The Charlie Kirk Show - Mangioneism + Mamdaniism vs MAGA

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio.

00:00:04.000 Why won't the Senate get off their tail and confirm all of Trump's nominees?

00:00:09.000 Well, I walks through some ideas, including a radical one that involves air conditioning that has gone very viral.

00:00:16.000 Momdaniism, Maggionism, and the terrible shooting that happened in New York.

00:00:20.000 I connect all the dots, including my viral New York tweet that honestly was not that controversial.

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00:01:40.000 There's a lot of news happening and the terrible shooting that happened late last night in New York City.

00:01:44.000 We are going to dive into that in just a moment, but we want to dive right into a very important news story.

00:01:51.000 Why is the Senate failing to confirm Trump's nominees?

00:01:55.000 Now, of course, Democrats are largely to blame for this, but Republicans can do more.

00:01:59.000 Joining us now is a great man, someone who made time to come on the program, and I was guest hosting on Fox and Friends weekend, and I greatly appreciate it.

00:02:06.000 Senator Mark Wayne Mullen from Oklahoma.

00:02:09.000 Senator, great to see you.

00:02:10.000 As you know, I'm a little fired up about this.

00:02:12.000 This is something that I'm losing patience because I have 10, 12, 15 friends that are waiting to get confirmed.

00:02:19.000 People like Sarah Rogers at the Department of State, people like Brent Bozell, ambassadors.

00:02:23.000 And so, Senator, I want you to, I'm going to give you the first opening here.

00:02:27.000 And this is not a criticism of you at all, Senator.

00:02:29.000 I'm just expressing the rage of the audience.

00:02:33.000 So please, first, Senator, build out the current plan and we'll go from there.

00:02:36.000 Senator Mark Wayne Mullen.

00:02:38.000 So let me walk through what's happening, first of all.

00:02:41.000 I think the context is important.

00:02:43.000 First of all, this time last year, or last year, this time in Trump 45, we only had 55 confirmed nominees.

00:02:50.000 We have 108 right now.

00:02:52.000 Thun said at this at the beginning of his leadership of the Senate, he said, the Democrats can either work with us and we can do it the easy way or we can do it the hard way, which is why we've been in D.C. voting on the floor more consecutive days than any time in the last 10 years, and we've cast more votes than any Senate in the last 35 years.

00:03:16.000 But to say this, to put it also in context, out of 108 confirmations, the Democrats have filibustered 107 of them.

00:03:26.000 That has never happened in the history of the President of the United States with his nominees, ever.

00:03:33.000 And I spoke to the President in length about this this weekend.

00:03:36.000 He wasn't even aware of that.

00:03:38.000 And the only nominee that they haven't filibustered is Marco Rubio.

00:03:42.000 So they drag out the time.

00:03:44.000 And the fastest we can get these nominees done is roughly three and a half hours.

00:03:48.000 And that's if the Democrats, they don't have, they don't use any privileged motions or a motion to discharge or a privileged motion to recess.

00:04:00.000 They don't ask for a quorum call.

00:04:02.000 All those muddy it up every time they do that.

00:04:05.000 And so, and then at the same time, we have 55 nominees that have come out of committee and with bipartisan support.

00:04:13.000 Now, there isn't any reason why we can't you see those, which when I say you see a unanimous consent without even taking a vote, but because the Democrats are gumming the system up, it is it's put us at a serious disadvantage.

00:04:27.000 So we are pushing as hard as we can underneath the circumstances, and we're dealing with really a time in the Senate that the Senate has never seen on nominees.

00:04:37.000 I was literally before I got on your show talking to a Democrat about having a package because they don't want to be here in August.

00:04:46.000 We as Republicans are willing to do whatever it takes.

00:04:49.000 Yeah.

00:04:49.000 And so they are actually talking now about negotiating a package on a certain number of bipartisan nominees.

00:04:57.000 And I dealt with it all weekend long, dealing with my Democrat colleagues, dealing with the White House, dealing with the president, and dealing with Leonard Thune.

00:05:07.000 Well, and look, so here's my thing.

00:05:10.000 And Senator, thank you for working on that.

00:05:12.000 Number one, this is a great example of how Democrats always play hardball and we play softball.

00:05:18.000 We did not do this to Biden's nominees because we want the country to run.

00:05:22.000 We think, okay, in some ways we feel better about ourselves when we do that.

00:05:27.000 We're polite.

00:05:28.000 We're very cautious.

00:05:30.000 We don't want to uproot a system.

00:05:32.000 But the reason why I think this is getting so many people animated, myself included, is that it's now time for us to not take the kind of procedural high road or break tradition.

00:05:42.000 But I'm not even talking about breaking tradition.

