The Charlie Kirk Show - November 30, 2022


Apple Conspires with China and Maricopa's Sordid Election Past with John Solomon


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Apple is a multi-trillion dollar company, but they are also an active collaborator with the Communist Party of China in order to crush anti-China protests. What does this tell us about Apple's relationship with the Chinese Communist Party?

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk show, email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com and support the Charlie Kirk Show at charliekirk.com/slash support if you'd like and get involved with Turning PointUSA at tpusa.com.
00:00:12.000 Today, we dive into what's happening in China and then John Solomon joins us for the latest at Americopa County.
00:00:18.000 Come to America Fest, December 17, 18, 19, and 20 in Maricopa County, amfest.com.
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00:00:27.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:28.000 Here we go.
00:00:29.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:31.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:33.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
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00:00:40.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:41.000 His spirit is love of this country.
00:00:43.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
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00:01:11.000 A conservative thinker, author, or writer can probably tell you why government without checks and balances, without a proper structure, can lead to tyranny.
00:01:22.000 As conservatives, in kind of the conservative think tank world, it is very well accepted and with a fair amount of detail and sophistication, the conservative intelligentsia can tell you what happens if a government does not respect individual rights.
00:01:41.000 However, can most conservatives also tell you what happens when a company is able to have as much power as a government?
00:01:51.000 Right now, one of the most important stories happening in the Western world is the most valuable company in the Western world, which is Apple.
00:02:00.000 They make great products.
00:02:01.000 So I am an offender of the highest order of enriching Apple.
00:02:06.000 However, we must take a step back and be honest about what Apple is currently doing.
00:02:11.000 Not just what Apple is doing in China, but also what Apple is threatening to do to Elon Musk.
00:02:17.000 Now, Apple has successfully diversified their business model from controlling the App Store to making hardware laptops and obviously their very successful iPhone to being really controlling the vast majority of podcast market.
00:02:35.000 There's so many different sectors that Apple has been able to successfully get into.
00:02:40.000 And because of this, they're a multi-trillion dollar company.
00:02:42.000 That's right, multi-trillion dollar company.
00:02:44.000 Apple is more valuable than several countries in Eastern Europe.
00:02:49.000 It's just hard to even wrap your head around.
00:02:50.000 In fact, Apple is more valuable than, I think you could combine five or six African countries, just a single private company.
00:02:58.000 Apple has now threatened to remove Twitter from the App Store, effectively ending the company if Elon Musk continues on his free speech crusade.
00:03:09.000 All the while, Apple has just limited and restricted Airdrop, which is an ability in the midst of protests to share information, share videos, share location, in the midst of all of the anti-CCP protests.
00:03:29.000 Right now, Apple, and I say this with a lot of thought, Apple possesses more power than several parts of the federal government.
00:03:42.000 Apple is more powerful in many different ways than the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission.
00:03:50.000 Apple has the ability to involve themselves in an anti-CCP movement and then all the while say that we are going to act like the CCP in America and prevent Elon Musk from continuing to liberate Twitter.
00:04:08.000 Cut 66, Tucker Carlson talks about how Apple has limited the airdrop feature in China, PlayCut 66.
00:04:16.000 Earlier this month, Apple did the bidding of the Chinese government to crush domestic protests against the Communist Party there.
00:04:24.000 Apple did this by disabling its permanent airdrop feature in China.
00:04:29.000 So why did Apple disable that feature in China?
00:04:31.000 Well, because that feature, permanent airdrop, allows iPhone users to communicate directly with one another without using the internet or cellular networks, both of which in a totalitarian state like China are controlled by the government.
00:04:45.000 And that's why when iPhone users in China began using permanent airdrop to complain about the Communist Party, Apple just shut it down.
00:04:52.000 Apple is now an active collaborator with China's murderous police state.
00:04:57.000 Someone emailed us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:04:59.000 Michael says, you need to move on from Apple products to set an example.
