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00:01:14.000All right, let me say something about QA before we get started.
00:01:20.000So, this is a majority conservative audience, I would imagine, right?
00:01:24.000So, if someone who is on the left or someone who disagrees comes up to ask a question, I ask you not to heckle or interrupt, show respect, and show them the respect that they usually do not show us.
00:01:37.000when we show up to events and public places.
00:01:39.000So please just be tolerant to the extent of let them get their ideas out, and then we can respond appropriately.
00:01:47.000It takes courage to come up at a conservative event and let your voice be heard.
00:01:51.000So just show them that, and then we can respond from there.
00:01:56.000I was wondering if you could give some encouraging words to students who are being alienated by teachers, their communities, and their friends because of their Christian or conservative values.
00:02:20.000So, there's a disagreement on the right, and I have a lot of respect for Ben Shapiro, but he has a different answer than I do on this, and I'll kind of say this.
00:02:29.000So, Ben, and this is not precisely your question, but I'll incorporate it.
00:02:34.000So, the question, here's the question Do you lie on your term paper or how you present yourself to your professors to get a good grade?
00:02:41.000That's a question a lot of people ask, right?
00:02:44.000It's like it's easier to kind of hide and to not confront things.
00:02:47.000So Ben says, yes, lie, misrepresent your beliefs, get the good grade, and get through college or high school.
00:02:55.000I do not believe getting a good grade is nearly as important as creating strong people filled with integrity, willing to fight for truth at all.
00:03:03.000And so now, why am I bringing this up?
00:03:07.000Because if you wanted to kind of, those of you that are conservative, wanted to have an easier life, Than just pretend to not be a conservative and just keep your head down and, you know, just pretend to be something that you're not and delete your social media.
00:03:19.000I think there's a lot more important things in life than that.
00:03:22.000So the word of encouragement is this first, something that is true that you don't want to hear, and then something that is true that you probably will want to hear.
00:03:42.000Well, here's the second thing, though.
00:03:44.000You will be a stronger, Tougher, more resilient person that will look around at your peers one day while they're worried about whether or not they're being called the right pronouns.
00:03:54.000Be, you will have your direction, you'll have resolve, you'll have an intestinal fortitude, you'll have gusto that will run circles around an increasingly fragile society, and you will have what is so lacking in America today grittiness and toughness.
00:04:10.000And that is something that I want to instill in every single young person.
00:04:14.000We here at Turning Point USA are here to help you get through that through our networking events, through our Young Women's Leadership Summit, through our chapter events, through the events like this tonight, so you know you're not alone.
00:04:23.000But we want to try to continue to rise up the citizen.
00:04:27.000Of young people and students to be able to take a stand.
00:04:29.000But it's going to be tough, but it's worth it.
00:04:39.000Hi, I wanted to ask, how would you advise that those of us who plan to stay in California effectively convince others to do the same, instilling the same passion to fight for a conservative California instead of fleeing to other conservative states?
00:05:29.000But I really was in support of the recall then and now.
00:05:33.000I thought it was a great thing to show the people in charge in Sacramento that they're at least still going to have to get up and pretend that they represent their voters, spend a bunch of money.
00:05:43.000Invigorated a lot of you to get involved in the process that you otherwise would not have been involved in.
00:05:48.000I thought it was a really beautiful thing.
00:05:49.000So, and also I just got to say that from a political standpoint, which is not something that I'll just talk about personally, not on behalf of Turning Point USA in this sense, which is if the races you get involved from a congressional standpoint in Orange County, they can and will determine the future of the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C.
00:06:09.000So all the while it might feel as if the state is lost, but there's five congressional districts in Orange County, or did they go down to four now with the new maps?
00:06:21.000So those four, I don't know how they probably obliterated the maps, right?
00:06:24.000But the direction of those four seats will be highly consequential to whether or not it'll be Speaker Pelosi or a Republican Speaker of the House, right?
00:06:33.000That's a very, very important dividing line.
00:06:36.000And so finally, I'll say with this, though, is that one of the keys to saving California is continually getting the churches to rise up and to speak truth.
00:06:45.000And we have some pastors here in the audience.
00:06:52.000James Cadiz was here, Rob McCoy, Jack Hibbs, so many phenomenal people.
00:06:57.000And then, look, if you believe California is your home and is your future, then don't allow someone to just automatically take your future and your home from you.
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00:10:20.000Was it something that just kind of fell out of the sky?
00:10:23.000There's just a couple things I'll share here that I think could really excite high school students that they're definitely not taught in school.
