The Charlie Kirk Show - The Putin Variant Emerges

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, today at Charlie Kirk Show. 0.76

00:00:02.000 What is the Putin variant? 0.64

00:00:03.000 Is it incompetence or intent? 0.76

00:00:05.000 And we go through all these topics on a thought-provoking episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.

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00:02:18.000 All right, everybody, we're going to dive right into it today.

00:02:21.000 We've been traveling and having some tech challenges.

00:02:25.000 I know our tech team's trying the best they can to navigate through all this, but I wanted to make sure that I shared some of these thoughts with you guys in a very important episode, especially piggybacking off of our viral commentary with Jack Hibbs that we did last week at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills.

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00:02:47.000 It has nearly half a million views on YouTube alone and hundreds of thousands on Facebook.

00:02:51.000 And the episode's doing really well on our podcast feed.

00:02:54.000 It was all about the great reset.

00:02:55.000 And I talked about how this needs to be the prism of how you view otherwise very confusing events.

00:03:00.000 For example, the eight promises of the great reset, getting rid of carbon emissions, getting rid of fossil fuels, getting rid of Western values, America no longer being the superpower, you no longer eating meat, which, of course, is an attack on testosterone and let's say the idea of the Western man.

00:03:18.000 I actually didn't talk about that at Jack Hibbs, but something that I felt that I left out in the conversation with Jack Hibbs, and not that I did it intentionally, it's just we ran out of time, is that when you have this sort of push for this internationalist, globalist great reset, it also presents the opportunity for people domestically to want that to happen, but they react completely differently.

00:03:41.000 And there's a reason why this happens, and it's important to be able to subdivide the people that really truly want to weaken America to create a globalist type utopia and other people that want to weaken America that actually make themselves stronger.

00:03:58.000 So same thing, just for different reasons.

00:04:02.000 And my friend Jack Pesobic, who you guys have heard before on this program, had a really good piece of commentary that I thought it was really well put, which is we went from managed decline of America to controlled demolition.

00:04:15.000 So we went from Barack Obama just kind of seeing the malaise and the slippage of our constitutional republic to we are going to put TNT at the joints of the building and get this thing over with as quickly as possible.

00:04:29.000 And it's very important to remember that it's not widespread incompetence that we're seeing, although our government has plenty of it, but this is coming with intent.

00:04:36.000 So we must divide the actors and the players into two separate categories.

00:04:41.000 For example, George Soros wants the destruction of America for a one-world internationalist type order.

00:04:47.000 George Soros does not want the destruction of America so he can rule over the ashes.

00:04:53.000 And as we subdivide this into two different buckets and two different groups, the intentions of our political leaders, it actually is a very interesting way to view things.

00:05:02.000 In fact, it's very important.

00:05:04.000 So the left, for example, does not have a foreign policy at all.

00:05:08.000 They don't have a set of principles or the way they want the world to look in a very specific way.

00:05:14.000 Instead, the domestic left here, they use international events to try to strengthen their domestic agenda.

00:05:22.000 They weaponize the events happening internationally for power here.

00:05:27.000 And we're seeing this in many different ways, especially when it comes to energy.

00:05:30.000 And so the recent news is Joe Biden has announced that he is no longer going to have Russian oil imports coming into America.

00:05:38.000 Now, we, of course, support that, but he also knows that is going to spike gas prices, which will only further accelerate the push towards green energy.

00:05:46.000 So he's not doing this to stick it to Russia.

00:05:48.000 He's not doing this to try to expand LNG exploration here in America.

00:05:52.000 Instead, Joe Biden and his political domestic cronies, they want a weaker America because it will be easier for them to control.

00:06:00.000 I want you to just think about that for a second.

00:06:02.000 A weaker America becomes more manageable for people that otherwise would not be able to be in political power.

00:06:11.000 Jen Saki has received multiple questions on this in particular.

00:06:15.000 Jen Saki is someone that is less convinced about the internationalist global new world order, the great reset, which is very important.

00:06:22.000 Sake wants the great reset for one purpose, but not because she wants to rule the world from Brussels. 0.99

00:06:28.000 They would kick her out for being too stupid. 0.98

00:06:29.000 Instead, Jen Saki wants a weaker America because it's good for her domestic political ambitions. 1.00

00:06:34.000 Jen Saki was asked about this, and she said, well, look, Joe Biden, he's taken historic steps to reduce energy prices Americans are paying, play cut 35.

00:06:43.000 What is the White House?