00:05:02.000 That's fine.
00:05:03.000 I acknowledge that.
00:05:04.000 And that's why I led with that.
00:05:05.000 I didn't want to act as if I was immune from enriching Apple's ability to grow very powerful over our country.
00:05:12.000 And what's so illuminating for conservatives is that for years, we were always told that if we had free markets and lower taxes, that things would solve themselves through natural competition.
00:05:26.000 And that rule is generally true. 0.98
00:05:29.000 But what happens when a company itself begins to infringe on civil liberties?
00:05:34.000 What happens when a company doesn't actually act in their best profit interest, but actually acts in their ideological interest?
00:05:44.000 The CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, he is far more interested in protecting and preserving the Leviathan that Apple has become.
00:05:54.000 Apple, similar to Google, by the way, has become its own government.
00:05:59.000 Now, interestingly enough, throughout the years, if you pay attention to a lot of the tech blogs, and I read the tech blogs here and there, and by the way, if you remember, the great Rush Limbaugh was a massive Apple fan.
00:06:13.000 Just remember that.
00:06:14.000 So Apple for years was at least a little neutral when it came to be political.
00:06:21.000 If you read the tech blogs, though, as I was saying, Apple used to pander, not pander, that's probably the wrong word.
00:06:26.000 They actually used to communicate their commitment to civil liberties.
00:06:31.000 I remember once being in Las Vegas and there was this, oh boy, what is the name of the conference?
00:06:37.000 One of our team members would know.
00:06:40.000 Is it NAB?
00:06:42.000 I don't know, no, no.
00:06:43.000 It's a conference in Vegas that is very popular and Apple is one of the big sponsors.
00:06:50.000 Anyway, I happen to be in town simultaneously during this conference.
00:06:54.000 It has a very unique name.
00:06:55.000 And when I see it, I'll know it.
00:06:57.000 Anyway, Apple bought billboards all across Vegas.
00:07:02.000 We could probably find the advertising campaign.
00:07:04.000 This is just a couple of years ago.
00:07:06.000 And it was all about privacy.
00:07:10.000 Apple was buying billboard after billboard after billboard, basically saying that we are going to honor your cellular privacy, that we are going to basically do the equivalent of my body my choice.
00:07:24.000 It is now going to be my cell phone, my choice.
00:07:28.000 Apple for years said that if you have a phone, we're not going to be able to look into it.
00:07:32.000 Remember when Apple refused to unlock the iPhone?
00:07:36.000 It was San Bernardino.
00:07:37.000 Yeah.
00:07:38.000 They were unwilling to unlock the iPhone because they said our commitment to privacy knows no bounds.
00:07:46.000 It doesn't matter if it's a terrorist.
00:07:48.000 We're not going to go through a back end into technology or technology to try to spy on what you are doing.
00:07:53.000 By the way, it is CES.
00:07:54.000 It's CES.
00:07:54.000 Thank you.
00:07:55.000 It's an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association.
00:07:59.000 Thank you.
00:08:00.000 And remember, Apple refused the government's request to unlock the Pensacola shooter suspect's iPhone.
00:08:08.000 They just won't do it.
00:08:09.000 However, they won't do that.
00:08:11.000 But what Apple will do, so Apple won't unlock iPhones of terrorists in America, but Apple will prevent the speech and the ability to communicate for protesters in mainland China as CCP, but it makes sense. 0.79
00:08:24.000 Tim Cook doesn't care about civil liberties.
00:08:26.000 Tim Cook is the new digital mouse tongue.
00:08:31.000 Play Cut 67.
00:08:33.000 China's done an unbelievable job of lifting people out of poverty.
00:08:37.000 They've done an incredible job.
00:08:39.000 I mean, far beyond what any country has done.
00:08:43.000 And we should all feel good about it.
00:08:46.000 And so there are, in the environmental leadership today is very clear, and it aligns completely with Apple's values.
