The Charlie Kirk Show - How Can Gen Z Recover From a Post-Covid World? My Speech at the University of Kansas

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00:01:45.000 Wow, this is great.

00:01:46.000 This is quite a room here.

00:01:49.000 This is something else.

00:01:50.000 Great to be here.

00:01:51.000 Hope you guys had a wonderful Trans Day of Visibility on Sunday.

00:01:56.000 It's been quite a week, so lots to cover here.

00:01:59.000 I'm actually going to Nebraska next week.

00:02:01.000 I don't know if anyone came from Nebraska for this event, but we got some unfinished business in Nebraska.

00:02:06.000 For those that watch the show, we got a lot going on that we have to do there.

00:02:10.000 So this is my first time, I think, doing a campus speaking event in Kansas.

00:02:13.000 I really got in a lot of trouble last time.

00:02:15.000 I thought I was going to Kansas a year and a half ago because I was going to Kansas City.

00:02:19.000 And then everyone got so mad at me.

00:02:21.000 They said, no, you're going to Missouri.

00:02:22.000 And so this whole thing.

00:02:24.000 So good to be here at Kansas.

00:02:26.000 And I hear great things about, I don't know, always great things, but mostly good things about this school, I should say.

00:02:34.000 So it's nice to be here and a warm welcome.

00:02:36.000 And sorry for anyone that couldn't get in here.

00:02:37.000 It's just the response has just been incredible.

00:02:40.000 And so thank you to our wonderful Turning Point USA chapter that helped put this, helped put this on.

00:02:44.000 Give them a round of applause.

00:02:45.000 They've done such a great job.

00:02:50.000 So a couple, I want to get to questions because that's the most fun and that's really why we're all here, right?

00:02:56.000 And I want to dive into that.

00:02:57.000 So, but it's not a huge mystery, but it deserves a question.

00:03:01.000 And I think the question is far more important than what our lawmakers are talking about, which is why are you guys, Generation ZM, Millennial, not quite Generation ZM, right on the cusp, I'm right on the line.

00:03:11.000 Why is this the most depressed, suicidal, anxious, and quite honestly, depressed generation in history?

00:03:18.000 That's a serious question that needs to be talked about.

00:03:21.000 It's a lot more important than having 145 days of our calendar dedicated to LGBTQ.

00:03:27.000 Do you know that there's 145 days to our calendar dedicated to LGBTQ?

00:03:32.000 Maybe we should ask the question and pause and say, okay, what is it exactly that is driving this generation to kill themselves more than any other generation that makes them so depressed and so anxious?

00:03:44.000 Because, you know, the answer a couple years ago is, I'm depressed because Trump is president.

00:03:48.000 It's like, okay, well, he's, well, maybe he will be again, hopefully, in November.

00:03:52.000 But, you know, currently, so sis.

00:03:55.000 But I say, what, or I'm depressed because of a threat to democracy.

00:04:00.000 It's like, okay, sure.

00:04:02.000 Or climate change.

00:04:03.000 It's like, no, there's something else going on here.

00:04:05.000 And I don't think it's too big of a leap to say that many of you are growing up in the first generation of secular America.

00:04:15.000 Now, regardless of your religious views, you have to acknowledge that if you do not believe in God, you won't believe in nothing.

00:04:20.000 You'll believe in anything.

00:04:21.000 That's a quote from G.K. Chesterton.

00:04:23.000 And it's a generation that starts, many of you are raised in this society now where the most insane ideas are prevalent, where you're told to care about things that actually don't always concretely come into contact with your everyday life.

00:04:38.000 And it's driven by abstractions more than reality.

00:04:41.000 It's very simple.

00:04:42.000 It's, are you able to get married, have children, and buy a home in this country?

00:04:46.000 And increasingly, those three things are out of reach for many of you.

00:04:51.000 And it creates this mass nihilism that, quite honestly, I wish our leaders would talk more about.

00:04:56.000 And that transcends politics.

00:04:58.000 I have my own personal opinion as to why this is happening, which is that when you start to remove the things that make you human and you start to act as if an entire generation can just seek pleasure with no cost, you're going to have some very, very big problems.

00:05:14.000 We can see this manifested through hookup culture, with the pornography addiction that is infecting our country.

00:05:20.000 We see this with the drug overdose epidemic, where so many young people, so many students right now, especially at the universities that we're touring, are asking the question, what is the point of life?

00:05:31.000 What is the meaning behind all of this?

00:05:33.000 And that is exactly what you get when you remove God from society.

00:05:36.000 I'm not here to be overly preachy, but when you remove God, what are you going to replace it with?

00:05:41.000 And that's a fundamental question I think that we need to wrestle with.

00:05:44.000 And post-COVID, which, by the way, we never should have locked down our country.

00:05:47.000 That was one of the worst mistakes in American history.

00:05:50.000 We never should have locked down our country.

00:05:52.000 And Anthony Fauci should go to prison for what he did to your generation.

00:05:57.000 He should go to jail for what he did.

00:06:01.000 Because I guarantee you, many of you lost friends during the pandemic, lost friends during the lockdowns.

00:06:08.000 But there's two different things.

00:06:09.000 People say, well, it's because of the pandemic that so much of this is happening.

00:06:12.000 No, no.

00:06:13.000 It's our reaction to the pandemic.

00:06:15.000 Those are two different things.

00:06:16.000 We did not have to lock down society.

00:06:18.000 We did not have to mandate masks.

00:06:20.000 And we certainly did not have to mandate a faulty, questionable, questionable, gene-altering mRNA shot to a younger generation that was not at risk from dying for COVID.

00:06:32.000 And what it did is it continued this line of thinking that you must be obsessed with death all the time, and yet you never actually want to live.

00:06:46.000 And it's really a sad and tragic thing because when I encounter so many people, they come to me say, Charlie, you know, how do I get happy again?

00:06:53.000 How do I get joyful?

00:06:54.000 I say, honestly, the most joyful thing you could do in your life is accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

00:06:57.000 It's the most important thing you can do.

00:07:01.000 But even more than that, you need to have ultimate purpose.

00:07:06.000 You need to try to find a rootedness to why you are here.

00:07:11.000 And if it's just like, hey, I want to earn as much money as possible, or I'm just going to kind of do whatever drug I want, that's not going to end well.

00:07:19.000 And this does have political ramifications because I believe one of the reasons why Gen Z, especially Gen Z men, are the most conservative men have been in the last 50 years.

00:07:32.000 Let me say it again.

00:07:33.000 Gen Z young men are the most conservative they've been in 50 years is because young men in particular, and hopefully young ladies will start to, you know, get on this line of thinking, hopefully. 0.92

00:07:48.000 We'll see.

00:07:49.000 And is that they want a country to grow up in, is that they see the consequences of mass migration, of the political correct regime of this trans nonsense that has been infecting our country. 1.00

00:08:02.000 And they see the consequences of borrowing a trillion dollars every 100 years.

00:08:06.000 And quite honestly, we're not going to sit idly by and just allow it to happen.

00:08:10.000 We're going to do everything with our agency and everything in our power to try to make sure that we have a country that is at least half as good as the one that our parents were able to enjoy in the 1970s and 1980s.

00:08:22.000 Because right now we're inheriting a country that is not the same.

00:08:26.000 In four years ago, if you wanted to buy a home in this country, it took an average income of $59,000 a year to buy a home.

00:08:32.000 Now it requires $109,000 a year.

00:08:34.000 It's probably less than that here in Kansas.

00:08:36.000 But those are national averages.

00:08:38.000 Now, unless you're going to earn six figures out of the gate, which you might, but that'll definitely put you in the outlier.

00:08:44.000 Being able to own property is a core and fundamental American promise.

00:08:48.000 And they want you to be a renter for the rest of your life.

00:08:52.000 Because if you are a renter, you are easier to control.

00:08:55.000 Owning property, which is embedded in the American dream, makes you a threat to the DC regime.

00:09:00.000 Being able to own acreage in this beautiful state of Kansas or wherever you're from and not just be a renter in anonymous urban society allows you to have stake in the country.

00:09:11.000 Ownership gives you stake in society.

00:09:14.000 And it is becoming harder and harder for your generation to be able to do that.

00:09:18.000 Why?

00:09:19.000 Well, that's where all of a sudden, great, you could talk about that.

00:09:23.000 I think you said something about landlords.

00:09:24.000 Great.

00:09:25.000 And there's some truth.

00:09:26.000 You can get really mad at landlords, or you can get really mad at the politicians that are borrowing trillions of dollars every single year and making your dollar worth less every single year.

00:09:35.000 I mean, landlords, yeah, they kind of get a bad rap, but how are landlords supposed to make money when everything else goes up?

00:09:41.000 You might say, oh, landlords are making too much money.

00:09:43.000 They have to pay property taxes.

00:09:45.000 They have to pay the note.

00:09:46.000 They have to pay off the bank.

00:09:47.000 I mean, somebody has to invest the capital to be able to own the apartment buildings.

00:09:50.000 I mean, they're easy villains.

00:09:51.000 They do overcharge at times.

00:09:53.000 But honestly, D.C. politicians deserve a lot more blame than your local landlord for why your rent is going up and your inability to buy a home.

00:10:01.000 And if you disagree, you can ask in question and answer.

00:10:04.000 So, but also understand that this is intentional.

00:10:09.000 And this is where I say the controversial part.

00:10:11.000 This is not a mistake.

00:10:13.000 There are very smart, corrupt people in D.C. in both political parties the last couple of decades, which I would say with one obvious exception, that is making the American promise out of grasp for many of you.

00:10:26.000 We no longer have a U.S. southern border.

00:10:27.000 We have 15,000 people a day.

00:10:29.000 It's a little bit down now, but it was at its height.

00:10:31.000 15,000 people a day coming across the southern border every single day.

00:10:35.000 We are, as I mentioned, we are deteriorating our currency and printing over, we are printing trillions of dollars every single year, a trillion dollars we are borrowing every 100 days.

00:10:45.000 And I believe this is fundamentally intentional.

00:10:48.000 You might say, well, Charlie, who could be so sinister and so evil to do such a thing?

00:10:52.000 Somebody who doesn't love the country.

00:10:54.000 And you can come to your own motivations, but understand, stop trying to defend Washington, D.C. politicians that have never done right by you.

00:11:03.000 They take advantage of you.

00:11:04.000 They steal and plunder from your future because they've never actually cared about your well-being.

00:11:09.000 And what is happening in this country, and I have no idea if it's going to manifest politically in November or beyond, but I've never seen crowds like this on college campus.

00:11:18.000 We're fitting it.

00:11:18.000 I mean, this is a big room.

00:11:19.000 We're filling it.

00:11:20.000 We had hundreds of people.

00:11:21.000 We had to turn away.

00:11:21.000 This is not normal stuff.

00:11:23.000 I mean, I've been doing this for many years.

00:11:24.000 You know, we used to be able to five, 600, 700 people.

00:11:27.000 There's something seismic that is happening because this younger generation, many of you, are saying, you know what?

00:11:34.000 I want to be able to have a normal country again.

00:11:37.000 I want to be able to say, you know what?

00:11:39.000 God created male and female. 0.99

00:11:40.000 There's not unlimited amounts of genders. 0.84

00:11:42.000 There's a bunch of nonsense.

00:11:43.000 I don't want to have to lose my job because the HR department suddenly comes up and says, sorry, you misgendered your coworker. 0.93

00:11:50.000 We're now going to put you through an inquisition and we're going to fire you because you're the wrong skin color. 1.00

00:11:56.000 I think it's reprehensible that we have hiring quotas based on race in this country.

00:12:00.000 We should have hiring quotas based on merit in this country, not based on race.

00:12:04.000 It's completely irrelevant.

00:12:08.000 And you combine this together and it leads for a correction.

00:12:16.000 And it's a correction that is somewhat political, but more than anything else, it is patriotic at its core.

00:12:22.000 And you have two ways to analyze your existence here in America, and then we'll do questions.

00:12:27.000 And I'll go for as long as we're able to, which is this.

00:12:31.000 You can either be grateful that you live in America or you can be ungrateful.

00:12:34.000 It really is that simple.

00:12:35.000 And there are a lot of problems, and you should be very angry at your politicians.

00:12:39.000 However, being bitter about the United States of America as a country is a lot different than being dissatisfied with the current state of the government.

00:12:48.000 Those are two completely different things.

00:12:50.000 We want to restore the promise of this country.

00:12:53.000 And the promise is super simple, that regardless of skin color or background, if you work hard and play by the rules, you save money, get married, have kids, don't break the law, you're going to have a better life year over year, absent some sort of crazy thing happening to you.

00:13:07.000 That promise is being broken.

00:13:08.000 The average American family has like $1,000 in their bank account or less for emergencies.

00:13:14.000 Average credit card debt has now surpassed a trillion dollars.

00:13:16.000 Many of you probably have tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt as things continually get more and more expensive.

00:13:22.000 It does not have to be this way.

00:13:23.000 And it can change, but it has to change from the bottom up, which is why you being here and this presence on this campus is so remarkable.

