The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 61: Mandatory Vaccines? What to Do When You Are Getting Bad Grades for Being Conservative? Where Are the Parents? And MORE

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00:02:39.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:02:39.000 I'm Victoria.

00:02:40.000 I'm the president of our USD chapter.

00:02:42.000 Awesome.

00:02:43.000 Thank you for being here.

00:02:44.000 Thank you.

00:02:47.000 So my question is kind of just like, how do I deal with this?

00:02:51.000 I just wrote a paper the other day about in my in my African history class for a core curriculum requirement. 0.97

00:03:00.000 Requirement, yeah.

00:03:01.000 And my teacher is very liberal, and we're talking about the apartheid, and he asked us to relate it to some kind of either American or modern day event.

00:03:14.000 So I wrote, not wanting to give him what he wanted about, you know, the KKK or whatever.

00:03:19.000 So I wrote about Antifa and the KKK. 1.00

00:03:21.000 Good for you. 1.00

00:03:22.000 That's courage.

00:03:29.000 I got an 80% on the paper and he wrote back to me, Victoria, Antifa is not a singular group, nor do they advocate in any way at all analogous to the KKK.

00:03:40.000 And we've talked specifically in class about historical constructions of whiteness and oppression.

00:03:46.000 And this reflection demonstrates very little recognition of how that power operates.

00:03:51.000 Yeah.

00:03:52.000 Usually I'm not afraid to respond to this, but he said in the past he worked at a high school where the turning point chapter at that school would call him indoctrinating.

00:04:01.000 And he's made it very clear that he's against turning point.

00:04:04.000 And I'm just trying to pass his core curriculum class, so what do I say?

00:04:08.000 Yeah, so you are in a situation that is not rare.

00:04:16.000 And look, here's the problem, is that college becomes this kind of grade-taking hostage situation, right?

00:04:24.000 And all of you guys experience this, is we're going to take what matters to you, your grade.

00:04:28.000 We're going to take it hostage, and you're going to conform and say what we want you to say and do what we want you to do.

00:04:33.000 And if not, we are going to make you suffer.

00:04:37.000 There's no good way out of it.

00:04:38.000 You're handling it very well.

00:04:39.000 The fact you got an 80 is pretty amazing, I have to say.

00:04:41.000 That's actually pretty amazing.

00:04:43.000 I feel like I could have gotten 100.

00:04:45.000 I definitely feel like I could have gotten 100.

00:04:47.000 Yeah, well, look, so I'll say this, that appealing to their overseeing board sometimes works.

00:04:54.000 It usually doesn't, because they all agree, right?

00:04:57.000 But look, I'm going to have you think and pray about something.

00:05:01.000 It's like, does the grade matter that much?

00:05:03.000 Just think and pray on it.

00:05:04.000 Maybe it does.

00:05:05.000 Maybe it's like, I need the grade to get this and do that and all that.

00:05:08.000 And if you're paying for a course, you should want to do the best in it, obviously.

00:05:12.000 But if you are producing a good product and writing something worthy of that grade and they don't see that as recognition, then that's much more on them and their direction and their character and an imprint on their future decisions than anything else.

00:05:27.000 And just to the whole point of this, let me just tell you, I was supposed to speak in Washington, Seattle, Washington this next weekend at a church.

00:05:34.000 And a really good man, Pastor Roger Archer, a sweet man, I think got sideswiped.

00:05:40.000 Let's just say he got ambushed.

00:05:41.000 I think that's a good way to put it, right?

00:05:42.000 He got ambushed, not physically, almost physically, but he got a call from law enforcement and said, hey, you're hosting Charlie this next weekend.

00:05:50.000 1,200 Antifa people are planning to come outside of your church.

00:05:55.000 And they're the ones that form Chaz and Chop.

00:05:58.000 And, you know, if you don't cancel the event, because we don't have enough people to counter it, they'll probably burn down homes in your neighborhood, residential area.

00:06:06.000 You know, the elderly's at risk and women's at risk.

00:06:08.000 And so I'm of the opinion, I would have handled it a little bit differently, but I make no such judgments against Pastor Archer because he's a good man.

00:06:14.000 And I think he got put in a situation that, quite honestly, is a political combat he's not used to, right?

00:06:19.000 So he decided to cancel the event.

00:06:21.000 And again, I have a lot of empathy for him.

00:06:23.000 I think he's the victim in this situation.

00:06:25.000 I really do.

00:06:26.000 And why did he cancel it?

00:06:30.000 Well, he called the governor's office.

00:06:31.000 They said, we're not going to supply any sort of law enforcement to help against this.

00:06:34.000 The local police only had 10 people.

00:06:36.000 And so, look, this is a tactic that the KKK used to use against black meetings in the American South. 0.99

00:06:43.000 So you should have got 100 on that piece. 0.98

00:06:45.000 And I think you're very, very smart for mentioning that.

00:06:48.000 Because what I could tell you is that I will not be speaking at that church this weekend in Seattle only because a bunch of people threatened to go to the streets with weapons and cause violence.

00:06:59.000 It's the only reason.

00:07:01.000 And it's going to spread to more churches.

00:07:04.000 This is a church.

00:07:05.000 This is not the Republican Party of Seattle.

00:07:08.000 This is a church.

00:07:09.000 And the government did not want to intercede with it.

00:07:11.000 But more, I know that your question was about what do I do about it.

00:07:15.000 Do not give him a reason ever to dock you on anything that you do outside of the best possible course of action.

00:07:24.000 Let me tell you what I mean.

00:07:25.000 Don't give him what he wants you to do.

00:07:27.000 Don't all of a sudden call him a name.

00:07:29.000 Don't give a side remark or be snarky.

00:07:32.000 In fact, live out the most respectable, gentle, compassionate person, where if he decides to continue to be torturous to you, which is what he's doing, then it's completely on him and there's no such moral justification he could possibly reach.

00:07:50.000 And sometimes I find with some kids is, and I say this to some of our turning point kids, don't be snarky because, you know, look, there's these professors definitely deserve it.

00:08:00.000 But then all of a sudden they're going to use that as an extra reason.

00:08:03.000 Again, like this, you always give me attitude.

00:08:04.000 He's all this.

00:08:05.000 I'm not, obviously you don't strike me as that, right?

00:08:08.000 But understand this, that what you're dealing with is not alone.

00:08:12.000 And then you just have to write on your piece of paper a value hierarchy, okay?

00:08:16.000 And only you can do this.

00:08:17.000 What matters most in your life?

00:08:20.000 And if career progression and getting good grades matters more than continuing to say what you believe, then do that.

00:08:27.000 Okay?

00:08:28.000 And for some people, that's what they do.

00:08:30.000 There's a whole belief out there that you should cheat your way through college to get good grades.

00:08:34.000 I do not hold that belief.

00:08:35.000 There's another belief to go through college and to just write the liberal pablum because then you move up in life.

00:08:41.000 I do not have that belief.

00:08:42.000 But that's for you to decide.

00:08:44.000 But I'm going to tell you this, no matter what, you will be blessed by making decisions that are a reflection of good character.

