The Charlie Kirk Show - The Perfection of Trump-Tucker 2024

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, Tucker Carlson for VP.

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00:00:34.000 Here we go.

00:00:35.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:37.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:39.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:42.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:45.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:46.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:48.000 His spirit, his love of this country.

00:00:49.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.

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00:01:17.000 I got to talk about one of the other amazing stories from over the weekend.

00:01:20.000 So I turn my phone off Friday night to Sunday morning.

00:01:23.000 So I turn on my phone Sunday morning, and my phone is just flooded with text messages and images of Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson going to the UFC.

00:01:31.000 And many of you know, I think Dana White is awesome.

00:01:33.000 We had him on the program a couple weeks ago.

00:01:35.000 And Dana White is just a total American patriot.

00:01:38.000 And there's Donald Trump and Tucker.

00:01:41.000 Now, we did a whole show last week articulating the case for Tucker Carlson to become Donald Trump's vice president.

00:01:51.000 You know, you have a good idea when you kind of do a show and you get favorable response, and then you turn off your phone and you really think about it over the weekend.

00:02:00.000 Well, I thought about it, and it's a very, very good idea.

00:02:04.000 Hundreds of thousands of tweets in favor of it over the weekend.

00:02:09.000 Now, let's play this B-roll as I'm doing this.

00:02:10.000 By the way, who else other than Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson can get this kind of hero's welcome at a UFC fight? 0.99

00:02:17.000 You think Nikki Haley would get a hero's welcome?

00:02:20.000 What Tucker and Trump present is culture power, cultural power, and a cultural phenomena in a political space.

00:02:31.000 It's a completely different dynamic.

00:02:35.000 And there's Trump entering as a hero at UFC.

00:02:38.000 I mean, it's heroes' welcome.

00:02:40.000 The optics here.

00:02:42.000 You are now getting into an arena.

00:02:46.000 You think Joe Biden would get a hero's welcome like that?

00:02:50.000 You got Don Jr., you got Kid Rock, you got Dana White, you got Tucker Carlson.

00:02:55.000 What is the downside potentially of Donald Trump choosing Tucker Carlson for his vice president?

00:03:03.000 Tucker's never been a politician before.

00:03:05.000 Okay, well, Donald Trump wasn't either.

00:03:07.000 There's going to be a very, very big push for Donald Trump to choose a traditional politician.

00:03:14.000 One of the people that is going to be presented is someone who I think is a very pleasant person, but I think it would be a mistake.

00:03:22.000 Donald Trump is facing 700 years in federal prison.

00:03:25.000 Doing the conventional, the easy, the simple way is, that's how you got Mike Pence.

00:03:34.000 Let's think outside of the box.

00:03:36.000 Trump picked a conventional guy in 2016, and it was probably a good idea back then.

00:03:41.000 But Trump right now actually has more of an issue shoring up his base versus RFK Jr. leakage than winning over moderates in Chandler, Arizona.

00:03:57.000 So think about it.

00:03:58.000 You're going to have five different candidates, potentially, Joe Manchin or Mitt Romney, potentially, definitely Jill Stein, looks like Cornell West, RFK, who's a serious problem, and then, of course, Trump and Biden.

00:04:16.000 Let's play cut three.

00:04:18.000 If you ever want to love your country more, run for president.

00:04:21.000 Traveling this country, meeting people has been one of the most fantastic experiences of my entire life.

00:04:28.000 I love America more today than I did on May 22nd.

00:04:33.000 But when I go back to Iowa, it will not be as a presidential candidate.

00:04:39.000 I am suspending my campaign.

00:04:41.000 I think the voters who are the most remarkable people on the planet have been really clear that they're telling me not now, Tim.

00:04:51.000 Honestly, I respect the humility.

00:04:53.000 I wish Ronna McRomney would drop out the same way.

00:04:55.000 He's like, you know, people don't want me.

00:04:57.000 I'm getting out of the way.

00:04:59.000 Deep respect, Tim Scott.

00:05:01.000 Tim Scott, I don't think you should be the VP.

