00:00:50.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:57.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:05:42.000So let's not celebrate too much, everybody.
00:05:44.000It is not victory yet, but the most promising thing that Mike Johnson has put forward is the following: He said, We are no longer going to do CRs.
00:05:53.000We're going to do individual spending bills.
00:05:55.000That alone is a massive, major, and significant accomplishment that will make the Senate get out of their octogenarian country club, wake up those worthless old bulls in both parties that are getting massages and start working around 2:30 p.m. and they suspend all work around 4 p.m.
00:06:32.000And look, let's just make sure we're all clear.
00:06:34.000Mike Johnson has bad grades from the Republican Accountability Pact and all that.
00:06:38.000Mike Johnson will, of course, let us down on some things because it's Washington, D.C.
00:06:43.000The question is: will he fight more than he surrenders?
00:06:46.000And we're going to have a fair amount of understanding that he has a slim majority.
00:06:50.000He doesn't control every portion of the House, I mean, every portion of the next Congress.
00:06:56.000But honestly, if Mike Johnson is going to just get us individual spending bills, that is a major and a significant and a material accomplishment.
00:07:04.000So I don't want you to get your hopes up too high if he ends up being Speaker.
00:07:22.000He also fits the mold of something that I care deeply about, that I happen to know a lot about.
00:07:28.000I think he will be able to travel the country, raise capital, recruit good candidates to try to make us competitive so that we don't lose the House in 2025, 2024 election, 2025 cycle.
00:07:41.000And right now, we're probably going to lose the House.
00:07:42.000And the Democrat, Hakeem Jeffries, is like a 95% chance of becoming Speaker of the House.
00:08:58.000Do you really want to become Speaker of the House?
00:09:01.000And if Mike Johnson is just very clear and sets the standard, he should just say, look, I'm going to disappoint some people and I'm going to surprise some people.
00:11:35.000But understand, too, that Democrats take donating small dollars, $20, $30, $50, almost as a church tithe.
00:11:46.000The same way that people will give $30 a month their local church or $10 a month to Turning Point USA that a 32-year-old single wine lady who's a partner at a law firm who's super Democrat, she'll give $100 a month to ActBlue and split it between John Fetterman and Raphael Warnock.
00:12:12.000And Act Blue has done an amazing job of aggregating all this.
00:12:15.000And I'll just reiterate, it is ridiculously suspicious the volume of quote-unquote small dollar donations that flow through Act Blue.
00:12:23.000But even the suspicion aside, it is understandable that Democrats are better at raising small dollar donations because their base doesn't ask questions.
00:12:38.000And if you talk to some consultants, of which not every consultant is bad, most of them are trash.
00:12:43.000But some consultants I've been talking to the last six months and they say they've never seen an evaporation like the last six months when it comes to small dollar fundraising for the NRSC.
00:12:57.000Obviously, RNC shouldn't get any money.
00:12:59.000Do not give money to the RNC or to the NRCC, which was the McCarthy leadership pack.
00:13:08.000So the one wrinkle of positivity is that Mike Johnson becoming Speaker, you will be able to see some surge of small dollar support.
00:13:18.000I don't know how durable that will be.
00:13:20.000I don't know how reliable that will be, but that will now be a new revenue source because shows like ours will support him.
00:13:29.000Now, understand, you know, if and when Mike Johnson disappoints us, which will happen because it's Washington, D.C.
00:13:36.000So hopefully we take the disappointments in stride with prudence, weigh the positives and the negatives, and understand that with a four-seat majority, there's only so much you can do, and you have to cut a deal.
00:13:48.000But we want to make sure that we are clear about red lines.
00:13:51.000And if I was to give Mike Johnson advice, I'm going to try to find his phone number.
00:13:56.000I'm going to text him this after we come speaker.
00:13:57.000I'll say, congratulations, Mr. Speaker.
00:13:59.000If he ends up becoming speaker, which it looks like it will, here's my advice to you.
00:14:03.000You need to set the expectation in your opening press conference so clearly and tell people that you're not going to love everything that comes out of here.
00:14:20.000Tell the base, tell the audience, tell the people that are wary of double speak, talking out of both sides of their mouth politicians, that we are going to, for the CR coming up, we're going to do 12 different bills.
00:14:38.000If it means we have to work over Christmas, so be it.
00:14:41.000The Republic matters more than getting out of Dodge on December 21st so you can go home and have a really nice Christmas break while the country still borrows $2 trillion.
