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Charlie Kirk
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Jack Posobiec
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
Blake
I want you to know we are.
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Blake
Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
Tyler
I want to thank Charlie.
Jack Posobiec
He's an incredible guy.
Blake
His spirit, his love of this country.
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Tyler
A little.
Charlie Kirk
We got Jack in the same studio. I think it's first time since our events. We also have Blake and. Who else do we have?
Blake
We have Tyler. Tyler the bowyer. The man. Show him on the camera. Can you hear us, Charlie?
Charlie Kirk
Tyler's on a three day water fast. How's that going, Tyler?
Jack Posobiec
By the time we finish today, I'll be over three days.
Blake
What's the longest you've gone?
Jack Posobiec
This is the first time I've ever fasted.
Blake
I've done seven days, three times.
Jack Posobiec
It's crazy.
Blake
Never gone longer than that. I have a friend whose wife did a full Jesus fast once for Lent. 40 days water.
Jack Posobiec
Wow, that sounds terrifying.
Charlie Kirk
It's so.
Blake
Yeah.
Charlie Kirk
No, go ahead, Blake. You could. We can.
Blake
It's a. It's a pretty heady experience. Like, have you gotten to the point where like your blood pressure drops? Like going downstairs is difficult?
Jack Posobiec
I think my blood pressure is so high over this election cycle that I now feel abnormal.
Blake
Okay, well, that maybe that, that's good. That was my Experience. I lived on the second floor of a building, and I would try to go walk down the steps, and, like, you kind of have to go. I don't know what it is, but, like, it's difficult to. That was the. That's what I always associate with long fasts, is that it's weird to go down steps or even, like, an escalator going down. And then seven days is when you start feeling like, okay, this. This might be getting a little dramatic.
Jack Posobiec
So, Charlie, how are things looking out there?
Charlie Kirk
Things are looking great, Jack. How are things looking out here? We're doing very, very well.
Tyler
The future is looking very, very bright. Very, very bright indeed.
Charlie Kirk
So I want to get everyone's reaction to the Cabinet pick so far. Jack, what are your thoughts?
Tyler
I'm still not tired of winning. I. We are reaching levels of winning that were previously not thought possible. I mean, you take someone, obviously, the Matt Gates pick is. Is huge. It's taking up all the attention. We'll talk about it. But Tulsi Gabbard at DNI is. Is very subversive, and I love that because she's someone who went through the entire system of the military, having served in war, having served in combat, learned that the intelligence community shape, which I learned when I was there, shapes intelligence to fit their political goals, and then goes over, this is wrong. This is clear. They're clearly lying to policymakers. When the intelligence gets to D.C. it all gets twisted to be whatever answer they want. And then finally, she there served the answer, and she can sit there now, as the head of the entire intelligence community, and tell them all to pound sand. So I love it. Notwithstanding, of course, the thermonuclear warhead of Matt Gaetz.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah. So, I mean, what is your thoughts, Blake, on the Cabinet selections so far? We got Tulsi Gabbard, got Matt Gates. Take your pick, man.
Blake
It's. I feel like the one that really drives it home to me is actually, like, it's. It's Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense in that you'll have these strong reactions where people are saying, like, oh, this is. This is shocking. No, like, to me, what is shocking is the state of the defense establishment in the United States. You have these phenomenally experienced people. You have people who've been around forever, and their track record is, okay, they invaded Iraq. That was a disaster. They fought for 20 years in Afghanistan, and the Taliban got stronger pretty much the entire time. And then the government that we were propping up collapsed instantaneously. They're fighting the Houthis in Yemen and losing to them. They can't do basic things like this is the stuff that gets very little coverage in public. But for example, we designed a thing called the literal combat ship that's supposed to operate in shallow waters and it's basically a giant failure. Just worthless. Like it is a ship for fighting in shallow waters and it can't sail in shallow waters and can't fight. Truly cataclysmically bad. And you'll get these reports, we can't really build ships anymore. All the guys who know how to do it are retiring. We're not getting new people in it. I think China's shipbuilding capacity at this point is like 100 or 200 times greater than ours. We sent five or six years of weapons production to the Ukraine. We can't scale it up. We need all of our chips from China still. All of these things are happening in the defense establishment. And then they're mad because we picked a guy who they're like, oh, he's a TV host. Okay.
Tyler
Yeah.
Blake
He's also a smart guy who is a veteran of the military and he has a pretty good resume all across the board. And what you basically need is a wrecking ball who's not going into the DOD so that he can plan for his $5 million a year job from Raytheon after. It just drives everything about this home to me. And can we get him through? We'll see. But I think it definitely shows the intent of the Trump administration to dramatically shake things up. And it says a lot that Hegseth is possibly only like the third most attention getting nomination that Trump has made so far. The gates 1. Very strong reactions to that. We'll definitely see what unfolds with that one. Tulsi Gabbard. I think it's going to be very entertaining to see all these, like they're going to. They're going to make very deranged attacks on some of these guys. I think with Tulsi, they're going to accuse her of being a Russian asset. And I don't think there was much evidence for that at any point. But they're going to make very, very deranged attacks. And I think that's going to really show what the battle lines are in DC Is who still takes people seriously when the people who failed over and over and over and over again start making these ad hominem attacks on people who are any threat at all to shake up how things are normally done.
Charlie Kirk
Tyler, your thoughts on how we're doing so far? It's, it's looking pretty good, man.
Jack Posobiec
I can't wait for all the people who are going to quit because Matt Gates is going to get right in there. Like, I just, like, the immediate thought I had was like, people are literally boxing up their stuff right now. And it's the, it's the most incredible thing considering where we've been. It's incredible.
Blake
I mean, I'm thinking, like, how many documents are they going to destroy? It'll be like, remember the Mueller. I can't believe this wasn't a bigger scandal that the deputy on the Mueller investigation where they all erased their phones by forgetting the password and then putting in the wrong password ten times in a row until the phone erased itself and several of them did this. It was just the most blatant criminal behavior imaginable. And no one ever got charged or seriously investigated for this. I could see that happening, just tons of it with the Garland people.
