The Charlie Kirk Show - November 04, 2024


Ask Charlie Anything 204: Join Kamala's Military? Ethical IVF? Employees to the Polls?

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voting encouragement daycare tax deduction Vaccine Mandates and military benefits injustice
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Charlie Kirk
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Charlie Kirk Show Donald Trump Jeff Harrison Jonathan Daisy Jessica Blake Sam Harris JD Vance Jack Hibbs Rob McCoy Biden Laura Turning Point USA The Holy Spirit Ted Cruz Whataburger Habakkuk Telegram and 5 more
The Final Push For Tuesday — My Speech at East Carolina University If You Haven't Voted, Go Vote NOW

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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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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:00.000 Happy Monday.
00:00:01.000 Ask Me Anything episode.
00:00:02.000 We talk about the election.
00:00:02.000 We talk about IVF and a lot more.
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00:01:45.000 Okay, the first question is Jeff, and Blake is also co-piloting.
00:01:49.000 Say hi, Blake.
00:01:50.000 Blake is our Roman history aficionado.
00:01:53.000 Blake, I don't know if we have time to do Hillsdale this week.
00:01:55.000 We might have to do that next week.
00:01:56.000 It's going to be all election-focused.
00:01:58.000 I hear you, Charlie.
00:02:00.000 Although, I do want to shout out, I got my first piece of fan mail the other day because of the Hillsdale quiz.
00:02:06.000 So, I just wanted to show my appreciation for Adrienne Patwara of Eugene, Oregon.
00:02:11.000 She sent me a bag of trail mix.
00:02:14.000 You can put it on camera here, guys.
00:02:15.000 I think I know her.
00:02:16.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:02:17.000 That's awesome.
00:02:18.000 So, Bohemia Mountain Goods Company, if you guys look it up on Public Square, you can check it out.
00:02:24.000 I wanted to shout her out because I appreciated her letter very much.
00:02:28.000 Well, Blake, congrats.
00:02:30.000 And, you know, just for the record, Andrew has never gotten fan mail.
00:02:33.000 Just so we're clear.
00:02:35.000 I'm sure that's not true.
00:02:37.000 He just wrote that in the chat.
00:02:39.000 He just wrote that in the chat.
00:02:41.000 Oh, a few hateful emails are fan mail, too.
00:02:45.000 They're hate fans.
00:02:46.000 Jeff is the first question.
00:02:48.000 Jeff, thank you for being a member.
00:02:49.000 What is on your mind, and have you voted?
00:02:52.000 Yes, I have voted already, and I'm very proud to say I got my children also to vote, and it's their first time to vote, so it's great.
00:02:52.000 Hey, Charlie.
00:03:01.000 Wanted to let you know, I'm a software development manager.
00:03:04.000 I have about 20 people or so on my team.
00:03:07.000 And I'm looking for good, compelling statements I can give to them when encouraging them to vote.
00:03:12.000 And one of my ideas is I'm planning on giving them a half day off on Tuesday, next Tuesday, if they pledge to take the time to go vote.
00:03:18.000 That's great.
00:03:19.000 I love that.
00:03:19.000 And I know them well, and I'm certain they're going to vote Republican, so I think that's why I'm safe in doing that.
00:03:24.000 But anyway, what other guidance can you give to managers and supervisors in this country to encourage and compel their employees to vote?
00:03:32.000 So can I ask you, what state are you in and what industry are you in?
00:03:36.000 I am in IT, in the insurance industry, and I am in the great state of Texas.
00:03:42.000 Well, Texas matters a lot right now.
00:03:44.000 I'm telling you, we have plans, just so you know, to expand Turning Point Action as a base of operation in Texas and Nevada beyond this cycle, because I'm afraid that they're going to make big gains in Texas and we've got to do work there.
00:03:55.000 Okay, so it's a great question, Jeff.
00:03:57.000 Let me answer it as succinctly as I can.
00:04:00.000 There are groups of people that have outsized influence in how people view voting.
00:04:06.000 The top three, the number one will be friends and family, obviously, right?
00:04:10.000 Spouse, brother, whatever.
00:04:12.000 The second is employer and the third is religious official.
