The Charlie Kirk Show - THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, it's Thought Crime, and I recap going to Greenland all of our time on Trump Force One, and should we also take the Panama Canal?

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00:01:21.000 Happy Thought Crime Thursday.

00:01:23.000 We have so much to cover and we have the panel with us.

00:01:27.000 Let me see who I have.

00:01:28.000 I think I have Jack, Blake, and Tyler.

00:01:31.000 Am I right?

00:01:32.000 What's up, guys?

00:01:33.000 Charlie, how you doing?

00:01:34.000 Yo.

00:01:34.000 Ah, I guess without even seeing.

00:01:36.000 I gotta tell ya.

00:01:37.000 I'm getting better at this.

00:01:38.000 I don't even know who I have.

00:01:39.000 The reason I knew that Andrew wasn't on is I just got off the phone with him.

00:01:42.000 So I was like, very unlikely.

00:01:43.000 So Jack, why don't we start with this?

00:01:45.000 Jack pitched to the...

00:01:47.000 We're doing two thought crimes this week.

00:01:49.000 On Monday, Jack said, hey, why don't we do a thought crime on Greenland?

00:01:53.000 I said, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:01:54.000 That'll be later in the week.

00:01:57.000 Jack, open us up with our Manifest Destiny topic.

00:02:01.000 Yeah, so Charlie, yeah, we bring it up and I was like, oh, you know, and it had been sort of kicking around.

00:02:06.000 Keep in mind, so folks understand the timeline here, this was before President Trump's press conference.

00:02:11.000 So when he went like all in on it and we're all sitting around going like, hey, you know, what topics do we want to get to?

00:02:17.000 Because there's always a few things we talked to.

00:02:19.000 We ended up talking about the gaycation instead on the last episode.

00:02:22.000 And then I was like, I was like, oh, yeah, the whole American expansionism, Fortress America, the new theory.

00:02:28.000 It's been, you know, President Trump's been talking about it.

00:02:30.000 The media is really into it.

00:02:31.000 Let's get to it.

00:02:32.000 And Charlie's like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:02:34.000 Don't talk about it then.

00:02:35.000 We'll talk about it later.

00:02:36.000 I'm like, why?

00:02:37.000 He's like, trust me, we'll talk about it later.

00:02:40.000 It was so great because the time where I'm a producer on Charlie's radio show and I learned that Charlie was going to Greenland when he sent us the photo of him in Greenland.

00:02:50.000 And I believe that's when Andrew learned about it.

00:02:53.000 I believe that's when everyone learned about it.

00:02:54.000 So Charlie just went and...

00:02:56.000 He just absconded on us, and then they're like, Andrew, you're hosting the show.

00:02:59.000 It was a lot of fun.

00:03:00.000 It was very entertaining.

00:03:02.000 Hey, to my credit, though, I was sworn to secrecy.

00:03:06.000 I could have leaked it and all that.

00:03:07.000 It drives me nuts when people do that, so you guys understand.

00:03:10.000 You've got to take that stuff seriously.

00:03:12.000 It's nothing personal.

00:03:15.000 There's a lot going into this stuff, and you tell...

00:03:17.000 Three people who then tell ten people, and the next thing you know, the New York Times is calling you.

00:03:21.000 So there's some footage of me in Greenland.

00:03:24.000 It was really remarkable.

00:03:25.000 I've got to be honest.

00:03:26.000 First of all, this is kind of an unfair question.

00:03:31.000 Has anyone here been to Greenland?

00:03:32.000 Jack actually might have been to Greenland because of his time in the Navy.

00:03:37.000 Jack, have you or no?

00:03:38.000 I've been to Alaska, and I've been all the way up in the north of Alaska, down the Arctic Circle, but no, I've not been to Greenland.

00:03:46.000 In Iceland.

00:03:47.000 So it is objectively one of the most beautiful places I've ever been.

00:03:52.000 It reminds me of like deep interior Alaska.

00:03:55.000 Like untouched, wild, where you come in contact with God's creation with no filter.

00:04:02.000 A place where...

00:04:04.000 There is a town and then there's no connection to modernity from that point forward.

00:04:09.000 I mean, there's polar bears that just walk through downtown, which is the largest town in Greenland.

00:04:14.000 That is a great word for it.

00:04:16.000 It is a frontier country, territory.

00:04:21.000 We'll get into all the details there.

00:04:23.000 So just kind of some backstory.

00:04:25.000 Don Jr. called me up and he said, hey, do you want to pop on Trump Force One?

00:04:29.000 And fly with me to Greenland.

00:04:30.000 I'm like, yeah, I'll do that.

00:04:33.000 So we took off at 2 a.m.

00:04:35.000 local standard time in Palm Beach.

00:04:37.000 I did one of the things I hate most, which is to fly a red-eye flight.

00:04:40.000 Pretty easy to fly a red-eye flight on Trump Force One, might I add, though.

00:04:43.000 So landed in Greenland as the sun was rising at 11 a.m.

00:04:49.000 local time.

00:04:50.000 Got off the plane.

00:04:51.000 We were greeted by hundreds of people in MAGA hats.

00:04:54.000 We went to some of their sacred sites.

00:04:56.000 We went to the top of this hill and took those pictures as the sun was rising.

00:04:59.000 We had an amazing meal with a bunch of local Greenlanders.

00:05:03.000 We went to the local cultural museum and ended the day at one of their top kind of bar, hangout, cheers, if you will, restaurants.

00:05:11.000 I learned a lot.

00:05:12.000 Number one, the people of Greenland, they hate, hate the Danes.

00:05:18.000 They hate Denmark.

00:05:19.000 They say that they are mistreated by Denmark.

00:05:24.000 Has lied to them and has really abused them.

00:05:27.000 Number two, there is so much untapped potential in Greenland.

00:05:31.000 There was a young man that came up to me and he said, Charlie, I follow you on TikTok.

00:05:35.000 Let me show you this picture.

00:05:37.000 And it was a picture of him.

00:05:38.000 He said, in my local village, we find these all the time.

00:05:41.000 They are rubies the size of baseballs, guys.

00:05:43.000 I mean...

00:05:44.000 There is the nickel, the aluminum, the lithium, the rubies, the gold, the natural resources.

00:05:52.000 I mean, it is one of the most abundant natural resource banks or reservoirs, whatever I want to say, on the planet.

00:05:59.000 The final thing is this, is they love America.

00:06:02.000 They are the power of American culture.

00:06:09.000 MAGA is a worldwide movement.

00:06:12.000 It is transcending borders, largely thanks to social media.

00:06:15.000 So it was a wonderful time in nuke.

00:06:18.000 That is how you say it, not nuke.

00:06:19.000 It is nuke.

00:06:20.000 And honored to have been included in something that very well might have made history.

00:06:24.000 It wasn't a government trip.

00:06:25.000 We didn't meet with government officials.

00:06:26.000 We came as tourists, come to just learn, report back to the people of America of what we saw and heard.

00:06:33.000 Honored to be included and would welcome your guys' thoughts.

