00:01:26.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:34.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:53.000According to childhelp.org, child abuse is when a parent or caregiver, whether through action or failing to act, causes injury, death, or emotional harm or risk of serious harm to a child.
00:02:04.000There are many forms of child maltreatment, including neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and exploitation, and emotional abuse.
00:02:12.000So there's a lot there, but it's not very specific.
00:02:16.000So is it child abuse to force a 10-year-old to wear a mask, which dehumanizes them, is very uncomfortable, has very little to no medical utility for the 10-year-old itself for a virus that they are not at risk of dying from, large risk of dying from.
00:02:39.000At what point does it become child abuse?
00:02:43.000Well, this is what a mature society would be talking about.
00:02:45.000Instead of trying to mandate that a child has walk around with a piece of cloth all the time, we'd be asking a very mature question, what is the risk?
00:03:41.000And there is more wisdom of this 10-year-old from this 10-year-old than almost every single teacher, school board member, or quite honestly, most parents across the country.
00:04:04.000That same teacher yells at us having our mask-bounded drink of water while we are outside in Carlin.
00:04:10.000She told us we had to wait until we were in our parents' car to have a drink of water.
00:04:15.000And it seems unfair teachers take their masks off while they yell at us kids and that we need to pull ours up.
00:04:24.000I asked my mom if there is a word for this and she said there is hypocrisy.
00:04:33.000I asked my mom if there's a word for this and she said there was hypocrisy.
00:04:38.000Now I'll get into the root of what the Greek word hypocrite means, but I want to finish the point because it's actually a very important point.
00:04:46.000So John Provenzano on Tucker was saying that basically he was getting anxiety for this clipboard enforcing micro-tyrant, which is a term we coined here on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:05:01.000The audience responded very favorably.
00:05:03.000And basically, when you have rules, you need rule enforcers.
00:05:07.000And then you need subjects, not citizens.
00:05:11.000So instead of going to school to learn, to be fulfilled, to pursue truth and be enlightened, John Provenzano and 10-year-olds across the country are being treated, maltreated, and abused by the people that have been tasked to care for them.
00:05:29.000And where the parents are, I don't know.
00:05:31.000But the 10-year-olds are speaking out because they have far more wisdom and courage than most parents do.
00:05:39.000You said later in your talk, and we didn't play it, but it was, I thought the most poignant part, you said, you saw one of your teachers outside of school and she didn't recognize you.
00:08:29.000You are going to see increases in pharmaceutical prescriptions, suicide, emotional damage, social isolation, self-confidence issues.
00:08:42.000All because some hall-modering, monitoring, low-IQ tyrant that has a teaching certificate is going around like the Gestapo.
00:08:54.000And if parents aren't going to stand up and do anything, and some are, I mean, some parents are going to school board meetings and they're starting to speak out, but it is nowhere near the outrage that I would have thought.
00:09:05.000It is nowhere near the sort of standing up for the innocent, which is literally children that I would have anticipated.
00:09:18.000I went to a grocery store recently, and producer Connor had a very similar example of this.
00:09:24.000And two and three-year-olds look at you when you don't wear a mask as if there's something wrong with you.
00:09:31.000There's a lot of truth there, of course, because what better way to break a bond between a parent and a child than insert the state and dehumanize that child to make them feel as if they have no individuality and they're nothing like them.
00:09:49.000You are nothing more than a cog in the machine.
00:09:52.000There is a whole generation of toddlers who are going to think that mask wearing is the norm.
00:09:58.000They'll never appreciate the impact of a smile or a kind expression from a stranger because they're being trained to live behind this conformity shield.
00:10:10.000We are training a generation that will be phenomenal at obeying whatever they are told.
00:10:18.000It makes a perfect generation for power-hungry leftists.
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00:11:26.000It fascinates me as I watch our republic be blitzkrieged by these collectivist authoritarians.
