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00:00:54.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:44.000So there's a lot we could talk about here tonight.
00:01:47.000And I thought that the most important thing I could tell you is you need to commit and be clear to what worldview that you are viewing everything through.
00:02:00.000It's the most important question a young person can answer.
00:02:03.000So the way you view the news, oh, is my mic not working?
00:02:11.000The way you view the news, the way you view your relationships, the way that you view everything comes through a worldview.
00:02:18.000And that worldview is going to instruct not just how you vote, but if you end up getting married, how you relate to other people.
00:02:26.000And so a typical worldview that you would find in government school, and maybe some of you here tonight have this worldview, is I don't really know where I fit.
00:02:35.000I don't really, I think that everything, you know, live and let live, do whatever I want to do.
00:02:39.000There's left-wing worldviews, which is I don't want to work and I want to complain all day long and get stuff for free.
00:02:46.000There are, you know, atheist worldviews, which there is not a God and there's no reason for our existence.
00:02:53.000Or there's the most important and the true worldview, which is a biblical worldview.
00:02:58.000Now, a biblical worldview means that, first of all, you believe there is a God and you are not him.
00:03:06.000You believe that you're made in the image of God, that you're here for a purpose, and that every single human life has inherent value, that you have a soul.
00:03:14.000You're not just a clump of cells that has come into being through allegedly millions of years of Darwinian evolution.
00:03:22.000Now, some of you might say, Charlie, I don't know what my worldview is, and that's okay.
00:03:27.000But as you grow older, every way that you view the news, everything comes from this question of the lens of your worldview.
00:03:35.000Now, let's view, let's kind of look at how the media wants you to think.
00:03:40.000By what worldview do they actually prescribe for you?
00:03:43.000There's these fake religious worldviews that have come forward.
00:03:47.000The first of which is one that has permeated our society and that is one of the most treacherous, which is the live and let live, or who am I to judge?
00:03:59.000You know, I visit college campuses, so many of you don't have to, but I guess we're talking to mostly a younger audience, so you know of what I speak.
00:04:06.000And when I talk to some of these younger activists, they'll tell me, Charlie, it doesn't matter.
00:04:11.000Everyone can do whatever is right in their own eyes, and morality is in somebody's own personal opinion.
00:04:40.000And so as you view your own decisions and you view your place in the world, you must be able to answer some very specific and some very basic questions.
00:04:49.000The most important of which is: where do you get right and wrong from?
00:04:55.000This is a very interesting question that most young people can't answer.
00:04:58.000They will say, well, murder is wrong and stealing is wrong.
00:06:41.000And no matter how hard you try, no matter how much makeup you put on, you try to wear a dress, you try to pretend something that you are not, you don't cease being the biological or chromosomal makeup of how you were born.
00:06:55.000You remain a man or you remain a woman.
00:06:57.000And this is why the worldview matters.
00:07:00.000Because someone would say, but I feel like a woman.
00:07:36.000To force me to allow you into our locker, the female locker rooms.
00:07:40.000Like, that's really pervy and weird, actually.
00:07:43.000To force us to have to then teach it in our schools.
00:07:48.000And this is not something that's naturally occurring.
00:07:52.000If I could just communicate this as plainly as possible, this is a social contagion.
00:08:00.000That kids are saying they're trans because they think it's cool.
00:08:07.000And some of you might say, oh no, come on, my friend, you know, they really have thought that they're a boy since they're eight years old.
00:08:14.000Yeah, they've been lying to themselves since they were eight years old.
00:08:17.000And instead of saying, let's go chop off your breasts, or give you a double mastectomy, or put you on Lupron, we should love that person enough to tell them the truth and not affirm the lie that they're going to keep on living, that they're something that they are not.
00:08:38.000Because so many of you, if you just repeated, well, I would just say, you would have teachers, administrators, supervisors, friends, and other parents call you a hater.
00:08:54.000And this is a trick that they use all the time.
00:08:56.000And this is why worldview matters so much.
00:08:59.000You remove a biblical Christian worldview, which is what the entire Western society is built on, then you all of a sudden start believing in the wackiest, weirdest stuff imaginable.