00:06:35.000 But you know, that's not the only nuke in Greenland, of course.

00:06:40.000 Something that a lot of people don't realize is that during the Cold War, this actually was one of the forward strategic bases for US WMDs regarding the threat of the Soviet Union.

00:06:52.000 And really that in any type of strategic intercontinental ballistic missile exchange between the US and Russia or the US and China, it would most likely be over the top.

00:07:03.000 See, people have this view.

00:07:05.000 We're so used to, and this is where like...

00:07:08.000 I totally went full schizo Navy officer on the show this week, and I had all the charts out. 0.89

00:07:15.000 I was explaining, like, we live on a globe.

00:07:18.000 People need to stop thinking in two dimensions.

00:07:21.000 Yeah, there's the map.

00:07:22.000 All of this stuff goes over the top.

00:07:24.000 It is so shorter to travel those distances, the maritime routes.

00:07:29.000 This was the whole reason, by the way, for the endless search for the Northwest Passage, which potentially might be opening up due to advances in icebreaker technology.

00:07:37.000 Which, of course, the U.S. is totally lagging behind China and Russia and new routes that may be opening up in the Labrador Sea and others, which, by the way, would take maritime shipping in a completely new direction where, guess what, the Suez Canal and the Houthis and the Straits of Malacca and all the nonsense might be completely obsolete within the next 10 to 15 years, not to mention the baseball-sized rubies and all the other natural resources up there.

00:08:06.000 So, I mean, it's pretty clear that over the next century, the race for the Arctic is going to be absolutely massive, and it's just incredible that President Trump is focusing on it the way that he has.

00:08:17.000 And, of course, the United States has maintained military presence there since World War II. So, this is something I discovered.

00:08:24.000 So, obviously, as you mentioned, the big U.S. base in far northern Greenland, we called it Thule Air Force Base because that's like the old...

00:08:33.000 Excuse me, it is Thule Air Force Base.

00:08:35.000 Biden administration renamed it to something stupid because they wanted to like, I think it was like the local indigenous people's name for the area, which, okay, they can call it whatever they want.

00:08:46.000 We call it Thule because Ultima Thule is, you know, a cool ancient Greek concept for the ultra far north.

00:08:53.000 So that's one of the many bases we should probably change the name back to, which this ties into when we were talking about topics.

00:09:00.000 Obviously, we want to talk about Greenland, but President Trump, he's...

00:09:04.000 He's sort of creating this conversation about all sorts of foreign policy stuff, both actual expansionism and, like, I don't know, rhetorical offensive.

00:09:14.000 So he was saying we should rename the Gulf of Mexico.

00:09:17.000 Should we rename the Gulf of Mexico, guys?

00:09:19.000 Yes.

00:09:20.000 Gulf of America.

00:09:21.000 I've known about that one for quite a while, and I haven't leaked that one either.

00:09:24.000 So, proud of myself.

00:09:25.000 It turns out that, I think one of the first, I was looking at this last year, and one of the first posts I was able to find of that was from my brother, like, all the way back in, like, April of 2024. And he was out on a wave runner, and he was like, he was like, just cruising the Gulf of America, its new name, come 2025. And I was like, did you, I was like, Kevin, did somebody, like, tip you off?

00:09:48.000 He's like, no, I just, I just thought that it should be called.

00:09:51.000 Well, and it makes perfect sense, too, because, I mean, realistically, most of the Gulf is completely dependent.

00:09:58.000 It's either the United States border or completely dependent on the United States for everything.

00:10:03.000 Well, if we are going to name things because they're dependent on the U.S., we should rename Europe America.

00:10:11.000 I mean, I'll just say this.

00:10:13.000 This is why I went on a rampage talking about how Baja California needs to be 100% within our control.

00:10:20.000 And everybody's up in arms because they're like, well, we don't want to make it a state.

00:10:23.000 But it's, you know, Baja California has like literally outside of the border towns has no population.

00:10:31.000 It's like Greenland.

00:10:31.000 Yeah, it's a big bummer, actually, because I was reading about this.

00:10:34.000 So in the Mexican War.

00:10:36.000 We actually, Polk wanted to take all of Baja California, or like all of California, because there's Alto and Baja, and then he wanted like Chihuahuas, or he wanted like the states that are south of Arizona bordering us.

00:10:47.000 And at the time, those places were entirely empty, so they could have just been, you know, settled.

00:10:53.000 Buy Americans. 0.82

00:10:54.000 They would have been great.

00:10:55.000 And I guess it might have been a downer for Phoenix.

00:10:57.000 Whatever Phoenix's equivalent would probably be down in Chihuahua or something.

00:11:04.000 There's only two cities.

00:11:05.000 It's Tijuana and Mexicali.

00:11:07.000 But this goes back to the Gulf.

00:11:09.000 Mexico deserves nothing.

00:11:11.000 This is my question for you, though.

00:11:13.000 Because we talked about this prior to...

00:11:15.000 I know we talked about this on a prior episode of talking about Arizona.

00:11:19.000 And since you're Mr. Arizona, I've got to ask.

00:11:21.000 Wasn't there, I'm not looking it up, I don't even know what's in front of me, but wasn't at the end, like, Blake, you're talking about the Mexican War, U.S.-Mexican War, that Arizona was originally supposed to get coastline, it was supposed to connect all the way down there, and then for some reason we just didn't take it.

00:11:39.000 What was the whole piece?

00:11:41.000 The whole problem with, like, State Department diplomats who just, as it were, cuck out.

00:11:46.000 Literally what happened is the diplomat we sent to negotiate in Mexico was opposed to the war and didn't want to take more Mexico.

00:11:54.000 So he just, he sided with the Mexicans and was like, I'm giving you a way better deal. 0.94

00:11:58.000 It's the very end of President Polk's term.

00:12:00.000 So he's just like, I want it done.

00:12:02.000 Let's get out.

00:12:03.000 All they did was minimize.

00:12:05.000 So they minimized themselves, the U.S. border, to where they wanted to put the train.

00:12:10.000 Yeah.

00:12:10.000 And then we still had to buy it.

00:12:11.000 We had to buy Gadsden later.

00:12:13.000 Well, that's what I mean.

00:12:14.000 So we're Gadsden.

00:12:15.000 So the first treaty at the end of Polk, they gave away Baja California.

00:12:20.000 But then even the Gadsden purchase, all they cared about was just getting the train done.

00:12:27.000 It's heartbreaking.

00:12:28.000 It actually is sort of heartbreaking because when you think about it, zoom out at a big level.

00:12:32.000 how much better would it be for the world just if those territories were in an awesome country like america instead of the most permanently dysfunctional country on earth mexico which who's like sheer amount of mess that it is is only made worse by the fact that they have the biggest advantage a country could possibly have which is sharing a border with america well so blake so 0.98

00:12:55.000 So here's, let's zoom out a little bit, because I've been getting people, and I've seen the chatter online, I'm sure we all have, they're saying, wait a minute, you guys were America first five minutes ago, and now all of a sudden you're talking about territorial acquisition, and you're talking about Greenland, and the Panama Canal, Greenland is going to be part of America, so of course I'm America first.

