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Georgia's New Election Integrity Law EXPLAINED + Democrat Hysteria Ensues
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Charlie Kirk
This episode is brought to you by our friends who could protect your data and anonymize your activity@expressvpn.com charlie e x p r e s s v p n.com charlie protect yourself against Big Tech and Big Brother. Hey everybody, good news out of Georgia. We go through the specifics of the election reform bill and also how the Democrats are predictably reacting to it. Email us your questions freedomarliekirk.com and if you want to support us, go to Charlie Kir to make our mission possible to reach millions of young people with the truth@charliekirk.com support. Buckle up everybody. Action packed episode. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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Charlie Kirk
lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
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I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
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Charlie Kirk
Turning we will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives. And we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Look, we all know that conservatives are getting kicked off of social media. So why are we choosing to give all these tech companies all of our data? Now is the time to take a stand. Protect your personal data from big tech with the VPN I trust for my online protection. ExpressVPN, you see, every device, whether you're on your phone, laptop or television, has a unique string of numbers called an IP address. When you search for stuff, watch videos, or even click a link, big tech companies can use that IP address to track all your activity and tie it back to you. When I use ExpressVPN, my connection gets rerouted through their secure encrypted servers. So these companies can never see my IP address at all. My Internet activity becomes anonymized and my network data is encrypted. 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Therefore, states like Georgia and Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania have to step up to the plate and reform their elections on this program. We have been relentless pressuring the legislatures of Arizona and Georgia. But I'm here to give you some good news today, some positive news that Republicans in Georgia signed by Governor Brian Kemp, someone who I have been very critical of, have signed sweeping election reforms into law. Now the Democrats are having a very typical reaction to this and we're going to dive into the specifics of the bill first. Then we're going to tell you how the Democrats are reacting. And then we're going to kind of take a step back and ask the question, what's really going on here? Which is the most important question. But first, here's what's in the bill. Republicans in the Georgia, Georgia legislature have passed a sweeping elections law. This is what it will do. This is it. And by the way, I would give this bill maybe a 5 out of 10. Still good news. It's not great news. It doesn't go nearly as far as it should. It adds an ID requirement to absentee ballots. What a concept. Now why didn't Brian Kemp and the Republican legislatures do this back in June of last year, while we knew that you signed a consent decree with Stacey Abrams and that over 1.2 million ballots will be used in Georgia, but at least they're fixing it now. They deserve credit for that. It will shorten runoffs in the state after two high profile Republican losses. So instead of a nine week runoff period, it will go to a four week runoff period and it will strip the secretary of state off, off of the state election board. So you have an incompetent, weak person like Brad Rothen Spurger, who is the secretary of state of Georgia, makes it harder for him just to run the entire show. Politico has a story on this where Brian Kemp is quoted. He says, quote, georgia will take another step towards ensuring our elections are secure, accessible and fair. So how are the Democrats reacting to this rather vanilla, innocent bill just requiring voter ID for absentee ballots? Oh yeah. It's also saying that you cannot give gifts to people when they are Voting in line. This is called warming the polls. Now it's being immediately flipped by the Democrats saying that Republicans want it to be illegal to give water to people in the polls. Obviously, that is not the intent of the law. Instead, the intent of the law is to prevent what happened in Nevada under the Nevada Native Project, where they were giving gift cards and cash to people that went and voted for Joe Biden. As I mentioned, the law adds an ID requirement so that when you have absentee ballots flowing in from all across the state, we know that the person who has filled out the absentee ballot is actually that person. There's a verification requirement alongside of it. Now, let me be clear. I think this should be the starting point for Georgia. I think they need to reduce the voting periods. I think that we need to get back to election day in our country. I think that we need to fix the way we count votes. But this is a step in the right direction. I find nothing wrong with any of these reforms. And Governor Brian Kemp, who has come under a lot of criticism on this program, and it's been warranted, he deserves credit for this. So does the Republican legislators. But the real test for Brian Kemp and for the Republican state legislators is what they're going to do next. Democrats are reacting to this bill, as you might expect. They are calling it Jim Crow. They are already flooding cable news comparing voter ID for absentee ballots, shorter runoffs, the return of poll taxes and literacy taxes. This is insulting. For all the people that actually fought through and ended Jim Crow, we have some sound here. Cut 18.
