00:01:08.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:47.000It's been eight and a half gap years of traveling the country.
00:03:51.000And I was trying to make the argument back then, and it's more applicable today than ever before, that if we do not take decisive and dramatic action, we're going to lose this gift that we have been given, this constitutional republic of the people and for the people.
00:04:05.000And it is a gift because generations before us sacrificed for what we enjoy today, or what we should be enjoying today.
00:04:13.000And so what gives me hope is gatherings like this.
00:04:16.000And I know that there's a lot of people here that have been open critics of what I consider to be the worst mistake in American history, which is what we did to ourselves, which is the lockdowns.
00:04:28.000The lockdowns will go down as the worst mistake in American history, and we should never lock down our country again.
00:05:05.000Shut down all of our schools and micromanage human behavior.
00:05:10.000And if all of a sudden you're losing more young people to suicide than to the Chinese coronavirus, which is what happened in California, then all of a sudden that's a government-inflicted trauma on its own citizens.
00:05:23.000That's government coming in and saying, we know what is best for you, and we are going to micromanage every single one of your decisions, forgetting this idea of American liberty, especially when we had churches being closed across the country and Planned Parenthoods remaining open.
00:05:38.000When if you just wanted to be able to assemble, I guess we could say this is a peaceful protest or whatever they're going to say in Minnesota.
00:05:45.000You know, yeah, the buildings are burning, but it's a mostly peaceful protest here, you know, in Minneapolis.
00:06:08.000They come from our Creator because we are made in his image.
00:06:12.000Our rights come from God, not from government.
00:06:17.000And for the first time in American history, we decided to give away all those freedoms and liberties by a group of people that said they were trying to keep us safe.
00:06:30.000And so there's a whole new kind of weird, strange cable expert that came expert, that came, cable news expert that came onto the scene, these medical experts that have been wrong about everything.
00:06:40.000And Dr. Fauci should have been fired the first time he opened his mouth.
00:06:46.000And what we have found, what we have found is the states that locked down actually are in a worse position than the states that opened up their economy fully in May, like Florida that had open restaurants and open schools and opened small businesses in May versus California.
00:07:06.000Florida has a much older population than California, yet their death rate and their virus rate is lower.
00:07:16.000They have a lower rate of mental health issues, alcoholism, drug usage, higher small business rate.
00:07:21.000We've lost 40% of our small businesses over the last year.
00:07:24.000And so if you wanted to get Jeff Bezos richer, well, then of course you're going to lock down the American economy because all of us then go straight to our smartphones and our devices and we start ordering packages instead of going to the local carpenter, going to the local convenience store.
00:07:40.000If you wanted to make America's ruling class, who hate you, by the way, they actually hate the values of North Dakota.
00:07:45.000And this is the first time in our country's history where the richest people actually have contempt for the people that got them rich.
00:07:52.000I want you to think about that deeply.
00:07:54.000I'm a big fan of Teddy Roosevelt, which is somewhat controversial in Republican circles because I don't think they understand Teddy Roosevelt.
00:08:01.000But even the people that Teddy Roosevelt went after, the trust-busting that he did, Andrew Carnegie, Mellon, J.P. Morgan, they loved their country.
00:08:11.000The industrialists back in the early 1900s, they might have had too much power and influence, but they were Americans.
00:08:18.000I cannot say that about our tech companies right now.
00:08:33.000In fact, the people that run our big companies, Delta, that run major league baseball and Coca-Cola, they have contempt for you.
00:08:40.000And this is what I call down, this is what I call a top-down revolution, which is a small group of people that are preemptively striking you.
00:08:49.000People in the heartland, you understand they're obsessed with you, right?
00:08:53.000You have people that are worth $100 billion that could take a plane to anywhere on the planet, that can eat any food that they desire, that could drink anything at any time.
00:09:03.000They have real power, but yet they continually comment that the real problem in America is not Jeff Bezos and $165 billion he has.
00:09:12.000No, it's the Christian welder in North Dakota.
00:09:23.000And this is a top-down revolution, and it's happening in real time, where the most powerful people, instead of trying to govern our country and try to pass down something at least somewhat healthy to the next generation, they're saying, you know what?
00:09:36.000We're going to strike the people before they get angry that we have stole so much from them.
00:09:41.000And that's a very unprecedented cycle of events.
00:09:50.000The lockdowns made the wealthiest people in America wealthier than any other time in human history, even wealthier than when Teddy Roosevelt was president, which is really hard to believe.
00:09:59.000It also did nothing for health at all whatsoever.
00:10:04.000Now, two weeks of lockdowns, I understand.
00:10:06.000You're trying to figure out what you're dealing with.
00:10:10.000But then you go into June, you go into July, you go into August, you go into the fall, you go into the winter, and they took Christmas and Easter from us, by the way.
00:10:19.000And we're supposed to believe this is all under the guise of public health.
00:10:24.000I said this back in May, and I'm going to say it again.
00:10:25.000This is a social conditioning exercise, and we are failing it.
00:10:38.000I try not to weigh in on local politics.
00:10:40.000I really don't because I don't live here.
00:10:42.000And the same way I don't like Americans trying to go weigh in on foreign countries politics unless you really know the issue.
00:10:49.000But from what I understand, there is a bill that has passed through the House and the Senate that would remove a mask mandate.
00:10:55.000And that's at least what I understand.
00:10:58.000And if that is true, then the governor should sign that bill.
00:11:04.000And that's as far as I'm going to weigh in on that.
00:11:06.000And so, again, there might be more complications on that.
00:11:10.000So again, I only say that because this idea that we're going to use, we're now going to require you to go wear a piece of cloth over your mouth because we are now in control.
00:11:23.000I thought it was my body, my choice, first of all, from all the collectivists.
00:11:26.000Secondly, there's, and if you believe masks work, then so be it.
00:11:30.000I'm mask agnostic, meaning it comes from a Greek word agnosis, which without knowledge, if you believe they work, then go ahead, do it.
00:11:38.000But you're all of a sudden going to force people to wear them, then that's a violation of their individual liberty and their sovereignty.
00:11:45.000And it's against what I, people say, Charlie, what does it mean to be a conservative today?
