The Charlie Kirk Show - Populism Explained and the REAL Root Causes of Spiking Crime Rates

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk show.

00:00:01.000 What is the history of populism in our country?

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00:00:07.000 Did you know the crime rate is spiking dramatically?

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00:02:18.000 We are here on hopefully what will be a good week to be an American.

00:02:23.000 The month of January was tough for a variety of different reasons, as we have talked about in great detail, the Georgia runoffs, the Capitol tragedy, Joe Biden becoming president.

00:02:33.000 So here we are with a new month, and we are going to come after it with positivity and good spirit and optimism.

00:02:39.000 We are hoping that February is start of something new and good.

00:02:45.000 Some people are saying it's a slow news day.

00:02:47.000 There is a storm raging in the northeast of our country, which is so obviously Trump's fault.

00:02:52.000 So that's the end of that news story.

00:02:54.000 So anytime anything ever bad happens, it's definitely the guy in Florida that's golfing.

00:02:58.000 So it's his fault.

00:03:00.000 But I want to go deeper into kind of some of the themes that we're seeing here.

00:03:04.000 There's a couple stories I do want to hit on.

00:03:06.000 I want to talk about how more and more information goes to show that the people that were involved in the Capitol tragedy were actually not necessarily ideological.

00:03:18.000 In fact, a lot of them didn't even vote in the presidential election.

00:03:21.000 I want to get into that.

00:03:22.000 I also want to get into something that we started to build out last week, which is the growing populist rancor and backlash in our country.

00:03:35.000 What does it actually mean to be a populist?

00:03:38.000 Is being a populist a good thing or a bad thing?

00:03:42.000 Well, being a populist is not necessarily ideological in nature.

00:03:48.000 You could be a populist for good or a populist for bad.

00:03:52.000 Being a populist simply means that you are willing to suspend pre-existing ideological beliefs to try and do what is best for the people.

00:04:04.000 Now, that doesn't mean you have to eliminate those beliefs.

00:04:07.000 It doesn't mean you have to go against your beliefs.

00:04:10.000 But it also means that certain circumstances might challenge deeply held ideology.

00:04:18.000 Populist energy is one of the most powerful political forces a party, a person, a politician, or a movement can tap into.

00:04:29.000 There's been many different populist movements in American and world history.

00:04:34.000 Some people in the intelligentsia in Washington, D.C. act as if populist movements are nothing more than less than educated people that are trying to mobilize their grievances.

00:04:50.000 While some populist movements might fit into that box, that is not an accurate description of most American populist movements.

00:05:01.000 Some people in the intelligentsia in Washington, D.C., and both the Republican and the Democrat intelligentsia, are annoyed by these sorts of movements.

00:05:10.000 They're irritated by them.

00:05:12.000 They feel as if that the more the people are given a voice, the more it might actually jeopardize their current schemes.

00:05:22.000 And for that, they're actually right.

00:05:25.000 Liberals have not seized populist energy since Barack Obama in 2008.

00:05:33.000 Barack Obama won because of his charm and his charisma and his style and how smooth of a communicator he was.

00:05:41.000 But he also won because he happened to run in a moment of heightened populist energy where there was an anti-war movement, an anti-Wall Street movement, an anti-George W. Bush movement.

00:05:58.000 There were multiple institutional points of energy going against the institutions that were running our country in 2008.

00:06:07.000 The Tea Party movement, Occupy Wall Street movement, Trump and the Make America Great Again movement.

00:06:12.000 All of them were different manifestations of the same sorts of complaints.

00:06:19.000 The people in charge are not looking after the people that are being ruled.

00:06:26.000 We are angry.

00:06:28.000 Don't condescend us any longer.

00:06:29.000 Tell us the truth.

00:06:31.000 Things have got to change.

00:06:35.000 And if you look back at the history of American populism, probably the most important election that we can look to is the election of 1896 of President McKinley versus William Jennings Bryan.

00:06:49.000 William Jennings Bryan was probably the first American populist that we can point to.

00:06:59.000 He was only 36 years old when he ran for president, barely old enough to hold office.

00:07:05.000 And he saw America at a great moment of change.

00:07:08.000 He, of course, gave the very famous cross of gold speech and was a harsh critic against industrialization.

00:07:15.000 Now, he used that populist energy to usher in a lot of the mainstreaming of progressive reforms.

00:07:24.000 But basically, William Jennings Bryan in 1896 asked the question, how do you reform a country?

00:07:32.000 I believe we're in another moment similar to that that will be looked at like the era of 1896 to 1910.

00:07:42.000 Now, thankfully, we had Teddy Roosevelt become president.

00:07:46.000 He became president, actually by mistake.

00:07:49.000 He was vice president.

00:07:51.000 And I believe it was President McKinley who got shot.

00:07:55.000 And Teddy Roosevelt took office.

00:07:57.000 Now, Teddy Roosevelt was unafraid to embrace this people-centered energy while also condemning and rejecting Lenin-based socialism.

00:08:09.000 It wouldn't yet be Lenin-based socialism.

00:08:12.000 One of the main reasons why America remained free in the 20th century is because Teddy Roosevelt successfully transitioned us from the farms to the factories, holding some of what was called then the robber barons accountable without disintegrating the American culture.

00:08:28.000 He held the line.

00:08:31.000 These sort of massive economic transitions are not to be underestimated.

00:08:37.000 When you have 95% of a population that works on family farms, and then a decade later, you're telling them you're going to have to go work in the factories, you're going to have to leave the five generations that preceded you, what they did and what they built, there's going to be a little bit of disruption around that.

00:08:58.000 There's going to be a lot of economic dislocation.

00:09:02.000 Teddy Roosevelt gave people the confidence and the certainty that this transition will be managed.

00:09:09.000 This transition will still respect private property.

00:09:13.000 This transition will still respect entrepreneurship.

00:09:16.000 It will reject socialism and any of these wacky social Marxist movements, but also retain the American way of life.

00:09:28.000 Actually, William Jennings Bryan started something called the People's Party.

00:09:31.000 A lot of people are looking to start a new political party right now.

00:09:35.000 I kind of like the name the People's Party.

00:09:37.000 It sounds somewhat Marxist, but it doesn't have to be.

00:09:41.000 And basically, what William Jennings Bryan did, which was his longest-lasting legacy, that Teddy Roosevelt picked up and how it applies today, was he challenged the economic model of the new industrial era.

00:09:53.000 No different than 1896 to 1910, which was the era of economic reform that launched us into the 20th century, albeit at times with plenty of problems.

00:10:04.000 The People's Party got a lot wrong.

00:10:07.000 They wanted to get rid of the state legislatures appointing senators.

00:10:12.000 They brought in the direct election of senators.

