The Charlie Kirk Show - September 06, 2021


Ask Charlie Anything 78: How Did Charlie's Parents Instill Conservative Values? What Happens if Joe Biden Is Impeached? How to Start Home Schooling and MUCH MORE


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In this episode, Pastor Kelly answers questions from listeners about the war in Afghanistan and what the country should do in the wake of President Obama's decision to withdraw all troops from the country. She also answers a question from a woman who wants to know what's next for our troops in Afghanistan.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, happy Monday.
00:00:01.000 This ask me anythings a little different where I had people call in and we took questions in real time.
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00:00:18.000 How did my parents instill conservative values and so much more?
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00:00:46.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:47.000 Here we go.
00:00:48.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:50.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:52.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
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00:00:59.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:01:00.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:01:01.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:01:03.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
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00:01:09.000 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.
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00:01:49.000 Okay, I want to get to some calls here.
00:01:52.000 We'll go to Kenny in Denton, Texas.
00:01:55.000 Line two.
00:01:55.000 Hey, Kenny, how you doing?
00:01:57.000 Hey, good.
00:01:58.000 How are you doing, Charlie?
00:01:59.000 Good.
00:01:59.000 What's on your mind?
00:02:00.000 You know, I'm a veteran.
00:02:02.000 I just got out of the military.
00:02:03.000 I worked on the C-17s.
00:02:05.000 I was a flying crew chief.
00:02:06.000 And a lot of my brothers and sisters were over there in Afghanistan withdrawing all these troops and Afghans.
00:02:12.000 What's next?
00:02:14.000 Because I look on the news and I see this and it just makes me sick.
00:02:17.000 I don't know.
00:02:18.000 Like, what's next for Afghanistan? 0.61
00:02:20.000 What are we going to do?
00:02:21.000 Kenny, thank you for your call.
00:02:23.000 And so I want to dive into this.
00:02:25.000 It's a great question.
00:02:25.000 Thank you for your service to our great country.
00:02:28.000 Look, the problem with what's happening in Afghanistan is the way we got out with no conditions at all whatsoever.
00:02:38.000 And the strategy of the current government and the regime of the United States is somehow putting forward a moral equivalent of the Taliban who kill Christians and rip out their tongues, subjugate women, marry teenagers with any of our other allies or partners around the world.
00:02:57.000 This was not done with prudence.
00:02:59.000 This was done ideologically.
00:03:01.000 This was done because Joe Biden wanted to say on September 11th that he ended the war.
00:03:06.000 Now, that sounds good, but anyone who has ever been in consequential decision making knows that you do not start with this desired object of the photo op and work backwards.
00:03:18.000 You see, Joe Biden had photo op foreign policy.
00:03:22.000 He wanted to be able to have a photo op at 9-11 and hang a wreath there and say, I ended the war.
00:03:28.000 I think, my president, I don't know.
00:03:31.000 The point is that he started with what he thought was the political win and then tried to craft the circumstances on the ground to fit that political win.
00:03:41.000 And in reality, it should be the exact opposite.
00:03:43.000 You see, what's happening on the ground?
00:03:45.000 And so now I'm watching video of people wearing American fatigues and uniforms with our weapons that are Taliban with our night vision goggles walking through airports, walking down the street.
00:03:59.000 And we gave these weapons voluntarily.
00:04:01.000 That will come out.
00:04:02.000 I have that on high intelligence.
00:04:04.000 And so, Kenny, I'm sorry to say that we're not going back at all into Afghanistan.
00:04:08.000 I'm not saying I'm sorry to say that.
00:04:09.000 I don't actually support that.
00:04:12.000 But what a disaster and a humiliation for what just happened in Afghanistan of so many Americans that sacrificed so much.
00:04:21.000 And then we hand over weapons and money, $85 billion in weapons to the Taliban who killed Americans and that we were at war with for many years.
00:04:37.000 So thank you for your call, Kenny.
00:04:39.000 Let's get to Kelly in Ingleside, Texas.
00:04:42.000 And she has some words to share from her pastor.
00:04:45.000 Kelly, how you doing?
00:04:46.000 I'm good.
00:04:47.000 How are you, Charlie?
