00:00:51.000His 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.
00:00:59.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:29.000We're going to see what happens this semester, but I think it's fair.
00:03:32.000The first thing I want to say is your dedication to this organization and this movement is incredible because you see all the anti-Americanism happening in our country.
00:03:42.000You see the deletion of our history, all the arson and the terror.
00:03:50.000All of that pent-up energy, all of that nonsense is going to translate to every single one of your university campuses, where they're going to try to push forward complete nonsense around 1619 project, our history, all that, the taking down statues, most of the energy behind that is going to go straight to your campus.
00:04:13.000And so, look, there's, let's just not, you know, beat around the bush.
00:04:17.000It's going to be harder than ever to be a conservative on campus.
00:04:20.000It's going to be harder than ever to wear that hat on campus.
00:04:22.000And I think that's why all of you are here, right?
00:04:24.000It's because you know exactly what you signed up for.
00:04:28.000A month ago, our political organization, Turning Point Action, we hosted the president here in Phoenix, where, who is there?
00:04:52.000And one of the most amazing things that I found in that event is the president gave a phenomenal speech, but we had a couple turning point chapter leaders come up and give testimonies.
00:05:02.000And what was amazing is that the student testimonies were even more based than the president.
00:05:08.000It was like, we're losing our country.
00:05:11.000If you dare say that you're a conservative, you get destroyed on social media.
00:05:17.000It is the modern day equivalent of the cultural Gestapo that's going to come after you.
00:05:24.000And we're here for a reason, because we know the cost.
00:05:27.000We know that it's going to be difficult.
00:05:29.000We're probably going to lose all the people that we call friends, but we'll find new ones, right?
00:06:08.000Do you want to live in a country where you can't even have the flag without someone being offended?
00:06:12.000Who cares if they're offended, by the way?
00:06:14.000Why should that be your problem that you have to accommodate that?
00:06:18.000Where you have to rename high schools that are called James Madison in Virginia?
00:06:22.000Where you have to rename George Washington University?
00:06:25.000So what ended up happening is this, is that the virus came from China, and we'll talk about that, and locked down the entire country.
00:06:34.000And then it's a really perplexing thing how people don't understand this, is we take away people's time at their gym, take away their sports, take away church, the most important thing, or your religious service that you go to.
00:06:46.000And we wonder why people get angry for no reason after eight weeks of that.
00:06:51.000It's probably one of the most obvious things we could have figured out, right?
00:06:53.000Like, oh, you can't go to church on Easter, can't go on Palm Sunday, can't see your friends, there's no sports, and you're an awful person because of the color of your skin.
00:08:02.000Okay, I'm sure you would resonate with this example.
00:08:05.000So you heard about this recent controversy, right?
00:08:07.000So someone, some self-righteous, overly educated lunatic that works as Trader Joe's, not you, was walking through the grocery store and working very resentful, bitter, arrogant person.
00:08:18.000And they're like, oh my gosh, I'm so offended.
00:08:21.000There is a salsa here, or some sort of guacamole or something called Trader Jose.
00:08:26.000So the person loses their mind, right?
00:08:28.000Just total meltdown screaming, probably just flailing the arms, outrageous, right?
00:08:32.000Writes this long letter that some professor probably told them how to write, you know, perfecting the grievance industry, right?
00:08:38.000Like how to become a professional complainer.
00:08:40.000And so then what ends up, so they write this thing, all these employees start to sign the letter, and Trader Joe's comes out on this ridiculous apology campaign.
00:08:47.000Oh, we're so sorry, cultural appropriation.
00:08:49.000We should never have called it Trader Jose, which, by the way, if any Jose out there right now, I mean, if I was Jose, I'd be like, so happy that I have a salsa named after me.
00:08:56.000I was like, I think it's kind of cool.
00:08:58.000I think that, so anyway, first of all, that's how you know you live in a really decent country where you have to go out of your way to try to find all this nonsense.
00:09:06.000Like, oh, wow, we live in such a horrible country because salsas are named Trader Jose.
00:09:11.000Do you think in the 1870s, when people were getting lynched by the color of their skin, they really cared if there was a salsa by the name of Trader Jose?
00:09:17.000Like, no, this is when you know you've actually reached peak decency as a country and peak reasonability, where you have to go out of your way to try to find racism that doesn't exist.
00:09:24.000And then you ignore it in your own ranks, which is even more astonishing, right?
00:09:28.000And then you ignore it in your own ranks, where you have the governor of Virginia, who we still haven't, he still hasn't told us whether he was wearing blackface or wearing the KKK outfit.
00:09:42.000If you don't remember, one should be probably a disqualifier, unless you were like, Tuesdays were the KKK days and Thursdays were the blackface days.
00:10:16.000And it's all incredibly Orwellian, and we'll get into what that actually means because people put those terms around a lot, and it's more true than ever.
00:10:23.000Where if you dare have a conversation around, well, actually, I think there's only one race, the human race, they say you're racist for saying that.
00:10:30.000When all of a sudden you say, I actually think I care how people act and not how they look, like, shut up.
00:10:36.000Like, well, no, I actually say that because I mean it.
00:10:38.000And so actually, they care about race more than any other American political movement since the most divisive, horrific American political movements we've ever seen.
00:10:46.000And it really is a troubling thing because a lot of your friends, and I'm sure all of you have these experiences, and I don't know if any of you participated in this.
00:10:55.000Posted those black squares, and I spoke out against it.
00:10:57.000It went really viral, and everyone said I'm the worst human being ever.
00:11:00.000And it's, I mean, I don't want to be misconstrued.
00:11:03.000I get it if you're trying to protest injustice.
00:11:07.000I just think it's very incredibly intellectually and philosophically inconsistent if one emotive video of a singular evil cop who did something evil to a black individual, of which we do not know whether or not was racially motivated or not because they had a relational history.
00:11:22.000But before that, and three cops that did nothing, all of a sudden that's a reason that we have to act as if our whole country is a mistake.
00:11:29.000That seems like a really overreaction and something that's not appropriate.
00:11:34.000And like, people, we have to abolish the police.
00:11:35.000We have to do all these sorts of things.
00:11:37.000And from my own perspective in the suburbs of Chicago, I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and a lot of my friends that I grew up with were posting these black squares.
00:11:46.000And I was like, your entire life was largely made possible because of the security and the stability brought to you by police officers.
00:11:53.000And they were completely colorblind in our home community of Wheeling, Illinois.
00:12:11.000And all these people are like, yeah, now we need to defund the police.
00:12:13.000I'm like, really, that seems incredibly hypocritical for someone whose entire life was largely made possible thanks to civil society existing.
00:12:20.000And civil society exists because we have laws and you need people to enforce those laws.
00:12:24.000I mean, that's a pretty logical way of looking at life.
00:12:26.000And yet, these self-righteous, entitled suburbanites were all of a sudden saying, oh my gosh, look at how awful and horrible our country is.
00:12:33.000And so that's an interesting thing that one particular video that happened, which of course none of us, and that was the other thing that none of us agreed with.
