00:00:21.000If you want to support our show, go to charliekirk.com/slash/support.
00:00:24.000If you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, go to tpusa.com, where we play offense with a sense of urgency to win the American culture war.
00:00:32.000You can start a high school or college chapter today at tpusa.com, tpusa.com, at turning pointusa.
00:00:38.000You guys are able to get engaged and get involved with what we are doing on the front lines to win the American culture war.
00:01:17.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:47.000Satire, in many different ways, is how we're able to interpret otherwise confusing events.
00:01:56.000It's the use of humor or irony or some form of exaggeration to expose or criticize people's stupidity, their ignorance.
00:02:06.000Satire best done is when it's right on the edge.
00:02:10.000You're unable to decipher the news of the day from satire.
00:02:14.000Now, there's a great website that does this, Babylon B. They've been getting a lot of notoriety lately, well-deserved.
00:02:20.000My friend Seth Dylan runs Babylon B and does a phenomenal job.
00:02:23.000I mean, some of the headlines from Babylon B speak for themselves, such as nation wishes we had our own oil we could dig up with big machines, then could transport it around with some kind of pipeline.
00:02:35.000Or this one, Biden says gas prices are not his fault unless they go back down again.
00:02:39.000It's so close to the truth, you almost have to do a second glance.
00:02:45.000Is that satire or is that news of the day?
00:02:50.000One of these stories that I saw this morning before I looked at the source, I couldn't tell if it was satire or whether it was actually a position of our government to try to solve a looming nuclear holocaust that could be happening right now in Europe.
00:03:07.000Regardless of your opinion, what's happening in Russia and Ukraine, this is a 9-11-style moment in the sense that it's going to completely reconfigure the geopolitics in Europe for a generation.
00:03:17.000And when I saw this story, I said, This has to be satire.
00:03:21.000There is no way that our government would actually do this.
00:03:27.000And that is, of course, and this should put all of your minds at ease, everybody.
00:03:31.000This should give you a peace of mind that while there might be nuclear war looming, don't worry, we are sending our brightest.
00:03:39.000We are sending our best to go negotiate and solve the looming border crisis.
00:03:47.000The Biden regime is sending Kamala Harris.
00:03:51.000Kamala Harris steps into the middle of NATO standoff, is what Politico says.
00:03:56.000Now, of course, after Kamala Harris was appointed the border czar and 2 million people illegally came into our country last year, where Yuma, Arizona saw 50 border crossings a day, increased to 1,000 border crossings a day.
00:04:08.000Kamala Harris, who was also in charge of stopping Jim Crow in the American South, whatever that means in today's America, she has now been appointed.
00:04:16.000Hey, Kamala Harris, can you make sure we don't get into nuclear armed conflict with Russia?
00:04:22.000Kamala Harris is now scheduled to go to Poland and Romania.
00:04:30.000CNN says, is this finally Kamala Harris's moment?
00:04:33.000It says, quote, it's been a rough first year for Vice President Kamala Harris, beset by staff departures and lingering questions about how good a fit she is for the job.
00:04:41.000Harris, I mean, let me just say, the reason why Harris is not good at her job is because she was picked not because of her IQ or because of her qualifications.
00:04:50.000In some ways, you should feel sorry for Kamala Harris.
00:04:54.000She was picked simply because she's a woman of color.
00:04:59.000Kamala Harris is an affirmative action pick as Vice President of the United States.
00:05:04.000She was picked not because anything she did or anything she's accomplished or any sort of fabulous insights that she has, her ability to process information or work late at night.
00:05:14.000Kamala Harris was picked because she was a woman of color.
00:05:17.000Biden said he was going to pick a woman of color, and she is affirmative action in real time.
00:05:23.000Dare I say, Kamala Harris being Vice President of the United States, is the CRT regime now orchestrating our foreign policy.
00:05:33.000So now nuclear conflicts are going to be determined based on vice presidents that were chosen based on immutable characteristics such as gender and sex, not based on whether or not they'll actually do a good job negotiating a stasis or peace.
00:05:50.000Sending Kamala Harris to Poland is living, breathing proof that the Biden regime knows how you feel and they simply do not care.
00:06:02.000You would only send Kamala Harris somewhere when you want that thing to be sabotaged, obliterated, or to accelerate a planned demolition, like what she did with the border.
00:07:03.000That right there, her, the affirmative action pick, CRT gone wrong.
