The Charlie Kirk Show - February 03, 2023


Biden's Latest Inflation Crisis—Chinese Spy Balloons


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A Chinese spy balloon has been spotted over the United States, and our leaders are doing nothing to stop it. What are they hiding from the public? And why are they letting this happen? Learn more about Turning Point USA and the campaign to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today's Charlie Kirk show Chinese balloon over America.
00:00:03.000 Make sure if you see it, you take a picture of it.
00:00:05.000 An outrageous story, and our leaders are just letting it happen.
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00:00:23.000 Here we go.
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00:01:06.000 Right now, as I do this broadcast, there is an active Chinese spy balloon over Montana.
00:01:14.000 The news broke last evening, and the obvious question I have that I know a lot of you have is why have we not done anything about it in the last 12 hours?
00:01:20.000 Kind of staring in awe and wonder of having a Chinese spy balloon over our country.
00:01:26.000 What are the Chinese doing deploying a spy balloon?
00:01:28.000 Why are we just learning about it now?
00:01:30.000 It was there for a couple days.
00:01:32.000 Let's go to CUT 100.
00:01:34.000 As right now, you are being spied on by a balloon in the sky.
00:01:38.000 And by the way, you're being spied on by the Chinese all the time because your corporate elites have sold out our country to China. 0.93
00:01:43.000 But this is just pretty brazen.
00:01:45.000 It's a middle finger.
00:01:46.000 It's floating in the sky, and we're putting up with this.
00:01:48.000 Why play CUT 100?
00:01:50.000 So here is what we think we know.
00:01:52.000 The balloon entered U.S. airspace a couple of days ago.
00:01:54.000 It flew eastward into Montana.
00:01:57.000 It's not clear what it was doing there, but the state is home to one of three U.S. Air Force bases with intercontinental ballistic missiles.
00:02:05.000 The discovery coming just days before Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is scheduled to visit, guess where?
00:02:11.000 Well, Beijing.
00:02:13.000 Meanwhile, China reacting with a statement saying it is looking into the balloon, but General Jack Keene says he's not buying that. 0.99
00:02:20.000 The Chinese are such liars. 1.00
00:02:21.000 I'm so sick of these people, and you should be too. 1.00
00:02:23.000 Yeah, we're checking the weather over a nuclear installation in Montana.
00:02:28.000 We're just trying to see the formation of clouds and the weather patterns over the soil of another domestic nation.
00:02:36.000 Look, this should fire you up.
00:02:39.000 Joe Biden should have shot this down, captured the data, given the data to the Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, put Tony Blinken on a plane to Beijing and thrown the balloon on a table if he was going to meet with the Chinese Communist Party.
00:02:52.000 Of course, that's not going to happen.
00:02:54.000 No, instead, Blinken says, I'm postponing my meeting. 0.62
00:02:57.000 These people are so weak.
00:02:58.000 And what's so funny is that these are the same people that are beating the drums of war against Putin and they can't pop a balloon out of the sky. 0.70
00:03:06.000 Yeah, Putin is this big threat.
00:03:07.000 Let's send javelin tanks that, by the way, deteriorates and depletes, depletes is a better word, depletes our own weapon reserve, missiles, tanks, and yet our own leaders cannot find the intestinal fortitude, the gumption, or the spine to say, yeah, just pop a balloon.
00:03:27.000 No, they say that they're worried that if they pop the balloon, that people might die or they might get hurt from it falling out of the sky.
00:03:34.000 It's Montana.
00:03:36.000 I love Montana.
00:03:37.000 The governor of Montana is a friend of mine.
00:03:39.000 There's twice as many cows than people in Montana.
00:03:43.000 By definition, they're socially distanced.
00:03:45.000 If you hit a person in Montana when you pop a balloon out of the sky, that would be rather remarkable.
00:03:52.000 You also could just do a PSA.
00:03:53.000 Stay inside your home for 15 minutes.
00:03:55.000 We're about to pop a balloon from the Chinese Communist Party.
00:03:59.000 But what's so amazing is I thought by the time I'd be doing this broadcast with you today, this would be resolved.
00:04:05.000 No, it's still there.
00:04:08.000 It's still up in the sky.
00:04:11.000 With awe and wonder, we're staring at this balloon as if it's some sort of message from Neptune or Saturn.
