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CreepCast
My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
What do y'all got to eat back there?
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My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
Nathan, hold fast up here and keep going east. I'm going to go below and try to help.
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My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
Good God Almighty! Nate, turn us broadside into the wave. Our only hope is for us to roll over completely.
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My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
You wanted me! Come take me! Leave them alone!'
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My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
The captain shouted into the bike.
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My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
We draw alongside her and find a way aboard.
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My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
There's a ladder dangling there!
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My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
Okay, one man at a time. Get the gear and get up there.
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My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
All right, boys, abandon ship!
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My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
As hard as this may be for everyone, we need to get inside and out of the storm. We'll have time to be able to grieve later. Right now, we need to get away from the wind and rain before we catch pneumonia or hypothermia.
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My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
Nathan, we finally reached the engine room. We also found the power source.
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My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
Hey, assholes! What the hell's the matter with you? We're not supposed to split up!
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My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
That's Z-O-C-D-O-C dot com slash creepcast. ZocDoc.com slash creepcast.
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My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
Nathan, stay right where you are.
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My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
I'm not fucking crazy. So don't you dare look at me like that.
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My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
Please, please, I'm sorry, please, not that.
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My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
No! No, you're not doing that to me!
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My Crew And I Are Stuck Aboard An Abandoned Ship | Creep Cast
They said their leader was coming in, and I heard the most horrible voice coming from the hallway.
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
Yeah, Andrew. So the first witness up for the defense team was a neighbor that lived right below his apartment. And she says that at about 2.11 a.m., she was woken up by a scream and then heard some yelling. And it was a female.
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
The voice that came after the screaming, that was, it kind of sounded like when you're already upset, but you're trying to prove a point.
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
Yeah. So they went through Jason Chang's phone records and they found that there was no Tinder data at all from November 22nd or from the early days. Morning of November 23rd. So, OK, suddenly the defense's story that Jasmine saw a Tinder message pop up in the middle of the night makes zero sense anymore.
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
Well, it was less than an hour, and we were back in the courtroom, and they announced that he was found guilty on first-degree premeditated murder and abuse of a corpse.
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
Yeah. And honestly, I think it was due to the fact that the jury was attentive. They were asking questions.
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
Yeah, she was sobbing. Jason was wiping his tears away and she just kept repeating. He made a mistake like he knows he made a mistake. He's still young. Please give him a chance to live his life and learn from his mistakes.
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
Yeah, I did not have a credit card until I started considering buying my first home when I was single in my late 20s. I had a credit card actually, but I had never built any credit because there was just this fear of getting into this trap of debt. And I just stuck with my debit card, which was really good practice at the time, but then learning how to
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
not just use a credit card, but learn how to spend money and learn that it was okay to spend money. And build credit, too. And build credit was something I learned. One of the strongest, most empowering things we did as a couple was pay off Naomi's grad school debt within two years after we got married. And that was great and awesome. And that was kind of like, okay, we can do this.
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
Let's not get into that situation ever again anytime soon. But if we were to... we can. And like Naomi said, when we were looking into the cars and deciding whether to pay cash, how much to pay in cash, how much to take out a loan, interest rates were really key.
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
We wanted to make sure that what we had in our high interest savings was building at a higher rate than what the interest rate on the loan would be. And With the solar panels, we saw it as a replacement of an energy bill that we would no longer have to be paying as much because of the solar.
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
This one's a little trickier with taking on what would be not a second mortgage, but if we were to finance an addition to the house, that's a little trickier because I like the sense, again, this living simply, living with margin. Right now, if one of us were to not be able to work or not work, we could float our mortgage on one salary.
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
It scares me to think that we would be locked into something where we would both have to work. Now, I fully intend for both of us to work until retirement, but I like the freedom that not having that additional debt brings.
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
I'm just curious with our three months of emergency savings, you know, if it hits the fan or whatnot. And are we talking all of our expenses as they currently are? We can float for three months or are we talking we're pulling back on a bunch of things? You mentioned levers like retirement.
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
Would we be six months and also be pulling back on payments that we wouldn't necessarily need to make but are currently making?
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
I think we could float a lot longer than three months is what I'm getting at or saying. Okay. But Naomi would have a much better picture of that than me.
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
I'm pretty sure I've Googled this specifically and have come across a nerd wallet blog or something about where you need to be at what decade. I just turned 40. And whatever the metrics are, you know, three times your income at 35 or whatnot. From those very basic blogs that I have read, I believe we're on track with our current income where we're at. Mm-hmm.
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
Do people ever stop giving to retirement at a certain point in time? Just like, all right, based on projections, we'll be good. We gave a lot. I just remember in personal finance in college, they're like, if you start giving to your retirement from 24 and stop at 30, you'll have more by retirement than someone who starts at 30 and goes all the way until retirement giving.
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
Does it ever make sense to stop or really like cool it?
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
Yeah, I guess we haven't done a whole lot of dreaming, like what do we want retirement to look like? And I don't know if that's something that that planner would help with or that we would have to come to those meetings with those thoughts.
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
I mean, it's a significant amount, like we all said, like it's now just kind of starting to sink in.
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
Yeah, I love our shared prioritization of our budget and our spending. I love the margin that we currently have to live the life that we want and that we both enjoy and agree upon. And the margin it has for generosity as well. So I think being aligned together is just, financially, I feel in a really good place.
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
That's right on. I have gotten more comfortable with debt with Naomi. I don't know if we qualify good or bad debt, but just seeing how we work as a team and tackle debt together, I have more and more confidence with those short-term goals that we can tackle them, pay them off, and move on to the next goal.
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
Wisdom.
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
I have a portrait under my desk of all five of them. I'm not going to run and grab it, but four of the five.
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Build Wealth Right Now and How Couples Can Align on Financial Goals
Well, we both share Christian faith together. I serve at a local Lutheran congregation and Naomi has her background in tradition as well. So I have to say our understanding of our Christian faith would very much be an inspiration to those things. And then just having done life together and seeing what one another valued kind of all came together to help form those relationships.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
All right, everybody, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show. Andrew Colvett in for Charlie Kirk, who is with Vice President J.D. Vance today. We have a phenomenal conversation off the heels of the Caroline Leavitt White House press briefing. The first of many from her. We welcome constitutional scholar, legal expert, John Eastman to the show to talk about birthright citizenship.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
Now, I want to take this to our current day. Do you expect the current Supreme Court, including Amy Coney Barrett and all of this, will they support the president's EO or do you expect there to be a split court or ruling against this?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
Well, yeah. And you've got to imagine that the 14th Amendment framers, the drafters of that amendment, had no idea that even air travel was going to be a thing. They had no idea that human beings were going to be able to crisscross the earth as they do now. And finally here, John, I just want to give you a second to react to this blizzard of activity from President Trump.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
I know you've been with him in very intimate settings. What do you make of it? The floor is yours. Yeah, no, it's shock and awe.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
John Eastman, thank you for your time. Thanks for being flexible with us today. God bless you, sir. And we got your back.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
So without further ado, John Eastman, Senior Fellow at Claremont Institute. and all things constitutional scholar, legal scholar. We're so honored to have him. Welcome, Mr. Eastman, to the show. Thank you, Andrew, for having me on and give my regards to Charlie. I will. I will.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
Let's go through this Caroline Leavitt presser. Um, let's just go ahead and play cut 95. The first.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
on President Trump and this administration's odds of success at the Supreme Court?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
Now, first, before we get into birthright citizenship, which you have written extensively about, I think your writings on it are the most clear-minded and detailed I have seen out there. So I wanted to bring you on for that. But please tell us about your legal defense. Throw that URL up there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
Yeah, I'm worried you might be right. I find that disheartening. Let's go ahead and play cut 96.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
All right, so I'm going to respond to this, but I think this is massive, massive news. And as somebody that Part of my job is working with mainstream news media, legacy news media. For those who don't know, I serve as the spokesman for Turning Point when Charlie's not available or chooses not to participate. So I have to interact with these people a lot.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
And I will just tell you that there is a huge amount of them that are wildly unimpressive and that have their job simply because they've climbed through a pecking order and towed the party line. There's editorial constraints involved. For example, you have to call January 6th an insurrection at some of these outlets.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
You have to say that the 2020 election was the most secure election in the history of elections. These are things that they are forced to say in print or on air at many of the legacy news media outlets. That is wildly out of step with the people that just elected Donald Trump as their 47th president. So there is a fundamental disconnect between the people
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
and the news agencies and the news outlets that are allowed into that room, or at least historically. Caroline Leavitt is blowing up an old paradigm. It needed to be blown up. It needed to be reset. It needed to be reformulated. I, for one, am all for it. I think Joe Rogan should be in that room. I think Russell Brand should be in that room. I think Charlie Kirk should be in that room.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
You are, of course, a victim of political persecution and prosecution for daring to represent the president. Gibsengo.com slash Eastman. Please give us an update really quick.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
And if Charlie doesn't want to do it, me or Blake will do it for him. But I'm so thrilled that we already have a Turning Point USA White House correspondent. She's a true journalist, a real cut in the mold of truth and honesty, integrity. Yes, she has a POV, but don't for a second think that these other journalists don't have a POV because they are absolutely water holders of the regime media.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
They have been an enemy of the people because they have been an enemy of truth. Now, I don't want to say they need to be arrested. Some of you in the audience will disagree with me on that. I'm simply saying that it is time for the scales of coverage and justice and truth to be rebalanced. And this is a fundamental step in the right direction. This was just a mic drop moment. I'm going to play.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
This is Caroline Leavitt on illegal immigrants. One of the themes from this was that legacy news media cared so much about illegal immigrants. They call them undocumented migrants. Well, that is a... sleight of hand trick that they use to make you feel compassion for people that broke our laws and are not here under our welcome. They will be removed. Caroline Levitt made that very clear, 97.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
Blake, your thoughts on Caroline's mic drop moment. Pretty cut and dry, as I would see it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
Yeah, I think that's right, Blake. And I want to go back to what you just said, this assertive tone, this change. You saw this also with the J.D. Vance interview with Margaret Brennan at CBS over the weekend, where he said, you know, frankly, Margaret, I don't care. I don't give a damn with some of the memes that were coming out. Let's go ahead and play. I believe it was this cut, cut two.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
Well, it didn't have that line, but it was still very, very good. You know, Peachy Keenan, who's come on this show actually recently because her house almost burned down in Los Angeles.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
She made a really interesting point, Blake, about that look that legacy news media, that look that Margaret Brennan, where she kind of, it's just an elitist smug tone where they try and get in like a point and sneer at you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
And it's basically like this, her observation with it, this is a look that these, you know, elitist journalists have been giving conservative politicians, leaders for a long time. And it basically says, you're so dumb, like, You don't deserve to be here. And it's worked for years. And that's why I think this tone shift is so powerful.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
When we talk about what this is doing to the culture, we are seeing a re-ascendance, a re-emergence of this powerful masculine energy that wants to protect the country. And we won't be cowed by these women anymore.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
Blake, I don't even want to play the clip. The floor is yours. Take a bow on the UFO thing, and I want to get into eggs. All right? Okay. All right. Yes!
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
All right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
Blake was right. All right. Blake was right. We'll give it to you, Blake. All right. We're going to move on to the eggs thing because, yes, you take the bow, Blake. The eggs thing I think is actually hilarious because I think it's a big self-owned admitting that they are in fact losing on every single front. So what is the left doing?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
They're like, well, Trump's been in office for six, seven days and he hasn't lowered the price of eggs. So like, I'm sorry, but if that's what you're clinging to and you spent the last four years defending how high the price of eggs has gone, I think you should sit this one out. But let's go ahead and play the clip. Looks like, yep, clip 101. This is Caroline Levitt setting the record straight.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
This is an issue that is going to be heating up and I believe is an open and shut constitutional case. But our country has gone afoul from that. Where did it come from? What were the original drafters of that amendment thinking when they wrote it?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
Well, and what she doesn't mention there is the fact that 100 million chickens... were killed because of an outbreak of avian flu, bird flu. So the whole point here is these are adversarial media. We get it. They're going to try and play gotcha games with her. But there's really no gotcha to be had.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
The price increase that you're seeing in eggs right now was a process set in motion by the previous administration, both inflationary pressures and spending, but also because a lot of birds have been killed that lay eggs. Therefore, the supply has gone down. The price is going to go up. Now, whether or not Trump can fix that, you know, remains to be seen.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
I would think there's some things we can do. But, you know, growing 100 million new and raising 100 new chickens to lay eggs is going to take a little bit of time. But Blake, just just react to the fact that their best thing. I mean, this is like Harry Sisson, that Parker kid. They're all posting about eggs online. They think it's like this big own on President Trump. Is that really all they have?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
All right, Blake, last question. Give the first week of the Trump administration a grade.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
Mr. Contrarian.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
They're going to do their thing. Oh, it's perfect. I'm going to get a t-shirt made for the audience. As a matter of fact, you get that at charliekirk.com slash store coming out soon. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Talk to you soon. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
Well, I mean, we have your back 100 percent, John. And what they tried to do to you is just unconscionable. And on behalf of a nation that is healing and I think ascendant once again, we we you know, we have your back and we we're just you know, I apologize on behalf of of all of us what you've had to endure. And you're a great American and we have your back.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
So, John, you know, you have written and go ahead and throw this graph. fundamental misunderstanding of the 14th amendment. Now, this was one of the president's executive orders right out the gate. I a hundred and a thousand percent agree with this executive order, but this was instantly challenged. I believe in Seattle, there was a press briefing right after.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
And one of the quotes was that this judge had never seen such a brazenly unconstitutional executive order in his time serving on the court. So I found that laughable, John. Now, you are the expert here. I want you to walk our audience through in the time we have with you. Why is the 14th Amendment, why should it not apply to illegals? Frankly, it should go further than that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
But this executive order deals with illegal immigrants, the children they're of. So make the case, explain the history. The floor is yours.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
why have we gone astray and do we have a chance of setting things right then i bring in blake neff to respond to all well not all of them there's a lot that happened but most of the best clips from caroline levitt's press briefing and a tone shift What we're seeing, the tone shift at the highest levels of our government is truly stunning. Join us at members.charliekirk.com. It's the place to be.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
They were permanently domiciled here. You're talking about the case Wong Kim Ark. Right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
Well, and I want to pause on this, the Native American piece of this, because I think this does not get enough play in this debate. So the framers basically had a discussion about that of the 14th Amendment. There was a debate about this, and they basically said, of course they don't get citizenship.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
There was actually a debate of whether or not they needed to add more language, and they basically said, of course not, because they're only partially the tribal nations at the time. So they did not benefit from this. So the question then becomes, why would they not be automatically made citizens by the 14th Amendment when they were clearly born on American soil?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
And the answer lies in this distinction that you're making about partial versus complete jurisdiction, which is kind of a wonky in the weeds argument, but it makes all the difference in the world. And I think just looking on social media, I can tell that most of the rebuttals to these arguments, it's always like, well, of course they're subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
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The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
They're in the country, they're subject to our jurisdiction.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
I want to go through a couple of facts here for you, John. Now, these are not as much in the legal... weeds here, but I just want everybody to understand the impact of granting automatic birthright citizenship to any child born on US soil. In 2023, there was between 225,000 and 250,000 babies born to illegal immigrants in the United States.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
That's more than the babies born in all but two US states, if you take them individually. That's also more than the total number of babies born to legal non-citizens. So we have a whole category for legal citizens. is not as much as the babies of illegals. That's how big the problem has become.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
Right now, there are reports, especially within the Indian community, of mothers lining up for preterm C-sections to beat President Trump's February 20th cutoff date. That's right. They're lining up. Some of these mothers are as early as seven months gestation. This is verified reporting. France, New Zealand, and Australia have all abandoned birthright citizenship in the past few decades.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
Ireland was the last country in the European Union to follow the practice, and they ended it in 2005. So they call it, you know the pronunciation better than I, but it's jus soli, which is kind of the old Latin term for it, the legal term. It was a tool that was used by colonialist to incentivize settlers to the new world.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
That's why if you look at the map right now, most of the countries that have birthright citizenship are in the Western Hemisphere. But a little bit seedier version of that reading is that it was used to displace native populations in the new world. It was trying to bring settlers from the old world to the new to displace those people and to create a new civilization.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
They want to break the systemically racist cultural back of America is what they see of it. So my point to you is this is not some in the weeds thing. This is having a fundamental cultural, civilizational, legal impact here and now.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
I've never heard that point made, John, and that's really, really profound. And actually, the framers of the Constitution never actually defined citizenship. So the point that's very interesting here is that the 14th Amendment, during the debates, they say, this is going to clarify this once and for all of who can be a citizen and who cannot be.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
And it's just amazing if you read back into the writings of that time, it's rather sparse, but they're very clear. Of course, this would not include foreigners. Of course, this would not include people that owed allegiance to other nations, including Indians. It was specifically to right the wrong of slavery and the children born of slaves and to rectify that historic wrong.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Birthright Citizenship Scam + Rating Trump's Week 1 ft. John Eastman
It was not to reward people who broke our laws. And I believe that the language is very clear in that. And I want to give you a chance to respond about The 1866 Civil Rights Act, for example.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
Hey everybody, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. Andrew Colvett in for the one and only Charlie Kirk. President Trump calls his first cabinet meeting, followed by an amazing press conference. We have Chip Roy to break down the newest information out of the House budget fights. And I analyze what we see in that press conference from President Trump. Absolutely phenomenal stuff.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
Everybody, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. Andrew Colvett in for the one and only Charlie Kirk, who's on assignment today. Honored to be with you in the Phoenix studio, live across the nation. President Trump has just convened his first cabinet meeting. He's been talking about the border, about Doge. It's ongoing right now, so we're going to toss right to it to check in with it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
President Trump is a tour de force. He's doing a phenomenal job. And it's just amazing. There was some graphic going out this morning where he's taken over a thousand questions from the press. At this time in Joe Biden's presidency, it was like, you know, barely scratching, you know, in the dozens of questions. So I'll get that exact number for you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
But it is very shocking how President Trump is so adept at navigating the media. And the second term, too, he's just got this confidence about him. It's very calm. But without further ado, I want to bring in truly. Oh, there it is. Over one thousand and nine questions for Trump. One hundred forty one for Biden. Pretty remarkable within the first month.
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First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
And then, as you know, Biden went off a cliff as he declined steadily during his tenure in office. OK. Without further ado, I want to bring in Representative Chip Roy. There was a lot of action on the House floor last night. Congressman Roy, thank you so much for making the time here.
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You are one of the leaders on this, what I call fiscal sanity, bringing, reining in this addiction to spending within the House. Congressman, genuinely, for Americans all across the country, thank you for being such a loud voice on this. Tell us what happened last night. Bring us up to speed. There was a lot of, you know...
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OK, so you got to the heart of the matter where a lot of people talk about spending cuts. But what they really mean is reductions in the growth of spending. Now, we've heard a lot of talk about getting budgets back to pre-COVID levels on a very fundamental level. Why is that not every Republican in Congress' first instinct? I mean, the budget expanded. What happened to that money?
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Where did it go? Why can we not get back to the $4 or $5 trillion a year spending? Just educate our audience in a very Washington way. Why can we not just simply say, hey, we didn't need that money the last couple years. We were happy with $4.5, $5 trillion worth of spending. Why can't we just go back?
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Yeah. And I think you hit on a really important piece here. This is the Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security piece of it, the entitlements piece of it, which is considered political poison for anybody to try reforming it. Right. And I know we're going to try and focus on the waste, fraud and abuse that is certainly in in those programs. Just moments ago, President Trump commented on this.
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Let's go ahead and play 181.
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So he is adamant. We're not going to touch entitlements. I mean, I hate to put you on the spot here, Congressman, but earlier in that press conference, he said, we're going to balance the budget. And I have to assume that he's talking about balancing the budget through rooting out waste, fraud and abuse and growth. Because can you do it?
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First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
Can you can you balance this budget without touching entitlements?
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First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
Well, I think that's smart. And by the way, I do believe there's a lot of potential for growth, revenue growth. And Trump's announcing this gold card for $5 million. I actually think that's kind of smart, especially if we could sort of reform some of our other broken immigration policies. I want to give you the opportunity, Congressman Roy, What happens next in this budget process?
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First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
And I agree, these are some big wins. Putting that floor on spending that we can go higher is key. What happens next?
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First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
Well, Congressman, I know that you are one of the good guys in there fighting. Charlie has your back. We have your back. Thank you for all your hard work you're doing there. Cut more. Cut deeper. As Mr. Wonderful is telling Doge, we tell you the same thing. Thank you, sir.
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First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
I had a whole thing I was going to talk about, judges freezing executive orders on foreign aid, on refugee resettlement, and all that stuff is really important. I want to get to it at some point today if we can, but President Trump is genuinely the entrepreneur-in-chief. This is...
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
Unlike anything that our country has seen, I would argue this is unlike anything that our country has seen, even in the first Trump administration. Trump 2.0 is a different beast altogether. Yes, some of the ideas are the same. There's a consistent through line. Certainly he had the building blocks of what we're seeing now in place. But on a very real level, he is he's amplified.
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First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
He's he's peak of his powers now. And a lot of the ideologies and the ideas and the policies that were in Trump 1.0 have crystallized and they've become something more profound. I think he's got the confidence of knowing his ideas work. We talked about this with Mike Cernovich yesterday. I absolutely suggest that you go check out that conversation between Mike Cernovich and Charlie Kirk.
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What makes the new right more powerful is we have a self-confidence, a swagger, understanding that these aren't just pie-in-the-sky notions about... Free trade versus fair trade and tariffs about peace through strength, how to use leverage on the international stage, why America has been taken for a sucker and a piggy bank by foreign oligarchs and even our allies in Europe and Canada and Mexico.
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and reversing all of those. Now, the semblance of those ideas were present, but now they're crystallized and they are fully formed. And President Trump is executing those ideas with a confidence and a swagger that we have never seen at the presidential level. So it's one thing after the other. And when you watch him take these questions from the media, he doesn't get excited about
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First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
He doesn't get you can see that it doesn't get to him. It's not getting into it under his skin. You know, President Trump, his critics will say that he has a thin skin and that things easily get to him. I think he doesn't like putting up with BS. I like I think he likes challenging and punching down when a lie is spoken out loud. And I respect that. I actually admire that that quality in him.
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First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
But just look at the way he handles some of these questions. Cut 183. He's talking about cutting the size of government. He says we have grown bloated and fat and disgusting. That's a pretty remarkable thing to say. Cut 183.
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First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
He's talking about, obviously, Social Security and the people that are over 200 years old still getting, or at least registered. We don't know all the details. Maybe there is some database coding error that doesn't mean they're getting money. But we're going to find out. That's the main thing, is that we're unearthing these problems. We're going to get to the bottom of it.
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First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
Talks about the confidence in the nation. You can see he's saying this about the people of America, but he believes it internally. Play cut 184.
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First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
But we just had an amazing conversation with Rep. Chip Roy on our radio audience, and we're talking about how can you actually reduce deficits? How can you actually cut the size of government and get us back to a balanced budget, which is a repeat theme that you will hear out of this administration. You'll hear it out of Elon Musk. You'll hear it from Charlie Kirk. How do we actually get there?
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First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
And I want to say, yes, we have to deal with entitlements. There is Medicare and Medicaid reform that needs to happen without necessarily cutting anything that's legitimate. But when you look at President Trump and the way that he sells for America, whether it's mineral rights in Ukraine or Greenland or the Panama Canal. or bringing in all these investments.
The Charlie Kirk Show
First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
There was another $24 billion investment this morning that was announced. There is the potential for growth. You talk about drill, baby, drill, taking the regulations off this economy, and the releasing, as some might say, the animal spirits of the economy. And I know I don't mean that in a pagan way.
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First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
I mean that in just sort of a masculine unleashing of the energies of the producer class of this country that is actually making things and building things, investing in the economy. I wouldn't bet against President Trump from being able to grow this economy at tremendous levels and to bring in extra revenue to actually balance this budget. And hey, you can always buy a $5 million gold card.
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President Trump has convened his first cabinet meeting. He is currently taking questions from the press, but so far he's talked about the gold card, which would be sort of like a green card plus, selling it for $5 million, sold to companies and rich individuals with a pathway to citizenship.
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First Month Questions: Trump's 1,009 vs. Biden's 141
Apparently EB-5 has 250,000 people on the wait list, which requires something like a million dollars of investment in the country, but it's poorly financed.
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supervised and regulated, talking about balancing the budget, talking about rare earth minerals in Ukraine, talking about polling of how many Americans think the country is on the right track versus the wrong track, getting questions about Taiwan, Gaza, and more. It's ongoing, so we're going to go ahead and throw back to that.
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The SCOTUS Deportation Victory
Hey everybody, Andrew Colvin in for Charlie Kirk one last time. I explained something that has not gotten enough attention on this, just how big and how important Charlie Kirk's college tours have become. And we're even seeing this play out in the protest world of the left and how Gen Z is not even showing up. Well, I happen to think Charlie has a big role to play in that.
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I have to play this clip because it's just wonderful to watch CNN have to describe a victory at the Supreme Court for President Trump, 165.
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So what they're trying to do there, Mike, is basically limit the fallout, right? They're helping their audience brace that, hey, this isn't all bad. The sky is not falling. Don't worry. This isn't a constitutional issue. We can still stop Trump. What do these, as you mentioned, four Supreme Court wins, what do these wins portend for the future of this judicial activism? Are we corner?
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Or is there still a lot of battles left to fight?
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All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. Andrew Colvett in for the one and only Charlie Kirk. I want you guys to appreciate just how incredible it is, what the team has accomplished, what Charlie Kirk has accomplished, what the TPUSA field team has accomplished. I think we're doing about 20, 21, 22 different campus stops. right now during this semester.
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That's what's key here. One of the best points I think that's being made and being brought up with these national injunctions is that at a lower district court level, the ruling should be limited to the parties named. It should not be extracted and extrapolated out to the national legal precedents because there's one court in the land that
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in the Constitution that has national jurisdiction, that would be the Supreme Court. That's the only court actually in Article III. It says Congress can therefore then make other courts and designate other courts to handle other jurisdictions. But they serve at the sanctioning of Congress. So it's a fascinating legal discussion, Mike.