00:04:48.000 Tell me about your pastor.
00:04:48.000 Doing great.
00:04:50.000 Yes, sir.
00:04:51.000 First, I wanted to thank you for your work and dedicate John 9:4 to you.
00:04:56.000 I must do the work of him who sent me night is coming when no one can work.
00:05:00.000 Thank you so much.
00:05:01.000 So my, yeah, my church is not Calvary Chapel by any means.
00:05:05.000 But my plant pastor made a call to action a month ago and said, we need volunteers to do community prayer and outreach.
00:05:13.000 And then he put the brakes on it.
00:05:15.000 When that month was up, he put the brakes on and said, oh, no, we can't do any of that because of COVID.
00:05:22.000 And I just wanted to get your take on that.
00:05:24.000 Well, first, thank you so much for your call and thank you for that verse.
00:05:28.000 And so, look, I use the model for the pastors of how you should run a church.
00:05:34.000 Rob McCoy, Jack Hibbs, James Cadiz, Joe Pettick, Pastor Juergen, Pastor Frank Ramseur from Chattanooga, Ken Graves, Pastor Cody from Grand Rapids.
00:05:46.000 These are amazing pastors that have been engaged in the community and they have been feeding the hungry.
00:05:53.000 They have been caring for the sick.
00:05:55.000 They have been tenderly looking after the disadvantaged in their community while also proclaiming moral truth from the scriptures and not allowing secular narratives to seep into the church and also saying to their congregation, here is what is right and here's what is wrong.
00:06:09.000 It says in the scriptures to love what is good and hate what is evil.
00:06:14.000 You see, Friedrich Nietzsche, who basically was the beginning of the postmodern movement, he wrote a book called Beyond Good and Evil.
00:06:24.000 Now, Nietzsche was a trickster.
00:06:26.000 He was a German who literally lost his mind later in life.
00:06:30.000 If you do not know who Friedrich Nietzsche is, do not send your child to college because your child will know who Nietzsche is.
00:06:37.000 Now, Nietzsche wasn't wrong about everything.
00:06:39.000 Some of his conclusions were horrific.
00:06:42.000 But where Nietzsche went terribly wrong was where he said, he famously, he didn't proclaim this, but he stated in one of his writings, it was actually a fictional narrative, that God is dead.
00:06:55.000 That's where that phrase came from, from Friedrich Nietzsche.
00:06:58.000 Now, he wasn't actually celebrating it.
00:07:00.000 Actually, a lot of people think that Nietzsche wanted God to be dead.
00:07:03.000 He said, the West is not going to know what to do with itself as soon as it removes God and it removes the purpose that it gives for people's existence.
00:07:12.000 And so he said, therefore, we need to replace that with the idea of creating the Superman.
00:07:18.000 The idea of the Superman came from Friedrich Nietzsche.
00:07:21.000 It's called the Ãœbermensch, Das Ãœbermensch in German.
00:07:25.000 And he had this belief that we cannot know objectively what is good or what is evil.
00:07:30.000 That's what he wrote in the book, Beyond Good and Evil.
00:07:33.000 And so if pastors are silent and churches are not involved in that, who is going to be proclaiming what is good and evil?
00:07:40.000 You're going to all of a sudden trust the CDC?
00:07:43.000 You see, if you trust scientists to give you the idea of morality, you will end up with eugenics. 0.99
00:07:49.000 You see, science is a helpful tool to be able to understand how to navigate the natural world.
00:07:56.000 Science is unhelpful when it comes to what to do with the tools in the natural world.
00:08:02.000 Who do we save?
00:08:03.000 Who do we give care to?
00:08:04.000 A great example is this: Doctors left their own devices do not have a moral compass on how to help the disadvantaged.
00:08:13.000 What is a good example of that?
00:08:14.000 Doctors turning away unvaccinated patients.
00:08:17.000 That's an immoral thing to do.
00:08:19.000 That is why there are ethics boards that govern doctors to say, you know what, you're actually not allowed to turn away smokers.
00:08:26.000 Even though you might not like the decisions they're making, you have to accept everybody.
00:08:30.000 But doctors, because we've designed our entire current political system and medical establishment around this idea of yielding to the credentialocracy, the credentialocracy, or if you have a credential, you're somehow more self-you're more important than just anybody else.
