot was so desperate, she sent an email to public school teachers.
00:07:56.000 If you volunteer for my campaign, I will give you students extra credit.
00:08:00.000 Magmile has become a homeless city encampment.
00:08:06.000 Michigan Avenue, one of the most beautiful thoroughfares in America, is unrecognizable.
00:08:11.000 It's boarded up.
00:08:13.000 Chicago was this city on a hill, a shining city on a hill.
00:08:17.000 And I am so pleased and I am thrilled that Lori Lightfoot is removed.
00:08:22.000 But now what next?
00:08:23.000 The runoff will be between Vallis and Brandon Johnson.
00:08:27.000 And I do not want to get your hopes up too much because let's just look at what recently happened in Los Angeles.
00:08:33.000 What recently happened in Los Angeles is former Republican, very moderate on the issues and just wants three basic things.
00:08:41.000 Mr. Caruso, he wanted safe streets, functioning schools, and an economy that is attractive to people and not borrow money.
00:08:50.000 That's it.
00:08:51.000 Spent a ton of his own money.
00:08:53.000 Friendly business environment, safe streets, good schools.
00:08:57.000 You just keep repeating those three things.
00:08:59.000 If you're worrying about anything else as mayor, you should not be running for mayor.
00:09:04.000 If those three things are not happening, forget it.
00:09:08.000 So Caruso was a major developer in the area, spent, I think, between $30 or $40 million.
00:09:14.000 He won the first round of voting, and then it went to a runoff.
00:09:18.000 And we didn't cover this as much as we probably should have.
00:09:21.000 And it was Caruso versus the Marxist.
00:09:24.000 No exaggeration, no hyperbole, the communist Karen Bass.
00:09:29.000 By the way, do you remember when Karen Bass was in the running to become Joe Biden's vice president? 0.57
00:09:33.000 Just came to me.
00:09:34.000 That's an interesting thing to remember.
00:09:36.000 And it was Bass versus Caruso.
00:09:39.000 And Bass got all the union support.
00:09:42.000 Bass got all of the public sector support.
00:09:45.000 And Caruso, who just wanted to make Los Angeles have better schools, safe streets, friendly business environment.
00:09:51.000 By the way, I support those three things.
00:09:53.000 I know that a Republican will not become mayor of Los Angeles anytime soon.
00:09:57.000 Can you make it not a hellscape?
00:09:59.000 And Karen Bass won, and Caruso did not.
00:10:02.000 So we're going to talk about how that connects to Chicago because I think the people of Chicago want a better place to live.
00:10:08.000 They know something is wrong.
00:10:09.000 But boy, I pray this Marxist Brandon Johnson is unsuccessful.
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00:10:55.000 So the final results from the Los Angeles mayor's race was that Karen Bass, the Marxist, Marxist, ended up beating Rick Caruso by nine points or about 89,000 votes.
00:11:06.000 And so Chicago is showing with their support of Vallis, who is definitely the more moderate person.
00:11:12.000 You go to his website, it's like the most boring political website ever.
00:11:15.000 If you would have seen this as a political website a decade ago, you would have been like, yeah, okay, what party is he?
00:11:21.000 Literally, that shows how far our politics has fallen.
00:11:27.000 He's just running on three basic things.
00:11:30.000 Better schools, friendly economic environment, clean streets.
00:11:32.000 Now, Brandon Johnson, whoo, this guy is dangerous.
00:11:36.000 And by the way, I got a text message from a Chicago police detective.
00:11:40.000 He said, it's about law and order versus destructive progressive ideals.
00:11:45.000 We absolutely, all caps, cannot have Brandon Johnson win. 0.74
00:11:50.000 You know, they're going to turn this into a black versus white race, and it's not. 0.83
00:11:54.000 It's about rebuilding a city that was once great, but they prefer playing race and identity politics. 0.92
00:12:00.000 What's about to unfold in Chicago is a little bit of a microcosm of the macro trends that we conservatives have been warning about.
