The Charlie Kirk Show - Oh No! Democrat Billionaires Are Freaking Out!

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:00:02.000 Rod Blagojevich joins us to talk about the Hunter Biden pardon.

00:00:05.000 But most importantly, we talk about this remarkable New York Times piece that I think you're really going to enjoy.

00:00:10.000 What's a billionaire Democrat to do?

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00:00:25.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:23.000 There is a lot happening.

00:01:24.000 There's a very serious and fluid and unprecedented situation happening in South Korea.

00:01:30.000 We are far from experts on South Korean politics.

00:01:33.000 We're keeping our eye on that.

00:01:35.000 It seems as if the South Korean opposition leader declares a coup and there is You all is no longer the president of South Korea.

00:01:45.000 This is a fast-moving situation.

00:01:47.000 We'll not give an official pronouncement just yet, but certainly something to keep our eye on.

00:01:52.000 I want to begin today talking about this remarkable piece that was published over the weekend in the New York Times.

00:01:58.000 And it shows your power.

00:02:01.000 It shows the power of everybody in this audience.

00:02:03.000 Every single one of you that chased ballots and registered voters, every single one of you that worked in the grassroots, that started Turning Point USA hubs and became a grassroots activist.

00:02:14.000 It shows what you went up against.

00:02:17.000 And the losers of this last election just recently convened at the Salamander Hotel in Washington, D.C. When the Democrats would say that our democracy is under attack, what they were really saying is that our oligarchy is under attack.

00:02:33.000 That the rule of the few, that those of us in the Council of Experts that know better than you, and this is very similar to the situation that we articulated yesterday of why Kash Patel matters so much.

00:02:44.000 That the Kash Patel appointment is trying to restore the founders' vision for law enforcement and for the administration of justice.

00:02:51.000 That it will not be its own Out of regulation, distant branch of government and bring it back into alignment with the consent of the governed.

00:03:02.000 There is a remarkable piece in the New York Times that says this.

00:03:06.000 What's a Democratic billionaire to do now?

00:03:11.000 The party's donor class is still wrestling with Donald Trump's victory, worried about retribution and sluggish liberal energy.

00:03:17.000 Some rich Democrats are even pondering leaving the country.

00:03:21.000 This is by Theodore Schleifer, who is a very, very talented reporter for The New York Times.

00:03:27.000 Let me begin by first isolating one of the subheads here. 0.92

00:03:30.000 Some rich Democrats are even pondering leaving the country.

00:03:34.000 Now, I'm sure there is an exception to what I'm about to say, but I do not know a single rich Republican that after Joe Biden became president in 2020 was contemplating leaving America.

00:03:45.000 Some people would joke about it.

00:03:46.000 Some people would say, oh, you know, I'm going to leave.

00:03:48.000 But it seems as if the Democrats look at their relationship with America far more transactionally than Republicans do.

00:03:56.000 Democrats look at this as a temporary colony to make a bunch of money, to exert a fair amount of power.

00:04:03.000 They do not have a loyalty or a fidelity to this country the same way that those as conservatives would do.

00:04:10.000 The piece begins by saying this.

00:04:12.000 In the weeks after Election Day, one of the biggest donors in the Democrat Party, the LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, has considered what would once be unthinkable for a billionaire who often talks about his patriotism, leaving the United States.

00:04:26.000 Well, maybe his patriotism was all a facade.

00:04:29.000 Mr. Hoffman, who has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on politics over the last few years, has told friends and allies that he's weighing a move overseas, according to three people with knowledge of the talks, who insisted on anonymity to discuss private conversations.

00:04:43.000 Hoffman declined to comment through a spokesperson and has helped pay for some of the most aggressive private litigation against Donald Trump.

00:04:52.000 The piece continues.

00:04:53.000 Several major donors or their advisors have privately floated the idea of moving abroad, saying that it would protect their assets from Mr. Trump's wrath.

00:05:04.000 Some are distributing memos meant to guide the post-mortem analysis for Democrats, beginning to kick around the ideas for new media companies, or imploring their peers to not let liberal fundraising dry up.

