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00:02:20.000 Super Bowl Sunday.

00:02:23.000 I loved watching the Super Bowl yesterday.

00:02:25.000 First of all, I was actually pleased.

00:02:27.000 It wasn't as political as other Super Bowls because, of course, now that Joe Biden is president, the Democrats control the Senate and the Democrats control the House, you can't actually complain about the problems happening around you or else they might actually get blamed for it.

00:02:41.000 So I actually found it refreshing that it was one of the least political sporting events that I have seen in the last couple of years.

00:02:48.000 There is still some narrative placement. 0.64

00:02:52.000 There is still some typical NFL, BLM Incorporated nonsense.

00:02:58.000 But generally, it was a pretty enjoyable sporting event to watch. 0.91

00:03:02.000 Now, full disclaimer: I am a massive Tom Brady fan.

00:03:05.000 In fact, one of my earliest football memories is watching Tom Brady against the greatest show on turf, Marshall Falk, Kurt Warner, and winning the Super Bowl, the first now of seven Super Bowls.

00:03:18.000 Tom Brady's been through a lot in his career, torn ACL, Spygate, the Tuck Rule, the Flightgate, and yet he continues to win.

00:03:28.000 So, just to give you an idea of how dominant this athlete is, whether you like him or hate him, he has the most unbelievable track record when it comes to football in the history of the sport by far.

00:03:44.000 The most Super Bowls won by a franchise is six with the New England Patriots and six with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

00:03:52.000 Tom Brady has more Super Bowls than the most Super Bowls a franchise has.

00:03:58.000 The most Super Bowl appearances by a player, I think, is a defensive tackle of five or six Super Bowls.

00:04:04.000 Tom Brady has now been in 10 Super Bowls, winning seven of them.

00:04:10.000 He's 43 years old, and he's playing like he's 23 years old.

00:04:16.000 In fact, I think Tom Brady is playing better now at the age of 43 than he was in his 30s.

00:04:22.000 It's as if he slumped a little bit around 2015 and 16, and now he is back playing at a level that would have him drafted first overall in the NFL draft.

00:04:35.000 In fact, some could argue Brady is better today than he was when he was drafted 21 years ago.

00:04:44.000 Every athlete came out yesterday and said that Tom Brady is the greatest of all time.

00:04:50.000 He is the GOAT.

00:04:51.000 There is no one even close to Tom Brady when it comes to sports, when it comes to football, and he actually might be one of the most accomplished athletes of all time.

00:05:00.000 However, never allow something that should be agreed upon, not challenged, and just celebrated for just, I don't know, an hour for a couple BLM incorporated activists to take to Twitter and start complaining.

00:05:15.000 You see, Tom Brady really irritates the leftist intelligentsia.

00:05:22.000 Tom Brady frustrates the people in charge.

00:05:26.000 Tom Brady is an open Trump supporter.

00:05:28.000 Tom Brady came into the stadium yesterday not wearing a mask, but he was probably already tested for the Chinese coronavirus.

00:05:36.000 So why that was such a big deal, I don't know.

00:05:39.000 And the thing that bothers the BLM incorporated activists the most, in their own words, is that Tom Brady really represents racism.

00:05:48.000 Brie Newsom, I'm not really sure who she is, but she's verified on Twitter.

00:05:54.000 I believe she is an activist of some sort.

00:05:57.000 She says, quote, there is an enormous amount of racial undertones to this entire conversation about Brady being the best athlete of all time in a way that willfully ignores black athletes past and present, as well as the ongoing systemic discrimination against black athletes in the quarterback position.

00:06:16.000 What quarterback in the history of the National Football League is even close to Tom Brady?

00:06:24.000 Maybe John Elway, but John Elway lost two Super Bowls.

00:06:28.000 Actually, I think he lost three out of four Super Bowls before winning back-to-back Super Bowls.

00:06:35.000 Terry Bradshaw, I believe Terry Bradshaw won four Super Bowls.

00:06:42.000 Not even close to Brady.

00:06:45.000 This woman who said that is an American filmmaker, musician speaker, and activist from Charlotte, North Carolina, Brie Newsom Bass.

00:06:55.000 So when Tom Brady starts to get called the greatest athlete of all time, racist.

00:07:03.000 There is no accomplishment in all of sports, except maybe Tiger Woods, oh, by the way, he's black, winning as many masters as Woods has won as Brady has won Super Bowls.

00:07:19.000 Joe Montana was great.

00:07:20.000 Joe Montana is not even in the same ecosystem as Tom Brady.

00:07:24.000 Not even close.

00:07:26.000 Mr. Producer is getting very, very angry right now.

00:07:29.000 Producer Andrew is.

00:07:31.000 And yet Kaepernick, Colin Kaepernick, who has won, that's right, zero Super Bowls.

00:07:38.000 Let me just say that again.

00:07:39.000 Colin Kaepernick has a 0% percentage of winning Super Bowls.

00:07:44.000 The only Super Bowl Colin Kaepernick played in was in the Harbaugh Bowl.

00:07:48.000 Remember this, the Harbowl?

00:07:50.000 It was the two Harbaugh brothers playing against each other, the Ravens versus the 49ers, And Colin Kaepernick lost.

00:07:59.000 Colin Kaepernick trending on Twitter because BLM activists can't stand the fact that someone that has discipline and works hard eats correctly, never allows the media to misrepresent him, goes from one franchise to the other in the midst of a lockdown and a virus with a new offensive coordinator, a new system, with a Tampa Bay team that, Connor, can you check this?

00:08:26.000 I don't think Tampa Bay made the playoffs last year.

00:08:29.000 Like, not even close, right?

00:08:30.000 They were probably like five and seven.

00:08:32.000 I think they had Jameis Winston, right?

00:08:34.000 If I'm not mistaken, Jameis Winston, the failed quarterback from Florida State University.

00:08:41.000 Heisman Trophy winner, one or two overall pick.

00:08:45.000 Not a great quarterback.

00:08:47.000 They were seven and nine last year.

00:08:49.000 So Tom Brady takes a seven and nine team and leads them to win the Super Bowl for his seventh Super Bowl win.

00:08:57.000 Now, if I were to list the greatest quarterbacks of all time, some people would throw out Brett Favre.

00:09:04.000 You know how many Super Bowls Brett Favre won?

00:09:06.000 One.

00:09:07.000 You know how many Super Bowls Aaron Rodgers won?

00:09:09.000 One.

00:09:10.000 You know how many Super Bowls Peyton Manning won?

00:09:12.000 Two.

00:09:14.000 To give you an idea of how amazing Tom Brady's accomplishment was last night.

00:09:20.000 He now has more championships than Michael Jordan.

00:09:24.000 Michael Jordan, who won six NBA championships in the 1990s, won three, took a little break, and then won another three.

00:09:32.000 Tom Brady now has seven championships, but football is considered to be one of the hardest to win more than one championship.

