The Charlie Kirk Show - February 06, 2023


The CCP Balloon Pop Heard 'Round the World with Kari Lake


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A military surveillance balloon carrying a Chinese spy satellite has been shot down over the United States. What does it mean for our country? Why did our leaders allow this to happen? And why did they allow it to be shot down?

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, 10 to Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:01.000 Balloon Across America.
00:00:03.000 What does it mean for our country?
00:00:06.000 Why didn't our leaders do anything about it?
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00:01:26.000 When we concluded our broadcast on Friday afternoon, the balloon was still hovering over our country.
00:01:33.000 The balloon was making its way across Nebraska, Missouri, Kentucky.
00:01:39.000 And now we know that it wasn't just a coincidence of where the balloon was going.
00:01:43.000 This is not a weather balloon.
00:01:45.000 The CCP is lying, obviously. 0.96
00:01:47.000 They are secular, godless, Nazi-like regime. 0.77
00:01:51.000 No, no, no, they were taking pictures of our military installations.
00:01:54.000 Why did our government allow them to do that?
00:01:56.000 So the balloon was eventually shot down over water after the balloon was able to take pictures of the Maelstrom Air Force Base, home of the 341st Military Wing, Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota.
00:02:11.000 It's right outside Rapid City.
00:02:14.000 Joe Foss Field ANG in South Dakota.
00:02:18.000 Sioux City ANG in Iowa.
00:02:20.000 It's a National Guard base.
00:02:22.000 Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Command.
00:02:27.000 Camp Ashland, Ashland in Nebraska.
00:02:30.000 Lincoln ANG in Nebraska.
00:02:32.000 Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.
00:02:34.000 This is what the balloon was able to take pictures of.
00:02:37.000 Our government just let it happen.
00:02:38.000 They were just allowing the Chinese Communist Party to continue surveillance operations.
00:02:44.000 Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, home of the Air Mobility Command.
00:02:49.000 Fort Campbell in Tennessee, home of the Screaming Eagles, the 101st Airborne, Nashville ANG, Air National Guard in Tennessee.
00:02:58.000 The Houston Barracks in Tennessee.
00:03:01.000 The McGee Tyson Air National Guard.
00:03:04.000 The Pope Air Force Base.
00:03:06.000 The North Carolina Air Mobility Command.
00:03:10.000 And then one of the largest military installations in the world, Fort Bragg, MCAS, New River, North Carolina, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, military training facility.
00:03:21.000 And then finally, the U.S. Coast Guard Station in Fort Macon.
00:03:25.000 Now, of course, the balloon just happened to cross over all of those.
00:03:28.000 It was just the pattern of the wind to just make a perfect trajectory.
00:03:33.000 And our government allowed it.
00:03:34.000 They were looking at it in the sky and pondering it while this military surveillance tool was able to take high-definition real-time footage of all of our military bases.
00:03:46.000 The balloon has now been shot down.
00:03:49.000 The debris is well over seven miles in the water if we're able to recover any of it.
00:03:54.000 Why did we not shoot it down while it was over our own mainland?
00:03:58.000 Well, Joe Biden is a foreign agent bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party, but our entire military seems to be that way. 0.92
00:04:05.000 Let's play some tape here of the latest with the balloon over America.
00:04:12.000 Pete Buttigieg was asked about it.
00:04:13.000 CNN does actually a pretty good job of leading into it.
00:04:17.000 Play cut five.
00:04:18.000 The military gauged the different risks and the different benefits of different approaches, made the decisions that they did, brought this thing down without incident.
00:04:27.000 Right, but the presumption has got to be that the Chinese were able to gather intelligence hovering over the United States for day after day, especially over some of these sensitive sites.
00:04:35.000 I'm sure there's a similar presumption about what spy satellites do.
00:04:38.000 That is well outside of my lane.
00:04:40.000 I'm just glad that nobody was hurt as this thing came down.
