The Charlie Kirk Show - DOXXING VS. FREE SPEECH with Kurt Schlicter

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00:01:10.000 Yesterday, Elon Musk made some news.

00:01:14.000 The richest man in the world and the owner of Twitter started to suspend a wave of journalists and their accounts on Twitter.

00:01:24.000 Now, I started to get texts from people saying, Charlie, what is Elon doing?

00:01:27.000 I thought he was pro-free speech.

00:01:29.000 These are conservatives.

00:01:30.000 People that were emailing me relentlessly and messaging me, Charlie, why is Elon doing this?

00:01:34.000 I thought, calm down.

00:01:35.000 It's like, hold on.

00:01:37.000 So, first and foremost, the root of the bans that Elon Musk was executing was they were all basically tied to people sharing the exact location of Elon Musk's private jet.

00:01:51.000 This comes after Elon Musk's daughter, who I think is named Lil X or something, who I mistook, I actually mistook her for a rapper, but I guess her name is Lil X or just X. I'm sorry.

00:02:04.000 No, but he said Lil, I think, at some point.

00:02:06.000 Elon, anyway.

00:02:08.000 So his daughter's name is X, who was doxxed and harassed by some awful people because their private and intimate information was shared on Twitter and social media.

00:02:22.000 Now, there is this guy that runs this account called Elon's Jet, which actually circumvents even the FAA technology.

00:02:32.000 So Elon Musk pays extra money to have his tail number disguised by the FAA.

00:02:39.000 So if you went to a website like FlightAware, flightaware.com, you would not be able to track Elon Musk's jet.

00:02:45.000 What this guy does is he's actually able, through a very specific, let's just say a digital pin number equivalent, be able to see where Elon Musk's jet is based on a piece of technology that is very, very hard to actually determine what that number is.

00:03:05.000 How this guy was able to do that in the past is not totally clear.

00:03:09.000 Maybe there's been some reporting on it, but this is not public information.

00:03:14.000 Okay.

00:03:15.000 So I believe Americans have a right to privacy as much as you have a right to speech.

00:03:22.000 Both are in the Bill of Rights, by the way.

00:03:24.000 You have a right to speak, and you also have the right to privacy to have your personal effects, your home, your family not rated by the government or not rated by other people or by a company.

00:03:36.000 So Elon's jet account that now restarted itself on this super weird website called Mastodon.

00:03:44.000 Mastodon is a rival social networking site.

00:03:47.000 Musk then suspended Mastodon's Twitter account, and it seems that the journalists whose accounts he suspended were themselves linking to the Mastodon page.

00:03:56.000 So these people, these journalists, think they're immune from any rules, even though they are posting intimate and private detailed location of Elon Musk and his family.

00:04:11.000 And so now the parasite class of reporters at CNN had a panic attack.

00:04:18.000 Now, it's very interesting because the very people at CNN who have been trying to destroy free speech in the West immediately find it so to be repulsive that they would dare have their Twitter account suspended.

00:04:33.000 And they are complaining the loudest of any community out there.

00:04:41.000 Let's play cut 98.

00:04:43.000 The impulsive and unjustified suspension of a number of reporters, including CNN's Donio Sullivan, is concerning but not surprising.

00:04:51.000 And it goes on to say Twitter's increasing instability and volatility should be of incredible concern for everyone who uses Twitter.

00:05:01.000 So that's CNN saying that this should be a huge concern for anybody that uses Twitter.

00:05:06.000 CNN continues by Cut 99.

00:05:10.000 Oliver Darcy says that Elon Musk, it's exposing Elon's commitment to free speech.

00:05:18.000 I'm going to tell you why this is an insane argument by Oliver Darcy.

00:05:21.000 Play Cut 99.

00:05:23.000 Elon Musk is claiming falsely that the several journalists he suspended from Twitter yesterday shared his live location.

00:05:31.000 Musk says it was a violation of Twitter's so-called doxing policy by sharing what he called assassination coordinates.

