The Charlie Kirk Show - April 28, 2025


Ask Charlie Anything 221: The Lukewarm Christian Rut? No More College Non-Profits? Hope For Europe?

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Steve Hilton Bill Maher David Ginny John MacArthur Anthony Gracie Trump Jordan Peterson Dennis Prager Jessica Matt Turning Point USA Douglas Murray Sam Harris Chuck Schumer Chad Bianco Chris Ruffo Riverside AmFest and 3 more
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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
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00:00:31.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:33.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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00:01:42.000 But I just want to recap what has been an extraordinary campus tour.
00:01:47.000 Extraordinary campus tour.
00:01:49.000 And thank you guys for supporting it.
00:01:51.000 Thank you guys for showing up and for listening and for engaging.
00:01:55.000 It really means a lot.
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00:01:57.000 Our first question is from our friend of ours, Anthony.
00:02:00.000 Anthony, thank you for being a member.
00:02:02.000 What's on your mind?
00:02:02.000 Happy Friday.
00:02:03.000 Happy Friday, Charlie.
00:02:04.000 The piggyback off of Chris Rufo's part about colleges and you going on campus and doing your events and me working with colleges is if we...
00:02:16.000 How do I want to put this?
00:02:17.000 The DEI hiring and the DEI and what they're doing with free speech on campus, would it be better off to do, strip the nonprofit status away from schools so they would have to change hiring processes, change education processes, and
00:02:32.000 be more streamlined to produce a better quality student and to bring in better quality workers?
00:02:37.000 That's a good question.
00:02:44.000 So first and foremost, if any of these camp colleges are caught violating the Supreme Court decision of the fair admissions case, They should lose their non-profit status.
00:02:54.000 Which I agree with.
00:02:54.000 Even more than that, this is where Congress is going to have to get involved and it's going to be very difficult, is that Congress should say that these endowments need to be involved in helping make their graduates whole with their student loan debt.
00:03:12.000 And honestly, these campuses should lose student loan access.
00:03:17.000 That is the real penalty.
00:03:19.000 And also public humiliation.
00:03:22.000 You have a non-profit status because you are doing a public good.
00:03:26.000 And so the question remains, if these universities are actively discriminating against people of a certain race, of which is happening all the time, Princeton literally says, do not hire white men unless absolutely necessary.
00:03:40.000 I mean, that is naked racism.
00:03:43.000 That is complete violation of...
00:03:47.000 The core American values that we all care about.
00:03:50.000 And so I think we need to have a full court press to disassemble these major Ivies unless they get in line. 1.00
00:03:57.000 And again, I will just put one more thing forward.
00:04:00.000 I can't stand anti-Semitism. 0.97
00:04:02.000 I can't stand Jew hatred.
00:04:04.000 However, going after these schools on the anti-Semitism stuff is actually the weakest of all the points that we could possibly go after them on.
00:04:14.000 Because it's incredibly subjective.
00:04:17.000 You might say, what do you mean it's subjective?
00:04:18.000 Well, if someone writes an op-ed critical of Israel, is that anti-Semitism?
00:04:24.000 That person could be an anti-Semite, but you don't know.
00:04:27.000 Instead, you have to go after the money.
00:04:30.000 You have to go after the factory of how they're producing these very radical left-wing students.
00:04:36.000 And so these students, these schools own data, which make it obvious.
00:04:42.000 Their own data makes it obvious they're discriminating based on race.
00:04:46.000 Their own numbers.
00:04:48.000 So we have to publicize that, hold them accountable, and say that this has no place in our country.
00:04:53.000 I think the fight is a great one for President Trump, against Harvard, against Yale, and Princeton, and Stanford.
00:04:58.000 But the best way to go after them is the fact that they are wildly discriminatory against people that are white and Asian.
00:05:06.000 Anthony, thanks so much.
00:05:07.000 Really appreciate it.
00:05:08.000 Thank you.
00:05:08.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:05:09.000 Okay.
00:05:10.000 Gracie.
00:05:11.000 Gracie, thank you for being a member.
