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00:00:39.000We did this at Calvary Chapel of the Harbor with my good friend Pastor Joe.
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00:02:54.000I want to ask this question first and foremost.
00:02:57.000What is your feelings or what do you think about what is your opinion on the pastors these days that are keeping their doors closed?
00:03:47.000They're the churches that don't think you should engage in the public square.
00:03:50.000They're the churches that, for whatever reason, do not look deep enough in the scriptures to find numerous examples of God's people influencing secular government, whether it be Nehemiah, whether it be Daniel, Esther, Mordecai.
00:04:06.000I believe we are called to be in politics.
00:04:08.000And then there is the group that is complicit.
00:04:12.000This is the group that has drawn the most amount of criticism from me.
00:04:15.000These are the churches that are bragging that they're still closed.
00:04:18.000These are the churches that are telling you you're bad if you open your church.
00:04:22.000These are the churches that are mobilizing their congregation to go march for BLM Incorporated.
00:04:28.000These are the churches that are doing live streams around lies about our country yet remain silent about the 1 million abortions that happen in our country every single year.
00:04:38.000And these are the churches that I think most of our criticism should be focused at, the complacent churches, the inactive churches.
00:04:50.000If you're scared, we can tell you right now that we know the science around this virus.
00:04:55.000If you have comorbidities, if you have underlying health conditions, you should take responsibility for your life to take the proper precautions.
00:05:02.000But do not shut down public gatherings for other people that wish to have the liberty to gather.
00:05:52.000These pastors that keep their churches closed and mobilize their congregations for BLM Incorporated, if they continue to do this, they should resign from their pastoral authority in front of their church.
00:06:06.000They have no standing to be pastors in our country whatsoever.
00:06:18.000Well, so I tweeted something out on Sunday that was widely reported about mail-in voting, and I tweeted out the 372,000 ballots were rejected in Pennsylvania.
00:07:08.000If I don't do exactly what you say you're going to do, the audience that has trusted me with their daily following and that we have earned over the last decade, you are now able to hold that entire audience hostage.
00:07:19.000And so I said, I'm not going to comply to those demands.
00:07:21.000Now, mind you, the last couple of days we've drawn a lot of attention around it.
00:07:24.000And I think we've demonstrated how totalitarian this is.
00:07:34.000Because two weekends ago, I went to Idaho and this poor man, poor young guy, I took a picture with him, just a really awesome American patriot.
00:07:42.000And he happened to look like one of the guys that wanted to kidnap the Michigan governor.
00:07:47.000And so a series of reporters and journalists then said this guy was the guy behind it.
00:07:52.000Completely fake, like unbelievably, pathologically untrue.
00:07:56.000And I took a picture with this young man.
00:07:58.000So the journalists, being the activist media members they are, say, oh, Charlie was involved in the plot to go kidnap the Michigan governor.
00:08:06.000And so it was 200,000 retweets covered by every news age.
00:08:11.000To this day, I'm getting people that are emailing me.
00:08:13.000Why are you trying to kidnap my governor?
00:08:15.000I assure you, I am not trying to kidnap the Michigan government.
00:08:19.000Now, but that just goes to show what we're dealing with here, right?
00:08:21.000So that misinformation, despite me appealing to Twitter stands, that is accusing me of being involved in a plot to kidnap a sitting United States governor.
00:08:57.000I will not do it, you know, willingly.
00:09:00.000I will do it in some ways begrudgingly.
00:09:03.000So probably tomorrow we're going to make a video about this, and our Twitter account will be back up.
00:09:06.000But it won't be because Twitter all of a sudden relented.
00:09:09.000It will be because the only negotiating tactic they have is a metaphorical gun to my audience's head saying, you do what we tell you to do, and then you can regain your audience.
00:09:19.000I hope you guys all understand, and you do, that these tech companies have way too much power.
00:09:25.000We have two governments in our country, and this is a hard realization for conservatives to understand.
00:09:29.000We have the federal government, which of course has the IRS, DOJ, FBI, and we should be very skeptical of them.
00:10:12.000And if we love liberty and we love freedom of speech, we love our capacity to practice our faith, we should hate centralized power in all forms.
00:10:20.000And it is more rare that that kind of power concentrates in the private sector.
00:10:25.000But in the digital age, that is actually what has ended up happening.
00:10:51.000Now, mind you, they could blur the lines on that, but there are so many different ways that we could still have some form of representative justice.
00:10:59.000What's my right of recourse against Twitter?
00:11:08.000We gave them Section 230, the Communications Decency Act, so it's impossible to sue them.
00:11:12.000And so what we have is multi-trillion dollar companies that have more authority, more data, more processing power, worse ideas than the entire government.
00:12:46.000I believe, and I mentioned this when I opened up, I believe we're on the brink of socialism.
00:12:51.000And I want to get your thoughts on that regarding socialism, the way we're headed here as a country.
00:12:57.000I believe it's so important that we go out and vote, but why don't we just talk about, if you can, socialism.
00:13:03.000Yeah, so I think that that's where we're headed.
00:13:05.000I think the intermediary step, though, is a lot less clear.
00:13:10.000And I don't think we do a good enough job of talking about it.
00:13:12.000And I wouldn't have said this a couple years ago.
00:13:15.000And I think you're starting to see this in California: that I think that there's enough barriers within our judicial system and within the apprehension of the American populace to prevent against socialism.
00:13:25.000I think we're actually going to head more towards a corporatist model first, where it's not a matter that they're going to nationalize everything.