00:12:40.000Did anyone ever actually agree with it?
00:12:41.000They said, oh, we're so divided over this.
00:13:26.000You have now entered into something that could make or break all of Western society, which we very well could become a country, and I pray not, because we're getting close to that.
00:13:34.000And it's this way in certain parts of the country, where we're going to judge people on the color of their skin.
00:13:37.000And we have become more racist than we could possibly imagine, not as the left has, where they say you as a white person, well, you must be evil.
00:14:00.000It's anti-American, every way you could possibly imagine it.
00:14:03.000And that's not to say that we should not have a conversation around race.
00:14:07.000I actually have a, I'm willing to have the conversation.
00:14:09.000It's them who's not willing to have the conversation.
00:14:11.000It's they're the ones that actually go around and they shut you up if you dare start to say, well, let's actually talk about the statistics about how, according to the Washington Post, which is questionable at best, even they said 15 unarmed black men were killed by police officers last year.
00:14:24.000And you look into the statistics of it, even the 15, like, well, some of them said they had a weapon, some of them had a car, and they said that's unarmed.
00:14:30.000I'm like, that's kind of a strange definition.
00:14:33.000And also, you ask yourself the question, well, why is that?
00:14:38.000And then you have the overly spoiled brat LeBron James last night take a knee and he wears Black Lives Matter and he thinks that it's the biggest outrage in the world.
00:14:46.000It's like, so interestingly, there's little to no commentary at all about black people killing black people in the inner cities of our country.
00:14:52.000And I'm not excusing one evil for another.
00:14:54.000They say, oh, that's just a red herring.
00:14:55.000I'm like, well, no, if your entire argument is about a systemic problem, right?
00:14:59.000Then let's look at the entire systemic data set.
00:15:02.000Your whole argument is that this is not just an isolated incident.
00:15:05.000Well, then prove it to me that it's not an isolated incident.
00:15:07.000And don't just show me four videos and say, see, it happens all the time.
00:16:14.000It's like, it's the kind of argument for authority is a really and so I think you have to have a comprehensive conversation around they don't want to have a conversation around data.
00:16:27.000They say, well, all the numbers are skewed.
00:16:28.000I'm like, okay, well, the one number that probably is not skewed is deaths, okay?
00:16:32.000I mean, that's probably a pretty final number, right?
00:16:39.000Okay, well, you don't believe any numbers?
00:16:41.000And the post-modernists say, no, we don't believe in any numbers.
00:16:43.000And that's quite a ridiculous statement.
00:16:47.000And so they, what you guys are entering into, and you know this, that's why you're here, is that you basically could lose everything.
00:16:55.000And you're young, so you don't have a lot materially to lose, but you could lose all your friends, your reputation, all these sorts of things.
00:17:01.000So my first thing is you have to be incredibly precise in how you talk about these things.
00:17:05.000And I'm very careful, but one wrong word, all of a sudden, you could, that you don't even mean, all of a sudden, your entire job, opportunities, employment could be completely obsolete, absolutely canceled, if you will.
00:17:15.000I don't like that term cancel culture.
00:17:16.000I think it doesn't even do justice for what they do.
00:17:21.000I mean, they want every, if they had a button, they would destroy every single one of our lives.
00:17:25.000And I've dealt with this intimately many, many times.
00:17:27.000These are people that pathologically want the complete and total personal destruction of anyone that doesn't agree with them on every single issue.
00:17:34.000Which goes to a broader point that these are very resentful and bitter people.
00:17:38.000I mean, imagine how resentful you must be to go kick a girl out of going into Marquette University because she does a TikTok video saying that Donald Trump is our president.
00:17:48.000And I don't know if she ends up coming into the school or not.
00:17:50.000After a huge appeal, but they basically interrogated her like Guantaman Obey, saying, I'm sorry?
00:17:58.000Good, but she should become part of the turning point group.
00:18:00.000Or how about the student at Fordham University, young man, who posted a remembrance post to Tiananmen Square with a firearm, constitutionally protected, and the campus says he's not allowed on campus anymore.
00:18:33.000I mean, and it happens mostly and mainly, and you guys know this growing up in this country, is that conservatives haven't fought for anything in the last couple of years.
00:18:43.000I mean, you guys are, but generally, and I don't mean this to be super intergenerational, right?
00:18:49.000But a lot of these older conservatives, they think fighting is like a legislative argument and you go take the person out for a steak dinner afterwards.
00:19:23.000And she should be completely excommunicated.
00:19:26.000That means she should still be allowed to speak, but no one should take her seriously because she has said, and I'm paraphrasing, you guys could get the exact quote, that basically white people are the problem with the world and all these sorts of.
00:19:34.000The most brutal thing in American world history has always been white people rising up.
00:20:26.000But if they're all of a sudden saying that we need to segregate people based on their race, but my goodness is the Democrat Party going back to their roots.
00:20:41.000And you guys, I could feel it in your activism and what you're doing and why you're here, which is, like, if we do nothing, there's not a country for us to live in.
00:20:50.000And look, I'm not super big on all blame the parents.
00:20:53.000It's kind of like an Alexandria Casio-Cortez thing, right?
00:20:57.000I think there was plenty of good decisions and bad decisions.
00:21:00.000But if I were to be critical of the generation that preceded us, is they got, they grew incredibly apathetic, and they thought that just by default, this experiment would continue.
00:21:09.000That they just thought that us, that our generation would somehow inherit this beautiful gift uninterrupted.
00:21:14.000And you guys are seeing it happen every single day, every day, where people are taking down the American flag because they say it's offensive, where WNBA players are walking off the court during the national anthem.
00:22:03.000To walk off the court during our national anthem, imagine how much bitter resentment, hatred you must have for this beautiful gift that we have been given.
00:22:10.000And so, look, it's up for us right now to fight.
00:22:13.000You hear this a lot, but here's the one thing I've learned about the left is they're incredible cowards, all of them.
00:22:20.000And they act like they're big bullies.
00:22:21.000These people are miserable human beings, and they're actually very, very weak.
00:22:37.000And yes, It will come at great personal cost for every single one of you.
00:22:40.000Because every single one of you this fall is going to be challenged intimately, called the worst names in the book, threatened to kick you off campus.
00:22:47.000More so than ever, this campus, they will target every single one of you personally in a way that will make, and some of you have already been that way.
00:22:55.000But also understand what you're fighting for, it's not insignificant.
00:22:59.000It's for the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:23:03.000Some of them did, most of them didn't, right?
00:23:05.000They went and got their jobs, and all of a sudden they sent their kids to the very same indoctrination factories to go teach them to hate America, right?
00:23:11.000And so, what you're on in that college campus right now and where you're going into is probably one of the most important moments in American history where we're actually basically going to come to a decision whether or not we want to be thankful for this great country or angry for this country, like angry that we live in this country.
00:23:28.000And I think all of you agree that we've been given this unbelievable gift: that civil society and free speech and the Second Amendment and the Constitution, and I can work hard and own private property and build a stable family.
