In this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk sits down with Turning Point USA President and former Vice Presidential candidate, Charlie Kirk, to talk about his journey to becoming a Christian in politics and why he believes the Christian community should be more involved in politics.
00:00:37.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:10.000No, he should be up there instead of me.
00:02:12.000And so, no, he's my pastor, and he's really kind of guided me and Turning Point in trying to get more involved in trying to get the Christian community engaged in these issues and trying to contest for liberty, which is God's idea, not man's idea.
00:02:28.000And it's really going to be incumbent on the American church to do something about that.
00:02:34.000And so I'm just honored to be here tonight and discuss that.
00:02:37.000For the longest time, Charlie, I was under the opinion that, and you kind of shared this earlier, that church and politics should kind of be separate.
00:02:45.000What was it that kind of switched that for you?
00:02:49.000And you said, no, I think it's supposed to be the same.
00:03:27.000And Rob challenged me and he said, hey, Charlie, what do you make about Esther?
00:03:30.000What do you make of Esther, Mordecai, Daniel, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, or Joseph?
00:03:35.000Any of the figures that we deem in a positive light in the scriptures of people that were pursuing righteousness in secular government for God's purpose.
00:03:45.000In Jeremiah 29, 7, one of my favorite scriptures, and it's also right before Jeremiah 29, 11, which is one of the most commonly quoted scriptures in the church.
00:03:54.000But people don't always talk about Jeremiah 29, 7, which is the Lord speaking, which the Lord says, demand the welfare of the nation I have put you in, because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
00:04:07.000That's a commandment for us to care about our nation, to care about our country, to care about our city.
00:04:12.000Daniel fasted and prayed for the well-being of the nation that he was in.
00:04:16.000There are multiple instances of God's chosen people dwelling and praying and fasting over what was happening in the community and the nation around them.
00:04:26.000And there are many different kind of churches and movements that have said, as I grew up in, said, you know, I don't want to deal with this.
00:04:33.000And I want to be very clear that it is the easy road not to engage in these issues.
00:04:39.000But I believe that now more than ever, the body of Christ and congregations like this have questions about this for good reason.
00:04:47.000Like, hey, Pastor, you know, can you help clarify to me transgender bathrooms?
00:04:52.000Did God create men and did God create women?
00:04:54.000You know, if the pastor says, you know, we don't do that around here, then I believe that's a disservice to the flock.
00:05:00.000And the Bible says many different things about the proper way to set up governments, the proper way that human beings should live.
00:05:09.000And there are a couple issues that are non-controversial in this regard.
00:05:12.000One in particular really kind of showed itself in the last year and a half, which is that the church needs to take a stand and say we will never be labeled non-essential again.
00:05:21.000We will never allow the church to be shut down while drug dispensaries, alcohol shops, abortion factories, and strip clubs remain open and the body of Christ and the bride of Christ gets locked down by government order.
00:06:00.000So, no, but we trade stuff all the time.
00:06:02.000But I do want to make this point, though, which is that it says in Romans to love what is good and hate what is evil.
00:06:10.000That we are commanded to really, and we have to be careful the way we do this.
00:06:15.000But as the body of Christ, say to our congregation and the community, say, you know what, we're not okay with eight-year-olds being exposed to pornographic sexual education in our local schools.
00:06:27.000Now, some churches say that's not our role.
00:06:29.000We're not going to take, you know, stances on that.
00:06:33.000We know the way that God made man and God made woman for each other.
00:06:37.000And then if we're going to take no stances in the public sphere, I believe then all of a sudden we're the ones that all of a sudden say, hey, we have the truth, but in order to get the truth, you got to come within the confines of our church only between these hours.
00:06:48.000We are called to be salt and light in every single corner of our nation and our community.
00:06:54.000I am arguing for comprehensive Christianity, not compartmentalized Christianity.
00:06:59.000And at this time, whether we like it or not.
00:07:01.000So some people say, well, Charlie, what about separation of church and state, right?
00:07:35.000Let's pretend that there is a separation of church and state.
00:07:38.000Well, then why don't we keep the state out of the church?
00:07:40.000Then why don't we say that the state never is allowed to shut down the church?
00:07:44.000What they've always been saying is it's a one-way separation, saying the church can't impact the state, but the state can come in and all of a sudden, according to certain leaders of a certain political party in our country, say, you know what?
00:07:55.000We are now, and they're pushing this in legislation, which will never, it won't happen hopefully anytime soon.
00:08:00.000We are going to say that if you're a pastor, you must conduct homosexual marriages, that we're going to tell you that you have to administer things that are against your deeply held religious beliefs.
00:08:12.000Telling Christian universities that they must vaccinate their students or lose certain privileges or that we are going to send police officers on campus.
00:08:22.000I thought it's separation of church and state.
00:08:24.000In reality, that has been broken a long time ago.
00:08:27.000And what we need to realize is that this church and this country was founded by the church being active.
00:08:33.00055 of 56 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Bible-believing, regular church-attending Christians.
00:08:40.000Every time the church gets complacent, you see the country fall apart.
00:08:44.000When the church gets active, you see a renewal and a revival and not a political one.
00:08:50.000That's far less important as the most important thing, which is winning souls for Jesus Christ and spreading the gospel to a broken world that needs it.
00:08:59.000And so some people are still kind of skeptical.
00:09:01.000I was just at a church in Denver and we had 3,000 people show up.
00:09:05.000They said, Charlie, I'm not bought and sold because what you're saying is that the most important thing is politics.
00:09:11.000The most important thing, number one, is to win souls for Jesus Christ and to spread the good news that is the gospel.
00:09:18.000Now, there's a second part to the sentence.
00:09:21.000The second most important thing at a lower importance is what I'm focused on, which is to make sure you could do the first thing.
00:09:29.000My job is to make sure you can keep on doing the first thing.
00:09:32.000My job is to make sure that you can continue to share your values, to make sure that the church doesn't get locked down again, to make sure that, as they've done in China, they just banned the Bible app.
00:09:43.000Now, people say, oh, Charlie, that will never happen here.
