The Charlie Kirk Show - Becoming a Happy Warrior in Biden’s Dark Winter

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.

00:00:01.000 Now, more than ever, we need good cheer and to be happy warriors.

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00:00:36.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:02:00.000 So we decided to give Joe Biden a little bit of a chance to settle in, see what he's going to do.

00:02:05.000 And it seems that he's not wasting any time.

00:02:08.000 He's going to sign executive orders from getting us back into the Paris Climate Accord to getting us a mask mandate to an eviction freeze, just all sorts of different liberal agenda items instantaneously.

00:02:22.000 He's also expected to unveil his immigration plan to Congress today, which would provide a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million people estimated living here in the United States.

00:02:32.000 I expect that we will probably hear other congressional plans within the next few days as well.

00:02:37.000 So at the current moment, a lot of people are feeling despair and really despondent.

00:02:44.000 And I get that.

00:02:45.000 I understand completely.

00:02:47.000 But this is not the moment to feel sorry for yourself.

00:02:50.000 A lot of people are emailing us and they say, I'm very scared.

00:02:54.000 I'm upset.

00:02:55.000 And I get it.

00:02:56.000 I completely do.

00:02:58.000 However, you're going to have to now take a conscious step to put yourself in a position of action: what are you going to do personally to make sure that in four years you don't have Kamala Harris getting sworn in for maybe one term or another term after that?

00:03:16.000 What are we going to do about it?

00:03:17.000 Well, first, we got to fix the way elections are done in Arizona and Georgia.

00:03:22.000 That's number one.

00:03:22.000 So if you live in the state of Arizona and Georgia, priority number one of the state legislatures have to be fixing the way that we do elections.

00:03:30.000 Has to be.

00:03:31.000 Secondly, the moment that we are currently in in our country, the Democrats are going to screw this up spectacularly.

00:03:39.000 Not that I want them to, but just the executive actions that Joe Biden is signing are in no way, shape, or form going to help the country.

00:03:47.000 From stopping border wall construction, where's the full list?

00:03:51.000 We had the full list here just for today.

00:03:54.000 The new immigration plan, it goes on and on and on.

00:03:58.000 Oh, yeah, the Paris Climate Accord, Iran.

00:04:00.000 Iran sent out a tweet saying, The ball is in your court, Joe Biden, to come back to the table and fix this.

00:04:07.000 So now the number one state sponsor of terror in the world, Iran, demands a seat at the table with Joe Biden, where President Trump had handled Iran wonderfully, putting Iran on defense, heavy and crippling sanctions alongside the cancellation of the Iran deal and standing with Israel, moving the embassy to Jerusalem, and recognizing the goal line heights.

00:04:34.000 President Trump also gave a phenomenal farewell address yesterday.

00:04:39.000 I want to make sure we mention that.

00:04:40.000 Let's go to Cut 59.

00:04:42.000 President Trump in his farewell address saying, I will always fight for you.

00:04:45.000 I will be watching.

00:04:46.000 I'll be listening.

00:04:48.000 And he says, I wish the new administration great luck and great success.

00:04:50.000 Cut 59.

00:04:52.000 I will always fight for you. 0.58

00:04:55.000 I will be watching.

00:04:57.000 I will be listening.

00:04:58.000 And I will tell you that the future of this country has never been better.

00:05:04.000 I wish the new administration great luck and great success.

00:05:10.000 I think they'll have great success.

00:05:12.000 They have the foundation to do something really spectacular.

00:05:16.000 And President Trump, that's actually a speech today.

00:05:19.000 The one he gave last night was phenomenal.

00:05:21.000 There's a hilarious tweet here from an anonymous Twitter account, and it's just so true.

00:05:26.000 And this is exactly why we're going to win.

00:05:28.000 Liberals just seem as mad this morning as usual.

00:05:31.000 Why are they so mad?

00:05:33.000 It's so true.

00:05:34.000 I'm looking through some of these Twitter accounts.

00:05:35.000 Liberals are just finding stuff to be angry about.

00:05:37.000 Why didn't Trump come?

00:05:38.000 You control everything, guys.

00:05:40.000 Okay.

00:05:40.000 Congratulations.

00:05:42.000 You did it.

00:05:43.000 Okay.

00:05:43.000 You manipulated social media.

00:05:45.000 You pummeled us into a, you know, you just, you got it done.

00:05:48.000 Okay.

00:05:49.000 There's a lot of reasons how.

00:05:51.000 Why are you so angry and why are we so happy?

00:05:54.000 I don't know.

00:05:55.000 You would think that you guys would be celebrating right now, but you're not.

00:05:59.000 Let's go to Cut 57.

00:06:03.000 Tucker Carlson says this exactly.

00:06:04.000 Instead of celebrating, cracking champagne, they're advocating for a new security state.

00:06:09.000 Cut 57.

00:06:10.000 You got exactly what you wanted.

00:06:13.000 You should be thrilled about that.

00:06:14.000 You ought to be celebrating.

00:06:16.000 But they're not celebrating.

00:06:17.000 That's the remarkable thing.

00:06:18.000 No one in the Democratic Party seems happy tonight.

00:06:21.000 They're angrier than ever.

00:06:23.000 Instead of taking victory laps, they are plotting revenge against the people they just beat.

00:06:28.000 They're thinking of new ways to injure and humiliate and degrade their political opponents, make it impossible for them to work again, throw them in jail, destroy their lives.

00:06:38.000 That's exactly right.

00:06:39.000 So instead of celebrating, they're already saying, we're angry.

00:06:43.000 We want revenge.

00:06:44.000 We want to go after them.

00:06:45.000 Why?

00:06:46.000 Here's why.

00:06:47.000 First of all, they're not very happy people to begin with.

00:06:50.000 Second of all, there's two parts.

00:06:53.000 Number one, they're upset because that was the only thing that kind of bound them all together: this pathological hatred of maybe getting to this moment.

00:07:03.000 And the second thing is this, which is they know the threat of the conservative movement.

00:07:08.000 And they know that the power they have right now is temporary.

00:07:12.000 And they know that the conservative movement and the policies that we believe in, the ideas and the philosophy, it's actually really popular.

00:07:18.000 And they're thinking to themselves, you mean I might not be in power forever?

00:07:24.000 That makes me angry.

00:07:25.000 How do we make sure that never happens?

00:07:27.000 I want to be in power forever.

00:07:29.000 In fact, I want to live forever.

00:07:30.000 Call Elon Musk.

00:07:32.000 That is precisely true, Charlie.

00:07:34.000 And that's exactly why they're calling for mass censorship of successful conservatives online, why they're asking for conservative media outlets to be taken off of cable providers to make sure that you can never, ever hear the news from a conservative perspective.

00:07:47.000 They're advocating for outspoken conservatives to be charged with conspiracy, somehow tying them to what happened on January 6th, even if they weren't in Washington, D.C., because they're terrified of that moment when the idea of conservative values and this idea of a Make America Great Again movement, which is so much bigger than one individual, takes root again in our society.

00:08:06.000 And so, one of the people emailing us says, Well, Charlie, what's to worry about with domestic terrorism?

00:08:12.000 If you're not a domestic terrorist, you shouldn't have to worry about it.

00:08:15.000 Hold on.

00:08:15.000 It's the term domestic terrorist.

00:08:17.000 It's how they qualify it.

00:08:18.000 You understand?

00:08:19.000 Biden stripped, you know, kind of slipped in there.

00:08:21.000 Extremism.

00:08:22.000 Well, how do you define extremism?

00:08:24.000 Well, for many Democrats, they'll define extremism as anyone who is friends or vocally supports President Donald Trump.

00:08:30.000 That's what they would declare as extremism.

00:08:33.000 So that kind of language is incredibly potentially dangerous.

00:08:38.000 Oh, it's already being dangerous.

00:08:39.000 We already have 52 domestic terror laws on the books, 52 of them.

00:08:43.000 So what would a new one do?

00:08:44.000 Well, one of the ones they're proposing is one that could infiltrate conservative groups, one that could spy on conservative groups, and would be just obliterate, like obliterate the Fourth Amendment as we know it in our country.

00:08:55.000 President Donald Trump, when he was sworn into office in 2017, the Dow industrial average was 19,827.

00:09:02.000 Today, it's 31,177.

00:09:05.000 But the most amazing part of that number is that he rebuilt it twice.

00:09:10.000 The Dow went up from 19 to 30, back down to 19, and then you've got it back to 31 twice in four years.

00:09:16.000 No one else has that sort of success story.

00:09:18.000 Never, never in American history have we seen that sort of leadership from an economic perspective in our country. 0.88

00:09:23.000 And not to mention, made all the more amazing by the epidemiological Pearl Harbor that China launched on our country.

00:09:31.000 And so who's the most powerful Republican now in the country?

00:09:36.000 The most powerful Republican is Mitch McConnell.

00:09:39.000 He has a power-sharing agreement with Chuck Schumer.

00:09:41.000 Some of the committees are going to be split right down the middle.

00:09:44.000 It's really up to Mitch McConnell as to what kind of Republican Party are you going to present to Joe Biden?

00:09:51.000 Are you going to present to a Republican Party that all of a sudden says, hey, I'd love to get that amnesty thing done.

00:09:56.000 I'd like to get that corporatist agenda done.

00:09:58.000 And don't worry, I'll work with you to go after the grassroots conservatives.

00:10:03.000 Or is Mitch McConnell going to take a step back?

00:10:06.000 He's going to say, huh, Pat Toomey, Tom Tillis, Joni Ernst, they're only senators because of the MAGA movement.

00:10:12.000 Rick Scott, Josh Hawley, you only have 50 seats and not 44 seats, Mitch McConnell, because of Donald Trump, his movement, and the conservative base.

00:10:24.000 So that's going to be a really interesting question for Mitch McConnell as we begin to unpack this: will Mitch McConnell recognize and realize that the conservatives are showing up in 2022?

00:10:34.000 We're showing up in big numbers.

00:10:36.000 And believe it or not, we are only, let me think about this.

00:10:40.000 We're only like 21 months away from the midterms.

00:10:46.000 I can live that long.

00:10:47.000 The midterms can change the entire nexus of power in Washington.

00:10:51.000 A seven-seat majority in the House, a lot of these maps being redrawn, massively unpopular policies that are going to be put forward by the Biden administration, and Senate seats that are going to be up for grabs in Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, Nevada, and Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

00:11:05.000 I don't know.

00:11:07.000 Things are going to all of a sudden come right back into focus really, really soon.

00:11:10.000 And Joe Biden is wasting no time.

00:11:13.000 He is signing some executive actions and proclamations.

00:11:18.000 This is a tradition started in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan.

00:11:25.000 The first official actions taken by the newly sworn president of the United States occur in the president's room just off the Senate chamber in the U.S. Capitol.

00:11:32.000 After the departure of the former president and first lady, the new president gathers there with some aides, members of Congress to sign nominations, and sometimes memorandums, proclamations, or executive orders.

00:11:43.000 This tradition began in 1981 with President Ronald Reagan.

00:11:46.000 Prior to that time, nominations were often submitted to the Senate on inauguration day without ceremony.

00:11:51.000 Interesting to see that historical context there.

00:11:54.000 And I think it's pretty safe to assume that these executive orders we've been talking about this morning are likely going to be included in that signing ceremony.

00:12:01.000 That's right.

00:12:01.000 And that's just the very beginning.

00:12:03.000 And really, a heavy emphasis on immigration, heavy emphasis on foreign policy, treaties, and trade negotiations.

00:12:11.000 There's a couple of things, though, that we're not sure what President Biden will do in regards to the ratification, the moving of the embassy to Jerusalem, the recognizing of the Golan Heights, all those things.

00:12:25.000 We're not sure what he'll go, but whatever Iran wants is probably what Joe Biden is going to end up doing.

00:12:31.000 So let's go here.

00:12:33.000 Let's go to Cut 54.

00:12:34.000 John Solomon was on Hannity.

00:12:36.000 This was what was happening while Donald Trump was being sworn into office.

00:12:42.000 In fact, before I go to John Solomon, let's just go to a little bit of a tape here of President Biden already signing executive orders, dividing the country, keeping borders wide open.

00:12:52.000 He's signing executive orders.

00:12:54.000 Let's go through the list just so that we're very specific here.

00:12:57.000 Okay.

00:12:58.000 An immigration plan, getting rid of the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. 0.71

00:13:02.000 That is a top-tier focus.