00:05:16.000 Now, this is a perfect segue, by the way, to another New York Times article that I want to draw your attention to before I continue on this one.

00:05:23.000 So Democrats are meeting at the Salamander Hotel, and this is what it says here.

00:05:27.000 The Salamander Hotel in Washington, where the typically sedate biannual meeting of the Democracy Alliance, a network of major liberal donors, became a four-day group therapy session.

00:05:37.000 Dejected Democrats debate about what happened at early morning breakfast and evening drinks around a fire pit on the sidelines of the conference, the first gathering of its type since the election.

00:05:46.000 The lobby was buzzing with Democrat donors, operatives, and interlopers caught up with friends.

00:05:52.000 Now, let me just kind of put a pause on that article and then highlight another New York Times article that came out this weekend.

00:06:00.000 And it was about Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action.

00:06:03.000 So you have a bunch of donors wondering, how did we lose?

00:06:06.000 How did we lose?

00:06:07.000 We need to start new media companies.

00:06:08.000 We need to start our own podcasting.

00:06:10.000 Well, let me draw your attention to this other article.

00:06:13.000 That is very, very important.

00:06:15.000 And all of you in this audience that support Turning Point USA, all of you in this audience that support Turning Point Action, all of you in this audience that support The Charlie Kirk Show, you're the reason why Democrats are crying into their white wine at the Salamander Hotel.

00:06:29.000 Republicans built an ecosystem of influencers.

00:06:32.000 Some Democrats want one too.

00:06:34.000 Democrats were badly outflanked online in the election, and progressive influencers are now trying to create networks to be a left-wing answer to Turning Point USA. The article goes into great detail about how the left and how Democrat operatives Have been unable to build an influencer network like we have on the right.

00:06:57.000 Now mind you, I wish I could take full credit for this.

00:06:59.000 And to be fair, Turning Point has operated a multi-hundred person influencer network for the last five years.

00:07:05.000 We have sourced amazing talent.

00:07:06.000 We have trained amazing talent.

00:07:08.000 We have this grassroots organization that harmonizes with the influencer program.

00:07:15.000 The New York Times article writes, Their goal is to eventually forge self-sustaining advocacy groups and networks, a left-wing answer to the nonprofit Turning Point USA. But first, they'll need buy-in and cash from Democrat donors and institutions to compete in a new attention economy where people's time is the currency.

00:07:44.000 Now, remember, they had Joe Rogan.

00:07:47.000 Joe Rogan endorsed Bernie Sanders.

00:07:50.000 Joe Rogan was a man of the liberal left.

00:07:54.000 They alienated Rogan and Rogan proudly joined our movement.

00:07:59.000 How they treated him during COVID. How they treated him because he took ivermectin.

00:08:02.000 How they tried to smear and censor and slander him.

00:08:05.000 How the full force of the regime came after Rogan and all of his followers.

00:08:10.000 Now, let me remind you of something.

00:08:13.000 Something very, very important.

00:08:16.000 That we complain a lot about how they control the media.

00:08:19.000 It turns out then going back to the other piece, these Democrat donors at a conference and a retreat are wondering, how is it that turning point and this army that we were told didn't exist beat us?

00:08:35.000 The piece continues.

00:08:36.000 Two attendees, two Democrat donors, said unprompted that the scene of Democrat donors in D.C. felt like a funeral.

00:08:45.000 You helped make that funeral happen.

00:08:47.000 And what they were eulogizing is the death of the modern Democrat Party.

00:08:53.000 People are kind of shell-shocked trying to remember what has happened.

00:08:56.000 Steve Silberstein, a software entrepreneur who has donated millions to the Democrats over the last decade, sent in an interview, quote, people are trying to adjust to reality and plot out a path forward.

00:09:09.000 Carla Jurvetson, a major progressive donor, was there alongside of, guess who, Alexander Soros.

00:09:17.000 Everybody, you beat the wealthiest, most powerful people on the planet.

00:09:22.000 Our grassroots hustle, our bottom-up energy, the infrastructure that we all built together.

