00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, my exclusive remarks to our Turning Point USA students in Panama City, Florida from the Southeast Regional Conference.
00:00:08.000Usually we post an Ask Me Anything episode because of the audit and because of everything going on, we didn't get a chance to get to it, so we're going to post that tomorrow.
00:00:15.000So instead, we have an amazing Southeast Regional Conference event where I take questions in the audience and I talk about the mind, body, and spirit or soul, the three things every young person must focus on every single day.
00:00:27.000Are you growing deeper in your development of your mind, of your betterment of your body, and most importantly, the enrichment of your soul.
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00:01:09.000Thank you, Sandra from Midland, Texas.
00:01:11.000Thank you, Nan from Greenwich, Connecticut.
00:01:13.000Thank you, Donald from Rancho Santa Margarita, California.
00:01:56.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:27.000But the thing that is missing that all of you are playing a role in fixing every single day is courage.
00:03:33.000Courage is lacking in our country unlike any other time that I personally have seen, and quite honestly, in the last 60 years.
00:03:40.000And the reason why courage is lacking is because so many people are afraid to do what they know is the right thing because they're afraid of the downside.
00:03:48.000George S. Patton, who is one of the greatest men ever to live, said moral courage is the most necessary yet absent characteristic in men.
00:03:56.000Now, every single person here tonight is here on a Friday night where you could be doing something else because you understand that the country's falling apart quickly.
00:04:04.000You're losing the nation that you once understood and that you want to be part of, and you want to do something about it.
00:04:10.000But all of you here as a young conservative, you understand that this comes at a price, and you're willing to do the right thing regardless of what that price might be.
00:04:19.000How many of you raise your hands for the adults to see will be graded differently because you are a conservative in class?
00:04:32.000I'm going to encourage all of you to start this speech.
00:04:35.000That every single time you're on these campuses and you're starting a new chapter or you're tabling or recruiting or doing voter registration, you're playing a role in doing the most important thing that we need to do in our nation.
00:04:48.000That, you know, I get asked all the time at these events, Charlie, what can I do to save the country?
00:04:52.000And these are people that are asking, they're 50 or 60 or 70 years old.
00:04:54.000You know, I tell them, I say, you need to be as courageous as our turning point USA students are on campus.
00:04:59.000I say, you need to actually stick your neck out and be willing to lose something to do the right thing.
00:05:04.000And you have to understand what's happening on these campuses, where you are, is the center of everything that is happening in the country.
00:05:12.000You know, as many of you know, I'm not exactly a fan of most colleges across the country, but they're so incredibly important for charting the future and the cultural direction.
00:05:24.000So, for example, when a professor starts to spout out all these terrible ideas on BLM or systemic racism, white privilege, how many of you have professors like that all the time?
00:05:36.000Then, all of a sudden, you have to ask yourself a question, which is the most important question that a lot of you are going to ask in the next year, which is this.
00:05:44.000Do I challenge this professor and record this professor while I challenge them and put what at risk?
00:05:54.000Which is, do you take a bold step to try to do what you know is right, even though you might pay a price or a consequence for that?
00:06:02.000Now, a lot of you have already made that decision.
00:06:04.000How many of you are like, I don't care, I'm going to do the right thing.
00:06:06.000Now, not every hand goes up because some people are like, I don't know, I might actually lie and just kind of write that the Green New Deal is the greatest thing ever and that there's unlimited amount of genders and like whatever.
00:06:15.000And now, I'm not saying there's a right or wrong answer to this, right?
00:06:19.000Because my friend, and I respect him a lot, Ben Shapiro, has a different opinion on this.
00:06:23.000He thinks that grades are the most important thing, and lying your way through college is important.
00:06:30.000I would rather have a generation of courageous C students than a bunch of A student nerds that lied their way through college to go get a good grade.
00:06:40.000I would rather have a generation of young people that are stepping up and doing the right thing.
00:06:46.000And so, by the way, I'm not here to shame you if you're doing that because maybe you're like, hey, I got to go to nursing school.
00:07:55.000Can meet new people and get new bonds and new relationships and new friendships.
00:07:59.000What I'm saying is that the key to being a conservative activist on the front lines, which all of you are, is being the same person in public that you are in private.
