The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 144: Do People Want Freedom? Are Most Pastors Cowards?

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, it's Anthony Charlie Kirk show and ask me anything episode on Monday live from Seed to Table here in Naples, Florida.

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00:00:10.000 How are we going to end up winning?

00:00:11.000 What about homeschooling?

00:00:13.000 Do people want to be free?

00:00:14.000 What is the difference between a democracy and a republic and more?

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00:00:37.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:38.000 Here we go.

00:00:39.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:41.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.

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00:01:21.000 Someone says here, Charlie, I don't like the fact that you say we're going to lose in 2024.

00:01:25.000 Let me be very clear.

00:01:26.000 We're going to lose unless we make serious changes.

00:01:29.000 Okay?

00:01:30.000 Right now, we have not made the critical investments in key states, and I get angry when people say we're going to win, we're going to win, we're going to win.

00:01:39.000 How many times have we said that?

00:01:40.000 And all of a sudden, at the last hour, they find ballots and they do all these different sorts of things.

00:01:45.000 And so I think we need to play like we are the underdog.

00:01:48.000 We need to act as if we are the underdog, not as if we are up automatically going to win.

00:01:54.000 I don't like that mentality.

00:01:55.000 Sir, you're the first question.

00:01:58.000 I'm a public school administrator for a long time.

00:02:03.000 Been involved in public education for a long time.

00:02:05.000 What are we going to do as a strategy to prevent this manufacturing of a very left-wing liberal perspective when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion?

00:02:18.000 I can remember some times where I was an administrator and we bring in a speaker and even speaking about borders was a racist comment.

00:02:29.000 You know, we're creating a group of students that are graduating that are fueling this left-wing feel.

00:02:37.000 What are we going to do about school board elections?

00:02:39.000 What are we going to do about making sure that we're teaching the things that value America versus teaching we hate America?

00:02:48.000 What's the story?

00:02:48.000 Now, from what I understand, you guys have done pretty well with school boards here locally.

00:02:51.000 Maybe, maybe not.

00:02:52.000 Am I understanding that correctly?

00:02:53.000 I'm from Michigan, and we're not doing well.

00:02:56.000 That would be why, because I don't know if that, I think there's a lot of take back here.

00:02:59.000 Look, here's my piece of advice, and we'll just go through it piece by piece.

00:03:03.000 If you can afford it, you should not send your kids to government schools, period.

00:03:06.000 You've got to take your kids out of government schools.

00:03:09.000 Now, you might say, well, Charlie, I can't afford to send them to private school.

00:03:12.000 I can't afford to homeschool them.

00:03:14.000 I couldn't afford to not. 0.98

00:03:14.000 I sent them to Greenpeace Catholic Central. 0.98

00:03:16.000 Yeah, let me finish the thought, right?

00:03:18.000 Which is, if you're willing to borrow money for your kid to go to college, why wouldn't you be willing to borrow money for your kid to go to a more important K through 8, K through 12 experience?

00:03:29.000 I think K through 12 is a lot more important than four years of college.

00:03:34.000 And so I have not, I quite honestly have not seen a good argument to keep kids in government schools.

00:03:40.000 If you decide to do that, you're playing Russian roulette with their values.

00:03:44.000 With that being said, we should still get involved in school boards and try to take them over.

00:03:48.000 But you're dealing with the teacher unions.

00:03:50.000 You're dealing with textbooked.

00:03:51.000 You're dealing with all sorts of different forces there.

00:03:54.000 We need to have a mass exodus out of the government school system, and we need to build more classical schools, more charter schools.

00:04:01.000 We need more homeschooling.

00:04:03.000 I would love to see us fight and improve government schools, but especially in Michigan, it's nearly impossible at this point to do that.

00:04:12.000 God bless you, though.

00:04:13.000 Thank you so much.

00:04:14.000 Thank you.

00:04:14.000 All right, who's got the next question?

00:04:18.000 So, a couple of years ago, my parents actually started a classical Christian cottage school.

00:04:23.000 And I teach at the school, first and second grade.

00:04:26.000 But I was just wondering if you have any advice on how to get people on board and donors and how to advertise it.

00:04:33.000 For the classical Christian school.

00:04:34.000 Yes.

00:04:35.000 Well, you have to be, I mean, you know, having built something that from nothing and getting it out there, you have to be a relentless advocate for your cause and for your efforts.