00:04:43.000 I'm just glad nobody was hurt.
00:04:45.000 First of all, Pete Buttigedge is a joke.
00:04:47.000 He's an automaton.
00:04:48.000 I really believe that Pete Buttigieg is our first artificially intelligent cabinet member.
00:04:53.000 I just think that he is chat GBT into a human being.
00:04:57.000 It's just everything he says, AI might as well say.
00:05:02.000 Our entire national security was damaged in real time.
00:05:04.000 Why did our government put up with this?
00:05:07.000 I don't know about you, but I'm very angry about this entire episode.
00:05:11.000 And nobody is taking this seriously, it seems.
00:05:13.000 Even Republicans, I don't think, are taking this nearly as seriously as they need to.
00:05:19.000 Just kind of allowing our greatest enemy to float a balloon and take pictures of our military bases.
00:05:25.000 Why are we putting up with this?
00:05:26.000 And the answer is because our government has been bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party for quite some time.
00:05:32.000 And this was a slow-motion insult, a slow-motion reminder as to who actually is in charge of our government.
00:05:42.000 But when I say the Chinese Communist Party is our greatest enemy, they don't believe that.
00:05:49.000 The American government does not look at Xi Jinping or the CCP as an enemy.
00:05:53.000 Mark Milley cut seven saying that China is not our enemy.
00:05:57.000 Play cut seven.
00:05:59.000 China's not an enemy.
00:06:01.000 And I think that's important for people to clearly understand.
00:06:04.000 China is a rising power.
00:06:07.000 And they've been clicking off at 10% growth for almost 30 years.
00:06:11.000 Where you have economic growth of that magnitude typically follows military power.
00:06:17.000 And they are going to develop themselves and are developing themselves into a great power.
00:06:24.000 That is not to say, however, that they are an enemy.
00:06:26.000 Yeah, they're not an enemy.
00:06:28.000 They only dump fentanyl into our country.
00:06:30.000 That kills 100, I'm sorry, 30,000 people, over 100,000 drug overdoses a year.
00:06:34.000 Not all of them are fentanyl-related.
00:06:36.000 TikTok on our phones so our teenagers can hate themselves, kill themselves, and become trans. 1.00
00:06:41.000 Hacking our cyber grid, taking over our universities, spying on us from the sky in our phones.
00:06:48.000 And Mark Milley says, well, look, they're not an enemy.
00:06:51.000 Well, and this is why.
00:06:52.000 So the American elite has this wish.
00:06:56.000 They're very weak, obviously, but they're also very woke.
00:07:00.000 And their wish, because they worship money and they don't actually have any sort of patriotic allegiance to America, because they resonate with the 1619 project that we're actually a systemically racist country, is they have a desire for American-Chinese relations to go the same way that American-Japanese relations went in the early 1990s.
00:07:21.000 I was recently listening to a series of lectures this last weekend about a completely unrelated topic, actually about Genesis, taught by the great Dennis Prager.
00:07:30.000 He was doing these lectures in 1992, 1993, and all about Genesis going into the original biblical Hebrew.
00:07:36.000 But it was very interesting because as he was talking about a verse, he does some extemporaneous tangents.
00:07:42.000 He was talking about, I know all of you in the audience are very worried about the rising Japanese power. 0.97
00:07:50.000 It's interesting.
00:07:51.000 As he said, it was like a fact in 1992, 93.
00:07:54.000 He went on for 10 or 15 minutes talking about how the Japanese were buying Rockefeller Plaza, how they were the manufacturing juggernaut, how they were scaling up.
00:08:05.000 And for about 10 minutes of this 30-year-old lecture now, he was talking to the audience and you could hear them agreeing that Japan was this massive threat. 0.91
00:08:19.000 And by the way, that anxiety towards the Japanese superpower in the late 80s and early 90s was totally warranted. 1.00
00:08:26.000 They bought Pebble Beach.
