Governor Mike Huckabee and Public Square President Michael Siefert join the show to talk about their new positions on the 2020 Democratic primary race and their vision for the future of Public Square. They also talk about why Public Square should serve as the new Chamber of Commerce for Public Square and what it means to be an entrepreneur in the 21st century. You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts. The Charlie Kirk Show is the official Gold Sponsor of The CharlieKirk Show, a company that specializes in gold and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you can protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at NobleGoldInvestments.com. It s where I buy all of my gold. That is NobleGoldinvestments. Go to NobleGold.investments and start your gold investments today! That s Noblegoldinvestments at Noblegold.com/thecharliekirkshow. And as always, you can email us at charlie.kirk@tpusa.org and let us know what you thought of the show! Tweet me if you have any questions, suggestions, suggestions or thoughts on the show or topics you d like to be included in the next episode. Timestamps: 1:00 - Governor Mike Huckabee: 2:30 - What's your favorite thing about Public Square? 3:40 - What would you like to see Public Square do in 2020? 4:15 - What do you want Public Square to do? 5:20 - What are you looking forward to hear from Public Square about? 6:00 7: What is your biggest takeaway from this election cycle? 8: What are your thoughts on Kamala Harris? 9: What does Public Square s vision? 11:00- What is the biggest challenge? 12:15- What s your biggest piece of advice you d? 13:30 14:30- What do we need to do to keep Public Square doing? 15:40- How do you think about the future? 16: What s the best way to start a free market economy? 17: What kind of business model? 18:20- What are we going to win the 2020 election process? 19:15 16 :30 - How do we have an American Renaissance era in our economy in 2020 and what s the biggest opportunity for entrepreneurs?
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00:01:38.000What do you think has been Vice President Harris's biggest accomplishment as vice president?
00:01:44.000Well look, I think she's done remarkable work across several important areas.
00:01:49.000Something that I think hasn't gotten much coverage is her passion for entrepreneurship, for wealth creation, for securing and stabilizing the middle class.
00:01:58.000She's traveled around the country to meet with small businesses and to talk with them about what it takes to get back to work, to grow a small business, to sustain the wealth and opportunity for a family.
00:02:10.000If this is what they're going to run on?
00:02:47.000Every day folks are recognizing the need for a marketplace ecosystem that actually celebrates and protects meritocracy, excellence, innovation.
00:02:57.000All of these existing incumbents that have dominated corporate America for a long time are falling by the wayside as people are recognizing that they've turned into weaponized political organizations.
00:03:06.000And I will tell you in this election season, Charlie, people are not only recognizing through efforts like yours, the importance of voting, Casting their ballots, not just registering, but going the entire way to ensure that their values are represented at the ballot box.
00:03:21.000They are also voting with their dollars.
00:03:23.000We are experiencing an entire economic reform right now.
00:03:27.000And I'm looking forward, Charlie, in the second Trump administration to Public Square serving as the new Chamber of Commerce.
00:03:33.000The new Small Business Administration where small businesses are protected, Main Street is valued.
00:03:42.000We have an opportunity for an American Renaissance era in our economy, but it has to look like patriots being in control and celebrating the values that have built this great nation in the first place.
00:03:52.000That's what we're trying to do at Public Square, and thankfully it's working.
00:03:55.000So let me ask you, I think this is an ascendant parallel economy.
00:04:01.000And so explain to me the aspects of what are the biggest challenges right now to be able to get entrepreneurs to not just on board with public square, but to be able to share their values without threat of cancellation.
00:04:20.000Well, I would say that it's a strength in numbers challenge, meaning for a long time, Charlie, even two years ago, there were a lot of entrepreneurs that were horrified of speaking out.
00:04:31.000They were afraid that their banks were going to cancel them or their payment processing was going to cancel them.
00:04:35.000And there were very few entities that were willing to kind of put their neck out on the line and speak the truth.
00:04:42.000As that's happened more and more, as more and more entrepreneurs are speaking out, as Silicon Valley has actually started to turn toward Trump and the MAGA agenda and the America First agenda, you're seeing that it has a downstream ripple effect with thousands and hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs around the country that are saying, well, they're willing to speak out.
00:05:00.000If the David Sachs of the world and the Elon Musk of the world are willing to speak out, maybe I can too.
00:05:05.000So even this last week, Charlie, there was a great company called Sticker Mule.
00:05:08.000They're one of the largest providers of custom stickers, packaging material, branding goods, merchandise, etc.
00:05:31.000I support President Trump, as do many of our employees.
00:05:34.000And we should not live in a country where we're afraid to say that.
00:05:37.000His courage inspired thousands of other entrepreneurs within our marketplace and other avenues to speak out with greater honesty and truth as well.
