The Charlie Kirk Show - An Urgent Message To The Republican Party

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00:00:08.000 Hey, everybody, on this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, you're going to hear one of my most enthusiastic and important speeches I have ever given.

00:00:15.000 I gave it a couple days ago at the Wyoming Republican Convention, and I make a very clear argument and call to action for conservatives and Republicans all across the country.

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00:01:12.000 You guys are going to love this speech.

00:01:13.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:01:15.000 Here we go.

00:01:16.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:01:18.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:01:20.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:01:23.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:01:26.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:01:27.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:01:28.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

00:01:37.000 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.

00:01:46.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:49.000 Hello, everybody.

00:01:50.000 Honored to be here.

00:01:51.000 Thank you so much, Frank.

00:01:53.000 Great people, great leadership, and congratulations on a great convention.

00:01:57.000 I think this is probably the third biggest gathering of people post-lockdown in the entire world.

00:02:03.000 So congratulations for that.

00:02:05.000 The first would be the president's rally that he had.

00:02:08.000 The second would have been the event that we had for him in Phoenix a couple days ago, and the third here.

00:02:12.000 So I've done 66% of the biggest events in the world post-lockdown.

00:02:17.000 So I'm very honored to be here tonight.

00:02:22.000 Congratulations on all the passages of this convention.

00:02:26.000 So now my tone is going to be a little bit different tonight than it was yesterday, because now we have to get very serious.

00:02:32.000 Because if you're like me, you feel like you're losing your country.

00:02:36.000 And it's time we're very honest about that.

00:02:38.000 So congratulations.

00:02:39.000 And let's just be honest.

00:02:40.000 Trump's going to win this state.

00:02:41.000 You're going to probably, that's great.

00:02:43.000 Terrific.

00:02:47.000 Trump's going to win this state.

00:02:48.000 You're probably going to have a Republican senator.

00:02:49.000 Great.

00:02:50.000 We got that out of the way, right?

00:02:51.000 So, but if that's the extent of what all of us take away from this weekend, we will not be doing what we should be doing for our country.

00:02:58.000 Because having Wyoming deliver three electoral votes is good and important and all that.

00:03:03.000 Making sure we win state and local races is terrific.

00:03:05.000 But my goodness, is there a problem happening in our country right now?

00:03:09.000 And let's talk about it.

00:03:10.000 So in just the last couple of weeks, we've probably gone back 30 years in cultural digression.

00:03:19.000 We are seeing the greatest cancellation of history, the greatest targeting of dissenting voices, the crackdown on free speech, the misrepresentation of American values that we've probably ever seen in history.

00:03:30.000 Never before in my experience, at least in my, let's say, analysis of American history, and Dennis Prager, the great Dennis Prager, agrees with me, who we hosted at University of Wyoming, Turning Point USA.

00:03:41.000 And boy, was that a circus.

00:03:42.000 My goodness.

00:03:42.000 I'll tell you about that in a minute.

00:03:45.000 Never before in American history have we seen people that work at their profession be forced to take a knee because of the color of their skin.

00:03:51.000 And if they don't, they might be fired.

00:03:53.000 I get hundreds of messages every single day from young people that are being removed from jobs, having to get kicked out of college, kicked out of school, bullied on social media, getting death threats because they support the president, because they say Black Lives Matter, the organization, is doing incredible damage to our country racially and otherwise, that they have incredible insidious aims to divide us, to not actually bring our country together, that it is a racist movement, that it's not about healing any sort of racial wounds we have in our country, instead trying to create new ones.

00:04:21.000 And to be perfectly honest with you, now that we are here at a Republican convention and I'm the closing speaker, my goodness, where are the Republicans, everybody?

00:04:30.000 Where is our party right now?

00:04:33.000 We are...

00:04:35.000 It's not all gems and roses out there.

00:04:37.000 And I'll tell you, there is a cultural crisis happening right now.

00:04:41.000 Right now, tonight, they have voted to rename John Wayne Airport in Orange County because they say he's a racist.

00:04:46.000 They're taking down statues of Abraham Lincoln in downtown Boston.

00:04:49.000 They're taking down a statue of George Washington and not replacing it in Portland, Oregon.

00:04:53.000 They're leading the statue of Vladimir Lenin and Caesar Chavez and all the other interest, let's just say beyond horrific individuals in our country.

00:05:03.000 They're teaching our generation that we're racist, bigoted, homophobic, backwards country through and through.

00:05:08.000 And to be perfectly honest with you, most of our elected Republicans are talking about, I don't know what they're talking about.

00:05:15.000 We're in the midst of one of the most important cultural defining moments where I'm not being hyperbolic when I say this.

00:05:21.000 If we do not take a stand now like we did during the Brett Kavanaugh, we will not have Brett Kavanaugh fight.

00:05:26.000 We will not have a country in five years.

00:05:27.000 It's just that simple.

00:05:28.000 This is not about a policy debate.

00:05:30.000 This is not about shuffling papers on a committee.

00:05:33.000 This is about whether or not we're going to have a country in a couple years.

00:05:36.000 Because at the rate that they're at right now, they are going around making people on the color of their skin take a knee for something they didn't do. 0.66

00:05:43.000 They are going around on the streets of New York with reckless abandon and looting and rioting and burning down the core cultural institutions that we care about so much. 0.92

00:05:51.000 Removing a statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside of the Museum of Natural History.

00:05:54.000 Removing the statue of Christopher Columbus from the state capitol in California that's been there for over 100 years.

00:06:00.000 And the lack of backlash and just the fleeting to the hills has been, I think, one of the most cowardest moves I've ever seen in my short experience in the conservative movement.

00:06:11.000 Seriously.

00:06:13.000 And it's not enough to offer press releases.

00:06:15.000 This is not a policy debate anymore.

00:06:17.000 This is not high taxes or low taxes.

00:06:19.000 It's not about whether or not we're going to have good judges.

00:06:22.000 All that stuff is incredibly important if you have a country.

00:06:26.000 It's wonderful if you have a country.

00:06:28.000 And people say, Charlie, you're being hyperbolic.

00:06:30.000 You're being over-exaggerative.

00:06:31.000 Oh, really?

00:06:32.000 Tell me right now why the Sacramento Kings announcer got fired who's in there for 30 years because he said, quote, all lives matter, gets fired from his position.

00:06:40.000 Is that a country that you want to live in? 0.99

00:06:42.000 It is a country when corporate America starts to fund an organization, Black Lives Matter, which again, the statement is, of course, true.

00:06:49.000 Black Lives Matter, but all lives matter.

00:06:51.000 And no one should lose their job or be kicked out of their profession for saying something that is true.

00:06:55.000 No one should.

00:06:57.000 And so you go to their website, encourage you to do that.

00:07:01.000 It says, quote, we exist to disrupt and destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family.

00:07:06.000 Abolish prisons, abolish police, legalize sex work. 0.61

00:07:09.000 They want more abortions.

00:07:10.000 They say that anyone who dares get in the way in the pursuit of life, that they somehow are racist.

00:07:15.000 Well, I'll tell you what, you know, 400,000 black individuals are terminated in the womb every single year.

00:07:20.000 Despite the black community being 14% of the U.S. population, 6% are women, and half of that are infant-bearing age.

00:07:28.000 3% of the population is 48% of all the abortions.

00:07:31.000 If you see a black woman who is pregnant in downtown New York City, she's more likely going to the abortion clinic than the pregnancy delivery room.

00:07:38.000 This is one of the great moral injustices in our country.

00:07:40.000 And I was just enlightened today that somehow it was impossible to pass a born-alive bill in the state of Wyoming.

00:07:46.000 This is a disgrace that in our state, you cannot get a born-alive bill passed.

00:07:51.000 It is an absolute moral outrage that that bill was not signed into law in this state.

00:08:05.000 And people say, well, Charlie, why are we losing our country?

00:08:08.000 Why are we losing our country?

00:08:10.000 It's because we control 31 governorships.

00:08:12.000 We have a majority in the Senate.

00:08:14.000 And God bless Trump because I feel like it's Trump versus the world, don't you?

00:08:18.000 And we're acting like it's all roses and peaches, folks.

00:08:20.000 It's wonderful because we got all the committees.

00:08:22.000 Don't you understand?

00:08:24.000 We don't have a country to have a committee in if this continues.

00:08:27.000 They're going to keep down ripping our history.

00:08:29.000 They're teaching our kids to hate our country.

00:08:30.000 You know, my generation, a majority of my generation, thinks that America's a racist, bigoted, homophobic, backwards, colonialist country that never should have existed in the first place.

00:08:38.000 How are you supposed to even govern a country like that?

00:08:42.000 It's immaterial if you have good judges or high taxes or low taxes.

00:08:46.000 I'm saying that's important, but my goodness, this is about the soul of our country, isn't it?

00:08:51.000 This is about whether or not our kids are going to love America again.

00:08:54.000 And so I encourage, this is a deeper and broader.

00:08:58.000 I want to explore this tonight of what we can do.

00:09:00.000 We're going to do that together and we're going to come to some very serious and specific and concrete action steps because I'm going to get you revved up and then I'm going to tell you exactly what to do because I'm not just going to get you revved up and then walk off stage and you're like, well, I got really angry and mad and we clapped and complained a lot.

00:09:14.000 But that young kid who we might never see again, but he talks really fast, I don't know what the heck I'm going to do.

00:09:18.000 No, no, no.

00:09:19.000 I'm actually going to give you something to do and we're going to talk about it and then we're going to go do it, okay?

00:09:23.000 That's what we're going to do.

00:09:27.000 And so the first thing is this: is that if the most important thing in your life is losing re-election, then you shouldn't have gotten in politics in the first place.

00:09:38.000 The pursuit of truth is the most important thing any human being can do.

00:09:42.000 Standing for principle, clarity, conviction, and courage.

00:09:45.000 And my goodness, this is a beautiful state.

00:09:46.000 I love visiting here.

00:09:48.000 It's a state that works.

00:09:49.000 It's a state with great people and moral people.

00:09:51.000 It's the most conservative state in the country.

00:09:53.000 And if there's any state that can send people to DC to fight for our generation, my goodness, wouldn't this be the state, right?

00:10:04.000 If there's a moment when, and I'm sure all of you feel this, and if you've been watching Tucker Carlson recently, he's exactly spot on.

00:10:12.000 Because we, I'll give you an example. 0.98

00:10:15.000 There is this absolute fool, Bubba Wallace, the NASCAR driver. 0.98

00:10:20.000 And he finds a garage door opener and he thinks it's a noose. 0.99

00:10:23.000 And he tells NASGARDS.

00:10:25.000 I don't know if you saw this story.

00:10:26.000 It's absolutely outrageous, right?

00:10:27.000 And so in response, we go send 15 FBI agents to go investigate this thing.

00:10:32.000 And every single person in the Republican establishment is like, well, this must be true, blah, blah, blah.

00:10:36.000 I mean, lest we forget Jussie Smollett, right?

00:10:39.000 And 15 FBI agents.

00:10:42.000 I mean, that's like twice the size of the biggest Joe Biden rally that we have to date, right?

00:10:46.000 I mean, it's an extraordinary amount of people.

00:10:49.000 And of course, they discover, because they brought in a small platoon to go investigate it, that it was just a garage door opener and it wasn't a noose and all this.

00:10:56.000 And I asked myself, where in God's green earth were the 15 FBI agents that were defending our monuments from being destroyed in our American cities?

00:11:04.000 Where were the 15 FBI agents that were going to go arrest Antifa from causing domestic terrorism in our country?

00:11:11.000 And the answer is this, is that the priorities right now are about, and I've done a lot of thinking about this, and I've spent a lot of time with these people in their offices for the last couple of years.

00:11:21.000 And I can say this with no reservation.

00:11:22.000 It comes down to a lot of Republicans are afraid that you're going to be called mean names, that they're going to call you things that are untrue.

00:11:30.000 Guess what?

00:11:31.000 They're going to call you those names anyway.

00:11:33.000 So you might as well fight for the country while you still have it.

00:11:36.000 They're going to call you a fascist.

00:11:38.000 They're going to call you intolerant. 0.67

00:11:39.000 They're going to call you these things.

00:11:40.000 So you might as well fight no matter what because they will never, you will never earn their respect.

00:11:46.000 And so people say, well, Charlie, my goodness, we got to learn to get along with the left.

00:11:50.000 Have to really learn to compromise.

00:11:51.000 I'm saying, hold on a second, hold on a second.

00:11:54.000 I say, you want me to compromise with Elon Omar.

00:11:58.000 This is why you want me to compromise with Alexandria Casio-Cortez.

00:12:03.000 See, isn't it interesting?

00:12:05.000 Every time that Republicans compromise, we're compromising in their direction.

00:12:10.000 Every time we compromise, it's like we should only borrow a couple trillion dollars this time.

00:12:15.000 Every single time we compromise, it's like we'll only sort of nationalize American health care.

00:12:19.000 Every time we compromise, it's like you could take away these guns, but not these guns.

00:12:23.000 Every time we compromise, you're like yeah, planned parenthood can get 440 million dollars instead of 500 million dollars this year.

00:12:29.000 Every time we compromise, it's like yeah, you can get this.

00:12:31.000 Okay justice instead of a great conservative justice.

00:12:33.000 Can you name one time the Democrats have ever compromised in our position?

00:12:38.000 Can you name one time they've ever said, you know what it might be a good idea if we sometimes start working with Democrats?

00:12:43.000 They want pathological, fundamental takeover of our country.

00:12:46.000 And so people say, well Charlie, I mean you're really trying to.

00:12:49.000 You're dividing the country.

00:12:50.000 I say, hold on a second.

00:12:51.000 We're already divided and it's very, very simple, you love the country or you don't love the country, and that, by The way, i'm happy to live in those dividing loans.

00:13:00.000 It's that simple.

00:13:02.000 It's, either you're grateful to live in America or you're ungrateful that you live in America, and if that means that you're dividing the country well, maybe that's a division that needs to happen.

00:13:11.000 And this whole thing is like, well Charlie, we just need to come together as a country.

00:13:14.000 I completely agree. 0.54

00:13:15.000 How about this, if we have a country right now that American flag is going to be kneeled by overpaid spoiled, brat athletes that don't know what the hell they're talking about, excuse my language. 0.97

00:13:29.000 I mean, they are going to be kneeling this upcoming season J Watt Baker Mayfield, these black athletes that have it unbelievably well thanks to the opportunities afforded them in this country they're going to be kneeling saying that America's a racist bigot, homophobic country. 0.97

00:13:44.000 Now, it's a very important lesson. 0.55

00:13:46.000 People say, well Charlie, what can I do?

00:13:47.000 And some of the members of the?

