00:00:45.000If you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, that helped co-sponsor this event, go to tpusa.com, sort of high school chapter, sort of college chapter today at tpusa.com, where we play offense with a sense of urgency to win the American Culture War.
00:00:57.000We want to make sure your kids live in a free country.
00:01:16.000His 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.
00:01:25.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:57.000And I also want to thank the church for hosting this.
00:02:00.000And I could guarantee you that you're making better decisions this Friday night than most young people your age.
00:02:06.000Let me first start with what I you are all very privileged here tonight, not because of your skin color or any of that nonsense that you'll see on TV.
00:02:17.000You're privileged because most of you are being homeschooled.
00:02:21.000And statistically, that means you're going to live a happier and better life.
00:02:27.000Now, when I grew up, I was not homeschooled, but I went to a couple different schools, Christian school included.
00:02:35.000I was kind of propagandized by my local community that anyone that was homeschooled was kind of homeschooled as kind of weird and like not socially kind of up to the task.
00:03:04.000It's because homeschooling, you don't allow the state and you don't allow the government to get in the way of the transmission of truth to children.
00:03:14.000And it's good for the parents as much as it is for the kids.
00:03:17.000And we obviously talk about it mostly from a child perspective, which is obviously the most important thing.
00:03:22.000But also, it keeps the parents on their toes to constantly be relearning and also aware of what's happening in the world and connecting that to their students.
00:03:31.000It creates better citizens, is what I'm getting at, is that it creates a adult citizenry that is constantly interfacing with their childhood child developing, which you kind of look at the last year and a half in our country.
00:03:46.000You know, homeschooling has doubled, by the way, which is a great thing for the future of America.
00:03:51.000And I couldn't be more supportive of that.
00:03:55.000But I laugh because at Turning Point USA we do a lot with education space and trying to warn parents how bad public schools actually have become and how deceitful they have become and how damaging they can become for a children's future and what they're teaching, what they're not teaching.
00:04:14.000And this last year and a half, especially when the whole country decided to lock down unnecessarily so, a lot of parents started to become aware of what was happening in their local schools.
00:04:25.000And I'm sure some of you parents actually might be recent homeschooling moms.
00:04:29.000Maybe all of you have been doing it since the beginning, and that's awesome.
00:04:32.000Maybe you know some parents that have just recently kind of joined the movement.
00:04:36.000And I laugh because some parents, that's what it took for them to become aware of it.
00:04:41.000But praise God that something as terrible as the lockdowns and our reaction to the virus caused this renaissance of parents caring about their kids' education.
00:04:51.000And so I'm not going to get too much into this, but this is mostly directed towards the parents.
00:04:56.000One of the most consequential legislative and public policy fights that is going to come nationally and more to states like California and New York is going to try to outlaw homeschooling.
00:05:21.000And the reason goes directly towards the promise that is in one of the Ten Commandments, and a promise that every kid here probably knows a lot better than most public school kids, which is the only Ten Commandment that comes with the promise, which is honor your mother and father so you may live long in the land of which you are in.
00:05:36.000And the state exists to interrupt that promise.
00:05:40.000The reason why America, one of the reasons why America is becoming less free and unrecognizable is because children are being taught not to honor their parents.
00:05:48.000It's not outward at times, but it's very intentional over a period of time.
00:05:55.000It's your parents don't know it like we do.
00:07:00.000We can go through why that's the case.
00:07:01.000I feel like I'm preaching to a hometown audience.
00:07:03.000I'll let the great pastor kind of talk about that.
00:07:06.000But Philippians 4.8, one of the last things Paul ever wrote in a letter to the Philippians said, basically, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is good, think on these things.
00:07:15.000I'm paraphrasing, I'm missing some words.
00:07:16.000But the point is that we as Christians are supposed to think deeply about the things that are true in this world.
00:08:07.000It's a gift from the Lord that you get to live in this country.
00:08:10.000It's a very exceptional, unprecedented nation in more ways than one.
00:08:16.000In Jeremiah 29, 7, it says that it's the Lord speaking that we must demand the welfare of the nation or the welfare of the peace of the nation that we are in because your welfare is tied to the nation's welfare.
