The Charlie Kirk Show - June 15, 2023


While Republicans Play Baseball, Democrats Take Over


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Charlie Kirk: Republicans are playing baseball while Democrats are taking over the country, we have some honest comments on Mike Pence, and we talk about the inability for Republicans to censure Adam Schiff. Get your tickets to the Turning Point Action Conference.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, to the Charlie Kirk show.
00:00:01.000 Republicans are playing baseball while Democrats are taking over the country.
00:00:05.000 We have some honest comments on Mike Pence, and we talk about the inability for Republicans to censure Adam Schiff.
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00:02:11.000 Let's start with some very unfortunate news.
00:02:17.000 The Republican Party is not ready to fight the Marxists.
00:02:20.000 There are some Republicans that are, but they are completely misreading the room.
00:02:24.000 You see, this is not normal times.
00:02:27.000 And I hear from people every so often, well, Charlie, you know, why can't we negotiate and go to the middle?
00:02:32.000 Why can't we calm down the temperature in the country?
00:02:35.000 I want that.
00:02:36.000 I would love to go back to the country I grew up in where we used to negotiate and be able to give a little and have Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan go and negotiate the budget.
00:02:46.000 Everything has changed post-Donald Trump because Donald Trump exposed neoliberalism, which was a bipartisan deal on three major issues: immigration, trade, and especially war, as Tucker Carlson perfectly pinpointed in his Twitter video.
00:02:59.000 So the whole country has changed.
00:03:00.000 Democrats are playing for keeps.
00:03:02.000 This is no longer some sort of a goodwill negotiation.
00:03:05.000 They want us in jail.
00:03:06.000 They want us dead. 1.00
00:03:07.000 They want us eliminated. 0.97
00:03:08.000 They're willing to use their political power and the oligarchy that they control to steamroll us.
00:03:14.000 You see that in the audience.
00:03:15.000 You hear that.
00:03:16.000 You see their language.
00:03:17.000 You see how they act.
00:03:18.000 You see how they're willing to use the criminal justice system, the Department of Justice.
00:03:22.000 You see how they go after children, which is why we're here at the Turning Point Academy Summit to try to push back against the perverts and the groomers.
00:03:29.000 You see, they're playing for keeps.
00:03:32.000 So this was a pretty historic week, not in a good way.
00:03:36.000 Earlier this week, Donald Trump was arraigned on 37 counts for paperwork stuff.
00:03:40.000 Meanwhile, Hillary, Structures Merck, James Comey, all these people get cable news contracts and book deals.
00:03:45.000 We've been through that.
00:03:46.000 We called on the Republican candidates to go down to Miami, Florida, and show support.
00:03:52.000 Imagine how powerful it would have been, first for the party, second for his candidacy, and most importantly, the country, if Governor Ron DeSantis would have showed up in Miami, Florida a couple hours before Trump arrived and said, I'm the governor of this state.
00:04:04.000 This is nonsense. 1.00
00:04:05.000 This is garbage. 1.00
00:04:06.000 As I say, Florida is where woke comes to die. 1.00
00:04:08.000 I'm going to say if I'm president of the United States as President DeSantis, this sort of criminalization of political dissidents will go to die.
00:04:15.000 It would have been powerful.
00:04:16.000 He would have gone up in the polls.
00:04:18.000 MAGA would have gained respect for him.
00:04:20.000 Instead, we don't know where Governor DeSantis was on that day.
00:04:22.000 Missed opportunity, and it would have showed a real opposition party.
00:04:25.000 Vec Ramaswamy gained a lot of support for going down there.
00:04:29.000 Chris Christie was doing a CNN town hall.
00:04:32.000 Nikki Haley, I think, was discussing war plans to invade another foreign country.
00:04:36.000 Asa Hutchinson was probably raising money from Walmart.
00:04:38.000 I don't know.
00:04:39.000 But they obviously had something more important to do than be there.
00:04:42.000 That was a disappointment, but it was a tell.
00:04:44.000 So then all of a sudden, we have this, again, crossing of the Rubicon, no going back.