00:13:03.000 Extend the eviction freeze, mask mandate, halt border wall construction, repeal the Trump travel ban and rejoin the Paris Agreement.

00:13:10.000 Nothing says uniting the country, like undoing everything that 75 million people want.

00:13:16.000 And so just a reminder of what was happening while President Trump was in that Senate room doing that four years ago.

00:13:23.000 This is how they were treating him.

00:13:25.000 They had launched a scheme through Christopher Steele and the British spy crossfire hurricane of Cut 54, 55, 56 shows that John Solomon is going through the entire list of it.

00:13:38.000 Let's go to Cut 54.

00:13:40.000 The most important of all the documents is what I call the September 2017 confessional.

00:13:45.000 A year after he was fired, terminated by the FBI, Christopher Steele sat back down by the agents and he described his motives, his tactics, what he did.

00:13:54.000 And there are some bombshell revelations.

00:13:56.000 First off, as you just reported, his motive for going to the news media and creating the false Russia collusion narrative during the 2016 election was because the email scandal had come and reared its head against Hillary Clinton.

00:14:09.000 He was concerned it was going to hurt Hillary Clinton's chances.

00:14:12.000 So he put the Russia story out there to help kind of distract from her from her scandal. 0.59

00:14:18.000 And let's go to the next cut, Cut 55.

00:14:21.000 This was all happening while President Trump was getting sworn into office, Cut 55.

00:14:26.000 Secondly, he admits that another one of his motives was that he considered Donald Trump to be his main opponent.

00:14:31.000 He considered Donald Trump to be bad for Great Britain, for the U.S.-UK relationship.

00:14:36.000 So that's another reason he leaked.

00:14:37.000 Now, let's think about that. 0.97

00:14:39.000 He's a foreigner interfering in our election by leaking information to help Hillary Clinton and to help Great Britain. 0.89

00:14:45.000 That's what he admitted to in this interview with the FBI. 0.69

00:14:49.000 And then one more, Cut 56, saying that what the SEAL source was.

00:14:54.000 And all these people now are, by the way, are back involved in our government.

00:14:57.000 Cut 56.

00:14:58.000 Third, he divulges where he got his sub-source, the famous sub-source, the primary sub-source, as the FBI called them.

00:15:04.000 This is the person that gave him most of the bad garbage that was ultimately discredited by the FBI, proven, disproven.

00:15:12.000 He got that relationship with that sub-source from none other than Fiona Hill, the former national security counsel for Donald Trump, who became an impeachment witness against Trump in 2019.

00:15:22.000 Why is that significant?

00:15:23.000 Well, beyond the interesting connections, by the time Fiona Hill turned over this sub-source to Christopher Steele, the FBI was already investigating the sub-source as a possible Russian asset.

00:15:35.000 In fact, they were trying to get a FISA warrant on him when he fled the country and they dropped the effort.

00:15:40.000 The first time around, President Trump, I was already under allegations falsely from all of that about being a Russian spy from the moment he was sworn in.

00:15:48.000 In fact, I want to find that New York Times or Washington Post piece.

00:15:50.000 Remember, they said they need to impeach him while he was getting inaugurated.

00:15:53.000 Remember that?

00:15:54.000 Let's go to Andrew McCabe, who will probably never serve prison despite doing something allegedly so incredibly awful to our country, being involved in a coup to usurp a duly elected president.

00:16:10.000 Remember, this is how they treated our president.

00:16:11.000 Now, Andrew McCabe, this is what he thinks should happen to Trump supporters.

00:16:16.000 Cut 58.

00:16:17.000 When we looked at those Americans who traveled to Syria for the purpose of joining the Islamic State, when you put all those faces and names down in one place, you had doctors, lawyers.

00:16:29.000 Some people are very vulnerable to and drawn into that core lie of any extremist movement.

00:16:36.000 And that is exactly what we're seeing now with this particular group of Trump supporters.

00:16:43.000 Trump supporters.

00:16:44.000 Now, we have been through in great detail, I think more so than any other program, that the people at the Capitol were a mix of people.

00:16:53.000 There were professional instigators.

00:16:55.000 There were non-political, pro-chaos, anarcho-whatever you want to call them.

00:17:05.000 There were Black Lives Matter agitators there.

00:17:08.000 There were far left-wing agitators there.

00:17:11.000 And yes, there were people that were Trump supporters that got mixed up into all the mess.

00:17:15.000 It is absolutely accurate to say that.

00:17:17.000 But just to say that were the only people that were there is inaccurate in every way, shape, or form of a description of it.

00:17:23.000 But Andrew McCabe comparing American citizens to ISIS.

00:17:28.000 Now, I'm old enough to remember when I was in my seventh or eighth grade civics class, my very liberal teacher standing up and talking about how awful the Patriot Act was because not all Muslims are terrorists. 0.93

00:17:46.000 I agree with that statement. 0.91

00:17:48.000 However, she said that that statement is now allowing the expansion of the security state and that we are not allowing civil rights or liberties to be protected.

00:17:58.000 Okay.

00:17:59.000 Why all of a sudden are now the Democrats who used to be the fighters for individual rights and for civil liberties, where are they?

00:18:07.000 Where is the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union, fighting against this sort of language, this sort of top bucket comparison?

00:18:15.000 And the answer is they're nowhere to be found because the ACLU, who sent out a vanilla statement even on President Trump getting banned from Twitter, they are financed primarily by very, very far left-wing actors that want nothing to do with conservatives having any form of voice whatsoever.

00:18:34.000 Now, they are going to always keep some conservatives around, but the agreeable conservatives, you know, the conservatives that will write the thoughtful intelligentsia pieces about how we must keep our borders open and we must keep endless wars continuing.

00:18:51.000 Those are the type of Democrats that the type of Republicans that Democrats are okay with.

00:18:56.000 The grassroots, the base conservatives that we represent, no, Those, they want to be completely and totally excommunicated from the conservative movement.

00:19:10.000 I want to just go to this.

00:19:12.000 This is going to be new CN.

00:19:12.000 This is CNN's now going to become an infomercial for the Joe Biden presidency.

00:19:16.000 Listen to how absurd this is.

00:19:17.000 David Shalian, Cut 53.

00:19:21.000 I mean, those lights that are just shooting out from the Lincoln Memorial along the reflecting pool, it's like almost extensions of Joe Biden's arms embracing America.

00:19:35.000 This is where we're at.

00:19:39.000 That's one way to-notch journalism.

00:19:42.000 Hard-hitting facts.

00:19:42.000 I love it.

00:19:44.000 I suppose that's one way to look at it.

00:19:46.000 Some people are upset about some of the pardons that came out in the last couple of days.

00:19:51.000 Tucker Carlson had an opinion on this.

00:19:52.000 Let's play cut 51.

00:19:54.000 Republicans in the Senate, and by Republicans in the Senate, we mean Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the leader of Republicans in the Senate, has sent word over to the White House.

00:20:03.000 If you pardon Julian Assange, we are much more likely to convict you in an impeachment trial.

00:20:10.000 Now, is it legal to hold that over a president's head?

00:20:13.000 We're not lawyers.

00:20:13.000 We don't know.

00:20:14.000 It's certainly wrong.

00:20:15.000 Of course, you know, that's nothing new.

00:20:20.000 And that is the security state saying the intelligence community, do not touch anyone like Assange or Snowden.

00:20:27.000 Do we have new information out of Maricopa County?

00:20:30.000 A little bit late.

00:20:30.000 Some breaking news out of Maricopa County here in Phoenix, where we obviously broadcast this show most of the time.

00:20:38.000 About an hour after the inauguration, Charlie, the Arizona-Maricopa County Board has agreed to release all evidence of alleged fraud during the 2020 presidential election.

00:20:49.000 How convenient to have a forensic audit once the president gets sworn in.

00:20:55.000 Now, some of you are saying, well, Charlie, can now Trump come back?

00:20:59.000 Nope, it's done.

00:21:00.000 It is finished in this term.

00:21:04.000 It is done.

00:21:05.000 And so the only means of removing a president are the 25th Amendment, impeachment.

00:21:10.000 We're getting some emails from people that were reading these fake message boards that are filled with hopium that were saying Trump's going to serve four more years that are now saying the military is going to arrest Joe Biden in the middle of the night.

00:21:20.000 No, they're not.

00:21:21.000 That's nonsense.

00:21:21.000 Okay.

00:21:22.000 Stop reading that stuff and start getting to work.

00:21:24.000 Okay.

00:21:25.000 I'm so exhausted with these people that approach me at events and they email me and they say, Charlie, don't you understand?

00:21:31.000 All the prophets are saying Trump's going to serve four more years.

00:21:33.000 I say, I got it.

00:21:34.000 I'm a believer in the God of the Bible.

00:21:36.000 I believe in supernatural intervention. 0.82

00:21:38.000 That's what it's going to take.

00:21:39.000 So if you're betting on supernatural intervention, the parting of the Red Sea, the appearance of manna, the survival of going into a whale, then you and I are exactly on the same page.

00:21:50.000 But that's not something where you should never act confidently that supernatural intervention is imminent, which is what a lot of people did.

00:21:57.000 And a lot of people were misled the last couple months.

00:22:00.000 And that's a deeper conversation that we're going to help unpack on future episodes of the show of just how there was a lot of nonsense that has been spread throughout the last couple of weeks and months.

00:22:11.000 So no, the military is not going to come and arrest Joe Biden.

00:22:14.000 All that's just not true.

00:22:15.000 Joe Biden is president of the United States.

00:22:15.000 Okay.

00:22:18.000 And there might be some investigations, I guess, into Arizona and other things that might show that there are some troubles there.

00:22:24.000 But the system, the way it is set up, that is it.

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00:23:17.000 America is united.

00:23:19.000 As the Soviets used to say, unity is the absence of opposition.

00:23:23.000 One of our team members wrote this.

00:23:25.000 I thought it was perfect.

00:23:26.000 Just looking out in militarized Washington, D.C., there's no people, no celebrations.

00:23:31.000 It's the perfect image of the modern Democrat Party.

00:23:33.000 All fear, no warmth, all caution, no joy, no parties allowed.

00:23:37.000 Safetyism, run amok.

00:23:39.000 That's so precisely accurate.

00:23:41.000 User Andrew wrote that.

00:23:42.000 You guys know, Andrew.

00:23:43.000 He'll be back on the show soon.

00:23:44.000 I'm going to go back on the time machine.

00:23:46.000 What was happening at the Trump inauguration?

00:23:49.000 Because I was there.

00:23:50.000 I remember it.

00:23:51.000 It was a war zone.

00:23:52.000 Not the war zone that's happening in D.C. right now, where you have 25,000 National Guard troops in Washington.

00:23:59.000 No, they were burning cars and they were doing what would be called as domestic terror.

00:24:05.000 If we're going to use the definition of domestic terror at the Capitol, that would be domestic terror.

00:24:09.000 All of them let off the hook on felony indictments.

00:24:11.000 Zero prison time served.

00:24:13.000 Why did that happen?

00:24:13.000 Why?

00:24:14.000 They were burning cars, looting, rioting.

00:24:18.000 And I'm also going to read a piece from the Washington Post on January 20th, 2017.

00:24:24.000 The campaign to impeach Trump has begun.

00:24:29.000 That's why I want to give at least a momentary honeymoon, metaphorical honeymoon, to President Biden and see what he's going to do, even though he's already signed a bunch of nonsense.

00:24:40.000 President Biden is exiting the Capitol, where he will sign more documents that assuredly will increase freedom and liberty and put America backwards, just based on his own public proclamations.

00:24:51.000 So here's a question here that I wanted to get to.

00:24:55.000 And we're going to be taking a lot of your questions here: freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:25:00.000 Let's start with this one for you, Isabel.

00:25:01.000 What do you think Joe Biden will handle the socialist Democrats and moderate Democrats?

00:25:05.000 And lastly, do you think that there will be a civil war in the Democrat Party?

00:25:08.000 Civil war is a bit hyperbolic, but I do think we're seeing a great schism within the Democrat Party right now between moderate policies that are more classically liberal and this new wave of socialism that's so attractive to new members of the Democrat Party who are leading culturally like the squad, AOC being one of the loudest of those voices.

00:25:27.000 I certainly think this administration is already steering more in the direction of this new wave of socialism and appeasing that crowd quite a bit.

00:25:35.000 Whereas moderate Democrats and classical liberals don't really have a home within the Democrat Party anymore.

00:25:40.000 So we will see what the next few days and weeks look like with the new agenda of this administration.

