The Charlie Kirk Show - May 27, 2025


The Democrats' $20 Million Question: Why Do Men Hate Us?


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Dems are spending $20M to win back young men, according to a new report from the New York Times. Why? Because they know they are losing them, and they know how to win them back. Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we discuss why.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:00.000 Charlie Kirk here, live from the Bitcoin.com studio.
00:00:04.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Democrats are planning to spend $20 million to win back young men.
00:00:09.000 Good luck.
00:00:10.000 We dive into that, and we are excited to share with you that we are winning young men more so than ever before.
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00:00:30.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:31.000 Here we go.
00:00:32.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:34.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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00:01:30.000 Happy Tuesday.
00:01:31.000 We are back in the chair.
00:01:33.000 I hope you guys had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend.
00:01:36.000 Major news this weekend.
00:01:38.000 The Democrat Party is telling us their plans.
00:01:40.000 You see, the Democrat Party knows that they are losing, specifically losing, young men.
00:01:46.000 We know that in the 2024 exit polls, they showed that Trump won 54% of men ages 18 to 29. A 29-point shift from 2020's 15-point Biden lead.
00:01:57.000 Let's go 223 up on screen.
00:01:59.000 Just the presidential margins among men by race and ethnicity, men are moving to the right dramatically.
00:02:09.000 Dramatically.
00:02:10.000 YouGov data shows that even in the United Kingdom, where I just was visiting last week, 32% of UK men ages 18 to 24 voted Reform UK compared to 16% of women, doubling right-wing support.
00:02:24.000 Globally, we are seeing that young men, Our scoring at a conservatism scale up nearly 30% versus 2014.
00:02:32.000 So what is going on here?
00:02:34.000 Well, we've covered this extensively.
00:02:36.000 Where everything masculine is labeled toxic, young men are starting to search for a place where manhood is still honored, not pathologized.
00:02:45.000 In a world that preaches weakness as virtue, we are offering challenge, order, and responsibility.
00:02:53.000 And the men of the West are listening.
00:02:57.000 The New York Times published a separate piece of data that is equally as interesting where the Democrats know that their problem runs deep and everywhere.
00:03:05.000 Show this up on screen.
00:03:06.000 Where almost the entire country is moving to the right except the suburbs of Atlanta and the suburbs of Denver and parts of Virginia.
00:03:15.000 almost everywhere is moving dramatically to the right.
00:03:19.000 The country is experiencing the course correction or the re-reaching It is a seismic shift largely led by the men of the West that are rejecting the current composition of the Democrat Party.
00:03:37.000 And the Democrats know it.
00:03:39.000 This is cut to 18. MSNBC reports that the New York Times is saying Democrats want to spend $20 million to figure out how to speak to young men.
00:03:49.000 Is there a USAID grant for that?
00:03:51.000 There's USAID grant to make a Sesame Street for Iraqis, a USAID grant for every wild thing. 0.99
00:03:58.000 Could they get a USAID grant to learn how to speak to the civilization that we've never touched before?
00:04:05.000 You know, I feel as if this is a National Geographic documentary.
00:04:08.000 And now we venture into the wild to learn to talk to a group of people largely forgotten.
00:04:17.000 No, they're not the aborigines of Australia. 0.96
00:04:20.000 They're not the island people of Sri Lanka.
00:04:23.000 They're not the Incans or the former Mayans.
00:04:26.000 They are men.
00:04:28.000 Half of the population of the country we desire to govern.
00:04:33.000 Play cut to 18. With the midterms fast approaching and the full six months after November's electoral drubbing, the Democratic Party appears to still be in fact-finding mode.
00:04:44.000 The New York Times reports that party donors and strategists have been gathering at luxury hotels to discuss how to win back working-class voters.
00:04:53.000 And they're spending $20 million on an effort to try to figure out how to speak to young men.
