00:00:00.000Hey everybody, a new story from the Atlantic shows what we have been saying all along, people that die with COVID or from COVID.
00:00:07.000We're also joined today by JD Vance from Ohio, JD Vance.com.
00:00:13.000Also, what is going on at the Met Gala?
00:00:16.000AOC, Alexandria Acasio-Cortez, costs $35,000 to go to the Met Gala.
00:00:20.000She wears a tax the rich dress, that and so much more.
00:00:26.000Also, you're going to hear me talk about Nikki Minaj.
00:00:29.000I get her momentarily confused with Cardi B, which honestly, we decided not to edit out because it's just hilarious that I don't know the difference between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj, but I do know the difference between Socrates and Plato and Aristotle.
00:00:42.000Aquinas, Augustine, Descartes, Hume, Smith, Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Madison Jay, and others.
00:00:51.000And I think you would like to listen to a program that knows the difference between those guys and couldn't care less about the difference between Nikki Minaj and Cardi B. Email us your thoughts as always.
00:02:12.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:02:20.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:58.000Today is the California recall election.
00:03:02.000Today, Gavin Newsom is put to his greatest political challenge of his life.
00:03:09.000Joe Biden was there last evening, and we're going to go into great detail about that.
00:03:13.000And later this hour, we are joined by U.S. Senate candidate JD Vance from Ohio to talk about vaccine mandates and the kind of new partnership of corporate oligarchy and government to try to crush you.
00:03:28.000But first, I want to start with this remarkable story from the Atlantic.
00:03:31.000So the Atlantic is owned by Lorene Powell Jobs, or she's a major investor in the Atlantic.
00:03:51.000She has $20 billion and she's willing to use it.
00:03:54.000She's invested in now this, the Emerson Collective.
00:03:58.000And Lorene Powell Jobs investing in the Atlantic has always been about politics, not about truth.
00:04:07.000Now, the Atlantic has this story, which is the Atlantic being kind of a Democrat super PAC, that is one of the most important stories that I've seen published by a mainstream media outlet since the beginning of the Fauci virus, which is our most reliable pandemic number is losing meaning.
00:04:31.000Some states, including Arkansas and Oregon, recently saw their COVID hospitalizations rise to higher levels than at any prior stage of the pandemic.
00:04:40.000But how do those latter figures really tell us?
00:04:43.000But what do those figures really tell us?
00:04:46.000Last winter, this magazine described hospitalizations as the, quote, most reliable pandemic number, while quoting cardiologist Eric Topol, saying it's the best indicator of where we are.
00:05:00.000On one hand, the death count offers finality, but they're a lagging signal and don't account for people who suffer illness but survived.
00:05:08.000But now the Atlantic says they were wrong, that hospitalizations is not the best way to actually track the severity of the pandemic.
00:05:16.000Instead, the Atlantic says a new nationwide study of hospitalization records released as a preprint today suggests that the meaning of this gauge can be easily misinterpreted.
00:05:50.000We have done hundreds of hours of commentary.
00:05:54.000And we have said at almost every single turn, especially whenever the Fauci Chinese coronavirus comes up, there is a difference of people that are dying from COVID and dying with the Chinese coronavirus.
00:06:12.000We have said for 18 months that some people that go to the hospital go because of a broken knee and they get tested positive.
00:06:23.000Now, St. George Floyd, may he forever be remembered as a martyr, as Nancy Pelosi would say at the beginning of Floyd a Palooza last summer, he was a COVID death.
00:07:00.000George Floyd, the autopsy was also done, and they tested him positive for the Chinese coronavirus.
00:07:10.000Now, no one in their right mind said that the Chinese coronavirus was the reason why George Floyd died.
00:07:17.000Instead, we burnt down our entire civilization with billions of dollars of damage, cops being shot because we were told that it wasn't because of COVID he died.
00:07:28.000Obviously, it was because of evil white cops.
00:07:32.000But we've been saying for the last 18 months that hospitalizations is a misleading figure.
00:07:39.000And what did Fauci or the CDC or NIH or the pharmaceutical companies say?
00:07:44.000They say that you're a conspiracy theorist and you're a fear monger.
00:07:48.000Things that the media call false end up being true 18 months later.
00:07:55.000I'm going to give you another example.
00:08:04.000In three months from now, Pfizer is going to want to boost their share price.
00:08:10.000So Pfizer is going to release a nearly identical drug to ivermectin.
00:08:17.000It's already been teased, by the way, an antiviral pill.
00:08:21.000So they attack ivermectin and they attack hydroxychloroquine, but Pfizer is just going to come up with their own antiviral pill.
00:08:30.000My favorite quote of this piece in The Atlantic is the final sentence.
