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Aug. 22, 2022 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Ask Charlie Anything 117: Are Kids Not Bored Enough? RNC Sabotaging America First Candidates? NYC Closes 9/11 Memorial?
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I just want to start by thanking all of you.
We have the greatest audience.
I learned so much from you.
Now, every once in a while, we get what you call it, a spicy email, Connor, every once in a while.
But generally, your emails are so supportive and so encouraging.
And honestly, I learned so much.
I really do.
And this is something that I learned from the great Rush Limbaugh.
He opened up his email all the time.
I think it was LRushbo at EIB.net, which is if you have the combined intelligence of your entire audience, you're going to hit things with much greater precision than just one person staring at a wall and talking.
So just thank you for the emails.
They mean a lot.
And I love the disagreements too.
When people say, Charlie, I don't know if I agree with that, or I don't know if I agree with that.
It's almost a crowdsource way of running a program.
It's very unique.
It's very new.
And it's something that we're honored that you participate in.
And it blesses me greatly.
Okay, I want to get to some questions here.
We got some phenomenal ones here.
Charlie, we know that historically, all representative societies and governments have eventually fallen.
Do you know of any historical examples of societies moving back towards freedom after taking a slide towards totalitarianism like our country has without a major revolution or conflict?
I agree with the plans you lay forward on taking back our country.
But in doing so, are we in uncharted territory historically?
I think we all want to see our society move back towards freedom without it falling apart completely.
Thank you for all you do.
Love the show.
I'm a subscriber, Gene from Tennessee.
So this is a great question.
I actually address this question at great length in my book, The MAGA Doctrine.
One of the things that I talk about in the MAGA doctrine is that there is the cycle of civilizations where, of course, there's a kind of a time where you are trying to form your identity.
You're in the wild.
Then you start to collect combined power.
You start to choose what kind of government you want.
If it's representative, it usually slips into a democracy.
And democracy is largely unsustainable without a check in a balance or a Republican small R republic as a basis of it.
And it drives the media nuts when you say democracy is unsustainable, but it is because you're just going to have people continually vote themselves stuff and vote other people's rights away.
Remember, tyrants always use fear and free stuff as the two ways to try to manipulate a population.
And so, but there are examples, though, of resurgence.
Talked about this in the book, The MAGA Doctrine, because I admit in the MAGA Doctrine, we are currently on a civilizational decline.
And I ask the question: Has there ever been a time where someone resurged a dying civilization?
Justinian is a great example of one leader who did this.
So did Queen Elizabeth, amongst many others.
As far as somebody who, and those are the two best examples I could think of the top of my head, it's been a while since I was kind of getting in the weeds of writing the book.
But this idea of civilizational resurgence is not a new topic, but it's very hard.
It's very hard to turn away, turn around a civilization that is participating in monetary, cultural, and spiritual decline, especially one where it's being done to yourself.
I would argue historically, and I'm a student of history, I'm constantly learning.
I learned under Bill Federer, I learned under many other people.
I spend a couple hours a day studying history and diving deep into it.
That a civilization is much more likely to fall from internal combustion than foreign invasion.
As Churchill beautifully said, he said, a nation that goes down fighting will rise again, but a nation that surrenders will never see glory ever again.
So even if you are invaded by a foreign power, that's actually not the worst thing that can happen to your country.
It's bad, it's terrible.
You can live under despotic, authoritarian, and tyrannical rule.
But if you really want your civilization to go into the dustbin of history, as many of the great civilizations have, have it happen internally.
And if you look at the fall of the Roman Empire, it is almost identical what has happened with the fall of the Roman Empire and what's happening in America: an inflated currency, moral decline, the perversion of children, the blurring of gender norms, free stuff, widespread corruption in the capital.
Now, it's very interesting, though, because Rome did not all fall at once, which is kind of goes to this idea of a national divorce, of what is the path forward.
Remember, Rome did not all fall.
Rome broke into the Eastern Roman Empire, which then became Byzantium and flourished for hundreds of years post-the fall of the traditional Roman Empire.
We then had Constantine and many others that actually helped proliferate Christianity and protect core Christian ideas that some would argue built the basis for modern-day Western civilization.
So the question is a very good one: which is, has civilizational resurgence ever happened again?
Yes, but it's very short-lived.
But I think we have something that many other civilizations do not have.
We have access to information, the ability to communicate better than any other civilization in the past.
So what does that mean?
So, for example, when the Roman Empire was falling and Justinian was trying to get to power, it was very hard to get the word out.
