The Charlie Kirk Show - From the Archive: "When the Women Rise Up, Watch Out" — Charlie's Speech at YWLS 2021

00:00:03.000 My name is Charlie Kirk.

00:00:05.000 I run the largest pro American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic.

00:00:11.000 My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth.

00:00:14.000 If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable.

00:00:19.000 But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful.

00:00:24.000 College is a scam, everybody.

00:00:26.000 You got to stop sending your kids to college.

00:00:27.000 You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible.

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00:00:39.000 I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade.

00:00:41.000 Most important decision I ever made in my life, and I encourage you to do the same.

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00:00:48.000 Buckle up, everybody.

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00:01:18.000 Good morning, everybody.

00:01:19.000 Wow, it's packed.

00:01:22.000 It's terrific to have all of you here.

00:01:24.000 There's a lot we want to talk about this morning, and thank you for getting up so early.

00:01:29.000 And who traveled the farthest to be here?

00:01:33.000 Anyone from Alaska?

00:01:35.000 Oh, Alaska, there you go.

00:01:36.000 That's probably anyone overseas that traveled to be here?

00:01:38.000 Anyone?

00:01:39.000 No?

00:01:40.000 One person?

00:01:41.000 What country?

00:01:43.000 Guatemala.

00:01:44.000 Okay, Guatemala's the winner. 0.96

00:01:45.000 There you go.

00:01:50.000 We've been doing this for a couple years, and to see it grow throughout the years has been amazing.

00:01:55.000 It's been quite an amazing month.

00:01:57.000 What, about five weeks ago, I got married to my wife, and you'll hear from her tomorrow.

00:02:03.000 And what I should have said yesterday when Alex Clark said conservative women are better looking, I should have said, yes, I should know, I just married one.

00:02:11.000 So.

00:02:13.000 And there's a couple things I want to talk about.

00:02:15.000 We'll talk about politics, we'll talk about government and all that stuff, but there's a lot happening right now in the country, and as soon as young women and women in general start to talk about this correctly, things will change.

00:02:28.000 I was just at a school board meeting in Chandler Unified School District in Arizona, and there were some dads that were there, but it was the moms that showed up at this Chandler Unified School District meeting and started just screaming at these school board members.

00:02:42.000 All of a sudden, everything changes.

00:02:44.000 Because, look, if we're honest with ourselves, As soon as the women of a nation rise up and they start to say there's something wrong with this, and they start to, that kind of maternal instinct of the nation kicks in, then all of a sudden we can start to save the country.

00:02:59.000 And so we need to talk about what is it that conservatives actually stand for.

00:03:03.000 Because I think there's been some confusion about that, especially over the last couple of years.

00:03:07.000 And this is where we at Turning Point USA want to be very, we want to be on the leading edge of this, especially with young women and young conservative women.

00:03:15.000 So we first started this conference back in 2015.

00:03:19.000 When Barack Obama was still president, and a lot of the chatter and the talk was about kind of anti socialism, and obviously we don't like socialism.

00:03:28.000 Socialism's terrible, it's awful, it's immoral, it's killed over 100 million people over the last 100 years, and I think that we've done a pretty good job of expressing that.

00:03:36.000 But if we also don't talk about kind of what is freedom, what is liberty, what are we doing here, then we're just going to be the anti socialist movement, which is fine in some settings, but that's not actually a way to build a durable, Political movement or a cultural movement of actually what we stand for and why we stand for those things.

00:03:54.000 And so, there's three things in particular I want to go through with you of what I want you to remember and kind of why we're here.

00:04:02.000 And all of it is incredibly politically incorrect.

00:04:05.000 Like, all these three things you're not allowed to say on a college campus, you're not allowed to believe, which is exactly why I'm going to lead with them at 9 o'clock in the morning here at the Young Women's Leadership Summit.

00:04:17.000 So, the first thing is we have to be very clear women are women and men are men.

00:04:22.000 So, that's.

00:04:24.000 And men are not women and women are not men. 0.95

00:04:27.000 So, Men are better at some things than women, and women are better at some things than men. 0.94

00:04:33.000 And this idea that, like, oh, I could do everything a man does, or a man says I could do everything a woman does, that's a lie.

00:04:40.000 Now, that's not to say that certain women might be at the highest levels of excellence, be able to be very competitive, but generally, the general rule is the way that God designed us through whatever reason of brilliance that we should not even question.

00:04:55.000 Women have certain character traits, such as the ability to have empathy, to Nurture, to raise children, to be able to listen attentively, to have a higher level of focus, things that I struggle with.

00:05:08.000 Men are more likely to have a singular task, be able to, quite honestly, run through a wall to get it done, be able to also have higher levels of testosterone, which is nice when you want to have an entire functioning economy built on hopefully using your hands and have plumbers, electricians, and HVAC, and police officers and firefighters.

00:05:29.000 Not to say that women can't do those things, but when left to the agency of choice, Women are more likely to go into elementary school education.

00:05:37.000 They're more likely to become a psychologist. 0.88

00:05:39.000 They're more likely to be in something that requires empathy and listening and counseling.

00:05:44.000 And men are more likely to be into something like engineering or business or finance, like getting the deal done.

00:05:49.000 Now, if your nature tells you today that you want to have children and raise a family and go work for some boring, woke, anti American company, kind of doesn't really interest you, having children and having a family and getting married will have a much Larger and more positive impact on you and our nation than do becoming a partner at some law firm.

00:06:12.000 That's actually not very fulfilling.

00:06:14.000 In fact, don't pursue that if you think that's going to give you happiness. 1.00

00:06:19.000 You will be a miserable unmarried 33 year old woman. 1.00

00:06:22.000 Let me say that again. 1.00

00:06:23.000 You will be a miserable unmarried 33 year old woman if you go pursue corporate, like, I'm going to go climb the corporate ladder. 1.00

00:06:30.000 Okay, fine. 0.97

00:06:31.000 What really matters is am I able to replicate my values?

00:06:34.000 Can I find someone that I can spend the rest of my life with?

00:06:37.000 Am I going to actually have that kind of sacrificial love that's talked about in the Bible?

00:06:41.000 That kind of love where I can pour into somebody, that's eternal and divine and beautiful.

00:06:48.000 Not saying, you know what, I'm 35 and unmarried, but I'm a partner at Goldman Sachs, but I'm gonna go revolutionize the world. 1.00

00:06:53.000 You wanna know why there's so many angry liberal women that live in New York and Los Angeles? 1.00

00:06:58.000 It's because they've worshipped the corporate ladder for the last 10 years, and they have not actually valued what matters. 1.00

00:07:07.000 And so, obviously, you're not allowed to say all this.

00:07:10.000 And by the way, if you wanna go become like a Dagny Taggart, The character in Atlas Shrugged, then so be it.

00:07:15.000 You have the liberty and the freedom to do that.

00:07:18.000 I just want to make sure you manage your expectations.

00:07:20.000 That if you think that's going to give you some form, like eventually you're going to be at that place of happiness, I just want to caution you.

00:07:28.000 The happiest, the wealthiest people in the world that I meet are not the billionaires that I've had a chance to spend time with, they're the people with 9, 10, and 11 children.

00:07:36.000 They are the wealthiest people in the world.

00:07:38.000 They're the people that homeschool their own kids.

00:07:40.000 They are the people that go to church at 7 a.m. on Sunday morning.

00:07:43.000 They're the people that Are doing everything they possibly can to pour into what actually matters that's going to live longer than themselves.

00:07:50.000 So that's the first thing, which is we as conservatives, and especially conservative women, we have to embrace what matters and what lasts and value what is eternal, not what is momentary, not what feels good and not what is good. 0.99

00:08:04.000 Now, you as women have a lot more power than you might think here. 0.62

00:08:07.000 Now, let me just take a poll. 0.77

00:08:08.000 How many of you are generally dissatisfied with the pool of men that you have to date or you have to go towards?

00:08:14.000 Raise your hand.

00:08:15.000 Right.

00:08:16.000 So, now, let me turn this on you though.

00:08:21.000 That is 50% on you.

00:08:25.000 Yeah, it is.

00:08:28.000 It's 50% on you.

00:08:30.000 It's 50% on the men who are generally weak, metrosexual, like vegan milk drinking, like soy milk, liberal, all that.

00:08:38.000 And by the way, I am very, very direct towards them about getting your life in order and assuming responsibility, stop blaming other people for your problems, and be someone worthy that someone actually wants to spend their life with.

00:08:50.000 But at the same time, are you portraying to the world on social media someone that is someone that?

00:08:57.000 Has something worth desiring?