00:08:27.000 They were this rising power.
00:08:30.000 And over a couple of years, Japan then, I think, made some serious monetary and fiscal mistakes.
00:08:37.000 And now we consider Japan a very close ally.
00:08:41.000 The American elites are so naive and they are so money worshiping.
00:08:45.000 What they're telling themselves is, look, the CCP might seem scary, but we want to go the same direction the last 30 years that we want Japan, where we're just going to be partners.
00:08:54.000 They are categorically different nations, cultures, with different ambitions.
00:09:01.000 The Chinese Communist Party, first of all, is allowed to have a military.
00:09:05.000 Japan was basically not allowed to have a military because of our presence in Okinawa and the agreements put in place post-World War II.
00:09:13.000 Secondly, the CCP is not acting like a competitor.
00:09:16.000 They're acting like an adversary.
00:09:18.000 They're acting like an enemy.
00:09:20.000 But the American elites tell themselves, look, we've been through this before the same way the Japanese. 0.81
00:09:25.000 They looked like this big power in the early 1990s.
00:09:28.000 The Chinese are going to kind of look that way. 1.00
00:09:30.000 We're going to have a merging of cultures.
00:09:33.000 The American hedge fund elite, the athletic elite, they believe that we are going to have this combo of American CCP come together and will live in complete harmony.
00:09:46.000 But it might be a little messy.
00:09:48.000 Who cares if they fly balloons?
00:09:49.000 This is what they tell themselves and they justify their actions.
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00:10:57.000 Are we ready for war?
00:10:59.000 I don't feel as if our military is ready for what we might be stumbling towards.
00:11:06.000 First of all, we have this disaster in Ukraine that despite my best attempts, I can't get somebody on this program, a lawmaker, to tell me what the heck success looks like in Ukraine.
00:11:20.000 In fact, I've been telling Andrew and the whole team, can you get me a lawmaker that will come on our program and talk about Ukraine?
00:11:28.000 Come on the show.
00:11:29.000 Tell me why we've spent $100 billion so far in Ukraine.
00:11:33.000 Some people say it's less than that, but it certainly seems like it's at least $100 billion.
00:11:37.000 Is it $130 billion now?
00:11:38.000 Is that right?
00:11:40.000 See, we don't even know the number.
00:11:42.000 Like Drew Kerry and whose line is it anyway?
00:11:45.000 Welcome to sending money to Ukraine where the money is made up and the outcome doesn't matter. 1.00
00:11:51.000 Just y'all make it just $130, $100 billion.
00:11:54.000 Let's just say it's over $100 billion, which is two GDPs of North Dakota.
00:12:00.000 And for what reason?
00:12:01.000 To stop Putin, right?
00:12:04.000 And then we have the CCP that is floating balloons over our homeland, taking pictures of our military installations.
00:12:11.000 We have aging defense equipment.
00:12:13.000 And it seems as if our military are acting as if they have a funding problem.
00:12:20.000 We spend $1 trillion a year on our military.
00:12:26.000 And what do we have to show for it?
00:12:27.000 A clumsy blunder, blunderous withdrawal from Afghanistan?
00:12:32.000 The inability to be able to shoot down balloons out of the sky.
00:12:35.000 Now, that's not totally fair.
00:12:36.000 We did have the ability.
00:12:37.000 So let me be very precise in my language, the willingness.
00:12:41.000 I have no doubt that there are some patriots in our military that have the ability to shoot it down.
00:12:49.000 Let me get this one of Joe Scarborough, who's become an angry person.
00:12:52.000 Joe Scarborough is just screaming into the camera about how the GOP and Republicans keep on talking negatively about the United States military.
00:13:05.000 And I think it's an open question.
00:13:06.000 Do you have confidence currently in the United States military leadership, our capabilities, and our willingness?
00:13:12.000 You see, the United States military largely mirrors and parallels the values of the American elite.