00:10:15.000 However, we survived that transition.

00:10:19.000 Well, let me tell you right now, we're going through another transition that in some ways will be even more disruptive and have more economic dislocation than from the farms to the factories.

00:10:31.000 We are going from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy to a purely digital economy, which will disenfranchise and dislocate 150 million people.

00:10:45.000 If people had economic certainty, if people had belief in what's next to come, they would not be acting the way they are.

00:10:58.000 And so now, as we are in this moment of 2021 with a peacetime kleptocrat as president, Joe Biden, who is actually the first president in my lifetime to enter office and try and kill jobs, where he enters office and his goal is to actually get people unemployed. 0.99

00:11:15.000 It's a stunningly stupid way of governing a country. 0.98

00:11:20.000 I am now president. 1.00

00:11:21.000 How do I destroy jobs?

00:11:24.000 Where Joe Biden will be the Woodrow Wilson of this moment.

00:11:32.000 Have you noticed lately people seem increasingly irritated with the people in charge?

00:11:43.000 Now, that's not to say that's not anything new.

00:11:45.000 It's been happening for the last decade.

00:11:47.000 And that's, I think, how historians are going to categorize this decade right now: is the continual outrage from the people against the ruling class.

00:11:57.000 And while you're in that moment of history, it's hard to see that.

00:12:00.000 When you take a step back, you say, oh, wow, that really did define the last decade.

00:12:05.000 And the failure of our rulers to address that meaningfully or significantly.

00:12:11.000 A lot of people are asking the question: they're saying, What is the proper way then to view all of this pent-up energy?

00:12:18.000 Look, it could be used for good or it could be used for bad.

00:12:22.000 It could be used for reinvigorating our country around family creation, conservative values, and the American dream, or it can be used for something that is gaining steam in our country.

00:12:38.000 Which I heard someone say this on television the other day.

00:12:40.000 I don't know who said it.

00:12:41.000 Or it could be around building and strengthening the woke industrial complex.

00:12:46.000 I just love that term.

00:12:48.000 The military industrial complex, of course, is a term that was coined by President Dwight D. Eisenhower warning us against the forever war machine in our country.

00:12:57.000 But the woke industrial complex, they control our corporations, they control our colleges, they control universities, our means of communication, social media, every single part of American life.

00:13:10.000 And so, the danger of a people-centered movement, the danger of giving voice to previously disenfranchised working people is that they could embrace really, really bad ideas and they could be mobilized to destroy everything around us.

00:13:29.000 That is a valid concern. 0.92

00:13:31.000 It happens in countries all the time.

00:13:33.000 However, that critique assumes a false given.

00:13:39.000 That critique assumes the populist energy is going away.

00:13:44.000 That critique assumes that with the right op-eds and carefully crafted arguments, the 75 million people that are worried that their way of life and their economic condition will disappear are somehow going to want us in charge, and we can go back to the Chamber of Commerce way of ruling.

00:14:05.000 You see, our parents, when I was growing up in the 1990s and early 2000s, lived in a completely different economy than we live today.

00:14:15.000 We experienced the dot-com boom, the housing boom.

00:14:19.000 Jobs were abundant, wages were rising, and it was relatively easy to make not just a living, but make a stable life.

00:14:29.000 It's not to say it's impossible today, and I don't like the entire victimhood narrative that seeps in far too often.

00:14:37.000 However, we'd be fooling ourselves if we did not recognize that the economic conditions in 2021, especially the debt burden that is being carried by most young people, is totally different.

00:14:53.000 And since it's completely different, and we're now in that next transition phase economically, we went from the farms to the factories to corporate boardrooms to now what?

00:15:04.000 We're not really sure, but it's this quasi-digital technological economy that seems to reward whatever company owns the servers, the correct algorithms, and computer engineers. 0.72

00:15:24.000 Where the peacetime kleptocrats are wrong is they believe so firmly, they believe that they can make all of this anger go away. 0.86

00:15:38.000 They can make all this resentment go away.

00:15:41.000 Instead, address the concerns directly, tell the truth, take the concerns seriously, put together an agenda of public policy items that you know will make people's lives significantly better.

00:15:59.000 You take on the titans of big tech.

00:16:01.000 You secure our borders.

00:16:03.000 We tried doing that, and it came under such unbelievable opposition from people in both parties.

00:16:07.000 Now our borders are wide open.

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00:17:32.000 I want to get to a story here from CNN of all places that really caught my attention as we were prepping for this week.

00:17:40.000 Quote, some arrested in Capitol Siege didn't vote in 2020.

00:17:46.000 It goes on to detail a couple people that stormed the Capitol, some of which, some of them stole some stuff or were carrying it, and they didn't vote.

00:17:58.000 There's a lot here to think about.

00:18:00.000 So I want you to imagine something.

00:18:03.000 You book a ticket to Washington, D.C. to go be part of the peaceful event at the ellipse, or maybe not.

00:18:13.000 This guy's dressed as an oathkeeper, paramilitary, whatever.

00:18:17.000 You go through all the logistics of that.

00:18:21.000 You then are so enthusiastic, allegedly, about the cause that you storm the Capitol, but you won't vote?

00:18:32.000 Well, this tells me one of two things.

00:18:34.000 The most important thing, and this is something that the media needs to now reference their own reporting, is that these were not necessarily ideological people.

00:18:45.000 That instead, some of them that were participating had their own motivations that were beyond politics.

00:18:56.000 Some of them were even wearing Trump hats and they didn't vote.

00:19:00.000 Others were posting Instagram pictures saying, I can't wait to tell my grandkids I was here.

00:19:07.000 They were just there for the Insta, okay?

00:19:10.000 They were just there for the social feed.

00:19:13.000 Other people, this one other guy posted a selfie and said, pepper spray really does wonders for your complexion.

00:19:21.000 Hashtag 1776.

00:19:25.000 And he's smiling.

00:19:27.000 I think it's a very interesting takeaway for one of two reasons.

00:19:30.000 Number one, this nuance now needs to be communicated that not every single person there was a Trump supporter.

00:19:37.000 They didn't even vote.

00:19:39.000 Number two, though, if they were a Trump supporter and they didn't vote, maybe instead of dressing up like Rambo and getting zip ties and running into the Capitol, maybe you should have just went and knocked on doors and become a precinct committeeman.

00:19:57.000 You want to effectuate change?

00:20:00.000 Don't go storm the Capitol like a paramilitary guy, like this one guy who's in the article, who didn't even go through the process of registering to vote or going to vote.

00:20:12.000 I think it tells us a lot in those two ways.

00:20:16.000 The president, the former president, Trump, is about to be impeached.

00:20:21.000 Legal briefs are due tomorrow from his team.

00:20:26.000 Next week, the impeachment proceedings will begin.

