The Charlie Kirk Show - The Shock Jock and Potato Katie ft. Lomez

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

If you want to understand the modern left, two videos offer a good glimpse. First, star streamer Hasan Piker was caught on air shocking his dog for annoying him, and then California Democrat Katie Por...ter blew up an interview because she got angry at facing a mundane question she didn't like. Jonathan Keeperman AKA "Lomez" joins, and Blake tries to discover how many potato-related jokes he can make at Rep. Porter's expense. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com!    Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:01:09 We have, do we have, Jonathan Keeperman, Loemez. Blake. Can you hear us? Andrew, can you hear me? I can hear you guys. How are you doing? You can hear him? Excellent. I can hear him. I can hear him. Great to have you. This is going to be a Blake. Loemez. All righty. Oh, man, we were just saying, I don't know if you heard us,
Starting point is 00:01:26 but we were really, we were really gushing about you, Jonathan, right before the to the first hour we were saying there's so many topics that we wanted to hit but we wanted to hit them with the immortal lopez uh so we were thinking uh the first one to hit that would be very fun is uh this hasan piker story we have to the shock jock the shock jock we're calling him now we heard for you know the past year the left needed its own joe rogan but it turns out that hasan piker is just a shock jock uh let's see we have uh this is all the video that people are reacting two. I've got a million different things here. I can help you with this.
Starting point is 00:02:03 So this was happening during a stream. It's clip 84. Of all of America's much more consequential violence. Okay? It's the same reason as to why America. Kaya, please just go. Just stop. Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 00:02:26 What are you doing? You're being such a baby. It's just No, she doesn't want to come over here to see what's up. She just wants to roam the house because she got to roam the house when I was gone and she needs to literally have the same structured, regimented I think that's clip went to Trump's big baby desk immediately.
Starting point is 00:02:54 I just, I hate everything. I just, I hate everything. So if it's not clear what was going on, Exactly there. It looks like his dog rushes over towards Hassan and he reaches and he maybe hits something or clicks something and the dog immediately bugs out. If you've had a dog, you know that greatly resembles. If you have a shot call, I like to keep it from wandering off your house, which a lot of people have, you know, to discipline your dog. But he's just using it to, yeah, the invisible fence.
Starting point is 00:03:19 By the way, I can hear again. But he's just using it to punish the dog and, you know, make it freak out. So here's my reaction to this instantly. if he's willing to do this to a dog like and on use a shock collar to harm an innocent like dog because he's annoyed that it walked over to him
Starting point is 00:03:36 as a live stream prop what is he willing to do in other context maybe to humans we know that Hassan has has fantasized or at least described in gruesome detail
Starting point is 00:03:52 harming conservatives yeah this is a nasty person. I oppose animal cruelty in all forms. I want to say that. And I want to call on our good friends at PETA to make an example out of Hassan. I think Hassan needs a visit from the good people at PETA, buckets of paint, whatever they want to do. This, I think, is a perfect opportunity for PETA to reassert themselves into the public conscious and sort of take care of this guy who clearly has no regard for animal life. And you know, I mean this like truthfully. It's like well known that children who become sort of psychopaths have violent ideation of various kinds
Starting point is 00:04:40 are well known to be, you know, torture animals in their youth. And I think we're seeing like a familiar pattern here. The disregard for the well-being of animals very easily passes over. into a disregard for the well-being of people. And so, Hassan, please, you know, you're going to need a visit from Pamela Anderson or whoever is coming on board from PETA. I have to tell you guys something else. This morning, I'm glad we're talking about the subject.
Starting point is 00:05:09 I happen to be listening to NPR. You know, someone's got to pay attention to what these people are doing. Okay. And I am nothing, if not a good patriot. And so I was listening to NPR, and there was a profile interview this morning on NPR. And I kid you not, this is exact language, Hassan Piker, the left's Charlie Kirk.
Starting point is 00:05:31 Okay, so I don't mean to add or mean to add any additional insult. Are you serious? I need to find this now. I am totally serious. This is exactly why they do not deserve your tax dollars people because they employ people. They employ idiots that would make. And by the way, I can't tell what comparison is more insulting. Mr. Caperman.