00:25:45.000 But when it comes to mass immigration, extreme regulation of the Second Amendment, regulating free speech online and otherwise, as well as other platform initiatives from this administration, we're going down the road of socialism.

00:25:56.000 Unfortunately, and before that, even kleptocratic corporate fascism.

00:26:00.000 So here's a question from Kyra: Just curious how you handle the breaking news as someone who's dedicated your life to getting President Trump re-elected.

00:26:07.000 That is true.

00:26:08.000 How do you maintain your composure, for lack of a better word, and stay so positive when you're constantly learning all this crazy information?

00:26:14.000 And I mean this non-sarcastically.

00:26:16.000 If I did not have my faith, I would be, I would, I don't know, I would be a leftist or something.

00:26:21.000 I don't know.

00:26:21.000 I mean, I'd just be angry all the time.

00:26:23.000 I don't know how else to word it.

00:26:25.000 I mean, look, when you have a faith that you're made in the image of God and that God, you know, Genesis 50-20, what might be meant for evil will be used for good, and that trials and tribulation of persecution is guaranteed of you.

00:26:37.000 Yeah, you just kind of have to have a joy to yourself.

00:26:40.000 And life is still great.

00:26:42.000 It's going to be a little less great politically and patriotically.

00:26:46.000 And there's going to be a lot of, you know, let's just say points of struggle between this new administration and those of us that are believers and conservatives.

00:26:55.000 But I don't consider any of that to be an excuse not to have great cheer.

00:26:58.000 A lot of people are now going to kind of do the doom and gloom thing.

00:27:01.000 And you're like, I'm not going to sugarcoat it.

00:27:03.000 He just renamed the U.S. Ambassador to Israel to the U.S. Ambassador to the West Bank and Gaza.

00:27:09.000 Not exactly someone that is within alignment of my worldview.

00:27:13.000 He's signing executive orders on eviction freezes, mask mandates, open borders.

00:27:19.000 What else did he do?

00:27:20.000 We're sending the 1776 commission, focusing extremely on climate change.

00:27:26.000 This is quite long.

00:27:26.000 Let's see.

00:27:27.000 Halt border wall construction, repeal Trump travel ban, rejoin Paris climate accord, revoke permit for Keystone XL.

00:27:34.000 He probably has a call scheduled with the Ayatollah of Iran tonight to try to say, Oh, don't worry, man.

00:27:39.000 We'll get some money to you soon.

00:27:40.000 I'm half kidding, of course.

00:27:42.000 But look, here's the thing: I learned this early on in my life, and it's a lesson that I know a lot of people know.

00:27:49.000 It's just needed to be repeated.

00:27:52.000 There are things that you can affect and that you can impact, and there's the things that you can't.

00:27:56.000 The first thing that you can impact is your attitude.

00:27:58.000 Are you going to have a good attitude on life, or are you just going to kind of be like a leftist?

00:28:02.000 They're angry than I am.

00:28:04.000 I want to be honest with you.

00:28:05.000 The left is more angry about life than I am.

00:28:08.000 It's true.

00:28:09.000 It is.

00:28:09.000 It's very true.

00:28:10.000 And it's because I know for am I upset and am I saddened?

00:28:16.000 Of course I am.

00:28:17.000 I also came to terms to that a while ago when I realized the decreasing and diminishing odds of this happened throughout December and January.

00:28:26.000 But also, look, here's the reality of it: the gift that we have been given, the gift of liberty, allows us to do what we wish with the circumstances in front of you.

00:28:36.000 A lot of you did not wish, vote, support, advocate, knock on doors for what's happening right now.

00:28:41.000 And sometimes you do that and you don't get the way you want it to.

00:28:43.000 And sometimes there's shenanigans and cutting of corners and things that we've covered at great length that all of a sudden you feel as if things were not going to the way that was ethical and was operated with integrity.

00:28:54.000 And so the question is: are you just going to give up?

00:28:56.000 Some people are.

00:28:56.000 Some people are completely and totally disengaging.

00:28:59.000 And they're just saying, you know what?

00:29:00.000 I'm done.

00:29:01.000 Okay.

00:29:01.000 Well, that's not me.

00:29:02.000 And I think that we've been given this gift of life.

00:29:05.000 We've been given this gift of our country.

00:29:07.000 And it is my opinion that we have a moral obligation to go forward in this moment with good cheer.

00:29:14.000 And that is what will drive them nuttier than anything else.

00:29:16.000 Oh, the left wants us to give up immediately.

00:29:19.000 But they also want us to be angry and miserable because I remember what that was like when I was walking the streets of the inauguration and people were screaming at the sky.

00:29:27.000 And I was like, wow, they're really, really angry.

00:29:29.000 And some people delighted in all that.

00:29:31.000 We're not going to give them that opportunity because, look, I'm actually an internal optimist that the balance of power will eventually shift back.

00:29:38.000 I agree.

00:29:38.000 And they'll be angry again.

00:29:40.000 They will.

00:29:40.000 On this less than desirable day, the Praetorian Guard is what it looks like in some ways.

00:29:49.000 We've been half joking that this sort of resembles the Hunger Games books and movies in the last few days with no spectators, very militarized.

00:29:58.000 Just feels very solemn and dystopian.

00:30:00.000 No doubt.

00:30:00.000 But let's go back in time, if you will.

00:30:03.000 What were Democrats doing at this moment when I was in DC when Trump got signed to office?

00:30:11.000 Let's go to Cut 13.

00:30:28.000 So those were the inauguration riots.

00:30:29.000 There's tons of footage we can show there.

00:30:31.000 None of that is happening today, obviously.

00:30:35.000 And those inaugural riots back in 2017, a lot of people arrested, zero people charged.

00:30:41.000 Everyone let off the hook.

00:30:43.000 Every single person.

00:30:45.000 That's how Democrats were reacting to the peaceful transfer of power back in 2017.

00:30:50.000 In addition, it seems as if President Biden and Vice President Harris are going to be on their way to the White House soon to go sign a bunch of other stuff that will probably be terrible for our country.

00:31:01.000 Washington Post, January 2020, 2017, at 10:19 Mountain Time, which is 20 minutes after Donald Trump took the oath of office.

00:31:11.000 The campaign to impeach President Trump has begun.

00:31:15.000 The organizers behind the campaign, Free Speech for People and Roots Action, are hinging their case on Trump's insistence on maintaining his luxury hotel and golf courses and business.

00:31:27.000 Have they changed anything?

00:31:28.000 Of course not.

00:31:31.000 One of our team members just messaged us.

00:31:33.000 He said, hearing y'all say President Biden is gut-wretching, to be honest.

00:31:37.000 You know what?

00:31:37.000 It's gut-wretching to say it, and we're doing it intentionally because it's like cough medicine.

00:31:42.000 You just got to get it over with because it's not going anywhere anytime soon.

00:31:44.000 Okay.

00:31:45.000 That's true.

00:31:46.000 And you just got to face reality at some point.

00:31:48.000 And so I'm not going to be someone.

00:31:49.000 And I'm going to be honest with you guys.

00:31:51.000 It bothered me when I watched cable television and people always just call them Donald Trump, Donald Trump, and they refuse to say President Trump.

00:31:58.000 It always bothered me.

00:31:59.000 Okay.

00:31:59.000 And so leave it that way.

00:32:02.000 Okay.

00:32:04.000 The impeachment drive comes as Democrats and liberal activists are mounting a broad opposition to Steinmey Trump's agenda among the group's organizers, of course, the ACLU.

00:32:12.000 Where's the ACLU now saying, hey, why are there 25,000 people enacting checkpoints in Washington, D.C.?

00:32:19.000 Where's the ECLU saying that our civil rights are being violated in Washington?

00:32:23.000 Nowhere.

00:32:24.000 This says, quote, we think that President Trump will be in violation of the Constitution and federal statutes on day one.

00:32:28.000 And we plan a vigorous offense to ensure the worst of the constitutional violations do not occur.

00:32:33.000 Anthony D. Romero, Romero, the ACLU's executive director, says.

00:32:37.000 There's some key words in there too, Charlie.

00:32:39.000 We think that President Trump will be in violation of the Constitution.

00:32:44.000 He was being sworn in.

00:32:45.000 I know.

00:32:45.000 That's exactly right.

00:32:47.000 That's exactly right.

00:32:50.000 Let's go to here.

00:32:51.000 Let's get to some questions here.

00:32:52.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:32:55.000 Someone says, is it time for a third party?

00:32:57.000 No, I do not believe it's time for a third party.

00:32:59.000 The Democrats would love to see us start a third party at this moment, which will just do nothing more than divide the Republican Party and put us in a minority assuredly and indefinitely.

00:33:12.000 Let's see here.

00:33:14.000 Here's one.

00:33:16.000 This is one for you, Isabel.

00:33:17.000 As a teenage conservative in America, how do we make a difference and keep calm when Democrats mock us for our beliefs?

00:33:22.000 Also, thank you for your due.

00:33:23.000 Turning Point USA has really made a difference in my life.

00:33:25.000 That is the exact playbook of the left is mocking you for your beliefs. 0.98

00:33:29.000 The left is going to throw every name in the book at you guys, racist, white supremacist, now unfortunately, even radicalized domestic terrorist.

00:33:37.000 But they do that in an intentional effort to get you to back down and stop telling the truth and stop sharing what your values are with your community.

00:33:44.000 We believe that our values are rooted in truth and objective reality, and that's why we share them with people.

00:33:49.000 And truth has a ring to it.

00:33:51.000 You recognize it when you hear it.

00:33:52.000 So that's why the left is so intent on making sure that conservative ideas have absolutely no place, especially in high school and college campus settings.

00:34:01.000 Don't give up.

00:34:02.000 Don't back down.

00:34:03.000 It's really as simple as having conversations with your friends around the lunch table during your guys' lunch break or asking questions of your teachers in class that share your values with the people around you.

00:34:12.000 And make sure you go to TurningPointUSA, tpusa.com, and get involved with Turning Point USA.

00:34:17.000 It is your place to do something.

00:34:18.000 If you're a young person and you're like, I'm just disgusted by all this, then do something.

00:34:22.000 Go to tpusa.com, get engaged and get involved in the conservative movement.

00:34:27.000 Let me see here.

00:34:29.000 Here's one.

00:34:30.000 Hi, I'm from Wisconsin.

00:34:31.000 I've recently been watching on YouTube to get more of a broad spectrum of the political world.

00:34:35.000 I know little of real politics, things for what you do.

00:34:37.000 So I consider myself a journalist at heart and curious, how do you get into that situation?

00:34:43.000 How does one get into that situation politically?

00:34:46.000 Well, look, finding facts is incredibly important.

00:34:50.000 If you want to be a journalist, be unafraid to challenge both sides.

00:34:54.000 What is the media going to do now?

00:34:56.000 Probably report on some golf trips at Mar-a-Lago.

00:35:00.000 Are they just going to report that?

00:35:02.000 I mean, they have all this infrastructure.

00:35:07.000 They have all this staffing.

00:35:08.000 They're not going to use any of it against Biden or Harris.

00:35:10.000 What are they going to do?

00:35:13.000 I guess we'll see.

00:35:14.000 Remains to be seen at this point.

00:35:15.000 But for the last four years, all we have heard is this diatribe of Trump did this and Trump said this and Trump tweeted this every day all day.

00:35:23.000 24 hours.

00:35:24.000 Associated with him.

00:35:25.000 Anyone in the orbit is covered always.

00:35:30.000 So actually, I don't think they're going to stop the focus on it.

00:35:33.000 I think they're going to say, today, Donald Trump, he golfed a six on a par four.

00:35:41.000 Today, Donald Trump drank four Diet Cokes on the golf course.

00:35:47.000 That's what the Washington Post is going to be.

00:35:49.000 Probably.

00:35:49.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden will be in China just giving away our country, and they'll say, democracy dies in darkness.

00:35:56.000 Right.

00:35:56.000 Okay.

00:35:57.000 Thank you, Washington Post.

00:35:58.000 I got that part.

00:36:00.000 And actually, their ratings and their viewership are going to go down because people are just going to get sick of reading press releases that they could very well get from the White House website.

00:36:07.000 Okay, let's get here.

00:36:09.000 Here's one.

00:36:10.000 This is the first time in my life I felt like our great American flag should be flying at half mass for many obvious reasons.

00:36:16.000 However, I'm afraid that I could be arrested just for asking that, let alone doing that.