00:08:30.000We're called to care about the place that we're in.
00:08:32.000And the place that we're in is in trouble right now.
00:08:36.000But the history and the unprecedented nature of this country is something beautiful and exceptional.
00:11:11.000So, creator of the world, judge of the universe, and supreme being of the universe.
00:11:16.000And that's a kind of a precursor to the U.S. Constitution.
00:11:19.000But the point is that Jefferson, throughout this document, is very obviously pointing to what was already brewing in the colonies, which was a citizenry demanding a government that recognized a transcendent order.
00:11:31.000That King George was not at the top of the throne, that Jesus Christ is at the top of the throne.
00:11:35.000That's what the colonists were demanding.
00:11:36.000Now, the fact that we look at the Declaration as our birthday is kind of bizarre because we didn't have a president.
00:15:10.000We can get into that if people are interested.
00:15:13.000So, but what the Declaration did is it inverted the axis.
00:15:17.000It said, okay, before this document, and of course there was the Magna Carta and the Mayflower Compact, but this really was the separation.
00:15:24.000Now all of a sudden, we're going to recognize the sovereign as being the people.
00:15:30.000Made in the image of God, King George, you're not in charge.
00:16:24.000This is why they're so exceptional and why no statue of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison, John Jay, or Alexander Hamilton should ever be removed, ever.
00:16:31.000And they should be studied, appreciated, and understood for who they were in their times, is because they decided not to take power for themselves.
00:16:39.000You think Alexander the Great did that?
00:16:42.000When Alexander the Great conquered, he's like, this is my territory.
00:17:00.000Stalin didn't really give up power very easily.
00:17:03.000The point is that these were the first winners of a war.
00:17:06.000And I stand to be corrected if any of you know some sort of, I don't know, Macedonian king or something that I don't know about.
00:17:15.000I'm standing to be corrected that said, we win, we're going to be less powerful.
00:17:19.000They very well could have created the Hamiltonian, Jeffersonian, and Washingtonian monarchy, and the people of America never would have questioned it.
00:17:30.000They would have been like, yeah, that's just how things are.
00:17:41.000They decided, like, we're actually going to reread the Declaration, and we're actually going to do what it says.
00:17:48.000So some of you, and in classical conversations, you guys are being educated properly.
00:17:52.000But if you ever come in contact with these fake historians that work at the New York Times, they make this argument, and most of them in colleges are saying this too.
00:18:02.000They say that the Declaration and Constitution are at odds with each other.
00:18:05.000That they're two different, it's totally wrong.
00:18:08.000They're perfectly interwoven with one another.
00:18:10.000Because the Constitution answers all the complaints of the Declaration.
00:18:14.000Because if you read the Declaration carefully, which I encourage all of you to do, you probably already have, which is it starts really broad, gets really narrow, and ends really broad.
00:18:20.000And the really narrow part is, hey, King George, you're doing all this stuff wrong.
00:18:23.000Like, you're abusing us, you're lying to us, you're doing deals with foreign countries, you know, you're doing all these different things.
00:18:29.000And then the founders actually decided to solve it.
00:19:34.000The point is that in 1787, the founders decided to do what was there, previously thought of as impossible.
00:19:42.000A citizenry that will govern themselves first and foremost, that will enumerate God-granted natural rights, separate power, put in checks and balances.
00:20:04.000The states created the federal government.
00:20:05.000The federal government didn't create the states.
00:20:08.000Happy to get into the significance of that.
00:20:09.000And then four years later, the Bill of Rights was officially ratified.
00:20:12.000Now, let me just kind of go to the quote-unquote elephant in the room to equip you with the intellectual ammunition to either push back against people that don't know anything or maybe you have these own questions, which is the question of slavery.
00:20:33.000Now, when was the first anti-slavery convention in the history of the planet?
00:20:37.000Philadelphia in 1775, co-chaired by Benjamin Franklin.
00:20:40.000The first state to abolish slavery, Vermont, because they were so inspired by the Declaration of Independence in the year 1777.