00:13:31.000 And the core promise is really, or the demand is really simple, is that we want the country back that we had, I don't know, like four or five years ago, where we had a border, where Easter was just Easter, not like Weird Trans Day and also Easter, where we were able to have conversations without having to be worried about being fired about some sort of stupid diversity, equity, inclusion mandate that might come down from on top.

00:13:56.000 These sort of things are fundamental to a society.

00:13:59.000 And what happens if we don't correct them?

00:14:01.000 I think you know what happens if we don't correct them.

00:14:04.000 You can either check out and just go home and smoke weed and play video games and like check out a society and be cynical.

00:14:10.000 But you being here tonight is you telling the regime that you're not going to be cynical, that you are going to make noise, that you are going to be disagreeable, that you're not going to take it any longer, and that you want a country, a country that you grew up reading about, but you have not had a chance to live in yet.

00:14:25.000 You want to build that place.

00:14:27.000 And that is the American spirit.

00:14:30.000 It's the American spirit that, quite honestly, the people that came to Kansas and settled here 150 years ago, it wasn't easy before we had shelter like we do and heating and electricity, widespread electricity and air conditioning.

00:14:42.000 It took a settler type spirit.

00:14:44.000 And the original Nebraskan and Kansans and Oklahomans that came here, they had a grittiness to them where they said, you know, we want to build a new country basically out of nothing. 0.95

00:14:53.000 And many of you here tonight are asking for a similar thing, which is we want to rebuild a country based on these fundamental promises, a core belief that our best days can be ahead and that we deserve better out of our politicians that have been taking advantage of us for us for far too long.

00:15:06.000 For that, let's do some questions.

00:15:08.000 Thank you for sitting through that, guys, and we'll go right from there.

00:15:10.000 Okay, so let's start lining up for questions and we'll do it for quite a while.

00:15:16.000 I want to say one thing.

00:15:17.000 So this is a majority conservative audience, as I can tell.

00:15:20.000 So, and by the way, you can start lining up here if you guys have questions.

00:15:23.000 We'll get to as many as you can.

00:15:24.000 If you disagree, you can go to the front of the line.

00:15:27.000 And so, however, if a liberal asks a question tonight, please don't interrupt.

00:15:34.000 Don't mock.

00:15:35.000 Give respect to liberals here tonight that we as conservatives don't get from liberals every day.

00:15:41.000 So show them the respect that we wish we would get.

00:15:45.000 Does that sound good, everybody?

00:15:46.000 Okay.

00:15:47.000 With that, let's get to some question and answer.

00:15:50.000 Yes, ma'am, what is the first question?

00:15:51.000 You have a lot of experience doing these things, and I just wanted to know, what was the most wholesome experience you've had with a lot of people who came up here and disagreed with you, and then it turned around into something that they did agree with you with?

00:16:04.000 Yeah, I mean, we have a lot of, I've been, what, I visited over 150 campuses in the last 11 years.

00:16:10.000 I've been doing this for quite a time, a long time.

00:16:12.000 Yeah, I mean, we've had some experiences where I think some minds were changed and that people had to think differently about stuff.

00:16:18.000 I think more than anything else, and we'll see if this happens tonight, I prefer clarity over agreement.

00:16:23.000 I'm fine with disagreeing.

00:16:24.000 I just want to know exactly where we disagree.

00:16:26.000 What I don't appreciate is when people come up and either misrepresent my position or try to make broad generalities about conservatives or try to say things that aren't true.

00:16:37.000 And so, but yeah, look, dialogue and speech is what makes life interesting.

00:16:42.000 And, you know, credit to KU for having us and for being accommodating and for hosting it.

00:16:47.000 We really appreciate that.

00:16:48.000 And, you know, not every college campus is like that that we go to.

00:16:52.000 In fact, most university campuses that I visit to visit are quite hostile and not very open to differing ideas.

00:16:58.000 And finally, I would say that less of these events and more of the outdoor change my mind events, we've had some really beautiful exchanges where I get to share the gospel.

00:17:06.000 And in fact, there was a young man, I think he was a man.

00:17:09.000 I don't want to misgender him, but he was definitely a man.

00:17:12.000 Long hair, and he was wearing some sort of Satanist thing.

00:17:14.000 I don't know if you guys saw this video this last weekend.

00:17:16.000 It was seen over 12 million times just on Instagram alone.

00:17:19.000 And he came up and said, you know, are you a Christian?

00:17:22.000 What, you know, so on and so forth.

00:17:23.000 And yeah, I mean, we just had a chance to share the gospel and talk about how, you know, Jesus Christ is there as a free eternal gift for all of us if you want to accept it.

00:17:31.000 And it was seen by 12 million people.

00:17:33.000 So those exchanges in particular are usually the most wholesome and the best.

00:17:36.000 So thank you.

00:17:37.000 Thank you.

00:17:43.000 I am the mass mushroom.

00:17:47.000 Do you support the legal use of psychedelics for religious reasons?

00:17:54.000 Or is religious freedom only reserved for Christianity?

00:18:00.000 Okay.

00:18:01.000 No, I don't.

00:18:02.000 I don't support the recreational use of psychedelics.

00:18:06.000 Not for religious purposes.

00:18:09.000 What religion is that?

00:18:12.000 There's numerous religions throughout time that have used mushrooms for yeah, the Aztecs used to sacrifice children, so that wouldn't be a good argument.

00:18:23.000 They did not sacrifice.

00:18:25.000 They did.

00:18:26.000 They made them gods.

00:18:29.000 The Aztecs did sacrifice kids.

00:18:32.000 Do you disagree with that statement?

00:18:36.000 But did they become, did they have a better afterlife?

00:18:42.000 No.

00:18:47.000 But how do you know?

00:18:50.000 Well, their religion says they did.

00:18:54.000 So, yeah, paganism is wrong, and murdering children does not ever, it's not morally defensible regardless of how you spin it. 0.56

00:18:54.000 Right. 0.56

00:19:03.000 But yes, to answer your question, cruelty or indulgence in something that is widespread harm to society in the name of a fringe religion is not under the clause of the religious tradition of the American tradition of religious liberty.

00:19:17.000 But yes, can you name an example of a religion that people would know of that embraces the use of psychedelic mushrooms for religious experience?

00:19:27.000 Some Native American cultures use peyote.

00:19:30.000 Okay.

00:19:36.000 Look, just there's just like mutilating children in the name of the modern religion of transgenderism is wrong.

00:19:43.000 I don't believe that we should legalize drugs that could be very, very harmful that were the street drugs of the 60s and 70s that have incredible implications to realign the human brain and potentially lead to overdose just in the name of a fringe religion.

00:19:56.000 But nice costume.

00:20:01.000 Next question.

00:20:02.000 Hey, Charlie, I wanted to ask you about insider trading within Congress.

00:20:06.000 I know this is like a pretty big bipartisan issue, and I don't think, I think we both can agree that Congress won't check themselves in terms of that sort of front.

00:20:15.000 So I want to know your opinion on what you think are real solutions to that.

00:20:20.000 Yeah, I mean, I don't think that if you're a member of Congress, you should be able to actively trade stocks, period.

00:20:24.000 You should put them into a blindly managed stock account.

00:20:28.000 And I think we could agree with a lot of left-wing Democrats on this.

00:20:33.000 I mean, Pelosi does deserve, I think, to go to jail for insider trading.

00:20:36.000 I mean, this thing is completely out of control.

00:20:39.000 I mean, I don't even know if you're even on the left.

00:20:44.000 You should look at her portfolio performance. 0.61

00:20:46.000 I mean, she beats the Dow industrial average by like 40%.

00:20:49.000 I mean, she makes Warren Buffett look like, you know, an 18-year-old investor that's just randomly picking stocks.

00:20:56.000 Oh, wow, Nancy Pelosi randomly put $100 million into electric vehicle stocks right before the $1 trillion infrastructure bill was passed that just so happens to subsidize electric vehicles for the next 10 years.

00:21:08.000 Yeah, that's not stock picking. 0.96

00:21:11.000 That is naked corruption in the name of taxpayer malfeasance. 1.00

00:21:15.000 And she should go to federal prison for that.

00:21:17.000 And so nobody should go into government to get rich.

00:21:23.000 And I think that it's very simple.

00:21:25.000 They passed the Stock Act like 12 years ago.

00:21:27.000 It's really a mockery and it's a joke.

00:21:29.000 We should make it far stricter where if you are an active member of Congress, you are not allowed to trade stocks.

00:21:36.000 It has to be in a blindly managed trust account.

00:21:38.000 You can't have any connection or any communication.

00:21:41.000 And I wonder if their votes would actually change.

00:21:44.000 Like, what if their votes would actually change if you might not be able to go make a 30% boost on your stock portfolio because you want to try to get electric vehicles because you think Tesla's going to go up because you want your husband's stock portfolio to do well?

00:21:58.000 So that's my position.

00:21:59.000 I think many of our politicians deserve to go to jail for the enrichment that they've enjoyed on behalf of the American worker.

00:22:08.000 The world is in flames and biodynamics is a complete and total disaster.

00:22:12.000 But it can't and won't ruin my day.

00:22:14.000 Why?

00:22:14.000 Because I start my day with a hot America first cup of blackout coffee.

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00:22:49.000 Okay, let's go here.

00:22:51.000 Hello, Mr. Kirk.

00:22:52.000 I'm Jasper.

00:22:54.000 My question is, I think we share a lot of the same values, civil liberties, sound economic policy.

00:23:02.000 I feel like the biggest infraction on our civil liberties, at least in my lifetime, happened under the Trump administration, which is why I can't support Donald Trump.

00:23:14.000 I'm looking at Kennedy right now because I don't think he's going to trump our civil liberties.

00:23:20.000 I think he has a pretty nuanced stance on economics.

00:23:24.000 So why do you continue to support Trump?

00:23:26.000 I feel like you know that our civil, you talk about Dr. Fauci's, our civil liberties were trampled on under his watch.

00:23:33.000 Do you mean just COVID, or do you mean, are there other things in particular?

00:23:36.000 COVID is the main thing.

00:23:38.000 It was his watch that I was locked up in my house for, you know.

00:23:45.000 Well, hold on.

00:23:46.000 What state were you in?

00:23:46.000 So, what state?

00:23:47.000 I was here in Kansas.

00:23:48.000 So, that was your governor's fault, not President Trump's fault.

00:23:50.000 Hold on, hold on.

00:23:50.000 Or your mayor's fault.

00:23:53.000 Did he mandate the state to close?

00:23:56.000 He put Dr. Fauci in charge.

00:23:58.000 Hold on, you got to answer the question.

00:23:59.000 I'll concede Fauci, but did he mandate anything to close?

00:24:03.000 Did he mandate anything?

00:24:05.000 Okay, so then your gripe is with the time of your Kansas leadership or your mayoral leadership.

00:24:05.000 No, he didn't.

00:24:11.000 Fair.

00:24:13.000 We do have control over.

00:24:14.000 Secondly, you said it's the worst that you've had in your lifetime.

00:24:17.000 Donald Trump made the vaccine optional.

00:24:19.000 Joe Biden had people discharged from the military for not taking the vaccine.

00:24:23.000 I'm not supporting Joe Brown.

00:24:24.000 No, I know what you said.

00:24:25.000 You've got to be fair, and you've got to say Biden was worse than Trump.

00:24:27.000 You can't vaccine.

00:24:29.000 Both of them have infracted on our liberties.

00:24:33.000 Do you think they're even in the same ballpark?

00:24:36.000 Yes.

00:24:37.000 Yes.

00:24:39.000 Biden kept up.

00:24:40.000 Hold on, guys.

00:24:40.000 Be respectful.

00:24:41.000 Biden kept up the policies of Trump and just increased them more.

00:24:41.000 That's okay.

00:24:47.000 What started with him?

00:24:48.000 Outside of personnel selection, which is...

00:24:50.000 You got to hold him somewhat.

00:24:52.000 Outside of Fauci, what specific policy?

00:24:55.000 But what specific policy can you point to that Trump did other than Fauci that specifically went after your civil liberties?

00:25:03.000 Policy.

00:25:07.000 I'm not.

00:25:10.000 I don't have a policy for you.

00:25:11.000 Because he didn't.

00:25:12.000 Donald Trump was the greatest defender of civil liberties of our lifetime.

00:25:15.000 That's why.

00:25:17.000 And I will concede.

00:25:20.000 I don't know.

00:25:20.000 I mean, I got to look with my eyes.

00:25:22.000 No, that's all.

00:25:23.000 I experienced what I experienced.

00:25:25.000 It was under his window.

00:25:26.000 But make sure you're blaming the right people because Donald Trump did not.

00:25:29.000 I passed the buck all the time.

00:25:31.000 Well, we live in a federalist state.

00:25:33.000 Hold on.

00:25:33.000 If you lived in South Dakota, nothing would have locked down because Governor Noam never locked anything down.

00:25:37.000 So he allowed states to be federalist laboratories of democracy.

00:25:42.000 So why not Kennedy?

00:25:44.000 Well, first of all, he's a pro-choice Massachusetts liberal that is not in the United States.

00:25:49.000 And that's a state's right issue now.

