The Charlie Kirk Show - July 18, 2022


Ask Charlie Anything 113: Charlie Has a TV Show? Are China and Russia Allies? Proving God Exists? Are Our Elections Fixed? And MORE


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On this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk is joined by his good friend and former radio host, Andrew Yang, who joins him to talk about what it's like being on the college campus. They also answer your questions.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody.
00:00:00.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, I take your questions with app Call In, C-A-L-L-I-N, and also some of them that you email me, freedom at charliekirk.com and AMA, but I actually talk to you.
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00:00:47.000 Here we go.
00:00:48.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:50.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:52.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:56.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:59.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:01:00.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:01:01.000 His spirit is love of this country.
00:01:03.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
00:01:08.000 Turning point USA. 0.65
00:01:09.000 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.
00:01:18.000 That's why we are here.
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00:01:30.000 Okay, we're trying the call-in thing, C-A-L-L-I-N.com, as a way that you can ask us questions.
00:01:38.000 You want to take producer Andrew for the first question?
00:01:41.000 Okay, we'll do producer Andrew for the inaugural question.
00:01:44.000 Go ahead, Andrew.
00:01:46.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:01:47.000 Can you hear me?
00:01:48.000 I can hear you.
00:01:48.000 Yes.
00:01:49.000 Oh, hey, look at that.
00:01:51.000 Charlie, what is the biggest difference you've noticed since becoming a TV host?
00:01:57.000 The biggest difference.
00:01:59.000 Well, thank you, Andrew, for your question.
00:02:02.000 Yeah, so look, I think the biggest difference would have to be: well, first of all, the expanded audience is great on Real America's Voice, which has been terrific.
00:02:12.000 You just have to also be a little bit more presentable when you're just doing radio.
00:02:15.000 You can kind of just roll in.
00:02:18.000 And also, I've decided to retire the hat.
00:02:22.000 We've decided to retire the hat, and I think it's gotten some great ratings from people, which is good.
00:02:27.000 So, yeah, someone just emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:02:30.000 They said, yes, no more hat.
00:02:32.000 Big fan of that.
00:02:33.000 So, but also, I just enjoy it.
00:02:35.000 It's another medium, another piece of another way that we can communicate with our audience.
00:02:41.000 And yes, Connor said, we'll make a commemorative box for you to put it in.
00:02:46.000 Okay, Connor, we'll do that.
00:02:47.000 So, okay.
00:02:48.000 We will take one from the email queue right here.
00:02:53.000 Let's do, we got some really smart ones.
00:02:54.000 Let's do this one here that someone emailed freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:02:58.000 So, I mentioned the masks the other day, and this is a really smart question.
00:03:01.000 So, this is from Oliver.
00:03:03.000 It's more of a comment, but I'm going to turn it into kind of a reaction to it.
00:03:06.000 Charlie, you spoke the other day about young people being scared of COVID because you saw them voluntarily wearing masks.
00:03:14.000 It's not fear of COVID, it's fear of not being seen as conforming.
00:03:19.000 Young people don't want to stand out anymore, or they want to be seen as being a good Democrat. 0.98
00:03:25.000 I also think they like covering their face as they're most likely to be very self-conscious.
00:03:31.000 That's exactly right.
00:03:32.000 It's super smart. 0.99
00:03:33.000 I say this as a millennial who does not use social media, or I guess it could be that they're all so dumb, they think cloth masks work. 0.87
00:03:42.000 Oliver, I do want to expand on this, though, is that there are people that actually find comfort in having to cover up their face. 0.90
00:03:50.000 Is there's people that find comfort in having to be not having to converse and having to show facial emotions.
00:03:59.000 I am not a fan of masks for the same reason I'm not a fan of the Muslim veil. 1.00
00:04:05.000 I think that it's dehumanizing.
00:04:07.000 I think the Lord gave us a face for a reason.
00:04:09.000 And especially for young children to be able to develop the necessary social cues.
