The Charlie Kirk Show - It’s Time for Conservatives to Play Offense with Blake Masters

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk show, Blake Masters, who's running for Senate in Arizona.

00:00:03.000 I've known Blake for a while.

00:00:05.000 He joins the show to talk about his race, talk about gun control, and so much more.

00:00:11.000 You can email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

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00:00:51.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:36.000 We're keeping our eyes on the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration.

00:01:39.000 This is something that people are just conveniently ignoring.

00:01:43.000 We had a whole show with Dr. Naomi Wolf last week.

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00:01:53.000 Child-size doses for Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine appear to be safe and effective for kids under five, federal health officials say, in a key step towards a long-awaited decision to begin vaccinating the youngest Americans.

00:02:08.000 Now, I'm more cynical than this, than kind of the thing on face value.

00:02:12.000 It's not about child safety because children are not at risk from dying from COVID, period.

00:02:17.000 Hard stop.

00:02:18.000 They are not at risk from getting serious COVID cases.

00:02:21.000 They're not.

00:02:23.000 Now, instead, there's a very specific and particular liability protection carve-out.

00:02:31.000 So, what does that mean?

00:02:33.000 Liability protection carve-out basically makes it so that you cannot sue vaccine manufacturers.

00:02:41.000 Now, Bobby Kennedy Jr. has the best argument about this.

00:02:46.000 So, for example, if you were to go to McDonald's and they served you a burger and you got salmonella and you ended up getting very ill and maybe your child got ill and your child, God forbid, died from it, you would be able to go to McDonald's and you would be able to sue them.

00:03:06.000 Now, whether you would win or not depends on the facts and the circumstances.

00:03:09.000 Did McDonald's know they were selling spoiled meat?

00:03:14.000 Did they intentionally try to expedite the process to make more money or more profit?

00:03:19.000 Did they intentionally not follow food safety rules and regulations?

00:03:23.000 Who knows?

00:03:24.000 But McDonald's is not immune from potential civil remedies if they were to do something wrong.

00:03:32.000 The most famous McDonald's lawsuit is when someone sued saying that the coffee was too hot and they burned themselves saying that the coffee was too hot.

00:03:41.000 Now, that's a silly example that's usually used in kind of a law 101 class in seventh, eighth grade or in high school.

00:03:49.000 But the point is that when companies feel as if they might be able to be sued, let me say that differently.

00:03:54.000 When companies think, not feel, that there's a potential that they could be sued for not offering a proper product or potentially damaging their customers, that requires them to operate at a higher standard.

00:04:11.000 They are going to be more careful about what they serve and how they serve it.

00:04:14.000 They're going to be more careful with what they advertise and how they advertise it.

00:04:19.000 Being able to sue a business is a check and a balance.

00:04:24.000 It's a necessary check and balance to be able to bring a business to court, to be able to say, you served me bad food.

00:04:31.000 Or another example of a company that you could sue is airlines.

00:04:35.000 You remember when the guy was drugged through the poor, poor fellow was drugged through the aisle on the United Airlines flight?

00:04:43.000 You just kind of assaulted and just kind of dragged him.

00:04:47.000 We all remember that video a couple summers ago.

00:04:51.000 If a car all of a sudden, the engine combusts, this allows customers to be able to have accountability.

00:05:00.000 Now, many of you know this because we have such an informed audience, but I would venture a guess not everyone listening to this knows this, and for those that knows it, it's a good refresher.

00:05:10.000 Is that Congress, and I forget the actual bill name, it was in the 1970s, late 1970s, I think it was the Vaccine Protection Act or something.

00:05:22.000 I'm just spitballing here.

00:05:24.000 Congress made a decision in order to try to expand the amount of people that get vaccines to say that you are not able to sue vaccine companies.

00:05:38.000 Now, the intention for why they did this might have been fine.

00:05:41.000 I think some people had sinister intentions.

00:05:44.000 But largely, the reason was that people felt that vaccines would make the country healthier.

00:05:52.000 It would make our ability to fight transmissible diseases easier.

00:05:58.000 And they didn't want vaccine companies tied up in court all the time having to defend the adverse events.

00:06:03.000 So they made a very simple Machiavellian bargain, the ends justify the means, and they created VARES, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, V-A-E-R-S dot HH.hhs.gov.

00:06:19.000 You could check it out yourself.

00:06:20.000 At VARES, you're able to put things into a portal, and so then Congress will actually pay the remedies potentially if you were damaged by the vaccine.

00:06:34.000 Now, this was all passed in a bill.