00:12:10.000 Will Chicagoans wake up to the relentless propaganda campaign of race politics, race politics?
00:12:18.000 I mean, you go through Brandon Johnson's website.
00:12:22.000 This is how you know this guy is a problem.
00:12:26.000 He has an entire portion of his website dedicated to gender equity.
00:12:34.000 Anti-LGBTQ legislation and hate crimes are sweeping the nation.
00:12:40.000 Chicago is a regional hub for LGBTQ community and culture.
00:12:45.000 What culture is that exactly?
00:12:47.000 We'd love to learn about that.
00:12:49.000 With tens of thousands of LGBTQ residents and thousands more visiting from across the Midwest and the rest of the country, it is the duty of the mayor of Chicago to keep the promise it made to LGBTQ people and commit to further investment.
00:13:06.000 He continues by saying, he's not just saying that he wants abortion to be safe, legal, and rare.
00:13:13.000 This is what he says on his website, Brandon Johnson.
00:13:16.000 The three things I would like to make absolutely clear.
00:13:19.000 One, abortion is health care. 1.00
00:13:22.000 Two, abortion should be a constitutional right.
00:13:26.000 Three, we will not accept an America or a Chicago that goes back in time.
00:13:32.000 He says there is no middle ground on abortion.
00:13:35.000 There's no middle ground on reproductive health care. 0.98
00:13:38.000 Individuals should always have the right to control what happens in their own bodies, not the government, right?
00:13:44.000 It's really interesting, him being a black man, the amount of black babies that are terminated in the womb in Chicago, but that's a separate issue.
00:13:52.000 Well, it's not really separate, but I don't want to get into that today.
00:13:55.000 And so he goes on one after the other, after the other, and very little about crime.
00:14:00.000 And so the runoff is going to be a question of can the great city of Chicago resist these macro trends of the woke mind virus that's trying to distract you around gender equity, immigration, LGBTQ rights, none of that.
00:14:16.000 How about this?
00:14:17.000 Stop the murders.
00:14:19.000 And Vallas is running.
00:14:20.000 Go to his website.
00:14:21.000 He's running, by the way, he does not have good things to say about Kim Fox.
00:14:24.000 Praise God on that.
00:14:25.000 He's like, look, the city is bankrupt.
00:14:28.000 We have great potential.
00:14:30.000 It will be fascinating to see.
00:14:32.000 And I have no idea how it's going to play out.
00:14:34.000 But here's what I can give you a little bit of a sneak peek.
00:14:39.000 Who is behind Brandon Johnson?
00:14:41.000 Who is behind now this Marxist who wants to be mayor of Chicago?
00:14:46.000 The cartel, the Illinois Federation of Teachers, the Chicago Teacher Union, the SEIU, the American Federation of Teachers, all of the worst organizations that have done such damage to the city of Chicago.
00:15:01.000 They're all behind him.
00:15:02.000 So he's going to have a ton of money.
00:15:03.000 He's going to have a ton of support, not to mention all these other legitimately left-wing communist organizations like the Working Families Party, Activate Chicago Parents, 48th Ward Neighbors for Justice, United Working Families, People United for Action, the People's Lobby.
00:15:21.000 By the way, just can I pause here for a second?
00:15:23.000 Many of you wonder why these cities are so reliably Democrat and why they push for mail-in voting so hard.
00:15:30.000 Just put that graphic back up.
00:15:32.000 Look at how many outside group organizations they have that are collecting ballots that go precinct by precinct, that go ward by ward to make sure that Democrats get the maximum turnout possible.
00:15:45.000 It's illuminating, isn't it?
00:15:47.000 I haven't even heard of half of these organizations.
00:15:50.000 39th Ward, Neighbors United, 33WF, 30th United Chicago.
00:15:56.000 Anyway, the People's Lobby.
00:15:59.000 It will be, and they probably all get federal money, by the way.
00:16:01.000 It will be fascinating to see.
