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00:00:54.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:02:08.000The first question that we have here, and it just seems as if there's hundreds of these, I have been mentioning that we are about to go on tour.
00:02:17.000We are going on the Turning Point USA Gen Free tour on college campuses across the country.
00:02:24.000And a lot of people say, Charlie, how can I see you live and in person?
00:02:29.000Well, the best way to do that is go to tpusa.com slash gen free.
00:02:36.000I love being on the ground, discussing ideas, getting the backlash, seeing the opposition, and maybe finding some form of clarity, not necessarily agreement.
00:02:47.000This is something that Dennis Prager talks about quite often, that I prefer clarity over agreement.
00:02:53.000And that is what we try to do on these college campuses.
00:02:55.000So if anyone is interested and for anyone that supports us at charliekirk.com slash support and you want to come to one of our events, I will make sure you get in and get VIP seating.
00:03:19.000Turning Point USA is back on campus, tpusa.com slash gen free.
00:03:25.000And people are asking, they say, Charlie, what are you talking about at these events?
00:03:28.000I'm really going to go after critical race theory.
00:03:31.000At least that's what I'm going to do in the first event.
00:03:32.000We'll see what happens in the second and the third.
00:03:34.000But if I kind of take a overview of what I believe to be the most widespread and destructive ideas in our universities and in our high schools, the lack of understanding of what critical race theory actually is is truly an existential threat to our country.
00:03:55.000I'm going to be talking about why America is the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:03:59.000We're going to go after the 1619 project.
00:04:01.000We're going to have all sorts of fun, and you'll also be able to find it live streamed on our YouTube.
00:04:06.000These campus tours have been seen hundreds of millions of times.
00:04:11.000If you count the clips, you count the podcasting, you count the live streams over the last couple of years.
00:04:16.000It's a very important, I would say, cultural contribution to our country.
00:04:22.000So check it out, tpusa.com/slash genfree.
00:04:27.000Samantha, hey, Charlie, I will be able to vote for the first time in the next presidential election.
00:04:31.000Do you think there will be just as much or more voter fraud in 2024 election?
00:04:36.000Will my vote actually count, Samantha?
00:04:38.000It all depends on Republican legislators.
00:04:42.000It depends on whether Brian Kemp, Doug Ducey, and the Republican legislators in Arizona and Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin decide to reform their elections.
00:04:53.000We've talked about this quite a lot, how Florida had broken elections before Ron DeSantis came into office.
00:05:02.000In fact, Ron DeSantis, when he was running up against Andrew Gillum, and thank goodness Andrew Gillum never became governor of Florida, Miami-Dade County, Broward County were taking weeks to report their results.
00:05:16.000In fact, there were videos that were being tweeted by Senator Marco Rubio showing ballots being delivered in the middle of the night to Broward County.
00:06:58.000Republicans flipped three congressional seats.
00:07:01.000Republicans control the state House, the state Senate, and the governor's mansion, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of State.
00:07:06.000Democrats are now basically wondering, how did Florida quickly become Alabama?
00:07:12.000Well, with safe and secure elections, strong, courageous conservative leadership, and then you contrast that with the very weak Brian Kemp.
00:07:24.000One year ago, in March of 2020, as we were locking down for the Chinese coronavirus, Brian Kemp was signing a consent decree with Stacey Abrams.
00:07:35.000He was signing a settlement to a civil lawsuit that Stacey Abrams was bringing with high-priced lawyers, trying to settle the legal complaint saying that in Georgia, we will have relaxed signature verification standards.
00:07:55.000Now, Brian Kemp very well could have warned the American population about this.
00:07:59.000Brian Kemp could have said, hey, we're going to have some issues if all of a sudden more people start voting by mail.
00:08:05.000But Brian Kemp, being very weak, Brian Kemp not being a very smart person and probably being very corrupt, said nothing.
00:08:15.000In fact, he challenged people like President Trump, like myself, like this program, like our team, that would say, hey, does Georgia have its act together for mail-in balloting?
00:08:58.000And Brian Kemp could have fixed the problem.
00:09:00.000He could have called the special session of the legislature in the summer of 2020.
00:09:06.000He could have admitted that he made a problem, and we would have helped him fix it.
00:09:09.000Instead, Brian Kemp thought that hope was a strategy.
00:09:14.000He hoped everything was going to be okay.
00:09:17.000And because he's very weak and courageous people take responsibility for their actions and then they try to put forward solutions to fix those problems, we lost the state of Georgia, and that's why we have Raphael Warnock and John Ossif.
00:09:32.000So now Georgia has a chance to fix the elections.