00:06:36.000 I'm sorry, I have my ears a little off.

00:06:37.000 It was 1986.

00:06:38.000 It was the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, VICP, a no-fault alternative to the traditional tort system.

00:06:51.000 It provides compensation to people found to be injured by certain vaccines.

00:06:57.000 Even in cases in which such findings is not made, petitioners still may receive compensation through a settlement.

00:07:03.000 And so it's a way to try to make people who are damaged by Vaccines whole.

00:07:07.000 And so it's a federal government subsidy by the vaccine, but this is what's so insane.

00:07:13.000 I mean, you might be listening to this.

00:07:14.000 You say, well, that sounds reasonable, but it doesn't fix the problem.

00:07:19.000 If the vaccines are hurting people and Congress is willing to pay money for it, what is the incentive, economic term, for the vaccine manufacturers to stop producing vaccines that hurt people?

00:07:33.000 None.

00:07:35.000 If the federal government is going to swoop in and say, we will pay for the damages potentially done by the vaccines made by these private contractors of Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson ⁇ Johnson, and Moderna, then the vaccine manufacturers have zero incentive to try to make the vaccines to improve them or to monitor them or to gauge them correctly.

00:07:56.000 Zero.

00:07:58.000 Now, you go to VARES.hhs.gov, you can report an adverse event in an online downloadable PDF.

00:08:06.000 All the information is supposed to be made public.

00:08:09.000 The COVID-19 vaccine VARES data is amazing.

00:08:14.000 It's amazing because it's just, it blows you away the numbers.

00:08:18.000 But you have to remember that these vaccine manufacturers get liability protection via the EUA, the Emergency Use Authorization, which is a short-term measure signed by the President of the United States.

00:08:30.000 Now, I know many of you are probably mixed on the vaccine issue.

00:08:33.000 Some of you are vaccine skeptics.

00:08:35.000 Some of you are pro-vaccine.

00:08:36.000 That's fine.

00:08:37.000 All voices are welcome here on this program.

00:08:39.000 I'm not going to shout you down or insult you.

00:08:41.000 You won't even know my personal opinions on it, which is nuanced and it's moderate.

00:08:46.000 I think that we just need more information.

00:08:48.000 We need more discussion.

00:08:49.000 But what we can all agree on is a very simple economic truth.

00:08:53.000 It's a very simple economic principle, which is when you have a multi-billion dollar company that is protected by the federal government when it comes to liability protection, that's going to create a mountain, a tsunami of externalities that will not actually improve the products themselves.

00:09:17.000 Now, why is it that they have to now get it on the childhood vaccination schedule?

00:09:23.000 Well, look, the fear of lawsuits keeps them honest.

00:09:28.000 Do we have liability protection for auto manufacturers?

00:09:34.000 Not that I'm aware of.

00:09:35.000 Maybe there is one.

00:09:36.000 I don't think so.

00:09:38.000 I know we don't have them for restaurants.

00:09:43.000 We don't have them for most types of companies.

00:09:45.000 When companies get into the marketplace, they have to assume the risk of potential customers coming after them.

00:09:51.000 Accountability is necessary and needed.

00:09:54.000 But the significance of the FDA now adding this vaccine to children is that then it will make the liability protection permanent for all the people that have been damaged or potentially damaged by the COVID-19 vaccine, which is a lot of people.

00:10:13.000 And we have those testimonials, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:10:16.000 We have the VARES data.

00:10:19.000 We have all this information that is mounting and that is growing.

00:10:25.000 So it's a lot more sinister and cynical than just, well, we want children to be healthy.

00:10:29.000 Wait a second.

00:10:30.000 You want them to be healthy from a virus that they're not even at great risk from?

00:10:34.000 You want to inoculate them from something they're not dying from?

00:10:37.000 Healthy kids are not dying from COVID, so why would we want to give healthy kids a vaccine from COVID?

00:10:42.000 Oh, the answer is to shield them from potential onslaught of lawsuits.

00:10:47.000 And that is against all market principles.

00:10:49.000 This is an anti-free market move to be able to protect consumers and raise the quality of goods.

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00:13:04.000 I want to tell you, I spent time last night watching Matt Walsh's documentary from the Daily Wire, What is a Woman?

00:13:12.000 It took me about 20 minutes to figure out how to get it on my TV.

00:13:15.000 It was far too complicated.

00:13:17.000 And it's not even a slight at anybody.

00:13:19.000 It's just that all the other applications are so incredibly, they all blocked Daily Wire.