00:20:47.000Thomas Jefferson, the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, in his own handwriting, admonishes King George for bringing the sin of slavery to the United States in his own handwriting.
00:21:01.000In the 1780s, by the time the Constitution was ratified, nine out of 13 of the states had already independently abolished slavery.
00:21:07.000Nine out of 13 had already independently abolished slavery.
00:21:11.000In the 1790s, Thomas Jefferson, as governor of Virginia, was arguing for the abolition of slavery in Virginia.
00:21:18.000George Washington famously said, if slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
00:21:21.000He said some variation of that, so did Abraham Lincoln.
00:21:24.000Thomas Jefferson, one of his first acts as president in March of 1803, signed a moratorium ending no new slaves coming into the United States in March of 1803, which was put in the Constitution to end slavery.
00:21:39.000The provisions were there to end slavery.
00:21:41.000Now, very unwise, deeply unhappy, and bored people.
00:21:46.000I have a whole speech on boredom I could give.
00:21:49.000We have the most bored society in American history, which is why we're the most unhappy and the most suicidal.
00:22:04.000Boredom is exactly when Satan creeps in, and all this next thing you know, your life is totally derailed.
00:22:09.000Anyway, bored people just make up arguments that aren't true because they need purpose, so they just do weird things.
00:22:13.000One of the things they say, one of the things they say is that we need to get rid of all the founding fathers because slavery existed while they breathed.
00:22:25.000They existed at the same time slavery existed, despite the fact they started the process of unraveling it, abolishing it, and getting rid of it.
00:22:31.000And the fact that slavery pre-existed today, then, and by the way, there's more people in slavery today on the planet right now than there were back then, just so that we're all clear, okay?
00:22:40.000Slavery happening on the U.S. southern border right now.
00:22:42.000And I'm not legitimizing it, obviously, it's a moral stain, a moral sin.
00:22:45.000But instead, what does the Bible say about how to judge people in history?
00:23:34.000We were all born into a world we did not create.
00:23:37.000Every person in the room today has that in common.
00:23:40.000So Thomas Jefferson was born into a world that slavery existed.
00:23:43.000By the time he died in 1823 or whatever, slavery was on the way out.
00:23:47.000Or it was hotly debated and an abolitionist movement was sparked, large in part thanks to him.
00:23:51.000That's a moral good for society and for humanity.
00:23:54.000You won't hear that at most colleges or in most schools.
00:23:56.000Okay, so I just had to do kind of that detour about slavery because I guarantee you, you'll encounter that through some person who thinks they actually know history.
00:24:03.000Not in one private journal, not one private musing, not in any document will you ever find the founding fathers defending slavery ever, period, hard stop.
00:24:13.000Instead, the only arguments they make is about how they want to manage the union to stay together against a potential British invasion and making concessions with the southern states, if necessary, to keep the union together.
00:25:54.000Separation of powers and checks and balances.
00:25:57.000Basically, the Constitution is written to like, no matter how bad and corrupt and awful the people you send there, it's still really hard to get bad stuff done.
00:26:31.000And make no mistake, I'm not putting FDR in the moral category of Stalin or Mao.
00:26:36.000But FDR, the only reason he did not do more damage to the country was because he kept on getting stopped by the Constitution and the checks and balances.
00:26:46.000He kept on running up against the slowdown of what the founders put in place because they knew there was this unquenchable thirst for people to become mini Alexander the Greats or Napoleons or Genghis Khans.
00:26:57.000It's just no matter what you do, there's going to be a demagogue that wants to try to get power and it's going to lie to you and then try to abuse people.
00:27:05.000The people that disagree with me, they're like, oh, no, no, no.
00:27:07.000No, we can create utopia and people will stop wanting to do that.
00:27:46.000I'm more interested in teaching young people about things that are true and are good and creating you to be good citizens, and you'll figure out the rest.
00:27:53.000Why I say I'm bored with politics, I just think the conversations are so superficial and sloppy at times.
00:28:00.000And I have no tolerance for people that trash the country, honestly.
00:28:02.000I really don't, because it's such a gift that we've been given to live here.
