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00:01:08.000The Dow is down 657 points as I am reading it right now.
00:01:12.000It's low on the day, was down 800 points.
00:01:17.000We will keep an eye on that as the economy craters.
00:01:20.000Crashflation is here, where the economy is crashing in front of our very eyes, a slow-motion car wreck, which is something we have been predicting on this program for quite some time.
00:01:31.000All the economists and the experts that you might see on shows like Face the Nation or 60 Minutes, they said, oh, we didn't see this coming.
00:01:39.000It's either they should all resign in disgrace because they are complete and total imbeciles, or they should resign in disgrace because they manufactured this and they lied to us.
00:01:49.000Either way, they are overseeing one of the most dangerous economic climates in a generation.
00:01:55.000This economy is going into a place of chaos and disorder.
00:02:02.000The worst possible combination is low growth, low productivity, low consumer confidence, and lots of dollar bills.
00:02:10.000There's almost no good way to get out of it except be in an 18 to 24 month recession depression.
00:02:16.000So we're going to get into that in great detail as our show progresses.
00:02:20.000I know that impacts a lot of you directly.
00:02:23.000I've told the story many times, but I was condescendingly lectured by people in Wall Street.
00:03:49.000Well, Chris Murphy from Connecticut has now come out and he has said, quote, we have a deal.
00:03:55.000Today, a bipartisan group of 20 senators, 10 Democrats and 10 Republicans, is announcing a breakthrough agreement on gun violence, the first in 30 years that will save lives.
00:04:07.000I think you'll be surprised at the scope of the framework.
00:04:10.000Yeah, before I go any further, I actually agree with you, Senator Murphy from Connecticut.
00:04:15.000I am surprised that Republicans from deep red states continually are able to betray their voters.
00:04:21.000I am surprised that they're able to tell their voters one thing when it comes to size and scope of government, federal overreach, the Second Amendment, and they're coming to the table to even begin the quote-unquote negotiation process with you.
00:05:06.000This is not coming to a middle ground.
00:05:08.000This is Republicans agreeing with what the Democrats want to do.
00:05:11.000Maybe not all that Democrats want to do, but part of what Democrats want to do.
00:05:16.000Why is our country less free than it was 30 or 40 years ago?
00:05:21.000It's because one side capitulates while calling it compromise.
00:05:27.000Our side, the Republicans, they'll go to Washington, D.C. under the framework that they never have to try to drag Democrats to try to agree with them, but instead they have to go out of their way to try to agree at Democrats.
00:07:42.000Say, okay, we'll give you federal law against gun trafficking and straw purchasing, which we'll get into, by the way, a little bit later in the show.
00:07:52.000We'll give you that if you give us money for armed guards at schools.
00:07:56.000We'll give you this if you give us better training for teachers to be able to have firearms at their disposal.
00:08:08.000A negotiation is that we are going to have new standards.
00:08:10.000If you receive federal funding from schools, you're going to have to have a certain standard that you're going to have hardened schools, single point entry, that schools could potentially be fined if they leave doors open erroneously, if they don't have certain checks and balances.
00:08:31.000These would be very, that would be a good negotiation.
00:08:34.000Now, I wouldn't support some of this nonsense in this bill, this soon-to-be bill that they're announcing, but that would at least be a good faith negotiation.
00:08:43.000Okay, you want to have billions of dollars in new funding for mental health.
00:08:46.000I'm fine for that, including money for national build-out community mental health clinics.
00:08:52.000Now, part of it is they say they have mental health and school safety.
00:09:24.000Chris Murphy is enthusiastic to announce from Connecticut, the gun-grabbing Democrat, that he was able to swindle Republicans to come alongside of it.
00:09:35.000Now, again, some of this is not that interesting.
00:09:38.000Some of the stuff in this bill is, quite honestly, it's rather banal.
00:09:54.000But if you want an answer as to why our country is significantly less free than when you grew up, it's because one side capitulates while they call it negotiation.
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00:11:06.000Clarification of the laws regarding who needs to register as a licensed gun dealer to make sure all truly commercial sellers are doing background checks.
00:11:15.000I have my skepticism of trusting the government to do that.
00:11:20.000But the one that I really want to focus on is this red flag law thing.
00:11:24.000I am enthusiastically against red flag laws.
00:11:59.000Well, most Americans think that, yeah, we should have the ability to be able to throw a flag down, red flag, and prevent a firearm purchase if someone is deemed to be dangerous to themselves or the community.
00:12:12.000So, for example, terrorists shouldn't be able to own guns, right?
00:12:16.000I mean, terrorists are super dangerous.
00:12:28.000Now, it might be obvious to some people what a terrorist is.
00:12:30.000You think of maybe ISIS or Al-Qaeda or an Islamic fundamentalist that wants to blow up the World Trade Center, or you think of Timothy McVeigh.
00:12:38.000Those are all terrorists, or Eric Rudolph or Ted Kaczynski.
00:12:40.000But what about your FBI or Department of Justice that calls you a terrorist?