00:04:15.000 They say that 99% of communication is actually not in regards to the audible.
00:04:22.000 It's also in regards to the facial, let's just say, responses and the intricacies of how we communicate visually and not just verbally.
00:04:33.000 And the fact that most young people are wearing, most of the people wearing masks are young people.
00:04:38.000 I think it's very telling for a generation that has been unnecessarily told to comply under the dogma and the regime of fear.
00:04:49.000 But I think the self-conscious thing is very, very true.
00:04:53.000 And I'm developing, I'm going to be developing a series of speeches and podcasts and articles that very well might turn into a book.
00:05:00.000 I am more convinced than ever about the damage that these phones do to the development of a young mind.
00:05:08.000 I want to just tell you right now that parents that give their kids phones, I think they have no idea that they are handing over potentially a form of digital heroin.
00:05:22.000 I know that sounds controversial.
00:05:24.000 It might sound inflammatory or over the top, but it's totally true. 0.93
00:05:30.000 We have circuitry that was designed, I believe, by the Lord.
00:05:35.000 You might believe it happened through an evolutionary process, but it's the same conclusion that was designed for the wild.
00:05:43.000 We were designed to survive in nature.
00:05:46.000 We were designed to survive absent of technology.
00:05:49.000 Now, praise God for technology.
00:05:51.000 It can make our life a lot easier.
00:05:52.000 We're talking right now, thanks to technology.
00:05:56.000 But when you put a smartphone in front of an operating system ourselves that is designed to be in the natural world, then you are messing with fundamental neurology.
00:06:09.000 And so what I think a lot of parents need to better understand, and there's some great books that articulate this, one that I just finished reading that is phenomenal, Comfort Crisis, Dopamine Nation, that talk about the erosion and the deterioration of young people's minds, which I believe directly plays into increased depression, suicide, anxiety, self-harm, medication, psychiatric drugs.
00:06:34.000 I think 90% of it comes down to the digital pacifier in our right-hand pocket, the smartphone.
00:06:42.000 It has become a mass coping mechanism.
00:06:45.000 Boredom is a thing of the past.
00:06:47.000 In fact, I'd love to get Michael Easter, the author of Comfort Crisis on this program, for a long form conversation.
00:06:54.000 It would be terrific.
00:06:55.000 Okay, let's go to this one here.
00:06:58.000 Charlie, the platforms have changed, declined, actually.
00:07:02.000 Do we keep voting for Republicans when we know they're, quote, Romney-flavored rhinos?
00:07:07.000 What are the key differences between the parties or their platforms now?
00:07:10.000 Idahoans are being drowned by rhinos.
00:07:13.000 LDS religion dominates politics.
00:07:15.000 They're committed globalists with a fierce control over their members, Julie.
00:07:18.000 I don't necessarily agree with that.
00:07:19.000 I think there's actually a big divide in the LDS community, just as there's a divide in American Christianity and in the Catholic community.
00:07:27.000 I could say we have a lot of amazing LDS people that work for us here at Turning Point USA.
00:07:31.000 And they tell us how awful and how terrible it is within the LDS church.
00:07:36.000 And there's a divide there.
00:07:37.000 The same way there's a divide within Presbyterians.
00:07:39.000 There's a divide between Lutherans.
00:07:41.000 There's a divide.
00:07:41.000 I don't know if there's a divide in Episcopalians.
00:07:43.000 I'm sure there's a small divide.
00:07:44.000 Small being a very small percentage of people that want to stay conservative and the large that wants to stay liberal.
00:07:49.000 But there's some phenomenal leaders that are LDS.
00:07:52.000 For example, Andy Biggs.
00:07:53.000 Andy Biggs is one of the most conservative members of Congress, and he's LDS, and he's been a phenomenal member of Congress.
00:08:00.000 Whereas there's some not so, let's just say, favorable members of LDS church and politics, such as Jeff Flake and Mitt Romney.
