Trump scolds Zelensky in public, breaking news here on the Charlie Kirk Show, and then we talk about Wisconsin, Supreme Court nominee Michael Knowles joins the program as he is surrounded by 25 liberals, and we discuss our shared experience on Jubilee.
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00:01:48.000Since the beginning, we have been very clear on this program that it is not America's role to get involved in the Russian-Ukrainian dispute.
00:01:58.000From the very beginning, we looked at the cost and the consequences about how good this could destabilize an entire continent that could destroy the U.S. dollar.
00:02:08.000That could bring us closer and closer to needless nuclear war.
00:02:13.000It was the conventional wisdom back in 2022 at the outbreak of the war.
00:02:23.000It was the conventional wisdom that we must fight Russia.
00:03:31.000You held your elected leaders to a higher standard.
00:03:34.000And someone who deserves a lot of credit is Tucker Carlson.
00:03:38.000Tucker Carlson, more than almost anybody else, deserves credit for his courage and his moral clarity on this conflict from the very beginning.
00:04:20.000Over $300 to $350 billion that we have spent on what?
00:04:25.000So that over a million people could be died to subsidize the slaughter of entire generations of Ukrainians?
00:04:31.000President Trump just posted this on Truth Social.
00:04:34.000It is breaking news live here on this program.
00:04:36.000And I'm going to read the entire thing word for word.
00:04:39.000President Trump is the peace president.
00:04:40.000What he is doing is going to make the world a better, more stable place.
00:04:45.000Joe Biden was barreling us blindly towards a world war.
00:04:50.000Donald Trump writes on Truth Social, quote, think of it.
00:04:53.000A modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelensky, talked the United States of America into spending $350 billion to go into a war that couldn't be won, that never had to start, but a war that he, without the U.S. and Trump, will never be able to settle.
00:05:45.000The Russian foreign minister was there.
00:05:46.000and a deal could have been brokered one week into the conflict that would have given Ukraine more land than they would currently get right now and a million people would not have died.
00:05:56.000The United States has spent $200 billion more than Europe and Europe's money is guaranteed, while the United States will get nothing back.
00:06:04.000Why didn't sleepy Joe Biden demand equalization in that this war is far more important to Europe than it is to us?
00:06:12.000We have a big, beautiful ocean of separation.
00:06:19.000Oh, because the same Europeans that were clamoring...
00:06:22.000And rebuking J.D. Vance are the ones that want us to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on their defense.
00:06:29.000So they want us to be able to subsidize their European social welfare democracies, even though they're censoring their own citizens, even though Germany is looking far more like Russia than even Russia is.
00:06:42.000Europe did not step up to the plate because they want America to fight the fight for them.
00:08:14.000With a public salvo, because I guarantee you President Trump has been trying to get Zelensky's attention privately, because President Trump is not just opposing Zelensky.
00:08:24.000This is President Trump scolding his own intelligence department.
00:08:29.000The CIA deep state, they are the ones that have been puppeteering Zelensky for this entire time.
00:08:34.000They are the ones that have been configuring this entire conflict.
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00:12:20.000Joining us now is great patriot Brett Galaszewski, vice chair of the Republican Party Milwaukee, but more important, Turning Point Action National Enterprise Director.
00:12:43.000Glad that I get to talk about this mission-critical opportunity that we have on our hands here in Wisconsin.
00:12:49.000You know, it was almost two years ago to the day that I sat on this show and I talked about how Wisconsin was desperately hanging on to a 4-3 conservative majority of our Supreme Court and that losing control of our court could have detrimental effects going forward.
00:13:03.000We ultimately lost that race in 2023, and we lost that conservative common sense control, and we saw a domino effect of things spiral out of control from there.
00:13:13.000The court immediately redrew the legislative maps, which lost us 10 assembly seats.
00:13:19.000They reversed Act 10, which was a big collective bargaining win of the Scott Walker Republican Governor Administration some 15 years ago.
00:13:26.000Thought that that would never get walked back.
00:13:28.000And then the court ultimately reinstated drop boxes.
00:13:31.000So you saw huge national implications out of little old Wisconsin these last two years out of losing our conservatives.
00:13:40.000But we have another opportunity on our hands to retake the court back on April 1st.
00:13:45.000A conservative named Brad Schimmel is running in our Wisconsin Supreme Court race, and we have a unique opportunity on our hands to retake our state.
00:14:06.000So the election is April 1st, so it's coming up really quickly here, some five or six weeks from now.
00:14:11.000And the scary part is that we've only scratched the surface of what a liberal Supreme Court could do here in Wisconsin.
