The Charlie Kirk Show - DOXXING VS. FREE SPEECH with Kurt Schlicter
Aired: 2022-12-16
Duration: 34:48


=== Elon Musk Bans Twitter Users (08:27) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey, everybody.
[00:00:00]  Elon starts to ban people from Twitter.
[00:00:03]  Which, how should we think about that?
[00:00:04]  Kurt Schlichter goes unleashed on the RNC race, that, and so much more.
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[00:01:10]  Yesterday, Elon Musk made some news.
[00:01:14]  The richest man in the world and the owner of Twitter started to suspend a wave of journalists and their accounts on Twitter.
[00:01:24]  Now, I started to get texts from people saying, Charlie, what is Elon doing?
[00:01:27]  I thought he was pro-free speech.
[00:01:29]  These are conservatives.
[00:01:30]  People that were emailing me relentlessly and messaging me, Charlie, why is Elon doing this?
[00:01:34]  I thought, calm down.
[00:01:35]  It's like, hold on.
[00:01:37]  So, first and foremost, the root of the bans that Elon Musk was executing was they were all basically tied to people sharing the exact location of Elon Musk's private jet.
[00:01:51]  This comes after Elon Musk's daughter, who I think is named Lil X or something, who I mistook, I actually mistook her for a rapper, but I guess her name is Lil X or just X. I'm sorry.
[00:02:04]  No, but he said Lil, I think, at some point.
[00:02:06]  Elon, anyway.
[00:02:08]  So his daughter's name is X, who was doxxed and harassed by some awful people because their private and intimate information was shared on Twitter and social media.
[00:02:22]  Now, there is this guy that runs this account called Elon's Jet, which actually circumvents even the FAA technology.
[00:02:32]  So Elon Musk pays extra money to have his tail number disguised by the FAA.
[00:02:39]  So if you went to a website like FlightAware, flightaware.com, you would not be able to track Elon Musk's jet.
[00:02:45]  What this guy does is he's actually able, through a very specific, let's just say a digital pin number equivalent, be able to see where Elon Musk's jet is based on a piece of technology that is very, very hard to actually determine what that number is.
[00:03:05]  How this guy was able to do that in the past is not totally clear.
[00:03:09]  Maybe there's been some reporting on it, but this is not public information.
[00:03:14]  Okay.
[00:03:15]  So I believe Americans have a right to privacy as much as you have a right to speech.
[00:03:22]  Both are in the Bill of Rights, by the way.
[00:03:24]  You have a right to speak, and you also have the right to privacy to have your personal effects, your home, your family not rated by the government or not rated by other people or by a company.
[00:03:36]  So Elon's jet account that now restarted itself on this super weird website called Mastodon.
[00:03:44]  Mastodon is a rival social networking site.
[00:03:47]  Musk then suspended Mastodon's Twitter account, and it seems that the journalists whose accounts he suspended were themselves linking to the Mastodon page.
[00:03:56]  So these people, these journalists, think they're immune from any rules, even though they are posting intimate and private detailed location of Elon Musk and his family.
[00:04:11]  And so now the parasite class of reporters at CNN had a panic attack.
[00:04:18]  Now, it's very interesting because the very people at CNN who have been trying to destroy free speech in the West immediately find it so to be repulsive that they would dare have their Twitter account suspended.
[00:04:33]  And they are complaining the loudest of any community out there.
[00:04:41]  Let's play cut 98.
[00:04:43]  The impulsive and unjustified suspension of a number of reporters, including CNN's Donio Sullivan, is concerning but not surprising.
[00:04:51]  And it goes on to say Twitter's increasing instability and volatility should be of incredible concern for everyone who uses Twitter.
[00:05:01]  So that's CNN saying that this should be a huge concern for anybody that uses Twitter.
[00:05:06]  CNN continues by Cut 99.
[00:05:10]  Oliver Darcy says that Elon Musk, it's exposing Elon's commitment to free speech.
[00:05:18]  I'm going to tell you why this is an insane argument by Oliver Darcy.
[00:05:21]  Play Cut 99.
[00:05:23]  Elon Musk is claiming falsely that the several journalists he suspended from Twitter yesterday shared his live location.
[00:05:31]  Musk says it was a violation of Twitter's so-called doxing policy by sharing what he called assassination coordinates.
[00:05:39]  What these journalists were doing was reporting on an account called Elon Jet, which used publicly available account information or flight information to track Elon Musk's jet.
