The Charlie Kirk Show - April 10, 2021


The Unlikely Democrat who Keeps Stepping Up to Save America


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It s all coming down to a Democrat from West Virginia. What is our Constitution? What does it say about this? We go through the case of how Joe Manchin can save America, and it s all on him.

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00:00:28.000 It's all coming down to a Democrat from West Virginia, Joe Manchin.
00:00:32.000 What is our Constitution?
00:00:33.000 What does it say about this?
00:00:35.000 We go through the case of how Joe Manchin can save America.
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00:03:09.000 Remember when Joe Biden gave his inaugural address and he says, we want to bring the country together?
00:03:15.000 He said he was going to be a great healer.
00:03:17.000 Instead, Joe Biden is governing like Woodrow Wilson.
00:03:21.000 Woodrow Wilson was the governor of New Jersey, the president of Princeton University, a college professor, an academic, one of the most radical presidents in American history and quite honestly, one of the worst.
00:03:31.000 Woodrow Wilson was more concerned with his legacy than what was right for America.
00:03:36.000 He believed the founding fathers were misled.
00:03:38.000 He was the first president in American history to actually philosophically and politically challenge the beliefs of the founding fathers.
00:03:46.000 Woodrow Wilson and Joe Biden are very similar.
00:03:50.000 They care about a radical restructuring and redefinition of America.
00:03:54.000 And I'm going to say something controversial that I have not said publicly.
00:03:59.000 You ready for this?
00:04:01.000 Joe Biden is governing much more radically than Barack Obama.
00:04:10.000 Let me say that again.
00:04:11.000 Joe Biden is governing more radically than Barack Obama.
00:04:16.000 One of the main reasons is because the people behind him are growing impatient.
00:04:22.000 And they're starting to smell and taste victory.
00:04:25.000 Cut 86, MSNBC analyst says it himself.
00:04:30.000 Play Cut 86.
00:04:31.000 Just trying to push forward.
00:04:32.000 So that's a big thing, a paradigm kind of shift.
00:04:35.000 Maybe I know we've been talking about this for several weeks here.
00:04:37.000 You know, the Roosevelt era to the Reagan era.
00:04:40.000 Are we on the verge of a new activist progressive era led in an unlikely way by Joe Biden?
00:04:45.000 I think that's not impossible.
00:04:47.000 Not impossible.
00:04:48.000 MSNBC is starting to get excited.
00:04:51.000 Joe Biden is doing more for the anti-American cause in America than any person that has been in office recently.
00:05:06.000 Joe Biden is now floating out the idea of packing the courts.
00:05:11.000 Just so we're clear, there are about six different constitutional crushing issues happening simultaneously.
00:05:20.000 Court packing, DC, HR5, HR1, gun grabbing.
00:05:24.000 We have like a multi-front war right now.
00:05:27.000 Metaphorical war for media matters that's watching at home.
00:05:32.000 Cut 84, Peter Docey talking about what's in order on the Supreme Court.
00:05:37.000 We've got some of this executive order now that just came out a few minutes ago.
00:05:37.000 Cut 84.
00:05:41.000 It says this commission's purpose is to provide an analysis of the principal arguments in the contemporary public debate for and against Supreme Court reform, including an appraisal of the merits and legality of particular reform proposals.
00:05:55.000 The topics it will examine include the genesis of the reform debate, the court's role in the constitutional system, the length of service and turnover of justices on the court, the memberships and size of the court, and the court's case selection rules and practices.
00:06:15.000 None of that is why they're mentioning this.
00:06:17.000 It's not why they're, there's two reasons.
00:06:19.000 Smokescreen Overton window.
00:06:21.000 They're trying to distract from their gun grabbing.
00:06:24.000 They're trying to distract from Hunter Biden.
00:06:27.000 So they are intentionally forcing the issue on court packing.
00:06:30.000 What a bizarre strategy, right?
00:06:32.000 No one asked you about court packing.
00:06:34.000 No, the Biden administration is now embracing an effective leftist strategy while most Republicans and conservatives sit idly by.
00:06:42.000 They force the issue.
00:06:44.000 I wish that Donald Trump would have done a little bit of this.
00:06:46.000 He should have just said, I'm going to start a roundtable, a committee.