00:04:44.000 So you just have to get as many stakeholders involved.

00:04:46.000 And then if you do good work, people will find that good work and it will get rewarded.

00:04:51.000 What's the name of the school?

00:04:52.000 The Fletcher School.

00:04:53.000 What is it?

00:04:54.000 The Fletcher School.

00:04:55.000 Very good.

00:04:56.000 Well, God bless you and thank you for being here.

00:04:57.000 Thank you.

00:04:58.000 Appreciate it.

00:04:59.000 All right.

00:05:00.000 Who's up next?

00:05:01.000 We'll do this question here.

00:05:01.000 Anybody?

00:05:02.000 Charlie, this is the question.

00:05:04.000 I think we have another question here.

00:05:05.000 Charlie, why is it that Eric Swalwell has not been held accountable for his very spicily worded email? 0.91

00:05:14.000 Let's just call it relationship with a Chinese spy. 0.67

00:05:17.000 Representative Troy Nells calls out Eric Swalwell for this play cut 69.

00:05:22.000 Mr. Swalwell is down there.

00:05:23.000 Obviously, everybody knows he's made some comments.

00:05:26.000 He's got a checkered past.

00:05:28.000 He's alleged relationships.

00:05:30.000 A checkered past.

00:05:32.000 It's my time.

00:05:34.000 Alleged affairs. 1.00

00:05:35.000 No, You don't get to say that shit. 1.00

00:05:38.000 He had alleged relationships with Yam Yum. 1.00

00:05:41.000 I asked the gentleman's words to be taken down.

00:05:43.000 I'll get a sign.

00:05:44.000 I asked the gentleman's words to be taken down.

00:05:46.000 It's casting a slur on another member.

00:05:47.000 Well, I am here.

00:05:49.000 He is making.

00:05:51.000 I asked the words of the gentleman to be taken down.

00:05:53.000 It's casting a slur on another member.

00:05:55.000 Let us have some order and civility here, and we will take up the issues.

00:06:00.000 So Eric Swalwell allegedly had an affair with Feng Feng and was never held accountable for what that happened. 0.55

00:06:09.000 We have a federal law enforcement completely captured by the Chinese Communist Party.

00:06:13.000 Who wants the next question? 0.97

00:06:14.000 Anybody?

00:06:15.000 Come on up.

00:06:16.000 We want to thank you for coming.

00:06:17.000 We love you.

00:06:18.000 We watch you every day.

00:06:19.000 Thank you.

00:06:20.000 We have a very strong grassroots group here.

00:06:23.000 We're very involved with our school board, our commissioners.

00:06:26.000 I don't know if anybody mentioned, but we passed a medical freedom ordinance and resolution about a month ago so that our county, Collier County, will be free of medical mandates the next thing that comes across to us.

00:06:43.000 God bless you.

00:06:44.000 Thank you so much.

00:06:44.000 God bless you.

00:06:45.000 The medical freedom issue is one that I don't think we're focusing on enough right now.

00:06:49.000 If you look at autonomy against forced vaccinations and what they tried to do under COVID was absolutely unbelievable.

00:06:57.000 Speaking of which, Anthony Fauci is rewriting history.

00:07:00.000 Anthony Fauci, who should be in jail, says the mask mandates were not a mistake.

00:07:05.000 Play cut 49.

00:07:06.000 We need to better explain what we're doing.

00:07:08.000 Play cut 49.

00:07:09.000 You know, Caitlin, I don't want to say a mistake, but I think we really need to remember next time we're confronted with this, that when you have a situation where there's doubt in the minds of some people about whether something works or not, we better try to reach out and be a better explainer of why we feel these things are important.

00:07:30.000 Because whenever, particularly in our country with our free spirit, which we all embrace, that people being told what to do very often has the opposite effect.

00:07:40.000 That's what I was referring to in that interview.

00:07:42.000 Free spirit.

00:07:44.000 Everything the founding fathers designed was to prevent people like Anthony Fauci from having power.

00:07:50.000 He is at direct odds with the American founding fathers' promise of checks and balances, separation of powers, consent to the governor.

00:07:58.000 No one ever elected Anthony Fauci, yet he had complete control over all of society.