00:09:40.000 It is brutal on your body.

00:09:44.000 It's difficult to even get on a team that could be competitive.

00:09:50.000 That's not to diminish basketball's difficulty at all.

00:09:57.000 And so, what's the response from the activist class on Twitter?

00:10:01.000 It's racist to call Brady one of the greatest athletes of all time.

00:10:05.000 No, you're actually the racist for continually trying to find race and controversy where it doesn't exist.

00:10:16.000 This is a much deeper and more troubling point that I want to get into deeper about what we're looking at.

00:10:23.000 Because of the incentive structure on digital and social media, there is this irresistible urge by the activist class to destroy anything successful that presents itself in front of you.

00:10:36.000 Not to encourage, celebrate, but if you see any form of success, there must be something wrong with that.

00:10:45.000 There must be a reason to undermine it.

00:10:48.000 They must be cheating or they must be a racist.

00:10:55.000 And that cultural trend is very troubling because maybe sometimes some people are able to achieve success by doing the good things in life.

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00:12:51.000 Tyran Matthew, who they used to call the hunting badger, I don't know if they call him that anymore when he used to play for LSU.

00:12:58.000 I've never liked this guy.

00:12:59.000 He's always been getting in fights.

00:13:01.000 He's always a scrappy player that I think is just a dirty player.

00:13:06.000 And so he got in a heated exchange with Tom Brady last night, pointing his finger right in Tom Brady's face.

00:13:12.000 Tom Brady did not take kindly to that.

00:13:14.000 And then Matthew tweeted and a tweet that is now deleted.

00:13:17.000 Brady called him something I will not repeat.

00:13:20.000 Well, then speculation ensued on Twitter.

00:13:22.000 I was like, well, it must have been something racially charged from Tom Brady.

00:13:25.000 Well, then Tyran Matthew deleted the tweet because then he realized that Tom Brady was wearing a microphone throughout the evening.

00:13:36.000 And so there would be no question about what was said and what wasn't said.

00:13:40.000 And Matthew then said, I thought I played as hard as I can today.

00:13:45.000 Listen, Tom Brady's a great quarterback.

00:13:46.000 I never really saw that side of Tom Brady, to be honest.

00:13:48.000 But whatever, no comment.

00:13:49.000 It's over.

00:13:50.000 I'm done with it.

00:13:50.000 Yeah.

00:13:51.000 But this is a bigger point, not just about Tyron Matthew, but I did want to make sure I mention that because he really frustrated me yesterday.

00:13:51.000 And you lost.

00:13:58.000 But a bigger point that I want to make about how we react to success in our country.

00:14:05.000 When an athlete or a musician or a politician achieves some form of success and it might not, that person might not hold the ideological or political viewpoint that you prefer, and your first instinct is to destroy or delegitimize that person, then we have a culture that has been created that cares much more about seeing the powerful, not just the powerful,

00:14:31.000 but the people that have engaged and earned success tumble than actually wondering how is it that they were so successful in the first place.

00:14:40.000 And this is something I've seen repeat itself through many different manifestations on digital and social media.

00:14:46.000 And I see this all the time, especially with teenagers and with people in college, which is that anyone that might succeed, there must be something wrong with them.

00:14:58.000 Let's take them down.

00:14:59.000 And social media makes it a lot easier to do that.

00:15:05.000 And so instead of celebrating it yesterday, we now have seen the endless commentary from activists and people that have never created anything of value in their life to try and destroy Tom Brady.

00:15:19.000 Let's get to some other news here.

00:15:21.000 Let's get to this one right here.

00:15:23.000 Of course, President Donald Trump is being impeached this week.

00:15:26.000 So I want to go to cut three, Mark Meadows on Fox with Maria Bartaromo, saying that this impeachment process they're going through is totally unconstitutional.

00:15:35.000 Cut three.

00:15:36.000 One is this impeachment process they're going through is unconstitutional.

00:15:40.000 It's all designed for nine House Democrats to do two things, to get political vengeance and have a viral moment.

00:15:49.000 This is nothing more than political theater.

00:15:51.000 And we've been through many times the fact that John Roberts is not even showing up for this impeachment trial shows from the beginning that the entire impeachment process is not constitutional.

00:16:03.000 So then why are Democrats actually doing this?

00:16:06.000 They need to keep a narrative going to protect their theft so that people do not wake up and question what they have actually done to our country and what they're not doing to help working people and to help the people that put them into office.

00:16:22.000 Now, on our podcast tomorrow, we have Ken Starr, the great Judge Ken Starr, former special counsel who led the effort against the Clinton impeachment.

00:16:32.000 He has said very clearly that he believes that this impeachment is unconstitutional.

00:16:38.000 Just to give you an idea of how the Democrats have changed the way the rule of law operates in our country, you can now wake up on one day with a president with no impeachment proceedings happening and then go to bed that night and that president is impeached.

00:16:56.000 Quicker than what a it would be a traffic dispute in traffic court takes longer now than what it takes to impeach a president of the United States.

00:17:06.000 No due process, no representation.

00:17:08.000 But why are the Democrats doing that?

00:17:09.000 Well, maybe because they don't like the system that we have to hold people accountable.

00:17:19.000 They actually don't like the current justice system.

00:17:24.000 There's a lot of similarities between how authoritarians handle their system of justice and what the Democrats are trying to do.

00:17:34.000 The United States Senate knows this too.

00:17:36.000 The Senate knows that this is going to be one of the shortest impeachment trials ever.

00:17:40.000 They're hopefully going to dismiss this.

00:17:42.000 If they start calling witnesses, it's going to turn into a multi-week circus in the United States Senate.

00:17:53.000 But they're doing this for another reason.

00:17:55.000 They're doing this to set a precedent so that they can stifle and suffocate political opponents in under a day.

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00:19:29.000 Why are the Democrats moving so quickly to impeach former President Trump?

00:19:36.000 What is the motivation here?

00:19:39.000 Maybe it hasn't always been about Trump.

00:19:41.000 Maybe it's just that Trump got in the way.

00:19:44.000 Maybe Trump represented a set of ideas that they want To make sure, never come back into the American political discourse.

00:19:55.000 Maybe President Trump represented a set of public policy measures that threatened corporate interests so severely.

00:20:04.000 So significantly, I should say.

00:20:06.000 From ending the endless wars to addressing the problems with immigration to challenging entrenched corporate interests.

00:20:16.000 Maybe it wasn't always about President Trump.

00:20:20.000 Maybe it's always just been about Democrats relentlessly pursuing power.

00:20:28.000 What's very interesting about this impeachment process is how Joe Biden, who's the president of the United States, campaigned on just not being Donald Trump.

00:20:47.000 And his inaugural address says that we need unity.

00:20:50.000 And now his perverted way of getting unity is now allowing the United States Senate going unquestioned or unchallenged from the White House to impeach a guy who's probably golfing right now as you hear this broadcast.

