On this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie talks about the Soros Group's takeover of conservative radio stations, and why the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is allowing the deal to go through without a normal review process. Also, Charlie and Blake discuss the Democratic Party's attempt to take control of Congress, and how a return to a conservative government could change the landscape of American politics and the way we work together to achieve freedom and prosperity for all Americans. If you like what you hear here, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and other major podcasting platforms! You can also join our FB group, and join the conversation by using the hashtag on the socials, and find us on all of the social medias, if you search for , and use the hashtag #TheCharlieKirkShow. Thanks for listening and Happy New Year! Peace, Blessings, Cheers. -EDGOLD AND GLOBE -Jon Sorrentino and Cheers, Cheers! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - The Soros Group Has a Radio Station? 2:30 - What's Next? 3:15 - What s the Deal? 4:20 - What will happen with Congress? 5:40 - How can we get back to a Conservative Government Again? 6:00 7: What would you like to see in Washington? 8: What are you waiting for? 9:15 10:30 11:20 12: What is the best way to get control of the White House of America? 13: What s going to happen next? 15:00 | What s your answer? 16:40 17:30 | How do you're going to win in 2020? 18: What do you think about the future of the USA? 19:40 | How can I have a Conservative government again? 21: What's the best thing to do? 22:00 + 17: How would you vote for me? 26:30 Is there a better way to change my life? 27:00 & 27:30 + 8:10: How do I know that I m going to vote for the future? 29:10 32:40 + 9:30+ 35:00+ - What do I want to win the 2020 election?
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00:01:35.000Hopefully one of these days when I join you, there'll be some good news to discuss, but I don't think today will be one of those days.
00:01:40.000So this goes back actually to the beginning of the year.
00:01:44.000A Soros fact group has made a play to buy over 200 local radio stations across more than 40 markets.
00:01:52.000A lot of it's just regular, you know, music and talk, but there are some conservative voices on there, including Mark Levin and Dana Lash on a number of these stations.
00:02:01.000And normally what happens here is when you have what we call excessive foreign ownership.
00:02:06.000So this is a case where the Soros entities have foreign investment.
00:02:11.000It's not disclosed at this point where that comes from.
00:02:14.000When you have excessive foreign ownership, the FCC has a process where we bring in national security agencies and they review Here we've got the cart before the horse.
00:02:23.000Only then, after that process runs, does the FCC decide whether to allow the transfer of
00:02:42.000And I don't know what is so special about this particular transaction that would merit the FCC breaking from its traditional precedent to fast track something.
00:02:52.000I guess this fits into a bigger thing.
00:02:55.000I think a lot of Americans know about the border, they know about foreign policy, but stuff like the FCC, the FTC, they aren't nearly as plugged into these sort of regulatory decisions that can have hugely far-reaching effects on how the country works.
00:03:13.000Brendan, for our viewers and listeners, could you maybe just lay out some of those big picture developments that are happening and how, you know, if we were to have a conservative government again, how that could be changed?
00:03:24.000Yeah, look, there's a lot going on at the agencies right now.
00:03:27.000I mean, if you step back, Democrats have been in charge of the administrative state for 12 of the last 16 years.
00:03:35.000And the administrative state, to your point, is this alphabet soup of agencies in Washington.
00:04:04.000We're having thousands and thousands of new regulations passed every single day out of the administrative state.
00:04:12.000And so I think we do have an opportunity here to push back and return the power back to the people's elected representatives in Congress.
00:04:18.000There's some really good Supreme Court cases, EPA, Loeb or Bright, which overturned Chevron.
00:04:24.000At the end of the day, all of these decisions are about Ensuring that the legislative power, the power to sort of pass laws that bind what you do in your personal life, stays with your representatives in Congress and not with people like me at an agency where just a simple 3-2 vote can fundamentally change the landscape.
