The Charlie Kirk Show - June 18, 2021


How Radical Democrats Destroyed My Hometown and What It Means for America


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Why has Chicago become a city that is largely unrecognizable from its former glory? In this episode, we explore the answer. And we also talk about a Democrat who I admire, a Democrat that I admire: Hillary Clinton.

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00:00:26.000 Hey everybody, why America's second city, Chicago?
00:00:29.000 Why has it fallen?
00:00:31.000 Why is Chicago all of a sudden a city that is largely unrecognizable?
00:00:35.000 The answer we explore throughout this episode.
00:00:38.000 And we also talk about a Democrat that I admire.
00:00:41.000 That's right, a Democrat that I admire.
00:00:44.000 The death of America's second city, and a Democrat that I admire here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
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00:03:07.000 I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and I'm very proud that I grew up in Chicago.
00:03:12.000 In the first couple of years of starting Turning Point USA, I was so proud of being raised in a city that was focused on grit, determination, resilience, and character.
00:03:24.000 As I traveled the country and I started to get to know different business owners and entrepreneurs and people different family backgrounds, I realized they recognized the upbringing and the values in the community that I grew up in in the suburbs of Chicago and the Chicago, the Greater Land Chicago area were unique.
00:03:41.000 That not every part of the country saw the world the way that Chicagoans did.
00:03:45.000 I grew up in a world that believed that you must be accountable for your actions, that there is no place to tolerate widespread criminality or vagrancy.
00:03:58.000 And I grew up in a place in Chicago and a whole culture of Chicago that didn't really care about where you were from or who your parents were, but instead they wanted to give you an opportunity to succeed regardless of all of that.
00:04:13.000 Chicago is always called the second city growing up, second to New York City.
00:04:18.000 I never liked that.
00:04:20.000 I think Chicago was a better city than New York.
00:04:23.000 I don't even know.
00:04:23.000 We're going to get into the present in a minute.
00:04:26.000 There's a saying that goes like this: New York is all about money.
00:04:30.000 D.C. is all about power.
00:04:32.000 LA is all about fame. 0.99
00:04:34.000 Miami is all about sex. 0.88
00:04:36.000 And Chicago is all about work. 0.97
00:04:40.000 And I agree wholeheartedly with that.
00:04:42.000 It's 6 o'clock in the morning and you get on a highway in Chicago.
00:04:45.000 There will be people up and they will be moving and they will be doing something.
00:04:49.000 In Chicago, there is no excuse, whether on sports teams or in the local area or if you're doing a construction site for taking it easy.
00:04:56.000 No excuse for complaining when you have to go to work.
00:05:01.000 I believe that Chicago could have been the greatest city in America.
00:05:05.000 Centrally located, phenomenal infrastructure, once great universities, a hardworking people, a Midwestern culture, terrific businesses, an incredible skyline, restaurants that were the envy of most major cities in the world, some of the most incredible Michelin started restaurants in the world.
00:05:27.000 Not to mention the lakefront and all the beauty surrounding that.
00:05:32.000 So what happened to Chicago?
00:05:34.000 What happened to my home in just the last 10 years?
00:05:38.000 10 years ago, there was crime in Chicago, no doubt.
00:05:40.000 10 years ago, Chicago was frequently made fun of for criminality and for being more dangerous than Iraq.
00:05:50.000 How does a miraculous and beautiful city fall?
00:05:54.000 Did something happen to it?
00:05:56.000 Was Chicago invaded?
00:05:58.000 Because as I walk through what's happened to Chicago, it's almost as if there was Chicago was conquered.
00:06:05.000 It's hard to believe a city would do what's happened to Chicago to itself.
00:06:09.000 And that's the most puzzling thing: Chicago, in the last 10 years, has almost been the vanishing man, decided to be miserable.
00:06:25.000 Chicago is one of the reasons why America was the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:06:30.000 From its Greek culture, Irish culture, strong Polish culture, Czech and Bohemian culture, no matter where you were from, you could come to Chicago and you could make something of your life.
00:06:42.000 So now, where is Chicago? 0.70
00:06:45.000 Well, just this last couple of weeks, more and more people are talking about Chicago, mainly because of Lori Lightfoot, probably the worst mayor in Chicago.
