The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 54: Will Red States Go Woke? Can States Deport Illegals to Blue States? Election Integrity in 2024? And MORE!

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, it's Monday, so I'm taking your questions that you've emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:00:05.000 If you want to win a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine, just subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast, screenshot your subscription, email it to us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:00:15.000 That's freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:00:17.000 If you want to support us, go to charliekirk.com slash support.

00:00:20.000 Your support makes our work possible.

00:00:23.000 Two podcasts a day, one on the weekends.

00:00:26.000 Thanks to you guys, CharlieKirk.com slash support.

00:00:29.000 It's Monday.

00:00:30.000 I'm taking your questions.

00:00:31.000 Buckle up.

00:00:32.000 Here we go.

00:00:33.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:35.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:37.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:40.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:43.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:44.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:46.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

00:00:54.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

00:01:03.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:06.000 If you're a college basketball fan, the NCAA tournament, March Madness is your favorite time of year.

00:01:11.000 Game-winning buzzer beater shots, Cinderella programs knocking out dynasty programs.

00:01:16.000 March Madness is known for drama, and I love every minute of it.

00:01:19.000 In recent years, one of the little-known inspiring March Madness stories was the rise of UConn's basketball program under Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun.

00:01:29.000 Born to Lead is the newest film on Salem Now, showcasing Jim Calhoun's and University of Connecticut's story.

00:01:36.000 From losing his father at a young age, instantaneously becoming the man of his family as a teenager, to his rise to the coaching ranks and eventually leading UConn to three national championships, Born to Lead features interviews from Mike Shyzzewski, Jim Bayheim, former UConn and NBA superstars Rick Hamilton and Ray Allen.

00:01:55.000 Get ready for March Madness by watching Born to Lead, available now at salemnow.com.

00:02:00.000 That's born to lead at salemnow.com and use the promo code Kirk for additional savings.

00:02:08.000 The 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.

00:02:17.000 We are going on the Turning Point USA Gen Free tour on college campuses across the country.

00:02:24.000 And a lot of people say, Charlie, how can I see you live and in person?

00:02:29.000 Well, the best way to do that is go to tpusa.com slash gen free.

00:02:34.000 I love live events.

00:02:36.000 I love being on the ground, discussing ideas, getting the backlash, seeing the opposition, and maybe finding some form of clarity, not necessarily agreement.

00:02:47.000 This is something that Dennis Prager talks about quite often, that I prefer clarity over agreement.

00:02:53.000 And that is what we try to do on these college campuses.

00:02:55.000 So 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.

00:03:06.000 Just email us.

00:03:07.000 You know how to email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:03:10.000 But we are going to Oklahoma.

00:03:11.000 We are going to Missouri.

00:03:13.000 We are going to Kentucky.

00:03:14.000 We are going to Nashville.

00:03:15.000 We are going to Vegas.

00:03:16.000 We are going to San Jose.

00:03:18.000 It's going to be a lot of fun.

00:03:19.000 Turning Point USA is back on campus, tpusa.com slash gen free.

00:03:25.000 And people are asking, they say, Charlie, what are you talking about at these events?

00:03:28.000 I'm really going to go after critical race theory.

00:03:31.000 At least that's what I'm going to do in the first event.

00:03:32.000 We'll see what happens in the second and the third.

00:03:34.000 But 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.

00:03:54.000 So I'm going to be going after that.

00:03:55.000 I'm going to be talking about why America is the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world. 0.68

00:03:59.000 We're going to go after the 1619 project.

00:04:01.000 We're going to have all sorts of fun, and you'll also be able to find it live streamed on our YouTube.

00:04:06.000 These campus tours have been seen hundreds of millions of times.

00:04:11.000 If you count the clips, you count the podcasting, you count the live streams over the last couple of years.

00:04:16.000 It's a very important, I would say, cultural contribution to our country.

00:04:22.000 So check it out, tpusa.com/slash genfree.

