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	You know, I'll quote golfer Phil Mickelson, who was condemning Congresswoman Omar for her despicable comments that she made.
	You know, Kirk was Dr. Frankenstein and his monster, you know, shot him through the neck.
	And, you know, he's a reprehensible, hateful man.
	And I can go to AOC and Jasmine Crockett.
	I went through all of it in the last hour.
	And then goes on MSDNC, you know, and how are you?
	How are you holding up Congresswoman Omar?
	But then you listen to Phil Mickelson, and he was absolutely right in saying that, you know, this is like you get the best out of humanity and the worst out of humanity at the same time.
	We've seen this movie, unfortunately, before.
	I just wanted to get your thoughts.
	On the other hand, you got Erica Kirk, you know, saying, Our Savior said, forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do.
	I forgive him.
	I forgive him because it was what Christ did and what Charlie would do.
	Compare that for me.
	First of all, we are in the early stages of a cultural civil war, which is very real.
	And I think that that's hard for people to grasp.
	But the people on the other side are totally sincere.
	We may think that they're crazy.
	We may think that they make no sense.
	But inside their worldview, they're faced with annihilation because the American people and President Trump have come together to fundamentally go back to classic American values and classic American rules.
	I mean, things as simple as not allowing boys in girls' bathrooms, which, you know, in 1960 would have been obvious, but for a brief period, particularly under Obama and Biden, it suddenly became something where the state was going to impose on us a radically different set of values.
	Something as simple as basic patriotism.
	You think that America matters?
	Does English matter as a language?
	Should we have a border that works?
	On all of these things, the gap between the big government socialist left with its weird values and the rest of the country is enormous.
	And based on our America's New Majority Project polling, we guess that somewhere between 15 and 20% of the American people side with the big government socialists and their weird values, and the rest of the country clearly opposes them.
	And so what you're going to see is more and more, I think, fervor and fanaticism as they literally see all the things that they want to have happen disappear as the American people sort of return to a core belief in the Constitution,
	in the work ethic, in the right to rise based on meritocracy, and a whole range of things, all of which are direct threats to the people on the left who are speaking in such harsh language.
	Let me just lay out some of it for you and juxtapose this to what Erica Kirk said and what so many eloquent speakers said yesterday at this memorial service and a group of people outside the memorial service, you know, a sign being held by somebody.
	And I don't know what would compel somebody to do this, you know, rot in hell.
	Bad things happen to bad people.
	You have a prominent congresswoman, part of the squad, which is one of the leading voices of the Democratic Party, in light of the assassination, calling Charlie Kirk Dr. Frankenstein and a reprehensible, hateful man, then lying, saying he didn't believe we should have equal access to anything.
	Just didn't believe I could, he didn't think I could be smart enough.
	I could have thoughts that I could have thoughts that would be equal to that of a white man.
	Even Joe Manchin, you know, stunned, saying the Democratic Party is getting worse, not getting any better.
	I think that's one of the reasons he left the U.S. Senate and why so many people, he pointed out, are leaving the Democratic Party.
	I don't know what to make of it, to be honest.
	I mean, it's like, it's beyond shocking.
	Well, specifically what I said is my premise, which is that this is all real, that from their side, they feel desperate, that they are being driven to more and more radical and hostile views out of desperation, not because they feel confident, but because, in fact, they are terrified by what they're seeing happen.
	And what's happening is as the country continues to move away from them, as people increasingly see them as weird, unacceptable, alien to the American tradition, they're going to become more desperate.
	They're not going to become easier to deal with.
	Are you saying, and I hate to even ask this question, but there were two would-be assassins against Donald Trump.
	They assassinated Charlie Kirk.
	We saw the violence in the summer of love in 2020, dozens of dead Americans, thousands of injured police, billions of property damage.
	But, quote, the media and the Democrats said it was mostly peaceful.
	I mean, are you telling us that this is now just going to be part of American culture and American life and that they're going to just keep doing this and get away with this?
	Well, I don't think they're going to get away with it.
	I mean, if you'll notice, the assassin is going to be tried and either get the death penalty or get life without parole.
	So we're going to go after people.
	Antifa now is about to be declared a terrorist organization, and the people who donated to it will face consequences, I think, which almost certainly will include George Soros and his people.