00:04:59.000 It is codenamed SAM, short for Speaking with American Men, a strategic plan, and promises investment to study the syntax, language, and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces.
00:05:13.000 The syntax, language, and content.
00:05:16.000 So they hire a linguist, as if they're trying to decode ancient Sumerian.
00:05:22.000 How did we go so wrong talking to these people?
00:05:25.000 You are the problem.
00:05:27.000 Everything you believe is the problem.
00:05:30.000 Instead of meeting at luxury hotels, if you want to see how men actually think, maybe you should have went to the Indy 500 this last weekend on Memorial Day.
00:05:38.000 Or maybe go on a hunting trip.
00:05:41.000 Maybe show up at a football game and show up to a tailgate and ask the men of the West, why are you voting Republican?
00:05:48.000 And they will tell you something.
00:05:51.000 That is not going to show up in their data.
00:05:53.000 You see, it's a vibe.
00:05:54.000 And honestly, I got to give our podcast, our campus content, some credit, not all.
00:05:59.000 The vibe is that if you embrace the Democrats, that is like the weakest femboy, low testosterone thing imaginable. 0.62
00:06:09.000 It's not even that they love Republicans or love conservatism.
00:06:13.000 It's just that it's such a sad shell and husk of your former self if you are going to become a man.
00:06:22.000 You're going to be constantly policing people's speech through the pronoun directives. 0.95
00:06:29.000 You're going to be caring about race hostilities and the mobilizing of resentments.
00:06:34.000 While the left offers therapy and safe spaces, we on the right, we offer discipline, identity, and meaning.
00:06:43.000 And men are craving meaning.
00:06:46.000 Men are suffering under Viktor Frankl's Existential despair.
00:06:53.000 But the Democrat strategists and donors meeting at this luxury hotel are seeking a prognosis.
00:07:01.000 As they're meeting at the swanky hotels, they say they're going to buy advertisements and video games, among other things.
00:07:09.000 We're done.
00:07:09.000 That's it.
00:07:10.000 No one's ever thought to buy advertisements and video games before.
00:07:13.000 It's just never happened before.
00:07:16.000 Above all, we must shift from a moralizing tone.
00:07:20.000 Oh, maybe you're starting to gather a little bit of self-awareness.
00:07:25.000 MSNBC is fighting over whether this is a good idea.
00:07:28.000 Play cut 207.
00:07:29.000 It's great that we're being a little bit more introspective.
00:07:31.000 That's always helpful.
00:07:32.000 But I think that the Democrats have forgot that maybe we should just talk to people like people.
00:07:36.000 We don't need to do studies on it.
00:07:37.000 We don't need to meet at hotels.
00:07:39.000 How about we just go to community meetings and meet people where they are on social media and their different forms and platforms that they are.
00:07:44.000 But I think that we just, the Democrats have forgot how to talk to normal people about things that are really important to them, like the economy.
00:07:51.000 So it's, I think, a really good lesson to learn.
00:07:54.000 But I also think we just need to get back to basics.
00:07:57.000 You see, Comedy Central, they dispatched one of their court jesters, one of the clowns that they have on payroll there, a guy by the name of Jordan Clapper, to go talk to young men and say, why do you like Charlie Kirk?
00:08:11.000 Why?
00:08:12.000 Tell me why!
00:08:13.000 And I'm going to make fun of him in my very funny way.
00:08:18.000 You see, he's so funny I forgot to laugh.
00:08:20.000 But this is 226 of the National Geographic reporter from...
00:08:33.000 And this is exactly why they're failing.
00:08:35.000 Yes, I'm very smart and funny.
00:08:39.000 You know that, right?
00:08:41.000 He's like one of the last comedians that is still on the left because the left does not believe in freedom of speech.
00:08:46.000 You cannot be in comedy and not believe in freedom of speech and therefore not want to be on the right because free speech is not a left-wing value.
00:08:54.000 So he goes and tries to mock one of our fans when they're obviously acting in good faith.
