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00:01:38.000It's going to be an incredible show and an incredible demonstration of all the ways that the work of Turning Point is continuing forward because today is a very important day.
00:01:50.000Today is the 14th anniversary of Turning Point USA.
00:01:55.00014 years ago, on this day, one day before the D Day anniversary, I'll note, Charlie started Turning Point.
00:02:28.000The most important organization in America, a force known all around the world, a force others wanted to learn from, a force that changed the culture of America.
00:02:39.000In the way, certainly in my lifetime, nothing else on the right was able to.
00:02:45.000And on this 14th anniversary, our first one without Charlie, I want to remind you of what Charlie was able to accomplish with his organization in his life, which was far too short.
00:02:59.000When Charlie started Turning Point USA, I remember it.
00:03:02.000I was in college myself when he started it instead of going to college, which he thought was a scam.
00:03:48.000There was never this belief that we could go and confront the left in its own territory, argue with them, and win because our arguments were better.
00:04:44.000And the results have spoken for themselves.
00:04:47.000In the 2024 election, which Charlie was one of the chief players in, young people moved to the right in an election for one of the first times in ages.
00:04:57.000And on top of that, we can see in polls that the decline in faith, the decline in religious belief among young people.
00:05:03.000For the first time in memory, it stopped going down.
00:05:05.000Some polls show that it's going the other direction.
00:05:09.000And I strongly believe that it was Charlie's doing.
00:05:12.000Charlie, as a major force in history, played a central role in all of that happening.
00:05:18.000I wouldn't say it would be going too far to say that Charlie won the battle.
00:05:50.000As I said, today is the opening day of the Women's Leadership Summit in San Antonio.
00:05:56.000We have a lot of great speakers, including Erica Kirk, but also Allie Beth Stuckey, Riley Gaines, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Alex Clark, Kaylee McEnany, a lot more.
00:06:04.000They're going to speak to thousands of young women about.
00:06:07.000Charlie's message, which is that faith and family are integral to the best lives that you can live.
00:06:13.000Charlie spoke above all to young men, but he always had a very special place in his heart for young women.
00:06:18.000He knew that young women were being harmed a tremendous amount by the modern lies of feminism, the modern, just secularism, and modern culture.
00:06:27.000And he wanted to use his own marriage, his own family as a model that they could look towards that a better life can be lived.
00:06:35.000And that message was getting through as.
00:06:41.000And we are going to be continuing to carry that forward.
00:06:43.000So, for the rest of the show, I want to invite all of you who are watching, send in your emails about how you started following Turning Point.
00:06:51.000Have you been with us for five years, 10 years, 13 years, 14 years?
00:06:55.000Send us emails about how you got involved and how Charlie impacted your life.
00:07:47.000Looking back at it, I wanted to grow this thing more than anything imaginable.
00:07:53.000I poured every part of my being into this.
00:07:57.000As Napoleon Hill would say, conceive, believe, work, achieve.
00:08:00.000CBWA was the daily mantra that I would have.
00:08:05.000Charlie lived by that mantra every day conceive, believe, do.
00:08:10.000He, more than anyone I knew, he was a person who really believed in the power of one individual through hard work, intense self belief, intense self discipline.
00:09:09.000All of us have heard here have heard firsthand stories of people who dedicated their lives to Christ because of what they saw Charlie say, and we'll be frank, because of how Charlie lived his life all the way to the end.
00:09:21.000And he accomplished so much in the first 13 years of Turning Point.
00:09:26.000We're now at year 14, and we're going to carry on that legacy.
00:09:33.000We have some good breaking news today.
00:09:34.000We have a good jobs report has come in.
00:09:38.000We've had three months now of consecutive 100,000 plus job growth in America, and even CNN has to admit it.
00:10:45.000I think we've talked on this show, Andrew and I, how there's a lot of doomerism going around on the right, and a lot of that doomerism is not justified.
00:10:54.000People decide they just forget about the border, and people decide that the economy is catastrophically bad, even if it's not, because, like they said, first time in two years, Over three straight months of 100,000 jobs added, but it's actually even better than that because two years ago you could be adding hundreds of thousands of jobs, but we also had an open border with all of planet Earth.
00:11:14.000We know that illegal immigrants were gobbling up jobs that could be taken by native born Americans.
00:11:21.000We know that H 1Bs were pouring in, legal immigrants were pouring in to take jobs.
00:11:25.000So any job added is a lot more valuable now because we're not endlessly importing the rest of the world to take those jobs.
00:11:33.000So that's some good news because that's what we need for.
