The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 28: Burning Flags, BLM Inc., and Saving America From The Culturally Destructive Left

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00:02:43.000 First, I want to say welcome to Phoenix, guys.

00:02:46.000 So thank you.

00:02:50.000 It's awesome to have all you guys here.

00:02:52.000 And boy, is it an important time in our country right now?

00:02:56.000 And I just want to first thank our staff.

00:02:58.000 Amy and Andrew, you're doing an amazing job.

00:03:00.000 Let's give it up for all the hard work that they put into it.

00:03:02.000 And the whole field staff.

00:03:07.000 It is such a treat to be able to be with all of you.

00:03:11.000 And we'll see who goes back to school this fall.

00:03:15.000 Any schools going all online that are here?

00:03:17.000 A couple.

00:03:19.000 Yeah, that's interesting.

00:03:20.000 For sure opening.

00:03:21.000 Any schools for sure opening?

00:03:22.000 There you go.

00:03:23.000 Yeah, that's good.

00:03:26.000 More common sense than not.

00:03:29.000 We're going to see what happens this semester, but I think it's fair.

00:03:32.000 The 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.

00:03:42.000 You see the deletion of our history, all the arson and the terror.

00:03:46.000 Where is that going to go next?

00:03:48.000 To a university near you.

00:03:50.000 All 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.

00:04:13.000 And so, look, there's, let's just not, you know, beat around the bush.

00:04:17.000 It's going to be harder than ever to be a conservative on campus.

00:04:20.000 It's going to be harder than ever to wear that hat on campus.

00:04:22.000 And I think that's why all of you are here, right?

00:04:24.000 It's because you know exactly what you signed up for.

00:04:28.000 A month ago, our political organization, Turning Point Action, we hosted the president here in Phoenix, where, who is there?

00:04:35.000 Anyone attended that?

00:04:35.000 It was really fun.

00:04:37.000 That was one of the hardest things we've ever had to do, and we did it.

00:04:40.000 And it was hard.

00:04:41.000 We had 10 days' notice in the midst of a pandemic.

00:04:44.000 The mayor tried to shut us down.

00:04:47.000 There was all these sorts of different backlashes that were trying to happen and couldn't find insurance.

00:04:51.000 We still did it.

00:04:52.000 And 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.

00:05:02.000 And what was amazing is that the student testimonies were even more based than the president.

00:05:08.000 It was like, we're losing our country.

00:05:11.000 If you dare say that you're a conservative, you get destroyed on social media.

00:05:17.000 It is the modern day equivalent of the cultural Gestapo that's going to come after you.

00:05:24.000 And we're here for a reason, because we know the cost.

00:05:27.000 We know that it's going to be difficult.

00:05:29.000 We're probably going to lose all the people that we call friends, but we'll find new ones, right?

00:05:34.000 And we're going to fight.

00:05:34.000 We're not going to let them destroy our country.

00:05:36.000 And this is no longer a public policy debate, right?

00:05:40.000 Like a lot of people say, oh, you know, this is a battle of, you know, different ideas.

00:05:44.000 In some ways, that's true.

00:05:45.000 In other ways, this is a long-drawn out culture war for the kind of country that we want to live in.

00:05:51.000 And now that's the kind of conversation we want to have, right?

00:05:54.000 Because you're all going to have families, God willing, at some point, hopefully soon.

00:05:58.000 And what kind of country do you want to live in?

00:06:00.000 Do you want to live in a country where you can't even mention Thomas Jefferson or some crazy lunatic screaming at a grocery store? 0.88

00:06:06.000 Of course not.

00:06:08.000 Do you want to live in a country where you can't even have the flag without someone being offended?

00:06:12.000 Who cares if they're offended, by the way?

00:06:14.000 Why should that be your problem that you have to accommodate that?

00:06:18.000 Where you have to rename high schools that are called James Madison in Virginia?

00:06:22.000 Where you have to rename George Washington University?

00:06:25.000 So 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.

00:06:34.000 And 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.

00:06:46.000 And we wonder why people get angry for no reason after eight weeks of that.

00:06:51.000 It's probably one of the most obvious things we could have figured out, right? 0.85

00:06:53.000 Like, 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. 0.98

00:07:02.000 Like, I'm sorry, what?

00:07:04.000 And then by the end of May, we're wondering why our cities are burning down.

00:07:08.000 And then, if you dare disagree with the arts and the terror, all of a sudden, they don't say, oh, that's an interesting point. 0.99

00:07:14.000 They say, shut up, racist. 0.96

00:07:15.000 I'm like, I'm sorry, what? 0.99

00:07:16.000 That's kind of weird. 0.84

00:07:18.000 I don't like it when inner cities burn because I care about black lives and I don't want to see black-owned businesses burn. 1.00

00:07:24.000 Shut up, racist. 1.00

00:07:25.000 What? 1.00

00:07:26.000 And it all kind of gets back to this now new cultural tyranny that has happened.

00:07:32.000 And I think all of you have seen this happen in your own personal life.

00:07:36.000 And the last time we had here at the, we sat here at the chapter leadership summit was last year.

00:07:40.000 It was a different country that we lived in.

00:07:42.000 So we just have to admit that in the last eight weeks, our country has changed dramatically and not for the better.

00:07:46.000 It's changed culturally, where people are losing their jobs are saying all lives matter.

00:07:51.000 People, and by the way, I look at some of these examples.

00:07:54.000 I'm like, that's how I know we live in a decent country because we have to go out of our way to try to find racism in our country.

00:07:58.000 Trader Joe's, for example, you guys know Trader Joe's.

00:08:01.000 You work at Trader Joe's.

00:08:02.000 Okay, I'm sure you would resonate with this example.

00:08:05.000 So you heard about this recent controversy, right? 0.94

00:08:07.000 So 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. 0.90

00:08:18.000 And they're like, oh my gosh, I'm so offended. 0.93

00:08:21.000 There is a salsa here, or some sort of guacamole or something called Trader Jose.

00:08:26.000 So the person loses their mind, right?

00:08:28.000 Just total meltdown screaming, probably just flailing the arms, outrageous, right?

00:08:32.000 Writes this long letter that some professor probably told them how to write, you know, perfecting the grievance industry, right?

00:08:38.000 Like how to become a professional complainer.

00:08:40.000 And 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.

00:08:47.000 Oh, we're so sorry, cultural appropriation.

00:08:49.000 We 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.

00:08:56.000 I was like, I think it's kind of cool.

00:08:58.000 I 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. 0.87

00:09:06.000 Like, oh, wow, we live in such a horrible country because salsas are named Trader Jose.

00:09:09.000 It's like, really?

00:09:10.000 No.

00:09:11.000 Do 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?

00:09:17.000 Like, 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.

00:09:24.000 And then you ignore it in your own ranks, which is even more astonishing, right?

00:09:28.000 And 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. 0.71

00:09:36.000 It would be one of the two.

00:09:38.000 He said, I don't know, I'm pictured here.

00:09:39.000 I haven't really, I don't remember.

00:09:42.000 I'm like, wait, hold on a second. 0.91

00:09:42.000 If 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. 0.91

00:09:50.000 Like, I don't know. 0.90

00:09:51.000 One should probably be the disqualifier.

00:09:53.000 I mean, what's amazing is that what he didn't come out and say is that, okay, I never wore the KKK outfit. 0.97

00:09:58.000 And then the blackface probably would have been an easier analogy.

00:10:00.000 Instead, he kind of had this like meandering thing in the middle. 0.85

00:10:02.000 Like, I don't know which one it is. 0.70

00:10:04.000 So you've worn a KKK outfit before? 0.71

00:10:06.000 Is this something you do regularly?

00:10:08.000 So they ignore racism in their own ranks.

00:10:09.000 So what's ended up happening where the left are actually become the most racist people you could possibly imagine.

00:10:14.000 And then they call us the racists.

00:10:16.000 And 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.

00:10:23.000 Where 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.

00:10:30.000 When all of a sudden you say, I actually think I care how people act and not how they look, like, shut up.

00:10:34.000 Stop saying that. 1.00

00:10:35.000 You're racist.

00:10:36.000 Like, well, no, I actually say that because I mean it.

00:10:38.000 And 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.

00:10:46.000 And 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.

00:10:53.000 I hope not, but maybe that's okay. 1.00

00:10:55.000 Posted those black squares, and I spoke out against it. 0.99

00:10:57.000 It went really viral, and everyone said I'm the worst human being ever.

00:11:00.000 And it's, I mean, I don't want to be misconstrued.

00:11:03.000 I get it if you're trying to protest injustice.

00:11:07.000 I 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.

00:11:22.000 But 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.

00:11:29.000 That seems like a really overreaction and something that's not appropriate.

00:11:33.000 So then I spoke out against it.

00:11:34.000 And like, people, we have to abolish the police.

00:11:35.000 We have to do all these sorts of things.

00:11:37.000 And 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.

00:11:46.000 And I was like, your entire life was largely made possible because of the security and the stability brought to you by police officers.

00:11:53.000 And they were completely colorblind in our home community of Wheeling, Illinois.

00:11:57.000 Anyone from the suburbs of Chicago?

00:11:59.000 Maybe not.

00:12:00.000 So there you go.

00:12:00.000 Okay, yeah.

00:12:02.000 And you know these kind of communities, they're just very safe, and there's police everywhere.

00:12:06.000 They're outside of the schools, they're outside of the department stores, they're everywhere.

00:12:10.000 And you just respect the police.

00:12:11.000 And all these people are like, yeah, now we need to defund the police.

00:12:13.000 I'm like, really, that seems incredibly hypocritical for someone whose entire life was largely made possible thanks to civil society existing.

00:12:20.000 And civil society exists because we have laws and you need people to enforce those laws.

00:12:24.000 I mean, that's a pretty logical way of looking at life.

00:12:26.000 And yet, these self-righteous, entitled suburbanites were all of a sudden saying, oh my gosh, look at how awful and horrible our country is.

00:12:33.000 And 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.

00:12:40.000 Did anyone ever actually agree with it?

00:12:41.000 They said, oh, we're so divided over this.

00:12:42.000 Like, really?

00:12:43.000 In order to be divided, you have to be people on both sides.

00:12:45.000 Like, there's only one side here.

00:12:46.000 Outrageous, wrong, next thing.

00:12:48.000 Like, that's basically how that went, right?

00:12:50.000 It wasn't as if we were like, you know, there's another side to the story.

00:12:53.000 It was kind of like, I think this is pretty cut and clear.

00:12:57.000 Arrest him, convict him, not going to defend him, right?

00:13:00.000 And instead, they just like, oh, America is historically divided.

00:13:04.000 Like, well, what we might be divided about is burning down a city bad.

00:13:08.000 You think burning sounded city good?

00:13:09.000 Like, fine, I'll be divided around that.

00:13:11.000 Like, you know, just call me an anti-arsonist any day.