00:13:14.000 Right, right, but no, I wanted, obviously, but what I wanted Blake to do, if we should zoom out here for a second, is...

00:13:20.000 None of us view any inherent contradictions between those.

00:13:25.000 So what's the difference between, and this is really a question for Blake, I guess, what's the difference between America first versus, like, neoconservatism?

00:13:35.000 Well, I think actually a genuinely valid thing is, so first of all, neoconservatism always wants us to get involved in places that, like, truly are not our business.

00:13:47.000 And also have a lot of baggage that comes into play as soon as you decide to stick yourself in.

00:13:52.000 So, oh yeah, oh, it'll be easy to knock out Saddam, and, you know, we'll just fix it. 0.99

00:13:56.000 When Iraq is literally, has had written history for 5,000 years at this point, and all these tribes that all hate each other, and infamously we went in and Bush didn't know there were Sunnis and Shias as separate things when we invaded Iraq. 0.80

00:14:11.000 Greenland, let's be real, Greenland has 50,000 people.

00:14:13.000 It has fewer people.

00:14:15.000 It has half the population of, like, Tempe.

00:14:18.000 And so it's not a lot of people.

00:14:21.000 We literally, like, if you wanted to, we could literally just, like, put every single person who lives in Greenland on, like, welfare for the rest of their lives and it would not be the end of the world.

00:14:29.000 We have plenty of people on welfare already.

00:14:30.000 Well, we did that with some places.

00:14:33.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:14:33.000 And we already do that with, effectively, Denmark by paying for their national defense.

00:14:37.000 And so...

00:14:39.000 Like, it is a place that is hugely, potentially useful to us, but it doesn't require sticking ourselves in something that actually has an ancient history and a lot of, like, grievance-based, you know, that would have valid grievances if we were to administer it.

00:14:52.000 It's just not like that.

00:14:54.000 It actually is a largely empty place that we could unlock the potential of, and Denmark doesn't want to unlock the potential of it.

00:15:01.000 I'm going to make it super clear, and then kick back to Charlie, because we've hijacked this away from Charlie for too long here, but we'll kick back to Charlie.

00:15:07.000 No, this is great.

00:15:08.000 I'm enjoying this.

00:15:10.000 We went into Iraq and Afghanistan, got nothing out of it.

00:15:16.000 Anti-anything out of it.

00:15:19.000 We spent billions.

00:15:21.000 No, but got nothing out of it.

00:15:22.000 We're talking about...

00:15:23.000 It's not even nearly the same thing.

00:15:25.000 We're talking about going into and really via treaty.

00:15:29.000 This wouldn't happen over...

00:15:31.000 We have so many pressures that we can put on Mexico, for example, to change names of things and to get more land out of Baja, California, to get Greenland and all that, especially what Charlie just mentioned.

00:15:41.000 Do you mean Baja America?

00:15:43.000 Most of these people, yeah, Baja California, Baja, I think we should call it Baja Arizona.

00:15:47.000 We'll call it Baja Arizona.

00:15:48.000 Yeah, Baja Arizona.

00:15:49.000 I wanted to say, I want to rename the Gulf of California the Gulf of Arizona, but that's a whole different thing.

00:15:55.000 We should think about that, because you know where California's name comes from?

00:15:58.000 It comes from the word caliph, so it's literally like a Muslim name.

00:16:02.000 Yeah, caliphate. 0.57

00:16:02.000 It's like the caliph. 0.57

00:16:04.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:16:04.000 Is that right?

00:16:05.000 I did not know that.

00:16:06.000 Yeah, it's true.

00:16:07.000 That's fascinating.

00:16:08.000 The word admiral is also an Arabic word, like admiral.

00:16:13.000 But, yeah, it goes through, like, it was from, because, remember, prior to expanding to the United States, who was the Spanish Empire mainly fighting?

00:16:23.000 They were fighting the Moors. 0.82

00:16:24.000 They were fighting North Africa.

00:16:26.000 So, you know, the Caliph was someone that was always their, like, enemy.

00:16:31.000 So this was something they constantly were talking about.

00:16:33.000 Well, and so, I mean, we should get something out of this, right?

00:16:37.000 We should get, I mean, they're already dependent.

00:16:38.000 Most of the people probably in Bala, California, want to be American.

00:16:41.000 I mean, Tijuana and Mexicali are completely...

00:16:46.000 They're extensions of San Diego and extensions of, you know, just right over the border.

00:16:51.000 Mexicali, I think, is right next to Blythe that's over there. 0.99

00:16:54.000 It's, like, not far at all.

00:16:56.000 And Yuma.

00:16:57.000 And so it's like, why don't we just have this and actually take...

00:17:01.000 The monetary advantage of this and monetize the entire place will probably ease off California.

00:17:08.000 California will become less blue.

00:17:10.000 We don't even have to make it a state.

00:17:11.000 Don't make it a state.

00:17:12.000 Make it a territory.

00:17:13.000 Or we could make it a state, an un-state California.

00:17:17.000 Break up California.

00:17:19.000 Break up.

00:17:20.000 I would say California feels like four states.

00:17:23.000 There's no way that you should be able to fly in a plane for that many hours and then land in the same state.

00:17:29.000 I'm sorry.

00:17:29.000 No, it's just wrong.

00:17:31.000 Well, interestingly enough, Baja California is two states.

00:17:33.000 So you have Baja California and then Sur Baja California, or Baja California Sur.

00:17:38.000 So, I mean, yeah.

00:17:41.000 I mean, that does open the door, I think, to break up California.

00:17:44.000 Yeah.

00:17:45.000 So while we're talking about the various things, so Trump has talked about renaming the Gulf.

00:17:50.000 He's talked about taking the Panama Canal zone back.

00:17:53.000 He's talked about taking Greenland.

00:17:55.000 He's also talked about annexing Canada.

00:17:58.000 And I do think, maybe this is cocky of me, I think I've got to draw the line.

00:18:02.000 I'm not on board for that one yet.

00:18:03.000 I do not want to absorb Canada. 0.92

00:18:06.000 Wait, no, but that's not a cocky reason.

00:18:08.000 Maybe Alberta.

00:18:09.000 The reason is because, Charlie, the debt-to-earnings ratio is just not there for Canada.

00:18:14.000 I'm sorry, it's not there, man.

00:18:16.000 Like, the baggage is too high.

00:18:18.000 Like, you know, yeah, Alberta, natural resources, the Yukon, we can certainly make all of those conversations as well as defense of the Arctic, military, you know, military usage and all those passage rights, which obviously, like, Canada is like the, it's like the Belarus of America, all right?

00:18:35.000 Like, we are going to use our military up there however we see fit.

00:18:38.000 And, no, I can say that because I'm married to one.

00:18:41.000 And, look, it's, It's basically like, yeah, we're going to get the resources and Pierre eating his little apple.

00:18:51.000 Sure, fine.

00:18:52.000 You could be in charge now.

00:18:53.000 But you're going to be in charge.

