00:00:13.000Email me, freedom at charliekirk.com, and support our show at charliekirk.com slash support and get involved with Turning Point USA, the battleship for freedom and liberty, tpusa.com, sort of high school chapter, sort of college chapter, tpusa.com.
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00:01:35.000So, David, kind of for our new listeners and audience, kind of bring them up to speed about your book and why you wrote it.
00:01:40.000And I think it's more relevant than ever.
00:01:43.000Well, fundamentally, Charlie, I had the benefit of being the grandson of immigrants from Poland.
00:01:49.000And my father, who was lower income, praised America, focused on the American dream, and made it really part of growing up for me.
00:01:59.000And so I benefited from not having limitations placed on me artificially.
00:02:04.000And I think every other American should.
00:02:06.000So Adam and I decided there's just been too much polarization and a lack of understanding of the importance of the foundation of this great nation and that we need to get our citizens back to paying attention or else we're going to lose it.
00:02:18.000And so that's really the book was intended to be nonpartisan, really just trying to get Americans back to understand that the Constitution that was framed by our founding fathers created this phenomenal, not only meritocracy, but freedom-based, consensus-based, self-healing nation.
00:02:36.000And that the checks and balances placed in that Constitution are essential to us keeping the greatness of America.
00:02:42.000And, you know, it's important to always remember is America is, in fact, great and extraordinary, but it's also self-healing.
00:02:51.000It just happens to be the best system ever developed.
00:02:54.000And I'm afraid it's slipping out of our grasp.
00:02:57.000The book is America in Perspective, very important book by David Sokol and Adam Brandon.
00:03:02.000So I want to talk about the economy because a lot of people are having economic anxiety right now and it's only growing.
00:03:07.000There's a tremendous amount of confusion.
00:03:09.000You and I both agree this ridiculous spending spree DC went on the last two years with the lockdowns and the trillions of dollars of unnecessary spending has just played into a lot of economic misery for a tremendous amount of people, young people in particular.
00:03:23.000You know, the kind of experts have been wrong about everything.
00:03:27.000I sat down with a bunch of Wall Street guys back in January of 2021 and I was laughed at by them when I said we're about to have hyperinflation that's going to crush the back of working people.
00:03:36.000And these people manage billions of dollars and they said, oh, we don't have structural inflation.
00:03:41.000And well, look what happened, look what's happening now.
00:03:43.000How did Wall Street get this so wrong?
00:03:47.000Well, how did everybody on the government side in Wall Street get it wrong?
00:03:51.000Well, optimism plays a part for Wall Street.
00:03:54.000People tend to, you know, the market's been doing so well, the economy doing so well since 2016 that, you know, people want it to continue.
00:04:03.000So I think the bias in Wall Street tends to always be on the positive.
00:04:07.000The real scary part is how our government has gotten this so wrong.
00:04:11.000You know, you can argue about whether or not we should have spent as much stimulus initially with COVID, but clearly, if the government's going to largely shut down industry, it's going to have to try and keep people afloat for a period.
00:04:25.000But we spent too much, and that's clear.
00:04:27.000And then after President Biden came in, he doubled down, which was totally unnecessary.
00:04:36.000It was trying to establish their base, I guess.
00:04:40.000But that additional $2 trillion initially, which then added another $2 trillion for the infrastructure bill, and then another three-quarters of a trillion three months ago for a bill that's totally phonally named.
00:04:53.000And, you know, think of the economy today and inflation as a bit of a bonfire.
00:05:00.000The Federal Reserve got behind in getting started raising rates, but they've caught up and they need to continue.
00:05:05.000So they're squirting water on this bonfire, trying to just slow the economy down.
00:05:10.000Simultaneously, this administration continues to spray gasoline on the fire.
00:05:15.000And worse than that, they continue to try to supply or limit the supply of natural gas and oil, both internally and to the world from the United States.
00:05:27.000That piece of the inflation, if you will, fuel, isn't going away by interest rates.
00:05:36.000As long as the government keeps artificially reducing our supply of refined products and natural gas in this country, that portion of inflation is going to continue notwithstanding interest rates.
00:05:47.000And what people need to realize is everything you buy has energy baked into it, whether it's agricultural products, manufactured products, fertilizer, you name it, not only the gasoline and the heating oil and the natural gas in your home heating.
00:06:05.000And I just pray that we stop this insane spending and then we can limit it from going into a very deep recession later next year.
00:06:15.000I think that's a smart point you make about how Wall Street is kind of inclined to always look towards the positive.
00:06:20.000Obviously, their motive is towards the positive.