00:13:48.000 U.s Senate, I call and I text, and I call and I text and I don't get calls back anymore.

00:13:52.000 But so what?

00:13:52.000 My politicians?

00:13:53.000 They just whatever.

00:13:54.000 I care about my country, I care about the people.

00:13:56.000 Politicians can go in the kingdom of Washington D C and keep their lobbyists happy, but i'll tell you, what the people, how you?

00:14:03.000 What people say, how do I fight?

00:14:05.000 What do I do?

00:14:06.000 If you allow a lie to be spoken without a truth, cross-examining it, you are complicit in the lie.

00:14:12.000 It is that simple.

00:14:13.000 So people say, well, what is this?

00:14:15.000 Every single time they go on tv, every single time that they say that America is backwards and racist and awful, we say no, we're the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:14:24.000 We're a generous country, we're a benevolent country, we're a creative country, we're a forward-thinking country.

00:14:28.000 We do not give an inch on this, you know.

00:14:30.000 They say oh, we're gonna defund the police.

00:14:32.000 And what do we do?

00:14:33.000 We put forth a police reform bill that looks like it was authored by Nancy Pelosi in the United States Congress.

00:14:37.000 It's like well that that we are constantly playing on their terrain.

00:14:41.000 Here's an interesting point.

00:14:42.000 We do well.

00:14:44.000 We win when we play offense.

00:14:48.000 When Republicans play defense, we lose our country.

00:14:51.000 Brett Kavanaugh is a great example.

00:14:53.000 Brett Kavanaugh the most united we've ever seen the party.

00:14:56.000 In fact, Lindsey Graham like woke up and had like a pretty amazing moment, right.

00:15:00.000 I've never seen it like Lindsey Graham Said, I mean, it was just, it's like, wow, I never knew you had that kind of venom in you. 0.96

00:15:06.000 Susan Collins comes up and gives this great speech.

00:15:08.000 And I thought, wow, we know how to fight.

00:15:12.000 We can fight.

00:15:14.000 Where in the heck has that been recently?

00:15:17.000 And so here's the first thing.

00:15:18.000 Here's what's ended up happening.

00:15:19.000 We have run to the hills the last couple weeks.

00:15:22.000 It's just true.

00:15:22.000 We've run to the hills.

00:15:23.000 Donald Trump is fighting basically alone.

00:15:26.000 And bad ideas have now metastasized in America quicker than we could ever imagine.

00:15:31.000 Black Lives Matter, the organization, is more popular than the Pope.

00:15:34.000 68% of Americans approve of them.

00:15:36.000 This is what happens when you don't fight lies.

00:15:39.000 All of a sudden, they become widely held beliefs.

00:15:42.000 See, we as conservatives, we just think, oh, truth will eventually win.

00:15:47.000 Well, of course it will.

00:15:48.000 And those of us that are Christians know that the ultimate truth is ultimate victory.

00:15:52.000 But where, theologically or religiously or psychologically, do you think that you can just think truth is going to win if you don't speak the truth?

00:16:00.000 If you don't fight for the truth, if you're not willing to sacrifice for the truth, if you're not willing to surrender for the truth, if you're not willing to put everything on the line for the truth, if somehow you could just, oh yeah, we're just going to float it out there.

00:16:12.000 And so now what we have now is an unbelievably dangerous moment in our country where my generation, a generation that basically has given, they've been given everything you could possibly imagine.

00:16:22.000 They don't have to worry about housing or food or medicine.

00:16:25.000 Generally, of course, there's extenuating circumstances, but they live in the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:16:30.000 And we threw them mostly into government schools.

00:16:32.000 And they learned American history from a villainist lens.

00:16:36.000 That everything about our country is dark.

00:16:38.000 That Jefferson and Washington and Franklin and the founders of our country, the brilliance that they had, that they were racist and backwards and slave owners that hated other people.

00:16:46.000 And this is perfectly articulated in the New York Times 1619 project. 0.76

00:16:50.000 You might be aware of this.

00:16:51.000 And if you're not, your kids are probably learning from it.

00:16:53.000 And if not, your tax dollars are probably funding it in one way or the other.

00:16:56.000 The 1619 Project, New York Times Project, number one podcast on Apple Podcast for like the last couple weeks and last couple months.

00:17:03.000 They make the argument so incorrectly and so insidiously and just so malevolently where they say America was not founded in 1776.

00:17:12.000 It was founded in 1619.

00:17:15.000 And so this idea is now widespread and we just accept it as and some leaders of conservative organizations that you have probably sent money to by the way they are now publishing that America is 400 years old.

00:17:27.000 What?

00:17:27.000 Hold on a second.

00:17:28.000 We had a very specific founding. 0.99

00:17:30.000 We are under English control.

00:17:32.000 And then you know what ended up happening?

00:17:34.000 We wrote the Declaration of Independence, our birth certificate.

00:17:36.000 It was completely different than any other document.

00:17:38.000 We said the laws of nature and nature is God.

00:17:41.000 Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.

00:17:42.000 Previously it was property.

00:17:43.000 It was inspired by the writings of John Locke.

00:17:45.000 And right after we sent that letter to King George, the first state, Vermont, abolished slavery in the year 1777.

00:17:51.000 It was because of America that slavery started to end.

00:17:54.000 We didn't invent slavery.

00:17:55.000 We didn't all of a sudden endorse it wholeheartedly.

00:17:57.000 In fact, it was a friction point all throughout the American founding.

00:18:00.000 We set this ideal in our preamble and we said, maybe we can get to a place where all men are created equal under the law.

00:18:06.000 Wow, what a moonshot.

00:18:08.000 We didn't live up to it immediately, but within 60 years, we fought a bloody war.

00:18:11.000 Within 20 after that, we'd eradicated slavery.

00:18:13.000 We're already talking about black senators serving in the United States Congress. 0.79

00:18:16.000 Show me another country that improved that quickly, that had that kind of progress, and sacrificed so much for a moral good.

00:18:23.000 That is not a racist country.

00:18:25.000 That is a moral country.

00:18:36.000 And that's all I want out of the party.

00:18:38.000 That's that kind of narrative, that kind of we will not give an inch, because we did not fight two world wars.

00:18:45.000 We did not liberate South Korea.

00:18:47.000 We did not create the Western world to just allow these overly privileged, hyper-entitled, self-righteous, sanctimonious socialists to destroy the country from all the generations that sacrificed everything before us.

00:19:02.000 All of them, including from this great state.

00:19:06.000 So let's talk about what else is happening here in this country right now.

00:19:09.000 So my big focus is I visit college campuses all across the country.

00:19:13.000 I'm here in my personal capacity, by the way.

00:19:15.000 I do run a 501c3 nonprofit, Turning Point USA.

00:19:18.000 You guys might be familiar with it.

00:19:19.000 Thank you very much.

00:19:20.000 2,000 high school and college campuses across the country.

00:19:22.000 My good friend Bo Beatman has been supporting us for years.

00:19:26.000 However, everything I say is in my own personal capacity here tonight because I'm getting rather political.

00:19:30.000 Good.

00:19:34.000 What's happening in higher education is one of the greatest threats to America, make no mistake.

00:19:38.000 Colleges and universities, including some in this state, pose the greatest threat to the future of America that I could possibly articulate.

00:19:47.000 We have a generation of children that are, they're borrowing money they do not have to study things that don't matter to go find jobs that don't exist.

00:19:55.000 And what they do study is why there should be no, there is no God.

00:19:58.000 You should love yourself.

00:19:59.000 Do whatever you want whenever you want to do it.

00:20:01.000 There is no such thing as truth. 0.89

00:20:02.000 America is an awful place.

00:20:04.000 And it creates incredibly unhappy people, unproductive people, after a couple years.

00:20:09.000 And when you watch these protests and you watch the swarms and the swaths of people in the streets, you should ask yourself the question.

00:20:15.000 You probably do, where did this come from?

00:20:17.000 The university system is where this comes.

00:20:19.000 I've been dealing with these people for the last couple of years.

00:20:23.000 I've been stormed out of restaurants by Antifa.

00:20:25.000 I've been spit in the face, had things thrown at me.

00:20:27.000 My family has been doxxed.

00:20:28.000 I've been getting death threats for years.

00:20:30.000 It's not exactly a new concept what these people do.

00:20:33.000 And by the way, they almost never get arrested.

00:20:35.000 They never get held accountable.

00:20:37.000 It seems as if our government decides not to go that extra step for whatever reason to hold these insurrectionist terrorists in our country accountable for the damage that they're doing.

00:20:45.000 Oh, because they're protesting fascism. 0.93

00:20:47.000 Like, oh, yeah, okay, first of all, they are the fascists.

00:20:49.000 They're the ones that want to wear the masks. 0.88

00:20:51.000 They're the ones that want to destroy our cities.

00:20:52.000 They're the ones that are planting bombs in all of our urban centers.

00:20:56.000 And so all of this originates in our university campuses, almost all of it.

00:21:00.000 These bad ideas have been allowed to spread endlessly to generations of young people, to young people that are going into debt to learn from, yes, the established professor.

00:21:10.000 In the University of California system, for example, if you say, quote, there is only one race, the human race, that is considered to be hate speech.

00:21:16.000 You are not allowed to say that in the University of California system.

00:21:18.000 You're not allowed to fly a flag at the University of California, Irvine.

00:21:22.000 That is considered to be hate speech.

00:21:23.000 We have black dormitories and over 100 speeches across the country. 0.96

00:21:26.000 So we are re-segregating black people away from white people. 0.61

00:21:28.000 Now we are now judging people on the color of their skin, not on the content of their character. 0.54

00:21:32.000 All the progress that we made in the 1960s is being reversed in three weeks or less.

00:21:37.000 Three weeks or less.

00:21:38.000 Now, why is this happening?

00:21:39.000 Because the left knows that the core ideas, the American Trinity, as Dennis Prager would say, e pluribus unum, in God we trust, and liberty.

00:21:46.000 That is what binds us together as a people and makes us actually very decent.

00:21:50.000 We're an unbelievably decent country.

00:21:53.000 The fact that we have been able to bring in immigrants from all across the world, the fact that we've been able to have so many people that speaks different languages, it's unbelievable.

00:21:59.000 We have been able to make this experiment work.

00:22:01.000 And here's people say, well, Charlie, don't you know how racist we are? 0.96

00:22:04.000 If we are so racist, why did 2 million people from Africa come here legally since the 1980s? 0.97

00:22:09.000 More than ever came here as slaves.

00:22:10.000 If we are so racist, why did the caravan come north from Central America, not south to Venezuela? 0.58

00:22:15.000 If we're so racist, why is there a waiting line to come into our country for people of color? 0.81

00:22:19.000 If we are so racist, why is it the idea to come into America?

00:22:23.000 Of course not.

00:22:24.000 And they use this as a way to try to shame every single person in this room across the country to take a knee.

00:22:30.000 First of all, I'm not taking a knee to anything except Jesus Christ.

00:22:32.000 Let me just be very perfectly clear.

00:22:34.000 They can arrest me.

00:22:35.000 They could throw me in jail.

00:22:36.000 That has just not happened.

00:22:37.000 I don't care.

00:22:39.000 And you have Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and those self-righteous sycophants and those apparatchiks. 0.89

00:22:45.000 Wear those kente cloths, which is so unbelievably pandering, and they go take a knee.

00:22:50.000 And we're all supposed to believe this is because a police officer did something evil and wrong in Minneapolis. 0.98

00:22:56.000 We're supposed to believe that.

00:22:57.000 We're supposed, yeah, nothing says honoring the legacy of George Floyd, like stealing a 70-inch television in Long Beach, right?

00:23:03.000 Like that's supposed to honor his legacy?

00:23:05.000 Of course not.

00:23:05.000 The left saw a moment.

00:23:07.000 They saw a breaking point.

00:23:09.000 They saw an opportunity when people were very pent up.

00:23:12.000 When you had unemployment was record high, men are living in the inner city.

00:23:16.000 Testosterone is building the inner cities. 0.97

00:23:17.000 The gyms are closed.

00:23:18.000 There's no sports.

00:23:19.000 There's no recreational opportunities.

00:23:21.000 What a great time to try to start to divide us.

00:23:23.000 You know, it's so amazing.

00:23:24.000 From the moment I saw this story, I said, oh my gosh, please.

00:23:27.000 And I contacted every single legislature I could.

00:23:29.000 I said, hold the line.

00:23:30.000 They're going to try to start this into something huge.

00:23:32.000 And of course, we didn't.

00:23:33.000 And of course, it grew because the media says the killing of George Floyd divides America.

00:23:40.000 No, actually, it was probably the most agreeable incident I've ever seen in American life.

00:23:45.000 No one was divided.

00:23:47.000 In fact, everyone was united around this.

00:23:50.000 And so then they create this false division where all of a sudden they're like, well, we think we need to have the division over this.

00:23:56.000 And so what do you have?

00:23:57.000 You have the burning of the cities, the looting, the rioting, the targeting.

00:24:00.000 And then it gets completely out of control would be an understatement, right?

00:24:05.000 Like we've experienced out of control.

00:24:07.000 Someone came up to me, I don't know who they said.

00:24:08.000 I lived through the 68 riots and I never thought I was losing my country.

00:24:12.000 Well, you probably think you are now because this is different.

00:24:15.000 Now you have corporations funding millions of dollars to these organizations, which is just a form of extortion.

00:24:20.000 Like don't boycott us next.

00:24:22.000 You have CEOs that have to step down in disgrace because they say all lives matter or because they don't have preferences to go hire more black people than white people, which is incredibly racist in and of itself.

00:24:32.000 This is just judging people on the color of their skin.

00:24:35.000 And so then in every single college across the country, they say, well, it's because we live in a system that has white privilege.

00:24:42.000 And this is in every single major school system across the country.

00:24:45.000 I don't know if it's in Wyoming or not.

00:24:46.000 I pray to God it's not.

00:24:47.000 Oh, it is.

00:24:47.000 Well, there you go.

00:24:48.000 So no piece of turf is left untouched by the left.

00:24:52.000 Do you guys notice that the left is always the one that is taking over institutions, that we're almost the ones that's never taking over institutions?

00:24:58.000 Do you guys notice that we're always the one that's like, well, we lost Hollywood, we lost the colleges, we're losing the churches, we're losing that.

00:25:04.000 Like, what's one thing that we've advanced positively, except a couple political stuff, which of course is only temporary?

00:25:09.000 It's because the left has been so focused on multi-generational, multi-decade cultural takeover.

00:25:14.000 We'll talk about how to fix that in a second.

00:25:15.000 This lie of white privilege must be defeated immediately.