00:08:09.000 So I wouldn't paint that with the brush.
00:08:11.000 I think that's a little unfair, stereotypically.
00:08:14.000 I will say this, though.
00:08:14.000 What is the difference between the parties?
00:08:16.000 We need better people to run in the Republican Party, right?
00:08:19.000 We need people like Blake Masters.
00:08:21.000 We need people like JD Vance.
00:08:23.000 And I do make the argument that we're going to have to hold our nose and suck up and vote for Republicans up and down the ballot.
00:08:28.000 That's going to be something that I'm going to talk about getting closer to November.
00:08:31.000 I'm one of the harshest critics of the Republican Party, but I still believe in the binary two-party system that it's much better to have Republicans in office and hold those Republicans accountable and get better Republicans elected than not have Republicans at all together.
00:08:46.000 In Idaho, it's very difficult, though, Julie, to answer your question.
00:08:48.000 It's a phenomenal point where you say you have Democrats that run as Republicans because of how conservative Idaho actually is.
00:08:56.000 Great question.
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00:09:56.000 We have a question here from Albert.
00:09:58.000 Albert, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:10:00.000 Thanks for yeah, thank you.
00:10:02.000 So there's my question is that I'm aware that not so many people know that Russia and China are actually divorcing and there are so many signs showing that.
00:10:13.000 And nobody knows that Ukraine, Ukrainian government, I'm not talking about the Ukrainian people.
00:10:19.000 I'm talking about the government has been a puppet of China for so long time.
00:10:24.000 They refuse to condemn China over the genocide over Uyghurs. 0.98
00:10:27.000 They refuse, you know, every, I mean, almost all the edge-cutting technology, military technology, advanced armory from China, they all come from Ukraine. 0.98
00:10:41.000 And Ukraine is a main door for China's one-bedroom road project to invade Europe and the Western fair. 0.98
00:10:49.000 So all the money that all the or any advanced military technologies that we give to the corrupt Ukrainian government, it can eventually go to China.
00:11:00.000 Yeah, so what's the question?
00:11:02.000 Really quick, sorry.
00:11:03.000 Yeah, so what are we going to do with it?
00:11:07.000 Because I also have another thing to want to share, just 30 minutes, because actually I'm from Hong Kong and I just got assigned in Germany.
00:11:16.000 And because I'm a leader of Hong Kong independence, and we have the intelligence and information network that we just know that many communists know there will be no another two years for China or there will be a very hard time for China.
00:11:30.000 So they have to make sure that America cannot survive another two years of Biden manufacture disaster or they will tell Joe Biden to destroy America.
00:11:40.000 Got it.
00:11:41.000 Albert, thank you.
00:11:42.000 So I think the question basically is about Russia and China.
00:11:46.000 And look, Russia and China are actually not natural allies.
00:11:49.000 They're both totalitarian dictatorships that want to try and reconquer lands that they believe are ethnically theirs.
00:11:56.000 Now, Russia is no friend of the United States, but it doesn't have to be a bitter enemy.
00:12:01.000 Russia very well should be in the neutral category.
00:12:04.000 The same way that we used Russian power to defeat the Nazis, we should use Russian power to defeat the Chinese. 0.98
00:12:12.000 The Chinese Communist Party and Russia, they're playing nice together, but they're not natural allies.
00:12:17.000 You should always try to be dividing them apart from each other.
00:12:20.000 Now, I believe that we must make the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government the clear and total enemy of the United States government. 0.95
00:12:29.000 That's where we need to focus our attention and our time.
00:12:32.000 Not on Russia, but instead the country that has well over a billion people, a growing economy, they're ruthless to the core, and they are really, quite honestly, ahead of pace in world domination.
00:12:44.000 We have pushed Russia into closer CCP orbit due to bad Ukraine policy.
00:12:50.000 And $56 billion spent on this.
00:12:55.000 So I want to actually kind of tell you about one of my email exchanges I had here, and I respond to emails back and forth.
