00:01:29.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:37.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:48.000So last evening, I did a live stream and a podcast, and I encourage all of you guys to check out our podcast on your podcast app, Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:57.000And my immediate response during Senator Tim Scott's speech was not necessarily negative, but I want more.
00:02:04.000I want more from the Republican Party in regards to holding China accountable for the origination of the virus of a self-sufficiency agenda.
00:02:12.000With that being said, I think Senator Tim Scott has a lot of talent.
00:02:15.000I'm glad he's in the Republican Party.
00:02:17.000And there are some parts I thought that were very powerful.
00:02:20.000And feedback that I've received from a lot of you is a lot of people love Senator Tim Scott's speech.
00:02:25.000Where I'm at, and as I see what the left is really doing to our country as they are on the move, I want a Republican Party who is willing to have a call to action for a counteroffensive legislatively, politically, and otherwise, from a communication strategy against what Joe Biden and the Democrats are doing to our country.
00:02:45.000And so Senator Tim Scott, who has a terrific story, has come under massive attack from the American left.
00:02:55.000You see, there's one thing you are not allowed to be in America, especially, which is a black conservative.
00:03:03.000You are not allowed to be a black conservative.
00:03:06.000Now, I personally did not love the overtures to try and even accept the premise of the left that we need a national police bill.
00:03:18.000I don't love the fact that Senator Tim Scott feels the need to have to compensate for something that doesn't exist.
00:03:26.000However, the way that he has been treated by the American left actually might disprove one of his statements last night.
00:03:38.000I say this somewhat sarcastically, but Senator Tim Scott said, America's not a racist country.
00:04:16.000I'm not sure what the purpose of this was.
00:04:19.000His audience to me appeared to be conservative white Republicans who were angry over certain things of cancel culture and the same sort of cultural nods that we hear on Fox News.
00:04:32.000And he was out here to throw them a lifeline.
00:04:37.000And Glenn Kessler, who is a reporter for the Washington Post, said an extensive piece saying that Tim Scott often talks about his grandfather in cotton.
00:04:49.000An expose saying that, ah, Senator Tim Scott really hasn't had to pull himself up by the bootstraps.
00:04:57.000So there's a long story in the Washington Post saying that Senator Tim Scott actually had more privilege than he ever leads on.
00:05:06.000You see, Senator Tim Scott in a lot of different ways is a threat to the American left.
00:05:12.000Now, with that being said, I stand by my comments that I made initially.
00:05:17.000Senator Tim Scott, who was going to receive backlash and hatred no matter what he said, he should have been much more aggressive against the Democrat Party.
00:05:27.000He should have said it was the Democrat Party that is preventing black and Hispanic children from going to school.
00:05:34.000Instead of saying common ground, Senator Tim Scott should say, you know what?
00:05:38.000I want to say we should find common ground, but I'll find common ground as soon as we can find common morals and values.
00:05:46.000And we don't have that right now at the Democrat Party.
00:05:48.000You know, a good friend of mine from Chicago, he sent me this morning, this this morning.
00:06:05.000And so the way that the media and the left has responded, they have trending on Twitter, Uncle Tim, which is a play obviously of Uncle Tom, which is an idea of a race traitor, a black person who was betrayed, betrayed the black community for racist southern whites.
00:06:32.000There was one take in particular by one of these guys that goes on television.
00:06:42.000He's a professor from trying to see which one it was.
00:06:47.000And by the way, the whole crazy thing is that Uncle Tom was actually the hero of that story, which no one ever actually realizes and was the protagonist.
00:06:54.000But it does come under that story, but that's a detail that they don't actually like.
00:06:59.000By the way, a great film that you guys can find on salemnow.com is Uncle Tom.
00:08:19.000So, my question then, Senator Tim Scott: why are you trying to have overtures of common ground for the people that are calling you a race traitor?
00:08:27.000What common ground do we have for these people, this guy that is a full-time lecturer, a professor in black studies at the University of Maryland College Park?