00:13:27.000 So you can't get on YouTube TV.

00:13:28.000 You can't say you got to get on Roku.

00:13:31.000 So I had to go to my in-law's house because they have a Roku device.

00:13:34.000 Got Roku, downloaded the Daily Wire app.

00:13:37.000 I couldn't remember my password.

00:13:39.000 Anyway, long story short, I got it done.

00:13:41.000 I'm sure it would be a lot easier for all of you.

00:13:43.000 You should support the Daily Wire.

00:13:44.000 They're great.

00:13:45.000 And honestly, I'm not one to just kind of blow smoke.

00:13:48.000 I'm actually a tough critic.

00:13:50.000 Most things I see, I kind of just dismiss.

00:13:53.000 I say it's not good enough.

00:13:54.000 I'm a tough grader.

00:13:55.000 It was an absolutely spectacular documentary.

00:13:59.000 It's top to bottom.

00:14:00.000 And you guys could actually, it's dailywire.com slash Charlie.

00:14:03.000 I used my own promo code to sign up because I didn't know I had a login.

00:14:08.000 Anyway, long story.

00:14:09.000 Long story short, it was brilliant.

00:14:12.000 It was top to bottom.

00:14:14.000 And I have to say, the fact that Walsh, a couple of years ago, started to storyboard this, he just goes through the entire documentary.

00:14:23.000 And the problem with most documentaries is that they meander, right?

00:14:26.000 They go from one topic to the other, and you can kind of tell that they're just trying to burn time.

00:14:32.000 He, the whole time, he just kept on asking the question of different quote-unquote experts and professors and, you know, sex chain surgeons and African tribal leaders.

00:14:44.000 What is a woman?

00:14:46.000 Here's just a small taste from the movie, Cut 24.

00:14:49.000 It's one of the most impactful political documentaries alongside 2000 Mules to the most important things you should be watching right now, Play Cut 24.

00:14:57.000 At what age does the medical transition begin with medication?

00:15:01.000 So medical affirmation begins when the patient says they're ready for it.

00:15:06.000 So that could be a kiddo who is just starting puberty and panicking because they're getting breastbuds or their penis is getting bigger and busier and they're worried about all kinds of masculine changes.

00:15:20.000 And that way, puberty blockers, which are completely reversible and don't have permanent effects, are wonderful because we can put that pause on puberty.

00:15:31.000 It's like if you were listening to music, you put the pause on and we stop the blockers and puberty would go right back to where it was.

00:15:39.000 The next note in the song.

00:15:42.000 First of all, that's just a lie.

00:15:43.000 You can't just put a pause on.

00:15:45.000 It's not reversible and it's chemical castration.

00:15:49.000 So the dialogues that Matt has.

00:15:52.000 First of all, I'll just be very honest.

00:15:54.000 As someone who's kind of in that world, I have no idea how he got these people to agree to talk to him.

00:16:01.000 So it's extraordinary how he got a child psychiatrist from Boston to sit down with him to talk about, oh, you have a little kiddo and we're going to give them chemical castration.

00:16:15.000 And Matt Walsh has, he's like, you mean the stuff you give to the pedophiles?

00:16:19.000 And she just like walks out.

00:16:20.000 This is brilliant.

00:16:22.000 I have to tell you, it's one of the great films I've seen.

00:16:25.000 Dailywire.com slash Charlie.

00:16:27.000 If you have any confusion about the trans issue, What is a Woman is the film for you.

00:16:33.000 So I want to go to another cut here from Matt Walsh's film, What is a Woman?

00:16:39.000 Okay, let's play 25, please.

00:16:41.000 You can just pause puberty.

00:16:43.000 No, you can't.

00:16:43.000 And then pick it up?

00:16:44.000 No, you can't.

00:16:45.000 For the future.

00:16:46.000 No, you can't.

00:16:47.000 How many studies do they have, long-term studies, on hormone blockers with children?

00:16:52.000 None.

00:16:53.000 I just spoke a month or two ago with a mother whose 14-year-old daughter was put on blockers.

00:17:04.000 They discovered after two years, this 14-year-old girl has osteoporosis.

00:17:09.000 That's something that like old women get.

00:17:11.000 How can doctors assure parents that a certain medicine is totally safe?

00:17:16.000 If based on what you're saying, they can't possibly know that.

00:17:20.000 How can they be removing the healthy breasts of 15-year-old girls?

00:17:24.000 How can they be sterilizing kids?

00:17:28.000 How can this whole thing be happening, Matt?