00:13:01.000 Ron said this, Charlie, when mentioning evil in the world, you mentioned China and Iran.
00:13:05.000 Why didn't you add Russia and North Korea?
00:13:07.000 I commonly do, by the way.
00:13:08.000 He says, quote, if deterring evil requires making evil fear and respect us, would letting Russia rape and pillage its neighbor help or hinder that goal? 0.58
00:13:17.000 And I responded with, is Ukraine a you state of the United States?
00:13:20.000 Where does the $56 billion gone?
00:13:23.000 What does success look like?
00:13:25.000 And Ron said, well, the only thing that evil needs to prevail is for good men to stand down and let it have its way.
00:13:29.000 The keys are to ensure the money we send to Ukraine gets put to its defense.
00:13:33.000 Oh, so our government's going to magically be not corrupt and efficient?
00:13:38.000 Deal in reality here.
00:13:40.000 We're dealing with our federal government.
00:13:42.000 Not what you want, but what actually happens.
00:13:45.000 He said, quote, what would you rather your tax dollars go to other than Ukraine?
00:13:49.000 I can list about 400 things off the top of my head.
00:13:52.000 Poor a southern border, helping families pay for bills, hedge against inflation. 0.94
00:14:00.000 He said, there is no better use of money than the defense of Ukraine against a thieving, murderous thug.
00:14:05.000 Again, Ukraine is not a state of the United States.
00:14:07.000 It's not.
00:14:08.000 Feel bad for the Ukrainian people. 1.00
00:14:11.000 That is not an obligation of our country.
00:14:13.000 We are crumbling from within.
00:14:15.000 I asked what success was, and Ron said, success is for Russia to withdraw its military forces from Ukraine.
00:14:20.000 Never going to happen because the eastern parts of Ukraine don't want them gone. 0.72
00:14:25.000 They want to be under Russian governmental rule.
00:14:27.000 They speak Russian.
00:14:28.000 They're ethnically Russian.
00:14:30.000 And I responded, what would I rather have the money to?
00:14:33.000 How about stopping the 7,000-person daily invasion of our border?
00:14:38.000 Also, just as a matter of principle, I don't think we should be funding Nazis that call themselves the Azov Battalion in southeastern Ukraine.
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00:15:36.000 Let's get to our next question from Colin.
00:15:40.000 It's Khalil from Colin.
00:15:42.000 You're up.
00:15:42.000 Please unmute yourself before asking your question.
00:15:45.000 Khalil, what is your question?
00:15:47.000 Can you hear me?
00:15:48.000 Yes, I can.
00:15:48.000 How are you doing?
00:15:49.000 Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:15:50.000 What's your question?
00:15:51.000 I'm doing great.
00:15:52.000 I wanted to preface my question with a quote from Dr. William Lane Craig.
00:15:55.000 It's about Christianity.
00:15:57.000 If God does not exist, then life is futile.
00:15:59.000 If the God of the Bible does exist, then life is meaningful. 0.83
00:16:02.000 Only the second of these two alternatives enables us to live happily and consistently.
00:16:06.000 Therefore, it seems to me that even if the evidence for these two options were absolutely equal, a rational person ought to choose biblical Christianity.
00:16:14.000 It seems to me positively irrational to prefer death, futility, and destruction to life, meaningfulness, and happiness.
00:16:20.000 As Blaise Pascal said, we have nothing to lose and infinity to gain.
00:16:24.000 So, I want to ask you as a Christian, how can Christians appeal to non-believers on the evidence supporting the life of Jesus of Nazareth and open the doors to their hearts of balancing faith?
00:16:34.000 Ooh, I think we lost Khalil.
00:16:37.000 Okay, I think he was going to ask about the idea of faith and knowledge and spiritual belief in him.
00:16:43.000 Great question, Khalil.
00:16:44.000 I'm sorry we dropped you there.