00:06:50.000 We're going to go study whether or not we should go deport 11 million people. 1.00
00:06:53.000 Would have been hilarious. 0.69
00:06:55.000 We all know what the committee's going to.
00:06:56.000 We know what this finding is going to be.
00:06:58.000 You're trying to tell me that this committee that Joe Biden is going to have come back and say, Mr. President, we have found that courts shouldn't be packed.
00:07:05.000 And we know how it's going to, this is a show trial.
00:07:09.000 Instead, they're intentionally trying to move the Overton window.
00:07:12.000 Here's how.
00:07:13.000 Float it out, have the right-wing media react to it, which therefore makes it more palatable in left-wing circles because they hate us so much.
00:07:24.000 And then this committee is going to issue some form of a report.
00:07:29.000 And once that committee issues some form of a report, then they will have the philosophical justification to go pack the courts.
00:07:41.000 And they also want to distract from something.
00:07:43.000 That's the only reason they're doing this.
00:07:45.000 They want to move the Overton window.
00:07:48.000 Now, my next book is about college.
00:07:50.000 I'm tempted to actually make my next book about the Overton window because the more I study this and the more I read the news, honestly, for hours a day, I realize that nothing matters except the spectrum of what ideas are unthinkable to what is acceptable.
00:08:11.000 And packing of the United States Supreme Court was unthinkable prior to Joe Biden.
00:08:21.000 So Joe Biden and Ron Clain, who's really running the government right now.
00:08:25.000 And as a side note to that, why don't we have a roster of every single person working in the White House?
00:08:31.000 What they eat for lunch, where they go home?
00:08:33.000 The point being is that every staffer in the White House that I knew when I used to, I'm not invited to the White House anymore, when I went to the White House, they were followed, they were asked questions, they were investigated beyond anything you could imagine.
00:08:48.000 We don't even know who these people are right now.
00:08:50.000 Side note.
00:08:51.000 But Ron Klain, who's running the government, and I think he's actually, if I hated America, I would be a huge Ron Clain fan.
00:09:01.000 This guy, I got to give him credit.
00:09:05.000 He is conducting a pretty effective strategy.
00:09:12.000 Don't have Joe Biden do open press, send out surrogates, lean on the media, move the Overton window.
00:09:20.000 If you don't know what the Overton window is, we've mentioned it a couple times on our program.
00:09:24.000 It's just a spectrum.
00:09:25.000 It is a continuum of which ideas go from unthinkable to radical to acceptable to popular to policy.
00:09:36.000 Remember Cut 85?
00:09:37.000 Joe Biden on 60 Minutes saying he wants to go well beyond court packing, Cut 85.
00:09:41.000 And it's not about court packing.
00:09:43.000 There's a number of other things that our constitutional scholars have debated, and I'd look to see what recommendations that commission might make.
00:09:50.000 So you're telling us you're going to study this issue about whether to pack the court.
00:09:54.000 No, whether there's a number of alternatives that go well beyond packing.
00:09:59.000 This is a live ball.
00:10:00.000 Oh, it is a live ball.
00:10:02.000 No, it is a live ball.
00:10:03.000 We're going to have to do that.
00:10:04.000 Studying.
00:10:05.000 Really?
00:10:05.000 We're supposed to believe that.
00:10:06.000 This is such a gaslighting technique.
00:10:09.000 This is how you incrementally prepare America for what they want to do.
00:10:14.000 So again, they want to turn the corner.
00:10:16.000 How do we prevent them from turning the corner?
00:10:20.000 I say this non-sarcastically, but a Democrat could actually end up saving the country.
00:10:27.000 Not everyone will agree at this, but I will go head to head with anyone against this.
00:10:32.000 We're at a critical moment.
00:10:34.000 And anyone who has an honest observation of history, I think, will agree with this.
00:10:40.000 That this period of time is an inflection point.
00:10:44.000 We are at the last gasp of the exhausted phase.
00:10:49.000 So the question is: will the left actually be able to execute this small window of time they have?
00:10:55.000 Will they be able to get it done?
00:10:56.000 Because here's the reality of the situation.
00:10:59.000 Republicans are likely taking back the House in 2022.
00:11:04.000 Unless H.R. 1 passes, which is likely unconstitutional, Republicans will take back the House of Representatives.