00:05:44.000 Senator, you hit on this, and I think this is the only way that we need to proceed, which is, listen, the Democrats, we know what they don't want.

00:05:52.000 And in a negotiation, when you know breaking points, you can easily get to what you want.

00:05:56.000 If you announced right now that you are going to have 18 to 20-hour voter ramas all August, Senator, wouldn't you agree by day three, the Democrats will be broken and they will basically give you guys what you want?

00:06:11.000 Is that a plan that is being considered?

00:06:14.000 Because the Democrats, they're not going to work all August, Senator.

00:06:18.000 Well, so this is the dynamics behind this too.

00:06:20.000 Keep in mind, Darren of Bodarama, we have to have a corn call.

00:06:25.000 Their owner requires one Democrat to be here.

00:06:27.000 So every Republican would have to be here, One Democrat.

00:06:30.000 So they could do this forever because they could just have one Republican that Chris Murphy basically lives in the Capitol because he's auditioning for president.

00:06:38.000 He would just stay here and rotate people in and out.

00:06:42.000 So there's a way that they can work around that.

00:06:44.000 They don't, I mean, what do they care if they miss a nominee vote?

00:06:47.000 But the problem is if they were to call quorum call anytime during that time and we couldn't produce 51 votes, which we have older members, that recess appointment, the recess, they could put us into recess for an indefinite amount of time.

00:07:03.000 So there's because of the ridiculous rules that the Senate has, and it's mind-blowing what we have to deal with.

00:07:10.000 We always have to be cautious on how we're moving.

00:07:13.000 But I will tell you, I'll repeat this, Charlie.

00:07:16.000 Leader Thun has said this, we will do whatever it takes.

00:07:20.000 So we're planning on pushing forward and staying here in August as long as we can put 51 votes on the floor.

00:07:29.000 And because we have to have that, it takes all 51 of us Republicans.

00:07:32.000 It can't take 49 of us because there's four that could bail and put us in a bad situation.

00:07:37.000 Remember, the only time JD can cast a vote is if it's breaking a tie.

00:07:41.000 So we have to have at least 50 here at all times.

00:07:45.000 But we feel very confident that the Democrats will cave and they will start working on a package because this is a debate we had just a second ago, Charlie.

00:07:54.000 I mean, I won't mention the Democrats' name, but on the elevator ride down here to my little hideaway, which is a cave.

00:08:04.000 But to honor my way down here, I said, listen, you guys talk about the temperature being high and how much your constituents just despise Trump and you guys have to fight.

00:08:14.000 The temperature could not have been any higher than it was in 21 when Biden was in office.

00:08:21.000 And this goes to your point.

00:08:23.000 We still gave him 44 bipartisan nominees right before the August recess, which would be almost exactly to the same day right now.

00:08:32.000 And I said, so don't tell me about your constituent base.

00:08:35.000 Our base couldn't have been fired up more than your, or any less than your constituent base, and we still did it.

00:08:41.000 So these bipartisan, the 55 that we have, we ought to be able to work out a number that you guys are willing to accept.

00:08:49.000 And so you're highlighting something.

00:08:51.000 You're correct that a voter Rama, they just need one person as a stand-in.

00:08:55.000 And look, I'm glad we have the majority.

00:08:57.000 You and I both know we got some octogenarians.

00:08:59.000 They go to bed at 4 p.m., right?

00:09:00.000 So it's not exactly, and just the way it does look, I'm glad we have Grassley, but he's on farmer time.

00:09:07.000 But here's the key, though.

00:09:09.000 In every deliberative legislative body, the Democrats want something.

00:09:13.000 They want something.

00:09:15.000 They either want to have representation in an omnibus, they're showing their cards.

00:09:21.000 You have to withhold whatever they want.

00:09:24.000 And sometimes you can force votes where they want to be present during the month of August.

00:09:29.000 You get what I'm saying.

00:09:30.000 There are some votes where they want to be present for, right?

00:09:34.000 You guys can do committee hearings where they want to be present for.

00:09:37.000 So you put together a massive deal that breaks their will and be like, hey, we're going to get our people.

00:09:43.000 And look, I will offer a little grace to Senator Thune and to you guys.

00:09:47.000 The One Big Beautiful bill basically, that was the priority.

00:09:50.000 So it prevented some more nuclear options because everyone's like, hey, we got to get this big, beautiful bill passed.

00:09:56.000 We'll get to personnel once that passed.

00:09:58.000 So I get that.

00:09:59.000 And so that's what we want to hear.

00:10:02.000 But by Labor Day, we want a clean roster.

00:10:04.000 At the very least, we want to see it where Trump's imperative critical nominees are not just in a waiting place.

