The Charlie Kirk Show - An Unexpected Blessing in Our Current Moment

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00:00:47.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:49.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.

00:00:51.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:54.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:58.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:59.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:01:00.000 His spirit, his love of this country.

00:01:02.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.

00:01:07.000 Turning point USA.

00:01:08.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

00:01:17.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:20.000 Thank you.

00:01:21.000 It's awesome to be with you guys today.

00:01:23.000 And thank you to those that have now come to multiple services.

00:01:26.000 I'll try to mix it up a little bit.

00:01:28.000 I'm losing my voice a little bit.

00:01:29.000 It's what happens when you do two or three hours of radio a day, podcasting, live streams, interviews, speaking.

00:01:35.000 So bear with me if I sound a little bit worn run down on that.

00:01:39.000 But have all the energy and the optimism to keep going.

00:01:42.000 And so I will also be tonight in Calvary Chapel, San Juan Capistrano.

00:01:46.000 For all of you real diehards that want to go all the way down there, we can do that again, right, Pastor Greg?

00:01:54.000 So it's such a blessing to be with you guys.

00:01:58.000 This week has been one that I will never forget.

00:02:03.000 This week has been very difficult in a variety of different ways, I think, for all of us.

00:02:07.000 And this weekend has been phenomenal, being around so many pastors, so many amazing believers.

00:02:15.000 I love this church.

00:02:16.000 Rob's my pastor, therefore, this is my church.

00:02:18.000 So it's awesome to be coming home.

00:02:20.000 And I really am blessed by all of you.

00:02:22.000 I mean that.

00:02:23.000 And the way you guys have supported what we are doing in so many different ways through prayers, through getting behind what we're doing on our live stream and our podcast has just been amazing.

00:02:34.000 And so let's just take a pause and admit that the last 10 days have been awful.

00:02:44.000 Like the worst 10 days.

00:02:47.000 When things are bad, I believe it's helpful to just take an inventory and ask ourselves, okay, what's the damage report?

00:02:55.000 Right?

00:02:57.000 Okay, let's get specific.

00:02:59.000 Joe Biden's going to be president on Wednesday.

00:03:02.000 Yeah, that's going to happen.

00:03:05.000 And there's a lot, absent a God-sized miracle that I'm not seeing.

00:03:10.000 But, however, I'm going to be as realistic outside of supernatural intervention.

00:03:22.000 I'm qualifying it, right?

00:03:24.000 Absent supernatural intervention.

00:03:27.000 Okay?

00:03:29.000 And that's probably going to happen.

00:03:31.000 Okay.

00:03:32.000 We lost the Georgia runoffs.

00:03:34.000 That was hard. 0.82

00:03:35.000 Our Capitol was stormed the day after that, and lives were lost, a total tragedy.

00:03:42.000 And then we're all blamed for it, despite us denouncing it and saying we don't believe in what happened there.

00:03:51.000 The NRA went bankrupt on Friday.

00:03:53.000 I don't know if you saw that or not.

00:03:55.000 The largest Second Amendment advocacy group.

00:03:57.000 What a perfect time to go bankrupt, right?

00:03:59.000 As soon as we need you the most.

00:04:01.000 Sheldon Adelston passed away this last week, who was the number one financier to conservative Republican candidates, also a very big pro-Israel supporter.

00:04:12.000 Our president was impeached in an eight-hour time span.

00:04:19.000 You can get to San Francisco quicker than how they impeached our president, like instantaneously.

00:04:28.000 With no due process, no witnesses, just the entire narrative that the president is solely to blame for what happened here.

00:04:35.000 Social media is a horror show right now.

00:04:38.000 Our president doesn't have any social media at all whatsoever.

00:04:41.000 They kicked him off of everything.

00:04:43.000 The obvious, you know, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube.

00:04:47.000 They kicked him off of TikTok, which is really bizarre.

00:04:50.000 Don't think that Trump was going to be TikToking.

00:04:53.000 I guess that's the right term.

00:04:54.000 That's the one social media platform I refuse to get on, just not on it.

00:04:58.000 And in a stunning turn of events, I would have loved to have seen the president, after trying to get TikTok kicked out of the country, resort to TikTok to get his message out.

00:05:11.000 They kicked him off of Spotify.

00:05:14.000 Not really sure why they would do that, except they just don't want him to have access to any music at all ever.

00:05:22.000 So, yeah, it's been an awful 10 days.

00:05:25.000 And so there's a couple ways that we can unpack it.

00:05:29.000 We can go one by one.

00:05:30.000 I want to go through the general election.

00:05:32.000 I want to go through Georgia.

00:05:33.000 I want to go through the social media piece.

00:05:36.000 But first, let's just say that's all terrible.

00:05:39.000 But has everything been nothing but bad since the election and the results thereof?

00:05:44.000 The answer is actually no.

00:05:46.000 The answer is that our feeling is not directly correlated with how things actually are.

00:05:52.000 Don't get me wrong, losing Senate control is bad.

00:05:54.000 Losing the White House is awful.

00:05:56.000 However, there's some victories that were pretty miraculous and awesome and not far from here.

00:06:02.000 Mike Garcia won by like 337 votes.

00:06:08.000 And you guys deserve a lot of credit for that.

00:06:10.000 The people that knocked on the doors, the people that supported him.

00:06:13.000 Young Kim and Michelle Steele won in Orange County, taking back two of those seats.

00:06:21.000 Maria Elvira Salazar in downtown Miami speaks fluent Spanish in a Democrat seat, beat Donna Shalala by three points in a seat that Republicans have not held since the seat was drawn.

00:06:32.000 Pretty unbelievable.

00:06:35.000 We have two incredible new black Republicans, Burgess Owens and Byron Douglas from Florida, in this new freshman class in the House of Representatives.

00:06:44.000 And my friend, Madison Cawthorne, is the youngest person ever elected to Congress in the history of our republic at 25 years old as a Republican.

00:06:59.000 It's unbelievable.

00:07:03.000 And it's not just like these are cherry-picking results. 0.53

00:07:08.000 The most conservative estimate from the experts, Nate Silver and The Economist, said that Nancy Pelosi will be enjoying a 244-seat Democrat majority.

00:07:20.000 It was the opposite. 0.97

00:07:22.000 Instead of expanding 15 more seats, she shrank and she now has only a seven-seat majority in the House of Representatives.

