One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind, and in this case, it’s one big step for Elon Musk, who now owns Twitter, and one giant leap for Free Speech. After years of shadow-banning and lifetime bans, anyone who went against the Regime, Charlie unpacks what this huge development means going forward for the nation. While some conservatives are cheering, some others are wary, and Charlie explains it for all of the people caught in the middle. Also, it wouldn't be a proper Twitter update with a comprehensive liberal media meltdown, and Charlie brings the receipt.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Elon Executes Historic Purchase00:02:10
Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, Elon executes what I think is the most significant private purchase in American history.
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I'm going to say some things that people might deem to be controversial.
I actually might say some things that people might say are a little bit exaggerated.
But I'm going to provide evidence and I'm going to support them.
Elon Musk now owns Twitter.
The head of Twitter is gone.
Their entire censorship regime is gone.
It is like the liberation of France from the National Socialist Workers' Party.
It's like the fall of the Berlin Wall, the censorship Stasi, the Gestapo that excommunicated the Babylon B and Dr. Malone and Donald Trump and the restriction on speech.
It is gone because of who?
A man that the entire uniparty can't control.
Liberating Twitter From Censorship00:09:26
Now, the story of Elon Musk is such an interesting one.
And I am by no means a musk apologist.
There's plenty of things he says and does that I don't like his business in China, Neurolink, there's all sorts of stuff.
However, Musk is doing something that we have been hitting on this program for quite some time.
We believe in hierarchies because we believe in reality.
In nature, you are going to have hierarchies.
There'll be some people that are richer than others, some people that are smarter than others, some people that are better at sports, some people that are better at making music, some people at performing drama or acting.
A law of nature is the Pareto principle.
There will be a small amount of people that owns and produces a lot of stuff.
By definition, you're going to have elites.
The Marxist egalitarian promise of utopian future is nonsense.
You're never going to have that.
That's why Marxism always results in smaller and smaller groups of people controlling a lot more and more.
So we acknowledge that hierarchies must exist.
Now, the founding fathers knew that hierarchies must exist.
They just wanted the mechanism in which hierarchies are put into place is through consent to the governed, checks and balances, through prudence, and through the proper process.
But if you look at corporately, America is not new to having hierarchies.
We had very wealthy people that were called robber barons for some good reasons and some bad reasons, if you read the history correctly, in the early 1900s.
But those elites, from Carnegie to Mellon to Rockefeller to Chase, they loved America.
You can say anything you want about how they had too much power and too much corporate influence.
And all of that is probably valid.
I've seen historians debate that.
And I think there's good points on both sides.
But it is unquestioned.
It is not questioned at all, I should say.
It is agreed upon that they had a deep sense of patriotism.
Henry Ford, despite his anti-Semitism, loved America.
The great titans and tycoons of the 20th century, leading up until the 1980s when things started to change, if you are on the top of American business, you wanted America to succeed.
Said differently, the elites were qualified.
Our elites were passionate.
They were patriotic.
They were generous.
And they wanted to see the American project continue.
In the last 10 years, we have seen the rise of an elite class that is filled with fools that are deceitful, that are filled with very, very bad ideas.
They're incredibly confident in their own ideology.
They want to control the entire society.
And people like Bezos, people like Jobs, Lorraine Powell Jobs, people like Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, it seems as if they're cheering against America.
It's as if the elites on top of society wanted to use their money, their influence, and their power not to make sure America continues to strengthen, not to make sure that this incredible constitutional republic we have grows deeper, grows in deeper roots.
No, no, instead, it's, I'm going to use my resources to put $400 million into an election to have mass mail-in voting.
Lorraine Powell Jobs is going to spend $15 billion on left-wing causes.
Bill Gates is going to spend $30 billion.
You get the point.
It's to try to create a global type world, George Soros and many others.
Now, when we look at the elites now, they're contrasted very differently than what we grew up with, than what was once in America.
And Elon Musk is different.
Elon Musk is a diversion.
He is a, not a diversion, he is a detour from that.
You see, Elon Musk believes deeply in freedom of speech.
Elon Musk has made an extraordinary amount of money in his life.
By the way, via making electric vehicles and solar panels, the very things that the left says they love.
And Elon has now decided to use his resources the way the elites should, which is to actually help humanity, not to crush it.
And now he owns Twitter.
Play cut 130.
This is a Fox News Alert.
Elon Musk officially owns Twitter.
He bought it not to make money, but to restore free speech to America.
If he actually does that, this country will change forever.