00:08:36.000As we look to shift from cases to hospitalizations as a metric to drive policy and assess the level of risk to a community or state or country, it's incredibly important that we should refine the definition of hospitalization.
00:08:55.000That those patients who are there with, rather from the Fauci virus, don't belong in the metric.
00:09:34.000The question is: how many of the deaths that have been attributed to the Chinese coronavirus actually are because of the Chinese coronavirus?
00:09:48.000But what if I told you that the hysteria around the ticker on CNN of cases and deaths that happened, of course, only under Trump might have been largely overblown?
00:10:00.000Do you notice how CNN has removed the ticker now that cases are actually higher than they were a year ago?
00:10:20.000Atlantic story: we're going to post this on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:10:23.000Our most reliable pandemic number is losing meaning.
00:10:27.000So you're trying to say that children now have to go wear masks in school, like at the Scottsdale Unified School District.
00:10:33.000Children are being forced to get vaccinated under a number that, according to the mainstream media Atlantic, has lost its meaning altogether.
00:10:42.000Not only have the policy solutions been unwise and immoral, but the way we've been diagnosing the problem itself has been wrong since the beginning.
00:10:55.000Every single person on television has been lying to you, playing into this for a very specific reason, for a political purpose, not for one that will benefit the country.
00:11:09.000How many years have I been telling you about Relief Factor?
00:11:14.000In fact, some people say over 100 million people are struggling with some kind of pain, maybe from exercise or just getting older.
00:11:20.000Now, Pete and Seth Talbot, they are on a mission.
00:11:22.000You rarely see this kind of focus and commitment.
00:11:25.000They recently shared with me that they are doubling down and want to literally double their total number of happy customers in the next year.
00:11:44.000So maybe you want to be able to do cartwheels or be able to do backflips, like producer Andrew.
00:11:48.000Maybe you want to be able to run a marathon, swim underwater, go scuba diving, jump out of an airplane, but maybe it's your knee pain, back pain, joint pain, whatever pain it might be.
00:12:06.000A lot of drama around the Met Gala yesterday, $35,000 a ticket.
00:12:13.000And it was an incredibly impressive collection of low IQ, arrogant, and seemingly rich people that are all gathering without masks, by the way, all at one place.
00:12:24.000Now, we're going to get into AOC's dress and also we're going to get into this other person ever heard of, Kara Delavine, whatever, with her dress that said smash the paper, don't peg the patriarchy or something.
00:12:37.000But the more interesting story is who wasn't there.
00:12:40.000Who wasn't there is someone that I quite honestly consider to be a degenerate and awful influence on young people.
00:12:48.000You could just go look at one picture or one video of her.
00:12:51.000She's basically a glorified stripper with rap music.
00:12:54.000In fact, I think she used to be a stripper.
00:13:44.000His friend was weeks away from getting married, and now the girl called off the wedding.
00:13:48.000So just pray on it and make sure you're comfortable with your decision, not bullied.
00:13:52.000Now, the backlash to Nikki Minaj has been incredible.
00:13:58.000Not only are mainstream people now trying to cancel Nikki Minaj, they are in every single way saying that Nikki Minaj is spreading disinformation.
00:14:07.000Let's just read some of these headlines here.
00:14:10.000That even the Met Gala can't convince Nikki Minaj to get vaxed.
00:14:15.000Nikki Minaj owed black women so much more than what she gave us this week.
00:14:21.000Nikki Minaj Met Gala vaccine tweets highlight struggle against COVID misinformation.
00:14:32.000And Cut 40 for you to use your Joyanne, Joy Reed, who again, we're not a fan of on this program, says that for you to use your platform to encourage our community to protect themselves and save their lives as a fan, I'm so sad that you did that.
00:15:56.000She realizes that the freedoms you surrender today and the freedoms, the freedoms that you surrender today are the freedoms your grandchildren will never know existed.
00:16:36.000Uncle Tommy Tamiyana asked who on earth would trust the US FDA guys.
00:16:42.000What Nikki Minaj is doing, whether she realizes it or not, is Nikki Minaj is actually articulating a rather prudent and common sense position that our federal health agencies have been lying to us for the last couple years.
00:16:59.000They were involved in forced sterilization of idiot women in the 1920s based on a vaccine ruling that was done in the early 1900s.
00:17:08.000We're going to dive into that actually at a different episode at a different time and how the Supreme Court set the precedent for mass sterilization of 60,000 idiot women.
00:17:16.000So Nikki Minaj is saying, who would possibly trust the health agencies?
00:17:20.000You're the idiot if you actually trust the FDA.
00:17:23.000Never thought I'd say this, but she's right.
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00:18:48.000With us now is a friend of mine who I have endorsed and Turning Point Action has also endorsed running for Senate in Ohio, the great JD Vance.
00:18:59.000You guys should all check out his website.
