00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today the Charlie Kirk show an Arizona update as the Arizona Attorney General sends a scathing letter demanding answers.
00:00:06.000The Arizona election should not be certified, period, until we figure out what the heck actually happened.
00:00:12.000And then Seth Dillon goes to the latest Twitter news with us from the great Babylon B. Email us your thoughts as always freedom at charliekirk.com and support the Charlie Kirk show at charliekirk.com slash support.
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00:01:30.000I want to dive into this Arizona Attorney General's letter.
00:01:35.000I'll be honest, this letter is a lot more forceful than I would have anticipated.
00:01:38.000It is from Mark Bernovich and Jennifer Wright to Thomas Liddy, the civil division chief from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
00:01:46.000And it goes into great detail one after the other, asking some questions.
00:01:50.000And the biggest question that no one can answer, the question that is outstanding that no one can pinpoint is why is it that the machines were working perfectly fine on November 7th?
00:02:06.000And then on the morning of November 8th in Maricopa County, the machines just stopped working.
00:02:14.000Now, for some of you that are watching online, you might not understand the significance of this.
00:02:20.000The significance of all of this is as follows: The way that Maricopa does its elections is that you show up and you check in and you can forfeit your mail and ballot because Arizona has a lot of mail and ballots.
00:02:35.000And then they print you a new ballot to actually go print, to actually go vote in person.
00:02:47.000Then they have to run the ballot through the machine after you have filled out that ballot.
00:02:53.000Now, according to the official line of Maricopa County, according to the official line of the largest county in Arizona, where 62% of all voters live in Maricopa County, according to them, it was just a toner issue.
00:03:06.000It was just a matter of getting the toner settings right.
00:03:10.000And by one or two in the afternoon, they got it all figured out.
00:03:13.000Now, the machines and the printers have a network administrator.
00:03:19.000Really, the question is: who is this administrator then?
00:03:23.000So, essentially, what ended up happening is because then these ballots wouldn't go to the machines, lines started to form.
00:04:15.000Hi, I'm Bill Gates, chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.
00:04:19.000One of the questions that we've been getting since the general election on November 8th is: did the printer problems on Election Day impact Republican-leaning areas more than Democratic-leaning areas?
00:04:32.000Well, as your supervisor, I want to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to cast their vote.
00:04:38.000And we've reviewed this issue, and we found that the 70 vote centers that were impacted by the printer issues were spread all across Maricopa County, and they did not impact one part of the valley more than the other.
00:06:10.000How many people were turned away because of the one-hour line, the two-hour line that started because of this sabotage machine malfunction and failure that happened in the way of voting that conservatives have a preference to vote more than any others?
00:06:26.000By the way, we're looking at just a half of percentage of results.
00:06:31.000We're talking about the current tally has Kerry Lake down so slightly.
00:06:36.000Kerry Lake currently in the tally down 17,428 votes, down 0.6%.
00:06:44.000In the Attorney General's race, it's a statistical tie, and Abe Hamaday is down 850 votes.
00:06:51.000You see, when you create bedlam and chaos with machines all across the valley, people are less likely to go vote.
00:06:58.000It is an election day suppression operation.
00:07:03.000It's an election day way to be able to create a clog in the plumbing, a traffic jam on the highway where people say, forget it.
00:08:43.000A sabotage ambush that no one has yet to answer.
00:08:47.000And the Board of Supervisors, Bill Gates and Stephen Richer, they're just kind of smugly telling you, well, this is what election integrity looks like.
00:08:55.000Election integrity is the fact that one out of five machines just fail.
00:08:59.000One out of five machines just go down.
00:09:02.000You see, when you have an election day and people are busy with their kids, with work, and they show up in a parking lot and there is a line that is two hours long, which was the case at a lot of places across the valley, you're going to have a taper effect.
00:09:21.000Now, that taper might have been 20,000 people strong.
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00:11:32.000A legal expert said that if Republicans, don't you love how they use that experts, legal experts?
00:11:41.000It's legally nothing, said Tom Irvine, a now retired lawyer with four decades of election law experience who represented Maricopa County in the 90s and 2000s.
00:11:50.000There's no proof that anyone was disadvantaged, said Irvine.
00:11:53.000Well, Tom Irvine, let me read this email I just received, freedom at charliekirk.com from Peggy.
00:12:42.000We have this audio here where Bill Gates was doing an interview back in August saying the only way for the Republican Party to save itself is humiliation at the ballot box.