00:08:03.000 Hi, my biggest concern is the misuse of language, starting with the redefinition of a pandemic and a vaccine by the CDC, as well as the use of the word democracy instead of constitutional republic, the use of the word constitutional rights instead of rights protected by the Constitution.

00:08:03.000 Yes?

00:08:24.000 I'm assuming the turning point is doing a lot in that way.

00:08:27.000 What is there that we can do just generically in order to be able to get our legislators to change these things?

00:08:34.000 And have you got some advice for not just the young people, but the legislators themselves? 0.82

00:08:39.000 Yeah, I mean, this is why having the fight over the redefinition of what is a woman is so important. 0.62

00:08:49.000 Language is how we communicate truth, right?

00:08:53.000 And so this is why when someone is looting or committing arson, they say, oh, it's peaceful protesting.

00:09:00.000 Orwell warned us against this in 1984, which is the inversion of language where language no longer objectively actually has value.

00:09:08.000 This is why the trans debate is the most important thing happening in America.

00:09:12.000 It's not an insignificant sideshow. 0.97

00:09:15.000 It's the assault of language, the assault of traditions, customs, and norms.

00:09:19.000 The ability for people to be able to have agreed-upon truths of which we organize society is the downfall of civilization.

00:09:28.000 We are not a democracy.

00:09:30.000 In fact, I go as far to say, and I get attacked by the media, democracy is actually a really bad idea.

00:09:38.000 Democracy is not a good idea.

00:09:40.000 People are afraid to say, oh my goodness, I don't like that.

00:09:42.000 Representative government is a great idea, but pure unadulterated democracy is mob rule.

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00:10:54.000 We are not a democracy, and I'm glad we're not a democracy.

00:10:58.000 When people say it over and over again, now the media loses their mind when I say this.

00:11:03.000 We should celebrate representative government.

00:11:06.000 We believe in the consent of the governed.

00:11:07.000 But what is the technical difference between a democracy and a republic?

00:11:12.000 It's significant.

00:11:13.000 A democracy is ruled by majority.

00:11:15.000 That if you have 50 plus one votes, then you're able to do whatever you want.

00:11:19.000 A republic does acknowledge, of course, the consent of the governed and majoritarian rule, but it has a pre-written, eternal document or truths that govern the ambitions or the emotions of the majority.

00:11:37.000 So, for example, the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence are intertwined.

00:11:42.000 They are harmonic documents.

00:11:45.000 When we have life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or life, liberty, and property, these are eternally applicable to human beings, including in the preamble of the Constitution.

00:11:54.000 So, therefore, we enumerate these in the Bill of Rights, which was originally really drafted by George Mason in the Virginia Declaration of Rights, where the government has rules.

00:12:05.000 In a democracy, you would never have the government have direct rules.

00:12:09.000 In a republic, there are barriers for the government to go after human liberty, human flourishing, and human freedoms.

00:12:18.000 A republic also acknowledges that rights come from God.

00:12:23.000 A democracy does not outright acknowledge that.

00:12:27.000 And so, a constitution, a constitutional republic, has separation of powers, checks, and balances.

00:12:37.000 A democracy, by definition, is that you get to vote yourself more rights and more stuff.

00:12:43.000 A republic has a preference on limited government.

00:12:47.000 A democracy has a preference on the demands of people.

00:12:51.000 And guess what?

00:12:52.000 People are always going to want to demand more and more free stuff.

00:12:56.000 A republic has a preference on liberty.

00:12:59.000 A democracy has a preference on getting other people to pay for your free stuff.

00:13:04.000 Very, very big difference.

00:13:06.000 We are a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

00:13:09.000 Your question, ma'am.

00:13:10.000 I moved up here and moved away in 2008, and I just moved back because I wanted to raise my daughter here and not California.

00:13:17.000 You really inspired me during the lockdowns there.

00:13:19.000 The mandates were intense.

00:13:21.000 My question is: moving back here, I was at Saddleback Church in California.

00:13:26.000 And Rick Warren really bummed me out.

00:13:28.000 It really bummed me out.

00:13:30.000 But my question is: is there a coalition or somewhere advertised that's with the Daily Wire or a turning point where a 34-year-old like me can go be like, that church is going to be lit?

00:13:41.000 Yeah, so I think there's some really good churches around here.

00:13:45.000 And you guys can connect them.

00:13:45.000 I think so.

00:13:48.000 And so we have Turning Point Faith, TPFaith.com, TPUSA Faith.

