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Dec. 24, 2022 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Ask Charlie Anything Festivus Edition: Charlie Airs His Grievances About the RNC
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Merry Christmas and Rush Limbaugh 00:04:00
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Here we go.
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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He's an incredible guy.
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It's been a long month this week with AmericaFest and many other things.
And so email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
I want to take your questions.
A lot of you have been asking us about AmericaFest and asking us about Turning Point USA and kind of what's going on in the world.
And we want to ask, we want to navigate that with you and answer some of those questions as we talk about the deeper things.
Christmas is a very special time.
I love Christmas.
I'll admit, I love spending time in Christmas here with my family in Phoenix, but there is something missing when it's not frigid, cold, and dark.
Just the way I was raised in Chicago.
For those of you that live in the Midwest, you know exactly what I mean.
But it's still, I love Arizona Christmas.
It's terrific.
It gets a little colder here than I think than people realize.
Someone just emailed us.
They said, Chicago is the epitome of Christmas.
It really is.
There's some towns that do Christmas well and some towns that don't do Christmas well.
Producer Andrew said, Chicago is the mental image of what Christmas is supposed to be.
I think that's exactly right.
It's very cold, very dark, very musty.
And the whole city lights up.
It's very special.
Man, what happened to Chicago is just a tragedy.
And what's happened to Illinois is just a tragedy in more ways than one.
I want to play some tape here.
You guys have emailed us your thoughts.
You can email us your thoughts right now, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Charlie, I see a sincerity and heartfelt pain not many people are conveying right now, but probably very much so are feeling.
Thank you for your vulnerability and honest portrayal of pain and hurt and disappointment.
It's true.
I'm so hurt by these Senate Republicans in the midterms.
It's not a fulfilling feeling to feel as if the people that you work for hate you.
I know that's a very logical and simple truth claim, but when the people that you are trying to rally support for have disdain for you.
We talked about Dante's Inferno or Dante's Divine Comedy.
Not an easy read, but I encourage you guys to attempt to either read it or to read an analysis of it.
Dante's Inferno Analysis 00:04:13
For example, you know, people, someone asked me the day, they said, Charlie, do you read Shakespeare?
I said, no.
I read commentaries on Shakespeare.
I mean, I couldn't understand the deeper, beautiful meaning of most Shakespeare plays.
So I need an expert who has studied it his whole life or her life to tell me whether or not Shakespeare, not whether or not, but like what is the beauty in this play, Macbeth, or Romeo and Juliet.
I'm just not going to pick it up.
I haven't committed my life, nor would I have the talent to be able to understand it.
So, anyway, in Dante's Divine Comedy, he says the worst thing you could do, or the ninth circle of hell, is betrayal.
It's deceit.
It's treachery.
And the three examples he used is Cassius, Brutus, and, of course, Judas Iscariot.
Now, I'm not going to say that all these Republicans are moral equivalents of Judas.
You might say that.
I'd love your thoughts.
Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
But it's a very similar moral behavior, isn't it?
Which is, I'm going to tell you one thing, and I'm going to do the exact opposite.
I mean, I would love these Republicans to come on the show.
Some of which I have their phone numbers.
I've been texting them.
They're not texting back.
$3 million for LGBTQ Museum in New York, $1.2 million for Pride Center in California, $1 million for Zora's house.
I mean, you guys know the list.
BLM programs, $400 million for the FBI headquarters.
So the FBI spies on Trump, lies about it, covers it up, destroys evidence, goes to Twitter, executes a coup, lies about that, funds Twitter, blocks people like me, blocks people like Donald Trump, meets with Yole Roth all illegally.
And how does the FBI get held accountable?
We're going to give you a new headquarters.
We're going to give the FBI a $400 million sterling new building.
It really is the trajectory in Washington, D.C., which is to fail upwards.
I'm going to be promoted by doing bad things.
And you could make an argument.
They actually weren't failing.
They were doing their job for their benefactors, Democrats and Uniparty Republicans.
At a fundamental level, the people that voted for this Uniparty garbage, Roy Blunt, John Boozman, Shelly Moor Capito, Susan Collins, John Cornyn, Tom Cotton, Lady Graham, Jim Inhoff, Mitch McConnell, Jerry Moran, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, Willard Mitt Romney, Mike Rounds, Richard Shelby, John Thune, Roger Wicker, and Todd Young.
They were enthusiastic about the FBI going after Donald Trump, I guess.
I mean, how could you vote for such a monstrosity?
