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00:01:23.000It is awesome to be here in person and not locked down in the state that defied the lockdowns from the very beginning here in Florida.
00:01:39.000And I gotta tell you, we're gonna be talking about a lot of different things for the next couple days, but look around you.
00:01:44.000If you've been looking for hope, you'll see it here in Tampa, Florida, where thousands and thousands and thousands of young people are gathering for our country and for freedom.
00:02:28.000So it's been a very busy couple months, you could say.
00:02:32.000You know, being back here in Tampa is incredible.
00:02:34.000In fact, I know downtown Tampa very well because this is the city where really Turning Point USA was born.
00:02:40.000Back in 2012, I was 18 years old and I came here for the Republican National Convention.
00:02:47.000And I always dreamed of being able to host events even close to being in that size, but we had no money in our bank account, no donors, no connections, nothing at all.
00:02:57.000So, I went to the local Marriott right here across the street, and I found some guy that had too many drinks, and he gave me his badge to go into the Republican National Convention.
00:03:06.000And you might, I thought you could buy tickets to the RNC, kind of like scalpers.
00:03:11.000You have to have very specific credentials.
00:03:14.000So, I got into the Republican National Convention as an 18 year old, never going to college, just graduating high school, and walked through with my mentor, Bill Montgomery, and I saw this guy in a cowboy hat.
00:03:27.000By the name of Foster Fries, and told him this idea that we can energize and motivate and inspire the next generation of conservatives and freedom fighters across the country.
00:03:41.000And right there, he wrote us our first check for Turning Point USA.
00:03:45.000And you look around and you see what's happened all the way back here in Tampa, Florida.
00:03:56.000There's a couple things I want to talk to you guys about.
00:03:58.000I want to set the theme for this conference.
00:04:01.000We as conservatives have got to stop playing defense.
00:04:09.000The theme of this conference is to play offense.
00:04:12.000We are going to get into an offensive mindset here at this conference that it is time that we stop ceding ground to the left, that we're always arguing on their terms.
00:04:22.000It is time that, with a sense of urgency, we start to say, here's what we believe and why we believe it.
00:04:29.000In the last couple of weeks, we have started to see.
00:04:33.000People start to falter on this idea of reopening America.
00:04:37.000Now, I want to be very clear as we're here with thousands and thousands of people here in this room, lockdowns might be coming again to America.
00:04:49.000We can never allow America to be locked down again.
00:04:53.000We will never tolerate lockdowns again in our country.
00:04:57.000And you see in Los Angeles, they're already reinstituting the mask mandate, and in fact, Not a fan?
00:05:08.000In fact, at Turning Point USA, we're very proud to be the first and only organization to launch an effort to defend each and every one of you, to make sure you are not mandated to get a vaccine against your will.
00:05:27.000On college campuses, no person should ever be forced to get the vaccine against their will.
00:05:33.000And I'm telling you, for all the parents out there, it's time to start fighting for your kids.
00:05:38.000Because we are getting story after story after story of young people that say, Charlie, I don't want to have to take this vaccine.
00:05:46.000I'm seeing what it's doing to my family members and my friends.
00:05:48.000And yet these colleges are punishing students, putting them through a medical apartheid system, saying that if you do not get the vaccine, you're going to have to wear a mask at all times.
00:05:58.000You're going to have to live in separate dormitories.
00:06:00.000You're going to have to be separated from other people.
00:06:02.000And it's time that we realize this is not even about the vaccine, this is a freedom issue.
00:06:08.000If they can force you to get the vaccine against your will, They can force you on so many other things.
00:06:13.000All of a sudden, we have basically given up control.
00:06:17.000So, I want to tell you three things that have really bothered me, and we're going to connect it with this thing about playing offense.
00:06:22.000Number one is this idea of experts and then public health and extremism.
00:06:30.000For example, if you want to just see a cable news segment, they say, Well, we need to lock down the country because the experts on public health are very worried about extremism.