00:20:31.000 All around this idea that President Trump incited a mob.

00:20:38.000 I want you to watch, though, this very informative video from the Wall Street Journal that goes to show that there were already people pushing back and penetrating the police line while the president was still giving his remarks.

00:20:51.000 Play tape.

00:20:52.000 At around 12:50 p.m., while President Trump has taken the stage at a nearby rally, another live streamer captures the Proud Boys approaching the Capitol from the Northwest and encountering a small police presence behind a temporary barrier.

00:21:15.000 Proud Boys can be seen in the crowd.

00:21:17.000 Porter told the journal that he participated in a protest, not a riot, and that he did not enter the Capitol.

00:21:23.000 12:53.

00:21:25.000 That's why the president is just taking the stage, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:21:30.000 They're already pushing back on police barricades.

00:21:33.000 So the beginning instigation, the first push against police, began while all the people were still at the crowd miles away.

00:21:46.000 That piece of evidence is awfully important as this narrative needs to be challenged.

00:21:56.000 The video goes on.

00:21:57.000 There's more parts of the video that goes to show that some of the Proud Boys were congregating on the east side of the Capitol very early.

00:22:05.000 And by the way, there's a couple of questions I have still at large about all of this.

00:22:11.000 Why has the pink hat woman not been arrested yet?

00:22:14.000 We have done, I think, more in-depth analysis of what happened that day than most shows, and the pink cat woman has still not yet been arrested.

00:22:22.000 Secondly, the other piece of information that shows that this was, no doubt, premeditated, the pipe bombs at the DNC and the RNC the night before.

00:22:34.000 And we have still not found the people that placed the pipe bombs at the DNC or the RNC the night before.

00:22:41.000 So while many people did get caught up in this for a variety of different reasons, the fact of the matter is that it is an inarguable fact that there were people that were coming to Washington, D.C. with the intent to try and blow something up, the pipe bombs, penetrate police lines, whatever it might be.

00:23:05.000 And the sheer volume of people actually made some of their goals and their ambitions more likely than not.

00:23:15.000 Now, I think we need to take a pause and ask ourselves the question: then why are there still National Guards people in Washington, D.C. with the numbers that they have?

00:23:29.000 There are 6,000 National Guards people, 25,000 were there near the inauguration.

00:23:36.000 Where they were on the date of this incident, I don't know.

00:23:41.000 And the issue that I think is the biggest takeaway of the current military occupation in Washington is that it creates an appearance of a police state, of a military state.

00:23:59.000 It makes people afraid, quite honestly.

00:24:02.000 And when people are afraid, they are easier to control.

00:24:06.000 And if you know the left and if you know the Democrat Party, you know they are always seeking control over the citizenry.

00:24:15.000 They are always seeking to be able to manipulate behavior and have themselves in power nearly perpetually.

00:24:27.000 And so the National Guard presence in Washington needs to be explained.

00:24:36.000 Thousands and thousands and thousands of military troops in our nation's capital.

00:24:43.000 And they say the reason is, well, it's because of what happened on January the 6th.

00:24:47.000 You need 5,000 troops to prevent that.

00:24:50.000 And where were the couple hundred troops?

00:24:51.000 Can we play that video again?

00:24:53.000 You want to see how thin the line was that they pushed through?

00:24:59.000 And I think that there needs to be a thorough series of questions of why was the police force that day so thin?

00:25:10.000 Why was it so sparse?

00:25:11.000 Play tape.

00:25:12.000 At around 12.50 p.m., while President Trump has taken the stage at a nearby rally, another live streamer captures the Proud Boys approaching the Capitol from the Northwest and encountering a small police presence behind a temporary barrier.

00:25:34.000 Proud Boys can be seen in the crowd.

00:25:37.000 Porter told the journal that he participated in a protest, not a riot, and that he did not enter the Capitol.

00:25:43.000 There is all but 10 or 15 police officers there with a very flimsy fence.

00:25:50.000 Now, maybe the National Guard and the permanent fencing that is being proposed is trying to create a narrative ahead of impeachment to show that there's still a great threat to our country.

00:26:04.000 Maybe that's why.

00:26:05.000 Congressman Lance Gooden said, quote, 7,000 National Guard troops will still be in D.C. in February.

00:26:11.000 Permanent fencing is being proposed around the Capitol.

00:26:13.000 Funny.

00:26:13.000 They want to build a wall around the Capitol, but not on our southern border.

00:26:16.000 Stunning.

00:26:18.000 Many security perimeters are still in place.

00:26:21.000 Where was all this protection for American businesses when their stores were looted for weeks last summer?

00:26:26.000 The answer is they don't care about that.

00:26:29.000 Additionally, isn't it interesting how the Democrats demand all of the people that protect them are armed?

00:26:35.000 Why don't they just have a bunch of social workers protecting the Capitol?

00:26:40.000 I love when the Democrats all of a sudden become the party of law and order.

00:26:44.000 Or they try to be.

00:26:46.000 We need to lock away these people that did this forever.

00:26:48.000 Well, look, I actually kind of agree in harsh sentencing when people commit violent acts, like when they kill police officers.

00:26:56.000 I totally agree.

00:26:57.000 But these are the very same Democrats like Kamala Harris, who created a bail fund, the Minnesota Freedom Fund she donated to.

00:27:04.000 She didn't create it.

00:27:05.000 She donated it to it to release criminals, many of whom were violent, from Minnesota jails after they burned down large parts of Minneapolis.

00:27:18.000 Senator Kennedy from Louisiana is asking this very same question.

00:27:21.000 Why are the National Guard troops still there?

00:27:23.000 Play tape.

00:27:25.000 We brought in National Guard troops to ensure that President Biden had a safe inauguration.

00:27:30.000 He did.

00:27:31.000 Inauguration is over.

00:27:33.000 But if you look around Capitol Hill, parts of it look like a scene from Mad Max.

00:27:40.000 I mean, there's razor wire, there's fences, there's barricades, they're Humvees, they're automatic weapons.

00:27:46.000 At one point, they had tanks.

00:27:49.000 A cynical person might surmise that the Democratic leadership with the news media is trying to send a message to the American people.

00:27:58.000 And that message might be: the Republicans couldn't keep you safe, but we, the Democrats, can.

00:28:05.000 That is the message.

00:28:07.000 But now that they have set the precedent of mobilizing the National Guard to try and solve problems, we need to ask ourselves the question: what other cities might need the National Guard?

00:28:18.000 How many more lives could be saved?

00:28:20.000 Or is the Capitol just more important than other parts of the country?

00:28:25.000 Maybe it is.

00:28:25.000 Maybe that's their argument.

00:28:27.000 Do you know how many people were shot last week in Chicago?