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Democratic Opponent or Activist
This is America. This is not Iraq or something over in the Far East. This is America where we send our sons and daughters overseas to fight for democracy in other countries. But over here, the Republican Party does every damn thing that they can in order to take the right, the right to vote away from duly qualified Americans. And it's not right. And we're gonna fight back against it.
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Charlie Kirk
No one is taking anyone's right to vote away. You see, Jaime Harrison compares this to the new Jim Crow with no specifics whatsoever. Stacey Abrams just tweeted an image that shows that Jim Crow 1.0 was Democrats in the south and Jim Crow 2.0 is Brian Kemp. Now, for the Republican establishment, I hope this is a lesson for you that you're never going to win over the Democrat Party. They are going to call you racist no matter what, regardless of the facts or the details of these bills, regardless of the facts of the details of what's actually in these pieces of legislation. So what Does Joe Biden have to say about this? Joe Biden in cuts. One of these cuts that cut right there. Play cut. The new Georgia election law,
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Joe Biden
the idea you want any indication that it has nothing to do with fairness, nothing to do with decency. They passed a law saying you can't provide water for people standing in line while they're waiting to vote. You don't need anything else to know that this is nothing but punitive designed
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Charlie Kirk
to keep people from voting. Now, that's just not what the bill says. The bill actually expands weekend voting that is usually used by black churches for the souls to the polls. How could they possibly say that that is Jim Crow 2.0, which, by the way, was all conducted by Democrats, their party. Republicans are concerned about the integrity of our elections. Republicans are concerned about whether or not the votes that are cast in the state of Georgia are being counted correctly. And the Republican legislature in Georgia is now leading the way. And Arizona needs to take note of this. Pennsylvania needs to take note of this. Michigan and Wisconsin need to take note of this. That we need stricter election laws, not looser election laws, which House Resolution 1 in front of Congress right now is trying to make it easier to cheat in our elections. And yet Democrats are immediately calling this Jim Crow 2.0. This is the number one news story right now in the country, Major League Baseball. They are now threatening to move the All Star Game, a typical boycott, divestment and sanction tactic that is used by the activist left. A typical strategy that is used to try and bully and subdue conservatives into not fighting. We're going to explore together why the Democrats are so wrong on this and how they're actually advocating for something that is directly contrary to their criticism of this bill. The Democrats are calling the new Georgia election reform Bill Jim Crow 2.0, the most racist piece of legislation in recent memory. They are going on every cable television program imaginable. They are misrepresenting this. And in fact, Major League Baseball has come out and they have said that they are not going to have the All Star game in Atlanta, Georgia, if this bill stands. Now, this is. This is a tactic that is used by the Democrats and the leftists quite often. They use this with the abortion law in Georgia, where they caved. They use this with the bathroom bill in North Carolina, where these national sports organizations say, we're going to pull out of your state completely. And you're able to find out very quickly whether your leaders have a backbone and a spine. And I don't know if Brian Kemp will be able to hold the line or not. So Democrats are unable to say specifically why this bill is racist in nature, because it isn't. But the thing that they're focusing on is the voter ID requirement. They're saying that blacks are not able to get voter id. Wouldn't that be a racist thing to say? If all of a sudden you believe that a certain group of people cannot identify themselves or get the paperwork to identify themselves, wouldn't that make them the racists? And how do Democrats possibly justify the fact that New York City is now going to require a Chinese corona virus vaccine passport? In New York City, this passport will be required for you to go into certain restaurants, grocery stores, and public gatherings. It's a vaccine passport. So how is it not racist to require a vaccine passport, but it's somehow racist to require people to identify themselves when they just send in an absentee ballot? That's it. Absentee ballot. You send a ballot in the mail, you have to put down your driver's license number. That should not be a difficult sell. And this all kind of ties together to something that's happening quite a ways