00:08:59.000 Or are you just putting it all out there and saying, I think pleasure is my ultimate value?

00:09:03.000 Is that what you're putting on social media?

00:09:04.000 Maybe, I don't know.

00:09:05.000 You can make that own decision.

00:09:07.000 However, you have to understand that the way that men view a lot of your social media accounts is a lot different than how women view your social media accounts.

00:09:15.000 The way that men view your social media accounts are a lot different than the way that women view your social media accounts.

00:09:15.000 I want to say that again.

00:09:21.000 I know this is completely opposite than a lot of the kind of predominant culture of, you know what, the most important thing?

00:09:26.000 I'm going to go out till 2 a.m. and have a wonderful time and, okay, whatever, fine, that's you.

00:09:31.000 You could do that if you want.

00:09:32.000 If you think that's going to give you long lasting and eternal, a place of where, not just happiness, but a place where you're content, then I got a news flash for you that's not going to happen.

00:09:43.000 So, what do you have to actually seek?

00:09:44.000 Well, you have to embrace things that last, like having a family and having children.

00:09:50.000 And so, we have the most unmarried generation in American history.

00:09:53.000 Let me say that again the most unmarried generation in American history.

00:09:57.000 Why? 0.75

00:09:58.000 It's because at most kind of like women empowerment summits, People come up and they say, you know what, you live in a patriarchy. 1.00

00:10:05.000 All men are garbage and terrible and awful. 1.00

00:10:08.000 And don't get married and have kids. 1.00

00:10:10.000 Instead, go become a corporate partner at some law firm.

00:10:14.000 What kind of message does that send to men?

00:10:18.000 If men are told by the time that they're eight years old that they're terrible and they're abusive and they're awful and you never have to take responsibility, you never have to be a guardian, then they're going to say, you know what, I'm going to go kind of be the lost boys at Peter Pan.

00:10:28.000 I'm not going to ever take responsibility for my life.

00:10:31.000 And so there's actually something beautiful that we should embrace as this tradition of the Western family.

00:10:37.000 It's a good thing.

00:10:38.000 In fact, we should rebuild the American family and we need to rebuild it quickly. 1.00

00:10:42.000 So, we have about 2,500 young women here.

00:10:49.000 We have 2,500 young women here. 1.00

00:10:51.000 If every single one of you got married and had at least five kids, we could take over the entire state of Wyoming in like 30 years. 0.99

00:11:02.000 And it all kind of ties together.

00:11:04.000 I laugh about this. 0.59

00:11:05.000 People, I ask kind of young women that get married, they're like, do you want to have kids? 0.81

00:11:08.000 They're like, Yeah, I want to have one of each. 0.86

00:11:10.000 Like, what are you, like picking out like tile?

00:11:12.000 Like, I want to have one of each.

00:11:14.000 Like, okay, fine.

00:11:17.000 And look, everyone's free to make their own choices, obviously.

00:11:19.000 I'm not here to judge.

00:11:20.000 I'm making a general social critique that what's happening right now is deeply unhealthy.

00:11:26.000 It's creating people that are constantly looking through their devices and their phones and their dopamine machines, and we'll get into that, for their value and their net worth.

00:11:35.000 So I deleted all my social media apps about six months ago.

00:11:39.000 And this is harder for women than for men, by the way.

00:11:42.000 It is.

00:11:43.000 Because all the numbers show that Instagram is just a female dominant app, more than even YouTube is more male dominated. 0.64

00:11:50.000 And did it six months ago. 0.84

00:11:51.000 Our team still obviously posts on social media, but I really believe that a lot of stuff that happens on social media is absolute and complete garbage, almost all of it.

00:11:59.000 And from the TikTok generation to Snapchat to Instagram, and I ask myself, I say, is it actually making us more decent human beings?

00:12:07.000 And I think it's actually the opposite.

00:12:08.000 I actually think it's making us terrible to each other.

00:12:12.000 I think that it's making people value things that do not matter.

00:12:16.000 And so this kind of ties into some of the BLM Incorporated protests last year.

00:12:20.000 I'm convinced, and a lot of you have friends like this, if social media did not exist, no one would have showed up to these protests last year.

00:12:26.000 Like, oh, let me show a picture of you.

00:12:29.000 Like, okay, got it.

00:12:30.000 I'm going to be the one that ends racism in America as I show you how good of a person I am with my picture.

00:12:36.000 Like, okay, got it.

00:12:37.000 Or the black tile thing, which drove me absolutely insane.

00:12:41.000 And the black tile thing in particular, which was nothing more than I'm going to show you that I'm a better person than you are.

00:12:48.000 It's virtue signaling, which is all signaling and no virtue.

00:12:51.000 And really, in reality, it should be okay, are you actually trying to improve your own character and actually try to become a better person in this world?

00:13:00.000 Which, that's part of the struggle that's happening right now, and you're seeing this happen where so many young people are saying, I don't need to improve myself, I need to go revolutionize the world around me.

00:13:11.000 So, the way it used to work in the 1970s was that we used to teach children, like, you got a lot of work to do, in fact, you're pretty awful, and America's awesome.

00:13:19.000 Now we say that to our kids, you're awesome and America's awful.

00:13:24.000 The opposite.

00:13:25.000 And what that does, and that, by the way, this feeds into what I think is one of the most destructive movements ever, which is the self esteem movement.

00:13:31.000 I can't stand the self esteem movement, it's awful.

00:13:34.000 And where you would tell young people in eighth grade, you're perfect the way you are.

00:13:38.000 Well, then why are you in school?

00:13:39.000 Like, why do I have to do homework?

00:13:41.000 If I'm absolutely perfect the way I am, what improvement do I have to do?

00:13:44.000 Instead, you should tell young people, this is more to young men than young women, because young men are not being challenged.

00:13:49.000 One of the reasons why you are so upset with the young men you have to pick from is because they're not being challenged, they have no purpose, and they've never actually had to build any sort of strength.

00:13:59.000 And there's this phrase I wear on one of the bands I have, which is strength rejoices in the challenge.

00:13:59.000 Right?

00:14:04.000 All of you should go after things that are really challenging.

00:14:08.000 Now, guess what?

00:14:09.000 Becoming in some corporation is actually not the most challenging thing you could do in today's America.

00:14:14.000 Getting married early and having children and explaining that to all of your secular friends is actually a lot more challenging than going to work for some woke company in New York.

00:14:25.000 So embrace what matters and what lasts and value what is eternal.

00:14:28.000 Now, I'm sure there's people of all different religious viewpoints here.

00:14:32.000 I believe that we have to value a transcendent order.

00:14:35.000 I think that we have to value things that are bigger than just who we are as human beings.

00:14:40.000 I think we have to recognize that human beings have a spirit and a soul, that there's a way and there's a way that works with how we live.

00:14:47.000 And that's what the conservative movement should stand for, especially during these chaotic times.

00:14:53.000 We should not be the progressive conservatives.

00:14:56.000 So, for example, I think that it should be illegal.

00:14:59.000 One example, illegal. 1.00

00:15:00.000 That's right, not wrong, illegal to have some drag queen read some story to some six year old at some library. 0.79

00:15:14.000 And you kind of see this manifested in this entire transgender thing, which obviously, as a Christian, I want to have empathy and mercy for those people.

00:15:22.000 But from a public policy standpoint, I also want to be very clear about why are we not making the argument that's so obvious, which is what is a man and what is a woman?

00:15:35.000 And obviously, we know that through chromosomal development.

00:15:39.000 And if I think the conservative movement, like the governor of Arkansas, anyone from Arkansas?

00:15:43.000 Yeah, I'm sure there's a couple people.

00:15:44.000 And he seems like a nice enough guy.

00:15:47.000 Catered to corporate interests, where he was like, You know what?

00:15:49.000 I think it means to be a conservative that eight year olds should be able to chemically castrate themselves.

00:15:56.000 That's not the conservative movement.

00:15:58.000 And this is important because they say, Oh, no, no, it's liberty.

00:16:00.000 I can do whatever I want whenever I want to do it.

00:16:02.000 And at that point, we've just opened up the greatest discussion of what actually the conservative movement stands for.

00:16:09.000 So are we a libertarian movement or are we a conservative?

00:16:11.000 And by the way, there might be some libertarians here.

00:16:12.000 Thank you guys for coming, by the way, because I'm super libertarian on guns, by the way.

00:16:16.000 I think we need less gun laws, not more gun laws, right?

00:16:19.000 And so there's certain things I think that are really interesting there, but in general, especially in this time of confusion where you feel like you are losing social order, where you turn around and all of a sudden you have seven year olds that are being directly propagandized by the most socially degenerate causes imaginable, where you turn around and you say, wait a second, why is it that I was able to say this a couple years ago and I'm able to say this two years ago?