00:06:38.000Or maybe on MSNBC, they say, You're very worried about extremism?
00:06:41.000Well, the experts are telling us that racism is a public health emergency.
00:06:44.000Those three terms combined together have done more.
00:06:49.000To erode and deteriorate our freedoms and our liberties over the last year.
00:06:54.000And that's because we're constantly in this defensive mindset.
00:06:57.000And so we have to start saying, here's what we believe and why we believe it and what we're going to do about it.
00:07:03.000And that's what we try to do every single day at Turning Point USA.
00:07:06.000I want everyone to raise their hands that's in college right now.
00:07:09.000How many of you have been graded down differently because of your conservative views?
00:07:23.000If we just talked about BLM Incorporated systemic racism, if we wore two masks when we walked down the street and just demanded free stuff from people at all times.
00:07:35.000And one of the messages I want to convey for you tonight is something we don't talk a lot about, and that is cost.
00:07:43.000Here's the one thing that all of you are going to realize as you get involved in this fight.
00:07:47.000And by the way, everything we're talking about the next couple of days is not political.
00:07:51.000We're talking about cultural issues and educational issues.
00:07:54.000Quite honestly, I don't really care that much about politics right now.
00:07:56.000I care whether or not our generation is going to love America.
00:08:00.000I care whether or not we are going to have a generation that wants to protect and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.
00:08:11.000Something that's on everyone's mind right now is the housing market.
00:08:15.000Whether you're looking to buy your first home, purchase your dream home, wondering if your current mortgage is still the best fit for you, or you're considering using your equity to pay off other high interest debt with double digit rates, the wait and see approach may actually be costing you money.
00:08:30.000That's where Andrew and Todd with Union Home Mortgage come in.
00:08:33.000These guys aren't just lenders, they're strategists.
00:08:35.000The market shifts every single day, and there are more opportunities than ever to make your mortgage work for you instead of against you.
00:08:42.000Right now, Andrew and Todd are offering a completely free mortgage review.
00:08:52.000Just a professional review of your current situation to see whether you may be able to lower your payment, improve cash flow, consolidate debt, or better leverage your home equity.
00:09:01.000Don't leave your biggest investment to chance.
00:09:22.000Which is, it's this idea of whether or not our side is going to realize we are not going to take back this country without a significant cost.
00:09:34.000This is something we don't like talking about.
00:09:37.000I bet if I went through the audience here, I could see people that lost their job because you're a conservative, that lost close friendships because you're a conservative, that got kicked out of fraternity or sorority because of your political beliefs.
00:10:31.000They want to kick you out of the classroom if you have a different opinion.
00:10:33.000They want to dox your personal information.
00:10:36.000They want to train your classmates to hate you because of your skin color.
00:10:41.000And so it's time for this next young conservative generation, and this is what you're doing in such an amazing way, to realize that this country's not going to be won over without a cost.
00:10:50.000So, this is my super optimistic, uplifting speech that when you get motivated outside of this event, you might actually have to lose something, but you know what you're going to gain?
00:10:59.000You're all going to gain something far more than a job or a promotion.
00:11:03.000Here's the only thing I can promise you you do not have to be somebody different in public than you are in private.
00:11:10.000You no longer have to leave your house and be somebody when you.
00:11:16.000You no longer have to put on a camouflage uniform and pretend you're not as conservative as you really are.
00:11:22.000My call for you is success out of this conference is if every single one of you can now say publicly what you say privately.
00:11:29.000What a great country that would be to live in, wouldn't it?
00:11:32.000Where all of a sudden you could say what you say here at your job.
00:11:35.000Now that's going to come with the cost.
00:11:37.000But here's what I'm also going to tell you you are going to make friendships for a lifetime here at the Student Action Summit.
00:12:27.000Now it's time, at a young age, I'm talking to the 16, 17, and 18 year olds in the room right now.