00:04:50.000 Just shot across the bow.
00:04:51.000 They're indicting a former president.
00:04:53.000 And you would expect that the opposition party in Congress would get the memo.
00:04:57.000 Like, hey, you know, the Republican conservative base is not exactly happy right now that these times are different, not exactly time for bipartisan compromise.
00:05:06.000 And so an opportunity surfaced with a vote yesterday.
00:05:11.000 Turning point alumni, Congresswoman Ana Paulina Luna, someone who I have great deal respect for, and she fights hard for the country, introduced a resolution, controversial resolution, by the way, to say that Adam Schiff needs to be held accountable for the nonsense, the lies.
00:05:26.000 When he was head of the intelligence committee, lying about Donald Trump repeatedly for political purposes and aims, she introduced a piece of legislation to censure Adam Schiff, and she had some fines associated with it.
00:05:40.000 Now, remember the context.
00:05:42.000 Context is super important in life.
00:05:44.000 The context is they just indicted Donald Trump on 37 accounts, on 37 counts, 37 counts.
00:05:52.000 This is the context of the week.
00:05:53.000 You're fired up.
00:05:54.000 You feel as if you are under attack.
00:05:56.000 Your movement is being persecuted.
00:05:58.000 And you're like, hey, House of Representatives, what are you going to do?
00:06:01.000 Are you going to step up?
00:06:03.000 So Ana Paulina introduces this piece of legislation.
00:06:06.000 But let's just go back and remind ourselves of exactly what Adam Schiff did, the lies.
00:06:12.000 He spread the misinformation that he peddled.
00:06:16.000 Play cut 73.
00:06:18.000 I think there's plenty of evidence of collusion or conspiracy in plain sight.
00:06:22.000 But you admit it's a circumstance.
00:06:24.000 All you have right now is a circumstantial case.
00:06:27.000 Actually, no, Chuck.
00:06:28.000 I can tell you that the case is more than that.
00:06:31.000 The only thing I can say is that it would be irresponsible for us not to get to the bottom of this.
00:06:37.000 We really need to find out exactly what the Russians did.
00:06:40.000 For example, in that Trump Tower meeting, there was a clear intent to collude with the Russians.
00:06:45.000 There was a willingness to receive Russian help.
00:06:48.000 The president himself called on the Russians to assist his campaign by hacking Hillary Clinton's emails.
00:06:53.000 But then, most pernicious, his use of his office, his abuse of his power, to attempt to get an ally to help him cheat in the next election.
00:07:03.000 He abused his power and his quote-unquote reputation as head of the House Intelligence Committee. 0.88
00:07:08.000 Adam Schiff is a traitor to the United States.
00:07:11.000 And we've said that repeatedly, and we should say it again. 1.00
00:07:13.000 He is a bad person. 1.00
00:07:15.000 He's a scumbag. 1.00
00:07:16.000 And he has not been held accountable. 1.00
00:07:18.000 And he is actively running for the United States Senate seat in California.
00:07:22.000 That's very important.
00:07:23.000 He wants to now become a senator.
00:07:25.000 He called Donald Trump a Russian agent.
00:07:27.000 He made people's life hell.
00:07:28.000 He would leak everything from the Intel community.
00:07:32.000 He brought in Donald Trump Jr. for dozens of hours of testimony.
00:07:36.000 He's a bad guy.
00:07:37.000 There's no debate about that.
00:07:39.000 So you would think that the week that Donald Trump is facing 100 years in prison, you know, gets indicted.
00:07:46.000 Hey, by the way, you might go to jail for a century, Donald Trump.
00:07:50.000 Yeah, if you live as long as Abraham or Moses, you will be able to serve out your entire prison term, like to your 176. 0.94
00:07:59.000 You would think that the Republican Party would get the memo that now's the time to hold the line.
00:08:07.000 You would think that the Republican Party would say, hey, the leader of the opposition party, even though you might not like his tweets and you might not even think what he did on the document stuff was perfect, There's probably a bigger game at play here that the other side needs to understand that if you go after one of our own, we're going to go after someone like Adam Schiff and hold him accountable.