00:07:08.000She's now going to determine the future of NATO, of our alliances in Eastern Europe.
00:07:14.000You would think that you would pick somebody that has some sort of experience with diplomacy and with the ability to be in pressure situations.
00:07:21.000What has Kamala Harris done exactly in her life that has warranted the ability to go negotiate what could be called as one of the most significant geopolitical events in Europe post-World War II?
00:08:10.000I'm broadcasting live right now from a grocery store in Naples, Florida.
00:08:14.000I could pick any one of these people that are plumbers, electricians, retired police officers, veterans, and any one of them, I would say, would do a better job representing American values and interests than Kamala Harris because they wouldn't pretend like they knew what they were doing if they didn't know it.
00:08:29.000And that's one of the fatal flaws in the affirmative action pick that is Kamala Harris.
00:08:34.000Her entire thing is a massive coping exercise.
00:08:36.000It's a compensation circus where she's saying, I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm going to pretend like I do.
00:08:42.000I'm not going to ask for help, and then I'm going to allow things to unravel in front of me.
00:08:49.000And it really is a mockery of our precious republic.
00:08:54.000Our country deserves so much better than Kamala Harris representing America.
00:09:00.000What do you think that sends to the people of Poland or Romania?
00:09:19.000Do they think that her approach to complicated situations and issues is going to be one that will actually de-escalate the situation?
00:09:27.000No, Kamala Harris is very similar to Hillary Clinton.
00:09:30.000She's only there because of either who you married or how you climbed the political ladder.
00:09:37.000Kamala Harris made some very, let's say, questionable moral decisions to climb the political ladder in California.
00:09:43.000You just look up her relationship with Willie Brown.
00:09:46.000She wasn't chosen as vice president because of her brilliance.
00:09:49.000She was chosen because of her skin color.
00:09:51.000And that right there is a real world possible nuclear war complication of why affirmative action and the nonsense of CRT could actually make the world a more dangerous place and humanity as we know it change forever.
00:10:08.000Rockauto.com is a family auto parts business company founded by automotive engineers over 20 years ago.
00:10:15.000Give customers direct access to all the information hidden behind the traditional parts store counter and make auto parts affordable so cars of all ages can be kept reliable and fun to drive.
00:10:25.000Today, rockauto.com ships thousands of parts from hundreds of manufacturers to millions of customers all over the world.
00:10:30.000Rockauto.com's online catalog keeps expanding, but remains remarkably easy and fun to use.
00:10:35.000Their prices are always reliably low, and same for professionals and do-it-yourselfers.
00:10:40.000If you need to replace just about any part that wore out, got smashed, or fell off, rockauto.com is the place to go.
00:10:45.000Get the correct parts to maintain your car or truck at rockauto.com.
00:10:49.000When you check out, write Kirk in their How Do You Hear About Us box so they know we sent you.
00:11:06.000This whole administration is not taken seriously.
00:11:08.000You know, I'm no fan of, you know, Middle East, Islamic theocratic dictatorships.
00:11:12.000We're pretty consistent about that in more ways than one.
00:11:16.000I think the West's pandering to the Middle East has been a big mistake.
00:11:19.000However, when you can't get a country that is far poorer than you and smaller than you and is basically still stuck in the 1300s with oil to even return your phone call, how do you expect to exactly negotiate anything in Europe?
00:11:34.000I'm, of course, talking about the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia that won't even return Biden's phone call.
00:12:29.000Why would the UAE and Saudi Arabia not call back Joe Biden?
00:12:34.000Because Joe Biden right now has his surrogates in Vienna, Austria, negotiating a new Iran deal.
00:12:41.000And Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are Sunni, largely Sunni.
00:12:47.000The Iranians are Shia, largely Shia Muslim, and they hate each other.
00:12:51.000The Saudis and the Iranians and the Emiratis and the Iranians do not get along at all.
00:12:57.000So Joe Biden, because he doesn't understand how geopolitics works, he doesn't understand how one piece of action can affect another.
00:13:05.000He has no real understanding of the complexities or the nuance of how in these international relationships, negotiating the Iran deal and pandering to Iran might also affect gas prices because you're going to isolate Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
00:13:22.000All the while, he has a Trump card that he refuses to use, which is to pump more American oil.
00:13:27.000And of course, Joe Biden ran on foreign policy experience, but he can't put two and two together, wondering why on earth is the UAE and Saudi Arabia not calling you back.
00:13:38.000It's because of one thing: it's the JCPOA that is currently being negotiated in Vienna, Austria.