00:08:48.000 It lends itself to this idea that we are now allowed to be the moral referees of the entire society.
00:08:57.000 So, the significance of that is without the church, without the word, or without scriptures saying what is good and what is evil, saying, you know what?
00:09:09.000 No, no one should be turned away from a doctor's office.
00:09:12.000 That is the first principle, by the way, of if you go to a hospital, do you go to a doctor's office?
00:09:17.000 They know that and they repeat it time and time again.
00:09:19.000 Yet we're seeing that change.
00:09:20.000 Why are we seeing that change?
00:09:21.000 We're seeing that change because not only have we engaged in a hyper-scientific way of governing ourselves, we have now embraced scientific morality, which is if you don't take the medicine we like, we're not going to treat you.
00:09:35.000 That if you don't, if you don't make the lifestyle choices that we choose, you're not going to have your life saved.
00:09:41.000 Ezekiel Emmanuel, one of the original architects of Obamacare, he argued for this.
00:09:46.000 He argued that we need to have death panels to determine whether or not you made good decisions in your life.
00:09:53.000 And if you made good decisions, then we might give you some care.
00:09:56.000 And if not, we're going to kind of put you out to pasture.
00:09:58.000 Cass Sunstein wrote this in the book called Nudge, famous Harvard Malthusian philosopher and professor who was embraced by the Obama regime.
00:10:08.000 We're taking your calls here.
00:10:10.000 And so, what would you say to that pastor?
00:10:12.000 Kelly, tell your pastor to have a spirit of courage, not a fear.
00:10:15.000 God does not give you a spirit of fear.
00:10:18.000 Instead, he gives you a spirit of love and that of a sound mind.
00:10:25.000 Listen up, everybody.
00:10:26.000 We are just weeks away from yet another American travesty, one that could lead our country even further down the road to tyranny.
00:10:34.000 I'm talking, of course, about court packing, the far left's radical plan to rig our entire federal judiciary system by adding four liberal justices to the Supreme Court and completely destroying the constitutional rule of law in our country as we know it.
00:10:48.000 Thankfully, my friends at First Liberty Institute, a national nonprofit law firm, are taking a stand.
00:10:56.000 They've written a letter telling the Biden Commission to reject this brazen court packing scheme.
00:11:01.000 And now prominent leaders plus over 100,000 patriots like you have joined their coalition.
00:11:07.000 Franklin Graham, former Attorney General Ed Meese, Dr. Dobson, plus organizations like the American Policy Association, Concerned Women for America, are all on board.
00:11:17.000 Now it's up to you.
00:11:18.000 Sign your name right now next to these leaders by September 15th.
00:11:22.000 Go to supremeco.com.
00:11:25.000 That's supremecoup.com right now.
00:11:28.000 They're trying to pack the Supreme Court.
00:11:30.000 My friend Kelly Shackelford runs this amazing organization.
00:11:34.000 So do me a favor, check it out, sign it.
00:11:36.000 It's free of charge.
00:11:37.000 SupremeCoup.com.
00:11:42.000 Waiting very patiently, Kenny in Battle Lake, Minnesota.
00:11:47.000 How we doing?
00:11:49.000 It's an honor, Charlie.
00:11:50.000 Actually, this is Rich from Battle Lake.
00:11:52.000 I was wondering if you would share with your listeners what your parents did to prepare you so brilliantly for your current mission.
00:11:59.000 Well, you're very kind.
00:12:00.000 Thank you for saying that.
00:12:01.000 And wonderful Battle Lake, Minnesota.
00:12:04.000 My parents are phenomenal and they were never propagandists and they were never pushing a specific political agenda, but there were a couple things that were always reinforced with how we talked about politics and matters of the eternal, which is always questioning, but saying that we are thankful to be American.
00:12:32.000 One of the first things my parents taught me was geography, understanding our physical place in the world.
00:12:37.000 That's a very important thing.
00:12:38.000 Once you can understand the size and scope of America in relation to the rest of the world, how big are we?
00:12:44.000 How small are we?
00:12:45.000 How much land do we actually have?
00:12:47.000 What are the other parts of the world?