00:11:11.000 Therefore, Democrats are trying to get as much as they possibly can get done right now in this moment of time.
00:11:19.000 So they're trying to pack the courts or at least trying to move the spectrum of it.
00:11:23.000 And so who stands in the way of all of this?
00:11:29.000 A Democrat.
00:11:32.000 A Democrat from West Virginia by the name of Joe Manchin.
00:11:37.000 And I want to go piece by piece of what he wrote and what he said because we are now going to enter a new phase.
00:11:46.000 The phase we're about to enter is the phase of the Manchin administration, where Joe Manchin becomes God-King of America.
00:11:56.000 I kid you, I say this non-sarcastically.
00:11:59.000 Joe Manchin is going to be in charge of the country.
00:12:04.000 And everyone is going to have to go through the Manchin office in order to get policy done.
00:12:12.000 And he's talking a big game, everybody.
00:12:14.000 And I will say this: if he actually does what he says he's going to do, he will have done more of a moral good for America than most Republican presidents in the last 40 years.
00:12:30.000 But the reaction from the activist press in regards to Joe Manchin has been very telling.
00:12:39.000 So Joe Manchin had an incredible piece.
00:12:42.000 This just takes guts, guys.
00:12:44.000 I'm telling you, this is courage.
00:12:47.000 Joe Manchin, I will not vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster.
00:12:50.000 What does that mean?
00:12:51.000 Without getting too into the wonkiness, at the very minimum, it will take 50 votes to radically redefine and destroy the country.
00:13:01.000 At the minimum, Joe Manchin has said, I will not agree to that 50-vote threshold to break what is usually needed 60 votes.
00:13:11.000 It is more complicated than that, but basically, Joe, here's the best way I can describe without getting into the deep nuance of it.
00:13:18.000 And we have done entire podcasts on this.
00:13:20.000 If you're interested in it, the history, the precedent, why the filibuster needs, I think that was like two weeks ago, right?
00:13:25.000 We did that.
00:13:26.000 You guys can check out the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.
00:13:28.000 I encourage you to do it.
00:13:29.000 So here's the long and short of it: Joe Manchin is basically saying, I am not going to support HR1, HR5, D.C. as a state, these ridiculous reconciliation without 60 votes.
00:13:41.000 That's what Joe Manchin is saying.
00:13:44.000 He writes in the Washington Post, quote, I will not vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster.
00:13:53.000 He says, quote, every time the Senate has voted to weaken the filibuster in the past decade, the political dysfunction and gridlock has grown more severe.
00:14:01.000 This has always been the case.
00:14:05.000 I said, he says, I simply do not believe that budget reconciliation should replace regular order in the Senate.
00:14:05.000 This is what he says.
00:14:11.000 How is that good for the future of this nation?
00:14:13.000 Senate Democrats must avoid the temptation to abandon our Republican colleagues on important national issues.
00:14:19.000 Republicans, however, have a responsibility to stop saying no and participate in finding real compromise with Democrats.
00:14:26.000 He says this: quote, we will not solve our nation's problems in one Congress if we seek only partisan solutions.
00:14:33.000 Instead, on fixating, on eliminating the filibuster, on shortcutting the legislative process through budget reconciliation, it's time we do our jobs.
00:14:42.000 He writes eloquently here that he will not succumb to the revolutionary impulses that are inherently anti-constitutional.
00:14:52.000 And I'll explain what I mean by that.
00:14:54.000 To get things done really quickly to remake America in your image.
00:14:56.000 The Constitution is inherently a slow document.
00:15:02.000 The Constitution is a slow document.
00:15:04.000 It's not a fast document.
00:15:06.000 Why does that matter?
00:15:07.000 The founding fathers feared that if you get too hot-headed and want to do something too quickly, it's probably a bad idea and you're going to regret it.
00:15:15.000 That deliberation, discussion, dialogue, separation of powers, pondering, and yes, prayer are incredibly important.
00:15:28.000 In fact, the founding fathers wrote this.
00:15:32.000 I read this the other day.
00:15:35.000 What is necessary to pass good laws?
00:15:39.000 Frugality, Piety, moderation, and temperance.
00:15:49.000 What do those words even mean?
00:15:51.000 Frugality, spending little.
00:15:53.000 Piety, humility under God.