00:11:50.000I said, it really means this, is that our agenda is a pro-human agenda.
00:12:01.000Every single public policy choice that we support as conservatives, from being pro-life, to putting more police in the streets to allowing parents to have choice in their education to not mandating masks to caring more about small businesses than Amazon is a pro-human agenda.
00:12:17.000That's exactly what conservatives should articulate.
00:12:19.000And I'm afraid, I'm sure you guys are, in a variety of different ways, we are dehumanizing our young people and we're dehumanizing each other.
00:12:26.000And what a better example of dehumanization than forcing people to walk around with masks all the time.
00:12:34.000That is the literal definition of dehumanization.
00:12:37.000And I have been a critic for a long time.
00:12:41.000And again, the media hates it when I mention it, but I'm going to be consistent.
00:12:45.000I'm a critic of, in the Middle Eastern world, of women having to literally mask up.
00:12:54.000If you guys don't remember some of the debates like 10 years ago, a lot of conservatives weighed in on it and they've been really silent on us masking ourselves.
00:13:02.000And I think it's child abuse to have a three-year-old wear a mask.
00:13:05.000I think it's child abuse to have a child thinking that this is normal.
00:13:11.000And they're like, oh, they're going to have this new normal.
00:13:13.000Like whatever sort of weird tech company-funded normal you think it is, I already hate it.
00:13:20.000You haven't even finished your sentence.
00:13:22.000Because these are people that don't believe there's a difference between man and woman.
00:13:25.000These are people that want to destroy women's sports.
00:13:29.000They're funding it and they're espousing these ideas.
00:13:31.000And so, insofar that that fight has come here to North Dakota, you know, I want to applaud the state legislature for pushing forward that bill.
00:14:23.000I mean, I could go through every single statistic.
00:14:25.000Suicide, mental health, anxiety, depression, self-inflicted harm, one after the other.
00:14:30.000By the way, not to mention domestic abuse.
00:14:33.000All of a sudden, we're like, hey, let's make it so that women who are abused have to go live with their abusers, which was one of the most anti-women things we could have ever done in our country.
00:14:46.000The second thing, which is not far from here that I do want to comment on, is because of one incident that was immediately misrepresented, we decided, without very few people acting with courage, to accept this argument that America is a racist country.
00:15:01.000And that not only that, we're going to go a step further.
00:15:03.000We're going to say that all white people are racist.
00:15:05.000And then if you do not admit it and take a knee and fund our companies and say it every single day and have a yard sign and the bumper sticker and post the black square, we're going to find you and humiliate you and make your life miserable.
00:15:17.000And I was an early critic of this because I grew up in a very racially diverse part of Chicago where we actually cared about character, not skin color.
00:15:26.000I know it's a really bizarre thing, where we didn't look at an audience or a group of people and say, oh, they're all white people.
00:15:31.000I'm like, no, they're actually all really decent people.
00:15:34.000And I actually didn't think about people's race.
00:15:36.000In fact, if you're obsessed with race all the time, there's something really wrong with you.
00:15:40.000Like, you should find Jesus and like read the Bible for a little bit.
00:15:44.000I mean, there's something like really wrong with you.
00:15:47.000And I actually believe that most Americans don't think about race all day long.
00:15:55.000I've been a very vocal critic of all this because America is the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:16:01.000America was founded on freedom, not on slavery.
00:16:03.000The Northwest Ordinance, believe it or not, Ohio used to be considered the Northwest in America.
00:16:08.000Ohio and Indiana was a declaration where it said no new slaves are allowed to expand into these territories, ratified by the United States Congress as one of their first acts of Congress right after the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
00:16:20.000They very well could have said, hey, we're going to allow all the slave traders to go into the Northwest Territories, but the founding fathers and George Washington, our first American president, said, no, any new territory is going to be a free territory because that's a reflection of our values.
00:16:33.000Now, that short little vignette I just, 90 seconds, wouldn't it be nice if every single American kid in our schools understood that very basic truth?
00:18:25.000There's things that the tech companies did to prevent the information from being spread.
00:18:30.000Despite all of that, Donald Trump got closer than anyone would have ever believed, not to mention all of the nonsense and the shenanigans and quite honestly, the treachery that happened in the ballot registration, the ballot dropping, the voter harvesting, the vote counting, the late night ballot drops, that whole process, I really hope that it gets reformed, not just reformed, it needs to get dramatically moved in the right direction.
00:18:55.000And so we need to ask ourselves the question, why are elections important?
00:18:58.000Well, elections are pressure release valves.
00:19:01.000It's all that prevent us from descending into the third world and going to a place of permanent chaos.
00:19:10.000Elections are a place where if you're really angry, you could circle a date on your calendar and say, I'm so angry, but I can't wait to do my silent little protest and it's going to be our little secret because all my friends might like Biden, but I love Trump.
00:19:23.000That's a thing that elections are supposed to offer you.
00:19:25.000But when you don't trust your elections, if you do not trust the mechanism that you're actually able to express your voice, then all of a sudden that entire pressure release valve disappears.
00:19:35.000So we are flirting with some very dangerous territory here.
00:19:38.000And instead of reforming our elections, Democrats want to pass HR1, which would do the opposite, which would forever damage our elections.
00:19:46.000And then Georgia wants to make a very, just very vanilla, moderate change to election law.
00:19:53.000And they get accused of like, oh, you're saying that you can't distribute water to people in line.
00:20:26.000It's not exactly a controversial thing, but they're so angry about it.
00:20:30.000And this should give you the entire story of the 2020 election.
00:20:34.000Because whatever just happened, that's probably where a lot of that happened is in the mail-in balloting nonsense, in a practice that the New York Times itself called ballot laundering, which is picking up ballots to people that never requested them, people that got extra ballots, to things that move.
00:20:48.000And there's an entire underground criminal industry that does exist.
00:20:52.000It was exposed by the New York Times to go pick up those ballots, fill them out anonymously, and put them in drop boxes funded by Mark Zuckerberg.
00:20:59.000Now, people say, well, that didn't happen enough to be able to sway things.