00:16:03.000 The runoff is in April.
00:16:04.000 And I sure hope Chicago chooses the more moderate option of Valice.
00:16:08.000 He's obviously got problems and all that, but he's saying the right things on school choice, on crime.
00:16:13.000 I hope Chicago makes the right choice.
00:16:15.000 It will be fascinating to see.
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00:17:19.000 What is going on in El Salvador?
00:17:20.000 Well, El Salvador is not a country we talk about a lot. 0.89
00:17:23.000 Unfortunately, the only reason we usually talk about El Salvador is the criminals that are coming from El Salvador that are coming into our country.
00:17:31.000 But El Salvador is deciding to take things into their own hands.
00:17:35.000 El Salvador borders the North Pacific Ocean.
00:17:39.000 It is obviously in Central America.
00:17:41.000 It borders Honduras and Guatemala.
00:17:43.000 And it's a small country, all things being equal, but it's also a very violent country.
00:17:48.000 In fact, unfortunately, El Salvador, most Americans, if they were to think of El Salvador, they would think of El Salvador as being a violent, a viciously violent, gang-infested country. 0.65
00:18:00.000 But I think this is worthy of noting of how El Salvador has decided to take things into their own hands and be leaders.
00:18:08.000 So the new president of El Salvador, in fact, I don't know if he's new.
00:18:16.000 I just think he's good.
00:18:17.000 I don't know how long he's been in office.
00:18:19.000 We'll find out in a second.
00:18:20.000 President Bukele has decided to embark on an ambitious new project.
00:18:27.000 As soon as I saw this news story, I thought of a very specific Hollywood reference.
00:18:35.000 Of course, I thought of Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight, where you just arrest like 2,000 gangbangers at once.
00:18:42.000 He's been president since 2019.
00:18:44.000 So apparently he's been working on this for some time.
00:18:48.000 Let's go to Cut 60.
00:18:49.000 Jesse Waters, who reports on El Salvador's new president moving gang members to a new mass mega prison.
00:18:58.000 And is the country safer?
00:19:01.000 Not only is it safer, but crime in El Salvador has dropped so dramatically, there has not been a murder in the whole country in a week.
00:19:10.000 What a concept.
00:19:11.000 You lock up a couple thousand people so millions can be safe on the streets.
00:19:15.000 Play Cut 60.
00:19:17.000 Just a few years ago, El Salvador had the highest murder rate in the world.
00:19:20.000 MS-13 and drug cartels controlled land all over the country, terrorizing people, carving them up with satanic bloodlust.
00:19:30.000 The people were crying out for help, and a new president rolled in, President Naeed Bukele.
00:19:35.000 And so instead of defunding the police, President Bukele is giving the cops more money.
00:19:39.000 He's rounding up every gangbanger in the country and throwing him in a mega prison.
00:19:44.000 What you're seeing is 2,000 vicious criminals being transported to El Salvador's new mega prison.
00:19:51.000 This is why crime in El Salvador has dropped like a rock.
00:19:55.000 President Bukele said the country hasn't had a murder in a week.
00:19:58.000 And what do the people in El Salvador think?
00:20:01.000 They love it.
00:20:03.000 And I love it too.
00:20:04.000 There is a $1 trillion bill sitting on the sidewalk right now.
00:20:10.000 And Republicans are refusing to pick it up.
00:20:15.000 If Republicans got harsh on crime, and I mean hard on crime, it would win over millions of swing voters.
00:20:23.000 I think in the midterms, we did not do a good enough job of talking about crime, largely because people were afraid of being called racist, because there is this mass movement to try to open up our prisons that is also within the American right.
00:20:37.000 There are lies that are out there, such as people saying, well, our prison population is too big.
00:20:43.000 Well, here's a thought crime for you.
00:20:44.000 Our prison population is probably not big enough.
00:20:48.000 How long do you think an average rapist spends in prison in America?
