00:00:29.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:00:59.000About three, six weeks ago, it was incredible.
00:01:02.000It was Joe Biden leading Donald Trump by double digits in every poll that we've been told internally and externally.
00:01:09.000And all of a sudden, President Donald Trump has turned this race into basically a statistical tie, almost Trump's race to lose.
00:01:15.000One of the reasons for this is that President Donald Trump is the best offensive player and the best offensive president in modern American history.
00:01:23.000He is the best at setting the tone, at getting people to react to him.
00:01:28.000And the media has followed suit for him for so long.
00:01:31.000President Donald Trump is actually, I think, at his most vulnerable when the media is the one that is setting the agenda, for example, on impeachment or on Mueller.
00:01:39.000That is when President Donald Trump is probably his most vulnerable.
00:01:42.000He has President Donald Trump, because of Joe Biden's unwillingness to actually address the riots, to actually address the arson of our country.
00:01:52.000Former Vice President Joe Biden was actually put in a very precarious position, and President Donald Trump barnstormed through the door.
00:02:04.000But President Donald Trump is actually on the verge right now to be able to checkmate against Joe Biden.
00:02:10.000Donald Trump had many of his key, you could put figures or players on the chessboard off because of the Chinese coronavirus and the lockdowns.
00:02:17.000Donald Trump was able to bait Joe Biden to actually have him come out of the basement and turn this into a presidential election.
00:02:26.000So the question is, what can Donald Trump do to really put Joe Biden into the oblivion of political history to checkmate him once and for all?
00:02:36.000Well, first, let's go through a couple examples of how President Donald Trump is a good offensive player.
00:02:42.000And he's able to get Joe Biden to show his inherent contradictions in positions that he wants help.
00:03:49.000Now all of a sudden the state of Pennsylvania, Joe Biden is just a pathological liar and the media does not cover it at all.
00:03:54.000Joe Biden says, no matter how many times you lie about me, he's an Orwellian gaslighting projector.
00:04:00.000We talked about this on a previous episode of the Charlie Kirk show two nights ago where we talk about the tactic of gaslighting.
00:04:05.000And you can see there, Joe Biden is just contradicting himself on a core issue that impacts hundreds of thousands of families across Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Midwestern states.
00:06:10.000We have to make it clear that this is.
00:06:13.000First of all, I think they should sit further apart from each other.
00:06:15.000I mean, I don't think that 45 feet that they're across from each other is enough.
00:06:19.000I mean, at that point, why don't they just sit in opposite rooms?
00:06:21.000I mean, this overpandering to sitting 95 feet from each other when they're both tested on a daily basis and they both know they do not have the Chinese coronavirus is just, to me, outright and ridiculous and insulting to the American people that are trying to get their lives back.
00:06:36.000Secondly, you can see Joe Biden contradict himself again.
00:06:39.000And this is where Donald Trump is at his best.
00:07:00.000And eventually, this kind of creates an inherent disinformation loop.
00:07:04.000It creates a cognitive dissonance almost between the people and the rulers and the elites, where all of a sudden there's a disconnect.
00:07:09.000They said, whatever they're telling me, it's a lie.
00:07:12.000Who's the person that actually supports police again?
00:07:14.000Who's the person that supports law and order?
00:07:17.000The entire Kenosha and the entire violence and rioting narrative, the Democrat National Committee didn't mention violence and rioting once during their entire convention.
00:07:26.000They called it a movement for racial justice.
00:07:30.000They described a movement of peaceful protesters.
00:07:33.000They likened it to this phrase called good trouble, which is just another way of saying permissible criminality.
00:07:40.000That's what good trouble means about a hundred times.
00:07:43.000Then Don Lemon alerted them that their polling was bad.
00:07:47.000Now, we've shown this tape before a couple times on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:07:51.000But essentially, Don Lemon was playing, let's say, offensive coordinator of the Democrat National Committee football team saying, hey, guys, every time you're running the ball, we're punting.
00:08:02.000Don't you realize we need to do something different?