00:07:30.000 Where most people believed that the House was going to be a bloodbath, we were winning seats that we never thought we were going to win.

00:07:37.000 Like Marionette Miller-Meeks, who won by six votes in Iowa.

00:07:40.000 Yes, every vote matters.

00:07:42.000 Claudia Tenney, who is currently up by three votes, and they're still counting them and they're finding them in up in northern New York.

00:07:48.000 No, that's actually an uncalled race.

00:07:49.000 That's actually a thing.

00:07:51.000 And so where everyone thought the House was going to be this permanent Democrat majority for decades, even with all the awful and terrible recent events, I can say confidently that if Republicans do their job correctly, we have a really good chance to take out the House in 2022.

00:08:09.000 That was something that no one thought to be possible before this election.

00:08:14.000 And it's more than just having like a one-seat majority.

00:08:18.000 Every seat you lose makes every one of those votes with more pressure. 0.55

00:08:23.000 All of a sudden, these blue dog Democrats, they're not going to be able to do what is called vote trading. 0.84

00:08:28.000 You know what vote trading is? 0.62

00:08:29.000 When you have a 30 or 40 seat majority, you go to a super liberal Democrat and you're like, hey, I'm a moderate.

00:08:36.000 I'm going to vote against this, even though I wish I could, but you're going to cover me and vote for it, right?

00:08:42.000 This is how DC works.

00:08:43.000 And then they go to their constituents and say, I voted against this, get back.

00:08:47.000 But they're only given protection by the massive majority, right?

00:08:51.000 So now, when they have a seven-seat majority, there's not a lot of vote trading that can be done. 0.81

00:08:57.000 That means all it takes is a couple Democrat defections, and all of a sudden Pelosi is going to have a lot of trouble getting her ranks together.

00:09:04.000 Very significant.

00:09:06.000 We won seats that we were doomed to fail, from North Carolina Senate seats to Iowa.

00:09:12.000 I'm going to name three states here, Florida, Iowa, and Ohio.

00:09:16.000 Let's start with Florida, where I'm a resident of Florida.

00:09:20.000 Florida used to be something that we call a battleground state.

00:09:23.000 Florida used to be a state where you win by 10,000 votes or 15,000 votes.

00:09:28.000 Donald Trump won the state of Florida by 470,000 votes.

00:09:36.000 And I'm going to get to that in a second because the Florida example should give you optimism.

00:09:40.000 It should give you a lot of hope and promise for a variety of different reasons.

00:09:45.000 Iowa used to be a battleground state.

00:09:48.000 Trump won by eight points.

00:09:49.000 Ohio, remember they used to say Ohio is the battleground state.

00:09:52.000 He won by nine and a half points.

00:09:54.000 And so if you feel like you got your clock cleaned, let's slow down.

00:09:58.000 It's bad, but it could be so much worse, especially when we take into effect this mail-in ballot nonsense that happened all across the country. 0.81

00:10:07.000 The Chinese coronavirus, unprecedented on top of unprecedented with the lockdowns, BLM Incorporated with everything they did to manipulate conversations and all of that. 0.93

00:10:16.000 We were outspent like five to one in every single race across the country. 0.99

00:10:20.000 We were not allowed to talk about Joe Biden's son being under federal investigation, his laptop, or else he got kicked off of social media, and all the social media manipulation.

00:10:29.000 The fact that we are even in striking distance in some of these chambers is actually something to take pause and say it could be worse.

00:10:36.000 And I know that's not what a lot of people want to hear, but take comfort in that because it could be worse.

00:10:41.000 Or if they had that 244 seat threshold that Pelosi wanted, there would be no debate on state additions, Green New Deal, fossil fuel abolition, all the stuff that we're going to talk about that hopefully we can play defense against.

00:10:54.000 So let's talk about Florida for a second.

00:10:56.000 There's a lot of people that understandably were very focused and have been so on voter integrity.

00:11:02.000 You guys with me, right?

00:11:03.000 Voter integrity and all the shenanigans around that.

00:11:06.000 And I understand that a lot of people are frustrated with all the nonsense that we saw around that.

00:11:11.000 However, there's one state that used to be a circus in the way they did elections.

00:11:17.000 There's one state that used to be a tragedy, and that state is Florida.

00:11:22.000 In the 2008 governor's race, 2018 governor's race, Ron DeSantis running up against Andrew Gillam.

00:11:29.000 You guys might remember this race.

00:11:30.000 Rick Scott was running up against Bill Nelson, who was an astronaut and a very popular incumbent senator in Florida.

00:11:38.000 We were all waiting for election results to come in, and this new thing started to get tested in Broward County.

00:11:44.000 They weren't reporting results.

00:11:46.000 Sound familiar?

00:11:47.000 All of a sudden, there were ballots flying all over the place, trucks and transportation things, and we got ballots over here and absentee, sound familiar.

00:11:56.000 And it took a week to get all that sorted out, lawsuits and all this.

00:11:59.000 It was a circus.

00:12:01.000 Ron DeSantis ended up winning.

00:12:03.000 Ron DeSantis won and he said, I know the pain and I know the potential corruption embedded in that system.

00:12:10.000 So you know what he did?

00:12:11.000 Day one, he asked for the resignation of the head of supervisor of elections, a woman named Brenda Snipes.

00:12:16.000 Do you remember Brenda Snipes? 0.78

00:12:18.000 He said, I want your resignation.

00:12:20.000 Then he went county by county and he said, here's the way that elections are going to work now in Florida.

00:12:24.000 We are going to have the strictest signature verification standards for any mail-in ballots.

00:12:31.000 He said, we're going to have voter ID.

00:12:34.000 And it got sued in some places, but they got some reforms in.

00:12:38.000 And we're going to have it that if you request an absentee ballot, you will go to jail if you vote in any other way.

00:12:43.000 And we are going to prosecute publicly anyone that does that.

00:12:46.000 And to put a cherry on top, by 9.30 Eastern, you have to have your results in, or you've got to go petition a judge to tell them why your results are not in.

00:12:54.000 Now, he was sued, like you wouldn't believe, called awful names, racist, all these sorts.

00:12:58.000 Ron DeSantis had not moved an inch.

00:13:00.000 And so I met with Governor DeSantis two weeks before the general election, two weeks before the general election.