00:12:32.000We got to start to take responsibility for the country early because we are being handed something that's subpar.
00:12:37.000I'm not blaming, a lot of adults have done a wonderful job, a lot of parents have done a wonderful job, but look at the country at large though.
00:12:42.000If you would have asked somebody 15 years ago, school boards, do you think they matter for the future of America or not?
00:12:47.000They're like, wait, the thing that kind of like They appropriate, like, how many erasers they give out at class or whatever.
00:12:53.000Now, school boards are the front lines for the take back campaign of America against the radical anti American left.
00:13:02.000And so, here's my call to action for every young person out there.
00:13:07.000And this is what this event is all about.
00:13:10.000You know what makes this event different?
00:13:11.000Students sit in the front at our events, not at the back.
00:13:14.000You know what makes our event different?
00:13:16.000Is that the students are given the preference.
00:13:19.000Because if we're honest about this, Kind of the old 1980s, 1990s way of conservatism, that's not going to save America.
00:13:26.000It's going to take the 18, 19, and 20 year olds that know what the left is up to, that are savvy enough on digital social media, that understand the cultural war with the energy and the creativity and the ambition and the willingness to fight against the people that so terribly wish to destroy us.
00:13:41.000So people say, well, Charlie, what does that look like?
00:13:45.000What does it look like to actually be able to fight back against these people that are doing these things and play offense?
00:13:50.000Here's the one thing that we have to get better at we have to stop giving them the benefit of good intentions.
00:13:56.000I can't stand when I hear when people say, Charlie, you know that we want the liberals.
00:14:01.000We want the same thing, we just have different ways of getting there.
00:14:08.000When you want a man to be able to compete in women's sports, we don't want the same thing and we don't have different ways of getting there.0.54
00:14:18.000When you're okay with one million abortions every single year, we don't want the same thing and we don't have a different way of getting there.0.69
00:14:28.000When you're okay with locking down the church and keeping abortion factories open, we don't want the same thing and we don't have different ways of getting there.
00:14:37.000When you want to put masks on children, which is child abuse, we do not want the same thing and we don't have different ways of getting there.
00:14:51.000Instead, it's now on us to paint an optimistic and promising vision of the America we want to live in.
00:14:59.000We don't have to get too policy wonkish about this.
00:15:02.000Instead, we should say, I want a country that's enjoyable to live in, where I don't have to lock my doors at night to worry about some.
00:15:09.000Criminal predator walking in and harming my family.
00:15:12.000I want my children to love America again.
00:15:15.000I want to not have to doubt whether or not a teacher that I hand my child off to is going to be teaching them anti American propaganda.0.75
00:15:23.000I want stuff made in America again, not in Wuhan, China.
00:15:30.000We want to value people of all walks of life, including people that did not go to college, because we need more plumbers and electricians and police officers and people that work with their hands in this country.
00:15:46.000You see, we as conservatives have an amazing opportunity right now.
00:15:51.000An opportunity to forecast the future and to restore it back to things that work and that are eternal.
00:15:58.000But that also means we must be willing to call right from wrong.
00:16:02.000We must be willing to sometimes pick the tougher fights.
00:16:05.000I don't know about you, but I'm always irritated at this constant retreat on how we're always taking the left's language at its own term.
00:16:50.000Now, he has basketball talent, obviously, but speaking is not his strong suit.
00:16:56.000But, you know, let me say this about LeBron.
00:16:58.000I'm so happy he's not representing Team USA in Tokyo for his sake and my sake, because I wouldn't want him to represent a country he hates.
00:17:21.000So, I want to share some of my favorite films and shows on Angel, and I put them all into one easy to use watch list.
00:17:27.000This is content that's actually worth your time, not just noise or recycled talking points, but stories that go a level deeper and ask better questions.
00:17:35.000That's what stands out about Angel to me.
