The Charlie Kirk Show - The Ministry of Truth and Woke Banks with Rob Collins

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00:00:02.000 Whose children are they exactly?

00:00:04.000 Well, Joe Biden says they're not your kids.

00:00:06.000 And also, welcome to the new Ministry of Truth.

00:00:08.000 And finally, a conservative credit card is here.

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00:00:14.000 We talked to Rob Collins, the founder and CEO of Coin.

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00:01:01.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:46.000 We've been talking about this theme for a couple of weeks: that in order for the great reset to occur, for a globalist vision of humanity to set in, the parental-child bond must weaken.

00:01:59.000 That the bond that children have with their parents is all that ties a society together.

00:02:04.000 The Bible has told us this time and time again.

00:02:06.000 The Bible has in the Ten Commandments the only commandment that comes with a promise and involves your nation.

00:02:12.000 Honor your mother and father, so you might live long in the land of which you are in.

00:02:16.000 A parental-child bond actually keeps us free, free from government intervention, involvement, and authoritarianism.

00:02:24.000 There is no example of communism coming into place where strong families persisted.

00:02:30.000 It does not exist.

00:02:31.000 The phrase Mother Russia, for example, came forward because they raised young children to believe their true mother was the Russian government.

00:02:39.000 In Mao Sedong's China, they had the Mao's Red Guard actually incentivizing children to turn their parents in if they were not properly loyal to Mao's government.

00:02:52.000 In Cuba, children were indoctrinated to believe that their maternal parents were not actually as important as the government body.

00:03:00.000 I could go example after example in Mugabe's Rhodesia, which became Zimbabwe.

00:03:06.000 That in order for these totalitarian experiments to be successful, the family is in the way.

00:03:13.000 This is one of the reasons why we have seen a resurgence and a revival and an unexpected strengthening of the parents' party.

00:03:22.000 For years, we talked about family values, and people would kind of roll their eyes.

00:03:25.000 They said, oh, let's just talk about tax cuts.

00:03:27.000 It is now front and center.

00:03:28.000 The center-right movement in America cares more about social issues right now than even fiscal issues.

00:03:34.000 Not to say that fiscal issues aren't important, but the conversation, the chatter amongst people that are new to politics or the base of the political conservative right, cares more about right now, trans issues, cares about education.

00:03:47.000 Now, I think it's tied with the border and inflation at times, but what really animates the base is things that are kind of defining the entire civilization as we know it.

00:03:58.000 Now, we've warned for a while that the perspective of the regime and the administration and the Democrat Party and the Democrat machine is that they do not want parents to be in charge of their kids' education.

00:04:12.000 Terry McAuliffe said this when he was running for governor of Virginia, which resulted in him getting obliterated and making a total fool of himself when he probably gave like a drunken, sloppy concession speech to now Governor Young in Virginia.

00:04:26.000 The thermonuclear weapon against the left that they never expected is them actually admitting out loud that parents aren't in control of their kids.

00:04:35.000 Now, this is something we know has existed, but they've usually disguised it.

00:04:40.000 They've camouflaged it.

00:04:41.000 They don't admit it.

00:04:43.000 But now they're leading with it.

00:04:46.000 Now they are defending this idea that teachers are sovereign.

00:04:50.000 That parents, you take a back seat, that as soon as you drop your child off at school, the moment that you put them into a public school, you are not in charge.

00:05:01.000 And it does ask the question, who is sovereign?

00:05:06.000 Who calls the shots?

00:05:08.000 Well, in a Western culture, in a biblical culture, in a culture that respects the tradition of the family, the parents call the shots, not the state.

00:05:20.000 The state, the government, serves at the, they serve because the parents and the adults have given them the power.

00:05:32.000 But as long as families remain self-sufficient, patriotic, and conservative in nature, then a radical revolution in the country tends to kind of continue to misfire.

00:05:47.000 Well, Joe Biden is now saying this out loud.

00:05:51.000 Joe Biden is telling parents, look, they're not your kids.

00:05:57.000 When they go to a classroom, they're the teacher's kids.

00:06:02.000 Play cut 76.

00:06:04.000 You've heard me say it many times about our children, but it's true. 0.88

00:06:09.000 They're all our children.

00:06:11.000 And the reason you're the teachers of the year is because you recognize that.

00:06:15.000 They're not somebody else's children.

00:06:16.000 They're like yours when they're in the classroom.

00:06:19.000 He's talking to a group of teachers who says, they're now yours.