00:08:04.000And to put it in non-metaphorical terms, Don Lemon was basically saying, we're going to lose this election until we start recognizing that people are actually upset that their homes are being invaded, that towns are being burned down.
00:08:19.000And because President Donald Trump took such a firm and definitive posture when it came to law and order and the police, it almost had a boomerang effect, where in early June, being pro-police hurt you politically, in late August, being pro-police helped you politically.
00:08:35.000Here's a question that I think is worthy of asking.
00:08:42.000Do you think Kenosha was on Joe Biden's calendar last week?
00:08:47.000Do you think Joe Biden planned to visit Kenosha two weeks ago?
00:08:52.000Before the polling began to flip, before Trump and Biden were tied in states like Pennsylvania, Joe Biden had no concern whatsoever for the people of Kenosha.
00:09:37.000Why is Joe Biden able to visit Kenosha, but he wasn't able to visit his own convention just 45 miles down the street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin?
00:09:46.000The difference is that when his convention was going on, his polling was double digits positive.
00:09:52.000Now he has to actually look or at least play the part of some sort of president.
00:09:58.000Speaking of which, Jacob Blake's father said the following bitter anti-Semite Jew hater that Joe Biden met with.
00:10:05.000I am quoting from Jacob Blake's father, who's actually named Jacob Blake.
00:10:21.000This is who Joe Biden meets with privately today.
00:10:24.000And actually, by the way, there's even worse ones.
00:10:27.000And the fact the activist media does not cover this tells you quite a lot about the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.
00:10:36.000Here's another example here that's very interesting.
00:10:38.000So Joe Biden was reluctant to visit Kenosha.
00:10:40.000The fact that Joe Biden flew to Kenosha shows the power of Donald Trump's offensive strategy.
00:10:47.000Joe Biden didn't want to have to charter a jet to Kenosha.
00:10:49.000This is a visit he didn't want to have to make.
00:10:51.000It's a visit that is off-message for him.
00:10:53.000It is a visit that is incongruent with his entire political strategy.
00:10:57.000The more Donald Trump is able to flush out Joe Biden, to go visit places that are not in his political calculation, to go to towns that are not necessarily a concern of his, that is a winning campaign for Donald Trump.
00:11:13.000But you could also make the case that Biden has adapted, that Biden is adapting to what is happening because this polling and the messaging is shifting alongside each other, and it's pure gaslighting.
00:11:23.000And again, from Tuesday's episode, let's just recap what gaslighting actually is.
00:11:28.000Gaslighters deny they ever said anything, even though you have proof.
00:11:58.000Because Donald Trump masterfully turned this into a competitive race.
00:12:02.000How do you make it into a race where it's a landslide for Donald Trump?
00:12:05.000Because that surge of support we saw for Law and Order, now it's going to taper a little bit.
00:12:09.000Because Joe Biden's going to spend $45 million trying to make himself see that he is the law and order candidate.
00:12:17.000Joe Biden is now visiting the place and saying he actually stands for police and he's going to try to call in some favorites with some police unions to try to get himself endorsed, which is going to be a very difficult political strategy.
00:12:26.000But nevertheless, Joe Biden's waking up to the idea that people don't like widespread murder, looting, arson, and riots.
00:12:33.000The fact it took him this long and they missed this political window to really be able to cement the lead shows you how much oobris there is within Democrat Party elite circles.
00:12:50.000What is the one thing where all of a sudden you could take Joe Biden from being on defense on the riots issue and being defense on another issue?
00:12:58.000Make him reverse his decision on a core position again.
00:13:04.000Not just some fringe issue, not just some talking point dilemma, not something that he misspoke on, but a public position, a publicly stated position that he has put forward, where Joe Biden has to retract, redact, apologize, and change course.
00:13:28.000Well, right now, the Democrats believe they have the upper hand on two issues, and in a sense, they think they're related, coronavirus and health care.
00:13:40.000The lockdowns are falling out of favor with decent and reasonable people.