00:04:27.000 Samantha, hey, Charlie, I will be able to vote for the first time in the next presidential election.

00:04:31.000 Do you think there will be just as much or more voter fraud in 2024 election?

00:04:36.000 Will my vote actually count, Samantha?

00:04:38.000 It all depends on Republican legislators.

00:04:42.000 It depends on whether Brian Kemp, Doug Ducey, and the Republican legislators in Arizona and Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin decide to reform their elections.

00:04:53.000 We've talked about this quite a lot, how Florida had broken elections before Ron DeSantis came into office.

00:05:02.000 In 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.

00:05:16.000 In 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.

00:05:24.000 Sound familiar?

00:05:26.000 Governor Ron DeSantis won and completely and totally reformed the election system.

00:05:31.000 Now, it really frustrated and irritated Democrats in the state of Florida.

00:05:35.000 He was called the R-word, which actually segues to a thesis that I have that I want to share with you. 0.90

00:05:42.000 He was called the R-word, and he didn't care. 0.92

00:05:46.000 You might say, what's the R-word?

00:05:47.000 Racist.

00:05:49.000 That one word, this is the thesis, is paralyzing to Republicans.

00:05:56.000 The fear of being called a racist has taken over our entire legislative process and priorities and media communications.

00:06:08.000 I really believe that most suburbanites vote Democrat because they fear more than anything else to be called a racist.

00:06:18.000 In fact, in the Barry Weiss article that we mentioned in a previous episode of the podcast, I encourage all of you guys to check it out.

00:06:25.000 She has a quote in there that says, being called a racist is worse than being called a murderer.

00:06:34.000 So Ron DeSantis did not care that they were going to call him a racist.

00:06:38.000 He figured that was going to happen anyway.

00:06:41.000 And he put forth serious voting reform measures in Florida.

00:06:47.000 He put forth serious, tangible measures that reformed the way that elections are done in the state of Florida.

00:06:55.000 What's the result?

00:06:56.000 Donald Trump won by 400,000 votes.

00:06:58.000 Republicans flipped three congressional seats.

00:07:01.000 Republicans control the state House, the state Senate, and the governor's mansion, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of State.

00:07:06.000 Democrats are now basically wondering, how did Florida quickly become Alabama?

00:07:12.000 Well, with safe and secure elections, strong, courageous conservative leadership, and then you contrast that with the very weak Brian Kemp.

00:07:21.000 What was Brian Kemp doing a year ago?

00:07:24.000 One 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.

00:07:35.000 He 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.

00:07:55.000 Now, Brian Kemp very well could have warned the American population about this.

00:07:59.000 Brian Kemp could have said, hey, we're going to have some issues if all of a sudden more people start voting by mail.

00:08:05.000 But Brian Kemp, being very weak, Brian Kemp not being a very smart person and probably being very corrupt, said nothing.

00:08:15.000 In 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?

00:08:26.000 He said, of course we do.

00:08:27.000 How dare you question my friend Brad Rothensberger's election program.

00:08:32.000 And so in 2016, there were 246,000 mail-in ballots.

00:08:37.000 You say, wow, that's a lot.

00:08:39.000 In 2020, there were well over 1.2 million mail-in ballots submitted.

00:08:45.000 So you have a million ballot increase with looser signature verification standards, more relaxed signature verification standards.

00:08:56.000 And it was all because of Brian Kemp.

00:08:58.000 And Brian Kemp could have fixed the problem.

00:09:00.000 He could have called the special session of the legislature in the summer of 2020.

00:09:06.000 He could have admitted that he made a problem, and we would have helped him fix it.

00:09:09.000 Instead, Brian Kemp thought that hope was a strategy.

00:09:14.000 He hoped everything was going to be okay.

00:09:17.000 And 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.

00:09:32.000 So now Georgia has a chance to fix the elections.

00:09:36.000 The Georgia State Senate is passing a bill that is very promising.