00:15:58.000 Temperance.
00:16:00.000 The ability to slow yourself down when you want to go fast.
00:16:05.000 So Joe Manchin is basically saying, we're not going to get this all done in this Congress.
00:16:10.000 What Joe Manchin is basically saying, and he deserves credit for this, is that you guys are going to have to win more elections than just one Georgia runoff where people then show up with questionable mail and balloting practices.
00:16:22.000 Basically, Joe Manchin is saying, I'm not going to agree to take over the entire government just because you have this short moment in power.
00:16:29.000 And the revolutionaries, the Bolsheviks, are saying, we have our time.
00:16:33.000 The revolution is now. 0.92
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00:16:36.000 Build the guillotine right here, right now. 1.00
00:16:40.000 Go after the Romanovs. 0.99
00:16:42.000 It's kind of a blend of the French and Russian Revolution references, if you understand your history. 1.00
00:16:48.000 They want it. 0.59
00:16:49.000 They smell it.
00:16:50.000 And they're afraid that they might not get this chance again.
00:16:58.000 I think an unintended blessing of the Democrats getting this close to turning the corner, if we prevent it, is that we're never going to forget what they're actually going to do with power because they're showing us what they're going to do with power.
00:17:09.000 A blessing, if we can stop them from doing this legislatively, is we can show what they're willing to do and almost get there.
00:17:16.000 And we can use it as a point of continually saying, never give these people power because they were inches away from HR1, HR5, DC as a state, getting rid of the filibuster and adding Supreme Court justices.
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00:18:32.000 So how is the left reacting to this?
00:18:36.000 How is the left reacting to Joe Manchin basically saying, I want a slow, deliberative process that typically, if we govern in the European model, which is quick, fast, somewhat revolutionary, we're probably going to make a mistake.
00:18:54.000 How are they reacting?
00:18:56.000 Vanity Fair.
00:18:58.000 God Emperor Joe Manchin might single-handedly throttle the Democratic agenda by Eric Lutz.
00:19:03.000 I have to give, I actually laughed when I read this article.
00:19:06.000 They're being sarcastic.
00:19:08.000 They're basically saying this guy has way too much power.
00:19:10.000 How dare he stop our goals and aims?
00:19:15.000 Do you know how much money we spent?
00:19:16.000 Do you know how hard we worked just to try to get the trifecta?
00:19:21.000 Only to run into Joe Manchin.
00:19:23.000 And by the way, it's not just Joe Manchin.
00:19:26.000 If I were to try to try to do a strategy here, if anyone here is listening or watching in Montana, if anyone here is listening or watching in Georgia, we are on a station in Georgia, and I know we have some live stream viewers in Georgia.
00:19:37.000 If anyone here is listening or watching in Arizona, John Tester, Raphael Warnock, and Kirsten Cinema broaden and expand the filibuster conversation, not just Joe Manchin in case he wavers.
00:19:51.000 It does not look like he will.
00:19:53.000 Joe Manchin did an exclusive interview with CNN where he said that the Capitol event on January the 6th, can you find that cut, was the reason why he wants to protect the filibuster, which is actually a very good explanation.
00:20:09.000 Play tape.
00:20:10.000 January 6th change me and I was very clear with everybody.
00:20:13.000 I never thought in my life, I never read in history books, to where our form of government had been attacked at our seat of government, which is Washington, D.C., at our capital, by our own people.
00:20:24.000 Now, the British did it, but not Americans. 0.66
00:20:27.000 So something told me, wait a minute, pause, hit the pause button. 0.71
00:20:30.000 Something's wrong.
00:20:32.000 You can't have this many people split to where they want to go to war with each other.
00:20:35.000 Now, I might disagree with some of the descriptions generally, but I actually, what he said there, I think, is pretty fair.
00:20:42.000 What I do love what he has to say, though, he's trying to turn down the temperature.
00:20:46.000 He's trying to de-escalate things.
00:20:48.000 I actually think his intentions are probably pretty good.
00:20:50.000 I'm not getting into the intention business here because I actually also think he wants to be the most important senator in Washington, D.C.
00:20:56.000 So guess what?
00:20:57.000 His intentions are irrelevant.
00:20:59.000 He's doing a moral good.