00:04:44.000Just as a good example of one of these, you had a piece in the New York Post recently, and it's a very, I think, arcane topic for a lot of people, but it was about how the FCC delayed a rollout of, like, internet in rural areas, and I think a lot of people, their eyes could glaze over at that, but you actually said it was one of the worst abuses of the FCC you've ever seen, so could you build that out for our listeners and explain What's going on here and how that really captures, you know, the Biden era FCC?
00:05:16.000Yeah, this one in particular, back in 2019, there was a deal that put in place a federal obligation for DISH, now EchoStar, to provide high speed internet 5G service to rural America.
00:05:29.000And last week on a Tuesday night, they submitted a filing asking to be let out Of that federal commitment.
00:05:38.000And in a Friday night news dump, the FCC at the Bureau level, so without any input from me at all, or any other commissioner as far as I can tell, the agency granted that extension of the buildout obligation, which ultimately leaves rural America behind.
00:05:53.000But it's part of a broader story, I think, of leaving rural America behind.
00:05:56.000The most pressing example is in 2021, President Biden asked Vice President Harris to lead the administration's signature $42 billion effort
00:06:09.000to expand internet access to millions of Americans.
00:06:11.000And we're over 1,040 some odd days later, and not one person has been connected to the internet
00:06:48.00042 billion dollars allocated basically at the beginning of the Biden-Harris administration to build rural internet and they have not they haven't plugged in a single person to the internet.
00:06:59.000And there was recently a story in Politico, including some testimony subsequently from state officials that were involved in this effort dealing with the federal government.
00:07:10.000And they said that this program has been marred by mismanagement, dysfunction, delays, And so what have they been doing in the last 1000 plus days?
00:07:21.000They've been adopting DEI requirements.
00:07:23.000They've been pushing a climate change agenda.
00:07:26.000They've been putting in place preferences for government run networks for unionized labor.
00:07:32.000They have used this $42 billion program designed to bridge the digital divide to just press forward with a wish list of progressive policy goals that have absolutely nothing to do with connecting Americans.
00:07:45.000Meanwhile, We actually had a deal in 2020 with Elon Musk's Starlink to bring high-speed internet to over 640,000 homes and businesses in rural America, so millions of people.
00:07:58.000President Biden went to the podium and said that Elon Musk is worth being looked into.
00:08:03.000That unleashed a cavalcade of administrative actions against Elon Musk, including, in my view, here at the FCC, where we then abruptly reversed that 2020 award.
00:08:14.000It was $885 million to Elon Musk to provide high-speed internet.
00:08:18.000So we had a deal, which was basically $1,300 in federal support per location served by Starlink.
00:08:25.000And we've replaced it with this $42 billion program that has connected absolutely no one.
00:08:31.000And there's actually other programs outside of the $42 billion that the Biden-Harris administration is running where Senator Ted Cruz is exposed that they're spending over $100,000 per home to connect those homes to the internet.
00:08:46.000Again, we had a deal with Starlink for $1,300 per home, which actually we could probably cut even lower than that if we wanted to.
00:08:53.000And now we're spending $100,000 where we're actually connecting people, but in the main, the $42 billion program has gone nowhere.
00:10:14.000I can't say enough good stuff about them.
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00:10:42.000So, Commissioner, there's been a lot of news with, you know, we mentioned how Starlink could basically just give internet to everyone in rural America, but we decided to spend 42 billion dollars on nothing so far.
00:10:54.000The other thing, of course, that Elon Musk ventures are heavily involved in is, you know, he bought X, that's become a big free speech battleground.
00:11:02.000There's been a lot of news in Brazil where Brazil ordered the site taken down, and I think now it's going back up, but they have to comply with some Brazilian censorship stuff.
00:11:12.000I was wondering if you could speak to the current tech censorship dynamic that's going on.
00:11:20.000You know, with the Biden administration and how they're approaching speech-related issues online, over the airwaves, and what our prospects are there if we have a Kamala Harris administration.
