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Dec. 21, 2022 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Why 2022 Was Triumphant with Steve Bannon, Jack Posobiec, and Matthew Tyrmand
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Unifying a Force to Take Our Country Back 00:11:53
Hey everybody.
Today on the Charlie Kirk show, we have Steve Bannon and Jack Pesobic start us off.
And then we have Matthew Tierman for an update out of Brazil and so much more.
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Hello, everybody.
We are live at AmericaFest, Turning Point USA event with Steve Bannon and Jack Pesovic.
Steve, we were on Tim Poole last night.
Were we?
And well, we have the receipts.
Steve, that was holy.
That was live, Steve.
That was being brought.
Tim Poole makes everybody, including Kanye, go to Harper's Ferry.
How did you guys get Tim Poole on location?
I got to give Jack credit.
Jack was kind of the broker of Tim Poole bringing his show on the road.
Tim Poole.
No, I'll tell the story.
I've never told this publicly.
I've never told this publicly.
We finish up with Tim Poole.
I said, Tim, we want you at America Fest.
We need you at America.
Jack, how am I going to do the show?
I got to do the show every night.
The people are waiting for me.
I said, we'll do it from the main stage.
He's like, well, we need the cameras.
We need the microphones.
I said, we'll build you a stage.
We'll build you a show.
He's like, you can do all that for me.
Of course, Turning Point will be happy.
Then I go to the phone.
I say, Charlie, I just made a lot of promises to Tim Poole.
Hey, but at Turning Point USA, we get it done.
We do tough stuff here.
Charlie pulled it off.
Pulled it off.
The team deserves credit.
I didn't do anything.
I just told him to do it.
But Steve, we were talking about hope.
I want to play this tape, and we have edited it for the FCC so that we're not going to be fined up the wazoo.
Play tape here at Steve Bannon on Tim Pool.
Revolutionaries, everybody got the information, and we came together and said, f you, right?
That's exactly right.
Is that the essence of liberty?
Yes.
That's the essence of liberty.
Hell yeah.
What do you think?
What did John?
What did Sam Adams tell the British Empire?
F ⁇ you!
Right?
What did John Hancock say?
F ⁇ you!
Steve, what got into you last night?
I must have missed that Federalist paper.
Charlie, which is that one of the things that you're doing?
What is the Federalist 53 man?
Oh, it's one of the ones in the back.
That's right.
Isn't that in the Patriots history of the U.S.?
Something like that.
Yeah, it's right after if men were angels, government would not be necessary.
And if the British Empire invades you, F you.
Pardon my French, but this is what this audience needs to tell the administrative and deep state that stole the 16 election.
Steve, no swearing.
I'll send you the invoice.
You're on radio.
I know.
I know.
Steve.
Have a Christmas cookie.
We don't want to get Charlie.
We know you're Charlie.
We've got a beautiful cookie here, Steve.
We've got chocolate chips.
Chili streets.
We've got stars and angels.
Okay, we'll do it later.
We'll do it on War Room tomorrow.
That's right.
We'll do it in a War Room, the Charlie Kirk.
There we go.
Five o'clock.
That's right.
How's that?
But, Steve, what we were talking about, which is so significant, is that the spirit of non-compliance, despite the incentives, the propaganda, the firings, the takeover of the military, the takeover of colleges.
How many of our kids got kicked out of college?
I got kicked out of class because they would not take the mRNA experimental gene shot.
It's amazing.
You had their senior year of high school ruined.
The memories you have as a junior and senior are taken away forever.
And despite that, you would think that, okay, maybe 3 million, maybe 5 million people would be able to withstand that blitzkrieg.
But 35 to 50 million people that said, no, I'm not going to take the shot, that shows that they are far less powerful. than we could even put into words.
That's a win of 2020.
50 million people is the pivot point and the leverage point for taking our country back.
Because remember, it's not that we hung in there and we were wrong.
We were right.
Yes.
And all you guys are the beneficiary and you were right.
And getting the information.
Think of all your relatives thought you were crazy.
Think of all your friends.
Think of your coworkers.
Said you're a bunch of nutcases.
It turns out you're right and they're wrong.
Yeah, and it's even less about the vaccine itself, which you've covered.
