The Charlie Kirk Show - Hamas, BLM, and the Left's Resentment Culture: Charlie's Speech at UT-San Antonio

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00:00:01.000 My conversation that I had with students at the University of Texas San Antonio, also with some prepared remarks.

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00:00:47.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:30.000 Wow, thank you, everybody.

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00:01:34.000 Wow, thank you.

00:01:36.000 That is not the usual college campus welcome that I am used to.

00:01:40.000 I'll tell you what.

00:01:41.000 Where were you in San Jose?

00:01:43.000 I'll tell you what.

00:01:44.000 Berkeley or Brown.

00:01:46.000 Oh, my goodness.

00:01:47.000 When I went to Brown, that's a fun story.

00:01:49.000 Great to be here.

00:01:49.000 First, I always do this.

00:01:50.000 Thank you, police, for the great job that you've done here.

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00:01:54.000 You guys do such a great job.

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00:02:03.000 And thank you, of course, to our Turning Point USA chapter leaders.

00:02:06.000 You guys do such a great job.

00:02:09.000 I'm very biased, but I got to tell you, what Turning Point USA is doing is the most important work in the country on high school and college campuses across the country to pass down these values to love America, pro-Constitution, pro-liberty, conservative values.

00:02:25.000 If we don't do that, we're going to lose the entire country.

00:02:27.000 And I could tell you, there's a lot more young conservatives out there than they'll ever lead you to believe.

00:02:32.000 And you could see it here tonight.

00:02:34.000 It should give you a lot of hope.

00:02:35.000 A lot of hope.

00:02:38.000 So the most fun part of tonight is the question and answer.

00:02:43.000 So I'm not going to talk for too long.

00:02:44.000 And I love the QA.

00:02:46.000 It's great.

00:02:47.000 If you disagree, you can go to the front of the line, get your question ready.

00:02:49.000 You can do whatever you need to do.

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00:02:54.000 Best of luck.

00:02:55.000 I guess got to be honest.

00:02:56.000 But yeah, we'll have fun with it there.

00:02:58.000 I want to address a couple current event things.

00:03:01.000 You never know what you're going to talk about at one of these things.

00:03:04.000 I had this idea before the campus tour that I was going to kind of do all the different wars that are happening in the country, you know, like the war on men and all that sort of stuff.

00:03:13.000 And then, which is, there's obviously one that is brewing, and it all kind of connects together.

00:03:18.000 But, you know, a week and a half ago, the terrible massacre that happened in Israel, it's the number one news story on the planet.

00:03:23.000 And so much of it connects back to the country, right?

00:03:25.000 So I don't want to overfixate on what's happening, you know, in Israel as far as that geopolitics, but how it actually connects to America is incredibly important in a variety of different ways, also including whether or not we're going to get into a world war.

00:03:37.000 And for those of you that haven't turned 30, which I just did last weekend, draft is now in the rearview mirror.

00:03:44.000 You guys should be keenly aware.

00:03:46.000 Yesterday, I got this news alert on my phone.

00:03:48.000 And you all saw it.

00:03:50.000 And I want to read it.

00:03:51.000 Israel rocket kills 500 people at Gaza Hospital.

00:03:54.000 Every major news organization in the country.

00:03:58.000 Now, regardless of where you fall on, you know, the Israel debate, which it's amazing to me that if you could not fall on the debate, at least having some self-awareness that, I don't know, it's not normal or acceptable for people to go into kibbutz and massacre 1,300 women and children, and then I have to be lectured. 0.85

00:04:16.000 Well, there's two sides to the story, like there really isn't. 0.96

00:04:18.000 There's civilization and barbarism, so don't give me that two sides crap.

00:04:21.000 But anyway, we can have that conversation later.

00:04:25.000 But I'm sure there's some good-meaning people that agree that it's a tragedy, and they have differences of opinion on what's to happen there.

00:04:32.000 But regardless of how you feel in that way, the media comes out and instantaneously blames Israel for what happened there.

00:04:40.000 And I was like, hold on a second.

00:04:41.000 Let me get this straight.

00:04:42.000 Israel that has the international community behind it.

00:04:45.000 Joe Biden is flying into Israel.

00:04:48.000 He doesn't know he's flying to Israel, but that's a separate issue.

00:04:51.000 He doesn't know where he's going.

00:04:52.000 He doesn't.

00:04:53.000 It's all the same, right?

00:04:54.000 Indiana, Israel.

00:04:55.000 He was this close.

00:04:57.000 He was this close to saying, and the great people of Indiana, he was so close.

00:05:01.000 It was really something.

00:05:03.000 And so I could go more, but I'm not going to.

00:05:11.000 I'm going to be nice tonight, which is not usually what you get.

00:05:14.000 So don't worry, we'll get there.

00:05:18.000 So they're having the leader of the free world come in on Air Force One.

00:05:22.000 They're going to go launch a rocket at a hospital.

00:05:24.000 That doesn't sound right.

00:05:26.000 And everything about it was BS.

00:05:28.000 And the point of this story that I'm about to unpack is how the media lies to you and has lied to you repeatedly.

00:05:35.000 This particular story is a masterclass in how they try to manipulate you.

00:05:41.000 Regardless of your passion on the Israel issue, this is worth examination.

00:05:44.000 So let's go through this.

00:05:45.000 Israel rocket kills 500 at Gaza Hospital.

00:05:50.000 So let's unpack this.

00:05:51.000 First of all, Israel rocket.

00:05:54.000 There's no evidence that Israel fired a rocket.

00:05:56.000 In fact, it goes against any sort of rationality that would do that.

00:05:59.000 But immediately the media assumed, they were begging.

00:06:03.000 They were yearning for an opportunity to flip the narrative.

00:06:06.000 Because the narrative has been way too pro-Israel the last week and a half.

00:06:10.000 So they've been just looking for any opportunity possible to try to get people angry against Israel.

00:06:15.000 They said, here it is, every news outlet.

00:06:17.000 And before anyone was able to ask the question, like, wait a second, hold on, 500 people dead?

00:06:22.000 Like, that's a lot of people.

00:06:24.000 There's protests, they're storming embassies and Lebanon, letter stormy embassies, but they're protesting outside of embassies.

00:06:28.000 They're closing them down.

00:06:30.000 The Iranian capital has a black flag. 0.95

00:06:32.000 I mean, it's just, which is, Islam is basically an act of war. 1.00

00:06:36.000 And we say, hold on a second. 0.61

00:06:37.000 First of all, was it even a rocket?

00:06:39.000 And thirdly, was it even an attack on a hospital?

00:06:43.000 And so this morning, you know, morning, you have some journalists in Gaza.

00:06:48.000 The hospital's still standing.

00:06:50.000 Now, there was an explosion in the parking lot next to the hospital.

00:06:54.000 Now, the facts are still coming out, but it's very clear that a hospital was not attacked.

00:06:59.000 The hospital is still intact.

00:07:01.000 And so here we are.

00:07:02.000 I want you to understand.

00:07:03.000 You could go to a world war over this kind of media malpractice.

00:07:07.000 This is not silly little stuff about, you know, did Donald Trump do something in Moscow with, you know, like this nonsense that we had to live through.

00:07:14.000 You could have nuclear arsenals activated over this stuff.

00:07:19.000 And they immediately take Hamas's word for it. 0.52

00:07:22.000 So think about how sick the media is, right? 0.65

00:07:23.000 This is a group of people that just sent terrorists to go in to kill women and children, and we're going to act like all of a sudden they're telling the truth.

00:07:31.000 And so the images come out, and yes, some people obviously did die.

00:07:35.000 500 doesn't look that way.

00:07:37.000 500 is a lot of people.

00:07:39.000 And by the way, if you think 500 is a lot of people, 1,300 people is even more than 500 of what happened a week and a half ago.

00:07:44.000 I just have to slide that in there.

00:07:46.000 And so it's a blown-up parking lot.

00:07:47.000 And they look at the mortar shell.

00:07:49.000 It's like this, like, was this even a rocket?

00:07:50.000 Or was this like an incendiary device?

00:07:52.000 We don't know the answers to these questions.

00:07:54.000 But it's obvious that the media wanted you to be so angry.

00:07:58.000 More importantly, they wanted Muslims in the Middle East to be so angry. 1.00

00:08:02.000 And honestly, you know what, the sick part of it, it worked.

00:08:06.000 Joe Biden and whatever, going there, he was supposed to meet with Mahmoud Abbas and the head of Egypt.

00:08:11.000 And they're like, nope, we can't meet because of the hospital bombing.

00:08:15.000 And this was at least, at the very least, the most innocent explanation, a intentional misunderstanding, not misunderstanding, intentional lying about events to try to interfere with peace.

00:08:27.000 We need to think about that.

00:08:29.000 This was trying to increase tensions and increase war.

00:08:33.000 You have Ben Collins from NBC, who's a disinformation expert, who tweets out.

00:08:38.000 He says, how dare Israel bomb a hospital?

00:08:41.000 This is his job to go after disinformation.

00:08:44.000 And so we start asking questions.

00:08:45.000 And by the way, if you want to be called every name, start asking questions.

00:08:49.000 Not allowed asking questions.

00:08:50.000 You get absolutely obliterated.

00:08:52.000 I learned that this last week.

00:08:53.000 That was a lot of fun.

00:08:54.000 We'll talk about that.

00:08:55.000 Can't ask questions.

00:08:56.000 The media never lies to you.

00:08:57.000 Sit down and obey.

00:08:58.000 So obviously, naturally, I start asking questions about this hospital thing.

00:09:02.000 And, you know, the IDF comes out and they say it wasn't us.

00:09:05.000 We're going to release footage and all this sort of stuff.

00:09:08.000 My opinion, Israel moved too slow because they should have moved even faster and been more decided. 0.96

00:09:11.000 In fact, honestly, Israel should have just accused Hamas of doing it to themselves because that's probably what ended up happening. 0.98

00:09:15.000 But we don't know that yet.

00:09:17.000 But the media was quick because it goes deeper than this.

00:09:20.000 And the easy explanation is, okay, there's a lot of anti-Semitism and Jewish resentment in the media.

00:09:25.000 Yeah, and that's part of it.

00:09:26.000 But honestly, it's deeper than that.

00:09:27.000 People hate Israel.

00:09:29.000 The same reason that drives BLM is because there is resentment culture that is set into the West.

00:09:36.000 And this is why BLM and Hamas have so much in common. 0.90

00:09:40.000 This is why they find themselves to be partners.

00:09:42.000 You have the head of Hamas come out and he says, and the racist murder of George Floyd should always be remembered.

00:09:47.000 This is a guy 5,000 miles from America that's talking about George Floyd?

00:09:51.000 Like, really?

00:09:52.000 Like, what does that have in common?

00:09:53.000 Like, why don't you feed your people?

00:09:56.000 And stop making bombs and paying for terrorists.

00:09:58.000 Like, why are you worried about George Floyd?

00:10:04.000 And it's because, honestly, George Floyd is a martyr for them and has become a martyr and a symbol.

00:10:12.000 The symbol is supposed to be, look at white America with the knee on black America. 0.84

00:10:17.000 This is systemic racism.

00:10:18.000 And of course, then we had Floyd Apalooza.

00:10:20.000 We burnt down our whole country from a bitter lie, you know, burning, looting, murder.

00:10:24.000 You know, obviously, yeah, you need to blow off some steam, just go burn down a Wendy's.

00:10:27.000 Yeah, totally acceptable.

00:10:28.000 Fine.

00:10:29.000 And we did that for a whole summer all from this idea of systemic racism.

00:10:34.000 And at the core of a lot of what Hamas is saying, if you really examine the language, it's the exact same philosophical toxin that we have been combating here.

00:10:47.000 And so you think about it.

00:10:48.000 Why is Gaza not rich? 0.71

00:10:52.000 You say, well, because they're being blockaded.

00:10:53.000 Well, that's not necessarily true.

00:10:54.000 They could trade with other Arab countries, right?

00:10:57.000 First of all, don't elect terrorists to run your government if you want to be rich, because they'll just spend all your money on rockets, but that's a separate issue.

00:11:03.000 But at the fundamental core of it, it's because the leaders don't want to actually govern and deliver results for the poor people of Gaza.

00:11:14.000 Boy, does that sound familiar.

00:11:16.000 That's exactly what the leaders of Chicago and Philadelphia, New York, Seattle, and San Francisco and Denver and every major city in America are doing.

00:11:26.000 Think about it.

00:11:27.000 It's the same playbook because it feels like it's distant, right?

00:11:31.000 Oh, wow, we don't have people like that.

00:11:33.000 Well, think about it.

00:11:35.000 How often do you hear politicians in this country, especially that run these urban cities, that instead of improving the lives of their citizens materially, it's always somebody else's fault?

00:11:46.000 It's the threat of democracy. 0.91

00:11:48.000 It's white supremacists' fault. 0.79

00:11:49.000 It's like, no, no, how about you have roads that work? 0.93

00:11:52.000 Or in Baltimore, can you find a single kid that can read at fifth grade level?

00:11:57.000 They went to 17 schools.

00:11:58.000 They couldn't find a single kid that could read at fifth grade level.