00:11:33.000Yeah, I think Brazil, as you mentioned, is really the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this global trend towards censorship.
00:11:41.000What happened in Brazil, if you read through Justice Desmarais' 51-page decision.
00:11:46.000It was issued in Portuguese, but I do have Google Translate, so I was able to at least get an English version of it.
00:11:53.000I went through that one, and what he said was that he was acting to censor posts on X to prevent what the justice said in his words were the incitement of anti-democratic acts.
00:12:06.000But what's interesting is if you then read through and see what is the anti-democratic act?
00:12:11.000That the Brazilian justice had in mind, he said very clearly, it was people voting the wrong way at the ballot boxes.
00:12:19.000And he walked through examples in his mind of Brexit in 2016, and President Trump's election in 2016, suggesting that those are the types of negative outcomes, populist outcomes, he said, indicated those are the ones that should be avoided by censoring free speech on X. And this is really concerning.
00:12:38.000It's that idea that those in power, Only want the people to have in their brains news, information and content effectively that is approved by the very people in power because they want to stay in power.
00:12:52.000But of course, free speech really is our only hope.
00:12:55.000Free speech is democracy's check on authoritarianism, on government control.
00:13:00.000So it's this concerning trend towards saying we believe in democracy and therefore we have to censor People in order to preserve it.
00:13:09.000And we've seen a lot of weaponization over the last couple of years, just here in the US.
00:13:13.000So for instance, there was a number of Democrat representatives, members of Congress from California that wrote letters to cable companies, suggesting they dropped Fox News, OAN and Newsmax because of the editorial decisions that those newsrooms were making.
00:13:28.000There was a transaction where a conservative buyer wanted to purchase some radio stations in South Florida and Democrats spoke up and said, we have to shut that down.
00:13:37.000Because it can affect electoral outcomes.
00:13:40.000So there really is this concerning trend.
00:13:42.000You see it, too, with the Biden-Harris administration pressuring, jawboning, as we say, social media companies into censoring politically protected speech.
00:13:53.000And, of course, Zuckerberg came out a couple weeks ago with a quasi-mea culpa to one of the House committees saying, you know, sorry that we censored Americans over the last couple of years.
00:14:04.000Yeah, and I just, Brendan, really quick here.
00:14:06.000Do you feel any sort of sense of urgency from this current government, our government, the fact that American social media apps are being banned in foreign countries?
00:14:15.000Doesn't seem as if this is a major concern.
00:14:27.000And I think sometimes, you know, saying nothing is the loudest possible thing you can do.
00:14:33.000I think The American government should have been standing up for X. They should have been standing for Starlink.
00:14:37.000Because remember, once they censored X, they then took it out on Starlink, which is a separate company, separate shareholders, by freezing their assets.
00:14:44.000So it's worrying that Brazil did this.
00:14:47.000It's worrying that America seems like they gave it a pass.
00:14:50.000It's worrying that it's part of a global trend that's taking place in Europe and otherwise.
00:14:54.000We're in the midst of a fight for free speech.
00:14:55.000I think it's going to continue here for a little bit.
00:15:03.000If your approach to everyday aches and pains is to mask them, you know, feel better for a few hours only to have the pain return and then repeat the cycle all over again.
00:18:10.000You can go to your board of elections because 30% of Pennsylvania hunters are not registered to vote.
00:18:17.000And the great work that Turning Point Action is doing in Wisconsin, your group knows, That 40% of Wisconsin hunters are not registered.
00:18:26.000If we simply engaged with hunters and mobilize them to vote, Donald Trump will be reelected president.
00:18:33.000Now, we were also inspired by the UNC Chapel Hill fraternity brothers that protected our American flag.
00:18:41.000I want everybody to visit your sororities, visit your fraternity houses, bring voter registration forms, and Charlie, in states like Pennsylvania, If we have beautiful fraternity brothers that are here from New Jersey or New York or Connecticut, we can legally and lawfully have them vote in Pennsylvania.