00:17:31.000 It's happening because for a couple of reasons, and we talked about this at length, and they touch on this a little bit in the movie, What is a Woman, really brought to you by Matt Walsh in the Daily Wire, is that for the first time in a long time, marginalized groups now have dollar signs over them.

00:17:44.000 There is a profit motive to actually get more children to embrace this kind of transgender lifestyle.

00:17:54.000 For every child that says they are transgender, that represents a $1.3 million potential profit for the pharmaceutical company.

00:18:05.000 So let me say that again.

00:18:06.000 $1.3 million.

00:18:09.000 You might say, well, Charlie, why would it be so much?

00:18:13.000 The amount of drugs that have to now be consumed by 13, 14, 15, 16, 17-year-olds, puberty blockers, chemical castration drugs, and these drugs are no joke.

00:18:23.000 I know somebody in my general circle that has had to take for a prostate issue, has had to take those kind of drugs, and they are awful.

00:18:34.000 The side effects are terrible, and the doctors do not notify you about any of them.

00:18:37.000 These are serious drugs, and you give them to 14, 15, and 16-year-olds.

00:18:43.000 So how does this happen?

00:18:44.000 It's because the profit motive is overwhelming.

00:18:47.000 And it also kind of goes back to a deeper philosophical and structural issue, which is, do you believe that your feelings determine your reality?

00:18:58.000 And this is a very new age-y belief that your feelings are everything, and that you shouldn't take in account anything that is considered to be real around you.

00:19:07.000 For example, throughout the movie in What is a Woman, there is a kind of peppering throughout the film this idea that it's your truth.

00:19:17.000 And Matt Walsh brilliantly says, Well, do you agree that we're both in the same room together?

00:19:22.000 And the kind of psychiatrist says, Well, that's your truth if you believe that.

00:19:27.000 You can kind of see where this leads.

00:19:30.000 I mean, what if it's my truth to say you don't exist?

00:19:32.000 My truth to say that I could wipe you off the face of the earth.

00:19:35.000 They believe truth can evolve.

00:19:39.000 We believe in eternal truth.

00:19:43.000 We believe in things that are always true.

00:19:45.000 You have to be on team reality at some point.

00:19:48.000 You have to be anchored to those pesky shackles of reality, as Dr. Gad Saad would say.

00:19:55.000 One final note on this: Jordan Peterson in the movie What is a Woman?

00:19:58.000 He had a great quote.

00:19:59.000 He said, If you go to a therapist to get affirmed, that is not what a therapist is.

00:20:06.000 You should go to a therapist to be challenged and to get better.

00:20:11.000 You don't go to a therapist to just get affirmed and rubber stamped.

00:20:16.000 It's a phenomenal point.

00:20:18.000 I'm told Blake Masters is here on set very soon.

00:20:22.000 You can bring him in.

00:20:24.000 Blake is welcome to come in.

00:20:25.000 As he comes in, let's play cut 20 that shows that Joe Biden isn't willing to harden schools.

00:20:31.000 Play cut 20.

00:20:32.000 I don't know what he said specifically about schools.

00:20:34.000 I know there's been conversation about hardening schools.

00:20:37.000 That is not something that he believes in.

00:20:39.000 He believes that we should be able to give teachers the resources to be able to do the job that they're meant to do at schools.

00:20:49.000 So that is the new White House press secretary.

00:20:51.000 We're joined here by Blake Masters.

00:20:52.000 Blake's a busy man.

00:20:53.000 Thanks for coming by.

00:20:54.000 Of course.

00:20:54.000 Thanks for having me.

00:20:55.000 How's the race going?

00:20:56.000 It's going well.

00:20:57.000 Yeah, I dare say I'm in a position to win this thing.

00:20:59.000 I'm going to be the nominee.

00:21:01.000 That's good.

00:21:02.000 I like the comments.

00:21:03.000 It's happening.

00:21:03.000 So you got the Trump endorsement.

00:21:05.000 Congratulations.

00:21:05.000 That's huge.

00:21:06.000 Yeah, thank you.

00:21:07.000 And you've had some tweets recently.

00:21:08.000 I want to read one of them.

00:21:09.000 Quote, this is from yesterday, the day before.

00:21:12.000 Quote, oh, you don't want to have your kid be taught transgender ideology or the 1619 History Project.

00:21:17.000 You must be mentally ill, so now we're taking your guns away.

00:21:20.000 You say, no way.

00:21:21.000 Expand on that a little bit.

00:21:22.000 The thing that the left tries to do is they prey on us.

00:21:25.000 They want to say that red flag laws are just reasonable.