00:13:52.000 And we have a pastor summit actually coming up in a couple weeks of over 600 of the best pastors in the country.

00:13:58.000 And let me just speak more broadly to all the Christians out there. 0.98

00:14:01.000 Stop going to churches that are led by cowards.

00:14:05.000 You need to have pastors that are speaking boldly and proclaiming truth. 0.97

00:14:10.000 And you might say, well, Charlie, how do I know if I'm led by a coward?

00:14:14.000 Did they mention in a thankful way the reversal of Roe versus Wade when it happened last summer? 0.99

00:14:19.000 If not, you're probably being led by a coward. 0.93

00:14:21.000 Did they lock down and force masks on their congregation? 0.95

00:14:25.000 So this is very, very important.

00:14:27.000 I don't know any specifically here.

00:14:30.000 I have been told that there's some wonderful and courageous and bold churches here.

00:14:34.000 I could tell you if you live in Phoenix, I got recommendations or California, but find the bold and the courageous churches because it is amazing how apathetic and how uninterested.

00:14:47.000 I mean, you mentioned Rick Warren.

00:14:48.000 Rick Warren texted me and I, because he's very upset at me because I've been going after Rick Warren, right?

00:14:53.000 Rick Warren walked in a BLM march.

00:14:56.000 Rick Warren mandated masks and vaccines, saying that's what Jesus would want.

00:15:01.000 And I went after him very hard, and he didn't like that.

00:15:04.000 And I'm going to meet with him, and I'm going to say the same thing I say publicly to Rick Warren, which is you're not finishing well.

00:15:10.000 Rick Warren, you were a great pastor when you wrote purpose-driven life and you brought people to the Lord.

00:15:15.000 You are not finishing well the same way that King Solomon didn't finish well.

00:15:18.000 You are off your path.

00:15:19.000 You are pandering to the world and to the woke. 0.92

00:15:22.000 You become unstable and you become a very weak person.

00:15:25.000 And Rick Warren was one of the best voices that we had.

00:15:28.000 Maybe it's for money, maybe it's for power.

00:15:30.000 I don't know what the reason is, but you know, Rick Warren has spoken at the World Economic Forum repeatedly.

00:15:34.000 That's Rick Warren.

00:15:36.000 And it's very disappointing.

00:15:37.000 So I hope it changes.

00:15:38.000 I will meet with him.

00:15:39.000 I'll have an open and candid conversation.

00:15:42.000 And here's the test. 0.91

00:15:43.000 I'll say, Rick, you know, if you would like to prove that you are one of us, take out your phone right now and tweet that the trans agenda is from the pit of hell. 0.94

00:15:53.000 Tweet right now then. 0.51

00:15:54.000 And he'll probably say, Oh, that's not my role. 0.99

00:15:56.000 And I'll say, That's why you're not a pastor for times like this, because you have become confused, weak, and cowardly.

00:16:02.000 And Rick Warren and Andy Stanley, who I know just lost his father, so I'm trying to lay off of him for a little bit. 1.00

00:16:08.000 Judas Smith, Levi Lusko, these sort of cool kid Christian pastors are doing great damage to the kingdom and to the country. 0.99

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00:17:31.000 Let's continue with some questions.

00:17:32.000 How are you?

00:17:33.000 Good, Charlie.

00:17:34.000 Thank you for all you do.

00:17:35.000 It's voices like yours that are helping America to get the truth out.

00:17:39.000 And I was just wondering if you have any advice.

00:17:41.000 It seems like when the mask mandate started and everything from voting, people would show up to vote and they'd be turned away and they would comply.

00:17:50.000 And there's so much people, especially in the youth who have been taught to obey authority, complying right now.

00:17:56.000 Do you have any advice for how to get the word to many people using and exercising their free will?

00:18:02.000 Yeah, that's a great question.

00:18:03.000 So I'm a big fan of the Bible, as many of you know.

00:18:07.000 And here's a provocative truth that happens throughout the scriptures.

00:18:11.000 People, most people do not want to be free.

00:18:15.000 A lot of us here want to be free.

00:18:16.000 But, you know, when God delivered his chosen people out of Egypt into the desert, within days, he blew coil off course, manna came from heaven, and they said, We want to go back to Egypt.

00:18:29.000 We want to go back to bondage.

