The Charlie Kirk Show - September 03, 2023


The Most Important Elections to Win: My Conversation with Patrick Byrne at ActCon

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Turning Point USA swing states election fraud
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In this episode, I sit down with Turning Point USA President and CEO, Patrick Byrne, to talk about his journey to becoming the President of the organization and his vision for the future of the country. We talk about how he got into politics, what it s like to be a college dropout, and how he s built one of the most powerful youth organizations in America.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:00.000 Happy Sunday.
00:00:01.000 A little bit of a taste of our conversation with Patrick Byrne.
00:00:05.000 To listen to the entire episode, including some of my conversation with Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, go to charliekirk.com and follow the members' tabs.
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00:01:13.000 That is freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:01:16.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:01:17.000 Here we go.
00:01:18.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:01:20.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:01:22.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:01:26.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:01:29.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:01:30.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:01:31.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:01:33.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:39.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:48.000 That's why we are here.
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00:02:00.000 We are here with a man I admire, and we've met once before, I think, in Naples, Florida.
00:02:05.000 And Patrick Byrne, welcome.
00:02:05.000 Yes.
00:02:07.000 What an honor, Charlie, to meet a great young entrepreneur.
00:02:10.000 Thank yourself.
00:02:10.000 Thank you.
00:02:11.000 I don't get called that very often, but it's a label I will accept.
00:02:15.000 Well, you've built a, I've read and heard about the history of Turning Point.
00:02:21.000 But let's walk through it quickly.
00:02:22.000 You were thinking of going to college, but you took a gap year and just started.
00:02:25.000 Yeah, it's been 11 gap years.
00:02:27.000 And, you know, the context that's...
00:02:30.000 You got to go make something of yourself.
00:02:30.000 You better give this up.
00:02:32.000 Well, you know, yeah, that's right.
00:02:33.000 You know, someone says, I got to go to college and I could really get my life together.
00:02:37.000 But no, it's interesting.
00:02:39.000 The context where we started this was with the millennials were supposed to be the most progressive generation in history.
00:02:44.000 Cultural Revolution, bring forth the great leap forward.
00:02:47.000 Obama was supposed to be the vessel.
00:02:48.000 So I grew up around it in the suburbs of Chicago.
00:02:50.000 200,000 people in Grant Park, you know, celebrating Obama.
00:02:54.000 And so I saw that.
00:02:56.000 Chicago Jesus is something.
00:02:57.000 Yeah, no, that's exactly right.
00:02:58.000 No, it was a quasi-messianic figure.
00:03:00.000 So when I started Turning Point in 2012, it seemed like an impossible project to turn millennials into a sensible generation. 0.98
00:03:07.000 And, you know, there's a lot in between.
00:03:09.000 11 years later, millennials are about 50, 50 conservative and liberal now.
00:03:12.000 I'm not taking credit for all of it.
00:03:13.000 We certainly have played a role in that.
00:03:15.000 And that's a huge success story to share.
00:03:18.000 And I've read about how millennials have come back more conservative than big parents because they've seen the tragedy of.
00:03:25.000 And so we've been just relentless, just doing our work, and it's paying off on the macro data, which is really exciting.
00:03:30.000 But yeah, look, it's been 11 years of hustle and grit.
00:03:33.000 Right on.
00:03:33.000 Amazing.
00:03:34.000 Right on.
00:03:34.000 Well, I understand that we think we see eye to eye on regarding what needs to be done in the election.
00:03:40.000 Yes.
00:03:41.000 Tell me where your emphasis is.
00:03:43.000 Well, everyone has their role, right?
00:03:45.000 And I love Mike Lindell and what he's focusing on.
00:03:47.000 And I love trying to secure our elections and lower fraud.
00:03:51.000 That's not my expertise or my calling.
00:03:52.000 I don't have a law enforcement background or a cybersecurity background.
00:03:56.000 I am good at grassroots organizing and getting a lot of people to do hard work over long periods of time.
00:04:01.000 Obviously.
00:04:01.000 And so I think our role to play can be in chasing ballots and finding low-propensity voters and getting them to vote early and securely.
00:04:09.000 And I'm not a big fan of early voting.
00:04:12.000 I would get rid of it if I could, but I hate losing more.
00:04:15.000 And I think we, if we have the best way to, my argument is the most fraudulent way of voting is not voting at all, meaning just staying at home and not even submitting a ballot.
00:04:26.000 You're giving the other side by definition an advantage.
00:04:29.000 So that's, we're going to be trying to create an army of ballot chasers in a couple of key states to hopefully maximize Republican turnout and play a little bit in that voting month that otherwise people haven't done.
00:04:40.000 I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you didn't see yourself on November 4th, 2020.