00:20:52.000 I want to get my numbers right, but the last time I did this research, it's between three to six years.
00:20:58.000 A rapist should get life in prison, maybe even get castrated as well, if you are convicted by a jury of your peers and you go through that process.
00:21:08.000 Now, look, America is becoming a profoundly dangerous country.
00:21:13.000 El Salvador has been a dangerous country, and they're showing that there's a way to solve it.
00:21:19.000 And the left is losing their mind over this.
00:21:22.000 They don't like the fact that there's a quote new mega prison.
00:21:25.000 They don't like the idea of prisons at all.
00:21:27.000 But honestly, God bless El Salvador for taking a leadership role for saying, look, we are a small, relatively poor country, and our problem is really a couple thousand bad people.
00:21:38.000 And that's what's so amazing about this is according to the Washington Post, who actually they're just talking, I don't know if they're that critical about it, but they get there.
00:21:50.000 But it's only 2,000 prisoners.
00:21:53.000 This week he announced the transfer of the first 2,000 prisoners to the new facility.
00:21:58.000 He plans to have over 40,000 there.
00:22:01.000 If you're part of a gang, you're part of one of these satanic practices of cutting people up, the diabolical anti-human activities of the cartel, you're going to go to jail.
00:22:15.000 Why is this so hard for Republicans to run on?
00:22:18.000 Every time a Republican runs on crime, we win.
00:22:23.000 And what's interesting, in my personal opinion, and I said this during the campaign, I think President Trump missed an opportunity in the 2020 presidential election when it came to Joe Biden and crime.
00:22:38.000 He attacked Joe Biden for the 1990s crime bill.
00:22:43.000 I hate to say it, but the 1990s crime bill actually worked.
00:22:48.000 The 90s crime bill made America a safer country.
00:22:51.000 Were there problems with it?
00:22:52.000 Of course there were.
00:22:54.000 But we need to have stricter laws for violent criminals, not looser laws for violent criminals.
00:23:01.000 Look at our inner cities.
00:23:02.000 They are falling apart.
00:23:04.000 In the 90s, not only did we pass the crime bill, we put tens of thousands of new police on the street and urban centers got cleaned up.
00:23:13.000 Businesses rushed in.
00:23:14.000 Were there some bad cops that abused their authority?
00:23:18.000 Yes.
00:23:18.000 That's what happens when you hire tens of thousands of anything.
00:23:21.000 It's not acceptable, needs to be dealt with.
00:23:24.000 They should either be in prison themselves and or fired or terminated.
00:23:27.000 But that's not an excuse to stop doing what works.
00:23:31.000 And I did not think ever on this program we would be bragging on the tough on crime courage of the president of El Salvador.
00:23:40.000 Why is it he's doing this?
00:23:43.000 Desperation.
00:23:45.000 He's doing it because his city has been savaged by these people.
00:23:50.000 And now he has an 80% approval rating.
00:23:54.000 El Salvador is showing that law and order secures long-term power of a leader.
00:24:02.000 Political leaders, as we talked about yesterday with Joe Biden, always trying to find a crisis, they're trying to find synthetic and fake crises.
00:24:11.000 Guess what?
00:24:12.000 This is an actual crisis.
00:24:13.000 Crime in America is a real crisis.
00:24:16.000 The left is like, oh, no, it's perfectly fine.
00:24:18.000 Everything's okay.
00:24:19.000 Carjackings, looting, arson, people getting assaulted on the subway.
00:24:23.000 I can say this as someone who has visited New York City for a decade, that city is a dangerous city now.
00:24:29.000 And it really, it upsets me.
00:24:31.000 It makes me angry.
00:24:32.000 And it's because of the ideological direction of de Blagio and now Eric Adams.
00:24:39.000 Republicans need to learn this.
00:24:40.000 Leaders will get reelected if they do three very basic things.
00:24:46.000 Make your constituents' lives safer, happier, and better.
00:24:51.000 This is why Victor Orban gets re-elected every time, no matter how much the media complains about it.