00:13:06.000 And I said, you know, Governor DeSantis, how do you feel about things?

00:13:08.000 He's like, because of, and I didn't, I remember the conversation, but I didn't take it as seriously at the time as, of course, I do now.

00:13:14.000 He said, because of all the reforms that we've put in, there will be no nonsense.

00:13:17.000 There'll be no shenanigans.

00:13:18.000 And we're going to have our results in by 9.30 and Trump's going to win the state of Florida.

00:13:22.000 And I said, well, that's, you know, that's like a Babe Ruth moment.

00:13:24.000 Like, I mean, you're saying you're going to, it's like, my goodness, you're pointing to center field.

00:13:27.000 I'm going to hit a home run.

00:13:29.000 Like, just saying you're going to win Florida, big deal.

00:13:32.000 And that's exactly what ended up happening.

00:13:34.000 And so I voted in the state of Florida.

00:13:36.000 I voted early.

00:13:37.000 Let me tell you how it worked when I was in the state of Florida.

00:13:39.000 Came in, wonderful poll workers that were working there, and I had to show an ID.

00:13:44.000 What a concept, right?

00:13:45.000 I know, like, let's applaud that, right?

00:13:47.000 Like, that's a good thing.

00:13:51.000 And when I was getting checked in, there was some activity happening next to me that I couldn't help but kind of overhear, eavesdrop.

00:13:58.000 It was right next to me.

00:13:58.000 And a guy came in and he said, I want to vote.

00:14:01.000 They said, okay, sir, you know, show us your identification, whatever.

00:14:03.000 And they said, according to our records, we already sent you an absentee ballot.

00:14:08.000 And he's like, I don't know anything about that.

00:14:10.000 I want to vote.

00:14:10.000 And they said, well, again, the records are you can vote provisionally, but then if we find out that you voted twice, you go to jail.

00:14:16.000 An argument ensued and the guy left.

00:14:18.000 Now, I don't know if he was up the funny business.

00:14:21.000 I don't know if maybe he was just really, you know, the system was not working in his favor.

00:14:25.000 Maybe there was a bout.

00:14:26.000 I don't know.

00:14:27.000 What I do know, though, is that that was a check and balance against someone that might have had bad intentions.

00:14:33.000 So again, I don't know his life story.

00:14:34.000 I don't know what the whole thing is there.

00:14:35.000 However, I saw a system working where someone was asking to vote when a ballot was already sent out.

00:14:41.000 So what happens when you have a system that works?

00:14:43.000 Well, Donald Trump wins by 470,000 votes in a battleground state that we used to go over like every single county and every precinct in Florida.

00:14:51.000 Now it's like, it's not even close.

00:14:54.000 You're flipping things in Miami-Dade County and Broward County.

00:14:57.000 And so why am I focusing on Florida?

00:14:59.000 Because Florida shows that it can be done.

00:15:02.000 Because Florida shows that when you win state and local offices, you get engaged in these races, you put the proper pressure with the proper leaders and the proper people in place, reforms can happen.

00:15:11.000 You juxtapose that with Georgia, with Governor Brian Kemp and Rauffensperger, that did the opposite of Ron DeSantis.

00:15:18.000 What did they do?

00:15:19.000 They relax their voting standards.

00:15:21.000 They relax signature verification.

00:15:23.000 They didn't put in 9.30 Eastern requirements for every county.

00:15:26.000 And then you enter the third world where you're counting votes for 10 days.

00:15:30.000 And you got all sorts of stuff happening there.

00:15:33.000 And so that kind of juxtaposition, I think, is super, super important.

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00:16:24.000 It feels like it did in 2008 when we just lost everything in a tidal wave.

00:16:29.000 Remember?

00:16:29.000 That's what it feels like, but that's not actually where we are.

00:16:33.000 You have a man that got the second most votes of any person ever running for office in the history of the country, Donald Trump.

00:16:39.000 And so you kind of take stock and inventory there.

00:16:42.000 I think there's a couple ways to unpack it.

00:16:44.000 The way that we do elections has to be one of the top focuses on the state level, especially in Arizona and Georgia in particular.

00:16:54.000 And I'll get into the significance of that.

00:16:56.000 So now I want to talk about social media, which is very, very important.

00:16:59.000 Which is if you do not have the ability to communicate or speak, you actually don't have a civilization.

00:17:05.000 You must be able to get information out, consume information.

00:17:08.000 And a lot of you remember, I've been speaking, I spoke a couple times here.

00:17:12.000 I warned against the threat of social media of what could happen because of Google and Twitter and Facebook.

00:17:18.000 I've been warning against it.

00:17:19.000 I think we all are no longer in the camp where you have to persuade me.

00:17:22.000 I think we all realize the threat that they are.

00:17:25.000 But absent the president getting kicked off of every single social media site, the thing that really was chillingly disturbing is when a small startup named Parlor tried to compete.

00:17:39.000 So we were told, go start a competitor, free market person.

00:17:42.000 Like, go start a okay.

00:17:44.000 So friends of mine, Dan Bongino, John Mates, you know, they started Parlor, and I was supportive of it.

00:17:48.000 I was one of the first users on it.

00:17:50.000 And, you know, they were really trying to figure it out.

00:17:52.000 So, what happened in a span of 24 hours?

00:17:55.000 Right now, you cannot access Parlor on the Apple Store, the Google store, and their servers took them down.

00:18:02.000 Three separate companies with three separate CEOs, with three separate valuations, all around $1 trillion, all made one decision to go obliterate a competitor.

00:18:12.000 We call that a cartel.

00:18:14.000 And that's illegal in this country.

00:18:16.000 You can't do that.

00:18:17.000 You can't all of a sudden mesh all of your combined corporate power together to go after a potential threat in the marketplace.

00:18:26.000 You cannot do that.

00:18:27.000 Whether or not that will be litigated or not, probably not.

00:18:30.000 Let's just be honest.

00:18:31.000 That's probably not going to happen.

00:18:32.000 However, what I think the mistake they made here, and this is a really important point, is that they did this too quickly.

00:18:41.000 And so this was a strategic error by the Democrats.

00:18:45.000 And I think they're realizing it, which is why Jack Dorsey's walking this back, which is why all of a sudden you're seeing a lot of backlash internationally around this.

