The Charlie Kirk Show - June 20, 2022


"We're All Dead in the Long Run” the Nihilism Behind Democrat Economics


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Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we talk about John Maynard Keynes and why it's important to know what he believed and why he believed it. We're also joined by Brandon Tatum, Joe Biden, and Joe breaks a very simple rule as President.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, someone I've been wanting to introduce you to for quite a while now, John Maynard Keynes.
00:00:07.000 We talk about how he has been driving economic lunacy for quite some time and how important it is to know what he believed and why he believed it.
00:00:16.000 You can email me your thoughts as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:19.000 We're also joined by Brandon Tatum and Joe Biden breaks a very simple rule as president.
00:00:23.000 We'll tell you about that and you can get involved with Turning PointUSA today at tpusa.com.
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00:01:14.000 Last week, I was talking to some people that are in the political space.
00:01:19.000 They were here visiting Turning Point USA, and we were talking about the economy, and we were talking about what's happening in our country.
00:01:25.000 And I kind of made a remark.
00:01:27.000 I said, yeah, you know, Keynesian economics is really a poor way to structure our public policy decision making.
00:01:35.000 They said, Keynesia, what?
00:01:37.000 I said, Keynesian economics.
00:01:39.000 And these are some pretty informed people.
00:01:41.000 And they'd never heard of the term Keynesian economics before.
00:01:45.000 And I actually asked our team, I said, have we gone through with our audience, John Maynard Keynes?
00:01:50.000 Have we talked about Keynesian economics?
00:01:52.000 Have we talked about the differences in economic theory?
00:01:54.000 And they said a little bit.
00:01:55.000 They said, Charlie, during the bailout fights when you came out against the COVID stimulus and everyone else was for it, including almost every Republican, I think it was passed by unanimous consent.
00:02:04.000 You mentioned a little bit, but you haven't done it in a while.
00:02:06.000 And so this is a really important conversation that we're about to have.
00:02:11.000 That if you are trying to make sense of the economic calamity, if you're trying to make sense of the chaos around you, then this conversation we're about to have is incredibly important.
00:02:23.000 So in the 20th century, there was a roster of people that were in all sorts of different practices and in different, let's say, buckets.
00:02:34.000 But they all tried to accomplish similar things.
00:02:38.000 And actually, as I was reflecting on it over the weekend, I believe that this roster of 20th century thought leaders transformed and challenged what I would consider to be adherence to the natural law and the anchoring of wisdom that built Western civilization.
00:02:57.000 Now, these people would be in any sort of decent or normal conversation, their ideas would be considered pathologically insane.
00:03:04.000 But of course, it's John Dewey, Darwin, Michelle Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Kinsey, Money, Alinsky, amongst many others.
00:03:16.000 That's an exhaustive list.
00:03:17.000 I could add Gramsci and many others.
00:03:20.000 But every one of them had their own area of expertise where they felt it was necessary to try to deconstruct, realign, or transform a belief or a system of thinking to usher in something different.
00:03:36.000 So John Dewey, his focus was on government schools and public education.
00:03:41.000 Charles Darwin, we got the survival of the fittest and this idea, eugenicist, eugenics, actually grew out of Darwinism.
00:03:49.000 Michelle Foucault and Jacques Derrida, as well as Herbert Marcuse, those three, were very focused on postmodernism, deconstructionism, post-structuralism.
00:04:02.000 Kinsey, very focused on childhood sexuality, that believed that children were sexual beings.
00:04:11.000 Same with John Money, Saul Linsky, a community organizer, a community operative, inspired Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
00:04:19.000 Hillary Clinton wrote her senior thesis on Saul Linsky.
00:04:23.000 So we've talked about a lot of these thinkers as well as Derek Bell, and we've talked about many of these people, but we haven't talked a lot about John Maynard Keynes.
00:04:34.000 So John Maynard Keynes wrote his most famous book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.