00:10:13.000 Okay, Senator, you wanted to chime in there, please.

00:10:15.000 So yes, you're 100% correct on this, and it did create some issues.

00:10:19.000 But to go nuclear on this and try to clear the slate, we have 1 roughly 80 nominees that have been reported to the floor.

00:10:28.000 If we stayed in every single day and used all the floor time available, the most we could probably get done is about three a day, if that's possible.

00:10:36.000 I don't even think that's even possible to get done.

00:10:38.000 I think it's more realistic because three and a half, it takes three and a half hours per one.

00:10:42.000 So two takes seven hours.

00:10:44.000 That's if there's no procedural motions between, which they will do procedural motions to slow the process down.

00:10:50.000 We still couldn't get it clean slate.

00:10:52.000 But we do work with the White House on the president's priorities.

00:10:55.000 The president signs off on every single person that we put up here.

00:10:58.000 Here's an option that we have talked about.

00:11:02.000 And this is a nuclear option.

00:11:03.000 This is just something we've talked about.

00:11:06.000 Is essentially ending the debate time on all bipartisan nominees.

00:11:12.000 So if they get reported out of committee with bipartisan, even if it's one Democrat that votes for them, that that would eliminate the two hours because no one can say that two hour debate or 30 hour debate has ever changed anybody's vote on the nominee.

00:11:27.000 By the time it comes to the floor, we already know where the votes are at.

00:11:30.000 It's just a timing thing, of course.

00:11:31.000 It is.

00:11:32.000 That's exactly right.

00:11:33.000 And so it's just a time for people to get their five minutes of fame on whatever catchy phrase they're going to have.

00:11:41.000 This is every option is being talked about.

00:11:43.000 The leadership table, Leader Thud is looking at it a very aggressive approach.

00:11:48.000 However, to change that rule, technically it takes 67 votes in the Senate to change a rule.

00:11:57.000 So we're trying to deal, we're trying to look into what rule we can use to bypass that.

00:12:03.000 The rules in the Senate are, you want to beat your head against the wall because it's what holds up everything.

00:12:10.000 It's what gums up everything.

00:12:12.000 And so, and these rules aren't constitutionally binding, but the vote is the way that it is set up.

00:12:18.000 And so to break it, that's the process we find ourselves into.

00:12:22.000 But I can't express it enough.

00:12:25.000 We are doing everything we can to actually break their will.

00:12:29.000 And I think we may actually be able to do it right now.

00:12:31.000 And President Trump is talking to us every day about it.

00:12:35.000 Look, break their will, turn off the air conditioning, make life uncomfortable.

00:12:39.000 If you make life uncomfortable for them.

00:12:41.000 And here's the here.

00:12:42.000 No, no, it's not done.

00:12:43.000 Look, what they're doing is awful, though, Senator.

00:12:46.000 They're supporting popular sovereignty and the will of the American.

00:12:49.000 Enough is enough.

00:12:50.000 You turn the U.S. Senate into a sweat lodge.

00:12:52.000 That thing gets to 87 and humid.

00:12:54.000 They will come groveling to you.

00:12:57.000 I mean, seriously, you go do the whole vote thing.

00:13:00.000 They're going to go send us back to Aspen.

00:13:02.000 Send us to Kenny Bunkport.

00:13:03.000 But look, we got to go in a second.

00:13:04.000 You've got to dash.

00:13:05.000 Here is the kicker.

00:13:06.000 And I want you to tell your colleagues: guys, we're not talking about going nuclear to pass a tax bill, okay?

00:13:11.000 This is nuclear for personnel, and a president deserves to have his people.

00:13:14.000 So, therefore, the question is always: well, what if the Democrats use it against us?

00:13:17.000 Well, if the Democrats want nuclear to get their people and one day that they have a presidency, they're kind of entitled to their people because that's the whole point of an election, okay?

00:13:25.000 And so, this is not that this is not like a tradition that's being broken that's going to destroy us in the future.

00:13:31.000 This is not all of a sudden that this is a tradition that we're breaking that one day they can pass the Green New Deal with 50 votes.

00:13:36.000 That's not what we're talking about, okay?

00:13:38.000 This, they're the ones that are breaking tradition, filibustering every single nominee.

00:13:42.000 It's simply about personnel.

00:13:44.000 Senator, please go back to your colleagues and express the fastball that you just experienced.

00:13:48.000 You're absolutely correct.

00:13:50.000 20 seconds.

00:13:51.000 Yeah, you're absolutely correct on this.

00:13:52.000 Harry Reid actually spoke about this.

00:13:53.000 99.

00:13:55.000 Mitch McConnell gave a speech in 2017 that the presidents deserve to have their personnel in place.