00:05:13.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com.
00:05:14.000 What's on your mind?
00:05:15.000 Hey Charlie, do you have any advice to get out of the lukewarm Christian rut that's so easy to get stuck in after becoming saved and maintaining a relationship with God? 0.68
00:05:25.000 That is a great question.
00:05:26.000 So I get this question a lot.
00:05:28.000 We've all been there.
00:05:29.000 The best answer I have for you is to go deeper, which is to—the scriptures are infinitely deep for anyone that wishes to study them, but they're also immediately accessible for the entire population.
00:05:45.000 So my advice for you is to pick a part of the Bible that you really care about.
00:05:50.000 Maybe it's the book of John or maybe the book of Genesis.
00:05:52.000 And study it.
00:05:54.000 Really dive into it.
00:05:56.000 Understand the profundity and the beauty of what you articulate.
00:05:59.000 And all of a sudden your mind is going to start rolling like, wow, I never knew the civilizational implications of Genesis 1 or Genesis 2. To get out of that lukewarm Christian rut, the way I get out of it is by study and scholarship. 0.76
00:06:14.000 That's not the way that everyone does.
00:06:16.000 Some people get out of a lukewarm Christian rut through community.
00:06:19.000 They spend more time with people that are Christians, and that helps them get out of it. 1.00
00:06:23.000 Some people buy acts of service.
00:06:25.000 But for me, whenever I get into there, we all do.
00:06:28.000 I haven't recently, to be perfectly honest with you, it's by better understanding and better appreciating the splendor and the wonder and the improbability of our faith and to appreciate that.
00:06:42.000 And to understand the philosophy and the grandeur of the Bible and to get back to the original Hebrew, to get back to the original Greek.
00:06:55.000 There are so many resources I could point to, Gracie, if this is interesting to you.
00:06:59.000 I don't know if the more scholarly, philosophical approach is.
00:07:03.000 John MacArthur's biblical commentary on the book of John is one of the best.
00:07:08.000 Dennis Prager's Rational Bible, and we should all keep Dennis Prager in our prayers, by the way, on the book of Genesis, I think would really challenge you, Gracie, because you would come after your faith in a different perspective.
00:07:20.000 You'd say, well, I never knew that.
00:07:21.000 That fires me up.
00:07:23.000 I want to share that with somebody.
00:07:24.000 I never knew that the distinctions of just the creation story alone in the book of Genesis, where God created the heavens of the earth and he separated chaos from order, just that alone you could spend a whole year studying and understanding the depth there.
00:07:42.000 So that would be some of my initial advice for you, Gracie.
00:07:46.000 And then finally...
00:07:48.000 Which I'm sure you're doing.
00:07:50.000 Listening to worship music, keep, you know, continually finding a good church.
00:07:55.000 And look, finding a church also, to get out of the kind of lukewarm Christian rut, my personal opinion is find a beautiful church.
00:08:03.000 Find a church that is not just like going into a Costco or walking into a Home Depot.
00:08:09.000 Something that elevates the soul.
00:08:11.000 Something that has beautiful art.
00:08:14.000 Has reverence.
00:08:15.000 I'm not Catholic, but I will, as I said last, Last week, I will sometimes go to the local Catholic Church because there's so much meaning and reverence in those cathedrals, more so than just walking into Sam's Club.
00:08:29.000 And finally, you have to know—this is my last point, Gracie—it's a phenomenal question, and thank you for it.
00:08:34.000 You have to know how you are made to worship.
00:08:38.000 Everyone is made to worship differently.
00:08:41.000 I am mainly made to worship by study, scholarship, and sharing my faith.
00:08:47.000 Sharing my faith through my speeches, through my debates, through exploring the faith with other people.
00:08:54.000 Other people are not made to worship that way.
00:08:56.000 Other people are made to worship through music, which I totally encourage a lot of people to see.
00:09:03.000 Is that the way that you are wired?
00:09:04.000 Other people are made to worship through just reading the Word.
