The age of tyranny on Twitter is coming to an end, replaced by an age of liberation. And it’s all thanks to the Babylon Bee, whose suspension last spring inspired Elon Musk’s $44 billion buyout. Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon joins the program to celebrate the Bee’s revival, as well as President Trump’s unbanning and all the other exciting updates that have taken place since Musk took over. Plus, Charlie delivers a pressing update on Arizona’s lack of election integrity, and the Attorney General’s scathing letter regarding the massive amounts of issues Election Day voters experienced.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Election Day Suppression Operation00:09:30
Hey everybody, today the Charlie Kirk show an Arizona update as the Arizona Attorney General sends a scathing letter demanding answers.
The Arizona election should not be certified, period, until we figure out what the heck actually happened.
And then Seth Dillon goes to the latest Twitter news with us from the great Babylon B. Email us your thoughts as always freedom at charliekirk.com and support the Charlie Kirk show at charliekirk.com slash support.
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I want to dive into this Arizona Attorney General's letter.
I'll be honest, this letter is a lot more forceful than I would have anticipated.
It is from Mark Bernovich and Jennifer Wright to Thomas Liddy, the civil division chief from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
And it goes into great detail one after the other, asking some questions.
And the biggest question that no one can answer, the question that is outstanding that no one can pinpoint is why is it that the machines were working perfectly fine on November 7th?
Everything was great.
And then on the morning of November 8th in Maricopa County, the machines just stopped working.
Now, for some of you that are watching online, you might not understand the significance of this.
The significance of all of this is as follows: The way that Maricopa does its elections is that you show up and you check in and you can forfeit your mail and ballot because Arizona has a lot of mail and ballots.
And then they print you a new ballot to actually go print, to actually go vote in person.
That's right.
They have to print you a new ballot on site so you could vote in person.
They print it out right there.
Then they have to run the ballot through the machine after you have filled out that ballot.
Now, according to the official line of Maricopa County, according to the official line of the largest county in Arizona, where 62% of all voters live in Maricopa County, according to them, it was just a toner issue.
It was just a matter of getting the toner settings right.
And by one or two in the afternoon, they got it all figured out.
Now, the machines and the printers have a network administrator.
Really, the question is: who is this administrator then?
So, essentially, what ended up happening is because then these ballots wouldn't go to the machines, lines started to form.
Chaos started to ensue.
When I went to go vote on election day, it was complete and total bedlam.
There weren't people working the check-in.
People didn't know where to tell you to go drop your ballot.
You said, I want to go vote in person.
And they say, Well, the machines are down and we call the technician.
We don't know what the problem is.
So, how is it?
What changed from November the 7th at night when they ran their test run and everything was fine to November the 8th at 6 a.m.?
What changed?
And why is it it only changed in Republican-heavy precincts or Republican-heavy voting areas?
This is Bill Gates speaking about whether Election Day printer problems impacted more areas than others.
Cut 39.
Hi, I'm Bill Gates, chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.
One of the questions that we've been getting since the general election on November 8th is: did the printer problems on Election Day impact Republican-leaning areas more than Democratic-leaning areas?
Well, as your supervisor, I want to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to cast their vote.
And we've reviewed this issue, and we found that the 70 vote centers that were impacted by the printer issues were spread all across Maricopa County, and they did not impact one part of the valley more than the other.
This guy is such a liar.
Conservatives vote more on Election Day, Bill Gates.
You know that.
You are a fraud.
So even in the most liberal areas, they become redder on Election Day.
72% of all people that voted in person on Election Day, a three-to-one margin voted for Kerry Lake, a three-to-one margin.
Bill Gates was asked a question: hey, why does it take 10 days to count votes?
Play cut seven.
Today, they're working on reconciling the Election Day ballots with check-ins.
They're also counting up all the write-in votes.
And finally, they're processing the ballots with signatures that have been cured since the deadline of 5 p.m. on Wednesday.
That's what election integrity looks like.
Oh, so he's lecturing us about election integrity.