00:08:38.000And he's the one that calls you a race traitor.
00:08:45.000So, I guess this opens up a variety of different questions, which is what should the correct Republican response be?
00:08:52.000I think it should be a solution-oriented response.
00:08:56.000I actually would have liked to see the Republicans' response call Joe Biden on his own bluff on a couple different things.
00:09:06.000Say, you know what, Joe Biden, we think it's a good thing you're ending the war in Afghanistan.
00:09:11.000Why didn't you thank Donald Trump for that?
00:09:13.000That Donald Trump was the one that began brokering that peace.
00:09:16.000Number two, instead of giving Congress the credit for Operation Warp Speed, which is what Senator Tim Scott did, why didn't he give any credit to the administration that actually facilitated that?
00:09:28.000Not one mention of Donald Trump in Senator Tim Scott's remarks.
00:09:34.000They're trying to delete him from political history.
00:09:38.000Number three, they should have called Joe Biden's bluff and say, look, we're not willing to go spend $6 trillion, but why don't we start with $100 billion targeted for a self-sufficiency agenda?
00:09:50.000That we want to make stuff in our country again with our hands.
00:09:53.000The muscular class, the people that lift boxes and put together automobiles and assemble our products, they need help and support a lot more than the Zoom and Skype and tech class.
00:10:08.000You see, that's what playing offense looks like.
00:10:11.000Now, some people are reacting very favorably, though, to Senator Tim Scott, because I think they yearn for a politic of decency.
00:10:22.000I'd love to be able to get coffee with liberals, joke around about the weather, and have wonderful, long-form discussions and leave as friends.
00:10:34.000But when you have a president that is embracing HR1, HR5, not denouncing court packing, not mentioning the southern border crisis, and possibly D.C. as an addition of a state, and we're talking about common values.
00:11:37.000Let's go to Cut 116, CNN Gloria Borger saying, Tim Scott, saying that the tide has turned the pandemic, saying getting vaccines into arms was a Biden operation, cut 116.
00:11:47.000He said the tide had already turned on COVID-19 when Biden became president.
00:11:55.000And of course, everybody understands that Operation Warp Speed happened under Joe Biden, but getting vaccines into arms was a Biden operation.
00:12:06.000I'm not even sure what her point is here.
00:12:08.000It was Donald Trump and his presidency that was overseeing Operation Warp Speed.
00:12:14.000And Joe Biden literally got vaccinated while Donald Trump was president.
00:14:29.000You've rarely seen this kind of focus and commitment.
00:14:32.000Seriously, they recently shared with me that they are doubling down and want to literally double their number of total happy customers in the next year.
00:14:41.000If you're struggling with back, neck, shoulder, hip, or knee pain, or even general muscle aches and pain, then I'm suggesting you order their three-week quick start, still discounted only $19.95, about a dollar a day to see if we can get you out of pain.
00:16:29.000Let me say one-liners when he says that we need to open up our borders and become globally focused.
00:16:37.000But the two strongest parts of Joe Biden's speech is where Republicans should call the bluff ending the war in Afghanistan and creating a self-sufficiency America-first investment agenda.
00:16:51.000That we're not going to make t-shirts, vitamin C, in Wuhan, Beijing, Bangladesh, or Ho Chi Minh City.
00:17:01.000Instead, we're going to make it in Middleton, Ohio, in Des Moines, Iowa, in Normal, Illinois.
00:17:09.000We don't even have the spinners in our country to make sheets anymore.
00:17:16.000And so, Republicans were not applauding that last night.
00:17:22.000It's a popular thing with their voters.
00:17:24.000Every single time the question of ending foreign nation building comes up, voters resoundingly, resoundingly support ending the perpetual occupation in Afghanistan.
00:17:39.000Republicans sat silently as Joe Biden announced that.
00:17:42.000And maybe they didn't want to give him a political win.
