The Charlie Kirk Show - December 21, 2025


A Look Back at Charlie's Past AmFest Speeches


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Learn English with Charlie Kirk. He is the President of Turning Point USA, the largest pro-American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. He has been a Christian since he was in 5th grade and has been involved in politics since high school.

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00:00:03.000 My name is Charlie Kirk.
00:00:05.000 I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic.
00:00:11.000 My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth.
00:00:14.000 If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable.
00:00:19.000 But if the most important thing is doing good, you'll end up purposeful.
00:00:24.000 College is a scam, everybody.
00:00:26.000 You got to stop sending your kids to college.
00:00:27.000 You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible.
00:00:31.000 Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter.
00:00:33.000 Go start a Turning Point USA High School chapter.
00:00:35.000 Go find out how your church can get involved.
00:00:37.000 Sign up and become an activist.
00:00:39.000 I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade.
00:00:41.000 Most important decision I ever made in my life.
00:00:43.000 And I encourage you to do the same.
00:00:45.000 Here I am.
00:00:46.000 Lord, use me.
00:00:48.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:49.000 Here we go.
00:00:56.000 The Charlie Kirk Show is proudly sponsored by Preserve Gold, the leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends, and viewers.
00:01:09.000 Thank you, everybody.
00:01:14.000 It's a great day to be in America.
00:01:15.000 What would you say?
00:01:20.000 Please take a seat.
00:01:21.000 Everybody, I want to just give a thanks to our amazing Turning Point USA staff that have put all this on.
00:01:26.000 The work they have put in is unbelievable.
00:01:28.000 Give it up for our Turning Point USA staff.
00:01:31.000 They've done an unbelievable job.
00:01:34.000 And we have people from all across the country here.
00:01:37.000 And for those of you that have been coming to Turning Point USA events for a couple years, look around, everybody.
00:01:44.000 You are not alone.
00:01:45.000 And we're going to win.
00:01:45.000 And we're going to win big time.
00:01:47.000 Look around.
00:01:47.000 It's unbelievable.
00:01:52.000 We are here to celebrate the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:01:59.000 We're here to reclaim the narrative.
00:02:03.000 We have over 10,000 people from all across the country.
00:02:07.000 I'm told we have people from all 50 states, from Alaska.
00:02:10.000 Who's from Alaska out there?
00:02:11.000 Someone's there.
00:02:12.000 Right there, from Hawaii.
00:02:14.000 Who's from Hawaii?
00:02:14.000 Someone's got to be from Hawaii.
00:02:16.000 There to California.
00:02:18.000 We won't hold that against you.
00:02:21.000 How about Texas?
00:02:22.000 We got some people from Texas here.
00:02:26.000 And Arizona.
00:02:27.000 I mean, come on, we got some people from Arizona.
00:02:33.000 America is our home.
00:02:37.000 And what's been going on in our country for far too long is we have allowed self-interested politicians and liars to take advantage of us and destroy our home.
00:02:49.000 No more.
00:02:49.000 We're taking back our country, everybody.
00:02:51.000 We're not going to let it happen anymore.
00:02:54.000 We have a unique history and culture as Americans.
00:02:58.000 We need to be unafraid to say that.
00:03:00.000 Unfortunately, the fact that we as Americans have to now tolerate the renaming of schools from Abraham Lincoln to some sort of woke nonsense in San Francisco.
00:03:14.000 The fact that we are not putting up statues to Thomas Jefferson, but instead tearing them down, we as Americans must understand that it is a gift we get to live in the United States of America, a gift from God that we get to be Americans.
00:03:28.000 The freest, most prosperous, greatest nation ever to exist.
00:03:32.000 America has always been focused on eternal principles rooted in the natural law.
00:03:38.000 We as conservatives, we are people that want to conserve the good, the true, and the beautiful against those that want to try and destroy it.
00:03:47.000 That means, and you saw this in the last year, and I'll talk about in a second, that it's one thing to post something on television or to do something weird on social media.
00:03:56.000 It's another thing to try to indoctrinate your kids. 0.83
00:03:59.000 We're not going to tolerate that anymore.
00:04:01.000 Parents are going to be first. 0.87
00:04:05.000 We celebrate our birthday every July.
00:04:08.000 The fact that we as a nation have a birthday is a big deal.
00:04:12.000 July 4th, 1776, when Thomas Jefferson wrote, When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands of that which is tied to them and never the separate but equal station, which derives from the laws of nature and nature's God, everybody, no other country in the history of the planet, in the history of the human species, was founded on an eternal call that says you as a human being have dignity.
00:04:37.000 That you have a right to speech, that you have a right to organize, that you have a right to start a family.
00:04:42.000 And we recognize in America, despite what the regime says currently, that those rights do not come from government.
00:04:49.000 come from God, and you have them naturally, and they can never take them away.
00:05:02.000 It is government's role to protect our rights against tyranny.
00:05:06.000 Government does not give you rights.
00:05:08.000 Government is not going to tell you how many people you get to have over for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
00:05:12.000 They work for us.
00:05:14.000 The United States Constitution starts with, we, the people.
00:05:18.000 They work for us, everybody.
00:05:24.000 We love our country.
00:05:28.000 We're honored to be partnering with Alan Jackson Ministries.
00:05:31.000 And today, I want to point you to their podcast.
00:05:33.000 It's called Culture in Christianity, the Allen Jackson Podcast.
00:05:37.000 What makes it unique is Pastor Allen's biblical perspective.
00:05:41.000 He takes the truth from the Bible and applies it to issues we're facing today: gender confusion, abortion, immigration, Doge, Trump in the White House, issues in the church.
00:05:49.000 He doesn't just discuss the problems.
00:05:51.000 In every episode, he gives practical things we can do to make a difference.
00:05:55.000 His guests have incredible expertise and powerful testimonies.
00:05:58.000 They've been great friends.
00:06:00.000 And now you can hear from Charlie in his own words.
00:06:02.000 Each episode will make you recognize the power of your faith and how God can use your life to impact our world today.
00:06:08.000 The Culture and Christianity podcast is informative and encouraging.
00:06:12.000 You could find it on YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:06:15.000 Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes.
00:06:17.000 Alan Jackson Ministries is working hard to bring biblical truth back into our culture.
00:06:22.000 You can find out more about Pastor Allen and the ministry at alanjackson.com forward slash Charlie.
00:06:32.000 Thank you, everybody.
00:06:34.000 Thank you.
00:06:34.000 Please take a seat.
00:06:35.000 Thank you.
00:06:37.000 Give it up for the Turning Point staff that made that video.
00:06:39.000 Is that not incredible?
00:06:43.000 That is just awesome.
00:06:44.000 Great to see all of you.
00:06:47.000 I just want to compliment our Turning Point staff for the promotion, the marketing, the branding of this world-class event.
00:06:55.000 I mean, this is just extraordinary, isn't it?