00:08:19.000You are in the vast minority of Americans because you know most Americans, the emails we get on our radio show and our podcast, you know what they say?
00:08:26.000Charlie, I'm terrified to express my opinion at work.
00:08:29.000I can't tell anyone what I actually believe.
00:08:31.000I leave my house and I have to put on a camouflage costume disguise and pretend to be a political moderate or a leftist just to keep the paycheck keep going.
00:10:01.000Just because you were born a certain way does not mean you're a terrible, awful person.
00:10:08.000Last month, an absolute landslide of you made the switch to Peer Talk.
00:10:13.000You were chained to overpriced unlimited plans from Verizon AT and TRT Mobile, then finally decided to make the switch because you know that Peer Talk saves the average family over $800 a year without having to sacrifice coverage.
00:11:05.000Peer Talk is simply smarter, wireless.
00:11:10.000And so what our challenge for you at Turning Point USA is when you go to campus and you set up that table and that leftist comes and throws that table to the ground is you put that on camera and you take out your phones.
00:11:22.000Every single one of you that have your smartphones in front of you, I think they're destroying humanity generally, but let's use it to our advantage.
00:11:28.000You have a super weapon against the left right there.
00:11:32.000You have a super weapon to be able to record and expose what they are doing on your college campuses.
00:11:38.000Record every second of what your professor is doing.
00:12:17.000The regime in charge wants wide open borders for 2 million people to come in.
00:12:22.000They seem completely indifferent with giving $85 billion to the Taliban.
00:12:27.000They seem as if they want to categorize people based on skin color, not on things that actually matter, like your soul and your spirit or your character.
00:12:35.000And so the only way that we can fight back against that is to all of a sudden for you to play offense on college campuses.
00:12:41.000These are places where they, quite honestly, they have never seen conservatives as strong as they're seeing in this generation.
00:12:47.000I'm inspired when I see our turning point USA leaders in Michigan.
00:13:15.000It was like, whatever, get out of here, person, right?
00:13:19.000And what was amazing is after that, over 200 students lined up to get involved after that turning point USA table was attacked.
00:13:27.000I don't know if you saw that video yesterday of just like some random guy wearing a Bass Pro Shop hat at Arizona State University just doing homework with his earbuds in.
00:13:35.000And this crazy activist comes up to him and say, you are a white person.
00:13:41.000You are offensive and your presence is nearly offensive here.
00:13:44.000Now, the hilarious thing, here's the greatest turn of events, is that she was the one that recorded it and she posted it going after this person for being a white person saying, I don't want white people here in this college.
00:13:56.000The only way to fight back against this is stop complaining and start doing.
00:14:00.000It's to start doing things on your campuses, hosting speakers, hosting activism events.
00:14:07.000By the way, I'm not saying you have to secretly record them.
00:14:09.000Just be like, yeah, since you work for me, since the employment contract is I pay tuition here, I'm setting up a camera and congratulations.
00:14:16.000You want to stop the indoctrination in your class quickly?
00:14:18.000If they know a camera's on them, they're going to change their word selection very quickly.
00:16:41.000One moment on a college campus where you are able to identify or you're able to expose maybe something that's being taught can change the trajectory for everything that's happening at your local school.
00:17:27.000A combination of the mind, body, and soul.
00:17:30.000Instead, it's, hey, your purpose is to go eradicate systemic racism and get rid of whiteness and culture.
00:17:37.000I'm sure we all have friends that are, you guys all have friends that are like that, where it's their life purpose.
00:17:41.000It's become almost their religious identity.
00:17:45.000It's like my purpose in life is going to be to overthrow the cis normative, hetero, patriarchy, whatever crazy term they're using.
00:17:54.000And they've been able to mobilize millions of people in our generation to all of a sudden say that with religious fervor and zeal, this is how I identify and this is what I identify with.
00:18:03.000And so for all of you, finding something constructive, not destructive, that has meaning and truth behind it will benefit your life more so than even your friend's life.
00:18:14.000I'm sure so many people here tonight have friends that just say, I don't know what I want to do with my life.
00:18:23.000And again, if you're in high school and you want to go to college, whatever, going to college is not going to get you these things.
00:18:26.000But if you do well in college, terrific, and you think it's a good thing for you, then I hope it works out for you, which is the following.
00:18:32.000You should want to be a good and courageous person, always contesting for truth.