00:08:59.000 Here's Very Funny Man from Comedy Central, Play Cut 226.
00:09:02.000 What makes Charlie Kirk so effective on a campus like this?
00:09:06.000 I just think it's all the research he's done, all the statistics that he has to back it up.
00:09:11.000 For some students, he was the only one speaking to their concerns.
00:09:14.000 A couple years ago, I just started finding more people because I got so tired of this not being able to speak my mind.
00:09:21.000 So I needed to find people that actually knew how to say things to a, um...
00:09:28.000 I'm sorry.
00:09:28.000 You needed somebody to be more articulate for you.
00:09:30.000 Yes.
00:09:31.000 Because you see me like right now.
00:09:32.000 I can't put words together.
00:09:37.000 Yes.
00:09:38.000 Gotcha.
00:09:39.000 Well, not like that exactly.
00:09:41.000 Well, that's what I was doing right there.
00:09:43.000 Yes.
00:09:43.000 What I'm talking about is what Charlie Kirkcutta does inside.
00:09:45.000 Yes, yes.
00:09:45.000 Yes, he puts the words in your mouth.
00:09:47.000 Yeah, making enough sense for me so I memorize what he says, then I can freely say it to...
00:09:54.000 So this guy, it's very funny, that's the same people that will say, Charlie, what are you going to do to talk to college students?
00:09:59.000 Here he goes and selectively edits people that are trying to find the words and say, you know, I like him because of this and this.
00:10:06.000 And he just tries to brutalize them.
00:10:09.000 Hey, Democrats, you are the problem.
00:10:12.000 And there's not any amount of advertisements and video games that are going to want people to support you.
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00:11:35.000 So Democrats are trying to figure out their way out of the wilderness.
00:11:39.000 And our goal is to keep them in the wilderness.
00:11:40.000 It's Project Keep Democrats in the Wilderness.
00:11:43.000 But honestly, I don't have to do anything to keep them in the wilderness.
00:11:47.000 You see, when I think of masculinity, I don't think of The Rock.
00:11:50.000 I don't think of Joe Rogan.
00:11:53.000 I don't think of the great titans that built the West.
00:11:57.000 Julius Caesar.
00:11:59.000 No, no, no.
00:11:59.000 I think of David Hogg.
00:12:01.000 When I think of masculinity, I think of David Hogg.
00:12:03.000 What could be more masculine than this?
00:12:07.000 Play cut 225.
00:12:08.000 Jasmine Crockett.
00:12:09.000 Jasmine Crockett, I love her.
00:12:11.000 She is amazing.
00:12:12.000 I think that people want to see somebody who fights and calls out the...
00:12:18.000 I think that's what Jasmine does. 0.99
00:12:28.000 Screw that.
00:12:28.000 They're going to criticize you no matter what.
00:12:30.000 I think Jasmine is frankly the type of leader that we're really looking to support.
00:12:37.000 Where do I donate?
00:12:39.000 I will actively raise money for Jasmine Crockett running for the presidency.
00:12:43.000 I will be a bundler.
00:12:45.000 I will be an official bundler for the Jasmine Crockett 2020.
00:12:49.000 Eight campaign.
00:12:51.000 I will call donors.
00:12:52.000 We'll start a super PAC.
00:12:54.000 If she runs the presidency, I think Turning Point PAC, which, by the way, we're allowed to do.
00:12:59.000 We could run ads in support of Jasmine Crockett.
00:13:01.000 I think we will do independent expenditures saying that she is the fighter of the future.
00:13:07.000 I mean, look at this.
00:13:08.000 When I think of masculinity, this is what I think about.
00:13:10.000 I mean, look at this titan.
00:13:12.000 Look at that menace, that mountain of muscle.
00:13:16.000 I mean, come on.
00:13:18.000 Those biceps?
00:13:19.000 Boom! 0.99
00:13:20.000 The fierce look in his eyes?