00:08:58.000 The Chinese environmental leaders.
00:09:00.000 I mean, they're very fixated on doing the right things to avert climate change.
00:09:08.000 China is the number one polluter on the planet.
00:09:11.000 They have cold-fire power plants all across mainland China.
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00:10:17.000 I think I have found my favorite email I have received in the last couple of weeks.
00:10:21.000 Charlie, you have to stop using Apple.
00:10:24.000 They are evil.
00:10:25.000 I'm not going to say the name.
00:10:27.000 Sent from my iPhone.
00:10:32.000 It's perfect.
00:10:34.000 It's like absolutely perfect.
00:10:38.000 The problem is this.
00:10:40.000 The problem is that many conservatives don't know how to process or engage or solve the problem of major corporate power.
00:10:55.000 We know how to solve problems when it comes to government.
00:10:59.000 Restore to the promise of the U.S. Constitution, separation of powers, checks and balances.
00:11:02.000 This is one of the reasons why I say we need a constitutional reset.
00:11:08.000 The Constitution is the greatest document, political document ever written, period.
00:11:11.000 It's based on biblical values.
00:11:13.000 It is based on things that are always true, eternal wisdom.
00:11:17.000 James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay understood human nature, and they designed a system of government based on an appropriate analysis of human nature.
00:11:31.000 By doing so, they also came, they made a couple truth claims throughout the Constitution.
00:11:36.000 And if you read the Declaration of Independence, it in some ways is the kind of prologue to the United States Constitution.
00:11:46.000 Talks about how power should not be centralized by one person.
00:11:50.000 The Declaration famously starts very, very broad when in the course of human events becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that have tied them to another.
00:11:59.000 And then it gets very specific.
00:12:01.000 The king did this, the king did that, the king did this, the king did that, the king did this, the king did that.
00:12:06.000 And then it gets very broad again.
00:12:08.000 And in the Constitution, they went about actually solving the problems that they said the king did this, the king did that, the king did this, the king did that.
00:12:18.000 What if I told you that now a private company has the power that we only would fear the government would have?
00:12:26.000 That's not to say the government isn't wildly out of control right now.
00:12:30.000 We have a fourth branch of government that I sure hope the new Republican Congress is going to make a focus to check imbalance and to restore consent to the governed and separation of powers and legitimate oversight.
00:12:42.000 But what's happening with Apple right now is very interesting because very few political leaders, there's some and we're going to play some tape, but there are very few political leaders right now.
00:12:52.000 There's a handful of political leaders that actually understand the threat of what would happen if Apple kicked Twitter out of their app store.
00:12:58.000 Apple basically is flexing their muscles and they are saying, we are in charge.
00:13:06.000 We're the ones that get to decide what applications are able to survive and thrive or cripple and die.
00:13:14.000 How is that not monopoly power exactly? 0.76
00:13:17.000 Look what they did to Parlor.
00:13:18.000 They could do to Twitter what they once did to Parlor.
00:13:21.000 It would actually force Elon Musk to start his own Tesla phone.
00:13:25.000 Let's go to Cut 68.
00:13:26.000 Tim Cook in 2021 defending doing business in China.
00:13:31.000 Play Cut 68.
00:13:32.000 You've been criticized for not speaking out on human rights issues, for example, in China and other countries as well.
00:13:40.000 This is something I think a lot of companies that have been doing business in China struggle with.
00:13:44.000 A number of companies, as you know, have abandoned China.
00:13:47.000 How do you think about that?
00:13:49.000 I think that we have a responsibility as a business to do business in as many places as we can, because I think business is this huge catalyst.
00:14:00.000 I believe in what Tom Watson said, is world peace through world trade.
00:14:04.000 You have to get your head around when you're operating outside the U.S. in any country in the world, that there are different laws.
00:14:13.000 World peace through world trade.
00:14:15.000 You see, that is neoliberalism.