00:06:22.000 They're not somebody else's.

00:06:24.000 They're yours in the classroom.

00:06:26.000 Karl Marx famously wrote, quote, the education of all children from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care shall be in state institutions at the state expense.

00:06:38.000 It is impossible to execute all these different sort of political factors, all these sort of political goals, I should say, without the breaking of that bond.

00:06:50.000 So Biden is now saying this out loud.

00:06:53.000 It is the position of the Democrat Party.

00:06:57.000 If you are a parent out there, I hope you know that if you vote for a Democrat and you have a Democrat in office, the President of the United States, who is a Democrat, who said this a couple times, by the way, it's not a gaffe, he repeated this, and he says, look, I say this all the time, with emphasis added, that they are not your kids.

00:07:17.000 So whose children are they?

00:07:19.000 And what's the significance?

00:07:21.000 They think parents are an annoyance to their agenda.

00:07:26.000 Parents tend to do a couple things they don't like.

00:07:28.000 They ask questions.

00:07:29.000 They push back on bad ideas.

00:07:32.000 Parents tend to not like when all of a sudden there are transgender transition closets in their schools.

00:07:40.000 Parents tend to get very angry when their children are given puberty blockers without their knowledge, and they should. 0.86

00:07:46.000 The parents are the guardians.

00:07:48.000 They are tasked, we believe, in a spiritual sense, first and a material sense, second, to be the guardians of those children's innocence, to raise them up in the ways of which you want them to go, to try to teach them what is good, what is beautiful, what is true, what is virtuous.

00:08:01.000 That is the parents' responsibility, not the state's responsibility.

00:08:05.000 A free country is a country where parents are engaged and involved and alert, where parents at times have to channel their inner primal tribal instinct and be willing to put themselves and their own reputation above anything else to say, you are not messing with my kid.

00:08:25.000 Joe Biden doesn't like that.

00:08:27.000 You see, they're actually realizing the country's far more conservative than they thought.

00:08:32.000 They thought because they sent ballots in every direction and suburban moms didn't like Trump's tone and personality that somehow they were super popular. 1.00

00:08:40.000 In fact, they're not.

00:08:42.000 In fact, the Democrat Party is less popular than any time in the last 20 or 30 years.

00:08:47.000 The Democrat positions are even less popular than that.

00:08:51.000 And if there is a parent out there, every statistic shows that they're actually trusting Republicans increasingly more with education decisions than Democrats.

00:09:00.000 And Democrats used to always have the advantage on those issues.

00:09:04.000 Republicans used to be always good on national security and the economy.

00:09:08.000 Democrats are good on kind of social issues and good on education.

00:09:13.000 Now, Republicans are favorable with social issues, the economy, they're favorable on education issues, and they're favorable on national security issues.

00:09:22.000 And so you must understand the broader agenda here.

00:09:25.000 And for every parent listening, if you have your kid in school right now, I pray you really know what's going on.

00:09:30.000 If you're a grandparent and you trust the school that your kid goes to, I'm glad, or your grandchildren goes out, I'm glad you trust it.

00:09:37.000 I wouldn't.

00:09:38.000 I don't trust many schools because I know that there is a deliberate attempt from the National Association of Independent Schools to go into private schools first and foremost, because even if you think it's a good private school, you're probably mistaken.

00:09:50.000 Maybe it's a wonderful private school.

00:09:52.000 But parents are emailing us in record numbers, freedom at charliekirk.com, and they are surprised and they're blown away.

00:09:58.000 They said, I never knew it was that bad.

00:10:02.000 I had no idea.

00:10:03.000 Because when you drop your kid off to school, they might be encountering a teacher like this who thinks it's their kid.

00:10:10.000 Play cut 40.

00:10:13.000 My principal just approved our district's first transition closet.

00:10:16.000 We'll be working with the organization of the Transition Closet to provide clothes for transgender, non-binary, and gender-exploring youth who maybe don't have the access or the safety to get those clothes in their personal lives.

00:10:28.000 They'll be able to come to school and change into clothes that make them feel more at home and more like themselves.

00:10:34.000 And I just think that's lovely.

00:10:35.000 That's a teacher.

00:10:37.000 Joe Biden says your kids belong to him.

00:10:41.000 Joe Biden believes that your kids are his.

00:10:46.000 Are they?

00:10:47.000 That is the question.

00:10:51.000 Whose children are they?

00:10:54.000 So Elon Musk buys Twitter and changes are underway there.