00:36:20.000 What is the law?

00:36:20.000 What are my rights?

00:36:21.000 I just discovered your show and you give me a sliver of hope.

00:36:24.000 Good.

00:36:25.000 We hope to give you hope.

00:36:26.000 So look, you're not going to get arrested for expressing a different opinion yet.

00:36:32.000 So don't worry about that.

00:36:34.000 But to be very honest, no one should, especially some of the people in the comments.

00:36:38.000 I want to reiterate I said, should be invoking violence or should be saying, we're going to civil war.

00:36:42.000 I mean, we've been very outspoken against that.

00:36:44.000 We're going to continue to be.

00:36:45.000 And that stuff is complete and total nonsense and stop it.

00:36:48.000 And so, but yeah, just your rights are fine.

00:36:51.000 As long as you speak, you know, well, within those parameters, you have the right to speak your mind and let your voice be heard.

00:36:58.000 Okay, let's go to this question here.

00:37:02.000 Here's one for you, Isabelle.

00:37:05.000 I'm 15 years old from Colorado, and I go to Regis Jesuit High School.

00:37:09.000 How can I start a Turning Point USA chapter?

00:37:11.000 I hate seeing our country being turned into a socialist and unconstitutional country.

00:37:15.000 Do you know that school?

00:37:17.000 Fun fact, I went to Mullen High School, which was the rival high school to Regis Jesuit, but we'll accept you.

00:37:17.000 I do.

00:37:23.000 It's fine.

00:37:24.000 We are really excited about starting more high school chapters this year.

00:37:27.000 That's one of the biggest goals that we have at Turning Point USA from our field program.

00:37:30.000 And the easiest way for you guys to figure out the best steps to take moving forward is to go to tpusa.com slash get involved.

00:37:38.000 Very simple to remote.

00:37:39.000 tpusa.com slash get involved.

00:37:41.000 And yes, we are going to give out some hope.

00:37:43.000 We will never give out hopium.

00:37:44.000 And I just want to say, if you are a consumer of hopium these last couple months, you're actually not the problem.

00:37:51.000 The problem is the people that spread it and the people that have really quite honestly made a career now of publishing things that are pathologically untrue, that are completely and totally untrue in every way, shape, or form.

00:38:05.000 Now, what is hopium?

00:38:06.000 Hopium is something written that feels good, but does bad and is not rooted in reality.

00:38:13.000 Stuff like, Donald Trump's going to serve four more years on Wednesday because he's going to declare martial law.

00:38:17.000 Tried to tell people that wasn't going to happen.

00:38:19.000 We got lots of angry emails and lots of angry people up in my face.

00:38:23.000 And I was like, Donald Trump's not in Texas.

00:38:25.000 Yes, he is.

00:38:26.000 No, I could tell you, factually, Donald Trump's not in Texas.

00:38:28.000 Mike Pence is not in Guantanamo and Obey.

00:38:30.000 Yes, he, I mean, the amount of disinformation, and I don't use that word lightly because that's like a leftist word that was being sent and believed by people on the right is stunning.

00:38:39.000 So just do me a favor.

00:38:41.000 Just, first of all, God says pray for wisdom before you read something.

00:38:44.000 So James 1.5, God will give it generously.

00:38:47.000 And then also, if we're not talking about it on this multi-hour program, and if you email us about it, we'll look at it.

00:38:53.000 There might be a reason we're not talking about it because it might not be true, okay?

00:38:57.000 Because there's other channels and there's other people out there that are just saying things for clicks, no different than CNN stuff says stuff that are clicks that is just completely and totally the opposite of the truth.

00:39:10.000 Okay, so we're going to, I feel more liberated to talk about hopium now that every single one of those predictions has been wrong.

00:39:17.000 Every single one of them.

00:39:18.000 Those message boards have done such damage to our country.

00:39:21.000 Okay, Arizona voter fraud, where did you see the news about the Arizona announcement to release voter fraud evidence?

00:39:26.000 Yeah, so this was from a press release that was released from the Senate president of the state legislature here in Arizona.

00:39:34.000 We received the information from a Telegram channel, but it's publicly available as a press release as well.

00:39:40.000 That's right.

00:39:40.000 It's publicly available in Arizona.

00:39:43.000 Okay, let's go to this one.

00:39:47.000 A question we're getting a lot at freedom at charliekirk.com is why did Trump let this happen?

00:39:52.000 Trump didn't have the power to, I mean, he didn't have the Martial Law Insurrection Act.

00:39:57.000 Whoever is telling you this stuff is just lying to you.

00:40:00.000 Yeah, he has the power to sign the Insurrection Act.

00:40:00.000 Okay.

00:40:03.000 He does not have the power to delay a transition after the Congress of the United States has certified.

00:40:08.000 That's why we were focused on the certification.

00:40:10.000 That's why we were focused on the process behind it.

00:40:13.000 And that's why we were focused on the grievances surrounding it.

00:40:15.000 That's why we were really focused on it.

00:40:17.000 And just a lot of people in the last couple of weeks, I think, were really, really deceived.

00:40:23.000 Okay.

00:40:24.000 Here's one, family issues. 0.78

00:40:25.000 Charlie, my mom is a leftist who called me a terrorist for boycotting Biden's inauguration.

00:40:30.000 What should we do if we're having family problems like this?

00:40:33.000 You're not alone, you guys.

00:40:35.000 This is such a common theme right now in 2021.

00:40:37.000 And it's heartbreaking to me that families are being torn apart over this stuff.

00:40:41.000 A lot of members of my extended family and I disagree on everything politically, but we've made it a priority to remember that we love each other unconditionally first and foremost as family, and then politics can come into play after that.

00:40:53.000 So maybe try to sit down and have conversations with family members if that's important to you and that relationship is really important to you.

00:40:59.000 But don't buy into this narrative from the left that you have to hate each other and call each other the worst names in the book when you're related even just because of political disagreement.

00:41:09.000 That's right.

00:41:09.000 And never retaliate is my other kind of advice to you.

00:41:14.000 You're going to get called awful names.

00:41:15.000 You're going to be called all these terrible things.

00:41:17.000 Just take it in stride.

00:41:18.000 And, you know, we get called the worst things in the world here.

00:41:21.000 And we just try to be, you know, a show of positivity.

00:41:23.000 We're going to be happier than you are.

00:41:26.000 That I could tell you.

00:41:27.000 Andrew Breitbart told us this, that we're now just going to be the party of positivity and joy and optimism.

00:41:34.000 And that they can never steal from us.

00:41:36.000 They could take a lot, but that they'll never steal from us.

00:41:39.000 Okay.

00:41:40.000 I want to go to some sound here or some questions.

00:41:43.000 Let's see what we have here.

00:41:45.000 What's that latest one that Andrew sent us?

00:41:48.000 We're hearing from a Washington Post columnist that Fox News needs to be blacklisted as we blacklist foreign terrorist groups.

00:41:59.000 Yep, that language is continuing.

00:42:02.000 Okay, here's a really interesting question from Neil from the United Kingdom.

00:42:06.000 And by the way, if I select your question and you show you're subscribed to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast, you get a signed copy of our book.

00:42:13.000 Okay.

00:42:15.000 Watching from the United Kingdom, a sad day.

00:42:15.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:42:18.000 I agree, but don't be sad.

00:42:19.000 There's a difference between a sad day and allowing yourself to be sad.

00:42:22.000 Big difference.

00:42:23.000 Okay.

00:42:23.000 Why should any Bible-believing Christian ever think of backing the Biden administration?

00:42:27.000 Thanks for all you do to Stand for Truth.

00:42:29.000 No Bible-believing Christian should back the Biden administration and what they're saying they're going to do.

00:42:34.000 I have found it very interesting, though, how, and Isabel, I want your take on this.

00:42:38.000 You know, we're both Christians.

00:42:40.000 How often they were mentioning scripture and saying God in this inauguration?

00:42:46.000 Frequently.

00:42:47.000 And I was very surprised.

00:42:48.000 They opened many of the events with a prayer this morning that everybody seemed to be participating in.

00:42:53.000 And scriptural language was used throughout the speech.

00:42:56.000 But even when you visit the Biden-Harris campaign website and you see the 49, yes, there are 49 different policy proposals that they've put forward.

00:43:05.000 Many of them center around Christianity and faith.

00:43:07.000 They have a Biden plan for Catholics in America and a Biden plan for evangelical Christians in America.

00:43:13.000 As a Christian, I'm terrified to see what that plan might look like as it unfolds because it's not based in biblical reality whatsoever or in what we know in the scriptures.

00:43:22.000 But they definitely are trying to put forward at least the image of being rooted in Christian teaching and the faith.

00:43:29.000 Yeah, and so look, if you believe in the teachings of the Bible and what the Bible says about setting up civil government, where rights come from, your existence, you should not believe in or support the agenda of the Biden administration.

00:43:41.000 Let's just start with one very simple issue.

00:43:43.000 This administration is going to be one of the most pro-abortion administrations in American history. 0.74

00:43:48.000 Let's just stop there. 0.80

00:43:50.000 It says very clearly that life begins in the womb in the scriptures.

00:43:53.000 I knew you before you were in the womb.

00:43:55.000 It says that I believe that either Mary or the mother of John the Baptist, that he was jumping for joy in the womb, showing that it was a person that was jumping.

00:44:06.000 And there are many other examples of that throughout scripture.

00:44:09.000 And so anyone who is a Bible-believing Christian supporting the Biden administration, you should pray for the Biden administration.

00:44:16.000 And I say this non-sarcastically, I actually said a prayer this morning.

00:44:19.000 I pray that Joe Biden does not royally screw up this beautiful gift we've been given.

00:44:23.000 I said that.

00:44:23.000 And as we look at this, this incredibly just dark appearance of this National Guard entourage.

00:44:33.000 Have you ever seen anything like this?

00:44:34.000 I've never seen anything like this in America.

00:44:36.000 Man.

00:44:38.000 I mean, I want to say that's a little bit of an overreaction.

00:44:41.000 I get it.

00:44:42.000 The Capitol was stormed and there was a tragedy around that.

00:44:45.000 But to have all of a sudden that show of force, could you imagine if Trump ever deployed for anything other than an inauguration?

00:44:45.000 I get that.

00:44:54.000 No, we would be called a third world country. 1.00

00:44:57.000 That's exactly right. 0.97

00:44:59.000 That's right.

00:45:00.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:45:03.000 Here's one.

00:45:04.000 Will Biden be impeached this year?

00:45:06.000 No, he will not.

00:45:07.000 So that is not going to happen.

00:45:09.000 He might leave office this year, but I don't know if he'll be impeached.

00:45:15.000 So, all right.

00:45:17.000 Let's get to some more questions here.

00:45:20.000 Someone says, what are your thoughts on the Republican nominee for 2024?

00:45:27.000 Way too early to worry about that, okay?

00:45:29.000 Let's just first worry about keeping people focused on either 2022, local state races.

00:45:34.000 There's going to be plenty of opportunities popping up, okay?

00:45:37.000 With Florida being a deep red state, Ohio being a deep red state, and Arizona and Georgia that got to get back on the Republican category.

00:45:43.000 We're going to have a lot of opportunities coming up in 2022, even before we worry about what nominee for 2024.

00:45:49.000 Way too early.

00:45:50.000 Okay.

00:45:51.000 Let's go here.

00:45:54.000 So, yeah, let's talk about this third party.

00:45:56.000 Can you start with this, Isabel?

00:45:57.000 A lot of people are asking us about whether or not we should start a third party.

00:46:01.000 While we are seeing a really clear ideological divide in both political parties, I would say.

00:46:06.000 We touched on that with the left a minute ago with socialism versus classical liberalism.

00:46:10.000 I think we're also seeing that within the Republican Party between New Age conservatism, as I call it, and establishment Republicanism.

00:46:16.000 The left is not going to officially fracture.

00:46:19.000 Even if they're having these ideological debates and divides, even if you have people as dramatically different as Tulsi, Gabbard, and AOC running for the same party, they understand that a cohesive unit is the most important thing to remain in power in Washington, D.C. and around the country.

00:46:34.000 I don't think we should abandon that playbook for the same reasons that you've said, Charlie, because that would ultimately just completely decimate a unified conservative voice in our country, at least at this point in our history in the United States of America.

00:46:47.000 And if we want to have a fighting chance to beat the left at their own game, we have to be a united front.

00:46:51.000 The Federalist has a very funny story out that says the following.