00:19:03.000All they need is the last four of their social security number.
00:19:07.000They do not need a Pennsylvania driver's license.
00:19:10.000And last, one very important place that you may also bring voter registration forms.
00:19:16.000Because of Stolen Valor Tim Walz, and because of Kamala disrespecting Gold Star families, we have 800,000 veterans, Charlie, in Pennsylvania.
00:19:27.000It's home to the fourth largest veteran community in the entire country.
00:20:56.000They want to be able to have families.
00:20:58.000Anyway, I also want to give a shout out to Cliff Maloney and PA Chase.
00:21:04.000Now Cliff, I was just reading his ex account.
00:21:06.000He shared that the mail-in ballot requests for Democrats are down 360,000 from where they were four years ago at this same point in time.
00:21:21.000Now I'd like to remind the audience that 2020 in Pennsylvania was decided by 80,000 votes.
00:21:29.000So not only, Charlie, are the Democrats down 300,000 voter registrations from where they were four years ago, but they're down 300,000 mail-in ballot requests from where they were four years ago.
00:21:40.000Something that people aren't talking about, Charlie, is that yes, people can vote on Tuesday, November 5th.
00:22:13.000You're voting an in-person mail-in ballot.
00:22:17.000But I want to be clear, a mail-in ballot is a paper ballot.
00:22:21.000And so right now, if you live in Montgomery County, Philadelphia County, Wyoming, Schoolkill, you can, after you're finished watching the Charlie Kirk Show, today, go and vote for Donald Trump and all of our Republican candidates.
00:22:53.000You'll give it back to the elections officer.
00:22:57.000And so that way you're voting a mail-in ballot In person, it goes from your hands to the election officials hands.
00:23:05.000You're not putting it into a Dropbox or United States Postal Service employee.
00:23:10.000And that's something that especially if you're a trucker, or if you're working class America, a firefighter, police officer, pilot, flight attendant, You're working 12 hour days.
00:23:21.000We don't want you to miss the opportunity to cast your vote for Donald Trump in our entire Republican ticket.
00:24:03.000Also on Cliff Maloney's ex account, he shared, I think the Republicans are down like 46,000, but again, we are most likely going to eclipse 100% of where we were four years ago.
00:24:19.000While the Democrats, they are not going to hit their margins.
00:24:22.000And quite frankly, Charlie, I think that a lot of our people are going to vote early in person.
00:24:27.000Republicans are on track to win Pennsylvania, but the only thing that matters is ballots into boxes.
00:24:35.000The only thing that matters is actually locking in your vote.
00:24:37.000And I do have to say one last thing, Charlie.
00:25:07.000Compare Pennsylvania right now to 2020 and 2016.
00:25:11.000What does the energy feel like, and what are our chances structurally compared to previous cycles?
00:25:16.000Are we in a better position right now?
00:25:19.000I can objectively tell you, Charlie, that yes, we are in the strongest position we have ever been as a party, as a movement to win Pennsylvania.
00:25:30.000In 2016, Democrats were nearly a million more voters than Republicans.
00:26:10.000You have auxiliary organizations that have hundreds of staffers.
00:26:15.000I can tell you objectively, this is the largest and strongest ground game infrastructure that the Republican Party has ever seen in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
00:26:28.000And last, since 2020, We flipped Berks County, Redding, from blue to red.
00:26:34.000We flipped Beaver County from blue to red.
00:26:36.000We flipped Bucks County from blue to red outside of Philadelphia.
00:26:39.000And we flipped Luzerne County from blue to red.
00:26:42.000I am asking every person to focus on voter registration for the next 28 days.
00:26:47.000Scott, if and when we win Pennsylvania, you will be a major reason why.
00:26:54.000And if we win Pennsylvania, our chances of winning the White House are very good.
00:26:57.000Now, Scott, I gotta say, I might have to have you go down to North Carolina and fix this whole mess down there.