00:06:44.000 What is the president's message to Americans who are going to the gas station today and seeing prices so high?

00:06:50.000 We have already taken steps.

00:06:52.000 The president has already taken steps.

00:06:53.000 Historic release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, one that's done in a coordinated fashion.

00:06:58.000 And clearly, we will continue to have conversations with large oil producers and suppliers around the world about how to mitigate the impact.

00:07:06.000 And then Saki finishes taking questions on oil and natural gas.

00:07:10.000 And let's go to Cut 34 as Fox then goes back to a reporter who says that Saki was speaking at a report, came out saying that they've actually reached record highs, play cut 34.

00:07:19.000 He spoke with ABC today.

00:07:21.000 He says that he's had a long-standing requested.

00:07:23.000 I'm going to report that GasBuddy.com, aside from the national average reporting that we get every day, is reporting that as she was speaking, in fact, the national average is now at a record high.

00:07:35.000 I mean, that is a reality for American families in this country.

00:07:38.000 And John, it does not appear that there is an answer like producing more oil in this country is there for this White House.

00:07:46.000 But this is not all bad news for her and the cronies in the White House because they believe this will actually be able to not just strengthen the green energy push that they believe in with religious fervor and zeal, but also will weaken the base of the Republican and conservative movement.

00:08:05.000 Oil and natural gas exploration, they primarily finance conservative politicians and politics.

00:08:10.000 And they think that's one way to try to stranglehold or chokehold the Republican or conservative political movement, which of course is very short-sighted, very Machiavellian.

00:08:21.000 However, it's how can we deconstruct the country as quickly as possible so that we can be in charge, regardless if it's an awful place to live, but at least we're going to get the chauffeured cars and we get the lifestyle benefits of the untangled and the, let's say, deconstructed nation.

00:08:39.000 So the split is really this, and the subdivision is this, is a weaker America does not mean that the elites will be without power.

00:08:48.000 During mass chaos, during confusion, during bedlam, some elites will basically say, we want an erosion of all norms.

00:08:58.000 We can have a suspension of the order that was there prior.

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00:10:21.000 A nation that is constantly going from one chaos to the other, one event of madness to the other, cannot build.

00:10:30.000 We as a nation are not able to build and not able to, not just build buildings, which is obviously what comes to mind, but build families, build communities, start new businesses, generate new ideas, become successful entrepreneurs if you are constantly in a state of mass-induced hysteria.

00:10:48.000 If you are in a state of mass-induced hysteria where you're always angry, you're always upset, you're not able to calm yourself into a position to properly deploy resources or capital or your ideas.

00:11:01.000 It actually makes it a very unhappy, unpleasant place to live.

00:11:07.000 Tucker Carlson talked about this on his program rather effectively, and he talked about how name-calling has basically now been used as a means of social control.

00:11:17.000 And part of this, by the way, is because of social media.

00:11:19.000 Everyone labels themselves as something.

00:11:21.000 Because of your Twitter bio or your Instagram bio, you have to be able to label yourself into some sort of description that can hopefully generate some form of respect from people that you know or you might want to know, such as I'm an American patriot.

00:11:39.000 I support the flag and the Constitution, and here's my email.

00:11:41.000 That's like an Instagram bio.

00:11:43.000 Or the same can be said in a Twitter bio.

00:11:45.000 But name-calling also has the inverse effect that if all of a sudden I put names on you that you don't like, I'm going to do what you want me to do.

00:11:53.000 Play cut 36.

00:11:55.000 If you dare to point out that actually all lives matter, they denounced you as a racist.

00:11:59.000 If you expressed concern about vaccine mandates, of course, they called you an anti-vaxxer.

00:12:04.000 Sound familiar?

00:12:05.000 The pattern never changes.

00:12:06.000 Hey, maybe war with Russia is not a good idea for the United States.

00:12:09.000 Say that out loud sometime.

00:12:11.000 It's not an extreme position.

00:12:12.000 Most Americans would agree with you.

00:12:14.000 But you will immediately be denounced as a tool of Putin.

00:12:17.000 What is this?

00:12:18.000 It's name-calling as a means of social control.

00:12:22.000 The people in charge have decided their primary job is to decide who you should hate.

00:12:27.000 So a nation in chaos is actually one by design.

00:12:30.000 They want you to sue for peace.

00:12:33.000 The people in charge don't want you to live in a pleasant America.

00:12:36.000 When America is pleasant or we are at a time where the waters are calm, then you're not going to be reaching for the Leviathan.