00:19:44.000Yeah, and I don't even think they're constitutional, but it's long past time that people start to actually push back in their own individual way.
00:19:52.000I also want to announce that JD Vance has been endorsed by Josh Hawley.
00:19:58.000Senator Hawley has endorsed JD Vance, which is terrific.
00:20:02.000So just talk more generally, JD, that if you become senator, what should the federal government be doing here?
00:20:10.000What should a Republican Party that is emboldened do to actually protect their voters against these vaccine mandates?
00:20:18.000Well, I think that we have to make these corporations feel economic pain if they're going to do it, because a big part of the vaccine mandates is not just the federal government.
00:20:27.000It is the big multinational corporations.
00:20:30.000And I think you can even make a good argument that the actions of the big corporations emboldened the Biden administration to require these vaccine mandates.
00:20:38.000So I think we really have to be punitive towards the private corporations, or at least the pretend private corporations that are basically taking away people's rights to medical autonomy.
00:20:50.000And that's one of the things we have to do to protect our voters.
00:20:56.000And what I love about Hawley's time in the Senate is that he shows that you don't always have to, as a Republican, bend the need of big business.
00:21:03.000In fact, if you always do that, you may very often make it harder for middle-class Republicans, conservatives, and Americans to live a good life.
00:21:11.000And that really is the challenge: we are seeing inflation go up, wages stagnating.
00:21:17.000And I agree, Senator Hawley has really kind of changed the entire way that we communicate with a lot of these ideas.
00:21:25.000Can you talk about, JD, can you talk, JD, about how major companies actually benefit from this vaccine mandate?
00:21:34.000About how these massive corporations, they were worried that there might have been another labor pool being created through competition, which is something you and I appreciate and want to see more of.
00:21:45.000But when you mandate something from the federal government, it's actually a bailout so that these massive corporations, they no longer actually have to compete to keep their own labor.
00:22:09.000That empowers the corporations to be able to control their own workers, control the labor market even more than they already do.
00:22:17.000And what I find so interesting about the political tactics of the modern left is they are all about rewarding their friends and punishing their enemies.
00:22:26.000I think you see this certainly with the inflation and spending conversation.
00:22:30.000You're right, inflation is hammering American workers right now, especially those who lived on a fixed income.
00:22:37.000But one of the things they're also doing on the left is with this tax bill, they're not just cutting taxes on some people and raising taxes on other people.
00:22:46.000They're going to cut taxes on their friends and raise taxes on normal, middle-class, conservative Americans because that's what they do.
00:22:56.000And I worry that the Republican Party, the establishment folks, often get caught in this loop of, well, we want tax cuts, not tax increases.
00:23:05.000Ladies and gentlemen, the Democrats are playing a totally different game.
00:23:08.000So one thing we could do in response is say, well, if you want tax increases, why don't we tax the Ford Foundation?
00:23:14.000Why don't we tax the Harvard University endowment?
00:23:17.000If they're going to play the game of rewarding their friends and punishing their enemies, we should return like fire and kind.
00:23:24.000Some Republicans, though, J.D., think that we still are living in the 1980s where both sides are just going to kind of harmonize with one another and they might disagree on tax policy, but move on.
00:23:35.000Are you saying that we now kind of have to enter this new chapter of how we do politics in our country where we have to be committed to winning?
00:23:43.000It's a doctrine of trying to, quite honestly, save the country, and we have to now entertain other means if necessary.
00:24:16.000I talked to a guy recently in the state of Ohio, a medical doctor, successful, well-to-do guy, who is worried about losing his job because he is speaking up at his hospital about gender reassignment therapies, hormonal therapies, chemical castration, and even surgeries for children.
00:24:37.000We can ignore this and allow a pretend private company to force radical gender ideology on our kids and experiment on kids in the process, or we can actually use the power given by our Constitutional Republic to the people to push back against this madness.
00:24:55.000And I think the answer for what we should do is obvious if we want to live in a society where children are experimenting on.
00:25:02.000And so the question really is, are we going to have a Republican Party that is willing to actually be able to push back against this kind of bipartisan corporate oligarchy?
00:25:14.000And one of the great examples of it, and I don't know, you could help me unpack this, JD, because I'm not even sure how to process all of it, is you have the $35,000 a ticket Met Gala last evening where no one is wearing a mask, no one is social distancing, and then you have Alexandria Casio-Cortez with a dress that says tax the rich, which I'm not even sure how to process that.
00:25:41.000Is she saying that to, I think what she's really saying, though, is, you know, tax the rich Republicans and we're going to give carve-outs to the Democrats that are here at the gala.
00:25:51.000Because I think deep down, no one was deeply offended by that when they attend and they see that because they say, oh, they're going to exempt us.