00:16:44.000 There's some things, and I don't think, I actually don't think human beings are able to sustain this for much longer, where we are saying, I need something I can count on year after year.

00:16:54.000 Changing things for changing's sake is actually driving people insane.

00:16:58.000 I really do.

00:16:59.000 I think that the constant change, we need something that is passed down.

00:17:03.000 We need something you can count on.

00:17:05.000 We call this stability.

00:17:06.000 By the way, men are largely supposed to be the source of stability in the traditional nuclear family.

00:17:12.000 The fact that we have a bunch of metrosexual, very, very weak men in our country shows that people try to find that stability otherwise, and they look to the media, they look to Netflix, they look to social media.

00:17:21.000 There is no stability there. 0.63

00:17:23.000 In this whole argument, which I think is so bizarre, so I grew up in a conservative, not even conservative, I grew up in a political movement in the suburbs of Chicago where all of the liberals were dominated by women. 0.89

00:17:36.000 And they had an argument, and I didn't agree with it, I agree with part of it, but their whole argument was about women's rights. 0.80

00:17:43.000 You guys have heard this before? 0.91

00:17:44.000 And it's the most obvious contradiction I've ever heard. 1.00

00:17:48.000 Women's rights, women's rights. 0.79

00:17:49.000 But if you're so into women's rights, why do you want men who think they are women, which they're wrong, To all of a sudden be able to destroy women's sports and go into women's locker rooms and go into women's bathrooms, that's the opposite of women's rights.

00:18:04.000 And so then they say, Well, you're, whatever they call me, transphobic.

00:18:09.000 I was like, Well, you know what?

00:18:11.000 I actually am kind of afraid of a nine year old girl having to go into a bathroom with a man.

00:18:16.000 So, yeah, call me that.

00:18:17.000 Okay, I am afraid.

00:18:19.000 I want to protect that young nine year old girl.

00:18:22.000 And so they're very good at word games, obviously.

00:18:26.000 That's what they do.

00:18:27.000 But we have to pick the tough fights where we value what is good and what is beautiful and eternal, and we're willing to be called whatever name that is to protect that thing.

00:18:35.000 And let me just tell you a piece of advice.

00:18:36.000 You're never going to appease these people, okay?

00:18:39.000 Ever.

00:18:39.000 They're like, oh, we have to have the continually morally shifting lines.

00:18:43.000 And they say, well, the key now is like, we just have to kind of be a little bit more accepting of all this.

00:18:48.000 I say, look, I'm not personally unacceptable.

00:18:51.000 I think they might be nice people.

00:18:52.000 But as far as a political movement and my own views and one of a political organization or whatever, a nonprofit organization, if all of a sudden I have to say, you know what? 1.00

00:19:00.000 I think that it's perfectly fine that women's sports shouldn't exist. 1.00

00:19:02.000 I'm not going to put up with that. 1.00

00:19:04.000 And I don't think you should either.

00:19:05.000 I think that, again, we notice that there are men and women, two totally different beings made in the eyes of God that need each other, that society is able to exist with each other with masculine and feminine traits. 0.71

00:19:18.000 That, by the way, if a society gets too feminine, it will get crushed.

00:19:21.000 If it gets too masculine, it'll get tyrannical. 0.91

00:19:23.000 That's why a society must hopefully have a balance of both prudence and practical wisdom, and then, of course, assertion and daring, ambition, and risk, and those things mixed together. 0.78

00:19:34.000 If all of a sudden we just throw that all out, we enter into this post modern lie.

00:19:38.000 Where it's like, you know what, there is no difference.

00:19:40.000 And by the way, if you go to college, you're probably taught this.

00:19:43.000 Has anyone been taught this?

00:19:44.000 That there's no difference between men and women?

00:19:45.000 Has anyone been taught this?

00:19:46.000 A couple hands are going up.

00:19:47.000 You're probably in college. 1.00

00:19:50.000 And it's such a stupid thing. 1.00

00:19:51.000 I'm going to be honest. 1.00

00:19:52.000 You don't have to overthink these things, by the way.

00:19:54.000 That's one of the things that I did a couple of years ago.

00:19:56.000 I always tried to overthink this stuff.

00:19:58.000 It's actually, here's just some piece of advice.

00:19:59.000 You actually don't have to overthink some of this stuff.

00:20:01.000 You don't.

00:20:02.000 You don't have to go read like 900 pages of why a man is a woman or a woman is a woman.

00:20:06.000 You really don't.

00:20:07.000 It's actually some of our viewpoints we can just say, like, you know what?

00:20:10.000 I don't need to go through your drivel.

00:20:12.000 A man is a man, a woman's a woman. 1.00

00:20:14.000 I think that a woman should be able to have her own competitive sports. 0.79

00:20:17.000 I think women should be able to have their own events and say that they're able to have other women that they can congregate with.

00:20:25.000 And that's not something that I'm going to apologize for. 0.91

00:20:27.000 So you don't have to over.

00:20:28.000 And again, I'm happy to go with the deep 35 minute explanation of exactly how chromosomes are formed and how they develop differently and all the statistics behind it.

00:20:36.000 But I just think that's unnecessarily yielding very valuable time with you guys to something that, quite honestly, is a pile of drivel that is determined.

00:20:44.000 To deconstruct everything that we know to be true.

00:20:48.000 How much are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness worth to you?

00:20:53.000 This is the question America's founders had to answer.

00:20:56.000 You see, for more than 150 years, America's 13 colonies governed themselves until Britain declared they had no right to self rule.

00:21:04.000 So ordinary people had to make extraordinary choices and risk their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to fight for independence.

00:21:12.000 And against all odds, they won.

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00:22:33.000 And so the second thing is a contrarian thing that I'm going to tell you right now, which is that discipline is freedom.

00:22:39.000 It's the opposite of what you're told.

00:22:43.000 And so most of society right now tells you that indulgence and pursuing momentary pleasure, that's freedom.

00:22:52.000 So let me tell you what we believe liberty to be.

00:22:55.000 Liberty is not doing whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it.

00:22:58.000 That is not liberty.

00:22:59.000 Liberty is pursuing virtue without somebody getting in the way.

00:23:04.000 So then you have to ask yourself the question, what is virtue?

00:23:06.000 Well, then we have a really important conversation of what is good or what is the good.

00:23:11.000 And here's something that we should be unafraid to say that there is a better way to live than other ways to live.

00:23:16.000 It's better to be loyal to your spouse than unloyal to your spouse. 0.98

00:23:19.000 And if all of a sudden we as conservatives say, you know what, we're not going to take positions on that, that's garbage. 1.00

00:23:24.000 That's absolute garbage. 0.99

00:23:25.000 No, if you make a covenant in front of God that you get married and you break that, we as a conservative movement should say, no, we don't support that. 0.99

00:23:32.000 I'm not going to say you should make it illegal.

00:23:33.000 But we should say we don't support that.

00:23:35.000 If all of a sudden we're going to be indifferent to the most important issues of our time, let me give you another example.

00:23:41.000 In the traditional, like the secular view of liberty, they say, you know what?

00:23:44.000 If a man wants to abandon his children, it's his liberty.

00:23:48.000 That's perfectly fine.

00:23:50.000 Now, again, not necessarily saying the government should go after that person or the state should go after that, but if a man abandons his children, he should be ridiculed, he should be condemned, he should be mocked.

00:24:01.000 That's one of the most immoral things that a person can do.

00:24:04.000 And so it gets to this idea of, Actually, if you want to live freely, you have to put restraints on yourself.

00:24:12.000 The opposite of everything you're going to be told for the rest of your life in secular culture.

00:24:16.000 If you actually want to live a free and fulfilling life, you have to put restraints on yourself.

00:24:22.000 So it's like, you know what?

00:24:22.000 Maybe I'm not going to go out and drink till 3 a.m.

00:24:24.000 By the way, there's a cost to that.

00:24:26.000 Here's a good rule of life.

00:24:27.000 Anything that makes you feel, let me be very specific the way I say this.

00:24:32.000 Anything that makes you feel good in the Eros sense of the Greek word in the moment usually has a cost associated with it.

00:24:41.000 Let me say that again.

00:24:42.000 Anything that makes you feel good in the chemical world usually has a cost associated with it.

00:24:48.000 And that cost has an imprint on your soul and your spirit.

00:24:51.000 Let me give you an example.

00:24:52.000 Like, oh, who cares if I go do heroin?

00:24:55.000 I don't think anyone here is doing heroin, right?

00:24:57.000 But we know friends that are, and I've lost friends to that.