00:14:16.000 Donald Trump at his best, and boy, I would love to see this really re-emerge as Trump's focus.
00:14:24.000 Donald Trump at his best was an articulate and sometimes bombastic critic of automatic neoliberalism.
00:14:32.000 World peace through world trade.
00:14:33.000 Really?
00:14:33.000 How does that work?
00:14:34.000 So funding the Chinese Communist Party's ambitions of taking over sub-Saharan Africa and ports of entry all across South America. 0.50
00:14:43.000 How is that world peace through world trade?
00:14:45.000 You see, there are these built-in neoliberal corporate-funded incantations that Donald Trump, to his great credit, I wrote a whole book about it, came in and said, why is it that we have unlimited amounts of people coming into our country?
00:14:58.000 That doesn't make sense.
00:14:59.000 Why is it that we have trade imbalances and shut down our own manufacturing plants?
00:15:02.000 Because then Tim Cook just says this one liner that you could fit on a bumper sticker that would satisfy the media.
00:15:08.000 Like, well, yeah, of course.
00:15:09.000 So world peace through world trade.
00:15:10.000 No, actually, enriching tyrants does not get you closer to world peace.
00:15:15.000 Forced assimilation via globalization and the destruction of individual cultures, language, and borders actually gets you closer towards disintegration and bedlam, not closer towards world peace through world trade.
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00:16:35.000 Joining us now is John Solomon, one of the best reporters in America.
00:16:39.000 Love his program every day on Real America's Voice.
00:16:41.000 I catch it when I can.
00:16:43.000 John, welcome back to the program.
00:16:45.000 Yeah, good to be with you, Charlie.
00:16:47.000 So, John, I want to start with your story from JustTheNews.
00:16:49.000 That's justthenews.com.
00:16:51.000 County Under a Cloud: Maricopa's Decade-Long History of Election Issues from 2012 to 2022.
00:16:59.000 John, I live in Maricopa County.
00:17:01.000 We're doing this show actually live from Maricopa County.
00:17:03.000 And when I talk to people across the country, it has become more than a laughingstock.
00:17:07.000 It has become an insult to American elections and our country.
00:17:11.000 Your thoughts.
00:17:13.000 Well, listen, people sometimes forget history real quickly, right?
00:17:16.000 Because we live in a fast-paced world.
00:17:17.000 But the train wreck that we saw in 2022 has actually been a slow-motion train wreck that started back in 2012.
00:17:24.000 And what's interesting is that when the election irregularity problem started in Maricopa County a decade ago, it was the mainstream media and Democrats that were concerned about it.
00:17:33.000 In 2012, Arizona Republican called Maricopa County the embarrassment of the United States for its slow election counting, like two weeks of delayed election counting.
00:17:42.000 2014, new problems occurred.
00:17:44.000 2016, during the primary, such significant problems occurred and people were left in lines for such long hours that the Obama Justice Department sent a letter saying, Hey, what are you guys doing there?
00:17:54.000 There's been changes of leadership.
00:17:56.000 But no matter what happens, the same issues keep recurring.
00:17:59.000 Long lines, problems with machines, inability to vote easily in a state that should be quite easy to vote.
00:18:06.000 And so when you ask, how did we get to this point in 2022?
00:18:10.000 The answer is it's been a decade coming and it's been this county's repeated inability to fix these problems that continue to erode the confidence of Arizona voters in their own system in their largest county.
00:18:22.000 The Obama Justice Department in 2016 sent a letter to Maricopa County saying that the lines were unacceptable.
00:18:33.000 Yep.
00:18:34.000 Where is the Justice Department now?
00:18:38.000 Very silent.
00:18:39.000 We haven't heard anything thus far about that.
00:18:41.000 And I think that's what's so interesting about the election integrity issue.
00:18:44.000 Democrats were for it until they became against it.
00:18:47.000 And I think that sadly, right now, the Democrats are missing an opportunity to join with Republicans and fix systems all across this country that have issues.