00:09:39.000 It doesn't go far enough, but it's promising.

00:09:43.000 And CNN and the Democrats are doing everything they possibly can to misrepresent this bill, saying that it's an attack on black people.

00:09:55.000 Of course, the R-word.

00:09:59.000 How dare you require voter ID? 0.98

00:10:00.000 Don't you know that black people are not able to get voter ID? 0.96

00:10:04.000 Which, 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.

00:10:16.000 And so to answer your question, Samantha, and congratulations, you win a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine.

00:10:20.000 Do you think there will be just as much or more voter fraud in 2024 election?

00:10:25.000 It is solely on the Republican legislator in Arizona and Georgia to start, then Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

00:10:35.000 And so far, I have not seen courage.

00:10:38.000 I've seen excuses from the people that are in power.

00:10:42.000 Georgia is moving in the right direction.

00:10:43.000 Arizona and Maricopa County are showing a little bit of signs of promise, but we need massive structural reforms.

00:10:50.000 And HR1, which is legitimately an existential threat to our country, HR1 would do the opposite.

00:10:58.000 House 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.

00:11:07.000 Samantha, thank you so much for your question.

00:11:09.000 And I hope to meet you very soon.

00:11:11.000 Email us your questions, everybodyfreedom at charliekirk.com.

00:11:17.000 Everyone's mother always says, eat all your vegetables.

00:11:20.000 Even as adults, we still have excuses why we don't eat them.

00:11:23.000 They taste terrible.

00:11:24.000 It's so much trouble to prepare.

00:11:26.000 Fresh fruits and vegetables are so expensive.

00:11:28.000 Your mom wanted you to eat your fruits and vegetables because she knew that's how we get and stay healthy.

00:11:33.000 While your mom never listened to your excuses, Balance of Nature has listened.

00:11:37.000 All 10 daily servings of fruits and vegetables are in six small capsules.

00:11:41.000 I take them every day.

00:11:42.000 They're absolutely no trouble, always fresh, nothing artificial, and ready to take.

00:11:46.000 And the cost, literally pennies per serving.

00:11:50.000 Balance of nature's fruit and vegetables are no hassle, no weird flavors, and mere pennies per serving.

00:11:55.000 Join me and experience the balance of nature difference for yourself.

00:11:58.000 For a limited time, all new preferred customers receive an additional 35% discount and free shipping on your first Balance of Nature order.

00:12:06.000 Use discount code Charlie.

00:12:08.000 Call 800-24-68751 or go to balanceofnature.com and use the discount code Charlie.

00:12:18.000 Audience.

00:12:18.000 Hey, Charlie, I love your podcast, and I listen every day.

00:12:22.000 Thank you.

00:12:23.000 I know you've already talked about HR5, but I'm very concerned about its implications for schools.

00:12:28.000 My son is entering the third grade next year.

00:12:31.000 I plan on homeschooling him in the future.

00:12:33.000 Not just yet, but I've read through his curricula this year, and it's okay.

00:12:36.000 However, I'm not sure when they'll be introducing next year, but I'll be on top of it.

00:12:40.000 Good for you, Melissa.

00:12:42.000 When do you think critical race theory and transgender ideology will be coming to the Red States?

00:12:46.000 I'm in Tennessee.

00:12:47.000 This is one of my major concerns right now.

00:12:48.000 Thanks, Charlie.

00:12:49.000 Well, 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.

00:13:00.000 To answer your question, it's already in Tennessee.

00:13:02.000 It'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.

00:13:09.000 So keep your eyes peeled.

00:13:10.000 Critical 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.

00:13:21.000 Now, critical race theory is rooted in this idea that no science, no dialogue, no individuals. 0.95

00:13:27.000 Western civilization is a racist, fallow, logo-centric, white supremacist, colonialist, misogynistic, homophobic experiment.

