After the bombshell story broke that PayPal was planning on robbing YOUR money if users posted anything they classified as “disinformation" —later to walk it back as some sort of typo—Charlie wastes no time in instructing his listeners on exactly how they should respond by deleting, cancelling and boycotting PayPal and Venmo. He's also joined by Trump-endorsed Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano to update listeners on his race as midterms creep up as polls have him within the margin of error in the Keystone State. Finally Charlie takes direct aim at Jon Stewart, who now openly endorses the medical mutilation of children for profit.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Decades of Movement Work00:03:09
Hey, everybody, an extra constitutional order is here where they're trying to execute a pencil movement to suffocate you to go after your values, your ideas.
We talk about that and so much more.
And also, Doug Mastriano joins us, who very well might become the next governor of Pennsylvania.
If you know anyone in Pennsylvania, you got to make sure they vote for Doug Mastriano, of course, also for Oz.
But Doug is doing a great job.
We're really honored to have him on the program.
And then briefly, get to Jon Stewart and the medical mutilation of our children.
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You know, most people in the conservative movement would say that government is the greatest threat to our freedoms.
It's hard to disagree at that.
The FBI is going after pro-life leaders all across the country.
The Department of Justice is going after political dissidents, Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, and many others.
They raided Mar-a-Lago and took documents way outside of the purview of what they were allowed to get.
Now, I would say that people in the traditional right, people in the old right, they get government tyranny pretty well.
They're able to describe it.
They talk about how the progressives violated separation of powers and consent to the governed, on how Woodrow Wilson and John Dewey and many others threw away the kind of promise of the American Constitution and they tried to write a new constitution because they basically believe thanks to technology, a new era is here.
I think all of that is great and it's important to remember it and to repeat it and to clarify that.
But one of the things that frustrates, let's just say, those of us on the new right, the MAGA right, the America First movement, is when people fail to recognize and realize that it's not just government that is coming after our freedoms.
We must recognize that the threat landscape is not just in the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Justice, the IRS, or the EPA, and the fourth branch of government.
No, there has been an effort, a movement to create an extra constitutional method to take your stuff, to silence you, and violate your rights.
This movement has been at work for over a decade.
PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy00:05:37
Now, we talk about the woke mind virus.
We talk about critical race theory, post-structuralism.
We talk about all these different factors coming together and how they are able to be implemented into all major institutions in American society.
It's not just the government, though.
What happens when private actors start to act and start to terrorize tyrannically the American people and citizens using the very same method of behaviors that we would be aghast when the federal government does that, would do the same thing.
Well, this weekend, PayPal of all companies came out and they made a new announcement.
PayPal said that The new acceptable use policy is that if you send, post, or publish any message or content that promote misinformation, that you might be subject to a $2,500 fine, and that PayPal would automatically debit it from your account automatically.
The policy was originally slated to go into effect on November 3rd, but after massive backlash on social media, PayPal withdrew it.
But the question is: this wasn't some typo.
Former president of PayPal David Marcus said, It's hard for me to openly criticize a company I used to love and gave so much, but PayPal's new acceptable use policy goes against everything I believe in.
A private company now gets to decide when to take your money if you say something they disagree with.
PayPal immediately rolled back its policy, and the company told media outlets, PayPal is not fining people for misinformation.
The language was never intended to be inserted into our policy.
Really, well, who wrote it?
Who published it?
So you guys go through a process of publishing an acceptable use policy, like, oh, actually, sorry, we don't mean it.
Now, are they sorry about what they published, or are they regretful that they got caught?
Those are two very different things.
PayPal says that the policy update went out in error that included incorrect information.
Continues by saying that despite PayPal's about face, the damage was already done.
Elon Musk responded to Marcus's tweet saying, agreed, obviously, Elon Musk being one of the original co-founders of PayPal.
PayPal's stock declined on Monday, adding to its Friday decline of 4%.
The stock is down more than 50% year to date.
Now, many small businesses and many of you use PayPal for a variety of different reasons, from sending money online to be able to do payment processing for almost all online money transfers.
It's one of the beasts that originally started online payment transfers.
But we must recognize now that as we're trying to defend our freedoms and liberties against threats, it's not just the government that is trying to infringe on our God-granted natural rights.