00:14:01.000 That's why we're looking at every option.

00:14:03.000 I do want to defend one guy, though.

00:14:05.000 Chuck Grassley is not the problem.

00:14:08.000 I actually have a problem-working guy.

00:14:11.000 I know.

00:14:13.000 I love Chuck Grassley, but you and I both know the best one's got to be fixed.

00:14:17.000 We got to go turn off the air conditioning.

00:14:18.000 You'll get them all confirmed.

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00:15:22.000 Just to summarize what I was saying, though, with Senator Mark Rayne Mullen, is that at every corner and every single turn, it seems as if we are the ones that are polite and that we are procedural and we are guarding tradition.

00:15:34.000 The Democrats, they don't care about any tradition.

00:15:36.000 Now, we should be traditionalists because we're conservatives in our DNA.

00:15:39.000 We like how things are.

00:15:41.000 We don't want to change them.

00:15:42.000 We don't want to be revolutionaries.

00:15:43.000 I think that is a proper posture to have towards politics.

00:15:48.000 Just overthrowing the table and constantly playing into a French or Russian revolution mindset, that is not who we are.

00:15:55.000 Edmund Burke wrote in the Reflections on the French Revolution about this, that we as conservatives must be prudent and we must be intentional anytime we are going to change laws or customs.

00:16:09.000 But what we're talking about here is that Democrats have actually broken from tradition and that we are globbing on to tradition.

00:16:16.000 Are we going to respond in kind?

00:16:19.000 And I'm not joking about the air conditioning.

00:16:22.000 Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does it say, you know, Amendment 19, Senate must have air conditioning.

00:16:29.000 What I'm getting at the air conditioning is half joking, half reality.

00:16:32.000 It's make the Democrats uncomfortable.

00:16:35.000 They don't control the House.

00:16:36.000 They don't control the Senate.

00:16:38.000 They did not win the election.

00:16:39.000 They got blown out.

00:16:40.000 The popularity of the Democrat Party is at the lowest levels imaginable.

00:16:45.000 I'm using this as an example of what kind of mindset it takes to win.

00:16:48.000 And you know what?

00:16:48.000 I bet if you actually turn out the air conditioning, they'd go to the media.

00:16:52.000 Chuck Schumer would be complaining.

00:16:53.000 And John Thune would be like, the air conditioning comes on when we get our nominees.

00:16:57.000 Time to play hardball.

00:16:58.000 And look, there's some members of the U.S. Senate that would not exactly do well in a U.S. sauna called the U.S. Senate.

00:17:09.000 And just so we're clear, if Jon Thune set, I'm not kidding with this.

00:17:13.000 If he turned off the air conditioning, the base of MAGA would think this guy would be a hero.

00:17:19.000 He'd think he'd be a, and he would kind of do it somewhat half-heartedly, but kind of jokingly.

00:17:23.000 Like, don't be too serious about it, if you're a Thune. 1.00

00:17:25.000 Like, hey, air conditioning.

00:17:26.000 The founders didn't have air conditioning when they wrote the Declaration of Independence.

00:17:29.000 There was no air conditioning in Independence Hall.

00:17:32.000 So if you guys want to filibuster every single one, you guys want to go through every single one of these people, then we are going to turn this into a Swedish sweat lodge. 0.87

00:17:43.000 And boy, I know, I don't know about you, but I do not want to see Dick Durbin in a Swedish sweat lodge. 0.99

00:17:49.000 That alone, the visuals of Dick Durbin in a Swedish sweat lodge.

00:17:55.000 Look, the point is this, is that if you're going to try to appeal to the Democrats' virtue or higher calling, they don't have a higher calling.

00:18:07.000 They don't want to see the border secure.

00:18:09.000 You know they don't love the United States of America.

00:18:11.000 They're at war against the American Republic.

00:18:13.000 There is no appealing to their higher angels.

00:18:16.000 There are no higher angels.

00:18:17.000 There's only the lower demons of the Democrat Party.

00:18:19.000 That's all it is. 1.00

00:18:21.000 They are in the trenches of the scum rats of politics. 0.99

00:18:25.000 We know this, okay? 0.99

00:18:26.000 So why are we trying to persuade and we're trying to create a deal?

00:18:30.000 Break their will.

00:18:31.000 They are taking the United States hostage.

00:18:35.000 This is an act of hostage political situation happening in the U.S. Senate.

00:18:39.000 And so how do you negotiate with hostage takers?

00:18:42.000 Do you say, well, Chuck Schumer, can you please allow 20 more nominees to get through?

00:18:47.000 Go hardball.

00:18:49.000 Come up with 10 things.

00:18:51.000 Cutting the air conditioning, stripping them off committees.