00:25:19.000 And I speak out against this so aggressively to great personal cost because if you dare say something that is true and assertively and you're not the right skin color, they come after you.

00:25:28.000 So I had the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, all these people coming after me.

00:25:31.000 They say, well, Charlie, you're a white Christian male.

00:25:34.000 You're not allowed to speak on this.

00:25:35.000 So I've been speaking louder than ever before.

00:25:36.000 Thank you very much.

00:25:37.000 And so.

00:25:40.000 And it's truth is truth, regardless of the person who is saying it.

00:25:46.000 Something is true regardless of the skin color of the person that is communicating it.

00:25:50.000 So when I say very simply that we should not be focusing on the color of people's skin on the content of their character, that is true.

00:25:58.000 When I say that, show me very specifically how on earth this is, we have white privilege in America when the richest individuals in America are Indian Americans, Taiwanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Korean Americans. 0.94

00:26:11.000 In fact, not just by a little.

00:26:13.000 The average white American family earns $76,000 a year.

00:26:16.000 The average Asian American family that just articulated $110,000 to $130,000 a year. 0.53

00:26:20.000 The Constitution wasn't written Korean and it wasn't written in Vietnamese.

00:26:23.000 In fact, anyone can succeed in this country if you just do three basic things.

00:26:27.000 Get married before you have kids.

00:26:29.000 Get a job and a job.

00:26:30.000 Graduate high school.

00:26:31.000 Oh, yeah, don't commit crimes.

00:26:32.000 You're going to do great.

00:26:33.000 In fact, that's the way our system is built.

00:26:35.000 If you play by the rules and you do that generally over a couple of generations, you can succeed.

00:26:40.000 But we have taught our children to go blame other people for your problems.

00:26:43.000 It's because of all these institutional hurdles that you can't succeed.

00:26:46.000 You want to bust a lie?

00:26:47.000 Do so forcefully, and here's a great way to do it. 0.63

00:26:49.000 A black child that is raised by a mother and a father is far more likely to succeed than even a white child that is raised by a single mother.

00:26:56.000 Single mothers are American heroes.

00:26:57.000 They're amazing.

00:26:58.000 However, statistically, that child is less likely to succeed than even a black kid that has a mother and a father. 0.74

00:27:02.000 So the real problem is not institutional racism, it's institutional fatherlessness that's happening in the black community. 0.96

00:27:08.000 We have removed the fathers in our communities. 0.90

00:27:11.000 77% of black children in America will grow up without a stable father in the home.

00:27:18.000 That's according to the Washington Examiner.

00:27:19.000 77%.

00:27:20.000 How are you supposed to have functioning social systems when kids do not have fathers?

00:27:24.000 You know what happens when they don't have fathers?

00:27:25.000 By the time they're eight, they go find a male father figure.

00:27:28.000 And you know who that usually is?

00:27:29.000 It's the gangbanger on the side of the street that gets them into crime by age 11.

00:27:32.000 They're doing drugs by 13, and they're in the criminal justice system by 15.

00:27:36.000 And they all say they hate the police because they have no positive interactions with it.

00:27:39.000 And it's this endless cycle.

00:27:40.000 And guess what?

00:27:41.000 If they get lucky, they'll get into a school system.

00:27:43.000 Oh, by the way, run by the corrupt Democrat cartel teacher unions. 0.98

00:27:48.000 You go to Baltimore, Maryland, 13 schools that are almost all black kids. 0.97

00:27:51.000 You can't find one kid that reads at grade level in the fifth grade or does math at grade level.

00:27:56.000 This is a civil rights issue of our time.

00:27:59.000 And so maybe the issue isn't that there is institutional racism.

00:28:02.000 Maybe it's because we removed fathers from the home and we allowed the teacher unions and the cartels to run roughshod over our entire country and our government school system.

00:28:11.000 Maybe that would be part of the problem in our country.

00:28:13.000 However, that kind of nuance and that kind of detail is not always articulated by the people that we need to be.

00:28:20.000 So here's one thing I do want to mention.

00:28:22.000 We will get to some questions and I want to go deeper into 2020 as well.

00:28:28.000 Higher education is a huge issue, as I mentioned.

00:28:31.000 And so I encourage all of you that have young people to think very carefully before you send a kid to go to college.

00:28:36.000 If you send a kid to go to four-year college, be prepared to play Russian roulette with their values.

00:28:41.000 And every college is different.

00:28:43.000 Liberty University is a terrific school, and I have a project at Liberty University with the great Jerry Fowl Jr.

00:28:47.000 He's terrific.

00:28:48.000 It's in Lynchburg, Virginia.

00:28:49.000 Hillsdale is a good school.

00:28:50.000 There's a couple other good ones.

00:28:51.000 But lo and behold, most colleges across the country engage in an institutional and deliberate indoctrination of the next generation.

00:28:59.000 They're training activists.

00:29:00.000 They're not liberating young minds.

00:29:02.000 I've spoken on more college campuses than any other person on the conservative circuit in the last couple years.

00:29:06.000 And I could tell you, the lack of wisdom, knowledge, worldliness, and tolerance that is being stuffed down the next generation's throat or lack of thinking is absolutely detrimental to the future of America.

00:29:18.000 And so you should be asking high school seniors, hey, why are you going to college?

00:29:22.000 Not where are you going to college?

00:29:24.000 Ask them the reason that they're going to college.

00:29:26.000 Don't act as if there's an expectation to send them to school.

00:29:29.000 We need more plumbers, welders, HVAC individuals.

00:29:32.000 We need more police officers, people that take gap years, entrepreneurs, military service members, tradespeople, carpenters, you name it. 0.69

00:29:39.000 We need more people that work with their hands and less people that are able to recite 16th-century lesbian poetry and how awful America is. 0.64

00:29:51.000 And college, college, and I never went to college, and I admit it, which is the great irony of the entire thing. 0.86

00:29:57.000 I run a college organization because I didn't go to college.

00:30:00.000 So people try to use that against me.

00:30:02.000 And I say, well, maybe that's why I was able to get this whole thing together because I didn't go to college.

00:30:06.000 I'm half kidding, of course.

00:30:07.000 But college has become far more about the credential than actually the education.

00:30:14.000 Understand, a hungry mind will learn for the rest of their life.

00:30:18.000 A hungry mind can learn outside of college thanks to the unbelievable access to knowledge that is out there on the internet.

00:30:24.000 You can read and you can learn.

00:30:25.000 You can watch lectures at things they'll never teach you for $80,000, $90,000 in debt that it takes you to go.

00:30:30.000 And so what we've done is we've created this incredible, dangerous cultural expectancy that if you do not go to college, you somehow are less intelligent.

00:30:38.000 I've spent time around people that have doctorates from Ivy League schools and people, and I've debated all of them.

00:30:43.000 I could tell you right now, there is far more wisdom of somebody that works in an oil well in Wyoming or a plumber in Gillette or a carpenter in Jackson Hole than any of the people that with these degrees and doctorates from Yale and Stanford by a long shot.

00:31:00.000 In fact, the reason there is no wisdom in these schools is goes back to an old Hebrew saying, no God, no wisdom.

00:31:07.000 They have no God, so they have no wisdom in any of these schools. 0.99

00:31:10.000 They have these people that are constantly trying to outdo themselves into a search for nothingness. 1.00

00:31:16.000 They say that there's 127 genders at Brown.

00:31:19.000 If you didn't know that, there's over 127 genders.

00:31:21.000 They say that the Bible is an outdated ancient document that should be completely removed from our schools.

00:31:25.000 They say there is no God. 0.98

00:31:26.000 They say America's a racist, bigoted, homophobic country. 0.97

00:31:29.000 They say there's no such thing as absolute truth. 1.00

00:31:31.000 Only someone that went to Brown University and has a doctorate could believe something as foolish as this. 0.99

00:31:36.000 They have very little applicable life experience. 0.99

00:31:38.000 And what they do is they have deep contempt for the world that all of us live in.

00:31:42.000 And so we send off our most prized possession.

00:31:44.000 We say, here, here's our young people.

00:31:46.000 And we tell our kids, yeah, just go in debt, sign on the dotted line, $60,000, $70,000, $80,000 a year.

00:31:51.000 And good luck.

00:31:52.000 And all of a sudden they come back at Thanksgiving.

00:31:55.000 And, hey, honey, how was college first semester in college?

00:31:59.000 And they say, I'm no non-binary.

00:32:03.000 And I don't think Thanksgiving should be a recognized holiday.

00:32:06.000 I think it should be National Indigenous Peoples Remembrance Day.

00:32:10.000 And I think that you guys stole all your money and you should give it away.

00:32:13.000 And like, all of a sudden, it's like this completely different person.

00:32:16.000 And you wonder, like, what the heck happened?

00:32:17.000 Well, these are intentional indoctrination factories that are doing incredible.

00:32:23.000 They pose a tremendous threat.

00:32:24.000 So what do we do about it?

00:32:25.000 Number one, we need to have a massive movement right now to make sure that anyone that graduated from any college across the country, unless it's Hillsdale or Liberty or a conservative school, do not give your alma mater another nickel of your money.

00:32:38.000 Defund these colleges completely.

00:32:42.000 Divest your money proudly.

00:32:45.000 And so I run into this issue all the time.

00:32:49.000 I've spoken all the great schools, right?

00:32:51.000 I've spoken at Brown.

00:32:52.000 I've spoken at Yale.

00:32:54.000 I spoke at Columbia.

00:32:54.000 I corrected.

00:32:55.000 I was speaking at Harvard this next fall if it doesn't get canceled.

00:32:58.000 I've spoken at Stanford.

00:32:58.000 I've spoken all across the country.

00:33:00.000 Do you know who the biggest donors are to these schools?

00:33:03.000 Do you know who has the biggest names on these schools?

00:33:05.000 Do you know it's conservatives?

00:33:07.000 It's conservatives that have written the biggest checks.

00:33:09.000 It's conservatives that have written the nine-figure checks.

00:33:12.000 That's right.

00:33:13.000 Scribble how many numbers that is.

00:33:14.000 That's over 100 million so that your kids can learn to hate America.

00:33:18.000 So it's conservatives that have voluntarily funded the destruction of our country.

00:33:22.000 So I beg you, please stop funding these schools.

00:33:24.000 They do not need your money. 0.98

00:33:25.000 In fact, every single person in this room has had to sacrifice something because of the shutdowns, because of the Chinese virus. 0.54

00:33:31.000 And these colleges are being like, well, we're going to have to go through layoffs and we're going to have to... 0.84

00:33:34.000 Good.

00:33:35.000 You might actually start to fire some of the crazy apparatches that you have working for you.

00:33:39.000 Like, about time you have to go through some layoffs.

00:33:42.000 My goodness.

00:33:45.000 And so, and so more broadly, here's two other things, and we can get to some questions.

00:33:50.000 I do want to make sure we talk about what else is happening.

00:33:55.000 People say, well, Charlie, what can I do locally?

00:33:57.000 Every single person in this room right now, the Wyoming Republican Party, should know every single member of your school board, and you should run for school board yourself.

00:34:04.000 Every single person.

00:34:05.000 The lack of activism in local school boards and conservative Republican circles is unbelievable to me.

00:34:10.000 It's like we care about all of this.

00:34:12.000 We're worried about the destruction of America and all of our kids.

00:34:14.000 And quite honestly, we are just letting the unions run our school boards for us.

00:34:18.000 We're letting them use these textbooks that are approved by anti-American globalists.

00:34:22.000 We're allowing people that hate our country to just run our school system.

00:34:25.000 And if the Republicans got smart and tough about taking over the school systems, we could make real sizable change.

00:34:30.000 And these races are won in this state by like a couple thousand votes if that.

00:34:34.000 I mean, some of these local school board races might have like a thousand, two thousand votes.

00:34:37.000 And so I urge all of you that might be thinking about it.

00:34:40.000 What can I do?

00:34:41.000 Well, first of all, get involved in the school board races, if not run.

00:34:43.000 They are so unbelievably important.

00:34:45.000 And guess what?

00:34:46.000 They're almost all former individuals in the education system, almost all of them.

00:34:50.000 Almost all of them are people that serve in the education system.

00:34:52.000 There's nothing wrong here, nothing to see here.

00:34:54.000 Now, mind you, Wyoming, you guys are not the worst culprit in the country of all this.

00:34:57.000 But I'm going to tell you something shocking right now.

00:34:59.000 I'm a data guy.

00:35:01.000 And I spent about an hour and a half yesterday, late at night, going through your trends, going through voter registration numbers, going through voting records.

00:35:09.000 You guys are six years from making this a blue state.

00:35:12.000 Six years.

00:35:14.000 Six years, this will be a Democrat state, maybe less.

00:35:18.000 So we could celebrate.

00:35:19.000 We're all doing great, right?

00:35:21.000 Six years, this is Colorado. 0.99

00:35:23.000 I look at outward migration trends, which are only going to accelerate because people are coming in from other states because they've screwed up the rest of the country. 0.86

00:35:29.000 The state's very attractive because of a 0% income tax.

00:35:33.000 Liberals are coming here quickly and they're teaching your kids to hate the country too.

00:35:37.000 And so if you're not serious, if we don't get serious about this very quickly, you know, a decade from now, I'll be invited to the Lincoln-Reagan Day dinner or something and be like, yeah, the Democrat governor, and my goodness, will that be a sad day.

00:35:48.000 If Wyoming turns, and if you don't think it's possible, just look at other states around you.

00:35:52.000 Look at Montana.

00:35:53.000 Look at Christine Noam had an unbelievably close race for governor.

00:35:56.000 It was within like 12,000 votes. 1.00

00:35:58.000 Colorado used to be a deep red state. 0.99

00:35:59.000 Nevada used to be a deep red state.

00:36:01.000 They've all turned.

00:36:02.000 Now remember the trend.

00:36:03.000 The left takes the left.

00:36:04.000 If there's one thing you take away from this, it's not exactly the most enlightening thing to remember, but it's the left destroys everything it touches.

00:36:09.000 They're like locusts.

00:36:10.000 They take something over, they move to the next thing.

00:36:11.000 They take something over, they'll destroy everything.

00:36:13.000 They destroyed football, they destroy music, they destroy fine art.

00:36:17.000 The left is a relentless force of destruction.

00:36:20.000 And they're coming for Wyoming if they're not already here.

00:36:23.000 And they're going to try to infiltrate your party.

00:36:25.000 They're going to try to infiltrate your political class.

00:36:27.000 They're going to try to infiltrate things that you care about, infiltrate your churches.

00:36:30.000 And I hope that's a wake-up call for all of you because I used to come to many states that are now blue states that were once red states that eight years ago I wouldn't have dreamed.

00:36:38.000 Texas is now a battleground state.