00:12:47.000The Department of Justice had a memo that said very clearly that if you show up to a school board meeting, you might be engaging in domestic terrorism.
00:12:56.000According to an FBI whistleblower, the Federal Bureau of Investigation engaged in spying and surveillance against a mom from Moms for Liberty for simply owning a firearm.
00:13:06.000So while it might sound good to have red flag laws against terrorists, what is a terrorist?
00:13:16.000Well, if you turn on any news network right now, every single one has the January 6th committee, where they are not so subtly calling half the country terrorists.
00:13:27.000Remember the Department of Homeland Security memo that came out many months ago?
00:13:31.000The Department of Homeland Security that said people that challenge COVID mandates or vaccine mandates are the greatest threat to American national security in the homeland, that they might be engaging in terrorism?
00:13:45.000Moms for Liberty co-founder is coming on the program this week.
00:13:53.000Major funding to help states pass and implement crisis intervention orders, red flag laws, that will allow law enforcement to temporarily take dangerous weapons away from people who pose a danger to others or themselves.
00:14:06.000And that all sounds very fine and good.
00:14:13.000Because, and how naive, honestly, for the Republicans that were capitulating, not negotiating, to not say, hold on a second, Chris Murphy, what do you have to say about the Department of Homeland Security saying that if you push back against mask mandates, you're a domestic terrorist?
00:14:30.000You have an entire committee right now that is calling half the country coup sympathetic, insurrectionist, all this very, very heavily charged language.
00:14:43.000So simultaneously, you have the Democrat Party and some Republicans via a committee accusing millions of people being potentially dangerous to not just themselves or their communities, but to the entire civilization.
00:14:59.000And then we're supposed to just kind of take it that the federal government is now going to have increased red flag laws.
00:15:07.000You see, I used to believe in these types of programs.
00:15:12.000I remember being in eighth grade and a freshman in high school, passionately defending the Patriot Act.
00:15:20.000The Patriot Act, which was, of course, increased domestic surveillance against terrorists.
00:15:25.000Now, what was hilarious is that it was Democrats mostly that were the ones that were defending the civil liberties.
00:15:53.000And Ron Paul, to his credit, and previously Bernie Sanders, who used to actually be good on civil liberties, believe it or not, said, hold on a second, be careful of the government that calls you, that calls something a terrorist because you might one day be called a terrorist.
00:16:08.000Now, Bernie Sanders believed that for a specific reason, because communists used to be called terrorists in the 60s and 70s.
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00:17:42.000Charlie, just like the bots took over social media for their own agenda, red flag laws are likely to attract the same spurious abuse with organized anti-gun groups targeting people.
00:17:55.000So we have one side that continually capitulates, Republicans and Democrats that know they can always just kind of bring us over.
00:18:04.000Now, who are the Republicans that did this?
00:18:06.000Before I go further into the argument against red flag laws, John Cornyn from Texas.
00:18:13.000I'd love anyone listening right now in Texas, feel free to email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:18:17.000Did you go elect John Cornyn to try to make it harder for people to own weapons?
00:18:24.000Tom Tillis from North Carolina, I can't imagine North Carolina is on board for this.
00:18:30.000Senator Toomey, now I will say something about Senator Toomey.
00:18:35.000Not a big fan of his, but it's a very interesting argument, which is, I'll be very honest, I'm a huge fan in theory of term limits.
00:18:49.000I think term limits in theory are great, but I think it's actually a little bit messier when it comes to the topic of term limits than people realize.
00:19:02.000Because Toomey, he can vote for whatever he wants to vote for right now, largely because he doesn't have an upcoming election.
00:19:50.000Lindsey Graham is enthusiastic about arming Ukrainians, but is trying his best to put forth red flag laws that very well could disarm his own voters.
00:20:02.000And then Bill Cassidy, Bill Cassidy is basically an independent moderate at this time.
00:21:41.000Chris Murphy says, these red flag laws will allow law enforcement to temporarily take dangerous weapons away who pose a danger to others or themselves.
00:22:50.000The argument I'm making is that people in Alaska 10% is that the point that I'm making is that these politicians are so disconnected from their voters and almost defiantly so.
00:23:05.000I mean, Senator Collins, I'm okay with, honestly, because remember, it takes 10 to break the filibuster.
00:23:12.000Senator Collins has always been very honest how she's a moderate.
00:23:21.000It helps Republicans get the majority.
00:23:23.000That is not what Lindsey Graham runs on.
00:23:26.000Lindsey Graham runs on being this hard-right conservative.
00:23:29.000John Cornyn runs on being this hard-right conservative.
00:23:32.000What I'm getting at is that you cannot have a functioning republic if politicians and decision makers are two totally different things when it comes to their voters.
00:23:44.000In the defense of Susan Collins, she's always said she's a moderate.
00:23:48.000To everyone in Maine, she's known as a moderate.
00:24:05.000But Tom Tillis, did Tom Tillis go to the people of North Carolina, especially in a Republican primary, and say, vote for me so I can put red flag laws in?
00:24:15.000North Carolina, by the way, that has some of the largest military bases in the country.