00:06:58.000 And one of my favorite takeaways from today is to show that in Maricopa County, you could get people through lines effectively and print badges and right Maricopa County.
00:07:16.000 If you want to learn how to get 10,000 people through a line and print something with almost no problems, come to a Turning Point USA event.
00:07:24.000 That's all I got to say.
00:07:27.000 Too soon, is what they're saying.
00:07:29.000 And they say it helps with healing.
00:07:33.000 Honored to be here, everybody.
00:07:35.000 And thank you guys for taking your valuable time to be here and to get recharged, re-energized, and to think deeply in the next couple of days of why we fight and why we sacrifice so much of our money and our energy and our time.
00:07:55.000 You see, we're in a very important time in our nation's history, and we as a movement, as a conservative movement, need a vision.
00:08:03.000 Without a vision, the people perish, is what it says in the scriptures.
00:08:07.000 And I have the opportunity to travel the country and talk to lots of different people, and we have been lacking a coherent vision of what we as conservatives believe in and what we are fighting for.
00:08:19.000 Now, we know what the bad guys are fighting for.
00:08:23.000 And a movement with no vision, we're nothing more than just a gang, just a random group of people with kind of shared ideas and shared values.
00:08:31.000 But a vision, something that we are aiming for, something as a movement that we strive for, that we work for, all of a sudden will make everything make sense again.
00:08:41.000 You see, there's so many people here that are taking the bold and courageous step to homeschool your kids.
00:08:47.000 We're our homeschool mothers and fathers here that have said in the last couple of years or in the last year, I'm going to go run for school board.
00:08:55.000 There's plenty of people here that have run for school board, people that have run for office.
00:08:59.000 Who here knocked on doors this midterm cycle for candidates?
00:09:02.000 You see, this room is the room that always goes the extra mile.
00:09:09.000 But one of the things we have to take a step back and say, well, what exactly are we fighting for?
00:09:14.000 What does success look like as a vision and as a movement?
00:09:17.000 So the vision of our opponents and the Marxist totalitarian left is filled with venom, hatred, darkness, resentment, arrogance, and despair.
00:09:29.000 We can go at length, and you're going to hear about it from our amazing speakers about how the totalitarian left has taken over our institutions, how they're teaching our children this vile garbage of critical race theory and this woke nonsense.
00:09:45.000 We know what they want.
00:09:46.000 They want power.
00:09:48.000 They want control.
00:09:50.000 They want uniformity.
00:09:51.000 And they want submission.
00:09:53.000 Now, this is not some sort of abstract concept.
00:09:56.000 One of the reasons why I believe that Turning Point USA is the most important organization in America is because we go to places where there are not a lot of conservatives.
00:10:06.000 At Turning Point USA, we play offense with a sense of urgency to go to places that we are in the ideological and philosophical minority.
00:10:13.000 And guess what?
00:10:14.000 We're not always welcomed when we go to these college campuses.
00:10:17.000 But we are going to win when we go to places that we are not always welcomed and we go there anyway.
00:10:23.000 And our Turning Point USA students and chapters are doing that every single day.
00:10:28.000 And so recently, you probably saw my visit at the University of New Mexico, my mostly peaceful visit to the University of New Mexico, where they did bring out the welcoming committee of the riot squad and these terrorists were there at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, so bothered that our amazing Turning Point students wanted to have an event about free speech, the Constitution, and conservative ideas.
00:10:53.000 enjoy this short clip of what we just experienced.
00:10:56.000 Who, who, who, who, who, who, who?
00:11:02.000 She comes, is a racist! 1.00
00:11:04.000 She comes, is a racist! 1.00
00:11:06.000 I'm Lee Simon Tipo, who are you?
00:11:09.000 I'm not talking about what the f**k he is like, f**k it, coward.
00:11:13.000 Let's go for a couple of cops. 1.00
00:11:19.000 What do you think about the cops?
00:11:21.000 What do you think about the cops?
00:11:22.000 Cops?
00:11:23.000 You know what I say?
00:11:24.000 Americans?
00:11:25.000 Americans.
00:11:26.000 Especially the cops.
00:11:29.000 Yeah, really pleasant and joyful people.
00:11:31.000 They're a movement of happiness and uplifting positivity.
00:11:34.000 But we did not allow these terrorists that try to prevent our students to be able to go to the event, that did everything to cancel it, to win.
00:11:42.000 We made a point at Turning Point USA to continue the event, saying we don't care the cost.
00:11:48.000 We don't care what it's going to take.
00:11:50.000 We also said, hey, if you're gonna act like a domestic terrorist on a college campus, then we are going to mock you relentlessly.
00:11:57.000 Enjoy this.
00:11:59.000 And how peaceful they are.
00:12:01.000 Because we want peace.
00:12:06.000 We're about solidarity and bringing peace here.
00:12:11.000 But we're here to show them that love.
00:12:22.000 This is why we're going to win.
00:12:24.000 I mean, there is no way these people long term are going to win.
00:12:27.000 And it's going to require courage and boldness to go to places where, even though they deploy their paid activists, we're going to keep on showing up.
00:12:35.000 In fact, I think we have our turning point leaders from the University of New Mexico here somewhere.
00:12:39.000 And those are the real heroes that have to go to class every single day, that are spit on, that are called names, and they continue to fight.
00:12:52.000 So, what is our vision as conservatives?
00:12:55.000 We know their vision is one of despair and confusion, the destroying of distinctions.
00:13:02.000 One of the things the totalitarian left wants to do for our society is to destroy the distinction between God and man, between man and woman, between good and evil.
00:13:14.000 They want to blur the lines that allow us to live in a free and stable and civil society.
00:13:20.000 Because you know what?
00:13:20.000 They get a lot more powerful that way.
00:13:22.000 But our vision needs to be clear and bold.
00:13:25.000 How about this?
00:13:26.000 We want a country where our kids love America again.
00:13:32.000 We want a country where kids are taught about Jefferson and Madison and Jay.
00:13:37.000 A country where they're taught about Abraham Lincoln and the beauty of the Declaration and the Constitution and the Federalist Papers.
00:13:43.000 We want a country where kids are taught that if you judge somebody on the basis of skin, you are a racist and we should instead care about character, not the complexion of somebody's skin.
00:13:59.000 Our vision for America, it's hard to believe I even have to say this, is we want a country where kids can be kids again.
00:14:07.000 We want a country where kids are safe from groomer teachers and predators who are trying to put prescriptive pharmaceuticals into their bodies that will do irreversible damage.
00:14:21.000 We want kids to be kids again in America.
00:14:28.000 We want to live in a country where puberty is not treated like some sort of illness that needs irreversible medical surgery.
00:14:37.000 We want to live in a country where the innocence of children is preserved and protected.
00:14:42.000 We want to live in a country where we don't have to have the debate, some sort of, we don't have a debate, there is no debate about pedophilia, period.