00:13:23.000 Outside of the physical characteristics that make David Hogg indistinguishable than a survivor from a concentration camp, the more important component is that he never stands up for core values.
00:13:40.000 He's always pandering.
00:13:41.000 I mean, he's sitting there.
00:13:42.000 He's talking to the people around him.
00:13:44.000 And he's...
00:13:51.000 She's wonderful.
00:13:52.000 Act like an entire moral coward.
00:13:56.000 To appeal to real alpha men, you have to be an alpha man.
00:14:01.000 And then remember, he instantly got cowed by the accusations from the DNC that he should have been removed because of racial quotas.
00:14:08.000 So what does he do?
00:14:09.000 He goes on The Breakfast Club and essentially endorses a black crazy woman because he's a compliant little beta. 0.87
00:14:16.000 It's exactly how you drive men away. 0.70
00:14:18.000 Again, I'm not necessarily an expert in this.
00:14:20.000 All I know is that we have been able to gain a major audience of millions of people, men and women, but especially men.
00:14:26.000 And what we just did in Cambridge last week is one of the reasons why our audience just keeps on growing.
00:14:34.000 We go right into the lion's den.
00:14:37.000 400 people against me.
00:14:39.000 I had three supporters.
00:14:40.000 Two of them I paid.
00:14:41.000 Blake and Mikey, who were on my payroll.
00:14:43.000 I think I had one fan out of 400.
00:14:46.000 And you just got to throw it down.
00:14:48.000 What are your best ideas?
00:14:49.000 And even though the audience was completely against me and opposed to me, that's what it's all about.
00:14:55.000 Throw it down. 0.51
00:14:57.000 Confront the mob.
00:14:59.000 Stand for truth.
00:15:00.000 Don't pander.
00:15:02.000 I went straight into one of the most rotten and corrupt institutions of elitism.
00:15:06.000 And the Democrats are increasingly the party of whining, censorship, lecturing, and social ostracizing.
00:15:14.000 They're the people that would send you, by the way, to a detention camp for saying something true.
00:15:20.000 The Democrats are all about dependence, passivity, conformity, envy, lack of personal responsibility, and lack of initiative.
00:15:29.000 So the Democrats are going to spend $20 million, that's right, trying to win over young men.
00:15:35.000 They say here it is the SAM project speaking with American men because they know that this is a major and glaring issue.
00:15:43.000 And understand the other good dynamic of this is that their hyper-race politics is breaking apart. 0.70
00:15:48.000 The Democrat Party created a race obsession over the last 40 years.
00:15:54.000 And now that that is breaking, the divide in America is much, much and less white versus black.
00:15:59.000 Praise God, because that means nothing.
00:16:00.000 And it's more about kind of male-female.
00:16:03.000 And I don't want that divide, but at least that is a divide that is rooted in characteristics that matter.
00:16:08.000 Male-female distinctions absolutely matter. 0.79
00:16:11.000 And you actually want to be the political party that skews masculine.
00:16:14.000 You know why?
00:16:16.000 Because masculine men will get non-crazy women to follow. 1.00
00:16:19.000 Masculine men will lead their family in that direction. 1.00
00:16:23.000 Masculine men will stand up with courage and with strength and with honor against the injustices.
00:16:32.000 I would much rather be the political party that is masculine and male almost to a fault. 0.97
00:16:39.000 Then the one that is hyper-feminine, the lighter touch.
00:16:43.000 But deep down, it's not just that feminism is weak. 1.00
00:16:46.000 It's that it's cruel.
00:16:46.000 No, no, no.
00:16:48.000 Feminism is not about helping women. 1.00
00:16:50.000 It's about hating men at its core.
00:16:53.000 It's about scolding you.
00:16:54.000 It's about moralizing to you.
00:16:57.000 We understand this, which is why we are the ascendant political force in the West.
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00:18:06.000 Joining us now is Senator Rick Scott of the great state of Florida.
