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Charlie Kirk Today | Peter Fernandez: April 24, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today | April 24, 2026

Blake, how are we doing?
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We're doing lovely.
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Other than, you know, evil people are out here,
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Which is what the the lead is today.
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It's a common theme.
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Unfortunately, i feel good because we get to fight evil.
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We get to fight evil.
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We have a we have a noble cause and a noble calling.
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And i will tell you, there is a lot of evil around.
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And by the way, we're going to have peter,
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Our chapter president.
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From baylor university on the second half of the hour.
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We get so many emails from you when we have our students on.
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So we're going to keep doing that.
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And by the way, peter deserves a heck of a hat tip.
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And i'm going to i'm
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Going to praise him to the sky when he comes on.
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Because man, were we up against it at baylor university.
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The the university was giving us all kinds of problems
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And they absolutely persevered.
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They broke through.
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We had a, i think over 1000 students.
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There might have been 50 adults in the room.
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The university cut off all their
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What they call community tickets for this event.
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And so, i, you know, did they give a justification for that?
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Well, very last minute.
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It was last minute
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Because it was they were going to let all these,
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Community members
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In which we had 4500 tickets reserved by the community.
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You know, if you know, waco,
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The whole community revolves around baylor university.
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There's about 20,000 students at baylor private school.
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Waco is about 140,000 people big.
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So relatively small community.
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But man, did they love the baylor, university
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And their football team and all this stuff.
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Anyways, so they cut it off
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Because a bunch of lefties complained.
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And you know, we were kind of sitting here
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Going, are we going to not be able
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To have anybody come to this event and look at that?
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I mean, that's all students, all students to here,
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Tom homan, benny johnson and attorney general ken paxton.
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It was a massive, massive success.
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So i'm so proud of the team.
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And then we had erica down in, grapevine, texas,
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Actually talking to our pastor summit last night.
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So two different night to two different nights to,
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Different events.
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So we had ohio state
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The night before, then we had baylor,
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And then we had the pastor summit running concurrently.
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So a lot of activity out there.
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And i'm just again, i'm so proud of our, our students.
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But we got to get to the evil people that blake, referenced
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And the evil ideologies which is something
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If you haven't heard of.
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It's a concept called social murder.
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It's a cousin to something that you hear
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In modern context called systemic oppression,
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Which basically blames the system.
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It blames the elites.
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It blames anybody in a position of power or influence
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For what they consider less than ideal circumstances
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That lead to suffering.
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Okay, every system known to man will create
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Some level of suffering.
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Because we live in a fallen world.
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As christians, we understand that.
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We understand
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Also the matthew principle that those who have
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Will have even more than those who have little,
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Even the little they have will be taken from them.
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Sometimes that's unfortunately the case.
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Now, as christians, we are called to try and help
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Our brothers and sisters to try and give to them.
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Now, i believe that that should be done
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Privately through the church and through charities
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And things like that in our modern quasi socialist system.
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Blake, we tend to give taxes away to the government.
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The government
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Then will have certain programs,
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Whether it be welfare or medicaid.
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Some states have their own
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To take care of the least of these.
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Now, we could argue the merits of that.
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But as christians,
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We understand that
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We have an obligation
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To take care of the least of these communists.
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Don't believe in god, and at least largely.
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And they tend to blame the system on those
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Who are part of the system.
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What am i getting at?
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Hassan piker is a a left winger, a radical left
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Winger who says a lot of crap and he's very popular.
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One so hassan piker,
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If you've not heard of him, you may hear of him soon.
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Incredibly popular streamer.
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He's on sites like, twitch.
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I believe he's on these days.
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Big website if you're not familiar with it.
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A lot of the people on it, they'll play the game or play
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A video game and people will watch them.
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But it's also political stuff.
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This guy will be online six, seven, eight hours a day
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Just talking about politics.
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He'll have thousands, tens of thousands of people
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Watching him.
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Millions will watch clips through other venues,
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Very popular with young people.
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In fact, only a week or two after,
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Wood charlie was murdered, he
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Was scheduled to debate hassan piker at dartmouth college.
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That was a debate we were looking forward to.
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We were game planning.
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I think it would have been quite the event.