00:18:55.000 And look, I like the language I'm hearing from Thune. 1.00

00:18:57.000 I like the language I'm hearing from Mark Wayne Mullen.

00:18:59.000 And one of the things I don't like is when they say, well, yeah, you know, we've confirmed more nominees anytime it's time.

00:19:04.000 That is not applicable.

00:19:07.000 Back in 2017, we had Rushigate.

00:19:09.000 We had Bob Mueller.

00:19:10.000 We failed on the health care vote.

00:19:12.000 And Donald Trump was a surprise victor in 2016.

00:19:15.000 The country was profoundly more left-wing in 2016 than it is today.

00:19:19.000 That is a low bar.

00:19:21.000 So don't all of a sudden act as if, well, we're really accomplishing because we're being what we happen in 1.0.

00:19:27.000 Okay, that was like a minimum threshold back in Trump 1.0, minimum standard threshold.

00:19:33.000 Here is John.

00:19:33.000 It's a long clip, I don't have time to play it.

00:19:35.000 John Thun is basically saying, these are guys, by the way, they get in.

00:19:38.000 What is the Senate work schedule?

00:19:40.000 The Senate work schedule is you get in on Tuesday afternoon and you leave Thursday at lunch.

00:19:46.000 How many of you in this audience would be able to feed a family, be able to pay a bill, be able to fulfill your mortgage obligation if you worked from Tuesday afternoon to Thursday at lunch?

00:19:58.000 So what they need to do is announce an all-August work campaign.

00:20:03.000 We're going to go every single day and we are going to go every vote and there will be no air conditioning, Democrats.

00:20:10.000 It's going to become uncomfortable.

00:20:13.000 And then if you want your comfort back, if you want to go do your fundraisers in Napa Valley, if you want to go to French Laundry alongside Gavin Newsom, if you guys want to go to Aspen and Kenny Bunkport and Jackson Hole and you guys want to be able to go to the Yellowstone Club amongst all the ruling class members that you guys pander to, if you want to go rub elbows and sip champagne amongst the oligarchs of American society, we will release you if you let us have Trump's people.

00:20:40.000 If.

00:20:41.000 Until then, there will be no air conditioning.

00:20:45.000 There will be no bottles of water.

00:20:46.000 Well, there might be bottles of water.

00:20:47.000 That's a little cruel.

00:20:49.000 We're going to make this uncomfortable for the Democrats because we are in charge and we won the election and Chuck Schumer did not.

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00:22:04.000 Last night was a terrible story.

00:22:06.000 I was watching the Cubs game, just kind of enjoying a relatively light day, all things being equal, and this terrible story of the New York City shooting materialized.

00:22:19.000 So here is what we know, is that a shooter drove all the way, I'm trying not to use his name, because I think it only, there's a whole philosophy I have around with it.

00:22:28.000 And Ben Shapiro said that once, and I agree with him completely.

00:22:32.000 And basically, don't use shooters' names only gives them more unearned notoriety.

00:22:38.000 Anyway, so he drives, yeah, don't promote evil, but we'll talk about the situation.

00:22:42.000 This disgusting person drove all the way from Las Vegas to New York, wasn't from there, came out with a pretty serious weapon.

00:22:50.000 I don't know the exact weaponry, so I don't want to misspeak. 0.92

00:22:52.000 Goes to a building, was an M4, really.

00:22:56.000 Wow.

00:22:57.000 Where Blackstone and the NFL is, gets, basically starts spraying fire, kills a couple people, goes up to the 33rd floor, kills an executive from Blackstone.

00:23:07.000 Just a terrible situation.

00:23:09.000 And all of this was happening basically live on cable television as it was happening.

00:23:14.000 So a couple, just to be clear, as you guys know, I hosted Fox and Friends weekend this last weekend.

00:23:21.000 I was in New York, just blocks away from where this happened, walking those very same streets with my family.

00:23:28.000 And so I sent out a tweet last night that was, I think, really not controversial at all.

00:23:33.000 And people, they read stuff into it that has really no applicability to what I was actually saying.

00:23:40.000 And so basically what I said last night, someone could pull up the tweet.

00:23:43.000 I'm sure, let me try to find it here, is essentially this, that, and everyone says, Charlie Kirk torched for reaction to New York City shooting.

00:23:50.000 No, I wasn't torched.

00:23:51.000 It's just complete BS.

00:23:52.000 It was this, was just in New York City all weekend with our family.

00:23:56.000 Never felt safe.

00:23:57.000 So many people in the city who don't belong praying for all involved.

00:24:01.000 So what do I mean by not belonging?

00:24:02.000 Well, let me tell you what I mean by not belonging.