00:13:23.000 This is one of the reasons why, starting in 2013 and 14, I repeatedly tried to warn people about the consequences of these insane ideas happening on college campuses.
00:13:37.000 The idea that men can become pregnant, this trans nonsense, the idea of racially based quotas, what we call the woke, I was always told by conservatives that it would just be kind of quarantined on college campuses.
00:13:54.000 You don't have to worry about it, Charlie.
00:13:56.000 It's going to stay on college campuses.
00:13:58.000 And then the shorthand answer I would always give is what happens on college campuses does not stay on college campuses.
00:14:04.000 So now as the elite have become more anti-white, more pro-trans, less interested in American sovereignty, the military mirrors that.
00:14:18.000 So the military becomes a DEI operation, no different than the HR department at Coca-Cola.
00:14:28.000 So now Milley goes before Congress and he says he reads about white rage.
00:14:33.000 So that goes from Oberlin College or Williams College or Wellesley or Harvard or Yale to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 10 years.
00:14:44.000 Here's Joe Scarborough getting really fired up.
00:14:49.000 Play cut 17.
00:14:50.000 It's uniquely American.
00:14:52.000 It's why the Ukrainians have shocked the world. 1.00
00:14:54.000 It's why there's 200,000 Russian casualties because of Ukrainian courage, Ukrainian persistence.
00:15:02.000 But yes, American weapons, American know-how, and American training.
00:15:08.000 Listen, our troops are the best in the world.
00:15:11.000 They're the best they've ever been.
00:15:13.000 And I'm sick and tired of Republicans trashing the United States of America.
00:15:18.000 And I'm sick and tired of them trashing our men and women in uniform, suggesting we're in decline.
00:15:26.000 Do you think that we are a nation in decline?
00:15:29.000 I tragically believe we are.
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00:16:46.000 Joining us now is the great Carrie Lake.
00:16:48.000 Carrie, I'm told you have LASIK advice for me. 0.91
00:16:53.000 Well, yes, you're going to love the results.
00:16:55.000 It's almost like a miracle.
00:16:56.000 You wake up and you just can see, which is great.
00:16:59.000 After for me, being halfway blind my whole life, I couldn't see.
00:17:03.000 I just was telling Andrew, your producer, make sure you have your pain meds ready.
00:17:08.000 And I'm not a big pain med person, but eye pain is a pain that you're not used to and it's not fun.
00:17:14.000 And make sure you have it right there, ready to grab the minute that pain kicks in because it can be a little bit painful.
00:17:21.000 I remember I had my surgery and everyone left the house.
00:17:24.000 I was sleeping and there were a couple of bottles, whatever the doctor had prescribed, but I couldn't see at the point.
00:17:30.000 And I was trying to figure out which bottle was the one that was the pain pills.
00:17:34.000 And anyway, I know you'll be taken care of.
00:17:37.000 I'm sure that, you know, Erica will be standing by you.
00:17:41.000 She will.
00:17:42.000 I appreciate the advice.
00:17:44.000 And I'm sick of having to wear context.
00:17:46.000 So here we go.
00:17:47.000 So, Carrie, walk us through the latest news: the signature Fontes, your signature issue with Adrian Fontes.
00:17:53.000 Walk us through it.
00:17:55.000 You know, this is really something else.
00:17:58.000 These people who stole our election and took over office, now trying to weaponize our government against us.
00:18:05.000 We've seen this with the federal government and what they're doing when they raided Mar-a-Lago, but they gently went into Joe Biden's garage to do their work.
00:18:15.000 We need to have our government back, not weaponized against the people.
00:18:20.000 And that's what Adrian Fontes and Katie Hobbs and Chris Mays are trying to do.
00:18:25.000 We put out a tweet showing evidence that was presented before Arizona senators in an Arizona Senate committee on election integrity and election reform.
00:18:36.000 We showed that it was sent out a week and a half earlier on the Senate hearing.
