The Charlie Kirk Show - How Texas Can Save America—LIVE from Houston

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00:01:05.000 And this episode is a speech I gave in Houston, Texas to the wonderful Harris County Republican Party.

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00:01:46.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:01:47.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.

00:01:50.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:01:53.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:01:56.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:01:57.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:01:58.000 His spirit, his love of this country.

00:02:00.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

00:02:07.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

00:02:15.000 That's why we are here.

00:02:19.000 Good evening.

00:02:20.000 Great to be here.

00:02:21.000 And thank you to the Harris County Republicans.

00:02:23.000 It's nice to be in the great state of Texas, which is actually a state that I'm talking about nonstop this week.

00:02:31.000 So this is a perfect speech.

00:02:32.000 This is actually going to be one of the more important speeches I've given this year, no problem.

00:02:38.000 And we're going to kind of go through that.

00:02:39.000 So just a little bit of background.

00:02:41.000 I grew up in Chicago, Illinois.

00:02:43.000 Good place to be from, not a good place to be. 0.94

00:02:46.000 The fun thing about Chicago, Illinois is we have term limits in Illinois.

00:02:51.000 It's one term in office, one term in jail.

00:02:53.000 And so we ask for our governor's cell number, we actually mean his cell number, not my, I got one more, one more, I promise.

00:03:04.000 My grandmother was a lifelong Republican, passed away in the mid-1990s, and she's been voting Democrat ever since.

00:03:11.000 And so, all right, I'm done with the Chicago jokes, I promised.

00:03:15.000 So it's so bad, but it's so good.

00:03:18.000 You're in Chicago, and so you know it's so true.

00:03:18.000 I know.

00:03:20.000 That's why it's funny.

00:03:22.000 I now live in Arizona and run Turning Point USA, the nation's largest conservative student youth organization.

00:03:28.000 There's a lot of great young people here and college Republicans, young Republicans, and Turning Point students.

00:03:33.000 They're phenomenal.

00:03:33.000 Give it up for them.

00:03:35.000 And our mission is to get our children to love America again.

00:03:40.000 And we are waging the most aggressive and I would argue effective offensive strategy on high school and college campuses to inspire a love and gratitude for the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, which is so desperately needed on college campuses.

00:03:58.000 We have over 200 full-time people on staff, and we continue to push forward.

00:04:03.000 I personally am going on a campus tour starting in about a week and a half.

00:04:08.000 Go to University of Michigan, then I go to University of Minnesota, then I go to Baylor University, October 13th.

00:04:14.000 And it's more liberal than you might imagine, though, just so you know.

00:04:17.000 Baylor has slipped.

00:04:18.000 Not as liberal as UT, though, I got to tell you.

00:04:21.000 UT is on its own island.

00:04:23.000 I have a UT story for you.

00:04:25.000 When I visited UT Austin, that was the most unsafe I've ever felt on a college campus.

00:04:32.000 They are nasty over there, those college activists at UT Austin.

00:04:36.000 They think they own the place. 0.93

00:04:38.000 They don't.

00:04:39.000 And so then Boise State, University of Vermont, pray for me that day.

00:04:44.000 The University of Oregon really pray for me that day.

00:04:47.000 And then Alabama and Clemson, which should be a lot of fun, which should be a little bit somewhat nicer, I guess you should say.

00:04:54.000 Vermont and Oregon are going to be, those will be spectacles.

00:04:56.000 So you guys can follow along on digital and social media.

00:04:59.000 So there's a lot I want to talk about.

00:05:00.000 We're going to do questions, but there's actually the main thing that's on my mind, and it's so, it's so applicable to all of you right now.

00:05:09.000 In fact, it's right now, in the next 48 hours, 72 hours, the next couple of days, Texas could lay out the blueprint of how to save the country.

00:05:17.000 And so I am not going to do what some people are doing in the national media, which is to criticize your statewide elected officials.

00:05:27.000 I'm not going to do that.

00:05:28.000 I do have my own personal opinions about it, and you'll kind of see them laced through, but I don't live here.

00:05:33.000 And so I don't go to people's home and tell you how to govern yourself.

00:05:36.000 So that's up for you to kind of determine whether or not your governor is doing a good job or not, or your attorney, whatever.

00:05:42.000 I can give you recommendations or suggestions.

00:05:44.000 What I am going to say, though, is that whether the leadership of this state chose this or not, Texas is now in the middle of the greatest constitutional question of the modern era.

00:05:57.000 And outside of the constitutional question, because the Constitution is a moral document, it is a moral question.

00:06:03.000 And the moral question that Texas has in front of them is, do you do the right thing when the federal government refuses to do what they're supposed to do?

00:06:13.000 That's the question.

00:06:14.000 Is that Christian Collins over there, Dicey?

00:06:16.000 Yeah, hey, Christian.