00:25:00.000 And they got there because their whole worldview was about pursuing pleasure.

00:25:04.000 Now, it started with weed, and they're like, oh, weed's the greatest thing ever.

00:25:08.000 Again, maybe we have some marijuana smokers here.

00:25:09.000 I don't really care.

00:25:10.000 I would recommend you to probably stop doing that.

00:25:12.000 But, and I'm totally against the legalization of weed, but that's a different conversation at a different time.

00:25:17.000 But I remember, one of my really good friends started smoking weed in high school.

00:25:21.000 He's like, oh, it's the greatest thing ever.

00:25:22.000 You know, Bob Marley, all this stuff.

00:25:24.000 You guys know those people, right?

00:25:25.000 They're all into it, like all in, right?

00:25:27.000 Like, you know, we've been lied to, this is so cool.

00:25:30.000 And I saw him become this, he was a super hyperactive guy, and he used to always be the first in the weight room, and he just declined.

00:25:37.000 And as soon as his ultimate value was a pleasure kick, as soon as his ultimate value was pursuing a chemical rush, next thing you know, he's a drug addict and he committed suicide.

00:25:47.000 Now, obviously, that's a radical example, but all of you know at least two or three people like that in your local high school.

00:25:52.000 I guarantee it.

00:25:53.000 Especially if you're in an upper middle class high school across the country.

00:25:56.000 Because affluence, if you do not train children correctly and teach them correctly, they're going to go to try to pursue things that make them feel good because they don't know what is good.

00:26:04.000 All they think in the world is just a bunch of chemical combustions instead of actually things that value what matter.

00:26:09.000 And so, instead of teaching young people self esteem, we should be teaching them self control.

00:26:14.000 And that's one of the big lessons for you here.

00:26:18.000 The American system, you guys have heard this phrase self government before?

00:26:23.000 Of course you have.

00:26:24.000 But the most important self government is you have to be in control of your own life.

00:26:28.000 Meaning, you have to be able to have such an ability to control your own constitution.

00:26:33.000 That's right, your constitution.

00:26:35.000 And be able to be very clear about what you want and why you want it and the decisions and the choices you make.

00:26:39.000 And guess what?

00:26:40.000 That means you have to get really good at saying no.

00:26:43.000 You have to get really good at that.

00:26:45.000 Now, in this whole Whatever we're living through right now, where it's like, oh, I'm gonna, and I've reiterated this point and I'm gonna say it again that I'm gonna glorify or glamorize, and you guys saw it through Cardi B, whatever that whole thing was, which was disgusting.

00:27:01.000 But that, by the way, that's just the beginning.

00:27:03.000 So, those of you that want children, your five year olds are going to see Cardi B videos like that and think that's normal.

00:27:08.000 We as conservatives should say that's reprehensible, that's disgusting, and I want nothing to do with that.

00:27:13.000 That's what we as conservatives should say.

00:27:17.000 Instead, some people say, well, who am I to judge?

00:27:20.000 No, you should absolutely judge that kind of video.

00:27:23.000 Because that sort of intimacy should be protected and preserved for two people that come into a union to spend the rest of their life together.

00:27:32.000 Put on network television for a seven year old to think that that's all of a sudden normal.

00:27:37.000 And by the way, that'll create miserable people.

00:27:39.000 You want to know why suicide's going up?

00:27:41.000 You want to know why drug usage is going up?

00:27:42.000 You want to know why social isolation and alienation is going up?

00:27:45.000 It's because we proselytize and evangelize momentary kicks of dopamine pleasure without explaining how these things actually are traditionally and ancestrally supposed to be passed down.

00:27:57.000 So discipline is freedom.

00:27:58.000 So you've got to create rules for your life.

00:28:00.000 Obviously, Jordan Peterson wrote a good book on that.

00:28:03.000 Benjamin Franklin had 13 rules for life.

00:28:05.000 But you've got to come up with your own.

00:28:07.000 And so, this is a lot easier.

00:28:09.000 And so, men gravitate towards this easier, just so you guys know.

00:28:13.000 When I give this message to men, they jump out because no one's ever told them to take responsibility.

00:28:18.000 Here's where you're all different.

00:28:20.000 A lot of you are actually super responsible.

00:28:22.000 You are.

00:28:23.000 I could tell.

00:28:23.000 It's 9 a.m., you're dressed like perfectly, and you've all your makeup done.

00:28:29.000 And no, seriously. 0.76

00:28:31.000 So, you got, you're actually, and by the way, you see this in test scores women mature earlier. 0.76

00:28:36.000 And by the way, there's for a reason women mature earlier because God knew that if women get married early, Someone's got to look after the kids while the guy rolls out of bed to go hunt the boar to go feed the family. 0.79

00:28:47.000 Right?

00:28:48.000 And by the way, you're going to want that person around when an invader or someone tries to threaten your family, or when you need the direction, or all of a sudden things get really, really bad, and he has that hopefully extra ability to be able to persevere that family through that moment.

00:29:02.000 God willing.

00:29:03.000 Now, so you have to come up with rules for your life, and that's actually what will make you free.

00:29:09.000 And this is opposite than coming up with big aspirational goals.

00:29:13.000 That's important, by the way.

00:29:14.000 Trust me, I mean, we're all into goal setting here at Turning Point. 0.96

00:29:17.000 Literally, we're like, we want 2,500 young conservative women. 0.98

00:29:20.000 Goals are great.

00:29:21.000 It's actually not going to put you to a place where you're going to have that sense of peace, where you're going to have that sense of purpose.

00:29:28.000 So, purpose is one of my favorite words.

00:29:30.000 Purpose comes from the Greek word telos, where we get the word telescope from, which means far out in the distance, that which deserves to be desired.

00:29:37.000 What is all of your telos or your purpose?

00:29:40.000 And if your purpose is like, I want to go be, you know, I want to go start this company, that's fine, but what is your end?

00:29:47.000 That might be a means, but what is your end?

00:29:50.000 And we don't talk to a lot of people about that.

00:29:53.000 What actually do you want to be able to achieve, not just in the material world, but things that are going to transcend you and hopefully are going to last?

00:30:00.000 And so you need to come up with rules.

00:30:02.000 You need to come up with what you aren't going to do.

00:30:05.000 And it might be like, hey, I am going to, maybe it's, I'm not going to drink anymore.

00:30:09.000 Or maybe it's like, I don't like this group of guys.

00:30:11.000 They're a bad impact and influence on me, and I'm just going to cut them off.

00:30:15.000 In the most bizarre, strange way, what I'm going to tell you today, it's what you don't do.

00:30:20.000 That actually is going to give you what actually is going to give you true fulfillment.

00:30:25.000 And here's why because we live in an abundant society.

00:30:28.000 We live in a place where you could have literally weed delivered to your front door.

00:30:31.000 It's like, what?

00:30:32.000 And somehow, oh, that's liberty.

00:30:33.000 No, that's actually slavery.

00:30:35.000 That's actually, okay, a form of slavery for Media Matters watching.

00:30:38.000 That's a form of being subservient to something that actually controls you.

00:30:47.000 That's not you being free.

00:30:48.000 Are you kidding me?

00:30:50.000 No, that's you actually not being able to have the full agency.

00:30:53.000 And choices, because then you're going to be, that chemical is actually going to be free, not you.

00:30:58.000 That chemical is then going to inflict on all of your ability to actually have the highest level of fulfillment and existence and pursue what is true and beautiful and good.

00:31:10.000 Okay, so the third thing is this, which is where we're going to get kind of more into less kind of life advice commencement speech, but you guys probably don't hear a lot of this anyway on your college campuses, so I just need to say all that. 0.84

00:31:19.000 Which is this, which is a really important point, which is the women of this nation need to start to rise up and take responsibility for our nation as if it was our home because it is.

00:31:32.000 I'm going to say that again. 0.99

00:31:32.000 This is our home. 0.99

00:31:35.000 This is not a temporary place to live and then leave.

00:31:40.000 So, so much of what we are being talked about, like some people in the conservative movement have said, and I don't think they've really thought deeply about this, they don't care about the social costs because they hide behind these abstractions.

00:31:52.000 I'll give you a really short example.

00:31:54.000 We were just talking about this yesterday, which is this Wall Street company coming in, buying a bunch of single family homes, borrowing at 0% interest, called BlackRock, so that all of you, when you get married, hopefully, you're going to be priced out of the housing system.

00:32:06.000 I'm just using this as one example of thousands.

00:32:09.000 And some people say, well, who's to say that we should ever get involved in the transaction of an $8 trillion company coming in and buying single family homes?