[00:05:51]  See, this is where Oliver Darcy is wrong.
[00:05:53]  This is not publicly available information.
[00:05:56]  You are able to pay for a service with the FAA, the Federal Aviation Administration, to block the tracking of your tail number.
[00:06:05]  It makes it private.
[00:06:07]  This guy is doing something very sneaky to find basically an otherwise cloaked PIN number to send out what Elon Musk calls assassination coordinates for his family and for him.
[00:06:21]  And so look, Musk has now banned anyone that is saying you are going to share personal and private, detailed, location-specific information of him or his family.
[00:06:31]  And I could not support it more.
[00:06:33]  You know, some people say, well, Charlie, doxing, if you don't know what doxing is, doxing, is the sharing of private information publicly, where you live, where you are, where you work.
[00:06:43]  I do not believe that doxing is protected speech.
[00:06:47]  I have lived this.
[00:06:49]  I have to have almost full-time security.
[00:06:51]  My family's information has been publicly doxxed.
[00:06:53]  We receive nearly daily death threats.
[00:06:56]  People have been arrested because of the threats that they have administered against Turning Point USA, against our students, and against me.
[00:07:04]  This is no joke.
[00:07:05]  And Elon is taking a firm and strong stance against this.
[00:07:09]  But you see, reporters, they think that they are a protected class.
[00:07:16]  Reporters think that they're so special.
[00:07:19]  They almost think as if they are like the clergy of American society, that they are above all of us.
[00:07:29]  They literally believe these journalists think they are the priests of morality and of truth.
[00:07:35]  So Musk tweeted this.
[00:07:37]  If anyone posted real-time locations and addresses of New York Times reporters, the FBI would be investigating.
[00:07:44]  There'd be hearings on Capitol Hill, and Biden would give speeches about the end of democracy.
[00:07:50]  And that's exactly right.
[00:07:51]  But you're allowed to post the personal information of Charlie Kirk or Elon Musk, and that's considered journalism.
[00:07:59]  Play cut 96, Elon Musk justifying the suspension of the people that want him dead.
[00:08:05]  Play cut 96.
[00:08:06]  As I'm sure everyone who's been doxin would agree, you know, showing real-time information about somebody's location is inappropriate.
[00:08:18]  And I think everyone on this call would not like that to be done to them.
[00:08:22]  And there's not going to be any distinction in the future between journalists, so-called journalists, and regular people.

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[00:08:27]  Everyone's going to be treated the same.
[00:08:28]  They're not special because you're a journalist.
[00:08:31]  You're just a citizen.
[00:08:35]  So no special treatment.
[00:08:39]  You dox, you get suspended.
[00:08:40]  End of story.
[00:08:42]  That is exactly right.
[00:08:44]  Do you notice how angry the left gets now that Elon Musk has banned child pornography, violent imagery, and doxing on Twitter?
[00:08:54]  The left gets really angry about that.
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[00:11:24]  This is how the left reacts now that Elon Musk says: look, pornography is not speech, child exploitation is not speech, violence is not speech, and doxing will not be tolerated.
[00:11:38]  And there is a constitutional and moral argument for this.
[00:11:42]  I know the Constitution does not apply from a legal standpoint in the administration of Twitter's policies, but from a moral standpoint, you have to have the tension of both, yes, the right to speech, but somebody has the right to be private, to donate anonymously, and to exist not publicly or privately if they so choose.
[00:12:04]  Joe Scarborough cut 101.
[00:12:07]  It's no wonder Elon Musk finds himself where he is right now because everybody's told him he's great.
[00:12:14]  He's been fed not just by sycophants inside his companies, like telling how great he is.
[00:12:21]  He's fed by sycophants in mainstream media.
[00:12:24]  Joe Scarborough and MSNBC continue play cut 95.
[00:12:29]  Talking about this all morning and trying to figure out what to make of it, trying to figure out what the political implications are to some degree, meaning do regulators step in?
[00:12:38]  I don't understand why the guy continues to play in the sewer that's called Twitter and leave Twitter in the hands of somebody else.
[00:12:49]  This is, again, this is just something that makes absolutely no sense.
[00:12:52]  You've got a guy who was a First Amendment maximalist, supposedly.
[00:12:58]  He said, I want to take over Twitter because we have free speech problems.
[00:13:03]  And then they breathlessly go after what they call the Twitter files to try to figure out where they're reporters, were they politicians, were there media outlets who may have had their REIT suppressed.