00:13:14.000 Okay, that's fine.

00:13:15.000 Like, I think that that's probably a bad thing for civil society.

00:13:18.000 And so now all of us and all of you in particular are now part of something that is incredibly dangerous.

00:13:25.000 And it's not because of you.

00:13:26.000 You 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.

00:13:34.000 And it's this way in certain parts of the country, where we're going to judge people on the color of their skin. 0.68

00:13:37.000 And 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. 0.99

00:13:47.000 All white people are the problem. 0.90

00:13:48.000 Well, you're basically categorizing entire groups of people just based on their immutable characteristics. 0.97

00:13:55.000 That did not go well in the 20th century.

00:13:57.000 And it's just evil. 0.88

00:13:57.000 It's anti-biblical. 0.88

00:14:00.000 It's anti-American, every way you could possibly imagine it.

00:14:03.000 And that's not to say that we should not have a conversation around race.

00:14:07.000 I actually have a, I'm willing to have the conversation. 0.96

00:14:09.000 It's them who's not willing to have the conversation.

00:14:11.000 It'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.

00:14:24.000 And 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.

00:14:30.000 I'm like, that's kind of a strange definition.

00:14:33.000 And also, you ask yourself the question, well, why is that?

00:14:37.000 Why is that happening?

00:14:38.000 And 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. 0.98

00:14:46.000 It'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. 0.98

00:14:52.000 And I'm not excusing one evil for another. 0.99

00:14:54.000 They say, oh, that's just a red herring.

00:14:55.000 I'm like, well, no, if your entire argument is about a systemic problem, right?

00:14:59.000 Then let's look at the entire systemic data set.

00:15:02.000 Your whole argument is that this is not just an isolated incident.

00:15:05.000 Well, then prove it to me that it's not an isolated incident.

00:15:07.000 And don't just show me four videos and say, see, it happens all the time.

00:15:09.000 Like, that's really lazy thinking, right?

00:15:12.000 There's 3 million blacks that are arrested every single year in this country.

00:15:15.000 And 15, 15 out of 3 million last year were an unarmed individual that was shot and killed by a police officer.

00:15:23.000 And of which, many of whom were the correct confrontation and using of force because they said they had a weapon or they used a car.

00:15:29.000 Three of the 15 are people that were charged with murder for good reason.

00:15:32.000 Okay.

00:15:33.000 So, three individual incidents out of three million, that's a pretty remarkable data set when you think about it.

00:15:38.000 I mean, could you have that kind of success rate of anything that you do?

00:15:42.000 I mean, you could not have a restaurant that has that kind of success at not poisoning their, you know, their people that come to there.

00:15:47.000 It's incredible, actually.

00:15:49.000 It actually goes to show that American policing is not actually broken.

00:15:52.000 It actually generally works.

00:15:54.000 And that's not to say there's a bad police.

00:15:55.000 I deal with them all the time.

00:15:56.000 And they say, Charlie, you don't know what it's like to be threatened by a police officer.

00:15:59.000 I don't know about you guys.

00:16:00.000 When I see lights in my rearview mirror, I get nervous, okay?

00:16:02.000 So I don't know about this whole thing about like, oh my gosh, everyone, you have a special privilege.

00:16:06.000 Like, I've gotten tickets.

00:16:07.000 Like, I've gotten those things.

00:16:08.000 I say, well, you don't know what it's like to be gunned down and killed.

00:16:11.000 Well, neither do you because you're still breathing.

00:16:12.000 So, like, I don't really.

00:16:14.000 It'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.

00:16:27.000 They say, well, all the numbers are skewed.

00:16:28.000 I'm like, okay, well, the one number that probably is not skewed is deaths, okay?

00:16:32.000 I mean, that's probably a pretty final number, right?

00:16:36.000 I think we can agree on that.

00:16:37.000 Like, no, even that would skill.

00:16:39.000 Okay, well, you don't believe any numbers?

00:16:41.000 And the post-modernists say, no, we don't believe in any numbers. 0.96

00:16:43.000 And that's quite a ridiculous statement.

00:16:47.000 And 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.

00:16:55.000 And 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.

00:17:01.000 So my first thing is you have to be incredibly precise in how you talk about these things.

00:17:05.000 And 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.

00:17:15.000 I don't like that term cancel culture.

00:17:16.000 I think it doesn't even do justice for what they do.

00:17:19.000 I mean, they want us destroyed.

00:17:21.000 I mean, they want every, if they had a button, they would destroy every single one of our lives.

00:17:25.000 And I've dealt with this intimately many, many times.

00:17:27.000 These are people that pathologically want the complete and total personal destruction of anyone that doesn't agree with them on every single issue.

00:17:34.000 Which goes to a broader point that these are very resentful and bitter people.

00:17:37.000 They just are.

00:17:38.000 I 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. 0.63

00:17:47.000 This is what happens. 0.51

00:17:48.000 And I don't know if she ends up coming into the school or not.

00:17:50.000 After a huge appeal, but they basically interrogated her like Guantaman Obey, saying, I'm sorry?

00:17:58.000 Good, but she should become part of the turning point group.

00:18:00.000 Or 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. 0.60

00:18:13.000 It's an Asian individual.

00:18:14.000 And they said, you're not allowed on campus anymore.

00:18:17.000 And so just, and I could go through example after example.

00:18:19.000 You guys have seen these.

00:18:20.000 I mean, it happens 50 times a day, right?

00:18:22.000 People renaming sports teams.

00:18:23.000 I'm like, that's a really strange thing how you got from an evil cop killing an individual to all of a sudden renaming an NFL sports team.

00:18:30.000 That, how does it happen?

00:18:33.000 I 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.

00:18:40.000 Like, we think we're fighting.

00:18:43.000 I mean, you guys are, but generally, and I don't mean this to be super intergenerational, right?

00:18:49.000 But 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.

00:18:56.000 Like, that's not fighting, okay?

00:18:57.000 Fighting is holding the line more so than ever and punching the left back metaphorically twice as hard. 0.99

00:19:05.000 And it's like, no, you're a bitter racist. 0.99

00:19:06.000 Go away. 0.99

00:19:07.000 Like, you're not going to be running a tyranny over our children because that's what you're doing.

00:19:12.000 Like, you're trying to say you're anti-racist. 0.99

00:19:14.000 You are the most bitter, resentful, stereotypical, prejudiced, racist person I've ever met. 1.00

00:19:18.000 Nicole Hannah Jones, who runs the 1619 project for the New York Times, she hates white people. 1.00

00:19:22.000 She said it. 1.00

00:19:23.000 And she should be completely excommunicated. 0.96

00:19:26.000 That 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. 0.87

00:19:34.000 The most brutal thing in American world history has always been white people rising up. 0.76

00:19:38.000 I'm like, my gosh. 0.98

00:19:39.000 I mean, first of all, you always have to say, what if you replace the color, like how that would be, you know, portrayed.

00:19:45.000 I say, you're basically no different than a eugenicist in 1910.

00:19:48.000 I mean, basically, what you are saying is something that is so incredibly corrosive and divisive.

00:19:52.000 But if you guys end up saying that when you go back to school this fall, you're going to be called all the worst names in the world.

00:19:57.000 So here's my other piece of advice for you.

00:19:59.000 You just got to accept it.

00:20:01.000 Don't believe it.

00:20:03.000 Don't tolerate it when they say it, but accept that they're going to call you those names.

00:20:07.000 Okay?

00:20:08.000 And don't be afraid to call it back at them.

00:20:09.000 Do not be afraid to say, hold on a second. 0.93

00:20:12.000 Do you believe in black-only dormitories? 1.00

00:20:14.000 Yes, you're an unbelievable racist. 1.00

00:20:15.000 I'm going to call you that. 1.00

00:20:17.000 They don't know what to do when you call them that, by the way.

00:20:19.000 They don't know how to process that.

00:20:20.000 They don't.

00:20:22.000 They don't know how to do that.

00:20:24.000 And I don't come at that lightly.

00:20:26.000 But 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.

00:20:35.000 But that dude's the conspiracy.

00:20:37.000 Yeah, they did, yeah.

00:20:38.000 And so look, there's a tone to this.

00:20:41.000 And 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.

00:20:50.000 And look, I'm not super big on all blame the parents.

00:20:53.000 It's kind of like an Alexandria Casio-Cortez thing, right?

00:20:55.000 Everything before us is wrong.

00:20:57.000 I don't believe that.

00:20:57.000 I think there was plenty of good decisions and bad decisions.

00:21:00.000 But 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.

00:21:09.000 That they just thought that us, that our generation would somehow inherit this beautiful gift uninterrupted.

00:21:14.000 And 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.

00:21:25.000 And you know what?

00:21:25.000 That's so funny about me, that whole thing, because I would always say, well, it's not going to stop with the kneeling.

00:21:30.000 I always said that. 0.96

00:21:31.000 The kneeling is ridiculous and outrageous and I think immoral, self-righteous, narcissistic, and nihilistic. 0.96

00:21:35.000 But besides that, it's a great thing. 0.95

00:21:38.000 And I said, it's not going to stop there.

00:21:39.000 Just wait until they walk off the court.

00:21:41.000 They're never going to do that.

00:21:42.000 They're doing it. 1.00

00:21:43.000 Next thing you know, WNBA walking off the court. 0.84

00:21:45.000 I see, how is that any different than someone that works for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard?

00:21:50.000 Like, how is your reaction to the U.S. national anthem different than someone that works for the Chinese Communist Party?

00:21:56.000 Like, what would they do during our national anthem?

00:21:57.000 They would actually probably offer more respect.

00:21:59.000 Like, they would probably actually stand and just let it happen.

00:22:02.000 And that's it.

00:22:03.000 To 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.

00:22:10.000 And so, look, it's up for us right now to fight. 0.99

00:22:13.000 You hear this a lot, but here's the one thing I've learned about the left is they're incredible cowards, all of them. 0.99

00:22:20.000 And they act like they're big bullies. 1.00

00:22:21.000 These people are miserable human beings, and they're actually very, very weak. 1.00

00:22:26.000 They are. 1.00

00:22:27.000 And they make it seem as if they have big strongman syndrome.

00:22:30.000 When conservative and decent, conservative and decent, reasonable people rise up and you stand for truth, they run for the hills.

00:22:35.000 They don't know how to process that.

00:22:37.000 They don't.

00:22:37.000 And yes, It will come at great personal cost for every single one of you.

00:22:40.000 Because 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.

00:22:47.000 More 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.

00:22:55.000 But also understand what you're fighting for, it's not insignificant.

00:22:59.000 It's for the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:23:02.000 Our parents decided not to fight.

00:23:03.000 Some of them did, most of them didn't, right?

00:23:05.000 They 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?

00:23:11.000 And 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.

00:23:28.000 And 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.

00:23:39.000 That's not a guarantee.

00:23:40.000 None of that is.