00:08:51.000 Character comes from the Greek word.

00:08:58.000 Character comes from the Greek word imprint, tattoo, into your soul.

00:09:03.000 And your soul, your spirit, is a reflection of the decisions you make when it matters most.

00:09:07.000 Not the decisions of hot dog versus hamburgers.

00:09:10.000 Your soul ends up being, your character ends up being a reflection of what happens when you're under pressure.

00:09:10.000 No.

00:09:17.000 So pray and think on that.

00:09:18.000 Thank you.

00:09:22.000 All right, Charlotte, over here with Marcos. 1.00

00:09:25.000 Question about the Second Amendment.

00:09:27.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:09:28.000 So hopefully we're going to win the Culture Award.

00:09:29.000 I'm with you just because I know the great minds and turning point, all these great activists are awesome.

00:09:34.000 So I have hope just like you do.

00:09:35.000 But recently, we have problems with our law enforcement.

00:09:39.000 I was military police.

00:09:39.000 Now, I'm a veteran.

00:09:40.000 I'm back from your service.

00:09:42.000 I'm with them.

00:09:43.000 100%.

00:09:44.000 However, we have police officers now enforcing these mask mandates.

00:09:49.000 In Texas, for example, they're coming out and talking against constitutional concealed carry.

00:09:53.000 So how do you think that's going to play out where we have the good law enforcement and then we have these, you know, yes men, as they say, who are going to try to strip away that Second Amendment right because it's already coming and we're not going to be able to, as my old CSM used to say, finish the fight if we have to.

00:10:06.000 So let me first say, they're not going to go for guns immediately.

00:10:10.000 Okay?

00:10:10.000 They're going to do three things before they actually go for weapons.

00:10:13.000 Number one, they're going to make it illegal to use your weapon. 0.96

00:10:16.000 So this is what happened with the McCloskeys in Missouri, right?

00:10:19.000 So a couple hundred people come to their home. 0.96

00:10:22.000 They just gesture a weapon without firing it and they get charged with just merely gesturing their weapon.

00:10:27.000 Number two, they're going to make it almost impossible to buy ammunition.

00:10:31.000 Okay?

00:10:32.000 So if they can't go after the guns, they'll go after ammunition.

00:10:35.000 So you got to think a little bit more multi-dimensional of what their actual goal is.

00:10:39.000 Number three, they're going to tax owning firearms at such a high tax beyond its appraised value that that's how they're going to tax it like a yacht or a private jet.

00:10:49.000 So those are the three things they're going to do.

00:10:51.000 Here's why.

00:10:51.000 It's because of the DC versus Heller decision in the D.C. Circuit Court.

00:10:56.000 They're going to struggle constitutionally and any of these laws to say that you do not have a constitutional right to own a firearm.

00:11:03.000 And they lose in court almost every single time with this.

00:11:06.000 There's a new decision that's about, actually a new hearing, I should say, new case that just went to the Supreme Court today where this Supreme Court is going to rule on whether or not you have a constitutional right to have a gun outside of your home.

00:11:18.000 And I think they're going to rule correctly on this, which will have big implications here in California for potential conceal carry and all this.

00:11:24.000 So one of the good movements over the last couple decades has been that firearm laws have moved in the direction of liberty.

00:11:30.000 And let me just say this, that the founding fathers gave us the Second Amendment for a very specific reason.

00:11:36.000 It is not for self-defense against criminals.

00:11:39.000 That's helpful.

00:11:40.000 It's not for hunting, and it's not for clay shooting.

00:11:43.000 Instead, the founding fathers knew that it is the pattern of despots and tyrants and sociopathic human beings to use power to suppress freedoms of others.

00:11:57.000 It always replicates itself.

00:11:59.000 So the founding fathers said, what can we put in this document to recognize a natural right given by God, not by government, that can protect all the other amendments?

00:12:10.000 What can we have as a firewall against this tyranny?

00:12:13.000 What can we put here so that people that love liberty at least have some capacity, if needed, God forbid, to protect themselves and their family against a usurptatious government?

00:12:23.000 So let me give you an example of this.

00:12:24.000 When the Chinese Communist Party was doing what they were doing against Hong Kong a year and a half ago, the power imbalance was so unbelievably stark.

00:12:35.000 The people of Hong Kong were on the right side of the issue.

00:12:38.000 They wanted freedom.

00:12:38.000 They wanted liberty.

00:12:39.000 They wanted autonomy.

00:12:40.000 They wanted sovereignty.

00:12:41.000 But only one side had the guns.

00:12:44.000 Right.

00:12:44.000 That is not a way to ever pursue liberty.

00:12:49.000 Eventually, the person that has the guns is going to win that.

00:12:51.000 Now, I will submit to you, actually, an armed citizenry prevents conflict.

00:12:55.000 Because if the Hong Kong freedom fighters came with AR-15 strapped around their back, the Chinese Communist Party said, let's talk.

00:13:02.000 That's what they would have said.

00:13:03.000 Instead of that, you go obey us.

00:13:05.000 The founding fathers knew this.

00:13:07.000 And so I share your concern, but I think we must be very clear why we have a Second Amendment and what it's actually there for.

00:13:14.000 And I'm happy to go through any of the numbers or statistics because it's a completely misrepresented issue.

00:13:20.000 Let me just say statistically when it comes to this, how we deal with firearms in this nation.

00:13:24.000 But understand, they're going after your weapons for a reason.

00:13:28.000 They're going after your weapons through ammunition and through registration and these other things because they know you're going to be easier to control if you do not have a capacity to defend yourself if a tyrannical or despotic government ever comes after you.

00:13:41.000 So I share your concern.

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00:14:44.000 Good evening, Charlie.

00:14:45.000 My name is Angel.

00:14:46.000 I'm actually the chapter president for Turning Point.

00:14:49.000 Thank you.

00:14:50.000 Awesome.

00:14:53.000 I'm a first-gen immigrant, and I'm waiting for my interview this coming week.

00:14:58.000 So I'm actually really excited.

00:14:59.000 So I hope if any one of you guys join me in prayers.

00:15:05.000 And I think one thing that is really special to me is the idea of morality.

00:15:09.000 And you mentioned that a lot tonight.

00:15:11.000 And I wanted to ask you, how can we as conservatives keep each other in check?

00:15:16.000 Because I see us struggling as well.

00:15:19.000 What can we do to make sure that we're fighting for freedom united and we're actually doing it effectively?

00:15:26.000 What are your thoughts about that?

00:15:27.000 First of all, you're a great person and we need more people like you in our country.

00:15:31.000 So you actually love the nation.

00:15:34.000 And that's a deep question.

00:15:39.000 John Adams said our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.

00:15:45.000 It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

00:15:48.000 And so it's a different speech that I give to mostly younger audiences, is the most important fight that you're ever going to embark on is not against the left.

00:16:02.000 It's against your own desire and your own will.

00:16:06.000 That we used to raise children in America in the 1970s, and we said, America is awesome, and you're the problem, and you need a lot of work.

00:16:15.000 Now we say, you're awesome, and America's the problem and needs a lot of work.