00:13:29.000Polling places were open about 12 hours in Maricopa County, 12 hours.
00:13:34.000If just three to four people per 223 voting centers were deterred by the lines, just three or four people, based on the news, based on what they heard per hour, which is a very reasonable number, it's probably more than that.
00:13:50.000That right there is the margin even factoring in the 70 plus percent that Carrie Lake won what she is down Katie Hobbs right now per voting center.
00:14:04.000So if you do the math very quickly, you take out your calculator, you say, okay, let's say that three people per voting center were deterred.
00:14:12.000Let's just say, and if you take 223, because remember, you might say, well, Charlie, only one out of five were affected.
00:14:42.000And so what you have in a very simple way is people may have just heard about the chaos and not bothered to check in at all if their specific center was having problems.
00:14:54.000Now, if you scale it up a little bit, let's just say six people per voting center or 10 people per voting center or 15 people per voting center.
00:15:02.000I mean, this email we received right here, Charlie, the line was too long.
00:15:18.000We deserve an answer as to why did the machines work perfectly and flawlessly the night before, and they started to be completely and totally ruined the next morning.
00:15:31.000What happened over that 12-hour period?
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00:17:28.000We'll get back to the Arizona news in just a second.
00:17:30.000There's a lot happening at Twitter right now, a lot.
00:17:32.000And no better person to help us make sense of it all than somebody who very well might be responsible for getting Elon to purchase Twitter himself.
00:18:00.000We were, you know, when we got banned initially, or at least locked out of our account, we weren't permanently banned.
00:18:05.000We were locked out, required to delete a joke that Twitter considered to be hateful conduct back in March earlier this year.
00:18:12.000And honestly, we never expected to get back into Twitter.
00:18:15.000I mean, who expects that when you get locked out by, you know, the powers that be, that they're going to change their mind?
00:18:22.000Of course, they're not going to change their mind.
00:18:24.000You need something else to come in and disrupt things and change things up.
00:18:27.000And in our case, the richest man in the world happens to be a fan and friend of ours and came to our rescue.
00:18:33.000So I'm not sure that everybody can count on that, but it was cool, I think, that we played a role in the decision-making process that went into his bid to buy Twitter and that we're now benefiting from him taking over.
00:18:44.000And so now Donald Trump has his Twitter account back and there's all sorts of different changes happening over the weekend.
00:18:51.000Kind of give us an update for all everyone listening.
00:18:54.000What changed with Twitter over the weekend?
00:18:59.000Well, you've had Musk come out and say Freedom Fridays on Twitter, you know, kind of teasing the fact as a spoiler alert that he was going to be setting some people free.
00:19:09.000And it seems to have extended beyond Friday, he's unlocked a number of accounts.
00:19:12.000I just saw that James Lindsay was unlocked.
00:19:23.000It had been unclear to a lot of conservatives, a lot of people on the right who felt like their voices had been suppressed and silenced and taken away.
00:19:29.000It was unclear exactly what Musk was going to do about that.
00:19:32.000It's still unclear, I think, how he's going to handle these issues broadly speaking for, you know, just your average Twitter user.
00:19:39.000But it is extremely encouraging to see him coming in and lifting the banhammer on some of these bigger accounts that had been suspended for really just silly, ridiculous reasons.
00:20:00.000Do you guys believe in democracy or do you not believe in democracy?
00:20:03.000And so, Musk also has fired a bunch of really woke engineers and employees and is opening up the prisoners of war from the meme wars.
00:20:13.000Let me just ask you, Seth, as someone who traffics in comedy rather well and is kind of the leading website in that regard, Babylon B, are you seeing Twitter actually become fun again?
00:20:28.000Part of the reason is because the left is just so worked up over this Elon Musk's ownership and some of the stuff that he's doing now on banning accounts.
00:20:37.000I think, you know, obviously, unbanning or unlocking the Babylon Bees account triggered a lot of people, but Trump, I mean, they are losing their minds.
00:20:45.000You've got accounts like CBS threatening to go off of Twitter and pause all their activity on Twitter as a precautionary action, you know, because they want to see what plays out.
00:20:56.000It's like they have security concerns.
00:20:58.000The stuff that's happening right now is just beyond parody.
00:21:30.000And Musk has called for an emergency meeting for all remaining engineers in light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an abundance of caution.
00:21:37.000CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site.
00:21:41.000Yeah, we're pausing our activity on the site.
00:21:45.000And then if you let's go to cut four, CNN reports that Elon Musk reinstates Donald Trump's Twitter account after allowing users to decide in a poll.
00:22:12.000Vox populi, vox day, which is Latin and means the voice of God, or sorry, the voice of the people, the voice of God.
00:22:22.000They just don't even know how to comprehend it.
00:22:24.000And so, so, Seth, walk through the significance of this for the American right, because currently, and myself included, there are some people that are a little bit down over kind of just somehow the midterm election results happened.
00:22:37.000By the way, my favorite Babylon B headline of the last couple of weeks is Katie Hobbs projected winner of Arizona gubernatorial election with 180% precincts reporting.
00:22:50.000But can you tell us and build this out a little bit?
00:22:53.000How significance is this for, and you're a conservative, so it's okay for us to talk about this in conservative terms for the American right.
00:23:00.000Elon's not even looking at this in political terms, but this is a big victory for us.
00:23:05.000While all the midterm stuff was ongoing, Elon was actually getting into the weeds to build a virtual and online foundation that will actually allow us to probably win more in the future.
00:23:18.000I think it's bigger than just a win, though, for the American right.
00:23:21.000Obviously, it's huge for the American right, but I think it can't be overstated how big of a win it is for the American people in general.
00:23:28.000Because what you had before, you know, what they're afraid of right now, what the left is freaking out about, is that you might actually have a platform where free speech exists, where people are allowed to speak freely.
00:23:38.000Free people are allowed to speak freely.
00:23:48.000What they have no problem with is some kind of an authoritarian system where a few powerful elites that hold all this unprecedented power by owning these tech platforms where the vast majority of public discourse takes place, they don't have any problem with them deciding what's true and who can speak and what they can say because they controlled those strings.
00:24:07.000They were the ones that were controlling that platform.
00:24:10.000So now that Musk is threatened to take away some of that control, they're freaking out.
00:24:14.000But the fact that he has done that means that people are actually going to be allowed to speak and debate these issues.
00:24:20.000These prominent voices that have been sidelined are back and they're going to be pushing back on the madness, the insanity of the left.
00:24:26.000And it can't be overstated how big that is.
00:24:29.000And so it's going to go down that if Elon continues to play this out the way he is in November 2022, there might have been the red wave that never materialized in certain parts of the country, but there was a realignment of Twitter becoming an actual free speech platform.
00:24:50.000I want to play another piece of tape here.
00:24:52.000And again, this, just to see the reaction of this is just so incredible.
00:24:58.000Now, Adie Klobuchar, who is Snow Woman, she says we must make Twitter a focus of this new Congress, PlayCut 24.
00:25:08.000As you know, I've been way up front on this for a long time.
00:25:11.000And this isn't just Twitter, as you just pointed out.
00:25:15.000This is also about all of these companies.
00:25:17.000There are no rules of the road in place.
00:25:19.000Do they get to keep their immunity when they're actually amplifying hate speech and misinformation and making money off it?
00:25:27.000So I think this should be a major focus for the Congress next year.
00:25:31.000I think we have to, as well as getting everything we can get done by the end of this year.
00:25:36.000Seth, a major focus for the Democrat Congress is Twitter.
00:25:44.000Well, again, it's, you know, that's what they try to say is they use the euphemism, hate speech, misinformation, whatever.
00:25:50.000You know, what they're talking about, what you and I know they're both talking about is opinions they don't like.
00:25:54.000It's people that they don't like voicing opinions they don't like.
00:25:59.000They feel like they have to squash it.
00:26:01.000And the fact that Twitter or other platforms might actually let those opposing views be heard in the public square, you know, that becomes their top priority because that's the way that they win.
00:26:12.000How do you prop up an insane and indefensible world of you that can't withstand scrutiny and criticism?
00:26:19.000Well, you silence the scrutiny and criticism.
00:26:23.000And the amount of accounts that are now being restored is very profound and significant.
00:26:31.000And it goes to show how the left has been able to control the narratives over the last couple of years via this platform.
00:26:41.000And here's the thing: you know, just I'm going to play another piece of tape here, and it's a little bit more of the same, Seth, but it plays into this point where, because there are these doomsdayers, and I can't stand the doomsdayers, and they email us, freedom at charliekirk.com, and that's fine.
00:26:58.000If the Twitter purchase means nothing, why is it that Amy Klobuchar wants to have hearings about it?
00:27:05.000If the Twitter purchase means nothing, why is that Ed Markey is responding like this, play cut 22, with a threat 22?
00:27:14.000You cannot ignore what the federal government is requiring of your company.
00:27:19.000And it also goes for guardrails that have to be built around social media sites that are allowing for Twitter for $8 to give someone an ability to impersonate who they are.
00:27:35.000They will pay a price if they don't put safeguards in place at Twitter.
00:27:40.000Oh, so Twitter will pay a price, but TikTok can spy on our children and put forward medical mutilation trans, you know, equivalent to mind heroin, what they're putting into our kids' laps via their phone.
00:28:10.000So they were afraid of him because he had specifically and explicitly said that he was going to return free speech to this platform.
00:28:18.000Um, the question is, will he really do that?
00:28:20.000And I think it's a fair question because, while he is reinstating some accounts, there is a real lack of clarity and understanding of exactly how he's going to allow free speech to flourish, while also uh, you know, dealing with this issue of the advertisers not wanting certain types of speech on there, the activists putting pressure on those advertisers.
00:28:39.000He's got that to worry about because he needs revenue to drive the business for it.
00:28:42.000How is he going to balance keeping this a profitable business and allowing free speech?
00:28:47.000It remains to be seen how that's going to work out.
00:28:49.000Yeah, I mean, I think Elon's going to figure it out.
00:28:51.000Traffic is up, Twitter is more fun than ever, our engagement is really up and it's really exciting and we're enjoying it, and I think he's going to figure out how to monetize it.
00:28:59.000But also, here's the thing with Elon is that this was an asset transfer.
00:29:02.000For him, this wasn't necessarily a big purchase.
00:29:05.000He just moved 44 billion dollars to another company, meaning that, if it goes down a little bit in value, he's going to be fine and as long as he can keep the lights on for the next year or two years, he's going to figure it out.
00:29:23.000Free speech is actually very popular, especially when there's no other platform that really embraces it.
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00:30:32.000Seth, tell us what's your favorite headline you got up right now.
00:30:38.000Well, I mean, it's one that speaks to this whole thing.
00:30:40.000With Elon Musk, we wrote a headline about how our Babylon beat writers were struggling to think of a joke worth 44 billion and honestly, it's like it's, it's fun, it's.
00:30:50.000We're feeling inadequate, like we can't earn this.
00:30:53.000Remember that scene at the end of saving private Ryan, when they, when they, finally Tom Hanks is looking at Ryan as he's dying and he says, earn this with his last breath.
00:31:01.000That's right, you know, like i'm feeling that pressure, like we need to earn this.
00:31:10.000I mean you didn't have three brothers die in war and have a special, you know, group of people come and rescue you.
00:31:16.000I do want to play a piece of tape here just to remind our audience how, how important it is to just do the right thing and then you never know how the stars are going to align.
00:31:27.000They're hosting Elon Musk, they get to know him and then, just so happens, Elon then asset transfers 44 billion dollars and liberates the public conversation.
00:31:36.000Let's go back in the time machine, play cut 16.
00:31:39.000And then you realize it's like, wait a second, is a comedy getting at an essential truth or trying to or is there is there a propaganda element or is it trying to push you in a particular direction or getting to an essential truth that is humorous?
00:31:57.000And when it stops trying to get to an essential truth that is humorous, then it's just not that funny.
00:32:17.000So, you know, we asked for the interview and he granted it right away.
00:32:22.000So, you know, it just goes to show that he's a fan of the Bean and has been for a while and was happy to sit down with us, which was really cool.
00:32:28.000I mean, it was an amazing experience for us to get to sit with him and kind of pick his brain and do kind of an unconventional interview where instead of just asking him serious questions about like space exploration and Neuralink and Starlink and all these things that he's doing, just to like ask him fun questions, like if he'd rather be Fat Man or Iron Man, you know, like silly stuff like that.
00:32:48.000Have a little bit of fun with him and see what he says.
00:32:49.000But he did say a lot of things about speech and about comedy and the importance of humor and not taking ourselves too seriously in that interview.
00:32:57.000So I think it was interesting, thought-provoking, and certainly a lot of fun and a great opportunity for us.
00:33:02.000That is precisely why the left hates him, because one of the core commandments of being on the left is you must take yourself extremely seriously.
00:33:12.000You can't make fun of yourself ever or allow anyone to make fun of you ever.