00:23:41.000It can just vanish, where all of a sudden you have to take a knee based on the color of your skin, where all of a sudden you don't get a fair hearing at a court, where all of a sudden they could just completely digitally assassinate you because they don't like what you have to say.
00:23:53.000And that's a country that, quite honestly, I don't want to live in, and I know you don't want to either.
00:23:58.000And so that's why a couple of the takeaways, and then we'll get to some questions.
00:24:01.000We'll kind of do an AMA that will air on our podcast.
00:24:04.000So don't ask anything you guys don't want to have rebroadcast to potentially millions of people, which is, we haven't fought for far too long.
00:24:14.000The younger generation is changing that.
00:24:17.000Young conservatives, I say this to Senate politicians that have no backbone at all, and they think fighting is like sending out a tweet being, it's so funny.
00:24:26.000I mean, I talked to one of these senators who will not be named.
00:24:30.000And he's like, yeah, I've really been fighting hard.
00:24:31.000And you see that tweet I sent saying, and I looked at the tweet and I read it and I was like, yeah.
00:24:37.000He was like, taking down the monuments is illegal according to U.S. Section 263.
00:24:45.000It's, I think that Senator Tim Kaine should be kicked out of the United States Senate for lying on the Senate floor for saying America invented slavery.
00:25:18.000But I'm also not going to be tolerant of their nonsense.
00:25:22.000And so that's a very important distinction, meaning I'm not going to allow lies to come across my radar screen about me saying something or doing something about that.
00:25:28.000I'm not going to be tolerant of an injustice of a young man that gets kicked out of his university because he does a Tiananmen Square memorial post.
00:25:36.000Meanwhile, you have the girl at Harvard who gets a TikTok who says, I am going to stab anyone and everyone who says all lives matter.
00:25:47.000I'm not okay with that, and you shouldn't be either.
00:25:50.000And so there's a 200 people or so in this room right now, do not underestimate your impact.
00:25:58.000So here's another thing: a lot of people say, well, I don't know if I can make a difference.
00:26:01.000Well, you being here, you know, you can make a difference.
00:26:03.000Otherwise, you wouldn't be here, right?
00:26:04.000But even if you could, if you, even if you were told, hey, what you're going to do probably won't make a difference, would you still do it?
00:26:46.000I think we will because we have truth and they don't.
00:26:49.000I think we will win because we have reason and they don't, and we have decency and history and logic and facts, and they have feelings and angry people.
00:26:56.000And so that's why I think we will win.
00:26:59.000But that's what all you have to understand is that the also you might not even see the impact that you're making, the ripple effect.
00:27:04.000Understand the power of a singular leader on a very liberal campus.
00:27:07.000Who here thinks they have the most liberal campus in the room?
00:27:48.000Even if you think you can't make a difference at that one school, which obviously you're here and you believe in that, or you might get dispirited because every single one of you is going to lose hope and you're going to lose spirit at some point throughout this process.
00:28:28.000And I sympathize and I connect with you on that.
00:28:30.000So I think that there has to be a moment here where we can understand and we can agree that what we are doing actually really does matter and it is moral and it's going to have an outcome that can help save the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:28:45.000And so even in that one impact, the ripple effect of people seeing a singular leader can change that community.
00:28:54.000It can get other people to come out of the woodwork.
00:29:25.000And they say, well, what am I supposed to do?
00:29:27.000I say, fight as hard as a turning point USA activist is fighting at their turning point USA chapter where they get spit at, they get called the worst names, they've lost their friends, they get graded differently, they get kicked out of lecture halls, they get ostracized, sound familiar to anyone, right?
00:29:43.000Where your whole life changes that beautiful college experience that people think exists, where you go to the fraternity sorority, you meet all these great friends, you go to the football game, all of that disappears where you all of a sudden become a public enemy number one because you dare wear that hat or you dare say you like free markets.
00:30:01.000That's the kind of sacrifice our country needs to engage in.
00:30:04.000But for you guys that are already the fighters that are already here, you have to understand, first of all, not to give up and not to give in when you get demoralized, because you will.
00:30:12.000It will happen in October at some point where you never see the sun at Bingminton or whatever, right?
00:30:17.000Because that's what ends up happening in the East Coast.
00:30:18.000You only see the sun for like 30 minutes, you know, from October on.
00:30:23.000And all of a sudden, people are screaming at you.
00:30:26.000And the administration is doing an entire character assassination campaign against you.
00:30:32.000And they're writing articles in the school newspaper against you.
00:30:58.000You've destroyed everything I care about.
00:31:00.000That's why this gathering is so important, because now all of a sudden you have other friends you're going to meet from all across the country that can help you through these moments.
00:31:07.000And number two, that sort of number two, going through that kind of trial is actually going to help you longer in your life, more so than I can ever put into words.
00:31:18.000See, college right now generally creates very, very weak people for an uncomfortable and sufferable world.
00:31:25.000But you are going to become strong in college for that uncomfortable and sufferable world.
00:31:30.000Where your peers that want all the difference of opinions to be removed, for your peers that can't hear an idea about American history without them screaming belligerently, you're all going to be so tough, you're going to succeed.
00:31:42.000Where all of a sudden you're going to be like, yeah, I've dealt with more than that.
00:32:03.000Well, all of you are getting what actually college should give you in that sense, not the education sense, but the experiential sense, where you're going to be a tougher person by the time you graduate.
00:32:12.000Because you've been called every single worst name in the book you could possibly imagine.
00:32:15.000You understand what real friendship is, not this fake friendship where you, you know, whatever that is all about.
00:32:21.000You understand exactly who you are as a person and how far you can be pushed, right?
00:32:26.000You know what it's like to work hard for something that there's no reward except probably just persecution.
00:32:31.000You'll be a tougher, better person from that.
00:32:33.000I know that might not be like, oh, well, what is that?
00:32:35.000Well, when you're 28, all of a sudden you'll look back when you were in college as a turning point USA chapter leader.
00:32:42.000Okay, now that a tornado hit our town or some adversity that hits you, I have the muscle maths metaphorically to deal with tough stuff, right?
00:33:25.000And some people say, well, Charlie, you used to preach to the choir.
00:33:28.000Well, sometimes the choir needs a little preaching because I understand it could be, you could get dispirited, you can get run down, you can get hopeless, you can get pessimistic.
00:33:38.000Just look around you that in the midst of a time when you're not supposed to be gathering, you're not supposed to be together, there are hundreds of other freedom fighters that are willing to stake everything for the greatest country ever to exist.
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00:35:42.000So I just want to, you know, like I said, get to the root of what the issue is in those communities so we really know how to help them, which begs the question if socioeconomic disparity can explain why African Americans are disproportionately represented in 50% of homicides, two times more rape,
00:35:58.000seven times more robberies than whites, despite making up 13% of the population, according to the FBI, considering the most dangerous cities in America with the highest percent of black population, are more dangerous than most third world cities in the world.
00:36:13.000And those third world cities are more impoverished and have worse education.
00:36:17.000So I'm just trying to figure out what this issue is so we can know how to help with.