00:09:08.000 And so understand that being in a lukewarm Christian rut, there's nothing wrong with you. 1.00
00:09:17.000 It is a relationship with Jesus, not just a religion, but there's so much to explore there, Gracie.
00:09:23.000 All of us have been through that, and so deeply appreciate that, and God bless you.
00:09:28.000 Thank you.
00:09:28.000 Thank you so much.
00:09:30.000 And yes, so people are emailing us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:09:34.000 Charlie, I feel most connected with God and spiritual when gardening, or playing with my kids, or walking, you know, going for a walk.
00:09:42.000 There's so many different ways.
00:09:43.000 Know your nature, know how you worship.
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00:10:49.000 Okay, let's go to Scott.
00:10:52.000 Scott, thank you for being a member.
00:10:55.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com, what's on your mind?
00:10:57.000 Hey, Charlie.
00:10:58.000 This is Scott.
00:10:59.000 I'm from Boise.
00:11:00.000 And I can't tell you enough how much Europe and Germany are at a tipping point for political transformation.
00:11:06.000 And you're one of the few that sense that in the U.S. And your support for free speech, Alternative for Deutschland, is helping drive this change.
00:11:14.000 So I have two questions.
00:11:15.000 First, where are you going on your upcoming trip to Europe?
00:11:18.000 And then a couple thoughts real quickly before I ask my second question.
00:11:22.000 I sent you a Make Europe Great Again hat for you to wear during your trip.
00:11:26.000 And don't underestimate the symbolic power of this mega hat.
00:11:30.000 I live and I've worked in Germany for several years.
00:11:32.000 I speak German.
00:11:33.000 Germans still follow American culture and politics closely.
00:11:36.000 Some Germans on your trip may tell you it's impossible to hold your Q&A and events on German campuses.
00:11:41.000 Don't listen to them.
00:11:43.000 Even just a few events a year will help spread the mega and mega energy across Germany and Europe.
00:11:48.000 So that's my second question.
00:11:50.000 Are you planning future events in Germany to support free speech and political transformation?
00:11:55.000 It's a really great question.
00:11:57.000 Thank you.
00:11:57.000 So, firstly, I will be debating at the Oxford Union.
00:12:01.000 That is my primary, let's just say, point of visit.
00:12:07.000 I was going to go to Berlin with Dr. Jordan Peterson.
00:12:10.000 That has been delayed and postponed.
00:12:12.000 We're going to find a new date for that, as I think Dr. Peterson's European tour is...
00:12:18.000 And so, but yeah, my main visit will be at Oxford.
00:12:21.000 I've been actually booked to do Oxford two or three times prior, and so I'm excited to be able to go to Oxford coming up in just a couple weeks.
00:12:30.000 And I agree completely.
00:12:32.000 Now, the big issue is this.
00:12:34.000 There's two issues.
00:12:35.000 Europe does not have the American can-do spirit that we have.
00:12:39.000 It's very hard to get them to build things and do things.
00:12:43.000 Very hard.
00:12:44.000 They're almost, they have this heaviness and a weight that they live under.
00:12:48.000 That is a serious problem.
00:12:50.000 The second of which is they don't have robust free speech.
00:12:53.000 It's hard to build a political movement if you cannot speak.
00:12:58.000 It's hard to oppose power if all of a sudden they're going to knock on your door and they're going to take your devices and arrest you in Germany.
00:13:05.000 It's very difficult.
00:13:07.000 And of course, the widespread regulations that just make political activism in Europe so much harder.
00:13:13.000 European elites are far more anti-democracy, genuinely.
00:13:18.000 They want an oligarchy.
00:13:20.000 They do not want a people-powered populist movement.
00:13:23.000 They're completely happy to lock out parties that get 25 or 30% of the vote.
00:13:29.000 And it's sad.
00:13:30.000 As Douglas Murray would say, it's the strange death of Europe.
00:13:33.000 It's this slow-motion decline.
00:13:35.000 And then, of course, they have this remarkable amount of intergenerational guilt.
00:13:42.000 That somehow they have to try and pay penance for something their grandparents did, or at least were associated with doing.