00:28:06.000And it's something that I think we have to preserve.
00:28:07.000I think we have a moral obligation to do that.
00:28:10.000And so, as young people, as students, you hear all this, you're like, well, that's a lot.
00:28:18.000Well, at the younger the age you take responsibility as a citizen, the better chance our country has to survive.
00:28:27.000And that means being aware of what's happening around you, knowing your founding documents, knowing the sacrifices of people that made before you, getting involved in the civic process, doing something about it.
00:28:39.000The younger you do that and you reject cynicism, which is, oh, what matters?
00:28:44.000It's all terrible, the better our country will be.
00:29:01.000And you look at it from a biblical perspective, citizenship is absolutely biblical.
00:29:05.000Caring about the land of which you are in, caring about your children, their future, their education, all these sorts of different things.
00:29:10.000There's something unique about being an American.
00:29:12.000It's in our history, it's in our culture, and it's in all of you.
00:29:16.000One of the things that makes us different than any other country is our ability to step up and do the right thing after we've exhausted all of their options.
00:29:25.000That's what Winston Churchill used to say about Americans.
00:29:28.000And that means for young people out there, this is your country now.
00:30:12.000Parents, there has been a raw deal given to most kids with lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and mask mandates and the technological nonsense the last year and a half.
00:30:19.000But don't let your kid, instead, you tell your kids and students out there, don't blame others for your own problems.
00:30:28.000That's generally a good rule for life.
00:30:32.000Instead, ask yourself, what can I do to improve?
00:30:52.000But instead, it's all right, there's all these problems.
00:30:54.000Am I going to let that impact my soul and who I am?
00:30:59.000Because the enemy would love nothing more for you to start pointing fingers at why you're not happy or why you aren't living a life that's at peace or one that's trying to improve or be better.
00:31:10.000So we live in a great country, and the future truly is yours.
00:31:15.000And there's a lot of people that want to clamp down on it, but really assert yourself as a citizen, and our best days will be ahead.
00:31:20.000Okay, let's do some questions and thank you for sitting through all that.
00:31:30.000If you'd like to ask a question, you can line up right here.
00:31:33.000Okay, so before we do the questions, I just want to say one thing.
00:31:37.000We are going to reuse this conversation as a podcast and potentially some broadcast.
00:31:42.000So if you're not comfortable being kind of rebroadcasted, I do want to just give that disclaimer ahead of time so that you guys have, if there's a privacy concern as a parent or as a student, I just want to make sure you're notified of that so you're not taken by surprise.
00:32:04.000I was at AmericaFest a few weeks ago, so I'm aware of the size of crowds that you can and do speak to.
00:32:10.000So thank you for taking the time to be with us tonight.
00:32:13.000My question is, with social media companies and the mainstream media, there is a problem with the public narrative and full honesty there.
00:32:27.000Do you think that conservatives with companies like Blaze TV, The Daily Wire, Epic Times, and so many others, do you think conservatives have a chance of getting their voice really back into the public forum?
00:32:38.000And what are the ramifications for the culture if we don't?
00:33:10.000Rumble.com, R-U-M-B-L-Com is a great YouTube competitor.
00:33:14.000YouTube is just awful in more ways than one.
00:33:18.000I'm happy to talk more broadly about social media companies if you're okay with that.
00:33:23.000So now we're going to get into the Q ⁇ A where I'm going to just kind of be very blunt.
00:33:26.000And I just have to do be a disclaimer.
00:33:29.000I don't mean offense to anybody, but just take what I say from 10 years of experience, fair amount of wisdom of speaking it 300 times a year and kind of seeing what's happening.
00:33:38.000So please don't be offended by this, okay?
00:33:41.000All right, I got my disclaimer out of the way because I care about you guys.
00:33:45.000Young people should not get a phone until they're 18.
00:33:58.000You are giving your soul, the future, and your child to some weird tech guy that doesn't care at all about your kid's future.
00:34:08.000The people that have made Facebook, the people that have made Pinterest, the people that make Gmail and YouTube, they don't let their own kids use these products because they know how psychologically addictive they are.