00:08:30.000 I'm going to go after, hold him accountable for legitimate misdeeds.
00:08:35.000 But I'm troubled to report that yesterday, Congresswoman Ana Paulina Luna's resolution in front of the House of Representatives failed.
00:08:45.000 20 Republicans, of which we will name those names on this program, can we get the roll call, did not want to do it.
00:08:53.000 Now, some of the arguments that are being made are interesting.
00:08:56.000 They're not convincing to me.
00:08:57.000 But I look, Congressman Massey, who I do have respect for, who I think is right on a lot of things.
00:09:04.000 And I vehemently disagree because I don't think he sees the full picture here.
00:09:08.000 He says, look, this is not right because it would be wrong if the majority party now has the power to issue fines.
00:09:15.000 The whole idea is the fines on Adam Schiff.
00:09:18.000 Should he have to pay something like $16 million fines, $60 million in fine.
00:09:23.000 And he says this.
00:09:24.000 He says, look, it's wrong for the majority party to then be able to use their power to potentially bankrupt the minority party.
00:09:31.000 Even though Nancy Pelosi did issue fines for not wearing masks during COVID, how many principles will we, the Republican side, hold if the enemy is holding none?
00:09:44.000 We're going to keep on saying, well, you know, we're better than this.
00:09:47.000 We're above this.
00:09:48.000 We're not going to do this.
00:09:50.000 How many abstract principles will we continue to hold to when the opposition has zero?
00:09:58.000 A week where Donald Trump now faces 100 years in prison, your Republican Party cannot get their act together to censure and fine Adam Schiff for crimes against the country.
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00:10:52.000 I'm fired up about this.
00:10:53.000 The fact that Republicans, the Republican Party could not hold Shifty Schiff accountable.
00:10:59.000 The same week that they just unapologetically go indict Donald Trump on 37 counts.
00:11:07.000 What game are they playing exactly?
00:11:09.000 I have an answer to that.
00:11:10.000 I know what game they're playing.
00:11:13.000 They're playing a baseball game.
00:11:16.000 Now, look, I'll be very honest.
00:11:17.000 I can see it both ways.
00:11:18.000 I love baseball.
00:11:19.000 At least I used to.
00:11:20.000 I don't really watch baseball much anymore.
00:11:21.000 It's become so woke, and it's just not the same sport.
00:11:26.000 I love the 2016 Cubs, obviously, when they won the World Series, the O5 White Sox. 1.00
00:11:32.000 I think baseball is a beautiful sport.
00:11:34.000 I could talk endlessly about how beautiful of a sport it is.
00:11:39.000 But last night was the congressional baseball game.
00:11:42.000 So I'm watching this congressional baseball game.
00:11:44.000 And I say this is I love baseball.
00:11:46.000 And I'm disgusted.
00:11:48.000 And I'm torn on this because I should necessarily allow my emotions to lead always kind of okay.
00:11:56.000 You should probably check your emotions.
00:11:58.000 But when these 20 Republicans, the same day they refuse to hold Adam Schiff accountable, let's put that graphic up.
00:12:05.000 Kelly Armstrong from North Dakota, Laurie Chavez, Juan Siscamani, Tom Cole, Warren Davidson, Brian Fitzpatrick, Kay Granger, Garrett Graves, Tom Keene, Kevin Kiley, ridiculous, Young Kim, Mike Lawler, Thomas Massey, Tom McClintock, Mark Molinaro, Jay Albernate, Mike Simpson, Michael Turner, David Valado, or whatever, and Steve Womack from Arkansas.
00:12:33.000 The same day that those 20 say, you know, we're not going to hold Adam Schiff accountable, totally misreading the room and not understanding the times where they're criminalizing paperwork stuff all because Donald Trump is a leading presidential candidate.
00:12:47.000 They say, no, we're not going to show the Democrats that we mean business.
00:12:53.000 They go vote and then hurry up and go put their cleats on to go play a congressional baseball game.
00:13:01.000 So look, I think that in normal times, I think there's totally a place for a congressional baseball game.