00:16:21.000 We have a generation that taught young people self-esteem, not self-control.

00:16:26.000 So what I encourage younger audiences to do, and you say, how do we keep each other in check, is you must know what the proper course of action is for not just a young person, but for all people.

00:16:40.000 And what if I told you that a restraint keeps you free?

00:16:45.000 Let me say that again.

00:16:46.000 What if I told you what you don't do actually keeps you free?

00:16:50.000 It's the opposite of what every single person in secular culture will tell you.

00:16:54.000 It's the opposite of what Cardi B will tell you.

00:16:56.000 It's true.

00:16:58.000 What if I told you that our nation was founded on this idea?

00:17:01.000 It's in the Harvard Law School in the stairwell.

00:17:04.000 The law is the wise restraints that keep you free.

00:17:09.000 So let's just start with the originalistical, the Ten Commandments.

00:17:14.000 Pretty easy.

00:17:16.000 Five of how we deal with each other, five how we deal with our Creator.

00:17:19.000 One that contains a promise, the only one that contains a promise, which is honor your mother and father so that you may live long in the land of which you are in.

00:17:30.000 This is why totalitarians always try to break the bond between parents and children. 0.75

00:17:34.000 That's why you got the term Mother Russia. 0.55

00:17:36.000 That's why Mao Zedong put in the red guard.

00:17:39.000 It's why in 84 in Orwell, he said very clearly, parents feared their children, where their children are reporting their parents.

00:17:47.000 You start with those 10. 0.54

00:17:48.000 Those 10 is a good starting point.

00:17:50.000 But here's something that I encourage all young conservatives to do, which is hold each other accountable as well.

00:17:56.000 That's a hard thing to do because when you're young, there's a temptation and impulse to want to introduce the next forbidden thing, to want to be known as the person that's always pushing the boundaries.

00:18:10.000 That's normal.

00:18:11.000 What if I told you your normal nature is actually not what's going to keep you free, happy, content, or prosperous?

00:18:16.000 In fact, the Ten Commandments, all of them, and they're just the normal laws that we've built the West around because that's the root of it, is that they're not given to you so that it's the fun police.

00:18:31.000 They're actually given to you so that you might live more peaceful, peaceable, and quiet lives.

00:18:37.000 And so here's really what we're at right now.

00:18:40.000 We're in a theological debate in our country, and it might be different than you might think.

00:18:44.000 It's not Calvinist versus Arminius.

00:18:46.000 It's none of that stuff, okay?

00:18:47.000 Instead, it's very simple.

00:18:49.000 We believe two things, amongst other things.

00:18:52.000 We believe there is a God, and you are not him.

00:19:01.000 So, as soon as you recognize those two things, it's earth-shattering.

00:19:07.000 You mean my will is not everything?

00:19:10.000 Yeah, we get it that you read a chapter of Nietzsche.

00:19:12.000 You're not the most important person in the world, okay?

00:19:15.000 I'm the Übermensch.

00:19:16.000 You're nothing, okay? 1.00

00:19:19.000 God is dead.

00:19:20.000 No, he's alive, okay?

00:19:25.000 We're nothing more than a bunch of cells and passions and desires.

00:19:30.000 Well, if that's true, why is it that everywhere across the planet, people stop when they see a sunset?

00:19:38.000 Why does some music sound better than others?

00:19:41.000 Why is that some poetry just pops and resonates with our spirit?

00:19:45.000 Why is it that the Tokyo Philharmonic plays Johan Sebastian Buck?

00:19:50.000 Maybe it's because that music, that scenery, there's an order.

00:19:57.000 There's a good.

00:19:58.000 Some art is better than others.

00:20:00.000 There's a proper way of conducting yourself.

00:20:03.000 And typically, the more difficult thing is the good thing and the right thing.

00:20:09.000 America will either be fall or will succeed or thrive based on this.

00:20:17.000 Are we going to pursue virtue or pleasure?

00:20:20.000 Pleasure is easy.

00:20:23.000 It's harder to restrain yourself from that.

00:20:25.000 And by the way, for young people, it is more ubiquitous, more widespread than ever from one more joint hit, one more night out, just open up the laptop and you'll feel better.

00:20:38.000 Look, none of us are above anyone.

00:20:40.000 There's no moral, there's no moralizing from me on this.

00:20:44.000 We're all sinners.

00:20:46.000 But if you want to all of a sudden not just have your politics be the most important thing, instead, if you make your proper course of decisions and who you are and how you act, that's actually the sort of things that you should all be thinking about and focusing on.

00:20:59.000 And you guys need to hold each other accountable on that, where you're honest with each other.

00:21:03.000 And that's why you need to find a good church and you need to be pursuing truth in all things.

00:21:07.000 And by the way, once you start drinking from the streams of liberty, you're going to want to find its source.

00:21:13.000 And all of a sudden, you're going to realize that there is a good out there.

00:21:17.000 There's a purpose to all this.

00:21:19.000 The biggest lie that you are taught by secular culture every day is that there is no purpose to your action, your being, or anything you do.

00:21:29.000 I'll submit to you: everything you do actually matters.

00:21:31.000 And that's one of the most releasing things you could possibly believe in.

00:21:34.000 So I want to compliment you and good luck.

00:21:36.000 You're going to do very well on your interview.

00:21:38.000 And God bless you for being involved with Turning Point.

00:21:41.000 Thank you.

00:21:47.000 All right, here with Fatima, and she has an amazing question around something we're all facing: vaccines.

00:21:52.000 Oh, geez.

00:21:54.000 Yep.

00:21:55.000 Go ahead.

00:21:56.000 First off, I want to say thank you so much.

00:21:58.000 I am a completely different person if I compare myself to the person I was a year ago, to your knowledge and to your videos.

00:22:06.000 And it was thanks to that I joined a chapter in Cal State Fullerton.

00:22:17.000 So my question is, I received an email as well as many other students across the state of California where CSU and UCs are joining together to support required COVID vaccination upon the approval of the FDA, just so that we can have class in person in the fall.

00:22:40.000 So my question is, I'm not going to stand here, you know, and just say, you know, just crossing my hands, like, okay, what do I need to do?

00:22:46.000 What do we need to do as students and young adults?

00:22:49.000 So let me tell you my own personal perspective.

00:22:51.000 And I am not going, I'm not saying this as a judgment or any against anyone that made a decision.

00:22:58.000 I am personally not going to get the vaccine at all.

00:23:02.000 And I say this as I do not judge or criticize or accuse other people.

00:23:08.000 Everyone should make their own decision, filled with knowledge, and pray for wisdom, okay?

00:23:13.000 I am not going to do all of a sudden the thing where you go on TV and say what's the best for anyone.

00:23:18.000 But I'm going to go a step further that outside of the choice of it, the mandating of young people to get this vaccine is immoral and it's dangerous.

00:23:29.000 And so Long past the time of my body, my choice.

00:23:38.000 And look, what school do you go to?

00:23:41.000 Cal State Fullerton.

00:23:43.000 Cal State Fullerton.