00:12:01.000 But no, it's white supremacists' fault that that's happening.

00:12:04.000 And it comes down to a zero-sum game mentality.

00:12:09.000 And this is not a political statement, but it should end up instructing your politics, which is your zero-sum thinking.

00:12:18.000 If you have that viewpoint, then you're going to have a rather miserable, unhappy life, and a lot of bad political decisions.

00:12:27.000 So let me say it this way.

00:12:29.000 If you see a big home, if you see somebody with success, and your immediate reaction is jealousy and envy and thinking they did something illegal or bad to get it, then you are no better than BLM or Hamas philosophically. 0.83

00:12:43.000 No better.

00:12:46.000 So you think about it.

00:12:48.000 In Gaza and Hamas, they say, wow, the Israelis are so rich because they stole all their money because of oppression.

00:12:56.000 Instead, they should be saying, again, a lot of them are indoctrinated from a young age, but their leaders should be teaching their kids, they're rich because they make good decisions.

00:13:06.000 They're rich because they have values that have been proven to work.

00:13:10.000 They cultivated the land, they developed businesses, they gained knowledge and plugged into the world economy.

00:13:15.000 And so why doesn't Hamas or the Palestinian Authority do that?

00:13:19.000 Well, it's because their leaders would actually have to take responsibility for the citizens that they are tasked to govern.

00:13:24.000 They don't want to do that.

00:13:25.000 They would rather stay perpetually in power than take responsibility and say, yeah, things aren't great here.

00:13:30.000 Instead of saying things aren't great here, they say, you are oppressed because of the distant bad guy.

00:13:35.000 So this is zero-sum thinking.

00:13:37.000 Now, I want you to think about how sick this is.

00:13:39.000 There was no escalating tensions.

00:13:41.000 There was no war.

00:13:42.000 Israel and Gaza, they obviously didn't like each other, but it was relatively the most serene it has been in the last couple decades.

00:13:48.000 And yet Hamas made a decision, an offensive decision, to do one of the, and I don't want to belabor the point too much, the worst terrorist attack that you could possibly imagine.

00:13:56.000 If you haven't watched the GoPro footage, you should watch it before you have opinion on either side, okay?

00:14:00.000 If you think you know what actually happened there, go spend five minutes and watch the GoPro footage and you realize the horror.

00:14:07.000 These people, it's beyond evil or demonic.

00:14:09.000 They are military-trained 20-year-old men that go door by door and isolate the women and children. 0.94

00:14:16.000 They wanted to kill as many innocents as possible.

00:14:19.000 That's not a military operation.

00:14:20.000 That's an attempt at genocide.

00:14:22.000 And so they decided to bring conflict amongst themselves.

00:14:25.000 So instead of saying, hey, let's try to have a prosperous society, a prosperous economy, what can we do to try to make Gaza richer? 0.99

00:14:33.000 It's, oh, I know, we'll go kill Jews. 1.00

00:14:36.000 I want you to think about that. 0.97

00:14:38.000 Instead of saying, let's have a better value system or try to make better choices because at the basis of it, they would rather focus on the alleged oppression than ever actually lifting up the people that they're tasked to govern.

00:14:53.000 So you have a decision, right?

00:14:55.000 Your decision in life is you can focus on building things and producing things or complaining about things and focusing on things you can't control.

00:15:03.000 I've said this before, I'll say it again.

00:15:05.000 If you produce more than you complain, you're probably a conservative.

00:15:08.000 If you complain more than you produce, you're certainly a liberal.

00:15:14.000 And by the way, I mean, production of all sorts of things, production of children, production of families, production of strong churches, production of safe communities, production of businesses.

00:15:24.000 It's hard to produce in life.

00:15:26.000 It's hard.

00:15:27.000 It takes effort.

00:15:28.000 It takes self-discipline.

00:15:30.000 It takes restraint of your impulses.

00:15:32.000 It is easy to complain.

00:15:35.000 In fact, we have entire systems that are designed to weaponize your complaining, to try to use your sort of resentment or envy or whatever it might be.

00:15:46.000 And by the way, all of us have it.

00:15:47.000 And this is the important thing.

00:15:49.000 The point is not, do you feel resentment?

00:15:52.000 The point is, do you act on it and do you allow it to master you?

00:15:56.000 Everybody has sinful thoughts, sinful sort of proclivities and temptations.

00:16:01.000 Do you allow that to become who you are?

00:16:03.000 So that when you see somebody with the nice house, do you say, oh, they must have stole it?

00:16:07.000 Instead of, you should say, I wonder how many weekends they worked.

00:16:11.000 I wonder how early they wake up.

00:16:14.000 I wonder how many sacrifices they made if they took out a double mortgage on their house.

00:16:19.000 I wonder how many people they employed to get a house like that.

00:16:23.000 I wonder how many other people they were able to give the American dream to to have a house like that.

00:16:29.000 It's a completely different mentality, a completely different mentality.

00:16:35.000 And the here's the controversial thing I have to say: is that not just being materially rich, because that's not the most important thing, but being rich in your soul, being rich in knowledge, being rich in wisdom, being rich in your walk with Christ, being rich, whatever it is, is a choice.

00:16:54.000 And people don't like hearing that.

00:16:56.000 They say, I was born poor and I must stay poor.

00:16:59.000 That's not true.

00:17:00.000 You can stay poor, but you can also make a series of decisions to embrace a better value system to improve your life.

00:17:08.000 Hell happens to everybody.

00:17:09.000 People unexpectedly die.

00:17:11.000 You get sick.

00:17:12.000 Things happen that you don't plan.

00:17:14.000 But one of the laws of life is if you do the right thing and the hard thing over a long period of time, your life will improve.

00:17:20.000 If you tell the truth, if you stop drinking, if you stop watching porn, if you get married before you have kids, if you have a job, any job.

00:17:26.000 If you try to find a problem and solve the problem, your life will improve.

00:17:31.000 But yet the whole culture tells you the opposite.

00:17:34.000 They say it's racism's fault that you can't succeed.

00:17:38.000 It's white supremacist fault that you can't succeed.

00:17:42.000 It's like, I'm sorry, hold on. 0.98

00:17:43.000 Like, I will listen to your white supremacy nonsense when all of a sudden, I don't know, in the black community, that we have more than 25% of black kids being raised by a mom and a dad.

00:17:56.000 25% of black kids in America are raised by a mom and dad. 0.97

00:17:59.000 75% are raised without a father in the home.

00:18:01.000 That's a much bigger problem than white supremacy in America.

00:18:04.000 Much bigger problem.

00:18:06.000 And so what I'm getting at is that what Israel decided to do, largely because they're a people of the law and God's law will yield productive results, if you just take the Ten Commandments, you will succeed in life.

00:18:23.000 Just the Ten Commandments.

00:18:24.000 If you honor your mother and father, you work for six days and keep the Sabbath day holy.

00:18:29.000 If you tell the truth, if you don't murder, good one to remember.

00:18:32.000 Do not steal.

00:18:33.000 By the way, do not steal is basically, a lot of the other commandments can be drawn back to stealing if you think about it.

00:18:38.000 Murdering or stealing somebody's wife, coveting or stealing somebody.

00:18:42.000 Theft is actually a central part of the Ten Commandments that gets repeated in other ways.

00:18:46.000 If you just do that, you will be blessed.

00:18:48.000 You just do that.

00:18:49.000 But guess what?

00:18:50.000 If you embrace what Hamas or Gaza embraces, which is no matter how hard you work, you can't succeed because of the Jews over there. 1.00

00:18:59.000 No matter what you do, you can't break out of this.

00:19:02.000 No matter what you do, you're destined. 0.94

00:19:04.000 You might as well just be a terrorist.

00:19:06.000 In fact, they tell them that your way out of this is to go take a rifle and eventually go to a kibbutz.

00:19:12.000 And they've programmed to it.

00:19:13.000 What I'm getting at is the very same thing that feels distant, Israel Hamas, is actually here in this country right now. 0.94

00:19:21.000 It's the same philosophy because we tell so many of our nation's young people, there's no way that you can get ahead.

00:19:27.000 It's the white person's fault. 0.57

00:19:29.000 It's the white man's fault. 0.99

00:19:30.000 And yes, there's a lot of problems in this country. 0.95

00:19:32.000 I mean, we could talk about them forever, but it's still the greatest country in the world, period.

00:19:36.000 It is still the greatest country.

00:19:43.000 And If you make tonight, the sooner you commit to a series of good choices, you have to first acknowledge that it's hard, but then you'll realize that your life gets better.

00:19:57.000 And when you understand that it does not take talent at all to compete in the oppression Olympics, it doesn't.

00:20:08.000 Well, Charlie, I'm a person of color and lesbian, bisexual, whatever, and because of that I'm super oppressed and people are rigged against me.

00:20:16.000 That doesn't take talent to compete in the oppression Olympics at all.

00:20:21.000 By the way, every single person get up on stage and could share something terrible that's happened to them.

00:20:26.000 Every single person.

00:20:28.000 Every person.

00:20:29.000 Difficulty is a human universal.

00:20:32.000 Universal.

00:20:33.000 And my heart goes out for you.

00:20:34.000 More importantly, God is there to help you through that.

00:20:38.000 Sends it to human universal.

00:20:40.000 However, what is exceptional, this is important, what is not universal is the human species to be able to not dwell on the suffering.

00:20:54.000 That is not universal.

00:20:56.000 What is not universal is to build a culture.

00:20:59.000 That's why America is so great.

00:21:01.000 That is built on, we understand you've had it hard, why don't you have a better tomorrow?

00:21:07.000 And that requires de-emphasizing the difficulty and prioritizing your own human agency.

00:21:15.000 And tomorrow, if Hamas embraced this mindset, tomorrow, all of a sudden you would see a de-escalation of tensions. 0.60

00:21:23.000 Hamas, the terrorist group, the Palestinian Authority, whatever you call it.

00:21:26.000 And at the fundamental root of so much of this, which is what I think is missing in this country, is a disempowerment message. 1.00

00:21:36.000 And this is what drives me crazy about the affirmative action stuff, about hiring quotas, about white privilege, is that it's basically telling black people or people of color that you are too stupid, not well equipped enough to be able to succeed in America, and you might as well not try. 0.99

00:21:55.000 I think that it is insulting to every person in the country, regardless of skin color, to say that we need to reconfigure our laws and our hiring practices so much because you otherwise would not be able to succeed on your own. 0.99

00:22:09.000 In fact, I think what it does is it creates, as Clarence Thomas says, the soft bigotry of low expectations.

00:22:16.000 And I'll just use one example of this, which I think is the most repulsive, which is the idea of voter ID.

00:22:22.000 Every time voter, by, we should have voter ID anytime someone votes, the fact this is even a question is remarkable to me. 0.73

00:22:27.000 But they say, well, black people can't get access to a voter ID.

00:22:31.000 And I say, I hope I don't even have a bigoted thought as racist as what you just said to say that black people don't have access to an ID. 0.90

00:22:42.000 But they say, well, we can't do it because, you know, people of color can't find IDs. 1.00

00:22:46.000 What?

00:22:46.000 That's literally their argument that they make in court.

00:22:49.000 And judges put up with it.

00:22:50.000 Instead, it should be, yeah, we're not going to pander down to the lowest one-liner narrative.

00:22:55.000 Any person in the country have IDs.

00:22:57.000 In fact, if you can't, then prove it, honestly.

00:23:01.000 And so this kind of mindset shift is so important.

00:23:06.000 You can call it victor versus victim.

00:23:07.000 You can call it whatever you want.

00:23:08.000 But it plays out time and time again.

00:23:10.000 Think about all the different narratives that have happened here, right?

00:23:13.000 You have the BLM, you have the trans narrative, you have all these different things, and they're trying to create two groups of people, oppressor and oppressed, oppressor and oppressed. 0.63

00:23:20.000 And typically the people at the top of the oppression ladder, it's like white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, heterosexual male.

00:23:26.000 So I'm like the chief villain, right?

00:23:32.000 And conservative, oh my goodness.

00:23:33.000 Outspoken, geez, married with kids, total villain, you know, take them out, right?

00:23:38.000 At the top.

00:23:40.000 And instead of viewing people through, are you in the oppression group or the oppressed group?

00:23:45.000 Why don't we say, are you a good person?

00:23:47.000 Are you doing good for your country?

00:23:49.000 Are you filled with gratitude?

00:23:51.000 And that's the final thing I'll say is this.

00:23:54.000 Why does Israel succeed and all the other neighboring countries or the PA, you know, they fail? 0.95

00:24:00.000 You say, oh, it's black AIDS and all this.

00:24:01.000 No, it's a value system. 0.95

00:24:02.000 And the one thing I know that Jews do, because they're forced to do it, is that they say thank you.

00:24:10.000 Gratitude.

00:24:11.000 If you are thankful for the life that you have and the blessings in front of you, you will live a happier, deeper, and more productive life.

00:24:18.000 It is a guarantee in life.

00:24:22.000 And it is not easy.

00:24:28.000 We are wired to be anything but grateful.

00:24:32.000 God's chosen people, the Hebrews, come out of Egypt, and they are a largely unimpressive people according to the scriptures.

00:24:37.000 They complain all the time.