00:14:51.000You need to set that standard now, Mike Johnson.
00:14:55.000And say, look, we're going to have some things that we're not going to fight on.
00:14:59.000And he can say this in his opening salvo as speaker, say, I'm willing to work with Democrats on Israel funding, for example, on Ukraine funding.
00:15:07.000We're going to have to have a real big, robust discussion.
00:15:10.000On the border, this is a non-negotiable for our conference, and we're going to use every single member as leverage to secure the border.
00:15:16.000Weaponization of DOJ, but it'll say, look, the bad guys are going to fearmonger.
00:15:21.000Like, we don't want to fund Social Security and fund all this.
00:15:25.000He says, this is why we're going to do 12 different bills so that the necessary stuff is not held hostage around the controversial stuff.
00:15:32.000And it really comes down to one thing.
00:15:34.000As Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson needs to tell even the Democrats, hey, guys, you're going to be working weekends.
00:15:40.000We're not going back to your districts.
00:15:42.000This is basically going to be 90 days of work.
00:15:44.000We're going to work the Congress harder than ever before.
00:15:47.000And if he ends up getting elected as speaker, which I certainly hope he does in the next couple of minutes, we're going to be watching it live.
00:15:54.000He basically does tell people the greatest statement he could give is: guys, we're working this weekend.
00:16:01.000Because I guarantee you, these rhino Republicans and these transactional Uniparty Democrats and the Radical Socialists have plans this weekend.
00:16:19.000We're working up to the continuing resolution.
00:16:21.000The American people gave us a mandate to govern, not just to go to cocktail parties and soires, but to actually cut spending and reform the country.
00:16:30.000Mr. Johnson, my advice to you is set the expectation early.
00:16:37.000Balance of Nature, changing the world one life at a time.
00:20:44.000And if they want to continue to request the funding, for example, for a billion-dollar new headquarters, they have to show us they can respect the constitutional rights of the people they are supposed to serve and protect.
00:20:56.000Speaker Johnson, or soon to be Speaker Johnson, let me give you some more advice.
00:21:00.000If you want to get some early wins with the base, with us, to accommodate what is politics, which is the art of the possible, we're not going to love everything.
00:21:10.000Release all the January 6th tapes by Monday morning.
00:21:24.000That alone will be, wow, that will send a message to the rank and file, to the grassroots, to the everyday Americans that have been looking at Congress and hearing one thing and seeing another.
00:21:40.000Second thing, make Congress work this weekend.
00:21:44.000Make Congress work this weekend and then lay out, maybe you have to do the Karl Rove chart thing, which drives me nuts, but people are visual.
00:22:36.000And yes, you're going to get, when you get to seven, eight, or nine, it's going to get contentious.
00:22:42.000When you get to 11 and 12, it's going to get really heated because then we're going to be dealing with the border.
00:22:48.000We're going to be dealing with Jack Smith.
00:22:49.000We're going to be dealing with Ukraine funding.
00:22:52.000But understand that the Democrats thrive and the Uniparty thrives on mixing the controversial with the necessary.
00:23:01.000And they put them together into this continuing resolution.
00:23:04.000And then they go immediately out to the cameras and say, well, I'm going to go vote for the CR because I want to make sure that our troops are funded.
00:23:11.000And that sounds like a great argument.
00:23:13.000But what's happened is leadership puts it all together into one bucket.
00:23:19.000And this breaks the spell very, very quickly.
00:23:23.000If you start to put things into different categories, different bills, 12 different ones, it is very hard for the bad guys to hide.
00:23:34.000And that's why there's been such a big fight over this.
00:23:36.000All the graft, all the corruption, all the nonsense, all the cronyism, all the lobbyism, quite honestly hides within a broken process.
00:23:50.000And so Mike Johnson should say in his opening speech, amongst other things, I cannot promise results.
00:23:56.000I can promise immediate process reform.
00:23:59.000And that alone will empower the Ana Paulina Lunas and the Byron Donalds and the Chip Roy's and the Marjorie Taylor Greens and Lauren Boeberts to be able to then say, whoa, whoa, whoa, we can agree with most Republicans and some Democrats that we want the national parks to get funding or whatever the least controversial thing you could imagine, okay?
00:24:21.000And as we work our way up the ladder, I don't know, around bill number six, we say, does the FBI really need a new headquarters?
00:24:29.000Does the FBI really need a new, beautiful headquarters?