00:18:37.000These are the things that you should want to do.
00:18:39.000You shouldn't want to make a bunch of money or do all that stuff, whatever.
00:18:44.000Instead, are you going to contend for things that are objectively true and good and beautiful?
00:18:51.000And that only is possible when you have courage.
00:18:54.000This whole nation that we live in was founded by people, our American framers, that understood you have to sacrifice something to get something.
00:19:03.000And here's what I'm telling you tonight, that the future of the country is now actually on our generation.
00:19:20.000We have the ability to change this for the better.
00:19:24.000And so I'm sure so many students have come up to us and have asked us on our podcast, what do I do if I am the only conservative at my school?
00:19:33.000Well, then you fight harder is what you do.
00:19:36.000Is you stand and you proclaim, you think we're in the business here to become the most popular person in the school?
00:19:44.000Instead, I'm sure this is something that every single person here can agree on, which is the most important thing, which is leaders are ones that go boldly in the direction of what is good when it seems most impossible and difficult.
00:20:00.000George Patton had another expression, which is lead, follow, or get out of the way.
00:20:05.000All of you know what is necessary to reform your college campuses, to push back on what's happening there, quite honestly, build a meaningful life.
00:22:13.000You will always be tied to something else or somebody else if you are always blaming somebody else for your own problems.
00:22:19.000I'm not to say that there might not be meaningful pieces of feedback you can give and things that might happen to you, but most colleges don't teach you this.
00:22:28.000Most colleges will disempower you rather than empower you.
00:22:33.000So I'll close on this and then we'll do some questions until they kick me offstage, which is colleges are the focal point for all of this that is happening.
00:22:42.000High school and colleges, the indoctrination and educational institutions.
00:22:47.000Do not discount the power of challenging somebody in charge with the truth.
00:22:53.000Going up against a tyrant, going up against a teacher, going up against a professor that is lying to you and the students, call them out.
00:23:12.000And when you participate on the energy and the activism on the college campuses, it is going to spread.
00:23:19.000And that is what is going to save the nation and save the country.
00:23:22.000And if you look around here at this room, we are now seeing a movement of young people and students that are so compelled and ready for action to help take back this country.
00:23:32.000Look, I want a country that I recognize.
00:23:34.000I grew up in a completely different country 10 years ago.
00:24:37.000This is the sort of offensive strategy that all of us need to employ because every single person here could save the country and will save the country.
00:24:44.000The greatest lie that you will hear is it doesn't matter what you do.
00:24:49.000First of all, that's not true for your soul, for your mind, or your body.
00:24:52.000But more importantly, for the country.
00:24:54.000We need every single one of you to continue to push forward.
00:24:57.000First of all, you don't know that when you're recruiting on campus, you might be recruiting the next chapter leader for next year.
00:25:02.000When you're recruiting on campus, you might all of a sudden come across an incident that could change college campus speech policy.
00:25:08.000I'm going to end with this story and we'll go here.
00:25:12.000We were at University of California, Berkeley with recruiting for our Turning Point USA table.
00:25:17.000I think it was actually LI that was helping us out there.
00:25:20.000And many of you know that President Trump signed a free speech executive order a couple years ago, but not many people know the actual events that led up to this.
00:25:28.000So at University of California, Berkeley, it was an unusually sunny day, and Hayden Williams was out tabling with a socialism sucks t-shirt.
00:25:35.000This was about three years ago at the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
00:25:39.000Someone comes up to the table and punches Hayden Williams in the mouth because he's wearing the socialism suck shirt, drops him to the ground.
00:25:47.000Now, thanks to the training that we provide you here at these campuses, we got the entire thing on film.
00:25:54.000Went viral, tens of millions of views on Fox News almost every single night for four nights straight.
00:25:58.000And then I got a phone call from somebody, Charlie, it's terrible what's happening at UC Berkeley.
00:26:12.000And we got to talking, and I, amongst many others and Turning Point and LI and many other organizations, presented a free speech executive order that changed the game that is allowing us to even continue to start turning point groups and allowing us to continue to speak on campus.
00:26:31.000That was one campus, and I'm not saying that you have to get punched in the mouth to get famous, everybody.
00:26:35.000The more important part of it was the whole thing was caught on film.
00:26:52.000And it changed it almost instantaneously.