Immediately after the news came out, the CEO of Twitter, Parag Agarwal, who came to this country and immediately started destroying our most sacred freedom and the CFO Ninsego are both gone.
The question really remains is why did it take the world's richest man to deploy $44 billion of his own money to go purchase a company to liberate it from its own tyrants, from its own behavior of tyrants?
And the answer is because Elon Musk is a different type of elite.
I might disagree with him on a lot of different things, but buying Twitter and excommunicating Parag Agarwal and the entire deep state bureaucracy at the social media platform is a moral good for humanity.
And the media is losing their mind.
The media cannot grasp this idea that someone with a lot of money might actually defect and want to have freedom of speech online.
And this is an open challenge to anybody in the audience to just understand the gravity and the significance of this.
Can anybody point to a more consequential purchase, a private purchase of such a serious magnitude in American history?
Can anyone?
I believe that it's actually the greatest purchase since the Louisiana purchase with Thomas Jefferson.
And that was the government doing it.
When has there ever been a purchase of a private asset of this size, this scale, for not the not to get rich, but instead to say, freedom of speech is a moral good for humanity.
We are the speaking beings.
It is through reason that we are able to make sense of a chaotic world.
It is through our ability to speak through the common noun miracle.
And if we are not able to speak, then everything else falls apart.
CNN, MSNBC, they can't believe this.
We're going to play some of this tape later in the show.
They are so angry.
They are so upset that how dare Elon Musk do this?
And that goes to show that restricting speech and basically executing rolling social media blackouts, they are pivotal to the tyranny of our time.
I really hope Elon knows the game he's signing up for here.
This is a civilizational thing unfolding.
And one of the controversial things I'm going to say is Elon purchasing and liberating Twitter, he has yet to liberate it, but he's in the process of it, it looks like, is even more consequential than the Republicans winning the Senate in a week and a half.
If you said, Charlie, not the House, I think you need to at least control one chamber right now.
But if you said, Charlie, what would you rather have?
A liberated Twitter or a Republican Senate for two years?
If that was the binary choice, I would take a liberated Twitter because that affects everything.
That affects the transmission of values, morals, customs, not just a legislative body for oversight that we'll see what they do.
But if you want to take back the country, you need the ability to spread your ideas.
We're going to talk more about this, the most consequential and massive private transaction, I think, in American history.
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Someone said the following.
They said, Charlie, Twitter is a liberal echo chamber.
It's about as significant as a pimple on the back of an elephant.
If we control the House and Senate, we control the destiny of the country.
No, we don't, actually.
That's never been the case we've made on this show.
You don't control the destiny of the country just because you control two chambers of Congress.
I said you should control one for defense.
House would be great for defense.
Dangers of Wealthy Control00:03:37
Twitter will be remembered as a passing fad.
That is not true.
Twitter is the incubator for elite thought.
And you might say, oh, Charlie, what does that mean?
Your kids and grandkids are continuously feeding off of the conversation, the ideas, and the perspectives that are shared on Twitter.
It is the public square.
It is not a passing fad.
And it's not going to be a passing fad now that Elon Musk owns it.
It's going to get even better.
It's going to get even more powerful.
I know some of you say, Charlie, I don't use Twitter.
It's a stupid platform.
Every CEO, person in the media, people that have power in America, they go to Twitter to see what they should think about certain things.
Every single media outlet begins on Twitter.
All political news begins on Twitter.
Every congressperson and their staff reads Twitter.
You want to impact legislation?
You have to be able to influence people on Twitter.
You want to be able to ban CRT?
You got to be able to influence things on Twitter.
You want to be able to stop medical mutilation of children?
You have to be able to influence things on Twitter.
It all is on Twitter.
You say, well, Charlie, how do we persuade people to our side?
You have to be able to speak on Twitter.
You have to.
For years, I said, ah, you know, I don't know how strong Twitter is.
And boy, did I underestimate the strength of Twitter?
Let me just say this.
A lot of the parents' party of people showing up to school board meetings across the country, that energy started on Twitter with libs of TikTok exposing these groomers on Twitter, with Christopher Ruffo exposing critical race theory, James Lindsay exposing critical race theory.
Where do you think a lot of the contrarian energy around the Chinese coronavirus originated from?
Twitter.
If you are able to have the semblance of a free expression platform, you can challenge tyranny instantaneously in real time.
You can call them out for their lies, their deceit, their treachery.
It allows you to be able to reclaim the narrative.