00:18:10.000 Senator, I want to just begin by talking about what's happening at the University of Florida.
00:18:14.000 They potentially could be hiring this left-wing lunatic as president of UF.
00:18:19.000 What's going on here?
00:18:19.000 Well, I think for Florida education, it's pretty scary right now.
00:18:23.000 They're talking about electing somebody that clearly has said very racist things about, you know, original citizen of the country is racism.
00:18:33.000 He's been a big proponent of DEI.
00:18:35.000 So what I've been asking is, OK, so let's do a real investigation here.
00:18:39.000 Let's get all the facts on the table.
00:18:42.000 Let's slow down, take our time.
00:18:44.000 But the University of Florida trustees are voting today.
00:18:48.000 They're going to make a decision today.
00:18:49.000 Now, after that, it has to go to the Board of Governors that is responsible for all the university system in Florida.
00:18:55.000 So I'm hopeful at some point, you know, they'll take this seriously and do a real investigation.
00:19:02.000 Because what we don't want, we don't want anti-Semitism on our campuses.
00:19:06.000 We don't want encampments on our campus.
00:19:09.000 We don't want somebody to say that, you know, we're all racist.
00:19:13.000 And this guy, you know, this guy at University of Washington, So I don't get it.
00:19:27.000 It doesn't make any sense to me.
00:19:29.000 Well, and it's just we need to get these universities in Florida back into alignment.
00:19:36.000 They need to be places of free speech and elevating the West.
00:19:40.000 And so the...
00:19:50.000 Who puts these people even in the positions and does the governor have the final say?
00:19:56.000 Well, the governor doesn't have the final say.
00:19:58.000 What happens is the board at the university gets to pick them.
00:20:02.000 And then after that, it has to be confirmed by the board of governors that looks at all the universities.
00:20:07.000 But look, it's a secret search.
00:20:10.000 It's not in the public.
00:20:13.000 These things need to be in the public.
00:20:16.000 He needs to have conversations with all the students, with all the faculty, with all the donors, with everybody in Florida, so he can answer questions.
00:20:24.000 So we need to have an open process.
00:20:26.000 So, I mean, this is our flagship university.
00:20:29.000 I mean, I tell you, I was governor for eight years.
00:20:30.000 We put significant resources.
00:20:33.000 I appointed people to these boards to try to make sure we've become number one in higher education.
00:20:37.000 We did.
00:20:39.000 And I just hope this doesn't take us backwards.
00:20:42.000 I mean, there's so much here.
00:20:42.000 Let's just play.
00:20:43.000 This is Santa Ono, who could become the next president of the University of Florida.
00:20:47.000 Play cut 156.
00:20:49.000 Racism is one of America's original sins.
00:20:53.000 And the University of Michigan has not been immune from participating in racism.
00:21:00.000 We have excluded and segregated individuals because of their race or their gender, ethnicity, religious faith, or sexual orientation.
00:21:11.000 In doing so, if you think about it, we have robbed those individuals and our university and our world of their incredible talent and potential.
00:21:23.000 And then PlayCut 158, An Indigenous Strategic Plan and Climate Action, PlayCut 158.
00:21:29.000 We know that the Indigenous Strategic Plan is considered to be sort of the standard globally.
00:21:34.000 The Climate Action Plan and our leadership of UC3, the University Climate Change Coalition, is admired globally.
00:21:42.000 And our recently completed ARRI Task Force Report, Anti-Racism Inclusive Excellence, is also considered to be a standard that is emulated around the world.
00:21:53.000 So I'm really proud of what the university community has accomplished during our time together.
00:21:58.000 So Florida is becoming more and more Republican and more common sense, and this guy might become president?
00:22:04.000 And Senator, it's outrageous.
00:22:05.000 It's completely outrageous.
00:22:08.000 And so how can, without a thorough investigation, without completely understanding, maybe you could give them something that was taken out of context, but you look at that, you listen to those tapes, what could be taken out of context?