00:11:02.000You cannot have a free society and also have a godless society.
00:11:07.000They will replace it with a big government that comes in and says that we're going to solve all of your problems.
00:11:14.000And it's going to require you, an entire generation of young people, to stand up for truth, for righteousness, and courage, even when it is difficult.
00:11:26.000I guarantee you, someone's going to come ask a question.
00:11:28.000But Charlie, I'm going to be graded differently and kicked out of class and called names and smeared and slandered.
00:11:35.000How many of you think you would be graded down if you came out as a conservative against the trans agenda?
00:11:51.000If they will grade you differently, if they will kick you out of class, it is always the right decision to stand for truth with courage regardless of the cost.
00:12:04.000The younger the age you commit to that, the sooner you say, I don't care what they take from me, I will stand for righteousness, the freer you will actually be.
00:12:18.000What the bad guys are very good at is weaponizing name-calling against you.
00:12:24.000Now, there's some very interesting things happening right now generationally.
00:12:28.000Most of you, almost all of you, are Generation Z.
00:13:44.000It will destroy your soul and crush your brain and save yourself for marriage.
00:13:48.000That's the true way to be a rebel in America.
00:13:57.000But there's something else where young men are starting to see the entire culture is against them.
00:14:04.000That from toxic masculinity to this idea that everything that a man might want to do from owning a firearm to going hunting or fishing is against the correct American values.
00:14:19.000And young boys becoming men are looking for any sort of movement to attach themselves to.
00:14:25.000And whether it be watching Joe Rogan or Jordan Peterson or anybody out there that says, you know what?
00:14:32.000Not only is it okay to be a man, we need strong men.
00:14:35.000It's a great thing to be a strong, confident, courageous man.
00:14:39.000And if you want to take over a country, if you want to take over a country, you have the men start disengaging from society.
00:14:51.000If you want, you neuter that society literally.
00:14:55.000You keep the young boys afraid of their own shadow, that they'll be accused of sexual harassment because they say something to a young lady that might have been deemed as offensive.
00:15:05.000And I'm going to talk to the young ladies here, okay?
00:15:07.000Which is not going to go over very well, but that's fine.
00:15:30.000Being a man in America, that masculine figure means you're going to stand up for the innocent.
00:15:37.000It means you're going to stand up for people who can't protect themselves.
00:15:42.000It means that you're going to have your head on the swivel for someone that is not as strong as you, where you can intervene when something evil is happening.
00:15:50.000It means that you're going to stand up for the kid at lunch who's getting picked on unnecessarily because he talks funny, or the young girl that gets picked on.
00:15:59.000Your job as a man is to have enough spine and some other anatomy to look the bully in the eye and kick them out of the conversation.
00:16:12.000Being a man is not about like taking protein shakes and bench press.
00:17:43.000But young men, the last thing I'll say is this: if you're here and you're depressed and you say, I feel things are against you, snap out of it.
00:18:13.000There's nothing normal about it, actually.
00:18:15.000First generation ever that has these like weird construed fantasies when it comes, and we wonder why so many kids aren't getting married and they're killing themselves.
00:18:25.000And so for my message to young men is there's a journey and there's a challenge out there that is beyond your wildest imagination, but it's going to start with you saying no to the easy stuff.
00:18:35.000The stuff that makes you feel really good very quickly is the stuff that you must say no to.
00:18:40.000Weed, alcohol, porn is a place to start.
00:18:45.000Are you prepared for the unthinkable ahead?
00:21:13.000This is the tough love you need, everybody.
00:21:16.000Young ladies, I'm here to tell you tonight, the number one email I get from young listeners are young women in their 30s grieving that they put their career first, that they bought the lie to go get the piece of paper, to go make partner at the law firm, to go get the master's degree.
00:21:33.000And they said, oh, I can get married later.
00:21:58.000And what is happening in America is we, for the first time ever, have more single young women in their early 30s than married young women in their early 30s.
00:23:49.000Men and women are different, and the lie of the trans agenda, the lie of one of these worldviews, is that you do not have, you know, men can replace women and women can replace men.