00:04:16.000 So if employers have a lot of sway over how their employees vote, especially if you demonstrate it in this is how it impacts our business, how it impacts our way of life.
00:04:30.000 And so my advice to managers and supervisors, you should be unafraid to speak from a perspective of strictly business.
00:04:37.000 Here is how our business would be impacted by this election.
00:04:43.000 Here is how our business would be impacted.
00:04:46.000 That would be my advice.
00:04:48.000 My advice would be to...
00:04:51.000 Explain the ramifications and be unafraid to lean into that.
00:04:56.000 So, all right.
00:04:57.000 Thank you, Jeff, for being a member.
00:04:58.000 And I think Ted Cruz is going to be okay.
00:05:00.000 Thank you.
00:05:01.000 Appreciate it.
00:05:01.000 Great.
00:05:01.000 Thank you.
00:05:02.000 All right.
00:05:02.000 Next question.
00:05:03.000 Nathan.
00:05:04.000 Nathan, what is on your mind?
00:05:05.000 Hey, Charlie.
00:05:07.000 What do you think about the idea of allowing all day care costs to be tax deductible?
00:05:12.000 Right 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.
00:05:32.000 As an example, I live in Westchester, New York and have two daughters and pay $36,000 annually for child care.
00:05:38.000 Which is actually the mean in this area in New York, not high.
00:05:43.000 If it were tax deductible, I would save around 11,000.
00:05:47.000 I think that would be a pretty good benefit for people that have kids.
00:05:51.000 I think it's a great idea.
00:05:52.000 I see almost nothing wrong with it.
00:05:54.000 And to be perfectly honest, I think that we need to incentivize more people to have children and have daycare costs be made easier.
00:06:03.000 And that we do have the child tax credit.
00:06:05.000 Blake, do you have a thought on this?
00:06:07.000 Because we do have the child tax credit, but we need to make it even more accessible, right? 0.98
00:06:10.000 Yeah, 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.
00:06:26.000 And you do that by making it so healthy, functional, married, working people can find it easy to have children.
00:06:34.000 And so I feel like, you know, we could maybe go really aggressive on this.
00:06:38.000 We could say, I think in Hungary they tried...
00:06:41.000 If you're a married family with four kids, you pay almost zero taxes or something.
00:06:47.000 Maybe we can't go that extreme, but I think we almost have a poverty ambition on this front.
00:06:54.000 I 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.
00:07:00.000 We're not having as many kids as we actually need to have to secure the future of the country.
00:07:04.000 And we should make it...
00:07:07.000 It's hugely beneficial in tax terms to have children.
00:07:11.000 And if that means single guys like me who don't have kids right now have to be taxed to the hilt, maybe that's just how it's got to be.
00:07:19.000 Maybe that's actually the trade-off we need to make.
00:07:21.000 Maybe that's not a winning message because we have more and more people without kids, people who are unmarried. 1.00
00:07:26.000 But that's what I think would make sense for the good of the country.
00:07:31.000 Blake, I agree.
00:07:32.000 Okay, thank you guys.
00:07:33.000 Thank you so much.
00:07:34.000 And it's a great question, Nathan.
00:07:35.000 Really appreciate it.
00:07:35.000 Thank you.
00:07:37.000 Okay, MJ. MJ, thank you for being a member.
00:07:39.000 MJ, what is on your mind?
00:07:41.000 And again, if you guys want to ask me questions and join the club, and you get a nice red hat in return and be part of this incredible movement, it's members.charliekirk.com.
00:07:49.000 Remember, MJ, what's on your mind?
00:07:50.000 Hey Charlie, thanks for having this.
00:07:53.000 So 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?
00:08:03.000 What would our plan be?
00:08:05.000 You know, what should we look to do?
00:08:08.000 Yeah, so I don't even want to talk about that because I don't quite want to even get into that circumstance.
00:08:14.000 Blake, what is the certification problem?
00:08:16.000 What could the Democrats do at the worst case here, Blake, when it comes to certification?
00:08:20.000 Well, I suppose the most extreme case is in some of these states they have left wing control.
00:08:25.000 So 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.
00:08:34.000 So let's say I think Democrats control every part of the Michigan legislature right now or Pennsylvania.
00:08:40.000 One of the two.
00:08:41.000 I think they took it in 22.