00:36:21.000Well, I think that it's more than socioeconomic.
00:36:24.000So a study in Illinois, where they surveyed prisoners, 70% of Illinois prisoners that were there for armed robbery, murder, arson, or rape grew up without a father in the home.
00:36:59.000The balance is necessary for a culture to succeed, right?
00:37:02.000Where you have analytical and reason with the passion and the emotion, right?
00:37:06.000And I'm somewhat generalizing, but this is basically true.
00:37:09.000I don't mean necessarily male and female.
00:37:12.000Let's talk just archetypically masculine and feminine.
00:37:15.000And in the black community in particular, we have subsidized fatherlessness to an extent where 77% of black children are born without a stable father in the home, where you get more money if the father leaves you than if the father stays with you.
00:37:31.000The ramifications of that is all of a sudden you have children being growing up without a father figure, which is incredibly necessary.
00:37:39.000And that's not to say that single mothers don't do a great job and a lot of people raised by single mothers are able to succeed.
00:37:44.000I'm not, this is not a slight at single mothers.
00:37:47.000In fact, I think single mothers are heroes.
00:37:49.000And I think that men who leave men who leave women, that's the ultimate coward, right?
00:37:57.000So by hyper-feminizing society and not talking bluntly and not talking with accountability to men and allowing them to leave women, it's just as much on the cowardly men who decided to act like a fool and run to the hills and not take responsibility as it is to the government policy that has actually augmented that.
00:38:21.000And it's not, look, here's one thing that kind of the one statistic I can share with you that blows up a lot of the racial disparity statistics.
00:38:29.000Everything you have said is correct, that blacks are more likely to commit murder, arson, all this, despite being a smaller portion of the population.
00:38:35.000It's because largely they do not have a father in the home.
00:38:39.000And this disproves the statistic of racial disparity more than any other, which is a black child raised by a mother and father who stay in the home is more likely to succeed on every single metric than a white child being raised by a single mother.
00:39:07.000Instead, we, I think Republicans focused far too much at times on just purely the economic, and we fail to realize that the family is directly related to the economic.
00:39:18.000And so you extrapolate this over a couple generations and over a couple decades.
00:39:24.000All of a sudden, you start to see and realize entire communities where something has to replace the masculine.
00:40:11.000But if you remove the masculine so completely from a black child's upbringing, well, what replaces that?
00:40:18.000Well, something, and usually it's going to be the gangbanger on the street by the time the kid is nine or 10, where their idea of a strong, decisive alpha male who has his act together is actually the worst person in his entire community, especially for young men.
00:40:36.000Now, for young women that are raised in those communities, what's their idea of a good man?
00:40:41.000Where their idea of a good man is not a stable husband or a father or someone who is faithful.
00:40:46.000Instead, their idea of a good man is a gangbanger on the side of the street who's a criminal.
00:40:51.000Well, that's why they end up, unfortunately, disproportionately going after that.
00:40:56.000So a lot of this is childhood development.
00:41:04.000In fact, I have plenty of examples of that, and I think I prefaced that correctly.
00:41:07.000I'm talking generally through the data set.
00:41:09.000When you have 77% of black kids that don't, black sons that don't see what it's like, what they want to emulate, black daughters that don't see what it's like, what they want to marry, and all of a sudden you combine those two forces together and you have communities that are in total disarray.
00:41:27.000And so the final point I'll say is this: BLM Inc., okay, so I don't use the name of their organization intentionally because I think it's very important because the phrase is in itself true.
00:41:41.000Because anytime that I say something negative about the phrase, it seems as if I'm saying something negative about the phrase.
00:41:46.000So when I'm actually attacking the Marxist disintegrationist organization that wants to destroy our country, so BLM Incorporated, which is nothing more than a Democrat Party money laundering scheme, they have it on their own website.
00:41:59.000They want to disrupt and destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family.
00:42:05.000How is that any different than what they've already done?
00:42:08.000I mean, they want 100% of black kids without fathers.
00:42:43.000And I think that the hyper-feminist movement has, first of all, it's been much more about hating men than empowering women, much more.
00:42:51.000And we wonder why youth suicide for men is going up for 15, 16, and 17-year-olds.
00:42:56.000Well, maybe it's because you told them they were awful for the first decade of their life that they could understand language, that they have to just sit down and shut up and all this.
00:43:04.000Like, we're supposed to be perplexed when that actually has an output that we don't like.
00:43:08.000And so I don't discount that it can go into certain extremes, but there's something so beautiful in the construct of a husband and a wife, a mother and a father working cooperatively to build strong and stable families.
00:43:23.000And it worked for thousands and thousands and thousands of years.
00:43:26.000And now we are seeing that it doesn't work when you systemically remove a critical piece of that equation.
00:43:32.000So thank you so much for the question.
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00:44:21.000Sam Anderson asks, What materials do you recommend for students to study better, to be better prepared, to debate and defend conservative values?
00:45:00.000There's a great website called thinker, T-H-I-N-K-R.org.
00:45:03.000You can use my promo code, thinker.org/slash Charlie.
00:45:06.000And I don't, again, you don't mean I do not overly commercialize what I talk about.
00:45:09.000I just love the website because you can consume big ideas in like 15 to 20 minutes.
00:45:13.000They synthesize really long books and you can consume them really quick.
00:45:16.000And so, and actually, unlike some of these other sites that are out there that do something similar, they actually have really, really good books.
00:45:24.000Man Search for Meaning, they have Jonah Goldberg's book, all that sort of stuff.
00:45:27.000So they actually have center-right content there.
00:45:29.000So some books that I really actually recommend that you understand broadly, and then I really do recommend that you dive into it.
00:45:36.000I'm going to give you three books that I think are really important, especially for today's time.
00:45:40.000Discrimination and disparities by Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest books ever written.
00:45:46.000If you don't know who Thomas Sowell is, you're missing out.
00:45:48.000I'm telling you, this guy is one of the best.
00:45:50.000Anything by Thomas Sowell is terrific.
00:45:52.000That book in particular actually answers the question prior than I could, where he says that we try to misapply data when it comes to discrimination far too much.
00:46:02.000Discrimination and disparities by Thomas Sowell.
00:46:08.000Number two is a phenomenal book, especially for anyone out there that might just want to get their life in order and you want to just get a very cogent worldview.
00:46:16.000It's 12 Rules for a Life by Jordan Peterson.
00:46:44.000And he predicted almost everything that's happening today, almost a decade ago.
00:46:48.000That if you're arguing for universal health care, universal control, and gun confiscation, and just to think that they're not going to use that power to shut up people they disagree with is one of the most silly things you could imagine.
00:46:57.000And so he makes the argument that the left has been more actually influenced by fascist forces than communist forces.
00:47:47.000I encourage you guys to check out certain lecturers that are able to talk and discuss some of these really big ideas.
00:47:53.000And then also, just more broadly, have an understanding of just a very specific, you should be able to, and they will not teach a lot of this in college, just be able to tell the Spark Notes version.