00:28:32.000 57.

00:28:34.000 Why has the National Guard not been called into Chicago?

00:28:38.000 Why is Joe Biden or Lori Lightfoot or Governor J.B. Pritzker, who might be America's worst governor, and I don't say that lightly.

00:28:46.000 Well, I wouldn't say anything lightly with J.B. Pritzker.

00:28:49.000 He's born on third and thought he hit a triple.

00:28:52.000 Why wouldn't we mobilize the National Guard?

00:28:55.000 Do you know that every two hours and 59 minutes, someone is wounded in the city of Chicago?

00:29:01.000 Do you know someone is murdered every 14 hours and two minutes in Chicago?

00:29:06.000 Just in January, Chicago saw an 86% increase in people shot and killed, a 43% increase in total homicides.

00:29:19.000 Just in 2020, Chicago saw a 51% increase in people shot and wounded, a 52% increase in total shot, 4,174 people total shot, with, get this, 792 homicides in Chicago. 0.60

00:29:37.000 Why is the National Guard not being called in to stop the slaughter in the streets of Democrat Chicago?

00:29:42.000 And before anyone starts blaming Republicans, I can't find a Republican in the city of Chicago.

00:29:47.000 Democrat city council, Democrat mayors, Democrat state representatives, Democrat congresspeople, and 792 homicides last year, 792.

00:30:00.000 Yet 500 Illinois National Guard people, where were they sent?

00:30:05.000 Where were the National Guardsmen sent?

00:30:06.000 Do you know?

00:30:07.000 To Washington, D.C.

00:30:09.000 And anytime Trump tried to send the National Guard into Chicago, people said, we don't need your help here.

00:30:15.000 Well, Mary Lori Lightfoot, you are overseeing one of the most inexplicable slaughters in American urban history.

00:30:25.000 But for Lori Lightfoot, don't worry. 1.00

00:30:27.000 She's more worried about transgender bathrooms and appeasing the Chicago teacher unions. 1.00

00:30:33.000 That's Lori Lightfoot's priority.

00:30:35.000 Or J.B. Pritzker is more worried about bailouts for the Hyatt Hotel fortune.

00:30:41.000 J.B. Pritzker wanted to raise the taxes of Illinois workers that lost by 15 points in the state of Illinois.

00:30:41.000 Oh, no.

00:30:49.000 When you have a tax increase that needs to get 60% and only gets 45%, you know something's changing in the state of Illinois.

00:30:58.000 But the bigger point is now we've set a precedent.

00:31:01.000 We've set a precedent that the National Guard can be deployed to go solve domestic problems.

00:31:06.000 I'm all for that.

00:31:08.000 If there is a clear, incredible threat against the United States Capitol, then deploy the National Guard.

00:31:13.000 Fine.

00:31:14.000 However, why would we not use the National Guard to go stop the slaughter in Chicago?

00:31:20.000 I could tell you the neighborhoods where it's happening.

00:31:22.000 I can tell you the areas that needs it.

00:31:24.000 Englewood and Garfield Park in particular.

00:31:27.000 Just in Englewood, There have been five homicides, 22 wounded.

00:31:32.000 In Garfield Park, six homicides, 17 wounded.

00:31:35.000 At Grand Crossing, four homicides, 17 wounded.

00:31:38.000 Austin neighborhood, Humboldt Park, North Lawndale.

00:31:41.000 And it goes down from there.

00:31:42.000 What we're talking about is about a 40-block radius.

00:31:48.000 The National Guard has proven they can now secure a 40-block radius.

00:31:52.000 The Chicago police are not capable of stopping the slaughter.

00:31:55.000 I'm just looking at the numbers.

00:31:57.000 It is inexcusable.

00:31:59.000 And people say, oh, it's just gang violence.

00:32:01.000 That's not correct, first of all.

00:32:03.000 Second of all, it's a really bad, it's a bad answer for anything.

00:32:07.000 But the Democrats don't actually care about mobilizing the National Guard to go actually help their own communities.

00:32:13.000 Instead, they'll use the National Guard in Washington, D.C. to prove a point.

00:32:21.000 We're in charge and you aren't.

00:32:23.000 Meanwhile, you have Democrat congressmen coming back to Chicago and they get the murder reports that show that 792 people were murdered in Chicago last year.

00:32:35.000 Make a third world country go into chaos.

00:32:39.000 But for Democrats, the National Guard is not to be used to go help our communities.

00:32:43.000 No, no, no, no.

00:32:44.000 It's to show that we're in control.

00:32:49.000 In our fast-paced world, it's tough to make reading a priority.

00:32:52.000 At least it used to be.

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00:33:20.000 So go to thinker.org/slash Charlie.

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00:33:46.000 2020 was the largest percentage increase in homicides in American history.

00:33:53.000 Murder was up nearly 37% in a sample of 57 large and medium cities, size cities.

00:34:00.000 Based on preliminary estimates, at least 2,000 more Americans, most of them black, were killed in 2020 than in 2019.

00:34:09.000 You would think that would be a heavy focus or primary focus for the ruling class media.

00:34:18.000 The local murder increases in 2020 were as following: 95% in Milwaukee, 78% in Louisville, 74% in Seattle, 72% in Minneapolis, 62% in New Orleans, and 58% in Atlanta.

00:34:38.000 A lot of people blame it just purely on the pandemic stress.

00:34:41.000 Do you not remember the defund the police narrative that swept our country for months?

00:34:50.000 And Minneapolis basically did defund their police.

00:34:53.000 One of the reasons why some of the police officers in Washington, D.C. at the Capitol tragedy did not have lethal weapons is because some of them were disarmed by Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C.

00:35:09.000 The largest increase in homicides in American history.

00:35:14.000 What we are heading towards will be one of the most violent decades in American history.

00:35:21.000 Why?

00:35:22.000 Massive wealth and income inequality is one reason because of the lockdowns and because of leaders that do not care about the well-being of their subjects.

00:35:33.000 A war on police officers and a war on law enforcement, and quite honestly, a war on the law in general.

00:35:41.000 And also an unmanaged transition from the corporate boardroom industrial economy to the digital economy.

00:35:54.000 When you have this much economic dislocation, when you have this much disruption, do not be surprised when murder rates and homicide rates skyrocket.

00:36:07.000 New York City is becoming a place that is completely unrecognizable.

00:36:12.000 Just some of my buddies in Chicago that I grew up with said they do not feel comfortable going to downtown Chicago.

00:36:19.000 They feel their car will almost assuredly be carjacked, or whatever is in their car will be stolen.

00:36:29.000 When I was in San Francisco, a year and a half ago, two years ago, parked on the side of the street, nice part of San Francisco, everything we had in there completely and totally stolen.