00:23:41.000 It 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.

00:23:53.000 And that's a country that, quite honestly, I don't want to live in, and I know you don't want to either.

00:23:58.000 And so that's why a couple of the takeaways, and then we'll get to some questions.

00:24:01.000 We'll kind of do an AMA that will air on our podcast.

00:24:04.000 So 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.

00:24:14.000 The younger generation is changing that.

00:24:16.000 We're changing it.

00:24:17.000 Young 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.

00:24:26.000 I mean, I talked to one of these senators who will not be named.

00:24:30.000 And he's like, yeah, I've really been fighting hard.

00:24:31.000 And you see that tweet I sent saying, and I looked at the tweet and I read it and I was like, yeah.

00:24:37.000 He was like, taking down the monuments is illegal according to U.S. Section 263.

00:24:42.000 I'm like, you think this is fighting?

00:24:43.000 Like, you know what fighting is?

00:24:45.000 It'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.

00:24:53.000 That's what fighting looks like. 0.96

00:24:55.000 I think that Nancy Pelosi is a bitter racist. 1.00

00:24:58.000 I think that's what fighting looks like. 0.81

00:25:02.000 And so there are people that say, well, Charlie, we have to return to decency and mutual respect.

00:25:09.000 Look, I'm not an indecent person.

00:25:10.000 You guys have seen enough of my content probably by now that I listen, I have compassion, and I try not to get too excited.

00:25:16.000 And I do generally agree with that.

00:25:18.000 But I'm also not going to be tolerant of their nonsense.

00:25:22.000 And 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.

00:25:28.000 I'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.

00:25:36.000 Meanwhile, 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.

00:25:45.000 And she gets to stay at school.

00:25:47.000 I'm not okay with that, and you shouldn't be either.

00:25:50.000 And so there's a 200 people or so in this room right now, do not underestimate your impact.

00:25:58.000 So here's another thing: a lot of people say, well, I don't know if I can make a difference.

00:26:01.000 Well, you being here, you know, you can make a difference.

00:26:03.000 Otherwise, you wouldn't be here, right?

00:26:04.000 But 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?

00:26:12.000 That's a very interesting question.

00:26:13.000 The answer is, of course, because you do what is moral regardless if the output is going to be in your favor.

00:26:18.000 See, people ask all the time, they say, well, Charlie, are you optimistic or pessimistic?

00:26:22.000 I always ask, I always stop.

00:26:23.000 I say, are you asking that because you want an excuse not to fight?

00:26:27.000 Are you asking that because you want me to answer it in a way where all of a sudden you're like, this was fun, Charlie.

00:26:32.000 I'm going to go back to not doing politics.

00:26:35.000 Goodbye.

00:26:36.000 Whether you're optimistic or pessimistic is irrelevant to how hard you fight.

00:26:40.000 It's actually, you must have a moral good that you are seeking for civil society, and you pursue it.

00:26:45.000 And if you win, great.

00:26:46.000 I think we will because we have truth and they don't.

00:26:49.000 I 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.

00:26:56.000 And so that's why I think we will win.

00:26:59.000 But 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.

00:27:04.000 Understand the power of a singular leader on a very liberal campus.

00:27:07.000 Who here thinks they have the most liberal campus in the room?

00:27:09.000 What's your school?

00:27:10.000 Moravian College in Pennsylvania.

00:27:12.000 Give me another one.

00:27:13.000 Yes.

00:27:14.000 Bigger than the University.

00:27:15.000 Which one?

00:27:16.000 Bigger than the University of City.

00:27:17.000 Yeah, that's a real beauty.

00:27:18.000 Yeah.

00:27:19.000 Illinois State.

00:27:20.000 Illinois State.

00:27:21.000 That's not as liberal.

00:27:24.000 Is that liberal?

00:27:25.000 Oh, yeah.

00:27:26.000 In Paradise Valley?

00:27:27.000 God help us all.

00:27:29.000 Yeah.

00:27:30.000 College of Charleston?

00:27:31.000 That is very liberal.

00:27:32.000 Yes.

00:27:32.000 One more.

00:27:34.000 Which one?

00:27:37.000 You think that one wins?

00:27:38.000 Okay, we'll say you win, okay?

00:27:41.000 Congratulations.

00:27:42.000 You have the school most similar to Stalingrad, right?

00:27:44.000 So it's great.

00:27:48.000 Even 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.

00:27:56.000 Is it worth it?

00:27:57.000 I've lost all my friends.

00:27:59.000 First of all, I think that, just so you understand, I could look at this now from a 26-year-old.

00:28:02.000 I know how hard it is to lose friends.

00:28:04.000 I lost every single friend I had in high school, every single one, okay?

00:28:07.000 Not only that, they go to reporters and try to ruin my life, okay?

00:28:12.000 Saying that I'm this awful person, all these sorts of things that I went to high school with.

00:28:15.000 So I get it, okay?

00:28:17.000 You guys have all lost friends.

00:28:18.000 I'm right there with you.

00:28:18.000 Every single friend that I play football with now thinks I'm like the worst person on the planet because whatever, right?

00:28:23.000 Because I like freedom.

00:28:24.000 Okay, great.

00:28:26.000 But I get it.

00:28:27.000 And I'm right there with you.

00:28:28.000 And I sympathize and I connect with you on that.

00:28:30.000 So 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.

00:28:45.000 And so even in that one impact, the ripple effect of people seeing a singular leader can change that community.

00:28:54.000 It can get other people to come out of the woodwork.

00:28:56.000 And do not underestimate that.

00:28:58.000 Do not underestimate what happens when good people fight.

00:29:01.000 And people say, Charlie, why is America in the condition that it's in?

00:29:03.000 It's because people who believe the right things didn't defend those things.

00:29:07.000 That's why we're in the condition that we're in.

00:29:09.000 Oh, yeah, I love the Constitution.

00:29:09.000 They believe it.

00:29:11.000 Oh, yeah, I love my country's history.

00:29:13.000 Okay, what have you done to defend it recently?

00:29:14.000 Well, you all have a great answer to that.

00:29:16.000 And I speak at groups all across the country that are older Tea Party type groups, right?

00:29:22.000 Where the average age is 78 or 81.

00:29:25.000 And they say, well, what am I supposed to do?

00:29:27.000 I 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?

00:29:43.000 Where 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.

00:30:01.000 That's the kind of sacrifice our country needs to engage in.

00:30:04.000 But 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.

00:30:12.000 It will happen in October at some point where you never see the sun at Bingminton or whatever, right?

00:30:17.000 Because that's what ends up happening in the East Coast.

00:30:18.000 You only see the sun for like 30 minutes, you know, from October on.

00:30:23.000 And all of a sudden, people are screaming at you.

00:30:26.000 And the administration is doing an entire character assassination campaign against you.

00:30:32.000 And they're writing articles in the school newspaper against you.

00:30:34.000 And you say, no one stands with me.

00:30:37.000 I am all alone.

00:30:38.000 What is the point?

00:30:39.000 I'm going to give up.

00:30:40.000 And if you do give up, you are going to give them exactly what they want.

00:30:45.000 What they are counting on, their victory is built in to conservative surrender.

00:30:50.000 That's what they're waiting for.

00:30:52.000 They're waiting for more people to just give up and say, fine, you run the country.

00:30:56.000 I don't want to do this anymore.

00:30:58.000 You've destroyed everything I care about.

00:31:00.000 That'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.

00:31:06.000 That's number one.

00:31:07.000 And 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.

00:31:18.000 See, college right now generally creates very, very weak people for an uncomfortable and sufferable world.

00:31:25.000 But you are going to become strong in college for that uncomfortable and sufferable world.

00:31:30.000 Where 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.

00:31:42.000 Where all of a sudden you're going to be like, yeah, I've dealt with more than that.

00:31:45.000 Your shoulders will grow stronger.

00:31:46.000 You're not going to ask for your environment to become safer.

00:31:49.000 Because if we're honest about the world, it's actually an awful place.

00:31:53.000 I mean, it's full of suffering.

00:31:55.000 It's guaranteed that you're going to come across some sort of adversity.

00:31:58.000 So shouldn't college be about building stronger people for that world?

00:32:02.000 Isn't that what college should be?

00:32:03.000 Well, 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.

00:32:12.000 Because you've been called every single worst name in the book you could possibly imagine.

00:32:15.000 You understand what real friendship is, not this fake friendship where you, you know, whatever that is all about.

00:32:21.000 You understand exactly who you are as a person and how far you can be pushed, right?

00:32:26.000 You know what it's like to work hard for something that there's no reward except probably just persecution.

00:32:31.000 You'll be a tougher, better person from that.

00:32:33.000 I know that might not be like, oh, well, what is that?

00:32:35.000 Well, when you're 28, all of a sudden you'll look back when you were in college as a turning point USA chapter leader.

00:32:40.000 You're like, you know what?

00:32:42.000 Okay, 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?

00:32:53.000 Because that's life.

00:32:54.000 And college is supposed to be like that.

00:32:56.000 And we've done the opposite.

00:32:58.000 We've infantilized kids that go to college.

00:32:59.000 And you know this.

00:33:00.000 Can't hear opposite opinion.

00:33:02.000 Can't hear anything that you dare disagree with.

00:33:04.000 We're just going to try to create a safer world for you.

00:33:06.000 And that's a bunch of nonsense.

00:33:07.000 We know that.

00:33:08.000 So you guys are going to be rewarded exactly what you're doing here.

00:33:11.000 And you can have faith and have certainty in that.

00:33:13.000 And also, understand that what you are fighting for is absolute truth.

00:33:19.000 You are fighting for a decent civil society.

00:33:22.000 And that should give you enough conviction.

00:33:23.000 I know you all have it.

00:33:25.000 And some people say, well, Charlie, you used to preach to the choir.

00:33:28.000 Well, 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.

00:33:35.000 I get all that.

00:33:36.000 Throw all that away.

00:33:38.000 Just 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.

00:33:49.000 And guess what?

00:33:50.000 That makes our generation different than the one before us.

00:33:54.000 In the 70s and 80s, young conservatism was roughly loosely affiliated with Ronald Reagan.

00:34:00.000 And guess what?

00:34:00.000 They were the popular kids on campus.

00:34:03.000 Seriously.

00:34:04.000 At most campuses, it was like the cool thing to support Ronald Reagan.

00:34:07.000 You think it's the cool thing to wear that hat?

00:34:10.000 With a price that puts a public declaration of stop being a friend with me, right?

00:34:17.000 And I think you all understand that price and that cost, but it is well worth it to keep on persevering and fighting.

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00:35:20.000 Yes.

00:35:21.000 All right, Charlie.

00:35:22.000 So, just like you, you know, I care about every group of Americans because I believe we're Americans first and foremost.

00:35:27.000 And, you know, it really makes me sad to see what's happening to a lot of our predominantly black communities and cities in the country.