	And I think you're going to see the country in an organized way become much more militant and much more aggressive about being against anti-violence, against those who would advocate violence, and against those who would create the kind of hysterical hatred of the rest of us.
	I mean, you look at what some of these people say, and you're exactly right.
	You look at school teachers who have been, you know, said that they're glad that Charlie Kirk was dead.
	Well, that's totally unacceptable.
	And I suspect you're going to find a lot of people getting fired for saying things like that.
	But I do think you shouldn't underestimate from the standpoint of somebody who believes in transgenderism or somebody who believes passionately that there should be no borders, that the U.S. is a bad country.
	Remember, the left has for 50 years now painted this picture of a bad America.
	Well, the folks who believe that are now very frightened that they're about to be dominated by margins so big that they have no hope of winning by that very what they would have thought called bad America, what you and I would call the United States of America the American dream, the American Constitution.
	So we're going to celebrate a 250th anniversary next year of the launching of the Declaration of Independence.
	People on the left will not celebrate it because they will think this is the beginning of a terrible country.
	And you see this when you deal with the hard left, it's amazing that they live really in an alternative universe.
	Well, I'm looking at it.
	You know, I've tried to actually engage Governor Gavin Newsom and say, when is enough going to be enough here?
	And, you know, after a fairly reasonable text exchange, which I won't disclose, you know, I thought I had made progress.
	The next thing I see is on Axie Post, DHS Secretary Christy Noam is going to have a really bad day.
	And then he signs a bill, no more masks, ICE in Los Angeles.
	You know, I mean, to me, that is very dangerous.
	And now it's even been referred to a U.S. attorney regarding us.
	I mean, what is he thinking?
	Why would you say that about the Department of Homeland Security Secretary?
	We have a supremacy clause.
	He knows what the law of the land is.
	But why are people going to that extreme?
	I mean, is it to get a nomination?
	What is the motivation behind it?
	Look, there's a block of people on the left who favor the criminal over the police.
	They favor the illegal immigrant over ICE.
	We keep, you know, Franklin Roosevelt once gave a speech trying to explain Nazi Germany and said, if you're standing next to a rattlesnake, you don't have to wait until it strikes to decide that it's dangerous.
	And I think we have, because we believe in a free society, because we believe in living with our neighbors, it's very hard for most everyday normal people to understand that they may have neighbors who have a deep, vicious hostility towards them.
	And yet we know we've now seen example after example of people on the left, whether it is, you know, shooting the Republican majority leader at a baseball field or it is trying to assassinate a Supreme Court justice.
	I mean, there's incident after incident after incident now.
	And of course, there was the whole glorification of violence in the summer of 2020 when people on the left thought it was wonderful to burn down buildings, including police stations, to generally cause chaos.
	You'll notice, by the way, radical difference in the two sides.
	When Charlie Kirk gets killed, you don't see riots by the conservatives.
	You don't see conservatives out burning down buildings.
	There's deep anger.
	There's a deep sense that something's terribly wrong.
	But we, in fact, are trying to use the rule of law to straighten the country out, which is why I thought President Trump's designation of Antifa as a terrorist group was a very important signal about where this is going to go.
	We are going to, in fact, have a reckoning with all these various elements who've been trying to destroy America.
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	Terry is in Minnesota.
	Terry, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Sean, it's a great honor to talk to you.
	I just want to comment on, I watched the memorial yesterday and very heartfelt.
	I didn't know Charlie.
	I only followed him for about the last four and a half years on social media and loved his content, just loved what he was doing for this country and for the youth.
	And now, you know, it's hard to just imagine that all I can do now is to watch repeats of Charlie Kirk.
	I won't be able to see the new content in the new videos and for him moving forward with the young college kids.
	So for me, one out of millions, it's hurtful.
	Even my son said the same thing.
	He said he wished he could unsee the video.
	And I think millions of people are feeling the same way.
	A lot of people feel that way about that video.
	A lot.
	A lot of people have told me that.
	And then I have other friends that told me that they won't look at it, period, end of sentence.
	And, you know, because of what I do for a living, I feel like I feel obligated to look at it.
	And number one, but number two, because I don't think you have to deal with the reality sometimes.
	When ISIS lined people up on a beach and beheaded them, Daniel Pearl, the videos from October 7th, 2023, I wish more people in the media and the punditry world.
	you know, these idiots on college campuses and in the halls of Congress that are anti-Semitic, I wish they'd look at those videos that I've seen because I think it does change your heart and mind.