00:13:50.000 And by doing so, they have to open up the borders of Europe and allow tens of millions of Mohammedans into Europe. 1.00
00:13:57.000 And Islam is destroying Europe right now. 1.00
00:14:00.000 It is. 1.00
00:14:00.000 From its core. 1.00
00:14:03.000 And AFD in Germany, as you mentioned, yes, it might be the most popular party, but too bad.
00:14:09.000 No one will work with you.
00:14:10.000 They've had the boomer problem that we see also in America as well. 0.97
00:14:15.000 Older European voters, they vote socialist.
00:14:18.000 They just want their pensions.
00:14:19.000 They care about nothing else.
00:14:20.000 They will import infinite amount of immigrants to prop that up. 0.98
00:14:24.000 Infinite.
00:14:24.000 And so they're going to have unlimited amounts of people from Syria, from Egypt, from the Middle East, from Gaza, come right into Europe.
00:14:34.000 Like, oh, well, diversity is our strength.
00:14:37.000 Not so much.
00:14:38.000 Thank you.
00:14:38.000 I really appreciate that.
00:14:39.000 Email us at charliecook.com.
00:14:41.000 Yeah, really quick.
00:14:42.000 Yes.
00:14:43.000 So you talk about organizing events.
00:14:45.000 I have a buddy of mine.
00:14:47.000 He's a venture capitalist.
00:14:48.000 He's done a lot with grassroots organizations in Germany.
00:14:51.000 Don't give up.
00:14:52.000 I sent you a five-point plan with a hat.
00:14:54.000 I mean, people believe that you couldn't do this in America.
00:14:57.000 It is possible in Germany.
00:14:59.000 Trust me if you have the right team.
00:15:01.000 Just don't give up.
00:15:02.000 All right.
00:15:03.000 I haven't even started, let alone giving up.
00:15:06.000 But I definitely see some of the challenges.
00:15:09.000 Thank you for that.
00:15:09.000 Really appreciate that.
00:15:11.000 God bless you, man.
00:15:12.000 I'll tell you, doing a Germany campus tour, that would be wild.
00:15:15.000 Holy crow.
00:15:16.000 That would be something else.
00:15:18.000 They invented Antifa in Germany.
00:15:20.000 Free speech is not a German value at all.
00:15:24.000 It is not a value that they respect.
00:15:27.000 Power is a German value. 0.68
00:15:29.000 Nihilism is a German value. 0.99
00:15:31.000 Destruction is a German value. 1.00
00:15:33.000 Efficiency, definitely a German value.
00:15:36.000 Machination, that is a German value.
00:15:39.000 Precision is a German value.
00:15:40.000 Liberty, not a German value.
00:15:43.000 No.
00:15:44.000 And that is one of the issues.
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00:16:54.000 Okay, let's get to our next question here.
00:16:57.000 Caleb, Caleb, great to hear from you.
00:16:58.000 Thanks for being a member at members.charliekirk.com.
00:17:00.000 What is your question, my friend?
00:17:02.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:17:03.000 So I just wanted to ask if you had any advice for young people who want to be politicians and make a change in their community.
00:17:12.000 Yeah, so my first piece of advice is don't seek to be a politician.
00:17:16.000 Seek to do good.
00:17:18.000 And if being a politician is in the equation of doing good, then so be it.
00:17:23.000 But just wanting to be a politician for the sake of being a politician.
00:17:27.000 That can sometimes come with some rather dramatic downsides.
00:17:32.000 Did you have a second question as well, or was that it?
00:17:36.000 Yes.
00:17:37.000 My friend actually wanted to know.
00:17:39.000 He had a question.
00:17:40.000 He wanted to know who was your hardest person to debate.
00:17:44.000 So I wouldn't say it was a debate, but let's just say the hardest conversation I've had, only because I don't like the smell of marijuana, was my conversation with Bill Maher.
00:17:54.000 In fact, it turned out very well.
00:17:56.000 People really liked it, which is phenomenal, praise God.
00:17:59.000 And that is right now on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast menu.
