00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk Show, we have Tudor Dixon, who's going to be the next governor of Michigan, Alfredo Ortiz, to talk about inflation and more.
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00:02:11.000And she tried to tell people schools were only closed for three months.
00:02:14.000I think it's just made people even more angry that she won't admit to what she's done to our state.
00:02:19.000Yeah, and I mean, she's, I mean, Whitmer has, more than almost any other governor in America, been so arrogant and been such a leading voice of this lockdown travesty.
00:02:55.000Well, if we saw other states like Florida that said we are going to have schools in person, that that's critical.
00:03:00.000And that's what we should have done in the state of Michigan.
00:03:02.000I was wondering if you could clarify what content you would want removed from public school curricula and how that would impact sex education.
00:03:08.000If you've been talking to parents, they are concerned about the content that is pornographic in our schools.
00:03:15.000Tudor, you're handling them like a masterclass.
00:03:17.000Does Whitmer take questions like that?
00:03:37.000I think arrogance, your term arrogance is probably the best way to describe the way she acted in the debate.
00:03:44.000And people are looking for someone who's going to understand, who's going to empathize with what they went through and going to try to bring the state back.
00:03:51.000And she has had plenty of opportunities to do so.
00:03:53.000She's had opportunities to put money back into the pockets of people.
00:03:56.000She's had opportunities to pass a reading scholarships bill to get the kids back on track.
00:04:01.000Charlie, our schools are in such bad shape right now that the recent NAPE scores just showed that Michigan is in the bottom 10 in the nation.
00:04:08.000For fourth and eighth graders, reading and math, we are failing our kids.
00:04:13.000But our spring scores came back for reading scores for third graders.
00:04:17.000And 60%, nearly 60% of our third graders across the state failed their reading exams.
00:04:25.000And she's not saying she's going to do anything about it.
00:04:28.000Then I don't know if you saw this, but last night Stephen Colbert is making fun of the fact that we're talking about books in schools that are pornographic and saying that this is never, this is not really happening.
00:04:39.000I would love for the leftist media to continue to make a mockery out of parents' concerns in the classroom and say that this is no big deal because we have people rising up across the state of Michigan and saying our kids can't read, but they're getting books on how to have sex.
00:04:54.000Let's go back to the basics of teaching kids reading, writing, and math.
00:04:58.000And this is not a radical discussion to go back to the basics and actually teach kids to read.
00:05:03.000In fact, Charlie, if our kids knew how to read, we would have a much better state overall because our kids would be succeeding in life, but we're robbing them of an education and the Democrats laugh.
00:05:24.000I mean, but I don't know if he has children or not.
00:05:26.000I don't know about his own personal biography, but there are multiple examples of pornography of gay people having sex for eight-year-olds that have to read this.
00:05:38.000I mean, just so, and graphic, not just talked about, but images of it, one after the other, after the other, after the other.
00:05:45.000And I mean, you have this one book, for example, Gender Queer, where if we showed this up on screen, we would get fined by our TV partners, just so we're clear.
00:05:54.000And it shows two men having oral sex together.
00:05:56.000Maybe Stephen Colbert should talk about that.
00:05:59.000Or how about this one from Christopher Rufo, which is, which really sparked the protests in Dearborn, Michigan, which is, quote, this is for eight and nine year olds.
00:06:39.000And that's what set off the parents in Dearborn, Michigan.
00:06:42.000So Dearborn, Michigan has historically been a heavily Democrat area that has a strong Muslim population.
00:06:50.000And I had one of the gentlemen from the Dearborn community come to one of our events the other night.
00:06:56.000And he said, he stopped me and he said, we found this stuff in our schools and I was so upset about my children.
00:07:01.000He said, to be honest with you, no matter what happens, whether it's inflation or whatever is on the ballot, at the end of the day, the most important thing is always going to be my children to me.
00:07:11.000He says, so I went to our Democrat elected officials.
00:07:14.000And the reason he went to the elected officials is because he was actually running for office as a Democrat.
00:07:21.000He said, I went to them and I said, you got to help me with this stuff in our schools.
00:07:32.000He said, I will support the Republicans and I will get as many people in our community as possible to support the Republicans because my kids come first.
00:07:41.000And I think that's the part that they are taking for granted is that for parents, your kids are always going to come first.
00:07:47.000That's going to be your major concern.
00:08:02.000I think that, look, obviously, I have religious differences personally with Muslims, but if they're going to fight side by side with us against pornography in our schools, I mean, let's go.
00:08:45.000If you go to tutordixon.com, if you have $10, $20, please donate to tutordixon.com because we don't want Gretchen Whitmer to go to higher office.
00:08:54.000We don't want them to continue to laugh about parents' issues.
00:08:58.000And I think it's interesting that you bring up the issue with the Muslim community because I, as governor, I would be here to represent everyone.
00:09:05.000And their small businesses have been shut down.
00:09:08.000Their kids have been getting pornographic information in school.
00:09:11.000We are here to represent them and make sure that we take care of parents and business owners and farmers, whoever it is.
00:09:19.000They should be able to achieve the American dream in the state of Michigan and educate their children.
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00:11:37.000Anyway, I want to get to the story here.
00:11:39.000Of course, the media won't cover this very much.