00:12:44.000 Thomas Hobbes wrote about this in the book The Leviathan in the 1500s, where he described human nature as being nasty, brutish, and short to one another.

00:12:53.000 He said that human beings are so terrible to one another.

00:12:55.000 He's one of the social contract theorists, that we need a strong centralized government, that we need a dictator, a despot, an authoritarian.

00:13:04.000 That is the only way that human beings will actually be able to function.

00:13:07.000 Freedom, liberty, human beings don't understand such concepts.

00:13:10.000 They won't be able to actually be able to reach higher levels of prosperity.

00:13:14.000 No, what they need is order and control.

00:13:18.000 Now, of course, we believe in order and tradition.

00:13:20.000 We believe in the ancestral norms that have built Western society, but also we prefer not to be controlled or in some sort of nanny state.

00:13:28.000 We want flex in the joints that people can pursue the life that have the ambition that they see fit to start new ideas.

00:13:34.000 We want a creative society.

00:13:36.000 The people that believe in the Hobbesian view of social contract theorists, largely the elites in our country, they reject that premise.

00:13:43.000 They say, wait a second, if you have freedom and liberty, then that makes me far less important.

00:13:48.000 And as we have seen the continual growth and strengthening of the proverbial fourth branch of government, the IRS, the EPA, the FDIC, all these organizations, these bureaucrats have basically been incentivized to not have the crisis go away.

00:14:07.000 Chaos cannot build things.

00:14:09.000 I mean, let's just look at it very rationally.

00:14:12.000 If you were trying to build a house or build a family, let's just say build a house, and everyone is always screaming at one another and running around, the house will never get built.

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00:15:36.000 In times of mass conflict, new structures, new things of value are not given the oxygen or the platform to be able to create and flourish and grow.

00:15:46.000 One of my great concerns right now is as we go from one mass hysteria event to the other, as we go from Floyd to Palooza to the non-stop COVID hysteria to now what can be coined as the Putin variant.

00:16:00.000 There's an article that actually says that on the American mind, the Putin variant, quote, the regime is repurposing its COVID-19 propaganda playbook. 0.66

00:16:09.000 The very same kind of instruments of outrage, the same sort of descriptors, if you will, the same sort of language has been repackaged, repurposed towards having you be totally outraged, so outraged against Vladimir Putin that we have to create a no-fly zone over Ukraine, that we have to bomb the Russian convoy. 0.52

00:16:30.000 And in fact, nuclear conflict just actually might be necessary.

00:16:34.000 Now, I don't know about you, but this is creating an exhausted type of civilization where people have had enough.

00:16:42.000 From the gas prices to the inflation to the social decay to the degeneracy all around them, they want you to be exhausted.

00:16:49.000 You see, the elites thought that they could knock us out in one or two rounds.

00:16:52.000 Let's use a boxing analogy.

00:16:53.000 They thought that they could blitz-krieg us into submission, and now they are going to a different strategy.

00:16:59.000 They're trying to smoke you out, they're trying to exhaust you, they're trying to bring you into the later rounds of the boxing match and win by decision.

00:17:08.000 They know they are not going to be able to proverbially knock out the American patriot.

00:17:13.000 There's too much will to fight.

00:17:15.000 Instead, they think that they can exhaust you.

00:17:18.000 They can make you say, I'm so sick and tired of just being sick and tired.

00:17:22.000 The outrage, the social media, let's say, push notifications that deteriorate human relations.

00:17:31.000 It's not healthy for a civilized nation to always be in this posture of table-pounding mass hysteria.

00:17:40.000 Tucker Carlson dived into this even deeper, and he said this in Cut 40.

00:17:45.000 He said, Tucker talks about how many Republicans in Washington, D.C. are part of the pro-war faction that could be more radical than Joe Biden and how they're not representing their conservative voters, and it can hurt them in the midterms.

00:17:57.000 Play Cut 40.

00:17:59.000 Now, Republicans in Washington, to their eternal shame, have no problem with any of this.

00:18:04.000 In fact, many of them are more for war with Russia than Joe Biden seems to be.

00:18:09.000 That is a disgrace.

00:18:10.000 It will hurt them in the midterms.

00:18:12.000 It will hurt them on some deeper level because it does not serve the interests of this country.

00:18:17.000 A war fought on behalf of democracy that ignores the will of the country fighting it.

00:18:22.000 Republicans are not representing their voters when they move to a position that's way more warlike than Joe Biden's, when they embrace the lunacy that could really hurt this country.

00:18:35.000 And Tucker also talked about in Cut 39.