Starting point is 00:05:54 Charlie Kirk and George Floyd or Charlie Kirk and Hassan Piker? At least Charlie and George Floyd were born on the same day. Did you know that? They have the same birthday. Absolutely mind-blooded coincidence. That is shocking. Well, at least there are some obvious things that you could connect a few
Starting point is 00:06:12 dots. Hassan Piker, there's nothing obvious about this. And we actually wanted to hit this story because Charlie and Hassan had a debate scheduled that will never happen at was it Dartmouth was it at your dartmouth yeah it was at Dartmouth yeah and you know we we were prepping for that we were getting ready and kind of diving into you know some of his ideas if you could call them that I think they're just pure like animal instincts yeah unintended so yeah I mean that's really inferior what okay let's just play this out what did they say I mean they didn't really have an argument it all
Starting point is 00:06:47 boils down to the fact that, you know, Piker speaks to an audience of young people on the left. And their only way to sort of like understand comparisons in this regard is who is your audience rather than what you do or what you promote or the ideas that are animating your, you know, public activism. And I mean, like either with Floyd or with Piker, it does kind of make sense. I mean, the left is offering up a kind of valorization and promotion and celebration of degeneracy and weakness and frailty. And Hassan Piker, yes, he's got like a big Twitch show, but his life consists of, and this is his own words, seven hours a day, seven days a week, in that room, shocking his dog, apparently, and, you know, spouting off on Twitch on a gamer stream.
Starting point is 00:07:49 Nothing wrong with gaming. I love gaming. I'm a gamer myself. Whereas Charlie, of course, at the age of 31, has built this a massive enterprise that consists of not just a show, not just the talking, but, you know, you guys have employed hundreds of people, all motivated. to do good, you have TP action, TPUSA, etc. So there's just an obvious difference between the caliber of person here. It's such an important difference. Yeah, that's the key difference. Charlie had a show, but the show was maybe one-fourth of what he did because he was,
Starting point is 00:08:25 he was the ultimate grass toucher. He actually went out. He met the people on campus, thousands upon thousands of people. He got involved in the admin, the staffing of the admin, that grind work. He spent two months basically living at Mar-a-Lago during the transatlantic. because he cared so much about the staffing of the admin and you know he's speaking at hundreds of churches speaking at all these campuses speaking at all these events doing the endless work of building turning point he very much lived in the real world and that's a huge contrast to their
Starting point is 00:08:56 apparent equivalent hasan who lives online all day well i'll never forget that new york times uh puff piece on him that said he was a what was it the progressive mind in a maga body and it's you know like he does lift weights apparently okay he likes guns okay so so he's super relevant now like the the the um the shallowness with which the establishment media is observing our culture is truly very shocking and i that's why i love what you do with your your publishing company i mean there's actually some depth uh with that that you're making happen within the intellectual right and i think that's really important because apparently it's it's escaped the left now It is a completely vapid, vacuous commentary.
Starting point is 00:09:43 Jonathan. Sure, it's a completely barren landscape. The only thing the left has at this point is their rejection of Donald Trump. It's all just reaction to Donald Trump. And this is the position the right used to be in, just purely reactive. We are now proactive. And Charlie was at the forefront of that. And it's our job to sort of carry that forward now.
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Starting point is 00:11:18 is that the left there was a little bit more robust discussion, debate, the depth. You could disagree with the ideas, but it was a more robust landscape, and the right was a little bit lagging behind. But now intellectually, we represent the vanguard of, I think, interesting thought, of powerful new ideas. Why is that? How did it change? And, you know, how are you playing a role in it? I mean, it's a complicated picture.
Starting point is 00:11:42 I mean, if I'm trying to be maximally sort of charitable, I would say that a lot of this is less so sort of the failing of the left and rather the success of the left. So what you had was a period of cultural domination for most of my adult life, most of our adult lives. And this leads to a kind of condition of complacency. They had kind of won the fight. They had taken over academia. They had taken over, you know, the media industries of various kinds. And yeah, this just leads to a certain amount of maybe laziness. It doesn't require generating new ideas to produce new stuff because you've won. And now you're
Starting point is 00:12:23 enjoying the fruits of that labor. And during this period, especially over the last decade, the right, and I include you both in this, Charlie in this, myself, and a lot of people who are now coming to the four in terms of, you know, taking the lead intellectually for the right, we were sort of the subaltern. We were in a position of weakness, of subordination. And when you're in that position, there's a lot of freedom and a lot of space to explore new ideas and sort of find, you know, exits that otherwise, you know, would be shrouded and sort of darkness or would be taboo. or whatever else. So being in that situation of being subordinate, being outside the eye of the public allows a certain freedom of thought that is very generative. And so what we're now seeing is the right taking those ideas that were generated during that moment of subordination. And now that's seeing the light. This is producing a lot of healthy policy outcomes, you know, a lot of the stuff around American nationalism, a lot of the stuff about around immigration, about the
Starting point is 00:13:27 coherence of a population within a country and the importance of that and what that means and having sort of shared understanding of language and myth and history and where you come from, all of that and the importance of that really did come out of this ferment on the right. And so right now we're in a position to sort of strike and feed this out to the public and kind of erase some of those gains that the left had made. There's still a ton of work to do. I mean, let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. This is left still owns academia and owns a good deal of the media infrastructure. So we're going to have to administratively take some risks and go out there and take control of some of these institutions.