00:06:16.000 Great event you hosted, by the way, about a month ago.

00:06:18.000 Great to see you.

00:06:19.000 So that's the question in front of you, in front of Texas right now, where we know that 1.8 million people have illegally crossed from the southern border so far this year.

00:06:29.000 But I think all of us were kind of activated into kind of into a place that we haven't been in quite some time where we saw 12,000 Haitians in Del Rio, Texas, cross illegally into our country.

00:06:45.000 For five hours, DHS and Border Patrol sat there and did nothing.

00:06:49.000 Now, I want to be very clear.

00:06:51.000 DHS and Border Patrol are American heroes.

00:06:53.000 They are under orders to do nothing.

00:06:56.000 It's not on them.

00:06:57.000 But the people that did do something, the Border Patrol that decided to get on a horse, get criticized by the national media of whipping these criminal Haitians, even though it's a rein or a bridle of a horse. 0.98

00:07:11.000 They never rode a horse in their life, so they don't know what they're talking about.

00:07:14.000 And they say, Maxine Waters comes out and says, this is worse than what we saw in slavery.

00:07:20.000 Okay, that's what Maxine Waters says. 0.74

00:07:22.000 And so the regime, the Biden regime, comes out and says, this is all under control.

00:07:29.000 It's going according to plan.

00:07:31.000 Well, their plan, they're actually telling the truth because their plan is open borders, as many third world people as possible to come into the country that will remain obedient Democrat Party voters and people on welfare, even though that kind of calculus has been put in jeopardy thanks to all of you as Hispanics and Latinos are actually trending more to the right than they ever would have imagined. 1.00

00:07:53.000 But they're going with this strategy anyway, that they want more Guatemalans and Nicaraguans and Mexicans and El Salvadorians.

00:07:59.000 And let's just throw in 12,000 Haitians, by the way, with 400 pregnant women who, if they give birth here, that child gets a U.S. citizenship birth certificate immediately.

00:08:08.000 And so we have this crisis in front of us that I don't think many people here, like the leadership of Texas, I don't know if they signed up for this.

00:08:18.000 But whether they like it or not, this is the question.

00:08:21.000 And the left has already told us how they answer this question.

00:08:25.000 Let's go back in time.

00:08:27.000 Do Democrats defy federal statute when they don't like it?

00:08:32.000 Yes.

00:08:33.000 Marijuana laws.

00:08:35.000 It is illegal to bank according to federal law with THC-filled marijuana.

00:08:42.000 Colorado, Oregon, California, Nevada, do it anyway.

00:08:46.000 It is illegal, according to federal law, to tell your police officers and your sheriffs and your DA not to comply with immigration customs and enforcement to create a sanctuary city.

00:08:59.000 Despite that, Illinois, California, Washington, Oregon, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont created sanctuary states in defiance to federal law.

00:09:08.000 It is illegal to give illegals voting privileges. 0.97

00:09:12.000 Yet in Vermont and California, illegals are voting in state and local elections.

00:09:18.000 The Democrats have already figured out a long time ago that what we view as the rule of law is dead in this country.

00:09:26.000 I wish it wasn't.

00:09:28.000 I miss that country.

00:09:30.000 I miss the free society I grew up in.

00:09:32.000 I miss the country where we didn't talk about skin color all the time.

00:09:36.000 I miss the country where everyone stood for the flag. 0.78

00:09:39.000 I miss the country where I could watch an NFL football game and not have to be propagandized with these ridiculous two-word virtue signaling statements. 0.66

00:09:46.000 End racism. 0.69

00:09:48.000 I'm a good person.

00:09:49.000 Look at me.

00:09:50.000 Like enough. 0.94

00:09:51.000 You're a multi-million dollar black athlete. 0.93

00:09:53.000 Like, I don't need to hear about how oppressed you are. 0.54

00:09:54.000 Okay?

00:09:56.000 Get your life in order.

00:09:57.000 Instead, we now know not just the rule of law, but the American fabric over the last 10 years is a completely different country.

00:10:06.000 So this is the question, isn't it?

00:10:07.000 What do we do about it?

00:10:09.000 All of us are saying this all day long.

00:10:11.000 And I know a lot of you are saying, Charlie, I'm tired of just watching Tucker Carlson, love him, and buying a pillow.

00:10:16.000 I need to do more.

00:10:20.000 By the way, promo code Kirk, okay?

00:10:22.000 Mypillow.com.

00:10:27.000 And here's the amazing thing: Texas can be the blueprint right now.

00:10:32.000 Right now.

00:10:33.000 Texas can do what the Democrats did to us over the last decade, which is they defied federal law.

00:10:39.000 Texas needs to start enforcing federal law.

00:10:44.000 That's the blueprint.

00:10:46.000 And now this is unprecedented for a lot of Republicans because CNN will say something negative about you.