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So he's a very big name, but he's very far on the left
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And right.
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Now, on the left,
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There are
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Elites like the people, ezra klein, those individuals
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They're debating
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Should we accept this guy into our coalition?
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And that's an important question
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Because of the stuff this guy is arguing,
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Because he is a radical.
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He is a radical who will justify violence.
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And he did it again, this time in front of the new york times
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Saying that he understands, or at least a lot of america.
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I think the way he phrased it
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To be fair to him, and we'll play the clip
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That a lot of americans understand.
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The assassination of luigi maggio, against brian thompson,
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Ceo of united health care, because a lot of social murder.
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And what does it mean?
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It means that
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The ceo of united health care was guilty of causing
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A lot of pain and suffering by denying claims or whatever
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The accusations are, and therefore he had it coming.
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Let's just play the clip
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And you can hear it in his own words.
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Hassan piker 19.
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Engels wrote about
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The concept of social murder,
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And brian thompson is the united health care ceo,
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Was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder.
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The systematize forms of violence,
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The the structural violence of poverty
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Because of the pervasive pain
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That the private health care system
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Had, created for the average american.
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I saw so many people immediately
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Understand why this death had taken place.
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Okay, first of all, it's not a death had taken place.
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It was an assassination, a cold blooded murder
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Of an innocent man.
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And also, it's just worth pointing.
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And he's quoting engels.
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Engels is famously the coauthor of the communist
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Manifesto collaborator.
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He's the also is the funder.
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He's always the guy who,
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When you read the life of the early communist,
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You start to really understand leftists
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Because you see certain
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Patterns.
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Marx is famously a loser.
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He doesn't support his own family.
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He has to sponge off other people like his friends.
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He never visits a factory floor.
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He's totally a classic type that lives on today of being
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Uninformed about the world, champagne socialist,
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Being a bad person individually,
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And that manifests in politics,
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That they're bad as individual people.
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And of course, they end up embracing evil.
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And this is what this piker guy is doing.
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He's going to say it's very much a part of leftism
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To say, actually, i can kill someone that i resent.
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And it's a good thing because i have the right motives.
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They're actually a bad person because the system that they're
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A part of murderous people, which it doesn't really.
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Brian thompson's company paid for health care for people.
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Yeah, well, and here's the thing.
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You'll see how the history of ideas morph.
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And, you know,
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Mark twain, i think, famously said, history doesn't
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Run or doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
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And you see these ideas from the 18th century
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Or the 19th century.
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In the 1800s,
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Morphing and weave and come in
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And out of the public consciousness.
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And then you get a guy
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Like carson piker, who's a gamer who justifies
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All sorts of evils, like micro looting, by the way.
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That's another way, another.
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We'll get into that, he justifies.
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And by the way,
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He electrocuted his dog on his on his,
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That's a lot of things on a stream.
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And he's standing by all the far left
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Senate candidates, the, michigan candidate, the
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The muslim guy in michigan who's running for senate.
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He's standing by him.
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And so you see these ideas pop up and percolate.
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And this is just the latest iteration.
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And we have to address it because it is evil
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And it is vile.
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And it will justify,
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Justify all sorts of atrocities in its name.
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Justify all sorts of atrocities in its name.
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So we're talking about hasan piker who is on the rise.
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He got this interview
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In the new york times opinion section
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As basically leading figure on the left.
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So we talked about they were saying,
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No, it's so i can understand why you murder
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A health care ceo because they're
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Engaged in social murder.
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Another discussion they had was over this concept
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Of micro looting, as they call it.
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You can also just call it stealing.
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You could call it shoplifting.
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And what he said, i
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Don't think we have the video, but i have the quote.
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He says i am pro stealing from big corporate asians
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Because they steal quite a bit more from their own workers.
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And so he just says, okay,
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Rob hall actually, i think it was his co-host
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Who said she would just steal from whole foods.
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She would steal from other places.
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In the same interview, he says some other things.
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He said he doesn't endorse all theft.
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He says he wouldn't steal from a place
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That is taxpayer funded. that's different.
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He also said private schools should be illegal.
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He is really a wrecking ball of text.