00:23:44.000 Look, if you guys are looking for a rallying call, if you're looking for something to do, whatever these people meet, wherever they make their decisions for public comment, you need to show up in massive numbers and say, look, we're not going to judge if other people did it, but you are not going to force my child to get the vaccine.

00:24:03.000 That is not going to happen.

00:24:19.000 And so you're in a very difficult position.

00:24:23.000 And so I'll tell you what I would do.

00:24:24.000 This would be a deal-breaker for me, just so you know.

00:24:26.000 You can make whatever decision.

00:24:28.000 I would drop out of school over this.

00:24:30.000 Just so we're clear.

00:24:31.000 I'm not saying, I'm not saying that's the right move for you.

00:24:35.000 Please listen to me carefully.

00:24:36.000 I'm very careful to give individual advice because I don't know all the complexities and how hard you work to get into that.

00:24:43.000 That's where a close-knit group of people steeped in wisdom should give you that advice.

00:24:47.000 But for me, that's what I would do.

00:24:49.000 But for those of you that are in a position to be the guardians of a society, I'm talking about the adults, please come and defend these young children that are now being put in the crosshairs.

00:25:02.000 This is the time that we got to stand up for these kids.

00:25:06.000 And so, again, there's a lot of other people that have written extensively about that topic.

00:25:14.000 I look at this as a massive overreach.

00:25:18.000 I don't trust their motivations as is, but the amount almost zealots when it comes to this.

00:25:27.000 It is with religious fervor.

00:25:30.000 And I'll tell you right now, this is a no-go zone.

00:25:32.000 We have to draw the line.

00:25:34.000 I'm encouraged by your comments on it, and you're heading the right place.

00:25:37.000 And I hope someone in this audience who might be involved on a local level can come to you and counsel you and help you with that.

00:25:43.000 Because I know there's a lot of people working in that space right now.

00:25:47.000 But I want to commend you and encourage you.

00:25:49.000 You are not alone.

00:25:50.000 A lot of people are also fighting this.

00:25:51.000 So thank you.

00:25:58.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:25:59.000 My name is Luke Chavez, and I'm also a chapter president at Pacifica High School.

00:26:02.000 Awesome.

00:26:05.000 So you obviously talk a lot about being bold and how it takes courage to be an outspoken conservative.

00:26:10.000 So my question is: how do we create more courageous people, especially in high school, for those students who feel afraid to have an opinion because of opposition on campus?

00:26:19.000 So what high school do you go to?

00:26:20.000 Pacifica High School.

00:26:21.000 Pacifica.

00:26:22.000 It's in Garden Grove.

00:26:22.000 How far is that?

00:26:24.000 Okay, which is Orange County.

00:26:26.000 Okay.

00:26:26.000 I don't know.

00:26:27.000 I don't know California geography.

00:26:30.000 So can I give you guys a little bit of tough but honest love here?

00:26:37.000 Man, the number one thing that frustrates me is when I see young kids that are not getting the air support they need from the older generation.

00:26:46.000 The one thing I told you about Avery in Minnesota, and I could go, I have dozens of examples in the last six months of this.

00:26:53.000 What's amazing is that no adult stood up and defended the 16-year-old that was falsely maligned or accused of writing this, those text messages.

00:27:01.000 I was in Dallas recently, and the whole meeting was about local engagement and involvement.

00:27:06.000 And a kid steps up to the microphone and he says, I'm starting to be running the turning point group at the local high school and I've been called this and called that and all this and all that.

00:27:14.000 And the parents in the room were stunned and he's like, yeah, I've reached out for help and there's almost none to be given.

00:27:20.000 So some of you are saying, what can I do?

00:27:22.000 What can I do?

00:27:23.000 Man, go find the local turning point group.

00:27:25.000 Go find the local young conservative.

00:27:27.000 Host them over for dinner.

00:27:28.000 Tell them they're not alone.

00:27:30.000 Encourage them.

00:27:31.000 Fill them up.

00:27:31.000 Build them up.

00:27:32.000 Because if you guys, if you think you're facing a lot because your neighbor's going to call you a name, imagine going to a high school every day.

00:27:40.000 What have you been called?

00:27:41.000 Racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, even though my board is all women.

00:27:47.000 So, and have you have you have you lost friends because of this? 0.67

00:27:47.000 Yeah. 0.67

00:27:53.000 Yeah, of course.

00:27:54.000 I'm not really sad about that, though.

00:27:56.000 Yeah.

00:27:57.000 See?

00:27:58.000 Liberating.

00:28:02.000 And so, look, here's what I'm going to tell you, though.

00:28:06.000 And this might not need what you need to hear.

00:28:09.000 In your moral bank account, you are getting deposited every single day more than you could ever imagine.

00:28:16.000 So you might not feel that way, but you are getting ACH transfers every day, creating you to be a better human being.

00:28:24.000 Where all your other friends, they're just bankrupting themselves because they're always going to be angry around the next thing.

00:28:30.000 They're always going to be accusing.

00:28:31.000 But you stand fast and you stand firm and you're clear and you don't get angry and you don't retaliate and you know why you believe what you believe.

00:28:37.000 When you're 24, 26, 30, you're going to own the world.

00:28:40.000 And that's where I tell these young kids is you're going to go through it, but it's going to, it's going to strengthen the muscle memory and the muscle mass of your character.

00:28:50.000 And that's what we should do to our young kids anyway, right?

00:28:53.000 We should put them in high-pressure situations and we should defend them against the baseless and senseless attacks.

00:28:58.000 But also, it's like, you know what?

00:29:00.000 You are all going to be tougher because of this.

00:29:02.000 And you want to talk about the kids that are not going to be able to, you know, to endure the inevitable suffering or the difficulty of life.

00:29:10.000 It's those kids that are the ones that are throwing all those sorts of insults and backlashes for you.

00:29:14.000 And so, but also know this: which is the more the happiest people in the world, and I use that word, Aristotle talked about happiness a lot, and it's very simple.

00:29:26.000 It's the freedom you have in never having to pretend you're somebody else or disguising your belief is better than any home, plain job.

00:29:38.000 It is the greatest gift that God gives his children: saying, every day, I don't have to put on a costume.

00:29:44.000 I don't have to pretend I'm someone I'm not.

00:29:47.000 I am who I am in private and I am in public.

00:29:49.000 And that's a gift that I wish for all people.

00:29:52.000 And you have that gift.

00:29:53.000 And you should be very thankful for that.

00:29:56.000 So good.

00:29:58.000 Amazing.

00:29:59.000 We're over here with Sonny.

00:30:01.000 And she's got a question on something I'm very passionate about.

00:30:04.000 So I'm excited to hear your thoughts.

00:30:05.000 Oh, boy, Samuel.

00:30:05.000 Here we go.

00:30:07.000 So, first of all, I want to say thank you for everything you've done, especially for helping young Americans fight for our freedom.

00:30:12.000 My question is regarding around the mask issues.

00:30:14.000 So I know that it's different in each state.

00:30:16.000 I know that the mask mandate is kind of different.

00:30:18.000 As far as I know, the only place where I've been able to go in California and not wear a mask and be free, truly free, is in this very church itself, which I'm very grateful for.