00:46:57.000 Washington, D.C. press rings in Biden inauguration with excitement of four-year vacation.

00:47:02.000 It's true.

00:47:03.000 They are just going to cash it in.

00:47:04.000 They worked very hard the last four years.

00:47:06.000 I'm not one to compliment them, but they worked their tail off doing everything they possibly could to destroy Trump from every single way, shape, or form imaginable.

00:47:15.000 Here is one here.

00:47:17.000 Let's see at freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:47:22.000 Hey, Charlie, from California.

00:47:23.000 I watch you all the time and plan to watch you on Thursday.

00:47:26.000 Thank you.

00:47:26.000 I will be at Jack Kibbs Church, Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills, tomorrow evening, starting at 7 p.m.

00:47:31.000 And we'll be streaming it live on our YouTube channel as well, where I will go piece by piece of what exactly are we going to be confronted with as conservatives and Christians, what we can do about it, what does success look like, all those sorts of things.

00:47:45.000 Okay.

00:47:47.000 I'm in high school.

00:47:48.000 Well, you should get involved with Turning Point USA, and I really want to go to the military.

00:47:51.000 But now that Biden is president, it's very concerning that I could get deployed away at his interest.

00:47:55.000 Do you have a comment on this?

00:47:56.000 If so, is it smart?

00:47:57.000 Should I go to, I don't want to go to some fancy college?

00:48:00.000 Please advise.

00:48:00.000 And thank you.

00:48:02.000 You're very encouraging.

00:48:03.000 Okay.

00:48:04.000 Remember, when you're in the military, you will not be serving Joe Biden.

00:48:07.000 You'll be serving the United States of America.

00:48:09.000 And so if you feel called to serve our country, please go do that.

00:48:14.000 And we need good, ethical, strong people to join the United States military.

00:48:18.000 There are less than 1% of Americans who enlist in the military.

00:48:22.000 And I think that's so important to remember.

00:48:24.000 It's such a special call to action that very few people have.

00:48:27.000 So if you feel compelled to serve our country, more power to you.

00:48:30.000 We're supporting you.

00:48:31.000 And I think that's an amazing call for your life.

00:48:33.000 That's right.

00:48:34.000 Let's go here from Holden.

00:48:36.000 He says, does it give you any hope that Biden is a faithful man and that might help guide him make the right decisions?

00:48:42.000 It's interesting to me because we've heard how religious he is, yet he supports abortion and all these anti-Christian ideas.

00:48:48.000 So look, I do believe in the God of the Bible.

00:48:50.000 I believe in the God that split the Red Sea, that raised Jesus from the dead, where you can hang out in the midst of a whale, calm the storming sea, heal the sick, cure the blind.

00:49:02.000 And I do believe that the Holy Spirit could work miraculously through Joe Biden and maybe he'll reverse on all of it.

00:49:08.000 Do I think it's unlikely?

00:49:09.000 Of course I do.

00:49:10.000 I think it's unlikely.

00:49:11.000 And so, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be prayerful.

00:49:13.000 That maybe in a moment of spirit-led intervention, the spirit will lead Joe Biden to actually stand up against these aggressive, terrible policies and forces all within the Democrat Party and within the United States government.

00:49:31.000 It's also a good time to remind you that Biden was fairly anti-abortion for his 47-year career until he started losing primaries and he switched his position on the Hyde Amendment.

00:49:40.000 That's true of many policy issues, too, not just abortion.

00:49:43.000 We've sort of seen a wishy-washy set of ideals and values from now President Biden throughout his career in Washington based on whatever was politically expedient.

00:49:52.000 But, you know, as Christians, we believe if God can turn Saul into Paul, a literal individual who committed genocide against Christians to one of the greatest voices for God on earth, anything's possible.

00:50:03.000 So we'll keep praying.

00:50:04.000 That's right.

00:50:06.000 Let's see here.

00:50:07.000 A lot of people in the chat are saying they're not going to vote in 2022.

00:50:11.000 Well, why?

00:50:12.000 Do you live in Florida?

00:50:13.000 Do you think Florida was stolen?

00:50:15.000 You probably don't.

00:50:15.000 Do you think Ohio was?

00:50:16.000 You probably don't.

00:50:17.000 The point is that not every single state had shenanigans and tomfoolery.

00:50:22.000 And by the way, if you're going to say you're not going to vote ever again, then I encourage you to leave the country because we're going to need every person on deck on board trying to fix the system, trying to register voters, trying to be poll watchers, trying to encourage signature verification.

00:50:35.000 I get all of that, okay?

00:50:36.000 I dedicated six weeks of programming to all of that.

00:50:39.000 But if you are allowing yourself to fall prey to this tempting, I'm going to give up.

00:50:46.000 I'm not going to vote.

00:50:46.000 It's going to be my protest.

00:50:48.000 Then just go to Belgium, okay?

00:50:49.000 You get universal basic income.

00:50:51.000 They ride bikes all the time.

00:50:52.000 And you don't have to take responsibility for your life.

00:50:54.000 Voting.

00:50:55.000 You can go to Copenhagen.

00:50:56.000 You can go to Amsterdam.

00:50:57.000 There's entire cities built around this idea.

00:50:59.000 This idea of just, I'm going to be this free spirit of no responsibility.

00:51:03.000 We're Americans, okay?

00:51:04.000 You don't complain.

00:51:06.000 You take responsibility for your life.

00:51:07.000 You apply yourself. 0.91

00:51:08.000 This kind of pseudo-European, like, I'm going to protest all the time by not voting.

00:51:13.000 Like, okay, you sound like a leftist.

00:51:15.000 Leave.

00:51:16.000 Yeah, voting in America is a right, but it's also a responsibility.

00:51:19.000 That's right.

00:51:20.000 Have an opportunity as an individual to effectuate change in this country.

00:51:24.000 If we start today registering millions of new Republican Party voters, 2022 is going to look dramatically different from what we're saying here today.

00:51:34.000 Yeah, no kidding.

00:51:35.000 And so, if we apply ourselves, there's more decent Americans than indecent.

00:51:39.000 There's more Americans that want order instead of chaos.

00:51:41.000 I encourage you to do that.

00:51:42.000 Okay, this is from Brennan.

00:51:43.000 Hey, Charlie, I'm a board member of a Turning Point USA chapter in the West region.

00:51:47.000 Awesome.

00:51:47.000 Everyone should start a Turning Point USA group at tpusa.com/slash get involved.

00:51:52.000 Yesterday, three Democrat clubs formed a document asking our university to kick our chapter off campus.

00:51:56.000 Do you see what these kids are dealing with?

00:51:58.000 We have your back.

00:51:59.000 What advice can you give to this fight, fight the censorship on my campus and to fight against silencing of conservative ideas?

00:52:06.000 Well, a lot of it hinges on what kind of school you go to when it comes to the power that you have to fight back.

00:52:11.000 We always encourage individuals, if it comes down to it, sue your school.

00:52:15.000 If they're fighting you on your First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and assembly, you have power in that realm to stand up for yourself and your club in particular.

00:52:25.000 We've been very successful with other Turning Point USA chapters who've been denied fighting back on First Amendment violation grounds, and we've gotten many, many of those decisions reversed across the country.

00:52:34.000 In the meantime, it's not necessarily out of the question to get your parents involved, especially at the high school level.

00:52:40.000 There seems to be this taboo idea that getting your parents involved in the conversation is the worst thing you can do.

00:52:46.000 It's like standing up to the bully.

00:52:47.000 That's right.

00:52:48.000 Mom, don't say anything.

00:52:49.000 I'm embarrassed.

00:52:50.000 I don't want to fight back.

00:52:51.000 But your parents have a lot more cards than you realize at the high school level.

00:52:54.000 And I'm not going to compare voting to the great, I'm just reading some of these emails of people that I'm never going to vote again.

00:53:00.000 I'm never going to vote again.

00:53:01.000 Okay.

00:53:01.000 So what you're doing then by saying you're never going to vote again, never getting to get involved again, you are basically saying all the hundreds of thousands of people that have sacrificed for our country, that it meant nothing.

00:53:15.000 What do you think?

00:53:15.000 Do you think that they, when they stormed Normandy Beach, when 9,000 people were killed in the Omaha sector, 9,000 people, do you think that they were saying, hmm, I'm going to weigh my odds?

00:53:26.000 Of course they were scared to death.

00:53:28.000 Of course they were.

00:53:29.000 That's the whole point.

00:53:30.000 And that was, that was incredible heroism.

00:53:33.000 And why do they do that?

00:53:34.000 They did that to save the country.

00:53:36.000 So we can live freely.

00:53:37.000 That's why.

00:53:38.000 And all of Europe can live freely, so they can go be apathetic.

00:53:41.000 They gave Europe the freedom for that, which was a moral thing to do up against the nationalist socialist workers' revolution.

00:53:48.000 And so I understand the depression that is setting in.

00:53:53.000 I understand the sadness.

00:53:55.000 Here's the way that we're coping with it.

00:53:58.000 We are now being intentional about our positivity, about being joyful, about action, about impacting people, about persuasion.

00:54:06.000 We're going to start back on a campus tour.

00:54:08.000 We're going to start more Turning Point USA chapters.

00:54:09.000 I'm speaking at Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills tomorrow night at one of the largest churches in the country, my good friend Jack Hibbs, for this exact reason.

00:54:17.000 Because if we all of a sudden take a complacent, I want to feel sorry for myself posture, and I get that.

00:54:22.000 That takes 10 minutes, okay?

00:54:24.000 Then snap out of it and realize we live in a great country where so many people sacrificed, the greatest country.

00:54:29.000 What am I going to do about it?

00:54:30.000 Because the endless pity party is exactly what the enemy wants you to do.

00:54:34.000 Nowhere in the Bible, nowhere does it say that you should just feel sorry for yourself endlessly.

00:54:40.000 In fact, it says the opposite.

00:54:41.000 It's like when you're undergoing persecution, you should celebrate.

00:54:45.000 You should throw in a party.

00:54:47.000 What?

00:54:48.000 It's the opposite of what you think you would do.

00:54:50.000 It is.

00:54:50.000 And there are so much to still celebrate, you guys.

00:54:53.000 Don't forget today, we woke up in the greatest country in the history of the world.

00:54:57.000 We enjoy freedoms that the rest of the world literally dies for because we are a unique situation in the world and in human history.

00:55:05.000 And we're not going to let that go just because of one election from one president.

00:55:08.000 We have faced extreme trials and tribulations in the past.

00:55:11.000 I believe that we can continue persevering through additional trial and tribulation in the future.

00:55:16.000 But that does involve an active attitude from our citizens.

00:55:19.000 You have to get involved in the process.

00:55:21.000 You have to vote.

00:55:22.000 You have to make sure that you help register other people to vote and make sure they're participating in the process.

00:55:27.000 Our democratic republic only survives and only thrives if we all take on that active attitude.

00:55:33.000 That's exactly right.

00:55:34.000 And so, and if any of you lack wisdom, just James 1:5 in my favorite verses of the Bible: if any of you lack wisdom, you should ask God who gives generously to all without finding fault and it will be given to you.

00:55:45.000 And this is the one thing I don't is voting like that big of an inconvenience?

00:55:49.000 Like, I'm never going to vote again.

00:55:51.000 Let's pretend all your votes get thrown out and someone just shreds them afterwards.

00:55:53.000 But what if they don't?

00:55:54.000 You can't say that 100%.

00:55:55.000 Is it like that big of an inconvenience to go and just put a paper ballot through?

00:56:00.000 Of course, we're going to fix the process and all this, but this idea of I'm never going to vote again.

00:56:03.000 It's just, it's a tool by leftists to try to get you to stop showing up so they control the process endlessly.

00:56:10.000 You can't beat them.

00:56:11.000 Convince them not to show up.

00:56:12.000 Exactly.

00:56:13.000 All right, let's get to another question here.

00:56:16.000 Let's see.

00:56:17.000 We got a lot of people that want to get involved with Turning PointUSA.

00:56:19.000 It's tpusa.com/slash get involved.

00:56:23.000 Also, some of you are asking, how can I support this program?

00:56:26.000 Thank you for asking that.

00:56:27.000 It's charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:56:31.000 Any support you give helps us with the production team, helps us with just putting this program on, the clipping, the research, all of it.

00:56:38.000 CharlieKirk.com/slash support.

00:56:41.000 No sob stories here on the Charlie Kirk show, just honesty.

00:56:44.000 Okay, let's see here.