We had Naimi Wolf and Dr. McCullough and Dr. Malone.
It's about, are you going to be able to tell me what to do despite my own values, what I'm seeing?
Are you going to be able to pay people to do it?
And Jack, the answer is there's still 50 million people that love liberty in America.
Charlie, are you saying my body, my choice?
Well, I'm saying we actually should own that a lot more than the lack.
No, this was the pivot.
But I want to add to this, and so people know the context of that clip, they were talking about the vaccine.
But Matthias Desmond, the philosopher, explained this, because this wasn't just an argument or a debate that was being had.
This was the largest psychological operation that was run on Western Hemisphere in modern history that unleashed the forces of mass formation psychosis on everyone.
Billboards, celebrities.
They had rap songs and hip-hop and force freaking and force.
We're going to kick you out of your job.
We're going to kick you out of the military.
We're told.
And Berks admitted it in her book.
She admitted that they did not know.
And then later Pfizer admits to Roos over in the EU, they did not have the data that the vaccine stopped the spread.
And they said it didn't matter because as long as they could ratchet up the punishments that it would ensure compliance.
We just got a couple of minutes here.
We'll do it more.
Okay, today we're going to do from Charlie Kirk Studio, the 5 o'clock show Eastern, 3 o'clock local.
Jack, Charlie, and I, to wrap up, I've got to say one thing.
We've got the whole crowd here live.
What this AmericaFest has done, and this is going to go down in history, you have merged now, infused the older generation and people that have experience but have sat there and go, I want to save my country to these tremendous young activists.
Thank you.
This is going to be a force, not just in the Republican Party, not just in the MAGA movement.
This is going to be a force now if we unify a force to take our country back.
And that's why I think it's so important what's happened here over the last four days.
It's multi-generational, right?
The students are the backbone of everything we do at Turning Point USA.
But now we have a citizen movement of people of all ages because guess what?
The institutional conservative movement is not doing this type of work, is not doing this type of activism, is not really putting the work in.
And Turning Point Action, our political arm, did a poll of, hey, do you approve or disapprove of what Rana Romney is doing running the RNC?
Do you approve or disapprove what the RNC is doing?
Of all ages, despite demographics, they have a 1.6% approval rating at AmericaFest.
I would love to meet those people.
You're welcome to come on our show.
But Charlie, how is this poll conducted?
We're machines.
By Richard Barris, actually.
Richard Barris.
All right, Minister.
Richard Barris came in and he did this independent kind of process.
But that goes to show that there is a movement that transcends age, that transcends geography.
I encourage you guys when you go into the exhibit hall to go look at the picture of where people came from.
I'll show you the picture here.
It's tremendous.
It's powerful.
It blows you away.
48 states represented.
Wow.
And by the way, a ton of people from the Northeast from New Jersey.
New York.
Boston.
And Boston.
Boston.
I mean, we're thousands of miles away from there.
And so it's a huge remnant from the Midwest.
Massive amounts from the North.
What's the one takeaway for the War Room audience?
What's the one takeaway, Charlie and Jack, that you guys have leaving here for 2023?
Because 2023 is going to be one of the most difficult years in the American economy.
And I'm telling you, politics is going to be a contact sport.
I mean that metaphorically, right?
It's going to be 2023.
It's going to be about action, action, action.
What is the takeaway from here?
I think first we have to recognize this year was profound and had a lot more wins than the meat would ever give us.
As I mentioned, the vaccine non-compliance.
As I mentioned, Elon taking over Twitter and liberating Twitter, taking over the House of Representatives, winning by double digits in Florida and Ohio.
Those things are significant.
And knowing that there was a coup on Trump's watch that they tried to take Trump's first term and then they took his second term.
And that's obvious, right?
It's now obvious the government, the deep state, had a coup against President Trump.
Steve, I'm going to go one further, and I'm going to be speaking main stage here right after the great Kerry Lake.
And who has a special announcement?
But Kerry's going to come back to stage and make an announcement.
She's coming back.
But what we see, by the way, give it up for Kerry Lake.
All right.
Come on.
All right.
But what we see in the Twitter files, and I'm going to lay this out, yes, it is evidence of a crime.
It is.