00:04:42.000 Keynes really was the leader of what could be called a revolution in economic theory, the very same way that Freud was a revolutionary in psychological thinking, or Foucault and Derrida was a revolutionary in philosophy of sexual norms.
00:05:01.000 Same with Keynesian money.
00:05:03.000 John Money, that is.
00:05:05.000 John Maynard Keynes was the pioneer of getting people to think differently about economics.
00:05:13.000 Because prior to John Maynard Keynes, there was an anchoring towards the laws of nature, of gravity, of thermodynamics, that things matter and they can't be made up out of thin air.
00:05:29.000 Now, John Maynard Keynes, his most famous quote that I think best summarizes his economic philosophy, his moral philosophy or lack thereof is: well, we're all dead in the long run.
00:05:43.000 Where basically, it doesn't matter what you borrow, it doesn't matter what you do today.
00:05:48.000 We're all dead anyway.
00:05:49.000 So, what difference does it make?
00:05:52.000 All of the economic thoughts of John Maynard Keynes that we're going to go through can be best summarized by an incredibly cynical and dark phrase of, we're all dead in the long run.
00:06:07.000 Might as well get as drunk as we can, maximize our pleasure, because we're all dead in the long run.
00:06:12.000 It's at direct odds with the conservative promise of, yes, delayed gratification, intergenerational growth, the protection of the beautiful, the good, and the true.
00:06:23.000 It's incredibly nihilistic at its core, actually.
00:06:28.000 Believe it or not, this economic school of thought was a rebranding of 19th-century nihilism into fantasyland economics.
00:06:39.000 Now, John Maynard Keynes was incredibly successful.
00:06:43.000 Now, this is a school of thought.
00:06:44.000 You know, people rail against critical race theory and they rail against postmodernism and transgenderism, but I have not heard one parent show up at a school board meeting and say, stop teaching Keynesian economics to my eighth grader.
00:07:00.000 It doesn't exactly get the moms out of their seats, but it should. 1.00
00:07:04.000 Keynesian economics is poison.
00:07:07.000 It is fantasy. 0.96
00:07:08.000 It is arsenic for a society.
00:07:11.000 Now, I used to be super outspoken against this because back in 2012, 13, and 14, as I got my start and I read Mises and I read Hayek and I read Rothbard, I got my start.
00:07:21.000 We used to always just have economic discussions.
00:07:24.000 The entire conservative versus liberal, let's say, divide back in 12, 13, and 14 was around high taxes, low taxes, deficits, no deficits.
00:07:35.000 And so I just happened to become really passionate about Keynesian economics.
00:07:40.000 This is one of the reasons why on this program, not to endlessly toot our own horn, but we should be very, we'll just be honest with you.
00:07:49.000 We've been right about every single major, every major economic prediction we've been right, largely because I know the literature.
00:07:55.000 I know the laws of economics.
00:07:56.000 You don't have to overcomplicate or overthink it.
00:08:00.000 You're not able to create money out of thin air.
00:08:01.000 Wealth is not created by a printing press.
00:08:03.000 You don't have to overthink this.
00:08:05.000 If you read the right books, you understand modern monetary theory. 0.99
00:08:09.000 It's fantasyland, utopianism, it's garbage.
00:08:13.000 There's the laws of gravity, the laws of thermodynamics, and there's the laws of economics. 0.87
00:08:18.000 Now, we must understand that John Maynard Keynes, who is the archbishop of fantasyland economics, that he was no different than the deconstructionist who deconstructed social norms, a la the sexual revolution in the 1960s.
00:08:32.000 Deconstructionism was not isolated to one practice.
00:08:36.000 It hit every single thought arena, including economics.
00:08:41.000 Keynesianism is directly at odds with the humility of the natural law and delayed gratification.
00:08:48.000 Now, if this is the first time you've ever heard of Keynesian economics, that's okay.
00:08:51.000 It's not talked about a lot in mainstream media.