It was hard to communicate to people.
Now that we have technology and we have Rumble, we have podcasting, I can tell you, or Steve Bannon can tell you, or Tucker Carlson can tell you, what is the game plan?
What is the roadmap?
What is necessary to move forward?
So I think that's a great thing.
Also, we do have the great added benefit of multi-thousand years of history.
Now, if history is any guide, we'll just ignore the history, but we have it.
We know how this works.
Now, why is it where people say, well, history does not repeat itself, it rhymes.
Okay, well, it repeats and it rhymes.
Why is that?
Because we're dealing with the same type of thing.
We're dealing with human beings that act in predictable ways.
This is where the left completely disagrees with us.
The left believes that human beings are malleable based on the type of civilization, the structure all around them, and that anything you see wrong is because of capitalism, private property rights, racism, misogyny, homophobia.
We have to remove those things and human beings can perfect themselves and get closer towards what they would consider to be the Übermensch, as Friedrich Nietzsche would put it.
We disagree with that.
We think human beings are all pretty screwed up, that our general internal operating system is flawed.
This is a biblical concept, but it doesn't have to be exclusively those that believe in the Judeo-Christian canon of believing that essentially man is flawed from the beginning.
We call this the original sin or the fall, and that anything that we do to try to glorify God or serve our neighbors is to try to improve our conditions and improve our life, but we're never going to perfect man itself.
That's where Christianity is such an unbelievably different religious promise than any other religion that's ever happened because God actually became man.
God became the broken thing.
I mean, again, to truly understand that, to understand that you have a ubiquitous, perfect God who then transforms, that actually becomes that of which is broken to save us from ourselves, that is a concept that is very difficult for human reason at times to wrap our hands around.
So, has it ever happened before?
Yes, but it's short-lived.
This is why we have to be very clear about the long-term nature of the fight.
This is why some people are calling for a new founding.
Now, the idea of a new founding is that what's happened before is wonderful, but we have to now reassert our principles and say, now this is day zero or this is day one.
There's actually something rather refreshing to it.
You can almost discard the mistakes of generations past and chart a vision forward.
As it says in the Bible, without a vision, the people perish.
But it's very difficult.
It's much more likely, if you want to talk about historically and be fair about it, it's more likely we mess this whole thing up.
That we have internal disputes, divisions, our currency falls apart, we have lying politicians, we have open borders.
Huge part of the fall of Rome was open borders, the decline of citizenship, the rise of subjugation or of subjects.
Again, that's something that is very important to understand the tension between citizenship and subjects.
It's nothing new.
What we're experiencing is we're dealing with the same type of thing.
When the founding fathers said, all men are created equal, what they meant is that all men are the same sort of thing, human beings, the speaking beings.
By the way, anyone that tells you the founding fathers did not believe in God, why did they say that all men are created equal?
Why didn't they say all men are equal?
That word created has a lot of weight.
That means that there is intent and design behind the human species.
It was not a roll of dice.
It was not an accident.
The founding fathers believe that you're here for a purpose.
Then they go on to say the laws of nature and nature is God.
God is mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence.
Are you like every one of us that thinks our country has gone nuts, whether it's Russia Gate, market crashes, or selling oil to China, or this insane inflation?
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Charlie, love how you focus on establishment Republicans.
We need more of that.
Why do Republicans seem to be afraid to run on a platform of law and order?
Do they not want to be called racist?
This seems like a winning message.
No, Nate from Pittsburgh.
This is one of my most frustrating topics.
I have to be honest.
It is the trillion-dollar bill laying on the sidewalk right now.
Is any Republican that messages the essence of what is happening in the country when it comes to crime?
It's a trillion-dollar bill.
You could turn your entire election around if you become someone that is unapologetic about stopping crime.
And you got to be forceful about it.
You got to talk about harsh sentences.
You got to talk about getting rid of bail reform.
You got to talk about increasing police.
You have to talk about patrolling streets.
You have to talk about busting down doors of gangbangers.
And what a great opportunity it would have been post-Mar-a-Lago raid for the Senate Republicans to come out and say, go do the cartels next.
Go into the gangs in the inner city of Philadelphia.
Now, right now, there is a Senate race happening in Pennsylvania.
Polls show Dr. Oz down 18 points with Fetterman up massively.
Now, I wish Fetterman a quick and speedy recovery.
I don't make light of people's health issues, but Fetterman is a legitimately awful candidate right now.