00:30:34.000 I think it's really strange, especially as a woman that the left wants to free the nipple, but we have to cover our mouth and our nose. 0.66

00:30:42.000 That's so true.

00:30:45.000 So my question is: how as truly free Americans can we fight against the mask mandate?

00:30:54.000 Because it's not just like, it's not just local stores.

00:30:57.000 It's everywhere that we go, we are forced to wear it.

00:31:01.000 So how do we go about that?

00:31:02.000 How do we fight against that?

00:31:03.000 Such a great point.

00:31:04.000 So I'll tell you, this without getting into the scientific studies, I encourage you guys to check them out.

00:31:14.000 There's plenty of scientific studies that show it's actually having an adverse reaction.

00:31:18.000 And look, I'm a mask agnostic.

00:31:21.000 If you really want to wear one and you think they work, whatever, fine.

00:31:24.000 You have liberty to do that.

00:31:25.000 You had liberty before that or after one.

00:31:27.000 The mandates are what bother me, but I think that more than that, and I've talked about the mandates a lot, I think we should have a different conversation, which is, has anyone ever had even a five-second conversation of what are the downsides to having people wear masks?

00:31:44.000 Now, I'm not just talking about the health ones.

00:31:47.000 I'm just saying, does it make us more decent to each other?

00:31:52.000 Does it make us more likely to be able to love your neighbor? 1.00

00:31:56.000 You see, six years ago, I was on a campus tour, five or six years ago, and I spoke out against the Muslim hijab. 1.00

00:32:05.000 Because I said it was dehumanizing against women, and I said that it is totalitarian and medieval and backwards.

00:32:12.000 Now, of course, the media had their go at it.

00:32:14.000 Of course, they did.

00:32:15.000 It's the same sort of principle here.

00:32:17.000 And so, here's another really interesting question that I don't think people are asking.

00:32:22.000 Does it make you more or less likely to think independently and creatively and not be part of a cog in a machine of some sort of larger plan?

00:32:33.000 And that's an interesting question.

00:32:34.000 I think we all kind of know the answer to that.

00:32:37.000 The other question is, why is it with almost a religious zeal, to use that term again, that these people are then signaling towards you that you must wear one?

00:32:48.000 If it works, then you're wearing one, and so I don't quite understand that.

00:32:51.000 And if you've already had the virus, you have the antibodies, why do I have to continue to wear one?

00:32:56.000 And then allegedly, the vaccine is going to work, and then you still have to wear one.

00:33:00.000 Two.

00:33:02.000 And so, how do you resist against that?

00:33:06.000 Well, first of all, I have been underwhelmed with legal challenges.

00:33:10.000 The fact that there has not been a robust HIPAA challenge saying that it very well might be a violation of my health privacy is really beyond me.

00:33:21.000 And so, that still needs to work its way through the courts.

00:33:24.000 So, here's how you break the mask mandate almost immediately.

00:33:26.000 It's not easy, but I'm a big believer in civil disobedience.

00:33:32.000 Now, let me be clear.

00:33:34.000 You applaud, but there's a moral Christian way to do civil disobedience.

00:33:39.000 It's the way Christ did civil disobedience.

00:33:41.000 So, there's rules.

00:33:44.000 Number one, you must be very clear in the why of what you're doing, the purpose.

00:33:50.000 Number two, you must be willing to accept the punishment completely and totally, no resisting, no evading, and you lean into the punishment.

00:34:00.000 Okay?

00:34:01.000 You say, that's me, take me away, whatever it is.

00:34:04.000 And then, number three, you are joyous and optimistic and cheerful when that punishment comes towards you.

00:34:11.000 You're not a victim because you're the one that asked for it to come.

00:34:14.000 So, what does it look like?

00:34:16.000 Well, I'll tell you this.

00:34:17.000 If 1,100 people here, if you guys all decided to go into Walmart at once with no mask on, the mask mandate would end very quickly.

00:34:24.000 Now, let's do it.

00:34:36.000 I think we got a field trip, Jürgen, that you got planned here.

00:34:42.000 Look.

00:34:48.000 And it's the little things that matter with this.

00:34:52.000 Look, I never wear one when I go in, and they absolutely demand it.

00:34:55.000 I need that product, I put it in.

00:34:57.000 The airline thing's hard, right?

00:34:59.000 Because I fly so much, and I just have to do it.

00:35:02.000 And then they changed the mask rule where I used to wear this gator, and now it has to be, because of course, epidemiologically, that's so much safer, right?

00:35:11.000 No one can explain all of it.

00:35:12.000 But look, here's the broader point, which is that, and here's just a question.

00:35:16.000 I'm not saying the answer to it.

00:35:18.000 Are they social conditioning an entire country to make you more willing to obey what they tell you?

00:35:27.000 Where do they stop?

00:35:30.000 These are questions that I think you're all smart enough to be able to answer.

00:35:35.000 And if you allow the mask, what else are you going to allow them to do?

00:35:39.000 And so this is not a little thing.

00:35:41.000 And if you believe it works, go ahead.

00:35:43.000 You could wear one for the rest of your life.

00:35:46.000 But this is not a small thing.

00:35:48.000 This is a question that is so significant to our humanity.

00:35:54.000 Let me read this Aristotle quote again.

00:35:56.000 I think it's really important for emphasis towards the end.

00:36:00.000 It'll keep all people as unknown to one another.

00:36:02.000 This is what tyrants do.

00:36:03.000 They keep people unknown to one another as possible, since familiarity breeds a greater degree of mutual trust.

00:36:12.000 A nation cannot exist if you don't trust your neighbor.

00:36:17.000 A nation does not exist if you can't even see your neighbor.

00:36:20.000 And I'll say this, I said this earlier.

00:36:21.000 When I see a three-year-old that thinks the normative way a human being exists in the world is masked up, sit down, obey, command and control.

00:36:34.000 This is a beacon of freedom.

00:36:36.000 But now it's time for this beacon of freedom to spread it throughout this community.

00:36:39.000 Because I'm telling you right now, people are waiting for other people to stand up against this mask nonsense.

00:36:45.000 They are waiting for it.

00:36:49.000 And so, remember the rules.

00:36:52.000 So, Jurgen, you might get arrested for not wearing the mask.

00:36:56.000 Unlikely.

00:36:57.000 But it's not a small thing.

00:37:00.000 And they are getting repealed in a lot of states, but they're going to keep this going until people push back against it.

00:37:04.000 So thank you so much.

00:37:05.000 Next question.

00:37:08.000 Hi, my name is Lucas.

00:37:10.000 And, you know, I actually like that you just said about how people are waiting for someone to stand up.

00:37:15.000 I feel like on a college campus, on a high school campus, in any big city, there are so many loud leftist people.

00:37:24.000 And I'm wondering what you think would be a shot heard around the world for conservatives to also be just as loud and to not just silence themselves.

00:37:33.000 So it's a great question.

00:37:36.000 And we talked about this recently.

00:37:37.000 I'm going to start doing this.

00:37:38.000 So we're getting married in 12 days.

00:37:39.000 We're very excited about that.