00:24:05.000 When you're walking down Fifth Avenue with your wife and your two-year-old daughter, and there are homeless people tweaking out because they have overdosed on drugs, hunched over with a scarecrow look, barking, screaming at your wife and at your daughter, yeah, they don't belong in New York City.

00:24:24.000 Now, of course, that does not necessarily applicable with this story of what we saw in New York City.

00:24:30.000 But when that does something to you when you're walking the streets of a major city and they are yapping at your kids, you put 334, every single liberal, you know, and many alleged conservatives tried to attack me on Twitter last night.

00:24:44.000 Whatever, okay.

00:24:46.000 They're like, oh, New York's homicide rate is lower than other places.

00:24:49.000 Actually, it's violent crime rate.

00:24:50.000 Do you know the violent crime rate in New York City is higher than Boston and Chicago?

00:24:54.000 So yes, the murder rate is lower, but the violent crime rate is actually higher.

00:24:58.000 And so what do I mean by people that don't belong? 0.86

00:25:00.000 These people deserve to go to mental wards. 1.00

00:25:04.000 Some of them. 0.86

00:25:04.000 If you are on the street of New York and you're either defecating, you are overdosing on drugs, or if you are lunging and barking at, and you've all experienced this in a major metropolitan city, where the homeless person is like crunched over. 0.86

00:25:19.000 They obviously have just taken some drugs and they should not be out there yelling in front of two-year-olds or three-year-olds.

00:25:27.000 And people say, oh, Charlie, how do you not feel safe in New York?

00:25:30.000 At another situation, there were just random people that would be going up like five feet away from Erica and I, filming us, and then homeless people lunging at us.

00:25:40.000 It is not the city that it was 10 years ago.

00:25:42.000 I'm very relieved that everything was fine.

00:25:44.000 And so it's very close to home.

00:25:45.000 So anyway, it's a non-story.

00:25:47.000 Just a tweet I sent out.

00:25:48.000 I'll say it again.

00:25:49.000 Was just in New York City all weekend with our family.

00:25:51.000 Never felt safe.

00:25:52.000 So many people in the city who don't belong praying for all involved.

00:25:56.000 And I was glad, of course, to be there for Fox and friends, obviously.

00:25:59.000 But when you have Little kids, and you are walking the streets in New York, and we had security with us.

00:26:05.000 It was fine, but again, and then every third person is noticing you, which is very nice and very kind, but not all positive, I could tell you.

00:26:12.000 It's not exactly a fan fest.

00:26:15.000 Let's just put it this way: it's not Lubbock, Texas walking the streets of New York.

00:26:20.000 Very thankful, obviously.

00:26:20.000 Fox and Friends treated me so well.

00:26:22.000 But let's get down to the more important story here, because that's just, that's a little silly sideshow.

00:26:27.000 But just to quote unquote, clarify what I was saying, who doesn't belong? 0.62

00:26:32.000 The homeless mental ward types that are overdosing on drugs, lunging at people, they don't belong. 0.99

00:26:39.000 Okay, so not to mention the tens of thousands of illegals at the Roosevelt Hotel, you don't belong. 0.99

00:26:45.000 Or the people that have immigrated to New York City and they don't assimilate and they're breaking laws, do not belong. 0.99

00:26:52.000 So yes, there's a lot of people in New York that do not belong, but you say that, it just drives the left crazy.

00:26:57.000 Here's what scares me about this situation, though, the most, is that we're seeing this disturbing rise of targeted assassinations inspired by this Maggioni creep. 0.94

00:27:10.000 And Maggioni has some philosophical connective tissue with Momdani, where Momdani, of course, is not calling for violence.

00:27:19.000 He doesn't want to defund the police and all that.

00:27:20.000 But Maggiani and Momdani, they both have a bitterness, resentment-driven view of success.

00:27:29.000 Poverty is the norm.

00:27:32.000 Having no money is how we entered into this world.

00:27:36.000 We entered into this planet with nothing.

00:27:40.000 And we have had to build civilization.

00:27:42.000 When you have had an opportunity to travel to the third world, like I have, you see what it's like to have nothing.

00:27:48.000 No running water, no toilets.

00:27:50.000 Civilization is not the norm.

00:27:52.000 It is the exception.

00:27:54.000 So how do we view then excess success in the West?

00:27:58.000 And we want to be careful that, of course, that we don't have excess and that people still have some equity in the system, but you take it for granted.

00:28:07.000 Now, Maggioni and the shooter last night, they both had serious mental cases and they should, that's a whole separate topic that we should explore.

00:28:16.000 But Mom Dani is the political representative of Maggioneism.