And that is exactly why the regime is acting the way they are.
They are in full freakout mode.
Because if they're not able to continue to restrict our speech, then they're not going to be in power for much longer.
I'll show you.
Let's listen to this one right here.
Let's go to Cut 137.
MSNBC, Twitter users are very anxious right now.
No, actually, it's a better one.
138.
Elon Musk is a bond villain.
Play cut 138.
I think he's a jerk.
I think that he's cavalier.
I think there's something dangerous when the richest guy in the world controls one of the most important political social platforms in the world.
I just think there's something very dangerous about him.
He reminds me of a bond villain.
As I said, when the richest guy in the world buys a social media platform, it's just not a good equation.
I think he's a dangerous fellow.
Yeah, meanwhile, it was perfectly fine when Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post or Lorene Powell Jobs bought The Atlantic.
But if Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter to liberate it, it's a problem.
Now, if Elon Musk was a trans activist and Elon Musk was a far left-wing social justice warrior and he bought Twitter, it would be applauded at MSNBC.
Oh, what wonderful.
This is so great.
Has there ever been a private transaction that comes close to this?
And honestly, there is a question of what does one do with their resources?
What does one do with the money that they have earned?
Elon Musk could be buying private islands and private jets and mansions, but he spends $44 billion to just try to better humanity a little bit.
I'm not saying it's all for, we don't know his pure intentions or motives, but we do know his actions.
Leveling The Speech Field00:02:53
He's already reinstating Twitter accounts.
We're already seeing a restoration of some speech on Twitter, and it's been 12 hours.
And make no mistake, Donald Trump would not have been president in 2016 if it was not for the ability to tweet out his message.
That's why they had to kick him off.
They had to kick him off because they cannot allow him to be able to stay on Twitter.
All these silly fact checks and all these labels that Twitter was starting to put on.
And it's not the reach of Twitter.
Yes, it reaches tens of millions of people.
It's who is reading it.
Every lawmaker and their staff starts the day by opening up Twitter.
What am I supposed to believe today?
That's what they look at Twitter.
The Twitter has become the front page of newspapers.
A1 on the New York Times is far less important as what is trending on Twitter.
And so, therefore, you have, as I mentioned, an incubator of elite thought in one area that is now going to be able to be a legitimate marketplace of ideas.
Twitter is a great place to see what ideas are best.
Good ideas get retweeted and shared.
Bad ideas die in lowliness, loneliness, and mockery.
We know that if we get an equal opportunity to speak, we're going to defeat these people.
They have been putting their finger and their hand on the scale for quite some time.
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Somebody says here, they say, Charlie, my entire family, here's it.
Sorry to inform you, but social media is not used by all, especially Twitter.
My entire family doesn't use Twitter or Facebook.
Conservatives React To Changes00:15:57
Yeah, but all of you are impacted by Twitter.
Every one of you.
Where do you think the BLM movement was incubated?
Where do you think the gay pride movement in the recent years was started?
Where do you think Me Too, the Me Too movement, grew momentum on?
All Twitter.
Yeah, you might not be interested in Twitter, but Twitter is interested in you.
Twitter is where all the quote-unquote powerful and cool kids get their information and their news.
And you might say, I don't care about those people.
You don't care about your lawmakers.
You want to know why so many Republican officials are weak?
Because they get their information from a biased platform, Twitter.
You might say, well, they shouldn't do that.
Well, they do.
It's a reality.
Black Lives Matter started as Twitter hashtag.
Me too started as a Twitter hashtag.
How about all of the COVID information that your health officials were parroting relentlessly?
Do you have a governor that you were upset with that kept things locked down too much?
They were trying to get affirmation on Twitter and they were getting news from Twitter.
Do you have a voice that you wish could have had to express themselves more?
How about Robert Kennedy Jr., Dr. Malone, Dr. McCullough, all kicked off Twitter?
So it doesn't matter if you use it or your friends use it.
You're all impacted by what's happening there.
And to say as if it doesn't matter, all of your lawmakers, every powerful person on the planet, derives some sort of an opinion from what's happening on Twitter.
Not everyone is into politics.
I understand that.
And yet everyone is affected by it.
Politics is obviously downstream from culture and Twitter is culture.
And Twitter is kind of a snarky, smart person, quote unquote, smart person, I put in air quotes, place where the credentialed class is able to float out their ideas.
And we saw that back in 2016 when Donald Trump won.
They know the power of a liberated Twitter.
Conservatives win.
So someone says here, Kelly, will Elon really be able to change it?