But what it also is, is a roadmap for taking down the deep state itself.
Because if you think that this only happened at Twitter, you haven't been paying attention.
This was an operation run throughout Silicon Valley.
It was run throughout the government.
It was run in conjunction with the CCP and their agents that have infiltrated the Silicon Valley and to the Yole Roths and the James Bakers at Google and Facebook and Meta and Amazon and Wikipedia.
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Steve, closing thoughts.
You're about to address the whole story.
11:30, right?
You're our keynote.
You're the capstone.
Unless we got it.
We have to have closer the clock or I'll be speaking at 2 o'clock.
No, no, no.
We got a very specific way to keep Carrie on time on the stage.
She's a firebrand.
That's right.
I'll give up my time for Kerry right now.
Amen.
We're not going to cut Carrie's mic.
Are you, Charlie?
No, no, no.
We have a plan.
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The Smoking Gun and Imminent Drop Scenario 00:05:21
New Twitter files.
Walk us through all of it.
Look, so the latest drop in the Twitter files, Charlie, actually, and this is one of the reasons that a lot of people said that we wanted everything at once.
I'm glad that we have it now, but you know, me as an investigator, I want to look at the timeline of things more.
And so what we're now seeing is that prior to Twitter censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop, prior to, two weeks before, the FBI held a tabletop exercise, which is essentially a wargame scenario where they went to the Twitter executives, Charlie, they gave them interim top secret security clearances, presented them with information that they believed, get this,
guess what the scenario was?
An imminent drop, all hypothetical, right?
Just an exercise, an imminent drop of Hunter Biden files, which had been hacked by the Russian state, was coming out through, oh, let's just pick someone at random, maybe Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon.
And Twitter must learn, and by the way, it's not just Twitter, it's the entire social media tech giant, the whole world.
What will you do to number one, and this is, it's so pervasive and sinister.
What will you do not only to stop the story, but to spread talking points throughout the mainstream media in order to diminish and diffuse the story.
So Charlie, you're looking at an entirely new arm, an entirely new phase of Project Mockingbird, this idea that they don't need the journalists to be on their payroll anymore like they did in the past.
What we're seeing here is they were using top secret information, they were using disinfo, they were going to Twitter, they were going to their friends, their coworkers, their colleagues there, and telling them exactly what would come to pass just two weeks later.
And we also now know that Elvis Chan, this supervisory FBI agent, called Twitter two hours before Emma Joe Watson released her story at the New York Post.
Now here's my question.
What was the criminal investigation there?
What was the counterintelligence investigation there?
You need, if you're working, and I remember this from when I was behind the desk in the military in the IC, you need justification to legally take those actions as the government.
They had none.
They had none whatsoever.
Okay, we found it.
There we go.
When the government breaks the law, who holds them accountable?
Well, it's we the people.
It's we the people and it's going to be the new Congress and that that kind of gets into the speaker situation that I don't know if you saw you and I were going viral yesterday for that clip with Lauren and with Matt yesterday that my eyebrows became a sort of meme on the internet, right?
Yeah, the whole thing.
And that being said, I was thinking of my pillows in the rejuvenating sleep the entire time, nothing else.
But that's why it's so important that we get the right people in charge of the new Congress, the right people in charge of the committees, and also, Charlie, to go back to your theory of the red states, we need to see red states taking more.
Look what Missouri was able to do with one lawsuit, all the information that we have, and then more importantly, actionable information that we're getting from these investigations.
Yeah, I mean, it is now a fact that these social media companies were owned and operated subsidiaries of the Intel agencies.
And it's amazing because you and I could say that.
We probably could have said that for two years, and it wouldn't have surprised us.
But now we've got documents that you can walk into a courtroom like Kerry Lake's gonna walk into a courtroom tomorrow with Harmee Dylan.
And I don't know if I'm breaking news here by saying this, Richard Barris, who's also gonna be involved, and he did testify at the opening hearing and preliminaries that they are gonna walk in because they have to prove, and this is a high bar, they have to prove actual malice in terms of those printers and the ink.
So they have to prove malice, not just malfeasance.
They have to prove malice.
That was the count that went forward.
Well, that's gonna, how are they gonna do that?