Jack Posobiec
I mean, going from Garland to Gates is like the craziest turnaround in the history of human. No, seriously, in all of American history. Merrick Garland to Matt Gaetz. And it's funny because they have the same initials. They do it. Which is, which is hilarious to me. Just the whole thing. And like the guardians posting like on, on their front page right now that, you know, Trump picks far right. Congressman Matt Gates is Attorney General. Like, people, they're reckless pick lawmakers express doubts. DOJ lawyer slam. Yeah, the. This. It's like this whole thing is just so funny. It's just like, it's the greatest.
Tyler
Well, so here's, here's, here's something that I've, I've been looking at. If people remember this, though, Merrick Garland, I don't think is anyone at this point is certainly not someone that anyone would describe as a moderate. And yet when I went back and looked that the. At the confirmation of Merrick Garland, he sailed right through. He sailed right through. Even though there were people like Ted Cruz at the time who raised serious, serious grievances and serious reservations about actually approving him as the confirmed attorney general. And I've been going through. So I went, Charlie. And I pulled up the list of all the senators, including all the Republicans who voted for Merrick Garland. Some interesting names appear on this list. Susan Collins. Oh, wait, Charlie. What do you think? Murkowski? You think Murkowski voted yes? Let's see, let's see.
Charlie Kirk
I bet she did.
Tyler
And Charlie is 100% right. Murkowski said yes. Look at that. How about. Oh, let's check Our new Senate Majority Leader. 100%.
Charlie Kirk
So John soon voted for Merrick Garland, Jonathan Merrick Garland.
Tyler
So, okay, John Thune from. From Blake's home state, you know, voting for Merrick Garland there. That's in. So, so how do you defend vote. And also. Wait a minute. Joni Ernst, because I saw she had a comment out there. Let's go see Joni Ernst. And voted for Merrick Garland. And so all of these people, Charlie, how do you say that you voted for Merrick Garland, but you wouldn't vote for Matt Gaetz?
Charlie Kirk
Well, it's because Matt Gaetz is going to disrupt the Department of Justice. Remember, Matt Gaetz was a target of the illegitimate fourth branch of government, the Department of Justice, with charges they were never able to prove, and they were never. In fact, there was a blackmail scheme against Matt Gaetz, as you might remember.
Tyler
I remember the whole thing that was.
Charlie Kirk
Was just terrible.
Tyler
And, and his dad.
Charlie Kirk
And his dad. And Matt Gaetz is now going to reform the Department of Justice and do it in a really profound and historic way.
Tyler
Langford. Langford voted for him. Well, Langford voted for Garland.
Jack Posobiec
Well, let me put you at ease. Let me put you at ease, Jack. I don't think anyone's going to have to vote for him.
Tyler
What do you mean? So the recess. Right. So this is why. This is why Trump was pushing so hard. And I believe Charlie had some tweets up as well about recess appointments. And so this is something. And Thomas Massie had one of the first responses after the announcement came out that said, look, you know, it doesn't. Confirmation doesn't matter because he can recess a point. And Blake, why don't you walk us through, because I know, you know the. The chapter and verse on this regarding recess appointments. What is a recess appointment? How dost thou work?
Blake
Yeah, so first of all, I know that one of the mechanisms they're talking about for how this could happen, this has been reported already in Article 2 of the Constitution. One of the President's powers is if there is a disagreement between the Houses about when to recess, then the President can say, you guys can recess till this, like, suitable time. So in general, Congress is not in session at all times. In the past, they used to be out of session for pretty long periods. Now they'll just, you know, they'll time it. They'll take an August recess so they can go on vacation. They'll take a recess so they can go campaign before an election. Anyway, obviously, vacancies can still happen in the government. So the President has the Power to, during a recess of Congress, appoint an interim person to any of the many positions that he can appoint people to. Not like, I don't think he can do it for, like the Supreme Court, for example, but he can do it for cabinet agencies. And so what you do is, in the past, Presidents have done this during actual recesses. They've been trying to fill this spot. No one's there. So they recess, appoint a guy to be head of this department or even a deputy in a department. What they're considering now is a more calculated use of it, because I think the time limit on a recess appointment is maybe. Is it two years, a year and a half? It's a span like that. And I don't know if they get.
Tyler
Old, but it goes on the session. So if they declare another session, they. Then the time would end. But if the session stays open, then, yeah, it could be as long as two years.
Blake
Yeah. Oh, in fact, yes. So specifically, yeah, I actually was missing Article 2. The President shall have the power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. So, yes, that's what it is. They can go into recess. You appoint someone, and then they're actually in their spot until the end of the following session. So if they then return.
Tyler
Congressional session.
Blake
Exactly. So they can then return. And as long as they don't recess again, which I think even when Congress goes into recess, they often officially don't recess. There's a lot of gimmicks they can do on this front. So what he could do is he could get his guys exercising all or almost all of their powers right away. You get them shooting out of a cannon and then it makes it. They can still have confirmation hearings, but it would only have the power to say, like, revoke someone who's already doing their stuff. And especially with Trump, who has a very bold agenda and an agenda that needs to start taking action right away. And it's really damaging if you lose a month, two months, you're going to want guys who can be exercising their powers immediately. And so I know one of their ideas is basically, you could have, like, if Mike Johnson asks for a recess and there's disagreement, the President can say, you're in recess for even one day, two days. He can do something like that and then run through all of his appointments. It would be novel. It would be interesting. I feel like once it happened, it would probably be something everyone would rip off from now on. At least if they have a Congress that's willing to go along with them for it.
Charlie Kirk
Right, but there's some conditions though. So if you're a recess appointment, you can only be in there for two years and 200 days. So it's not a, it's not a, you don't have the position for the entire administration. Right. So, and then there's also a constitutionality issue of, because Obama tried to do this, remember, and there was some technical side of this. But look, I think that the Senate has gotten so high in its own supply, both Republican and Democrat Senates. It should be that you should be able to get your Cabinet. Okay. Like you should be able to fill a government. It shouldn't take you two and a half years to get your people. And this, I say that for Democrats.
Tyler
What they all said about Garland, that's exactly what they said.