00:26:54.000For two weeks, there is a national conversation around campus intolerance, free speech, and it changed the actual policies that we are able to have on college campuses.
00:27:04.000All of you could play that role in that today.
00:27:07.000And some of you say, well, Charlie, my campus isn't that radical.
00:27:10.000Well, then go change heart and mind by heart and mind and person by person by person.
00:27:32.000I want you to go look one day if you guys ever come by our Turning Point USA headquarters and look at the letters I get from people that are 92 years old World War II veterans that are saying, Charlie, I can only give you $5 a month, but the 15, 16, 17, and 18-year-olds that you are training and rising up are going to save this country.
00:29:47.000And while we don't have teachers openly talking about politics, what they do is they use the structure of how our school operates to stifle our group.
00:29:59.000We have 100 kids come to our social meetings, which is where we do like fun stuff.
00:30:03.000And they come in and they say, oh, there's too many people in this room.
00:30:07.000We try and get them on video, but they purposely do it right when we're doing something, so they kind of catch us off guard.
00:30:13.000So you talk a lot about what happens if a teacher openly challenges you with their words.
00:30:20.000How can we at my school fight back against the faculty and the administration when they use the structure of how our school operates?
00:30:29.000So let me first just ask you a personal question.
00:30:31.000Are you strengthening in your resolve or weakening in your resolve?
00:30:38.000So you're more committed to fight than ever before.
00:30:41.000So no matter how many trays of food they throw on you, how many times you're spit, spit at, you're tougher and you're ready for battle more than ever.
00:31:06.000You got to keep scrapping for every inch.
00:31:09.000And it's not, when they're willing to use the actual institution to protect their indoctrination, then you just have to continue and understand the odds are stacked against you.
00:31:19.000And your mission is to stand for truth against these miserable people that are willing to tolerate the spitting on and the ridiculing of everything you just went through.
00:31:27.000I can't imagine if you were a liberal transgender activist, it would be a front page of CNN.
00:31:32.000Like a transgender student gets lunch thrown all over them.
00:31:35.000Protests in the streets, burn down a Wendy's, like whatever it is, right?
00:31:38.000You know, whatever the playbook for their side is, where you're like, you know, you're a white male, so obviously they don't care in a Christian male because they think you deserve it.
00:31:46.000That's honestly embedded within what they are saying, which is, of course, disgusting and racist and terrible.
00:31:52.000So here's what I'm going to say: you're going to have to fight through it at every single inch.
00:31:56.000I'm sure that our field reps can help you through part of this.
00:31:58.000And then honestly, I don't know how effective this would be.
00:32:01.000I would try to find allies somewhere in the administration, the school boards, or the parents' groups and tell them what's really going on with this.
00:32:07.000And just highlight some of the examples.
00:32:09.000And you say, look, I'm not here to play the victimhood.
00:32:57.000And my situation is probably a little bit different than a lot of people here because I'm studying to be a teacher.
00:33:02.000And I've recently been looking into getting into writing curriculum, but to do that, you have to teach for a while.
00:33:06.000So what would your advice be to the future teachers of America who are going to have to teach in these schools that are forcing us to teach things that we don't necessarily agree with?
00:33:26.000The fact that Republicans never embrace classical education is one of the problems why that we're in we're in right now where they teach Greek and they teach Latin, Aquinas and Aristotle and Augustine, Socrates, Plato, all the great ancients that built our entire civilization.
00:33:44.000There are thousands and thousands of families and millions of people and young people that need better teachers in the charter schools and the classical schools and the private schools.
00:33:53.000With that being said, if you're thrown into the public school environment, this would be the one opportunity I would tell you to keep your head down, get tenure, and then use it against them.
00:34:01.000As soon as you get tenure, become the most flaming radical conservative you possibly can and make them fire you, which of course they will not do because they can't because of tenure.
00:34:10.000And so, yeah, look, I'll tell you this: that we need more teachers.
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00:36:18.000In your speech, you spoke a lot about courage and taking action.
00:36:22.000Well, we have a few people on Capitol Hill that took some very interesting action today.
00:36:25.000In fact, some friends of yours who have spoken at some of your events.
00:36:28.000That would be Madison Cawthorne, Dan Crenshaw, Matt Gates, and one that hasn't spoken at your events, but Elise Stephaniek as well, who is another outspoken conservative.
