The Charlie Kirk Show - October 11, 2022


Cancel PayPal with Doug Mastriano


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In this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk is joined by Doug Mastriano, who is running to become the next Governor of Pennsylvania, to discuss the dangers of the progressive agenda and how to fight them.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, an extra constitutional order is here where they're trying to execute a pencil movement to suffocate you to go after your values, your ideas.
00:00:10.000 We talk about that and so much more.
00:00:11.000 And also, Doug Mastriano joins us, who very well might become the next governor of Pennsylvania.
00:00:15.000 If you know anyone in Pennsylvania, you got to make sure they vote for Doug Mastriano, of course, also for Oz.
00:00:20.000 But Doug is doing a great job.
00:00:21.000 We're really honored to have him on the program.
00:00:23.000 And then briefly, get to Jon Stewart and the medical mutilation of our children.
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00:00:48.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:49.000 Here we go.
00:00:50.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:51.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
00:00:54.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
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00:01:01.000 He's an incredible guy.
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00:01:31.000 You know, most people in the conservative movement would say that government is the greatest threat to our freedoms.
00:01:37.000 It's hard to disagree at that.
00:01:38.000 The FBI is going after pro-life leaders all across the country.
00:01:42.000 The Department of Justice is going after political dissidents, Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, and many others.
00:01:46.000 They raided Mar-a-Lago and took documents way outside of the purview of what they were allowed to get.
00:01:52.000 Now, I would say that people in the traditional right, people in the old right, they get government tyranny pretty well.
00:01:59.000 They're able to describe it.
00:02:00.000 They talk about how the progressives violated separation of powers and consent to the governed, on how Woodrow Wilson and John Dewey and many others threw away the kind of promise of the American Constitution and they tried to write a new constitution because they basically believe thanks to technology, a new era is here.
00:02:19.000 I think all of that is great and it's important to remember it and to repeat it and to clarify that.
00:02:27.000 But one of the things that frustrates, let's just say, those of us on the new right, the MAGA right, the America First movement, is when people fail to recognize and realize that it's not just government that is coming after our freedoms.
00:02:42.000 We must recognize that the threat landscape is not just in the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Justice, the IRS, or the EPA, and the fourth branch of government.
00:02:53.000 No, there has been an effort, a movement to create an extra constitutional method to take your stuff, to silence you, and violate your rights.
00:03:04.000 This movement has been at work for over a decade.
00:03:09.000 Now, we talk about the woke mind virus.
00:03:11.000 We talk about critical race theory, post-structuralism.
00:03:17.000 We talk about all these different factors coming together and how they are able to be implemented into all major institutions in American society.
00:03:26.000 It's not just the government, though.
00:03:28.000 What happens when private actors start to act and start to terrorize tyrannically the American people and citizens using the very same method of behaviors that we would be aghast when the federal government does that, would do the same thing.
00:03:47.000 Well, this weekend, PayPal of all companies came out and they made a new announcement.
00:03:53.000 PayPal said that The new acceptable use policy is that if you send, post, or publish any message or content that promote misinformation, that you might be subject to a $2,500 fine, and that PayPal would automatically debit it from your account automatically.
00:04:18.000 The policy was originally slated to go into effect on November 3rd, but after massive backlash on social media, PayPal withdrew it.
00:04:25.000 But the question is: this wasn't some typo.
00:04:27.000 Former president of PayPal David Marcus said, It's hard for me to openly criticize a company I used to love and gave so much, but PayPal's new acceptable use policy goes against everything I believe in.
00:04:37.000 A private company now gets to decide when to take your money if you say something they disagree with.
00:04:42.000 PayPal immediately rolled back its policy, and the company told media outlets, PayPal is not fining people for misinformation.
00:04:49.000 The language was never intended to be inserted into our policy.
00:04:52.000 Really, well, who wrote it?
00:04:53.000 Who published it?
00:04:54.000 So you guys go through a process of publishing an acceptable use policy, like, oh, actually, sorry, we don't mean it.
00:05:01.000 Now, are they sorry about what they published, or are they regretful that they got caught?
00:05:08.000 Those are two very different things.
00:05:11.000 PayPal says that the policy update went out in error that included incorrect information.
00:05:19.000 Continues by saying that despite PayPal's about face, the damage was already done.
00:05:25.000 Elon Musk responded to Marcus's tweet saying, agreed, obviously, Elon Musk being one of the original co-founders of PayPal.
00:05:32.000 PayPal's stock declined on Monday, adding to its Friday decline of 4%.
00:05:36.000 The stock is down more than 50% year to date.
00:05:38.000 Now, many small businesses and many of you use PayPal for a variety of different reasons, from sending money online to be able to do payment processing for almost all online money transfers.
00:05:49.000 It's one of the beasts that originally started online payment transfers.
00:05:57.000 But we must recognize now that as we're trying to defend our freedoms and liberties against threats, it's not just the government that is trying to infringe on our God-granted natural rights.
