00:00:42.000His 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.
00:00:51.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:47.000So let me just start by saying this: that 11 years ago, it's easy to kind of forget this, or more specifically, even 13, 15 years ago, it was forecasted that this generation, the millennials that I'm a member of, was going to be the most liberal generation in American history.
00:02:07.000That they were going to bring forth the revolution.
00:02:10.000In fact, you could go type in, type in Obama UW-Madison and look at the images.
00:02:17.000Young people, as far as the eye can see.
00:02:21.000I mean, an absolute swarm of young people.
00:02:27.000It's literally on the steps of Madison, blanketing the entire campus.
00:02:34.000And I was told by donors, I was told by organizers, I was told by some, not all donors, some donors, it is an impossibility to make any substantive changes.
00:02:45.000That this is the way it's going to be.
00:02:51.000In fact, when I first started Turning Point USA to try to spread conservative values and ideas, many of the Washington, D.C. snob groups said, oh, what is this turning point thing?
00:03:50.000And in fact, the last midterm shows it within one point.
00:03:56.000They went from a Democrat plus 35 to 40 generation to a 50-50 generation.
00:04:06.000This is a generation that was going to bring in the cultural revolution by almost a guarantee.
00:04:12.000And by the way, we actually saw this last fall.
00:04:15.000We wrote an article in Newsweek.com, Do Not Believe the Hype.
00:04:19.000Young people are getting less liberal.
00:04:22.000We went through the numbers because some of the DC groups, specifically the RNC, the RNC was very mad that I was calling the, you know, calling for Rana Romney's resignation.
00:04:33.000And so the RNC was planting stories against Turning Point in the media, saying, oh, young people are super liberal.
00:04:40.000Let's blame them for all of our problems.
00:04:42.000It's like, wait a second, you don't understand the progress that we've already made.
00:04:45.000And by the way, if you are designating us with the blame of the younger generation, then you must give Turning Point the credit for any success.
00:06:22.000It happens gradually than suddenly as we continue to pour in to the next generation around core ideas, make arguments that resonate, challenge bad ideas.
00:06:36.000Says here in the New York Times piece: the shift to right for younger voters is surprising those in the Democrat establishment.
00:07:15.000June 5th, 2012, Turning Point USA was started.
00:07:19.00011 years ago, when Turning Point USA started, the generation that I told people, or I tried to convince people to invest in, that is worth betting on was cast aside and predicted to be a 30 to 40 percent Marxist generation.
00:07:46.000And again, I am not taking full credit for it, but I would say: what organization other than Turning Point USA has been organizing in the trenches focused on the education of the next generation to pass down American values, to educate on the Constitution, the promise of the American founding, and then to actually go on college campuses and challenge these ideas.
00:08:08.000And make no mistake, the woke stuff has presented an amazing opportunity to build consensus, to show the radicalism inherent in these ideas.
00:08:59.000Yeah, that'll radicalize new parents very quickly.
00:09:04.000It'll radicalize parents that might have been raised in the Obama generation and the fervor and the promise that Obama was going to be the great leap forward of America.
00:09:15.000This is very promising news, everybody.
00:09:17.000You want to talk about people being demoralized.
00:09:23.000The left who was counting on a mass monopoly of younger voters.
00:09:29.000They thought they could have a stranglehold on a generation.
00:09:33.000They thought younger voters would be as loyal voters as the black community has been to the American Democrat Party, and that has not materialized.
00:09:42.000In fact, it is moving rapidly against them every single election cycle.
00:09:51.000So this is terrific news across the board.
00:09:55.000And you look that every demographic is moving right in the last couple of years.
00:09:59.000And then, so you might be asking, well, Charlie, if every demographic is moving right, why aren't we able then to win the seats in the Senate?
00:10:06.000Why aren't we able to win the seats in the House of Representatives?
00:10:10.000Because we're not actually playing the election game.
00:10:12.000This is why TurningPointAction, tpaction.com, is doing the ballot chasing operation in Wisconsin.
00:10:20.000If we actually get involved in the mechanics and the infrastructure and the machinery and the plumbing of the elections, what Nate Cohen is writing on the New York Times, which is basically a fire alarm newsletter, is what he says here, subscriber-only newsletter, is that the country is tilting center-right amongst every single demographic.
00:10:47.000The country is tilting in the center-right direction in every conceivable way.
00:10:55.000He said, Look, it's not necessarily a stunning fighting.
00:10:57.000Political folklore has long held that voters become more conservative as they get older, but it's nonetheless at odds with a wave of recent reports or studies suggesting otherwise.
00:11:05.000The Financial Times, for instance, wrote that, quote, millennials are shattering the oldest rule in politics.
00:11:12.000Democrat data firm Catalyst found that Democrats essentially lost ground amongst millennials and Generation Z of last decade.
00:11:18.000These findings have sparked a new wave of speculation whether the long-awaited era of Democrat dominance might this time really be at hand.
00:11:31.000But a different story emerges by tracking those voters.
