The Charlie Kirk Show - Why Biden is Way Worse Than You Think

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00:00:00.000 Today in the Charlie Kirk Show, Alfredo Ortiz joins our program to talk about small business and the coalition that we need to build to crush the Chamber of Commerce.

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00:00:46.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:30.000 I have a lot of questions about Joe Biden and his presidency, truly.

00:01:34.000 And one of my favorite people on television, he's always witty and knows what he's talking about and entertaining.

00:01:40.000 He has a terrific new book out called, Come On, Man, The Truth About Joe Biden's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Presidency by Joe Concha.

00:01:50.000 You guys should buy it out.

00:01:52.000 Buy the book now.

00:01:52.000 Come on, man.

00:01:53.000 And Joe joins us now.

00:01:54.000 Joe, welcome to the program.

00:01:56.000 Charlie, you got my Venmo.

00:01:58.000 I said, give me a good intro and 100 pesos are yours.

00:02:02.000 So thank you for that, my friend.

00:02:03.000 I appreciate the kind words.

00:02:05.000 You got it.

00:02:06.000 So tell us about your book.

00:02:08.000 Has Joe Biden done anything right?

00:02:10.000 Well, let's look at it objectively, all right?

00:02:12.000 Let's take conservative, liberal out of it, and just let's do a good old-fashioned report card.

00:02:16.000 I got two kids in first and third grade.

00:02:18.000 They'll be getting their first report cards for the first month coming soon.

00:02:22.000 So let's go through each major issue, right, Charlie?

00:02:26.000 So we got inflation.

00:02:27.000 How do you think the president's doing there?

00:02:29.000 Do you give him an F or an F minus?

00:02:31.000 I'll be kind and go F.

00:02:32.000 Okay.

00:02:33.000 So that's not going well.

00:02:34.000 Economy in general.

00:02:36.000 Is this president spending trillions of dollars during a recession and then having the audacity to call it Inflation Reduction Act?

00:02:45.000 Any kid with a 11 age stand knows that you don't spend money and then expect the dollar to actually not decrease in value.

00:02:52.000 So, okay, so far, inflation economy, which is easily the number one issue in the country right now, Charlie.

00:02:58.000 He's at a solid F.

00:03:00.000 Then let's go with the U.S. Southern border, where he was smart enough to put Kamala Harris in charge. 0.93

00:03:05.000 Kamala Harris, as a senator, said that ICE agents should be compared to the KKK and argued legal crossings across the border.

00:03:13.000 I'm sorry, illegal crossings across the border should be made legal.

00:03:16.000 And that's the person that's now in charge of fixing the southern border, which of course he's doing nothing.

00:03:21.000 So between that, between the fact that we will have nearly 5 million people entering this country in this president's first two years, when you talk about those people have been encountered, more than 4 million, and all the gotaways that we're not even talking about, we are now close to the equivalent of the population of friggin' Ireland.

00:03:38.000 All right.

00:03:39.000 And I'm half Irish, and that's the amount of people that will come across this country in just two years alone and all the fentany along with it as well, where 300 people are dying each day on average from opioid overdoses driven by fentanyl.

00:03:52.000 So in terms of the border, we're back at that letter again, and it's F, as in we are F.

00:03:57.000 Then you look at crime and you see major city after major city, Charlie.

00:04:01.000 You talk about it on the show a lot and these amazing spikes.

00:04:04.000 And most of these criminals are ones that have already been arrested and they're put back out onto the street because of these DAs that the president never speaks up about, cashless bail, these ridiculous laws.

00:04:16.000 So American cities are profoundly unsafe.

00:04:18.000 They're more expensive to live in and our border is wide open.

00:04:21.000 So on three very major issues, this president is failing to the point where he may not even run again in 2024.

00:04:28.000 That's how bad it looks for him.

00:04:31.000 So the book is called Come On Man.

00:04:33.000 I have a couple of questions for you, Joan, because you've thought deeply about this and you put it together.

00:04:37.000 So one of the questions I've had throughout the entire presidency, and I think I figured it out, but I want your theory, is why the lack of adjustment?