00:08:55.000 In fact, almost all of Wall Street engages in Keynesian economics, and they're not even aware of the Austrian school or the monetarist school.
00:09:04.000 And I think there could be a fine balance between some of the observations Keynes had and some of the observations that the Austrians had.
00:09:10.000 But there is some fundamental questions that we must ask to debunk what Keynesian economics is, but first we must define what Keynesian economics is.
00:09:18.000 You see, Keynesians look at the government solely as a way to artificially fix the demand problem by printing money, by creating problem, by creating money, I should say.
00:09:29.000 They believe that demand must be stimulated by lowering interest rates and by artificially intervening into the economy or the market.
00:09:41.000 They believe that a heavy hand of government coming into the market is necessary to be able to re-stimulate the government when recessions hit.
00:09:51.000 The Austrian school has a completely different thought, though, has a completely different approach.
00:09:57.000 The Austrian school of economics, they ask the question, why do recessions happen in the first place?
00:10:05.000 What are the chances that 20 to 30 million entrepreneurs would all simultaneously be making mistakes?
00:10:12.000 Probably pretty low.
00:10:14.000 It's more likely that the central bank was artificially playing with the interest rate, therefore creating bad behavior, incentivizing malinvestment, and subsidizing entrepreneurs to go in the wrong direction against their impulses or their self-interest.
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00:11:49.000 So Keynesianism is actually very hedonistic at its core.
00:11:55.000 Keynesianisms are proponents of a more short-term outlook.
00:12:00.000 In fact, Keynesianism devalues saving, literally.
00:12:05.000 When inflation occurs, saving becomes irrelevant.
00:12:10.000 You see, our side, the constitutionalist side, we will look a little bit longer term because our mission statement is to care about our legacy and leaving the next generation better off.
00:12:24.000 You see, every single species on the planet has two major goals, protect the young and make more of itself.
00:12:33.000 The left is trying to prevent both those things from happening by protecting the young and making more of yourself.
00:12:41.000 They're literally at war against natural impulses, whether it be bears or fish, snakes or snails.
00:12:50.000 Every species on the planet has an instinct, I believe, given to them by God to protect the youth and the young and to make more of themselves, to make future generations be able to prosper and to grow and to flourish.
00:13:06.000 Keynesianism is at direct odds against that.
00:13:11.000 You see, so Keynesians look at the government as an instrument to artificially fix demand.
00:13:16.000 So how do you lower interest rates?
00:13:19.000 I don't have to spend too much time on this, but basically it's by utilizing our fractional banking system.
00:13:24.000 And if the Fed gets too impatient there, they'll just straight up start buying bonds and they'll just trade dollar bills for bonds.
00:13:31.000 Where does the Fed get their dollar bills from?
00:13:33.000 They make them.
00:13:34.000 They create them.
00:13:35.000 The Federal Reserve is a private-public partnership by putting quotes that is able to create money out of thin air and insert it into the economy.
00:13:44.000 So we as people who live on team reality, and the Austrians were the first people to articulate this, and I have plenty of problems with the Austrians on separate issues, but they were right on this, is that demand is always high.
00:13:55.000 People always want everything.
00:13:57.000 You don't have to stimulate demand.
00:13:58.000 The question is, rather, do people have the ability, the freedom, and the liberty to create?
00:14:04.000 It is the supply that matters.
00:14:09.000 The Austrian school or team reality believes that supply creates demand, and you cannot demand something that has not yet been produced.
00:14:19.000 The supply chain issue that we're seeing right now with baby formula and food and that we're seeing with clothes and critical infrastructure is a perfect example of the downside or the faulty philosophical implications of cheap money infusion into our economy.
00:14:38.000 And it does come back down to the question of how is wealth created.
00:14:42.000 The Keynesianisms are much more likely to turn on the printing mill, fantasy land thinking, and hope that will stimulate economic activity.
00:14:53.000 We believe that recessions are largely caused because of faulty government intervention, dumbheaded subsidies, and godlike impulses playing games with the interest rate.
