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Feb. 23, 2022 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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11 Steps Republicans MUST Take Ahead of November + Matt Schlapp Previews CPAC 2022
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Juvenile Crimes and Hannah Tubbs 00:09:35
Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show.
Rick Scott, Republican from Florida, comes out with 11 great points Republicans need to run on.
We're also joined by Matt Schlapp from CPAC, where I will be there in just a couple hours.
That and so much more.
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So crime is on the rise all across the country, but there's two kind of tracks of the crime issue.
There's the fact that criminals feel empowered to do what they want to do because the police don't have the ability to intervene, just kind of smash and grab stores.
The anarcho-tyranny, where if you dare participate in a thought crime or give $50 to the Canadian truckers, they're going to raid your apartment, where if you want to just go steal a couple thousand dollars of merchandise, you're perfectly fine.
So there's a couple of crimes in particular I want to talk about that I think illuminate the moment that we're in in the country, but it's not just the police part of it.
It's also the district attorney.
It's the prosecution of such crimes.
So this one story is so extraordinary.
And there's been a lot of back and forth on this, but the latest is this.
George Gascon, who I think is being recalled in Los Angeles County, the fact he got elected in the first place is just extraordinary, is actually saying that his recommended sentence for this person is too short.
Now, who is this person?
Well, this person is allegedly by the name of Hannah Tubbs.
I refuse to use the term Hannah Tubbs.
I'm just going to call this person Tubbs.
This person Tubbs is a deranged criminal.
I don't say that lightly.
He's a sick individual.
This person Tubbs, two weeks shy of their 18th birthday.
Now, this person was a man when they committed the crime, still a man, now considers himself to be a woman, just so you know.
So Tubbs goes into Denny's.
This was back in 2014.
Grabbed a 10-year-old girl by the throat, locked her in a stall, shoved her hand down the girl's pants, and sexually assaulted her.
Prosecutors say stopping only after someone else entered the restroom.
Tubbs is now 26, pleaded guilty to assault, and was sentenced to two years in a juvenile facility.
Criminal record includes another allegation of sexual abuse of a child, so a repeat offender.
Now, Gascon says, quote, while most people, while for most people, several years of jail is adequate, it may not be for Miss Tubbs.
If we knew about her disregard for the harm she caused, we would have handled this case differently.
The complex issues and facts of her particular case were unusual, and I should have treated them that way.
This change in policy will allow us in the space that moving forward.
So there'll be no change, basically.
This person's going to a juvenile facility for two years, probably get out sooner than that for multiple assaults against a child, gender transition to a woman, and they're going to walk the streets free, probably doing it again.
Now, recently released phone conversations between Tubbs and his father said, They're going to stick me on probation and it's going to get dropped.
It's going to get done.
I won't have to register, won't have to do nothing.
They will not have to register as a sex offender.
And so, this kind of goes back to the Ukraine conversation in a very interesting way, which is what are we going to prioritize in our society?
So, the same sort of interventions that we need to prioritize, what problems kind of necessitate our focus, where are the real concerns, the civilizational concerns, such as deterioration of the family, crime, drugs, all these sorts of things.
And the same can be for what sort of crimes should we prosecute and how should we focus on them.
Now, do you notice how I worded that?
Because it's not that the left doesn't want all crimes to be prosecuted, they want some crimes to be prosecuted heavily and severely, and other crimes they couldn't care less.
Sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl, but it's not that big of a deal, especially if the man thinks that he's a woman.
I mean, it's a transgender person.
We have to have sympathy for that person.
Obviously, let them lose.
Just let them prowl the streets, do whatever they want.
For the left, that sort of crime, no big deal.
Smash and grab at department stores, no big deal.
But the sort of crimes that really bother them would be misgendering somebody.
The crime that they really want to focus on would be political type crimes.
Do you walk into the Capitol building and take a selfie?
Well, we want to lock you up for the rest of your life.
Here's the recorded audio: the sex offender calls Hannah Tubbs, even though it's such a joke, saying that I won't have to register as a sex offender because of the light on crime policies.
Play cut 17.
Don't worry about it.
It's a strike, but they're going to plead.
I'm going to plead out to her.
I'm going to plead guilty.
They're going to stick me on probation, and it's going to be dropped.
It's going to be gone.
Done.
I won't have to register once or nothing.
For an offender, you don't have to register.
I won't have to do none of that.
So, what are they going to do to you then?
Nothing.
They're going to do nothing.
I can walk the streets.
I'm going to be just fine for walking into a Denny's for a 10-year-old girl and sexually assaulting that girl.
Completely, totally an innocent victim.
Totally innocent.
But that is the new regime of Los Angeles.
A similar story happened in Louisville.
I want you to imagine for a second: if a Trump supporter tried to murder a Jewish mayoral candidate, how do you think that person would be treated?
Do you think that person would be bailed out?
Well, BLM Incorporated has now bailed out an individual in Tennessee.
This BLM activist was charged in a murder attempt of a Jewish mayoral candidate.
Quintez Brown, a local political activist, allegedly attempted a shooting attack on Craig Greenberg, a Jewish Democrat running for mayor in Louisville.
Louisville police have charged Quintez Brown, a local political activist.
Brown 21 has been prominent in the city's civil rights activism.
That's what they say.
Yeah, burning down cities is civil rights activism, including Black Lives Matter protests.
And previously worked for the Louisville Courier Journal.
Wow.
He's a journalist.
So he's an attempted murdering journalist, BLM guy.
Got it.
Police said he was charged on Tuesday for attempted murder in his alleged shooting attack in Greenberg's downtown office.
No one was hurt, but a bullet penetrated Greenberg's clothing.
No motive has been reported.
Oh, I wonder what the motive would be against a Jewish candidate.
Of course, you're not allowed to say that if it's a potential black criminal, like, oh, no, no, we don't know what the motive is, right?
Okay, sure.
The suspect arrested over an attempted assassination attempt, released on bail.
People say that he has suffered from mental illness, referring to his disappearance last year for two weeks.
And who bailed him out?
The local BLM chapter bailed him out.
They raised the money and they got Quintez Brown out of jail.
So now Quintez Brown is walking the streets after he tries to murder a Jewish man running for office.
I want you to imagine for a second if a Trump supporter did that.
A MAGA hat-wearing Trump supporter tried to murder a Jewish man running for office.
I mean, it would be nationwide news.
It would be a hate crime.
Every Republican would have to apologize preemptively for what's happening.
Instead, the media is completely silent on this.
Meanwhile, this guy shared anti-Semitic views, but we're not allowed to say that there's any sort of motive here because he's a member of BLM.
You sexually assault a 10-year-old girl, you get a couple years of juvenile detention when you're 26 and nothing on your record.
You try to murder a Jewish man running for office and you're a Black Lives Matter black activist, no big deal.
But you walk into the Capitol and take a selfie and wave a flag, they're going to treat you as if you're in gitmo, a political prisoner.
Transforming the Republican Party 00:15:20
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Senator Rick Scott has come out with a pledge to the voters of this country, 11-point plan with 128 promises from Republicans saying we win elections by having plans.
So you can see it at rescueamerica.com.
I'm open-minded to this, and actually, I think it's a good thing Republicans are starting to put their promises in a clear, easy to understand, easy to follow, very public fashion.
Here are some of the promises.
It's an 11-point rescue plan for America.
You guys can download it and check it out.
So it actually has here, Rick Scott says, quote, great nations don't automatically last forever.
It's true.
Wise, actually.
All right, here they are.
He says, the hour is late for America.
He says our government has created the highest debt in human history.
Pleased to hear him talk about the debt.
He says, quote, Americans are afraid to speak their minds for fear of being silenced and canceled by woke elitists.
He's totally right.
Our children are being poisoned by a false political agenda in their schools.
Correct.
Inflation is a tax placed on us by politicians who waste our money.
Totally agree.
Our inept withdrawal from Afghanistan dishonored the sacrifices of thousands of Americans and encouraged our enemies.
Half right.
The way we withdrew was stupid, but we should have withdrew.
Our poorest southern border is a national crisis.
Yes.
Our cities are overrun by theft, violence, and a 30% increase in murder.
I agree.
Our government is making us less energy independent and killing jobs.
Spot on.
American warfighters are being indoctrinated with left-wing woke foolishness and kicked out of the military because of big brother vaccine mandates.
Yes.
Our government is eroding our work ethic by paying people not to work.
Yes.
We are allowing biological males to destroy women's sports.
Yes.
Our kids are being taught to hate America and divide each other by skin color.
Yes.
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It's good.
The FBI is spying on concerned parents who speak out at school board meetings.
Yes.
Washington's economy is growing and America's economy is shrinking.
Yes.
And lethal drugs are pouring into our country from China and our southern border.
Rick Scott, I got to say, that's a good diagnosis.
It's very good.
There's a couple things that I would add, such as corporate tyranny that he doesn't have in there, but he's close.
So here are the 11 promises by Rick Scott.
With Republicans in leadership, our kids will say the Pledge of Allegiance, salute the flag, and learn that America is a great country and choose the school that fits best for them.
Good.
Number two, government will never again ask American citizens to disclose their race, ethnicity, or skin color on any government form.
I love that.
Three, the soft on crime days of coddling criminal behavior will end.
We will refund and respect the police because they, not criminals, are the good guys.
Four, we'll secure our border, finish building the wall, and naming it after Donald Trump.
I love it.
Number five, we will grow American's economy, starve Washington's economy, and stop socialism.
A little generic, a little light there, but philosophically on point.
Six, we'll eliminate all federal programs that can be done locally and enact term limits for federal bureaucrats and Congress.
I like that.
Seven, we will protect the integrity of American democracy and stop left-wing efforts to rig our elections.
Good.
We'll promote and defend the American family at all costs.
Yes.
Nine, men are men, women are women, and unborn babies are babies.
We believe in science.
America 10.
Americans will be free to welcome God into all aspects of our lives.
And 11, we are Americans, not globalists.
Americans will be dependent on no other country.
We will conduct no trade that takes away jobs or displaces American workers.
Countries who oppose us at the UN will get zero financial help from us.
We will be energy independent and build supply chains that will rely on our adversaries.
So I can go through this in greater detail.
This is a phenomenal 11-point plan.
Where was this 11-point plan when Trump took office in 2017?
Answer: The transformation of the Republican Party was just starting then.
This is a nationalist, pro-worker, pro-family, pro-American party.
And Rick Scott, I think, did a very good job of articulating that.
If this is the direction the Republican Party is going to continue to do from leadership and go from leadership, the country has a shot.
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He's talking about the right things.
I know a lot of people say, oh, it's just talk.
Well, talk is what you need before action, but it's a good start.
Look, there's so much political pressure out there from the left and the woke mob, and it's from the Democrat Party.
Our society has ultimately been controlled by canceled cultural elites.
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Joe Biden just announced the Schmerlu sanctions on Ukraine.
Not really sure what that was all about.
He kept slurring his words, which you guys can have your own interpretation for that.
I just want to reiterate this point, though.
The reason why Putin feels so empowered is because of Biden's war on domestic energy.
I don't think we should get involved in Ukraine.
I think it's a waste of time.
We have so many things happening here in our country.
We've said that repeatedly.
But one thing I can agree with establishment Republicans on and warmonger Republicans is none of this would be an issue if we allowed domestic exploration of our own assets.
On Thursday, I will be speaking at the legendary Conservative Political Action Conference, which is a phenomenal gathering and organization run by my friend who's with us right now, Matt Schlapp, the chairman of CPAC, and I will be there midday Thursday.
Matt, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
Great to be with you again, Charlie.
Matt, how's it looking for this year?
I bet record numbers.
Tell me.
Well, I think that's the case.
You know what it's like to have a conference with record numbers, but what I always notice, I know that we're doing well when the media starts turning on us quickly.
And, you know, we had a lot of attacks already.
What's strange, Charlie?
You'll get this.
We get attacks from the right and the left.
It seems like the right is never happy with the decisions we make.
And of course, the left would like just to put us all in prison, a la Canada.
So we must be doing something right because everything's kind of exploding.
Well, you guys do an amazing job.
Honored to speak there.
So tell us about some of the big headliners that you guys have.
And what's the message of this year's CPAC?
Yeah, thanks for coming, Charlie.
You're going to be speaking, I believe, twice on Thursday.
You're going to be a part of a tribute to Andrew Breitbart, the 10th anniversary of his death.
That panel is called War from his famous comments about what the left really wants to do to all of us and to our culture.
And you're also going to be giving a standalone speech, which I know people are excited to hear what your message is.
I'm going to ask you what your message is, but I'm first going to tell you that I had a hand in picking the theme of the conference because I've lived through all this crap like we all have over the last couple of years.
And our theme is awake, not woke.
To me, what establishment Republicans are missing is they think this is all about the economic situation, which is pretty bad, but it's bigger than that.
And I think this whole the death of woke and woke on trial in November is what it's all about.
Well, that's phenomenal.
I love that.
And you have a great way of framing the tone and the message to really kind of fit where the country's at.
You're not really sure what I'm going to talk about.
I think kind of a theme, Matt, that I'm going to play on.
I know something that you're focusing on through the breakouts and other things is the rise of the citizen and the collapse of the regime.
Is we're starting to see regular everyday people rise up.
Talk a little bit about that, Matt, at CPAC.
You see people from all across the planet come.
I'm guessing you guys are almost sold out, if not sold out already.
But these are everyday normal people, moms and dads, and parents that show up to school board meetings, students as well.
It's a gathering of regular, everyday grassroots Americans that are able to congregate, gather, and be encouraged towards action.
Yeah.
So, as far as the sellout part of it, it's hard for me to ever get to selling out because I'm always trying to figure out a way to cram.
You understand this: 10 people here, 25 people there, because they have a right to be able to hear from these great leaders and speakers.
And we got the biggest ballroom in Florida.
On command of the president, he told me, Hey, Matt, you can do a little better than at Hyatt.
And we don't like that Hyatt too much.
So we did do it.
I don't like that.
That's right.
We do not like them.
And I learned the hard way, Charlie.
I've realized now you really can't do a conservative.
It's not really a conservative conference.
It's a conference about America.
It's a conference about the Constitution.
You can't do that in hotels that will cancel you.
And they try to do that to us.
And so, you know, we're going to a hotel that's friendly territory or at least just apolitical.
How about that?
That'd be nice, right?
And so the crowd will be great.
And I do agree with you about this idea of citizens.
We have a woman coming from Miami who runs a couple of schools and outlawed CRT in her schools and doesn't follow any mask mandates ever, never did, no vax mandates.
And she's a real hero, I believe.
We have people who took back their school boards in Texas and exposed the idea that parents are not domestic terrorists.
We have business people who are coming forward who are saying, you know, wokeism is destroying, woke incorporated is destroying what we understand to be the free market system in America.
So, yeah, I agree with you.
It's like, I love all the senators and the congressmen and the governors, and we have great ones.
But really, this is a moment for citizens to stand up.
So, if that's what you're going to talk about, I think it's really going to hit a chord.
And for me, what I've seen is everyone's too damn quiet.
Everyone is so worried that they'll get canceled personally that we're almost giving up the whole show because we're so scared of the ramifications on our individual lives.
That's exactly right.
Well, and that's part of what CPAC has always done and has done for me too for 10 years.
You guys have been always so generous and nice to give me a platform to be able to invigorate people and to be able to get the message out.
It's been phenomenal.
So, Matt, I want to shift gears a little bit just to talk with you personally.
You could talk on behalf of CPAC or not, however you want to navigate that about your book.
It's a great, it's a phenomenal book.
You and I have been talking about it for a little while.
It's called Really Defeating Cancel Culture: The Desecrators.
Talk about your book and why you wrote it.
I wrote the book because, quite honestly, my friend Deal Hudson flew out and saw me at CPAC and said, Hey, you need to write a book about what you and Mercy went through supporting Trump as an establishment, Bush Republicans in 2015 and 16.
And then Mercy went to work for President Trump, and I was an advisor on the outside, much like you were.
And, you know, what was that story like?
Because at the end of it, it was very hard for us to deal with the fact that we had very few friendships that remained.
I had very few commercial contacts that remained.
It was destruction.
And so as I saw this destruction going on in the country with Black Lives Matter violence, assassinating cops, burning down our cities, we were also facing this destruction in our own life where Mercy was and still is on assassination lists from these far left groups.
She's on lists that say she should never get a job again in America because she is too associated with Trump.
And as you know, Charlie, even being associated with Trump isn't easy because it's a, you know, it's a mixed group of folks that are inside that camp too.
So it's, it's a tough, it was a tough couple of years.
And it just kind of all poured out of me.
And I feel deal must feel the same way.
And it's a real call to arms.
It's not about me as much as it is about the country and our values.
And to understand that cancel culture is only the top level of the evil goes much deeper.
And the spiritual element to this cancel culture battle is why we call it the desecrators, because there's an attempt to destroy all goodness, all truth, everything that's holy, everything that's transcendent, the church, America, faith, gender, everything in life that builds culture, builds civilization, and creates human joy.
There's a coordinated attack on each and every one of those at the same time.
The book is called The Desecrators, Defeating the Cancel Culture Mob and Reclaiming One Nation Under God.
Go buy a couple of copies and then go get Matt to sign it at CPAC.
Go find him.
He'll probably be running in between interviews.
Defeating Cancel Culture Mob 00:03:07
So, Matt, I want to ask you personally, just where do you think the state of the Republican Party is?
We had you on about a year ago, right before CPAC, and we were both pretty fired up that too many Republicans seemed uninterested in fixing our elections.
The lack of any sort of infrastructure post-election to be able to actually fight for election integrity.
You were on the front lines in Nevada.
You did a great job despite kind of the last minute operation there, which obviously wasn't on you.
It was just based on the lack of that from the campaign.
What's the state of the Republican Party right now?
That's a great question.
I think that these committees still have a role to play.
They're an important finance arm for the party.
But the real question is, why is the left able to raise so much more money and use nonprofits in new and innovative ways?
They never seem to get into any legal trouble and really swamp us.
And that's what the last election showed.
It wasn't that Joe Biden or the DNC raised a whole bunch of money.
It was that Mark Zuckerberg and all the Zuckerbucks, others, they raised about $500 million to sway the election.
All that money flowed through nonprofits.
So when you look at the amount of money the left is pushing through nonprofits, we have two choices.
We can get power again and try to curtail what some might argue is a misuse of nonprofits, or we could do the exact same thing.
And I think that's what we have to learn to do more of is to break our old ways of doing things.
And if the left is going to do something and the government won't prosecute them because they think it's lawful, well, we need to, we need to mimic them, which is why at ACU we started this First Amendment fund to help pay for the legal expenses or defend the constitutional rights of those who are being canceled left and right.
We mimicked that off of the NAACP fund to uphold the constitutional rights of people of color.
And so I think we have to learn from their tricks and hopefully we'll outmaneuver them and they'll have to learn from our tricks.
But if we keep doing the same thing, we're going to keep winding up in the same hole.
What do you anticipate from Republicans heading into this election cycle?
CPAC actually is kind of the beginning of the midterms.
I think we could say that.
I mean, it's really kind of a starting point.
You're going to see a lot of the different messages being shared.
It'll be really instructive.
Kind of connect that with what do you think the Republican message going into November is going to be if we want to win?
I think it is the starting point of the midterms.
And look, I think a lot of outsiders are going to win, Charlie.
I think this kind of Donald Trump phenomenon is going to keep happening.
And I think we're going to win almost every close race, even in tough states, because I think woke is on trial and I think it's incredibly unpopular.
And I think that when Republicans get majorities, I'd say the House majority is a dang near slam dunk.
The Senate is a little tougher because it's more incumbent on the candidate that emerges from these primaries.
But, you know, if we get this power and do the same thing we did the last couple of times with that power, I think the Republican Party will be done.
Outsiders Win as Woke Loses 00:02:47
I think the Republican activists want to see us actually believe as deeply in the issues we campaign on as the left is.
And that when we get power, we go after their wrongdoing just as aggressively as they go after our fake wrongdoing.
And if we don't do that, then you and I need to get together and figure out how we're going to work politics in this country because it won't be through the Republican Party.
That's that's well said.
And you've been a really articulate critic, as have I.
And it's been really helpful to have to have you say that because we have to keep the pressure on the Republican Party.
I'm losing patience with them in a lot of different ways, but I hope it's fixable within the party apparatus as it is.
We will be at CPAC.
And boy, Matt, you must be there already in 48 hours.
I will be.
I'm leaving this interview, Charlie, to go hop a fly to Reagan Airport and we get started tomorrow morning.
And it's exciting.
As you know, it's tiring.
It's exciting.
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The Permanent Trump Party 00:04:35
Matt, you know, talk a little bit about how at CPAC, you have the different components of the movement.
I'm always struck by how welcoming it is.
Libertarians, traditional conservatives, you don't allow the rhinos.
I remember last year or the year before, you uninvited Mitt Romney or you didn't allow him at all.
Talk a little bit about how all the different components are, but also, Matt, talk about you got to draw some lines sometimes.
Sometimes it's like, you know what?
You're really not with us.
Yeah, you know, I'm pretty libertarian about things.
When I became in charge of CPAC, I thought, well, we'll just kind of let everyone speak.
And, you know, I was kind of naive.
We'll let everyone get a booth and what's the big deal.
And I realized over time that there are divisions and I'm a unifying person generally, but not to a point.
And we have to draw certain lines.
And I think establishment, Republican leadership, et cetera, just assumed that they could drop in at CPAC.
And everyone uses and misuses this word conservative.
They were a conservative.
So we kind of looked at our ratings and we said, hey, we got to get tougher on these ratings because it's true, every Republican has like a great score, but they're never there on the votes that really matter.
So we looked at that and we started using the scorecard to invite members and a lot of members fell off the list and they're kind of sore about it.
And it's kind of simple.
You know, if you, Ronald Reagan said, if you're, if you're with me 80% of the time, you're with my eight, you're, you're my 80% friend.
But if you can't be with us 80% of the time, you kind of suck, Charlie.
And you probably shouldn't get a spotlight at CPAC.
I couldn't agree more.
So your keynote, if you could call it that, I mean, kind of the speaker that will be the most attended speaker of all is, of course, President Trump.
Looks like he's going to run.
What does he need to do differently?
He needs to have a better team around him.
He had, I think, his re-elect campaign team was weak.
And I think not every member, there was plenty of good people there, like my spouse, but they weren't organized for the battle that laid ahead for them, including on all this illegal voting.
Yes.
And I also think that he, and I've talked to him about this, you probably have too.
He understands the game now of politics and Washington, D.C. a lot better than he did when he came in.
I think, quite honestly, him and his family were a little bit disdainful of Washington, D.C. because they had dominated New York City so well that they thought they would dominate Washington.
Washington is a mean place filled with people of mediocre talent, and they'll fight to the death to kill you.
And I think Donald Trump was getting killed in ways that he never saw coming.
And that's the evilness of the swamp.
And I think if he gets another chance in the swamp, I think he'll be ready on day one to pick the right kind of people and to know what they're up against.
So I'm hopeful that a second Trump term would begin the first moment on the right foot.
I think that's right.
And from day one, he would purge the intel agencies and all the things that we'd like to see him do.
And Matt, I'm encouraged by this new Rick Scott document.
I don't know if you saw it or not, but it's basically the Trump Party has kind of now become permanent.
Talk a little bit about that.
Yeah, look, I get this question all the time is, well, what does the Republican Party can be against Biden and against socialism?
Well, what are they for?
I would say, are you kidding me?
We gave you four years of what we're about and what we stand for.
We did, we accomplished more together under President Trump's leadership than any president I can ever remember or any leader I can remember.
The policies are right there.
If the Republican Party grab them and run on them, they will have one of the most overwhelming victories in November you could ever imagine.
Matt, can't wait to see you in sunny Florida.
Thank you for having us.
It's going to be amazing.
And Matt, again, is the author of The Desecrators, Defeating the Cancel Culture Mob and Reclaiming One Nation Under God.
It's going to be a packed time at CPAC.
You guys can get your tickets.
I think it's CPAC.org.
Is that right?
Matt?
CPAC.org and go to thedesecrators.com if you want to find information out about the book and come on out and join us.
Come join Charlie Kirk.
Come join all these people from all over America who love America.
It's going to be great.
Matt, I'll see you there.
Thank you so much.
Okay, Matt.
Thanks.
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