He could barely talk in coherent sentences.
And I'm not trying to make fun of it.
It's a fact, okay?
And I wish him a recovery.
Cut 108, John Fetterman.
This is who's up by nearly 18 points in the Pennsylvania primary.
Why?
Well, it's because the most obvious issue is not being campaigned on in Pennsylvania, which is we're going to find every criminal, lock them up, and be unapologetic about it.
We're going to find you in the night.
We're going to raid your home.
This is John Fetterman, who's very awful on crime.
He's the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania.
Play Cut 108.
And you can count on us to eliminate the filibuster.
If you come out and step with us, we will be able to stand with you in D.C.
I gave away the lieutenant governor governor in Pennsylvania, the only lieutenant governor in the history to do that.
And let's get some stuff done for America.
Who would ever think that I would be the normal, the normal one in the race area?
Okay, I'm not trying to make fun of people's health.
That's not what we do here on this program.
That's mean and cruel.
That's what the left does.
That man is not well, and he should not be up 18 points against anybody, period.
I didn't understand a word he was saying.
Is he not lieutenant governor anymore?
Is that what he's saying?
That he gave up the lieutenant governorship?
Again, it's babbling incoherency.
Why is he up so much?
Again, you might say, Charlie, I don't trust the polls.
Okay, I don't trust the polls.
Let's pretend they're off by 15 points.
Let's pretend the polls are off by 15 points.
He's still up.
And I could tell you right now, people in Pennsylvania say the polls are right.
Fetterman is pulling away with it.
You know what I think the candidates in Pennsylvania should be talking about?
They should be talking about this story.
What cut is this one?
The mass graves.
What cut is that?
Where in Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, they cannot dig graves fast enough.
You want to talk about a powerful visual?
Workers say that 90% of new graves at this Upper Darby burial ground are from gun violence.
Many victims in their teens and 20s.
They literally cannot build graves quick enough.
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The visuals are incredible.
Where they have these mass graves that have now been created and they cannot build them.
Yes.
Do we have the video component of it?
Can we tell me when we could play it?
Oh, it's playing?
Okay.
I'll just narrate over it.
So for those of you on radio, it looks like Arlington Cemetery.
I mean, I don't say that lightly.
That's just from gun violence.
Now, I don't even like the term gun violence.
I don't think anyone should use it.
You know what gun violence is?
Gang violence.
Okay?
It's gang violence.
Now, Mastriano, I think, will be able to properly message on this and talk about the increase of crime and do something about it.
But man, we're going to lose these Senate races if all we're talking about is their way of setting the terms of engagement on abortion.
We should be unapologetically pro-life, but we also must be honest that a lot of voters are not as pro-life as we are.
So you have to be smart because I want to win.
Number two, if we're going to talk about the issues they want to talk about, like Donald Trump and January 6th.
And number three, if it just becomes a personality contest, they're going to win the Hollywood contest.
But if we talk about crime, talk about immigration, you talk about the chemical castration of children, and we call ourselves the Parents Party.
Now we're talking.
Now we're talking about something that could potentially win elections.
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Just to show how people want you to talk about drugs and crime, this is how Donald Trump talks about it, cut 119.
Don't have any problem.
It doesn't take 15 years in court.
It goes quickly.
And you absolutely, you execute a drug dealer and you'll save 500 lives because they kill on average 500 people.
It's terrible to say, but you take a look at every country in this world that doesn't have a problem with.
You know, there's a reason why that man has a following.
Maybe Republicans could learn something from it.
Plain spoken truth.
I've said it once.
I'll say it again.
2016 Trump is the best.
When everyone thought he was going to lose after the Billy Bush tapes and he just went nuts.
He went full nationalist.
He went full populist.
And that was from a couple weeks ago, obviously.
But that kind of energy was 16 energy, though.
Okay, let's get to another question here.
This question is one that I've been wanting to address, and it's going to take a little time.
That's why I waited for the middle part of the hour.
Resetting Your Dopamine Brain 00:11:32
Hi, Charlie.
I've listened to your podcast for about a year now.
Thank you.
We appreciate that very much.
I'm a mom of four with three grown boys and a 15-year-old girl.
I'm in my 20th year of homeschooling, and we've been struggling with our youngest child.
What we've been struggling with is summed up in your episode from today on digital hermits.
Highly recommend, by the way, very important episode.
I felt like we've done a good job with our kids, raising them in church and homeschooling, giving them a biblical worldview.
But all that changed with COVID.
