The Charlie Kirk Show - August 04, 2025


Ask Charlie Anything 233: Liberal Jews? Gambling Taxes? Preaching to OnlyFans Models?

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In this episode, we talk about the difference between Jews, Judaism, leftism, liberalism, conservative Judaism, and Orthodox reform. We also discuss why Jews are more liberal than they are serious about their Judaism and why they tend to vote Democratic.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio.
00:00:04.000 Our Ask Me Anything episode today, we talk about the difference between Jews, Judaism, leftism, liberalism, conservative, orthodox reform.
00:00:12.000 I think you'll really enjoy this.
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00:01:50.000 Joining us is Anthony.
00:01:52.000 Anthony, thank you so much for being a member, my friend.
00:01:54.000 You better have a sports-related question, my friend.
00:01:56.000 What's on your mind?
00:01:57.000 Okay, well, the sports-related part is I did send you the video, the salary cap thing.
00:02:00.000 So there's why I did.
00:02:02.000 I know.
00:02:03.000 I got to watch it.
00:02:03.000 I know.
00:02:05.000 And the other thing is, Bryce Harper did kick out Manfred out of the locker room because of the salary cap talk because Manfred's going around to all the different clubs to talk.
00:02:13.000 But my question for you is actually, it kind of relates to what you talked about today with the shift in voting between men and women, but this one is more with the Jewish population in New York City.
00:02:23.000 Because when I was working out the other morning, Fox and friends had it on.
00:02:26.000 The age gap between 18 to 44 in New York City are leaning towards the Democrat primary winner.
00:02:34.000 Why are Jewish people leaning towards Democrats that want to eradicate them, pretty much?
00:02:40.000 So it's a very important question.
00:02:43.000 Look, here's a lot of Jews are liberal, and a lot of Jews are more liberal than they are serious about their Judaism. 0.86
00:02:50.000 Now, I get in a lot of trouble when I say this.
00:02:53.000 Now, there's a difference between Mizrahi and Ashkenazi.
00:02:58.000 There's different and Sephardic Jews.
00:02:59.000 There's different types of Judaism, just like any group has different types.
00:03:04.000 I'm going to say something that Dennis Prager says, and people call me anti-Semitic for saying it, but if Dennis Prager can say it, then I can say it. 0.98
00:03:10.000 The great Dennis Prager, friend of mine, legend, which he says that Jews stopped being religiously Jewish, and they only became ethnically Jewish, and leftism took the place of Judaism.
00:03:24.000 That is Dennis Prager's contention.
00:03:26.000 And I agree with that, is that a lot of American Jews, they held on to their ethnic identity as Jews, but they stopped being religiously Jewish.
00:03:35.000 Now, when I say that, I get called anti-Semite Semites by Jews all the time.
00:03:39.000 I get like ADL comes after me, and the New York Times.
00:03:43.000 Remember, the New York Times wrote a whole story calling me anti-Semitic, but it's not anti-Semitic to say that.
00:03:47.000 Part of the reasons why this happens is that Judaism or being Jewish is more than just a religion.
00:03:54.000 And that's what makes it so difficult, is that it's both a religion, a people, and an ethnicity, and also now a nation.
00:04:02.000 You see, so that is where this becomes very different.
00:04:04.000 Now, there's three types of religious Jews.
00:04:08.000 There's reform, which tend to be very, very liberal.
00:04:10.000 There's conservative that tend to be more conservative.
00:04:13.000 And then Orthodox, which is very conservative.
00:04:16.000 But reform or entirely non-practicing Jews care about abortion, LGBT, Marxism, take your pick. 0.59
00:04:22.000 Dennis Prager's contention is that Judaism has become leftism because Jews are actually very worldly minded.
00:04:30.000 Marxism, environmentalism, feminism, they all actually were authored by Jews. 1.00
00:04:36.000 A lot of Jews that were trying to find other non-religious replacements for their well-intended, well-intentioned beliefs to make the world a better place.
00:04:49.000 Now, I wouldn't say that Marxism has made the world a better place, but look, Jews are also very urban.
00:04:54.000 They live in big cities.
00:04:56.000 And what are people like in big cities?
00:04:58.000 They tend to be more liberal.