00:37:43.000 And then we're going on a honeymoon after.

00:37:46.000 So right after the honeymoon, Jürgen, I need your help with this.

00:37:50.000 Right after the honeymoon, I'm coming back, and I'm going to do this spontaneous project where I'm going to appear at school board meetings across the country.

00:38:15.000 And this woman talked the other day.

00:38:19.000 I know you all saw that video.

00:38:21.000 You know you could show up to your school board meeting.

00:38:24.000 All of you.

00:38:24.000 So maybe here at Awakened Church, maybe you say, hey, our small group, all 80 of us, 100 of us or 10 of us, we are going to go up to this school board meeting and we are going to do public comment and we are going to look our leaders in the eye and we are going to give public testimony on that.

00:38:39.000 So the question is, what is the shot heard around the world?

00:38:42.000 It only happens when there's more voices actually being elevated.

00:38:46.000 There's more people stepping into those moments, challenging and confronting their leaders.

00:38:51.000 All of you have a super weapon, and that's called your phone.

00:38:56.000 Next time you come in contact with someone who's in charge of you, talk to them with a Christ-like attitude, 100% grace, and 100% truth.

00:39:06.000 And you ask questions like Christ did, and you film yourself talking to that person in charge of you.

00:39:12.000 Here's the law of averages.

00:39:14.000 There's 1,200 people in this room, rather enthusiastic bunch.

00:39:18.000 One of you in the next week is going to come across someone in charge of you that has taken your freedoms away in the next year.

00:39:23.000 What are you going to do?

00:39:26.000 Not just stand up, you're going to approach them and you're going to film it.

00:39:29.000 And you're going to ask them the questions.

00:39:31.000 And you're going to be ready for that.

00:39:33.000 In the next month, 100 of you will come in contact with them.

00:39:36.000 In the next year, half this room will.

00:39:39.000 I'm talking to everyone from Nancy Pelosi to your local mayor, anyone that infringed on your freedoms and liberties.

00:39:44.000 And what they fear the most is a confrontation.

00:39:48.000 And even more than that, they fear that confrontation being filmed.

00:39:52.000 And it doesn't have to be perfect, but you have to have that 100% grace.

00:39:55.000 You're not going to call them names.

00:39:56.000 You're going to say, sir, I pay taxes in this local area.

00:39:59.000 Why are our kids not in school?

00:40:00.000 Sir, do you know that kids are actually committing suicide more than dying from the Chinese coronavirus?

00:40:05.000 You're going to hold that phone in your hand.

00:40:06.000 It might be trembling, but that's what courage is, right?

00:40:09.000 And that's how you're going to change the world.

00:40:10.000 And then, as soon as you have that video, as soon as you have that video, you're going to email it to me at freedom at charliekirk.com, and I will make sure a lot of people see that video.

00:40:20.000 And I'm telling you right now, a lot of people.

00:40:24.000 It's true.

00:40:26.000 Because we got airtime we have to fill.

00:40:31.000 And I would love to fill our two hours of radio every day with just normal people standing up against the tyrants.

00:40:39.000 I would love that.

00:40:40.000 And again, I'm not doing, people are going to say, you're doing the Maxine Waters thing.

00:40:45.000 Let me reemphasize.

00:40:46.000 Christ-like, 100% grace, 100% truth.

00:40:50.000 With the iPhone in hand, calmly saying, why are you doing this to us?

00:40:56.000 Can you answer for this?

00:40:58.000 Because those people work for you.

00:41:00.000 You don't work for them.

00:41:01.000 That's the contract and the compact that we have in this country.

00:41:04.000 And so to answer your question, what does that moment look like?

00:41:07.000 It looks like people like in this room beginning to do that.

00:41:09.000 But even beyond that, I believe we're close to that kind of moment.

00:41:12.000 I really are.

00:41:13.000 I really do.

00:41:13.000 I believe that we're so close to this situation happening where decent people are going to say, that's it.

00:41:20.000 I'm not going to take it anymore.

00:41:21.000 So thank you so much for your question.

00:41:22.000 I appreciate that.

00:41:28.000 I'm here with Amy, and she has a question about something that you deal with often, actually.

00:41:32.000 Oh, boy.

00:41:33.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:41:35.000 I work in big, not big tech, but tech.

00:41:37.000 So I'm kind of here in secret.

00:41:40.000 Oh, boy.

00:41:42.000 I don't know if this is the best place for you to be.

00:41:44.000 I know.

00:41:47.000 I enjoyed your Washington Post op-ed about the sort of tension between the publisher platform issue and then that conservatives would prefer not to regulate.

00:41:59.000 And so I just wanted to make sure that you knew that the nerds in my community are working on, have really already built solutions that use decentralized technology and blockchain and that kind of thing to completely make censorship impossible, functionally, technically impossible, and to create a true public space on the internet, which is what we're lacking right now, which is why we have this issue that you're talking about, because all the spaces are private.

00:42:29.000 So I was just wondering if you at turning point had considered using a tool like Open Index Protocol or something like that to make your information kind of more censorship resistant.

00:42:42.000 Yeah.

00:42:42.000 And that, you know, you talked about self-censorship, and I think that one of the things that would help us to overcome self-censorship is if we were able to really know that our voices would be heard and that this would be that kind of path.

00:42:54.000 Sure.

00:42:54.000 I'd love to look into that technology.

00:42:56.000 I think the present problem is that almost all the conversation is kind of fenced into four or five different companies right now, right?

00:43:04.000 So it'd have to take a user change as well to gravitate towards these other companies, right?

00:43:10.000 Yeah.

00:43:11.000 So let me tell you, I wrote that op-ed a year and a half ago.

00:43:15.000 I've become much more, let's say, committed to the issue.

00:43:21.000 I used to say we shouldn't regulate these companies.

00:43:23.000 Now I believe we should regulate and break up all these companies.

00:43:25.000 But the thing is, you can do it without regulation.

00:43:27.000 You can fix the problem without regulation.

00:43:29.000 Yeah, but how would you fix it?

00:43:30.000 I'm just curious, like if everyone's on Facebook and Instagram, how would you change their behavioral habits?

00:43:36.000 So what you would do is you would.

00:43:39.000 There's okay, so sorry, there's one thing that you would do regulation-wise, and you would say you would follow the case precedent of the 1956 consent decree that happened with ATT.

00:43:49.000 They would basically force them to open their indexes.

00:43:52.000 And if their indexes are open.

00:43:55.000 Yes, but that's the thing is that Google's index is a public good.

00:44:00.000 You know, it's all the information on the internet.

00:44:02.000 And if that was opened the way that they opened AT ⁇ T's patents with the 1956 consent decree, then there could be true competition because the decentralized systems could basically ingest all of that information and then it would be completely available and anybody could build an app on top of it.

00:44:18.000 So I hear you.

00:44:19.000 I think there's also another problem though than just censorship.

00:44:23.000 And that used to be like the focus of mine.

00:44:25.000 I just think that generally these companies are too big and they're monopolistic in their behavior.

00:44:31.000 And the censorship is a byproduct of their stance in the market, right?