00:10:52.000 It's true.

00:10:54.000 The New York Times will write a story that calls you a bad person.

00:10:59.000 The Washington Post, they will come after you.

00:11:02.000 That will happen.

00:11:02.000 Now, that scares a lot of Republicans.

00:11:04.000 It does.

00:11:04.000 I know we laugh about it.

00:11:06.000 That's enough to get a lot of Republicans to try to sue for peace to go to the middle.

00:11:06.000 We chuckle.

00:11:11.000 So the moral question in front of us: what would you tell your children?

00:11:15.000 Something bad and something evil and something immoral is happening in front of you.

00:11:19.000 Do you say, though, I got to trust the process on this, there's a very protocol, or do you stop the robber that is trying to hold the store at gunpoint?

00:11:29.000 Do you stop the mugger that is abusing the woman on the side of the street?

00:11:32.000 The moral question for Texas is: do you put the nation on your back and do what everyone wants you to do?

00:11:39.000 Now, I do want to give Texas credit.

00:11:41.000 I think you're inching towards this direction.

00:11:43.000 I think that Texas is starting to use DPS and other assets.

00:11:46.000 It's not nearly enough.

00:11:48.000 Estimates are that anywhere between 800 to 1,000 Haitians have already been released into the interior.

00:11:52.000 They took over a bus, they'll be American citizens before you know it, or have children, and it's done. 0.99

00:11:59.000 So, Republicans will say this.

00:12:01.000 They'll say, We as Republicans follow the process and the procedure, and we don't have the authority to do it.

00:12:12.000 Now, again, we've already gone through the list of how Democrats have invalidated the social contract.

00:12:17.000 Now, all of us, whether or not we know it, we live under a social contract.

00:12:20.000 That contract has been null and void, and our party hasn't realized it.

00:12:26.000 That contracted was voided a long time ago.

00:12:28.000 You know what that contract was?

00:12:30.000 If a judge says something, we're going to listen to what that judge says.

00:12:33.000 They don't care about that.

00:12:34.000 They signed CDC eviction moratoriums despite what the Supreme Court of the United States says.

00:12:38.000 The social contract says that you are going to respect separation of powers, checks and balances, an independent judiciary, and the consent of the governed.

00:12:50.000 The Democrats haven't cared about that for a long time.

00:12:53.000 So, then what do you do?

00:12:54.000 Well, we are in the midst of something that makes a lot of Republicans uncomfortable, which is why we need a Churchill or a Lincoln right now, because they were not uncomfortable with this.

00:13:02.000 We are in a power struggle of who's going to control the country.

00:13:06.000 It's that simple.

00:13:08.000 It's either they're going to be in control or we're going to be in control.

00:13:11.000 I wish I lived in the free society I grew up in.

00:13:14.000 I yearned for those days.

00:13:16.000 Now it's a question of are you going to stop 2 million people from waltzing into your nation or are you going to write a bunch of press releases and go on cable television and complain about it? 0.95

00:13:25.000 I watch on cable television while three governors, not yours, from other red states, smirked.

00:13:31.000 And as Harris Falkner, who does a wonderful job on Fox News, by the way, asked them, have you heard back from Biden?

00:13:37.000 And they said, no, we haven't heard back.

00:13:38.000 No, we haven't heard back.

00:13:39.000 As if this is some sort of massive owning of Joe Biden.

00:13:43.000 As if we as Republicans should be shocked that this regime is not calling you back because they don't want, we know how they stand.

00:13:50.000 Stop acting like this is the 1990s.

00:13:54.000 The floodgates are open.

00:13:55.000 The reason they're doing this is because they think we are gutless.

00:14:02.000 They think we're unwilling to mobilize the Texas Rangers.

00:14:06.000 They think we're unwilling to go mobilize the National Guard.

00:14:09.000 Now, some people say, well, Biden can nationalize the National Guard.

00:14:12.000 Make him.

00:14:14.000 He won't do it.

00:14:16.000 He won't.

00:14:17.000 That is a false threat.

00:14:19.000 And guess what?

00:14:21.000 We're not in a place of a rule of law anymore.

00:14:22.000 I wish we were.

00:14:24.000 Make him enforce it.

00:14:26.000 Say, oh, wait, I'm sorry.

00:14:27.000 Wait, you're in control of the Texas National Guard?

00:14:30.000 Let's have a vote between the National Guard.

00:14:32.000 Do you pledge to the state of Texas or to the Biden regime flag?

00:14:36.000 They'd say, I'm going to go enforce the border.

00:14:37.000 Have a nice day, Joe Biden.

00:14:39.000 Now, some people say, Charlie, we are slumbering towards, or not slumbering, we are bouldering towards a civil war if you do this.

00:14:46.000 I think it's the exact opposite.

00:14:48.000 I think if we don't do this, we're going towards a civil war.

