00:01:09.000His 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.
00:01:18.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:50.000The most important question is not even, what do the polls show?
00:01:53.000The most important question is: did anything this week make victory against the Democrat crime syndicate more likely?
00:02:03.000Did anything that happened this week make victory in November of 2024 easier?
00:02:11.000Did we move closer or further away from taking out this current regime electorally, of course?
00:02:19.000Or did we put that further into jeopardy?
00:02:22.000Well, this week, of course, Senator Tim Scott announced for the presidency, an honorable man.
00:02:27.000And then Ron DeSantis had his, well, failure to launch on Twitter and eventually was able to announce for the presidency and then decided to go do Trey Gowdy's program.
00:04:09.000Instead, this week shows us that the Republican donor class, they really do not like Donald Trump, and they're willing to spend their money and deploy the money in that direction.
00:04:21.000So let's start with Senator Tim Scott.
00:04:22.000Senator Tim Scott announces for the presidency.
00:04:26.000And Larry Ellison, who is the founder of Oracle, pledges tens of millions of dollars.
00:04:31.000That's right, tens of millions of dollars behind Tim Scott's candidacy.
00:06:12.000And then now there is another candidate, Doug Bergham from North Dakota, who is a geeky rhino, failed governor from North Dakota, who's not even popular in the great state of North Dakota, who's going to go spend $30 to $40 million to go finish fourth in Iowa.
00:06:33.000Doug Burnham might as well go wear a MAGA hat at this point, but it's completely unnecessary.
00:06:39.000You're not going to be president, my friend.
00:06:42.000Asa Hutchinson, not going to be president.
00:06:44.000You have to wonder, are some of these people actively trying to do the work of the American Democrat Party?
00:06:50.000I don't say that with any sort of exaggeration or hyperbole.
00:06:54.000Politico writes, Ron DeSantis muff launched the fitting, sad trombone conclusion to a pre-announcement period in which his stock sagged, at least among political insiders.
00:07:06.000Political continues and says, shortly before DeSantis began his bid for the office of Washington and Lincoln in a chat room with other very online influencers, Senator Tim Scott entered the race in a fashion that further underscored why it's going to be so hard to dethrone Trump.
00:08:13.000They do not like how they cannot brag about their political donations to their friends in Kenny Bunkport or Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard or in Aspen or Jackson Hole or in Big Sky, Montana, when they're vacationing over the summer and they go out to dinner with their liberal friends that they might have built a company with or went to college with and the topic of politics comes up.
00:08:36.000They want to be able to say, oh, no, no, no, don't worry.
00:09:49.000They don't like Trump because they didn't like the lockdowns, didn't like Fauci, didn't like the vaccine.
00:09:54.000It's like, okay, that I think is fine.
00:09:56.000But I have to hear, well, Charlie, come on.
00:09:58.000It's just norms and customs and tradition.
00:10:01.000I just try to focus on an argument a little more substantive than that.
00:10:05.000But we're going to build this out a little bit more because as we are going to have this incredibly contentious primary, now guarantee $1 billion primary that will be brutal.
00:10:15.000It will make the English Civil War look like patty cake.
00:10:20.000We got to ask ourselves the question, are we getting closer or further away day to day to taking back the White House in 2024?
00:10:29.000The answer is we have basically done a U-turn and said, ah, who cares?
00:10:36.000I want my guy to finish third in Iowa.
00:10:42.000Look, it is time to consider a rollover of that 401k into an IRA.
00:10:48.000The investment world is completely different in 2023, and you cannot do the same thing as last year.
00:10:53.000Woke companies are aggressively implementing ESG.
00:10:58.000Interest rates are going up and inflation is still lingering.
00:11:00.000If you have over $150,000, now is the time to move your money to a biblical responsible investing strategy with my friends at PAX Financial Group.
00:11:34.000Look, the Tim Scott appeal is real amongst a lot of Republican donors.