00:14:49.000 End of story.
00:14:50.000 We want to live in a country where that's a non-negotiable.
00:14:56.000 Our vision is that we want to value wisdom, eternal principles, prudence, common sense, more than someone who has a PhD in North African lesbian poetry.
00:15:14.000 I believe there is more wisdom in the American plumbing community than at Harvard or Yale.
00:15:26.000 This one hits home.
00:15:28.000 We want to live in a country and build a country and rebuild the country where it's easy to be a parent, where it's easy to get married and have children.
00:15:38.000 If we as conservatives stand for anything, it should be to tell our young people that one of the most beautiful things you can do is to get married and have kids.
00:15:51.000 And right now, that is increasingly difficult in this confusing, chaotic time.
00:16:00.000 Young people say, well, it's just too expensive to get married and have children. 0.99
00:16:03.000 It's just too difficult.
00:16:04.000 Or I don't want to participate in the patriarchy.
00:16:08.000 What a robbery of joy.
00:16:11.000 I could say this now personally.
00:16:12.000 We welcomed the daughter into the world back in August.
00:16:15.000 Praise God.
00:16:17.000 To think that children, young people, are growing up and being told that there's something oppressive or tyrannical about the covenant between a man and a woman and having children.
00:16:28.000 Hey, we as conservatives, if there's anything that we stand for, it is to be fruitful and to multiply.
00:16:35.000 And if you look at what the left is trying to do, less children because human are a stain on the environment.
00:16:42.000 You look at every one of the things they're trying to teach, like, oh, you don't need kids.
00:16:45.000 You could be happy with video games and some sort of promotion at your corporate job.
00:16:50.000 Maybe that is for you, but one of the reasons why our generation, it's very sad, is the most depressed, suicidal, alcohol-addicted, and drug-addicted generation in history.
00:17:02.000 Is the stuff that gives you meaning they have been told is evil.
00:17:08.000 This is Lane Schoenberger, Chief Investment Officer and founding partner of YReFi.
00:17:13.000 It has been an honor and a privilege to partner with Turning Point and for Charlie to endorse us.
00:17:18.000 His endorsement means the world to us, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with Turning Point for years to come.
00:17:24.000 Now, here Charlie, in his own words, tell you about YReFi.
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00:18:17.000 Wow.
00:18:20.000 USA.
00:18:28.000 Wow.
00:18:30.000 Welcome to America Fest, everybody.
00:18:33.000 It's great to be here in Phoenix, Arizona.
00:18:35.000 This is great.
00:18:38.000 13,000 people in Phoenix, Arizona for the largest multi-day conservative event in the history of this country, everybody.
00:18:48.000 Unbelievable.
00:18:53.000 I got to tell you, first of all, the Turning Point USA staff, have they not done an unbelievable job putting on this event?
00:19:02.000 We had to add all these bleachers back here. 1.00
00:19:04.000 It's incredible.
00:19:05.000 It's unbelievable.
00:19:06.000 By the way, all 50 states are represented here at America Fest.
00:19:10.000 All 50 states.
00:19:14.000 And 14 countries represented.
00:19:19.000 Albania, Canada.
00:19:21.000 Boy, you got a tough one there.
00:19:22.000 Justin Trudeau.
00:19:23.000 He's got to go.
00:19:24.000 Finland, Germany.
00:19:27.000 By the way, conservatives are growing in Germany big time.
00:19:31.000 I'm told that these people are here legally.
00:19:34.000 Honduras, Mexico, Israel.
00:19:37.000 We love Israel.
00:19:38.000 Don't we love Israel?
00:19:39.000 We love Israel.
00:19:42.000 Korea, Poland, we love Poland.
00:19:45.000 We can learn a lot from Poland.
00:19:47.000 I'll tell you what.
00:19:48.000 They have a border.
00:19:50.000 The United Kingdom, now they got to watch out if they'll let them back into their country. 1.00
00:19:54.000 China is here. 0.85
00:19:55.000 Somebody from China got the new federal state of China is here.
00:19:58.000 Austria and Japan.
00:20:00.000 15 countries represented here at America Fest as well.
00:20:03.000 I just think that's amazing.
00:20:08.000 And you look around, you're here for a reason.
00:20:11.000 You are here to celebrate this country, but you are here to be filled with hope.
00:20:16.000 It's been a tough year, hasn't it?
00:20:19.000 There's been some wins, and we'll celebrate those.
00:20:21.000 It's your third annual America Fest.
00:20:24.000 It's amazing.
00:20:25.000 Who here has been here for multiple years?
00:20:27.000 Raise your hand.
00:20:27.000 That's amazing.
00:20:30.000 We're living through a top-down revolution, everybody.
00:20:34.000 We're living through a revolution that's different than most others.
00:20:36.000 It is a cultural revolution, similar to Mao's China. 0.57
00:20:41.000 But this revolution is when the powerful, the rich, the wealthy decide to use their power and their wealth to go after you.
00:20:52.000 Instead of building hospitals and improving our country, they are spending their money to destroy the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:21:01.000 George Soros, Lorene Powell Jobs, Mackenzie Bezos, Reed Hoffman, Mark Benihoff, Reed Hastings.
00:21:10.000 And yes, the person who calls himself president, Joe Biden.
00:21:13.000 That's right.
00:21:17.000 The psychology is that of civilizational suicide.
00:21:22.000 This country has never lived through the wealthiest hating the country.
00:21:27.000 What makes this movement different is that you are here as a grassroots response to the top-down revolution happening in this country.
00:21:38.000 You are here as teachers, as mothers, as students.
00:21:45.000 I want our Turning Point USA students to receive a round of applause.
00:21:49.000 These are the freedom fighters of America.
00:21:57.000 It's unbelievable what they're doing.
00:21:59.000 This is a bottom-up resistance, and it terrifies the ruling class. 0.98
00:22:05.000 I get asked sometimes by the media, they say, Charlie, you know, don't you think the country is so divided, right versus left?
00:22:11.000 I think there's some interesting divisions, but no, no, no.
00:22:15.000 That's not the true division.
00:22:17.000 The real division is Washington, D.C. versus America.
00:22:22.000 Do you know what makes Turning Point USA different and America Fest different?
00:22:27.000 We do this event as far as possible away from the kingdom of Washington, D.C.
00:22:32.000 I think we have too many groups headquartered in D.C.
00:22:35.000 I think these groups, oh, we're in D.C. and we do all this work.
00:22:38.000 I inherently don't trust you if you have an office in Washington, D.C. I'm sorry.
00:22:43.000 You know what the other division is?
00:22:45.000 It's the powerful and the well-connected versus the middle class versus the everyday warrior.
00:22:52.000 The division in this country is versus the decent and the indecent, as Victor Frankl said in Man's Search for Meaning.
00:22:59.000 And we are living through this time where the question is still an open question.