00:11:37.000What Charlie cared most about American young people.
00:11:40.000He cared a huge amount about the economic well being of young people.
00:11:45.000They were struggling to meet the milestones that their parents and grandparents met of marriage, children, family, house.
00:11:53.000He knew they were struggling to hit those things, and he knew that the bedrock of them being able to achieve that is getting in, getting good jobs, building careers that could actually pay for those things.
00:12:05.000But that is also at the same time a means to an end.
00:12:08.000Charlie cared a tremendous amount about the spiritual health of young people.
00:12:14.000Getting rich, if it was just spent on hedonism, if it was spent on emptiness, he knew you needed something more.
00:12:22.000And so I want to continue tying this to the Women's Leadership Summit that's starting today by revisiting some of Charlie's remarks at past women's leadership summits.
00:12:31.000And this is a very good clip of his on clip 34, talking about his celebration with his family of the Sabbath.
00:14:21.000To hear what other people have to say and to find common ground.
00:14:25.000Charlie lived by, I think one of the reasons Charlie resonated so much with young people, including young people who weren't believers, weren't necessarily in full alignment with Charlie, but he had so much resonance with them because more than just about anyone I've ever seen in my life, Charlie so truly lived everything he preached.
00:14:46.000He talked about the importance of decency and respect, and he went onto those campuses.
00:14:50.000He confronted people who said only hateful things about him, and he could Respond with love.
00:14:56.000He could preach the gospel everywhere he went.
00:14:59.000And with the Sabbath thing, Charlie talked about being Christian.
00:15:02.000He said people should be Christian, but there are a lot of people in public life who say they are Christian.
00:15:07.000Charlie clearly had the gospel pervade every part of his life.
00:15:13.000Even when he was away from the public stage, I remember we would have conversations with Charlie and how he approached political topics, how he approached his own life, how he approached running a company.
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00:17:32.000First, we were talking about Tofu Tallarico in Texas, and the other big icon of the Democrats running for Senate this year is the oyster farmer of Maine, Graham Platner.
00:17:44.000Andrew's really been hammering him on X. He's been talking about his oyster business is kind of a Nepo baby fake.
00:17:50.000He's Getting possibly dubious maximum VA disability payments.
00:17:56.000And he's a man with a Nazi tattoo that he claims he had no idea about.
00:18:01.000And he is a man with several fraught prior relationships.
00:18:35.000Was Graham Platner's behavior unsettling, or is there something a little bit more to this?
00:18:40.000I think what the New York Times did here was what we could call a soft catch and kill.
00:18:45.000So, what they did is they took these accusations from women, the primary of which and the most serious was from a conservative activist by the name of Lindsay Fifield, who I also, full disclosure, know personally.
00:18:57.000And they tried to bury the most salacious accusations under a bunch of PR fluff, euphemism, and even under ex girlfriend character witness from people that were provided to them by the Graham Platner campaign.
00:19:11.000So they apparently decided that these accusations were too serious for them to pass on.
00:19:17.000So they decided to run the story, but basically water it down significantly so they can say, hey, we did our jobs, but also give enough wiggle room for Platner to say that these accusations.
00:19:28.000Are not damaging enough that he would need to drop out of the race.
00:19:31.000Because the most serious accusation that Fifield makes is that Platner actually physically abused her, claiming that he would grab her shoulders so hard that he would leave marks on her, that in one case he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a room, closed the door, would not let her out.
00:19:49.000So she actually had to sleep there overnight until she was able to leave in the morning.
00:19:54.000And she also accused Platner of definitely knowing what that Nazi tattoo was because she had provided the New York Times with corroborating texts of her.
00:20:04.000Telling friends that he had this tattoo and that it was indeed a Nazi symbol, well before Graham Plattner insists that he found out about it from the media.
00:20:13.000So they deliberately buried all of this information 22 plus paragraphs down in the piece, slapped this headline on it to say that his behavior was merely unsettling because most people are not going to read past the first three to four paragraphs of one of these hit pieces.
00:20:29.000I'm just thinking, I think all of us remember the Brett Kavanaugh saga from, oh man, that was nearly a decade ago, I think eight years ago now.
00:20:38.000And the way they spun that, where they're taking kind of total nothing burger stuff and suggesting that Brett Kavanaugh is this psychopathic abuser.
00:20:47.000And then, as you say here, it's just, yeah, during one argument, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom, and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn't get out, telling her to remain there until she was calm.
00:21:01.000I can think of a lot of other ways of describing this.