00:35:34.000 And I just want to get to the root of what's causing that.

00:35:37.000 And I hear a lot of people suggest that, you know, it's socioeconomic conditions.

00:35:40.000 We hear that argument a lot.

00:35:42.000 So 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,

00:35:58.000 seven 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.

00:36:13.000 And those third world cities are more impoverished and have worse education.

00:36:17.000 So I'm just trying to figure out what this issue is so we can know how to help with.

00:36:21.000 Well, I think that it's more than socioeconomic.

00:36:24.000 So 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.

00:36:34.000 70%.

00:36:35.000 So 70% of the Illinois prisoners have one thing in common.

00:36:40.000 It's not their gang.

00:36:41.000 It's not their color.

00:36:42.000 It's not their religion.

00:36:43.000 It's the fact they didn't grow up with a father in the home. 0.88

00:36:46.000 We have hyper-feminized American society. 0.64

00:36:49.000 And now you can go too far in the masculine spectrum too. 1.00

00:36:52.000 That's where you get ridiculous totalitarian governments. 0.83

00:36:56.000 But the balance is critical. 0.94

00:36:58.000 The balance is biblical.

00:36:59.000 The balance is necessary for a culture to succeed, right?

00:37:02.000 Where you have analytical and reason with the passion and the emotion, right?

00:37:06.000 And I'm somewhat generalizing, but this is basically true.

00:37:09.000 I don't mean necessarily male and female.

00:37:12.000 Let's talk just archetypically masculine and feminine. 0.66

00:37:15.000 And 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. 0.62

00:37:31.000 The ramifications of that is all of a sudden you have children being growing up without a father figure, which is incredibly necessary.

00:37:39.000 And 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.

00:37:44.000 I'm not, this is not a slight at single mothers.

00:37:46.000 It's not.

00:37:47.000 In fact, I think single mothers are heroes.

00:37:49.000 And I think that men who leave men who leave women, that's the ultimate coward, right? 0.94

00:37:57.000 So 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. 0.95

00:38:19.000 And so that's one big piece of it. 0.61

00:38:21.000 And 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. 0.89

00:38:29.000 Everything you have said is correct, that blacks are more likely to commit murder, arson, all this, despite being a smaller portion of the population. 0.95

00:38:35.000 It's because largely they do not have a father in the home. 0.99

00:38:39.000 And 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. 0.59

00:38:55.000 So it's two parent privilege. 0.70

00:38:56.000 That is the true privilege that we should talk about.

00:38:59.000 We do not talk about protecting and supporting strong and vibrant and stable families in our country.

00:39:06.000 We do not.

00:39:07.000 Instead, 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.

00:39:18.000 And so you extrapolate this over a couple generations and over a couple decades.

00:39:24.000 All of a sudden, you start to see and realize entire communities where something has to replace the masculine.

00:39:31.000 It's a very important point, though.

00:39:33.000 So human beings have yearnings for three basic things, consciously or subconsciously.

00:39:39.000 Now, Freud was wrong about a lot, but we take for granted what Freud was right about.

00:39:44.000 And one of the things he got right about is that there is a struggle within us of a desire between the father and the mother, right?

00:39:50.000 So every human being in some ways needs a masculine and a feminine influence, right?

00:39:55.000 And that could be replaced.

00:39:56.000 The third thing we need is a connection to the Almighty.

00:39:59.000 So understand the connection to the Almighty, you might put government instead of that, right?

00:40:04.000 You might put BLM instead of that, where that becomes your God, right?

00:40:08.000 It becomes a man-made idol.

00:40:10.000 So we could recognize that. 0.99

00:40:11.000 But if you remove the masculine so completely from a black child's upbringing, well, what replaces that? 0.80

00:40:18.000 Well, 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. 0.72

00:40:36.000 Now, for young women that are raised in those communities, what's their idea of a good man?

00:40:41.000 Where their idea of a good man is not a stable husband or a father or someone who is faithful.

00:40:46.000 Instead, their idea of a good man is a gangbanger on the side of the street who's a criminal.

00:40:51.000 Well, that's why they end up, unfortunately, disproportionately going after that.

00:40:56.000 So a lot of this is childhood development.

00:40:58.000 We do not talk about this. 0.79

00:40:59.000 And I'm not saying that it's impossible for a child raised by a single mother to succeed. 0.65

00:41:03.000 I'm not. 0.92

00:41:04.000 In fact, I have plenty of examples of that, and I think I prefaced that correctly.

00:41:07.000 I'm talking generally through the data set. 0.64

00:41:09.000 When 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. 0.91

00:41:25.000 That shouldn't surprise anyone. 0.67

00:41:27.000 And 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. 0.56

00:41:39.000 It's a left-wing marketing scam. 0.66

00:41:41.000 Because anytime that I say something negative about the phrase, it seems as if I'm saying something negative about the phrase. 0.51

00:41:46.000 So 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.

00:41:59.000 They want to disrupt and destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family.

00:42:05.000 How is that any different than what they've already done? 0.99

00:42:08.000 I mean, they want 100% of black kids without fathers. 0.99

00:42:12.000 And so I am a huge believer.

00:42:14.000 And for young ladies in this audience, you should want stronger men. 0.93

00:42:18.000 You should want to demand stronger men. 0.87

00:42:19.000 There's a crisis. 1.00

00:42:21.000 The number one thing that I hear in confidence from young women is: I cannot find men with their act together. 1.00

00:42:26.000 And all of you men out there, you should take that as, well, maybe I should get my act together. 0.97

00:42:30.000 And if you think you do, maybe you can do even better.

00:42:32.000 And that's a serious thing. 1.00

00:42:33.000 And some hyper-feminists say, Charlie, you hate women because you want stronger men. 0.98

00:42:37.000 I'm like, no, I actually want what's best for everyone.

00:42:40.000 I think it's good for men and good for women.

00:42:42.000 I think that there's a balance there.

00:42:43.000 And I think that the hyper-feminist movement has, first of all, it's been much more about hating men than empowering women, much more.

00:42:51.000 And we wonder why youth suicide for men is going up for 15, 16, and 17-year-olds.

00:42:56.000 Well, 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.

00:43:04.000 Like, we're supposed to be perplexed when that actually has an output that we don't like.

00:43:08.000 And 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.

00:43:23.000 And it worked for thousands and thousands and thousands of years.

00:43:26.000 And now we are seeing that it doesn't work when you systemically remove a critical piece of that equation.

00:43:32.000 So thank you so much for the question.

00:43:33.000 I really appreciate it.

00:43:34.000 Thank you.

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00:44:18.000 Charlie, this is an online question.

00:44:20.000 Okay.

00:44:20.000 Live stream.

00:44:21.000 Sam Anderson asks, What materials do you recommend for students to study better, to be better prepared, to debate and defend conservative values?

00:44:29.000 It's a great question.

00:44:31.000 So there's a great website out there.

00:44:32.000 I talk about it on my podcast.

00:44:34.000 And by the way, if you guys are not yet subscribed to my podcast, you should be.

00:44:38.000 I'm sure all of you are, by the way.

00:44:40.000 Okay.

00:44:40.000 Thank you for that, by the way.

00:44:42.000 We are number five in Apple News, right?

00:44:44.000 Second biggest conservative podcast.

00:44:46.000 So thank you for that.

00:44:47.000 Thank you.

00:44:50.000 We are in a horse race with Shapiro.

00:44:53.000 We'll see who wins.

00:44:54.000 So and the book.

00:44:59.000 So I talked about this on my podcast.

00:45:00.000 There's a great website called thinker, T-H-I-N-K-R.org.

00:45:03.000 You can use my promo code, thinker.org/slash Charlie.

00:45:06.000 And I don't, again, you don't mean I do not overly commercialize what I talk about.

00:45:09.000 I just love the website because you can consume big ideas in like 15 to 20 minutes.

00:45:13.000 They synthesize really long books and you can consume them really quick.

00:45:16.000 And so, and actually, unlike some of these other sites that are out there that do something similar, they actually have really, really good books.

00:45:24.000 Man Search for Meaning, they have Jonah Goldberg's book, all that sort of stuff.

00:45:27.000 So they actually have center-right content there.

00:45:29.000 So some books that I really actually recommend that you understand broadly, and then I really do recommend that you dive into it.

00:45:36.000 I'm going to give you three books that I think are really important, especially for today's time.

00:45:40.000 Discrimination and disparities by Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest books ever written.

00:45:44.000 Thomas Sowell is a black economist.

00:45:46.000 If you don't know who Thomas Sowell is, you're missing out.

00:45:48.000 I'm telling you, this guy is one of the best.

00:45:50.000 Anything by Thomas Sowell is terrific.

00:45:52.000 That 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.

00:46:02.000 Discrimination and disparities by Thomas Sowell.

00:46:05.000 That's number one.

00:46:06.000 That's part of Thinker.

00:46:07.000 It's actually on their website.

00:46:08.000 Number 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.

00:46:16.000 It's 12 Rules for a Life by Jordan Peterson.

00:46:18.000 A lot of you have read it.

00:46:19.000 Reread it and understand it, understand the deeper psychology behind it.

00:46:22.000 It's absolutely phenomenal.

00:46:24.000 It is terrific.

00:46:25.000 And then, number three, it's actually written by a Trump hater, but that's okay.

00:46:29.000 He's said awful things about me.

00:46:31.000 I actually never said anything bad about him because it's such a good piece of work.

00:46:34.000 It was written in 2010, 2011, it's called Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg.

00:46:38.000 There's any book that describes how the furthest extrapolation of leftism is actually fascism.

00:46:38.000 It's phenomenal.

00:46:44.000 And he predicted almost everything that's happening today, almost a decade ago.

00:46:48.000 That 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.

00:46:57.000 And so he makes the argument that the left has been more actually influenced by fascist forces than communist forces.

00:47:04.000 It's a brilliant argument. 1.00

00:47:05.000 So I think those three are very applicable.

00:47:07.000 And if you guys are really ambitious, read 1984 by George Orwell.

00:47:10.000 It's like reading basically the newspaper in real time.

00:47:15.000 And then, and I actually consume information differently.

00:47:18.000 Everyone consumes information differently.

00:47:19.000 And so sitting down and actually having me read a book, I do it every night and I make sure I do it.

00:47:24.000 But I actually consume information the best by lecturers talking about big ideas.

00:47:28.000 That's actually how I consume information better than almost anything else.

00:47:31.000 And Hoover Institution is a great YouTube channel if you guys haven't checked it out.

00:47:35.000 They're a think tank from Stanford University.

00:47:37.000 And they have all the Thomas Soul archives on there, by the way.

00:47:40.000 And so I actually process information better than that.

00:47:42.000 And so if you guys are like reading, you know, it's hard for me.

00:47:45.000 I'm always on the run.

00:47:46.000 That's fine.

00:47:46.000 I work out.