00:23:04.000 Will the people who are the sovereign in this country do everything they possibly can with this incredible blessing given to us by God to fight back and win against the elites that want to ruin it?
00:23:19.000 Now, some people say, oh, you know, these elites mean very well.
00:23:22.000 I think this is an important thing to talk on.
00:23:24.000 Talk about for a second.
00:23:26.000 The elites don't mean well when you have a wide open border and 12,000 people are coming across the border every single day.
00:23:33.000 The elites don't mean well when they go after our children and they castrate our children in the name of medicine.
00:23:39.000 Our elites don't mean well when they put the leader of an opposition political party and try to put him in jail for 700 years.
00:23:46.000 These elites don't mean well.
00:23:48.000 In fact, they hate the United States Constitution.
00:23:51.000 They hate the Declaration.
00:23:53.000 And what you represent, your presence here, the largest multi-day event in conservative grassroots history, is a message that will be heard by these people.
00:24:04.000 Because what they have been, the reason they've been able to do what they have done is that we have allowed them to do this.
00:24:13.000 We've allowed them, and we were too busy doing things that were very important, running our churches, running our business, growing our families.
00:24:19.000 And 11 years ago, when Turning Point USA was started, I could not have imagined what God had in store for this organization.
00:24:29.000 And I want to take a second here because, you know, every so often there's some, you know, person from Media Matters that writes some organization, you know, some article about Media Matters.
00:24:41.000 By the way, God bless Elon Musk.
00:24:43.000 I hope he sues Media Matters into oblivion.
00:24:49.000 I'm going to talk about that in a second.
00:24:51.000 Where they attack Turning Point and they say, oh, you know, Turning Point just does events and all this.
00:24:56.000 By the way, if all Turning Point USA did was this event, that's a pretty amazing thing.
00:25:02.000 Just pulling off this event is no small accomplishment.
00:25:06.000 And by the way, while I'm thinking about it, Elon Musk liberating Twitter will go down as one of the greatest free speech victories in the history of Western civilization.
00:25:16.000 You know how awesome it is?
00:25:18.000 Where we can log onto Twitter and we could say, yeah, you know, Dylan Mulvaney, he's a man.
00:25:26.000 Rachel Levine is a man and kind of like a creepy pervert, honestly.
00:25:30.000 That January 6th is probably an inside job.
00:25:32.000 It's more of a Fed surrection than anything else.
00:25:34.000 And that 99% of people on January 6th did nothing wrong.
00:25:39.000 That we can go on Twitter and say that, you know, George Floyd wasn't a hero and Derek Chauvin was targeted in a Soviet-style trial that was anti-American and un-American.
00:25:52.000 One of the reasons why the powerful are getting nervous is because we can finally speak again online.
00:25:58.000 One of the main victories of 2023 is that we could say, that's BS.
00:26:03.000 No, you're not going to trans our kids. 1.00
00:26:05.000 You're not going to groom our children. 0.88
00:26:09.000 You're not going to then call us these terrible, awful names when in reality, you're actually the things that you're calling us.
00:26:15.000 You see, as our ability to speak and challenge authority and challenge power grows, the likelihood of our victory increases.
00:26:26.000 You see, 11 years ago, when we started Turning Point USA, we started in a very, very humble way.
00:26:33.000 And I want to take a step back because I want all of you to know the incredible journey that we have been on at Turning Point USA.
00:26:40.000 And I want to tell you the Turning Point story.
00:26:42.000 That's one of the first pictures there.
00:26:43.000 Bill Montgomery, may he rest in peace.
00:26:45.000 That was at the Republican National Convention in 2012.
00:26:48.000 Little did I know that God had in store that we were going to have an event nearly as big as the RNC 11 years later.
00:26:59.000 It all started in this office in Lamont, Illinois.
00:27:04.000 Who's from Illinois?
00:27:04.000 Anybody?
00:27:06.000 You know what's great about being from Illinois?
00:27:09.000 There's term limits in Illinois.
00:27:10.000 One term in office, one term in jail.
00:27:15.000 You know, we have cell numbers for our governors.
00:27:18.000 Different, not cell numbers.
00:27:22.000 My grandmother passed away recently, lifelong Republican.
00:27:26.000 She's been voting Democrat ever since.
00:27:27.000 And so, all right.
00:27:29.000 See, that's what's so great about Twitter being liberated.
00:27:31.000 I can say all these things.
00:27:32.000 Thank you, Elon Musk.
00:27:33.000 Thank you.
00:27:34.000 If I was streaming on YouTube right now, I would be completely gone.
00:27:38.000 It all started in this office, and I love it.
00:27:40.000 Apple, HP, Microsoft, and Turning Point USA all started in a garage.
00:27:47.000 And so that garage right there in Lamont, Illinois, was where this started.
00:27:51.000 What started as an idea, what started as a movement of one of two with no money, no connections, and no idea what I was doing is now a movement on 1,800 high school and college chapters across the country with 600,000 student activists, 300,000 grassroots donors.
00:28:17.000 Only in America is a story like Turning Point USA possible.
00:28:22.000 Only in America is it possible to say, you know what, I don't like the way the country is going and to do something about it.
00:28:30.000 And throughout the years, you know, people have said, oh, you know, Turning Point, you guys, you're too loud.
00:28:35.000 Why don't you just sit down and obey?
00:28:38.000 I don't know about you, but I think the people that have been running the conservative movement the last couple decades should just go be liberals because that's what they actually are and leave the conservative movement and allow us real conservatives to be in charge.
00:28:53.000 And the numbers speak for themselves.
00:28:57.000 A recent poll shows that high school boys are the most conservative that they have been in 50 years.
00:29:06.000 50 years.
00:29:08.000 Now, I want to show you because to kind of give you an idea and a picture of what we're up against, I go to these college campuses and I just, you know, I set up a table and I talk to these kids and I listen and some of them are pretty fired up.
00:29:24.000 And I think this picture is a perfect picture of a left-wing male.
00:29:28.000 You know, they want a guy with a lisp zipping around on a lime scooter with a fanny pack, carrying his birth control, supporting his wife's career while he works as a supportive stay-at-home house husband.
00:29:41.000 He has a playlist that is exclusively Taylor Swift.
00:29:46.000 And their idea of strength is this beta male's girlfriend opening a pickle jar just for him.
00:29:53.000 At Turning Point USA, we resoundingly reject this.
00:29:58.000 We believe in strong, alpha, godly, high-T, high-achieving, confident, well-armed, and disruptive men are the hope, not the problem, in America.
00:30:12.000 Now, I got to show you this video.
00:30:14.000 It's unbelievable.
00:30:16.000 This is the left-wing beta male in one picture.
00:30:20.000 By the way, I sit down, this is at University of Arizona, and I'm just getting comfortable.
00:30:25.000 And this lunatic comes up.
00:30:27.000 And he perfectly, by the way, describes what I'm just saying, right?
00:30:31.000 He's got to get his vitamin D level up.