00:04:45.000 But, you know, you're right to focus on it's really six states that matter.
00:04:49.000 You know, the logic of it is there are 3,000 counties in America.
00:04:55.000 And on election day, we really don't have one election.
00:04:57.000 We have 3,000 elections.
00:04:59.000 That's right.
00:04:59.000 And there's six of the, there are 13 swing states, and there are six of them where there's one city that is two-thirds of the vote of the state.
00:05:06.000 That's right.
00:05:07.000 So if they just cheat in those six counties, you can flip six swing states and flip the electoral college.
00:05:11.000 So really, those six states are everything.
00:05:14.000 And so we're taking three out of the six because you can't do all six.
00:05:19.000 So one's the state I live in.
00:05:20.000 I live in Arizona.
00:05:21.000 And then Wisconsin, a state I almost was raised in.
00:05:23.000 I was raised in northern Illinois, right on the border, so I know it really well.
00:05:26.000 And then if we have the resources, Georgia, which I think is incredibly important.
00:05:30.000 Great.
00:05:30.000 Well, we've been very active in Georgia too.
00:05:32.000 I know you have.
00:05:32.000 Garland, Favarito, and the voter GA and such.
00:05:35.000 Well, it is amazing that anywhere we've dug in, you know, there's been far more has come to light from all these investigations.
00:05:43.000 What they've done is they've blocked, you know, we always thought that elections were supposed to be transparent.
00:05:48.000 They've made it very difficult for since election of 2020 to get at stuff.
00:05:54.000 But slowly and surely, we've been grinding through and getting stuff in Georgia and Michigan.
00:05:59.000 Can you share what you've learned?
00:06:00.000 Because you've been just after this.
00:06:02.000 Yeah.
00:06:03.000 Well, this all could have been solved in a week with we just needed to look at six hard drives in those six counties.
00:06:10.000 And the fact that in five counties, they absolutely blocked us.
00:06:14.000 And in the sixth, Maricopa, the Senate got a subpoena to see it.
00:06:19.000 The county fought six months against the subpoena.
00:06:22.000 And then the day they had to turn the equipment over, they deleted the database the night before.
00:06:27.000 And any normal world, that would all have convicted them already in the court of public opinion.
00:06:31.000 They do that a lot, government agencies deleting of data.
00:06:34.000 Yeah.
00:06:34.000 If they have to ever be called to show it.
00:06:36.000 Well, here's a funny aspect of this.
00:06:38.000 There's a this hasn't gotten any publicity yet, but in the postal service has played a role in the election cheating.
00:06:44.000 And you remember the Jesse, the Jesse, well, federal agencies have a look back policy, a document retention policy.
00:06:53.000 And typically it's six years, just like corporations.
00:06:55.000 You retain every document for six years.
00:06:58.000 And the Postal Service in April of 2020 got their policy changed to be 30 days.
00:07:05.000 They ran 2020, got through the election, got past it.
00:07:08.000 And then in March changed to the Postmaster General?
00:07:12.000 I'm going to tell you that, well, the Postmaster General.
00:07:17.000 Wasn't that Louis DeJoy or something?
00:07:19.000 Like Trump's guy?
00:07:20.000 It's not that, it's not the, it's not, he's not the issue.
00:07:23.000 It's the, for a federal agency to change a rule, there's something called the Administrative Procedures Act.
00:07:28.000 It was set out 50 years ago about how they do it.
00:07:30.000 They put it out to public comment.
00:07:32.000 They get for X many days.
00:07:34.000 They get comments.
00:07:35.000 They think for then they do another thing.
00:07:37.000 They propose this.
00:07:38.000 It's this very kabuki dance system.
00:07:41.000 They can skip that under one circumstance.
00:07:44.000 If they get a federal judge to sign off on it, they got a federal judge to sign off on it in April 2020.
00:07:51.000 Emmett Sullivan.
00:07:52.000 You're kidding.
00:07:53.000 You know who that is?
00:07:54.000 Yeah, he was the one who oversaw Michael Flynn's case.
00:07:55.000 Correct.
00:07:56.000 The guy, the only guy in history who would not accept the DOJ, there were no charges anymore. 0.90
00:08:00.000 He's a black guy, right?
00:08:02.000 Northern Virginia, I think. 0.53
00:08:04.000 DC is his court.
00:08:05.000 D.C. disappoint.
00:08:06.000 He signed off on that.
00:08:07.000 And so the post office wiped out all of it, played that game.
00:08:11.000 That's unbelievable.
00:08:11.000 And Emmett Sullivan signed off.
00:08:13.000 So we've just come up against things like that.
00:08:15.000 But we're getting through.