00:06:57.000 Year to date, there have been 295 people shot and killed in Chicago, 1,423 people shot and wounded, 1,718 people total shot, and 312 total homicides.
00:07:09.000 So let me tell you something about the mayors of Chicago.
00:07:11.000 When I grew up, we had Mayor Daly, the son of the other Mayor Daly.
00:07:16.000 Now, there was no doubt that Mayor Daly was corrupt.
00:07:18.000 No one actually cared.
00:07:20.000 Do you know why?
00:07:21.000 He had a zero tolerance policy for crime.
00:07:24.000 The L was always on time.
00:07:25.000 If you don't know what the L is, it's the above-ground subway transportation system in Chicago.
00:07:30.000 Millennium Park was built.
00:07:32.000 The Cubs lost gracefully and you wouldn't get mugged on the way to Wrigley Field.
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00:07:39.000 That was Kamiski Park.
00:07:41.000 The point was that the city worked.
00:07:43.000 No one cared if Daly was doing backroom deals.
00:07:45.000 Of course he was.
00:07:46.000 He was getting paid off by the developers.
00:07:48.000 He was keeping the unions at bay.
00:07:49.000 He didn't want to revolt amongst the police.
00:07:51.000 So what?
00:07:52.000 As Tucker Carlson said, I would rather vote for the corrupt local mayor that keeps the city nice than the person that plans to make the city like the new tomorrow of a perfect utopia.
00:08:03.000 Daly ran the city well.
00:08:04.000 He did.
00:08:06.000 And he was pro-police, and Chicago's murder rate was kept at bay.
00:08:12.000 And then, all of a sudden, Chicago was thrown into the national spotlight because the worst of Chicago all of a sudden became president of the United States.
00:08:22.000 Now, Barack Obama was not raised in Chicago, but Barack Obama found his values in Chicago.
00:08:28.000 Barack Obama's mentor, Bill Ayers, still teaches at the University of Illinois Chicago.
00:08:33.000 And Bill Ayers, who, of course, was a domestic terrorist, like an actual domestic terrorist, by the way, ran a group called Weather Underground with his wife, Bernadine Dorr.
00:08:40.000 Nothing says romance like trying to blow up a police bureau.
00:08:43.000 True story.
00:08:44.000 Bill Ayers, and he got off on all charges, suspiciously.
00:08:47.000 And now he teaches your children at the University of Illinois Chicago.
00:08:50.000 Barack Obama did his first ever fundraiser to run for office at Bill Ayers' home.
00:08:55.000 Bill Ayers, by the way, writes textbooks for children still.
00:08:58.000 And Barack Obama then can get thrown onto the national stage, and people started wondering what is actually coming out of Chicago.
00:09:05.000 And all of a sudden, this idea of the Chicago political machine became very popular.
00:09:10.000 David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, this idea of thug brass knuckle politics got instituted the highest levels of our federal government.
00:09:18.000 And then kind of as a payback, first, Barack Obama had Rahm Emmanuel as his chief of staff as one year, and then Rahm Emanuel became mayor of Chicago.
00:09:28.000 And I point that moment of tiny dancer, Rahm Emanuel.
00:09:32.000 I call him Tiny Dancer because he is a ballerina.
00:09:35.000 From that point forward, Chicago took a rapid decline of a city that was corrupt.
00:09:40.000 And look, if you have a major city like Chicago, corruption is just kind of like baked into the equation.
00:09:46.000 Okay, it's just going to happen.
00:09:48.000 I wish that wasn't the case.
00:09:50.000 I wish we had a bunch of virtuous philosopher kings running our city.
00:09:54.000 But then all of a sudden, when Rahm Emanuel became weak, something worse than corruption took over.
00:10:00.000 Ideologues.
00:10:02.000 And now Chicago is unrecognizable.
00:10:05.000 And we're going to walk through that in great detail.
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00:11:02.000 And now from North Carolina, 6-6, Michael.
00:11:12.000 No, I'm kidding, everybody.
00:11:12.000 Charlie Kirk here.
00:11:13.000 Welcome back.
00:11:15.000 That wasn't bad, though, right, Mr. Gordon?
00:11:18.000 Oh, that goes back to a time.
00:11:19.000 You know, I said this to my team earlier.