00:09:29.000 Mr. Soros says, he's quoted in the piece, quote, I was always concerned about Mr. Trump's victory.

00:09:35.000 He said, however, we're not going to give up.

00:09:38.000 We're going to keep our commitment to progressive causes.

00:09:40.000 There are so many takeaways here, everybody.

00:09:43.000 But one of the major ones is going into Election Day, Democrats were convinced they were going to win.

00:09:49.000 They thought they were going to win.

00:09:52.000 We didn't know the same.

00:09:53.000 We said we could win, we could lose.

00:09:54.000 We were always in the middle.

00:09:55.000 But the American people rose up in numbers that they could never possibly comprehend.

00:10:00.000 This was a revolt against the elites.

00:10:03.000 This was the closest to the reclamation of the republic we've ever seen.

00:10:08.000 And now Democrats are confused.

00:10:10.000 They are haywire trying to decide their direction forward.

00:10:15.000 And Alexander Soros, the heir to the Soros fortune, is leading the funeral procession.

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00:11:26.000 And one of the reasons we were able to beat the Democrats was because we embraced early voting.

00:11:31.000 And I know many of you on this audience thankfully got on board for that.

00:11:34.000 When you think about it, our movement was so big and so fresh and so new.

00:11:38.000 Didn't it make sense?

00:11:40.000 To make sure that we expanded the number of days that we voted, not just had everyone vote on a singular day.

00:11:47.000 If we would not have embraced early voting, and if we would not have chased ballots the way we did, we would not have won the White House.

00:11:55.000 I believe that without a doubt.

00:11:58.000 We won with first-time voters.

00:12:00.000 When you have first-time voters, you need more days, not less days, to get those people out to vote.

00:12:06.000 And the Democrats are scratching their heads because they got so used to being in power and being in control.

00:12:14.000 What is a Democrat donor, billionaire donor to do?

00:12:18.000 The piece by Teddy Schleifer.

00:12:21.000 It continues.

00:12:23.000 One tech billionaire, the eBay founder, Pierre Omador, started a philanthropy called the Democracy Fund.

00:12:30.000 Which recently sent a private memo to allies expressing urgency to protect the vulnerable.

00:12:35.000 Donors should stand strong and surge dollars now.

00:12:39.000 Democrat donors are all over the place here.

00:12:41.000 And what makes this victory fundamentally different than 2016, and this is very important, everybody, is that they had four years to prepare for it.

00:12:52.000 They had war rooms and committees and meetings.

00:12:55.000 And you better believe lawfare was a huge element of this.

00:12:59.000 The lawfare wrinkle is a huge, huge component.

00:13:03.000 So they said, how do we prevent Donald Trump from being president?

00:13:06.000 Now, they screwed up the timing, to be honest.

00:13:08.000 If they really wanted to do it, they should have done those indictments a lot earlier.

00:13:11.000 But they messed up the timing.

00:13:13.000 They did it far too late in the cycle.

00:13:15.000 And it was all BS. It was all garbage. 1.00

00:13:19.000 And then the Alvin Bragg one looked so silly and baseless. 1.00

00:13:22.000 So all their symmetrical lawfare fell apart. 0.95

00:13:26.000 Even though you're trying to tell me to...

00:13:27.000 Oh, they're not coordinating.

00:13:29.000 Even though it was Alvin Bragg, Fannie Willis, Jack Smith, Jack Smith, all within 60 days of each other.

00:13:36.000 Indictment, indictment, indictment, indictment.

00:13:38.000 The purpose was obviously election interference.

00:13:40.000 And it turned out being a huge positive for President Trump.

00:13:45.000 Made him a more sympathetic figure.

00:13:47.000 To millions and millions of Americans and brought in millions of first-time voters into the system.

00:13:52.000 Brought in millions of first-time people into the voting rolls.

00:13:56.000 And then on top of that, the Democrats thought they had a superior ground game.

00:14:00.000 The Democrats were piece after piece.

00:14:03.000 And boy, we should do a whole show on this before the end of the year.

00:14:06.000 We should.