00:36:35.000What they voted yes on today was red flag laws for active military service members, which is an active encroachment upon the Second Amendment.
00:36:43.000Your organization fights hand in hand, strongly, to defend the Constitution at every turn.
00:36:49.000I want to know what you have to say about this, if you have any comments.
00:36:51.000I know you're very restricted on what you can say, but I didn't know that they're voting.
00:36:56.000I'm totally against red flag laws, so I'm surprised to hear that.
00:37:28.000Look, again, these people are some all those people are friends of mine, so I try not to bash friends publicly, but I completely disagree with the idea of passing red flag laws.
00:37:37.000So I believe the Second Amendment is there to protect all the other amendments and that a free people is a people that are able to arm themselves against usurpatious tyranny.
00:37:47.000And if you've seen what's been happening in recent days, weeks, and months, especially with the vaccine mandates and the lockdowns, the last thing I would do is make it harder to buy weapons.
00:39:14.000They're actually, if you get vaccinated, get vaccinated and like, I guess, send them proof or something or get vaccinated on campus, you can be entered to win tuition for a semester.
00:39:21.000Yeah, I've been hearing a lot about this.
00:39:22.000First of all, this whole thing is so ridiculous.
00:39:28.000I don't care if you're vaccinated or unvaccinated.
00:39:30.000I'm not going to ask you if you have HIV or not.
00:39:32.000In fact, if you do, I hope you find some help.
00:39:35.000But this idea that I'm going to ask for your intimate medical history is creepy and weird and wrong.
00:39:40.000I have publicly declared my medical decisions because I want to try to make sure people know that it's okay to kind of say no to the regime.
00:39:47.000I've decided not to get vaccinated and I will not get vaccinated regardless of what sort of social pressure is thrown at me.
00:39:54.000And if you decide to get vaccinated, I'm not going to make you feel bad.
00:40:53.000The only opportunity that is true is in two cases.
00:40:56.000You want to put heroin in your body or you want to kill a child.
00:40:59.000That's the only time it's actually my body, my choice on the other side.
00:41:01.000But if you want to say no to a vaccine, by the way, if you look in this room, statistically, all of you were at more danger driving or riding in a car to this conference than from dying from the Chinese coronavirus.
00:41:15.000How many people have already had COVID here today?
00:43:14.000So I started Turning Point when I was 18, have had some amazing ups and downs throughout the whole thing.
00:43:20.000But yeah, I could definitely say since I've got married and in recent years, I kind of viewed kind of how the conservative movement fits into this and kind of what own personal decisions are, kind of what matters most.
00:43:35.000And it wasn't that I didn't believe it.
00:43:37.000I just didn't emphasize it as much, and especially my own life and my own commentary.
00:43:41.000I don't have like this massive kind of story to say, like, yeah, I was a left-winger and now I'm a conservative.
00:43:46.000I definitely have changed on one part, though, where it's I used to kind of be more okay with kind of people advertising or being okay with licentiousness, which is kind of what you just kind of talked about.
00:43:57.000Where, again, I'm sure there's some libertarians here.
00:44:26.000I'm not saying we disagree on anything.
00:44:27.000This is something that I always kind of heard people say, and I just wish that I would have made a bigger deal out of that five or six years ago, if that makes any sort of sense.
00:44:36.000Do you want a follow-up comment really quick?
00:44:40.000Well, just let me re-emphasize this for everyone here, which is it is the pursuit of things that are eternal that really matter in your life.
00:44:48.000It doesn't matter how much money you make.
00:44:50.000It doesn't matter what kind of cars you drive.
00:44:52.000I'm not saying don't find a job and don't work, but instead value the things that do not change over the things that do change.
00:44:59.000And reject hookup culture and all that garbage.
00:45:02.000Date with the intent of marrying and make yourself somebody that somebody wants to marry.
00:45:36.000If you're like, I can't find a woman, how about this?
00:45:38.000If you can't go 90 days without taking a drink, that's why they don't want to be with you.
00:45:43.000If you can't go 90 days, seriously, if it's become pseudo-met, I'm not against drinking morally, but if you don't have that kind of self-discipline, then it pours into other parts of your life.
00:45:54.000You want to become someone worth marrying?