00:24:59.000 I want to play another piece of tape here.
00:25:01.000 Remember how we used to talk about crime in the 1990s?
00:25:05.000 This was before all this nonsensical race stuff was all over our politics.
00:25:09.000 But you know what's interesting?
00:25:11.000 I'm re-listening to a series of lectures given by Dennis Prager on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, numbers, and Deuteronomy.
00:25:19.000 And he actually gave them between the years of 1992 and 1999.
00:25:23.000 Now, why am I mentioning this?
00:25:24.000 Because he editorializes a lot in these lectures.
00:25:27.000 I'm learning a ton about biblical Hebrew and all that, but every so often he'll talk about some things that are happening in the news.
00:25:33.000 And what's interesting is that race was in the news in the 90s.
00:25:38.000 It's just people's attitude towards the hyper-racialization of America was: we're not going to become that.
00:25:45.000 So it's not as if this is a new tactic, whether it be the Rodney King riots or whether it be Jesse Jackson trying to turn us into a hyper-racist country.
00:25:57.000 It's just our attitude in the 90s was that we are not going to allow the idea pathogen of white guilt to determine or dictate our policy.
00:26:07.000 Instead, you had Democrats talking like this, Joe Biden talking about the predators on our streets.
00:26:13.000 And guess what?
00:26:14.000 He was accused of being a racist for saying this, but it's true.
00:26:19.000 There were a lot of predators on our streets.
00:26:21.000 And the bipartisan 90s crime bill, it worked.
00:26:26.000 Place 62.
00:26:28.000 It doesn't matter whether or not they're the victims of society. 0.99
00:26:31.000 The end result is they're about to knock my mother on the head with a lead pipe, shoot my sister, beat up my wife, take on my sons.
00:26:40.000 So I don't want to ask, what made them do this? 0.99
00:26:44.000 They must be taken off the street.
00:26:48.000 And, Madam President, we have predators on our streets that society has, in fact, in part because of its neglect, created.
00:26:58.000 He has been attacked for that, calling him a racist and all that.
00:27:01.000 There's a lot that you could attack Joe Biden.
00:27:03.000 I think he is a racist, but not for that clip.
00:27:04.000 That's a separate issue.
00:27:06.000 But Joe Biden was just taking advantage of political oxygen that was in the room to try to benefit his future, his own political campaign.
00:27:18.000 What happened to our country where we used to have bipartisan discussions on crime?
00:27:23.000 The answer is that far left-wing ideological subversion campaigns, BLM, post-modernism, post-structuralism, through our college campuses, through social media psychological operations, have convinced us that we do not need to emphasize or focus safe streets, safe communities.
00:27:42.000 Instead, we have to worry about systemic racism.
00:27:44.000 This has been one of the great failings of America over the last 30 years, and I hope we can correct it.
00:27:51.000 This ideology has done such damage.
00:27:53.000 People have unnecessarily died.
00:27:55.000 It's very simple.
00:27:56.000 Need more cops, train them well, put them on the streets, and crime is going to go down and people's lives improve.
00:28:06.000 Someone says, Charlie, I cringe when you say Trump should have not run on this.
00:28:10.000 It's Monday morning quarterbacking.
00:28:12.000 Well, it's really not because I did it actively.
00:28:15.000 So that's not fair to say.
00:28:16.000 I was trying to say it during the campaign, but whatever.
00:28:19.000 Okay, I want to play another piece of tape here about crime.
00:28:24.000 It's the most obvious issue in America.
00:28:26.000 It affects everybody.
00:28:29.000 And that's what's so interesting: who wants to actually live in a city or a place where crime is high?
00:28:34.000 You have a choice to do something about it.
00:28:36.000 Giuliani cleaned up New York, play cut 64.
00:28:40.000 If you violate the laws, whether it's insider trading or tax evasion or fraud or bribery, a so-called white-collar crime, the overwhelming general rule is that you go to prison.