00:17:46.000But I also believe that voters have a great disdain for supporting things that are so unpopular and against the best interest of our nation for some abstract goal that no one can define in Afghanistan.
00:18:06.000So Joe Biden's on the move, is what he said.
00:18:09.000The most important part of his speech is one that most people are not talking about.
00:18:13.000His full-fledged endorsement of H.R. 1, House Resolution 1.
00:18:17.000It was the most radical part of his speech, to change elections as we know it.
00:18:25.000And Joe Biden just uses this repeated phrase: well, we have to have our democracy, our democracy, our democracy.
00:18:36.000The fact that Republicans don't fight on that terrain is disappointing.
00:18:42.000But Joe Biden wants to change elections for good.
00:18:45.000He wants to restructure the way that we actually have representative government.
00:18:52.000So the response is coming in of whether or not people thought Joe Biden did well or not.
00:18:56.000He's actually far underperforming even Donald Trump in 2017 in a similar type of address.
00:19:03.000But the Democrats are not actually interested in persuasion.
00:19:07.000They're interested in pummeling Republicans.
00:19:11.000This speech was not about winning over moderates.
00:19:14.000It was about motivating the base, changing election law, and trying to just get enough, maybe 3% or 4% of people that still don't like Republicans in their category.
00:19:27.000Joe Biden is governing as the president of the Democrat Party, not as the president of our country.
00:19:34.000It was interesting to see Joe Biden's perspective is that we're probably going to lose the House in the midterms in 2022.
00:19:41.000And we might as well go big or go home.
00:19:44.000The most ambitious Democrat agenda, I think, in American history, if not since Woodrow Wilson or FDR.
00:19:52.000Doesn't matter if it's bad for the country.
00:19:54.000Doesn't matter if it's going to destroy the American dollar.
00:22:01.000We can't be so busy competing with one another that we forget the competition that we have with the rest of the world to win the 21st century.
00:22:12.000Secretary Blinken can tell you, I spent a lot of time with President Xi.
00:24:50.000When a very basic view of natural rights doctrine, of which the U.S. Constitution is written, is based on, James Madison being the author of the United States Constitution, Thomas Jefferson the author of the Declaration, and I actually take a view that the Declaration and the Constitution are intertwined.
00:25:09.000The Constitution completed the original promise of the Declaration is that first and foremost, these are rules for the government, not for citizens.
00:25:22.000So, Joe Biden, let me read you the Second Amendment, for example, because he seems as if that this is the one that he is the most focused on.
00:25:37.000A militia, back when the Constitution was written, was any man between the ages of 18 to 30, so everybody, being necessary to the security of a free state.
00:27:40.000That's what makes this document different.
00:27:42.000This idea of negative rights, that these are rules for the road, not for us, but for the bureaucrats, for you, for the people that we put in charge.
00:27:56.000He says no amendment to the Constitution is absolute.
00:28:00.000What he is trying to say in a deceiving, treacherous, treacherous, deceitful way is we give you your rights, and they're actually only as real as we say they are.
00:28:19.000That's a violation of the promise of the United States Constitution.
00:28:25.000It's completely contradictory to every single foundational element of this beautiful republic we live in.
00:28:35.000And we're going to keep on exploring this because that statement right there is one of the inflection points of his speech.
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00:30:11.000So Joe Biden says that no amendment to the Constitution is absolute.
00:30:15.000Now to an untrained population or an uneducated or miseducated population who thinks that the amendments to the Constitution are rules for you, that sounds right.
00:30:27.000It sounds as if the amendments are rules that are supposed to be put on the American people.
00:30:57.000The founders were so worried that Congress, the people Joe Biden was speaking to last night, were going to use their power to restrict their political opponents, they had to not just say, there shall be no law, they had to point out Congress.
00:31:48.000That, I don't know where this is from.
00:31:50.000In fact, Congress approved the use of the Capitol for worship services at the prompting of the House and Senate chaplains under the leadership of the Speaker of the House, Theodore Sedgwick, on December 4th, 1800, soon after moving the government into the new capital city.