00:47:47.000 I encourage you guys to check out certain lecturers that are able to talk and discuss some of these really big ideas.

00:47:53.000 And 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.

00:48:04.000 What did Plato stand for?

00:48:06.000 What did Aristotle stand for?

00:48:07.000 What did Socrates stand for?

00:48:09.000 What did Aquinas, Augustine, Descartes, Hume, Burke, Locke?

00:48:12.000 You 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.

00:48:20.000 Obviously, more than that, but kind of the short version.

00:48:22.000 Like, what did Machiavelli theorize?

00:48:24.000 And 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.

00:48:37.000 John Locke said that rights come from God, not from government.

00:48:40.000 Oh, that's how we got our system of government, right?

00:48:43.000 They don't want you to know that because you actually might end up respecting our country, right?

00:48:43.000 Okay.

00:48:46.000 And so I highly encourage you to actually dive deep into these thinkers.

00:48:51.000 And of course, you could do Rousseau and you could do Marx and you could do Hegel and all these other left.

00:48:55.000 You're probably getting a good dose of that anyway, I would imagine, right?

00:48:58.000 Yeah, so I think you guys understand the left plenty.

00:49:00.000 So I think for conservative audiences, I actually encourage you guys to dive into that.

00:49:04.000 And for some of you that are like, I don't understand any of that stuff, and it's like, it's really hard and complicated.

00:49:09.000 And I just am trying to just dive into just the ABCs of this stuff.

00:49:13.000 That's perfectly fine too.

00:49:15.000 Our partners at Prager U does a great job.

00:49:17.000 We at Turning Point USA, we have a lot of videos that come out a lot that I think are very digestible.

00:49:22.000 So I truly appreciate the question.

00:49:23.000 Next question.

00:49:25.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:49:26.000 So my question is pertaining to a lot of the stuff that I see on social media that conservatives aren't really talking about.

00:49:33.000 For example, like Breonna Taylor.

00:49:35.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:49:36.000 Like I've heard lies that the police were made to like get slaves and stuff like that.

00:49:41.000 Do you have any response to those?

00:49:43.000 Well, yeah, the Breonna Taylor thing I spoke out against, and I got some feedback.

00:49:47.000 So I'm not going to dive into it now, but I think that there's a lot more to the story.

00:49:51.000 I got some feedback where people were on both sides of the issue.

00:49:54.000 But look, it's a good point.

00:49:56.000 I'm going to actually take this question differently than you might think.

00:49:58.000 It'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.

00:50:05.000 And 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.

00:50:13.000 And 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.

00:50:20.000 And this is asked the question.

00:50:21.000 I mean, Kobe Bryant was exactly kind of what we want the black community to be, right?

00:50:27.000 I mean, obviously he made some mistakes in his life, but he was the number one draft pick.

00:50:31.000 No one believed in him.

00:50:32.000 He 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.

00:50:49.000 I think that's an incredible icon, right?

00:50:52.000 And the reason I think that we kind of forgot about it so quickly is because there wasn't a good villain.

00:50:57.000 And that's really too bad.

00:50:58.000 Like there wasn't someone we could blame for it, right?

00:51:01.000 It was the weather, it was a helicopter and all of that.

00:51:03.000 And 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.

00:51:10.000 And so we just had to blame bad chance and bad luck and God's timing, right?

00:51:14.000 When in reality, Kobe should be remembered as, here's a guy that really had his life organized.

00:51:20.000 He did.

00:51:20.000 He was a venture capitalist.

00:51:22.000 He never spoke badly about Trump ever.

00:51:24.000 He's like, I don't really get into that, which is a huge deal now.

00:51:26.000 If you don't even say anything, it's like saying something, right?

00:51:30.000 And 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.

00:51:41.000 You understand what I'm saying with that.

00:51:42.000 I'm being very specific with it.

00:51:43.000 But in kind of the whole national conversation of who we have remembered, I've been really saddened by kind of how we just don't pull.

00:51:51.000 I think that Kobe Bryant should be the ideal in some ways.

00:51:53.000 Like he was one of the hardest working athletes of our entire generation.

00:51:56.000 Kobe Bryant would not have taken a knee for the national anthem.

00:52:00.000 Kobe Bryant would not have taken a knee for the national anthem.

00:52:02.000 He loved his country.

00:52:02.000 Let me say that again.

00:52:04.000 He did.

00:52:06.000 And every athlete that played with Kobe Bryant, he did veterans benefits.

00:52:11.000 He gave money away to that.

00:52:13.000 He played for Team USA and won a couple gold medals.

00:52:16.000 And he said that was the best moment of his career when he got to represent his country, which I thought is a horrible place.

00:52:22.000 And so I think that's a really important point that we have to, we can't just forget that.

00:52:26.000 And so, yeah, I mean, look, I'm not going to get into the Breonna Taylor thing.

00:52:30.000 I think it's nuanced.

00:52:32.000 There's still evidence that's coming out that it was a no-not grade or it wasn't a no-r-grade.

00:52:36.000 I'm not going to get into that today.

00:52:37.000 But you guys can listen to future episodes so I can dive into that.

00:52:40.000 So let's get to the next question.

00:52:42.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:52:42.000 My name is Veronica.

00:52:43.000 I'm from California.

00:52:44.000 And I just wanted to ask you such a two-part question regarding the election.

00:52:48.000 I know that three and a half months away, and I'm just curious about the schools.

00:52:54.000 Some of them are open.

00:52:56.000 I don't know. 0.99

00:52:56.000 But I know in California, they're a hybrid. 0.99

00:52:59.000 They're like online and on campus.

00:53:02.000 But I don't know as far as getting involved goes.

00:53:04.000 What do you think is the prediction upon these three and a half months?

00:53:09.000 And are they going to open sooner or later?

00:53:11.000 What are your thoughts?

00:53:12.000 Yeah, I mean, look, it's really incredible.

00:53:15.000 So anything political I say here today is myself personally, not on behalf of Turning Point USA.

00:53:20.000 We're 51c3, so I just want to be very specific on that.

00:53:23.000 And 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.

00:53:29.000 So look, there's an important point here that you're making.

00:53:32.000 What'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.

00:53:42.000 We 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.

00:53:54.000 That's just incredibly tragic.

00:53:56.000 And that should really be addressed.

00:53:58.000 And so closing schools, I think, is a total and complete mistake.

00:54:01.000 And I think it's hyper-political.

00:54:03.000 I think that this is societal and cultural waterboarding.

00:54:06.000 I think that they want to keep us under the water until we tap out and say, no more.

00:54:09.000 We're going to elect somebody on the other side that's going to get us out of this.

00:54:13.000 And it's actually really incredibly demonic what has happened in our country.

00:54:17.000 And 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.

00:54:27.000 And I think that that is so incredibly backwards and awful.

00:54:30.000 Where 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.

00:54:42.000 I mean, there's just no other reason to do that.

00:54:44.000 There isn't.

00:54:45.000 Do you think anyone watches that and they think they get excited?

00:54:47.000 It's like, of course not.

00:54:50.000 It's a propaganda campaign to get people deflated.

00:54:52.000 What do I think is going to happen?

00:54:53.000 I think a lot of schools are not going to open.

00:54:55.000 If 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.

00:55:05.000 I don't know. 0.93

00:55:06.000 You guys can choose whatever you want to do, but I think that is a ridiculous scam and a ripoff. 0.94

00:55:11.000 I would get the heck out of that school and go find something worth my money. 0.91

00:55:14.000 But I'm not telling you what to do.

00:55:15.000 I'm saying what I would do, two different things.

00:55:17.000 Because I tend to be a little bit more, let's just say, individually bold.

00:55:23.000 So yeah, look, it's just so troubling to me because I know so many of you, a lot of you guys are going into debt to go to college.

00:55:30.000 A lot of you guys are borrowing money.

00:55:31.000 A lot of you guys are really leveraging your future on the hope that college is going to deliver something meaningful for you.

00:55:38.000 And I hope that it will.

00:55:39.000 I really do.

00:55:40.000 And you guys are driven.

00:55:41.000 You 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.

00:55:46.000 So you guys are great.

00:55:47.000 So congratulations for that.

00:55:49.000 More so than some of the other people.

00:55:52.000 And 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.

00:56:02.000 And so because of that, a lot of the Democrat ballot harvesting tactics are actually going to be stunted if campuses aren't open.

00:56:08.000 How are they going to find everyone's ballots to go collect in some of these campuses in the key battleground states, right?

00:56:13.000 Same-day voting and on-campus voting.

00:56:15.000 So Democrats are actually going to be met with a challenge how they shut down the campuses.

00:56:18.000 They lose a huge potential voting constituency.

00:56:22.000 And I think it's both both ways.

00:56:23.000 I actually think Trump is going to do better with younger voters than people think.

00:56:26.000 And that's just my own opinion.

00:56:28.000 But I actually think the Trump people that are young are actually going to vote whether they're at home or not.

00:56:32.000 I actually think that we're motivated enough that we're going to vote.

00:56:34.000 So 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.

00:56:40.000 So go figure that one out.

00:56:42.000 I think the Democrats are actually going to realize in late October, again, I'm saying this personally, not on behalf of Turning Point.

00:56:47.000 I 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.

00:56:55.000 And they're going to realize, like, how do we find all these people?

00:56:57.000 And they're super apathetic and they're smoking weed at home and like we can't get them to do anything.

00:57:01.000 And like the whole brilliance for them is same-day voting and driving people to the polls, all that.

00:57:07.000 The last couple days before an election is the college campus, everyone is so geographically clustered together.

00:57:13.000 You guys have seen it happen.

00:57:14.000 Anyone in Texas, I don't go to school in Texas.

00:57:16.000 No, yeah, you saw what they did for Robert Francis O'Rourke in 2018.

00:57:19.000 I mean, on-campus voting was insane.

00:57:21.000 I saw it happen myself.

00:57:22.000 I 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.

00:57:29.000 I can't imagine how that doesn't help them.

00:57:33.000 How that, let me phrase it properly.

00:57:35.000 I can't imagine how this is a good thing for them.

00:57:37.000 That's probably a better way to word it.

00:57:38.000 But campuses being closed in that way.

00:57:40.000 Seriously.

00:57:41.000 And so I don't think they're actually gaming this thing out correctly.

00:57:44.000 I don't.

00:57:46.000 And so keep a close eye on that.

00:57:48.000 Number two, some political news.

00:57:51.000 Republican voter registration is outpacing Democrat voter registration in almost every key battleground state, which is a very good thing.

00:58:02.000 Again, I'm speaking politically here, so it's personal.

00:58:05.000 I have to do these disclaimers or else whatever.

00:58:07.000 You guys know.

00:58:08.000 Your life will be destroyed.

00:58:09.000 They'll put you in prison and all that sort of stuff.

00:58:11.000 So 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.

00:58:27.000 But 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.