00:05:03.000 So the conventional wisdom that we get some emails, freedom at charliekirk.com, people say, but Charlie, Tucker doesn't get you any new votes.

00:05:13.000 I disagree.

00:05:14.000 But secondly, let's not minimize Trump's downsides.

00:05:18.000 Let's maximize the upsides.

00:05:20.000 His honesty, excitement, humor, willingness to take a dramatic action to save America.

00:05:25.000 And let's be honest, if you think MAGA rallies are entertainment, must-see television, imagine Trump and Tucker doing a routine.

00:05:34.000 Trump is distracted in Fulton County, Georgia, because they try to put him in jail.

00:05:39.000 Tucker can handle a MAGA rally.

00:05:42.000 Tucker could give an hour and a half speech about the deterioration of the American working class.

00:05:46.000 Let's be honest, Tucker Carlson tonight was the MAGA anthem for five years.

00:05:52.000 Tucker understands the philosophical, intellectual base that motivates the muscular class.

00:06:00.000 And if I were to pinpoint one of Donald Trump's political weaknesses currently is that some people are gravitating to RFK Jr. because of frustration of the handling of COVID and the administration of the vaccine.

00:06:18.000 Tucker solves that problem.

00:06:20.000 If there was a demographic that Tucker could win over, it is the Rogan bro Russell brand voter.

00:06:28.000 It is the young men that approach me on campus, and there are millions of them.

00:06:34.000 They love what we are saying at Turning Point USA.

00:06:37.000 They are not sold on Trump.

00:06:39.000 Many of them hate Biden.

00:06:40.000 They won't vote for West.

00:06:42.000 They won't vote for Jill Stein, but they look at RFK.

00:06:45.000 RFK, by the way, is winning with voters under 30.

00:06:48.000 And I totally can see that.

00:06:51.000 RFK is socially liberal.

00:06:53.000 Many of them are.

00:06:54.000 RFK is pro-freedom, anti-pharmaceutical state.

00:06:58.000 Tucker can win over millions of younger voters.

00:07:03.000 Data shows in poll after poll after poll after poll that RFK is the strongest third-party candidate since Ross Perot.

00:07:13.000 Tucker can win over the Rogan bros, the RFK coalition voters, in a lighthearted and persuasive way.

00:07:24.000 And in a new politics, when 50% of Gen Z gets all of their news from TikTok, wouldn't it be smart to have two super viral personalities, not just like Tim Scott, the normal thing, or Nikki Haley as VP, which would be a huge mistake, or even Christy Noam, who I like Christy Noam.

00:07:44.000 Wouldn't it be more effective to have the most popular TV host amongst young Democrats?

00:07:51.000 He's electric.

00:07:52.000 He draws in unusual fans.

00:07:54.000 You can't stop watching.

00:07:56.000 Also, if you look at the data, Tucker used to lead ratings with Democrats and independents.

00:08:02.000 His television program provided empirical evidence that Tucker appeals to swing voters.

00:08:11.000 His laugh alone could win him the state of Arizona.

00:08:14.000 I truly believe that.

00:08:15.000 Tucker appeals more so to white educated women than Donald Trump does, but not fully, but more so.

00:08:23.000 And Tucker is also able to play offense against a hostile media because Tucker has been fighting these people for generations. 0.55

00:08:36.000 You're trying to tell me that MSNBC is going to be able to corner Tucker Carlson.

00:08:41.000 Tucker sitting down.

00:08:42.000 Could you imagine Tucker sitting down with Rachel Maddow, who, by the way, he knows and is friends with.

00:08:48.000 The media would be terrified of him.

00:08:51.000 And then you would get some, you would get some smug, like Mendy Hassan or somebody like that, right?

00:08:58.000 Just super arrogant or that other Bushwoman, Nicole Wallace or whatever, right?

00:09:05.000 And they just go so hard against Tucker.

00:09:07.000 Good luck.

00:09:09.000 You want to talk about viral moments?

00:09:11.000 And I'll be honest, put the election aside.

00:09:13.000 This is very selfish.

00:09:15.000 Just for the good of humanity and for civilization, to see Tucker Carlson in a vice presidential debate would just be good for the soul.