[00:13:15]  And now he's just outright banning Twitter.
[00:13:18]  It makes no sense.
[00:13:20]  Makes no sense.
[00:13:21]  Now, Joe Scarborough, how would people feel?
[00:13:23]  How would you feel if all of a sudden your private location in Mount Desert Island, Maine was made public?
[00:13:29]  Now, we wouldn't want to do that.
[00:13:31]  That's why Elon's doing it.
[00:13:34]  So that there's not threat assassination coordinates publicized, Joe Scarborough.
[00:13:40]  Joe Bob is live from the Venus Convention Center, and he joins us now.
[00:13:45]  Joe Bob, how are things progressing for Amfest?
[00:13:48]  Tell us what's on the ground.
[00:13:50]  What's happening?
[00:13:51]  Dude, Charlie, this is nuts, man.
[00:13:53]  I mean, this last year was nuts, but this year is a little bit more nuts.
[00:13:57]  Just in terms of the expansiveness of this whole thing, I've been told there's like 30 semi-trucks takes to like load all of the equipment in here.
[00:14:05]  I'm on Media Row right now, if you're watching this and not on the radio.
[00:14:08]  I'm on Media Row, where you can see there's like 50 different media outlets all here.
[00:14:12]  And all that says is that all eyes are on this.
[00:14:16]  This is the epicenter of the conservative movement right now, America Fest happening this weekend.
[00:14:20]  And we're still 24 hours out.
[00:14:23]  Oh, geez, more than 24 hours out.
[00:14:25]  And we have a huge amount of people already here just getting set up, getting ready to go for, like what you said, the biggest party in the conservative movement that anybody's thrown at any point.
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[00:14:41]  And so, so, Joe Bob, let me ask you, you know, the amount of students that are coming, you've done a lot of this campus work.
[00:14:49]  People are going to get fired up.
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[00:14:55]  Yeah, so let me just talk about the event specifically.
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[00:17:32]  The other wrinkle of Elon Musk's banning spree of these people that are publicizing private information that, of course, will then be used as potential assassination coordinates that will be used for personal targeted harassment.
[00:17:47]  The other wrinkle, though, that I think is an unintended benefit is the very same people, the totalitarian left, that have been gleeful, excited, exuberant to ban me, to put a do not amplify tag on my Twitter to go after Dan Bongino, to go after Donald Trump.
[00:18:06]  Those very same people will not stop unless we stop them.
[00:18:12]  A neutral public square is admirable.
[00:18:15]  It is desirable.
[00:18:17]  But every so often, to have someone who has power use power, albeit even temporarily to suspend them, reminds the totalitarian left.
[00:18:27]  No, in fact, it doesn't just remind them, it shows them that they are not the only side that is willing to use force or power.
[00:18:36]  Let me be very clear.
[00:18:38]  I'd love to have a public square where no one gets banned.
[00:18:40]  I think it's great.
[00:18:41]  As long as you're not doxing people, you're not sharing pornography, you are not participating or celebrating in violence.
[00:18:49]  Okay, fine.
[00:18:50]  Those are very simple, prudent, reasonable guidelines.
[00:18:56]  However, if you look at where the media and the left-wingers have been so over the top in the last couple of years, they believe they are the only side that is able or willing to use power.
[00:19:15]  This is kind of the argument that we've been making on this program, where it's only one side uses the power to impanel grand juries to issue subpoenas.
[00:19:27]  Why is it that Hunter Biden is not being investigated by attorneys general all across the country?
[00:19:34]  Why is it that we do not investigate them for all the crimes that they've done?
[00:19:38]  This idea that only one side fights and that we take it is wrong.
[00:19:44]  Joining us now is Kurt Schlichter.
[00:19:46]  He's terrific.
[00:19:47]  Kurt, I heard you on War Room this morning and I texted my team.
[00:19:50]  I said, get Kurt back on the show.
[00:19:52]  Kurt, welcome back to the program.
[00:19:54]  I appreciate it.
[00:19:55]  I think Rona's goons were preventing me from speaking to you, but we're going to fight the power and make it happen.
[00:20:02]  So I want to get into the Rana deal in just a second, but you're on Twitter a lot.
[00:20:09]  You understand it.
[00:20:10]  Your reaction of Elon Musk taking out the band hammer last evening.
[00:20:15]  I think it's funny.
[00:20:17]  You know, we've been telling these people, be really careful about the new rules that you embrace because they're going to come and they're going to become a suppository and you're not going to like it.