00:11:36.000I'm still trying to make sense of it, why so many decent Americans are allowing this to happen.
00:11:42.000Almost all of the tragedy of the 20th century is starting to make sense.
00:11:46.000And if you think you're any better person than anyone in the 20th century and you're not doing something about what is happening to our children right now, spare me.
00:11:57.000Our children are being abused by our taxpayer dollars in real time.
00:12:02.000And something we talk about quite often at Turning Point USA is our broken government school system and why parents continue to send their kids to those schools.
00:12:13.000I suppose it's only out of financial necessity.
00:13:46.000That is a government-funded, taxpayer-funded teacher that thinks it's now fully acceptable and fine to scream and say, you know how everyone talks about you?
00:15:11.000And the reason why you have a 10-year-old telling something is insane is because the guardians of our society are nowhere to be found.
00:15:20.000A civilization will no longer be able to exist if the people who have been around, who should have wisdom, knowledge of things that never change, eternal knowledge, not practical knowledge.
00:15:34.000A civilization will Be smashed into millions of pieces if the guardians do not take care of the most precious resource imaginable, which is the children.
00:15:48.000And so that's why a 10-year-old is going on Tucker Carlson.
00:15:52.000I don't know if the school board member where John Provenzano goes to school cares or not, but they likely don't.
00:15:58.000These school board members are mostly cowards and spineless activists and the typical kind of corporate types that don't care about their nation but only care about short-term profit maximization.
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00:17:46.000One of my biggest complaints is people like LeBron James, Oprah Winfrey, and Raphael Warnock, successful blacks that have made it in America, and then they make it their daily obsession to tell other blacks that they're oppressed and they can't make it.
00:18:01.000It bothers me on a deeply personal level.
00:18:06.000In the sense that it is rooted in ingratitude, it is rooted in keeping others down so that they might stay up.
00:18:15.000And it is almost a feudalistic view of America.
00:18:19.000And so Raphael Warnock, who's not a very smart person and never should have been a U.S. Senator, there's a lot of reasons why that happened, and we can get into that.
00:18:26.000The Georgia runoff still is a stinging open wound that I have politically.
00:18:33.000And it's just really hard because if Republicans would control the Senate, even with Mitch McConnell with one vote with Susan Collins and Murkowski, the entire dynamics of Washington would be different right now.
00:18:44.000Committees would be controlled by Republicans.
00:18:46.000They could subpoena Biden over this Nord Stream 2 nonsense.
00:18:50.000They could hold hearings on Hunter Biden.
00:18:53.000It would be a completely different political atmosphere.
00:19:55.000But you understand that the smear merchants, the people that basically professionally misrepresent our history, like Raphael Warnock and Oprah Winfrey and Nicole Hannah Jones and Ibram X. Kendi, and what's the other guy that's the total moron?
00:20:11.000Trying to think what the other guy's name is.
00:20:32.000Instead of empowerment, instead of trying to lift people up and say, make better choices and the future is yours, instead they are trying to motivate a swarm of activists so that they can stay in power.
00:20:47.000Just something to always remember when you're dealing with these Democrats is they need the division and they need the conflict in order to justify themselves staying in power.
00:21:01.000Now, I believe that one of the greatest mistakes made in American history is one that we don't talk about enough.
00:21:12.000And I've been waiting to talk about this until there was the right example.
00:21:17.000And I think Raphael Warnock saying that triggers this thought while it's still fresh enough.
00:21:23.000So what would happen if Raphael Warnock would have said something that unbelievably stupid in 1910?
00:21:56.000That would mean right now, the U.S. Senate would have 54 Republicans and possibly even more because Republicans control about 27 state legislatures.
00:22:09.000And I believe one of the greatest mistakes ever made in American history that gets almost no credit and very little understanding from scientists and historians, not scientists, historians, political scientists, what I meant, was the 17th Amendment.
00:22:24.000So when Raphael Warnock would be going around talking about all this, what would have happened if we wouldn't have the 17th Amendment?