00:09:23.000 I'm just going to be very honest with you.

00:09:24.000 Just that history could say that that existed, that that's a thing that happened, regardless of the election outcome, I'm sorry.

00:09:32.000 I'm a sucker for that.

00:09:33.000 It would be one of the most entertaining things in the history of the species.

00:09:39.000 Camela versus Tucker Carlson and just Tucker's laugh, his self-deprecation.

00:09:45.000 And Tucker has a way of presenting the abstract into digestible ways.

00:09:53.000 And I do have to be honest, Tucker, Tucker understands the philosophy, the history.

00:10:02.000 He's ridiculously well-read.

00:10:04.000 And I disagree.

00:10:05.000 People say he doesn't bring new voters to the table.

00:10:08.000 I think he brings tens of millions of new voters to the table.

00:10:12.000 And in a five-person race, isn't it a widespread popularity and personality contest?

00:10:18.000 It's going to be who can get the most amount of attention.

00:10:20.000 Okay, you have Trump who gets unlimited attention.

00:10:23.000 And Trump and Tucker.

00:10:25.000 Now, one of the issues is, would Donald Trump be okay sharing a ticket with somebody who is just as popular as him?

00:10:33.000 That's a question.

00:10:34.000 That's an open question.

00:10:36.000 Another reason why Trump should consider Tucker as VP, as I mentioned, is he blunts the RFK Jr. drag.

00:10:45.000 It's a big issue.

00:10:46.000 The Times Sienna poll has Trump up on Biden in five or six swing states and winning the 2024 election.

00:10:53.000 But once you add Kennedy into the mix, Trump only leads in two states, in Georgia and Nevada.

00:10:59.000 Trump on the ticket will win back many vaccine skeptic centrist voters who RFK Jr. appeals to.

00:11:08.000 He's not just popular.

00:11:10.000 He's also effective and persuasive.

00:11:15.000 And in the spirit of Trump not wanting to go to federal prison, which will happen if he loses most likely, let's be honest.

00:11:23.000 That's really where we're headed.

00:11:25.000 It should all be about winning.

00:11:28.000 Not only is Tucker an interesting idea, I do not know a single person who could win over so many voters, go viral, and attract disaffected MAGA voters who voted in 20, like Tucker Carlson.

00:11:42.000 I'm open for suggestions.

00:11:43.000 Who but Tucker could do that?

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00:12:50.000 You know, there are some recommendations here.

00:12:53.000 People, you guys are emailing us, but let's hold on.

00:12:55.000 One of the reasons why I love the Trump-Tucker combo is they have the same worldview.

00:13:00.000 If you pick kind of your traditional DC person, or let's just take Tim Scott, sweet man, the conventional wisdom is that Tucker Carlson, I mean, I'm sorry, Tim Scott will win over black voters.

00:13:13.000 I'm going to say something controversial.

00:13:15.000 I think Tucker Carlson would actually win over more black voters than Tim Scott.

00:13:19.000 I really firmly believe that.

00:13:20.000 And it's not a knock at Tim Scott.

00:13:22.000 I think that Tucker's more interesting.

00:13:25.000 Tucker has better name ID.

00:13:27.000 He's more trusted.

00:13:29.000 And again, you have these five candidates, Jill Stein, Cornell West, Manchin, and Romney.

00:13:35.000 You should maximize your positives.

00:13:40.000 This is not a traditional presidential race.

00:13:42.000 So we need to think differently.

00:13:44.000 We need to think creatively.

00:13:46.000 And Tucker, every single night for six years, was articulating, defending, and explaining the MAGA agenda.

00:14:00.000 Tucker moved the Overton window on race, moved the Overton window on policing, moved the Overton window on the trans issue.

00:14:08.000 Without Tucker, we would not have had the drumbeat to challenge the consensus on Ukraine, international wars, immigration.

00:14:22.000 What other show than Tucker Show talked about the invasion on the southern border?

00:14:28.000 So we don't have to, it's not a mystery of where Tucker stands.