00:14:52.000 I think if we don't show the other side we mean business, and there's an equal and opposite reaction for keeping the borders open and telling DHS and Border Patrol not to do anything with 12,000 criminal Haitians come into the country, then all of a sudden you are going to get to a point where everything gets combustible. 1.00

00:15:08.000 You are going to get to a place where you become a pressure cooker.

00:15:11.000 So the question is, what's stopping us?

00:15:14.000 A lot.

00:15:17.000 Ryan knows it's true, but we can get to that later.

00:15:19.000 Because I actually not, as you could tell, I'm not here to bash individual things.

00:15:22.000 This is a broader philosophical question, right?

00:15:25.000 And you guys can do with what you will.

00:15:26.000 What's stopping us is a couple things.

00:15:28.000 Number one, muscle memory.

00:15:32.000 Muscle memory is a very powerful thing.

00:15:34.000 It's a Pavlovian response.

00:15:36.000 And you guys know Pavlov's dogs.

00:15:39.000 Every time you could do this with a dog, it works every time.

00:15:41.000 50 times, you feed the dog and you ring a bell.

00:15:44.000 After the 50th time, you ring the bell, the dog starts salibating.

00:15:48.000 So the muscle memory Pavlovian response that is built in to Republicans is, oh, Democrat president does something bad.

00:15:56.000 Let's go issue a press release.

00:16:00.000 Let's go write about how terrible this is.

00:16:03.000 We have been conditioned to act as if the other side is not trying a forceful takeover of the nation.

00:16:12.000 So what do we do?

00:16:13.000 Well, the second reason, I'll actually go to the second reason, is that there is this question that no one wants to be blamed for escalation.

00:16:22.000 That no one wants to be blamed as the person that took us past the point of no return. 0.55

00:16:27.000 This is a ridiculous contention.

00:16:30.000 Could you imagine Winston Churchill on June 4th, 1940, when he gave one of the most beautiful speeches ever given in the English language in front of Parliament, where he said, we will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them in the streets, and we will fight them in the hills.

00:16:43.000 We will never surrender.

00:16:45.000 Could you imagine people saying, yeah, I mean, he's escalating the conflict.

00:16:52.000 I don't know.

00:16:53.000 Abraham Lincoln, who gave the famous Cooper Union address, who said that if slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

00:17:00.000 And we as a nation, if we do not have our moral guardrails at our North Star united around freedom and equality, then we don't actually have a nation.

00:17:09.000 Could you imagine people accusing Abraham Lincoln of escalating the conflict?

00:17:13.000 Some people still do, actually, believe it or not.

00:17:16.000 And so we're at this moment where Texas could inspire every Republican across the country, every state across the country, to change the whole way we view.

00:17:30.000 This would be the paradigm shift in Overton window that all of you have been asking for and been praying for.

00:17:36.000 Because what it would do would be a humiliating deathblow to this regime.

00:17:42.000 Here's all it has to take.

00:17:43.000 So governor of this state needs to mobilize every Texas Ranger that possibly has idle time or is willing to do what they want to do.

00:17:51.000 Send them down to the southern border, give them a pair of handcuffs, go charter 20 planes, load them up on the planes, and take videos of them flying nonstop to Port-au-Prince.

00:18:06.000 Now, mind you, the other side, when they do dramatic things, they burn down Walgreens, Wendy's, and smash windows.

00:18:14.000 When we do dramatic things, we enforce the law.

00:18:18.000 What a great image to show the rest of the country.

00:18:21.000 And sure, you'll have CNN getting pictures of women screaming, getting on the plane.

00:18:25.000 So what?

00:18:26.000 They're going to do that anyway.

00:18:27.000 They're doing that when you have a guy on horseback with a bridle or a rein that they can't identify saying that he's whipping some sort of Haitian. 0.87

00:18:36.000 They're going to DEF CON 10 when we're doing border patrol on horseback.

00:18:40.000 Maxine Waters, this is worse than slavery.

00:18:42.000 Stop operating as if it matters what the other side says.

00:18:47.000 Forget it.

00:18:48.000 It does not matter.

00:18:51.000 The images of one plane after the other taking off from Del Rio, Texas, would send shockwaves and a seed of doubt would grow into an ocean of activism against this regime.

00:19:04.000 What would happen next is North Dakota would send the workers back to work to go build the Keystone XL pipeline.

00:19:08.000 Who cares what Biden says?

00:19:14.000 And one after the other, all of a sudden, we would fulfill the mandate that we all have, which is the states created the federal government.

00:19:22.000 The federal government did not create the states.

00:19:26.000 That the balance of power comes to this state, Texas.

00:19:31.000 And this is why I'm saying all of you right now have the opportunity of a lifetime.

00:19:36.000 You could save the country.

00:19:38.000 I look at this stuff for a living 12 hours a day.