There is a pincer movement that is happening, a public sector, private sector big squeeze that is going after conservatives.
On one hand, it is the raids of pro-life leaders.
And by the way, there's another raid that just happened over the weekend.
The name escapes me, but another raid this weekend of a pro-life activist who went and sung hymns outside of a pro-life clinic, and he gets a raid by the FBI with automatic machine guns.
At the same time, you have Google and many other major companies saying they're not going to allow advertisements for pro-life pregnancy crisis center clinics.
Paul Vaughan, who was arrested this last weekend for allegedly having violent interference in front of an abortion clinic when all he was doing was singing hymns peacefully with his fellow churchgoers.
That's now a federal crime worthy of the FBI showing up with automatic rifles with his 11 kids being terrorized to death.
Meanwhile, you have PayPal saying if you engage in misinformation, we might just steal your money.
We're just going to take money from your account.
We're just going to take it from you.
This is a pincer movement.
What is a pincer movement?
A pincer movement is a orchestrated double envelopment.
It's a military maneuver in which forces simultaneously attack both flanks of an enemy formation.
Their goal is to undermine free speech, create total control of the American society, and make you surrender.
Not only is it intimidation and Gestapo-like tactics of going after people they don't like using the federal government, but it's also, we're going to go after your money.
Now, needless to say, I hope that any of you watching right now, I hope you proudly and I hope you quickly terminate your PayPal account right now.
You have got to get off PayPal immediately.
I hope PayPal goes bankrupt.
I hope that they suffer greatly for doing this.
They say, oh, it was a mistake.
Oh, really?
Was it a mistake?
How did it get through vetting of your, you're a multi-billion dollar company.
PayPal did $25 billion in revenue last year.
They have 426 million users.
They have $75 billion in total assets at PayPal.
Can you explain to me then how PayPal was able to, in a company that big, get the acceptable use policy vetted through HR, through legal?
Was it just some intern that had a typo?
Of course not.
No, no, no.
Terminate Your PayPal Account00:03:44
This was planned.
This was coordinated.
They were just shocked that the world didn't accept it immediately.
Like, oh, yes, of course we should just steal people's assets away if they engage in misinformation.
You know, why wouldn't we just take their money away if they say things that we don't like?
And this is important.
The government can't do this.
If the government came and took your money without due process, you'd be able to sue and get that money back.
Of course, you could eventually have funds taken away with civil asset forfeiture, which, by the way, is constitutionally questionable at best.
But the point is that there's a methodology to it.
Now, private actors could just take your stuff without you even recognizing it or realizing it.
This is a Bolshevik's dream.
And many people on the old right would say, well, you know, it's the market.
The market will always just sort it out.
That is rubbish.
The new right needs to recognize that this pincer movement on both sides from the DOJ and the FBI, from Facebook and Google, are coming together to squeeze out conservatives.
And I have to ask the question: where are the Republicans?
Where are the red state Republicans that are going ahead of the curve?
Forget the federal government.
The federal government's a waste of time.
Where are the governors?
Where are the state legislatures that are realizing it's not just the Biden administration that's coming after patriots?
It's the private actors too.
It's a simultaneous squeeze against the decent patriots in our country.
And we talk about them at the heart of so many different campaigns this election season.
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Occupy Wall Street Marxism00:03:25
Steve from Indiana says, thank you for your terrific dissertation, welcoming Punishing PayPal's Tyranny.
I beat your account termination call by 30 minutes, established back in 2011.
If anybody has PayPal, delete, delete, delete.
Dave says, Charlie, you're a little late.
I canned my PayPal account yesterday.
Well, you're ahead of the curve.
God bless you.
I wasn't hosting the program yesterday.
You guys should get rid of all association with PayPal.
And by the way, this is going to be their new kind of line of attack.
This is their new attack vector, which is to go straight after your money.
And this pincer movement is a public-private partnership to squeeze against conservatives.
And there is an arranged marriage that has happened where the wokies take over these companies.
And I think a lot of this happened post-2008.
Post-2008, with the Occupy Wall Street economic Marxism that was starting to resonate with the American people, Wall Street and big companies started to get very nervous.
Now, they were able to successfully thwart a lot of the complaints of Occupy Wall Street, even though, ironically, a lot of the complaints of Occupy Wall Street were actually legitimate.