00:18:52.000 And so because one of the greatest tools the Democrats use is a psychological manipulation tactic called gaslighting.

00:18:59.000 We've talked about this before.

00:19:01.000 So what is gaslighting?

00:19:03.000 Gaslighting, and it's from an actual play that was done in the late 1800s, early 1900s, where an abusive spouse, his wife, would come home every single day and he would incrementally turn down the light that was in the room.

00:19:21.000 And she would say, is it getting darker in here or am I losing my mind?

00:19:25.000 He'd say, no, you're losing your mind.

00:19:27.000 And so it would get darker, darker, darker, darker.

00:19:29.000 She said, I'm losing my mind, losing mind.

00:19:30.000 He's like, no, it's not getting dark.

00:19:31.000 What are you talking about?

00:19:32.000 It is a well-known psychological abusive manipulation tactic.

00:19:36.000 But it's also been done on the entire country, right?

00:19:38.000 And it's been done in the country where all of a sudden we go from saying, well, I don't like Trump supporters to Trump supporters or domestic terrorists.

00:19:46.000 Like, well, that happened really quickly.

00:19:48.000 And so it's this kind of ever-moving overton window, right?

00:19:52.000 So the gaslighting tactic only works if it's done incrementally over time.

00:20:01.000 What they did metaphorically is they turned the light completely off.

00:20:07.000 And they're like, okay, now I know you're messing with me, okay?

00:20:10.000 And what happened, which kind of blew up their entire charade, is 75 million people alongside like well-meaning people in the middle are all of a sudden like time out.

00:20:20.000 This is not the country I signed up for.

00:20:22.000 And that's why you've seen this immediate migration and backlash for new tech platforms, pushback against this.

00:20:27.000 And this is a moment where we're not going to forget this.

00:20:30.000 We're not going to all of a sudden gravitate back to Facebook and start using it again.

00:20:33.000 It's kind of like, forget it, okay?

00:20:35.000 You think you're so powerful.

00:20:35.000 We get it.

00:20:36.000 We're going to try to do something else.

00:20:37.000 We don't know what it is.

00:20:38.000 It might be improper.

00:20:39.000 It might be messy, but we're not doing this anymore.

00:20:41.000 Whereas if they would have done what they did so well over the last 20 years, they violated their own rules, everybody.

00:20:47.000 I hope you understand this.

00:20:48.000 The left was successful because they were patient and then they got impatient.

00:20:53.000 And the impatience is exactly one of their greatest vulnerabilities here.

00:20:57.000 So if they would have handled this the way they handled everything else, the slow march of the institutions, right?

00:21:02.000 Taking over the churches, taking over the colleges, taking over the university, all these sorts of stuff.

00:21:07.000 Instead, they did it all at once.

00:21:09.000 When you have a rapid, sudden, dramatic shift to a population, you will have backlash and people become one word, alert.

00:21:18.000 And I've seen more people become alert to really what we're up against right now.

00:21:23.000 So instead of me coming here and convincing you that we're in trouble, I'm coming here knowing that you already believe that, telling you what to do.

00:21:33.000 That's actually a good thing.

00:21:35.000 It's actually a good thing that you guys are on the edge of your seat because most countries never have the opportunity to preempt the next move, right?

00:21:44.000 Because they stay in that place of it's not that bad.

00:21:47.000 They're only kicking off the bad guys off of social media.

00:21:50.000 They move this dramatically and suddenly all of a sudden you have 75 million people that are like, now I get it.

00:21:55.000 What do I do?

00:21:56.000 What do I stop spending money on?

00:21:58.000 Where do I tell me what to do?

00:22:00.000 That's a good thing.

00:22:02.000 Because if it would have been the other way, we would be two years from now and the lights would be off and we'd say, we're being told our mind is crazy and we didn't even know it.

00:22:10.000 So consider that a blessing.

00:22:11.000 They acted as recklessly and as quickly as they did.

00:22:14.000 You're going to hear a lot about unity.

00:22:16.000 We want to unity, unity, unity.

00:22:17.000 There's an old Soviet phrase that is so applicable to this, which they said unity is the absence of opposition.

00:22:28.000 That's what their definition of unity is. 0.71

00:22:30.000 We're going to bring the country together by destroying half the country.

00:22:35.000 And so that's their idea of bringing everyone together.

00:22:40.000 We can all agree once we stop all the disagreement.

00:22:45.000 And that's what they're going to mean by unifying the country in the next couple of weeks and months.

00:22:53.000 But here's the one thing that I think that they're missing.

00:22:56.000 And I'm going to go through some of the things that give me great hope, and I mean that, because I think I've beaten you guys down enough with all the problems.

00:23:01.000 And there's more, but we could spend more time on that.

00:23:03.000 But there's actually a lot of good things happening, and I want to talk about those, which is that I think the really smart strategic liberals and leftists are now realizing that they have overreacted in the censorship and the banning and all of this.

00:23:20.000 And they have changed tactics from trying to make us be apathetic to now to break our will.

00:23:29.000 And I'll get to that because those are two different things, right?

00:23:32.000 Trying to get us to be apathetic or breaking our will and surrendering are actually two completely different things.

00:23:37.000 And so I wanted to say just a word on Georgia, and then I'm going to get into just a list of things that I wrote down here.

00:23:43.000 Georgia was very winnable.

00:23:45.000 We lost Georgia for a variety of reasons.

00:23:48.000 Number one, candidate selection.

00:23:50.000 The candidates weren't great, but so what?

00:23:51.000 We had to live with what we had.

00:23:52.000 Number two, there was targeted misinformation that told Trump supporters to stay at home and not vote. 1.00

00:23:58.000 That's a bunch of garbage. 0.93

00:24:00.000 And I highly encourage you, if you're consuming information from sources that are saying that, please stop doing that. 0.96

00:24:07.000 Because shenanigans, tomfoolery, all those sorts of things I could talk about, there were precincts where human beings just did not walk through the door, okay?

00:24:16.000 There's no way you can blur those lines.

00:24:18.000 There were just precincts where human beings did not show up on election day, where modeling showed they did.

00:24:22.000 We thought they were going to.

00:24:23.000 Why?

00:24:25.000 Because a variety of voices that are out there said, don't vote.

00:24:30.000 Show them your power by not voting.