You're gonna need a smoking gun.
You're either gonna need smoking gun, you're gonna need emails, you're gonna need notes, memos, or potentially draw it out through testimony.
And they are going to have Katie Hobbs testify.
They are going to have Stephen Richard testify.
Bill Gates, you remember old Bill with this true coat?
He's going to be testifying.
So they are going to have to go to the wall against these people in order to be able to draw that out.
And so what do we know for the timetable?
So that the trial, the Kerry Lake trial begins tomorrow.
Tomorrow.
Tomorrow, super quick.
This is normally something that if you're walking into a courtroom, there's six months prep, eight months prep.
There's none of that.
They've had six, eight hours to be able to prep on this because the ruling just came out last night.
It's extraordinary.
And so the legal team for Kerry Lake need to be meeting right now, getting their arguments precise.
And Katie Hobbs and the defenders of Maricopa County are kind of scrambling to figure out how to, let's just say, cover it up.
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I do want to mention this poll before I welcome my friend Matthew Tierman, who I've known for probably a decade.
Just graduated high school.
You got to get closer there.
Just graduated high school.
Owning Stock in the Private Company 00:12:46
Yeah, that's right.
10, 11 years ago, two Chicagoans here, and I'm no longer in Chicago.
That's tragic.
I wish I was.
But Chicago left me more than I left Chicago.
But we have this poll that shows that we asked, who do you want to see run the RNC?
The final top line numbers I'm going to have to find, but I believe Rana received 1.7% of all of our attendees.
And so I wonder if the RNC is going to listen to say that they have a 98% disapproval rating amongst the grassroots.
Just top line thoughts on that, Matthew.
My guess is they will not listen.
They're going to have to be dragged out, kicking and screaming by their Lululemons that we paid for.
You know, when Caroline Wren was on War Room a few minutes ago, right here at this platform, she was talking about the permanent consultant class and how the RNC, the goal is to win elections.
I don't think it is with the establishment hacks.
The goal is to be in opposition because they raise more money and the consultants know that.
Is it really that sinister in your calculation?
I mean, if you're not a cynic these days watching the establishment in politics, then you're not watching.
Well, 98% of the grassroots here at our turning point event think it's time for change at the RNC.
98%.
And yet, for whatever reason, we're told that 50-plus percent of the RNC members think everything is just fine.
So interesting.
Matthew, you've been covering something really well.
I'll be honest.
I haven't been following it.
I've been seeing some videos and find it interesting.
What on earth is going on in Brazil?
Well, Brazil is the most important electoral battleground in the world against global communism.
Brazil just had their election, October 2nd, first round, October 30th, second round.
It was stolen.
It's about the machines, same machines born in Venezuela out of Chavez's regime in 2000, 2002.
Matthew, I just want to slow you down because I have a lot of respect for you.
Walk people through this because they'll say, oh, I don't believe Matthew.
That's not true.
I mean, okay, so what do you mean it's the machines?
Well, if you watched the electoral ballot drops on both rounds, Bolsonaro was up, started off at a lead, as would be expected.
If you're on the ground, you see the mass support.
He's brought people together, even in leftist strongholds.
He had massive, massive support, millions of people on the ground.
His entire down ballot endorsees, everybody won.
Congress, lower house, upper house, governors.
And then the ballot drop started.
55-45 every drop for Lula until he crossed into a lead at the same exact point in both rounds, 66.5%, algorithmically driven electoral tabulation.
And then they said, everything's great.
And Biden said, congrats on fair, free, incredible elections.
One minute after it all closed, as if they could possibly know they were fair, free, incredible.
There are so many international dynamics playing out here, the Chinese Communist Party and all this.
So I'm not an expert in Brazilian elections.
What could be done to remedy this?
What is being done to remedy this?
Well, the Brazilian Constitution, given the fraught history in Latin America with military dictatorships and lots of volatility at the top, they have an article in their Constitution, Article 142, that allows the military to stabilize society in a separation of power disputes, which is what we have.
The judiciary in Brazil is made up of Lula and Lula's followers, Dilma, Temer, their appointees.
Lula was in prison.
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison, and he was let out to run.
His record, the sentences were annulled and vacated.