00:04:47.000 Why is it that it seems as if they're accelerating what you deem as an F?

00:04:52.000 I totally agree.

00:04:53.000 Why is it that most presidents or most presidencies would say, well, that's unpopular.

00:04:58.000 People don't like that.

00:04:59.000 And at least would do a little bit.

00:05:01.000 It seems as if there's something that is deeply wrong and unpopular.

00:05:04.000 And instead of pivoting, they just drive it right off the cliff.

00:05:09.000 Why is this administration, this person, been so, you know, this Joe Biden been so unwilling to adjust? 0.99

00:05:17.000 Charlie, I think because they're cowards. 0.89

00:05:19.000 I think in the end, they are so petrified of the left wing of the party.

00:05:23.000 They're petrified of hosts on MSNBC and some on CNN that if they remotely pivot to the center, remember when CNN announced that we're going to start going more towards the center, we're going to start doing more journalism and less opinion.

00:05:36.000 And then the liberals flipped like, how could you do this?

00:05:38.000 You're going to be the next Fox News.

00:05:39.000 It's like, well, I mean, where are you getting this from?

00:05:42.000 I mean, the middle isn't the right.

00:05:44.000 But I think in the end, with this president, as far as not pivoting, and I'm an old man compared to you, you're still a young guy.

00:05:52.000 You have your metabolism and all those fun things you have when you're your age.

00:05:55.000 Me, not so much.

00:05:56.000 But I was in college in the 90s, right?

00:05:59.000 And that's when I first started kind of paying attention to politics.

00:06:03.000 And I remember Bill Clinton, he takes this shellacking in the first midterms, loses 54 seats, right?

00:06:10.000 And what could he do?

00:06:11.000 He could either continue to go to the left where he started his presidency or say, ah, crap, I really got to start working with this new House speaker, this guy named Newt Gingrich, and pass some things that people want.

00:06:23.000 So amazingly, a Democratic president, yes, this was within our lifetimes, a Democratic president passed welfare reform.

00:06:31.000 Bill Clinton declared that the era of big government is over.

00:06:34.000 Try picturing Joe Biden saying something like that.

00:06:36.000 And then pass this thing called, it's amazing how logical it is, a balanced budget amendment, which basically says you don't spend what you're not taking into the government.

00:06:45.000 And they actually achieved it.

00:06:46.000 We actually had a surplus in this country, which is just remarkable.

00:06:50.000 So Clinton in 96, after doing this, runs for reelection and he wins quite easily over Bob Dole.

00:06:56.000 And the same thing could be said about other presidents who were smart enough to just say, if I want to survive, I'm therefore going to go to the center.

00:07:04.000 But I think, Charlie, it goes back to the fact that this president knows he's a one-term president, that he's not running again, that he doesn't want to be president when he's 85, 86 years old, which he could be if he were to actually run and win in a second term.

00:07:17.000 We would have mid-80s Biden, which compared to late 70s Biden would be even more horrifying.

00:07:23.000 So I think he just wants to get these big spending issues, these big spending projects done, and he's gotten some done already.

00:07:31.000 He wants to change our energy independence to more of a green agenda.

00:07:35.000 That's why he's canceling all these oil leases, Keystone XL pipeline, and having us depend on Venezuela for oil.

00:07:42.000 I think he's transformed enough where he'll be convinced, like, okay, you did your job.

00:07:46.000 You beat Trump.

00:07:47.000 Now you can step aside.

00:07:48.000 So he doesn't care what the consequences are.

00:07:50.000 Is that a decent theory?

00:07:52.000 Yeah.

00:07:53.000 I mean, I think you're spot on.

00:07:55.000 And in all of your reporting and you look at this very carefully, what evidence do you have to show outside of what we might already be able to ascertain that he's going to be a one-term president?

00:08:04.000 Has he said something like that?

00:08:06.000 He's angling towards it.

00:08:08.000 What do you have to support that?

00:08:09.000 I happen to agree, but what is your best evidence to support that?