00:36:41.000 Windows smashed, all of our stuff stolen.

00:36:45.000 Do not be surprised when civil society starts to unravel when you attack every single core institution that keeps civil society together.

00:36:57.000 There's a lot of people that are condemning what happened on January the 6th, and they should.

00:37:02.000 One of them is AOC, who said that Ted Cruz tried to murder her.

00:37:06.000 She's never shy about taking an opportunity to engage in unrealistic hyperbole. 0.99

00:37:14.000 But what if I told you just a couple months ago, Alexandria Ecasio-Cortez was actually in favor of rioting and looting?

00:37:24.000 Quote, I believe injustice is a threat to the safety of all people.

00:37:28.000 Because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalized and marginalized, once someone doesn't have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot.

00:37:37.000 And it doesn't have to be that way. 0.99

00:37:39.000 By the way, I'm not even talking about Palestinians.

00:37:41.000 I'm talking about communities in poverty in the United States.

00:37:44.000 I'm talking about Latin America.

00:37:46.000 I'm talking about all over the world.

00:37:49.000 When she was asked to condemn the attack that was a domestic terror attack at the ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington, she refused to give an answer.

00:37:59.000 Do you remember when our ICE facility, our federal building, was attacked by Antifa?

00:38:03.000 How is that not an insurrection against our government?

00:38:06.000 It's a federal government building paid for by taxpayers.

00:38:10.000 The 69-year-old armed man killed by Washington State Police as he attacked a local ICE detention center Saturday, sent a manifesto to friends the day before the assault in which he wrote, I am Antifa, and was being lionized by members of the left-wing group as a martyr.

00:38:25.000 The group Seattle Anti-Fascist Action described a salient Wilhelm van Sprossen, Wilhelm von Sprossen, either a good Dutch or German name, a good friend and comrade, and quote, took a stand against the fascist detention center in Tacoma and became the martyr who gave his life in the struggle against fascism.

00:38:49.000 And AOC refused to condemn that.

00:38:52.000 Why wasn't the congressional baseball shooting deemed a terror attack?

00:38:57.000 He was inspired by Bernie Sanders.

00:39:00.000 He nearly killed Steve Scalise.

00:39:02.000 He shot at Rand Paul and many of the other congressional members.

00:39:08.000 Isn't it incredible how quickly we forgot about this incident?

00:39:13.000 It was in June of 2016 or 17.

00:39:17.000 A Bernie Sanders supporter comes to a congressional baseball practice with Rand Paul and other members of Congress and starts opening fire.

00:39:26.000 That was not considered a domestic terror threat, inspired by Bernie Sanders.

00:39:33.000 Now, some people say, well, Charlie, you're just engaging in whataboutism?

00:39:38.000 Well, I denounced all form of violence, and I always will.

00:39:42.000 But all of this is taking place in the context of the left validating violence for their own political purposes and means.

00:39:50.000 Madonna saying, I want to blow up the White House.

00:39:55.000 Every single person that burned cars and smashed windows and engaged in violence during the Trump inauguration were released with no charges.

00:40:04.000 None.

00:40:06.000 No jail time.

00:40:07.000 No prosecution.

00:40:09.000 No charges.

00:40:11.000 Do you remember that the Dayton, Ohio shooter was an Elizabeth Warren fan?

00:40:18.000 Remember how quickly that story left the news cycle?

00:40:24.000 Versus, of course, the El Paso shooter, who they said was pro-Trump and Trump is trying to incite these sort of things in our country.

00:40:33.000 The selective outrage by so many people in the Democrats and the media.

00:40:40.000 I'm not even just talking about January 6th, because I think that is widespread.

00:40:46.000 That was condemned by everybody.

00:40:48.000 But how the Democrats have remained silent on so many acts of mass crime when it's done in their own name and they've been allowed to get away with it is reprehensible.

00:41:01.000 And AOC says clearly they have no choice but to riot.

00:41:05.000 And I'm not just talking about overseas.

00:41:07.000 I'm talking about poverty in the United States. 0.63

00:41:10.000 AOC adding legitimacy to mass violence in pursuit of social change. 0.99

00:41:20.000 She gets away with this.

00:41:22.000 I want you to imagine if a Republican member of Congress said, if you have issues with an election, you have no choice but to riot.

00:41:31.000 Could you imagine what the reaction from the Democrats to the media would be?

00:41:38.000 It would be understandably over the top.

00:41:42.000 I want to get to a couple questions here that you've emailed us.

00:41:46.000 I also have some other news stories I want to hit today.

00:41:50.000 Let's see here.

00:41:52.000 Hey, Charlie, this is Carly, 15-year-old from San Diego, California.

00:41:57.000 Do you think that the Democrat Party will go against their own president to try and get Kamala Harris in office? 0.66

00:42:02.000 They could totally state that he has dementia and they could take him out of office. 0.97

00:42:06.000 Camela and love your channel.

00:42:07.000 I'm subscribed to your podcast on Spotify and YouTube.

00:42:10.000 Thank you, Carly.

00:42:11.000 You should get involved with Turning Point USA.

00:42:13.000 I think so.

00:42:14.000 You know, every time I see a picture of Joe Biden, he just looks like he's in pain.

00:42:17.000 And I don't mean that jokingly.

00:42:18.000 He just always looks like he's wincing.

00:42:20.000 And I think that there's definitely going to be a concerted push by the Democrats at some point to try to get Joe Biden to resign, invoke the 25th Amendment, and try to get Kamala Harris as president.

00:42:35.000 And so Joe Biden was nothing more than a means to the end.

00:42:38.000 Joe Biden is not the primary choice of the Democrat Party in any way, shape, or form.

00:42:44.000 I want to get to Brian Stelter, who is now a scholar on free speech.

00:42:49.000 Brian Stelter of CNN has now decided to be, let's just say, our generation's Montesquieu, play cut eight.

00:42:57.000 Now, do these private companies have too much power?

00:42:59.000 Sure.

00:43:00.000 And many people would say yes, of course they do.

00:43:02.000 But reducing a liar's reach is not the same as censoring freedom of speech.

00:43:07.000 Freedom of speech is different than freedom of reach.

00:43:10.000 And algorithmic reach is part of the problem.

00:43:14.000 So I don't know Brian Stelter.

00:43:18.000 I don't think he's a bad guy or a good guy.

00:43:19.000 I just think he's unbelievably confused about life.

00:43:21.000 I just think that a certain statement like that just shows just deep-seated misdirection in one's philosophical belief.

00:43:31.000 This is what he said: reducing a liar's reach is not the same as censoring freedom of speech.

00:43:37.000 Freedom of speech is different than freedom of reach.

00:43:40.000 First of all, how do you determine a liar, Brian Stelter?