00:30:32.000 Come on, man.
00:30:33.000 You live in Arizona.
00:30:34.000 Like, come on.
00:30:36.000 This is what our Turning Point USA students and warriors have to deal with on a daily basis.
00:30:43.000 Watch this.
00:30:45.000 You, I hate you.
00:30:45.000 Yeah.
00:30:46.000 Would you like to have a substantive conversation?
00:30:48.000 A substitute?
00:30:49.000 Yeah.
00:30:51.000 You're a asshole.
00:30:52.000 Would you like to have a conversation?
00:30:54.000 Sure, absolutely.
00:30:55.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:30:57.000 I don't like you.
00:30:58.000 I think you spread hate.
00:30:59.000 I think you spread bigotry.
00:31:00.000 I think you piss a lot of people off because I just, I mean, you're just an awful person.
00:31:05.000 I don't think you really want to debate because you're just here to piss people off and energize your crowd of racists.
00:31:10.000 What have I ever said that's racist?
00:31:12.000 Oh, can you name one thing?
00:31:15.000 Can I support Charlie?
00:31:16.000 Can you name a second?
00:31:16.000 Does that mean anything?
00:31:17.000 Can you say a second thing I've ever said that's racist?
00:31:19.000 I think you're just trying to play a game, and I think this is obviously going to be useful to me.
00:31:22.000 What have I ever said that's race?
00:31:23.000 I just want to fucking hate you.
00:31:25.000 You're awful.
00:31:25.000 Get off my camera.
00:31:26.000 When have I ever said anything that's hateful?
00:31:29.000 Have a nice day.
00:31:32.000 He can't say anything I've ever said that's racist because I've never said anything that's racist.
00:31:37.000 That is the American left in one picture, everybody. 0.89
00:31:39.000 Lots of rage and no wisdom.
00:31:48.000 No country was ever saved by a male feminist. 1.00
00:31:55.000 Countless countries, though, were lost by weak beta males.
00:32:01.000 And at Turning Point USA, not only do we celebrate masculinity, we believe that masculinity is the answer to so many of our problems in this country.
00:32:12.000 And let's put that poll up again.
00:32:14.000 The most conservative that young boys have been in 50 years.
00:32:19.000 There's a lot of negative news out there, everybody.
00:32:21.000 But young boys and young men are looking for something to connect to that gives them purpose, that says it's okay to be a man, that says there's not unlimited genders.
00:32:31.000 And by the way, just so we're clear, I got this from Billboard Chris.
00:32:34.000 There are no genders, two sexes, and unlimited personalities. 0.54
00:32:39.000 That's the way that we should all answer it.
00:32:41.000 Unlimited personalities.
00:32:42.000 Now you might say, but Charlie, the women are so liberal. 1.00
00:32:46.000 Now there's a lot of reasons for this, and I don't mean to dwell on it.
00:32:49.000 But you know what?
00:32:49.000 At Turning Point USA, we're doing something about it.
00:32:52.000 Right there, the largest young women's leadership summit, 2,500 young conservative women.
00:33:03.000 I want to show you that in America, you could start small and dream big and make a difference.
00:33:09.000 I am sick of the negativity.
00:33:11.000 This was our first ever Christmas event.
00:33:15.000 100 students eight years ago.
00:33:18.000 Eight years ago, we had 100 kids at a holiday in Express in West Palm Beach, Florida.
00:33:23.000 People laughed at Turning Point USA.
00:33:26.000 They made fun of Turning Point USA.
00:33:28.000 They said, Turning Point USA is never going to be anything.
00:33:31.000 You know, Charlie, just, you're a waste of time.
00:33:33.000 And you know what we did?
00:33:35.000 We kept our head down and we built and we outworked the competition.
00:33:39.000 And what started with 100 kids, look around everybody, is now the largest event in the entire conservative movement.
00:33:47.000 You can see this, the whole room.
00:33:48.000 It's just unbelievable.
00:33:52.000 Now I know many of you are saying, but you know, I have to send my kid to college.
00:33:57.000 I have to send my kid to college.
00:33:58.000 One of the ways that we're reaching students is online.
00:34:01.000 You see here, we are reaching millions and millions of young people every single day.
00:34:05.000 Joe Bob, Alex Clark, Savannah Hernandez.
00:34:08.000 We have an army of online influencers.
00:34:11.000 Our Turning Point USA digital team, it's the most dominant year online.
00:34:15.000 Don't take my word for it.
00:34:16.000 What does the New York Times say writing in third person?
00:34:18.000 Mr. Kirk's social media posts garnered far more engagements, a combination of likes, retweets, comments, and other interactions than those of mainstream news organizations like the New York Times and CNN.
00:34:28.000 Thank you, New York Times, for telling the world that we're bigger than the New York Times.
00:34:34.000 Now you might say, but Charlie, what exactly is going viral?
00:34:39.000 What is the content that is being seen?
00:34:42.000 So in another episode of Charlie goes to an Arizona taxpayer-funded campus, I go to Northern Arizona University, and some lunatic.
00:34:53.000 Charlie, you're scripting these things.
00:34:54.000 Trust me, I don't script any of this stuff.
00:34:56.000 I don't need to script it.
00:34:57.000 And, you know, there was a whole mob there.
00:34:59.000 They were screaming at us.
00:35:00.000 And there were some very, very angry women that were screaming at me. 1.00
00:35:03.000 And I said, okay, you know, Matt Walsh has the famous movie, and God bless Matt Walsh for it.
00:35:08.000 What is a woman, right? 1.00
00:35:09.000 So I said, why don't I ask this group of women, what is a woman? 1.00
00:35:20.000 What is a woman? 1.00
00:35:22.000 That's a stupid question, dude.
00:35:23.000 That's a dumb question.
00:35:25.000 What is a woman? 1.00
00:35:25.000 It's not a trick question. 1.00
00:35:28.000 What is a woman? 1.00
00:35:29.000 No one identifies as a woman.
00:35:31.000 You can't answer the question with the question.
00:35:34.000 Yeah, define the woman without saying woman.
00:35:37.000 It's a social selling woman. 1.00
00:35:41.000 You're in college paying for an education.
00:35:44.000 What is a woman? 1.00
00:35:45.000 How about you talk to someone with media training?
00:35:48.000 You don't need media training.
00:35:50.000 It's not a trick.
00:35:51.000 What is a woman? 1.00
00:35:55.000 You can't answer the question with the media training.
00:35:58.000 The college kids of America going hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt who think it's a trick question when you ask them what a woman is.
00:36:08.000 College is a scam, everybody.
00:36:10.000 You got to stop sending your kids to college.
00:36:11.000 I'll tell you what.
00:36:15.000 And we're doing something to solve it at Turning Point USA.
00:36:18.000 Newly launched Turning Point Academy.
00:36:19.000 You guys should go by the booth and say hello.
00:36:22.000 Leading an education revolution for homeschool moms and parents all across the country.