00:09:45.000Do I need to go through the last 18 months as just kind of as a quick history month of things that will never happen here?
00:10:05.000The source is the church and the gospel of Jesus Christ, and it's incumbent on us.
00:10:09.000In fact, we are commanded to contest for this in every single arena possible.
00:10:16.000But Charlie, the pushback that I'm sure you've never heard, so this will be completely brand new for you, is Charlie, Romans 13 says that we're supposed to be submissive to government authorities.
00:10:29.000So when the government tells us to shut down, we've got to submit to the government.
00:10:41.000So I'm going to give you all a quick answer to that that I think will really kind of open some eyes because a lot of Christians are confronted with this.
00:10:50.000It also says something similar in 1 Peter as well, which is the submit to all.
00:10:55.000And I'm paraphrasing, but in Romans 13, it says to submit to all people in authority because God put them there for your good.
00:11:02.000And a lot of pastors take that as an unquestioned kind of stand down order.
00:11:32.000It was a bloodline passing down of who was governor from Caesar Augustus to Tiberius to Caligula, who was a terrible emperor, to all the way down.
00:11:43.000The transfer of power happened after Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, broke across the Roman triumphant, goes into Roman Civil War.
00:11:52.000Caesar declares himself one year Caesar Emperor and became emperor for life.
00:11:56.000And beware the tides of March, they kill him, etu brute.
00:12:46.000Your rights come from God, not government.
00:12:48.000So I would challenge and I would lovingly push back against some pastors that read that because from American constitutional civic context, the people are the sovereign.
00:12:57.000The people in the Anthony Fauci or some governor of some state, they are there because we have given them the permission to be there.
00:13:07.000And it's about time they start honoring that.
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00:14:34.000I wish he was a little bit more prepared for his answers.
00:14:38.000Charlie, so when COVID was, when COVID was first announced, when they first said, you know, when I first heard of COVID, I thought it was going to be, you remember, SARS or something, like every two years, it seems like we have something, you know, swine flu, bird flu.
00:14:55.000And it didn't seem like it was going to be a big deal.
00:14:57.000But then all of a sudden, they start shutting down the NCAA tournament.
00:15:01.000And so my question to you is, when COVID first started taking place, what were your thoughts?
00:15:10.000And then at what point did you say, I think they're playing, play?
00:15:17.000I mean, not that it's not serious, but I think they're playing people.
00:15:20.000Well, and we have to realize that we were played on both sides.
00:15:23.000And so I was actually one of the earlier people to take this seriously because our media didn't take it seriously for two months.
00:15:30.000If you remember, there was kind of all this chatter on untrafficked websites, meaning like kind of the, you know, the place where, you know, information, you know, isn't allowed on Facebook anymore.
00:15:41.000And you guys know what I'm talking about, you know, websites where it seems as if they're more right than wrong, you know, not the main institutional legacy media about this kind of bizarre cold pneumonia cough that's coming out of China.
00:15:53.000And so I, it's real, you can go back and look at our podcast.
00:15:56.000I was the only person that had an interview with Mike Pence that asked him about COVID in the entire month of January.
00:16:03.000I had it, it was, I only got three questions to ask him for our podcast.
00:16:07.000I was like, hey, by the way, what is this thing?
00:16:09.000And he's like, oh, no, it's perfectly fine.
00:17:30.000You know, you alerted your graphics department really fast to kind of get that into gear.
00:17:35.000And so I was really suspicious of kind of how that all unfolded and kind of all that happened.
00:17:40.000And so then something happened that really bothered me was all of a sudden this term of a lockdown occurred.
00:17:46.000And I was against the lockdown from the beginning, but I put up with it because I'm like, okay, we don't know what we're dealing with here.
00:19:07.000And then a certain percentage required intensive treatment.
00:19:10.000And just around 1.2% of people over the age of 65 ended up dying.
00:19:15.000And a much smaller percentage of people, it was like exact, if you were to scale that for the rest of the country, by the way, these were people that were not given the same sort of treatments that we've now become aware of, right?
00:19:26.000And so I said, wait a second, if this cruise ship, which is a more senior population, if we're dealing with, you know, 0.8 to 1.2 with bad treatment, I said, you scale that.
00:19:35.000That does not justify the lockdown of the American economy and plunging people into poverty and destroying small businesses.
00:19:42.000So I came out really aggressively against the lockdown after that.
00:19:45.000And we took a big risk and just kind of putting on my empirical scientific hat, I said, if this is true, which is the most perfect lab, it's the most ideal lab experiment you could imagine, right?
00:19:55.000It's a self-contained ship in the middle of the ocean, right?
00:19:58.000You can't, you can't, and everything we learned from that actually ended up being true.
00:20:01.000And then, so then I got a call from my friend from South Korea.
00:20:05.000And he said, Charlie, you Americans are handling this all wrong.
00:20:38.000And we saw all of a sudden, you know, we started to realize that we were trying to kill a mouse with a missile and that the cure could be worse than the disease itself.
00:20:52.000In fact, early on, I think that our response was too slow.
00:20:55.000But instead of going quick to mass inoculation, I've always been perplexed at how there's been a mass propaganda campaign preventing you from learning about azithromycin, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, monoclonal antibodies, and aspirin.
00:21:10.000It has been one of the greatest injustices of my entire lifetime, to be perfectly honest.
00:21:16.000It might not be something you want to pursue, but the fact that most people have never been able to be aware of these alternative treatments was something that was awful.
00:21:24.000And so to answer your question, early on, then around April or May, I became an anti-lockdown crusader.
00:21:29.000I traveled the country with anti-lockdown measures.
00:21:33.000I saw the damaging effects it was having on young people, the lowering of education standards, what it was doing to dehumanize people by mandating masks on five and six year olds, which I maintain is child abuse to mask a child.
00:21:46.000It's terrible and it should not happen.
00:21:48.000And so, yeah, I continue to be an anti-lockdown person because I take this position.
00:21:53.000The way we handled this was imprudent.