00:21:04.000Second of all, we're talking about margins of 10,000, 11,000, 15,000, 20,000 votes.
00:21:09.000So when all of a sudden things are right within that marginal difference, those things absolutely can be consequential.
00:21:16.000And so then you have the president of the United States and the CEOs of Delta and Coca-Cola literally waging economic warfare against Georgia.
00:21:24.000And so they say it's all about fighting systemic racism.
00:21:27.000So they move the Major League Baseball All-Star game from a 60% black county that would have been a $30 million stimulus to the black community and $100 million stimulus to Atlanta to a white county in Denver with a bunch of kind of mountain hippies, I guess.
00:21:43.000I'm sure if you guys have friends that are basically all white and really rich.
00:21:47.000And they say, no, we do not want to economically support the black community in downtown Atlanta because we're fighting for the black community.
00:22:25.000Enough of the Zoom and Skype and YouTube nonsense.
00:22:28.000And we have to start to show the world that we are not going to tolerate the intentional destruction of this beautiful gift and this constitutional republic that we have been given.
00:25:21.000And I had no money, no connections, no idea what I was doing.
00:25:24.000And just started traveling the country and started to kind of learn as we went.
00:25:29.000And Turning Point USA now is the premier conservative student organization on campus out there with thousands and thousands of young people.
00:25:37.000We just had our Southwest Regional Conference and our Young Latino Leadership Summit in Phoenix yesterday.
00:25:43.000I've been all over the place in the last 24 hours.
00:26:10.000Candace Owens got her start with us, who's terrific, as you guys all know.
00:26:17.000And so, yeah, look, we want to play a piece, play a part, be a piece, I guess you could say, in changing the trajectory of our nation because currently we all know where it's headed.
00:26:28.000But share with people where you started.
00:26:30.000I mean, the story told me I'm Sarah's been, hey, Chris, I went to Madison, Wisconsin.
00:27:44.000Find me a high school that does and send your kid there because my high school was all about, I mean, my high school when I was there was better than most, but there was definitely the liberal undertones and garbage there.
00:27:56.000But it's been one amazing blessing after the other.
00:27:58.000And we definitely hit an inflection point when I had an amazing opportunity to meet the president when he was a candidate.
00:28:05.000I personally went all in for him when many conservatives thought he had no chance of winning.
00:28:10.000And so I became the body man to Donald Trump Jr. and just basically fetched Diet Red Bulls and took pictures for him while still trying to figure all this stuff out.
00:28:23.000That was only four years ago and a couple months ago.
00:28:26.000And I mean, I wasn't nobody at the time.
00:28:29.000I was still doing a couple things, speaking and TV here, but it was one 1,000th of what we have now, right?
00:28:36.000And I just saw this amazing opportunity.
00:28:38.000And again, this whole thing about Russian collusion, I always laugh about it.
00:28:42.000Like, oh, yeah, you colluded with Putin.
00:28:44.000I'm like, I was the bodyman to John Jr.
00:28:46.000We got our, we got our Columbus to Cincinnati and Cleveland mixed up.
00:28:49.000We couldn't order a pizza, let alone collude with Putin, okay?
00:28:53.000Like this idea that we were part of this like intercontinental conspiracy.
00:28:57.000I'm like, this was the most organic, people-driven campaign in the history of the planet.
00:29:02.000Like, oh, yeah, we're being driven by some Russian oligarch is ridiculous.
00:29:08.000And unlike most politicians, President Trump actually cared about the people that helped him get there, which is like a really weird thing, right?
00:29:18.000And so most politicians are far too transactional.
00:29:24.000It actually runs against the bias most people have about Trump, which is that he just uses people and discards them.
00:29:30.000It's the exact opposite, and I could speak to that.
00:29:34.000He spoke at four of our events in a 16-month period.
00:29:37.000He endorsed our book that I wrote about him that I still think is a very applicable, good book about kind of where these ideas came from and what we should be arguing for.
00:29:46.000So, look, I'm the luckiest guy in the world and unbelievably blessed to be able to travel the country.
00:29:52.000I give 330 speeches a year, more or less.
00:29:56.000And so, a lot, sometimes multiple a day, and again, two podcasts a day and do the radio and plus run turning points.
00:30:11.000One of the things that really jumped out in your conversation, we are going to do this town hall, so we're going to get to some of your questions as well.
00:30:16.000But I think one of these that jumped out tonight was the power of your faith.
00:30:44.000And I was always taught that whatever political engagement I did, do not let it kind of get into the religious sphere.
00:30:53.000And I actually believed that up until a couple of years ago when I met my current pastor, Rob McCoy, at an event, I'll tell him he has an enthusiastic group of people that love him.
00:31:22.000And so I go up to him and I introduce, and we get to know each other.
00:31:25.000And I realized that I was lied to, that not only should Christians get involved in politics, but Christians formed this country through the first great awakening of the sermons of Roger Williams and Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield and many others, and that the Protestant Reformation was directly instructive towards the formation of America.
00:31:48.000And there's been four great awakenings.
00:31:58.000It says there's an extensive verse in Jeremiah to seek, which comes from a Hebrew word, badrash, which means the demand, desire, or aim, the welfare or the shalom, the peace of the nation of which you are in, for the peace, the shalom of that nation is your welfare.
00:32:37.000We know that from now in China and North Korea.
00:32:39.000So that biblical truth remains true to today.
00:32:41.000But also, the people that say that will have to wrestle with the, they have to explain the Old Testament heroes of Esther, Mordecai, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Joseph, just to name a few, of people that were the counselor to the king to influence secular government for God's purpose.
00:32:59.000It says in 1 Timothy, which is argued by historians, the last thing that Paul wrote, where it's a beautiful letter where he knows he's going to get killed, right?
00:33:09.000Paul's in a Roman prison, and he's like, this is it, I'm done.
00:33:13.000And that's the verse that is commonly quoted: I've run the good race, and I'm finishing well.
00:33:20.000He says very clearly that to pray for the leaders in authority that you might live quiet and peaceable lives.
00:33:25.000And if you go back to the original Greek, he's emphasizing quiet and peaceable as what we should desire.