What is the rationale?
I'll read you this.
I'm not going to say who I got it from, but I was very angry yesterday.
I went on Fox News and was ranting, and I got a lot of text messages.
So this is what somebody said.
They said, here's the rationale.
The rationale was that it was the best, worst option.
The non-insider opinion would be to wait until we take over the House in January and then vote on a spending bill.
The problem is that the newly elected Republican freshman will not vote for any spending bill.
And because they have a slim majority, Kevin McCarthy will be forced to negotiate with Democrats to get something passed and it will be much worse.
The omnibus bill in 2014 was a proxy example of this.
Like it or not, his calculus, the calculus was that this is the best option, which was to pass the bill.
This is such incredibly flawed logic.
I can't even begin.
So let me get this straight.
You must sell the country out because you're afraid Republicans might have power in two weeks to actually prevent the selling out of the country.
Just so you know, that was from a top-tier producer Andrew said, I didn't understand a word of that.
Grassroots Say Enough 00:15:50
That's the explanation I received.
I don't know what to tell.
I'm not going to tell you who texted me that out of, I promised that I would stay that it would stay private, and I want to be a person of my word, even though I really want to tell you who texts me that.
It is Festivus.
If you don't know what Festivus is, you should play Cut 83.
Dear son, happy Festivus?
What is Festivus?
It's nothing.
It's not.
When George was growing up, his father needed all the commercial and religious aspects of Christmas, so he made up his own holiday.
Oh, and another piece of the puzzle falls into place.
All right.
And instead of a tree, didn't your father put up an aluminum pole?
Weren't there feats of strength that always ended up with you crying?
Can't you?
No, no, my cookie.
Happy now.
I got your message.
I haven't celebrated Festivus in years.
What is your interest?
Just tell me everything.
Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son.
I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man.
As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way.
What happened to the doll?
It was destroyed.
But out of that, a new holiday was born.
A festivus for the rest of us.
That must have been some kind of doll.
She was.
The tradition of festivus begins with the airing of grievances.
I got a lot of problems with you people.
Now, you're going to hear about it.
I'm sorry.
It's just so good.
There's never been a television show like that, and there never will be.
It's in so what in so many ways it's so clever what they wrote there.
And I think I've been continuing the festivus tradition very well.
I got a lot of problems with you, Mitch McConnell, and you're going to have to hear it for the next hour.
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We at Turning Point USA hosted AmericaFest And Turning Point Action, our 501c4 political arm, conducted a poll.
And the poll results showed that 98% of our attendees, 98% were in support of regime change at the RNC.
They said, we don't like what's happening there.
We want somebody different.
We might, Mike Lindell, Harmeet Dylan, or somebody else.
We want to change it.
We want to mix it up.
Okay.
So we publicized that poll and we said, this is what our members want.
This is what the grassroots are saying.
They're angry.
I happen to agree with them, but if 98% of our membership said they're really happy with the RNC, I would have took a pause.
Like, wow, maybe I'm out of touch.
It actually turns out that I'm in touch with the audience.
One of the reasons why I ask for your emails, one of the reasons why I ask you guys to communicate, is so I can learn what is the combined wisdom of our audience feeling.
It's how I build a connection to you.
It's how I listen.
It's how I learn.
Sometimes I am in connection with you.
Sometimes I'm in disagreement and I feel as if I'm right.
But that's the way that a functioning dialogue with the masses is supposed to work.
Okay.
So we did a poll and 98% of you said, yeah, we don't want, we don't want Rano.
Okay.
So we publicized the poll.
So then Rana, who I have no personal issue with, she's always been very sweet and kind to me.
I need to keep on reemphasizing that because it's true.
Goes on Brian Kilmead's show, who I love Brian Kilmead.
He's terrific.
He asked some good questions.
And she said that basically attacked Turning Point and said, how many younger voters did we get out?
How many people did you register?
And the answer is quite a lot, actually.
And so we responded in rather, you know, public terms.
We said, Rana, thanks for asking, because she was attacking Turning Point, which is a very puzzling strategy.
I want to be in charge of the RNC, so I'm going to attack the only youth organization that just held the largest multi-day event of people across the country with Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingram, Tim Poole, Steve Bannon.
Not exactly politically smart.
Okay.
And so she said, well, they're attacking me.
We're actually not.
We're listening to our members.
We're just saying that you should no longer be in charge of the RNC.