00:24:39.000 They're unbelievably ungrateful.

00:24:41.000 And they have to be reminded time and time again.

00:24:43.000 And through now, Jewish prayers and Jewish customs, saying thank you is a big deal in Judaism.

00:24:49.000 So I want you to just think about this in the next couple days.

00:24:52.000 When you see the savagery and the barbarism and the poverty that they've inflicted upon themselves in Gaza with Hamas and the wealth and the civilization built out of nothing where they literally made deserts bloom in Israel, who has a mindset that is rooted more in gratitude or ingratitude? 0.98

00:25:10.000 Not saying one is perfect and one is not.

00:25:12.000 There's plenty of problems with the Israeli government.

00:25:14.000 I'm not an apologist for it.

00:25:15.000 But more than not, those people say, thank you, God.

00:25:19.000 In fact, they say it every Friday night on the Shabbat.

00:25:22.000 Thank you, God, for creating the heavens and the earth.

00:25:25.000 I don't get that sense that Hamas is saying, you know what, thank you.

00:25:27.000 Instead of it, it's let us wage war. 0.88

00:25:31.000 It's a big difference.

00:25:32.000 And then you look here in this country.

00:25:34.000 Who says thank you or has more gratitude?

00:25:37.000 People that think America is the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, that we've been given to a gift by God?

00:25:43.000 Or people that think that America is misogynistic, racist, homophobic, or terrible?

00:25:48.000 It's easy to complain.

00:25:50.000 It takes effort and intentionality to live with gratitude.

00:25:54.000 Why do we have the most suicidal, alcohol-addicted, drug-addicted, depressed generation in history?

00:25:59.000 A lot of reasons.

00:26:01.000 One of the reasons is that we have told the generation to be ungrateful despite the fact that they live in the best place ever.

00:26:15.000 And it takes effort.

00:26:17.000 And then you finally have the most important question.

00:26:19.000 If you then have gratitude, who are you grateful to?

00:26:24.000 And there's only one right answer to that.

00:26:27.000 You can be grateful to your parents.

00:26:29.000 That's true.

00:26:30.000 Honor your parents.

00:26:31.000 But most importantly, there's something bigger and above you.

00:26:35.000 And if there's one thing I can leave with you, and then we'll do questions, is that if you accept these two truths, your life will improve.

00:26:42.000 There is a God, and I am not him.

00:26:45.000 Those two things will make your life a lot better.

00:26:48.000 Let's do some questions.

00:26:53.000 Okay, so.

00:26:57.000 Okay, we're going to take some questions.

00:26:59.000 If you disagree, come to the front of the line.

00:27:02.000 Let me just say one thing about this.

00:27:05.000 First of all, thank you guys.

00:27:06.000 Obviously, a very friendly audience.

00:27:08.000 It's important.

00:27:09.000 It's important.

00:27:12.000 And thank you guys for driving all the way.

00:27:14.000 And thank you.

00:27:15.000 Who watches the Charlie Kirk show?

00:27:17.000 Thank you guys.

00:27:18.000 That's awesome.

00:27:18.000 Thank you guys.

00:27:19.000 Really blesses us.

00:27:21.000 All right, listen. 0.89

00:27:22.000 We invite disagreement if and when somebody comes up and says something you don't like that you think is a little silly.

00:27:31.000 Do not boo them.

00:27:33.000 Do not make fun of them.

00:27:35.000 Let them make their peace, say their part.

00:27:39.000 We're going to give liberals the respect that we conservatives never get at events like this.

00:27:44.000 Okay?

00:27:46.000 All right.

00:27:52.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:27:53.000 First, I'd like to say congratulations on being a new father.

00:27:55.000 Thank you.

00:27:56.000 Thank you.

00:27:59.000 So for a young man like myself that hopes to be a father one day, what advice do you have for me and others like me on fatherhood?

00:28:06.000 Yeah, that's a great question.

00:28:08.000 Well, first of all, you have to date with the intent to marry.

00:28:12.000 That's the number one thing.

00:28:18.000 Dating recreationally, I think, is one of the great tragedies of the modern era.

00:28:22.000 I really do.

00:28:24.000 Thank you so much.

00:28:24.000 I was going to go get that.

00:28:25.000 So that's number one.

00:28:26.000 Number two is that if you want to find a life partner, make yourself available, obviously, but make yourself interesting.

00:28:34.000 And here's the thing.

00:28:35.000 Some people say, but Charlie, I'm not born with the best looks and all that.

00:28:38.000 I say, listen, whatever.

00:28:40.000 You're focusing on the wrong things.

00:28:41.000 You can focus on how interesting you are.

00:28:43.000 How many books are you reading?

00:28:44.000 Podcasts are you listening to.

00:28:46.000 Those things you can control.

00:28:48.000 And a young lady will find it attractive for a young man that takes learning very seriously.

00:28:56.000 And in fact, am I right?

00:28:59.000 Second thing, the number one feedback, because it's like the Charlie Kirk show has become like this dating thing.

00:29:05.000 It's really weird, right?

00:29:06.000 I get it from every, I get the cat people, I get out from all over the place, right?

00:29:10.000 So, and the number one piece of feedback I get from young women is that the young men are actually grown boys that can't control themselves. 0.80

00:29:19.000 And they don't have self-discipline and they don't have self-control.

00:29:23.000 And so it is not attractive to a young woman if a young boy or young man drinks to endless limits.

00:29:31.000 I don't think you should drink at all, honestly.

00:29:32.000 You could disagree on that, but if you actually want to make yourself attractive, embrace sobriety.

00:29:37.000 You'll find a woman very, very quickly, okay? 1.00

00:29:39.000 And then, and honestly, you know, embrace other parts of sobriety too.

00:29:46.000 Don't watch pornography, all that stuff.

00:29:48.000 And then finally is don't be afraid to be assertive in the best possible masculine way, right? 0.99

00:29:56.000 Don't be a jerk, but I was just sitting, you know, yesterday, I met a couple Turning Point USA chapter leaders, and they're like, yeah, you know, we can't find a man. 0.94

00:30:06.000 And I said, what do you wish they would do? 0.99

00:30:07.000 And I said, I wish they would actually ask me out on a date and stop being like beta males to be friends for six months.

00:30:14.000 Interesting feedback.

00:30:16.000 God bless you, men.

00:30:17.000 Thank you.

00:30:24.000 Hi, Charlie. 0.98

00:30:25.000 As you probably know, one of the newest memes circulating the internet is about women being drafted for war.

00:30:31.000 It does make for some really good laughs, but what's your take?

00:30:34.000 Yeah, I don't think women should be drafted for the war. 0.99

00:30:36.000 In fact, I have a controversial position that, look, if women really want to serve in the U.S. military, that's fine. 1.00

00:30:43.000 I've never been a fan of women in active combat roles. 1.00

00:30:46.000 I receive a lot of negativity. 0.95

00:30:47.000 I think fighting is a masculine and a male role.

00:30:51.000 And the reason is I believe firmly in the traditional separation of the sexes. 0.93

00:30:55.000 And I'm a traditionalist with this. 0.93

00:30:57.000 And I'm not saying that certain women are not stone-cold killers. 1.00

00:31:00.000 I'm not saying that they can't be.

00:31:01.000 No, seriously.

00:31:02.000 That's not the position.

00:31:04.000 But this is where it ends.

00:31:06.000 The fact that I might one day have to draft my daughter is the next logical step in us opening up the U.S. military in combat roles in ways that I'm afraid we never should have.

00:31:16.000 And again, I'm not diminishing the service or the sacrifice of females that have served in the military.

00:31:20.000 I'm not even saying that they might be doing an amazing job right now, but I think it would be wrong and it would be morally unacceptable to tell young women that you now have to be drafted into a conflict and a war.

00:31:33.000 I think that is blurring what I think is the beautiful separation of God-made men and God-made female.

00:31:39.000 And this is the fact: men are more likely in a combat-type situation through higher testosterone rates, whether it be greater muscle mass, to be able to endure those hellish environments.

00:31:52.000 I'm not saying that women can't, but look, let me just put it.

00:31:57.000 Those memes going around are pretty accurate.

00:32:00.000 I'll just leave it with that.

00:32:02.000 But honestly, this is a big question, right?

00:32:06.000 And where do you think the root of some of this trans ideology comes from?

00:32:10.000 Is that everything men can do, women can do, and everything women can do, men can do.

00:32:15.000 And that's not true.

00:32:17.000 It's not saying that there aren't exceptions.

00:32:20.000 So I'm a traditionalist in that regard, and I stand on it.

00:32:23.000 Thank you.

00:32:23.000 Appreciate it.

00:32:29.000 All right.

00:32:29.000 Hello.

00:32:30.000 So to preface, I'm a progressive, and I would like to have some discourse with you over the Israel-Palestine conflict.

00:32:39.000 And I'm just going to say I fully condemn Hamas. 0.82

00:32:43.000 And my current position is that there should be a one-state solution where it's anti-apartheid. 0.83

00:32:54.000 However, there should be the international community with the United Nations should be responsible for leading the peace process.

00:33:06.000 And personally, I think the Hamas and the Israeli government are essentially two sides of the same coin.

00:33:14.000 So you were doing so well.

00:33:18.000 Sorry.

00:33:19.000 No, that's okay.

00:33:19.000 I'm not good with public speaking.

00:33:20.000 No, no, no, I just mean the points.

00:33:22.000 The speaking is fine.

00:33:22.000 Yeah.

00:33:23.000 Okay, okay.

00:33:24.000 So I think with the recent conflict, of course, what Hamas did was terrible. 0.98

00:33:32.000 However, I think it's very important to understand the context of why they did it.

00:33:38.000 So they're very radical, and that radicalization has essentially formed from the Israeli government bullying the Gaza Strip for the past 50 years and obstructing their freedoms.

00:33:55.000 Okay.

00:33:57.000 Let me just ask.

00:33:58.000 So thank you for condemning the attacks.

00:34:00.000 I wish we had every member of Congress that could do that.

00:34:03.000 So however, let's just make sure we have our stuff clear.

00:34:11.000 You say the Israeli government and Hamas are the same side of a coin, right?

00:34:17.000 Maybe there's some differences, yes.

00:34:21.000 Okay, yes.

00:34:22.000 Well, the differences are pretty big.

00:34:23.000 So let me just go through the last two weeks, and I want you to just at least acknowledge it or not acknowledge it.

00:34:28.000 Hamas gave no warning before they slaughtered 1,300 women and children.

00:34:33.000 Israel did multiple days of warnings and dropping leaflets before they dropped any bombs on civilian corridors.

00:34:40.000 Is that moral equivalency?

00:34:42.000 Well, I think, of course, I think Hamas is much worse. 0.92

00:34:48.000 Okay, good.

00:34:48.000 So they're not the same coin.

00:34:49.000 Got it.

00:34:50.000 So, because you said.

00:34:51.000 Maybe similar coins.

00:34:52.000 Maybe the penny and a nickel.

00:34:53.000 Oh, okay.

00:34:54.000 All right.

00:34:54.000 Let's go to the next question.

00:34:55.000 Let's go to the next kind of.

00:34:57.000 Well, okay.

00:34:58.000 So I think that, so as I said earlier, I think the international community should get more involved.

00:35:05.000 A while ago, I read the book, Palestinian Peace, Not Apartheid by President Jimmy Carter.

00:35:11.000 And the book essentially boils down to the book essentially boils down to three things.

00:35:18.000 The Israel country and its borders should be respected.

00:35:21.000 I agree.

00:35:22.000 Palestinians and Jews should coexist peacefully.

00:35:26.000 And they shouldn't be killed, which is the third thing.

00:35:31.000 I think.

00:35:32.000 So, okay, I got to end.

00:35:33.000 Okay, sorry.

00:35:34.000 No, that's so sorry.

00:35:35.000 All right, no, it's okay.

00:35:36.000 So, let me just add, I want to try to get this along to some sort of clarity, if not agreement.

00:35:40.000 Who's a bigger impediment to peace, Israel or Hamas? 0.91

00:35:45.000 I think the biggest impediment is the reactionary politics and reactions between the two groups.

00:35:53.000 Hamas had been radicalized by the Jews, or rather the Israel government, which had been radicalized by the history of Arabs killing Jews. 0.96

00:36:03.000 I got to cut you off, man. 0.87

00:36:04.000 Wait, what?

00:36:05.000 You said Hamas is radicalized by the Israeli government.

00:36:08.000 Well, it's been radicalized by Islam, not by the Israeli government.

00:36:13.000 Islam is what radicalized him now. 0.78

00:36:17.000 Not everything goes back to the Jews, man, right?

00:36:20.000 Well, no, no, no.

00:36:21.000 I'm sorry.

00:36:22.000 So I think, so the conflict essentially boils down to its history.

00:36:28.000 The Arabs killed a bunch of Jews in its history.

00:36:32.000 The Jews killed a bunch of, or through the Zionist movement, through colonialism. 0.97

00:36:39.000 And like during, okay.

00:36:42.000 So I don't want to spend too much time on this, but I just want to ask one final question: is if Hamas would lay down all of the, before this massacre, okay, would have laid down all of their weapons, what do you think would have happened?