Starting point is 00:14:10 But from an idea's perspective, we are way out ahead. No, and you talk about how they still own a lot of these really important institutions, one of which we saw on full display and we're going to get to it later in the hour. What happened with Comey? The fact that he didn't get a perp walk. got smuggled in behind the scenes uh you know do you think they would have done this for conservative absolutely not it's actually wildly infuriating and we're going to touch on that later but first we're going to get to katie porter in that story but you know what did you call her earlier mashed potatoes katie porter mashed potatoes yeah yeah didn't she we'll get into it okay i vaguely
Starting point is 00:14:47 remember the reference shock jock hasan piker katie porter you know maybe maybe don't think that they're connected but they are because these are these mask moment and we are seeing the character of the people of the left this is this is this is my running thesis so i first need to know blake potato mashed potato so okay so just just to remind people who katie porter is she's running for governor of california i believe she's currently in the house uh and so she was giving an interview with i believe cbs news yep sacramento local sacram yeah i think we should get the breaking thing is then we'll get into all right i'm just so So she was giving this interview where they just ask a total, you know, that total softball
Starting point is 00:15:28 question, like, how are you going to reach across the aisle to the people who voted for the other side in the last election? Politics one-on-one. Let's just play clip 87. What do you say to the 40% of California voters who you'll need in order to win? Let me be clear with you. I represented Orange County. I represented a purple area. I have stood on my own two feet and one Republican votes before. That's not something every candidate in this race can say. So you don't think anything. I feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative. What is your question. The question is the same thing I asked everybody. You haven't written and I'll answer it. And we've also asked the other candidates, do you think you need any of those 40% of California
Starting point is 00:16:03 voters to win? And you're saying, no, you don't. No, I'm saying I'm going to try to win every vote I can. And what I'm saying to you is that... Well, to those voters. Okay, so you... I don't want to keep doing this. I'm going to call it. Thank you. You're not going to do the interview with us. Nope, not like this. I'm not. Not with seven follow-ups to every single question you ask. Every other candidate has answered our voice. I don't care. Lovely woman.
Starting point is 00:16:28 You could just, you could feel the energy. So the reason I call her mashed potatoes, Katie Porter, besides physically resembling a pile of mashed potatoes, is in 20, let's see, this is 20, 23, the New York Post had some documents from, I believe, her divorce proceedings against a former husband. And her former husband accused her of throwing toys, books, and. and other objects at him during their marriage and even allegedly poured scalding hot nash potatoes on his head during a fight. Yeah, and I believe the person that first broke this story, the comment from one of the ex-staffers of Katie Porter said,
Starting point is 00:17:09 just imagine what she's like when the cameras are not rolling. All right, Lomas, your turn. What are you making? You know, Katie Porter, to me, is the sort of apotheosis of liberal politics. politics at this point. She's what I'd call a sort of longhouse matron. I kind of like like the fact that people like her in the spotlight because it demonstrates perfectly the sort of personality type that runs democratic politics and runs the aforementioned institutions we were talking about. It's just, you know, at all times, you're surrounded by, you know,
Starting point is 00:17:42 vice principal, third grade teacher who's slapping you on the, you know, hands with a ruler for telling like a choke, you know, during, you know, math lesson or something. And if this is the view that, you know, mainstream voters have of the Democratic Party, that's going to be great for us and for our agenda. So I support this fully. I wish Katie Porter the best. I want to see more of Katie Porter in the news. Well, you know what strikes me is that it, when they can't argue their points where they, they just don't feel like they owe anybody an explanation for something, they just get morally indignant. And that is a cousin to some of the this i believe it's all related to some of the people feeling justified to do
Starting point is 00:18:28 whatever they want when they disagree with somebody whether that's political violence whether that's moral indignation turning off an interview there is this this sense that they don't deserve to explain themselves they don't owe it to anybody which is they don't deserve to be questioned which is a like a phenomenally striking moment for somebody running to be the governor of the largest economy with the state with the largest economy in the country yeah and also just the you get that element where almost certainly this is a left-leaning news operation that she's interviewing with and you'll actually if you talk to liberals enough or just see them in their own habitat they often have this belief that the media is right wing i recently saw this
Starting point is 00:19:11 kook on x who said that the washington post is this like far-right paper now oh because of jeff bezos or yeah yeah you know just It's no passage press, I'll tell you. Yeah. You know, but you know what's interesting is that I will say somebody who's has some experience in California, there's such a lack of input from conservatives now in the state that some of the journalists want to kind of get into, they want to get a piece of that action and kind of act like conservatives still play. And by the way, there's millions of amazing patriots in California. You were a professor at UC Rivers. I mean, you know, I had, you know, I've known Porter for a dad.