00:18:02.000 If you want to go through our podcast and listen to it, we have an annotated version.
00:18:07.000 My conversation with Bill Maher is there.
00:18:10.000 So Bill treated me very well, except for the fact that...
00:18:13.000 I may or may not have gotten a second-hand high.
00:18:15.000 Who knows?
00:18:16.000 All I know is that there were three things that I felt after the Bill Maher conversation.
00:18:20.000 I was very hungry, I was very paranoid, and I was very confused.
00:18:26.000 I have no idea what could make you have that.
00:18:28.000 Be hungry, paranoid, and confused.
00:18:30.000 Do you have any idea, Brian, what makes you do that?
00:18:33.000 I don't know.
00:18:34.000 I wonder.
00:18:35.000 My team will tell you I was like hyper-paranoid afterwards.
00:18:38.000 Very unusual.
00:18:39.000 Something makes you do that.
00:18:41.000 Don't do weed.
00:18:43.000 Okay, what is next?
00:18:44.000 Who's next?
00:18:45.000 Let's see.
00:18:45.000 Thank you for your question.
00:18:46.000 Appreciate that.
00:18:47.000 I'm good at it.
00:18:48.000 David.
00:18:48.000 David, thank you for being a member.
00:18:50.000 David, what's on your mind?
00:18:51.000 Hey, how are you doing, Charlie?
00:18:52.000 Appreciate what you do.
00:18:54.000 Good.
00:18:54.000 Happy Friday.
00:18:55.000 AmFest in Arizona.
00:18:59.000 Liking what you're doing.
00:19:01.000 Keep doing what you're doing.
00:19:03.000 We're in Communist California.
00:19:05.000 We're worried about the splitting the vote for the governor.
00:19:09.000 We got worried about the two.
00:19:13.000 We're trying to get rid of Newsom in California. 0.98
00:19:17.000 And the Republicans take the governorship back because it's trash out here. 0.99
00:19:27.000 Totally. 0.94
00:19:29.000 So Newsom is termed out, but you might get Governor Kamala Harris, man. 0.98
00:19:35.000 It would be even worse.
00:19:37.000 Oh my lord.
00:19:38.000 We had Steve Hilton on our show.
00:19:41.000 I don't know if you heard that or not, David, but we endorsed Steve Hilton.
00:19:45.000 But between Steve Hilton and the sheriff, the Riverside sheriff, Chad Bianco, that's probably all going to sort itself out in the primary.
00:19:53.000 And then whoever wins the primary, we're going to get 100% behind.
00:19:57.000 So it is going to be quite the spirited primary.
00:20:02.000 I hope Steve wins, and then we can consolidate the entire party to launch a Serious effort to win back the Governor's Mansion in California.
00:20:09.000 What part of California do you live in?
00:20:11.000 We're in Southern California.
00:20:12.000 We're in the Antelope Valley area.
00:20:16.000 So we're trying to fight the fight out here.
00:20:21.000 Very good.
00:20:22.000 Well, thank you, my friend.
00:20:23.000 God bless you, and thanks for being a member.
00:20:25.000 Really appreciate it.
00:20:25.000 Thank you.
00:20:27.000 Okay, Matt.
00:20:28.000 Matt, thank you for being a member.
00:20:30.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com.
00:20:32.000 What's on your mind?
00:20:33.000 Hey, Charlie.
00:20:34.000 Can you hear me out there?
00:20:35.000 Yes, I can.
00:20:36.000 How are you?
00:20:37.000 Wonderful.
00:20:38.000 Happy Friday, and thanks for doing this.
00:20:39.000 I just wanted to see, do you know if anything's being worked on at all regarding the census and congressional apportionment?
00:20:47.000 I know that our majority would be larger if we only counted citizens, and I think the Biden administration, someone called the illegitimate Biden regime, sort of kind of played with the numbers and kind of rigged that last census and how it was laid out.
00:21:01.000 I know it would just give us a much bigger margin to play with.
00:21:06.000 There's also electoral vote strategy there, too, just around kind of correcting that apportionment with just citizens.