00:05:39.000 What these journalists were doing was reporting on an account called Elon Jet, which used publicly available account information or flight information to track Elon Musk's jet.

00:05:51.000 See, this is where Oliver Darcy is wrong.

00:05:53.000 This is not publicly available information.

00:05:56.000 You are able to pay for a service with the FAA, the Federal Aviation Administration, to block the tracking of your tail number.

00:06:05.000 It makes it private.

00:06:07.000 This guy is doing something very sneaky to find basically an otherwise cloaked PIN number to send out what Elon Musk calls assassination coordinates for his family and for him.

00:06:21.000 And so look, Musk has now banned anyone that is saying you are going to share personal and private, detailed, location-specific information of him or his family.

00:06:31.000 And I could not support it more.

00:06:33.000 You know, some people say, well, Charlie, doxing, if you don't know what doxing is, doxing, is the sharing of private information publicly, where you live, where you are, where you work.

00:06:43.000 I do not believe that doxing is protected speech.

00:06:47.000 I have lived this.

00:06:49.000 I have to have almost full-time security.

00:06:51.000 My family's information has been publicly doxxed.

00:06:53.000 We receive nearly daily death threats.

00:06:56.000 People have been arrested because of the threats that they have administered against Turning Point USA, against our students, and against me.

00:07:04.000 This is no joke.

00:07:05.000 And Elon is taking a firm and strong stance against this.

00:07:09.000 But you see, reporters, they think that they are a protected class.

00:07:16.000 Reporters think that they're so special.

00:07:19.000 They almost think as if they are like the clergy of American society, that they are above all of us.

00:07:29.000 They literally believe these journalists think they are the priests of morality and of truth.

00:07:35.000 So Musk tweeted this.

00:07:37.000 If anyone posted real-time locations and addresses of New York Times reporters, the FBI would be investigating.

00:07:44.000 There'd be hearings on Capitol Hill, and Biden would give speeches about the end of democracy.

00:07:50.000 And that's exactly right.

00:07:51.000 But you're allowed to post the personal information of Charlie Kirk or Elon Musk, and that's considered journalism.

00:07:59.000 Play cut 96, Elon Musk justifying the suspension of the people that want him dead.

00:08:05.000 Play cut 96.

00:08:06.000 As I'm sure everyone who's been doxin would agree, you know, showing real-time information about somebody's location is inappropriate.

00:08:18.000 And I think everyone on this call would not like that to be done to them.

00:08:22.000 And there's not going to be any distinction in the future between journalists, so-called journalists, and regular people.

00:08:27.000 Everyone's going to be treated the same.

00:08:28.000 They're not special because you're a journalist.

00:08:31.000 You're just a citizen.

00:08:35.000 So no special treatment.

00:08:39.000 You dox, you get suspended.

00:08:40.000 End of story.

00:08:42.000 That is exactly right.

00:08:44.000 Do you notice how angry the left gets now that Elon Musk has banned child pornography, violent imagery, and doxing on Twitter?

00:08:54.000 The left gets really angry about that.

00:08:56.000 We're going to play a montage of it.

00:08:59.000 Remember when they tried to do an assassination attempt against Brett Kavanaugh?

00:09:05.000 This is exactly their game plan: share private information so that the lunatics of Antifa and their terrorists can come after you.

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00:11:03.000 Personal targeted harassment is a key device in the left's toolkit to be able to make you uncomfortable in your home, in your place of peace.

00:11:19.000 They want to make you paranoid and afraid.

00:11:24.000 This is how the left reacts now that Elon Musk says: look, pornography is not speech, child exploitation is not speech, violence is not speech, and doxing will not be tolerated.

00:11:38.000 And there is a constitutional and moral argument for this.

00:11:42.000 I know the Constitution does not apply from a legal standpoint in the administration of Twitter's policies, but from a moral standpoint, you have to have the tension of both, yes, the right to speech, but somebody has the right to be private, to donate anonymously, and to exist not publicly or privately if they so choose.