00:48:09.000What did Aquinas, Augustine, Descartes, Hume, Burke, Locke?
00:48:12.000You just have to be able to kind of know that because they all have two or three things that are massively important in the creation of the West.
00:48:20.000Obviously, more than that, but kind of the short version.
00:48:24.000And what did, and I know that some of it can get really deep in philosophy, but mind you, a lot of your philosophy departments aren't even teaching you this stuff intentionally because if you read it and you think about it, you're like, huh, interesting.
00:48:37.000John Locke said that rights come from God, not from government.
00:48:40.000Oh, that's how we got our system of government, right?
00:48:43.000They don't want you to know that because you actually might end up respecting our country, right?
00:49:56.000I'm going to actually take this question differently than you might think.
00:49:58.000It's a good point because we operate in a different ecosystem as conservatives than what actually a lot of these people actually end up processing.
00:50:05.000And the fact that, and I'm just going to say this very bluntly, the fact that we mourned Breonna Taylor more than Kobe Bryant was actually really depressing to me.
00:50:13.000And Kobe, I'm not saying that you should not mourn one or more than the other, but let's just be honest, we mourned, you know, we mourned George Floyd and Breonna Taylor more.
00:50:32.000He was a devout Catholic, loved the Lord, Bible-believing Christian, all-star, ended up amassing huge amounts of wealth, was a faithful father by everything that we know to be true, an amazing icon for perseverance and for grit.
00:50:49.000I think that's an incredible icon, right?
00:50:52.000And the reason I think that we kind of forgot about it so quickly is because there wasn't a good villain.
00:50:58.000Like there wasn't someone we could blame for it, right?
00:51:01.000It was the weather, it was a helicopter and all of that.
00:51:03.000And that just goes to show something that's really wrong with American society is that we couldn't blame the West because Kobe Bryant died.
00:51:10.000And so we just had to blame bad chance and bad luck and God's timing, right?
00:51:14.000When in reality, Kobe should be remembered as, here's a guy that really had his life organized.
00:51:22.000He never spoke badly about Trump ever.
00:51:24.000He's like, I don't really get into that, which is a huge deal now.
00:51:26.000If you don't even say anything, it's like saying something, right?
00:51:30.000And so that really troubled me because I think that, and I'm not saying that Breonna Taylor or George Floyd are on that, I'm not making a comment either way of, you know, I'm saying you shouldn't mourn people that, you know, that passed away.
00:51:41.000You understand what I'm saying with that.
00:53:12.000Yeah, I mean, look, it's really incredible.
00:53:15.000So anything political I say here today is myself personally, not on behalf of Turning Point USA.
00:53:20.000We're 51c3, so I just want to be very specific on that.
00:53:23.000And I'm hosting a personal podcast here, so I just want to make sure I make that clear if I have some election commentary on this.
00:53:29.000So look, there's an important point here that you're making.
00:53:32.000What's been so disgraceful in the entire virus reaction to here is, first of all, we don't talk about the costs of what we've actually done at all.
00:53:42.000We act as if it's nothing but, we act as if the lockdown was only an economic cost, where according to the data, according to the CDC director himself, more young people have committed suicide than died of the Chinese coronavirus.
00:54:03.000I think that this is societal and cultural waterboarding.
00:54:06.000I think that they want to keep us under the water until we tap out and say, no more.
00:54:09.000We're going to elect somebody on the other side that's going to get us out of this.
00:54:13.000And it's actually really incredibly demonic what has happened in our country.
00:54:17.000And I don't use that lightly, where we have people that are perfectly fine seeing human suffering because they think it fits their political agenda.
00:54:27.000And I think that that is so incredibly backwards and awful.
00:54:30.000Where they are basically like, yeah, it's, you know, like, for example, CNN has that daily death poll on CNN, where it's just, the only reason they are doing that is because they know it makes the current incumbent look bad.
00:54:42.000I mean, there's just no other reason to do that.
00:54:53.000I think a lot of schools are not going to open.
00:54:55.000If your college is not opening and they're not giving you a refund and they're not giving you a discount for just a Zoom call, I know what I would do.
00:55:41.000You guys, being involved in Turning Point is actually probably the most valuable thing a lot of you are going to get out of going to college, actually.
00:55:49.000More so than some of the other people.
00:55:52.000And so I do think, but one thing that's really missing for those campuses that have shut down, first of all, I'm torn on this because obviously campuses tend to vote liberal.
00:56:02.000And so because of that, a lot of the Democrat ballot harvesting tactics are actually going to be stunted if campuses aren't open.
00:56:08.000How are they going to find everyone's ballots to go collect in some of these campuses in the key battleground states, right?
00:56:28.000But I actually think the Trump people that are young are actually going to vote whether they're at home or not.
00:56:32.000I actually think that we're motivated enough that we're going to vote.
00:56:34.000So I actually think campuses being closed in a very bizarre way is actually going to help Donald Trump politically, even though it's not the right thing to do morally.
00:56:42.000I think the Democrats are actually going to realize in late October, again, I'm saying this personally, not on behalf of Turning Point.
00:56:47.000I think they're going to realize in October that their voting numbers, early voting, are going to be way down in key battleground states, especially in college districts, because the colleges are closed.
00:56:55.000And they're going to realize, like, how do we find all these people?
00:56:57.000And they're super apathetic and they're smoking weed at home and like we can't get them to do anything.
00:57:01.000And like the whole brilliance for them is same-day voting and driving people to the polls, all that.
00:57:07.000The last couple days before an election is the college campus, everyone is so geographically clustered together.
00:57:22.000I visited University of Texas-Austin in Texas State in the same day, and there were lines around the block to go vote for Robert Francis O'Rourke.
00:57:29.000I can't imagine how that doesn't help them.
00:58:09.000They'll put you in prison and all that sort of stuff.
00:58:11.000So I'm talking about this personally, not on behalf of the organization, is the, I've been very vocal against some things I think could have gone differently and some governing style stuff, but especially on a state level.
00:58:27.000But I actually think that if I look at the trend lines and the popularity and things, I actually think this race is narrowing at a rocket pace.
00:58:34.000I think a lot of people are missing what's actually happening in this race, which is that there's going to be a late break, I think, for the president, the likes of which is going to be really hard to even manifest into polling.
00:58:44.000Even in a Democrat poll recently, it had Donald Trump only down two points in Pennsylvania, which, I mean, he was down four points in a similar poll, you know, a week before and six points the day before the election.
00:58:55.000And so I think it's going to be a late breaker, especially if Republicans do their job of being able to communicate what a decent and civil society is.
00:59:06.000And that's kind of a challenge at times for Republicans to be able to do that.
00:59:10.000But look, the cultural side of this, the left really has, I think, they've gone far too belligerent and far too aggressive.
00:59:16.000And I think that it's really interesting.
00:59:18.000I think I'm actually going to talk about this on TV tonight, which is that Joe Biden is, he's going to be one of the few candidates ever who I think knows he's going to take a hit downward as soon as he announces his VP.
00:59:31.000You see, usually when you announce your VP, it's going to be a lift for you.
