00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:01.000I give you some of the latest news out of the World Economic Forum.
00:00:04.000I say something that people disagree with.
00:00:06.000I believe that most of the people in charge of the World Economic Forum have convinced themselves they are doing good even though they are doing evil.
00:00:12.000I want your thoughts on that question.
00:00:47.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:10.000The World Economic Forum is meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
00:01:14.000Over 1,000 private jets have descended into the very small, idyllic mountain town in eastern Switzerland.
00:01:25.000They are discussing everything from climate change to ESG to the war in Ukraine to border policy to international monetary policy.
00:01:36.000The world's most powerful people are meeting right now and they're saying some of the private parts out loud.
00:01:43.000Listen to Klaus Schwab, who is the head of the World Economic Forum, an 84-year-old German historicist, steeped in German philosophy of Hegel, of Nietzsche, of the attempted, in his own view, view that science is not just a process, but it is an end in itself, that the scientific method can actually give us morality, direction, and the answers to some of the more life's deeper questions.
00:02:13.000This is a German belief that we have not been able to shake, regardless of the horrors of the 20th century.
00:02:19.000Klaus Schwab greeting the World Economic Forum.
00:02:24.000And for those of you that are fans of James Bond, this guy is straight out of the archetypal Bond villain type.
00:03:44.000Democracy is an up or down vote of whether or not you get rights, of whether or not you recognize checks and balances, consent to the governed, separation of powers.
00:03:54.000We've said this repeatedly on this program.
00:03:56.000But of course, the World Economic Forum, they like democracy because they know democracy is a transitory phase towards eventual despotic digital dictatorship.
00:04:09.000Now, one of the threats that they continually focus on at the World Economic Forum and at Davos is this idea of the threat of freedom of speech.
00:04:22.000Our United States Constitution talks about the moral necessity to be able to speak.
00:04:28.000There are only two ways that you can govern a people.
00:04:32.000You can govern them by using force or govern them by using speech.
00:04:37.000By using speech, that means you have to persuade people.
00:05:09.000Force is, I have more weapons than you do.
00:05:12.000I control the military and you do not.
00:05:14.000I am going to use political power and I'm going to extinguish you.
00:05:17.000Every single political project in the history of the human species can be broken in to one of two categories.
00:05:25.000Either you are governing people with a preference of speech or governing people with a preference using force.
00:05:35.000The one thing that dictatorships and despotic governments all had in common prior to the American Revolution is that, yes, there were serfs and there were slaves and they were subjects, but there were always more serfs, slaves, and subjects than there were leaders and rulers.
00:05:53.000The American Revolution changed everything and said that one of the main arguments was that the consent of the government, the permission of the people is necessary.
00:06:01.000But one of the big complaints coming out of Davos is that a fruit of the American Revolution is what is making it hard for us to continue to progress towards some sort of heaven on earth and some sort of inevitable utopia.
00:06:14.000Listen to the New York Times columnist or writer talking here on Davos, Cut 35.
00:06:21.000They call this disinformation, but anytime you hear them complaining about disinformation, you should instead replace that term with free speech.
00:06:30.000When they say disinformation, they are really attacking freedom of speech.
00:06:36.000How does this discussion of disinformation relate to everything else happening here today in Davos?
00:06:42.000So I think if you look at this question of disinformation, I think it maps basically to every other major challenge that we are grappling with as a society, and particularly the most existential among them.
00:06:56.000And, you know, that immediately undermines pluralism.
00:07:02.000And, you know, the undermining of pluralism is probably the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy.
00:07:08.000Now, I'm sure pluralism is not something, it's not a kitchen table issue for many of you.
00:07:13.000Pluralism, they're trying to use these kind of more abstract terms as a way to make themselves seem more intelligent when in reality they're a pack of fools.
00:07:20.000But pluralism is a political philosophy and the recognition and affirmation of diversity within a political body.
00:07:27.000So basically they're saying disinformation, the ability to speak freely, the ability to challenge authority, that is the fundamental challenge in front of all challenges.
00:07:38.000That is the one that supersedes them all.
00:07:40.000And if you think about it, look at how they have continually focused on suppressing speech, censoring different ideas, whether it be through Twitter, the Department of Homeland Security, through COVID on the vaccines.
00:07:54.000They have to be able to shut you up, regardless of your argument, regardless of how important it is to be able to speak.
00:08:07.000The masters of the universe, the philosopher kings that run the World Economic Forum are saying the great threat to our society, the great threat to our aims and our ambitions and our goals is the fact that dissidents can speak their mind.
00:08:24.000They're pinpointing the fight for our time.