00:25:50.000 That's a state's right.

00:25:51.000 Well, Roe Ray. 0.89

00:25:52.000 First of all, he said on my podcast, he said that he would put Supreme Court justices in the tradition of the most liberal, the Warren tradition of the 1960s.

00:26:04.000 So we would get...

00:26:05.000 Is that your hangout?

00:26:06.000 Is that your hangout?

00:26:07.000 Yes, the United States Supreme Court is a pretty major hang-up.

00:26:09.000 In addition to the fact that Donald Trump showed that he can secure the border, end the wars, revitalize the economy, and bring back the American spirit.

00:26:18.000 RFK has been a radical environmentalist his entire life.

00:26:22.000 He is pro-abortion, and he would appoint liberal Democrats.

00:26:26.000 He cleaned up the Hudson River.

00:26:26.000 He's not a prosecutor.

00:26:29.000 Hold on.

00:26:29.000 RFK famously said that we should imprison oil and gas executives for their crimes on climate change.

00:26:37.000 RFK has been good on one issue, COVID and the vaccine.

00:26:40.000 He's been terrible on every other issue.

00:26:43.000 And the second issue, he has a liberal left-wing running mate by the name of Nicole Shanahan that is a feminazi from California that supports Gascon as the LA district attorney.

00:26:57.000 And so why not RFK?

00:26:59.000 I don't vote for liberals.

00:27:06.000 I appreciate you being here, Charlie.

00:27:08.000 I see you're coming in good faith, but I want you to think about this in the days to come.

00:27:11.000 I understand you're scorned about COVID, but you have to be fair about one thing.

00:27:15.000 Donald Trump's instincts were right, and he got swallowed temporarily by the Leviathan.

00:27:19.000 You could say he should have just pushed back, but remember the weight, the heaviness, the pressure of the time.

00:27:24.000 His instincts were that we can't let the cure be worse than the disease.

00:27:28.000 He said that he was attacked.

00:27:29.000 His instincts were ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine out of the gate.

00:27:32.000 His instincts were trying to allow us to open early, and he left it to the states.

00:27:37.000 Now you say, what about Fauci?

00:27:38.000 What about Burke's?

00:27:39.000 Fair points.

00:27:40.000 I'll concede those.

00:27:41.000 But this is, if you contrast what he was doing with COVID from the moment Joe Biden took over, vaccine mandates, continuation of lockdowns, federal mask mandates that happened way too long until a federal judge struck them down.

00:27:55.000 And so I encourage you just to think about it, look at the facts ahead of you.

00:27:58.000 I know we share similar values.

00:28:00.000 And one final thought, yes.

00:28:01.000 Yeah.

00:28:02.000 Do you support Kennedy on the ballot in that he should be?

00:28:07.000 Because he's taking more from Biden than Trump right now, David.

00:28:09.000 So yes, yes.

00:28:11.000 Yes, okay.

00:28:11.000 And for that purpose, yes.

00:28:13.000 Thank you very much.

00:28:15.000 Is that Aaron Hernandez jersey?

00:28:17.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:28:20.000 But anyway, you know what he was accused of, right?

00:28:25.000 I mean, yeah.

00:28:26.000 He's one of the best to ever do it, though.

00:28:28.000 Just like, you know, murdering his best friend.

00:28:31.000 Hey, I'm not.

00:28:33.000 I'm giving you a hard time.

00:28:33.000 I don't know if you're not holding it.

00:28:35.000 But seeing all the good things that Trump did for our country, like, that's why he's my goat, and there's probably a lot of people in his goat.

00:28:41.000 Like, everything from what he did to the economy, the border security, and just seeing all that crumble with Biden in office.

00:28:49.000 On a scale of 1 to 10, how f ⁇ ed are we as a country with Biden for another four years?

00:28:53.000 Well, okay, let's not swear, but a scale of 1 to 10, 11 if Biden wins again.

00:29:00.000 So there you go.

00:29:01.000 Thank you.

00:29:07.000 How are you?

00:29:07.000 I'm good.

00:29:08.000 How are you?

00:29:09.000 How do you feel about people focusing on the conversation of racism whenever there are like there's over a million people trafficked today in America?

00:29:20.000 Yeah, so we have a huge issue of slavery in this country.

00:29:25.000 It's happening on the southern border.

00:29:26.000 We get lectured all the time, I think, at your point about racism, but they won't ever talk about the fact that the greatest slave trade that's occurring in modern American history is happening on the southern border, where people are being sold for money.

00:29:40.000 And the cartels sell young women for either sex slavery or indentured servitude when they come across the border.

00:29:46.000 Make no mistake, we are being invaded every single day.

00:29:49.000 It is a threat to our sovereignty.

00:29:51.000 It's a threat to the American way of life.

00:29:53.000 And if you think that what America did with slavery was wrong, which you should, slavery was evil.

00:29:59.000 By the way, we're here in Lawrence, Kansas, where the history of abolitionists goes very deep in this city, in this town, in this state.

00:30:08.000 I think I encourage you to open your eyes and understand the slave trade is alive and well in this country, and it's happening on the southern border every single day.

00:30:16.000 Thank you very much.

00:30:19.000 Just a reminder, if you disagree, you guys can cut in line.

00:30:21.000 Our team will shepherd you to the front.

00:30:23.000 Yes, sir.

00:30:24.000 Hey, Charlie, thanks for coming.

00:30:26.000 Love having you here in Kansas.

00:30:28.000 Very well spoken.

00:30:29.000 My question was about the GOP and the future for really the Trump presidency and afterwards.

00:30:35.000 It seems like the GOP and kind of the conservative movement, but more of the GOP, they're so short-sighted, it seems like they're just focusing on just getting Trump in office.

00:30:44.000 If he gets in, hopefully.

00:30:46.000 If not, I mean, we can't guess.

00:30:47.000 But it seems like they're just focusing on those four years, and there isn't a lot of foresight as to what happens into 2028, retaking the house, things like that.

00:30:56.000 So what do you think the GOP needs to focus on?

00:30:58.000 What do we as kind of the grassroots need to focus on to kind of ensure not only just the victory for 2024, but for the next coming elections?

00:31:08.000 Yeah, I just want to, I love the question.

00:31:10.000 First of all, you can't fault the short-sightedness.

00:31:12.000 Because if you have gushing headwound, you solve that before the long, you know, if you have a gushing headwound and cancer, you're going to fix the gushing headwound and then you get the cancer, right?

00:31:22.000 So both are important.

00:31:23.000 One's going to kill you immediately. 1.00

00:31:25.000 One will kill you in like three months, right? 0.96

00:31:27.000 So, the longer-term problem is that we need to try to advocate for a conservative movement that is more focused about what's happening on our southern border than what's happening in Ukraine.

00:31:37.000 We need to try to advocate for the interests of this generation, more specifically to fulfill the American promise, make it easier for all of you to get married, have kids, own property.

00:31:45.000 Those three fundamental things.

00:31:48.000 And then we need to be unafraid to play offense.

00:31:49.000 This is one of the things I'm trying to do in Nebraska right now.

00:31:52.000 Nebraska has this silly system where they appropriate their presidential electors based on congressional district, which is totally antiquated.

00:32:00.000 And it basically just gives Joe Biden a free electoral vote.

00:32:03.000 So I sent out a tweet yesterday about this.

00:32:05.000 It's kind of gone super viral.

00:32:07.000 And Nebraska might actually change it.

00:32:09.000 And we might pick up an electoral vote.

00:32:11.000 So we'll see.

00:32:13.000 That sort of attitude, I hope, you know, gets fixed and gets changed.

00:32:16.000 And I want a conservative movement that plays to win.

00:32:19.000 I want a conservative movement that represents the working class of this country.

00:32:23.000 And I want a conservative movement that listens to its voters and that isn't always invested in these foreign abstractions and these adventurous wars abroad, but cares about the collapsing country here domestically.

00:32:34.000 And finally, I want a conservative movement that's clear that we defend the unborn, we want to see church attendance go up, we want to see bigger families, that we want a restoration of the U.S. Constitution and that is unafraid to bring the fight to the left.

00:32:48.000 This is something we do at Turning Point USA, not just collapse and surrender and sue for peace.

00:32:53.000 And I want a conservative movement that hasn't decided that they've lost before the fight has even started.

00:32:59.000 I feel as if there is this attitude of surrender and losing.

00:33:02.000 And I want to bring us back to that to an attitude where we're not cocky, but we believe every fight we can get into, we can win, and that we're not just always trying to collapse because the left calls us a bad name.

00:33:13.000 And finally, I want a conservative movement that does not care if you're called transphobic or racist, whatever.

00:33:20.000 I don't care.

00:33:21.000 I'm going to keep on fighting.

00:33:22.000 Goodbye.

00:33:23.000 That's the attitude that we need.

00:33:25.000 Thank you.

00:33:27.000 Also, really quick on the thing with families, completely agree.

00:33:30.000 I've been married for six years.

00:33:31.000 I have a son who's almost a year and a half.

00:33:33.000 Praise God.

00:33:34.000 Completely changed my life.

00:33:35.000 So, yeah, if you guys really want to make a difference in your life, get married.

00:33:38.000 It'll change it for the better.

00:33:40.000 Thank you, Charlotte.

00:33:46.000 Hello, Mr. Kirk.

00:33:47.000 So I'm a little spiritually lost right now.

00:33:50.000 I guess, you know, on a personal note, I'm just wondering what type of people you think should go to college and if you think going to college is worth it.

00:33:58.000 Because right now, you know, when I walk into this room for class, I just really don't see the point currently.

00:34:03.000 Yeah, so first of all, I love your heart, and thank you for expressing that.

00:34:07.000 So, what is the point to college?

00:34:09.000 Is what you're asking?

00:34:10.000 Is that also your question?

00:34:11.000 More so, do you think it's worth it to go to college?

00:34:14.000 Just to be as generous as possible.

00:34:16.000 I mean, I did write a book called The College Scam, where I believe that for many of you, you're being scammed.

00:34:16.000 It depends.

00:34:21.000 And I'll prove it to you, right?

00:34:22.000 How many of you have to take classes that you wish you wouldn't have to take that you're going into debt that are a waste of time?

00:34:26.000 Every single hand goes up, but you're forced to take them, right?

00:34:30.000 And then, just so we understand, half of the students in this room, again, some, it depends is the answer.

00:34:38.000 Half of the students in this room will never use their degree when it comes to getting a job.

00:34:45.000 That's what the data shows, meaning that you'll get a job, it does not require a college degree.

00:34:50.000 So, half of you are good, half of you, you're gonna have a lot of debt four years, you're like, I don't know.

00:34:55.000 Don't mindlessly go to college, go deliberately with the end in mind and do a cost-benefit analysis.

00:35:01.000 It depends on what you're studying, it depends on why you're going, it depends on if you can keep your value system.

00:35:07.000 All of these things are important.

00:35:09.000 Increasingly, though, people go to college to kind of just find themselves, and instead they lose themselves.

00:35:14.000 Like, oh, I have to go to college because I don't know, I just kind of have to go to college.

00:35:18.000 Here's a fact.

00:35:19.000 There are 11 million well-paying job openings in this country right now that do not require a college degree, and they require 90 days to six months of technical training, but you might have to work with your hands.

00:35:33.000 There are 11 million muscular class jobs in this country that Gen Z could get.

00:35:38.000 How many of you would work for Walmart?

00:35:40.000 Many people be like, I don't know if I'd work for Walmart.

00:35:42.000 Do you know that a manager of a Walmart supercenter earns $400,000 a year and it does not require a college degree?

00:35:50.000 The eyes are popping.

00:35:51.000 No student loan debt.

00:35:52.000 No indoctrination.

00:35:54.000 No DEI.

00:35:55.000 And yes, it is tough work.

00:35:57.000 There are a lot of jobs in this country that don't require going to college.

00:36:00.000 So do your own cost-benefit analysis.

00:36:02.000 I don't want to overly generalize, but I will say that if you're going and you're getting a degree in North African lesbian poetry, it's probably a waste of time.

00:36:13.000 Do you have a call?

00:36:13.000 Thank you.

00:36:16.000 Okay, good question.

00:36:16.000 Thank you.

00:36:18.000 How's it going, Charlie? 0.99

00:36:20.000 So if Biden drops out in 2024 because he's too old or stupid, who do you think the Democratic Roney will be? 0.98

00:36:29.000 Yeah, I think they, I mean, they have a tough situation because I think they have a vice president that's even less likable than their current president, Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:36:38.000 It might be Gavin Newsom.

00:36:40.000 I don't know if Joe Biden's going to make it.

00:36:43.000 This is the Joe Rogan line, which I love.

00:36:45.000 You guys have ever been 40 miles away from a gas station and your car is like, I got 30 miles to empty?

00:36:53.000 And you're like, I don't know if I'm going to make it.

00:36:57.000 And you know, exactly.

00:36:58.000 I'm going to full accelerate.

00:36:59.000 I'm going to get as close as I can.

00:37:01.000 That's what they're doing to good old Uncle Joe right now.

00:37:03.000 They're going and they're like, if I run out of gas, you know, they don't know where they're going either, right?