00:14:07.000 Of every article they wrote about Turning Point, saying, oh, Turning Point doesn't have a ground game.

00:14:13.000 Oh, they've outsourced the Turning Point.

00:14:14.000 They're going to lose.

00:14:15.000 They've outsourced to Charlie Kirk.

00:14:18.000 They're going to lose.

00:14:19.000 Turns out our ground game, working with, of course, the Trump campaign, James Blair, Susie Boyles, Susie Wiles, James Blair, Susie Wiles, the whole team.

00:14:27.000 That our ground game was superior to anything on the left.

00:14:31.000 They were talking about, oh yeah, we're knocking on 6 million doors or we're knocking on 8 million doors.

00:14:34.000 Turns out we were actually chasing ballots and putting them into the system.

00:14:38.000 Let me also, and by the way, these numbers are incredible because we're preparing for a very big weekend here at Turning Point.

00:14:45.000 Our 1,000 biggest donors are coming in to Mar-a-Lago this weekend for a major event.

00:14:50.000 And I was running through some of these numbers.

00:14:53.000 And this is worth its own podcast episode.

00:14:55.000 It's worth its own broadcast, which is very simple.

00:14:59.000 Which is, we don't win without the youth vote and first-time voters.

00:15:04.000 If Kamala Harris, this is incredible.

00:15:07.000 I've run all these numbers.

00:15:08.000 If Kamala Harris would have done as well with young voters as Joe Biden in 2020, she's president. 0.99

00:15:15.000 Did you know that?

00:15:16.000 All Kamala Harris, forget all the other demographics, all Kamala Harris had to do was match Joe Biden's youth vote performance from 2020, and she would be president. 1.00

00:15:29.000 That's all she had to do.

00:15:30.000 On 54, this is how young men decisively moved for Trump.

00:15:34.000 In 2018, young men were Democrat by 19 points.

00:15:38.000 In 2020, Democrat by 15 points.

00:15:41.000 In 2022, by one point.

00:15:43.000 In 2024, Republican plus 13 points.

00:15:47.000 So as the wealthiest people on the planet and some of the most sinister and evil people on the planet, P.R. Omador, Reid Hoffman, are crying themselves at a funeral at the Democracy Alliance.

00:15:58.000 How did we lose?

00:15:59.000 Even though we spent hundreds of millions and billions of dollars, you lost to a grassroots movement while your artificial synthetic machine was not able to convince millions of people to vote for them.

00:16:11.000 And now we have a mandate the likes of which the country has never seen before.

00:16:15.000 The New York Times article is, what's a Democrat billionaire to do now?

00:16:19.000 That is a very good question, but I can tell you that the people defeated the oligarchs this election.

00:16:24.000 At this last election, it was the most successful citizen revolt in modern American history.

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00:17:44.000 Governor, great to see you again.

00:17:46.000 Governor, I want to get your initial reaction on Joe Biden's very widespread, wide-sweeping pardon of Hunter Biden.

00:17:55.000 You were a recipient of a pardon from President Trump, but categorically different from this one.

00:18:00.000 Your thoughts, Governor?

00:18:01.000 Well, two things, Charlie.

00:18:03.000 Number one, I didn't break a single law.

00:18:05.000 It was all politics.

00:18:06.000 Conversations started by then President-elect Obama.

00:18:09.000 He went to the White House for eight years.

00:18:10.000 I went to the Big House for eight years.

00:18:12.000 He ran away and sold me out and made a deal.

00:18:14.000 It was political horse trading.

00:18:16.000 I would never give in to the corrupt weaponization of non-crimes.

00:18:20.000 And so, you know, they crush you when you do that because they rigged the system.

00:18:24.000 But Hunter Biden's guilty of the things that he pled guilty to, probably a lot of other things as well.

00:18:30.000 So there are real crimes there.

00:18:32.000 Now, I'm a father, and I have to say that if I was in Joe Biden's shoes and that was my child, I would probably have done the same thing.

00:18:41.000 But what I would not have done and what he shouldn't have done was he should have never lied to the American people.