00:08:26.000They want to get us closer towards a regime that is not focused on convincing people to give up political power or to delegate political power.
00:08:35.000No, they want to invert the entire premise of the American Constitution.
00:08:41.000Instead, they want people, they want to live in a society where you are able to use force to control other people.
00:08:54.000They know this, that the idea of 15-minute cities and digital passports, vaccine passports, digital ID, they will not be able to convince people to be able to participate in them, though.
00:09:07.000And speech is a threat to their aims and their ambitions by using force.
00:09:13.000Whether it be carbon footprint trackers, the global warming siege against any sort of production of natural gas, which is environmentally friendly, abundant, cheap, and affordable.
00:11:04.000In the first line of Aristotle's ethics, he said, every art, every inquiry points towards some good.
00:11:11.000The argument that Aristotle was making is that outside of the mentally insane and the clinically disturbed, the people that legitimately need to be in insane asylums, people think they are doing well.
00:11:26.000And if you can't define what is good, then everyone will do right what is in their own eyes, as it says in the scriptures.
00:11:33.000But no, John Kerry to Al Gore to Klaus Schwab, the people in charge of the World Economic Forum, they truly believe that they are on a moral crusade to improve the world.
00:12:22.000And when you stop and think about it, it's pretty extraordinary that we, a select group of human beings, because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives, are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet.
00:12:42.000I mean, it's so almost extraterrestrial to think about, quote, saving the planet.
00:13:59.000But I'll tell you, the essence of what John Kerry is saying is that I am able to be part of the club with you to help save the world.
00:14:10.000We select group of human beings, masters of the universe, the people that deserve to have power, not because we are elected, not because we have been selected by the people, but because we want to save the world.
00:14:28.000That should send chills down your spine.
00:14:31.000That we deserve to have more authority under this guise of environmentalism.
00:14:38.000Anytime you hear a push for environmentalism, it is a camouflaged effort to bring us closer towards a differentism, totalitarianism.
00:14:49.000It's just so interesting when John Kerry says, we, the select group of people, we in the country club, we within the chamber of the select.
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00:16:32.000Joining us now is Congressman Jim Banks, who is now officially running for Senate in the great state of Indiana.
00:16:45.000Glad to make this formal announcement with you today.
00:16:47.000I'm running for the United States Senate.
00:16:49.000You and I both know we need to shake up the Senate.
00:16:52.000We need more conservatives in the United States Senate.
00:16:55.000I've been a conservative fighter in the House.
00:16:58.000And with the open Senate seat in Indiana, this is an opportunity for me to go and be a conservative fighter in the United States Senate, too.
00:17:05.000Well, we're thrilled and I'm 100% behind you.
00:17:08.000I think you're going to do a great job.
00:17:09.000And it's going to be, we'll see how tough the primary is, but we're behind you.
00:17:14.000And you've been a fighter in the House on a lot of different issues, thinking about the erosion of the American middle class and the restoration of manufacturing.
00:17:21.000But let me kind of just take a step back.
00:17:23.000Let's talk about the why you are running.
00:17:27.000And I also want to talk about one of the things that angered me most in the last month and a half, which is this omnibus bill.
00:17:35.000And we have Republican leadership that seems to enthusiastically embrace the worst of all ideas that put us further into debt, keep our borders open, but secure the borders of far off distant land.
00:17:44.000The omnibus, you as a senator, would you put up with something like that?
00:18:05.000Where were the fighters in the Senate pushing back against it?
00:18:09.000That's as I spent the holidays with my wife praying about running for Senate, thinking about it when Mike Braun, who is a reliable conservative, by the way, told me that he's running for governor.
00:18:19.000And I found out this Senate seat was going to be open.
00:18:22.000I spent a couple of months thinking about it.
00:18:24.000But when I found out, when I saw some Republicans in the Senate go along with Democrats and pass a $1.7 trillion omnibus at a time when our inflation is already historically high and not fight back against it, I knew I was being called to run for the Senate at that moment.
00:18:40.000So that's one of the big reasons why I want to do it.
00:18:42.000And one of the issues is that it seems as if there's vote trading going on where certain retiring senators provide cover fire for other senators.
00:18:51.000And it's so incestuous and it's so broken.
00:18:55.000But increasing the ranks of people like you and JD Vance and Mike Lee and Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, I am starting to see some momentum.
00:19:05.000I'm starting to see some change that the business in the Senate of the old bulls, we're not going to put up with this anymore.
00:19:17.000We need a new generation of conservative fighters like JD Vance, a number of others, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, the guy, Rand Paul, the guys that you just mentioned.