00:21:28.000 How could you possibly be against it?

00:21:29.000 You want mentally ill people to own guns, right?

00:21:31.000 It sounds reasonable, but you can't trust them.

00:21:33.000 Look at what they've done to us.

00:21:35.000 Look at what they've perpetrated over the past two years.

00:21:37.000 As soon as you give them an inch, they will just redefine mental illness.

00:21:40.000 Pretty soon they'll say, Charlie, if you want an assault weapon at all, that's evidence of mental illness.

00:21:47.000 And that's evidence for why you shouldn't have one, right?

00:21:49.000 It's not logical, but they just want a gun grab by any means necessary.

00:21:52.000 And they call people that show up to school board meetings domestic terrorists, terrorists.

00:21:56.000 You know, Department of Homeland Security.

00:21:58.000 They have to mobilize the Department of Justice.

00:22:00.000 And so, I mean, I think you and I agree that a lot of people that support the red flag laws, they mean well, they have good intentions.

00:22:06.000 I don't think a lot of the Democrats have good intentions, but we have to kind of go a step further and say, wait a second, you're going to give the very same government that is willing to use these very loose definitions an extraordinary amount of power to then be able to confiscate weapons from us.

00:22:20.000 That's right.

00:22:21.000 No, it's death by a thousand cuts.

00:22:22.000 This is how liberties get eroded, right?

00:22:24.000 The left is always just playing offense.

00:22:26.000 They just chip and chip and chip away.

00:22:28.000 And so many, you know, these 10 Republicans, they just, they're the kind of Republicans that only want to play defense.

00:22:33.000 And if you only play defense while the left plays offense, eventually you lose and we're losing our freedoms.

00:22:37.000 So you'll want to play offense in the Senate.

00:22:39.000 Tell us about what will you play offense?

00:22:41.000 You know, you're going to be the nominee, it looks like, against Mark Kelly.

00:22:44.000 It looks like that's going to happen.

00:22:45.000 I agree with you.

00:22:46.000 People are, you know, the grassroots are on fire for you.

00:22:49.000 Trump's endorsement came early and decisively.

00:22:51.000 So you against Kelly, that's a tough race.

00:22:53.000 Like, let's make no mistake, right?

00:22:55.000 That's tough.

00:22:56.000 Even on this gun issue, you know, like Mark Kelly is a gun grabber, and we need to run a candidate who's bold enough to say, like, hey, I'm sorry about what happened to your wife.

00:23:05.000 Like, it's truly horrible.

00:23:06.000 Like, his family and Gabby Giffords, a real victim of a horrible gun crime, right?

00:23:11.000 And so that doesn't give you the right, though, to disarm Arizonans.

00:23:16.000 It doesn't give you the right to take away our guns.

00:23:18.000 And Martha McSally, you know, I mean, she's sort of the perfect candidate on paper, but she never wanted to play offense.

00:23:24.000 She never wanted to hit Mark Kelly on this gun issue.

00:23:26.000 I think the gun issue alone is worth three or four points in Arizona.

00:23:28.000 Yes.

00:23:29.000 People are, nobody wants murder, right?

00:23:31.000 We have laws against murder.

00:23:33.000 It's actually the left that doesn't want to do anything about street crime, but we're not going to let Mark Kelly take away our guns.

00:23:40.000 And I hope he makes that an issue in the general election.

00:23:43.000 I genuinely do.

00:23:44.000 Yeah, and it's been interesting, though.

00:23:46.000 I agree he's a gun grabber.

00:23:47.000 He has been suspiciously quiet on the gun issue, though.

00:23:50.000 Would you agree?

00:23:51.000 For him.

00:23:52.000 And it's because he has to be.

00:23:54.000 So after this horrible school shooting in Texas, Mark Kelly came out and said, I think he actually used an expletive, right?

00:23:59.000 I'm sure it was carefully crafted by his PR team, but he's like, we have to effing do something.

00:24:03.000 We have to do something, right?

00:24:04.000 There's this rage.

00:24:05.000 And I understand the rage.

00:24:06.000 Like, I share it too.

00:24:07.000 It's crazy to see evil like that manifest, right?

00:24:11.000 But it's like, okay, Mark, what do you want to do?

00:24:13.000 And then he won't actually come out and say what he wants to.

00:24:16.000 Everybody knows he would love to pass an assault weapons ban.

00:24:19.000 He would love to do that.

00:24:21.000 But he won't actually say that because he's reading the polls.

00:24:23.000 He knows that that's not popular with Arizonans.