00:22:23.000 I mean, he thinks we're racist down here.
00:22:25.000 We're not.
00:22:26.000 We believe in meritocracy.
00:22:28.000 We want you to get a job at the end.
00:22:30.000 You know, so we're not buying into all this DEI stuff in Florida, but this guy clearly has.
00:22:36.000 All right, Senator, I now want to shift gears to the big, beautiful bill.
00:22:41.000 Senator Ron Johnson and Senator Rand Paul are threatening to not vote for it because they say it does not cut enough spending.
00:22:48.000 What is your take on the current status of the big, beautiful bill?
00:22:51.000 It's passed the House.
00:22:52.000 Will you be voting for it, or will you be advocating for some changes?
00:22:56.000 Well, look, I think all of them, Ron Johnson, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, all of us, we want a bill to pass.
00:23:02.000 We want a good bill.
00:23:03.000 We want to build a security border.
00:23:05.000 We want President Trump's agenda.
00:23:06.000 We want to make sure we plus up the military.
00:23:08.000 We want to make sure all the doge opportunities to reduce costs are part of this bill, and then this bill to the extent we can.
00:23:17.000 But guess what?
00:23:18.000 The Democrats have increased the budget by over 50% in the last five years.
00:23:23.000 The House bill cuts the spending by less than 2% over the next 10 years.
00:23:28.000 It doesn't balance the budget.
00:23:29.000 It isn't even close to balancing the budget.
00:23:32.000 So there's a whole bunch of us.
00:23:34.000 We are going to fight like hell to balance this budget.
00:23:38.000 I mean, you know, we've got to get rid of the Green New Deal money. 0.99
00:23:43.000 We've got to say, if you don't want to work, why do you get free health care paid by somebody else?
00:23:48.000 Why do poorer states pay for the health care of the citizens of richer states?
00:23:53.000 I mean, there's so many things that there's no common sense here.
00:23:58.000 So I think we're all going to fight to make sure we pass a bill that puts us in the process to balance the budget.
00:24:06.000 And we can balance the budget quickly.
00:24:08.000 You balance your budget.
00:24:10.000 Part of it's going to be through this reconciliation bill.
00:24:12.000 With the mandatory, part of it will be through the budget process in September through discretionary spending.
00:24:17.000 But we're going to get this done.
00:24:19.000 So, Senator, would you say without any changes at its current composition, would you vote no?
00:24:25.000 Oh, absolutely.
00:24:26.000 I'd vote no.
00:24:27.000 This bill doesn't have it.
00:24:29.000 If they brought it to the floor right now, there's not a chance it'll get the 51 votes it needs.
00:24:38.000 We all know we have to balance the budget.
00:24:41.000 Look, we know that it's getting harder to sell our treasuries.
00:24:44.000 We know interest rates are going up.
00:24:46.000 We want to get interest rates down.
00:24:48.000 We get inflation under control.
00:24:50.000 That means balance the budget.
00:24:51.000 Guess what?
00:24:52.000 I did it every year I was governor.
00:24:54.000 You know, these states supposedly balance their budgets.
00:24:56.000 No, they balance their budget by doing the same thing the federal government does.
00:24:59.000 They borrow money.
00:25:00.000 I stopped that.
00:25:01.000 I stopped the state borrowing more money every year, which I've been doing for 40 years, and I paid off a third of the state debt while I was governor.
00:25:08.000 So that's what we ought to be doing at the federal level.
00:25:10.000 That's how we'll get interest rates down.
00:25:12.000 That's how we'll get inflation down control.
00:25:13.000 The poorest families in this state, in this country, are getting hurt by this massive inflation caused by reckless government spending.
00:25:21.000 We're spending, Charlie, $2 trillion more than we take in.
00:25:26.000 And we're taking in plenty of money.
00:25:28.000 It's not like we don't have high enough taxes.