00:13:07.000 Under normal times, I'd love to kind of have Happy Talk Patty Cake take me out to the ball game with Democrats, with Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill.
00:13:17.000 But when they indict a former president and the leader of the opposition party on 37 accounts, on 37 counts, the Republican Party should have said, we're not going to play games with you, Democrats.
00:13:32.000 We're done.
00:13:33.000 What a message that would have sent.
00:13:35.000 What a message that would have sent if they would have showed up to the baseball game.
00:13:37.000 They said, you know what?
00:13:39.000 We're not playing this year.
00:13:41.000 We're done.
00:13:42.000 Instead, you know, I have to say, oh, well, you know, Republicans won the game and Republicans crushed the Democrats by a score of 16 to 6.
00:13:49.000 You guys are literally playing games.
00:13:52.000 Literally playing games while our republic is at stake.
00:13:55.000 This is not normal times.
00:13:58.000 Indicting the leader of the opposition party for political purposes using Soviet-style, KGB-style, Maoist tactics.
00:14:05.000 And we say, hey, let's go beat him in a baseball game.
00:14:08.000 They say, well, it's really good, you know, to try to win over bipartisanship so we could work on bills.
00:14:12.000 I don't want bipartisanship right now. 0.85
00:14:15.000 I want accountability for these maggots that are destroying our country.
00:14:19.000 I don't want to have some sort of bipartisan compromise to go send that thug Zelensky more money or to keep our borders completely wide open or to bring in more plastic from China. 0.99
00:14:28.000 Cheerio, let's just, you know, have a great ball game, everybody.
00:14:32.000 That is a 1990s America that the Democrats killed.
00:14:38.000 And so, yeah, I see it both ways.
00:14:40.000 I think some people will email me.
00:14:41.000 They say, well, Charlie, come on.
00:14:42.000 Is that just another thing that we just want to be filled with rage and with anger?
00:14:48.000 But what are we raging and angry about?
00:14:51.000 That's not a default setting.
00:14:52.000 I don't enjoy being angry all the time.
00:14:56.000 But I or you and our side, we didn't write that indictment against Donald Trump.
00:15:01.000 We are simply reacting, I believe, righteously against a mass injustice of, again, the leading presidential candidate of an opposition party where unelected bureaucrats and administrative state agents think they get to choose who the president of the United States gets to be, destroying the promise of the consent to the governed and obliterating the United States Constitution.
00:15:22.000 And I have to watch a bunch of Republicans act as if they're Joe DiMaggio and doing their best Albert Pujol's impressionation.
00:15:29.000 Great.
00:15:30.000 Hilarious.
00:15:31.000 You won 16 to 6.
00:15:32.000 The country is dead.
00:15:33.000 I don't care if you win a baseball game against the Democrats.
00:15:35.000 I wouldn't have said this five years ago.
00:15:37.000 I think this thing was really fun.
00:15:38.000 Cool.
00:15:39.000 Wow. 1.00
00:15:39.000 Look at how old the Democrats are, so they can't win games anymore. 1.00
00:15:43.000 And they're like stumbling over themselves when they're trying to steal second base.
00:15:47.000 That's hilarious.
00:15:48.000 Yeah, the country is in a dire moment right now.
00:15:53.000 We are under a metaphorical blitz.
00:15:57.000 I have an interesting question.
00:15:59.000 When London was being blitzed by the Nazis, were they doing baseball games with the parliament?
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00:17:17.000 So look, the Republicans were unwilling or unable, 20 of them.
00:17:20.000 I want to be clear.
00:17:21.000 Most Republicans voted for this.
00:17:22.000 I think that's a really important point.
00:17:23.000 And Thomas Massey makes a very technical argument.
00:17:26.000 But if I were to respectfully push back against Thomas Massey, who's been on this program, and I think he's right on a lot of different stuff, you think the Democrats really care about principle?
00:17:34.000 The Democrats are bloodthirsty.
00:17:36.000 The Democrats are indicting Trump and indicting Bannon.