00:21:13.000 Yeah, so there's a lot there.
00:21:17.000 So let me just ask you a question.
00:21:21.000 On top of that, the major issue around the citizenship question...
00:21:28.000 Have you heard anyone comment on that recently or kind of mention that?
00:21:33.000 I'm just curious if that's as big of an issue.
00:21:36.000 Well, there have been the case that went down a few years ago that we kind of went against, saying that it sort of couldn't be applied or whatever, and then we just had the one the other day that said that requiring it, the citizenship question on the actual voter registration application got shot down.
00:21:54.000 What do we do here?
00:21:55.000 It's like we're kind of getting blocked by these lawless judges at every turn.
00:21:58.000 It all plays into basically limiting our chances to enact the will of the people and give the Democrats essentially the blockade to thwart that.
00:22:07.000 This is a major problem.
00:22:09.000 So let me talk more macro, then I'll do micro.
00:22:12.000 One of my biggest concerns right now is when millions of people look at their political system and they voted for something.
00:22:21.000 And they donated for something and they won and then unelected judges get in the way from allowing that to happen.
00:22:32.000 Just so we are clear, Congress would have to fund a new census in order to do this and not counting non-citizens would require friendly court rulings.
00:22:40.000 It would be legal to do a new census though and probably desirable because the 2020 census was obviously mangled by COVID.
00:22:47.000 I think President Trump should call another census.
00:22:49.000 I believe it is the 14th Amendment that has the census in it, right, Blake, if I'm not mistaken?
00:22:54.000 The 14th Amendment has everything in it.
00:22:56.000 It's got everything.
00:22:57.000 The census—oh, is it in one of the articles?
00:23:02.000 It actually might be one in one of the articles.
00:23:03.000 And it says census at least every 10 years.
00:23:06.000 It does not have to be at 10 years, even if it's within 10 years. 0.64
00:23:10.000 But the 2020 census was so ridiculous.
00:23:13.000 I think Minnesota got an extra electoral vote based on like 28 people. 0.98
00:23:18.000 It was literally that ridiculous. 0.96
00:23:20.000 That's right.
00:23:20.000 It's Article 1, Section 2. The census specifically, in regards to the congressional approachment, is addressed in both Article 1 and Section 2 of the Constitution and the 14th Amendment.
00:23:31.000 Yeah, so okay.
00:23:32.000 That's right.
00:23:32.000 And the 14th Amendment.
00:23:33.000 I was right.
00:23:34.000 So, look, going back to the macro point, if millions of people vote for something and they get the opposite, what does that mean for our country?
00:23:43.000 What does that mean for our system?
00:23:44.000 Nothing good.
00:23:46.000 That is my biggest fear.
00:23:47.000 Of everything happening right now.
00:23:49.000 All right.
00:23:49.000 Thank you so much.
00:23:50.000 Ginny.
00:23:50.000 Ginny, thank you for being a member.
00:23:52.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com.
00:23:54.000 What is on your mind?
00:23:55.000 Hello.
00:23:55.000 Welcome from my classroom.
00:23:57.000 I just want to tell my students in the background to be quiet.
00:24:00.000 I have a big thing going on.
00:24:03.000 I don't think it's discussed.
00:24:04.000 My mom and I bought a house together in 2020.
00:24:08.000 The tax assessor just reassessed our property for double what it's worth.
00:24:12.000 So that has increased our insurance.
00:24:15.000 Our property taxes have gone up by hundreds.
00:24:18.000 We're funding schools that are failing.
00:24:20.000 I wonder if this is happening to anybody else.
00:24:23.000 We're not speaking, I don't think about this, as a collective.
00:24:26.000 Am I alone?
00:24:27.000 Or is this an underlining kind of usury issue that's happening in our country?
00:24:31.000 It's a major issue.
00:24:32.000 If I remember correctly, you're from Georgia.
00:24:33.000 Am I right?
00:24:34.000 Or is my memory rusty?
00:24:35.000 I teach in Dalton, but I live in Chattanooga.
00:24:37.000 Got it.