00:36:40.000 Arizona is now a battleground state.

00:36:41.000 Georgia is now a battleground state.

00:36:43.000 And the reason being, number one, is Republicans refused to fight and we elected Democrats that call themselves Republicans.

00:36:47.000 Number two, that we just completely vacated the entire cultural landscape.

00:36:52.000 So you're probably six years from losing this state if you don't actually elect and fight on every single term, every single front.

00:36:58.000 So I want to talk about the churches too, because I spoke at a church this afternoon, an amazing church, Family Life Church, Family Life Church, something like that.

00:37:05.000 I think that was a great church, terrific church.

00:37:07.000 Great pastor.

00:37:08.000 And I was very warmly welcomed.

00:37:09.000 Thank you for that.

00:37:10.000 And it shouldn't be a controversial thing for a pastor to host me, unfortunately.

00:37:14.000 It is.

00:37:14.000 I'm a Bible-believing Christian.

00:37:16.000 It's the most important thing in my life, and I contest for Christianity on college campuses, in the public square, and social media.

00:37:21.000 But so many pastors have come out against me and denounced me and say that, well, we as Christians can't get involved in politics.

00:37:28.000 Christians can't get involved in politics, which is just so amazing to me that I must have missed that in the gospel about not getting involved in politics.

00:37:28.000 I hear this all the time.

00:37:36.000 In fact, I remember the commission is go make disciples of all nations, which in the original translation is every corner of everything in life is you should be spreading the gospel and the kingdom of Jesus Christ.

00:37:46.000 The most important thing you could do in your life is accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

00:37:50.000 The second most important thing is making sure you could do the first thing.

00:37:54.000 And that is now somehow a controversial position.

00:37:57.000 They're taking down statues of Jesus Christ, by the way.

00:37:59.000 The Black Lives Matter radicals came out the other day that say they want to take down statues of Jesus Christ.

00:38:04.000 Churches are being lit on fire.

00:38:05.000 And guess what?

00:38:06.000 Do you want to know who the biggest points of endorsement and activism for a lot of this is?

00:38:09.000 People that call themselves Christians.

00:38:11.000 Mega church pastors have come out with Black Lives Matter t-shirts who, you know, they are pro-sex work, abolish prisons, abolish police, destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family. 0.85

00:38:20.000 Must have missed that in Matthew 5, the whole pro-sex work thing. 0.63

00:38:23.000 But a lot of these pastors are just coming out and they're saying, yeah, you know, we support this and our congregants are going to get behind this.

00:38:29.000 And now, one of the only reasons why America has been resistant to socialist and Marxist takeovers is because of the church.

00:38:38.000 One of the reasons we've always had a firewall is because the church has prevented it from happening for so many years.

00:38:43.000 That's not the case now.

00:38:44.000 In fact, the church is the driving force for Marxist social change throughout the country.

00:38:49.000 And so I highly encourage you, if your pastor is not speaking out boldly and biblically against the hate group that is Black Lives Matter, if they are not speaking out boldly and biblically against the lies of white privilege, if they are not telling the congregation that now is the time not to go silent and that say this will pass, now's the time to stand and fight, please go find another church.

00:39:11.000 Because now is not the time to just abdicate all of our responsibility and our authority.

00:39:17.000 And so here's what you can concretely do.

00:39:20.000 People say, well, Charlie, what can I give to?

00:39:26.000 When you do your year-end budgeting, give more money to political or social causes than you spend on coffee every single year.

00:39:32.000 And that's a good rule of thumb.

00:39:33.000 The average American spends $10 a day on coffee.

00:39:36.000 Incredible.

00:39:37.000 I guess inflation or something, my goodness, right?

00:39:40.000 $10 a day.

00:39:42.000 That's a lot of money.

00:39:44.000 And so if being caffeinated is more important than having a country, then, okay, well, then so be it.

00:39:49.000 But I encourage all of you to, on your hierarchy of lists, to be very specific about where your time, your energy, and your resources are.

00:39:57.000 And that's the other thing, is that this is not a spectator sport.

00:40:01.000 Like the fight for our country is not something where you turn on the TV and like, go, Trump, go, and then like you just check out.

00:40:08.000 Every single person in this room should be putting something on the line for the fight of freedom.

00:40:13.000 Every single person in this room should be ready to sacrifice something that is near and dear for your country.

00:40:19.000 And that is a little, that is a small ask out of you compared to what prior generations did for our country.

00:40:25.000 And what I'm finding is some people are just willing to be like, you go get them, Charlie.

00:40:29.000 I'll be cheering for you from afar.

00:40:31.000 I'm like, that's fine.

00:40:32.000 There's three types of people.

00:40:34.000 There's the people that help the enemy or do nothing.

00:40:36.000 There's the fighters and the people that help the fighters.

00:40:38.000 I'm one of the fighters.

00:40:39.000 I'm going to keep on doing it.

00:40:40.000 I'm going to go to more college campuses than ever before.

00:40:42.000 I'm going to get things thrown at me.

00:40:44.000 I'm going to get all the news media to continue to call me the worst names in the world.

00:40:47.000 That's fine.

00:40:48.000 That's what I signed up for.

00:40:49.000 Then just help the fighters if that's not you.

00:40:52.000 Be the supply chain in the military analogy.

00:40:55.000 Because very specifically and concretely, we are being outgunned right now.

00:41:00.000 I am getting hundreds of messages from young people that are saying, Charlie, I love Donald Trump and he has my back.

00:41:07.000 And the party has totally left us for ruin.

00:41:11.000 And they're not wrong.

00:41:13.000 Because this is no longer about like passing bills and debates.

00:41:17.000 It's now about a culture war.

00:41:19.000 And we as conservatives haven't really engaged in the culture war for a long time.

00:41:23.000 Longer, multi-generational things, I highly encourage you to homeschool your kids.

00:41:27.000 Highly encourage it.

00:41:28.000 I'm a huge advocate of homeschooling.

00:41:29.000 Please do that.

00:41:30.000 So that's multi-generational and it's longer term, but that's a different thing.

00:41:37.000 And then on the most personal level, think to yourself, am I willing to watch my country burn if they don't come from me?

00:41:49.000 And I'm not willing to be that.

00:41:50.000 In fact, I want to be an active participant in that.

00:41:53.000 And I know exactly what they're doing.

00:41:55.000 I know their aims.

00:41:57.000 And let's talk about the election, then we'll do some questions, Frank, okay?

00:42:00.000 So Joe Biden is going to be the Democrat nominee.

00:42:03.000 People say, do you think he's going to get switched out?

00:42:06.000 I thought that at one point.

00:42:07.000 I see no evidence of that whatsoever.

00:42:09.000 I mean, and I'm going to tell you something awfully depressing because it's very important for you to hear this.

00:42:13.000 This guy is the most confused, corrupt candidate ever to run for the history of the presidency, most corrupt vice president in American history.

00:42:19.000 Sold us out to China, sold us out to Ukraine for his son's benefit and his son's interest. 0.99

00:42:24.000 He confuses his wife with his sister, doesn't know what state he's in, doesn't know what president he served for, calls people that wants to vote for him, lying dogface pony soldiers. 0.51

00:42:32.000 And according to him, 150 million people died of gun deaths last year, and 120 million people have died of COVID-19. 0.98

00:42:38.000 The guy has serious mental cognitive problems, right? 0.83

00:42:40.000 We all know this. 1.00

00:42:41.000 We all see this.

00:42:42.000 Sort of.

00:42:43.000 I was talking to a Democrat friend of mine in Chicago and parents, and we've known each other for years.

00:42:48.000 I went to school with their kids.

00:42:49.000 She still talks to me amazingly.

00:42:51.000 And I asked her, I said, is she still voting for Biden?

00:42:53.000 She thinks he's great and all that.

00:42:55.000 And I asked, I said, well, what do you think of Biden's cognitive decline?

00:42:59.000 And she said, what are you talking about?

00:43:03.000 Just so you understand the echo chamber we live in.

00:43:05.000 Okay?

00:43:06.000 And I said, you know, the fact he screws up and he can't really make sentences.

00:43:09.000 And she's like, Charlie, I've known you for years.

00:43:12.000 I have no idea what you're talking about.

00:43:13.000 All I know is that Trump can't walk down a ramp.

00:43:15.000 He can't take a glass of water.

00:43:16.000 He always slurs his words. 1.00

00:43:18.000 And I think Trump has mental problems. 1.00

00:43:20.000 Now, she was not trolling me. 0.99

00:43:21.000 This is a very sincere conversation between a thoughtful voter who watches the news, someone who I consider to actually be a more than informed person.

00:43:30.000 And I said, you've seen nothing about Biden's decline?

00:43:33.000 She says, I think he's speaking pretty nice, actually.

00:43:38.000 I said, have you ever seen a full speech?

00:43:39.000 She's like, well, no, but I'll see you like 20-second snippets on the news.

00:43:43.000 And I said, okay.

00:43:44.000 If you think that we're just going to win this thing, because of that, I mean, most of the country doesn't even know what we know that is so obvious to us.

00:43:53.000 And we live in a mass propaganda war right now where the news, the activist news media is so unbelievably determined to destroy this country, they're going to try to put a corrupt, borderline, senile individual into the White House without ever trying to have him campaign.

00:44:08.000 So Donald Trump right now is, the polling reflects that he's not doing as well.

00:44:14.000 I think the polling is pretty misleading.

00:44:17.000 I think there is some truth to that, though.

00:44:19.000 I think that he probably has taken a hit.

00:44:21.000 I think that's fair to say.

00:44:22.000 I don't think he's down as much as the polls say.

00:44:24.000 But I think it's probably fair to say he's tied, if not a little bit down, in some of those states.

00:44:28.000 And I think that sort of humility is actually needed.

00:44:31.000 I don't think there's actually any utility in us saying he's going to win.

00:44:35.000 He's going to win a 50-state landslide.

00:44:36.000 Like, I don't, there's people that do that.

00:44:38.000 I just, I don't think that's actually helpful.

00:44:40.000 I don't think that's actually going to make him elected to a second term.

00:44:44.000 So we're very lucky because we have an incredible president who's fought for us at every single turn, fought for our country, decided to just sacrifice everything for the betterment of everything we care about.

00:44:56.000 And I believe he's going to have a bounce back.

00:44:59.000 I think he will.

00:45:00.000 And in order for him to do so, it's going to take, I think, a kind of recalibration of his message.

00:45:05.000 And it's part of the brilliance of his 2016 message.

00:45:08.000 And all of us were captured around this, is that he kind of, he entered into the imagination of the American people.

00:45:16.000 He made us dream for the first time in 40 years.

00:45:18.000 He's like, we can bring back jobs.

00:45:21.000 You're going to get so sick of winning that you're going to say, stop the winning, right?

00:45:24.000 You're going to get sick of it.

00:45:25.000 You're going to have a physical wall.

00:45:28.000 He was almost pushing the boundaries of what we could.

00:45:30.000 And guess what?

00:45:30.000 He actually fulfilled everything he said he was going to do.

00:45:33.000 It's miraculous.

00:45:34.000 But what's really sobering, and we have to recognize this, is because of these lockdowns and because of the virus, he almost has to not run as an incumbent.

00:45:42.000 He has to rerun for the presidency altogether.

00:45:45.000 And I think that's a very hard thing to admit.

00:45:48.000 But unfortunately, a lot of his landmark economic accomplishments have been totally disappeared.

00:45:52.000 People don't remember them.

00:45:53.000 People don't feel it.

00:45:54.000 People have a completely different set of anxiety right now than they did back then.

00:45:58.000 And so he's very innovative.

00:46:00.000 He's very adaptive.

00:46:01.000 And I think he's going to be able to do that.

00:46:02.000 And thankfully, once a campaign is eventually going to emerge, when it's Joe Biden versus Donald Trump, I think he's going to, I can't even see a scenario where that campaign exists and swing voters in the states that matter are going to be able to make that informed decision.

00:46:18.000 And If it does, then we've got a lot more structural problems than Trump versus Biden if we elect Biden and that campaign actually happens.

00:46:26.000 But I want to say this, that Donald Trump has done so much for our country.

00:46:32.000 And I have to go around, we should applaud that, by the way.

00:46:35.000 Thank you.

00:46:41.000 I wrote one of the best performing pro-Trump books called The MAGA Doctrine, sold incredible amounts.

00:46:47.000 I actually make the articulation of what the philosophy is of the Trump presidency.

00:46:52.000 And thank you for those of you that bought the book.

00:46:53.000 I appreciate that very much.

00:46:55.000 And blown away by the support.

00:46:58.000 And the president's endorsed it multiple times.

00:47:00.000 And I make the argument that Donald Trump was actually a 40-year reckoning, a throbbing middle finger against the ruling class, that it was this repulsion that all of us have for stodgy politicians, that we actually enjoyed the offhand remarks.

00:47:16.000 We enjoyed someone that wasn't like the rest of them.

00:47:18.000 That almost from a very symbolic perspective, we wanted someone that was a little rough around the edges.

00:47:24.000 In fact, we wanted someone that was going to be the bodyguard of America, right?

00:47:28.000 Like we wanted someone that was going to be kind of the bouncer outside of the club, right?

00:47:32.000 That was going to look the enemy in the eye and say, you're going to touch the American people.

00:47:36.000 You got to go through me first, right?

00:47:37.000 We wanted the street fighter from Brooklyn to be like, you know what, American left? 0.99

00:47:42.000 I'm going to punch you twice as hard. 0.99

00:47:43.000 And you've never been punched like you've been punched like Donald Trump. 0.99

00:47:45.000 And he was right.

00:47:46.000 And Donald Trump actually played offense for the first time in a long time.

00:47:49.000 When you had all these politicians, they have all their plans and 36 different points.

00:47:52.000 You have Mitt Romney, who's a total and complete disgrace and should be kicked out of the Republican Party immediately.

00:47:57.000 And you have all these guys that they care much more about appeasing lobbyists and kowtowing to China.

00:48:04.000 You have a guy that, for the first time in a long time, he's like telling the truth.

00:48:07.000 And you're like, oh my gosh, like, what's this all about?

00:48:08.000 And not only does he tell the truth, he tells it brutally and bluntly.

00:48:11.000 Like, we've been losing.

00:48:13.000 You ready to start winning?

00:48:14.000 Elect me.

00:48:14.000 We're going to bring jobs back.

00:48:15.000 These deals are the worst deals I've ever seen in my life, and I could do better deals.

00:48:19.000 And he's actually fulfilled those things.

00:48:20.000 And he confirmed the justices he said he was going to confirm.

00:48:24.000 This pandemic was a curveball that a lot of us couldn't see.

00:48:27.000 We should not have locked down our country the way that we did.