	But you're right.
	You don't ever get those images out of your head ever.
	It was, yes, sir.
	For me being from Minnesota, did I only learn only a few weeks, two and a half, three weeks ago, you know, that Charlie was supposed to be speaking here.
	Today, actually, they're here.
	The turning point is at the University of Minnesota.
	And I was looking forward to going to that and just I wanted to be part of it.
	And it's a real sobering moment, you know, that.
	Well, I'm going to tell you one thing I am glad for my own personal self.
	When I saw Charlie at the White House, when I was doing my first interview with President Trump when he got back in office, I met him at the gate and we talked for a while.
	And I got to say to him, I said, you know what?
	I really want to thank you for all that you did during this campaign and your ability to connect with young people and bring them out to the ballot box because what he did was miraculous.
	It was spectacular.
	You know, now that I, as I look back on all the video, I wish I thanked him for one other thing.
	And the other thing is the message that he was delivering to young people that they don't hear on college campuses about going to church, believing in God, to be respectful.
	Men be respectful to women.
	Women be respectful to men.
	I mean, the message, they're not hearing this in school.
	They're little indoctrination centers, as we know.
	And more importantly, you know, the politics obviously was second to him.
	And that message is not being heard.
	Our children are not getting fed that message enough.
	He was very special in that way.
	The magnitude of, as I've been saying, of this, what has happened here moment, we cannot calculate right now.
	It's incalculable.
	But in time, we'll be able to measure it through the prism of history.
	That I promise you.
	Thank you, sir.
	Terry, appreciate the call.
	Greg in California.
	Greg, how are you?
	The United Socialist Utopia, California.
	Thank you for checking in.
	Thanks, Sean.
	Good to talk to you today.
	Hey, I have a question and a comment about yesterday.
	My question is, with President Trump's near assassination in 24 and then all the death threats that Charlie's received, why was there no drone surveillance up at the place?
	I mean, how difficult is that?
	It just seems like a big mistake on the part of security team.
	I'm going to give you the short answer of it.
	The short answer is the type of security that you're describing is extraordinarily expensive.
	And it is, but now moving forward, we have to think about security differently, right?
	This is not a new phenomenon.
	Silencing conservative voices on campus are not a new phenomenon either.
	Right.
	Ryan.
	Sean, I had one comment about yesterday's Memorial Service.
	I thought it was wonderful.
	I thought it was moving.
	And speakers were terrific.
	And one that I especially noted was Dr. Ben Carson when he noted that Charlie was shot at 1224.
	And then if you go to John, the book, Gospel of John, chapter 12, verse 24, it talks about if a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it will produce much fruit.
	And I firmly believe that, you know, starting with the Asbury revival back in 23, that the Holy Spirit is really moving and that Charlie Kirk's death is going to spark an incredible revival here.
	I mean, you consider that YouTube is reporting they've had 7 million contacts for yesterday's memorial service, 7 million.
	And you look at the number of TPUSA chapters that are asking for application or would-be chapters applications.
	I mean, the Holy Spirit is moving.
	And I think Charlie will do more in death, unfortunately.
	I mean, in a way, because we love him alive, but than he did while he was living.
	Again, I don't think we can calculate the magnitude.
	He did so much good, and he had so much to offer.
	And, you know, at the end of the day, all of us, whether we want to accept this truth, a reality or not, we're not on our time.
	We're on God's time.
	And, you know, for the time, that's why I think it's incredibly important that everybody make individual decisions.
	You know, tell the people in your life you love them.
	You know, every day matters.
	Every moment matters.
	And every moment that you have in your life, you know, live it the way that you would want to be remembered by.
	And I think there's a lot to learn in somebody's passing like this.
	I mean, I thought one of the more beautiful moments during Erica's speech yesterday was, you know, she gave advice to young people about how to have a great marriage.
	We're not teaching our kids this, you know, about service.
	You know, Charlie would ask her every day, how can I better serve you?
	Charlie would leave a note, you know, for his wife every day, once a week.
	I mean, things like that.
	There's all sorts of creative things that people can do to show the people in our lives that we love them and that we care about them and check in with them.
	And the idea that, you know, there's always been this attitude.
	We've discussed it before.
	Oh, men are the head of the household.
	You know, how about the word gentle before men?
	Be a gentleman.