00:13:46.000It's very simple, but it's not simple for the foreign policy experts that continually try to pander to the Shia mullahs in Iran, in Iran.
00:13:55.000Of course, Robert Gates famously said that Joe Biden has been on the wrong side of every public policy, foreign policy decision over the last four decades.
00:14:02.000If there is a bad decision, Joe Biden was on the wrong side of it.
00:14:05.000Dictator displacement in Libya, the Iraq war invasion, the mishandling of so many military decisions in Afghanistan.
00:14:13.000If there was a mistake, Joe Biden was usually behind it, largely because he's captured by ideology.
00:14:18.000And Joe Biden and his family always sell out to the highest bidder, whether it be the Chinese or yes, even Ukrainian barisma.
00:14:25.000So Kamala Harris is on her way to Europe.
00:14:28.000And I just want to emphasize this: which we really don't have the time to make this argument as effectively as I would like to, but it's pretty simple, which is we're a great country.
00:14:39.000We have phenomenal people in America, awesome entrepreneurs, terrific creativity.
00:14:49.000However, how we, as the amazing American people, and I say all of us, I'm not saying that I'm amazing, but the American people are amazing.
00:14:58.000How we get represented by this fool, and there really is no other way to put it, as Kamala Harris is going to confuse and confound historians for generations to come.
00:15:09.000Honest historians in the year 2075 will study this sort of shot heard around the world, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and they'll think to themselves: who was actually in charge that was supposed to de-escalate this?
00:15:21.000Now, as we mentioned before, 1900s when Russia and Japan were going at each other and slaughtering each other, the leader of Teddy Roosevelt came in, solved it over lunch, and won a Nobel Peace Prize.
00:15:32.000Even John F. Kennedy, despite his lack of experience, was able to deter nuclear conflict, of course, with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
00:16:03.000For 50 years, American Home Shield has protected household budgets from the unexpected, like a dryer that won't dry or an AC that's lost its cool.
00:16:10.000In fact, they help cover the cost to repair or replace over 20 home systems and appliances when they wear out, no matter how old they are.
00:16:17.000Service fees, limitations, and exclusions apply.
00:16:20.000If American Home Shield can't repair or covered item, they'll replace it.
00:16:24.000Service fees, limitations, and exclusions apply.
00:17:11.000Okay, so I'm going to just touch a little bit more on this Kamala Harris situation and then we'll move on.
00:17:17.000But in a country that is so wealthy, so sophisticated, with so much talent, to send someone like Kamala Harris to represent us, I mean, that's how shallow the bench is of our government.
00:17:47.000Well, you look, and I'm just talking about female leaders here, let alone the male leaders that we're sending abroad, like Tony Blinken and Pete Buttigieg, who just physically embody weakness and a tepid nature, not strength or clarity or precision.
00:18:04.000And it really kind of goes to show you have someone like Maggie Thatcher, who was an honorable, strong, and courageous woman who led the United Kingdom in tandem with Ronald Reagan and did such a phenomenal job protecting Western values and Western civilization, to very quickly, almost like in two generations, someone like Kamala Harris, who not just is unqualified, but she's distinctly should be disqualified from doing this type of work.
00:18:34.000From the Iron Lady to the cackling clown.
00:18:38.000It's the position that the West is in.
00:18:42.000So Joe Biden is kind of fighting with himself when it comes to energy.
00:18:49.000I think more so than almost any other program, we have gone into the basics of why energy matters, about how easy it is to take energy for granted, that if you do not have access to cheap and reliable energy, then your civilization will start to crumble.
00:19:04.000And we're flirting with that sort of disaster largely because of the green energy environmentalists that have captured our entire government.
00:19:11.000I want to listen to this tape right here: Cut 72.
00:19:14.000The president of the American Petroleum Institute, API, who is slandered and is attacked from every direction by the green energy groups, who are very quiet right now, if you notice.
00:19:25.000They kind of put them aside the same way that they put the BLM groups aside when the mandatory vaccination campaign went forward.
00:19:33.000Well, I want to go through this clip here, which is Cut 72.
00:19:38.000The American Petroleum Institute, API president and CEO Mike Summers, noted that Saki's claims represent, quote, a fundamental misunderstanding as how the process works.
00:19:46.000In fact, it actually might be helpful.
00:19:48.000The first play cut 71, and then I'll talk a little about that, and then we'll play cut 72.