00:12:04.000 Joe Scarborough cut 101.

00:12:07.000 It's no wonder Elon Musk finds himself where he is right now because everybody's told him he's great.

00:12:14.000 He's been fed not just by sycophants inside his companies, like telling how great he is.

00:12:21.000 He's fed by sycophants in mainstream media.

00:12:24.000 Joe Scarborough and MSNBC continue play cut 95.

00:12:29.000 Talking about this all morning and trying to figure out what to make of it, trying to figure out what the political implications are to some degree, meaning do regulators step in?

00:12:38.000 I don't understand why the guy continues to play in the sewer that's called Twitter and leave Twitter in the hands of somebody else.

00:12:49.000 This is, again, this is just something that makes absolutely no sense.

00:12:52.000 You've got a guy who was a First Amendment maximalist, supposedly.

00:12:58.000 He said, I want to take over Twitter because we have free speech problems.

00:13:03.000 And then they breathlessly go after what they call the Twitter files to try to figure out where they're reporters, were they politicians, were there media outlets who may have had their REIT suppressed.

00:13:15.000 And now he's just outright banning Twitter.

00:13:18.000 It makes no sense.

00:13:20.000 Makes no sense.

00:13:21.000 Now, Joe Scarborough, how would people feel?

00:13:23.000 How would you feel if all of a sudden your private location in Mount Desert Island, Maine was made public?

00:13:29.000 Now, we wouldn't want to do that.

00:13:31.000 That's why Elon's doing it.

00:13:34.000 So that there's not threat assassination coordinates publicized, Joe Scarborough.

00:13:40.000 Joe Bob is live from the Venus Convention Center, and he joins us now.

00:13:45.000 Joe Bob, how are things progressing for Amfest?

00:13:48.000 Tell us what's on the ground.

00:13:50.000 What's happening?

00:13:51.000 Dude, Charlie, this is nuts, man.

00:13:53.000 I mean, this last year was nuts, but this year is a little bit more nuts.

00:13:57.000 Just in terms of the expansiveness of this whole thing, I've been told there's like 30 semi-trucks takes to like load all of the equipment in here.

00:14:05.000 I'm on Media Row right now, if you're watching this and not on the radio.

00:14:08.000 I'm on Media Row, where you can see there's like 50 different media outlets all here.

00:14:12.000 And all that says is that all eyes are on this.

00:14:16.000 This is the epicenter of the conservative movement right now, America Fest happening this weekend.

00:14:20.000 And we're still 24 hours out.

00:14:23.000 Oh, geez, more than 24 hours out.

00:14:25.000 And we have a huge amount of people already here just getting set up, getting ready to go for, like what you said, the biggest party in the conservative movement that anybody's thrown at any point.

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00:14:41.000 And so, so, Joe Bob, let me ask you, you know, the amount of students that are coming, you've done a lot of this campus work.

00:14:49.000 People are going to get fired up.

00:14:50.000 They're going to get recharged, but it's for people of all ages.

00:14:53.000 Tell us about that.

00:14:55.000 Yeah, so let me just talk about the event specifically.

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00:14:59.000 I've been in politics for a long time.

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00:15:20.000 There's nothing wrong with that sort of thing, but this is like, this is, if I were to describe it, this is the Coachella of conservative politics, the Lollapalooza of conservative politics.

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00:17:32.000 The other wrinkle of Elon Musk's banning spree of these people that are publicizing private information that, of course, will then be used as potential assassination coordinates that will be used for personal targeted harassment.

00:17:47.000 The other wrinkle, though, that I think is an unintended benefit is the very same people, the totalitarian left, that have been gleeful, excited, exuberant to ban me, to put a do not amplify tag on my Twitter to go after Dan Bongino, to go after Donald Trump.

00:18:06.000 Those very same people will not stop unless we stop them.