Charlie Kirk
But by the way, we're not going to get a government if it's not for recess appointments. One of the reasons why we were pushing for recess appointments so hard this last weekend is without recess appointments, we're going to, we're going to have two years before we get, get our entire team assembled. Tyler, your thoughts on this?
Jack Posobiec
Yeah, I mean, I totally agree. I think we, I mean, I think Trump's taking the right approach by saying, hey, look, we're not going to wait around forever. I was president before, you know, we, I was given the run around a lot by Congress. So I'm just setting the record straight right now that you can expect that I'm not going to be cool with just getting the runaround. And so I like the aggressive nature in which, you know, the winter White House is taking these appointments. You know, there's, there's clearly no, there's no slowing. I mean, a lot of people would say, hey, you know, you just won the election. You can kind of wait, you know, and give it a few weeks. And I can't remember how long it took them to start announcing people last time, but it was not this quickly. So I mean, this is great to see that there's just like, you're just running right straight out the gates and no pun intended and you're just, you're taking off here. And Congress, you know, is kind of flat footed. Probably caught a little flat footed here. And I think that it's going to be kind of like balls in their court. And nothing was going to make the American people more upset with Thune than, you know, throwing up hurdles for Donald Trump. And I think that that's what was so great about his press conference today? I mean, he came out and said, we're going to do what the president wants to do. Like there was a mandate. And he said, I'm glad those words came out of his mouth and they recognized that. And so hopefully that starts us off on the right foot with all these appointments, whether it's recess or it's voted on. But, yeah, this is where we're going to see the real test of, you know, you know, just, you know, just give us this chance. Give the moderates this chance. Right. Of proving their worth. Well, the first test that right out of the gate again is going to be, can you get these appointments done? And if they can't, you know, the American people are going to be very upset.
Blake
Yeah, I'm looking.
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Blake
Yeah, so I was looking through the records because I remember Bush and Obama both made a lot of recess appointments. That's when they kind of reached their apex. And then a decade ago, there was a Supreme Court ruling that was seen as a conservative victory at the time that did limit recess appointments because they developed a sort of gimmick where the Senate would go into like a very short recess, like a temporary recess, and they would make all these recess appointments at the time. And what the ruling was and the case, if you want to look it up, was NLRB v. Canning was the name of it. And I believe the funny thing is, I think the majority was. It was a defeat for Obama, but I think it was written by the liberal justices to some extent. But basically what they said is it has to be a sufficiently real recess to actually make a recess appointment. So it has to be like one between congressional terms, like over the midterms, or it has to be one where they actually sought the collaboration of the House of Representatives for the recess. So that's why you start. You kind of are seeing this discussion where you have to get the formal recess with the House also recessing to do this. And it's going to cause all sorts of arguments because this Supreme Court case involves it. And we might. We might end up with this, like, giant ball of litigation over whether Trump can do this. What a great system we have. You just have a Supreme Court case for every single thing the President does. It's going to be. It's going to be a dogfight no matter what. And I guess what I'm happy about is that clearly the administration is going in ready to have these fights, not under the assumption, oh, this is going to be normal, we can run a normal administration and it will all work out. We know from the first time that that's not how it works.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah. And also that you can fulfill a mandate from the people. And look, some of these people are not going to get confirmed. Right, Jack, But Donald Trump is setting the tone. Some. Some of these people will get through.
Tyler
He's shocking the system.
Charlie Kirk
You're. Look, you do not get a mandate for change. Just do one or two. You need to overwhelm the system. Is that right, Jack?
Tyler
Yeah. So what you're doing is you're overwhelming the system. And, you know, so people are saying, oh, Pete Hegseth, that was shocking. And then Tulsi Gabbard, that's shocking.
Charlie Kirk
And then.
Tyler
And then Matt Gates, that shocking. And suddenly it's like, wait a minute, you're moving too fast. And so it's basically a system of where your. Your actions, your decision cycle is actually taking place faster than anything. Charlie, is there anyone in Washington, D.C. who can move this fast? Anyone? No. No one can move this fast in Washington, D.C. the system is not built for that. This is the system. This. This reminds me of, like, Turning Point, by the way. Turning Point moves fast as everybody knows. Elon Musk moves fast, as everybody knows. You've got to be willing to hit the ground running. And that's what President Trump is clearly doing here, by the way, securing, essentially, a statement from Thune to say that recess appointments would be on the table to make sure that President Trump's agenda gets passed. So he secures that from Thune. That's why President Trump doesn't make an endorsement in the Senate Majority leader race because he got that out as a public statement from Thune that he would support the agenda then as President Trump, I believe, just as he was wheels up from D.C. that's when he pushes boom on the truth social posts. So he. It's like he flew out of D.C. and just dropped a bomb right from Trump. Force one of great. You guys all agree with me. So my appointments are going to be Matt Gates, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth. How do you like me now? No, it's incredible strategy that we're seeing, the timing of this. You know, I, I hope that there are some real historians that actually look back on this time and understand the strategy of what's going on right now, because what you're seeing is actually far more. They want to say it's haphazard. They want to say it's not planned out. They want to say that he's always. He's shooting from the hip and he's making it up from as it's all going along. But Charlie, you've been there.
Jack Posobiec
Is.
Tyler
Is this haphazard or not?
Charlie Kirk
No, it's not. It's actually, I think, very strategic. Because if you're going to shock the system, you got to shock the system and you understand. Look, some people get tripped up in confirmation fights, okay? But look at the first administration we had, we had people that we nominated that we had to pull. I'm trying to think it was like an EPA administrator or something.
Tyler
There's a whole bunch of them.
Charlie Kirk
There's a bunch of them. It's just part of the process. So you got to go big, you got to go bold, you got to go quick. And by the way, you lose someone, you get somebody up, it's just a volley of people, and eventually you're going to get some through. And that's how you effectuate change. It's not like you go all in on one person like, oh, we're going to change our change agent.
Tyler
And that's what we did last time.
Charlie Kirk
Last time, I like, huge problem. Like, last time we said, okay, our change agent is going to be a singular agency. Okay, great. No, it's across the board. Okay? Every agency is going to be flooded. We occupy the entire federal government. And we know that the Senate is going to say no to some people. However.