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00:12:52.000Recent documents reveal that if the NIH top administration officials traded stocks to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, what experts are saying is the timing here was exquisite, especially in regard to top administration officials like Elaine Chow and her husband, Mitch McConnell, who traded some $600,000 in stocks that they knew companies in the United States would be benefiting from because of the billions that would be invested to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:13:20.000Oh, no, but instead we get Department of Justice raids on Donald Trump's home and we get raids of pro-life activists that pray outside of abortion clinics.
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00:17:40.000So last week, from what I understand, is you placed a new billboard blasting Biden over his comment when he said the economy is strong as hell.
00:17:47.000Tell us about that billboard and why is that comment so misleading?
00:17:53.000I mean, he said the economy is strong as hell.
00:17:55.000And you and I both know, I mean, Charlie, I mean, you're at the grocery stores, you're out talking to people day in and day out like we are.
00:18:24.000I mean, our small business owners, restaurateurs, for example, they are dying.
00:18:29.000I mean, many of these are barely breaking even, or most of them are losing money.
00:18:33.000I mean, I talked to a small business owner this morning, and she said her box of lettuce, and she owns a sub-shop, went from $20 a box to $90 a box in the past two weeks.
00:18:46.000I mean, these kinds of increases are killing our small business owners, and really it's killing the American Americans across the country.
00:18:54.000And wait till the heating oil really, really takes ground in the fourth quarter as the temperatures rise.
00:20:02.000I mean, we are definitely in the middle of a recession.
00:20:05.000Quite frankly, I think we're in the middle of stagflation.
00:20:08.000And I know that Biden didn't want to use that word recession, so I keep throwing the word stagflation at him because that's where we're in.
00:20:14.000And as we see interest rates today, for the first time in over 20 years, mortgage rates hit above 7%, Charlie.
00:20:21.000I mean, this is really, really hurting consumers.
00:20:24.000And by the way, the consumer spending that we are seeing right now, it's on credit card debt.
00:21:23.000It's well above 11% is what I'm thinking.
00:21:27.000I mean, when you see the rates that are happening day in and day out across the board, I mean, you go to your grocery store, Charlie, I'm sure you're seeing this.
00:21:36.000I mean, the other day, I walked out with two, I'm not kidding, two small bags, and it was $75.
00:21:42.000And I wasn't buying, you know, anything that was, you know, branded products.
00:21:47.000I mean, these are all private label products.
00:23:48.000It is a global phenomenon, but mostly it started with the fateful decision that Biden did on the first day of his administration, which is declaring the war on domestic fossil production.
00:24:10.000And Putin went forward with his attack on the Ukraine because he knew that he had the upper hand on the rest of Europe because of what Biden did.
00:24:57.000It's called negative 3% real wage decrease.
00:25:01.000I mean, this guy, I mean, the way they love gaslighting the American public, they should be ashamed of themselves.
00:25:07.000I mean, the only thing that they should be winning is awards for fiction because it is the best fiction writing that I've ever seen, Charlie.
00:27:48.000He would always wear the same suit and tie.
00:27:51.000I always, one of my favorite things ever that I saw, I went to the Iowa State Fair very early on in the summer of 2015 after Trump announces, and it's like 102 degrees outside, and it's the Iowa.
00:28:01.000And Donald Trump comes and he's giving kids helicopter rides in his helicopter.
00:28:06.000And it's blistering hot, and all the other candidates, you know, Marco and John Kasich, they're doing like the politician thing where they roll up their sleeves and they pretend that they're one of the people and they're wearing like the untucked farmer shirt with the jeans and the whole thing.
00:28:22.000And Donald Trump is wearing an all-black suit with a red tie.
00:28:29.000In the middle of Iowa, he looks like he's ready to close a real estate deal.
00:28:34.000And so I do want to close on one thing.
00:28:36.000So that was Reverend Al Sharpton's event, I believe.
00:28:37.000I think that looks like the logo of the National Action Network, which is Al Sharpton Steel.
00:28:42.000And it does remind me of Raphael Warnock.
00:28:44.000And I have not spent enough time on Raphael Warnock.
00:28:47.000And so if you read the Ten Commandments, one of the Ten Commandments is, Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain.
00:28:54.000But if you go back to the original Hebrew, it actually says, Thou shalt not carry the Lord's name in vain.
00:29:00.000Otherwise, said you should not do evil in the name of the Lord.
00:29:04.000You should not say that this is the Lord's wish or the Lord's doing.
00:29:08.000For example, performing abortions in the name of the Lord, things like that.
00:29:13.000Raphael Warnock is a daily violator of thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain.
00:29:20.000He runs as a reverend, yet every policy position that he espouses and that he articulates is directly contradictory to that of the natural law and God's wishes for us to flourish and to preserve those that can't preserve the good, the true, the beautiful, and protect those that can't protect themselves.
00:29:37.000Raphael Warnock is carrying, if you will, the name of the Lord to try and say that, well, it's God's wish that we should be able to terminate pregnancy all up until the time of birth.
00:29:47.000And Herschel Walker is under a relentless character assassination attack.
00:29:51.000And we got to continue to have Herschel Walker's back.
00:29:54.000We got to continue to back him against Reverend Raphael Warnock, who claims to be a pastor and yet supports the most insidious and toxic policies imaginable in the American body politic.
00:30:09.000And this is happening right now unfolding in Georgia.