00:33:32.000And if you're not living in quiet and peaceable lives, then that's a contract that is being broken.
00:33:37.000And even further, and I could go through verse by verse, like you know, the dozens that speak to this, but what pastors are really saying or what Christians are really saying is, hey, Christianity is supposed to be not controversial, okay?
00:33:50.000That's what Christianity is about, which is a very bizarre theological belief if you actually read the scriptures.
00:33:56.000It's like, it's just this weird, like, hippie Jesus that has started to come onto the scene the last 20 years, that hippie was like this John Lennon character that was like the birds and the bees and the meadows, and he's just kind of like, we're all going to get along.
00:34:10.000Like, there's an element to Jesus, I guess, that you could point there.
00:34:13.000But Jesus was 100% grace and 100% truth.
00:34:17.000And Jesus was unafraid to call right from wrong, to say that he was the way, the truth, and the life, and the only way to get to the Father was through him.
00:34:27.000And so this idea that Christianity shouldn't be controversial, I don't think you should seek controversy.
00:34:34.000You shouldn't go run after it, but you should always speak the truth.
00:34:37.000And I also believe in the parable of the talents that we are going to be judged based on what we are given.
00:34:43.000And we as Americans are given a lot more.
00:34:46.000We are given more liberty, more freedom, more opportunity, more blessing than any other nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:34:52.000And I truly believe that when our Creator, when we face our Creator, we are going to be judged of what we did, if anything, with this gift that we have been given that has afforded so many people so much unbelievable and quite honestly undeserved liberty.
00:35:05.000That if you actually look at who we are in the state of nature, we're brutal.
00:35:09.000We are nasty to each other, as Thomas Hobbes would often say.
00:35:12.000So I'm speaking out more and more about my faith.
00:35:14.000And I've come to realize, it's also kind of part of this thing that I've developed the last couple of years.
00:36:52.000And Christians have done a bad job in a lot of different ways in this country the last couple decades.
00:36:57.000And myself included, I'm still learning how to better communicate these things.
00:37:01.000But if Christians don't rise up louder than ever before, the country's done.
00:37:05.000And so if you care even a little bit about the nation, churches and Christians and pastors have to get more involved than ever before in this fight.
00:38:00.000So what was your strategy that you said that for two hours you do what?
00:38:02.000Yeah, so ever since I started doing radio and podcasting, I learned this from my friend Rush Limbaugh, who was just, we should just honor him.
00:38:18.000And I said, Rush, what does your daily schedule look like?
00:38:22.000And he told me that he would take time with his phone put aside and not with emails, reading and reading history books or going into philosophy.
00:38:30.000I mean, the one misrepresentation of Rush that people don't realize is he was a deep thinker.
00:38:35.000And I could tell you from doing two hours of radio day, doing three hours is even harder.
00:38:39.000And to make it interesting alone with no guests, that's hard.
00:38:42.000And he was able to do that and predict things before they happened and come up with one-liners that all of us used because he was so deep into the knowledge that built Western civilization, therefore unafraid to make these bold, these bold predictions.
00:38:59.000I just did it on the plane right over of no distractions, listening to podcasts, of interesting people, authors, things I agree with.
00:39:05.000I try to do a little bit less of what I disagree with, not because I'm any less interested in it, but I have a pretty good idea where they're coming from right now.
00:39:35.000So, Scott, if you have something, let us know.
00:39:37.000But first, before we do, Scott, I just got to bring something up real quick because he and I were upstairs chatting for a few minutes.
00:39:43.000And he said something, and I'm going to take my phone out, but he said something that I think is going to shock a lot of people.
00:39:48.000And so I just want to give you a chance to expound on what we were talking about and see how that landscape.
00:39:52.000Yeah, I've become strangely anti-technology in the last year.
00:39:56.000And I want you all to think deeply about this.
00:39:59.000And I'm intentionally going to be provocative.
00:40:01.000I think these smartphones are destroying our humanity.
00:40:04.000I think that our young people are being robbed of what I had, which was this amazing thing when I was nine years old, when my mom told me to go outside and I had to go play.
00:40:43.000They're just staring at these devices.
00:40:45.000And so let me just say a couple things on this.
00:40:48.000And we have to control technology before we are slaves to this technology.
00:40:52.000And it's happening quicker than ever before.
00:40:53.000Remember, I said pro-human agenda, right?
00:40:56.000This is an anti-human device and an anti-human thing that's happening to us in real time, from virtual reality to augmented reality to the social psychology behind it.
00:41:05.000Here's a couple things to think about.
00:41:07.000Apple has dozens of full-time neuroscientists on their payroll that all day they have children as lab rats to find out how your kids can be more addicted to those devices.
00:41:21.000There's something really wrong about that.
00:41:24.000There's something really anti-human about that.
00:41:27.000And I don't even think we're able to understand or process the complexity of what's happening to the neuroscience, the chemistry of the brain when we're spending six hours a day on average under the age of 20 on these devices.
00:41:49.000The people that have built them, that your grandchildren and your children are using or the young people, they know the power in them because they built it.
00:41:56.000So they have rules in their own house.
00:42:55.000I think it's a good thing when you know physically where you are oriented with your point of reference and metaphorically where you're oriented in your life of your point of reference.
00:43:04.000And you think about just the little social psychology things, right?
00:43:07.000So all of a sudden you want to become a follower.
00:43:09.000Well, that's a really way to make people obey.
00:43:27.000Everything that you see, like, for example, if you're going to watch Saving Private Ryan and they show a character with a gun and they emphasize the gun, that gun is going to be used a couple minutes later, right?
00:43:41.000When you see something, nothing in there is a mistake.
00:43:45.000They are built to have you be chemically addicted to them, including your children.
00:43:49.000And so I'm of the opinion, and by the way, it's going to get probably a million times worse, and I'm not exaggerating with artificial intelligence.
00:43:56.000And artificial intelligence, I understand enough to be dangerous, but I trust the people in charge that are warning us about it, like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk.
00:44:04.000We have to regulate artificial intelligence before artificial intelligence regulates you.
00:44:10.000And I believe that we've had multiple thousands of years of human beings having a certain pattern of behavior, getting married, having children, going to work, working with your hands.