Tyler
Whoa. Charlie Kirk supports the Occupy movement.
Charlie Kirk
Oh, I support it. And we Occupy dc Occupy DC I will say this, though, that, that Senate Republicans are going to have a hard time saying no. To everything. And that's the issue, and that's the strike. Okay? They'll say no once, they'll say no twice. All of a sudden you say no to the sixth time, right?
Tyler
And the constituents are going to be like, excuse me, you, you are. Are you on board with President Trump's agenda or not? You said you were. You said to his face you were. You said to all of us that you were. And people. And you got some of that. A lot of these senators Cornyns in cycle. A lot of people are getting in cycle now, and they are not going to forget those states are not going to forget that Donald J. Trump won them by what, 64% in some cases, 55% in some cases. Huge, huge mandates all over the place. And if President Trump is going to put them on blast now, suddenly that's a huge issue. Plus, you know, I don't know how confirmed this is, but there's a rumor floating around. Charlie, I don't know if you've seen this rumor kind of on Twitter, kind of in the media, that Elon Musk has subtly been suggesting funding primaries to. Against people who do not support the agenda. No, I can't confirm that, but certainly gotten involved in the pack overwhelm the system.
Charlie Kirk
Let's play cut393 here.
Blake
The second thing that hasn't come up.
Charlie Kirk
Yet that concerns me in terms of his policies is that he's.
Blake
If he's not a Christian nationalist, he's.
Charlie Kirk
One of their best warriors. I mean, he sees the military at.
Tyler
This point as a flaming sword for Christ.
Blake
One of the other things that he.
Charlie Kirk
Sort of pushes on outside of misogyny and DEI is anti Muslim bigotry. What? How much did he fit into that one statement?
Tyler
Really? That's it? He just ran the whole gamut there.
Charlie Kirk
That was like, they're not taking this loss. That was all of it. I can't tell you again, it's not about the individual. Someone's text. Charlie, what do you about gates? I love gates, by the way. I think it's amazing. What do you think I said? No, no, no. Look at. Those are not the forest from the trees, right? You are seeing an Occupy movement. You are seeing an overwhelm the system. Blake, do you understand the argument I'm making here? And can you contextualize it? It's more about the vibe. It's more about like, hey, we got a mandate. Some of these are not going to work. Some of these guys are going to get put up in a committee, but we're Going to just throw the entire kitchen sink at this thing, Blake?
Blake
Yeah, exactly. It's, you know, a thing you often heard about Trump's campaign. Way back when he first started 2015, people would talk about the ab testing aspect of the Trump campaign, which is a term from tech. Tech. It's where ab testing is. Very quickly, do we know what's going to work? Oh, no, we actually have no idea what's going to work. So do several different things and literally see what actually does better than others. I think you see this with the Musk involvement. This very much defines everything Elon Musk does is there's a value all its own in being really aggressive and just trying things out, knowing in advance that not everything will get through. And if something doesn't get through, you just, you know, you wipe your hands off and you try again. So one of these guys gets shot down, okay? Bam, you already have your backup ready to go. You put them forward. You don't act surprised about it. And when you go in with that attitude, when you're so maximally aggressive, DC is. It's full of lazy people. It's.
Charlie Kirk
That's right, people.
Blake
It's full of people who love going on vacation. If you can just overwhelm these people with energy, if you overwhelm them with your will, we have an idea. We are going to get this done. They're going to. What are they going to do about it? They can only keep people angry about so many things at once.
Tyler
And, Blake, this is how you run. Boom. This is how you run a military operation. By the way, this is Normandy, right? So Normandy wasn't just one day. Normandy was. You had days prior to Normandy when there was action taking, shock, the system. Obviously, people know every first invasion is followed by what, the air assault. So air assault hits command and control, take out their communications, take out their ability to think, take out their ability to talk. Then the waves start hitting the beach. The waves start hitting the beach and, you know, there's artillery going to be. Going to be shooting at the planes. You know, there's going to be the pill boxes that are coming. But you just keep sending people. You just keep sending people up. And guess what? What does MAGA have, Charlie? We've got people.
Charlie Kirk
Well, that's right. But think about it, though. I mean, what are. What is that? What is the nightly news going to folk, by the way? Wait till they get to the other agency heads. What are they. What are they going to cover? Are they going to cover? Pete hegseth@dod are they going to cover whatever Bobby Kennedy has to getting? Are they going to cover Tulsa Gabbard at dni? Are they going to cover. They probably won't cover Marco Rubio State. I love Marco to death, but, you know, that's probably.
Tyler
Yeah, Marco, he's kind of a known quantity.
Charlie Kirk
They're not. Are they going to cover Matt Gaetz at the Department of Justice? Are they going to cover the FBI? Whoever ended up getting that? I mean, there's only so much.
Tyler
Wait, wait. You know, be so funny, too. Is.
Jack Posobiec
Is.
Tyler
What if. What if they, like, what if said they block someone for something and Trump says, okay, and then he nominates that person for something else.
Charlie Kirk
So. But let me also say this, though, which I think is very important. This is what's so smart, what Trump's doing. The left is the weakest, the most on defense and the most disorganized.
Tyler
And demoralized, too.
Charlie Kirk
And demoralized, yeah. He is going for the final knockout punch. What they were hoping is for just a bunch of moderates and business as usual. And in some ways, this might invigorate the left a little bit, but. Invigorate them in what direction? But I mean, for example, if there's going to be like, oh, do you guys go protest like Kavanaugh for Pete Hegseth or for Matt Gaetz, Right. Or do you go protest like Kavanaugh for Tulsi Gabbard? Which one is it, right? Or is it Lee Zeldin? Lee Zeldin's gonna have, like, he's got a dance through the ep. Oh, yeah. But the point is, is that there are limitations to the energy of D.C. because these people haven't done anything for a long time. And, Tyler, can you. Can you add some context to this, please?
Jack Posobiec
Yeah, I mean, I totally. The exciting part of what we've seen in alternative media is we know what their limitations are. And one of the greatest reports that happened this week was talking about how NBC, MSNBC and CNN viewership is down like 30% or like 40%. It's, like, disastrous. They're firing everybody, allegedly. They're firing Anderson Cooper. They're firing, literally, Scott Pressler who works over there. No, I'm kidding. It's not Scott Pressler that works over there. It's Caitlin Collins. But they're firing everybody because they can't keep up.