He's saying that election integrity means taking 10 days to count your ballots.
But again, it begs the question: what changed exactly?
And now you might say, oh, Charlie, what difference does it make?
It's not that big of a difference.
This is a monumental difference.
248,000 people voted in person on Election Day.
248,000 people.
How many people were turned away because of the one-hour line, the two-hour line that started because of this sabotage machine malfunction and failure that happened in the way of voting that conservatives have a preference to vote more than any others?
By the way, we're looking at just a half of percentage of results.
We're talking about the current tally has Kerry Lake down so slightly.
Kerry Lake currently in the tally down 17,428 votes, down 0.6%.
In the Attorney General's race, it's a statistical tie, and Abe Hamaday is down 850 votes.
You see, when you create bedlam and chaos with machines all across the valley, people are less likely to go vote.
It is an election day suppression operation.
It's an election day way to be able to create a clog in the plumbing, a traffic jam on the highway where people say, forget it.
I'm not going to deal with that.
Not to mention the people that tried to check in and they were told to go to different locations.
How many Maricopa County poll workers told voters to go to a different location, which is against the law, by the way?
Oh, just go to another location.
By law, they have to service that person to vote right there.
And they said, just go to another place.
Now, will people be held accountable and be arrested for this?
I certainly hope so.
But the way it usually works is government officials can do whatever they want and they get away with it.
Let's go to this cut right here.
Cut 27, poll observer in Scottsdale discusses how four out of seven ballots were failing.
Play cut 27.
I was a poll observer on November 8th at the El Dorado Park Community Center in Scottsdale from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Tabulator voter suppression issues started shortly after a county technician arrived to check our equipment.
Between noon and 12.30, approximately 20% of the ballots were failing.
Between 12.30 and 1 o'clock, four of every seven ballots were failing.
I'll never forget the look on these affected voters' faces.
They were in disbelief that our system of voting was failing them in a mass, en masse.
Our system of voting was failing them.
I saw it firsthand myself.
And where are the defenders of democracy?
Where are all these Democrats that say, you know, Republicans have an attack on democracy?
And so then we show up in major numbers on Election Day to vote in the way that we like to vote.
And what do we experience?
A sabotage ambush that no one has yet to answer.
And the Board of Supervisors, Bill Gates and Stephen Richer, they're just kind of smugly telling you, well, this is what election integrity looks like.
Election integrity is the fact that one out of five machines just fail.
One out of five machines just go down.
You see, when you have an election day and people are busy with their kids, with work, and they show up in a parking lot and there is a line that is two hours long, which was the case at a lot of places across the valley, you're going to have a taper effect.
Now, that taper might have been 20,000 people strong.
Well, guess what?
That 20,000-person taper very well might have been the difference.
You might say, oh, Charlie, 20,000 is too much.
Disenfranchised Voters and Long Lines00:06:55
Oh, really?
Out of 223 vote centers, all it would have taken is three to four people per hour to be able to create the taper that Kerry Lake lost by.
Do the math.
If three or four people per voting center per hour were deterred by lines, three to four people do four times 223 times 12.
That is the difference of the margin of error between Kerry Lake and Katie Hobbs as it stands.
And guess who Katie Hobbs is?
She's the Secretary of State.
She's the one that counts the ballots.
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Democrats are saying, well, look, it's legally nothing to have long lines.
This Democrat Irvine, Tom Irvine, by the way, this is the Washington Post that comes out.
You know, they say democracy dies in darkness, but in darkness you shall vote.
Wait, what?
I'm sorry.
Wait, what does that mean?
I mean, like, long lines are the best part of democracy.
Really?
It says this.
A legal expert said that if Republicans, don't you love how they use that experts, legal experts?
It's legally nothing, said Tom Irvine, a now retired lawyer with four decades of election law experience who represented Maricopa County in the 90s and 2000s.
There's no proof that anyone was disadvantaged, said Irvine.
Well, Tom Irvine, let me read this email I just received, freedom at charliekirk.com from Peggy.
