In this episode of the Ask Me Anything, I take your questions in a Q&A-style episode from Turning Point USA's youth organization, "Only Members." Today's episode features: 1) How to become a conservative social worker 2) What to do if you want to get into social work 3) Why it's important to challenge the orthodoxy of where social work has gone in the last couple of decades 4) Why you should not just be a social worker, but a good one 5) What you should do to break people out of poverty 6) How you should teach values not just stuff 7) What should you do to get people into the middle class 8) What are some of my favorite people in the White House? 9) What's on your mind? 10) Is the VP pick a Muslim? 11) What do you think about the VP choice? 12) Is it a good or bad thing? 13) Is there a Muslim in the VP race? 14) Should we be worried about it? 15) How important is it to have a Muslim candidate? 16) What does it mean to me? 17) Why should I vote for a Muslim person? 18) How do I know who I should vote for the VP? 19) What s on my mind about my VP pick? 21) Why I m worried about my state? 22) What is my mind on the VP selection? And much more! Thanks for listening to the show! - Charlie Kirk - Thank you for being a Charlie Kirk - What's On Your Mind Show? - CJ & Brandon Thank you, Brandon, Caleb, Michelle, Caleb and Caleb, and Michelle, and Caleb & Kristian, and the Great Americans You bet betcha bet bet bet? - As always, you can email us freedom at charliekirk@charliekirk. and get involved with TTPUSA atTPusa@TPUSA. That is TTPusa. That's CHarlie Kirk? CHILLY, CHILLIEKIRRK? Charlie, CHELLEKIRA, CHALLEKKIRK? - CHEERIEKKURK CHALKERIE, MANDY KIRK, MODY, AND MECKLEKERIE KARTER, AND MORE!
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00:01:45.000So, I was curious if you had any advice for a conservative future social worker, considering that the social work field is primarily liberal.
00:01:55.000Wow, first of all, God bless you for wanting to get into social work.
00:01:59.000Yes, so my advice is that you need to challenge the orthodoxy of where social work has gone in the last couple of decades.
00:02:09.000Social work has largely gone towards Making people comfortable in their poverty rather than trying to break them out of the poverty that they are in.
00:02:21.000So as a social worker, it's gonna be very tough.
00:02:24.000But people are going to be telling you, it's hard to go against everyone around you all the time.
00:02:30.000Around you, they're going to say that the people are poor because of social conditions and systemic injustices, when in reality, people are poor because of the decisions that they make and because of the values that they either have or they do not have.
00:02:46.000There is a wonderful book that I would recommend for you, and God bless you, Brandon, for wanting to be a social worker, by somewhat of a social worker himself, and he became a very, very famous author.
00:03:00.000The book is Life at the Bottom, or Life from the Bottom, something like that, Life at the Bottom.
00:03:06.000It's a terrific book where he describes how people remain poor and why they are poor in the underclass, if you will.
00:03:14.000And so that's my recommendation, Brandon, is try to challenge the orthodoxy of not just trying to make people comfortable in their poverty, but trying to give them the training, the education necessary to break them out of poverty and to try to get them into the middle class and try to teach values, not just stuff.
00:03:32.000And the issue with how we talk about poverty in this country, Is that people think it is solely and only a lack of material goods, when in reality, it is a lack of worldview and a lack of principles and core values.
00:03:46.000Thank you, Brandon, for being a member.
00:04:02.000Hey, so, you know, being from Minnesota, we're talking about the VP selection.
00:04:08.000I'm not sure how important it is, but I'm hearing two things.
00:04:12.000I'm hearing, like, the Biden camp wants Shapiro and Obama wants Walls.
00:04:18.000And I'm wondering if you think that the Dems are I'm kind of thinking they're worried about looking at Minnesota and the Muslim vote in the Somalis, that maybe they're worried about that.
00:04:30.000Maybe they're worried a little bit about the state of Minnesota and that that's why they want to go with the governor for their VP pick.
00:04:38.000I wonder what your thoughts on that are.
00:04:50.000However, Shapiro will ignite a Hamas and Gaza problem.
00:04:55.000And that is going to really start to cause some problems in Chicago at the DNC.
00:05:01.000And based on all current activities that the Israeli government is executing right now in the Middle East, it does not seem that war is ending anytime soon in the Middle East.
00:05:11.000So in the long term, the left is importing the seeds of their own coalition's destruction.
00:05:15.000I think overall, Democrats have realized that Biden was alienating both sides.
00:05:20.000And now they've decided just to win back moderates and Jews and tell the radicals to basically buzz off.
00:05:26.000And basically they're saying, what are you going to do, vote for Trump?
00:05:28.000Well, they might vote for Cornel West and his Muslim running mate in Michigan.
00:06:56.000It will alienate younger voters that care a lot about the Hamas situation and will further alienate their Muslim base in Dearborn, Michigan and parts of Minnesota and a little bit of Wisconsin, but not so much.
00:08:04.000And I come from parents that had to leave everything to give us a better understanding of society and life and faith, right?