00:36:28.000 Turning Point Academy is leading the charge in curriculum development and teaching the teachers.
00:36:33.000 In addition, at Turning Point USA, in addition to our high school program and our college program and student body presidents and our massive events, we recently launched something very near and dear to my heart.
00:36:46.000 We are in a spiritual war, everybody, that is beyond just the material that we are seeing.
00:36:53.000 I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade in the suburbs of Chicago at Christian Heritage Academy.
00:36:57.000 Most important decision I ever made in my life.
00:37:00.000 And I encourage you to do the same, making Jesus Christ the chairman of the board of your life.
00:37:09.000 I started growing Turning Point USA, and the Lord kept on blessing Turning Point.
00:37:14.000 And I just, you know, would speak at a group here or there and people say, oh, you ever spoke at a church?
00:37:19.000 Oh, not really.
00:37:20.000 And then COVID happened.
00:37:21.000 And I made, without a doubt, the worst prediction in the history of American podcasting.
00:37:28.000 I look right in the camera on the Charlie Kirk show and I say, you know, all these lockdowns and all these orders to tell people to stay at home, they're not going to last.
00:37:38.000 The American church is going to lead the resistance, is going to fight back against these lockdowns because the church loves liberty.
00:37:48.000 And that was one of the dumbest things I have ever said on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:37:52.000 I was shocked when the bride of Christ, the church, shuddered in fear when they took Easter and Pentecost from us, when we saw the faithful stay at home, when we needed a revival more than ever, when suicides were going up, when alcoholism was going up, when drug addiction was going up, the church stayed and coward and fear.
00:38:14.000 And I looked around and I said, this is a time when the church should be defying these tyrants and these government leaders.
00:38:20.000 They called strip clubs essential and they called marijuana dispensaries essential and they called convenience stores essential.
00:38:27.000 And yet they said the church was non-essential and so many pastors took it.
00:38:33.000 And then, in the summer of 2020, during Floyda Palooza, we saw churches parroting a lie from the pit of hell when they said that America was systemically racist and that you're a racist person because of the color of your skin.
00:38:48.000 And I looked around and I said, why is the church peddling this?
00:38:50.000 And I took a step back.
00:38:51.000 I said ah, the marxists have took over the FBI, they have took over our colleges and they're trying to take over the church next. 1.00
00:39:01.000 And out of that, we launched TP USA Faith.
00:39:05.000 The mission statement of Tpusa Faith is very simple, we want to kick wokeism out of the American church as quickly as possible, as the heresy that it is. 0.95
00:39:23.000 And we got to work.
00:39:24.000 We are organizing pastors across the country.
00:39:26.000 And some people say, but Charlie, you know, stop being political.
00:39:30.000 Excuse me.
00:39:31.000 This is biblical.
00:39:33.000 Esther, Mordecai, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, all were counselors to the king.
00:39:40.000 Jeremiah 29, 7, seek the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
00:39:48.000 It is biblical to defy tyrants.
00:39:50.000 The midwives to the Hebrews in Exodus 1 were told to slaughter the newly born children, and they disobeyed Pharaoh, which pleased God.
00:40:00.000 Disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God.
00:40:04.000 Disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God.
00:40:08.000 Because liberty, liberty is not man's idea.
00:40:15.000 It is God's idea.
00:40:17.000 And we are at a period of time, everybody, where the American church, most American churches are not speaking out on these issues.
00:40:25.000 They say, you know, well, I just do the gospel.
00:40:28.000 So do we.
00:40:30.000 Do you think that the gospel includes allowing the church to be called non-essential and to stay shuttered and afraid?
00:40:37.000 Too many pastors have a much bigger wardrobe budget than a book budget.
00:40:43.000 Too many pastors are the cool kids giving a TED Talk in a rock concert that is indecipherable from the world and not preaching the word.
00:40:51.000 You might say, but Charlie, I don't like this, you know, religion. 1.00
00:40:54.000 So we'll get over it because this country was founded by courageous, Bible-believing Christians.
00:41:04.000 55 out of 56 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Bible-believing church-attending Christians.
00:41:11.000 Nine out of 13 of the states at the American founding required you to be a Protestant Christian at the founding.
00:41:17.000 In the Declaration of Independence, God is mentioned four times.
00:41:20.000 Laws of nature and nature is God.
00:41:21.000 We appeal to a supreme judge of the universe.
00:41:24.000 There has been revival after revival.
00:41:26.000 Billy Graham led a revival to this country, and he also said that communism is Satan's religion.
00:41:32.000 One of the reasons we are seeing the issues we're seeing in America today is because the church has been silent and the secular Marxists are taking over the nation.
00:41:41.000 TPUSA Faith on a daily basis seeks to wake up the church with courage and clarity and conviction to lead a movement to push back against the secular totalitarians in America.
00:42:00.000 We're honored to be partnering with Alan Jackson Ministries.
00:42:03.000 And today, I want to point you to their podcast.
00:42:05.000 It's called Culture in Christianity, the Allen Jackson Podcast.
00:42:09.000 What makes it unique is Pastor Alan's biblical perspective.
00:42:13.000 He takes the truth from the Bible and applies it to issues we're facing today, gender confusion, abortion, immigration, Doge, Trump in the White House, issues in the church.
00:42:21.000 He doesn't just discuss the problems.
00:42:23.000 In every episode, he gives practical things we can do to make a difference.
00:42:27.000 His guests have incredible expertise and powerful testimonies.
00:42:30.000 They've been great friends.
00:42:32.000 And now you can hear from Charlie in his own words.
00:42:34.000 Each episode will make you recognize the power of your faith and how God can use your life to impact our world today.
00:42:40.000 The Culture and Christianity podcast is informative and encouraging.
00:42:44.000 You could find it on YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:42:47.000 Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes.
00:42:49.000 Alan Jackson Ministries is working hard to bring biblical truth back into our culture.
00:42:54.000 You can find out more about Pastor Allen and the ministry at alanjackson.com forward slash Charlie.
00:43:03.000 Welcome to America Fest, everybody.
00:43:23.000 Thank you, everybody.
00:43:24.000 The real thank you is the Turning Point team that worked their tail off this last year.
00:43:27.000 That's who you should be applauding.
00:43:31.000 By the way, I like this touch.
00:43:32.000 Look at all these students that we have at Turning Point.
00:43:34.000 You want to look at this.
00:43:36.000 I like that.
00:43:41.000 They helped win the election, everybody.
00:43:43.000 Young people move by 30 points this election cycle.
00:43:46.000 I'll tell you what.
00:43:49.000 The kids are all right.
00:43:51.000 Welcome, everybody.
00:43:52.000 It feels good to win back our country.
00:44:00.000 I'll tell you, this has been a difficult and challenging year in so many different ways.
00:44:06.000 And we have to think back to where we were, as the video said, in January of 2021.