00:04:18.000 This is not that hard to understand.
00:04:18.000 No, no, no.
00:04:22.000 This is America's greatest enemy that your corporate elites, your politicians, and yes, the foreign agent who calls himself the President of the United States, Joe Biden, has been selling out the soul and the core of America for the last 30 and 40 years because it's cheap and easy money from the great enemy, the Chinese Communist Party. 0.82
00:04:39.000 And now all of a sudden we have a balloon in our sky and we're supposed to be super perplexed by this.
00:04:43.000 By the way, you should be insulted. 0.96
00:04:45.000 It fires me up.
00:04:46.000 It's a direct and complete, it's a brazen operation by the Chinese Communist Party. 0.91
00:04:52.000 And even for the CCP, who they have a lot of chutzpah, I got to tell you.
00:04:58.000 The CCP, for what they have done the last couple of years, they manufacture a virus.
00:05:01.000 They might have launched it intentionally.
00:05:03.000 They might not have.
00:05:04.000 In coordination with EcoHealth Alliance and Peter Dasik and Anthony Fauci and Gain of Function Research.
00:05:08.000 They were never held accountable for the virus.
00:05:12.000 They launched it on the entire world.
00:05:15.000 Not to mention what they have done with the Cyber Grid, Belt and Road Initiative, buying up third world countries, buying airports, and literally buying airports, then leasing them back to indigenous people in African countries, the Caribbean and South America, trying to take over the Brazilian government via Lula, dumping fentanyl into our country, dumping solar panels into our country, dumping steel into our country, infiltrating the American universities and professors, 0.91
00:05:42.000 buying farmland or attempting to buy farmland next to military installations.
00:05:45.000 Thankfully, North Dakota has decided to put a stop to that, but it's happening in Texas, happening in other places.
00:05:50.000 The CCP has sent hundreds of thousands of students that are basically spies to our own universities.
00:05:58.000 We take money from Confucius Institutes, which are pseudo-military installations.
00:06:02.000 All of that happens.
00:06:04.000 And I have to listen to the media get really fired up that a balloon is over our sky.
00:06:08.000 By the way, they should be fired up.
00:06:10.000 But where is their outrage and their protest and them being upset when our country has been taken over piece by piece and bit by bit?
00:06:21.000 And then we have a president of the United States who's obviously a Chinese Communist Party agent, and his son at least is, but Joe Biden has always acted in the best interest of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:06:30.000 As the Chinese Communist Party describes Joe Biden and his family, they might say bad things, bad mouth, big help is the four words that summarize the Chinese Communist Party's relationship with Joe Biden and American politicians.
00:06:47.000 Little bad mouth, big help is what they say.
00:06:50.000 So it should take pause.
00:06:53.000 Again, the balloon's still in the sky.
00:06:54.000 No one shot it down.
00:06:56.000 Why, I'm not really sure.
00:06:58.000 They have nothing but excuses.
00:06:59.000 We know the real reason why.
00:07:01.000 The real reason why is that the current American government, Tony Blinken and Joe Biden, justify to themselves that there is going to be a merge of American and Chinese culture, and there's going to be this wonderful alliance and partnership, and we're going to be competitors, and we're going to have this beautiful forced assimilation between the atheist, godless, modern-day Nazi regime, that is the Chinese Communist Party, with our own Western version of secularism.
00:07:28.000 The balloon just crossed over the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.
00:07:33.000 Why are we putting up with this?
00:07:34.000 This is happening in real time.
00:07:36.000 And we were supposed to speculate.
00:07:38.000 This is a spy balloon.
00:07:40.000 They say it's a weather balloon.
00:07:41.000 Right.
00:07:42.000 Because the Chinese are known for their ethics.
00:07:44.000 They're not.
00:07:45.000 The Chinese Communist Party, at least, is not known for their ethics.
00:07:47.000 One of three nuclear launch facilities.
00:07:51.000 Just so happened that the balloon, oh, it caught a bad wind, a bad draft, and it happens to go over one of our three nuclear launch facilities.
00:08:01.000 And it's still active right there, right now.
00:08:04.000 It is still right now active in the sky.
00:08:06.000 And by the way, it's not just the balloon.
00:08:08.000 I know it sounds like some people say, oh, it's, you know, it's something that just kind of floats.