00:22:32.000Well, the 17th Amendment says very clearly that it's the direct election of senators.
00:22:51.000A republic creates a process because there are rights that are naturally granted and recognized by the government that they can't be infringed upon.
00:23:06.000Democracy is straight up mob rule, Athenian style, quick to rise, quick to fall, and the burn is going to be dramatic.
00:23:15.000And so once we got the 17th Amendment in place, senators became very stupid.
00:23:22.000They became nothing more than public front-facing celebrities that promised things they could never deliver to their constituents instead of worrying about being accountable to the actual people, which were the state legislatures.
00:23:34.000So, Raphael Warnock goes around talking about the 1619 project as if that is the top concern of the people of Georgia.
00:23:42.000Now, you might say, well, Charlie, he's going to have to face an election.
00:23:47.000But in those massive statewide elections, it's far less about the daily and monthly accountability that the state legislatures used to have in place.
00:23:58.000So, just to give you some example of this, the state legislatures, they used to recall senators all the time.
00:24:05.000They used to say that you are not currently representing the needs, wants, and interests of the state of Georgia.
00:24:12.000You're not currently representing the needs, wants, and interests of the state of North Carolina or of Texas.
00:24:19.000So, Raphael Warnock is able to be this almost pseudo-national figure, which was never what the founding fathers intended.
00:24:26.000The founding fathers wanted the Senate to be a reflection of the states, and most importantly, the state legislative body, because that's where the most power actually is.
00:24:37.000It's the closest to the people, it's the greatest reflection of the rights people hold near and dear.
00:24:42.000Not that these senators become these national figures more focused on federal government than states' rights and state government.
00:24:51.000The 17th Amendment, I believe, is one of the biggest reasons over the last 100 years we have seen our freedom and liberty, our nation, our home, and our culture deteriorated.
00:25:06.000There used to be a recall mechanism where Raphael Warnock would get a call right now from the state legislature: like, hey, you keep it up with the 1619 nonsense.
00:25:14.000We're recalling you and we're taking you out.
00:25:54.000You'd just have a Confederated States.
00:25:56.000And the power of the entire colonies would have just been diffused, and probably it would have been conquered by Britain 20 or 30 years later, and the whole American Revolution would have been for naught, which is one of the main reasons why the Founding Fathers went over and above to try to make overtures to the slave-owning states, which gets highly criticized by the intelligentsia today, even though those reforms, the Three Fifths Clause, were blows to the slave states, not boons to the slave states.
00:26:23.000But the Founding Fathers in the Constitutional Convention were very worried that the federal government would kind of take a life of its own.
00:26:32.000You have to understand that the way we view government right now is so overly national.
00:26:39.000It's hard for us to even comprehend how the founding fathers first viewed government.
00:26:58.000And so, first and foremost, you're an individual, and your rights must be protected.
00:27:02.000And the family, those rights must be protected.
00:27:05.000Then the local community, those rights must be protected.
00:27:07.000And as you get further and further out, there's the greater threat that all of a sudden that a widespread boot on the neck style tyranny could crush every single level of existence.
00:27:19.000So, the founders, the biggest fear when they were creating the legislative branch, when they were creating the House of Representatives in the Senate, the fear they had is that the U.S. Senate would become nothing more than an instrument of trying to justify the expansive powers of the federal government.
00:27:37.000And so, you have the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers.
00:27:40.000I don't think the Anti-Federalist papers get enough love.
00:27:42.000The Anti-Federalist papers were largely pushed by Thomas Jefferson and others.
00:27:48.000I think that they were wrong on certain things, obviously, the Federalist Papers.
00:27:51.000One, but the Anti-Federalists warned that one day you are going to have swarms of demagogues promising things they can't ever fulfill, preying on the best intentions and the desires of the masses to erode your freedom and liberty and break the back of the union.