00:21:04.000Yeah, wrench your arm behind your back and imprison you in a room.
00:21:09.000I can think of how the New York Times would characterize that in many other situations.
00:21:14.000And as you say, besides the fact that they lowball how it's described, it's also buried very deep in this article.
00:21:21.000It's that classic New York Times reverse Christmas tree construction.
00:21:26.000They lead with the absolute softest stuff.
00:21:28.000And then you're, gosh, this looks like about what, 25 paragraphs in?
00:21:33.000They go, oh, and by the way, he maybe abused his girlfriend.
00:21:37.000And the other key point to make is that.
00:21:40.000And Fifield has now confirmed this herself on her ex account.
00:21:44.000She was supposed to be in this story alongside two other accusers who were preparing to accuse Platner of sexual assault.
00:21:51.000Now, those two women's stories were ripped out of the piece at the last minute.
00:21:55.000Fifield was not informed that their stories were not going to be in there.
00:21:59.000So they basically put her on an island, making her the key accuser.
00:22:03.000There is one other named person in this piece, but she did not go into details about the quote unquote unsettling incident that caused her to cut off contact with Graham Platner.
00:22:13.000So, what they did is they basically served Lindsay up on a silver platter so that Plattner's allies in the Democratic media and in the influencer space could just focus on discrediting her, claiming that she was only doing this for partisan motivations and that they were unable to corroborate her story.
00:22:32.000Now, compare this to the Christine Blasey Ford saga.
00:22:35.000There's no dispute here that Lindsay and Graham dated.
00:22:39.000There's no dispute that she believed he was toxic and engaged in ways that were.
00:22:48.000There is a contemporaneous diary entry from shortly after they stopped dating where she describes him as the most toxic, abusive man that she's ever met.
00:22:56.000Friends who knew her at the time knew that she was dating Graham and also believed the relationship to be toxic.
00:23:03.000The only thing that the Times was not able to corroborate were these specific allegations of physical abuse.
00:23:09.000And I'm sure it won't surprise you to hear this, Blake.
00:23:11.000This is not uncommon for abuse victims because they're often embarrassed by the fact that they are in these relationships and continue to be.
00:23:31.000I do believe her to be a credible, truthful person.
00:23:34.000But I think the key point here is that what the New York Times did was journalistic malpractice.
00:23:39.000They actually caused harm to a potential victim by feeding her false promises about what was going to be in this story and then fed her to the wolves in the area of the Democratic media and activist establishment that were able to go out and attack her, even preemptively before this story came out, but certainly after as well.
00:24:00.000Well, even if it was a soft catch and kill by the New York Times, really, Platner himself may be awkward enough that he manages to botch the gift the Times has given him.
00:24:12.000He went on MS Now last night on Chris Hayes to give an interview in response to this, and more than a few of the clips where he tries to explain himself come off quite odd.
00:24:59.000Now, Amber, as you know, they say in this article that supposedly he would show off this tattoo to.
00:25:05.000His girlfriends and call it my Totenkampf.
00:25:08.000He would joke about it being a Nazi tattoo.
00:25:11.000I think that sounds a lot more believable to me than this guy permanently put a thing on his body for a decade and a half and never wondered what its origin was or any facts about it.
00:25:32.000If it stopped, if there was stuff that you're not proud of that you worked out with your wife, you don't want to talk about the details, when did it stop?
00:26:12.000The sort of fake compassionate stare with the downturned eyes and the slight frown, and even the way he responded to Lindsay's accusations.
00:26:24.000He was asked directly about the allegations of physical abuse.
00:26:29.000And he said, Chris Hayes asked him, Is Lindsay lying?
00:26:42.000I mean, the Nazi tattoo thing, I think, to me is pretty cut and dry.
00:26:45.000If your ex girlfriend, who is by no means a history buff or somebody who would recognize these symbols one off, is telling her friends, hey, my ex boyfriend's now running for Senate and he has a freaking Nazi tattoo, which nobody in the media knew about at the time.
00:27:30.000Even if it's a soft catch and kill, the New York Times reporting unflattering things about a Democrat Senate candidate is usually not a good sign.
00:27:38.000So, Democrat leaders are getting asked about this, though, and their response has been mostly a shrug.
00:27:43.000They asked Hakeem Jeffries about this, and he says, I haven't really been watching it.
00:28:10.000Gillibrand really just, I was about to say, disgraced herself, dishonored herself in the late 2010s, tried to really brand herself as a Me Too senator.
00:28:20.000And now we have this Me Too eruption going on with one of the Democrats, should we say, celebrity picks here.