00:43:45.000 Because if I was using a certain analysis, I would say you're a liar, but it rhymes, therefore it must be true.

00:43:56.000 You see, at CNN, if it rhymes, then it must make a lot of sense.

00:44:02.000 Let's go to cut nine, Brian Stelter, who says, you have to see, it's not aimed at shutting it down.

00:44:07.000 It's about making Fox better.

00:44:08.000 Oh, yeah, that's right.

00:44:09.000 Brian Stelter is in the, let's make sure Fox is a better product business now.

00:44:14.000 Play cut nine.

00:44:16.000 And most of the criticism of Fox News is not aimed at shutting it down, which will never happen anyway.

00:44:20.000 It's about making Fox better.

00:44:23.000 Putting the news back in Fox News.

00:44:25.000 They could go another way.

00:44:27.000 If Fox is going to keep transitioning into the 24-7 Tucker channel, then maybe it belongs next to sci-fi on your channel lineup, not MSNBC.

00:44:36.000 These need to be nuanced conversations, not edicts, not orders.

00:44:42.000 This is complicated, but harm reduction is possible.

00:44:46.000 Well, I will say this.

00:44:48.000 I think that our pushback is actually working because they realize how unpopular, unconstitutional, and immoral it is just to eliminate certain pieces of speech like they did with the president.

00:45:00.000 So now they're trying to admit, well, we have to be more nuanced.

00:45:03.000 You see, we want you gone, but we'll just put you on channel 955 on direct TV instead of 360.

00:45:09.000 Is that what Fox is on?

00:45:10.000 360 or 180, whatever it is on DirecTV.

00:45:14.000 That's what we'll do.

00:45:16.000 And you could kind of see in real time Brian Stelter on both of these cuts try and he's just wrestling with these ideas saying, I don't like them, but I can't get rid of them.

00:45:27.000 It's not going to happen.

00:45:29.000 So what can we possibly do?

00:45:31.000 Well, we could put them next to the science fiction channel.

00:45:35.000 Good one.

00:45:37.000 In reality, though, what Brian Stelter knows, despite being profoundly confused about life, that conservative content is actually really appealing.

00:45:49.000 That Fox News and other conservative channels are doing really, really well.

00:45:54.000 Newsmax, OAN, this show and this program, doing extraordinarily well.

00:46:01.000 Why?

00:46:02.000 Because every other channel espouses the same poorly constructed, morally questionable viewpoint that America is terrible and that we need a mass mobilization of social justice action to try to address pre-existing grievances and nothing else will possibly effectuate any change in our country that is meaningful.

00:46:26.000 It's just kind of the same thing.

00:46:28.000 Okay, we're a racist country.

00:46:29.000 I got it.

00:46:30.000 Whereas these other channels are talking about a different point of view when it comes to the virus, when it comes to lockdowns, when it comes to our country, when it comes to patriotism in general.

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00:48:04.000 Let's get to a question here from Laura.

00:48:06.000 Hello from California here. 0.84

00:48:07.000 Loved hearing you speak at Godspeak.

00:48:09.000 Awesome.

00:48:09.000 My pastor's church, Rob McCoy.

00:48:12.000 My question is: why can Biden sign so many executive orders?

00:48:16.000 One has to go through Congress and one has to be signed as an executive order.

00:48:20.000 It's a great question.

00:48:21.000 There's a lot of power given to the executive, given to the president of the United States.

00:48:26.000 A lot of what Biden is doing is undoing what Trump already did via executive order, but that's why we have the courts.

00:48:32.000 The courts are really the deciders of what is constitutional or not when it comes to these executive orders.

00:48:38.000 And so, for example, what is constitutionally permissible is instructing an agency of the executive branch to do something or to not do something.

00:48:47.000 For example, not build the border wall.

00:48:49.000 That did not go through Congress.

00:48:50.000 Therefore, Biden can end it through executive order.

00:48:53.000 However, when it gets to other things, such as spending money, distribution of money, allocation of funds, that's where you have to go through Congress and the legislative branch.

00:49:04.000 And so it's a very good question.

00:49:06.000 Joe Biden spent his first couple of days just signing document after document trying to undo what was done by President Trump.

00:49:16.000 Here's a question from Nat.

00:49:18.000 Was Stacey Abrams really nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize?

00:49:22.000 Yes.

00:49:23.000 This is from Reuters.com.

00:49:24.000 This is how they describe it.

00:49:25.000 U.S. voting rights activist Stacey Abrams nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.

00:49:30.000 U.S. voting rights activist and Democrat Party politician Stacey Abrams has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote nonviolent change via the ballot box, a Norwegian lawmaker said on Monday.

00:49:41.000 Abrams, who was credited with boosting voter turnout last year, helping Joe Biden win the U.S. presidency, joins a long list of nominees, including both former President Trump and his son-in-law, former White House advisor, Jared Kushner.

00:49:56.000 This is what it says.

00:49:57.000 Abrams' work follows in Dr. Martin Luther King's Jr.'s footsteps in the fight for equality before the law and for civil rights.

00:50:03.000 So, yes, Stacey Abrams, who never conceded the take, never conceded the race, never conceded what happened in Georgia, is now possibly being rewarded with the Nobel Peace Prize.

00:50:22.000 That is correct.

00:50:24.000 Let's go to a question here.

00:50:27.000 Good afternoon, sir.

00:50:28.000 My name is Brad.

00:50:29.000 I just had a quick question: Who determines the new vice president when Camilla takes over?

00:50:34.000 I just had a great fear she would appoint Hillary Clinton.

00:50:37.000 Thank you for all you do and God bless.

00:50:38.000 That would be a great fear.

00:50:40.000 So there is a line of succession.

00:50:43.000 So if my memory serves me correctly, the vice president gets to pick their president, vice president.

00:50:50.000 But in the line of succession, the Speaker of the House becomes president if the vice president's office is vacated.

00:50:59.000 However, I actually think, no, the president can choose what vice president he wants.

00:51:03.000 That would only be if the vice president and the president are incapacitated.

00:51:07.000 Then the speaker of the house becomes president.

00:51:10.000 And so the last time this really came into question was with Spiro Agnew, who resigned.

00:51:16.000 And then Richard Nixon appointed the House Minority Leader, Gerald Ford, to become vice president.

00:51:21.000 Richard Nixon resigned.

00:51:23.000 Gerald Ford became president, shortly served without a vice president.

00:51:27.000 Then Rockefeller, I think, became his vice president.

00:51:29.000 Rockefeller then became Gerald Ford's president, a vice president, and they lost re-election.

00:51:34.000 And Dick Cheney was actually their chief of staff.

00:51:37.000 There's your presidential trivia for today.