00:34:17.000For all the major companies, they have neuroscientists that work for them full-time that study eight-year-olds, nine-year-olds, and 10-year-olds on how to make these boxes of nonsense and boxes of chaos, which are betterly known as iPhones, more chemically addictive to your kids.
00:34:44.000I encourage you to just listen to what we've exposed.
00:34:48.000We've had all the experts on our show, how bad it is for your kid, how much it stunts their view of who they are in the world and their identity.
00:35:01.000I grew up in an America 10 years ago, 10 years ago, without these things.
00:35:08.000I don't know if I would be the person I was today if I had the anxiety, the self-image, the push notifications, and I'm talking about all across the board, from TikTok, which is obviously garbage, to Instagram, which is garbage, to all of it.
00:35:22.000And I say this as someone who has millions of followers and all these things.
00:36:59.000Until that one time they like themselves, they keep on coming back through body image issues, through self-worth issues, all of it goes back to these things.
00:37:07.000And so I'm on an anti-technology crusade to try to tell parents it's okay not to give the phone to your child.
00:40:03.000I know that's not the case for me, for sure, but that would be my charge to you, is focus on people in your immediate circle.
00:40:09.000But I'm going to warn you, that can be the most difficult, disappointing, and challenging things, but it will mature you very quickly.
00:40:19.000And I encourage that for every parent out there is in a very polite way trying to put your kids in situations where they're challenged early is a very, very big deal and an important thing.
00:40:54.000Look, I already did all the disclaimers.
00:40:56.000So if you guys have disagreed by now, you'd be gone.
00:40:59.000So yeah, look, I've always been kind of a skeptic of the institutionalized healthcare system.
00:41:08.000The last year and a half has just really set me to the moon.
00:41:12.000And I'm not here to tell anyone what to do with their personal medical decisions ever, obviously.
00:41:17.000Everyone makes their own decisions that they see fit.
00:41:19.000What's really bothered me, though, is the lack of willingness from our public health people and from even companies to empower people on treatments that very well might save lives.
00:41:32.000And it's been one of the great injustices of my lifetime, the fact we're not even able to talk about how vitamin D levels have a direct correlation to COVID mortality rates.
00:41:42.000It's in 195 different studies that if you have a vitamin D level over 50, you have an exponentially higher likelihood of surviving a cytocosine storm that happens that's inflicted by COVID, right?
00:41:54.000I haven't seen one public health bulletin, one radio advertisement, one billboard that says, try to get your vitamin D levels up, get it tested at your doctor.
00:42:02.000Maybe you guys have seen those advertisements, but I sure have seen about the equivalent of a multi-billion dollar propaganda project trying to tell people to get vaccinated, right?
00:42:11.000And so I think to myself, that's just a very simple wellness thing, right?
00:42:14.000Vitamin D levels over 50, not controversial, end of story.
00:42:18.000Why is that not even talked about, right?
00:42:20.000And the issue, and I hate to be so cynical, is I'm afraid that a lot of companies are making a lot of money around trying to get people to come back for the same sort of medicine that they might like, or that they might work, and maybe it works, maybe it doesn't.
00:42:34.000If you guys want to, I'm happy to get into that.
00:42:34.000I'm not going to get into that tonight.
00:42:38.000I have every doctor you could imagine from Dr. McCullough, Dr. Malone, Dr. Zelenko, that talk at great length about that, if you're interested.
00:42:46.000I'm just making a broader generalization.
00:42:48.000Your question specifically, how do we get closer to a free market?
00:42:51.000I think one of the encouraging things, though, is that the consumer, you, you're demanding more out of your doctor, and I think that's exciting.
00:42:59.000I think that you're not satisfied that if you get COVID and your doctor says, oh yeah, just go home and nurse the symptoms, and then if you get bad enough, go to the hospital, which that's being told to a lot of patients across the country, which I consider to be an unbelievable injustice, right?
00:43:13.000And I'm sure there's doctors in this audience that do a wonderful job, but I hear that all the time, right?
00:43:23.000It's going to come from the consumers demanding wellness first and foremost and demanding transparency and information.
