The Charlie Kirk Show - November 30, 2022


Power from the Barrel of a Gun with Bill Gertz and Gordon Chang

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Bill Gertz, China expert, joins us to talk about what's going on in China, and then Gordon Chang also joins us, to help us unpack China. And Raphael Warnock gets help from Black Preachers in Georgia.

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00:02:00.000 China, China, China.
00:02:02.000 China is our greatest enemy. 0.99
00:02:03.000 They're not a rival.
00:02:04.000 They are not a competitor.
00:02:07.000 China is an enemy of the United States. 0.93
00:02:11.000 The more we talk about Ukraine, the more we talk about all these silly issues, we lose sight of the Chinese Communist Party's attempted takeover of the world. 0.97
00:02:24.000 Yesterday we mentioned the Belt and Road Initiative.
00:02:27.000 We talked about their digital dictatorship.
00:02:33.000 China right now is getting very nervous.
00:02:37.000 China is sending students home so they can't protest.
00:02:44.000 Meaning, China is getting very nervous that there is something that is bubbling up under the surface in mainland China.
00:02:50.000 China is sending university students away from their university back home so that they cannot be consolidated or collected on campuses, which kind of become places for protest and for dissent against the regime.
00:03:08.000 Every single totalitarian country, from the Russian Revolution to Mao Sedong to Pol Pot, never allows dissent.
00:03:24.000 You know you are on the side of the deceivers on the wrong side of history if you are the one marching through the streets with weapons preventing people from talking.
00:03:37.000 Joining us now is Bill Goertz to walk us through the latest report from the Pentagon involving China.
00:03:45.000 It is military and security developments involving the People's Republic of China.
00:03:49.000 What a laughable title of their country, but we'll use it.
00:03:53.000 Bill, welcome to the program.
00:03:55.000 Hi, good to be on the show.
00:03:57.000 Thank you, Bill.
00:03:58.000 Bill, walk us through this report.
00:03:59.000 I understand they do this every single year.
00:04:01.000 It is an annual report to Congress.
00:04:04.000 What are the big takeaways from the Chinese Communist Party's infiltration and aggressive posture towards the West?
00:04:13.000 Yeah, the main element of the new story is that China will have 1,500 warheads in 2035.
00:04:22.000 This is part of the nuclear expansion that has been described as breathtaking by the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command.
00:04:31.000 By contrast, in 2020, they had about 200 warheads, and they've doubled that number within one year, and they now have 400 warheads, and they're deploying large numbers of multiple warhead DF-41 ICBMs.
00:04:50.000 And this is all part of a Chinese strategy to basically take control of the world, ultimately. 0.96
00:04:57.000 First, Taiwan, and then the rest of the world. 0.89
00:05:01.000 So right now, there are protests happening all throughout mainland China.
00:05:05.000 The CCP regime seems increasingly nervous as they're recalling students back from university.
00:05:10.000 They're clamping down on speech.
00:05:12.000 They've deployed their shock troops or the Chinese Communist Party equivalent of the Gestapo.
00:05:18.000 Video after video shows them now going around with seems to be batons or wands and smacking citizens.
00:05:24.000 So nothing overly violent, obviously cruel from a Western lens, but not yet kind of Tiananmen Square type massacres that we saw previously.
00:05:35.000 How does the Chinese Communist Party's international ambitions, how is that put in jeopardy or actually maybe even going to be focused on more because of what we're currently seeing in mainland China?
00:05:49.000 Yeah, this is what we're seeing is the Chinese have adopted something that is led by Chinese dictator Xi Jinping called Zero COVID.
00:06:01.000 It was announced in 2020 after the outbreak of the COVID in Wuhan.
00:06:08.000 And it's very similar to earlier Chinese Communist Party mass campaigns like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
00:06:18.000 It is not based on science.
00:06:20.000 It's based on the Communist Party saying we're in power.
00:06:24.000 We're so strong that we're going to end this virus.