00:18:37.000 He highlighted how there's been wars all across the world in the last five years and that no one has heard about them because they're not important enough.

00:18:44.000 Lost in the relentless focus on war in Ukraine, by the way, is any perspective about the world or war, which is always lacking in D.C., but never more so than now.

00:18:53.000 The fighting in Ukraine is terrible.

00:18:54.000 Of course, you're seeing it happen.

00:18:56.000 No decent person could fail to be moved by the images, but it's not unique.

00:19:01.000 It's not the only war in recent memory or even currently in progress right now.

00:19:07.000 Many thousands died in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War that was between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

00:19:12.000 Ever heard of it?

00:19:13.000 It ended less than a year and a half ago.

00:19:16.000 No coverage.

00:19:17.000 There's been a gruesome war underway in Ethiopia for a couple of years now.

00:19:21.000 It's again in progress as we speak.

00:19:23.000 Tens of thousands of women have been raped by militiamen, many of them intentionally infected with AIDS.

00:19:28.000 Can it get worse than that?

00:19:30.000 How many people have died in the war in Ethiopia?

00:19:32.000 Don't really know because no one in our media cares enough to keep track. 0.96

00:19:36.000 It's just Ethiopia.

00:19:38.000 And then he said something that really went viral.

00:19:40.000 He said, quote, all of us are equal in the eyes of God.

00:19:42.000 The death of someone in Yemen is just as important as the death of someone in Ukraine.

00:19:46.000 But unless you run the American security apparatus, because according to the American national security apparatus, they want a hyper-focus on Ukraine, but not on Yemen, play cut 39.

00:19:58.000 We do know that hundreds of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died in the war in Yemen.

00:20:02.000 It's a war the Biden administration has continued to fund.

00:20:05.000 It doesn't get a lot of attention.

00:20:06.000 It's just Yemen. 1.00

00:20:07.000 Who cares? 0.98

00:20:08.000 Now, what is he getting at here?

00:20:10.000 What Tucker is making the argument for is exactly what we are saying here is a transmutation.

00:20:15.000 It's a metamorphosis.

00:20:17.000 It's that the hysteria that led to the black squares on Instagram, the hysteria that led to people wearing masks on Twitter, the hysteria of people that nonstop posted selfies of one another during the COVID-19 deal, during the China virus outbreak, I should say. 0.80

00:20:35.000 The people that showed selfies of themselves getting vaccinated, that same philosophy has now metamorphosized into you better support Ukraine at all costs. 0.53

00:20:47.000 And this goes to show a deeper philosophical and psychological component of what we're dealing with, is that a lot of people need outrage to continue. 0.79

00:20:57.000 A lot of people need the hysteria.

00:20:59.000 It's a sense of meaning and purpose, that they're not at peace being at peace.

00:21:04.000 That building a family, going to church and watching after your community, protecting the good, the true, and the beautiful actually gives them anxiety.

00:21:12.000 That the only way to deal with their heightened anxiety, their chronic issues that seem to be pouring over into our decent and civilized society is to actually be in a state of madness perpetually.

00:21:28.000 Now, this pains me to say because I'd like to think higher of human nature.

00:21:33.000 But isn't it the truth that we have a generation that's looking to go from one social cause to the other, from one protest to the other, that almost seems eager to go into the streets to feel as if their purpose is to virtue signal their own values upon the other?

00:21:48.000 I'm such an anti-racist that I need to tell the entire world this, that I'm an anti-racist, that I need to wear a shirt that shows that I'm a BLM type supporter, or I need to go wear a Ukrainian lapel pin or whatever it might be.

00:22:05.000 And for those of us that actually want to live ordered and decent and virtuous lives, that at least have the, let's say, the ambition to do that or the goal of living a normal life, we look at this news cycle and it causes not just headspinning sensation, but also it has kind of a split understanding for a lot of different people.

00:22:30.000 Some people look at this and they want to dive right into it and fight harder, which is obviously what we've decided to do on this show.

00:22:37.000 But other people then decide to check out.

00:22:40.000 It's designed to create apathy.

00:22:45.000 Again, it's not incompetence.

00:22:46.000 It's intent.

00:22:47.000 The intent of what is happening right now is try to get you not to care.

00:22:53.000 Try to get you to disengage, to say, time out.

00:22:56.000 There's got to be a better way to go about this. 0.84

00:23:00.000 Domestic conflict has always been the goal. 0.93

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00:24:13.000 That's AndrewandTodd.com.

