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00:02:30.000Hey, everybody, welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show with me as a friend, patriot, veteran, someone who really loves his country, and we've worked together on a variety of different things.
00:03:39.000And what I mean by that is our, well, hopefully mine one day, but our elected officials' place is to represent and be a conduit to the voice of the people that they represent.
00:03:50.000District 7, Donald Trump won by 20 points in 2016 and in 2020.
00:03:57.000So, Tom Rice, what he did is what happens to a lot of people, whether they may have good intentions or not, they go to DC and they become politicians.
00:04:08.000This is why I believe that no one should be in Congress or DC for forever, because there comes a point where you are no longer a average citizen and you think you know what's best for the people you represent, which is the exact opposite of the mindset you should have.
00:04:25.000Tom Rice says that he voted the way he believed that he should vote.
00:04:30.000That is the direct opposite of what you're supposed to do as a representative of a district.
00:05:27.000And so yeah, there's 13 of us as of right now.
00:05:32.000And so, yes, we are very hopeful that our message, which is to give the power back to the people, is very, it really is quite simple, really.
00:05:45.000Our goal is to give the power back to the people where it belongs.
00:05:48.000I believe that the Lord has blessed me with a platform that allows me an ability to do things that a lot of people can't do.
00:05:57.000I have the ability to open up my phone and talk to all 750,000 people within my district about what's going on.
00:06:09.000How do you want your voice to be heard?
00:06:12.000I want to be the most transparent congressman in history.
00:06:17.000You know, we could all take notes from President Trump, how he did it, his transparency in the media, how readily available he was for praise and criticism.
00:06:29.000So I'm hopeful that that message will resonate and we will outfundraise and hopefully a lot of these people will start dropping out because everybody knows if 13 people go into primary, the odds are that the incumbent's going to.
00:06:44.000Now, is it a runoff or is it straight up?
00:06:49.000So, I mean, I'm sure that there could be a runoff potentially, but right now there's 13 people declared.
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00:08:30.000So Tom Rice is a collection of many Republicans that are kind of these corporate Republicans, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Peter Meyer, you know, people that are quite honestly very worthless as politicians.
00:08:41.000And they might be nice people, but they should go be lobbyists or something.
00:08:44.000One of the issues you and I care about the most is regulating and breaking up big tech.
00:08:50.000And I use those words intentionally, regulation and breaking up.
00:08:53.000No more of this kind of innocent vanilla language.
00:08:58.000These tech companies have decided our viewpoints don't matter, that our voices have no value.
00:09:04.000You and I both have, I mean, you have more followers than I do on Facebook.
00:09:07.000And between both of us, we have millions and millions of followers on Twitter and Facebook and YouTube.
00:09:12.000And we've both made a following and money from these tech companies.
00:09:17.000But you and I both know that they have shut off and they can shut off the spigot at any time.
00:09:22.000And that is just the beginning of the terror that they are able to exercise over us.
00:09:27.000Tell us about what you will do in Congress when you do defeat Tom Rice and then you do in the general to break up these tech companies.
00:09:35.000Well, first of all, Charlie, I think you put it very well, is this part of the issue that we see with elected officials right now is that we, I keep saying we, I'm not an elected official, but our elected officials don't do a good enough job of educating the everyday American of what's really going on and what the actual dangers are.
00:09:58.000You know, what's actually dangerous about HR1, what's actually dangerous about the Brand New Deal, what's actually dangerous about big tech and Section 230.
00:10:07.000The actual danger is we are literally maybe a few months away from Chinese Communist Propagandist Party, which is on social media, controlling what we see, what we hear, what we're allowed to say, what we're allowed to share, what we're allowed to read, what we're allowed to listen to.
00:10:28.000Back when the election was still going on, the New York Post bombshell that was the Hunter Biden laptop, et cetera, suppressing that because they couldn't verify it immediately was the equivalency of burning books back in 1930.
00:10:58.000Obviously, we have made a living learning behind the veil of social media.
00:11:05.000The generations that are my generation in their mid-30s, and especially the generation above me, they have no idea how big of a threat big tech poses to their children, to their children's children, and to their children's children.
00:11:20.000If we don't fight to break up big tech right now, and what I mean by breaking them up from regulating, like you said, removing this Section 230 loophole, because it was created in the late 90s, before you had social media accounts and things like this, readily available information to the everyday American.
00:11:41.000If we don't stop it now, and if we don't fight it now, and I hold a lot of Republicans accountable when we had the House and the Senate back in 2016, because we didn't do anything about it then.
00:12:02.000We need people that are not only have a voice that, as you said earlier, can be taken away at any time because social media has more power than the president of the United States.
00:12:16.000We need people that are not afraid to go up against big tech because people like us have been going up against big tech for the past four or five years.
00:12:25.000We're used to big tech being upset with us.
00:12:28.000We're used to big tech being mad at us.
00:12:30.000Here's the thing: I listened to one of your episodes and I completely agreed with it.
00:12:35.000Why did Facebook and Instagram not reinstate Donald Trump?
00:12:39.000Because they know that they're betting that even if the Republicans get the majority again, they're not going to do anything about it.
00:12:48.000They're more afraid of the Democrats of the left because you can say what you want to about them, but right now they are on attack and they are on attack mode and they are going to take down every single person that stands in their way.
00:13:27.000We need to not only take back the House in the Senate, Charlie.
00:13:30.000We need to be working with current congressmen and congresswomen and senators that are in there that are good ones.
00:13:37.000And we need to be coming up with legislation that on day one, when we take back majority, we have 10, 15, 20 pieces of legislation to go to the floor day one.
00:13:48.000None of this, well, it take, I've heard it all.