Charlie Kirk
Dylan Mulvaney.
Jack Posobiec
Not Dylan Mulvaney. Yeah, that's over there. So the funny part about this is that not only are they going to be completely overwhelmed by Trump, and I actually think that this is part of the reason why the media hates him so much. It actually causes them to have to work harder. They have to work more in unfriendly territory than they ever had to work before in the last Trump administration. They now have to work basically overtime to keep up with everything happening that Trump does. And now their viewership and their readership is down so significantly much, they can't keep up. This is the epitome of the death knell for the mainstream media. This is it and they know it. They sense it coming. They can't keep up. No one believes them anymore. The harder they press against it because they have to, because they're told to, the fewer people actually follow what they're doing. And it's just an overwhelming barrage. And I applaud Susie. Everybody that's running the transition right now, Charlie, you know this closer than anybody else. What they're doing is the exact right to do the exact right thing.
Charlie Kirk
Oh, I'm right there on front row seat. And I mean, look, the whole mantra is this, which is we did not win a mandate election, to just go play patty cake, Patty cake. What? Baker's hand, or whatever the heck they call it.
Tyler
Baker's man, Right?
Charlie Kirk
With. With. With the Central Intelligence Agency.
Tyler
You can tell Charlie has toddlers, I feel.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah, no, I'm learning. I'm relearning Bakers man. No, I'm relearning all. Give me two years, I'll know every single song.
Tyler
Do you know the Muffin Man?
Charlie Kirk
No, not yet. And so. But this was a mandate election. And Blake, I know that, you know, the counter argument is, oh, this is going to be clumsy and all this, but yes. However, it's. I would rather err on the side of max aggression, Blake, than what we did in 2016. Would you understand? Do you agree with that?
Blake
Exactly. And I think one thing they should keep in mind, actually, because they have. They have a couple months to think about this is what stuff with your bold picks that they can do early on that is hard to attack, but it's like aggressive and would be received well. So I can imagine you come in, let's. Either he gets approved or you get the recess appointment through. So you have SecDef Hegsef. What can he do? Day one. I bet he could say day one. Yeah. Here's our order where all of the trans stuff that's not a military priority anymore. Have that written and have it be serious. Don't have it be a meme thing. Think about what the real policy should be or dni, you have Tulsi goes in and it could be, here's some old CIA, we're releasing old CIA stuff because we promised greater transparency, or we're rolling back this, you know, domestic spying operation, do that right away. Stuff like that, where it's very difficult for anyone to attack it without sounding like a psycho, is going to be good. And that's how you, I think, can get the big change agenda to have a positive reception. And you don't have to make it that long. I feel if you can make a good impression early and also show you're not screwing things up dramatically, their ability to remain volcanically angry about it is going to decline. Or at least it's going to stop working with the public. They can, you know, if the press tells them that, oh, you know, Matt Gaetz is a deranged pick for Attorney general, they can push that for a while. But if Matt Gaetz is Attorney general for a few months and the world hasn't fallen and the stuff he's done so far actually seems like it was a good idea, what are they going to do? They can't keep staying outraged about it. And if they try, they'll just look ridiculous.
Jack Posobiec
Yep.
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Tyler
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Tyler
Why?
Charlie Kirk
Because I'm not as stressed.
Tyler
Restress eating.
Charlie Kirk
Not stress eating. No, even not stress eating, you get, you keep weight on when you're stressed, even if you have the same diet because your Body thinks that you're in a time of panic.
Tyler
So it's where you're like, hold. It's like holding on.
Charlie Kirk
Exactly. All of a sudden I'm like, I'm sleeping. I don't have like this pit in my stomach. Tyler, are you feel you pit in your stomach, Charlie? I used to.
Tyler
Were you jonesing it a little bit?
Charlie Kirk
I thought we were going to lose at some point.
Tyler
I, I, I am aware.
Jack Posobiec
No, we knew we were going to.
Tyler
We did just well, we did just well. We did just fine.
Jack Posobiec
We, we knew we were going to uplift this thing. But, yeah, I feel this producer Foz.
Tyler
Says, He says, he says I'm having dreams again.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah, that's.
Tyler
Oh, you guys, look. I remember I sat down election night and I was like, we should talk about election a little bit. Just how it, you know, it's been what, a week and a half, I guess, since then. I remember, you know, everyone's like, oh, we don't know, we don't know what I said. And oh, no, because last week we were saying last mega rally. Remember we were saying last mega rally. Was it, was it one week ago that we were saying it was the last mega rally? And I remember I sat down and said, yeah, this is the last one until, until the victory tour and January 20, 2025, when Donald J. Trump takes his oath of office. And everyone's like, oh, I don't know about that, Jack. I was like, no, he got this. 100%. 100%.
Charlie Kirk
Okay. Phoenix is checking their emails here, so let's kind of, let's close this conversation.
Tyler
Tyler's thinking about chicken wings right now. Tyler, what food are you thinking about the most?
Jack Posobiec
I can't think about it. I'm just like, I've never done, I've, I've fasted for full days before, but going on three days and then thinking about going longer here is like, do it go longer. Oh, man.
Charlie Kirk
We should have a con.
Blake
I could maybe, if you want to eat, and then I'll start fasting and then we could have a contest.
Jack Posobiec
I've lost, Charlie. I've lost £14 since the election. And half of it's probably just from the stress, but the other half is this water fast. So we'll see where we go. Just gotta eat ourselves.
Charlie Kirk
I, I just, I'm reading Twitter. I can't. This Gates thing, this is so smart. It's like, I'm mad about. Pete had exact. Never mind. I'm mad about. It's like, yeah, Tulsi grabbers. It makes the left looks completely. By the way, this is. It's so smart because they lost an election and, like, they don't have trust. Oh, by the way, can we play this tape here of the Attorney General giving me a ride?
Tyler
Oh, my. Was this today?