away from Atlanta, Georgia, of a trial that is happening right now in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the trial of Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd. Now, we have gone into great detail around the death of George Floyd, and you're already starting to see arguments be made by Derek Chauvin's team that George Floyd was overdosing and said I can't breathe seven times before a police officer ever laid hands on him. So what are the two have to be tied together? The only way Democrats are going to be able to stay in power is if elections are not reformed or if they are permanently damaged. If elections are permanently damaged, which is what HR1 wants to do, Democrats will then be able to have the voter registration rolls, the counting periods, the ballots, the reforms of the apparatus of how we do elections in their favor, that they will never lose a chamber of power again. And that is their goal. But the only way they know they're going to be able to get that done is not the merits of the bill, but instead inciting some sort of racialization of the issue. That's their playbook. Their playbook is not to talk about the merits of the piece of legislation. It's not to say, you know what, voter ID is a bad idea or a good idea. It makes elections more secure or less secure. And they're attacking the bill by saying it's illegal to bring water into the line. That's not true. Even Politico has said that it is. Georgia law allows you to bring water into the line and set up water serving stations if you're waiting in line to vote. A total lie by the President of the United States, Joe Biden. It shortens runoffs. How is that a return to Jim Crow having a shorter runoff period? The only group of people that that hurts is Republican consultants that run expensive television ads for Senate runoff races. That's the only group that it hurts. Republicans would control the United States Senate right now if just some of these reforms would have been done earlier. That's why Democrats oppose them. Do you know how much you need to save to have a comfortable retirement? The average retirement savings for families across the country is $255,000. If you are using these averages as a goal for your retirement, let me be blunt. You are not on the right track. Even $1 million will not be enough by the time you retire because of inflation. Retirement is not one size fits all. 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I wish we could have a robust conversation, a dialogue which means the pursuit of truth or through truth. If you go back to the Greek of what the word dialogue actually means, towards the best way to govern ourselves. Get back to a doctrine of the separation of powers, the consent of the governed, natural rights, first principles. Instead, the Democrats have a playbook and they are going to run this play until we adjust the to what they have been doing to us. And the play that they have been running is very simple. Everything I don't like is a racist and I will put race baiters on Television to say that Democrats want to be in power forever. They want a California country, they want a New York country, they want a Connecticut country where they don't have to worry about elections. They just worry about divvying up the feast. Republicans are annoyance to them. Joe Biden even questions whether the Republican Party will exist soon. Could you imagine if Donald Trump said that? Could you imagine if Donald Trump said the Democrats, I don't think they're gonna have a party in a couple of years. Just imagine what he would be accused of. And so Democrats are going on television attacking this very vanilla voter reform bill in Georgia that requires runoffs to be shortened. That makes it a law to prove who you are when you send in an absentee ballot. When Georgia had 1.2 million absentee ballots, it limits drop boxes, which is a direct counter for the center for Technology and Civic Life. And it doesn't go nearly far enough. It's a good start. And so what Republicans should have done is they should have swung for the fences because the Democrats are going to call you the worst things imaginable, even when you do the most moderate changes to voting systems. Cut 12. Congresswoman Nekima Williams, play cut 12.
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Congresswoman Nekima Williams
When I talked leading up to the election, people were like, oh, that's cute. They think that they're going to win. Republicans are pushing back and they're upset that we were able to win. And so they're going to do everything in their power right now to restrict access to people who mainly look like me from voting. You are the first black woman to represent the 5th district in Georgia. I just know that there are so many people that are looking to me to make sure that I move us like one step closer to full equality. And like Congressman Lewis often said, each generation has an obligation to move us one step closer. And so it's my turn to pick up the mantle.