Even as homeschoolers, our world was turned upside down.
Our church closed, even though it is back open.
We haven't really gone back and gotten engaged.
Very understandable.
We go sporadically.
Happens to a lot of people.
But I'm afraid the damage is already done.
My daughter is as you described on your episode.
She has her phone constantly.
When I take it from her, she becomes someone I don't know.
It is literally an addiction.
When you take it from her, she has literal withdrawal symptoms.
Only they are shaking and vomiting.
Shaking and vomiting if you do not have your smartphone.
She then starts spewing hatred like I've never seen before.
I know it's not too late.
You're right.
It is not too late.
I'm going to buy that book from today's episode and read it.
And your suggestion to take away the phone is in the works, but I'm feeling like such a failure right now.
First of all, you're not a failure.
Let me just kind of encourage you and all the parents out there.
You are not a failure.
You're dealing with a drug that your experts, your leaders, never told you honestly with what it was.
You are not a failure.
It's not too late to turn around.
I'm going to tell you my recommendation in a minute.
How do I get her plugged back in?
I was just wondering, how do you do that in a world like we have today?
She'll be driving soon.
I will want her to have a phone in case of an emergency.
Also, computers are a necessity for school.
I'm just wondering if you have any more suggestions on this matter.
I really find your information useful.
Thank you for your patriotism and your passion for what you do.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Sincerely, a heartbroken mom, Alice.
Well, first of all, don't be heartbroken yet.
You have a lot of time left to fix this.
So a book that I found to be incredibly helpful with this is a book called Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter.
It's a terrific book.
I actually recommended all of our directors at Turning Point USA read it.
So I just want to tell you one thing again.
You are not a failure as a parent.
You are dealing with something so incredibly complex, something that I believe is the new heroin.
And so you describe, quote, when you take the phone away, she has withdrawal symptoms that are shaking and vomiting.
So let me first not answer your question directly.
Let me talk to all the other parents that are listening to this.
This is a mom self-described that says she's heartbroken that gave her daughter a phone far too young.
Parents out there, do not give your children phones, period.
It is not necessary.
You might say, well, Charlie, I have to connect or communicate with them.
Go buy a jitterbug.
They can call and that's it.
They do not need a smartphone.
What she is describing, vomiting and shaking, if not having her phone, is no different than heroin or cocaine addicts, where the brain literally goes into a withdrawal mode.
It is so deplete of dopaminergic function that it can only survive with the continuation and the consumption of the drug.
So what does one do?
So here's what my recommendation would be.
I would recommend planning a family trip, depending on where you live, to somewhere wild.
Boundary Waters is a great place.
The Rocky Mountains, no phones, but it has to be for three to four days.
I know that's a long period of time.
No one can check their phones in three to four days.
The clinical data shows it takes three to four days to begin the process of detoxification.
Believe it or not, in three to four days, you can make an enormous amount of brain reset, especially if you're in nature, if you're away from the phone, you're away from otherwise stimulating objects.
So I say this, you know, kids come up to me sometimes and say, Charlie, I'm so depressed.
I'd say, maybe you are, but you're probably burned out.
They say, what do you mean?
This device, without you realizing it, is destroying your body's ability to decipher reality from fiction and stimulant from normal.
Remember, dopamine is a reward molecule in your brain.
Dopamine, I believe God gave us dopamine to keep us going, to keep us going to the next thing.
The problem, though, is, and these Silicon Valley serpents, these Silicon Valley masters of the universe knew exactly what they were doing.
They manipulated neuroscience, especially in developing brains, to have you to continue to scroll unnecessarily.
That literally overheats your entire operating system.
It would be the equivalent of running a car going 130 miles an hour for five days straight.
The engine is going to overheat.
It is not sustainable.
And so my first piece of advice, Alice, is going to be a little contrarian.
It's going to be something that you might not expect me to say, which is your daughter isn't bored enough.
If you ask any child that was raised before the advent of smartphones the following question, how often were you bored growing up?
The answer would be quite often.
I was bored all the time.
In fact, my parents and my community made boredom just part of growing up.
Figure it out.
Go outside.
Start playing.
Use your imagination.
Depression and anxiety in a lot of different cases.
Now, I'm not discounting that there's legitimate genetic and hereditary potential predisposition to this, but I believe a vast majority of this is imagination gone wrong.
You're not bored enough.
So your brain needs a chance to retreat, reset, and mind wander.
Children go from device to device to screen to screen.
The brain cannot handle it.