00:18:55.000 Look at the population of Canada.

00:18:57.000 Have you ever looked at a population density map of them?

00:18:59.000 It's like all of the Canadians are hugging the U.S. border as closely as they possibly can.

00:19:04.000 There's massive swaths of just...

00:19:06.000 The same as Charlie was talking about in Greenland.

00:19:08.000 There's massive swaths of territory that are completely unused until they will be used by us.

00:19:14.000 Maybe that's the way you go about it.

00:19:16.000 Just try to take...

00:19:17.000 No, no, please continue, Blake.

00:19:18.000 I was like, if we could take Yukon, take the Northwest Territory, take Nunavut, and then take Greenland, and you could just fold it into Alaska and make this extremely sweeping, epic, call it Northlandia or something, or Thule, whatever you want.

00:19:35.000 Think about how huge it would be and how cool it would be.

00:19:39.000 That's another thing where we misfired.

00:19:41.000 After World War II... We owned all those islands in the Pacific.

00:19:45.000 We kicked out the Japanese, all the other colonial powers. 1.00

00:19:47.000 We owned Palau, Marshall Islands.

00:19:49.000 Those were all just held by the U.S. Well, we had the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.

00:19:53.000 Whether we give away the Philippines or not, that's its own dramatic thing.

00:19:55.000 But all those Pacific islands, we should have...

00:19:57.000 I think even now, all their citizens can just come to America and be citizens if they want.

00:20:01.000 They're basically fake countries in a lot of ways.

00:20:04.000 I think their main purpose is...

00:20:05.000 The Chamorros are U.S. citizens.

00:20:07.000 The main purpose of a lot of those islands is so that we have other countries to vote with us on Taiwan stuff and on Israel stuff in the UN.

00:20:14.000 It's great.

00:20:15.000 But other than that, like we should have really just kept them, merge it with Guam, merge it with the Marianas and have like a Pacifica state. 0.78

00:20:22.000 How cool would it be if the U.S. had Pacifica state just spanning the entire Pacific Ocean and they had Northlandia spanning the north?

00:20:29.000 It would be amazing.

00:20:31.000 We would be the biggest country in the world.

00:20:33.000 We'd be way more cool than everyone else.

00:20:35.000 Wait, wait, wait, Blake.

00:20:37.000 But remember, when you give an area statehood, they get two senators and a governor.

00:20:42.000 So, no, I'm not interested in giving all of these places statehood.

00:20:46.000 Greenland, yes, of course.

00:20:47.000 But all of them, I don't know.

00:20:49.000 Keep in mind, like, you know, Charlie and Tyler, you know, who's the next Greenland Murkowski going to be?

00:20:55.000 You know, I mean, there's still...

00:20:57.000 Just because it's...

00:20:59.000 You know, it's a hardy area, which I think we all realize would probably, we all sort of get, would generally be conservative.

00:21:05.000 I don't know that necessarily means that we get the best representatives out there.

00:21:08.000 Well, Charlie can comment on this.

00:21:09.000 The people there, it's overwhelmingly Inuit, Eskimo, right?

00:21:13.000 It's like 95%.

00:21:14.000 Yeah, that's correct.

00:21:15.000 So it's 85%, 85% Inuit and then 15% Dane of just people that have come over and they help run businesses or whatever.

00:21:22.000 Now, it's an amazing thing.

00:21:24.000 So we went to the Cultural Museum, which I wish I could have spent more time.

00:21:27.000 It was really well set up.

00:21:28.000 And they have these drawings of the people of Greenland that were there like 800 years ago.

00:21:35.000 And it makes you think, like, these people survived a negative 10-degree weather with insanely harsh winds and a very unforgiving climate, like, 800 years ago.

00:21:46.000 I mean, these are tough, tough people.

00:21:48.000 And I know that's not the only culture like that.

00:21:51.000 Alaska has something similar.

00:21:52.000 Northern Canada has something similar.

00:21:54.000 Siberia has something similar.

00:21:55.000 But it was just really amazing.

00:21:57.000 I got a little insight into how tough the people of Greenland actually are.

00:22:02.000 And I did try the local cuisine.

00:22:04.000 I had whale.

00:22:06.000 Wow.

00:22:07.000 And a seal.

00:22:09.000 Was whale good?

00:22:10.000 I've heard whale was good.

00:22:11.000 Was it a baby seal?

00:22:12.000 Did you club it to death?

00:22:13.000 That's a Canada thing.

00:22:15.000 So, no, I did not actually.

00:22:17.000 I did not kill any of the animals that I ate.

00:22:19.000 We didn't have time.

00:22:21.000 However, whale, someone says, what does whale taste like?

00:22:25.000 It's like really chewy steak.

00:22:28.000 That's what it tastes like.

00:22:29.000 So, Don Jr., who's a...

00:22:31.000 Unbelievable outdoorsman.

00:22:33.000 Like, legit.

00:22:35.000 He said the whale that he had in Greenland was way better than the whale that he had in Alaska.

00:22:44.000 So, for whatever that's worth, the whale in Greenland is quite good.

00:22:47.000 So, we tried all the local fare and was really kind of impressed by the people of Greenland.

00:22:57.000 I will also say, though, I mean, this is just a side note.

00:23:00.000 You think about How far does social media reach?

00:23:03.000 There were young people coming up, hundreds of them, asking for selfies from Don and I, saying, we follow you on TikTok.

00:23:11.000 We follow you on TikTok.

00:23:12.000 I mean, it is a worldwide phenomenon, guys.

00:23:17.000 So let me ask a question, Blake, Jack, and Tyler.

00:23:21.000 Knowing what you know, and I'm going to kind of just listen because I have my own thoughts, obviously, being on the ground and listening to things.

00:23:28.000 How do you think Donald Trump should go about brokering this deal?

00:23:32.000 So I threw out on social media yesterday just sort of an opening bid.

00:23:37.000 We all know that President Trump has stated pretty forcefully, even in his first term, that one of the things that he seeks to do with the NATO alliance, which Blake just mentioned, that we basically foot the bill for all of Europe's defense.

00:23:52.000 And in return, President Trump has been really pounding the table.

00:23:55.000 And of course, there's that famous picture of him with Angela Merkel.

00:23:58.000 And the great Shinzo Abe, the late great Shinzo Abe, you know, crossing his arms and staring at her because he's demanding that the NATO member states up their GDP expenditure on defense to 5%.

00:24:11.000 And I say, well, just give Denmark a break on that for, I don't know, a period of five years, five to ten years.

00:24:17.000 Call it whatever it is.

00:24:18.000 Boom.

00:24:19.000 All that savings goes right back into your economy.

00:24:21.000 And then in return, we get green then.

00:24:23.000 So we don't have to put any cash down on it.

00:24:26.000 And then all in return.

00:24:27.000 They get the full defensive weight of NATO and the U.S. military defending them.

00:24:31.000 Simple.

00:24:33.000 The other idea I've seen is we put tariffs on Ozempic. 1.00

00:24:37.000 Well, if they're...

00:24:38.000 Wait, Ozempic?