00:24:01.000Do you know that the countries around the world where quote-unquote gender equality has reached has the most unhappy women all across the world.
00:24:13.000That when women have to force themselves into an overly corporatized environment, and you know, some young ladies might come here and they might say, Charlie, but I want to be this and I want to be that.
00:26:02.000We can make a difference standing for life by giving free ultrasounds with our friends at pre-born.
00:26:07.000In a Dobbs world, states decide about abortion, and so many liberal states are taking extreme stands, even allowing abortion up to literally the second before a baby is born.
00:26:18.000And in California, the demand for abortions has increased 400% in part because the state is inviting women and girls to come to California for the sole purpose of aborting their baby.
00:27:35.000You're a busy guy traveling around the country trying to fight pervasiveness and immorality.
00:27:41.000And I wanted to know what role your wife Erica plays in your professional life and in the contribution to your ability to continue what you do professionally and what single women can do now to prepare for that role.
00:28:15.000The role of the woman, the wife, is to make sure that the home is sacred and holy.
00:28:22.000I'm out hunting, I'm out fighting, and I come home, and everything is just not just pristine in the visual, but it's a place where the battle-worn can come to have that spiritual solace to be refilled.
00:28:37.000And by the way, she has her own fights too.
00:28:39.000She runs Bible in 365, proclaim streetwear.
00:28:42.000You guys should all be, you know, follow her.
00:28:44.000And she's also the most beautiful person, you know, out of 7 billion people, if I may say so much.
00:29:18.000We need to get our spiritual disciplines right.
00:29:21.000And the wife, if you get into a marriage and the husband's working in all this, you have to understand that when he comes back, being a Proverbs 31 woman is part of knowing the scriptures, knowing the spiritual warfare, submitting to your husband.
00:29:42.000And by the way, the second part of the verse is never talked about.
00:29:45.000And the husband has to submit the same way under Christ, just so we're clear.
00:29:50.000And that's a hard thing for some people to grasp.
00:30:07.000Because so many women will turn their back on their man when things get tough or fragile and they don't necessarily have that spine.
00:30:17.000If you're spiritually oriented in the scriptures correctly, then you'll be ready for battle, as it says in Ephesians, and put the full armor of God on.
00:31:15.000Second question, is it in the spirit of the founding fathers for dressed up men to go dance in front of children at local libraries and call it a drag queen story hour?
00:31:27.000So, the question then, it's not necessarily about doing whatever you want to do, however you want to do it, is that liberty or freedom must point to something virtuous.
00:31:41.000Liberty is doing the ability to be able to do what you ought to do.
00:31:45.000And yes, that means you must make truth claims.
00:31:48.000You see, the secular left, or even some people in the conservative movement that need to be kicked out of the conservative movement, they'll say, Well, who am I to judge if some guy wants to go dance in front of children in a thong?
00:32:00.000We should judge those people if you want to go do drag queen story hour and try to manipulate children.
00:32:09.000So, freedom is not doing whatever you want to do, however you want to do it.
00:32:12.000Freedom or liberty is the ability to do the right thing without government getting in the way.
00:32:28.000So, historically, governments have taken into account the fact that whoever controls the culture controls the people.
00:32:34.000They've used the musical arts accordingly.
00:32:37.000It's obvious in Western society today that the left is using messaging and popular music to push their radical ideologies.
00:32:44.000What are your thoughts on how conservative musicians from all genres can gain the support needed to push back and promote music with normal conservative values?
00:33:15.000I don't think her music's that good, but that's not the point.
00:33:17.000That's a little bit mean, but it's not good.
00:33:20.000But, music, think about, I mean, she's supposed to be like the virtuous one in the American music, let's say, library, right?
00:33:29.000I mean, it goes from like Taylor Swift, who's supposed to be like the easy one to listen to, the family-friendly, and then, I mean, you go like Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, not exactly pursuing virtue, right?
00:33:42.000Yeah, I'm gonna not express my opinions on country music because that will definitely get me kicked off the stage.