00:48:30.000 That was an unbelievable mistake.

00:48:31.000 And we need to recognize that mistake.

00:48:34.000 And this state went way too far in what you did.

00:48:38.000 You guys should have done the South Dakota model.

00:48:39.000 So I'm just going to say that right now.

00:48:41.000 So.

00:48:46.000 God bless Christine Noam.

00:48:47.000 Incredible.

00:48:49.000 And I'm seeing her in a couple days, so I'll tell her hi from all of you.

00:48:52.000 But you guys got it better than most states, so I'll say that.

00:48:54.000 But it was way too much.

00:48:56.000 The data just didn't reflect any of it.

00:48:57.000 It just didn't.

00:48:58.000 And again, what I love about this part of the country should know, take responsibility for your life.

00:49:04.000 Like if you're a rancher and you own property and you're 45 minutes off the grid and you get in a little bit of trouble, that's self-reliance and you got to know how to take care of yourself and your family's going to take care of you.

00:49:16.000 And at the absolute worst case scenario, you're going to call in a helicopter.

00:49:19.000 But this kind of spirit of taking responsibility and freedom is built into this part of the world.

00:49:24.000 And this idea that that wasn't translated into the public policy of the lockdown was just amazing to me.

00:49:29.000 It was like, your whole state was built around the idea of taking care of yourself in less than desirable circumstances.

00:49:35.000 Like, right?

00:49:37.000 It's like your whole, I mean, it's way more dangerous to be, let's just say, facilitating a 50,000 anchor ranch in negative 30-degree weather than getting COVID-19.

00:49:48.000 I'm sorry, like, that's just, like, it's way more dangerous.

00:49:53.000 And you guys do it, and you do it well, and that's the fabric of your state.

00:49:58.000 And so let's just recognize, let's never do that again, right?

00:50:01.000 Maybe you protect the nursing homes and maybe use shelter in place certain areas.

00:50:05.000 Maybe you put forth very firm guidelines for certain people.

00:50:08.000 And then you say something that the people were waiting for, take care of yourself because you have your own ability to make decisions.

00:50:16.000 Freedom requires responsibility.

00:50:19.000 Go be American.

00:50:20.000 Like, that would have been really great to hear, right?

00:50:22.000 I mean, geez, Louise.

00:50:26.000 Instead, instead, what we saw across the country, especially in the Marxist states, I want to give credit to Brian Kemp and Ron DeSantis.

00:50:33.000 They did a very good job of improving the lockdown measures, and they deserve credit. 0.81

00:50:37.000 And I don't always see eye to eye with Governor Kemp on certain things, but he deserves credit on that.

00:50:41.000 He really does.

00:50:42.000 And DeSantis is a dear friend.

00:50:43.000 He was terrific.

00:50:44.000 And they opened up their state, and they're holding the line.

00:50:47.000 And what we saw is... incredible acceleration of suicides, mental health problems, depression, alcoholism, social isolation, joblessness.

00:50:56.000 And the solution was the cure was worse than the disease.

00:50:59.000 Make no mistake.

00:51:00.000 And since when do we believe we can control a virus?

00:51:03.000 Like what kind of what kind of messianic deification oubris do we think we have that we can like control the spread? 0.95

00:51:09.000 Now, that's not to say you should be foolish, right? 0.98

00:51:11.000 And you should have like a mosh pit in Cheyenne. 0.99

00:51:13.000 That's not what I'm recommending.

00:51:14.000 But it's also not reason to shut down a state where generally every person in the state knows how to take care of themselves.

00:51:21.000 So I just, I think that's insane.

00:51:22.000 So anyway, there's, but, and, and Trump, Trump did, and this is a very important point is that people blame the lockdowns for Trump.

00:51:31.000 And this is a nuanced point, but Christy Noam was an example that not every state had to lock down, that it wasn't on Trump.

00:51:37.000 He issued his guidelines, left it to the states.

00:51:39.000 And I think Trump has to push back a little bit more here and say, I didn't force you guys to lock down.

00:51:44.000 I think his poll numbers will go up because I think part of the reason that people are, I know the spirit of this country.

00:51:50.000 I know that the lockdowns were not favorable.

00:51:52.000 I just know that.

00:51:53.000 And especially the way that they were implemented.

00:51:55.000 And so that took a huge hit.

00:51:59.000 And that was unforeseen.

00:52:00.000 And it bothers me as a Trump supporter.

00:52:02.000 It bothers me as an American that he's being blamed for something that was so outrageously out of his control.

00:52:09.000 He was the one that warned us against China.

00:52:11.000 He's the one that told us that they were an insidious force against the world. 0.57

00:52:14.000 He's the one that tried to hold them accountable, renegotiate the trade deals. 0.69

00:52:17.000 And then China lies about the virus. 0.86

00:52:19.000 They release the virus onto the rest of the world, whether intentionally or unintentionally. 0.92

00:52:22.000 You guys can fill in the gaps yourself.

00:52:23.000 But then 100,000 Americans die, which is a total tragedy.

00:52:26.000 And then we shut everything down.

00:52:27.000 So he's in a less than desirable situation.

00:52:29.000 But the one thing, I wrote five chapters about this in my book, and I've done tons of research.

00:52:33.000 I know the biography of Donald Trump extraordinarily well.

00:52:36.000 And I encourage all of you guys to check it out because it's really special.

00:52:39.000 It really is.

00:52:40.000 I mean, built Trump Tower by the age of 31 or 32, rebuilt Woman Rink, rebuilt the convention center at age 28, renovated Hotel Commodore in Midtown Manhattan.

00:52:54.000 They changed into the Grand Hyatt, always fighting the establishment, fighting the conventional orthodoxy, trying to be an innovator, putting tough problems on his shoulders, not always succeeding, but recalibrating and innovating, bought a football team.

00:53:06.000 I don't know if any of you know that, sued the NFL and almost won.

00:53:09.000 And by the way, they call him a racist.

00:53:10.000 Herschel Walker was like babysitting Donald Trump Jr. when he was growing up.

00:53:14.000 You know who Herschel Walker is.

00:53:15.000 He's a black running back who I think actually won the Heisman Trophy.

00:53:18.000 And by the way, what's so unbelievable to me, and Republicans don't usually fight on this. 1.00

00:53:22.000 Donald Trump's a racist. 0.87

00:53:24.000 Explain to me how someone magically becomes a racist the moment he starts to run for the presidency. 1.00

00:53:28.000 Like every black person in the country loves Donald Trump.

00:53:31.000 He's He's in every single rap song.

00:53:32.000 They go visit him.

00:53:33.000 They take pictures with him. 1.00

00:53:34.000 He's glorified in the black community. 0.99

00:53:36.000 They gave him like the Black Hero of the Year award in year 2007. 0.79

00:53:40.000 And the moment he decides to run as a Republican, they use, oh, he's the worst person in the world because he wants to secure our country.

00:53:45.000 I mean, and so, but the one thing that I know about this guy, and I've gotten to know him and I've spent time with him, is, and I think you all see this, is that there's a relentlessness, there's a perseverance to him.

00:53:57.000 And with whatever 100 days left we have to the election and all that, the one guy that you want in this moment in time, after we've locked down, after the joblessness, after all this nonsense of the virus, the one human being that could still win election after being re-election, after being impeached, after being spied on, the Mueller probe, which was a total hoax, and Republicans voting for his impeachment, and every former president that's alive doesn't support him.

00:54:20.000 If there's one guy that can do it, it's Donald Trump.

00:54:22.000 Let me tell you, if there's one guy that can rise above all of them, it's Donald Trump.

00:54:27.000 And that's where all of you come in.

00:54:29.000 So what can I do concretely?

00:54:31.000 Okay, so I think it's fair to say Wyoming is going to vote for Trump, right?

00:54:34.000 You got a really important Senate race in Montana for Steve Daines.

00:54:37.000 Some of you go across the border from Sheridan to buildings that ever go knock on doors.

00:54:40.000 Arizona's a battleground state.

00:54:42.000 You guys want to go on a road trip?

00:54:43.000 I'll put you to work to go knock on doors to go tell Arizonans that came from California to go vote for Trump.

00:54:47.000 The point is this: mobilize the Wyoming standing army to go be activists for the betterment of our republic.

00:54:53.000 This election will be determined by 10,000 votes here and 12,000 votes here and 800 votes here and 900 votes here.

00:54:59.000 It's basic, it almost statistically guaranteed that this is going to be a marginal victory election if we win.

00:55:05.000 And so for those of you like, oh, I'm in Wyoming, I can't do anything and I can't travel.

00:55:08.000 That's fine.

00:55:09.000 There's huge opportunities.

00:55:10.000 You know, phone bank from home in other states.

00:55:12.000 There's opportunities to be able to advocate and do all those sorts of things.

00:55:15.000 Get that kind of activist posture as we get into this reelection because right now, the left, they think they got us on the run.

00:55:21.000 We have plenty of intelligence.

00:55:23.000 We got plenty of intelligence all throughout the left.

00:55:26.000 And I could tell you, they think that they are six to nine months from getting exactly where they want to go.

00:55:32.000 And I understand that there's a fear out there about all the lockdown and everything, the pandemic.

00:55:37.000 But if there's ever been a time to rise up and to fight harder than we ever fought, now is the time.

00:55:43.000 And do that in your personal, do that politically and otherwise.

00:55:45.000 All right, let's do some questions, okay?

00:55:46.000 That'll be kind of fun.

00:55:48.000 I've been trying for about a month now on Facebook to just call out when I see a lie that's obviously a lie or just a falsehood that they try to disguise as the truth or like they use anecdotal evidence and you try to show them percentages and stats and they're very they have a lot of cognitive dissonance and they don't listen to arguments.

00:56:08.000 How can you get past that and try to just like get them to recognize the truth?

00:56:12.000 Yeah, it's a very, it's a great point.

00:56:14.000 Thank you, by the way, for being here.

00:56:16.000 Anyone ever feel like you have trouble communicating with a leftist or a liberal?

00:56:20.000 Anyone ever have this phenomenon?

00:56:22.000 Yeah.

00:56:25.000 That is my full-time job.

00:56:26.000 So it's what I do every single day.

00:56:29.000 First of all, don't grow in despair.

00:56:32.000 You'd be amazed at how many people I've seen that have been pathological leftists and one sentence of truth can diffuse them immediately into a pursuit of what is right and good and honest in the world.

00:56:41.000 And so don't grow in despair and keep holding the line and calling out the nonsense as you see it.

00:56:46.000 Also, understand this.

00:56:48.000 You're young, you're a conservative.

00:56:50.000 Be ready to lose any and all of your friends because that probably will happen if you fight for truth.

00:56:54.000 I see it happen all the time.

00:56:55.000 Kids are the most popular person in high school.

00:56:58.000 They say one thing in favor of me or Trump, they lose everything.

00:57:01.000 But they're talking about the truth, which is far more important than that popularity.

00:57:04.000 I hope all of you guys recognize and realize that, that you might be a little disconnected.

00:57:08.000 I mean, the price that our students are paying for advocating for this is unbelievable.

00:57:14.000 I mean, we just hosted 3,300 students in Phoenix, Arizona.

00:57:17.000 And every single one of them came up to me and they said, Charlie, we're ready to lose everything.

00:57:21.000 Let's go.

00:57:22.000 I mean, you want to see the fire?

00:57:26.000 It's the young conservatives.

00:57:28.000 It really is them.

00:57:29.000 And I mean, I'm sitting around some of these senators and they're like, everything's great.

00:57:33.000 Like, we're fine.

00:57:33.000 Like, this is, we have got to get rid of that wing of the party and like go into retirement, man, because, like, we got a country to save.

00:57:40.000 Like, oh, my goodness.

00:57:43.000 And because our generation is the one that's getting the blunt of all this, we're the ones getting canceled.

00:57:49.000 We're the ones getting kicked out of school.

00:57:50.000 We're the ones that are having reporters show up and literally hunt us in the middle of the night.

00:57:55.000 We're the ones that have death threats put against us and our families.

00:57:58.000 We're the ones that have to get under police protection.

00:58:01.000 And these are 15 and 16-year-old kids that are just trying to support their president.

00:58:05.000 The turning point USA leaders are the ones that have had their dormitories firebombed, that have been punched in the face on the campus of UC Berkeley, that have had bear spray at their Turning Point USA chapter meetings with 16 of our members having to be hospitalized.

00:58:17.000 None of that stuff makes national news, by the way.

00:58:19.000 None of it.

00:58:20.000 And so that should inspire all of you because there is a firm, conservative base of students that are so dedicated to holding the line.

00:58:30.000 And so I want to thank you for that because don't grow in pessimism and with all of that.

00:58:37.000 And so if you guys want to, I encourage all of you one way that you could help me tonight.

00:58:41.000 And I want to thank those of you that have said nice things about it.

00:58:44.000 I do about 12 podcasts a week, try to do 14 to a day.

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00:58:58.000 If everyone in this room did that, we would beat the New York Times on every one of your smartphones.

00:59:02.000 But you guys would enjoy it.

00:59:03.000 I just interviewed the president three days ago.

00:59:05.000 And what I do is I also answer questions from young people all across the country.

00:59:08.000 I do an hour, ask me anything every single Monday.

00:59:11.000 Charlie, how do I debunk this study?

00:59:12.000 How do I do this?

00:59:14.000 And our research team does dozens of hours of research every single week.

00:59:18.000 I mean, it's incredible what we do, our entire podcast platform.

00:59:21.000 And it's really, really easy to listen to when you're driving or working out.

00:59:24.000 So you guys would bless me if you guys subscribe to that.

00:59:26.000 So let's go to the next question.

00:59:28.000 Yeah.

00:59:29.000 Charlie, I'm curious.

00:59:31.000 We do need to reach out.

00:59:33.000 And I understand that Wyoming's solidly in the Trump camp.

00:59:38.000 And that's awesome.

00:59:39.000 But we do need to go to these other places.

00:59:42.000 And I've heard Marty say it, and Corey, too, that we're not really a place where we're going to see Trump or any of the campaign much because he doesn't need to be here.

00:59:52.000 But we are going to need to go to other places.

00:59:54.000 Are there resources and trainings that we can get involved with and learn about so we can maybe take a van with several people and go door to door in Phoenix or something like that?

01:00:09.000 Yeah, so thank you.

01:00:11.000 I'm sure the Danes campaign would be very welcome to that.

01:00:14.000 I highly encourage you guys to help there.

01:00:16.000 Steve Daines is a friend.

01:00:18.000 He has been one of the few fighters, and he's really, he's on the ropes right now in Montana. 0.77

01:00:23.000 He's running up against Bullock, who's unbelievably corrupt.