00:44:36.000 But I hear you.

00:44:36.000 I'd love to learn more about that technology and all of that.

00:44:40.000 I think here's the issue though.

00:44:42.000 So if let's say you have a couple, you call them nerds with that company.

00:44:46.000 So here's the issue is that they're going to be offered a deal to sell their company to Google for $300 million if the idea is good.

00:44:53.000 And it's going to be a hard thing to say no, right?

00:44:56.000 Because Google comes in, and I want to get a couple more questions, but if Google comes in with this massive purse and they say, we're going to have a ridiculous multiple on your company take you off.

00:45:06.000 You've seen it, right?

00:45:08.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:45:08.000 Totally.

00:45:09.000 Really quick, yeah.

00:45:10.000 Sorry.

00:45:11.000 Yeah, totally.

00:45:11.000 100%.

00:45:12.000 Two things is that the community of the decentralized web is just kind of against that in general, that idea.

00:45:18.000 They're very idealistic themselves.

00:45:19.000 You guys have allies there, just you don't realize it yet.

00:45:23.000 And then the other part of it would just be that the technology can't be stopped.

00:45:28.000 I don't know.

00:45:29.000 I can explain it technically, but not here, obviously.

00:45:31.000 But it just can't be.

00:45:32.000 And so it's just functionally different than anything we've seen before.

00:45:35.000 Sure.

00:45:36.000 No, I'm interested in learning at that.

00:45:38.000 My current focus is making the current oligarch suffer for what they've done to our country.

00:45:44.000 Thank you.

00:45:45.000 All right, next question.

00:45:48.000 We'll take a couple more.

00:45:49.000 I know it's getting late, everybody.

00:45:50.000 Yeah, a couple more.

00:45:51.000 Hello, Mr. Kirk.

00:45:52.000 My name is Raul representing TPUSA.

00:45:54.000 Thank you.

00:45:55.000 God bless you.

00:45:56.000 Yeah.

00:45:57.000 I had a question for you.

00:45:58.000 First, I want to read a quote from Hillary Clinton from the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

00:46:03.000 She says, if he, Donald Trump, had put his own interests and ego to the side, seeing the humanity of a child being ripped from her parents at the border, or a protester calling for justice, or a family being wiped out by a natural disaster, that would have been a good thing for America and for the world.

00:46:20.000 I wish Donald Trump knew how to be a president.

00:46:22.000 Boo, right?

00:46:23.000 Yeah, right.

00:46:24.000 Let me see.

00:46:26.000 All right.

00:46:27.000 Well, I just want to say, with that being said, from an advocate point of view, you, can Hillary's lack of engagement reflect negatively, considering lack of engagement within the border crisis, condemning violence in the recent riots, can that reflect negatively on her considering she ran for office and promised to be, you know, I don't think a lot of people are putting a lot of mind space behind Hillary Clinton right now.

00:46:52.000 But yeah, I mean, look, probably, I don't know if she'll ever run for anything again, but I could tell you that.

00:46:59.000 I mean, I could tell you this.

00:47:00.000 One of the greatest moral goods that Donald Trump ever did to our country is making sure she never became president.

00:47:05.000 Let me tell you why.

00:47:09.000 But yeah, so unfortunately, she's not held accountable for any of the things that she does or says.

00:47:17.000 None of them are, but I appreciate the spirit of the question.

00:47:20.000 So thank you.

00:47:21.000 Thanks, man.

00:47:22.000 Okay, one or two more.

00:47:23.000 Where's Sam?

00:47:24.000 Okay.

00:47:24.000 Right here.

00:47:25.000 Just mining the gold here in the audience.

00:47:27.000 Go ahead and ask your question.

00:47:29.000 So I'm an artist, you know, and it's one of the areas that conservatives are very lacking in, you know?

00:47:34.000 And, you know, we see like cartoon networks doing all like saying stuff about systemic racism and stuff.

00:47:40.000 And you see people talking about it, but you don't see people doing anything about it.

00:47:43.000 You see that there's a lot of like wealthy conservatives and stuff like that that could invest into companies becoming conservative animation studios or publishers or things like that.

00:47:52.000 And so it's like, what do you think?

00:47:54.000 How do we infiltrate the arts again?

00:47:56.000 Like bring back Hollywood to our side.

00:47:59.000 I agree completely.

00:48:00.000 Look, one of the biggest mistakes is that conservatives 30 years ago only cared about winning elections and publishing white papers and donating to their liberal colleges when the left invested in Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network and Disney and Paramount and all these different mediums of cultural communication.

00:48:21.000 And we're looking at this landscape and we control nothing.

00:48:24.000 And so now it has to be a moment of building new things, new exciting stuff.

00:48:27.000 Here's the biggest, you want to know the biggest, if anyone out there is funny, the biggest land, we have a comedic deficit in our country right now.

00:48:36.000 There is so much material out there.

00:48:38.000 I mean, seriously, I mean, if anyone is even a little bit funny, just start a show.

00:48:42.000 Seriously.

00:48:44.000 I'm not kidding.

00:48:45.000 You know why no one's funny?

00:48:47.000 And then we'll do one more.

00:48:49.000 Comedy is truth.

00:48:51.000 You laugh because something is true.

00:48:53.000 Right?

00:48:54.000 God has a good sense of humor too, sometimes.

00:48:57.000 And you laugh when it's like, oh, my goodness, that makes sense to me.

00:49:00.000 Well, no one's saying anything true anymore, so no one's laughing.

00:49:04.000 And also, the left cannot stand mockery.

00:49:07.000 They cannot, against themselves.

00:49:09.000 They can't talk.

00:49:10.000 You never make fun of the party.

00:49:13.000 You never make fun of the person in charge.

00:49:15.000 Comedy is a way that you can, there's a reason why Stalin and Mao, they all locked up the comedians almost instantaneously.

00:49:22.000 And so if anyone has any ideas of how to be funny, please start your own channel.

00:49:26.000 We need more content.

00:49:27.000 Whatever it is, there's not enough happen.

00:49:29.000 Everyone's so serious all the time.

00:49:31.000 We are dealing with people that are literally getting rid of Dr. Seuss and saying that math is racist and that men are women and women are men.

00:49:37.000 There's so much material here that, no, serious, it's like, I've never, it is the greatest opening that I, and I'll say this: that I have a whole idea for a show called Corporate.

00:49:47.000 It's like a new office, but it's like kind of like dealing with all of this stuff where, anyway, it's just, yeah, but it could, thank you.

00:49:56.000 But you think about no one's actually making any shows or any comedy over the woke industrial complex.

00:50:03.000 It is the easiest thing ever to make fun of.

00:50:06.000 And I'm telling you, you want to communicate with the most amount of people.

00:50:10.000 You make them laugh.

00:50:12.000 It extends your life.

00:50:13.000 It puts you in a better mood.

00:50:14.000 It makes you think.

00:50:15.000 And this is something that last thing I'll say.

00:50:17.000 The smartest people, the funniest people are also brilliant.

00:50:19.000 Never discount that.

00:50:20.000 It's really hard to be continually funny and not wise and not smart.