Charlie Kirk
It was recently. So funny. Last day or two, I'll pull it out. You got to put it in the chat. It's gone totally viral, by the way.
Tyler
That's hilarious.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah, so the. Yeah, it's. It's. Reporters are texting me, being like, what's he saying in the car? He told me to put on my.
Tyler
But here's the. Here's the thing, though, right? Is at some point, though, it's like, isn't this what the American people voted for? They're like, we want change. We want to see the people on tv, on those channels, freaking out and crying and hysterical. And it's like you're literally playing into their hands every single time you do this. And it just reinforces that Trump should actually do more of it.
Charlie Kirk
Yes.
Tyler
Because the more he does it, the more they react and the more popular it gets, and in fact, the more Runway it gives him to go, like, what's further than Matt Gates is ag. You know, like, you know, who can we appoint to head the Space Force? Who can we appoint ahead? You know, nuclear agencies, who can be appoint to head all sorts of things that are still out there on the table, folks, and just which names are going to drive them more insane? You're actually creating a. An incentive structure here that's actually quite favorable to people who, I don't know, care about the country and patriotism and all of these things. So it's. It's really, It's. It's genius because the more up he's put them in a situation where the more upset they get, the better his cabinet gets.
Charlie Kirk
And it's just. Blake, can you comment on this? The left is not in fight mode right now. Right. That's why this is so smart.
Blake
It is, it is, it's. And, like, the only downside is they will have, I guess, a couple months, just because that's when the inauguration is to maybe collect their bearings. But right now, they are really. They're in a bit of shock. I think they probably expected the Trump transition to be similar to the last one, where it took longer to announce some key picks. There was more disorganization around it. It was a slower process. Whereas this one chief of staff decided pretty quick. Key cabinet jobs decided pretty quick. It's going fast, fast, fast, fast. And that means more time for people to get over it. They can't keep the hate as high for two months. And more time for the Trump world to figure out their strategy of, okay, we've decided who we want in, what are we going to do with them? I think obviously you're there, Charlie. You see it up firsthand and you're playing your role in it. But I think we've already seen that this transition is better than the first one was. And I think that's a good harbinger for hopefully how the entire second Trump term will be. And as you say Democrats, they're not in fight mode. They are in one fight mode. They're fighting each other. We're getting all of the recriminations about the election, which if we want to take a sec to talk about that, we can. It's all very funny stuff. They're arguing over who, you know, did, did Biden sabotage Harris, did Harris sabotage Harris, did Pelosi sabotage Harris? They all agree there was some sabotage, but you know, who's to blame for it.
Charlie Kirk
Okay, so let's. We haven't done a really good election diagnosis. Tyler. A lot of our audience is probably wondering what the heck happened with Kerry LA Arizona on this program. Because we had to kind of had that going last week. Tyler, can you take the time we have remaining here? I mean, we have a little bit of time. We got 15 or 20 minutes just to kind of give us what happened because, and the, the, the final drops were actually far bluer, like way bluer than any of our modeling would have suggested. So, so please tell us.
Jack Posobiec
Yeah, I mean, yeah, Charlie, I mean you kind of, you know, throughout the line here that's, that's most critical. The way that elections now that Democrats run are operated. They basically go through step by step, slow roll. I mean, this is the California model. This is why California is still counting ballots. We still don't have answers on some of these races or we're just barely getting them now. And this is the same in Arizona. They go through with each vote block at a time, finally ending with the, the late early ballot drop offs that happen on election day. Basically what we've seen over the course of the last number of days because a ton of people have been asking is what's going on in Arizona? What happened with Kerry Lake? The remaining votes that got counted in the last wee hours of this election were heavily lean Democrat. Like unexpectedly so.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah, I mean like remarkably so.
Jack Posobiec
Remarkably so. Like two to one Democrat, which we've never seen before. On election day drops, there's a lot of speculation as to why that is. You know, we definitely know that the Democrats spiked at the last hour trying to get out the vote operations, trying to catch up because they knew they were so far behind. That definitely played a role into it. In Arizona, they, they, they told everyone they knocked something like 700,000 doors in the last week. I don't think they actually did that, but I do think that they did spike money into the state and they were really worried. The left had spent millions and millions of dollars on Senate and House races thinking that they were going to take over the Arizona State Senate. In the state House they failed, you know, in really miraculous form at doing that. And so I think they got really nervous and really worried about that. But there's also some speculation that there was a lot of really questionable drop offs that happened in the last couple days. And so, you know, as we know in Arizona it's illegal to bout harvest. It's illegal in most states about harvest. California it's not, but Arizona it is. And there was a lot of drop offs. In fact, in Maricopa county there was 229,000 drop offs. So there's a little bit of a surge in drop offs and a drop off in election day voting. So based off modeling and the votes that remained out there, a lot of people speculated and we, you know, based off the data analysis that we were pulling in our own office was that we were going to see an uptick in Republicans who dropped off ballots. This did not pan out. We will be looking at every single person who dropped off an early ballot on election day to give a full deeper analysis of what really happened in that 229,000. But the trajectory that Kerry was on with it being the reverse situation, which was high Republican turnout on election day was actually at one point really good, looking really good. But again, what we saw was a huge surge in Democrat turnout, an unexpected surge in Democrat turnout on the days preceding election day and on election day with drop offs.
Tyler
So we're seeing something similar in Pennsylvania, by the way, where Bob Casey has enlisted the aid of Mark Elias, everyone's favorite Steele dossier Russia gate lawyer and his lawyers are now clogging up the courtrooms in every single collar county of Philadelphia, in Philadelphia county itself, because they are just running around everywhere demanding, just like you're saying Tyler, they're going for, you know, oh, you know, but, but sort of in the opposite direction, right? So they're saying, oh, you need to count every single possible vote that could be for Casey. Oh, this one is crumpled and the C is has like a bend in it. So that means that person was trying to vote for Casey and didn't work in the. It's. It's nonsense. And yet we have a situation where Dave McCormick has begun Senate orientation, and yet he hasn't actually gone up against an opponent who will drop out of the race. And Josh Shapiro is sitting there sort of presiding all over it. By the way, I think latest I heard in Pennsylvania is that it's actually going to a recount, even as Dave McCormick has already has already been involved in the House oriented or the Senate orientation. I believe he actually voted in the leadership. In the leadership race because incoming.