00:45:56.000Wake up at 6:30 in the morning, every morning for a month straight.
00:46:00.000Go work out five out of seven days a week and try to lose some weight or do something with purpose.
00:46:06.000All of a sudden, you'll realize, like, wow, the whole universe is realigning me.
00:46:09.000No, that's actually called the natural law.
00:46:11.000And people can tell, especially women, because they mature quicker than men, all of a sudden, like, wow, that guy has Zach together.
00:46:17.000Like, and by the way, you might not even notice it in your own behavior, but you might notice it in just your language, in your body posture, in who you are.
00:46:24.000And all of a sudden, you're like, wow, everything starts like these people never used to talk to me anymore, and now they do.
00:46:28.000It's like, yeah, it's because you're actually doing things that are in alignment with how you're supposed to live, which is what?
00:46:33.000Discipline, order, waking up early, saying no to the things that you know are bad for you that make you feel good.
00:46:38.000Again, this is not exactly the speech that always high school kids and college kids want to hear, but I think deep down a lot of you have been tired of seeing the non-stop parade of pleasure advertisement on TikTok, on Instagram.
00:46:49.000Take this drug or take this pill or go to this nightclub.
00:48:29.000What Turning Point USA is doing solves it.
00:48:31.000We solve it by getting people to love America, to be thankful that we're in this country, to be filled with gratitude, and also to be active and celebratory about the United States of America and the Constitution and freedom and liberty.
00:48:45.000So, my second question was: when you were talking, you were talking about how we could record people and expose them.
00:48:54.000If people tried, I've heard that some people who have tried doing that and post it on Facebook or anything, then they would end up being hunted down by these people and eventually killed.
00:49:40.000If you like record some like random professor at Florida State University, he's not going to like hunt you down in the night with a chainsaw.
00:49:45.000Like, this guy's like, it's kind of a loser, right?
00:49:54.000I think it only takes one-party consent.
00:49:55.000And if you're in a lecture hall, there's no expectation of privacy either.
00:49:58.000So if you're in a lecture hall, especially of a public school, there's no, so an expectation of privacy is if you were in a room with the door closed, then they might be able to make an argument.
00:50:06.000If you're in a lecture hall, there's 200 people.
00:50:08.000So no, I want to alleviate your fears.
00:50:10.000If you record your professors, you're not going to be hunted down in the middle of the night, unless your professor is Jeffrey Epstein at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
00:51:18.000The CEO of Dan, the CEO of Chick-fil-A at a church event went down on his knees and said, We as white Americans must atone to black Americans for all the sins and terrible things we've done.
00:52:32.000President Biden was coming in and he was saying, 100 employees or more, I'm going to force you to get vaccinated, or I'm going to throw OSHA at you.
00:52:42.000Because workers like you and so many workers in this room that refuse to get vaccinated were thinking of leaving the big companies for the smaller companies.
00:52:52.000And that was going to be a threat to the labor pool of massive companies.
00:52:55.000He bailed out big companies by disintegrating competitive labor markets.
00:53:01.000So we're here to help you and hold the line.
00:53:04.000If that's your medical choice, I'm never going to tell somebody to do something with their own medical decisions, unless it's like, you know, don't eat asphalt or stuff like that, right?
00:53:40.000You have to work at it if you want it.
00:53:42.000And so, you know, people say, I know a lot of things or whatever, whatever.
00:53:46.000Take two hours a day and I turn my phone off and I'll either take Hillsdale online courses, I'll go read a good book, I'll go listen to, you know, podcasts that hopefully get me closer to wisdom.
00:54:56.000I encourage everyone here to read the three following books.
00:54:59.000You guys have all read 1984, but if you haven't read it in the last calendar year, reread it because all of a sudden you'll see things you didn't see before.
00:55:07.000Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which is a great book, which I think is actually even more powerful in some ways than 1984.
00:55:14.000Arthur Kessler's Darkness at Noon, which is a terrific book, which explores the question, very interesting philosophical question: what would it take for you to confess to a crime that you did not commit?
00:55:26.000That's the question that is explored in Darkness at Noon.
00:55:29.000If that catches your attention, it should, because that was what happened in the Soviet Union show trials.