00:28:08.000I mean, isn't that what we're living through right now?
00:28:11.000It's as if the founding fathers had a fear.
00:28:14.000And so, then the Federalists, James Madison, and Hamilton said, okay, I hear you.
00:28:19.000Here's what we're going to do: we're going to empower and have the U.S. Senate be nothing more than a mirror of the state legislature.
00:28:27.000And so that the state legislature will basically have a representative in the Senate, which is called a senator.
00:28:33.000And the anti-federalists and the smaller states, like Delaware and Connecticut, which actually Connecticut was rather populated, but Vermont, they said, okay, we can live with that.
00:28:47.000It was under Article 1, Section 5, Clause 2 of the Constitution, that a member of Congress shall be removed from office before the normal expiration of his or her constitutional term by expulsion or from the House of Representatives upon a formal vote of resolution agreed to by two-thirds members of the body president voting.
00:29:03.000And it also could be removed by the state.
00:29:07.000That the state could recall their own senators and they could replace them.
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00:30:14.000If you go into Midland, Texas, and you try to run for office and you say that you are going to ban fracking and you are going to ban meat, would you be able to win an election?
00:30:26.000If you go into Brooklyn, New York, and you say you are going to mandate AR-15 ownership and try to increase the amount of pickup trucks, would you be able to win an election?
00:30:52.000It builds up to its ultimate purpose of a necessary, small, nimble, yet effective federal government.
00:31:00.000That there's differences between the needs, wants, and concerns of the people of Virginia and the people of Connecticut.
00:31:05.000And those must be respected and must have some sort of representation in the federal government because there's power in the union, there's power in that commerce, there's power in having a nationwide experiment.
00:31:15.000But the differences between states are stark and dramatic.
00:31:18.000And one of the reasons why you feel like you're losing your country is because your own local area has basically been steamrolled by some sort of nationalized, utopian, multi-thousand-mile-away agenda and worldview that is so distant from actually how you live.
00:31:39.000So the Constitution was supposed to protect us from this.
00:31:41.000And the 17th Amendment basically eliminated a lot of those protections.
00:31:46.000But remember, the Constitution and the American Revolution that preceded it.
00:31:52.000And again, it's important that the Constitution was basically the culmination of many events.
00:31:57.000And it wasn't even finished in just the Constitution.
00:32:00.000There was a whole four-year period where the Constitution went without its own Bill of Rights.
00:32:05.000And so the first was, of course, the Declaration and then the Northwest Ordinance.
00:32:09.000No, Declaration, then Articles of Confederation, Northwest Ordinance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.
00:32:15.000The Northwest Ordinance, by the way, we talked about that a lot here.
00:32:20.000If anyone ever tells you America was systemically racist, you want to sound very smart and very educated, just say, go look up Article 6 of the Northwest Ordinance.
00:33:16.000Well, before the villain of American history, John C. Calhoun, came onto the scene, slave states actually were beginning to admit that the slave trade was sunsetting.
00:33:26.000That in the Constitution, there was a literal sunset provision to the slave trade.
00:33:30.000So the slave states said, you know what?
00:33:33.000And it wasn't until John C. Calhoun, who decided to declare war on the American founding principles of freedom and equality and said, was really the original author of identity politics.
00:33:43.000If there's a couple people that you should know that your children are learning to think like, it's John C. Calhoun, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Bedford Forrest, and Nicole Hannah Jones.
00:34:32.000And honestly, it's so distant from what I think is actually going to retake the country, which is normal people doing what the founding fathers thought would be the safeguard of our freedom against tyranny.
00:34:43.000The localized, first the individual, then the family, then the city, then the state, then the federal.
00:34:52.000So it starts with you, then your family, and then the local area.
00:34:56.000And the Constitution still has multiple amounts of provisions to protect that and allow that to continue.
00:35:02.000There's a lot more I wanted to get to about this, but Raphael Warnock got me into that direction today.