00:12:48.000 What do they look like?
00:12:49.000 What are the most important rivers?
00:12:51.000 What are the capitals across the world?
00:12:52.000 Those things are very important for people to know.
00:12:56.000 Number two, my parents would always tell me that America is the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, a nation that has embraced self-government, that understands natural rights, that has the independent judiciary, and then appreciating the history behind it.
00:13:10.000 But anytime that I would kind of spout out anything that would be conservative, my parents would say, well, why do you believe that?
00:13:17.000 Let's talk about that.
00:13:19.000 And then finally, I grew up in a country, I grew up in a culture that embraced and loved entrepreneurship, starting something from nothing, that knew that risk-taking should be rewarded and the creation of new things is what keeps a society vibrant.
00:13:37.000 It keeps a society ambitious in a good way and keeps a society full of life with vitality.
00:13:45.000 This is something that we have lost, I think, in some cities across the country in recent years.
00:13:51.000 And so, but the thing that I tell parents all the time, and that's why we've partnered with Hillsdale, charlieforhillsdale.com, charlieforhillsdale.com, is you need to know your stuff so that you can teach your children.
00:14:03.000 You have to know the difference between Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison.
00:14:08.000 Instead of spending three hours Netflix binging whatever latest show there is, spend an hour and go through two Hillsdale courses on the Federalist Papers.
00:14:17.000 Study them.
00:14:18.000 Write down what they're saying.
00:14:20.000 They're videos.
00:14:20.000 They're easy to go through.
00:14:22.000 And then you'll be able to challenge your children when they come back from a government school with some sort of line of propaganda about how the founders were all racist.
00:14:29.000 You say, hold on a second.
00:14:31.000 Tell me about the Northwest Ordinance.
00:14:33.000 I don't know about the North.
00:14:35.000 Let's talk about that.
00:14:36.000 Article 6 of the Northwest Ordinance was abolish slavery in the new territories, the first act of Congress that was passed unanimously by slaveholding states and free states.
00:14:44.000 That's not a country that's founded on slavery.
00:14:46.000 That's a country that's founded in the new territories of abolishing slavery.
00:14:51.000 When was the first ever anti-slavery convention ever held?
00:14:54.000 Answer, Philadelphia, 1775.
00:14:56.000 Chairman Benjamin Franklin, before the Declaration was even signed.
00:15:00.000 First state to abolish slavery, Vermont in 1776.
00:15:04.000 Nine out of 13 of all the states had independently abolished slavery in their states before the ratification of the Constitution on September 17th, 1787.
00:15:13.000 Know your stuff to pass it on to your children because they are being propagandized by things they're seeing on TikTok, on Instagram, on social media.
00:15:22.000 If you're a parent listening right now, it is incumbent on you to be the teacher, the explainer, and the defender of values that you hold near and dear.
00:15:32.000 And I want to be able to give you those tools.
00:15:34.000 And that's why when you guys subscribe to our podcast, it means so much and you listen to us, because we talk about all these different things.
00:15:40.000 We talk about the biggest lies of the day and How to navigate them and how to explain the truth in this sea of lies.
00:15:52.000 I often talk about the crushing debt and lack of jobs that come with the broken college system in our country and how entering a trade or vocational school can provide great career opportunities where you are and skills will always be in demand.
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00:17:02.000 So non-destructive testing is where you are inspecting America's critical infrastructure.
00:17:08.000 Let me tell you why this is important.
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00:18:41.000 We had a lot of great calls here.
00:18:43.000 Roxburgh, Idaho.
00:18:46.000 I think I know where that is.
00:18:47.000 Line two, Angela in Roxburg, Idaho.
00:18:51.000 Angela, how you doing?
00:18:52.000 I love Idaho.
00:18:54.000 I'm good.
00:18:55.000 It's Rexburg.
00:18:56.000 Oh, I'm sorry.
00:18:57.000 It's okay.
00:18:58.000 Oh, it's okay.
00:18:59.000 So, there's like seemingly endless amount of morals and issues to defend anymore.
00:19:04.000 And I truly admire your ability to defend, you know, viewpoints and have that civil discourse.