00:13:50.000In six days, I've heard so many elitist establishment out of touch excuses for things.
00:13:58.000Well, it takes a congressman a year to two years to figure out what's going on.
00:14:03.000And then year two, they finally get their feet underneath them.
00:14:08.000No, we need to be working with the people that are there right now that we intend on joining the ranks.
00:14:14.000And we need to work together and break up big tech because if we don't do it, if we do not put Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, I don't know who the YouTube person is, and Google.
00:14:26.000Google is the worst out of all of them.
00:15:20.000If they want to be an enemy to the American people, to the American way of life, our First Amendment rights, then we need to start treating them that way and we need to act accordingly.
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00:16:58.000So there seems to be a lot of frustration people have towards Washington.
00:17:03.000And I guess, can you talk about how you're going to be willing to use your position as a congressman as a communication arm to explain what's happening?
00:17:13.000You know, legislatively, things die and you're going to have a Democrat president for the next couple of years, right?
00:17:18.000So what else can you do outside of just bills that you think you can make the conservative movement not just progressively conservative, which is a bunch of nonsense, but actually defending things that matter?
00:17:32.000The thing that I think President Trump did, that in my opinion, is the greatest thing he did.
00:17:37.000He did a lot of amazing things as president.
00:17:40.000But the thing that he doesn't get enough credit for is what I think is the most powerful thing that he actually did.
00:17:46.000Donald Trump removed the veil that was the American people to politics.
00:17:51.000Before President Trump got into office, most people couldn't tell you five things that were the top five things that were being talked about in the world, in the country, in politics.
00:18:02.000They didn't even really know who was running for president until the primaries were over, et cetera.
00:18:09.000One thing that I am very proud of the American people right now is that they are fighting back against the Biden administration because they are asking the question: where are you?
00:18:42.000We need people that can actually educate the American people as to why they didn't pass.
00:18:49.000Let me explain to you about this bill.
00:18:51.000Let me explain to you why HR1 is dangerous.
00:18:54.000Let me explain why the Democrats seem to want to be anti-Israel all of a sudden.
00:18:59.000Let me explain to you why this is a big deal.
00:19:02.000Let me explain to you where our standpoints are, where this affects us on a national level, where it affects you on a state level, where it affects you in a district in that state level.
00:19:11.000And this is why it's not passing because these individuals, these people do not want it to pass because they do not care about you.
00:19:18.000What that does, Charlie, is if we become more transparent with people that have the ability to reach more people, President Trump can't be the only voice for the Republican Party.
00:19:33.000He could be the leader of the Republican Party.
00:19:35.000He could be the president, but he can't be the only person that is able to speak.
00:19:40.000We need to surround the Republican Party or the GOP or conservatives with an army of fighters around them to educate the American people.
00:19:50.000Because if you're able to get the word out, then you do affect voters the next voting cycle and you do affect opinions that hopefully can affect change as we move on and as we go forward.
00:20:03.000Because right now, Republicans have the minority vote, which if we're being completely honest, your vote really doesn't mean a whole lot if it is always going to pass because the Democrats want it to pass.
00:20:17.000We should have people that have voices and the ability to stand up and educate the American people.
00:20:22.000This is why $15 an hour is going to tank the economy.
00:20:25.000This is why adding another $4 trillion in debt is going to cause inflation and your children's children's children are going to be feeling the effects of this.
00:20:33.000That's how we affect voters in the future.
00:20:35.000That's how we affect voters in the long run because they're so used to being fed propaganda from the fake news media.
00:20:43.000They need people that can literally sit there on their phone and say, I just came from the chamber.
00:21:11.000So in closing here, Graham, talk about some of the other issues you really are passionate about, life, Second Amendment, veterans issues, and talk a little bit about yourself.
00:21:20.000You might be new to some of our audience.
00:21:22.000Well, I did 12 years in the Army, so I'm very pro-military.
00:21:28.000I am very concerned, like a lot of people, with a lot of advertisements that we're seeing here lately.
00:21:35.000It seems like the U.S. military is trying to lean towards this wokeism that's very scary.
00:21:41.000I just want to remind everyone that the sole purpose of the military of the United States is to destroy the enemies of the United States, both foreign and domestic.
00:21:58.000We need police with more money, not less, more training and more equipment and more assets at their disposable to be able to do their jobs.
00:22:09.000Oh my gosh, we can go all day about this.
00:22:12.000It is more than just votes that are bought and paid for that become blue votes.
00:22:18.000We have an opioid and a child sex trafficking epidemic within or pandemic epidemic, whatever you want to call it within our country right now that we're not able to fight against properly because we have our border patrol agents having to babysit all of these people that are coming in at the border.
00:22:37.000We have to know what their reasonings are for being here.
00:22:41.000It is the most military basic thing ever.
00:22:43.000When you are setting up a territory in times of war, you fortify your position because if you can't protect your home base, you're not going to be able to do anything.
00:23:33.000I was literally in Iraq in the war and had to do an absentee ballot.
00:23:39.000That would be a reason why somebody perhaps could not be able to be there to vote.
00:23:43.000But on the flip side, we also have to be able to look at Americans and say, if you can't get off your butt to go to the poll to go vote, you're not exercising your right to really vote, are you?
00:23:55.000We need to remind, we need to entrust, and we need to show the American people that their vote matters.
00:24:02.000Because if the American people don't think that their vote matters, well, we saw some of that in Georgia just here in the Senate runoff.
00:24:19.000Well, Charlie, thank you for letting me come on.
00:24:21.000If you believe what we believe, that the power should be with the people, that you, the American people, are the boss, you can check out the campaign at grahamallensc.com.
00:24:33.000Any donations are welcome to our fight to bring the power back to the American people where it actually belongs.