00:13:44.000They are seeing their leaders defy the lockdowns, such as Nancy Pelosi, the Philadelphia mayor, Lori Lightfoot, Andrew Cuomo, and actually have disrespect and disregard for the very lockdown orders that they are putting.
00:13:55.000Meanwhile, small business owners and middle-income families are suffering dramatically.
00:15:17.000They're nothing more than power muscle flexing exercises for wannabe dictators that miss their calling and the Ava Peron types.
00:15:27.000They're also really bad for the economy.
00:15:30.000We're going to get into exactly how bad they were for the economy in just a second.
00:15:34.000But often instead of helping fight the Chinese coronavirus, their main contribution has been detrimental to America's health.
00:15:41.000So actually, if you care about the health of the American people, you should be against these lockdowns.
00:15:47.000The next chess move President Donald Trump must execute on right now to win this election and checkmate Joe Biden while he's on defense on the riots.
00:15:55.000You could totally pummel his campaign into oblivion.
00:16:26.000The lockdowns, our reaction to the virus, kept people out of work.
00:16:29.000There's the virus, then there's the lockdowns.
00:16:31.000Do not conflate the two because we had the choice and we had the capacity to not lock down our entire society.
00:16:37.000We could have trusted people and given them the liberty or the agency to make good decisions.
00:16:42.000Listen to this from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
00:16:44.000According to a July survey from Goldman Sachs, 84% of recipients expected to exhaust their PPP funds by August.
00:16:52.000That means approximately 4 million small businesses have likely already exhausted all their funds or 13% of America's 31 million small businesses.
00:17:02.000Furthermore, only 13%, I'm sorry, furthermore, only 7% of small businesses are very confident they will be able to maintain payroll if no further government help is provided.
00:17:13.000And this is just information from small businesses that have been able to stay afloat.
00:17:17.000Again, in May, at the height of the Biden lockdowns, the Washington Post reported that more than 100,000 small businesses have closed forever.
00:17:29.000If lockdown Biden gets elected, what about the next 100,000 small businesses?
00:17:33.000As the nation's pandemic toll, they write.
00:17:37.000But it's an important distinction they failed to make.
00:17:39.000It's not the pandemic, it's the lockdowns.
00:17:42.000If you care about small business owners, and if you are a small business owner, Biden is your biggest enemy.
00:17:52.000The Chamber of Commerce says businesses will continue to sink if they don't get more support from the federal government.
00:17:58.000But that's in and of itself its own economic issue, a massive one at that.
00:18:03.000The deficit is set to increase to $3.3 trillion this year.
00:18:08.000$2.2 trillion of that is due to the overblown, irresponsible, and reckless response to the pandemic, which was a handout to corporate America, national public radio, radio, illegal aliens, PBS, and free checks to people that sit around and weren't working.
00:18:30.000I know why the president had to sign it, but legislatively and policy-wise, I am a huge critic of borrowing money we do not have to study things that do not motivate economic growth, subsidize bad behavior, and set precedent for universal basic income, massive crony capitalist bailouts, when in reality, small business and middle-income owners barely got the help they needed.
00:18:56.000No one should want to vote for a renewal of this kind of economic malaise, but that is exactly what Joe Biden is running on.
00:19:03.000So as Trump has him on the run going to Kenosha, and just, I hope Joe Biden and his campaign realize and recognize, and they do.
00:19:10.000And I hope you recognize watching this.
00:19:12.000Movement is an indicator of life in politics.
00:19:16.000A candidate's time is the most valuable thing a candidate has.
00:19:21.000The fact Joe Biden goes and has visited to Kenosha is a sign outside of the polling, outside of the spending, outside of the chatter and the punditry and the prognostication.
00:19:33.000It is a sign that there's a crisis in the Biden campaign.
00:19:37.000There is no benefit for him to go to Kenosha.
00:19:39.000He highlights exactly what his Democrat worldview would do for the entire country.