00:19:10.000 And I'm sincerely curious what your top books or tips are to help people like me to, you know, fine-tune our skills of persuasion or, you know, debate.
00:19:21.000 Well, thank you, Angela.
00:19:22.000 I appreciate that.
00:19:23.000 And thank you for calling in.
00:19:24.000 So let me just kind of go through a couple tips and pointers.
00:19:28.000 First of all, everyone needs to try and read more and consume information through television less.
00:19:36.000 I think reading the news actually allows you to process the information without being manipulated by how they want you to see the other sensory imagery.
00:19:48.000 It's very important when you're talking to people on the left to make sure that your heart rate remains lower than theirs.
00:19:55.000 Your style of how you debate actually sometimes matter more than the substance of how you debate.
00:20:03.000 And then you have to know your stuff.
00:20:04.000 I'm going to recommend a couple books if people are interested.
00:20:08.000 Phenomenal book that I read literally in a weekend called Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell.
00:20:13.000 It is the, let's just say, it's a thought crime book.
00:20:16.000 It's a book that when you read it, you're all of a sudden to say, whoa, am I allowed to be reading this?
00:20:20.000 Is someone going to come and tap me on the shoulder and fire me from my job for reading this?
00:20:24.000 Tucker Carlson said it's one of the smartest things he's ever read.
00:20:27.000 It's on the cover.
00:20:28.000 And what it is, it's a historical narrative told very matter of factly of America since the 1960s on how the civil rights regime that implemented the laws and the customs of the 1960s literally transformed the entire paradigm in a way that we never would have expected.
00:20:46.000 And it's been so obvious in front of us as conservatives.
00:20:50.000 And Christopher Caldwell is unafraid to talk about it.
00:20:53.000 A couple other books that I really enjoy.
00:20:55.000 I plug his book all the time, Bishal Mengel Waldi, the book that built your world.
00:20:59.000 I'm rereading dystopian fiction because it's so uplifting.
00:21:02.000 I'm kidding.
00:21:03.000 It's the opposite of uplifting, but it's actually very instructive of how these people operate.
00:21:07.000 Arthur Kessler's Darkness at Noon, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's 1984, C.S. Lewis and his book, Abolition of Man, Mere Christianity is actually very uplifting and a phenomenal book.
00:21:21.000 I also reread Edmund Burke's Reflections on a French Revolution and also anything by Russell Kirk.
00:21:27.000 The conservative mind by Russell Kirk is phenomenal.
00:21:29.000 I encourage everyone to read The Conservative Mind or The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk.
00:21:34.000 They're terrific.
00:21:35.000 Okay, this is not a book club show, I promise you, but we did get a question around that.
00:21:40.000 Okay, line three, Brian, Cleveland, Ohio.
00:21:43.000 How are we doing, Brian?
00:21:45.000 Good.
00:21:45.000 How are you, Charlie?
00:21:46.000 Good.
00:21:46.000 What's going on?
00:21:48.000 So I have a question about like with everything going on with the whole mess of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
00:21:54.000 Will Biden be impeached, which I don't think will be likely, but if he is, how long do you think Kamala would stay in office, assuming she takes over?
00:22:03.000 Yeah, it's a terrific question.
00:22:04.000 Thank you.
00:22:06.000 So I don't think that Biden is going to resign until the 50% mark of his presidency comes up, where then the replacement, it does not count as a full term.
00:22:19.000 I think they're going to try to get him to 2023, January 22nd, 21st, 2023, I think is the date they have circled on their calendar.
00:22:28.000 If they can get him to that date, then all of a sudden the replacement does not have to actually serve an entire, it does not count as a term.
00:22:36.000 It only counts as a replacement term.
00:22:38.000 So that replacement could serve another full two terms.
00:22:42.000 So do I think Biden is going to resign or be impeached?
00:22:45.000 No, but I do think that every Republican needs to call for the impeachment of Joe Biden and at the very least call for mass oversight of the arming of the Taliban, of the lying to the American people, of the betrayal to our veterans, of the giving up of Bagram Air Base, of the killing of 13 Marines.
00:23:04.000 You know, Biden says, you know, it's very orderly the way that we came out of Afghanistan.
00:23:08.000 In fact, let's play some tape here.
00:23:09.000 We have something from the Biden regime.