00:32:05.000At the time of January 3rd, 1802 worship service, the House was meeting in a temporary South Wing chamber, nicknamed the oven, partially because of how hot it was.
00:32:14.000The Speaker's podium was used at the pulpit.
00:32:24.000Representative Manasseh Cutler, a congregational minister and Federalist congressman from Massachusetts, records in his diary that Baptist Elder John Leland preached the sermon of the text of the Sermon on the Mount in the halls of Congress at Jefferson's invitation.
00:32:45.000That was one letter that's misrepresented.
00:32:52.000Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or of the right of the people to peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress or grievances.
00:33:57.000The Constitution is the firewall for your life, your dreams, your imagination, your ambitions against someone that has absolute power.
00:34:09.000This, in the time of peace, be courted in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in the time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
00:34:22.000I mean, that's a pretty definitive defense of private property, isn't it?
00:34:26.000It's a pretty definitive sense of that you are not allowed in here, government, without my permission.
00:34:42.000You have to understand how transformational this was at the time.
00:34:46.000The founding fathers were exploring a system of governance that no one had tried, that John Locke theorized, I think, 80 years earlier, 70 years or 80 years, early 1700s, 80 years earlier.
00:34:58.000I think that's when he wrote Tolerance and Natural Rights Doctrine.
00:35:02.000And they said, hey, we're going to give this a try.
00:35:05.000Articles of Confederation sort of imploded.
00:35:07.000The right of the people to be secure in their persons, house papers, and effects against unreasonable search and seizure shall not be violated.
00:35:14.000So is there any amendment that's absolute?
00:36:57.000Decided to go all in on multiple different parts of the Trump era.
00:37:03.000We were joking around Rudy Giuliani as kind of the forest gump of the Trump era.
00:37:07.000No matter what was happening, he was in the middle of it.
00:37:09.000The impeachment, the Ukraine deal, the voter fraud, Hunter Biden's laptop, smack dab in the middle.
00:37:17.000Look, Rudy Giuliani was America's mayor, and it really bothered the American left that Rudy Giuliani would use that platform and that credibility to then go endorse Donald Trump.
00:37:28.000Not just endorse Donald Trump, become his lawyer and his attack dog on cable television.
00:37:34.000I'm not going to get into the details whether I think Rudy did something wrong or not.
00:37:52.000However, I do know after looking at Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Dinesh D'Souza, amongst many others, and that's not an exhaustive list.
00:38:03.000It's not impossible to believe that that same group of vengeful driven radicals that run the top apparatus of our Justice Department, they've been having Rudy on their list for quite some time.
00:39:12.000That's what they did to Michael Cohen, and now all of a sudden he's this big anti-Trump activist like that.
00:39:17.000This is a playbook that has been used before.
00:39:20.000However, here's the part that I think was very interesting.
00:39:25.000I'm going to read from Rudy's website.
00:39:27.000I'm sure you'll not be surprised that the FBI left behind the only electronics that contained evidence of crimes, the Hunter Biden hard drives.
00:39:35.000Mayor Giuliani, this is Robert Costello, his lawyer that wrote this.
00:39:39.000Mayor Giuliani offered them to the FBI on several occasions, but the agents steadfastly declined.
00:39:47.000Keep in mind that the agents could not read the physical hard drives without plugging them in.
00:40:28.000Now, according to Rudy Giuliani, this is what Rudy Giuliani has to say.
00:40:34.000The Biden Department of Justice has completely ignored clear evidence, which the FBI has had for over a year, in texts and emails on Hunter Biden's hard drive of failing to register numerous times as a foreign agent, child pornography, money laundering, and 30 years of the Biden crime family taking millions of dollars in bribes to sell to public officials.
00:41:25.000My contention is that if you get into that orbit and you're a threat to the power or say things that they don't like, it seems as if they're going to use whatever power they have at their disposal to make America in their image.
00:41:43.000Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:41:47.000I want to get to this other question here.