00:11:21.000 I miss sports.
00:11:22.000 I do.
00:11:23.000 Because currently I'm boycotting everything.
00:11:25.000 I don't shop at Walmart.
00:11:26.000 I don't shop at Target.
00:11:28.000 I don't go to big box stores.
00:11:29.000 Don't watch Major League Baseball.
00:11:31.000 I don't watch basketball.
00:11:32.000 I heard basketballs on.
00:11:34.000 And you might say, Charlie, why is that?
00:11:35.000 Look, after the All-Star game, after the basketball thing, if I'm going to tell you to purchase in alignment with your values and to not support people that decide to do things that are just purely political, then so be it.
00:11:47.000 The 90s Bulls, I really believe, played a major role in the type of culture that I was raised in.
00:11:56.000 Relentlessly pushing towards excellence, holding yourself to an incredibly high standard.
00:12:01.000 It all actually started with the 85 Bears.
00:12:04.000 Now, I know all of you listening in Riverside, California, maybe on WABC on the dial, you're saying, okay, Charlie, enough of the Chicago stuff.
00:12:11.000 No, no, no, hold on.
00:12:12.000 Not so fast, my friends, as Lee Corso would say.
00:12:14.000 Is Lee Corso still doing college football, by the way?
00:12:16.000 Is he still doing college football?
00:12:19.000 If you don't know who Lee Corso is, I grew up with Lee Corso.
00:12:22.000 And that was a great show.
00:12:23.000 And they're probably all taking knees and wearing masks or something now.
00:12:26.000 Who knows?
00:12:28.000 Not so fast, my friends.
00:12:29.000 What's happened in Chicago is the model for America.
00:12:32.000 Let me say this again.
00:12:33.000 What has happened in Chicago is the model for America.
00:12:38.000 Chicago, a once great city of fairness and decency, grit, character, and resilience, has now been taken over by sociopathic ideologues.
00:12:46.000 A city that used to look at things as they are and how they should be, and then put public policy measures in place to try to fix those things, has now become the land of professors dominating all.
00:13:01.000 Look, Lori Lightfoot is now the mayor of Chicago.
00:13:04.000 So after Mayor Rahm Emanuel, he was a total disaster.
00:13:07.000 He mishandled, what was that one police shooting he mishandled?
00:13:10.000 He didn't release the tape. 0.97
00:13:11.000 It wasn't a Mudarberry.
00:13:14.000 It was actually a legitimate one where the police officer really screwed up.
00:13:18.000 And Rahm Emanuel did not handle this correctly.
00:13:20.000 And there was a lot of backlash surrounding that.
00:13:24.000 You might not remember, Rahm Emmanuel almost didn't become mayor of Chicago because of a technicality.
00:13:31.000 He didn't live in Chicago.
00:13:32.000 They got that cleared up really quick.
00:13:33.000 A couple phone calls.
00:13:34.000 All of a sudden, Rah Emmanuel was back in the race.
00:13:36.000 And when Lori Lightfoot became mayor, all of a sudden, she started to bring in not a desire for what's the best of the city of Chicago.
00:13:45.000 She brought an ideology.
00:13:47.000 And this is where New York and Chicago have something in common.
00:13:50.000 Rahm Emanuel and Mike Bloomberg are very similar. 0.96
00:13:54.000 They are short, narcissistic, sociopathic, self-interested, corrupt people that actually don't want to see the city decline. 0.97
00:14:04.000 I'll take that in a second. 0.99
00:14:05.000 I will take Napoleon over Lori Lightfoot any day. 0.99
00:14:11.000 I will take someone with a Napoleonic complex like Rahm Emmanuel or Mike Bloomberg.
00:14:15.000 Can you see who's taller?
00:14:16.000 Mike Bloomberg?
00:14:17.000 By the way, if you're a small person, I'm not making fun of you.
00:14:19.000 I get all these emails.
00:14:20.000 How dare you make fun of small people?
00:14:22.000 Listen, if we're not able to have fun here, then we're just going to be very serious all the time.
00:14:26.000 How tall is Mike Bloomberg is like 4'11?
00:14:29.000 No, he's not that small.