00:14:31.000 We have six years of nightly broadcasts of Tucker telling us where he stands, and it is consistent with every single main objective of Trump's MAGA movement.

00:14:44.000 Tim Scott, just an example, I'm not trying to pick on Tim Scott.

00:14:47.000 I like him.

00:14:47.000 He's pro-war in Ukraine, number one.

00:14:50.000 He's not a hawk on immigration.

00:14:51.000 He certainly is not America first when it comes to trade.

00:14:56.000 Tucker and Trump have the same worldview when it comes to foreign policy, government corruption, without being the same person.

00:15:04.000 But Tucker's presentation is much different.

00:15:06.000 He can reach and persuade completely different people.

00:15:10.000 Tucker expands Trump's appeal in very important ways.

00:15:14.000 Tucker's popularity, by the way, has survived seven years of attempts to destroy him.

00:15:19.000 Robust, anti-fragile.

00:15:21.000 And in this new era, this new media era of over-the-top media consumption, of social media.

00:15:28.000 Doesn't it make sense to have somebody who could go on for three and a half hours with Joe Rogan?

00:15:33.000 You could send, here's just, this is not theoretical.

00:15:36.000 You could send Donald Trump for a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania alone, and he would drive, he would draw 45,000 people.

00:15:43.000 And then you send Tucker Carlson to Austin, Texas to sit down with Joe Rogan for three and a half hours.

00:15:49.000 And you will combine reach more voters than any other ticket in the history of American politics.

00:15:55.000 Period.

00:15:56.000 Nothing comes even close.

00:15:58.000 The next day, Donald Trump goes to Wisconsin, Kenosha, and draws 15,000 voters.

00:16:04.000 And then Tucker Carlson goes on some liberal podcast and reaches 20 million people.

00:16:10.000 And then you do a joint rally of Tucker and Trump in Scottsdale, Arizona, and you draw 20,000 people.

00:16:17.000 There are millions of disaffected voters that lost their job over the vaccine.

00:16:24.000 They have bitterness and resentment towards all politicians, and they're somewhat a little upset at Trump.

00:16:31.000 Some of them, not all of them.

00:16:33.000 And Trump is going to have to win those people back.

00:16:35.000 You do that immediately with Tucker Carlson.

00:16:38.000 The growing demo of young men, especially, that want to have a voice in government, that watch Jordan Peterson, they watch Joe Rogan, they watch Andrew Tate.

00:16:51.000 They are consuming this new media.

00:16:56.000 Not only do you win them over, you will create a massively powerful voting block that will shake the matrix and hack the algorithm of all the Democrat get out the vote operations.

00:17:10.000 All of it.

00:17:11.000 And in the new political era, isn't it a question of who's the most interesting?

00:17:17.000 Besides Donald Trump, what person in public life has been as attacked and survived more so than Tucker Carlson?

00:17:27.000 Anybody else?

00:17:28.000 And survived and is more powerful.

00:17:31.000 You have two people the regime has spied on, canceled, attacked, tried to take out, and the normal man, the everyday person supports.

00:17:44.000 I have not heard a good argument of why this is a bad idea.

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00:18:58.000 Okay.

00:18:59.000 We've talked about significantly Tucker's trust with the base.

00:19:05.000 Think about how much distrust there is within the conservative base right now.

00:19:10.000 We don't trust the COVID vaccine stuff.

00:19:15.000 We don't trust Rana or the RNC.

00:19:18.000 We don't trust Congress.

00:19:20.000 It makes sense to make Tucker the vice president because he can increase the trust within the skeptical ranks of the conservative base.

00:19:28.000 Okay.

00:19:28.000 So right now there is a vote occurring in the House.

00:19:36.000 It's not great.

00:19:37.000 So we have a new speaker, Speaker Johnson.

00:19:39.000 God bless him.

00:19:39.000 He's trying his best, but the machine is undefeated, everybody.

00:19:43.000 I think we did a very good job early on not to get people's hopes up too much.

00:19:47.000 And here's where we are.

00:19:49.000 So, the House has until Friday to pass some form of a government funding measure to avert a shutdown.