00:21:07.000 I have a working theory about Joe Biden that I got from Victor Davis Hansen.

00:21:17.000 And I agree with Victor Davis Hansen completely on this.

00:21:22.000 And I've built it out even further.

00:21:25.000 But it's basically that Joe Biden has been ridiculed and mocked for the last decade.

00:21:34.000 He says curse words when he shouldn't.

00:21:36.000 He grabs people inappropriately.

00:21:39.000 They make fun of him for having dementia.

00:21:42.000 And I think Joe Biden, at some point, as he was getting closer and closer to actually being sworn in as president, said, you know what?

00:21:53.000 I'm not going to live another 20 or 30 years, most likely.

00:21:57.000 I can't remember where I am half the time.

00:21:59.000 So what I'm going to do is I'm going to do what Obama couldn't do.

00:22:05.000 I don't care about midterm retaliation.

00:22:08.000 I don't care about reelection. 0.64

00:22:11.000 If I have to chart a course to put America back into the direction of FDR, then I'm going to do it.

00:22:20.000 I'm going to appease the professor class.

00:22:28.000 I'm going to do things that will be written about nicely and fondly in the New York Times.

00:22:34.000 I'm going to be known not as someone that just defeated Trump, but as someone who was more progressive than Barack Obama.

00:22:45.000 If you think about that, if that's really what Joe Biden is thinking, that's chilling.

00:22:54.000 Barack Obama, at certain times of his presidency, stood down when there was massive backlash, when there was the Tea Party movement, when there were oversight committees, when there were serious challenges to his power, Joe Biden seems disinterested in political consequences.

00:23:12.000 Joe Biden seems completely and totally fine with governing with a leftist iron fist.

00:23:23.000 On Friday, we talk at length.

00:23:25.000 In fact, we did an entire show on one article.

00:23:28.000 I encourage you guys to check it out on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

00:23:30.000 It's one of the favorite shows I've done recently.

00:23:33.000 So we just took one article and we built it out.

00:23:36.000 And it was the shadow campaign that won the 2020 election.

00:23:42.000 One of the chief architects of that was a guy named Hodrozer.

00:23:46.000 Podrozer?

00:23:46.000 Is that right?

00:23:48.000 Podrozer.

00:23:50.000 I'm sorry, I mean, I don't know.

00:23:52.000 Tough name.

00:23:53.000 From the AFL-CIO, the American Federation of Labor.

00:24:00.000 The AFL-CIO did a lot to get Joe Biden elected.

00:24:06.000 Joe Biden, then on day one, decided to defy the wishes of the AFL-CIO.

00:24:17.000 On day one, Joe Biden decided to say, you know what?

00:24:21.000 Thanks for getting me into power.

00:24:23.000 Thanks for designing the secret conspiracy.

00:24:25.000 Their words, not mine.

00:24:28.000 I'm now going to side with the ideologues.

00:24:30.000 Play cut 10.

00:24:32.000 In his first hours as president, Joe Biden announced that he was going to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline.

00:24:39.000 Do you think Biden realizes that that was a mistake?

00:24:42.000 That announcement?

00:24:46.000 I think so, yes.

00:24:48.000 Did you talk to him about it?

00:24:50.000 I have not.

00:24:50.000 Why do you think he has?

00:24:51.000 And if I had, I wouldn't tell you.

00:24:53.000 So why do you think he has come to that realization?

00:24:57.000 Because the next time the subject came up, it was done the right way.

00:25:01.000 That is the head of the AFL-CIO saying that it was a mistake to eliminate all those jobs from the Keystone XL pipeline.

00:25:10.000 So Joe Biden is left now with a choice.

00:25:14.000 The choice is: does he pander to the corporate crony interests that got him into office, or does he actually assess the greatest political threat and become someone that he actually might not totally be?

00:25:29.000 I think Joe Biden is worried about what will historians say about him.

00:25:34.000 Joe Biden being the nation's oldest president in history, I think Joe Biden is completely and totally ignoring his own calls for unity.

00:25:45.000 He's the first president that I can find in the history of the country where one of his first acts of taking office in the first day of being president, he says, find me ways to kill jobs.

00:25:57.000 Find me one way I can kill jobs.

00:25:59.000 It's never been done. 1.00

00:26:01.000 Only ideology can bring you to do something so foolish. 0.99

00:26:06.000 Only. 0.98

00:26:07.000 Not patriotism, not pragmatism, not loyalty to the nation, ideology.

00:26:14.000 Only a commitment to a set of radical ideas could bring you to sign a piece of paper that would kill tens of thousands of jobs.

00:26:26.000 So what is the priorities?

00:26:28.000 What are the priorities of the Biden administration?

00:26:32.000 Well, we don't know.

00:26:34.000 Do you know what a press briefing would look like if we had an honest press?

00:26:40.000 The moment Jen Saki, Miss Circle Back, took the podium, there would be a question that says, hey, why didn't we ever hear about Tara Reid?

00:26:50.000 Why is Hunter writing a book when we have all these questions about China and taxes?

00:26:54.000 Hey, why is it that Hunter Biden still owns 10% of a China company, Chinese company?

00:27:00.000 Whatever happened to that prosecutor in Ukraine?

00:27:03.000 You say it's all subtle, but was it really?

00:27:05.000 All these stories about the 25th Amendment, who leaked that? 1.00

00:27:08.000 Is Kamala Harris trying to take over your position as president?

00:27:12.000 These are just some of the questions that would be asked.

00:27:14.000 Instead, Joe Biden gets asked questions such as, what's your favorite color?

00:27:21.000 Or how does it feel to be president?

00:27:23.000 What was your first meal as president of the United States?

00:27:30.000 Remember, when the Democrats are engaging in political feeder, they're almost always covering a theft that is occurring.

00:27:42.000 So what is the theft that is occurring right now?

00:27:47.000 Do you notice how little coverage there has been of the stimulus bill?

00:27:53.000 You probably know the amount of the stimulus bill.

00:27:57.000 Has anyone actually told you what's in it?

00:28:01.000 It will go down as one of the largest spending bills in the history of the planet.

00:28:07.000 And yet we're worrying about impeaching a guy who's a private citizen.

00:28:12.000 What is in this stimulus bill?

00:28:13.000 Would it actually be stimulative?

00:28:17.000 Who's paying for this?

00:28:19.000 What are we going to do when we assuredly hit inflation?

00:28:27.000 The lack of coverage around the stimulus package, the lack of coverage around anything happening internally in the Biden administration, paired with Joe Biden's commitment with pandering to the ideologues.

00:28:46.000 That's starting to paint a picture here of something rather concerning.

00:28:55.000 It's starting to paint a picture of a presidency that will be protected by the activist press and will be more ideologically radical than any other president that we have seen.

00:29:07.000 More so than Obama, more so than Clinton, more so than Carter, more so than Johnson, more so than Roosevelt.