00:21:56.000The way we should have handled it is, hey, here's what we're dealing with based on the data.
00:21:59.000If you're over 65, you should take this very seriously.
00:22:02.000If you have underlying health conditions, you should take this very seriously.
00:22:05.000But treating every single American demographic as precisely the same would be trying to do the metaphorical kill a mouse with a missile, as I mentioned.
00:22:14.000And we continued onward with this as if every person was equally at risk of dying and getting severe hospitalizations from this virus.
00:22:21.000And even worse, I have to say, as we continued, we started to all of a sudden see how the virus was really being used to reshape American life.
00:22:30.000And regardless of your opinion of this, we can all agree it was used to change our voting laws.
00:22:35.000It was used to change our addiction to social media and technology to massively vaccinate American society to keep us locked down, to bail out blue states, all these sorts of different things.
00:22:45.000Like, okay, it's one thing to say that we want to protect our seniors and our most vulnerable.
00:22:49.000What does that have to do with all of a sudden have mass mail-in voting in the state of Georgia exactly?
00:22:54.000And they used it as an opportunity to unfortunately bring in a pre-existing political agenda.
00:23:00.000And so I think there's a lot of lessons to learn from this, everybody, but I would encourage all of you to go back early.
00:23:06.000The people that were signaling caution with the lockdowns tend to have been right about a lot throughout this entire thing.
00:23:15.000But there tends to be this kind of rhythm where when you turn off your television, you start to look at things around you and look at people that have no vested interest in vaccinating your four-year-old.
00:23:27.000They tend to be right about a lot at this current time.
00:23:30.000So I encourage everyone to kind of break out of the simulation and find other news sources, especially, you know, in American society today.
00:24:13.000But if you don't know how to subscribe to a podcast, I saw an 11-year-old around here somewhere that'd be more than happy to guide you through how to subscribe to a podcast.
00:24:20.000I personally subscribe to four podcasts, only four, and you're one of the four, man, because you guys, I mean, two podcasts a day.
00:25:04.000Yeah, and the courts go their own direction on this.
00:25:07.000But I encourage y'all, we did a whole podcast on this where there is a Supreme Court decision in early 1900s called Jacobson v. Massachusetts, which really kind of set the precedent for vaccine mandates in our country.
00:25:21.000And that very same Supreme Court decision, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, was used by Justice Louis Brandeis in the 1920s as an excuse to sterilize 67,000 women that were deemed as idiot women.
00:25:35.000Just to give you an idea of how that certain constitution, that Supreme Court decision has been used in a rather unethical way.
00:25:44.000I believe very firmly that every American, regardless of kind of where you are, should be given medical and religious exemptions to vaccines.
00:25:53.000That inherently breaks the whole idea of a vaccine mandate.
00:25:56.000So some people say, Charlie, this vaccine, why don't you complain about measle mumps rubella vaccines, right?
00:26:03.000That's a common thought that people say.
00:26:05.000Charlie, we mandate that for our kids at school.
00:26:09.000Number one, this vaccine by all independent metrics was rushed to the market.
00:26:14.000It was not given the same sort of trial, the same sort of independent testing.
00:26:18.000That's not to say there wasn't any, okay?
00:26:20.000But in relation to most vaccines that are widespread with children, this was at an accelerated pace, the likes of which we've never seen.
00:26:27.000Number two, if you try to get a religious exemption for measles, mumps, and rubella, you will likely be approved.
00:26:34.000Religious exemptions get approved all the time for childhood vaccines, especially, I don't know, in South Carolina, but out west in Idaho and Arizona, they will give out vaccine exemptions all the time.
00:26:45.000Number three, when it comes to this, with kind of the question of measle mumps rubella, there's nowhere near the adverse events that are starting to pop up to the MMR vaccines that we are seeing to the current vaccines.
00:26:58.000I encourage all of you to do your own research.
00:27:01.000If you got vaccinated, that's your own medical decision.
00:27:03.000You should be able to make your own medical decision.
00:27:05.000I'm not here to tell you any different.
00:27:07.000And you shouldn't come attack me for not wanting to get this vaccine.
00:27:11.000Everyone is different in the capacity of making their own medical decisions.
00:27:14.000Find a doctor that you believe has the right motives for you and make that decision privately.
00:27:19.000That's the way we used to do medicine in our country.
00:27:21.000But the third thing is this, is that if you look at the adverse events, it should be a timeout.
00:27:25.000The vaccine adverse event reporting system, which is VARES, VARES.gov, has an unusual spike in vaccine adverse events, in myocarditis, in heart-related issues.
00:27:40.000You could go do your own independent research.
00:27:42.000I know in my own personal circle, though, plenty of people that have adverse events to this vaccine, people that have had paralyzed from the waist down, people that have had a lot of unfortunate things, heart issues.
00:27:54.000Even I know one person whose mom dropped dead after getting it.
00:28:02.000But here's where it comes down to is the force, right?
00:28:05.000Which is that if you think this is in your best interest, which there is some evidence to show that if you're over the age of 65, this vaccine can be an effective treatment in lowering your chance of dying.
00:28:16.000There is some data to show that if you weigh in the possible costs associated with it, but the question is, why all of a sudden, if it's a vaccine that prevents you from getting it, do you want to force other people to get it so you can't get it?
00:28:30.000You need to have other people vaccinated, protect you from your own vaccinated status.
00:28:35.000Like, I need to go vaccinate other people to prevent me from getting something the vaccine's supposed to prevent me, right?
00:28:41.000But in reality, and this is important, is that the way they're describing it is that it's more like a treatment than it is a vaccine.
00:28:50.000Now, if that's the case, then all of a sudden we should be allowed to come to the table and say, okay, we've been trying to talk about treatments that you guys have been covering up for quite some time.
00:29:21.000And I said, I'm going to get you to a monoclonal antibody treatment center.
00:29:24.000He had no idea that they even existed because every person in his friend network said, go to the hospital.
00:29:29.000And not every hospital has access to monoclonals, but there was a doctor.
00:29:33.000If you guys don't know what monoclonal antibodies is, that's okay.