00:18:47.000 There was no doubt in my mind he was going to do for Hunter Biden what he ended up doing, unless he was able to get Kamala Harris to do it.

00:18:53.000 But I felt all along Trump was going to win, so Biden would have to do it. 0.94

00:18:56.000 And Biden knew it, and he lied to the American people and treated them like chumps. 0.95

00:19:00.000 But this is no surprise because Joe Biden has been a liar and a plagiarizer probably throughout his whole political career, which began way back in 1972. And I think the big crime, no pun intended, on the side of what Biden did was the fact that he lied to the American people. 0.91

00:19:17.000 Now, is this special treatment?

00:19:18.000 Of course it is.

00:19:20.000 Is it a two-tiered criminal justice system?

00:19:22.000 Of course it is.

00:19:23.000 Does equal protection under law exist in America?

00:19:25.000 I've learned the hard way.

00:19:25.000 It does not.

00:19:26.000 But I think one thing Biden can do to atone for some of this, what he did and the decision that he made, is he ought to pardon the January 6th protesters.

00:19:35.000 And they ought to apply the same standard to the J6 protesters that was applied to Black Lives Matter protesters, where few, if any, of them were charged with crimes or convicted of crimes. 0.94

00:19:45.000 In fact, I don't know that any of them were.

00:19:47.000 And so why is it that those protesters don't get prosecuted, but the January 6th ones do?

00:19:53.000 So if Biden wants to do something that would be constructive to heal the wounds in this divided country of ours, he ought to pardon the J6 protesters. 1.00

00:20:01.000 And while he's at it, he may want to think about just giving a blanket pardon to Trump and everybody around Trump who was persecuted by those Democratic weaponized prosecutors who've abused the rule of law and are destroying our democracy.

00:20:12.000 That is well said and well put, Governor.

00:20:15.000 And just remember, you spent eight years behind bars.

00:20:18.000 I mean, that's a political hit job.

00:20:20.000 Well, to be exact, Charlie, it was 2,896 days, not that I was counting.

00:20:25.000 It's really one month short of eight years.

00:20:27.000 But yes, it was.

00:20:28.000 And, you know, look, no one even accused me of taking a single penny.

00:20:31.000 It was fundraising requests and a political horse trade that Obama started.

00:20:36.000 That was the so-called sale of the Senate seat.

00:20:38.000 That case was reversed by the appellate court years later after I sat in prison for three, four years.

00:20:43.000 And they reversed it because the standard that was used was not a legal standard.

00:20:48.000 It would end government because politics and government, so much of it is done by political deals.

00:20:56.000 So they reversed that.

00:20:58.000 They can never uphold that.

00:20:58.000 They upheld three fundraising requests where there was no quid pro quo.

00:21:02.000 And at the second trial, because they failed to convict me at the first trial, the judge was totally corrupt.

00:21:08.000 Wouldn't allow us to even bring up, say the words, quid pro quo, much less instruct the jury that you have to have a quid pro quo, express quid pro quo in order to convict anybody for fundraising requests that were made by third parties, not even made by me.

00:21:21.000 So they put me in prison for 14 years because I fought back.

00:21:25.000 And they hope to bury the truth.

00:21:26.000 And to this day, they're still covering up 98% of FBI tapes that they recorded that show that I was telling the truth and show that they were lying.

00:21:34.000 And frankly, exculpatory evidence. 0.94

00:21:36.000 They are corrupt. 0.64

00:21:37.000 And what they did to Trump was no surprise to me because I lived it myself.

00:21:41.000 But the irony of it is, and the danger for our country, Charlie, is that what they were able to do to a Democrat governor at the AAA level, they believed they could successfully then do to a Republican president at the major league level, the leading opposition candidate of the party in power.

00:21:55.000 And here again, this goes back to Biden.

00:21:57.000 The other thing about Biden is the chutzpah to be able to say that his son was being targeted.

00:22:02.000 When Biden himself and his DOJ, and I'm certain, because I know how the business works, that Biden knew that the DOJ was doing what they were doing.

00:22:10.000 He probably instructed them.

