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00:01:08.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:23.000And 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.
00:02:34.000And so let's just take a pause and admit that the last 10 days have been awful.
00:04:01.000Sheldon Adelston passed away this last week, who was the number one financier to conservative Republican candidates, also a very big pro-Israel supporter.
00:04:12.000Our president was impeached in an eight-hour time span.
00:04:19.000You can get to San Francisco quicker than how they impeached our president, like instantaneously.
00:04:28.000With no due process, no witnesses, just the entire narrative that the president is solely to blame for what happened here.
00:04:35.000Social media is a horror show right now.
00:04:38.000Our president doesn't have any social media at all whatsoever.
00:04:54.000That's the one social media platform I refuse to get on, just not on it.
00:04:58.000And 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.
00:06:08.000And you guys deserve a lot of credit for that.
00:06:10.000The people that knocked on the doors, the people that supported him.
00:06:13.000Young Kim and Michelle Steele won in Orange County, taking back two of those seats.
00:06:21.000Maria 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.
00:06:35.000We have two incredible new black Republicans, Burgess Owens and Byron Douglas from Florida, in this new freshman class in the House of Representatives.
00:06:44.000And 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.
00:07:03.000And it's not just like these are cherry-picking results.
00:07:08.000The most conservative estimate from the experts, Nate Silver and The Economist, said that Nancy Pelosi will be enjoying a 244-seat Democrat majority.
00:07:51.000And 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.
00:08:09.000That was something that no one thought to be possible before this election.
00:08:14.000And it's more than just having like a one-seat majority.
00:08:18.000Every seat you lose makes every one of those votes with more pressure.
00:08:23.000All of a sudden, these blue dog Democrats, they're not going to be able to do what is called vote trading.
00:08:43.000And then they go to their constituents and say, I voted against this, get back.
00:08:47.000But they're only given protection by the massive majority, right?
00:08:51.000So now, when they have a seven-seat majority, there's not a lot of vote trading that can be done.
00:08:57.000That 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.
00:09:54.000And so if you feel like you got your clock cleaned, let's slow down.
00:09:58.000It'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.
00:10:07.000The Chinese coronavirus, unprecedented on top of unprecedented with the lockdowns, BLM Incorporated with everything they did to manipulate conversations and all of that.
00:10:16.000We were outspent like five to one in every single race across the country.
00:10:20.000We 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.
00:10:29.000The 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.
00:10:36.000And I know that's not what a lot of people want to hear, but take comfort in that because it could be worse.
00:10:41.000Or 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.
00:10:54.000So let's talk about Florida for a second.
00:10:56.000There's a lot of people that understandably were very focused and have been so on voter integrity.
00:11:47.000All 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.
00:11:56.000And it took a week to get all that sorted out, lawsuits and all this.
00:12:20.000Then he went county by county and he said, here's the way that elections are going to work now in Florida.
00:12:24.000We are going to have the strictest signature verification standards for any mail-in ballots.
00:12:31.000He said, we're going to have voter ID.
00:12:34.000And it got sued in some places, but they got some reforms in.
00:12:38.000And 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.
00:12:43.000And we are going to prosecute publicly anyone that does that.
00:12:46.000And 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.
00:12:54.000Now, he was sued, like you wouldn't believe, called awful names, racist, all these sorts.
00:14:27.000What I do know, though, is that that was a check and balance against someone that might have had bad intentions.
00:14:33.000So again, I don't know his life story.
00:14:34.000I don't know what the whole thing is there.
00:14:35.000However, I saw a system working where someone was asking to vote when a ballot was already sent out.
00:14:41.000So what happens when you have a system that works?
00:14:43.000Well, 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.
00:14:59.000Because Florida shows that it can be done.
00:15:02.000Because 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.
00:15:11.000You juxtapose that with Georgia, with Governor Brian Kemp and Rauffensperger, that did the opposite of Ron DeSantis.
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00:17:19.000I think we all are no longer in the camp where you have to persuade me.
00:17:22.000I think we all realize the threat that they are.
00:17:25.000But 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.
00:17:39.000So we were told, go start a competitor, free market person.
00:17:50.000And, you know, they were really trying to figure it out.
00:17:52.000So, what happened in a span of 24 hours?
00:17:55.000Right now, you cannot access Parlor on the Apple Store, the Google store, and their servers took them down.
00:18:02.000Three separate companies with three separate CEOs, with three separate valuations, all around $1 trillion, all made one decision to go obliterate a competitor.
00:18:32.000However, what I think the mistake they made here, and this is a really important point, is that they did this too quickly.
00:18:41.000And so this was a strategic error by the Democrats.
00:18:45.000And 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.
00:18:52.000And so because one of the greatest tools the Democrats use is a psychological manipulation tactic called gaslighting.
00:19:03.000Gaslighting, 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.
00:19:21.000And she would say, is it getting darker in here or am I losing my mind?