00:36:58.000 And if Israel laid down all of their weapons, what do you think would happen?

00:37:02.000 So I will address the second part. 0.97

00:37:05.000 If Israel lays down all its weapons, I think terrorist groups such as Hamas and the Palestinian Authority would use this opportunity to kill a bunch of Israelis. 0.98

00:37:16.000 I agree. 0.85

00:37:16.000 So we have clarity on that. 0.85

00:37:18.000 So great.

00:37:19.000 Before the massacre, because heightened tensions, if Hamas would have laid down their weapons and Gaza would have laid down their weapons, what do you think would have happened?

00:37:28.000 I think the Israel government would try to essentially do something similar, or they would try to push out all of the Palestinians. 0.99

00:37:39.000 We would have to do that.

00:37:40.000 I do not think they have freedom movement.

00:37:42.000 So we're not going to agree on this.

00:37:44.000 Let me just make a couple points.

00:37:46.000 Israel, time and time again, has sat down for peace: Abraham Accords, Oslo Accords, Camp David Accords, which was facilitated. 0.52

00:37:53.000 At every corner, Israel has given up land, Sinai Peninsula, parts of the West Bank, parts of Jain Samaria, in the pursuit of peace.

00:38:02.000 And I just encourage you, and you've been intellectually honest, but I want you to think about this, and anyone who might agree with you, that these are not morally equivalent.

00:38:11.000 You have one side that has a democratically elected government that allows pluralism in the Knesset, Arab Judaism.

00:38:19.000 In Gaza, they are one size fits all. 1.00

00:38:21.000 Hamas took over power, was voted into power. 0.98

00:38:24.000 And the stated doctrine of Hamas is no morally different than Nazism. 0.66

00:38:31.000 It's not an exaggeration.

00:38:32.000 It's not about land.

00:38:35.000 It's not about winning hearts or souls. 1.00

00:38:37.000 It's about killing Jews. 1.00

00:38:39.000 And the issue is this: well, more than the issue, is that Hamas now invited this conflict, okay? 0.96

00:38:46.000 And this is where my sympathy kind of wanes down to little next to nothing, is that there was at least some form of an equilibrium. 0.59

00:38:54.000 They were in Gaza, Israel is in Israel, and on a holy day in the 50-year anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, they decided to go into kibbutz, which I know that you denounce, but at that point, they're going to F around and find out, and Hamas should be obliterated for that action. 0.60

00:39:11.000 Thank you very much.

00:39:21.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:39:22.000 So just recently, there's been a lot of talk about migrant resettlements in places like New York and how they're being overrun.

00:39:29.000 And I've seen a lot of mainstream conservatives and Republicans kind of use this as like a gotcha moment against Democrats.

00:39:35.000 And so I'm just kind of wondering why we're like playing those games.

00:39:38.000 Like, meanwhile, like the top 20 whitest states of those top 20, 15 of them are among the top 20 with the highest rate of refugee resettlements. 0.65

00:39:47.000 And mind you, these are communities that are very closely.

00:39:50.000 These are small cities, rural areas that lack resources.

00:39:53.000 They have a strong culture.

00:39:55.000 So it really looks like this doesn't benefit either party.

00:39:58.000 So I'm wondering, why is this happening?

00:40:00.000 Do you think these communities are being targeted?

00:40:02.000 And if so, why aren't you talking about it?

00:40:05.000 Well, I only have 90 minutes here.

00:40:07.000 But I'm not going to get into intentions.

00:40:10.000 I don't know the intention.

00:40:11.000 You might be right, you might be wrong.

00:40:12.000 But it's a fact what you are saying: that we're importing the third world. 1.00

00:40:15.000 Let me use one example that I do talk about a lot, especially the last week and a half.

00:40:20.000 It has been bad for the country that we have brought in hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia. 1.00

00:40:25.000 It's been bad for the country.

00:40:27.000 It is bad for the country that Elon Omar is a member of Congress.

00:40:31.000 It is bad for the country.

00:40:33.000 And that is an extension of the refugee resettlement program.

00:40:36.000 If you have visited Minneapolis recently, it is an unrecognizable captured city.

00:40:42.000 It is mini Mogadishu.

00:40:44.000 And Elon Omar, who was rescued by Americans in a Kenyan refugee camp, brought into the country, given a great life, runs for Congress, and then tells us how systemically racist we are, how terrible and how awful we are.

00:40:57.000 And so, look, why they are doing it, it's speculation at some point.

00:41:02.000 But you and I could agree on the reality of the policy.

00:41:05.000 We should not take a single person from Gaza into the United States of America, period, hard stuff. 1.00

00:41:12.000 It is not our problem.

00:41:13.000 Hold on.

00:41:14.000 In fact, we have so many people coming into this flipping country right now, we should just shut it all down. 1.00

00:41:20.000 We need a cooling off period, nobody coming in.

00:41:23.000 It is like eating one massive meal after the other and acting as if that, well, they're going to assimilate.

00:41:29.000 I am not seeing evidence that the Somali community is assimilating.

00:41:34.000 I get attacked as being racist and misogynistic and all these different things, especially the racist and the xenophobic, is what I'm looking for.

00:41:43.000 No, no, no.

00:41:43.000 It's about love of the nation.

00:41:45.000 If you bring people into the country that resent you, don't share your culture, and they do not want to learn your language and they do not assimilate, you should probably stop bringing those people into your country. 1.00

00:41:57.000 Thank you very much.

00:41:58.000 I appreciate it.

00:41:59.000 Thank you.

00:42:06.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:42:08.000 I know it's a little bit of last week's news, it feels like, but I wanted to ask about Ukraine versus Russia.

00:42:13.000 It seems to be the case that a lot of conservatives have either a couple different options for what they say for Russia.

00:42:21.000 I think, if I'm not mistaken, yours is just that the U.S. should not be involved.

00:42:25.000 Do you have any opinion on the morality of what's going on in Russia?

00:42:29.000 Should Russia be attacking in the first place, and I can go from there? 0.87

00:42:33.000 No, no, Russia should not have invaded.

00:42:35.000 But the United States involvement should be actively trying to broker peace.

00:42:42.000 And our leaders are trying to broker war.

00:42:45.000 And my big picture is two things.

00:42:47.000 I could go through, I've been through this so many times, so I'll just do it really quick.

00:42:50.000 Number one, I don't think it's smart or wise to unnecessarily antagonize Russia. 1.00

00:42:54.000 It's stupid, actually. 1.00

00:42:55.000 Donald Trump handled it perfectly. 1.00

00:42:57.000 He was firm, he was tough, but he had dialogue with Vladimir Putin and isolated Russia from China.

00:43:02.000 That's number one.

00:43:03.000 But number two, it's a bigger thing, right?

00:43:05.000 Which is the intensity, the passion, and the zeal that members in both parties of Congress have to go spend hundreds of billions of dollars for a foreign war while we are being invaded is morally reprehensible.

00:43:20.000 It is morally reprehensible while our border is being overrun.

00:43:25.000 And people say, well, Charlie, it's two different things.

00:43:29.000 It's not two different things.

00:43:30.000 You know why?

00:43:31.000 When Senator Mitch McConnell goes up and he says the most important thing in the world is what's happening in Ukraine and Russia, don't give me it's two separate things.

00:43:40.000 He is ranking and prioritizing in a hierarchy that a foreign border dispute is more important than our own border, where you guys know here in Texas what is happening from the drugs and the sex trafficking and the guns and the cartels.

00:43:57.000 And so I think we should try to broker peace.

00:43:59.000 And what does that look like?

00:44:01.000 Both sides are going to have to give.

00:44:02.000 Eastern, eastern Ukraine speaks Russia.

00:44:05.000 They want to be part of Russia. 0.87

00:44:07.000 There's very few Ukrainians there.

00:44:09.000 I'm pretty sure.

00:44:09.000 Sorry.

00:44:10.000 I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that if you're talking about the Donbass in that area, all the way up to Mariupol, basically.

00:44:18.000 Many of those areas, from what I know, do not support being a part of Russia.

00:44:21.000 A lot of the elections that have happened in those areas have been hotly contested by.

00:44:26.000 It seems like different international groups have said, like these elections are not fair and that it's.

00:44:30.000 It's probably not true, that that's not just one.

00:44:32.000 I gotta pause you.

00:44:33.000 It's hilarious that the international organizations can tell us that those elections are not fair, but our elections are perfectly safe and effective.

00:44:40.000 I know that's not your point, I know.

00:44:41.000 I just I know that's not your point.

00:44:44.000 No, that that's a cheap shot.

00:44:46.000 I just couldn't resist.

00:44:47.000 I'm sorry, that's not about you.

00:44:48.000 My question is not about the election.

00:44:49.000 My question is obviously, I know that's why I said what I said.

00:44:51.000 I just couldn't resist.

00:44:52.000 It's just hilarious.

00:44:53.000 The UN it's not.

00:44:54.000 But hey, Joe Biden totally got 81 million votes like yeah okay great um anyway no, but look, you might be right, you might be wrong.

00:45:01.000 They do speak Russian, they're ethnically Russian and both sides have to give. 1.00

00:45:05.000 Okay, the war is brutal, tons of people are dying.

00:45:08.000 It needs to get to a place where some sort of a peace settlement is brokered.

00:45:12.000 The best interest of the United States is finally not losing the dollars of World Reserve currency status, interrupting BRICS. 0.92

00:45:19.000 The rise of BRICS is a major threat to American strength. 1.00

00:45:23.000 And finally I, for one, do not trust the intel agencies or the war machine in Washington DC that is making billions of dollars off of the suffering of people 5,000 miles away.

00:45:35.000 I find that to be.

00:45:36.000 I find that to be awful, and so we need to act.

00:45:39.000 As a way to broker peace, both sides have to have concessions.

00:45:42.000 Peace at this situation means that Russia will probably increase their land mass and Ukraine will decrease their land mass.

00:45:49.000 The American government wants nothing to do with that.

00:45:51.000 Final thought.

00:45:52.000 Yeah, so it seems to be the case that I don't.

00:45:54.000 I don't believe that Russia is a good actor. 0.98

00:45:56.000 I didn't say they were a good actor, but they are necessary if you want to meet the Tai Carson. 0.58

00:46:00.000 I'm not saying that you are saying that.

00:46:01.000 What I'm saying though, is that I don't see it stopping by us brokering peace between these two countries.

00:46:06.000 Fair enough.

00:46:07.000 Let me ask you one question, did Russia invade at all when Trump was president Trump's, not president right now?

00:46:14.000 Hold on no, I know we got.

00:46:15.000 I know, but why no?

00:46:18.000 This is important, but then why let me Obama?

00:46:21.000 They take Crimea, Biden.

00:46:22.000 They take eastern Ukraine. 0.81

00:46:23.000 Why is it the guy that was called the Russian Putin puppet.

00:46:27.000 They didn't invade.

00:46:28.000 No, I'm just curious.

00:46:30.000 Because that person was doing their bidding.

00:46:32.000 Well, hold on, hold on.

00:46:33.000 Wouldn't that make sense that the guy?

00:46:35.000 If they were doing their bidding, then they would have took all of Ukraine right? 0.74

00:46:38.000 So no, because because Trump was unpredictable, America first, and he was able to upend the old foreign policy playbook of Langley, Virginia and DC, which is that look, we're gonna be firm, but fair tough, unpredictable.

00:46:51.000 He sat in a meeting with Vladimir Putin and he said, oh nice Kremlin, you got there.

00:46:54.000 It'd be ashamed if a missile hit it and. 0.99

00:46:57.000 And Putin was like, this guy's a psychopath, like and. 0.90

00:47:00.000 But the point is this, the point is you're, you're incorrect by acting as if Putin is always going to invade.

00:47:06.000 Four years of Donald Trump shows us that a strong America at home, when we're energy independent, our dollar is strong, we fix our trade deals, we have a great economy is a way to prevent Russian aggression.

00:47:18.000 Thank you very much, I appreciate it, thank you, thank you.

00:47:23.000 Sorry, I just got to keep going through the line.

00:47:25.000 Thank you, appreciate it.

00:47:27.000 So, speaking of America first, I have to point out that you spent half your speech talking about a foreign country thousands of miles away.

00:47:35.000 Which brings me to my question.

00:47:38.000 Last year, Turning Point USA hosted the Young Jewish Leadership Summit, during which you said, so a Christian that's not pro-Israel, I doubt they actually love their Bible. 0.90

00:47:49.000 And I will stand by that statement.

00:47:51.000 If you're a Christian that doesn't love Israel, then you take your Bible way, way, way too much for granted.

00:47:56.000 End quote.

00:47:57.000 So who are you to question the faith of Christian Americans that don't support a foreign country of a different religion that has spied on us, attacked us, and lied to us, like about WMDs in Iraq?

00:48:08.000 And especially given your recent suggestion that Israel allowed the recent Hamas attack to happen, why would you support a country that would do that? 0.93

00:48:16.000 And do you still stand by your statement, like you said you would?

00:48:19.000 No, I definitely stand by the statement.

00:48:21.000 So I'm not an apologist for the Israeli government, but let me ask you, what religion was Jesus?