Charlie Kirk
I don't know how he voted, but.
Tyler
We don't know how he voted. But leadership does get a. The incoming, incoming member does actually get a vote.
Charlie Kirk
So, Tyler, I want to ask you really quick in the time, again, this is another thing people are asking. I want to just say very factual, non speculative, Blake's eye roll will be enough to cause a solar eclipse, which is. Eric Hovde. Okay, can we get the clip of Hovey on Twitter? It's very compelling. It's very, very compelling. This guy's legit. He's not an unproven guy. And we have to pursue the truth wherever it leads us, right, Jack?
Tyler
We do.
Charlie Kirk
Let's play cut 397. This stinks like a skunk. Play cut 397. Like many of my supporters, I was shocked by what unfolded on election night. At 1am I was receiving calls of congratulations. And based on the models, it appeared I would win the Senate race. Then at 4am Milwaukee reported approximately 108,000 absentee ballots, with Senator Baldwin receiving nearly 90% of those ballots. Statistically, this outcome seems improbable.
Jack Posobiec
Yeah, I mean, so we have the same issue going on in Pima County. There's been some data analysis that's happened in Arizona as well. That seems that the Democrat opponent to Carrie Lake, in the similar fashion that Eric Hovey's mentioning, received close to 90% of the ballots. And again, this is where people kind of lost their minds. Last time was you had middle of the night, very late in the game, all of a sudden, statistical anomalies with returns come in. And so, you know, I think this is. This is where people have real issues with the election because the elections are not transparent. They're not reporting these things on an hourly basis. They're waiting days in some cases to report results. You know, there's Some really simple solutions here, which is that, you know, things need to be significantly more transparent. That allows disallow for, you know, speculation. I think that the candidates have a right to know hour by hour, in my opinion, that they what the results look like. In Arizona we have a law that, that forces the recorders to count through the night. They have to keep counting in order. And so there's nothing that prevents them from just reporting at a much more frequent basis. And like I said, hourly it makes the most sense to me so that you don't see big drops happen at one time so you can see these things happen. I think part of the reason why people have such concerns is that, you know, you don't get, you don't hear or see anything for hours or days and then they'll have things happen. Like here in Arizona they found thousands of ballots in a safe like way after the deadline. In Yuma, you know, they had an issue where they said they couldn't process tens of thousands of ballots correctly. In Milwaukee. So we're tracking all these different things. The most critical part here is like who are these people? Who are these late people? And guess what? A simple FOIA allows us to get the information for the voters, identify who these people are and start walking this backwards and saying how did this, how does a anomaly like 90% Democrats show up in a ballot drop? Because even in the places like Milwaukee, which is heavily Democrat, you don't have 90% Democrat turnout. This isn't D.C. you know, with that compared to 10% Republican. And how do you start to analyze that data? You know, I feel really, really bad for the hubd campaigns, for the late campaigns, for many that have gone through this because these close races like this are absolutely. It is heartbreaking to watch these people lose sleep over the course of a week when these election administrators slow walk everything and they don't give answers, they're non responsive, they don't respond to lawyers even, you know, in a fast fashion. And what it does is it just makes the public trust the process less. And this is part of the reason why people are so committed to the idea of one day, one ballot, one vote. Kind of old school or at least moving to a system that's more like Florida where it's limited excuse only mail in ballots and they have to be in by a certain time for them to count. That we can know by the end of the day, on election day what the heck is going on here. Because if that was the case in Arizona and in Wisconsin, you would have a Lot more trust in the system. They're asking for people to trust the system less because in the middle of the night when one candidate's up, all of a sudden you have a drop like this happen. And whether it's an anomaly or not. Right. Whether it's legit or not, people are going to question the system moving forward all the time.
Charlie Kirk
Okay, Blake, what do you find wrong with that?
Blake
All right. Well, thankfully we already have the graphic for. For my. My eyes causing the solar eclipse, if they want to put that up. But so, so I understand people being.
Tyler
Really wearing my red nose.
Blake
And as I've said, it's 100% bad regardless of whether the votes are legit to have a 90% thing drop at 3am because it fries people's brains. They get really upset about it.
Jack Posobiec
Yeah.
Blake
What I will say about it is like, I've looked at the county results for Milwaukee and like, are they wildly out of range from what the rest of the state is doing? I don't think so. Milwaukee was more Republican this election than it was in 2020.
Jack Posobiec
But it's the batches that came in late that, well, okay, but that was 90 10.
Blake
Well, 90 10. It's not about the county itself is 70 30. And if your early vote is going to be more Democratic, if it's like mail in voting in Wisconsin's case, it doesn't sound insane to me. That would, that would be the case. Especially if they had like a good mail in harvesting operation in Wisconsin. I think if they did anything shady, it would have to be something that they did identically last time. And maybe it was. But you know, as you say, we can check the names of these people. We can. If there's someone who's dead, we should be able to detect this. If it happened at scale, we should. And another thing I would point out is like they're getting fewer Democrat votes than they did in 2012 and 2008 when they had no need to steal anything at all because Obama was kicking butt. Like, you can look at it, they have, I think, about the same population now as they did in 2012. It's not a growing place, but it's not really shrinking. In 2012 it was like 67% Obama, 31% Romney. And. But they got 332,000 votes for. For Romney, for Obama, 154,000 for Romney, 2024. It's almost the exact same number. It's about 68% again, but it's only 310,000 votes for Harris. And then you're having slightly, you have, I think, slightly more votes, which you can probably attribute to people who vote Trump. But then for Baldwin, which those people exist.