00:19:41.000 I think about it.

00:19:42.000 I pray about it.

00:19:43.000 I look at it.

00:19:44.000 This is the most vulnerable this regime has been and I think will be for the next five to 10 years.

00:19:49.000 They are on the ropes.

00:19:51.000 And the one thing that they fear is the fact that it shows the state can actually govern the country than they can.

00:19:58.000 It will undermine every program that they are doing.

00:20:02.000 Everything that they are doing will all of a sudden shatter in front of them.

00:20:05.000 They will not get the budget bill passed.

00:20:07.000 They will not get their infrastructure bill passed.

00:20:09.000 Out of nowhere, people will look and they'll say, oh, you can do that?

00:20:12.000 You better believe we can do that.

00:20:13.000 And we, as Republicans, when we decide to do things that have not been done, we don't go do a billion dollars of damage in downtown Minneapolis.

00:20:22.000 We don't create our own sovereign country, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.

00:20:26.000 And by the way, they're the secessionists.

00:20:27.000 They're creating new countries in downtown Seattle, for goodness sake. 0.97

00:20:30.000 You know what we do?

00:20:31.000 We make sure that everything reflects the unchanged written law.

00:20:36.000 Because that's the only thing that keeps us together.

00:20:38.000 What I'm saying is the way that we save the rule of law is admit that it's dead and we bring it back to life using the Texas Rangers.

00:20:45.000 Because you put them back on the southern board, you do that.

00:20:47.000 And so you don't have a lot of time.

00:20:51.000 The governor has to act immediately.

00:20:53.000 And the governor of Texas, again, you guys have your own opinions about it.

00:20:56.000 I think he's a nice person.

00:20:57.000 I really do.

00:20:58.000 I've met him once, whatever.

00:20:59.000 Here's the point.

00:21:01.000 I'm not here to talk about it.

00:21:02.000 It's interchangeable.

00:21:03.000 It could be anybody.

00:21:04.000 This is a question of leadership, right?

00:21:06.000 This is a question of what do courageous and great people do when things get tough.

00:21:12.000 And the governor's already missed a huge opportunity.

00:21:14.000 The governor should have gone on cable television like Andrew Cuomo and acted as if he was governor of America.

00:21:22.000 Remember when Andrew Cuomo took over the airwaves back under the virus and he undermined Trump?

00:21:26.000 Why is the governor of Texas not doing that?

00:21:29.000 Instead, the governor of Texas is going on television and saying, well, you know, we're not getting enough support.

00:21:35.000 We're not getting enough resources.

00:21:37.000 You're going to get nothing.

00:21:38.000 You're getting nothing.

00:21:39.000 So what do you do?

00:21:40.000 You have been abandoned by design.

00:21:43.000 This is manufactured mayhem.

00:21:45.000 We know that, obviously.

00:21:48.000 All of a sudden, you would then have a reference point where the governor of Texas or whomever would then become the true leader when things get tough.

00:22:01.000 People say, well, Charlie, how do we remove Biden?

00:22:03.000 How do we weaken him?

00:22:05.000 How do we do this?

00:22:07.000 Show 300 million people how the Constitution really works.

00:22:11.000 You go on cable television and you make the argument.

00:22:14.000 We as Republicans usually don't like doing this sort of stuff.

00:22:17.000 We like to trust the process.

00:22:19.000 We go through the courts.

00:22:20.000 We go through judges.

00:22:21.000 We love the Constitution.

00:22:23.000 But as Abraham Lincoln said, I would rather solve things through ballots than bullets.

00:22:27.000 And where our country is going right now is in a direction I do not like.

00:22:31.000 I have no choice but to do what is necessary to protect the people that I have taken an oath to protect.

00:22:38.000 They're going down to the border.

00:22:39.000 We're arresting them and they're leaving the country. 0.84

00:22:41.000 The federal government will not get in our way.

00:22:43.000 Because if you've ever met a Texas Ranger, you don't want to get in their way at any time whatsoever.

00:22:47.000 And guess what?

00:22:48.000 DHS and Border Patrol would be applauding as this happened because those people are heroes.

00:22:53.000 And what would happen is all of a sudden, you would undermine the entire organization.

00:22:58.000 Mayorkis would send a press release of DHS rank and file or border patrol.

00:23:03.000 They laugh at it.

00:23:03.000 Like, you know what?

00:23:04.000 We're actually going back on our horses.

00:23:08.000 You want to take back the country?

00:23:09.000 It starts right here on the southern board.

00:23:12.000 Starts right here with this one piece of action.

00:23:14.000 And this goes back to the final question when we'll do some questions.

00:23:17.000 People say, Charlie, what's stopping us?

00:23:21.000 What is it?

00:23:22.000 And it's really one thing.

00:23:23.000 It is the will to act.

00:23:26.000 Otherwise known as the crisis, the thing that is missing the most in the country.