00:23:12.000 Cut 51.
00:23:12.000 Biden said, look, there couldn't have been a better plan of how they implemented to leave Afghanistan.
00:23:17.000 Let's play Cut 51.
00:23:19.000 Now, some say we should have started mass evacuation sooner.
00:23:24.000 And couldn't this have been done in a more orderly manner?
00:23:29.000 I respectfully disagree.
00:23:32.000 The bottom line is there is no evacuation from the end of a war that you can run without the kinds of complexities, challenges, threats we faced.
00:23:46.000 None.
00:23:47.000 Do you hear that?
00:23:47.000 People jumping out off airplanes, Black Hawk helicopters flying around that used to be ours, people getting their tongues cut off, little children getting massacred in the streets, hellfire missiles going on civilians, 13 Marines being dead.
00:24:02.000 That's just the way we do things in D.C.
00:24:04.000 This management of the lowering of expectations by our ruling class goes to show exactly what that leaked phone call revealed.
00:24:15.000 And that leaked phone call revealed that Joe Biden cares more about the perception than the reality when something's happening.
00:24:24.000 Joe Biden wanted Ghani to pull a stunt and trick the world than actually have the ability to do what he said he was going to do.
00:24:32.000 That's how the Washington, D.C. credentialocracy, credentialocracy, ruling class operates.
00:24:40.000 Let's go to line two, Chris from Jacksonville, Florida.
00:24:44.000 How are we doing?
00:24:45.000 Wonderful, Jacksonville, Florida.
00:24:48.000 It's a privilege and an honor, man.
00:24:50.000 And so the question or the comment that I guess I have is, you know, in July, you know, with the 4th of July, you know, I just felt compelled to start an American History Month on a local kind of discourse.
00:25:03.000 And just because I felt left out of all the history months.
00:25:07.000 So kind of, I don't know if, you know, you want to touch on that.
00:25:10.000 Maybe your take on, you know, trying to nationalize that as an American History Month, you know, just to kind of bring everybody together rather than divide us by individuality of, you know, individual heritage.
00:25:24.000 First of all, thank you for calling.
00:25:25.000 And I love Jacksonville, Florida.
00:25:26.000 It's great.
00:25:27.000 I want to say you're exactly right.
00:25:29.000 We have LGBT Pride Month.
00:25:32.000 We have Black History Month.
00:25:34.000 We have all these different social awareness causes.
00:25:36.000 And what used to be kind of an American Pride Month used to be July 4th, which was the founding of our nation, really July 2nd, but July 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, the founding of our nation, which of course now has a competitor with Juneteenth.
00:25:48.000 We went all in on that particular issue.
00:25:50.000 And we were vindicated as people were canceling the July 4th parade and were highlighting kind of a black power parade. 0.97
00:25:57.000 Can't wait for that new cycle to come back again.
00:25:59.000 We will be proven right on that.
00:26:01.000 As we said, we now have a summertime competitor against July 4th, the Independence Day that Abraham Lincoln himself said four scoring seven years ago.
00:26:08.000 Our forefathers sought a nation.
00:26:10.000 He pointed directly to July 4th, 1776, because he knew that day was the day that self-government went from an idea to a reality.
00:26:18.000 That's a big deal.
00:26:19.000 That's a deal for all human beings.
00:26:22.000 The Declaration of Independence is a moral document that makes a moral claim that when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve ties with that of another.
00:26:30.000 It goes on to say that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:26:35.000 The laws of nature and nature's God.
00:26:38.000 They are appealing to a natural law principle.
00:26:41.000 It's incredibly important.
00:26:43.000 And I want to just say that I wish we had a country that could unite on universal American principles, but we have now gone into sectarianism, identitarianism, which does not take a lot of sophistication.
00:26:59.000 The American founding took sophistication.
00:27:02.000 The founding fathers were so clairvoyant and wise because they understood what was necessary to build a government on natural law.
00:27:13.000 It takes no sophistication to build a government based on how you look.
00:27:18.000 Anyone can do that.
00:27:20.000 Joseph from Iowa, wonderful Iowa.
00:27:23.000 Is he 16 years old?
00:27:24.000 Is that right?