00:32:18.000 Well, that's actually a really important thing for us to get involved in.

00:32:21.000 You know why?

00:32:22.000 For those of you that rent and not own, you're not building long term equity.

00:32:28.000 You're much less likely to actually care about the nation or the place that you're in when you rent.

00:32:33.000 And I believe that if you shoveled your own snow, There was not one person who shoveled their own snow who voted for Joe Biden in America.

00:32:42.000 I'd like to find that person, seriously.

00:32:45.000 Because all of a sudden you take ownership for what's around you.

00:32:48.000 It's not some HOA, it's not the tragedy of the commons.

00:32:51.000 And so we have to have a public policy mandate to care about the well being of the nation.

00:32:59.000 Now, if you guys say, you know what, Charlie, America's like every other country, I don't care about the sacrifices of George Washington, Hamilton, Madison, John Quincy Adams, Frederick Douglass, the Civil War.

00:33:10.000 The Bill of Rights, George Mason, the Constitution, being able to beat the British, the War of 1812, Civil War.

00:33:18.000 I think I said Abraham Lincoln, I'll say it again.

00:33:19.000 Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, I don't really care about our ability to win two world wars.

00:33:25.000 This is just a temporary home.

00:33:25.000 I'm indifferent.

00:33:27.000 I'll move to Singapore.

00:33:29.000 Then that's a libertarian idea.

00:33:32.000 What conservatives need to say is no, no, no.

00:33:34.000 We actually care about this three tied knot.

00:33:38.000 It's a three tied knot of a promise of honoring those who came before us.

00:33:44.000 Caring about what happens right now and then building something meaningful for those who have yet to come.

00:33:50.000 That's what conservatives should stand for.

00:33:53.000 And so, what does that mean?

00:33:55.000 It means that we should, we have to have a balance.

00:33:58.000 And I love markets, I think markets are great.

00:34:01.000 I can't stand socialism, and I love entrepreneurs.

00:34:04.000 And those of you that want to be entrepreneurs, I really hope you succeed.

00:34:07.000 And I hope that it's a means to hopefully an end of you building something meaningful, which hopefully is a family having lots of children.

00:34:13.000 And just And I love entrepreneurs and I love creating something out of nothing. 0.67

00:34:17.000 With that being said, if all of a sudden we say, you know what, because we love entrepreneurs and we love private property and we love markets, it's a good thing that we bring in piles of plastic from China and we never ask the question of whether or not it's actually hurting our nation. 0.87

00:34:30.000 That's a bad thing for America. 0.96

00:34:31.000 It's made China infinitely richer and we don't make vitamin C in America anymore.

00:34:36.000 We don't make personal protection equipment in our country anymore.

00:34:39.000 We've deindustrialized the entire Midwest sector of America, 15 million jobs, and it's bad for everybody.

00:34:45.000 And they say, well, it's made us wealthier.

00:34:46.000 Let me prove to you that's a lie.

00:34:48.000 How many of you have shirts, clothes, textiles, piles of plastic of things that you've never worn or worn once that you give away and that you're just like, I have no attachment to this?

00:34:59.000 I have like entire rooms full of that stuff.

00:35:02.000 You have garage sales, you have self storage units.

00:35:05.000 How much when you move into a college dorm room, there's stuff where you're like, I'm bringing it, but I'm probably never going to wear this stuff?

00:35:10.000 Of course.

00:35:11.000 We have an abundance issue in our country.

00:35:14.000 That doesn't make us wealthier.

00:35:15.000 That means we have more physical stuff that we have no attachment to.

00:35:18.000 Meanwhile, when you go drive to school, when you go move into school, Maybe you go to Baylor, maybe you go to UT Austin, maybe you go to the University of Oklahoma.

00:35:25.000 You drive by abandoned factories that used to make that stuff that actually used to be better quality, you used to value it, and you know your fellow countrymen were actually employed when that was being made.

00:35:34.000 We're not getting wealthier.

00:35:37.000 And so we need to be very clear that this, this beautiful country you've been given, the United States of America, is our home.

00:35:46.000 And we have to be unafraid and unapologetic to say, you know what?

00:35:49.000 It's a cool thing that all of a sudden that all these Wall Street bankers are able to make all this money and what?

00:35:53.000 Fine.

00:35:54.000 God bless you guys.

00:35:55.000 You guys work really hard, fine.

00:35:57.000 But if we're not having a discussion of are we actually leaving this republic for our children and grandchildren?

00:36:04.000 That was the question the greatest generation asked.

00:36:08.000 That was the question that they asked.

00:36:09.000 This current generation, our ruling class, they don't care.

00:36:12.000 They would never storm Normandy Beach. 1.00

00:36:14.000 This current ruling class generation is a bunch of cowards. 0.99

00:36:17.000 They have no courage, they have no concern for the rest of their country. 0.99

00:36:22.000 And this kind of idea of we want to pass something on.

00:36:27.000 Is a lot of pressure on all of you.

00:36:29.000 Because you know what the easy way out is?

00:36:31.000 I'm going to live my own life.

00:36:33.000 I don't care about the needs, wants, and concerns of anyone around me.

00:36:36.000 I'm going to make a bunch of money.

00:36:37.000 And if I have to go to move to Wuhan, China, I will.

00:36:40.000 That's not going to work for me.

00:36:42.000 I'm not going to sit idly by while the country that everyone, every major war that my family fought in, this country that has been the most moral country ever to exist in the history of the world, most benevolent, most opportunity, most protective of rights, the most protective of how God naturally made us in constitutional rights.

00:37:00.000 We're just gonna kinda sit down and be indifferent and be like, you know what?

00:37:03.000 I'm not gonna do anything because I think it's wrong to have bold and dramatic action, but I'm not gonna win the argument and lose the country.

00:37:11.000 I'm not gonna do that.

00:37:13.000 Instead, I'm gonna say, here's what matters, here's what I value, here's what I know is always gonna be right, and now we have to build broad based coalitions to try to get that done.

00:37:22.000 The other side is willing to do whatever it takes.

00:37:22.000 Because you know what?

00:37:25.000 And we know that.

00:37:25.000 They are willing to kick you out of your sororities, they are willing to go after you on social media and call you every nasty name imaginable.

00:37:34.000 They are willing to say that if you're a neighbor that voted for President Trump, you're the worst person ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:37:41.000 They're playing for keeps.

00:37:43.000 And all I'm suggesting is that we have to all of a sudden value this as more than just a temporary experiment.

00:37:49.000 Like, oh, this was a nice, America had a nice run at it.

00:37:53.000 Now, what do you think Dwight D. Eisenhower and his generation would think of that?

00:37:56.000 Anyone have relatives that fought in World War II?

00:38:01.000 So I don't know if any of them are living anymore.

00:38:03.000 I did too.

00:38:05.000 What would they think about this current leadership class?

00:38:09.000 They would be horrified.

00:38:10.000 You're exactly right.

00:38:11.000 Because you know why?

00:38:13.000 They dropped everything under this idea of strong national unity, pursuing a moral good to try to wipe the earth of a certain form of evil in two different hemispheres.

00:38:24.000 It's pretty extraordinary.

00:38:25.000 And that's not the only time that has happened, but that was a moment where a nation really banded together for a moral good.

00:38:31.000 Now it's all about temporary consumerism.

00:38:33.000 Who cares about the nation?

00:38:35.000 We can go do this somewhere else.

00:38:36.000 And that's not true.

00:38:39.000 If America falls, the world will go into a thousand year abyss.

00:38:43.000 Let me say that again.

00:38:44.000 If America falls, the world will go into a thousand year darkness.

00:38:48.000 This is so rare what we have here.

00:38:50.000 And so we are the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:38:57.000 But we're the greatest nation not just because of the output.

00:39:00.000 We are the most charitable, we are the most benevolent, we're the most willing to help people in terms of natural disaster, we've created more wealth, all that.

00:39:07.000 But we're the greatest country ever because we have the greatest moral claim to government.

00:39:11.000 And this is where we as conservatives must be clear about this.

00:39:14.000 We believe in self government.

00:39:16.000 We believe in checks and balances, independent judiciary, and consent to the government.

00:39:19.000 But why do we believe those things?

00:39:21.000 We believe those things because we know how a creator, you could believe God, or maybe it was an act of randomness, whatever you believe, I believe it was a God, made us a certain way with consciousness, with life, with the capacity to pursue virtue, and that we do not want a tyrannical government or anyone to be able to get in the way of us pursuing virtue.

00:39:42.000 That's a moral claim.

00:39:43.000 So why is it that we have a check and balance?

00:39:45.000 Because the founding fathers feared that someone could get in the way of you going to church.