00:08:42.000 So I could imagine a case where let's say Michigan comes down to a very close race, maybe a few hundred votes either way.
00:08:51.000 We already have a case of someone getting...
00:08:53.000 Yeah.
00:08:59.000 So 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.
00:09:08.000 We're going to convene the legislature and we're going to revoke the certification or prevent certification.
00:09:16.000 Try to change the rules.
00:09:17.000 And, you know, you'll have the media come in and say, actually, this time it's totally justified.
00:09:21.000 It'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.
00:09:29.000 And 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. 1.00
00:09:36.000 So all of that is possible.
00:09:38.000 Do I think it'll happen?
00:09:39.000 On balance, I don't think it's super likely, but you have to be ready for it.
00:09:44.000 You have to remember, a lot of liberals are just...
00:09:47.000 You can see this with all the Hitler stuff. 0.93
00:09:48.000 They're getting really unglued again at the prospect of Trump being president.
00:09:52.000 And 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.
00:10:05.000 When people are paranoid and freaking out, they do radical things.
00:10:09.000 And it could be stuff like, yeah, withdraw the certification.
00:10:12.000 Excellent.
00:10:13.000 MJ, thank you for the question.
00:10:14.000 Blake, thank you for your help there.
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00:11:27.000 I just wanted to see right here.
00:11:28.000 Blake, before we get to the next question here, new battleground state poll, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina.
00:11:35.000 Kamala Harris wins with high propensity voters, gets crushed with low propensity voters. 0.94
00:11:39.000 What does that mean, Blake?
00:11:41.000 It means we win if there is high propensity.
00:11:45.000 Turnout, Charlie.
00:11:46.000 And 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.
00:12:02.000 But if we turn out, we'll win.
00:12:05.000 And that's why you're suddenly seeing the stories.
00:12:07.000 It's so different, Charlie, when we have viral videos of those, like, Democrat voter protection people in Pennsylvania.
00:12:16.000 You 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.
00:12:24.000 And it was because, well...
00:12:25.000 In the past, Republicans kind of tended to be more wary of high turnout.
00:12:30.000 But now we're the high turnout party.
00:12:32.000 Democrats are the low turnout party.
00:12:33.000 And so you're seeing the roles reverse in an interesting way.
00:12:38.000 So be high turnout and we win.
00:12:41.000 Love it.
00:12:42.000 OK, let's get to the next question here.
00:12:43.000 I completely agree with that.
00:12:45.000 You guys have got to find new voters.
00:12:46.000 Jessica, thank you for being a member.
00:12:48.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com.
00:12:49.000 Jessica, what's on your mind?
00:12:50.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:12:51.000 Thanks so much for answering my question.
00:12:53.000 I just want to say real quick, I'm in North Carolina and we're doing what we can to get as many of our friends out there to vote.
00:13:00.000 I'm here right now, too.
00:13:02.000 That's right.
00:13:03.000 Awesome.
00:13:04.000 So 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?
00:13:19.000 And how is that?
00:13:20.000 My 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.
00:13:30.000 And we've prayed on it, and we're really still not sure what the right choice is there.
00:13:36.000 Yeah, it's a really great question.
00:13:38.000 And that's super sad.
00:13:40.000 And 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.
00:13:55.000 The 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?
00:14:05.000 So, for example, you fertilize six eggs, you implant them, and four or five will not make it.
00:14:11.000 The 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.
00:14:23.000 Now, there is a moral argument for me.
00:14:27.000 Again, I'm not talking about politically.
00:14:28.000 Politically, it should remain legal.
00:14:30.000 People want it.
00:14:31.000 And I'm just talking about personally morally right now, if that makes sense.
00:14:35.000 That personally morally, let's say that if you are comfortable having twins, then you could potentially implant two embryos that are fertilized, right?
00:14:45.000 And 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.
00:14:53.000 The 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?
00:15:06.000 Will you and I believe that every one of those embryos is a life?
00:15:09.000 Right?
00:15:09.000 Every one of those embryos we believe actually is a formed life.
00:15:13.000 And 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.
00:15:24.000 But I hesitate at times to just say from a Christian perspective, it's nothing but great from our own personal moral perspective.