00:19:56.000 And it's not actually a shutdown.

00:19:58.000 It is a partial shutdown.

00:20:00.000 Essential government services would remain.

00:20:03.000 You would still get your social security checks.

00:20:05.000 You would still have Medicare.

00:20:06.000 The military would still be operational.

00:20:09.000 It would not be an actual shutdown.

00:20:12.000 So, do not fall for the media's BS or nonsense.

00:20:16.000 So, Mike Johnson is trying a novel approach.

00:20:18.000 It's cute, but it doesn't get it done.

00:20:22.000 It's a two-step continuing resolution whose purpose is to appease people like us who really, really hate quote-unquote clean CRs.

00:20:31.000 Johnson calls this a laddered CR.

00:20:34.000 But as far as we can tell, this two-step process is just that some spending is extended until mid-January and some until February.

00:20:44.000 It's a difference of a couple weeks, supposedly the idea that in 2024 there'll be some sort of newfound sense of urgency because there'll be multiple deadlines in short succession.

00:20:55.000 But there'll be no actual spending cuts and no end to these big omnibus spending measures.

00:21:00.000 Chip Roy has already said this is another CR by different means and that he opposes it for that reason.

00:21:05.000 Steve Bannon has come out against this CR.

00:21:09.000 And the whole ball game is revealed in NBC News.

00:21:14.000 We saw this one coming.

00:21:16.000 I got to be honest with you.

00:21:17.000 We saw this one coming.

00:21:19.000 Why is this happening?

00:21:21.000 Why is the media doing cover for Congress?

00:21:28.000 Why are the Republicans and the Democrats working together to kick things to January and February?

00:21:35.000 What is the reason?

00:21:37.000 NBC has a perfect line.

00:21:40.000 It's exactly as we articulated when Andy Biggs came on the show and Marjorie Taylor Greene came on the show.

00:21:46.000 We warned all, not warned them, we told them our opinion: quote, the plan is designed to avoid a messy showdown right before the holidays.

00:21:56.000 Your country is going to hell, but your leaders need a Christmas break.

00:22:01.000 Active military service members stationed overseas, they don't get to go home for Christmas.

00:22:07.000 Police officers sometimes have to work Christmas shifts.

00:22:12.000 Airline pilots have to work Christmas shifts.

00:22:17.000 ER nurses, doctors, you get the point.

00:22:20.000 But your politicians, they're very important people.

00:22:24.000 Mike Johnson, really important guy.

00:22:27.000 Very important.

00:22:28.000 So important that we need to take off some time, guys.

00:22:32.000 Mike Johnson should shut down the entire federal government on Friday and say, guys, we're going to fight this out now, not in January or February.

00:22:39.000 We have that chart that we came up with.

00:22:40.000 Can we find that chart?

00:22:41.000 As you get closer to election day, Republican courage disappears.

00:22:45.000 You think that in January or February, all of a sudden they're going to have this stimulus of courage?

00:22:53.000 Of course not.

00:22:54.000 The exact opposite will happen.

00:22:56.000 They'll say, we're in an election year.

00:22:58.000 We have tough districts.

00:22:59.000 Let's just punt till after the election.

00:23:02.000 They've been doing this for my 11-year career.

00:23:05.000 I've seen this so many times.

00:23:08.000 But it's all because of Christmas break.

00:23:10.000 I want you to think about how demented that is.

00:23:13.000 And I use that word intentionally. 0.96

00:23:15.000 This is sick.

00:23:17.000 We are borrowing $2 trillion.

00:23:20.000 We're going to lose the dollar as the global reserve currency status.

00:23:25.000 Our border is wide open.

00:23:28.000 The FBI is getting a new building, by the way.

00:23:30.000 Many of your Republicans voted for it, $300 million new building.

00:23:34.000 And our Republican Party is worried about Christmas break.

00:23:37.000 There you go.

00:23:37.000 Republican courage goes down the closer we get to Election Day.

00:23:41.000 So, Mike Johnson, why wouldn't you just shut down the government on Friday?

00:23:44.000 What are you afraid of?