00:21:01.000 Whether he wanted to be king or whether he wants to be Mother Teresa, he is blocking the Democrat agenda, which is a moral contribution to Western civilization.
00:21:13.000 Washington Post, opinion, we're all Joe Manchin's prisoners.
00:21:17.000 Why don't you be a little bit more explicit?
00:21:18.000 I love this reasoning.
00:21:20.000 I love deconstructing this one fallacy.
00:21:24.000 This is what Paul Wideman, columnist for the Washington Post, probably went to Harvard.
00:21:28.000 He says, I won't go through all of Manchin's rationales for defending the filibuster, except to say that some are so ridiculous, it's almost as if he's trying to make readers throw up their hands in exasperation.
00:21:40.000 Man, I like Manchin more by the day.
00:21:41.000 The more op-eds I read in the Washington Post of them just angrily just typing at 2 a.m. these op-eds, the happier I get.
00:21:50.000 Here is what he says.
00:21:51.000 Manchin claims, for instance, that the fact that Wyoming's 600,000 residents get the same two senators as 40 million Californians, quote, goes to the heart of what representative government is.
00:22:01.000 That's quite a view of representative government.
00:22:03.000 Yeah, that's a good question.
00:22:04.000 Paul Wideman, why does every state have two senators?
00:22:09.000 Why does it work that way?
00:22:11.000 Why does a state that has more cattle than people get as much representation as densely populated Manhattan?
00:22:17.000 Why is that? 0.63
00:22:18.000 It's because we're not a democracy.
00:22:20.000 That's why.
00:22:22.000 The system of government we have is a constitutional republic.
00:22:24.000 What's the difference?
00:22:26.000 Democracy is pure and simple mob rule.
00:22:30.000 A republic is different.
00:22:32.000 A republic is a coalition of states.
00:22:34.000 The states created the federal government.
00:22:36.000 The federal government didn't create the states.
00:22:38.000 Now, Paul Wideman, this opinion op-ed writer who says we're all Joe Manchin's prisoners, as he is angrily blog posting in the Washington Post, just screaming at us.
00:22:47.000 He was just in all caps.
00:22:49.000 It's actually really funny.
00:22:50.000 He says, he literally says here, its own paragraph in the Washington Post, so what does he want?
00:22:55.000 That's literally a thing.
00:22:56.000 It's like a plea to the sky.
00:22:58.000 They are the angriest winners I've ever seen in my life.
00:23:01.000 I've never seen people win something and be so angry.
00:23:05.000 So why is it that South Dakota has so many senators?
00:23:09.000 Why is there equality in that?
00:23:12.000 The reason is in the Great Compromise, population was given preference in the House.
00:23:18.000 But if we are going to have the United States of America, then the sovereignty of the states must have some form of equilibrium.
00:23:28.000 It's necessary.
00:23:30.000 Because South Dakota has something to offer too.
00:23:33.000 South Dakota sovereignty matters.
00:23:36.000 Wyoming's sovereignty matters. 0.90
00:23:38.000 So, while this smug jerk that writes for the Washington Post, Paul Wideman, thinks that just because Wyoming does not have the most amount of same people as California, he thinks their sovereignty, their voice, and their issues don't matter, when he is probably driving a Tesla powered by natural gas or fossil fuels that was extracted from Wyoming for the preference of the ruling class lifestyle in California. 0.93
00:24:00.000 What's the point? 0.93
00:24:01.000 The point is that the need, wants, and interests of the coalition of states that are called flyover states are essential to a republic to function.
00:24:10.000 Now, if Paul Wideman, who is accusing Joe Manchin of not understanding representative government, wants to have a strict mobocracy, then he should change the framework that we're in.
00:24:26.000 That's really what they want to do.
00:24:28.000 But what is it about a state-based system that makes us different?
00:24:33.000 It slows things down.
00:24:37.000 It gives a voice to a state like West Virginia that otherwise would not have a voice.
00:24:43.000 It gives representation to more people.
00:24:46.000 You see, if it was purely about population, who would represent the breadbasket?
00:24:53.000 Truly.
00:24:54.000 Who would represent the values of a free America?
00:24:58.000 And before I get lectured about the only thing that matters is pure headcount, which is what he says, and by the way, I'm not diminishing headcount.