00:22:12.000 It came right out of the Oval Office, those fake charges that were leveled against Trump by Jack Smith and those other Democratic prosecutors in other places.

00:22:20.000 So I want to ask you, Governor, and I want to go to our hometown of Chicago, which I care a lot about.

00:22:27.000 This is Mayor Johnson receiving criticism and responding to his criticism about the migrant crisis.

00:22:34.000 Play cut 47. Here's the budget shortfall for 2025, all right?

00:22:39.000 Call for number two. 0.57

00:22:40.000 982 million dollars.

00:22:42.000 Chicago alone.

00:22:43.000 Almost 500 million.

00:22:45.000 The cost of Chicago's migrant crisis under Mayor Brandon Johnson.

00:22:50.000 He defends it.

00:22:50.000 Here's what he said.

00:22:51.000 Listen.

00:22:53.000 I get the noise around my administration.

00:22:57.000 I'm doing it differently.

00:22:59.000 And I know it feels a certain way, but I'm doing it better.

00:23:03.000 I have a balanced budget that invests in people.

00:23:07.000 Governor, what is going on in our hometown of Chicago?

00:23:11.000 Well, the mayor doesn't know what he's doing.

00:23:12.000 I call him Lori Lightfoot 2.0 because he's a continuation of what she did to this city.

00:23:17.000 It's a great city with great people in it.

00:23:19.000 And he's got it all upside down.

00:23:21.000 His priorities are all wrong.

00:23:22.000 That budget deficit that you just showed is nearly a billion dollars.

00:23:26.000 Half of it is to pay for illegal immigrants who came to America illegally.

00:23:30.000 And he's making hardworking, honest taxpayers in Chicago, and homeowners in particular, pay higher taxes to pay for that.

00:23:39.000 And Chicago is a sanctuary city.

00:23:41.000 And here's another example of how things are upside down with today's Democratic leaders.

00:23:46.000 For it to be a sanctuary city, they are expressly defying federal law.

00:23:50.000 And it is a crime to harbor immigrants who are in a community illegally. 0.77

00:23:57.000 And if this mayor persists in keeping Chicago a sanctuary city and gets in the way of the homeland security effort to do the deportations and the other parts of the agenda that the Trump administration is committed to doing, that's a felony.

00:24:13.000 Those are crimes.

00:24:14.000 And let's see whether or not these mayors like Johnson, this Governor Pritzker, and others who are pandering to the far left of the Democratic Party are going to continue to put the interests of illegal immigrants above ordinary, regular, everyday citizens.

00:24:26.000 And Charlie, the community that gets hurt the worst Is the Black community. 1.00

00:24:30.000 And here's another example of how the Democratic Party has this sort of soft racism where they really talk a big game but do little or nothing to uplift the lives of everyday Black Americans.

00:24:43.000 And here in Chicago, the South Side in particular, the West Side, neighborhoods I'm very familiar with because I grew up on the West Side myself.

00:24:50.000 Here's an example of putting the interests of immigrants who came illegally above I think those trends are going to continue with this kind of bad government that we're getting in Chicago by Brandon Johnson.

00:25:19.000 Yeah, I want to ask you just about the future of the Democrat Party.

00:25:22.000 Where do you see them going from here?

00:25:23.000 Do you see them moderating and becoming kind of the Democrat Party that you represented, which is one that rejects the woke stuff, represents voters, wants borders?

00:25:33.000 Or do you think that they're going to double and triple down on their radicalism?

00:25:37.000 That's a real good question.

00:25:38.000 And I think the party's at a crossroads right now in what direction it's going in.

00:25:43.000 If I were to guess, my guess is they're going to lean further towards the radicalism because the energy comes from the far left, the socialist wing of the party.

00:25:51.000 We see it here in Chicago.

00:25:53.000 I can see it by just watching the events in Washington.

00:25:56.000 I also think the fact that Trump has remade the Republican Party and turned the Republican Party into a party of working people.