00:59:34.000And I think he knows whomever he announces, it's going to make his entire campaign far more attackable.
00:59:40.000And since he is mentally incapacitated to be president of the United States, it actually becomes a referendum.
01:00:04.000And if he does, our numbers will go up further.
01:00:07.000Vote by mail is one of the few things I think that could really hurt the president just because ballot harvesting and voter fraud and all of that, people getting multiple ballots, all these sorts of things.
01:00:16.000But I think that Biden, Biden knows one thing, if he knows anything at all, or his team, Biden's team knows that the vice president, if they pick Senator Harris, or if they pick that communist Barbara Bass, or whatever her name is, who's basically like Fidel Castro's PR woman or something, I don't know, something like that.
01:00:37.000Whomever they pick, all of a sudden, decent Midwesterners, where I come from, right, in Wisconsin and all these places, all of a sudden, like, hold on.
01:00:45.000I might not like the tweets and the tone, but that is not the country that I'm comfortable living in.
01:00:50.000And all of a sudden, it becomes a real referendum on decency and reason and civil society and law and order and a stable economy.
01:00:57.000And I think the president's biggest challenge going into early September is kind of winning the COVID primary in August.
01:01:04.000That's his biggest political challenge.
01:01:06.000He has to demonstrate, whether through hydroxychloroquine or whatever it is, that there is some sort of treatment that is working.
01:01:11.000Blood plasma is a great idea and more people are doing it.
01:01:14.000But that is a huge concern for people that are over the age of 40.
01:01:18.000And if he can turn that corner and actually turn it into a positive and have some momentum, then all of a sudden his numbers will get even better.
01:01:24.000But the fact that he's down two points in Pennsylvania with a Democrat poll, despite these very, and some people would say, troubling virus numbers, I mean, that shows that it's his race to lose in a lot of different ways.
01:01:34.000And no one else is going to tell you that, right?
01:01:35.000People say, oh, Donald Trump is down 18 points.
01:01:48.000He's going to get those electoral votes.
01:01:50.000But again, once they nominate that vice president, it's going to become a lot easier to be able to kind of personalize and to manifest the radicalism that Donald Trump has already been trying to deflect on Biden.
01:02:03.000So Biden's trend is going to be really bad because more and more people are going to believe Joe Biden has dementia and has mental cognitive problems.
01:02:42.000I don't think that pie is going to increase.
01:02:43.000I think they're actually at a moment where they've hit the apex.
01:02:46.000And so once they're there, they're actually freaking out.
01:02:48.000That's why they're running advertisements so much on Fox News and on cable television because their strategy to victory is to take away moderate Republicans to go vote for Joe Biden.
01:02:57.000I think that's actually going to work in our favor.
01:03:53.000I think I'm probably with Rand Paul on this one, to be honest with you, that I think that it's outrageous that we have given away our civil liberties to tyrants in the federal government that could spy on us because they get some sort of ridiculous warrant by a judge who's corrupt.
01:04:04.000They used it against the entire Trump campaign, and they'll use it against all of us too.
01:04:16.000Now, maybe it's classified, but if really, if like all of us, that's what you always get, like the Lindsey Graham types, they always say, oh, it's terrific.
01:04:47.000I mean, that would help actually inform myself better.
01:04:50.000But I think that when you give that much power to a certain group of people, whether it be in private industry or even in the federal government, they're going to abuse that power.
01:05:13.000So I guess my question is, how do I fight back at that in the classroom and actually say that, yes, while these people aren't perfect, they're still better than what the public is saying they are.
01:06:20.000I mean, people are saying now George Washington is the worst person ever.
01:06:24.000I mean, the entire civilization was built because of him, right?
01:06:27.000So it's either you like the civilization or you don't.
01:06:29.000I'm going to judge him based on what has happened since George Washington.
01:06:33.000And it's like the greatest thing ever to happen since Jesus Christ, okay?
01:06:36.000So, I mean, I think it's one of the greatest things in the history of the planet is the creation of this country and the impact that we've had on the planet.
01:06:43.000And so that's one piece of advice on that.
01:06:45.000And to answer your question, whether or not it's worth it, you know the answer to that.
01:06:49.000I don't, but I can give you some questions to ask yourself, which is, am I going to give up because of what they're saying or because I truly believe if I keep on going, it's just going to be an endless circle.
01:07:15.000My ancestors literally fought in the United States Civil War for the Union side.
01:07:18.000So I'm not exactly, you know, I don't actually support taking down these statues in the Confederacy.
01:07:22.000I have a contrarian opinion on this because I actually think that there's nuance and there's a reason why we were able to form one country post-Civil War.
01:07:30.000And part of it was that the Confederacy was given flexibility to remember people that they knew and family members that fought for sovereignty and state sovereignty of their.
01:07:38.000And I also think it's incredibly insulting to the American South.
01:07:40.000It's basically just us putting our fingers into Southerners saying, like, you're stupid.
01:07:45.000And if any of you that grew up in suburban Chicago, I was taught this.
01:07:49.000Anyone south of the Mason-Dixon line that has a Southern accent, I was taught was stupid growing up.
01:07:53.000If you think about it, a lot of the films, a lot of the movies was always portraying Southerners as really dumb.
01:08:00.000And I find it incredibly insulting because a mass majority of our military is made up of people from a collection of six states, which is Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Georgia, and Tennessee.
01:08:12.000And all of a sudden, white liberals coming in because they think they're the greatest people in the world saying we have to remove these statues in places they've never visited.
01:08:19.000I just think that's, I just think it's incredibly disingenuous.
01:08:22.000And I also think let the local communities do it themselves if they so choose, but why now?
01:08:25.000I think that's another question is why now?
01:08:28.000What is your, what is your, I mean, if you really want to go rename Fort Bragg, I guess, probably not, I don't support it, but now, now is the reason to do it?
01:08:36.000So anyway, that's my question about history.
01:08:49.000Thank you, Charlie, for taking my question.
01:08:51.000My question is: given the normalization of anti-American rhetoric from the media and academia, what advice would you give for Americans who are afraid to show pride in their country?
01:09:17.000I'm not putting you on the spot, trust me.
01:09:19.000I guess that would be more so in the broader sense, given a lot of the racial turmoil that has been going on in the last few months, as far as that stemming from the death of Lamont Arbury and John Floyd.
01:09:30.000You see a lot of anti-American and even explicitly a lot of anti-white rhetoric that is coming from a lot of these cultural leads from celebrities, people within academia and government institutions.
01:09:41.000I think, first of all, those of us that love our country, we can't give any more terrain.
01:09:45.000That's why the statue thing, we're not giving another in.
01:09:49.000And so, it's not that, you know, I hear some of these center-right people, and they're like, yeah, we live in a good country.
01:10:42.000I mean, there were things that were theorized and it built and it was an outgrowth, but it wasn't a cure time where they said, what do we believe?
01:10:49.000And the smartest people of their time, the most well-bred people of their time, started to have these kind of discussions.