00:37:12.000 There's no GPS, there's no map, there's nothing.

00:37:15.000 So they'll probably give it to Kamala Harris because they can't be a racist, right?

00:37:22.000 But yeah, I would rather be us than them, man.

00:37:25.000 I'll say that.

00:37:28.000 If Joe Biden makes it to Election Day, that would be a remarkable accomplishment of modern science.

00:37:38.000 Thank you.

00:37:39.000 Hello, Charlie.

00:37:41.000 My husband and I, we came here from Lincoln, Nebraska.

00:37:45.000 Hello, yes.

00:37:48.000 And we are expecting our first baby girl in August.

00:37:53.000 Thank you.

00:37:54.000 Thank you.

00:37:56.000 And I was wondering, outside of raising her up in a Christian home and also planning on homeschooling her, what is your best advice for expectant mothers and fathers?

00:38:10.000 So again, I'm hardly a veteran at this.

00:38:12.000 I'm 20 months into it, but I'll tell you the things that I wish I would have known or somebody would have told me.

00:38:20.000 And it's not that new.

00:38:21.000 Other people will tell you this too.

00:38:22.000 It's just good reminding.

00:38:23.000 Kids spell love, T-I-M-E.

00:38:25.000 So the amount of time you spend with your kid, that is the best way to show them that you love them, right?

00:38:30.000 Especially fathers, right?

00:38:32.000 We have a father crisis in this country, and dads need to be around, and they need to drop other hobbies and extracurriculars, in my opinion, and spend more time with their children and more time with the precious gifts from the Lord.

00:38:43.000 The second thing is more wonky, which is whatever decision you make will be the right decision medically for your child, but never allow yourself to be blackmailed or bullied by a pediatrician or a doctor if you feel there is something that doesn't seem right.

00:38:58.000 And I'll let you fill in the gap over whatever that is.

00:39:01.000 There are situations where pediatricians will say they'll emotionally blackmail a mother into doing something that they don't want to do because they'll say your kid is going to die if you don't get whatever XYZ.

00:39:14.000 So never make a consequential, potentially permanent life decision for your child from fear.

00:39:23.000 That's the best way I can word that.

00:39:26.000 Thank you.

00:39:29.000 I have one other thing.

00:39:30.000 So I'm not in high school, not in college, but like, how do I work for you?

00:39:37.000 Well, the first thing you can do is you're from Nebraska.

00:39:40.000 So I need you to call like three state senators right now that are holding up this.

00:39:44.000 I'm not kidding.

00:39:46.000 I'll give it to you.

00:39:46.000 And you just call his Nebraska resident.

00:39:48.000 You just tell them, please pass the winner-take-all act, and the governor will sign it, which will then get President Trump an extra electoral vote this far out from the election.

00:39:56.000 So our team will talk to you, and then finally, you can apply, and we'd love to have you be a good fit.

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00:41:00.000 Hey, good evening, Charlie.

00:41:01.000 How are you?

00:41:02.000 I got moved from the very end of the line, like the last person or the second last person.

00:41:02.000 I don't know why.

00:41:08.000 I guess I'm a disagreement guy, but I just want to make sure at the onset that I let you know that probably like 90% of what you say I'd agree with.

00:41:16.000 So I would align on conserving values.

00:41:17.000 And I'm going to say everyone that might have a difference of opinion is allowed a platform.

00:41:21.000 Fair enough.

00:41:21.000 Sounds good.

00:41:21.000 Well, thanks.

00:41:22.000 We came, my wife and I. I've got two kids.

00:41:24.000 It's a blessing indeed.

00:41:25.000 Came an hour and a half.

00:41:27.000 And I also appreciate the fact that you are outspoken about your Christian faith.

00:41:31.000 I mean, you made very clear here that your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is who you live your life for.

00:41:35.000 So I have a question along those lines.

00:41:37.000 I've heard you say a few times, and I just caught this in a few videos, and I don't know.

00:41:41.000 I don't date all your videos.

00:41:42.000 So you'd mentioned this statement.

00:41:45.000 You cannot be a true born-again Christian and vote Democrat. 0.80

00:41:48.000 Do you still stand by that statement?

00:41:50.000 Yes.

00:41:51.000 Are you familiar with the notable conservative evangelical Christian John Piper?

00:41:51.000 Okay.

00:41:56.000 Oh, yeah.

00:41:57.000 Okay.

00:42:00.000 Are you familiar with his article he came out with November 2020 right before the election?

00:42:03.000 Yeah, I know his policies persons and pastors.

00:42:05.000 Effectively, can't vote for Trump, can't vote for Biden.

00:42:08.000 It was like a middle ground, if I'm not mistaken.

00:42:11.000 Yeah, yeah, in a sense.

00:42:12.000 His deal is irresistible grace.

00:42:14.000 That's his blog or something, right?

00:42:16.000 Desiring God is his well-known blog channel.

00:42:18.000 Yeah, yeah, you're good.

00:42:18.000 No problem.

00:42:19.000 He's a very well-respected theologian, yes.

00:42:21.000 Yeah, yeah, for sure.

00:42:22.000 So I was just going to maybe mention a quick little blurb of what he said and then maybe ask how you would kind of respond to that, if that's okay.

00:42:29.000 And so in the article, he said, So we think that policies that endorse baby killing, sex switching, and freedom limiting and socialistic overreach are viewed as deadly, and they are, indeed.

00:42:40.000 I completely agree.

00:42:41.000 100%.

00:42:42.000 All those things are completely evil.

00:42:43.000 He said, however, I remain baffled that so many Christians, of which of course many in this room are, consider the sins of unrepentant sexual immorality.

00:42:51.000 Of course, we're talking about a specific someone here.

00:42:53.000 Unrepentant boastfulness, unrepentant vulgarity, unrepentant factiousness, and the like to not only be toxic to our nation.

00:43:00.000 And so he ends by saying this.

00:43:01.000 In fact, I think it is a drastic mistake to think that the deadly influences of a leader come not only through his policies, but also through his, and not only, excuse me, the deadly influences of a leader come only through his policies and not also through his person.

00:43:18.000 And so all of us are going to be faced with a decision here in seven months or so when we go to the polls in November.

00:43:23.000 And so my question for you is, you know, I'm talking specifically for those who claim to be born-again, sincere, authentic Christians.

00:43:31.000 And I'm asking you, how can you illegitimize the faith of a sincere, Bible-believing, prayerful, submitted to the Word of God Christian who simply determines that a man who engages in blatant and unrepentant sin should not lead our country?

00:43:49.000 How can you illegitimize that person?

00:43:50.000 Did John Piper say he was voting for Joe Biden, though?

00:43:53.000 He said that this article is the closest thing that you can get to to determine what I'm voting.

00:43:56.000 He didn't say specifically.

00:43:57.000 Okay, so that's different.

00:43:58.000 So my statement was the following.

00:44:00.000 You cannot say you believe in biblical principles and vote for the principles of the Democrat Party.

00:44:06.000 They're incongruent.

00:44:08.000 They do not fit.

00:44:09.000 And that's not what John P. I'll address John Piper.

00:44:11.000 I agree with you.

00:44:12.000 No, I know you agree.

00:44:13.000 So I'm going to address the John Piper thing because I disagree with what he said.

00:44:16.000 But my position is this.

00:44:18.000 If you're a born-again Christian, by the fruit, you will know them.

00:44:22.000 And if the fruit is that I will cast my ballot for a party that had Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom and Eric Adams and Joe Biden spend more wording and video time on Easter Sunday talking about trans rights than the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, that supports the massacring of children via trans and also abortion, that you cannot be a Christian and vote for that. 0.59

00:44:48.000 Now, John Piper did not say he was voting Democrat.

00:44:51.000 So he doesn't even fall into what I'm talking about.

00:44:54.000 So let's talk about John Piper.

00:44:56.000 What John Piper is saying is that I believe abortion is wrong.

00:45:00.000 Okay.

00:45:01.000 I believe that the transing of kids is wrong. 1.00

00:45:03.000 I believe all this sort of stuff.

00:45:05.000 But I think Donald Trump is this unrepentant sinner.

00:45:08.000 And I would say, Mr. Piper, what do you have to do with the story of Samson?

00:45:11.000 Should he be in the hall of faith in Hebrews?

00:45:15.000 According to our own scriptures, it says that Samson is in the righteous hall of faith.

00:45:21.000 If you know the story about Samson, he's sort of similar to Trump, the hair. 0.92

00:45:27.000 God came to Samson while he was in the bed with a prostitute. 0.99

00:45:31.000 Samson took the jaw of a donkey and killed 400 Philistines. 0.90

00:45:35.000 He wasn't exactly your perfect mold, but God used him for a purpose.

00:45:40.000 And I would ask John Piper, can God use broken, sinful vessels for his purpose?

00:45:44.000 He used King Cyrus to bring God's chosen people after the first exile for the reconstruction of the second temple.

00:45:51.000 And the question for John Piper, he says, I remain baffled.

00:45:53.000 Well, you should remain baffled, Mr. Piper, because the people that are Trump supporters that are Christians, they know Donald Trump's faults. 0.86

00:46:00.000 They could recite them back to you, just like they know their own faults.

00:46:03.000 But he also has virtues.

00:46:05.000 And I never hear the virtues ever articulated from people like John Piper.

00:46:09.000 What are the virtues?

00:46:10.000 He's awfully courageous.

00:46:12.000 Would you keep on fighting if you're facing 700 years in federal prison time and your family's business empire is at risk of being taken from you?

00:46:19.000 Would you keep on running for office and keep on fighting if everything you've done is in front of you?

00:46:24.000 I don't know if I would.

00:46:26.000 Secondly, his love of country, I think, is unparalleled, unprecedented.

00:46:29.000 Finally, he was conflating a policy agenda with personality.

00:46:34.000 He says a president is not only personality, policy, but it's also personality.

00:46:38.000 But policy is far more important than personality.

00:46:41.000 I'll prove it to you.

00:46:42.000 If you turn off your TV and you tune out of all the media, will you still be impacted by the president?

00:46:48.000 Yes, by his policy.

00:46:50.000 And so the question for John Piper is, you're watching way too much mainstream media.

00:46:55.000 You're being infected way too much about a man that I don't think you even know.

00:46:58.000 But can you acknowledge that Donald Trump delivered three Supreme Court justices and gave us the overturn of Roe versus Wade?

00:47:06.000 If we voted the way that John Piper wanted us, or let's just say embrace that belief system in 2016, we would have had Jezebel, I mean Hillary Clinton, as president, and we never would have repealed Roe versus Wade.

00:47:19.000 The embassy would not have been moved to Jerusalem.

00:47:21.000 We wouldn't have had peace in the Middle East. 1.00

00:47:23.000 I could go on.

00:47:24.000 I think we proved that the first Trump presidency, flawed man, excellent policy, fulfilling his promises.

00:47:31.000 I don't think any Trump supporter is necessarily in disagreement with what I would have said.

00:47:37.000 I'm baffled by John Piper, an alleged humble, fervent, dedicated Bible teacher that can be indifferent to a million abortions a year, 100,000 kids on hormone blockers, a wide open border, the destruction of Western society, race hatred, defunding the police, rising crime, the downfall of Minneapolis' hometown, and him preaching about Donald Trump's personality.

00:48:02.000 It's on you, John Piper, to explain yourself, not us.

00:48:10.000 Go ahead really quick.

00:48:11.000 Yeah, you're good.

00:48:13.000 Again, John Piper would obviously stand against those things categorically.

00:48:17.000 He's not voting categorically and unequivocally.

00:48:18.000 But if you don't vote against it, and John Piper wouldn't be the only one who would take this sort of stance.

00:48:23.000 I mean, if you're going to oppose John Piper as a notable conservative person, Andy Stanley, Russell Moore, John Piper, Rick Warren, Timothy Keller, who's now passed away, if they're... David Platt, we could continue to get away from that.

00:48:32.000 Yeah, but why won't they vote to end abortion?

00:48:34.000 Period, end of story.

00:48:35.000 If you will not vote to end abortion, stop telling me you're a Christian all the time.

00:48:39.000 Start acting and voting like you are a Christian. 0.96

00:48:42.000 I think they're just saying that we can't have unconditional support of an individual because of his party.

00:48:48.000 We have unconditional support of biblical principles that a flawed vessel fought for and achieved.

00:48:54.000 So Russell Moore, David French, all these guys that go around and talk about how terrible the Christian right is, how can they reconcile? 0.97

00:49:02.000 Because they're going to have to go in front of a supreme ruler of the world, Jesus Christ, and say, why were you preaching in the New York Times and writing these long meandering op-eds about how you didn't like Donald Trump's tone when you were given a binary choice?

00:49:14.000 Baby saved, babies murdered.

00:49:17.000 And they're like, well, I don't like his tone.

00:49:20.000 What kind of a Christian is that? 1.00

00:49:22.000 He didn't mention tone.

00:49:23.000 He mentioned unrepentant sin of five different categories, all of which are mentioned explicitly in the New Testament.

00:49:28.000 If I was an Israelite in the time of the Old Testament, I would not have advocated for Samson as leader.