00:15:09.000 Wealth is created not by pressing go on the printing press.
00:15:14.000 Wealth is created when people who know how to create wealth are free to do so.
00:15:22.000 If you want to ask a leftist a question that will hopefully stump them and get them closer towards the red pill, ask them this question.
00:15:32.000 How is wealth created?
00:15:36.000 And there's only one answer.
00:15:37.000 Wealth is created when people who know how to create wealth are free to do so.
00:15:43.000 It's that simple.
00:15:45.000 Free from government regulation, free from excessive intervention, free from interest rates going up and down artificially that directly impacts entrepreneurs' behavior.
00:15:57.000 Big economic crashes, which is what we're living through right now, are only possible with big government.
00:16:04.000 It is impossible for 20, 30, 40 million entrepreneurs to be simultaneously wrong unless they were all playing off a centralized, faulty premise brought to you by the central bank.
00:16:17.000 Every single one of the designers of our society right now, Klaus Schwab to Jerome Powell to Janet Yellen, they're all Keynesians.
00:16:28.000 The great reset runs counter to how we're designed because it's very short term and only those at the very top enjoy the benefits of great wealth.
00:16:37.000 Keynesianism, the great reset, is very hedonistic because elites will then benefit at the cost of future generations.
00:16:46.000 Remember, every species has two main goals and the left is trying to destroy both of them.
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00:18:19.000 I've known him for a while.
00:18:21.000 We've done college campus stops together, and he's a terrific American.
00:18:24.000 And now Salem has two people in their lineup in the great state of Arizona in their national lineup.
00:18:32.000 And that is Brandon Tatum, who's a great American and a great patriot.
00:18:35.000 Brandon, welcome to the program.
00:18:37.000 Hey, how are you doing, Charlie?
00:18:38.000 Can you hear me?
00:18:39.000 I can, yes.
00:18:40.000 How are you doing?
00:18:41.000 Perfect, perfect.
00:18:42.000 Thanks for having me on.
00:18:43.000 So, Brandon, Juneteenth, what should we make of this?
00:18:48.000 Is it worthy of a federal holiday?
00:18:50.000 What's going on here?
00:18:52.000 Well, my opinion is this.
00:18:54.000 You know, it depends on how people are perceiving Juneteenth, right?
00:18:59.000 And I see where people are coming from when they say, we want to celebrate a day in which every American was free, including the slaves.
00:19:09.000 If they want to isolate it and understand it's a different event from 1776, when everybody was free, allegedly, then I'm okay with that.
00:19:19.000 The problem with Juneteenth in the United States of America today is that they want to make this the new 4th of July.
00:19:26.000 They want to make this the new 1776 as if our freedom didn't start.
00:19:31.000 It wasn't originated in 1776.
00:19:33.000 So, I'm totally firm with people wanting to celebrate it if they can understand that there's two different events there and they do not have to conflict with each other.
00:19:42.000 But once you go beyond that and you start polarizing people and want to make it the real true Independence Day, that's when I have a tremendous problem.
00:19:50.000 Yeah, and let's not be naive.
00:19:52.000 It's unfortunately the left is never doing what they say they're going to do.
00:19:56.000 I mean, if you read Juneteenth as it is, I totally agree. 0.96
00:20:00.000 It's fine.
00:20:00.000 It probably is more appropriate as a regional Texas holiday than a national one, but okay.
00:20:06.000 But let's really look at what's going on here: a summertime competitor to July 4th, a nonstop propaganda arm focusing on race, not focusing on national unity or the beauty of July 4th, a new summertime competitor to July 4th.
00:20:22.000 And I mean, I could go one after the other here, Brandon, which is Juneteenth.
00:20:27.000 Are reparations next is what it says on Time magazine.
00:20:30.000 CNN, Juneteenth is America's true birthday.
00:20:34.000 I mean, and you're seeing this nonstop on social media.