00:11:38.000And look, we're going to talk about George Floyd in the next segment, but because of the left's nonstop pathological campaign to try to misrepresent America as a racist country and the Republican Party as Nazis and conservatives as racist, there is a desire to overcorrect and overcompensate.
00:11:56.000And even Politico recognizes this, by the way.
00:11:59.000Politico says basically black Republicans running for office are able to raise money pretty easily.
00:12:05.000It says here, black Republicans have had boomlets before.
00:12:08.000Herman Cain and Ben Carson didn't begin with $22 million in the bank and have Senate leaders and plutocrats to say nothing of respected moderates such as Governor Bill Haslam and former Colorado Senator Corey Gardner at their announcements.
00:12:21.000And yeah, I mean, look, Republicans have been in search of their own Obama since 2008, as if that's going to solve all of our problems.
00:12:28.000And it's too bad that you have to look at everything through a racial lens because Senator Tim Scott, regardless of his race, has a lot actually to offer in a very, very powerful and charismatic way.
00:12:39.000I think he's a thoughtful person, even though he's far more moderate than I am on certain issues.
00:12:44.000And so Senator Tim Scott certainly will continue to resonate with a more moderate Republican donor that they want center-right policies.
00:12:56.000They definitely want someone who they would consider to be presentable to the Aspen Jackson hole, Kenny Bunkport kind of summer crowd, the Hamptons crowd.
00:13:09.000And, you know, he's not like that guy that you don't like.
00:13:13.000He's a moderate and he's center-right.
00:13:16.000There's a lot of white guilt, too, that pervades some of these donor decisions, make no mistake.
00:13:21.000And by the way, that's the major financing motivation of BLM was white guilt.
00:13:27.000But it's too bad because I think actually Senator Scott has earned that money and I'd hate to mislabel earned raising that money, mislabel as, oh, it's just people are giving it because they feel bad.
00:14:12.000That play's not going to play in Peoria.
00:14:14.000But sure, go to Iowa and go to New Hampshire.
00:14:17.000Chris Christie might run for the presidency, which the Chris Christie one is very interesting to me for a variety of reasons.
00:14:26.000Chris Christie is saying, based on reports, that he will be financed primarily by billionaire Steve Cohen, worth $20 billion, owner of the New York Mets.
00:14:35.000And the way that campaign finance law basically works now is you can kind of run a very thin campaign political operation, and then you can have a plutocrat oligarch just underwrite your entire campaign via a super PAC.
00:14:48.000And meanwhile, at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump and his team are looking around and they are delighting in this.
00:14:55.000And I say this as a Trump guy, I mean, the more of these candidates that are going to divide themselves and fracture themselves from a primary standpoint, it's excellent.
00:15:03.000From a general election standpoint, which needs to be the prime directive, the prime directive, the North Star, the telos, the purpose, the mission statement, the thing that orients all of our action needs to be winning the White House in 2024.
00:15:19.000This is a catastrophe for that effort.
00:15:22.000That is why I have said on this program that the odds of us winning the White House in 2024 are decreasing in likelihood the more that we have these third and fourth and fifth and sixth and seventh and eighth tier candidates going into the arena and spending money on what is a vanity project.
00:15:40.000Chris Christie, you're not going to be president.
00:15:43.000Doug Burnham, you're not going to be president.
00:15:44.000Asa Hutchins, you're not going to be president.
00:15:46.000And by the way, can we just spend a second and say, has Nikki Haley's presidential campaign been one of the most depressing and underwhelming announcements?
00:15:54.000This is a woman who I thought was the future of the Republican Party for quite some time.
00:15:59.000I still text with her, and I think she's a nice person.
00:16:02.000We disagree vehemently on foreign policy and other things.
00:16:06.000So I'm not going to say anything necessarily negative about her because I really don't have anything negative.
00:16:10.000She's always been really nice and sweet, but she's not gaining traction at all.
00:16:15.000I mean, there was some idea like, oh, maybe Nikki Haley could consolidate support.
00:16:19.000And there is not a market right now for what Nikki Haley is selling.