00:18:30.000 We want to go back to slavery because at least we were able to eat meat.

00:18:35.000 It's amazing.

00:18:36.000 How many people do you know that have desired comfort over liberty?

00:18:43.000 You have to teach the value of liberty to young people.

00:18:47.000 I would much rather live a full and unpredictable life than a boring and a safe life.

00:18:54.000 And the vast majority of young people, I actually think the new national motto in America has been informally relabeled as better safe than sorry.

00:19:06.000 I think that's okay to say at times, but I'd rather say live freely and boldly and courageously.

00:19:13.000 That's a better country to live in.

00:19:15.000 And the kind of pathological religion of safetyism makes the mask issue popular.

00:19:23.000 And here's what's so interesting: is that, you know, I talk about this with guns and I get attacked: is that if you have any form of liberty, you're going to have a cost to that liberty.

00:19:32.000 We could get 50,000 less deaths a year right now.

00:19:35.000 We just have to ban driving.

00:19:37.000 Automobiles.

00:19:38.000 There's a cost to almost anything that we consider to be important.

00:19:43.000 But here's what I fear more than anything else on this topic, is that people are so willingly giving up hard-earned freedom and liberty given to them by God for a false sense of security.

00:20:00.000 It's not even that they'll actually be secure.

00:20:03.000 And you could play it out.

00:20:04.000 Who are the people that are the most secure, that have the meals provided to them, that are able to sleep on a bed?

00:20:11.000 It's jail.

00:20:12.000 But they have no liberty.

00:20:14.000 And what happened in the lockdowns was a form of them imprisoning the entire American population, especially our young people that now have the highest suicide rates, that have high alcohol addiction, drug addiction, self-harm.

00:20:30.000 All the negative indicators go up dramatically.

00:20:32.000 And so it's not an easy answer, but it goes back to what I said earlier.

00:20:37.000 We need churches to teach the value of liberty.

00:20:42.000 I believe God wants his people to be free.

00:20:45.000 I really do.

00:20:47.000 And liberty is not man's idea.

00:20:49.000 It is God's idea.

00:20:52.000 And right now, a secular society will end up being an unfree society. 0.72

00:20:58.000 The American founding started with the revival, started with Jonathan Edwards talking about in the black robe regimen, sinners in the hands of an angry God.

00:21:08.000 It started with George Whitfield.

00:21:12.000 It started with Jonathan Mayhew.

00:21:14.000 It talked preaching about this idea of liberty.

00:21:17.000 But here's the other thing is liberty is not doing whatever you want to do.

00:21:21.000 That's licentiousness. 0.72

00:21:23.000 That's license.

00:21:24.000 Liberty is having the ability without somebody getting the way to do what you ought to do.

00:21:29.000 It's a totally different thing.

00:21:31.000 Thank you for your question.

00:21:32.000 I appreciate it.

00:21:34.000 Hi.

00:21:34.000 Hello.

00:21:35.000 My name is Teddy Collins.

00:21:37.000 My question today is, I've had a lot of issues down here with people what they call rhinos. 0.94

00:21:46.000 They only care about protecting their pockets, the economy, but they want to neglect the social issues.

00:21:53.000 And they're the benefactors of the wise policies of God-fearing conservatives.

00:22:00.000 They care less about the children being indoctrinated, the unborn.

00:22:04.000 And how do we fix that as far as in our party?

00:22:07.000 Yeah.

00:22:08.000 So let me first give you all of us some messaging advice.

00:22:11.000 Stop calling them even rhinos. 1.00

00:22:13.000 Call them neoliberals. 1.00

00:22:15.000 That's what they are. 0.98

00:22:17.000 It's a technically more accurate term.

00:22:19.000 A neoliberal is someone who believes in three main things.

00:22:23.000 They believe we should invade the world, invite the world, and import a bunch of products that we do not need.

00:22:29.000 Those three things are why Tucker Carlson got fired.

00:22:33.000 Tucker Carlson was willing to say the Ukraine war is a mistake and we should try to broker peace.

00:22:38.000 Tucker Carlson was willing to say it's a mistake that we have 5,000 people a day coming across our southern border.

00:22:43.000 Tucker Carlson was willing to say, you know what?

00:22:45.000 Our trade deals have hurt the American worker.

00:22:48.000 Those three things hurt the bottom line of transnational corporations and neoliberals.