00:09:36.000The Georgia State Senate is passing a bill that is very promising.
00:09:39.000It doesn't go far enough, but it's promising.
00:09:43.000And CNN and the Democrats are doing everything they possibly can to misrepresent this bill, saying that it's an attack on black people.
00:10:00.000Don't you know that black people are not able to get voter ID?
00:10:04.000Which, by the way, is an unbelievable comment, incredibly racist to say something like that, that we think so lowly of black people that they are unable to get a voter ID.
00:10:16.000And so to answer your question, Samantha, and congratulations, you win a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine.
00:10:20.000Do you think there will be just as much or more voter fraud in 2024 election?
00:10:25.000It is solely on the Republican legislator in Arizona and Georgia to start, then Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
00:10:38.000I've seen excuses from the people that are in power.
00:10:42.000Georgia is moving in the right direction.
00:10:43.000Arizona and Maricopa County are showing a little bit of signs of promise, but we need massive structural reforms.
00:10:50.000And HR1, which is legitimately an existential threat to our country, HR1 would do the opposite.
00:10:58.000House Resolution 1 would make universal vote by mail, register every person in the prisons, and on the Motor Vehicle Bureau site, which would include illegal aliens.
00:11:07.000Samantha, thank you so much for your question.
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00:12:49.000Well, Melissa, you went assigned a copy of the MAGA doctrine, and you are exactly the type of parent that has been missing from the landscape the last couple decades.
00:13:00.000To answer your question, it's already in Tennessee.
00:13:02.000It's at University of Tennessee, it's at many other places, and I'm sure it's in some local curriculum, but it's not as widespread as other places.
00:13:10.000Critical race theory is spreading like a virus, and it is as big a threat, if not a bigger threat, to our republic as the Chinese coronavirus.
00:13:21.000Now, critical race theory is rooted in this idea that no science, no dialogue, no individuals.
00:13:27.000Western civilization is a racist, fallow, logo-centric, white supremacist, colonialist, misogynistic, homophobic experiment.
00:13:38.000This used to be a fringe theory in the academy.
00:13:43.000This used to be something that was on the outskirts of the intelligentsia.
00:14:34.000And when people ask this question, I chuckle.
00:14:36.000I say, you should spend a weekend reading a little bit about 20th century history.
00:14:45.000Read about how dark human beings actually can become.
00:14:49.000And this goes back to the real debate that's happening in this country.
00:14:52.000Do you believe human beings are basically good?
00:14:54.000Of course, human beings are basically bad.
00:14:57.000Goodness, the creation of good people, is the exception, not the norm.
00:15:03.000And so when you're in this constant state of conflict, people then are willing to sacrifice their rights and their freedoms.
00:15:12.000If you're in a state of an emergency, you're constantly going from one crisis to the other, then this idea of freedom of speech, God-granted rights, and the social contract around the citizen being on top of the hierarchy of who's in charge, not the government, disappears.
00:15:30.000And we've saw this in the last year in the Chinese coronavirus.
00:15:33.000You could teach a class, probably at a respectable school like Hillsdale, on how the human beings act in a time of crisis.
00:15:41.000And this last year is a perfect example.
00:15:43.000This last year, hundreds of millions of people in America decided that individual liberty, human freedom, was not nearly as important as obeying the rulers, despite them being wrong about basically everything.
00:16:02.000And I talked about this in one of the previous episodes, and I encourage you guys to check it out.
00:16:06.000I posted it on my podcast feed a few days ago, which is the five lessons I learned in the year of the 15 days to slow the spread.
00:16:15.000And one of the lessons that human beings do not want to be free.
00:16:18.000You must teach the value of freedom, or else human beings simply will not want to be free.
00:16:27.000America being founded on freedom, not on slavery, makes us unique, makes us different, different than the French and different than the Spanish and different than the Italians.
00:16:39.000Most countries are founded or built around the idea of a massive social welfare state taking care of other people.
00:16:49.000This country being founded on liberty and freedom makes us unique.
00:16:53.000So when do I think critical race theory and transgender ideology will be coming to Red States?
00:16:58.000Thankfully, it's not in your local school.
00:17:00.000Every parent needs to be involved putting forward freedom of information requests, knowing your school board presidents and school board members, contacting them, and being on top of this.
00:17:10.000It truly is an existential threat to our country.
00:17:13.000And it's starting now to impact many different institutions, the military, corporations, and all of civil society.
00:17:21.000Thank you, Melissa, and I want to commend you for your courage, for what you're doing.
00:17:24.000Next question, next email, I should say.
00:17:26.000Thank you, Charlie, for calling out these coward upper-class parents that care about their own legacy more than their children themselves.