Starting point is 00:19:48 decade because she's from the Irvine area, which is where I taught at UC Irvine. And yeah, people forget, California has more Trump voters than any other state in the country. There are millions of Trump voters in California. There are very good people there. I was kind of hoping that after the L.A. fires, California would sort of find its way back to at least a more conservative way of doing politics. That was in the air for a little while. I think there's some possibility of that happening. I mean, look, you know, California is the crown jewel of the country. That's my opinion.
Starting point is 00:20:21 And it's a huge mistake for conservatives just to write it off. And it's the same problem with a conservative saying that like they hope mom Donnie wins in New York because, you know, these coastal elites deserve what they get. Well, actually, we want to preserve the best places in this country and make them better. We don't want to see them to get worse. The problem in California is multi-fold. But one of which is that normal middle class people who want to raise kids, want to have families, want to have decent jobs, have left, and they're leaving en masse. And California actually
Starting point is 00:20:52 has net out domestic migration. So natives are leaving more so than people coming in. So it's a state that's increasingly run by the left, by, you know, coastal liberals, quote unquote, but also masses of immigrants who just don't have the same sense of inheritance of this place that, you know, California natives have. So it's a place. that I want to see rescued and, you know, I, I hope one day for a reconquista of California. Reconquista. That would be a beautiful thing. It would be beautiful. And he's right about the scale of it. We're talking, we're not talking, you know, tens of thousands. If you count just American citizens moving out of California, the net difference between people moving in and moving
Starting point is 00:21:38 out, we're talking, I think at this point, over a half a million people since COVID hit. Yes. That's a lot of people. Yeah. Well, and it. I can tell you spending a lot more time in Phoenix lately that you hear about that with even the the realtors and the housing prices and things like things like that because there are a lot of California's coming here. There's a lot of California is going to Texas, Florida, Tennessee, the Montana, Idaho. The outflow is incredible and they seem to think that they're doing just fine because they've got illegal immigrants. I just flipped it myself.
Starting point is 00:22:09 It's over one and a half million people since COVID. Since COVID. They had about net, I think, 400,000 in one year. year at one point it was really yeah i mean anecdotally the the town home complex uh we were living in when we had our first kid and moved out every single family that is every single english speaking family with kids moved out over the course of 2020 that we knew geez yeah i mean it's a very bad negative feedback loop it's a it's a cycle that fuels itself because when one good family leaves you know i can tell you as somebody spent time in california that you you grieve the loss of that
Starting point is 00:22:49 family and that inevitably are going to nashville or they're going to something you know and then you're just like you know what am i doing holding on right and that psychology ends up playing quite a role and so why we're on to california i think we should just keep hitting katie porter this is a 2002 clip uh where she is talking about inflation Biden inflation and how that that just reinforces the need for abortion because that's you know that's not a non sequit or anything cut 95 how does inflation compare to this newly important in the sense of the supreme court decision pending abortion issue how do those two issues compare well i don't think they compare i think they actually reinforce each other so the fact that things like inflation can happen
Starting point is 00:23:35 and it can become more expensive to feed your kids and to fuel your car is exactly why people need to be able to be in charge of how many mouths they're going to have to feed. So I think the fact that we're seeing this jump in expenses, that we're seeing people having to pay more in the grocery store, pay more at the pump, pay more for housing, is a reason that people are saying, I need to be able to make my own decisions about when and if to start a family. So I don't think we're going to see them. I don't think it's like about comparing them or contrasting them. I think they reinforce for people just how big of a responsibility it is to take care of a family.