00:15:33.000 again, not from a political or a policy perspective, because it is implied that you overcreate.
00:15:39.000 So 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.
00:15:46.000 But we love life and we love families.
00:15:48.000 And I totally understand.
00:15:49.000 I reserve no judgment or condemnation for people that go through in vitro fertilization at all.
00:15:55.000 This So we have to find a way through the issue.
00:15:57.000 But again, what I'm talking about is just what I think personally how we would navigate it, not from a policy perspective.
00:16:02.000 I hope that's helpful.
00:16:03.000 Yeah, that's what I was hoping to hear from your Christian perspective.
00:16:08.000 I really appreciate that.
00:16:09.000 Great.
00:16:10.000 So I would definitely entertain that.
00:16:12.000 And 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.
00:16:17.000 So thank you.
00:16:18.000 Thank you.
00:16:19.000 I really appreciate that.
00:16:20.000 Thank you.
00:16:21.000 I know many people that are IVF babies, and they're beautiful people, and they do a great work.
00:16:25.000 So it's not something that should be dismissed.
00:16:27.000 It could do a lot of good for the world.
00:16:30.000 We were just days out from Judgment Day, everybody.
00:16:32.000 Days out from Judgment Day.
00:16:33.000 Five days.
00:16:34.000 Blake, you've been through a lot of elections.
00:16:37.000 I just want your take.
00:16:38.000 A lot.
00:16:38.000 I mean, Blake has really seen a lot.
00:16:40.000 This is unlike anything we've ever seen.
00:16:42.000 Just talk about the unique nature of this election.
00:16:46.000 It will go down in the history book.
00:16:48.000 I'd say the biggest thing about it that makes it so much...
00:16:50.000 With 2016, what made it so special was just how implausible it was.
00:16:55.000 You had to be a really true believer to think he could pull it off.
00:16:59.000 You had university professors saying they'd eat bugs if Trump won.
00:17:04.000 But what we have this time is the greatest comeback story ever.
00:17:08.000 We have...
00:17:09.000 He was not just knocked out of office, but they deleted him from the internet.
00:17:13.000 It truly was a total takedown.
00:17:17.000 And since then, they've thrown four indictments at him.
00:17:20.000 They've tried to shut down his businesses.
00:17:22.000 They've sued him into oblivion.
00:17:24.000 They've done...
00:17:25.000 Every possible thing to stop him.
00:17:27.000 And the comeback has turned out to be unstoppable.
00:17:31.000 Every single thing that they threw at him to weaken him made him stronger.
00:17:35.000 They put him in a jail cell.
00:17:37.000 They made a mugshot.
00:17:38.000 And it just became the most viral image of all time.
00:17:40.000 They shot at him.
00:17:42.000 They tried to shoot at him again.
00:17:44.000 All of this.
00:17:45.000 And it's just...
00:17:45.000 They've been unable to stop the momentum.
00:17:48.000 And we have the chance to bring it to this absolutely thundering climax on Tuesday if we get the job done.
00:17:56.000 If we chase and we do the work.
00:17:57.000 Okay, Harrison is a member.
00:17:59.000 Harrison, what is on your mind?
00:18:00.000 Hey Charlie, how's it going?
00:18:02.000 So 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.
00:18:14.000 The 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.
00:18:25.000 So I worked five of the six years of my contract.
00:18:29.000 Since I didn't complete that last year because they wouldn't let me, they kicked me out for refusing an experimental vaccine.
00:18:36.000 The approved one wasn't even available in the first place.
00:18:39.000 My question's really, what can Trump advance?
00:18:42.000 There's never been a more pro-military president than President Trump.
00:18:47.000 Everybody I know from that community has voted for him already, if not about to.
00:18:51.000 I'm trying to get him there.
00:18:52.000 But what can they do to kind of correct what the Biden administration's done to us?
00:18:57.000 Yeah, that's a great question.
00:18:59.000 So 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.
00:19:09.000 So that's number one.
00:19:13.000 Number two, kind of going into detail, you guys also might get your jobs back.
00:19:18.000 Which I think is great.
00:19:19.000 President Trump will look at doing that.
00:19:21.000 So it's just so immoral, Harrison.
00:19:23.000 And just to reiterate, they kicked you out because you wouldn't take the vaccine.