01:10:55.000And the discussions were pretty incredible, where they said, well, we believe in something that has really never been tried before.
01:11:00.000John Locke articulated it, and Thomas Jefferson beautifully wrote it in the Declaration of Independence.
01:11:06.000And they said, we actually believe that human beings are meant to flourish free of government intrusion and tyranny.
01:11:12.000We actually believe in first principles and natural rights, and we believe in private property, and we believe in being able to speak your mind, and we believe in the rugged individual, but also the strong family.
01:11:23.000And so then they started this thing no different than just starting something ex nilio in a biblical analogy out of nothing.
01:11:31.000That's a really important point because all these apparatchiks and all these far left-wing arsonists and radicals, they haven't built a dang thing in their entire life, okay?
01:11:39.000They can't make their bed, let alone found a country, okay?
01:11:43.000And so just think of the boldness it takes to start something new.
01:11:49.000It was an outgrowth out of the colonies before, but it was something completely, it was so different.
01:11:56.000And it was never a question of whether or not slavery was going to be abolished.
01:11:59.000It was always a question of how they were going to do it.
01:12:02.000In the United States Constitution, the document that the self-righteous prick Colin Kaepernick says that he hates, in the Constitution, it says that the slave trade will be abolished 20 years after the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
01:12:18.00020 years after that, the first day that it was able to be done, Thomas Jefferson, a slave owner himself, the third American president, signs into law a moratorium of all new slaves coming into the United States, the first country to do so.
01:12:32.000Wow, the year after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Vermont abolished slavery in year 1777.
01:12:41.000Before we were even a sovereign country, we were already abolishing slavery because they were inspired by the Declaration of Independence.
01:12:47.000So your questions about anti-Americanism, I have a belief in this.
01:12:51.000Anti-Americanism is an outgrowth of people first and foremost that are not comfortable with themselves or their lives or the direction of the decisions they've made.
01:12:59.000And they deflect all of that inner hatred, misery onto the country around them.
01:13:04.000These are unhappy people that want the rest of the country to be unhappy alongside of them.
01:13:09.000You see, miserable people can do incredible damage to a society if they act pathologically.
01:13:14.000People that have their life together, that's an organized life that is full of responsibility and meaning, which all of you have, you probably don't want to destroy the society all around you.
01:13:25.000But imagine how much nihilism and how much hopelessness it takes to all of a sudden want to destroy the country.
01:13:31.000So to answer your question, it's this very, very dangerous combination.
01:13:36.000You have miserable, helpless, hopeless people, and also you have overly entitled, spoiled brats that have never worked a day in their life, that have been told everything around them is awful, and it makes them emotively feel good because they have no meaning because they grew up in nothing but riding in Mercedes-Benz in the upper middle class of America, and they think that they're doing the right moral thing by deconstructing all of this society.
01:13:58.000It's called white guilt, and it's incredibly dangerous, and it is evil.
01:15:51.000I mean, if you can show up in the streets by the tens of millions to go protest outrage, how awful we are as a country, why can't you go show up to the voting booth to go tell us how awful the country is?
01:16:04.000So, and I'm not discounting that some people need to vote absentee, but it's always been that you're trying to keep the absentee voting population sub-2%.
01:16:11.000It's always been kind of the thought process.
01:16:13.000And so, I actually don't talk about this publicly enough, but I was an election judge growing up.
01:16:18.000A lot of you guys know what election judges are.
01:16:20.000I encourage you to do that in Illinois, one of the most corrupt states in the country.
01:16:23.000And an election judge, you show up, you get trained, you actually run the election process alongside six or seven other people at a precinct or at a certain place where people vote.
01:16:30.000And so, it was really an interesting experience.
01:16:32.000I did it once, twice actually, and I saw how it worked.
01:16:36.000People come in, they sign in, they don't have to show voter ID, which was insane to me, but they come in suburban America, right near Wheeling, Illinois, and they go and vote.
01:16:43.000You don't see how they vote, but every single time someone votes, a Republican and Democrat election judge need to sign off that it was inethical, it was done correctly.
01:16:50.000And so, I saw the final vote tally at the end of the day, at the end of all of it, and we get all the results of how everyone voted, right, and how the machine was reflected.
01:16:57.000And it was a center-right community, I could tell that.
01:16:59.000So, I guessed in my head, like, yeah, Romney will get about 68% of the vote.
01:17:03.000It was just about that, which was really interesting because it showed that the data that was coming out of the machine was actually the projection, so there was no funny business happening in the machine.
01:17:10.000And so, then, mind you, this was its own separate domiciled election voting area, right?
01:17:15.000It was its own perfect, it was its own area.
01:17:17.000And so, I saw that like 147 people voted.
01:17:45.000You send the ballot, and there is no one that's overseeing it.
01:17:47.000There's no citizen reporting, there's no oversight, you send it, you do not know what happens.
01:17:51.000And so, the decentralized idea of elections actually worked really well.
01:17:55.000There's still voter fraud, and they mostly happen in Democrat urban areas and by vote by mail and voter registration fraud, which is a whole different thing than voter fraud, but it's within it.
01:18:03.000But I'm saying that generally in these battleground states, we have to do everything we possibly can to make sure that the institutions that have actually worked pretty well, generally well, need to stay that way.
01:18:56.000And of course, you guys know I don't support it.
01:18:58.000I think it's outrageous and it's immoral.
01:18:59.000But I actually think by being a free speech absolutist, I think that if it's someone's own private property that they've purchased that happens to be the symbology of our country, if they want to burn it and be a lunatic and a fool and an anti-American, I think they actually do have a right to do that.
01:19:13.000And I don't say that lightly because I think about the extrapolation of the consequences of how they're going to try to restrict our speech and try to unfairly use rules like that against us.
01:19:22.000And so I actually think that it works against them, though.
01:19:24.000I actually think that the more flag burning there is, the more that they actually lose public opinion.
01:19:39.000Of course, I see it as a sacred part of it, but I'm not sure I'm willing to use the full force of the United States government to convict and penalize somebody for doing that.
01:19:50.000And so it's not something I come at lightly because it makes me so physically sick to my stomach to see the U.S. flag even improperly handled, let alone burned like it is.
01:20:03.000And I think that if we're talking about penalizing burning the flag, we're already, we have to ask ourselves, why do people want to burn the flag in the first place?
01:20:39.000And you say we're going to be subject to comments and name calling from classmates and members of our student body.
01:20:45.000That's something we unfortunately would just have to deal with.
01:20:48.000However, when it comes to attacks and rude comments toward me as a student for my school administration, what should we do?
01:20:55.000How can I continue to be passionately and proudly conservative when my school administration is keeping track of my conservative Instagram page and directly targeting me?
01:21:03.000What should I do in response to my administration targeting me as a conservative student?
01:21:18.000I mean, that is Gestapo-style tactics.
01:21:20.000I'm sure all of you guys have felt something like that.
01:21:23.000When it's the administration and their power source, that's really a tough thing.
01:21:27.000I mean, the best piece of feedback or advice that I can give you is that they do that out of their own insecurity and their own boredom, honestly.