00:08:14.000So what to do with this crazy, dismal birth rate, which could definitely be the demise of the American culture?
00:08:24.000And how do we make people aware of it?
00:08:25.000I mean, I see that you speak to it, so if you can enlighten me a bit, it would be fantastic.
00:08:31.000Yes, so this is such an important topic.
00:08:33.000First of all, we need to be very clear that we are the pro-family party and that we are in the midst of a fertility crisis, that the population is collapsing because we are not having our own children, that we are not having enough children at replacement levels.
00:08:48.000And so the current very sick and perverted and twisted view of the ruling orthodoxy and regime is that we're not going to have our own children.
00:08:58.000And instead, we are going to import the children of the third world, and we're going to prioritize foreigners over American-born.
00:09:04.000And you know this as a Cuban-American, that that should concern you, is that you should want a native-born population to be able to sustain itself, and that if you bring newcomers to your country, they are additive and force multipliers to what you already have in your homeland population.
00:09:21.000When JD Vance says that we want to have more children, the media attacks him.
00:09:24.000And they say that that's an attack on childless Americans.
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00:11:04.000Maishan, thank you for being a member.
00:11:14.000My question has a little bit to do with the Project 25 leader stepping down and what you thought about that because isn't the Heritage Foundation a good organization that went to Davos and spoke against liberal globalists and their agendas?
00:11:28.000I mean, isn't this the kind of people Trump should be supporting himself with?
00:11:35.000The issue was more about personality conflict than policy conflict.
00:11:39.000That's the buried lead of this whole thing, is that there was not enough communication and coordination between President Trump and the Heritage Foundation.
00:11:48.000There was some great stuff in the Project 2025 document.
00:11:51.000There was some stuff that, I don't know, I didn't read the whole thing.
00:11:54.000There was some stuff that shouldn't necessarily have been ascribed to Trump's name.
00:11:57.000Here was the biggest issue, though, Michonne, is that President Trump got very upset, and I think rightfully so, that he was going to have to answer questions about things, of positions he never took.
00:12:11.000And that's where the issue really came.
00:12:13.000And so my advice to the Heritage Foundation, both privately and publicly, and I think they do wonderful work, is that they should have done all this work of policy suggestions, executive orders, personnel, no need to publish it.
00:12:25.000And also just try to work more in harmony with Trump's team.
00:12:30.000That's really where things started to fall apart.
00:12:32.000And President Trump was starting to get questions from journalists.
00:12:35.000Where do you stand on these 10 different things?
00:12:36.000And he'd say, I never took those positions.
00:13:08.000But I felt like the security when Trump was there was very good.
00:13:12.000So tell me what I should be looking for in the future as far as any security issues that we should be aware of.
00:13:20.000No, thank you, and I'm glad that it was from your perspective.
00:13:24.000I say this as someone who has run in the event from backstage to flow of Trump from perimeter, and from an objective view, I'm sure it looked fine.
00:13:34.000However, I could tell you that from 10 or 12 different instances of hosting Trump, Previously and comparing it and contrasting to what we saw this last weekend.
00:14:53.000Yeah, I just started reading your book, The Right-Wing Revolution, and it's so good, even the intro, especially that part about the shortcomings of conservative attitudes.
00:15:03.000But yeah, I was just wondering, you're such a good speaker, what was like the hardest part about writing the book and then maybe like what was the most fulfilling?
00:18:00.000It's all about what he thinks are genius foods that if you eat these foods on a regular basis, less likely to have dementia, more mental acuity, more energy, less depression, less anxiety.
00:18:10.000It's you can literally the whole if you buy the book and you just read the cover, it's a picture of all the books, which I think is Salmon, like fresh salmon, ground beef, but grass-fed beef, blueberries, avocados, olive oil, almonds, dark leafy greens.
00:18:28.000Trying to think which other ones he has off the top of my head.
00:19:52.000I noticed your ground game in Ohio has started up.
00:19:54.000Is there a contact for that, or do we just show up?
00:19:57.000They're not posting events very far off.
00:19:59.000Also, and this is piggybacking off what somebody else asked, I already went through all the Project 2025 stuff, and it's very disappointing to see what President Trump did, although I understand why it happened.
00:20:11.000Do you know, because he's proven with JD Vance, he's willing to look outside the beltway.
00:20:16.000Yes, on the Project 2025 thing, I just want to say again, it was a personality thing more than it was a policy thing.
00:21:47.000But not talking any landslide talks here.
00:21:54.000So, I'd like to ask you, how are you having any success in the area of Christians who are still either apathetic or simply don't think their vote matters?
00:22:08.000I know you talk about that quite often, but recently, have you had any success in that area?
00:22:14.000And what arguments are turning their hearts?
00:22:20.000So first, Tom, I want to ask you a question, then I'm going to answer that directly.
00:22:23.000What part of Pennsylvania are you from?
00:22:25.000And secondly, does it feel better on the ground than it did in 2020 as far as the vibe and the perspective of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania?