00:33:49.000But I will say that reading the lyrics of country music sometimes can be redeemable.
00:33:55.000The noise of country music drives me nuts, but that's a separate issue.
00:33:59.000So, I know you're gonna, I'm from Chicago, can't stand it, it's awful, but that's a separate issue.
00:34:20.000So, for example, at the Guggenheim or whatever, one of these hoity-toity places, they have this new piece of art, art, that's a black screen.
00:35:24.000Okay, like that's weaponized narcissism with like courts.
00:35:29.000How about you talk about something above yourself?
00:35:32.000And this is the problem with Western art is everyone thinks about your feelings, yourself.
00:35:38.000The greatest artistic achievements were when the artist decided to take themselves out of the picture and they looked at something that they wondered at.
00:35:48.000As Aristotle would say, wonder is the beginning of philosophy.
00:35:52.000And so, how do we reclaim the arts of the music?
00:35:55.000We have to support creators, but more importantly, we have to get our philosophy right.
00:35:59.000Ask the question, who are you glorifying with this practice?
00:36:53.000And so that would be my advice is reach out for advice, reach out for support from the amazing patriots in Harris and Montgomery County that want to be able to support you.
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00:38:32.000Hello, my name is Denelli Rios, and I attend YWLA in Aldine, and I have a lot of friends that they identify as transgender, and I am trying to, I guess, kind of like convert them.
00:38:47.000And I would like to know like how to combat it and how to like try to convert them, pretty much.
00:38:53.000First of all, you have a really sweet way about you.
00:38:56.000And so you're going to be a lot more successful than I would be.
00:41:47.000Yeah, I mean, just to expand that, I believe in charity, not welfare.
00:41:51.000Charity is for people that need help and need support, but people game the system and they create entire lives of living off the government when they're able-bodied and they could work, and we shouldn't put up with that.
00:43:42.000So, my question goes along with the lines of: I go to the clubs, I get to meet the big Whigs here in Montgomery County, but I'm like a mythical creature to them.
00:43:51.000They like my ideas, but they'll never repeat them to their friends.
00:43:55.000So, how do we as young conservatives get the old guard to recognize us and actually take us seriously?
00:44:03.000That's to me a challenge you're going to have, right?
00:44:05.000Which they inherently don't listen as carefully because they think you're young.
00:44:13.000You talk to a lot of the patriots in this room, they'll tell you that they are desiring for younger blood in the GOP.
00:44:20.000And so, while there is opposition, I believe there, and I think you guys would agree, there's twice as much potential support for being a younger voice than there might be opposition.
00:44:31.000You're going to have to fight through that, which means you're going to have to dress in a suit and tie to anywhere you go when you're running for office.
00:44:48.000You're going to be held to a higher standard, is what I'm saying, right?
00:44:51.000But then, if they see that you're a young, young man and you're dressing well and you show up on time and you write thank you cards and you are a gentleman, then they'll have no reason not to take what you say seriously.
00:45:06.000Sorry, I'm gonna, yes, you will be the final question.
00:45:09.000Okay, thank you for letting me ask it.
00:45:11.000So, I want to thank you for what you said to young women earlier.
00:45:14.000As a fourth-year medical student, like I'm already pretty invested into my career, this is something that I've kind of been awoken to a little bit later.
00:45:22.000I'm surrounded by people in their 30s, women, especially.
00:45:25.000We cry, like, how do we have families?
00:45:42.000I don't know if you're a Christian or not, but I don't want to give you specific advice, but here's the fact: is that, I mean, Houston has one of the most incredibly impressive medical networks in the country.
00:45:55.000So, this is probably not an isolated phenomenon, right?
00:47:36.000In closing, get your life right with Christ.
00:47:38.000Know what worldview that you are following.
00:47:41.000And this generation, Generation Z, it's going to be up to you guys.
00:47:45.000I'm millennial, so I'm now passing the baton to you guys in some ways.
00:47:48.000And I believe firmly, those of you that decide to get involved at Turning Point USA, start a high school chapter, start a college chapter, you have all of our booths outside.
00:47:56.000I want you guys to bum rush that table, sign up.