00:16:46.000 So, look, I speak openly about my faith, and I encourage any of you that have questions about that to go to your podcast app and type in Charlie Kirk Show and listen to our conversation with Frank Turek.
00:16:55.000 And I boil it down to two things.
00:16:57.000 And I got this from Frank Turek, and I got it from many other apologists as well: which is you just have to ask two very basic questions of non-believers, which is: if God created the heavens and the earth and Jesus Christ rose from the dead, then those two things should dictate your entire religious view, period.
00:17:17.000 And there are four questions that we need to ask about whether or not you believe Christianity is true: does truth exist?
00:17:25.000 Does God exist?
00:17:26.000 Are miracles real?
00:17:27.000 And is the New Testament reliable?
00:17:30.000 Those are the four questions that you need to ask.
00:17:33.000 Now, if they say that truth does not exist, then you should ask them in response: is that true?
00:17:39.000 Is it true that there is no truth?
00:17:40.000 Because if it's true that there is no truth, then the claim that there is no truth can't be true, and it claims to be true.
00:17:46.000 For the second part about there being a God, you can use the cosmological design and moral arguments.
00:17:54.000 For example, we know that the universe began with a Bing, Big Bang.
00:17:59.000 Even atheists admit that. 0.96
00:18:01.000 You know, Stephen Hawking, the most famous physicist on the planet, is an atheist.
00:18:07.000 And he said, Quote, today, almost everyone now believes that the universe and time itself had a beginning at the Big Bang.
00:18:13.000 But Hawkins actually had a different explanation than that for the beginning of the universe.
00:18:19.000 And he fails desperately with this because he ends up admitting the data that space, time, and matter had a beginning out of nothing.
00:18:29.000 So the scientific evidence for design was the second evidence for God, and particularly the fine-tuning of the universe.
00:18:37.000 So if you change, for example, the expansion rate, that infinitesimal amount from the very beginning, that there is no universe, you can't make any evolutionary argument from this.
00:18:47.000 You can't say the expansion rate evolved to this point.
00:18:50.000 Why?
00:18:51.000 Because those initial things are the conditions for the universe.
00:18:55.000 So it's rational and reasonable to believe that the same spaceless, timeless, immaterial, powerful, personal, intelligent being that created the universe is the same being that created the expansion rate to be precisely what it is right now.
00:19:11.000 And by the way, we can also talk about morals.
00:19:13.000 I mean, if you do not believe in a higher spiritual being, then your definition of right and wrong is merely an opinion from things like rape, slavery, holocaust, sexual abuse, arson.
00:19:27.000 It's nothing more than an opinion.
00:19:29.000 So also, you can ask the question about miracles.
00:19:33.000 So look, the greatest miracle in the entire Bible is the first verse.
00:19:37.000 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
00:19:41.000 That right there is a miracle.
00:19:43.000 Our existence is a miracle.
00:19:45.000 Our consciousness is a miracle.
00:19:47.000 The fact that we have breath and we have our ability to choose freely, which I do believe we have that ability, is a miracle.
00:19:58.000 It's an incredible thing.
00:20:00.000 And then finally, is the New Testament reliable?
00:20:03.000 From an archaeological standpoint and a historical text standpoint, the New Testament is remarkably reliable.
00:20:10.000 It is the most reliable ancient document in history, period.
00:20:16.000 More original source documents, closer to the actual events when they happened, more eyewitnesses and more archaeological evidence has been discovered that reaffirms the New Testament.
00:20:28.000 I'm just talking about Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and the letters of Paul, James, and Peter.
00:20:33.000 There is more reliability there.
00:20:35.000 And there are some questions that atheists and non-believers have to wrestle with, which is if Jesus did not rise from the dead, then what happened to his body?
00:20:43.000 They say, well, it was stolen.
00:20:44.000 Then how'd they get through the Roman centurion guards?
00:20:47.000 Well, they said, well, the Roman centurion guards were asleep and then they rolled the boulder over.