00:13:31.000It's that the Democrat Party is instead going to make friends with the top companies and the top power sources to protect their own interests.
00:13:39.000So I think when we warn against socialism, I think that's a really important educational piece.
00:13:44.000But I think because of the wealth and the abundance and the liberty that were afforded to by that document they wish to shred, the Bill of Rights, I think that they've looked and I think they finally solved the problem, they being the left, the Democrats, to find a bridge.
00:13:57.000And I think that bridge is they are going to extort, they are going to take over the wealthiest, most powerful companies in our country for their own benefit.
00:14:06.000And this is something we don't talk about enough, where we just say it's going to go straight from capitalism to socialism.
00:14:11.000And we kind of know what socialism is.
00:14:14.000I mean, it's immoral, it's unbiblical, happy to build that out.
00:14:17.000But I think the actually more turbulent transitional phase is why is it that the tech companies are doing the bidding of the Democrat Party right now?
00:14:26.000Why is it that these multi-trillion dollar companies are not aligned with the distribution of the Hunter Biden story?
00:15:36.000But it's the rebellious, loud, rambunctious churches that will be audited and shut down.
00:15:41.000So I think that nuance is really important.
00:15:43.000Because when we say when Kamala Harris takes the presidency, which is effectively will happen if Joe Biden gets them out of votes, she will become president regardless of what they say.
00:15:53.000She's going to take the California model, which is that either you're on my team or their team.
00:15:59.000And this is a way more corrupt way to run the government than what Bernie Sanders is advocating, right?
00:16:36.000Instead, I think that they're going to be in a very unprecedented corporatist model, where they will use the powers of the IRS, the Bureau, to not audit, to not investigate the companies that contribute to their political campaigns, that will not go after the churches that don't speak out against their orders.
00:16:55.000So I think that's going to be the actual divide in the country.
00:16:58.000It's the people that align with the most powerful people in our country and those that dare to disagree.
00:17:02.000I think people say we're divided, and I think they say right versus left.
00:17:05.000I actually don't think that's divide in our country.
00:17:06.000I think there's three or four other divides in addition to that.
00:17:10.000But the one is, do you think that the ruling class and the power class in this country should go completely unchecked?
00:17:17.000That's basically the position of the Democrat Party.
00:17:20.000The position of the Democrat Party now is, you cannot question us, and if you do, we will ruin your life.
00:17:27.000And by the way, they always used to be for the speech of the minority and the individual, right?
00:17:31.000We want marginalized groups to be able to speak.
00:17:35.000You use that as an excuse to get people's votes so that you could be important.
00:17:39.000And now we are the ones that are actually publishing stories and pursuing ideas to challenge the most powerful, wealthiest elite people in our country.
00:17:46.000And they're the ones using the power sources to go against us.
00:18:01.00010 out of 10 voted for Hillary Clinton.
00:18:02.00090 out of 100 voted for Hillary in 2016.
00:18:06.000The wealthiest counties, the wealthiest people, Bloomberg, who's worth $79 billion, is spending $2 million a day to get Joe Biden elected, yet they call us the billionaire class.
00:18:15.00080% of American billionaires that are participating in politics are donating to the Democrat Party or donating to Democrat super PACs.
00:18:21.000And so there, all of a sudden, you have this convergence where we as Republicans, we didn't really ask for it, or Republicans, conservatives, whatever you want to call it, because I don't even know what a Republican means anymore.
00:18:33.000We kind of have kind of fallen back into this position where we're defending very basic American values.
00:18:40.000I don't know, to be able to spread a story that has now been corroborated and verified after a week of a political opponent's international business dealings.
00:18:49.000Like that should be a very basic, agreeable thing regardless of your political affiliation, whether you're a socialist or a leftist or a moderate or a Republican.
00:18:57.000And so what's really happening here is the power-grabbing industry in our country, which is what I call the left, they're power grabbers.
00:19:06.000We're not going to transition to socialism immediately.
00:19:08.000That's where it eventually will head, absolutely.
00:19:10.000Because eventually then, this is what's so incredibly ironic about all these companies and all these churches that think they can make friends with the government.
00:20:59.000We know this thanks to Tyndale, who translated the original Greek Bible into English, which was the language of the peasants in the 1500s.
00:21:07.000Ecclesia was a real thing that was happening in Greek city-states.
00:21:10.000And ecclesia was a political civic gathering that existed around two unifying Greek terms, isonomia and eleutheria, which are Greek terms for freedom and equality.
00:21:23.000I wonder what country is founded on freedom and equality.
00:21:27.000Jesus picked that term because he did not want compartmentalized Christianity.
00:21:36.000He wanted a church that would not wall itself off and say, we have the answers, but we're going to stop here.
00:21:42.000Instead, I believe it is our biblical mandate to get into civic government, to care about the nation that you're living in, to support your politicians, to pray for them, and to, with reason and with wisdom, analyze what policies best interlock with a biblical worldview.
00:22:00.000So that's why we should care about politics.
00:22:01.000And I never again want to hear a pastor say that, well, politics is messy.
00:23:07.000The abolition of bringing slaves into this country was in the first draft of the United States Constitution signed by a slave owner himself, Thomas Jefferson, the third American president in 1807.
00:23:16.000We were the ones that were stopping slavery.
00:23:19.000Slavery was the human norm before America, and guess what?
00:23:21.000There are more slaves on the planet today than there were back in the times we had slaves in our country.