00:43:30.000And then also, from a public policy perspective, we subsidize from the federal government and the state government broken hospital systems.
00:43:40.000Maybe you guys think the hospitals are wonderful.
00:43:43.000I think they're largely broken and they rob taxpayers blind.
00:43:55.000I've loved listening to you and people like Candace Owens.
00:43:58.000I have a question about abortion because some people in my extended family have sort of, in conversations I've had with them, brought up arguments like the life of a mother would be ruined if she had to carry to term and her standing in society would be changed.
00:44:15.000She wouldn't be able to have all the opportunities she would have if she had an abortion.
00:44:19.000So I've had trouble sort of responding to that and interacting with that.
00:44:24.000So I was wondering what your thoughts were.
00:44:26.000So let me just say, before I talk about this topic, there's some young kids.
00:44:59.000They want to have unfettered access to human pleasure without ever having to take responsibility for it.
00:45:07.000Now, what you're talking about is the life of the mother.
00:45:10.000So it is an exceedingly rare situation, beyond rare.
00:45:14.000We're talking about a couple dozen situations a year where the life of the mother is legitimately compromised, where an OBGYN will say that the termination of the child will result in the continuation of the life of the mother.
00:45:25.000This happens only with maybe petite women or very, very young women, if at all.
00:45:31.000There is a society of Christian pro-life OBGYNs that are saying it doesn't happen at all.
00:45:37.000I'm not willing to make that argument.
00:45:38.000I've seen contracting data, but it's so statistically improbable that it's not even worthy of conversation, right?
00:45:46.000It really, in a country where we have 3,000 abortions a day, we're talking about a handful of a couple dozen, maybe.
00:45:54.000And that's not even, by the way, entertaining the potential attempt of the early delivery of the child, right?
00:46:00.000A C-section and many other potential deliveries that might help save the mother.
00:46:05.000Now, putting the life of the mother in danger was a big deal in the 1300s, right?
00:46:12.000We have such sophisticated technology that can aid a mother through intravenous technology, make sure the mom continues to be hydrated, monitoring the child, and so on and so forth.
00:46:23.000Regardless of what any pro-abortion person might say, the beginning of the creation of the deoxorbonucleic acid, the meeting of the sperm and the egg, that is a life made unique in total essence in the image of God.
00:46:36.000Now, your specific question is that the standing of a woman in society.
00:46:40.000Okay, completely different moral issue, right?
00:46:44.000Not really concerned about a woman's social status when a life is involved, okay?
00:47:18.000And so we as a society have failed on this question largely because we have allowed unrestricted teenage premarital sex without telling children to wait for marriage before having sex.
00:47:33.000It's an uncomfortable thing to say out loud, but that's really the root of all this.
00:47:37.000The abortion crisis basically goes away in America if we tell young people to wait for their selective partner for marriage.
00:47:45.000All of this is basically of a hookup culture, an instant gratification culture.
00:47:50.000No one likes to say it out loud, including many conservative politicians, because they're afraid they're going to lose their constituency.
00:47:55.000I don't know what constituency they think they're serving.
00:47:58.000I'm not running for office anytime soon.
00:48:00.000I'm willing to get to the bottom of it, right?
00:48:01.000Which is that if people took responsibility for their actions and saved themselves for a partner that hopefully they'll meet one day, then much of this would go away.
00:48:12.000And they want abortion to be a form of birth control.
00:48:14.000A million abortions a year is a moral stain on our country.
00:49:56.000It's one of the great moral tragedies of our time that no one really wants to say out loud is that you raise your child in a way that you want them to go.
00:50:02.000You put all of this energy in their homeschooling upbringing to go send them to some school to get, what, a piece of paper?
00:51:24.000But most are still trying to find their way in the world.
00:51:26.000And you're going to drop a child into the most vulnerable place where they're already hyper-anxious because of social media.
00:51:35.000They're already off the charts with these other things.
00:51:38.000And they will be manipulated by professors that frame things inaccurately, deteriorate the moral code that they were raised with, because college is really good at giving people degrees of ingratitude.
00:52:48.000So, but you also just kind of, my advice for people want to get involved in politics is just know what you believe and why you believe it and what you want to try to do in the world.