00:44:20.000And now we're basically saying all of that was a mistake.
00:44:25.000I'm saying I do not want to live in this Aldous Huxley's Brave New World combination of 1984 with Orwell, where everything we do is monitored.
00:44:40.000And I think these devices have a lot to blame for that.
00:44:43.000I think these devices where you get a next notification of your friend liking your post, or you're getting these endless Facebook arguments, that is not how I believe it's not the optimal human condition.
00:45:04.000We've said everyone is able to handle a thermonuclear weapon in their right-hand pocket.
00:45:09.000And I think that is a tragic error and mistake.
00:45:12.000And so if I was in charge, which I'm not, I would say we have to regulate this like we regulate nuclear weapons.
00:45:18.000That we are going to use it for the benefit of humanity, but we are going to be transparent with where they are and how they're spread out.
00:45:26.000But we are going to understand very calmly, very, very clearly with our citizens that these things very well are going to create a generation of 10 or 20 years where we are going to be automatons and cyborgs.
00:45:38.000And people are going to say, if you want to be happy, just go put on your glasses.
00:45:42.000You're upset with the circumstance around you?
00:45:44.000Mark Zuckerberg said that at a stockholder meeting last month.
00:45:48.000He said, people are not going to have to leave their homes soon.
00:45:50.000Just put on your glasses and you'll be able to be transported to a new reality.
00:45:54.000As far as I have breath in my lungs, I refuse to be a slave to these devices and I will protect a pro-human agenda.
00:46:08.000So have you ever browsed in incognito mode?
00:46:10.000It's probably not as incognito as you think.
00:46:13.000Incognito mode, like the Chrome browser itself is a Google product and Google has made its fortune by tracking your movements online.
00:46:19.000There's even a $5 billion class action lawsuit against the company in California where it's accused of secretly collecting user data.
00:46:25.000Google's defense, incognito does not mean invisible.
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00:47:42.000So let me reinforce how hard this is because we are now in a moment in time when people you didn't vote for now have more power than people you voted for.
00:47:53.000I want you to think deeply about that.
00:47:56.000That's never happened before, where people you didn't vote for have more power than the people you voted for.
00:48:02.000And so that's a violation of the constitutional promise.
00:48:06.000So the constitutional promise is power is going to be left to the consent of the governed.
00:48:12.000What was the American Revolution about?
00:48:18.000That you are not allowed to have major power without my permission.
00:48:24.000That's basically the American system, right?
00:48:27.000Now we have forgotten that system or we've just kind of ignored it because these corporations have funded our politicians' campaigns and we fell in love with this idea that the more cheap plastic from China, the better, that companies are always going to be in our best interest.
00:48:43.000We've seen that in the last couple of weeks.
00:48:46.000So it has to be a variety of different things.
00:48:47.000Number one, if I was in charge, or if at least I have input, I'm going to tell you my input, is that the best thing that we can do is not send our kids to college and try to raise a new generation of entrepreneurs.
00:48:58.000We have to build new stuff quickly and we have to build them boldly.
00:49:01.000And I'm talking about, anyone want to start an airline?
00:49:04.000I mean, that's how bold we have to think.
00:49:51.000We have to start new stuff and start it quickly, invest in our people, and get these 16, 17, 18-year-olds that have the energy, the ambition, the wherewithal, the people to do what I did, which, again, the first five years when I started Turning Point, it was red-eye flights, never going home, getting my teeth kicked in, borrowing money, the stuff you have to do.
00:50:09.000Praise God, we're not in that position anymore.
00:50:12.000But I was nuts enough and 21 years old to do it.
00:50:15.000But when you go to college, you immediately have a liability.
00:50:34.000Number two, and this is the more controversial one, which is that we as Republicans have to be willing to use political power to check corporate America.
00:50:44.000And that's something we're usually afraid to say.
00:50:47.000But if Delta Airlines and Major League Baseball want to wage economic warfare against Georgia, a sovereign state, our fellow countrymen, then we should be unafraid to say that you're going to lose your exemptions and that you're going to pay a price.
00:51:00.000And I don't know what that price is, quite honestly, but we should explore it.
00:51:08.000That if you do not represent our values, if all of a sudden you're going to be a company that treats America like a colony and not our home, then no, you're going to pay a price for that.
00:51:19.000Because all of a sudden, you're against what is going to continue the American promise for our children and our grandchildren.
00:51:25.000I do not come to that conclusion lightly.
00:52:02.000It's a very simple thing: is that if Amazon is going to continue to do what they're doing, or even a better example of Delta Airlines, is, I mean, will the Attorney General of one of these states just send a letter to them and say, why are you trying to wage economic warfare on a sovereign state like Georgia?
00:52:17.000Maybe you have monopolistic practices.
00:52:20.000Are you representing the best interest of your shareholders?
00:52:22.000The point is that the people are actually with us.
00:52:25.000This is the most interesting part of all this: we control 27 state legislatures and 31 governors' mansions.
00:52:32.000I might have my numbers off a little bit, but the people continually elect Republicans, and then Republicans get paralysis when they're in power to actually do what the Democrats have done to us, which is use political power to destroy our country.
00:52:44.000And so at some point, there has to be a reckoning here, which is that people keep showing up in massive numbers to give you power because they feel like they're losing their country.
00:52:56.000It's time to wisely start using that power.
00:53:20.000I'm a junior accounting student at NDSU.
00:53:22.000I'm kind of curious to hear how automation factors into your people-first technology, things like automated trucks or the removal of cashiers from places like grocery stores.
00:53:32.000Do you think that's a good thing or a benefit to the country going forward?
00:53:35.000Or do you think the loss of jobs is going to be detrimental to the country going forward?
00:53:40.000If you would have asked me that five years ago, I would have said, yeah, it's a great thing.
00:53:43.000Things are getting better and we'll be able to have less human contact, I guess.
00:53:49.000I could see an argument for why driverless cars are better from the auto fatality standpoint.