00:23:26.000So before we get on our moral high horse and act as if we have abolished all slavery in all places, go to the Horn of Africa and the Middle East where slavery still exists and slavery still exists in the southern border.
00:23:36.000So, before we act as if we were like, oh, we've completely eradicated it from the planet, that is not true, but we did in America.
00:23:43.000It's because this country was founded by Christians.
00:23:46.00051 out of 55 of the signers of the Declaration were Bible-believing, regular church-attending Christians.
00:23:51.000It says it mentions God four times in the Declaration of Independence, laws of nature, and nature's God.
00:23:56.000The recognition that rights come from God, not from governments.
00:23:59.000The United States Constitution, not some sort of mistake, but they didn't fall backwards into it.
00:24:04.000It was a multi-year, multi-century study of human behavior, where they came up with an idea of constitutional republic, where if you concentrate power too much, that power will corrupt.
00:24:16.000They derive from monascu, checks, and balances.
00:24:21.000Albeit clumsy at times, imperfect, America's story is one of a hero that starts from a position of plenty of flaws, but its capacity to autocorrect is nothing short of miraculous.
00:24:33.000And we don't teach this to our children.
00:24:35.000You start with slavery, you fight a bitter civil war to end it, you keep the union together, you double life expectancy, you fight two world wars, the second of which defeated totalitarian fascism in two different continents.
00:24:49.000You put a man in the moon, you get in flight, you invent open heart surgery, create medical cures that the greatest imagination could never possibly have imagined.
00:24:59.000And then we get to a place where we have so much abundance and so much liberty, and we remove Bible and public prayer from our schools.
00:25:08.000All of a sudden, that liberty and that abundance becomes a vice, not a blessing.
00:25:12.000And that's exactly where we are today.
00:25:14.000Because if you have abundance without the moral law backing it up, if you have a lot of stuff, you can order anything at any time in that supercomputer, you can look up any image you want any single time, sin has never been so easy as it is in 2020.
00:25:25.000And if you don't have the law, you don't have the Bible, eventually and quickly, you're going to end into chaos.
00:26:25.000It's the one thing that pastors will sometimes do from the pulpits.
00:26:30.000But how about with the same sort of vocal support you have for life, voice the support for the president who spoke at the March for Life, the first president to do so, who gave us Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and God willing Amy Coney Barrett on the United States Supreme Court?
00:26:52.000200 federal judges finally putting into question Planned Parenthood's $500 million taxpayer-funded slush fund every single year, unafraid to recognize when life begins.
00:27:03.000And albeit I understand it could be hard for certain people that the three times married, twice divorced former cover of Playboy magazine billionaire from New York who donated a Planned Parenthood is all of a sudden fighting for unborn children.
00:27:16.000But isn't it like God to sometimes confuse the simple minds of man to be able to deliver for his purpose?
00:27:22.000It makes perfect sense for those of us that believe in what I think God is trying to accomplish in this country and in the world.
00:27:31.000Most pro-Israel president in American history.
00:27:41.000Negotiating peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, of which the entire activist media is participating in a total blackout, not even covering the peace deals that have been negotiated.
00:28:58.000Meanwhile, he's saving unborn lives, securing our borders, moving the embassy, holding Iran in check.
00:29:03.000First of all, I wish one day I can be as good of a human being as that critic of Donald Trump.
00:29:09.000Secondly, Donald Trump has done far more than even self-professed Christians have done in the office of the president of the United States for the biblical worldview.
00:29:20.000And so we should, as Christians, care about the welfare of our country.
00:29:27.000We should care about the betterment of our civilization.
00:29:31.000And President Donald Trump has gone out of his way to do something that people in Washington, D.C. are not supposed to do.
00:29:39.000The reason they hate him so much, the reason that their hatred has only intensified, is he broke the first commandment of Washington, D.C. politics, which is he actually has been doing what he said he was going to do.
00:29:57.000And I'm sure there's people out there.
00:30:07.000However, fulfilling of promises and playing offense against an opposition activist media that has nothing but malevolence and contempt is such a moral good for Western civilization.
00:30:27.000Focusing on tweets and him screaming at reporters is such a distraction issue.
00:30:34.000I have no patience for that whatsoever.
00:32:41.000I don't care about Tito's tweet history.
00:32:43.000I don't care about Tito's what he said to some journalist.
00:32:47.000When I hire a bodyguard, I want someone who's tough, who's fought before, and who's going to defend what I care about, my family, and my country.
00:32:58.000And so, and that's what I look for right now in a president.
00:33:06.000Not the rollover and surrender caucus, not the make excuses type candidate, but the guy that might be a little rough around the edges.
00:33:15.000But when there's a battle, you want that guy in your corner, and that is President Donald Trump.
00:34:05.000And so while I would love Trump to have the ability to cross-examine him, I do know a lot of people that in the first debate were turned off by Trump's interruption, and I did offer that feedback to him.
00:34:15.000And while I think that muting the microphone is childish and immature and ridiculously insulting, I think that now that that's off the table, Joe Biden is going to have to meander into a place he's never gone, which is the 90-second plus mark of having to make an argument.
00:34:33.000And those of us that have sadly dealt with people that have struggled with mental decline, when you keep interrupting, there's a shot of adrenaline that almost affords them the opportunity to look sentient for that 15 to 20 second burst.
00:34:48.000Mr. Joe, tell me why we should elect you.
00:35:41.000The media depiction and representation of this man is so incredibly immoral and dishonest.
00:35:47.000It is one of the greatest injustices I think have ever been done towards any sort of leader.