00:25:30.000 We have way higher spending than we need.
00:25:33.000 And so, Senator, that's a big statement, and we want to see it pass.
00:25:38.000 What can then be done?
00:25:40.000 Because our audience is like, wait a second, I thought it passed the House.
00:25:42.000 Are you saying that the Senate can change it, and then there's a reconciliation between the House and the Senate?
00:25:47.000 Is that correct?
00:25:48.000 Yeah.
00:25:49.000 Charlie, we'll change it.
00:25:50.000 We'll have our own bill.
00:25:51.000 And what'll happen is it'll go back through a conference, or it'll just go back to the House, and they'll pass our bill.
00:25:56.000 But I believe we're going to dramatically reduce mandatory spending to get this budget balanced in a short period of time, which is what we have to do.
00:26:05.000 It's what we promised.
00:26:06.000 I just went through my election just like President Trump did.
00:26:08.000 We all promised we were going to balance the budget.
00:26:11.000 We are going to set the process to quickly balance in this budget.
00:26:15.000 Senator, in closing here, let's talk about the great elements of the bill, because there's a lot of good stuff that I'm sure that you don't want to gut.
00:26:21.000 Energy independence, $1,000 Trump account for every new baby born.
00:26:26.000 Drill baby drill, border security, ICE agents, border patrol, tax on remittances, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, major middle class tax cut, and I'm just barely touching the surface.
00:26:37.000 We're starting to get to work requirements for Medicaid, but it needs to be even more dramatic.
00:26:41.000 We're peeling a little bit back of the Inflation Reduction Act and that nonsense of Biden, so we don't want to blow up the entire bill, and I'm sure that is your perspective, because what I just listed are phenomenal wins, and if we can get serious spending cuts, Then we have a historic accomplishment, Senator.
00:26:58.000 We will get historic spending cuts.
00:27:00.000 I believe in it.
00:27:02.000 We've had great conversations in the Republican Senate about how we can make sure.
00:27:06.000 Let's take Medicaid as an example.
00:27:08.000 Should we be spending more money for able-bodied adults that don't want to work or poor kids, which was the purpose of the original Medicaid program?
00:27:17.000 I watched my brother not get health care when I was a kid because we didn't have Medicaid back then.
00:27:23.000 But now, guess what?
00:27:24.000 The states have played the system, right, through provider taxes and other things, so they spend way more money for able-bodied adults, and these poor kids are left out in the cold just like they were before Medicaid.
00:27:37.000 So let's get it back to its purpose.
00:27:39.000 Take care of the chronically ill.
00:27:41.000 Take care of the disabled. 1.00
00:27:42.000 Take care of the poor kids that can't afford health care.
00:27:44.000 That's what we should be doing, and that's what I'm going to make sure happens with this.
00:27:48.000 Senator, in closing here, what would be, what is your block?
00:27:52.000 I mean, Lee, Paul, all you guys together.
00:27:54.000 What would it look like to have a realistic win?
00:27:57.000 Because you're not going to get everything you want.
00:27:59.000 That's politics.
00:28:00.000 What would you say is the line of which you say we are willing to compromise?
00:28:04.000 What is the 80% principle?
00:28:06.000 What does that look like in practice?
00:28:08.000 So, Charlie, part of it will be through this bill.
00:28:11.000 The reconciliation part will be the budget.
00:28:13.000 But we, it looks like, will collect $5.5 trillion in revenues this year.
00:28:18.000 So this year, we should not spend more than $6.
00:28:20.000 Senator, thank you for your time, and we'll be watching very closely.
00:28:40.000 Thank you.
00:28:40.000 See you, Charlie.
00:28:41.000 Bye-bye.
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00:29:45.000 Again, we have to praise President Trump and his administration every time we get a win.
00:29:50.000 And I've got to give this show some credit.
00:29:51.000 We had on this program Dr. Marty McCary, and we had Dr. Brett Weinstein.
