00:00:00.000Today in the Charlie Kirk Show, Matt Gates comes on the program to talk about his viral remarks about Kevin McCarthy, an investigation in a porn hub, and why I think Mitt Romney, even though he's announced retirement, is running for president and what that means for our country.
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00:01:27.000My preference would be that Kevin McCarthy come into compliance with the deal that we made in January.
00:01:31.000You and I had many discussions about that, Charlie.
00:01:34.000And when we finally had Kevin McCarthy as the speaker, you were one of the biggest champions of the deal that would have required single-subject spending bills and votes on things like term limits and balanced budgets.
00:01:46.000But here we are in September, eight months later, and the things that Kevin McCarthy promised have not occurred.
00:01:52.000So I've laid out the case as to the features of breach of the agreement.
00:01:58.000His option is to come into compliance or face a motion to vacate.
00:02:01.000It was somewhat troubling that he chose to respond to this by attacking me rather than just keeping his word.
00:02:07.000I'd prefer that the speaker keep his word, and I'm here to hold him to it.
00:02:10.000So let's go through what the asks are.
00:02:12.000The position of this program, impeachment, not, I think it's fine, not the highest priority.
00:03:22.000So I take ownership over the fact that we failed, but I've laid out what we have to do going forward.
00:03:28.000So far, they just want to keep spending at the highest levels.
00:03:31.000This government grew 40% during COVID when it comes to how much it spends.
00:03:37.000And when we just try to get a little bit of that reduced, people are acting like we're trying to fundamentally reorient Washington, D.C.
00:03:45.000Now, again, I would like to fundamentally reorient Washington, D.C., but even the most modest of spending reductions are met with great resistance from even some big spending Republicans.
00:03:56.000Did you say 40% that the government grew by 40%?
00:04:01.000During COVID from 2121 to 2023, government spending, federal government spending grew by 40%.
00:04:10.000We are going to be running $2 trillion annual deficits.
00:04:16.000That is impossible to sustain at a time when so many elements of the world are de-dollarizing, whether it's what we see with BRICS, whether you see the African Union moving to currency that is more central to the continent, whether it's Saudi Arabia and Iran making deals with China to sell more energy in the won.
00:04:33.000We cannot run $2 trillion annual deficits while the global economy is taking steps to de-dollarize.
00:04:40.000Okay, so let's start to name names, though, Matt, because the stakes are too high.
00:04:45.000Who are the ones that are really getting in the way here?
00:04:47.000Who do we need to apply the most pressure on?
00:04:49.000Which Republicans are standing in the way to really get this done?
00:04:52.000Because you're right, 930 is by no mistake.
00:04:57.000I mean, this is the job of the Appropriations Committee.
00:04:59.000When you're on the Appropriations Committee, usually you don't even serve on other committees because the work of the Appropriations Committee is deemed so important.
00:05:08.000So the chair of that committee is Kate Granger of Texas.
00:05:12.000The people who chair the subcommittees should have to answer for why their budgets weren't prepared.
00:05:17.000And a hero is Budget Chairman Jody Arrington.
00:05:21.000Jody Arrington is fighting like you wouldn't believe to get balanced budgets to the floor, but he's been bottled up by our own leadership because balanced budget votes are really hard now.
00:05:31.000Like the easy choices have passed long ago, and it's hard choices ahead for the country.
00:05:37.000Jody Arrington will make those choices, and we're working to get him unshacked, frankly, right now.
00:05:43.000So heading into September 30th, then, Matt, what would be a win, right?
00:05:47.000Because politics is the art of the possible.
00:05:49.000As much as I would like to see the Department of Education abolished, it's not going to happen this funding cycle.
00:05:59.000And Matt, are we seeing some evidence that potentially leadership might try to do a deal with Democrats while turning the back on the Republican wing, the more, let's say, conservative wing of the Republican caucus?
00:06:14.000It would not surprise me if ultimately Kevin McCarthy does a deal with Democrats because that's precisely what he did on the debt limit bill.
00:06:30.000So if that's the way the McCarthy speakership is going to go, I'm going to lead the resistance to the Biden, McCarthy, Hockey Jeff government.
00:06:38.000In terms of what a win looks like, we got to get spending to pre-COVID levels.
00:06:43.000It wasn't exactly like we had our fiscal house in order on government spending before COVID.
00:07:07.000That's going to take threatening shutdowns.
00:07:09.000I don't want to shut down, but I'm definitely willing to threaten one if that's what it takes to get us to the type of just modest government budgeting.
00:07:18.000So what do you say to the more moderate wing that say that Democrats would just blame us and politically it's a bad move?
00:07:27.000Well, I mean, I'm just sorry, Charlie.
00:07:28.000We've got to be more patriotic than that.
00:07:30.000We cannot continue to drive this country into the ground with deficit spending, with inflationary spending that hurts us now and deficit spending that hurts future generations of Americans.
00:07:44.000I don't care if you don't want to take the vote.
00:07:46.000We absolutely have to go be judged by our constituents for the spending that we're willing to authorize and appropriate.