01:00:26.000 I think he's currently the governor.

01:00:27.000 He's about not to be to run for Senate.

01:00:29.000 And so Steve's in a tough race there.

01:00:31.000 And so that's not that far away.

01:00:33.000 But the answer is yes, there are resources.

01:00:35.000 I'm not involved with the campaign.

01:00:37.000 I legally can't be because I run an outside group.

01:00:39.000 But I'm sure if you guys reach out to your party through your committee, men and women, they have those resources and they can help you do that.

01:00:45.000 But I encourage that.

01:00:46.000 I really do.

01:00:47.000 Because again, if you're able to persuade 5, 10, 15 people in Maricopa County in Arizona or in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it could help save the future of the Republic.

01:00:57.000 No pressure, my goodness.

01:00:58.000 But next question.

01:01:00.000 So how do we basically get our Republican congressmen and representatives to fight back and fight for us?

01:01:08.000 Is there a way that we can do that?

01:01:10.000 I'm sorry.

01:01:11.000 I'm right here.

01:01:12.000 I'm sorry.

01:01:12.000 I was looking back there.

01:01:14.000 Yes.

01:01:18.000 Look, how do I say this?

01:01:22.000 I think everyone knows.

01:01:24.000 Let me answer this question a little bit back from the back.

01:01:27.000 Everyone knows here how to be persuasive.

01:01:29.000 You guys have all persuaded someone in your life.

01:01:32.000 I want to be very, very clear here, though.

01:01:35.000 You guys are the sovereign in this relationship.

01:01:38.000 Like, you guys are actually the ones that have the power, not the other way around.

01:01:45.000 And so I want to be very clear.

01:01:47.000 Like, our document is very clear about this.

01:01:50.000 And I think we get hypnotized sometimes.

01:01:53.000 It's almost like there's this disconnect.

01:01:55.000 Like, here comes the ruling class.

01:01:57.000 We have to stop acting.

01:01:58.000 Like, it's the exact opposite.

01:02:00.000 And I encourage all of you to politely and compassionately, but also directly and unapologetically, communicate, be like, you guys work for us.

01:02:08.000 You know that, right?

01:02:10.000 It says very clearly, we the people, the sovereign in this country is everyone in this room.

01:02:16.000 And so look, I'm not going to get into any specifics of this state or any other states.

01:02:19.000 You guys can make your own conclusions.

01:02:21.000 And I've intentionally not said any names tonight because that is not my style.

01:02:24.000 And you guys can fill in the blanks there.

01:02:26.000 Okay, that's what you guys, you guys are very smart, and I trust all of you to do that.

01:02:30.000 But in other states, the states that I reside in or where I come from, I can tell you that I am very clear with elected officials where I stand and where they don't stand.

01:02:43.000 And I could tell you, I do have a big platform, so it's not completely and totally applicable.

01:02:49.000 But I basically go into those interactions being like, I don't really care if they ever get back to me or if they like me or not.

01:02:56.000 Like, I'm just going to tell the truth.

01:02:57.000 And so I know that's a hard thing for some people to hear, but I can't convey to you the sense of urgency right now that is needed for us to hold the line.

01:03:07.000 And I think you all agree with that, that if there ever was a time to fight, it is this moment.

01:03:12.000 And so I implore all of you to do that.

01:03:14.000 So next question.

01:03:16.000 Charlie, thanks for coming tonight.

01:03:19.000 If there was one thing that you think is totally misunderstood by conservatives in our governance, what is that one thing?

01:03:27.000 Wow.

01:03:28.000 Now hire you as a hype person.

01:03:30.000 That's a great question.

01:03:36.000 What'd you say?

01:03:37.000 I think he's saying.

01:03:39.000 Oh, okay.

01:03:40.000 God bless you.

01:03:42.000 One thing.

01:03:42.000 Wow.

01:03:43.000 Okay.

01:03:45.000 Okay.

01:03:45.000 Here's one thing that I think that is generally misunderstood by conservatives in our government generally.

01:03:52.000 That things are going well.

01:03:55.000 Like, I get the impression when I hear from our elected officials, like how good things are going.

01:04:01.000 And I'm like, we're fighting for every inch right now.

01:04:05.000 And maybe things are great in the kingdom of Washington, D.C. Maybe things are really wonderful in the fruited plains of the lobbyist class.

01:04:15.000 But that's, I don't think anyone here feels like we're having our country's best chapter right now.

01:04:19.000 That's number one.

01:04:20.000 Number two, it's also that, like, here's a really good one.

01:04:24.000 That the worst thing that could ever happen to you is losing re-election.

01:04:26.000 That's a really good one.

01:04:28.000 Like, that, I, I just, I don't live in that world, so I don't see it that way.

01:04:35.000 But there are worse things that can happen besides, like, you need to just surrender that maybe you might lose re-election if you're going to fight for what is right.

01:04:42.000 But you know what the irony is?

01:04:43.000 What's so incredible that if you actually fight for what's right, you're not going to lose re-election?

01:04:47.000 It's like the craziest thing in the world.

01:04:49.000 It's like, it's the opposite that ends up happening.

01:04:52.000 And so, and the last thing is this, is that I think that, I mean, look, we, our debt is approaching $26 trillion, right?

01:05:02.000 That's our generation that has to pay for it.

01:05:04.000 It's us, our young people, right?

01:05:07.000 And I thought we control all this, and we don't, but we don't.

01:05:11.000 And so that's a big misunderstanding.

01:05:13.000 So, yeah, and I also just think, I think there's a misunderstanding at how much we disdain Washington, D.C.

01:05:19.000 I think that there's like a really disconnect, that we think that they're like a problem-solving mechanism and extension of our states.

01:05:25.000 It's like, no, we really don't like you.

01:05:29.000 Not you personally, but like the political system.

01:05:31.000 And we believe it's rotten to the core.

01:05:33.000 And that's why Trump won when he said drain the swamp.

01:05:35.000 Like, he won because it was like, finally, someone's saying this, that you're not representing us.

01:05:40.000 So I hope that's communicated in some way.

01:05:44.000 And there's some good ones out there.

01:05:45.000 And I'm happy to recognize them when they're there.

01:05:48.000 Charlie, thanks.

01:05:49.000 I really appreciate you speaking about religion and its point in your life.

01:05:56.000 As I've said to several people, one of the biggest lies that was ever perpetrated upon the American people is that in polite society, we don't talk about religion or politics.

01:06:08.000 And one of the biggest differences between today and the founding of our country was then whenever people came together, whether it be at the village square or the pastors from the pulpit, is they talked about the current events, our politics of the day, and that's how we became a country.

01:06:26.000 Today, nobody wants to talk about it.

01:06:28.000 They don't have time.

01:06:30.000 And whether it's religion or politics, every time we believe that, we lose.

01:06:37.000 Yeah, it's well said.

01:06:38.000 And I mean, again, the churches are going to be the saving grace of this country.

01:06:42.000 And I pray for a revival and an awakening happening in the American churches because it's our last best chance all across the country.

01:06:49.000 It really is.

01:06:50.000 And it needs to happen in every single denomination of Christianity and Catholicism and Protestantism and you name it because I think that a revival saying that this is our country, we need to have civil governance again, I think is so extraordinarily important because right now we have this disconnect and it's just so another incredibly pernicious lie.

01:07:10.000 I hear Republicans say this.

01:07:11.000 They say separation of church and state.

01:07:13.000 I say that's not in the Constitution.

01:07:15.000 Like it's a singular letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention in 1803.

01:07:21.000 It's nowhere in our laws.

01:07:22.000 It's nowhere in the Constitution.

01:07:25.000 The only thing that's there is that you can't have a state-run religion.

01:07:27.000 But this idea that the Constitution is not around natural rights, in order to have natural rights, you have a natural rights giver, which is the Almighty.

01:07:35.000 The idea that we do not recognize the sovereign Almighty God, and it's in our birth certificate.

01:07:40.000 Just look at our birth certificate, the Declaration of Independence.

01:07:42.000 Laws of nature and nature is God.

01:07:44.000 It could not be more simple that our country was founded by a moral people that were reckoning for this idea of liberty.

01:07:51.000 And it took so long post-Christ for people to actually be like, wow, we can organize a government around every individual having dignity.

01:07:59.000 Now, mind you, we did not fulfill that until completely post-Civil War and even more so after that.

01:08:05.000 But the inspiration resulted in action when Vermont went above and beyond and they abolished slavery in the year 1777.

01:08:13.000 We have such an amazing, beautiful, rich history as our country.

01:08:16.000 I mean, on the Liberty Bell was a verse from Leviticus.

01:08:19.000 I mean, all throughout the founding of our country was symbology and metaphors and direct references to the greatest book ever to exist in the history of the world.

01:08:30.000 And so, and this is just to give an idea of like how little I care about what the media says about me.

01:08:34.000 And I just, I love saying this because this one really irritates them.

01:08:37.000 I say this on Capitol Hill.

01:08:38.000 Anywhere I speak, I say every Republican running for office should advocate that if a classroom does not teach the Bible, they should lose all federal funding.

01:08:47.000 By the way, that should be a core position.

01:08:48.000 It just should be.

01:08:49.000 And so then, so then this is a very interesting thing because then people say, well, Charlie, separation church and state already went through that.

01:08:55.000 But I'll say, hold on a second.

01:08:56.000 What you're trying to say, though, is that we can't have a state-run religion.

01:08:59.000 First of all, the lack of teaching the Bible is a religion.

01:09:02.000 The book exists.

01:09:03.000 Now, I don't say you have to teach it as a religious text.

01:09:06.000 What if you just teach it as a text that exists?

01:09:09.000 Like, it's there, right?

01:09:10.000 Like, you can't just act as if it's not there because I believe we believe people who read the word will eventually be led towards salvation, right?

01:09:17.000 Just acting as if our schools can just systematically remove it.

01:09:20.000 Hold on a second.

01:09:21.000 You have incredible history in this book.

01:09:22.000 The nation of Israel was founded and the temple was destroyed once, if not twice.

01:09:26.000 You have Roman occupation, not to mention the most important person ever to exist in the history of the world is in that book, Jesus Christ, whether you believe he's a savior of the world like I do, or just, you know, kind of a radical revolutionary that was killed.

01:09:37.000 Of course, that's a wrong interpretation of it.

01:09:39.000 That doesn't mean you shouldn't teach the book.

01:09:41.000 It created deep moral governance.

01:09:43.000 And so these Republicans are like, well, Charlie, that's really controversial.

01:09:46.000 You represent Wyoming.

01:09:48.000 Like, if there's any state you should advocate for the Bible being taught, it should be Wyoming.

01:09:52.000 It's like, it's like, I mean, and by the way, I say this, and it's very interesting.

01:09:59.000 I say this at Brown University.

01:10:01.000 I say this at Stanford.

01:10:02.000 And there's a revival happening in our country where people are starting to respect not necessarily, they're getting to the divinity of the book, but they're at least respecting the improbability of its existence, right?

01:10:16.000 That the fact that this is just not a mistake that this book was put together, it's every answer a human being could possibly want.

01:10:22.000 It's the stories that built Western society.

01:10:24.000 You're dealing with a problem.

01:10:26.000 I'll find you a verse.

01:10:27.000 I'll find you a story.

01:10:29.000 I'll find you an archetype that's in that book that can give you an answer to what you're going through right now.

01:10:34.000 From marital issues to alcohol issues to anything you're dealing with, that book has an answer to it.

01:10:40.000 Who do I marry?

01:10:41.000 What do I do?

01:10:42.000 How do I work?

01:10:43.000 Should I tell the truth?

01:10:44.000 All the answers are within there.

01:10:45.000 Yet that's the book that we don't have in the schools that our taxpayer dollars are funding.

01:10:50.000 We are doing a moral disservice to every child across the country that has never been able to learn the beauty and the depth of the greatest book ever to exist in the history of the world.

01:10:58.000 And they dare to teach the Quran all across the country and not teach the Bible.

01:11:03.000 This is happening all across the country. 0.72

01:11:05.000 And so this should be a primary issue.

01:11:08.000 And I'm telling you, it's a winning issue. 0.53

01:11:09.000 Even in Democrat areas, it comes across at first, they're like, oh, they want to push religion.

01:11:13.000 But then you explain it and you say, no, no, no, this is history too.

01:11:17.000 This is a historical document.

01:11:19.000 You have King Hezekiah.

01:11:20.000 You have King David.

01:11:21.000 You have the destruction of the temple.

01:11:23.000 This stuff happened.

01:11:24.000 We have archaeological evidence.

01:11:25.000 It's like, if you're actually, you know, the liberals really want to educate kids about history, fine.

01:11:30.000 You can't ignore this book.

01:11:31.000 You just can't.

01:11:32.000 And so that's what I advocate for that.

01:11:33.000 Now, guess what?

01:11:34.000 We will be richly rewarded if we stand for truth when it's very hard, especially on that issue.

01:11:46.000 Charlie, thank you so much for coming to Wyoming and really giving us your wisdom.

01:11:51.000 We really appreciate it.

01:11:53.000 I moved here a few years ago from Connecticut, and I worked for the NRA.

01:11:57.000 So I'm used to fighting Democrats and used to having a target on my back.

01:12:01.000 One of the problems in this state is that as a state that's going to vote 70 to 75% Republican, we fight with each other more than we do Democrats.

01:12:11.000 We have a lot of infighting.

01:12:14.000 What would be your, and we've got 400 people in this room that are never going to agree on everything.

01:12:20.000 What would be your advice on, as Republicans, how we can get along and help support the Republican Party as a whole and not diminish our influence?

01:12:30.000 That's a very good question.

01:12:32.000 Thank you.

01:12:32.000 And I think that's a very interesting thing.

01:12:34.000 What ends up happening in these, in a state like Wyoming, and there's very few states like this, but I'm very familiar with it, is when you have such one-party rule, the other party starts to infiltrate the singular parties, right?

01:12:45.000 So it's very interesting, actually.

01:12:48.000 So you take the example, right?

01:12:51.000 So I'm looking at states that are far less Republicans signing born alive bills than Wyoming.

01:12:56.000 And I'm like, how is that possible?

01:12:58.000 Like, like Ohio, I don't know if it's Ohio or one of the Midwestern states did.

01:13:01.000 It might have been Indiana or something like that, but not as conservative as the state, pretty generally conservative.

01:13:05.000 And the reason is that the party sometimes gets infiltrated by people who are not of that party.

01:13:10.000 And so I'm not as intimately familiar with that in the state.

01:13:12.000 I'm getting the impression that is the case here, just based on some conversations that I've had.

01:13:18.000 But then it's just a question of like, what is a Republican?