00:55:34.000And then finally, if those of you that like the Bible and you believe it's the centerpiece for human civilization, which I do, anything that is written by C.S. Lewis, but there is one book that I encourage all of you to know and pray over, which is Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis.
00:55:53.000It opens up with Men Without Chests, and I'll let you find out what that means.
00:56:00.000Mere Christianity was originally given as a series of radio broadcasts in the midst of the German blitz of London.
00:56:08.000I'm probably boring you guys, but I could give you some more.
00:56:10.000If you guys want to go really deep, go read Aristotle's Ethics and Politics and Metaphysics because he was the man.
00:56:16.000And then finally, if you want to find out what all that means, somewhat of a shameless plug, but not really, is our partnership with Hillsdale College, which is a terrific place.
00:56:24.000All of you guys can take these online courses to actually supplement what you're already doing in college, get the information.
00:56:30.000We'll help you with your essays, help you in your research and your writing.
00:56:42.000They come with a quiz at the end of it.
00:56:44.000They have a course on C.S. Lewis, a course on the Constitution, a course on the Federalist Papers.
00:56:47.000But here's the thing: if there's any sort of perception that I'm knowledgeable, which I appreciate or wise, which I appreciate, it's because of the work I've put in, right?
00:56:58.000It's not because I was born that way, but it's because when I have idle moments on planes or trains or automobiles or at night, I'm not playing video games.
00:57:07.000I'm sitting down, I'm reading books, and I have volumes of notebooks, hundreds that I fill out a year of just notes I take on this stuff.
00:57:14.000And I forget a lot of it, but I remember about 10 to 15% of it, and I have a reference point there.
00:57:18.000And so I want to just encourage all of you: one of the things that you guys all got to do is take more time to dive deeper into the ideas that built our civilization and how things work.
00:57:27.000And so just if there was only one book that you guys read out of all that, obviously the Bible, but also Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell, because he makes the very provocative argument that the Civil Rights Act that was passed in the 1960s has actually done more harm than good without people realizing it.
00:57:44.000Which I'll let you guys figure out if that's the case or not, so you guys can read that book and determine for yourself.
00:57:54.000I'm a pre-medical student and I'm applying to med school within the next year.
00:57:58.000Lately at my university, all of my pre-medical advisors have told me that there is no place for me in the health field due to the fact that I have denied my COVID vaccine.
00:58:07.000So what piece of advice would you give to me and other pre-medical medical students who are now facing shame and are being discouraged from an industry that we've worked so hard to get into?
01:00:21.000If you're able to get through it, if you're able to get through residency and get your RN, there are thousands of independently operated and owned clinics, as we've talked about, that would be willing and I think really supportive of wanting to embrace you and nurses outside of the megaplex of hospitals.
01:00:42.000Where it's like the hospitals are very tough, but there are these kind of independent, operated, owned clinics, very entrepreneurial, that I'm sure need people like you.
01:00:50.000So I think what my biggest issue is right now is because I want to be a medical doctor, an obstetrician gynecologist.
01:00:56.000And what I'm facing is that in internships right now, they want to see proof of vaccination.
01:01:02.000So it's just really a big struggle to get past that.
01:01:46.000Schools are basically going to close down again.
01:01:49.000But Disney is asking for proof of vaccination by submitting our medical information to a third-party system called Trust Assure.
01:01:56.000I'm wondering how to gather people in the Walt Disney company to speak up and say, I'm not submitting my medical information to whatever this Trust Assure company is that's been creating vaccine passports and all of the above.
01:03:39.000I'm a campus coordinator at Florida State.
01:03:41.000And as our country falls into a further state of ungodliness, regardless of how hard we fight for conservative politics on campus, I truly believe that the only thing capable of saving America is through the redemptive blood of Jesus Christ.
01:03:54.000And so I was asking if you asking if you agree with that statement, with that take, and if so, how important it is to use tabling as a tool on campus to share the gospel.
01:04:22.000We have people that don't know the Lord that are Christians.
01:04:25.000And we're going to stay that way because we were founded in this idea that we need to impact all culture regardless of religious belief or affiliation.
01:04:33.000With that being said, though, we just launched Turning Point Faith.
01:04:38.000Because we need to build a coalition of Christians together to fight and contest for these ideas.
01:04:43.000Now, just speaking to you personally, that, yes, when you have people that come across that are broken and that do not know the Lord, yeah, you should totally share the gospel with them.