Starting point is 00:24:12 To Keeperman. Is the Democrat Party a death cold? I mean, when you hear stuff like that, it's hard to deny the case. I mean, could you imagine looking at the price of eggs and it's $7 for a dozen of organic eggs versus $6 and you decide that's going to be the reason I'm going to have an abortion? I mean, this is like really sick, vulgar, disturbing stuff. And if that's the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party, yes, then I think you have to say this is a death cold. yeah golly that clip i i remember when that clip came out because we hit it on the show and ghastly woman it's just gasly it really is shocking how is how is this woman allowed in polite democrat society like how is she actually is polite democrat society this is the polite version this is the polite version i mean she could be shocking her she at least hasn't died her hair yet like she's not she's not even at level eight on the scale where's the nose rings yeah she's like the she's wearing like a conservative skin suit or something you know i guess that's the oc rubbing off on her but uh i mean this is really like how far we've fallen
Starting point is 00:25:16 wait wait hold on wearing a conservative skin suit she's wearing at least two or three skin suits oh well like here we go now it looks like a rolled doll character you've read any uh rolled ball with your children hello america i'm andrew colvette from the charlie kirk show here with preserve gold. You've heard Charlie talk about the importance of embracing faith and being good stewards of everything the Lord has entrusted to us, which includes finances. As our national debt passes $37 trillion, the U.S. dollar is losing value. Like countless Americans, we are turning to alternative assets like physical gold and silver, which have helped protect against currency devaluation throughout the ages. We work exclusively with preserved gold for precious metal needs and recommend them to
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Starting point is 00:26:39 I mean, people talk about her being kind of like a Dolores umbrage of people have read Harry Potter, which I think we have to be kind of pro Harry Potter now because J.K. Rowling is pretty based on important issues. On Kia. She's still a lib, but she's not, I don't know. My friends and I were debating, does she have a greater resemblance to mashed potatoes or a potato or a sack of potatoes? different potato-related idioms. You're going to get us in trouble, all right. Potatoes are great.
Starting point is 00:27:05 Oh, there's like, great. Yes. Anyways. That's more a singular potato. That kind of brow is very potato-shaped. We don't like to, we don't want to insult people's looks. We want to talk about their ideas, Blake, which are just bad enough. Oh, here's one.
Starting point is 00:27:20 One more Katie Porter clip, Lomas, if you'll indulge us. Cut 94. This is a poor, Katie Porter calling pedophilia in identity. So that's, we'll see how this place. out. 94. This allegation of groomer and pedophile, it is alleging that a person is criminal somehow and engaged in criminal acts merely because of their identity, their sexual orientation, their gender identity.
Starting point is 00:27:46 No, Katie Porter. L-G-P-T, I guess. Katie Porter, when you sexually assault and abuse young kids, that is criminal. That's not an identity. That's an action that is evil. and they should be punished to the full extent of the law. Lomas, I want to let you chime in here. Again, I find this shockingly vulgar and like despicable on every level.
Starting point is 00:28:09 But as a political matter, I do think the existence and prominence of people like Katie Porter is a good thing for us. I mean, this is the opposition that we want to be arguing with in front of the public. It is just intuitively obvious which side is good versus bad, which side is deranged, which side is behaving in a rational way. So for all the faults of the right, and there are plenty of faults, and it's a kind of messy time in which we're trying to figure out how to move forward in this new environment, having people like Katie Porter be the face of the Democrat Party is a great thing for us. I just want to, you know, point that out. We shouldn't be too hard on. No, it does provide a really good foil. And you kind of remind me of that, you know, very successful ad campaign during the
Starting point is 00:28:58 during the, uh, 20, 24, 2024 run, which was, you know, uh, Kamala Harris is for they, them. Trump is for, for us, for you. I guess she's, now she's for the pedophile community. Yeah, but it's the identity, the identity. Because that was the moment where, where Kamala Harris, basically, you know, caught on camera saying, yeah, I'm going to fund all these trans surgeries for prisoners. Yeah. Of course. It doesn't matter if they're illegal or illegal. And that clip was shocking to people. I think when people see this stuff that this is from a prominent mainstream Democrat and it's shocking stuff. And she's just, you know, obviously she's got a history of treating her employees very badly or staffs very badly. I got an email here from Glenn. This will be
Starting point is 00:29:39 our transition. He said, do you plan to discuss the summons afforded to Comey instead of an arrest warrant that allowed the snake to slither into the courthouse and out unseen without being perp walked into the front door in handcuffs and leg restraints like they did with Bannon and Navarro. So I wanted to have the first response to this and see if you guys disagree, because we discussed this when he was first indicted on our thought crime show. And I kind of thought, I'm actually okay with not having the public perp walk and like making a big show out of the, out of a mugshot, because I think that's how you get into bad patterns. Look at what happened to the Democrats with Donald Trump. They were obsessed with perp walk Donald Trump. Get the mugshot of Donald Trump. And now we know,
Starting point is 00:30:24 years later, that was a huge mistake. That made Trump stronger that they were fixated on these superficial things because perpwalking someone is not convicting them. It is not imprisoning them. It is not politically disempowering them. It is a superficial thing. And if you're making a case against Comey that he committed crimes, the important thing is to make sure the case is strong that you can get a conviction of it. The important thing is not getting a perp walk of him. That is a superficial thing. So I'm going to disagree with people a bit on that. No, you've been consistent on this. You you are demanding real accountability, real results. You want a real sentence.