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I want to know what of all of these suggestions that are being floated out there of how to reform the courts, which one you prefer, right? I mean, Senator Mike Lee has this idea that instead of judges, you get a random selection of three federal court judges that would then, so you don't get to pick, you just get assigned, right, in a lottery system. I think that's
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fairly interesting because as it is right now, Mike, and I think you'd agree, one district court judge has more unilateral power than a Supreme Court justice because they have to rule one of nine. These guys get one of one. They have so much power and they shut everything down, grinds to a halt. So much is going on in the world.
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Elbridge Colby, who we supported on this show, Charlie Kirk personally, just got confirmed by the U.S. Senate The only Republican to vote no would be Mitch McConnell. He is one of the luminaries of the national security brain trust in this country. He's been proven right time and time again, and he just got confirmed. Really excited about that.
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Sometimes the logistics are such that we're just not able to have him in the studio or even remote to do a show and so we appreciate your guys' understanding of that and I just want you to see the fruit of it. The fruit is that these videos get cut up and seen by millions and millions and millions of people and in fact billions of views. There was
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Talk about reform. There's a lot of ideas being floated about. There's legislation that's been offered forth by Senator Mike Lee and others. If you had a magic wand and you were going to fix this, how do you fix this judicial activism problem so that the left can no longer just judge shop and grind everything to a halt?
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All right, I'm going to change gears here really quick, but that's a very thought-out answer, and I think we're going to clip it and make sure the right people get it because I think that was well thought through, Mike. But I'm going to change gears here really quick. There's a breaking story out of L.A., If you could throw up image 166 here.
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A 43-year-old Mario Edgardo Garcia Aquino is accused of sexually assaulting and then murdering a 13-year-old boy. And it turns out he is an illegal alien from El Salvador. So he raped this little boy. Go ahead, 167. You can see his victim. and then murdered him, and now we find out he's an illegal alien. Mike, what do we got to do?
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Yeah, he was a soccer coach, and so he was exposed to a lot of these young boys. It's really sick stuff. The L.A. County DA is charging Garcia Aquino with alleged sexual assault of another boy, 16, in February of 2024. So... What do we got to do to rein in these, one minute left, Mike, to rein in these sanctuary cities? What can be done? This has got to stop.
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We estimate somewhere between 4.5 billion views if you count all the accounts that take the footage and rip it and they post it. And some people get upset about that stuff. We don't care. We just want more people to see these debates happen where young people are getting exposed to freedom ideas and conservative ideas.
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I totally agree with that. We need to start making examples out of these people that are harboring illegal immigrants. I'm sick of the micro, the sob stories, the one-offs, this really good person here. It doesn't matter, okay? This is a macro problem. They're all criminals. Exactly. They all are criminals. They broke our laws to get in here. They gamed our asylum laws.
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It's like this El Salvadorian guy that got sent to the prison in El Salvador who You know, he's an MS-13 gang member, but he got to stay because he made up some tribe story about how he'd be, you know, in physical harm if he went back to El Salvador. Anyway, we got to stop allowing those loopholes to happen. Mike Davis, excellent as always. Thank you, my friend.
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Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Talk to you soon.
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And it has a parallel because over the weekend, April 5th, there was this large nationwide protest called Hands Off. Now, it's a total bought and paid for, astroturfed sort of protest. But there's a clip going around that I wanted to play for you all, and I just think it's remarkable.
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The clip is a young woman that is saying, hey, I'm here, and she's got her pro-Palestine headscarf on, and she's out there saying, hey, where is Gen Z? Why is Gen Z not in the streets protesting Elon Musk and Donald Trump?
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We also welcome in Mike Davis to go through all of the big Supreme Court wins for President Trump. Folks, the tide is turning. Common sense is returning to our country and the Article II powers vested in the president. We break it down and much more. If this show means something to you, please consider becoming a monthly subscriber at members.charliekirk.com. Members.charliekirk.com.
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So there's old people. You've got, like, Joan Baez and Neil Young are going to be headlining some protests coming up this week. And it just sort of begs the question, what happened to that youth rebel energy? Well, guess what? They're wearing MAGA hats now. Gen Z is not participating in this because they know it's a scam. They know it. It's baked into the calculus for them.
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This is the same generation that was told the only way to succeed was to put yourself into mountains of debt and get a college degree, and that was a lie. They were told you're never going to own anything, you're always going to be renters, and you're going to love it, which is a lie. Young men were told that they were toxic. Lie. Young women were told they had to be boss babes.
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and corporate slaves and childless and unmarried to be happy, freeze their eggs, another lie. Gen Z is part of this generation that has been demonized by older generations that came before them. And now, not you in this audience, you are the exception. If you are a boomer or old Gen Xer or silent generation listening to this, you're part of the good guys.
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So this is not directed at you, but generally speaking, Older generations sold them out. You guys probably are not aware of what it feels like to be Gen Z if you're not in that generation. I'm not in that generation. I'm a millennial. But some of the same trends held true for me.
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Gen Z has parents and grandparents that inherited a rich and powerful America, the envy of the world, and handed off to them a weakened country, a debt-riddled country with annual deficits in the trillions of dollars.
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that's divided over race, ethnicity, whether or not there's two genders, and every other social science abstraction that they invented in a college laboratory that they graduated from without any debt now costs $75,000 or more a year to attend. They got to go into it. Debt is why we have YRefi as one of our partners on this show.
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Because so many young people are in these mountains of debt that put off family formation, put off getting married, put off buying a home. And for what? They were sold a bill of lies. And so I love seeing Charlie out on these college campuses, changing the contours of the political movement in this country, a tectonic shift.
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where everybody just assumed that young people were going to be liberal and progressive and radically so. And yet, of course, we've still got issues with young women. And there are still some radically progressive young people. It's not to say that the battle is over. And that's exactly why Charlie is going back out on the road.
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It's exactly why, instead of resting on our laurels, Charlie decided, hey, it's time to hit the road again and double down and triple down. So these crowds, they're huge. And these clips get seen by millions and millions and millions of people. And this is something Charlie would not tell you, but I'm happy to tell you.
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It probably feels a little bit braggadocious for Charlie to do it himself, but I will tell you this. There was a feature article in the New York Times that came out about a month ago, and it said how Charlie Kirk became the youth whisperer of the conservative movement, but really of the country.
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And one of the facts that is hidden in that article that is just mind blowing is that the author of that article is a guy named Robert Draper, really celebrated famous New York Times columnist. He went and spoke to TikTok directly. And what he found out from TikTok was remarkable. First, Charlie is the most trusted voice amongst young people in the country. Two, Charlie
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had the third most engaged TikTok in the country behind President Donald Trump, the Trump campaign, then Charlie Kirk, and then the Kamala campaign. So you guys are all a part of making this huge tectonic shift in our politics happen. And I just wanted to tell you that because I don't think he's willing to say that out loud himself, but it's a huge accomplishment.
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So hats off to all the teams that play a part in that.
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Without further ado, I have my friend and friend of the show, Mike Davis, joining us. Mike, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show. Thanks for having me back on. So, Mike, you know, there's been a lot of hemming and hawing and consternation and gnashing of teeth on the right as President Trump's agenda has continuously been thwarted by activist judges, judge shopping.
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We've seen a break in the dam, however, in the last two days. For our audience's sake, I think there's, you know, I think two big ones, but we could go deeper than that. Break down what has transpired in the last two days. How is it broken down at SCOTUS? And what does it mean for the Trump administration moving forward?
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So I want to get into the Amy Coney Barrett. Now, we just heard Caroline Leavitt in the press conference was asked about this, whether or not the Trump administration was disappointed in in her ruling. Now, she sided with the three liberal justices in that. And actually, there's a picture going around the internet, I believe, that I sent it to you last night. Go ahead and throw up 142.
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Some hay has been made about this, the group of four women. These were the against on this Alien Enemies Act ruling. Now, what do you make of ACB? She seems to be veering to the left. And I described it to somebody recently. I said, it's like she's basically a pro-life Democrat is kind of my read on her now. She's very Catholic, comes from Notre Dame.
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Are you surprised at the way she's been ruling recently, Mike, or did you see this coming a mile away?
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Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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I think they're all legends in their own minds. They actually thought that all the Democrats would come with him as if Moses parting the Red Sea. Everyone just marches out.
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I just want to know why it is that Mr. Snuffleupagus was escorted out. I just really don't know.
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I think it's French. Charlie.
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Don't say it. I'm just so... We lost Jack. This is Rachel the Great.
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Dude, I could... I could talk about this for hours. It's it's it is a way that Democrats and people in Washington, D.C. and anyone who's been you guys have all spent time in D.C. recently. It's a way of indicating that you're on the same team as someone when you match this weird like totally see bicoastal inflection, but specifically one that travels between like the D.C. Georgetown area.
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area where you are putting pronunciation on strange words and sometimes and then if you're chris hayes what you will do is at the end of every sentence you will then go up as you will say elon musk like you're getting scared as you're saying the word or something it's completely ridiculous The opposite of which, of course, is Tulsi Gabbard, who always goes down at the end of her sentences.
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the npc mind only runs on what its last programming is so the msnbc um news talker who doesn't come up with their own minds themselves who doesn't write their own scripts she's scrambling because she doesn't have her producers in her ear telling her what to say and so she's thinking oh well the last time i've said anything positive about police officers It was directly to January 6th.
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So she's just going right back to whatever the current standard programming model is for police officers. So you can't say police officer racist. You can't say police officer. Oh, they target black people because obviously it doesn't work here. So she's got to see police officer good. And that means, oh, January 6th. And then but then the problem is she takes it.
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She just goes way too far down the line because she runs the entire program. What you're actually seeing here, this is very instructive into understanding the NPC model. The way the NPC works, the non-player character, is they're just running programs. And so she just runs the J6 program over. And I honestly guarantee you she doesn't even realize what she said.
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so first of all charlie i think you hit the nail on the head in terms of the the macro not only is this a cap on a remarkable year in 2024 but also it's a cap on a remarkable four-year period in interregnum remember the last time president trump was giving a speech in this same chamber nancy pelosi was tearing it apart and throwing it on the floor
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and now nancy pelosi is sitting up in the cheap seats crying this is a man who the entire world had written off this is a man who the entire dc power structure the power structure that you say they're assembled one of the only times all year that you'll see this by the way the three branches represented in one room there in the capital they said this man was done that trumpism was a fluke that maga was done that it would never return and yet
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Just be clear, Trump never actually said the word honorary. So, I mean, I think DJ's on the job. That's full on. Well, it's an upgrade from what we've had in your place. That's commitment.
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in really not that long at all it's right back but back in full dominating command and this was a command performance from president trump even the democrats were stuck simply reacting to him and i think one of the one of the key things that a lot of people are leaving out and
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Do you guys see the Chinese government just now?
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This is a bit more – I wouldn't derail it, but no, I think we have to call it out when there's responses like this because the CCP, the people's – People's Republic of China is usually a bit more restrained in their responses. The Chinese embassy in the U.S. tweeted out just as the speech was ending, if war is what the U.S.
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wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war, or any type of war, we're ready to fight till the end. That's the Chinese embassy in the United States on X with their gray checkup.
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I know folks will and it's already trending, of course, all over Twitter that people are talking about how they're all it's the stunt. The Democrats are performing stunt after stunt and trying to be disruptive and holding up placards and all this. But what it really comes down to it is, Charlie, the Democrats have no message. That's why they're resorting to stunts.
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That's why they're trying to delay. They have no message. The things that President Trump are doing are popular. Their own polls indicate this. The American people widely support what he is doing. This election wouldn't have come down the way that it did, winning the popular vote, going seven for seven in the swing states. if they didn't actually want the things that he is currently doing.
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And that's why the Democrats are sitting there flailing about because they are in absolute panic mode. They are demoralized. They're completely demoralized. And all they can do is basically sit there and jeer because they have no actual response to the work of the American people that's being done by President Trump, J.D. Vance, and yes, even Speaker Johnson.
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Tyler, I was going to say, though, but this actually is typical of the neocon because the neocons all supported Saddam Hussein in his war against Iran. It was the neocons that totally supported the Mujahideen against the Soviet Union and completely funded and founded what later became the Taliban, as well as the early elements of al-Qaeda, the same elements of al-Qaeda that the neocons
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and neolibs also to this day are supporting in Syria. So if you look at it from a different perspective, it also goes to show you that they will use and drop foreign actors at a whim. And that's because of this post-1990s The mentality that it's the end of history, the United States is the global hegemon. We can do whatever we want.
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We don't need to actually uphold any relationships, which is funny because those are all the things that they blame Trump for because he'll like make an offhanded comment or something or have us or J.D. Vance will make a comment about the British and will say that he's destroyed relations.
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when no it's actually been their failed leadership over the past 40 years that has put us in this position to begin with and their insanity of of as you say either you're working with someone one day and then you're vilifying them the next and then we expect them to think that we are rational actors when we seem the ones to who are kind of like the drunken sailors which i can say because i'm a sailor
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um although i don't drink um like when we're the ones who are acting completely belligerently and we are the ones who are acting irrationally all the time yeah
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The entire point of a national army is defending the nation. Unless you're actually being invaded. It's really simple. All right. Yeah. So this these simple like it's you get these weird like quasi libertarian, I call them conservatarian arguments from phrases that used to get said on talk radio in like the 2010s or even earlier than that. And it's like, guys, that's just not true.
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Actual active duty army and Marines were used in L.A. riots in 1992. I mean, we've used the military for things all the time. OK, let's this idea that, oh, you can't do it. You can't do it. It's it's it's it's just not historically correct. Yeah.
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Yeah, look, I really want to come back to the way the Democrats acted tonight, because I talk about this a lot.
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I talk about how the importance of to the meta normie narrative out there, because people for a long time of the conservative right, these sort of old cons would think that it's about beating the Democrats in their beating, winning the argument, winning the debate or something like that, when it's really about winning over normies, winning over normies to your side.
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And the person who wins over the normies wins the election. President Trump showed how to do that. resoundingly in 2023 with him at the helm of this incredible coalition that he put together. And what the problem is with that is the normies are only paying attention at certain times. They pay attention to the debates. That's why they're so important.
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That's why Joe Biden was yanked after his first debate and someone tried to kill President Trump on national television. It's also why Kamala Harris couldn't really survive her debate. Tim Walz flamed out in debates, whereas J.D. Vance became a national figure in his debate, even though he was a national figure in his own right.
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The State of the Union addresses, and this was a State of the Union address, again, to the normie audience. In that context, this was a State of the Union address. It had the theatrics, it had the pomp and circumstance, it had that sort of head of state appeal to it, sort of the dual-headed role of the presidency being head of state and head of government.
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And so the way the Democrats acted, completely breaching decorum, completely laughing, completely. And by the way, not standing up and applauding for a child with brain cancer. I mean, these are politically devastating decisions. And make no mistake, they are decisions. And you know that whatever the the cooler heads that there are.
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In the Democrat establishment, Charlie, you may have spoken to one of them earlier today. We'll find out on that later. Let me know how I did. You know that they've got to be. Yeah, well, you'll know that they've got to be cringing because they realize just how badly received this is going to be by the American people.
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Right. So JD understands mimetic warfare. He's already been the hottest meme of the last 24 hours. JD Vance edits are currently the hottest meme. If you're in the meme economy right now, you want to invest heavily in In J.D. Vance edits right now, they're going to the moon on J.D. memes. They're they're currently moving.
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All right, everybody, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show. Andrew Colvett in for the one and only Charlie Kirk, who's flying around the country with Vice President J.D. Vance. Figured we should give him a pass for that. I'm in the chair. We talk about all the federal grants and loan disbursements that are paused by the White House.
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I agree. I think we need to be more creative in government. I think this administration is proving how creative you can be and not being fired by the way things have been. So last question here, Brian, I know you got to get back there and prep for this briefing. 30 seconds.
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Give me a sense of how the resistance media, as I like to call them, the tone, the vibe shift, all these things we're hearing, what are they feeling like these days?
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Awesome. Well, you keep an eye out for us, Brian, and ask some great questions. We know you will. Thank you, Brian Glenn.
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senior editor at large at Newsweek, host of The Josh Hammer Show. Josh, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show. How are you doing?
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Yeah, absolutely, Josh. I'm so glad to have you. I mean, there's just so much to discuss. But, you know, the real impetus for this was your op-ed in Newsweek. And I thought it was a really, really fun title for an op-ed. First of all, the Cold Civil War is over. We won. Now, Josh, I want you to make your argument here, but I just want to say I'm not popping champagne just yet.
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There's a lot of work to do, but I think the premise of your article holds. Why do you say we won the Cold Civil War? What is the Cold Civil War? Make your case.
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All right, everybody, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show. Andrew Colvett in for the one and only Charlie Kirk who's on assignment today. We'll leave it at that for the time being. Nevertheless, lots going on. Always very, very much a privilege for me to be with all of you because there is so much breaking news. In the era of Trump, we are now on Trump time.
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We talk about the senior aid officials on leave, citing resistance to the Trump administration, their new priorities. We talk about all the breaking news with ICE raids in Chicago and New York and Kristi Noem getting all kitted up. That and so much more. We also welcome Josh Hammer, senior editor at large of Newsweek. And we talk about the Cold Civil War. Did we just win?
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I think that was extraordinarily well said, Josh. And I want to believe that all of this is going to happen without a single shot. I mean, there's a lot of reason to believe that. that we have now become the dominant force in culture.
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And not just politically, which obviously we control the three branches of the government, but culturally, philosophically, ideologically, you can feel the momentum behind more of a traditional Americana culture this triumphant Americana, this manifest destiny, whether it be Greenland or Panama or Canada, or just retaking the border.
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Pete Hegseth saying, yeah, we're going to get operational control of our southern border. You've got ICE raids. We are, from a PR standpoint, this administration is doing a fantastic job projecting strength to the world. You saw this with Colombia and the little tiff that happened over the weekend, how quickly that was resolved. And then, and then, and then, and on and on and on it goes.
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And what I find particularly instructive and encouraging, Josh, is the polling. You've got Harry Enten at CNN going on in front of Casey Hunt or whatever the host is going like, hey, these numbers are extraordinary. And just for our audience's sake, consider this. Donald Trump is the only president in the history of the country that has
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Everything is coming at us at a absolute breakneck speed. The blizzard of Trump actions is continuing into the second week. It's really hard to keep up. Now, that's partly by design, right? Our enemies, our opponents, the lefties, the NPCs on the left, they're having a hard time keeping up and keeping track of everything to be outraged by.
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at the start of his second term than he ever did in his first term. A majority of all Americans support deportation of all, not some, not the worst first, which obviously Tom Homan, budget constraints, manpower constraint is starting with the worst first, but a majority, a clear majority across like five different polls say that Americans support deporting all illegals. This is a phenomenon.
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and it shows josh that the the main street america average america is seeing the changes already or seeing the momentum shift and american malaise is out america's self-constraint is out and so i do want to be really really encouraged by this there's a part of me that just you know i think can't get over the trauma of 2020 or 2022 and it won't quite believe it but josh
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Do you think this has staying power? Do you think we are at the beginning of an eight, 12 year run? I do.
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And I completely agree. There was that New York magazine piece that just came out talking about all the young energy around the inauguration. They tried to make it look racist, but that is cool, guys. Enjoy it.
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This is Breaking News. Charlie's just sitting next to JD Vance there on Air Force Two. just casually plotting the future blizzard of other executive orders and actions that will take this country back. Our movement is ascendant, folks. The conversation that we were having with Josh, we're going to bring him back when we have radio rejoin in just a second.
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There is so much positive momentum happening right now, and it is impossible to separate the movement that Trump has sparked, the ascendancy of it, without also including this entirely new generation of young guns like Charlie Kirk, like James Blair, like Sergio Gore, like J.D. Vance, Stephen Miller. There's almost too many to name. Taylor Budowich.
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And, you know, candidly, so are we, and so are probably all of you out in that audience. I think it's safe to say this is basically the first time the American people have ever seen the executive branch and the leaders of this country run the government almost like a tech startup.
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There's so many within this administration that are staffing it from top to bottom. Obviously, Charlie's not staffing it, but he's within the larger movement on this show and this audience.
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The amount of transformational change that is possible with this new, young, vibrant core of leadership that is assuming control, both from a media standpoint and an actual power standpoint, the reins of actual power, it's impossible to fully comprehend or appreciate at this juncture. History will write about these days. History will write about these leaders.
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And they will transform America back to the founders' intent, not to create some corrupt... muddled Frankenstein that the founders wouldn't even recognize, but they will restore the Americanism, the dynamism of our people in the truest sense of the word. And these are extraordinary days that we live in. These are extraordinary times. Josh, I want to throw this image up.
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This is from the New York Magazine. It's kind of personal for me, actually. Throw up 94. Image 94. The Cruel Kids Table is the way the headline reads. It's a cover piece for New York Magazine by Brock Collier, who is a trans journalist from the New York Magazine. I know this because Brock also applied for press credentials at the Turning Point magazine.
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ball, our inaugural Eve ball, and was there on the red carpet. There's pictures of our ball in this story. But the pushback is hilarious about this piece. But I think it's an interesting, even the journalist in this piece, Josh, admits that we're winning, that we are culturally ascendant, that we are now dominating realms of culture that would have been hard to fathom just a few years ago.
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picture to make it look more racist, like it's only white kids or something. There's a whole bunch of that going on here. But it's like, Josh, take this picture as just one instance. It's a bunch of young, successful, happy kids drinking at a trendy cocktail party. I guess if that's cruel, celebrating the dawn of a new administration, a new America, I guess cry harder, Libs. As my
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you know, instant reaction. What do you make of this? And what does this tell us?
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You know, they move fast and break things on purpose because what has been built and constructed at the federal level especially are things worth breaking. Now, if you check the headlines... It seems like the regime is most upset right now about all the freezes, freezes in hiring, freezes on federal grants, freezes on aid and loans and foreign grants. Now, all of those things are good.
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Josh, I mean, think about it, you know, and I think Matt Walsh made this point on Twitter. We like Matt a lot and he had a great role to play in, you know, just his film and so many other things. But what reads his left wing now, besides like a bunch of purple haired, you know, nose piercing, you know,
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many obese or at least overweight young people screaming about some injustice that they've invented in a college laboratory. I mean, literally, if young kids having fun, if young kids, you know, wearing a flannel and in the country, you know, listening to country music, whatever. I mean, we are the fun movement. And it's a very fascinating point, Josh.
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And I'll throw back to you for 30 seconds to react. You know, It seemed like in 2008, this cultural ascendancy of the left promised all of these things, but failed to deliver. Instead, it delivered this dystopian, puritanical scolding from the left about these invented injustices. And this movement, I believe, can actually... deliver on the promise of lifting everybody and having fun.
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I agree. Josh Hammer, good man. Follow him. Follow his stuff. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Talk to you soon.
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There's freezes on visas. There's freezes on reentry. The border is completely frozen. And it is difficult to keep pace and to keep up. So what is going on right now? What is happening? And by the way, there's going to be the first Caroline Leavitt-led press briefing today at the White House, which is another very exciting thing. So we're going to take that live.
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We're actually going to be talking to Brian Glenn in the next segment. He's going to be live from Pebble Beach, as they call it, inside the White House compound. So what is going on? Let's try and keep track here. We've got CNN headline, all federal grants and loan disbursement paused by White House. Now, this one seems to have them very much in a tizzy.
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So reading from CNN, which is regime-controlled media, it says the White House Budget Office has ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans according to an internal memorandum sent Monday, potentially impacting trillions, yes, trillions with a T, in government spending and halting public programs that affect millions of Americans.
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Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all federal financial assistance. So we don't even have Russ vote in yet at OMB and the acting OMB director is already putting out this memoranda. So the memo specifies that the pause will not affect Social Security or Medicare benefits and does not include assistance provided directly to individuals.
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Nevertheless, this is Trump bad. Trump hates people. Trump's going to cause people to not be able to eat. That's false. It's a temporary review and it will provide the administration time to review agency programs and determine the best uses of the funding for those programs consistent with the law and the president's priorities. So the other thing that we have to look at
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is in line with the executive orders last week. What were the executive orders about last week? This will be implicating DEI, woke gender ideology, and the Green New Deal, and foreign aid and non-governmental organizations. Now let's pause there. Non-governmental organizations.
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Did we just actually win and put the left in their scolding, gross... No fun regime permanently in its place, or is this a temporary win and we need to be on the lookout? We talk about that and so much more. If this show means something to you, I recommend that you get involved at members.charliekirk.com. That's members.charliekirk.com. We have so much in store for you there.
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This would be like Catholic Charities that's trying to help illegals game our immigration system, and a lot of other NGOs that are doing that. By the way, These NGOs folks, they go by the name of refugee resettlement, that this is such a good thing. They often quote scripture to completely game our immigration system and make money while doing it. That's right.
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So what they do is they charge maybe 20, 30%, 40% profit to the government to resettle refugees from places like Afghanistan, in the Middle East, which Joe Biden put a prioritization on, to bring them here into your community, into your homes and your parks, and these NGOs get paid to do it. That's right.
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So we're putting a pause on all of these things so that they can be reviewed and the president's priorities can be ensured that they're taking place. Now, the other big news story is that Kristi Noem was photographed in New York City doing raids on gang members. They got a kingpin of Trend de Aragua up in New York City. She's fully kitted out. Now, some people don't like that.
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Some people think it's, you know, like Princess Warrior stuff. I get that. I get the pushback. You know, the whole girl boss movement is a little cringe. But here's my pushback to the pushback. great to see institutional prioritization at the top level of our government, including Kristi Noem, getting into the field showing that we mean business. So I'm all for it. I'm all for it.
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Go into the field, show the world that we mean business, and we're not playing around anymore. Meanwhile, we've got border crossings plummeting. There are reporters that have been at the border for over a decade, that have been covering the story at our border for over a decade. They've never seen numbers this low. They keep dropping.
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In fact, across all of our sectors yesterday, not one had over 200 border crossers attempt to get over the border. We have illegals coming back from trying to cross saying, don't come. You're not going to get through. Everybody's getting caught. You've got raids going on in Colorado getting Tren de Aragua people. You've got raids with Tom Homan in Chicago and Dr. Phil.