00:08:13.000 I don't think many accidents happen in politics, even with Joe Biden, who's a gaffe machine.

00:08:18.000 But when you go on 60 minutes, right?

00:08:20.000 And it's going to be as big an audience as you're going to speak to in an interview, and you say that it remains to be seen if I'm going to run for president again or not.

00:08:29.000 You leave that door open when you're asked that question instead of right before a midterm, by the way.

00:08:35.000 You don't definitively say, of course I'm running for president again.

00:08:37.000 I got a lot of work that I want to get done.

00:08:39.000 And I didn't come here just to serve four years.

00:08:41.000 Oh, no.

00:08:42.000 When you say that it remains to be seen if I'm running, that's a very good indicator that he is not running.

00:08:47.000 And then he looks at polls, I'm sure, and his handlers like Ron Klain look at polls, or even Charlie, a majority of Democrats do not want him to seek a second act.

00:08:57.000 And an overwhelming number of Americans don't want him to as well.

00:08:59.000 And then I look at his work schedule.

00:09:01.000 Look at it on Tuesday, September 27th.

00:09:04.000 He has one event at 1.45 in the afternoon.

00:09:06.000 It's a 15-minute speech on prescription drugs, and that's it.

00:09:10.000 Nothing in the morning, nothing after.

00:09:12.000 He goes away every weekend starting on Thursday nights.

00:09:15.000 This is not somebody who is showing me the work ethic that he wants to work here for another six years.

00:09:21.000 Yeah, it's just so sad.

00:09:22.000 Our country has so much potential.

00:09:24.000 And, you know, they always attack Donald Trump for golfing and stuff and all this.

00:09:28.000 The guy worked nonstop.

00:09:29.000 You can say whatever you want about Trump.

00:09:31.000 He was a machine.

00:09:33.000 He was a machine with, you know, his productivity, with his phone calls, with his negotiations.

00:09:39.000 And Joe Biden is not that.

00:09:43.000 Are you like every one of us that thinks our country has gone nuts, whether it's Russia Gate market crashes or selling oil to China or this insane inflation?

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00:10:44.000 Joe, I think an important way to look at Joe Biden is he's constantly thinking about how historians will view him and that he's being pushed by his handlers to be even more ideological and more radical than even he's comfortable with because I don't think he's totally there.

00:11:01.000 I don't mean that in a pejorative way.

00:11:02.000 I just don't think he's obviously there and making the decisions cognitively that would be expected of a president.

00:11:09.000 But my question, Joe, is how much of these decisions is being done not to try to drive success, but instead to try to drive the country into the ground?

00:11:19.000 Because you give him an F across the board.

00:11:21.000 That feels like a campaign of destruction.

00:11:24.000 In a midterm year, no less, right?

00:11:26.000 And that's the confusing thing about this.

00:11:30.000 I mean, when we talk about is some of the things that are they doing, is it intentional, Charlie?

00:11:35.000 And I just look at the border and it's hard not to come to any conclusion that opening it the way they have and people just walking right in like they're going to 7-Eleven and these numbers that we talked about, I mean, 2 million in the last year just documented the ones that we've encountered alone.

00:11:53.000 How could that not be intentional?

00:11:56.000 How do you stop construction of a border wall that was working or remain in Mexico policy unless it is intentional that you want all these folks to come in? 0.96

00:12:04.000 And then you see a Gavin Newsom in California completely embracing this by saying he's going to give free health care to illegal immigrants, which is remarkable when you consider all the homelessness in his state. 0.85

00:12:16.000 And you have veterans on food stamps where we're treating people that aren't legally in this country better than we are those who are legally. 0.88

00:12:23.000 And then you say, okay, well, it can't be about letting illegals vote because we would never allow that, right? 0.93

00:12:30.000 Well, in my book, I'm actually looking at it right on page five, right in the beginning, I say non-citizens will never be allowed to vote, you say. 0.95

00:12:36.000 It's already happening in places like New York City, where they passed a law in 2021 allowing 800,000 non-citizens to vote in local elections. 0.88

00:12:45.000 And then there's 15 cities and towns across the U.S. that's now allowing this as well.

