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00:01:41.000I want to talk kind of about gun control and pushback against a lot of Biden's kind of incoherent ramblings about this.
00:01:49.000It would be not even newsworthy if Joe Biden didn't have power, but he does have power.
00:01:55.000And Joe Biden is going to try to pass some form of federal gun confiscation, including what he calls increased background checks and red flag laws.
00:02:04.000And so I want to just repeat the point.
00:02:06.000These things might sound reasonable if you haven't been paying attention the last couple of years.
00:02:11.000If you have not been paying attention about what the federal government does to try to put you on lists and then act on those lists, whether it be vaccination lists, whether it be COVID surveillance, moms and dads being classified as domestic terrorists.
00:02:28.000So anytime now they act as if expanding the reach of the federal government, like, oh, well, we don't want these certain people to be able to own guns.
00:02:40.000Do the federal government response to COVID give you more trust of the government or less trust of the government?
00:02:47.000So the best example against gun control that I always make is pick a random federal bureaucrat and then fill in the sentence of the power you're about to give them.
00:02:59.000So I think some of you listening might say, Charlie, come on, we have to have waiting times and red flag laws.
00:03:05.000Like, okay, would you trust Anthony Fauci to execute such a policy?
00:03:12.000Would you trust Merrick Garland to execute such a policy?
00:03:17.000Would you trust Kamala Harris to execute such a policy?
00:03:21.000If the answer is yes, then you have far more trust in these Democrat operatives that call themselves cabinet secretaries than I do.
00:03:30.000It's kind of like trusting Nancy Pelosi's husband to be your chauffeur.
00:04:17.000The Constitution of the Second Amendment was never absolute.
00:04:20.000So at the time, actually, the ratification, the Second Amendment was absolute.
00:04:24.000There were no state-based or federal-based gun control laws until early in the 1800s.
00:04:31.000So he has his constitutional history wrong.
00:04:33.000And you actually could buy a cannon, by the way.
00:04:34.000He says you could buy a cannon at the time.
00:04:39.000So Joe Biden said something interesting, at least it's interesting to push back against it, where he says, why do you need these high-caliber rifles or high-caliber munitions?
00:04:52.000Now, later in that clip, he mentions being able to push back against your government.
00:05:00.000We have a different clip of him saying the identical, the exact same thing.
00:05:03.000So let's play CUT 42, and then we'll dive into it.
00:05:07.000As I said, as a senator and vice president, while they clearly will not prevent every tragedy, we know certain ones will have significant impact and have no negative impact on the Second Amendment.
00:06:05.000It is in case the federal government gets out of control.
00:06:11.000The only reason we did not have Shanghai-style lockdowns where 26 million people were locked down is because we had a Second Amendment.
00:06:17.000The Second Amendment protects all the other amendments.
00:06:21.000The federal government does not respect the people, but they would obliterate the people, Australia or New Zealand-style, if we did not own weapons.
00:06:30.000In fact, the Second Amendment actually brokers peace.
00:06:35.000It's a deterrent from potential authoritarianism and tyrannical behavior without ever actually having to fire a bullet, without ever actually having to, quote-unquote, arm up, just the thought or the possibility that that is in the calculus or in the equation makes a tyrant less likely to try and implement the vast, let's say, anti-freedom,
00:07:04.000anti-liberty agenda that has been attempted in our country.
00:07:09.000So gun control is now at the top of the mind of a lot of people.
00:07:12.000Senator John Cornyn, inexplicably from Texas, is negotiating with Democrats on this.
00:07:18.000This is how the negotiation should go.
00:07:26.000You don't negotiate with Democrats on gun control.
00:07:29.000You see, this is one of the reasons why they've been trying to expand the lists.
00:07:34.000If they can expand the definition of who's considered an extremist or a danger to society, then they're able to expand who is able to be disarmed.
00:07:44.000So, if every mom and dad that showed up at a school board meeting or complained about their child's curriculum is now a domestic terrorist, and they put in the bill that people that are classified as domestic terrorists can't own weapons, if you're not aware of kind of the game that's going on there, you say, well, yeah, of course, if you're a domestic terrorist, you shouldn't be able to own a weapon.
00:08:04.000And then some mom is like, I'm being called a domestic terrorist.
00:08:08.000So, the premise and the kind of push to radically expand what is defined as a terrorist is directly tied together to the gun control debate.
00:08:23.000Thought crimes of complaining about your child's curriculum could now potentially prevent you from being able to own a firearm to protect your family.
00:08:32.000Let's not forget that moms for liberty were labeled with the domestic terrorist labeling during the school board debates by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with a threat assessment tag.