00:19:26.000 This is one of the great injustices, everybody, of these last couple days.
00:19:30.000 President Trump never would have done that, and he will heal and remedy that situation.
00:19:35.000 Harrison, thank you for being a member.
00:19:36.000 God bless you.
00:19:37.000 Thank you.
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00:20:27.000 Justice is the name.
00:20:29.000 Justice is the aim.
00:20:31.000 Justice, what is your question?
00:20:33.000 Um, so my question is, I'm 16 right now, and I'm wanting to join the army when I turn 18.
00:20:41.000 But my question is, would you when I do turn 18?
00:20:45.000 Do you think it's a good idea to join the army?
00:20:48.000 Blake, I want your thoughts on this.
00:20:50.000 I struggle.
00:20:50.000 And I hate to say it, guys.
00:20:52.000 Justice, by the way, justice, justice, justice, we shall, you shall pursue, as it says in the scriptures.
00:20:58.000 One of my favorite.
00:21:00.000 Blake, 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?
00:21:08.000 Is that a fair statement, or am I over-politicizing things?
00:21:12.000 So I think a lot goes into this, and I think it's definitely a factor.
00:21:16.000 I wouldn't say categorically write it off if Trump is not.
00:21:21.000 I think it would definitely influence maybe what your long-term plan is.
00:21:25.000 Are 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?
00:21:36.000 Do you have any thoughts on that?
00:21:38.000 Well, more it's, I'm more looking at it as like a career thing.
00:21:43.000 I'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...
00:21:51.000 Yeah, 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.
00:22:01.000 It is an institution that we have.
00:22:03.000 That's why I struggle with it.
00:22:03.000 No, I totally agree.
00:22:05.000 It's a great way to get ahead in life.
00:22:06.000 We have so many things in our country that, for lack of a better term, are rigged in favor of veterans. 0.54
00:22:12.000 You get a lot of preferential hiring from the government.
00:22:16.000 You get free college tuition, which helps a lot with that all being a scam.
00:22:22.000 You basically get taught useful technical skills at public expense so you don't have to go out of your way to learn them.
00:22:29.000 You can get a security clearance.
00:22:31.000 You can get a pension if you're in there long term.
00:22:34.000 Maybe those will get damaged later, but I suspect veteran pensions will be one of the last things to get taken away in America.
00:22:41.000 So 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.
00:22:51.000 Because the real truth is, if you're in the military for 20 years, there will probably be a Democrat president in that span.
00:22:57.000 We have political power goes back and forth in this country.
00:23:01.000 So 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.
00:23:08.000 And 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.
00:23:15.000 If you go to a university, well, that's going to be run by a bunch of liberals, except for a tiny number of exceptions.
00:23:21.000 If you go into the corporate world, there's a lot of woke corporate nonsense.
00:23:25.000 So I would say...
00:23:27.000 Have an open mind.
00:23:28.000 Maybe if it is really bad, have a backup plan.
00:23:30.000 But the military is a great step in your life.
00:23:34.000 And I think it's no surprise that so many...
00:23:35.000 J.D. Vance, he went into the military and that was the first step towards him now possibly becoming Vice President of the United States.
00:23:43.000 Well said, Blake.
00:23:44.000 Justice, 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. 0.52
00:23:55.000 So, Justice, thank you so much.
00:23:58.000 Okay, next is Jonathan.
00:23:59.000 Jonathan, thank you for being a member.
00:24:01.000 What's on your mind?
00:24:02.000 Hey, Charlie.
00:24:03.000 Hey, Blake.
00:24:04.000 Great talking with you guys.
00:24:05.000 I love you.
00:24:06.000 I've been watching y'all for a long time.
00:24:08.000 My question is, what can I do as a high school in these last few days to help us win?
00:24:12.000 I love that.
00:24:13.000 What state are you in?
00:24:14.000 I'm in the great state of Texas.
00:24:16.000 Texas!
00:24:17.000 All right, well, that's great.
00:24:18.000 Go 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...
00:24:26.000 Can you vote yet?
00:24:27.000 Are you old enough to vote, Jonathan, or no?
00:24:28.000 I am not.
00:24:29.000 Well, 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.