Jack Posobiec
Yeah. And that's the big thing that really chaps people. And I'll just use the Arizona example. In Arizona, the one weird, very strange difference between the presidential and the Senate race, and this happens from time to time, but the Senate race garnered like four times as many, almost five times as many Green Party votes than the US Presidential race. And people ask the question, well, that's really strange, too. That's like very, very, very strange. Because, you know, typically if you're a Green Party member that's like. Or a person that wants to vote Green Party and you're like, really excited to vote Green party for the U.S. senate race, you're probably going to be excited to vote that for president. And so again, those. It happens when there's a disparity. The strange part about Arizona, and I'll give this case, there were half as many Green Party votes for president this time than there were in 2016. And you could equate a lot of similarities between this election in 2016 with a really unlikable Democrat candidate and Jill Stein coming out and being super vocal. But there were significantly more votes, but they were still less than the year that McCain ran in 2016. McCain funded a lot. People didn't realize this in the background. Funded a lot of Green Party activity. For sure. Kerry's campaign was not doing that. These were all organic and natural. But it is really strange that you have that situation happen while at the same time you start seeing, again, voter drops that are heavily Democrat. Yeah. Where that just historically hasn't been the case or even in areas where that hasn't been the case. And that's. We saw a ton of that in the, in the, the final counts in the last days and for, for sure with the very, very final day of election drops.
Charlie Kirk
So do we have any more ads, guys? Or are we. Are we. One sec. Are we wrapped up on ads? We have one more.
Tyler
I think we have a Rumble.
Charlie Kirk
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Blake
Blake, I'm, you know, I think it's very aggressive what the Trump campaign is doing, but I'm excited about it. I think it shows a strong intent to delet on what they care about. I think it shows that the right people are getting input on this administration and doesn't mean every we have to say in advance. It doesn't mean everything is going to work. Some things are going to fail, some nominees will probably get rejected. But going in knowing that will be the case, being ready for that outcome, being ready to move on after it happens, that shows the right attitude. It's taking the mentality of the Trump 2024 presidential campaign and bringing it into the Trump 2025 through 2028 presidency. So I am excited to see how it plays out. I'm excited for the political battles that are to come and I'm excited that we'll be right in the middle of it.
Charlie Kirk
Final thoughts.
Tyler
Jack, we need to keep going. I don't think we've been aggressive enough yet. I need, we need to double down on our aggression. We need to double down on our belligerentness. We need to absolutely everything. I, I've even got a bid in to take over msnbc, by the way. We're talking to some investors. We'll see how that goes. And I, I just don't know. I mean, the price, you know, it's just, they're quoting us. It's so high. But look, no, it's, it's, you need complete and total domination, not just of the political space, but of the information space and in the way that we've seen that Charlie, Kirk and so many other of us have dominated in new spaces and new media. We are going to continue to do that throughout the entire government in all areas of American life until the American people have their country given back to them. By the way. Also, throw out just it's so funny, right? Because Donald Trump and I tweeted this Donald Trump has already begun liberating American people from federal tyranny because now as the federal government keeps trying to screw over Trump's cabinet picks, they will not be focused on screwing over the American people.
Charlie Kirk
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Blake
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The Charlie Kirk Show: THOUGHTCRIME – Clash of the Cabinet Edition
Host: Charlie Kirk
Guests: Jack Posobiec, Blake, Tyler
Episode Focus: Analysis of recent election outcomes, cabinet confirmations, and strategic moves within the Trump administration's transition period.
In this episode of "The Charlie Kirk Show," host Charlie Kirk welcomes guests Jack Posobiec, Blake, and Tyler to discuss the aftermath of the recent election, the confirmation of cabinet picks, and the broader implications for America's political landscape. The conversation sets the stage for an in-depth analysis of the Trump administration's aggressive approach to reshaping the federal government.
Key Topics:
Notable Quotes:
Jack Posobiec [03:00]:
"Things are looking great, Jack. How are things looking out here? We're doing very, very well."
Tyler [04:08]:
"Tulsi Gabbard at DNI is very subversive... she's someone who can sit there now, as the head of the entire intelligence community, and tell them all to pound sand."
Blake [05:48]:
"Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense... they can't build ships anymore. China's shipbuilding capacity is like 100 or 200 times greater than ours."
Explanation: The discussion delves into the constitutional provision allowing the President to make recess appointments when there is a disagreement between the Senate and the House about recess periods. This mechanism enables the administration to fill vacancies without waiting for Senate confirmation, albeit temporarily.
Key Points:
Notable Quotes:
Blake [11:31]:
"One of the President's powers is if there is a disagreement between the Houses about when to recess, then the President can say, you guys can recess till this, like, suitable time."
Charlie Kirk [14:34]:
"If you're going to shock the system, you got to shock the system and you understand... you lose someone, you get somebody up, it's just a volley of people, and eventually you're going to get some through."
Key Topics:
Notable Quotes:
Jack Posobiec [29:02]:
"The most critical part here is like who are these people? Who are these late people, and how do you start to analyze that data?"
Charlie Kirk [30:13]:
"This is the epitome of the death knell for the mainstream media. This is it, and they know it. They sense it coming. They can't keep up."
Key Topics:
Notable Quotes:
Jack Posobiec [40:26]:
"What happened in Arizona was especially concerning with a large number of drop-offs heavily leaning Democrat, which is an unprecedented surge."
Tyler [42:48]:
"We're tracking all these different things. The most critical part here is like who are these people? Who are these late people?"
Jack Posobiec [50:12]:
"In Arizona, the Senate race garnered almost five times as many Green Party votes than the U.S. Presidential race. That's really strange and raises questions."
Key Topics:
Notable Quotes:
Blake [54:42]:
"The Trump transition is very aggressive, but I'm excited about it. It shows a strong intent to implement what they care about."
Tyler [55:37]:
"We need to double down on our aggression... complete and total domination, not just of the political space, but of the information space."
Charlie Kirk [56:58]:
"Email us as always at freedomarliekirk.com and subscribe to our podcast. God bless and talk to you soon."
In "THOUGHTCRIME: Clash of the Cabinet Edition," The Charlie Kirk Show navigates the complexities of the Trump administration's rapid transition and cabinet appointments. Through strategic nominations and potential use of recess appointments, the administration aims to overhaul entrenched systems. Concurrently, the guests criticize mainstream media for declining effectiveness, advocate for alternative platforms, and raise concerns about election irregularities, particularly in pivotal states like Arizona. The episode underscores a theme of aggressive change, strategic maneuvering, and a call for increased transparency and accountability within both the government and media landscapes.