01:13:20.000 What is a conservative, right?

01:13:22.000 And so I think that's a really important question.

01:13:24.000 And I don't love infighting, but if there's only a one-party state, it's really not infighting.

01:13:29.000 So I think that's a really important thing because you're actually just arguing, you're not arguing over titles because you're all under the same title, right?

01:13:35.000 So at that point, there's no infighting.

01:13:37.000 Like, for example, if this was Ohio and like every single vote mat, you know what I'm saying?

01:13:42.000 It was a question whether or not this was going to be a Republican or Democrat state.

01:13:45.000 I would have a different position.

01:13:47.000 I would argue a little bit more.

01:13:48.000 Well, you know, keep the focus and all that sort of stuff.

01:13:50.000 But it's like you're Wyoming.

01:13:51.000 Like, come on.

01:13:52.000 Like, if there's any state to be able to be very clear and convicted on what it means to be a constitutional Christian conservative, I think that this should be the state that does that.

01:13:59.000 And so that's my opinion on that.

01:14:06.000 Other questions?

01:14:07.000 Yeah.

01:14:07.000 Oh.

01:14:07.000 Hello, Charlie.

01:14:08.000 Brian Miller.

01:14:09.000 Hey, a couple of different things.

01:14:11.000 The last question was one of my two questions I was going to ask you.

01:14:14.000 So I'm very happy about that.

01:14:15.000 Thank you very much, like you said, for coming to Wyoming.

01:14:18.000 You came to Wyoming six years ago and went to our Republican dinner in Sheridan County.

01:14:23.000 That was great for Sheridan County.

01:14:26.000 Thank you.

01:14:27.000 We have a ton of youth who are now participating in the party.

01:14:32.000 And it's a lot to do with you coming in and talking to people.

01:14:32.000 It's awesome.

01:14:36.000 So thank you for that.

01:14:37.000 Thanks for coming when you weren't famous, and thank you for coming back multiple times now that you are famous.

01:14:42.000 Thank you.

01:14:43.000 The other thing that I wanted to bring up is our is to ask you ask a question of you.

01:14:52.000 What do you think about candidates actually going out and working with each other across the state?

01:14:58.000 I found, and I'm talking, we already mentioned we have 38 or 40 candidates that are pretty conservative.

01:15:06.000 What do you think about folks working across the state with each other?

01:15:10.000 So you would mean like if someone's representing the eastern part of Wyoming to help someone get elected in the western part, basically?

01:15:16.000 Well, not necessarily that, but possibly, but mostly senators and representatives that cover the same area, campaigning with each other.

01:15:23.000 Yeah, I mean, being a part of that.

01:15:25.000 And absolutely.

01:15:25.000 Is that something you advocate for?

01:15:26.000 Yeah, sure, as long as they're, you know, of like mind.

01:15:31.000 Yeah.

01:15:32.000 So I want to nuance that.

01:15:34.000 Like, I don't want to make a generalization.

01:15:36.000 But yeah, of course. 0.70

01:15:37.000 I mean, I think that it would be foolish if not.

01:15:40.000 And look, the Democrats are very smart guys.

01:15:42.000 When there's a one-party state and they can count what's happening, they're just going to try to infiltrate the one-party state.

01:15:48.000 Like, it's not, they're very Machiavellian.

01:15:50.000 They don't, honesty and truth is not a left-wing value.

01:15:53.000 So they don't care if they have to pull a different ballot or say something that they're not.

01:15:56.000 No, seriously.

01:15:57.000 It's like there's a Republican, these are just terms to them.

01:16:01.000 Like it's just a different jersey, right?

01:16:02.000 It's like getting traded to a different football team.

01:16:04.000 To them, it's not, it doesn't mean anything to them.

01:16:06.000 It's just like they're going to advocate for the exact same thing under a different jersey.

01:16:10.000 And so I can't use any material examples here.

01:16:12.000 I'm sure my friend Bo can give you chapter and verse of what happens there.

01:16:16.000 But I know this because I've spent plenty of time in South Dakota and Nebraska and North Dakota, states that have a similar type of composition and makeup.

01:16:23.000 And so what Democrats just like, yeah, I'll just put on the Republican jersey, like why not?

01:16:26.000 Like, okay, so that's not good.

01:16:29.000 And so then that ends up, you know, not representing the actual fabric of the state.

01:16:34.000 So do we have a question here?

01:16:37.000 Josh Wheeler, I want to call back to something that you said earlier today on the fact of the Republican Party and how the Democrats are scheming and scheming and have been scheming.

01:16:51.000 What is your thoughts on the fact that the whole time that our last president, Obama, was in office, the Republicans stayed silent for fear of being called racist?

01:17:04.000 Do you think that's something that actually has harmed our party for the foreseeable future to where we're not going to be able to do anything now without that stigmata?

01:17:16.000 Yeah, I think that that's part of it.

01:17:18.000 Think that there's a, look, I want to give more credit to the conservatives than I probably have tonight, and then I'm going to qualify it, which is conservatives are generally really decent people.

01:17:29.000 Like, we, we're actually the most important thing in our life is not politics, and it shouldn't necessarily be because we're Christians.

01:17:38.000 So, the most important thing, of course, is our relationship.

01:17:40.000 Not all of us are Christians, but tonight I'm getting the idea that this is mostly a Christian audience.

01:17:44.000 But at least we don't believe in nothingness.

01:17:47.000 Let me say that, okay?

01:17:49.000 So, for us, if we had to rank our hierarchy and we could be like, if I never have to get involved again, and I knew that the government would stay out of my life and they'd balance the budget and not declare silly foreign wars and represent our interests and not have ridiculous immigration policies, and I could build a family and go to church, a lot of conservatives would take that deal because this is not a part of our identity.

01:18:09.000 Like, we get involved because we love those other things.

01:18:12.000 Do you see what I'm saying?

01:18:13.000 And so, we're actually really decent and we don't love conflict, and that's okay.

01:18:17.000 Like, we shouldn't.

01:18:18.000 In fact, Proverbs tells us not to love conflict.

01:18:20.000 It says you should stray away.

01:18:22.000 Like, someone who loves a quarrel is not someone after God's own heart.

01:18:24.000 I'm paraphrasing in it, but that's said many times throughout the Bible.

01:18:28.000 And so, we as conservatives try to find agreement.

01:18:31.000 We try to find harmony because we're generally very decent people.

01:18:34.000 So, because of that, we either don't fight the left and we let them take over everything.

01:18:40.000 Or when we have to fight, we have no idea how to do that.

01:18:43.000 And so, that's what ends up happening: is like when it actually comes time to stand our ground, we're like, What is a protest?

01:18:49.000 Like, I don't understand what any of this stuff is.

01:18:51.000 Like, counter-messaging, they're calling me bad names.

01:18:53.000 I'm a pretty good person.

01:18:54.000 Why are you calling me these names?

01:18:55.000 Like, stop it.

01:18:56.000 Like, the mob's outside of my house.

01:18:57.000 I can't handle it, right?

01:18:58.000 And it gets in their head.

01:18:59.000 And I want to give, I'm going to give more, let me just say, more, what's the right word?

01:19:05.000 I'm going to give more rope, if you will.

01:19:07.000 I'm going to give them more space than probably I did earlier, which is like a lot of conservatives generally get into this because they're so like wonky on tax policy and stuff and all this.

01:19:16.000 And they don't realize that there's like an undergirding culture war that will determine the future of Western society, right?

01:19:22.000 And all of a sudden, when they get thrown into that, it's like, I did not sign up for this.

01:19:26.000 So, what's happening now is young conservatives that are 15, 16, 17, 18, and my age, 26, we start in the culture war.

01:19:33.000 We start with the hand-to-hand combat.

01:19:35.000 We start with the digital social media stuff, and then you get into politics, and you have a whole new generation of fighters.

01:19:40.000 You see what I'm saying?

01:19:41.000 And so, but the left has always been the activists, right?

01:19:44.000 They don't know, they know no different.

01:19:46.000 For them, every piece of their life is activism.

01:19:49.000 Everything.

01:19:50.000 There's nothing that they don't do is that not involved in perpetual leftist activism.

01:19:54.000 So, for us, when we get called bad names, it bothers us. 0.51

01:19:57.000 And if it doesn't bother you, like you've either come to a place like me where you just become so siloed and you're used to it, or you're sociopathic.

01:20:05.000 Like, it should bother you, right?

01:20:07.000 Because it's like, no, I'm like, I'm not those things.

01:20:10.000 Like, stop calling me those names, right?

01:20:13.000 And so, I want to give you guys, you know, the credence and the credit.

01:20:16.000 I'm just to a point where I know that every single person that calls me these names are pathological, hopeless, just unbelievably unhappy, sinister people that I don't care what they call me.

01:20:26.000 It's like, good, you want to add on another ist because you missed one, right?

01:20:30.000 And, but not everyone has that kind of daily occurrence.

01:20:33.000 And I get it because you are all decent people.

01:20:35.000 Like, you want to go build your church or build your family or build a business, and you should.

01:20:40.000 What I'm telling you right now is like now is the time we actually have to become activists.

01:20:44.000 Now, we have to wade into the waters of uncomfortability, right?

01:20:48.000 We have to do stuff that is not in our DNA, where it's like, these people want to destroy our country.

01:20:53.000 I'm not going to let it happen.

01:20:55.000 Like, now this has taken priority over the business, over the church, over the family, right?

01:20:59.000 And that's a hard thing for conservatives to be able to do because we are builders of our country.

01:21:04.000 Like, conservatives built America.

01:21:06.000 We built the moral fabric of America.

01:21:09.000 We built the greatest businesses.

01:21:10.000 We built all, it's this incredible fabric.

01:21:12.000 And we're like, now we have to go discuss with Alexandria Casio-Cortez.

01:21:16.000 Like, I don't want to do that.

01:21:17.000 Like that's, you know, that's nonsense.

01:21:19.000 And so the admission, if anyone running for office in this room, I highly encourage you to enter into running that office to know that no matter what they call me, it's not going to impact me because they're going to call you those names anyway.

01:21:33.000 And I know the state might be different because of the one, it's generally one party rule, right?

01:21:37.000 But it's a very important lesson for anyone that gets involved in this stuff because the left are relentless political organizers.

01:21:45.000 And you have Elon Omar, you have Ayana Presley, you have Alexandria Cazio-Cortez, you have Rashida Talib.

01:21:50.000 Ask yourself the question, do you think there's going to be more or less people like Alexandria Acasio-Cortez in 10 years in Congress?

01:21:58.000 More.

01:21:59.000 Why?

01:22:00.000 Lost the culture.

01:22:01.000 How do we fix it?

01:22:02.000 That's where I come in, right?

01:22:04.000 I'm involved in the culture war every single day.

01:22:07.000 Fighting on the universities, finding structural solutions, divesting money from the university, all these sorts of things.

01:22:13.000 Because what happens, and Andrew Breitbart, God bless Andrew Breitbart, boy, do we miss him?

01:22:16.000 And we need Andrew Breitbart now more than ever.

01:22:17.000 Oh my gosh.

01:22:19.000 And if I could just be one 100th of the impact that that incredible human being had in our country, it would have been a life well served.

01:22:27.000 Where he said brilliantly, politics is downstream from culture, right?

01:22:31.000 So culture is what will eventually dictate politics.

01:22:34.000 And so I'm going to tell you what's coming next because I've been telling, when I spoke in Sheridan six years ago, that was one of the speeches when I warned you guys, you guys might remember that there was a socialist insurgency that was going to materialize in the U.S. Congress.

01:22:47.000 And I was taken seriously by you guys, but some people questioned that.

01:22:50.000 But the reason that I said that and why I believed it is because I saw it happening on the campuses.

01:22:56.000 The campuses are the harbinger of things to come in the culture.

01:23:00.000 Whatever happens on college campuses will soon happen in the halls of Congress and in the corporate boardrooms across the country.

01:23:06.000 So do you want to know what's happening next?

01:23:08.000 Hyper-segregation, white apologism, and it's going to be the most divisive country you could possibly imagine because that's what's happening on campuses.

01:23:16.000 And so you have to basically attack that early and not allow that to happen and also go after the core basis of it all.

01:23:25.000 So next question.

01:23:26.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:23:27.000 Could you address for us how we can best utilize social media as they close ranks and start to block us and kick us off?

01:23:38.000 I'm speaking specifically about Facebook and Twitter, because if we jump to Parlor, we're just speaking to our...

01:23:44.000 I agree with that.

01:23:45.000 Yeah.

01:23:46.000 Sorry, I interrupted.

01:23:48.000 You're good?

01:23:48.000 Okay.

01:23:48.000 So first of all, no Republican, I want to make very clear, and I'm going to put this on Instagram later, which will be seen by a couple people.

01:23:59.000 No Republican should ever take money from the tech companies, ever.

01:24:03.000 No Republican should allow donations from the tech companies.

01:24:06.000 And just so you understand, most of our elected Republicans in D.C. are taking money from Facebook and Twitter and Google, or the lobbyists that represent them, just so you understand.

01:24:15.000 So our own party is being funded by the same tech elites that have unbelievable power.

01:24:19.000 Now, for all the young people in this room, this will resonate with you.

01:24:23.000 I encourage all of you to listen very intently because this is one of the biggest issues in our country that is getting glossed over and we're not taking seriously at all.

01:24:30.000 Founding Fathers wrote extensively in the Federalist Papers about centralized power, right?

01:24:34.000 We don't like power.

01:24:35.000 That's why we're conservative, centralized power.

01:24:37.000 We don't like it.

01:24:38.000 That's why we're conservatives.

01:24:39.000 We all agree?

01:24:40.000 Centralized power.

01:24:41.000 Now, the Founding Fathers, you listen, you look very carefully in the Federalist Papers, they keep repeating that word power.

01:24:48.000 And then they conclude that the greatest power that they knew was government, right?

01:24:52.000 So in 1700 America, the greatest power that they could conceive was an authoritarian, tyrannical government.

01:24:58.000 And that was absolutely true up until recently.

01:25:03.000 I believe that Google is more powerful than the federal government.

01:25:07.000 I can make that argument in a variety of different ways.

01:25:09.000 They're more efficient.

01:25:10.000 They're more pathological.

01:25:11.000 There's no checks and balances.

01:25:12.000 They know where every single one of you are at every single moment.

01:25:15.000 They can manipulate your behavior.

01:25:17.000 They can topple a government.

01:25:18.000 They can monitor, track you, kick you off any sort of social media site at any single time.

01:25:22.000 They know what you're looking at.

01:25:23.000 They know what you're buying.

01:25:24.000 They know what you're doing.

01:25:25.000 The federal government has none of that information.