00:23:30.000 Guess what?

00:23:31.000 We have truth.

00:23:32.000 We do.

00:23:33.000 Praise God.

00:23:35.000 We have energy.

00:23:36.000 Look at the turnout.

00:23:37.000 It's terrific.

00:23:38.000 We have an alert and aware citizenry.

00:23:42.000 I'm really thrilled about that.

00:23:44.000 Grassroots activists are more informed than any other time I have seen them the last 10 years.

00:23:49.000 I have grassroots activists knowing what critical race theory is.

00:23:51.000 They know what Herbert Marcuse is and Michelle Foucault and Jacques Derrida.

00:23:55.000 I have grassroots activists saying that they're getting back into reading the Federalist Papers and Madison and Jefferson and Hamilton.

00:24:00.000 It gives me hope.

00:24:01.000 The one thing that is missing is the thing that actually matters the most.

00:24:05.000 As George S. Patton said, may he rest in peace, one of the great Americans ever to live, that moral courage is the most absent yet necessary characteristic in men.

00:24:17.000 Aristotle famously said that courage is the ultimate virtue because without courage, there are no other virtues.

00:24:23.000 George S. Patton also had another great expression: lead, follow, or get out of the way.

00:24:31.000 And so the question is: one, of the will.

00:24:36.000 It's courage.

00:24:37.000 It's will that Churchillian or Lincoln figure step up when we know what needs to get done.

00:24:43.000 But guess what?

00:24:44.000 This is not a spectator sport.

00:24:46.000 This is a pretty important room right here where all of you can do something about it.

00:24:50.000 I just told you what you probably already agree with.

00:24:53.000 And I've done a lot of thinking and tried out how to structure this argument, how it could be done.

00:24:56.000 Try to make it happen.

00:24:58.000 Demand it.

00:24:59.000 Russell Kirk famously said politicians are reading off the script provided to them by activists and voters.

00:25:04.000 What script are we giving to them?

00:25:06.000 Cell phone lines of how great of a job they're doing?

00:25:08.000 Maybe they're doing a great job.

00:25:10.000 Like letters of thanks so much for this commission or that commission?

00:25:13.000 Are we saying this has got to be solved?

00:25:16.000 Because this is not about Texas.

00:25:19.000 Because voters in Bangor, Maine, and citizens in Billings, Montana, and in Leeds, North Dakota are hoping for and praying that this state, this beautiful state with some of the greatest people in the country with an independent streak of freedom that I see no other state across the country, they're saying, I pray at this moment, they will humiliate and start the counteroffensive against this regime.

00:25:42.000 The eyes of the nation are on Texas to do this.

00:25:45.000 So where do you all come and come and contact the people that can make this happen?

00:25:50.000 This could be solved in 48 hours.

00:25:52.000 It would go down in the history books of that moment when the conservatives realized it's a totally new set of rules.

00:25:59.000 And then from that point forward, you would see this incredible just movement of action and activism coming from there.

00:26:09.000 It's in our hands, I guess.

00:26:10.000 And so if this doesn't happen, you're going to, if this doesn't happen, things are just going to continue as is.

00:26:17.000 It's that simple.

00:26:18.000 If this does happen, you will start to see an historic and I believe unprecedented challenging of a regime that has seemed untouchable until now.

00:26:27.000 So God bless Texas.

00:26:29.000 Balls in your court. 0.56

00:26:30.000 Let's do some questions.

00:26:33.000 A couple of things, Charlie.

00:26:34.000 One, a good answer for a good idea for the energy pipeline and what maybe some of the governors should do about that.

00:26:46.000 Number two, us leaving here today, what I'm hearing is maybe we should all call Abbott and say, send the entire guard down there.

00:26:57.000 Yeah, I mean, it's pretty, yeah, I don't think we have to overcomplicate it.

00:27:01.000 Send the guard, send Texas Rangers, fly them to Port-au-Prince, and then also deputize a citizen force to do this at every single sector across the southern border.

00:27:12.000 Again, I don't think you need, and the problem is a bunch of lawyers are probably preventing him from doing this, right?

00:27:18.000 Lawyers that think we're living in the 1990s.

00:27:20.000 You think lawyers are preventing Seattle from saying, you know what, we actually are not going to comply with federal immigration law.

00:27:30.000 They've already made the decision.

00:27:31.000 We're living in the post-constitutional order.

00:27:34.000 They've then used that to take over the government and take over the country to allow the borders to remain wide open.

00:27:38.000 We need to look at ourselves as the restorers of the rule of law.

00:27:43.000 So then the other question is about energy.

00:27:45.000 Yeah, the pipeline.

00:27:46.000 And I've said this for a couple of months and I'm going to keep on saying it.