00:06:27.000 And it's been an utter failure.
00:06:29.000 And the positive thing is it's triggered calls for freedom and democracy in China and for getting rid of Chinese Communist Party rule.
00:06:42.000 Even, you know, Hitler had more popular support in Germany than Xi Jinping now has in China.
00:06:50.000 And they're very similar in terms of their styles of dictatorial rule.
00:06:57.000 But they are in big trouble.
00:06:59.000 The Chinese are cracking down. 1.00
00:07:01.000 They're using their mass surveillance system.
00:07:04.000 They're stopping people on the street and looking at their phones.
00:07:07.000 If they have Twitter or Instagram or Telegram or any of these apps, they're eliminating them and people are beginning to be arrested.
00:07:16.000 But this is an amazing and very dramatic protest.
00:07:19.000 Unfortunately, the Biden administration gave very lukewarm support to this.
00:07:24.000 Yesterday at the White House, John Kirby, the strategic communications guy, said, oh, President Biden's not going to support them.
00:07:32.000 We support protests all over the world, including China.
00:07:36.000 So they're trying to play it down.
00:07:39.000 It doesn't surprise me, in fact, I've said this for quite some time, that I believe the American left is jealous of the Chinese Communist Party, of how much power they have and how they're able to basically obliterate somebody's civil liberties. 0.99
00:07:54.000 I mean, there are members of the American left that would love to be able to walk on the street and look at people's phones and be able to basically control them and micro-engineer them via a digital dictatorship.
00:08:07.000 Surveill is the word I was looking for.
00:08:09.000 So, your book is quite fascinating.
00:08:11.000 It is Deceiving the Sky Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy. 0.81
00:08:17.000 Explain for our audience, because I mentioned it briefly yesterday, but I didn't go into great detail: what is the Belt and Road Initiative?
00:08:25.000 Yeah, this is ostensibly a developing world infrastructure program, but it's really a stalking horse for expanding Chinese communism. 0.67
00:08:38.000 Chinese communism for years had a strategy put forth by Deng Xiaoping, one of the earlier leaders, called Bide Our Time, Hide Our Capabilities.
00:08:51.000 They've dropped all pretense of that earlier cautious approach, and now they're on the march.
00:08:57.000 And the Belt and Road Initiative, they go into developing countries and they tell these countries, we'd like to build a railroad for you.
00:09:05.000 We'll even finance it for you.
00:09:07.000 And then they impose extravagant terms on the loans.
00:09:12.000 And when the countries can't repay it, they say, well, this railroad's now ours.
00:09:16.000 And they're literally taking over countries by doing that.
00:09:20.000 And the strategy is to start in the developing world and work their way and try to encircle and control all the countries around the United States.
00:09:30.000 The United States is viewed as the main enemy by the Chinese Communist Party, and they're working aggressively to undermine and ultimately destroy the country. 0.81
00:09:40.000 And they're doing it to some of the most vulnerable countries.
00:09:45.000 I mean, there's a story, I can't remember the country.
00:09:47.000 You would know the country in Africa, Central Africa, where they bought the only airport and then they just shut it down.
00:09:54.000 Remember what country this was?
00:09:55.000 It was either the Congo or South Sudan or one of these countries where they just buy up all the critical infrastructure and then they're able to get after the precious metals, which is actually what they want.
00:10:09.000 Yes.
00:10:10.000 And also, they're literally using their style of corruption.
00:10:14.000 They're literally buying off politicians in these countries with large amounts of cash.
00:10:20.000 And basically, that's how they plan to take over these countries. 0.62
00:10:24.000 And Africa and South America are two key areas where they're very aggressively promoting the Chinese view, even despite the fact that most of the world recognizes that the COVID pandemic came from China and was most likely from dangerous experiments that were taking place at a Chinese lab in Wuhan. 0.94
00:10:48.000 It's fascinating.
00:10:49.000 Bill, stay right there.