00:26:03.000 It's the working class party now, this Trump Republican Party. 0.91

00:26:06.000 I think that too is going to Not only grow the Republican Party under Trump, but I think it's also going to compel the Democrats to recognize that they, for political reasons, may just want to forget about working people altogether and just focus on the wealthy elites, And play the divisions that they play with identity politics that they've been so expert at doing.

00:26:29.000 I don't think they're going to learn their lessons from this election because there are too many interest groups and too many activists in the party that are committed to moving the party in that direction and who genuinely and sincerely, which is terrifying, but they genuinely and sincerely believe in a lot of the stuff that they're trying to impose on the rest of us.

00:26:45.000 Look, they don't have an obvious way out.

00:26:47.000 I want you to think back, Governor, I'm sure you were in politics in some way, back to how Bill Clinton did it.

00:26:52.000 How did Bill Clinton fend off the activist class in 1992 to successfully moderate the Democrat Party and then win the White House?

00:27:02.000 That was their problem through the 80s, too radical, too extreme.

00:27:06.000 How did Bill Clinton do it, and could that be duplicated in today's time?

00:27:10.000 Well, yes, it can be duplicated.

00:27:12.000 The way Bill Clinton did it was he basically gave a middle finger to the extreme left wing of the party.

00:27:20.000 And he did it at one particular event that was actually a dramatic event when the Reverend Jesse Jackson and he were at an event among leaders of the black community.

00:27:32.000 And there was this woman named Sister Soulja who had written a whole bunch of anti-white stuff.

00:27:36.000 And Clinton very shrewdly and correctly took her on right then and there.

00:27:41.000 And he was a different kind of Democrat at that time.

00:27:44.000 time.

00:27:44.000 And the word got out that this was a Democrat that was a lot less like, you know, the Kamala Harris, AOC, Democrats of that time, which was represented by Dukakis, who was the Democrat nominee in 88, and more like President Kennedy, the Kennedys, Bobby Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, and and more like President Kennedy, the Kennedys, Bobby Kennedy, John F. Kennedy,

00:28:04.000 So I think something like that, but not just one event, but actually furthering policies that are more in line with, you know, common sense, I think helped Clinton.

00:28:18.000 And he was the chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council.

00:28:21.000 They were centrist Democrats.

00:28:23.000 And there was some real energy in that part of the Democratic Party at that time.

00:28:28.000 The question, as you asked moments ago, is whether this generation of Democrats will do what Clinton did.

00:28:34.000 In the 1990s, and my suspicion is it's a different dynamic.

00:28:38.000 It is a different dynamic.

00:28:40.000 My suspicion is they're going to lean further left because the energy on the Bernie Sanders AOC wing of the party, the socialist wing of the party, is a lot stronger today than it was back in the 1990s.

00:28:51.000 Governor Rob Blagojevich, thank you so much.

00:28:53.000 Come back anytime.

00:28:54.000 Really appreciate it.

00:28:55.000 Thank you.

00:28:55.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:28:56.000 All the best to you.

00:28:57.000 Thank you.

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00:30:00.000 We are on verdict watch, by the way, of Daniel Penny, who's an American hero, which if Daniel Penny goes to jail, there has to be some sort of federal recourse for this.

00:30:12.000 Just a refresher.

00:30:13.000 Daniel Penny was on the subway when this lunatic was harassing other passengers on a subway in New York City.

00:30:19.000 A good Samaritan Marine.

00:30:21.000 Great man. 0.99

00:30:22.000 Goes and restrains the lunatic. 0.99

00:30:24.000 The lunatic ends up dying for a different reason unrelated to him.

00:30:30.000 Daniel Penny is now facing murder charges for this.

00:30:32.000 Could end up the rest of his life in jail for doing the right thing.

00:30:36.000 Do you want more Daniel Pennies or less Daniel Pennies?

00:30:39.000 For the women in the world, what would you like to have that situation play out? 1.00

00:30:44.000 Now, I want to have a single liberal woman come on this program and tell me... 1.00

00:30:50.000 Let's recreate the scene.

00:30:52.000 Let's recreate it.

00:30:54.000 You're sitting on the subway. 0.87

00:30:57.000 You have a Marine sitting right there and then you got some lunatic screaming in people's faces, harassing them and physically harassing them and assaulting them.