Starting point is 00:30:58 If we're going to bring this, it needs to be watertight. If your case against Comey is strong, it shouldn't need a perp walk to make its point. Jonathan Kieberman, your take. Yeah, I mean, I'm persuaded by this. I think Blake's right. And I think this speaks to a general tension that, you know, the Trump administration is trying to deal with, which is on the one hand, you want to signal to your base that you're doing something. And you're treating this asymmetry and power.
Starting point is 00:31:24 that, you know, we've seen over the last decade or at least five years, you're treating that seriously and you're taking, you're making steps, you're taking steps and making moves to rectify that asymmetry. The base wants to see this. They want to see Comey being purped. On the other hand, the general public doesn't want to, you know, see anything that looks abnormal or that looks too vindictive. They want normal politics. They want sober, steady, normal politics. They want real justice. They don't just want the symbols. They don't just want the ostentatious display. And so I think Blake is right. A little bit of forbearance here, a little bit of prudence from an optics perspective, which is the calculation that matters here. This is about optics is well within what
Starting point is 00:32:13 the Trump admin should do. Don't make a martyr out of this guy. Remember what happened? with Trump with those mugshots that became this like galvanizing moment for people on the right it was used as a way to royal the base we don't want to give them uh photographs and these events to galvanize them they really have nothing right now they have katie porter okay who sold with katie porter who sold more t-shirts with trump's mugshot on it the left or turning point well i don't know that we did didn't we have the never surrender we maybe now maybe that was someone else no the charlie kirk show did uh but i don't think turning okay oh yeah the separate organization sorry shouldn't mix them up but no and listen i am persuaded by this a little bit but i also
Starting point is 00:32:52 do want to give some credence to the base that's you know i think justifiably enraged at this double standard that we've all been forced to live through i mean steve bannon who you know is on real america's voice before this show uh was was paraded around and the the indignities that he was forced to suffer are extreme. And I understand people getting incredibly pissed off about that. I understand people getting upset about what happened to Peter Navarro. I understand the indignities that lawyers that defended Trump or that helped him in the, you know, after 2020, that they've been forced to suffer through. So I completely understand the impulse. And I think, you know, it's kind of what Trump would say, though. The best vengeance is success. So if we want to
Starting point is 00:33:43 want to get back at what we have been forced to suffer through, to your point, the success of an indictment, meaning that Comey actually gets punished for his crimes, his alleged crimes, that he actually would serve time in jail, serve time in prison. That is success in these instances is really critical. And by the way, all of these stories about that Tulsi Gabbard helped reveal and, you know, some of this, the shenanigans that were going on from it, looks like the highest level with Obama and Clapper and Brennan to essentially tie Trump into this, to the Russia Gates scandal and basically robbed two years of his presidential campaign. We haven't taken our eye off that ball either. So, and Comey was right in the center of that.