00:24:39.000 Is Ozempic Danish? 0.54

00:24:40.000 Yeah, I believe Ozempic... 0.97

00:24:41.000 One of the...

00:24:42.000 It's...

00:24:43.000 What's that?

00:24:44.000 Nova Nordisk?

00:24:45.000 It is.

00:24:45.000 Nova Nordisk is a Danish company.

00:24:47.000 That is.

00:24:48.000 It is a Danish company.

00:24:50.000 It's Nova Nordisk, I think, is what it is, right?

00:24:53.000 I want to double-check this to get it right.

00:24:54.000 That's right.

00:24:55.000 It is a Danish company.

00:24:57.000 I am 100% sure it is a Danish company.

00:24:59.000 It is!

00:25:00.000 It's a huge share of their economy now.

00:25:03.000 It's cartoonish.

00:25:04.000 Because the company is so valuable now.

00:25:08.000 It's a multi-trillion dollar company.

00:25:10.000 Denmark ain't a multi-trillion dollar economy for the most part.

00:25:14.000 So it's just like, oh, this little Danish pharmaceutical company.

00:25:19.000 Let me get this straight.

00:25:21.000 We have the greatest fighting force in the history of the planet, nuclear weapons, F-35s, drones, Marines, Navy SEALs.

00:25:27.000 They have Ozempic.

00:25:29.000 Hold on, hold on.

00:25:32.000 Interestingly enough, too, I think you pronounce that Maersk?

00:25:38.000 Is the big shipping company?

00:25:40.000 Yeah, the shipping company.

00:25:41.000 The teams have always been the best at shipping.

00:25:44.000 Yeah, but I mean, the tariff problem for them is much bigger than just Denmark.

00:25:50.000 So I would suspect that...

00:25:53.000 You wouldn't want to put tariffs on shipping because that would directly...

00:25:55.000 No, I'm just saying tariffs in general probably impact their business worldwide more than anybody else.

00:26:01.000 So you take off the table.

00:26:03.000 You start talking about tariffs.

00:26:04.000 You start talking about taking off the table.

00:26:07.000 Or adding tariffs to Ozempic, like you mentioned.

00:26:11.000 Maybe you can get a deal done real quick for Ozempic.

00:26:14.000 I just looked up the biggest brands out of Denmark.

00:26:17.000 And yeah, Maersk is there.

00:26:19.000 There's also, of course, Pandora.

00:26:21.000 So Pandora Jewelry, that's based out of Denmark.

00:26:24.000 When you think about it.

00:26:25.000 Carlsberg Group.

00:26:28.000 And here's the biggest one, guys.

00:26:30.000 This is going to hurt.

00:26:31.000 It's going to hurt them a lot more than it hurts us.

00:26:34.000 Legos.

00:26:35.000 Legos are...

00:26:36.000 Oh yeah, I forgot Legos are Danish.

00:26:38.000 Oh yeah.

00:26:39.000 Oh yeah.

00:26:40.000 Sorry, Lego.

00:26:43.000 Sorry to Legoland.

00:26:45.000 Tariffs on all of it.

00:26:46.000 Every brick.

00:26:48.000 If we invaded them...

00:26:50.000 They might put Legos on the carpet, and if our guys stepped on them, that would really hurt.

00:26:56.000 That hurts a lot.

00:26:57.000 That's exactly what happens at my house pretty much every single morning.

00:27:01.000 Exactly.

00:27:02.000 Nova Nordisk, though, has a $372 billion market cap.

00:27:06.000 That's crazy.

00:27:07.000 Wow.

00:27:08.000 What's bigger than a Lego?

00:27:09.000 I thought it was more than that.

00:27:10.000 I think that if it gets—oh, that's right.

00:27:12.000 If it gets on the Medicaid schedule here in America, it will be a trillion-dollar company.

00:27:17.000 That is correct.

00:27:18.000 So, by the way, what a great negotiation tool that we have.

00:27:22.000 Yes, yes.

00:27:23.000 No, no, it's a huge thing, by the way.

00:27:25.000 It's being debated right now, actually.

00:27:28.000 No, no, no.

00:27:29.000 Jack, for children, look up Ozembeck Medicaid Congress.

00:27:34.000 It's a huge debate right now.

00:27:37.000 What a great negotiation tool that Trump has.

00:27:39.000 Like, oh, it'd be a shame if Ozembek was banned in America.

00:27:44.000 It'd be a shame if Ozembek wasn't allowed to be sold here. 1.00

00:27:47.000 I mean, do you guys want Greenland that bad?

00:27:50.000 Or do you want to be able to sell your weight loss drug in the United States of America?

00:27:53.000 And when you think about it, it could be a great ad for Ozembek. 0.98

00:27:58.000 If Greenland loses all of that heavy territory, like Greenland loses 80% of its body mass.

00:28:06.000 It's like an ad for it.

00:28:08.000 So let me ask Blake.

00:28:09.000 So some people, President Trump has not dismissed the possibility of using military force.

00:28:16.000 Blake, what is your thoughts on Donald Trump just saying, take it?

00:28:21.000 Okay, you're doing this to make me the bad guy, Charlie.

00:28:25.000 Like, okay.

00:28:26.000 It's fun.

00:28:27.000 No, I'm not.

00:28:27.000 I genuinely think...

00:28:29.000 I'm not necessarily supportive of it.

00:28:32.000 I think that it comes with huge risks to NATO country, but walk us through it.

00:28:35.000 I mean, analytically go through it.

00:28:39.000 For sure, sure, sure, sure.

00:28:40.000 So, genuinely, I think it would be good for us to have Greenland for all the reasons we've discussed.

00:28:45.000 I do think you need to convince the Danes to play ball.

00:28:50.000 I don't think it's a good idea for the U.S. to...

00:28:53.000 Like, essentially just bully countries out of their territory.

00:28:57.000 Because, for one, think about our overall geopolitical situation of us as a global power.

00:29:04.000 To the extent that we get people to like us rather than China, I think a lot of it is that we are at least a little bit nicer than China.

00:29:13.000 We aren't just taking territories from people.

00:29:16.000 Trump is very firm.

00:29:17.000 We should stop getting ripped off.

00:29:19.000 The Panama Canal is a good example, where we built it, we gave it to Panama for free, under an understanding you wouldn't let the Chinese get this huge influence in it, and that's not proving to be true.

00:29:32.000 I would be willing to play some pretty decent hardball there on a canal we built.

00:29:36.000 But Greenland, we have never actually owned Greenland.

00:29:39.000 We occupied it for a bit during World War II, but we did give it back.

00:29:43.000 It would probably...

00:29:45.000 Essentially, I think it would greatly damage our relationships with a lot of countries if we invaded and took a country's territory.

00:29:53.000 Greenland was right of conquest because Denmark in, what, 1940-whatever, was occupied by the Nazis and the deposed-in-exile prime minister of Greenland then signed the Mutual Defense Treaty of... 0.70

00:30:09.000 Greenland with us so that the Nazis wouldn't be able to use Greenland as a launching platform for the United States or anything like that.