00:05:47.000And so I will tell you, Charlie, it's really a domino effect.
00:05:49.000And I think confidently that over the next 12 months, especially heating up into this election cycle,
00:05:56.000you're going to see some of the biggest names in tech and in marketplace technology and in general commerce
00:06:03.000feel a little bit more liberty to speak out.
00:06:05.000And that is going to be a major facet in saving our country and actually making it not only acceptable,
00:06:11.000but cool and popular to be conservative and to hold these values.
00:06:16.000I think we have an amazing opportunity that our opportunity really from there is to capitalize on it and to make sure that when people are awake, when those entrepreneurs do speak out, that they have a network of solutions that they can tap into, like what we're creating a public square so that they can continue their journey, not just with honesty and with truth and that sort of liberating aspect of speaking out, but then they can actually move their payments.
00:06:37.000They can actually switch their bank to a bank that shares their values and appreciates them speaking out.
00:06:41.000And that's really where we fill in the gap.
00:06:43.000So I want to comment on a 204 put up on screen here.
00:06:46.000This is Amazon, who has a shirt for sale that says, the only good Trump is a dead one.
00:06:52.000Now I imagine that they took this down, Michael, or is this still up right now?
00:06:56.000They had that up for about four hours from the time that it was first discovered to the time that it was taken down.
00:07:03.000I saw, personally, thousands of people comment to Amazon, put in support requests, flagging this for them, and they finally responded and took it down.
00:07:12.000They also had hoodies that said the same thing, Charlie.
00:07:16.000This is yet another example of Amazon displaying their pure hatred for conservatives and for really half the country, if not more.
00:07:23.000And what I will tell you that's interesting about this scenario is that Amazon has a long track record of canceling any merchandise on their site that seems to be pro-conservative.
00:07:32.000They have a long track record of canceling merchandise that speaks out against things like Pride Month, for example.
00:07:38.000They have algorithms, and I know this because we're a marketplace and we have this.
00:07:42.000So if a multi-trillion dollar marketplace doesn't have this, but we do, that's a problem.
00:07:46.000We have algorithms that when a new product is entered into our marketplace, it actually scans the language.
00:07:52.000It ensures that there's not something that's inflammatory against the values of the platform.
00:07:57.000I guarantee you this hoodie and this t-shirt, when it went up on Amazon originally, Went through that same system.
00:08:03.000They had every ability to flag it before it ever went live, and they pushed it live anyways.
00:08:08.000That is an incredible Freudian slip of sorts of them describing exactly who they really are.
00:08:14.000And as the famous adage goes, when your enemies tell you who they are, believe them.
00:08:19.000This was incredibly egregious on Amazon's part, and they're not the only company that has let things like this accidentally slip over the course of the last few weeks.
00:08:29.000So, this is a pattern that we've seen from corporate America for quite some time, and just how quickly, you know, the media has specifically moved on from Trump getting shot, we must remember.
00:08:41.000I played this earlier, I want to get your reaction to this.
00:08:43.000This is Brett Baer asking about, what is Kamala Harris's biggest accomplishment?
00:08:49.000What do you think has been Vice President Harris's biggest accomplishment as Vice President?
00:08:56.000Well look, I think she's done remarkable work across several important areas.
00:09:01.000Something that I think hasn't gotten much coverage is her passion for entrepreneurship, for wealth creation, for securing and stabilizing the middle class.
00:09:10.000She's traveled around the country to meet with small businesses and to talk with them about what it takes to get back to work, to grow a small business, to sustain the wealth and opportunity for a family.
00:09:22.000Is the middle class stronger than ever because of Kamala Harris?
00:09:26.000This is another example of the blatant gaslighting out of the Biden administration.
00:09:30.000Now, what they're basically touting is the Harris administration.
00:09:34.000Charlie, the middle class is not stronger than ever.
00:09:36.000In fact, they tell us day in and day out that they're weaker than ever.
00:09:39.000The Biden administration has created the greatest wealth disparity we've seen in generations.
00:09:45.000And we hear from our businesses often that not only are they struggling right now, they physically cannot survive as a business under the Biden administration.
00:09:56.000You might have heard Mike Lindell and MyPillow no longer have the support of their box stores or shopping channels the way they used to.
00:10:02.000They've been part of this cancel culture, so they want to pass the savings directly onto you by having a $25 extravaganza.
00:10:09.000When Mike started MyPillow, it was just a one-product company.
00:10:13.000With the help of his dedicated employees, they now have hundreds of products and some of you may not even know about it.
00:10:19.000To get the word out, I want to invite my listeners to check out their $25 extravaganza.