00:27:25.000 He's 16 years old.
00:27:27.000 Joseph, how are you doing?
00:27:29.000 I'm doing pretty good.
00:27:30.000 How are you?
00:27:31.000 Good.
00:27:31.000 What's on your mind?
00:27:33.000 All right.
00:27:34.000 So I'm just curious about my generation taking over in a decade or two, because I know a lot of people my age that are liberal.
00:27:40.000 So, yeah.
00:27:42.000 Concerned about that.
00:27:43.000 You should be.
00:27:43.000 Thanks so much for your call.
00:27:44.000 This is why you got and get involved with TurningpointUSA, TPUSA.com.
00:27:48.000 And also, thank you for listening and for following us.
00:27:51.000 Look, here's what I will say: is that there are a lot of liberals that are young, and there are a lot of students that are that have been propagandized by the mainstream activist system.
00:28:05.000 However, with the doubling of a homeschooling population that we have pinpointed, with the amount of courageous conservatives that are younger that are starting to speak out, I believe we have more than a fighting chance.
00:28:18.000 I believe that Generation Z is on pace to be the most conservative generation in American history.
00:28:24.000 Now, one of the biggest obstacles we have is our government-run education system, the government-run education system in colleges, in K-12, and also the mainstream propaganda that you are seeing through digital and social media.
00:28:38.000 But this is what I tell young people all the time.
00:28:40.000 It's time to step up and be leaders.
00:28:42.000 Lead your parents.
00:28:43.000 No more blaming your parents and the baby boomers for handing you something that is less than desirable. 0.85
00:28:49.000 No more just sitting idly by and saying, you know, my parents screwed this up.
00:28:54.000 What if you can be the generation that can be called one of the greatest generations in American history by stepping up with courage and leadership, focus and vision?
00:29:02.000 Without a vision, the people perish is what it says in Proverbs.
00:29:07.000 Our generation needs a vision.
00:29:09.000 What does that vision look like?
00:29:10.000 Well, many people in the Republican Party can't articulate it.
00:29:13.000 We want a country where it's easy to have many children, where church attendance goes up, where abortion was something that we look back and say, wow, we used to do that in our country?
00:29:20.000 Can't believe that.
00:29:21.000 And by the way, we're on the way to doing that.
00:29:24.000 And so, Joseph, to summarize it together, it's time for our generation to be leaders, not just followers and not just complainers, not just spectators, but active participants in trying to turn our country back to a free society and one that values the family and universal and eternal moral claims.
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00:31:41.000 We have two callers on a similar topic about vaccine mandates.
00:31:45.000 Conservatives need to be worried about government overreach and at times corporate overreach, especially when they are pushing into your personal medical decisions that can conflict with deeply held religious beliefs.
00:31:58.000 and other beliefs that you might have with the best decision for yourself.
00:32:03.000 For example, I am not taking the vaccine.
00:32:06.000 I've decided not to.
00:32:07.000 And I'm very lucky and I'm blessed.
00:32:09.000 Kind of self-employed and also run Turning Point USA where we're not mandating the vaccine.
00:32:13.000 By the way, some of our employees have taken the vaccine.
00:32:15.000 It's their choice.
00:32:16.000 And I will never, ever criticize them or tell them otherwise.
00:32:19.000 That's their own medical decision.
00:32:21.000 But I know so many people that are losing their livelihoods because they're being forced to get a vaccine against their will.
00:32:28.000 Conservatives need to stand up for these people.
00:32:30.000 And some people say, well, Charlie, just go get another job.
00:32:32.000 Well, let's talk to Jeff from Plymouth, Michigan.
00:32:35.000 If I'm reading this correctly, his son plays college hockey and they're mandating the vaccine.
00:32:40.000 Jeff, you there?
00:32:41.000 Yes.
00:32:42.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:32:43.000 Did I get that right?
00:32:43.000 Yes, my son.
00:32:45.000 You did.
00:32:45.000 Plays college hockey, mandated mega vaccine with religious and medical exemption consideration, wrote his own letter, got denied.
00:32:53.000 We have a meeting with the dean tomorrow.
00:32:54.000 Just kind of wondering if you had any thoughts.