It just got taken over by such pure, unadulterated Marxism, it became unpopular for all people to really, all normal people to tolerate, and especially those of us that have some sort of love for Western civilization.
We found it to be disgusting how Occupy Wall Street in Zuccotti Park in New York quickly became that of kind of a Bolshevik moment.
But the complaint of Occupy Wall Street was the banks have not been held accountable.
No one has gone to jail.
Why are taxpayers funding and bailing out Wall Street?
And Wall Street was getting very nervous.
Well, then after they were able to weather that storm, the wokies decided to take a page out of Herbert Marcuse's book.
Herbert Marcuse, of course, Frankfurt School, came to America, wrote One Dimensional Man, amongst many other pieces of literature, and he argued in the mid-1960s that the American middle class was integrating itself far too successfully into a capitalist society, that the middle class was getting very wealthy.
They're able to buy homes, air conditioning, dishwashers.
Their standard of living was increasing dramatically.
And that economic Marxism wasn't as popular as they would have liked to believe.
So therefore, Herbert Marcuse argued that there needs to be a new type of Marxism, as James Lindsay calls it, race Marxism.
Fast forward to the 90s, Derek Bell writes Intro to Critical Race Theory, and the Wokies adopt this and they take over the major institutions.
And this was a much easier pill to swallow if you're Goldman Sachs, if you're PayPal.
Much easier pill to swallow if you are a major corporation.
You have a little bit of a diversity board.
You have a transgender focus group.
You put some women on your board, and you're still able to pillage and plunder and charge whatever you want.
You're able to game the system.
You're able to use croniest insider dealings.
It is the great woke alliance.
It is a marriage of convenience.
Stop Using Disinformation Tools00:03:14
And so now, PayPal, completely captured by the wokies, their new thing is an assault on disinformation and misinformation.
Now, anytime you hear that term misinformation and disinformation, you got to press pause because, of course, they never talk about the outward disinformation put forward by the CDC, the NIH, the public health officials, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson ⁇ Johnson, or Moderna, the disinformation that was spread by the FBI or the Intel agencies when it came to Hunter Biden's laptop.
No, they use disinformation as a way to try to punish conservatives for asking questions, even though things that they have called misinformation and disinformation repeatedly over the last year and a half have a tendency to become true.
Hunter Biden's laptop, Trump getting spied on, the originations of the Wuhan virus, which they used to say that saying the Wuhan virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Institute of Virology used to be misinformation.
Well, now it is true.
It's facts.
So PayPal is doing the bidding of the regime.
And PayPal knows exactly what they are doing.
And they are participating in their pincer movement, public-private squeeze, which honestly is fascism.
It's hilarious.
They call us fascists.
They are the fascists that are the ones that use government power and private sector power in a simultaneous coordinated fashion to try and squeeze us out and suffocate modern everyday Americans.
Now, PayPal has retreated from their policy because of the backlash, but we have to make PayPal suffer.
Cancel their account, refuse to ever use it again.
We're going to put on charliekirk.com, we're going to repost an article that says how to cancel your PayPal account with specific steps.
Someone says, Charlie, I can't delete PayPal.
Well, we're going to give you the steps of how to do it.
PayPal has decided to say that they're going to steal your money, your property, if you put forward opinions that they don't like.
A lot of people are asking us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Well, what do I do if not for PayPal?
There is one company I'm aware of.
I don't know if they do everything PayPal does, but I know they do a lot.
It's CornerstonePayment Systems.com.
They've been a sponsor of this program previously.
We use them for a couple of things.
Again, they're Christian-owned.
They're wonderful.
They're not going to do what PayPal does.
I can endorse them to what we need them for, which is just basic payment processing for donations and for support and for just, let's just say, activity on the Charlie Kirk show page.
So cornerstonepayment systems.com.
Also, you have to stop using Venmo.
That's owned by PayPal.
You have to stop using GoFundMe.
Part of the strategy that is now employed by the collectivists and the progressives is to go after your money.
They want you to be less free.
For example, we got one email here.
Charlie, all my side hustles and the stuff I do to earn a living go through PayPal.
How do I get around that?
These websites are top-earning websites, and I don't know what to do.