00:20:52.000 Well, that boulder, according to historical estimates, very well could have been between one to two tons.
00:20:57.000 And if you fell asleep as a Roman centurion guard, it was a punishable offense by death. 0.57
00:21:02.000 And how do you know what happened then if the Roman centurion guards fell asleep?
00:21:06.000 Who stole the body and for what purpose?
00:21:08.000 Well, they say, well, the disciples obviously stole the body.
00:21:11.000 Okay, so they stole the body so then they could then go be chased around the Middle East and all be crucified, some upside down at death.
00:21:19.000 Let me get this straight.
00:21:20.000 So they plotted their own conspiracy to believe something fake and false so they all could die a sufferable death for that lie that they then created.
00:21:27.000 That doesn't sound very logical.
00:21:29.000 So you have to explain it for some way.
00:21:31.000 Also explain that if you were to create a lie in like first century Jerusalem, why would you have female witnesses?
00:21:40.000 At the time of Jesus, females did not have the type of standing in court and their witness was not considered to be equal to that of a man.
00:21:50.000 So if you were to create a vast conspiracy of stealing a body of someone who was just sentenced to death by Pilate, pushed forward by the Pharisees, why on earth would you have the least reliable witnesses you could possibly find to find, also known as women? 0.67
00:22:05.000 How do you explain that the skeptics such as Thomas, Peter, and the half-brother of Jesus, James, went from people that were disinterested skeptics mourning the death of Jesus?
00:22:16.000 I want to say disinterested, but not exactly motivated, to all of a sudden so enthusiastic they spread across the known world and all died deaths of martyrdom for what they knew was true.
00:22:27.000 Who would do that for a lie?
00:22:29.000 And then finally, the story of Paul.
00:22:31.000 How do you explain that?
00:22:33.000 A Jewish, wealthy, Roman kind of a, he was, he engaged in massacres. 1.00
00:22:40.000 What exactly was the incentive structure for Paul to go from wealthy, Jewish Roman to someone that all of a sudden went to the great theologian and church builder and communicator?
00:22:53.000 Maybe he actually did have a divine interaction in that road to Emmaus.
00:22:57.000 Maybe he did.
00:22:59.000 These are all questions that need to be answered, and skeptics have a hard time going through it.
00:23:04.000 Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, which I think are called the synoptic gospels, I'm not mistaken, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, the three, they have zero contradictions.
00:23:15.000 They all say the same thing from different angles, and John reaffirms them from a separate perspective.
00:23:22.000 And then finally, you have to explain Luke, Luke, a doctor sponsored by Theophilus, Theophilus, which literally means lover of God, who goes about in almost a non-partisan, non-religious, non-theological way, factually writing these letters back to his sponsor, Theophilus, and documenting the acts of the apostles.
00:23:42.000 These are all things that must be asked.
00:23:44.000 So, I encourage a skeptic to come on and ask those questions on a college campus or wherever.
00:23:48.000 We can have a conversation on it.
00:23:50.000 And by the way, almost all of that knowledge derived from the phenomenal teaching and mentorship and friendship of the great Frank Turek.
00:23:57.000 He's a treasure to all of us.
00:23:58.000 You guys should check out his ministry, crose examine.org.
00:24:01.000 He's phenomenal.
00:24:01.000 Okay, let's get to the next question.
00:24:02.000 Mike is next.
00:24:04.000 Mike, please unmute yourself.
00:24:06.000 He's already unmuted.
00:24:07.000 Amazing.
00:24:08.000 Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:24:10.000 Hey, thank you, Charlie, and thank you for giving us the opportunity to ask some questions.
00:24:15.000 I'm just looking at the next election and all the preparation that appears to be occurring at once.
00:24:22.000 The preparation for another lockdown, which means mail-in ballots, dominion machines, et cetera.
00:24:29.000 And I don't see the Republicans really actively fighting this or fighting to win.
00:24:34.000 And just curious as to your recommendations for what we might do to kind of combat this.