00:19:46.000It puts the entire country in massive form of jeopardy, safety, chaos, disarray, and ruin.
00:19:54.000So, the Democrats want to talk about health care.
00:19:56.000They actually think that it's a winning issue.
00:19:58.000So, in some ways, Joe Biden would, on the surface, embrace a conversation when it comes to the lockdowns.
00:20:05.000He's like, oh, yeah, I'd be happy to talk about the lockdowns.
00:20:11.000But in reality, the Biden lockdowns have been devastating for healthcare in America.
00:20:18.000According to electronic medical records, vendor EPIC, appointments for screenings for cancer for cervix, colon, and breast cancer were down between 86 and 94 percent in March, compared to average volumes in the three years before the first Chinese coronavirus case was confirmed in the United States.
00:20:38.000A model created by the National Cancer Institute predicts that tens of thousands of excess cancer deaths will occur over the next decade as a result of missed screenings, delays in diagnosis, reductions in oncology care caused by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
00:20:56.000So, Biden supports the continuation and the absolute shutdown of the American economy, the American way of life.
00:21:04.000Biden wants to lock down your livelihood.
00:21:08.000In Fresno, California, for example, suicides were up 70% in June compared to the same compared in 2019.
00:21:15.000The National Alliance of Mental Illness Helpline has seen a 65% increase in calls and emails since March, particularly among high schoolers.
00:21:24.000And from the Center for Disease Control, 25% of young Americans ages 18 to 24 seriously considered suicide during the lockdown.
00:21:31.000If you're watching out this and you're over the age of 50, you should be sick for what we have done to young people in this country.
00:21:37.000We have destroyed their life because the experts and the scientists told us to do that.
00:21:43.000It's also large in part due to the massive increase in drug and alcohol usage.
00:21:47.000People can't visit their gyms, their social circles, their sporting events.
00:21:52.000The only thing that you're allowed to go do is go be angry in the streets.
00:21:56.000The only allowable or essential activity is go put on a BLM incorporated t-shirt, say you hate America, and you'd be willing to burn the country.
00:22:05.000That is considered to be an essential activity in the eyes of the ruling class.
00:22:10.000These lockdowns kept kids out of schools, gyms, and churches.
00:22:13.000You really think that things are going to end well when you take away the spiritual component, the physical component, and the educational component of society?
00:22:20.000What keeps human beings human is their connection to a God, their physical existence, their educational pursuit, their source of meaning, their source of community.
00:23:31.000Keep on repeating that ad one after the other.
00:23:36.000I'm about to take some of your questions.
00:23:37.000If you guys want to win a signed copy, the New York Times bestseller of the MAGA doctrine, email us right now, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:23:46.000Before I do, though, the more President Trump can get Joe Biden to answer on his terms to crisscross the country to places he doesn't want to go, that's how you win.
00:23:58.000The issue of the lockdowns is falling out of favor with the American people, especially as you see Democrats defy the lockdowns themselves.
00:24:03.000The Nancy Pelosi Hair Salon incident is one of the greatest political openings that Donald Trump could have been given.
00:24:44.000In New York City, most businesses, restaurants are going to fold if they have to stay shut down another 60 days.
00:24:50.000I know fitness center owners in Los Angeles that have totally shut down and they're done.
00:24:54.000I know entrepreneurs all across the beautiful state of California, all across the beautiful state of New Jersey, that because of the criminal edicts that have been put forward to them and because they have no choice, they shut down, business licenses are gone, and all the jobs that they produced, all the value they created for that local community, are destroyed.
00:25:18.000And here's a really interesting question for you: Who do you think actually wants lockdowns again?
00:25:24.000Who do you think wants lockdowns again?
00:25:26.000You might say, well, no one wants them.
00:26:24.000So who actually benefited from the lockdowns?
00:26:27.000Amazon almost doubled their market cap.
00:26:31.000Amazon's market cap, it's hard to believe, and I'm reading this, is $1.69 trillion, almost $1.7 trillion.
00:26:41.000That they were an $800 billion company not too long ago.