I'm stumped.
I want to show I don't like PayPal, but I also need money I earn.
Help, please.
That's exactly right.
Grassroots Campaign Against Venmo00:15:42
They have you handcuffed.
I don't have an answer to that.
If you need to use PayPal, then you have to use PayPal.
But isn't that interesting for all the market Puritans out there?
Oh, yeah, the market will always solve it.
Oh, really?
Will they always solve it?
Interesting.
We at least have 500 emails we've received, more or less, couple hundred of people that have successfully canceled their PayPal account already.
Do it now.
Cancel PayPal.
Cancel Venmo.
There's other options out there.
I think Zelle is okay, but they're owned by the big banks too.
Okay, Doug Mastriano joins us right now.
He's running for governor in Pennsylvania.
A new Trafalgar poll shows him within the margin of error against Josh Shapiro.
Doug, welcome back to the program.
How do you feel the race is going?
I feel really good.
I've been to Avery County a couple of times with my wife, and the momentum is huge.
We did a couple rallies this past Saturday down in the southeast, and one was supposed to be a meet and greet, actually.
A couple hundred people maybe get some photos and chit-chat.
And it turned out 500 people came out right outside of Philly and it turned into a rally.
And then we spun around to the north side of Philly in Bucks County and had about a thousand people come out there.
And meanwhile, my opponent can't draw flies.
I mean, it's kind of pitiful, but it's a great sign.
We feel good.
Yeah, I won't make a joke about that, but I agree.
I'm not a fan of your opponent.
I think he's a very dishonest person and a talentless hack and someone that would destroy the great state of Pennsylvania and has already done a terrible job.
Crime is a huge issue for voters in Pennsylvania.
It's increasing at every level.
And he's done nothing about it.
He's actually been an office holder.
Talk about that.
Yeah, my opponent is the sitting attorney general.
He's been in the chair for six years.
And in that capacity, he's responsible for law and order and crime and punishment in the state.
You know, that's his job.
There's nothing else more important.
And on his watch, Charlie, crime has gone up almost 40%.
So it's nearly doubled on his time the past six years.
The past six years now, we've watched, for instance, facts are stubborn things, John Adams said.
So let's hit some facts here.
In 2016, there were 277 homicides in Philadelphia when my opponent came in as the AG.
Now it's on track to be around 600 probably this year.
Last year it's 562.
There were nearly 1,000 carjackings in Philadelphia alone this year.
We have a real huge problem with sex trafficking.
We're the fourth highest in fentanyl deaths in the nation.
Between every day in Pennsylvania, you're looking at 12 to 15 fentanyl deaths specifically.
And instead of doing his job and protecting the people of Philadelphia and elsewhere, he's sued to keep kids in masks.
He's sued to keep businesses shut down.
He sued to keep to let boys in the girls' bathrooms, not only in Pennsylvania, but also Virginia.
And we remember this time last year in Loudoun County, a 15-year-old girl was raped.
The school board tried to cover it up, and the dad went to the school board meeting, you know, a bit upset and was hauled out in handcuffs.
I mean, that personifies the face of my opponent.
So he's just too dangerous for our state.
Yeah, I mean, no doubt.
And it shows the polls are tightening.
There's a new story here from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Mastriano's unconventional campaign may be quietly building support.
I think you would actually even agree that you're running an unconventional campaign.
I don't think you actually would disagree with that.
You refuse to talk to the activist press when they don't come with good intentions.
You're running a grassroots campaign.
You're being outspent.
But it looks like you're really building a grassroots army across the state of Pennsylvania.
Do you agree that you're doing some things unconventionally?
We really are.
And, you know, they caught on to a few things finally.
This movement is not new.
It grew during the shutdown when, of course, I led the reopen movement with some others.
It wasn't just me alone.
And then, of course, pushing back on the mask mandates and the compelling for the jabs for the job situation and then election reform and all this to restore freedom in our state.
So the thing that makes us really different is in fact and in practice, we are a grassroots campaign.
We have individuals putting up billboards for us here, knocking on doors.
This past weekend, I think about 17,000 doors were knocked on by volunteers.
Normally, campaigns pay big money for people to go out there and work for them.
These are people who really believe in our state.
So yes, it's not conventional.