00:18:43.000 And they put that out through the World Wide Web.
00:18:46.000 It was streamed out across the world on the internet.
00:18:48.000 And a year earlier, they put those same signatures out as well to show how messed up our signature verification process is, where a scribble counts as a signature, where a totally mismatch of signature signs as your signatures when it doesn't even match.
00:19:05.000 So this is just them trying to weaponize the government.
00:19:08.000 It's not going to go anywhere.
00:19:10.000 And they're just trying to scare me.
00:19:11.000 And I will not be intimidated by this.
00:19:14.000 It's so Orwellian, right?
00:19:16.000 So here you are showing publicly that signatures obviously don't match.
00:19:20.000 And instead of getting upset that their process is validating and approving fraudulent signatures, they go after the person that exposes it.
00:19:29.000 So it is this theme that we're seeing, the crime of noticing, which is you're not allowed to notice it, Carrie Lake.
00:19:35.000 You're not allowed to say.
00:19:36.000 And by the way, I hesitate to even put this up on the live stream because knowing these people, they consider anything publicizing a criminal act.
00:19:43.000 So please do not put it on a live stream, guys.
00:19:45.000 Don't do that.
00:19:46.000 No, I mean isn't that sad though?
00:19:48.000 It's already what it is.
00:19:49.000 I've been around the world a million times and it was actually put out on a live stream from the Arizona Senate on two occasions.
00:19:56.000 So they're trying to paint me out to be a criminal and it's really, it's horrible.
00:20:01.000 They'll do it to me.
00:20:02.000 They'll do it to every single citizen.
00:20:04.000 They're trying to force us to comply with their rules.
00:20:08.000 And these are not, these are not good people.
00:20:10.000 This guy is a former cartel lawyer who's taking control of the Secretary of State's office.
00:20:16.000 And it's really frightening where our government is going.
00:20:19.000 And you're right, it's a crime of noticing.
00:20:21.000 We know what happened on Election Day, the sabotage of Election Day.
00:20:24.000 We're trying to show how messed up the process is so that we can get honest elections that all Arizonans, Democrats, Independents, and Republicans alike can have faith in.
00:20:34.000 You know, there is a poll out there that I think it's 72% of Arizonans believe that our elections are a mess.
00:20:42.000 They don't believe they're honest.
00:20:44.000 This isn't just a Republican issue.
00:20:47.000 This is all voters, and we demand fair, honest, transparent elections.
00:20:51.000 And I'm going to work hard to see to it that we get that here in Arizona.
00:20:56.000 Yeah, it's just, I mean, again, I'm looking at what you posted here.
00:21:00.000 And out of abundance of caution, knowing the new regime that runs Arizona, we're just going to describe it.
00:21:04.000 The signatures aren't even close.
00:21:06.000 I mean, they are not even close.
00:21:07.000 It's obviously somebody's just making these up and signing on the behalf of somebody else.
00:21:12.000 It would be like giving a three-year-old a crown and telling them to write out, you know, their dad's name.
00:21:12.000 Right.
00:21:21.000 And then you take the dad's signature.
00:21:23.000 It is that bad, mismatched, obviously not the same people signing.
00:21:28.000 And I will tell you this, for those of you who love mail-in ballots, I'm sure that you view your ballot, your signature, your vote as sacred.
00:21:37.000 You don't want someone forging your signature.
00:21:42.000 I believe that of all good, decent Arizonans.
00:21:45.000 They don't want that.
00:21:46.000 And I'm trying to tell them this is what's going on.
00:21:48.000 This is how messed up our system is.
00:21:50.000 And Adrian Fontes, who was in charge when this whole system came out, he doesn't want people seeing it because I think it's going to, the breadcrumb trail will lead right back to his doorstep.
00:22:01.000 It is the crime of noticing.
00:22:04.000 So, Carrie, how do we fix this then?