00:32:56.000 I have a letter from a priest, you know, about religious conviction, conscience, et cetera, et cetera.
00:33:02.000 Just kind of wondering any other thoughts or ideas about how to twist the dean's arm, so to speak, about providing for an exemption for him.
00:33:10.000 Yeah, so what school?
00:33:11.000 I'm just curious.
00:33:13.000 Lawrence Tech.
00:33:14.000 Lawrence Tech.
00:33:15.000 And that is, of course, in Michigan.
00:33:17.000 Yeah, sorry.
00:33:18.000 So Lawrence Technological University is about a 4,000 or 5,000 student private university in Southfield, Michigan.
00:33:24.000 So let me ask you, your son plays hockey.
00:33:27.000 He's played hockey his whole life.
00:33:28.000 This means a lot to him, right?
00:33:29.000 So this is basically he has to make a decision to take a specific piece of medicine or forsake his dreams.
00:33:36.000 Am I understanding that correctly?
00:33:39.000 That is correct.
00:33:40.000 Yep, that's right.
00:33:41.000 And he's already decided he's not taking the vaccine.
00:33:43.000 He'll give up hockey because he's not taking the vaccine for a number of reasons, not the least of which is abortive, you know, feces.
00:33:50.000 And he's been to the pro-life march many times in D.C. He's been standing in front of an abortion mill with us praying for 12 years, et cetera, et cetera.
00:33:57.000 So there's no way he's getting the vaccine, but he sure at the same time, it's heartbreaking that he has to give up his sports since he's played since he was five years old.
00:34:05.000 Well, and so first, I just want to say while you're still in the line here, Jeff, that you should be praising your son for his courage and his moral conviction.
00:34:14.000 The Lord will bless him for that.
00:34:16.000 And there will be another place for him to play hockey.
00:34:19.000 We'll help find him one if we have to.
00:34:21.000 I know thousands of college athletes that are in the same position there.
00:34:24.000 I'm happy to offline give you some piece of advice.
00:34:27.000 So if you just email me, freedom at charliekirk.com, I'm going to connect you with someone who has actually helped navigate this.
00:34:33.000 Unfortunately, you don't have a lot of legal recourse here.
00:34:36.000 Conservatives need to stand up for people like Jeff and his son and say that this is an overreach of power.
00:34:44.000 We as conservatives like limited government because we want people to be able to live with their own natural rights, their own conscience, their own religious liberty.
00:34:54.000 That is if a corporation mandates the vaccine or if a hockey team mandates a vaccine.
00:34:59.000 So this is why I am so appreciative of Governor Greg Gianforte, of Governor Greg Gianforte, who in Montana passed the law says you cannot do this.
00:35:10.000 It's illegal.
00:35:11.000 Now, if you want to take the vaccine, that is your own choice.
00:35:14.000 But you are not able to use government power to go destroy some 18-year-old kid's dream of playing hockey at some school in Michigan where he's not even at serious risk of catching or dying from the Chinese coronavirus.
00:35:27.000 And the vaccine is 42% effective according to Axios in the month of July, the Pfizer vaccine.
00:35:33.000 So, what are we doing here?
00:35:34.000 It's about social control.
00:35:36.000 And conservatives need to be willing to restrain when government gets too tyrannical.
00:35:41.000 And if necessary, if a corporation gets too tyrannical to derail people's livelihood, it is wrong to say that an 18-year-old, oh, just go find another school to go play hockey to.
00:35:52.000 It's not that easy, okay?
00:35:53.000 To get recruited, to get on a team.
00:35:56.000 You start to immerse yourself with those teammates.
00:36:01.000 We should not cast that aside.
00:36:02.000 It's an easy win for conservatives to do what they did in Montana.
00:36:07.000 And I want to explore that further because I think that it's a big mistake to just kind of say to people like Jeff, oh, yeah, your kid might be pro-life and he doesn't want to take something that has aborted fetus.
00:36:16.000 It's too bad.
00:36:16.000 Go find somewhere else to go play hockey.
00:36:17.000 That's not right.
00:36:18.000 We need to stand up for those people.
00:36:22.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:36:24.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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00:36:33.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
00:36:35.000 God bless.
00:36:35.000 Speak to you soon.
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