00:08:13.000 And it's, what's that movie of that young, young, oh boy, you know what movie I'm talking about.
00:08:21.000 Up.
00:08:22.000 It's called up, obviously.
00:08:23.000 It's not hard to remember.
00:08:25.000 It's called up, yeah.
00:08:26.000 Where the balloon just kind of, oh, the hot air balloon, it leaves and it goes.
00:08:31.000 That's not how it is.
00:08:31.000 It's the size of three Greyhound bustas.
00:08:34.000 Okay.
00:08:35.000 It has sophisticated cameras.
00:08:37.000 It's effectively a military asset.
00:08:39.000 So here's what one of my contacts who served in the Department of Defense under Trump, really good guy, texted me yesterday.
00:08:48.000 He said, look, these things are usually all over the place, but most countries do not have the chutzpah.
00:08:54.000 That's not his word.
00:08:55.000 He used a different word, or the spine to use them to surveil other people's domestic operations.
00:09:02.000 We use them to hopefully deter narcotic trafficking, identify homeland security threats, military operations.
00:09:09.000 But you have to understand, these are not just innocent balloons.
00:09:12.000 They are worth tens of millions, sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:09:16.000 They typically have a set of very high resolution cameras that can see at great distances and through fog, also with thermal imaging.
00:09:27.000 This is incredibly sophisticated technology.
00:09:32.000 And it's still there as we do this program.
00:09:35.000 Just as a reminder of who your masters are.
00:09:38.000 Who owns this country?
00:09:39.000 Just look to the sky.
00:09:40.000 It's right then, right there.
00:09:43.000 The moment that our government learned about this, they should have shot it out of the sky.
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00:10:53.000 I do not have faith in our military.
00:10:55.000 I do not have faith in the leadership of our country in both political parties.
00:11:01.000 It's very interesting.
00:11:02.000 The consensus from you, the audience, is yes, shoot it down, but be careful that it might have a biological weapon in it.
00:11:09.000 That's interesting.
00:11:10.000 I would say, though, that if China wanted to deploy a biological weapon on the United States, I think they already know how to do that. 0.85
00:11:16.000 And I don't know if it would be in their best interest to be able to draw it directly to a balloon being shot of the sky.
00:11:23.000 You might be right, but regardless, I think that the balloon's got to be taken down.
00:11:26.000 Period.
00:11:27.000 The balloon's got to go down immediately.
00:11:29.000 Someone says, Charlie, I might be afraid to take it down.
00:11:31.000 Again, we probably got 300 emails saying it might be a bioweapon.
00:11:35.000 You might be right, but that would not be in China's best interest. 0.68
00:11:39.000 Now, it would be more reasonable to believe that this is China pushing the envelope.
00:11:47.000 China doing this as an intentional act of defiance to just remind the American elite to remind us that we're becoming in charge.
00:11:57.000 We're not there yet, but we're getting there.
00:11:58.000 And again, our teenagers are on TikTok.
00:12:01.000 If your child or grandchild is on TikTok, they are becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:12:07.000 I hate to say it, it's true.
00:12:09.000 The Chinese Communist Party builds a lot of our critical infrastructure through Huawei and some of their other major companies.
00:12:16.000 The Chinese Communist Party owns many of our universities.
00:12:20.000 They're buying farmland all across the country.
00:12:23.000 The Chinese Communist Party pays off professors to supply them with expertise and information.
00:12:28.000 Every few months, there's another sting where some of these professors get arrested.
00:12:32.000 A year ago, a Harvard chemistry professor got convicted for this.
00:12:36.000 Our graduate schools, our internships, our tech jobs have a flood of Chinese STEM graduates, and China has built its entire economy around stealing American technology and reverse engineering it back at home. 1.00
00:12:47.000 There are 300,000 Chinese students in America.
00:12:50.000 There should be zero.
00:12:51.000 A lot of our universities have let themselves become dependent on them to pay the bills.
00:12:55.000 There are nearly 600,000, no, 6,000 Chinese students just at UIC, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
00:13:02.000 That's not UIC, that's UIUC, UIC's University of Illinois, Chicago.
00:13:06.000 There's more than 10% of the student body.
00:13:08.000 It's a school within a school.