00:53:54.000But until I'm willing to embrace the automation craze, which I'm not, that's part of my entire technology criticism, then you better have a very good reason, very good plan of what you're going to do with 15 million patriotic Americans that shelved all of your grocery stores and busted their tail to make sure you had a wonderful way of life the last couple decades.
00:57:10.000And Hubbard, Ohio becomes this kind of slow-motion relic of a time that used to exist.
00:57:16.000And for the people that are still there, they get the opportunity to go buy stuff for a dollar for the stuff that used to be made in Hubbard, Ohio.
00:57:24.000And so we worshiped the God of seamless economic innovation for decades.
00:57:31.000So I'm going to say for all the people that are trying to push that, excuse me, while I call a timeout, before we really soberly try to weigh the costs of always trying to have a small group of corporate oligarchs say what's best for us, or a bunch of investment bankers or private equity guys like Mitt Romney, who literally went around to manufacturing plants and gave them pink slips for a living.
00:57:52.000I think that's a really unhealthy thing for our nation.
00:57:55.000And I'm willing to pay a little bit more for products if it's made by my fellow countrymen.
00:58:17.000The merger and acquisition model is one of the main problems because there's so much cheap money flowing around and we've indulged in this long-term debt cycle where we don't build companies anymore.
00:58:34.000So we used in America, we used to build companies you would hand down to your kids or grandkids.
00:58:38.000It'd be this multi-generational ownership.
00:58:40.000Now we start companies and try to boost their valuation as quickly as possible and hand it off to some Wall Street firm that are just going to fire all of your friends that used to work there, give you a big check, and merge you into some sort of cog of a massive corporate machine.
00:59:00.000I just gave a whole speech on entrepreneurship, and I hate lockdowns and government orders and edicts.
00:59:05.000But if government is good for anything, it is about, as it says in the United States Constitution, protecting the general welfare of its citizenry.
00:59:13.000And it must balance every public policy decision.
01:00:08.000My name's Mike, and I have a question about the incredible double standards that continue.
01:00:13.000And the one that comes to mind the most to me is the 2016 election, where the Democrats protested and protested for three and a half years about Russia.
01:00:24.000And then this past election, we can't have any hearings.
01:01:57.000Because we're too busy building things that matter more than institutions, like our family and our communities.
01:02:02.000And so now it's time for us to build things that are even bigger than that, that actually have a national appeal and a patriotic underpinning.
01:02:09.000So, for example, we need to fix the distribution of information problem in our country.
01:02:17.000We're trying to do it through radio, and Scott's been amazing with that, and also through podcasting every single day, where we reach millions of people through over-the-top broadcasting.
01:02:27.000I am on all the social media channels.
01:02:29.000It's just a matter of time before they kick us off or until they render us completely useless.
01:02:34.000And so that's actually how we're going to fix this.
01:02:36.000They're never going to stop having double standards.
01:02:38.000But the only way we're going to fix it, and how many people here say, man, if only my liberal friend or relative saw the things that I saw, then they wouldn't be liberal.
01:03:37.000It's about time we start drawing the lines and we win.
01:03:39.000I mean, this idea that we're going to get back to this moment of peace and harmony anytime soon.
01:03:45.000You just said they're militarizing downtown Minneapolis in D.C. because someone's going to have a trial of their peers and it's a result that they don't like.
01:03:52.000We have Aunt Jemima gone with the wind, Dr. Seuss all canceled.
01:03:56.000We have our children learning to hate themselves and hate our country.
01:04:00.000We have 100,000 people pouring over our border every single month.
01:04:04.000We're bringing in a million people into our country legally when our college graduates and our middle-class workers can't find jobs.
01:04:10.000They want to take our weapons and they're suppressing us on social media.
01:04:24.000And that means that we're going to have to convert and mobilize more people to our perspective to crush the American left in its current form.
01:04:33.000And I do not mean physically, obviously, they mean that to us.
01:04:36.000I mean that we're going to have to have the dominant cultural institutions.
01:04:39.000We're going to have to win elections by bigger margins.
01:04:41.000We're going to have to register more voters.
01:04:43.000The things we do control, which are like nothing, which is talk, radio, and churches, we're going to have to get even more mobilized and engaged and involved.
01:04:51.000And do I seek a time when we can get along with the left?
01:05:55.000Happy to help you navigate through any of their arguments.
01:05:59.000And again, it's my job to think deeply about this.
01:06:02.000You know, you should go live a happy life and not have to worry about this all the time.
01:06:06.000No, but the fact you're actually worried about like listening to the other side and going through it says a lot about who you are and your character.
01:06:40.000Apple gets a total pass in this whole thing, by the way, and they should.
01:06:43.000They have access to basically every single smartphone in the country to push notify you with some ridiculous Washington Post article.
01:06:49.000So, and I read the Times, and I commonly say in my podcast, I read the New York Times so you don't have to.
01:06:55.000But look, I mean, I do encourage you to listen to podcasts that push your boundaries or pursue information that are rooted in truth.
01:07:06.000And if a liberal podcast does that, tell me because I'd be very fascinated by that.
01:07:11.000But generally, don't spend too much time on that.
01:07:13.000If that's not part of your value system or your viewpoint, it could be fun, it can expand your horizon.
01:07:18.000But most of why you're going to be listening is to make sense of the world with your deeply held beliefs so you can communicate it to others to keep persevering through what you're doing.
01:07:26.000But if there's anything in particular I can help unpack for you, I'd be happy to do that.
01:07:30.000I was just wondering, yeah, for some tips.
01:08:23.000Other people, like, it's again, they don't actually believe I don't have them.
01:08:26.000But I encourage you guys to maybe do one day a week or two days a week because I realize that I'm a much happier, more centered person because the value of who I am and what I believe and what I think has no influence on some random blue check person on Twitter.
01:08:40.000It's actually things that I've read or I've prayed about.
01:09:57.000And then my second question is: in Joe Biden's first couple months as president, he's already gotten the stimulus bill out, and a very small percentage of that bill has gone to us, the people.
01:10:08.000And now he wants to get an infrastructure plan, and a very small percentage of that plan wants to actually go to roads and bridges.
01:10:15.000How much inflation are we going to face with these bills?