00:18:55.000 We were the beacon of constitutional republics in the world, the beacon of democracy in the world.
00:19:01.000 The idea that we can't count our votes as quickly as other countries who long followed us on this political path is embarrassing.
00:19:08.000 And instead of playing politics, both parties could get together, as this happened in Florida or Texas and a few other places and fix these other locations so that every person, Democrat, Republican, Independent, feels good that their vote's going to be counted, that there's not going to be cheating, and it can be done easily.
00:19:24.000 It's not rocket science to fix this.
00:19:25.000 There has been an unwillingness to fix this.
00:19:28.000 And there's been a use of the Democrats of the chaos in this system to try to take advantage of that to their electoral benefit.
00:19:35.000 At some point, someone has to yell, stop, and we get these things fixed.
00:19:39.000 They're not hard to fix.
00:19:40.000 No, they're not, but it doesn't seem as if there is a willingness or even an appetite for the recognition that something might have gone wrong.
00:19:48.000 No, it's the opposite, John.
00:19:50.000 It's that when we talk to the Maricopa County supervisors, not talk, but when we, I mean, we do our show and then they respond to us, they blame our show.
00:19:58.000 Via the Washington Post, Maricopa County says it is Charlie Kirk's fault that there were long lines on Election Day.
00:20:06.000 That it's our fault.
00:20:08.000 Your piece talks about, though, that this has been many years in making.
00:20:11.000 Helen Purcell, who was the Maricopa County recorder that had the fumble back in 2016, at least she acknowledged that this was not acceptable.
00:20:23.000 Now, John, how often do we get lectured by Democrats as, you know, not being on the side of quote-unquote democracy?
00:20:32.000 And we are a republic, not a democracy, but let's pretend what they mean is on the voting rights.
00:20:37.000 And yet when anywhere between 50 to 150,000 people in Maricopa County are disenfranchised, they're completely silent.
00:20:44.000 Yeah, listen, I think that's the issue here, right?
00:20:47.000 I think we've played politics too long with this system when, in fact, every American should be invested in having a system that makes it easy to vote and hard to cheat.
00:20:54.000 That's all people are asking for.
00:20:56.000 Standing in long lines wasn't something that Charlie Kirk created in 2022.
00:21:00.000 It started all the way back in 2016 with the long lines, 2012, with the problems with voting counting that was stretched on for days and the local newspaper was embarrassed by it.
00:21:10.000 This has been a 10-year train wreck and the failure of Republicans and Democrats to fix it only erodes not only Americans' confidence in their own system, it erodes the world's confidence in America's great voting system.
00:21:21.000 We used to do this so easily and we've made it so complex and we've made it so hard.
00:21:26.000 And I think for some reasons we've done so so that one party could take advantage of the rules.
00:21:31.000 And I think there has to be a yell-stop moment where we rise above and say, Democrat, Republican, Independent, let's get above that for a second.
00:21:39.000 Let's do what's right for this country and get these things fixed.
00:21:42.000 It would take but a few hours to sit down and figure out why we don't bring toner to the printers, why we don't count votes regularly, why there were long lines and not enough people to staff lines over the last decade.
00:21:54.000 Not hard stuff to fix.
00:21:55.000 This is like the water boy not bringing water to the football game or the offensive coordinator not bringing his playbook.
00:22:01.000 These things are simple things to fix.
00:22:03.000 There's just been an unwillingness to fix it.
00:22:05.000 Unwillingness is the right word.
00:22:07.000 And so in Cut 39, Bill Gates, who is the chairman of the Maricopa County Supervisors, he talks about how printer issues did not impact Republican areas versus Democrat areas.
00:22:16.000 First of all, this is wrong.
00:22:18.000 We have the evidence to show he's wrong.
00:22:19.000 But even if he was right, he's wrong again because who votes on Election Day?
00:22:25.000 It's disproportionately Republican.