The elite liberals own everything to control thought, so they lose control of something.
They destroy it.
How will Elon owning restore Twitter for the better?
Well, look, if he has the ability to do this, which is going to be quite a fight, he's already said he's going to fire 75% of Twitter employees.
He's gotten rid of the head of Twitter.
But my warning for Elon Musk is be ready for a Twitter deep state.
The same way Donald Trump had a deal with Christopher, not Christopher Ray, deal with Peter Struckstroke Smirk and had a deal with Andrew McCabe.
We have to be ready for a Twitter deep state.
The equivalent of the FISA court applications, spying on Elon, looking through his private communications.
I guarantee you that Parag Agarwal left mines throughout that entire company.
I guarantee you that Parag Augerwal has little nodes of sleeper cells that are waiting to explode on Elon at any time.
So it's going to be a massive challenge.
But let me tell you, Kelly, what has he done?
He's already restored the Babylon B Twitter account.
He's already said today that there's going to be a massive amount of Twitter prisoner of wars released from prisoner.
We call them Twitter POWs.
Look, Elon has a massive fight ahead of him.
And this now, just by the way, this is going to trigger, this is going to really begin the process of liberals now saying that we need government control of our platforms.
Oh, wait a second.
So you are fine with laissez-faire social media as long as they acted tyrannically.
But the second that a rich person goes and buys the platform, you guys freak out.
Someone says, Charlie, in the interest of transparency, do you own Twitter shares?
And if so, how many?
Yes, I own one share.
I do.
I did that so I could vote for the takeover of Twitter.
Yeah, I'm not saying this just because of my shares in Twitter.
Yeah, I own a single share in Twitter.
It's true.
I bought one share when Elon was going to take it over so I could vote in the shareholder meeting.
Someone says, you should have bought more.
You would have made a lot.
I didn't buy Twitter shares to make money.
I bought a Twitter share so that I could vote as a, whatever, in the shareholder vote if you were going to take it over.
Let's go to cut 134.
Along with the head of legal policy, trust, and safety, who reportedly led the team that decided whether or not to ban then-President Donald Trump from the platform, ultimately did.
Overnight, the New York Stock Exchange notified investors it will suspend trading in shares of Twitter before this morning's opening bell in anticipation of the company going private.
And then cut 135.
MSNBC discussing how conservatives are happy that Twitter is now private in the hands of Elon.
Play cut 135.
And a lot of conservatives really rejoicing yesterday about this takeover being official.
Yeah, buckle up really for what's coming here on Twitter.
This is Elon Musk's Twitter now, and we're all going to see where it takes us.
The reactions are extraordinary.
I'm going to read some of these tweets of people yesterday and some of the, to give you an idea.
Now, you might say, Charlie, it doesn't matter.
If it doesn't matter, why is the New York Times acting like this?
This is one of my favorite ones.
I have to find this one.
The one about the insane asylum.
It's my favorite.
But let me read this one.
Ben Collins, who said, I would be so happy if I'm wrong, but all the red lights are flashing here.
Tristan Snell, left-winger, stay, hold your ground like a Ukrainian.
Because Elon Musk is Putin and he's taking over Twitter.
Taylor Lorenz, the low-life degenerate who doxed libs of TikTok, she said, it's like the gates of hell opened overnight on this site tonight.
Robert Reich, the communist from UC Berkeley, when multi-billionaires take over our most vital platforms, communication, it's not a win for free speech, it's a win for oligarchy.
Oh, yeah, Robert Reich, as if the oligarchy wasn't strong before, as if the oligarchy wasn't controlling Twitter.
The CDC, Pfizer, Astra, Zenek, and Moderna, Johnson and Johnson.
The Independent writes, RIP Twitter, 2006, 2022, dead at the hands of Elon Musk.
Just the reactions are amazing.
And so the New York Times and the Washington Post had all these conference calls because they're freaking out because all of them are able to distribute their fake information on Twitter.
And now they're very worried that that is going to be challenged.
And so there's one of these quotes.
I have to find it about the Arkham Asylum.
A reporter in a Twitter space for the New York Times CNN said this.
It's like the Joker taking over Arkham Asylum and releasing all the supervillains back into the world.
Now, I'm not exactly sure what they're talking about.
Was that the Joker or was that Bane that released these insane asylum?
I guess it was Joker.
But Bain did, he opened up the prisons or something.
Anyway, liberal, my other one is this, is that where they say that no one is safe on this platform anymore.