00:29:57.000 Well, people were not talking about this story at all.
00:30:00.000 It was kind of just in the background and people weren't really focusing on it.
00:30:04.000 We put the slight and loving pressure on and we said, why is it that the COVID shot is still being recommended to healthy children and to pregnant women?
00:30:15.000 Now, I don't know if it's actually been removed from the vaccination schedule.
00:30:19.000 I think those are two technical different things.
00:30:21.000 I'm going to have to have somebody much smarter than me help understand, help explain to me.
00:30:26.000 But at the very least, it is no longer being recommended.
00:30:37.000 No longer for kids or for pregnant women. 0.95
00:30:39.000 Now, I don't quite know the difference between it on the vaccination schedule and an official recommendation.
00:30:46.000 Someone can explain that to me another time.
00:30:47.000 But let's play the announcement here.
00:30:48.000 Let's play cut to 28. I couldn't be more pleased to announce that as of today, Last year, the Biden administration urged healthy children to get yet another COVID shot despite the lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children.
00:31:16.000 That ends today.
00:31:17.000 I'm sorry.
00:31:18.000 I got to take a pause here.
00:31:20.000 I hate the word democracy because it's overused and people don't understand it, but it actually is an accurate term at times for the will of the people.
00:31:26.000 We are a republic, not a democracy.
00:31:28.000 Can I just have a still image of Bobby Kennedy on screen, though?
00:31:31.000 I want you to stare at that.
00:31:34.000 That right there is proof that our small-d democratic institutions still work.
00:31:40.000 The only reason why Bobby Kennedy is there is because of the will of the people.
00:31:45.000 He's not there because of a pharma lobbyist.
00:31:47.000 He's not there because of AstraZeneca or Pfizer or Moderna, Johnson& Johnson.
00:31:51.000 He's not there because of the Republican conference.
00:31:53.000 I want you to soak in that for a second.
00:31:56.000 That should give you unbelievable hope.
00:32:01.000 That should give you optimism.
00:32:03.000 That should give you satisfaction.
00:32:06.000 President Donald Trump honored his promise to him, and President Donald Trump knew the potency and the power of the Maha movement.
00:32:13.000 You want to talk about a sleeper realignment in American politics?
00:32:17.000 How Democrats have opposed the Maha realignment.
00:32:20.000 And president, of all the coalitions that we brought together, the one that is holding together the strongest is Maha.
00:32:26.000 By far.
00:32:27.000 And just so you know, this happened at the Turning Point Action event, when Bobby Kennedy endorsed President Trump.
00:32:33.000 A year ago today, Bobby Kennedy was running for the presidency as an independent.
00:32:37.000 A year and a half ago today, Bobby Kennedy was running for the presidency as a Democrat.
00:32:43.000 And now Bobby Kennedy is saying, nope, the COVID shot is no longer being recommended.
00:32:47.000 If for that reason and that reason alone, you should say, praise God that President Trump won back the White House.
00:32:53.000 And I know it's easy to get so into the weeds of complaining and doomsdaying and blackmailing.
00:33:13.000 Do you know what those three men all have in common?
00:33:16.000 All three of them, Jay Bhattacharya, Marty McCary, and Bobby Kennedy, all three were uniquely maligned and uniquely slandered during COVID.
00:33:27.000 They were uniquely censored.
00:33:29.000 They were uniquely singled out.
00:33:32.000 And now they're running our public health departments.
00:33:35.000 And they get the last laugh.
00:33:36.000 And maybe now we need to keep on investigating the efficacy of the COVID shot.
00:33:40.000 Maybe get that jab off the market altogether. 0.88
00:33:43.000 I'll let other people make that case.
00:33:45.000 This was our ask, and we got it.
00:33:47.000 No longer being recommended for healthy kids.
00:33:49.000 Praise the Lord.
00:33:50.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:33:51.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:33:54.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.