00:27:49.000 There is no reason whatsoever why every governor, North Dakota, Christine, Kansas, Nebraska, they should just send the hard hat workers back to work. 1.00

00:27:59.000 Make the federal government go arrest a bunch of middle class welders and people that are working with their hands. 0.57

00:28:05.000 Now people say, well, Charlie, that's defiance.

00:28:08.000 Of course it is.

00:28:10.000 What kind of country do you think you're living in right now?

00:28:14.000 And guess what?

00:28:15.000 Look at this juxtaposition.

00:28:16.000 This is all you have to say on television.

00:28:18.000 Well, Charlie, this is against the president's orders.

00:28:20.000 Look, the other side, they undermine Trump all the time.

00:28:23.000 They smashed windows and burnt down buildings.

00:28:26.000 When we defy the law, we build pipelines.

00:28:30.000 It's that simple.

00:28:32.000 Now, this makes some people uncomfortable because they have this bizarre attachment to this idea that we're still living under the rule of law.

00:28:40.000 We're not.

00:28:42.000 That country's dead.

00:28:44.000 We got to bring it back, though.

00:28:45.000 We can bring it back with the will of the people.

00:28:47.000 Hey, Charlie, you were definitely, if not the first, definitely the youngest thought leader to get behind Donald Trump, hop on the Trump train, get on the MAGA bandwagon, be an America first young conservative.

00:29:03.000 What was that?

00:29:04.000 What was your thinking like?

00:29:06.000 What got you to that point when so many other young people were going in another direction?

00:29:12.000 Yeah, I mean, I talk openly about this.

00:29:15.000 I first was behind Ted Cruz, who I think very highly of, and I think he's terrific.

00:29:20.000 And then there was this kind of this question of whether or not we were going to get behind Trump in 2016.

00:29:25.000 And there was kind of one speech where Donald Trump just kind of went off script.

00:29:30.000 And I miss 2016 Trump.

00:29:32.000 He was like 2016 Trump, one of the greatest political kind of candidates I think ever.

00:29:37.000 He was freewheeling and unfiltered and honest and brazen and somewhat chaotic, but incredibly entertaining and genuine, just awesome.

00:29:46.000 And there was one speech where he was just going freewheeling and the whole thing.

00:29:49.000 And I think it was that he was like talking to the black community and he said something where he said, what do you have to lose?

00:29:56.000 And I said, anyone that has the courage to say that, that guy should be in charge of something.

00:30:01.000 And it was right near there that I kind of just got behind the whole thing and got to know him very well.

00:30:06.000 I think he did some things terrific in his presidency.

00:30:09.000 I think he made some things that I think there's some things that could have been done differently and better in the last year of his presidency.

00:30:16.000 I'll give you a couple examples.

00:30:18.000 He should have suffocated, metaphorically suffocated. 0.88

00:30:23.000 Let me go back. 0.90

00:30:24.000 He should have diluted the influence of Fauci by putting him on a committee.

00:30:30.000 Now, some people say he should have fired him.

00:30:32.000 That would have been a mistake.

00:30:33.000 He would have become a martyr and just as dangerous on cable television.

00:30:36.000 You should have put him out to pasture on a committee of 35 people and say all of your rights to go on television have been rescinded by executive order of the president.

00:30:43.000 Never can speak out again.

00:30:44.000 Fauci undermined the Trump administration more than anyone else. 0.98

00:30:47.000 He is a serpent. 0.99

00:30:48.000 He should be in jail. 0.96

00:30:50.000 He funded the gain of function research.

00:30:53.000 He is a double-minded bureaucrat.

00:30:58.000 And yeah, weasel is a really nice word for it.

00:31:01.000 But I want to say this.

00:31:02.000 The legacy of Donald Trump is one of restoring the moral argument that we have an obligation to our country and our fellow countrymen unapologetically above some sort of esoteric bumper sticker, some global organization, is that we as a compact, as a nation, have to look after who we call our fellow citizen, which goes back to this Greek word citizen, which means co-ruler, that we are all the sovereign in this country.

00:31:30.000 And then I personally love how Donald Trump also inspired conservatives to be able to fight and challenge the left.

00:31:39.000 And he did the one thing that you are not supposed to do is he actually did everything he said he was going to do once he got elected.

00:31:47.000 This is a major problem, right?

00:31:49.000 Not supposed to do that.

00:31:51.000 And look, I could go through probably 100 different grievances.

00:31:54.000 I'm sure the room has.

00:31:55.000 I don't like this.

00:31:56.000 I don't like that.

00:31:57.000 I don't like this.

00:31:58.000 Look.

00:31:59.000 You see what this regime is doing right now.

00:32:01.000 You have no bad tweets right now.

00:32:03.000 And look at the country you have, right?

00:32:05.000 That was like the number one piece of feedback I received.

00:32:07.000 But the final thing is this.