00:58:34.000 I 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.

00:58:44.000 Even 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.

00:58:55.000 And 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.

00:59:06.000 And that's kind of a challenge at times for Republicans to be able to do that.

00:59:10.000 But look, the cultural side of this, the left really has, I think, they've gone far too belligerent and far too aggressive.

00:59:16.000 And I think that it's really interesting.

00:59:18.000 I 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.

00:59:31.000 You see, usually when you announce your VP, it's going to be a lift for you.

00:59:34.000 And I think he knows whomever he announces, it's going to make his entire campaign far more attackable.

00:59:40.000 And since he is mentally incapacitated to be president of the United States, it actually becomes a referendum.

00:59:47.000 Yeah, it's true.

00:59:50.000 It actually then becomes a referendum on the vice president more so than the president.

00:59:57.000 People say, well, I can't wait for the debates.

00:59:59.000 If I was Biden, I wouldn't debate.

01:00:00.000 I wouldn't.

01:00:02.000 And he might not.

01:00:04.000 And if he does, our numbers will go up further.

01:00:07.000 Vote 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.

01:00:16.000 But 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.

01:00:37.000 Whomever 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.

01:00:45.000 I might not like the tweets and the tone, but that is not the country that I'm comfortable living in.

01:00:50.000 And all of a sudden, it becomes a real referendum on decency and reason and civil society and law and order and a stable economy.

01:00:57.000 And I think the president's biggest challenge going into early September is kind of winning the COVID primary in August.

01:01:04.000 That's his biggest political challenge.

01:01:06.000 He has to demonstrate, whether through hydroxychloroquine or whatever it is, that there is some sort of treatment that is working.

01:01:11.000 Blood plasma is a great idea and more people are doing it.

01:01:14.000 But that is a huge concern for people that are over the age of 40.

01:01:18.000 And 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.

01:01:24.000 But 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.

01:01:34.000 And no one else is going to tell you that, right?

01:01:35.000 People say, oh, Donald Trump is down 18 points.

01:01:37.000 So I read the article this morning.

01:01:38.000 Donald Trump's down 18 points.

01:01:40.000 Well, yeah, in a national poll.

01:01:41.000 I mean, who cares about national polls, right?

01:01:43.000 New York and California, it doesn't matter how many times they vote against him.

01:01:47.000 We got it.

01:01:48.000 He's going to get those electoral votes.

01:01:50.000 But 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.

01:02:02.000 People are like, oh, Biden's nice.

01:02:03.000 He's all this. 0.95

01:02:03.000 So 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. 0.95

01:02:10.000 That's only going to go up.

01:02:11.000 It's not going to go down, right?

01:02:13.000 More and more people are going to believe that the Biden presidency is going to be more radical, not moderate, right?

01:02:18.000 So that's going to go in that direction.

01:02:20.000 And only more people are going to believe that Donald Trump is suited for another four years.

01:02:24.000 That's going to go up.

01:02:25.000 Those are three trends, none of which actually favor the opposition.

01:02:30.000 The question is this.

01:02:31.000 I think they've maxed out their Trump hatred vote.

01:02:34.000 I do.

01:02:35.000 I don't think that's going to grow any further.

01:02:37.000 So their pathological hatred of the president is real.

01:02:40.000 There's people that believe in it.

01:02:41.000 That's fine.

01:02:42.000 I don't think that pie is going to increase.

01:02:43.000 I think they're actually at a moment where they've hit the apex.

01:02:46.000 And so once they're there, they're actually freaking out.

01:02:48.000 That'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.

01:02:57.000 I think that's actually going to work in our favor.

01:02:59.000 Okay, next question.

01:03:00.000 Thank you.

01:03:05.000 Okay, this is another online question.

01:03:07.000 David Kirker asks, in these troubling times, what do you think about the Patriot Act?

01:03:13.000 Should it be repealed?

01:03:14.000 Why or why not?

01:03:15.000 Yeah, that's a really good question.

01:03:16.000 Wow.

01:03:17.000 I always hear the best questions from our activists because you guys actually care about policies.

01:03:21.000 I speak at other places.

01:03:22.000 They're like, now, are taxes good or are they bad?

01:03:28.000 So it's refreshing.

01:03:30.000 Refreshing to be around this.

01:03:31.000 Yeah, the Patriot Act, I generally am against government domestic surveillance of citizens.

01:03:36.000 In fact, I've become to really, I hate centralized power more and more than ever before.

01:03:41.000 I hate centralized power at Google.

01:03:43.000 I hate centralized power at the tech companies.

01:03:45.000 I hate centralized power at the National Security Agency.

01:03:47.000 So yeah, I think I don't agree with him on everything.

01:03:50.000 I agree with him on most things, probably more than any other senator.

01:03:50.000 He's a dear friend.

01:03:53.000 I 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.

01:04:04.000 They used it against the entire Trump campaign, and they'll use it against all of us too.

01:04:08.000 And that's not outlandish to say.

01:04:10.000 Now, some people say, well, it's helped catch terrorists and all that.

01:04:13.000 Just give me some evidence of that.

01:04:13.000 That's fine.

01:04:15.000 And I've never seen that provided.

01:04:16.000 Now, 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.

01:04:23.000 It's all these sorts of things.

01:04:24.000 We've arrested all these terrorists.

01:04:25.000 That's fine.

01:04:26.000 I don't even need to know names.

01:04:27.000 I just need to know numbers and like maybe time spans of how many terrorists have actually been arrested because of the Patriot Act.

01:04:32.000 Maybe that would help inform my argument better, right?

01:04:34.000 Like let me know some maybe 15 terrorist attacks have been thwarted because of it.

01:04:39.000 That's never been provided.

01:04:40.000 In fact, it's only been kind of a boogeyman out there.

01:04:43.000 Like, oh, yeah, it's helped prevent really okay.

01:04:46.000 It's fine if it's true.

01:04:47.000 I mean, that would help actually inform myself better.

01:04:50.000 But 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.

01:04:57.000 So next question.

01:04:59.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:05:00.000 So I am a history education major.

01:05:03.000 And I recently have been asking myself, is it even worth it?

01:05:06.000 Because we just see people trying to take down our history.

01:05:10.000 Thomas Jefferson is my favorite founding father.

01:05:11.000 So he's being slandered like crazy.

01:05:13.000 So 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.

01:05:23.000 So what school do you go to?

01:05:27.000 Illinois State.

01:05:28.000 Yeah, normal, Illinois.

01:05:30.000 Anything but normal.

01:05:31.000 Bloomington normal.

01:05:33.000 I know Illinois State really well.

01:05:34.000 So yeah, look, I wouldn't even give him that big of an inch, to be honest with you.

01:05:39.000 I wouldn't even, I would say, you know, like for, let's take Thomas Jefferson, for example, right?

01:05:44.000 I mean, it's pretty well documented that he was a flawed individual.

01:05:46.000 It's also equally well documented.

01:05:48.000 He was the first president to abolish incoming slaves coming into our country in 1807.

01:05:53.000 It's pretty well documented that, obviously, he did own slaves.

01:05:56.000 He also introduced a bill to abolish slavery in his home state in the 1780s.

01:06:01.000 So my piece of advice for you guys is when these historical figures pop up, know your stuff, obviously.

01:06:07.000 But don't go out of your way to try to insult these incredible Titans that built our civilization.

01:06:12.000 I think it should be fair, right?

01:06:13.000 I'm not saying you should avoid the negative.

01:06:15.000 You could probably say, yeah, of course, of course he did think, but I actually think the positives way outweigh the negatives.

01:06:19.000 Like, it's not even close.

01:06:20.000 I mean, people are saying now George Washington is the worst person ever.

01:06:24.000 I mean, the entire civilization was built because of him, right?

01:06:27.000 So it's either you like the civilization or you don't.

01:06:29.000 I'm going to judge him based on what has happened since George Washington.

01:06:33.000 And it's like the greatest thing ever to happen since Jesus Christ, okay?

01:06:36.000 So, 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.

01:06:43.000 And so that's one piece of advice on that.

01:06:45.000 And to answer your question, whether or not it's worth it, you know the answer to that.

01:06:49.000 I 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.

01:06:58.000 Does that make sense?

01:07:00.000 And so that would be one piece of advice to you.

01:07:02.000 But also, when we talk about the historical figures, understand that those statues were probably put up for a pretty good reason.

01:07:08.000 That's a good thing that I've learned, actually.

01:07:10.000 I'm not saying every single Confederate statue came was like the greatest person ever.

01:07:13.000 That's not what I'm saying.

01:07:15.000 My ancestors literally fought in the United States Civil War for the Union side.

01:07:18.000 So I'm not exactly, you know, I don't actually support taking down these statues in the Confederacy.

01:07:22.000 I 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.

01:07:30.000 And 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.

01:07:38.000 And I also think it's incredibly insulting to the American South. 1.00

01:07:40.000 It's basically just us putting our fingers into Southerners saying, like, you're stupid. 1.00

01:07:45.000 And if any of you that grew up in suburban Chicago, I was taught this. 1.00

01:07:49.000 Anyone south of the Mason-Dixon line that has a Southern accent, I was taught was stupid growing up. 1.00

01:07:53.000 If you think about it, a lot of the films, a lot of the movies was always portraying Southerners as really dumb. 0.99

01:08:00.000 And 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. 0.94

01:08:11.000 And these are great states.

01:08:12.000 And 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.

01:08:19.000 I just think that's, I just think it's incredibly disingenuous.

01:08:22.000 And I also think let the local communities do it themselves if they so choose, but why now?

01:08:25.000 I think that's another question is why now?

01:08:28.000 What 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?

01:08:36.000 So anyway, that's my question about history.

01:08:36.000 I don't think so.

01:08:38.000 I'm going to go a little longer than another 10 minutes because I'm going to push the boundary.

01:08:41.000 But thank you.

01:08:42.000 Appreciate it.

01:08:43.000 So if that's okay with you guys.

01:08:49.000 Thank you, Charlie, for taking my question.

01:08:51.000 My 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?

01:09:00.000 Yeah, wow.

01:09:02.000 The fact that people are afraid to show pride in their country is a pretty telling and troubling thing, isn't it?

01:09:08.000 I guess my first question is: well, why are you afraid?

01:09:10.000 What are you afraid of?

01:09:11.000 Oh, no, personally, no.

01:09:13.000 No, no, I know that.

01:09:13.000 Not you.

01:09:14.000 I'm asking more rhetorically.

01:09:17.000 I'm not putting you on the spot, trust me.

01:09:19.000 I 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.

01:09:30.000 You 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.

01:09:41.000 I think, first of all, those of us that love our country, we can't give any more terrain.

01:09:45.000 That's why the statue thing, we're not giving another in.

01:09:49.000 And 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.

01:09:59.000 Like, hold on a sec.

01:10:01.000 Like, we live in the greatest country ever to exist.