00:56:46.000 I want to start a Turning Point USA club at my school, but I feel it will jeopardize my likelihood of getting accepted into college, which is a path I need to take.

00:56:53.000 I hear a lot of that these days, Charlie.

00:56:55.000 I've gotten that exact sentiment almost a hundred times, maybe this week in my DMs and in comments.

00:57:01.000 I understand you guys.

00:57:02.000 That's terrifying.

00:57:04.000 And the world that we're living in is so animosity-based towards conservatives that it can be very, very frustrating to decide whether or not to step out into the public space.

00:57:14.000 Chances are, though, if a school is going to reject you just because you're an outspoken conservative, you don't want to go there in the first place.

00:57:21.000 Trust me, it will be a miserable experience.

00:57:23.000 And the right thing will happen at the end of the day.

00:57:25.000 Everything that's supposed to happen will come to be.

00:57:28.000 Amen.

00:57:29.000 Here's the verse I love.

00:57:30.000 Consider it pure joys, my brothers and sisters.

00:57:32.000 Pure joy, my brothers and sisters.

00:57:34.000 Whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

00:57:39.000 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

00:57:44.000 What is the verse saying?

00:57:45.000 The verse is saying, the more you go through, the stronger you're going to be and the better person you're going to be.

00:57:51.000 If any of you lack wisdom, you should just ask God who gives generously to all without finding fault and it will be given to you.

00:57:56.000 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt.

00:57:59.000 Ooh, that's important.

00:58:00.000 Because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea blown and tossed by the wind.

00:58:04.000 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

00:58:07.000 Such a person is double-minded and able in all they do.

00:58:10.000 Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position, but the rich should take pride in their humiliation since they will pass away like a wildflower.

00:58:17.000 The people in power will pass away.

00:58:19.000 For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant, it blossoms, falls, and the beauty is destroyed.

00:58:24.000 In the same way, the rich will fade away and while they go about their business.

00:58:27.000 Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

00:58:36.000 It's awesome.

00:58:37.000 Powerful words today.

00:58:39.000 That's what it's all about.

00:58:40.000 Trials, temptations.

00:58:42.000 And look, some of you are being tempted right now.

00:58:44.000 You're like, no, I'm not.

00:58:45.000 I'm just watching a live stream.

00:58:46.000 You're being tempted to feel sorry for yourself, to say, I'm just going to get in a state of depression.

00:58:51.000 When tempted, no one should say, quote, God is tempting me, for God cannot be tempted by evil.

00:58:55.000 God is never tempting you.

00:58:56.000 It's from the enemy.

00:58:57.000 Nor does he tempt anyone.

00:58:58.000 But each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.

00:59:03.000 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and sin, when is full grown, gives birth to death.

00:59:10.000 So do not be deceived.

00:59:12.000 Wow, what a great message right now.

00:59:14.000 My dear brothers and sisters, every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the father of heavenly lights who does not change like shifting shadows.

00:59:22.000 It's perfect.

00:59:23.000 He chooses to give us birth through the word of truth that we might be a kind of first fruits of all he created.

00:59:32.000 That's the message for today, James 1.

00:59:34.000 And if you guys think you're going through a lot, go read what the early Christians were going through, okay?

00:59:39.000 That was persecution.

00:59:41.000 I pray that never comes to our country, but that's something that, you know, comes.

00:59:45.000 Okay, let's go here.

00:59:47.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:59:47.000 Do you have any suggestions on how to combat disinformation without undermining free speech?

00:59:51.000 Yes.

00:59:51.000 You want to know why all these message boards became so popular?

00:59:54.000 It's because you stopped allowing them to post their nonsense on Facebook and Twitter.

00:59:59.000 I know some people say, well, that just allowed it to go more violent.

01:00:01.000 You know what it didn't allow?

01:00:02.000 It didn't allow people like me to comment and say, this is not true.

01:00:08.000 When it's in the under-earth, the inner earth core of the internet on some form of 8-chan message board seeing Donald Trump's actually, like, I just got this email.

01:00:18.000 Donald Trump's actually president.

01:00:19.000 Joe Biden didn't get sworn in.

01:00:21.000 Like, okay.

01:00:22.000 Will this ever reach a moment of just logical common sense breaking?

01:00:26.000 The point is that more speech is always better.

01:00:29.000 The way that you fight disinformation is you allow more voices to cross-examine it and better ideas to be shared.

01:00:35.000 And that's the same way you fight evil, too.

01:00:37.000 We've always said on college campuses, why is the left so terrified of us saying anything?

01:00:42.000 If our ideas were so bad, wouldn't they want us to say them?

01:00:45.000 Wouldn't they want to prove them wrong?

01:00:47.000 Because debate and discussion is always how you root out what is truth and what is a lie.

01:00:51.000 Amen.

01:00:52.000 Here's Isaac.

01:00:53.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:00:53.000 I'll be a first-time voter in 2022.

01:00:55.000 My family's in the process of moving towards somewhere other than California.

01:00:58.000 Good.

01:00:59.000 Because it's getting terrible here.

01:01:00.000 My question is, what type of people should I be looking to support?

01:01:04.000 People who tell the truth, even when it's not politically expedient for them.

01:01:08.000 Politicians, as a general rule of thumb in human history, have sort of blown with the wind to use some of the language from the scripture that we just read.

01:01:17.000 They embrace attitudes, ideas, and opinions based on whether or not they think it can help them.

01:01:22.000 Don't look for a politician.

01:01:23.000 Look for a public servant, someone who is willing to fight back against lies, against disinformation, against ideas that are going to help our society crumble, and look for someone who's willing to fight that with truth.

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01:02:47.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:02:47.000 He's a devout Catholic.

01:02:48.000 The way the media has been using Biden's faith as a Catholic is disgusting.

01:02:53.000 My liberal parents continually bring this up, and I always respond that it doesn't matter because he doesn't act like it.

01:02:58.000 It is crazy how the media praises Biden's faith, but as screaming separates your church and state when ACB was confirmed.

01:03:04.000 However, God gave me some hope and shed light on the situation.

01:03:07.000 Good.

01:03:07.000 When I was at Mass this morning, terrific.

01:03:09.000 Jesus showed in the gospel that God made the laws for man, not to create or change laws.

01:03:14.000 All I could think of is how ironic it was that Biden had to listen to this gospel on his inauguration day.

01:03:19.000 It's awesome.

01:03:20.000 I do have hope that we will be able to flip the house in 2022 if we keep unapologetically spreading the truth.

01:03:26.000 Thank you for your great faith.

01:03:27.000 I'm going to send you a copy of our book because you did everything the right way.

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01:03:35.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:03:37.000 Let's go to Tiffany.

01:03:39.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:03:39.000 I used to be a leftist.

01:03:41.000 Welcome.

01:03:42.000 We have a lot more fun here.

01:03:44.000 More fulfilling life, I can honestly say.

01:03:47.000 I grew up in a very left-wing community, but just about two years ago, Jesus came into my life and saved me with the truth.

01:03:53.000 Awesome.

01:03:54.000 I majored in journalism in my undergrad, and I've been a bit reserved to find a quality journalism job because our media has spread so many lies.

01:04:01.000 My question to you: how does a Holy Spirit-filled journalist come into the truth industry in an era of untruth?

01:04:07.000 That's such a good question.

01:04:08.000 Wow.

01:04:08.000 I'm going to send you a book.

01:04:10.000 And that's just such a good way to put it.

01:04:12.000 Look, so my opinion is for you, I would go find a church that has a sizable, you know, just that they're sizable in nature and either help them with public relations or help them with their own internal newspaper or local community newspaper.

01:04:32.000 A lot of churches have these, especially a church that is Bible-based and that teaches conservative principles.

01:04:38.000 That's where I would go if I were you.

01:04:40.000 So I would try to go find a church and just say, hey, I'm a Holy Spirit-filled former leftist journalist degree.

01:04:46.000 I would like to do that.

01:04:46.000 I know a lot of churches are looking for people like that right now.

01:04:49.000 Thank you for your question.

01:04:50.000 Let's get to one here.

01:04:52.000 I'm 14 and I don't know the direction this country is going in.

01:04:54.000 What are your thoughts on this?

01:04:55.000 Also, my mom believes that Trump will be inaugurated on March 4th because this is, quote, the new Declaration of Independence, and that George Bush will, okay, so I do not believe this.

01:05:04.000 Okay, Trump is not getting inaugurated on March 4th.

01:05:06.000 Okay.

01:05:07.000 That is hopium.

01:05:08.000 That is a tool of the enemy.

01:05:09.000 Okay.

01:05:10.000 It's not happening.

01:05:11.000 So I actually thought some of this hopium stuff would end today. 0.99

01:05:14.000 It's only intensifying.

01:05:15.000 I did, especially as we streamed the new president of the United States being literally signing executive orders.

01:05:22.000 They're exciting executive orders.

01:05:22.000 They're changing Twitter accounts.

01:05:24.000 It's happening.

01:05:25.000 Okay.

01:05:26.000 It's happened.

01:05:27.000 It's done.

01:05:28.000 It's over.

01:05:30.000 Concerned about the direction the country is going in.

01:05:32.000 You should be.

01:05:33.000 But do what you act with what you want to see the country become.

01:05:37.000 I like that.

01:05:38.000 So you want to see the country become a more decent and civil place?

01:05:40.000 Then act.

01:05:41.000 I always love these leftists.

01:05:42.000 They're like, Trump is so decent. 0.99

01:05:43.000 You're a terrible person. 1.00

01:05:44.000 I hate you so much. 1.00

01:05:45.000 I'm going to slander you. 0.99

01:05:46.000 Like, okay, then why aren't you embodying that?

01:05:49.000 Like, if Trump was such a bad person, why are you so angry all the time?

01:05:52.000 And this is going to be the greatest test.

01:05:55.000 I was happy four years ago when Trump got sworn in.

01:05:57.000 I'm happy today.

01:05:58.000 I'm not happy about the circumstance.

01:05:59.000 Oh, my gosh, it's horrible.

01:06:01.000 But there's also more to my life and more to your life than just this.

01:06:06.000 And we will persevere with good cheer and with will, with our will will not be broken and with perseverance.

01:06:13.000 And you might say, well, where do I get that from?

01:06:16.000 Quite honestly, you can only get that through a relationship with Jesus Christ, with a connection to a higher power.

01:06:21.000 That's where you get it from.

01:06:22.000 Changes your life.

01:06:25.000 Some people are emailing us saying that they don't agree with that, but that's okay.

01:06:28.000 Okay, here we go.

01:06:30.000 So, Charlie, I just don't get it.

01:06:32.000 You can help with this one, Isabel.

01:06:34.000 How can so many people on social media be happy, positive, proud, and excited about the upcoming Biden-Harris administration?

01:06:38.000 Don't they understand what is coming and what's at stake?

01:06:40.000 Don't they know the history?

01:06:41.000 Can they not see?

01:06:42.000 Where is the disconnect between the left and conservatives?

01:06:44.000 What message are these people receiving that makes them feel so at ease and not worried about the upcoming years?

01:06:49.000 A lot of questions like that.

01:06:51.000 That's actually biblical: this idea of can they not see?

01:06:54.000 Yes, they can't see.

01:06:55.000 They literally have no understanding of what is reality and truth because they've believed so strongly in what authority figures in culture are telling them is the truth and what is right and just, not what is reality.

01:07:08.000 So, yes, we know that they cannot see, and that's part of the problem.

01:07:11.000 And part of what we do, for lack of a better term, as the CNN buzzword has been, as conservative influencers, we're trying to help people understand what truth actually is and what we believe in.

01:07:21.000 The left believes so strongly with every fiber of their being that conservatives actually are these evil, radical people that all participated in the behavior of January 6th at the United States Capitol.

01:07:34.000 Many of them actually believe that.

01:07:35.000 Prove them wrong.

01:07:36.000 Get out there.

01:07:37.000 Get involved in a turning point USA chapter.

01:07:38.000 Tell the truth.

01:07:39.000 That's right.

01:07:40.000 And show them what your heart is and show them who you actually are.

01:07:45.000 Here's a good question, and I want you to answer it too.

01:07:47.000 What has been your best thing that has helped you develop your relationship with God?

01:07:50.000 The younger generation that I am a part of is slowly further, farther farther away from religion and closer to the anti-moral way of life.

01:07:56.000 You're going to be surprised by my answer.

01:07:58.000 My relationship with God has gotten better.