00:10:49.000 I want to mention your book again, and I think it's very important for people deceiving the sky inside Communist China's drive for global supremacy.
00:11:00.000 Again, Bill is a national security correspondent for the Washington Times, and again, author of Deceiving the Sky Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy.
00:11:10.000 Bill, do you think that China and the Chinese Communist Party, do you think they're taking on too many projects at once?
00:11:15.000 Do you think that they actually might be more likely for a tumble, a fall, or a collapse than they might actually lead us to believe?
00:11:24.000 Do you think they're overstretched?
00:11:27.000 It's a good question.
00:11:28.000 I think that they are in charge.
00:11:30.000 The Communist Party is tightly in control.
00:11:33.000 Xi Jinping, since coming to power in 2012, instituted a massive purge of anyone perceived as a threat to his rule.
00:11:44.000 And we saw this was dramatically played out in October at the major Communist Party Congress where they escorted the previous leader, Hu Jintao, from the meeting.
00:11:56.000 There's a whole kinds of theories as to why, but the thinking was that Hu Jintao, the earlier leader, was going to vote against Xi Jinping taking on an unprecedented third term in power.
00:12:09.000 He now has more power than Mao Zedong, or is on par with the power that Mao Zedong had.
00:12:16.000 And he is imposed a mass surveillance system like the world has never seen.
00:12:23.000 Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of cameras connected to databases that can identify people by facial characteristics, even the gait as they walk.
00:12:34.000 And we're seeing this now.
00:12:36.000 This is going to be a test of this surveillance system.
00:12:38.000 They're starting to arrest large numbers of protesters.
00:12:42.000 These are really brave people in China that are risking their lives to stand up for freedom.
00:12:49.000 And it's not just a simple neutral protest.
00:12:54.000 They're calling for freedom and they're calling for an end to Chinese Communist Party rule and rule by Xi Jinping.
00:13:02.000 I think it is so admirable.
00:13:03.000 I'm afraid it's going to be a little bit futile because only one side has the guns.
00:13:09.000 And if you look at what the Chinese Communist Party has said before, Mao Sedong says political power is derived from the end of a barrel of a gun.
00:13:18.000 Let's play the tape here really quick of the Shanghai police grabbing phones to search citizens.
00:13:25.000 Let's play that tape.
00:13:34.000 Okay, so what you see here is police going through their phones.
00:13:38.000 Of course, they have no Fourth Amendment, no privacy.
00:13:40.000 You see, the American left, they would love to be able to do this.
00:13:42.000 You just imagine them salivating.
00:13:45.000 And they just go through people's phones.
00:13:47.000 And they say if they have any connection to the protests, they could be arrested and they could be disappointed.
00:13:52.000 They could just disappear.
00:13:53.000 You guys could take that down.
00:13:54.000 Bill, 20 seconds.
00:13:55.000 Any closing thoughts?
00:13:57.000 Yeah, we mentioned earlier about the Biden administration's response.
00:14:00.000 It's a little-known fact, and I've reported this in the Washington Times.
00:14:04.000 The Biden administration, including the president himself, Jake Sullivan, and the Secretary of State, have said that they're not going to oppose the Chinese communist system.
00:14:14.000 This is a break from the Trump administration, which made clear that the real cause of the China threat, the threat posed by China, is Marxist-Leninist ideology in China.
00:14:26.000 And this is the fatal error of the Biden administration's foreign policy.
00:14:31.000 They've got to recognize that it's a communist threat.
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00:15:40.000 One of my favorite guests joins us right now.
00:15:43.000 He has been predicting the coming collapse of China for quite some time.
00:15:48.000 He's also the author of the great U.S.-China Tech War.
00:15:52.000 He is a China expert.
00:15:54.000 It is Gordon Chang.
00:15:55.000 Gordon, welcome to the program.
00:15:57.000 Gordon, you've been on our program a couple times, and I've heard you speak at several events, and you're always compelling and very fair and accurate.