[00:20:27]  You're going to be sad.
[00:20:29]  And nope, nope, can't have it.
[00:20:32]  Nope.
[00:20:32]  We're going to ban you.
[00:20:34]  We're going to establish the idea of sort of arbitrary speech censorship based on whim.
[00:20:43]  How could that possibly go wrong?
[00:20:44]  Gee, Charlie, how could that go wrong?
[00:20:47]  So now they want us to be sad.
[00:20:49]  They want us to care.
[00:20:51]  Yeah, okay.
[00:20:52]  I'll get right on it.
[00:20:54]  Yeah, the very same people that have been trying to obliterate the tradition of free speech and dialogue are the ones that go into a volcanic frenzy.
[00:21:02]  The second that they have their Twitter account temporarily suspended for tweeting out assassination coordinates against somebody's family.
[00:21:10]  Yeah, you know, and I don't.
[00:21:12]  You know, I'm sensitive to that too.
[00:21:15]  I've had, you know, folks go.
[00:21:17]  Hey, you know, your kids hear their names.
[00:21:21]  Uh, you know, wander around your town a lot exposed and you know, not protected and it's like okay well yeah, you want to roll those guys.
[00:21:30]  That's cool.
[00:21:31]  Um, so I'm not.
[00:21:33]  Uh, I understand what.
[00:21:34]  Uh Elon, where Elon's coming from uh, and I uh, I just kind of think it's hilarious that these people are now having to live under the rules that they created.
[00:21:45]  So, you know, cry more.
[00:21:49]  I think it's fine.
[00:21:50]  I've been tweeting out things all day like it's okay, you're not allowed to shout fire in a crowded theater.
[00:21:56]  Uh, speech that harms is not protected by the First Amendment.
[00:22:00]  What else?
[00:22:01]  Uh uh, it's a private company, it can do what it wants.
[00:22:05]  I was just doing kind of the greatest hits of uh, a hack leftist uh, censorship justification clichés, so I've had a really good time.
[00:22:14]  Yeah, just everyone's clear.
[00:22:15]  Kurt is using the mindless incantations of the left against them.
[00:22:19]  He actually doesn't believe some of that nonsense.
[00:22:22]  But um so so Kurt, let's go to the RNC race.
[00:22:26]  Um I, you're a smart guy, you represent a lot of people.
[00:22:31]  I'm really struggling to stand.
[00:22:33]  In fact, I took some time yesterday and did some introspection and said, maybe I'm just out of touch.
[00:22:40]  How the heck do you spend $700,000 on flowers if you are the Republican Party?
[00:22:45]  Are they hosting Indian weddings with irregularity?
[00:22:49]  They've got one hell of a Diwali party, you know.
[00:22:53]  Maybe they're getting in touch with the Republicans.
[00:22:56]  Uh softer, gentler side, you know.
[00:22:59]  But I know that.
[00:23:00]  And and I thought when John Rich was on Tucker last night because he's a big star but he's also kind of a regular guy and I think he really speaks for regular people going you know I work for a living and I write you a $25 check because that's all I can send.
[00:23:14]  But I want to get, I believe in my country and I think the Republican Party should fight for it.
[00:23:20]  So here's $25, and then you find it goes to Lululemon tights and You know, I don't think it's unreasonable to be infuriated about that.
[00:23:33]  And in fact, I'm looking forward to Harmee Dylan, who's the candidate I'm supporting, making an audit of the RNC her number one first day one priority because we have to earn the trust of our people.
[00:23:47]  We have to earn it.
[00:23:49]  Yeah, that's one of my favorite words.
[00:23:52]  It's one of my favorite words in the English language.
[00:23:54]  You are not entitled to the trust as in a major political party.
[00:23:59]  Well, exactly.
[00:24:00]  And I find it very annoying about Rona, who may be a very nice person.
[00:24:04]  I don't know.
[00:24:05]  And I don't care.
[00:24:06]  But her kindness is irrelevant in a combat against the Marxist left.
[00:24:11]  Exactly.
[00:24:13]  I expect you to perform.
[00:24:15]  I expect you to get it done.
[00:24:18]  I don't care that there's a problem.
[00:24:20]  Don't come to me and go, the Democrats cheated.
[00:24:23]  Yes, we understand that.
[00:24:25]  That was one of the obstacles we hired you at a pretty substantial salary to overcome.
[00:24:32]  And, you know, if she wanted to take a little cream off the top after being super successful, if she was coming off a 5-0 record instead of 0-5, and I found out that, you know, she got her Pilates tights comped by the RNC.