00:10:29.000America was summoned into existence at a time and a place that is very unusual.
00:10:34.000In fact, it's almost never happened before in human history.
00:10:36.000Most civilizations or countries stumble into existence.
00:10:43.000There was a decision to create America.
00:10:46.000China just kind of existed and, you know, it was kind of the Yangtze River Valley civilization and just kind of built into itself.
00:10:51.000Indus River Valley into India and so on and so forth.
00:10:53.000But America was a group of people that made a decision, founding fathers, we have a set of principles, we don't like what's happening, we're going to declare independence of things that are always true.
00:11:03.000And I'm afraid that most young people are not just being taught that even worse, they're being taught the opposite.
00:11:08.000They're being taught that the founding fathers were racist, bigoted slave owners.
00:11:12.000They don't know that the first anti slavery convention in America was hosted in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin in 1775.
00:11:18.000They don't know that nine out of 13 states before the Constitution was ratified in 1787 had already independently abolished slavery.
00:11:26.000A lot of young people were never taught that Vermont was the first state to abolish slavery in 1777, inspired by the Declaration of Independence.
00:11:33.000So the next step is get your local school district to not just teach this, but inspire young people to be excited about the country they live in.
00:11:41.000A lot of young people, I think, are unnecessarily depressed and negative about their life because they've been told the one thing that you have a yearning to associate with, your country, is awful.
00:11:52.000Deep down, I think most people actually want to support their home.
00:11:55.000And you kind of see that when you start to see like a Dodgers hat here and like a Rams hat here.
00:12:00.000Like that's a different way of kind of showing association that you care about where you're from.
00:12:05.000Yet the one thing they're trying to get rid of is the jersey of America.
00:12:09.000Like, and that's something I think that excites people.
00:12:15.000When all of a sudden you're like, you know what?
00:12:17.000I, here in California, have a direct connection to a time where people decided to say that self-government was a moral issue and that separation of powers and consent to the governed was worthy of protection and preservation.
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00:12:31.000I think that actually creates a much happier country to live in than one where you think everything is racist, bigoted, awful, colonialistic, homophobic, and backwards.
00:12:39.000At some point, that only way you could solve that question is to revolutionize the country.
00:12:44.000And that's what they're trying to get young people to do.
00:12:45.000It's like if all that buildup was nothing but evil, then you might as well just burn it all down to the ground.
00:12:51.000So, we as conservatives, and to answer your question in your Belinda, the home of Richard Nixon, if I'm not mistaken, right, is to do this, which is to say to your local school district, We want to create a curriculum that creates grateful and informed citizens and an informed sense of patriotism.
00:14:21.000Having that balance of 100% grace with 100% truth, trying to be magnanimous in how you communicate, I think is really, really important.
00:14:29.000But also, you know, understanding that in family dynamics, you have to prioritize whether or not you want the family to kind of stay together or whether or not you want to make a political point.
00:17:51.000The lack thereof is unbelievable to me.
00:17:53.000I think that a lot of the financial models kind of prey on young people and their illiteracy when it comes to credit cards and debt and all of that.
00:18:00.000And the first thing is, this is why I can't believe this is not, I want to start with financial literacy.
00:18:06.000Like, okay, you want to go borrow $80,000 to go to some school to study some kind of super fringe degree?
00:18:11.000Like, can we put some more checks and balances in for that before you actually know what you're signing up for?
00:18:17.000There was an amazing poll that showed like 45 to 50% of young people are borrowing money, student loan debt, without their parents understanding how much money it actually is or their payment plan post graduation.
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00:21:41.000As we enter into yet another very important election cycle, and with campaign ads popping up left and right, I find myself feeling torn on the Citizens United versus FEC ruling.
00:21:55.000My question is what is the conservative approach to the Supreme Court's ruling?
00:21:59.000That corporations' spending on election communications can be unlimited, that corporations are people and that their spending doesn't need to be regulated?
00:22:38.000So it goes all the way up to the Supreme Court.
00:22:41.000And there were a couple questions I want you to think about before I get to the opinion.
00:22:45.000And a lot of the, even left wingers will agree that there might be some problems here, where there was a question in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:22:52.000Someone asked, they said, wait a second, would you consider, for example, a book written unfavorably about Hillary Clinton to be political speech that should be regulated?
00:23:06.000So I think that's incredibly dangerous.
00:23:09.000I think that if all of a sudden my podcast, my radio program, my articles, and my books will start regulated as if it's a campaign ad on television, I think there's something very wrong with that.