00:29:16.000 Now, whether it's Joe Biden making these decisions or his advisors making decisions, we don't know.

00:29:28.000 Do you remember what was going on in the Trump administration four years ago to today?

00:29:34.000 By now, Michael Flynn had already been trapped.

00:29:37.000 He was entrapped in the White House without counsel represented with him, illegally by Peter Strzok, McCabe and Strzok, both of which have not been indicted, both of which now have nice, high-paying jobs in the District of Columbia.

00:29:55.000 By now, Flynn had resigned.

00:29:57.000 Trump had signed his travel ban, which resulted in lawsuits, which resulted in protests.

00:30:05.000 I think K.T. McFarland had already resigned by this moment in the presidency.

00:30:11.000 It was Bedlam, intentionally. 0.92

00:30:14.000 Reporters were following people, threatening them with potential stories that would link them to criminal behavior.

00:30:22.000 Democrats were already launching internal probes, despite controlling zero committees in the House around Russia interference.

00:30:37.000 From the moment Donald Trump took office in 2017, there were massive internal disruptions with Joe Biden, despite him going out of his way to destroy jobs, something that we've never seen a president do before.

00:30:53.000 To actually say, hey, give me the paperwork to go and obliterate jobs against the people that helped get me into office from the AFL-CIO.

00:31:02.000 Hey, can you get me that piece of paper where men can go in women's locker rooms? 1.00

00:31:07.000 That's going to fulfill the mandate for me to govern. 1.00

00:31:12.000 There are a couple checks against this, and one of them is the states.

00:31:17.000 One of them is the coalition of Republican governors that can check against this sort of radical behavior from Joe Biden and his presidency.

00:31:33.000 But the fact that there is so little coverage, no investigation of anything that's happening with the Chinese coronavirus relief bill, Biden's virus response, there's something else happening here.

00:31:50.000 And it's usually a theft that's happening towards the American people.

00:31:56.000 Let's get to some more sound here.

00:31:58.000 We'll go then to some more impeachment sound.

00:32:00.000 We'll go to Rand Paul saying that if Congress applied the Democrats' impeachment standard fairly, Schumer should also be impeached and put on trial by the Senate.

00:32:08.000 Cut 12.

00:32:09.000 You know, I opposed the notion of, which I think was a misguided notion of voting to overturn the election either with Congress or with the vice president.

00:32:17.000 But I think if we're going to criminalize speech and somehow impeach everybody who says, oh, go fight to hear your voices heard, I mean, really, we ought to impeach Chuck Schumer then.

00:32:27.000 It's just typical political speech that is now being criminalized by the Democrats.

00:32:31.000 We did an episode at length with Alan Dershowitz back on Friday about that.

00:32:36.000 Let's listen to Chuck Schumer say something that I guess should now get you impeached.

00:32:40.000 I want to tell you, Gorsuch.

00:32:43.000 I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price.

00:32:51.000 You have released the whirlwind and you have paid a price.

00:32:53.000 Is that political metaphorical speech or is that incitement?

00:32:57.000 Of course, it's just metaphorical speech.

00:32:59.000 But under the new guidelines and under the new rules by the left, that sort of speech must now be criminalized.

00:33:07.000 Let's go to cut nine, Senator Rand Paul, and how the Democrats' impeachment of President Trump is nothing more than a partisan witch hunt.

00:33:13.000 Play cut nine.

00:33:15.000 This was a strong signal to all of us that this was going to be a partisan hearing with a Democrat in the chair who's already voted for impeachment.

00:33:23.000 You think we're going to get any fair rulings out of a Democrat that's already expressed favor for impeaching him previously and is going to vote this time to impeach him?

00:33:31.000 So it is a farce.

00:33:32.000 It is unconstitutional.

00:33:34.000 But more than anything, it's unwise and going to divide the country.

00:33:37.000 If Biden thinks he really, you know, if he really meant anything about that unity and he really wanted to be a statesman, you know what he would have done?

00:33:43.000 He would have come out and told his party, enough's enough.

00:33:46.000 Let's move on.

00:33:47.000 We won the election and let's move on with our agenda.

00:33:50.000 But instead, they can't let go of President Trump and they're going to keep kicking and kicking and kicking.

00:33:55.000 And they can't let go of Donald Trump because they are completely uninterested in governing.

00:34:01.000 Governing is hard.

00:34:02.000 Governing takes negotiation.

00:34:03.000 Governing takes results.

00:34:05.000 Instead, what's the one excuse you can give to not govern?

00:34:12.000 Well, to be at war.

00:34:15.000 Winston Churchill famously said, and I'm paraphrasing here, that forever war interrupts decent society.

00:34:27.000 Winston Churchill argued that if you are forever at war, then you always have an excuse to take away more people's freedoms and liberties, to be able to distract from having civil and decent society.

00:34:40.000 The ruling class has always enjoyed having foreign wars, from Afghanistan to Vietnam to Iraq.

00:34:46.000 Our military is the greatest in the history of the world.

00:34:49.000 It is not a nation-building exercise.

00:34:52.000 But when you're at war, then you don't have to actually justify a lot of your domestic decisions.

00:34:57.000 Well, because we're at war.

00:34:58.000 So mind you, do you see how the war language is used a lot in the last year?

00:35:03.000 We're at war with the Chinese coronavirus.

00:35:05.000 We're at war with racism. 0.92

00:35:07.000 We're at war with domestic terrorists.

00:35:12.000 In fact, there are people that are even calling them MAGA terrorists.

00:35:19.000 Jake Tapper said that exactly.

00:35:21.000 Let's play tape.

00:35:23.000 If there is no accountability and no attempt by the Republican Party to stop these insane lies that have taken root in their party, witness the support this week by the House Republicans for bigot and conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene, the congresswoman from Georgia.

00:35:41.000 If there's no effort at accountability, this is not going to be the end of MAGA terrorism.

00:35:47.000 This will only be the beginning.

00:35:50.000 MAGA terrorism.

00:35:52.000 When you're engaged in a conflict where you're able to justify the deployment of troops, when you're able to justify the erosion of liberties, then you don't have to govern.

00:36:05.000 Ron Johnson says it best, play tape.

00:36:08.000 I think we ought to take that fencing down and return to as normal position as possible.

00:36:14.000 I think the fencing is remaining in place to send a signal, a narrative that 74 million Americans that voted for President Trump are dangerous to our democracy.

00:36:24.000 They're all insurrectionists, and that's simply not the case.

00:36:28.000 I think Jake Tapper knows better, but I can tell you that there are millions of people in liberal America, Massachusetts and Connecticut and Oregon, that are actually terrified of conservatives because of the propaganda from the media.

00:36:43.000 Remember, people who are afraid are easier to control and command.

00:36:49.000 I want to get to a question here about whether or not I think Trump is going to get sworn in on March the 4th.