00:24:18.000 And as we now dive into some of the things that people have been saying, such as Rochelle Walensky and the people in charge of our public health apparatus, it's very clear that their intent was never to try to make you feel easy or try to make you feel at peace or to empower you.

00:24:36.000 It's to have you kind of going from it's almost the crisis circle.

00:24:40.000 It's the circle of chaos from one point of outrage to the other.

00:24:46.000 And I know a lot of different people reach out to us at freedom at charliekirk.com and they say, it's really hard for me to interpret what's happening in our country.

00:24:56.000 And again, that's why I think the great reset episode we've done is so important, kind of tie all these pieces together.

00:25:02.000 But domestically, they're not so worried about what the borders of, you know, Senegal or Sierra Leone are going to be or Côte d'Ivoire or South Africa or Vietnam or what the globalist one world government is going to be.

00:25:15.000 Instead, they have their own personal aspirations to rule and to govern.

00:25:22.000 And so they have their own domestic agenda where they feel as if they can make their own life meaningful by crushing your existence.

00:25:32.000 So how do you do that?

00:25:34.000 By instituting massive bedlam and chaos at every single corner. 0.96

00:25:39.000 And of course, getting you to care about the Ukrainian situation and not actually talk about domestic issues at home.

00:25:46.000 And so we've received some pushback from some people where they say, Charlie, we can walk and chew gum at the same time.

00:25:52.000 We can go to war with Russia while also solving our opioid epidemic, our suicide crisis, our alcohol crisis, our drug crisis, our open border crisis, our inflation crisis, our entrepreneur situation, you know, our entrepreneur crisis, the small business decline.

00:26:05.000 We can walk and chew gum.

00:26:06.000 We can defeat Putin with our arms tied behind our back and we can rid the world of all of its problems.

00:26:11.000 Now, look, this is the problem, though.

00:26:14.000 And I don't think anyone would disagree with this.

00:26:16.000 I said, what if there was the same sort of three-week news cycle, which we are now coming on to the second or third week of the Ukrainian news cycle, of the same sort of push of raising money, of nonstop chatter, of information just around the fentanyl crisis, just for two weeks.

00:26:34.000 What if we had every single podcast, every single commentator, every single speaker, every single person wear a button, wear a bow, wear a shirt, wear a flag that just talked about the fact we had over 100,000 people overdosed from drugs.

00:26:46.000 Not all of them are fentanyl, but plenty were.

00:26:48.000 We just had that singular issue.

00:26:49.000 And that's the point that those of us that are talking about the outrage with Ukraine and the hysteria company with that say, wait a second, would that actually meaningfully address our drug situation? 0.54

00:26:59.000 Probably would, actually.

00:27:00.000 Imagine the nonprofits that would raise money.

00:27:02.000 Imagine the attention.

00:27:03.000 Imagine the heightened state of awareness, the public policy experts.

00:27:07.000 I mean, how many experts have we had on this program talking about Russian Ukraine?

00:27:10.000 At least 10 or 12.

00:27:12.000 And of course, a lot of it is because we're responding to the news cycle.

00:27:14.000 We have to give you guys the clarity to understanding what's really happening there.

00:27:17.000 not saying it's unimportant, but what happens though is based on just a very rational and understandable analysis of energy and time allotment is that you are not able to focus two nonstop weeks of issues that matter at home, such as the fact that we have a massive increase in suicides in our country, mental health issues, anxiety, depression, people overly medicating, an entire generation that can't buy homes.

00:27:42.000 And people say, well, we can do both.

00:27:43.000 Well, we're not doing both.

00:27:45.000 We just bought out the entire news apparatus, a multi-billion dollar ad campaign for the cause of the Ukrainian people.

00:27:53.000 Again, it might be the greatest cause in the world, but it's impossible to say you could do both.

00:27:57.000 You can't.

00:27:58.000 They cannot work in tandem.

00:27:59.000 In fact, the people in charge that want to weak America so they can be powerful, they don't want you to talk about those things because it weakens their power domestically.

00:28:06.000 They want them to happen.

00:28:08.000 They want the border to be open for sure. 0.81

00:28:11.000 They want people that have societal strife and domestic strife.

00:28:15.000 They just don't want you actually to address it to solve it.

00:28:18.000 They instead they'd much rather dangle the carrot of what's happening in Russia and Ukraine, create this massive smokescreen effect where you act as if every single domestic issue is solved and is perfect.

00:28:29.000 Meanwhile, you can't afford the gas at the gas pump.