00:06:09.000 There is a pincer movement that is happening, a public sector, private sector big squeeze that is going after conservatives.
00:06:17.000 On one hand, it is the raids of pro-life leaders.
00:06:21.000 And by the way, there's another raid that just happened over the weekend.
00:06:25.000 The name escapes me, but another raid this weekend of a pro-life activist who went and sung hymns outside of a pro-life clinic, and he gets a raid by the FBI with automatic machine guns.
00:06:39.000 At the same time, you have Google and many other major companies saying they're not going to allow advertisements for pro-life pregnancy crisis center clinics.
00:06:50.000 Paul Vaughan, who was arrested this last weekend for allegedly having violent interference in front of an abortion clinic when all he was doing was singing hymns peacefully with his fellow churchgoers.
00:07:03.000 That's now a federal crime worthy of the FBI showing up with automatic rifles with his 11 kids being terrorized to death.
00:07:11.000 Meanwhile, you have PayPal saying if you engage in misinformation, we might just steal your money.
00:07:17.000 We're just going to take money from your account.
00:07:18.000 We're just going to take it from you.
00:07:20.000 This is a pincer movement.
00:07:22.000 What is a pincer movement?
00:07:23.000 A pincer movement is a orchestrated double envelopment.
00:07:31.000 It's a military maneuver in which forces simultaneously attack both flanks of an enemy formation.
00:07:39.000 Their goal is to undermine free speech, create total control of the American society, and make you surrender.
00:07:46.000 Not only is it intimidation and Gestapo-like tactics of going after people they don't like using the federal government, but it's also, we're going to go after your money.
00:07:55.000 Now, needless to say, I hope that any of you watching right now, I hope you proudly and I hope you quickly terminate your PayPal account right now.
00:08:06.000 You have got to get off PayPal immediately.
00:08:08.000 I hope PayPal goes bankrupt.
00:08:10.000 I hope that they suffer greatly for doing this.
00:08:12.000 They say, oh, it was a mistake.
00:08:14.000 Oh, really?
00:08:15.000 Was it a mistake?
00:08:16.000 How did it get through vetting of your, you're a multi-billion dollar company.
00:08:21.000 PayPal did $25 billion in revenue last year.
00:08:24.000 They have 426 million users.
00:08:28.000 They have $75 billion in total assets at PayPal.
00:08:32.000 Can you explain to me then how PayPal was able to, in a company that big, get the acceptable use policy vetted through HR, through legal?
00:08:42.000 Was it just some intern that had a typo?
00:08:44.000 Of course not.
00:08:45.000 No, no, no.
00:08:46.000 This was planned.
00:08:47.000 This was coordinated.
00:08:48.000 They were just shocked that the world didn't accept it immediately.
00:08:52.000 Like, oh, yes, of course we should just steal people's assets away if they engage in misinformation.
00:08:58.000 You know, why wouldn't we just take their money away if they say things that we don't like?
00:09:03.000 And this is important.
00:09:04.000 The government can't do this.
00:09:06.000 If the government came and took your money without due process, you'd be able to sue and get that money back.
00:09:11.000 Of course, you could eventually have funds taken away with civil asset forfeiture, which, by the way, is constitutionally questionable at best.
00:09:22.000 But the point is that there's a methodology to it.
00:09:24.000 Now, private actors could just take your stuff without you even recognizing it or realizing it.
00:09:29.000 This is a Bolshevik's dream. 0.95
00:09:33.000 And many people on the old right would say, well, you know, it's the market.
00:09:37.000 The market will always just sort it out. 0.99
00:09:39.000 That is rubbish.
00:09:40.000 The new right needs to recognize that this pincer movement on both sides from the DOJ and the FBI, from Facebook and Google, are coming together to squeeze out conservatives. 0.98
00:09:51.000 And I have to ask the question: where are the Republicans?
00:09:54.000 Where are the red state Republicans that are going ahead of the curve?
00:10:00.000 Forget the federal government. 0.96
00:10:01.000 The federal government's a waste of time.
00:10:03.000 Where are the governors?
00:10:04.000 Where are the state legislatures that are realizing it's not just the Biden administration that's coming after patriots?
00:10:11.000 It's the private actors too.
00:10:14.000 It's a simultaneous squeeze against the decent patriots in our country.
00:10:20.000 Where are the state attorney generals?
00:10:22.000 Where are the Republicans?
00:10:27.000 Look, rights, immigration, foreign policy, marriage, sex.
00:10:30.000 Look, these are all in the news right now.
00:10:32.000 Big part of our political dialogue.
00:10:34.000 And we talk about them at the heart of so many different campaigns this election season.
00:10:38.000 But what did our founders have to say about this?
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00:12:31.000 Steve from Indiana says, thank you for your terrific dissertation, welcoming Punishing PayPal's Tyranny.
00:12:38.000 I beat your account termination call by 30 minutes, established back in 2011.