00:28:23.000 Mom Dani represents, you hate the corporate types, you're not making enough money, you have resentment-driven politics, you have anger towards the system, elect me, and I will burn it all down. 1.00

00:28:40.000 Now, this, we don't quite know the motive yet for this young man that did this, this evil person that went into 345 Park Avenue.

00:28:47.000 We don't know the entire story.

00:28:49.000 We say that it's CTE or NFL related, but again, that is still being built out.

00:28:55.000 So the, and CTE, by the way, just so we're clear, is chronic traumatic.

00:29:02.000 Boy, that's quite a word.

00:29:04.000 Enclopopathy, which is CTE.

00:29:07.000 Let's play cut 336 of Eric Adams, but then it gets even darker of how the media covered it.

00:29:13.000 Let's play cut 336.

00:29:16.000 Tell us about the apparent suicide note that was in the shooter's pocket.

00:29:22.000 He alluded to having CTE from playing in the NFL.

00:29:28.000 He never played in the NFL, and he alluded to the CTE being the reason for his illness.

00:29:37.000 It appears as though he was going after the employees at the NFL, the building, 345 housed, the NFL's company there as well.

00:29:52.000 But we're still going through the suicide note to zero in on the exact reason.

00:29:59.000 But at this time, it appears as though something that is attached to his belief he experienced CTE from playing in the NFL.

00:30:07.000 In some ways, that gives us some clarity.

00:30:09.000 Okay, that's what this guy was.

00:30:10.000 It was targeted, obviously very disturbed, very murky.

00:30:13.000 The whole thing is very murky because he ended up then on the floors of Blackstone 33, floors up, and kill the Blackstone executive, which is just terrible.

00:30:23.000 Should not happen.

00:30:24.000 And so we'll see if more information comes out there.

00:30:27.000 However, how did the media cover it?

00:30:29.000 This just goes to show they have this default setting to what? 0.91

00:30:32.000 To blame white people. 0.97

00:30:35.000 They have a default setting to blame white people. 0.98

00:30:37.000 This goes right back to the hate crime that we saw in Cincinnati of the black mob that was going after those white people.

00:30:43.000 The baseline introductory thought when you are hosting a cable television show and there is breaking news is it's okay to blame a white person, even though this guy was obviously not white.

00:30:54.000 I think he was like a mix of black and Asian.

00:30:56.000 It doesn't matter.

00:30:57.000 The point is that they were racializing.

00:30:59.000 It's like the reflexes.

00:31:00.000 It must be a white person. 0.98

00:31:01.000 They are trained to hate white people so much and to identify it as white people. 0.98

00:31:06.000 And you know who else blames white people? 0.99

00:31:08.000 Mom Donnie blames white people. 1.00

00:31:10.000 Do you see the connective tissue between Mangioni, between this lunatic and Mom Donnie? 0.97

00:31:15.000 Mom Donnie is the political mascot of these one-off crimes that we have seen in New York City. 1.00

00:31:22.000 I'm not saying Mom Donnie supports it, but there is philosophical congruity.

00:31:27.000 There is a connective part here.

00:31:31.000 And it really shows the mentality of the press. 0.99

00:31:33.000 They hate white people. 0.96

00:31:36.000 This is an extraordinary piece of tape. 0.99

00:31:38.000 Play cut 325.

00:31:40.000 They do not know who he is.

00:31:42.000 They know he is a male, possibly white.

00:31:48.000 He's wearing sunglasses.

00:31:49.000 He appears to have a mustache.

00:31:51.000 And that picture has been distributed to every police officer in New York City, particularly has been sent to the phones of the search teams inside that building.

00:32:03.000 Possibly white.

00:32:04.000 And this is a white guy that's saying that on TV.

00:32:07.000 No, no, he's not possibly white.

00:32:09.000 He was very much not white. 0.97

00:32:11.000 The progressive white people have such self-loathing. 0.87

00:32:14.000 And by the way, Aaron Burnett then repeated it. 0.98

00:32:17.000 Does that look like a possibly white suspect? 0.51

00:32:21.000 They racialized this right out of the gate, completely unnecessarily.

00:32:26.000 And we're the ones that are always talking about, we're getting accused of racializing Our politics.

00:32:30.000 No, we're not.

00:32:31.000 We're actually trying to deracialize our politics.

00:32:34.000 We don't want to talk about race all the time.

00:32:36.000 It's shallow.

00:32:36.000 It's not interesting.

00:32:39.000 It's rudimentary.

00:32:40.000 It's not deep.

00:32:43.000 The first image was 368.

00:32:45.000 He does not look white in this for the record at all.

00:32:49.000 So why is that?

00:32:50.000 It's because there is a deliberate war on white people being waged by the mainstream media and our leaders.

00:32:58.000 CNN saw that image and still said white.