00:13:38.000 This used to be a fringe theory in the academy. 0.98

00:13:43.000 This used to be something that was on the outskirts of the intelligentsia.

00:13:48.000 Now it is mainstream.

00:13:50.000 It is rooted in a Marxist principle of the oppressed versus the oppressor.

00:13:55.000 Now, the Marxists believe this, that a society that's perpetually in conflict is very unhappy, but it's easier to control.

00:14:05.000 They believe in conflict theory, which is rooted in critical theory, as a way to try and assume power.

00:14:14.000 Critical theory is, in essence, not about healing wounds or uniting people.

00:14:21.000 It's intentionally trying to pit people against each other.

00:14:25.000 Now, a question I get a lot is, Charlie, how could anyone be this sinister?

00:14:31.000 How could anyone be this dark?

00:14:34.000 And when people ask this question, I chuckle.

00:14:36.000 I say, you should spend a weekend reading a little bit about 20th century history. 0.98

00:14:45.000 Read about how dark human beings actually can become.

00:14:49.000 And this goes back to the real debate that's happening in this country. 0.56

00:14:52.000 Do you believe human beings are basically good?

00:14:54.000 Of course, human beings are basically bad.

00:14:57.000 Goodness, the creation of good people, is the exception, not the norm.

00:15:03.000 And so when you're in this constant state of conflict, people then are willing to sacrifice their rights and their freedoms.

00:15:12.000 If 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.

00:15:30.000 And we've saw this in the last year in the Chinese coronavirus.

00:15:33.000 You could teach a class, probably at a respectable school like Hillsdale, on how the human beings act in a time of crisis.

00:15:41.000 And this last year is a perfect example.

00:15:43.000 This 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.

00:16:02.000 And I talked about this in one of the previous episodes, and I encourage you guys to check it out.

00:16:06.000 I 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.

00:16:15.000 And one of the lessons that human beings do not want to be free.

00:16:18.000 You must teach the value of freedom, or else human beings simply will not want to be free.

00:16:25.000 They will want to be taken care of.

00:16:27.000 America 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.

00:16:39.000 Most countries are founded or built around the idea of a massive social welfare state taking care of other people.

00:16:49.000 This country being founded on liberty and freedom makes us unique. 0.88

00:16:53.000 So when do I think critical race theory and transgender ideology will be coming to Red States? 1.00

00:16:56.000 I think it's already there. 1.00

00:16:58.000 Thankfully, it's not in your local school.

00:17:00.000 Every 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.

00:17:10.000 It truly is an existential threat to our country.

00:17:13.000 And it's starting now to impact many different institutions, the military, corporations, and all of civil society.

00:17:21.000 Thank you, Melissa, and I want to commend you for your courage, for what you're doing.

00:17:24.000 Next question, next email, I should say.

00:17:26.000 Thank you, Charlie, for calling out these coward upper-class parents that care about their own legacy more than their children themselves.

00:17:33.000 It was so refreshing to hear your latest podcast about the Secret Parent Club.

00:17:37.000 I 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.

00:17:45.000 When the ship sinks, the first class sink along the cooks and the janitors.

00:17:48.000 What a great imagery. 0.90

00:17:51.000 I'm 31, and I feel blessed that I never went to college and was the first in my family to reject it.

00:17:56.000 Good for you.

00:17:58.000 I come from a family of upper to middle class teachers.

00:18:01.000 I was essentially kicked out of the family for my views.

00:18:03.000 I went into the Marine Corps instead in 2010 and found my Christianity in a chapel on a base in San Diego.

00:18:09.000 Served as an infantry soldier, and I loved the brothers I met at home and abroad.

00:18:13.000 I 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.

00:18:26.000 Only then did my family want a part of my life for my daughter.

00:18:30.000 I use everything you teach on your podcast because my leftist family and have recently turned my mom to common sense of the conservative movement.

00:18:37.000 How awesome is that?