00:28:27.000We've got another clip and then we'll go back to Amber.
00:28:29.000They asked Alexandria Ocasio Cortez about this, clip 31.
00:28:34.000A viewer reported by Grim Plattner in this New York Times article trapping a woman in a room and being physically.
00:28:40.000Yeah, I mean, as you all know, this all kind of just came out.
00:28:46.000I've been doing legislative business on the floor, so I need to dig into everything further before commenting on it.
00:28:53.000Yeah, because I think this reporting just recently came out, so I just want to make sure that I am fully read up on it before I comment on it.
00:29:00.000Now, as you know, Amber, even if that report had just come out, there had been.
00:29:05.000Reports last week, reports in the last few months.
00:29:07.000There's plenty of stuff for her to know about with their Senate candidate who has stood out supposedly as a man of the far left, kind of of an AOC brand.
00:29:17.000What should we make of the Democrat response to all of this?
00:29:20.000If you look at any one of these Democrats who is dismissing these allegations or giving these mealy mouthed answers, I would guarantee you that 99% of them, you dig through their social media history and you will find something of the following either a Believe all women, a hashtag me too, or some kind of screed about how Kavanaugh does not deserve to be sitting on the Supreme Court.
00:31:15.000And then we have this where it's vastly more believable from everything we know about Platner with his history of infidelity, his history of Nazi SS tattoos.
00:31:24.000And then suddenly it's radio silence, no big deal.
00:31:37.000It's always been this partisan gamesmanship.
00:31:40.000We saw the same thing going back to Clarence Thomas.
00:31:43.000And I think when we look at the specific allegations in the New York Times piece as well, let's be really clear about the fact that they're not over exaggerated by the alleged victim, right?
00:31:53.000She says, I, he never punched me, you know, he didn't break my arm.
00:32:01.000And she doesn't oversell what she's telling this outlet.
00:32:07.000She's clearly trying to be very measured and accurate in what she's saying.
00:32:11.000And yet she has been accused of being this sort of manipulative, politically motivated person by the left.
00:32:19.000And the other important element of this piece as well is that I started getting text messages and phone calls.
00:32:27.000Yesterday morning, that this piece was about to come out.
00:32:32.000And we quickly after that saw numerous tweets from people on the left, like Kyle Kalinske, Crystal Ball, Emma Viglund, saying, Hey guys, the New York Times is about to do a hit job on Graham Plattner.
00:32:46.000And we even had one Democratic strategist indicate that he heard that there were going to be sexual assault victims on the record.
00:32:54.000So all of the potential details that were going to show up in this story were apparently circulated by the Plattner campaign preemptively.
00:33:02.000So that they could start preparing their defense.
00:33:04.000So the New York Times basically gave them an open window for them to start preparing to attack the victim that they were supposedly trying to tell the story of.
00:33:14.000I mean, the other side of this as well is that these two alleged sexual assault victims who were supposed to be in the New York Times piece still exist.
00:33:25.000They haven't had their stories printed, but they still exist.
00:33:28.000And my guess is if they see what the New York Times did to Five Field, who she says, Has they been in contact with each other?
00:33:35.000She's been talking to these other victims.
00:33:37.000They created something of a support group.
00:33:39.000There's still the possibility for them to come out and share their stories without the New York Times.
00:33:45.000And so, I think what we're seeing from the Democrats and from their allies in the media is a level of panic of trying to tarnish Fifield so aggressively and thoroughly that these other victims no longer feel comfortable coming forward.
00:34:40.000And then we don't have time for all of it here, but I invite everyone to go and find this online because, as you say, the New York Times, they then hung her out to dry.
00:34:49.000And that's quite the thing for the gray lady to do after how they've handled so many other stories.
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00:37:47.000This is our Friday Ask Us Anything hour where our subscribers and members can join our weekly call or send in messages to ask whatever they want of this show.
00:37:59.000But we're also Joined by a special guest this time because otherwise it'd just be me.
00:38:04.000Everyone else is off at the Women's Leadership Summit.
00:38:06.000We're joined by a longtime friend of the show.
00:39:43.000I remember so looking forward to the then only two days a week show.
00:39:47.000And when I went to it daily during the COVID days, Charlie has built my faith and awareness of how we have a duty to use it in all areas of life.
00:39:55.000He helped solidify the conviction in me and my husband to start a family.
00:40:00.000We had initially not planned to have children.