00:29:35.000It's otherwise known as regeneron, which is white blood cell treatment of people that previously had COVID, and it could help significantly.
00:29:42.000I could go through ozone therapy or just basic aspirin.
00:29:46.000Go tonight, go look at the Johns Hopkins story study done on NIH.gov.
00:30:13.000I just want to say, aspirin is super cheap to make.
00:30:15.000I mean, it's cents on the dollar to make a pill of aspirin versus a vial of a vaccine.
00:30:21.000Study that shows that taking a dose of aspirin once you get the virus could lower your chance of being hospitalized between 40 to 60 percent.
00:30:32.000And I kid you not, look up then after that the date of the FDA and CDC coming out saying, I saying that aspirin might, we need to rethink America's addiction to aspirin that 30 million Americans, mostly seniors, use as a way to prevent blood clots.
00:30:47.000Like that's an awfully suspicious time to come out with a war on aspirin.
00:30:51.000So what I'm just trying to do with this conversation, I'm not here to tell you what to do with your medical decisions.
00:30:55.000I never have, but I feel it's important because not everyone is actually in the weeds as much as I have on this stuff.
00:31:02.000And traveling the country, meeting lots of different people, seeing these things, I feel it's a moral imperative just to share with you what I'm seeing.
00:31:09.000And you guys can make the best decisions you see fit.
00:31:12.000And I have personally been able to help dozens of people that otherwise would have gone straight to a hospital be able to successfully navigate COVID from with people with COPD, people in their late 80s, people that have underlying health conditions, people that are 500 to 600 pounds.
00:31:27.000And I'm not saying that I have all the answers by any means, but I am saying, dwelling over this for hours a day, I think that sharing this with you guys so you have the information to be able to deal with this, information is important and the truth will set you free.
00:31:46.000You want to do a few more and then you want to do some QA at the end?
00:32:59.000What he has done to damage the American society is more than any person that's never been elected to public office that has done damage to our country than I can think of in our lifetime.
00:33:10.000He has had a huge, massive damaging effect on the American way of life, specifically children in childhood development and schools and education.
00:33:23.000This is what's so amazing: he says, well, and he says in his raspy voice, we need to vaccinate children to prevent them because they have a low risk of dying from COVID, to have a low risk of dying from COVID.
00:33:34.000It's like, it's like, wait a second, I thought they have a low risk.
00:33:36.000So you want to introduce now 50 million vaccine vials to make someone have a, it doesn't make any sense at all.
00:33:44.000And you actually look at the numbers of children risk of dying from COVID.
00:33:51.000I mean, just so you know, that if a child rode in a car here to this church, they are 20 times more likely to die in the car ride to this event than from COVID, just to know what you're dealing with, right?
00:34:03.000And then Fauci lied under oath on May 11th of this last year of where this virus came from and the gain of function research associated with it.
00:34:11.000And look, he also is kind of a creature of the administrative state, right?
00:34:16.000Which is this unelected, unknown, kind of unaccountable power source in our country that is completely extra-constitutional.
00:34:25.000In some sense, we did not vote for that, right?
00:34:28.000We did not go to the polls and say, we want to give all this power to some public health bureaucrat.
00:34:33.000And it's everything the founding fathers tried to warn against, which is for those kind of significant decisions, keep them local or at state levels, not going into the federal government in some sort of sense where he controls tens of billions of dollars of public health money to distribute as he sees fit.
00:34:50.000And so I'm happy to do more word association with that.
00:35:31.000Everything he's trying to do is micromanagement, is mad scientist play, is manipulation.
00:35:37.000And so this is what's so important about finding out where this virus actually came from and his involvement in it, is that the virus was not an act of God.
00:35:46.000It was someone trying to play God that created the virus.
00:35:51.000And we know it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:35:54.000Anyone who tells you different is just fooling you.
00:35:56.000And therefore, it wasn't that it just came from some bat from the Himalayan mountains.
00:36:01.000No, this was someone that was engaging in the same sort of treacherous, unbiblical behavior of Genesis 11, of someone that was trying to build a superstructure to challenge God himself, the Tower of Babel.
00:36:13.000And God was so offended by this, he scattered the nations and the people of that tower into total confusion of the languages across the earth.
00:36:21.000That sort of principle of you're going to try to challenge my authority, I'm going to sow confusion and chaos as a result of that.
00:36:32.000But Fauci does not even recognize that.
00:36:34.000He doesn't even recognize the sovereignty of God.
00:36:36.000In fact, he tries to play God himself.
00:36:39.000And Dwight D. Eisenhower, who I believe is one of the greatest American presidents that gets almost no credit for it, in his farewell address, many people know that in his farewell address, he mentioned that we should be wary of a military industrial complex.
00:36:52.000But what most people don't know is that the full statement is he said, we must be wary of an unelected, unaccountable scientific and technological elite that will run our country into the ground, given the proper checks and balances that our founding fathers gave us.
00:37:07.000That's a pretty amazing statement from a man who won a world war in two theaters against existential evil and served eight years as a president, someone who loved the Lord, by the way, and grew up in very humble beginnings.
00:37:18.000And I think we need to heed that warning from Dwight D. Eisenhower of what happens when we allow people in the scientific and technological elite to run our lives.
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00:39:40.000Tonight, when this event is over, you're going to be doing election coverage for, now, if you would have told me or anybody in this room, you know, a month ago that you like there's going to be an election in Virginia that's literally going to captivate a lot of a lot of, like, it's going to matter to a lot of people.
00:40:10.000I mean, I, you know, we wanted to find a place to speak on this night because we kind of had a free night between speaking at Clemson and Alabama because we had a team meeting and we said, hey, are we going to be doing election live coverage?
00:40:22.000I said, ah, the Virginia race, he'll lose by like eight points.
00:40:25.000Like we might do a little thing where it's now like, as soon as we're done, I'm heading into the office.
00:40:29.000We're going straight into the live stream to millions of viewers tonight.