00:14:18.000Adding a liberal reinforcement on this court could open the door even wider to what the left has made very clear that they want to do in Wisconsin, and that is ultimately scrap voter ID laws.
00:14:30.000We won't have another shot at gaining a conservative seat again in Wisconsin until 2029. That's the next time that someone's term is up.
00:14:38.000You saw what states that didn't have voter ID were doing in 2024. They were still counting votes like yesterday.
00:14:44.000So we cannot afford to have voter ID taken away in a top three swing state because this could potentially remove Wisconsin from the electoral map in 2028, meaning that J.D. Vance or whoever it is that's running as the Republican nominee for president in 2028 may not have a path to victory with Wisconsin out of play.
00:15:03.000This would force us to pick up a state like New Hampshire, Virginia, New Mexico.
00:15:06.000And I'm not saying that that's attainable.
00:15:08.000I'm saying that that makes our path a little bit more uphill.
00:15:12.000It's locking down one of the blue wall states, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin.
00:15:16.000And we saw what kind of impact Wisconsin had on our ability to get 270 on election night in this past fall.
00:15:22.000So, Brett, talk about how we are announcing Commit 100 and what that is going to do at Turning Point Action will hopefully help make a difference here.
00:15:30.000Well, so this is a turnout election like we've ever seen before.
00:15:33.000In 2022, turnout was a little over 36% statewide, so a little over one in three people actually voted in the last election.
00:15:41.000We for sure need to see turnout get on the other side of 40%.
00:15:44.000Our data alone identifies a little over 57,000 conservatives in Milwaukee County alone that are slated to sit this one out.
00:15:53.000Conservative voters that are slated to sit this one out unless we go out and chase those votes between now and in.
00:16:03.000It's designed for people who see what's going on in Wisconsin or watch shows like this and want to get involved in some way or another.
00:16:10.000It's designed for people to own their own neighborhoods here in Wisconsin, for people in other states, if you're listening in a state like Illinois, like Alabama, all over the country, who are hearing about this race having national implications on 2028 and want to directly help in that effort.
00:16:24.000So when somebody signs up on tpaction.com slash 100, which I see we...
00:16:30.000You are assigned a list of 100 conservative voters, what we call low propensity or disengaged conservatives, likely conservatives that will not turn out in the spring off your election unless we're chasing them.
00:16:43.000And you can go knock on those doors and essentially hyper-target your efforts down to those 100 people, essentially maximizing your reach with those people.
00:16:50.000If you're from out of state, this allows you to remotely make contact with those 100 voters in Wisconsin, give them a call, shoot them a text, write them a postcard, which you'll have the ability to do on our TP Action app, which is wonderful if you haven't downloaded it yet already.
00:17:05.000And for those that want to take it to the next level and physically come to Wisconsin and chase those votes in person, we'll put you in a hotel for as long as you want to be here so you can go and chase ballots with us.
00:17:17.000This worked like a well-oiled machine in 2024.
00:17:19.000It really put the finishing touches on our effort to get President Trump across the finish line here in Wisconsin.
00:17:24.000We had literal hundreds of people come from out of state.
00:17:27.000States like Illinois, where an hour of conservative activism isn't nearly going to have the impact that an hour of conservative activism in Wisconsin will have.
00:17:35.000We'll train you, we'll put you in a nice hotel, and we'll help you chase your 100 votes.
00:17:40.000tpaction.com slash 100. Great work, Brett.
00:17:43.000Everyone check out that website, tpaction.com slash 100.
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00:18:57.000We have much to discuss, but I do want to talk to you about how we both went on this program, Jubilee, otherwise known as the Woke Firing Squad.
00:20:21.000It seems to me, and I saw this in your episode on Jubilee too, the side that is grounded, calm, generally amiable, willing to listen to the other side, doesn't get all riled up and start screaming and calling people names, usually in a debate, that's the side that has the stronger argument.
00:20:42.000So just for anyone who has not seen this, again, we did this back in August.
00:20:46.000I think we were the first of this new genre.
00:20:49.000Ours got 26 million YouTube views, hundreds of millions of views online, and it was like a nuclear bomb for many reasons, one of which was that one of the debatees wished harm upon me and my family.
00:22:13.000The reason I say sometimes, you know, camouflage pulls it off, but I was thinking to myself, actually, I think that's an imposter, as the tranny was talking.
00:22:23.000You know, generally speaking, you can kind of tell.
00:22:26.000There was another character during this debate.
00:22:29.000A fella goes by the name of Blossom, and he was a very large, hulking man, but he had a wig on and everything.
00:22:35.000And the notion that one would not be able to tell from the shoulders and being like six foot four or whatever, you know, is kind of silly.