00:30:16.000 So that's when we put our military there.

00:30:19.000 That's called right of conquest.

00:30:20.000 It would not exist.

00:30:22.000 Neither would Denmark exist at this point without the United States of America.

00:30:26.000 So no, absolutely not.

00:30:28.000 No, of course, look, for the Panama Canal, there's no question.

00:30:30.000 Like, here's how this is going to go.

00:30:32.000 So we're going to park an aircraft carrier on one end and an aircraft carrier on the other end.

00:30:36.000 And we're going to say sign the new treaty.

00:30:38.000 It's going to be pretty simple there.

00:30:39.000 But for for Greenland, I would argue that the United States has been providing military defense to Greenland for far longer than a lot of people are pointing out.

00:30:48.000 And in a way that does actually grant us certain rights to it.

00:30:52.000 So what I will say is, let's say Denmark just says they don't want to play ball.

00:30:57.000 They're not going to sell it.

00:30:58.000 I think the way you go about it, rather than just kicking the door, which I think...

00:31:02.000 Is a can of worms, at least, that would probably not be great?

00:31:06.000 You could just say, we're going to support, like, we back Greenland separatists, because as Charlie says, he met a lot of people there who don't like the Danes and wish that they could go their own way.

00:31:18.000 So you just say, we support...

00:31:21.000 Greenland's right to self-determination, and if Greenland were to become independent or break away, we would have an offer for them to join the United States on these generous terms, and we would be happy to welcome them in as a U.S. territory, and if you do that, we'll give you these rights to economic development, we'll give you this, this, this, this, this, and if you wanted to, you know, become a state, maybe we could even say, if you want to become a state, we'll let you become a state.

00:31:47.000 So I think that's how you go about it.

00:31:48.000 And then you basically, you create the impetus for Greenland to decide that it wants to do this.

00:31:54.000 And if the Greenland people are saying, 60% of them, 75% of them say, we'd rather go with America, the Danes are, they're ultimately Scandinavian.

00:32:04.000 Scandinavian people kind of like classic, you know, democracy that's sort of...

00:32:08.000 They're very collectivist.

00:32:09.000 I think it would be very difficult for Denmark to just maintain that they won't let Greenland do it if a very large number of them want to do it.

00:32:17.000 I think that's how you go about it. 0.91

00:32:18.000 Rather than just say, we're taking this and if you don't like it, we'll shoot you.

00:32:24.000 I think that would be a bad way to behave with a country that, let's be real, I don't think Denmark has...

00:32:33.000 Yeah, they've actually been...

00:32:41.000 Isn't Denmark one of the only countries since 2015 that's actually been participating in some re-migration?

00:32:50.000 One, they're very clear that people who come here, we actually have to integrate.

00:32:53.000 They've passed laws to break up so that you don't have migrant ghettos, for example. 1.00

00:32:59.000 You can't have all the people living in one neighborhood where they don't assimilate to Danish norms.

00:33:04.000 And they're paying people to go back.

00:33:07.000 They've been aggressive.

00:33:08.000 And what's really interesting is they've done that without having...

00:33:11.000 A right-wing government like you'd have to have. 0.63

00:33:13.000 The Danes are the one place where...

00:33:16.000 We've said this before.

00:33:17.000 If the left figures this out, we could be in trouble.

00:33:19.000 They're the one place where the left figured out if we just become anti-immigration, we'll win lots of elections.

00:33:25.000 And so it's the left-wing party in Denmark just said, okay, we're going to cut immigration and they win their elections and they do just fine.

00:33:32.000 And Denmark will continue to exist as a country as a result.

00:33:36.000 So we all agree.

00:33:38.000 We're getting Greenland.

00:33:39.000 We're getting Greenland.

00:33:40.000 Let's go.

00:33:40.000 Let's now move to the DEI. Let's go to DEI Fire.

00:33:44.000 Now, in some ways, the Charlie Kirk Show today was a little bit thought-crimey.

00:33:48.000 I mean, here's how you know that you are over the target.

00:33:52.000 When you say stuff on the Charlie Kirk Show that otherwise should be said on thought-crime, and not one Media Matters article is written up.

00:33:59.000 Blake sent me one of the most...

00:34:01.000 I cannot believe this has not gotten more coverage for the record.

00:34:03.000 I don't know why this particular thing is so bothering to me.

00:34:07.000 Bothersome.

00:34:08.000 Los Angeles, who's burning right now, dear friend of mine, Stacy, friend of ours, her house burned down.

00:34:13.000 It's awful.

00:34:13.000 We know so many people have.

00:34:15.000 Los Angeles has three police chiefs that are all named Kristen and they're all lesbian. 1.00

00:34:23.000 And there's a fourth who's also lesbian, but she's not named Kristen.

00:34:27.000 Whatever. 0.83

00:34:28.000 Sorry, fire chief.

00:34:29.000 Blake, is this true?

00:34:30.000 Is this some sort of a troll?

00:34:32.000 Yeah, so it literally is.

00:34:33.000 Let me bring it up here because we have to get...

00:34:37.000 The thread here.

00:34:40.000 Let's see.

00:34:42.000 Alright, yeah. 0.64

00:34:43.000 So what it is is basically to rise high in the LA Fire Department, you basically have to be a lesbian named some variant of Kristen. 1.00

00:34:50.000 So first of all, we have Kristen Crowley.

00:34:53.000 So she is the first LGBTQ fire chief of definitely LA, maybe of any large American city.

00:35:01.000 I don't know.

00:35:01.000 I don't track that.

00:35:02.000 And she... 1.00

00:35:04.000 Says one of her top missions is to create systemic equity and inclusion across the LAFD. She created a new DEI bureau within the LA Fire Department.

00:35:13.000 So, great use of money there.

00:35:15.000 There was a great meme I saw the other day.

00:35:18.000 Have you guys seen that meme that's like the guy standing in the corner at the party that's like, they don't know that I'm...

00:35:24.000 And she's like, they don't know that I'm a lesbian.

00:35:26.000 But then the room is on fire and everyone's like, ah!

00:35:28.000 I'm on fire!

00:35:30.000 Ah!

00:35:30.000 That's one.

00:35:32.000 Second, we have Christine Larson. 0.96

00:35:34.000 So she's the first equity bureau chief.

00:35:37.000 Okay, I read them out of order.

00:35:39.000 That's Christina Kepner who's on screen.

00:35:41.000 She's just an assistant chief. 1.00

00:35:43.000 So she's lower tier, but she is named Christina, which is important.

00:35:46.000 What's going on with her hair?

00:35:49.000 What's going on with her hair is she buzzed it. 0.99

00:35:51.000 What's going on with her eye is she was involved in a domestic violence dispute.

00:35:56.000 She apparently made murderous threats towards her spouse or partner or whatever.

00:36:00.000 Alleged.

00:36:01.000 Alleged, I should say. 1.00

00:36:02.000 So there was a domestic violence spat between this beautiful, diverse person at the LAFD. She has a certificate.

00:36:10.000 I'm not making this up.