00:24:41.000 What state do you live in, Mike?
00:24:42.000 Sorry.
00:24:42.000 I used to live in Scottsdale, but now I'm in Clearwater, Florida.
00:24:46.000 Smart man.
00:24:47.000 Well, we're holding down the fort here in Arizona.
00:24:49.000 Well, Mike, you are in a great spot in Florida because you have great leadership in Florida.
00:24:53.000 Ron DeSantis made quick work out of getting rid of the kind of mass mail-in balloting scheme that existed in Florida.
00:25:02.000 Ron DeSantis did a phenomenal job of that.
00:25:05.000 You might remember Brenda Snipes was in charge of Broward County and ran a much cleaner and clearer election in 2020 than what happened in Arizona. 0.99
00:25:16.000 There's one thing we must do.
00:25:17.000 We must take a rule from Solinsky's rules for radicals and keep the pressure on.
00:25:23.000 We have to keep the relentless pressure on our lawmakers non-stop to make sure that they reform our elections and that we do not let them go.
00:25:33.000 We have to have them say, stop bothering me so much.
00:25:35.000 I'm finally going to do it.
00:25:36.000 Good.
00:25:37.000 You've done your job.
00:25:38.000 We must be peaceful.
00:25:39.000 We must be respectful.
00:25:40.000 We must be direct.
00:25:41.000 We must pressure the rhinos.
00:25:43.000 This is something that we're going to start doing, by the way, at Turning Point Action, led by the great Tyler Boyer, where we are going to have the Keep the Pressure On project, otherwise known as the Town Hall Project, that once we go take back the House and the Senate, God willing, in this November, we're going to start showing up to town hall meetings time and time again to Republicans and ask the question, what are you doing?
00:26:04.000 Why are you not doing this?
00:26:05.000 Why are you not mentioning Davos?
00:26:06.000 Why are you mentioning this?
00:26:07.000 One after the other, especially on the state level.
00:26:09.000 They need to be held accountable.
00:26:11.000 And the best way to do that is to look at them directly in the eyes and say, you are not representing me.
00:26:18.000 You are not faithfully executing your oath.
00:26:21.000 They don't get that kind of pressure enough.
00:26:23.000 It has to be respectful, has to be direct, but it also has to be truthful and, of course, peaceful, as I mentioned.
00:26:29.000 All right, everybody, I need to address a little bit of a, let's just say, it was a mistake that I made, but by addressing the mistake, I think it's going to be somewhat helpful.
00:26:41.000 So I had this whole dialogue against Professor Miranda Yeaver or whatever from Wheaton College.
00:26:50.000 And I totally admit I made the mistake.
00:26:53.000 I guess there's two Wheaton colleges.
00:26:55.000 There's one in Massachusetts and there is one in Illinois.
00:27:00.000 And so the one in Massachusetts is a private liberal arts college that was founded as a female seminary and has now changed dramatically.
00:27:11.000 And the fact that there's two Wheaton colleges is just kind of interesting to me.
00:27:16.000 Now, I will say this, though, is that this does present an opportunity to talk about how, yes, I was attacking Wheaton College in Massachusetts, but Wheaton in Illinois is not exactly blameless.
00:27:32.000 Wheaton College in Illinois is where Billy Graham went to school, for example.
00:27:36.000 And wokeism is infecting Wheaton College in Illinois top to bottom.
00:27:42.000 And just in a little bit of research, I found one piece of evidence after the other.
00:27:47.000 For example, this is from the Illinois Family Institute, illinoisfamily.org.
00:27:51.000 The esteemed evangelical Christian Wheaton College is really woking up.
00:27:55.000 The administration has decided to remove a plaque honoring Wheaton alumni and missionaries because it described them as savage, the indigenous Ecuadorian tribe that brutally and without cause spread Elliott, McCully, and three other missionaries to death in 1956.
00:28:11.000 So these are missionaries that went down to Ecuador.