Hi, Charlie.
I could not vote on Election Day.
I wanted to.
Only two locations in 85086, one in Anthem and one at 71st and Carefree.
I know that area.
Anthem had 400 people in line.
The other one had a mile-long line and a two and a half-hour wait.
It's a small church with only 30 parking spaces.
So people have been disenfranchised.
People were turned away.
Now, Bill Gates and the supervisors are saying everything is just fine.
Now, it's interesting.
We have this audio here where Bill Gates was doing an interview back in August saying the only way for the Republican Party to save itself is humiliation at the ballot box.
Play cut 19.
You said the other day, I think the way back, and I believe you're talking about your party, is by humiliation at the ballot box.
What do you mean by that?
Well, I fear, I fear that if we continue to nominate people who deny the truth, then what may have to happen is that we lose elections.
I guess we're going to have to lose elections, the guy says who's counting the votes.
Now, let's just scale this out.
Polling places were open about 12 hours in Maricopa County, 12 hours.
If just three to four people per 223 voting centers were deterred by the lines, just three or four people, based on the news, based on what they heard per hour, which is a very reasonable number, it's probably more than that.
That right there is the margin even factoring in the 70 plus percent that Carrie Lake won what she is down Katie Hobbs right now per voting center.
So if you do the math very quickly, you take out your calculator, you say, okay, let's say that three people per voting center were deterred.
Let's just say, and if you take 223, because remember, you might say, well, Charlie, only one out of five were affected.
No, no, no, no.
There were lines in other places because of this, because then people started to go to different voting centers.
It caused a chain of events.
223 times 4 times 12.
You have right there easily the margin when it comes to the Attorney General's race.
Easily.
And so what you have in a very simple way is people may have just heard about the chaos and not bothered to check in at all if their specific center was having problems.
They just said, oh, screw it.
Forget it.
Now, if you scale it up a little bit, let's just say six people per voting center or 10 people per voting center or 15 people per voting center.
I mean, this email we received right here, Charlie, the line was too long.
I did not vote right there.
People were affected right there.
And it wasn't some act of God.
I deserve an answer, not just me.
We deserve an answer.
Let me rephrase that.
We deserve an answer as to why did the machines work perfectly and flawlessly the night before, and they started to be completely and totally ruined the next morning.
What happened over that 12-hour period?
What changed exactly?
Because the result of it was a created traffic jam, whether it was intentional or not is actually irrelevant.
Even if you're not on board saying it was a sabotage, What is relevant and what is pertinent is what actually happened.
How many people were going to go vote on Election Day and they saw all the issues and they said, forget it.
We're not even talking about 5%.
We're not even talking about 1%.
If 0.6%, that right there very well could have been the margin of error for Carrie Lake to have won the election outright.
Who is behind all of this?
And will they be held accountable?
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There's a lot happening at Twitter.
We'll get back to the Arizona news in just a second.
There's a lot happening at Twitter right now, a lot.
And no better person to help us make sense of it all than somebody who very well might be responsible for getting Elon to purchase Twitter himself.
And he also has his account restored.
Seth Dylan from the wonderful website Babylon B. Seth, welcome back to the program.
Charlie, what's going on?
Good to see you.
Seth, tell us about what's going on with Twitter.
And I understand you guys got your Twitter account back.
We're back, man.
It was a long time coming.
We were, you know, when we got banned initially, or at least locked out of our account, we weren't permanently banned.
We were locked out, required to delete a joke that Twitter considered to be hateful conduct back in March earlier this year.
And honestly, we never expected to get back into Twitter.
I mean, who expects that when you get locked out by, you know, the powers that be, that they're going to change their mind?
Of course, they're not going to change their mind.
You need something else to come in and disrupt things and change things up.
And in our case, the richest man in the world happens to be a fan and friend of ours and came to our rescue.
So I'm not sure that everybody can count on that, but it was cool, I think, that we played a role in the decision-making process that went into his bid to buy Twitter and that we're now benefiting from him taking over.
Yeah.