00:06:23.000I just, I get very frustrated when there's kind of an arrogant attitude towards that because you could want what's right, but you also have to be realistic about it.
00:06:32.000I want to play a piece of tape here, Cut 11.
00:06:34.000Under Biden, the average 401k is down about $34,000 or 25% in less than one year.
00:07:41.000But the market was actually down almost 50% for a very short period of time.
00:07:45.000But within 12 months, it was back to where it started because it was a singular event.
00:07:51.000What's happening today is not a singular event.
00:07:53.000We have expanded the money supply in this country to such a level that it is just fuel for inflation.
00:07:59.000And again, we can argue about whether as much COVID spending should have been done as it was, but people need to remember what was spent back in 2020 and 2021 didn't build anything.
00:08:12.000It didn't build a bridge or a prison or an airport.
00:08:15.000It just was money given to people to not work.
00:08:19.000And to some people who were working anyway, and so it was just kind of a bonus.
00:08:27.000And there was an incredible amount of spending that occurred.
00:08:29.000And we're now paying the price for that spiraling inflation.
00:08:33.000And, you know, and it's going to continue for a period of time because once you get wages to start moving up in addition to fuel energy prices and then that massive spending wave, you know, that spiral continues.
00:08:47.000Companies have to raise prices to cover those costs.
00:08:50.000Labor increases are typically permanent.
00:08:53.000They don't go backwards once a recession hits.
00:08:56.000And so it's going to take quite a while.
00:08:58.000And unfortunately, the Federal Reserve got off to a slow start thinking this was transitory, which is really, you know, one of the things that you have to concern yourself with, there was a study just recently done.
00:09:08.00090% of the economists at the Federal Reserve or in their regional branches are Democrats.
00:09:14.000And so they're going to have a more liberal view.
00:09:16.000They're going to, to the extent they can, be more supportive of the current administration.
00:09:21.000Unfortunately, that's not what the Federal Reserve is supposed to be.
00:10:31.000But who actually creates the jobs that labor actually is able to enjoy?
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00:11:33.000Joe Biden to announce the release of 10 to 15 million more barrels from the emergency oil reserves for the midterm elections.
00:11:40.000Oh, so Joe Biden can just rob the Strategic Petroleum Reserve without refilling it and using our own oil and natural gas for political purposes.
00:11:52.000Joe Biden to release even more barrels of oil from the federal government's Strategic Reserve to keep gas low before the midterm elections.
00:12:00.000Because they know something is happening.
00:12:02.000Every single poll shows the complete and total collapse of the Democrat Party.
00:12:57.000I think I actually might have met him before.
00:12:58.000Anyway, because I did some events in New York, seems like a really sweet guy, probably being outspent because Schumer is the majority leader.
00:13:06.000And so they've polled this a little bit.
00:13:07.000Now, New York is a very difficult state to poll.
00:13:11.000One of the reasons why it's such a difficult state to poll is because there just isn't a lot of competitive political activity statewide.
00:13:19.000So pollsters don't always know the city tabulation.
00:14:13.000So Chuck Schumer was up 19 points in a Sienna poll a month ago, and now he is up only 12 points in a liberal-favored poll in Quinnipiak, 12 points.
00:14:26.000And so what I'm saying, I know some of you guys say, I don't trust polls.
00:14:28.000That's fine, but you could trust trends, right?
00:14:31.000All across the country, you're seeing the narrowing of the Democrat Party's advantage.
00:14:36.000In fact, Republicans are taking the advantage in so many of these states.
00:14:40.000And that's one that I find to be very interesting.
00:14:44.000In particular, I want to play a piece of tape here of how every single Republican should answer the question of, well, will you accept the election results?
00:14:54.000I'm telling you, media get ready for it.
00:14:57.000Arizona is going to be the new Florida.
00:15:00.000Carrie Lake, everybody, one of the most exciting candidates of a generation.
00:15:05.000She actually can play the media's game because she used to be one of them.
00:15:08.000She's smarter, more charismatic, more talented than all of them combined.
00:16:11.000I can tell you what we are doing at Turning Point Action, led by Tyler Boyer.
00:16:14.000Our students at Turning Point Action, our student volunteers, are knocking on tens of thousands of doors to try to persuade people to drive out and get out the vote.
00:16:22.000At Turning Point Pack, we're running advertisements all across the country.
00:16:26.000Running advertisers for Carrie Lake, running advertising against Blake Masters.
00:16:29.000We got a lot of stuff on our plate, as you could imagine.
00:16:31.000Over 200 grassroots door knocking events.
00:16:34.000Turning point action is done from June to November.
00:17:04.000The southern border is wide open, and we have to tell the world about it.