Are we at a place now where you're so fragile that you have, you're like entitled to run the RNC for a term that you promised us you would not run for?
So here's how we responded.
Turning Point Action logged more than 500,000 volunteer hours this cycle.
Turning Point Action directly contacted and engaged 5 million voters.
At Turning Point Action, we hosted over 100 major door knocking rallies in target states and districts.
At Turning Point Action, we recruited over 2,000 new precinct leaders with a goal to be at 10,000 by the end of 2023.
At Turning Point Action, we registered tens of thousands of new voters.
We hosted Governor DeSantis in seven states supporting more than a dozen governor, senate, and congressional candidates, including events with President Donald Trump.
We reached tens of millions of listeners and grassroots folks in our podcast that you guys watch also on Real America's Voice.
We messaged to Hispanic voters in South Florida, Phoenix, and Tucson.
We successfully supported JD Vance, Ana Paulina, Mike Lee, and Andy Biggs against, and Mike Lee and Andy Biggs in particular against Romney-backed independent plants.
By the way, all of this by just spending half a million dollars via Turning Point Pack and a few million dollars via our 501c4.
I then asked the question: how many hundreds of millions did the RNC spend?
I continued by saying, instead of attacking the only youth organization in the country actually doing something, maybe you should be thankful we're actually doing the work.
This is why you should no longer be chair of the RNC.
This is why 98% of our members and our attendees want you fired.
And then I continued, I said, instead of attacking us, you should be sending us $700,000 in flowers, thanking us.
The Washington Post came out with a story today that was actually very, I think, rather fair.
I mean, has its snark, has the smugness, but on the spectrum of Washington Post articles, it's trending in the right direction.
It says, Charlie Kirk delivers a warning to the RNC and sparks a backlash.
That is correct.
I sent out an email to the 168 notifying them of something called the Mount Vernon Project.
At Turning Point Action, this is our promise.
Our promise at Turning Point Action will be very simple.
If you are an RNC member or RNC committeeman or state party chair and you don't listen to the grassroots, we are going to do everything we can to remove you.
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Okay, so someone asked us, hey, Charlie, how is it that the RNC continues to raise money?
This is a very important question.
So there are some big-level donors that still support the current regime.
Less and less, though.
At Turning Point, we've been very blessed.
We are so blessed.
We have over 160,000 grassroots donors.
Many of you guys financially support Turning Point USA.
Thank you.
You guys dig deep, and I can assure you, your money goes to good use.
It goes to students on the front lines.
It goes to starting chapters, high school chapters, but we also have some million-dollar plus donors as well.
And they're pulling their money from the RNC.
They're sick of it for good reasons.
So that should give you hope.
But another way the RNC perpetually funds itself is through you.
And so I encourage you to check out your credit card statements.
Are you unknowingly giving money monthly to the RNC?
It's possible.
The RNC brags that they have a lot of monthly donors.
And boy, that pays the bills.
Imagine if every single person in our audience said, I'm going to check to see if that money is still flowing to the RNC.
It might be, it might not be.
Just do a quick check of your credit card statements.
And if it is, just cancel it.
Just say, I'm not going to support the party under current leadership.
They can't fund themselves without you.
One of the things they brag about most is how the grassroots continues to support the RNC.
Okay, well, what if that stops?
And some of you probably give the donation.
You don't even realize that the box was checked for a monthly donation.
And in some ways, this is a little bit of a trick because a lot of people I don't even realize are doing the monthly donations.
And look, if I was running the RNC, I would do everything I possibly could.
So in some ways, you can't blame them for trying to get sustained monthly donors, but they don't listen to their voters or their constituents.
In fact, they're saying publicly they don't like you.
So yeah, the new Washington Post article is out.
Washington Post says, Charlie Kirk delivers a warning to the RNC and sparks a backlash.
Isaac Stanley Becker for the Washington Post writes what is relatively a very fair article here.
And let me pull it up here.
I guess this paywall.
I refuse to pay for these articles, by the way.
So there's a, there it is.
Thank you.
So it says here, Charlie Kirk delivers a warning to the RNC and sparks a backlash.
Charlie Kirk, this is the Washington Post.
Charlie Kirk, 29-year-old activist who leads Turning Point USA and Network of Conservative Affiliates, wrote with a warning in Monday.
By the way, this is all during America Fest that we did this.
Wrote an email to 168 members: How do we plan to win in 2024 if you so boldly reject listening to the grassroots, our donors, and the biggest organizations and voices in the movement?