00:12:45.000 All right.

00:12:50.000 And the number just keeps growing and growing.

00:12:52.000 So is it intentional?

00:12:53.000 Is this like a big picture long-term plan to keep Democrats in power in places where they already have a stronghold and now they could completely solidify it by passing these laws, allowing illegal immigrants to vote and to have driver's licenses and so on?

00:13:12.000 It's a reasonable question to ask.

00:13:14.000 I'll put it that way.

00:13:16.000 Yeah, it just seems as if it's a complete and total campaign of deliberate destruction to bring that country in that direction.

00:13:24.000 And so, you know, you're writing the book, Come On Man, on Joe Biden.

00:13:27.000 How do you see this ending?

00:13:28.000 Do you think Hunter's going to get indicted?

00:13:30.000 Do you think he's going to resign peacefully into the distance?

00:13:33.000 How does the Joe Biden story end, Joe?

00:13:35.000 It ends after the 2022 midterms when the GOP takes back the House and then hearings start to be launched almost immediately into Hunter Biden, into that laptop, into influence peddling in places like China and Ukraine, which at last check are in the news a lot these days.

00:13:52.000 And Ukraine's getting a lot of our money these days and Russia as well.

00:13:56.000 And then we start to explore who is the big guy, who got the 10%.

00:14:00.000 Tony Bobolinski, who was Hunter Biden's primary business partner, says it was absolutely Joe Biden getting kickbacks on the family name and these potentially and probably illegal dealings that are happening in places like China, where now the president doesn't seem very interested in confronting the Chinese on anything as it retains to COVID or trade and is giving away a lot of money, as I said, to Ukraine in terms of that country, which up until the war was seen as one of the most corrupt countries in the country.

00:14:27.000 So I think once those investigations start and once the president knows that he's completely a lame duck when he doesn't have the House and probably doesn't have the Senate, then he announces, okay, to be fair to all the Democrats, sometime in the spring of 2023, he says, I'm not running again for another term.

00:14:43.000 Then everybody jumps in for the nomination like they did in 2020.

00:14:46.000 Remember, Charlie, what was it?

00:14:48.000 28 people ran on the Democratic side to the point where they had to have debates over two nights because they couldn't fit everybody on stage.

00:14:55.000 It'll happen like that all over again.

00:14:57.000 And you're going to have the Gavin Newsoms and Hillary Clintons and Pete Buttigedges and Corey Bookers and all the Island of Misfit toys running back in again in an open primary.

00:15:05.000 And with it open on the Republican side as well, it'll be a complete and total, well, it'll be entertaining for us for having shows like this and going on television to talk about it.

00:15:14.000 But yeah, it's going to be a cluster.

00:15:15.000 You know what?

00:15:16.000 We'll have once Biden says he's not running.

00:15:17.000 We'll have plenty of content.

00:15:19.000 We'll have plenty of content.

00:15:20.000 Joe Concha, thank you.

00:15:22.000 Great book.

00:15:22.000 Come on, man.

00:15:23.000 Everyone, check it out.

00:15:24.000 Thanks so much.

00:15:25.000 Charlie, appreciate it, man.

00:15:26.000 Let's go get a haircut again at that same place in Washington.

00:15:29.000 All right, man.

00:15:30.000 Thank you.

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00:16:38.000 The backbone of America is small business.

00:16:42.000 We talk about small business here and there, but rarely do we talk about the policies that are necessary to support small business.

00:16:50.000 It's something that, quite honestly, I believe the Biden regime wants to destroy small business because small businesses are decentralized.

00:16:57.000 It's bottom-up.

00:16:59.000 It's easier to have 100 companies that are just all in your pockets.

00:17:03.000 There's a great organization.

00:17:04.000 You've heard me talk about them before, the Job Creators Network, JCN.

00:17:09.000 I've known them for a long time.

00:17:11.000 And they're all about representing small business and making sure the interests of small business are protected in Washington, D.C.

00:17:20.000 The American way of life is largely protected, made possible, I should say, by local mom and pop entrepreneurs that are the drumbeat of the American economy.

00:17:31.000 Joining us right now is Alfredo Ortiz, who is the mastermind and the driving force behind Job Creators Network.

00:17:38.000 Alfredo, welcome to the program.

00:17:41.000 Hey, Charlie, great to see you.

00:17:43.000 Excited to be on the program.

00:17:44.000 First time.

00:17:46.000 So, Alfredo, tell us about your new plan, the American Small Business Prosperity Plan.

00:17:46.000 Yeah, thank you.

00:17:53.000 Yeah, absolutely, Charlie.

00:17:54.000 Well, your intro was right on, though.

00:17:56.000 I mean, small businesses in this country are the heartbeat of our communities or the heartbeat of our country.

00:18:02.000 And without small businesses, we have no country.

00:18:05.000 I mean, when you think about it, 30 million small business owners out there employing about 60 million people.

00:18:10.000 So you're talking to pull about 90 million hardworking Americans that are really dependent on the success or failure of small business.

00:18:16.000 And frankly, you know, this administration has done absolutely nothing to try to help them.

00:18:22.000 In fact, has done everything possible to try to hurt them.

00:18:24.000 We actually call it the war on small business, Charlie, because that's exactly what they did from day one.

00:18:29.000 And, you know, in terms of if you look at what the policies of the Biden administration have done in terms of inflation, you know, we're now in the middle of a recession.

00:18:38.000 You've got labor force issues, supply chain issues.

00:18:41.000 Everything has been hurting our small businesses.

00:18:44.000 And really, there's no relief in sight coming from this administration.

00:18:47.000 And that's why, Charlie, we put together this eight-point plan working with Newt Gingrich on its release last week.

00:18:53.000 And so we're really excited about the support that we've gotten.

00:18:57.000 I'm going to just list out the quick eight points because we try to keep it as simple as we could, Charlie, so that folks could actually focus and understand what we're trying to do.

00:19:05.000 The first one, though, the most important one, is really make the tax cuts permanent from the Taxing and Jobs Act, especially when it comes to the small business provisions that were included in there.

00:19:15.000 The second one is to really launch and unleash domestic energy production again.

00:19:20.000 Charlie, you and I have both have been talking about this since day one of the administration, but every single thing that's bad right now, we can trace all the way back to that fateful day, the first day of his administration, when he launched basically his attack on domestic energy production.

00:19:36.000 And all the inflation, the supply chain issues, everything we're seeing really comes back to that day.

00:19:40.000 So we're saying we got to bring back domestic energy production, healthcare, bring those health care costs down.

00:19:47.000 There are ways of doing it.

00:19:48.000 Our healthcareforou.com outlines a really great way of being able to address healthcare costs for our small businesses.

00:19:55.000 Exempt small businesses from over-regulation, basically, which has been one of the things that this administration loves doing.

00:20:04.000 And frankly, every other Democrat administration has done.

00:20:08.000 Remember that President Trump unleashed small business success by really bringing down taxes and bringing down regulations.

00:20:15.000 And so we want to basically challenge the system and basically say that any regulation, Charlie, that is out there, small businesses are exempted from it automatically.

00:20:25.000 And the agency that wants to put forth this regulation is going to have to prove why the small business community needs to be rolled into that.

00:20:32.000 So we're really kind of putting that on its head versus where it is today.

00:20:37.000 Government spending, of course, kind of reined that in.

00:20:40.000 Fix a supply chain issue and dealing with China, obviously, is another piece.

00:20:45.000 And then an actual work requirement that will be incorporated for any recipients of government aid.

00:20:51.000 We think that's very, very important.

00:20:53.000 And frankly, because of the Biden administration, all the free money, Charlie, that was being given away, the American work ethic has pretty much been decimated.

00:21:01.000 So we're saying bring the work requirement back.

00:21:03.000 If you're an able-bodied person, you're receiving government aid, you should be able to work for that.

00:21:09.000 And then lastly, expanding access to capital.

00:21:11.000 We think it's so important for that to happen.

00:21:15.000 I think it was actually Jesse Jackson that said, remember that capitalism without capital is just another ism.

00:21:21.000 And so we're excited about the plan.

00:21:22.000 It's gotten a lot of support.

00:21:23.000 Charlie, thank you for your support.

00:21:26.000 Just yesterday, we also received the support from minority leader, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

00:21:31.000 So we're well on the way in terms of momentum.

00:21:36.000 So let me ask you, Alfredo, you know, this is a really important point.

00:21:40.000 I want to make sure we drill in on this.

00:21:41.000 When you talk about regulation against small business, there's the Chamber of Commerce, which I'm not a fan of at all.

00:21:47.000 They've gone completely woke off the reservation.

00:21:51.000 And they're representing the biggest companies, but there's rarely ever a voice for the small business, the medium-sized business.

00:22:00.000 Alfredo, can you build out this idea that it is the big company's interest to pass more regulations because they actually are protected and their incumbency is then shielded by these new laws and these new regulations.

00:22:18.000 JCN really is the chamber for small businesses is what should be.

00:22:23.000 And we're going to help you grow, Alfredo.

00:22:25.000 Job Creators Network, everyone can check it out.

00:22:27.000 And they do such a great job.

00:22:29.000 You guys can check out their website, jobcreatorsnetwork.com.

00:22:33.000 Alfredo, talk about how regulation is used as a tool to protect the incumbency of major companies and crush smaller ones.

00:22:42.000 Yeah, Charlie, all I can say is when you see a company like Amazon pushing for higher minimum wages, watch out, right?

00:22:49.000 There's a reason why they're doing it because they are trying to use these regulations to their advantage to basically keep small businesses out of the way and basically effectively take them out overall from operating because a lot of these small businesses cannot keep up with the types of regulations that the government imposes.

00:23:06.000 Look all the, go back all the way to Dodd-Frank when it came to kind of banking regulations.

00:23:11.000 Remember that, the too big to fail idea, right?

00:23:13.000 Well, guess what ended up happening, Charlie?

00:23:15.000 2,500 small community banks, mostly minority, you know, minority population communities, went out of business, Charlie.

00:23:26.000 And that's because they just couldn't keep up with the amount of regulation that was being thrown at them from a banking perspective.

00:23:32.000 And like this, you know, large companies, that's why they're in bed with the Biden administration because they can work together to squeeze out these small businesses.

00:23:42.000 And something you said right at the beginning when you opened up our interview is so true.

00:23:47.000 The Democrats, the Biden administration, the left, they hate small business.

00:23:51.000 And it's because we represent small businesses represent everything that they hate.

00:23:55.000 You know, the American dream, free enterprise, capitalism, the idea that if you work real hard, right, that you can get anything you want.

00:24:02.000 I had two small businesses myself, Charlie, and I put everything on the line for those two businesses.

00:24:07.000 I believed in my idea.

00:24:08.000 I believed in the American dream.

00:24:10.000 You know, my parents, you know, came over from Mexico.

00:24:12.000 My mom was a housekeeper.

00:24:14.000 My dad was a tailor, but they believed in the American dream.

00:24:16.000 I believe in the American dream.

00:24:18.000 And that's why I had put everything into that small business, everything I had, right?

00:24:22.000 But so I should have unlimited potential if I'm willing to take that kind of risk.

00:24:26.000 But the government doesn't believe that.

00:24:28.000 The government thinks that after a certain point, the rest of it should come them, right?

00:24:32.000 So you take all the risk, but we're going to take most of the benefit. 0.96

00:24:34.000 That's just ridiculous. 0.96

00:24:36.000 And the government hates that. 0.98

00:24:37.000 And that's why they try to shoot and shut down small businesses because, again, they represent everything that they do not believe in.

00:24:44.000 That's exactly right.

00:24:45.000 And you think about it, it's decentralized wealth creation, is what small businesses is.

00:24:50.000 It's not top-down.

00:24:51.000 It's not orchestrated.

00:24:53.000 They hate it.

00:24:54.000 You can't control it.

00:24:55.000 It's robust.

00:24:56.000 It's authentic.

00:24:57.000 It's entrepreneurial.

00:24:58.000 It's all different pockets across the country.

00:25:01.000 And so, you know, and also, Alfredo, I think that part of what you guys are hitting on at Job Creators Network, and just so the audience knows, we're going to be doing a lot of things at Job Creators Network to help them grow.

00:25:11.000 So I'm very passionate about them becoming the new chamber of commerce for small business is how minorities, in particular Hispanic communities, are really getting in the direction of we didn't like these lockdowns, we didn't like these mask mandates, we didn't like this one-size-fits-all policy.

00:25:29.000 The Hispanic community in the Rio Grande Valley, and I'm not even talking politically, but we can go there if you want.

00:25:34.000 They are now saying these big government ideas are awful.

00:25:37.000 They want law and order because their businesses were torched by, you know, these criminals and these vigilantes.

00:25:43.000 Alfredo, can you talk about how a proper message of small business, talking about the retail backbone, talking about the plumbers, electricians, the welders, how that is a way where the Republican conservative movement can broaden their appeal to communities they otherwise would have struggled with?

00:26:00.000 Oh, 100%, Charlie.

00:26:01.000 And on the Hispanic front, absolutely, first of all, I mean, one of the most entrepreneurial ethnic groups are Hispanics, right?

00:26:07.000 And when you look at it across the board, and that's true.

00:26:11.000 And, you know, when you talk about even crime, for example, you know, you talk about the border, I mean, one of the things that the Democrats do so poorly is this identity idea of identity politics, right?

00:26:20.000 The Hispanics are all kind of one and they all believe about, you know, the border and they have a major, you know, issue with immigration and all that.

00:26:28.000 It is so not true, Charlie. 0.99

00:26:30.000 I mean, when you look at the Hispanic overall as a community, guess what they really, really care about? 0.99

00:26:34.000 The same thing you and I care about, right?

00:26:36.000 The economy, inflation, education, safety in their communities.

00:26:42.000 I mean, one of the biggest reasons why they believe that the border should be secured and your borders should be closed and that only legal immigration actually happened is because guess where the crime is coming through this poorest border?

00:26:54.000 It's going to their communities.

00:26:56.000 It's not going into Nancy Pelosi's community.

00:26:58.000 It's going to their communities, right?

00:27:00.000 And their schools, the MS-13 gangs, they're basically staging themselves as students and going into these schools and creating massive issues in terms of from a drug perspective across their communities.

00:27:12.000 That's why they don't like it.

00:27:13.000 And that's why, frankly, when you look at when DeSantis won the Florida governorship, that's actually one of the biggest reasons why he won, because he understood that Hispanics in Florida were worried about crime and safety in their communities.

00:27:26.000 And Santos was very clear about that.

00:27:28.000 And that's why, again, everything that the Republican Party really represents is so, so true and rings so true for the Hispanic community.

00:27:37.000 I think that's why we're starting to see, frankly, in droves, the Hispanic, Hispanics overalls community really favoring the GOP.

00:27:44.000 And the more we can be clear about this message, the message that we are clearly the party of opportunity, period, the period, right?

00:27:53.000 Think about it, the party of opportunity.

00:27:55.000 You ring that and say that over and over to the Hispanic community.

00:27:58.000 I'm telling you, they're going to vote with Republicans day in and day out.

00:28:03.000 Alfredo Ortiz is here.

00:28:04.000 Everybody, remember, we have to build the new Chamber of Commerce.

00:28:07.000 Job Creators Network has some really great people behind it, including one of the co-founders of Home Depot, Bernie Marcus, who's one of the great entrepreneurs of our generation.

00:28:17.000 You guys can check out jobcreatorsnetwork.com.

00:28:21.000 That is jobcreatorsnetwork.com.