00:18:12.000 A neutral public square is admirable.

00:18:15.000 It is desirable.

00:18:17.000 But every so often, to have someone who has power use power, albeit even temporarily to suspend them, reminds the totalitarian left.

00:18:27.000 No, in fact, it doesn't just remind them, it shows them that they are not the only side that is willing to use force or power.

00:18:36.000 Let me be very clear.

00:18:38.000 I'd love to have a public square where no one gets banned.

00:18:40.000 I think it's great.

00:18:41.000 As long as you're not doxing people, you're not sharing pornography, you are not participating or celebrating in violence.

00:18:49.000 Okay, fine.

00:18:50.000 Those are very simple, prudent, reasonable guidelines.

00:18:56.000 However, if you look at where the media and the left-wingers have been so over the top in the last couple of years, they believe they are the only side that is able or willing to use power.

00:19:15.000 This is kind of the argument that we've been making on this program, where it's only one side uses the power to impanel grand juries to issue subpoenas.

00:19:27.000 Why is it that Hunter Biden is not being investigated by attorneys general all across the country?

00:19:34.000 Why is it that we do not investigate them for all the crimes that they've done?

00:19:38.000 This idea that only one side fights and that we take it is wrong.

00:19:44.000 Joining us now is Kurt Schlichter.

00:19:46.000 He's terrific.

00:19:47.000 Kurt, I heard you on War Room this morning and I texted my team.

00:19:50.000 I said, get Kurt back on the show.

00:19:52.000 Kurt, welcome back to the program.

00:19:54.000 I appreciate it.

00:19:55.000 I think Rona's goons were preventing me from speaking to you, but we're going to fight the power and make it happen.

00:20:02.000 So I want to get into the Rana deal in just a second, but you're on Twitter a lot.

00:20:09.000 You understand it.

00:20:10.000 Your reaction of Elon Musk taking out the band hammer last evening.

00:20:15.000 I think it's funny.

00:20:17.000 You know, we've been telling these people, be really careful about the new rules that you embrace because they're going to come and they're going to become a suppository and you're not going to like it.

00:20:27.000 You're going to be sad.

00:20:29.000 And nope, nope, can't have it.

00:20:32.000 Nope. 0.96

00:20:32.000 We're going to ban you. 0.96

00:20:34.000 We're going to establish the idea of sort of arbitrary speech censorship based on whim.

00:20:43.000 How could that possibly go wrong?

00:20:44.000 Gee, Charlie, how could that go wrong?

00:20:47.000 So now they want us to be sad.

00:20:49.000 They want us to care.

00:20:51.000 Yeah, okay.

00:20:52.000 I'll get right on it.

00:20:54.000 Yeah, the very same people that have been trying to obliterate the tradition of free speech and dialogue are the ones that go into a volcanic frenzy.

00:21:02.000 The second that they have their Twitter account temporarily suspended for tweeting out assassination coordinates against somebody's family.

00:21:10.000 Yeah, you know, and I don't.

00:21:12.000 You know, I'm sensitive to that too.

00:21:15.000 I've had, you know, folks go.

00:21:17.000 Hey, you know, your kids hear their names.

00:21:21.000 Uh, you know, wander around your town a lot exposed and you know, not protected and it's like okay well yeah, you want to roll those guys.

00:21:30.000 That's cool.

00:21:31.000 Um, so I'm not.

00:21:33.000 Uh, I understand what.

00:21:34.000 Uh Elon, where Elon's coming from uh, and I uh, I just kind of think it's hilarious that these people are now having to live under the rules that they created.

00:21:45.000 So, you know, cry more.

00:21:49.000 I think it's fine.

00:21:50.000 I've been tweeting out things all day like it's okay, you're not allowed to shout fire in a crowded theater.

00:21:56.000 Uh, speech that harms is not protected by the First Amendment.

00:22:00.000 What else?

00:22:01.000 Uh uh, it's a private company, it can do what it wants.