00:10:58.000 And without missing a beat, the federal government of the United States has now launched a new ministry of truth.

00:11:04.000 Now, if you are a reader and you are familiar with Orwell's 1984, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about when I say Ministry of Truth.

00:11:14.000 The Ministry of Truth was one of several ministries in the fictitious but albeit rather clairvoyant novel written by George Orwell, one of the five dystopian authors in late 1940s, 1950s that wrote on this topic: Arthur Kessler, C.S. Lewis, Winston Churchill, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell.

00:11:39.000 All five of them were contemporaries in one way or the other and kind of played around with this idea of dystopian authoritarianism.

00:11:46.000 So in the book, 1984, there were several ministries.

00:11:51.000 The Ministry of Peace, which of course was concerned with war.

00:11:55.000 The Ministry of Love, which concerned itself with torture, the Ministry of Plenty, which concerned itself with starvation, and the Ministry of Truth with, of course, lies.

00:12:06.000 As Orwell beautifully writes, quote, these contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy.

00:12:12.000 They are deliberate exercises in double think.

00:12:17.000 So when we use that term, Orwellian, we mean it.

00:12:21.000 I've studied 1984.

00:12:22.000 I try to read it once every couple of years.

00:12:25.000 I read it last year, last May.

00:12:27.000 I got through it very quickly.

00:12:31.000 And boy, did I learn more.

00:12:33.000 I mean, Orwell's ability to capture the behavioral pattern of a tyrant was extraordinary.

00:12:41.000 Not just what the society would look like, but actually how the tyrant themselves would operate.

00:12:47.000 Of course, that is best depicted in the novel with Mr. O'Brien, who worked for the Ministry of Truth.

00:12:54.000 Ministry of Truth had three slogans, of course.

00:12:56.000 War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.

00:13:02.000 Now, they put forward this idea of what a thought crime was.

00:13:05.000 A thought crime is when you say something that was politically unorthodox, an unspoken belief, or something that would contradict the tenets of INSOC or the government at the time or the dominant ideology of Oceania, which is the fictitious kind of former place where London was, which is where Orwell wrote about this.

00:13:29.000 So yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security has announced a new disinformation governance board, the Department of Homeland Security.

00:13:38.000 Now, no major announcements, of course, with the invasion happening on our southern border.

00:13:42.000 No major announcements from the Department of Homeland Security as to why so many food processing plants have planes being crashed into them, have been lit on fire, or we have a food shortage.

00:13:54.000 Is terrorism to blame for that?

00:13:56.000 I don't know.

00:13:56.000 I don't necessarily think so, but I want an answer to that.

00:14:00.000 No answer from the Department of Homeland Security as to whether or not we might have loose immigration policy that could let terrorists into our country.

00:14:08.000 No, instead, the policy of the Department of Homeland Security is now we are going to put forward a disinformation governance board.

00:14:18.000 So the head of this disinformation governance board is this charlatan by the name of Nina Jankowitz.

00:14:26.000 She has now said, I am in charge of the board, which is to help maintain the department's commitment to free speech, privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties.

00:14:33.000 So Orwellian.

00:14:34.000 It's like the opposite of what it's supposed to be.

00:14:37.000 So Jankowitz has advised the Ukrainian government on strategic communications.

00:14:42.000 Of course, she has, obviously, if you're involved at the top levels of government, of course you are involved in Ukraine.

00:14:54.000 But what's amazing is that she herself spread disinformation back in 2020.

00:15:01.000 She's a disinformation artist. 0.99

00:15:03.000 She's an expert.

00:15:04.000 She's a master of disinformation. 1.00

00:15:08.000 So she was the one that was spreading this idea that 50 intel people had said that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, even though the idea that 50 Intel people said it was Russian disinformation was disinformation itself.

00:15:22.000 It was Democrat disinformation.

00:15:25.000 Now, all of this is just in time for the midterms.

00:15:30.000 All of this is just in time for the November election.

00:15:35.000 This is happening at a very quick pace, where we now have a new ministry of truth that will use the power of government to say, hey, I don't like Charlie Kirk's tweets.

00:15:45.000 Is he spreading disinformation?

00:15:47.000 Is he a Putin puppet?

00:15:48.000 Is he a Russian agent to use the federal government, the power of the federal government to try to restrict speech to try and prevent political messages they don't like from being spread?

00:16:00.000 What is considered disinformation one day ends up being consensus the next day?

00:16:04.000 This is not a mistake.