00:18:39.000 I also started a conservative podcast show and I've grown it locally where I live.

00:18:42.000 Phenomenal.

00:18:43.000 Everyone should get into content creation if you can.

00:18:46.000 Based off your model, thank you, Charlie, for what you have created and your courage.

00:18:51.000 You would have made a great soldier.

00:18:54.000 You are one in my eyes for all the evil you have to take head on.

00:18:57.000 I hope you read this.

00:18:58.000 Thanks, Logan.

00:18:59.000 Well, Logan, God bless you.

00:19:00.000 Thank you for that email.

00:19:02.000 I hope to meet you someday.

00:19:04.000 I think it says you're in San Diego.

00:19:05.000 I don't know if you still live there.

00:19:06.000 I'm speaking this Sunday, Greg Denham's Church, Rise, San Marcos.

00:19:14.000 But Logan, God bless you.

00:19:15.000 And the deeper point that Logan is making here was a compliment on my podcast I did on the Barry Weiss City Journal article.

00:19:23.000 And someone recently asked me, they said, Charlie, how do people become courageous?

00:19:30.000 And I truckle when people ask that question.

00:19:32.000 I say, well, now we're really talking about something worthwhile.

00:19:36.000 Say, now we're getting into philosophy.

00:19:37.000 Now we're getting into civilization preserving questions about time.

00:19:43.000 And of course, the piece, the Barry Weiss article that has gone very extremely viral, I encourage you to check it out.

00:19:49.000 The podcast I did on it is called Reparations, Aztec Chants, and the Miseducation of America's Elite.

00:19:55.000 It's one of my favorite episodes that we have done in the history of our program.

00:20:00.000 It's very important.

00:20:01.000 I encourage you to email it to your friends.

00:20:03.000 And basically, the essence of the piece, again, is a bunch of rich parents are meeting privately because their kids are being indoctrinated.

00:20:09.000 They know their kids are being indoctrinated, but they're not doing anything about it because they're afraid of the potential backlash against them.

00:20:15.000 That is the essence of the piece.

00:20:18.000 And so, to go to the question I was asked that relates to this is: why is there such a crisis of courage?

00:20:25.000 So, let me tell you the good news, then I'll tell you the bad news.

00:20:29.000 The good news is that this is nothing new.

00:20:34.000 Every 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.

00:20:52.000 George S. Patton famously said that moral courage is the most necessary and most absent characteristic in men.

00:21:04.000 Courage is something that we take for granted.

00:21:10.000 So, how do I define courage?

00:21:13.000 The willingness to confront agony, pain, injustice, or danger.

00:21:20.000 Philosophers 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.

00:21:32.000 A Greek philosopher famously said: The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage.

00:21:39.000 So, the bad news, as I was mentioning, the good news is that you're not the first one to wrestle with this question.

00:21:45.000 The bad news is that if history is any guide, most people will not be courageous, and we're going to get steamrolled.

00:21:51.000 What 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.

00:22:04.000 This country was founded on courage, George Washington and his Continental Army.

00:22:10.000 We abolished slavery through courage, Abraham Lincoln and the Union Army.

00:22:15.000 We defeated the National Socialist Workers' Party with courage, George S. Patton, Dwight D. Eisenhower, alongside the guardian of Western civilization, Winston Churchill.

00:22:30.000 America has been a story, has been a journey.

00:22:34.000 America is our home.

00:22:36.000 America is a place where the ideas of being a hero in courage are rewarded and, in fact, taught.

00:22:51.000 We've grown away from this in recent years.

00:22:54.000 Instead, because our country lacks wisdom, we, by definition, lack courage.

00:23:02.000 Plato famously said, courage is knowing what not to fear.

00:23:07.000 Well, how do you know what not to fear?

00:23:09.000 Wisdom, according to his student Aristotle, was being able to know the things that never change, the things that are eternal.

00:23:19.000 That 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.

00:23:28.000 Wisdom is the knowledge of all things, eternal.