00:16:05.000 And dare I say, clairvoyant.
00:16:08.000 Are we seeing what you predicted?
00:16:09.000 Is this the collapse of China?
00:16:12.000 I do believe that we are seeing the first stage of the collapse of China.
00:16:16.000 And the reason is that there was a fire in Uromuchi in northwestern China on Thursday.
00:16:23.000 And then immediately, Charlie, across the country, east, west, north, south, you saw these large protests.
00:16:30.000 They weren't organized.
00:16:31.000 They were not coordinated.
00:16:33.000 There were no leaders.
00:16:34.000 People just went onto the streets.
00:16:37.000 And when they were on the streets, they not only were complaining about COVID lockdowns, they were complaining about the Communist Party and Xi Jinping specifically saying down with the Communist Party, down with Xi Jinping.
00:16:49.000 That's revolutionary sentiment.
00:16:51.000 Now, the Communist Party can squelch protests.
00:16:55.000 They're very good at that.
00:16:56.000 But because of the way the people feel, and this is deep-seated and widespread, we are going to see these protests again when there's another incident.
00:17:05.000 And because China's not really relenting on COVID, I think we're going to see one fairly soon.
00:17:11.000 Eventually, the Chinese people are going to win over the party.
00:17:16.000 So I think a very fair analysis of China is that in some ways they're extremely strong.
00:17:25.000 In other ways, they are remarkably fragile.
00:17:29.000 A country or a regime that does not embrace liberty will always be overly paranoid and frenetic in how they govern because when you don't have a central governing principle of liberty, the people are always your greatest threat.
00:17:52.000 For Americans that don't understand Chinese geography, can you explain the scope of these protests about how they're not just in one region, but they are nationwide?
00:18:04.000 And what is your estimate of how many people are approximately participating in them?
00:18:10.000 I would think that there's probably somewhere on the order between 10 and 25,000 people who participated in the protests.
00:18:18.000 There's never going to be a really good number because they were so scattered.
00:18:22.000 They were so, they rose so quickly.
00:18:24.000 And just foreigners have basically they've chirped out a lot of journalists. 0.84
00:18:31.000 And so we have a less and less of an idea what goes on.
00:18:35.000 What we do see are what the Chinese themselves are posting on WeChat and other social media sites.
00:18:42.000 And there have been on the social media sites, they've just taken over, which means that this sentiment is widespread.
00:18:51.000 And so, you know, there's got to be tens of thousands of people who went on the streets Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
00:18:59.000 So, you know, we're looking at this unfold.
00:19:04.000 How do you see this particular chapter end?
00:19:07.000 And some people say that Xi Jinping is less popular than ever before.
00:19:11.000 Do you believe that?
00:19:14.000 I do believe that.
00:19:16.000 Xi Jinping was able to consolidate his control over the top of the Communist Party last month.
00:19:21.000 That was the party's 20th National Congress.
00:19:24.000 But even then, it was clear that the party was starting to lose control of society.
00:19:30.000 And we saw that, Charlie, with the extraordinary protests at the Apple iPhone plant.
00:19:36.000 It's run by Foxconn, which is a Taiwanese contractor.
00:19:41.000 But this is where more than half the world's iPhones are made.
00:19:44.000 And that last month, workers were screaming out of that place, scrambling over fences, running through fields to escape.
00:19:53.000 And that was a sign that there were real problems in society.
00:19:57.000 And that led to the situation on Thursday.
00:20:01.000 So this isn't continuing.
00:20:03.000 We know that there is this widespread discontent, resentment, and anger.
00:20:08.000 We don't know, and I've been wrong on timing about this, but we do know that eventually the Chinese people are just going to gather in such mass, the party will fade away.
00:20:21.000 And you're absolutely right.
00:20:23.000 From the party's point of view, their biggest threat are the people of China.
00:20:29.000 And because of the way they define that, they then look at the United States as an existential threat because they are worried about the inspirational impact of our values and form of governance on the Chinese people.