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Charlie Kirk
So what she's talking about is something called historicism. You can blame Hegel for that, which is this idea of the apex of humanity is the history of which we are in. And every point of action must lead us to this inevitable. It's a very complex yet. It's not very deep, but it's very complex. There's a difference there. And it's called the Hegelian dialectic. Most people would just kind of not understand what she's saying there, but she's making an argument of the progressives. She's making an argument that actually John C. Calhoun made back in 1820, a pro slavery Democrat of we must view ourselves in a historical paradigm, and that every action we must make must have us go towards an inevitable could be utopia, could be heaven on earth. But what else did she say there? And she's not a very bright person. She's a Democrat congresswoman. But she says that Republicans are pushing back and that they were upset we were able to win. So now they're going to do everything in their power to restrict access to people like me from voting. So basically she's saying that I don't think black people are capable to be able to prove themselves when they vote. It's basically her argument. Her argument is that I think that black people are too dumb and too stupid to be able to prove who they are when they vote, which is of course, nonsense. And here's a really simple question. Why would you not be able to have your voter identification also saved on your phone with the driver's license number that you could put down? Phones are nearly ubiquitous in America, so why would it be illegal or immoral is a better term to require someone to have their voter identification near them. Which again, ironically collides with what the Democrats are trying to do in New York where they say you have to walk around with a Chinese coronavirus passport. So let me be clear. You have to prove yourself that you're vaccinated with the paperwork that shows you're vaccinated, but not when you go vote. Raphael Warnock, who's very nervous because I think that Republicans are conservatives, are going to knock off Raphael Warnock. He is number one on my list. This guy is a race baiter and one of my least favorite politicians in the country. You could tell he's nervous. He doesn't have a lot of confidence lately. You could tell that he knows he's going to be in a tough 2022 election. Here's what he had to say about this. Cut 8.
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Unknown Male Supporter or Commentator
Oh, I think the president is engaged on this issue. And when I've talked to him, he's agreed that voting rights are foundational, that this is the work we have to do. And I have to tell you, you know that I was heartened when I heard him speak so clearly about how urgent this is, recognizing that this is Jim Crow 2.0. And I think you're going to see that we are going to find a way to secure voting rights and pass the kind of legislation that expands rather than contracts our democracy.
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Charlie Kirk
This is the most important issue happening in the country. The over racialization from last year with BLM Incorporated and them burning down our country, receiving money from Corporations like Coca Cola receiving money from Goldman Sachs, bank of America and PepsiCo. The real agenda has always been changing the way we do elections. That's actually their most important issue. Their most important issue is not obviously the debt and deficit. It's not economic growth. It's not even education. The thing that Democrats focus on, which we as conservatives have got to get activated and aware of the significance of this, is Democrats only care about power. How long am I able to stay in control? And elections are supposed to be reflections of the electorate. Democrats don't like that in its current form. So Democrats want to expand the amount of ballots that are sent out. They want to loosen and lessen restrictions to count ballots. They do not believe in ID requirements. Now, the only reason you could possibly be against an ID requirement is if all of a sudden you believe that there's an action taking place and an ID requirement might prevent that action from taking place. Also known as cheating. Is New York City racist for having the Chinese coronavirus vaccine? Here's a question for Raphael Warnock. He's a pro abortion pastor, by the way. Go figure that one out. Raphael Warnock is coming out and saying that it is racist Jim Crow 2.0 to ask Black people to prove their identity if they vote absentee. By the way, only if they vote absentee do you have to put down your driver's license number or some form of identification. And yet Raphael Warnock, in the same sentence, will go on to defend reparations, which is the redistribution of wealth from people that have white skin color to black skin color for no other reason except for the fact that some black people were related to slaves 150 years ago, despite the fact that we have had over 3 million new black immigrants into America since 1980 that were not the descendants of slaves, despite the fact that not every single white person was a descendant of slaves, slave owners, or the fact that every single white person or black person should be tied to something that somebody did 150 years ago, as if you are not your own independent individual to make your own decisions. However, the point is less about reparations and more about what it would take to prove reparations. So let me be clear, Raphael Warnock. You think that a black person can prove and get their paperwork together that they're a descendant of slaves eight generations ago, but they can't prove their identity on their phone or through a driver's license number or from an ID card, which is so unbelievably easy to get to secure our elections. Raphael