00:17:39.000 They raid James O'Keefe's apartment.
00:17:41.000 I mean, these people are playing for keeps.
00:17:43.000 We're not even playing the game.
00:17:44.000 No, we are playing the game.
00:17:45.000 We're playing baseball.
00:17:47.000 The Democrats will not take us seriously unless they believe there is a cost to their criminality.
00:17:54.000 If there is a cost to all the indecent acts against the country.
00:18:01.000 Now, the counterargument is like, well, look, we care about principles and they don't.
00:18:05.000 Therefore, we're better than them.
00:18:07.000 I think that's happy talk.
00:18:09.000 And by the way, I don't think there's anything unprincipled about levying a fine against a traitor who used the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee to peddle a lie to destroy a presidency.
00:18:19.000 We're not talking about peddling a fine for some insignificant thing.
00:18:23.000 And Adam Schiff is now running for the United States Senate in California.
00:18:26.000 He very well might become a senator.
00:18:29.000 And Republicans can't agree in the context of Donald Trump being indicted on 37 federal counts.
00:18:38.000 So Mike Pence was asked about this on the Clay and Buck Travis radio program.
00:18:44.000 I am confused.
00:18:46.000 I think Mike Pence should go be a pastor.
00:18:48.000 I think he's a good Christian.
00:18:50.000 He's been loyally married to his wife.
00:18:52.000 He does believe in Christ and the word of God.
00:18:57.000 I don't know.
00:18:58.000 I do not know why he's running for the presidency.
00:19:03.000 I don't.
00:19:05.000 I don't know what constituency he thinks he's going to win over.
00:19:09.000 I don't know why he's doing this to himself.
00:19:11.000 I don't.
00:19:12.000 Because it's not going to go well.
00:19:13.000 This is just the beginning of widespread media, right-wing media attacks and humiliation against him.
00:19:19.000 And I say this actually as someone who was always very sweet to me.
00:19:22.000 He took me on Air Force 2.
00:19:24.000 We had a great time together.
00:19:26.000 I thought him to be very clear with me.
00:19:28.000 He spoke at our events.
00:19:29.000 I'm just being very honest with I am saying public and private.
00:19:32.000 I have no idea why he's running for the presidency.
00:19:35.000 This is not good for his career.
00:19:36.000 It's not good for the country.
00:19:38.000 And by the way, I'm getting tons of angry messages.
00:19:40.000 Charlie, how dare you say something good about him?
00:19:42.000 I'm just an honest guy.
00:19:43.000 Mike Pence was always very good to me.
00:19:45.000 Okay?
00:19:47.000 I don't know why he's running.
00:19:48.000 And he's totally wrong with how he's handling this document thing.
00:19:50.000 He is just so off the mark.
00:19:52.000 I don't know what constituency he thinks he's going to win over.
00:19:54.000 I don't know what community of voters he thinks he's going to be able to be persuasive to.
00:19:59.000 And so Clay and Buck on their program ask Mike Pence, will you pardon Donald Trump?
00:20:05.000 Play cut 75.
00:20:06.000 Let's presume you're fortunate enough to take oath of office January 2025, you become the next president of the United States.
00:20:12.000 Donald Trump is convicted of what I think you would agree are clearly, to a large degree, political-based charges.
00:20:20.000 Would you pardon him from those federal charges?
00:20:23.000 Well, first off, these are serious charges.
00:20:27.000 And as I said, I can't defend what's been alleged, but the president does deserve to make his defense.
00:20:33.000 And I take the pardon authority very seriously.
00:20:35.000 It's an enormously important power of someone in an executive position.
00:20:40.000 And I just think it's premature to have any conversation about that right now, guys.
00:20:46.000 Oh, man.
00:20:48.000 I'm going to get a lot of hate mail for this, but I don't care.
00:20:51.000 It's true.
00:20:52.000 Mike, just drop out of the race because you were always good to me.
00:20:56.000 I'm telling you, man, you don't want to keep running.
00:20:59.000 This is not going to end well.
00:21:00.000 This is really bad.