You are dealing with a primitive brain designed by God to survive in the wild, of which a stimulation might be a human conversation, a campfire, or a hunt.
And that's about it.
That's what we were designed to be able to intake.
God designed us to survive in the wild.
But now we throw our kids and we have these screens of which not only are they hyper-stimulating, there's someone on the back end of the screen that is intentionally prodding and provoking your dopaminergic response where you feel as if you need more of that drug and they're manipulating all the way through.
Now, a lot of parents don't quite understand this.
And I get it.
That's okay.
Now, data shows this, that you will see more attractive women or attractive men swiping on Instagram or single sites in 10 minutes versus 10 lifetimes 100 years ago.
For young men, especially, that makes them feel rather depressed.
What's the point of living?
Their brain gets, it melts their ability to process meaning and purpose.
And I'll say this.
Therapists don't understand this.
Psychiatrists largely don't understand this.
And doctors don't understand this.
Now, I could say this, by the way, as soon as I started limiting screen time and I started to spend more time in nature, my happiness increased dramatically.
I can't imagine, though, how frustrating it must be.
For parents, and they have 15 to 6 years old, why are you depressed all the time?
Why are you anxious all the time?
The phones are one easy answer.
Here's a couple other things that you could do, which is after maybe that three to four day trip to Boundary Waters or to go somewhere with no phone, that's when a new regime needs to be set in.
That's your opportunity.
That's your window.
So the three to four days the brain has reset, all of a sudden you're going to start to see more regular serotonin and dopamine type levels resurge.
And then at that point, a new regime needs to be put forward where you need to have, you need to convince your daughter.
Well, you don't have to convince her because you're the parent, but you could just say very clearly that this device is making you depressed and unhappy and not yourself.
And we are going to do everything we can to create distance from that.
That also includes, by the way, making sure young people are getting a steady and healthy dose of art, music, and literature that glorifies an objective standard.
Subjectivist art creates depression.
You need to be consuming information, books, and literature that glorifies something that is objectively true.
Now, there's also exercise and all these other things.
Now, I have a whole protocol that if people are really interested in my recommendations for people that are struggling with this, including doing something very, very hard every day, going through 25 active denials a day.
What is an active denial?
I want a cup of water.
I'm going to wait 20 minutes.
I need to use a restroom.
Wait another 10 minutes.
It is actively denying what your brain wants.
It is vetoing the impulse to have what you want when you want it.
I'm going to call somebody.
I'm going to wait five minutes.
I want to watch that show.
Maybe 10 minutes more.
Or maybe not at all.
You could do it by skipping a meal, by not indulging in something that feels good.
This is the practice of active denial that all of a sudden puts your brain how it is in the wild.
All of a sudden, you're now back into a different framework.
It's not as if you are always being fed what you want and constantly being subsidized.
Now you got to kind of work for it.
Now you have to kind of stay on your toes.
Active denial is very important.
Then doing something in motion.
Remember, motion equals emotion.
Get kids off the couch.
Exercise.
Do something of forward moving.
How your day matters so much.
We are way too comfortable as a society.
Comfort will literally kill you.
And so to this mother that emailed me, I just want to implore you, read Comfort Crisis, listen to our program.
There's a lot of different protocols that you can implement.
But understand, resetting the brain, this is where you're going to have a difficult time.
If you take that phone away and you do that trip to nature and you're already describing that, taking the phone away, she starts having vomiting and withdrawal.
She's going to have drug addiction-like withdrawal symptoms.
It is worth it.
It will take 60 to 90 days to try to totally reset the brain, but she will be a happier, more joyful person.
And for parents out there, I hope you listen to this segment carefully.
We get so many emails from parents saying, Charlie, my kid is addicted to the screen.
What do I do?
So for future parents, don't give the screen.
They don't need phones.
I grew up without one.
It's fine.
They'll figure it out.
If they need a flip phone, give them a flip phone for emergencies.
They don't need TikTok.
They don't need social media.
I know all their friends have them.
Just draw the line.
There's a beautiful life out there.
They'll be happier because of it.
So there's so much more I can contribute to this, but I hope that's somewhat helpful.
But I would retreat, put the phone away, create a new regime, try to reset the brain, find art, beauty, and literature that really glorifies something objective.
Get away from all that nihilistic garbage.
Those are just a couple points that I hope will help.
The RNC Museum Email Scandal 00:04:47
Hey, Charlie, have you heard about the 9-11 museum closing?