Warnock says it's Jim Crow because we want to shorten the runoff system. That sounds as if it's consultants that want to run another five weeks of television ads and make millions of dollars in highly contested, in highly contested Senate primaries. This law in Georgia is a step in the right direction. And I'm here to tell you if you have been clamoring for election reform, this is a good foot forward. It is not the entire journey we need to be on to reform our elections, but the fact that the Democrats are fighting on this so hard they are going scorched earth. Democrats are pulling out everything. They have, every cable news appearance, the President on down. They are saying we are going to do everything we can to not let this happen. We're going to pull the All Star Game out, we're going to pull Hollywood out. We're going to do whatever we possibly can. Why? Because the issue that bothers Democrats the most more than any other issue is how we decide who is in charge. Democrats believe they are entitled. They believe that they have a divine right of kings to be in charge of you in their life. They don't like being in the minority. They don't like not being able to have the legislative tools at their disposal. They have big revolutionary aims for our country. And it's not going to all happen just with a 5050 tie in the Senate and a 7 seat majority in the House. And Georgia is a state where Raphael Warnock is up for reelection and he's probably going to lose. And this reform is one of the reasons why Warnock and the Democrats are acting the way they are. The Democrats and the left. They are using critical race theory, a misrepresentation of American history, the hyper racialization of our dialogue and our narrative to get themselves into power. I wish we did not have to talk about race so much on this show. I wish we did not have to always refute the big lies of America. I wish I did not have to go against Raphael Warnock when he is saying that a voter ID bill is somehow racist. I wish we could have robust discussions on what good ideas for the country are and bad ideas for the country are. Instead we have to defend ourselves and say we are actually not bad people. That's what Raphael Warnock is basically saying. He's not even getting to the merits of the legislation. He is saying that the people behind them are evil. Same with that. Congresswoman Williams, we touched on this story before, but I want to reinforce this. Loyola Academy High School suburbs of Chicago requires their students to answer numbers of questions. How do you benefit from white privilege and how have you held onto that privilege? What have you learned about the ways you specifically wield this privilege to do harm? Dig deep, no sugarcoating and no focusing on the good you have done with your privilege. What have you learned about your white privilege that makes you uncomfortable? And at the bottom it says note, if you are a student of color, your responses will obviously be different. Focuses on the privileges you have. Please read the articles too. It is good to be reading these resources as a class. Loyola Academy High School has not responded to multiple requests for comment. It has 2000 students, grades 9 through 12. It is an 80% white school and the average tuition to go to Loyola Academy is $17,500 a year. This is being driven by white upper middle class activists that do not understand our history. They don't understand themselves quite honestly. And it makes the narrative that Warnock and Congresswoman Williams more seamless into the American Zeitgeist. When when Senator Warnock comes out and he says Jim Crow 2.0 and you have people that are learning that they have white privilege since they were born, which is a racist bigoted lie, then all of a sudden these massive structural changes to our country HR1 become a lot easier when you create an entire generation to feel sorry for something they didn't do and willing to do whatever is necessary to atone for that, such as their existence with white skin color as they're teaching at Loyola Academy High School. Please contact Loyola Academy High School and ask them why they are trying to teach their children to be so bigoted. It's a fair question. Then don't be surprised when the first tactic that they employ is hyper racializing. All of it. So Major League Baseball has come out and they said they are going to move the All Star Game if this bill is not changed. Go away Major League Baseball. We don't care if that's your position. Go have the All Star Game in New York City. Go have the All Star Game in Malibu, California. Apparently it's the Players association that's saying that they don't want this bill to stand as is. Here's how you know this piece of legislation is reason to celebrate today and I have good news to share on it. The reaction from the left if this bill truly was just going through the motions, China, I'm sorry, Major League Baseball would not be wanting to move out of Georgia. I said China because someone just sent me a message on Major League Baseball. China because Major League Baseball is partnering with China. It's a different topic for a different time. So the good news is this. Republicans in Georgia held the line and they got some reforms done. Here's the unknown. Here's the question. Will Republicans surrender to the left when they start boycotting? When they start calling you the R word on television? It is up to us to clarify the record that there is nothing racist about this bill. It is about voter integrity. It's about fair and free elections. And that if Republicans want any chance of winning an election again, this will be implemented in every state across the country. And you will hold the line. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us your questions freedomarliekirk.com if you want to support us, go to charliekirk.com support God bless you. Speak to you soon.