00:21:02.000 You're not going to get invited to a Lincoln-Reagan Day dinner in rural Arkansas after this.
00:21:09.000 You're not going to get a book deal.
00:21:10.000 You're going to be like Chris Christie on steroids.
00:21:12.000 Just say, you know what?
00:21:14.000 I announced too soon.
00:21:16.000 I'm done.
00:21:18.000 You are totally misreading the room.
00:21:21.000 You are so out of touch with what voters want.
00:21:25.000 You are so out of touch with where the conservative base is.
00:21:29.000 That is a smug answer.
00:21:32.000 That is a DC script in it.
00:21:35.000 Well, these are very serious charges.
00:21:37.000 Oh, man.
00:21:40.000 Clay responds, challenging him, play cut 76.
00:21:44.000 I mean, look, we either believe in our judicial process in this country or we don't.
00:21:49.000 We either stand by the rule of law, we don't.
00:21:52.000 I just, what I would tell you is, I think, as someone who's a- What I'm hearing is you're fine with Donald Trump being put in prison, sir.
00:21:59.000 And that, to me, since you were his vice president, feels pretty disrespectful.
00:22:03.000 I had a standard rule.
00:22:05.000 I don't talk about hypotheticals.
00:22:07.000 Hold on, talk about hypotheticals.
00:22:08.000 You're running for the presidency.
00:22:09.000 And I got to tell you, Mike Pence, either we trust our judicial process or not.
00:22:13.000 I don't trust our judicial process.
00:22:16.000 Are you kidding me?
00:22:17.000 Mike Pence, you mean the judicial process that just cleared you of documents?
00:22:22.000 They could have imprisoned you, but you're not a threat to them, Mike Pence.
00:22:27.000 You're trying to tell me that you handled everything perfectly.
00:22:31.000 They released you from criminal indictments or threats because they would love Mike Pence, because you stand for neoliberalism and you're polling with nine people in Iowa.
00:22:45.000 I believe in the judicial process.
00:22:46.000 The same judicial process that has Steve Bannon under indictment that went after Dinesh D'Souza, that raided James O'Keefe's home, the same judicial process that has a meme maker, Douglas Mackey, going to prison for nearly a decade for a joke.
00:23:01.000 Either we trust the judicial process or not.
00:23:03.000 Wake up, call Mike Pence.
00:23:05.000 Half the country doesn't trust the judicial process in this country.
00:23:09.000 He's an institutionalist defending all this injustice.
00:23:14.000 We got January 6th prisoners rotting in a gulag in pretrial detention.
00:23:21.000 Well, either we trust the judicial process or not.
00:23:24.000 You mean with activist judges that were overturning Trump's executive orders at every turn?
00:23:28.000 No, I don't trust that judicial process.
00:23:30.000 You mean an activist judge like we have in Florida that said, well, you know, gender is what you want it to be.
00:23:36.000 I don't trust the judicial process of what it's become in this country.
00:23:39.000 I don't trust the FBI.
00:23:41.000 I don't trust Christopher Wray.
00:23:42.000 I don't trust the Department of Justice.
00:23:44.000 Mike Pence, you're trying to tell me I'm supposed to trust the digital process where John Durham issues this book report and nobody goes to jail.
00:23:51.000 What are you trusting exactly, Mike Pence?
00:23:53.000 The answer is he's trusting because he got off for the document stuff and Trump didn't.
00:24:00.000 It works for Mike Pence.
00:24:02.000 He's a beneficiary of this system.
00:24:05.000 And he'll say, oh, well, I handled everything fine and everything good and Donald Trump mishandled stuff. 1.00
00:24:10.000 That is rubbish. 1.00
00:24:12.000 That is nonsense. 1.00
00:24:13.000 Don't give me that crap. 1.00
00:24:16.000 You show me the man, I'll show you the crime. 1.00
00:24:17.000 You're trying to tell me there was not one thing that they could have micro-targeted with Mike Pence.