00:07:52.000And for those who claim those are tough decisions, I would suggest that there's a case to be made that Democrats have brought us to this point with their bad choices.
00:08:04.000And rather than just being Democrat-light, we actually ought to demonstrate some boldness to the country that draws people in and helps us build broader coalitions.
00:08:14.000What can we expect in the next couple of weeks and how can the audience support you?
00:08:17.000Yeah, we need to get individual bills passed.
00:08:20.000I would love to see us pass the defense appropriations bill this week.
00:08:24.000But if by next week I am not seeing action from Kevin McCarthy to come into compliance with the deal he made in January, then I wouldn't bet against next week or pretty soon thereafter seeing motions to vacate the chair pretty regularly.
00:08:40.000That buzzing sound means they're calling us to votes, Charlie.
00:08:43.000But I think the coming weeks are going to be critical, not just for the internal intrigue of palace politics, but really for the nation.
00:08:52.000Like if we can't get it together right now and reduce this inflationary spending, then what is the point of even having power?
00:09:00.000If you're not going to use political power and just wait for the next election, why even win a majority?
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00:10:37.000Now, some of them, these Democrats do that just to raise money and to become relevant, but some of them actually believe it, especially the ones that live in the states that are going to decide the election.
00:10:49.000Now, Michigan is not an emphasis state for turning point action.
00:10:52.000I don't think Michigan will be easily won.
00:10:55.000Michigan can be won, potentially, with proper organizing, especially with just the outright criminalization of everyday patriots in Michigan, as we see with the Attorney General Dana Nessel going after Rose Rook, 81 years old from Michigan, Pawpaw, Michigan.
00:11:10.000Democrat Debbie Dingell, who represents a working-class district, not a fan of hers, but she speaks the truth when it comes to how Trumpy her district is.
00:11:20.000Democrats, this is a new narrative out there, and they're pushing it.
00:11:28.000We're heading into another presidential race.
00:11:31.000If the election were held today in Michigan, do you think Donald Trump as a Republican nominee could beat President Biden as a Democratic nominee?
00:11:37.000I'm going to look at you all right now.
00:11:39.000Everybody says Michigan's a blue state.
00:12:40.000Because Florida has an unending stream every single month of people over the age of 65 with conservative Midwestern values that come and buy property and want Florida to remain red.
00:12:50.000It's like the, it's an automatic kind of annuity of like every single month, there's another 50,000 right-wingers that move the Florida.
00:12:59.000But this reminds me, Debbie Dingell reminds me of what Michael Moore said in 2016 when Michael Moore came out and he was one of the only people to say, I don't think you understand.
00:13:13.000Now, I'm not as clearly saying that in 24 because look, we received this email.
00:13:18.000And if I may be so candid to push back on one of our amazing listeners, our listeners make our show better, but I honestly can't stand emails like this.
00:14:00.000It's going to require work and organizing.
00:14:03.000But part of their plan is demoralization, mass psychological warfare, to get you to give up, to get you to surrender, to have sentiments like this.
00:14:47.000If they were so confident in their plan, why is there a panic and a freak out?
00:14:52.000The media will not cover this nearly as accurately what's happening.
00:14:57.000But there are serious fault lines that are now coming to the surface in the Democrat regime.
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00:16:13.000There's a new undercover report from journalist Arden Young reveals that the online pornography website Pornhub has a loophole around age verification for explicit and pornographic videos, which therefore involve children.
00:16:28.000We've suspected this for quite some time, but finally we now have it on film.
00:16:58.000He claims he was the seventh employee to be hired there.
00:17:02.000So he's been there for a very, very long time.
00:17:05.000And he explains this loophole to me in the upload process.
00:17:09.000So supposedly verified uploaders can upload pornographic videos to Pornhub.
00:17:16.000But the thing is, they're requiring people to upload their IDs to upload a video.
00:17:21.000But so many of these videos don't actually contain faces of the people in the videos that it's impossible to match their identities.
00:17:29.000So that's how people like rapists and traffickers are getting illegal content on the site and it's being monetized.
00:17:36.000So in this video that we are uploading right now, you had this high-level executive brag to you that Pornhub is aware that underage videos of children being raped are then uploaded to their website.
00:17:51.000That is a bombshell story that the number one place of pornography consumption knowingly know they know on their website that illegal activity is occurring.
00:18:09.000U.S. Code 2257, which was adopted in 1988, made age verification mandatory for all traditional pornography sites.
00:18:20.000So we believe this is a criminal offense and we intend to follow it all the way through and work with lawmakers to hold Pornhub accountable.
00:18:28.000And people don't realize how huge this company is.
00:18:32.000Pornhub's parent company, MindGeek, now rebranded to ALO, is a huge monopoly.
00:18:39.000They own so many porn studios and websites.
00:18:42.000Their Wikipedia page doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of all the things they run.
00:18:47.000Pornhub is the number nine most trafficked website in the world.
00:18:52.000The number nine most trafficked website in the world.
00:18:56.000And so this individual, the executive, said that the rapists and traffickers use Pornhub loophole to make a lot of money.