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You've got raids going on in New York City. And you've got people like Selena Gomez sobbing about this and then deleting it. Let me get that clip if we can. Ryan, what clip is that?
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sobbing about how they're attacking my people now let's make a couple things straight here let's get a couple things straight they're not going after schools and playgrounds and all this stuff like there's all this propaganda now we reserve the right to do that if that's where the bad guys are but right now that's not what is happening we're going for the worst first
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We're getting murderers, rapists, pedophiles off the streets. These are public safety issues. These are public safety threats that we're getting off of the streets. And we're getting them out of our country. And people like Selena Gomez, go ahead and play Cut 91. I think Charlie's post on this did like 11 million views so far. Play Cut 91.
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So, we're not going to be cowed by tears anymore. Hollywood celebrities, AOC, crying on the border as we make our cities safer, as we make our communities safer, as we remove actual murderers and rapists from the communities of this country, we are not going to be cowed by crying celebrities anymore. Where were your tears for Lake and Riley? Where were they for Jocelyn Nungari?
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Where were they for Rachel Morin? Where were they for the 100,000 Americans that die every year from fentanyl poisoning? I don't think so. We're going to secure our border. We're going to deport illegals. Mission is going forward.
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Breaking news. I'm allowed to disclose Charlie's actually traveling with the vice president today. He's with J.D. Vance, who is an American hero already. Can't wait to see all the things that J.D. accomplishes in his time serving this great country. Right now, I'm joined by Brian Glenn, White House correspondent for Real America's Voice.
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Brian, we have our first White House press briefing today with the new White House press secretary, Caroline Leavitt. Fill us in. What's the mood like there? What are the changes we can expect to see? I know the entire country especially the political class, is going to be tuned in to this event today.
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So, Brian, a lot has been made about the seating arrangement that we can expect. Right. I mean, in years past. We've seen New York Times, what we like to call the regime media, the legacy media outlets seated right up front. There's been a lot of news made about who Karine Jean-Pierre would call on, who she would not. Do you have any insight yet about how the seating arrangement is going to be?
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Our outlets like Real America's Voice, Turning Point USA, we have our own White House correspondent as well in there. Do you have any insight on that yet?
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Hey, everybody. Andrew Colvin in for Charlie Kirk and the Charlie Kirk Show team. Charlie's out today, so I'm anchoring alongside Blake Neff. We have a really robust discussion about Autopen. Is it real? Should we pursue it? Are the pardons of President Biden null and void? So much more. We don't know the question, but it's a fascinating discussion. Then we bring in Josh Hammer.
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Andrew Colvett in for the one and only Charlie Kirk, who is outstanding. He's a little under the weather, but I'm being told he's on the mend. It's myself, who I'm always honored to be with all of you, and Blake Neff, who's in studio. Blake, on my list are egg prices, hooties, and terrorists, reciprocal terrorists. uh, tariffs.
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Josh, I actually think one of the strongest points that you can make in defense of your thesis is the approach that President Trump took to the Middle East and specifically to Israel in his first term. And what we saw from that is that we had an outbreak of peace for once in that region, and it quickly fell apart without strong American leadership.
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But I think when America waffles on Israel, we embolden Israel's enemies, which are also our enemies. And that is one of the strongest sort of practical foreign policy positions that you can assert in this space without making it about some abstract, you know, moral good this way. But it really comes down to the fact that peace is good for the economy, right? It's good for oil prices. It's good.
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You know, we look, we talk about the Houthis right now. There's a great clip from Marco Rubio that actually I'm going to play where he's just talking about the importance of that trade lane, which is super important to American interest. Let's go ahead and play that cut 75.
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And Josh, this is an example of the moral clarity of the Trump administration by contrast of this waffling of Joe Biden. Joe Biden did support Israel, but it was mixed signals. We were funding Hamas at the same time, and we were emboldening Iran and the enemies of the West.
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And this is the last point I'll make, and then I'm going to throw it back to you, is that if you are an American who is frustrated with our support of Israel— never forget that the same Islamist forces that want to destroy Israel want to also destroy America. They want to destroy the West. They want to conquer us. They want to subdue us. They want to subjugate us.
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And they will do it over the long term. They'll do it by slowly coming in and then demanding more rights, having more children. You're seeing this in certain neighborhoods of the the United Kingdom, all over Europe.
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So whether or not you even buy into these larger civilizational arguments, if you just simply understand that radical Islamism is out to get the West and to subdue all of us, not just Israel, I think that's another piece that is important to realize when you talk about foreign policy realism. One minute, Josh, your reaction.
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So those are the things I want to get to you pick which one of those, uh, or maybe surprise you with another one.
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Josh, this is a question that perplexes a lot of Americans and actually kind of frustrates the whole Israel discussion. Jews in Israel are actually pretty pro-Trump, especially the more religious ones. Jews as a country are perplexed. Jews in America tend to vote left still. Are we seeing movement on that front? Are we seeing Jews in America get behind
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Uh, I'm sure we've got a clip of this, uh, you know, Blake, why don't you set the stage and I'll see if we can get the right clip here.
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MAGA, get behind conservatives, get behind President Trump more? Are we still stuck in like 70-30 or whatever it was? You know, it's been historically stuck at this overwhelming majority for Democrats.
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They vote in blocks, too. They tell each other what they're going to – how to vote. I mean, it's – you see this in neighborhoods in New York, and I'm jealous of it. I love the unanimity of it.
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And Josh, we're seeing the same dynamic with Christians. more children. Me and my wife, we have three kids. Across my friend group, it's all the Christians that are getting married, having kids. It's going to be unclear how this plays out in 20, 30 years, but certainly we have a chance to outbreed these people.
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I mean, I totally, I think that's a totally valid, I mean, if the Muslims are putting that strategy in place, like people of faith and Christians and Jews, faithful Christians and Jews should be doing the exact same thing. 100% agree with that.
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and it's gone back and forth. I'm not sure where we stand, but the issue of Gaza, do you address that in your book? And if you don't, what do you make of it? And then I want to ask you one follow-up question about Israeli judicial activism, because it plays into the news cycle now. But Gaza specifically, what do you make of it? What do you think needs to happen? What's the humane thing?
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What's the politically expedient thing to do? Your take, Josh.
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I like that idea. I like that idea, Josh. Now, I'm actually going to I've got limited amount of time here and I'm going to change my second my second final question here. Charlie goes on campuses and now like about a third of the questions is about Israel. I mean, the younger generation is obsessed with Israel. And honestly, it's a lot of negativity towards Israel.
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And one of the common things that they say about Israel is that they are essentially it's a open air apartheid state that they have been abusing their Arab neighbors. I just want to give you two and a half minutes here to react to those accusations against Israel. And I know you're an American. You're not an Israel apologist. But what would you say to that?
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Sorry to interject here. I just want to state one final thing here as well. And Josh, great book, a great job on the book. Congratulations. You're one of the most articulate defenders of this stuff, and you know the issues inside and out. And I would just say, you know, there was essentially a two-state solution in place before October 7th. And see how that worked out.
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And remember that Israel gave land for peace, and that peace has proven futile, unfortunately. And so something does have to take place. Hamas has proven that they are incapable of governing that area, at least in a peaceful, responsible way. I don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of people there and it's a complicated solution. I like your consortium idea.
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Perhaps that's the right way forward. But Josh, once again, congratulations. And we'll have to have you on again soon to talk about it because it ain't going anywhere. This issue is top of the mind in the news. So congratulations, Josh. We'll talk soon. Looking forward to it, Andrew. Thanks for all your support. I appreciate it. All right. Absolutely. Take care, Josh.
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Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Talk to you soon.
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Yeah. I tend to, I tend to agree with you. I mean, I know that the MAGA base is excited about this auto pen thing because you know, who's on that list. It's Adam Schiff. It's Adam Kinzinger, two of the worst Adams ever, by the way. Can we just all agree on that? it's Dr. Anthony Fauci, it's Hunter Biden.
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But I think to your point, I mean, it's not like Joe Biden is passed on or something or incoherent at this point. He can simply say, listen, this was my will. I wanted these pardons to be executed. And I tend to agree with you that looking forward, I get the desire of the base to go after these people to simply going to take these people out well deservingly. But I think it's shaky legal grounds.
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I just want to set everybody's expectations. It's not that I don't understand where people are coming from and the sort of the inherent excitement about this. And it is disrespectful. I think Trump had a clip here where he basically said, you know, this is disrespectful to the office, first of all. And I totally agree with that. The fact that the president of the United States didn't
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take the time to actually sign the legal documents, the binding documents of this country and was using Autopen is massively disgraceful and disrespectful to the office. Beyond that, I don't know if it's on steady legal footing. Let's go ahead and play Cut 79. This is Trump talking about it.
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Yeah. And, you know, he's basically saying they're null and void. And Trump then later goes on to say, it's not my decision. That would be up to the court. But I would say that they're null and void because I'm sure Biden didn't have any idea what was taking place.
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You know, with so much, so many battles on the horizon, I tend to agree with you that it's probably not the number one fight that I would pick right now, Blake.
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And to the base's credit, you know, I don't think it is about revenge. I think it's about accountability on some level. And I think this comes from a good place with the base. Maybe this is a rabbit trail that gets us distracted. But, you know, Trump has proved that he can, you know, to use the leftist favorite expression, walk and chew gum at the same time.
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Let's just go after all of this at the same time. Like, add it to the mix, you know, because the fact that we were forced to endure this charade of, of a presidency where he was obviously in cognitive decline. He had Sundowner syndrome. That's my theory, that he was basically good between a very narrow window.
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After a certain time, we saw this in the debate, which ultimately led to the downfall of his candidacy to run for a second term. You know, it's like we have to restore law and order. We have to restore a sense of dignity in the office of the presidency. We have to you know, the legitimacy of a of a cognitive in charge executive.
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And so I understand the desire to like look back and say, hey, these things weren't right. And if we don't address them and we sweep them under the rug, that's not good either. So I agree with you. Is it my favorite fight? No, but I understand why he wants to pick it.
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And I understand why people are excited about it, because there is there was so much injustice done and perpetrated against the American people and so much of it is still very offensive to them and very offensive to me. And so I understand it.
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I'm joined now by Josh Hammer, who is the senior editor-at-large of Newsweek, host of The Josh Hammer Show, and also author of the new book, Israel and Civilization. Josh, welcome to the show. Congratulations on your new book. As somebody who's been in and around books, I've not written one myself, but been in and around them and helped Charlie with his books, launching them, it is no small task.
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And so congratulations. It's just an accomplishment to get it done. second of all, to have one of such import with your book on Israel, which is at the top of a lot of people's minds these days, obviously. So congratulations, my friend, and welcome to the show.
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Well, congrats. That's fantastic, Josh. So Israel and Civilization, the Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West. I see what you did there, Josh. And I actually happen to agree with that. Now, I am not Jewish. I am a proud American first, American, red-blooded, homegrown. This is my country. I love Israel.
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And so I wanted to talk to you about this today because I think it brings up a lot of questions about what role does Israel play in our foreign policy. If you are not Jewish, how should you think about Israel? It has become dramatically more controversial today post-October 7th, which I find somewhat appalling actually, but I think there's valid questions to bring up.
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But in that subhead specifically, Josh, you tie the fate of the Jewish nation, Israel, to the destiny of the West. Why do you tie those two together? What is the thesis statement there?
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Hey, everybody. Andrew Colvin in for the one and only Charlie Kirk, who is out on assignment. He's in Illinois at another campus stop, our biggest one yet. He'll have more for you tomorrow. In the meantime, we got lots of tariff news. The markets rebound. What's causing that? What's behind it? And then we bring on John Carney from Breitbart, who is the tariff expert. at Breitbart.com.
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Yeah, I mean, you kind of saw this from the EU yesterday when they said, listen, we're willing to do a zero for zero tariff. You know, we're willing to make a good deal. You know, Europe was trying to say that, you know, listen, we're we're the good guys here. You guys are being crazy, but we're going to make a good deal. I played this I played this clip earlier, John, but I think it it.
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bears repeating. I saw this referenced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Art Laffer, came out yesterday. And it's from the G7 meeting in Canada in 2018. And Trump is sitting there in front of all the trading partners saying, hey, why don't we get rid of all our trade barriers? Let's just do it. And Art Laffer's take is that it exposed the hypocrisy of our trading partners because
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From Brussels to Beijing, they were all running out the door saying, no, no, no, no, no, no. What are you talking about? They didn't want anything to do with this. But this is Trump. Basically, I think an echo from the past of saying, hey, guys, why don't we get to this place? Because it's not just about tariffs. It's about currency manipulations, about dumping.
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It's about blocking whole industries from your market and tariffs, of course. So let's go ahead and play this and get your reaction to it. 162.
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John, do you think that Trump 2018 is still Trump 2025? I mean, is this still his North Star, or was this brinksmanship, knowing that they would never agree to it, and he actually secretly wants to keep a certain amount of protectionism in place in America?
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All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk show. Andrew Colvin in for Charlie Kirk, who's on assignment today. We have lots of updates from yesterday. What a difference a day makes. That is the theme of, I think, this beginning part of our show here. What a difference a day makes. Over the weekend, I mentioned this yesterday. that it was the sky is falling. It was the chicken little folks.
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Yeah, exactly. Yeah, no. And John, I think that's really smart. I think, and I noticed this yesterday with the markets, you know, every time there was a little bit of a glimmer of hope that the zero for zero trade with Europe or whatever, the markets would kind of react. And it would go back to the White House and they'd say, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh. And I have to just tip my hat to them.
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The resolve with which they are approaching tariffs, I mean, they're not freaking But they're saying here, no, we're prepared to stomach the storm right now.
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Everything was awful. On Sunday night, I was a part of a bunch of different text message chains that were all about how everything was awful. Everything was terrible. And we were going to be heading into economic calamity. And yesterday got off to a really rough start. It was a volatile day. There's no doubt about it. Currently, however, we are up across the indices and
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Andrew Colvett in for the one and only Charlie Kirk, who is on assignment today doing his college tour. He's in Illinois. It's going to be very exciting. Yesterday, he was in South Carolina in the rain, and still thousands of students showed up. Just remarkable what we're witnessing. John Carney with Breitbart News.
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John, we've got a, let's say about a minute left here, and I'm gonna just, I'm gonna tee up the topic. By the way, Giorgia Maloney, breaking news here, the Italian prime minister will soon arrive in Washington to negotiate the tariffs and goods imported from Italy. So that's another piece of breaking news. We're hearing 50, 60, 70 countries lining up to negotiate.
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So let me just set the stage here, John. Reagan famously did not like tariffs. He used them sparingly, but he thought long term that they would be problematic. And he referenced himself, the Smoot-Hawley Act in the 1930s and saying that it worsened the Great Depression. He referenced Nixon and some of the problems there, although Nixon got reelected in a landslide. Explain
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You know, are we looking at a direct parallel, John Carney?
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You're getting to the crux of the issue here, John. So we're talking about Smoot-Hawley, the 1930s, Nixon, Reagan's perspective on it. Conservatives have generally, historically been against protectionism, but to your point, Reagan was dealing with, these are not apples to apples, okay? Reagan still had the 1980s. We were still an industrialized country.
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Our manufacturing base had not been hollowed out in the way that it has been now. And furthermore, Reagan was a bit of a protectionist in practice. And so we are dealing, these are not direct one-to-one parallels. Just continue on with this thought here, because I agree with you, Smoot-Hawley gets vilified, but the Great Depression already started.
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Smoot-Hawley didn't get, I think, put into place until the 1930s. Black Friday, obviously, was in 1929. John Carney, the floor is yours.
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And that is quite the change from yesterday. We are up about 1,000 points on the Dow, 400 points on the NASDAQ, and 123 points on the S&P 500. So the sky is not falling. We're not out of the woods yet. There's no doubt about it. But there is reason for real optimism, real optimism. We're going to play some of these clips that show what a difference a day makes. Now,
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Yeah, well, and exactly. And I mean, a lot of we don't have to relitigate the Great Depression here. I think it's like it's akin to Hitler in that it's the only historical reference most people have about economics versus war. Right.
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So but I mean, the truth is, is that there was a tightening monetary policy that was instituted during the Great Depression as well, which is the exact opposite of what economists believe. now used to get out of a recession or a deep recession where they ease monetary policy and they flood the market with cash and liquidity. We learned a lot of big lessons in the Great Depression.
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The other thing, John, here, though, I want to just close out. If you had to say, where should Trump land this plane, whether it takes six months or six weeks, where would you like to see this end?
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Yeah, and John, I think let's just be very clear. He wants better, more equal playing field with Europe, with India, with, you know, Vietnam. This is really Japan, but this is really a trade war with China. We are decoupling from China. He's going to force the hand of China.
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And if President Trump can unite the world against the CCP and basically decouple the world's industrial supply chains from the CCP, it's going to be a massive historical win. John Carney, Breitbart.com. Check it out. Thank you so much, John. We'll have you on again soon. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Talk to you soon.
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You should check him out. We talk about what ultimately is the president's goal here. And then we talk about Smoot-Hawley in the 1930s and Reagan and protectionism. Does it work or does it not work? Very fascinating conversation. If this show means something to you, please consider becoming a monthly subscriber at members.charliekirk.com, members.charliekirk.com.
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They're playing with a pair of twos. Now, what does he mean by that? Scott Besson is saying that China is exporting so much to us, we're only exporting one-fifth to them. So if they raise tariffs on us, it hurts us about one-fifth as much as it hurts them. The other piece of that puzzle is that China is playing with a house of cards.
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We often call them that their economy is kind of like a paper tiger. It is weaker than what they would have the world believe. And why is that? Because it's a top-down economy. They are They are rife with oversupply in their economy, meaning they'll build buildings for all of these renters or buyers, and they sit at 20%, 30% occupancy.
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And when you run an economy like that, you're prone to having vulnerabilities. And one of their main vulnerabilities is that they are an export economy. They have to export to the biggest market in the world, namely America, in order to survive and thrive. They're not able to do that if they've got 104% tariffs slapped on them from the United States. are playing with the upper hand.
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President Trump knows that he has leverage and he is exerting that force with vicious cruelty on the Chinese who have exerted their force on us with vicious cruelty for years and years and years. And he's getting the leverage back. That's what this is about.
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There's some breaking news that hit that Donald Trump, President Trump, the Trump administration has just won another Supreme Court case against these rogue activist judges. This time they affirm his authority to fire probationary workers. So this affects like 15, 16,000 different firings that have happened that were held up in the courts.
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So we've got Mike Davis, Article 3 Project joining us later. This is just stringing together common sense, Article 2 powers of the presidency with the authority to actually run the country as the founders saw fit. They saw an energetic executive that was able to move quickly and respond to crises and not always be held up by the whims of the courts or the legislature.
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So there are obviously places in the constitution and authorities that are vested in the president and then put in the legislature, but this has gone on for far too long in Trump's presidency where they're using judicial activism in order to thwart his agenda and the mandate given to him by the people. So this is a big win. We're gonna dive into this even more, but I wanna get back
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Just quickly here, and we've got John Carney from Breitbart, who we're going to go into all this tariff stuff. But this is brinksmanship. President Trump is using brinksmanship at a level we have not seen in a long time to bring our trading partners who have been abusing us back to the table. So let's continue. I want from Scott Besson here. Play cut 160.
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Maximum leverage. 50, 60, 70 different countries that have come to the table, including Japan, including this morning a new news on South Korea. President Trump put a truth social about that. This is exactly why you're seeing the markets react. You're seeing the markets react because they believe that President Trump is going to revert back to deal making posture.
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And this is what the entire international financial community is hoping for and waiting for. Now, I want to caution everybody. I'm not convinced that President Trump is ready to make a deal, for example, zero for zero tariff deal. And now let me explain why. Because actually the lion's share of unfair trade practices that exist between countries is not about tariffs.
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Tariffs are an important piece of that, certainly. But the lion's share of those practices that are unfair, cheating, would be currency manipulation, would be other trade barriers, would be dumping product. There is much to discuss in this way. And this is fascinating. So Art Laffer is a famous economist from the Reagan era. He goes on Fox all the time. He's a friend with Charlie.
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famous for the Laffer curve. The Laffer curve is basically a place where you could lower taxes to a certain point where you hit an optimal rate. And at that optimal rate, that you would increase the tax revenue coming into the treasury, right?
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So that's a counterintuitive for most people because you'd think if you just keep raising taxes, you'd make more revenue for the treasury and for the country. Well, that's not true according to the Laffer curve. At some point you can actually go lower. You'll spur production in the economy, which will actually increase revenues. We saw this with the Trump tax cuts in 2017.
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Without further ado, like I said, I'm so excited to bring in my next guest. That's John Carney from Breitbart. He is the finance and economics editor at Breitbart.com. John Carney, welcome to the show. Thank you for joining us. Hi, thanks for having me. John, you know, Alex Marlowe is a good friend and he raves about you when it comes to tariffs.
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I mean, he's been said, you got to get John on, you got to get John on. you know, there's been so much news made in the last two days. Sum it up for our audience as best you can. We were down yesterday. It was a volatile day today. I think there's still some volatility in the markets, but we're up. What is going on? Why are we up? Break it down.
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Hey, everybody. Welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show, this breaking news edition. It's myself and Blake Neff. We go through the breaking news of the day, including additional China tariffs, wild swings in the Dow of 2,600, plus the largest single-day point fluctuation in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. What's causing it? What's behind it? We also bring on Dr. E.J. Antoni from Heritage
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I think China is his number one nemesis here that he wants to take off the chessboard, and he's playing some high-risk poker. There's no doubt about it. Basically saying China cannot survive if without being able to trade all these goods into the United States. Now, there's going to be other problems for us that comes along with China having supply chain issues into the United States.
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But that is the number one foe that Trump is after. It's very, very clear. So I happen to think that, listen, the sky's not falling. It's going to get bumpy, but we got to stay the course right now.
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Honored to be joined by Dr. EJ Antoni. He's an economist over at Heritage. Dr. Antoni, welcome to the show. Thanks for making some time here on a breaking news day. Sum up for us what you are seeing. The market looks like Dow is down 480. I mean, it was down much lower than that. Then it shot up to about plus 840 on some fake news of a 90-day pause in the tariff war.
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Now we're back down at 450, something like that. We're hearing news about 50 plus countries that are at the negotiating table. We've got Bibi Netanyahu has just arrived at the White House. Lots happening. Make it make sense for us.
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Yeah, I want to go into that idea of the way these tariffs are structured, Dr. Antoni, because there's been a lot of back and forth, especially on social media, about that some people feel that President Trump shot too high on the tariffs, that they're not one-to-one, but they say they're factoring in trade deficits as well as other non-tariff-related trade barriers.
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I'm Andrew Colvett, executive producer of The Charlie Kirk Show, and I'm joined by the one and only Blake Neff, one of our producers here on the show. Blake, this has been an action-packed morning when it comes to the economy, financials, the tariff war, the trade war. But Blake, let's just bring our audience up to speed of what's happened in the last few hours here.
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Basically, President Trump, if I was looking at this I would say that he is very provably a true believer that he wants to get equal trade, meaning no trade deficit ongoing with the United States and our trading partners. I predict that this is going to be a fairly long term struggle and a trade war, if we want to use that word. Are you seeing the same?
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And please comment on the way that these tariffs were structured in the first place. Was it done right? Were the things we could have done better? The floor is yours.
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We have seen the largest, just by point, maybe not by percentage, But by points, a 2,600-point swing on the Dow was down like, you know, let's say 1,500 points. It swung up to as high as about 850, 860 based on some rumors that President Trump was considering a 90-day pause in his tariff regime. That turned out to be fake news, fake news. But in the meantime, we've seen the market fluctuate.
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I mean, there's tons of these clips around. So, I mean, here's what I and he's been consistent throughout the years. And I think he's seeing this moment as his one opportunity to where he's early on in his term to seize this issue and push it forward. Now, I will agree that the way it was done, I think, has spooked the markets. I think you could have done it a different way.
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So let's game this out then, Dr. Antoni. So where would you like to see his strategy go from here? Because Trump is going to claim a win one way or the other. So we know politically that's going to be part of the next step.
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What does he have to do to sort of claim plausibly that his tariff and his policies have effectuated the change he wanted while also rewarding the markets, bringing everybody to a stable place with predictability?
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Currently, it's down about 940, the Dow. But here's what I would say to everybody out there watching wondering what the heck is going on. Don't pay too close of attention to the market currently. There is a lot of moving pieces. There is a lot that is changing in and in flux any given moment. So everybody just take a breath, breathe.
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Dr. Antoni, you were talking about something, and I think it's a nuanced point, but I think it's incredibly important because... you brought up the reconciliation package. Now, there was some waffling, and I would say Congress was attempting to water down some of the spending cuts, the tax, extending Trump's tax cuts. There was, I mean, you've got the moderates and you've got the fiscal hawks.
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And I mean, what we were getting was a muddled mess. I do think one of the unintended consequences, positive consequences of what we're seeing in the markets is now Congress has, added incentive to ensure that we are getting the supply side relief that you're talking about, meaning are we going to get deregulation? Are we going to get these tax cuts extended?
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Are we also going to add this 10% baseline tariff? You categorize it a different way, but what that does is it essentially builds in that revenue into this reconciliation package. Continue on with that, because I think it's a really important point that nobody's really bringing up at this point.
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Let's just assume that the market has factored a lot of this stuff in. There will continue to be market shifts and fluctuations. Nevertheless, we don't know where all this is going to go. We don't know where it's going to land. But the sky is not falling, I assure you. Despite a lot of prognosticators and economists awfulizing on the internet, awfulizing on business shows and the like.
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I totally agree. I think that's really well said, Dr. Antoni. I want to switch gears slightly here. And this clip was making the rounds. It was Secretary of Treasury Scott Besson. He sat down with Tucker Carlson and he made this pretty remarkable statement. Now, I want to factor in what Scott Besson says here in this clip. And then kind of use that to understand the way the market is reacting?
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Is it an overreaction? Are the wrong people incentivized in the wrong ways here? So let's go ahead and play cut 124.