00:49:33.000 He was not a commendable leader.

00:49:35.000 I would not sit here.

00:49:36.000 Why is he in the hall of faith?

00:49:37.000 God thought he was a great leader.

00:49:39.000 Thank goodness you're not the judge of man.

00:49:41.000 Campaign for Samson to be judged.

00:49:43.000 God put Samson in Hebrews. 0.93

00:49:45.000 You did it.

00:49:46.000 So did he put Jephthah too?

00:49:47.000 And Jephthah was a child sacrifice.

00:49:48.000 Yes, so maybe we can learn from the flawed vessels of the Old Testament, not try to apply the perfect interpretation of the law.

00:49:56.000 You're making my point.

00:49:57.000 So it's not even a choice, is what I'm getting at.

00:50:00.000 If you believe in the biblical principles, if you believe in what the Bible says, to love life, to love the unborn, to care about those that can't defend themselves, it's a binary choice.

00:50:12.000 And it's not about defending the unrepentant alleged behavior of an individual.

00:50:17.000 It's did that individual advance the priorities that we care about?

00:50:22.000 And the answer resoundingly was yes.

00:50:24.000 And I would agree with that.

00:50:25.000 Yes, so you should vote Trump.

00:50:26.000 That's not the end.

00:50:27.000 Do we really think that's the end, though?

00:50:28.000 I mean, to think, I think it's a biblical principle, Charlie, and hopefully you would agree that it's not only policies that a leader advocates for that impact the nation.

00:50:38.000 You're right.

00:50:38.000 It's also Supreme Court justices.

00:50:40.000 Yes, and it's the character of an individual.

00:50:42.000 Okay, well, hold on.

00:50:44.000 Have you ever met Donald Trump to advocate this?

00:50:46.000 No, I have not.

00:50:47.000 Okay, so, but hold on.

00:50:47.000 I think this is super important because absent meeting an individual, you don't know who he truly is.

00:50:52.000 But let's say he's all those terrible things. 0.99

00:50:54.000 Trump's a sinner. 0.99

00:50:54.000 I'm a sinner. 0.99

00:50:55.000 Trump has done more to fight for the priorities that I care about.

00:50:58.000 And I believe that every Christian should pray deeply and act to defend the unborn this November.

00:51:03.000 We'll get to the next question.

00:51:03.000 Thank you so much.

00:51:04.000 Thank you.

00:51:04.000 We got a lot of people.

00:51:05.000 Do you think Jesus of Nazareth, first century, who you and I both follow, do you think he would agree with your statement that nothing born again Christianity?

00:51:11.000 I think Jesus of Nazareth would have handled Trump like he did in John 8.

00:51:14.000 He would have said, do not cast a stone against Donald Trump.

00:51:17.000 He would have said, Trump, sin no more.

00:51:19.000 You know what he would have said to Charlie Kirk?

00:51:20.000 He would have said, don't throw a stone at Charlie Kirk.

00:51:22.000 Charlie, sin no more.

00:51:23.000 Because we all fall short of the glory of God.

00:51:26.000 And God uses all of us as broken vessels for his purposes.

00:51:31.000 All of us.

00:51:33.000 Thank you.

00:51:37.000 Hey, how's it going, Charlie?

00:51:38.000 My name's Dom, and I'm a super conservative, okay?

00:51:42.000 But I have one liberal view, and I want to know how you can advocate for it in a community like this.

00:51:48.000 And that is abortion, which you basically just talked about.

00:51:50.000 Now, I'm a Christian, so I don't want you to talk on the Christian policies. 0.81

00:51:53.000 I understand why, as a Christian, I shouldn't be pro-choice.

00:51:57.000 But as someone that, you know, has ran into some issues in a hookup culture, how can you advocate for pro-life?

00:52:04.000 Wait, so you are pro-abortion?

00:52:06.000 Yes, I am.

00:52:06.000 It's my only liberal above.

00:52:08.000 Why are you pro-abortion?

00:52:10.000 Okay, so I'm sure you've heard this a thousand times.

00:52:13.000 I just believe that in certain situations where someone is about to give birth, it might be better to have that abortion just because it might impact the child's life in a poor way, and it may also impact the parent's life.

00:52:29.000 And you did say you were a Christian?

00:52:31.000 Yeah.

00:52:32.000 So I am a Christian.

00:52:33.000 I understand.

00:52:34.000 After what you just said there, I totally understand why I should be pro-life.

00:52:39.000 So why aren't you?

00:52:41.000 Just because I haven't done any research on abortion, which no surprise there.

00:52:46.000 My one liberal view is the one I don't know a whole lot about.

00:52:49.000 I just want to know how you can advocate for it in a community like this.

00:52:53.000 Take, for instance, obviously I should be pro-life, and my buddy has.

00:52:58.000 Yes, you should be pro-life.

00:52:59.000 I'm aware.

00:52:59.000 I should.

00:53:01.000 But I want to know how you can advocate to people that aren't Christian and are stuck up in this hookup culture and believe that it is a use of birth control. 0.52

00:53:09.000 Well, I'll just advocate to you because you're asking me how to win people over.

00:53:13.000 I mean, when does life begin?

00:53:17.000 I don't know.

00:53:22.000 Yeah, I mean, I know you said you haven't thought very deeply about this, but the scripture says, I knitted you in the womb.

00:53:31.000 I knew you before you're in the womb.

00:53:33.000 And so if it's a human life and it started at conception, shouldn't those lives be worthy of protection?

00:53:43.000 Do you believe there's ever a case where it's a better choice?

00:53:48.000 What do you mean by better?

00:53:49.000 Are you trying to say that murder might be justifiable because somebody might not have enough money to afford a kid?

00:53:54.000 Is that what you're getting at?

00:53:56.000 It would be, yeah.

00:53:57.000 The only reason I am advocating for that.

00:53:59.000 That's eugenics, just so we're clear. 0.94

00:54:01.000 What do you mean, eugenics?

00:54:02.000 Okay, eugenics is the justification for murder for a broader project or purpose, population control or to get rid of the infirmed or what they would consider to be the racially unclean. 0.93

00:54:11.000 Margaret Sanger people.

00:54:13.000 The only reason I say it is because I'm unaware if it is clearly like if it's actually a life at conception.

00:54:21.000 If it is a life, then obviously you shouldn't be taking that life.

00:54:24.000 It is a life.

00:54:25.000 A new DNA is formed.

00:54:27.000 Your entire being, your chromosomal structure, who you are, started right there at conception.

00:54:32.000 What is your name?

00:54:33.000 Dom.

00:54:34.000 Dom, your entire being, how tall you are, the color of your hair, your eye color, your organ structure, whether you have food allergies, all of it.

00:54:42.000 Your entire human genome at conception was put right there.

00:54:46.000 The sperm and the egg meat.

00:54:47.000 Who you are today started right at that moment.

00:54:49.000 It didn't start at six weeks.

00:54:50.000 It didn't start at 15 weeks.

00:54:52.000 The only difference is that you're bigger than you were then.

00:54:56.000 You're no longer in your mother's womb. 0.94

00:54:58.000 You're no longer dependent on your mom's, obviously, umbilical cord, and you just happen to no long, you be past that.

00:55:04.000 So the size, level of development, environment, a degree of dependency, those things should not change moral questions, right?

00:55:11.000 So since life begins then, we should protect that life.

00:55:16.000 Do you agree?

00:55:18.000 I would agree.

00:55:19.000 I just haven't done my research, so.

00:55:21.000 No, I appreciate the humility, but now you don't have any more liberal views, because now you're pro-life.

00:55:31.000 Now I got nothing to say to the liberals whenever they ask me.

00:55:33.000 Now I just want to.

00:55:34.000 No, now you can go to liberals and say, hey, when does life begin?

00:55:38.000 And you can say, hey, why is it okay to murder a being when it's at 15 weeks where it has a heartbeat, can feel pain, brain waves, eyes formed, but somehow you're objecting to a baby that's two years old and you can't murder that baby.

00:55:52.000 Where do you draw the line?

00:55:54.000 Why at one place do you say it's okay here and not okay here?

00:55:57.000 So welcome to the pro-life movement.

00:55:59.000 God bless you.

00:56:00.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:56:05.000 So Charlie, I just wanted to come here today and basically say I'm not too political, but I'm a big fan of Kamala Harris.

00:56:11.000 I think she seems like a sweet lady with a nice smile.

00:56:15.000 And basically, I just want to know what's your beef with Kamala and how can we resolve this?

00:56:20.000 Yeah, so.

00:56:31.000 I'm impressed because I've never heard anyone say anything positive about Kamala Harris.

00:56:38.000 Why don't you tell me how great she is?

00:56:40.000 What has she done? 0.99

00:56:41.000 Well, I think she seems like a nice lady. 1.00

00:56:44.000 She has a nice smile. 0.99

00:56:47.000 And I also just feel like she seems like she'd be fun to hang out with.

00:56:53.000 She seems to me more kind of like the librarian that gets super mad at you because you're making too much noise while you're hanging out with your friends.

00:57:03.000 I mean, there is one good thing that Kamala Harris is good at, but I'm not going to get into that because I'll keep it PG-rated here.

00:57:12.000 We can agree to disagree.

00:57:14.000 I kind of want to get to know her, but we all have our own opinions, right?

00:57:20.000 Yes, we do.

00:57:31.000 Hello, Charlie.

00:57:32.000 First, I want to applaud you and thank you for giving a good speech, good traditional conservative values.

00:57:37.000 I really like what you've been doing with your rhetoric these past couple years, going more traditional and conservative and trying to fit in with us rather than boomerk talking points.

00:57:45.000 I really love that.

00:57:46.000 And something I really like that you said is that we should not be doing any more foreign aid and we should focus on our own country.

00:57:52.000 And I have one more question.

00:57:53.000 While we condemn Hamas and the free Palestine crowd, why as conservatives, should we continue to financially support Israel financially with our money? 0.85

00:58:01.000 Me and all, like they have been endlessly bombing the Middle East and been very open about wanting to wipe out Gaza from existence. 1.00

00:58:08.000 And many ancient Christian churches have also been destroyed because of the Israel bombing.

00:58:12.000 And now Candace Owens, Alex Jones, and other conservative figures are now calling out Israel.

00:58:16.000 And now you even got called an anti-Semite in October because you called out Israel for the Intel failure, the government, and then you threatened to stop supporting him at some point.

00:58:25.000 I just want to ask, why should we or should we not continue supporting Israel financially and with our military?

00:58:32.000 It's a great question.

00:58:33.000 It's a question I get frequently.

00:58:34.000 So do you want me to repeat it, guys?

00:58:35.000 Did you hear it?

00:58:36.000 You did not hear it?

00:58:37.000 He's asking, should we keep on supporting Israel?

00:58:39.000 And if so, what about all the bad things that Israel has done? 0.94

00:58:43.000 First of all, I just want to say Candace Owens is awesome, and she's great, and she's going to continue to go on tour with us, and she's great.

00:58:50.000 So I want to make sure we're morally clear, though, because there has been a rewriting of history.

00:58:56.000 This war was started by Hamas.

00:58:59.000 Hamas went into Israel, and they did not go after military installations.

00:59:05.000 They did not go after troops.

00:59:07.000 They went after women and children in the nursery and brutally slaughtered them.

00:59:12.000 Now, war is terrible.

00:59:13.000 I'm not an apologist for the Israeli military.

00:59:15.000 As you mentioned, I tweeted against the IDF because they did bomb a church in October, and I was called all these different terrible things.

00:59:21.000 However, I am cheering for Israel.

00:59:23.000 So let me tell you more broadly, okay?

00:59:25.000 And let me ask you: are you a Christian?

00:59:26.000 Yes or no?

00:59:27.000 I would imagine yes.

00:59:28.000 Okay, Catholic?

00:59:30.000 Yeah, that doesn't surprise me because the question usually comes from Catholics, and that makes sense. 1.00

00:59:34.000 Because there's a difference in theology, right?

00:59:37.000 In the Catholic Church, and I have a lot of respect for Catholics, there is a belief in replacement theology that the church replaced Israel.

00:59:44.000 So every time that you hear Israel in the scriptures, you just say it's the Christian church, not actual Israel.

00:59:49.000 I don't hold to that view, but we could agree to disagree.

00:59:52.000 I don't want to get too deep into that.

00:59:53.000 By the way, some of my closest friends are serious Catholics.

00:59:56.000 My wife was baptized Catholic.

00:59:58.000 Mad respect, okay?

00:59:59.000 But it's just a disagreement.

01:00:01.000 But here's my take, and I've said it before: is that I'm very biased because my visits to Israel changed my life.

01:00:07.000 My visits to Israel brought my faith alive where I saw where Christ our Lord walked on water, where I saw where Christ our Lord delivered the Sermon on the Mount.

01:00:17.000 Where I saw where Christ our Lord was born, where I saw Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Sarah, Rebekah, and Leah where they were laid to rest in Hebron, where all of these stories that we are told are mythologies are in your face in Israel, where it makes the Bible become real.