00:20:41.000 So the Communist Party makes an enemy of the United States, the strongest country in the world.
00:20:45.000 That shows you what you were absolutely saying, that once you have a regime that is not founded on liberty, it will fail.
00:20:55.000 And you also have leaders that are willing to do whatever it takes.
00:20:59.000 They don't value human life.
00:21:00.000 That is not a CCP value, a value of the mouse-tongue worldview.
00:21:08.000 They don't value human life.
00:21:09.000 They don't believe that they are image bearers or that human beings are worthy of protection.
00:21:14.000 They don't believe in individual rights.
00:21:16.000 It's all about the party.
00:21:17.000 It's about the state.
00:21:18.000 It's about the leviathan.
00:21:20.000 It feels like the Iran model in some ways where they quell uprisings every couple of years.
00:21:27.000 And so, Gordon, they have now basically sent all students away from universities back home to try and calm down the clusters of people together that might be able to then result in protests.
00:21:43.000 There's also a wrinkle of this that I want to explore with you.
00:21:46.000 Can you elaborate or explain to our audience how some people would, I would definitely say this, how superstition plays a role in the behavior and the decisions of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:22:02.000 For example, fearing as if you're going to lose the mandate of heaven.
00:22:07.000 Can you talk about that and how does that play into this zero COVID policy attempted by Xi Jiping?
00:22:15.000 Well, the Communist Party, they're materialists and they don't believe themselves in superstition, or at least the senior leaders don't.
00:22:24.000 But, you know, the Chinese people are the Chinese people, and they definitely believe it.
00:22:28.000 And so, for instance, the blood-red sky that appeared over China just a day or so ago is taken by people as a sign that the party has lost the mandate of heaven.
00:22:40.000 And the Chinese people, and even many Communist Party members are superstitious.
00:22:47.000 That is something that the party worries about.
00:22:50.000 And so they try to downplay these rumors all the time.
00:22:55.000 But clearly, you have people who look at signs in society and believe that the party is basically on its last legs.
00:23:04.000 But the kind of folklore amongst the commoner in China, they definitely believe in some of the superstition.
00:23:04.000 Right.
00:23:11.000 And that that is something.
00:23:12.000 Yeah, and so therefore, Xi Jipeng has to take that seriously.
00:23:16.000 Is that fair to say?
00:23:18.000 Oh, absolutely.
00:23:20.000 Because he knows the people that he rules, and he understands that that's deeply embedded in Chinese society.
00:23:27.000 And that seven decades of Communist Party propaganda has not eliminated that from the Chinese psyche.
00:23:34.000 That's so fascinating.
00:23:36.000 And so you kind of have unfolding in China, the buried lead, if you will, the subterranean story, is an atheistic, materialistic regime that is governing a multi-thousand year people that still have cultural traditions and basically a common story of believing in, okay, blood, red sky, mandate of heaven, plague.
00:24:06.000 That's a contradiction, isn't it, Gordon?
00:24:08.000 And that also is, in some ways, a recipe for inevitable failure.
00:24:13.000 Yes, and there's another aspect to this, and that is that the fastest growing phenomenon in China today is not communism, but is Protestant Christianity.
00:24:26.000 And one of the reasons why the Communist Party has such trouble dealing with it, and there are many reasons, but one of them is that atheists don't understand religion, and they don't understand the power of religion.
00:24:38.000 And so that's why they've not been able to control it.
00:24:42.000 And that's why there could very well be, you know, no one knows the number of Protestants in China, but you'll hear estimates anywhere from 15 to 130 million.
00:24:54.000 That also suggests one other thing.
00:24:56.000 Because they've banned, for the most part, Christianity, it's gone underground.
00:25:02.000 Because it's gone underground, the Communist Party doesn't know about it.
00:25:06.000 They can't control it.
00:25:08.000 And so you put those two things together.