And so now Donald Trump has his Twitter account back and there's all sorts of different changes happening over the weekend.
Kind of give us an update for all everyone listening.
What changed with Twitter over the weekend?
Well, you've had Musk come out and say Freedom Fridays on Twitter, you know, kind of teasing the fact as a spoiler alert that he was going to be setting some people free.
And it seems to have extended beyond Friday, he's unlocked a number of accounts.
I just saw that James Lindsay was unlocked.
Yep.
Project Veritas has been unlocked.
Of course, obviously Trump was unlocked in response to that poll that he ran.
So, you know, it's been unclear.
It had been unclear to a lot of conservatives, a lot of people on the right who felt like their voices had been suppressed and silenced and taken away.
It was unclear exactly what Musk was going to do about that.
It's still unclear, I think, how he's going to handle these issues broadly speaking for, you know, just your average Twitter user.
But it is extremely encouraging to see him coming in and lifting the banhammer on some of these bigger accounts that had been suspended for really just silly, ridiculous reasons.
Yeah.
So, Elon Musk opened it up for a Twitter poll, and 15 million people voted in it, and Donald Trump won.
And then you have people coming out saying, Well, I don't know if a poll is the best way to do this.
Oh, really?
Do you guys believe in democracy or do you not believe in democracy?
And so, Musk also has fired a bunch of really woke engineers and employees and is opening up the prisoners of war from the meme wars.
Let me just ask you, Seth, as someone who traffics in comedy rather well and is kind of the leading website in that regard, Babylon B, are you seeing Twitter actually become fun again?
Oh, are you kidding?
Twitter is more fun than it's ever been.
I mean, ever.
Part of the reason is because the left is just so worked up over this Elon Musk's ownership and some of the stuff that he's doing now on banning accounts.
I think, you know, obviously, unbanning or unlocking the Babylon Bees account triggered a lot of people, but Trump, I mean, they are losing their minds.
You've got accounts like CBS threatening to go off of Twitter and pause all their activity on Twitter as a precautionary action, you know, because they want to see what plays out.
It's like they have security concerns.
The stuff that's happening right now is just beyond parody.
It's really comical.
So, being on Twitter and seeing the freak outs from the left and the rejoicing on the right has been just a ton of fun.
I mean, it's the most entertaining website on the internet right now by far, and usage is up at record numbers for Musk.
So, I mean, the fact that they're talking about Twitter dying while it's thriving more than it ever has is kind of ironic and comical.
Yeah, let's go to cut one.
CBS News announces we're pausing all of our activity on Twitter.
Okay, we never asked you to be here anyway.
It's actually probably gonna be a better platform without you.
Play cut one.
And Musk has called for an emergency meeting for all remaining engineers in light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an abundance of caution.
CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site.
Yeah, we're pausing our activity on the site.
And then if you let's go to cut four, CNN reports that Elon Musk reinstates Donald Trump's Twitter account after allowing users to decide in a poll.
Play cut four.
This just ended to CNN.
Donald Trump's Twitter account is back.
Musk posted a poll on Twitter asking if people thought Donald Trump should be allowed back on the service.
Musk says the results showed that people wanted Trump to return.
He tweeted this: the people have spoken.
Trump will be reinstated.
Vox populi, vox day, which is Latin and means the voice of God, or sorry, the voice of the people, the voice of God.
They just don't even know how to comprehend it.
And so, so, Seth, walk through the significance of this for the American right, because currently, and myself included, there are some people that are a little bit down over kind of just somehow the midterm election results happened.
By the way, my favorite Babylon B headline of the last couple of weeks is Katie Hobbs projected winner of Arizona gubernatorial election with 180% precincts reporting.
It was brilliant.
Congratulations.
Well done on that.
But can you tell us and build this out a little bit?
How significance is this for, and you're a conservative, so it's okay for us to talk about this in conservative terms for the American right.
Elon's not even looking at this in political terms, but this is a big victory for us.