00:17:33.000It was so refreshing to hear your latest podcast about the Secret Parent Club.
00:17:37.000I am disgusted by these people because they helped create this monster and had, as you say, no wisdom to help understand that they are on the sinking ship.
00:17:45.000When the ship sinks, the first class sink along the cooks and the janitors.
00:17:58.000I come from a family of upper to middle class teachers.
00:18:01.000I was essentially kicked out of the family for my views.
00:18:03.000I went into the Marine Corps instead in 2010 and found my Christianity in a chapel on a base in San Diego.
00:18:09.000Served as an infantry soldier, and I loved the brothers I met at home and abroad.
00:18:13.000I came back home and had a child in 2016 and put myself through fire science and EMS schooling and became a firefighter and am currently serving with my department and I got a side job as a supervisor at a warehouse loading yard.
00:18:26.000Only then did my family want a part of my life for my daughter.
00:18:30.000I use everything you teach on your podcast because my leftist family and have recently turned my mom to common sense of the conservative movement.
00:20:01.000I encourage you to email it to your friends.
00:20:03.000And basically, the essence of the piece, again, is a bunch of rich parents are meeting privately because their kids are being indoctrinated.
00:20:09.000They know their kids are being indoctrinated, but they're not doing anything about it because they're afraid of the potential backlash against them.
00:20:18.000And so, to go to the question I was asked that relates to this is: why is there such a crisis of courage?
00:20:25.000So, let me tell you the good news, then I'll tell you the bad news.
00:20:29.000The good news is that this is nothing new.
00:20:34.000Every major philosopher, from Aristotle to Plato, to Aquinas to Augustine, to even C.S. Lewis to G.K. Chesterton, have wrestled with the idea of why are certain people courageous and why are certain people not.
00:20:52.000George S. Patton famously said that moral courage is the most necessary and most absent characteristic in men.
00:21:04.000Courage is something that we take for granted.
00:21:13.000The willingness to confront agony, pain, injustice, or danger.
00:21:20.000Philosophers have even said that without courage, the other virtues are basically irrelevant, of which it is the virtue that allows the other virtues to be made possible.
00:21:32.000A Greek philosopher famously said: The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage.
00:21:39.000So, the bad news, as I was mentioning, the good news is that you're not the first one to wrestle with this question.
00:21:45.000The bad news is that if history is any guide, most people will not be courageous, and we're going to get steamrolled.
00:21:51.000What made America different in the 20th century, what made America different in the 1800s, which is a history we do not teach our children, is that we did have courageous leaders that stood up for the good.
00:22:04.000This country was founded on courage, George Washington and his Continental Army.
00:22:10.000We abolished slavery through courage, Abraham Lincoln and the Union Army.
00:22:15.000We defeated the National Socialist Workers' Party with courage, George S. Patton, Dwight D. Eisenhower, alongside the guardian of Western civilization, Winston Churchill.
00:22:30.000America has been a story, has been a journey.
00:22:36.000America is a place where the ideas of being a hero in courage are rewarded and, in fact, taught.
00:22:51.000We've grown away from this in recent years.
00:22:54.000Instead, because our country lacks wisdom, we, by definition, lack courage.
00:23:02.000Plato famously said, courage is knowing what not to fear.
00:23:07.000Well, how do you know what not to fear?
00:23:09.000Wisdom, according to his student Aristotle, was being able to know the things that never change, the things that are eternal.
00:23:19.000That is why the book of Proverbs speaks to you just as much now as it would have when it was written, because human nature does not change.
00:23:28.000Wisdom is the knowledge of all things, eternal.
00:23:31.000There's practical knowledge and eternal knowledge.
00:23:35.000J.R.R. Tolkien famously said that courage is found in unlikely places.
00:24:19.000But I do think that there are enough people that are putting forward truth, putting forward clear thinking ideas.
00:24:26.000The biggest problem is that there is a crisis and the courage to do something about it.
00:24:35.000And the Barry Weiss article is a perfect example of that.
00:24:40.000The hope and the optimism in that Barry Weiss article, The Miseducation of American Elites, where you had these parents meeting like the French underground in their Adirondack chairs eating their skinny pop popcorn, all whispering and agreeing that their children are being indoctrinated, is at least they think there's something wrong with what their children are being taught.
00:25:04.000That's the positive out of the entire story.
00:25:07.000At least the Barry Weiss article didn't say that the parents are sitting in Adirondack chairs talking about how wonderful Harvard Westlake is.
00:25:19.000But the apparent narrative is, why won't they do something about it?