00:24:21.000And these red flag laws disproportionately impact veterans.
00:24:29.000One part of this that I find to be fascinating.
00:24:35.000Will this bill do everything we need to end our nation's gun violence epidemic?
00:25:12.000I would just love to talk to some of these people.
00:25:14.000And honestly, I do get a chance to meet some of these senators.
00:25:18.000And I'll be honest with you guys, I struggle with this because part of me wants to show them respect of the office, respect of the institution.
00:25:27.000But now part of me is just like, I'm just going to be blunt and I just don't care anymore.
00:25:31.000Those conversations usually don't go well.
00:25:33.000I ran into a certain elected official recently in the House of Representatives.
00:25:39.000And I just kind of blurted out basically impulsively.
00:25:42.000I'm like, why did you send $40 billion to Ukraine?
00:26:55.000What time is it metaphorically, meaning, do you know what moment our country is in?
00:27:01.000Do you still think we're in the 1980s of a boom cycle and LGBT radicalism and CRT is nothing more than an academic fringe theory and a book you could barely find in a library in a far-off distant corner that you have to dust it off and read it and like, oh, wow, that's what critical race theory is.
00:27:37.000You do not defeat evil if you are not willing to ramp up the action and the stakes when it comes to things that are beautiful and good and true.
00:27:44.000That is why Churchill is the greatest man to live in the 20th century.
00:27:47.000And our Republican Party still thinks it's in the 1980s.
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00:29:51.000And I also think, and I will agree with this, there are people that I know, or at least I knew, that I was like, that person probably should not anytime soon be getting an AR-15.
00:30:06.000People that had a track record of hurting themselves and people that quite honestly needed very significant mental intervention or mental health intervention.
00:30:19.000But the kind of through line that we are hitting here and that we have is a line that we have coined that actually a friend from Chicago helped me workshop about 10 years ago, which is good intentions do not result in good public policy.
00:30:31.000Is that in life, good intentions can matter with how you make judgment calls, right?
00:30:40.000In politics, you have to, you have to judge the result, not the intention.
00:30:47.000Well-intentioned people that do terrible, there's plenty of Democrats that quote unquote mean well, less and less, by the way.
00:30:55.000A lot of these Democrats mean terribly.
00:30:57.000I don't care about your intentions when it comes to this.
00:31:01.000I care about whether or not the policy themselves is going to make us freer, make our country stronger, make us less likely to have another biomedical fascist episode.
00:31:12.000These are things that I'm worried about.
00:31:15.000The ability to help states pass red flag laws will stop thousands of suicides and homicides.
00:31:21.000The closing of the boyfriend loophole means that domestic abusers, boyfriends that beat up their girlfriends won't be able to buy guns.
00:31:29.000The protections for 21 and under buyers, that means that there's a pause for any 18 to 20 year old who's going into a store to try to buy an AR-15 like the Uvalde shooter and ability for the police department to intervene.
00:31:43.000And then the question also is who can actually put down a flag?
00:31:47.000One of our listeners in Custer, South Dakota on the Flag Radio Network said, Charlie, as a retired cop 30 years in Fargo, I could tell you red flag laws are terrible.
00:31:56.000As they are written now, they give way too much power to people who may just have a grudge against someone.
00:32:02.000Plus, there's no clear path for the gun owner to get the guns back.
00:32:06.000Really, really bad idea, kind of like mail and voting.
00:32:09.000So, for example, you know, we get death threats here on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:32:13.000I get death threats, unfortunately, pretty regularly.
00:32:16.000We also get people just wishing us to die, which is not exactly a death threat.
00:32:19.000But I could imagine it's conceivable that left-wing activist groups would put forward massive amount of flags against me, against my family, against my coworkers.
00:32:30.000How about if they put flags against everyone at Turning Point USA?
00:32:58.000What is it about a moderate Republican that makes them so motivated to try to concede to the left?
00:33:09.000And yes, it is the desire to be liked, but let me add an asterisk to that, just a little kind of amendment.
00:33:17.000It is difficult to be pounded by the media every single day.
00:33:23.000Eventually, the metaphorical media waterboarding that Republicans have to experience, where they get dunked under and they can't breathe, and they get dunked under, all metaphorical, of course.
00:33:35.000Eventually they say, if I just concede on this one thing, will you just give us a nice article, please?
00:33:41.000It really goes to show the power of the media and the narrative industrial complex.
00:33:47.000We've talked about the military industrial complex, but the media industrial complex, I would argue, has far more power.
00:33:53.000They're able to shape opinion, manipulate human behavior, and get even Republicans to betray their voters to pass wide overreaching gun confiscation legislation.
00:34:04.000Again, some of the parts of the bill, not that controversial, fine.
00:34:08.000But the part about red flag laws, be careful.
00:34:13.000And in fact, these Republicans should be opposed by you, and you should contact every single one of them and say, wait a second, why didn't you run on this?
00:34:20.000Why would you give more power to the government that calls us terrorists?
00:34:26.000Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:27.000Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com or support the Charlie Kirk Show at charliekirk.com slash support.