01:08:00.000 The worst things have happened, the worst things I have to go through.

01:08:04.000 I agree.

01:08:05.000 That's exactly the answer I would have given.

01:08:07.000 And so you get in a more personal relationship with your creator, the more awful things happen.

01:08:14.000 Maybe that's what God's up.

01:08:15.000 Maybe that's what God's up to work in here.

01:08:17.000 Maybe.

01:08:17.000 Maybe he's like, I want people to come back to me, man.

01:08:20.000 And you guys had four years of a fighter.

01:08:23.000 And yeah, he said stuff that was whatever, but he protected the unborn.

01:08:26.000 He stood with Israel.

01:08:28.000 He secured the borders.

01:08:29.000 And he's like, you got to come run back to me.

01:08:31.000 Maybe that's what Genesis 50, 20.

01:08:35.000 What you meant for bad, God meant for good.

01:08:36.000 I love that.

01:08:37.000 Okay.

01:08:38.000 Let's go to some questions.

01:08:39.000 Hello from Chicago.

01:08:40.000 Hi.

01:08:44.000 We have seen some horrible, how horrible the media has treated President Truffle last four years.

01:08:47.000 I'm generally curious what the mainstream media is going to talk about.

01:08:49.000 What Biden's in office?

01:08:50.000 We were joking about this.

01:08:52.000 Do you even think that Trump will be a topic of discussion?

01:08:54.000 Oh, every new show will still mention Trump.

01:08:57.000 In fact, I want to, let's see this, guys.

01:09:00.000 I want to have a, I want someone to, it would be a fun project for either Bright Bar or Daily Color.

01:09:07.000 Watch, just transcribe CNN and find the first show that does not mention Trump and mark that date.

01:09:16.000 And then find the first day.

01:09:17.000 That'd be a really fun project, right?

01:09:19.000 I like that idea.

01:09:20.000 I don't think that day is going to come for a very, very long time.

01:09:23.000 Agreed.

01:09:23.000 And they are not going to stop.

01:09:25.000 Okay.

01:09:27.000 Okay.

01:09:27.000 Hello.

01:09:28.000 My name is Chloe.

01:09:29.000 I'm 14, homeschooled, live in Ohio.

01:09:31.000 What would you say to the people who are saying Trump is a traitor because he didn't enact the Insurrection Act?

01:09:36.000 Love your show.

01:09:36.000 Can't wait till I'm older to run things and change America for the better.

01:09:41.000 Good attitude.

01:09:42.000 Love that.

01:09:43.000 And all the older folks watching, you have a moral obligation to Chloe to do everything you possibly can and to be of hope and of good cheer.

01:09:50.000 And yeah.

01:09:52.000 Okay.

01:09:52.000 So Trump is not a traitor to the country.

01:09:55.000 Okay.

01:09:56.000 Cut this nonsense out.

01:09:57.000 Okay.

01:09:58.000 And people on the right are now saying this.

01:10:00.000 I know.

01:10:00.000 Now the right and the left can agree on something.

01:10:02.000 It's nonsense.

01:10:03.000 Stop reading the message boards.

01:10:05.000 Whatever that is, stop it.

01:10:06.000 If it sounds like a leftist argument, chances are it's not a true patriot or conservative posting stuff like that, you guys.

01:10:12.000 Yes.

01:10:14.000 And so here's where you young people have a moral obligation.

01:10:17.000 If you have an older person in your life that is saying that I don't want to vote, you need to say, no, no, it's my generation.

01:10:22.000 You have to go vote.

01:10:23.000 Okay.

01:10:24.000 Here's Liliana.

01:10:25.000 Next year I'll be joining a turning point chapter at the college I'll be attending. 0.93

01:10:28.000 Awesome.

01:10:28.000 Yay.

01:10:28.000 The fight is not over, not even close.

01:10:30.000 Metaphorical fight.

01:10:31.000 Yes.

01:10:32.000 I often hear from my parents and close family that they do not ever want to vote again.

01:10:35.000 As you mentioned, I've told them a million times that it's an awful idea.

01:10:37.000 How do I encourage them to stay in the fight?

01:10:40.000 Again, voting is not like driving from Albuquerque to Boston.

01:10:47.000 Okay.

01:10:47.000 I'm not asking you to take a road trip.

01:10:49.000 Okay.

01:10:50.000 I'm asking you to show, again, it's not like there's voting anytime soon, but we're going to fix the system like Florida has.

01:10:56.000 Okay.

01:10:57.000 We're going to be reform-minded.

01:10:58.000 But I love the way that people frame this as if it's some sort of immense burden.

01:11:02.000 Like it's as if it's something so incredibly, you know, out of control.

01:11:07.000 And it looks like Biden deleted something from some website.

01:11:09.000 We're already seeing the Biden administration deleting the webpage for the 1776 Commission from the White House website.

01:11:16.000 Cannot say that I am overly surprised, okay, about that.

01:11:22.000 Here's a question.

01:11:23.000 It's a little bit condensed.

01:11:24.000 Basically, Isabelle, they're asking, why is there so much hatred from the left?

01:11:28.000 The left is rooted in hatred.

01:11:29.000 They say that they're rooted in acceptance and tolerance.

01:11:32.000 Correct.

01:11:33.000 Not liberals.

01:11:34.000 There's a very clear distinction between classically liberal ideas and leftist ideas, and we've broken that down several times.

01:11:39.000 I would encourage you guys to go back and watch old episodes to get a good breakdown on that.

01:11:44.000 But despite the facade that the left is rooted in acceptance of all people, love Trump's hate and everyone's welcome here, they are truly rooted in hatred for other people.

01:11:53.000 And that's very clearly delineated from this idea that they have to separate every group into their own identity.

01:11:58.000 No longer are we just considered Americans, no matter who you are and what your identities are. 0.57

01:12:03.000 You're a white American. 0.51

01:12:04.000 You're a black American.

01:12:05.000 You're an Asian American.

01:12:05.000 You're an LGBTQ plus American.

01:12:07.000 You're an Indigenous American. 0.96

01:12:09.000 And they're so intentional about that separation because they don't want acceptance of all people. 0.99

01:12:13.000 They want to isolate you into whatever your individual identity is.

01:12:17.000 That's right.

01:12:17.000 That's well said.

01:12:18.000 And look, the left, they don't build, they tear down.

01:12:20.000 And that's why the left is not going to be of good cheer.

01:12:22.000 They are going to be, they all of a sudden realize we're in charge and we're still angry.

01:12:26.000 Here's a good question.

01:12:27.000 And I don't mean to make light of this question, but just the email provider that I'm using has these recommended responses.

01:12:34.000 And they're not funny, but they are.

01:12:36.000 Okay.

01:12:36.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:12:37.000 I'm a 15-year-old conservative from Indiana.

01:12:39.000 I'm scared for the future of America.

01:12:41.000 Do you think that there will be persecution for all of us Christians?

01:12:43.000 If so, how do you think we'll be persecuted?

01:12:45.000 God bless you in TPUSA.

01:12:47.000 So the three suggestions are, yes, we are.

01:12:49.000 Haven't heard anything yet.

01:12:50.000 And yes, to whether or not we're being persecuted.

01:12:53.000 So I will respond with, I haven't heard anything yet.

01:12:57.000 Yeah.

01:12:57.000 No, I mean, look, yeah, of course persecution's coming.

01:12:59.000 Of course, embrace it.

01:13:00.000 Don't be scared.

01:13:01.000 We're guaranteed that. 1.00

01:13:03.000 And look, the moment of being left alone and it's a Christian country, it's all done. 1.00

01:13:08.000 It's over. 1.00

01:13:08.000 Okay. 1.00

01:13:09.000 Chapter's done.

01:13:10.000 So now you can embrace this in one of two ways.

01:13:12.000 You can complain about it or do something about it.

01:13:14.000 There will be opposition.

01:13:16.000 There will be retaliation.

01:13:18.000 And I'm going to be in the category in the camp of, hey, this is what we're built for.

01:13:23.000 This is what we're made for.

01:13:25.000 Would you want to be like alive in the 1980s and everything was wonderful and they ended up screwing everything up?

01:13:29.000 Like, no, like this is the time when things get really tough.

01:13:32.000 And that's when we find out what people are really made out of.

01:13:35.000 It's our call to action time.

01:13:36.000 And Allie Stuckey said it best at our SAS conference just a few weeks ago at this point.

01:13:41.000 Dang, it feels like it's been a year since the end of December.

01:13:45.000 She said, maybe we are living in this time because we were made for such a time as this.

01:13:49.000 Maybe we were made to be fighters to stand up for what we believe in, to share the gospel and truth with people, even in the midst of extreme opposition like the world has never seen before.

01:13:58.000 We embrace persecution because we know that this world is not our home.

01:14:02.000 In this world, we are going to be hated and reviled by individuals who treat this world as their home because we weren't meant to be here forever.

01:14:10.000 Amen.

01:14:12.000 This is Blaine, who listens.

01:14:13.000 He's our Wyoming Buddhist friend.

01:14:16.000 And thank you for watching.

01:14:17.000 He says, I also agree we should be happy and not focus on the negatives.

01:14:20.000 Now, mind you, being happy and being of good cheer are two different things.

01:14:24.000 I'm sad about today, okay?

01:14:26.000 Trust me.

01:14:26.000 I'm saddened.

01:14:27.000 But I'm now making the conscious choice, thanks to my faith, my wonderful gratitude for this country, to say, I'm not going to allow my sadness to monopolize me.

01:14:38.000 Basically, the essence is Biden might be a very good president, which I hope.

01:14:42.000 He's skeptical.

01:14:43.000 He could also put America last and focus on foreign issues.

01:14:46.000 Basically, he's saying we should give Biden a chance.

01:14:48.000 That's how I started it today.

01:14:50.000 I mean, he's not off to a very good start.

01:14:52.000 He just started to sign a bunch of documents that are against everything good for our country, but I do understand the spirit of that.

01:14:58.000 Thank you.

01:14:58.000 I appreciate that.

01:14:59.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

01:15:01.000 Let's get to Natasha.

01:15:06.000 I was wondering if you have any thoughts on what will happen to Florida.

01:15:08.000 I have a plan to move to Florida over the summer.

01:15:10.000 I'm fearful to become a left-leaning state.

01:15:12.000 I actually think that's going to become more conservative.

01:15:14.000 I'm a Florida resident.

01:15:16.000 I fled Illinois to go to Florida.

01:15:18.000 I voted in Florida.

01:15:19.000 And I can say that I don't think Florida is going to go to the left anytime soon.

01:15:24.000 Oh, I agree with that.

01:15:25.000 And a lot of that had to do with the active attitude that we talked about earlier, Charlie.

01:15:29.000 Between the time when Florida was really considered a purple state, almost 50-50 Democrat-Republican, the Republican Party went to work several years ago before the 2016 election, and then even more so afterwards, registering millions of Republican voters.

01:15:44.000 They understood what it meant to knock door to door to door, to make phone calls, to connect with people, and most importantly, to get them to show up to vote.

01:15:50.000 Do not embrace apathy.

01:15:52.000 Apathy is what breeds the attitude of this country that we're seeing right now.

01:15:55.000 If we show up really, really hard over the next few years, 2022 is going to look pretty great.

01:16:00.000 So apathy is anti-biblical.

01:16:01.000 It's against the teachings of Jesus.

01:16:03.000 I'll prove it to you.

01:16:03.000 The parable of the talents.

01:16:04.000 The parable of the talents is very simple.

01:16:06.000 You have a master with three servants.

01:16:09.000 Each servant gets a different distributed amount.

01:16:12.000 Like, let's just say they call it a talent, like five talents, five talents, five talents.

01:16:16.000 Every servant distributed those talents differently.

01:16:19.000 One servant put their talents underneath a rock and did nothing with it.

01:16:23.000 One of them multiplied it slightly and won generously.

01:16:25.000 The master comes back and praises the person who did massive multiplication, says, eh, okay, the person that did modest, and condemns harshly the person that did nothing with what was given to them.

01:16:35.000 What are you doing with the gifts that God has given to you?

01:16:37.000 Are you just going to kind of roll over and say it's over?

01:16:39.000 I'm going to retreat to the hills and I'm going to become a prepper, which is all fine, I guess.

01:16:43.000 Like, I'm going to go buy walkie-talkies and gold and silver and rations, which again, fine, whatever.

01:16:48.000 I guess that's, I'm not against that stuff.

01:16:50.000 I think some of them support our show, and that's fine.

