On today's episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, host Jeff Perla is joined by Charlie's good friend and college buddy, Blake, to talk about the upcoming election and how important it is to vote. Also, we talk about IVF and why you need to vote on Tuesday! Thanks to everyone for all your support and stay tuned to the show next Tuesday for a live stream on Tuesday, Nov. 6th with millions of people watching! Have a great day everyone and don't forget to vote! Peace, Blessings, Cheers. - The CharlieKirk Show Team - EJ & Jeff - Charlie & Blake - Charlie & EJ - Happy Election Day! - Don't Tell Mom: e-mail us what you're voting for and we'll get a shout out on the next episode! If you have a dilemma you want us to discuss or a general election question we can answer, tweet us or and we ll answer it! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - How important is it to vote? 2:30 - What does it mean to you? 3:15 - What should you vote for? 4:00 5:00 | What should I vote for in the election? 6:30 | How do I vote in the midterms? 7:40 - What can I do to make a difference? 8:20 - What are you're going to vote for next Tuesday? 9: What do you think of the most important thing? 10:30 11: How do you plan on voting for the next president? 12: What can you do in 2020? 15:00 -- what are you working for me? 16:40 17:10 - How can I vote next week? 18:30 -- What s the best thing I m going to do? 19:00 // 17:40 | What s your biggest takeaway from this election cycle? 21:20 22:20 | What do I do for the future of the country? 26:10 27:10 | What is the best piece of advice I m voting for me?? 25:10: What s going to be the biggest thing I'm voting for next? 35: What is your favorite thing I hope you can do for me in the next election 36:00 & 27:30 //
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00:05:07.000What do you think about the idea of allowing all day care costs to be tax deductible?
00:05:12.000Right now, there's a credit system, which I'm not sure if you're aware of, which allows a maximum credit of 35% for $6,000 or up to $6,000 for two children, which is a credit of $2,100, but decreases to 20% above $43,000, which is a credit of $1,200.
00:05:32.000As an example, I live in Westchester, New York and have two daughters and pay $36,000 annually for child care.
00:05:38.000Which is actually the mean in this area in New York, not high.
00:05:43.000If it were tax deductible, I would save around 11,000.
00:05:47.000I think that would be a pretty good benefit for people that have kids.
00:06:07.000Because we do have the child tax credit, but we need to make it even more accessible, right?
00:06:10.000Yeah, I mean, it's so dumb that J.D. Vance, of course, got trashed for this because everything he said on that program a few years ago was basically true, which is in America we have a problem that we want our, you know, we want people, we want our society to be able to reproduce itself.
00:06:26.000And you do that by making it so healthy, functional, married, working people can find it easy to have children.
00:06:34.000And so I feel like, you know, we could maybe go really aggressive on this.
00:06:38.000We could say, I think in Hungary they tried...
00:06:41.000If you're a married family with four kids, you pay almost zero taxes or something.
00:06:47.000Maybe we can't go that extreme, but I think we almost have a poverty ambition on this front.
00:06:54.000I think we have to look around and we can say our big problem is that Americans aren't having as many kids as they want to have.
00:07:00.000We're not having as many kids as we actually need to have to secure the future of the country.
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00:07:53.000So I just have a question, you know, post-election, you know, if Trump ends up winning and Democrats don't, you know, accept the results and therefore don't certify them, you know, what's next?
00:08:08.000Yeah, so I don't even want to talk about that because I don't quite want to even get into that circumstance.
00:08:14.000Blake, what is the certification problem?
00:08:16.000What could the Democrats do at the worst case here, Blake, when it comes to certification?
00:08:20.000Well, I suppose the most extreme case is in some of these states they have left wing control.
00:08:25.000So stuff that they said was, you know, treason or insurrection when Republicans talked about doing it in 2020 is stuff that could be on the table for them.
00:08:34.000So let's say I think Democrats control every part of the Michigan legislature right now or Pennsylvania.
00:08:59.000So you already have the ingredients where they could say, oh, this was illegitimate, there was something wrong with it, and they could go and say, actually, Trump had a point.
00:09:08.000We're going to convene the legislature and we're going to revoke the certification or prevent certification.
00:09:17.000And, you know, you'll have the media come in and say, actually, this time it's totally justified.
00:09:21.000It's like how The Atlantic ran this article a couple years ago that in 2024 it might be Kamala's job to stop the steal.
00:09:29.000And it was basically Kamala might have to do the stuff Pence was going to do, except this time it will be a good idea because it'll be a Democrat.
00:09:39.000On balance, I don't think it's super likely, but you have to be ready for it.
00:09:44.000You have to remember, a lot of liberals are just...
00:09:47.000You can see this with all the Hitler stuff.
00:09:48.000They're getting really unglued again at the prospect of Trump being president.
00:09:52.000And when people are hysterical, when they're worked up, when they're panicking, that is when you see them start mentally justifying and laying the groundwork for radical stuff that even they themselves would not have done before.