00:22:07.000 Because one of my big concerns is we're receiving email after email of people saying, in Arizona, they're not trolls.
00:22:14.000 They're legitimate people.
00:22:14.000 I'm never voting again.
00:22:17.000 And there were people actually that said, I refused to vote in your election, Carrie.
00:22:21.000 And they say it home because they said it's rigged.
00:22:25.000 So our own voters who watch this show are done voting.
00:22:28.000 How do we make sure that doesn't happen?
00:22:30.000 I hear it.
00:22:31.000 I mean, I hear it from people as well.
00:22:33.000 And I don't blame them for that frustration.
00:22:35.000 There's no one more frustrated than me.
00:22:38.000 Let me tell you, 525 days on the campaign trail presenting incredible policy to help us through some of these really big problems we have, common sense policy that would be good for all Arizonans, and then to have it torn away, sabotage, stolen.
00:22:52.000 It's frustrating.
00:22:53.000 But don't you think that's exactly what they want?
00:22:56.000 The biggest frustration for the globalists and the people pushing, you know, the Unit Party pushing this has been that the real people, real everyday Arizonans and Americans have woken up and gotten involved in the political system.
00:23:09.000 That is the last thing the political elite want.
00:23:12.000 They don't want the grassroots involved.
00:23:15.000 And they keep doing this to us, hoping that we'll just throw our hands up and say, forget it.
00:23:20.000 I'm out.
00:23:20.000 They go to the LD meetings and they make it so frustrating that they hope that the grassroots folks would just say, forget this.
00:23:28.000 I'm not going to get involved.
00:23:29.000 It's exactly what they want.
00:23:31.000 This is the time when the fight really begins and we have to double down.
00:23:34.000 We do have to show up and vote, even in their rigged system.
00:23:37.000 Makes it even harder for them to cheat.
00:23:39.000 I mean, they had to pull out all the stops in 2022.
00:23:43.000 It made 2020 almost look like child's play.
00:23:45.000 They did it in broad daylight right in front of our eyes.
00:23:48.000 It's going to be harder for them next time.
00:23:50.000 It's going to be harder the next time.
00:23:52.000 And we're just going to keep showing up and poking them in the eye.
00:23:55.000 We got to do that.
00:23:57.000 We can't give them what they want, which is for we the people to go away, turn around, put our head back in the sand.
00:24:03.000 Are there going to be any movements that you're aware of or involved in with Richer or Gates or a potential recall of the governor here in Arizona?
00:24:13.000 I would like to explore that.
00:24:15.000 I really would.
00:24:15.000 I've had many people reaching out to me saying, let's recall these people.
00:24:20.000 I think it's worth exploring.
00:24:22.000 And it would be quite a feat to take on, an undertaking to deal with all of that.
00:24:29.000 But I think it's worth it.
00:24:30.000 The way they're running the state into the ground, some of the policies they're pushing are horrific.
00:24:34.000 I mean, just Katie Hobbs' budget proposal to pull 40 million away from our border, which is wide open.
00:24:41.000 And anything we have that's working down there, she wants to take money out of, removing the barrier that Ducey put up a couple of months before he left office. 1.00
00:24:50.000 She is absolutely dead set on destroying our border and our sovereignty as a state.
00:24:56.000 She took money out of the pregnancy centers where young mothers go in and say, I want to keep my baby, but I'm afraid I need help. 1.00
00:25:05.000 She took money out of that, opting to put it into pro-abortion clinics.
00:25:10.000 So we've got somebody who is not really aligning with the people of Arizona, and we need to do something.
00:25:15.000 I'm willing to explore that.
00:25:16.000 I've got my hands full with a legal case right now, but I'm not closing my eyes to the fact that we need to get these people out of office.
00:25:24.000 Carrie, some people are clamoring for you to run for the U.S. Senate.
00:25:29.000 I had a lot of people reach out this weekend over it.
00:25:32.000 We got Gallego running.