If ignored, we will have stunted and muted the Republican Party in the history of had the most stunted, I'm sorry, and muted Republican Party in the history of the conservative movement, the likes of which we've not seen in generations.
It goes on with lots of quotes here saying that they don't like me and that they don't like Turning Point, which again is a very perplexing thing to attack the single organization that is working the hardest and doing the work and putting points on the board.
The RNC responded saying that people have rallied around Rana because of her unprecedented investment in the grassroots, election integrity, and minority communities for taking on big tech and the biased commission on presidential debates.
The debate thing's legit.
That actually is a real thing.
I'll give them that.
The rest is nonsense.
The debate thing's real.
They did.
They did a good job of actually breaking that up.
We'll continue speaking with each and every member about how the party can continue to build upon our investments and make the necessary improvements to win in 2024.
Ben Proto, a member from Connecticut, dismissed our email by saying, celebrities who claim to have the pulse of voters, but who talk in an echo chamber to people who already agree with them.
So he's trying to smear me as a celebrity, like I'm Brad Pitt or something, I guess.
Look, I'm first and foremost an organizer.
We just had 11,000 people in a multi-day event in Phoenix.
I visit college campuses.
And with all due respect, Ben, I don't know if I've ever met you, but I'm not going to receive advice on how to win the Republican Party back from people from Connecticut.
Not exactly a shining star in the tapestry of Republican success.
I'm sure you're a nice person, but thanks for the quote.
He says, when I hear that some of these same celebrities, he puts in quotes, are going to start a pack to take over state committees and county committees and the national committee, I don't know whether to laugh or cry because it is clear they truly do not understand how elections at any level work or more importantly, how they're won.
Oh, so you know how they're won being a Republican in Connecticut.
Got it.
How about you get in line and give me advice the minute, I don't know, you send any statewide elected office that's a Republican.
Not exactly caught up on Connecticut politics recently.
I don't think they've elected a Republican governor or senator in quite a while.
Maybe they have a state treasurer or something.
I don't know.
So, yeah, Washington Post, Charlie Kirk delivers a warning to the RNC and sparks a backlash.
Look, my promise to all of you, our audience, is we're going to represent you.
I'm going to represent those of you that give 50 bucks, that give $20, that give $100.
War Against the RNC 00:05:13
Someone says, Charlie, how much money is in the RNC war chest versus Turning Point?
So the RNC raises $300 to $400 million.
Our political arm at Turning Point raised about $3 to $5 million.
Yeah, about $5 million is the right term.
So it's about $300 to $400 million versus $3 to $5 million.
Now, if you count our educational programming, which is by law prohibited from any political engagement, we follow that rule very closely, it's about $50 to $60 million budget a year.
But that is non-political resources.
That's educational, that's chapters, Turning Point Academy, TPSA Faith, all that good stuff.
So that's the contrast.
Someone says here, Charlie, I stopped giving to the RNC after the 2020 election.
So glad I did.
They're all a bunch of liars.
And then, so now Rana has another very interesting strategy, which you got to scratch your head.
She's going after Carrie Lake.
Play cut 80.
Look at Arizona.
You've had the state party at war with the governor in that state for four years.
The two candidates for governor, one wouldn't endorse the other.
You had one candidate saying, if you're a McCain voter, get the hell out of my rallies.
And then the McCain voter said, yeah, I'm not going to vote for you.
So she's effectively blaming.
That's a shorter clip than I would have liked because I don't want to take things out of context.
I really don't.
I want to be very factual here.
But she's blaming Carrie Lake for what she considers a loss because she told McCain voters to get the heck out of the room.
I don't think that is a widely held belief from the audience.
Charlie, tell your viewers this every day about giving to the RNC every month.
I got scammed for this.
Yes, I say scammed when I gave one time.
I'm not a dumb person, but I did not realize this happened to me.
The RNC kept taking money out of my account.
I immediately canceled it when I realized it.
Please, please, please say this every day to your viewers.
I will never give to the RNC again.
Now, I will say, though, if Harmeet Dillon or Mike Lindell become RNC chairman, I would encourage you guys to give money to them.
So look, they're coming after Turning Point.
They're coming after this show.
I know you guys have our back and we appreciate that.
And this is it.
I'm not waging war against the RNC, just so we're clear.
I'm trying to make the RNC accountable again to the grassroots.
Let's play Cut 55, David Pachman, who is a lefty, who compliments the power of Turning Point, play Cut 55.