00:48:25.000 What did he believe?

00:48:29.000 Well, obviously he's Jew, but modern-day Judaism is.

00:48:33.000 Hold on, hold on, time out, time out, time out.

00:48:34.000 No, no, no.

00:48:35.000 Where was Jesus born?

00:48:36.000 Well, somebody say he was the first Christian.

00:48:38.000 Hold on.

00:48:38.000 Time out.

00:48:39.000 Well, where was Jesus born?

00:48:42.000 Why does that matter?

00:48:43.000 Do you know?

00:48:44.000 Why does that matter?

00:48:45.000 Okay, yeah, you're obviously not a Christian if you don't know where Jesus was born.

00:48:47.000 He's born in Bethlehem.

00:48:48.000 Okay.

00:48:48.000 And Jews.

00:48:49.000 And he was raised in Nazareth, and he walked on the water in Capernaum.

00:48:54.000 What country are those places in right now?

00:48:56.000 What does it matter?

00:48:58.000 It does matter.

00:48:58.000 You know why?

00:48:59.000 Because when I went to Israel, I came in contact with the living God that walked on water and rose Lazarus from the dead.

00:49:05.000 When I went to Israel, I saw the Bible come to life.

00:49:08.000 When I went to Israel, I saw Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Sarah, Becca, and Leah in the hall of the patriarchs.

00:49:15.000 When I went to Israel, what I read as Bible stories popped open, and I said, this is the word of God.

00:49:21.000 This is real.

00:49:21.000 These are not fairy tales or fables or things that we tell our kids.

00:49:25.000 When I went to Israel, I was able to cry where Jesus cried, where he was betrayed by Judas and arrested, where he rose from the dead and gives us eternal life.

00:49:35.000 I am not an apologist for Israel, but I reject wholeheartedly this narrative.

00:49:41.000 Christians who turn their back on Israel, it says in Genesis and Romans and 1 Thessalonians, Paul said, you will bless the Jews. 0.99

00:49:49.000 If you bless Israel, you will be blessed.

00:49:51.000 If you scorn Israel, you will be scorned.

00:49:53.000 The Israeli government, plenty of suspicious things going on.

00:49:56.000 How do we know the Bible is true?

00:49:58.000 Every day, there are archaeological discoveries that confirm the truths of the Bible in 1 Samuel, in 1 Kings, in 1 Chronicles.

00:50:05.000 There is a diabolical satanic agenda every single day to try and delegitimize the scriptures.

00:50:10.000 And I will defend the Holy Land, the place that let me see where my Lord and Savior lived.

00:50:15.000 And I will not apologize for that.

00:50:17.000 Thank you very much.

00:50:24.000 Next question.

00:50:25.000 Thank you.

00:50:31.000 So, sorry.

00:50:33.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:50:35.000 So, I'm...

00:50:36.000 See, I get it from both sides.

00:50:37.000 Some people say, Charlie, you're too pro-Israel. 0.69

00:50:39.000 Or, Charlie, you're a Jew hater.

00:50:40.000 No, I'm just a Christian who loves the Bible.

00:50:42.000 I'm just a Christian who loves the Bible.

00:50:48.000 So I grew up, right, not particularly liking the LGBT community. 0.51

00:50:54.000 And in the past several years, I have turned to believe that I really like the LGBT community today.

00:51:02.000 And I was going to ask you about a specific person in that community, Ms. Blair White.

00:51:08.000 Haven't thought about Blair White in a while, but okay.

00:51:11.000 Yeah, I mean, she was on the new Jubilee debate.

00:51:14.000 Is it a biological woman who thinks they're man? 0.99

00:51:15.000 I can't remember. 0.80

00:51:17.000 She's a trans woman.

00:51:19.000 Okay, so a fake woman. 1.00

00:51:22.000 So.

00:51:22.000 No, I'm just trying.

00:51:23.000 I'm not even being sarcastic.

00:51:25.000 So it's a man who masquerades as a woman. 0.91

00:51:29.000 Masquerading as a woman? 0.99

00:51:33.000 If you were, I mean, there was a debate she had with Ben Shapiro.

00:51:38.000 You were to refer to her at a restaurant or whatever, you would refer to her as a woman, right? 0.76

00:51:43.000 Well, yeah, I mean, you could pretend to be black. 0.99

00:51:45.000 You put black face on, that doesn't make you black.

00:51:46.000 But I'm just wondering, I'm not even, I don't know much about Blair White.

00:51:49.000 So it's a man who wears the costume of a woman. 0.99

00:51:51.000 Is that right?

00:51:52.000 I mean, if you believe that value system, then I can't. 0.99

00:51:56.000 Well, then let me ask you, what is a woman? 0.87

00:51:59.000 I watched the movie, and it's a person who needs a man to open their pickle jar. 1.00

00:52:06.000 Oh.

00:52:16.000 So you.

00:52:20.000 I do open my girlfriend's pickle jar.

00:52:23.000 I can't hear what you said.

00:52:25.000 I do open my girlfriend's pickle jars for her.

00:52:28.000 Still can't hear what you said.

00:52:29.000 I opened my girlfriend's pickle jars for her, I swear.

00:52:32.000 Tough guy.

00:52:33.000 It's a tough guy here. 1.00

00:52:34.000 So, so you can't answer what a woman is.

00:52:38.000 That's not what I said.

00:52:39.000 I did answer what a woman was.

00:52:41.000 Yeah, I mean, rather, so that's your final answer.

00:52:43.000 It's like, who wants to be a millionaire?

00:52:44.000 That's your final answer? 1.00

00:52:45.000 That's what a woman is? 1.00

00:52:48.000 So, obviously, the Bible says that a woman is a woman, a person with a vagina, obviously. 0.93

00:52:53.000 But I do believe that gender dysphoria is a real thing and scientifically proven, right? 1.00

00:52:59.000 Well, no, no, it's definitely a mental delusion.

00:53:01.000 The question is, is it what they think they are?

00:53:03.000 Is it what they are?

00:53:04.000 Delusion is a strong word.

00:53:06.000 Disorder, sure.

00:53:08.000 But a person with a woman's soul and a man's body is a real thing. 0.73

00:53:13.000 Okay, say that one more time.

00:53:15.000 A trans woman is a person with a woman's soul and a man's body.

00:53:18.000 Oh, I see.

00:53:19.000 Okay.

00:53:20.000 So you're willing to appropriate the word woman.

00:53:23.000 Well, I guess it does fit your definition because it's a man who could open a pickle jar.

00:53:27.000 So that's kind of, I guess it fits your definition.

00:53:30.000 So then you think so lowly of women that you think that someone can just look like one, put on a bra with a dress and makeup, and that magically they enter womanhood.

00:53:42.000 Well, if they have gender dysphoria, then yes.

00:53:45.000 And I don't think lowly of women. 1.00

00:53:47.000 I love them. 0.98

00:53:49.000 Gender dysphoria is real.

00:53:51.000 Gender dysphoria is a real thing people suffer from.

00:53:54.000 But the thing they claim is not real or true.

00:53:57.000 Why?

00:53:58.000 Because there's no evidence for it.

00:54:01.000 For example, so can you pick your adjectives?

00:54:05.000 Say that one more time.

00:54:06.000 Can you pick your adjectives in life?

00:54:09.000 I mean, obviously not, right?

00:54:11.000 I'm not sure if you're a person.

00:54:11.000 Okay, for some friends to tell me.

00:54:12.000 If you can't pick your adjectives, why can you pick your pronouns?

00:54:18.000 Pronouns are a social construct.

00:54:20.000 You gotta do it.

00:54:21.000 One more time.

00:54:22.000 Pronouns are just, like, when you look at a person, you say, hey, this person looks like a man, right?

00:54:28.000 Like the person you, the other person, I forgot, was it Jobob?

00:54:32.000 I forgot their name.

00:54:33.000 Sure.

00:54:33.000 But he looked at, I think her name was Chloe.

00:54:36.000 This person looks like a woman.

00:54:38.000 She's a woman, right? 1.00

00:54:39.000 If a trans woman looks like a woman, you're going to call her a woman on first sight because she looks like a woman. 1.00

00:54:44.000 Yes, you might incorrectly label somebody that's trying to trick you because they are wearing an equivalent of a Halloween costume because they're suffering from a mental disorder.

00:54:55.000 I do believe that they are suffering and I do believe that trans women. 0.97

00:54:58.000 No, no, they are suffering, but let me tell you, instead of pandering to somebody's torture, we should give them a way out and liberate them with the truth and say that there is a better way forward for you where you don't have to chop off your genitals, get on Lupron, get a mastectomy. 0.51

00:55:17.000 I didn't hear you. 0.61

00:55:18.000 There was a crowd.

00:55:19.000 Can you repeat that?

00:55:19.000 Say that?

00:55:20.000 Can you repeat your.

00:55:21.000 You were rambling, and there was a crowd, so I can't.

00:55:23.000 I was rambling.

00:55:24.000 Okay.

00:55:25.000 All right.

00:55:25.000 Next question.

00:55:26.000 We're done.

00:55:26.000 No, no, no, no.

00:55:26.000 I couldn't hear you.

00:55:27.000 No, if you're going to be a jerk, we're done. 1.00

00:55:28.000 Next question. 1.00

00:55:29.000 Yeah, thanks.

00:55:30.000 And by the way, you don't get to pick your adjectives.

00:55:32.000 You aren't very tall, and you can't change that.

00:55:34.000 So, next question.

00:55:39.000 Are you here?

00:55:41.000 All right, testing.

00:55:43.000 All right.

00:55:46.000 Okay.

00:55:48.000 Yeah.

00:55:49.000 Good evening, Mr. Kirk.

00:55:50.000 My question is on Trump and policy.

00:55:54.000 So my question for you is: how can we rely on Trump to be the leader of the Republican Party if we are expecting to be the one that if we expect to nominate Trump to lead the Republican Party for 2024, how can we expect him to do this successfully and truly understand the values of the Republican Party based off of what he did in the latter half of his first term?

00:56:18.000 What I'm referring to is Operation Warp Speed, in which he championed the development of the vaccine, after which he gave Dr. Fauci an award, a person in which I would assume most of us in this room have a lot of hatred for because of the lockdowns that he caused.

00:56:35.000 He should be in Gitmo.

00:56:35.000 Yeah, I agree.

00:56:36.000 Donald Trump gave this man an award and commemorated him and called the vaccine a, quote, miracle of the ages.

00:56:43.000 In addition to this, Trump urged and signed multiple stimulus checks throughout December in 2020.

00:56:50.000 Another thing which I can assume most of us would agree that when the government spends, it's usually not successful and it's just taking more of our money through taxes.

00:56:59.000 However, Trump was the one signing these stimulus checks and making inflation worse by spending more government money.

00:57:06.000 So if he was able to fold so easily to Democrat policy, how can we trust that he won't do this again if another situation arises in 2024?

00:57:15.000 Okay.

00:57:17.000 Glad you got that out of your system.

00:57:18.000 So I just want to make sure I understand where you're going from.

00:57:22.000 Who was a better president or is Biden or Trump?

00:57:24.000 Which one would you rank higher?

00:57:27.000 The question has nothing to do with the public.

00:57:29.000 No, I just want to know where you're coming from, though, because it's really super important.

00:57:32.000 Oh, where it's coming from.

00:57:34.000 So in terms of policy, I think that Trump is superior to Biden.

00:57:38.000 I agree.

00:57:39.000 So I totally agree.

00:57:42.000 Operation Warp Seed was a mistake.

00:57:44.000 And giving Fauci an award was a big mistake.

00:57:48.000 I am more than willing to say, you know what?

00:57:51.000 No leader is perfect.

00:57:52.000 No leader is going to do everything the right way.

00:57:54.000 But he was the president that most enraged the establishment, that went to war against the deep state.

00:58:00.000 Now understand that some of you have been ahead of the curve on this stuff.

00:58:03.000 But the built-in expectation that a vaccine is safe and effective is normative amongst a lot of people over the last 30 or 40 years.

00:58:15.000 He comes in thinking he's going to do this thing.

00:58:17.000 It's going to be great.

00:58:17.000 It's anything but that, right?

00:58:19.000 And we could talk about that at great length.

00:58:21.000 But we also must be very clear about the history, because I think you're whitewashing it a little bit.

00:58:26.000 Trump's gut instinct, which I wish he would have stuck with, was early treatments, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and opening up the economy.

00:58:35.000 Now, to your point, he was somewhat overwhelmed by committee and Burks and Fauci.

00:58:42.000 But you remember when Trump did that press conference, said, we must open up the country and we must do this and we must do that?

00:58:48.000 And he got totally assaulted and land blasted from every single direction.

00:58:52.000 So your question is, how can we think he's going to be a good president?

00:58:56.000 He was already a great president.

00:58:57.000 I mean, I will give him one thing that I don't love what he did.

00:59:01.000 While we had no new wars, the best economy ever, we had a secure border, we had Amy Coney Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and over 100 circuit court judges.

00:59:11.000 I acknowledged during COVID that cooler heads did not prevail and he had bad people around him.

00:59:17.000 But here's why I support him even more.

00:59:20.000 Again, I'm speaking personally, not on behalf of Turning Point to say, just personally.