00:24:38.000 Okay, so I am right.
00:24:38.000 Okay, so you live in Chattanooga.
00:24:41.000 Property tax, so this is an insurance issue, is that right?
00:24:45.000 No, it's just my thing.
00:24:45.000 But it's also, the issue is the assessment.
00:24:48.000 Yeah, he reassessed our property.
00:24:50.000 We bought our house for around 280 in 2020.
00:24:54.000 Five years later, he just assessed it for 486.
00:24:57.000 No new construction, haven't done anything.
00:25:01.000 And it's doubled.
00:25:02.000 Terrible.
00:25:03.000 This is a major problem.
00:25:06.000 I think it's hindering kids from buying houses.
00:25:09.000 It's jacking up the housing market.
00:25:12.000 So you can't get long because they're just outrageously priced.
00:25:16.000 Love this question.
00:25:17.000 So hilariously, California actually has the model that the rest of the country should.
00:25:23.000 You do not get reassessed unless you renovate, which is the way it should be, right?
00:25:28.000 I mean, if you don't add a porch and if you don't add something.
00:25:31.000 Why would you get reassessed?
00:25:33.000 It's basically a tax on your asset that gets more valuable.
00:25:37.000 No, it's a tax that allows me to keep screwing up our cities and funding the failing schools.
00:25:42.000 It's a way from them to take money from us and we have no say in it.
00:25:46.000 Yes, and so this is why local politics matters a lot.
00:25:51.000 And property tax caps are incredibly important.
00:25:53.000 And property taxes as a...
00:25:57.000 So the problem with the...
00:26:00.000 Assessor is the insurance is involved in this property tax.
00:26:04.000 If you want to see upside down property taxes, go to Cook County, Illinois.
00:26:08.000 It is the worst in the country where you have homes that are valued at eight, nine hundred thousand and your property tax bill is thirty or forty thousand dollars a year.
00:26:18.000 Not a joke.
00:26:19.000 I mean, it is your upside down.
00:26:21.000 The answer to your question, though, and this is a very important point.
00:26:25.000 Is that we focus so much on President Trump.
00:26:27.000 We focus on Chuck Schumer.
00:26:29.000 We focus on Hakeem Jeffries.
00:26:30.000 Local, local, local.
00:26:33.000 These elections have almost no turnout.
00:26:35.000 People tend to not care about them.
00:26:36.000 This is why if you do not man the ship locally, things fall apart.
00:26:41.000 I'm involved in my local politics in Arizona.
00:26:43.000 I'm involved in my local politics in my community.
00:26:45.000 I'm involved in my local HOA stuff.
00:26:48.000 Because all politics is local at a fundamental issue.
00:26:53.000 Ginny, you are not alone.
00:26:54.000 And part of the problem is, this is inflation.
00:26:57.000 As asset prices have gone up dramatically over the last four years, people are getting reassessed.
00:27:01.000 They say, what on earth?
00:27:03.000 I'm earning less money per dollar because of inflation, and now my house is worth double that I can't even sell, and now I have to pay more taxes even though I have less money.
00:27:12.000 Big problem.
00:27:13.000 Thank you, Ginny.
00:27:14.000 God bless, and say hi to the class for me.
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00:28:09.000 Jessica, thank you for being a member.
00:28:12.000 You have a very interesting question based on...
00:28:14.000 What you've told our team.
00:28:15.000 What's on your mind, Jessica?
00:28:16.000 Happy Friday.
00:28:17.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:28:18.000 It's so good to talk to you.
00:28:21.000 Actually, I'm interested in moving up in law enforcement.
00:28:25.000 Like I said in my question, I opted out of going to college because of financial situations in my family.
00:28:31.000 And I also didn't want to put myself in debt, not knowing exactly where I wanted to be in my life.
00:28:36.000 I am interested in going into the U.S. Marshals Service.
00:28:39.000 And when looking into the requirements of getting hired on there, they do require a degree, a law enforcement degree, or an extended amount of experience required.
00:28:51.000 It doesn't specify, but my assumption would be five to ten years in the field.