00:05:00.000 And this is, yeah, and so this is a big, this is a huge problem in some ways because a lot of Jews becoming very liberal will then invite mass migration into their country. 0.99
00:05:12.000 Well, the more that you invite mass migration into your country, especially Islamic immigration, you are basically committing civilizational suicide. 1.00
00:05:21.000 But this is what's important.
00:05:22.000 Israelis are very different. 0.99
00:05:25.000 So Israelis tend to have some Ashkenazi Jews, but Ashkenazi Jews tend to be more in Europe and America.
00:05:31.000 But they have a lot of Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews, and they tend to be very, very conservative.
00:05:39.000 Now, if you meet Israel, so for example, when I go walk the streets of New York City, liberal Jews can't stand me. 0.87
00:05:45.000 They'll sneer, they'll snicker, oh, I don't like Charlie Kirk.
00:05:48.000 However, if I walk the streets of Jerusalem, Israeli Jews love me.
00:05:53.000 Israeli Jews love that I talk about conservative values and strong borders and strong Western civilization.
00:05:59.000 So it's the same ethnic group, but two completely different worldviews.
00:06:04.000 And so they're like on two different ends of the spectrum.
00:06:06.000 Yes, let's put 493 up on screen.
00:06:09.000 I think it's very important.
00:06:10.000 And then I'm going to kind of debunk this whole thing.
00:06:12.000 So the media is saying, well, look at all of these polling that shows that Jews are behind Zoran.
00:06:18.000 Put 493 up.
00:06:18.000 Yeah.
00:06:19.000 So this is NYC Jews who love Zoran Mamdani.
00:06:22.000 I totally believe that some, some Jews in New York are 100% behind Zohran Mamdani because some Jews do not take their Judaism seriously.
00:06:31.000 Now, just showing up on screen, these two Jews on the screen with their flag, I'm guessing that they're probably not that observant of Judaism.
00:06:41.000 I could be totally wrong.
00:06:42.000 These could end up being like Orthodox people.
00:06:44.000 They're not dressed like how Orthodox would be. 0.86
00:06:46.000 But the less seriously you take Judaism, the more likely you are to be liberal.
00:06:51.000 So apparently the poll that was showing the Jewish support of Mamdani also came from a Mandani campaign advisor.
00:06:57.000 But I don't think that Jews should be overly defensive about the idea that some Jews are voting for Mamdani. 0.70
00:07:03.000 Of course they are because Judaism as a religion has become less attached with the ethnicity of being a Jew.
00:07:11.000 So what is the solution?
00:07:13.000 Make Jews more serious about their Judaism. 0.78
00:07:16.000 Believe in God, not in government.
00:07:18.000 Care about what the Torah has to say a lot more than the New York Times.
00:07:23.000 Here is a very important question.
00:07:24.000 If you go to the Upper East Side of Manhattan and you ask a Jewish family, where do you give more Credence to the New York Times or to the Torah. 0.54
00:07:33.000 And if they say the New York Times, they're probably a liberal.
00:07:36.000 A lot of liberal Jews also have never actually visited Israel.
00:07:39.000 They've read about Israel, but visiting Israel for a Jew should be a very, very holy experience.
00:07:46.000 Again, this is the Newsweek article.
00:07:48.000 It says, Mom Donnie scores a 17-point lead with Jewish voters in the New York City race.
00:07:52.000 Now, again, that's from a Mom Donnie campaign operative.
00:07:56.000 So I find that to be a little bit, you know, asterisk on it, but that's not impossible.
00:08:00.000 That's not an impossible piece of data because so many Jews have become left-wing.
00:08:06.000 That is from Zenith Research and Public Progress Solutions.
00:08:11.000 Mom Dani, though, he wants to globalize the intifada, which is let's go bring Jew hate to New York City. 0.83
00:08:18.000 Momdani wants to arrest the prime minister of Israel.
00:08:21.000 Look, I got plenty of disagreements.
00:08:23.000 I got plenty of problems in Netanyahu.
00:08:24.000 He shouldn't be arrested if he comes to New York City.
00:08:27.000 Mom Dani wants to sanction the state of Israel.
00:08:31.000 And you still have Jews that support him. 0.93
00:08:33.000 Of course.
00:08:35.000 I would totally believe that.