01:00:35.000 Where I saw where Christ our Lord was betrayed, where I saw where Christ our Lord rose from the dead after three days.

01:00:42.000 So my support for Israel is a little biased and personal, where access to my holy sites changed my life.

01:00:49.000 And I believe it's a moral good for Western society for us to be able to visit our holy sites uninterrupted to see the miracles that are in the Bible that created the narrative story that led to Christ's resurrection.

01:01:04.000 And so that is why I support Israel. 0.58

01:01:06.000 I love going there.

01:01:07.000 I love visiting there. 1.00

01:01:08.000 And I hope they win the war and kill every last Hamas terrorist. 1.00

01:01:11.000 Thank you. 1.00

01:01:13.000 Thank you.

01:01:17.000 We got to get to the next one.

01:01:18.000 Thank you.

01:01:19.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:01:20.000 Thank you so much for coming.

01:01:21.000 So I'm very pro-Israel, but I'm going to ask this question more from an American standpoint.

01:01:28.000 So obviously we all know that the left is always capable of stooping to new lows.

01:01:33.000 But I think one that I could have never seen coming was this new support for Islamic terrorism. 0.74

01:01:41.000 And it's not just like, oh, a small majority here are supporting Islamic terrorism.

01:01:45.000 Like there are mass amounts of people going to the streets in support of this.

01:01:52.000 And I know, so President Trump has suggested that if he is to win again, hopefully, that visas will be stripped.

01:02:01.000 These people will be sent back.

01:02:03.000 But I guess other than the foreign people, since obviously some of them are citizens from America, like, what do we do about this from an American standpoint? 0.89

01:02:11.000 And how do we move our culture forward knowing that people, like, it's hard to put into words that people support Islamic terrorism here?

01:02:21.000 Yes, well, I mean, you shouldn't support any terrorism, right?

01:02:23.000 Whether it's Islamic or general, right?

01:02:25.000 Or, you know, you shouldn't support, for example, the transgender individual that went and shot up the school, you know, against Christians. 0.87

01:02:31.000 Like, you shouldn't support any form of terrorism.

01:02:33.000 But yes, very simple.

01:02:35.000 Coming to this country needs to be a privilege, not a right.

01:02:37.000 If you come to this country on a student visa and you burn the American flag and you say death to Israel, you go back to your country of origin.

01:02:44.000 I'm sorry, go back.

01:02:45.000 You're here as an invited guest and you have betrayed that promise, right?

01:02:50.000 And it shouldn't be overly generalized.

01:02:52.000 It shouldn't be done by group.

01:02:53.000 But if there's a pattern of behavior that if you're organizing a group, like at Harvard, right, and you have signs and posters that say from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, and you have constant waving a flag saying that Jewish people are committing genocide and that America's a terrible country and that you're burning the American flag, you're a visitor here and you should cease to be a visitor.

01:03:12.000 We have a right to determine who gets to come to America, and we need to exercise that right. 0.98

01:03:17.000 Finally, I will say this, which is if left unchecked, you get some very serious ramifications.

01:03:23.000 Look at Elon Omar, who is a member of Congress now from Minneapolis, previously from Somalia, who has some very, very nasty things to say about this country.

01:03:31.000 So we need to reaffirm that we should have control over our borders, control over people coming into this country. 1.00

01:03:37.000 One of the most important things that we could do, and hopefully President Trump fixes it.

01:03:40.000 Thank you.

01:03:42.000 Again, thank you so much for coming.

01:03:46.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:03:47.000 It's nice to meet you.

01:03:49.000 My question is, you talked about how we should hire based on merit and not on diversity, which I agree with.

01:03:55.000 However, I feel like there's people who don't have the skills or the resource to acquire the merit that you talked about.

01:04:03.000 So if we're saying no to diversity, how can we help those people, as Christians, I feel like it's our duty to help those people acquire the merit that you talked about?

01:04:12.000 Yeah, that's a great point.

01:04:14.000 A great question.

01:04:14.000 And so what we find actually is that diversity, equity, inclusion creates more prejudice and racism where it otherwise would not exist.

01:04:23.000 So getting rid of it will get rid of this idea that people are only a certain place because of some sort of hiring quota or some sort of other accelerated way forward.

01:04:34.000 Look, you're always going to have inequities.

01:04:35.000 The best answer I have, let's just talk about black America.

01:04:37.000 The best answer I have is that we need more dads in black households, period. 0.95

01:04:41.000 75% of black households do not have a father around.

01:04:44.000 75%.

01:04:46.000 That right there, you get all the other inequities from there.

01:04:49.000 And don't take my word for it.

01:04:50.000 Look at Barack Obama.

01:04:51.000 Barack Obama said that the amount of lack of fathers in the home, and let me say it differently.

01:04:55.000 One in four households, black households in this country, have a stable father around.

01:05:00.000 And the kid is more likely to commit crimes, go to prison, less likely to learn to read as his counterparts.

01:05:06.000 The other part is that we need to crush the public sector teacher unions that have been terrorizing our public schools in this country, that have been lowering standards and not teaching kids adequate skill preparation, the ability to read and write correctly, all these different sorts of things.

01:05:22.000 But here's the last thing I'll say.

01:05:23.000 I can go through all the solutions.

01:05:26.000 You're going to have disparate outcomes in life.

01:05:29.000 That's a sad reality.

01:05:32.000 You have to be okay with that.

01:05:34.000 And sometimes those disparate outcomes have nothing to do with race.

01:05:38.000 Sometimes it has to do with where you're raised.

01:05:40.000 Sometimes it has to do with cultural impact or differences.

01:05:43.000 And unfortunately, we have been led to believe, and Thomas Sowell writes this in Discrimination and Disparities, that you cannot blame racism for every single thing, every difference between blacks and whites in this country.

01:05:54.000 There are other contributing factors as well.

01:05:57.000 So hire based on merit.

01:05:58.000 And here's what we saw in the 1950s when America was far more racist and we had far, let's just say, crueler Jim Crow laws, is black Americans were actually outpacing the earning potential of white Americans in Chicago and New York City, is that the DEI affirmative action regime with the great society has actually hurt black America. 0.55

01:06:17.000 It has set them back.

01:06:19.000 It has, as Clarence Thomas said, created the low bigot, the soft bigotry of low expectations.

01:06:25.000 And so the best way to unlock the potential of all Americans is start treating people as individuals, not just members of a certain tribe that deserve preferential treatment based on the melanin content in their skin.

01:06:37.000 Thank you.

01:06:42.000 You said, okay, which I agree with, but Would you say there's a benefit to diversity, like to diversity hiring in the short term or in the long term?

01:06:52.000 Well, what benefit would there be?

01:06:53.000 For example, exposing kids from low, like low diversity, I mean, from low-income areas to education.

01:07:02.000 So, I agree with you.

01:07:03.000 No, because of all they drop out at higher rates because they're largely not qualified to be at those schools.

01:07:07.000 Secondly, for every spot that you put a diversity kid in affirmative action, is a spot you take from another qualified white or Asian student.

01:07:15.000 So, the answer is for more education to be available in those states.

01:07:21.000 You cannot structurally solve this if one out of four black households don't have a dad around.

01:07:26.000 It's never going to get solved. 0.97

01:07:27.000 And so, that needs to happen within the black community.

01:07:29.000 And until that happens, until we cease subsidizing single mothers in this country, that cycle will almost never stop. 0.96

01:07:36.000 But the solution is not to say we're going to try to fix inequities that allegedly exist by making it that qualified white and Asian students aren't able to get into Harvard, which has been the status quo for the last 20 or 30 years.

01:07:48.000 Thank you.

01:07:51.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

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01:08:55.000 Hello, um, my name is Josiah.

01:08:57.000 My question for you, Mr. Kirk, sir, is there is this slur that's been used against evangelicals, Catholics, Messianic Jews, even this slur, uh, Christian nationalist.

01:09:12.000 And is this a term that we should embrace, and how would you define it?

01:09:17.000 Probably not.

01:09:18.000 Um, well, first, they're trying to call us Nazis, okay?

01:09:22.000 That's what they're saying when they say that, which is hilarious in some ways, because who are the ones that are trying to lock up political opponents and stifle speech and use political power to try to stop opposition?

01:09:33.000 But we need to, instead, I don't love the term because it plays too much into their hands.

01:09:39.000 I think we should just call ourselves constitutionalists.

01:09:41.000 We constitutionalists who love Jesus and love the country and want a restoration of the Declaration and the promise of the Constitution.

01:09:48.000 That's the best way to counter it.

01:09:50.000 That is their new kind of shtick right now: Christian nationalism, Christian nationalism. 0.89

01:09:54.000 I wouldn't call it a slur because I am a Christian and I am a nationalist, but the phrase itself is playing way too much into the narrative that I think they want us to play right now.

01:10:04.000 Thank you.

01:10:04.000 Appreciate it.

01:10:05.000 Thank you.

01:10:06.000 Again, if you disagree, our line will find you.

01:10:09.000 Yeah.

01:10:09.000 We'll go for a little while.

01:10:10.000 Charlie, I appreciate you coming here.

01:10:11.000 I'm Ryan.

01:10:12.000 I'm a sophomore here at KU from California, so if I give you some prayer over California, that'll be appreciated.

01:10:16.000 But got one thing I would like you to make a statement on, another question. 0.98

01:10:20.000 So the first one is, and I agree, it's total crap, toxic masculinity in this whole age of toxic masculinity. 0.99

01:10:25.000 Now, I think it's a load of crap. 0.99

01:10:27.000 And what's your opinion on toxic masculinity? 0.99

01:10:29.000 Well, I mean, you mean that toxic masculinity that stormed Normandy Beach and won World War II?

01:10:34.000 Or the toxic masculinity that founded the country?

01:10:38.000 Or the toxic masculinity of primarily men that go and fight our wars, fight our battles.

01:10:46.000 I mean, it's a preposterous statement.

01:10:48.000 Instead, we need to lift up men, no longer say that they need to be boys, but they need to turn into dangerous gentlemen and understand what exactly that means, which is to protect the innocent, know your power, use it prudently, and go on an adventure and stop being a boy in your parents' home.

01:11:07.000 And really appreciate that.

01:11:09.000 I feel like at KU, maybe it's just me, but there's a silent majority here of conservatives, of conservative Christians.

01:11:09.000 One more.

01:11:15.000 What are a few, you know, maybe practical tips you would give these Christians?

01:11:18.000 You know, step out in faith, step out in boldness to really take this campus back.

01:11:22.000 Because this is God's campus, and how can we take this campus back?

01:11:24.000 The best witness is your behavior.

01:11:26.000 And so, which is when your friends are getting, you know, super drunk, don't.

01:11:30.000 And they're going to ask questions why, and they're going to see that you don't have the hangover, and you're going to be happier, and you're going to be 15 pounds lighter.

01:11:36.000 And, you know, you're not going to have to all of a sudden be like, I'm so depressed.

01:11:40.000 Like, okay, actually, I'm not.

01:11:41.000 Like, actually, I feel great.

01:11:42.000 And I woke up at 7 a.m. and went for a run.

01:11:44.000 Or when all these people are bragging about their body count, be like, yeah, that's really disgusting.

01:11:48.000 You have an STD, you might not know.

01:11:49.000 I don't.

01:11:53.000 And all of a sudden, they're going to be like, wow, that's, how do you, like, well, yeah, actually, I'm saving myself for marriage.

01:11:58.000 Why aren't you, by the way?

01:11:59.000 Use your, your behavior needs to be your witness, especially on a college campus.

01:12:02.000 More than being preacher or anything, all of a sudden, they're going to want what you have.

01:12:06.000 Because what you have is you have someone, you are delaying gratification and putting a better life ahead of immediate pleasure.

01:12:13.000 And that's hard to find on a college campus because a college campus is filled with immediate gratification all the time.

01:12:19.000 You know, take this substance, take this drug, hook up with this person.

01:12:22.000 And there comes a cost with that.

01:12:24.000 And that cost is really heavy.

01:12:26.000 And I think it's incumbent on men to try to turn the corner on that and say, no, we want to have a revitalization of piety where we're going to save ourselves for a partner for marriage.

01:12:35.000 And if you haven't done that, then try to recommit yourself to that.

01:12:38.000 And you're not going to try to participate in this ridiculously damaging and poisoned culture of trying to sleep with every single individual you possibly can.

01:12:47.000 There's nothing masculine or impressive about that, honestly. 0.75

01:12:49.000 That just makes you an uncontrolled animal, actually. 0.95

01:12:51.000 That you sleep with a lot of women. 0.92

01:12:53.000 Like, okay, yeah, that takes nothing.

01:12:55.000 That doesn't impress me at all.

01:12:56.000 You know what impresses me?

01:12:57.000 In this culture, saving yourself from marriage and having a big family.

01:12:59.000 Now I'm impressed, actually.

01:13:01.000 And so, through your witness, through your behavior, have the witness.

01:13:04.000 Appreciate it.

01:13:05.000 Thank you for coming out.

01:13:06.000 Thank you.

01:13:08.000 Oh, happy birthday, man.

01:13:09.000 Thank you.

01:13:10.000 Yes, sir.