00:17:08.000Our team at Turning Point USA has been working over the last year to have a one-of-a-kind documentary all about the drugs, the guns, the crime, the criminals that are flowing across the southern border.
00:17:19.000Our team at Turning Point USA has been working so hard on this through amazing frontline footage that shows the border patrol agents, shows people crossing the border, the illegal drug trade, the economic and societal fallout that illegal immigration has on the United States.
00:17:37.000And we here being headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, want the rest of the country, want you all across America to see what we are living through in Arizona.
00:17:45.000It's a one-of-a-kind docuseries available exclusively on salemnow.com.
00:18:20.000It's a very talented woman who is running up against a very talented witch.
00:18:26.000And she used to be a host on Real America's Voice, and now hopefully she'll be the next governor of the great state of Michigan.
00:18:32.000And she's a true conservative with just an amazing story.
00:18:36.000And every poll shows that she is tightening and closing in on Gretchen Whitmer, who is a wannabe dictator and one of the most despicable people in public office in America.
00:19:07.000We've had people's cars spray painted, churches vandalized.
00:19:11.000Republicans are very quiet in the state of Michigan, which makes it difficult to poll.
00:19:15.000But we know that we are catching up to her in the polls that people are vocal in.
00:19:20.000And I believe that we have a really good chance of winning Michigan.
00:19:24.000And that will be incredibly important going forward for the Senate races coming up in Michigan in the coming years and the presidential race.
00:19:34.000Yeah, every single article shows that her lead is shrinking.
00:19:37.000And Tudor, you and I both know that really, if it's within four or five points, the race could go either way.
00:19:43.000There just doesn't seem to be a lot of enthusiasm for Gretchen Whitmer.
00:20:13.000But we seem to be winning that back because we're focusing so hard on making sure that moms and dads have a voice in their child's education.
00:20:21.000And that's been a battle in the state of Michigan.
00:20:23.000We know she's nervous because she is bringing Barack Obama in.
00:20:27.000You're talking about her not having a lot of momentum, and she certainly doesn't.
00:20:31.000She's bringing Barack Obama into the state.
00:20:34.000But we see that people are getting tired of talking about abortion in Michigan.
00:20:39.000And they're going, gosh, it's so expensive here.
00:20:41.000Our gas, we have some of the highest gas prices in the entire nation.
00:20:55.000They're not deceived by these last-minute bills she's signing.
00:20:59.000Yeah, and I just, she just seems increasingly desperate.
00:21:03.000You just had a debate against her, of which you did very, very well.
00:21:07.000And I'm sure she's just trying to focus on the abortion issue and try to say that relentlessly.
00:21:13.000But it seems as if she is just in total and complete collapse and freak out.
00:21:17.000What is her message, if at all, when you confront her with the economic misery that people of Michigan are experiencing?
00:21:23.000Or does she just try to deflect and say that we're all threats to democracy or whatever their new talking point?
00:21:29.000Well, I'm not sure if you know what she has done in the state of Michigan, but we have, we, our economic development has been terrible.
00:21:36.000We've had our big automakers leaving the state.
00:21:39.000And so just recently, she signed a deal to send hundreds of millions of dollars to a corporation that is owned by the Chinese with very close ties to the Chinese Communist Party to bring them into the state of Michigan.
00:21:52.000And another desperate attempt to look like she has some economic development plan.
00:21:57.000But really, the plan is to take the scraps that people that no other state would want.
00:22:01.000Why would we be bringing the CCP into the state of Michigan?
00:22:05.000I can think of nothing more dangerous.
00:22:35.000And let's go to Cut 52, where very angry Muslim voters, one in particular, a Muslim mom in Dearborn, Michigan, is really upset at all this woke nonsense that's being put forward.
00:23:32.000Turns out that our Muslim community is not a fan of having their children sexualized.
00:23:37.000And the clip you just played, I believe, is our Secretary of State candidate, Christina Caramo, also out there fighting for families.
00:23:45.000So important in the state of Michigan that we replaced the governor, the secretary of state, and the attorney general.
00:23:52.000And the Muslim community has historically been a Democrat voting base.
00:23:57.000And they are turning against this idea of what we're seeing in schools, taking away the basics and going to the sexualization.
00:24:05.000And you see, our Department of Ed is now coming out and saying, We're training teachers to go into the classroom, ask pronouns, ask gender, and then hide it from mom and dad.
00:24:14.000That was the moment when a lot of suburban parents, moms and dads, and a lot of folks from many different communities said, no, You are not, the school is not the authority.
00:24:24.000We're not taking the honor away from mother and father.
00:24:26.000That we are going to make sure that mom and dad are the final say.