00:22:36.000I'm in northeastern Pennsylvania, so the Pocono Mountains.
00:22:40.000It's really a lot of people from New York have migrated to this part of Pennsylvania.
00:22:46.000So, that being said, it's a little bit of an uphill battle.
00:22:49.000It's a blue county, but we are having success with, even with our local committee.
00:22:55.000We pretty much, I'm the vice chair now, and we took over that committee, so we are making traction Because the MAGA spirit, I guess you could say it, is alive and well.
00:23:08.000So I'm optimistic, like I said earlier, but I know there's a lot of work to do.
00:23:14.000The doors I've knocked on, the number one, well, number one, two, and three seems to be people's economic situation.
00:23:23.000So they're bringing that up and, you know, they're low propensity voters because I can't waste my time on arguing with people to change their minds, right?
00:23:40.000The chase operation is that your time is better spent, Tom, finding people that are lazy or disengaged than just trying to persuade a suburban soccer mom who might have a hundred different questions and is a maybe after that conversation.
00:23:57.000That is not the best use of your time.
00:24:00.000And so that is not the best use of your time.
00:24:04.000But yes, to answer your question, as far as the Christians go, you must challenge them biblically and say, first and foremost, God cares about everything you do.
00:24:14.000And secondly, do you think it's important that we have a government which impacts whether or not we can have church that allows us to say that the church is not non-essential like they did during COVID?
00:24:27.000Secondly, you need to scare them that Kamala Harris will deploy the Department of Justice and the IRS like she did in California As the California Attorney General, after Christians, after people of faith, she will use them as the secret police and as the Gestapo and as the Red Guard to go after pro-lifers, to go after clinics that are pro-life, pregnancy crisis center clinics.
00:24:51.000And yes, I think it is disappointing That people of faith who will profess to be people of faith will not vote, will not be engaged.
00:24:59.000But that's where, Tom, your energy is best spent.
00:25:02.000It's best spent on Christians who are disengaged to bring them back into the fold or into the fold for the first time than just pure persuasion.
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00:27:12.000It seemed like, kind of similar to what someone else said about the Believer Summit, it seemed like security was on top of issues.
00:27:21.000And when we were in the members room being escorted to the main hall, there was another person that had kind of come up and Secret Service was right on top of it.
00:27:32.000My question is, was there an event between the People's Convention and the attempted assassination that maybe, you know, was there a difference in the security or do you feel like the People's Convention was also pretty lax security?
00:27:52.000The People's Convention was far better staffed and far better than the Believers' Summit.
00:27:57.000But the fact that you think that it was well protected means the Secret Service did their job.
00:28:02.000Because the more and more we are learning about the Secret Service through all of these congressional hearings, is the Secret Service basically acts as a pretend security operation to trick would-be assailants into thinking the protectee is actually safe.
00:28:18.000And People's was actually an example of them sort of doing their job, but they didn't communicate with local police.
00:28:24.000The local police didn't guard a door for people with backpacks came in.
00:28:29.000But understand, this is largely a deterrent.
00:28:32.000The Secret Service is actually not keeping people safe the way you think they are.
00:29:58.000I have seen on X and some other places that, I don't know if it's just a rumor, that Kevin McCarthy's being considered as, if Trump wins, which I assume he will, I hope he will, he would choose Kevin McCarthy as his chief of staff.
00:30:14.000And that's very disturbing to me if that's true.
00:30:22.000And if it's true, would you try to talk Trump out of that selection?
00:30:27.000Yeah, look, so I don't think that would be the best selection.
00:30:31.000I've always gotten along with Kevin, so I'm not going to be totally negative.
00:30:34.000I don't think that would be the right choice.
00:30:35.000I have not heard that, though, at all from anybody.
00:30:38.000I have heard people like Lee Zeldin, who I think would be great, who I think really understands Washington, and I think he would just be terrific.
00:30:44.000I think Vivek Ramaswamy would be terrific if it wasn't for him to be the head of the Department of Homeland Security.
00:30:49.000Vivek, I think, in a leadership role in the White House would just be excellent.
00:30:54.000Look, you do need insider knowledge, but you need to have the work ethic and the capacity to be able to do the job.
00:31:02.000You need to be goal-oriented, driven people, and the most important thing for Chief of Staff is you must not desire to be on television.
00:31:14.000You have to want to be a backroom operator and be really good at it.
00:31:19.000And so, somebody that shares Trump's vision, someone who trusts him and is able to get stuff done.
00:31:25.000He needs someone below him who doesn't crave the spotlight, just wants to get wins, will work late, will be there early, will be a humble servant, will be able to just ignore the media, and you have a press shop for a press shop.
00:31:36.000And also know who to trust and who to distrust.
00:31:40.000All right, appreciate that question very much and good job unmuting.
00:33:33.000Okay, but to be able to have full spectrum dominance on social media in particular, very, very important to be able to be aware that we reach people of all ages and all backgrounds.
00:33:45.000Laura, thank you for closing us out so strong, and thank you.