01:13:11.000 How's it going, Mr. Kirk?

01:13:12.000 Last call for disagreement soon, yes.

01:13:14.000 So I'm from the Kansas City, Kansas side of Missouri.

01:13:18.000 So my dad's a cop, and just recently over the past year, we've been dealing with a lot of fentanyl, all those drugs.

01:13:25.000 I've had close friends overdose.

01:13:27.000 Do you think this is related to the border?

01:13:30.000 And if so, how can we fix that?

01:13:32.000 Yeah, it's 100% related to the border.

01:13:34.000 I mean, I think like 90% of all the fentanyl comes illegally across the southern border, manufactured in China, given to the cartels, come across the border.

01:13:40.000 The way we fix it is we close the southern border, period.

01:13:43.000 And Joe Biden wants the border open.

01:13:47.000 I don't know the numbers, but I would guess anywhere between 800 and 1,000 people in the state probably overdose from fentanyl every year.

01:13:53.000 Am I about right?

01:13:54.000 Probably ballpark.

01:13:57.000 Not every single one of those, but a majority of those deaths are unnecessary.

01:14:00.000 And college, for you college kids out there, be very careful what drugs you take.

01:14:04.000 They might be laced with fentanyl.

01:14:06.000 You might think, oh, I've done this drug before.

01:14:08.000 You have no idea where it came from.

01:14:09.000 First of all, you shouldn't do drugs at all, okay?

01:14:11.000 But every day I hear of another story of a kid that dies of fentanyl overdose, and he thought he was just taking a party drug, and he dies.

01:14:18.000 And the Chinese Communist Party and the cartels and Joe Biden are to blame. 0.61

01:14:21.000 But I put the most blame on Joe Biden, who keeps our border completely wide open, which I believe is an act of treason against this country.

01:14:28.000 Thank you.

01:14:34.000 Hey, Charlie, how's it going?

01:14:36.000 I'm just wondering what you think about how Trump handled the 2020 election loss. 0.94

01:14:42.000 And I kind of think that we were a little bit hypocritical because we gave the libs a ton of crap for not really accepting 2016. 0.84

01:14:50.000 And I'm just wondering if you think Trump kind of made a mistake with how he responded and just with everything that happened. 0.92

01:14:58.000 No, first of all, 2020 was, I totally, I think it's a, on the surface, a smart point.

01:15:04.000 But there's no equivalence between the normal process of election in 2016 and what happened in 2020.

01:15:11.000 It's just two different galaxies, right?

01:15:11.000 2020.

01:15:13.000 Mass mail and balloting.

01:15:15.000 2020 was a lot more shady and also a lot closer.

01:15:18.000 But the question is, do I think Trump made a mistake?

01:15:20.000 The only thing I wish that Trump would have done differently is that I wish that, and we all should have realized that the feds were setting us up on January 6th.

01:15:20.000 No.

01:15:29.000 And that's the only thing that could have been done differently.

01:15:31.000 Besides that, no.

01:15:34.000 And so, you know, we must understand fighting for election integrity is super important.

01:15:39.000 The only other thing I wish Donald Trump would have done is on January 5th, I wish he would have gone down to Georgia and campaigned harder for the two Senate runoffs.

01:15:45.000 That's something, because we lost those two Senate seats on January 5th in Georgia.

01:15:50.000 But I remain a huge supporter of his, and we have to understand Trump used every legal angle he had as president when he was president, and he failed in the courts, and he did all these different things.

01:16:01.000 And he left office despite all the clamoring.

01:16:03.000 He left office, went down to Mar-a-Lago, and he's on a mission to win it back.

01:16:07.000 Thank you.

01:16:10.000 Hey, Kirk.

01:16:12.000 My question is sort of a question slash compliment.

01:16:17.000 You're a very good public speaker.

01:16:20.000 I think a lot of people here might struggle with that.

01:16:22.000 What I'm curious is, somebody with so little education beyond high school and, you know, just experience in the field, how are you able to so confidently just kind of word vomit, right?

01:16:39.000 You said a, pretty much every question you've answered has been no answer.

01:16:45.000 You've just kind of said what conservatives want to hear.

01:16:48.000 So really all of your work is not a debate.

01:16:51.000 It's just confirmation bias.

01:16:53.000 So you're going to have a, sorry?

01:16:56.000 You want to debate?

01:16:57.000 No, I'm good.

01:16:57.000 I'm just curious where you learned.

01:17:00.000 You sure?

01:17:00.000 Where you learned how to.

01:17:02.000 I'm a high school graduate.

01:17:02.000 You're in college, man.

01:17:03.000 Let's debate.

01:17:04.000 I vomit for a living, you said.

01:17:06.000 Yeah.

01:17:07.000 Come on, let's debate.

01:17:08.000 No, I'm not here to debate.

01:17:09.000 That's not the same thing.

01:17:10.000 You're just here to insult me.

01:17:12.000 Yeah, you're about...

01:17:14.000 Yeah, I am.

01:17:15.000 You're a hero.

01:17:16.000 Where did you learn how to public speak? 0.95

01:17:17.000 Because you're really good at lying out of your head.

01:17:19.000 What have I lied about? 0.62

01:17:20.000 Name one thing I lied tonight about.

01:17:22.000 Name a statement.

01:17:24.000 Name a second thing.

01:17:24.000 No, name a stat.

01:17:25.000 I said that's wrong.

01:17:26.000 You said 11 million jobs.

01:17:28.000 You said 50%.

01:17:29.000 Yes, 11 million jobs are open for blue-collar work, according to Mike Rowe, and according to three independent studies, according to the Department of Labor.

01:17:35.000 Name another stat I said that's wrong.

01:17:37.000 I guess my main point is...

01:17:38.000 No, name a third stat that I said that's wrong.

01:17:40.000 When you say a stat or you just say numbers, it's helpful, usually when you're public speaking, to say where you got that information.

01:17:48.000 Because people who disagree with you might.

01:17:51.000 So Jimmy, no, but give some examples.

01:17:53.000 Where did I lie or say a stat that's not true?

01:17:58.000 You need to work on not doing confirmation bias.

01:18:01.000 Wait, hold on.

01:18:02.000 No, but you come up here and say, oh, how did you with a high school education learn to spew BS, say one thing I said that was wrong, misleading, unfactual, not rooted in data?

01:18:11.000 One thing.

01:18:11.000 I'm doing it right now.

01:18:12.000 I'm asking you a question.

01:18:14.000 I was just making a comment and you're spinning it.

01:18:17.000 That's what you're really good at.

01:18:18.000 That's why I think you're good.

01:18:18.000 No, you came up here and insulted me.

01:18:20.000 I'm asking you, how have I misled this audience and you come unprepared, like not with a single data.

01:18:26.000 I thought you'd at least have like one gotcha, man.

01:18:28.000 Like one number, like one thing. 0.70

01:18:30.000 Nancy Pelosi's stock portfolio up 65% in 2023.

01:18:34.000 That's true.

01:18:35.000 11 million job openings, according to the Bureau of Label Statistics, that require muscular labor and require just a six-month technical training degree.

01:18:42.000 That is true.

01:18:43.000 At the apex, 15,000 people coming across the southern board every single day.

01:18:47.000 I even said it's down a little bit.

01:18:48.000 That is true.

01:18:51.000 What have I said that's incorrect?

01:18:58.000 You're good at what you do, but not for the right reasons.

01:19:01.000 That's all I'm saying.

01:19:04.000 They don't want to debate me because they can't debate me.

01:19:07.000 They can't say one thing I said that's wrong.

01:19:10.000 They can't name one data point.

01:19:12.000 They just come up here and insult.

01:19:13.000 You, my friend, are why we are going to beat you guys historically because you are afraid to have a debate.

01:19:25.000 Just, it's so amazing, the smugness. 0.67

01:19:28.000 How'd you learn to speak like this in word vomit?

01:19:30.000 Oh, what'd I say that's true?

01:19:33.000 Everything.

01:19:34.000 Name one thing.

01:19:35.000 Name another thing.

01:19:37.000 Name another thing.

01:19:38.000 Yeah, you should ask for money back at KU.

01:19:41.000 They're really scamming you, man.

01:19:42.000 You'd think you'd have one little thing.

01:19:44.000 All right.

01:19:47.000 Hey, Charlie.

01:19:49.000 Well, I think you're a great public speaker, and you made me go from being a woke liberal to being conservative because you are factual.

01:20:02.000 And my question is that I am a proud daughter of Mexican immigrants, but they are actually very conservative and very Christian, and they actually are big fans of you, and they say hi.

01:20:14.000 And the reason why they're really conservative is because they don't want the values and morals that ruin their country ruin this country as well. 0.94

01:20:24.000 So my question is that I often get called a traitor or stupid for betraying my people just by being a Republican. 0.97

01:20:30.000 I've been canceled so many times. 0.96

01:20:31.000 How can I help other people of color understand that the Democrats don't love them and don't actually want to help them?

01:20:37.000 And that the Republican Party is for everyone.

01:20:39.000 Also, I'm a really big fan if you haven't been in myself.

01:20:41.000 Let's give it up for her.

01:20:42.000 Is she not great?

01:20:43.000 Is that not great?

01:20:45.000 What's your name?

01:20:47.000 Oh, Juliet.

01:20:48.000 Julio?

01:20:49.000 Juliet.

01:20:49.000 Juliette.

01:20:50.000 Juliet.

01:20:50.000 Juliet, yeah.

01:20:51.000 Sorry, it's hard to hear back sometimes.

01:20:52.000 God bless you.

01:20:53.000 And tell your parents hello.

01:20:55.000 Look, it sounds like your people are America. 0.68

01:20:57.000 It sounds like they're the ones that have this racial hostility.

01:21:02.000 What drives me nuts is, you know, I get called racist every day.

01:21:05.000 That doesn't bother me. 0.99

01:21:06.000 But they're the ones that say you're a race traitor.

01:21:09.000 And I look at you as someone made in the image of God with your own thoughts, your own feelings, your own agency, someone that loves this country and wants to contribute, someone that thinks independently, and someone that is full of joy and gratitude.

01:21:23.000 And then I look at the other side and they're like, why have you left to go to all those racists?

01:21:28.000 It's like, okay, well, look around.

01:21:30.000 You just got a standing ovation at an event that is celebrating that you're coming here.

01:21:35.000 And so this is what's happening in this country: the left is filled with bitterness.

01:21:40.000 They want black-only dormitories on campuses across the country. 0.83

01:21:43.000 Over 100 university campuses have black-only dormitories.

01:21:46.000 They say that you are not allowed to think a certain way if you have a certain skin color.

01:21:51.000 Our movement is different.

01:21:52.000 I don't think anything of you based on the color of your skin.

01:21:55.000 You know what I look at you as?

01:21:56.000 As an American made in the image of God, that I'm grateful to say that we're in this country together.

01:22:01.000 God bless you.

01:22:02.000 God bless you.

01:22:02.000 Thank you.

01:22:06.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:22:07.000 I'm from Kansas City, Missouri, the better side.

01:22:11.000 And I'm sorry, I had to say it.

01:22:14.000 I don't come with you.

01:22:16.000 I do online college because it's like my only option for actual good education.

01:22:21.000 But anyways, so I was going to ask, you said on your podcast a few episodes ago that you were talking about the military and how to get more men and women into the military.

01:22:30.000 But then you said that we shouldn't be putting women on the front lines.

01:22:33.000 And I kind of agree.

01:22:34.000 I kind of don't agree just because I have some family members that are in the military and then I have some female family members that are stronger than a lot of men that I know.

01:22:43.000 And so they are in, they disagree, and I don't really know how to say no because I want to agree with you, but I also know that we should value women in the military, but I don't know about the front line.

01:22:53.000 So I just want, you didn't really clarify in your podcast, so I was just asking here.

01:22:56.000 Yeah, no, it's an important point.

01:22:57.000 First of all, it doesn't diminish current heroes that are females in the military that are on the front lines.

01:23:01.000 It's a broad statement that I think is necessary to defend for this particular reason.

01:23:06.000 Number one, let's just go at the first point you said.

01:23:08.000 We need to make it harder for men to get in the military and raise the physical fitness criteria for men to serve in the military, not lower it.

01:23:14.000 That's number one.

01:23:15.000 Number two is that I'm a stickler for traditional American values, and I think that women are deserving of protection and that they should not be on the front lines of the most harsh military combat that could potentially live them amputated or dead.

01:23:27.000 I know that's like an old traditional view, but I think that it's in the most in the most historic way that I don't think that we should forget or we should betray is that men are the one that go ones that go to war in the most ferocious frontline fighting.

01:23:41.000 There are other reasons for this though.

01:23:43.000 And again, there are outliers, which is that men do have more bone density, higher testosterone rates.

01:23:49.000 Men are just better fit for some of the, let's just say, toughness and grittiness at war.

01:23:54.000 Now, I will say, though, some women are better at war than men. 0.96

01:23:56.000 I totally acknowledge that.

01:23:58.000 But I do think we can agree that the overly feminization of the American military is becoming a problem. 0.88

01:24:04.000 And what I mean by that is feelings-based, tell-me-your-pronouns, right?