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But this this guy is so full of bad
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Takes and i genuinely think that these are demonic
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Ideologies that he is becoming the mouthpiece for.
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And, you know, unfortunately for us,
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Charlie predicted
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A lot of this and we could go all the way back to 2020.
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So again, hassan
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Piker is justifying morally justifying the murder.
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The cold blooded assassination
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Of brian thompson by louis mangione, allegedly.
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And but charlie predicted this all the way back in.
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I guess 2021.
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This is going to get really nasty.
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Everyone listen to this. i just hope you understand.
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Think of the nastiest moment in 2016.
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They are not going to let this guy get reelected
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Without the most brutal, drawn out fight.
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We're going to have the tech companies getting involved.
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Yeah, the media is going to get worse than ever.
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They're going to be taking now
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Twitter accounts left and right.
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They're going to be taking out videos on youtube.
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They're going to be coming after us.
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They're going to be following us in the middle of the night.
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They're going to be breaking into our houses.
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You think i'm joking?
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They're going to have violent,
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That you will not be able to walk
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The streets, the maga hat without your
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Your physical health be put in jeopardy.
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And i hope it doesn't get that way.
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I hope that this clip gets unearthed
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And everything's like, wonderful.
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I hope that
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The country comes together and we have a beautiful
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Unitarian healing moment in september.
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He kept going in may.
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This is four months before he was assassinated.
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Sat 21.
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The luigi effect is not going away.
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It's disturbing.
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It's scary. people love
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Luigi on the left.
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The far radical left
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And this is going to continue to be a problem.
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The luigi effect is a serious issue
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Where they believe that they can become a social media
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Martyr for that cause,
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Not just the action itself, but that you then can become
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The face of the resistance against your said struggle.
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It's almost besides the point to pick out the specific things
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Oh, this time they're justifying murdering
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Ceos, this time they're justifying shoplifting.
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The bigger picture thing that you're going to see
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Pop up again and again on the left.
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Everyone knows murder is actually wrong.
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Everyone knows actually, it's not okay to steal things.
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Similarly, everyone knows it's not okay
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To vandalize destroy things.
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But you see the same thing pop up on the left.
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It's it is very intoxicating to tell people something
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That is obviously wrong and evil and predatory.
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We can justify it through some flimsy ideological pretext.
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This is how you get mob violence.
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This is how you get people embracing
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Frenzies of all sorts.
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And you see this especially pop up on the left.
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It's basically a resentment driven ideology that you can be
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This freak show who's
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You're not as accomplished as you think you deserve to be.
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You're not as high status as you think you deserve to be,
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And you can reject this out onto others.
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And so that will justify murder, justifies
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Theft, justifies all sorts of stuff.
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And that's why you see,
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Why do leftwing marches get violent so often?
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It's not even just
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Is that even violence toward an end,
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They'll just burn a store down, they'll smash a window,
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They'll graffiti
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Some beautiful statue that was put up 50 years ago.
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It is very much this.
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This is this will to destroy
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Basically just because something is good or beautiful.
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And i think that's also why you see them.
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They almost have this like perfect radar
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Or is perfect for embracing evil ideas around the world.
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Like as an example,
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You know,
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They love the pro
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Palestine cause, but it's not even that they love
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The pro-palestine cause.
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It's that,
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For example, there was a blm group in chicago
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That was celebrating
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The people who flew in on hang gliders to that concert
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Where they massacred a bunch of civilians and raped people.
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They tried to turn it into, like a flier, an iconic symbol.
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Yes. yeah.
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And the left has done that.
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For example, you know, frantz fanon,
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Who got quoted after that atrocity was committed,
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They were talking about
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They were directly quoting his ideology,
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And he was a guy who said
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Rape, raping people is a form of resistance.
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The most evil things imaginable
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Get justified on the left through a political lens.
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And if we don't confront it honestly, this is the tumor
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That is growing on the left.
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And that's, as charlie warned, they're going to embrace
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More and more radical means of getting their agenda done.
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We already see this with the war on ice agents.
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Ice agents are enforcing america's laws for our borders.
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They're saying you can't break into this country.
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And they don't just say,
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We want to change our immigration laws.
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They say we want to hunt ice agents.