00:23:46.000 It's not like Republicans can do much worse in elections right now.

00:23:49.000 We lost everything last week, okay?

00:23:51.000 We lost in Kentucky.

00:23:52.000 We lost in Ohio.

00:23:53.000 We lost in Virginia.

00:23:54.000 If there's ever a time to fight, this Friday is the time to fight.

00:23:58.000 Shut it down.

00:23:59.000 Make them work Thanksgiving. 0.97

00:24:01.000 Make them work through December. 0.98

00:24:03.000 Order some turkey.

00:24:06.000 Get some stuffing.

00:24:07.000 I'm sure, is Boston market still a thing?

00:24:09.000 I think they went bankrupt.

00:24:12.000 You know what?

00:24:12.000 I bet some Chinese restaurant can cater food on Thanksgiving.

00:24:17.000 Order some pizza.

00:24:18.000 Figure it out.

00:24:19.000 This is unacceptable.

00:24:21.000 It's not a surprise.

00:24:22.000 We knew it was Mike Johnson, good guy, Christian, pious, all that stuff.

00:24:26.000 If I met him here, I'd shake his hand.

00:24:28.000 Great.

00:24:28.000 Love you, man.

00:24:29.000 God bless you.

00:24:30.000 But all these people had their hopes up.

00:24:32.000 Oh, Mike Johnson's going to be, it's the same thing.

00:24:35.000 If this passes, it's not just the same thing.

00:24:39.000 It's even worse.

00:24:40.000 This is in some ways worse than what McCarthy was proposing.

00:24:43.000 At least McCarthy was proposing some spending cuts for Christmas.

00:24:47.000 This is nothing.

00:24:49.000 But now they say, well, we're going to have enough.

00:24:50.000 This is going to buy us more time.

00:24:52.000 You guys have had enough time.

00:24:54.000 You didn't work in February or March or April or May.

00:24:57.000 You didn't work over the summer.

00:24:58.000 You didn't work on the debt ceiling.

00:25:00.000 You didn't work on.

00:25:00.000 You think all of a sudden, sending you guys home for Christmas, you're going to come back from Christmas break and say, you know what?

00:25:06.000 Now we're going to go cut spending.

00:25:08.000 We've seen this play before, and it is a fraud.

00:25:12.000 Let's play cut 22, please, kind of a 30,000-foot view of the CR approach.

00:25:18.000 Play cut 22.

00:25:19.000 The House, Mike Johnson, is facing his first major test.

00:25:22.000 He is pitching lawmakers on a two-step plan that would keep certain parts of the government, like veteran affairs, housing, and transportation, funded through January 19th, and other parts, like defense and homeland security, funded through February 2nd.

00:25:34.000 Left out of this plan, any additional funding for Israel and Ukraine, it's unclear if it has the votes to pass.

00:25:40.000 Already a handful of conservatives in the House say they will not back this plan, which means it could rely on Democratic votes to clear the House.

00:25:48.000 Of course, Democrats are going to vote for it, and it will clear the House.

00:25:52.000 And Mike Johnson will get what he wants, which is no work on Christmas.

00:25:56.000 We said from day one, no one listened to us.

00:25:58.000 We said from day one, Mike Johnson, you want to change D.C.?

00:26:01.000 Demand working hours during Thanksgiving and Christmas.

00:26:04.000 That will get people to actually work.

00:26:07.000 The most important thing for your Republican leaders, except a couple like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Chiproy, is they got to get home for Christmas everybody.

00:26:14.000 They've been working really hard in D.C. You know, they haven't passed a budget in 11 years.

00:26:18.000 They haven't cut any spending.

00:26:20.000 They need some time to go.

00:26:21.000 They need some time to really get wined and dined by the lobbyists and the cronies in their district.

00:26:26.000 These are important people.

00:26:28.000 Working three-hour days and raising money all day long and getting paid for dinners at the Capitol Grill.

00:26:33.000 You understand how exhausting that is?

00:26:36.000 Doing an interview every couple days, waking up at 10, rolling into work.

00:26:40.000 I mean, these are, come on.