00:44:12.000 January 7th of 2021.
00:44:15.000 They said the MAGA movement was dead.
00:44:18.000 They said that Donald Trump will never have a political future.
00:44:23.000 Joe Biden was coming in and putting people in prison for going into the Capitol Rotunda and praying.
00:44:29.000 Joe Biden was mandating the vaccine, keeping the border completely and totally wide open.
00:44:35.000 We were seeing our country disappear and vanish from us.
00:44:39.000 But here's where you come in.
00:44:41.000 For every single one of you in this audience that never wavered, that always had the president's back, that continued to support him, you guys are the beginning portion of the greatest political comeback in American history.
00:45:03.000 Look at what we are up against, because it defies any sort of human reason.
00:45:10.000 From the law fair, they tried to put Donald Trump in prison for 700 years.
00:45:14.000 Every major tech company banned Donald Trump from their platform.
00:45:18.000 Donald Trump was banned from Facebook.
00:45:21.000 He was banned from Google.
00:45:23.000 He was banned from Pinterest because he's like a big Pinterest guy.
00:45:28.000 He was banned from Spotify.
00:45:30.000 He couldn't even listen to Phantom of the Opera.
00:45:33.000 They did everything they could to make him disappear.
00:45:36.000 But there was a problem: you could put Donald Trump in exile at Mar-a-Lago, but you can't make 75, 80 million people disappear.
00:45:52.000 Is that they can make him as if, okay, we're going to try to solve this problem, but what are you going to do with the people of this country?
00:46:00.000 And that's where all of you that continue to do the work, you entered.
00:46:04.000 We entered front stage, and it was difficult.
00:46:07.000 We were told that this was never going to happen, that the Democrat Party was immovable.
00:46:14.000 For all of you on campuses that continue to fight for conservative causes that were graded differently, kicked out of class, that were smeared, that were slandered, it was as if there was no immediate hope.
00:46:25.000 But you guys had faith and faith not just that we could take back our country.
00:46:30.000 And if we are honest with ourselves, we cannot take credit for what happened on November 5th.
00:46:38.000 The person, or more importantly, who deserves credit is God Almighty for saving this country and giving us four years of Donald Trump.
00:47:03.000 We didn't earn it we were We worked out of obedience, but we were inches away from a civil war.
00:47:12.000 And Donald Trump just so happened to turn his head at a specific time to look at a PowerPoint.
00:47:18.000 I mean, I've been to a lot of MAGA rallies.
00:47:20.000 How many MAGA rallies does he do a PowerPoint presentation?
00:47:24.000 And he just happened to turn his head at that specific moment and that bullet whizzed by and grazed his ear.
00:47:30.000 And by the grace of God that we did not earn and we did not deserve, his life was spared on July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:47:41.000 He had every reason to play it safe after that.
00:47:44.000 He had every reason to just kind of take it easy.
00:47:47.000 He had every reason not to continue to campaign, to say that, I'm just going to kind of hope for the best.
00:47:53.000 He did more events.
00:47:54.000 He said, I'm going to go do outdoor events.
00:47:56.000 Forget it.
00:47:56.000 We're not going to let the bad guys win.
00:47:58.000 And you can tell who a person is in a moment of crisis.
00:48:03.000 You see, our leaders talk a big game, but anytime they actually feel the pressure, they fold.
00:48:09.000 And we saw who Donald Trump actually is in that moment.
00:48:12.000 When he fell to the floor and he rose, he spoke to all of us at a fundamental level, at a level that we can't even put into words.
00:48:18.000 When he ascended and he said, fight, fight, fight.
00:48:22.000 It was an anthem.
00:48:23.000 It was a clarion call for all of us that regardless of what you are up against, this is a guy who did not need to be doing this.
00:48:31.000 You know that Donald Trump could have cut a deal.
00:48:34.000 Donald Trump could have cut a deal.
00:48:35.000 The final warning shot was when they raided Mar-a-Lago in August of 2022.
00:48:42.000 That was the warning shot, like, hey, you better not do this thing, run for the presidency.
00:48:47.000 Cut a deal.
00:48:47.000 Golf for the rest of your life, or else we're going to put you in federal prison.
00:48:51.000 And Donald Trump had a choice.
00:48:53.000 Do I do the easy thing or the right thing?
00:48:57.000 And if there is one thing that you teach your child, it's you must do the right thing, even if it is the challenging thing.
00:49:06.000 He knew what he was signing up for.
00:49:08.000 Young men are the most conservative they have been in over 50 years. 0.72
00:49:16.000 50 years.
00:49:18.000 Think about that.
00:49:20.000 Now, a reporter asked me, they said, Charlie, can you try to explain this phenomenon?
00:49:26.000 I said, yeah, it's very simple.
00:49:28.000 Young men want to be part of a political movement that doesn't hate them.
00:49:34.000 In fact, let me go a step further, that thinks they're essential to a future of a country.
00:49:41.000 That we need strong men and strong women.
00:49:45.000 That we're sick and tired of hearing about toxic masculinity when we are drowning in toxic femininity.
00:49:55.000 When we become a feelings-based culture, you can't say that.
00:49:59.000 You can't do that.
00:50:01.000 You're going to offend somebody.
00:50:03.000 And who is the most overtly masculine political figure of the last hundred years?
00:50:09.000 No, it's not Tim Walz.
00:50:11.000 Stop it, okay?
00:50:12.000 That's not true.
00:50:17.000 No.
00:50:20.000 Of course, it's the man who would never apologize for America, that stands proudly for our tradition and our history, that doesn't care about what sensibilities he offends, that calls Justin Trudeau governor, the guy that just said.
00:50:36.000 And in many ways, this was an election that was more about culture than it was about politics.
00:50:43.000 That it was about who are we as a people?
00:50:47.000 What are we doing to the next generation to say that you have to be taught diversity, equity, inclusion, and critical race theory, that you have to be under this transgenderism nonsense? 0.93
00:50:56.000 As a side note, by the way, as one of the first things that I hope this new administration does, we need to end the medical mutilation of our children called gender-affirming care in this country immediately. 0.83
00:51:16.000 And also say, no men in women's sports ever. 1.00
00:51:33.000 But understand, that was a controversial thing to say three or four years ago.
00:51:37.000 It took a little bit of a, I don't care energy, a little bit of a masculine chip on the shoulder to say, no, actually, you're not going to have some dude in my locker room change with my daughter. 0.93
00:51:48.000 And I'm not going to allow that to happen.
00:51:50.000 You see, they wanted us to be quiet and afraid and silent and subservient.
00:51:55.000 They wanted us to cower into our corner.
00:51:58.000 But the conservative movement has changed fundamentally.
00:52:00.000 I hope you guys understand this.
00:52:02.000 And we can't lose it.
00:52:02.000 We must lean into it.
00:52:04.000 We call the shots, not the media, not the oligarchs, not Washington, D.C.