00:19:25.000He'd say, no, you're losing your mind.
00:19:27.000And so it would get darker, darker, darker, darker.
00:19:29.000She said, I'm losing my mind, losing mind.
00:19:32.000It is a well-known psychological abusive manipulation tactic.
00:19:36.000But it's also been done on the entire country, right?
00:19:38.000And 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.
00:19:46.000Like, well, that happened really quickly.
00:19:48.000And so it's this kind of ever-moving overton window, right?
00:19:52.000So the gaslighting tactic only works if it's done incrementally over time.
00:20:01.000What they did metaphorically is they turned the light completely off.
00:20:07.000And they're like, okay, now I know you're messing with me, okay?
00:20:10.000And 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.
00:20:20.000This is not the country I signed up for.
00:20:22.000And that's why you've seen this immediate migration and backlash for new tech platforms, pushback against this.
00:20:27.000And this is a moment where we're not going to forget this.
00:20:30.000We're not going to all of a sudden gravitate back to Facebook and start using it again.
00:21:09.000When you have a rapid, sudden, dramatic shift to a population, you will have backlash and people become one word, alert.
00:21:18.000And I've seen more people become alert to really what we're up against right now.
00:21:23.000So 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.
00:21:35.000It'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?
00:21:44.000Because they stay in that place of it's not that bad.
00:21:47.000They're only kicking off the bad guys off of social media.
00:21:50.000They move this dramatically and suddenly all of a sudden you have 75 million people that are like, now I get it.
00:22:02.000Because 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.
00:22:17.000There's an old Soviet phrase that is so applicable to this, which they said unity is the absence of opposition.
00:22:28.000That's what their definition of unity is.
00:22:30.000We're going to bring the country together by destroying half the country.
00:22:35.000And so that's their idea of bringing everyone together.
00:22:40.000We can all agree once we stop all the disagreement.
00:22:45.000And that's what they're going to mean by unifying the country in the next couple of weeks and months.
00:22:53.000But here's the one thing that I think that they're missing.
00:22:56.000And 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.
00:23:01.000And there's more, but we could spend more time on that.
00:23:03.000But 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.
00:23:20.000And they have changed tactics from trying to make us be apathetic to now to break our will.
00:23:29.000And I'll get to that because those are two different things, right?
00:23:32.000Trying to get us to be apathetic or breaking our will and surrendering are actually two completely different things.
00:23:37.000And 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.
00:24:00.000And I highly encourage you, if you're consuming information from sources that are saying that, please stop doing that.
00:24:07.000Because 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?
00:24:16.000There's no way you can blur those lines.
00:24:18.000There were just precincts where human beings did not show up on election day, where modeling showed they did.
00:25:13.000But 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?
00:25:23.000If 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.
00:25:52.000Like 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.
00:27:01.000They couldn't run a YMCA, a restaurant, a hot dog stand, a school.
00:27:05.000The principles that guide leftism are based in emotion, feeling, and power struggles.
00:27:11.000You cannot run enterprises when all you care about is validating somebody's well-crafted complaint at the expense of the efficiency of the organization.
00:27:26.000You can't run a civilization that way.
00:27:28.000And you definitely can't run the United States Senate that way.
00:27:31.000And 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?
00:27:42.000Like, where are the conservatives, right?
00:27:44.000And 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.
00:28:47.000They're going to fight amongst themselves.
00:28:49.000The feast is at the table and they're going to tear each other apart.
00:28:53.000AOC and Schumer and all these guys, go for it.
00:28:57.000They have not had unified government since 2008.
00:29:00.000And this Democrat Party that controls right now is categorically different than Obama's party in 2008.
00:29:07.000And 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.
00:29:15.000They're going to fight amongst themselves.
00:30:15.000Our billionaires are making a bunch of money.
00:30:16.000That's actually what he said, Gavin Newsom.
00:30:19.000And the permanent, you know, kind of government-dependent class.
00:30:23.000And the rest of the people are going to be working individuals that want to see something of their life, that are responsible.
00:30:30.000And those people, thanks to President Trump, which will be one of his longest-lasting legacies, are now ours to either win or lose.
00:30:37.000So 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.
00:30:48.000We're going to go declare war in every country we've ever heard of.
00:30:51.000Or 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.
00:31:07.000That's the party I'm going to be contesting for.
00:31:11.000Because 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.
00:31:21.000We better not have that kind of like open border party that pre-existed Trump.
00:31:30.00049% of Americans say their top New Year's resolution is to save money in the next year.
00:32:33.000Instead 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.
00:32:41.000Which is number one, are you taking terrain or planning to take terrain where you currently don't occupy something?
00:32:48.000This is what the left has done brilliantly.
00:32:51.000They took over everything we took for granted, guys, right?
00:32:54.000Our universities, our colleges, our school boards, our churches, our corporations, our businesses, our tech companies, our media companies, all of it.