00:40:45.000And that's going to go probably till 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. knowing kind of all the nonsense out of Fairfax County.
00:40:49.000But it's really an important question, which is, I think, one of the reasons why the church is starting to rise up.
00:40:54.000So in Proverbs 11, 11, it's one of the verses that I think speaks very clearly to kind of why we need to care about our government and our leaders around us.
00:41:03.000And I'm paraphrasing, but it's this contrast proverb of which a lot of proverbs are, which is that when the upright rule, you know, the righteousness prevail, but when the wicked rule, you know, people either scowl or complain.
00:41:16.000I can't remember the exact word that it, the word that is used.
00:41:19.000But also another proverb is, you know, set straight a child in its ways, right?
00:41:24.000And again, I'm paraphrasing the essence of the proverb, but education is something that we as Christians are commanded to get involved in.
00:41:32.000Well, the reason why this race in Virginia has all of a sudden went from a comfortable blue state to now a legitimate battleground state is because all of a sudden, from a 10-point margin, plus what happened in Loudoun County, Virginia, and what happened in the schools and school boards across the country has changed the American political dynamic in a profound way.
00:41:58.000In Virginia, Democrats would win by eight points, 10 points statewide.
00:42:01.000We don't know what's going to happen tonight, but it's looking very good for the Republican challenger, where all of a sudden in Loudoun County, Virginia, you started to see rumblings of moms and dads starting to show up to school board meetings and care about their children's education.
00:42:14.000Now, education comes from a Latin word, which means to lead forth the truth, right?
00:42:19.000So we are commanded to lead our children forth into truth and goodness and God willing a relationship with our creator and Jesus Christ.
00:42:27.000But when you start to all of a sudden send your children to school and they get exposed to critical race theory or diversity, equity, inclusion, or pornographic, and I do not use that word lightly, if you look at this curriculum, it will take your breath away.
00:42:41.000Pornographic sexual education for eight-year-olds, Christians should rise up and say, wait a second, I have a big problem with this.
00:42:47.000So in Loudoun County, Virginia, this is when it started to hit kind of a climax.
00:42:52.000A father went to the Loudoun County, Virginia school board meeting in late May and was screaming.
00:42:58.000And he was, some people say, oh, he was out of line, but he had a message to deliver.
00:43:02.000And I want every father here to tell me that you would handle this differently when I tell you this entire story.
00:43:08.000He was arrested by the police for disorderly conduct at the school board meeting.
00:43:12.000Now, apparently, it was so disorderly that the National School Board Association of America labeled him a domestic terrorist.
00:43:19.000And then the attorney general of our country then said, oh, okay, we're going to use the FBI and the Patriot Act to go after dads like him.
00:43:26.000But why was he screaming at this meeting?
00:43:28.000Well, he finally got to tell his story here in October.
00:43:31.000And I think he, honestly, I think he conveniently waited to tell his story for political purposes.
00:43:38.000I think that someone said, hey, wait a couple months because you're about to drop a bombshell on the entire regime.
00:43:43.000Well, that father has a ninth grade daughter who was in a bathroom, and that ninth grade daughter was raped by a transgender student of a young man who thinks he was a woman who was accommodated to be able to use that bathroom.
00:43:57.000They were debating transgender bathrooms that night at the school board meeting.
00:44:01.000And he wanted to tell his story about how his daughter was raped at the high school, and they weren't telling the story.
00:44:09.000Superintendent has the father arrested.
00:44:11.000Then he goes under oath at the school board meeting.
00:44:14.000The Dr. Ziegler head of the school board and says, we have no instances of rapes or any sexual assault, lying under oath, even though he sent a private email admitting to that.
00:44:25.000So then the school board met privately and they transferred the rapist from one school to another school where he raped another girl.
00:44:36.000And now you add on to that the thousands of people that were already showing up to the Loudoun County school board meetings, complaining about curriculum, complaining about the sex ed, complaining about mask mandates.
00:44:46.000And all of a sudden, you had an inter-institutional collusion where they were more worried, everybody, about some political, correct, abstract transgender agenda than the well-being of your daughters.
00:44:59.000So I'm going to ask that question again.
00:45:01.000For the fathers out there, if that would have happened to your daughter, do you think you would have been a little disorderly at that meeting if they're trying to all of a sudden protect transgender bathrooms?
00:45:10.000I'm surprised he restrained himself as well as he did, and no one would tell his story.
00:45:14.000And so all of a sudden, this father went from the disorderly dad to all of a sudden the martyr whose daughter was raped and the school board covered it up.
00:45:22.000Well, all this happened in the midst of a Virginia governor's race.
00:45:49.000Then all of a sudden, Yunkin decided to ignore his Republican consultants and go on a campaign representing these parents that were talking about real issues.
00:45:58.000Is that these were parents that voted for Biden?
00:46:01.000These are parents that were Democrats.
00:46:03.000These are parents that hated Donald Trump and said on the news, I hate Donald Trump, but I don't care.
00:46:08.000This is so much more important than politics.
00:46:11.000And like a storm, I'm telling you, and this is happening in real time, the results are coming.
00:46:15.000All of a sudden, Virginia went from a comfortable blue state where the recent polls had him up eight points, up three points.
00:46:20.000And here's how the political wins have changed everybody.
00:46:23.000All of a sudden, all of this kind of abstract kind of march for justice, social justice stuff, it's all fun and games till they come for your children.
00:46:32.000It's all fun and games till all of a sudden your seven-year-old has to go sit through some sort of kind of seminar saying that, you know, your six-year-old is a racist because of the color of their skin.
00:46:44.000Like, I was all for kind of like Black Lives Matter until that started to happen.
00:46:49.000Or all of a sudden, where I kid you not, hundreds of girls in the Loudoun County school system are holding it every day, not going to the restroom in fear of being raped by the men that also share the restroom.
00:46:59.000Yeah, that's the real life implications of this stuff.
00:47:02.000And so, for those of us that have kind of been involved in this for a couple of years, in some ways, you know, we've been waiting for this kind of parent rebellion to happen.