00:19:55.000That accusation is a complete red herring, and it's really a distraction from the fact that this administration has paused leasing on federal lands, something that we're concerned about and something that we think needs to continue right away.
00:20:08.000The fact is that industry is producing at a higher level on existing leases on federal lands than in the last 20 years.
00:20:16.000And these leases take many years to explore, to develop, and to produce on.
00:20:23.000The American Petroleum Institute president and CEO Mike Summers noted that Saki represents a fundamental misunderstanding, play cut 72.
00:20:30.000This represents a fundamental misunderstanding as to how this process works.
00:20:34.000Once you lease land, there is a whole process that you have to go through.
00:20:38.000First, you have to actually discover whether actually there is oil and gas in that land.
00:20:43.000Second of all, you have to get a permit to actually develop that land.
00:20:46.000Right now, we actually are developing more leases than we have in two decades.
00:20:50.000So the White House certainly doesn't have their facts straight on this.
00:20:54.000What they should be focused on is how do we develop more of our resources here in the United States rather than depending on foreign countries for American oil and natural gas.
00:21:14.000He doesn't want an American bailout because he knows that he will be attacked from the very people that implemented him into office, the green energy type groups, the green energy czar groups.
00:21:24.000But instead, Joe Biden would be happy to cut a deal with the Iranians or the Saudi Arabians.
00:21:29.000He wants Saudi Arabia to go dump like 500 million barrels of oil, which would bring down the price of oil temporarily.
00:21:36.000A lot of the oil markets are speculative based on supply and demand.
00:21:39.000It's not overly complicated economics.
00:21:42.000But Joe Biden really, and this goes to show why the left is so bad at governing.
00:21:48.000And so this is a question that I want to kind of, you know, ruminate over for a second or two, which is why is it that not only are the left's ideas bad, but when they're actually put in office, they're not able to do rational or prudent things that are, let's say, that are helpful and beneficial to the country.
00:22:09.000It's because they will always prioritize an abstract academic theory over things that are good in reality.
00:22:18.000And that sort of preference to the academic theory, the sort of elevation to the abstract, is precisely what they teach you in college.
00:22:28.000They teach you to ignore biological reality, to reject the laws of physics or mathematics, and instead try to go into unfounded theories that might feel good or might go towards some sort of utopian vision, which, by the way, utopia actually means nowhere.
00:22:45.000Thomas More was the original author that came up with the term utopia.
00:22:57.000They almost reject, you can go all the way back to the ancients of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, where Plato spent a lot of time in the clouds, spent a lot of times in things you can see, a lot of time in things you can't see.
00:23:10.000If you remember Raphael's famous painting where it's the school of Athens, you have Copernicus on the floor mapping the heliocentric theory of the earth, but the center of the painting, for a good reason, is Plato and Aristotle.
00:23:37.000But Aristotle has his hand off to the side for these on radio.
00:23:39.000I'll describe it, kind of motioning to the ground.
00:23:42.000And this is a great contrast because Plato is thinking about things that are abstract, things you can't see.
00:23:47.000And I'm not saying those things are wrong, by the way.
00:23:50.000I think things you can't see are important to contemplate and study over.
00:23:53.000But it's really hard to govern a society, especially in a time of crisis, based on things you can't see, can't measure, or can't quantify.
00:24:01.000This is where we must channel our inner Aristotelian political theory where you say, wait a second, okay, I get all this kind of push towards green energy dominance.
00:24:10.000I understand the urge or the sensation to want to get rid of fossil fuels.
00:24:18.000It can get people to walk in the streets.
00:24:19.000But Putin's invading countries, and it now costs $145 to fill up a tank of gas in Beverly Hills if you drive an SUV.
00:24:26.000So what are we going to do to actually help things improve today and not just live in the clouds, but instead understand the implications on the ground?
00:24:34.000And that sort of tension is something that unfortunately we don't see play out very much anymore in our school system.
00:24:42.000The premise must be the rejection of things that came before you.
00:24:46.000Now, we as conservatives, one of the things we want to conserve, of course, is the natural law, the laws of nature and nature's God, as it says beautifully in the Declaration of Independence.
00:24:54.000However, the current regime rejects anything that came prior.
00:24:58.000Those sort of laws of nature and nature's God, fuel, oil, and natural gas, LNG, energy dominance.
00:25:04.000They want to dismiss all of that, wipe the slate clean, and then go forward to an unspecified, non-determined target because there is this quasi-pathological feeling within them that they can feel themselves towards a better future.