00:36:11.000 I checked the LinkedIn.

00:36:12.000 She has a certificate from the Harvard Kennedy School for managing diverse organizations.

00:36:19.000 Which is a certificate you can get.

00:36:20.000 Very useful.

00:36:21.000 And then now, the third one, we have Christine Larson.

00:36:24.000 She is the first lesbian equity bureau chief.

00:36:27.000 She is the co-founder of the group Equity on Fire, which is a great organization name.

00:36:34.000 That originality to come up with that is probably why she's paid $400,000 a year. 0.99

00:36:38.000 And she basically would get in the news saying there is a big racism and sexism problem at the Los Angeles Fire Department.

00:36:46.000 So they were like, okay.

00:36:48.000 We'll make you the Equity Bureau Chief.

00:36:50.000 Get paid $400,000.

00:36:51.000 And I think we have this clip.

00:36:53.000 Angela, what's the number on it where she's talking about rescuing someone from a fire?

00:36:58.000 She has this great take on, oh yeah, people say women aren't as strong. 1.00

00:37:02.000 They're not as capable of, say, fighting the fire or pulling a person out of the fire.

00:37:07.000 What's the number on that clip?

00:37:11.000 141. Let's play it.

00:37:13.000 You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire call, that looks like you.

00:37:20.000 It gives that person a little bit more ease, knowing that somebody might understand their situation better.

00:37:25.000 Is she strong enough to do this?

00:37:27.000 Or you couldn't carry my husband out of a fire?

00:37:29.000 Which my response is, he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.

00:37:34.000 That's exactly what I want to hear from you.

00:37:37.000 It reminds me of in Houston.

00:37:40.000 Help me!

00:37:41.000 Wait, you got yourself in the wrong place.

00:37:43.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:37:44.000 You just call it, ah, I'm on fire!

00:37:46.000 Ain't nobody got time for that.

00:37:47.000 Are they, like, trolling victims?

00:37:49.000 Yeah.

00:37:50.000 Jeez.

00:37:51.000 Well, will you type into Google right now?

00:37:53.000 D-E-I-F. The first...

00:37:57.000 DEI Fire Chief, DEI Fire, DEI Chief Los Angeles, DEI Fire Department, DEI Fire California.

00:38:06.000 I mean, this is not just trending.

00:38:09.000 This is like taking over.

00:38:11.000 Everything DEI related is now, if you just type in DEI, now it's DEI Fire, DEI Chief.

00:38:18.000 I mean, this is everywhere.

00:38:21.000 It's truly mind-boggling to see this happen because I feel like a lot of us warned about this for ages, like how this goes.

00:38:31.000 It's not you just hit a light switch and everything's bad.

00:38:33.000 What's so bad about DEI is it's this corrosive rot that's super easy to just miss as long as nothing really bad is happening.

00:38:42.000 And, you know, most of the time we've gotten better at fighting fires.

00:38:45.000 Buildings are more fireproof.

00:38:47.000 Our techniques have improved.

00:38:48.000 And there's just not always a really bad fire.

00:38:51.000 So you can go years where you have a fake fire department and you're not going to notice a big problem.

00:38:55.000 And it only comes out now when finally there is the sort of crisis you only get every, you know, five years, 10 years, 50 years hitting Los Angeles.

00:39:04.000 And you need to have those strong institutions in place.

00:39:08.000 And instead you have a fake fire department.

00:39:10.000 You have a fire department that exists to give astonishingly well-paid jobs and astonishingly well-funded pensions to these, like, freaks who can't do the job and get angry if you tell them to do the job and give you a political election.

00:39:26.000 And they just exist to soak up public money in this sick way.

00:39:30.000 And we're seeing this, and as I was saying, it's the rot that happens in every little spot.

00:39:34.000 So I've talked to people who say, what caused this to happen?

00:39:38.000 And it's not that there is one cause.

00:39:40.000 It's...

00:39:41.000 For decades, Los Angeles has had a set of values that made it so everything there is a little bit worse.

00:39:46.000 So, you know, go throughout the process.

00:39:48.000 This is probably a fire started by arson.

00:39:50.000 Well, a lot of fires are started by homeless bums, either because they're crazy or because they have illegal campsites.

00:39:56.000 And a lot are also started by illegal immigrants. 0.91

00:39:58.000 A surprising number of fires, illegal immigrants, just start them. 1.00

00:40:01.000 And so, what place is the most pro-bum and pro-illegal immigrant in the country? 0.65

00:40:08.000 California.

00:40:09.000 So you're more likely to have randos start fires there.

00:40:12.000 Then you have, okay, how well are you able to respond?

00:40:15.000 Like, how good are people at spotting the fire, calling it in?

00:40:18.000 How quickly does the fire department respond?

00:40:20.000 That's where the rot in the actual fire department comes in.

00:40:22.000 They're just not as on the ball at responding to the fire, containing the fire.

00:40:27.000 And then you have, well, okay, what do we fight it with?

00:40:29.000 Well, we need water.

00:40:31.000 And, well, we have assets that they sent to Ukraine.

00:40:33.000 We have budget cuts that they reallocated towards DEI, both in terms of they cut the LAFD's budget, and they moved budget within the LAFD to their new DEI bureau.

00:40:44.000 And then they also just made it illegal to collect water in California. 0.95

00:40:48.000 They have...

00:40:49.000 Literally disassembled dams that existed to make reservoirs.

00:40:54.000 They have let rainwater wash out into the Pacific Ocean uselessly because they say it helps like a delta smelt or whatever the heck the names of these fish are.

00:41:05.000 It's every step of the way California has done a thing that makes them 1 or 2% more likely for this to happen and now as a result we're just going to burn down the nicest neighborhood in Los Angeles.

00:41:16.000 Good job everyone.

00:41:18.000 Do you think that people are going to move out?

00:41:22.000 Jack, go ahead.

00:41:23.000 Oh, no, I was just going to bring up that all of this just reminds me, and we, on Human Events today, we were getting into the movie Chinatown, which I don't know if people know about, but it's this old Jack Nicholson movie, just incredible film, and the whole thing is about the Los Angeles, California, the water wars.

00:41:41.000 It's a great film.

00:41:43.000 And we've got this clip on it where basically it's talking about how the water supply is used by the elites in California and, of course, highly stylized in this murder plot in order to decrease property values so that the developers can come in and purchase all of it and then increase it when they put the water to it.

00:42:06.000 So let's play clip 142. It's Chinatown.

00:42:36.000 So good.

00:42:38.000 Forget it, Jack.

00:42:39.000 It's DEI town.

00:42:41.000 Ah!

00:42:42.000 And for long-standing thought crime viewers, you might also recognize that the villain there is played by John Huston, who he himself is the father of Danny Huston, who also plays the developer, who is the main antagonist of Yellowstone.

00:43:02.000 So you see it all comes full circle, folks.

00:43:05.000 The Yellowstoning, the Hicklibs, the California water wars, it's all indelibly tied together.