00:35:54.000I mean, I meet people and I meet them on campus, and they actually equivocally, they really believe this, that Donald Trump is morally and is similarly to a 20th century style dictator from Europe.
00:36:26.000So, and the reason I wrote it is I had the opportunity to spend time with him.
00:36:32.000And I realized he asks more questions than he tells me anything.
00:36:35.000He treats me as a subject matter expert.
00:36:38.000I saw deeper into his philosophy than any of these other apparatchiks on the media.
00:36:43.000And I said, wait a second, you are being paid to go on television to write books and write articles about a man's motivations and intentions who you've never spent any time with.
00:37:11.000I've been with him when people come that would just be delivering food for lunch, and he treats that person, he says, tell me what you see on the ground.
00:37:31.000I learned from him a very important biblical principle, and he embodies it better than any other U.S. senator or congressman I've ever met, which is that everyone you meet has a treasure trove of wisdom that you need and you should try to glean from them.
00:37:46.000And this is something that anyone who has spent time with him has the same sort of response.
00:37:51.000That he wants to know something that you have in your mind, in what you're thinking that could help him benefit him and make him a better person.
00:38:04.000This is exactly why he was able to understand the tone of the Republican Party in the country better than all the people talking on TV is because he actually talked to human beings for 40 years.
00:39:34.000I just read Justice John Robertson, Roberts, excuse me, he's siding with the three liberals to permit Pennsylvania to have the ballots three days after the election.
00:40:00.000So for these pastors that are like, oh, I can't vote for Trump because he's a Christian.
00:40:04.000Was it the Bush appointees or the Trump appointees that ruled in favor of Calvary Chapel, Las Vegas, when they sued and the Supreme Court came down and John Roberts broke the tie when Ginsburg was still alive back over the summer, and John Roberts said, no, no, no, church is not essential, but Caesars Palace is.
00:40:26.000So for any Christian out there that's like, I can't put my name behind Trump, I can't do it.
00:40:30.000Hold on a second, you put your name behind Bush probably, and you got a closed church in Vegas.
00:40:34.000Well, your church is probably closed too, but anyway.
00:40:38.000But you got a forcibly closed church in Vegas, but an open Caesars Palace.
00:40:43.000Neil Gorsuch, Trump appointee, and Brett Kavanaugh co-signed a dissent that is one of the most scathing dissents you'll ever see from the high court.
00:40:51.000They said this is one of the most unconstitutional, egregious rulings that you value gaming and gambling over the free expression explicitly said in the First Amendment.
00:41:13.000And so now we're about to have Amy Coney Barrett, which is awesome.
00:41:20.000And we have Kavanaugh-Gorsich, ACB, three in the first term from the man that most of the Christian intelligentsia has told us don't support Trump, even though he has given us three judges that stand for the practice of faith and an originalist interpretation.
00:41:39.000I actually think there's a really interesting, deeper point here for Christians to be able to learn.
00:41:43.000So I believe in the inerrancy of scripture.
00:42:02.000That's no difference than Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Amy, Kony Barrett, to how they view the United States Constitution.
00:42:10.000They don't get to all of a sudden change the words to fit their own political viewpoint.
00:42:15.000They say, this is what the law says, and here's how it should be applied.
00:42:18.000That is the idea of a textualist or an originalist or constitutionalist justice.
00:42:23.000And one of the things that you're seeing is that President Donald Trump, one of the biggest home runs that he has done, is on the judges' front.
00:42:33.000The ninth circuit that we're in right now has been completely flipped on its head, three on the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:42:40.000And if there is no other reason, and I encourage all of you to please communicate this to every Bible-believing Christian and every person of faith, I beg you, because they'll trust you, and that's the most effective form of contact: you go into a person who trusts you and you say, you cannot argue with this judicial record.
00:42:59.000You might not like the tweets and you might not like all this, but look at what he's done for the high court in this country.
00:43:04.000Look what he has done to be able to repeal Roe versus Wade, which was an unconstitutional, immoral decision done that nationalized abortion that has resulted in 61 million abortions in our country.
00:43:17.000And so it's President Trump that did that.
00:43:20.000And this is so incredible that if Hillary Clinton would have won that election, she would have had three justices.
00:43:30.000The court would have been made in a liberal image for the rest of your life.
00:43:34.000300 federal courts, and I do not say this lightly.
00:43:37.000I don't know how we would have recovered from that.
00:43:40.000And if Trump loses in a couple weeks, which I pray he won't, and we'll dive into that because there's evidence to show he'll win and evidence to show that he's in trouble.
00:43:48.000But if he wouldn't have won in 16 and he wouldn't have been granted these four years, look at what we would not have been able to have up to this point.
00:43:54.000Because if Joe Biden wins, at least you have five constitutional justices that can strike down anything he tries to do.
00:44:04.000And President Donald Trump deserves enormous credit for that.
00:44:08.000And so John Roberts is no surprise there.
00:44:10.000But it's incredible how the courts have now been remade in a constitutional image.
00:44:15.000I'll finish with this on that question.
00:44:17.000The great Antonin Scalia was asked in 2011 by Peter Robinson from the Hoover Institution, phenomenal organization, great YouTube content.
00:44:26.000He said, are you optimistic about the future of the courts?
00:44:31.000And Antonin Scalia, the great Antonin Scalia, Reagan appointed, he said, that's an unfair question.
00:44:38.000It's impossible to be optimistic after the last session where I dissented in all six cases.