00:26:45.000Apple just hit $2 trillion market cap.
00:26:47.000Now, there's a lot of cheap money floating around.
00:26:49.000So these valuations kind of just playing with silly money, kind of playing with house money.
00:26:56.000But I want you to think to yourself: who actually is pushing in Joe Biden's ear, lock it down again, lock it down?
00:27:01.000The people that actually think small businesses are an inconvenience to society, people that want the hyper-corporatization of America.
00:27:08.000Now, mind you, incredibly, the Republican Party used to be the party of corporate America.
00:27:14.000The Republican Party used to be the party of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and giving money to China and bringing in lots of plastic piles of garbage that we don't need into our garages to give to our children that they're going to forget about and throw away six days later.
00:27:26.000Now the Republican Party kind of backed into being the party of middle-class workers, family formation, faith, and free speech.
00:27:40.000Pharmaceutical companies that benefit tremendously from more people taking antidepressants, more people taking, let's say, drugs to solve problems for other problems that drugs cause.
00:27:52.000Corporate America benefited tremendously from the lockdowns, especially the tech sector, Silicon Valley, which really runs our country, if we're honest with it.
00:27:59.000The companies that run the people that are the most powerful in our country are Silicon Valley.
00:29:17.000The longer you keep America locked down, the more social unrest there will be.
00:29:21.000The longer you keep America locked down, the more suicides, the more domestic abuse, the more sexual abuse, the more alcohol and drug consumption.
00:29:31.000As soon as you allow liberty to be embraced again as a fundamental value in our country, a lot of these problems will self-correct.
00:29:40.000The longer you go around with a gun and say, if you leave your home, if you open your business, you're out of business.
00:29:46.000Then all of a sudden you are centrally commanding American society for the needs, wants, and interests of an ever-growing group, not ever growing, but ever richer and more powerful group of governing elites.
00:30:02.000To be perfectly honest with you, I don't think it's a good thing that Jeff Bezos is now worth $170 billion, while most Americans can't scrap together a couple pennies.
00:30:11.000Now, I think that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, their economic policy is anti-American and it's evil and it's immoral.
00:30:20.000But when Jeff Bezos accumulates that kind of wealth, while most Americans have gone further into debt and their kids are thinking of killing themselves and their other kids are learning to hate America, I ask myself the question, who actually allowed these trends to accelerate?
00:30:33.000And the answer is people like Joe Biden.
00:30:35.000And Joe Biden just wants those trends to continue more.
00:30:38.000If he locks down the country again, Jeff Bezos will be worth $250 billion and the average American family will be $50,000 more into debt.
00:30:50.000Here's the other reason why people want lockdowns.
00:30:52.000Here's why Bill de Blasio wants lockdowns.
00:30:56.000This is a hard thing for people to realize.
00:30:58.000I was stopped at an event recently in Montana.
00:31:02.000And by the way, please email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:31:05.000If I select your question, you guys win a signed copy of the New York Times, New York Times bestseller, the MEGA doctrine.
00:31:10.000If I select your question, but I was stopped by somebody and they said, Charlie, I refuse to believe that there is an ideological campaign to want to keep America closed.
00:31:24.000I think it's all under the best interests of people.
00:31:26.000I say, you have not spent enough time around the American left.
00:31:31.000You see, Bill de Blasio is a true Bolshevik Jacobin Marxist.
00:31:38.000And Jacobin being a or Jacobin, there's a I pronounce it both ways, Jacobin Jacobin, French Revolution style insurgent.
00:31:49.000Bill de Blasio views the American system of governance to be a mistake.
00:31:56.000Whereas he actually considers the American way of life to be a mistake.
00:32:01.000Bill de Blasio believes at all costs we must break America from within.
00:32:08.000So outside of the corporate elites, you see this very interesting alliance that has been formed in our country where you have this strange marriage that has happened, where you have corporate elites that want America locked down again because they're going to benefit from it financially, like Jeff Bezos, so everyone can go get some package that you didn't really need delivered to you in a day or less because you can't leave your home.