00:36:56.000 This is a bunch of nonsense. 0.99

00:36:58.000 It is all garbage, everybody. 0.99

00:37:01.000 Stop reading these message boards that are telling you things that are pathologically untrue, such as Pence is in Gitmo, that Trump is getting a second term on March the 4th or 5th. 0.99

00:37:13.000 It's not happening.

00:37:15.000 All of those message boards were wrong the last couple of months, all of them.

00:37:21.000 So I'm just trying to warn a lot of you, disengage from that and find sources that do their hours of research like we do here on the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:37:29.000 We do hours and hours of research.

00:37:31.000 We call sources.

00:37:33.000 We call people in Senate offices.

00:37:35.000 We call people in congressional offices.

00:37:37.000 We do our due diligence before we present things as fact to you.

00:37:43.000 So I highly encourage anyone that might be following that sort of a narrative to just please disengage from that.

00:37:49.000 Please.

00:37:50.000 It's not happening.

00:37:53.000 So there's a piece here in the Washington Post that I want to kind of break down.

00:37:56.000 It's really important and it has to do with impeachment.

00:38:00.000 Now, impeachment is basically dead on arrival, but the narrative is not.

00:38:04.000 And the narrative is going to try and justify a new security state.

00:38:09.000 But the facts matter here.

00:38:11.000 And we might actually be able to push back against a prevailing Democrat narrative that exists.

00:38:18.000 And it's actually a very interesting contradiction here.

00:38:23.000 The Democrats' narrative when it comes to impeachment is directly at odds with their narrative when it comes to creating a new Patriot Act.

00:38:30.000 Their narrative when it comes to impeachment is that Donald Trump was the sole reason, the incitement behind the violence and the tragedy at the Capitol.

00:38:44.000 This article here in the Washington Post says, quote, on the cusp of the impeachment trial, court documents point to how Trump's rhetoric fueled rioters who attacked Capitol.

00:38:53.000 But when you actually read this Washington Post piece, and it's done somewhat fairly throughout, but then they actually end up contradicting themselves.

00:39:04.000 I don't know who the editor is at the Washington Post, but a good editor would have caught this.

00:39:11.000 For example, According to prosecutors, Pittsburgh QAnon supporter Kenneth Grayson wrote to an associate on December 23rd, quote, I'm there for the greatest celebration of all time after Pence flips the Senate.

00:39:27.000 Or I'm there if Trump tells us to storm the FN Capitol, I'm going to do that then.

00:39:32.000 Now that looks like it's all Trump's fault that he did that.

00:39:36.000 But let me read this again.

00:39:38.000 He wrote this on the 23rd of December.

00:39:42.000 This man came to D.C. with the premeditation to do violence.

00:39:49.000 It says, quote, in the Washington Post, and some came primed for battle.

00:39:55.000 According to Professor Alan Dershowitz, in order for incitement to be proven in court, it'd be one thing if President Trump was on the steps of the Capitol saying, smash windows, attack police officers, you got to do that.

00:40:09.000 And even then, it would be a difficult case for incitement.

00:40:15.000 The piece continues by having other factors of indictments and evidence.

00:40:23.000 But the overwhelming part of this article actually talks about how people came with pipe bombs to D.C.

00:40:29.000 We still haven't found who did the pipe bombs, by the way.

00:40:31.000 They came in military gear.

00:40:33.000 They had walkie-talkies.

00:40:35.000 And look, we have, I believe, covered this more in depth than most programs.

00:40:42.000 There were three buckets of people, three types of people that were there on January the 6th.

00:40:47.000 Number one, people that came to Washington, D.C. looking for a fight.

00:40:53.000 They penetrated the police barrier, the outer police barrier on the west side of the Capitol while President Trump was still giving his remarks.

00:41:00.000 That's according to the Wall Street Journal, according to the New York Times, and the Washington Post.

00:41:05.000 All of that, that piece of evidence pushes back against the idea that President Trump solely incited the riot.

00:41:11.000 The second group of people are non-ideological agitators, the Sullivan guy from BLM Incorporated, the people that were trying to get others to commit acts of violence.

00:41:28.000 They just, the young man from Maryland, who was not a Trump supporter, according to all publicly available information, grabbed the hockey stick and just started beating a police officer.

00:41:41.000 And then the third category of people were Trump supporters, some of whom came looking for a fight.

00:41:48.000 Others flew to Washington on a private jet and made a foolish decision to go run into the Capitol building.

00:41:58.000 Not all those people committed acts of violence.

00:42:01.000 Some of them did.

00:42:04.000 Those are the three groups of people that were there on January the 6th.

00:42:10.000 So in order for the Democrats' argument to be legitimate, which it isn't, there wouldn't be that form of nuance.

00:42:21.000 The Democrats will have to explain, well, how do you explain the people that were there simply and solely for the reason to cause violence?

00:42:31.000 They can't.

00:42:35.000 The one vulnerability in the president's defense, which is why I think the president is just going to try and argue against the illegal nature of the impeachment, not just about the merits of the case, is that the president said multiple times that he was going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol with them.

00:42:58.000 Does that make him criminally liable?

00:43:01.000 Probably not.

00:43:03.000 Does it make him open to potential criticism from these rioters?

00:43:08.000 Probably.

00:43:09.000 It says, quote, but for the president, they would have walked down Penn.

00:43:13.000 Would not have, but if not for the president, they would not have walked down Pennsylvania Avenue.

00:43:16.000 They believed the president was going with them.

00:43:18.000 They thought they were going to help the president save our country.

00:43:21.000 And that was reflected in certain indictment charging documents where they asked some of the rioters, they said, why were you there?

00:43:27.000 Now, they might be using an excuse.

00:43:31.000 They might be using the kingpin excuse.

00:43:35.000 We've gone through this legal theory before, which is the boss told me to do it.

00:43:40.000 The boss told me to do it.

00:43:42.000 The boss told me to do it.

00:43:44.000 Now, you have to apply that legal standard to facts and circumstances.

00:43:49.000 The facts and circumstances are: do you have a connection to that person?

00:43:54.000 Or are you just a fan of that person?

00:43:56.000 So, let me give you an example.

00:43:59.000 An example would be if someone listened to the awful music of Marilyn Manson around death and horror, and then someone committed an act of violence, and you would say, Well, the music talks about death and violence, they made me do that.

00:44:16.000 The facts and circumstances wouldn't apply to that at all.

00:44:20.000 And it wouldn't apply in this case at all.

00:44:22.000 This is a hail marriage legal strategy by many of the people that were involved on January the 6th.

00:44:27.000 That's what this is.

00:44:30.000 And if you walk through this article, it continues by saying Samuel Fisher, who stormed the Capitol, posted on Facebook the day before, quote, at one when Congress certifies the election, Trump just needs to fire the bat signal, deputize patriots, and then the pain comes.

00:44:47.000 Wrote that on Facebook.

00:44:48.000 Not exactly a discreet way to communicate.