00:19:04.000And he says, quote, I wouldn't be able to defend this in court.
00:19:08.000This is Mike Farley, the technical producer at MindGeek, which owns all of these, let's just say, awful pornographic websites.
00:20:24.000He's obviously in a club and all this.
00:20:25.000So walk us through the what is he bragging about here?
00:20:28.000What sort of legal loophole is he talking about in regards to child exploitive sexual material on this ninth most popular website on the planet?
00:20:36.000Yeah, so any verified uploader on Pornhub is asked to upload their ID to this site and then they can virtually upload any video they'd like.
00:20:46.000So when they're uploading videos, many times the people in the videos aren't even showing their faces.
00:20:55.000And this would allow for child exploitative material to get in or any type of exploitation to get in if it's a non-consensual situation like a rape.
00:21:06.000So we have another piece of tape here that I want to play from the undercover video and the journalism that you've done here.
00:21:57.000Yeah, he claims that the government isn't qualified to identify the loophole.
00:22:02.000And later, he also says that people on his level and up within Pornhub are the ones that are potentially could be deposed about this type of material.
00:22:14.000So there's potential that we'll see Mike in deposition in the future.
00:22:20.000He also claims that him and his boss sat down and recorded a meeting with the CLO and the CPO to explain this loophole and to have it on record that they said something about it, but the CPO didn't want to do anything about it.
00:22:36.000So, you know, Mike and his boss are trying to cover their tracks and involvement in this.
00:22:42.000And they're definitely very aware internally that this is a loophole that has some major, major, major issues.
00:23:02.000They are now know the adult content is disgusting and awful, but then they knowingly allowed the uploading of children then being exploited and underage people.
00:23:13.000They say, oh, we know what's happening.
00:23:15.000And so let's get to some action items.
00:23:17.000We're going to be tweeting this out, Arden.
00:23:19.000We're going to be demanding in the States that Republican AGs or any AGs across the country immediately open up criminal investigations into Pornhub based on these videos.
00:23:29.000I mean, if there are children that, because then this only further incentivizes child sex trafficking, child smuggling, child exploitation, because then they feel as if they can make a buck off of a 13-year-old getting raped.
00:23:44.000They can then upload a video of a 13-year-old getting raped, put it on Pornhub, and make $50,000.
00:23:52.000It really makes you wonder how much of that $500 million on Pornhub that they are revenuing comes from children.
00:24:00.000So, Arden, action items here, walk us through it.
00:24:03.000Yeah, we really, really hope to get bipartisan support into launching a full investigation into this, and we're committed to working with any lawmakers interested in taking action.
00:24:14.000I'll be here every step of the way with anyone who wants to work on this.
00:24:18.000Really just want to hold this company accountable.
00:26:08.000Mitt Romney announces he will not run for re-election.
00:26:10.000You know that we had the challenger to Mitt Romney come to our turning point action conference, Trent Staggs, and we sent a very clear message.
00:26:17.000I'm not saying it's because of us, but we were ahead of the curve there.
00:26:19.000That's going to be a very interesting primary.
00:26:22.000I'll tell you what, I bet some other people are going to run.
00:26:24.000We got to get a real conservative there.
00:27:15.000But we just got to jump right into the immediate speculation.
00:27:18.000If Mitt Romney runs as a no-labels candidate and he wins Utah, for example, then and Donald Trump wins Arizona and Wisconsin and Georgia, then nobody gets a 270 electoral vote.
00:27:33.000Is Mitt Romney, the deep state insurance plan with all this, because we talked about the last couple hours, everything's going bad for them.
00:27:40.000Their central planning is not going well.
00:27:41.000Is it a coincidence the same day David Ignatius comes out and writes an article and says Joe Biden shouldn't run, Cornell West is ramping up that all of a sudden, boom, they deploy Mitt Romney and say he's not running for reelection?
00:29:15.000And then if one or two Republican flips, you've got President Mitt Romney, who wins like one state.
00:29:21.000This is the way the Constitution lays it out.
00:29:23.000I'm telling you, you're about to see some very strange asymmetrical warfare deployed.
00:29:27.000This is not going to be an election like any of you've ever seen because their central planning previously starting in January is not going well.
00:30:08.000Could it be that since the deep state centralized plan in 2023 is not going well, and then you have Kirsten Sinema involved, and she's already not a Democrat and she's running, maybe has no labels.
00:30:25.000And no labels traditionally, we'd think of, hey, no labels is going to help Trump.
00:30:29.000Well, it could in certain states, unless they're deeply red states like Utah, where you make the electoral math, you almost count on Utah being part of the calculus.
00:30:42.000There's so much unpredictable elements to this.
00:30:45.000But yes, happy Mitt Romney's not running for election.
00:31:09.000The Republican primary is basically over.
00:31:11.000This feels like a new one, a new centralized plan that they're deploying right now.
00:31:16.000Lots of unintended consequences, but the next best thing to winning for Democrats is just to prevent Republicans from winning and force a constitutional crisis in Congress and have every state vote.