00:53:48.000My question is: if you're a woman trying to pursue your sport, how are we supposed to, I don't know, fight men trying to transition over and taking the records and scholarships from women?
00:54:05.000So this is where it's been interesting because I'm in a business where the Lord has blessed me, where I could say whatever I want, whatever I want to say it, and I've been doing that for a while.
00:54:16.000And then I kind of have this meeting of people that are so good and they see something so wrong and they're so afraid to say what they see as wrong.
00:54:25.000And this is like one of the most number one issue, right?
00:54:28.000Where I get these beautiful emails from mothers who are just so agreeable and they're just great people, right?
00:54:34.000And they're so intimidated by the alphabet mafia, right?
00:55:02.000Before this entire kind of trans movement, there used to be a psychological condition called gender dysphoria where this would be diagnosed as.
00:55:14.000It's a very serious thing where someone thinks they are a separate gender than what they are.
00:55:18.000There are treatment options, non-medical, by the way, of getting to root causes.
00:55:22.000Maybe you were really poorly treated by your current gender when you were a kid.
00:55:26.000Maybe you have father issues and you're a boy.
00:55:28.000There's a lot of different things that could play into it.
00:55:30.000But therapy and treatment needs to be something that we talk about with that.
00:55:34.000But if we're not also simultaneously willing to say that men that compete in women's sports are nothing short of cheaters, then we are kidding ourselves.
00:55:45.000That women's sports should not be an open-air athletic therapy place for people that have serious mental problems.
00:55:56.000We believe there are differences between men and women.
00:55:59.000I grew up in a country where feminists used to scream in my face about that, about how men and women are so different that we need special laws designed for women.
00:56:10.000I was against that then and against that now, but I understood the argument that at least there were biological differences between men and women.
00:56:16.000Now it's like, nope, there's no difference.
00:58:33.000You'll never compete at the equal footing ever again.
00:58:37.000And so this is the final point: it really comes down to this question of justice, right?
00:58:43.000Those of you that are classically educated probably read a lot about justice because that's in the human soul is a yearning for justice, right?
00:59:47.000I would like to thank you again for being here.
00:59:50.000My question is: you did touch on how kids can be, that you'd want to teach kids how to be good citizens.
00:59:59.000You did touch a little bit on how they could be in this world, but could you tell me a little bit more how they could be spiritually a good citizen?
01:00:18.000The sooner you realize that, the better, and the more important.
01:00:22.000Look, I'll go back to Philippians 4:6, 7, and 8, right?
01:00:26.000Philippians 4:6, I say this to any young person that is dealing with anxiety, which is, by the way, 75% of kids under the age of 15 say they have serious anxiety issues, 75%.
01:00:36.000Well, the first line of Philippians 4:6 is: Do not be anxious, but instead, through prayer, thanksgiving, and supplication, let your request be known to God.
01:01:34.000When you're thankful for things, you're not like, oh, let's ruin everything.
01:01:38.000Right, so then Philippians 4:7, 4:7 continues by saying, For the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, right, will guard your heart and mind through Christ Jesus.
01:01:53.000Well, by accepting the peace of God and Jesus Christ as the chairman of the board of your life.
01:01:58.000And then, Philippians 4:8, which I can never ever remember every one of them, but it's basically what is good, what is noble, what is true, what is the rest.
01:03:39.000So let's first define what socialism is, right?
01:03:41.000Which is the collective ownership of goods and services and transfer of wealth.
01:03:46.000I've said for a while that we're moving closer towards a hybrid of socialism and fascism, where fascism is a small select companies that are approved by the government or the regime that get preference, like Google or Twitter or Amazon or Pfizer.
01:05:22.000Is that I think we're getting to a place where we're going to be subsidizing inactivity more than activity, which is a very dangerous precedent, right?
01:05:29.000Where we're going to be paying more people to sit at home, where those of us that are taxpayers, and all of you are taxpayers, and you pay a lot in taxes, are going to have to pay a greater and greater burden for the people that don't want to work or they want to become some sort of Bitcoin millionaire or whatever, right?