00:25:34.000 Cinema might run.
00:25:36.000 Therefore, there's a very clear lane for a three-way race.
00:25:40.000 Is this something you're interested in?
00:25:42.000 Something you're entertaining?
00:25:44.000 What are your thoughts?
00:25:46.000 Yes, I am entertaining it.
00:25:48.000 I mean, my number one priority is our court case.
00:25:51.000 And I have full confidence in our court case, and I have hope that we'll get a judge to do the right thing.
00:25:57.000 But I'm also looking at what happens if we don't get a decent ruling in that.
00:26:04.000 And they want me to go away.
00:26:05.000 They want our movement to go away.
00:26:07.000 I represent we the people.
00:26:09.000 And if they want us gone so badly that they're willing to steal an election, then I'm not going to let them have that.
00:26:15.000 I won't go away.
00:26:17.000 And I've seen some internal polling that shows I am the only Republican who can beat these other two.
00:26:22.000 I find both of them incredibly dangerous to the people of Arizona.
00:26:26.000 I find them, you know, Kirsten Cinema's voting record being 83% or rather 93% of the time voting for Joe Biden's agenda.
00:26:36.000 I find Ruben Gallego being a self-admitted socialist really frightening for Arizona.
00:26:42.000 And if I'm the only Republican who can beat them, I would be willing to jump in.
00:26:46.000 But again, my first priority is my court case.
00:26:49.000 If I did jump in, it would be contingent that if my court case was successful, that I would then step over and take the governorship.
00:26:59.000 That would be something, boy, that would be terrific.
00:27:01.000 Well, we know it's happened before.
00:27:03.000 I mean, people forget that in our history in Arizona, a governor's rigged election was challenged and the good guys won.
00:27:12.000 The good guys won.
00:27:13.000 It took some time, but the good guys won.
00:27:16.000 Just to remind everybody, the Arizona Senate race is shaping up to be extremely unusual if things remain as they are.
00:27:24.000 Cinema running as an independent, Gallego running as a Marxist Democrat, and then a Republican lane.
00:27:31.000 And in Arizona, which is basically one-third Democrat, one-third Independent, one-third Republican, it opens it up to a very, it's unprecedented, impossible to poll, impossible to predict, impossible to know what would happen in a presidential year where the top of the ticket will likely be Donald Trump.
00:27:47.000 So there'll be increased Republican turnout, increased kind of MAGA turnout.
00:27:52.000 It seems very compelling, Carrie, at least looking at 35,000-foot view.
00:27:56.000 But we got to go.
00:27:57.000 Carrie, God bless you.
00:27:58.000 We'll be covering your court challenge and thank you for the LASIC advice.
00:28:01.000 Thank you.
00:28:02.000 I'm going to keep you in my prayers, Charlie.
00:28:03.000 Everything's going to go great.
00:28:04.000 Appreciate it.
00:28:05.000 Thank you.
00:28:08.000 Welcome back, everybody.
00:28:09.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com and subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.
00:28:16.000 I don't know if we have any of the images out of Turkey, Syria, border.
00:28:19.000 It's so catastrophic and so horrific.
00:28:23.000 And again, maybe some of you struggle with this, maybe some of you don't, but you have to be very honest with things that challenge your faith.
00:28:31.000 And natural disasters, which are not man-made, so they are in some sort of a dynamic that is above man.
00:28:42.000 It's very difficult.
00:28:44.000 Again, that's not a reason not to have faith.
00:28:46.000 It's not a reason to abandon a belief in the divine. 0.97
00:28:49.000 I think those arguments are silly and shallow.
00:28:52.000 But yeah, when you see 18,000 people who woke up and they die because of an act of God, as they will say, which I reject that framing, let's just say an act of a natural disaster, it's very difficult. 0.59
00:29:06.000 Again, that is not a reason not to believe in God.
00:29:11.000 Other people agree.