00:28:31.000 You could barely afford your bills.

00:28:33.000 Taxes are due in just a couple of weeks.

00:28:35.000 You're thinking of whether or not to send your kid to an hyper-inflated college where they might learn to hate America, hate themselves, and to betray their parents.

00:28:43.000 And all the while, the news media is telling you the most important thing is President Zelensky and Kyiv.

00:28:49.000 And again, interesting story, almost like a video game.

00:28:52.000 Make no mistake, it's foreign policy escapism is what it is.

00:28:56.000 It's a massive news media campaign to try to give you an escape hatch from the tattered and the wrecked and the destroyed country that we're living in right now.

00:29:08.000 That is not by mistake.

00:29:10.000 Again, it is planned and controlled demolition.

00:29:14.000 And they don't want you to talk about it because then it can actually weaken their own personal ambitions here domestically.

00:29:21.000 Their ambitions domestically is to try and put TNT, put dynamite into the crevices, into the cracks, and into the weak spots of the American culture and country.

00:29:33.000 Press detonate all the while you're looking 5,000 miles away while your kids and grandkids can't buy property. 0.78

00:29:40.000 They're getting married at lower levels and they are unlikely, they're more unlikely to have children than any other generation before. 0.82

00:29:48.000 And so it is, in some ways, the Putin variant.

00:29:52.000 They want you to be distracted.

00:29:55.000 They don't want you to care about what's happening at home.

00:29:58.000 And this is a serious split on the right.

00:30:00.000 Some conservatives are hyper-focused on this.

00:30:02.000 They say it's just as important to focus on the well-being of the Ukrainian people as it is the people of Missouri.

00:30:08.000 And I could not disagree more.

00:30:10.000 The United States Constitution had clear boundaries and limits on power and sovereignty.

00:30:16.000 It doesn't mean I don't care about the Ukrainian people.

00:30:18.000 I want to help them any way I possibly can in a humanitarian way and all of this.

00:30:23.000 But I look at things in concentric circles.

00:30:25.000 When the own people that our leaders are sworn to protect and defend are having not just one problem, but a hundred problems, financial problems, societal problems, spiritual problems, and cultural problems, I want them to put on the metaphorical oxygen mask on themselves or our own country before solving the needs, wants, and problems internationally.

00:30:47.000 As I played the clip from Tucker, it's not like this is the first conflict that has happened in the last couple of years.

00:30:53.000 There are wars that break out all the time.

00:30:55.000 This one just happens to get your attention because the United States government has heavily financed what has happened in Ukraine the last 10 years.

00:31:04.000 It's become a client state of the global woke empire.

00:31:08.000 The same sort of mockingbird propaganda that was used all throughout COVID.

00:31:11.000 Wear a mask, get vaccinated. 0.96

00:31:13.000 Asymptomatic people can spread the same sort of intensity, fervor, name-calling, othering is now being used to try and get you to no longer care about the needs of your fellow countrymen, to no longer have a marshall plan. 0.64

00:31:31.000 And I want you to imagine that just one more time. 1.00

00:31:33.000 Imagine two weeks dedicated just to our southern border, two weeks of CNN, two weeks of CBS, two weeks of ABC.

00:31:39.000 Do you think that there would be infographics on Instagram that say pray for our southern border?

00:31:44.000 How about flags of people that the American flag saying we need to cover up our southern border?

00:31:49.000 And some people say that is a red herring.

00:31:51.000 No, it actually isn't.

00:31:52.000 It's the exact opposite.

00:31:54.000 It's a sound and a logical argument to make the point that our needs and our wants and our resources are being dedicated away from what would actually benefit the American people and citizenry and towards misadventures abroad.

00:32:10.000 Imagine an Operation Warp Speed to get domestic production up.

00:32:13.000 Imagine a Marshall Plan.

00:32:15.000 Imagine the consolidation of NGOs and people in charge to address issues that are happening in the homeland.

00:32:24.000 It's all by design.

00:32:25.000 It's a smokescreen in more ways than one to have you turn a blind eye to the deterioration of your nation, your home, and keep your eyes elsewhere. 0.94

00:32:36.000 Be wary of the Putin variant, everybody. 0.80

00:32:40.000 It is not incompetence, it is intent. 0.87

00:32:43.000 And we went from a managed decline to a controlled demolition to try to strengthen the people here domestically that otherwise would not be able to get political power.

00:32:54.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:32:56.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com and support our show at charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:33:02.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:33:03.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - March 08, 2022

The Putin Variant Emerges

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