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So, Dr. Antonio, let me frame it this way. There seems to be a disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street. And obviously, when Trump has done this tariff regimen, we are seeing Wall Street panic. They're unsure. There's no predictability. I understand that. The point is...
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Is this recalibration of our economy a way to make it so that Main Street finally gets that relief and Wall Street's just going to have to take it on the chin? Or is there a way to make them both win?
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So Blake, I want to get your take on this. I know that you are, let's just say, in the spectrum of pro-tariff or anti-tariff. You're sort of I would say somewhere in the middle. So I'm curious about your take of what you've seen this morning. We were on chats Sunday night, basically predicting, I would say, a much bigger market collapse than what we've ultimately seen.
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Now, the day is not done yet. It's about we're down 840 as I'm looking at it right now. What is your take on the news that's unfolded so far?
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Yeah, no, and I think that is one of the critiques that I've heard floated, that it's a you know, a sledgehammer when a scalpel was needed and that sort of thing. And I will say that, listen, you know, President Trump, he did not hide that this was going to happen. Now, we didn't understand the details or how it was going to be, you know, sort of put into place, put into practice.
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Nevertheless, this is not a mystery. President Trump has been very, very clear about this. And I, you know, I happen to, and Blake, you and I have talked about this privately. I I hear every one of the pushbacks and I absolutely disagree. I will say, they could have done it circumstance. They could have just done it quietly and done it country by country. I would have been fine with that.
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But directionally, I completely agree that there needed to be, as Jack Posobiec calls, a reset of the great reset. We needed a reset of the way that we do business with our trading partners. And I do believe that President Trump's art of the deal brinkmanship can be unnerving for the market. It can be unnerving for many people that are just watching it take place.
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But the base that voted for Trump wanted change. And there are clips after clips after clips of farmers, beef ranchers that are saying, yes, thank you, because all of these other countries have been able to sell into America for years. And you know, we haven't been able to do the same to those countries, Australia, Argentina, whatever.
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This is recalibrating different parts of the economy, and that's going to be rough and bumpy for a little while. But I think what is very clear after this morning is that President Trump is dead serious, Peter Navarro is dead serious, Howard Letnick is dead serious about resetting and recalibrating a lot of these trade negotiations. Now,
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One of the pieces of news that came across the wire this morning was out of the EU, okay? So I'm going to go ahead and play this clip. This is what I think is a good sign, and I'll explain on the other side of it. 136.
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So this was European Commission President Ursula, that's quite the name, von der Leyen. And she says the EU stands ready for a zero for zero tariff deal. Now, you know, she makes it sound like this is something they do all the time. Everything's fine. I don't know why we couldn't have just, you know, gotten together and hammered this out. Well, here's the problem.
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They couldn't hammer this out because the EU are really good negotiators. The United States has been locked in by a free trading, I would say, cult that sold a lot of our workers And so why is she willing to say this now? She's willing to say it because President Trump is playing hardball and the world is quickly catching up to the fact that we're not messing around.
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Now, yeah, we've lost trillions in market value over this trade war, this tariff policy. to adjust essentially a one to $1.5 trillion trade deficit. And a lot of people say $8 trillion in market cap is not worth a $1.5 trillion trade deficit. You have to expand that over years, folks.
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And you have to also assume the human price that has been paid as a result over years of these trade tariffs and these trade barriers that these countries put up. So Guess what?
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Well, and I will agree with Ackman. I think he's a very smart guy. I don't necessarily think he's a true believer in sort of reforming, reshaping the American economy, especially with our trade deficits. I think he likes it. I don't know that he's got the guts to or the true belief and the conviction to stay the course when it gets rocky. And I'm a little bit different in that way.
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I think, you know, where I will agree with him is that businesses, markets need predictability. And so the sooner that we can get to a predictable baseline, the better it will be long-term. And so whether that baseline is the 10% tariff across the board, so be it, or if we're going to have right now, Trump, you know,
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Basically, what happened with China, to bring the audience up to speed with that, is we essentially had 54% tariffs on China. They came back with reciprocal tariffs or retaliatory tariffs of 34%. Trump now went to Truth Social and said, listen, we're going to hit you with an additional tariff of 50%, which would essentially put the tariff over 100% on Chinese imported goods.
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Hey, everybody. Welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show. Andrew Colvin in for Charlie, who surprised us all this morning when we woke up and told us he's in Greenland. So I'm holding it down. Had to change my plans this morning. Not really. But we got to cover an absolutely amazing news day.
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Not only was Charlie in Greenland meeting the MAGA faithful in Greenland that love Trump, love America, but Trump then simultaneously held a historic press conference at Mar-a-Lago. And we're opting to include the entire press conference in this podcast because I truly believe it's historic. This is a press conference where he asserts
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All right, everybody, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show. Andrew Colvin in for Charlie, who surprised me this morning by letting me know he's in Greenland with Don Jr. and other representatives from the Trump administration, incoming Trump administration. But President Trump is speaking right now at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago. So more on Greenland later, more on Facebook later.
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Let's go ahead and throw back to President Trump.
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America's strength on the international and domestic stage like we have not seen done in generations. It's truly, truly something to behold. I react to it live in this episode. Then we're joined by Cain from Citizen Free Press to get his live reaction.
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It looks like President Trump has wrapped up his press conference at Mar-a-Lago. A lot of news.
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that was made there saying he's going to, that military use forces on the table at the Panama Canal, potentially with Greenland, tariffs, he's going to be wielding those almost as a weapon, an economic weapon against possibly even Denmark, Panama, Canada, a lot of news that came out of that press conference. One of the main topics, obviously being Greenland,
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This morning, I woke up to a very early morning message from Charlie saying that he's in Greenland and that I had to host the show, which is, you know, a bit odd, to say the least. You don't expect to get a message like that. But very, very cool stuff coming out of Greenland. Charlie was there with Don Jr. Sergio Gore, who's heading up PPO in the White House. President Trump
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Truthed about this yesterday, saying that Don Jr. and his representatives were going to be on the ground. If you're watching this right now, you can see images of Charlie actually doing kind of live videos from Greenland. And Nuuk, I believe, is the town they flew over on Air Force One, landed, met with the people. What I've heard from Charlie directly is the Greenlanders love Trump.
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They love MAGA. They love Don. They love Charlie. They follow Charlie on TikTok and on Twitter. X. What an amazing, amazing new era that we are all living in. This idea of manifest destiny in the United States, of expansion, of building, of growing, was something that felt like a previous era, a bygone era. Something when our pioneers were filling out the Western frontier.
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And now we have a president that is... reversing decades and decades and decades, really a century of stagnation. And he's saying, you know, we shouldn't have given away the Panama Canal for a dollar. In relative dollars in 2025, That's the equivalent of over a trillion dollars and more than 35,000 men died building the canal to malaria. Why did Jimmy Carter do this? We don't know.
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It was a terrible mistake. And now China is controlling both sides of the Panama Canal and we're getting ripped off. So he wants that back. He's willing to use force to do it. Very unclear. He's not committing to anything. talking about the trade deficits that we have with Canada, talking about how he wants to use economic force to get what he wants there. Now, listen, do I think that it is...
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likely that Canada is going to really become a 51st state. I personally don't see that happening, nor am I convinced that I want that to happen. But what I do love is the art of the deal about putting America's national interest ahead of those of other countries, that we stop getting ripped off, that we stop being the marks of the world that use us as a piggy bank to get rich.
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We are the piggy bank, folks. Make no mistake about it. We hold so many cards, both militarily and economically. technologically and Trump is saying adamantly he is going to be the type of president that uses the force that America has.
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He's going to use the economic might of America to leverage our position on the world stage and get this country's national interest put first again, whether that be immigration or whether that be technology, whether that be militarily. This is a new era. We have never seen anything like this, not even in the first Trump presidency did we see anything like this. This is completely new.
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You can see that the president is emboldened. You can see it even with the confidence and the swagger that he presents himself in front of the media. He won't take the bait. He doesn't get drawn into things he doesn't want to talk about. And he works them very easily, actually.
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It's something to behold how this president is able to basically throw off the legacy news media reporters and the pits and the landmines that they are putting in front of him. A truly, truly remarkable show. It's wonderful to see as somebody that, you know, personally, I love this country. I'm going to live and die in this country. My children are going to live and die in this country.
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And to love it as much as I do, and as much as I know many of you in this audience love it and feel the same as I do, to see a president just
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boldly assert our interest and to stop apologizing for this country and stop apologizing for what we stand for and what we've accomplished and the amount of power that we can and should exert for the good of the world, but mostly for the good of the American people. It's something to behold. It truly is.
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And each one of these press conferences that President Trump has and hosts, you can see that this is formulating. It's taking shape more and more and more. And I also have to mention this moment that quickly got picked up and went mega viral instantly. And that's that Trump has declared that he is going to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. So let me repeat that.
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He said he's going to change the Gulf of Mexico to the Absolutely incredible moment there. And I'm getting messages from Charlie as we're live in the show. He just took off on Trump Force One. They had to do a full thrust takeoff because it had a bit of a short runway and the cold air apparently. And he has now just taken off.
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He's going to be giving us an update on what he experienced on the ground in Greenland. Probably going to be dropping a 20- to 30-minute podcast. So if you're not signed up or subscribed to the podcast, please do that. You can just go on your podcast app on whatever phone you have, type in The Charlie Kirk Show, hit subscribe. We're going to be dropping that tonight. Put that image up.
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This is the Gulf of America, folks. A new dawn. Here in this great country of ours, you can feel it building. You can feel it happening. What an amazing, amazing tone shift, a vibe shift that you can feel. I want to hear from you. What do you get out of that press conference that Trump just hosted at Mar-a-Lago? A truly extraordinary... My phone is blowing up right now.
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Everybody's saying how amazing it was. There was a new verve, a new energy, a new, like I said, swagger, confidence coming out of President Trump this morning. And if you just think about this sort of manifest destiny, this expansion... the vibe shift, if you will, out of this new incoming administration. It's truly historic. It's truly something to behold.
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And we've never seen anything like it, where he's openly talking about the fact that Canada should become a state of the U.S., get rid of this trade deficit, that we want to take back the Panama Canal, that we want to make an actual aggressive play to acquire... Greenland. This is a patriotic reset. This is a patriotic reset. And we know this because we know these people.
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Young people are going to look at this. And Trump made historic gains with young voters. They're going to look at this and they're going to probably be a little bit disoriented. It's new. But they're also going to be overwhelmed with a sense of patriotism, with pride in their country, of feeling like anything is possible again. And that's really
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the core of what you need for a country to regain its footing internationally, to regain its sense of self, its self-confidence. And, you know, the legacy media is going to cry foul. We have some clips on that. We can play them for you. But underneath all of the noise is something truly profound. And I think it's a sense of rebuilding confidence in ourselves as a country.
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We've had four years of malaise. That comes to an end. President Trump drew the line in the sand Let's go ahead and play cut 54. Charlie's talking to the people of Greenland, asking them what they think of America.
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Live from Greenland. Live from Greenland. Let's just keep it rolling here. Play cut 55.
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More soon. More soon indeed. It's going to be fascinating to see what comes of this. Really, it's a private trip, but it's a diplomatic trip. It sends a signal to the world. Very excited, honored that the host of this show got to be included in such a historic trip and something that could ultimately be radically important for the history of this country. So it's a reset.
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It's a renaissance, a constitutional reset, but it's an American renaissance all at the same time. And you can feel this happening. And for those of you who don't fully appreciate or understand the importance of Greenland, I just want to lay out a few points for you here. You know, Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark, but it's autonomous and nobody really understands legally
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if Greenland has any right to Greenland. And Trump has just said in that press conference, he is going to use severe tariffs against Denmark if they get in the way of this. Now, Greenland has said that they are going to vote for pure independence from Denmark. Apparently, the people want that there.
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There's not a whole lot of people, but the people that are there, as you saw in the video with Charlie, they love America. They love President Trump. They're wearing MAGA hats. They're very excited about it. The United States has had a military presence in Greenland since World War II. And Trump is actually not the first president to flip buying it.
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In 1946, Harry Truman proposed buying Greenland, but the idea was never really pursued. President Trump brought this up again in 2019. So he revived the conversation and Denmark rejected the idea. And we're hearing reports that Greenland is saying it's not for sale. Denmark is saying it's not for sale. I would say Just hold the phone. Let's see what happens, folks. Let's see what happens.
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First of all, it's a very strategic location. It's positioned in the Arctic, so it's a vital national security concern to the United States. It is a good defense against threats. It can serve as a forward base for air and sea operations in the North Atlantic, and it has key resources. Greenland is extraordinarily rich
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in minerals like lithium and nickel, which are the key ingredients for an advanced military technology and energy economy. So when we talk about AI and we talk about crypto, these things are going to be key. Greenland has them in spades. Four, preventing Chinese expansion. This is something President Trump is very clear about, and Russian expansion. China is all over Greenland.
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They're actually using a company in Greenland to extract rare earth minerals currently. So that's happening to the tune of over $500 billion worth of rare earth minerals. Trump sees that. He doesn't like it. He wants to stop it. He wants to get that for our people. And then fifth is just an economic and military advantage.
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Control over Greenland with secure trade routes and strengthen America's military presence, keeping China and Russia and other rivals at bay. So it's a huge, huge story developing. There's only 57,000 people in Greenland. And they candidly have a lot to gain from being closer because it's, you know, being closer to America. It's a closer territory. We could offer them a lot.
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They're currently kind of in the middle of a tug of war internationally. And, you know, coincidentally, the people of Greenland have a higher GDP per capita than Canada, which is saying something. So- Trump has said in this press conference you can see the Russian and Chinese ships off the coast of Greenland.
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Perhaps the Greenlanders are sick and tired of this, tired of being in a tug of war internationally. They don't have the means to defend themselves. But if America was involved, they certainly would. What an amazing, amazing day. The dawning of a new era is upon us.
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And to help make sense of what we have just witnessed and Charlie's trip to Greenland, of course, so much more is the one and only Kane from Citizen Free Press. Kane, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show, my friend. Help us make sense. I mean, what is going through your mind this morning with all of this breaking news?
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Yeah. Charlie has assured me that there is quite a bit of FOMO going on right now. His phone is, as you can imagine, lighting up like a Christmas tree. Everybody going, where was my invitation, Charlie, to Trump?
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No, it is. And I mean, everybody's texting me even going, you know, can you tell me? I've got all these reporters going, what can you tell me about Charlie's trip to Greenland? Please let us know. Charlie will be doing a kind of he's going to land back in Florida. Then he's going to be doing a 20 to 30 minute debrief with the audience.
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So if you're not subscribed to the Charlie Kirk show podcast, now's the time to do it. He'll break it all down for you. And of course, he'll talk about it on this show tomorrow. but you're not going to want to miss it. It's appointment viewing for me. I'm going to be waiting on bated breath to hear what he has to say.
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But Cain, what stood out to me, and I would love your reaction to this, is that the era of apologizing for America is over. Trump is boldly asserting our national interests, both here domestically from a policy standpoint, whether that be gas heaters, gas stoves, how much water comes out of your faucet.
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He's pushing back against this domestic tyranny we've all been living under, especially in the last four years. But then he's also doing it abroad, whether it's the Gulf of America, Greenland, Panama, Canada, all of these different storylines about the hostages. This was huge news that he made during this press conference saying that you have two weeks, Hamas,
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And if there's not a deal done to return the hostages from October 7th, hell will break out in the Middle East. That's a direct quote. All hell will break out in the Middle East. Cain, what are you feeling as a proud American? I know you're a patriot. What are the people of Citizen Free Press, what are they saying? What's the reaction?
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That's well said, my friend. Well said. It is a damn good time. And you can feel it. You know, it's funny. I mean, Trump is not usually somebody to use sort of flowery language to And when he says a new light is dawning over the world, you know, it feels a little bit out of character. But then I challenge myself to come up with a different way of saying it.
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And it really does feel like there is a new light dawning over the world. This tyrannical that we've broken the back of this tyranny. And we haven't even talked about this yet. Kane on this show. But in the midst of this, you're seeing Mark Zuckerberg from Meta Facebook. It comes out with this huge, huge announcement this morning.
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And then Rahim Kassam helps make sense of the meta news, what's happening internationally with free speech, with the EU versus Musk versus Nigel versus Tommy Robinson. So much we cover here today. What an amazing, amazing day of news and of history, frankly. So please enjoy. Please consider joining members.charliekirk.com. That's members.charliekirk.com.
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And he, you know, just to break it down for our audience, since it's new here, he's saying he's getting rid of the fact checkers that they have destroyed more trust than they've built. And it's become too politicized. He's moving the content moderation team from California to Texas. He's
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openly saying he wants to work with the Trump administration to push back against the censorship in these other countries because he says that America has the most robust free speech protections and that the last four years have been hard with America's own government pushing for censorship.
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So he threw Biden's administration under the bus while lifting up Trump and saying we need help to fight back on the world stage. That is a huge, huge development after putting Joel Kaplan in a big promotion. Bush and he's a Republican. Joel and Charlie have a relationship. And Dana White is now on the board of Meta. This is a new day dawning in so many ways.
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A new light is going out across the world, as Trump says. Cain, help our audience make sense. How big is the Meta announcement from Zuckerberg?
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Buckle up. Buckle up, America, because there's a new sheriff in town. As Tucker Carlson would say, dad is back. And a lot of these people have been bad, bad little kids. And they're about to get spanked. So
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Cain, I'm just seeing something breaking across the wire here. It says, EU MPs call for immediate action against Elon Musk. After Musk's promotional tour for the AFD in Germany, the next conflict arises. Platform X is said to be violating EU laws.
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Brussels MPs want to enforce stricter rules for X. You know, there's a whole debate here going around Elon Musk of whether or not he's exerting influence politically and a billionaire shouldn't be exerting influence politically. But it strikes me as kind of similar, and I think that's garbage, let me just say.
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I mean, where were they when George Soros was exerting political influence all over the world, especially in the United States? Bill Gates, so many other billionaires do the same. You know, Mark Zuckerberg was saying something similar, saying, you know, I need the US government and President Trump's help to push back against these sanctions and these censorship laws in the rest of the world.
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I mean, this looks like almost the new dividing line, the new fissure globally in the fight for free speech is now developing in this European bloc that is terrified of the rise of populism.
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I completely agree. It occurs to me that we've been talking about exporting American democracy and values across the globe, and what do we get for it? We get LGBTQ flags flying at embassies, and we get DEI and CRT being injected worldwide, and we get anti-free speech laws through NATO and censorship in the EU. That time is over. We should be very, very blunt with Europe.
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If Europe doesn't have free speech laws, they don't have our support. Full stop. You know, if you sanction X, Europe, well, then fine. We're going to pull our troops out of Germany and let you defend yourself.
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Absolutely, Cain. Thank you for joining. What a morning. What a story. You combine that with news out of Facebook, Meta, Zuckerberg, changing so much of what he does over at that company with Trump's historic press conference. I'll just say it. I've never seen anything like that. And I've seen all of Trump's press conferences just about, and I've seen a lot of his rallies.
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What we're seeing is a sea change. To help us make sense of that and also how it affects us internationally, what's going on in Europe right now, is Raheem Kassam, thenationalpulse.com. Raheem, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show.
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Yeah, absolutely. Rahim and I had a fascinating conversation last night. And so when Charlie surprised me with his trip to Greenland, I said, Rahim, let's continue the conversation on the show. So Rahim, you are probably one of the top experts in the country, both in America, but also internationally, when it comes to this topic of free speech.
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I mean, from your time at Breitbart to your time now at the National Pulse, you fought alongside Nigel Farage. with Brexit and now with reform. I mean, you've seen it from both sides of the pond. I want to start with this news out of Meta, Zuckerberg's big shot across the bow. What do you make of it? Do you trust it? You're also a voice for the base, the grassroots. A lot of people are skeptical.
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I happen to be very hopeful. What do you make of it?
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Well, and one of the things I want to bring, and I appreciate that skepticism. On some level, one of the things I heard in the Zuckerberg video was that it just feels a little bit too it's easy for him to sort of move that Titanic. I know it's slow, and he said it's going to take some time, but what happens if the political winds shift again?
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Is he just going to move it back in a direction that's anti-American? But I will say, and now I want to broaden this conversation to make it, I want to talk about Europe and its censorship regime.
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You know, because one of the things he says in that video is he wants to work with President Trump and that because of America's robust free speech laws, it has made the last few years incredibly difficult for a company like Facebook because he didn't have the backing of the American government. As a matter of fact, they were coercing Facebook
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You see this, it's just breaking right now, is that European MPs are now calling for stricter rules against Elon. They want to go on the attack against Elon because he's exerting force. Now, let's take this abroad. You and I were talking yesterday about Tommy Robinson, somebody I don't know, somebody that you do know. To the outsider, it appears that this is part of this European...
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this stricture, this force against free speech in the EU. And I understand that Tommy Robinson is a complicated figure. Sometimes he can be his own worst enemy. But it does, from an outsider's view, seem like he has been restricted in the thing. He's getting punished for being a loud and proud Briton. And, you know, what is the free speech culture in the UK right now?
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We're seeing very terrifying videos of people having police come to their homes because they posted something on Facebook, right, that they weren't supposed to about migrants or the like. Explain it to us. How does Facebook, and then connect the dots. How does this news from Facebook, how does this apply to the UK?
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Are we seeing an expansion or is this going to be a World War III transatlantic from a free speech perspective, of course?
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Yeah, I mean, I think that's really, I mean, you brought up a number of really good points there, Rahim. I, for one, am personally in the camp that America should be exerting its economic and military, maybe it's just leverage. I don't mean actual kinetic warfare here, but hey, we've got troops stationed all across the world. We help defend Europe via NATO. There are levers that we can pull
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to, you know, instead of exporting the LGBTQ flag at our embassies and ensuring that the censorship regime is alive and well with our transatlantic partners, is to say, hey, you know, instead of that, we're actually going to defend free speech and we're going to defend nations that protect the free speech of its countries.
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Because it occurs to me, Rahim, the Tommy Robinson example, and I do want to understand from you more of what the dynamics within reform and Nigel and Tommy and Elon, I think that's an important conversation. I want to do that next segment. But it occurs to me that what's happening with these grooming gangs is directly tied to the free speech conversation that we're having today.
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Because if it was more robust, the protections for citizens to speak out, if they're, if it... Aspect of this right where it becomes, you know, the scarlet letter, you know, you're a racist You're a xenophobe or whatever that you don't speak out more broadly, right?
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I mean there is a social pressure that it's not necessarily legal So you have to deal with that first but you can only deal with that if the population Feels that it has the ability to speak freely and the fact that there aren't more free speech protections in the UK has led directly To the fact that tens of thousands of young women. I don't know if you have a number I've heard all kinds of numbers
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of how many young children have been abused and sexually assaulted and raped in the UK by these gangs. But that is a direct connection. If people had the ability to speak out more profoundly, more boldly, without fear of reprisal, attack, fines, or even imprisonment, little girls would have been saved. They would not have been abused. And so this has a direct impact on the population.
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Brahim, your thoughts? That's exactly right.
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Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. And by the way, for the audience that maybe isn't read in on this, the actual reports of what's happened to these little girls is, it's so chilling. It's so horrible. It's unbelievable. So Raheem, I need your help here. You've got Tommy Robinson, which seems to be sort of a representative of reform.
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He's this working class bloke from, you know, just feels like kind of Mother England. He's just waves the flag. His heart is so in the right place. He's fighting the grooming gangs. And by the way, these stories were coming out over a decade ago. We're talking like almost 15 years ago. It's taken this long for the lid to be blown off of this story. Anyways, we like Reform. We like Nigel.
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We like Tommy. But there seems to be a rift. And how does Reform take it to the next level when you've got Nigel basically going on the record saying, hey, you know, that's a bridge too far with the Tommy thing. And then Elon Musk saying, Nigel doesn't have what it takes. Now, I know you're a big... Nigel, supporter, you've been with Nigel for a long time.
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How does reform pick it up and get to the next level and really help make Britain great again?
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I would agree with that. I mean, I want to see the UK be great again. And we talked about that last night. So I know you agree, Raheem. Thank you for making the time today. What a day in history. I'm going to remember this one. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. We'll talk to you soon.
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Well, I mean, I want the audience to appreciate just the stakes that not only the country was up against. But from a personal level, I mean, this is no joke. And Charlie, you know, feel free to chime in here as much as you want.
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We were actively discussing what happens if we lose and how to protect ourselves, because we were just assuming that, you know, the suits were going to come in and raid us. They were going to come in and they were going to get us. And to live in that kind of reality with that actually being a plausible reality, knowing that you didn't do anything. You're simply exercising your free speech and
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you know, activating people on the ground. And, you know, you're trying to do everything by the stinking book, as close as you possibly can, double, triple, quadruple checking, everything, even holding yourself to a standard that's above what the law even states, because you know that if you trip up even a little bit, paperwork error could land you in the gulag.
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I mean, this is how much scrutiny, everything that we touched, everything that we put out, everything that we were doing behind the scenes had to go through. And it was simply because of what happened after J six and what they did to squash political dissent. And I mean, there, there was a few names I'm sure on that list that they had.
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I know there was a file that was huge on Charlie inside the committee. We, we heard about it from friends, but I mean, there was very few names that were higher on that list. And so to have to live with that as reality. And I think back Charlie to election night when you, you know, we're all stunned after Pennsylvania gets called,
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And this this just well of emotion, just I think the wave just swept over all of us, you included. And that's why that video went so viral. I think we were all just so grateful that this country had been saved from these people that would do that to their fellow citizens.
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Yep. Charlie and I were in Phoenix broadcasting live. It's like I got a check with my lawyer.
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Yeah, I think there is going to be the ones that are clear cut cases. I think they're going to be day one. I think there's going to be some that received really, really harsh sentences for the trespass, meaning that they might have been guilty of something. All of us on this show right now would say, you know, hey, that was a crime. You shouldn't have vandalized that equipment.
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You shouldn't have punched that police. Whatever it is, I don't know. I'm not even suggesting certain people did certain things and didn't. But if you did something where you hit a cop or if you vandalized something, And I'm not just talking about walking through the Capitol rotunda.