01:04:52.000In fact, you should take that opportunity and seize that opportunity.
01:04:55.000And then here's the thing: is that then all of a sudden, Turning Point kind of fills the Galatians 3 model, that the law is a school teacher to Christ.
01:05:03.000Because once people start drinking from the streams of liberty, like, oh, yeah, I like this Gen Z Gen free thing.
01:05:08.000You say, well, what is ultimate freedom?
01:05:12.000And that would be your own, you know, own ability to kind of adapt to that and do that.
01:05:18.000But our position at Turning Point USA will always be: these are the big principles that we agree with and align with.
01:05:23.000And obviously, people know my beliefs, which is I'm very open about Jesus being the Son of God, and we need people need to accept him into their life.
01:05:32.000And I believe two major things that I think all of us agree on, which is there is a God, and you are not him.
01:05:39.000And that we need to read the word and be in the word every single day.
01:06:50.000And I had kids screaming at me the entire class because I stood for what I believed in.
01:06:54.000And I've had teachers tell me to sit down because I'm not a woman and I'm not allowed to speak in the classroom at which I sent that video, which I recorded to Fox News and Tucker.
01:07:06.000What are your advice for helping systems to get rid of these garbage classes like digital pornography, which is also offered and registered with over 175 students, and lesbian dance theory, which has over 45?
01:07:21.000What is your advice to get rid of these garbage classes in college, which we are taking debt out for?
01:07:28.000So, when I used to joke around and I say you send your kid to college to go study North African lesbian poetry, it sounds pretty close, actually.
01:07:39.000You could do peace studies and what was the Native American flute?
01:08:00.000And just you being here talking about it is important.
01:08:02.000And honestly, for the adults watching this video and hearing this right now, reconsider whether or not you should send your kids to college and actually put them through this nonsense.
01:08:11.000Did you find value in the Native American flute course?
01:08:42.000Well, look, and I want to just say that exposing what's actually happening in these colleges is important, but you're actually taking a great tact about it.
01:08:51.000Mock these people into the ground, ridicule them, and humiliate them.
01:10:02.000But so personally, what I'm going through right now is one of my teachers in my math class, if you even pull down your mask or anything, if it's below your nose, you get a zero for the day.
01:10:12.000And so my thing is, I wanted to ask your opinion on that.
01:10:16.000And is that something that she's able to do?
01:10:18.000Another thing is that we have students walking around the campus reporting or snitching.
01:10:24.000And like because if they like tell on us or whatever, they get $100 from the university.
01:10:30.000And they've been posting that on LSUs, like Instagram, things like that.
01:10:36.000And what's your opinion on the us not being able to, how do I word this?
01:12:39.000For a virus that has a 99.9% survival rate for your age demographic, where you're much more likely to like die over drinking too much, which is something LSU obviously knows nothing about, right?
01:13:34.000LSU you think would be a conservative institution.
01:13:36.000But this goes back to one of my major operating thesis, which is that we as conservatives back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, and 90s, in particular last 20 years, conservatives kind of allowed colleges to become the centers of anti-American radicalism that now we're sending our most prized possession young people, you know, to lose their value and lose their soul sometimes.
01:14:05.000And the thing that I wanted to talk about with you today is I think the most vulnerable in our society today is not us, but the younger, like the infants up to like five years old, maybe even a little older than that.
01:14:23.000What I've been seeing from TV and definitely in the schools is just indoctrination of the radical left.
01:14:31.000Like I've seen, most of us have watched blues glues when we were young, and now there's a drag queen all over doing like transgender parade and pansexual everything.
01:14:44.000And then I was just wondering, possibly, God forbid, that happens to one of our kids when that happens.
01:14:54.000As future parents, what do you think is the best mode of action?
01:14:59.000I mean, that's such a profound question.
01:15:02.000As someone who wants to start a family and just got married, I mean, I'm not going to put up with this crap.
01:19:52.000When we are in 2050, 2060, do we want to wish that we would have done more?
01:19:58.000No, we have to act decisively, everybody.
01:20:00.000And that burden is now on our shoulders at a younger age than we would have anticipated.
01:20:05.000We can go down as the generation, albeit a small remnant of this generation at the time, but it's growing, that acted and saved the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.