00:33:01.000Okay, now it's time for us to make a list.
00:33:03.000And it could be something as simple as, I'm going to go run for leadership in the Kiwanis Club.
00:33:31.000And that's what we try to do at Turning Point USA every single day on college campuses.
00:33:35.000You 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.
00:33:59.000People say, Charlie, I don't know what to do.
00:34:01.000And here's one thing I encourage you to do.
00:34:03.000It's the best thing that informs me how to handle the situation I'm in.
00:34:07.000And this is an unusual thing I'm going to tell you to do.
00:34:10.000Every day, commit yourself to at least a half hour of learning.
00:34:17.000In times of chaos, despair, it will give you clarity and comfort to realize you're not the first person to go through it.
00:34:25.000You 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.
00:34:54.000Because 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.
00:35:01.000Because all this stuff has been thought through before and thought through before, I should say.
00:35:07.000And so are you converting and are you learning?
00:35:09.000And 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.
00:35:16.000This 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.
00:35:24.000And this might be the most important thing, which is, are you supporting someone who is sacrificing for your liberty?
00:36:13.000And I'm talking about the smallest thing from prayer every day audibly for those people.
00:36:18.000So you write down in a list the fighters that you see that are sacrificing.
00:36:22.000Jack 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?
00:36:57.000But it's also, I'm going to make more friends aware.
00:36:59.000I'm going to start texting their links around.
00:37:01.000That 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.
00:37:18.000And so you just take out a piece of paper tonight and you write out those people.
00:37:21.000It might be five names, might be 10 names, might be 15 names.
00:37:25.000And then you commit to staying engaged and involved in supporting those types of people.
00:38:32.000I'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.
00:38:41.000It's actually instructing us to do something that is against how we are wired.
00:38:47.000And that is to be joyful in the midst of persecution.
00:38:52.000It's against what I want to do right now.
00:38:55.000So 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.
00:40:41.000That's why having physical church is so incredibly important.
00:40:44.000But 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?
00:41:32.000The 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.
00:41:56.000All 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.
00:43:02.000You guys ever think how much easier your life would be at times?
00:43:06.000At least I do if I didn't have to deal with all these, you know, all that stuff.
00:43:09.000Like, wow, I could, you know, just watch sports all day long, whatever, like people do that aren't involved in this, right?
00:43:18.000Yeah, 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.
00:43:32.000They are betting that our resolve will weaken.
00:43:37.000So let me tell you assuredly what is going to happen.
00:43:41.000And it will have two possible outcomes.
00:44:25.000And we realized we missed an opportunity and actually wasn't as bad as we thought it was.
00:44:29.000And the margins were slimmer and everything's unpopular.
00:44:31.000And these senators are under all these sort of different fights.
00:44:33.000And all of a sudden, we could get back into power.
00:44:35.000And all of a sudden, we realize we lost that opportunity because we were in some sort of multi-month pity party.
00:44:39.000Or 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.
00:44:51.000You cannot get in permanent government power with big, bold ideas without winning every election for six years straight.
00:45:00.000Just so you know, it's a six-year window to turn all this thing around.
00:45:03.000Think about it because you got to win all the Senate seats, all the House seats, and the presidency.
00:45:07.000And you got to do it routinely and continually, despite backlash, despite scandals, despite all of that stuff.
00:45:13.000The founders and the framers were so brilliant that they put these checks and balances in place.
00:45:17.000So 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.
00:45:33.000It's a law like gravity, like force equals mass times acceleration, obviously at rest will stay at rest.
00:45:37.000The left will destroy everything and touch us, okay?
00:45:39.000And so when they come back, here's what I want.
00:45:43.000I want a church that is battle-ready metaphorically and ready to be able to contest on this at every level.
00:45:51.000I want a party that knows why they believe what they believe.
00:45:54.000I want people that, despite all the stuff that's about to happen, our will strengthens, not weakens.
00:46:01.000That they realize the more they lean into this, the more that we actually get more united, not less.
00:46:09.000That 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.
00:46:18.000What 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.
00:46:34.000I speak to thousands and thousands of people every single, every week personally and through emails and everything else.
00:46:40.000I can tell you right now, the way that they are planning it is out of the mainstream of this country.
00:46:45.000So when they come back, if we are unprepared, we'll blow it and then the country will actually be over.
00:46:50.000But 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.
00:46:59.000And I will say, do you remember that fiery speech I gave back in 2021?
00:47:04.000And I'll re-reference these notes and I'll say, look how bad things were.
00:47:08.000We lost like these runoffs and like this thing and with this awful, terrible capital tragedy.
00:47:14.000I'll say, do you guys remember when you guys made the commitment to have a strengthened grit, will, resolve, and perseverance?
00:47:21.000And look at all these beautiful things.
00:47:31.000And what I'm saying is this: we are completely in control of our future.
00:47:38.000And 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.