00:20:38.000 And I think a lot of Republicans are afraid to push back against it because they don't want to be called racist.
00:20:42.000 But we're already seeing it's not what they said it was.
00:20:45.000 It's not about talking about the emancipation of slaves, but it's something deeper.
00:20:50.000 It's almost this racial disharmony.
00:20:53.000 Black people get an Independence Day and white people get an Independence Day. 0.98
00:20:57.000 How awful for the country? 0.93
00:20:59.000 It's terrible, in my opinion, that they want to mix sauces like that.
00:21:02.000 It does not have to be this way.
00:21:05.000 But the left is convinced that they want to make every single thing that they talk about about race and they can find barriers to place in between us so they can pitch those every election season.
00:21:16.000 There is no reason in the world that I, in my personal opinion, that Juneteenth should be a federal holiday.
00:21:22.000 How is Juneteenth any different than July the 4th?
00:21:26.000 Unless you want to make it about black people's separate, unique freedom from the freedoms that we were afforded in this country in 1776.
00:21:37.000 You know, the funny thing is, is that I wish that people would understand history, understand it very vividly.
00:21:42.000 And 1776 was the ball that began to roll that allowed all of us to be free.
00:21:48.000 The Constitution, you know, the Constitution of the United States of America, a declaration of independence, all of these things spun from that moment all the way through to Juneteenth or whatever else they want to say.
00:22:01.000 I mean, there's always this growth potential.
00:22:03.000 The problem is, and another additional problem is that what's next as a milestone?
00:22:10.000 Because we have Juneteenth, and then what about the Civil Rights Act?
00:22:14.000 And then, you know, it's going to go on and on and on to where they are going to argue as if black people in America were never free, right?
00:22:23.000 I mean, they still are going back in time to make a point that's not there.
00:22:27.000 Well, and that's what's so just comical about the whole thing.
00:22:30.000 They'll simultaneously say, this is Black Freedom Day, by the way.
00:22:33.000 We're actually still in chains and it's Jim Crow 2.0.
00:22:36.000 So which one is it exactly?
00:22:38.000 Or is it that you just guys want a federal holiday to talk about race the entire day, which is totally not helpful at all in any way, shape, or form?
00:22:46.000 And you're exactly right.
00:22:47.000 The Declaration inspired the abolition of slavery in 1777 that was done by Vermont.
00:22:53.000 The Declaration was the great leap forward that inspired nine out of 13 of the colonies by the time the Constitution was ratified to independently abolish slavery.
00:23:04.000 It inspired Thomas Jefferson to sign the moratorium of new slaves coming into America.
00:23:09.000 This all happened thanks to the founding fathers recognizing self-government on July 4th, 1776.
00:23:15.000 And the next is reparations.
00:23:17.000 Brandon, talk about how if we do not stop some of these movements early, they get wildly out of control.
00:23:23.000 And according to Time magazine, Juneteenth is not enough.
00:23:26.000 Now we need reparations.
00:23:27.000 Your thoughts?
00:23:29.000 Charlie, I think you're on to something, and I wish people can follow this logic here.
00:23:35.000 You give them an inch, they take a mouse.
00:23:37.000 If you're doing something in good faith, that's okay.
00:23:39.000 They're not doing any of this.
00:23:41.000 That's exactly right.
00:23:42.000 That's exactly right.
00:23:43.000 Reparations is nowhere near a logical conclusion that we should be even talking about in the United States of America for black people because there's actually no way that we would be able to roll it out.
00:23:55.000 Who's going to pay for it?
00:23:56.000 The United States government? 0.96
00:23:57.000 Well, last time I checked, black people pay taxes. 1.00
00:24:00.000 So are black people going to pay for other black people's reparations? 0.97
00:24:02.000 I mean, it really doesn't make sense.
00:24:04.000 What about people who are interracial, interracial couples?
00:24:07.000 My wife is white.
00:24:08.000 So is she going to pay me reparations?
00:24:10.000 You know, who's going to pay my son reparations?