01:10:20.000If you own land, which there's plenty of it here in North Dakota, you're actually going to do quite well with inflation, unfortunately, because things you can touch and feel do very well when there's more dollars than value.
01:10:30.000I'm going to talk about that one second.
01:10:32.000First of all, happy to help you with the Turning Point USA thing.
01:10:35.000We have Turning Point USA chapters all across the country, high school and college.
01:10:39.000I want to thank those of you here tonight that support Turning Point.
01:10:42.000You're doing a moral good for our nation.
01:10:43.000These are the most courageous young people.
01:10:45.000And I want to shout out the young Republicans here, wherever they are.
01:10:56.000Find a young conservative and outspoken about it.
01:10:58.000I'm going to tell you a story, though, because we're actually not far from Minnesota of something that happened at White Bear Lake High School last week and a half.
01:11:06.000A young lady by the name of Avery Severson wanted to start a turning point USA group at White Bear Lake High School.
01:11:11.000You might know it, it's right outside of St. Paul.
01:11:13.000And as soon as she decided to start a group, she was a couple days later met with these messages that she did not send, that she's never seen these horribly racist messages and accused of sending these messages.
01:11:24.000So instead of having presumption of innocence, due process, the school went nuts.
01:11:46.000They exonerated her in a couple hours because they find out who actually did it.
01:11:50.000Now, they interestingly won't release the name of the person who did it, obviously, because they said the person who did it poses no threat to fellow students in regards to social justice.
01:12:02.000The school superintendent's own terms was a hoax.
01:12:05.000She nearly had her entire life completely and totally destroyed just because she wanted to start a turning point USA chapter.
01:12:12.000You guys and young Republicans have experienced similar sort of outrageous things that are happening.
01:12:16.000So, but I want to commend you, and I hope you know the people over 50, the adults in the room here, I hope you draw inspiration from young people that are like, you know what?
01:12:24.000I know the price and the cost, and I want to do it anyway.
01:12:28.000Now, Bethel's not going to be an easy place to do that.
01:12:41.000But we're going to be there to support you.
01:12:42.000So, when you start the group and you want to advocate and they come after you, you're going to have an infrastructure behind you.
01:12:48.000And we need courageous young people to stand up.
01:12:51.000But please, for the adults, draw inspiration from these young people that want to do something to save their nation.
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01:14:07.000And I just can't thank you enough for coming to North Dakota.
01:14:10.000So my question is kind of a tactical question.
01:14:13.000There is a group of local parents, grandparents, concerned citizens who are trying to convince the Bismarck School Board to lift the mask mandates.
01:14:24.000Or give the parents schools in the schools or to give the parents the ability to make the decision if they want their child masked or not.
01:14:35.000What kind of suggestions or tactics do you have for us to convince them to lift the mandate?
01:14:43.000First of all, thank you for the question because the fact you guys care about that is awesome.
01:14:49.000And again, we're one of the few nations on the planet right now that are actually pushing back against this.
01:14:53.000You know, most of Europe just sits and takes it.
01:14:56.000They have a couple protests here and there, but nothing like this.
01:15:39.000But once it's a group, then all of a sudden it has real power.
01:15:43.000And it's not just kind of this like sparing thing, like, oh, there's a couple people.
01:15:46.000No, there's infrastructure and we have membership and we can contact them and we can mobilize them and we have hierarchy and we meet regularly.
01:15:58.000All of a sudden, as soon as you have a name and you have maybe a logo and a website, then all of a sudden it's a very legitimate thing.
01:16:05.000And just the idea that this is even controversial, that we're going to mandate young kids that are not at risk at all, significant risk of dying from the Chinese coronavirus, that we are going to...
01:16:16.000If I had to wear a mask in high school, it would have destroyed my high school experience.
01:16:54.000Yeah, and again, it draws good skepticism towards it.
01:16:57.000It finds, it doesn't say they don't necessarily don't work.
01:16:59.000It's just like they see no evidence that they do work.
01:17:01.000I know those are two different things, but if you don't use that language, then all of a sudden they're going to come after you.
01:17:06.000But I don't mean to be semantically technical, but I literally got kicked off Facebook because of something like this, because I used one word wrong on the Dante Wright thing.
01:19:26.000Why is it that when a pregnant mother gets murdered, we count it as a double homicide?
01:19:33.000Why is it that when a pregnant mother has a baby shower, not a fetus shower, that she could all of a sudden decide then to go to an abortion clinic right after that and decide to terminate that pregnancy?
01:19:48.000So, what really we're debating here is a subjective view or an objective view of life.
01:20:12.000It's a magical moment that only quite honestly can't be explained by science, but a belief in a creator who loves us and wants us to be able to reproduce because we're made in his image.
01:20:22.000So, a couple of things to think about, a couple other things to think about is this: which is sometimes they'll throw at you the rape and abortion thing.
01:20:32.000Well, first of all, that's less than 1% of all abortions in our country.
01:20:35.00099% of all abortions are elective abortions because people do not want them.
01:20:41.000While there are millions of people wanting children for adoption, there are robust Christian ministries for children to be able to enter this world.
01:20:51.000And what they're really trying to say, and what they're arguing in that moment, is that I want an escape hatch for a decision that I made.
01:21:00.000And that all of a sudden is saying, I want to prevent another person from living because I regret something I did.
01:21:07.000And that in any sort of moral construct is never acceptable when you think about it.
01:21:11.000Is saying, I'm going to do, I'm going to prevent someone from being able to exist because I wish I wouldn't have done something.
01:21:41.000And if we believe that life begins at conception and we've allowed 60 million people to be aborted from our country, then that's a moral stain on who we are as a nation.
01:21:53.000Maybe we wouldn't need to bring in all these immigrants into our country to go do the jobs other people won't do, which is not true, by the way, if we didn't abort a million of our own citizens every single year.
01:22:02.000Did you know that 46% of all the abortions in our country are black children?
01:22:06.000That if you know, if you see a black pregnant woman on the subway in New York City, she's more likely going to the abortion clinic than going to the delivery room.
01:22:13.000The abortion rate is higher than the birth rate in New York City.
01:22:43.000They're abortionists, the ones that practice these abortions and go after them.