01:10:03.000 I mean, own it, man.

01:10:04.000 I mean, this country was, it's so improbable this thing even exists.

01:10:09.000 It's even less improbable that it actually succeeded around foundational first freedoms.

01:10:13.000 It was the first country to that date that was actually pondered upon and not founded accidentally.

01:10:19.000 Very important point.

01:10:20.000 That most of human history was almost always one civilization taking over land from another and they were just imposing their traditions.

01:10:26.000 Where this was something completely new, where they just said, stop the clock.

01:10:31.000 What do we believe in?

01:10:33.000 That never happened before, ever.

01:10:35.000 Usually it was like, oh, we're related to you. 0.67

01:10:37.000 Let's go take over that land and we're going to put on your traditions.

01:10:39.000 Rome was basically an accident.

01:10:41.000 Greece was an accident. 0.75

01:10:42.000 I 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?

01:10:49.000 And the smartest people of their time, the most well-bred people of their time, started to have these kind of discussions.

01:10:55.000 And the discussions were pretty incredible, where they said, well, we believe in something that has really never been tried before.

01:11:00.000 John Locke articulated it, and Thomas Jefferson beautifully wrote it in the Declaration of Independence.

01:11:06.000 And they said, we actually believe that human beings are meant to flourish free of government intrusion and tyranny.

01:11:12.000 We 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.

01:11:23.000 And so then they started this thing no different than just starting something ex nilio in a biblical analogy out of nothing.

01:11:29.000 They breathed it into existence.

01:11:31.000 That'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?

01:11:39.000 They can't make their bed, let alone found a country, okay?

01:11:43.000 And so just think of the boldness it takes to start something new.

01:11:49.000 It was an outgrowth out of the colonies before, but it was something completely, it was so different.

01:11:52.000 It was so new.

01:11:53.000 It was so transformational.

01:11:54.000 Then they fought for it.

01:11:56.000 And it was never a question of whether or not slavery was going to be abolished.

01:11:59.000 It was always a question of how they were going to do it.

01:12:02.000 In 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.

01:12:17.000 I think it was December 4th.

01:12:18.000 20 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.

01:12:32.000 Wow, the year after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Vermont abolished slavery in year 1777.

01:12:41.000 Before we were even a sovereign country, we were already abolishing slavery because they were inspired by the Declaration of Independence.

01:12:47.000 So your questions about anti-Americanism, I have a belief in this.

01:12:51.000 Anti-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.

01:12:59.000 And they deflect all of that inner hatred, misery onto the country around them.

01:13:04.000 These are unhappy people that want the rest of the country to be unhappy alongside of them.

01:13:09.000 You see, miserable people can do incredible damage to a society if they act pathologically.

01:13:14.000 People 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.

01:13:23.000 It's probably not on your radar.

01:13:25.000 But imagine how much nihilism and how much hopelessness it takes to all of a sudden want to destroy the country.

01:13:31.000 So to answer your question, it's this very, very dangerous combination.

01:13:36.000 You 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.

01:13:58.000 It's called white guilt, and it's incredibly dangerous, and it is evil.

01:14:02.000 It is.

01:14:03.000 Because, unless you did something personally, if you own slaves, go check yourself into prison, okay? 0.52

01:14:08.000 Right now, if you support slavery, you're awful, okay?

01:14:12.000 But if you just happen to look like someone who once owned slaves, well, then you didn't do anything wrong.

01:14:17.000 You're your own individual human being.

01:14:19.000 Like, that wasn't you.

01:14:20.000 And people are like, oh, you're related to that person.

01:14:22.000 Okay, that's what we do now.

01:14:23.000 We do blood guilt, really?

01:14:24.000 Okay.

01:14:25.000 Well, then the entire Democrat Party should just be abolished under blood guilt, I guess.

01:14:28.000 I mean, I mean, so it's incredibly dangerous with that.

01:14:37.000 And it's also, it's accelerating because when people lose faith in a system, which is what's happening, it could spread like a virus.

01:14:47.000 So, all right, next one.

01:14:51.000 Hey, Charlie, appreciate the time.

01:14:53.000 You touched on it a little bit, but I was just curious about the vote by mail legislation that's being passed right now. 0.96

01:15:00.000 Take California, some traditionally wed seats have been flipped by ballot harvesting.

01:15:05.000 So, what do you, kind of, this is two-part, but it goes hand in hand.

01:15:09.000 What do you think the odds of this legislation being passed is going to be?

01:15:13.000 And then also, just how destructive is it?

01:15:16.000 Yeah, I think it's, I mean, in California, they've already pretty much decreed that it's going to happen.

01:15:20.000 It's incredibly destructive.

01:15:21.000 And a lot of the states that are trying to do it, they shouldn't.

01:15:24.000 And look, I know people that have gotten multiple ballots.

01:15:26.000 I know people that move, they pass away, they still get ballots.

01:15:30.000 And entrusting our entire political system in the hands of the U.S. Postal Service is a pretty astonishingly stupid thing to do. 0.99

01:15:37.000 And it's a tactic. 1.00

01:15:38.000 The left knows exactly what they can do and how they can do it.

01:15:41.000 And here's something that I just can't understand.

01:15:43.000 If you can go show up for a funeral for John Lewis, why can't you go vote?

01:15:47.000 That's what I can't understand.

01:15:47.000 That's a really strange thing.

01:15:51.000 I 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?

01:16:03.000 Very perplexing to me.

01:16:04.000 So, 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%.

01:16:11.000 It's always been kind of the thought process.

01:16:13.000 And so, I actually don't talk about this publicly enough, but I was an election judge growing up.

01:16:18.000 A lot of you guys know what election judges are.

01:16:20.000 I encourage you to do that in Illinois, one of the most corrupt states in the country.

01:16:23.000 And 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.

01:16:30.000 And so, it was really an interesting experience.

01:16:32.000 I did it once, twice actually, and I saw how it worked.

01:16:36.000 People 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.

01:16:43.000 You 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.

01:16:50.000 And 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.

01:16:57.000 And it was a center-right community, I could tell that.

01:16:59.000 So, I guessed in my head, like, yeah, Romney will get about 68% of the vote.

01:17:03.000 It 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.

01:17:10.000 And so, then, mind you, this was its own separate domiciled election voting area, right?

01:17:15.000 It was its own perfect, it was its own area.

01:17:17.000 And so, I saw that like 147 people voted.

01:17:19.000 I said, Okay, 147.

01:17:20.000 I go back home later that night.

01:17:22.000 I go to the Chicago Tribune website, and I got really curious.

01:17:24.000 I said, Let me go look up that precinct and see how many people voted.

01:17:28.000 And I saw 147 people voted, and I had faith in the system.

01:17:31.000 I was like, Wow, that's really cool.

01:17:32.000 So, 147 people showed up, 147 votes reported.

01:17:35.000 I saw it myself.

01:17:36.000 I was a citizen election judge.

01:17:38.000 Like, okay, I can see how that works.

01:17:40.000 There's no such system that exists like that with vote by mail.

01:17:43.000 It doesn't.

01:17:44.000 It does not exist.

01:17:45.000 You send the ballot, and there is no one that's overseeing it.

01:17:47.000 There's no citizen reporting, there's no oversight, you send it, you do not know what happens.

01:17:51.000 And so, the decentralized idea of elections actually worked really well.

01:17:55.000 There'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.

01:18:03.000 But 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.

01:18:12.000 If we get vote by mail, forget it.

01:18:13.000 They are going to cheat their way to victory.

01:18:15.000 So, next question.

01:18:16.000 Thank you.

01:18:18.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:18:19.000 My name is Lacey, and I'm from Bington University.

01:18:21.000 In the current political climate, we see American flags being desecrated and burned.

01:18:26.000 Conservatives seem divided on whether burning the American flag is a form of free speech.

01:18:32.000 Some people are saying that we can bring patriotism and unity back by proposing an amendment to the Constitution to make it legal.

01:18:38.000 So, my question is: should burning the American flag be protected by the First Amendment?

01:18:42.000 Yeah, I've done a lot of thinking about this.

01:18:44.000 Not all conservatives agree with this, but I'm a free speech absolutist, and so I really am.

01:18:49.000 And boy, do I think that someone should be arrested for burning the flag?

01:18:53.000 I actually don't.

01:18:54.000 And it's a hard thing for me to say.

01:18:56.000 And of course, you guys know I don't support it.

01:18:58.000 I think it's outrageous and it's immoral. 0.97

01:18:59.000 But 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.

01:19:13.000 And 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.

01:19:22.000 And so I actually think that it works against them, though.

01:19:24.000 I actually think that the more flag burning there is, the more that they actually lose public opinion.

01:19:30.000 And so I don't say that lightly.

01:19:33.000 And not all conservatives agree with me.

01:19:34.000 They think that it should be protected.

01:19:35.000 It's so special.

01:19:36.000 It's so sacred and all that.

01:19:38.000 I'm not sure I see it.

01:19:39.000 Of 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.

01:19:50.000 And 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.

01:20:03.000 And 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?

01:20:10.000 Okay?

01:20:11.000 That's the bigger question.

01:20:12.000 The question is because we've raised a country that hates our country.

01:20:16.000 So, I mean, it should be socially unacceptable to go burn the flag.

01:20:20.000 And I think that's a much more important cultural conversation than it is a political or legal one.

01:20:24.000 Even though I think it is reprehensible and disgusting when someone burns the American flag.

01:20:29.000 So thank you for the question.

01:20:36.000 Recently, I've been attacked for opposing Black Lives Matter.

01:20:36.000 Hello, Charlie.

01:20:39.000 And you say we're going to be subject to comments and name calling from classmates and members of our student body.

01:20:45.000 That's something we unfortunately would just have to deal with.

01:20:48.000 However, when it comes to attacks and rude comments toward me as a student for my school administration, what should we do?

01:20:55.000 How 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?

01:21:03.000 What should I do in response to my administration targeting me as a conservative student?

01:21:08.000 What school?

01:21:09.000 I'm in a private high school in Flavinside of Peronto.

01:21:12.000 Okay.

01:21:12.000 Geez.

01:21:13.000 Yeah, I mean, look, I would get your parents very involved in that.

01:21:16.000 My goodness.

01:21:16.000 I mean, that is good.

01:21:18.000 I mean, that is Gestapo-style tactics.

01:21:20.000 I'm sure all of you guys have felt something like that.

01:21:23.000 When it's the administration and their power source, that's really a tough thing.

01:21:27.000 I 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.

01:21:40.000 I 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.

01:21:50.000 And they printed it out.

01:21:52.000 Yeah.

01:21:55.000 Yeah, 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.

01:22:01.000 And that's what happens when you send your kids off to these schools.

01:22:04.000 And it just makes me sick to my stomach that some conservative donors keep on giving money to these schools.