00:22:43.000But that person actually did the meme, which it's not just the LGBTQ activists, but it's the left broadly does, which is they will say, such and such that you're claiming is not happening.
00:22:54.000And then you provide all of the evidence.
00:22:57.000It's the celebration parallax is what it is.
00:22:59.000The celebration parallax is Michael Anton calls it.
00:23:36.000No, that guy Mason, I felt he was not making very good arguments in either yours or in mine.
00:23:43.000There was this other guy, he was a nice enough kid, but he barely appeared in the episode.
00:23:50.000That guy Mason, I felt he made a big, big mistake, which is he was rude from the beginning, and so he wasn't winning over the audience, or certainly wasn't winning over me.
00:23:59.000But he also made the big mistake, which is he started...
00:24:03.000Talking about something that he obviously knew nothing about.
00:25:29.000I think you're totally right about the hive mind aspect here because they're going to come in and what they're going to try to hit you on is some statistic.
00:25:37.000And being a conservative, I think statistics are basically bunk and not really worth bringing up all that often.
00:25:45.000But you have to bring them up because in modern culture, people think that that's what debates consist of.
00:25:50.000So you need to go in there with a slew of studies and numbers and statistics.
00:25:55.000But what's crazy about it, Charlie, is you saw this in your debate.
00:25:58.000I think you definitely saw it in my debate because we were debating really just human nature.
00:26:03.000You don't really need a dozen statistics to know that a boy can't become a girl, okay?
00:26:07.000You don't really need a dozen statistics to know that it's good to enforce the law or that babies are babies and we should protect them.
00:26:13.000Ultimately, a lot of this comes down to common sense, first principles of practical reason, and basic philosophical intuitions, which unfortunately elude a lot of these people, even if they are professional debaters in some cases, they have not been trained.
00:26:27.000Not just in debate and rhetoric, but even in epistemology, even how to know things about anything.
00:26:34.000And so I feel it's actually, people say it's an unfair fight because it's 25 versus 1. But if you're a conservative who has any kind of grounding at all, it might be unfair in the other direction.
00:26:45.000What did you learn more broadly about left-wing Gen Z by doing this?
00:27:20.000Certainly, we've seen that happening for years.
00:27:22.000We know that the quality of education these days is a little bit weak at all the schools.
00:27:27.000However, there's another insight, a really traditional insight from our civilization and from Christianity that comes out, which is that sin darkens the intellect.
00:27:41.000It actually makes you dumber than you otherwise would be.
00:27:44.000And this is something we all have to watch out for because we all sin, so you got to be careful of it.
00:27:48.000But for a grown man to show up on television or the internet or just broadly on camera with a big wig on talking about his sexual desires and bizarre sexual practices.
00:29:20.000And if you're constantly furious and angry and just butting your head up against reality, it probably means that something in your ideology is a little bit wrong.
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00:31:56.000That in the late part of Barack Obama's first term, he held the view of marriage that everyone has held for all of human history, namely that it involves a man and a woman, both of them together.
00:32:08.000They don't seem aware that until June of 2016, trans-identifying people...
00:32:14.000We're not permitted in the U.S. military.
00:32:22.000They don't seem to realize that until the 2016 election cycle, there wasn't a big blow-up fight over bathrooms and some big push from the left to send men into the girls' bathroom.
00:32:33.000They don't understand how recently this is.
00:32:36.000I guess my question for all of them...
00:32:38.000Is one of the basic conservative objections to all of modern liberalism, which is, hey, if statistically everyone everywhere for all of history has thought a certain thing about human nature, isn't there a decent chance they were right?
00:32:54.000You know, if you and like five of your friends think the opposite, isn't there just a, isn't it more likely that everyone else was right?
00:33:28.000I think for all of history everywhere, people have understood the human person to have something to do with his body.
00:33:36.000So, like, your body has something to do with who you are.
00:33:39.000Now, there is an alternative view, which is called Gnosticism.
00:33:42.000It's a view that our bodies don't really have anything to do with who we are, that the body is maybe even evil, and that our true selves have no connection to our bodies.
00:33:50.000And I see in the transgender ideology a kind of Gnosticism that says that you could look like a man, you could have a man's genetics, you could have a man's genitals, you could have a man's everything, but if you feel on some deep level that you're really a woman, then you are really a woman.
00:35:08.000But you can't tell me that I haven't articulated a view here, okay?
00:35:12.000And I think for much of the modern left, it's clear enough for us, who have some familiarity with history and how people have understood human nature, it's clear enough to us to say, oh, you're really denying that there's a connection between identity and the body.
00:35:26.000And then paradoxically, you're actually going in later and insisting that you mutilate the body to be more closely in line with your fantasy of how you really are or whatever.