00:10:05.000When people are paranoid and freaking out, they do radical things.
00:10:09.000And it could be stuff like, yeah, withdraw the certification.
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00:11:28.000Blake, before we get to the next question here, new battleground state poll, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina.
00:11:35.000Kamala Harris wins with high propensity voters, gets crushed with low propensity voters.
00:11:46.000And if we have low turnout, if we have laggardly turnout, if people think, oh, Trump's got it in the bag, he did the trash rally, he's taken out the trash, I don't need to go vote, I can go to a basketball game or something, it means if you do that, we'll lose.
00:12:05.000And that's why you're suddenly seeing the stories.
00:12:07.000It's so different, Charlie, when we have viral videos of those, like, Democrat voter protection people in Pennsylvania.
00:12:16.000You know, I've been around for a while and scandals like that in the past used to be kind of, you know, Republican operatives who would sometimes get in trouble for that.
00:13:04.000So my question is, I know that Trump wants to have insurance companies cover IVF. The question I have is, as a Christian, how do you view IVF? Do you think it can be done in a Christian pro-life way?
00:13:20.000My husband and I have been trying to conceive since we were married for more than five years, and our doctors are kind of saying that our only option left is to go that IVF route.
00:13:30.000And we've prayed on it, and we're really still not sure what the right choice is there.
00:13:40.000And so, yes, so there is a, the only way in a, I'm going to say this, and I want you to double check this with a pastor or a spiritual guider in your life, because this is just Charlie Kirk off the cuff.
00:13:55.000The way IVF is traditionally done, let me put it this way, our family would never do it because it is implied that you create many lives and many will not live, okay?
00:14:05.000So, for example, you fertilize six eggs, you implant them, and four or five will not make it.
00:14:11.000The only way that IVF could potentially be ethically okay is if you only implant as many eggs as you are comfortable having children, if that makes sense.
00:14:23.000Now, there is a moral argument for me.
00:14:27.000Again, I'm not talking about politically.
00:14:31.000And I'm just talking about personally morally right now, if that makes sense.
00:14:35.000That personally morally, let's say that if you are comfortable having twins, then you could potentially implant two embryos that are fertilized, right?
00:14:45.000And so the issue is that They over-create them, or you could do one embryo at a time, or as many embryos at a time.
00:14:53.000The problem is it gets very expensive then, because you have to pay for the procedure to implant up against the uterine wall every time, where an IVF doctor will roll his eyes and be like, well, what's the big deal?
00:15:06.000Will you and I believe that every one of those embryos is a life?
00:15:09.000Every one of those embryos we believe actually is a formed life.
00:15:13.000And so I will say this though, if you can find an ethical way to do it within the Christian worldview that I'm assuming that you have, I think it's something worth entertaining.
00:15:24.000But I hesitate at times to just say from a Christian perspective, it's nothing but great from our own personal moral perspective.
00:15:33.000again, not from a political or a policy perspective, because it is implied that you overcreate.
00:15:39.000So if you make 12 eggs, for example, and if you succeed on the second, there's just 10 extras that are frozen into a freezer.
00:15:46.000But we love life and we love families.
00:16:12.000And Jessica, Daisy, if you can connect us, I'm going to send you a couple journal articles on that that I think would be really interesting.
00:18:02.000So I served in the Marine Corps Reserves and when the Biden vaccine mandate came out, I and quite a few of my fellow reservists refused it.
00:18:14.000The problem that we're going through now, and we're affected a little bit differently than active duty, is the baseline requirement for us to get all the benefits we work for.
00:18:25.000So I worked five of the six years of my contract.
00:18:29.000Since I didn't complete that last year because they wouldn't let me, they kicked me out for refusing an experimental vaccine.
00:18:36.000The approved one wasn't even available in the first place.
00:18:39.000My question's really, what can Trump advance?
00:18:42.000There's never been a more pro-military president than President Trump.
00:18:47.000Everybody I know from that community has voted for him already, if not about to.
00:18:59.000So President Trump made an announcement the other day saying that he will reinstitute all back pay for people that were discharged from our military, that we're not complying with this ridiculous vaccine order.
00:21:00.000Blake, is it—am I wrong to say this, Blake, that I think you should determine whether or not to enter the military based on whether or not Trump wins?
00:21:08.000Is that a fair statement, or am I over-politicizing things?
00:21:12.000So I think a lot goes into this, and I think it's definitely a factor.
00:21:16.000I wouldn't say categorically write it off if Trump is not.
00:21:21.000I think it would definitely influence maybe what your long-term plan is.
00:21:25.000Are you looking at it as, I guess, could I ask you, Justice, are you looking at it as a long-term career thing, or do you just want to serve and then after that use the GI Bill?
00:21:38.000Well, more it's, I'm more looking at it as like a career thing.