00:24:12.000 He's biracial.
00:24:14.000 Pays himself.
00:24:15.000 It has passed.
00:24:16.000 We are free in this country.
00:24:18.000 If you work hard, you dedicate yourself, you know, you dress the part, you act the part, you educate yourself, you can be whatever you want to be in the United States of America.
00:24:27.000 We are not living in the past.
00:24:29.000 And that's one thing I thought about the past, Charlie.
00:24:31.000 Just recently, I was driving and I thought about it.
00:24:34.000 I said, you know what?
00:24:34.000 There's no connection to the past other than in your mind.
00:24:38.000 You know, it's no tangible way you can go back and change anything in the past.
00:24:42.000 It's all here.
00:24:43.000 And once we get past what's in between our two ears, I mean, our two eyes, you know, we will be able to functionally move forward together.
00:24:52.000 That's the only problem I have with Juneteenth.
00:24:54.000 The only problem I have with reparations is because it's not in the best interest of America.
00:24:58.000 It's in the best interest of race hustling. 1.00
00:25:00.000 And it's just psychologically harmful.
00:25:02.000 I mean, anyone who knows anything about the very basics of psychology will say that fixating on things you can't change will literally drive you insane.
00:25:11.000 And it also makes you a lot less likely to have autonomy and liberty and to be happy and less likely to be able to succeed and to flourish.
00:25:23.000 All these things are kind of put in perpetual jeopardy if all of a sudden you focus on things you cannot change.
00:25:32.000 So, Brandon, I want to ask a question then.
00:25:36.000 What is it about the kind of center right, if you will, that is unwilling to talk about this?
00:25:43.000 And it seems that we just continually surrender to whatever the Democrats and the left want.
00:25:49.000 Well, it's emotionalism, right?
00:25:51.000 I mean, I think a lot of us have a, like I use the word acting in good faith.
00:25:56.000 We tend to act in good faith.
00:25:58.000 We don't want to offend people.
00:25:59.000 We want to give everybody a fair opportunity in this country. 0.78
00:26:03.000 And, you know, we, you know, the thing is, and let me just put it this way: white people in America are afraid to offend black people.
00:26:12.000 Yes, that's just what it is. 0.67
00:26:14.000 It just comes to that point.
00:26:15.000 So, majority of the center-right conservative people, a majority of them, are white.
00:26:20.000 And when the Democrats throw race in your face and throw slavery in your face and throw the fact that you guys don't care about black people because you won't celebrate Juneteenth, you guys don't care about the Oklahoma's, they had the Black Wall Street. 0.71
00:26:33.000 You guys don't want to celebrate Black Wall Street. 1.00
00:26:35.000 You want to isolate Black people. 1.00
00:26:36.000 You hate us. 1.00
00:26:37.000 The police are killing Black people. 1.00
00:26:39.000 They use that in the fervent or genuine emotion from white people in this country who are conservatives. 0.99
00:26:47.000 They do not want to come against that or come across as being a racist.
00:26:53.000 This is my prescription to conservative, center-right people: quit worrying about what they think of you because they're going to think you're a racist no matter what you do.
00:27:02.000 It's a ploy for political leverage.
00:27:04.000 You need to do what you think is best.
00:27:06.000 Everything that I do in my life, everything I do professionally, I'm acting in the best interest of America.
00:27:12.000 I don't have a loyalty to nobody but Jesus Christ.
00:27:15.000 Black people, I don't owe a loyalty to. 1.00
00:27:17.000 White people, I don't owe a loyalty to. 1.00
00:27:19.000 I owe a loyalty to my Lord and Savior, and I owe a loyalty to my country.
00:27:23.000 We are all Americans.
00:27:25.000 And I don't believe in pushing us and dividing us, you know, to get political leverage.
00:27:30.000 I don't believe in it.
00:27:32.000 It's well said, Brandon, in closing here, tell us about your show.
00:27:34.000 Congratulations.