01:16:53.000 But if that's going to dominate your life, that is a defensive, cowardly posture, right?

01:16:58.000 Go forth into the world with good spirit, with good cheer, and really be the change that you want to see happen in the world.

01:17:05.000 Okay, yeah, that's a good one.

01:17:06.000 Please speak to this.

01:17:07.000 Where's all this misinformation coming from?

01:17:09.000 A popular theory was Q.

01:17:12.000 So was this created from the left?

01:17:14.000 Was the strategy to destroy the morale?

01:17:16.000 I don't know.

01:17:17.000 All I know is this: how do we avoid this in the future?

01:17:21.000 I believe it set us back, caused many on the right to not get involved because they thought everything was taken care of by Trump and the military.

01:17:28.000 How do we avoid this?

01:17:29.000 It's a great question, Cameron.

01:17:30.000 Don't believe insane stuff.

01:17:32.000 Like, if I'm, if people like me, Allie B. Stucky, Candace Owens, if we're not talking about it, it's probably because it's not true.

01:17:39.000 I mean, some of this stuff was so wacky and so wild, like the military's going to intervene.

01:17:44.000 Come on, guys.

01:17:45.000 That's not, that's not even close to being true.

01:17:47.000 And then I tried, I came under huge heat from some of our watchers and our viewers when I started to push back against this stuff.

01:17:53.000 And they're like, you don't know what you're talking about.

01:17:55.000 I'm like, okay, and you do?

01:17:58.000 I mean, what sources do you have?

01:18:00.000 And so I'm going to say this as lovingly as I can.

01:18:02.000 Just take a step back and stop reading those message boards.

01:18:06.000 Check your sources.

01:18:07.000 Listen to podcasts that go.

01:18:09.000 I have, we have whole research teams, okay?

01:18:11.000 I have a research platoon over there that does an unbelievable job.

01:18:15.000 And they do nothing but research and vet and check and they make phone calls and they talk to senators and they talk to people and they do their job.

01:18:23.000 And so it's not just me where I'm just kind of flying as a singular air traffic controller trying to call shots here.

01:18:29.000 Like, no, we have a whole, we have a whole team here that goes through there.

01:18:32.000 Okay, here's a question for Isabelle.

01:18:33.000 Basically, it's a Turning Point USA question.

01:18:36.000 So, like, how do I get involved on a Christian campus, a sane amount of liberal bias, so on and so forth?

01:18:40.000 Yeah, we need Turning Point USA chapters everywhere, you guys.

01:18:43.000 We are working very hard with our field team at TPUSA to create a lot of new high school chapters.

01:18:48.000 That's our primary goal this year.

01:18:49.000 But anywhere that you might go to school, even if you're homeschooled, we have many different homeschool groups as well.

01:18:54.000 It's so easy to start a Turning Point USA chapter and embrace a call to leadership in your community.

01:18:59.000 Just go to tpusa.com/slash get involved.

01:19:03.000 Amen.

01:19:04.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:19:07.000 Let's go to here.

01:19:11.000 Hey, Charlie, thank you so much for your hard work for Liberty and Christian and conservative principles.

01:19:16.000 I appreciate you both.

01:19:17.000 You've brightened many of my days.

01:19:18.000 Thank you.

01:19:19.000 That's a great blessing to hear.

01:19:20.000 As a 30-something working professional, I am trying to find where I fit in when it comes to plugging into the fight ahead.

01:19:27.000 I know Turning Point USA is for college-age students, and I'm hoping and praying that you expand to 30 and 40-year-olds out there and have significant impact.

01:19:33.000 Thanks for all you do.

01:19:34.000 We're thinking about that through an alumni network.

01:19:36.000 So you can go to tpusa.com/slash get involved.

01:19:40.000 And Ella just emailed us, and she says that it's a good idea.

01:19:44.000 She's planning on going to college for business, but not wants to get into politics, not getting a degree in political science because I want to fall victim to leftist education.

01:19:52.000 Isabel, how was college for you being a conservative?

01:19:54.000 College was tough, you guys.

01:19:56.000 I actually have a book coming out next month that tells a lot of the behind-the-scenes stories of what my college experience was like, but I was pre-med.

01:20:02.000 I never anticipated leftist ideology dominating my classes, like organic chemistry and anatomy and physiology.

01:20:09.000 But there they were. 0.65

01:20:10.000 And we were talking about the southern border wall and that there's more than two genders. 0.82

01:20:14.000 Disregard the whole chromosome thing that we talked about in class. 0.85

01:20:18.000 And I decided to do something about it.

01:20:19.000 And I started a Turning Point USA chapter on my campus and got a lot of hate from the left because of that.

01:20:25.000 Obviously, my life has changed pretty dramatically from the time that I wanted to go to medical school to what I do now.

01:20:31.000 But college is not a friendly environment towards conservative ideas, and even more so than that objective truth.

01:20:36.000 Honestly, they're a lot more focused on indoctrination of certain values than they are presenting you with the truth and having healthy discussion and debate associated with that.

01:20:45.000 If you want to do something with your life and with a career that requires a college degree, go for it.

01:20:51.000 That's awesome.

01:20:52.000 I have two degrees: one in undergrad from biomedical sciences, and then the other one is a graduate school degree, a master's in biomedical sciences, policy, and advocacy.

01:21:00.000 I love school.

01:21:01.000 I'm a nerd.

01:21:02.000 So I say that school is worth it if that's something that you believe in.

01:21:05.000 But if you don't know what you want to do with your life, if you're going to college to find yourself, I would really encourage you to embrace a different call to action.

01:21:11.000 Amen.

01:21:14.000 So, Charlie, these people are getting their information from false prophets on YouTube.

01:21:19.000 I've seen a couple videos saying that Trump will be president.

01:21:22.000 Well, look, you could test a prophet based on the outcome of what they're saying.

01:21:27.000 And so these prophets, you know what they did to, I'm not suggesting this at all.

01:21:31.000 I'm just saying biblically, what they used to do, prophets in the Old Testament, if they were wrong, they would stone them.

01:21:35.000 Not obviously suggesting that, but they should be excommunicated.

01:21:39.000 Any prophet that misled you saying that God was speaking to them, they should be excommunicated and not listened to.

01:21:44.000 They were lying to you.

01:21:46.000 No one was talking to them.

01:21:47.000 They were lying to you.

01:21:48.000 Okay, continue to email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:21:53.000 Let's go to, oh, yeah.

01:21:56.000 Hey, Charlie, but you saw you at San Juan Capistrano.

01:21:59.000 Awesome.

01:21:59.000 Very cool experience.

01:22:00.000 And my mom keeps saying that Trump will be put in and stuff, but I don't, I think she's stuck in false hope and hopium.

01:22:06.000 Yes, that's correct.

01:22:07.000 So please stop reading the message boards.

01:22:10.000 Just listen to this program, please.

01:22:13.000 It's not true.

01:22:14.000 Joe Biden's president, okay?

01:22:16.000 Literally, I don't know how else to put it into words.

01:22:20.000 Okay, I guess there's more work to be done on that than I would have ever thought.

01:22:23.000 Okay, let's get a couple more here. 0.84

01:22:25.000 Yeah, here's a good question for Isabel.

01:22:27.000 Hey, and it's kind of just: are you worried about them now banning turning point at universities?

01:22:31.000 I think this is going to be their next big fight.

01:22:32.000 It absolutely is going to be their next big fight.

01:22:34.000 Every single day.

01:22:35.000 They've already been trying to do this.

01:22:36.000 This is going to be their big offensive.

01:22:37.000 But now this is going to be the offense from the left.

01:22:39.000 So buckle up, everybody, because I think the next few years are going to get pretty fun.

01:22:43.000 It's going to be a wild ride.

01:22:45.000 That's right.

01:22:46.000 Yeah, here's a good one.

01:22:48.000 This is a really constructive question, Gabe.

01:22:48.000 What should be our plan?

01:22:50.000 I want to send you a copy of my book because it's one of the more positive questions I've got.

01:22:54.000 He's like, okay, what should our plan be to lobby for verifiable elections, meaning elections in the states that are unambiguous and impossible to question their veracity?

01:23:02.000 Very good question.

01:23:03.000 Signature verification, voter ID, limited mail-in balloting, and practices like Florida.

01:23:08.000 That's what you should work to institute.

01:23:11.000 You should not allow this mail-in ballot nonsense to continue, these relaxed voter, these relaxed state registration standards.

01:23:18.000 It's a very, very good question.

01:23:20.000 And so, basically, the Florida model should be spread across the country.

01:23:24.000 Where I'm going to spend my time and energy is lobbying state legislators here in Arizona.

01:23:28.000 We're here in Arizona.

01:23:29.000 And through Turning Point Action, we're already setting up meetings with state legislatures to fix this nonsense.

01:23:34.000 We're trying to be constructive.

01:23:36.000 Georgia, I don't have as much of a, you know, kind of an understanding of the kind of terrain of the politics there, but it's got to get fixed.

01:23:44.000 It has to be the number one priority of the incoming state legislatures in these states.

01:23:52.000 And don't just wait for your state legislature to take action on this either.

01:23:56.000 Anyone can introduce a bill to government.

01:23:58.000 So if you want to take that upon yourself and draft up the first draft of this bill to change your voter laws, you can do that.

01:24:05.000 It has to have a co-sponsor.

01:24:07.000 But here's another one.

01:24:09.000 In my 65 years of existence, I've never been so ashamed and embarrassed that I live in a country that allows us to take an election that contains such clear examples of so and so and so forth.

01:24:17.000 It'll take a while for me to recover from this, and I might not ever.

01:24:19.000 I understand, Don, but I'm going to, we're going to put it on our shoulders right now, and we'll be here when you're ready to get re-engaged.

01:24:26.000 We'll hopefully have moved the ball in some direction.

01:24:30.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:24:33.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:24:35.000 Pro-life activism.

01:24:36.000 I want to work.

01:24:37.000 My area of activism is pro-life.

01:24:41.000 I've heard what you and Isabelle saying.

01:24:42.000 Honestly, there's no reason I should get involved.

01:24:45.000 So, anyways, is there an opportunity for me to join Turning Point USA?

01:24:48.000 I'd love it.

01:24:49.000 Any feedback?

01:24:50.000 Yes, absolutely.

01:24:50.000 Join Turning Point USA.

01:24:52.000 Get involved in a chapter in your community.

01:24:53.000 If there isn't a chapter already, start one.

01:24:55.000 It's a very easy process.

01:24:57.000 And our team loves to help you guys get those chapters started across the country.

01:25:00.000 We've said it a bunch today, but we'll say it again: tpusa.com/slash get involved.

01:25:05.000 Amen.

01:25:06.000 How do I get involved in a small way?

01:25:07.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:25:08.000 I'm in my 30s.

01:25:09.000 A mom of three young children, a nurse, and an MBA student.

01:25:11.000 I finished my MBA program this February, and I'm wondering if I get involved in politics anyway.

01:25:15.000 I live in a conservative county in Illinois, Woodford, I know where that is.

01:25:19.000 And I just don't even know where to begin, how to make an impact.

01:25:21.000 Such a good question.

01:25:22.000 Okay, here's my first thing.

01:25:24.000 First of all, take a proactive posture and learn something new every day.

01:25:30.000 You might be like, what does learning do anything?

01:25:31.000 No, no, it's everything.

01:25:32.000 The more knowledge you have about our country, the philosophy, the governing documents, you're going to be more informed of how to approach things that go from there.

01:25:40.000 The second thing is get local before you get national.

01:25:43.000 School board races, mayor races, water reclamation district races, mosquito abatement stuff, whatever it is.

01:25:49.000 We got all that stuff in Illinois.

01:25:50.000 They got every level of government. 0.97

01:25:52.000 Find someone to run for something.

01:25:54.000 Maybe you run for it or you assist in it.

01:25:56.000 And then finally, the third thing is this: take the education of your children.

01:25:59.000 You have three young children.

01:26:01.000 Be very serious about that.

01:26:02.000 That is the best thing you could do to help really move the ball forward for the next generation.

01:26:10.000 Thanks so much, everybody.

01:26:10.000 If you want to get involved, go to tpusa.com, turning point USA, where we play offense with a sense of urgency to win America's Culture War.

01:26:18.000 Email us your questions.

01:26:19.000 As always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:26:21.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:26:23.000 God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - January 21, 2021

Becoming a Happy Warrior in Biden’s Dark Winter

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