00:24:38.000 And so, as a high schooler, that's where I cut my teeth.
00:24:41.000 As an obvious one, Jonathan, have your parents voted, assuming they're on our side?
00:24:45.000 I believe they have, yes.
00:24:47.000 I'll double check with them.
00:24:48.000 I think they did it over the weekend or late last week.
00:24:51.000 That's one of the best things you can do.
00:24:51.000 That's great.
00:24:52.000 If you know people in your own life, you can ask them, have you voted yet?
00:24:56.000 Let's go do it.
00:24:58.000 Let's go get, I don't know, what do people have in Texas?
00:25:01.000 Ice cream, barbecue, Whataburger?
00:25:03.000 Go get something and then let's go vote.
00:25:05.000 I think if you can be a little bit irritating, it's for the sake of the country.
00:25:12.000 I've been doing that.
00:25:13.000 That's been my practice with every single person I've been speaking with for the past two weeks.
00:25:17.000 I called my parents, asked if they voted, asked my siblings if they voted.
00:25:21.000 And they're in states that aren't even up for grabs right now.
00:25:24.000 But that is a great thing to do, especially, I'm not sure where you are in Texas, but...
00:25:30.000 Democrats are always fighting.
00:25:31.000 They dream of turning Texas blue.
00:25:33.000 And so you guys have a competitive Senate race.
00:25:35.000 We should be favored, but it's competitive.
00:25:37.000 You have a lot of competitive House seats.
00:25:41.000 We want Democrats to be miserable about how long they've been fighting to make Texas blue and failing.
00:25:46.000 And we look forward to you joining the fight directly in just a few years.
00:25:50.000 Thank you.
00:25:52.000 Thank you so much for being a member and get as many people as you can to get out to vote.
00:25:56.000 Okay, let's see.
00:25:57.000 Members here.
00:25:58.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com.
00:26:00.000 Daisy.
00:26:00.000 Who do we have next?
00:26:01.000 Let's see.
00:26:02.000 Amanda.
00:26:02.000 Amanda, thank you for being a member.
00:26:04.000 What is on your mind?
00:26:05.000 And tell us where you're from.
00:26:06.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:26:07.000 Hi, Blake.
00:26:08.000 I'm from Oregon.
00:26:10.000 First of all, Charlie, I saw you on, or heard you on your Georgia speech.
00:26:16.000 It was just powerful, amazing.
00:26:18.000 And I was so hoping to see you at Madison Square Garden.
00:26:22.000 But you weren't there.
00:26:25.000 Yeah, you know, I had a pre-existing commitment in Arizona, so I wasn't able to do that.
00:26:30.000 Yeah, but you were powerful in Georgia.
00:26:34.000 How much can pastors share from the pulpit?
00:26:38.000 I mean, I know they can talk about any cultural ill, you know, according to the Bible, but how far can they speak?
00:26:45.000 Because 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?
00:26:59.000 I mean, is that, do they follow through on that?
00:27:02.000 Yes, I mean, first of all, they've never followed through on it before.
00:27:06.000 But secondly, what difference does it make?
00:27:08.000 Do you really need, as a church, the government's permission to speak out biblically?
00:27:13.000 I mean, think about how backwards we are, where the church thinks they're subservient to the government.
00:27:18.000 And so what Jack Hibbs and Rob McCoy say is, so what?
00:27:21.000 We're going to operate outside of the government.
00:27:22.000 Go ahead.
00:27:23.000 Come after us.
00:27:24.000 I wish we had more pastors that had the courage of their convictions to do that.
00:27:24.000 We don't care.
00:27:28.000 But yeah, I'm going to push for Donald Trump to try to get rid of the Johnson Amendment. 1.00
00:27:32.000 In the first administration, they tried to get rid of it legislatively.
00:27:37.000 I think it's unconstitutional, and I think churches need to be able to speak out boldly.
00:27:41.000 Thank you so much for being a member, Amanda.
00:27:42.000 Talk to you soon.
00:27:43.000 Thank you.
00:27:43.000 Laura, Laura, what is your question?
00:27:46.000 Thank you for being a member, members.charliekirk.com.
00:27:49.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:27:50.000 Mr.