00:13:09.000 The Chinese Communist Party basically controls the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
00:13:16.000 So China has been taking over our country for quite some time. 0.99
00:13:18.000 So if you're getting fired up about the balloon, good.
00:13:23.000 But isn't it interesting to see the media all of a sudden care about this because it's a balloon in the sky?
00:13:26.000 Maybe because it's a good news story, maybe because there's palace intrigue, maybe because it's happening in real time.
00:13:31.000 China spies on us all the time.
00:13:32.000 They're listening to your conversations.
00:13:34.000 They're mapping out your kids.
00:13:36.000 By the way, they dump fentanyl that kills tens of thousands of our citizens every single year.
00:13:41.000 Tens of thousands of people.
00:13:43.000 There's 107,000 drug overdoses last year.
00:13:45.000 I think like 30,000 of them were fentanyl-related.
00:13:48.000 There are 107,000 drug overdoses.
00:13:50.000 I don't think there's 107,000 fentanyl deaths.
00:13:53.000 Maybe my numbers are wrong.
00:13:53.000 Maybe there are.
00:13:54.000 I think there's anywhere between 30 to 40,000 that are fentanyl-related.
00:13:57.000 The rest are other drugs.
00:14:01.000 So China is taking us over, and the balloon is a physical metaphor of what they're doing. 0.98
00:14:09.000 And it remains.
00:14:11.000 And it's right there right now.
00:14:12.000 It's floating in the sky as just kind of a reminder as we do this program.
00:14:17.000 The CCP is taking us over, and our leaders are not willing to do anything.
00:14:21.000 Now, remember, neoliberalism that we constantly talk about, neoliberalism and the neoliberal regime is all about getting as rich as you possibly can, bigger homes, more stuff.
00:14:36.000 Doesn't matter if your country is falling apart.
00:14:38.000 Neoliberalism views America not as a country, but as a colony.
00:14:44.000 They don't believe in borders, language, culture, and they certainly do not believe in standing up against the Chinese Communist Party.
00:14:52.000 Now, let me ask you a question.
00:14:53.000 Let's do a thought experiment.
00:14:54.000 If Vladimir Putin had a balloon over Montana, would Biden have shot it down?
00:15:01.000 I think we know the answer to that.
00:15:03.000 If Vladimir Putin had a balloon over Montana, there would be sanctions, there would be tariffs, there would be international outrage, and there would be clamoring to try and hold Vladimir Putin accountable.
00:15:22.000 So, why would it be that if Vladimir Putin had a balloon over America, that we would be mobilizing the infantry, activating the nuclear arsenal, having a special congressional committee, but if the CCP has a floating balloon over our country, we're supposed to be told by our media that the CCP tells us it's just a weather balloon.
00:15:43.000 They're just trying to understand the winds.
00:15:49.000 The balloon is now currently moving east and is over the center of the continental United States via the Pentagon.
00:15:55.000 We're watching this thing as just a spectator.
00:15:59.000 What an insult.
00:16:01.000 That's your leaders telling you, yeah, I mean, it's floating, and I guess we'll just look at it.
00:16:09.000 If it was Russian, it'd be shot down by now. 1.00
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00:16:52.000 The balloon is still over America.
00:16:54.000 The Pentagon is now saying it is a high-altitude surveillance balloon currently over the center of the continental United States.
00:17:01.000 The balloon is maneuverable, has changed its course.
00:17:04.000 This is a surveillance balloon, and we're doing nothing.
00:17:07.000 Play cut 106.
00:17:09.000 You said that this is violating our airspace, so why not take it down?
00:17:16.000 Yeah, so clearly as we assess options and considering the size of the payload on this, looking at the potential for debris and the impact on civilians on the ground or property damage, again, running through the various factors and looking at in terms of does it pose a potential risk to people while in the air.
00:17:44.000 And right now, as I mentioned, we assess that it does not pose a risk to people on the ground as it currently is traversing the continental United States.
00:17:52.000 And so out of an abundance of caution, cognizant of the potential impact to civilians on the ground from a debris field, right now we're going to continue to monitor and review options.
00:18:04.000 This thing's on tour.
00:18:06.000 It's on a scenic tour of the United States.
00:18:10.000 It's like the John Madden blip.
00:18:12.000 It's the Goodyear blimp.
00:18:13.000 Oh, yeah.