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00:11:19.000We were talking about whether or not Kamala Harris has done a good job for the small business economy in Main Street America and the middle class more broadly.
00:11:27.000The resounding answer we hear from actually meeting with business owners frequently and working with them day in, day out, as a very core part of our business, is that they are not doing well.
00:11:38.000We ran a survey recently, just last month, Charlie, that asked, would your business, We pulled over 80,000 business respondents.
00:11:45.000Would your business survive a second Biden term?
00:11:49.000And a shocking amount, 48%, said definitely or probably not, but 70% in totality said, we don't think so.
00:11:58.000Only 30% said, yeah, we think we probably could make it.
00:12:00.000But some of the quotes that we got in response to the survey were astounding.
00:12:04.000People saying things like, we've already cut our costs to a bare minimum.
00:12:07.000Inflation is continuing to kill our business.
00:12:10.000Other business owners talking about the continued rise of supplier costs.
00:12:14.000So this gaslighting out of the Biden administration suggests that, no, no, no, no, don't listen to anybody telling you any contrarian opinion.
00:12:22.000That's just conservative right-wing media.
00:12:24.000Supplier costs are actually going down.
00:12:50.000Charlie, so Kamala Harris saying, oh, I've been to a few small businesses and that tells me what I need to know that we're successful.
00:12:56.000It's like nothing could be farther from the truth.
00:12:59.000That's like this incredible moment where she admits that, yeah, yeah, we've been to the border, except I haven't I haven't really been to the border, but I haven't been to Europe either.
00:13:08.000She's saying, no, no, we know small business as well.
00:13:10.000We actually haven't served them and we have no real data to back up our claims that we're supporting a strong middle-class economy, but we've, we've been there and we've helped them.
00:13:20.000And the truth is, is that the small business community is the lifeblood of our economy, but they have been squeezed to their wits and it cannot continue.
00:13:28.000We need another Trump administration and the economic brilliance that comes with a conservative policy agenda.
00:13:34.000So Michael, let's go through like one or two of those policy agenda items.
00:13:38.000Specifically, out of the gate, what can President Trump and Vice President Vance, if they win, and hopefully they do, do to unshackle the small business economy?
00:13:48.000What should be at the top of that policy agenda?
00:13:52.000If you talk to any small business around the country, they're dealing with so much red tape in order to build their business and then continue to maintain their business.
00:13:59.000And much of that red tape has to do with pure regulatory burden that is completely unnecessary.
00:14:04.000A lot of it having to do with ESG initiatives.
00:14:06.000So actually becoming energy independent again is something that the Trump administration has touted that they are going to prioritize day one.
00:14:12.000That will have a number of downstream effects that are positive to the small business community in the United States.
00:14:18.000Cutting the tax rate as well will be incredibly beneficial to business owners in this country that are burdened not only by the regulatory pressure but also by the tax burden that they have to face.
00:14:28.000I will also tell you, Charlie, that something that he's talked about at great length is
00:14:31.000putting pressure on foreign actors in order to revitalize American manufacturing again.
00:14:36.000Many of the small businesses that we work with on a day-to-day basis that power our
00:14:40.000over 80,000 merchants in our parallel economy on Public Square are businesses that make
00:14:46.000It's harder than ever to do that because our financial system has rewarded globalization
00:14:51.000and has punished American manufacturing.
00:14:53.000That's why you're seeing a poll of union workers and contractors and on-the-ground service
00:14:58.000providers that are rushing toward the Trump administration for another term because they
00:15:02.000recognize that he's the only president that is willing to put pressure on foreign actors,
00:15:06.000to the point where, to much hostility, he's actually proposed tariffs.
00:15:10.000He's actually proposed that if we have an adverse adversary on the geopolitical level, they should not be receiving special favors to import their products made with cheap labor overseas from countries that hate us.
00:15:23.000We should actually incentivize the American mainstream.
00:15:26.000He's also talked at great length about small business credits of folks that are trying to build their business for the first time in order to actually initiate and spur on innovation growth with new product lines and sectors.
00:15:38.000And the last thing I'll mention, Charlie, is that President Trump has done an amazing job of trying to support the labor force that is actually native born, that is born here in the United States.
00:15:47.000These are American citizens that deserve to have a decrease in competition with illegal immigrants for jobs.
00:16:46.000I mean, they were so desperate that they gathered around and shoved Joe Biden right out the door.
00:16:52.000I mean, I've never seen anything quite like it.
00:16:54.000It's the closest thing to a political coup that we've seen probably in American history, where his own people, the people closest to him, Gathered around him and said, Joe, you got to go.
00:17:06.000So they're suddenly without a candidate.