00:51:40.000 Okay, let's get to some sound from the failing upwards Dr. Anthony Fauci.

00:51:47.000 Let's go to cut 10, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

00:51:50.000 Let's go to cut 10.

00:51:52.000 This is a physical covering to prevent droplets and virus to get in.

00:51:58.000 So if you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on.

00:52:02.000 It just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective.

00:52:06.000 And that's the reason why you see people either double masking or doing a version of an N95.

00:52:12.000 That would be calling wearing two masks after Dr. Anthony Fauci said wear no mask at all whatsoever.

00:52:20.000 Let's go to cut 11 when he says, but there's no data that it's actually going to make a difference.

00:52:25.000 Cut 11.

00:52:26.000 There are many people who feel, you know, if you really want to have an extra little bit of protection, maybe I should put two masks on.

00:52:35.000 There's nothing wrong with that, but there's no data that indicates that that is going to make a difference.

00:52:41.000 So just basically no data, but it just might make you feel good.

00:52:45.000 So over the weekend, a story that should have been top line news that was not covered at all whatsoever is when Camela started doing this press routine in West Virginia and Arizona.

00:52:59.000 Is that the best way to say it?

00:53:00.000 Like a press circuit? 1.00

00:53:02.000 So they started to deploy the most radical member of our government, Kamala Harris, to do basically television and newspaper interviews and radio interviews in Arizona and West Virginia. 1.00

00:53:14.000 Of course, the two states of the senators that are refusing to break the filibuster.

00:53:18.000 Do you think the White House is in favor of breaking the filibuster?

00:53:21.000 Of course they are.

00:53:22.000 And so Senator Harris then went into West Virginia remotely and said that we need to reclaim the abandoned landmines.

00:53:33.000 Play cut one.

00:53:35.000 Job creation around, for example, all of those skilled workers who are in the coal industry and transferring those skills to what we need to do in terms of dealing with reclaiming abandoned landmines.

00:53:51.000 What we need to do around plugging leaks from oil and gas wells and transferring those important skills to the work that has yet to be done that needs to get done.

00:54:02.000 So that is Senator Harris going into Joe Manchin's home state remotely doing press interviews, trying to put pressure on Senator Manchin.

00:54:12.000 And I think Senator Manchin pushed back rather aggressively, said, who do you think you are?

00:54:16.000 Yeah, I know that you're the vice president and all, but I used to be governor of West Virginia.

00:54:20.000 I'm elected pretty overwhelmingly here in this state.

00:54:23.000 And so calm down.

00:54:27.000 You are not the governor of West Virginia.

00:54:30.000 Basically, it was just kind of like the modern day equivalent of get off my lawn, basically.

00:54:35.000 So Senator Harris comes in and says, quote, we need to reclaim abandoned land mines.

00:54:42.000 Now, I think what she meant to say is mine lands or coal mines.

00:54:49.000 Don't think she meant to say land mines, unless there is a part of West Virginia history that I might not be familiar with.

00:54:57.000 Let's get to some other questions here.

00:54:59.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:55:02.000 Let's go to this one.

00:55:03.000 School reopening.

00:55:03.000 Dear Charlie, this is a long question.

00:55:05.000 I have started listening to your podcast.

00:55:07.000 Thank you.

00:55:07.000 I'm interested in your opinions.

00:55:08.000 The past couple days, you have stated several times that schools should be open everywhere.

00:55:12.000 Yes, primarily blaming teacher unions for their continued closure.

00:55:15.000 I know little about such unions, and I wonder if there's not an alternative reason.

00:55:19.000 You point out quite correctly that children are not at risk, but I think you may have missed an important point.

00:55:23.000 Even if it's harmless, the disease must surely spread if and when schools reopen.

00:55:27.000 Children will contract it, although they may remain asymptomatic.

00:55:30.000 However, what poses no threat to children may well affect their parents or worse, their grandparents.

00:55:35.000 The AP reported in 2018, the Kaiser Foundation studying 6% of U.S. seniors live in the same home as one or more school-aged children, but our safety to protect the lives of those of who we are.

00:55:46.000 Shall we not continue with the inadequate online learning to safeguard that which matters more?

00:55:50.000 No.

00:55:50.000 Thank you for your question, though, Daniel.

00:55:52.000 There is no evidence whatsoever that children are super spreaders.

00:55:55.000 Zero.

00:55:56.000 In fact, there is no evidence that schools have actually spread the Chinese coronavirus to community-wide spread or to their parents.

00:56:04.000 In fact, it goes to show that the kids get herd immunity very quickly.

00:56:08.000 And for these teachers that are saying that we do not feel safe, there is no documented widespread of any place that schools have been open showing community spread.

00:56:18.000 And my other argument of this, and we'll get some of the data to support this, that the Chinese coronavirus, not just being basically harmless to most children, is even for the average age of teachers, they are not generally at risk of dying from the Chinese coronavirus.

00:56:38.000 They are not.

00:56:39.000 And for those teachers, if they want to take time off, then fine, so be it.

00:56:43.000 The future of our children, mentally, socially, emotionally, spiritually, has been so unbelievably damaged by these closures.

00:56:51.000 The rise in suicide, drug usage, social isolation, the stunt to their development.

00:56:55.000 Any sort of costs that might be baked into the spread of the Chinese coronavirus to adults that might get it somewhere else anyway is well worth it.

00:57:07.000 And lockdowns are anti-scientific.

00:57:10.000 Lockdowns have proven not to stop the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

00:57:14.000 Lockdowns have a greater cost than actually any sort of mitigation effort.

00:57:21.000 Nowhere did lockdowns work.

00:57:23.000 Nowhere.

00:57:23.000 The states that lock down most severely still have the highest ICU rates, the highest hospitalization rates, and the highest death rates.

00:57:29.000 It's a virus.

00:57:30.000 It's going to spread.

00:57:31.000 If you're afraid of it, stay at home.

00:57:32.000 We'll take care of you.

00:57:34.000 The average age of teachers in our country is about 42.4 years, well below the average death, the average rate of dying from the Chinese coronavirus in our country.

00:57:48.000 So I appreciate your question, Daniel, very much, but I push back that the most important thing a society can do-not the most important, one of the most important thing-is making sure that our children are adequately educated, protected, and their well-being preserved.

00:58:04.000 And right now, with schools continually being shuttered and closed, none of those things are actually being accomplished anyway whatsoever.

00:58:14.000 Schools should have been opened immediately back in April or May.

00:58:17.000 That is the way that a brave and a wise society handles conflict, not by shutting down and running to the hills.

00:58:23.000 Okay, here's a quick question: We, the people, are paying taxes to be able to see every day how much our federal government is spending and receiving.

00:58:29.000 We should be able to see all agencies receiving funds.