Starting point is 00:34:29 And they, you know, go ahead, Blake. We have late breaking Katie Porter takes from our viewers. Susan has a super important question. Did Katie Porter ever sit on her poor ex-husband? Blake you are just you know what this see this is where Charlie would rain him in and so it was like left to me and Charlie I don't know like this good way you know send me a sign Charlie somebody don't like it send me a sign you want Blake Neff on leash yeah Blake I'm gonna have to get your shot collar and you won't be an innocent in this because you you haven't got um okay thank you Susan for uh you know helping Blake get to get to the point um so we have another email from jean i believe based on these
Starting point is 00:35:15 clips you showed katie porter reminds me of the woman in broward county who have run for office and who we the local joeped defeated with the right candidate these are women who spout these idea yet they portray themselves as moms and representatives of women's issue that's a really very key point they do that's what i'm saying they they present themselves as this moderate sensible person and then you actually the mask off moments really I think tell a lot about somebody's underlying ideology and I think that's very
Starting point is 00:35:44 very true with Katie Porter so okay Ramthan I guess says why or this is Sanaa sorry why has he given a summons rather than arrest warrant well so that's kind of what I'm getting at he responded to the summons he went in he entered his
Starting point is 00:36:04 plea secretly but we know what the plea was already and we should we are conservatives we actually want to uphold the system and so you do want if a person is going to come in and respect to the system we don't need
Starting point is 00:36:18 to kick in the door and you know drag James Comey in and if you're going for that I think you're too focused on the TV show of what's going on and you want to avoid that temptation it is a bad impulse in my opinion you do want to avoid making martyrs out of
Starting point is 00:36:34 people that do not deserve the label and I think that's ultimately where I landed with Kimmel. I was enraged at first, but I also want him to, I want his show just to go away because it has bad ratings and it's costing the network too much money. And it will be the, it will go out with a whimper. It's much better for some of these people. There's a lot of short-term emotional satisfaction from doing sort of performatively over the top or even cruel things to your opponents. And I think, again, that's why I point towards the Trump stuff, because there was a lot of that with Trump and his supporters. And I think that's, how they squandered a lot of their political advantage during the Biden years
Starting point is 00:37:10 threw it away and they got Trump reelected. People saw it and it was very off-putting. And we want to make sure we don't go too far. You want justice, of course. Like we want to, for example, deport illegal immigrants, but you don't want to do performatively over-the-top stuff with it necessarily. You don't want to give the left tools to sort of attack you and undermine. Don't undo yourself on something that ultimately doesn't matter. Yeah. This is Lane Schoenberger, Chief Investment Officer and Founding Partner of Y-ReFi. It has been an honor and a privilege to partner with Turning Point and for Charlie
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Starting point is 00:39:05 So this is from Susan. She goes, because we just read her email. She goes, my husband said you would never read that about Katie Porter, L.O.L. No, we got you. We are committed to the email. Freedom at Charliekirk.com. Please keep sending them. Lomas, I want to give you the opportunity just to kind of reflect on Charlie because we haven't gone there yet.
Starting point is 00:39:26 because I think I was planning on leading with it and then my headset, I had an issue and we just got into the news. But I want the floor is yours. I mean, yeah, all right. Well, you know, this is tough. I mean, it's still raw. I know you guys, it's raw for you guys too. And it's still taken me like I'm in these waves thinking about the significance of it from a sort of like political cultural standpoint. And then there's also just like the personal element to it. And, you know, separating these two things out and trying to think about them rationally has been really difficult. And you guys know, both of you know, sort of like privately, we've had a lot of conversations, you know, before everything happened, how much I respected Charlie. And I really felt like Charlie was at the center of what was going to happen next on the right. And this was pretty obvious. This is not a novel take. It's also not hyperbole. We're seeing, even in his brief absence here, things start to kind of fray without his presence in the middle. sort of binding all of these different factions together, and he was someone who could speak to everybody. Everybody could trust him. I think one thing we're seeing, too, and even with some of the, you know, quote unquote controversies like with the text messages that were revealed yesterday, not getting into, you know, the specifics of what was said, but what was revealed to me was Charlie was a loyal friend. And loyalty really is the first principle of any political movement, of any political group and of any political act. You have to be able to demonstrate loyalty.