01:22:08.000 Like, oh, yeah, let me give money so that conservatives can keep on spying, you know, our conservatives can be spied on every single year.

01:22:14.000 It's outrageous.

01:22:15.000 I don't have a really good piece of applicable advice, but I'll give you some general advice.

01:22:20.000 You will learn more about how tyrants operate through this exercise than anything else.

01:22:25.000 And when any of you have tyranny that comes across your radar screen, confront it head on and do not give an inch.

01:22:32.000 Look clearly in their eyes and speak confidently.

01:22:35.000 And do not be afraid to call them out for the bullies and the megalomaniacs that they are because they're not used to that.

01:22:42.000 You guys all know this when dealing with bullies on, you know, in your upbringing.

01:22:45.000 The number one thing that those people hate is confrontation.

01:22:48.000 They're actually non-confrontational people.

01:22:50.000 And so bring it straight to them directly, clearly.

01:22:53.000 Get your words right.

01:22:54.000 And they will not know how to process that.

01:22:57.000 But what's happening to you is evil, make no mistake.

01:22:59.000 And that's really what's happening as a fight right now of darkness versus light.

01:23:03.000 That's a whole different conversation at a different time.

01:23:05.000 But 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.

01:23:13.000 It just is.

01:23:13.000 There's no other way to put it.

01:23:14.000 And that you might be penalized for it.

01:23:16.000 So hold the line.

01:23:17.000 We have your back.

01:23:18.000 You have lots of new friends here.

01:23:19.000 And thank you for being here.

01:23:20.000 Thank you.

01:23:21.000 Thank you.

01:23:24.000 Last question?

01:23:26.000 Yes, this would be the last question.

01:23:27.000 Cool.

01:23:29.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:23:30.000 My name is Maria.

01:23:31.000 I'm from Cuba, and I am recently starting a Trading Point USA chapter in my high school.

01:23:38.000 Thank you for being here.

01:23:39.000 Thank you.

01:23:40.000 About BLM and how it has become a trend within Generation Z and people our age.

01:23:49.000 I 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.

01:24:02.000 So 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.

01:24:28.000 So what is your advice for my approach?

01:24:31.000 Yeah, so I would take a different tact than I did, and I think you're doing the right thing.

01:24:35.000 So you guys don't have to be as aggressive as I am with this stuff, trust me, okay?

01:24:40.000 I do that to give you guys cover fire, okay?

01:24:42.000 Seriously, I do that so I can say things that you guys don't, you can't always say, because there's a huge cost.

01:24:47.000 And, you know, share my stuff, all that, and just say, oh, it's Charlie saying it.

01:24:50.000 Go after him.

01:24:51.000 It's fine.

01:24:51.000 Like, what are they going to do?

01:24:52.000 I get, seriously, I do that to help protect you guys and put a shield so you guys can live hopefully decent lives.

01:24:59.000 So I think your approach is correct.

01:25:06.000 Absolutely correct.

01:25:07.000 It's a persuasive one where you look at people not as an enemy, but as the opportunity.

01:25:12.000 I think that's a really good approach.

01:25:14.000 And 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.

01:25:29.000 And 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?

01:25:42.000 And they'll say, oh, no, then why are we talking about it so much? 0.93

01:25:46.000 And they'll say, well, it's because black people are doing worse than white people. 0.98

01:25:51.000 Say, is it because of their race or other reasons? 0.98

01:25:54.000 And if they say it's because of their race, well, then they're a eugenicist, and that ends that conversation, right?

01:25:58.000 Or 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.

01:26:18.000 And 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. 0.93

01:26:25.000 I mean, these are the most racist people on the planet. 0.89

01:26:28.000 I 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. 0.97

01:26:48.000 And this was the Smithsonian Black History Museum.

01:26:50.000 If you guys didn't check it out, you can check it out.

01:26:53.000 Funded by our taxpayer dollars.

01:26:55.000 And so I just have a very simple question for them, which is, how is that any different?

01:27:01.000 Any different at all than what somebody in the 1930s Germany would have said about white people?

01:27:08.000 How is that any different? 0.66

01:27:10.000 Where somehow what works is an attribute of a skin color.

01:27:14.000 It's not.

01:27:15.000 It'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.

01:27:26.000 I actually want to live in a post-racial America.

01:27:28.000 I grew up in that America. 0.97

01:27:30.000 I mean, I grew up in an America where my high school, Wheeling High School, was 53% Hispanic.

01:27:36.000 I was the minority as the white kid, but we didn't look at our differences.

01:27:39.000 We just got along and we lived our life. 1.00

01:27:41.000 And I read this ridiculous pile of garbage recently, this article, why all the black kids sit together at the cafeteria. 1.00

01:27:48.000 And she wrote a book or something. 1.00

01:27:49.000 I said, what high school are you talking about?

01:27:51.000 My high school wasn't that way.

01:27:53.000 I mean, maybe you want that.

01:27:55.000 And understand the left wants a very racist society.

01:27:58.000 They do.

01:27:58.000 They want black-only math classes, which exist on campuses all across the country.

01:28:03.000 They want black-only dormitories. 0.56

01:28:04.000 I don't know if any of you guys go to any of those schools that have those. 0.97

01:28:07.000 Or they want black-only learning centers.

01:28:10.000 Or they want white people to take knees because of everything they've done wrong, even though they individually did nothing wrong at all. 0.98

01:28:17.000 So they themselves have become the very same demon that they say they want to slay. 0.88

01:28:22.000 And so look at them as the opportunity wherever you want.

01:28:25.000 And I encourage you to do that.

01:28:26.000 And I think that we should be more unafraid if we have conservatives.

01:28:30.000 And we do this light.

01:28:32.000 We're very careful about this because we want to be decent, we want to be recent.

01:28:34.000 I get all that.

01:28:35.000 But I think we should be unafraid to call these people out for what they really are.

01:28:38.000 And 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.

01:28:46.000 And I called her a racist on air, and she didn't know what to do.

01:28:49.000 She'd never been called that before.

01:28:50.000 She's like, well, don't you know all my black friends? 1.00

01:28:52.000 I'm like, ah, now you know what it's like to be called a racist, you stupid lunatic. 1.00

01:28:56.000 Like, we get called it every single day. 1.00

01:28:59.000 And so she had no comfortable response because we have to deal with it all the time, which is untrue and wrong.

01:29:07.000 But that's really what they've become.

01:29:08.000 I don't say that lightly.

01:29:09.000 I don't.

01:29:10.000 And we also have to understand that racism can happen in all forms.

01:29:13.000 It could be black people against white people, Hispanic people against black people, black people against Hispanic people, white people against black people.

01:29:18.000 That racism is not a power struggle. 0.60

01:29:21.000 That's what they try to make it seem.

01:29:22.000 And that's really what it is.

01:29:23.000 They say, well, racism about power.

01:29:25.000 Like, what are you talking about?

01:29:26.000 Racism 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.

01:29:34.000 It has nothing to do with power at all.

01:29:37.000 I mean, it has something to do with the discrimination just based on immutable characteristics.

01:29:42.000 And so that's my piece of advice for you.

01:29:43.000 Final point, and I know we've got to move on.

01:29:45.000 We've been a little delayed.

01:29:47.000 A couple takeaways.

01:29:47.000 Number one, stand up to anyone in your life that uses a position of strength to exploit the weak.

01:29:56.000 That's called tyranny.

01:29:58.000 So think in your life.

01:30:00.000 It can be an employer, it could be a university president, whatever it is.

01:30:03.000 And all it takes for that to metastasize and grow is for you to be complicit with that.

01:30:10.000 Okay?

01:30:10.000 So here's the bigger point with that, which is if we're looking...

01:30:14.000 The 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.

01:30:25.000 Lies that are not confronted become popular opinion very quickly.

01:30:29.000 So that's what happens when we don't hold the line.

01:30:31.000 So in your little sphere of influence, think to yourself, who is a tyrant that really needs to be called out, right?

01:30:38.000 Who is a tyrant where you have to look clearly in their eyes and say, you're done.

01:30:45.000 What you are doing is immoral, and I'm not going to tolerate it anymore.

01:30:49.000 And 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.

01:30:56.000 And you know exactly what I'm talking about.

01:30:57.000 It could be a teacher, a professor.

01:30:58.000 It could be, God forbid, a family member, right, that is doing this to you.

01:31:02.000 And 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.

01:31:14.000 And by the way, do not discount the one comment, one comment mic drop.

01:31:19.000 Don't discount this.

01:31:20.000 Facebook and Instagram.

01:31:22.000 Leave one fire comment, turn notifications off, and get out and never go back.

01:31:26.000 It'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?

01:31:35.000 And you revisit in two weeks and it has like 2,000 likes.

01:31:38.000 You're like, wow, I made a lot of people mad.

01:31:39.000 Like, that was awesome.

01:31:41.000 And the point is this, is that all of you have a moral obligation to continue to fight.

01:31:47.000 So two things.

01:31:48.000 You 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.

01:31:55.000 As you saw through Turning Point Action, host the president.

01:31:57.000 We hosted the president three times in one calendar year, and that's incredible.

01:32:01.000 And that just goes to show the strength of what you're involved in here at Turning Point USA.

01:32:05.000 You 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.

01:32:11.000 I actually do read those emails, believe it or not.

01:32:13.000 I say that on my podcast a lot, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:32:16.000 You guys can do that.

01:32:17.000 And 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.

01:32:24.000 You understand that, right?

01:32:25.000 This is not supposed to happen.

01:32:27.000 Like, it's not supposed to be that young people that love their country rise up and say no more.

01:32:33.000 In fact, the fact that we had 3,400 young people for the president, you didn't see much media about that, right?

01:32:40.000 At all.

01:32:41.000 I mean, it's incredible.

01:32:42.000 3,400 people.

01:32:44.000 Yeah, well, okay.

01:32:46.000 3,400 young people like that.

01:32:49.000 And just even what's happening here, it's really something special.

01:32:52.000 So 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.

01:33:04.000 So multiply yourself, find more people like yourself.

01:33:08.000 Get to know as many people in this room as you possibly can.

01:33:11.000 Stand very firm and hold the line.

01:33:13.000 It will come at a cost, but it's worth it.

01:33:16.000 And you will be amazed at how successful you actually are.

01:33:19.000 And we have your back here at Turning Point every day, every single day, right?

01:33:23.000 I'll keep on taking the body blows personally, which is whatever, turning point and otherwise, right?

01:33:28.000 But this is a standing army that I think is America's last best hope.

01:33:33.000 I really do.

01:33:33.000 I've lost faith in so many things.

01:33:35.000 There'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.

01:33:42.000 All right.

01:33:43.000 Thank you guys so much.

01:33:44.000 It's been awesome.

01:33:46.000 What a great conversation that was with the future of our country.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - August 03, 2020

Ask Charlie Anything 28: Burning Flags, BLM Inc., and Saving America From The Culturally Destructive Left

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