00:23:20.000In fact, that's what would have been the standard.
00:23:22.000We would have expanded a speech bureaucracy that would go after anyone, any person, any time and say, that's the equivalent of running an ad on television.
00:23:30.000That's the equivalent of running a 30-second ad.
00:23:33.000That is an attack on journalism, on commentary, and speech.
00:23:36.000But you do bring up a good point, which I will say I do not think it's healthy, nor do I think it's sustainable to have major corporations that, whether it be the pharmaceutical corporations or labor unions or kind of public sector unions or tech oligarchs like Reed Hastings or, you know, Reed Hoffman or, you know, any one of the big tech billionaires, Zuckerberg or Bill Gates, be able to parachute in and completely basically carpet bomb a race.
00:24:07.000And make it where it matters less of what the candidate's message is, and it's just who's going to get the more outside money.
00:24:14.000The left, they're always trying to repeal Citizens United.
00:24:18.000So basically, the decision of the Cities United was you can spend as much money as you want, no matter what, there will be no restriction on it.
00:24:25.000Now, because of that, believe it or not, the left has always been trying to get rid of that.
00:24:29.000In 2020, left wing groups spent $1.5 billion, conservative groups spent $900 million.
00:24:37.000So it's actually the left that has been using this more in recent years, understanding they can pump a lot of what's called dark money into the system and trying to change, you know, persuasion and outcomes and all this.
00:24:48.000Let me just talk about from a health of society standpoint.
00:24:53.000I do not like the idea that someone can just parachute in with $500 million, like Mark Zuckerberg, and change the way elections themselves are actually done.
00:25:03.000So, what is the conservative approach?
00:25:05.000I think the conservative approach should be the following that you make sure that political speech by individuals, commentators, podcasts, authors, and movies are protected no matter what.
00:25:15.000However, I would support a law that is common sense and transparent that would say that if you're going to donate, you must be disclosed within 24 hours.
00:25:25.000That there's no more anonymous donations.
00:25:32.000And I do think that a reasonable cap on money and races is something that I think would actually de radicalize our politics.
00:25:38.000When all of a sudden we're starting to say that the Pennsylvania Senate race is going to be an $185 million Senate race and Wisconsin's going to be a $110 million Senate race, what then ends up happening?
00:25:49.000Unfortunately, massive corporations that don't always have our country's best interest at heart, like Disney, will come in and start to run ads.
00:25:56.000And then candidates will then be beholden to those corporations to not represent their voters, but instead the people that drop the biggest ad spend towards the end of the campaign.
00:26:04.000And I don't think that's a good thing.
00:26:06.000In fact, I think we can have common cause on the left.
00:26:08.000So I'm worried that if we just blanket say, yeah, repeal that decision, political speech from people like me would then soon be regulated.
00:26:15.000But I do think that a common sense middle ground could be found where all of a sudden we try to make it seem, where we say there has to be some form of transparency and regulation with the amount of money pouring into some of these races.0.75
00:26:32.000I don't think it's good to constantly see negative political ads about how awful things are on this person, and I don't think it's healthy or good.
00:26:44.000So, Charlie, you've been a very strong supporter of President Trump, but when lockdowns descended on our country two years ago, President Trump did not take a strong stand for freedom.
00:26:54.000He consistently refused to fire Dr. Fauci.
00:26:57.000On March 20th, 2020, he gave a press conference where he said that Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo locking down their states.
00:27:03.000He said they're taking bold, strong steps, and I applaud them.
00:27:07.000On April 22nd, he criticized Brian Kemp for reopening Georgia, and he also attacked Thomas Massey for criticizing the $2 trillion CARES Act, which has contributed at least as much to this inflationary crisis as anything Biden's done.
00:27:19.000So when Trump did not stand up for our liberties, why should we stand for him as opposed to, say, Ron DeSantis in 2024?
00:27:57.000And I think he was suffocated and unfortunately overwhelmed by a deep state medical bureaucracy that scared the living daylights out of him.
00:28:05.000And I believe that he probably has some form of regret that he would have handled things a little bit differently.
00:28:11.000Now, I'm not defending it because I think the lockdowns were the worst mistake in American history.
00:28:16.000I think they did more damage than we'll ever know.
00:28:18.000And I think also the pushing of the vaccine on the American population is something that will be studied for years to come that I think in a lot of different ways, we still do not know the entire story behind that, especially from a mandatory perspective.
00:28:31.000And in Trump's defense, he never supported mandatory vaccines.