00:44:44.000Nine years ago, everybody, we were in the depths of despair that our courts were lost for a generation.
00:44:50.000And nine years later, thanks to a billionaire from New York who decided to disrupt all of American politics, he's done more so that you can continue to gather as a church, that we can protect the life of the innocent, that you can have your weapons, the Second Amendment, than any other president in our lifetime.
00:45:12.000I know you talk a lot about universities, colleges, kids going to universities, how liberal.
00:45:18.000I'm sure there's people here that may not have heard your take on this.
00:46:36.000And we are a secular organization, and we are intentionally that.
00:46:40.000We charted it, and I believe that our effectiveness is actually in the capacity of teaching a morally centered constitutional government.
00:46:49.000And then also through that, once people start drinking from the streams of liberty, they're going to want to find its source, which, of course, God, liberty is not man's idea, it's God's idea.
00:46:58.000However, university campuses, do I have permission to be blunt?
00:47:06.000And I mean no offense through any of this to anyone, but everything I say is rooted in truth and rooted in trying to create a better country.
00:47:34.000We have a generation of young people that are borrowing money they don't have to study things that don't matter to find jobs that don't exist.
00:47:45.000Any preconception that you have of the academy or the university, throw out.
00:47:50.000What education should be, and I support, is around a junior or senior in high school, you start to introduce to a young person's mind the idea that truth and goodness might exist.
00:48:10.000You start to get them on a journey of reading really good books.
00:48:14.000You start to challenge them to go find truth in the world and see where it lines up with those books.
00:48:20.000You take them on that journey, and that's what higher education is supposed to be, everybody.
00:48:24.000It's supposed to be the ever-persistent pursuit of truth.
00:48:29.000That's why, literally at Harvard, in their logo, it says Veritas, truth.
00:48:35.000Now, certain universities proclaim truth, but almost every university should at least tempt people or at least try to interest people to say, let's try and find this together.
00:48:46.000And maybe you'll find it, maybe you won't.
00:48:48.000But that's why you want to read the classics in Socrates and Plato and Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, and Burke and Hume and Smith.
00:48:54.000That's why you're supposed to read this literature and dive deep into it.
00:48:57.000The university has done the exact opposite.
00:49:00.000And it is one of the great moral injustices done to Western civilization.
00:49:04.000The university takes a young junior or senior in high school or even younger and they say truth does not exist.
00:49:18.000I'm going to train you how to complain about it.
00:49:26.000What that does to the maturity process of a young person is so incredibly, I'm going to use this word intentionally, abusive.
00:49:35.000To teach evangelistic nihilism is one of the greatest moral injustices you can do to young people.
00:49:41.000Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't say that the nihilistic school of thought exists, but when it is, which is a belief in nothingness, and there's plenty of writers that engage in that.
00:49:52.000However, it is not just the predominant, it is the only viewpoint that is expressed by the American Academy now, where it creates incredibly ungrateful, unhappy, and highly motivated people to destroy the world around them.
00:50:06.000And instead of trying to create stronger young people to be able to have a burden to go into the world, not have a burden, be able to have stronger shoulders, I should say, to have, to endure the burden that is life, which we all know exists.
00:50:21.000Instead, we tell young people, any challenges you're going to encounter, it's not your fault, it's somebody else's fault.
00:50:31.000So we went from a Western style of education that said America is pretty good and you're the problem.
00:50:39.000Now we say you're pretty good and America's the problem.
00:50:43.000So what does that mean for your civilization?
00:50:46.000Because we keep on sending these kids to these universities and parents out there, I love you to death.
00:52:48.000Now, if your kid wants to be an engineer, a lawyer, or a doctor, and you can get through college quickly without being indoctrinated, that's the right choice.
00:52:56.000Less than 10% of kids that go to college have that path.
00:52:59.000Most kids go to college because they say, My parents made me.
00:53:15.000The reason, and I'm going to be as blunt as I possibly can, is parents are unprepared to tell their neighbors that their kids are not going to college.
00:53:32.000We need more entrepreneurs, gap years, welders, carpenters, HVAC police officers, firefighters, people in the military, people that work with their hands.
00:53:44.000And I recommend this for all people, especially young men.
00:53:47.000Maybe parents are like, Well, I really, because it's so, I have never encountered anything.
00:53:52.000The most dogmatic thing in America is that my kid has to go to college.
00:53:56.000It is the hardest thing for me to untrain.
01:01:10.000Because a guy that continually portrays himself as a Scranton boy, as Main Street, was really selling out our country intercontinentally via his son.
01:01:24.000Again, I'm not in the prediction business till the day before because it's still way too early because we're looking at ballots and all this.
01:01:30.000But here, let me tell you some negatives for Trump.
01:01:32.000We're getting outspent on television like I've never seen before.
01:01:38.000Now, whether it's a diminishing return at some point remains to be seen, but Bloomberg's spending $2 million a day in Florida, like unbelievable numbers, right?
01:01:47.000Trump is benefiting by voter registration numbers.
01:01:50.000We crush Democrats and voter registration numbers.
01:01:53.000And the most black county in Florida had plus 800 Republican voter registrations and 16 Democrats voter registrations in the last 60 days.
01:02:50.000Whoever on the Trump campaign came up with that campaign because in central Pennsylvania, that's 40,000 people that came to his rally or whatever.
01:04:32.000Or that it's going to be this ever-building crescendo that we're voting early that's not going to stop and this thing is going to get wildly out of control for Biden.
01:04:48.000There's 9% of voters that are undecided.