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We want to throw them in jail.
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And a lot of them basically say it's justified to murder
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Ice agents.
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The more i think about it, the more i realize that,
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You know, it is this dichotomy between chaos and order.
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God spoke creation into being.
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He spoke order into being.
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We read in the scriptures,
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And the agents of chaos want to destroy that order.
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And that's why i think, you know, we can't say it enough.
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We are in a spiritual battle because the the agents of chaos
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Want to destroy all that is good, true and beautiful.
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They want to undermine it.
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They want to villainize it.
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They want to kill it.
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And that's how i can kind of look across the landscape
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And i can say, good guy, bad guy, good guy, bad guy.
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Because guess what?
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It doesn't mean that we
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We dehumanize the bad guys like they do to us,
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But it does mean that you need to have your radar
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Highly attuned to understand who is doing what and for what
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Ends, right?
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And so if you see somebody
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That's building up and is creating a good guy,
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Typically a good guy doesn't have to be 100% good.
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You see, the guy's trying to burn it down and destroy it.
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Bad guy.
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Pretty simple.
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On one level,
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We're turning our sights to baelor next segment.
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We're turning our sights to baelor next segment.
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All right.
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So i am very
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Excited to have this young man on our show peter fernandez.
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He's our tp usa baylor chapter president.
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Welcome to the show, peter.
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Morning. how are y'all?
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We are great.
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And thanks for being flexible.
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I know our time kept shifting around.
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Is our schedule shifted around, but i just want to say
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I just want to say
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Congratulations on a heck of a job last night.
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You, i could tell by your speech,
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And we'll play a clip of that in just a second.
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But, you know, you're kind of like an old soul.
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And, i could see that with the with the poise that you had.
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I mean, this was not an easy event.
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For those of the people in the audience
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That aren't aware of it, we had
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This is open to the broader community.
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I think some some progressive students complained.
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And so then they tried to limit it,
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And then they were like, no,
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You can have 20 outs, outside non-students.
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And we're like,
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Come on, that's not even enough for are the parents of,
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You know, peter's family probably could not fit in that.
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So they're like, oh, here's 120.
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It didn't matter.
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You guys packed that place up with over 1000 people.
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I think all but 50 of them were students.
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The energy was incredible, the q&a was incredible,
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And you just comported yourself brilliantly.
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Peter, the floor is yours.
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Yeah.
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So we had a fantastic event.
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Like you said, the turnout was amazing.
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The university threw everything they could at us.
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And they didn't outright say you can't have an event,
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But they said that we couldn't have people on the outside.
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And believe me when i tell you
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The waco community wanted to be there.
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There's a community college down the street,
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And members of their chapter and members of their, community
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Reached out to us saying that they wanted to come.
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We had countless alumni reach out to us
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Just asking about, attendance for the event,
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And they were unfortunately turned away by the university.
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And it's hard to tell members of the baylor family,
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Which we like to call anybody who's past or present
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Member of the university baylor family.
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And it's hard to tell people
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In the baylor family that they can't come.
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But the university had no problem doing that.
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And that's something that i really,
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Really think that
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They're going to
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They're going to feel the pain from that
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Because the donors and the alumni are not happy about it.
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What other issues are kids talking
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About when you're tabling
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Or when you're talking with your campus?
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The chapter members, what are people passionate about?
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What are young people thinking about right now?
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Totally honest.
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The thing that seems to come up more than anything else
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In conversation is that i've seen files
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And everybody, any time that we try
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To go on to another topic and we will, we'll get
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Productive conversations there.
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But everybody's saying, you know,
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I would just feel so much better
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About this administration and about our country if i knew
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Why the pedophiles were being protected
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And why we haven't gone after them yet.
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And i have to agree with that sentiment.
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Yeah. interesting.
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So when you do, you have a note for president trump?
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I mean, i
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You know, turning point is, is c-3 in your personal capacity.
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However,
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How would you like to see the administration
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Handle this to make it easier for a student
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Like you on campus to table and talk about it?
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I really just think that the
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I don't want to say maybe flip flopping
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Is the right way to put it on.
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On what
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The message about epstein was, where it's,
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Oh, we're going to release it when we get in office.