They're freaking out.
It's a complete, massive institutional freak out.
The New York Times and Washington Post reporters hosting a space and saying people are tired, are terrified of him posting in Slack.
This is my favorite.
This is a really scary time for Twitter employees.
These are their lives.
They worked really hard on this app.
Yeah, yeah, they worked really hard on the modern-day digital Gestapo of banning conservatives.
And by the way, Elon Musk has now said he is looking to fix the Twitter algorithm today.
And again, you might be naive.
You might say, oh, Charlie, none of this matters.
Oh, okay.
You know, someone says, Charlie, how do we know the heads of Twitter are responsible for a BLM?
How many back doors are on Twitter for liberal sabotage?
I know for certain that Me Too, BLM, Mask and Vax support Ukraine.
They allow them to trend on Twitter.
They allow these ideas to spread.
And then other people latch onto them.
I could say this as somebody, according to Axios, we had the fifth most engaged Twitter account on the planet in the calendar year of 2018.
It's a fact.
I know the platform pretty well.
We really kind of built our following on Twitter.
Someone says here, you are being duped.
Let Twitter die.
Force politicians to non-corrupted platforms that hopefully block Intel spies.
No, I'm not being duped.
Getting rid of Parag Agarwal and these other people and allowing conservatives back on Twitter is a very good thing.
It's a very good thing.
And by the way, if it wasn't a good thing, why is the media acting so outrageously?
He's a bond villain.
And look, we should not abandon all of the alternative technology.
I feel very strongly about that.
They were for us when things were dark.
We should keep posting on Truth Social, on Getter.
We should keep posting on Rumble.
And we don't know.
Maybe Elon Musk is now going to buy Rumble.
Who knows?
There is a massive amount of activity, positive momentum happening.
I want to play another piece of tape here.
Mika Brzezinski, Trump could be back on Twitter.
That's so scary.
Play Cut 136.
It's so interesting.
And who knows?
I mean, Joe's always said that bring him back on Twitter.
That actually could have its own consequences.
People getting a break and then seeing him again could be interesting.
Could be interesting.
It's unbelievable.
Let's play Cut 140.
Twitter is a no-go zone for a lot of conservatives because they feel it was a leftist cesspool, Play Cut 140.
Right now, Twitter is a no-go zone for a lot of conservatives, a lot of independents.
They just say this is a left-wing cesspool.
And Elon Musk says, the reason I acquired Twitter is because it's important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square.
So, and I do want to level with a lot of you.
I understand these sentiments where you say, Charlie, you know, I'm cynical.
I'm all this.
You should be cynical.
And if I end up being wrong, I'm wrong sometimes, I admit when I'm wrong, then I'll be the first one to admit it, okay?
Because Charlie says, oh, we've been duped by these people, we've been played, we've been up, all this sort of stuff.
Okay, I hear you.
I'm already seeing evidence, though, that this is moving in the right direction.
Babylon B has been restored.
People are getting their Twitter accounts back.
I could tell you last night, for example, there is this incredible uptick in our own Twitter engagement, which is great.
Someone says, Hal, Charlie, you're completely wrong about Twitter.
The only people pushing for its continued use are making money off Twitter.
It's not true.
I'm sorry, sir.
Wake up, Charlie.
Help us end the censorship.
Every one of your lawmakers is on Twitter getting their opinions from there.
Every single one of them.
So I'm trying to sit here and listen to all your arguments.
There's not a single one that can validate anything other than the complete destruction of Twitter, Facebook, Google, and YouTube.
We need to completely end the government censorship from these elite corporations.
How do you think you're going to go do that exactly?
No, seriously.
There is no way this corrupt government is going to allow for free and open debate on Twitter.
They're already threatening Musk with other unrelated legal investigations.
They want to know that he must toe the line or it'll cost him financially.
Look, Hal, you could be right, but your entire email is way too cynical.
I'm trying to say that there actually might be something good happening, and maybe we should allow ourselves to accept that.
I get the cynicism.
I totally understand.
But maybe this actually is a good thing.
Liberal reporter, quote, it's like the gates of hell opened on this site tonight.
That's Taylor Lorenz.
Look, there's a lot of work to do.
I'm going to be optimistic and hopeful.
You guys can remain cynical and negative and pessimistic.
We'll see who ends up being right.
But I know this: a free and open Twitter back in 2016 got Donald Trump elected as president.
And a suppressed Twitter of the Hunter Biden laptop story, remember, Hunter, people say, oh, Twitter doesn't matter.