00:41:44.000Alex, I saw in your preview, you were also mentioning specifically the Nick Shirley Act, which is this really galling act they have in California to basically make it illegal for Nick Shirley types to, as they would say, harass, but we would say police, monitor, expose immigration support services, companies that are providing aid to immigrants.
00:42:07.000Many of them we know are illegal, many of them we know are engaging in fraud.
00:42:11.000They're passing bills like this in California.
00:42:13.000We know they've passed a lot of sanctuary bills.
00:42:19.000I mean, this is the big, I think this is kind of the final test of what we're seeing right now.
00:42:23.000If somehow Spencer Pratt can survive the mail in ballot fraud that we're going to see in LA and Steve Hilton can survive in California, then we'll have a chance to at least start resetting things.
00:42:38.000But some things are pretty bleak out here.
00:42:41.000First of all, the system is so rigged against fairness because, again, we count votes for 30 days in California.
00:42:48.000I know this sounds crazy to people, but the process is literally 30 days.
00:42:52.000Anything that's postmarked by the end of the day, on election day, counts.
00:42:57.000It takes up to seven days to gather all those.
00:42:59.000And then there's a ballot curing period where you can technically change ballots if they meet certain conditions.
00:43:07.000And during that month is all time to cheat.
00:43:09.000That's why the Democrats have designed that system.
00:43:11.000And the only way that we're going to fix it, because a lot of this stuff is dictated by localities and by states, is if the Republicans win.
00:43:19.000And there's just not that many Republicans left.
00:43:44.000There was a mayor of Boston named Curly a century ago.
00:43:48.000And he was basically a terrible mayor for Boston, but he was so bad, he drove all of his political opponents out of the city.
00:43:53.000And so he kept winning elections despite being terrible at running things.
00:43:58.000And we've seen similar things take effect in other cities, in Detroit, in D.C. As these cities have entered death spirals, they've had these mayors who can just stick around for.
00:44:57.000So I think that's a way we're going to make changes.
00:44:59.000And I think Spencer Pratt is also showing us, obviously, we don't even know if he's going to make it to the runoff, but the energy around him, I think, is setting a template for where you can find hope.
00:45:10.000Maybe it'll be too late in Los Angeles, but it might be a way that someone who can run in his style might be able to get fired across California.
00:45:19.000They can get those suburban voters who mostly vote Democrat, but they're not 100% left every single time, and they've moved to the suburbs of Los Angeles because the city's too crazy.
00:45:30.000I think Steve Hilton, he could potentially perform.
00:45:33.000Even if he won't win, he can perform well.
00:45:35.000We have to remain combative in California because, as Charlie's shown with Turning Point, we never know how the zeitgeist is going to change.
00:45:45.000Incredible individuals like Charlie are going to be able to do to change people's opinions, whether it's young people or Hispanics or other groups that have been locked in as Democrats forever.
00:45:53.000So the trick is you may have to leave California, but if you're not going to, you keep fighting because it is the good fight to have.
00:46:02.000And there's always potential white pills.
00:46:03.000Sometimes the Supreme Court throws you a bone.
00:46:18.000Podcast during the pandemic, when I found Charlie and TPUSA, I was hooked.
00:46:22.000Charlie was the most gifted, articulate, intelligent young man I had ever seen and heard.
00:46:27.000I'm a single baby boomer woman from Minnesota with no kids, but I care so much about the U.S., its future, and the young generations coming up.
00:46:53.000Annali says I started getting to know Charlie when his show started on Rav in June 2022.
00:46:58.000I loved his content and how he spoke about his faith.
00:47:01.000It gave me more strength as a Catholic.
00:47:03.000I used to only go to church on significant days, as the Catholic Church in the U.S. is not what I learned growing up in Cuba.
00:47:10.000Because of Charlie, I became a more conservative person.
00:47:13.000And even after becoming a mother and so on, after his assassination, I started to watch more of his speeches and how the Constitution is connected to God and the Bible.
00:47:21.000My passion for this country has grown stronger every day, and my faith has grown deeper.
00:49:08.000And it really, Turning Point had started.
00:49:11.000But it was very, very nascent at that point.
00:49:13.000And I really helped Charlie get his foot in the door with, I think, some donors and start taking it from there and doing the amazing things he did with it.
00:49:21.000It all started with a piece of Breitbart News, which is something I'll be telling that story for the rest of my life.
00:49:26.000Another fun story is about, I would say probably it was 2015, I think it was.
00:49:32.000So maybe a few years after it started, maybe it was earlier, actually, it can't have been 2015.
00:49:46.000And we were both there, and Charlie had basically a whole day to kill.
00:49:50.000And so we just hung out because I was emceeing part of the day.