00:25:07.000 That's what the House of Representatives is.
00:25:09.000 In fact, Republicans did better in the House of Representatives, which is a headcount as hyper-local as you can.
00:25:18.000 And also, in the Senate, if you want to have an idea spread, then win over more states.
00:25:25.000 But before I get lectured by Paul Wideman on this, what states disproportionately serve in the United States military more than others?
00:25:34.000 Southern states and Midwestern states.
00:25:37.000 The states that he condescendingly puts into his article as if they should have less of a voice.
00:25:45.000 The state sovereignty argument is so important that as soon as you leave Idaho and you go to Oregon, things change.
00:25:55.000 Your gun rights change, your private property rights change, your free speech rights change.
00:26:01.000 There's a difference between the states.
00:26:03.000 They must be recognized.
00:26:06.000 You see, in the original formation of our government, the states pre-existed the federal government.
00:26:12.000 That is so different than the European project.
00:26:15.000 I have to keep on reinforcing it. 0.89
00:26:18.000 The only reason we were able to withstand the illegal, unconstitutional, and immoral Chinese coronavirus lockdowns was because of a states-based system. 0.71
00:26:29.000 It was because Florida was able to make good decisions while California wanted to make bad decisions, and Washington, D.C. was not able to have top-down orders.
00:26:39.000 That's a big deal.
00:26:41.000 And that system is supposed to be a reflection in the U.S. Senate.
00:26:44.000 Paul Waldman, someone should ask him, the 17th Amendment.
00:26:49.000 What is the Senate?
00:26:51.000 Someone should ask him that.
00:26:53.000 What is the Senate?
00:26:56.000 Well, prior to the 17th Amendment, the Senate was a direct reflection of the state legislature.
00:27:03.000 That's the way the founding fathers envisioned.
00:27:05.000 In fact, I can make an argument that getting rid of state legislator-appointed senators was one of the worst mistakes in American history.
00:27:17.000 It turned senators into national celebrities.
00:27:22.000 It turned state legislators to be far less important.
00:27:27.000 Because when a senator would do something they didn't like, they would recall them immediately and put a new one out there.
00:27:35.000 If you come from a natural rights doctrine perspective, all of this makes sense.
00:27:40.000 If you come from a Rassoian state right-granted perspective, I would be angry at Manchin too.
00:27:51.000 If you believe that the church is government, if you believe your salvation is in another government program, if you believe that things aren't working fast enough for you and that we need more government dependence, We need to remake America in this image.
00:28:07.000 I would think Joe Manchin is standing in the way of the Jacobins executing the reign of terror, which he is. 0.50
00:28:17.000 Joe Manchin is the man standing upon history and saying, stop.
00:28:22.000 Joe Manchin has more courage as it is, and I'll be disappointed at any time.
00:28:28.000 But as it is right now, he has more courage than most establishment Republicans.
00:28:34.000 Joe Manchin has more courage than Mitt Romney.
00:28:37.000 Joe Manchin has more courage than Asa Hutchinson.
00:28:44.000 Joe Manchin has more courage than most Republican presidents in the last 40 years because he's standing up against his party and he's saying, no.
00:28:57.000 I know what you want.
00:28:58.000 You got to go about it differently.
00:29:00.000 Go win more elections, is what he's saying.
00:29:02.000 Go back to the people and have them give you more power than a 50-50 power sharing agreement that can be split by the vice president.
00:29:08.000 I'm not going to sign my name to it.
00:29:11.000 That's not our system.
00:29:12.000 Joe Manchin is saying that a deliberative, intentional process is important.
00:29:19.000 Now, what does that actually mean?
00:29:21.000 It means that if nothing gets done, that's okay because you remain free.
00:29:27.000 That's what it means.
00:29:28.000 It means that if the Senate fails, you have liberty.
00:29:33.000 It means that if the Senate does not work as fast, you can remain in a state of freedom where you can go to church and start a business and live your life as you see fit.
00:29:42.000 That's not a small thing.
00:29:46.000 He's blocking the gateway to America's decline.
00:29:51.000 And if we prevent them from turning the corner, a brave Democrat from West Virginia is the man we can thank.
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00:30:54.000 Kamala Harris is refusing to go to the southern border. 0.92
00:30:58.000 And I think the entire immigration issue is, of course, about power.