00:23:31.000 There's practical knowledge and eternal knowledge.

00:23:35.000 J.R.R. Tolkien famously said that courage is found in unlikely places.

00:23:41.000 Well, I'm certainly looking for it.

00:23:42.000 I could tell you that much.

00:23:44.000 Winston Churchill famously said: courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

00:23:53.000 Winston Churchill also said, it's funny how these guys that were the most courageous wrote about courage so much.

00:23:59.000 Courage is rightly esteemed the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

00:24:07.000 And if I were to say what we are lacking the most in America, it is not even that we are lacking in truth.

00:24:15.000 I think we are lacking in truth.

00:24:16.000 It's not even that we're lacking in clarity.

00:24:18.000 I think we're missing that.

00:24:19.000 But I do think that there are enough people that are putting forward truth, putting forward clear thinking ideas.

00:24:26.000 The biggest problem is that there is a crisis and the courage to do something about it.

00:24:35.000 And the Barry Weiss article is a perfect example of that.

00:24:40.000 The 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.

00:25:04.000 That's the positive out of the entire story.

00:25:07.000 At least the Barry Weiss article didn't say that the parents are sitting in Adirondack chairs talking about how wonderful Harvard Westlake is.

00:25:16.000 That's the positive of the piece.

00:25:19.000 But the apparent narrative is, why won't they do something about it?

00:25:25.000 A 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?

00:25:46.000 It's the most asked question.

00:25:50.000 And for media matters listening to this, I am not necessarily making a moral equivalency argument of critical race theory and gulags.

00:25:58.000 What I am saying is that you can get to gulags with ideas like critical race theory, and that is not an exaggeration.

00:26:05.000 Just ask Joseph Bondarenko, who wrote the amazing book, KGB's Most Wanted.

00:26:12.000 And if you do not fight early, if you don't fight definitively with courage and clarity, they will only grow in number.

00:26:22.000 And so the best way I can describe the crisis of courage is you must be willing to sacrifice something.

00:26:31.000 If 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.

00:26:42.000 Courage 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.

00:27:05.000 And yes, you might lose your job.

00:27:08.000 You might lose your friends.

00:27:10.000 Now, this is a very important distinction.

00:27:12.000 Being courageous and being reckless are two different things.

00:27:19.000 So how do you know the difference?

00:27:20.000 For example, I don't think it's courageous in my position to walk on an airplane in absolute defiance, not wearing a mask.

00:27:34.000 You might say, Charlie, where's your courage?

00:27:36.000 Well, that would be reckless and self-defeating.

00:27:39.000 So 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.

00:27:45.000 I know the cost of that.

00:27:47.000 Instead, I will communicate and pick the points of where I believe a step of courage would be most necessary.

00:28:03.000 And so picking the correct moments to express your values and your ideas is absolutely important.

00:28:12.000 It's not just critical, it's imperative.

00:28:14.000 Mark Twain famously said, courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

00:28:21.000 Aristotle said, courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

00:28:26.000 I mentioned that earlier.

00:28:26.000 It is Aristotle.

00:28:27.000 Thank you, production team.

00:28:31.000 So how does one find courage?

00:28:32.000 It's very easy, actually.

00:28:34.000 You must make a decision to be courageous.

00:28:38.000 You make the decision that I will be courageous and I will make decisions in the pursuit of the good regardless of the consequences.

00:28:48.000 And that's what you need.

00:28:49.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:28:50.000 My student, my son, actually, started a Turning Point Club at Mountain View High School in the fall of 2020.

00:28:55.000 These boys had the entire English department targeting their every move.

00:28:58.000 20 teachers.

00:29:00.000 They got the club removed, but we fought back and this club is reinstated.

00:29:04.000 Give it up for Jen, everybody.

00:29:06.000 It is organizations like Turning Point that will save this generation.

00:29:09.000 My 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.