00:16:06.000 This is a political agenda by the Biden administration and the Democrat Party to try to intimidate you from spreading the truth online and in other places.

00:16:19.000 Almost every day we hear about another major corporation that has gone woke.

00:16:22.000 Disney hates you and everyone should cancel Disney.

00:16:27.000 Disney made tons of money off of being family friendly and family safe.

00:16:27.000 They hate families.

00:16:33.000 Now it's time to divest from Disney.

00:16:35.000 There's a lot of companies like T-Mobile that's firing all their unvaccinated employees.

00:16:38.000 They're tormenting their employees with leftist propaganda and funding organizations who seem to hate this country.

00:16:44.000 And so I was on a mission.

00:16:45.000 I was seeing how much I was spending on my cell phone bill, how much Turning Point USA was spending on our cell phone bill.

00:16:50.000 I said, I'm so sick and tired of giving these anti-American cell phone companies my hard-earned money and our amazing donor money at Turning Point USA.

00:16:58.000 So I told my team, I said, go find the cell phone company that shares our values.

00:17:03.000 And I remember I met this guy, Glenn.

00:17:05.000 We'd run into each other a couple of times, and he was super enthusiastic, always wore this red polo, said Patriot Mobile on it.

00:17:12.000 And I saw him again in an event.

00:17:13.000 I said, okay, now you really got to sit down.

00:17:15.000 Like, let's plan some time together and talk about this.

00:17:18.000 So we had this meal in Dallas.

00:17:19.000 This was back in November, and he laid it all out.

00:17:21.000 I was like, wow, okay.

00:17:21.000 And I got it.

00:17:23.000 So you're at a conservative Christian cell phone provider and I don't have to pay all these woke companies.

00:17:28.000 And it just like clicked in a minute.

00:17:29.000 I said, let's partner together.

00:17:30.000 Let's have you on the show.

00:17:31.000 Let's do some things.

00:17:33.000 And that's how it all started.

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00:17:37.000 And their U.S.-based customer support team provides exceptional customer service.

00:17:42.000 Most importantly, Patriot Mobile shares your values and supports organizations fighting for religious liberty, constitutional rights, and the sanctity of life.

00:17:51.000 So make the switch today.

00:17:52.000 I know the whole management team behind Patriot Mobile, Glenn, all of them, they support Turning Point USA.

00:17:57.000 They support us beautifully.

00:17:59.000 So you go to patriotmobile.com/slash Charlie or call 972 Patriot.

00:18:03.000 People ask all the time, Charlie, what do I do?

00:18:05.000 What do I do?

00:18:06.000 Well, a good way to start is, you know, make your cell phone bill, whatever.

00:18:10.000 If you see it on your cell phone statement, you get your cell phone statement.

00:18:13.000 You might as well just say, oh, that money's going to the DNC or that money's going to Christian conservative organizations or company like Patriot Mobile.

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00:18:50.000 We have been talking and complaining about woke banks for quite some time, about how difficult it is to find anyone that shares our values in the financial world.

00:19:01.000 So I was made aware of this company that was coming on to the scene recently, and I was just so encouraged and excited about what they were trying to do, especially in the credit card space, because some of these credit card companies are just out of control.

00:19:16.000 And it is a new conservative credit card company.

00:19:19.000 We wrote about this at CharlieKirk.com.

00:19:21.000 We're partnering with them on a lot of different things moving forward called COIN, C-O-I-G-N. 0.80

00:19:26.000 And with us right now is the founder of this effort, Rob Collins.

00:19:29.000 Rob, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:19:31.000 Hey, Charlie, glad to be on here.

00:19:33.000 I want to give a shout out to my nephew, who's a member of one of your Georgia chapters at Turning Point.

00:19:38.000 I was recently with him, and he had a bunch of stickers on his computer.

00:19:42.000 And he's loud and proud.

00:19:43.000 And I love it.

00:19:44.000 Just glad to be on the show.

00:19:46.000 Well, congratulations on the launch.

00:19:46.000 It's awesome.

00:19:48.000 You guys are now public.

00:19:50.000 So talk about the need.

00:19:52.000 And there's a huge market out there to have kind of a non-woke credit card.

00:19:56.000 Yeah, I think it stems from the fact that, you know, 10 times a week, 40 times a month, 480 times a year per credit card, and the average American has four credit cards.

00:20:09.000 Your commerce is being used as a weapon against you, and it's not reflecting your values.