	And it doesn't mean you're Fred Flintstone or Pam or, you know, Barney Rubble or Bam Bam.
	It means that you're there to be the, to serve your family, just like, and you are partners with your wife.
	It's not somebody that, well, I'm the head.
	You got to listen to me.
	No.
	And I thought that Erica was very eloquent yesterday in advice for both men and for women in terms of how we can better get along and have better families.
	And I think that is the foundation of a strong society.
	Very powerful.
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	Don Lake Ron Concoma.
	Don, welcome aboard, sir.
	How are you?
	Hey, Don.
	Thank you so much for taking my call.
	Yeah, I binge-watched that entire Charlie Kirk memorial, and it was very impressive.
	All the speakers, you know, Charlie stood for faith, family, and freedom.
	And that certainly was on display at that memorial service yesterday.
	And all the speakers, the crew from the turning point, the leaders, Larry Yawn and Ben Carson, Stephen Miller, and Donald Trump, his son.
	It was just very uplifting.
	Sad, but uplifting.
	And of course, Erica Kirk's summation, you know, her forgiving that horrible man who took her husband's life.
	I don't think there was a dry eye in the place.
	And certainly across the country, it was just an incredible memorial.
	And at the same time that that was going on, we're hearing from Jasmine Crackpot saying that Charlie Kirk was targeting people of color, lying her head off on CNN.
	So the saga continues.
	We still have a long ways to go.
	It's just amazing to me.
	We do have a long way to go, but you know what?
	There's an opportunity for a reset.
	Every day is an opportunity to reset your life.
	Every day is an opportunity for you to get up and want to be a better person.
	And the path is out there.
	And I think faith for me is a big, big part of that path.
	And I think that I think it's critical.
	And if you want to have happiness, wellness, peace in this life, I think that really is the only path.
	That's my own personal view.
	And I thought people were so eloquent about it yesterday that it was very moving, very touching.
	It was a strong reminder and a moment, a reset moment for everybody and everybody's life.
	And I hope people take advantage of it.
	Don, we appreciate you, man.
	God bless you.
	800-941-Sean Z in Idaho.
	Hey, Z, you're on the Sean Hannity Show.
	Glad you called.
	Hi, Sean.
	It's nice to kind of meet you.
	Thanks for having me on.
	Well, it's great to have you.
	Thank you for checking in.
	What's on your mind?
	Erica's remarks were just so amazing.
	That is Charlie Kirk's wife, right?
	I just had a brain fart.
	Yes, yes.
	Erica.
	Good.
	I couldn't believe that, you know, even in this, I mean, she has this worldwide platform available to her, and she's just such an amazing Christian example and how she forgave, you know, forgave the shooter and just talked about how, you know, we can't fight hate with hate.
	You know, that was, that was really cool.
	And I love that part of what made Charlie so awesome is that he would reach across, you know, dividing lines and say, you disagree with me, let's have a conversation.
	And I agree that this is a reset or a turning point in our country.
	And I hope that we can turn towards each other and not away from each other.
	And I think a huge or a really huge and effective way, but a simple thing is to just change our vernacular towards each other.
	You know, it's like there's so much they versus them.
	I mean, even like the left versus the right.
	And it's, you know, so it's antagonistic in its very nature.
	And, you know, I understand like, you know, in your position and, you know, in other radio shows and other conservative talk shows, it's like, well, how else do you identify, you know, people that I disagree with?
	And even though I think if the vernacular changed, you know, quote unquote, up high, it would trickle down and help us become, you know, more unified, lower, if you will.
	But at least.
	We've heard some of the worst vile, putrid, despicable, disgusting, repulsive language from the left since, you know, in the last 12 days.
	I don't know how you can change their hearts and minds.
	I don't.
	I don't know what makes people that sick, to be honest with you.
	But as we've been playing and going over in the course of this program, I don't know how you have a conversation with people that think that way.
	We can have political conversations all day, but if, you know, your reaction is to show up at a memorial, you know, with a sign that you're holding up that says, you know, rotten hell.
	I mean, I don't know how you deal with people like that or Congresswoman Omar or AOC or Jasmine Crockett or any of these people that have been making these vile comments.
	I really don't.
	I don't know where the conversation begins because that's just basic human decency to me.
	I do have to run Z. Love our friends in Idaho.
	God bless you.
	Appreciate the call.
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