00:19:38.000Help me out because the establishment is already fighting against me.
00:19:41.000They're trying to recruit a candidate in Indiana to run against me because I have been a conservative fighter in the House and they want to block me from going to the Senate.
00:19:51.000That's why I wanted to talk to you today to tell you I'm running.
00:19:54.000I want to be a conservative fighter in the Senate, but I need your help by going to banksforsenate.com, help me out, donate, volunteer, get involved today.
00:20:11.000Who knows who's going to run up against you?
00:20:13.000I'm sure there's massive efforts to try to draft Mitch Daniels, who I always found to be a very pleasant, I mean, the perfect caricature of what an Indiana gentleman is, but he's a Republican from a time long gone.
00:20:25.000That's what excites me about your candidacy.
00:20:27.000And, you know, I'm going to encourage everyone to keep this focused on policy, but Mitch Daniels would probably, you know, if he runs, and I don't want to make this all about him, but would represent a neoliberal view of the world where there's nothing wrong with sending our jobs overseas.
00:20:42.000Border protection should not necessarily be a priority.
00:20:45.000And we should just send money abroad while our own country falls apart.
00:20:49.000You've been a very articulate voice for the restoration of American manufacturing and the middle class.
00:20:55.000In fact, I'm going to butcher the title, but you sent out a document as the head of the Republican Study Committee.
00:21:06.000I mean, it was old school Republicans, establishment Republicans who are beholden to multinational corporate interest who sold us out to China and sent our jobs overseas.
00:21:17.000And Donald Trump was the first president of my lifetime who said China is a threat to the United States.
00:21:39.000And this country gave me incredible opportunities.
00:21:42.000But it was these old school Republicans who sold us out to China that killed jobs like the one, like jobs like my dad had and other blue-collar Americans had.
00:21:54.000The memo that I gave to Kevin McCarthy a couple of years ago was simply said that if we want to keep the blue-collar working class voters that grew the Republican Party when Donald Trump was in office, we have to have a Republican Party agenda that reflects and represents the values of those voters.
00:22:14.000That's the America first agenda, putting America first in our trade deals, putting America first in our foreign policy, securing the border and stopping illegals from taking American jobs.
00:22:26.000So those are the policies that we have to go back to fighting for.
00:22:30.000And I don't see enough leadership and conservative fighters in the Senate who are doing that.
00:22:36.000That's why I'm running for the Senate and announcing my candidacy today.
00:22:39.000Yeah, and I think that's so important.
00:22:41.000And so, you know, we look at an issue, for example, like the open border, and I'm starting to see some really good movement in the House.
00:22:49.000In fact, I think the House, because of people like you and because of some of these new freshmen, it's actually becoming a more centered representative body.
00:23:01.000I'm thrilled with some of the stuff I'm seeing, the anti-CCP committee, Swawel, Elon, and Schiff off committees, you know, a church and pike committee.
00:23:11.000But as my optimism grows for the House, I am bearish on the Senate.
00:23:16.000I feel as if there is an attitude that we don't care, that from John Thune and from all the Mitch McConnell, and I'm not going to expect you to say anything about that.
00:23:28.000These are my own personal editorializing of their own view of things, but part of it is going to have to be introducing new energy into the Senate, saying business usual is over.
00:23:37.000Why is it that, I mean, the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell had the power to say, listen, okay, you want to send border security to Lebanon.
00:23:46.000You want to go send border security to Syria.
00:24:00.000And he could have said, okay, I'll do all that, but we need $10 billion for the border immediately.
00:24:04.000And then Mitch McConnell tells us we got everything we wanted.
00:24:08.000Yeah, this is why I voted against the big Ukraine supplemental spending bill when it came to the House.
00:24:14.000We can't lead around the world when we're so weak at home.
00:24:17.000We have to solve our problems at home to make America strong again before we can play the role around the world that America has historically done.
00:24:26.000This is what President Reagan meant by peace through strength.
00:24:29.000He meant not just a strong military, but a strong America.
00:24:32.000And with Joe Biden and the radical Democrats controlling this country and some spineless Republicans going along with it, America is as weak at this point as it has ever been in my lifetime.
00:24:44.000That, Charlie, is why I'm running for the United States Senate.
00:24:47.000I'm going there to be a conservative fighter, to shake it up.
00:24:56.000I didn't back down from Nancy Pelosi when she kicked me off of this, the fake sham January 6th committee.
00:25:02.000I'm not going to back down from the establishment or anybody that's trying to block me from going to the Senate to do what needs to be done to restore America.
00:25:09.000So part of the U.S. Senate is personnel.