00:24:25.000 If he comes out and admits what he wants to do, that he wants to take away your AR-15, boom, he loses the general election.

00:24:31.000 He's in trouble.

00:24:31.000 I'll tell you.

00:24:32.000 I mean, he has got, what, 50 million bucks?

00:24:35.000 It's going to be, you know, it's going to be a tight, tough race.

00:24:38.000 The stupid Arizona primary, how late it is.

00:24:40.000 We got to change that.

00:24:41.000 Whatever.

00:24:41.000 We have to change that.

00:24:42.000 If you become the next senator from Arizona, which, you know, would be a blessing.

00:24:47.000 We got to get, and you get rid of Mark Kelly.

00:24:49.000 We got to have like a June primary.

00:24:51.000 This is insane.

00:24:52.000 It's a pretty quick turnaround.

00:24:54.000 Two and a half years ago.

00:24:55.000 He gets all this time.

00:24:56.000 He's going to be going to Aspen.

00:24:57.000 He's going to San Francisco.

00:24:59.000 He gets to run against the event.

00:25:01.000 He gets to run negative ads against whoever looks to be the nominee the last couple of weeks.

00:25:05.000 They'll start on August 2nd as soon as results are in.

00:25:07.000 As soon as results are in, and you have to then kind of do a turnaround, re-raise all the hard money.

00:25:12.000 But I still think he's in trouble.

00:25:14.000 I mean, inflation in Arizona, I think, is 35 to 40%, especially in Phoenix.

00:25:18.000 You know, I mean, I think that the school issue is a big issue.

00:25:22.000 So playing offense, what does that look like actually in the U.S. Senate?

00:25:25.000 Well, I mean, pick your issue, right?

00:25:28.000 I'm tired of 19 Republicans voted for that $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.

00:25:32.000 At least 10 Republicans here are on board for this gun control bill.

00:25:36.000 Part of it is making sure that that stuff doesn't pass and that I whip the votes and make sure that I'm putting to shame any senators like Romney or Murkowski or Collins, right?

00:25:44.000 With Republicans like these, it's almost like who needs Democrats?

00:25:47.000 But look at the big tech issue, right?

00:25:49.000 I see my competitors running around saying we have to repeal Section 230.

00:25:52.000 And it's like, well, yes, we do.

00:25:53.000 But that's the bare minimum, right?

00:25:55.000 That's just what their consultants told them to say.

00:25:57.000 I think playing offense actually means showing leadership and coming up with a new legislative agenda.

00:26:01.000 So it's like, what if we treat Facebook and Twitter as common carriers, regulate them like the phone company?

00:26:06.000 So we just ban them from being able to discriminate against us politically, right?

00:26:10.000 Let's embed a team of software engineers into Google.

00:26:13.000 We're going to force them into Google in the weeks before an election so that we can make sure that Google's not changing their search engine algorithms to put their thumb on the scale to rig an election.

00:26:22.000 That's what playing offense looks like.

00:26:23.000 And you can sort of run this test for every single issue.

00:26:26.000 What do conventional Republicans say?

00:26:27.000 That's playing defense.

00:26:28.000 Sometimes you've got to play defense, but it's not enough.

00:26:31.000 We need to go on offense.

00:26:31.000 Otherwise, we're going to lose the country.

00:26:33.000 Also on immigration as well.

00:26:34.000 That's like the big one.

00:26:35.000 Yeah.

00:26:36.000 Yeah.

00:26:36.000 I mean, defense, you know, immigrate.

00:26:38.000 So the joke here, remember when the Biden administration wanted to pay certain kind of illegals $450,000?

00:26:44.000 Well, the joke was Republicans got outraged.

00:26:46.000 That's way too much.

00:26:47.000 It should be $200,000.

00:26:48.000 You know, like that's what the conventional defense says.

00:26:51.000 I say like, no, the correct amount of illegal immigration is zero.

00:26:54.000 We need to work back towards zero illegal crossings.

00:26:57.000 We probably need to tighten up legal immigration, too.

00:26:59.000 That system is a mess.

00:27:00.000 And that's what playing offense looks like.

00:27:01.000 It's very compelling.

00:27:02.000 And so you still have a primary.

00:27:04.000 It's not over, but the momentum is certainly with you.

00:27:08.000 And we haven't made an endorsement in the race.

00:27:10.000 I've known Blake for a long time.

00:27:11.000 I think very highly of him.

00:27:13.000 But I just want to say the ads they're running against you are reprehensible and disgusting.