00:28:24.000 You guys, if you own a small business, if you are a small business, you know, let's say a co-owner, a VP, or even if you're a retired business owner or a concerned citizen, doesn't matter.

00:28:33.000 All people, you could check out jobcreatorsnetwork.com.

00:28:36.000 Even if you plan to launch a business, you're an entrepreneur.

00:28:40.000 I can go into detail about how influential the chamber has been.

00:28:43.000 We have to build a bottom-up alternative that's jobcreatorsnetwork.com. 0.99

00:28:47.000 Alfredo, I said that they're coming for small businesses next.

00:28:50.000 That's actually not true.

00:28:51.000 They're already targeting small businesses.

00:28:53.000 They're already strangling small businesses.

00:28:55.000 But you've put together a plan and a great group of people to be able to support and defend small business.

00:29:01.000 And so I want to talk about inflation.

00:29:03.000 This is a huge problem.

00:29:05.000 What long term, Alfredo, can we do to stop this runaway spending and inflation that is destroying the backbone of the American economy?

00:29:15.000 The Federal Reserve is out of control.

00:29:17.000 What can be done?

00:29:18.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:29:19.000 Well, you know, inflation really is probably the number one issue for small businesses, Charlie.

00:29:24.000 And I want to put an exclamation point on that because remember that small businesses have it even harder than any large business out there because they don't have the benefits of, you know, strong purchasing power, multi-year contracts, preferential inventory distribution, right?

00:29:42.000 They don't have any of that.

00:29:43.000 A lot of these businesses are just really subject to the ups and downs of the economy.

00:29:47.000 In this particular case, the 8.5% inflation rate that's hitting the economy is hitting these small businesses extremely hard.

00:29:55.000 I mean, we're seeing case after case of our members, let's say restaurant owners, where in many cases, their inputs are up double, triple of what it used to be, and they're barely even breaking even.

00:30:05.000 And in many cases, they're actually starting to really lose money in a significant way.

00:30:10.000 And so we're very concerned about the impact of inflation on our small businesses.

00:30:14.000 And again, it really started with Joe Biden's attack on domestic energy production.

00:30:18.000 One of the things that we call for is an immediate return to production here in the U.S.

00:30:25.000 I mean, the destabilization across the globe that Joe Biden created from that day one of his administration with his attack on energy is really one of the leading reasons why we are where we are, whether it's on natural gas now, whether it's gasoline prices, supply chain issues.

00:30:42.000 I mean, it really goes back to that fateful day, unfortunately, that Biden made.

00:30:47.000 And so we have to make sure that we address that through it.

00:30:51.000 And then government spending.

00:30:53.000 We've got to stop this ridiculous, out-of-control government spending.

00:30:56.000 I mean, just what today, the Congressional Budget Office issued their estimate of this loan bailout of over, it's going to be about $420 billion.

00:31:07.000 I mean, this is absolutely out of control.

00:31:09.000 And then somehow Biden expects us to believe that that's not going to be inflationary.

00:31:13.000 I mean, this is Pinocchio Joe at his best, Charlie.

00:31:17.000 I mean, and it's got to stop.

00:31:18.000 We at Job Creators Network will try to call every single time that he makes one of these ridiculous statements or anybody from the Biden administration.

00:31:26.000 As you know, we're kind of now called the billboard guys because we take out these great billboards out of New York, you know, attacking basically anything that really comes out of his mouth as a complete lie, which at this point is basically every day.

00:31:39.000 Alfredo Ortiz, great job.

00:31:41.000 We are partnering with you on many different things.

00:31:43.000 So check it out: jobcreatorsnetwork.com.

00:31:45.000 That's jobcreatorsnetwork.com.

00:31:47.000 Not to mention the 87,000 new IRS agents.

00:31:50.000 They got to be removed day one.

00:31:52.000 Alfredo, thank you so much.

00:31:53.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:31:54.000 Have a great one.

00:31:55.000 Thank you.

00:31:56.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:31:57.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:32:01.000 Thank you so much for listening.

00:32:02.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - September 28, 2022

Why Biden is Way Worse Than You Think

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