00:27:50.000 Joshua, I talked to you a while ago, and I said you were a Joshua at the very beginning of this in the Bible.
00:27:56.000 Do you remember that?
00:27:57.000 Oh, yes.
00:27:58.000 Thank you.
00:27:58.000 I remember that.
00:27:59.000 Well, okay, so I have a couple questions, but first I want us to remember about Habakkuk.
00:27:59.000 Thank you.
00:28:05.000 Do 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?
00:28:20.000 He says, I heard, and my inward parts trembled.
00:28:23.000 And he says, yet I will exalt in the Lord and I will rejoice in God my salvation.
00:28:28.000 The Lord God is my strength and makes me my feet like Heinz feet and makes me walk on high places.
00:28:34.000 Charlie, as I watch you guys and this movement, you and your workers and all of you guys, I just see amazing.
00:28:43.000 The Holy Spirit is guiding you guys.
00:28:46.000 That's all there is to it.
00:28:47.000 It's amazing.
00:28:49.000 Amen.
00:28:50.000 I just have to tell you that.
00:28:51.000 Well, thank you, and God bless you for those kind words.
00:28:53.000 Thank you.
00:28:54.000 It's so refreshing.
00:28:56.000 I 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.
00:29:13.000 I 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.
00:29:41.000 I mean, I'm not even saying everything is won, but God has won the victory of it all.
00:29:45.000 So 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.
00:30:00.000 And so...
00:30:01.000 Charlie, it's amazing.
00:30:03.000 And I just want to just say thank you guys.
00:30:05.000 And gee, I hope I can get my MAGA hat before he wins.
00:30:09.000 I'm sorry.
00:30:10.000 All right.
00:30:11.000 We'll talk to the team about that.
00:30:13.000 It's okay.
00:30:14.000 I'm sorry.
00:30:14.000 We will rectify that.
00:30:16.000 So Daisy says, I promise it's in the mail.
00:30:18.000 That's what Daisy says.
00:30:20.000 Yes, go ahead.
00:30:21.000 Okay, I have a grandson.
00:30:23.000 And of course, he loves you.
00:30:24.000 He's 17.
00:30:25.000 We have two 17-year-grandsons.
00:30:26.000 And he opened up to me the other day and said, hey, how do I talk this one friend?
00:30:32.000 She's bisexual. 0.58
00:30:34.000 And I really, and you know, I was thinking, he says, he's a Christian, okay?
00:30:40.000 Yeah.
00:30:40.000 But she has all these things to tell them why she is.
00:30:44.000 And I'm thinking, what are your resources that you can send out or you can tell so I can give them information?
00:30:53.000 Because I can give them biblical stuff and everything, but you are on the front lines, Charlie, of this.
00:30:59.000 Well, thank you.
00:31:00.000 I don't know the specific issue.
00:31:01.000 I'd love to meet your grandson and talk to him about it, and he can go to a Turning Point event there.
00:31:05.000 But look, the thing I'd say is just always stand for truth and be clear in the convictions.
00:31:09.000 We are running out of time, though.
00:31:10.000 I wish I could spend more time on that, Lauren.
00:31:11.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:31:12.000 Thank you for the kind words.
00:31:13.000 Love it.
00:31:13.000 God bless you.
00:31:14.000 Okay.
00:31:14.000 Elaine, very quick.
00:31:15.000 We have a minute and a half.
00:31:16.000 Elaine, thank you for being a member.
00:31:18.000 What's on your mind?
00:31:19.000 Hi, I have posted a few things on Facebook and I just get smeared and they go, go fact check it.
00:31:30.000 I was wondering where do they go fact check things?
00:31:34.000 Where does CBS, ABC, where do they go to fact check and where is an accurate Yeah, let's answer that.
00:31:48.000 Blake, do you have an answer in about 30 seconds there, Blake?
00:31:51.000 I mean, the sad answer is there's not an easy way to do it.
00:31:55.000 You 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.
00:32:11.000 And you just have to get used to their patterns.
00:32:14.000 And that's, unfortunately, the tough answer to it.
00:32:18.000 Like, great answer.
00:32:18.000 Thank you, remember.
00:32:19.000 I wish we had more time.
00:32:21.000 Charlie, thank you, guys.
00:32:23.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:32:24.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.