00:49:53.000And Charlie never had a minute to kill in the last five years I knew him, but he apparently had like a whole day.
00:49:58.000We were just hanging out at this tea party.
00:50:00.000And I spent the day trying to recruit him, trying to get him to come work for me at Breitbart.
00:50:04.000And he said, You know, the turning point is just, it's a little too big.
00:50:08.000I got to see where this goes, I got to see this through.
00:50:11.000And unfortunately for Breitbart, But positively for Charlie, I think he made the right choice and he did a lot with his decision to stay at Turning Point and do that.
00:51:52.000But the two Republicans and a moderate Democrat put on a floor a resolution.
00:51:58.000For and they motioned it to only allow the U.S. flag, the state flag, and if the town has a town flag on the town hall flagpole.
00:52:08.000The pride flag came down this morning at 9 a.m.
00:52:10.000It's made a lot of news in everything, but like I said, my question is why is a small group pushing this when we have one flag that should represent everybody?
00:52:19.000Well, I think you probably can suspect why they push it.
00:52:22.000They push it because it is a show of dominance, it's to say this actually is a national flag for all of us, this is our ideology.
00:52:34.000You will get a far harsher penalty for damaging a pride flag, defacing a pride flag, than you ever will for the American flag.
00:52:43.000And I think that says a lot about the ideology they seek to impose on us.
00:52:49.000Before he ever stepped onto a debate stage or behind a microphone, Charlie understood something important.
00:52:54.000If you want to lead, you have to learn first.
00:52:57.000Charlie believed that ideas shape character, conviction, and give you courage.
00:53:01.000That's why he spent Years studying the classics, the American founding, and the Bible through Hillsdale College's free online courses.
00:53:07.000These are real college courses taught by actual Hillsdale professors.
00:53:11.000One of those courses is Great Books 101, Ancient to Medieval, where you'll study foundational authors like Homer, Augustine, Dante, and Chaucer, writers who shaped Western civilization and still speak to the deepest questions about human nature, virtue, courage, family, and self government.
00:53:28.000The course includes Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the epic stories of Achilles and Odysseus that have influenced the West.
00:53:36.000And this summer, Hillsdale College is releasing a brand new course dedicated entirely to Homer's Odyssey.
00:53:42.000Great Books 101 is the perfect way to prepare before the full Odyssey course launches in July.
00:53:47.000Charlie understood that learning isn't just about gaining knowledge, it's about forming the mind and character needed to face the challenges of life with wisdom and courage.
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00:54:31.000Neither of us were ready to post anything publicly after the summit, but after Charlie's death, we both made posts honoring him, and it was shocking to see how many family members.
00:54:40.000Sorority sisters and former co workers unfriended and unfollowed us.
00:54:46.000But at the same time, we got a lot of private messages of support from surprising people.
00:54:51.000My sister, after the Student Action Summit and Charlie's assassination, got involved on her campus in Florida, and she also went to Amfest with her friends.
00:55:00.000I'm so glad she has an organization like this to be a part of and meet other like minded people.
00:55:06.000By the way, I love all the From the Archives episodes, and I love that Thought Crime still continues.
00:55:12.000Well, both of those things will continue.
00:55:35.000I'm thinking about this in the context of the joke that I opened with that we're going to have the gestating humans or the non gestating parents, whatever it is.
00:55:46.000All of this is about their culture of death.
00:55:49.000We have a declining birth rate, we have declining marriage.
00:55:53.000Younger people are not even trying to find their significant other and get married and to procreate.
00:55:58.000And part of it is because there's no glorification, there's no romanticization about the concept of having a family and having children.
00:56:05.000In fact, it's looked down upon because we know that we're supposed to either be spending our whole 20s scrolling reels or we're supposed to be working for the corporation, serving the corporation, or both.
00:56:16.000We're not supposed to be working on family formation, our spiritual, our immortal soul.
00:56:21.000And that's part of what the left is about because they feel like those people are more controllable if they are bending the knee, genuflecting to the pride flag versus thinking about.
00:56:32.000A higher power, thinking about God, thinking about country.
00:56:35.000All that type of stuff hurts their political power and the pride plague and demanding adherence to it, I really think grows it.
00:56:42.000And that's why they insist upon it because there's a power to it that they exert on us by putting that in our face every day.
00:56:49.000Yeah, there's something, I can't remember.
00:56:51.000There's an essay by an anti communist writer who I wish I remembered it off the top of my head.
00:56:56.000Charlie was better at this sort of thing, but he said a big point of communist propaganda was to humiliate someone with how.