01:24:08.000 That is taking over the military and making us less prepared. 0.53

01:24:11.000 I'm not saying it's because we have allowed females in frontline active combat roles.

01:24:15.000 In fact, I think that some of our heroes have gone and fought and done some amazing stuff and won medals of honor.

01:24:20.000 But I do think that it's a trend where we're trying to reconfigure a social experiment.

01:24:24.000 I say, time out. 0.98

01:24:26.000 We won two world wars with a male frontline army with a female supporting back army. 1.00

01:24:32.000 Women played a huge role in World War II. 0.98

01:24:35.000 Huge role. 1.00

01:24:36.000 They're the ones that staffed a lot of the factories and put together the assembly lines.

01:24:41.000 It's just, they weren't always told the heroism of Iwo Jima or on the front lines of D-Day.

01:24:46.000 And so we need all people involved in the U.S. military, in my personal opinion.

01:24:51.000 But what are we trying to fix?

01:24:52.000 When our military was at our greatest, it was the least politically correct, most vicious fighting force on the planet that defeated the Nazis and defeated the Japanese. 0.84

01:25:02.000 I think we should try to get back to that.

01:25:06.000 I just add one more quick thing.

01:25:08.000 I also have a lot of family members in law enforcement, including the FBI.

01:25:12.000 And you say a lot of things.

01:25:13.000 A lot of conservatives really hate the FBI, but I just wanted to ask if you think that it is truly the FBI or that it's mainly the DOJ, because I know firsthand that the DOJ tells the FBI what to do.

01:25:23.000 Not saying the FBI doesn't say no, which they should a lot of times, but they normally fill out what the DOJ tells them what to do.

01:25:31.000 Yeah, so I think Christopher Ray is coming here tomorrow.

01:25:33.000 That's what I'm told, right?

01:25:34.000 That's hilarious.

01:25:35.000 Someone told me that Christopher Ray is coming to KU.

01:25:36.000 Is that right?

01:25:37.000 He's coming here tomorrow.

01:25:38.000 Is that right?

01:25:39.000 Something else.

01:25:40.000 Yeah, so look, there's some great FBI agents.

01:25:43.000 The FBI does some great stuff.

01:25:44.000 I think the FBI needs to focus more on child sex traffickers than on Catholics going to Latin mass, okay? 0.96

01:25:51.000 I think the FBI needs to focus a lot more on people that are coming across our southern border on the terrorist watch list than on social media posts.

01:26:00.000 The FBI just did a house visit of a woman that had a social media post that was critical of Joe Biden the other day.

01:26:06.000 The boots are different than the suits of the FBI, but I will say this.

01:26:10.000 If you are actively raiding a home of a pro-life leader in a no-knock raid and you're saying, I'm just following orders, at some point you should just resign.

01:26:21.000 I know you have a career.

01:26:22.000 I know you've worked hard for it, but I personally would not be able to go knock down the door of a pastor that is being accused of praying outside of a pro-life clinic, and his eight kids are around terrified in fear, and the FBI comes in, guns ablazing.

01:26:38.000 They don't have to do that.

01:26:40.000 And they say, I'm just following orders.

01:26:42.000 That's how you get Auschwitz. 0.93

01:26:44.000 So I hope that some people really start to...

01:26:46.000 We need mass resignations from the FBI soon.

01:26:49.000 Tell Trump to appoint my dad as director.

01:26:52.000 All right, you got it.

01:26:52.000 Thank you.

01:26:54.000 We'll take a couple more.

01:26:54.000 How does that sound, everybody?

01:26:55.000 We'll go a little over time, okay?

01:26:58.000 Hi, my name is Christina.

01:26:59.000 I am from Puerto Rico.

01:27:01.000 And I'm super cold.

01:27:03.000 I'm sorry.

01:27:04.000 I'm not used to this cold.

01:27:06.000 That's totally understandable, given where you're from.

01:27:09.000 It's really warm.

01:27:10.000 You should visit.

01:27:12.000 But I am a full-on Christian, and most of the things that you've said today, I vouch for that.

01:27:18.000 But concerning my island, concerning Puerto Rico's decision in Trump's legacy or what Trump should do or should not do and benefit for the island, my question is, knowing the heavy impact we already are having here in mainland and in Puerto Rico, like this is a global thing.

01:27:40.000 It's not just only here.

01:27:41.000 It's a full-on economic stuff going on.

01:27:44.000 Why Trump would be a good presidential impact and what promised facts would benefit Puerto Rico, like actual facts, not just only throwing paper towels to us when we're in a full-on destructive force.

01:28:01.000 And because most things happen after an effect, I don't want to see paper towels being thrown.

01:28:10.000 That was a little taken out of context, just seeing that.

01:28:12.000 True, but here are my thoughts.

01:28:14.000 He was there to help and give disaster relief.

01:28:16.000 True.

01:28:16.000 But then Trump repeatedly opposed disaster funding for Puerto Rico while disputing and failing to acknowledge that Maria's death toll was not even at knowledge.

01:28:30.000 Hurricane Maria.

01:28:31.000 Trump also had a fact official saying that he did not want a single dollar being given to Puerto Rico for disaster reliefs.

01:28:44.000 And this was a report stated in 2019.

01:28:48.000 So my question is more based on, well, we Puerto Rico actually have the Jones Act that actually benefits for United States economy.

01:29:01.000 Why would Trump be a good idea?

01:29:03.000 Okay, great.

01:29:04.000 What does he bring to us?

01:29:06.000 Number one thing, you trade in U.S. dollars, right?

01:29:10.000 You use U.S. dollars in Puerto Rico?

01:29:12.000 Yes.

01:29:12.000 Okay, that's the answer.

01:29:14.000 Right now, the dollar is being destroyed by Joe Biden.

01:29:16.000 And I bet inflation is crushing you guys on your island.

01:29:19.000 Oh, absolutely.

01:29:20.000 Everything.

01:29:21.000 So let's just, all that stuff, I'll do more research on.

01:29:24.000 I'm not an expert on the Puerto Rico stuff.

01:29:26.000 I have a heart for Puerto Ricans.

01:29:27.000 There's a lot of Puerto Ricans that are here on the mainland because Puerto Rico is part of America.

01:29:30.000 Number one thing is that if you want that U.S. dollar to be strong and not weak, elect Donald Trump as your president because that dollar has weakened dramatically the last three and a half years under Joe Biden.

01:29:41.000 And that is through mass inflation.

01:29:43.000 Yes.

01:29:44.000 But I understand perfectly fine about that.

01:29:47.000 And I in some sorts of ways agree that we are having a full-on impact in economy in the island.

01:29:56.000 But it's not just only three years back.

01:29:59.000 It goes like a century back where we haven't been able to progress.

01:30:04.000 It's not even just Biden or Trump.

01:30:07.000 No, I know, but I'm happy to talk offline.

01:30:09.000 You would agree. 0.69

01:30:10.000 There's been a lot of corrupt Puerto Rican officials, too. 0.89

01:30:13.000 Oh, yeah. 0.93

01:30:13.000 Okay. 0.93

01:30:14.000 Yes.

01:30:14.000 And I actually vouch for our generation saying, like, hey, why can't we progress on buying a house, getting married, having a good on family?

01:30:26.000 And this all starts with the fact that I go to study, but then our studies aren't being actually being fruitful.

01:30:34.000 Fruitful?

01:30:35.000 Fruitful.

01:30:36.000 Fruitful.

01:30:36.000 I'm sorry.

01:30:37.000 That's okay.

01:30:38.000 Fruitful on the fact that I want to return on investment of the time that I invest here.

01:30:43.000 I understand.

01:30:44.000 So here's what I'll say: is that all the other issues aside, right now the country's collapsing under Joe Biden.

01:30:49.000 Let's stop the collapse and build a strong America, and only Donald Trump can do that, in my personal opinion.

01:30:55.000 Thank you so much.

01:30:56.000 I appreciate that.

01:30:57.000 And I love Puerto Rico.

01:30:58.000 Great people.

01:30:58.000 I got to get to the next question.

01:30:59.000 Thank you.

01:31:00.000 I was just going to say thank you.

01:31:01.000 Okay.

01:31:02.000 God bless you.

01:31:03.000 Thank you.

01:31:04.000 All right.

01:31:04.000 We'll do a couple more.

01:31:05.000 Hi, my name is Callie.

01:31:07.000 I'm a non-traditional student.

01:31:08.000 I just turned 27.

01:31:09.000 I'll get my bachelor's in accounting in December.

01:31:12.000 Because of the industry I picked and my husband, he's also an air traffic controller, having a work-life balance is going to be very tricky.

01:31:19.000 And we also are trying to go, we're going to try to have kids after I'm done with school.

01:31:24.000 How would you give advice to somebody who wants to have kids but maybe not be able to do homeschooling?

01:31:32.000 Yeah, that's a tough one.

01:31:34.000 So, boy, that's air traffic controller.

01:31:37.000 God bless your husband.

01:31:38.000 We need really good air traffic controllers.

01:31:40.000 There are more near-misses in this country than anyone wants to report.

01:31:43.000 I love air traffic control.

01:31:44.000 And you don't need a high school degree to be an air traffic controller.

01:31:47.000 And they have people's lives in their hands every minute of every day.

01:31:50.000 We should give it up for our air traffic controllers.

01:31:52.000 They do a really great job.

01:31:56.000 I got to get through this somewhat quick, but you can join your own pod school.

01:32:00.000 I encourage you to check out Turning Point Academy, local private school.

01:32:04.000 We have some church partners here that I know would love to talk to you.

01:32:06.000 Just don't send your kids to public school.

01:32:08.000 Just don't send them to government school.

01:32:10.000 That's the most important thing.

01:32:12.000 So God bless you.

01:32:12.000 Thank you.

01:32:13.000 Thank you, thank you.

01:32:14.000 We'll do a couple more.

01:32:14.000 We're already over time.

01:32:15.000 We're going to go as quick as we can.

01:32:16.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:32:16.000 Thank you for being here.

01:32:18.000 In the 2019, just before the presidential elections that year, I started listening to you.

01:32:23.000 You inspired me.

01:32:24.000 I have knocked over 33,000 doors in the past six years, canvassing for local elections, local candidates.

01:32:32.000 Because all throughout Kansas, I want to ask you, what level of responsibility do the local elected officials, school boards, city councils, state reps, and state senators have for the problems in this country?

01:32:44.000 And to a part of that, what can we, the people in this room that don't have a national platform like you do, fight like you do for these issues, for these conservative candidates?

01:32:55.000 Politics is all local.

01:32:56.000 And the answer is yes.

01:32:58.000 The most important engagement you can get involved is on that local level, is on that precinct level.

01:33:03.000 And run for office.

01:33:04.000 If you don't like something, go run for office and find a solution and go be the solution.

01:33:09.000 Don't just complain about it.

01:33:10.000 And maybe one day you could be the governor of this state or be a U.S. senator knocking on 33,000 doors.

01:33:15.000 That's mad respect, man.

01:33:19.000 I wish that more young conservatives would spend time knocking on doors than making TikTok videos.

01:33:26.000 If we had more young conservatives knocking on doors, we'd have a much better country and a better political system.

01:33:31.000 God bless you, man.

01:33:32.000 Thank you so much.

01:33:33.000 Thank you.

01:33:36.000 First off, thank you, Charlie, for coming today.

01:33:38.000 Make this one quick.

01:33:40.000 In the last 40 years, we've had one president with active duty service time.

01:33:43.000 I think this correlates with the timeline of culture change that you speak of in this country being different from the 70s and 80s.

01:33:49.000 Do you think there would be a positive to requiring presidents to serve active duty military time?

01:33:54.000 No, because the one that did was an awful president.

01:33:56.000 It was George W. Bush.

01:33:57.000 So, yeah.

01:33:58.000 So, no, I don't think so.

01:34:00.000 And the good one didn't have active duty time and wasn't a politician.

01:34:03.000 But good question, though.

01:34:04.000 Thank you, Donald Trump.

01:34:06.000 So thank you.

01:34:07.000 And so I think Carter also served in the military, too, and he was also terrible.

01:34:11.000 But all right.

01:34:12.000 In closing, everybody, I love this state.

01:34:14.000 I love Kansas.

01:34:15.000 And here's my send-off message: yes, it is a conservative state, but you must fight for your values.

01:34:21.000 And for those of you here on campus, whatever you said, I don't know if I agree with that, but sure.

01:34:27.000 Great.

01:34:28.000 You guys have to fight.

01:34:30.000 There's something special happening in this country.

01:34:32.000 There's a seismic shift.

01:34:33.000 Support your turning point USA chapter.

01:34:35.000 Stay involved.

01:34:36.000 Stay engaged.

01:34:37.000 And we're going to save this country.

01:34:38.000 God bless Kansas and God bless you guys.

01:34:39.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:34:40.000 Email us as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.

01:34:43.000 Thanks so much for listening.

01:34:46.000 God bless.

01:34:48.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - April 12, 2024

How Can Gen Z Recover From a Post-Covid World? My Speech at the University of Kansas

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