00:47:11.000And it's an unfortunate, sad, and tragic thing that it happened to happen in this way.
00:47:15.000But here's the importance, everybody, is that you have to always be on your guard against nice-sounding sound bites of tolerance and equity inclusion, because they can have real life implications, real life implications that can harm your children and your communities.
00:47:29.000And we as Christians need to be wise, right?
00:47:31.000James 1:5, which is to pray for wisdom and God will give it to you generously and say, Yeah, you know, that sticker and that soundbite sounds good, but is that actually going to do what you say it's going to do?
00:47:41.000Or is that going to result in all of a sudden girls becoming targets for predators in the Loudoun County schools?
00:47:46.000Is that going to create a mini generation of racists and have seven-year-olds care more about the color of their skin than actually the character of their fellow classmates?
00:47:54.000And so, and here's the thing they never expected: they never expected it to have a political cost.
00:47:59.000They thought it would just be moms and dads complaining.
00:48:02.000Loudoun County, if for the Virginia governor's race goes for Yonkin tonight, it'll be because of moms and dads who drew the line and they say, we are not going to take it anymore.
00:48:15.000The reason, I think for me, the reason that story stood out to me so much is I have a 14-year-old daughter in the ninth grade.
00:48:27.000And if that happens to her, I become like the Apostle Paul and start a prison ministry.
00:48:35.000Don't think I'll make it to the school board.
00:49:21.000If he would have been allowed to testify at that meeting, it probably would have just been like a stoppage and that wouldn't have happened to another family.
00:49:29.000Which blows my mind because I've always said, I've always said, if I'm at a restaurant or I'm at a department store and my wife and my daughter are in the bathroom and a dude comes walking up and says, you know, like Shania Twain, I feel like a woman.
00:49:44.000I'm like, you're not, it's not a hate thing.
00:49:53.000And we as men have to start to be willing to encounter all the bad names they're going to call us to protect women we care about, to protect young girls from being preyed on by these kind of mentally deranged people that go after them.
00:50:10.000I hope they get counseling, but it is a significant mental disorder to have gender dysphoria.
00:50:15.000And, you know, some people say, Charlie, that's not loving.
00:50:17.000No, I think it's very loving to tell the truth.
00:50:20.000And I'm not going to try to do it in a bombastic way.
00:50:22.000I'm not going to try to, you know, but I'm not also, I'm also honestly, I'm kind of over this entire thing that I kind of have to pander to your current feelings when innocent people's lives and livelihoods are at risk.
00:50:32.000Like, I'm kind of over that, to be honest with you.
00:50:43.000I know that we're going to do QA, but you're on the stage and I get to ask you questions and I may never have this opportunity again.
00:50:50.000So I need to know from your, because every morning I get up and I look at like seven or eight different websites, seven or eight different websites.
00:51:00.000For the past two or three weeks, CNN.com has featured an article about January the 6th.
00:51:17.000But at the end of the day, it looked at the time when I was watching, I'm like, it looks like a bunch of idiots running around taking selfies in the Capitol.
00:51:26.000And now my question to you is why do people need it to be, quote, the greatest terrorist event that has happened in our country since the War of 1812?
00:52:14.000And then they were able to insert into the narrative that it was deadly, right?
00:52:19.000Well, the only deaths that happened were either afterwards of non-related issues, like Officer Brian Sicknick, who did not die from some sort of fire extinguisher to the head.
00:52:30.000That's a complete and total lie, or Ashley Babbitt, who was killed by a Capitol police officer who actually shot her for being unarmed in the Capitol.
00:52:39.000And then they said, oh, it was an armed insurrection.
00:52:41.000They did not find one person that walked into the Capitol that was actually armed at the time, not one person.
00:52:47.000And there is an open question about this.
00:52:49.000And I say this again with the proper pretext that I did not support the actual entrance into the Capitol of the role of agitators actually as this happened.
00:53:00.000And there is more and more evidence, suspicious evidence to show that there might have been federal informants and agitators that were cheering on the actual entrance of people going into the Capitol.
00:53:09.000And I encourage all of you to look at some of the research that's been done on this and kind of all the kind of the proper context behind it.
00:53:15.000Now, I'm going to answer your question because I'm not a politician.
00:53:18.000I actually answer questions, which is why do they need this to continue?
00:53:25.000It's that they're bringing the war on terror home, is that they want a new war of domestic surveillance against people that do not share their political beliefs.
00:53:35.000They want to beat the drums of war against people that supported President Trump, people that are of more of a Christian religious belief.
00:53:44.000And that is going to be kind of their new overemphasis and focus.
00:53:48.000I'm sure none of you heard about all the climate activists that stormed the Department of Interior three weeks ago.
00:54:02.000No, instead, what happened there and what they're trying to do is they're trying to justify a new Patriot Act 2.0 to spy on all of you, to spy on your text messages and then control you and then micromanage you.
00:54:16.000But I have to say, it's not working, though.
00:54:20.000Because they thought that kind of our energy and our focus to retake the country peacefully would stop after January 6th.
00:54:29.000They thought it would be kind of this quelling effect and it would be a chilling effect.
00:54:33.000Instead, we started showing up at school board meetings across the country in record numbers and making a significant impact.
00:54:39.000And let me tell you that the Department of Justice's letter saying that we are going to use the means of the federal government to go after moms and dads that show up at school board meetings is evidence to that fact.
00:54:51.000So make no mistake, the same way they needed the narrative to justify the invasion of Iraq of the weapons of mass destruction is the same sort of reason they need to keep the drumbeat going to say, you know what we need?
00:55:03.000We need a new division of the Department of Homeland Security against violent right-wing extremism.
00:55:36.000That they are worried that we are going to actually be able to have peaceful ways to retake the country.
00:55:43.000And that in some ways, I think they're trying to provoke us into something other than that.
00:55:46.000But to answer your question directly, this narrative is precious to them.
00:55:50.000It's precious to them because they want to keep it going to try to justify something that they would not be able to usher in otherwise, which is a mass leviathan that will criminalize half the country, that will criminalize half the country no different than ISIS or al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden.