00:24:21.000 If Mike Pence was number one in the polls and talking about ending the war in Ukraine and Mike Pence was talking about closing the border and holding China accountable and Mike Pence was leading a populist nationalist movement or threatening Schedule F for obliterating the deep state, you're trying to tell me the Department of Justice would have said, up, actually, you're free to go run for the presidency, pal.
00:24:41.000 And yay, they do a press release saying that Mike Pence, all investigations are dropped and he happens to just have a presidential announcement three days later.
00:24:48.000 No, Donald Trump is saying we're going to have four years of retribution.
00:24:54.000 Mike Pence says, well, these are very, very serious charges.
00:25:00.000 This is why we lose.
00:25:02.000 We've got a Republican Party playing baseball, unwilling to hold Adam Schiff accountable.
00:25:07.000 We have a former vice president running against his president.
00:25:11.000 By the way, he calls him my former running mate.
00:25:12.000 Have a little more respect, pal, okay?
00:25:14.000 You were in the doldrums of political irrelevancy until Donald Trump decided to make you vice president.
00:25:20.000 And the Democrats, they're looking at Mike Pence on this talk radio and they're laughing and they say, there's no opposition party.
00:25:27.000 There's no pushback.
00:25:29.000 Mike Pence didn't show up to Miami when Mike Pence called into a national radio program when given an opportunity.
00:25:34.000 I don't talk about hypotheticals.
00:25:36.000 Hey, bro, running for the president is a hypothetical.
00:25:39.000 The whole running for the presidency is a hypothetical.
00:25:42.000 I will do this on first day of office.
00:25:44.000 Hypothetical.
00:25:45.000 I won't do this.
00:25:46.000 That's a hypothetical.
00:25:48.000 Donald Trump is facing 100 years in prison for a paperwork dispute.
00:25:51.000 Meanwhile, House Republicans can't even manage to censure Adam Smith.
00:25:56.000 I was thinking of Jack Smith.
00:25:57.000 Adam Schiff for lying and deliberately leaking secret information to frame a sitting president and nullify a Democratic election.
00:26:04.000 Democrats play for keeps, and Republicans don't even play.
00:26:13.000 This is why we lose.
00:26:16.000 You, the grassroots.
00:26:18.000 You guys pay your taxes, show up to church, raise good kids, work hard, and you are being totally misrepresented by your leaders.
00:26:25.000 I think that's one of the main frustrations right now amongst the conservative base.
00:26:30.000 There's this significant, the most significant misalignment between the voters and the candidates.
00:26:36.000 And I'll be honest, when I started my political activism in 2010 and really got involved in 2012 in politics with Mitt Romney, the grassroots was nowhere near as educated, involved, aware as it is now.
00:26:54.000 I mean, the amount of sophistication I have with the Charlie Kirk show audience, I'm doing these live shows and you're coming up, you're telling me about World Economic Forum resolutions and World Health Assembly.
00:27:05.000 I mean, it's like, geez, the amount of depth.
00:27:08.000 You know, they're talking about their favorite part of the creature from Jekyll Island and the Federal Reserve Act.
00:27:15.000 The knowledge in the conservative base is extraordinary.
00:27:19.000 And a knowledgeable conservative base is a threat to the Unit Party. 1.00
00:27:22.000 They want you dumb. 0.99
00:27:24.000 They want you just to look at TV and say, oh, Republican good and Democrat bad. 0.99
00:27:27.000 They don't want you to know about the nuances of legislation.
00:27:29.000 That's what we do here on this program.
00:27:31.000 They hate the more information that we're able to shine on the cabal of D.C., they go nuts.
00:27:39.000 And so in the this is so tough for me because I look back at my political career and I look at people that I used to look up to as this guy is going to do something great for us.
00:27:50.000 This guy is going to fight for us.
00:27:51.000 And then I look at them now and it's completely unrecognizable.
00:27:54.000 And they are purchased by lobbyists and they're in this strange Washington, D.C. speak.
00:28:03.000 And so we go through this.
00:28:04.000 You know, again, we're doing baseball games.
00:28:06.000 Democrats are ruining the country.
00:28:07.000 They're indicting Trump.
00:28:09.000 Mike Pence, completely underwhelming answer there.