00:59:22.000 Let me tell you why, okay?

00:59:24.000 Which is the amount that they are trying to put him on the sidelines, 700 years in federal prison, makes me believe firmly that he's onto something and that he's going to do something if he gets a second term that will make the deep state go running.

00:59:41.000 Thank you very much.

00:59:42.000 I appreciate it.

00:59:43.000 Thank you.

00:59:48.000 Hello, Mr. Kirk.

00:59:49.000 I'm not sure how I can follow that up, but I'm going to give my best.

00:59:53.000 My question really has to do with abortion.

00:59:57.000 And I never really heard you talk about this on YouTube shorts.

01:00:00.000 That's how I really kind of like know you.

01:00:04.000 But what's your stance on a woman that is pregnant and her life is endangered due to the fetus?

01:00:12.000 Because I believe here in the state of Texas, you can stand your ground.

01:00:18.000 You have the right to self-defense.

01:00:20.000 What is your stance on that?

01:00:21.000 Okay, so first of all, this is debated.

01:00:23.000 I have our really fun, good pro-life leader here.

01:00:27.000 So, first of all, I'm 100% pro-life across the board, okay?

01:00:32.000 And in if, if, if, there is actually, and I will just go to Lila Rose on this.

01:00:38.000 She's much more of an expert than I am.

01:00:40.000 She believes, so does Seth Gruber and many other people in the pro-life, that there are not actual ever instances where the woman's life is in danger or jeopardy.

01:00:48.000 I'm not an OBGYN.

01:00:49.000 Here's what I will say: is that if truly a cesarean section, if truly a C-section can't save the baby and the life of the mother, then in traditional religious doctrine, it's okay to save the life of the mother, okay?

01:01:03.000 But I would dive deeper into what Lila Rose and Seth Gruber say.

01:01:07.000 They believe, and they have a whole community of OBGYNs that believe there's no such circumstance that would necessitate killing the baby to save the mom without engaging in a C-section in that regard.

01:01:18.000 I don't know enough about the details of that to die on that hill, so I would look after them.

01:01:22.000 But out of principle, I would do everything I possibly could to save both lives.

01:01:27.000 Out of principle.

01:01:28.000 That's what I think.

01:01:29.000 Thank you.

01:01:34.000 Hey, Mr. Kirk, I have one question, or rather, a request.

01:01:39.000 Sure.

01:01:40.000 Could you throw out some solutions that would limit or stop men's suicide?

01:01:48.000 Now, before you answer or fulfill my request, I would like to put the magnitude on this problem.

01:01:58.000 In 2020, there were 46,000 suicides in the United States.

01:02:03.000 That is 125 deaths a day, or 125 deaths a day, five deaths every hour.

01:02:10.000 Four of those five deaths were men.

01:02:13.000 We make up 49% of the population, yet 80% of the suicides.

01:02:19.000 Okay, first of all, I've really come to like a doctor.

01:02:22.000 I've had him on my podcast a couple times, Dr. Daniel Amon.

01:02:24.000 I encourage you guys to check him out.

01:02:26.000 He's one of the few guys that talks about brain health and how your brain is the only organ that we don't look at before we treat.

01:02:33.000 You do it with your heart, you do it with your kidney, you do it with your liver, with your appendix.

01:02:37.000 You think about it, brain damage is a very serious thing.

01:02:39.000 So I encourage you guys to check it out.

01:02:40.000 I'm not an expert in it.

01:02:41.000 He has been doing this for 30 or 40 years, and he's really big on this.

01:02:44.000 Brain health leads to mental health, right?

01:02:46.000 From diet to all these different things.

01:02:47.000 Let's talk about policy.

01:02:48.000 Number one, why are men killing themselves in record numbers?

01:02:51.000 There is a lack of purpose in young men, and there's an outright war on men in this country, and it has to stop.

01:02:57.000 There is a war on men in this country.

01:03:00.000 That men are aimless and they are treated as second-class citizens.

01:03:05.000 They lack purpose.

01:03:06.000 They lack the ability to be men at a very young age.

01:03:10.000 They have to almost be grown into like feminized versions of their former self. 0.94

01:03:18.000 And all the institutions have become super, super feminized. 0.85

01:03:21.000 Now, I'm willing to look at all sorts of different sort of policy prescriptions, including, you know, I don't think that pornography is helping at all.

01:03:29.000 I think that men staring at screens is directly tied to depression and anxiety and the lack of young boys to be able to actually have healthy dopaminergic responses to pleasure and to seeking reward systems.

01:03:42.000 But even beyond that, right?

01:03:45.000 This is such a major crisis that is being completely unaddressed by our society and our culture.

01:03:52.000 And if any one of you are struggling with that, you need to go find help.

01:03:55.000 It's okay to go find help.

01:03:56.000 You should go find help.

01:03:58.000 And I hope and pray you find hope, find help that does not just try to medicate you, but actually talks to you and reorients your ability to find purpose and meaning, not just puts you on benzodiazepines or Xanax or Prozac.

01:04:14.000 That is my hope.

01:04:15.000 I'm not an expert, but it's a major problem.

01:04:17.000 Thank you.

01:04:18.000 God bless you.

01:04:19.000 Thank you.

01:04:24.000 Hello, Charlie.

01:04:25.000 I just had to thank you really quickly.

01:04:27.000 I know a few years back, you and Candace did a campus tour.

01:04:30.000 I think it was Campus Clash or something like that.

01:04:33.000 You went to Texas State University.

01:04:35.000 I brought my wife along at the time.

01:04:38.000 At the time, she wasn't really sure where she stood politically, right?

01:04:41.000 She probably couldn't even tell you the difference between a Republican and a Democrat at the moment.

01:04:44.000 But I told her, let's go check these people out.

01:04:46.000 She goes, okay, whatever.

01:04:47.000 And she came, and she ended up loving everything she heard.

01:04:51.000 And really, ever since then, she's basically been converted to the conservative movement that we're doing.

01:04:55.000 Thank you so much.

01:05:00.000 Okay, so I couldn't pass it that chance just to thank you for that.

01:05:02.000 But I do have a question.

01:05:05.000 On your general stance on college, it's not really just you.

01:05:08.000 I think it's generally what I hear from conservatives is that it's kind of just a waste of money.

01:05:15.000 Being a college student, maybe I'm slightly biased.

01:05:17.000 I don't know.

01:05:17.000 But I wanted to question you on, like, I feel like I believe there is a, there are smart, practical ways to approach college, even though unfortunately too many take way too much debt for a useless degree.

01:05:28.000 So I definitely understand the concern.

01:05:30.000 But do you think there's a better way that we just kind of as a movement can kind of educate on that?

01:05:34.000 Or do you think college is sort of just a lost cause?

01:05:38.000 I mean, it depends.

01:05:39.000 I mean, I'm not exactly kind to college.

01:05:41.000 I wrote a whole book called The College Scam, right?

01:05:43.000 And by the way, after you see Harvard with 31 student organizations coming out and supporting Hamas, I think that my mission, my hypothesis on college being a scam is being proven right.

01:05:55.000 Look, I bet if I were to ask you, are there classes that you take that you think are completely unnecessary that you have to go into debt for?

01:06:02.000 I'm sure if I went around the room, everyone says yes, right?

01:06:06.000 And so if they were actually developing your character and enriching your soul, I would say all for it, right?

01:06:12.000 But we're having a massive problem.

01:06:14.000 I mean, I can go through the numbers.

01:06:15.000 They're shocking.

01:06:15.000 Majority of kids that enter, I mean, 40% of kids that enter college don't graduate.

01:06:19.000 How many of you know people that dropped out of college?

01:06:21.000 Almost every single hand goes up, right?

01:06:23.000 There's way too many people that go into college, right?

01:06:26.000 And we need more plumbers, electricians, and welders, and HVAC, and police officers, and entrepreneurs, and people that work at their hands.

01:06:31.000 We need way more of that, right?

01:06:33.000 But secondly, is that everyone's path is different.

01:06:37.000 So I don't want to overly generalize, right?

01:06:38.000 If you want to become a nurse or a doctor, obviously you need to go to college.

01:06:41.000 But if you're going to college to study North African lesbian poetry, like you should probably press pause on that, right?

01:06:49.000 And not exactly a great, you know, career.

01:06:53.000 You could just go work at Starbucks, I guess, or whatever.

01:06:55.000 So, and by the way, the record, North African straight poetry is not that great either, just for the record.

01:07:00.000 But that's a separate issue.

01:07:02.000 And so, I just want to say, my job is this.

01:07:07.000 My job is for parents that have high school kids and high school kids to give them the permission to not go to college if they know that's what's right for them without the weight or the scorn or the condemnation.

01:07:22.000 Because I was that kid.

01:07:23.000 I was that kid. 1.00

01:07:25.000 And it has followed me still recently in my career where I am treated as dumb, stupid. 1.00

01:07:31.000 You don't know what you're doing. 1.00

01:07:33.000 Even in news articles this day, Charlie Kirk, who never went to college, they're really just trying to say I'm stupid, right? 1.00

01:07:38.000 And that's fine, they could say it, but it is a deeply unhealthy way to organize society. 0.95

01:07:43.000 That because you get a special piece of paper, you're somehow like on a higher plane, morally or otherwise.

01:07:51.000 And that's why I wrote the book.

01:07:52.000 And so my job is for the entrepreneur that's 17 years old right now in San Antonio, and he thinks that college is not for him, to say, you know what, you might be right.

01:08:01.000 It's better to go start the business and take the risk because you always go back to college than go to college and not start the business and take the risk.

01:08:07.000 The final thing is the most important thing we should be focused on is developing good people.

01:08:12.000 And I'm afraid that college does not do a good job of that.

01:08:15.000 Thank you, men.

01:08:15.000 God bless you.

01:08:21.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:08:22.000 I have a two-part question.

01:08:24.000 Who are God's chosen people?

01:08:26.000 According to Genesis 3.15, we would traditionally know them as the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

01:08:34.000 But from Genesis 12 onwards.

01:08:35.000 Of course.

01:08:36.000 But in the Old Testament context.

01:08:38.000 But yeah, then it goes on to talk about elect and other what in the New Testament context.

01:08:42.000 Yes, of course.

01:08:42.000 So Abraham's seed.

01:08:45.000 Not all of Abraham's seed.

01:08:47.000 Okay.

01:08:47.000 Yeah, because Ishmael, I don't think, is God's chosen people.

01:08:52.000 Okay, so according to the Old Testament, yes, but what are your thoughts on Galatians 3.29, which states, and if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise, as well as Romans 2, 28 through 29, that states, For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh.

01:09:12.000 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.

01:09:20.000 Okay, so I'm not a theologian or a pastor, but I think what Paul is saying there in Romans, which is basically the believer's constitution, is that if you accept Christ, you're in God's family.

01:09:31.000 That God's family, the new covenant, accepts all if you accept Jesus into the heart, right?

01:09:37.000 So before, it was a very direct bloodline.

01:09:39.000 You call it a tribe of Israel, right? 0.88

01:09:42.000 The tribe of God's chosen people who struggle with God.

01:09:45.000 And I think what he's saying there, and I could be wrong based on the verses you selected, is that accepting Christ makes, as he says, neither slave nor Greek nor Jew.

01:09:53.000 We are all one in Christ Jesus, right?

01:09:56.000 That the family of God's chosen people is if you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

01:10:01.000 So does that mean ethnically Jews are God's chosen people, or is it spiritual?

01:10:01.000 Of course.

01:10:07.000 I mean, I do believe that they are still God's chosen people, and it says that at the end of times, that a large portion of them will accept Jesus Christ Yeshua as their Lord and Savior.

01:10:17.000 Now, the ethnic question you'll have to ask a pastor to that, but I do believe that the nation of Israel and the people of Israel, that God's covenant remains on them.

01:10:27.000 That God's covenant remains on the nation of Israel until the end of times.

01:10:31.000 I appreciate it.

01:10:31.000 Thank you.

01:10:32.000 Thank you.

01:10:38.000 Hello, Mr. Kirk.

01:10:39.000 My name is Yelengal Von.

01:10:41.000 I'm a homeschooled 15-year-old.

01:10:43.000 And since you are absolutely destroying some of these guys, I think it seems fit to ask this question.

01:10:50.000 I want to be able to defend my conservative Christian beliefs as passionately and accurately as you and other great public figures like Candice Owens and other conservative commentators.

01:11:01.000 Do you have any tips on how to prepare myself with facts and information?

01:11:06.000 Just overall speaking aptitude to take on the not only the left, but the evil influence that this world consistently promotes.

01:11:13.000 Yeah, so the best advice.

01:11:15.000 You're 15, that's amazing.

01:11:16.000 The best advice, give it up.

01:11:18.000 That's really amazing.

01:11:26.000 The best advice I could give is take learning very seriously.

01:11:29.000 And that's what I do.

01:11:30.000 It's two hours a day.

01:11:31.000 I'm listening to podcasts, taking Hillsdale online courses, reading books, whatever it takes.

01:11:37.000 I went through the first five books of the Bible in original Hebrew, taught by a pastor.

01:11:43.000 That was done by Dennis Prague and by a pastor.