01:22:47.000But I'll just kind of close how I started, which is that we do not have a moral right to terminate a life that is not our own, and it's not her body.
01:22:56.000She's the temporary host of somebody else's body, and the science tells us that.
01:23:00.000When I talk to parents, they're so concerned right now because they feel like as they send their kids off to some high school or some colleges, it's these indoctrination camps.
01:23:16.000So I guess my question to you is, what would you say to parents and young people here about, okay, if you feel like you're sending your kids doing a doctor indoctrination camp, here's some things you should be doing.
01:23:26.000Yeah, and I actually don't know how your state schools are here.
01:24:42.000We have a deficit in America of welders, electricians, and plumbers, carpenters, police officers, and entrepreneurs.
01:24:47.000And we have far too many people that have gone to these universities and be filled with bad ideas, filled with debt, that have no direction, and have been taught to hate the country.
01:24:56.000College should be about getting a skill, not ideological exploration.
01:25:02.000If you go there to go find yourself, you're going to lose yourself.
01:25:05.00041% of people that go to college drop out.
01:25:07.000They never should have gone to the first place.
01:25:10.00041% of people that go to college drop out.
01:25:13.000Out of the people that do graduate, only 10% are in science, technology, engineering, or math.
01:25:18.000The people that are in the soft social sciences, psychology, North African lesbian poetry, North American migratory bird studies, they have very low, they have very low chance of actually getting a job in that field.
01:25:35.000And so, obviously, you'd be amazed at some of the stuff I've seen.
01:25:41.000So what we really have here is we've decided to try to have an entire generation of young people to go borrow money they don't have, to go find, to go study things that don't matter, to find jobs that don't exist.
01:25:54.000And then all of a sudden we're really kind of confused why they all moved to Minneapolis and they want to go burn down the entire country.
01:26:03.000But I do want to say this, that it's not all the young people's fault.
01:26:11.000But I'm going to give a little bit of grace to young people, which is that they've been mistreated by the generation that was supposed to be guardians.
01:26:19.000And they were told a lie to go to college and check all these boxes and borrow this money and do all these things and their life was going to get better.
01:26:25.000And it's a absolute, none of the data shows that.
01:26:29.000And yet we do that because, and I don't necessarily think it's the case here in North Dakota, but in most places, parents are afraid to turn to their neighbors and tell their neighbors their kid isn't going to college.
01:26:39.000Like they're afraid to go to the grocery store and all of a sudden see, you know, someone that they know and be like, yeah, Henry's doing just fine and he's become a plumber and he's not going to North Dakota State or he's not going to University of Minnesota.
01:26:52.000Becoming a plumber is like a pejorative in most social circles.
01:27:42.000The people that are in the daily grind more than ever.
01:27:47.000And we have decided as a country that we don't care about the muscular class, that we want everyone to go get a piece of paper from a meaningless institution to go be filled with really bad ideas in debt.
01:27:58.000Well, that makes perfect Democrat voters, first of all.
01:28:00.000You want to know why the country, I mean, that is a Democrat vote-producing scheme.
01:28:05.000But young people did all the right things that they were told to do.
01:28:09.000And then all of a sudden, we wonder why they're 30 years old, unmarried, renting an apartment in Minnesota, not owning land, big difference.
01:29:39.000The country goes and lives and survives based on young people.
01:29:43.000And we're producing indebted and ungrateful young people because we told them to go do a sequence of events that actually does not help them.
01:29:52.000And then we decide to lock down our whole country so they can't find jobs and they're not able to build wealth.
01:29:58.000And we go ACH them $1,900 payment as if that's going to do anything.
01:30:51.000Less than 1% of college kids can answer it in that way.
01:30:54.000Instead, they're like deers and headlights when you ask them.
01:30:57.000Not these young people because they're directed and they're conservative, but most of them, they're like, I'm here because everyone else is here and we're just kind of meandering together.
01:31:05.000It's all part of this scheme, I really believe it is, to try and make us less free thinking, less independent, and more likely to try to be a cog and a machine.
01:31:52.000Okay, so look, we do a lot of thinking on our podcast and a lot of exploring of these ideas, a lot of action items of things as they arise.
01:32:01.000People to support, heroes to get behind.
01:32:31.000And so Rachel Maddow and I go back and forth.
01:32:34.000She's currently beating me in the podcast charts because she plugged it on her show.
01:32:38.000And so if every person in this room took out their phone, I know we talked about how much we hate phones, but every Apple phone has a podcast app.
01:32:47.000And if you type in Charlie Kirk show and hit subscribe, it's free of charge.
01:33:33.000What you guys are doing with the moms is so critically important.
01:33:36.000In fact, the number one demographic, actually number one or two demographic on our podcast, believe it or not, are 30 to 45-year-old women of young mothers.
01:34:14.000And I want every mother across America to think of what's happening to your country as if it's happening in your home to your children, right?
01:34:22.000What a mother would not do for your children, right?
01:34:25.000There's something really special and magical and biblical and beautiful and wondrous about that, right?
01:34:30.000And so I just want to commend you for doing that.
01:34:32.000But I want you to come on to points of action.
01:34:34.000Number one, we as conservatives have to get louder.
01:35:05.000It used to be a robust Republican state that now voted for Joe Biden and has two Democrat senators and has more Democrat congressmen than Republican congressmen.
01:37:39.000And more than anything else, the best thing you could do is you have to write down on a piece of paper tonight something that's hard for you to do.
01:39:58.000We have all these new businesses that are popping up that share and love our values and we're supporting the heroes in our community that are doing the right things.
01:40:05.000We're going and finding new heroes and supporting them every single day.
01:40:08.000I no longer have to ask people what the fight's like because I'm in the fight myself.
01:40:12.000And here's the thing that happens when you get in the fight.
01:40:14.000Your life changes for the better and it gets more difficult.
01:40:17.000It gets more difficult because all of a sudden your head's exposed.
01:40:19.000You're going to lose a couple friends.
01:40:57.000And if we combine all of our intelligence and all the courage, and I know that's in this room and in our country, that statement that you wrote on that piece of paper becomes true.