00:20:15.000 And I just think there's an opportunity.

00:20:17.000 We're the largest, conservatives are the largest ideological block in America, yet we don't work together.

00:20:23.000 We don't have a place where we can have a voice.

00:20:25.000 And this is just an opportunity for us all to come together, move our commerce through one vehicle and not only increase our voice, but really, really bundle up millions of dollars, trillions, hopefully trillions, billions of dollars of commerce and invest in conservative charities.

00:20:46.000 You know, we have a real challenge that people who give aren't listened to by corporate America.

00:20:54.000 People who use their product aren't listened to by corporate America.

00:20:57.000 And the idea that we can, you know, have a credit card that is catered for conservatives, but also invest in conservative charity is a huge opportunity and a huge advantage, I believe, in the future to reassert our voice into corporate America.

00:21:11.000 Yeah, so it's coin.com, C-O-I-G-N. 0.99

00:21:15.000 So let's talk more about just kind of that issue.

00:21:17.000 Is this the misrepresentation from corporate America?

00:21:19.000 The website says together we're creating conservative commerce.

00:21:22.000 And with our combined strength, we'll allow great American conservative charities to grow great American conservative charities.

00:21:28.000 And the credit card is competitive with all the kind of cash back guarantees of other credit cards.

00:21:34.000 And so this is really an ideological argument in a good way where people need to ask themselves the question, do you want it every time you swipe to go to some sort of whatever left-wing charity, you know, you could pick the assortment?

00:21:45.000 Or do you actually want it to go somewhere where it might be actually supporting veterans or freedom of speech or religious liberty?

00:21:52.000 This is something that conservatives need to think deeply about because they might unintentionally be funding left-wing causes every time they make a purchase.

00:21:59.000 Exactly.

00:22:00.000 Exactly.

00:22:00.000 I mean, you know the causes, you know, and they're not for us.

00:22:07.000 It doesn't mean they're not allowed to be out there, but why is our commerce being used to fund it is a fundamental question.

00:22:14.000 You know, conservatives are great.

00:22:15.000 When we, you know, as active conservatives, we're really busy.

00:22:20.000 We want to give back.

00:22:22.000 We want to help out.

00:22:23.000 But we also, you know, really want something that's seamless.

00:22:27.000 And a credit card is really simple.

00:22:28.000 And as you said, it's a 1% cashback credit card backed by Visa.

00:22:33.000 It's everything you've ever had for your entire life with a credit card.

00:22:36.000 Just it has one big difference, which is it was built by conservatives and we're going to invest in conservative charities.

00:22:43.000 And it comes from the company.

00:22:45.000 So it won't cost our cardholders anything.

00:22:47.000 They'll still get their 1% cash back.

00:22:49.000 But every time they swipe, a little piece of that merchant fee, we're going to put into the charity bucket.

00:22:53.000 And then, you know, we're going to open it up and say to our cardholders, hey, come vote, tell us where your priorities are.

00:23:00.000 And then we'll be able to fund charities.

00:23:02.000 And if you think about the active, the size of the conservative movement, if we can get folks organized and together, we could, you know, the hundreds of millions of dollars that we could put into great conservative charities would be tremendous.

00:23:19.000 Yeah.

00:23:19.000 And it's not extra money.

00:23:20.000 That's the thing is that it's money that you're already spending, right?

00:23:24.000 Taco Bell or, you know, at Home Depot or whatever, is that you're already the velocity of money might as well go towards causes you align with.

00:23:34.000 And so, yeah, talk, when is the card coming out?

00:23:37.000 I know there's a waiting list.

00:23:38.000 Can people get it right now?

00:23:40.000 Can't get the card right now.

00:23:41.000 We're building a waiting list.

00:23:43.000 We wanted to kind of build an audience, build a community.

00:23:46.000 And, you know, we're weeks away from rolling out the cards.

00:23:50.000 We, you know, the modern credit card rollouts generally have a waiting list period where you kind of build your audience, get your first set of early adopters, people who are going to join.

00:24:03.000 And then you start to feed out the cards as they come.

00:24:06.000 And, you know, we're really excited.

00:24:07.000 There's going to be conservatives are going to have three options to choose from on the cards.

00:24:12.000 And, you know, they're going to have be able to tailor it to kind of what they want to see and how they, how what they want it to look like.

00:24:19.000 And, you know, it's going to be app-driven.

00:24:21.000 I mean, like I said, everything you expect in a credit card, we're going to provide, except, you know, a coin, we're just going to be supporting conservative causes.