00:08:46.000Robert Francis O'Rourke, the trust fund baby who wants to be Hispanic, who's an Irishman, and will soon be a three-time failed candidate, can't win a Senate race, can't win a presidential race, and he certainly can't win a governor's race.
00:08:59.000He thinks that if you own semi-automatic rifles, we should have them confiscated.
00:09:06.000I just took the position that may not be politically popular, maybe too honest: that not only should no one be able to purchase an AR-15 or an AK-47 because they're designed to kill humans in that high-impact, high-velocity round will just tear up everything inside.
00:09:21.000You'll bleed out before we can get you back to life.
00:09:24.000But I don't think that the people who have them right now in civilian use should be able to keep them.
00:09:30.000His misunderstanding of the technical nature of weapons is extraordinary considering how confident he talks about this.
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00:11:05.000Voting begins in four months, actually.
00:11:07.000Since we have voting month in America, it's kind of this perpetual voting season.
00:11:15.000On Thursday, the Cook political report, Amy Walter, a nonpartisan handicapping service, moved 10 of its House races in favor of Republicans and adjusted its GOP gains in the fall upward between 20 to 35 seats.
00:11:27.000Given that Biden's approval rating is underwater and dozens of districts he carried in 2022, any Democrat sitting in a single digit Biden seat or Trump seat is at severe risk.
00:11:37.000And even a few seats that Biden carried by 10 or 15 points could lose.
00:11:42.000Chris Eliza writes at CNN.com, the confluence of these predictions are built on several historical trends that have been predictive over decades.
00:11:52.000The first is that midterm elections tend to be bad for the president's party.
00:11:56.000Since World War II, the average seat loss for a president's party in the midterms is 26.
00:12:01.000I think Republicans are going to far exceed that.
00:12:03.000The generic ballot tends to favor Democrats marginally in a neutral political year.
00:12:09.000A recent poll from Quinnipiak, university showed Republicans a four-point edge on the generic ballot.
00:12:15.000The reality of this current political moment is that things appear to be getting worse for Democrats the closer we get to the election.
00:12:21.000Fears of a wave washing away even incumbents previously considered safe now seems entirely justified.
00:12:28.000CNN is trying to warn people what we have seen build throughout this entire year.
00:12:34.000Joe Biden thinks it's just about inflation.
00:12:36.000It is about inflation, but it's also just about the overly arrogant lectures that are being given.
00:12:46.000And look, I don't like the I told you so stuff and all this, but man, if I could show, if I had a candid camera of the meals that I had in Palm Beach or Los Angeles or San Francisco or New York with very, very wealthy people that said, oh, there's, this is a year ago.
00:13:28.000I think I was wrong then about the path that inflation would take.
00:13:35.000As I mentioned, there have been unanticipated and large shocks to the economy that have boosted energy and food prices and supply bottlenecks that have affected our economy badly that I at the time didn't fully understand.
00:13:56.000So she didn't quite understand because she's never actually worked in business.
00:13:59.000We employ over 400 people at Turning Point USA between the Charlie Kirk Show, Turning Point Action, Turning Point USA, including part and full-time employees.
00:14:06.000When you actually employ people, you have to do payroll.
00:14:22.000Like, okay, how about you get in the real world and you stop just looking at the clouds and you get into the weeds, what it's like to actually create jobs and move capital.
00:14:30.000This is going to be a different podcast for a different time.
00:14:33.000Why would it be a good thing that the government is under-reporting inflation?
00:14:37.000Like, why would it be a good thing the government is lying to us?
00:14:40.000Well, it's bad because it's really insulting to our intelligence, but it's actually good in one sense.
00:14:46.000State and local governments have what is called automatic pay adjustment scales based on what the national federal reported inflation number is.
00:14:56.000So, for example, in Scottsdale, they have to increase teacher pay.
00:15:01.000I don't know if this is the case in Scottsdale, but I know it's the case for a lot of public sector workers.
00:15:04.000They get an automatic boost every single year based on what the national inflation rate is.
00:15:11.000So, years prior, it was like a 1% or 2% increase that was barely noticeable.
00:15:16.000The fact that we're not actually reporting inflation, which is it's actually 30% in certain cities, especially in Phoenix, inflation is easily 30 to 35% in the last year in Phoenix.
00:15:27.000The fact that isn't being reported is actually going to save taxpayers a ton of money in future tax increases to actually restrain these massive increases that would happen for public sector workers and for teachers and teacher unions.
00:15:41.000So it's one unintended consequence of the lying deceit of the National Bureau of Economics.
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00:18:38.000It's directly across the border from Poland.