00:21:43.000I'm going in there because, you know, it's something I can do with my life that's helpful to the country and that sort of stuff, so...
00:21:51.000Yeah, Charlie, I would never want to just write off the military because I think it is one of the great institutions we still have, despite damage done to it.
00:22:31.000You can get a pension if you're in there long term.
00:22:34.000Maybe those will get damaged later, but I suspect veteran pensions will be one of the last things to get taken away in America.
00:22:41.000So there's so many good advantages to being a veteran in the U.S. I would never want to say don't do that just because there is a Democrat president.
00:22:51.000Because the real truth is, if you're in the military for 20 years, there will probably be a Democrat president in that span.
00:22:57.000We have political power goes back and forth in this country.
00:23:01.000So if you feel called to do that, if you think that is a good direction to take your life, I think it offers a lot of opportunity.
00:23:08.000And I wouldn't say nix it simply because there's going to be a Democrat in charge, because that'll be a problem no matter what you do.
00:23:15.000If you go to a university, well, that's going to be run by a bunch of liberals, except for a tiny number of exceptions.
00:23:21.000If you go into the corporate world, there's a lot of woke corporate nonsense.
00:23:44.000Justice, make the decision that is best for you, but if President Trump is not president, you'd have to deal with woke DEI, you know, gay poems on battleships and possibly fighting a no-win war.
00:24:18.000Go and download the Turning Point Action app and or get involved with your local Republican Party and get as many other people to vote, even though yourself...
00:24:29.000Well, then that is a great opportunity to go chase as many ballots as you can and just honestly call people, remind them to vote, and boost turnout.
00:24:38.000And so, as a high schooler, that's where I cut my teeth.
00:24:41.000As an obvious one, Jonathan, have your parents voted, assuming they're on our side?
00:26:25.000Yeah, you know, I had a pre-existing commitment in Arizona, so I wasn't able to do that.
00:26:30.000Yeah, but you were powerful in Georgia.
00:26:34.000How much can pastors share from the pulpit?
00:26:38.000I mean, I know they can talk about any cultural ill, you know, according to the Bible, but how far can they speak?
00:26:45.000Because it seems like Jack Hibbs and Rob McCoy and others that you've presented on your program say so much, but being reminded of this Johnson Amendment, is that really accurate?
00:26:59.000I mean, is that, do they follow through on that?
00:27:02.000Yes, I mean, first of all, they've never followed through on it before.
00:27:06.000But secondly, what difference does it make?
00:27:08.000Do you really need, as a church, the government's permission to speak out biblically?
00:27:13.000I mean, think about how backwards we are, where the church thinks they're subservient to the government.
00:27:18.000And so what Jack Hibbs and Rob McCoy say is, so what?
00:27:21.000We're going to operate outside of the government.
00:28:05.000Do you remember in Habakkuk, How in Habakkuk 3, and he says, in 16 through 19, okay, so at the very end it says, yet, so he's very scared, right, Habakkuk is?
00:28:20.000He says, I heard, and my inward parts trembled.
00:28:23.000And he says, yet I will exalt in the Lord and I will rejoice in God my salvation.
00:28:28.000The Lord God is my strength and makes me my feet like Heinz feet and makes me walk on high places.
00:28:34.000Charlie, as I watch you guys and this movement, you and your workers and all of you guys, I just see amazing.
00:28:56.000I mean, I watch it, and I had emailed you a note this morning to let you know, and you're wonderful people, that you're so, you guys, you're doing God's work, but you're not only doing that.
00:29:13.000I love on your call to continue to continue to go out there and to continue to keep on fighting but keeping your eyes on the Lord but you keep on going and going you have to fall and get up and keep going and keeping your eyes fixed on the prize and so I see that in you guys Charlie you guys are standing strong and you guys have your you have your eyes on the prize and I just It's won.
00:29:41.000I mean, I'm not even saying everything is won, but God has won the victory of it all.
00:29:45.000So I just want to keep on comforting you guys and telling you guys to carry on your beautiful families as you keep on talking to these amazing people about children and keep on having children and all the things that the Lord loves.
00:31:19.000Hi, I have posted a few things on Facebook and I just get smeared and they go, go fact check it.
00:31:30.000I was wondering where do they go fact check things?
00:31:34.000Where does CBS, ABC, where do they go to fact check and where is an accurate Yeah, let's answer that.
00:31:48.000Blake, do you have an answer in about 30 seconds there, Blake?
00:31:51.000I mean, the sad answer is there's not an easy way to do it.
00:31:55.000You just have to be a very media literate person and you probably have to go to a lot of different outlets, try to follow people you trust on X, Telegram if you prefer that, but it just helps to be reading a lot because there's just a lot of people out there who do want to deceive you.
00:32:11.000And you just have to get used to their patterns.
00:32:14.000And that's, unfortunately, the tough answer to it.