00:58:31.000 I think it would be a wake-up call for all of us.

00:58:33.000 We should be able to vote on issues with a clear amount of how much will come to us, our taxes due to this issue.

00:58:38.000 Any ideas?

00:58:38.000 This has been an idea that's been floated before that you should be able to allocate your tax dollars.

00:58:42.000 I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon.

00:58:45.000 However, you can go to openthebooks.com, which is run by my friend Adam Ngieski.

00:58:49.000 They do a great job foying and auditing the federal government.

00:58:52.000 It's openthebooks.com.

00:58:53.000 But if you guys had any idea the amount of waste, fraud, abuse, and graft that exists in the federal government, it would make you sick to your stomach, which is exactly why I suppose I oppose these massive federal government spending bills.

00:59:05.000 They are done in the middle of the night.

00:59:07.000 Done to reward crony behavior.

00:59:08.000 They are done to reward insider dealings, and they are not stimulative at all in nature.

00:59:13.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:59:17.000 Let's take some of your questions here.

00:59:18.000 Hey, Charlie, I was on YouTube and got a whole list of videos and news sources involved in the impeachment.

00:59:23.000 I don't trust them, so can you give me an update on how the trial is going?

00:59:26.000 You bet.

00:59:27.000 Thank you for asking so bluntly.

00:59:29.000 And whether or not our former President Trump still has three days to defend himself, if that, thank you for your time.

00:59:34.000 Love from California.

00:59:34.000 Thank you, Kenzie, and thank you for admitting that there's people that make stuff up on YouTube, which is incredibly true.

00:59:41.000 Alarmingly true, actually.

00:59:42.000 Yeah, so the trial hasn't started yet.

00:59:44.000 The trial is next week.

00:59:45.000 President Trump has to submit his initial legal briefs tomorrow, which I think can be amended, but they do have to be submitted tomorrow.

00:59:53.000 He had a little bit of a mix-up, not mix-up, shake-up on his legal team and has some new lawyers.

00:59:59.000 Basically, the new lawyers are David Schoen, a Georgia-based lawyer.

01:00:03.000 And Mr. Schoen, I think, represented Roger Stone in last fall, former district attorney in Pennsylvania and known for all sorts of different things.

01:00:20.000 And then also Bruce Caster, the former acting attorney general of Pennsylvania, will be representing the president.

01:00:27.000 Now, the strategy for the impeachment, though, is going to be very simple.

01:00:31.000 And this is the way that Trump's legal team is signaling it: basically, they are not going to talk about the merits of what happened on January the 6th.

01:00:40.000 They're not going to get deep into what President Trump said or didn't say.

01:00:43.000 Instead, they are going to just dismiss this as an unconstitutional impeachment altogether, that you cannot impeach a private citizen.

01:00:51.000 If you get too deep into the merits of it, you might have some exposure.

01:00:55.000 And also, you're going to lose people.

01:00:57.000 The Republicans will vote alongside Rand Paul's vote that we saw last week.

01:01:03.000 And by the way, a majority of the Senate will probably vote to convict.

01:01:08.000 That does not mean that you're convicted.

01:01:10.000 You need 66 votes to convict.

01:01:12.000 Is that right?

01:01:13.000 66?

01:01:14.000 67.

01:01:15.000 They're not going to happen.

01:01:17.000 They are not going to get 67 votes to convict former President Trump.

01:01:24.000 Now, with that being said, I'm not exactly sure how the Democrats are going to be able to reconcile.

01:01:30.000 Well, we want to bring the country together.

01:01:31.000 We want unity.

01:01:32.000 We want bipartisanship.

01:01:34.000 Now's the time to heal.

01:01:35.000 If now's the time to heal, why are you bringing back all of the resentments and the hatred and the bad feelings from the 2020 election race, bringing them front and center to try and make it so he can never run for office again?

01:01:52.000 You know it's not going to work, by the way, Democrats.

01:01:54.000 You know that this is a failure from launch.

01:01:59.000 So what's the agenda here?

01:02:01.000 Answer.

01:02:02.000 They want to create a 24-7 cable news spectacle to try and continue to focus on President Trump as the worst part of American society.

01:02:13.000 The front page of the New York Times today, A1, is not about the Chinese coronavirus.

01:02:20.000 It's not about the COVID relief bill.

01:02:23.000 It's not about school closures, an increase in suicide rates.

01:02:28.000 It's not about any of those things, tech censorship.

01:02:30.000 Instead, it is a, and I kid you not, a 20-page article when you print it out all about Donald Trump.

01:02:38.000 20-page, 20-page article of Trump's campaign to subvert the election.

01:02:44.000 And it is thorough.

01:02:45.000 Let me tell you what.

01:02:47.000 It actually is written more fairly than I thought it would be, to be perfectly honest, but it's still, of course, written in New York Times language.

01:02:54.000 But this is the front page of the Times today.

01:02:57.000 A1.

01:03:00.000 And we predicted all of this.

01:03:02.000 We predicted this back in December and January, that they will not be able to lose focus on President Trump.

01:03:09.000 Why?

01:03:10.000 He sells newspapers.

01:03:12.000 He gets people fired up.

01:03:14.000 He also makes people afraid and scared.

01:03:16.000 When people are afraid or scared, they're easier to control, and people look for answers.

01:03:23.000 People look to be taken care of.

01:03:26.000 That's exactly the kind of archetype that they have painted Donald Trump to be.

01:03:32.000 That he is this wannabe Mussolini within our own country, and we must never take our eye off of him or else he's going to rise to power again.

01:03:41.000 Meanwhile, you have a current president who's whispering to his son and his brothers that you better cut out these foreign business deals. 0.84

01:03:48.000 He's the first incoming president ever to try to kill jobs, just killed tens of thousands of jobs with a stroke of a pen.

01:03:55.000 That does not apparently warrant A1 coverage.

01:03:58.000 Instead, let's go cover the previous guy.

01:04:01.000 This is actually a terrible political strategy for them.

01:04:04.000 People are going to have Trump fatigue very soon.

01:04:07.000 Not in the way that you might think.

01:04:08.000 They're going to be tired of having to hear about it from the activist media.

01:04:15.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:04:16.000 If you're a student and you're listening to this, I highly encourage you get involved with Turning Point USA right now.

01:04:22.000 If you're in high school, if you're in college, drop what you're doing and go to tpusa.com to get engaged and get involved in the fight for the future of America at tpusa.com, especially tpusa.com slash get involved.

01:04:34.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:04:36.000 Thanks so much, everybody, for listening.

01:04:38.000 God bless.

01:04:39.000 Speak to you, sir.

The Charlie Kirk Show - February 02, 2021

Populism Explained and the REAL Root Causes of Spiking Crime Rates

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