00:24:33.000 And it's like the craziest thing I've ever heard in my life.

00:24:35.000 So now Chuck Schumer Senate Majority Leader.

00:24:38.000 That's basically it, right?

00:24:40.000 And so Georgia also was lost because the church did not get engaged and active in the state of Georgia.

00:24:47.000 Megachurch pastor Andy Stanley from North Atlanta was criticizing culture war Christianity, as he called it.

00:24:56.000 Lecrae, the Christian music artist, was outwardly campaigning with Raphael Warnock, the pro-abortion advocate, the pro-Castro advocate.

00:25:05.000 That's what Lecrae is doing.

00:25:08.000 Will he ever be accepted back in Christian music circles?

00:25:11.000 Probably.

00:25:13.000 But now, according to Lecrae, to be a cool Christian, a rapper Christian, whatever that is, is to go advocate for the termination of millions of unborn children every year, right?

00:25:23.000 If Lecrae didn't do that, if the pastors in Georgia would have drawn a line, and really what it showed me is that all the pastors that said they weren't getting involved in politics because of Trump were full of it.

00:25:37.000 They were lying to you.

00:25:39.000 Because we heard from pastors, how many of you heard it?

00:25:41.000 Oh, I'm cool on like the Republican policy stuff, but the Trump stuff turns me off.

00:25:46.000 You heard it all the time, right?

00:25:47.000 Well, here is your chance in Georgia, man.

00:25:50.000 He wasn't on the ballot.

00:25:52.000 Like you had two people, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, that were the difference between handing the keys of the kingdom to the public financing of abortion, anti-Israel, pro-Iran party, and not.

00:26:05.000 And the pastors were apathetic.

00:26:06.000 And so we lost Georgia largely because of that.

00:26:08.000 And of course, all the tomfoolery and all the signature verification, all that, that's completely valid points.

00:26:15.000 However, I'm just talking about human beings that did not show up, okay?

00:26:19.000 That stuff can't be manipulated.

00:26:21.000 I'm just talking about people who did not show up.

00:26:23.000 Okay.

00:26:23.000 So let me give you three promises that I know of what's going to happen here.

00:26:29.000 So now we've gone through all the list of all that, and I think you share all my concerns with everything that's happening there.

00:26:33.000 Okay.

00:26:35.000 I have such incredible hope because I know the Democrats are going to miraculously screw this entire thing up.

00:26:48.000 And not a little bit, by the way.

00:26:51.000 Miraculous, like in a Shakespearean way, they're going to screw this up.

00:26:56.000 They have never governed anything successfully ever.

00:27:00.000 States.

00:27:01.000 They couldn't run a YMCA, a restaurant, a hot dog stand, a school.

00:27:05.000 The principles that guide leftism are based in emotion, feeling, and power struggles.

00:27:11.000 You cannot run enterprises when all you care about is validating somebody's well-crafted complaint at the expense of the efficiency of the organization.

00:27:23.000 You can't run a church that way.

00:27:23.000 You can't.

00:27:25.000 You can't run a country that way.

00:27:26.000 You can't run a civilization that way.

00:27:28.000 And you definitely can't run the United States Senate that way.

00:27:31.000 And they will screw this up in a way where I give it like 200 days-ish till people start running back towards us and are like, where are the Republicans?

00:27:42.000 Like, where are the conservatives, right?

00:27:44.000 And it's going to be a moment where they're acting as if they have a 67-seat majority in the Senate, where they have a 50-50 tie with a moderate blue dog Democrat Joe Manchin and two senators that are under tough 2022 elections with a motivated conservative base in Arizona and Georgia.

00:28:07.000 So let's just be a little clear here.

00:28:09.000 They don't have this massive majority here.

00:28:12.000 But despite that, what's on their agenda?

00:28:14.000 Well, we know what Joe Biden is saying he's going to do.

00:28:18.000 Amnesty, the reinstalling of the Iran deal.

00:28:24.000 He's considering the embassy in Jerusalem getting shut down.

00:28:27.000 We all know this, right?

00:28:28.000 Elections have consequences.

00:28:30.000 We've said that, and here we are.

00:28:32.000 And so, however, in the Senate and just governance in general, they are going to massively mess this up.

00:28:43.000 And here's the second promise.

00:28:45.000 They're going to fight.

00:28:47.000 They're going to fight amongst themselves.

00:28:49.000 The feast is at the table and they're going to tear each other apart.

00:28:53.000 AOC and Schumer and all these guys, go for it.

00:28:57.000 They have not had unified government since 2008.

00:29:00.000 And this Democrat Party that controls right now is categorically different than Obama's party in 2008.

00:29:07.000 And if you think they've been out of control and they're in the minority, wait until they're actually able to implement a lot of this stuff.

00:29:15.000 They're going to fight amongst themselves.

00:29:16.000 They will.

00:29:18.000 And here's the third promise I have for you that I know to be true.

00:29:22.000 If we do not quit, people in massive numbers are going to demand us to be back in power and in charge again.

00:29:31.000 Now, what that looks like, I'm going to walk through.

00:29:33.000 It's a promise.

00:29:33.000 I guarantee it.

00:29:35.000 And if we do not lose our resolve and our will, the people are actually going to want to be with us.

00:29:42.000 And that's partly because the Republican Party has changed for the better.

00:29:49.000 The Republican Party is now an unapologetically pro-life party.

00:29:55.000 The Republican Party is a.

00:30:00.000 The Republican Party is now a party of people that shower before work and after work.

00:30:05.000 The Republican Party is a party that wants to represent working people in this country.

00:30:10.000 Let the Democrats represent Menlo Park and Silicon Valley.

00:30:14.000 As Gavin Newsom says, everything's great.

00:30:15.000 Our billionaires are making a bunch of money.

00:30:16.000 That's actually what he said, Gavin Newsom.

00:30:19.000 And the permanent, you know, kind of government-dependent class.

00:30:23.000 And the rest of the people are going to be working individuals that want to see something of their life, that are responsible.

00:30:30.000 And those people, thanks to President Trump, which will be one of his longest-lasting legacies, are now ours to either win or lose.

00:30:37.000 So we can do what we can do what H.W. Bush did in 1988 and just kind of turn our back on those people and go back to the Liz Cheney party of being the chamber of commerce.