00:39:49.000 Why is it that all of a sudden we have consent to the governed?

00:39:52.000 You can't do bold, dramatic, and revolutionary stuff without our permission.

00:39:56.000 Why is it that we have this expanse over space and time?

00:39:59.000 And let me just say, we are a republic, not a democracy.

00:40:02.000 If I have to hear that we're a democracy one more time, I'm going to lose my mind.

00:40:05.000 Okay?

00:40:06.000 Let me tell you the difference. 0.61

00:40:08.000 A democracy would be if we took an up and down vote in this room, get rid of the First Amendment, it would get done.

00:40:13.000 A republic has very clear, public, and eternal truths that if you're going to get rid of them, you need to have more than just 51%. 0.52

00:40:22.000 It's a long, Deliberate process.

00:40:24.000 And here's the thing the preamble of the Constitution has never changed.

00:40:29.000 Why?

00:40:30.000 That's pretty amazing when you think about it, right?

00:40:31.000 The preamble is the same then as it is now.

00:40:34.000 It's because the founding fathers did not write the Constitution for the times, they wrote it to stand the test of time.

00:40:40.000 Because they wrote it, they didn't write it about current conflicts, they didn't write it, no, they wrote it for you and they wrote it for people 100 years from now.

00:40:49.000 How is that possible?

00:40:50.000 Because times change, people don't.

00:40:54.000 Our human nature is going to keep on replicating itself.

00:40:56.000 So, they wrote this on eternal truth.

00:40:58.000 That's why you should go pursue things that are eternal, not things that are momentary.

00:41:01.000 So, not TikTok, instead, maybe the book of Thessalonians.

00:41:05.000 Not Snapchat.

00:41:08.000 But those things are actually what develop your soul and your character and your spirit.

00:41:12.000 Not like, oh, yeah, we're so evolved because we're, and this is the postmodern lie that a lot of you hear on college campuses.

00:41:19.000 Like, we are now postmodern human beings because we have planes.

00:41:21.000 Like, okay.

00:41:23.000 All technology does is allow you.

00:41:26.000 To do bad things quicker and more efficiently.

00:41:29.000 And it can do good things too, by the way.

00:41:31.000 I mean, I think it creates bad habits, and I'll get to that in a second because I've become like super anti technology.

00:41:36.000 But I'll get to that in a second.

00:41:37.000 But this nation that we have was conceived so that you can govern yourself, conceived so that you can pursue things that are true and beautiful and wondrous and good.

00:41:48.000 It was conceived so that you are able to build things that last.

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00:43:05.000 That's chministries.orgslash Charlie and use promo code Charlie.

00:43:13.000 And so this is all under attack.

00:43:14.000 It's under attack from a variety of different reasons.

00:43:16.000 People think that they're doing good with good intentions, like, oh, yeah, I'm just trying to have equity, this ridiculous new word that they're using.

00:43:24.000 Equity means redistribution, equity means forced redistribution.

00:43:27.000 Here's the way equity works it's the easiest thing in the world.

00:43:30.000 It's based, and they're already doing this, by the way, it means getting rid of grading.

00:43:33.000 That's the greatest way I can explain it.

00:43:35.000 It's like the A student should get the same grade as the kid who never shows up.

00:43:38.000 That's equity.

00:43:39.000 They want that for the entire country.

00:43:40.000 And the way that they value it is based on race. 0.55

00:43:43.000 So they say, okay, the white kids, you now get a C, the black kids, you get a C. Who cares about any sort of how hard you worked or how much you studied? 0.68

00:43:50.000 That's equity, forced redistribution. 0.57

00:43:52.000 And some of them think that they're doing the right thing.

00:43:55.000 Some of them think that America's this systemically racist country, which, by the way, might be the greatest lie that I hear on television ever.

00:44:01.000 We are the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:44:07.000 And I could get into that.

00:44:08.000 You guys have heard that on my podcast plenty of times.

00:44:11.000 I've kind of navigated that.

00:44:15.000 We are the greatest nation ever to exist.

00:44:17.000 And I just want you guys to have this moment of gratitude at some point throughout this conference that you were born into this nation and you can actually do something about it.

00:44:25.000 I want you to think about that though, that you just happened by God's providence or by an act of randomness, whatever your metaphysics are, that you were born into this nation that has been unlike any other.

00:44:39.000 And so then the question is, what are we called to do about that?

00:44:43.000 Well, some people think that if you're given things, given a gift, you have no moral claim.

00:44:50.000 To ever say thank you.

00:44:51.000 These are the people that get gifts and they're all this and they're just like constantly walking around.

00:44:55.000 They're like, I deserve all of this.

00:44:57.000 Do you guys think you're entitled to live in America?

00:44:59.000 That's an interesting question.

00:45:01.000 No.

00:45:02.000 We actually don't deserve how good we have it here because most of the rest of the world has it.

00:45:05.000 We have people that think they're entitled to live in the country and some of those people are conservatives.

00:45:10.000 Some of them are people like, oh yeah, I'm such a good person.

00:45:12.000 And of course, this stuff's always going to be this way.

00:45:14.000 Let me tell you right now, America won't always be what we know it if we don't take bold and dramatic action.

00:45:21.000 We are very fragile right now.

00:45:23.000 Very fragile.

00:45:24.000 And so, here's another thing that is important.

00:45:29.000 A lot of you are going to be fired up to make a difference after this conference, and that's important.

00:45:34.000 Start a turning point chapter.

00:45:35.000 Maybe you're going to tell your friends all your beliefs.

00:45:38.000 You're going to have new friends.

00:45:39.000 I'm going to tell you something that is true, but a lot of people don't want to hear.

00:45:45.000 But it's important I tell you.

00:45:46.000 If you make a commitment to actually want to make a difference, it's impossible to make a meaningful difference without you actually bearing a cost.

00:45:55.000 It's going to cost you.

00:45:57.000 You will lose friends.

00:45:59.000 You will get kicked out of social groups.

00:46:02.000 You might lose your job and you might get graded differently.

00:46:06.000 Sounds wonderful, right?

00:46:07.000 It's true, though.

00:46:09.000 I'm not in the business of lying to people, but let me tell you what it will do it will create you to be a stronger, more confident human being with character that you've never understood before for yourself.

00:46:22.000 It will give you true friendships for a lifetime.

00:46:24.000 I'm going to talk about friendship in a second, which you guys are all going to love.

00:46:29.000 It's going to give you true community and purpose.

00:46:32.000 People ask me all the time, Charlie, if I have a professor, I'm sure all of you guys have this situation, and I have a contrarian view on this, where people say, Charlie, I have a professor, if I write what I believe, I'm gonna get a C, but if I just repeat the pabulum, I'm gonna get an A. What do I do?

00:46:49.000 And I say, this is a perfect ethical question.

00:46:52.000 So basically, what you're saying is, do I lie to get a good grade, or do I tell the truth to bear a cost?

00:46:58.000 So some people that are in punditry say, oh, you should lie and just submit it and get through with it.

00:47:04.000 Okay, if you think career advancement and getting grades is your ultimate good, then you should do that.

00:47:10.000 If you think getting grades is what matters and what lasts, if you think that on your gravestone it says, you know, Cynthia Jones, she got good grades, if you think that's what matters, then do that.

00:47:21.000 I actually encourage you to lie your way to be valedictorian.

00:47:26.000 I encourage you to go cheat your way to be, by the way, why not just cheat at that point?

00:47:31.000 Some people in the conservative movement say that.

00:47:34.000 I have a different view.

00:47:36.000 What I did, and by the way, of course it cost me when I was in high school, is that I said, Look, if you lie small, you lie big.

00:47:43.000 The small things are the big things.

00:47:44.000 And you can grade me differently, you can push me backwards.

00:47:48.000 It's going to make me a stronger person, but I'm going to be more free than anyone else.

00:47:51.000 I'm not going to be a slave to this false essay I submitted to my professor.

00:47:55.000 I'm not going to write this pabulum.

00:47:57.000 And people say, Well, Charlie, I need to go to law school.

00:48:01.000 I need to get A's.

00:48:01.000 You don't understand.

00:48:02.000 Okay, that's your ultimate good then.

00:48:04.000 Career advancement, checking boxes, momentary pleasure, that's what matters to you.

00:48:10.000 I think telling the truth and being strong and confident and never ever wavering to the cultural arbitrage matters a lot more than becoming some lawyer at some corporate law firm.

00:48:25.000 And so, what will make a difference will cost you.

00:48:30.000 And things are only going to start to change when people that have something to lose are going to start to all of a sudden take dramatic action and be willing and honest that they're going to lose it.