00:22:05.000 I was just doing kind of the greatest hits of uh, a hack leftist uh, censorship justification clichés, so I've had a really good time.

00:22:14.000 Yeah, just everyone's clear.

00:22:15.000 Kurt is using the mindless incantations of the left against them.

00:22:19.000 He actually doesn't believe some of that nonsense.

00:22:22.000 But um so so Kurt, let's go to the RNC race.

00:22:26.000 Um I, you're a smart guy, you represent a lot of people.

00:22:31.000 I'm really struggling to stand.

00:22:33.000 In fact, I took some time yesterday and did some introspection and said, maybe I'm just out of touch.

00:22:40.000 How the heck do you spend $700,000 on flowers if you are the Republican Party?

00:22:45.000 Are they hosting Indian weddings with irregularity?

00:22:49.000 They've got one hell of a Diwali party, you know.

00:22:53.000 Maybe they're getting in touch with the Republicans.

00:22:56.000 Uh softer, gentler side, you know.

00:22:59.000 But I know that.

00:23:00.000 And and I thought when John Rich was on Tucker last night because he's a big star but he's also kind of a regular guy and I think he really speaks for regular people going you know I work for a living and I write you a $25 check because that's all I can send.

00:23:14.000 But I want to get, I believe in my country and I think the Republican Party should fight for it.

00:23:20.000 So here's $25, and then you find it goes to Lululemon tights and You know, I don't think it's unreasonable to be infuriated about that.

00:23:33.000 And in fact, I'm looking forward to Harmee Dylan, who's the candidate I'm supporting, making an audit of the RNC her number one first day one priority because we have to earn the trust of our people.

00:23:47.000 We have to earn it.

00:23:49.000 Yeah, that's one of my favorite words.

00:23:52.000 It's one of my favorite words in the English language.

00:23:54.000 You are not entitled to the trust as in a major political party.

00:23:59.000 Well, exactly.

00:24:00.000 And I find it very annoying about Rona, who may be a very nice person.

00:24:04.000 I don't know.

00:24:05.000 And I don't care.

00:24:06.000 But her kindness is irrelevant in a combat against the Marxist left.

00:24:11.000 Exactly.

00:24:13.000 I expect you to perform.

00:24:15.000 I expect you to get it done.

00:24:18.000 I don't care that there's a problem.

00:24:20.000 Don't come to me and go, the Democrats cheated.

00:24:23.000 Yes, we understand that.

00:24:25.000 That was one of the obstacles we hired you at a pretty substantial salary to overcome.

00:24:32.000 And, you know, if she wanted to take a little cream off the top after being super successful, if she was coming off a 5-0 record instead of 0-5, and I found out that, you know, she got her Pilates tights comped by the RNC.

00:24:47.000 Hey, Roger Rona, you know, coffee's for closers.

00:24:52.000 And, you know, so are mom, mom, whatever, the yoga pants.

00:24:59.000 But she hasn't.

00:25:01.000 Okay.

00:25:01.000 We have an unbroken track record of failure.

00:25:04.000 I'm not a sports guy, but I understand that if you're a football guy and you lose five seasons, you're going to go to whatever, I don't know, pop warner football, but you're not going to stay in the major leagues because you haven't performed.

00:25:19.000 And you might be a nice person.

00:25:20.000 That's okay.

00:25:21.000 Don't care. 0.94

00:25:22.000 Not hiring nice.

00:25:23.000 I'm buying a result.

00:25:27.000 And one of the most glaring revelations of the entire financial reporting has been they, the travel thing is one thing.

00:25:41.000 The $17 million, Kurt, in donor mementos.

00:25:45.000 Have you ever seen these donor mementos?

00:25:47.000 I mean, look, I'm in the business of raising money.

00:25:50.000 We raise a fair amount of money and we're very careful how we spend it.

00:25:55.000 And I could tell you, you know what donors don't want?