00:27:35.000 You're on radio stations all across the country taking over the great Larry Elder.
00:27:39.000 We're thrilled for you.
00:27:40.000 I listen to it at night when I'm driving around on AM 960.
00:27:44.000 You come on right after us, I think.
00:27:47.000 You come on at 8 o'clock Arizona time, which is awesome.
00:27:51.000 Tell us about how it's going and tell us about how people can get in touch with you and the hours you're on in the markets that you know of.
00:27:58.000 Well, Charlie, I have to first of all tell you thank you and Andrew as well, because I feel like you guys put in a good word for me.
00:28:06.000 And I think that's, you know, a little bit has something to do with the reason why they chose me to replace Larry Elder.
00:28:11.000 So I thank you guys for that.
00:28:13.000 And to the people that are out there, that's why you have to have integrity.
00:28:16.000 That's why you have to always take advantage of opportunities and do your best because you never know when that's going to pay off later on.
00:28:22.000 But the show is going great.
00:28:24.000 I love it.
00:28:25.000 I have call-ins every day.
00:28:27.000 I mean, we have an incredible time.
00:28:29.000 We talk about politics.
00:28:30.000 We talk about the hard things that people don't want to get into, especially when it comes to race.
00:28:34.000 But we do it all on the Officer Tatum show.
00:28:36.000 So you guys can catch us there.
00:28:38.000 Our website, theoffsotatum.com, is where you can download the podcast.
00:28:42.000 You can watch it live.
00:28:43.000 If you're not in your car, you can still catch it live.
00:28:46.000 The radio piece from 3 to 6 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.
00:28:50.000 So thank you, Charlie, for having me on, man.
00:28:52.000 It is a pleasure to be a part of the Salem family, to join the great minds of our society like you, Charlie.
00:28:59.000 It is amazing, and I'm very thankful. 0.92
00:29:01.000 Well, you're a monster addition.
00:29:03.000 It's just so great. 0.64
00:29:04.000 And I love listening to you.
00:29:06.000 You handle the callers really well.
00:29:07.000 And it's just great.
00:29:08.000 The Salem family, the Salem roster is all across the board, ideologically and just personnel.
00:29:15.000 You got Eric Metaxas, who's, you know, his own circus.
00:29:19.000 And then you got Dennis Prager, who's just a legend.
00:29:22.000 And then you got you, and you got Gorka.
00:29:24.000 It's just phenomenal.
00:29:25.000 It's just great.
00:29:26.000 Brandon, congratulations.
00:29:27.000 Thanks for your wonderful commentary.
00:29:29.000 And I'll be listening when I'm in the car.
00:29:31.000 All right.
00:29:31.000 Thanks so much.
00:29:32.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:29:33.000 God bless you.
00:29:33.000 Appreciate it.
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00:31:07.000 There are some unspoken rules for the presidency, such as when you go and meet a foreign dictator, you must have the power moves.
00:31:17.000 You don't bow if it's a foreign adversary, unless you're Barack Hussein Obama.
00:31:23.000 You always bring them in close, as Trump would do.
00:31:26.000 He'd do the handshake and he'd bring it in, always with the hand on top.
00:31:31.000 There are some things that you're supposed to do and that you're not allowed to do.
00:31:35.000 And there's one thing that you're fundamentally not allowed to do as president, period.
00:31:39.000 You're just not allowed to do it.
00:31:40.000 You're not allowed to fall over on your bike.
00:31:43.000 You just can't do it.
00:31:44.000 It's like giving the nuclear codes to Xigi Ping. 0.87
00:31:47.000 It's just against everything that we know to be true.
00:31:51.000 Play cut 29.
00:31:59.000 Now, to be fair, I was on Sabbath, no phone, not nothing.
00:32:05.000 And Erica comes over and shows it to me.
00:32:07.000 And you know what my first reaction was?
00:32:09.000 This has got to be a deep fake.
00:32:10.000 There is no way this is real.