01:25:27.000 And if they did, it's an IRS audit that's requesting it, and you have access to an attorney, due process, and cross-examination.

01:25:33.000 The only thing the government can do that Google cannot do is put you in prison.

01:25:37.000 But even if they try to put you in prison, you still have representation rights.

01:25:41.000 You still do.

01:25:42.000 There's no representation rights at these tech companies.

01:25:45.000 It doesn't exist.

01:25:46.000 And so the question then comes: we as conservatives, we don't like government, right?

01:25:50.000 We don't.

01:25:51.000 We don't want to grow government.

01:25:52.000 We don't want to increase liberty.

01:25:53.000 But what happens when something's more powerful than the government?

01:25:56.000 We've never experienced that before.

01:25:58.000 The only time we could is maybe J.P. Morgan in the early 1900s when he twice bailed out the federal government or the vertical monopolization in the early 1900s.

01:26:05.000 Now, I'm not advocating for huge government takeovers of these tech companies.

01:26:08.000 I am not saying that.

01:26:09.000 First, I'm saying we shouldn't take money from them because they all hate us and they want to destroy our movement and destroy our worldview.

01:26:13.000 And they've just about gotten close to doing that.

01:26:15.000 Number two, I think we have to get very serious about what platform access is and what it actually means to have access to social media.

01:26:22.000 I'm getting close to believing that access to Facebook and Twitter should be a civil right.

01:26:27.000 I'm getting close to believing that.

01:26:28.000 Now, it's a very provocative view.

01:26:30.000 It's something that is hard to understand, but the founding fathers said you should have the right to petition your government, right?

01:26:36.000 And so in order to petition your government, you need access to the public square.

01:26:39.000 So you need to be accessed to be able to sit outside the Capitol and be able to access your lawmakers.

01:26:43.000 But when all the conversation is happening digitally and you can't access that, are your First Amendment rights being violated?

01:26:50.000 People say, well, it's a private company.

01:26:52.000 That's fine.

01:26:53.000 Can a telecom company disconnect your call if you say you like Donald Trump?

01:26:56.000 No, they cannot.

01:26:58.000 Can an airline kick you off the airline because you wear a MAGA hat?

01:27:01.000 No, they cannot.

01:27:02.000 So the question is: why can a tech company then take you off because you support Donald Trump?

01:27:05.000 So I understand it's a very difficult issue for conservatives to wrestle, but these tech companies, they hate all of you.

01:27:12.000 They are staffed by people that hate our country, that hate our civilization.

01:27:16.000 And they have so much power that if they want to make sure Donald Trump loses, they will do that.

01:27:22.000 And they might.

01:27:23.000 There's nothing we can do at that point.

01:27:25.000 And so there's a variety of different section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is being discussed at a very high level.

01:27:31.000 I know that some of you do not use social media.

01:27:33.000 You don't understand the significance of it.

01:27:35.000 Here's the only way I can equate it to.

01:27:37.000 Imagine in the 1970s or in the 1980s, the way that you connected with your friends, every source of information that you got disappeared instantaneously.

01:27:46.000 That's what's happening every single day to young conservatives.

01:27:48.000 They're being censored.

01:27:49.000 They're being kicked off these social media sites.

01:27:51.000 Donald Trump's tweets are being removed from Twitter.

01:27:53.000 Our president of the United States, his tweets are being removed by Twitter on an almost other daily basis, every other day, on average.

01:27:59.000 They're being removed.

01:28:00.000 Totally removed.

01:28:01.000 And so it is one of the most important issues.

01:28:03.000 To parlor, I love parlor.

01:28:04.000 I use it, but it's just creating another echo chamber.

01:28:07.000 So I think you're exactly right in that analysis.

01:28:09.000 But I think if we don't get serious about these tech companies and what they're doing to our country, it's a very, very, very serious issue.

01:28:16.000 So thank you for highlighting that.

01:28:17.000 I really appreciate it.

01:28:18.000 So next question.

01:28:21.000 Yes, I was born in South Chicago, a Democrat.

01:28:26.000 And not until about, I guess, about 45 years ago, I realized from all the people around me that I wasn't.

01:28:34.000 I'm a conservative.

01:28:35.000 I want to support what you said.

01:28:38.000 I've been here three and a half years, me and my wife Jackie. 0.99

01:28:42.000 And I have heard, I've been on certain boards interviewing different people, and I've heard commissioners say, I ain't taking a penny from that damn Republican Party. 1.00

01:28:52.000 And I hate Trump, Republicans. 0.99

01:28:55.000 I've heard priests talk about how police officers are separating children from their families.

01:29:04.000 I was a police officer for 34 years.

01:29:08.000 And I approached that priest and said, How dare you insult us?

01:29:12.000 Now, I apologize for not asking a question.

01:29:14.000 I had to make the statement.

01:29:16.000 And I've been here and I moved here so that me and my wife and my daughter can have a child and we can grow up in a decent place.

01:29:25.000 Be very careful.

01:29:26.000 I think it's less than five or six years.

01:29:28.000 Well, what I have seen just from my three and a half years here is unbelievable. 1.00

01:29:33.000 Now, fortunately, I rented some really decent conservatives like Brenda.

01:29:39.000 But don't stand by. 0.55

01:29:41.000 Thank you.

01:29:41.000 Speak up.

01:29:42.000 Thank you.

01:29:42.000 Appreciate it.

01:29:43.000 Thank you.

01:29:45.000 Thank you.

01:29:48.000 Hi, Charlie. 0.94

01:29:50.000 I agreed with everything that you had to say when you talked about the Bible being taught in schools, but I want to know what we can do to keep them from taking the Bible and twisting it and making it look like something horrible, just like they've done with our history. 0.85

01:30:05.000 Yeah, it's a great question.

01:30:06.000 We have 50 to 1 with liberals versus the right in colleges.

01:30:12.000 How do we stop them from making our children hate us just from looking at the Bible?

01:30:18.000 Because the things they're going to say about it, they're going to twist it and make it look horrible.

01:30:23.000 Thank you for the question.

01:30:25.000 I agree with that.

01:30:26.000 I don't think that's a reason not to have it taught.

01:30:28.000 I think that that's a completely separate issue.

01:30:31.000 That's why I also advocate that every single public school across the country and in this state should have a camera that every single parent should be able to access at any time and see what the teachers are saying because they are your employees.

01:30:41.000 And I don't know why that hasn't existed to this point.

01:30:43.000 But so I want to repeat that point.

01:30:46.000 It's called the Teacher Transparency Project.

01:30:48.000 I've tried it.

01:30:49.000 No one wants it because they're afraid of the teacher unions.

01:30:52.000 But in this state, it's a state you guys should do.

01:30:53.000 That every public school classroom should have a camera in the back of the classroom that any parent can access at any time that they can see what the teachers are doing.

01:31:00.000 And if they have nothing to hide, they should be proud of the parents snooping in, right?

01:31:05.000 What do they have to hide?

01:31:06.000 Why don't you want a camera?

01:31:06.000 Why don't you want it recorded?

01:31:08.000 What are you doing to our kids?

01:31:09.000 So that's the first thing.

01:31:10.000 And they hate that.

01:31:11.000 Oh, my gosh.

01:31:11.000 They just drive some nuts.

01:31:12.000 But they're our employees.

01:31:13.000 They work for us.

01:31:14.000 Like, give me a break.

01:31:15.000 You're our employees.

01:31:15.000 We pay our tax dollars so you guys can get employed.

01:31:17.000 So that's number one.

01:31:19.000 The other point about, I mean, look, the Bible is being incredibly misinterpreted and misapplied right now by a lot of people in seminaries and theological schools.

01:31:27.000 And it's happening at a rapid rate.

01:31:29.000 And the amount of people that are Christians that say Jesus Christ is a socialist, that we need Christian Marxism, it's at an unbelievable increase right now.

01:31:37.000 Incredible. 0.52

01:31:38.000 And so it's not enough just to teach the Bible.

01:31:42.000 You need to teach it correctly.

01:31:44.000 So it's a very important thing to mention because, just so you guys know, the thing I run up against the most, not the most, I shouldn't say that, but the thing that disappoints me the most is Christians that are advocating for Bernie Sanders and for Joe Biden.

01:31:58.000 These are pastors that are marching in the streets for abortion, thousands and thousands of thousands.

01:32:03.000 And so it's a huge crisis in our country, needless to say.

01:32:06.000 And also, the fastest growing religion in America is not Christianity, it's atheism.

01:32:10.000 The fastest growing religion in America is atheism, a belief in nothingness, and a complete and total commitment to something that doesn't exist.

01:32:17.000 I think we can take one more.

01:32:18.000 Is that okay?

01:32:19.000 Okay, I could go all night, but yeah, that's fine.

01:32:21.000 So.

01:32:22.000 Well, thank you, Charlie.

01:32:24.000 I would like.

01:32:25.000 Oh, I'm sorry.

01:32:25.000 Do I get one question?

01:32:28.000 You say you have Trump's ear.

01:32:30.000 We'll do that one, and then we'll do that one because you have the mic, okay?

01:32:32.000 We'll do two more.

01:32:33.000 Thank you.

01:32:33.000 Yes, yes, go ahead.

01:32:35.000 You have Trump's ear.

01:32:37.000 Please help him get back to the positiveness of his previous campaign, of what the opportunities are here now with bringing manufacture back that's been in China, our drugs, our animal health drugs.

01:32:50.000 We've all been affected so much financially by that Chinese takeover.

01:32:56.000 He's got to focus on that, the potential for our country, which is what he's been about all along.

01:33:03.000 Thank you.

01:33:03.000 And I appreciate that.

01:33:05.000 And I completely, I agree that the more positive he is and the more specific he is about making America think big again, I actually think he'll be richly rewarded in the polls and also electorally.

01:33:16.000 I think we got to get, and my advice to him, and I've said this publicly and also to him, is he's one of the most positive figures in American history.

01:33:26.000 And I think he can capture the imagination of the country again.

01:33:29.000 In fact, if you look at the brilliance of him over 40 years, he would have you that you could believe personal success.

01:33:34.000 He'd have you that you could believe you could reach to your higher limits.

01:33:36.000 He wrote a book in 2007 called Think Big.

01:33:39.000 And one of his most amazing quotes is: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.

01:33:43.000 I think right now is a time for him to say, you know what?

01:33:46.000 Here's 15 specific things that we're going to do.

01:33:49.000 And you might say they're impossible, but we do impossible things in our country, right?

01:33:53.000 We're going to make our kids love America again.

01:33:54.000 We're going to keep the Constitution in all of our schools.

01:33:56.000 We're going to bring back manufacturing.

01:33:58.000 We're going to be self-sufficient.

01:33:59.000 We're going to hold on to the very specific aspirational.

01:34:01.000 Maybe it's going to be so hard, but it will create chatter type things.

01:34:05.000 You know what I mean?

01:34:05.000 He did that in 16.

01:34:07.000 I mean, because when I was at the convention, people were smiling and being like, I'm going to get sick of winning if this guy wins.

01:34:13.000 Like, there was an aura of magnetism and positivity, right?

01:34:17.000 And I think that he will get back to it because I have so much faith in him.

01:34:21.000 And he's also a highly flexible candidate.

01:34:26.000 He's able to self-correct.

01:34:27.000 You're not dealing with a normal politician.

01:34:29.000 And please keep him in your prayers because he needs prayer more than ever right now.

01:34:33.000 Totally.

01:34:33.000 So last question.

01:34:37.000 I have a comment and then a suggestion from the comment.

01:34:41.000 Okay.

01:34:43.000 We have run for state office twice in the northwest part of the state about 10 years ago.

01:34:52.000 And one of the things that we got hit hardest with, and probably what we were experiencing on a much smaller scale than Donald Trump is now then, was that we thought in larger parameters.

01:35:07.000 Because the word conservative is thrown around this state like just anything.

01:35:14.000 I'm against abortion and I'm for the Second Amendment.

01:35:17.000 That makes me a conservative.

01:35:18.000 No, it does not.

01:35:21.000 And I wish that people would understand that this state is conservative, but it's very purple because they don't understand the word conservatism.

01:35:32.000 And I would like for you to comment on that even more when you talk about conservatism because people use that very lightly.

01:35:42.000 Yeah, thank you.

01:35:42.000 It's just like God doesn't.

01:35:44.000 I appreciate that.

01:35:45.000 Thank you.

01:35:45.000 Okay.

01:35:46.000 So, does anyone have a question?

01:35:48.000 Or do not?

01:35:49.000 Okay, that's fine.

01:35:50.000 All right, we'll close with that.

01:35:51.000 Do you have a question really quick?

01:35:52.000 Make it super quick.

01:35:53.000 No?

01:35:54.000 Okay.

01:35:56.000 Yeah, because we've been...

01:35:57.000 Okay.

01:35:59.000 Super, any questions?

01:36:00.000 No?

01:36:00.000 Hey, Charlie?

01:36:01.000 Yeah.

01:36:03.000 Steve St. Clair here.

01:36:07.000 Grew up in Wyoming, got drug all over the continental U.S. working.

01:36:16.000 I know what I know.

01:36:20.000 Why are you doing this?

01:36:27.000 Why are you doing what you do?

01:36:32.000 Thank you for the question.

01:36:33.000 I'll tell you a little bit of my biography.

01:36:34.000 It's a good way to end.

01:36:35.000 I didn't tell you guys.

01:36:36.000 I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

01:36:38.000 My lifelong ambition was to go to the United States Military Academy at West Point.

01:36:42.000 I was an Eagle Scout, top of my class, all those sorts of things.

01:36:46.000 I ended up not getting into the United States Military Academy, best thing that never happened to me.

01:36:51.000 I saw in my generation something incredibly troubling, which was the growth of anti-Americanism at a rate that was going to be the death of everything we care about.

01:36:59.000 Started this organization, Turning Point USA, when I was 18 years old.

01:37:03.000 Never went to college.

01:37:05.000 Eight years later, it's on 2,000 high school and college campuses across the country, 250,000 people actively involved.

01:37:12.000 To answer your question, why am I involved?

01:37:14.000 Because I need to fight like hell to make sure that this country survives and every single person in this room needs to do exactly the same.

01:37:20.000 So with that, I want to say thank you guys so much for having me tonight.

01:37:26.000 Thank you guys for hosting me so generously and warmly.

01:37:30.000 God bless you and God bless the state.

01:37:31.000 Thank you.

01:37:35.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:37:36.000 If you want to get involved at Turning PointUSA, go to tpusa.com, tpusa.com, chip in some money, start a chapter, get engaged, get involved in the culture war to save the future of our country.

01:37:47.000 Nothing could be more important.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - June 30, 2020

An Urgent Message To The Republican Party

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