01:21:40.000I mean, imagine how incredibly comfortable your life must be if you can go spend looking your time on a conservative student's Instagram page and monitoring what they're posting.
01:21:55.000Yeah, and I hope that all the adults in the room realize what's happening here: that our kids are being targeted by the very people that are supposed to be instructing them.
01:22:01.000And that's what happens when you send your kids off to these schools.
01:22:04.000And it just makes me sick to my stomach that some conservative donors keep on giving money to these schools.
01:22:08.000Like, oh, yeah, let me give money so that conservatives can keep on spying, you know, our conservatives can be spied on every single year.
01:22:54.000And they will not know how to process that.
01:22:57.000But what's happening to you is evil, make no mistake.
01:22:59.000And that's really what's happening as a fight right now of darkness versus light.
01:23:03.000That's a whole different conversation at a different time.
01:23:05.000But the fact that a high schooler is afraid that their administration is spying on them and potentially printing out their stuff and you could be reprimanded, that's evil.
01:23:40.000About BLM and how it has become a trend within Generation Z and people our age.
01:23:49.000I see an opportunity here to try to convert students who have never been involved in politics and all of a sudden think that posting black square is a form of activism.
01:24:02.000So my approach for my chapter, I would like to try to convert these liberals who do not yet understand the value of conservatives and they are influenced by the mistaken profile that the media has created of what conservatives aren't.
01:24:28.000So what is your advice for my approach?
01:24:31.000Yeah, so I would take a different tact than I did, and I think you're doing the right thing.
01:24:35.000So you guys don't have to be as aggressive as I am with this stuff, trust me, okay?
01:24:40.000I do that to give you guys cover fire, okay?
01:24:42.000Seriously, I do that so I can say things that you guys don't, you can't always say, because there's a huge cost.
01:24:47.000And, you know, share my stuff, all that, and just say, oh, it's Charlie saying it.
01:25:07.000It's a persuasive one where you look at people not as an enemy, but as the opportunity.
01:25:12.000I think that's a really good approach.
01:25:14.000And I think that, especially at an elemental high school level, it's important to be able to communicate exactly what we as Americans stand for.
01:25:29.000And I think a very easy terrain, if I were to give you advice on this, is you should just ask people, and this is a very uncomfortable conversation for some people to have, is, do you think race matters?
01:25:42.000And they'll say, oh, no, then why are we talking about it so much?
01:25:46.000And they'll say, well, it's because black people are doing worse than white people.
01:25:51.000Say, is it because of their race or other reasons?
01:25:54.000And if they say it's because of their race, well, then they're a eugenicist, and that ends that conversation, right?
01:25:58.000Or maybe there's other reasons why certain communities that are black or Hispanic or whatever, why they have different outcomes besides racism, or besides believing that one skin color might be an awful skin color or a good skin color, which is an evil thing to believe.
01:26:18.000And that's what's so amazing is that the left has actually personified the very same racism that they say that they want to fight.
01:26:25.000I mean, these are the most racist people on the planet.
01:26:28.000I mean, I have to watch the Smithsonian Institution Black History Museum post a graphic that says that showing up on time, working hard, going to church, and building a family are all attributes of whiteness, and whiteness must be destroyed.
01:26:48.000And this was the Smithsonian Black History Museum.
01:26:50.000If you guys didn't check it out, you can check it out.
01:27:15.000It's like the left has now become everything that we knew they always were, which is the proponents of racial division and of racial hierarchy.
01:27:26.000I actually want to live in a post-racial America.
01:28:35.000But I think we should be unafraid to call these people out for what they really are.
01:28:38.000And I did that the other day, about two, three weeks ago, with this racist liberal by the name of Leslie Marshall, who was defending the whiteness thing.
01:28:46.000And I called her a racist on air, and she didn't know what to do.
01:29:10.000And we also have to understand that racism can happen in all forms.
01:29:13.000It could be black people against white people, Hispanic people against black people, black people against Hispanic people, white people against black people.
01:29:26.000Racism is an individual who does not believe in another individual or hate them or prejudice them or whatever based on just simply the color of their skin.
01:29:34.000It has nothing to do with power at all.
01:29:37.000I mean, it has something to do with the discrimination just based on immutable characteristics.
01:29:42.000And so that's my piece of advice for you.
01:29:43.000Final point, and I know we've got to move on.
01:30:10.000So here's the bigger point with that, which is if we're looking...
01:30:14.000The reason why this nonsense was able to grow as quickly as it was is that there weren't enough people like us speaking out confidently enough to stop the lies as they came out.
01:30:25.000Lies that are not confronted become popular opinion very quickly.
01:30:29.000So that's what happens when we don't hold the line.
01:30:31.000So in your little sphere of influence, think to yourself, who is a tyrant that really needs to be called out, right?
01:30:38.000Who is a tyrant where you have to look clearly in their eyes and say, you're done.
01:30:45.000What you are doing is immoral, and I'm not going to tolerate it anymore.
01:30:49.000And I'm going to say this every day and every hour, and you might not like it, but that's what you're going to have to deal with because what you're doing is evil.
01:30:56.000And you know exactly what I'm talking about.
01:30:58.000It could be, God forbid, a family member, right, that is doing this to you.
01:31:02.000And that's the other thing is be careful not to get into endless social media arguments, but don't allow social media untruths that are coming across your community to go without you standing up for truth and for facts.
01:31:14.000And by the way, do not discount the one comment, one comment mic drop.
01:31:22.000Leave one fire comment, turn notifications off, and get out and never go back.
01:31:26.000It's one of the greatest mind tricks ever in the history of social media because they'll start piling on and getting their friends and you never respond, but your argument just stands clear and true, right?
01:31:35.000And you revisit in two weeks and it has like 2,000 likes.
01:31:38.000You're like, wow, I made a lot of people mad.
01:31:48.000You guys are the backbone of what we do at Turning Point USA, the largest student organization in the country, fastest growing, still gathering, still meeting.
01:31:55.000As you saw through Turning Point Action, host the president.
01:31:57.000We hosted the president three times in one calendar year, and that's incredible.
01:32:01.000And that just goes to show the strength of what you're involved in here at Turning Point USA.
01:32:05.000You guys can always, and I encourage you to do that, if you have something that you really want to email our team, freedom at charliekirk.com.
01:32:11.000I actually do read those emails, believe it or not.
01:32:13.000I say that on my podcast a lot, freedom at charliekirk.com.
01:32:17.000And I want you to understand that what Amy and Andrew have done here, when you guys are fighting for, this is a movement the likes of which is not supposed to exist.
01:32:49.000And just even what's happening here, it's really something special.
01:32:52.000So know that you're part of a generationally impactful moment in our country's history where what you are doing very well might save civil society.
01:33:04.000So multiply yourself, find more people like yourself.
01:33:08.000Get to know as many people in this room as you possibly can.
01:33:35.000There's a reason why we at Turning Point USA are hiring more staff next week, or we are expanding our operation, because what you guys are doing are really going to save this republic.