Charlie Kirk opened his podcast Thursday by calling attention to a “very important fight looming in real time” which he believes to be “the opening kick of the 2024 election,” vis a vis the American football opening kick happening that night.
“The federal government needs to pass a short term funding bill by September 30th, or there will be a government shutdown.”
Kirk explained that “the federal government needs to pass a short term funding bill by September 30th” due to a previous bill passed just short of a year ago that robbed the incoming class of House of Representatives of their “ability to negotiate the budget.”
“The Biden regime is asking that, in addition to all the normal stuff, that Congress adds $44 billion, on top of that emergency spending $16 billion for FEMA, $24 billion for Ukraine, on top of the $200 billion already spent on Ukraine.”
He highlighted that we are “seeing in real time, the destruction, the erosion, the shredding of the United States Constitution. We see Jack Smith, an out of control, rogue prosecutor, Merrick Garland at Department of Justice.”
Referring to Donald Trump, Kirk continued “we see the number one political opponent of the regime, who is beating [Biden] in the polls…facing 500 years in federal prison.”
Kirk, responding to general questions about what can be done, stated “on the 30th of September...we can fight... And we can defund the deep state.”
“We have the House of Representatives, we have a majority."
He continued, "Now I'm going to say something that is a little bit…different. I fully support the impeachment of Joe Biden. In fact, we should have done it three or four months ago. But I actually think defunding these agencies should be a bigger priority than the impeachment of Joe Biden. I'm not saying that we shouldn't impeach Joe Biden. But I actually think a more effective way to make long lasting change, a more effective way to use the political power that the people gave The Republican majority, is to defang the tyrants, is to go after these agencies.”
Kirk illustrated what that looks like in his mind:
“Joe Biden is a traitor to the nation. So I think that we should pass a clean impeachment resolution, send it to the Senate, but I don't think we should spend too much time on it. I think that's very valuable time to go and impeach and investigate a guy that we already know who is an outright criminal. He's a traitor. He should be in Gitmo in federal prison for the rest of his life, as is his son.”
He posited, “But does that have long lasting change? Wouldn't it be more effective to tell the FBI ‘you don't get your new building, you have to reduce your headcount by 20 or 30 percent.’ Tell the Department of Defense ‘you're not allowed to have gay poems on aircraft carriers anymore, that trans whatever individuals are not going to be allowed in the military.’
"Isn’t this a more effective way?”
The most important, Kirk pointed out, is the Department of Justice.
“Are we going to keep on funding Merrick Garland? Well, we have the leverage and we have the ability to say no.”
“Now the bad guys, the Democrats and the uniParty Republicans, they want a clean resolution... Well, time out here... [Democrats] are going after every potential political dissident: Steve Bannon, 1200 January 6 defendants. You're weaponizing the entire government and we're sitting there and taking it.”
He rhetorically asked, “Well, where are the Republican AGs?”
“Not around. Not interested in doing anything bold or courageous. Where are the Republican DAs? They're not interested. So, how do we end this abuse?” He continued, noting that right now the country is in a state of political crisis.
“The one way we have to actually act, at a federal level, is for the house not to fund what Biden needs…identify five or six of the Soviet Gestapo pressure points of the regime. Starve the beast. All funding must start in the house. Period. Nothing that Biden regime does can happen without the House GOP offering up money for them to do it. Now, we should not fund a single dollar to Ukraine. But if we're thinking realistically, they're going to figure out some way to get Ukrainian funding. So if we were smart, we'd say… ‘Okay, so you really want Ukraine funding, then there has to be border security.’ But more important than all of that, is the lack of funding that we have to draw the line on. You don't get Jack Smith. You want Zelensky? No Jack Smith.”
“And they'll say ‘well, you’re going to shut down the government.’ Okay."
"You want Zelensky? No Jack Smith. That's a popular position. And by the way, if you you pick the fights, you can win. The majority of people are not in favor of the criminalization of Donald Trump.“
Kirk posed a question sent by an audience member that read “Is Jack Smith an essential government worker or not, if there was a shutdown?”
He pointed out the frustrations that revolve around government shutdowns, particularly the confusion about which officials are essential versus non-essential.
“If they're not essential, why do they have jobs? Kirk chuckled, “If they're not essential, why do they operate?"
Kirk stated that “even beyond the government shutdown, we need to defund Jack Smith. Line item Jack Smith, carve it out and say ‘Jack Smith, you do not get another penny of US taxpayer dollars. Period.’ That's a good way to end Jack Smith. And the House Republicans have the entire ability to do that.
“We need to find the parts of the Deep State that are grinding the American people to a halt — and it goes to the FBI, the DOJ, DHS — isolate them and starve that beast and you're not going to get the entire budget down to zero, so get even more particular.”
“Again, Congress, they don't do their job, unfortunately.”
“These agencies have to go to Congress for money. And on the 30th of September, it is all bubbling up.”
Kirk told his audience, “This is the line, everybody,” and noted that Jack Smith is a “Democrat super PAC operator with subpoena power and the ability to put people in prison without handcuffs” that the American people are funding with tax dollars.
He concluded, “Shut down the government over this, over the very specific principled stand: You go after Donald Trump and try to put him in 500 years in federal prison, the government's getting shut down.”