00:25:10.000 The failure to understand religion and driving religion underground has made Protestant Christianity a mortal threat to the Communist Party. 0.84
00:25:20.000 And the story of Christianity under siege or kind of Christian martyrdom is it actually creates an anti-fragile religious community that actually grows a lot stronger and more fervent and more committed.
00:25:39.000 In a paradoxical way, Christianity, when it is actually institutionalized in a quote-unquote theocracy, it actually grows very corrupt and people actually stray away from the faith sometimes, not always.
00:25:55.000 When Christianity is allowed, like in America, still, I mean, you see the numbers dive off. 0.99
00:26:01.000 But interestingly, when Christianity is under the threat of persecution, it actually can be more robust.
00:26:09.000 Not that we would want that, and it's still a very small percentage of what exists in China, but this underground church is a direct threat to the CCP.
00:26:19.000 So let me, final question here, Gordon.
00:26:21.000 Do you anticipate a Chinese Communist Party move against Taiwan to distract from some of the bedlam happening domestically?
00:26:31.000 Yes.
00:26:33.000 But before I answer that, just one other thing about it.
00:26:36.000 The Communist Party is deadly afraid of Christianity because Christians have the fervor that the Communists had in the 1930s and the 1940s.
00:26:45.000 1949 is when communists took over China.
00:26:49.000 So they see that in the Christians, there's this fervor that they can't stop. 0.94
00:26:54.000 And because no one has that fervor in the Communist Party anymore except for Xi Jinping.
00:26:59.000 You know, on your question, yes, because Xi Jinping right now, he has all these domestic failures of which he is the author of.
00:27:07.000 He has no way he can solve them.
00:27:10.000 The only thing that he can do to unite the Chinese people is to go to war. 0.92
00:27:14.000 And I actually don't think it's going to work.
00:27:16.000 And it doesn't matter what I think.
00:27:18.000 I think that Xi Jinping thinks it's going to work.
00:27:20.000 And so we need to have a sense of urgency of what China will do in Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, India, somewhere.
00:27:28.000 We've got to be really concerned that he can take us by surprise.
00:27:32.000 That's really well said.
00:27:33.000 I want everyone to check out Gordon's book, The Coming Collapse of China, but also the great U.S.-China tech war.
00:27:40.000 There's something very powerful happening in China right now.
00:27:44.000 And you might be witnessing the first stage, the coming attractions, the preview, the canary in the coal mine of the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:27:55.000 I really believe that if we had a better leader in the White House, we could just tip the scale and get rid of these evil tyrants that run the CCP.
00:28:03.000 Gordon, thank you so much.
00:28:05.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:28:06.000 I really appreciate it.
00:28:07.000 Terrific commentary.
00:28:11.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.
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00:29:15.000 Getting a lot of questions here, freedom at charliekirk.com, about what do we do next, Charlie?
00:29:19.000 What do we do next?
00:29:21.000 Well, I want to talk just for a second here about the Georgia runoff.
00:29:26.000 I don't think it's getting enough attention, nearly enough attention.
00:29:31.000 Now, the Georgia runoff is coming up in, boy, a week from today.
00:29:35.000 Is that right?
00:29:36.000 Boy, they really moved that up.
00:29:38.000 Jeez.
00:29:39.000 It used to be in early January.
00:29:40.000 It's a week from today.
00:29:42.000 It is an opportunity to get a win.
00:29:44.000 It's an opportunity to defeat an incumbent Democrat senator.
00:29:49.000 And currently, we are hearing that Democrats are enthused and they're going to show up in big numbers.
00:29:54.000 And Republicans are, we don't know what Republicans are going to do.
00:29:58.000 I encourage you, if you're in Georgia, to vote in person and early or vote on Election Day.
00:30:03.000 But if you vote on Election Day, just be ready for lines or for trouble.
00:30:05.000 Do we have the clip of those pastors that I sent earlier that I can play?