00:28:51.000 If you commit a crime, you go to prison.
00:28:53.000 Bill Clinton, speaking on the crime bill, cut 63.
00:28:57.000 When I sign this crime bill, we together are taking a big step toward bringing the laws of our land back into line with the values of our people and beginning to restore the line between right and wrong.
00:29:14.000 So Wayne emails us, Charlie, Republicans are not in control of stopping crime.
00:29:18.000 Well, I'm going to push back a little bit on that.
00:29:20.000 In many states, and yes, in Washington, D.C., Republicans, believe it or not, are some of the most enthusiastic supporters of jailbreak bills.
00:29:29.000 You might not know that, but there is a thread.
00:29:32.000 There is a part of the Republican Party that is trying to make it easier to get out of jail, to reduce sentences.
00:29:39.000 It's a part of the Republican Party.
00:29:41.000 I don't think it's a majority.
00:29:42.000 It's the more libertarian side of the Republican Party.
00:29:46.000 But that's certainly not where the country is right now.
00:29:50.000 The country wants clear, transparent, fair, and just laws.
00:29:56.000 In Chicago, you have these district attorneys that have massive authority.
00:30:02.000 Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle.
00:30:05.000 And, you know, I was asked the other day by one of our supporters at Turning Point USA, Charlie, how are we going to bring the country together?
00:30:10.000 And one of my issues is: how about we all agree that crime is bad?
00:30:15.000 That should bring the country together.
00:30:17.000 You have to overthink that.
00:30:19.000 If you loot, if you burn, if you steal, you should be held accountable for that.
00:30:25.000 Look, the Republican Party has an opportunity here because our most beautiful institutions, our once beautiful cities that we have all enjoyed, are crumbling in front of us.
00:30:38.000 And I understand the temptation to try to say, well, you know, we want to try to have criminal justice reform and all that.
00:30:44.000 Look, crime is going up everywhere.
00:30:48.000 It's going up across the board.
00:30:50.000 Why is that?
00:30:52.000 It's up at least over the last five years.
00:30:53.000 It might be dipping down a little bit in the last year and a half.
00:30:57.000 Largely because criminals are going to take advantage of what you allow them to do.
00:31:03.000 And it should really also be a point worthy of mentioning.
00:31:07.000 What makes the liberals most mad?
00:31:09.000 The liberals are not mad when children are getting chemically castrated.
00:31:13.000 They're not mad that crime is going up.
00:31:15.000 They're really upset with this long piece in the Washington Post.
00:31:20.000 They're furious that 2,000 criminals in El Salvador's human rights might be violated.
00:31:28.000 First of all, it didn't look that inhumane to me.
00:31:31.000 Second of all, based on the reputation of El Salvador's most violent criminals, maybe they should have thought about their human rights when they were cutting people open, literally.
00:31:44.000 Part of MS-13.
00:31:45.000 Not exactly a group that I think deserves your compassion or your sympathy.
00:31:51.000 This is not someone who stole from a local grocery store because their daughter couldn't get dinner.
00:32:00.000 These are not crimes of convenience.
00:32:02.000 These are crimes of massive passion, horror, and hatred.
00:32:10.000 To tie this all together, there's an opportunity.
00:32:14.000 There's an opportunity for Republicans, or I mean, the Democrats can end up doing it, but they're so bought and paid for by the race politics crew.
00:32:21.000 It's probably not going to happen.
00:32:23.000 Of seriously and substantively addressing crime.
00:32:28.000 It's going to take, though, a backbone, spine, crime as it's happening in Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York.
00:32:38.000 It's a major issue.
00:32:39.000 Will Republicans just say, hey, that's a trillion-dollar bill for us?
00:32:44.000 It could end up winning over swing voters.
00:32:46.000 No one wants to live unless you're ideologically corrupt, which some of them are, in a dangerous city.
00:32:51.000 I hope the American right gets the message.
00:32:55.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:32:57.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:33:00.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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