00:12:44.000 If anybody has PayPal, delete, delete, delete.
00:12:49.000 Dave says, Charlie, you're a little late.
00:12:51.000 I canned my PayPal account yesterday.
00:12:53.000 Well, you're ahead of the curve.
00:12:54.000 God bless you.
00:12:55.000 I wasn't hosting the program yesterday.
00:12:58.000 You guys should get rid of all association with PayPal.
00:13:02.000 And by the way, this is going to be their new kind of line of attack.
00:13:06.000 This is their new attack vector, which is to go straight after your money.
00:13:10.000 And this pincer movement is a public-private partnership to squeeze against conservatives.
00:13:16.000 And there is an arranged marriage that has happened where the wokies take over these companies. 0.99
00:13:25.000 And I think a lot of this happened post-2008.
00:13:28.000 Post-2008, with the Occupy Wall Street economic Marxism that was starting to resonate with the American people, Wall Street and big companies started to get very nervous.
00:13:41.000 Now, they were able to successfully thwart a lot of the complaints of Occupy Wall Street, even though, ironically, a lot of the complaints of Occupy Wall Street were actually legitimate.
00:13:50.000 It just got taken over by such pure, unadulterated Marxism, it became unpopular for all people to really, all normal people to tolerate, and especially those of us that have some sort of love for Western civilization.
00:14:04.000 We found it to be disgusting how Occupy Wall Street in Zuccotti Park in New York quickly became that of kind of a Bolshevik moment.
00:14:11.000 But the complaint of Occupy Wall Street was the banks have not been held accountable.
00:14:17.000 No one has gone to jail.
00:14:18.000 Why are taxpayers funding and bailing out Wall Street?
00:14:22.000 And Wall Street was getting very nervous.
00:14:24.000 Well, then after they were able to weather that storm, the wokies decided to take a page out of Herbert Marcuse's book. 0.96
00:14:32.000 Herbert Marcuse, of course, Frankfurt School, came to America, wrote One Dimensional Man, amongst many other pieces of literature, and he argued in the mid-1960s that the American middle class was integrating itself far too successfully into a capitalist society, that the middle class was getting very wealthy.
00:14:53.000 They're able to buy homes, air conditioning, dishwashers.
00:14:56.000 Their standard of living was increasing dramatically.
00:14:59.000 And that economic Marxism wasn't as popular as they would have liked to believe.
00:15:08.000 So therefore, Herbert Marcuse argued that there needs to be a new type of Marxism, as James Lindsay calls it, race Marxism.
00:15:16.000 Fast forward to the 90s, Derek Bell writes Intro to Critical Race Theory, and the Wokies adopt this and they take over the major institutions. 1.00
00:15:24.000 And this was a much easier pill to swallow if you're Goldman Sachs, if you're PayPal.
00:15:29.000 Much easier pill to swallow if you are a major corporation.
00:15:35.000 You have a little bit of a diversity board.
00:15:37.000 You have a transgender focus group. 0.61
00:15:39.000 You put some women on your board, and you're still able to pillage and plunder and charge whatever you want. 1.00
00:15:46.000 You're able to game the system.
00:15:48.000 You're able to use croniest insider dealings.
00:15:50.000 It is the great woke alliance.
00:15:53.000 It is a marriage of convenience.
00:15:56.000 And so now, PayPal, completely captured by the wokies, their new thing is an assault on disinformation and misinformation. 1.00
00:16:05.000 Now, anytime you hear that term misinformation and disinformation, you got to press pause because, of course, they never talk about the outward disinformation put forward by the CDC, the NIH, the public health officials, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson ⁇ Johnson, or Moderna, the disinformation that was spread by the FBI or the Intel agencies when it came to Hunter Biden's laptop.
00:16:26.000 No, they use disinformation as a way to try to punish conservatives for asking questions, even though things that they have called misinformation and disinformation repeatedly over the last year and a half have a tendency to become true.
00:16:40.000 Hunter Biden's laptop, Trump getting spied on, the originations of the Wuhan virus, which they used to say that saying the Wuhan virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:16:51.000 Institute of Virology used to be misinformation.
00:16:54.000 Well, now it is true.
00:16:55.000 It's facts.
00:16:56.000 So PayPal is doing the bidding of the regime.
00:17:00.000 And PayPal knows exactly what they are doing.
00:17:03.000 And they are participating in their pincer movement, public-private squeeze, which honestly is fascism.
00:17:11.000 It's hilarious.
00:17:12.000 They call us fascists.
00:17:13.000 They are the fascists that are the ones that use government power and private sector power in a simultaneous coordinated fashion to try and squeeze us out and suffocate modern everyday Americans.
00:17:25.000 Now, PayPal has retreated from their policy because of the backlash, but we have to make PayPal suffer.
00:17:31.000 Cancel their account, refuse to ever use it again.
00:17:35.000 We're going to put on charliekirk.com, we're going to repost an article that says how to cancel your PayPal account with specific steps.
00:17:41.000 Someone says, Charlie, I can't delete PayPal.
00:17:44.000 Well, we're going to give you the steps of how to do it.
00:17:46.000 PayPal has decided to say that they're going to steal your money, your property, if you put forward opinions that they don't like.
00:17:58.000 A lot of people are asking us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:18:01.000 Well, what do I do if not for PayPal?
00:18:03.000 There is one company I'm aware of.
00:18:05.000 I don't know if they do everything PayPal does, but I know they do a lot.
00:18:08.000 It's CornerstonePayment Systems.com.
00:18:10.000 They've been a sponsor of this program previously.
00:18:13.000 We use them for a couple of things.
00:18:15.000 Again, they're Christian-owned.
00:18:16.000 They're wonderful.
00:18:17.000 They're not going to do what PayPal does.
00:18:19.000 I can endorse them to what we need them for, which is just basic payment processing for donations and for support and for just, let's just say, activity on the Charlie Kirk show page.
00:18:33.000 So cornerstonepayment systems.com.
00:18:36.000 Also, you have to stop using Venmo.
00:18:38.000 That's owned by PayPal.
00:18:41.000 You have to stop using GoFundMe.
00:18:43.000 Part of the strategy that is now employed by the collectivists and the progressives is to go after your money.
00:18:54.000 They want you to be less free.
00:18:56.000 For example, we got one email here.
00:18:58.000 Charlie, all my side hustles and the stuff I do to earn a living go through PayPal.
00:19:02.000 How do I get around that?
00:19:03.000 These websites are top-earning websites, and I don't know what to do.
00:19:06.000 I'm stumped.
00:19:07.000 I want to show I don't like PayPal, but I also need money I earn.
00:19:10.000 That's exactly right.
00:19:10.000 Help, please.
00:19:11.000 They have you handcuffed.
00:19:14.000 I don't have an answer to that.
00:19:14.000 If you need to use PayPal, then you have to use PayPal.
00:19:18.000 But isn't that interesting for all the market Puritans out there? 1.00
00:19:21.000 Oh, yeah, the market will always solve it.
00:19:23.000 Oh, really?
00:19:24.000 Will they always solve it?
00:19:25.000 Interesting.
00:19:27.000 We at least have 500 emails we've received, more or less, couple hundred of people that have successfully canceled their PayPal account already.
00:19:34.000 Do it now.
00:19:36.000 Cancel PayPal.
00:19:37.000 Cancel Venmo.
00:19:39.000 There's other options out there.
00:19:40.000 I think Zelle is okay, but they're owned by the big banks too.
00:19:43.000 Okay, Doug Mastriano joins us right now.
00:19:45.000 He's running for governor in Pennsylvania.
00:19:48.000 A new Trafalgar poll shows him within the margin of error against Josh Shapiro.
00:19:54.000 Doug, welcome back to the program.
00:19:55.000 How do you feel the race is going?
00:19:57.000 I feel really good.
00:19:58.000 I've been to Avery County a couple of times with my wife, and the momentum is huge.
00:20:02.000 We did a couple rallies this past Saturday down in the southeast, and one was supposed to be a meet and greet, actually.
00:20:08.000 A couple hundred people maybe get some photos and chit-chat.
00:20:10.000 And it turned out 500 people came out right outside of Philly and it turned into a rally.
00:20:15.000 And then we spun around to the north side of Philly in Bucks County and had about a thousand people come out there.
00:20:21.000 And meanwhile, my opponent can't draw flies.
00:20:23.000 I mean, it's kind of pitiful, but it's a great sign.
00:20:26.000 We feel good.
00:20:27.000 Yeah, I won't make a joke about that, but I agree.
00:20:31.000 I'm not a fan of your opponent.
00:20:33.000 I think he's a very dishonest person and a talentless hack and someone that would destroy the great state of Pennsylvania and has already done a terrible job.
00:20:40.000 Crime is a huge issue for voters in Pennsylvania. 0.73
00:20:43.000 It's increasing at every level.
00:20:45.000 And he's done nothing about it.
00:20:46.000 He's actually been an office holder.
00:20:47.000 Talk about that.
00:20:49.000 Yeah, my opponent is the sitting attorney general.
00:20:52.000 He's been in the chair for six years.
00:20:54.000 And in that capacity, he's responsible for law and order and crime and punishment in the state.
00:20:58.000 You know, that's his job.
00:21:00.000 There's nothing else more important.
00:21:02.000 And on his watch, Charlie, crime has gone up almost 40%.
00:21:06.000 So it's nearly doubled on his time the past six years.
00:21:09.000 The past six years now, we've watched, for instance, facts are stubborn things, John Adams said.
00:21:13.000 So let's hit some facts here.
00:21:14.000 In 2016, there were 277 homicides in Philadelphia when my opponent came in as the AG.
00:21:21.000 Now it's on track to be around 600 probably this year.
00:21:24.000 Last year it's 562.
00:21:26.000 There were nearly 1,000 carjackings in Philadelphia alone this year.
00:21:29.000 We have a real huge problem with sex trafficking.
00:21:32.000 We're the fourth highest in fentanyl deaths in the nation.
00:21:35.000 Between every day in Pennsylvania, you're looking at 12 to 15 fentanyl deaths specifically.
00:21:40.000 And instead of doing his job and protecting the people of Philadelphia and elsewhere, he's sued to keep kids in masks.
00:21:46.000 He's sued to keep businesses shut down.
00:21:48.000 He sued to keep to let boys in the girls' bathrooms, not only in Pennsylvania, but also Virginia.
00:21:54.000 And we remember this time last year in Loudoun County, a 15-year-old girl was raped.
00:21:59.000 The school board tried to cover it up, and the dad went to the school board meeting, you know, a bit upset and was hauled out in handcuffs.
00:22:04.000 I mean, that personifies the face of my opponent.
00:22:07.000 So he's just too dangerous for our state.
00:22:09.000 Yeah, I mean, no doubt.
00:22:10.000 And it shows the polls are tightening.
00:22:12.000 There's a new story here from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
00:22:15.000 Mastriano's unconventional campaign may be quietly building support.
00:22:21.000 I think you would actually even agree that you're running an unconventional campaign.
00:22:24.000 I don't think you actually would disagree with that.
00:22:27.000 You refuse to talk to the activist press when they don't come with good intentions.
00:22:32.000 You're running a grassroots campaign.
00:22:33.000 You're being outspent.
00:22:35.000 But it looks like you're really building a grassroots army across the state of Pennsylvania.
00:22:40.000 Do you agree that you're doing some things unconventionally?
00:22:43.000 We really are.
00:22:44.000 And, you know, they caught on to a few things finally.
00:22:47.000 This movement is not new.
00:22:48.000 It grew during the shutdown when, of course, I led the reopen movement with some others.
00:22:53.000 It wasn't just me alone.
00:22:55.000 And then, of course, pushing back on the mask mandates and the compelling for the jabs for the job situation and then election reform and all this to restore freedom in our state.
00:23:06.000 So the thing that makes us really different is in fact and in practice, we are a grassroots campaign.
00:23:13.000 We have individuals putting up billboards for us here, knocking on doors.
00:23:18.000 This past weekend, I think about 17,000 doors were knocked on by volunteers.
00:23:22.000 Normally, campaigns pay big money for people to go out there and work for them.
00:23:26.000 These are people who really believe in our state.
00:23:28.000 So yes, it's not conventional.
00:23:30.000 Yeah, and I think that's a positive thing in more ways than one.
00:23:33.000 So I got to ask you, Doug, you look at what Shapiro is doing.
00:23:37.000 Shapiro is having, you know, this, I don't know, fundraiser with a bunch of West Wing people, live action role players.
00:23:45.000 I know that this kind of caught your eye and your attention.
00:23:47.000 Tell us about it.
00:23:49.000 So it was interesting to see, Charlie, that my opponent had posted on Twitter.
00:23:53.000 He's bragging about how he's meeting with a bunch of the actors and actresses from West Wing, probably more appropriately called left wing.
00:23:59.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:24:00.000 I never liked that show.
00:24:01.000 I never did.
00:24:04.000 Neither do I.
00:24:05.000 And the irony is, I mean, it's hard not to have an image of, you know, Nero as Rome burns, you know, Shapiro as Philadelphia collapses with crime and people are being assassinated on the streets.
00:24:15.000 It's not hyperbole.
00:24:16.000 The gravediggers say they can't keep up with the dead.
00:24:19.000 And meanwhile, he's goofing off with these powerful elites.
00:24:22.000 Now, I will note that Tulsa Gabbard left the Democrat Party, was it last night or this morning?
00:24:27.000 And her opening remarks of leaving the Democrat Party, we're talking about a former candidate for president for the Democrat Party.
00:24:35.000 She said she cannot stay in the party in good faith because it's ruled by elites.
00:24:39.000 And this personifies and typifies exactly what she's describing.
00:24:43.000 Yeah, it's so fascinating.
00:24:45.000 I mean, Philadelphia already has 400 murders so far this year, and he won't mention it.
00:24:52.000 Josh Shapiro comes out and he says that Doug Mastriano scares him like no opponent ever has.
00:24:59.000 And of course, he's not scared of the rising crime, carjackings, arsons, or rapes happening in Philadelphia, but you're the threat, Doug.
00:25:07.000 Now, it's really fascinating.
00:25:08.000 I think early voting has already started in Pennsylvania.
00:25:11.000 Is that right?
00:25:12.000 Am I correct?
00:25:12.000 That is true.
00:25:13.000 Now, but you have a very interesting strategy where you're going to be, I think you're going to have a massive election day turnout.
00:25:21.000 I think that you're going to have a lot of people showing up day of.
00:25:24.000 Is that still, I don't, I'm going to use a word that will sound silly allowed in Pennsylvania?
00:25:29.000 Can you still vote day of in Pennsylvania or is it mostly vote by mail?
00:25:34.000 Most of the turnout is on election day, thankfully.
00:25:38.000 And I'm with you.
00:25:38.000 I don't know why we have an election season.
00:25:40.000 It's not even a month.
00:25:41.000 It's a joke, honestly.
00:25:43.000 Yeah, it really is.
00:25:44.000 And it's dangerous.
00:25:45.000 It's asking for trouble.
00:25:46.000 It's too long.
00:25:47.000 And I don't know how, you know, when I was a kid, you know, it was election day and they can count the votes in one day amazingly without all the tech.
00:25:53.000 And suddenly we can't do that.
00:25:55.000 You know, if you can't get out to vote in person, then please do something, you know, vote by mail and/absentee that are still available to you.
00:26:03.000 But I agree, we're going to have a massive turnout on Election Day.
00:26:06.000 We're seeing, I don't do talking points, Charlie.
00:26:09.000 I'm a retired Army colonel.
00:26:10.000 I still identify as a soldier.
00:26:12.000 We're flipping many people from Democrats to the Republican Party.
00:26:15.000 In the general election, you don't need to flip your party affiliation.
00:26:18.000 Just get out the vote.
00:26:20.000 My final thought on that is: if you're concerned about your country and you wave your fist at the TV and these awful commercials Shapiro is putting out, do something about it.
00:26:29.000 Just get out the vote.
00:26:30.000 Just if you don't vote, I believe that you shouldn't complain because you lost your chance to select the governor.
00:26:35.000 Well, so I think that there might be an interesting element to this that backfires on Democrats, more than one.
00:26:42.000 So they're so focused on early voting that in some ways their window to get their base out is actually shorter than your window of campaigning.
00:26:52.000 So for all intents and purposes, you still have 28 days to maximize a flood at the polls ahead of November 8th, especially in the central part of the state, where Shapiro's window is closing every single day for urban and suburban voters because he's just going to get crushed in the western part of the state and in the central part of the state.
00:27:15.000 And it really is going to kind of be a turnout election, isn't it, Doug?
00:27:18.000 Which is if MAGA shows up, if the people that voted for Trump show up, if the ironworkers, steelworkers, I'm sorry, and the muscular class show up in big numbers, you can win.
00:27:31.000 Talk about that.
00:27:33.000 And I do agree with your assessment there.
00:27:35.000 So obviously, Shapiro is pitching on the early voting to break for him.
00:27:39.000 And it tends to break pretty significant Democrats.
00:27:42.000 I don't have the numbers in front of me here, but we did look at the numbers last week.
00:27:45.000 And so far, it's significantly lower than what Shapiro had hoped for and anticipated as far as mail-in, which is a great sign.
00:27:52.000 Well, that's interesting.
00:27:53.000 Let me pause.
00:27:53.000 Can you say that again?
00:27:54.000 So you're already seeing mail-in returns that are lower.
00:27:57.000 So you're already getting real numbers.
00:27:58.000 Is that right?
00:27:59.000 Yeah, as compared to 2020 or last year.
00:28:02.000 It's lower, approximately.
00:28:03.000 I'm curious.
00:28:05.000 It's off the top of my head.
00:28:06.000 It's between 30 and 40%, which is pretty significant.
00:28:09.000 Yeah.
00:28:10.000 Whoa, okay. 0.98
00:28:10.000 So their models are all messed up. 0.98
00:28:12.000 Continue, please.
00:28:13.000 That's noteworthy.
00:28:14.000 Early voting down 30 to 40% by mail in Pennsylvania.
00:28:17.000 Please continue.
00:28:18.000 So right before the show, I strolled through my opponent's stream just to see if he shifted his message or not, because we saw James Carville come out with his statement last night talking about admonishing the Democrats, you can't win just talking about abortion.
00:28:32.000 It's about the economy.
00:28:33.000 He's the guy that coined the phrase in the 90s with the Clinton campaign.
00:28:37.000 Exactly.
00:28:38.000 And my opponent, thank God, has not changed his message.
00:28:41.000 His message is about abortion and ad hominem attacks, ad homininy or personal attacks that Doug is too dangerous.
00:28:47.000 It's kind of funny, Charlie.
00:28:48.000 Too dangerous for him, but not too dangerous to defend our Constitution for 30 years.
00:28:53.000 Not too dangerous to have a top secret clearance with access to some of the most sensitive secrets our nation has.
00:28:58.000 Just the irony of being called this by some guy, you know, who never lifted a finger to serve his country.
00:29:04.000 But how do you motivate people to get out on issues that don't affect them directly in many cases, such as the issue of life and abortion?
00:29:11.000 And let me explain that.
00:29:13.000 So we had a March for Life rally a couple of weeks ago in Harrisburg, which I attended.
00:29:17.000 It wasn't my rally.
00:29:18.000 I was a participant, about 6,000 people, according to the Capitol Police.
00:29:23.000 The next day, Planned Parenthood had their rally the next day.
00:29:27.000 I was present for both because I was in session as a senator.
00:29:30.000 And they brought in national speakers, famous speakers, well advertised, and only 65 came out.
00:29:36.000 So I wonder if this narrative from the left, you know, since the Dobbs case and how this is going to motivate the left and all that is to get out the vote.
00:29:42.000 I didn't see that.
00:29:45.000 I agree.
00:29:45.000 And look, I think that, you know, in some communities, being pro-life is a winner.
00:29:50.000 In some ones, it could be, you know, not so popular in Pennsylvania.
00:29:54.000 But it's also, it's getting lower and lower on the priority and the energy, especially when people can't afford gas, inflation, crime.
00:30:03.000 I think the Dobbs effect is fading.
00:30:05.000 What you just told me is fascinating.
00:30:07.000 Mail-in voting down 30 to 40% than it was in 2020.
00:30:12.000 Now, it would be expected to be down maybe 10% because if it's a midterm, what you're also telling me, Doug, is we're going to see a turnout on Election Day that I think will overwhelm the system in Pennsylvania.
00:30:24.000 I think that the pent-up enthusiasm is going to shock the world.
00:30:28.000 Go to DougNumber4Gov.com.
00:30:30.000 Doug, I'm going to give you a minute just to go straight to the audience.
00:30:34.000 Tell us how you're being outspent.
00:30:35.000 Take your time and how people can support you and the significance of your campaign.
00:30:39.000 The floor is yours.
00:30:41.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:30:41.000 Yeah, I'm being outspent significantly.
00:30:43.000 I mean, my opponent has already dropped like $26 million in the negative campaign ads.
00:30:49.000 Hats off to the Democrats around the nation with their dark money because they see Pennsylvania is the most important gubernatorial race in the nation and they're putting their mouth or their money where their mouth is.
00:31:00.000 On the other side here, we had excellent support from our state party, some of the more established organizations that really haven't jumped in yet.
00:31:07.000 We need help.
00:31:08.000 And so go to Dougforgov.com to pitch in.
00:31:11.000 If you're a Pennsylvania resident, you could serve as a poll watcher.
00:31:14.000 Please sign up to be a poll watcher.
00:31:15.000 This is how Yonkin pulled it off this time last year.
00:31:18.000 95% of the polls, Republicans were there, trained and monitoring for transparency.
00:31:23.000 You know, on our side here, why should you care about Pennsylvania if you're not from Pennsylvania?
00:31:27.000 Well, you know, of course, historically, we are the birthplace of freedom.
00:31:30.000 But additionally, God has blessed us with this capability with energy to help lead our nation out of this economic darkness that we have.
00:31:38.000 And so, although much of the problems we have are being generated at the federal level, as a state with a strong governor, we can open up our energy sector here and help break some of this inflation and the cost of energy and our reliance upon the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and others and produce it here in Pennsylvania.
00:31:55.000 We're blessed with natural gas.
00:31:57.000 We're blessed with coal.
00:31:58.000 We're blessed with high-grade oil.
00:32:00.000 Our natural gas industry has a capability with a refinery, that's what we need in Pennsylvania as well, to actually turn it into gas for cars.
00:32:07.000 I mean, it's all right here.
00:32:09.000 We could export this to our allies in Lithuania and Germany and Poland and get our allies off of Russian oil and gas. 0.69
00:32:15.000 And we're talking about $100 billion potential coming to Pennsylvania.
00:32:19.000 That's good for everybody in America.
00:32:21.000 I'm telling you right now, I hear on the ground, I hear a lot of chatter about Doug in Pennsylvania.
00:32:28.000 And the polls, you know, the public polls are tightening.
00:32:31.000 It still shows Shapir up a little bit, but you can add anywhere between eight to 10 to a poll when someone has true grassroots enthusiasm.
00:32:39.000 I've seen it time and time again, especially in the midterm.
00:32:42.000 Let's play cut 40, please, talking about the top two issues for Americans, despite the incessant clamoring by the left on abortion.
00:32:54.000 You and I are both pro-life, Doug, but we also understand this is a, it's a big, it's a, let's say, a widespread, you know, menu of issues and topics that the government needs to address beyond just the Dobbs decision.
00:33:06.000 The Democrats don't want you to believe that trying to turn into a single election season and they're losing in that regard.
00:33:12.000 Play cut 40.
00:33:14.000 Said, when you look at our most recent NBC poll here and you ask folks, what is the single most important issue that's going to drive your vote in this year's midterm elections?
00:33:24.000 A combined 34% cite either jobs in the economy or inflation.
00:33:30.000 And you combine those two, that's the biggest single number you're going to get.
00:33:34.000 And on that question, the Republicans have a nearly 30-point advantage.
00:33:38.000 30-point advantage, Doug.
00:33:40.000 Late breakers, I think, are going to go in the Republican direction.
00:33:43.000 Look, you know, die in the wool Democrats, they're filling out their ballots, but that's down 30 to 40%.
00:33:48.000 So their models are already screwed up.
00:33:50.000 And if you get an extra 8 to 10 to 12% people showing up on Election Day and you're able to have late-breaking independence, all of a sudden these polls get totally inverted.
00:34:00.000 When you're talking to people in Pennsylvania, what's the top of their mind?
00:34:04.000 Number one across the state is the economy and whether they're going to be able to heat their homes or eat this winter when heating prices are going through the roof already or putting gas in the car or the security of their jobs.
00:34:16.000 Number two, of course, especially in the Southeast is crime, law and order.
00:34:21.000 And so those two issues we're winning on because we have a clear message.
00:34:24.000 When I'm on the campaign trail there, I break down not in little bumper stickers, but how we're going to bring law and order and how we're going to build our economy.
00:34:31.000 Yeah, and how you're going to actually restore Pennsylvania to be a great state because it really can be.
00:34:37.000 It's DougNumber4Gov.com.
00:34:39.000 Doug, thank you so much for joining us.
00:34:41.000 We're behind you.
00:34:41.000 We deeply appreciate it.
00:34:43.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:34:44.000 God bless you.
00:34:44.000 Thank you.
00:34:45.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:47.000 Okay, I really wanted to get to this story here.
00:34:49.000 So Jon Stewart this last weekend sat down with Leslie Rutledge, the Arkansas Attorney General.
00:34:54.000 And basically, Jon Stewart, the smug comedian who thinks he's very funny, decided to come out and try to defend the medical mutilation of children.
00:35:03.000 Let's play cut two.
00:35:05.000 Why would the state of Arkansas step in to override parents, physicians, psychiatrists, endocrinologists who have developed guidelines?
00:35:21.000 You're suggesting that protecting children means overriding the recommendations of the American Medical Association, the American Association of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society.
00:35:33.000 We don't have enough data.
00:35:35.000 We don't have enough to show that these drugs are effective and that these children are better off and that we should not enough for you.
00:35:43.000 Okay, first of all, she should not be sitting down with Jon Stewart.
00:35:46.000 Jon Stewart is much, is a far more talented communicator than she is.
00:35:50.000 Secondly, Jon Stewart then goes on in cut three to compare genital mutilation to cancer treatment.
00:35:56.000 Play cut three.
00:35:57.000 So if your child is suffering from pediatric cancer and the state comes in and says to you, they recommend chemotherapy, but we're not going to let you do that.
00:36:07.000 You can't.
00:36:08.000 We think you should get a different opinion.
00:36:12.000 And here's the organization we think you should get the opinion from.
00:36:15.000 They're not the mainstream, but they're an organization.
00:36:19.000 So that's who you have to be treated by.
00:36:23.000 Does that sound like something you would like to say?
00:36:26.000 I think that's a very extreme example.
00:36:27.000 That's not at all in line with what we're talking about.
00:36:30.000 That is the correct answer.
00:36:31.000 And he compares medical mutilation for profit to chemotherapy for children.
00:36:35.000 Here's the facts.
00:36:36.000 This is child mutilation, period.
00:36:38.000 Jon Stewart is promoting and defending, gleefully and smugly, breast removal, the administration of Lupron, that we don't even give rapists in certain states after, you know, basically to chemically castrate them.
00:36:52.000 These are gruesome, awful surgical procedures that do irreversible damage to young children.
00:36:59.000 Good for Arkansas for doing this. 0.75
00:37:02.000 I just wish she would never would have sat down with Jon Stewart because I don't think she did a very good job of defending. 0.97
00:37:07.000 She looks like the unreasonable one.
00:37:08.000 And this is the easiest rule for life in persuasion.
00:37:12.000 If you're ever going to sit down with somebody and you have a fear that you're going to be portrayed as the unreasonable person, whether through editing, whether through preparation, don't do the interview.
00:37:25.000 Period.
00:37:26.000 The more reasonable person always wins the argument.
00:37:30.000 And Jon Stewart, oh, yeah, the American Medical Association should come in.
00:37:33.000 Oh, yeah.
00:37:33.000 Hey, Jon Stewart, if the American Medical Association came out and supported lobotomies for people with IQs below a certain level, would you support that, pal?
00:37:41.000 That's how you respond to it.
00:37:44.000 Jon Stewart, let the record be known that Jon Stewart supports the medical mutilation of children for profit.
00:37:51.000 History will not judge him well, no matter how smug he is.
00:37:57.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:37:59.000 Email me your thoughts as always.
00:38:00.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:38:01.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:38:03.000 God bless.
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