Yeah, and I think that's a positive thing in more ways than one.
So I got to ask you, Doug, you look at what Shapiro is doing.
Shapiro is having, you know, this, I don't know, fundraiser with a bunch of West Wing people, live action role players.
I know that this kind of caught your eye and your attention.
Tell us about it.
So it was interesting to see, Charlie, that my opponent had posted on Twitter.
He's bragging about how he's meeting with a bunch of the actors and actresses from West Wing, probably more appropriately called left wing.
Yeah, exactly.
I never liked that show.
I never did.
Neither do I.
And the irony is, I mean, it's hard not to have an image of, you know, Nero as Rome burns, you know, Shapiro as Philadelphia collapses with crime and people are being assassinated on the streets.
It's not hyperbole.
The gravediggers say they can't keep up with the dead.
And meanwhile, he's goofing off with these powerful elites.
Now, I will note that Tulsa Gabbard left the Democrat Party, was it last night or this morning?
And her opening remarks of leaving the Democrat Party, we're talking about a former candidate for president for the Democrat Party.
She said she cannot stay in the party in good faith because it's ruled by elites.
And this personifies and typifies exactly what she's describing.
Yeah, it's so fascinating.
I mean, Philadelphia already has 400 murders so far this year, and he won't mention it.
Josh Shapiro comes out and he says that Doug Mastriano scares him like no opponent ever has.
And of course, he's not scared of the rising crime, carjackings, arsons, or rapes happening in Philadelphia, but you're the threat, Doug.
Now, it's really fascinating.
I think early voting has already started in Pennsylvania.
Is that right?
Am I correct?
That is true.
Now, but you have a very interesting strategy where you're going to be, I think you're going to have a massive election day turnout.
I think that you're going to have a lot of people showing up day of.
Is that still, I don't, I'm going to use a word that will sound silly allowed in Pennsylvania?
Can you still vote day of in Pennsylvania or is it mostly vote by mail?
Most of the turnout is on election day, thankfully.
And I'm with you.
I don't know why we have an election season.
It's not even a month.
It's a joke, honestly.
Yeah, it really is.
And it's dangerous.
It's asking for trouble.
It's too long.
And I don't know how, you know, when I was a kid, you know, it was election day and they can count the votes in one day amazingly without all the tech.
And suddenly we can't do that.
You know, if you can't get out to vote in person, then please do something, you know, vote by mail and/absentee that are still available to you.
But I agree, we're going to have a massive turnout on Election Day.
We're seeing, I don't do talking points, Charlie.
I'm a retired Army colonel.
I still identify as a soldier.
We're flipping many people from Democrats to the Republican Party.
In the general election, you don't need to flip your party affiliation.
Just get out the vote.
My final thought on that is: if you're concerned about your country and you wave your fist at the TV and these awful commercials Shapiro is putting out, do something about it.
Just get out the vote.
Just if you don't vote, I believe that you shouldn't complain because you lost your chance to select the governor.
Well, so I think that there might be an interesting element to this that backfires on Democrats, more than one.
So they're so focused on early voting that in some ways their window to get their base out is actually shorter than your window of campaigning.
So for all intents and purposes, you still have 28 days to maximize a flood at the polls ahead of November 8th, especially in the central part of the state, where Shapiro's window is closing every single day for urban and suburban voters because he's just going to get crushed in the western part of the state and in the central part of the state.
And it really is going to kind of be a turnout election, isn't it, Doug?
Which is if MAGA shows up, if the people that voted for Trump show up, if the ironworkers, steelworkers, I'm sorry, and the muscular class show up in big numbers, you can win.
Talk about that.
And I do agree with your assessment there.
So obviously, Shapiro is pitching on the early voting to break for him.
And it tends to break pretty significant Democrats.
I don't have the numbers in front of me here, but we did look at the numbers last week.
And so far, it's significantly lower than what Shapiro had hoped for and anticipated as far as mail-in, which is a great sign.
Well, that's interesting.
Let me pause.
Can you say that again?
So you're already seeing mail-in returns that are lower.
So you're already getting real numbers.
Is that right?
Yeah, as compared to 2020 or last year.
It's lower, approximately.
I'm curious.
It's off the top of my head.
It's between 30 and 40%, which is pretty significant.