00:24:30.000 And it seems as if there is this institutional kind of issue where we have to kind of start our own stuff, right?

00:24:37.000 Where it's not, it's no longer good enough just to kind of fix some of these other companies.

00:24:42.000 What's the response been in the last couple of days?

00:24:44.000 Seems very favorable.

00:24:45.000 I know a lot of people that have signed up on the waiting list, but I'm sure the media has some complaints.

00:24:52.000 No, the response has been generally great.

00:24:55.000 People writing in, people calling in saying, hey, I have an idea for a charity or, you know, one person signed up and said, you know, I had this cool Darth Vader card, but it's, you know, I want to switch to yours because even though it looks cool, it doesn't support my values and it doesn't support what I believe in.

00:25:13.000 And so people have been super generous.

00:25:15.000 They've gone to sign up.

00:25:17.000 They've retweeted us.

00:25:18.000 They've liked us on Facebook.

00:25:21.000 And the response has been great.

00:25:22.000 The center right media has really understood this and they really get what we're trying to do here.

00:25:27.000 And the other mainstream media, they're always looking for a divisiveness and fighting.

00:25:32.000 And I think what we're just trying to say is, we're greater together and we can build something that's really neat that serves conservatives and serves their wishes.

00:25:41.000 And if you don't like it, that's fine.

00:25:45.000 They don't like conservative TV.

00:25:47.000 They don't like conservative podcasts.

00:25:48.000 And that's their choice.

00:25:49.000 But there's a huge audience out there of people who just really want to express their values and their lifestyle and their hopes for the future of this country.

00:25:59.000 And I think there's been so much entrepreneurialship in the space, which is awesome.

00:26:04.000 There's options now with technology and food and clothing.

00:26:08.000 This is just a way to kind of hardwire it into the central piece of your commerce, which is sometimes it's hard when the kids are at the park and they're screaming for this kind of ice cream and you know they don't share your values, but it's right there.

00:26:20.000 It just allows folks to, you know, in the back of their head, say, you know what, I'm sticking up for what I believe in.

00:26:26.000 And even if I have to buy this ice cream now or these jeans or this, you know, this equipment or something.

00:26:31.000 And they just know a piece of that commerce is going to causes that they care about.

00:26:35.000 Yeah, it can kind of neutralize the Starbucks run, right?

00:26:37.000 So you got to go to Starbucks, but if you use the coin card, it kind of like is a net net neutral.

00:26:43.000 Now, I wouldn't recommend going to Disney World, but at least some of the volume will go of the volume of purchasing will go back to things you care about.

00:26:53.000 Exactly.

00:26:53.000 Not things you don't care about.

00:26:54.000 And it's even better if you like donate to Turning Point USA with a coin card.

00:26:58.000 Everybody.

00:26:59.000 Exactly.

00:27:02.000 You can stretch those conservative investments even further if you pay with your coin card.

00:27:06.000 And you're right.

00:27:07.000 You nailed it right on the head, which is, you know, disruption is hard.

00:27:11.000 And the parallel economy is in the beginning stages.

00:27:16.000 And, you know, you can't seed 50 years of corporate leadership to the left and then knock on the door and say, we'd like it back.

00:27:22.000 You know, we're going to have to earn it back and we're going to have to earn it back one consumer at a time and show we have a high quality product that's honest, it's authentic, and it's doing everything we said, which is we're going to find high quality charities that our members are going to be proud to support.

00:27:35.000 And, you know, and they're going to feel good every time they put that card on the table to pay for dinner or to buy a product.

00:27:41.000 They're going to say, you know what?

00:27:43.000 I'm not only not giving up any economics.

00:27:47.000 I'm able to continue to get the same great benefits that those other cards offer.

00:27:51.000 But you know what?

00:27:52.000 I'm helping out.

00:27:53.000 I'm doing my part.

00:27:54.000 And that's really why we did it.

00:27:56.000 It's just really a great opportunity to kind of extend your values into your commerce.

00:28:03.000 And the tech is great.

00:28:04.000 I walked through it with you previously.

00:28:06.000 It's first class.

00:28:07.000 And so let's just, in closing here, Rob, just walk us through the launch.

00:28:10.000 If I sign up for a card today, I get put on a waiting list, then what?

00:28:14.000 I know you're working through a lot of that, but it's coin.com, C-O-I-G-N.com.

00:28:19.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:28:20.000 C-O-I-G-N.com to go there, sign up on the wait list.