[00:24:47]  Hey, Roger Rona, you know, coffee's for closers.
[00:24:52]  And, you know, so are mom, mom, whatever, the yoga pants.
[00:24:59]  But she hasn't.
[00:25:01]  Okay.
[00:25:01]  We have an unbroken track record of failure.
[00:25:04]  I'm not a sports guy, but I understand that if you're a football guy and you lose five seasons, you're going to go to whatever, I don't know, pop warner football, but you're not going to stay in the major leagues because you haven't performed.
[00:25:19]  And you might be a nice person.
[00:25:20]  That's okay.
[00:25:21]  Don't care.
[00:25:22]  Not hiring nice.
[00:25:23]  I'm buying a result.
[00:25:27]  And one of the most glaring revelations of the entire financial reporting has been they, the travel thing is one thing.
[00:25:41]  The $17 million, Kurt, in donor mementos.
[00:25:45]  Have you ever seen these donor mementos?
[00:25:47]  I mean, look, I'm in the business of raising money.
[00:25:50]  We raise a fair amount of money and we're very careful how we spend it.
[00:25:55]  And I could tell you, you know what donors don't want?
[00:25:57]  They don't want some trinket that they're going to have to put in their luggage that will probably get destroyed after they go to a retreat with the money that they would rather see deployed towards the intended purpose.
[00:26:08]  I was talking to a donor last night at a party, and this person has, you know, more money than Crassus.
[00:26:18]  Okay.
[00:26:19]  I mean, this person, if she wants, this person could have like a gold paneled bathroom if that was the thing.
[00:26:26]  And this person said, I don't want to drink it.
[00:26:28]  I'm in this because I love my country.
[00:26:30]  I want to help Americans.
[00:26:33]  I believe in Republican ideals.
[00:26:36]  And you don't have to buy me on.
[00:26:38]  Look, if you want to spend eight bucks on a t-shirt that says, hey, go to a retreat 2020, kicking them butt.
[00:26:47]  You know, okay, I can see that.
[00:26:49]  That's fine.
[00:26:51]  If, you know, oh, here's a solid gold brooch, you know, it's in the shape of an elephant.
[00:26:57]  And it's like, no, just no.
[00:27:01]  Go get 20 voters to the polls.
[00:27:03]  Well, I mean, $17 million.
[00:27:05]  I mean, Kurt, let's just say that's a lot dope.
[00:27:07]  Well, let's just say this theoretically.
[00:27:08]  Let's pretend all that money got spent on a Nevada infrastructure, get out the vote, field program, air assistance.
[00:27:15]  We have Senator Adam Laxall, period.
[00:27:17]  That's not a hypothetical.
[00:27:19]  That's not some sort of abstract concept.
[00:27:21]  That is a Senate seat.
[00:27:23]  Yes.
[00:27:24]  And, you know, look, I was a commander in the military.
[00:27:30]  My big job was not pulling out my saber and charging.
[00:27:34]  My big job was organizing the resources at my command, troops, artillery, logistics, intelligence, and making it a symphony and using the right forces in the right place in the right amounts.
[00:27:51]  And I never had enough of any of them.
[00:27:55]  That's what Rona's job needs to be.
[00:27:57]  And she's just not doing it well.
[00:28:01]  She's got to go.
[00:28:02]  Not even close.
[00:28:03]  Sorry.
[00:28:04]  And I can't, I mean, I'll be very honest.
[00:28:05]  I mean, I'm not part of the clubby RNC culture.
[00:28:09]  I don't understand why this is even a question.
[00:28:12]  I mean, I mean this as fairly.
[00:28:14]  I don't understand why this is even open for debate.
[00:28:18]  I don't.
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[00:29:22]  So, Kurt, I always try to not kind of be, let's just say, drunk on my own narrative, right?
[00:29:30]  I try to take time and say, what could the possible counter argument to my very strong opinion be?
[00:29:35]  I think it's fair.
[00:29:36]  I think it's good.
[00:29:36]  We did this last time you were on.
[00:29:38]  But now I'm really confused because with this new stuff, how is this even a question?
[00:29:46]  Look, there is no good argument for Rona McDaniel.
[00:29:50]  There is none.
[00:29:52]  You know, well, I did a few things.
[00:29:55]  Great.
[00:29:55]  You did some of the minimum things that you're supposed to, but you didn't actually win.