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I'm saying if you did something, we would all agree that of common sense, maybe you get that sentence commuted if you've already served your time, right? That might be a different review process. I would think there would be very, very few instances where the sentencing would be upheld.
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And I'm not speaking on behalf of the administration here, but I'm even talking about the Proud Boys and things like that, where they got Jack, you probably know the sentencing more specifically, but it was like 20-something years for a seditious conspiracy for the Proud Boys. I mean, some of this stuff was so bananas over-the-top sentencing.
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And you might say, okay, well, they were coordinating something or whatever. I'm not the expert on this. All I know is that even those cases, I would say even the cases where criminality was found and maybe some of it could be proven, the hammer came down on these people in such a disproportionate way that is not fitting with the crimes even being suggested.
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Seditious conspiracy, I think it was like one of the first times this had been used since the Civil War against somebody. And really we have to come back to the fact that these were patriots. Most of the vast, vast, vast, vast majority were patriots that were coming to the Capitol, begging the country to look at what people thought were fraudulent votes,
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Although, Charlie, you did share some information on your show that I found pretty shocking that you shared. You should share it again. What did I share?
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or that were fraudulent practices, whatever, in the 2020 election. That's why people were there. They were not there to overthrow the democracy. They were not there for any of that stuff that the left likes to say. It was not a day that will live in infamy like Pearl Harbor or World War II.
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This was, I think, a real opportunity to say, hey, we want the states to look at these votes again because there's shenanigans going on. And I still feel that way. And I still feel that way, honestly, about some of the voting that happened in 2024. We need to get our elections in line. We need to get election integrity in line in alignment and we need to keep addressing it.
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So to call these patriots seditious conspiracies or whatever, I think is completely out of line. So that's my theory on it. But the vast majority day one. And then, yeah, there's going to be some review processes on the other ones.
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No, this is good. I don't know, man.
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Oh, my God. A couple things. A couple things. Blake, I told – just like bent my – okay, say Ellen Page was a lesbian before becoming – is this right, Jack? So would Ellen Page –
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i don't know okay so we got a gaycation mean that she was then on a island with other lesbians or yeah i don't know it's very mind-bending her spouse yes yes was so ellen was she was gay but now she's ellen was gay before okay i don't really know what she what she would do with there with that but here's what i will tell you i read this thing from top to bottom and
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And there's multiple posts, and then she waits a couple days, and then she comes back, and you can tell that her thinking has changed.
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It is the best troll job I've ever seen if it's a troll, because it actually feels very authentic the way that her thinking develops over time, and you can tell that she's then made up her mind about certain things, and then she's actually reacting to some of the comments saying that they've shaped her thinking. I mean, it's very... It's a very well done troll if it's a troll.
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The other thing is I actually have lived in the UK for some time. I was there for almost a year. This feels very British, feels very uniquely, uniquely something that would actually happen in the UK. And it's hard to explain why, but I feel that way.
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Genuinely, because like this story, apparently this guy involves the woman's brother in law and it like destroys two families. It totally destroys two families. There's kids involved. The parents are distraught. I mean, if this is like a thing that's spreading on the if this is like a contagion that's spreading on the underwebs like this is this boats very, very badly for, you know, the UK.
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And I hope probably is here already. It's really terrifying.
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No, does not approve.
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Very elaborate. He wants to keep his family intact and still cheat on his wife.
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Wow.
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I think, and what Blake said, that there's this built-in social acceptance to just fail at your resolutions. I would say, I'll answer both questions. What is my resolution? I feel like I'm still living up to a resolution that I am bound and determined to keep.
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Maybe this is too much behind the scenes, but Charlie and I and a few others were in a small room probably about four years ago, Charlie, I want to say. Maybe it was five years ago. uh, where we mapped out how we wanted to see the Charlie Kirk show grow. And, and we put it all on a whiteboard and we, we mapped it out and I took pictures of it. And I still look back at that picture.
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Uh, I would say probably once a month, once every two months. And I, and I check how we're going and we're still not, we're not all the way there yet, but I would say that we're closer to being there than we've ever been. And, um, and that makes me really excited. The other thing I would say, so I, I would say that, um, Resolutions, it's a built-in psychology.
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If you know that you're not going to keep a resolution, then they're useless. But the second you honor a promise that you make to yourself, that your yes be yes and your no be no, the more that you believe in yourself internally and you do build this momentum, kind of like what Blake was talking about.
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As soon as he took one step in the right direction and he didn't eat food the next day, he ended up gaining momentum. And I think that's the psychology of resolutions is that once you actually honor something that's hard internally and mentally for you, the next day is easier and you keep going.
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And all of a sudden you build this momentum and the psychology shifts to becoming from, I'm not going to do this. Why am I even trying to do this? To, wow, I can't believe I made it this far. I really want to keep going. And once you turn that corner, something really profound and powerful happens. And you become a much more powerful person when you start honoring your own resolutions to yourself.
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So I would say wherever you're at, I love resolutions. They don't have to come at New Year's. But do something really hard and make yourself keep doing it, and you will become a more powerful person as a result of that. And you can actually trust yourself when you commit to doing something that you're going to follow through. And that's a really powerful way to live your life.
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Yeah, he took the instructions well. Now, Charlie, can you reveal?
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Yeah, Charlie, can you reveal which members were in attendance that day when you were doing the testimony? Are you able to?
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Oh, yeah, that's in here.
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But like this is the this is the big the big scandal here. And Charlie hit the nail on the head. The fact that he had to go through 10 attorneys. I mean, this is not that Charlie Kirk is not some Joe Schmo. This is this Charlie Kirk. He's a very like.
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Really solid. Multiple times. Yeah, multiple times. Yeah, really, really, really smart guy and super smart. Yeah, so smart. And also just kind of no nonsense. Didn't even care about any of that stuff was just like, listen, we're you know, you did nothing wrong. You know, we're going to make sure you get through this.
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It was really comforting, actually, to meet with him and hear hear the way he does business. So if anybody finds themselves in that spot, by all means, give give Jeff a call. But I mean, the fact you had to go through that in the first place, I mean, talk about what Jack was saying, a real low point. And I mean, it had I mean, you know, we had Timothy Hale on the show.
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It's like the this, you know, solitary confinement for 14 months. What you went through was terrible, but it was nothing compared to what so many just normal American patriots had had to had to experience as a result of it wasn't just a low point for MAGA. It was a low point for the country. And the fact that we still have people like.
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Sonny Hostin or Hostin and even now Hakeem Jeffries invoking Pearl Harbor from inside the Capitol after a cringy moment of silence with Chuck Schumer inside the Capitol saying that this was a day that will live in infamy. Doing this, this is not clips from four years ago. This is not a clip, as you said on Twitter, Charlie, from four months ago. This is a clip today.
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We're still dealing with this stuff that these people are so deranged. that they thought it was worthwhile dragging half the country through the mud, calling everybody fascists and Nazis and all of these terrible things. And for what? You know, to get some weird virtue signal out of it for political gains, destroy the country for their to rule over a pile of ash.
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So I think it's I think it's a pretty fascinating story what you went through, Charlie. And then obviously to remember that we actually had a pretty easy compared to so many.
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You would be correct, sir.
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No One Does It Like Trump
Hey everybody, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show. Andrew Colvett and Blake Neff are back for this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show. We cover the fallout from RFK's combative, really explosive confirmation here. We go through more clips, more reaction, and then we also tune in to the Lakin-Riley Act signing ceremony.
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pressured heavily to stay in line well and and you know we also saw nicole shanahan is going out uh making very direct threats of primary senators that vote against rfk jr that was of course his running mate when he was still running for congress he also made another viral clip here blake that president trump is going to like very much play cut 142
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So you're still going to be able to get McDonald's, Blake. All praise. McDonald's will still be available.
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Blake, say hello. Hello, Andrew. It's a great day. It is a great day. I mean, you know, I think it's important that we keep the show rolling here, Blake. I mean, that confirmation hearing with RFK was pretty explosive at times. I knew that he was going to be coming into a hostile environment, but I actually didn't anticipate the sort of
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moralizing and the virtue signaling from the Democrats that we saw there. Actually, I thought it I knew it was going to be like a five, six at least. But I think what we saw was like an eight, nine to a ten at times. Grandstanding from Bernie Sanders, grandstanding from Senator Warren and, you know, Senator Hassan from New Hampshire. I mean, it was the list goes on. They all came at him very hot.
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What do you make? of the environment within the confirmation hearing.
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Some truly powerful moments there, especially when Lakin's mother, Alison Phillips, took the podium to speak Her reaction, President Trump's deeply personal reaction, you're not going to want to miss it. We have a new day in America, and this Lake and Riley Act is an amazing, amazing development as we try to secure our borders of this country once again.
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That was an incredibly powerful moment, Blake, when Allison Phillips, Lake and Riley's mother, came up. And it was interesting, the camera I was watching, it kind of almost zoomed in on President Trump standing behind her shoulder as she spoke and sort of talked about Lakin, got emotional.
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And you could see the president take this heavy, deep breath in, just sort of gutted, as I think I was, as everybody watching would be, hearing her describe her deceased daughter that was killed at the hands of an illegal Venezuelan immigrant who should have never been in this country. Even Bill Clinton, if you'll remember during the campaign, said didn't think they vetted that immigrant properly.
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This person never should have been here, killed Lake and Riley. And to hear Alison Phillips speak about that from the heart during this signing ceremony was just powerful. And to see President Trump's reaction was also powerful.
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And well, and Blake, you even you've even yeah, you've even seen Democrats pundits on CNN, MSNBC saying, guys, you shouldn't be surprised that he's doing X, Y and Z. He said exactly. this during the campaign and he's fulfilling it. We're just not used to Republicans or Democrats for that matter, politicians in general fulfilling their promises.
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I wanna play this clip really quick though, 166, and you'll see the camera does actually zoom in on President Trump reacting to Lakin Riley's mother, 166.
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Just powerful. I think beyond just promises made, promises kept, Blake, I think to your earlier point, realizing and seeing the American people realize how personal this is to President Trump and how much of a personal touch he pursues all of his policies with, he is a guy that will call you and check in on you if your wife has cancer.
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He is a guy, if some tragedy has befallen you, will call in multiple times to check in. This is sort of unprecedented. I don't know where he gets the time But we have not seen that in an American politician, at least at this scale and this level. In my lifetime, I've never seen a politician like this.
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Yeah. Well, Mark Halperin said he's seen two of these, and it's Bill Clinton, 12-3, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Thanks so much. Talk to you soon.
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Well, I think this is a clip that really sums it up well, Blake. This was Senator Bennett from Colorado just screaming at Republicans
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Well, and so that seems to be the crux of the, I would say the main thrust of the argument is that you know, RFK is considered anti-vax. And so there was a lot of these exchanges going back and forth about this particular topic, specifically around the vaccine topic. I personally believe that, you know, he made some good points. He called Senator Wyden dishonest. We're going to pull that clip.
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He said repeatedly that he's not anti-vax, but that he is asking uncomfortable questions through his advocacy. I want to take you back in time to this clip, which has been going around the internet lately. This is from 2005, Blake, where he was talking with Joe Scarborough. Remember, he's still considered a Democrat in good standing at this point in history. Play cut 140.
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Now, Blake, I know you're kind of a contrarian when it comes to RFK, as you are with many things. We love that about you. It's sometimes annoying, but we love it about you. But like, From your perspective, as somebody that would call some of this junk science, that would call some of it woo-woo, this is what so much of this hearing is hinging upon.
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Where does the line between asking tough questions, uncomfortable questions, and woo-woo science come into play? Because it strikes me that asking tough questions is what will propel truth forward, will propel real science forward, instead of you know, relying on these institutionalized, calcified places like the FDA, CDC, and NIH?
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No, I think that's a really good point that he's got this long portfolio of comments that he's made dating all the way back to like the 80s. And some of those things he's probably not going to agree with anymore. Some of those things he might have revised his position and some of those things he's going to have to bring to heel to the president's position.
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Blake, I want to play this clip. I think it illustrates kind of what you're talking about with some of the things that RFK Jr. has said in the past. Maybe he wants to walk those back. Maybe he's refined his position. But I thought it was illustrative nonetheless. This is another exchange he had with Senator Bennett talking about Lyme disease, 147.
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Senator Bennett's getting really into this one. But that's an example of, you know, I actually would love to hear the rest of the exchange. I don't think we have that tape. But, you know, he was constantly getting cut off. And you could actually see them using his speech impediment. It's...
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Forgive me, I can't remember the exact name of the condition, but they were using it against him because they knew that he couldn't reply back in a rapid pace. And so they would use that against him and cut him off repeatedly, which was another thing that we saw in this confirmation here. Blake.
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I think you're right. One thirty nine. We have that clip. It's a good clip. Let's go ahead and play it.
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Boom. Love that exchange. I just want to, for the audience sake, we're working on getting the feed from the Lake and Riley signing ceremony that's happening right now, so bear with us as we get that feed. But Blake, your reaction to, I mean, this sort of is the clip that
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You were referencing where he was pretty combative back, pretty aggressive back, in which we all know President Trump loves to see a fighter.
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You mean had it been outside?
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No, I just mean... I'm saying that was actually awesome. I saw everything. I love that Swalwell was behind you.
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Yeah, exactly. Well... I mean, it's a whole new day in Washington. I will tell you, a little vibe check on the ground, Jack, you could be good on this. I just feel like this city, even in Trump 1.0, the first term, I don't feel at all conspicuous being loud and proud of what I'm thinking. I don't hold back opinions at the restaurant or at coffee.
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I'm out and proud, and I don't even... You know, before... Well, it's like the resistance is quiet.
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Yeah, it's just like everybody kind of – It's just non-existent, right? It's just non-existent.
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But the vermin are on the run.
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A lot of them are on notice. A lot of them know that they are probably – Listen, the president has every right to get – This town has been around a lot longer than any of the three of us. I totally agree. I totally agree. But they legitimately do feel threatened for their future, and they're not going to pop their head up just yet.
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They are, and that's why – The best take is they don't know where to fight.
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Just the fact that we're even this far is just such a dramatic, dramatic shift. And you look at President Trump's approval ratings. I mean, he's above water right now.
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No, I just, you know, it's funny. You brought up the assassination attempts. You know, you bring up drones, like all of these huge stories. And we don't know the half of it. And it's just it's a reminder, like with this blitzkrieg that we're all living through this flooding the zone. Well, careful there, Elon. Awesome. Which is awesome. I use that on my show every day.
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So here's what I'll say, though, is that there is a possibility that we forget to review the important stuff. Right. That we forget to like. By the way, another thing I want to find out about, Jack, Las Vegas shooting. Uh-oh. You know what I mean?
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So these things that have been hidden from public view and we don't really have an insight on it, I'm excited to get into it, and I think there's a real possibility. But there's just so much news that it's even hard to keep your eye on.
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OK, one second before we go to Blake here, Charlie, I'll never forget the first time you introduced me to President Trump. He goes, where do you live? And I mentioned California. And President Trump goes into a whole like diatribe. This is like probably 2018, 2019, something like that, Charlie. It goes into a whole diatribe about the Delta smelt. Mm-hmm.
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As soon as he hears the word California, the guy goes, Delta smelt, water. I mean, this is deep within President Trump's subconscious. Well, it's pretty conscious now. All right.
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You know, you're talking about the imperial capital feeling muted, Jack. Look it. On day one, there was an order to review all potential... Oh, wait, hold on. Never mind. It was... basically reclassifying members of the federal civil servants so they are easier to fire and replace, especially if they hinder or sabotage the administration's agenda.
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So, like, they see all these executive orders coming through. They've heard the rumors about Schedule F. I mean, right? So they're They're ducking for cover.
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Do you think they're having a good night? They're putting their resumes out.
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They couldn't make endless money for the record, most of these people. Now, the ones that could, maybe they will, and this will be the best thing that ever happened to them. But the vast majority of them – and Blake, I think you pointed this out. A lot of these people have side jobs and secondary jobs, and they basically have been fleecing off the government because it's impossible to fire them.
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I'm working on this.
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I tell you what, I think it was absolutely 100 percent, 1000 percent the right decision. But Charlie, you're bringing up another sort of controversy. Was it because of the weather or were there other concerns? And so I just want to flag that in case you want to go back to it, because I would like to.
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Can we just dispel this?
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Charlie, I've been with you at more events than probably most. And I thought about Charlie. But hold on. Hold on. I would just say that you get fist bumps from black and brown like dudes more than just about anything, which is a hilarious thing. But yeah, I mean, go ahead.
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I don't want to take this is an important point you're making because we do have to sort of restock the shelves, restaff the these key loyalist positions with people that love Trump. I mean, it's just it's it's absolutely the mandatory thing at this point. So.
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But it's sort of like when they, what was Obama? It's like when the Soviet Union fell. Who took the W's out of the, was that Clinton took the W's out of the keyboards? That was Obama. Was it Obama? No, it was Clinton because the W was coming after him and they took all the W's out of the keyboards. Yeah, you're right, you're right.
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right now.
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Yeah, that's a big one. People have been waiting years, decades for this. It totally is a skit. Shows it off, right?
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Ooh, that's a big one. But to Blake's earlier point, how many of these things are so dramatic, so sweeping, that they would have dominated previous news cycles? I want to go back to this birthright citizenship issue. There is zero arguments that I have ever heard that make me convinced that the 14th Amendment was for anybody but slaves and maybe arguably American Indians.
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No. Well, what?
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Well, I know this is what I'm getting at. They actually had. OK, so this is part of my point. So so there's a guy named Senator Jacob Howard. He was a senator at the time when they were passing the 14th Amendment and they're arguing on the Senate floor. And so so he's contended that it should be construed to mean. So this is back to that clause that everybody likes to talk about subject.
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to the jurisdiction thereof. Now, Senator Jacob Howard said it should be construed to mean a full and complete jurisdiction, like the same jurisdiction in extent and quality as applies to every citizen of the United States now. And so why this is important is because that
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A construct meant that American Indians would not be granted citizenship because they were loyal to a another sovereign, namely their the tribal powers. Right. They were part of their tribal nations, tribal nations. So they actually had to in Senator James Doolittle of Wisconsin added a provision, an amendment that had to add languages, Indians not taxed.
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So this is how obvious it would have been to the writers of the 14th Amendment that, of course, this was not meant to be gamed by foreigners that just come over nine months pregnant and have a baby on this side of the border and they get rewarded for that act of heroism.
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No, they literally had to carve out Native Americans because they were born in the continental United States to make sure that they were also included in this provision in the in the amendment. So this whole thing, I remember you posted it the day it happened. It was news, this ending of birthright citizenship for illegals. And sure enough, everybody's like, well, it's in the Constitution.
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You can't just change it with an executive order. It's like, hold on. This has been such a bastard. And Blake, you would probably know more than I would on how many different ways the 14th Amendment has led to – Terrible readings of the Constitution. It's one of the touch points of constitutional law that just seems to always come back around and get interpreted in the most awful way.
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But absolutely, the 14th Amendment was not meant to reward people who break into your country.
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Yeah, 100%. We'll see how Amy Coney Barrett rules on it. We'll see what happens with that. But I think they're going to be victorious because, to me, there's a very logical reading of the 14th Amendment. You want to know the dirty truth about the 14th Amendment? Birthright citizenship was a scheme – that was enacted in order to displace native peoples by colonialist powers.
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So they would come and move in, you know, the Spanish would come in and they would, they would create birthright citizenship in order to displace native peoples. Well, as Americans, we're all the native peoples of this land now. And it's, You know, it's being brought back around and being used against Americans. So it's a whole the whole topic I'm very passionate about, as you might tell.
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But it's what's crazy again to make the point this would be front page everywhere if if if it wasn't for the deluge of so much other stuff.
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Have you ever done the tourist thing? So I have to give a little inside baseball here. I got to do a tour in which Speaker Johnson. I know. We like him. Okay. Ish. All right. He's doing some good stuff. He gave us a private tour. Andrew's going to get so much hate mail. I know. Freedom at CharlieKirk.com. Yeah. Let me have it.
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So check this out. France, New Zealand and Australia have all abandoned birthright citizenship in the past few decades. Ireland was Australia was another colony. Yes. Ireland was the last country in the European Union to follow it. But they even abolished birthright citizenship in 2005. It's a completely dumb idea, like in our current context.
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To your point, maybe it had some value as they were looking to colonize the Western Hemisphere. At this point, it is completely and utterly idiotic. And you're just incentivizing all the wrong things. But again, I haven't seen too many stories about it, to be honest. I mean, I'm looking at it now and people are certainly writing about it.
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But if you look at nightly news, if you look at all the thought pieces, it's not really the center of attention, which is truly remarkable. I guess, Blake, do you think you mentioned LBJ, the reversal of LBJ's affirmative action executive order? What would be your next what's what's next on your list?
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Listen, I got an opportunity to do a private tour, and then Speaker Johnson addressed the tour, okay? And they actually took us inside the area where they were setting up the luncheon and where they were going to do the actual swearing-in, and I got to see the rotunda and all that stuff. So I wasn't like Charlie exclusive by any means, but it was very, very cool. And I will tell you,
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I just want to give Stephen Miller a slow clap. You know what I mean? It's like, this man... Was born for such just such a time as this. And, you know, by the way, being this is a point that Charlie actually made on Twitter. He and I talked about it. It was, you know, this idea that everybody has given a lot of attention to Trump being stronger, tougher.
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more focused than he was in the first term. Trump 1.0 is not Trump 2.0. Just look at the pictures. Well, the name is the punished Trump. Well, yeah, but he also knows the system. He knows D.C. He understands how everything works. He knows who he can trust, who he can't trust. He knows who got in his way. You saw it in his interview last night. What's that?
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Oh, 100%.
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Yeah, they did. And... But what we're not appreciating enough is the fact that guys like James Blair, Sergio Gore, J.D. Vance, these young guns, Stephen Miller, also was steeped in the same experiences, lived through it alongside him, saw what they did, saw how corrupt and depraved and aggressive they were with President Trump.
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All of these guys, this new generation, this new crop, is ready to get to work. They're not afraid to use power. They're going for it. Rules, customs, norms, legacy, regime, media, be damned. We're going to get the job done. Now, the Constitution still matters, obviously. We all love the Constitution, so you have to work within the framework.
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But some of these things are just simply a lack of creativity and a lack of courage, and that's not going to be getting in the way any longer.
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Charlie, you had this experience, I'm sure, as well. It's way smaller in person. That whole space is way smaller in person than it appears on TV. It's super small.
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Yeah. I mean, I think they have a definite strategy of going to blue cities where the local municipalities have made the decision that they're going to be sanctuaries. They're not going to.
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aid or help which can we just take a step back and and ask ourself how insane that is if you know the whereabouts of a criminal you know the misdeeds that this criminal has done and yet you refuse to remove said criminal from your streets simply because he or she is a illegal immigrant
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The amount of insanity, I think, you know, Charles said it earlier on the show this morning, but it was like they hate Trump so much that they've fallen in love with MS-13. They hate Trump so much that they've fallen in love with the criminal. They hate Trump so much that they have fallen in love with murderers and rapists more so than their love for their common man and their fellow citizen.
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That is an extraordinary psychological picture to take in and fully absorb.
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When you get to these ICE raids in these cities and the fact that these cities are harboring fugitives of the law and they are protecting them from accountability when they rape little girls, when they kill people, when they stab people, when they get them addicted to fentanyl and other drugs that are going to kill them, the extraordinary dereliction of duty is almost unfathomable.
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It's difficult to comprehend what that would mean.
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Yeah, let's go ahead. So this is a big story today. It was actually from Bill Malusion. He went into Boston. He was embedded exclusively. Good for him. Great journalist. With the ice raids that were going on in Boston, he gets this Haitian guy who shouts out, I'm never going back to Haiti. You know, F Trump, Joe Biden forever, bro. Please thank Obama for everything he did for me.
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I mean, pretty stark stuff, so much to the point that Blake didn't believe it was real. It's real. And then Tom Homan was asked, what do you make of this guy's comments? And it's already been meme-ified, which is just, I just think it's so fantastic. When you capture the vibe of a moment, you just got to play it 168.
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it it's yeah it's a walking uh billboard for the new it sets the perfect tone yeah and by the way just so we're clear trump these what everything he's doing the sense of uh and by the way we haven't even talked about 600 billion from the saudi prince you know crown prince we haven't talked about the 500 well we'll start to see what strings are attached to that well maybe but i mean trump's today he's talking to the wf and he's going i'm gonna have him round up to a trillion
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And you've got the SoftBank investment. You've got Chrysler bringing jobs back. I mean, all of these things. I mean, Maria Bartiromo was reporting from Davos, and she was saying, like, all these guys want to throw money at America. The amount of optimism is insane. And Trump is acting as the salesman, the agent of his country. And him playing that role is so unique.
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I mean, we've never seen a chief executive of the country act like that.
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I mean, basically embedded himself in the DOD, right?
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Can I just say, your life for the last while has been... Super weird.
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Is it, like, one of these things? Like, where it's got the little, like – Yeah, yeah, that thing. Yeah, that thing.
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They control that land.
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So here's the thing. My phone has been on fire since I've been in the city.
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Don't forget Jeff Bezos. Sundar Pichai. What? I said, don't forget Jeff Bezos, significant other. I don't know. They were all in church, right? And her daughters.
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Well, by the way, the most common camera, right, that with a gimbal, I guess is what it's called, is DJI. DJI. Which is the Chinese Chinese. Yeah. Which, by the way, we were contracting at both federal and state governments like a lot of them. And they I think during the first Trump administration, they flagged it as like a potential spyware.
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Fair enough. It's a good description.
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No, it's hilarious, by the way. You're just like straight up. I can just imagine your thought process in that moment. Like, don't be too friendly.
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Even the fact that Trump
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Well, it's also, I think, an acknowledgment of the, you know, the dynamic that has existed with China when Trump first started tariffing China in the first administration. They are the big geopolitical foe. And so it's a power move to say, hey, listen, like I'm going to be really tough on you, but hey, you know, we can get along.