00:30:09.000 If not, I'll just read it out.
00:30:12.000 So there was a 35-minute interlude at a black church in Atlanta.
00:30:19.000 Now, hilariously, for the last couple of months, we have been told, as Christians, can't get involved in politics, don't get involved in politics.
00:30:28.000 What they're trying to say is don't get involved in conservative politics.
00:30:30.000 But in black churches, when they come out and they start talking about voting for Raphael Warnock, everyone's just fine with it. 0.99
00:30:42.000 So, for example, we have Murphy, this guy, Murphy, a pastor, says, quote, God would have us mix worship and justice and politics.
00:30:53.000 I'm decreeing and declaring that folk who had no intention on voting for Raphael Warnock, the Spirit of God, is going to arrest them.
00:31:03.000 He continues.
00:31:05.000 A couple dozen pastors from around the country take the stage, including Bishop Jamie Dixon, the president of NAACP Houston, revs up the crowd.
00:31:15.000 Quote, God's about to cause a shift in this nation, in this world, through the election of Raphael Warnock.
00:31:21.000 We're going to praise him into the Senate.
00:31:26.000 They continue, it's time to put the kingdom over government.
00:31:30.000 What God is doing by sending this man of God into the Senate, he's putting man there with a kingdom identity, a kingdom mentality, a kingdom authority to establish a kingdom territory.
00:31:44.000 Continues, Warnock ties his stump speech.
00:31:48.000 A vote is a kind of prayer, he says, to two verses about actual prayer, James 5, 16 and 2 Chronicles 7, 14, to encourage turnout.
00:32:00.000 Pray Monday, pray Tuesday, pray Wednesday, pray Thursday, pray Friday, and pray again next Tuesday.
00:32:04.000 So let me answer me this, Reverend Warnock.
00:32:08.000 Why is it that as a Reverend, you're voting to redefine biblical marriage?
00:32:13.000 Why is it that you're okay with let alone any abortion, but late-term abortion?
00:32:18.000 Why is it, Reverend Warnock, that you invoke the word of God while you talk about some of the most heinous and cruel policies towards churches and Christians imaginable?
00:32:31.000 Not to mention the fact that the church was deemed non-essential during the entire pandemic.
00:32:35.000 Where were you, Raphael Warnock, for all of that?
00:32:37.000 No, no, no.
00:32:38.000 These black pastors are congregating around, creating multiple, repeated, and public heresies saying that we got to go vote for Raphael Warnock. 0.99
00:32:50.000 Why? 0.75
00:32:51.000 Because he's going to go bring a kingdom mentality to go bring post-birth abortion to the U.S. Senate. 0.81
00:32:58.000 To go bring the transgender agenda. 0.98
00:33:00.000 That's really what black pastors are uniting behind in Atlanta, Georgia.
00:33:05.000 Now, of course, if conservative pastors were doing this, they'd be investigated by the IRS for losing their tax-exempt status. 0.97
00:33:11.000 But black pastors, they just get away with it. 1.00
00:33:13.000 They're never going to be investigated. 0.99
00:33:14.000 They're never going to be looked into.
00:33:15.000 They could do whatever they want.
00:33:16.000 That's the new regime we live into.
00:33:18.000 But you know what?
00:33:19.000 Deeper than the very blatant IRS violation that conservatives have to live under, but the left can do whatever they want, Raphael Warnock has been and is a heretic, repeatedly putting his name and his reputation behind the transgender agenda, the radical abortion agenda, the open borders agenda.
00:33:44.000 Warnock does exactly what we are commanded the opposite to do in the Ten Commandments.
00:33:52.000 Do not take the Lord's name in vain.
00:33:54.000 But it's not actually says, do not carry the Lord's name, meaning do not do evil in the name of the Lord.
00:34:00.000 And I'm sorry to say Raphael Warnock does just that.
00:34:03.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:04.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:08.000 Thank you so much for listening.
00:34:09.000 God bless.
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