00:31:07.000 I want you to tell me in that situation what should have been done.

00:31:11.000 Oh, call the police?

00:31:13.000 Sorry, they didn't show up.

00:31:14.000 They're understaffed and undermanned.

00:31:15.000 What should the man do in that situation?

00:31:18.000 I want a liberal woman to tell me in great specific detail because it happens all the time. 1.00

00:31:25.000 It's very interesting because also in the city of New York was the Kitty Genovese story.

00:31:32.000 I don't know if Blake even knows the Kitty Genovese story off the top of his head.

00:31:35.000 He probably does.

00:31:36.000 The Kitty Genovese story actually was largely propaganda.

00:31:39.000 The point of the story is that people were upset that Kitty Genovese allegedly was raped and people watched on and did nothing.

00:31:50.000 And people were outraged about it.

00:31:52.000 The point being that it actually wasn't what people said it was, but the takeaway was that the public said, how could you dare see something bad and you would do nothing about it?

00:32:02.000 That's the point of the story I'm going at.

00:32:04.000 Now in New York, it's you see something bad, how dare you intervene?

00:32:09.000 You see something bad, how dare you step up?

00:32:12.000 The situation in front of us is...

00:32:16.000 Do you want men in particular who served in our military, whatever, when they see something evil, when they see a bully unfolding in front of them, do you want them to just kind of shrug their shoulders?

00:32:27.000 That is the country you are entering.

00:32:29.000 And the women of this world, especially the unmarried liberal women of New York City who ride the subway, this verdict will make you in a far more dangerous situation. 0.70

00:32:43.000 This verdict Will result in women being assaulted, raped, kidnapped, murdered, if it goes in against Daniel Penny.

00:32:53.000 Why? 0.88

00:32:54.000 Their idea of masculinity is a feeling, emotions-based masculinity.

00:32:59.000 It's one that tries to find the common ground with the harasser.

00:33:03.000 Their type of masculinity is one where, oh, he must be going through so much because he's going up to women on the subway and harassing them and potentially assaulting them.

00:33:14.000 Daniel Penny didn't just do nothing wrong, he did everything right.

00:33:18.000 And now he might be punished for the rest of his life because of that.

00:33:22.000 He's heroic.

00:33:24.000 What would you rather have in that situation?

00:33:27.000 Would you rather have men sit idly by? 0.76

00:33:32.000 A liberal woman on Twitter the other day said, quote, this man on the subway was repeatedly harassing a woman, being disgusting and invading her space.

00:33:39.000 Tell me why and the other women around try to intervene and just tell them off, but all the young fit guys just stood around and stood silent and looked at the ground.

00:33:48.000 You wonder why?

00:33:49.000 By the way, this is a liberal woman on the subway. 1.00

00:33:52.000 Men are now saying, well, if I intervene and do something, I could go to jail for the rest of my life.

00:33:56.000 We punish the heroes and we elevate the criminals.

00:34:00.000 We punish the courageous.

00:34:02.000 We criminalize the courageous, actually, is what this is.

00:34:07.000 By design, if Daniel Penney spends a day in prison, I call on Pam Bondi to do the following.

00:34:14.000 Pam Bondi should launch an immediate investigation of the New York justice system, just like the investigations Obama weaponized against big city police departments. 1.00

00:34:23.000 Pam Bondi should immediately cut off the $3.4 billion federal grant going to MTA and all other federal funds and no taxpayer funds should subsidize transport systems in New York City that criminalize the innocent.

00:34:37.000 Similarly, cut off all federal funds going to New York courts or prison systems and issue a blanket ban against hiring New York state prosecutors into federal positions.

00:34:46.000 If Daniel Penny goes into jail, Which it looks like he might.

00:34:51.000 Who knows?

00:34:51.000 The verdict is open-ended.

00:34:54.000 It will be criminalizing the courageous and putting a hero in prison.

00:34:58.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:59.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - December 03, 2024

Oh No! Democrat Billionaires Are Freaking Out!

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