00:08:38.000 I would believe that amongst some Jews, they would do that.
00:08:41.000 Now, the numbers will bear it out.
00:08:44.000 And he thinks Jews are white and he wants to tax whiter neighborhoods, waiting neighborhoods. 0.75
00:08:50.000 Taking a step back and let's emphasize another key component here, which is leftism will fill the life of a secular people.
00:09:00.000 And this is where I think it needs to be broadened, Anthony.
00:09:03.000 It's not just that Jews have become more liberal, the less religious. 0.99
00:09:08.000 Christians become more liberal, the less religious they are. 1.00
00:09:11.000 It fills the existential void.
00:09:14.000 And Catholics, yes.
00:09:15.000 So it is important to get why there are so many Jews, but let's just broaden it.
00:09:19.000 Any monotheistic faith that becomes less religious and more secular, they become more liberal.
00:09:28.000 Liberalism thrives as religion declines. 0.66
00:09:31.000 You can write that down and put a bumper sticker on it.
00:09:33.000 Liberalism grows.
00:09:35.000 Leftism grows as religion declines.
00:09:38.000 They are a one-to-one direct correlation.
00:09:41.000 So, Anthony, you're the greatest.
00:09:42.000 I got to watch your video on the salary cap, of which, of course, we should have a salary cap in baseball and a floor, a floor and a cap.
00:09:49.000 That's very important.
00:09:49.000 A floor and a cap.
00:09:50.000 Just make the Dodgers pay for everything.
00:09:52.000 Any producer, Andrew.
00:09:53.000 Exactly.
00:09:54.000 I agree.
00:09:55.000 We should tax the Dodgers at a 300% luxury tax.
00:09:59.000 They're a fake team.
00:10:00.000 You're the greatest, Anthony.
00:10:02.000 Thank you.
00:10:02.000 Liberalism is a false idol that metastasizes in the absence of ancient faith.
00:10:08.000 If you want to make Jews less liberal, make them more religious. 1.00
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00:11:18.000 Brandon, Brandon, thank you for being a member.
00:11:20.000 What's on your mind?
00:11:21.000 Members.charlikirk.com.
00:11:23.000 Good morning, Charlie.
00:11:25.000 So my question is: in the spring semester, next year, I'm hopefully going to be conducting some research on veteran suicide.
00:11:36.000 And I would not be asking this if it wasn't that important to me.
00:11:41.000 But I was wondering if it was at all possible to put me in contact with the secretary of the VA, Mr. Doug Collins, or someone in that atmosphere.
00:11:53.000 Because my goal is to try to get a survey out to every single veteran out there and just get the most response that I can to find out what are some factors that are causing the increase in veteran suicide.
00:12:09.000 Right.
00:12:09.000 So one of them, that's a phenomenon.
00:12:11.000 I'm happy to connect you with someone at the VA.
00:12:13.000 We can talk offline.
00:12:14.000 I don't think Doug Collins I can connect you with.
00:12:15.000 He's a little busy, but definitely somebody within there.
00:12:18.000 And if it gets up to his desk, then you will have earned that and you'll have done that.
00:12:21.000 So absolutely can connect you with somebody at the VA.
00:12:24.000 But let me take a step back.
00:12:26.000 One of my favorite guests, by the way, I want to have this guest back on for a long form interview, guys.
00:12:30.000 Dr. Daniel Amon.
00:12:31.000 You know, that whole week where we're going to be doing long-form interviews.
00:12:33.000 I think it's Dr. Daniel Amon.
00:12:36.000 So he wrote, his whole philosophy is this, is that we have brain damage without us even realizing it.
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00:12:45.000 So I once went skiing in Deer Valley and went up to the top of the mountain.
00:12:52.000 And everyone said I had a good time.
00:12:54.000 Woke up in a hospital and had a terrible concussion.
00:12:58.000 And turns out I had a whole, I had a traumatic brain injury that I need to rebuild.
00:13:01.000 And, you know, basically, I had my brain more damaged than I realized it at the time.
00:13:07.000 And through hyperbaric oxygen and supplementation, I was able to rebuild the back of my brain.
00:13:11.000 A lot of veterans, I think, have damaged organs more so than they'll ever realize, especially a brain-damaged organ.