00:27:17.000 I tweeted that out.

00:27:18.000 I mean, it's one of the most disgusting things I've seen in politics.

00:27:21.000 And then one, they say, oh, you know, Blake Masters is with big tech.

00:27:26.000 What they are, the only source they have is Peter Thiel, who sat on the board of Facebook, who supports breaking up Facebook, has donated to your campaign.

00:27:35.000 It's one of the most disgusting lines of attack.

00:27:37.000 It shows that there's really not much to attack you on when they have to go that deep.

00:27:42.000 Yep, really quick.

00:27:44.000 Oh, they're just trying to interview my friends in middle school.

00:27:46.000 You know, was Blake ever mean to anybody in the 10th grade?

00:27:48.000 Like, this is bottom of the barrel stuff.

00:27:50.000 They did that to me a long time ago.

00:27:51.000 Yeah, good luck with that.

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00:28:52.000 All right, everybody.

00:28:53.000 Blake Masters is here.

00:28:54.000 I've known Blake for a long time, and he has earned his spot as the frontrunner, but it's not over.

00:28:59.000 You know that.

00:28:59.000 That's right.

00:29:00.000 There's a lot of money being spent.

00:29:01.000 A lot of people that want to be senator.

00:29:03.000 Here's a cool little straw pull, though.

00:29:05.000 Just fun.

00:29:05.000 We have so many great listeners.

00:29:07.000 This person sends us an email, honestly, kind of a depressing email.

00:29:11.000 They said, Charlie, I know you don't like answering the question, is there any hope?

00:29:14.000 I agree with you that hope is active.

00:29:15.000 How are we winning anywhere?

00:29:17.000 If I'm being honest, I feel like Patriots are losing.

00:29:19.000 We're becoming a socialist country.

00:29:21.000 Are Republicans holding the line?

00:29:22.000 Just like not exactly an uplifting email.

00:29:24.000 I respond, we'll answer this on air.

00:29:26.000 And then the next emails, thanks so much.

00:29:28.000 Already encouraged by this AZ Senate candidate.

00:29:30.000 Hey, Arnold.

00:29:31.000 So there you go, Blake.

00:29:32.000 There you go.

00:29:32.000 That's a good straw pull.

00:29:33.000 You're kind of giving people hope.

00:29:34.000 There you go.

00:29:35.000 So you're traveling the state in Arizona.

00:29:39.000 I'm sure that there is this feeling.

00:29:40.000 And when I talk to the base, the sense of frustration that I think most people have is not just that the country is going poorly and going the wrong direction, but that we're doing it to ourselves.

00:29:50.000 Can you expand on that?

00:29:52.000 This is like a self-inflicted decline.

00:29:54.000 That's right.

00:29:54.000 Yeah, no, I think the modern left, I mean, man, they took such a wrong turn, and it's interesting to diagnose exactly where it happened.

00:30:00.000 But, you know, a lot of people compare Joe Biden and his failed presidency to Jimmy Carter, right?

00:30:05.000 And you can see why.

00:30:05.000 It's like, you have the stagflation and the sort of oil shortages, stuff like that.

00:30:10.000 But I actually think Jimmy Carter, as incompetent and as horrible as he was, he actually probably had America's best interest in mind, right?

00:30:17.000 He was triggering and just failing.

00:30:19.000 His intentions were right.

00:30:20.000 Biden, it's like, first of all, it's like Biden's not even fully there, right?

00:30:23.000 So when we say Biden, we really mean like who's pulling the streets over the White House, the regime.

00:30:27.000 But they don't have America's best interest in mind.

00:30:29.000 And this is just totally transparent.

00:30:31.000 It's not like Biden is trying to enforce federal law at the border, right?

00:30:34.000 Illegal immigration should be zero.

00:30:36.000 That's what federal law says.

00:30:37.000 It's illegal.

00:30:38.000 And they're not even trying.

00:30:39.000 Instead, they just willfully violate federal law.

00:30:41.000 They invite millions of people to come here.

00:30:43.000 You know, we'll give you a lawyer and a hotel room and all this.

00:30:46.000 And of course, you're going to create a border crisis.

00:30:48.000 And that's just, it's so un-American.

00:30:50.000 Obviously, it makes this country worse for every single American citizen.

00:30:54.000 And you just have to conclude, they don't care about America.

00:30:57.000 They're ashamed of this place.

00:30:58.000 They want it ruined.

00:30:59.000 They believe in, you know, whatever, internationalism, globalism, socialism.

00:31:03.000 It's downright un-American, and that's scary.