00:18:13.000 So in the Super Bowl, we're all going to point.
00:18:15.000 Oh, there it is.
00:18:15.000 There's our CCP masters as we are becoming pseudo-slaves of the CCP.
00:18:21.000 Property damage?
00:18:22.000 That's the argument.
00:18:23.000 You see, he shifted gears.
00:18:25.000 He said, well, there might not be human carnage, but there might be property damage.
00:18:31.000 I think I speak for almost every red-blooded American over the middle continental United States.
00:18:36.000 I think they're willing to take the risk that their home might be hit by a Chinese drone, a Chinese balloon.
00:18:44.000 By the way, if their home gets hit by a Chinese balloon, I'm sure that insurance will cover it. 0.93
00:18:49.000 Okay, I'm sure there's a line item in your home policy about international objects flying out of the sky.
00:18:56.000 Okay.
00:18:56.000 Or maybe the federal government could definitely write you a check.
00:18:59.000 This is the silliest thing, but it just goes to show that someone is obviously controlling him.
00:19:03.000 Who is this person again?
00:19:04.000 By the way, this is at times like this.
00:19:06.000 I wish I wrote for the Babylon B. Yesterday I wrote the headline: is that hundreds of thousands of Montanans start firing randomly in the sky to take out the Chinese balloon?
00:19:16.000 I'm like, that's a perfect Babylon B headline. 0.98
00:19:19.000 That guy's the Pentagon spokesperson.
00:19:22.000 You got to remember, the entire American ruling elite, they're on the payroll of the CCP.
00:19:27.000 The hedge fund managers, the finance titans, the National Basketball Association.
00:19:31.000 So for them, this is their employer, right?
00:19:33.000 This is their cash cow.
00:19:35.000 So the cash cow has a balloon as it's spying on all of us.
00:19:38.000 And what is he talking about?
00:19:39.000 It doesn't pose a threat.
00:19:41.000 They're taking in-depth 3D thermal imaging pictures of our own citizens, and that's not a threat to the United States.
00:19:47.000 Why are we putting up with this?
00:19:49.000 Play cut 107.
00:19:51.000 For our announcement last night regarding the high-altitude surveillance balloon, I'm not going to have much new information to provide other than to say that the North American Aerospace Defense Command continues to monitor it closely.
00:20:03.000 While we won't get into specifics in regards to the exact location, I can tell you that the balloon continues to move eastward and is currently over the center of the continental United States.
00:20:14.000 Yeah, and so the devil's advocate is: well, the Pentagon might have some reasons why they're not shooting it down.
00:20:19.000 Okay, I mean, again, the only reason I could think of is that there's a biological agent, an electromagnetic pulse weapon, or some sort of thermonuclear weapon on a weather balloon.
00:20:29.000 Well, it's not a weather balloon, but on a surveillance balloon.
00:20:34.000 Maybe they want to seize it and seize it intact.
00:20:38.000 He said that it has a payload.
00:20:39.000 I mean, if all of that is true, then this is a provocation of war, and your 18-year-old grandson is going to be enlisting really soon to go fight the Chinese Communist Party, if that's true.
00:20:50.000 If you're just like randomly casually flying over, you know, flying biological agents over the homeland of the United States, there really is no room for negotiation.
00:21:01.000 And, well, and someone says, well, it's not a provocation of war.
00:21:05.000 Countries do this.
00:21:05.000 No, they don't.
00:21:06.000 No, no.
00:21:06.000 The point is that if it's not spying and it is a biological agent, that is a provocation of war.
00:21:12.000 Just to make sure my argument is clear.
00:21:14.000 That if you're just kind of flying a nuclear weapon over a country to take pictures and hope they shoot it down, again, I don't think that's likely.
00:21:21.000 I don't understand the argument.
00:21:22.000 I don't.
00:21:22.000 What is the Pentagon saying?
00:21:24.000 What are they doing?
00:21:24.000 Why are they not shooting it down?
00:21:26.000 Doesn't make any sense to me.
00:21:27.000 Someone can explain it to me, then fine, other than the unlikely argument that this is a weapon of mass destruction, a term that we've become all too familiar with over the last couple decades, that is hovering over the United States and they're trying to bait us into shooting it down.
00:21:44.000 The Pentagon spokesperson was asked who's controlling this balloon.