00:30:48.000 We're going to go declare war in every country we've ever heard of.

00:30:51.000 Or we can stay firmly focused on the type of party that respects religious liberty, that invites pastors and people of faith to the highest levels of power unapologetically, that cares about the full spectrum conservatism.

00:31:07.000 That's the party I'm going to be contesting for.

00:31:09.000 And it's not inconsequential.

00:31:11.000 Because when all of a sudden that focus comes back and people are running towards us in massive numbers and they're like, we want Republicans back in charge, we better not have that Chamber of Commerce party around.

00:31:21.000 We better not have that kind of like open border party that pre-existed Trump.

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00:32:22.000 Here's three questions for you just to ask.

00:32:25.000 If people say, what do I do?

00:32:27.000 What do I do?

00:32:29.000 I get that question all the time more than anything else.

00:32:30.000 What do I do?

00:32:31.000 So here's three questions.

00:32:33.000 Instead of what to do, I'm going to ask you if you're doing these things to tell you, and then I'm going to give you three marching orders that are similar, but a little bit different.

00:32:41.000 Which is number one, are you taking terrain or planning to take terrain where you currently don't occupy something?

00:32:48.000 This is what the left has done brilliantly.

00:32:51.000 They took over everything we took for granted, guys, right?

00:32:54.000 Our universities, our colleges, our school boards, our churches, our corporations, our businesses, our tech companies, our media companies, all of it.

00:33:01.000 Okay, now it's time for us to make a list.

00:33:03.000 And it could be something as simple as, I'm going to go run for leadership in the Kiwanis Club.

00:33:08.000 I'm not kidding.

00:33:10.000 Because all of a sudden now you have a Christian conservative in a position of leadership in your community.

00:33:14.000 It can be something as simple as, I am going to run for state rep. I'm going to run for a school board.

00:33:19.000 I'm going to go to run for mayor's race, whatever it might be, but I'm going to start taking terrain.

00:33:24.000 I'm going to stop just always trying to manage this ever-eroding piece of property that I have.

00:33:29.000 We're going to be expansion it.

00:33:31.000 And that's what we try to do at Turning Point USA every single day on college campuses.

00:33:35.000 You want to talk about a place that we've lost, but either ever so incrementally, we're going to take campus by campus and high school by high school, person by person and student by student.

00:33:44.000 And that's how movements are built.

00:33:47.000 And so are you taking terrain?

00:33:50.000 Number two, are you converting?

00:33:53.000 This is super important.

00:33:55.000 Constantly be engaging and converting other people.

00:33:58.000 Being on your toes.

00:33:59.000 People say, Charlie, I don't know what to do.

00:34:01.000 And here's one thing I encourage you to do.

00:34:03.000 It's the best thing that informs me how to handle the situation I'm in.

00:34:07.000 And this is an unusual thing I'm going to tell you to do.

00:34:10.000 Every day, commit yourself to at least a half hour of learning.

00:34:17.000 In times of chaos, despair, it will give you clarity and comfort to realize you're not the first person to go through it.

00:34:25.000 You go read, not just through the scriptures, but from the writings of Winston Churchill, the founding fathers, Abraham Lincoln, the philosophical roots of the left, whatever it is, you spend half an hour on a podcast, a radio, a lecture, whatever it is, to go learn something new every single day you didn't know the day before.

00:34:42.000 Now, what's the significance of that?

00:34:43.000 You'll start finding the answers of how to get involved as you're doing that.

00:34:46.000 You'll start like, oh, that's a really good idea.

00:34:48.000 That's interesting.

00:34:49.000 We need a new equivalent of that.

00:34:50.000 That's a really interesting civil disobedience thing.

00:34:53.000 I never thought of that.

00:34:54.000 Because all of a sudden, you're now actively trying to search wisdom that came before you when they dealt with the same problems that we're dealing with.

00:35:01.000 Because all this stuff has been thought through before and thought through before, I should say.

00:35:07.000 And so are you converting and are you learning?

00:35:09.000 And the third thing, which might be the most important thing on the list, and this is as we're entering in some ways a post-political phase.

00:35:16.000 This next nine to 12 months is a very delicate time where we really don't have a lot of elections, but we have a lot of important things happening.

00:35:24.000 And this might be the most important thing, which is, are you supporting someone who is sacrificing for your liberty?

00:35:34.000 That's a very important question.

00:35:37.000 And so like, Rob McCoy is a great example of this.

00:35:43.000 Rob takes the arrows.

00:35:45.000 He takes the shots so that you guys can have the liberty to go to church, right?

00:35:49.000 It's a perfect example of that.

00:35:51.000 And so understand.

00:35:53.000 The hyper-personalization aspect of the left, they don't want to take out God's speak.

00:35:59.000 They want to take out the human being behind it.

00:36:02.000 You understand that, right?

00:36:03.000 That's the way the left thinks.

00:36:05.000 They don't think about taking out institutions.

00:36:07.000 They think about taking out individuals.

00:36:09.000 So how do you prevent against that?

00:36:11.000 That's where you come in.

00:36:12.000 You support them.

00:36:13.000 And I'm talking about the smallest thing from prayer every day audibly for those people.

00:36:18.000 So you write down in a list the fighters that you see that are sacrificing.

00:36:22.000 Jack Hibbs, Candace Owens, Larry Elder, Dennis Prager, that every single day are waking up and they're putting stuff on their back, on their shoulders, and you see that it's coming at a cost, right?

00:36:32.000 You see that it's wearing them down.

00:36:33.000 Lift those people up.

00:36:35.000 Don't turn an eye when all of a sudden a New York Times article comes out because they said something that wasn't great.

00:36:39.000 No.

00:36:40.000 You say, I'm going to lean in more for that person.

00:36:42.000 I'm going to bring food for them.

00:36:44.000 I'm going to give them, you know, I'm going to buy their book, whatever it is.

00:36:47.000 But it's more than a passive posture.

00:36:50.000 It's, I'm going to be involved in the connection of trying to impact.

00:36:54.000 And that prayer is not inconsequential in that, by the way.

00:36:56.000 It's very important.

00:36:57.000 But it's also, I'm going to make more friends aware.

00:36:59.000 I'm going to start texting their links around.

00:37:01.000 That is the type of thing that is so incredibly important because the next nine to 12 months, their playbook is to try to weaken or demolish the individuals that pose the greatest threat to what they really want to do.