00:29:18.000 They are strong believers in this movement.

00:29:20.000 Charlie, what you are doing is huge.

00:29:23.000 Parents need to understand and help their children find this enlightenment.

00:29:26.000 My nonprofit organization, Parents Choice and Vote Inc., will be advocating for organizations such as Turning Point to bring light to these benefits.

00:29:34.000 I know you have been frustrated with parents, and rightly so.

00:29:36.000 The solution is involving parents.

00:29:38.000 You 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.

00:29:47.000 And this is what Jen is doing, and she's from Boise, so we'll be reaching out.

00:29:51.000 First of all, Jen, thank you for your kind words about Turning Point USA.

00:29:55.000 I really want to get parents activated, and I'm open to these ideas.

00:29:58.000 I have not seen parents' willingness to engage in this.

00:30:03.000 It's students that are the ones that are pushing it.

00:30:05.000 There are some phenomenal parents, and I want to make sure I mention this.

00:30:08.000 There 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.

00:30:20.000 But my call to action is, come on, parents, we're losing our country.

00:30:24.000 Let's get into this.

00:30:26.000 And so I appreciate that, Jen, very much, and I'd love to send you a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine.

00:30:31.000 And thank you for getting your child involved with Turning Point USA.

00:30:34.000 I 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.

00:30:47.000 Todd and Sharon say, love your show, Charlie.

00:30:49.000 Listen every day.

00:30:50.000 Thank you. 1.00

00:30:50.000 Why don't these border states load up the buses with these illegals and ship them right to Joe Biden's door? 1.00

00:30:55.000 Let them flood D.C. That'll end this really quick. 0.98

00:30:57.000 Well, the essence of your question, Todd and Sharon, is funny, but it's actually full of wisdom.

00:31:01.000 So it's great.

00:31:01.000 So thank you for that.

00:31:02.000 I'll send you a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine.

00:31:06.000 The Democrats never have to live under the policies that they put on the rest of the people.

00:31:11.000 They want to confiscate weapons, yet they are protected by armed guards.

00:31:15.000 They think we should get rid of fossil fuels.

00:31:17.000 They fly around in private jets.

00:31:18.000 They keep the schools closed while they put their kids in open private schools. 0.95

00:31:22.000 They 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. 0.56

00:31:31.000 They don't.

00:31:32.000 Instead, they are able to be immune.

00:31:35.000 They're able to be protected from almost all of the public policy decisions that they make.

00:31:43.000 That'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.

00:31:54.000 So, 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.

00:32:04.000 I deeply appreciate it.

00:32:06.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:32:06.000 This is Lisa.

00:32:07.000 If Americans were racist, then how did Obama win two presidential terms? 0.72

00:32:10.000 And what about reparations for all the black, white, and other ethnicity?

00:32:13.000 For example, French women, men and children who fought and died in slavery.

00:32:16.000 Thanks so much, Lisa.

00:32:17.000 Congratulations.

00:32:18.000 MAGA doctrine for you.

00:32:19.000 You're exactly right. 0.86

00:32:21.000 The reparations argument is focused solely on one racial group.

00:32:25.000 What about all the other racial groups that have suffered intergenerationally?

00:32:28.000 What made America different is it was never founded on the victimhood or the oppressor Olympics.

00:32:33.000 It'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.

00:32:42.000 The 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.

00:32:48.000 The American promise is currently being broken.

00:32:52.000 The 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.

00:33:02.000 And that American promise is currently in jeopardy and being broken.

00:33:07.000 And this entire reparations argument is directly tied to that.

00:33:14.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:16.000 Again, email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:18.000 Please consider supporting us at charliekirk.com slash support.

00:33:22.000 God bless you guys.

The Charlie Kirk Show - March 15, 2021

Ask Charlie Anything 54: Will Red States Go Woke? Can States Deport Illegals to Blue States? Election Integrity in 2024? And MORE!

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript