The Charlie Kirk Show - Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, what's happening in Germany?

00:00:01.000 Well, a leader of the AFD party joins the show.

00:00:04.000 It will take your breath away.

00:00:05.000 They are arresting people for posting cartoons on the internet.

00:00:08.000 The secret police in Germany are coming after you if you post a cartoon that they don't like.

00:00:13.000 And we are subsidizing it every single day.

00:00:16.000 We then have EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin join the show.

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00:01:37.000 Joining us now is Marie Therese Kaiser.

00:01:40.000 Member of Germany's AFD party.

00:01:43.000 Ooh, scary.

00:01:44.000 Marie, welcome back to the program. 0.62

00:01:47.000 Tell us what is going on in your country and also the status of your criminal case where you were targeted and had to pay a fine for what exactly.

00:01:56.000 Please get our audience up to speed.

00:01:59.000 Yes, we already talked about my case in your show.

00:02:03.000 I had to pay the fine.

00:02:05.000 I had to pay €6,000 for asking a critical question on social media to the illegal immigration and the migration crisis in Germany because politicians wanted to get refugees from Afghanistan without any...

00:02:25.000 Background check or security check to Germany, and I asked them whether they wanted to have a welcome culture for rapists, group rapists, because statistically speaking, the Afghan refugees are proportionately more committing sexual crimes. 1.00

00:02:50.000 So, yeah, that was the case, and I got fined.

00:02:55.000 And there's nothing new.

00:02:57.000 But I had an interesting experience because during this election campaign right now, I had a panel discussion at a school and I got asked by a student about my conviction for sedition.

00:03:12.000 And yeah, what I didn't know was that the state security service was in the audience and secretly recording my statement.

00:03:22.000 And then they reported it to the public prosecutor's office to initiate an investigation against me again, just because I told the student why I got convicted in the past.

00:03:36.000 So, yeah, that's the situation in Germany.

00:03:39.000 J.D. Vance is all the way right.

00:03:41.000 I mean, I hope everyone understands Germany is not a free society, does not embrace freedom of speech, which brings us to the immediate election this Sunday.

00:03:52.000 You are a member of the AFD party, which has come under major sanctions and major investigations by your own government.

00:04:03.000 What is happening this Sunday and what are the stakes of your upcoming election?

00:04:08.000 Yes.

00:04:08.000 That's right.

00:04:09.000 I think there is a lack of political will from the other parties to really initiate political change because the perpetrators are not deported.

00:04:21.000 They do not even receive harsh punishments.

00:04:25.000 Instead, authorities are dealing with Prosecution of opinion crimes and alleged hate speech.

00:04:33.000 So it's really ridiculous.

00:04:35.000 And they are also trying to ban and persecute us as AFD as the largest opposition to the prevailing politics and the second strongest political force in the country, we have to say.

00:04:49.000 So millions of voters support our positions.

00:04:53.000 And I'm really curious for the election results on Sunday.

00:04:59.000 Yeah, so what are the major issues that are going to be in contention for this upcoming federal election?

00:05:06.000 Yeah, I think the migration and refugee crisis is the top issue in these elections, because more and more people are realizing the dramatic conditions, not only in the bigger cities, but also in the villages on the countryside.

00:05:27.000 I mean, we had three major terror attacks which occurred the last months during the election campaign.

00:05:39.000 Speaking of Magdeburg, Aschaffenburg and also Munich.

00:05:43.000 And in addition to that, we also had hundreds of knife crimes.

00:05:47.000 So it's obvious that the Great Replacement is happening and it's the sad reality that everyone is...

00:05:58.000 It is a true crisis happening, and yet your party gets smeared as a Nazi party and the worst possible things.

00:06:09.000 Educate our American audience of the smears that your party has to receive.

00:06:14.000 Yes, I mean, there is really a lot.

00:06:16.000 They say that we're national socialists, we're...

00:06:21.000 Right extremists.

00:06:23.000 But all that is not true.

00:06:25.000 And as I said before, they really try to ban us.

00:06:30.000 I think they are scared.

00:06:32.000 They are really scared because we are so strong right now and we get a lot of voters.

00:06:39.000 Yeah, so let's just be optimistic.

00:06:43.000 And I think what I really wanted to say is that it's now the time to...

00:06:50.000 Vote for your life and we only have one chance to make Germany great again and make Europe great again.

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00:08:23.000 So let me ask you a question, Marie.

00:08:25.000 If I, as a visitor, or let's just say someone who is native to Germany, were to go out in public and criticize mass migration, if they were to say that mass migration makes your cities dirtier, if it increases rapes and crime, what could happen to that individual?

00:08:44.000 You could get sentenced.

00:08:46.000 You could get into real trouble.

00:08:51.000 People could start attacking you.

00:08:56.000 It's really dangerous.

00:08:58.000 We truly don't have free speech anymore.

00:09:03.000 I'm not trying to get you in trouble here because they're probably monitoring this and they'd love an excuse to come after you.

00:09:09.000 Be very careful.

00:09:10.000 I understand the sensitivities here.

00:09:13.000 But help me understand, though, what decisions were made that resulted in the erosion of freedom of speech in Germany?

00:09:24.000 I think that the political parties in charge right now, they made some new laws and also made stronger laws to just...

00:09:41.000 Go after people who participate in free speech and especially online because we have a new authority who is just looking what people are writing online.

00:09:57.000 So, yeah, that's also a problem.

00:09:59.000 It's not only on the streets and in public, it's also online.

00:10:03.000 Let's watch this video here of 60 Minutes just to refresh our audience.

00:10:07.000 Let's play cut two, please. 0.54

00:10:09.000 Is it a crime to insult somebody in public?

00:10:12.000 Yes, it is.

00:10:13.000 And it's a crime to insult them online as well?

00:10:16.000 Yes.

00:10:17.000 The fine could be even higher if you insult someone in the internet.

00:10:22.000 Why?

00:10:23.000 Because in the internet, it stays there.

00:10:26.000 If we are talking face-to-face, you insult me, I insult you, okay, finish.

00:10:30.000 But if you're in the internet, if I insult you or a politician...

00:10:33.000 That sticks around forever.

00:10:35.000 Yeah.

00:10:35.000 If somebody posts something that's not true...

00:10:38.000 And then somebody else reposts it or likes it.

00:10:42.000 Are they committing a crime?

00:10:43.000 In the case of reposting, it is a crime as well because the reader can't distinguish whether you just invented this or just reposted it.

00:10:52.000 That's the same for us.

00:10:54.000 Is this correct, what is being described here?

00:10:57.000 Yes, right.

00:10:58.000 It is.

00:11:00.000 It's beyond shocking and speechless for our American audience to see this.

00:11:06.000 It feels as if Germany is becoming totalitarian at the very least.

00:11:11.000 Okay, I want to play this piece of tape here.

00:11:13.000 This is CBS who joined the German police to conduct a raid on a citizen for posting a meme.

00:11:18.000 This is where they're heading, everybody.

00:11:21.000 Raiding a home for posting a meme online.

00:11:24.000 Now, America would never do anything.

00:11:25.000 Oh, actually, yeah, we do.

00:11:26.000 We have Douglas Mackey who is facing federal prison for the same thing.

00:11:30.000 I have a feeling that's all going to get figured out and fixed.

00:11:33.000 Let's play cut four.

00:11:34.000 It's 6.01 on a Tuesday morning, and we were with state police as they raided this apartment in northwest Germany.

00:11:45.000 Inside, six armed officers searched a suspect's home, then seized his laptop and cell phone.

00:11:53.000 Prosecutors say those electronics may have been used to commit a crime.

00:11:57.000 The crime?

00:11:59.000 Posting a racist cartoon online.

00:12:03.000 At the exact same time across Germany, more than 50 similar raids played out.

00:12:11.000 Part of what prosecutors say is a coordinated effort to curb online hate speech in Germany.

00:12:18.000 I mean, there's very little, Marie, that gets me speechless.

00:12:22.000 This is breathtaking.

00:12:25.000 Yes, it is, definitely.

00:12:29.000 It really scares me.

00:12:31.000 It frightens me.

00:12:32.000 Because, yeah, everyone could be next.

00:12:36.000 You never know when they come for you.

00:12:39.000 So, yeah, you just have to be really careful.

00:12:44.000 So, help me understand then.

00:12:46.000 It looks as if your polling is going very well.

00:12:48.000 But is it true that no matter how well your party does, you're not allowed to have a voice in government?

00:12:53.000 What is the truth behind this?

00:12:55.000 Yeah, I think what you're referring to is the so-called firewall, which the Christ Democrats are sticking to. 0.86

00:13:04.000 They try to entice their voters with empty promises, and they just copy the content from our election program.

00:13:14.000 And Friedrich Merz, he's also a candidate for the chancellor.

00:13:20.000 He has his so-called five-point plan in migration.

00:13:25.000 And the refugee crisis.

00:13:27.000 But it's nothing more than a reformulated version of our immigration concept.

00:13:33.000 And, I mean, there are a lot of similarities with the Christ Democrats. 0.82

00:13:39.000 But the CDU is not willing to talk to us in order to find compromises.

00:13:44.000 They only want to maintain their power and don't aim for real political change.

00:13:51.000 So they are already openly announcing that coalitions with the Greens or also the social Democrats are certainly conceivable.

00:13:59.000 Marie, how can people support and what would if this if this goes does not go well on Sunday?

00:14:07.000 What is the future of Germany look like for you?

00:14:09.000 I mean, it will get worse if we get not in charge, but still I'm optimistic and I want the people to stay optimistic.

00:14:20.000 So if we don't make it this time, we make it in 2029 and then we get Alice Weidel as chancellor.

00:14:32.000 I just want everyone to go and vote because your voice matters.

00:14:37.000 It counts.

00:14:39.000 So please go vote.

00:14:41.000 Marie, thank you so much.

00:14:42.000 And yes, vote AFD, vote AFD for the sanity of the West.

00:14:46.000 And I'll be visiting Berlin in May.

00:14:48.000 I'm giving a speech there with Dr. Jordan Peterson.

00:14:51.000 And during our speech, we're actually going to say all the things that are verboten, see if they'll arrest us.

00:14:57.000 They might arrest two Americans on stage, but we'll see if...

00:15:01.000 I think the American government will have our back.

00:15:03.000 God bless you.

00:15:04.000 Talk to you soon.

00:15:05.000 This is sick and scary stuff, everybody.

00:15:08.000 Where that you could be criminalized for posting a meme online.

00:15:11.000 You could tell.

00:15:12.000 Marie there has to be very guarded.

00:15:14.000 Has to be very careful.

00:15:16.000 Because they might raid her home.

00:15:17.000 Secret police.

00:15:19.000 Meme police.

00:15:20.000 Brought to you by the German government.

00:15:23.000 And meanwhile, this is exactly what J.D. Vance was going to Munich.

00:15:26.000 He threw it down.

00:15:27.000 J.D. Vance.

00:15:30.000 Drew a line in the sand.

00:15:32.000 And so we're not going to keep on subsidizing this.

00:15:34.000 We're not going to keep on allowing this to happen.

00:15:37.000 This is the strange death of Europe, as Douglas Murray has talked about for quite some time.

00:15:43.000 Totalitarianism mixed with mass Middle Eastern Mohammedan migration. 0.94

00:15:50.000 I think the German story, a little bit different than the French and the English story.

00:15:55.000 The English story is just a sad husk of its former self.

00:15:59.000 The German story, though, because they're very productive, industrious people.

00:16:03.000 I mean, the Germans work their tail off. 1.00

00:16:04.000 They're incredibly precise.

00:16:05.000 They're great engineers.

00:16:06.000 They got some great companies.

00:16:07.000 It's all one word.

00:16:09.000 Guilt.

00:16:10.000 What happens when you have a lot of guilt and you don't have Christianity?

00:16:14.000 You embrace left-wing politics.

00:16:16.000 You need Christianity or some form of a belief in God to be able to deal with your guilt.

00:16:22.000 Otherwise, you go find radical left-wing politics.

00:16:26.000 Christ breaks you from your shame and your guilt.

00:16:29.000 Left-wing politics does not.

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00:17:35.000 Joining us now is the legendary Lee Zeldin, who is the head of the EPA. First, Lee, I've got to tell you, congratulations.

00:17:43.000 That's an amazing post.

00:17:45.000 Very important job.

00:17:47.000 Congratulations, my friend.

00:17:48.000 Thanks a lot, Charlie.

00:17:49.000 It's great to be with you.

00:17:50.000 So just kind of give us a perspective first and foremost, and I want to get into the gold bars.

00:17:54.000 What is your vision for the EPA from a conservative pro-growth perspective?

00:18:01.000 Our Powering the Great American Comeback Initiative focuses on five pillars.

00:18:06.000 Number one is President Trump talks about...

00:18:09.000 We need to be focused on pursuing clean air, land, and water for all Americans.

00:18:13.000 That's pillar number one, first and foremost.

00:18:16.000 But there are several other pillars that the American public voted for last November that we take close to heart.

00:18:22.000 One is unleashing energy dominance, permitting reform, making America the AI capital of the world, bringing back American auto jobs.

00:18:32.000 President Trump talks about ushering in a new golden age, a golden era of success, and that's something that we want to do our part.

00:18:41.000 So this past Friday, President Trump at the Oval Office signed an executive order announcing his National Energy Dominance Council.

00:18:48.000 I was there with Secretary Wright, Secretary Burgum, Secretary Duffy, and others.

00:18:54.000 President Trump doesn't want to spend...

00:18:57.000 Just four years trying to get all of these goals accomplished.

00:19:01.000 He wants to get this stuff done in a matter of weeks and months.

00:19:05.000 So with that level of urgency, we're all in to do our part here at EPA. Let's play Cut 134. This got some headlines.

00:19:13.000 Let's play Cut 134. Hi, this is EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.

00:19:17.000 One of my very top priorities at EPA is to be an excellent steward of your hard-earned tax dollars.

00:19:25.000 There will be zero tolerance of any waste and abuse.

00:19:29.000 An extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago featuring a Biden-EPA political appointee talking about how they were tossing gold bars off the Titanic, rushing to get billions of your tax dollars out the door before inauguration day.

00:19:46.000 Shockingly, roughly 20 billion of your tax dollars We're parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA. And it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight.

00:20:03.000 So some people actually thought it was gold bars, for the record.

00:20:07.000 However, it's very good branding there.

00:20:10.000 What did you learn about this?

00:20:13.000 There's been so many developments just over the course of the last few days since that video came out.

00:20:20.000 I'll give you an example of one.

00:20:22.000 Just earlier today, I was reading the grant agreement.

00:20:25.000 On page one of a grant agreement, it was saying that the grant for $2 billion of funds.

00:20:32.000 On page 6 of that grant agreement, it says that the grantee has 90 days to complete a training called, you won't believe this, Charlie, it's called How to Develop a Budget.

00:20:45.000 So 21 days to get out.

00:20:48.000 Over $2 billion, 90 days to complete training on how to develop a budget.

00:20:54.000 There is so much to this.

00:20:56.000 I've read now the financial agent agreement, the account control agreements, the legal reviews.

00:21:01.000 They were amending account control agreements just days before Inauguration Day.

00:21:06.000 So that video where that Biden-EPA political appointee was talking about tossing, throwing gold bars off the Titanic, they actually were, not to...

00:21:16.000 What is just a few hundred thousand or a few million?

00:21:20.000 We're talking about tens of billions of dollars, tens of billions of tax dollars.

00:21:25.000 I've been working with the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, and others.

00:21:30.000 We want to make sure that there's full accountability and oversight established here.

00:21:35.000 There's zero tolerance for waste and abuse in the Trump administration.

00:21:39.000 Absolutely.

00:21:40.000 Can you explain the nexus between left-wing NGOs and government money?

00:21:44.000 So the way that this was designed, once Congress appropriated tens of billions of dollars here to pass through the EPA, eight entities as primary recipients would receive all $20 billion as a pass-through.

00:22:02.000 And then once that money was passed through those eight primary recipients, they would go to a bunch of subgrantees, and in many respects, those subgrantees were also pass-throughs.

00:22:14.000 And these were NGOs that were very well-connected, and in some respects, extremely newly set-up organizations where they have never handled anywhere close to this level of money.

00:22:30.000 To the point where you have to work into the grant agreement training on how to develop a budget.

00:22:35.000 So this is something that shouldn't have been set up from the get-go.

00:22:40.000 The entire scheme is something that is designed for waste and abuse.

00:22:44.000 And get this, Charlie, once the money passes through those eight primary recipients and moves on to those sub-grantees, EPA isn't even a party to the account control agreement.

00:22:56.000 EPA deliberately...

00:22:58.000 Had stuff worded into the financial agent agreement and the original account control agreement to tie its hand behind its back.

00:23:06.000 And the dates of this stuff is wild.

00:23:08.000 The financial agent agreement, September 18th.

00:23:11.000 The account control agreement is November 1st.

00:23:13.000 The legal review on all of this is done on Election Day, November 5th.

00:23:18.000 And as I pointed out earlier, they were still amending these things January 13th, just a few days before the inauguration.

00:23:24.000 Last I'll say is this, if you don't mind.

00:23:26.000 Up front, the $20 billion was given out.

00:23:31.000 It wasn't like they gave out some tranche of money and then over the course of time, the grantees coming back to the government and the government is signing off based on past performances and accountability and proposals for the future.

00:23:45.000 The government gave out the $20 billion in the onset and said, here you go.

00:23:51.000 It's just, it's unbelievable.

00:23:53.000 Talk also about...

00:23:55.000 The return to work push.

00:23:56.000 How many EPA staff are there and how many were going into the office before?

00:24:01.000 So the total amount of the EPA, the numbers were over 15,000.

00:24:06.000 And one of the things that I asked when I first came in, it was three weeks ago today, I wanted to know what the numbers looked like as far as attendance inside of headquarters over the course of the last year or so.

00:24:21.000 So since January of 2024, The average attendance rate on Mondays and Fridays was about 5% to 8%.

00:24:30.000 The most that the EPA headquarters had on any single day, like the record attendance, was that there was one day where attendance hit 37%.

00:24:43.000 President Trump came in.

00:24:45.000 He signed an executive order.

00:24:46.000 It's time to come back to work.

00:24:48.000 And I believe that it's important for productivity, for collaboration.

00:24:52.000 It's important for us to do everything in our power to make the American public proud.

00:24:57.000 We're seeing it right now with EPA doing such a great job in California, completing a phase one hazardous material removal.

00:25:06.000 President Trump gave us 30 days to get it done.

00:25:09.000 We're going to hit that.

00:25:09.000 We have over 1,500 workers on the ground.

00:25:12.000 EPA is in western North Carolina.

00:25:13.000 We're in East Palestine, Ohio.

00:25:15.000 We're in Maui and Flint.

00:25:17.000 And now after the flooding that just took place in Kentucky, we just received a FEMA mission assignment to help with that removal, and we are on it.

00:25:25.000 So we have a lot of important work here at EPA. We want to make the American public proud.

00:25:31.000 We can't all do it from home.

00:25:32.000 I could not agree more.

00:25:36.000 The premise of the EPA should be to develop and to explore the liquid gold, as President Trump would say.

00:25:44.000 How do we balance that while being environmentally conscious, also having an expedited agenda to have the most energy-dominant country on the planet?

00:25:58.000 Great point.

00:25:59.000 President Trump, in that executive order that he signed on Friday...

00:26:03.000 Created this National Energy Dominance Council where we had multiple agencies all standing there represented by myself, Secretaries Wright, and Bergam, and Duffy, and other members of the cabinet there to announce this collaboration, this partnership.

00:26:20.000 President Trump spoke about Constitution Pipeline, which was stopped by New York utilizing an EPA rule.

00:26:30.000 Which needs to get looked at because this was a really important project, and as President Trump pointed out, can get done at this point in less than a year.

00:26:39.000 So President Trump wants to greenlight it.

00:26:42.000 We need to ensure that we are not holding back that level of progress and that we are in touch with American innovation.

00:26:50.000 That we understand that over the course of the last couple decades, emissions have gone down here in the U.S., that we provide these forms of energy cleaner.

00:27:00.000 than so many other countries all around the world.

00:27:03.000 And America sits on all of these important resources that we will tap into in a way that is better for the environment than so many other places around the world.

00:27:14.000 So if you care about the environment, we shouldn't be relying on all of these countries elsewhere.

00:27:19.000 Let's do it here at home.

00:27:21.000 And not only will we be doing a better job in protecting the environment, it's important for our national security, it's important for our economy.

00:27:29.000 And we'll be delivering on what the American public demanded last November 5th.

00:27:33.000 President Trump wrote an executive order saying, we need to have water standards flow pertaining to sinks, showers, toilets, and washing machines.

00:27:41.000 I can't stand these low-flow showers.

00:27:44.000 What's going on, Lee?

00:27:46.000 This is something that President Trump...

00:27:49.000 He didn't waste any time on, and he wants EPA and the Department of Energy to work together.

00:27:56.000 So at EPA, there are voluntary standards created through something called the WaterSense program, which we have already started working on overhauling.

00:28:05.000 It could start as voluntary, but when government starts partnering with the private sector and these different companies start adopting these federal Biden-era standards, then all of a sudden...

00:28:17.000 The implementation with the product that American consumers are out there purchasing ends up being adapted to what the Biden EPA had set out.

00:28:26.000 So President Trump wants us to look at the standards, which is what we're doing.

00:28:29.000 He wants us to overhaul them, which we are.

00:28:31.000 And there are rules that the Department of Energy are looking to overhaul.

00:28:37.000 Secretary Wright has already gotten his people cranking on all of that. 0.99

00:28:41.000 So we're not wasting any time.

00:28:43.000 President Trump said this is a top priority for him because it's an important priority for you, the American people.

00:28:49.000 And for us, Secretary Wright at DOE and for myself at EPA, we're all in to do our part.

00:28:55.000 Congratulations, Mr. Administrator.

00:28:57.000 You're doing a great job.

00:28:58.000 You're welcome anytime.

00:28:59.000 Keep up the great work.

00:29:00.000 Thank you, man.

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00:30:21.000 The left is in the wilderness.

00:30:24.000 This is a completely different terrain than it was in 2017. It is completely different.

00:30:30.000 And Elon Musk and Donald Trump are teaming up in an incredibly powerful way.

00:30:34.000 This is a part of the Elon Musk-Sean Hannity interview, and I'm going to lead towards the culmination of what this means materially.

00:30:42.000 Is the country becoming more right-wing, or is it becoming more left-wing?

00:30:46.000 What do the numbers actually show?

00:30:49.000 But first, let's play Cut 60. They call it, like, Trump derangement syndrome.

00:30:54.000 And you don't realize how real this is until, like, it's...

00:30:57.000 You can't reason with people.

00:30:59.000 So, like, I was at a friend's birthday party in LA, just a birthday dinner, and it was, like, a nice, quiet dinner, and everything was...

00:31:05.000 Everyone was behaving normally, and I happened to mention...

00:31:08.000 This was before the election, like, a month or two before.

00:31:10.000 I happened to mention the president's name, and it was like they got shot with a dart in the jugular that contained, like, methamphetamine and rabies, okay?

00:31:17.000 And they're like, wah!

00:31:19.000 I'm like, what is wrong?

00:31:20.000 Guys, you can't have a normal conversation.

00:31:23.000 And it's like they become completely irrational.

00:31:27.000 And we can all relate.

00:31:28.000 We all have people like this.

00:31:30.000 And the Trump derangement syndrome, it continues.

00:31:33.000 It's long haulers TDS. It's long TDS. It's got a long track record.

00:31:40.000 And President Donald Trump and his team of changemakers, J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Scott Besson.

00:31:47.000 They're delivering every single day.

00:31:49.000 They're delivering for the American people.

00:31:52.000 They are disruptors of the highest order.

00:31:55.000 And how are the Democrats reacting?

00:31:57.000 Well, this is Bernie Sanders saying Elon Musk is helping fund right-wing extremists all over the world.

00:32:03.000 They are so disorganized.

00:32:05.000 They don't know which target to hit.

00:32:06.000 They can't even remember all the things Trump is doing.

00:32:09.000 Playcut 109. Do you feel that you have oversight when it comes to what Elon Musk is doing?

00:32:14.000 Look, what we're seeing right now...

00:32:16.000 It's a very dangerous moment.

00:32:18.000 I'm laughing here, but it is not funny.

00:32:21.000 This country is moving very rapidly under Trump into an authoritarian form of society.

00:32:28.000 Elon Musk is clearly running the show, the wealthiest person in the world who has enormous conflicts of interests, who is helping to fund right-wing extremist organizations all over the world.

00:32:43.000 Who is looking forward to get massive tax breaks from Congress.

00:32:47.000 He's running the show.

00:32:49.000 So they're yammering a lot on TV. A lot of clamoring.

00:32:52.000 A lot of chatter.

00:32:54.000 What does this mean?

00:32:56.000 Well, this is the most important piece of tape we're going to play today.

00:33:00.000 The electorate has been remade.

00:33:02.000 The work that we are doing in the grassroots at Turning Point Action.

00:33:04.000 The work that we are resuming tomorrow on college campuses.

00:33:08.000 The country is becoming profoundly more right-wing.

00:33:11.000 The way that people get news, the news is now something that you talk about happened.

00:33:17.000 Did you see that clip of that person?

00:33:19.000 You don't actually watch the news as much anymore.

00:33:22.000 It's like little snippets of seeing little eventful moments and that's it.

00:33:26.000 It's no longer monetizable the way it once was.

00:33:29.000 It's white noise.

00:33:31.000 But Donald Trump has remade the electorate.

00:33:33.000 Play cut 111. Donald Trump and the Republican Party has changed the electorate.

00:33:38.000 What do I mean by that?

00:33:40.000 Well, let's take a look at party identification, Democrats versus Republicans.

00:33:43.000 You go back to 2017, five points more of the electorate was Democrats than Republicans.

00:33:48.000 You go to 2021 when Joe Biden was starting out, look at that, six points more of the electorate was Democrats than Republicans.

00:33:54.000 But look at what's happened in February of 2025. Look at this.

00:33:57.000 Republicans.

00:33:58.000 There are more Republicans in the electorate than there are Democrats.

00:34:02.000 Republican plus two.

00:34:03.000 So Donald Trump and the Republicans have remade the electorate.

00:34:06.000 They've turned some people over from being Democrats or independents to become Republicans.

00:34:10.000 New folks have entered the electorate who are more Republican-leaning.

00:34:13.000 And so when you combine that with the fact that Republicans are really, really behind Donald Trump...

00:34:18.000 All of a sudden you get a winning recipe whereby you break the normal rules of politics and give Donald Trump that positive net approval rating.

00:34:25.000 There are more Republicans than Democrats in this country and we're only going to keep going.

00:34:29.000 The foot is on the gas.

00:34:30.000 Full speed ahead.

00:34:31.000 Full acceleration.

00:34:33.000 Maximum aggression.

00:34:34.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:35.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - February 19, 2025

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