00:56:07.000They're using precisely the same type of language, that people that walked into the Capitol building and took a selfie is somehow a moral equivalent to al-Baghdadi or Osama bin Laden.
00:56:25.000And then just to kind of add it more, just kind of about exactly what happened that day, the actual penetration of the outer fence of the Capitol, which was nothing.
00:56:43.000No, if you look at the actual chain of events, a mile and a half away, the president was still speaking while the bike racks were being kicked over.
00:56:50.000And then it's kind of this weird double unfolding of what happened that day, and which is that the bike racks were toppled over.
00:56:56.000And then all of the Trump supporters then stopped and did not enter the Capitol.
00:57:01.000They were there kind of on that Capitol kind of kind of where they do the inauguration.
00:57:07.000And it was just kind of a de-escalation.
00:57:09.000And then inexplicably, and we've never gotten an answer on this, all of a sudden the police started launching tear gas on that crowd, almost re-agitating it and reanimating the crowd.
00:57:18.000And then all of a sudden from that point forward, then people started to walk into the Capitol.
00:57:22.000And so I encourage everyone just to take a pause.
00:57:25.000If you're not convinced by anything I just said, here's what you will be convinced by, which is that what happened on those days, you do not have to support the violence, which you shouldn't, and support what happened that day, but also saying it is wrong to use the security apparatus of America to criminalize people that have different political beliefs than you.
00:57:42.000It would be wrong if we did it with people on the left.
00:57:44.000It'd be wrong if all of a sudden you say, you know what?
00:57:46.000We need to use the FBI to go after atheists.
00:58:27.000Did you know that if you shop at Nike, they turn around and give your hard-earned dollars to pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and the Population Council.
00:58:36.000Did you know that Airbnb gave $500,000 to the Marxist BLM incorporated organization?
00:58:44.000Your first vote is at the ballot box, but that isn't enough to defend our traditional Judeo-Christian values.
00:58:52.000Left-wing corporations are subverting our nation and our republic by taking money from conservative customers and giving it to radical organizations that support abortion, gun control, and critical race theory.
00:59:05.000You have another vote, a second vote at the checkout line, which is why there's a massively important organization called Second Vote that comes in.
01:01:31.000Rendesivir is extremely expensive, awful on the kidneys, and has adverse events like you wouldn't believe.
01:01:36.000And we are covering it and we're getting lots of different pieces of feedback where people say, Charlie, they are just generously throwing Rendesivir at patients that otherwise, you know, would qualify for other requirements.
01:01:51.000I want to encourage you, though, please keep telling your story about your mom.
01:01:54.000That firsthand testimonies of what's happening at this time is incredibly important.
01:02:07.000A lot of people say, Charlie, I dropped my dad off at the hospital and I asked them to do these five things and they put him on a ventilator and I don't know what happened after that.
01:02:16.000Now, I am not attacking our frontline workers.
01:02:20.000I think that there's protocol, which is, I think, the right way to go after it.
01:02:23.000That's from the top down, that is handcuffing our nurses and our people on the front lines to not do even what they know is best.
01:02:30.000And so I want to encourage you to keep speaking out.
01:02:53.000So yeah, this is an important issue and topic.
01:02:55.000And I don't think that those of us who are conservatives should be afraid to talk about this issue.
01:03:00.000And so as we kind of tell the world what we believe and why we believe it, we obviously believe markets is the best way to organize society.
01:03:08.000But when all of a sudden we start to have externalities that we don't agree with or trends that we don't support, we don't have to all of a sudden become cheerleaders for those trends or those externalities.
01:03:18.000Now, I would argue, though, that some of these trends are a byproduct of not market principles, but cronyism and backwards dealing and inside-out type government favors that go to companies that don't actually create the best products, but actually have access to lobbyists or trial lawyers or things of that nature.
01:03:34.000And so let's talk about the income inequality.
01:03:36.000We as conservatives should come out and we should say that you should be able to support a family on one income.
01:04:05.000Which is that we don't want to have the mom and dad on government assistance, right?
01:04:10.000We don't want to all of a sudden say that we want to expand the government apparatus, but we should say that in the 1980s, you could support a family of four with 36 hours of work.
01:04:22.000Now it takes 53 hours of work to support, I'm sorry, not hours, 53 weeks.
01:04:58.000Some people say, Charlie, it's misogynistic.
01:05:00.000If you want to work as a mom, but you should be given the choice to be with your children the first 10 years of the child's life, which I think is precious.
01:05:08.000And we as Christians should preserve that and not say, oh, no, you only get six weeks with your kid, drop it off at daycare with no other choice and then go back to your job if that's not what you want.
01:05:18.000And so from the income inequality standpoint, make no mistake, that one of the reasons why income inequality is growing, number one, after COVID, it was a huge reason why income inequality grew.
01:05:31.000The rich that had money to all of a sudden invest in certain products and services are richer than ever before.
01:06:16.000Success looks like we want stronger families and we want young people to be able to get married earlier and to be able to have more children without the same sort of financial pressures that they're feeling right now.
01:06:28.000And now, some people from a market puritanical standpoint say, Charlie, tough luck.
01:06:32.000You know, just cut the taxes, deregulate the economy.
01:06:36.000No, I am not okay with the birth rate going down.
01:06:38.000I'm not okay with the most, the least married generation in American history.
01:06:43.000I think we as conservatives have to say, you know what?
01:06:45.000If we're going to stand for anything, we're going to make it easier to have children in America.
01:06:48.000We're going to make it easier to get married.
01:06:50.000And we have to entertain kind of what that looks like and how we're able to get there.
01:06:55.000But also, I find nothing wrong with saying that it's unhealthy for a country where billionaires added $600 billion to their net worth in the last year and a half.
01:07:05.000And you guys had the toughest year and a half that you've had in your lifetime.
01:07:09.000I don't think we as conservatives should pick up our pom-poms and become cheerleaders to the billionaire class.
01:07:16.000I'm not saying we should take all their money away.