00:28:34.000Now, with the Fauci thing, firing Fauci, I think, would have been a mistake.
00:28:41.000But that doesn't mean that I don't think he should have been handled.
00:28:43.000You should have been at Fauci on a 30-person committee.
00:28:46.000And send him off to the hinterlands and have him be on some form of bureaucracy where they just meet all year and issue a report.
00:28:52.000Firing Fauci would have made him into a cable news pundit, and he immediately would have been able to go on TV all the time and would have been the I told you so, they fired me.
00:28:59.000I think it would have created a bigger liability.
00:29:02.000But I agree, he should have been sent off to the CDC office in Fairbanks, Alaska to investigate pathogens and polar bears.
00:29:39.000So, I've said this before, and everyone will have their own opinions on this.
00:29:44.000That issue aside, which I would give, you know, I believe Trump did more good than bad, and you've seen how bad Biden did on that particular issue.
00:29:54.000We definitely have to look at the totality of the presidency as a whole.
00:30:06.000The question is did he earn a chance to be able to run for a second term?
00:30:10.000I believe, given the shenanigans in 2020, the mail in ballots going in every single direction, and all of this, I believe at the very least he needs to be given an uninterrupted case to tell the Republican base why.
00:30:24.000Why he wants a second term and what he would do differently.
00:30:26.000And I've already said he has my support.
00:30:28.000If he runs again in 2024, there's no mystery behind that.
00:30:30.000With that being said, Ron DeSantis, I believe very well could be a once in a generation political statesman.
00:30:35.000I believe Ron DeSantis could be in the mold of Churchill, Lincoln, and Washington.
00:33:21.000Hold the line and strengthen your resolve.
00:33:25.000I would love to go speak at one of these art schools, and I'll tell you why.
00:33:29.000The left has destroyed art in our country in a way that I don't think we can actually appreciate.
00:33:36.000And I, this is kind of like one of my kind of, you would say, kind of like unexpected kind of focuses.
00:33:44.000I think that our society has become so aesthetically ugly.
00:33:47.000the more the left has taken things over, from architecture to what we consider to be art, to music, to dramas, to this garbage they call, you know, television at night.
00:33:59.000And so I believe art should try to strive towards the divine, the beautiful, the good, and the true.
00:34:06.000There's two rules in architecture that used to exist in Western society.
00:34:11.000You should try to have buildings that point upwards to God, and the circle is the perfect shape because it has no beginning or end.
00:34:21.000You just look at Western architecture now, it's just an amalgamation of like the very same deconstruction ideology that we're seeing right now.
00:34:29.000And so there's one of my favorite people to follow.
00:34:32.000He passed away recently, Roger Scruton.
00:34:34.000He talked a lot about objective beauty and also talks about more fundamental things, which is do we believe there are such things as objective standards?
00:35:11.000And I think that's actually directly connected to a lot of the philosophical deconstruction that we're living through right now.
00:35:16.000If all of a sudden art is nothing more than what your own opinion of what is beautiful, well, then why can't you also have all these kind of other societal cancers all of a sudden start to infect?
00:35:27.000Every single portion of American society.
00:35:28.000So, okay, so what do you say to friends that don't want to get involved?
00:35:32.000Look, you can only push them so far, but it's all about leadership.
00:36:30.000But a lot of people think they want to be leaders, but in reality, they just want the perks of leadership.
00:36:35.000They want the corner office, the Instagram followers, the chauffeured car, but they don't really want to work till 2 a.m. on a Sunday morning to go reach a deadline, make payroll, borrow money, fire, hire people.
00:36:48.000Leadership is hard, but it's necessary because it requires you to take responsibility.
00:36:52.000A leader is someone who does not point any fingers except in themselves when things go wrong, and that's what you're doing as a Turning Point USA chapter leader.
00:37:19.000Anyway, so my question, with foreign leaders being in power for decades to even a lifetime, and with the presidency in the United States being changed out every four to eight years, how do you effectively deter and combat a foreign entity when they could essentially just wait it out for a president who is much more lenient on foreign policy?
00:37:41.000Because four to eight years compared to a lifetime is a drop in the bucket.
00:38:12.000You know, how do you fight back against Iran or Russia or China that can just wait it out?
00:38:18.000The answer to your question is exactly why the deep state was built and how they justified it, and it was used against us.
00:38:26.000So, to answer your question, in the 1960s, we all complained about the deep state, but we never actually asked the question, why was the deep state created?
00:38:33.000Yeah, it was sort of control things and all this, but they weren't actually doing it in secret in the 60s.