While all the midterm stuff was ongoing, Elon was actually getting into the weeds to build a virtual and online foundation that will actually allow us to probably win more in the future.
Do you agree with that?
I agree with that.
I think it's bigger than just a win, though, for the American right.
Obviously, it's huge for the American right, but I think it can't be overstated how big of a win it is for the American people in general.
Because what you had before, you know, what they're afraid of right now, what the left is freaking out about, is that you might actually have a platform where free speech exists, where people are allowed to speak freely.
Free people are allowed to speak freely.
They can't stand that.
They're so worked up about the fact that that is being threatened.
They think that's dangerous.
What they have no problem with is some kind of an authoritarian system where a few powerful elites that hold all this unprecedented power by owning these tech platforms where the vast majority of public discourse takes place, they don't have any problem with them deciding what's true and who can speak and what they can say because they controlled those strings.
They were the ones that were controlling that platform.
So now that Musk is threatened to take away some of that control, they're freaking out.
But the fact that he has done that means that people are actually going to be allowed to speak and debate these issues.
These prominent voices that have been sidelined are back and they're going to be pushing back on the madness, the insanity of the left.
And it can't be overstated how big that is.
It's massive.
And so it's going to go down that if Elon continues to play this out the way he is in November 2022, there might have been the red wave that never materialized in certain parts of the country, but there was a realignment of Twitter becoming an actual free speech platform.
I want to play another piece of tape here.
And again, this, just to see the reaction of this is just so incredible.
Now, Adie Klobuchar, who is Snow Woman, she says we must make Twitter a focus of this new Congress, PlayCut 24.
As you know, I've been way up front on this for a long time.
And this isn't just Twitter, as you just pointed out.
This is also about all of these companies.
There are no rules of the road in place.
Do they get to keep their immunity when they're actually amplifying hate speech and misinformation and making money off it?
So I think this should be a major focus for the Congress next year.
I think we have to, as well as getting everything we can get done by the end of this year.
Seth, a major focus for the Democrat Congress is Twitter.
Well, again, it's, you know, that's what they try to say is they use the euphemism, hate speech, misinformation, whatever.
You know, what they're talking about, what you and I know they're both talking about is opinions they don't like.
It's people that they don't like voicing opinions they don't like.
They can't stand that.
They feel like they have to squash it.
And the fact that Twitter or other platforms might actually let those opposing views be heard in the public square, you know, that becomes their top priority because that's the way that they win.
How do you prop up an insane and indefensible world of you that can't withstand scrutiny and criticism?
Well, you silence the scrutiny and criticism.
That's the only way to do it.
Yeah.
And the amount of accounts that are now being restored is very profound and significant.
And it goes to show how the left has been able to control the narratives over the last couple of years via this platform.
And here's the thing: you know, just I'm going to play another piece of tape here, and it's a little bit more of the same, Seth, but it plays into this point where, because there are these doomsdayers, and I can't stand the doomsdayers, and they email us, freedom at charliekirk.com, and that's fine.
They're welcome to.
They say, Charlie, everything's terrible.
Everything's awful.
This Twitter purchase means nothing.
If the Twitter purchase means nothing, why is it that Amy Klobuchar wants to have hearings about it?
If the Twitter purchase means nothing, why is that Ed Markey is responding like this, play cut 22, with a threat 22?
You cannot ignore what the federal government is requiring of your company.
And it also goes for guardrails that have to be built around social media sites that are allowing for Twitter for $8 to give someone an ability to impersonate who they are.
And that is not permissible.
They will pay a price if they don't put safeguards in place at Twitter.
Oh, so Twitter will pay a price, but TikTok can spy on our children and put forward medical mutilation trans, you know, equivalent to mind heroin, what they're putting into our kids' laps via their phone.
Your thoughts, Seth?
Well, you know, obviously, if even though Musk hadn't unbanned anybody when he first came in, they were saying stuff like this.
I mean, they were saying it before he started releasing people from Twitter jail.
Uh, and reinstating these accounts.
So they were afraid of him because he had specifically and explicitly said that he was going to return free speech to this platform.