00:14:30.000 He is small. 0.77
00:14:30.000 He's like a hobbit. 0.77
00:14:31.000 And so you got Mike Bloomberg and you got Rahm Emmanuel, who are very similar.
00:14:37.000 They were transactional old school Democrats.
00:14:40.000 And then both New York and Chicago decided to elect college professor activist types as mayor of their city.
00:14:48.000 So then all of a sudden, Chicago and New York decided to go in a direction that was completely unprecedented.
00:14:55.000 They were going to elect mayors, not based on qualifications, not based on making realistic promises, but on transformational change.
00:15:03.000 New York and Chicago made a decision to actually wage war on their citizens.
00:15:09.000 And I've always said that mayors are actually the most powerful positions in America that Republicans usually and typically don't care about.
00:15:15.000 Mayors have a ton of power.
00:15:17.000 And we are all focused on governors or senators or congresspeople.
00:15:20.000 Mayors and district attorneys have an amazing amount of power.
00:15:24.000 We're going to go through how Chicago and New York, but Chicago even more so, have become a blueprint for the rest of the country.
00:15:32.000 Say everything is racist.
00:15:34.000 Do not govern.
00:15:35.000 Be a complete and total demagogue.
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00:16:46.000 How has Chicago, a once great city, fallen from grace alongside New York City?
00:16:53.000 And this is going to be happening to every major city across the country.
00:16:57.000 Urban areas are vulnerable to this type of takeover.
00:17:02.000 Well, first of all, the mayor of Chicago had an amazing opportunity. 0.89
00:17:05.000 Lori Lightfoot could have reversed course. 1.00
00:17:08.000 She could have been a magnanimous mayor that cared about lowering crime and bettering schools, attracting businesses and keeping businesses there. 1.00
00:17:16.000 But Lori Lightfoot has been a very bitter and quite honestly craven mayor. 1.00
00:17:22.000 She has been not interested in the well-being of her citizens. 1.00
00:17:27.000 And now thanks to new emails, she's actually a sociopath. 0.97
00:17:31.000 I mean, she's actually someone that is, I'm sorry for this kind of hostage situation that is existing between her and her staff. 1.00
00:17:42.000 So Lori Lightfoot became mayor a couple years ago, is probably America's worst mayor.
00:17:49.000 And this was a new open records request of a email that Lori Lightfoot sent her team.
00:17:56.000 And I am going to read every single word of this.
00:18:00.000 None of this is embellished.
00:18:02.000 Since my prior requests for office time are routinely ignored, I am now resorting to this.
00:18:07.000 I need office time every day.
00:18:19.000 She goes on for another 15.
00:18:22.000 Then she says, not just once a week or some days, every day.
00:18:25.000 Not just once a week or some days, every day.
00:18:27.000 Not just once a week or some days, every day.
00:18:29.000 Another 15 times.
00:18:32.000 Breaks or transition times between meetings are not office time.
00:18:34.000 Breaks or transitions team between meetings are not office time.
00:18:38.000 Then she says, if this doesn't change immediately, I will just start unilaterally canceling things every day.
00:18:43.000 If this doesn't change immediately, I will start just unilaterally canceling things every single day.
00:18:48.000 Then she says, have I finally made myself clear finally?
00:18:51.000 Have I made myself clear finally?
00:18:56.000 You see, Lori Lightfoot just discovered copy paste. 0.98
00:18:59.000 And so because of that, she thinks she's being really cute by doing this. 0.99
00:19:02.000 She's a crazy person. 0.80
00:19:05.000 And so what's happening actually in Chicago? 0.97
00:19:07.000 Well, breaking today in Chicago, police warn of women stabbing people randomly on the north side of Chicago.
00:19:14.000 The north side used to be the nice side.
00:19:15.000 Chicago police are warning about three recent cases in which a woman stabbed a person on the north side for no apparent reason.
00:19:21.000 Police said the stabbings have taken place in Edgewater, Uptown and Lakeview.
00:19:24.000 Police said the same suspect is believed to have threatened to shoot a person for no apparent reason, also on the north side.
00:19:30.000 No apparent reason, of course.
00:19:32.000 Chicago is just a place where you come for the food and you stay because you get murdered. 0.99
00:19:37.000 And let's play this tape here of Lori Lightfoot. 0.76
00:19:39.000 What's her biggest concern? 1.00
00:19:41.000 Declaring racism as a public health crisis. 1.00
00:19:43.000 Play tape.