01:11:45.000 That's a lot of work.

01:11:46.000 If you want to test how much you love learning, go through Leviticus in the month of July.

01:11:53.000 That is really something.

01:11:54.000 It blessed me greatly, but that is not exactly, it's not light stuff, right?

01:11:54.000 I'll tell you what.

01:11:59.000 It's not Proverbs.

01:12:00.000 So learn.

01:12:04.000 Take learning seriously.

01:12:05.000 You have never learned enough.

01:12:06.000 If you think you've learned enough, you're wrong.

01:12:07.000 More podcasts, more books, more questions.

01:12:09.000 And finally, be inquisitive.

01:12:11.000 Find people that know more than you and ask them questions.

01:12:13.000 Why do you believe that?

01:12:14.000 Find people that have wisdom, not just knowledge.

01:12:17.000 So knowledge is practical knowledge.

01:12:18.000 What's the capital of Texas, Austin?

01:12:22.000 Whatever it is.

01:12:23.000 Wisdom is the knowledge of things that don't change.

01:12:26.000 Wisdom is eternal knowledge.

01:12:28.000 What is love?

01:12:29.000 Are human beings naturally good?

01:12:29.000 What is mercy?

01:12:31.000 Should you forgive murder?

01:12:32.000 Should you forgive killing?

01:12:33.000 Are there different types?

01:12:34.000 These are things that don't change.

01:12:35.000 The United States Constitution was not written on knowledge.

01:12:38.000 It was written on wisdom.

01:12:40.000 Because it was not written for the times.

01:12:41.000 It was written to stand the test of time.

01:12:43.000 The problem with colleges is they have tons of knowledge.

01:12:47.000 How to make a vaccine, you know, how to put a rocket into space, and no wisdom.

01:12:52.000 Where does wisdom begin?

01:12:54.000 With the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

01:12:58.000 Thank you.

01:13:06.000 Hey, how's it going?

01:13:07.000 Good.

01:13:08.000 My question is that we've all seen the footage of what happened when Hamas attacked Israel.

01:13:13.000 They came through with trucks and they came through with paragliders as well.

01:13:16.000 We also know that Mossad is one of the best intelligence agencies in the world.

01:13:21.000 We actually send our own intelligence agency to get trained over there by them.

01:13:25.000 And I do understand that it was a holiday for them, but how does the best intelligence agency in the world basically not even see this coming?

01:13:34.000 Knowing as well that there's been situations like the Levan affair, USS Liberty, and deliberate attacks by Israel on the American government, how do we know that they're just not trying to pull our strings?

01:13:46.000 Yeah, this is what made me go viral last week, right?

01:13:49.000 Which is hilarious because I'm super pro-Israel, but I'm not afraid to ask questions, right?

01:13:53.000 20 hours response for the IDF to go to send those kibbutzes. 1.00

01:13:56.000 That's worthy of asking questions.

01:13:58.000 Now, I said explicitly in that video clip that I went very viral, that I'm not suggesting that Netanyahu did something intentionally, but here's what I am saying.

01:14:07.000 Fact number one, Axios article shows that an equivalent of a council of decision makers were briefed on Friday night before the attack that there was growing chatter and activity on the Gaza border, and there was a deliberate decision not to put it on high alert.

01:14:25.000 The why we don't know, the what is unmistakable.

01:14:30.000 Fact number two, 1973, 50 years ago, and I'm not saying this is what happened, but you better know about this, Goldamair was briefed by her military, and they said Egypt and Syria are about to invade.

01:14:42.000 We can strike now and we can save lots of Jewish lives.

01:14:46.000 And she said, do not strike, let them hit first, or else the international community will be very, very upset with us.

01:14:53.000 That's 50 years ago to the date that Goldemeyer made that decision.

01:14:57.000 The best answer and the one that will probably come out is Israel got complacent, probably. 0.91

01:15:01.000 Or one that people are not talking about, maybe Netanyahu was double-crossed within his own government.

01:15:07.000 Maybe that there were not, maybe there were spies within the spy agency.

01:15:11.000 I am going to continue to ask the question, a 20-hour response in a country the size of New Jersey.

01:15:19.000 That begs a big explanation.

01:15:21.000 And more importantly, America is significantly underwriting the Israeli government, $4 billion a year.

01:15:27.000 We as American taxpayers deserve answers to this.

01:15:30.000 We deserve answers.

01:15:31.000 Also, if we're going to get into a regional or world war based on an intel failure, so, I mean, we pay for this.

01:15:39.000 What are we buying, right?

01:15:41.000 I got smeared as a Jew hater, an anti-Semite, and conspiracy theorist because I said exactly what I just said.

01:15:47.000 And I refuse to back down despite all the smears thrown at me because I learned during COVID.

01:15:53.000 I learned when they told us that it came from a bat in the Himalayas.

01:15:56.000 I learned when they told us the vaccine was safe and effective.

01:15:59.000 I learned when they told us that Iver Mectam was horse-paced, that you better keep asking questions because it's the only thing that keeps us free.

01:16:08.000 Thank you so much.

01:16:09.000 I appreciate it.

01:16:16.000 Hello, Charlie.

01:16:18.000 My question was about: what are your thoughts on the body positivity movement and how do you feel about people being called fat phobic for just trying to get healthy?

01:16:26.000 For example, Lizzo being insulted by her fans for going on a juice cleanse.

01:16:30.000 Yeah.

01:16:33.000 How do I feel about it?

01:16:35.000 Yes.

01:16:37.000 I mean, I think everyone knows the truth.

01:16:39.000 Like, if you called your girlfriend and you say your girlfriend looks like Lizzo, how would she react?

01:16:46.000 I wouldn't be very happy.

01:16:47.000 I wouldn't be very happy.

01:16:47.000 Huh?

01:16:49.000 Yeah, that's the answer to the question.

01:16:51.000 So if you said, hey, you look like Lizzo today.

01:16:59.000 I mean, yeah.

01:17:02.000 Wouldn't go well.

01:17:03.000 First date, I think you look like Lizzo.

01:17:07.000 Everyone knows. 0.69

01:17:08.000 Everyone knows that when you're obese, it's not pleasant to look at.

01:17:12.000 A lot of people struggle with weight.

01:17:13.000 I certainly have.

01:17:14.000 I've lost 30 pounds in the last year.

01:17:15.000 I'm open about it.

01:17:16.000 I talk it on my show.

01:17:17.000 And so, but there's also you have to understand: obesity is a choice.

01:17:22.000 Being fat, everyone has different bodies, different metabolisms.

01:17:25.000 But you can make specific life choices to trim down and slim down.

01:17:30.000 And for people that you know you struggle with that, honestly, God bless you for trying to prioritize a healthier life.

01:17:36.000 And I say this all the time on my show, and I get emails from people all the time. 0.91

01:17:38.000 Charlie, you're too mean, you know, to the fat people. 0.93

01:17:41.000 And I was like, I say, wait, hold on a second. 0.98

01:17:42.000 I'm not being mean.

01:17:43.000 I actually might be the dose of truth you need to hear.

01:17:46.000 Because type 2 diabetes, whether it be cancer or whatever it is.

01:17:49.000 And I don't think as a society we should act as if it is acceptable or normal, especially for teenagers to be so obese.

01:18:00.000 You know, 50% of kids under the age of 15 are clinically obese.

01:18:03.000 And if you struggle, you have my support.

01:18:05.000 But if you give up and you wallow in being that and act as if it's normal, I think that's anti-American and honestly pro-victim mentality.

01:18:13.000 And it is in what you eat.

01:18:15.000 And some people say, Charlie, no matter how hard I try, I can't lose weight.

01:18:19.000 Okay, I mean, I don't believe that, to be honest.

01:18:22.000 Like, there are certain things you can do to improve your life.

01:18:26.000 And we are a fat country right now.

01:18:28.000 We are way too fat of a country. 0.89

01:18:30.000 And we need to be honest about that. 0.96

01:18:32.000 And from someone that, honestly, I'm glad I was fat-shamed when I was fat.

01:18:35.000 It needed to be done.

01:18:37.000 And it was the best thing.

01:18:38.000 I was like, wow, I'm overweight.

01:18:39.000 Let's lose some weight, right?

01:18:40.000 Stopped eating carbs.

01:18:41.000 Intermittent fasting was great.

01:18:43.000 And honestly, for those of you that need to hear this tonight, consider it a challenge to be better because it's in your control.

01:18:50.000 The best emails I get, though, are when people say, Charlie, I lost 40 pounds because of your program.

01:18:55.000 And I feel better.

01:18:56.000 My marriage is better.

01:18:57.000 I'm walking every morning.

01:18:59.000 And so I don't mean it in a shameful way.

01:19:01.000 I mean it in a challenging way.

01:19:03.000 I mean it, you could do better.

01:19:05.000 We need to do better.

01:19:06.000 And I think the body positivity movement unnecessarily creates a sense of low expectations.

01:19:13.000 I don't like that.

01:19:13.000 Thank you.

01:19:14.000 Appreciate it.

01:19:14.000 Thanks.

01:19:17.000 We'll take a couple more.

01:19:19.000 Any more disagreements?

01:19:20.000 You can go to the front of the line.

01:19:21.000 Yes, ma'am.

01:19:22.000 Hi, Mr. Kirk.

01:19:22.000 My name is Elise Galvan.

01:19:24.000 I'm also homeschooled.

01:19:25.000 As a Christian, I feel that progressive Christianity, New Age thinking, and watered-down teachings are incredibly harmful.

01:19:31.000 Yes.

01:19:31.000 And that the modern church is failing my generation especially.

01:19:36.000 And yet it seems like there's not a lot of leading churches and Christian figures talking about how it affects the youth.

01:19:41.000 So I was just wondering, what advice would you have for Gen Z and the youth to be taking steps not only in the social and political areas, but in the church setting as well?

01:19:51.000 Amen.

01:19:51.000 I love your heart.

01:19:52.000 Thank you.

01:19:52.000 That's a really great question.

01:19:54.000 For those of us that are believers, we have a serious problem, everybody.

01:19:57.000 Church attendance is down.

01:19:59.000 Churches are falling apart, but not every church.

01:20:02.000 Jack Hibbs' church is growing like crazy, for example.

01:20:04.000 If you know Jack Hibbs, if you speak the truth, people need it in a broken culture.

01:20:10.000 We have been told by certain mega church pastors that if you water down the gospel and water down the truth, that that's how you're going to win people over. 0.98

01:20:18.000 I think tonight is a testament that that is rubbish. 0.98

01:20:21.000 Look at tonight. 0.94

01:20:23.000 You have people from all different walks of life of all sorts of different backgrounds that want to hear the truth, not a watered down version of what the media is already saying.

01:20:32.000 And that's what the church needs to be.

01:20:34.000 It's like the church, look, I'm honestly very outspoken against some of these wokey pastors, right?

01:20:41.000 Where their wardrobe budget is much bigger than their book budget, right?

01:20:44.000 And the skinny gene type pastors that do a TED Talk with a rock concert with organized parking and a coffee bar.

01:20:52.000 And how about this?

01:20:54.000 You preach the word and trust in God enough that when you do that, that people will be healed and moved and transformed by that.

01:21:02.000 You do not water it down to seek approval from the world.

01:21:05.000 Thank you so much.

01:21:06.000 Thank you.

01:21:08.000 We'll do a couple more.

01:21:09.000 Yep.

01:21:10.000 All right.

01:21:12.000 Welcome, Mr. Kirk, to my alma mater.

01:21:15.000 And most certainly welcome to the greatest country in America, Texas.

01:21:29.000 All right, I need to premise my question by giving you some information.

01:21:33.000 I think you'll find it quite relevant to me.

01:21:35.000 Super quick, because I'm going to get to a couple more.

01:21:36.000 Okay, I'm going to really try.

01:21:38.000 Okay, so I wanted to get your perspective on postmodernism in terms of its application into the current social and political narrative.

01:21:44.000 I started with reading Judith Butler's work and found some significant flaws in the thinking.

01:21:49.000 As an example, Butler's gender performances very unclear to me in that it is filled with contradictions.

01:21:57.000 But when she was pressed on clarity, this is what she said.

01:22:01.000 It is better to not define the sexualities or binary terms, as well as it is equally better to not define postmodernism.

01:22:12.000 This by itself almost seems designed to deliberately keep definition out because if she had to define her theory, she would have to admit its flaws.

01:22:21.000 Yes.

01:22:22.000 This is what Pluckrose's cynical theories, yeah.

01:22:26.000 Yep, yep, thank you.

01:22:27.000 Yeah, I think he called it the blurring the lines.

01:22:29.000 Yep, I know.

01:22:30.000 And then you have the same thing with Richard Warity, where he says that.

01:22:37.000 You got to ask the question.

01:22:38.000 We're running out of time.

01:22:38.000 I'm sorry.

01:22:39.000 Okay.

01:22:40.000 So based off that, my question is, how would you help the audience to reconcile the harmful effects in this nation's universities of the twisting of this philosophy in a way that students are not being taught how to think, but what to think about?

01:22:52.000 That's a great question.

01:22:53.000 I'm sorry to accelerate it, okay?

01:22:54.000 But here's the thing.