00:13:21.000 So much of the issues that these veterans have is that the organ themselves actually might be damaged from service in the military.
00:13:29.000 And I think we need to examine that.
00:13:30.000 But happy to help you, my friend.
00:13:32.000 Thank you so much.
00:13:32.000 Really appreciate it.
00:13:34.000 Okay, who do we have next?
00:13:36.000 Katrina, Katrina, what is on your mind?
00:13:38.000 Members.charliekirk.com.
00:13:40.000 What's on your mind?
00:13:41.000 Hi, good morning, Charlie.
00:13:42.000 Can you hear me?
00:13:44.000 Yes.
00:13:44.000 How are you?
00:13:45.000 Yes.
00:13:45.000 Hi, good.
00:13:46.000 How are you?
00:13:46.000 Thank you so much.
00:13:48.000 So my question is about the gambling tax from the big, beautiful law.
00:13:54.000 I don't gamble, but I have family and friends that are disgruntled about the revisions, which I think says it removes the ability for gamblers to deduct 100% of their losses from their winnings from their income tax.
00:14:11.000 And I think it's now 90%.
00:14:16.000 So what are your thoughts on this?
00:14:17.000 And I don't know what to respond to them about it.
00:14:22.000 And they got more.
00:14:24.000 Basically this.
00:14:25.000 Yeah, here's a good summation.
00:14:26.000 So over the course of a year, okay, so a couple things.
00:14:31.000 So basically, it is a whether or not you can write off your gambling losses as a loss and as a deduction.
00:14:40.000 And so let me read the summation.
00:14:42.000 Quote, over the course of that year, they also win.
00:14:45.000 They cash out a total of a million dollars, he explained.
00:14:48.000 This is from an article.
00:14:49.000 Now they break, that's break-even.
00:14:51.000 They didn't actually make any money there.
00:14:54.000 And in previous years, before this tax provision change, they wouldn't own any net income.
00:14:58.000 However, with this change, instead Of being able to deduct the millions of dollars they spent on buying into poker tournaments, they're only allowed to deduct $900,000.
00:15:07.000 So, for normal people, itemized gambling deductions will be less than the standard deduction.
00:15:12.000 I know a lot of people in my audience that are livid about this, and so I hear you.
00:15:17.000 My view is a little bit more moderate.
00:15:20.000 I think, honestly, and I'm going to get some hate for this, that we need to have a reckoning that compulsive gambling is really bad for society, and a lot of people are losing a ton of money doing it, and that we should not overly subsidize bad activity.
00:15:34.000 Now, I know there's some people that make a living on it, I know people can do it.
00:15:37.000 Do you know what I'm saying, Katrina?
00:15:39.000 And so, I don't want to punish gamblers if they do it professionally and prudently, but also, frankly, a lot of people are not making a living gambling.
00:15:49.000 And so, it's one of the biggest losers here is then sports gambling.
00:15:54.000 So, look, I don't want to hurt people that have built businesses.
00:15:58.000 And if you are, look, if you are overly worried about this, you probably have some form of a problem.
00:16:04.000 A lot of young men are addicted to gambling.
00:16:07.000 And look, I don't want to overly preach at them or be overly condescending or judgmental, but I will say this: that the spirit of what this is trying to do is it's trying to like close basically a loophole that allows a practice of an activity that we should not glorify.
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00:18:25.000 Let me just finish on this one, Katrina's question.
00:18:28.000 Look, I don't think we should punish people for exercising their free will when it comes to gambling.
00:18:35.000 I understand why people are furious because if you are a professional gambler, it's unfair to say you made zero money this year, now you pay $10,000 in taxes.
00:18:48.000 So I get that.
00:18:50.000 However, at the same time, are we, with the prior tax code, subsidizing not professional gamblers, but gambler addicts?
00:19:03.000 It's a very important question.
00:19:05.000 I think we probably need a moderate fix to this, but we should ask the question: is subsidizing gambling good for society?
00:19:15.000 Again, I'm not like inherently anti-gambling.
00:19:19.000 Maybe a couple sports games here or there that I'm interested in.
00:19:22.000 I don't do any of this parlay stuff or any of that.
00:19:26.000 Every so often, you know, a game of blackjack or whatever.