00:43:12.000 It's this really cool way to look at, basically understanding how our world works through the understanding of Hollywood propaganda and the deconstruction of it. - I know this is kind of a very simple question and kind of cliche, Do you think this will result in any political changes?

00:43:28.000 Tyler, you're the political guy.

00:43:30.000 Is this going to result in any political changes in California?

00:43:35.000 Yeah, I saw something really interesting that someone mentioned today, which was, oh, I think somebody sent it over.

00:43:41.000 I think it was, gosh, what's his name?

00:43:45.000 Radio show host in California that was best friends with Jimmy Kimmel.

00:43:50.000 Why am I spacing right now?

00:43:51.000 Adam Carolla.

00:43:53.000 Adam Carolla.

00:43:53.000 Adam Carolla made a good point that people are going to want to rebuild that area very quickly.

00:43:59.000 And there's a lot of libs that live in there that are touchy-feely libs that are down on the coast that are in that area.

00:44:08.000 And they're going to be really ticked off.

00:44:10.000 They're going to weaponize the California permitting process.

00:44:13.000 Yeah, they're going to have to go through that process with all the local permitting, everything.

00:44:20.000 The organic, natural episode that's going to happen is that all these woke, lib, feel-good coastal Californians are going to get so mad at the government with what they're going to have to do to rebuild that it's going to make them hardcore right-wingers.

00:44:36.000 I mean, it is really crazy when you read about...

00:44:38.000 Have you heard of the California Coastal Commission?

00:44:40.000 Yep.

00:44:41.000 It's like...

00:44:42.000 It's almost like the comparison that comes to mind is actually like the Federal Reserve in a weird way because Federal Reserve is independent and they kind of just do their own thing.

00:44:52.000 And even the president currently sort of just has to look and be like, okay, the Fed.

00:44:56.000 You know, Trump will go on Twitter and nag the chairman of the Fed to do something because it's an independent agency and Trump wants to change that, of course, but that's the way it is currently.

00:45:04.000 And it's like the same thing, I believe, with the CCC. They're basically this rogue entity that has...

00:45:10.000 Legal imprimatur to essentially make whatever law they want over anything concerning California's thousand mile coastline.

00:45:18.000 And so they've just gone out and they're like, oh yeah, we're just going to ban, you know, building anything in this entire area.

00:45:23.000 And to make the comparison, Charlie, to Hawaii, there's not that many people that live where the Lahaina incident happened in Maui.

00:45:31.000 There is a ton of people who live within that immediate geography of where this has happened.

00:45:37.000 And so you're going to have a lot more vocal, a lot more angry, a lot of wealthy people who have a lot to lose.

00:45:46.000 Generational type wealth that's been basically cemented into that part of the country that they're going to be in all out war with the government.

00:45:55.000 And just like you're mentioning, like this is like we're talking about made up.

00:45:59.000 You know, fictitious type California-style government that's down on the coastline.

00:46:03.000 And, you know, we're joking about Baja California and everything else, but, like, this is going to be something that I think is going to be a real big break in politics in Southern California that's going to force not just from the...

00:46:16.000 And don't forget, the coastline is where it's the deepest blue.

00:46:19.000 Yeah.

00:46:20.000 You have the deepest blue, the wokest, the most, you know... 0.99

00:46:24.000 Like, put that up on screen.

00:46:25.000 Put up the precinct map.

00:46:26.000 Oh, yeah.

00:46:28.000 The saddest feeling bad about being white type.

00:46:34.000 A lot of Jewish heritage that's there.

00:46:37.000 A lot of money that's there.

00:46:39.000 They're already on the verge of flipping.

00:46:42.000 We saw a lot of these areas go...

00:46:46.000 Tremendously right, tremendously pro-Trump this last election.

00:46:49.000 This may be the straw that breaks the camel's back that sends Southern California into a 20-, 30-year slide that may be where people don't forget this for a long time between COVID policies and then this, where you might win back big chunks of Southern California that we've lost for the last 20 years.

00:47:10.000 So just to get back on that, specifically the California Coastal Commission.

00:47:14.000 This is something...

00:47:15.000 Because all news ends up going back to the same person, they're actually in a feud with Elon Musk right now.

00:47:21.000 Because...

00:47:22.000 The U.S. government wanted to launch more satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Southern California to put up satellites for Starlink, and it's good for us to launch satellites into space.

00:47:32.000 And the California Coastal Commission shut this down, because apparently they just have the power to do this.

00:47:38.000 And they issue statements.

00:47:39.000 The commissioners just come out and say, yeah, we don't want them launching it because we don't like Elon Musk.

00:47:44.000 I'm not making this up.

00:47:45.000 This is an actual statement.

00:47:46.000 Commission Chair Carol Hart said this is why.

00:47:51.000 The head of which has aggressively injected himself into the presidential race.

00:47:56.000 And then we have Mike Wilson, also a commissioner.

00:48:00.000 This company is owned by the richest person in the world with direct control of what could be the most expansive communication system on the planet.

00:48:07.000 And this man has talked about political retribution.

00:48:11.000 So we have these political lunatics who just took over this independent commission, and they basically just have decided they have veto power over doing anything or building anything within, you know, like 3,000 feet or something, or like three miles, something like that, of California's coastline.

00:48:29.000 And yeah, you're right.

00:48:31.000 They're probably going to try to do...

00:48:32.000 Even if they aren't right now, there will be people who will try to manipulate this process.

00:48:36.000 California is one of the worst states in the country for clogging things up with lawsuits. 0.91

00:48:41.000 Even if California tries to open the way, there will be some environmental group that will say, oh yeah, there were grandfathered things where you were allowed to do this because your house was 100 years old.

00:48:50.000 Nope, doesn't apply anymore.

00:48:51.000 We're not going to let you build this.

00:48:52.000 There's an endangered newt that grows on the side of this mountain.

00:48:56.000 It's going to be crazy.

00:48:58.000 And Charlie, we...

00:48:59.000 We talked about this this morning.

00:49:00.000 We talked about the trifecta that California's been in with Democrats for so long.

00:49:06.000 This California Coastal Commission could very well end up being at the epicenter.

00:49:10.000 But it's not just that.

00:49:11.000 It's so far beyond that with the Senate, the Assembly that they have there, the governor, who, by the way, has political aspirations to be president.

00:49:21.000 The California Coastal Commission is made up of people who are appointed by the governor and the Senate.

00:49:26.000 And the state and the assembly.

00:49:29.000 That's who makes it up.

00:49:30.000 And they've been run by Democrats.

00:49:32.000 So those people take direct orders.

00:49:33.000 Everything you just said is basically the voice box of Gavin Newsom because they take direct orders from these people.

00:49:41.000 They don't hop, skip, or jump without running it by the Senate, the Assembly, because they could get yanked or replaced probably pretty quickly.

00:49:48.000 This is going to be huge.

00:49:50.000 I mean, I think that this disaster is probably going to be one of the most costly disasters that we see.

00:49:57.000 In the modern times, by the time this thing is done, the impact that's on Gavin Newsom is insane.

00:50:07.000 He can't run for president now.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - January 11, 2025

THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?

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