Oh, really?
They suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story, and no one reported on it because Twitter is the incubator for elite thought.
Twitter doesn't matter.
No, actually, it did matter a lot.
It mattered so much the FBI did a special visit to Twitter and Facebook and told them to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Donald Trump very well might be president right now if that story was allowed to be spread.
Optimism and hope is the root of taking positive action.
For those of you who are cynical, I hope you're wrong.
And I hope you hope I'm right.
That's my only ask.
You could disagree.
I just want you to hope that I'm right.
That's my only ask.
You have every right to be cynical, by the way.
I don't discount you for that.
I just see it differently.
I'll never forget in 2016.
I am going to make a little comparison when some people emailed us and they said, I'll never forget it.
Back in 2016, I was, you know, we were working to do some stuff for Trump.
I was the body man for Donald Trump Jr. and doing all sorts of stuff.
And I remember there were people that said, the deep state will never let Trump win.
There was a, what Donald Trump did in 2016 when he won is I think he hopefully gave a little bit of hope that the system can be challenged, that an outsider can become president.
He gave a little bit of an example that the way that they think things have to go is not certain.
It's not written in stone.
Now, in 2020, obviously, they threw everything they possibly could at him.
Someone says here, Charlie, you're correct.
If anything, Republican lawmakers care too much about Twitter.
It exacerbates the divide we see between those and offs on the grassroots.
I agree, but it is a fact that they use it.
It just is.
You're right.
I wish they didn't care about it as much, but it's the way it is.
By the way, I get, just from my own personal perspective, there are more articles, media inquiries, lawmakers reaching out, people on television, radio show hosts, influencers, pundits, CEOs, and billionaires that text me about what I say on Twitter than anything else.
I could talk at length on radio.
And yeah, you guys, the grassroots listen to that because you're the backbone of the country.
But the people that are actually calling the shots, the elites, if you will, they're flipping through Twitter.
And it is actually as simple as, well, what should I believe today?
What should I be outraged about?
What sort of cause do I want to kind of support?
And if you're not able to even voice heterodox opinions around those things, let's go to this.
Elon Musk firing top Twitter executives, play cut 139.
So he fired several top executives, the CEO, the CFO, head of legal policy, trust and safety, who was allegedly behind banning Trump from Twitter.
Firing 75% of the staff.
75%.
And look, I understand a lot of the different opinions here.
Someone says here, Charlie, I agree with you that Twitter is the most important platform for free speech.
Musk has got a clean house and bring in trusted software engineers to clean house.
That is right.
It is a unique platform.
It is not the largest platform, but it impacts the most of the elite circles.
I'll just be very honest.
Those of you that are on Facebook, you're on Instagram, your average congressman is not getting news from Instagram.
They're not.
Wired.com, a Musk-owned Twitter could be disastrous for women.
What is a woman exactly?
And marginalized communities already facing abuse and targeted harassment on the platform.
Charlie, you are spot on.
Twitter gives market share of low-information voters back to Trump.
Someone says, here, Charlie, read some of the emails of those of us that agree with you on Musk.
I just did.
Your trusted friend.
Thank you.
God bless you.
I understand it.
I get the perspective.
However, I see a glimmer of hope here.
It's going to take a lot of work.
But just the idea of now having the media and the regime divert resources to stop Elon is a very good thing.
They're now going to have to expend all this energy.
It's now going to be this massive proxy war.
We're now a new front in the war where Twitter was comfortably in the regime's pocket.
Let's say at least we can all agree on it is now a question mark.
Latest article here: Musk's dangerous vision for Twitter.
Okay.
At the very least, the regime, the people in charge, the Unit Party, are going to have to divert everything they can to derail Musk.
Good luck.
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You're going to wonder who actually has more power.
Elon has Starlink.
He has the boring company.
He's a very, very interesting, incredibly smart person.
And regardless of your opinions on what's going to happen, I believe it is a fact and it is agreeable that it is a good thing that someone uses their resources, $44 billion, to try to at least level the playing field of speech.
I wish more rich people deployed their resources like this.
Better than buying yachts or donating the money to the Democrat National Committee.
And by the way, Musk said he's voting Republican this midterm election cycle.
Just to give you an idea of what you're dealing with here, I don't think he's a conservative, but he is not a leftist.
I truly believe Musk values speech.
And in that, I applaud him.
Be skeptical.
I understand that.
But allow yourself to have a little hope.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thank you so much for listening.
God bless.
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