Starting point is 00:41:02 And loyalty transcends these kinds of ideological differences and even differences that really matter, differences that are meaningful, being able to talk to people, being able to talk to allies, people who are on your side across those differences and mediate between different parties who have disagreements on different issues. Charlie really was that guy at the center of the right. And in his absence, it remains to be seen what happens without him. I worry about it a little bit. I don't see any obvious replacement. You can't replace someone like him. The best we can do is all pitch in a little bit and try to model ourselves on Charlie's example. I, you know, I've said this before previously on a podcast, but, you know, I'm 10 years older than Charlie, but in many,
Starting point is 00:41:52 many, many ways. Charlie was a better man than me. And I want to be more like that. And I think people should start thinking, how can I be more like that? Not necessarily in terms of the beliefs, the ideology, although that's good too. But how can I act as a centering force for this coalition? How can I push towards more agreement, more positive action, more policy wins, rather than how can I I better serve my own ego? And a lot of people think about the latter. They think, how can I serve my own ego? Charlie never did that. And I think a lot of us could take a very important lesson from that. And I implore people to think about it in those terms. The other thing on a personal level, you know, he's a man with a family and a wife and kids. And it's very similar to, you know,
Starting point is 00:42:49 my own circumstances in many ways, and it's a tragic, tragic loss for people who know him and his family. And I do want to say, I have to give you guys credit for what you've done in his absence. You know, it's hard to wrap your arms around what a big loss this was. And I was just moving into the sort of the personal tragedy of it. And, you know, we have to remember here, too, that like the people you see on the screens, the people talking, these are just people. These are just guys with ideas and a vision for the country. And we, you know, the thing I would like for us to do is remember Charlie as a model. And I want us to think about from, again, a policy standpoint, what we might be able to do to memorialize him in a more permanent and durable way so that he maintains this, you know, central focus as a kind of model for how the right ought to be in the future.
Starting point is 00:43:49 Yeah. And, you know, for those of us that are here, you know, trying to make much of his legacy and remember his life and to celebrate all the amazing things that he's done, I can tell you it's the most overwhelming thing. I had a friend who looked at me kind of in the midst of some of this last week, and he said, we picked a hard job. And he's like, and, you know, in Charlie's absence, it just got infinitely more difficult. And I I was like, yeah, man, that's, that's a massive understatement. But, you know, I do, the real legacy of Charlie is one of faith, faith in Jesus, faith in God, faith in this country. And so I know that God doesn't call us to anything that he's not going to equip us to accomplish. I know that it is a tremendous loss, but I also know that God is with us. I've never in my life felt the prayers of strangers. I feel them daily. Every day I get so many people texting, we're praying for you. We can't stop praying for you. We can't stop thinking about Charlie. And so I know that God's plans are bigger than ours. I know that he has a vision for this country. There's a harvest that
Starting point is 00:44:59 Charlie has helped ignite in this country. And my prayer is that we would not let any of the controversies overshadow his legacy, his true intent. And I pray that we would not let it divide the coalition and the movement or that it would come back and hurt Turning Point because Charlie loved turning point with all of his heart. Jonathan mentioned Charlie's human. And actually that was that was such an important part of it that Charlie got so big yet he was never a megalomaniac. He was never a narcissist. Every time good things happened, he'd say, you know, all on God, put it all in God's hands. And that was so important to his growth, his stain power and why his movement was so, so positively oriented, I believe. And I think that's one of the most underrated aspects of how his faith guided his actions that the success never went to his head because the success was always something given to him. him from above. Yeah. Jonathan Kieberman, Lopez on X. The last two minutes, the floor is yours, my friend. Yeah, I mean, aside from just the humility, which obviously is incredibly grounding and allows people to sort of persevere and not lose sight, a lot lose perspective. Charlie was also
Starting point is 00:46:11 a positive force. And this is the other thing that I see, you know, creeping in a little bit to the right, going forward with this kind of embittered, resentful tone where everything is sort of steeped in a kind of sense of vindictiveness and revenge and a sense of hurt that needs to be accounted for, a sense of grievance on the right. And I don't think the right should have that as the prevailing attitude. They should take instead the example of Charlie, again, which was this sort of positive tone, a positive vision, a sort of trust in the good to prevail over the bad that is often conflated and confused for weakness. It is not weakness. There is plenty of strength in being positive. And it's also not naivity. Charlie was not naive. And so you can be
Starting point is 00:47:08 positive. You can have a positive vision without suffering from some of these other deficits. And again, I just hope that as a movement, as a political coalition, we can take some of those traits on board. Yeah. I mean, two of the guiding principles of turning point from the very beginning were grassroots humility and being a happy warrior. And that's how I would sum up kind of what we're talking about. These are guiding principles that are on the side of the walls in the offices. And grassroots humility, always be willing to get your hands dirty to lend a hand to do the thing that is maybe not glorious or illustrious or you're not going to get your name on a marquee but to do it anyways because it's the right thing get register voters
Starting point is 00:47:53 you know hand out clipboards and ten issues work and then happy warrior and i think that charlie exemplified that because he always had that smile on his face it was electric it was magnetic and super um it was just super inviting to so many people jonathan keeperman lomas thank you so much thanks guys really appreciate it we'll see tomorrow For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.

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