00:22:27.000 Even in Democrat areas, Kerry Lake was winning the Election Day vote.
00:22:31.000 Bill Gates doesn't mention this because I think Bill Gates is trying to grovel a little bit because he knows he's under, I think, some very serious.
00:22:42.000 He's in some very troubled waters here.
00:22:44.000 And if there was an actual Justice Department, boy, these supervisors, I think they would be criminally investigated.
00:22:50.000 Play cut 39.
00:22:52.000 The integrity of my colleagues up here on the dais and the integrity of Stephen Richer were questioned over and over and over again.
00:23:01.000 And I know this is not my seat.
00:23:04.000 This is the people's seat that I sit in.
00:23:06.000 You can think what you want to about me, but these are good men who are in public service for the right reasons.
00:23:13.000 This was not a perfect election, but it was safe and secure.
00:23:17.000 The votes have been counted accurately.
00:23:22.000 John, your thoughts?
00:23:23.000 Well, listen, integrity aside, competence does matter.
00:23:28.000 And Americans expect their election officials to be competent.
00:23:32.000 And there is a history of incompetence in this county that lasts a decade.
00:23:36.000 It stretches a decade.
00:23:37.000 Anything that goes on for a decade is far too long.
00:23:40.000 And I think a lot of the effort here is to try to politicize this.
00:23:43.000 Well, it wasn't just Republican votes.
00:23:45.000 It actually doesn't matter.
00:23:46.000 The mere fact that people were left to go in lines, have to put things in a B box and a D box and get the rigmaroo.
00:23:53.000 That's not how American elections are conducted.
00:23:54.000 And by the way, for most of our history, we've done this pretty flawlessly.
00:23:59.000 I don't know why in the last 10 years we seem to have lost our ability to count votes accurately or to do things consistently and efficiently.
00:24:07.000 But it shouldn't matter whether it's a Republican or Democrat vote.
00:24:10.000 They should be ashamed that anyone's vote was left in the status that it was on election day, where you had to wait in long lines, fill out things, cancel ballots, do another ballot.
00:24:20.000 That's not the way the election system works.
00:24:22.000 And they should be saying, it's a euphemism to say this wasn't a perfect election.
00:24:27.000 That's like saying, I'm not a crook when you're Richard Nixon.
00:24:29.000 At the end of the day, your job was to make voting easy and simple, and they failed to do so.
00:24:35.000 They have to acknowledge that.
00:24:36.000 That's not a Republican issue.
00:24:37.000 That's not a conservative issue, a Democrat issue.
00:24:39.000 It's an American issue.
00:24:41.000 Do their job better.
00:24:42.000 That's all I think the Arizona voters are asking of Maricopa County.
00:24:46.000 And yet, look, it's voter suppression occurred unmistakably, whether it was by design or by incompetence.
00:24:54.000 And this story from justthenews.com summarizes it really well.
00:24:57.000 So where do things stand now?
00:24:58.000 It seems that the certification deadline has come up.
00:25:02.000 Has the state certified the election yet?
00:25:06.000 That'll be the next step.
00:25:07.000 Yeah, that's the next step.
00:25:08.000 The state will do that over the next few days.
00:25:10.000 And at that point, the legal challenges of people like Abe Hamaday and Kerry Lake will become ripe, meaning that they'll be to actually go and challenge the certification.
00:25:19.000 The challenge to any legal case after an election has already been conducted is you have to be able to show there are enough votes denied you or denied being cast that day that would change the outcome of the election.
00:25:30.000 Now, Abe Homeday's only 800 votes.
00:25:32.000 That may be possible to do.
00:25:34.000 Kerry Lake's a much larger number.
00:25:36.000 But being unable to get to that threshold, if you can't show it consistently or compellingly, the courts are probably not going to intervene, which means the process now has to begin to make sure, no matter how these two cases work out, and I know both candidates are going to go to court and fight hard for the people of Arizona.