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Oh, wait, it's on my desk.
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Oh, wait, there is no file.
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And then they release it
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And all of the names
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Of the people we want to go after are hidden.
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And i feel like i.
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It makes me have a little distrust, i can't lie.
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And i had right up there,
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A trump flag. and i didn't take it down
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Because i don't like him anymore.
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But i realized this flag is the most important one.
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And, but i do really think that
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A lot of people who voted for him would have a lot more trust
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If those names and things like that
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Were to be released, because those are bad people
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And there's no doubt about that.
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And i think we all voted for trump to see him
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Make our country better.
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And i think a lot of the
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The biggest way he can do that is to
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Get rid of the bad people.
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And so people like that.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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No, i think that was really insightful.
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And i'm not even saying you're right.
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I'm or that the vibes are right because i actually
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Have thoughts about basically a lot of that.
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But it's very important that the people in power
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Understand what kids like you feel about it.
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Do you see what i'm saying? like so whether or not
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You could argue the details on that.
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And i know blake has a lot of thoughts,
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But it's so important that they understand that this
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Is the perception.
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Blake i don't know if you have thoughts.
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No i think that's very strong.
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I think you can complain about what the public thinks
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But you can't override what the public thinks.
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You can't ignore what it thinks.
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And i think
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In all of our discussions with youth leaders
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And we and we want honesty about this
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Because that's the only way you can get truth.
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We have seen
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There has been a vibe shift in a way
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We wouldn't like over the past year.
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Yeah, and we're basically six months away from an election.
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Besides those names, is there anything maybe an issue that's
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Less appreciated that people aren't talking about as much?
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Like what could be something
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The administration might come out,
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Catch people by surprise, that might excite conservative
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Leaning students or those who were independents,
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Who gave trump a shot in 2024.
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I'd say the two biggest things
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That i feel like our chapter focuses on a lot.
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I think there's a lot of people who think that
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The deportation efforts haven't gone far enough.
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Now i'm happy because when compared with
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The previous administration, the numbers are great.
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But i would also agree.
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I, i'm a son of, cuban immigrant.
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My grandparents brought my dad here, started a new life,
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In america. i did it the right way.
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And that's also something i love to bring up
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When people say, oh, you don't know what it's like.
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And i said, i am hispanic.
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I actually do know what it's like.
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But i think the immigration issue
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Is certainly something that people are really focused on.
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They want more deportations and also the position
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On, pro-life and how i, i don't
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Know how true that is, but i saw something that said
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That planned parenthood is getting funding again
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From the government, and i believe that to be
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One of the gravest evils that is in our country.
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And i wish that our government would stop funding it.
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I'm not sure i know the answer to that.
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Actually.
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I'm not i'm not sure i yeah, well, i'm gonna look into that.
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Well, that's
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If that is the case,
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Then i'm going to raise holy hell about it as well.
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So what about, we got about a minute and a half here.
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Peter. what about israel?
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Yeah, that's another one.
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I think that it's
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It's something that, one of our chapter members,
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Kind of got a little famous off of, a clip.
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At first talking to ben shapiro about it.
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And he a lot of people agree with him, and i,
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I can't say that i'm fully one way or another on it,
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But i do know as i said before, this is the flag
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That i care about.
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And when i, cast my vote
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In 2020 for my intention behind that was that
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I want our president to serve us.
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And i'm not saying trump's not, but i want our government,
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The people who we elect to serve us.
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And i can't lie, when i say it feels like that
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Hasn't really changed a ton
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Since the last administration because you have biden, right?
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And money's going to ukraine.
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Money's going here, money's going there.
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And i still see those checks being written out
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To other countries.
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And i'm wondering, hey, i mean, other than the border,
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Which of course is a great thing, what,
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You know,
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What other issues are we handling with the money?
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Because that money could go to
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Homeless people in new york city.
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I'm from new york.
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There's so many things.
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I just wish that the money we were sending
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To other countries who have issues could be put it forward.
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Issues in our country.
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Peter fernandez, great job last night at baylor
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University, one of one of the truly great leaders. we have
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Peter Fernandez: April 24, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

April 24, 2026 | 23:29

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