00:48:39.000 If you guys want to be free, Then all of a sudden say, I don't care what they take away from me because I know the truth and the truth will set me free.

00:48:47.000 That's actually, if you guys want to always be looking over your shoulder, the least free, I get people that come up to me all the time, Charlie, how are you able to say all these things?

00:48:54.000 I'm like, what are they going to cancel me from?

00:48:58.000 What article are they going to write in the New York Times that they already haven't written?

00:49:01.000 Right?

00:49:02.000 I know what I believe.

00:49:03.000 I know what's true.

00:49:04.000 I know who I love.

00:49:05.000 I know whose I am.

00:49:07.000 And so, fine, come after me.

00:49:10.000 I don't care.

00:49:11.000 But what I would never want to do is come kind of have some sort of corporate oligarchy over me be like, if you dare say this, you're not going to get a promotion.

00:49:20.000 Man, that is a modern day form of control.

00:49:24.000 That is social control.

00:49:25.000 And all of you here, in one way or the other, are falling victim under social control.

00:49:31.000 And it's not your fault.

00:49:32.000 It might be social control of a teacher, of a friend, of a boss, of a community.

00:49:37.000 We are like, I'm less likely to say these things, I'm less likely to do this sort of stuff.

00:49:41.000 And That's where a lot of the prayer and the reflection has to happen.

00:49:47.000 But here's the cool thing.

00:49:48.000 So, there are three different types of friendship.

00:49:51.000 And this is why the best friends will be made at this conference.

00:49:56.000 So, the first type of friendship, I'm going to tell you what.

00:49:57.000 Aristotle said there's three different types of friendships.

00:49:59.000 The first type of friendship is the type of friendship where you're doing business together.

00:50:05.000 The best example I can use for young ladies here, you kind of get assigned to a group project in school.

00:50:13.000 All right, you got to work with this guy, get it done.

00:50:16.000 You have a goal, and you're like, oh, yeah, I had fun with them, and I recognize them in the hall.

00:50:20.000 Are those people really your friends?

00:50:22.000 Well, maybe.

00:50:22.000 And that's a form of friendship, right?

00:50:24.000 The second form of friendship is where you have some form of a purpose a little bit bigger than yourself.

00:50:29.000 Think of sports, right?

00:50:31.000 Sports would be one where you're trying to achieve a goal and it's more than just the group project and you're going after that goal.

00:50:38.000 The ultimate form of friendship is what happens here, where it's the type of friendship where friends rarely look at each other and they're kind of uncomfortable talking about each other because they're too busy looking at the same unified ultimate purpose.

00:50:54.000 So that's what all of you have here.

00:50:56.000 The reason why real friendships are going to be born here is because you're not just caring about getting a business deal done.

00:51:02.000 Or getting some sort of goal done.

00:51:03.000 No, no, no.

00:51:03.000 You're actually worried about something that's bigger than yourself.

00:51:05.000 So you know when you walk through this room, you turn to a fellow young lady, you know she shares your values.

00:51:11.000 You know that for the first time, maybe ever, you're filled around an entire room of thousands of people that are looking at the same thing as you are.

00:51:17.000 I want to save the country and I'm willing to do something about it.

00:51:25.000 And that's transcendent.

00:51:27.000 That's bigger than everyone here.

00:51:30.000 And those types of friendships, by the way, are rarely found at most liberal colleges and universities.

00:51:35.000 Let me say it rarely.

00:51:36.000 They can be found.

00:51:37.000 The best friendships are the ones where you agree on the same big picture things and you're both trying to do something about it.

00:51:45.000 And so if you say, I'm going to lose all these friends if I speak out, you're right.

00:51:48.000 You will.

00:51:50.000 You will be bullied and you will be thrown, all this stuff.

00:51:53.000 And by the way, I'm not trying to, you know, intimidate you against this.

00:51:57.000 I just never want you to leave this conference, be full of energy and enthusiasm to go do this stuff, and all of a sudden you're going to pay the price and they're like, Turning Point lied to me.

00:52:04.000 No, no, no.

00:52:05.000 I'm telling you that.

00:52:07.000 It's a cost, and that's the sacrifice that we have to make.

00:52:10.000 But then, the back end of it, you'll be stronger and more fulfilled, more fired up, more energetic.

00:52:14.000 You'll be tougher, more resilient.

00:52:16.000 And guess what?

00:52:16.000 You're a lot tougher than you think.

00:52:18.000 You're a lot tougher than you think.

00:52:22.000 And so, I was going to take questions, but I'm actually going to do that Sunday.

00:52:25.000 Just questions on Sunday.

00:52:28.000 I do want to do a shameless plug.

00:52:29.000 If everyone here subscribed to our podcast that isn't already subscribed, we would beat Rachel Maddow in the podcast charts, which I would love to be able to say, the Young Women's Leadership Summit in Dallas.

00:52:38.000 Beat Rachel Maddow in the New York Times and the podcast charts.

00:52:43.000 So, every single phone has a podcast app Apple Podcasts, Spotify.

00:52:49.000 If you guys subscribe, I'd be personally blessed to that.

00:52:51.000 And we talk about these ideas in great depth every single day.

00:52:54.000 So, let me close with a couple things, which is I'm going to go through this list again.

00:52:57.000 Embrace what matters and what lasts.

00:53:02.000 Value what is eternal, what is divine.

00:53:06.000 These are hard questions, by the way.

00:53:07.000 Maybe you're like, I don't know what lasts.

00:53:11.000 By the way, I think we have some elementary school kids here.

00:53:13.000 My friend Rita wanted me to call.

00:53:15.000 I think we have some elementary school kids here somewhere.

00:53:17.000 There's an amazing nine year old.

00:53:19.000 How are you?

00:53:20.000 Glad you're here.

00:53:21.000 Thank you for being here.

00:53:22.000 How old are you?

00:53:24.000 Nine?

00:53:26.000 Nine years old.

00:53:27.000 Nine years old.

00:53:28.000 Give it up.

00:53:28.000 That's amazing.

00:53:35.000 And maybe you're like, I don't know what is eternal or what lasts.

00:53:38.000 That's okay.

00:53:39.000 The first thing you have to do is say, I actually want to try to understand that a little bit.

00:53:43.000 I'm going to go after that.

00:53:44.000 By the way, that's what college used to do.

00:53:46.000 College, which is, I'm not exactly a fan of a lot of times.

00:53:51.000 Unless you go to Hillsdale, then great.

00:53:52.000 Anyone go to Hillsdale here?

00:53:54.000 Hillsdale, awesome.

00:53:55.000 Then you know all this stuff.

00:53:56.000 Yeah.

00:53:57.000 No, she's like, no, I don't.

00:53:58.000 That's funny.

00:54:00.000 So, but what college used to do is like, they would stand in a room like this and they'd say, there's a lot we don't understand in this world, but we know some things are more beautiful than others.

00:54:13.000 We know some things are true, and we know some things are worthy of wonder.

00:54:18.000 Let's find out what that means together.

00:54:21.000 They would tease you to go on this journey throughout college to go pursue things bigger than you.

00:54:26.000 You know how college works today?

00:54:28.000 They'd come up and they'd say, These are my preferred pronouns, and ZZ, Zimzerzers. 1.00

00:54:34.000 Like, meat is the enemy, men are terrible, God is dead, white people are the problem. 0.99

00:54:41.000 You know, they have some weird like pride flag and BLM thing, and they're screaming and they're angry. 1.00

00:54:47.000 And basically, the essence of their point is there is no truth, there is no beauty, there is no wonder.

00:54:52.000 All that matters is that we're a bunch of cells that can make ourselves feel good, go and have like sex week on campus, and go pursue nihilism.

00:55:00.000 And instead, I'm going to teach you how to be a revolutionary so you can find purpose in the midst of all this.

00:55:04.000 That's what they do on campus.

00:55:07.000 And you see that now manifested, of course, in Alexandria, Casio Cortez is one example of that, and Ilan Omar and Rishi Talib, who are constantly looking for the next upheaval.

00:55:17.000 You see, in college, they train you to try to create upheaval.

00:55:22.000 When in reality, no, no, we should train you to preserve what's good.

00:55:26.000 We should train you to pursue things that matter, not upheaval the entire society, which is what AOC tries to do every single day.

00:55:32.000 Which, by the way, I just want to say, it was one of the most amazing things we participated in the Matt Walsh Daily Wire thing.

00:55:37.000 I don't know if you guys saw this or not.

00:55:38.000 It was hilarious. 0.82

00:55:39.000 And where she does not care about her grandmother to want to accept $100,000. 0.95

00:55:45.000 No, she doesn't.