00:37:18.000 And so you just take out a piece of paper tonight and you write out those people.

00:37:21.000 It might be five names, might be 10 names, might be 15 names.

00:37:25.000 And then you commit to staying engaged and involved in supporting those types of people.

00:37:31.000 Because I could tell you, we need it.

00:37:35.000 And that's the type of chapter that we're about to enter.

00:37:38.000 Okay, two final, it's like two final lists that are kind of quick.

00:37:42.000 And then I know I'll go through it as quickly as I can.

00:37:45.000 Okay, here's the other thing.

00:37:47.000 Here's the other good news of all this.

00:37:48.000 And I've been saying this for months.

00:37:50.000 I'm going to keep on saying it.

00:37:51.000 The left controls everything.

00:37:53.000 But there's one thing that's still up for grabs and you're sitting right in it, which is the church.

00:37:59.000 This is going to be the church's finest moment.

00:38:02.000 It will be.

00:38:03.000 And we're going to make sure of it.

00:38:04.000 And it's got to be beyond just God speak.

00:38:06.000 We've got to find the pastors.

00:38:08.000 We've got to say, you got to act right now.

00:38:11.000 And so I have a rule.

00:38:13.000 If you're not being persecuted, you're not doing something right as a Christian.

00:38:15.000 It's that simple.

00:38:17.000 Because in the scriptures, it tells us that persecution is a guarantee.

00:38:22.000 And so how are we supposed to handle that?

00:38:24.000 How are we supposed to handle it when it feels like the world is pressing down on us, right?

00:38:29.000 It's this physical pressure.

00:38:30.000 What are we supposed to do?

00:38:32.000 I'm going to tell you my least favorite but most true verse that Rob mentioned in the previous sermons because it's totally against human nature.

00:38:41.000 It's actually instructing us to do something that is against how we are wired.

00:38:47.000 And that is to be joyful in the midst of persecution.

00:38:52.000 It's against what I want to do right now.

00:38:55.000 So what I want to do is go complain for the next nine months, go write some books about how awful Joe Biden is, and then just like hope better, and then kind of like just whatever.

00:39:05.000 That's my nature.

00:39:06.000 But now I consciously have to say, no, this is a blessing that we're going through this.

00:39:10.000 This is a gift.

00:39:12.000 And I'm going to praise God throughout all of this with joy and positivity.

00:39:16.000 And these are going to be amazing days.

00:39:18.000 That's what we're commanded to do in times like this.

00:39:24.000 And that's hard.

00:39:28.000 I'm telling, I mean, it's hard.

00:39:30.000 You want the pity party, right?

00:39:32.000 You want the, everything is lost, and our founding fathers will be turning in their graves.

00:39:38.000 That's all true. 1.00

00:39:38.000 I totally agree. 1.00

00:39:38.000 Okay, you're like, accept all the lost things. 1.00

00:39:40.000 Like, okay, let's just get it all out.

00:39:41.000 Like, that's what this sermon, that's like this speech is all about.

00:39:44.000 Let's just get it all out.

00:39:45.000 Let's list it, okay?

00:39:47.000 And then we say, you got anything else?

00:39:49.000 And that's basically in the book of Job how it was.

00:39:52.000 Job is crying out to God, and God was basically, I'm paraphrasing, you done yet?

00:39:56.000 Like, who's in charge here?

00:39:59.000 And so it's a conscious step, though.

00:40:03.000 And it's a mental step.

00:40:05.000 And I encourage you to resist the temptation, which is what it is from the enemy, to feel sorry for yourself in this season.

00:40:14.000 I knocked on so many doors.

00:40:16.000 I said all the right prayers.

00:40:17.000 I did all the right things.

00:40:18.000 Okay, that wasn't God's will and God's plan.

00:40:21.000 So now what are we going to do?

00:40:22.000 We're going to be joyful and optimistic and positive and plan and build.

00:40:25.000 Okay, so here are three action steps.

00:40:28.000 And then Rob will close us up, which is you stay in constant contact with each other.

00:40:34.000 Okay?

00:40:34.000 And that means you get each other's phone numbers.

00:40:37.000 You message with each other.

00:40:39.000 You call each other.

00:40:41.000 You meet with each other.

00:40:41.000 That's why having physical church is so incredibly important.

00:40:44.000 But you got to look out for each other right now, guys, because this is a season where the enemy is going to try to use doubt and despair and despondency, right?

00:40:53.000 Like everything's terrible.

00:40:54.000 We're breaking down.

00:40:55.000 The antidote to that, of course, is Jesus, is truth, but it's also ecclesiastic.

00:41:00.000 It's physically being around each other, right?

00:41:03.000 And it's saying, we're going to look out for each other in this moment.

00:41:06.000 We get it.

00:41:07.000 We're going through a tough time, but here's where we want to go and here's how we're going to get there.

00:41:11.000 I'm going to tell you where we're going to go.

00:41:12.000 And the second thing is this.

00:41:13.000 What a great time to build new stuff.

00:41:15.000 As they're tearing everything down, what a great time for new entrepreneurs to fill that void, right?

00:41:21.000 What a great time to go start something new.

00:41:23.000 And some people say, well, Charlie, you just said that, all the regulation and all this stuff.

00:41:27.000 What a great chance when things are awful to begin new.

00:41:31.000 And let me tell you why.

00:41:32.000 The Democrats and the media and all of their kind of influences, they unintentionally created the most powerful and united consumer market in the history of the country called Every Person Who Voted for Donald Trump in 2020.

00:41:46.000 It's 75 million people.

00:41:49.000 And so I'm getting emails and texts and calls saying, should I eat here?

00:41:55.000 Should I not eat here?

00:41:56.000 Where do I do this?

00:41:56.000 All of a sudden, we have now activated what I've always wanted, which is a baseline budgeting conservative movement where it's like every dollar I want to reflect my value system.

00:42:08.000 Awesome.

00:42:09.000 We should have been doing that 20 years ago.

00:42:12.000 And so that's part of what needs to fill the void.

00:42:16.000 And so the third thing is this.

00:42:18.000 And this is the final thing, which is we must have three words, which is grit, will, and perseverance.

00:42:26.000 Their strategy right now, just so you know, is very simple.