00:22:53.000 But if I could add a fourth one of neoliberals, neoliberals are afraid to fight for the most important issues directly affecting our children and our culture.

00:23:05.000 Neoliberals will say, why do we talk about the trans things so much?

00:23:09.000 Why do we talk about the social stuff?

00:23:12.000 Well, first of all, we didn't force the issue.

00:23:14.000 They are forcing the issue.

00:23:16.000 And even more important than that, this is why politics is not as important to me as philosophy or getting our morals and our ethics right.

00:23:24.000 Bad politics comes from not being able to define what is reality and what is true.

00:23:30.000 The neoliberals think we could go back to an old America with the snap of our fingers.

00:23:35.000 That's not going to happen unless we take America back from them.

00:23:39.000 And so I would stop calling them rhinos. 0.99

00:23:41.000 Are not even Republicans in name only.

00:23:43.000 They are flat-out members of the American left, center-left, called neoliberals.

00:23:48.000 How do we defeat them?

00:23:49.000 Here's the good news: anybody that has children, we need to start a new movement that is called the Parents' Party.

00:23:56.000 The Parents' Party will retake America, and it needs to be about medical freedom, strong America, common sense values.

00:24:04.000 I don't think this is political.

00:24:05.000 I mean, let me prove to you that my heart is not all about politics.

00:24:10.000 I agree more with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on what he's saying when he runs for president more than Nikki Haley on most issues.

00:24:20.000 Not all issues, but most issues.

00:24:22.000 He talks about the administrative state.

00:24:24.000 He talks about medical autonomy.

00:24:27.000 He talks about surveillance state.

00:24:29.000 Again, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I think, is wrong on abortion, and he overdoes it on the environment.

00:24:33.000 This is a question of is the promise of citizen government going to continue in America.

00:24:40.000 And so, what gives me hope is if we can challenge this uniparty that is dominating our country, I think 90% of America agrees with us.

00:24:50.000 It's going to be a challenge, though, because the corporate oligarchs and the leaders of the Uniparty want us to think that the divide is Republican-Democrat.

00:24:59.000 The divide is not.

00:25:00.000 The divide is instead parent versus pervert.

00:25:03.000 The divide is nationalist versus globalist.

00:25:06.000 The divide is citizen versus internationalist.

00:25:11.000 If we can frame that, we're going to win in big ways, but it's going to take a lot of work.

00:25:15.000 Reality versus fantasy.

00:25:17.000 These are the correct divides.

00:25:18.000 I think we actually are the moderates.

00:25:21.000 I think we're the ones that are looking at things fairly.

00:25:24.000 For example, I have pretty relaxed views on tax policy.

00:25:28.000 I don't like high taxes, nor do you guys.

00:25:31.000 But I would much rather have kids not be taught pornography in classrooms than lowering the corporate tax rate.

00:25:37.000 That's way more important to me.

00:25:39.000 Thank you so much.

00:25:40.000 I appreciate it.

00:25:41.000 Yes, sir.

00:25:42.000 Good to go.

00:25:44.000 My name is Michael Peters, member of the Lee Republican Executive Committee.

00:25:48.000 Moved down here from North Florida, lived there for 15 years, owned a small business there, got to be real good friends with lots of other small business owners and farmers.

00:26:00.000 And the farmers in North Florida are being bought out by Bill Gates.

00:26:06.000 How do we stop it?

00:26:07.000 It's a great question.

00:26:08.000 So this is where we need to push back against oligarchy.

00:26:12.000 And it's not just Bill Gates, it's the Chinese Communist Party as well.

00:26:16.000 And so, and you can't blame the farmers.

00:26:19.000 So some people say, oh, why are the farmers selling?

00:26:21.000 Because they come in with unbelievably lucrative cash deals, people.

00:26:26.000 I'm talking about 10 times multiples on earnings, right?

00:26:29.000 Four times.

00:26:30.000 And they're like, I can't say no to this, right?

00:26:34.000 So I believe there should be a law passed on a state-by-state level that billionaire oligarchs should not be able to buy millions of acres of farmland.

00:26:45.000 You want to buy a couple hundred thousand acres?

00:26:47.000 Okay, there could be a limit.

00:26:49.000 But the Chinese Communist Party should be able to buy zero, okay?

00:26:52.000 But I would be willing to go as far to say that, Bill Gates, you already own enough land as it is in the country.