01:04:52.000If you still haven't made your mind up about Donald Trump, you're like, I don't know after all the negative coverage, the impeachment, still giving them a chance.
01:05:02.000They're waiting for a reason to vote for Trump.
01:05:05.000Typically, when you're trying to beat an incumbent, the late breakers go to the challenger.
01:05:10.000I think it's the exact opposite this election.
01:05:12.000I think the late breakers are going to go to the incumbent.
01:05:15.000I think that since the arbitrage and deluge of information, that the base for Trump is so motivated, I do not think there will be late breakers for Biden.
01:08:16.000If you guys are retired and you're looking for something to do, try to find a homeschooling family where you can pitch in a couple hours to give the mother a breather, right?
01:08:26.000Like, maybe she just needs a couple hours just to decompress.
01:08:30.000It's hard to be a homeschooling parent.
01:08:32.000And maybe you're retired and maybe you used to teach history and you're like, I'm looking for a way God can use me in my local community.
01:08:39.000Then go find that homeschooling family.
01:08:40.000You're like, every Thursday, I'm going to come in and we're going to do civics for 90 minutes.
01:08:43.000The mom can then go, you know, do whatever she needs to do to make her life a little bit easier that day.
01:08:48.000Because I get emails from thousands of families across the country of homeschooling moms that are like, I might not be able to do this anymore.
01:08:55.000I don't know if I can do it because it's financially and it is socially, not socially, but it's psychologically and spiritually hard.
01:09:03.000So that's where I think the body of Christ and the country needs to step up and we need to help those homeschooling parents because it is a moral good that they are doing.
01:09:41.000Okay, so we can kind of use it as a nice shot to open up our argument.
01:09:45.000It says there's so much cronyism, there's so much favoritism, but I like it as a way of how we should actually talk about what taxation should be.
01:09:53.000And I think that we should use it as a standard of to work from, right?
01:09:56.000So if that's a good working beginning, but yes, I absolutely believe that taxation should be the same number.
01:10:03.000And I do believe that every person should pay something in tax.
01:10:07.000I don't believe there should be any person in a country that pays $0 in tax.
01:15:56.000The president has done a lot of things that have bothered the ruling class.
01:16:00.000One of which, as I mentioned, is the reassertion of American sovereignty.
01:16:06.000The other is the fact that he has challenged these transnational organizations that were in an unimpeded fashion destroying the existence of America.
01:16:20.000Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Paris Climate Accord, are complete and total surrender to the United Nations.
01:16:28.000And President Donald Trump, through the MAGA Doctrine, which I wrote about in my book, is saying, no, no, no, America does not take orders from Brussels.
01:16:37.000We don't take orders from the United Nations.
01:16:44.000And if you're going to try to put us into some sort of globalist coalition that makes America weaker, that destroys our competitive advantage, and tries to have rules outside of our borders that come into our country, we're not going to stand for that.
01:16:58.000And that is also on the ballot because Joe Biden will put us back into all of those globalist organizations instantaneously.
01:17:05.000And it's very scary what they want, everybody.
01:17:08.000The erosion of American sovereignty is one of the greatest threats to everything that you hold near and dear because our courts will be invalidated by a global tribunal court.
01:17:21.000It doesn't matter if we'll have the Supreme Court, they'll have some sort of super global court that will come in and say you can't do certain things and he'll just hand over the sovereignty.
01:17:31.000And a lot of our framework doesn't know how to deal with a global unibody.
01:17:37.000So President Donald Trump is all that stands between American exceptionalism and American sovereignty and some of the darkest, most sinister forces implementing their viewpoint into this country.
01:17:50.000Just another reason why he must get re-elected.
01:18:36.000Over the past two years of running for Congress, I've gone through the district asking people basic questions like, Do you know who your congressperson is, your state assembly member, your state senator?
01:18:46.000Nine out of ten people can't tell me who their lawmakers are.
01:18:50.000But then they vote Democrat, down ticket, and then they don't recognize the dangerous legislation that gets passed here on the state level by these people they've enabled, this Democrat suit majority that has been enabled in California.
01:19:04.000So, what can we do, especially in the religious community, to get more people civically engaged and excited about learning about our history, learning about civics and also how important their conservative values are, and voting on those conservative values is subscribing to the leftist ideologies.
01:19:24.000So, the first thing you can do, and it's terrific, thank you.
01:20:20.000The second thing is that in the church, we need to have a very serious boy, how do I word this correctly?
01:20:28.000We need to have a very serious moment in the church where we decide the church's proper role in the public square.
01:20:36.000And I encourage all of you that do not currently go to a church that is engaging in politics and talking about politics, give them a moment of grace and then leave that church.
01:20:48.000The moment of grace should be: please speak up, say it privately to your pastor.
01:20:54.000We're called to be in politics by Jesus Christ, the Ecclesia.
01:20:58.000There's numerous examples in the Bible of people after God's heart that were involved in politics, being counselor of the king, and we, the people, are counselor of the king, and the church is the counsel of the king, and the king is the government in this sense.
01:21:10.000And if you will not get involved in politics, you are disobeying your biblical commandment, and I'm disengaging from your church.
01:22:19.000That the gospel of Jesus Christ is the only way for human beings to be able to come into relationship with God without checking the proper boxes, just accepting Him in.
01:22:28.000The gospel in four words, three words, two words, one word.
01:24:54.000I was watching TV and I shed a tear and I said, there is no way you can put anything justice in front of it to basically approve this and make it seem okay.