00:17:09.000They don't have a lot of options because if they don't pick Kamala Harris, it's going to look like that they're sexist, misogynist and racist.
00:17:51.000Why would she not want to be known as The Borders Are?
00:17:53.000I mean, Mayorkas and Joe Biden and Karine Jean-Pierre and Kamala herself, for two or three years, they've been telling us the border is secure.
00:18:54.000And Governor, do you agree with me that even though we don't like the mail-in balloting system, we should utilize it, and that if we don't engage in voting month, and that if we fail to realize that election day is the final day of voting, that we are not maximizing the potential of the Trump base.
00:21:00.000So I say to my fellow Republicans, you can lament, you can Tear your garments over the fact that we have a lot of different ways in which, whether it's electronic voting or mail-in voting, get used to it because we're going to have to live with it.
00:21:15.000And to win some of these swing states where this is now the way of the day, then let's just go ahead and play by the rules that are there.
00:21:25.000But let's win at those rules rather than spend our time kicking under the table and complaining about it.
00:21:59.000They know that 90% of permanent change comes from the mind, and they work on eliminating the reason you gained this weight in the first place.
00:22:05.000There's no shortcuts, pills, or injections, just solid science-based nutrition and behavior change.
00:22:09.000And finally, and probably most importantly, I lost 30 pounds.
00:22:55.000And so our base and our following, according to polling, is that we actually have an advantage with lower propensity voters.
00:23:02.000Governor, it never used to be that way.
00:23:03.000It used to be that Democrats used to enjoy advantages with lower propensity voters.
00:23:08.000Therefore, the current configuration of our flawed voting laws actually is advantage to the low propensity party.
00:23:17.000In a paradoxical way, since we are the low-propensity movement, we have an opportunity to use voting month to maximize our newfound base of lower-propensity voters.
00:23:29.000Your thoughts on that, Governor Huckabee?
00:24:36.000But whatever it takes to get people to actually go and vote, whether it's mobilizing them through churches and organizations, but don't leave any vote sitting at home with a person's feet up in the air thinking it's all going to be okay.
00:26:17.000The only question is, will it be smooth and will it be very appealing to the American voter, or will it be a repeat of 1968 when the Democrats were in Chicago?
00:26:29.000Charlie, we don't know, but I'm going to tell you, I lived through 1968.
00:26:46.000The riots, the contentiousness of the convention.
00:26:50.000You know, it wouldn't break my heart if there was contentious activity in the convention.
00:26:56.000I don't wish violence, and I don't wish disruption.
00:27:00.000But if what we saw in Washington this week, just because Benjamin Netanyahu showed up to make a speech to Congress, and you have these crazies in the Democrat Party, these anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic people, who are so filled with hate that they're actually embracing the butchers of Hamas, If they show up in Chicago, and I expect that they will, they will take all of the attention away from whatever message the Democrats have, and all people in America will see, not the message, but the absolute mess, and they will have created it.
00:27:34.000They own this, and they may have to put their spoon in the middle of the bowl and eat it.
00:27:39.000Governor Huckabee, your program on TBN is a must-watch.
00:28:18.000I think it was a sobering moment for every American, even if they didn't vote for, support, or even like Donald Trump.
00:28:24.000You cannot see what happened on that Saturday afternoon and not come away with the sense, unless you're just a rank unbeliever, Otherwise, you have to see that as Providence.
00:28:34.000You have to see that as God taking care of Donald Trump and saying, I'm not finished with you quite yet.
00:28:43.000And I think it was a message not only to all of us, but it was a message also to President Trump to give him that sense of saying to him, you have a purpose for which you've been left here.
00:28:53.000It's bigger than you are, bigger than you even can understand.
00:28:56.000And I truly believe that with my whole heart.
00:30:57.000And yet there she was, basically repenting for having believed the lies that had been fed to her and having done the research on her own, came to the conclusion that, you know what?
00:31:11.000The union president from the Teamsters, again, historic moment, but many of the Moms whose children were killed by fentanyl poisoning because we have an open border and this stuff just comes across.
00:31:25.000The activist from New York who spoke so eloquently and passionately about what crime is doing to her neighborhood.
00:31:34.000These are real people and Americans can relate to them because they're feeling the same thing.
00:31:39.000And I just thought it was a phenomenal mix of what I would call the celebrity, those who are well known among Republicans and the rest of the public, and the people that no one had ever heard of.
00:31:51.000But when they heard them, they heard truth, and they heard it from the heart, and it spoke deeply to the souls of America.
00:31:59.000Governor Huckabee, thank you for your leadership, and I with you rejoice the fact that Donald Trump is alive and well, and that our movement is continuing.