00:24:30.000And if there is an issue at the school, whether it is school-related or emotion, we want mom and dad to be involved first and foremost.
00:24:38.000Yeah, I find this whole story to be so interesting.
00:24:41.000I mean, without diving too deep, and obviously I have theological differences with Muslims.
00:24:45.000However, I find this to be really promising that there is this kind of mass movement, as Axios writes it.
00:24:53.000GOP unites with conservative Muslims in Dearborn.
00:24:56.000It is now this interfaith coalition to kind of push back against this woke religion that is being taught in our schools.
00:25:03.000Tudor, can you talk about kind of the parents' movement more broadly in Michigan?
00:25:08.000I'm sure there's parents all across the state that are rising up in record numbers, especially, I'm sure, I think you're going to run up the score in Western Michigan.
00:25:17.000I think Gretchen Whitmer has a mass Western Michigan problem.
00:25:31.000And in addition to the fact that our kids were out of school for two years and parents started to see what was happening, our kids are severely behind, more so than probably any other state.
00:25:40.000The learning loss in Michigan has been significant.
00:25:43.000So when you add all of these things together, the parents coalition that has come together is very strong.
00:25:48.000And parents are saying, we want a voice.
00:25:51.000We want to know what's going on in the classroom.
00:25:53.000Last night, for example, you talk about West Michigan.
00:25:55.000Last night in one of our western Michigan towns, we had a group of parents that went to the school board and said, the books that you have in our high school are inappropriate.
00:27:07.000We had the, honestly, we have to look at the blessings in disaster and the blessing in COVID was the parents got to see what was happening in the classroom.
00:27:16.000And parents in Michigan especially saw something they don't like.
00:27:20.000But Gretchen Whitmer, where is she on this issue?
00:27:27.000In fact, two board of ed members asked the superintendent to step down when he, when this training was leaked and he admitted that they are pushing sex and gender talk on students in school.
00:27:39.000And he said, no, I'm going to double down.
00:30:13.000I feel uncomfortable fighting alongside Muslims against this woke stuff.
00:30:17.000Look, I'm obviously a Christian, and I have mass theological differences with Islam and with what Muslims believe.
00:30:26.000And there are some people that have some great concerns that there is this kind of Islamic move to take over the Western world via population rates and stuff.
00:30:35.000There's other people that believe in a red-green axis.
00:30:37.000I'm more likely to believe that, which is some Islamic governments that are somehow okay with Marxist movements for the kind of simultaneous destruction of America.
00:30:47.000But I'm going to say something that will obviously get written up, of which I hope I'm very, I'm make sure I'm very precise in my language.
00:30:53.000White liberal wokeism is a greater threat than Islamic theocratic totalitarianism currently.
00:31:02.000We grew up with a heavy emphasis in the early 2000s and in the 2010s talking about the threat of Islamic theocratic terrorism, totalitarianism.
00:31:15.000But currently, where we are today, a threat to our children, our way of life, our decency and our standards, white liberals are a much bigger threat in every way possible.
00:31:26.000And I will unite with strange bedfellows, of which I have very clear and well-documented theological and metaphysical differences with, to annihilate the power that white liberals have.
00:32:03.000One of my favorite senators saw him a couple weeks ago at a pastor summit we did with Turning Point Action in Wisconsin.
00:32:08.000Senator Ron Johnson, this is how you got to talk.
00:32:10.000Johnson is he has real separation speed against Mandela Barnes, play cut 25.
00:32:17.000I think there probably has been a shift because we've been able to tell the truth about Mandela Barnes.
00:32:23.000He's an individual who said that the founding of America was awful.
00:32:26.000He and Governor Evers, their goal coming into office was to reduce the prison population by 50%.
00:32:33.000It's been reduced by 15%, including their commission has paroled 884 criminals, 784 were violent criminals, including 44 child rapists and 270 criminals who primarily committed or at least attempted murder, and they were horrific murders.
00:32:51.000And now we just found out that Mandela Barnes, as a state assemblyman, literally went on Russia Today TV six times and was used as a propaganda tool of Vladimir Putin.
00:33:04.000Senator Ron Johnson is gaining speed, gaining separation speed, I should say, against Mandela Barnes.
00:33:13.000We are seeing some great trends in Wisconsin.
00:33:15.000I want to play one more tape here of the great JD Vance, who looks like he's going to be the next senator from the great state of Ohio, which gives us great joy here.
00:33:36.000Those commercials are paid for by pharmaceutical blood money because Tim Ryan received tens of thousands of dollars from the very companies that have profited off of this.
00:33:45.000And that's exactly how he's able to fund the lies that he's been putting on TV against me.