00:44:55.000 The point is that that shows intention before the president's speech to go do something at the Capitol.

00:45:02.000 The defense, I mean, the prosecution, which are the House impeachment managers, they are going to focus on the people that have cited the president for the reason why they did that.

00:45:14.000 But because we have now entered the third world into a show trial, a Soviet-style show trial, that would make even General Tukhachevsky seem as if he didn't get a proper defense.

00:45:26.000 If you don't know who General Tukhachevsky is, he's one of the generals that Stalin killed for no reason whatsoever, by the way, just because he felt like it. 0.82

00:45:35.000 It's true. 0.87

00:45:39.000 A good defense would say, hold on a second.

00:45:42.000 Let's go through each one of your narratives.

00:45:44.000 When did they leave the ellipse?

00:45:46.000 When did they walk over?

00:45:47.000 What was their intention?

00:45:48.000 Did they post anything beforehand?

00:45:51.000 That's the way a trial is supposed to work.

00:45:56.000 Not this Soviet shock jock show trial.

00:46:00.000 One of the amazing aspects of our Constitutional Republic framework is separation of powers.

00:46:09.000 Is that not one person is going to have all the answers, that you need checks and balances on all power.

00:46:17.000 The Democrats do not believe this.

00:46:20.000 The Democrats are annoyed that there is a system in place that allows tyranny to be checked, that allows authoritarianism to be put on notice.

00:46:34.000 Now, one of the aspects of this is supposed to be a fair and free media.

00:46:40.000 That is a non-governmental check and balance on power.

00:46:45.000 When Peter Docey asks Jen Saki about oil workers, who he lied to, she says, bring the evidence of those thousands of people who won't get green jobs.

00:46:59.000 This is one of the greatest logical fallacies.

00:47:01.000 It's how to prove a negative.

00:47:03.000 Play Cut 18.

00:47:05.000 Thank you, Jen.

00:47:06.000 I do have a question on Billy, but first on energy.

00:47:08.000 When is it that the Biden administration is going to let the thousands of fossil fuel industry workers, whether it's pipeline workers or construction workers, who are either out of work or will soon be out of work because of a Biden EO, when it is and where it is that they can go for their green job?

00:47:27.000 Well, I'd certainly welcome you to present your data of all the thousands and thousands of people who won't be getting a green job.

00:47:34.000 Maybe next time you're here, you can present that. 0.97

00:47:37.000 What an arrogant, smug person. 0.99

00:47:41.000 Is that fair to say? 0.98

00:47:42.000 So let me get this straight.

00:47:44.000 In order to just end questioning, at a White House press briefing, Kaylee McEnany, Sarah Sanders, Sarah Hugabee Sanders, and Sean Spice are like, oh, so now I just should have asked them where their multivariant analysis is.

00:47:58.000 It's very simple, Jensaki.

00:48:00.000 He banned fracking on federal lands.

00:48:03.000 He got rid of the Keystone XL pipeline, which is just so amazing to me. 0.99

00:48:07.000 You know how foolish these people are? 0.98

00:48:11.000 Get rid of the Keystone XL pipeline. 0.99

00:48:13.000 How are you going to transport the oil then?

00:48:15.000 By train?

00:48:17.000 Probably.

00:48:18.000 It's a nice handout to Warren Buffett and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad.

00:48:23.000 He's been a long campaigner against the Keystone XL pipeline.

00:48:27.000 You still have to transport the oil.

00:48:30.000 But the ideologues that are running our government now, like Jen Saki and John Kerry, who benefit tremendously from fossil fuels, from fracking, they're going to get us into another war.

00:48:41.000 Remember, war is a tool used by the tyrants to distract us from the theft that is currently occurring.

00:48:49.000 What war are they going to get us into?

00:48:51.000 Well, when you cannot transport, extract, or use the resources that you have on your own continent, then you're going to go find those resources elsewhere.

00:49:04.000 There's only a couple places on the planet that have oil and natural gas deposits like we do.

00:49:09.000 That's in the Middle East and Venezuela.

00:49:11.000 That's it.

00:49:14.000 It is not abundant anywhere else.

00:49:17.000 But we have it here in North America.

00:49:20.000 Fracking saves the environment.

00:49:23.000 Fracking has created millions of jobs.

00:49:27.000 So the question should be, Jen Saki, show me the evidence anywhere where this supposed green nonsense has resulted in positive economic growth, lower utility bills, people coming out of poverty.

00:49:43.000 But they don't care about that.

00:49:44.000 The Democrats and the ruling class live in a utopian pipe dream. 1.00

00:49:50.000 I would love to have Jen Saki asked honest questions.

00:49:53.000 And Peter Doocy did a great job there.

00:49:54.000 He deserves credit for that.

00:49:55.000 He's the only guy in the entire room that asks good questions.

00:49:58.000 Hey, Jen, can you just take out a piece of paper and pen?

00:50:01.000 Can you create a pie chart and show me per type of energy, the different types of percentage of consumption in our country?

00:50:10.000 What percentage of our energy grid is solar?

00:50:13.000 What percentage of our grid is oil, natural gas?

00:50:15.000 What percentage of our grid is nuclear?

00:50:17.000 What percentage of our grid is hydroelectric?

00:50:20.000 What percentage of our grid is wind?

00:50:22.000 And what is the specific scaling that you believe the Biden administration can implement to get us from what I believe is about 4% solar to 20% solar?

00:50:32.000 How do you plan to do that?

00:50:35.000 How do you plan to get us from 2% hydroelectric?

00:50:39.000 By the way, they don't even like hydroelectric.

00:50:41.000 I love hydroelectric.

00:50:42.000 They don't like nuclear either.

00:50:44.000 If they were actually honest when it came to energy, which they're not, they would say, okay, we are going to transition to nuclear and hydroelectric.

00:50:51.000 Instead, it's wind and solar.

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00:52:08.000 Do you notice how little conversation there is about the $1.9 trillion economic rescue package?

00:52:14.000 Do you even know what's in it?

00:52:16.000 Is it necessary?

00:52:18.000 Did you know that most of the money that we spent unnecessarily in December has not even been spent?

00:52:24.000 That was a $1 trillion stimulus bill.

00:52:26.000 That's according to Senator Tim Scott.

00:52:29.000 We did another $1.4 trillion.

00:52:32.000 This is on top of the $4 trillion a year we spend on the federal government.

00:52:38.000 This stimulus bill, which is completely and totally unnecessary, has bigger stimulus checks, more aid to the unemployed, those facing eviction.

00:52:50.000 I'm reading from CNN.com because they've actually done the best job detailing this.

00:52:56.000 Enhanced unemployment aid.

00:52:59.000 More money for child care and child tax credits.

00:53:02.000 I think that's fine, actually.

00:53:04.000 I think that we should have a pro-family policy in our country.

00:53:09.000 Subsidies for health insurance premiums, restoration of emergency paid leave, more assistance for small businesses.