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Well, I think Trump is experiencing a boon in popularity, not only domestically, but internationally. I mean, Rahim Kassam, mutual friend, says that in London now, you'll see tons of MAGA hats.
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It was a huge honor. And actually, it was a huge honor for all of us that work on all of our... Yeah, exactly. The fact that we had a literal seat at the... table via you was huge. And by the way, not just us, all the grassroots, all the activists, it was a testament to how hard we've all worked and how hard the team has worked, Turning Point Action, Turning Point USA.
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Yeah, I was there this week, yes.
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I may or may not be there tomorrow. We'll see.
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Everybody, I will tell you, one of the most common questions I've gotten from journalists is, where's the new haunt? Where's the new hang? Because... In Trump 1.0, it was Trump Hotel.
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It's Butterworth's. Well, it depends. There's different clicks, right? I think that's certainly one of them. Anyways.
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I mean, it really was a huge, huge honor for the grassroots.
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Well, on TV, it played like a massive applause line where he said, I've, you know, became convinced that God saved my life to make America great again. It was a huge moment, like chills moment. And so when you sent that picture, I mean, I was getting like live feedback. I saw the picture in our chat. I was like, like, you know, you're like. we're getting this up. I was like, okay.
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You know, like, and it was a... I think it did, like, almost two million engagements. Like, people saw that picture.
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That's a separate... Okay, no, but that dynamic of the speech, I mean, Jack, I think you would agree, was what made this not only a historic moment, because we can all feel that the country is on the verge and in the midst of something truly transformational in a positive sense, but the context, doing all of that, the salt in the wound... As Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
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That's what's so remarkable. But it was this incredible juxtaposition of seeing the essentially the.
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hegemonic force and power structure of the previous regimes right there having to swallow these very harsh words it was a regime change it was a regime change and it was it was it was incredibly powerful and a different politician would have used that moment and softened his language pulled his punches trump pulled no punches trump i mean maybe a little bit he he likes to say that melania took out a
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You know, paragraphs that were a little bit stronger. It was strong as it was. And to see Joe Biden have to sit there and listen to it, Barack Obama, Hillary and Bill Clinton and the whole George Bush. It was a really incredible, I think, one of the truly historic moments.
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pictures just from a an optics standpoint that we will ever live to witness and to see it and it's such a tight frame too again on tv it does you do not understand how tight of a space that is i mean these guys are breathing down each other's necks inside that that space charlie what have you ever been that close to obama and hillary before no i actually had never seen what was that like obama in person what was that like
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Okay. Strange story. All right. So not to go into too much detail. My wife came with me on this trip. and her friend made dinner reservations for us. And so on the, I guess it was the Saturday night before inauguration, I was at a restaurant in D.C., and all of a sudden, like, I would say half, because this whole town has been pretty magified during inauguration, right? I mean, just pure numbers.
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Total takeover. Yeah, I mean, it's got to be 60-40 conservatives. And no resistance. And, yeah, there's very little protest. I haven't seen a single protest. Jack, you had to go hunting for them. Anyways, the point is, all of a sudden, half the audience, it was muted. Starts clapping, and you hear one woman cheer, and it was Barack Obama eating at the same restaurant as me, like whizzes by.
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I feel the air behind my head, and I'm trying to figure out why people are cheering, and then my wife's friend goes, Barack Obama just like exited. So I turn, and I never even saw the guy. I just felt the air pass me, heard the cheers, and apparently he whizzed right past me. It was a very D.C. moment, I will say.
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We have this tweet.
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Jim Banks is part of this new guard that you've been talking about that really has it. Okay, throw up 166. I know you had it before. So this is Julia Grace Brufke. And Julia Grace is a senior Washington reporter, sort of known. She's with the Daily Beast. She's fine. Everything's fine. She actually used to work at the Washington Examiner, believe it or not.
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So she says, Charlie Kirk has better seats than every member of Congress. Tells you how little Trump team thinks of Congress, one GOP lawmaker tells me. Then, let's go to 167, Jim Banks chimes in and says, Charlie Kirk has done more than most members of Congress combined to get us to this point today, which was, I thought, a really nice thing for Jim Banks to sort of say.
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Yeah, and you retweeted it because I thought it was a great point, and you thought it was a great point, and good for Jim Banks. And I would say Jim Banks is a really good barometer of when we get into confirmation talks, when we get into – how do we get the president's agenda across the finish line? Jim Banks is a perfect embodiment of this new guard, Bernie Moreno.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
Um, she, yeah, these guys, these guys are, are get it done guys. These guys are totally on the team. They're not this vestige of the past of a bygone Republican party. Um, that nobody's just taking the time to raise $50 million to primary, right? But these guys are with it, and Jim's totally on the team, and I love that he did that for you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
Let's go ahead. We dropped an arrow.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
But on that note, the Canadians, you'll see this on, like, you know, some of the Canadian Twitter accounts. They'll say, you guys started it by calling us the 51st state and by saying that, you know, Trudeau should be Governor Trudeau. So what do you say to that, Blake?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
We can still beat them in hockey. If you're listening to Canada, you're one of the good ones, and we love you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
That's right, I am. And by the way, if Washington, D.C. is good at anything, it's laundry.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Plus, it's awful weather.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Hold on. You're from South Dakota, which is approximately similar. But like it's great in general. Canada does not have great weather. I will say like in British Columbia, you'll actually get some great weather. Surprisingly, it's pretty rainy, but it's a pretty temperate climate in British British Columbia and gorgeous. By the way, man, talk about a beautiful cities.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Vancouver, Canada is a legitimately gorgeous city. Um, but it looks like, I mean, you know, Canada is projected. This is like the stat can.gc.ca number of proportion of foreign born population in, in Canada on their own website. They have it projected at over 25% 2036. This is their own website. This is a dramatic, dramatic graph. I'm going to try and pull this up for you guys, but it's like,
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
would would have us told no no it's not shanghai by zalinski and the uh the deployment enlistment squad hold on jack let me set the stage here properly for jack here so all of a sudden my my google alerts start going bing bing bing bing bing and i'm like what the heck is going on and jack is traveling europe with pete hegseth but wait there's more and then scott besant
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
I mean, they're like pumped about this, you know, that they're losing, to Blake's point, a national identity. And it's just because they're flooding the zone so quickly and they have no problem with it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
That's the graph, by the way. If you could put that back up in the middle of us. That's the graph. I mean – I cannot imagine living. I mean, what is America at right now? 14% foreign born or something like that, Blake, which is already, you know, maxing the population and stressing the culture.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
I mean, which is one of the reasons president Trump got elected, but living in a country, I mean, this is, this is on their website, like from their national, like statistical, whatever the, that is stat can, you know, statistics, Canada, um, To live in a country bordering on 30% by 2036 of foreign-born population in Canada, that's extraordinary.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
And the amount of social upheaval that you would experience in a country with nearly 30% foreign-born is pretty unthinkable, actually. And I don't think Canada yet fully appreciates that unless they're all ready to subdue themselves and commit themselves to foreign, you know, invaders that will then have power over them, because that's what's going to happen.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
They will not they will not have the will, the national identity or the the internal, you know, strength constitution to overcome these these foreigners that are going to tell them how to live and how to vote and how to how to run their country. So Canada is a lost project. And I think what Blake, you might know this better than it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
But they've essentially Trudeau has said he's going to step down, but he's going to serve until something happens, essentially. So it was kind of a everybody celebrated it, but it was kind of like once you actually think about it, he was he's basically able to survive as a lame duck.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
You know, so our very own Jack Posobiec was an international traveling political superstar last week. Jack, tell us what it was like traveling with two of the all-star secretaries of the Trump administration.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
You're absolutely right, Blake. That was a good rant, by the way. Good for you. Do you feel better now? No, I don't feel better.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
canada yeah what did canada do to you blake they they were too close to my state growing up and i learned too much well i i can't disagree with anything you said i think it's all super fake uh trudeau has a an approval rating like basically less than you know i don't know uh
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
you know spam actually i like spam way more than trudeau um great yeah don't don't make that insulting it's probably not going to make it through maha but like listen here's the thing trudeau needs to go he kind of knows this but he found a little wiggle room until the party selects a new leader but then they still not going to have elections for like another year i don't understand why they don't just call snap election they should but the liberals know they'll lose power
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
I still have this vague childhood memory of seeing John Candy's death in the paper. I can't tell you what year it is, but – oh, wait. Hold on. Let me think. It was probably, what, like 92 or 93. I think so. Maybe 94. Let's see. John.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
I was close.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
That's crazy, right?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
I always think about those two in tandem, like two overweight, really beloved comedians, probably both had drug problems, although I don't know in John Candy's case. But, you know, at least they were overweight.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
It's a wild story.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
They had a very troubled relationship.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
O.J. Simpson.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Isn't it weird? O.J. 's dead?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Isn't it weird that O.J. is dead? Like, I realized this the other day. I was like, oh, yeah, I remember. He died, but, like, It didn't seem to crystallize. But he's dead. We're talking about dead stars somehow. Somehow Canada led to dead stars.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Breaking news.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Did you miss his rant, Charlie? It was pretty good, I have to say.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
And they were the ones that got into the fights, right, Jack?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
I love it. Hey, so I do want to do something really quick here. There's a story that we had on the list here, and we're going to keep on this game. We do have Daisy in the chair, yes, Blake?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Oh, my goodness.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Charlie, Charlie, we have a man bun story that we really need to get to. Blake can set it up. I have to set it up? I figured we needed a film voice.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
It's very easy. It's... It's the death of man bun feminism. And there was a big piece in the Free Press, which is, of course, run by Barry Weiss, about this guy that set himself up as the embodiment of man bun feminism. He was a male feminist and he had a big man bun. And now he is getting accused of sexual assault by a bunch of women. And the irony of that is pretty profound, I would think.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
There he is. And, you know, Blake, you usually set the you usually set the scene here. So you're going to have to give me one second. But the. The irony is just too rich not to talk about it. So here we go.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Well, why do we even have you here, then? We need your... So, Charlie... Charlie, I got to get Charlie's basic guttural take on the man bun. What do you do on campus when you see someone with a man bun come up to the mic and ask you a question? What's going through your head?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
We don't know who the bad guy is. Daisy, you know more about this story than any of us. But here are the allegations against Baldoni by Blake Lively. Lively said Baldoni improvised unwanted kissing on set and he discussed his sex life. Ooh. She said he watched her topless having her body makeup removed. She said he entered her trailer uninvited while she breastfed.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Her husband apparently said he fat shamed her by asking an on-set fitness trainer how much she weighed.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
finally when she complained baldoni baldoni set a team of reputation destroyers on her who set out to bury her quote-unquote with various negative stories but there's counters to all of this uh like there's a screen grab of of her inviting him into the trailer when she said like on text saying hey i'm just breastfeeding come in and practice lines with me or something like that um so i don't know the man bun it's just fun to make fun of the man bun right daisy
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Hold on. Before we do that, here's a quote from Baldoni. Writing from experience, Justin invites us to move beyond the scripts we've learned since childhood and the roles we are expected to play. He challenges men to be brave enough to be vulnerable. To be strong enough to be sensitive. To be confident enough to listen. Okay. Just wanted you guys to all feel that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
So cut 250, yeah, Daisy?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Charlie, I bet he would describe himself as a male feminist. It's just a wild guess, but I bet he would.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
LeBron. Like LeBron James.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
So, Jack, what did it feel like in Ukraine? Does it feel like business as usual? Does it feel like a war-torn country? I'm actually really curious about this because I think that the press coverage of Ukraine, the conflict with Russia, the war with Russia, has been pretty abysmal. I don't see... a lot of on the ground, like vibe checks.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Hulk Hogan.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
This is actually going to happen. Trump's serious about this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Balancing the budget?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
How sure are we that this is going to penetrate, that this is going to actually have the impact that we want? I mean, I think it's better that our leaders are doing it than not. But like, is it going to catch? Is it going to like seep down deep into the soul of the country?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
I kind of want to give a preview of last week's conversation. We cut a short for it. I don't think it's ready yet, but maybe we just throw it up. This has sparked quite the controversy of this discussion about you know, is Lord of the Rings is a gay or not. And I have it right here. It's not ready for publishing yet.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
It's not ready for the Internet yet, but we're going to put it on the Internet anyways.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
I don't see a lot of the reporting you would actually see normally, or you'd expect to see. And I think there's probably some really obvious reasons why we can get into that, but like, what did it actually feel like? I'm just me, just like an organic question. I'm. Yeah. Yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
It's so creepy.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Now I get it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
The whole point is... Yeah, the whole point is to screw you to the statue-tear-down people. Yes, exactly.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
I wasn't making an obvious connection.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Which completely makes everything okay.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Ravens linebacker. What was that? Ray Lewis? Was it Ray Lewis? That, like, murdered a guy.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
But he was a great athlete and a good commentator, so everything was fine.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
All right, Charlie. Charlie, the question is to you, Charlie. Can you revive the nation's patriotic spirit? Can you do it? Can you do it from on high?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Oh, this is a good one.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Oh, there you go. John Wayne. That's a good one. Rush definitely deserved it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
There's Bill Clinton. Is that supposed to be Hillary?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
The other woman.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Yeah, Crowder's.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
I mean, that's, it kind of reminds me of like my experiences in Israel, by the way, where it was just like, you know, people kind of with this imminent threat of, you know, missiles landing somewhere near them and rockets flying over their heads.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
So yeah, you, you sort of, I think the human experience is that you kind of normalize these things and you learn to live with them, but it's a, it's a very tragic thing. And I think that, on this note, Jack, that some of our audience could misconstrue our sort of like anti-continuing the war stance, you know, as being anti-Ukraine. It's not what it is. Like, we're very pro-Ukrainian people.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
It's a tragedy that all these people have died. A whole generation of Ukrainians have died in this conflict. But that doesn't change the point that this war never should have happened. It was unwinnable. I mean, Blake, you could probably summarize better than any of us. But the, you know, J.D.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Vance had this five-point breakdown of why the tone out of this administration is – it could feel anti-Ukraine, but it's not.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Yeah, I mean, I just remember like Trump's town hall with Caitlin Collins was like one of the first big events of the last campaign. And she pressed him on the Ukrainian conflict and said and he said, I just want the killing to stop. I just want the killing to stop. And at the end of the day, that is the most important thing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
We can debate about, you know, how much territory they need to cede, whether this was winnable at all. We can debate Biden's strategy of a ton of different things. But the bottom line is, like, we want the killing to stop. Ukrainians are good people. We want the killing to stop.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Well said. Blake, any thoughts? Do you want to read that comment?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
While we wait, we've got the clip coming. We've got, we've got another clip.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
And this is before he was president, like well before. I sent the old-timey image of Joshua Fry Speed. But there was, in 1926, a biography of Lincoln by Carl Sandburg alluded to the early relationship Lincoln and his friend Joshua Fry Speed had as having a streak of lavender and spots soft as May violets. And that kind of reminds me of Like a really good description of Frodo and Samwise.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
That's Ian McClellan.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
Yeah, but like, I also call it like, this is, you know, we're changing history here. I mean, I can guarantee you that maybe the movie's a little bit like homoerotic, but like, the books and the original... It says Grand Marshal.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
Yeah, but that's modern... you know, that's not, that's not the way the books were written. That's not the original intent. Oh, geez.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
You're going to make, that's the, that's, that's why I brought up Lincoln. So he has four kids. He was in a long relationship with his wife. What was her name? Mary Todd or whatever. And he had a history of having romantic relationships with other women before that. I'm not sure they were physical. But the point is everybody thought he was heterosexual his whole life.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
And then we get to like 2020 and all of a sudden he's gay. So I do want to make space for the fact that men can have intimate, non-sexual, very heterosexual relationships. Before the gay agenda took over modern pop culture, nobody would have thought differently about it. Stop it, Ryan. One of our producers keeps putting in very inappropriate pictures. Anyways, what it's worth.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
We have to make space for the fact.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
I totally agree. I totally agree. Here's, I don't know if this is going to help my case or hurt it depending on, but I'll never forget when I went to Italy and I, okay. So it's apparently going to hurt it based on Blake's reaction to Italy. But I remember going in Italy and there would be men holding hands, walking down the street, just holding hands.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
And they were, I asked, I was like, are they gay? And they're like, no, no, no. They're straight as an arrow. Like that's just men in Italy. They'll just hold, like if they feel close to another man, they'll just hold each other's hands. I'm just saying what I saw.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
Thanks for ruining a childhood favorite, Tyler. Really appreciate it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
Well, I'm just telling you what I saw. And men in Italy walked down the street together holding each other's hands.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
Wait, hold on. Not always.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
A lot of dudes are. That's so cliche. It's a shtick they use in the movie that men are nervous of talking to women. Only a certain subset of men are nervous.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
Hey, I will tell you that if you go watch Top Gun, the original, like go watch that for homoerotic.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
You're going to ruin Top Gun for all of us? I mean, Top Gun is objectively homoerotic.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
I'm telling you, there is a reason why there's a lot of rumors flowing around about the lead in that film, Tom Cruise. I'm just saying that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
Top Gun, the original 1980s Top Gun is the most homoerotic movie ever created. It's a fact.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
I mean, Top Gun is like, this is not me breaking news. Everybody knows Top Gun's homoerotic.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
Look at this. Esquire magazine. The Top Gun volleyball scene is not homoerotic.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
It is homosexual.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
No, that's the original one.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
Oh. Yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
Yeah. No, they brought it back because it was so popular in the first one. Yeah, well.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
This is why people pay the big bucks. Hold on. hold on i'm i'm this is top 10 macho blockbusters with hidden homoeroticism number 10 is ravenous from 1999 i've never heard of that uh 300 is number nine number eight top gun 1986 what are you talking about number seven come on yeah well because it's all these dudes running around yeah it's called like dudes who are like murdering other dudes yeah
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
All right, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy's Revenge from 1985, Tango and Cash, 1989, X-Men First Class, 2011.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
Ben Hur, 1959. I can see that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
that's just like what a gang is like a, you know, I just, I don't know if I agree with this at all.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
That would probably attract a certain type of mail even back then.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
Okay, so... I'm not saying that the government should be involved in it, which public transport makes it a bigger issue. Right. But I will tell you that I am very in favor of getting rid of like people listen to speakers or, you know, movies without headphones on planes, which is a private company.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
So I have run into this a lot where people just start talking on phones and they start they start playing clips from social media. And I'll be sitting right next to him and I'm just like, what's happening? Were you raised in a barn? I find this completely rude. I don't know why this is something that needs to be even discussed. You should know better.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Does Flying Stink Now? MAHA Day 1? LOTR = Gay?
You're a grown adult that is apparently capable enough to buy a plane ticket. Please turn that off. Put some headphones in. Whatever you got to do. So I'm pro-direction. And by the way, as conservatives, modern conservatives, we are in favor of using government power when it suits the common good.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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uh you know i think sometimes we can get ourselves caught in an ideological trap about freedom it's just like all freedom is good well i don't want to put poison in my hamburgers at mcdonald's so i don't know there is a role for this i i don't know that i have an answer as far as public transport but i will say at the very little at the very minimum it is extraordinarily rude and these people deserve to be mocked scorned and heaped abuse on publicly
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah, but you know what this is? I think we can pull it down. So loud. So loud. He's just staring back at him. No, it's fine. It's just hilarious. No, it's not fine. Don't wuss out. So here's what this is. And actually, Apple has fixed this. So if you're a couple on a plane, because I've run into this with my wife, where one of us has to put one headphone in,
The Charlie Kirk Show
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and the other puts the other headphone in so you can both watch the same thing as you're sitting next to each other on a flight. Now Apple lets you connect two different Bluetooth headphone devices. It's an innovation that I appreciate. So that I kind of understand, but there's no excuse. But here's what I think. If you got like a 90-10 issue,
The Charlie Kirk Show
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That like 90 percent of normal Americans would agree that it's extraordinarily rude to watch a phone on full volume in the plane while people are trying to sleep or have conversations or whatever. You should be able to regulate that. I have no problem with that. And here's the thing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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If you're not going to do that, if they're free to do that and we don't pass a law, then we should be free to approach that person. And if it gets violent to have no liability on us.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I'm sorry, but you're off the plane and you get handcuffed when we get to the next destination if we're over halfway. That's beyond the pale. You have no common courtesy. That person should be put on a no-fly list.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah. Charlie, Charlie, I want to check my thought process here with – back with your libertarian-leaning early days. I think that this is completely – this makes complete sense. Like we – we do not need to be afraid to use power.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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When we have an overwhelmingly positive 90-10 issue, yeah, maybe there's some doctrinaire conservative ideas that we're maybe crossing the line here, but this is just common courtesy. We talk about this with bullying, how we argued back and forth whether or not bullying had some upsides because it's become such a feminized...
The Charlie Kirk Show
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No, and every dog you see on the airplane, too, is not like a service dog. It's just somebody who's like, I'm going to call it a service dog, and I got my service license or whatever you have to do, certification. I can't stand that because I've
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It's all a con because everybody's too – like this is why I think we need to bring back bullying and like social policing and all the things because like there was a time and place where some a-hole tried to bring their dog on a plane. Like, you know, the guy would have looked over to the dog and been like, sorry, I'm not going to put up with that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Now, listen, I like dogs as much as the next guy, but, like, it's just gotten out of hand. It's gotten out of hand. Like, put the dog down in the – can't they do that? Like, they do that with horses. I know they ship horses.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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like overseas and they have like a cargo bin for the the horse you can literally put a horse on like a 747 they have a place to put it if you're trying to ship your horse overseas i think that's what we need to do with dogs most of the time this whole thing where like your dog gets is like beware you know underneath the seat in front of you is crazy uh because some of these people bring in like labradors and uh i was on one plane where there was a rottweiler luckily it was not in my my
The Charlie Kirk Show
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My three-seat row was across the aisle, but there was a Rottweiler down on the bottom of the seat. So that's my rant.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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What about on the subway? What about public transit? Do you know this? I haven't taken a subway in long enough that I don't even know.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Charlie, do you want to chime in? How about I start with this? I'm trying to learn. How about I start with this? Pete Davidson, his dad famously died in 9-11. He was like a New York kid, Staten Island. His dad died. OK, so that's kind of his origin story. I think he's got he's he's quintessential.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Eric 1986 says, we used to have dogs in baggage under the plane. Thank you, Eric 1986. That's what I thought.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Charlie, hold on. What do you think the proper solution is for public transit? So I think you agree on the plane, but what do you think about public transit and headphone listening, dogs, all the different ways people can game it?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Wow. So if anybody has... Any doubts that Charlie is no longer libertarian leaning from like 2018? Yeah, but it's not a libertarian.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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daddy daddy issues kind of millennial guy so then he becomes a comedian he was on SNL dated Kim Kardashian dated like apparently the deal with Pete Davidson and and I don't understand the fame thing either but he's dated a lot of really attractive women so apparently he's got some game I don't understand what the game is There's rumors about that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So hold on. The Tulsi. the safe skies list hey put up b-roll 21 211 okay like this i think this is not the point it's not what we're talking about no no but blake you're wrong it is not that tsa has made it less luxurious or worse we've done this to ourselves and this this this is a little fashion evolution i think is is key Like we used to have some standards people used to.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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But then he is, to Blake's point, he's probably the most surprising person that you would see reform his life in such a way. So I don't know if he had some really good alpha dad, and he's kind of reconnecting with that energy that he, you know, obviously with his dad's tragic death in 9-11, kind of fell away from it, and he just had a really long rebellious period. But he is... He's got something.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And now you go on airlines and it's like you're sitting next to somebody in their frickin PJs watching a phone with the speaker on no headphones and they smell and they got wheeled in on a wheelchair that they didn't need. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. Like the whole experience is ridiculous.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Some of these hobbits are still fixing their feet in the...
The Charlie Kirk Show
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He's got something because he's able to have the success that he had. He's produced and directed movies and I think co-wrote them. So it is a very telling cultural marker. I don't know if you can extrapolate too much from it, but good for him. I tend to think tattoos like the ones he had were pretty heinous and ugly and tacky. I would love to know what the people in the chat think.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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You can't spare a square. No, they charge you for everything.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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What do you guys think about tattoos in general? We do, to Blake's point, a lot of people in the MAGA world and conservative movement have a lot of tattoos. It's a military thing. But Pete Davidson's was definitely next level, next level tattoos.
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Yeah, but you're not stuck in one place seated the whole time. Yeah. Listen, I have not heard an idea like this much in a long time. We need to make American air travel great again. All right. None of it. Like, yes, there's got to be eliminate this whole industry.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And by the way, the amount of flights that I've flown in the last year that have been delayed because of mechanical failure or because of some light went on and they got to process the paperwork and they got to bring so and so in from this other outside hangar. And then it's like two and a half hours later, you're sitting there waiting for the flight to take off.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And you don't even know if it's going to take off. And you're like wrestling with do I try and book on another airline? I'm sick of this. We got to have some standards here. And Charlie's absolutely right. This needs to be remedied. I think Trump would get behind this, Charlie. I think Trump would totally agree with all of these. I hope so. I hope so, too, because I think he gets it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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He's the guy who's saying our airports need to be a better representation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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But to your point, I mean, the most recent foreign flight I think I took, it was on Korean Air. And these women were like on top of it. They were making sure you had everything you needed when you needed it. I mean, it was a little bit robotic, but it was it was impressive. And American Airlines or Delta or whatever is flying abroad, we need to be better representations of the American culture.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, we have to demand change when we have power. And I'm just saying, vibe shift starts with us. I'll never forget, Charlie, you remember when Tucker did this, when he went to Hungary and he was like, the architecture was so beautiful. And that started this, I would say, kind of renaissance within conservative intellectual circles saying, yeah, you know what? You're right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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We need to get our architecture game back on. And I think this is going to filter through where we demand excellence out of our own countrymen. and our own industries again. I think it's a good thing. It's a positive conversation. I endorse.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Drugs for kids.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Hold on. Didn't we already do something with red 40?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Biden did something. Yeah. At the end of Biden's term, he tried to like take it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I feel like if you're in the military, you get away with it, first of all. And, I mean, yeah, Leviticus 19.28, you shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves. But isn't that saying for the dead?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah. But, again, there's a lot of things in the Old Testament that we don't necessarily bring forward to the New Testament, like, you know, women's head coverings. I don't know. There's a bunch of stuff. You want to read those comments, Blake?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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He's young millennial, though, to be fair, to be fair. He's young millennial. He's the exact same age as Charlie Kirk, basically. He's like a month younger than you, Charlie.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I'm so fascinated. What does the chat think?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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He looks like he's strung out, Oklahoma stoner chick. I probably would trust her, too. Too skinny. What are you looking at? Because the sun doesn't hit it. I think the comments are not feeling very positive about Mr. Pete Davidson. Pete Davidson? Yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So he's dated Madeline Klein, who's apparently somebody. Some Chase Sue Wonders. I don't know any of these people. This is hilarious. He dated Ariana Grande. He dated Emily Radachowski, whatever her name is. You know, she's kind of like famous for being famous. Kim Kardashian, Phoebe DeNever. Don't know who that is. Oh, I recognize her face. So she's some actress. Kaya Gerber. I don't know.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It's like a lot of famous Kate Beckinsale. He dated Kate Beckinsale.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah. Kazzy David. I don't know who that is. Anyways. They're all like obviously noteworthy people to some extent. So he's got some game. But he's like the – celebs like to date effeminate men, says Crimson Blackard. I kind of think that's right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Let's throw it up. There it is. I'm telling you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Pop Culture Power Hour: Joe Burrow's Surprise Houseguest, Jay-Z's Abuse Allegations, Duke Lacrosse Accuser Recants
all right back by popular demand everybody this is the pop culture power hour with daisy phelps our resident swifty and pop culture expert i guess she at least pays attention she knows what's going on and blake neff who always has a contrarian take we love him for it you're not gonna miss it we go through allegations against jay-z and diddy and lebron james question mark
The Charlie Kirk Show
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All right, so before we leave this Jay-Z thing and this Diddy thing, I do want to bring up the LeBron James angle. This is something, you know, maybe I forgot Snoop Lion, Snoop Dogg or whatever, but I do follow sports closely. And LeBron James has for many years, basically 20 years in the league, been the best player in the league ever.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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essentially, if you take it by average, there's been years where some other players would come up and take him. But here's what I will say. 20, 22 years in the league, he's been basically the best player. He's taken time away from the game. And he is now, for personal reasons, he mislikes 23 pointers in a row, something that has never happened in his career. He's saying he's gassed. He's tired.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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He's saying, you know, he may not play in the league that much longer. So there's a lot of rumors going on about LeBron. Is he going to get traded? Is there something else going on? So all of this kind of overlaps with the Jay-Z Diddy scandal that's going on.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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the fact that jay-z just got looped into this and is there going to be something with lebron now this is all internet rumor obviously unsubstantiated we have no reason to believe this is true but i will say there is this one clip that is is is circulating remember the freak offs are the big story with diddy and all of the mishaps that have happened there the criminality allegations of rape
The Charlie Kirk Show
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go ahead and play cut 124 this is a a from a sort of like a i guess there's an instagram stream daisy maybe you know um where you know lebron joined diddy and he's got diddy's got his friends or maybe even his son behind him and they're they're talking about diddy's parties 124. hey everybody know ain't no party like a diddy party so yeah that's your son not a good look
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah, and we were throwing that B-roll up there too of them together, which I hope we can still play. But so now there's all this speculation with Jay-Z getting wrapped up into it. Maybe LeBron is having – knows something's coming down the pike. But again – Internet rumors, speculation. I'm sure Blake will tell me there's nothing to this story.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Pop Culture Power Hour: Joe Burrow's Surprise Houseguest, Jay-Z's Abuse Allegations, Duke Lacrosse Accuser Recants
I am joined this hour by... resident talents, Blake Neff and Daisy Phelps, our resident culture expert, pop culture expert, I would say. Yeah, that's you. You're also our resident Swifty. We try not to judge her too harshly for that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Pop Culture Power Hour: Joe Burrow's Surprise Houseguest, Jay-Z's Abuse Allegations, Duke Lacrosse Accuser Recants
Well, he does know about ditty parties. And I'm just saying.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Pop Culture Power Hour: Joe Burrow's Surprise Houseguest, Jay-Z's Abuse Allegations, Duke Lacrosse Accuser Recants
They have money. Well, I think you're right, Daisy, because there's a lot of photographs of like Ellen DeGeneres with, you know, she was really close to Diddy and she had the tweet about cuddling Diddy or something. Anyways, she's now in Great Britain and we don't have to deal with Ellen DeGeneres anymore. Yeah, her house flooded immediately upon going. It's almost like karma.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Pop Culture Power Hour: Joe Burrow's Surprise Houseguest, Jay-Z's Abuse Allegations, Duke Lacrosse Accuser Recants
So, hey, Blake, you really want to hit this story about Joe Burrow.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Pop Culture Power Hour: Joe Burrow's Surprise Houseguest, Jay-Z's Abuse Allegations, Duke Lacrosse Accuser Recants
So overlapping story here. Didn't LeBron James's house get burgled as well in L.A.? I believe it did. And I think, you know. And we have these Chilean gangs all over the state of California.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Pop Culture Power Hour: Joe Burrow's Surprise Houseguest, Jay-Z's Abuse Allegations, Duke Lacrosse Accuser Recants
Is it out and out that they have an affair and
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, we don't know. She could have been a housekeeper.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It could have been on a break. It could have been the Ross and Rachel thing where they were on a break. And by the way, happy 35th birthday to Taylor Swift.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I don't feel as obligated to give her credit, but I will say I actually had the same instinct. I feel like the blowback on Taylor Swift in 2020 was, I would say, pretty harsh from half the country, and therefore she wanted to find a way to sort of thread the needle, do what she felt like she'd check the box and move on. And you were right, Daisy. You were right. Thank you. All right, so...
The Charlie Kirk Show
Pop Culture Power Hour: Joe Burrow's Surprise Houseguest, Jay-Z's Abuse Allegations, Duke Lacrosse Accuser Recants
All right, so I was a little, you know, unsure of where we were going to go with this last and final segment, but there are two things stories that actually kind of work together. And I have to hit this, Blake. This is Crystal Mangum, the woman who falsely accused the Duke lacrosse players. And then I guess she killed somebody who's been in prison.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Pop Culture Power Hour: Joe Burrow's Surprise Houseguest, Jay-Z's Abuse Allegations, Duke Lacrosse Accuser Recants
She has come out and she basically, she's still in prison. She has come out and has apologized for lying. And Blake, you can expound upon the ramifications that this story had nationwide after this clip, but let's go ahead and play at 147.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Pop Culture Power Hour: Joe Burrow's Surprise Houseguest, Jay-Z's Abuse Allegations, Duke Lacrosse Accuser Recants
But Blake, this also had legislative and bureaucratic agencies got involved and they started changing the way universities had to deal with these sexual assault allegations nationwide.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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But that is not where we're starting. If anywhere, we're starting on the other pop culture icon, female singer, more with the Beyonce side. Because some massive, massive, I wouldn't say revelations, but allegations have come out that
The Charlie Kirk Show
Pop Culture Power Hour: Joe Burrow's Surprise Houseguest, Jay-Z's Abuse Allegations, Duke Lacrosse Accuser Recants
Oh, go ahead.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Pop Culture Power Hour: Joe Burrow's Surprise Houseguest, Jay-Z's Abuse Allegations, Duke Lacrosse Accuser Recants
Well, everything that the left does, and they sort of, they sort of put out into the universe as their source of compassion, that they're the nice people and that conservatives are bad, ultimately has this boomerang effect, this backfire effect. Me Too had this backfire effect where now we just sort of assume that many
The Charlie Kirk Show
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trumped up that they you know pun intended and you know i i think you see that at the border we have the humane border policy oh well tell that to lake and riley's family that your your policies are humane tell that to the hundred thousand fentanyl deaths every year because you think your uh immigration policies are humane you're killing people you're sowing chaos and distrust um i don't know if this was a pop culture topic or not but it certainly i think was worth covering thanks so much for listening everybody we'll talk to you soon
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I'm very millennial in this conversation. So here's but I was I was planning on going down the list. I actually think that the waterfall of names is a pretty funny thing. I mean, you've got something similar with with who am I thinking of? We'll skip that, I guess. But there's names. See, this is how bad I am at pop culture, which is why you're here, Daisy. So here's the point.
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Oh, it's like Lion, right? What's the guy's name? I'm really lost now.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Snoop Dogg, Snoop Lion, there was, like, stuff like... Anyways.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I know. He's so, like, establishment and brand vibe now. He's doing, like, this guy who was literally in gangs. Anyways, that's another story. So, okay. So, Diddy... a very high profile case against him, freak offs, he was recording people doing terrible things, inviting them, underage women have come out and sued him, allegations of rape, very disturbing things.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Pop Culture Power Hour: Joe Burrow's Surprise Houseguest, Jay-Z's Abuse Allegations, Duke Lacrosse Accuser Recants
Now, which is interesting because there's a lawyer named Tony Busby who's been on this show when he was defending Ken Paxton from impeachment in Texas, He is now representing many of these accusers, and he sent a letter that I believe we have a copy of, 135. Actually, he sent a letter making these allegations, and then Jay-Z replied back with this. This is a wild letter that Jay-Z wrote back.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Daisy, tell us more about this letter. It is. It's very... It seems like he wrote it.
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The Charlie Kirk Show
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Blake. Yeah, Blake. He makes a point in this letter where he says, if you believe all this stuff is true, why don't you why? Why is this not a criminal case? Which I actually thought was an interesting point. He said, you know, if you believe that a minor is getting raped and you say I did it, why are you?
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Well, yeah, put up 142, the B-roll there. This is like, so Beyonce was born in 1981 and Jay-Z was born in 1969, it looks like.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I do want to hear the rest. I just want to make very clear these are allegations. These are Internet rumors. Continue.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Who Rules: Judges or the President?
Everybody, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show. Charlie is out today. So myself, Andrew Colvett, executive producer of the show, along with Blake Neff, anchor this hour. And we also welcome Senator Rick Scott to the show. We talk about The Alien Enemies Act of 1789, how President Trump and the Trump administration defied a court order. We talk about national injunctions.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Who Rules: Judges or the President?
If you're going to pick a fight, do it there because it's the firmest footing that a president has constitutionally. I love this. I think politically, optically, I love all of it. And I love that the White House was essentially You know, specifically Stephen Miller was itching for this showdown with Article 3. So it's an Article 2 versus Article 3 showdown. I think it's the perfect one to do it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Who Rules: Judges or the President?
Nobody likes Trend de Aragua. They need to go. And the American people agree with them on that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Who Rules: Judges or the President?
Everybody, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. Andrew Colvett in for the one and only Charlie Kirk, who's a little under the weather today. Never fear. He's on the mend. Full schedule this week. Going to go straight from Phoenix over to Wisconsin for a rally with Don Jr., then over to Atlanta for a pastured summit. Full steam ahead, but he is on the mend.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Who Rules: Judges or the President?
telling it like it is. There's another clip going around, and maybe we'll get to it, of him defending a 200-year-old law. No, it wasn't the Alien Enemies Act. It was actually the Constitution. So good for Tom Homan. Good for the president. I love this fight. We are joined by the great senator from Florida, Senator Rick Scott. Welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show, sir. Honored to have you.
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Thank you for making the time, even though Charlie's out sick today. Well, I hope he feels better, and I'm glad you're healthy. Well, yeah, we're hanging in there. I got three little kids. I'm surprised I'm not down as well. Usually they're passing around their germs very successfully over at the Colvett household. Senator, I want to get your take on this uproar over the Alien Enemies Act, 1789.
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Trump is invoking it to rid the country of Trendyaragua members. Meanwhile, a judge, activist judge, who's got a history with Trump, by the way, he The administration defies that order, says it's over international waters, continues down to El Salvador. Bukele has our back, says too late, too bad. What is your take on this? Do you like this approach from the administration?
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Yeah. And I think, you know, Senator, it occurs to me that we're going to get into some of this polling that we're I mean, it's just shocking the polling that's coming out. over this weekend from NBC, CNN.
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But it shocks me that the Democrats seem to continually find themselves on the losing end of an 80-20 issue, and they keep doing it, and they're digging their heels in, it seems like, just to get Trump. I personally love that President Trump, Stephen Miller, the White House is picking this fight amongst all the other fights they could pick. Now, there's some stat, Senator, where
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national injunctions, there was more in the first month of President Trump's administration than there were in the first three years of the Biden administration. What can the Senate do? I know Chuck Grassley's chimed in on social media. What can the Senate do as part of its role to rein in this judicial activism?
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So your prayers are appreciated, but he's doing better. Still getting better. So I'm in the chair today. Always an honor to be with you. I am joined by the one and only Blake Neff, who if the show goes off the rails too much, we're just going to talk about Roman history. That's what we'll do, Blake. Exactly. You and me. I get to be the quizzer. So, Blake, there's so much in the news today.
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Yeah, millions. I mean, Tom Homan, I think he's asking for like $170 billion. And meanwhile, we're cutting everything else, which we should be. It's the one area of the federal budget that I think Americans are going to look at and say, yeah, we need more there. Do you have high hopes now that we've gotten past this?
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this showdown with Schumer, which his base is very upset with him about, Senator Scott. They're very, very mad. And we're going to get into that in just a sec. Do you have hopes that the Senate is going to be able to move on from this CR showdown and get this budget reconciliation, one big, beautiful bill on the president's desk? Are you feeling good about our prospects there?
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I really hope that I think I think after the Schumer cave, and it really was a cave. I mean, I think I like our I like our chance. I like our momentum, Senator. And I want to get into this. Now people are talking about AOC primarying Chuck Schumer. You know, Chuck Schumer is just now this is breaking this morning. He's canceled a book tour, Senator. Let's go ahead and play cut 81.
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Senator, what do you make of this backlash to Schumer and his choice ultimately to fund the government? Break that whole scene down for us. You were there. You were inside the halls. What happened?
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You know, there's a crazy stat, Senator. In the last two years of the Biden presidency, one out of four new jobs created were government jobs. One out of four. And so when we talk about the bloat... Yeah, Andrew, on top of that,
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Genuinely a fascinating weekend that we had. I mean, we've got egg prices have been dropping off a cliff, thankfully. The left loves that. We've got reciprocal tariffs coming in. Scott Besson had a fascinating interview this weekend. Those are coming into effect on April 2nd. The market's all up in arms. We're going to see what happens there.
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I think you're right. Structurally, this economy was surviving on a sugar high. There was a bunch of monetary games being played to juice it for Kamala right at the finish line. Trump has to get our economy back on stable footing with free and fair trade deals with all these partners, especially the European Union, Canada, Mexico, and so on.
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Now, Senator, Charlie put this clip up over the weekend. Your team said that you guys saw this. So let's go ahead and play this. This is right track, wrong track. The country is responding really positively to the Trump agenda. Let's go ahead and play Cut 64.
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All right, so I wanna pair that, Senator, with one other clip. So 44% of Americans think the country's on the right track. Meanwhile, Democrats are struggling. Play cut 60.
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Trump is just scrambling their brains. Meanwhile, the American people are seeing action and they love it. Senator, one minute, your reaction to all of that.
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Well, Senator Scott, you are one of the good ones in the Senate. You're fighting for us, the people, the base. We got your back 100%. Thank you for fighting as well to balance the budget. I love that you brought up that phrase, balance the budget. We are... like a heat seeking missile on, on that. We, we, we know we got to get through some of this stuff in the short term.
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This right track, wrong track polling is incredible, historic. We've got attacks against the Houthis that have been messing with our trade routes in the Middle East. We've got the Alien Enemies Act, which is probably the big story of the weekend, Blake, and that's what we're going to start with. and then just polling in general.
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We want to keep our eye on the prize, a balanced budget, a made in America, economic boom, low inflation boom. These are the prizes that if we stay the course, I really genuinely think we have a chance of seeing materialized in the short and in the near future. So thank you for fighting for that, sir. And, and thanks for your time this morning.
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Blake, react, if you will, for a moment to the senator's comments. I mean... You've got a Republican party that seems, there is chaos, there is tumult. I mean, there's tariff craziness going on, but the Democrats are in disarray. This reaction to Trump and his policies and the force of Trump,
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So we were so used to getting polling all the time during the election and the run-up to the presidential election that it's kind of novel now to get a set of polls out that tell us anything about the way the country's feeling. Blake, let's start with the big news of the weekend, and that is President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of like 1789. It's over 200 years old, this act.
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No, I totally agree. We always have to be vigilant. I think the difference between this conservative movement and one of the eras past is we are more vigilant. We are more activated. There's a really powerful graphic, actually, if I can pull it up just really quick, that shows the power of the conservative media world compared to Democrats right now. These are unprecedented times.
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And I have the team throw this up really quick. And actually, Charlie is prominently featured in this in this display, but it shows the conservative media sort of, if you will, ecosystem versus the Democrat ecosystem. If you see, there's a lot more red blobs out there. And I think this is actually what they're freaking out about, Blake.
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I think Democrats have been so accustomed to dominating media, dominating narrative from the Washington Post and New York Times and CNN and MSNBC and so on, that they are not
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everything that they're throwing at the wall doesn't seem to stick because all of those red bubbles in there, and Charlie's up in the upper left-hand corner if you're watching this, are able to push back against the lies and nothing is sticking.
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So even when there's turmoil or chaos, and some of the cell phones from the Trump administration, which do happen, we're able to push through it unlike previous moments. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Talk to you soon.
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And he did it to deport a plane full of about 250 Tren de Aragua gang members. And he sent them to El Salvador. Bukele was involved. While the plane is in flight, a judge orders this plane to be turned around. He puts an injunction on it, says Trump doesn't have the authority to invoke the Alien Enemies Act.
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And the Trump administration defies that order, claiming that the plane was already in international airspace. Therefore, the order was null and void. It did not apply to that situation. The criminals, the Tren de Aragua gang members, are now in El Salvador at the terrorism detention center there. But the controversy is ongoing.
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Everybody on the left is claiming this is going to be a constitutional crisis. And actually, Blake, on the one hand, they might be right. You're even hearing voices on the right now saying this is a constitutional crisis because these national injunctions by these district court judges, of which there are more than 200 of them,
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actually have, this has been a crisis that the Trump administration wanted to pick. They wanted to pick a fight. And the question was, which was the right pick or a fight to pick? Your take, Blake.
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Well, I'm fascinated. I mean, you bring up an interesting point that we had over 200,000 or two, you know, maybe depending on what the number is, it was either 10, 15. Trump has said it's up to 20 million illegal migrants entering the country. Hard to know what that number is. But, you know, there wasn't national injunction saying, you know,
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Joe Biden actually has to enforce the border laws that we have on the books. There wasn't, you know, it only seems to work one way. And I think that's ultimately where the frustration lies is that they do a lot of judge shopping and these activist liberal judges view the judiciary, the role of the judges of the Article III, you know, courts in this country, they view it more from an activist lens.
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So we're almost at a structural disadvantage because conservative judges tend to, to not overstep their boundaries as much, whereas an activist judge sort of feels the need to do so, right? And so there's actually, it's easier for the left to activate this policy now, or this tactic, if you will.
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There was some in the Texas showdown. No, no, absolutely. I'm saying that, by and large, one side does has been more active that would provoke more of a reaction from the left. But in general terms, this is a tactic that the left has employed far more successfully and far more times than has happened on the right.
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And I think just by disposition, a conservative judge is less likely to go stick his foot into matters that he or she doesn't feel they need to. But yeah, it does happen. Both sides granted, point taken. But what I'm also fascinated about Like, is this idea of the strategy behind this? So they've essentially been itching for this fight in the Trump administration.
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All of these national injunctions that have come down, there is a whole legal theory behind this where a district court is, and by the way, there's more activities happening. There's more people that are working on this behind the scenes. The theory is that a district court should only apply to the people that are involved in it from the plaintiff and defendant standpoint.
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It should not therefore be a nationwide injunction. And, you know, I think there's some strong evidence you know, historical rationale behind that. But this idea that one judge can then essentially rule the country, at least in specific policies, is a very, very new phenomenon in the republic. And we can break all that down. But this is the showdown of the early Trump administration.
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Can judges overrule the will of the people in the Article II vested powers of the presidency? That is the question. That is the showdown that we are in.
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I mentioned before the break that I was really fascinated about the strategy of this. And so just to let people in behind the scenes of what happened is they basically tried to, you know, oftentimes Trump will sign these executive orders really publicly. It's for all the world to see. They did this in sort of secret where he's invoked the 1789 law, the alien enemies act. And then it got leaked.
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They found out about this. They rushed to get these 250, uh, Tren de Aragua gang members, domestic terrorists, if you will, but from a foreign gang, on the plane as ASAP. The thing goes to court. These guys are in the air as this ruling happens. They say, well, over international waters. Do you think this was the right fight to pick just because of the optics?
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Because essentially it puts the Democrats in a place where they have to say, well, we're defending criminal gang members. Do you think that's the right pick? Do you think this was the right fight to pick this with these courts?
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Well, in this district judge, James Boasberg, you know, this is the judge that that essentially stepped in and said that you can't be using the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 to deport these 250 alleged Trende Arago gang members.
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This is also a guy, by the way, that gave Eric Cimarella, if you will recall from the FBI investigation of Trump, he was the one who falsified the actual FBI documents, which is a federal crime, a very serious one. This is the same judge that basically gave him a slap on the wrist.
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So that's a weird, you know, little wrinkle here that some, you know, I've heard other Republicans say, hey, this guy has it out for Trump. He's an anti-Trump judge. You can't trust this guy. It's a very serious crime that Cimarella committed against, well, the country, specifically targeting President Trump.
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And this is that, so that judge has come back around now and is a thorn in the side of the Trump administration. My two cents here is that If you are going to pick a fight, the authority vested in the president to handle foreign activities, whether that be immigration or war or treaties with other countries, is pretty established within the courts.
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Yes. I mean, I think what you guys were just saying, I've never in the history of diplomacy, of White House visits, seen anything like this. It's explosive. It's unprecedented. I don't know if anybody in the news media landscape knows where things go from here, other than the fact that Zelensky has left the White House. There's been no deal signed. I mean, that is a complete devolution of
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of that relationship, and it is historic. I mean, normally these things are scripted. Everybody plays nice. Everybody's on their best behavior. The fact that J.D. Vance blew all that up, I mean, really it was Zelensky, but the fact that J.D. Vance stepped in and, as Alex says, defended our country's honor in that moment was striking. I think it says a lot about his courage.
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You know, we've been talking balls. Well, I think we got another guy here that also exhibited a lot of courage under fire and a lot of gusto. And I'm really proud of JD for standing up for our honor. He's going to get lambasted in the MSM and the legacy news media for breaking protocol, whatever. I don't care.
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Zelensky started this exchange and JD Vance wasn't going to sit idly by watching it happen. I completely think that Zelensky comes out looking like the unhinged foreign oligarch that he is. And I think people with eyes to see it are going to see it. I think this changes dramatically, at least in the short run, the way that I see this negotiation for peace playing out.
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But it could very well mean that Zelensky is going to simply defy anything that the U.S. proposes. Even if we try and broker a peace, Zelensky could very well just try and thumb his nose at the Americans, which is, I would say, political death sentence for him if he actually allows a democratic process to play out within Ukraine.
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So we're in uncharted territory, but I absolutely, to your point, Alex, I think before where you said, He's never been confronted with the depth of his, just how unpopular he's become, and especially within conservative circles.
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And this was a come to Jesus moment for him that he simply refused to acknowledge because he's had smoke blown up as you know what for so long with Hollywood, the foreign press, our press in the United States. So I couldn't be more stunned, shocked, surprised that this happened. but actually really grateful at J.D. Vann.
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This is CNN Christiane Amanpour's reaction to what just transpired in the Oval Office. 273.
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Who wants to take the mistruths and misfacts?
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Well, and you know, Kurt, what strikes me here is that this could essentially force Zelensky to run into the arms of Europe, and Europe's talking tough on Russia still. But here's the problem. They have so, you know, they have so lacked, there's been a lack of investment in their own security defense because they've been leaning on the United States.
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And so Trump had that one line where he said, you have no cards to play. You have no cards to play. His only card is to run into the arms of the Europeans, but the Europeans are feckless, weak. They have not invested in their own security. And so is that even a card to play? What does Zelensky do next?
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I totally agree. Blake. Is this a bluff from Trump or was this like he means business?
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That's his genius.
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Yeah. And Kurt, I don't know if you saw the statement, because I know you're driving, but President Trump released a statement basically saying that you know, he's not ready for peace yet. He disrespected us in our cherished Oval Office. But here's how he ends it, Kurt. He says he can come back when he is ready for peace. Basically, Trump is saying there's no option to move forward.
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We settle or you're on your own.
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I totally agree with this. You know, I've been thinking about this clip a lot lately, Kurt. It was that Jasmine Crockett. I think she was talking about the hockey game with US versus Canada. And she was saying, I'm rooting for Canada. I'm rooting for Mexico. This is a sitting US Congresswoman who openly admits that she's rooting against her own country.
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But yeah, we could say that that's just about a sports event. But that mindset is emblematic across the political spectrum. It doesn't matter if it's about negotiations with Ukraine, about Greenland, Panama, deporting criminals. All of this, you've got one side of the country, let's call them 35%. Maybe it's less, maybe it's more.
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35% of those is an incredible amount of people in this country that I guarantee you are rooting for foreign nations that are going to be siding with Zelenskyy, And that 35%, when you take it to our press corps, is probably more like 85%, 90%. So don't expect, you listening in the audience, for the U.S. media to look favorably on what just happened.
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They're going to say this is blowing up norms, it's destroying the world order that's been led by America. No. I see it completely differently.
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This is President Trump reasserting American dominance and American leadership in a pragmatic, realistic way on the global stage, telling our allies that they will not treat us like garbage anymore, and we're not your kicking post, and we're not your piggy bank, and we're going to assert our wants, needs, and desires, our interests ahead of everybody else's, and to the extent that those align, fantastic, and to the extent they don't, too bad, so sad, get in line.