01:25:02.000Burning down buildings, assaulting people, hurting people.
01:25:31.000I travel the country, sometimes sleep two hours a night, do two podcasts a day, radio shows.
01:25:36.000We did six events in California, praying and hopefully obediently that someone who is not yet of my opinion is listening and will one day believe what we believe.
01:27:00.000It's not a lost cause for those people that believe that things can move towards truth, which is a biblical Christian idea.
01:27:07.000So I don't know when, but I do know how.
01:27:10.000The how is by more people like you being exposed, being communicated to, and more people like all of you communicating, believing like stories like this can happen.
01:28:29.000As soon as you lose hope, that is when the left truly knows they have won.
01:28:34.000Their strategy is a strategy, according to Saul Linsky's rule for radicals, keep the pressure on, is one of waterboarding cultural submission.
01:28:43.000They want to keep you under long enough where you say, I give up, I'm never going to survive this.
01:29:19.000And the sense of unity for the United States, the love, it's just something that was just so amazing to witness.
01:29:28.000And the biggest thing I noticed was the Armenian community was out there just supporting for Trump.
01:29:34.000And I mean, it was, they were everywhere.
01:29:37.000And it was just, and they were just praying.
01:29:39.000And, you know, I just, I want to know your insight, if you can provide us a little information of what's going on there.
01:29:44.000I mean, it's, I know, I don't know if it's like a channel.
01:29:46.000No, it's very geopolitically in play right now.
01:29:50.000To be honest, I don't know that much about the situation, except I have a lot of people trying to call me about it.
01:29:55.000And I just, you know, there's a little bit more pressing issues.
01:29:58.000However, I think it's an absolute disgrace that we have not taught and recognized the Armenian genocide in our country.
01:30:03.000What the Turks did to the Armenian people is so incredibly immoral and awful.
01:30:07.000So that I will comment on that it is my position that the Armenian people were targets of any sort of classification of genocide.
01:30:15.000And any sort of Turkish influence in our country or our government that tries to prevent the history and the teaching of the Armenian genocide is evil.
01:30:23.000And so I stand with the Armenian people in properly classifying the aggression of the Turkish government back when they were slaughtered as a genocide.
01:30:41.000I've been told by the State Department that the people that are connected to the State Department, they're analyzing it, they're looking at it.
01:30:47.000But I do know that the Armenian community loves Trump, that his stance for the Manian community has been amazing.
01:31:42.000You guys are all going to be the first to know that Todd Spritzer, our Republican DA, has decided to file charges against me for trespassing.
01:31:49.000Yet they don't file charges against the burning and the looting and the rioting, but they go after people like herds.
01:31:58.000Knowing that the right to a speedy trial has now been compromised in the Supreme Court, we've had judges who have decided that we're not able to offer the speedy trial, 30 days for a felony, 60 for a misdemeanor.
01:32:13.000Some judges are dropping everything and just letting victims.
01:32:48.000Problems that are not directly confronted when they rear their head, they will multiply into something bigger.
01:32:52.000And the small fights for liberty absolutely matter.
01:32:55.000And so without knowing the specifics of your case or what that means for you, all I can tell is just kind of impart some general wisdom of fights that were not done at the local level and they thought it was not a big deal and it grows to the state and the federal level and you lose those liberties in the future.
01:33:10.000So I don't know if that is helpful to you at all, but I do think that we need to fight at every single level.
01:33:16.000And look, I think the lockdowns will go down as one of the dumbest mistakes in American history.
01:34:15.000We should have never allowed them to close our schools.
01:34:17.000And I think that it's a learning lesson for all of us and a teaching moment that when they take our freedoms away, we have to say no way unless there's a very good reason and there wasn't.
01:34:47.000I can be somewhat helpful in this question.
01:34:51.000And I mean this with no joking, and I say this to young people all the time.
01:34:55.000And I say, if you want to get involved with Turning Point, if you want to take up the banner, be prepared to lose all your friends.
01:35:01.000Not because you will lose them, but they will leave you and they will tell you awful names and they will come after you.
01:35:06.000It is an attribute of the left, which is that your political identity is some sort of a moral ruler or some sort of moral yardstick on how good of a person you are.
01:35:18.000And so just be prepared to lose those relationships.
01:35:22.000The best thing that we can do to interface with those people on the left is to ask questions.
01:37:08.000Questions, everybody, is how Jesus Christ communicated with every human being that's ever written the greatest book ever to exist in the history world, the Bible.
01:37:16.000Stop telling, start listening, and start asking.
01:39:02.000And I'm not excluded from that because I have this deluge of information that is so incredibly contradictory.
01:39:08.000Yeah, look, I'll say this again: that we need to lean in on who's actually going to be running the government.
01:39:14.000And I think the Joe Biden laptop thing is an exclusion to my argument, but I think it actually reinforces that Joe Biden's not going to serve out his first term.
01:39:23.000With this kind of corruption, this kind of questions, Pelosi will invoke the 25th Amendment and get him out of there.
01:39:30.000That 25th Amendment stuff is not for Trump.
01:39:41.000She's a creature of the Pelosi political crime family.
01:39:44.000And so you have to understand that we need to, in my opinion, when you're talking to swing voters, communicate that Kamala Harris is going to be running the government.
01:39:56.000And I think we should be unafraid to say that.
01:40:30.000I mean, the Clintons at least destroyed their laptops.
01:40:32.000I mean, I mean, Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden, never went through the Clinton school and bleach bit him.