00:19:29.000 Again, it doesn't, I don't like think about it.
00:19:31.000 I don't plan about it.
00:19:32.000 Look, here's the best analogy: gambling to me is like FIFA soccer.
00:19:38.000 I get really into it every couple of years and then I completely forget about it.
00:19:43.000 That's the best.
00:19:43.000 It's like the World Cup.
00:19:45.000 Everyone gets interested in it.
00:19:47.000 Everyone gets fired up.
00:19:48.000 And then I just, I just, okay, I move on.
00:19:51.000 I have no attachment whatsoever to it.
00:19:55.000 Some people, though, young men in particular, are losing enormous amounts of money.
00:20:01.000 And some people say, well, the stock market is just like gambling.
00:20:05.000 No, it's not.
00:20:07.000 Some ways of trading can be like gambling.
00:20:10.000 But if you are trading and not investing, then you have a whole separate problem.
00:20:15.000 Gambling addictions are incredibly destructive.
00:20:19.000 And I know a lot of people that are very much in debt because of what is happening right now in the sports gambling industry.
00:20:26.000 Some of those companies, DraftKings, what is it, DraftKings, and FanDuel.
00:20:32.000 Those are the two.
00:20:34.000 And there's also BetMGM.
00:20:36.000 Some of them have become incredibly predatory.
00:20:39.000 Now, I'm not saying shut them down, make things illegal, but I try to be a moderate on this stuff.
00:20:46.000 Now, some people, some person in this audience just said, email is freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:20:50.000 I had no idea this tax provision was controversial.
00:20:53.000 Oh, I have been blown up by professional gamblers.
00:20:56.000 I know several of them.
00:20:57.000 Great people.
00:20:58.000 It's like they're not like bad people.
00:21:00.000 They're not like Jeffrey Epstein.
00:21:02.000 They're just kind of crypto bros turned professional gamblers blown up.
00:21:07.000 People saying that their entire sports gambling business could go under or that their whole gambling enterprise could go under.
00:21:14.000 We have nationalized sports gambling, essentially.
00:21:17.000 Almost every state has agreed to it.
00:21:19.000 And bankrupts, every state that has allowed sports gambling, bankruptcies have gone up, every single one, since they did it.
00:21:27.000 So I think there's a way where we could allow people to have fun, to still have the agency to do what they want, still have accountability, while having some reasonable guardrails on this.
00:21:38.000 But I get why people are mad.
00:21:40.000 I can understand why people are mad.
00:21:42.000 You lose a lot of money and you have to pay money in taxes.
00:21:46.000 I get it.
00:21:47.000 I think a moderate fix is appropriate.
00:21:49.000 I'm open to a moderate fix here.
00:21:51.000 Nothing extreme.
00:21:52.000 I think that we can have a win for both sides where both sides recognize and realize you don't want to subsidize bad behavior, but you also don't want to penalize someone that has a profession and they don't make any money.
00:22:03.000 Okay, let's go to the next question here.
00:22:05.000 Maddie, Maddie, thank you so much for being a member.
00:22:08.000 Members.charliekirk.com.
00:22:10.000 Maddie, what's on your mind?
00:22:11.000 Hi, I was just wondering.
00:22:13.000 I just started watching your videos, saw some of your debates on TikTok.
00:22:18.000 And I was just wondering if you had any recommendations on other people to watch or any books I should read just getting into politics.
00:22:26.000 Phenomenal question, Maddie.
00:22:27.000 The first thing I will tell you is you should go take a couple online courses at Hillsdale College.
00:22:32.000 It's charlieforhillsdale.com.
00:22:34.000 I encourage you right away, take the Constitution course, take the Aristotle course, take the American history course.
00:22:40.000 It's hard work, but you will thank me later.
00:22:42.000 That is a phenomenal baseline foundation.
00:22:45.000 Also, obviously, listening to this show, I think, will help you a lot.
00:22:49.000 And looks, as far as other books to read, I encourage you, at least on the political side, I love the book, The Conservative Mind.
00:22:55.000 Knowing about totalitarian novels with Hillsdale College also touches on a lot, is very important.
00:23:00.000 1984, Brave New World.
00:23:03.000 And I love my foundation.
00:23:06.000 What have I listened to most religiously?