00:16:24.000She says, well, people want a choice, not an echo.
00:16:26.000I say, go to a diner in Iowa and ask them that.
00:16:34.000They want someone who's going to take the administrative state and tear it in half and represent voters in a populist nationalist way, close the border, end the war, put tariffs on China, and revitalize and restore the country, and not someone who is going to pander to donors, interests, wants, and needs from a Chamber of Commerce-filtered perspective.
00:16:55.000These people are going to fight amongst themselves.
00:16:56.000It's bad for our efforts in 2024, but for those of us that want to see Donald Trump be the nominee, this is just going to be a bloody English-French-Spanish Civil War.
00:17:10.000I don't know about you, but it takes a lot to shock me these days.
00:17:13.000To see our judicial system resemble a third world banana republic, to see trusted American companies embrace insane and destructive woke ideologies is sometimes depressing.
00:17:22.000We must fight back, and that starts with changing the way we spend our money.
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00:20:08.000But I think it's important to notice and recognize, though, that the Bush, Cheney, Rove cartel, they are looking for a candidate to attach to.
00:20:21.000And DeSantis, being in Florida, makes that proximity because Jeb Bush has his whole political operation and the donor class, you know, very tightly knit in Miami in particular.
00:20:31.000They're looking for someone to attach to.
00:20:33.000Ron DeSantis will be the more, the more Ron DeSantis is unscripted and does not listen to what the Chamber of Commerce wants, the more successful he'll be.
00:20:42.000But this is the question is, well, at some point, Ron DeSantis is going to have to make a decision.
00:20:48.000Am I going to communicate to voters or am I going to communicate to donors?
00:20:54.000Now, sometimes those are exactly the same thing.
00:21:14.000And Donald Trump raises a ton of money from both people that have a lot of money and people that are giving, you know, dutifully $10 a month.
00:21:21.000But there is a question of, you know, as there's more and more competition in the field, as you have more and more people trying to raise money, which is Ron DeSantis going to build a campaign driven by consultants and money raising or for votes and representing a mandate from the voters?
00:22:00.000So the question will be whether he closes the gap with the former president or whether this becomes a real brawl.
00:22:07.000We've already seen the former president Donald Trump spend more money on Ron DeSantis through his PAC and ads than they spent on supporting candidates in the midterms of 2022.
00:22:25.000And right now, and this is what Politico basically concludes, and they did a good job.
00:22:30.000I mean, I'm not one to praise Politico.
00:22:31.000They're the one that shilled the fake Intel story of 51 former Intel officials, Hunter Biden laptop, and they never apologized and they never retracted.
00:22:40.000So, and Politico deserves to be held accountable for that.
00:23:06.000I mean, I just find it, it's just so interesting to me.
00:23:08.000Vivek Ramaswamy, who's been like on the scene for maybe six months or a year, is out-polling Mike Pence and Nikki Haley, who have consultants and tons of money.
00:23:19.000That just goes to show the party is done with those people.
00:23:22.000So as a closing point, then I want to get into St. George Floyd.
00:23:27.000This is going to be a bitter primary, which, by the way, as I host a radio program and a television program and our podcast downloads are up, praise God.
00:24:31.000It's really damaging, in my personal opinion, at this moment of the new era of politics where we have such a significant disadvantage to the Democrats when it comes to building a political operation and machine.
00:24:44.000I wouldn't feel this way if we had an amazingly robust in-person early voting, get out the vote operation, and ballot chasing in Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin.
00:24:52.000If we had a machine in these states, I'd say, hey, let the primary unfold.
00:24:57.000The RNC complete waste of rations, as we know.
00:25:00.000We don't have that early state infrastructure, that early money infrastructure.
00:25:04.000And so this is actively damaging to our efforts in 2024, despite it being actually very good for the Charlie Kirk show and for our views and our downloads.
00:25:47.000Aristotle argued that politics is the highest form of community because it combines morality and sociability.