00:28:12.000 Very, very disappointing and just full of holes.
00:28:15.000 But someone who was going to be president of the United States, a former Speaker of the House, does an interview, Paul Ryan.
00:28:22.000 And I am the first one to admit I was young, naive, and I thought this guy was really going to be the future of the party.
00:28:28.000 Producer Andrew, I think, shared that view.
00:28:31.000 He seemed to be really clear and a consensus builder, really strong on fiscal discipline.
00:28:37.000 And he's a uniparty hack.
00:28:39.000 He is a neoliberal.
00:28:41.000 So he was pressed on an interview about chemical castration of kids, grooming, and Paul Ryan wants to make sure he doesn't offend his corporate donors or his corporate allies in the lobbying world.
00:28:56.000 And he says, I'm not a culture war guy.
00:28:59.000 This is an extraordinary piece of tape.
00:29:01.000 And it fits this theme.
00:29:03.000 Why are we losing the country?
00:29:05.000 It's not because of you.
00:29:06.000 You guys are doing your job.
00:29:08.000 You're praying for your country.
00:29:10.000 You're involved.
00:29:10.000 You're precinct committee men.
00:29:12.000 It's because your leaders hate you and they don't share your values and they'll lie to you to get power.
00:29:19.000 Play cut 24 of Paul Ryan telling you that getting involved in school boards is not really his thing.
00:29:26.000 Instead, I don't want to do polarizing stuff.
00:29:29.000 Instead, I want to be focused on China and cutting Social Security.
00:29:32.000 Play Cut 24.
00:29:34.000 Republican lawmakers around the country are pushing legislation when it comes to banning books.
00:29:40.000 It could be trans rights.
00:29:42.000 Call it anti-woke, however you want to label it.
00:29:44.000 Is that a good approach, a good strategy?
00:29:46.000 You're a football fan.
00:29:46.000 Is that the way you should approach it?
00:29:48.000 Yeah, I'm not a culture war guy.
00:29:49.000 I think it's really polarizing.
00:29:50.000 Look, on some of these issues, I'll side with the anti-woke crowd.
00:29:54.000 But to me, I'm worried about a debt crisis.
00:29:57.000 I'm worried about the future of our country and China. 1.00
00:30:00.000 There are big policy problems that we need to tackle if we want to have a great 21st century for this country.
00:30:06.000 But for me, I'm an old Jack Kemp guy.
00:30:08.000 I believe in inclusive aspirational politics.
00:30:10.000 Solve problems.
00:30:12.000 We got huge problems.
00:30:13.000 Dodge, dodge, dodge, keep the checks flowing.
00:30:16.000 Dodge, dodge, dodge, keep the checks flowing.
00:30:19.000 Worthless.
00:30:20.000 Get off the airwaves, Paul Ryan.
00:30:23.000 I'm not a culture war guy.
00:30:24.000 Yeah, you are Vichy French guy is what you are. 0.99
00:30:27.000 Go ahead.
00:30:27.000 Take over our lands.
00:30:28.000 Conquer our territory.
00:30:30.000 Groom our kids, pervert our schools, infect our lands. 0.99
00:30:33.000 But can I be in charge of the 30-year debt plan to make sure that we're actually only growing spending by 2% instead of 4.5%?
00:30:41.000 At least I don't get called Hitler, and at least I get invited to the cocktail party at the Kennedy Center.
00:30:46.000 I'm a respectable Republican.
00:30:49.000 I still get invited to Lockheed Martin's Gay Pride celebration.
00:30:53.000 Look at me.
00:30:53.000 I'm Paul Ryan.
00:30:55.000 It's Paul Ryan and Mike Pence.
00:30:57.000 These people are institutionalists of a system that no longer exists.
00:31:03.000 I'm a reasonable guy.
00:31:04.000 Look at me.
00:31:05.000 I'm Speaker Paul Ryan.
00:31:08.000 Available for hire for $80,000 a month to push your piece of legislation of your choice, as long as you don't make me say something bad against groomers.
00:31:20.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:31:24.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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