00:29:12.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com, this does not challenge my faith.
00:29:15.000 Charlie, this makes sense.
00:29:16.000 I don't know if it's hard for me to say it makes sense as a religious person.
00:29:21.000 It doesn't.
00:29:21.000 Now, the one comfort that I can say is that the sovereignty of God is above our comprehension.
00:29:28.000 If everything was up for us to understand, sin enters a perfect world, you're going to get calamity and chaos and disaster and destruction.
00:29:36.000 And so we as religious people have to grapple with this.
00:29:39.000 We should.
00:29:41.000 Just like secular people have to grapple with all the beauty in the world.
00:29:46.000 Okay, I want to talk about Sam Smith.
00:29:49.000 He was giving a performance at the Grammys last evening, which was obviously satanic.
00:29:58.000 Let's play Cut 15.
00:30:00.000 It's a B-roll.
00:30:01.000 This is Sam Smith.
00:30:02.000 I guess Sam is trans or something, right? 1.00
00:30:06.000 In some way.
00:30:06.000 I don't know.
00:30:08.000 Here is Sam Smith, who apparently people like watching, all brought to you by Pfizer, by the way, wearing devil horns doing a performance at the Grammys, which is obviously satanic.
00:30:22.000 And of course, the media coverage of this is, they say, conservatives outrage that this is satanic.
00:30:30.000 Yes, I mean, it is.
00:30:31.000 I mean, that is Luciferian.
00:30:33.000 Sam Smith stages satanic Grammy performance with strippers and devil horns.
00:30:39.000 And we're supposed to be told by the ruling elite, there is no spiritual war.
00:30:44.000 That's a QAnon conspiracy. 0.96
00:30:46.000 Like, yeah, just take a look at the, that's at the Grammys.
00:30:50.000 That's not some sort of hidden performance.
00:30:52.000 I do wonder when they were rehearsing this and they were writing this, that someone didn't say, hey, maybe this is a little bit too on the nose, a little bit too Luciferian.
00:31:02.000 And look, I mean, Sam Smith, I don't know anything about, I don't know if he's a kind person.
00:31:09.000 I don't know if he's a cruel person.
00:31:10.000 I don't know if he's a good person or a bad person, but he definitely is at war with his own nature.
00:31:17.000 He's at war with his own gender, right? 0.99
00:31:19.000 He's genderqueer. 0.83
00:31:22.000 He's at war with how God made him.
00:31:24.000 He's rebelling with how God made him, which is, I'm not saying Sam Smith himself is Luciferian, but look at his first television appearance, Cut 19.
00:31:34.000 Look what Hollywood does to you.
00:31:36.000 Play cut 19.
00:31:38.000 No, won't you stay with me?
00:31:44.000 Cause you are clear to thee.
00:31:54.000 But darling, stay with me.
00:32:01.000 He's very talented.
00:32:02.000 I've heard him actually perform once, and I went to one of his concerts.
00:32:05.000 I was at a party once, and all of a sudden, Sam Smith showed up and started to sing.
00:32:08.000 Very talented.
00:32:09.000 And now look at him.
00:32:10.000 Play it again.
00:32:10.000 So just remember that image.
00:32:11.000 Innocent Sam Smith, suit and tie.
00:32:13.000 And now look at Luciferian Sam Smith.
00:32:17.000 Just play that again as B-roll as we close this segment out.
00:32:20.000 I mean, we're obviously in a spiritual war, good versus evil.
00:32:22.000 And I'm going to pray for Sam Smith. 0.80
00:32:24.000 I hope he repents with this ridiculous display.
00:32:28.000 But it's not just him. 0.58
00:32:28.000 It's the copy editors. 0.58
00:32:29.000 It's the lighter.
00:32:30.000 Everyone that is involved in this.
00:32:33.000 We are in a battle of good versus evil.
00:32:36.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:32:38.000 Email me your thoughts as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.
00:32:42.000 Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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