Interesting, the New York City government chooses to house illegal immigrants, but not fund a museum that honors the death of thousands of Americans.
It's a very, very misleading story.
So there are two 9-11 museum memorials.
There's two of them.
There's one at the actual place where 9-11 happened.
And there's another one a couple blocks away that's called the 9-11 Tribute Museum.
The 9-11 Tribute Museum is kind of a knockoff, and I don't mean that disparagingly.
It's just kind of a replica.
I'm sure it's really great and people learn a lot there.
But it's not the one that many of you have visited, the actual 9-11 memorial.
So I actually fell for the outrage immediately.
I was at dinner.
I was like, oh my goodness, there's no way they're closing it.
And I said, and I thought to myself, no way.
I read the article and all the way at the bottom of the CNN article that I was reading was, oh, by the way, this is different than the official 9-11 Memorial Museum.
So just want to make sure that's clear for everybody.
The media did such a disservice because people say they're closing where it actually, no, they're not.
They're closing a tribute museum that, yes, does have artifacts.
It does have legit stuff, but it's not the official one, the one that many of you have probably visited, which I think is one of the most moving, spectacular, would you agree, Connor, spectacular museums and tributes on the planet.
They did an incredible job.
So when I heard it, I got fired up about that.
Okay.
So, I want to get to this question here.
It's a little bit long, but I'm going to zip through it.
I'm going to kind of bounce around it.
Okay, hey, Charlie, long time listener, thought I never thought I'd email you.
Been hearing you talk about RNC leaving MAGA candidates, and you're right.
This is a conversation that just happened.
First, they called me asking for money, reading a script about why they're calling and they need support.
So, I asked them how you're going to spend my money.
They reply with another long script, but end with to help get rhinos out of office.
Sounds not right.
Nice, right?
Sounds good, right?
So, I asked candidates what they'll send my money to.
Here's where it got interesting.
The representative on the phone gave me a couple names who I agree with, but some who are questionable.
So, then I ask about what America first candidates they'll support, crickets.
This is when it got discouraging and confirms your suspicion.
I asked about Arizona and Ohio.
The representative was excited to say he was from Arizona, and he said their organization is supporting Mark Bernovich.
Yes, that's right, the guy who came third in the primary a week ago.
This is the guy asking for money for, I don't know if it's the RNC.
He claims it's the RNC, but I find this-I mean, geez.
At this point, I didn't tell him I knew the primary is over, so I asked about Blake Masters.
And the representative said, Oh, we don't like Blake Masters.
Have you seen his position on abortion?
And his ads are terrible.
I then started laughing and went on to explain that Blake Masters actually won the primary and is the Republican nominee to face Democrat Mark Kelly in the general.
He put me on mute.
I thought he hung up for a second because all the background noise went silent.
Then he took me off mute and said he spoke to his manager who said that Blake Masters didn't win and that it was Bernovich.
I told him to Google it and he was wrong, and the poor guy was horrified.
I then asked about JD Vance in Ohio, and he said he didn't know anything about him, and he didn't know the primary was decided either.
Sad, isn't it?
I'm trying to be optimistic and think it was just an uninformed kid fresh out of college.
But again, even if you're fresh out of college, that's not an excuse.
Yeah, we're supporting the guy that got third in the primary.
I obviously told them I'll not be committing any money to them and that I'll have to fund the candidates directly.
Good call.
This is sad and frightening.
Keep doing what you're doing.
Properly inform people because the RNC does not have the conservatives' best interest right now.
Now, I don't know if that's the RNC or an organization that kind of pretended they have the RNC, but this email from Kevin seems pretty firm that it is from the RNC.
So, look, a lot of people are talking about in great numbers.
They're emailing us freedom at charliekirk.com.
Is it really true that this fundraising gap is immense?
Yes, play cut 114.
Look at the gap between Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock.
Cut 114.
So far, Raphael Warnock has raised an astounding amount of money.
He's hauled in more dollars online than seven Republican senatorial candidates combined.
Candidates in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin, and Georgia combined.
Herschel Walker is now trailing Raphael Warnock by 10 points.
And this is happening in a state they tell us went for Joe Biden by a margin of about one-third of a percentage point.
That is bizarre.
What is going on here?
What is going on here?
Democrats are heavily funding their candidates.
They know that a red wave is looming and they're trying to mitigate it.
And I believe the Republican establishment is far too willing to help them do it.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email me your thoughts as always.
Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
Thanks so much.
Talk to you soon.
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