00:23:08.000 I listen to a lot of podcasts.
00:23:10.000 I listen to Rogan.
00:23:10.000 I listen to Tucker Carlson because I go for these long walks.
00:23:13.000 I go for two, three, four, five-mile walks almost every day.
00:23:16.000 And by the way, it's a great way to stay in shape.
00:23:18.000 We are talking about one of the greatest, the most underrated health hack is walking, but is the Dennis Prager Fireside Chats.
00:23:25.000 He doesn't publish them anymore, obviously, because he's hospitalized with his terrible neck injury.
00:23:30.000 He's doing better, but he's not yet well.
00:23:32.000 Dennis Prager did hundreds of these entertaining fireside chats on every possible topic: morality, philosophy, left, right, liberal, conservative.
00:23:42.000 America, God.
00:23:43.000 I really encourage you to go back into the archives of the Dennis Prager Fireside Chats.
00:23:47.000 They changed my life.
00:23:48.000 I still listen to them to this day.
00:23:50.000 I still go back through and listen to them when I go for a walk or where I'm just trying to, you know, go back to a certain topic that he has covered.
00:23:59.000 And then finally, as far as the apologetics, if you are a Christian, I point you towards my great friend, Frank Turek.
00:24:06.000 Frank Turek is a great teacher, a terrific mentor.
00:24:10.000 So that would be my piece of advice.
00:24:11.000 But start the Hillsdale College online courses, their Constitution course, their Shakespeare course, all amazing.
00:24:18.000 CharlieForhillsdale.com, C-H-A-R-L-I-E for Hillsdale.com.
00:24:22.000 Thank you so much.
00:24:23.000 Josh, thank you for being a member.
00:24:25.000 What is on your mind?
00:24:27.000 I'm a Christian as well.
00:24:29.000 And I had a question: how do you proselytize to the people that seem really unreachable?
00:24:35.000 So, for example, people like OnlyFans models or members of Hamas, like people that like, how would you ever witness to this person when it seems somewhat impossible to ever kind of reach them?
00:24:49.000 Well, that's a phenomenal question.
00:24:51.000 So forget what Charlie Kirk thinks.
00:24:53.000 What did Jesus say?
00:24:54.000 As it says in the scriptures to speak truth in love in the book of Ephesians, let me find the verse here.
00:25:01.000 Rather, speak the truth in love.
00:25:03.000 We are to grow up in every way into who is the head into Jesus Christ, Ephesians 4:15.
00:25:09.000 Well, so the, I would say, leave the OnlyFans, I would say, to, you know, I think there's other people that might be better suited to that.
00:25:19.000 That's a toughie, just because there's, I think women are probably better suited to that. 1.00
00:25:23.000 But I mean, honestly, we have some success doing that, but not, but limited.
00:25:27.000 Here is the key.
00:25:29.000 If you are trying to win people over for Jesus, you need to make sure that they have been communicated that they need Jesus.
00:25:38.000 It's like, well, that sounds, you know, self, you know, self-contradictory.
00:25:43.000 The promise of Christianity is first and foremost that we are sinners and we have all fallen short of the glory of God. 0.75
00:25:50.000 So we should have a humility about us.
00:25:53.000 And therefore, communicating that and being honest that I have fallen short of the glory of God and I need Jesus just like you need Jesus.
00:26:02.000 Don't be preachy.
00:26:04.000 Instead, be communicative.
00:26:07.000 Lift up the full of the gospel and do not go soft.
00:26:10.000 The hunger is the full hard truth.
00:26:13.000 The power of the resurrection is timeless and applies to all contexts, to all ages, and to all times.
00:26:21.000 So we know that Jesus is a savior or is the savior, but what do you need saving from?
00:26:29.000 That is the key.
00:26:30.000 You need to talk about how people fall short of the glory of God.
00:26:33.000 And then Jesus as the savior will bring you into relationship with God.
00:26:39.000 I encourage you to keep on speaking the truth.
00:26:41.000 And I would point you to exactly the gospels of how Jesus always talked about it.
00:26:45.000 Don't worry about those that have hard hearts.
00:26:47.000 Pray for them.
00:26:49.000 Literally pray for them in person and be an authentic Christian and God will give you the words.