00:25:54.000 But when that's over, we have to make sure that 2024 isn't a repeat of 2022, 2020, 2018, 2016, and 2012, because it's like the movie Groundhog Dig.
00:26:04.000 We keep repeating this in Maricopa County.
00:26:06.000 Well, and then people say, well, Charlie, why don't you fix it?
00:26:08.000 Well, it's because you have to have political power to fix it.
00:26:11.000 And so we're going to have to recall either Richard or recall Gates or have some very aggressive lawsuits that fix these things once and for all.
00:26:20.000 And look, I'll be honest, I think that it's there.
00:26:23.000 I'm going to play this piece of tape.
00:26:24.000 If there's a judge courageous enough to look at the evidence, this is one poll worker.
00:26:28.000 So this is not some random guy.
00:26:30.000 By the way, Stephen Richer calls these people conspiracy theorists, even though this guy was an official worker for Stephen Richer.
00:26:36.000 He's calling his own workers conspiracy theorists.
00:26:38.000 That's the quality of person that Stephen Richer is.
00:26:41.000 So he calls him a conspiracy theorist.
00:26:43.000 Meanwhile, he says 675 people were in line and 525 of them ended up not voting.
00:26:50.000 Play cut 24.
00:26:51.000 Ladies and gentlemen of the Board of Supervisors, I was a poll worker.
00:26:56.000 And what I will say that I've seen is voters this cycle have in fact been disenfranchised because we as poll workers were not taught how to check out voters at our poll centers.
00:27:10.000 And then at my poll center, where we literally had at 7 p.m. on election day, 675 people waiting in line.
00:27:19.000 Of those 675, do you know how many came in?
00:27:23.000 150.
00:27:25.000 Your thoughts.
00:27:26.000 Listen, that's going to be the key thing.
00:27:28.000 What is the check-in checkout document show? 0.98
00:27:30.000 That's what Kerry Lake sued to try to get access to.
00:27:32.000 That level of evidence will let us know whether there were disenfranchised voters.
00:27:36.000 That's the next step in this process.
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00:29:34.000 What other stories are you keeping an eye on right now?
00:29:37.000 We got the Georgia runoff coming up in six days.
00:29:39.000 What are other things that you guys are covering closely at Just the News?
00:29:42.000 Well, this is something that doesn't mean a lot to a lot of people, but it could have a significant impact on your future pocketbook, your future budget.
00:29:50.000 Social cost of carbon.
00:29:51.000 This is a concept that Barack Obama invented in 2009.
00:29:55.000 Put a dollar figure on the cost of carbon and its impact on the environment.
00:29:59.000 And for most of the last decade, though, it's been controversial.
00:30:02.000 That price has been set at $51 per metric ton of carbon released in.
00:30:06.000 Well, very quietly with no fanfare, just before Thanksgiving, in an addendum to a regulatory filing that nobody in the real world actually reads, the Biden administration just came back and quadrupled that figure, quadrupled it from $51 to $190 per cubic feet.
00:30:23.000 Now you say, all right, that's just a scientific exercise.
00:30:26.000 It has no real meaning.
00:30:28.000 This dollar figure is what's going to be used to impose future taxes and regulatory fees on everything from tailpipe emissions to methane emissions, which they're currently posting on natural gas providers.
00:30:40.000 That means your natural gas bill, your gasoline bill is going to get a lot more expensive.
00:30:45.000 And remember, last week, Joe Biden, when he was overseas, said, I've decided America is going to pay reparations to all the poor countries in the world for the pollution we imposed on them.
00:30:53.000 Well, this dollar figure of $190 will now be the benchmark potentially that the United States will use to pay foreign countries for our quote-unquote pollution.
00:31:02.000 A very significant thing.
00:31:03.000 Bureaucrats do things with almost no visibility of the American people to see it.
00:31:07.000 This is one of those.
00:31:08.000 We're going to expose this tomorrow.
00:31:10.000 It's a big number that's going to have a long-term effect on American policy.