00:57:03.000Insane it was, or how ridiculous it was.
00:57:05.000And I think of that every time they update the Pride flag.
00:58:35.000Yeah, I think this is a really complex answer.
00:58:38.000And it's just been fascinating to watch this.
00:58:40.000Campaign, and I've got a lot to say about it.
00:58:42.000The one thing that's really, I think, important is that a lot of people in our hearts understand that we want California to be great, the symbol of going west, the beauty of it, the vacation destinations, the fact that so much of our culture comes from it, which up until recently, you know, Hollywood was something that exported American culture around the world.
00:59:00.000Now we just think of it as a bunch of woke freaks running around trying to trans the kids, but it wasn't always like that.
00:59:05.000And in Silicon Valley, like it or not, it is sort of the heartbeat of innovation around the planet.
00:59:10.000We want these things to be great places.
01:00:16.000There's a part in Charlie's second to last book, Right Wing Revolution.
01:00:20.000Has a part where he talks about if you live in a blue city, a really Democrat city, that doesn't mean you're off the hook for getting involved because you can make the difference in is your city run by a sane Democrat instead of a maximally insane Democrat or a sane moderate, someone who will focus on those big issues.
01:00:37.000And I think Spencer Pratt's been wise about that.
01:00:41.000He's not going to run on I love Christianity and I love, you know, I'm pro life and anti trans.
01:00:47.000Those aren't issues that you're going to campaign on in LA and you're not going to change anyone anything in LA on those issues.
01:00:53.000But you can say, Wait, we don't need to live in crap.
01:00:56.000We don't need to live in a giant homeless encampment.
01:00:59.000Those things are fixable, even if you disagree with me on any other issue.
01:01:02.000You don't need to run a maximal MAGA campaign in a city that we know is not a MAGA city overall.
01:01:09.000And I think that really inspires people.
01:01:12.000And we also think back on Rudy Giuliani, he saved New York in the 90s, that New York was in a more dire state than LA is today, you might say.
01:01:20.000And it actually was turned around with competent governance that focused on those raw quality of life issues.
01:01:26.000And that's More and more become our key conservative, Republican, independent, even advantage over the left is we can deliver on making your life livable.
01:01:40.000The person also asked if we think he can win.
01:01:42.000Well, we'll see if he can clear the month long counting of ballots in California.
01:01:46.000But if he gets through, I do think he has a potential to win the full election.
01:01:51.000I want to get to another question to make sure we get through all of these.
01:01:54.000Elizabeth, unmute yourself and what's your question?
01:02:01.000So I think this year I've been a conservative forever, and I've never seen so much progress being made in our primaries with getting out Cassidy and getting out Cornyn.
01:02:14.000And I kind of had a bit of a flashback to when Richard Murdoch had won his primary against the Rhino incumbent Indiana.
01:02:25.000And like they came up with some ridiculous scandal of a dumb quote.
01:02:30.000And he actually ended up losing to a Democrat in Indiana.
01:02:34.000And I'm just thinking like, I don't put anything past these people to sabotage.
01:02:40.000Like they would rather have a deranged heretic vegan representing Texas than let Paxton win.
01:02:48.000And then they're going to say, oh, see, MAGA candidates can't win in the general.
01:02:53.000And they're going to try and destroy the MAGA movement that way.
01:02:57.000I think it's really important that we get Michael Whatley to win in North Carolina, or Tim Tills is going to go, see, you should have stuck with me.
01:03:43.000The first step is what are we ourselves doing?
01:03:46.000Inspired by Charlie, I've actually become a precinct.
01:03:48.000I've signed up to be a precinct committee man here in Arizona.
01:03:50.000I've been doing some door knocking in the last few weeks.
01:03:54.000And Turning Point in general, Turning Point Action has been building out that apparatus of ballot chasing, chase the vote, finding, making those connections with low engagement voters and making them more consistent.
01:04:07.000That's one of the ways we do this we do the work to win elections so that it's harder to sabotage us.
01:04:22.000But the long run trend is still a positive one.
01:04:25.000If you compare the Senate of today and the House of today with the ones we had in 2017, however many frustrations we have, they are better on the issues.
01:04:34.000They are better on getting things done than they were then.
01:04:36.000That's one of the reasons we've been able to secure the border this time around when it was such a pain last time.
01:04:43.000The arc of the universe bends towards being more MAGA, being more successful, being more based, being a better conservative movement, as long as we are holding these politicians accountable.
01:04:52.000Even if they're trying to sabotage us the whole way.