00:28:23.000 You're going to, we're going to continue to talk to you.

00:28:25.000 We're hoping in a matter of weeks, cards are going to start to roll out.

00:28:30.000 Little issue with a chip shortage, believe it or not.

00:28:32.000 You're going to, the first cards have gold chips on them.

00:28:34.000 We wanted silver, but there were no silver chips to be had.

00:28:37.000 So a little supply chain issue that America is suffering, not just coin, but we're weeks away.

00:28:44.000 And like I said, we have the design, we have the technology, we're ready to go, just lining up those final few ships.

00:28:50.000 And also a wait list allows us to kind of already pre-sort and get people in line.

00:28:57.000 So kind of like any concert, you buy your ticket and then you get in line and then they kind of segment you and you go to the right door based on where you're sitting.

00:29:04.000 And that's kind of what we're trying to do.

00:29:06.000 And I think it's been really effective.

00:29:08.000 You know, we've been really blessed.

00:29:10.000 I mean, the amount of people who signed up has blown away our expectations.

00:29:14.000 The support from the community, people calling to say, you know, hey, I'm a conservative this.

00:29:19.000 I'm a conservative, you know, organizer.

00:29:21.000 I'm a conservative businessman.

00:29:22.000 I'm a conservative, you know, leader in my church.

00:29:25.000 Tell me more.

00:29:26.000 What are we doing?

00:29:27.000 So, you know, people always say, what can I do to help?

00:29:29.000 Obviously, sign up, but tell your friends.

00:29:31.000 You know, you know, the forces that are coming against us.

00:29:33.000 They're not going to help us.

00:29:34.000 They're going to do everything at first to ignore us, as they always do.

00:29:38.000 And then when we get big enough, they're going to try and destroy us.

00:29:40.000 And, and, but as long as everyone in the community just starts to talk about it and say, hey, there's this great thing.

00:29:45.000 It doesn't fit for everybody.

00:29:46.000 We understand that.

00:29:47.000 But there is a fit for folks.

00:29:49.000 And, you know, your audience will really plug into this.

00:29:52.000 They'll really understand this.

00:29:53.000 And we'd love to depart.

00:29:55.000 And it's like, it's a no-brainer way.

00:29:56.000 We're making the transition as it comes out.

00:29:58.000 It's like a no-brainer thing.

00:29:59.000 Like, why would I have these woke credit cards? 1.00

00:30:01.000 Like, I don't align with them.

00:30:03.000 So it's just like, we're going to be kind of just moving it over.

00:30:05.000 And then it's just no thought, right?

00:30:07.000 Just like every time, you know, I go to buy something, I book an airplane ticket.

00:30:10.000 It's like that is now going to be part of the broader movement.

00:30:13.000 So it's just like once you make that switch, then you don't have to actively think about supporting the causes you care about.

00:30:18.000 It's like just living your life can then be in proper alignment, which is, that's what's so brilliant about it is that, and it's a product you already need.

00:30:26.000 I mean, meaning 99% of people listening right now, you probably have credit cards, right?

00:30:30.000 And then therefore you have credit cards that are likely going to causes that aren't aren't great.

00:30:35.000 Coin.com, C-O-I-G-N.com.

00:30:38.000 Rob, thank you so much.

00:30:39.000 We'll be in touch.

00:30:40.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:30:40.000 Appreciate it.

00:30:41.000 Thank you.

00:30:44.000 We've played this tape before.

00:30:46.000 It's Melissa Harris Perry saying that they're not your children.

00:30:48.000 It's from a couple years ago, but Joe Biden is saying the exact same thing.

00:30:53.000 MSNBC, formerly MSNBC, Melissa Harris Perry, PlayCut 89.

00:30:58.000 We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had kind of a private notion of children.

00:31:04.000 Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility.

00:31:08.000 We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children.

00:31:11.000 So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

00:31:20.000 Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the households, then we start making better investments.

00:31:27.000 Yeah, lean forward used to be the saying of MSNBC.

00:31:31.000 MSNBC used to be actually really interesting back then.

00:31:35.000 And so it's just interesting because they were progressive, but at least they had some hosts that were somewhat fair, but then they just totally lost their mind.

00:31:43.000 And so it was a different country back then.

00:31:45.000 2013, she was fired actually for saying this.

00:31:48.000 Now the president of the United States, Joe Biden, is saying that exact same thing.

00:31:52.000 She'd probably be promoted today for saying such a thing.