I told you earlier in the show that AmericaFest held an event over the weekend, and it was horrible and dystopian.
And we are going to look at a few clips.
And really, it reminds me these people are dangerous, but they also are way better than the left at organizing these sort of pump-up events.
I'm with you that it is hard not to laugh because it's so absurd.
But I've spoken so many times before.
The right knows how to throw these events, coalesce people.
Turning Point USA does events.
They've got AmericaFest as one of them.
They've got the Turning Point Summit, all these different things.
This stuff actually does get people engaged.
And part of the reason that the youngest voting group, 18 to whatever, isn't even more left-skewed is that the right does a way better job of activating and getting people together and the pyrotechnics and the music and the entire thing.
The left doesn't have it.
The closest thing we had at one point was Net Roots Nation, which I used to go to but no longer do.
It's very milquetoast, it's very mediocre, a lot of infighting, a lot of like, you know, all the people that actually have success that should be leading sessions, we have political disagreements with them.
So we're going to have like it's a mess.
It's a mess.
The right is actually better this.
The right is better.
I agree.
It's funny.
David Pachman, a left-wing commentator, understands the power of Turning Point more than the chairperson of the Republican Party.
And so look, we're going to continue this forward.
It's called the Mount Vernon Project at Turning Point Action.
And it's very simple.
It's not about going to war against the RNC.
It's very simple.
We actually acknowledge the necessity of an accountable, robust, strong, technologically innovative Republican National Committee.
We know that it's necessary.
And so when members of the RNC are not going to listen to their voters, then we're going to use some of our resources, albeit limited versus the 400 million of the RNC, to remove some of those members.
We have members in all 50 states.
Bless You Pro-Life Warriors 00:08:25
We have a strong following, including many of you.
So for example, if the guy from Connecticut or some person from Washington is critical and says, I don't care about my voters and I think everything at the RNC is doing well, then we're going to rally the precinct committee men at the state conventions and we're going to try to remove you.
We might not be successful.
We might win.
We might not, but no one else is even thinking of doing this.
And so Turning Point Action's Mount Vernon Project is already making a lot of people at the RNC nervous.
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You know, being on radio the day before Christmas Eve, it's impossible not to honor the man that really paved the way for all of us on talk radio.
Friend of mine who passed away, the amazing Rush Limbaugh.
I don't think we have enough time to play his last Christmas address right before he died in 2020.
But I actually think his 2015 Christmas address is more fitting.
This was during a dark time.
Hard to believe it was darker than this.
It was seven years ago.
And Rush had some very powerful words then, as he does now.
I mean, for us now.
Let's play Cut 77.
Just a brief moment, folks, to once again express all my gratitude to all of you in more ways than I know are possible for helping to make my life an adult Christmas every day.
Never take any of it for granted.
I am grateful for all of you each and every day.
And I never assume day to day you're just going to be here.
I've also told you when I thought it was time to panic, and I don't think we've gotten it yet.
But I do want to repeat one thing: don't look for hopeful signs on the news.
That's not where you're going to find it.
Might find now one here and there.
It's Christmas time.
Don't let the news frustrate you.
Turn to God.
Put all your worry, your hope, your faith, trust, particularly this week, to God.
If there's hope, and if there is hopefulness, if there are good signs, that's where you'll find them.
God bless.
Merry Christmas.
See you next year.
And we love you all.
The great Rush is looking down from heaven, telling us: do not find hope on the news.
He also famously said, I will tell you when to worry.
He never told us to worry.
He was always so full of hope and optimism.
And one thing I learned from Rush is to be thankful for you, the audience.
It has been a wild year.
We're going to summarize that next week.
But you guys stood by me through a very chaotic election, Through my travels all across the country, through the Arizona primary, through all the nonsense with Maricopa, you guys were so good to this program.
And I want to thank you for that.
You guys support our podcast.
You show up to our events.
You pray for us.
You correct me when I'm wrong, sometimes politely, sometimes not so politely.
But this show is made possible thanks to you.
The same way that Rush would say that he had a connection to all of you, I feel exactly the same way.
And so we are going to sign off a little bit early and play Rush Limbaugh's favorite Christmas song that all of you that were Rush Limbaugh loyalists know that he ended his broadcast before Christmas playing this song.
We have Tucker Carlson in hour three.
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Enjoy Mannheim Steamroller.
Merry Christmas, everybody.
God bless you.
And we will see.
Merry Christmas, everybody.
God bless you.
And we will see you next
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