00:42:00.000I think Ted Cruz had some comments on this.
00:42:03.000I'm doing a lot of thinking about that because I think I see it a little bit differently, but I want to see what Ted Cruz has to say on this.
00:42:09.000And I think I agree with Ted Cruz on the essence of this playtape.
00:42:12.000Tell you, Sean, the most radical line tonight was when Joe Biden said, We the people is the government.
00:42:22.000No, Joe, you seriously misunderstand the Constitution.
00:42:28.000We are not a country of dictators in Washington running the people.
00:42:33.000We the people is the people, damn it, who are in charge of the government, whose freedom you're taking away, whose liberty you're stripping away.
00:42:40.000And it showed the arrogance of the hard left that they think that l'estasse moi, he is the state, is what he said, and he's we the people.
00:45:48.000And the media played into that, and they made it seem as if it was frenetic, shooting from the hip.
00:45:55.000And I think Trump could have played into this kind of caricature of chaos.
00:46:01.000I think Trump could have played in as saying, look, changing the trajectory of a corrupt institution is not something you do in just one board meeting.
00:48:29.000Their new strategy is we are going to make America sleep and full of pleasure, sedate them temporarily, the buzz, the rush of feeling good, and then our plunder will be uninterrupted.
00:48:47.000Now, the question is: are Republicans going to be a buttoned-up version of that?
00:48:52.000Or is there an equal and opposite reaction brewing?
00:49:19.000Well, the Soviet Union actually sort of perfected this.
00:49:25.000Many people don't know this, but the Soviet Union had the highest rates of alcoholism in the world.
00:49:33.000In fact, many people that traveled behind the Iron Curtain, they'd comment on how vodka was unbelievably cheap and the communist government used alcohol to placate the masses.
00:49:47.000In fact, a study done showed that vodka came to Russia around the 15th century.
00:49:53.000Soviet citizens consumed around 11.2 liters of pure alcohol per year, making them the world's heaviest drinkers in 1987.
00:50:05.000Regular heavy drinking occurs in all of the strata of the Soviet population, is growing steadily among women and young people.
00:50:12.000Between 1940 and 1980, the USSR experienced the highest rate of increase in the amount of alcohol consumed per person among developing countries.
00:50:20.000Consumption increased by 600% while the population grew only 25%.
00:50:25.000In a piece in the Atlantic that says how alcohol conquered Russia, it says that 6.2% of people globally die of alcohol-related deaths.
00:50:44.000One in five in Russia die of alcohol-related deaths.
00:50:50.000It says that 20 million Russians in a nation of just 144 million are alcoholics.
00:51:00.000This is a strategy that was pushed forward by Joseph Stalin and many others to keep the population from questioning their policies.
00:51:16.000And as we are seeing alcoholism go up in our country, we are seeing weed go up and drug usage, I can't help but think, is there a strategy to lull America to sleep?
00:51:30.000It's easier to allow a sleepy president to destroy the country if everyone is chemically sedated, or at least a large part of the population is.
00:51:40.000Weed has now been legalized in Arizona, and Arizona will soon see what happens when you legalize weed.
00:51:53.000You'll start seeing more driving under the influence, an entire viewpoint change towards a more liberal direction.
00:52:04.000But even beyond that, I think it's very interesting.
00:52:08.000Because I've been doing a lot of studying about the Soviet Union, and I'd always ask people that travel to the Soviet Union, Dennis Prager being one of them, why didn't the people, the Soviet Union, rise up?
00:52:19.000And many people would say they're too busy being chemically medicated, pursuing pleasure over virtue.
00:52:26.000You could decide for yourself if that's what's happening here in our country.
00:52:31.000But we have a president who is a little bit vanilla, less than energetic, and wants to lull you to sleep.
00:52:44.000Don't worry, you got your little buzz.
00:52:51.000I know people that got their stimulus check, and they even messaged me, Charlie, I feel guilty about this, but I feel good getting the money.