00:08:16.000 Well, it's turned out, yeah.
00:08:18.000 I mean, people, have you heard about the Tennessee error yet?
00:08:21.000 This is an acknowledged thing.
00:08:24.000 In Williamson County, Tennessee, some gal just using post-it notes discovered that they were feeding in 180 ballots and they'd get sort of 70 votes out of it or 80 votes.
00:08:35.000 And she knew that something was happening.
00:08:38.000 So they unplugged it.
00:08:39.000 They got the state in to run an investigation.
00:08:41.000 The state determined that out of 17 ballot counting machines in the county, eight of them had this error.
00:08:49.000 They called in the federal government.
00:08:51.000 The federal government came, couldn't get to the bottom of it.
00:08:53.000 They called Dominion.
00:08:54.000 Dominion couldn't get to the bottom of it.
00:08:56.000 They ended up writing what's called a root cause analysis that says we can't find it.
00:09:03.000 This error, so it's now referred to as the Tennessee error.
00:09:06.000 The government has acknowledged that it produces erroneous results.
00:09:10.000 And they said, well, we couldn't find it, but we came up with a patch for it.
00:09:13.000 Now, that makes no sense in computer science.
00:09:16.000 We couldn't find it.
00:09:16.000 We came up with a patch for it.
00:09:18.000 That's so that's false logic.
00:09:20.000 They looked in Georgia.
00:09:20.000 They found it in 69 counties.
00:09:22.000 They were allowed to examine the equipment.
00:09:24.000 They found this in 67 of 69 counties have the Tennessee error.
00:09:29.000 And now there's been an examination of what's called cast vote records in nine states.
00:09:34.000 And in 80% of the counties, there's something going on.
00:09:39.000 There's absolute proof of gimmick.
00:09:40.000 So, I mean, if you were to say the most common and threatening form of voter fraud is what?
00:09:44.000 Is it fake ballots?
00:09:45.000 Is it muleing?
00:09:46.000 Is it machine tabulation errors as you're talking about here?
00:09:49.000 Well, I don't think in terms of voter fraud, because that suggests it's the voters doing what's happening.
00:09:53.000 Okay, so election fraud.
00:09:54.000 Okay, so I'll be more precise in the language.
00:09:57.000 Election fraud is the issue.
00:09:59.000 We think there's basically a menu of 14 different ways they use to cheat.
00:10:03.000 They look at each county and they decide based on its systems.
00:10:07.000 We're going to use vulnerabilities, yeah, sure.
00:10:09.000 B, G, and K.
00:10:11.000 And now the machine is at about nine or 10 of the 14 require the machines.
00:10:17.000 The machines will have to be gotten rid of.
00:10:19.000 Can I tell you a quick Buffett story?
00:10:21.000 You know, Warren Buffett.
00:10:23.000 Yeah, sure.
00:10:23.000 The Oracle of Omaha.
00:10:24.000 The Oracle of Omaha.
00:10:25.000 Was your company a Birchard Hathaway company?
00:10:28.000 Well, I did.
00:10:28.000 I was a CEO of some of his companies.
00:10:30.000 Really?
00:10:30.000 Which ones?
00:10:31.000 We were friends.
00:10:31.000 They were the uniform manufacturing company, Fetchheimer Brothers.
00:10:36.000 And they made police and fire.
00:10:38.000 So you're going to tell me he ran his chocolate company, but yeah, no.
00:10:43.000 Well, I was all enamored of automation and computerizing companies.
00:10:48.000 And he had me study a bank out in Long Island, Long Beach, California.
00:10:53.000 And I think it was called the Bank of Long Beach.
00:10:55.000 And he told me to look this up and look at the expense raisers and stuff.
00:10:59.000 It was the most efficient bank in America.
00:11:02.000 And I went out and looked, and it was these two long, this long hallway, and these two old guys at the end, 92, 93 years old, with it was like Ebenezer Scrooge and Marley up there on this raised platform.
00:11:16.000 And there was not a computer in the bank.
00:11:18.000 And they ran it like a 1910 bank.
00:11:20.000 And it was the most efficient bank in America.
00:11:22.000 No computers.
00:11:23.000 The idea that we have computerized our election systems and that has made them more efficient or faster or something is, we could go back to pencil and paper, do as we have been teaching the rest of the world for 60 or 70 years how to run an election, and you get the elections counted.
00:11:39.000 It's transparent.
00:11:40.000 And by three hours after the polls closed, the whole nation would have its answer.
00:11:43.000 That's how they do it in Burma.
00:11:45.000 That's how we've taught other places how to do this.
00:11:47.000 And it's only, we have strayed so far from our own principles.
00:11:53.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:11:54.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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