00:21:48.000 He says, we know it's a Chinese balloon.
00:21:50.000 And he says the Chinese government is controlling the movement of the balloon.
00:21:54.000 Or they was asked that and he said, I'm not going to have any special intelligence we may have.
00:21:58.000 Again, we know that it's a Chinese balloon.
00:22:00.000 Okay, so the only explanation is if there is a chemical agent or some mass weapon in the balloon and it's actually not a surveillance balloon.
00:22:10.000 If that's the case, then everybody's lying to us.
00:22:13.000 Or the more likely situation here is that our government is purchased and bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:22:21.000 We're extremely weak and we've shown that in every possible regard.
00:22:25.000 And we don't want to provoke China because the Wall Street Titans, the Sports Titans, the Hollywood Titans, and the Tech Titans want a merger of the Chinese Communist Party and the American ruling class because they get paid. 0.60
00:22:40.000 The more likely explanation, again, I'm not totally dismissing that this might be a biochemical agent in the sky.
00:22:45.000 I think that's very irrational on the part of the CCP, and the CCP has been acting very rational in their own Machiavellian secular evil self-interest, is that Joe Biden is a foreign agent of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:22:58.000 Where's Joe Biden on this?
00:22:59.000 Has Joe Biden spoke at all?
00:23:01.000 You have our greatest enemy flying, at the very least, what we know, a surveillance object over the homeland of the United States.
00:23:08.000 There's a lot of questions here.
00:23:11.000 And definitely the emails we're receiving at freedom at charliekirk.com is people are suspecting that this might be a biological chemical agent.
00:23:23.000 We might be right.
00:23:25.000 That's an unlikelier explanation than the likely explanation that's in front of us, which is that our government does whatever the CCP wants.
00:23:33.000 That's basically been the modus operandi.
00:23:35.000 Play cut 108, please.
00:23:37.000 General Ryder, who is controlling this balloon right now?
00:23:42.000 Again, we know that this is a Chinese balloon, but beyond that, I'm not going to have specifics.
00:23:46.000 But is it you say that it's moving eastward and it's over the continental U.S.?
00:23:51.000 It's not over Montana anymore.
00:23:53.000 Is the Chinese government controlling the movement of the balloon or is it just floating with airstreams?
00:23:59.000 Thanks, Jennifer.
00:24:00.000 So I'm not going to go into any specific intelligence that we may have.
00:24:04.000 Again, we know this is a Chinese balloon and that it has the ability to maneuver, but I'll just leave it at that.
00:24:13.000 So why does he hesitate saying the CCP is controlling it?
00:24:16.000 One explanation is that this could be Iranian and that they're actually the ones that are controlling it.
00:24:23.000 But then the CCP came out and said it's a weather balloon.
00:24:26.000 So that doesn't make any sense.
00:24:27.000 So the CCP takes responsibility for it.
00:24:29.000 Something here doesn't make any sense.
00:24:30.000 It's super murky.
00:24:32.000 Definitely not reassuring.
00:24:35.000 And it remains right over our homeland, taking pictures of critical infrastructure.
00:24:39.000 But then it's also really kind of strange is why do they need to, why does the CCP need to do this?
00:24:44.000 Because they already have satellite imaging.
00:24:48.000 They have satellites pointed at us all the time.
00:24:50.000 Now, according to people I just texted in the Department of Defense, they say these surveillance balloons give you much greater detail, much, let me make sure I get my words correctly.
00:25:02.000 It has more clarity.
00:25:03.000 It's more sophisticated.
00:25:05.000 And it's in real time.
00:25:07.000 So who the heck is operating this balloon?
00:25:08.000 It's just a very simple question.
00:25:10.000 If the general, Patrick S. Ryder, who's never won a war in his life, obviously, who's operating this?
00:25:17.000 If the CCP is not, then who actually is?
00:25:21.000 I want your thoughts on this.
00:25:22.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:25:24.000 That's freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:25:28.000 Yeah, basically, we just, we have tons of emails coming in.
00:25:30.000 Charlie, why are we tolerating this? 0.92
00:25:32.000 This is ridiculous. 0.98
00:25:33.000 Yes, that's right. 0.68
00:25:34.000 So I want you to remember the anger you have right now of the CCP object in the sky and understand the CCP is doing this every single day.
00:25:47.000 We've been tolerating the consistent and focused takeover of America by the Chinese Communist Party for my entire lifetime. 0.99
00:25:56.000 It's been done by the Republican Party.
00:25:58.000 It's been done by the Democrat Party.
00:26:01.000 They've been taking over the entire country for as long as I have been alive.
00:26:05.000 So maybe an unintended benefit of this is that people are going to wake up and be like, oh, wow, I didn't realize the Chinese were controlling so much. 0.97
00:26:14.000 Again, they control the National Basketball Association.
00:26:17.000 They control Hollywood.
00:26:18.000 They control our manufacturing. 0.98
00:26:20.000 They control our hedge funds.
00:26:22.000 They control BlackRock.
00:26:23.000 They control mass celebrities and elites.
00:26:26.000 They control our telecom companies.
00:26:28.000 Chinese telecom companies are in the country, including Huawei and ZTE.
00:26:32.000 They own 200,000 acres of land.
00:26:36.000 So maybe that's going to be their excuse.
00:26:37.000 They're like, hey, we just wanted to have better images of the land that we bought.
00:26:41.000 That would be the ultimate troll.
00:26:42.000 Could you imagine the CCP coming out and saying, we just wanted pictures of our land because we've allowed them to do it.
00:26:51.000 Because if money is your ultimate value, which the American ruling class and the elite, as they become more secular and less patriotic and less religious and faithful, if your ultimate value is just profit, which the libertarians have been telling us is a good thing, then why wouldn't you sell all of your land to China?
00:27:08.000 It's trade, right?
00:27:08.000 It's a free market.
00:27:09.000 Oh, well, you don't have a country anymore.
00:27:11.000 By the way, all the trajectory diagrams I've seen show that it went over Canada.
00:27:14.000 Why didn't Canada tell us about it?
00:27:16.000 I've seen some unconfirmed reports.
00:27:18.000 There might be a second one.
00:27:19.000 We have no corroboration of that, but could be.
00:27:21.000 Maybe Canada did tell us.
00:27:23.000 I don't know.
00:27:24.000 Our elites are really putting on a masterclass on this.
00:27:27.000 And let me just put one more thing on this.
00:27:30.000 Someone said, Charlie, I don't believe our military is this incompetent.
00:27:34.000 Well, you should, especially after Afghanistan. 0.99
00:27:38.000 The very same clowns, not one person was fired, not one person resigned that gave us Afghanistan are the ones that are paralyzed by a foreign infiltrator, aka a balloon over our country. 0.99
00:27:54.000 The story is so full of hot air, no pun intended. 0.89
00:27:59.000 Somebody says here, well, Charlie, is the military allowed to act domestically?
00:28:04.000 Well, yeah, if you're being invaded, of course, that's the whole part.
00:28:08.000 That's such an interesting question because we have, first of all, we've lived in such an era where it's not the Department of Defense, it's the Department of Invading Other Countries, where we actually have not had a, it should be the Department of War, is what it used to be called when our country was founded, is that we're so programmed to believe that wars happen away from us, except, of course, the southern border invasion, that when a foreign adversary does something militaristically, we're like, wait, are we allowed to do anything?
00:28:36.000 Are we allowed to shoot it down?
00:28:37.000 Do we have the power to do that?
00:28:38.000 Yeah, actually, you can.
00:28:39.000 That's why you exist.
00:28:40.000 Okay.
00:28:41.000 You exist literally to deter invasions.
00:28:43.000 I know you're really used to trying to, you know, install democracy in Libya, but the real reason that you're chartered as the Department of Defense to defend the country.
00:28:50.000 Email usfreedom at charliekirk.com.
00:28:54.000 I mean, I want you to imagine right now, there are a group of like 23-year-old CCP nerds staring at a screen, probably in a big room, with Xi Ji Ping, Winnie the Pooh, in the back of the room, chuckling while he's eating a dog or something, saying to the programmers, oh, yeah, move it a little to the right.
00:29:16.000 Move it a little east.
00:29:17.000 I mean, at this point, I think it's fair to say this is a real-time troll by the Chinese Communist Party. 0.84
00:29:24.000 At this point, this is a real-time, like we're going to just show you that you don't have the will, you don't have the fortitude, you don't have the spine.
00:29:36.000 We're just going to kind of just float this thing all over the place.
00:29:38.000 Oh, we're going to go to Kansas City.
00:29:41.000 Oh, maybe we'll go to Philadelphia, you know, the two Super Bowl teams.
00:29:45.000 Or maybe we'll go over all the land that we bought or all the Confucius Institutes.
00:29:49.000 It's obviously capable maneuvering, is what I'm saying.
00:29:52.000 So somebody is doing the maneuvering.
00:29:54.000 And therefore, if someone is doing the maneuvering, there's an intent behind the maneuvering.
00:29:57.000 And guess what?
00:29:58.000 If it's going further east, it's not going west, so it's not trying to return home.
00:30:02.000 Source in the Intel community we have on this program said China-Russia said there's more to this than they're saying, but he won't say what.
00:30:08.000 Okay, I'm so tired of this cryptic stuff.
00:30:10.000 Honestly, just be on, just be transparent with the American people.
00:30:16.000 Unless it's totally necessary to the success of a current and ongoing mission, just be honest.
00:30:20.000 Okay, don't lie to us.
00:30:21.000 Don't say, well, it's this and it's not that.
00:30:24.000 We've been lied to about everything.
00:30:25.000 It creates distrust.
00:30:28.000 And when the Pentagon spokesperson is telling the truth or not telling the truth, email is freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:30:35.000 Someone says, Charlie, this is another Pearl Harbor.
00:30:36.000 No, I wouldn't go that far.
00:30:38.000 That's not true.
00:30:39.000 But if it has a chemical agent, then yes, that would be correct.
00:30:42.000 This is not another Pearl Harbor.
00:30:44.000 This is rather unprecedented in the sense of just a flagrant operation above the American homeland.
00:30:58.000 I mean, I don't trust any of our military and you shouldn't either.
00:31:00.000 It was funny when Blake Masters was running against Mark Kelly and Mark Kelly kept on running this ad of Blake Masters saying that our military generals are incompetent.
00:31:08.000 Mark Kelly had a picture of all these veterans that were so offended by it.
00:31:12.000 They are incompetent.
00:31:13.000 You guys can't shoot down a balloon. 0.79
00:31:14.000 It's been there for a couple days, or you don't want to?
00:31:20.000 So irritating.
00:31:22.000 Someone says, Charlie, why not capture the balloon and see what's on board and what they've been looking at?
00:31:26.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:31:26.000 That's what they should do.
00:31:27.000 Of course, when I say shoot it down, I mean pop the balloon and obtain it.
00:31:31.000 Someone says, Charlie, I agree.
00:31:32.000 They're taking overhead pictures of all the farmland they bought.
00:31:35.000 General Jack Keene believes they've done this before, play cut 102.
00:31:39.000 What we do know is they've done this before.
00:31:41.000 We know it's a spy balloon.
00:31:45.000 It's going to depart at some time, and we don't want this to happen again.
00:31:49.000 So shoot it down on the way home over mountains or when it gets back out at sea.
00:31:54.000 We already know spying.
00:31:57.000 To me, it's about deterrence.
00:31:59.000 It's not on its way home.
00:32:01.000 It's going further inland.
00:32:03.000 It's continuing on a surveillance mission.
00:32:06.000 It is being currently maneuvered.
00:32:09.000 Think about it.
00:32:10.000 If the Chinese Communist Party is operating this, which we can believe it is, and they get caught, wouldn't they just do a U-turn and go back to Beijing?
00:32:20.000 No, no.
00:32:21.000 They get caught and they go further into the American homeland.
00:32:25.000 They get caught and they put the foot on the accelerator.
00:32:28.000 They go deeper into our country.
00:32:31.000 I think this also might be a psychological test to see how will the American people tolerate a physical object floating over the country.
00:32:39.000 Do people care?
00:32:39.000 Will they stop staring at TikTok?
00:32:41.000 Will they stop taking fentanyl?
00:32:42.000 Will they hold the CCP accountable?
00:32:45.000 They're watching all of this.
00:32:46.000 They're going to be measuring all of it.
00:32:49.000 And I'm sad to say I believe we're failing the test of our soon-to-be masters in Beijing.
00:32:57.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:32:58.000 Email me your thoughts.
00:32:59.000 As always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:33:02.000 Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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