00:17:37.000They're willing to put out films and documentaries that don't just follow the usual script, especially when it comes to politics, culture, and the bigger conversations you and I should be having.
00:17:46.000So, on my watch list, you'll find pics that lean into those topics, but there are also solid options for family or just something meaningful to watch.
00:19:20.000So Cincinnatus was a farmer, went and fought in Roman wars, and then went back to the farm afterwards, not wanting anything in return.
00:19:29.000That's kind of what we have to do right now.
00:19:30.000We have to drop our life of convenience and of luxury and accessibility.
00:19:36.000Sometimes that means we're going to have to pay a price and a cost for that.
00:19:39.000But I could tell you this they're doing everything they possibly can.
00:19:43.000In every way that imaginable to try and suppress your involvement.
00:19:49.000You see, recently the Biden administration has come out and they have said that anyone that is spreading misinformation should be taken off of social media.
00:19:59.000And I say, aha, so they'll be removing Dr. Anthony Fauci from social media sometime very soon.
00:20:06.000Who, by the way, I said this to a reporter once and they just look so perplexed.
00:20:13.000for what he did against our country, and he should be locked up for a very, very long time.
00:20:25.000There's a lot of different things that are happening that we're going to be talking about in the next couple days.
00:20:29.000We're going to be talking about what you can do to push back against mandatory vaccinations, what you can do to take back your school board.
00:20:36.000But one of the other things we're going to be talking about is this all out assault on American history, the 1619 Project, or otherwise known as critical race theory.
00:20:46.000How many of you have critical race theory happening in your schools?
00:21:31.000Now, if you are a racist, then you got work to do and you got to go apologize to some people.
00:21:35.000But let me be clear, and the media will love it when I say this just because you are a white person does not mean you are a racist in America.
00:21:49.000Where they are now categorizing 60 plus percent of the entire country as being racist, but they don't even realize it.
00:21:57.000You understand what they're trying to do.
00:21:58.000What they're trying to do is something that is distinctly immoral.
00:22:03.000There are, you can either organize society as having a preference on things you can change, or having a preference on things you cannot change.
00:22:11.000You see, the problem with critical race theory is that it puts the most important thing on things you cannot change, unless you're Michael Jackson, who didn't change it very well.
00:22:23.000It is immoral to organize people based on things they cannot change.0.99
00:22:27.000In fact, we should say, you know what, I don't care about your skin color.0.99
00:22:31.000I think your skin color is completely and totally irrelevant.0.99
00:22:34.000In fact, if you keep on talking about skin color, you are a racist.
00:22:43.000Instead, we should talk about things that matter, things that last, such as people's spirit, their soul, their character, their actions, whether or not they're producing goodness into the world.
00:22:55.000This is the fight in front of all of us.
00:22:57.000And so, the next couple days, here is my challenge for you.
00:23:02.000Not just to meet new people, not just to hear from the most amazing speakers in the movement.
00:23:08.000Tomorrow evening, I will put up tomorrow's afternoon agenda up against any conservative agenda in the country.
00:23:15.000We have Congressman Madison Cawthorn, we have Greg Gutfeld, Donald Trump Jr., Senator Ted Cruz, Kaylee McEnany, and to close it all out, Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis.
00:23:49.000So, it's not just about hearing from these amazing speakers, but it's also every single one of you have to realize the greatest trick that the left has ever pulled on you is to make you feel like your individual action does not matter.
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00:26:43.000A micro tyrant is the type of person at Starbucks who has way too much power that no one voted for, that never ran for office, that will start screaming at you because you have your mask one millimeter below your nose.
00:26:58.000I'll tell you a story about a micro tyrant where I went into a Starbucks in California and there was like this ridiculous arbitrary line.0.57
00:27:06.000I reached over to get a straw and she just comes up to me and said, Sir, you are contributing to the spread of the killer coronavirus.
00:27:15.000Literally, because I went three inches and I said to her, No one voted for you.