00:38:37.000They said, listen, we're up against foreign adversaries that are there forever.
00:38:40.000We need to create a permanent bureaucracy in Langley, Virginia.
00:38:43.000That runs the Central Intelligence Agency, formerly OSS, and they'll always be there, therefore they'll be the ones that'll actually be able to be sustained.
00:38:51.000Yeah, except what happens when they become corrupt to the core and spy on a sitting president of the United States, you know, start to leak information illegally and they actually go against the will of the people, right?
00:38:59.000So I would only push back to your question in one regard.
00:39:02.000We kind of do have a permanent bureaucracy in our country, right?
00:39:06.000We just have kind of different people that come in to try to manage it.
00:39:26.000I know that's not what you're saying at times, but I think that we need to do everything we possibly can to resist that.
00:39:32.000That separation of powers and believing that a single person should not have the dominance over the many, that the many need to rule the few, the few should not rule the many, is something that will actually allow the civilization to survive a lot longer.
00:39:47.000than the Potemkin village of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:39:49.000So CCP or Saudi Arabia or Iran or Russia might be able to wait it out, but they're actually sitting on a much more, I would say, destructive set of circumstances because I do not believe dictatorships are sustainable long-term.
00:40:07.000I think they can be passed down, but eventually there'll be fault lines, divisions, civil war, and hopefully a citizen-led movement to displace them.
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00:41:35.000My name is Gabby, and I am here to ask you a question.
00:41:40.000How many believe that California needs help in saving California?
00:41:45.000Well, I believe that we need help in getting Newsom out.
00:41:50.000And so my question to you is, I obviously support this candidate right here, so I was wondering, and I wanted to ask you, what are your thoughts on Anthony Tremino, and if you are still living in California?
00:42:36.000I know he's not running again, but I made my allegiance there.
00:42:39.000But I will say that to Anthony's credit, he has some of the most passionate and dedicated grassroots volunteers I've seen in a candidacy in quite some time.
00:42:48.000They were up at Berkeley tabling yesterday.
00:42:51.000On UC Berkeley campus, like, there's some resolve to that.
00:42:55.000And I got to say, the one thing I am convicted by personally, spending time with Anthony, he really has a heart for this state and to turn it around.
00:43:12.000My name is Johnny, and I'm an MBA student at Cal State Fullerton.
00:43:15.000And like many other students and conservatives here, I believe this movement that we're starting is created at the grassroots level, which in turn starts in the classroom.
00:43:26.000What do you feel is the biggest problem in the collegiate education system, and how do we fix this moving forward if we wish for our movement to continue to gain ground?
00:43:47.000It's a racket and a cartel for a lot of people.
00:43:50.000I have a book coming out called The College Scam, where I put forward a 10-count indictment against the current state of college that I think will blow you away.
00:43:58.000So, for example, I'm not going to put you on the spot, but I just want you to think for a second.
00:44:03.000What do you think the national graduation rate from college is?
00:44:17.000They never should have gone to college in the first place.
00:44:20.000Now, that's only one part of it, not to mention the student loan burdens, right, where people are borrowing money they don't have to study things that don't matter, to find jobs that don't exist, to go into a job market where everything's hyperinflated, where that piece of paper means less and less and less.
00:44:33.000A vast majority of people going to college are not trying to get their MBA, which is a great reason to go to college as long as it's not completely woke.
00:44:41.000They're getting degrees that don't exactly have a highly, let's say, a very competitive kind of standpoint to what that degree would be, especially where people are looking to hire right now.
00:44:54.000We need more people in the muscular class in America.
00:44:57.000We need more plumbers, electricians, and welders, and police officers, and firefighters, and entrepreneurs.
00:45:04.000And we need to not demean them or diminish them.
00:45:08.000We need to elevate muscular labor in our country.
00:45:10.000If you ask me, we have way more than enough people that studied North African lesbian poetry in the last couple of years and that have this huge debt burden, and they don't really know where their place is.
00:45:26.000So, look, top to bottom, college is doing a lot of damage to our country.
00:45:42.000You know what they try to do from day one?
00:45:44.000They tell you that you don't know everything, and there's something here at this college that's special, and you're going to go on a journey to discover it.
00:45:51.000They say, we're going to complete the whole human being, the mind, body, and soul.
00:45:55.000We're going to read things that are ancient and beautiful and good, and you're going to really wrestle with the most important ideas and topics.
00:46:01.000That doesn't happen a lot at universities anymore.
00:46:03.000Instead, it's, hey, You have your own opinion of truth.