01:40:45.000I mean, the first thing they teach you at the Clinton Foundation is you bleach bit everything and you never go to a computer repair shop with your psych and I tell this to the drug, the anti-drug advocacy groups.
01:43:25.000No surprise, I come from a huge family, and we meet every Sunday me and my siblings.
01:43:31.000And it's frowned upon that I speak about Trump's policies and the reason they are that he's going to get my vote this year.
01:43:39.000Now, my question to you is: what advice would you give me that I'm trying to break out of my circle and become a bridge of information to my family?
01:43:55.000Point out things to people that sometimes they don't want to hear it that intersect their daily life.
01:44:00.000So I don't know what your parents or your sisters or your brothers or nieces or nephews or cousins do, but find specific news items that impact their life.
01:44:08.000So they might be small business owners about how 100,000 small businesses went under because we locked down our country.
01:44:14.000There's nothing controversial or political about that.
01:44:16.000And this is a big thing I want all of you guys to realize: is that the number one form of censorship in our country is self-censorship.
01:45:12.000It's like I don't want to deal with the lunatics like just screaming at me.
01:45:15.000But now I'm like, no, the minute I take that hat off when I go into the grocery store or into the gas station, that is a sign that the tyrant is winning.
01:46:01.000It's a pleasure to be here and seeing you, Charlie Kirk.
01:46:04.000My question is: now that many are aware, what do you think is going to happen to the current processes of indoctrination in our primary schools all the way through high school?
01:46:18.000It is stunning to me how bad it has gotten in public education in our country.
01:46:24.000Critical race theory, white fragility, 1619 project, teaching every white person that they're racist, teaching people that black people can't be racist because they're not in power.
01:46:34.000And I discovered something, and there's a fundamental truth to this.
01:46:37.000You guys ever notice how the left changes the meaning of words?
01:46:43.000And this is a very important and it's a very dangerous thing.
01:46:46.000They do this intentionally because when they're able to change the meaning of words, they're able to change whether or not we're able to find truth.
01:46:57.000This is why, in those of us that believe in the Bible, we're so focused on what exactly the original text said.
01:47:06.000That's why the Hebrews, in the Hebrews, the Jews, in Hebrew, I should say, in Hebrews, and also the book of Hebrews and throughout the Bible, the actual meaning of words had so much weight.
01:47:18.000I grew up believing that racism was one person of one skin color discriminating against another person of a skin color and having prejudice.
01:48:07.000This is why they go after people like Candace Owens and Brandon Tatum with such harsh, you know, such incredible venom.
01:48:16.000They think your identity is solely linked to whether or not you're a leftist, that you suddenly don't become a black person if you don't agree with us.
01:48:39.000They're writing the script, everybody.
01:48:41.000The American experiment worked for a couple decades really well, post-civil rights era, 80s, 90s, early 2000s, when I grew up and when I was born, in the ideas of E pluribus unum, out of many one, that your skin color does not matter.
01:49:31.000I don't care about what you look like.
01:49:33.000It is completely and totally irrelevant.
01:49:35.000And as soon as we start to say, I care about your skin color, the moment that we bend that knee, we have lost the civilization that we live in.
01:49:53.000In the three years since I last saw you at the Newport Beach Western Regional Conference, what new challenges have arisen for Christians in this country?
01:50:39.000And I think that it's harder to be a disagreeable Christian than ever, and it's easier to be an agreeable Christian.
01:50:47.000And that's a very dangerous moment for American Christianity when Christianity all of a sudden becomes completely harmonic with the Hollywood culture.
01:50:55.000But they just don't want to touch the Old Testament stuff.
01:51:50.000Because if your church is still closed, if you're pandering to these ridiculous lockdowns, and if you are going out of your way to mobilize your congregation, a critical race theory and BLM Incorporated, I'm not the judge, but I doubt you actually believe what you say you believe.
01:52:09.000And that's a very, very difficult thing for me to say.
01:52:12.000But I find no other way to reconcile a closed church and a racially pandering church at this moment if you actually believe in the totalitarity, totality, and the inerrancy of scripture, divinely inspired, and the triune God.
01:54:32.000And my biggest piece of advice is: you might not think you're changing minds.
01:54:38.000You might not think you're flipping opinions, but you might be the only exposure that certain people have to a Christian and a conservative.
01:54:47.000So make sure you take that with a great deal of responsibility.
01:57:52.000That's why I love the young people that are standing up for things right now, despite the criticism, and our pastors that go through this.
01:57:59.000It's so easy right now not to stand with courage.
01:58:01.000It's so easy just to kind of retreat, wait for it to pass, like tyranny is a hurricane, and all of a sudden you could wait for it to go over.
01:58:08.000No, it's here to stay unless we stand with courage.
01:58:10.000So thank you for what you're doing and for your incredible clarity at your young age.
01:58:16.000And I think one day I'll be working for you.
01:58:21.000So he wants to take one more, but I think we send everyone off already.
01:58:47.000You guys can hear us on the Salem station as you drive home, actually, from 10 to 12.
01:58:51.000I think it's 870 or 890 where Prager's on every day.
01:58:54.000We're on 10 p.m. to midnight every night.
01:58:57.000So, one way you could bless us is we're in an ever-present struggle against the multi-billion dollar New York Times in the podcast charts.
01:59:04.000So, free of charge, if every person watching this and in here took out your smartphone and typed in Charlie Kirk show to your podcast provider and you hit that beautiful subscribe button, it might not seem like nothing, it's free of charge, we would surge in the charts and beat the New York Times.
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