Yeah.
Whoa, okay.
So their models are all messed up.
Continue, please.
That's noteworthy.
Early voting down 30 to 40% by mail in Pennsylvania.
Please continue.
So right before the show, I strolled through my opponent's stream just to see if he shifted his message or not, because we saw James Carville come out with his statement last night talking about admonishing the Democrats, you can't win just talking about abortion.
It's about the economy.
He's the guy that coined the phrase in the 90s with the Clinton campaign.
Exactly.
And my opponent, thank God, has not changed his message.
His message is about abortion and ad hominem attacks, ad homininy or personal attacks that Doug is too dangerous.
It's kind of funny, Charlie.
Too dangerous for him, but not too dangerous to defend our Constitution for 30 years.
Not too dangerous to have a top secret clearance with access to some of the most sensitive secrets our nation has.
Just the irony of being called this by some guy, you know, who never lifted a finger to serve his country.
But how do you motivate people to get out on issues that don't affect them directly in many cases, such as the issue of life and abortion?
And let me explain that.
So we had a March for Life rally a couple of weeks ago in Harrisburg, which I attended.
It wasn't my rally.
I was a participant, about 6,000 people, according to the Capitol Police.
The next day, Planned Parenthood had their rally the next day.
I was present for both because I was in session as a senator.
And they brought in national speakers, famous speakers, well advertised, and only 65 came out.
So I wonder if this narrative from the left, you know, since the Dobbs case and how this is going to motivate the left and all that is to get out the vote.
I didn't see that.
I agree.
And look, I think that, you know, in some communities, being pro-life is a winner.
In some ones, it could be, you know, not so popular in Pennsylvania.
But it's also, it's getting lower and lower on the priority and the energy, especially when people can't afford gas, inflation, crime.
I think the Dobbs effect is fading.
What you just told me is fascinating.
Mail-in voting down 30 to 40% than it was in 2020.
Now, it would be expected to be down maybe 10% because if it's a midterm, what you're also telling me, Doug, is we're going to see a turnout on Election Day that I think will overwhelm the system in Pennsylvania.
I think that the pent-up enthusiasm is going to shock the world.
Go to DougNumber4Gov.com.
Doug, I'm going to give you a minute just to go straight to the audience.
Tell us how you're being outspent.
Take your time and how people can support you and the significance of your campaign.
The floor is yours.
Thank you, Charlie.
Yeah, I'm being outspent significantly.
I mean, my opponent has already dropped like $26 million in the negative campaign ads.
Hats off to the Democrats around the nation with their dark money because they see Pennsylvania is the most important gubernatorial race in the nation and they're putting their mouth or their money where their mouth is.
On the other side here, we had excellent support from our state party, some of the more established organizations that really haven't jumped in yet.
We need help.
And so go to Dougforgov.com to pitch in.
If you're a Pennsylvania resident, you could serve as a poll watcher.
Please sign up to be a poll watcher.
This is how Yonkin pulled it off this time last year.
95% of the polls, Republicans were there, trained and monitoring for transparency.
You know, on our side here, why should you care about Pennsylvania if you're not from Pennsylvania?
Well, you know, of course, historically, we are the birthplace of freedom.
But additionally, God has blessed us with this capability with energy to help lead our nation out of this economic darkness that we have.
And so, although much of the problems we have are being generated at the federal level, as a state with a strong governor, we can open up our energy sector here and help break some of this inflation and the cost of energy and our reliance upon the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and others and produce it here in Pennsylvania.
We're blessed with natural gas.
We're blessed with coal.
We're blessed with high-grade oil.
Our natural gas industry has a capability with a refinery, that's what we need in Pennsylvania as well, to actually turn it into gas for cars.
I mean, it's all right here.
We could export this to our allies in Lithuania and Germany and Poland and get our allies off of Russian oil and gas.
And we're talking about $100 billion potential coming to Pennsylvania.
That's good for everybody in America.
I'm telling you right now, I hear on the ground, I hear a lot of chatter about Doug in Pennsylvania.
And the polls, you know, the public polls are tightening.
It still shows Shapir up a little bit, but you can add anywhere between eight to 10 to a poll when someone has true grassroots enthusiasm.
I've seen it time and time again, especially in the midterm.