00:25:54.000And so when you lock down all of society and there's no churches and people are saying aren't screens all day long, it set the table, had all of the ingredients for a mass social movement explosion.
00:26:57.000We basically ignited a cultural revolution centered on the idea that America was in a crisis of racism and that rooting out this racism has to be the number one goal of American life.
00:27:10.000So what was the outcome of this crusade three years later?
00:27:13.000Well, the most immediate impact, ironically and tragically and devastatingly, was black America.
00:27:25.000Upper middle class, white liberal America is richer than ever before.
00:27:28.000And you know I hate dividing things based on race.
00:27:32.000But white liberals on the Upper East Side, white liberals in the Hamptons, white liberals in you take your community, Menlo Park, the laptop class, white liberals that wore masks all day long, they're fine.
00:27:46.000They're richer than they were three years ago.
00:27:49.000They're more financially solvent than they were.
00:27:51.000White liberals did not feel the damage of this.
00:28:28.000We have seen the damaging of our urban core.
00:28:30.000White liberal America is more powerful than ever before.
00:28:33.000And yet, the other part of this is the lie has made more progress in the last three years in our textbooks, our cultural institutions, and our narratives.
00:28:42.000Is America in a better place since Floyda Palooza, when we decided to burn down our country based on a lie from the pit of hell?
00:28:53.000So we ignited this massive cultural revolution.
00:28:56.000And then we were gaslit into being told these are mostly peaceful protests.
00:29:01.000We defunded the police in certain jurisdictions and areas.
00:29:04.000We allowed Soros DAs to take over our country.
00:29:07.000And white liberals went along, and so many white conservatives went along.
00:29:11.000You know how many white pastors went along too?
00:29:13.000Pastors like Rick Warren, who marched in the BLM parade.
00:29:17.000People that were virtue signaling time and time again about racial destruction and how we as white people must repent.
00:29:24.000Let's go to this piece of tape here: Cut 108.
00:29:29.000There was a religious element to this, though.
00:29:31.000As soon as Floyd died, the power-hungry zealots, the white liberals who are always looking at something to attach to, to make themselves more powerful and to try to criminalize the conservative movement, they saw George Floyd as a martyr.
00:29:46.000They framed George Floyd's death as an assassination by the conservative, mostly white Christian movement.
00:29:56.000Nancy Pelosi was thankful for George Floyd's death.
00:29:59.000It made Nancy Pelosi's job easier to pillage and plunder the entire country.
00:30:02.000And meanwhile, we were not able to have robust conversations on ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D levels, ozone, lockdowns.
00:30:10.000No, it distracted the whole conversation away from mass COVID and tyranny to focus on race because most white people are afraid to be called the racist.
00:30:22.000Here is Nancy thanking George Floyd for his martyrdom, Play Cut 108.
00:30:27.000So again, thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice, for being there to call out to your mom.
00:30:58.000Look at what happened since BLM took over the country.
00:31:03.000Just these beautiful diners, these beautiful shops.
00:31:06.000It looks as if the virus of anti-racism, the bacterial infection of BLM, Black Lives Matter, did more damage than Russian forces have done in Bakhmut.
00:31:25.000You literally could not, you could not replicate the damage that BLM did to black America.
00:31:32.000More people have died in the Floyd crime wave, black people, than ever died at the hands of lynching in America.
00:31:43.000But white liberals are doing just fine.
00:31:45.000White liberals this summer will be in the Hamptons whining and dining the champagne with their gated communities, full-time security, miles away from gang activity, while their kids go to private schools saying that the real problem is white supremacy.
00:32:03.000Joe Biden will repeat that the biggest problem is white supremacy.
00:32:06.000No, there's a lot bigger problems than white supremacy, like black dads not being around, like black crime, like racial division, racial arson, BLM, dividing the country, the BLM mission statement that we exist to destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family.
00:32:20.000The only positive that I can share with this, and I have to do this super quick, is that I think 2020 and the race cultural revolution did wake up enough decent people to see what we're up against.