00:28:14.000 They had a plaque for that.
00:28:16.000 They called them savage because they got murdered for going down there.
00:28:20.000 And Wheaton College removes the plaque because of insensitivities to indigenous cultures, even though these people are heroes for going down there.
00:28:29.000 And it doesn't stop there.
00:28:31.000 Wheaton College has one diversity, equity, inclusion.
00:28:35.000 I'm talking about Wheaton College in Illinois, piece of example after the other.
00:28:39.000 For example, they have an Office of Multicultural Development at Wheaton College in Illinois, has a strong legacy of supporting students of color and encouraging our community towards diversity and Christian unity.
00:28:53.000 What?
00:28:54.000 That's like saying, I'm working very hard to be dry while wet.
00:28:58.000 I'm working very hard to be full while hungry.
00:29:03.000 You can't have diversity and Christian unity. 1.00
00:29:06.000 It's completely contradictory.
00:29:09.000 The Office of Multicultural Development at Wheaton began during the 1970s.
00:29:14.000 Since then, the department has gone through a lot of changes, including multiple names: the Office of Minority Affairs, the Office of Minority Student Development, the Office of Multicultural Development.
00:29:23.000 They want to have people be able to engage with differences and conflict in a way that still says we're doing this as men of women of God.
00:29:30.000 Part of being part of the body of Christ is understand what grace is.
00:29:33.000 Grace says that we have to be patient with one another.
00:29:35.000 We spend time with one another.
00:29:36.000 We are preparing young men and women to know how to address that outside of Wheaton, how to engage with people with different and conflict in a way, still doing it away as men of God.
00:29:44.000 So then, why do you have an entire department based on racial differences?
00:29:48.000 It's incredibly racist to do that.
00:29:51.000 It's playing straight into critical race theory, playing straight into theory, straight into Marxist conflict theory.
00:29:58.000 In 2013, the Office of Multicultural Diversity was created at the lower level of the Beeman Center to get a snack, a cup of coffee, and a chance to reflect on our identity as it relates to ethnicity and culture.
00:30:14.000 This is a Christian school that wants students to reflect on their race.
00:30:19.000 It's a place to interact with people of diverse backgrounds and together work through questions of what it means to live as people of God.
00:30:25.000 How about this?
00:30:26.000 Don't talk about race because God doesn't care about race.
00:30:28.000 So why does Wheaton College care about it?
00:30:32.000 Now, I interacted back and forth.
00:30:34.000 I was a little spicy in my emails.
00:30:35.000 I fully admit it.
00:30:37.000 And someone says, look, they're actually working internally.
00:30:39.000 There's a war in Wheaton to try to reaffirm their statement and try to go against this wokeism, Wheaton College in Illinois.
00:30:45.000 I'm pleased to hear that.
00:30:46.000 So I want to make sure I'm very fair.
00:30:49.000 It's not like all of Wheaton's on board for this.
00:30:51.000 And by the way, that's just one example of several of where Wheaton has gone completely and totally woke.
00:30:58.000 Wokeism is impacting religion, as the California Conference in Illinois just dropped a bill that could legalize infanticide, drops opposition to the bill that could legalize infanticide.
00:31:10.000 And so I am going to be a little bit intense and a little bit harsh, I'll be honest, with the once great Wheaton College in Illinois that's entertaining, for example, a religious ceremony where they had the inaugural racialized minorities recognition ceremony with Dr. Sheila Caldwell.
00:31:28.000 What is Wheaton doing?
00:31:31.000 I pray that the alumni of Wheaton and the good people at Wheaton, because I know there's still a lot of them, they excommunicate this anti-biblical, anti-American ideology that has infected Wheaton in Illinois top to bottom.
00:31:44.000 So I'm glad I clarified that.
00:31:48.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
00:31:49.000 Email me your thoughts as always: freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:31:52.000 Thank you so much for listening.
00:31:53.000 God bless.
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