00:53:18.000 And then $350 billion.

00:53:21.000 Here you go.

00:53:23.000 Here's the theft.

00:53:23.000 This is why they don't want to talk about this.

00:53:25.000 This is why they're doing the impeachment to bail out Democrat states.

00:53:31.000 Now we found it.

00:53:33.000 $350 billion to bail out broken states like Illinois, Connecticut, Rhode Island, California, Oregon, and Washington.

00:53:46.000 $350 billion.

00:53:52.000 And it also raises the minimum wage to $15 an hour that the Washington Post has even come out and said will destroy 1.5 million jobs over the next five years. 0.52

00:54:03.000 Democrats don't care about that.

00:54:07.000 And so I am inherently against government stimulus.

00:54:12.000 It does not work and it is immoral.

00:54:14.000 I was against Obama's stimulus.

00:54:16.000 I was even against Trump stimulus.

00:54:17.000 I spoke out against it.

00:54:19.000 It did not create the economic growth that they said it would.

00:54:22.000 The best stimulus has always been ending these anti-scientific lockdowns, has always been about reopening our country.

00:54:29.000 Open the country fully.

00:54:30.000 Trust people to make good choices.

00:54:33.000 They will weigh the costs.

00:54:35.000 They'll weigh the consequences.

00:54:36.000 That's what a free society is all about.

00:54:40.000 We have decided not to do that in our country.

00:54:44.000 We've decided to do the opposite.

00:54:46.000 We've decided to shut everything down, borrow money, and create money we do not have to spend on things that do not matter to never create jobs.

00:54:59.000 But let's go just to the very basics.

00:55:05.000 What is money?

00:55:09.000 Money is a representation of value.

00:55:13.000 The way that trading used to work before we had currency was a barter system.

00:55:20.000 It was very inefficient.

00:55:22.000 I'll trade you a chicken for a cow.

00:55:25.000 I'll trade you cows for a car.

00:55:29.000 The problem with the barter system is you have to find a producer for that demand.

00:55:35.000 That creates the double incidence of wants problem.

00:55:40.000 Learn Liberty has some great videos on this.

00:55:44.000 The double incidence of wants problem is that if you have something that somebody else does not want, well, then you're not able to trade.

00:55:55.000 So if I'm in the water bottle making business and I have a bunch of water bottles, but somebody wants sandwiches and not water bottles, how do I trade with them?

00:56:06.000 Money also solves the retention of value problem, especially when it comes to perishable goods like chickens or cows.

00:56:16.000 It's not going to last forever, but money hopefully will.

00:56:19.000 Money can hold that value after you sell the cow.

00:56:23.000 You get the highest amount of value for it when it's at its highest peak, and then you keep the money.

00:56:28.000 Money solves these problems, and money allows trade to occur.

00:56:34.000 What I just went through in the last two and a half minutes right there, by the way, is supposed just to be economics 101 that it seems our congresspeople have no understanding of whatsoever.

00:56:45.000 Let's go a little deeper.

00:56:47.000 Money is valuable because goods and services are represented by that money.

00:56:55.000 So $100 is supposed to represent that value of goods and services in a society.

00:57:05.000 Here's something that is obvious, but it needs to be said because it's true.

00:57:10.000 Creating and printing more money does not make more stuff appear.

00:57:16.000 Creating more money does not create more stuff.

00:57:21.000 Instead, creating more money spreads the value of the goods and services amongst a larger number of dollars.

00:57:33.000 So when we introduce $4 trillion into the economy without any sort of growth because everything is closed, that means that the $100 will no longer be worth $100.

00:57:50.000 It cheapens the value of the currency.

00:57:54.000 And then you get inflation.

00:57:57.000 How do you calculate inflation?

00:57:58.000 It's super easy.

00:58:01.000 You guys remember back to math class?

00:58:06.000 You just have a simple division equation.

00:58:09.000 At the numerator, you have numbers of dollars.

00:58:12.000 The denominator, you have goods and services.

00:58:14.000 That's it.

00:58:17.000 So on the denominator, goods and services, we have less goods and services than we've ever had before because of the lockdowns.

00:58:24.000 200,000 small businesses went under.

00:58:29.000 Hotels, cruise lines, concerts, airlines, all have gone through the worst chapter they ever have.

00:58:36.000 But the number of dollars has increased dramatically.

00:58:41.000 So we are pumping the system with funny money.

00:58:44.000 Our market is basically on a sugar high.

00:58:47.000 We haven't even spent all the money that we've allocated.

00:58:51.000 Yet the Democrats and Biden want to spend another $1.9 trillion.

00:58:54.000 Why?

00:58:56.000 Answer.

00:58:57.000 There are a couple people that love inflation.

00:59:02.000 We know you can't print wealth.

00:59:05.000 We know you cannot create wealth via a printing press.

00:59:10.000 The Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, and much of the third world has demonstrated this.

00:59:19.000 But Wall Street bankers actually love stimulus.

00:59:24.000 It gives the market a false sense of stability.

00:59:29.000 And also, if you're wealthy, you're going to do great when inflation hits.

00:59:33.000 Hard assets, you do very well.

00:59:37.000 But do you know who else does really, really well with inflation?

00:59:41.000 Corporations that have massive debt.

00:59:47.000 Anyone that has debt does really well when inflation hits.

00:59:53.000 Let's think about it.

00:59:55.000 If you have half a million dollars in debt and all of a sudden half a million dollars is no longer worth half a million dollars and it's really worth like $200,000 with inflated money because it's not what it used to be.

01:00:11.000 How many times have you heard your parents say, I used to be able to get a full meal for $1.50?

01:00:16.000 Well, it's because $1.50 isn't worth what it used to be.

01:00:22.000 $1.50 back then is really like $0.10 now and vice versa.

01:00:28.000 So therefore, inflation rewards debtors.

01:00:33.000 It rewards people that have borrowed and leveraged.

01:00:36.000 Well, who have borrowed and leveraged themselves to positions in an unrealistic nature?

01:00:42.000 Answer, private equity, megatron corporations, and much of the ruling class.

01:00:49.000 Our whole system is built on debt.

01:00:51.000 Everything is.

01:00:52.000 The spigot of debt has hit higher education.

01:00:55.000 It's hit businesses.

01:00:56.000 It's hit Wall Street.

01:00:58.000 It's hit private families, credit card companies.

01:01:01.000 We are leveraged all up and down the economy.

01:01:05.000 And so now we are on the second precipice of a long-term debt cycle.

01:01:09.000 So when you hit the second precipice of a long-term debt cycle, the smart people of the Federal Reserve are looking at the numbers.

01:01:16.000 They say, huh, we didn't cut spending in 2000.

01:01:18.000 We didn't cut spending in 2005.

01:01:20.000 We didn't cut spending in 2010.

01:01:22.000 We didn't cut spending in 2015.

01:01:23.000 And we didn't cut spending in 2020.