00:26:57.000 Bill Gates is not buying farmland because he wants the betterment for the country.

00:27:01.000 He's letting it go fallow.

00:27:03.000 It's what?

00:27:04.000 He's letting it go fallow.

00:27:05.000 I believe it.

00:27:07.000 BlackRock, for example, should not be able to buy up single-family homes to then rent them back to our kids.

00:27:12.000 Amen.

00:27:13.000 So what we're getting at here is the next exciting development in the conservative movement.

00:27:19.000 I'm a free market guy.

00:27:22.000 We all like free markets.

00:27:24.000 However, free markets should serve people.

00:27:26.000 When free markets fail to serve people, we should be willing to use prudence, practical judgment, to make the market serve the people.

00:27:35.000 It's against the free market to have a guy worth $110 billion go buy farmland, let the land go.

00:27:41.000 You said fallow is the technical term, right? 0.86

00:27:44.000 And so foreigners should not be able to come in and buy our farmland.

00:27:48.000 Single-family homes should be owned by families or small investors, not $10 trillion funds. 0.91

00:27:54.000 Guess what?

00:27:55.000 Republicans are afraid to say this out loud because they're purchased by big party Chamber of Commerce neoliberal donors.

00:28:01.000 Amen.

00:28:02.000 The American right, embracing these ideas, will be able to bring over 10 or 15% of Democrats, big time.

00:28:09.000 And so if you are a family and you own a rental property, that's fine, or five or ten, that's not the problem.

00:28:15.000 If you're a farmer and you want to buy an extra couple hundred acres, fine.

00:28:18.000 The issue is people that use the backbone of America, property ownership and farms, as portfolio assets to remake America in their globalist neoliberal image.

00:28:30.000 Teddy Roosevelt can and should serve as an example of how to challenge corporate power run amok.

00:28:36.000 The founders, in fact, Alexander Hamilton would have agreed with this.

00:28:40.000 Abraham Lincoln would have agreed with this.

00:28:42.000 This is the new right.

00:28:44.000 The new right is willing to push back against corporate power the same way we should push back against the administrative state.

00:28:52.000 Hey, Charlie, this is Denise Nystrom.

00:28:54.000 So glad to have you here at Seed to Table.

00:28:57.000 Thank you.

00:28:58.000 I just wanted to share a little something with you, and maybe you can shed some light on this.

00:29:03.000 So based on all of our conversation here today, I hear you loud and clear about the fact that we need to take control over what's going on.

00:29:11.000 And to that end, I did that.

00:29:12.000 I ran for school board.

00:29:14.000 I didn't win, but let me just say that I was that non-establishment, a candidate.

00:29:20.000 And thank you.

00:29:22.000 And I lost because political action committee money, dark money, spent $400,000 to say that I was woke.

00:29:30.000 I believed in boys and girls' bathrooms when I've been fighting against it. 0.52

00:29:34.000 I was even endorsed by Alfie Oaks. 0.96

00:29:37.000 So what does someone like me do when I can raise $70,000, but I don't have $400,000 and the Rhino establishment takes somebody that's qualified like me out of the race?

00:29:48.000 This happens a lot.

00:29:49.000 You got to run again, and you got to keep scrapping.

00:29:51.000 You got to keep hustling.

00:29:52.000 And you can't give up.

00:29:53.000 Eventually you will win.

00:29:55.000 And your name ID increases over a period of time.

00:29:58.000 But this is not unusual, okay?

00:30:01.000 What I have found is in pockets across the country is you have great grassroots people like you that all of a sudden the corporate types come in with a lot of money and they misrepresent.

00:30:12.000 And that's why grassroots networks matter so much.

00:30:14.000 That's why what we're trying to do on our program to support the good candidates and get the message out.

00:30:19.000 We're all living through a big change, everybody.

00:30:21.000 I hope you understand that.

00:30:22.000 The change is not complete.

00:30:24.000 The positive change, though, is we're going to get to a place where Turning Point Action, for example, is able to tell the good guys from the bad guys.

00:30:33.000 And that kind of corporate money won't mean as much.

00:30:36.000 Here's what my dream is.

00:30:39.000 Remember when the NRA endorsement was a very, very big deal?

00:30:42.000 I'm endorsed by the NRA.