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I happen to think that Trump is the master at reading leverage and just intuitively understanding this. And I think he's gamed this out. Game theory in Trump's head has already played out in five different ways. And I think he knows he's got this guy dead to rights. I think he knows that he said it right there. He says, you've got no cards without us. With us, you've got cards.
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So, you know, and I tend to believe the press statement from the White House saying he was begging for a reset. Hey, everything's fine. We argued it out. What's a little fight tomorrow? Well, you know, we'll be bros again kind of thing. I think I think they're not playing around. And I think this is years of being frustrated. The Biden regime's handling of this of this conflict.
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And it just it just boiled over. And I think Trump's I think Trump's already sized up the leverage. Kurt, if you want to reply, you got about 30 seconds till our break.
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No, I mean, listen, I just find the whole thing – I just think it was a rebalancing. I actually see Trump has gotten into worse fights with Marco Rubio in the past, in my opinion. I see this as an opportunity for him to really let them know that he's not messing around. He wants peace. He wants this thing over. He's not interested in Ukraine's, you know,
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trying to get the Donbass back or trying to fight for Crimea. I mean, Ukrainian's position is basically we want the entire territorial integrity pre-war back in Ukrainian hands, probably back before 2014. That's not going to happen. That's not going to happen for a lot of reasons. First of all, Russia's not going to concede that. Second of all, nobody can make them.
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Third of all, they're not giving up Crimea. Fourth of all, these are regions that want to be part of Russia. And yeah, we've lost a generation of Ukrainian men. They're going to fight it out to the bitter end. That's a terrible strategy. That's terribly
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when you've been beat, when you have reached a stalemate, and the only sensible thing to do, I think Trump sees this, is to basically sue for peace. That's the only sensible thing that is left on the table, because we're not going to keep bankrolling this quagmire forever.
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And on one level, and when we come back from the break, I'd love to get your opinion on this, Kurt, I do feel bad for Ukraine on some level. As Mersheimer said, and we're going to play this clip, they have been led down the primrose path by the West, saying that we were going to have their back.
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to the bitter end, didn't matter what, we're going to push off Russia and we're going to bring you into the West. We're going to let you join NATO. And basically, Putin called the West bluff and said, screw you, I'm going to invade. Now, I don't like Putin. Putin's not a good guy.
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But how would we feel if the, and we got a taste of this with the Cuban Missile Crisis, if Russia was parked outside our doorstep, pointing nukes at us, pointing weapons at us, and advancing an alliance that they built closer and closer to our doorstep. We wouldn't like it at all. Now, I'm not saying we would go bomb Cuba, but that was on the table, Kurt.
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You know, I'm not as good of a student of history as you. But listen, I mean, we've got to understand that Putin is maybe a malicious actor, but he's not an irrational actor.
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Yeah. And we have breaking news here, Alex. Let's go ahead and put up 288. So Zelensky has now gone on Twitter X and released the following statement. He says, thank you, America. Thank you for your support. Thank you for this visit. Thank you, POTUS, Congress and the American people. Ukraine needs just and lasting peace. And we are working exactly for that.
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Yeah, it feels a little bit like here's what's going to happen. I can almost play out the next three steps, Alex. And I'm curious if you agree. According to White House sources, he basically begged the White House for a reset. Like, let's calm down. Let's try this again. Let's go. I don't think he's leaving D.C.,
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I think what's going to happen is his people are going to reach out to the White House. They're going to try and say, hey, let's do this behind closed doors. There's going to be a, I'm sorry, let's get the deal done. You're right. We need America's support behind us. I don't want to push you into Russia's arms here. I don't want you to be working closer with Putin than with us. I apologize.
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Trump's going to end up getting his deal. And Trump's going to then say, hey, Putin, we got the deal. It was a little rough getting there, but we got there. And we're on the same page now. We need peace. We're not going to leave Ukraine hanging. And he's going to keep playing both sides in such a way until they both meet in the middle. That's how I think Trump is playing this.
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He's going to use his leverage on each to get them into a position where he can use them.
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Yeah. I, And I think that's been a really interesting dynamic here to the extent that Ukraine really wants to not have to make so many concessions. I mean, I think if you look at a map of Ukraine, Ryan, maybe you can grab that for us, where the territorial expansion of the Russian forces into Ukraine has happened. I think he's looking at that map and he's already piecing it apart.
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He's saying like, I'm going to give here, but I want that one. And I can't come out losing all of it, essentially.
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Can I just make an observation here? And listen, Lindsey Graham is one of those guys that infuriates MAGA. He infuriates the base. And many times... We ask ourselves, why is he keeping this snake close to him, to Trump? Why does Trump keep him close to him? And then at a moment like this, you can almost guarantee the two men talked and Lindsay's like, oh, I got an idea.
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I know how to shore this up. I know how to bring this dog to heel. I'm going to say I was disappointed that I obviously, you know, it's an amazing asset in Trump's back pocket to deploy Lindsey Graham at a time like this and get him on the same page. And Lindsey's a shrewd politician. He knows who butters his bread. He knows he's got to stay in alignment with the president on this.
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And so him coming out saying that is – I mean, I'm looking at the reactions on social media. It's like when you lose Lindsey Graham, you've lost everything, right? I mean, it's an amazing card to play, and it speaks pretty – pretty well to Trump's ability to use different assets and use different allies and keep them close for just such a time as this.
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I thought you were going a whole different direction there, Blake. What did you think I was going to say? I don't know.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Don't Disrespect Our Oval Office — Trump/Vance v. Zelenskyy
He said he wasn't going to wear a suit until the war was over. I mean, whatever.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Don't Disrespect Our Oval Office — Trump/Vance v. Zelenskyy
I believe it's loaded. Go ahead and play it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Don't Disrespect Our Oval Office — Trump/Vance v. Zelenskyy
Yeah, no, I totally agree. To me, the most striking part about that exchange was Vance goes out on such a limb. I mean, Vance was breaking the seal in a massive way. Like, we've never seen that. The tearing of the veil. He's the one who started it. And Trump had an opportunity to either rein him back in and say, hey, everything's good, we're good. But he didn't.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Don't Disrespect Our Oval Office — Trump/Vance v. Zelenskyy
He took his side, had his back, and threw down the gauntlet. I mean, it was amazing, amazing, quick thinking there by President Trump. And we have the other Lindsay clip, right, Blake?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Don't Disrespect Our Oval Office — Trump/Vance v. Zelenskyy
Yeah, and I think Charlie would agree. I know Charlie's been texting me. He's on campus right now, but he's getting news of this blow up. But yeah, listen, I think Trump I go back to something I said before. I think Trump is a master at understanding leverage. He's shown this. Now, he pushes it really, really far to a point of risk that a lot of your punditry class are not comfortable with.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Don't Disrespect Our Oval Office — Trump/Vance v. Zelenskyy
One of the basic pendulum spectrums that you can assess a human being on is their risk tolerance. Trump has a very high risk tolerance. And your punditry class does not have a risk tolerance. And so that's why they go into punditry. That's why they go and get, you know, jobs working for these outlets. And, you know, they're not entrepreneurs. Trump is an entrepreneur.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Don't Disrespect Our Oval Office — Trump/Vance v. Zelenskyy
He understands what it means to play high stakes poker. Yes, sometimes you're going to lose a hand or two, but I think Trump sized it up in an instant. He understands that he has a lot more leverage in this poker game than Zelensky does. And he looked at him and he said, you got no cards. Verbatim, he said, you got no cards. Without us, you got no cards.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Don't Disrespect Our Oval Office — Trump/Vance v. Zelenskyy
I think what's going to happen in the next 24 to 48 hours, I don't think Zelensky is leaving. If he does leave, he's not leaving this conversation. I think what he's going to do is he's going to back channel with the White House and the staff. And he's going to try and basically apologize, say things got too heated. I apologize. I didn't mean to disrespect you or your country.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Don't Disrespect Our Oval Office — Trump/Vance v. Zelenskyy
You see that indication from his tweet saying thank you to America. Thank you to POTUS. you know, into Congress and the American people, we need peace and we're going to work on that. So he's understanding that our appetite for continuing to fund a kinetic war in Eastern Europe is about nothing. Now, I think the American people, our sympathies still lie with Ukraine.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Don't Disrespect Our Oval Office — Trump/Vance v. Zelenskyy
If you took the polling as a nation as a whole, our sympathies are with Ukraine. I certainly feel sympathetic towards the Ukrainian people, less so towards Zelensky, who I think is an uppity foreigner, who has been swindling us out of a lot of and his own people out of blood. I have zero sympathy for him. But at the end of the day, I think he's going to come back.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Don't Disrespect Our Oval Office — Trump/Vance v. Zelenskyy
I think he's going to come back to the table and we're going to get this deal done. That's what I think. I think Trump wants this deal done.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Don't Disrespect Our Oval Office — Trump/Vance v. Zelenskyy
And I think if he does it, if he signs it, if Zelensky moves forward with this, I think what you're going to see is you're going to see Trump come back into the side of Zelensky, use that as leverage against Russia, and they're going to hammer something out and Ukraine's going to have to make some concessions. There's no reality here where Ukraine does not make a lot of concessions.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Don't Disrespect Our Oval Office — Trump/Vance v. Zelenskyy
But they can get peace. They can get neutrality. They can get European troops on the border. He can get security. He can get lasting peace. This is a wake-up call for Vladimir Zelensky. He does not have nearly the leverage or the star approval that he thought he did in this country, and that ultimately will be a good thing. But I want to say this again, Blake.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Don't Disrespect Our Oval Office — Trump/Vance v. Zelenskyy
Do not expect the pundit class to get this. They are not going to understand this. They're taught one speed, and the one speed is that you don't do this. And Trump's saying, I'm blowing up the playbook. We do whatever. including getting our money back out of this conflict.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
Oh, thank you. I love America, land of the free, home of the brave. I always get to come here, get three months of freedom before I go back to the socialist state of Australia. Thank you, guys. Thank you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
Because of politics. Yes and no. I'm only able to do it at the moment because I'm brown. So every time the anti-terrorism police... We literally had the anti-terrorism police come to our church at least three times for a sermon. For a sermon. So the reality of oppression to the gospel... is real, is real.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
And we're seeing that in Australia, like we're still doing the math at the church of what will happen to us across the next few years as this anti-freedom of speech spirit is rising. So the truth is, if you continue to be quiet, you will eventually be forced to be quiet.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
Me, at the moment, yes. But we do have these ambiguous laws in place where you can and you can't. So at the moment, we have the anti-gay conversion therapy laws. So I'm allowed to speak about it from the pulpit. But the moment I get out of the pulpit to the lobby, if I pray for a gay person, I can go to jail potentially for three to five years. And our church can get fined $100,000.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
So the only thing protected at the moment is the pulpit. For how long, I'm not really sure. And if they went after the prayer, what makes you think they're not going to go after the preaching?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
Well, not being political about being not political is political. It's like political deception. Not being political is political, no matter how not political you are. And this is a very controversial statement, Charlie, but I always say in Australia, most of Australians, most of churches in Australia... are communist accidentally.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
And the reason I say that, the goal of communism was to get Christianity out of the public square and was to get the church out of politics. Karl Marx literally said, my goal is to kick God out and destroy capitalism. When pastors participate in this lie of the church shouldn't speak about politics, they are going off to a communist worldview and a communist idea.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
So I would argue a lot of churches in America are communist accidentally and they don't know it. The only philosophical worldview that doesn't want church and politics is communism.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
I'm not really sure where is that in the Bible. Like Joseph was a politician. Joshua was a politician. Elijah spoke to politicians. Elisha spoke to politicians. Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were politicians. Solomon, David were politicians. I'm not really sure, to be honest, what Bible are they reading. Because it's definitely not the same Bible we are reading, right?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
I'm not really sure because I have studied so much. I'm trying to figure out who brought this lie into the church. And the only person I see is actually Karl Marx.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
We are only 10 points away from you guys. Like I was telling you that we're praying over planting a church in America. And we were doing the statistical reality. And the scary reality of America, I don't think you got that far ahead. Like I was just comparing apples to apples statistically, Florida to Sydney.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
And the points of difference in religion is only 10% off from no religion, secularism, atheism, Islam. So just four more years of Comrade Kamala and open borders have the power to change this country fundamentally forever. In Australia, in the last two years, we had 2 million immigrants. 2 million, 3,000 of them are from Gaza. I saw your tweet this morning about the whole Gaza.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
What the heck is going on? So the truth is, one more term of the godless Democrats will change this nation fundamentally. And you guys escaped. socialism by a very thin margin last election.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
As George Washington said, the providence of God. You could see last election, the providence of God was all over this country. I'm a big believer that America is a very exceptional country. And that's coming from someone who lived in the Middle East where we could never speak the truth.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
And that is also coming from someone who's living in socialist Australia at the moment where we don't have freedom of speech codified. And we saw during COVID in a moment, in a second, Christianity became illegal for two years.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
This is very important because the writing is on the wall. Apart from Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk, Elon being the most Google people, you have Andrew Tate, who happened to become a Muslim, and unlike most people, I'm a bit... Can I ask, how many of you guys know who that is?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
The amount of pastors, I'm like, do you know Andrew Tate? They're like, I don't know Andrew Tate. I'm like, then all the men in your church are about to leave your church.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
It is so feminized. It's crazy. It's crazy. The age of nice gospel is finished. People like Andrew Tate are the product of hyper-feminized men who lived in the era of prosperous and wealthy America, who in the midst of building, particularly pastors, they know how to build, but they don't know how to fight. And men by nature are very aggressive. It's kind of cool. You protect women with that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
So the problem we have at the moment is that you will see the rise of Islam personified in people like Andrew Tate simply because men go to church and they're over the lovey-dovey gospel. They're really over it. They're over this hyper-feminist, feminized, weak, woke, womanized gospel.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
I planted a church because the church I went to, the biggest church in Australia, I'm not going to say any names, was so feminized that men were leaving... by the multitudes every year. And guess where they're going? They're going to the mosque. They're going to the mosque, but they're telling them, you can actually act like a man, be a man, and we're not going to say toxic masculinity.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
We're going to teach you how to fight, not just how to love. We're going to teach you how to speak the truth, not just be empathetic. We're going to teach you how to speak And not make silent a virtue. Because we talk a lot about work Jesus. What about silent Jesus? We have a lot of churches that have created the silent gospel. And men are over this feminist, feminazi gospel.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
Communists and Muslims, they love each other a lot. Muhammad and Karl Marx, they're kind of besties when you look at their worldview. So both socialist comrades like Kamala and Islam, they both happen to be obsessed with power.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
And that what unites communists and Muslims, I call it the green and red alliance, the watermelon alliance, watermelon alliance, quiz for Palestine, is that both of them are anti-freedom allies. and pro-tyranny. So the left love Islam, and they will import Islam, and we see that in Australia.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
The left-wing party in Australia and in London, you just saw a few days ago, one of the major people in the Department of Education in London, he's literally an imam and a mufti. So he's literally an Islamic scholar and an imam who preaches. So you will see Islam make its way into the left-wing politics. And that's one of the reasons the borders were open the last four years.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
It was intentional about changing the character of this nation fundamentally. The way to destroy America will be Islam. And this is very obvious in UK because guess what? Let's look at it. Half of Americans are left, half of Americans are right, give or take. The only way for leftism to win permanently is to import a group of people that fundamentally hates the American freedom.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
That happens to be Islam. 9-11, anybody knows that? I hope so. You talk to a lot of people, what is 9-11? I'm like, it's a real event. I think everyone knows that. That's good. What about young people? Because I've heard that most young people... 50-50, yeah. Which is very scary. I was at the 9-11 museum in New York a few months ago. And...
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
That terrorist, before he was about to crash into the World Trade Center, he literally said, victory to Allah, death to America, Allahu Akbar. 9-11 was religiously motivated, right? So how come America have forgotten that very, very big event and importing the same people that want to kill their own civilization.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is "Mohammedanism" Compatible with the West?
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Ramsey Show
Draw a Line in the Sand and Say “I’m Done!”
Hey, great to talk to you. Huge fan. I'm calling today about my parents. My dad has Alzheimer's and my mom had a pretty significant stroke about four months ago. So they're not able to live independently much anymore. Fortunately, my sister has been able to take care of them at her house most of the time. And I'm taking them to their cabin on the weekends.
The Ramsey Show
Draw a Line in the Sand and Say “I’m Done!”
But ultimately, we're looking to build them like a small residence facility. next to me with lots of grandkids to drop in on them through the day and stuff. We're hoping to keep construction costs under $250,000 and pay cash for it.
The Ramsey Show
Draw a Line in the Sand and Say “I’m Done!”
My parents have done an awesome job at living well within their means, but we're looking at their statement from their financial advisor, and it's kind of like a mixed bag of things that don't give us a good feel for exactly how much is available or liquid, at least at this point.
The Ramsey Show
Draw a Line in the Sand and Say “I’m Done!”
So I guess our question is if or how we try to consolidate all these accounts to keep it simpler and have enough money to cut checks for the home they're building in the next few months. And I have the list for you when you're ready.
The Ramsey Show
Draw a Line in the Sand and Say “I’m Done!”
Fortunately, no. It's my sister. She has all that responsibility right now.
The Ramsey Show
Draw a Line in the Sand and Say “I’m Done!”
Well, they have traditional IRAs, each of them. So my mom has $150,000 in hers. My dad has $580,000 in his. They also have a $47,000 investment. It sounds like a blend of mutual funds. Um, both, both of the IRAs are set up with annuities.
The Ramsey Show
Draw a Line in the Sand and Say “I’m Done!”
Um, they also have a Pacific life. Paul, it sounds like a whole life policy. It shows a value of $31,000. Um, they also have a bunch of gold, probably at least 20,000. Um, and they have about 90,000 in their checking account.
The Ramsey Show
Draw a Line in the Sand and Say “I’m Done!”
And you're going, okay, what's the... I'm intentionally leaving out the $80,000 worth of long-term care insurance coverage because that's a whole other nightmare that we're going through.
The Ramsey Show
Draw a Line in the Sand and Say “I’m Done!”
That was my initial thought also, so I'm glad to hear you guys say that.
The Ramsey Show
Draw a Line in the Sand and Say “I’m Done!”
Yeah, I actually have a couple other lots next to me that are mine. Oh, nice. And we're going to set them up on one of those.
The Ramsey Show
Draw a Line in the Sand and Say “I’m Done!”
We're trying to keep it under 1,000. It's just going to be a single level, you know, the basics.
The Ramsey Show
Draw a Line in the Sand and Say “I’m Done!”
Yeah, we have some gray to deal with on the properties.
The Ramsey Show
Draw a Line in the Sand and Say “I’m Done!”
Well, we're trying to work that out. No, I don't think they do need 24-hour round-the-clock care. But being that they'd be living next to me, we'd set them up with cameras and things like that. In case of an emergency or something, we'd be pretty handy to go over and see what's going on.
The Ramsey Show
Draw a Line in the Sand and Say “I’m Done!”
But, no, we're trying to get home care to come by, at least for some of the basics. But my sister is able to handle that right now, and I think that's probably one of the problems we're running into with the long-term care insurance is they don't want to pay because they're It seems like they can, you know, we can handle it. And we're just, you know.
The Ramsey Show
Draw a Line in the Sand and Say “I’m Done!”
Well, my dad's actually the one with Alzheimer's. I know, but she can't take care of him. It's all you guys.
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Win With Money if You Keep Ignoring the Real Problem
Hi, how are you guys doing?
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Win With Money if You Keep Ignoring the Real Problem
So... my wife and I have about a hundred thousand dollars in debt, not including our mortgage. Um, we make about 80,000 a year. Uh, so we, we, I say we have made bad decisions, but it's really, I put it on me, but we've got ourselves in some pretty bad debt. So I'm just trying to figure out the best way to get out of it with the money we make. Cause it seems like in my head we don't make enough.
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Win With Money if You Keep Ignoring the Real Problem
No car debt. We own our cars outright, but we have a personal loan for $35,000 that I used to reconsolidate, and then I sold the vehicle that I had to purchase that, basically.
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Win With Money if You Keep Ignoring the Real Problem
The car, so I have a Ford Expedition that's probably worth $11,000 at the moment, and then we just have a smaller vehicle that's not really worth anything. It's got 200-plus thousand miles on it.
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Win With Money if You Keep Ignoring the Real Problem
It's been three years now. We've been together for... Probably, I think like seven.
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Win With Money if You Keep Ignoring the Real Problem
So I work on the weekends doing side jobs. It's not fully consistent, but it's probably at least twice a month. that ranges anywhere from 500 to a thousand. And I, you know, I tried to use that. I just started listening to you guys like the past two weeks.
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Win With Money if You Keep Ignoring the Real Problem
Uh, cause really we've been arguing a lot about money, trying to be on the same page, you know, and just finally I started listening to you guys and I was like, Hey, we're, we're done with this, you know, debt stuff. We need to get our life together cause we have two kids. Um, and I just, I don't want them to have a bad future. So I want to get ourselves,
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Win With Money if You Keep Ignoring the Real Problem
Probably been about a year now.
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Win With Money if You Keep Ignoring the Real Problem
I absolutely think she will be on board because we've talked about it now for the past couple months, and we're both just tired of being stressed and arguing all the time about it, and we want to make a change. I think it's just hard for us because it's hard for us to see and picture it because we're so far behind. It seems like we can't figure out where to start. Take $100,000 in debt, right?
The Ramsey Show
You Can’t Win With Money if You Keep Ignoring the Real Problem
Yeah, yeah, we've been making that. I've been talking about that for, like I said, the past couple months. Okay, there's no more.
The Ramsey Show
Life Happens. Are You Going To Be Ready for It?
So my wife and I were wondering if I should stop investing 10% into my 401k and continue to save in order to get close to the 20% down payment on a house.
The Ramsey Show
Life Happens. Are You Going To Be Ready for It?
Okay. She's currently in vet school. So we're the only line of income right now making $83,000 a year. And we've got $70,000 in savings, $8,800 in 401K savings. And I've got $35,000 set aside for emergency funds. So we were looking in our area, the houses we were going to buy were around $300,000. And I was basing that off of being able to put down 20%, which would be $60,000.
The Ramsey Show
Life Happens. Are You Going To Be Ready for It?
And once she starts her job, we should be close to $200,000. Do you think that's reasonable?
The Ramsey Show
Life Happens. Are You Going To Be Ready for It?
Next May. So we're looking to buy as soon as she graduates.
The Ramsey Show
Life Happens. Are You Going To Be Ready for It?
She's going to work for between five to eight years and then open up her own business and become a business owner.
The Ramsey Show
Life Happens. Are You Going To Be Ready for It?
Yes, yes. She's had job offers anywhere from...
The Ramsey Show
Slow and Steady Wins the Race Every Time
Well, about 10 years ago, I was sold a whole life policy. I'm sorry. And it's only been about recently that I've discovered what a poor investment these things are. Good.
The Ramsey Show
Slow and Steady Wins the Race Every Time
Yeah. In fact, I actually sold two of them. And I'm looking to get out. Good. However, I'm doing the math, and I'm about three years from breaking even on one of them.
The Ramsey Show
Slow and Steady Wins the Race Every Time
Well... According to the cash value, in about three years, I'll have paid the same amount. Like I could cash out for the same amount that I put into it.
The Ramsey Show
Slow and Steady Wins the Race Every Time
Right, exactly. So I'm just wondering, should I just get out now, take my loss, or should I keep paying this thing for a couple of years?
The Ramsey Show
Slow and Steady Wins the Race Every Time
Yeah, that's what I'm discovering here, and I wish I'd asked more questions when I signed up, but...
The Ramsey Show
Delayed Gratification Is a Key Ingredient to Building Wealth
Hey. Hey. Hey, Dave. Hope you guys are doing well today. Appreciate you taking my call. Sure. So I'm 32 years old, and I've been following your baby steps and your content on YouTube and your website. I've just reached baby step number four. Congratulations. Well done. Thank you very much. Yeah, it was a big achievement.
The Ramsey Show
Delayed Gratification Is a Key Ingredient to Building Wealth
So in regards to investing, I just took a look at kind of what my current situation is. And I'm enrolled in my employer's 401k and contributing 6%, which is what my company matches. Now, I think your advice is to next open up a Roth IRA and max that out. And if there's any leftover...
The Ramsey Show
Delayed Gratification Is a Key Ingredient to Building Wealth
It's through Fidelity, so I'll have to go and check into that. I was going to open up a Roth IRA through Fidelity just to keep it under one roof. I wouldn't. You would not? No.
The Ramsey Show
Delayed Gratification Is a Key Ingredient to Building Wealth
I believe so, just based on the quick searching I've done.
The Ramsey Show
You Have to Know Where You Are Financially to Know Where You're Going
A lot of people I work with.
The Ramsey Show
You Have to Know Where You Are Financially to Know Where You're Going
Hi, thank you for taking the time to answer my question. Sure, what's going on? Yeah. So back when I was going to college, my parents and I took out student loans to pay for them. When taking out the loans, there was no conversation about me having any responsibility for the parent portion of the loans.
The Ramsey Show
You Have to Know Where You Are Financially to Know Where You're Going
Now, six years later, my parents are blaming my sisters and I for not having any money in retirement and for filing bankruptcy and saying that after all of that, we're going to have to take over the loans because it's They shouldn't have to worry about that this time in their lives.
The Ramsey Show
You Have to Know Where You Are Financially to Know Where You're Going
And I told them no, but that caused a bunch of arguments and I suggested family counseling and that was rejected too. And I guess just want to know, are we in the wrong having tried to help them? It seems like they have no willingness to change and letting money come between the family.
The Ramsey Show
You Have to Know Where You Are Financially to Know Where You're Going
That is correct. Yes.
The Ramsey Show
You Have to Know Where You Are Financially to Know Where You're Going
As far as I know, yes. They're never open about it. So I wouldn't know for sure, but the bankruptcy wouldn't even impact it.
The Ramsey Show
You Have to Know Where You Are Financially to Know Where You're Going
Right. So why would they do it if it was only the student loans?
The Ramsey Show
You Have to Know Where You Are Financially to Know Where You're Going
I don't know exactly. No. They've never been open about it.