00:25:25.000A question that many people in my high school, including myself, wrestled with, is as we studied history, we studied Mao's Red Guard, we studied Stalin's Red Army, Benito Mussolini, a common question is, why didn't anyone do anything?
00:25:50.000And for media matters listening to this, I am not necessarily making a moral equivalency argument of critical race theory and gulags.
00:25:58.000What I am saying is that you can get to gulags with ideas like critical race theory, and that is not an exaggeration.
00:26:05.000Just ask Joseph Bondarenko, who wrote the amazing book, KGB's Most Wanted.
00:26:12.000And if you do not fight early, if you don't fight definitively with courage and clarity, they will only grow in number.
00:26:22.000And so the best way I can describe the crisis of courage is you must be willing to sacrifice something.
00:26:31.000If you are unwilling to sacrifice something and you think that you can have the same lifestyle that you currently have, then you do not have courage.
00:26:42.000Courage is a virtue based in the idea that you will be able to be not necessarily successful, but stable and in the pursuit of the good regardless of what you might lose.
00:27:20.000For example, I don't think it's courageous in my position to walk on an airplane in absolute defiance, not wearing a mask.
00:27:34.000You might say, Charlie, where's your courage?
00:27:36.000Well, that would be reckless and self-defeating.
00:27:39.000So all of a sudden, I would take off the table my ability to travel and talk to hundreds of thousands of people over the next couple years.
00:29:06.000It is organizations like Turning Point that will save this generation.
00:29:09.000My son and his friends who started the club are strong advocates of conservative values, and it is tools they get from your organization that will strengthen them as they continue their educational journey.
00:29:18.000They are strong believers in this movement.
00:29:23.000Parents need to understand and help their children find this enlightenment.
00:29:26.000My nonprofit organization, Parents Choice and Vote Inc., will be advocating for organizations such as Turning Point to bring light to these benefits.
00:29:34.000I know you have been frustrated with parents, and rightly so.
00:29:38.000You need to continue doing what you're doing, but I think if you were to include a sub-organization section dedicated to educating parents on the objectives of Turning Point Organization growth to be exponential, this is what we need.
00:29:47.000And this is what Jen is doing, and she's from Boise, so we'll be reaching out.
00:29:51.000First of all, Jen, thank you for your kind words about Turning Point USA.
00:29:55.000I really want to get parents activated, and I'm open to these ideas.
00:29:58.000I have not seen parents' willingness to engage in this.
00:30:03.000It's students that are the ones that are pushing it.
00:30:05.000There are some phenomenal parents, and I want to make sure I mention this.
00:30:08.000There are baby boomers and parents that have impacted my life and have directly touched Turning Point USA in a positive way and changed the trajectory of our organization and of the country.
00:30:20.000But my call to action is, come on, parents, we're losing our country.
00:30:26.000And so I appreciate that, Jen, very much, and I'd love to send you a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine.
00:30:31.000And thank you for getting your child involved with Turning Point USA.
00:30:34.000I was intimately aware of that controversy, and I'm very pleased it ended the way it did, which is with the reinstatement of the Turning Point USA group at Mountain View.
00:30:47.000Todd and Sharon say, love your show, Charlie.
00:31:18.000They keep the schools closed while they put their kids in open private schools.
00:31:22.000They want open borders, yet they live in gated communities, and they never actually have to suffer the consequences of illegals border jumping into our country.
00:31:35.000They're able to be protected from almost all of the public policy decisions that they make.
00:31:43.000That's what makes that Barry Weiss article so phenomenal is that finally the ruling class, the liberals, are actually feeling the very same pressure that they've put on the rest of the country.
00:31:54.000So, Todd and Sharon, unfortunately, states do not have the rights to deport illegals across states, but the idea is well taken, and thank you for listening very much.
00:32:21.000The reparations argument is focused solely on one racial group.
00:32:25.000What about all the other racial groups that have suffered intergenerationally?
00:32:28.000What made America different is it was never founded on the victimhood or the oppressor Olympics.
00:32:33.000It's on opportunity, it's on liberty, it's on making good choices, moving up the socioeconomic ladder, not trying to get in line and demand your peace.
00:32:42.000The American promise, and something we're going to build out more in the next couple weeks, I think that's the right way to frame it.
00:32:48.000The American promise is currently being broken.
00:32:52.000The promise of America is that if I work hard and play by the rules, I have a family, I will be able to live an above-average life, and my kids will be able to live a better life than I will.
00:33:02.000And that American promise is currently in jeopardy and being broken.
00:33:07.000And this entire reparations argument is directly tied to that.
00:33:14.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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