Um, the question is, will he really do that?
And I think it's a fair question because, while he is reinstating some accounts, there is a real lack of clarity and understanding of exactly how he's going to allow free speech to flourish, while also uh, you know, dealing with this issue of the advertisers not wanting certain types of speech on there, the activists putting pressure on those advertisers.
They're pulling their funding.
He's got that to worry about because he needs revenue to drive the business for it.
How is he going to balance keeping this a profitable business and allowing free speech?
It remains to be seen how that's going to work out.
Yeah, I mean, I think Elon's going to figure it out.
Traffic is up, Twitter is more fun than ever, our engagement is really up and it's really exciting and we're enjoying it, and I think he's going to figure out how to monetize it.
But also, here's the thing with Elon is that this was an asset transfer.
For him, this wasn't necessarily a big purchase.
He just moved 44 billion dollars to another company, meaning that, if it goes down a little bit in value, he's going to be fine and as long as he can keep the lights on for the next year or two years, he's going to figure it out.
He's going to figure it out.
The guy is a genius and it's already working.
It's already working.
Free speech is actually very popular, especially when there's no other platform that really embraces it.
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Seth, tell us what's your favorite headline you got up right now.
Well, I mean, it's one that speaks to this whole thing.
With Elon Musk, we wrote a headline about how our Babylon beat writers were struggling to think of a joke worth 44 billion and honestly, it's like it's, it's fun, it's.
It's true.
We're feeling inadequate, like we can't earn this.
Remember that scene at the end of saving private Ryan, when they, when they, finally Tom Hanks is looking at Ryan as he's dying and he says, earn this with his last breath.
That's right, you know, like i'm feeling that pressure, like we need to earn this.
That yeah, it's.
Uh, there's a lot of pressure on you guys.
There's a lot.
I mean you didn't have three brothers die in war and have a special, you know, group of people come and rescue you.
I do want to play a piece of tape here just to remind our audience how, how important it is to just do the right thing and then you never know how the stars are going to align.
Here's Babylon be.
They're doing the right thing.
They're hosting Elon Musk, they get to know him and then, just so happens, Elon then asset transfers 44 billion dollars and liberates the public conversation.
Let's go back in the time machine, play cut 16.
Pressure to Earn the Interview00:02:20
And then you realize it's like, wait a second, is a comedy getting at an essential truth or trying to or is there is there a propaganda element or is it trying to push you in a particular direction or getting to an essential truth that is humorous?
And when it stops trying to get to an essential truth that is humorous, then it's just not that funny.
Tell us about that interview, Seth.
Well, it's funny how it came about.
We just reached out to Musk and asked him if, you know, if we came to him, would he do an interview with us?
And he responded within minutes to say, yes, he'd be happy to.
We just have to come to Austin.
So, you know, we asked for the interview and he granted it right away.
So, you know, it just goes to show that he's a fan of the Bean and has been for a while and was happy to sit down with us, which was really cool.
I mean, it was an amazing experience for us to get to sit with him and kind of pick his brain and do kind of an unconventional interview where instead of just asking him serious questions about like space exploration and Neuralink and Starlink and all these things that he's doing, just to like ask him fun questions, like if he'd rather be Fat Man or Iron Man, you know, like silly stuff like that.
Have a little bit of fun with him and see what he says.
But he did say a lot of things about speech and about comedy and the importance of humor and not taking ourselves too seriously in that interview.
So I think it was interesting, thought-provoking, and certainly a lot of fun and a great opportunity for us.
That is precisely why the left hates him, because one of the core commandments of being on the left is you must take yourself extremely seriously.
You can't make fun of yourself ever or allow anyone to make fun of you ever.
Seth, thank you so much.
Great job as always.
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Seth, see you soon.
Thank you, Charlie.
And we'll see you at AmericaFest, too.
That's going to be a lot of fun.
Yes, looking forward to it.
It's going to be great.
Thank you.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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Thank you so much for listening.
God bless.
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