00:32:13.000 And it wasn't like he was going over some obstacle course.
00:32:17.000 It wasn't like he was trying to avoid something in the middle of the road.
00:32:22.000 No, he's just stopped and totally fell.
00:32:27.000 You can't do that as president.
00:32:28.000 So their excuse is that his foot got caught in the pedal strap.
00:32:33.000 Not a good excuse.
00:32:35.000 Play cut 30.
00:32:36.000 John Kerry's a joke.
00:32:38.000 No, he's a bicyclist, okay?
00:32:40.000 We have Kerry that goes on bicycle races.
00:32:42.000 He's in a bicycle race.
00:32:43.000 He's 73 years old.
00:32:44.000 They have no respect for John Kerry, who falls off bicycles at 73.
00:32:48.000 73 years old.
00:32:50.000 He goes into a bicycle race at 73 or 74 years old.
00:32:53.000 He falls, he breaks his leg.
00:32:55.000 I don't want him on a bicycle during nuclear negotiations.
00:32:58.000 I swear to you, I will never enter a bicycle race if I'm president.
00:33:02.000 I swear.
00:33:04.000 I swear.
00:33:05.000 No, that was just him on John Kerry.
00:33:08.000 You're trying to tell me they're going to be running Joe Biden for reelection.
00:33:14.000 Can't walk upstairs, can't remember who his wife is, get freaked out by the Easter buddy.
00:33:20.000 Just collapses when he's trying to bike.
00:33:23.000 And also, just a small note: given the state of the union, why is Biden taking leisurely bike rides along the beach?
00:33:32.000 Him taking a bike ride seems to be a national security issue in and of itself.
00:33:38.000 Have we ever had a commander-in-chief who's fallen off his bicycle?
00:33:42.000 That might be a first.
00:33:44.000 You're not allowed to do that as president.
00:33:46.000 You just can't.
00:33:46.000 Oh, Jared Ford fell once.
00:33:51.000 Oh, not off a bike.
00:33:52.000 He just fell.
00:33:54.000 Slipping down the stairs of Air Force One.
00:33:58.000 I've done some thinking about this over the weekend.
00:34:00.000 Bike collapses aside.
00:34:03.000 I do not think Joe Biden will run in 2024.
00:34:05.000 We've said that before.
00:34:07.000 I think that it's going to be an attempted coronation of someone they can control.
00:34:12.000 But you look, Buda Judge, Newsome.
00:34:16.000 I think it's going to be a bloody primary.
00:34:19.000 And I don't think they're going to put up.
00:34:21.000 I don't think the Democrat Party is going to put up with another cycle of a coronation of Biden.
00:34:26.000 There's too many hungry, well-funded, ambitious Democrats.
00:34:30.000 Now, I'm not saying Gavin Newsom is a good leader.
00:34:33.000 I think he's probably the worst governor in America.
00:34:35.000 At least he's up there. 0.99
00:34:36.000 He's awful.
00:34:37.000 But he's a talented politician. 0.81
00:34:40.000 You're starting to see the trial balloon phase of people in the New York Times and in the Atlantic.
00:34:48.000 They want him gone.
00:34:49.000 They know that he is a down ballot political liability.
00:34:53.000 And this is something I've been meaning to talk to our base about.
00:34:56.000 We're going to do this tomorrow on Real America's Voice.
00:34:58.000 It's just going to be a short segment.
00:35:00.000 Stop calling it the Biden administration.
00:35:05.000 Every time we attack Joe Biden, we can make fun of him, whatever, but we have to be more disciplined.
00:35:09.000 It's about the Democrat Party.
00:35:12.000 The Democrat Party has increased gas prices.
00:35:15.000 The Democrat Party has ruined our schools or regime or whatever.
00:35:20.000 But if you make it about Biden, then all of a sudden it'll be easier for them to pivot when they bring somebody else in.
00:35:28.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:35:29.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:32.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:35:33.000 God bless.
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