00:42:30.000 It is not to persuade you.

00:42:33.000 It is not to convince you.

00:42:36.000 And it's not to disengage you.

00:42:39.000 Instead, it's to make you surrender.

00:42:42.000 It's that simple.

00:42:43.000 They want to break your will.

00:42:45.000 That's what this is.

00:42:47.000 They want you to raise the white flag and say, I'm done.

00:42:51.000 I'm not donating anymore.

00:42:52.000 I'm not going to that church.

00:42:54.000 I'm not supporting that guy.

00:42:56.000 They want you to say yes to the temptation of surrender.

00:43:00.000 And it's tempting, right?

00:43:02.000 You guys ever think how much easier your life would be at times?

00:43:06.000 At least I do if I didn't have to deal with all these, you know, all that stuff.

00:43:09.000 Like, wow, I could, you know, just watch sports all day long, whatever, like people do that aren't involved in this, right?

00:43:18.000 Yeah, it's, however, the conscious decision of having the grit, the will, and the perseverance is the greatest counter to whatever they're trying to plan right now.

00:43:32.000 They are betting that our resolve will weaken.

00:43:37.000 So let me tell you assuredly what is going to happen.

00:43:41.000 And it will have two possible outcomes.

00:43:44.000 That's it.

00:43:46.000 They're going to screw everything up.

00:43:47.000 as we said.

00:43:48.000 They're going to shatter everything and all of that.

00:43:51.000 And the people, the constituents, are going to run back to Republicans and conservatives.

00:43:57.000 And they're going to flock to the church.

00:43:58.000 And the church is about to have an unbelievable moment.

00:44:00.000 But here's the question.

00:44:01.000 Here's the question.

00:44:03.000 What are they going to be running to?

00:44:04.000 Are they going to be running to a group of people that gave up in January in 2021 with no infrastructure, no planning, no will?

00:44:13.000 So we're sitting around in August being like, I thought it was all over.

00:44:16.000 And we have people that are coming through the rafters wanting to give their life to Christ, but we gave up in January.

00:44:21.000 Or like, we didn't run candidates.

00:44:23.000 We didn't field them.

00:44:23.000 We didn't do the planning.

00:44:24.000 We didn't do all this.

00:44:25.000 And we realized we missed an opportunity and actually wasn't as bad as we thought it was.

00:44:29.000 And the margins were slimmer and everything's unpopular.

00:44:31.000 And these senators are under all these sort of different fights.

00:44:33.000 And all of a sudden, we could get back into power.

00:44:35.000 And all of a sudden, we realize we lost that opportunity because we were in some sort of multi-month pity party.

00:44:39.000 Or we make the conscious decision that we are going to bet, thanks to the system the framers put in place and the founding fathers put in place, that it's actually really hard to revolutionize this country in two years.

00:44:51.000 You cannot get in permanent government power with big, bold ideas without winning every election for six years straight.

00:45:00.000 Just so you know, it's a six-year window to turn all this thing around.

00:45:03.000 Think about it because you got to win all the Senate seats, all the House seats, and the presidency.

00:45:07.000 And you got to do it routinely and continually, despite backlash, despite scandals, despite all of that stuff.

00:45:13.000 The founders and the framers were so brilliant that they put these checks and balances in place.

00:45:17.000 So what I want is that when all those people start coming back to us, because it's an inevitability, it's a law of nature, that everything the left touches, it gets ruined.

00:45:26.000 That's what Dennis Prager says.

00:45:27.000 Just like there's the laws of physics, there's the laws of the left.

00:45:30.000 They destroy everything.

00:45:31.000 They do.

00:45:32.000 And you know this.

00:45:33.000 It's a law like gravity, like force equals mass times acceleration, obviously at rest will stay at rest.

00:45:37.000 The left will destroy everything and touch us, okay?

00:45:39.000 And so when they come back, here's what I want.

00:45:43.000 I want a church that is battle-ready metaphorically and ready to be able to contest on this at every level.

00:45:51.000 I want a party that knows why they believe what they believe.

00:45:54.000 I want people that, despite all the stuff that's about to happen, our will strengthens, not weakens.

00:46:01.000 That they realize the more they lean into this, the more that we actually get more united, not less.

00:46:09.000 That the more that they try to antagonize us and penalize us and punish us and kick us off, they realize it has the opposite effect than what they want.

00:46:18.000 What we have to want is that when those people come rushing back, we have the infrastructure, we have the planning, and we have the direction.

00:46:28.000 Because that day will come.

00:46:29.000 I'm telling you right now, I know that I've traveled all 50 states in this country.

00:46:33.000 I've spoken.

00:46:34.000 I speak to thousands and thousands of people every single, every week personally and through emails and everything else.

00:46:40.000 I can tell you right now, the way that they are planning it is out of the mainstream of this country.

00:46:45.000 So when they come back, if we are unprepared, we'll blow it and then the country will actually be over.

00:46:50.000 But if we are ready and we plan and we're strategic and we do not have a broken will or a resolve or perseverance, 10 years from now, I will be here.

00:46:59.000 And I will say, do you remember that fiery speech I gave back in 2021?

00:47:04.000 And I'll re-reference these notes and I'll say, look how bad things were.

00:47:08.000 We lost like these runoffs and like this thing and with this awful, terrible capital tragedy.

00:47:14.000 I'll say, do you guys remember when you guys made the commitment to have a strengthened grit, will, resolve, and perseverance?

00:47:21.000 And look at all these beautiful things.

00:47:22.000 We built a new Facebook.

00:47:23.000 Remember, Facebook?

00:47:25.000 And I'll say 10 years from now, you remember like when we, well, remember when we didn't have servers?

00:47:30.000 We got that fixed now.

00:47:31.000 And what I'm saying is this: we are completely in control of our future.

00:47:38.000 And so I am making the conscious decision to engage in this troubling time with joy and with optimism that we are going to get another chance and that we're going to win.

00:47:50.000 Thank you, guys.

00:47:59.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:48:01.000 If you want to email us your questions, email us freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:48:05.000 If you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, go to tpusa.com.

00:48:09.000 And to support us, go to charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:48:13.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:48:14.000 God bless.

00:48:15.000 Speak to you soon.

The Charlie Kirk Show - January 18, 2021

An Unexpected Blessing in Our Current Moment

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