01:07:17.000I'm not saying we should nationalize the industries, but I also don't think that these companies that also don't share your values, by the way, should be given a free pass and that we should become their cheerleaders just because we're supposed to be on their team.
01:07:30.000Let's think more creatively and let's abandon the sort of kind of party team, right, team left loyalties that pre-existed us and say, here's what we believe.
01:07:58.000So born and raised in Arizona, we're moving back to the valley, so hit me up.
01:08:03.000Hey, one issue that I have with conservatives, because I've been a conservative all my life, was they tell us, hey, give us the House of Representatives.
01:08:59.000We are demanding real action from our leaders.
01:09:02.000And you see that in a lot of the states across the country.
01:09:05.000You're seeing that in Florida, for example, where Governor Ron DeSanchez, who's amazing, has signed in the anti-lockdown measures, the anti-vaccine mandates, all these sorts of different things that he has done.
01:09:16.000And so, but the second thing is that we have to realize that the extent of our relationship with government goes beyond just voting, everybody.
01:09:22.000It's staying in relationship and in contact with your elected officials.
01:09:26.000So, for example, if you're not happy with your senators, you do know they have town halls, right?
01:09:31.000You can show up and you can talk to them.
01:09:33.000One of the least utilized kind of, I think, measures by conservatives is showing up at town hall meetings and taking the time to talk to the people you send in D.C. You might say, Charlie, it doesn't make a difference.
01:09:55.000If just the people on this side of the room showed up at a town hall meeting for one of your U.S. senators, that would be a shot heard around South Carolina for a year.
01:10:31.000You have to elect good guys, but just as important, sometimes even more important, is holding them accountable because we are on the very edge.
01:10:39.000We are flirting with a dynamic where people that are conservatives say, Charlie, what's the use anymore?
01:10:52.000But you look at the state level, the states, there has been some phenomenal traction in the last couple of years.
01:10:57.000The state of Florida and the state of South Carolina, I could tell you by being here right now, is a profoundly different culture for the better than when you go to Connecticut or Oregon.
01:12:33.000But boy, if you want to make a difference, we need more people that are really dedicated and want to work hard in everything that I talked about tonight.
01:12:40.000And there's a variety of different ways you could do that.
01:13:12.000Let's just talk about this from a faith perspective, is that no more cutting corners on your Christianity when you're around your friends, everybody.
01:13:19.000No more being like, ah, yeah, you know, I go to church.
01:13:44.000But the country starts to go in the right direction when righteous people all of a sudden start to be courageous people.
01:13:50.000That's one major change that needs to happen.
01:13:53.000And the second thing kind of goes with that is a willingness to lose things that might be comfortable today for something that might be good tomorrow.
01:14:02.000Is that sometimes you have to leave your comfort zone?
01:14:04.000You know, sometimes, like, you know, you do in this event.
01:14:06.000I'm sure you got a couple emails and texts.
01:15:01.000I love that because what I do, what I would do is I would look on their social media pages at all the stuff.
01:15:07.000And what I want to do is dive in, but I'm like, no, no.
01:15:12.000And that's why I know you're doing a good job.
01:15:13.000If you've got the number of haters that you've got, then you must be making a difference because people don't hate on something that isn't making a difference.
01:15:23.000And you're obviously making a significant difference.
01:16:52.000I really appreciate all that you've done.
01:16:54.000I feel like I've seen you on Hannity a million times.
01:16:57.000And the biggest thing to me that's the most overwhelming, I think, and especially seeing what happened last election and see how they used COVID to, you know, take over the election laws is the media.
01:17:32.000Because I'm a strong believer and I am a strong conservative.
01:17:38.000And I mean, I've been completely disengaged from politics since January 6th because I just feel like we, I never give up, but I'm still, I mean, I just want to get away from it because how do we win?
01:17:51.000So first, let me just say this, which is we as Christians are commanded to reject cynicism.
01:19:19.000No, but and this is part of it, which is that we have to become our own media.
01:19:24.000So you want to know what gives me hope is that with full media suppression and social media suppression, 65% of Americans are familiar with the chant, let's go Brandon.
01:20:08.000You know, if you guys want to get media straight from the source, that's fine.
01:20:11.000But I do think that things are starting to change.
01:20:12.000Rumble.com, R-U-M-B-L-E.com is a great YouTube competitor.
01:20:17.000Everyone should use Rumble as your go-to video and streaming platform.
01:20:20.000Things are starting to go in the right direction in a very significant and real way.
01:20:24.000But look, the media is going to do what they do, but their ratings are collapsing like you wouldn't believe.
01:20:28.000And I think that all of a sudden they're going to have 10 to 15% of the population that watches them.
01:20:33.000But I think that a majority of Americans are going to start to wake up to this stuff, wake up to decency and wake up to pro-American ideas and values.
01:20:47.000I want to reiterate the most important thing you can do in your life is give your life to Jesus Christ.
01:20:51.000If you're here tonight and you have not done that, you got to get that done and understand the significance of what that means and being reborn.
01:20:58.000My life's work is in the second most important thing.
01:21:00.000I still talk about number one, but I just want to encourage all of you to do more.
01:21:05.000Is that this nation, I believe, is a gift.
01:21:08.000It is the most free, generous, successful, wealthy nation in the history of the world.
01:21:13.000And I believe that it would be a disservice to what we have been given and for generations prior for us just to sit idly by and say, no, I'm not going to do that.
01:21:23.000We have to be aware of what's going on.
01:21:26.000And that's the other thing, which is, I know it's tempting just to kind of watch the endless Netflix series or Hulu series, but you got to carve time to do two things every single day.
01:21:34.000Number one, be aware what's going on in the news.
01:21:36.000And number two, learn something new every single day about your nation.
01:21:39.000We have partnered, we have partnered with Hillsdale College.
01:21:42.000If you guys want to take the online courses, it's charlieforhillsdale.com because everyone here says, Charlie, I want to do more to save the country.
01:21:51.000Those are two things that are super important because how are you ever going to know what to do if you don't know what you have and you don't know what's happening?