00:19:44.000 When we think about racism, many of us think about its visible and audible forms.
00:19:50.000 But the reality is, the insidious nature of systemic racism has other impacts that are every bit as deep and harmful, but often ones that we can't see.
00:20:03.000 According to WLS, Mary Lori Lightfoot firmly declared racism to be a public health crisis in Chicago.
00:20:08.000 That's right, public health. 0.97
00:20:09.000 Because they know the power that you get now with public health.
00:20:09.000 You know why?
00:20:12.000 You can lock people at home.
00:20:13.000 You can make them wear cloths over their face. 0.85
00:20:16.000 You could stick jabs in their arm.
00:20:19.000 Mayor Lori Lightfoot made the announcement at the MLK Exhibit Center in North Lawndale.
00:20:24.000 She says, We can no longer allow racism to rob the residents of the opportunity to live and lead fully and healthy and happy lives.
00:20:33.000 We work closely with the Chicago Department of Public Health and the community organizers to address these inequities once and for all.
00:20:41.000 So she says now that she's improving anti-racism policies by building capacity for anti-racism racism leadership, reckoning with the impacts of racism, advancing strategies to operationalize racial equity, empowering transformational community relationships.
00:20:58.000 The city is partnering with six community organizations in each part of the city.
00:21:03.000 And Dr. Melissa Simon says, it's so frustrating to see patients come to me and now know the system has failed them in so many different ways.
00:21:10.000 This is a doctor from the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine who says that racism is indeed a public health crisis.
00:21:18.000 So how exactly has racism contributed to the 1,423 people shot and wounded in Chicago?
00:21:28.000 So here's the lesson for all of you out there: these leaders, they do not actually care about the circumstances around them.
00:21:35.000 They think that they are going to march these cities towards a place of chaos, a place of disorder, that eventually only an authoritarian tyrant, autocrat, can then solve the problem.
00:21:47.000 15 armed robberies and nine hours overnight, as the Chicago Police Department again orders detectives to sit in cars rather than investigate crimes.
00:21:54.000 You hear that?
00:21:55.000 15 armed robberies and nine hours overnight.
00:21:59.000 And because they're just supposed to sit in their cars, by the way, mostly in the north side.
00:22:05.000 Just yesterday, Idaho man arrested one gun falls from the clothes while filing police report in River North.
00:22:10.000 How about this one?
00:22:11.000 This felon who's on probation in Bond hit a gun on Grand Red Platform, prosecutors say.
00:22:17.000 You can go to WBDCWBChicago.com.
00:22:22.000 You go through this, it is absolutely the crime is at record levels in Chicago right now.
00:22:30.000 And yet the police are being told not to enforce this.
00:22:34.000 Fox 32 family walking along Magnificent Mile in Chicago, robbed at gunpoint.
00:22:40.000 You guys ever been at Magnificent Mile?
00:22:43.000 And I say this as someone who grew up in Chicago.
00:22:47.000 I do not feel safe in Chicago anymore.
00:22:49.000 It's because of ideologues.
00:22:52.000 Let me reinforce this point.
00:22:54.000 It's because of abstractions.
00:22:56.000 Chicago stopped caring about things that work and they started caring about things that sound good, bumper sticker phrases like eradicate racism.
00:23:04.000 Do you know why Lori Lightfoot became mayor of Chicago?
00:23:08.000 One reason: Donald Trump. 0.84
00:23:11.000 Only Donald Trump and the hatred that Donald Trump was able to generate from the left, only he was able to get politicians like Lori Lightfoot a footing. 0.99
00:23:22.000 Get that Lori Lightfoot a footing.
00:23:24.000 You see, prior to Trump, Democrats did not have the sort of rage in their eyes to demand the most radical person imaginable.
00:23:33.000 They couldn't.
00:23:36.000 Seven of the eight victims in Chicago mass shootings were shot in the head.
00:23:40.000 You guys didn't hear about the mass shooting recently in Chicago?
00:23:43.000 Of course not.
00:23:45.000 Someone broke into the home of the 6,200 block of South Morgan Street sometime before 5:40 a.m. and started shooting, according to a police spokesperson, Steve Rusynov.