00:31:03.000 It's about votes.
00:31:05.000 But I was rereading part of the Declaration of Independence the other day, which I encourage everyone to do at least once a month.
00:31:13.000 It's a beautiful document, and Thomas Jefferson is just beyond a gift to Western civilization and to the world.
00:31:22.000 And I think that something that we miss is this idea of representative government.
00:31:30.000 And it ties with the entire issue of border jumping and illegal entry into the country, which is that partly why the revolution was fought was that the people in the colonies,
00:31:45.000 the colonists, the American patriots, they complained in the Declaration of Independence to King George that you, King George, don't get to pick your constituents.
00:32:02.000 The constituents get to pick their ruler.
00:32:05.000 Let me say that again.
00:32:06.000 Rulers don't get to pick their constituents. 0.99
00:32:09.000 Constituents get to pick their ruler. 0.62
00:32:12.000 What the Democrats are trying to do is they're trying to pick their constituency.
00:32:16.000 That's what the illegal immigration debate is all about.
00:32:20.000 They're trying to increase the pool of people so that they get to pick who they govern.
00:32:25.000 That's not the way it actually works.
00:32:28.000 The American system of government is the opposite of that.
00:32:32.000 The American system of government is that the constituents, the people, get to pick who governs them.
00:32:42.000 It's a really important distinction.
00:32:47.000 Steve Cortez, Cut 77, talks about how we are subsidizing illegal entry into the United States.
00:32:56.000 And he's next to a picture of the greatest man of the 20th century, Winston Churchill.
00:33:00.000 I want that picture.
00:33:01.000 Play tape.
00:33:02.000 The Biden border crisis is the very opposite of compassion.
00:33:06.000 In addition, it's a massive expenditure for American taxpayers.
00:33:11.000 This is new data out from the Washington Post.
00:33:13.000 Right now, to care for 16,000 minors that are in our custody, we're spending $60 million per week.
00:33:21.000 That is $3,750 per child on a yearly basis, $195,000.
00:33:30.000 How many American children get that kind of expenditure, that level of care?
00:33:35.000 By the way, including for these illegal migrant children, in-person schooling for them, while millions of American children are still not attending in-person school. 0.95
00:33:47.000 Subsidizing illegal entry into the country.
00:33:50.000 Because Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are trying to pick their constituents.
00:33:54.000 They're subsidizing who they want to represent because they'll vote for them.
00:33:59.000 Not the constituents, us being able to pick our leader. 0.98
00:34:04.000 Because the more people we allow into the country, the more our votes are diluted. 0.99
00:34:08.000 The more it spreads out the power of your individual vote. 0.97
00:34:12.000 It changes the body politic permanently.
00:34:20.000 And so what we're dealing with, and to tie the Manchin thing together with the southern border crisis, is a question of will the Constitution, which is quite honestly the framework and the firewall of our liberty against tyranny, stand the test.
00:34:43.000 This will be the greatest test of the United States Constitution since slavery.
00:34:48.000 That's right.
00:34:49.000 This will be the greatest test of the United States Constitution since slavery.
00:34:54.000 Where the question is, is this an irrelevant, outdated, old document that we have to discard?
00:35:01.000 Or is this a timeless, beautiful document that exists to protect our freedoms, our liberties, and our purpose?
00:35:10.000 Joe Manchin is saying, I'm going to go on the side of the Constitution.
00:35:14.000 And that tension point is revealing itself because they will not be able to get the massive moonshot issues done from immigration to the poorest border to gun confiscation, to the Green New Deal, to HR1 to HR5 to state addition to court packing if they have to slow themselves down.
00:35:39.000 They want to do it in a hurry.
00:35:42.000 You ever do something well in a hurry?
00:35:44.000 Probably not.
00:35:44.000 You make a mistake.
00:35:46.000 There's a reason why the Founding Fathers built it like this.
00:35:50.000 They wanted you to think before you act.
00:35:52.000 Measure twice and cut once.
00:35:55.000 The Founding Fathers wanted us to do.
00:35:58.000 Not have a small glimpse at power and use it to change the country forever.
00:36:04.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:36:05.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:36:08.000 And if you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, go to tpusa.com.
00:36:11.000 God bless.
00:36:12.000 Speak Yusuf.