00:24:34.000And then if you want to all of a sudden pick a funding fight, you're not looping all of or lumping all of this other stuff together into it.
00:24:43.000Here is Mike Johnson's stance on the U.S. southern border.
00:27:43.000I'm going to reappropriate the leverage onto the Senate and say, it's a ballgame now, John Tester.
00:27:51.000You're in a tough election in Montana in a deep red state in a presidential year.
00:27:55.000How are you going to go vote, John Tester, on securing the border?
00:27:58.000How are you going to vote, Joe Manchin?
00:28:00.000How are you going to vote Kirsten Cinema?
00:28:03.000How are you going to vote Sherrod Brown?
00:28:05.000All of a sudden, these red state Democrats that have been able to just go raise money and pretend like they're doing something for their constituents, they're going to get all sweaty.
00:28:12.000And Mike Johnson needs to be very clear.
00:28:18.000There's no CR that's going to let you hide behind the appearance that you're funding the vets and unicorns and, you know, health insurance for poor people.
00:28:27.000We're going to do this in separate bills.
00:28:29.000And Tester, Manchin, Brown, and Cinema in the Senate, how are you going to vote?
00:28:34.000All of a sudden, a Democrat majority looks kind of more like a center-right majority.
00:28:38.000That's how you use a legislative leverage.
00:28:41.000And we haven't done that at all over the last 10 months.
00:28:48.000So let's use this as a reset, as a revitalization, to all of a sudden put the Uniparty and the swamp and the regime that have been thinking that this fight amongst Republicans will be nothing but negative, nothing but heaviness, nothing but discord.
00:29:08.000And now the people are going to put the pressure on you, U.S. Senate, put the pressure on you, Tester, you, Mansion, you, Brown, you, Cinema.
00:29:15.000And all of a sudden, the entire formula, the entire equation changes.
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00:30:33.000Members have called for removal based on a myriad of objections against this president.
00:30:37.000Representative Algerine of Texas filed a resolution in the House for impeachment after Trump called for players kneeling during the national anthem to be fired.
00:31:46.000We don't have the Senate, but there are red state Democrats that are at high risk, and you must isolate them.
00:31:52.000The entire legislative agenda needs to be that Biden is running for reelection, Tester is running for reelection, Manchin is running for re-election, Sherry Brown is running for re-election, and Cinema is isolate those four on issues that their states care about 70-30, which is the border.
00:32:10.000If Mike Johnson puts the pressure on four red state Democrats in the Senate, all of a sudden, the whole ballgame changes.
00:32:19.000That should have been McCarthy's plan, and it wasn't.
00:32:22.000Second, he must just be very honest and very blunt in his opening comments that some people are going to get frustrated and let down, but he'll never lie to them, and he will change the process.
00:32:44.000But the most important issue, he must lay this out at the opening.
00:32:47.000Remember, so much in life is comparing your expectation versus reality.
00:32:54.000A great example is that if you have an expectation that you're going to go out with your wife to an amazing steak dinner and you end up going and the food is terrible and it's loud and it's noisy, then you have a quote-unquote bad night.
00:33:07.000But if you have an expectation that you're going to Wendy's, you're going to get something at Wendy's.
00:33:12.000So much of life is what you think is going to happen versus what does happen, and the gap between expectation and reality or the surplus between reality and expectation is so much of how people judge or determine happiness.
00:33:26.000That's why when Donald Trump won the 2016 election, the expectation was for a lot of people he was going to lose.
00:33:32.000The reality was that he was going to win.
00:33:34.000And that's why the happiness and the measure was so beyond what people would have imagined.
00:33:42.000By the way, right now, people are applauding standing ovation because Mike Johnson just got nominated.
00:34:20.000I know that sounds like an interesting equation, but another example is if you think your sports, your favorite sports team is going to go undefeated and they go 500, it's a terrible year.
00:34:30.000But if you're a fan of like the Washington, not the Indians, Washington Redskins, not the commanders, stupid.
00:34:38.000And they go 500, like this is the best year ever.
00:34:40.000Let's just listen to a little Elise Stefanik breaking news from the floor.
00:36:38.000Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, is an exciting opportunity who, yes, will disappoint us on some things and yes, will surprise us on other things.
00:36:48.000Set the expectation low, put 12 different spending bills, put the country first, high energy, work weekends, and most importantly, put the pressure on the good-for-nothing U.S. Senate to actually do some work for once.
00:37:02.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:37:03.000Email us as always: freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:37:06.000Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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