00:26:55.000 A different Maddie is next. 0.99
00:26:57.000 Maddie, members.charliekirk.com.
00:26:59.000 Maddie, what is on your mind?
00:27:00.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:27:01.000 First of all, I wanted to say God bless you.
00:27:03.000 And you really just solidify the verse, which is my favorite, Hebrews 6.19.
00:27:12.000 We have this hope as an anchor for the soul.
00:27:14.000 So I appreciate all the work that you do.
00:27:16.000 I know that the going on college campuses, you get asked frequently the same questions about abortion, transgenderism.
00:27:25.000 Is there a certain topic that you're really passionate about that you don't get the opportunity to talk about often?
00:27:34.000 What a beautiful question outside of the funny ones like sports.
00:27:39.000 But no, what I wish we could spend more time on is good faith arguments or discussions on by what moral standard do you live under?
00:27:49.000 Everybody lives by a moral code.
00:27:52.000 You got to figure out what moral code they're living by.
00:27:56.000 So for example, someone comes up to the mic and they'll say, well, Charlie, Trump is a bad person.
00:28:02.000 Okay, by what standard?
00:28:03.000 What's your true north?
00:28:04.000 What are you appealing to?
00:28:06.000 Every law is founded on my morality.
00:28:08.000 Every truth claim appeals to something higher.
00:28:11.000 DEI laws are founded on a religion.
00:28:14.000 So when someone says, hey, Charlie, I think that immigration is good or mass migration is good, okay. 0.98
00:28:22.000 Well, then what is the ultimate good?
00:28:23.000 What are you appealing towards?
00:28:25.000 And that's where I think we sometimes get mucked up.
00:28:28.000 We kind of get in the trenches or into the bowels, if that makes sense.
00:28:32.000 For far too often, we're talking past each other.
00:28:35.000 So this fall semester, I'm going to try to do a better job of that.
00:28:38.000 And basically, at its core, so much of this is just people trying to justify their sin and their degeneracy.
00:28:45.000 The best way to word this, what is the value upon which you base your judgment or policy prescription?
00:28:51.000 Everyone has one.
00:28:52.000 It is not neutrality.
00:28:54.000 There is some higher ideal.
00:28:56.000 Everybody has a true north, whether they realize it or not.
00:29:00.000 And almost every college student that comes on campus that I speak to, they are appealing to a transcendent standard, whether they realize it or not.
00:29:08.000 So they say, we want justice.
00:29:10.000 Okay, what does justice look like?
00:29:12.000 Because I want justice, but I have an idea.
00:29:14.000 God is justice.
00:29:15.000 I understand that term.
00:29:17.000 And eventually they say, well, it's just my own definition of it.
00:29:21.000 That's even flimsy upon itself.
00:29:23.000 You're not looking inward to your own morality.
00:29:25.000 You're appealing to something external.
00:29:28.000 Definitionally, morality is external.
00:29:30.000 So I wish we had more time to spend on that.
00:29:34.000 America's small businesses rely on TikTok to succeed.
00:29:38.000 We go viral on TikTok, reaching billions of young people every year.
00:29:41.000 It's one of the reasons why we were able to win the youth vote.
00:29:44.000 Well, TikTok helps businesses attract more customers and drive growth.
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00:30:29.000 Said differently, and there will be a viral video posted from our time at Student Action Summit, but you can recognize a crooked line.
00:30:38.000 What is your straight line?
00:30:40.000 That's a C.S. Lewis.
00:30:41.000 What is your ruler?
00:30:43.000 We all measure right and wrong against something.
00:30:46.000 What is your ruler that you use to measure?
00:30:49.000 Ours is the scriptures.
00:30:51.000 What is yours?
00:30:52.000 Ours is the baseline of the West.
00:30:55.000 Students appeal to something higher every time, and you say ought.
00:30:59.000 What is the ought that you are aiming at?
00:31:02.000 What is the law of your life?
00:31:04.000 What is guiding you?
00:31:06.000 Everyone appeals to a standard higher than yourselves.
00:31:10.000 What is that standard?
00:31:12.000 Education literally means to lead forth.
00:31:14.000 What are you leading towards?
00:31:17.000 What are we trying to point towards?
00:31:18.000 What are we aiming?
00:31:19.000 We as Christians are aiming at eternity.