00:25:12.000I pray and I hope that we're able to flip the Senate.
00:25:14.000If we can get rid of McConnell, that will definitely be easier.
00:25:17.000But let's pretend we get that White House as well.
00:25:20.000And Supreme Court Justice of personnel.
00:25:22.000Just for some of our listeners, you know, just build out some of your conservative credentials on the Second Amendment, on life.
00:25:28.000These are issues that, as senators, they actually tend to appear to the surface even more than in the House.
00:25:36.000I'm a social and cultural conservative as much as I'm an economic conservative.
00:25:41.000And I believe that the fight to protect our American way of life, which is a cultural fight, is the fight of our time.
00:25:49.000And that's why putting judges on the bench at the federal level who understand that, who protect our constitutional rights, our Second Amendment, our First Amendment, protect the right to life.
00:26:02.000Those are all issues that I'm passionate about.
00:26:04.000And I can't wait to be a part of that fight in the United States Senate to go back to the Trump era, where those were the types of judges that we got on the bench.
00:26:13.000So I'm not going to go along to get along with Democrats or, God forbid, another Democrat president who would appoint justices to the Supreme Court.
00:26:24.000I'm not going to go along and vote for judges at any level to confirm them if they don't live up to the constitutional principles that we agree with.
00:26:40.000These Republicans that will vote for a Supreme Court justice or to put a judge on the bench who doesn't reflect our values, I'll never understand why they're there voting to go along with that agenda.
00:27:23.000And, you know, some would say, well, you know, Joe Manchin voted for, I think he voted for Gorsuch or one of them, but they never had the deciding vote.
00:27:30.000They only ever do that after they know Republicans are going to get it passed.
00:27:50.000And Indiana is one of those states that is robustly conservative, but certainly has some liberal influences throughout.
00:27:58.000Walk us through Indiana values, fighting for those in D.C.
00:28:02.000Yeah, Charlie, Indiana is a great state, very conservative.
00:28:06.000Who's your values or conservative pro-family values?
00:28:10.000And I've reflected those values in my fight in the House.
00:28:14.000I'm going to do the same in the United States Senate.
00:28:16.000As I said, I grew up in a small town, son of a factory worker, a nursing home cook, grew up in a trailer park.
00:28:22.000And look where I am today because of the values, the hard work of my parents who wanted to pursue the American dream to them, which was to give me a better opportunity than what they had.
00:28:52.000My guess is that the more establishment forces are going to try to draft a moneyed candidate to try to go up against you.
00:28:59.000But the earlier you can consolidate support, you could raise money, the harder that will be and the further ahead you can get so that you could be a true conservative like Josh Hawley and like JD Vance in the U.S. Senate.
00:29:11.000Congressman Jim Banks, thanks so much.
00:29:45.000They don't brag publicly or privately at their champagne parties like, yes, look at how evil we are and look at how we are doing things that are against our morality.
00:30:15.000It's because it's just not statistically possible to have that many people that are sociopathic working together.
00:30:25.000It's just so against sociopathic borderline tendencies.
00:30:29.000What's more likely is a bunch of very weak people that are doing evil things that think they have good intentions and they do stuff that is so unspeakably awful.
00:30:40.000Okay, and Yuri Bezmanov, remember, who was a Soviet defector, said that this is exactly the strategy that the Marxists use.
00:30:48.000They find useful idiots who think they are doing good when in reality they are vessels for treachery and for deceit and evil.
00:30:56.000John Kerry is a useful idiot who thinks he's here to save the planet when in reality he's here to do something far more sinister.
00:31:06.000Simply because you see the useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of Soviet socialists or communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies.
00:31:19.000That's why my KGB instructors specifically made the point, never bother with leftists.
00:31:25.000Forget about these political prostitutes.
00:31:30.000Try to get into Large circulation, established, conservative media, rich, filthy-reach movie makers, intellectuals, so-called academic circles, cynical, egocentric people who can look into your eyes with angelic expression and tell you a lie.
00:31:49.000These are the most recruitable people, people who lack moral principles, who are either too greedy or too suffer from self-importance.
00:33:08.000Because the person who is sneering in the corner saying, I want to torture puppies or whatever, not exactly easy to catch on as a movement.
00:33:43.000It's actually, the Bible doesn't say that, actually.
00:33:46.000The Bible says even those people under the influence of Lucifer think they're doing good, very few of them intentionally know what they're doing is evil.
00:34:15.000Environmentalism is a bridge, is a transitory phase to be able to erode private property, destroy any sort of incumbent natural gas advantage that the West has to get us towards a despotic, technological-centered, dystopian future.