00:26:44.000 These are, they might as well just be the most important people ever to exist.

00:26:48.000 How dare you say that you have to work a couple days?

00:26:51.000 And Mike Johnson's leading the charge.

00:26:53.000 Mike Johnson is the one.

00:26:54.000 Mike Johnson, this is completely unacceptable.

00:26:56.000 I don't know what you're doing, man.

00:26:56.000 Well, we know what you're doing.

00:26:57.000 The swamp is undefeated.

00:27:00.000 The machine.

00:27:01.000 Nice guy, not ready for the moment.

00:27:02.000 We kind of saw that from a mile away.

00:27:04.000 We said, I'm glad he's there.

00:27:05.000 It's great that we got rid of the following.

00:27:07.000 We did the whole thing.

00:27:08.000 And now this is all coming to fruition.

00:27:11.000 We need to contact your members to say, do not vote for this lattered CR.

00:27:16.000 We should shut down the government this weekend.

00:27:18.000 In fact, do you really want to make the Democrats get to the table, shut down the government, order a bunch of Chinese food and pizzas for Thanksgiving?

00:27:27.000 You go get a turkey, I'm sure, at a local grocery store.

00:27:30.000 Sit in Congress on Thanksgiving and say, you know what, we'd love to be with our families.

00:27:36.000 But we'll see our families if we still have a country.

00:27:40.000 But your leaders don't care about the country.

00:27:42.000 They want to be able to go home for Thanksgiving and Christmas and have time off.

00:27:48.000 I hate to oversimplify this, but NBC News said this perfectly.

00:27:54.000 Their Christmas break is more important than the country, period.

00:27:58.000 Their time off is more important than the well-being of our nation.

00:28:03.000 End of story.

00:28:04.000 And Republicans agree.

00:28:05.000 They need their time off because they're very important people.

00:28:10.000 And you're trying to tell me that in the spring they'll come back, Martin Luther King Day weekend, we'll just be right around the corner than President's Day.

00:28:19.000 So why can't you focus on spending now?

00:28:22.000 Do the tough fights, and then you have Christmas and the New Year's people forget about it.

00:28:26.000 Look, we want Mike Johnson to succeed as much as anyone.

00:28:29.000 We continue to cheer him on.

00:28:30.000 This is a disappointment.

00:28:32.000 Major letdown.

00:28:34.000 Might as well just hand the keys to the Republican Congress to Democrats.

00:28:38.000 What is the argument, Mike Johnson, not to shut down the government this weekend?

00:28:42.000 What exactly?

00:28:42.000 What do you think you're doing here?

00:28:43.000 You think you're going to get a bunch of spending cuts in the new year?

00:28:45.000 You think you're going to get some big balanced budget?

00:28:48.000 You think you're going to defund the FBI?

00:28:50.000 No, it's obvious.

00:28:51.000 They're getting to him.

00:28:52.000 He's getting scared.

00:28:54.000 They're threatening and they're doing, it's the typical thing.

00:28:58.000 I'm seeing no signs of life towards goodness.

00:29:00.000 I mean, he's a good guy.

00:29:02.000 Look, courage starts on day one.

00:29:04.000 Nobody learns courage months after doing nothing, okay?

00:29:06.000 Day one, he should have just said, boom, we're working through Thanksgiving and Christmas.

00:29:10.000 That alone would have changed the whole tenor.

00:29:12.000 That alone would have actually got people to the table if you just say that.

00:29:15.000 But the swamp wants their treasured time off for Thanksgiving and Christmas because, of course, they got all of August off and they haven't even worked this fall at all.

00:29:22.000 And they're going to get it unless we stop it.

00:29:24.000 The border is going to remain wide open.

00:29:26.000 Jack Smith will get his money.

00:29:28.000 The FBI will get a new building and we'll have a $2 trillion deficit.

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00:30:37.000 Yeah, this is how you lose support for the Israeli effort.

00:30:43.000 I mean, I'm cheering for Israel, obviously.

00:30:46.000 Liberation, the first ever pride flag raised in Gaza. 0.99

00:30:50.000 Under Hamas, being gay means death.