00:18:40.000My family lives just on the other side of the border in Poland.
00:18:42.000So we were visiting with them, stayed with them, and then we went across the border the next day.
00:18:47.000Lviv is still a hustling, bustling city, very open, very free.
00:18:51.000We were there on a weekend, a beautiful, gorgeous city.
00:18:54.000But then as we got further and further east, we ended up taking a night train down to Odessa, and then we're able to take a car through the checkpoints.
00:19:02.000That's what you're seeing in this video right now, into the city of Mikolaev.
00:19:05.000Now, Mikolaev is only a few kilometers, just a couple of miles from the front lines where in Russian-occupied territory of Kherson, which is the very next city over.
00:19:16.000So we made it about as far as the highway to Kherson, and we were essentially stopped by military saying, you know, we cannot allow any civilians to go further than this point.
00:19:25.000But the city of Mikolaev itself has received shelling, has been struck a few times.
00:19:30.000In fact, it was struck just the day after we left, the morning after the shipyards there at Strategic Shipyard City on the Black Sea.
00:19:36.000And conditions absolutely deteriorating the closer you get to Russian forces.
00:19:40.000So is Odessa still under Ukrainian control?
00:22:01.000Is this getting closer to an end or is it still escalating throughout the summer?
00:22:06.000Well, I think it is escalating throughout the summer.
00:22:08.000And I think the real, as you stated correctly, that they're pulling those troops or they have pulled those troops away in the north.
00:22:14.000But in the south and in the east, that's where you're seeing this steady battle of attrition and the steady onward push of Russian forces.
00:22:22.000So even while we were there, the day we left, we know there was fighting going on just outside the city of Mikolaev and Russian forces getting closer and closer in that region in the south.
00:22:33.000So it seems as though they've abandoned or maybe it was a feint or some type of deception ploy for this lightning strike on Kyiv.
00:22:43.000But what we're going in towards is the more traditional Russian form of fighting, where it's the low, slow crawl of the military as they just go town by town, street by street.
00:22:53.000What kind of casualties do you think have been amounted so far on both sides?
00:22:58.000This is another thing you can't quite get accurate numbers on in Western press.
00:23:15.000He's going to play up Russian casualties.
00:23:17.000And for Russia, the flip side, they're going to downplay Russian casualties and try to exaggerate Ukrainian casualties.
00:23:24.000But I mean, clearly, thousands and thousands of people have been killed in this thing by now.
00:23:28.000We know for sure that thousands of POWs are being taken, particularly in that east, in that Donbass, Donetsk, Lugansk region right now, where there was a massive battle just fought over the city of Severodonetsk.
00:23:39.000And then the city of Mariupol, which is sort of the eastern version of Odessa, if you will.
00:23:44.000They're the main port on the Sea of Azov on the other side of the Black Sea.
00:23:48.000That city has now been completely occupied and taken over by Russian forces.
00:24:19.000But then you've got also, everyone's favorite Hungarian billionaire came up at Davos and said, we need to press on until the government of Vladimir Putin is collapsed, until Putin falls and is taken out, right?
00:24:34.000I don't see any indications that Russia is slowing down their advance, certainly not in the South and in the East.
00:24:40.000And on the other side, Ukraine, those situations are deteriorating.
00:24:44.000This $40 billion that Americans particularly, I guess, had sent over or that Biden said he was sending over, I'm not seeing where it is unless it's all the way down at the front lines because I'm not seeing it.
00:24:54.000But I will tell you this, Charlie, the people down there in Ukraine, what they were selling us was, we want AR-15s, we want AK-47s, and why?
00:25:01.000Because we want to be able to defend ourselves.
00:25:03.000So it was kind of an interesting, interesting take because I know back in the U.S., everyone's talking about gun rights and the Second Amendment.
00:25:50.000Well, I think it's kind of what, to your point, right?
00:25:52.000It's the regime in the U.S. realizes that just from a practical perspective, there's too many guns in the U.S. to really do anything about it.
00:26:00.000And we're not like New Zealand, right?
00:26:02.000You're not going to have people lining up to turn over their guns if they ever posted anything like that or pass anything like that.
00:26:09.000That's why you've got Trudeau running around screaming that, you know, hyper signaling that he's going to take away all the guns of Canada, all the handguns, right?
00:26:17.000Joe Biden saying he's going to declare war against nine millimeter ammunition.
00:26:20.000Because at the end of the day, they know the American people won't actually stand for this, number one.
00:26:25.000But deep down, they all understand this, that, you know, and people know that I'm a student of Chinese history, Chairman Mao, right?