00:28:57.000 I've kind of been set back a little bit because I broke my back last year, and so I was not able to take a field position, so I am still in the detention center.
00:29:07.000 And I'm just curious to see what you would think if it would be worth it for me to go to an online university and get the degree in order to bump my chances of getting that job, or if I should just stick to it and spend the extra time getting the experience and potentially getting it that way.
00:29:25.000 If you have a specific goal that a degree is needed for and the math works out, then go for it.
00:29:31.000 Our warnings are not to get aimless degrees.
00:29:34.000 I can't comment specifically about online programs, but I'd ask somebody experience in your field and maybe contact existing marshals.
00:29:41.000 Why do you want to be a U.S. Marshal?
00:29:43.000 I want to make a difference.
00:29:45.000 I want to make a bigger difference.
00:29:47.000 Actually, the department that I work for has a lot of marshal contracts.
00:29:51.000 So we do work with the marshals, not myself directly, but the people at my department do, and we hold a lot of marshal inmates.
00:29:59.000 And I think that I could make a much better impact in some of these people's lives and help them become better members of society when they get out if I'm in a higher position.
00:30:13.000 And that's my goal in law enforcement.
00:30:15.000 It's not for power or anything.
00:30:17.000 I want to genuinely help people.
00:30:19.000 And I want people to become better, better themselves, and get back into society as good, hardworking Americans.
00:30:27.000 Well, God bless you for that.
00:30:29.000 What state do you live in?
00:30:30.000 Because we need more people that want to become a U.S. Marshal.
00:30:34.000 Wyoming.
00:30:34.000 Yeah, I was just there.
00:30:35.000 I don't know if you know that or not.
00:30:37.000 Yeah, great.
00:30:38.000 I don't know where that is, but we had a great event yesterday in Laramie.
00:30:43.000 Oh, Wheatland's not far.
00:30:44.000 I'm actually looking at the map right now.
00:30:45.000 Oh, okay.
00:30:46.000 Great.
00:30:47.000 Maybe I missed that.
00:30:48.000 Awesome.
00:30:49.000 Well, very good.
00:30:50.000 Thank you.
00:30:50.000 God bless you, and thanks for being a member.
00:30:52.000 Thank you so much.
00:30:53.000 I actually had one more question, if that's okay.
00:30:56.000 I'm sorry.
00:30:56.000 Yeah, go ahead.
00:30:57.000 Sure.
00:30:58.000 My other question is, I'm kind of torn on this, but I'm curious to hear your opinion.
00:31:04.000 Do you believe that men and women should be held to the same mental and physical standards when it comes to law enforcement?
00:31:11.000 Yes.
00:31:11.000 Because we are expected to complete the same tasks.
00:31:14.000 Yes, 100%.
00:31:15.000 Yes.
00:31:16.000 And I say that as someone, I know that I'm talking to someone that wants to be a woman in law enforcement, but yes, the same standards, same tasks, absolutely, without a doubt.
00:31:24.000 Yes.
00:31:24.000 Okay, perfect.
00:31:26.000 Thank you so much.
00:31:26.000 God bless you.
00:31:27.000 What is your perspective on that?
00:31:29.000 I'm a little bit torn.
00:31:31.000 I know just being in the industry, I would have to work a lot harder to meet the same standards as men.
00:31:40.000 And I do not agree with lowering standards for everybody to be able to meet them.
00:31:44.000 But I do believe that women should have to work a little bit harder because when it comes down to certain things, people's lives... 1.00
00:31:52.000 And I do believe that we shouldn't be held to a lower standard than men because we need to be able to help people to the same degree.
00:32:02.000 Look, if you are going to be in a situation where someone's life depends on you, it should not have to be a question or a discussion.
00:32:09.000 Well, is it a woman or is it a man that is going to actually have to save your life?
00:32:13.000 God bless you.
00:32:14.000 Thanks so much.
00:32:14.000 Happy Friday.
00:32:15.000 Thank you.
00:32:16.000 Thank you so much.
00:32:17.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:32:18.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:32:20.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.