00:23:56.000 Three women and a man died in the attack.
00:23:59.000 This is a mass shooting.
00:24:00.000 You didn't hear about it?
00:24:01.000 Denise Mattis, a mother of four boys, Shamitra Williams, 19, a mother of a two-year-old girl, Ratanya Ariel Rogers, 28, who lived in Rogers Park, and Blake Lee, 35, who lived in the home and did odd jobs in the neighborhood, relatives said.
00:24:16.000 Donald Trump did this, but not intentionally.
00:24:19.000 You see, the Democrats started to push forward people that were so radical, so willing to engage in fundamental transformation.
00:24:26.000 You are now seeing the tragic decline of our once-great cities.
00:24:32.000 And by the way, that's the third mass shooting in Chicago in just the last week.
00:24:36.000 Second mass shooting of the day, five shot in West Garfield Park.
00:24:43.000 The death tolls just keep piling up.
00:24:46.000 Week in progress just this week: 14 shot and killed, 74 shot and wounded, 88 total shot, and 14 homicides.
00:24:52.000 And none of this has to be the case, by the way.
00:24:54.000 Chicago could be the safest, greatest city in the world if they had just practical wisdom and prudence and what would be called by most people common sense type governing and leadership.
00:25:04.000 But this is coming to a city near you.
00:25:06.000 Do you have very angry politicians that are running for office that call everything racist and they just want more power to try to implement critical race theory or things to abolish systemic racism?
00:25:18.000 Lori Lightfoot snuck into office because of the hatred that was built around Donald Trump, a media that dared not ask her any questions, a defund police movement that has been picking up steam at a rapid, rapid pace.
00:25:32.000 And so, what are we supposed to do about this?
00:25:35.000 Well, Chicago has no impeachment and no recall mechanism.
00:25:39.000 And by the way, do you know that there are no Republicans in Chicago in leadership?
00:25:42.000 The entire city council are all Democrats.
00:25:45.000 All the congressmen are all Democrats.
00:25:47.000 The mayor is a Democrat.
00:25:49.000 All the aldermen are Democrats.
00:25:52.000 And so what is someone supposed to do about this?
00:25:54.000 Well, that system of checks and balances in Chicago has been completely and totally destroyed.
00:26:01.000 And it's now spreading all across the country.
00:26:03.000 And this is what the conservative movement must stand for.
00:26:05.000 We must stand for things that work, that are so obviously good, up against abstractions.
00:26:11.000 Meanwhile, Lori Lightfoot is declaring racism, a public health crisis, when she's actually a racist herself, only giving interviews to black journalists against white journalists. 0.93
00:26:21.000 So maybe she's the public health crisis.
00:26:25.000 And this is now going to spread to more cities.
00:26:27.000 They're going to say, give us more power because racism and climate change are a public health crisis.
00:26:31.000 The Chinese coronavirus and the lockdown surrounding were a social conditioning exercise. 0.94
00:26:38.000 They were pushing the boundaries of how far they could go to control you and limit your freedoms and liberties. 0.99
00:26:46.000 One of the main reasons why I am optimistic is because a lot of the radical pipe dreams, the fundamental transformational agenda of the Democrats, the stuff that will actually change things, not just inflation, we can fix inflation.
00:27:00.000 It's going to be hard, but we can fix inflation.
00:27:02.000 Not just big spending, we can fix that.
00:27:04.000 Not just high or low taxes.
00:27:06.000 No, I'm talking about the stuff that is going to break the back of the system that we have, like HR1.
00:27:12.000 What's one of the reasons why HR1 is probably not going to pass?
00:27:16.000 Well, one of those reasons is this woman that I really want to have on our podcast.
00:27:22.000 And by the way, I will not even ask her tough questions.
00:27:24.000 I'm just going to praise her the whole time.
00:27:27.000 Kirsten Cinema.
00:27:28.000 Now, Kirsten Cinema is someone that I have opposed on a lot of different things. 0.97
00:27:33.000 She is wrong on life. 1.00
00:27:34.000 She is wrong on the transgender thing. 1.00
00:27:37.000 She is wrong on immigration. 1.00
00:27:38.000 She's wrong on all sorts of stuff.