00:52:09.000 And our asks are so simple.
00:52:10.000 The media like say, oh, there's radical, they're revolutionary.
00:52:13.000 So on it, here's our ask.
00:52:14.000 We want a border.
00:52:15.000 We want our kids to learn reading, writing, arithmetic, and not graphic pornography at the age of 11.
00:52:22.000 We want our founding documents to matter much more than federal registry and bureaucracies.
00:52:27.000 We believe the Constitution is the law of the land.
00:52:29.000 We believe in three branches, not four.
00:52:32.000 We also believe, I know this is so radical for them to understand, that when you appropriate money, American citizens are first, not Ukrainians. 0.60
00:52:41.000 Wow, like what a concept.
00:52:45.000 And you add all of that together, they are the radicals, and they have been the radicals for quite some time.
00:52:51.000 And the final point I'll make is this, is the remarkable power and potency of the truth tellers in this room.
00:53:02.000 You see, we have grown up in a time where we say the media is the worst, the media is this.
00:53:06.000 And in fact, President Trump said that at his first ever MAGA rally.
00:53:09.000 Do you know where his first ever MAGA rally was?
00:53:11.000 In this building.
00:53:13.000 This building was the first ever MAGA rally.
00:53:15.000 Did you know that?
00:53:17.000 And the only feedback I have for President Trump is he says the media is this, the media is that.
00:53:22.000 Guys, we are the media now.
00:53:25.000 Not them.
00:53:27.000 Their power is fading and waning.
00:53:30.000 No one reads their stuff.
00:53:31.000 Their subscriptions are going down.
00:53:33.000 Like, CNN has less views than Hallmark movie reruns, which, again, it's Christmas.
00:53:40.000 A lot of people watch Hallmark during Christmas.
00:53:42.000 Anyway, separate issue.
00:53:43.000 Or is it lifetime?
00:53:44.000 I don't know.
00:53:44.000 I get them both confused.
00:53:45.000 Whatever.
00:53:47.000 And they are increasingly irrelevant.
00:53:49.000 And what is relevant is the democratization and the decentralization.
00:53:54.000 And I said it when it happened.
00:53:55.000 When Elon Musk bought Twitter, I believe it was the most important singular purchase since the Louisiana purchase for this country.
00:54:04.000 I truly believe that.
00:54:08.000 And look at the cause set in motion that happened since Elon Musk bought Twitter.
00:54:13.000 It gave us the ability to speak our mind.
00:54:15.000 Think about all the things that would have just happened without our ability to challenge it.
00:54:19.000 We were able to call out the BS on the southern border.
00:54:22.000 We were able to talk about the transiting of our kids.
00:54:24.000 We were able to talk about what they're actually teaching in our schools.
00:54:27.000 We were able to actually talk about like, hey, Kamala Harris can't speak in sentences. 1.00
00:54:35.000 Let's watch this clip.
00:54:36.000 It's simple, basic things.
00:54:38.000 And we joke around.
00:54:39.000 I do not think that we would have been able to expose the American people to how Joe Biden was brain damaged if it wasn't for Twitter or X, because the media wasn't doing their job.
00:54:48.000 By the way, the media should all immediately lose their government-issued licenses day one for the malpractice they did for covering for Joe Biden's senility.
00:55:03.000 We are in the driver's seat, and that comes with a lot of obligation.
00:55:08.000 We are the cultural force.
00:55:10.000 We are ascendant.
00:55:11.000 The bad guys are scattered, confused, and afraid, and they will be back.
00:55:15.000 And the posture should not be one that, oh, we won and that we're the greatest, now we're indestructible.
00:55:20.000 No, it's the opposite.
00:55:21.000 It should be one of humility, that we are actually in charge, and we didn't earn it, but we have an obligation to deliver, that we have an opportunity that we may never happen again.
00:55:34.000 It is a once in many lifetimes opportunity to fill the government with change makers.
00:55:39.000 I believe the four years of exile is the ultimate Romans 12, 2 verse, that God will use all things, all things for good for those who love him.
00:55:50.000 When we got displaced from power in 2020, how many of you guys said, boy, 2020, this is the worst thing that happened.
00:56:00.000 We lost our country.
00:56:02.000 We were trying to see what was the takeaway here.
00:56:05.000 It felt as if it was so unjust, which it was.
00:56:07.000 And it was so much lying and so much manipulation.
00:56:09.000 But God knew what he was doing.
00:56:11.000 What he was doing is he was putting our movement in a temporary state of exile where we could become stronger, we could become better, where we could separate the frauds from the real people we could see who people really were, where we could expand our ranks.
00:56:26.000 We had to desire it more when our back was against the wall.
00:56:29.000 If we would have won in 2020, the second term, I don't know if it would have been that great.
00:56:33.000 It would have just kind of been a little bit of COVID.
00:56:35.000 Okay, that's fine.
00:56:36.000 And the second term is almost never as good as the first.
00:56:39.000 And now we almost get two first terms.
00:56:40.000 And the second one, we have a team that is ready to change the world and bring America back to greatness.
00:56:50.000 I will close with this.
00:56:52.000 Soak in this conference, everybody.
00:56:54.000 This is the first major turning point conference where we can just celebrate what has been done.
00:56:59.000 But also, we've got to keep our eyes on these students.
00:57:03.000 They're going to go nuts these next couple days.
00:57:05.000 I'll tell you.
00:57:07.000 But also, go start a turning point, USA, college chapter.
00:57:11.000 Go start a turning point, USA, high school chapter.
00:57:13.000 Go start a turning point, USA, 5C school.
00:57:15.000 Go find out how your church can get involved.
00:57:17.000 Sign up and become an activist.
00:57:19.000 America Fest is the starting point for us to take America to greater heights in 2025.
00:57:26.000 Remember how lost we felt a year ago.
00:57:30.000 Remember how directionalist we felt.
00:57:32.000 And instead of saying we've won everything, I could take it easy and said God gave us a reprieve so that we can reload, that we can lean in, and that we can make the conservative movement stronger than ever before.
00:57:46.000 And that's the resources you're going to see in the exhibit hall.
00:57:49.000 There will be people here that could change your life, future jobs, future friends, maybe even future spouses.
00:57:54.000 You never know.
00:57:55.000 We hear that a lot.
00:57:57.000 But have that posture of activism and action.
00:58:00.000 We have a slate of speakers that is the greatest in the entire country.
00:58:04.000 I mean, it's just unbelievable we have here.
00:58:05.000 It's going to be four days of energy and enthusiasm.
00:58:09.000 And you guys help make it possible.
00:58:12.000 This is the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:58:14.000 And I can say, wow, there was a debate.
00:58:17.000 Is God done with this country?
00:58:19.000 And now I can say confidently, no.
00:58:21.000 God is not done with America.
00:58:23.000 And our best days are ahead.
00:58:25.000 God bless you guys.
00:58:26.000 Thank you so much.