00:27:59.000And so try to go as far as you can before they make you try to put on a mask.
00:28:03.000So we were playing this game with our team, and one of them broke through, and this woman without a mask on, playing like Tetris or whatever they do, right, passed by, and she then puts her mask back on.
00:28:15.000She's like, put your mask on, or else I'm going to have you arrested.
00:28:17.000I'm like, okay, first of all, you have way too much power.
00:28:20.000Like, this whole thing, like, that might be a real badge, but you're not deputized in the name of the law.
00:28:31.000And that kind of goes to this point, though, is that when we do not fight on the little things, all of a sudden you have this voluminous style of laws and rules and regulations, then whoever's in charge gets to deem who they're gonna enforce against it.
00:28:47.000I like, I like, Tightly written rules that everyone can understand, maybe 10 or 12, and that's it.
00:28:54.000Instead, we have this incredibly complex structure where then whoever is in charge gets to decide who they get to go and punish and who they get to go after.
00:29:04.000So, I'm not really sure I got on that topic, but nevertheless, so this is a pretty amazing thing that we have here today at Turning Point USA.
00:29:11.000And I want to say this as well thank you to our event staff at Turning Point USA for putting this on.
00:29:19.000And thank you for everyone who helps make this possible.
00:29:24.000So, I'm going to close with this, which is if you right now are uncertain about what you need to do and how you're going to get involved, you're going to get that answer solved in the next couple days.
00:29:35.000But also, you know how lucky we are to be alive in a time like this, where this entire American experiment, our home, this beautiful gift that we have been given, is now at a moment where it could shatter into a million pieces.
00:29:54.000So, we have been handed something that's about to fall apart.
00:29:57.000Our generation, the millennial generation Z generation, can be known as the generation that surprised and shocked the world, that rose up in record numbers, and was the generation that fixed the problems of generations prior.
00:30:16.000And I could tell you this the amazing thing about all of you that are involved in high school and college, you know what it's going to take for you to get there.
00:30:25.000You know all of a sudden what you're dealing against.
00:30:27.000We're the cheerful warriors that are willing to endure and persevere past that.
00:30:31.000But I start to see hope when I see gatherings like this.
00:30:35.000I see hope when I show up to school board meetings and hundreds of parents are there contesting against critical race theory and demanding that it's removed from its textbooks.
00:30:44.000I get hope when I see how many people are realizing what's really at stake here.
00:30:52.000This is not about politics, everybody.
00:30:54.000This is simply about our nation and our country and our home.
00:31:48.000Every single one of you are leaders here, all thousands and thousands and thousands of you.
00:31:52.000And you look around, Turning Point USA is a glitch in the matrix of what the left is trying to do in our country.
00:31:58.000They would love nothing more than to have all of you be obedient and afraid and silent and be at home.
00:32:04.000But you know what's actually going to be our salvation?
00:32:07.000I'm going to turn this thing around when thousands and thousands of charismatic and energetic young leaders like you all of a sudden start to chart the path forward in a way.
00:32:19.000That is going to be one of hope and freedom and of a better tomorrow.
00:32:22.000When I started this at 18 years old, nine years ago in this city, I couldn't have dreamt, in my wildest imagination, we'd be filling up auditoriums like this and our Young Women's Leadership Summit and all these amazing things that have happened throughout our history.
00:32:35.000We're going to hit a thousand high school chapters very soon.
00:32:39.000But the real thanks goes to every single one of you.
00:32:42.000And as long as we are courageous, and we are focused on what that America is and what it stands for, I could tell you this.
00:32:53.000That the left is nervous that conservatives are going to rise up in record numbers.
00:32:59.000The left is nervous that every single one of you are going to start to take ownership for our nation, for our country, and our home.
00:33:06.000And by the end of this conference, I want every single one of you to make a commitment to do something in your local communities, on your college campuses, in your high school environment, because it's our country now, everybody.