Let's play cut 40, please, talking about the top two issues for Americans, despite the incessant clamoring by the left on abortion.
You and I are both pro-life, Doug, but we also understand this is a, it's a big, it's a, let's say, a widespread, you know, menu of issues and topics that the government needs to address beyond just the Dobbs decision.
The Democrats don't want you to believe that trying to turn into a single election season and they're losing in that regard.
Play cut 40.
Said, when you look at our most recent NBC poll here and you ask folks, what is the single most important issue that's going to drive your vote in this year's midterm elections?
A combined 34% cite either jobs in the economy or inflation.
And you combine those two, that's the biggest single number you're going to get.
And on that question, the Republicans have a nearly 30-point advantage.
30-point advantage, Doug.
Late breakers, I think, are going to go in the Republican direction.
Look, you know, die in the wool Democrats, they're filling out their ballots, but that's down 30 to 40%.
So their models are already screwed up.
And if you get an extra 8 to 10 to 12% people showing up on Election Day and you're able to have late-breaking independence, all of a sudden these polls get totally inverted.
When you're talking to people in Pennsylvania, what's the top of their mind?
Number one across the state is the economy and whether they're going to be able to heat their homes or eat this winter when heating prices are going through the roof already or putting gas in the car or the security of their jobs.
Number two, of course, especially in the Southeast is crime, law and order.
And so those two issues we're winning on because we have a clear message.
When I'm on the campaign trail there, I break down not in little bumper stickers, but how we're going to bring law and order and how we're going to build our economy.
Yeah, and how you're going to actually restore Pennsylvania to be a great state because it really can be.
It's DougNumber4Gov.com.
Doug, thank you so much for joining us.
We're behind you.
We deeply appreciate it.
Thank you, Charlie.
God bless you.
Thank you.
Email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
Okay, I really wanted to get to this story here.
So Jon Stewart this last weekend sat down with Leslie Rutledge, the Arkansas Attorney General.
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And basically, Jon Stewart, the smug comedian who thinks he's very funny, decided to come out and try to defend the medical mutilation of children.
Let's play cut two.
Why would the state of Arkansas step in to override parents, physicians, psychiatrists, endocrinologists who have developed guidelines?
You're suggesting that protecting children means overriding the recommendations of the American Medical Association, the American Association of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society.
We don't have enough data.
We don't have enough to show that these drugs are effective and that these children are better off and that we should not enough for you.
Okay, first of all, she should not be sitting down with Jon Stewart.
Jon Stewart is much, is a far more talented communicator than she is.
Secondly, Jon Stewart then goes on in cut three to compare genital mutilation to cancer treatment.
Play cut three.
So if your child is suffering from pediatric cancer and the state comes in and says to you, they recommend chemotherapy, but we're not going to let you do that.
You can't.
We think you should get a different opinion.
And here's the organization we think you should get the opinion from.
They're not the mainstream, but they're an organization.
So that's who you have to be treated by.
Does that sound like something you would like to say?
I think that's a very extreme example.
That's not at all in line with what we're talking about.
That is the correct answer.
And he compares medical mutilation for profit to chemotherapy for children.
Here's the facts.
This is child mutilation, period.
Jon Stewart is promoting and defending, gleefully and smugly, breast removal, the administration of Lupron, that we don't even give rapists in certain states after, you know, basically to chemically castrate them.
These are gruesome, awful surgical procedures that do irreversible damage to young children.
Good for Arkansas for doing this.
I just wish she would never would have sat down with Jon Stewart because I don't think she did a very good job of defending.
She looks like the unreasonable one.
And this is the easiest rule for life in persuasion.
If you're ever going to sit down with somebody and you have a fear that you're going to be portrayed as the unreasonable person, whether through editing, whether through preparation, don't do the interview.
Period.
The more reasonable person always wins the argument.
And Jon Stewart, oh, yeah, the American Medical Association should come in.
Oh, yeah.
Hey, Jon Stewart, if the American Medical Association came out and supported lobotomies for people with IQs below a certain level, would you support that, pal?
That's how you respond to it.
Jon Stewart, let the record be known that Jon Stewart supports the medical mutilation of children for profit.
History will not judge him well, no matter how smug he is.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email me your thoughts as always.
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God bless.
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