00:32:37.000And then you have the other people that benefit from it.
00:32:41.000The people that have been trying to find a way to short-circuit, overload the programming, to put in a virus, no pun intended, into the computing processing system of America and destroy it, to blow it up.
00:32:54.000These people are looking for any and all opportunities, any ports of entry to disrupt what we know is the American way of life.
00:33:05.000The American way of life, as I mentioned in my RNC speech, is you work hard, you play by the rules, you want a better life for your kids, you believe in a higher power, you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in proper firearm owning.
00:33:21.000You just try to do the right thing and pass on these values to the next generation.
00:33:26.000You believe in service, you believe in duty, you believe in liberty, you believe in the American Trinity in God we trust.
00:33:32.000You live a life where your kids will live a slightly better life than you do.
00:33:39.000But people such like Bill de Blasio, Mayor Eric Garcetti, Bernie Sanders, and others, they had a goal written on a piece of paper before the Chinese coronavirus, before the lockdowns, of I want to destroy America, present to me a way I can do it.
00:33:59.000So then the crisis comes, and it's not about health, it's not about all that.
00:34:02.000They instead look at this as an insurgent opportunity to overwhelm the American system and destroy it from within.
00:34:12.000That's where they look at this opportunity.
00:34:14.000So you have these corporate elites and these Bolsheviks that otherwise would have bitterly hated each other partnering with the agreed upon goal and objective that what we have here in our country must no longer exist.
00:34:33.000That's the unspoken of tragedy of this moment.
00:34:37.000And by our way to word it, it's probably that's the unspoken of story here.
00:34:41.000Because you have the richest people and the most disgruntled people that are partnering to destroy what Aristotle would call the golden mean, the middle class, the people in the middle, those that don't have a little, they don't have a lot, but they have enough to get by and they're invested in your system.
00:35:01.000But guess what happens when those people in the middle stop believing in the system, which is happening at an increasingly alarming rate, where debt increases, jobs disappear, churches are not allowed to open.
00:35:14.000That middle class turns into a revolutionary class and it happens like that.
00:35:20.000And as soon as the middle class turns into a revolutionary class, leave the country because it's not going to end well.
00:35:28.000The Republican Party and the Conservatives and President Trump can stop all this.
00:35:31.000You know what a great way to make sure this doesn't happen?
00:35:55.000They've sold their assets in New York.
00:35:58.000But rich people also have this really interesting thing called the capacity to still sell goods, even though they don't live in your city.
00:36:05.000And so the drones flying around now, delivering your packages in New York, Bill de Blasio, to the lower middle-income earners who you've just destroyed their lives because you've said that restaurants are not going to open except outside dining.
00:36:18.000If you have in October, it's kind of cold in New York and it just, it's not easy to have indoor dining.
00:36:28.000Bill de Blasio says he hates the rich and he wants to tax the rich, yet his own policy will actually benefit the wealthiest Americans more so than ever before.
00:37:17.000What would Biden propose if the virus never goes away and the vaccine isn't 100%, which no vaccine is, we should stay shut down forever, depending on the government?
00:38:27.000People will make responsible decisions or they'll make irresponsible decisions.
00:38:30.000It is not the role of the state to micro-program everything you do.
00:38:34.000If it was, we wouldn't have speed limits over 10 miles an hour.
00:38:37.000If it was, no one would own a firearm or a kitchen knife.
00:38:39.000If it was, we wouldn't have pools in the backyard where kids far too often in the American Southwest unfortunately drown to death.
00:38:45.000If it was, we wouldn't have fireworks where people blow their head off every July 4th.
00:38:50.000The incredible thing about liberty is you have to have responsibility.
00:38:53.000But now we've indulged in this ridiculous, this ridiculously dangerous central planning experiment where we're going to micro-program every single citizen.
00:39:01.000Like, don't leave the home because I know what bets for you.
00:39:03.000No, you don't know what's best for me.