00:26:44.000That is where this sovereignty of whether it be the United States, whether it be Ukraine, whether it be Russia, whether it be these various breakaway republics, that's where it's decided on the battlefield.
00:26:55.000Number two, if you want to be able to defend yourself, defend your home, defend your rights, right?
00:27:01.000That's the entire point of the Second Amendment as well.
00:27:04.000And there is a huge power play going on right now inside the United States over it.
00:27:08.000But honestly, I think it's going to be completely fruitless because when push comes to SOV, the ability of people to be able to own individual firearms in the United States is extremely popular.
00:27:19.000You're never going to see a major push in the United States.
00:27:22.000And this is a huge difference, by the way, between Americans and Europeans, right?
00:27:26.000European conservatives aren't really on board with the Second Amendment and the love of guns the way you see in America.
00:27:32.000It's something I get questioned about a lot when I'm in Europe.
00:27:34.000It's like, why do you guys care so much?
00:27:54.000It's not that Putin wouldn't have necessarily not have done it, but it would have been now all of a sudden like, hey, I mean, you know, 30 million people.
00:28:05.000Now you've got to do, now you have to field 200,000 men in the field or 300,000.
00:28:09.000Now you've got more tanks, more ammo, more gasoline, more, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:28:13.000So if you drive, wars break out when the cost of war is cheaper than the cost of peace, right?
00:28:19.000So if you can drive up the cost of war in any way possible, like for example, I don't know, arming your populace, then it's more likely that war isn't going to happen.
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00:29:40.000Jack, what happened at the World Health Assembly in Geneva?
00:29:50.000Well, Charlie, at the World Health Assembly, right, which is held there in Geneva, Switzerland, concurrently with the World Economic Forum that was going on in Davos, just a few hours across the Alps there.
00:30:01.000They are pushing forward with this new treaty, essentially a pandemic treaty that would push the sovereignty of our countries at risk because it would allow the World Health Organization to have the ability to declare when there is a pandemic in your country.
00:30:19.000Now, we know that the IHRs, these were the international health regulations that were promulgated and supported by the Biden administration.
00:30:28.000In fact, some of them even submitted by the Biden administration.
00:30:31.000Those are the ones that were going down here at this iteration of the World Health Assembly.
00:30:37.000But their plans are still in place for a pandemic treaty for by essentially 2024 is their target date for this.
00:30:46.000And we were looking at it because I remember seeing that some people saying, oh, there was no pandemic treaty.
00:30:51.000There's nothing to talk about, Charlie.
00:30:52.000No, they've been holding active open session hearings on this thing.
00:30:57.000They've been holding discussions on it.
00:30:59.000And, you know, Tedros will make some of these comments saying as if it's, well, it's, you know, it's just going to be a legally enforceable writ or some type of resolution.
00:31:08.000No, it's clearly being done under the guise of a treaty.
00:31:12.000They were trying to slow walk this thing and get it in under the radar.
00:31:15.000But because so many people, so many of the great people of this program and the other programs out there in this movement have called attention to it.
00:31:44.000They're going to be trying again for the next couple of years.
00:31:47.000It's funny because this initially started, I didn't realize this at first, but this initially started because of the criticisms of China and the fact that the CCP at the beginning of this pandemic wasn't being forthcoming with their information about COVID-19, the origins.
00:32:02.000And if you remember, Charlie, even early on, they were lying to the WHO about human-to-human spread, about so many different types of the ability of COVID-19 just to infect people, right?
00:32:13.000We have the mass debates and the vaccine mandate debates now, but early on, they were saying that humans couldn't even infect other humans with this thing.
00:32:20.000So the idea for a pandemic treaty supposedly was inculcated as an idea to get around that problem: what happens if you have an epidemic that's breaking out in one country that isn't being reported and then the WHO trigger system can't go in place the way these organizations are supposed to work.
00:32:37.000But instead, once they opened up the Pandora's box of saying we're going to have international regulations and international controls for the WHO, now, just like everything else, just like you would see in Washington, D.C. with one of these things, people are adding everything they can to this thing because they want to empower the WHO far more than any of our own elected national governments.
00:33:02.000Keep in mind, this isn't just for the United States.
00:33:04.000This is for the 194 member nations of the WHO.
00:33:28.000I think it's a red pill in a sense, because when you look at these situations, right, this is the end result of the Me Too movement, right?
00:33:36.000This idea that all men should be, you know, all men are the villains and that all women should be believed without having any evidence, without having any proof, any due process, any investigation whatsoever.
00:33:50.000We saw it with Kavanaugh, we saw it with Trump again and again.