00:30:52.000 Israeli Yaov Aztamani wanted to send a message of hope. 0.69

00:30:56.000 See his story below.

00:30:57.000 To Gaza's hidden LGBTQ plus community, stay hopeful of a future where you can live and love free of Hamas.

00:31:05.000 And he is waving a gay pride flag in Hamas.

00:31:09.000 Do you think that's going to make the left like you, Israel? 0.98

00:31:13.000 Why are you doing this?

00:31:14.000 You think that all of a sudden a bunch of social justice warrior, purple-haired jihadis in America and say, oh, of course, now I love Israel.

00:31:22.000 When will Israel learn that you're not going to win over the international left?

00:31:26.000 They haven't learned this.

00:31:28.000 You think that this is going to be super persuasive?

00:31:32.000 Can we get that image up, please?

00:31:33.000 Do you think it will make the right like you? 0.97

00:31:37.000 Do you think all of a sudden the people who are your biggest defenders are largely evangelical Christians here?

00:31:44.000 Do you think us seeing celebratory pride flag waving in Gaza?

00:31:52.000 It's been seen 11 million times on Twitter.

00:31:56.000 11 million times.

00:31:57.000 By the way, several Israeli tanks have pride flags on them.

00:32:00.000 There's TikToks after TikToks of Israeli soldiers saying that this is a fight for the liberation of gay and lesbian people.

00:32:08.000 I am cheering for Israel, but stuff like this makes those of us who understand what the pride movement is, the whole thing, kind of saying, all right, I mean, kind of puts the wind out of our sails.

00:32:20.000 I'll be perfectly honest with you.

00:32:22.000 The argument for Israel, one of the things, is that it's a country that is against neoliberalism.

00:32:27.000 You have borders, you deport foreigners, you're very clear about the type of country that you are. 1.00

00:32:33.000 You don't want to be taken over by bad ideas.

00:32:36.000 It's against the worst aspects of the neoliberal regime.

00:32:40.000 And I think one of the reasons why, you know, they post this and the IDF is supportive, they think, oh, if we only tell the young liberals of America that we're actually the pro-gay operation, they're going to love us.

00:32:53.000 That's not the way this game works, guys.

00:32:55.000 It's not.

00:32:56.000 The Queers for Palestine group, which again is like chicken for KFC, they're not interested in that.

00:33:04.000 They look at people of oppression that are under oppression.

00:33:09.000 Want to play cut two.

00:33:11.000 John Kirby, Biden administration doesn't want to see a reoccupation of Gaza by Israel.

00:33:15.000 Play cut two.

00:33:16.000 Well, we don't want to see, and the president has been very consistent on this.

00:33:19.000 We don't want to see a reoccupation of Gaza by Israel.

00:33:22.000 We think that's not only not good for Israel, it's not good for the people of Gaza. 0.65

00:33:27.000 So we do not support that.

00:33:29.000 What we do support is some sort of governance in Gaza long term that includes the voices and the votes and the self-determination of the Palestinian people.

00:33:40.000 Now, what does that look like?

00:33:42.000 We don't know yet.

00:33:43.000 You have demonstration after demonstration.

00:33:47.000 By the way, in the streets of New York, you have Palestinian Arabs going up and tearing down American flags and putting up Palestinian flags. 1.00

00:33:56.000 They're taking, by the way, again, this is somewhat of a simple argument, but this weekend, hundreds of protesters went to Joe Biden's home in Delaware.

00:34:07.000 Could you imagine if hundreds of MAGA protesters went to Joe Biden's home in Delaware?

00:34:12.000 They'd be arrested for domestic terrorism, obviously.

00:34:16.000 The Israel issue is breaking the back of the Democrat Party.

00:34:21.000 In Michigan, Politico.com reports that this issue has significantly buried Joe Biden's support by nearly double digits.

00:34:30.000 With RFK, Cornell West, and many others, this is a serious, this is a serious issue.

00:34:39.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:40.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:43.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:34:44.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - November 13, 2023

The Perfection of Trump-Tucker 2024

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