00:25:57.000 They don't want some trinket that they're going to have to put in their luggage that will probably get destroyed after they go to a retreat with the money that they would rather see deployed towards the intended purpose.

00:26:08.000 I was talking to a donor last night at a party, and this person has, you know, more money than Crassus.

00:26:18.000 Okay.

00:26:19.000 I mean, this person, if she wants, this person could have like a gold paneled bathroom if that was the thing.

00:26:26.000 And this person said, I don't want to drink it.

00:26:28.000 I'm in this because I love my country.

00:26:30.000 I want to help Americans.

00:26:33.000 I believe in Republican ideals.

00:26:36.000 And you don't have to buy me on. 0.99

00:26:38.000 Look, if you want to spend eight bucks on a t-shirt that says, hey, go to a retreat 2020, kicking them butt. 0.98

00:26:47.000 You know, okay, I can see that. 0.98

00:26:49.000 That's fine.

00:26:51.000 If, you know, oh, here's a solid gold brooch, you know, it's in the shape of an elephant.

00:26:57.000 And it's like, no, just no.

00:27:01.000 Go get 20 voters to the polls.

00:27:03.000 Well, I mean, $17 million.

00:27:05.000 I mean, Kurt, let's just say that's a lot dope.

00:27:07.000 Well, let's just say this theoretically.

00:27:08.000 Let's pretend all that money got spent on a Nevada infrastructure, get out the vote, field program, air assistance.

00:27:15.000 We have Senator Adam Laxall, period.

00:27:17.000 That's not a hypothetical.

00:27:19.000 That's not some sort of abstract concept.

00:27:21.000 That is a Senate seat.

00:27:23.000 Yes.

00:27:24.000 And, you know, look, I was a commander in the military.

00:27:30.000 My big job was not pulling out my saber and charging.

00:27:34.000 My big job was organizing the resources at my command, troops, artillery, logistics, intelligence, and making it a symphony and using the right forces in the right place in the right amounts.

00:27:51.000 And I never had enough of any of them. 0.98

00:27:55.000 That's what Rona's job needs to be. 1.00

00:27:57.000 And she's just not doing it well.

00:28:01.000 She's got to go.

00:28:02.000 Not even close.

00:28:03.000 Sorry.

00:28:04.000 And I can't, I mean, I'll be very honest.

00:28:05.000 I mean, I'm not part of the clubby RNC culture.

00:28:09.000 I don't understand why this is even a question.

00:28:12.000 I mean, I mean this as fairly.

00:28:14.000 I don't understand why this is even open for debate.

00:28:18.000 I don't.

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00:29:22.000 So, Kurt, I always try to not kind of be, let's just say, drunk on my own narrative, right?

00:29:30.000 I try to take time and say, what could the possible counter argument to my very strong opinion be?

00:29:35.000 I think it's fair.

00:29:36.000 I think it's good.

00:29:36.000 We did this last time you were on.

00:29:38.000 But now I'm really confused because with this new stuff, how is this even a question?

00:29:46.000 Look, there is no good argument for Rona McDaniel.

00:29:50.000 There is none.

00:29:52.000 You know, well, I did a few things.

00:29:55.000 Great.

00:29:55.000 You did some of the minimum things that you're supposed to, but you didn't actually win.

00:30:02.000 So you're not good enough.

00:30:04.000 But one of the biggest problems in our society is a lack of accountability. 1.00

00:30:10.000 We have a ruling class that fails, that's corrupt, that's stupid, that's actively evil in many cases, and it's never held accountable from Hunter Biden to, you know, to weirdos in schools to our politicians. 1.00

00:30:29.000 They aren't held accountable and they don't expect to be. 1.00

00:30:32.000 And that's kind of where Rona's at.

00:30:35.000 She doesn't expect to be held accountable.

00:30:37.000 She just expected to glide right in.

00:30:40.000 Because what, well, yeah, I failed, but I really like having this job.