01:01:25.000 And now the number of dollars has increased.

01:01:27.000 The goods and services have decreased.

01:01:28.000 That's it.

01:01:30.000 We are going to admit quietly through code.

01:01:37.000 You see, the ruling class always communicates through code.

01:01:40.000 The one thing that you'll learn about authoritarians and tyrants, they'll never tell you bluntly, but they'll tell you through code.

01:01:46.000 You want to know how they told us through code?

01:01:48.000 Bill Gates is now the number one owner of farmland in the country.

01:01:51.000 Trust me, Bill Gates does not like owning chickens and cows.

01:01:57.000 That's code.

01:01:57.000 You see, that's Bill Gates telling you, watch out, inflation is coming.

01:02:01.000 Because you know the one asset that does really, really well in inflation, of course, gold and silver, land.

01:02:06.000 Land does best in inflation.

01:02:08.000 Why? 0.93

01:02:09.000 Because there's only so much of it.

01:02:11.000 It's one of the few things you can't create more of.

01:02:15.000 It's one of the few things that you literally know how much land there is, especially developed land.

01:02:19.000 Does that make sense why Alasson Biden is not allowing more expansion on federal lands?

01:02:23.000 It makes pre-existing land more valuable.

01:02:26.000 Because when you open up more lands for leases, all of a sudden there's more supply and therefore prices will go down.

01:02:35.000 If you take the state of Arizona, Maricopa County, Maricopa County is hitting its limits.

01:02:42.000 That's why buildings are starting to get more vertical.

01:02:43.000 By the way, that is a thesis that we are going to build out.

01:02:47.000 Because I'm a big believer that the more vertical we allow housing units to get, the more liberal communities become.

01:02:54.000 The less you own, the more you rent, the more likely you are to be a Democrat.

01:03:00.000 So the ruling class talks in code.

01:03:02.000 And do you know what the monetary ruling class is telling us right now?

01:03:05.000 Almost in a Morse code way?

01:03:10.000 We are now going to become a country that manages inflation.

01:03:18.000 Lawrence Summers has said this, and by the way, I'm no fan of Lawrence Summers traditionally, just so we're clear.

01:03:23.000 He says, quote, inflationary pressures are going to come of a kind we have not seen in a generation, with consequences for the value of the dollar and financial stability.

01:03:33.000 He notes that stimulus measures of the magnitude contemplated are steps into the unknown.

01:03:38.000 So who does this punish?

01:03:40.000 Who does inflation and this sort of debt-based fiat currency, Rhodesian Weimar Republic, Narnia-based economic system punish?

01:03:51.000 The people who have played by the rules, conservatives.

01:03:56.000 If you have saved money your whole life, if you have paid down your debt, if you have not leveraged yourself through credit card bills, this entire program is designed to punish you.

01:04:07.000 But if you have leveraged yourself up to the sky, if you have borrowed money your whole life, all of a sudden this is your bailout.

01:04:16.000 And that's their design.

01:04:19.000 They want to punish the rule followers and reward the people that have pushed the boundaries.

01:04:24.000 I have come to the realization that the modern leftist, their life's work is to be at war with nature.

01:04:33.000 It's as simply as I can put it.

01:04:35.000 They do not believe in the laws of economics.

01:04:37.000 They don't believe in the laws of human nature either.

01:04:40.000 Now, liberals are different than leftists.

01:04:42.000 Liberals admit human nature is flawed.

01:04:46.000 Liberals admit that human beings are not malleable.

01:04:51.000 Do you want to know one of the greatest lies ever told?

01:04:54.000 That we are somehow inherently better human beings just because of the technology around us than the founding fathers.

01:05:02.000 We are just as broken, self-interested, greedy, and sinful as the people that predated us.

01:05:11.000 Our society is better, thanks to them and the systems they gave us.

01:05:16.000 But as individual human beings, we are right the same as the people that came before us.

01:05:23.000 And that is one of the most deceiving narratives of the left that somehow progress, this Hegelian dialectic progress, this history with an insight, somehow we become better people.

01:05:40.000 And the answer is, of course, you don't.

01:05:42.000 But in some way, it is almost as if the Democrats, when they pass these inflationary measures, especially the Cortez's Ta Libs and Omars, they believe this is the time that we're going to prove nature wrong.

01:05:53.000 You hear that, God, we're going to prove you wrong.

01:05:56.000 But just as I went through the very basic rules of economics, of supply and demand, the incident of wants problem, it's no different than the laws of Newtonian physics.

01:06:11.000 It's no different than the laws of gravity.

01:06:13.000 It's no different than the laws of thermodynamics.

01:06:16.000 The second law of thermodynamics, I believe, is the law of inevitable decay.

01:06:20.000 The left is just interested in that.

01:06:23.000 The left doesn't care about that.

01:06:26.000 The left believes that with the right combined collective genius, which takes pride to believe that, with enough power, they can overcome the laws of nature.

01:06:40.000 We're Democrats.

01:06:42.000 They haven't seen anything yet.

01:06:45.000 And it's this perpetual push Of liberals and Democrats that are almost resisting the guardrails, the rules, the laws, the facts, the biology, and the science that dictate our society.

01:07:06.000 And people say all the time, Charlie, what is a conservative?

01:07:09.000 I say a conservative is very simple.

01:07:11.000 Someone who recognizes human nature, who doesn't fight it, and instead tries to use the worst of human nature for the betterment of the entire society.

01:07:25.000 Instead, conservatives say we should try to create good people, not try to change how people actually are inherently.

01:07:33.000 That people are going to slip up, people are going to fall, people are going to sin.

01:07:38.000 Instead, what kind of a society can we have to teach people how to be, not what to destroy, like the left does? 0.65

01:07:47.000 And so when the left passes these stimulus bills, they're doing the exact same thing as when they're fighting for the transgender stuff. 0.52

01:07:58.000 The laws of biology, the laws of economics. 0.98

01:08:00.000 I don't care about that.

01:08:03.000 You see, this is the way America was governed before the Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, postmodernist left came onto the scene.

01:08:11.000 America was governed when you had a Democrat Party and a Republican Party that actually agreed on some very basic things.

01:08:19.000 The laws of nature and nature is God.

01:08:21.000 The laws of economics.

01:08:22.000 The laws of physics.

01:08:23.000 The law of thermodynamics.

01:08:25.000 And so then when you have those kind of agreed-upon givens, then public policy will stay within the framework of not destroying your civilization. 0.89

01:08:36.000 But when all of a sudden you say math, science, all of that are white Western power structures, well, then of course you're going to be at war with God and his nature. 0.79

01:08:50.000 That's exactly what is driving the pathological left. 0.67

01:08:54.000 Because they can't possibly believe there might be a creator above them in the hierarchy of needs, wants, and power.

01:09:07.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - February 09, 2021

The Woke Mob Comes For the GOAT + What Bill Gates Can Tell Us About the Stimulus Disaster

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