01:05:48.000So your question is, are we heading towards socialism?
01:05:50.000I think we're heading closer towards this kind of authoritarian crony capitalism, right?
01:05:57.000That's very dangerous, that if you aren't in the small select group of companies, they will abolish you, they'll run you over.
01:06:04.000I could go into greater detail about that.
01:06:07.000But make no mistake that we're getting away from our roots of an entrepreneurial, market-based, private property-focused society, which is obviously very, very troubling, and it restricts liberty and freedom.
01:07:00.000I don't know how to say this without sounding very radical, but when it's time to, I guess, do what the Constitution gave us the Second Amendment for.
01:08:05.000Sometimes protests, people might not notice it or whatever, but protests are like a small part of what you can do.
01:08:10.000This is why I love speaking to this audience.
01:08:11.000Parents, you're already doing the most important thing that I tell people to do: homeschool your kids.
01:08:17.000You are making an amazing and wonderful contribution to the future of the republic when you homeschool a child.
01:08:23.000Truly, it creates every statistic shows it creates better citizens, better informed population, more grateful, less likely to be a revolutionary, all the things that we want, right?
01:08:34.000And then the final thing that I'll say is that, and you kind of ask you asked very delicately, you know, it's a question I get a fair amount, which is like, at what point do we say no more?
01:08:48.000I do think there's a game being played by the current regime where they're trying to provoke us into a response where we will do something that I wouldn't support, that would be physical or violent, that will then justify a massive power grab like we've never seen.
01:09:08.000Don't fall for it, is what I tell people.
01:09:12.000Don't fall for them trying to, you know, irk you.
01:09:15.000It's kind of the guy that you would grow up with in school that would taunt you, taunt you, taunt you, and get you to throw the first punch, right?
01:09:22.000You know the type of person that I'm talking about, and then all of a sudden he would laugh at you with the bloody nose and go to the teacher and not even punch you back and then get you expelled.
01:09:30.000That's exactly what they're trying to do with a lot of this stuff.
01:09:35.000Because there's a fair amount of chatter in D.C. right now about trying to categorize every single person in this room as a domestic terrorist.
01:09:46.000They've done that already, and they want to try to use the power and the apparatus of the United States security state against you.
01:09:53.000But we have to be the ambassadors of optimistic, peaceful, forward-thinking solutions.
01:10:00.000And I think that's actually what the regime fears the most.
01:10:03.000When I say the regime, that's an overarching word, by the way, of just people that don't believe what I believe.
01:10:18.000And basically, I think they're really afraid that we are actually going to increase our numbers peacefully, that we're going to keep on organizing, that our arguments are going to strengthen.
01:10:28.000And I think that's their biggest fear.
01:10:30.000And that's why I think they're trying to provoke us into a preemptive fight to justify a security state grab.
01:10:35.000Don't fall for it and stay focused on things that are really good and true.
01:10:38.000And I can tell you guys: look, the laws of nature, nature, as God is articulated in the Declaration of Independence include the laws in Natonian physics.
01:11:42.000And we, yeah, I know there was a song that says that I know.
01:11:47.000But again, the good pastor would probably have probably given this sermon multiple times, but it's good for some of the students here to know is that, look, in the New Testament, there were multiple Greek words for love, and we interchange them.
01:11:57.000The English language is one catch-all word, but we know them as eros, storge, agape, phileo, and there's even more Greek words than that.
01:12:06.000And, for example, in John 3:16, it's God so loved the world, it's God so agape the world, which is sacrificial love, right?
01:12:11.000And phileo love would be brotherly love, which is where we get Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love from, right?
01:12:18.000Or philanthropy, the love of human beings, like kind of a brotherly love in that sense.
01:12:23.000Storge would be love between a parent and a child, a mother or a daughter, mother and a son, father and a son.
01:12:28.000And then Eros would be a romantic love between partners.
01:12:30.000So there's lots of different types of love, but Jesus told us that the truest love is one that tells the truth.
01:14:34.000I don't think it's loving to try to give people a false impression that some cloth is going to prevent them from getting communicable disease.