00:25:19.000That sort of urge, that inclination towards the unknown, the stumbling towards the unspecified utopia is one of the most dangerous, god-like impulses that has killed more people than any other idea in the last 100 years.
00:25:34.000Stalin, Lenin, Mussolini, Mao Seitong all had the same sort of totalitarian impulses that all we need to do is kill another 10 million, 20 million, 30 million people, and things will get better.
00:25:44.000Stalin justified mass starvation of Ukrainians, by the way, because of this.
00:25:49.000He said, we just have to wipe out these dissident Ukrainians.
00:25:52.00010 million Ukrainians died through intentional starvation or famine or straight out genocide because of Joseph Stalin's policies in the 1930s or 40s.
00:26:02.000And this is really the tension that we're seeing today.
00:26:04.000And this is exactly why the Democrats are going to get obliterated in the upcoming midterms, is because most people are sick and tired of hearing about abstract academic theories that can't be specified, things that don't make any sense.
00:26:15.000Instead, they say, I want common sense.
00:26:17.000That framed common sense, you know what it really means?
00:27:03.000I'm always traveling, boarding planes, taxis, Ubers, trekking into hotels, or being screamed at by angry leftists.
00:27:09.000It's really hard to go to the farmer's market to get greens, beets, pineapples, oranges, and kiwis.
00:27:13.000However, if you aren't getting a lot of daily fruits and vegetables, I can tell you balance of nature is the thing for you.
00:27:19.000Get your immune system up and running by taking Balance of Nature's 10 servings of fruits and veggies, all in six tiny capsules.
00:27:25.000For a limited time, all new preferred customers will receive an additional 35% discount and free shipping on your first Balance of Nature order.
00:28:40.000They're going to be thankful that when they buy gas that they can't afford, it's going to hold Putin in check.
00:28:47.000Even though the higher price of oil helps Putin's regime play cut 63.
00:28:53.000But as you mentioned, people we've spoken to over the last couple weeks, they're okay paying higher prices if it means holding Russia accountable for what they are doing in Ukraine.
00:29:04.000But these prices are likely going to creep higher, Kate.
00:29:06.000We'll see how they feel in the next week or so, Kate.
00:29:09.000And the big question, the big unknown is: do any of these moves change Putin's behavior?
00:29:14.000Change the way he no, it does the opposite.
00:29:17.000The higher the price, the more Putin wants to invade because then he gets to sell his oil reserves for more money.
00:30:01.000I mean, come on, just go buy an electric car.
00:30:03.000He makes $16 million a year, not including endorsements.
00:30:06.000I mean, come on, like, you don't have people, you don't have serfs that work for you, that like make you meals and drive you places.
00:30:13.000So this is an interesting new kind of political strategy, which is that people are going to be so happy to go into debt to go fund some sort of adventurous moral conflict 5,000 miles away.
00:30:25.000Please continue to do this, Democrats.
00:30:27.000This is the opposite of the concentric circles.
00:30:29.000Now, if you live in DC, I could totally see this.
00:30:33.000Meaning, if all you do is you're around people that care more about the needs, wants, interests, and concerns of things that are happening far away more than your actual fellow countrymen, if you care more about the well-being of Zelensky than the plumbers in Marshallton, Iowa, if you care more about the corrupt Zelensky Azov battalion and the well-being of some sort of Ukrainian unit you've never heard of, more so than the oil workers in West Texas, then yeah, of course, absolutely.
00:31:00.000But, I mean, we could say it's out of touch, which it is, but it's also incredibly, it take the lack of maturity and the lack of learning that these people have done in the last five years.
00:31:12.000I mean, that's the same sort of arrogance that got Donald Trump elected in 2016.
00:31:16.000I guess my message is just continue it.
00:31:18.000That somehow people are going to be cheering when they fill up their gas tank, go, you know what, this is great because this is sticking it to Putin.
00:31:35.000Is that their read of the regular American population?
00:31:38.000That American families have to go into debt to go try to enact some sort of unclear regime change war of a massive power against a smaller power.
00:31:46.000And that, of course, is misreading the electorate and it's not learning where the country is.
00:31:56.000But I could tell you that being around the muscular class here at this wonderful grocery store, see the table in Naples, Florida, and talking to them, normal everyday people, not people that have private jets and mansions with guards around them.
00:32:10.000They're not talking about Russia-Ukraine.