01:22:55.000 The left hates hard definitions, okay?

01:22:57.000 They love this swirl of vagueness.

01:23:00.000 And they want people to manifest their own resentments and not have complex, nuanced, or more importantly, distinctions.

01:23:09.000 To go back to a biblical context, in the beginning, God created separation and order, right?

01:23:13.000 He created expanse and separation.

01:23:15.000 They want to get rid of all those contradictions to create a oneness.

01:23:19.000 And so postmodernism at its core is basically you get to determine what is right or wrong, regardless of what is actually objectively true.

01:23:27.000 You saw that on display earlier, right?

01:23:29.000 Which is like, well, if you think you're a woman, you're a woman, you think you're a man, you're a man.

01:23:31.000 That's at the root of postmodernism, that you are in charge.

01:23:34.000 Remember what I said, the two things?

01:23:35.000 There is a God and you are not him?

01:23:37.000 That is the antidote to postmodernism.

01:23:39.000 Believing that there's a transcendent, eternal, one God that created the universe with a moral order for you to live with an eternal date of judgment that you have is the best way to go up against a postmodernist viewpoint, which is they say there is no truth, there is no justice, there is no meaning, and there's no reason why you're here.

01:23:55.000 Thank you so much.

01:23:56.000 Appreciate it.

01:23:57.000 I got to get to the next question.

01:23:58.000 I'm sorry.

01:23:59.000 I've been following you for four years, and I actually wrote a book because you inspired me to do it.

01:24:03.000 I'd love to take a look at it.

01:24:05.000 Macy'll take it.

01:24:06.000 Thank you so much.

01:24:06.000 Thank you.

01:24:07.000 Thank you.

01:24:08.000 All right.

01:24:09.000 Final call for disagreement.

01:24:10.000 We'll do a couple more, okay?

01:24:12.000 Happy belated birthday, by the way.

01:24:13.000 Oh, thank you.

01:24:15.000 I've ranched from Montana all the way down here to South Texas, and I've seen many ranchers and farmers have to sell out or significantly reduce operations due to Democrat policy.

01:24:25.000 So I want to know what you think about the future for farmers and ranchers in America.

01:24:29.000 Yeah, look, I 100% stand with farmers and ranchers.

01:24:33.000 It is so wrong what is happening with the federal government incursion, with the lack of land rights.

01:24:39.000 We have to take back our land in this country, by the way.

01:24:41.000 The federal government has way too much land.

01:24:44.000 We've got to take back our land.

01:24:45.000 If a Republican ran on taking back our land in Arizona, it would be unbelievably successful.

01:24:51.000 Yeah, I don't have much to contribute to it.

01:24:53.000 I don't know the policy of ag that well, but honestly, one of the reasons why we're a free and prosperous country is we're able to produce our own food without having to import it.

01:25:02.000 And I, for one, am very worried about the hypercorporatization of our farming.

01:25:07.000 I do not trust Bill Gates to be in charge of our farmland.

01:25:09.000 I do not trust Monsanto to be in charge of our farmland.

01:25:12.000 In fact, I want a decentralized farming system of people that have been there for multiple generations, that know the land, that are there for the right reasons, to be in charge of our food supply, not Seattle billionaires that are coming in to try to literally end meat in America, which is what Bill Gates is doing.

01:25:27.000 So that's the best answer I can get.

01:25:29.000 Thank you.

01:25:35.000 Hey, Charlie, the Holy Spirit is on fire in you tonight.

01:25:37.000 Oh, you're very kind.

01:25:38.000 Thank you.

01:25:40.000 Real quick, one thing. 0.98

01:25:43.000 So how do we get men back into the household? 0.97

01:25:46.000 How do we get these older men who have abandoned their families? 1.00

01:25:49.000 How do we get them back to take care of their kids?

01:25:50.000 And how do we educate the younger generation to not make them repeat those same mistakes?

01:25:58.000 Great question.

01:26:00.000 By the way, fatherlessness is not just in the black community. 0.99

01:26:03.000 It's just worse in the black community, right? 1.00

01:26:04.000 This is one thing where I think we need to bring back shame culture. 0.96

01:26:08.000 And I know that sounds unchristian.

01:26:10.000 If you impregnate a woman and you abandon her, you should be shamed from decent society.

01:26:15.000 You should be shamed from decent society.

01:26:17.000 We should not act as if that is acceptable. 0.99

01:26:19.000 That is cowardly.

01:26:21.000 That is wrong.

01:26:22.000 And honestly, it drives... 0.93

01:26:23.000 It's not acceptable, but it drives a lot of abortions in the country, right?

01:26:27.000 I'm not saying that's a reason for abortion.

01:26:28.000 I'm not justifying it.

01:26:30.000 But a lot of them say, well, I don't have a man to take care of me.

01:26:32.000 Couple things.

01:26:33.000 Again, part of this is idealistic, part of it's not.

01:26:35.000 We have to change the way that we view sex.

01:26:37.000 Sex is not just about pleasure.

01:26:39.000 It's about connection.

01:26:40.000 We should try to tell young people to save themselves from marriage, regardless of how much condemnation that makes you receive.

01:26:46.000 But purity culture, I don't hear about that at all anymore.

01:26:48.000 It's like been completely obliterated.

01:26:50.000 We've like dropped that battle.

01:26:51.000 In fact, I think young people are more likely to receive that message now than ever before.

01:26:55.000 But more importantly, is we have to build up what does it mean to be a man, right?

01:26:59.000 And being a man is not just spreading your seed and running around.

01:27:03.000 Being a man is finding your life partner and building a family, nurturing and protecting and developing something beautiful.

01:27:10.000 Thank you very much.

01:27:13.000 I got to get to the next one.

01:27:14.000 Next one.

01:27:15.000 Thank you.

01:27:15.000 Two more.

01:27:16.000 We'll do two more, everybody.

01:27:17.000 Is that okay, everybody?

01:27:18.000 Two more questions?

01:27:18.000 Is that okay?

01:27:19.000 All right.

01:27:20.000 So first I wanted to say thank you for coming to UTSA.

01:27:23.000 We appreciate you.

01:27:24.000 My question was, what's your thoughts on populism?

01:27:27.000 It seems like there's a divide within the GOP between neocons and the more populist elements.

01:27:33.000 I want to know your thoughts on that.

01:27:34.000 It's a great question.

01:27:34.000 Yeah.

01:27:35.000 Depends how you define populism.

01:27:37.000 I think I'm 100% on board for a lot of the populist elements that are ascendant right now.

01:27:41.000 But we also must understand populism can go too far, right?

01:27:44.000 You must be anchored in conservative values.

01:27:47.000 I call them biblical values or whatever it is.

01:27:49.000 So populism is listening to your voters to see if they are saying something that is not being addressed that your current political apparatus is ignoring.

01:27:59.000 For example, trade.

01:28:00.000 If it was not for the populist movement, we never would have a robust discussion on importing piles of plastic in from China into the country.

01:28:09.000 That was a legitimate concern that Middle America was saying, hey, why are you shutting down our factories? 0.87

01:28:14.000 And for years we said, sit down and shut up.

01:28:15.000 And the populist movement, to their credit, really was able to platform that as a major issue.

01:28:20.000 But here's the thing is you have to be careful not to overly pander to masses, right?

01:28:25.000 Because crowds are not always right.

01:28:27.000 At the same time, you should not despise them and you should not shut them up or suffocate them.

01:28:33.000 You should listen to your voters.

01:28:34.000 But it always should come back to a conservative type perspective and you must use prudence when actually implementing the policy.

01:28:40.000 I'm on board though for 99% of what's happening in populism in this country right now.

01:28:44.000 I think it's good that we're finally talking about immigration, foreign wars, trade deals.

01:28:48.000 And honestly, if it was not for populism, we would not be talking about the chemical castration of our kids and the butchering of them through this trans agenda. 0.99

01:28:56.000 That's a great thing that the populist movement has brought forward.

01:28:59.000 So if the public is howling, they might have a good reason.

01:29:04.000 And the contempt of old school conservatism is we're not going to listen to our voters ever.

01:29:09.000 They're wrong.

01:29:09.000 We know it's better.

01:29:10.000 Instead, it's like, well, maybe they're telling you something you should listen to.

01:29:13.000 Maybe they're telling you that their purchasing power is going down and they can't afford homes and inflation is crushing their back and gas prices are unreachable and the border's wide open and they're ticking tired of you because you can't even pick a speaker of the house.

01:29:26.000 Thank you so much.

01:29:27.000 Appreciate it.

01:29:30.000 Final question.

01:29:33.000 Mr. Kirk, it's an honor to speak with you.

01:29:35.000 It's honored to have you here.

01:29:36.000 I listen to you on the radio as much as possible.

01:29:38.000 Thank you.

01:29:38.000 And you were fantastic in 2000 Mules.

01:29:41.000 Oh, thank you.

01:29:42.000 Yes, sir.

01:29:44.000 Most people don't acknowledge I'm even in that movie, so thank you.

01:29:47.000 Yeah.

01:29:48.000 It's like I'm in the movie.

01:29:49.000 Have you ever seen it?

01:29:50.000 My favorite is when people ask me if I've seen it.

01:29:53.000 I'm in the movie.

01:29:55.000 Movie.

01:29:57.000 I have supported Donald Trump.

01:29:59.000 I blockwalked for him.

01:30:02.000 But recently, my very liberal family member has come up with a legitimate question that I don't have an answer.

01:30:08.000 I'm stumped on it.

01:30:10.000 The prosecutorial abuse that he suffered, I understand that.

01:30:15.000 But one case in particular, I'm really unclear on the sexual harassment case that came up, I think, went to trial a few months ago.

01:30:23.000 Eugene Carroll?

01:30:24.000 Yeah.

01:30:25.000 Yeah.

01:30:25.000 What was the result of that?

01:30:27.000 Was he convicted, acquitted?

01:30:31.000 Yeah, so it was a civilization.

01:30:31.000 That's a great question.

01:30:32.000 Sorry to interrupt.

01:30:33.000 It's a civil trial, not criminal.

01:30:35.000 So he had to pay like $6 million. 0.99

01:30:38.000 You should just watch Donald Trump's five-minute explanation of why that is a bunch of rubbish. 0.94

01:30:44.000 It's hilarious. 0.92

01:30:46.000 And I'm not going to have to kind of redo it.

01:30:48.000 And the first thing he says is, go look at a picture of Eugene Carroll and ask yourself, would Donald Trump 30 years ago...

01:30:55.000 And it's just, that's him.

01:30:56.000 I'm just saying.

01:30:58.000 That's his words, not my words, okay?

01:31:01.000 And he goes through this whole thing about like it's in, you know, in like a bathroom in Tiffany's.

01:31:06.000 It's, you know.

01:31:07.000 But if honestly, if a liberal, like, I got to be honest, like, not you, but if a liberal family member is worried about a rigged jury civil decision of an alleged sexual harassment 30 years ago when our country's on the verge of World War III and the dollar's collapsing and the borders wide open, I think these people have a very serious case of Trump derangement syndrome at that point.

01:31:26.000 I mean, that is incurable.

01:31:28.000 Thank you very much.

01:31:29.000 All right.

01:31:32.000 I want to just say in closing, Turning Point USA, I believe, is the most important organization in America.

01:31:37.000 We are on high school campuses, college campuses, TPUSA Faith, pushing the line forward every day.

01:31:42.000 Candace Owens is also on tour, reaching millions and millions and millions of young people every day.

01:31:47.000 Here's my closing message.

01:31:48.000 Some of you probably came tonight and you say, Charlie, I've done everything that has been asked of me.

01:31:53.000 Everything.

01:31:54.000 I walk on doors, walk doors.

01:31:56.000 I'm a precinct committee man.

01:31:57.000 I bought the pillow.

01:31:58.000 I've done everything that has been asked of me.

01:32:03.000 By the way, promo code Kirk at mypillow.com, just in case you're wondering, okay?

01:32:09.000 We as patriots must have resolve of not surrendering.

01:32:13.000 They are counting on your quitting.

01:32:17.000 They will not win if we do not break.

01:32:20.000 I know times are dark.

01:32:22.000 I know it looks bad.

01:32:23.000 But we have an unbelievable community, a remnant, if you will, of people that are filled with faith, filled with spirit, filled with courage all across this country.

01:32:33.000 We still have breath in our lungs to save this republic, and we're going to scrap for every inch.

01:32:37.000 We're going to start more chapters.

01:32:38.000 We're going to do more for school boards.

01:32:40.000 We're going to influence more people.

01:32:41.000 The opposition is petty and they're shallow and they're fragile.

01:32:45.000 And we are getting tougher by the day.

01:32:48.000 I'm not going to guarantee victory, but I will guarantee this: that this movement that we are building is going to define history in a profound and beautiful and magical way.

01:32:58.000 And they've only started to see us fight.

01:33:00.000 God bless Texas.

01:33:00.000 God bless you guys so much.

01:33:07.000 Thanks so much for listening.

01:33:08.000 Everybody, email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:33:11.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

01:33:15.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - October 29, 2023

Hamas, BLM, and the Left's Resentment Culture: Charlie's Speech at UT-San Antonio

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