His record was expunged because there's a law in Brazil that says if you're a convicted felon, you cannot run for office.
So they just, by fiat, vacated and expunged and annulled, and then they set it all up.
The media there is totally in the tank.
And since that second round, 10 million people in the streets, every city of Brazil, packed with people staying all night, every night, rain, storm, wind.
And they are prayerful warriors, totally peaceful, no vandalism, no violence, no arson.
So what's going to happen?
Well, I think this week, if it doesn't happen this week, it's over.
Ahead of Christmas, I believe the military will act and invoke Article 142, and they will arrest the judges and force open the machines.
The courts did not give the military the machines, even though the law said they had to.
Wait, so you're saying the military will take over the government?
The military will do what is endowed to them responsibly in the Constitution, which is to force open the electoral court and the machines.
We'll audit it, will prove fraud.
They will arrest the judges for their violations of the Constitution.
I don't think Bolsonaro will stay, and I think he'll have to step down because the global media is going to get activated, and they will start paying attention and say it's a coup.
It's not a coup.
The coup is putting Lula in by fiat, by judicial fiat.
So is Bolsonaro the one that's going to deploy the military?
The military is going to act on their own.
All he has to do is approve their own initiative to invoke this constitutional right.
And then I think he has to step down.
They appoint a caretaker government, maybe a retired judge that has credibility.
They hold new elections, and then perhaps he runs again, and he does get rightfully elected in a clean, machine-auditable electoral process.
Matthew, we're going to have you back on the show.
This is some pretty serious stuff.
Thanks, guys.
We really appreciate it.
Ben, let's go to you on the front lines.
We've got Vivek Ramaswamy coming right up.
All right, hey, we're going to start over here.
We've got these awesome young people.
And I want to start down here with you ladies.
Again, shout out.
We didn't get your dad's name yesterday.
What was that?
Tom.
Tom, shout out to Tom in Michigan.
Tell me your names again.
Isabella.
Isabella.
Gabriella.
Gabriella, perfect names.
And you came out here.
You've had an awesome time.
Four days.
What was the best part?
Listening to Carrie and Candace speak.
They are so full of fire and it is so empowering.
Young ladies, the left wants you to believe that all that matters is killing babies.
What matters to you?
The truth.
The truth.
Conservatism, you're 17, haven't voted yet.
You're not a Democrat, but she will.
She will.
God bless you both.
All right, young men, where are you guys from?
I'm from Illinois.
Illinois?
I'm also from Illinois.
Illinois.
Why brought you guys out here?
So he just started up a new chapter at Western Illinois University at Turning Point.
And so he's just getting involved with the conservative movement, getting involved with making change.
And that's kind of why we came out here today.
Did you lose your voice because of all the shouting you've been doing here?
I've done a lot of talking this weekend.
So that has something to do with it, yes.
What about you?
What was the best part of this whole time?
I would have to say definitely the best part would be the people, the atmosphere.
It's so moving, uplifting, and it really gives you hope.
By the way, if I sound a little tongue-tied, this is a long, it's exhausting, but it's amazing.
This is the thing that refills your cup.
It gets you inspired for more.
What's your name?
Henry.
Henry, where are you from?
From Minnesota.
Minnesota.
All right.
I love it, man.
All over the country.
Best part of the event.
God's the best part of everything.
Charlie Kirk was great.
Always puts on a great show.
It was great to see Tucker Carlson.
It was awesome.
What's your message to the American people?
God wins.
We always win.
Whether we win these elections or not, we have God.
They don't.
Always be prayerful, be merry, be cheerful.
All right, we got Veronica from California over here.
Charlie, I'm going back to you.
We're going to keep this going.
They're fired up.
Ben is special, isn't he?
I love you, brother.
I love you.
Great job.
Everybody, email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
We got Vivek Ramaswamy here, who's amazing, author of Woke Inc.
But also Vivek has a really amazing, I could call it a movement that is going about trying to solve the ESG problem.
If you guys don't know about ESG, it's one of the most important things happening in the global game.
It's sinister.
It's a financial takeover of the West.
Vivek, what is ESG and why should people care about it?
It stands for something really boring.
Environmental, social, and governance factors.
Forget about that.