00:31:22.000 We are aiming at purpose and meaning and God and perfect embodiment of those things, what is good and what is true and what is beautiful.
00:31:28.000 We try to lift the soul up.
00:31:30.000 Now, maybe you are pointing towards secularism or hedonism or humanism or Islamism. 0.66
00:31:35.000 Just be honest about it.
00:31:36.000 And then once somebody can tell you what they're aiming towards, then we can have an actual conversation.
00:31:41.000 That is one of my goals of this campus tour.
00:31:44.000 One of my campuses, this fall, I want to try to peel back beyond just the superficial back and forth because now that I've been doing this for a while, you realize, oh my goodness, beneath the surface, everyone is appealing to something above.
00:31:57.000 Standards don't come from nowhere.
00:31:59.000 So whose are you using?
00:32:02.000 Behind every should is a scripture, a story, or a system.
00:32:07.000 So what is behind yours?
00:32:08.000 Lisa, what is on your mind?
00:32:10.000 Lisa, thank you so much for being a member.
00:32:12.000 Hi, Charlene.
00:32:13.000 Love you and all you do.
00:32:15.000 I was listening to you this morning and just wanted to pop on to let you know that I am a child of God.
00:32:20.000 Thank you.
00:32:21.000 Who was born with blonde hair?
00:32:24.000 And I purchased the genes from the American Eagle Good Genes commercial just yesterday online.
00:32:32.000 I believe our pockets.
00:32:35.000 Well, you have great genes.
00:32:39.000 Thank you.
00:32:41.000 Thank you.
00:32:42.000 I find it hard to believe that people saw this ad and they tied it to eugenics.
00:32:47.000 Seriously, do they even know what eugenics even is?
00:32:50.000 As you said earlier, Planned Parenthood started by Margaret Sanger in 1916.
00:32:55.000 She was a documented eugenicist.
00:32:58.000 And Planned Parrot has even become even more eugenically so with the trans agenda by providing cross-sex hormones and chemical castration. 0.94
00:33:09.000 Eugenics is population control by murdering of children as well as adults they deem lesser than, as well as sterilization and encouraging lifestyles that are not conducive to creating healthy, thriving families with children. 0.95
00:33:24.000 So do you think that this is an attempt to now attack Western women?
00:33:30.000 They were so successful at destroying Western men, but it's not going to happen. 0.99
00:33:37.000 Western white women, we won't take it. 1.00
00:33:39.000 It won't work. 0.73
00:33:40.000 So I encourage ladies to go buy yourselves some good genes or just rock the genes you got. 1.00
00:33:47.000 You are the greatest.
00:33:48.000 I want to come just give you a high five.
00:33:50.000 You have a standing offer to come to any turning point USA event.
00:33:53.000 I love that.
00:33:54.000 And yes, there has been a concerted attack on white Christian men.
00:33:58.000 And of course, now it is after white Christian women. 0.99
00:34:01.000 There's nothing wrong with that advertisement.
00:34:04.000 And again, you just have great genes.
00:34:06.000 That's all I can say, Lisa.
00:34:09.000 And, you know, look, the key is this, is that there has been a deliberate war on whiteness. 0.70
00:34:16.000 We've known that for quite some time.
00:34:18.000 We don't have time to play the entire ad, but the left is so aimless that there's a gene commercial.
00:34:24.000 And they, let me just say this.
00:34:26.000 If you want to win over young men, you picked the wrong person to attack.
00:34:32.000 I'm going to put it that way.
00:34:33.000 If you know anything about Gen Z men and kind of what they're into, of all the different people you wanted to try to call a Nazi and a fascist, you should have picked someone of the more rosy O'Donnell mold. 1.00
00:34:44.000 But that's a whole separate issue.
00:34:46.000 You're the greatest.
00:34:47.000 You have great genes. 0.99
00:34:48.000 And yes, they are trying to eliminate white people in the West. 0.96
00:34:51.000 And we should not let that happen. 0.95
00:34:53.000 God bless you, and I'm glad that you are too.
00:34:55.000 And I love E. Oh, Erica has great genes. 1.00
00:34:58.000 Phenomenal genes.
00:34:59.000 That's why I married her. 0.96
00:35:00.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:35:02.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:04.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.