00:27:40.000 I have a whole packet of stuff she's wrong about.
00:27:42.000 But she has something in her.
00:27:44.000 And I read this long piece.
00:27:46.000 I was working out yesterday in Apple News, the propaganda campaign of Menlo Park.
00:27:51.000 They send you these articles.
00:27:52.000 You guys know that phenomenon, the Apple News kind of drumbeat.
00:27:56.000 And so they sent me this notification that I didn't sign up for from Mother Jones of all places, which is, you know, to the left of Joseph Stalin's choice paper, Pravda.
00:28:06.000 And so Mother Jones had this.
00:28:07.000 push notification that said, what the hell happened to Kirsten Cinema?
00:28:10.000 Ooh, I like that. 1.00
00:28:11.000 Mother Jones is mad.
00:28:12.000 I must love this person.
00:28:14.000 And so I listened to it and it was really, it's really well written.
00:28:18.000 I have to say, the person that wrote this, Tim Murphy, did a really good job.
00:28:21.000 And it was really kind of about the life story of Kirsten Cinema.
00:28:25.000 Now, you might say, Charlie, I don't care about Kirsten Cinema.
00:28:27.000 She's just one senator.
00:28:28.000 Well, Joe Manchin is now waffling on the filibuster, just so you know.
00:28:32.000 We've praised Manchin before.
00:28:33.000 He's written about it.
00:28:34.000 Now, all of a sudden, leaked audio according to the Intercept show that Joe Manchin might actually waffle on the filibuster.
00:28:41.000 So what does that mean?
00:28:42.000 That means that just a 50-50 vote for HR1, HR-5, D.C.'s estate, Puerto Rico's estate, getting rid of the Electoral College and adding seats to the Supreme Court, just like that can happen.
00:28:51.000 But Manchin has someone that actually might, if Manchin waffles, that doesn't mean they're going to get to 50.
00:29:00.000 Kirsten Cinema, she has said she will not break the back of the filibuster.
00:29:04.000 And this 45-minute story, it takes you 45 minutes to listen to the whole thing on audio because I did it when I was working out.
00:29:12.000 It's really interesting about this incredibly ambitious.
00:29:17.000 That's the best way to describe Kirsten Cinema, is ambition.
00:29:20.000 She never wants to retreat.
00:29:22.000 She never loses.
00:29:24.000 She's always polling. 0.96
00:29:26.000 She's always looking at what's best for her political interest.
00:29:29.000 And she's not a dummy.
00:29:30.000 Kirsten Cinema is not an ideologue.
00:29:34.000 So let me contrast Kirsten Cinema with Lori Lightfoot as we close out this hour.
00:29:38.000 Lori Lightfoot cares what is best for the revolution.
00:29:42.000 Kirsten Cinema cares what's best for Kirsten Cinema. 0.89
00:29:44.000 I'll take that in a second because Kirsten Cinema represents a red state. 0.92
00:29:48.000 And so in this long piece of Mother Jones, it basically comes to this place at the end where it says, I love the last. 0.86
00:29:54.000 We all thought Kirsten Cinema was crazy when we first crossed paths in Phoenix, but no longer.
00:29:59.000 This is not the person we all knew, Jan Brewer said.
00:30:01.000 And on that point, at least, Kyrsten Cinema has finally brought everyone together.
00:30:06.000 Kirsten Cinema is now governing like a center-right senator in Arizona. 1.00
00:30:11.000 She is refusing to break the back of the filibuster. 0.99
00:30:14.000 And I want to just say a peace offering to Kirsten Cinema, who's a Democrat.
00:30:17.000 You are welcome on this program anytime.
00:30:19.000 Now, if you dare break the back of the filibuster, we're going to have a different type of relationship around here.
00:30:24.000 But as so far, you are making Mother Jones write a 45-minute podcast piece about you.
00:30:28.000 What the hell happened to Kirsten Cinema?
00:30:31.000 God bless you for that. 0.98
00:30:32.000 Any sort of chaos, disruption, and disorder, you can throw at these maniacs.
00:30:38.000 You're a hero in my book, a Democrat from Arizona.
00:30:41.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:30:42.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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00:30:49.000 God bless you guys.
00:30:50.000 Speak to so.