00:55:46.000 And again, so she drives a Tesla.

00:55:48.000 She has like the nicest apartment in DC. 1.00

00:55:51.000 Never sends any money to her grandmother who's living in slum like conditions in Puerto Rico, right? 1.00

00:55:55.000 In Puerto Rico. 0.90

00:55:56.000 She goes down and visits.

00:55:58.000 She does a social media post to tell the world and show the world blaming Donald Trump, even though Donald Trump gave a lot of aid.

00:56:03.000 And the most obvious question is wait a second. 0.98

00:56:05.000 Why are you driving a Tesla living in the nicest building in DC while your grandmother's literally living in the slums? 0.91

00:56:10.000 And then we raised $100,000 to help her abuela and she doesn't want the money. 0.92

00:56:17.000 I mean, there might be some ethical things there.

00:56:21.000 What kind of person doesn't want $100,000 for their grandmother? 0.54

00:56:23.000 Anyway, so, but it's so sociopathic. 1.00

00:56:27.000 She's so narcissistic and she's so always upheaval, right? 0.99

00:56:30.000 No matter what the incident is, it's the system that's the problem.

00:56:33.000 And you know what she doesn't have? 1.00

00:56:35.000 She has never been told that she needs to have self government. 0.83

00:56:38.000 Think about it.

00:56:38.000 Instead of saying, oh my gosh, how did I let my grandmother live like this?

00:56:43.000 Oh my goodness, I'm a bad person.

00:56:45.000 And by the way, we all make mistakes.

00:56:46.000 I'm not saying like, I'm just saying that the immediate thought when she walked through her grandmother's mind should have been like, I don't have my own house in order.

00:56:53.000 The immediate thought when she walked through her grandmother's mind should have been like, I'm going to give you money.

00:56:57.000 We're going to make this right.

00:56:58.000 I'm so sorry.

00:56:58.000 Instead, she said, how dare President Trump do this to my grandmother?

00:57:04.000 And quite honestly, I feel bad for her because she never heard this speech I just gave, which is like, actually, you have to get your own house in order.

00:57:09.000 You have to control your own, and then you have to vat, and then, and then let's go through these rules.

00:57:15.000 You have to value what matters and what lasts.

00:57:17.000 Family matters and lasts.

00:57:19.000 And so for her, like, well, why would I take care of my grandmother? 1.00

00:57:21.000 The government does that.

00:57:22.000 No, no, no.

00:57:23.000 That's actually, that's literally what matters and what lasts is taking care of, remember, what came before, what's happening now, and what's about to come.

00:57:31.000 And the definition of that would be grandparents.

00:57:33.000 I love grandparents.

00:57:33.000 I'm very pro grandparents.

00:57:35.000 And yet, but for her, it's like, well, no, that's government's role.

00:57:38.000 I'm going to go ride my Tesla and save the world.

00:57:41.000 Now, that's one small example, just a small good example, I think, of the propaganda drivel you guys are all being fed.

00:57:48.000 And the opposite should have been no, I actually want to preserve and protect something that lives longer than me.

00:57:53.000 Remember, discipline is freedom.

00:57:54.000 You've got to come up with your own rules.

00:57:56.000 Everyone's rules will be different, but there's only like 20 rules you could possibly come up with that are all kind of the same.

00:58:00.000 Which is like maybe I have to pursue humility.

00:58:04.000 Maybe I need to lie less.

00:58:06.000 Maybe I need to be more honest with who I am front facing.

00:58:09.000 Maybe social media is making me a bad person.

00:58:11.000 By the way, if you're spending more than three hours of screen time a day, you have a problem.

00:58:16.000 Let me just be clear.

00:58:17.000 Three hours, you got a problem.

00:58:18.000 You have now, you've basically said, I am an own subsidiary of people that don't share my values, that hate me, and they, but only addictive drugs and social media call the people that use their products users.

00:58:32.000 And by the way, what kind of weird thing that we have like, oh yeah, I'm a follower of Cardi B.

00:58:37.000 So you're not a leader?

00:58:39.000 You understand the social tricks that all these companies are doing?

00:58:43.000 They have neuroscientists that sit in a room to try to say, how do I make 17 year old girls more addicted to think horrible about themselves?

00:58:50.000 Not have value, not find truth, but stare at their screen for meaning.

00:58:54.000 Those, but remember, this camera goes two ways, by the way.

00:58:56.000 Everything you say and do, they're recording and they hear if you have the phone with you, just so you guys know.

00:59:01.000 And it's designed to make you an unhappy, deeply troubled person and not actually value human contact.

00:59:07.000 My wife and I were on our honeymoon.

00:59:09.000 We did no phones at the most unbelievable sunsets you could imagine.

00:59:13.000 Thank you.

00:59:13.000 Most unbelievable sunsets you could imagine.

00:59:15.000 And I looked to my right and a whole family was just looking at their phones, ignoring the sunset.

00:59:19.000 I looked to my left, the whole family was looking at their phones, looking at the sunset.

00:59:22.000 I thought to myself, You couldn't see a more beautiful landscape if you tried, and they're just basically saying, I want these devices to have a higher hierarchy.

00:59:31.000 That's a little bit of a side note.

00:59:33.000 Maybe the discipline is I have to wake up earlier.

00:59:35.000 Maybe the discipline is I have to cut people out of my life, which, by the way, is a good practice to do if people are just terrible to you and they don't make you feel content or at peace.

00:59:45.000 And then finally, remember this country, this is our home.

00:59:48.000 This is not a temporary place to live and leave.

00:59:50.000 If you think this is a temporary place, then you might want to get out because it's about to get a little bit turbulent.

00:59:55.000 But for those of us that honor the sacrifice that came before, For those of us that know what this nation actually is, and we want to raise children and grandchildren here, then we know that there's going to be a little bit of a struggle.

01:00:04.000 We know that, and we're going to win this struggle, by the way.

01:00:06.000 Let me be very clear.

01:00:07.000 We're going to win this struggle.

01:00:12.000 And we're not leaving.

01:00:13.000 We're not just going to kind of pull a cord and get out if things get tough.

01:00:17.000 But we have to be very clear about that.

01:00:19.000 So let me close with this When the women of America have rose up, there is no stopping that. 0.97

01:00:26.000 Men are always looking for fights, right? 1.00

01:00:28.000 Like, whatever.

01:00:28.000 That's kind of.

01:00:29.000 And I'm Scottish, so I'm always looking for fights, right?

01:00:32.000 It's just in my DNA.

01:00:34.000 If there's an injustice, I'm like front row.

01:00:36.000 School board meetings, protests, like that's just who I am, right?

01:00:40.000 A lot of Scots Irish kind of have always done that.

01:00:43.000 Ronald Reagan was Scots Irish. 0.91

01:00:44.000 But when women, the ones that are usually less likely to get into conflict, the ones that are a little less likely to want to get into altercations, the ones that want to be agreeable, that want to be peacemakers, counselors, right? 0.93

01:00:54.000 We kind of go back to this idea of who you are as God made you.

01:00:57.000 You want to try to bring people together.

01:00:59.000 When that snaps and you're like, no, This is my home.

01:01:03.000 You're not going to be teaching critical race theory. 1.00

01:01:05.000 No more of this transgender garbage. 1.00

01:01:07.000 No more of this false history. 1.00

01:01:09.000 You're not going to take our guns.

01:01:10.000 No more teaching our nine year olds this. 1.00

01:01:13.000 When the women rise up, watch out. 1.00

01:01:16.000 So I want you to remember this. 1.00

01:01:17.000 No pressure.

01:01:18.000 With 2,500 young women here, the future of this country is literally on you.

01:01:22.000 The men are going to fight no matter what.

01:01:24.000 Like, we got that all fired up.

01:01:25.000 I got men, they're like, where do I go?

01:01:26.000 Like, okay, I got it.

01:01:27.000 Like, I got to harness that, right?

01:01:29.000 I got it, okay?

01:01:30.000 This is a little bit different where it's like, I want to do it correctly.

01:01:34.000 I want to do it agreeably.

01:01:35.000 And that's all good stuff.

01:01:36.000 You're going to have the best speakers in the world. 0.99

01:01:37.000 But if you make that commitment, especially the moms out there, my goodness, to rise up and to get into the fight, I'm telling you right now, the greatest weapon to win is the women of America.

01:01:51.000 And when all of you decide that we're going to win and that this is our home, I'm telling you right now, victory will be ours.

01:01:58.000 God bless you guys.

01:01:59.000 Thanks so much.

01:02:05.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - May 17, 2026

From the Archive: "When the Women Rise Up, Watch Out" — Charlie's Speech at YWLS 2021

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