00:31:14.000 Yeah.
00:31:15.000 And so we'll talk a little bit more about that.
00:31:17.000 This could just be done unilaterally.
00:31:19.000 It's a regulatory fee out. 0.72
00:31:21.000 The executive state, as we talk so often, bureaucrats do things.
00:31:24.000 Now, maybe it will get challenged in the courts.
00:31:26.000 In fact, the idea that there is even a social carbon cost regulations being challenged by the state of Louisiana December 7th, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is going to hear that challenge.
00:31:36.000 But if that prevails, and this dollar figure sits, every new regulation the EPA does on the fossil fuel industry will suddenly have a new fee imposed on it, set at this $190 per cubic feet of carbon.
00:31:48.000 So that means natural gas, heating fuel, gasoline in your car, reparations to future countries all could become that four times more expensive based on this calculation.
00:31:59.000 It's incredible, and almost no one is talking about it.
00:32:01.000 No.
00:32:02.000 Well, John, thank you so much for joining us.
00:32:04.000 Great job.
00:32:04.000 JudgeNews.com.
00:32:05.000 Really appreciate it.
00:32:06.000 Thank you.
00:32:07.000 My pleasure.
00:32:08.000 Everybody, email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:32:11.000 Someone said here, Charlie, whatever happened to the rule, if you were in line before 7 p.m., you could still vote.
00:32:16.000 So that's actually not the issue here.
00:32:18.000 The issue is that people ran out of time, their own time.
00:32:22.000 Meaning they did not, they had kids at soccer practice, they had to go to a meeting, they had to go back to work.
00:32:28.000 And so people did not have the time in their schedule to sit through multiple hours of lines.
00:32:34.000 And yet Bill Gates says, well, everyone who wanted to vote was able to vote.
00:32:38.000 That's not true.
00:32:39.000 We have example after example of people that hadn't voted, that voted in every election for the last 40 years, but did not vote on 11-8 because of what the Maricopa County supervisors did.
00:32:50.000 If this happened in downtown Atlanta or in Philadelphia, there would be widespread calls for a new election.
00:32:57.000 Widespread.
00:32:58.000 Play cut 23, please.
00:33:00.000 I feel that the voters of Arizona, and in particular Maricopa County and Wickenburg, had their votes disenfranchised because Maricopa County had so many problems on election day.
00:33:10.000 Thousands could not vote.
00:33:12.000 Thousands left discouraged.
00:33:15.000 I was one of those voters disenfranchised in Wickenburg and Maricopa County.
00:33:19.000 My ballot looked perfect.
00:33:20.000 And no matter what I did, the tabulator would not accept it.
00:33:24.000 I reluctantly finally put my ballot in Jar 3 ballot and noticed there were hundreds of ballots stuffed in both tabulators in Jar 3.
00:33:31.000 I was later told there were 17,000 plus ballots in George Reed.
00:33:37.000 Example after example coming through.
00:33:40.000 So the timeline is this.
00:33:43.000 The election will likely be certified by the governor, the Secretary of State, and the Attorney General. 1.00
00:33:49.000 And then at that moment, Carrie Lake has her best opportunity to present a robust legal challenge.
00:33:56.000 And I know some of you are saying, oh, Charlie, why doesn't she just sue?
00:33:59.000 Well, look what happened to Abe Homeday yesterday.
00:34:01.000 Abe Hamaday's lawsuit got thrown out by a judge because the judge says we got to wait for the election to be certified before you're able to have a legal challenge.
00:34:09.000 So you have to wait, wait, and then the best legal challenge that you could possibly put forward.
00:34:14.000 But just to manage expectations, it's going to take a very courageous judge to do anything meaningful here, to do anything substantial.
00:34:22.000 But boy, the evidence is just right here.
00:34:24.000 It's right in front of us.
00:34:28.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:30.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:33.000 Thank you so much for listening.
00:34:34.000 God bless.
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