00:11:34.000The millenniums of 2008 are not the same as 2016.
00:11:38.000Six additional years of even more heavily Democrat millennials becoming eligible to vote after the 2008 election, canceling out the slight Republican majority.
00:11:45.000The shift to the right is real and palpable.
00:11:53.000This shows that all the work that we're doing on podcasting, and those of you that support us at charliekirk.com/slash support, for us being in the weeds, for us challenging all of this nonsense, for the 330 days of travel that I've done a year over the last 11 years of the money we raised and the 240,000 donors that we have at Turning Point USA.
00:13:03.000Target holding an emergency meeting over its controversial pride merchandise, the damage control mode coming as it desperately tries to avoid a so-called Bud Light situation.
00:13:12.000A Target insider telling Fox News Digital, quote, we were given 36 hours, told to take all the pride stuff and move it into a section that is a third of the size from the front of the store to the back.
00:13:23.000I think given the current situation with Bud Light, the company is terrified.
00:13:26.000So that right there is Target holding an emergency meeting over controversial pride merchandise to avoid a Bud Light situation.
00:13:34.000Do you see how the Pride wins are changing?
00:13:37.000People are not so enthusiastic right now about embracing this Pride stuff.
00:13:44.000People are not so zealous behind this.
00:13:47.000They're responding by saying that if you boycott Target, you're engaging in economic terrorism.
00:13:54.000When Target caves into this, then it says that the moment you threaten the employees of even a very large corporation, you get to control its policies.
00:14:05.000This is economic terrorism, literally terrorism, creating fear among the workers and forcing the corporations to sell the things you want, not sell the things you don't.
00:15:47.000Homeland Security is warning of a potential troubling escalation in tactics from right-wing extremists.
00:15:53.000Catherine, we understand the power grid could be a target.
00:15:56.000According to the intelligence report obtained by CBS News, these groups have developed credible and specific plans to attack the power grid since at least 2020 as a way to disrupt the country and the ability of government to operate.
00:16:10.000While the report does not suggest an imminent threat, the Homeland Security Secretary has warned lone wolf actors and small bands of extremists are among the greatest domestic threat.
00:16:24.000They never do such bulletins for the defund the police, the Antifa, or the BLM people.
00:16:30.000Instead of debating us, coming on our programs, having conversations, isn't it just easier to call your political enemies al-Qaeda?
00:16:40.000This is why they want to have drag Floyd.
00:16:42.000They want to try to create a situation where somebody overreacts to a situation involving a drag queen or something adjacent to that.
00:16:53.000And then they're able to say, see, see, these people can't control themselves, even though they are largely trying to provoke it, even though they are largely trying to provoke a reaction.
00:17:12.000I'm writing this in my upcoming book, which is if they are not given an overreaction from our side and we keep on building and we keep on plugging along and recruiting new people, that we are going to get closer and closer to victory along the way.
00:17:36.000Calling us terrorists is not just a loaded linguistic attack.
00:17:43.000No, calling us terrorists has significant and real legislative and seriously heavy policy implications, such as I am now going to be able to lock you in prison, spy on your groups.
00:18:06.000That's what they had to do with Donald Trump.
00:18:07.000They had to use the FISA system, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Authority.
00:18:17.000Hey, everybody, making the commitment to yourself to lose weight is very hard, but doing it alone is even harder.
00:19:51.000The first of which is they actually think they can win.
00:19:55.000I mean, that is delusional to think that Governor Bergham from North Dakota is going to become the Republican nominee.
00:20:03.000I mean, let's pretend that Trump completely stumbles.
00:20:07.000Let's pretend that, you know, Trump gets indicted and people fall support.
00:20:12.000I could list 20 other power-hungry Republicans that would have a far better chance.
00:20:20.000Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Josh Hawley, that could all stand up a political operation a lot easier than Governor Bergham from North Dakota or Mike Pence, who, by the way, Mike Pence is welcome on this program.
00:20:31.000I think that would make some really good radio, really good podcasting.
00:20:38.000Why is Mike Pence running for the presidency?
00:21:11.000The money that Steve Cohen is going to spend on Chris Christie's campaign, the money that Governor Bergham is going to spend on himself, the money that I don't know who's supporting Mike Pence or whoever supported him, all of that should be used on ballot chasing and voter registration.
00:21:25.000I mean, this is a top-level circus that we are seeing unfold right now.
00:21:33.000And all eyes on Iowa, Tim Scott, $100 million is going to be spent.
00:21:37.000Now, the other explanation is they think that they're doing this because they want to try to have some sort of lie in the sand that I ran against Trump and he's so terrible.
00:21:50.000It's really strange because you cannot make an argument these people want the best possible chance for us to meet it, to be able to beat Joe Biden.
00:22:02.000No possible chance that they want to be able to have us have the early state infrastructure.
00:22:08.000You know, Governor Bergam from North Dakota, who I'm not a fan of, but we'll put that aside.