00:50:25.000 So I know that you're talking about animation studios, but I hope that there's a change in kind of the mindset of people who say, I want to invest in things that matter and creative.

00:50:33.000 We do a lot of that at Turning Point USA.

00:50:34.000 You guys know Benny Johnson.

00:50:35.000 He's a very funny guy.

00:50:36.000 And so we do a lot of that.

00:50:38.000 Okay, last question.

00:50:40.000 Okay.

00:50:40.000 Hi, my name is Adam Maynard and I'm in sixth grade.

00:50:44.000 Wow.

00:50:52.000 And at my school, there's like this liberal teacher that's just very annoying. 0.64

00:50:57.000 And she always makes us watch this CNN 10 or whatever, like fake liberals stuff.

00:51:15.000 I just want to know how I can help the people that don't really know what's actually going on.

00:51:23.000 So, what's your name again?

00:51:26.000 What's your name again?

00:51:27.000 It's Adam.

00:51:28.000 I'm going to be working for you one day, okay?

00:51:33.000 So, Adam, let me tell you a story.

00:51:38.000 When I was in sixth grade, I went to MacArthur Middle School outside of Chicago.

00:51:42.000 And they used to make me watch this thing called Channel 1 News.

00:51:47.000 Anyone remember that?

00:51:48.000 It was on this old kind of staticky television.

00:51:53.000 And I remember my teachers' names.

00:51:54.000 I'm not going to say them.

00:51:56.000 But one teacher in particular, science teacher, decided to introduce to the class this new documentary, bold documentary called Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore.

00:52:09.000 And I was in sixth grade, as you are, and she showed it to the class, and everyone was crying and weeping.

00:52:16.000 I was unmoved by it.

00:52:19.000 So I thought to myself, this is highly irrational, that the world is going to end as quickly as they say it's going to end.

00:52:24.000 So I remember writing all these questions, very like, well, how much human activity do we actually have to hamper and pervert, all these sorts of things.

00:52:32.000 Teacher didn't like it.

00:52:33.000 But I'll tell you this, that what do you do?

00:52:36.000 You're in sixth grade.

00:52:38.000 I spoke out, and I learned as much as I could.

00:52:41.000 And I'm so glad I did, because sixth grade turned into seventh grade, and the conversation expanded.

00:52:46.000 And eighth grade turned into freshman year, freshman year, eventually senior year.

00:52:49.000 And being in sixth grade, I remember that moment where I said, you know what?

00:52:54.000 I'm going to be disagreeable.

00:52:56.000 I'm going to just be honest.

00:52:58.000 I didn't do very well in that class.

00:52:59.000 I can tell you that much.

00:53:01.000 But what you're dealing with and you're wrestling with is going to turn you into a mature and wise, courageous person.

00:53:13.000 And you want to say something, Adam?

00:53:21.000 Do you mind taking a picture with me after?

00:53:23.000 Of course I'll take a picture.

00:53:26.000 But I'll say this, Adam.

00:53:30.000 I'll close with this.

00:53:32.000 And I want you all to look at Adam, which literally means man.

00:53:40.000 If you guys want to know, what are we doing here?

00:53:45.000 What's next?

00:53:47.000 Adam's in sixth grade, which means you're 12, 13, right?

00:53:50.000 12?

00:53:51.000 It's a fun age.

00:53:54.000 Adam can vote in six years.

00:54:00.000 So sixth graders, we don't really take them that seriously, like politically.

00:54:05.000 Okay, they're going to grow up.

00:54:06.000 Question is, what kind of country are we going to leave Adam?

00:54:08.000 Right?

00:54:10.000 What are we going to do now?

00:54:13.000 But the question we should really be asking is, why is he doing more than I'm doing?

00:54:18.000 He's coming to an event tonight and asking me advice how he can stand up to his teacher to stand for truth.

00:54:24.000 He's in sixth grade asking this question.

00:54:29.000 And so when I say that people are moving into action, when I say people are getting into the posture to save the country, that's a leading indicator.

00:54:40.000 So I'm saying to everyone out there that, and I get it, you got good lives.

00:54:44.000 We're going to tie it all together.

00:54:46.000 This is a moment that I want more than anything else, that moment when Winston Churchill went and smiled at his war secretaries.

00:54:55.000 And it's going to happen with courage.

00:54:56.000 It's going to happen with truth.

00:54:58.000 It's going to happen when Adam goes back to his sixth grade teacher tomorrow and says, I heard this guy named Charlie Kirk, and he told me you're wrong and that our rights come from God.

00:55:06.000 That's what you're going to say.

00:55:10.000 And he watches you all the time.

00:55:14.000 And it's going to start here tonight.

00:55:18.000 So tonight, you have to make a decision.

00:55:21.000 Tonight, you're going to say, am I going to be a spectator and slap him on the back?

00:55:24.000 Good luck, Adam.

00:55:25.000 Have a nice life.

00:55:26.000 Or I'm going to say, you know what, I'm going to get in the arena right now and I'm going to act boldly and courageously.

00:55:31.000 I'm going to go run for school board.

00:55:33.000 I'm at least going to show up for it.

00:55:34.000 I'm going to go get petitions.

00:55:36.000 I'm going to get involved in the recall.

00:55:37.000 I'm going to start to listen to more of these issues, these ideas.

00:55:40.000 I'm going to go into some Walmart without a mask with 100 of my clothes.

00:55:43.000 Whatever it is, tonight it starts to chart your course of courage and action.

00:55:49.000 And I want to thank you all because I'm given hope by all of you.

00:55:51.000 It is not over till we say it's over.

00:55:54.000 We are going to win.

00:55:57.000 Thank you guys.

00:56:03.000 Email us your questions, everybody.

00:56:04.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:56:05.000 CharlieKirk.com should be your go-to destination for all news and information.

00:56:10.000 Check out Turning Point USA.

00:56:12.000 As always, if you're a high school student, get involved.

00:56:14.000 If you're a college student, get involved.

00:56:15.000 If you're a parent, go to tpusa.com and look at ways that you can get involved.

00:56:20.000 We have our Young Women's Leadership Summit coming up.

00:56:22.000 We want to pack it up.

00:56:24.000 tpusa.com slash ywls.

00:56:27.000 My fiancé, soon-to-be-wife, will be speaking there.

00:56:30.000 That'll be great.

00:56:32.000 tpusa.com slash ywls. 1.00

00:56:34.000 Yes, only women are allowed. 0.60

00:56:37.000 Men, you are not allowed to change your gender to go. 0.86

00:56:39.000 Sorry.

00:56:40.000 And so we have our student action summit in July, and that will be something that everyone can come to, tpusa.com.

00:56:47.000 You guys should just check it once or twice a day anyway.

00:56:49.000 We're updating it more and more often.

00:56:51.000 We have some big announcements coming there.

00:56:53.000 Love hearing from you, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:56:55.000 And God bless all of you that email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:56:59.000 God bless you guys.

00:57:00.000 Let's have a great week.

00:57:01.000 Make it a good one.

00:57:02.000 Talk to you soon.

The Charlie Kirk Show - May 03, 2021

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