00:30:45.000 So I don't understand the problem. 0.99

00:30:48.000 There wasn't a problem until people manifested and said, no, you suck. 1.00

00:30:53.000 You're terrible. 1.00

00:30:54.000 And you shouldn't be the person. 0.72

00:30:57.000 And by then, she had gotten soft endorsements by about two-thirds of the 168 Republican National Committee members who kind of said, well, I guess might as well do Rona again. 0.96

00:31:10.000 All right, let's head off to Dane Appointed Party, and then we'll elect her and then move on.

00:31:15.000 And suddenly, Hermit Dylan shows up and says, no, Rona's failed.

00:31:23.000 We need new blood, and I volunteer.

00:31:25.000 And people said, Oh, yeah, Rona has kind of failed.

00:31:30.000 And Harmead is amazingly talented, a great spokesperson, a brilliant lawyer.

00:31:38.000 Yeah, let's give her a shot.

00:31:40.000 And more and more of the people are peeling off from Rona and going to Harmeed.

00:31:46.000 And so it's really kind of inertia.

00:31:51.000 That's why she's there. 0.96

00:31:52.000 And she's fighting for the job because she wants it. 0.77

00:31:57.000 She's got no argument.

00:31:58.000 She can't come and go, you know, here's what I did.

00:32:02.000 I was a good steward of RNC money.

00:32:06.000 I won a bunch of elections.

00:32:09.000 Nope.

00:32:11.000 I inspired the base. 1.00

00:32:15.000 Here's how bad she is.

00:32:16.000 I did a Twitter poll, and I told Bannon this on his show too.

00:32:20.000 5992 people reply, hardcore conservatives, the base.

00:32:26.000 I said, Who do you want?

00:32:27.000 Rona got 0.6%.

00:32:31.000 99.4% of Americans did not want Rona.

00:32:36.000 You cannot get that kind of unanimity.

00:32:41.000 Monkey Pox is literally more popular than Rona McDaniel.

00:32:46.000 And yet, this is still a question within.

00:32:50.000 And people are still saying, I mean, if you talk to some of the committee members, and by the way, anyone, you guys can contact your committee members for your state at hireharmeet.com.

00:32:59.000 It's the full list.

00:33:00.000 Email them and be nice about it, but just ask them.

00:33:04.000 But I just, what is the argument that donors got trinkets while we lost a Senate seat we should have won?

00:33:11.000 Well, the argument is: well, Rona's my friend.

00:33:15.000 And frankly, I have a lot of friends that shouldn't run the RNC.

00:33:18.000 I got a lot of them.

00:33:19.000 Exactly.

00:33:20.000 And some of them are consultants who I've been attacked by, who are thinking, oh my gosh, Armit knows where the bodies are buried.

00:33:29.000 She's going to kick over our rice bowls.

00:33:31.000 Because one of the things I expect Harmeet to do would be to issue a RNC consultant guidelines.

00:33:41.000 For instance, you don't take 10% of media sales if you're an RNC-approved consultant.

00:33:49.000 Instead, you know, because when they spend money to buy media, they pocket 10%.

00:33:54.000 It goes to influence people who are already influenced because there's nobody out there going, I don't know, I need to hear more about this Donald Trump character before I make my call.

00:34:05.000 That money should be going at this cycle, this time.

00:34:10.000 I haven't yet formed my opinion of Donald Trump.

00:34:12.000 That's blue and clear.

00:34:14.000 I need another ad.

00:34:16.000 Scary music for a sunset.

00:34:20.000 40% of all money donated to the RNC just goes to fundraising.

00:34:24.000 That alone should shut down the operation.

00:34:26.000 We're out of time.

00:34:27.000 I hope to see you on a cruise sometime soon.

00:34:30.000 Ahoy.

00:34:34.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:36.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:39.000 Thank you so much for listening and God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - December 16, 2022

DOXXING VS. FREE SPEECH with Kurt Schlicter

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