[00:30:02]  So you're not good enough.
[00:30:04]  But one of the biggest problems in our society is a lack of accountability.
[00:30:10]  We have a ruling class that fails, that's corrupt, that's stupid, that's actively evil in many cases, and it's never held accountable from Hunter Biden to, you know, to weirdos in schools to our politicians.
[00:30:29]  They aren't held accountable and they don't expect to be.
[00:30:32]  And that's kind of where Rona's at.
[00:30:35]  She doesn't expect to be held accountable.
[00:30:37]  She just expected to glide right in.
[00:30:40]  Because what, well, yeah, I failed, but I really like having this job.
[00:30:45]  So I don't understand the problem.
[00:30:48]  There wasn't a problem until people manifested and said, no, you suck.
[00:30:53]  You're terrible.
[00:30:54]  And you shouldn't be the person.
[00:30:57]  And by then, she had gotten soft endorsements by about two-thirds of the 168 Republican National Committee members who kind of said, well, I guess might as well do Rona again.
[00:31:10]  All right, let's head off to Dane Appointed Party, and then we'll elect her and then move on.
[00:31:15]  And suddenly, Hermit Dylan shows up and says, no, Rona's failed.
[00:31:23]  We need new blood, and I volunteer.
[00:31:25]  And people said, Oh, yeah, Rona has kind of failed.
[00:31:30]  And Harmead is amazingly talented, a great spokesperson, a brilliant lawyer.
[00:31:38]  Yeah, let's give her a shot.
[00:31:40]  And more and more of the people are peeling off from Rona and going to Harmeed.
[00:31:46]  And so it's really kind of inertia.
[00:31:51]  That's why she's there.
[00:31:52]  And she's fighting for the job because she wants it.
[00:31:57]  She's got no argument.
[00:31:58]  She can't come and go, you know, here's what I did.

=== RNC Money Stewardship Debate (02:46) ===

[00:32:02]  I was a good steward of RNC money.
[00:32:06]  I won a bunch of elections.
[00:32:09]  Nope.
[00:32:11]  I inspired the base.
[00:32:15]  Here's how bad she is.
[00:32:16]  I did a Twitter poll, and I told Bannon this on his show too.
[00:32:20]  5992 people reply, hardcore conservatives, the base.
[00:32:26]  I said, Who do you want?
[00:32:27]  Rona got 0.6%.
[00:32:31]  99.4% of Americans did not want Rona.
[00:32:36]  You cannot get that kind of unanimity.
[00:32:41]  Monkey Pox is literally more popular than Rona McDaniel.
[00:32:46]  And yet, this is still a question within.
[00:32:50]  And people are still saying, I mean, if you talk to some of the committee members, and by the way, anyone, you guys can contact your committee members for your state at hireharmeet.com.
[00:32:59]  It's the full list.
[00:33:00]  Email them and be nice about it, but just ask them.
[00:33:04]  But I just, what is the argument that donors got trinkets while we lost a Senate seat we should have won?
[00:33:11]  Well, the argument is: well, Rona's my friend.
[00:33:15]  And frankly, I have a lot of friends that shouldn't run the RNC.
[00:33:18]  I got a lot of them.
[00:33:19]  Exactly.
[00:33:20]  And some of them are consultants who I've been attacked by, who are thinking, oh my gosh, Armit knows where the bodies are buried.
[00:33:29]  She's going to kick over our rice bowls.
[00:33:31]  Because one of the things I expect Harmeet to do would be to issue a RNC consultant guidelines.
[00:33:41]  For instance, you don't take 10% of media sales if you're an RNC-approved consultant.
[00:33:49]  Instead, you know, because when they spend money to buy media, they pocket 10%.
[00:33:54]  It goes to influence people who are already influenced because there's nobody out there going, I don't know, I need to hear more about this Donald Trump character before I make my call.
[00:34:05]  That money should be going at this cycle, this time.
[00:34:10]  I haven't yet formed my opinion of Donald Trump.
[00:34:12]  That's blue and clear.
[00:34:14]  I need another ad.
[00:34:16]  Scary music for a sunset.
[00:34:20]  40% of all money donated to the RNC just goes to fundraising.
[00:34:24]  That alone should shut down the operation.
[00:34:26]  We're out of time.
[00:34:27]  I hope to see you on a cruise sometime soon.
[00:34:30]  Ahoy.
[00:34:34]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
[00:34:36]  Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:34:39]  Thank you so much for listening and God bless.
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