What it really is, is it is a way for the government to get done through the private sector what it could not get done through the front door.
No Green New Deal, no problem.
We'll actually get every financial institution in this country to embrace the climate pledge instead through the private sector.
Can't do racial quota systems through the government because affirmative action may be outlawed next year.
No problem.
We'll make companies do racial equity audits instead.
So that's what this is about.
Silicon Valley, what you see with Silicon Valley censorship, that is an example of the broader ESG movement using companies to do government's dirty work through the back door that government could not get done through the front door under the Constitution.
How do we beat it?
Because this is not just a billion dollar, it's a 10, 20, 30, 40 trillion dollar game that they are trying to say this is the new social credit system.
That's right.
So it is a tens of trillions of dollar game.
If you think the signatories of the Climate Action 100 Plus Network, that's $68 trillion worth of asset managers' money, using probably most of your money to commit to tell these companies what they're supposed to do.
The answer is it starts with getting educated.
Okay.
I'll give a homework assignment to anybody watching the show right now.
Ask your 401k plan administrator at work.
Ask the guy who manages your money.
Ask your pension fund board, was my money used to vote in favor of an emissions cap at an American oil company?
Was my money used to vote in favor of a racial equity system at an American tech company?
They will tell you they don't know.
Tell them to go find out, and what you will learn is that your money almost certainly was used to vote in favor of one or more of those things.
Take then control back after you empower yourself.
This is so important because all of the socialist woke ideas, you know, we're focused on the schools, we're focused on what's happening in Congress.
But this is the same way as you mentioned that the federal government outsourced censorship to Twitter.
That's right.
They're outsourcing woke conformity to the biggest, most powerful financial institutions.
So this is not just Coca-Cola.
It's not just Amex, but no, it's the institutions on top of them.
It's the asset managers.
It's BlackRock.
It is Larry Fink, the $10 trillion man, who then is coming down and saying, hey, if you want to get a good rating from BlackRock, if you want us to still own 5 million shares of Coca-Cola, you have to abide by all these insane measures or else we're going to tell people not to buy your stock.
Is that simple?
It's one step even worse than that, Charlie.
It's not that we're going to tell people not to buy your stock.
We're going to own your stock.
We're just going to fire you as CEO.
We're going to dock your business.
These are hostile takeovers with woke ideology.
That's exactly right.
So the problem is, actually, BlackRock tells the Texas of the world, hey, we're not divesting from oil and gas.
Half of that story is right.
The problem is that they're invested in Exxon and Chevron and they're changing what these companies do.
From within.
Using the money of everyday citizens to do it.
Using probably the money of most people who are in this room here to do it.
Pension funds, brokerage accounts, 401k accounts, you name it.
And to me, the two concentrations of power in the American economy today, okay, you got the big three asset managers, BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, tens of trillions of dollars.
You've got the companies in Silicon Valley operating the monopoly of ideas.
And the worst part about it is they're actually linked.
You look at who the top shareholders are, outside shareholders of Facebook, Google, Twitter, before it went private.
It's the same firms.
So this is the largest aggregation of private capital in the hands of private hands in human history.
These companies are more powerful than the Dutch East India Company.
The American way is to say that you don't rule us.
We, the people, decide what the right answers are.
That's what we need to restore.
And so you have a company called Strive that is going about solving this.
I'm a big fan and really love what you're doing.
Tell our audience about it because this is a real potential competitor to this Leviathan.
Yeah, my view is solve these problems through the market.
Thank you for your support on it, Charlie, as well.
The way we solve this through the market is first through education, and second, put the power back in the people who actually own the money.
So, what Strive is doing is we're using shareholder power to tell these companies to get out of politics, to focus exclusively on products and services, yes, for profit, without apologizing for it, and don't want anybody's political ideology in the boardroom.
And I'm happy to say that you know what?
I think we are already having an impact on corporate America.
I sent a public letter to the board of Chevron, interacted with the CEO, the CFO.
A lot of, and here's the good news: I want to actually have an optimistic note here.
Most of these CEOs quietly don't actually want to do the thing that these bad guys are doing.
That's when we can change this fast.
Vivek Ramaswamy, check it out, freedom at charliekirk.com.
The company's called Strive.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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