01:07:06.000I first emailed Charlie about four or five years ago because I thought I had a couple of really good ideas for the Trump campaign and for getting messages across.
01:07:15.000I gained respect watching Charlie over the next few years.
01:07:18.000It's so very sad that someone felt they needed to take his life.
01:07:21.000I have always respected all of the people of Turning Point USA.
01:08:31.000Last Thursday, I saw some posts on social media about Josh Hawley presiding over a pro forma session in the Senate where they kind of gavel in and then gavel out a session.
01:08:42.000But I believe that works to effectively keep the Senate in air quotes in session and it keeps Trump from being able to make recess appointments.
01:08:52.000Which, yeah, people were calling Josh Hawley out on that because Democrats never do this kind of stuff to their presidents.
01:08:58.000And it's just infuriating when Republicans do it to our own guys.
01:09:04.000Is there a reason, a valid explanation for why Hawley did this?
01:09:20.000They kind of have these fake sessions permanently in.
01:09:22.000And one of the reasons to do it is you block.
01:09:24.000The president from making recess appointments that can last for a while.
01:09:28.000And it's especially frustrating here because the Senate, okay, if you guys want to have more weight with the Trump administration, one of the things you can do is vote on his nominees.
01:09:52.000If the Senate was being on the ball where every time someone's nominated, They have that hearing right away, get it done in a few weeks, get them voted on up or down.
01:10:01.000I'd be more tolerant of them also being annoying, saying, Oh, we don't want you making these recess appointments.
01:10:07.000But when they're not being on the ball on nominees or on the Save Act or anything else, and they're also being territorial, I find that really aggravating and upsetting.
01:10:17.000And if Josh Hawley doesn't have a better explanation for why he's doing that, I do find that disappointing because we have considered him a friend and ally.
01:10:25.000But I don't know further details, so I don't want to.
01:10:27.000Condemn him or rush to judgment about that.
01:10:32.000Is that there's got to be an explanation for it because, as far as I can tell, the caller's correct that he did gavel in this pro forma session that does prevent recess appointments.
01:11:53.000And they pump out the oil, they pump out the gas.
01:11:55.000And the easiest way to ship it is you put it on a boat and it goes through the Strait of Hormuz.
01:11:59.000The problem with it is one half of the Strait of Hormuz is Iran.
01:12:03.000And they have rockets, they have missiles, they have boats.
01:12:07.000Fewer than they used to because we've been actively taking those out.
01:12:11.000But they threaten oh, if ships are trying to go through this strait while we're in conflict with the United States, we're going to fire on them.
01:12:19.000And it's not fully clear if they have the capacity to sink a lot of those ships or damage them.
01:12:25.000But there's enough of a threat that, well, if you're on one of those boats, do you want to try running it?
01:12:29.000And so they've tried to use this strait as their weapon in this war.
01:12:34.000They're thinking the United States is going to say uncle because oil prices get too high.
01:12:38.000Before we crumble because our economy is a mess, because all of our weapons have been blown up, because our government is brutally unpopular, we think that the Trump administration is going to back out.
01:12:49.000That's why the Strait is so important and why you do have to reopen it as part of some deal.
01:12:54.000Ultimately, President Trump wants commerce to be happening, he wants oil to be flowing through the Strait, he wants the world to be functioning again, and he's not going to let whatever conclusion he reaches, he's not going to allow the government in Iran to just hold the entire world hostage.
01:13:12.000Yeah, quickly, this is their one move.
01:13:14.000I mean, we've decimated their Navy and their Air Force.
01:13:16.000So, their one move is to leverage the Strait because they can do it with really unsophisticated weaponry, with just some basic drones, anti ship missiles, mines.
01:13:24.000And then they can cause a lot of problems.
01:13:26.000I think 20% of the world's oil flows through that Strait.
01:13:29.000And any sort of disruption in the oil market is going to have gas prices going up in America.
01:13:34.000It's going to create all these terrible news cycles you see in America where they act like Trump's a horrible person, a horrible leader.
01:13:40.000And that puts a lot of pressure on Trump to wrap up the war.
01:13:42.000It's Iran's best move they could make, and they made it, and it's having an impact.
01:13:58.000Alexis says I've been following Charlie since around 2018 when I was 15.
01:14:03.000In a lot of ways, I grew up listening to Charlie.
01:14:06.000I was blessed to listen to his words of wisdom for years.
01:14:08.000And through his show and the work of TPUSA, I learned so much about faith, American history, citizenship, and what makes America such a great country.