00:27:02.000Because unfortunately, Pennsylvania's looking better than North Carolina.
00:27:06.000We might have to send Scott on a flight down to Charlotte to go get their act together down there, because North Carolina's not trending well.
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00:27:56.000Go to MyPillow.com or call 800-875-0425, use promo code Kirk Blake, what is the news out of Nebraska?
00:30:29.000Blake, he's like a walking encyclopedia.
00:30:31.000campaign staffers for what they claimed was emotional damage that we gave them by driving
00:30:36.000next to them on the road. But yesterday, Charlie, justice was upheld and the jury saw through
00:30:41.000this garbage and we were ruled and we were found not guilty and the Constitution was
00:30:46.000upheld. Yes. So just remind the audience the story. Walk through the story. Blake, he's
00:30:51.000like a walking encyclopedia. He doesn't remember. So remind the audience the context and the
00:30:56.000story in the details. It was a viral story in 2020. There was a Biden Harris campaign
00:31:02.000bus that drove through Texas. There was a Trump train, Trump vehicles flying their American
00:31:07.000flags, Trump flags, and they drove next to the bus. Trump tweeted about it. He said,
00:31:11.000I love Texas. And then Biden said, we ran the bus off the road, which looked like a
00:31:16.000Literally never happened, but mainstream media blew up because this was in early election of 2020.
00:31:22.000People like The View, Whoopi Goldberg, were saying we were emboldened racist bigots crawling out from under our rocks.
00:31:28.000How could you vote for Trump when we were inciting such political extremism and white supremacist tendencies?
00:31:35.000And it made its way into the federal court system for four years, threatening to bankrupt These patriots who were just exercising free speech because they're claiming it gave them emotional damage.
00:31:46.000And with the power of the media in their pocket, they were effectively chilling free speech rights for four years, guys.
00:31:52.000And y'all, did y'all know that this has been going on for that long?
00:32:18.000We do not have this kind of money to fight the system, to defend what should be basic rights, but they wanted to use this as a blueprint To test out if they could federalize squashing free speech rights if it simply offends somebody and despite their best efforts to weaponize the law, force us to settle, which we fought.
00:32:37.000I'm so proud of each of us for fighting.
00:32:39.000We made it all the way through a federal trial and we saw a spectacular failure on the plaintiff's part to try to infringe on free speech rights.
00:32:48.000Did you win a judgment to get your legal costs covered?
00:32:53.000So at this point, we've cashed out our 401k and relied heavily on the American people to help us fundraise to even get this far.
00:33:01.000They wanted to be able to squash us and win before we ever made it to trial just by fatiguing us.
00:33:06.000The process is the punishment, but by God's grace, he provided every dollar we needed to get in front of a jury and have our day in court.
00:33:13.000Despite the fact that the system is so rigged, they agged us and prevented us from talking about so many key elements of this case, even with their quote-unquote experts to portray us as political extremists, the jury saw the truth.
00:33:26.000Wait, wait, so tell me, there were people that were trying, experts, like professors, that were trying to make you seem like you're some extremist?
00:33:35.000What have you learned through this process, and is your resolve to get Donald Trump in the White House increased or decreased after this show trial?
00:33:43.000We have learned that you have got to know what your basic rights are or you will not know when somebody's infringing on them.
00:33:48.000You have to know what they are to defend them, to assert them, and to teach them to other people so that they can do the same.
00:33:54.000It is imperative to get a win for Donald Trump because while Kamala says he is going to weaponize the law against their supporters, they have been doing it for four years.
00:34:01.000We have got to protect Americans and free speech rights.
00:34:04.000Joey Lynn, excellent and I'm glad that you guys won and you need to get your legal costs paid for.
00:34:31.000Certainly when the left gets prosecuted, when they have actual terrorists and like criminals get prosecuted, they have, you know, Kamala raises money for people who do riots.