00:26:04.000They know that AOC is not going to raise their taxes because if they did, they wouldn't like her.
00:26:11.000But they recognize that in fact, she's going to build a hyper-globalized economy that punishes American workers through mass immigration and free trade.
00:26:37.000Nobody was wearing masks, which reveals the hypocrisy with one exception, the workers.
00:26:43.000The workers were wearing masks, and it's a perfect encapsulation for this entire COVID sham theater, that the workers, the little guy, the normal people get exposed to the rules.
00:26:56.000And the people in their ridiculous dresses, they don't have to do anything because they're above the law.
00:27:01.000Of course, COVID doesn't come for the big dollar donors to the Metropolitan Art Museum.
00:27:07.000And the kind of, I don't even know the right word is provocative, but just kind of the contradiction of AOC wearing the tax the rich dress while it's $35,000 a ticket.
00:27:21.000It's almost this fake populism, isn't it, JD?
00:27:24.000It's like, I'm going to go into the rich people's house and tell them to tax the rich.
00:27:29.000But that's not at all what was happening.
00:27:34.000She was part of that kind of ruling cabal.
00:27:37.000It's kind of this fake fight against the elites, right?
00:27:41.000It's the girl who pushed Amazon out of New York, right?
00:27:45.000Allegedly, but she's actually the one that's now, you know, being whined and dined by the very same people that she says she hates.
00:27:52.000A true revolutionary never would have showed up to the Met Gala at all.
00:27:57.000A true revolutionary wouldn't have worn some sort of dress that says tax the rich.
00:28:01.000It would have been in the streets chanting with the worker.
00:28:04.000I'm being, of course, somewhat sarcastic, but it is that perfect example, just like Nancy Pelosi's fundraiser, where all the workers are wearing masks outside while Nancy Pelosi and her almost all-white donors are talking about how systemically racist the country is while they're being served a $2,000 bottle of wine.
00:28:23.000Same with Gavin Newsome at French Laundry.
00:28:25.000But JD, isn't it also incumbent on us to try to break this mentality in the Republican Party?
00:28:31.000Because the Republican Party sure seems to be plagued with the same sort of ruling class ideology in certain pockets of it, absent candidates like yours and Donald Trump.
00:28:42.000Yeah, I worry about this because so many folks in the Republican establishment have not woken up to the fact that this is not a big government, small government moment.
00:28:52.000This is a moment of do we live in an oligarchy or do we live in a republic?
00:28:57.000And we see this with the vaccine mandates where a lot of Republicans have defended the vaccine mandates coming from private corporations under the guise of their private companies so they get to do whatever they want to.
00:29:11.000Well, first of all, that's totally fake.
00:29:13.000They benefit from a number of special privileges.
00:29:16.000They're chartered by the U.S. government.
00:29:19.000They have legal liability protections that no individual or no family in our country actually enjoys.
00:29:25.000We also saw this, by the way, Charlie, with the gender ideology stuff when social conservatives, when religious people demanded that we stop the madness of experimenting on children, trying to change their genders before they even hit puberty.
00:29:40.000What did the Republican establishment say?
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00:32:52.000We here on the Charlie Kirk Show want to give the muscular class a voice.
00:33:51.000She has been the darling of the base of the Democrat Party.
00:33:54.000She has controlled opposition to try to make it seem as if there is a war being waged against the corporate oligarchy when in reality there isn't.
00:34:04.000Left-wing activists are being played for fools.
00:34:44.000When Aurora and I were first kind of partnered, we really started having a conversation about what it means to be working class women of color at the Met.
00:34:55.000And we said, you know, we can't just play along, but we need to break the fourth wall and challenge some of the institutions.
00:35:02.000And, you know, while the Met is known for its spectacle, we should have a conversation about it.
00:35:10.000You look at kind of the imagery behind it and you look at the ridiculous outfits.
00:35:14.000And by the way, this guy, Lil Nas, was there.
00:35:16.000I think he was there wearing some sort of stormtrooper thing.
00:35:19.000Have you noticed how his career has actually become more relevant after he did the blood-stained Satan shoe?
00:36:30.000I think it's incredibly important because when we talk about supporting working families and when we talk about having a fair tax code, oftentimes this conversation is happening about working and middle class people about themselves.
00:36:44.000And I think it's time that we bring all classes into the conversation of having a fair country.
00:36:51.000I will say it's a public relations masterpiece what she did in the sense that she pretends that there is this revolution against the ruling class when in reality she's a member of it.
00:37:08.000It's this kind of fake simulated revolution that the left, they are experts at.
00:37:16.000So the question is, how did she pay for this?
00:37:19.000Well, it's because New York City elected officials are regularly invited to attend the Met due to our responsibilities in overseeing our city's cultural institutions that serve the public.