00:30:44.000 We need to have a series of grassroots groups, maybe Turning Point Action, maybe you're not, where it doesn't matter how much money they spend, but a step of a thumbs up or a green stamp of approval from Turning Point Action or whatever can cut through that.

00:30:58.000 Because, you know, I'm doing this three hours a day.

00:31:02.000 I'm making a lot of enemies.

00:31:03.000 The RNC, they don't like what I'm doing.

00:31:05.000 Good.

00:31:06.000 That means that we're going after the people that have done a lot of damage to our movement.

00:31:10.000 Run again.

00:31:11.000 Keep on scrapping.

00:31:13.000 And by the way, Tyler Boyer was on our program.

00:31:15.000 You know, we've done everything we can to try to remove Rana as head of the RNC, and she's losing popularity. 0.99

00:31:21.000 You just have to keep on scrapping and going after it, and you can't give up.

00:31:25.000 Ronald Reagan lost a couple times before he won.

00:31:28.000 Remember that.

00:31:28.000 Abraham Lincoln was a failed politician until he was a very successful politician.

00:31:33.000 Fair enough.

00:31:34.000 I'll take your business card.

00:31:36.000 All right.

00:31:36.000 God bless you.

00:31:37.000 All right.

00:31:37.000 Come on up.

00:31:38.000 Let's get the mic down. 0.98

00:31:40.000 We have two minutes.

00:31:41.000 Hi.

00:31:42.000 Sorry.

00:31:43.000 Thank you for being here, Charlie.

00:31:44.000 I'm Katie Wilson from here in Naples.

00:31:47.000 I'm sorry.

00:31:47.000 Just get as close as you can to the black mic.

00:31:50.000 Okay, that's really loud.

00:31:51.000 I'm a homeschool mom of two girls.

00:31:54.000 Thank you.

00:31:56.000 And it is my goal to raise my children in the admonition of the Lord.

00:32:00.000 And I want to raise them with good, patriotic American values.

00:32:05.000 I want them to really know our nation's history and I want to help them really learn discernment moving forward with how they should live as an American.

00:32:16.000 And that can be really tough discerning, especially with the media.

00:32:21.000 You know, there's a lot of mixed messages in the media.

00:32:23.000 We've got horrible mainstream media anymore.

00:32:27.000 There are voices like yours out there, but how do I start teaching them discernment with media and just what they can trust?

00:32:36.000 Because I'm not going to always be here to direct them.

00:32:39.000 Where do we start with our kids learning?

00:32:43.000 Yeah, it's a great question.

00:32:44.000 So, I mean, it depends, you know, what their age are.

00:32:47.000 I know it's her sixth birthday today, so happy birthday.

00:32:50.000 Look, the first thing is family dinners are very important.

00:32:54.000 Here's my biggest piece of advice: limit technology.

00:32:56.000 I'm a big believer in the Sabbath.

00:32:58.000 And I think the Sabbath is one of the most ignored, beautiful gifts in the entire Bible that Christians. 0.92

00:33:05.000 I turn off my phone completely from Friday night to Sunday night, and then I work like crazy every other day. 1.00

00:33:10.000 And so you're able to get a lot done when you have a true day of rest.

00:33:14.000 And then you need to have non-technology family dinners where you talk about things.

00:33:18.000 But, you know, our program is good in one regard.

00:33:22.000 We air a lot of the bad guys' stuff, and then we respond to it, and we talk about it, and we say, here's what they say, and here's why it's not so good.

00:33:29.000 But then also, you know, don't be afraid of preparing your kids that they're going to be bombarded with lies and deceit.

00:33:37.000 Don't shield them.

00:33:39.000 This is very important.

00:33:42.000 Don't try to make your kids, you know, fragile.

00:33:46.000 Make them tough.

00:33:47.000 That balance, you have to pray for wisdom from God.

00:33:50.000 It's a very important thing.

00:33:51.000 Sometimes homeschool parents get it right.

00:33:52.000 Sometimes they don't.

00:33:53.000 Sometimes homeschool kids end up very fragile.

00:33:56.000 And that's not good.

00:33:57.000 So that would be my piece of advice.

00:33:58.000 And happy birthday and God bless you.

00:33:59.000 Thank you.

00:34:02.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:04.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:07.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.

00:34:12.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - May 01, 2023

Ask Charlie Anything 144: Do People Want Freedom? Are Most Pastors Cowards?

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