00:31:05.000 Yeah, I mean, Carter served on a nuclear submarine, peanut farmer, Christian.

00:31:10.000 I just think he was a terrible president, bad ideas.

00:31:12.000 But I don't get the sense from Biden or the regime that they're like, you know, we now need to make broad changes or abrupt changes.

00:31:21.000 It's as if they almost feel as if it's going in the direction they want it to, which is perpetual decline and inevitable transformation.

00:31:29.000 And that's where it gets people really angry.

00:31:31.000 And I think it's a righteous indignation, which is that every one of our most major problems we've done to ourselves.

00:31:37.000 It's not that space aliens came in and bombed Midland Texas and our oil fields, but that's the kind of the way they try to frame it with the Putin price hike or whatever.

00:31:47.000 Are people in Arizona buying that garbage?

00:31:49.000 No.

00:31:51.000 I say zero people.

00:31:52.000 Probably one-third of the people will, but two-thirds of the people won't.

00:31:55.000 The Republicans won't, the conservatives won't, but even the independents and the moderates.

00:31:58.000 And let's be honest, like, it's kind of a swing state now.

00:32:01.000 I think people lean conservative.

00:32:02.000 It's still more red.

00:32:03.000 Especially this year.

00:32:04.000 That's right.

00:32:04.000 We're, you know, God willing, and we have to do the hard work to make this happen, but we are going to have a huge red wave.

00:32:09.000 The Democrats in power have failed us.

00:32:11.000 They've delivered nothing but chaos, chaos at the border, skyrocketing inflation, widespread wokeness, indoctrination in the schools.

00:32:17.000 Like nothing is going well.

00:32:19.000 And it's by design.

00:32:20.000 And even non-ideological people, just normal people who aren't paying attention to politics, they know that Biden is not only failing, but that somehow there's something more sinister going on.

00:32:30.000 So as a senator, you'll be able to look into Fauci, the school board drama.

00:32:34.000 Talk about some of the things that you're really going to focus on as a United States Senator.

00:32:37.000 Absolutely.

00:32:38.000 You know, a lot of people say, Blake, do you support accountability for Fauci?

00:32:42.000 And I say, yeah, although let's stop using that word, accountability, right?

00:32:46.000 Accountability.

00:32:47.000 Doesn't that just sound like a politician legal word?

00:32:49.000 When someone says we need accountability, it's almost code for like nothing's going to happen.

00:32:53.000 What we need is investigations and jailings.

00:32:57.000 I literally think Fauci needs to see the inside of a prison cell, and I think he's going to this decade.

00:33:02.000 We can tee up the investigations.

00:33:03.000 We can do that hardly.

00:33:04.000 Senators can do a lot if you and JD really focused on it with Rand and Holly.

00:33:11.000 Now you're talking about a you got four or five senators looking into something.

00:33:14.000 Let's have a COVID-19 hearing.

00:33:16.000 Let's get to the bottom.

00:33:17.000 I want to know what people in the government knew and when.

00:33:20.000 Okay.

00:33:20.000 And we're going to tee up that prosecution.

00:33:23.000 We can't prosecute until we get the DOJ back in January 2025.

00:33:26.000 But when we do, we'll have done the legwork.

00:33:29.000 And I think Fauci needs to be prosecuted.

00:33:30.000 We'll put together reports that are so overwhelmingly convincing that people can't help but then proceed accordingly.

00:33:37.000 Blake Masters, when is the race?

00:33:39.000 August 2nd, but early voting starts right after the 4th of July.

00:33:42.000 Oh, he's got voting month in Arizona.

00:33:43.000 We got voting month, voting season, right?

00:33:45.000 Obviously, it needs to be one day, one vote, but another thing we need to change in Arizona.

00:33:49.000 Yes.

00:33:49.000 It's a very interesting state as far as demographically.

00:33:53.000 You have the East Valley.

00:33:55.000 It's a very suburban state, but also you've got to win the roles.

00:33:59.000 You can't forget the rules, especially in the primary.

00:34:01.000 That's right.

00:34:01.000 And you know that.

00:34:02.000 Blake Masters running for Senate in Arizona.

00:34:05.000 I think he's going to be a great senator if he gets through the primary and it's looking better and better.

00:34:08.000 Blake, thank you for joining the program.

00:34:09.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:34:10.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:12.000 Email me your thoughts.

00:34:12.000 As always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:14.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:34:15.000 God bless.

00:34:17.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - June 14, 2022

It’s Time for Conservatives to Play Offense with Blake Masters

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