00:31:56.000 So how much aid is too much aid to Ukraine?

00:31:59.000 We've been against obvious intervention there.

00:32:01.000 We've come under fire for that because we actually want to secure our own border.

00:32:05.000 Well, now Joe Biden is asking for $33 billion more to Ukraine.

00:32:12.000 And yes, our southern border is still wide open.

00:32:15.000 And yes, we have 100,000 plus drug overdoses.

00:32:19.000 We've said for a while that D.C. has a loyalty and an allegiance to foreign countries more than our own.

00:32:26.000 When was the last time Biden wanted $33 billion to prevent the invasion from Mexico and Nicaragua?

00:32:36.000 Let's play tape.

00:32:37.000 But Joe Biden asking for $33 billion yesterday, cut 91.

00:32:44.000 So we need to contribute arms, funding, ammunition, and the economic support to make their courage and sacrifice have purpose so they can continue this fight and do what they're doing.

00:32:55.000 It's critical this funding gets approved and approved as quickly as possible.

00:33:00.000 As quickly as possible.

00:33:02.000 I'm curious.

00:33:02.000 Email me freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:04.000 Are you enthusiastic about sending another $33 billion to a foreign country to a murky conflict that is now reaching its 70th or 80th day?

00:33:13.000 I'm wondering, is that the position of the conservative base?

00:33:15.000 Do you think there might be other priorities for the American government to be concerned about than another $33 billion?

00:33:22.000 I mean, what's $33 billion in the era of big government, right?

00:33:25.000 It's a rounding error, I suppose.

00:33:27.000 It's not like it matters.

00:33:28.000 We print money out of thin air.

00:33:31.000 Tomorrow, we're going to do a whole episode.

00:33:34.000 I don't want to touch on this, just maybe a little bit, but tomorrow, we're going to go all into the student loan thing, all about the history of it.

00:33:41.000 We kind of didn't have time to get into that today.

00:33:43.000 But Joe Biden is thinking about doing something on that, which will be very historic and not in a good way if he does that.

00:33:51.000 So just kind of hang on there right there.

00:33:53.000 I want to play this other tape here, though, where Jen Psaki was asked about Joe Biden's business dealings with Hunter Biden, PlayCut 83.

00:34:04.000 We've heard the president say over and over again that he has never spoken to his son about his business dealings.

00:34:09.000 Has he ever spoken to his son's business partners about his son's business dealings?

00:34:14.000 Again, nothing has changed about what I said yesterday.

00:34:17.000 The president does not get involved in the business dealings of his son, even through his son's business partners.

00:34:21.000 Nothing has changed since what I said yesterday.

00:34:23.000 I don't believe you answered that part of my question yesterday.

00:34:26.000 He's not involved in his son's business dealings.

00:34:28.000 We know that's a lie.

00:34:29.000 We have evidence to show that in the emails, that Joe Biden wasn't just a little bit involved.

00:34:34.000 He was the architect of the business dealings.

00:34:37.000 But the pressure is coming after Biden.

00:34:39.000 Unfortunately, we're probably going to be entering a recession sometime soon.

00:34:42.000 The awful economic news shows that.

00:34:44.000 Unlike the Democrats, we're not going to celebrate going into a recession, even though that might mean political good news.

00:34:50.000 I don't like to see Americans suffer.

00:34:51.000 Democrats do like to see Americans suffer if it meant getting rid of Donald Trump.

00:34:55.000 They said that repeatedly.

00:34:57.000 I want to tell you kind of some of the results from our Trump DeSantis poll, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:02.000 We are still kind of tabulating, but it looks like Donald Trump by five or ten points, I would say.

00:35:06.000 Just as kind of a quick eye glance, we had so many people email us.

00:35:11.000 Do you want Trump or DeSantis?

00:35:14.000 And a lot of people said both.

00:35:16.000 Some people want to see a union of two of them run together.

00:35:19.000 A Trump DeSantis ticket seems to be very, very popular.

00:35:24.000 And so I'd love your thoughts.

00:35:24.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:35:26.000 That is freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:28.000 Trump or DeSantis?

00:35:29.000 I'm very curious.

00:35:30.000 Thank you so much for listening.

00:35:31.000 Email me your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com and get involved with Turning PointUSA Today at tpusa.com.

00:35:37.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:35:38.000 God bless.

00:35:42.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - April 28, 2022

The Ministry of Truth and Woke Banks with Rob Collins

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