00:46:07.000Who's to say what is good and beautiful?
00:46:09.000And kind of just go have fun along the way.
00:46:12.000So, look, not to mention, I just want to say this about college in general, is that for parents out there, just be very, you know, pray about this and be filled with wisdom.
00:46:22.000If you're pushing your child to go to college because of you, that's a bad reason.
00:46:27.000Most kids going to college believe they don't want to be there.
00:46:30.000Now, you might say, oh, they don't know what's good for them.
00:46:32.000Okay, there might be an argument to that.
00:46:34.000But it's also them that's borrowing the money.
00:47:01.000And we need more people to be filled with integrity and courage and character and less people to be filled with postmodern, secular, atheistic ideas.
00:47:10.000Where they start questioning the most.
00:47:11.000I had a woman yesterday at UC Berkeley come up to me at the table.
00:47:14.000She said, Charlie, we don't know what human beings are.
00:47:18.000And I said, Only at a university campus could you be filled with something that is so unwise to spend so much time on something so fundamentally deranged as that question.
00:49:46.000But Jesus is there to give us something we did not earn, to give us something we do not deserve, to be able to get back into true and real communion with the God who loves us.
00:49:58.000You look at the archaeological evidence, the evidence for the resurrection.
00:50:00.000The evidence through Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in the book of Acts.
00:50:04.000You look at how there's never been an archaeological discovery that disproves the Bible.
00:50:08.000All that things can be done with reason, but there's one final reason why I'm a Christian.
00:50:12.000It's less because of this and more because of this.
00:50:14.000When you start to open up your heart and your soul and all of a sudden have the humility that you're just kind of a speck in this massive cosmic creation, all of a sudden, I think many people in this audience that might be a little skeptical, all of a sudden, that Lord who does love you is going to all of a sudden come into your life in a way that you might not expect.
00:51:10.000So, first, you'll be demonized, slandered, smeared.
00:51:14.000I just kind of went through all that, especially if you go on a school board.
00:51:17.000But no, we're going to have your back in more ways than one to be able to do the right thing and to stand with conviction.
00:51:22.000So, look, there's a lot of different things that I think are incredibly important if you're on a school board.
00:51:27.000Number one, you've got to ask questions about textbooks, curriculum appropriation of funding, to make sure that there's policies in place that schools will never be locked down again and making sure kids are not wearing masks.
00:51:36.000I was driving in. Beverly Hills today, and I saw groups of children walking on the side of the street coming out of Notre Dame Academy right near Beverly Hills, all wearing masks outside.
00:51:47.000And that's nothing short of child abuse.
00:51:48.000It's child abuse to put a mask on a child.
00:51:51.000It's bad for their development, it's bad for their spiritual development, it's bad for their linguistic development.
00:51:55.000But the most important thing that you can get done as a school board is be a relentless hawk for transparency and accountability.
00:52:03.000You need to be the public sector teacher union's worst nightmare.
00:52:06.000You need to be asking questions they don't want asked.
00:52:09.000You need to find out whether or not they're teaching gender transition surgery nonsense to five, six, and seven-year-olds.0.67
00:52:15.000And then you need to channel righteous indignation and not put up with their excuses, their delay tactics, their nonsensical one-liners like, oh, it's all about equity.0.85
00:53:21.000I mean, people right now, I'm telling you, they're opening their eyes in record numbers, especially in the Latino community.
00:53:26.000There are huge opportunities that are otherwise would not be happening.
00:53:31.000And then finally, just keep in your prayers and keep in what you're doing, what Turning Point USA is doing on the front lines on high school and college campuses across the country.
00:53:41.000I believe it's some of the most important work to make sure that we pass down American values to future generations.
00:53:47.000We're working really hard, traveling the country.
00:53:52.000We're doing three podcasts a day, three hours of radio a day.
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00:54:08.000But in closing, I believe the momentum we are seeing of regular, normal, everyday people running for office that are starting to ask questions, it is the rise of the citizen against the regime.
00:54:19.000And isn't that the most American thing to do?
00:54:22.000which is regular, everyday, normal people, rejecting the cynicism, rejecting the negativity, and saying instead, this is still my country, that the many are going to rule the few, and that I'm not going to put up with these edicts, these orders, these mandates, and these double standards.
00:54:38.000Instead, we're going to renew this idea of citizen government by and for the people.
00:54:44.000And we've been given this gift by the American founding fathers, and it's up to us to conserve and preserve it.
00:54:51.000Role in helping make that happen every single day.