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00:33:58.000 So I want to dive deeper into the connective tissue here.

00:34:01.000 So like Zoran Mamdani, he's such a, obviously he's such a fraud.

00:34:05.000 So he goes down, he does this debate.

00:34:08.000 Oh, I will not leave New York City and I will stay, you know, very loyal to New York City.

00:34:12.000 And then he goes down to a wedding in Uganda.

00:34:14.000 Now, I'm not one to defend Mom Dani.

00:34:17.000 I don't think Mom Dani thought he was going to win the Democrat for his wedding, which is even worse.

00:34:22.000 I don't think he thought he was going to win the Democrat primary probably when he was planning his wedding, to be honest.

00:34:27.000 And so he was probably stuck between a rock and a hard place.

00:34:29.000 He should have canceled this wedding.

00:34:30.000 It's a bad look, Mr. Islamist Marxist. 0.98

00:34:34.000 Bad look.

00:34:35.000 And look, Zoran Mamdani, I guess they technically got married in February, and then he's doing this bash in Uganda as a celebration.

00:34:43.000 He's a typical Neiman Marxist.

00:34:46.000 The neighborhood is home to some of Uganda's richest, including billionaire businessman Godfrey Kuruma, the city tycoon with stakes in real estate, tourism, and petroleum and infrastructure.

00:34:54.000 I didn't know Uganda had a billionaire.

00:34:56.000 That's interesting.

00:34:58.000 Some of the houses neighboring the Mamdanis easily fetch more than 1 million US dollars.

00:35:03.000 I guess the Ugandan economy is doing better than I thought it was.

00:35:06.000 But he wants to bring Ugandan values or I guess or third world ideas.

00:35:10.000 I won't say even Ugandan values, third world ideas into the United States of America. 0.57

00:35:15.000 But do you see how this all connects together?

00:35:19.000 And the hypocrisy is part of it, but it's not about hypocrisy.

00:35:22.000 It's about hierarchy.

00:35:24.000 It's about I am better than you are, that I am above you, that I supersede you in importance.

00:35:34.000 And that is where socialism always leads you.

00:35:36.000 It always does.

00:35:38.000 And Zoran Mamdani is likely to become the next mayor of New York City.

00:35:41.000 I mean, Andrew Cuomo trying his best and Eric Adams, who's all over the place.

00:35:45.000 And they're all welcome on our show.

00:35:47.000 But at its core, liberals will espouse and they will verbalize a certain political philosophy that they themselves will not live.

00:35:55.000 Zonron Mamdadi wants to take away all the guns, but he'll be protected by armed guards.

00:35:59.000 Zoron Mamdani wants to be able to have no one be rich, but he will go party in a private compound.

00:36:05.000 Zoran Mamdani wants to say that he will send his kids to private school and be educated in private school, but he wants to shut down school choice in New York City.

00:36:15.000 He wants to seize the means of production while he allows himself to have a higher standard of living.

00:36:20.000 He wants to tax whiter neighborhoods.

00:36:22.000 Do you see how this all is tied together?

00:36:24.000 CNN blames white people, the war on white people in the streets of Cincinnati.

00:36:28.000 All of this is interwoven together.

00:36:30.000 It is grievance-based politics.

00:36:32.000 It is tribalism at its core.

00:36:35.000 And so Mamdani is ushering an entire generation that owns nothing towards a sectarian tribalist political end and project. 0.77

00:36:45.000 But I just find it so interesting that of all the places to have a wedding celebration, he goes to Uganda.

00:36:53.000 And I want to put up one of the pictures of him in this private compound.

00:36:57.000 You know what's lost on this?

00:36:59.000 So that compound is, you know, lit up, looks very nice.

00:37:02.000 But do you see that there are like pseudo-military guys outside there with AK-47s?

00:37:07.000 I don't want to live in that country.

00:37:09.000 I don't want to have the successful, the entrepreneurs, and the rich have to have a compound with barbed wire and military members outside to protect you.

00:37:19.000 That is how Brazil lives. 0.98

00:37:20.000 That is how Mexico lives. 1.00

00:37:22.000 That is how the third world, the third world has rich people, but it doesn't have a middle class and it does not allow you to have success in the open. 0.99

00:37:30.000 And that's where Mangioni and Mamdani are cousins.

00:37:35.000 Politically, not literally.

00:37:36.000 They were literally cell phone jammers outside of the compound.

00:37:40.000 And that is what America will be. 0.66

00:37:42.000 It's not that the rich will no longer exist, that anyone with success will either flee or have to hide in a compound.

00:37:48.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:37:49.000 Email us as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.

00:37:52.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - July 29, 2025

Mangioneism + Mamdaniism vs MAGA

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