00:22:15.000Instead of spending 20, 30, 40, 50, 100 million of your own money, why doesn't Governor Bergham go to Wisconsin and say, I am going to invest money in Wisconsin, which is not far from North Dakota, because I believe in the great people of Wisconsin.
00:23:07.000That they want to do everything they can to get in the way.
00:23:13.000So let's say Donald Trump stumbles and falls, which is not going to happen.
00:23:18.000Ted Cruz has a much better chance of becoming the Republican nominee, for example, someone who's not currently running for the presidency, than every single one of these people.
00:24:34.000That they have dreamed of being president since they were a kid and this is their one shot?
00:24:39.000Yeah, that's putting their own ambitions and their own interests above that of the country.
00:24:44.000It is deeply damaging to have this many people.
00:24:47.000In fact, it plays right into the agenda of the New York Times.
00:24:51.000It plays right into the agenda of the Washington Post to have this three-ring circus that we're about to call the Republican primary.
00:24:58.000And again, I'll just keep reiterating it.
00:25:00.000Our big news from Turning Point Action, we're deploying $5 million that we have to go out and raise in Wisconsin.
00:25:06.000By the way, any one of these plutocrats, any one of these billionaire oligarchs, and I don't say plutocrats pejoratively, if you want to spend the money and you have a lot of money, that's terrific.
00:25:15.000The best investment you can make is in early voting right now infrastructure in Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona.
00:25:22.000It's not in some vanity contest of who can finish seventh in Iowa.
00:25:26.000We are going to get steamrolled by the Democrats.
00:25:30.000And isn't that, I mean, Joe Biden can't walk without face planning.
00:26:31.000Open a qualifying gold IRA this month and you'll get the very first one-fourth ounce gold standard bullion coin ever issued featuring King Charles III for free.
00:27:41.000I can tell you, this has been one of the more challenging projects where I am listening to the original audio of Dennis Prager's lectures of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
00:27:55.000And this is not just his rational Bible.
00:28:05.000And, you know, he spent a ton of time on the Ten Commandments, which I'm glad he did.
00:28:10.000And the more that you study the Ten Commandments, the more that I realized that this really is the operation manual for humanity.
00:28:19.000That if you just want people to live decent and ordinary and flourishing lives, follow the Ten Commandments.
00:28:26.000Now, interestingly, we call it the Ten Commandments.
00:28:29.000It's probably more than the Ten Commandments.
00:28:32.000Now, I don't mean all the laws about like oxes and what happens when someone falls into a ditch, which actually comes right after.
00:28:40.000I mean, actually, the Ten Commandments as we know it actually has several other components.
00:28:46.000I mean, for example, the commandment, which is thou shalt not covet, is also do not cover thy neighbor's wife or his slaves or his animals or anything of thy neighbor.
00:29:02.000You should also understand that, like, well, it's not just remember to keep the Sabbath day and keep it holy.
00:29:08.000It's for six days you should work, and then the seventh day you should rest.
00:29:13.000So it's actually a two-part commandment: work and rest.
00:29:16.000You're commanded to work for six days and to rest one day, Shabbat, which means to stop.
00:29:22.000What I find so interesting about the Ten Commandments, and by the way, is the first line, I am the Lord thy God who delivered you from Egypt, I am Yahweh your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage.
00:29:45.000So every time that Jesus in the New Testament said, I am, it is a parallel back to not just Exodus 3, I think it's like Exodus 3, Moses and the burning bush, but also to here.
00:30:21.000You see, the first five commandments are all about a relationship between us and God.
00:30:27.000Remember, Christianity, which Judaism was the prerequisite to Christianity as the monotheism, it just destroyed this idea of polytheism or polyorthodoxy or poly, not polyorthodoxy, polyoxy.
00:31:24.000And Jews that honor the Sabbath, Literally, say what's called the kaddush, which is, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
00:31:35.000It is a standing remembrance that God created this place.
00:31:41.000Then, of course, honor thy mother and father, which means you could translate it to keep them, to treat them heavily, to treat them with weight, not to cast aside lightly or to curse them.
00:31:54.000Thou shalt not kill or thou shalt not murder.
00:33:57.00025, we're going to cap spending at a level that we cannot expand the Navy.
00:34:02.000Less money for the Marines, less money for the Army, less ships for the Navy at a time of great conflict.
00:34:09.000Not a penny in this bill to help Ukraine defeat Putin.
00:34:13.000They're going on the offensive as I speak, and we need to send a clear message to Putin that when it comes to your invasion of Ukraine, we're going to support the Ukrainians to ensure your loss.
00:34:26.000If we don't do that, then we're going to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.
00:34:45.000Not one penny in this bill to help us secure our border.
00:34:50.000No, but Lindsey Graham and the Uniparty globalists are more fired up that our money is not going to help a foreigner than our own country being overrun.
00:34:59.000I want to encourage all of you to get involved with TurningPointUSA, tpusa.com, and email me, freedom at charliekirk.com and open up your podcast app and type in Charlie Kirk Show and hit subscribe.
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