00:32:09.000 Like the other things that Trump really liberated, though, that I think was so incredibly important is that he gave us an opportunity to go represent and win back what has always made America the greatest nation ever, which is the common man.

00:32:25.000 It's not the multi-billionaire.

00:32:28.000 It is the plumber, the electrician, the welder, the police officer, the firefighter, the person that will hunt a couple weekends a year, earn $65,000, and has three kids.

00:32:39.000 They did not feel as if the Republican Party spoke to them or for them before him.

00:32:43.000 He came in and totally changed the Republican Party from a party with no identity to the working person's party.

00:32:50.000 And I think that legacy is a very significant one, truly.

00:32:56.000 Hello, I'm Miri Rosine Beasley.

00:32:59.000 And it happens that Bill Beasley grew up in Evanson, Illinois, and I lived in Champaign, Urbana for three years.

00:33:05.000 I know both those places.

00:33:06.000 And my son is Robert Charles Beasley.

00:33:09.000 But anyway, I am a public health nurse and a certified school teacher, and I have an MBA in 40 acres of property.

00:33:16.000 And I am tired of my little community of Jersey Village being taken over by the good old boys.

00:33:23.000 And I have run for JV City Council.

00:33:26.000 I have run for Texas State Representative.

00:33:29.000 And now I'm running for mayor of Jersey Village.

00:33:31.000 And I haven't conceded the election because I think it was rigged.

00:33:34.000 And I'm standing tall because I am a public health nurse.

00:33:38.000 And I worked for Harris County Health Department.

00:33:40.000 And I knew from the beginning this was the big lie because I used to analyze active TB cases.

00:33:46.000 Why?

00:33:47.000 Oh, why?

00:33:48.000 We had an weekly TB clinic.

00:33:51.000 Why didn't they put UV lights?

00:33:54.000 So what's your question?

00:33:55.000 My question is, when is everybody in this room going to get together and stop this nonsense?

00:34:01.000 Right?

00:34:02.000 All right.

00:34:02.000 And Jennifer Bridges is my hero.

00:34:04.000 She was fired by Methodist Hospital.

00:34:07.000 So if anybody wants to know, she's going to be doing a presentation next to you. 0.96

00:34:14.000 So my question is, when are you all going to join us and stop this nonsense?

00:34:14.000 Okay.

00:34:19.000 All right.

00:34:19.000 Thank you.

00:34:20.000 I love your spirit, by the way.

00:34:22.000 It's terrific.

00:34:23.000 No, it's great.

00:34:23.000 Seriously.

00:34:25.000 That is a high energy presentation right there.

00:34:28.000 No, like, trust me, I'm right there with you.

00:34:32.000 Trust me.

00:34:33.000 Yeah, I don't really know how to answer that.

00:34:36.000 Based on the nods and the approving applause, I think this room is ready to join in taking back the state of Texas in dramatic ways.

00:34:44.000 Okay.

00:34:45.000 I love you, Mira Lee.

00:34:47.000 It's been a while since I've seen you.

00:34:49.000 Mr. Kirk, when would you say in your personal life as an even younger man that you reached the turning point in becoming a conservative?

00:34:59.000 That's a great question.

00:35:00.000 So, look, I wouldn't have called myself a conservative in like high school.

00:35:07.000 I was, but my love was always of the country and our history and kind of a common unified American story.

00:35:15.000 And as soon as that started to become controversial and the other side, you know, really kind of starting with Barack Obama in some ways, but he wasn't nearly as outwardly radical as kind of what we're seeing now.

00:35:26.000 I started to become very defensive and very worried that the next generation is not going to be telling the same story of what it means to be American as the generation before it.

00:35:35.000 This is one of the major reasons why mass third world immigration is not sustainable. 1.00

00:35:40.000 A nation is the stories you tell to yourselves and your children, amongst other things.

00:35:45.000 It's a people, it's a custom, it's a history, it's a tradition.

00:35:48.000 And when all of a sudden half the country thinks your history is racist, or 61% of students in college think that America is a terrible country, it's unsustainable.

00:35:57.000 It's a pressure cooker.

00:35:59.000 It's going to fall apart.

00:36:00.000 And so that for me was a real eye-opener.

00:36:04.000 And then in my own personal last 10 years, since starting Turning Point USA in June of 2012, I have become, I've learned a lot.

00:36:12.000 I've probably spoken at over 100 of these types of dinners.

00:36:16.000 And grassroots activism is super important.

00:36:18.000 I'm going to talk about how Harris County, how important it is to remain local, and it's really important.

00:36:24.000 But I used to give the left the benefit of the doubt.

00:36:28.000 And this was a major mistake.

00:36:30.000 I know the left better than a lot of people.

00:36:33.000 Not to say that I know better than you guys, but I deal with them all the time.

00:36:37.000 I'm chased around by them all the time, literally.

00:36:40.000 I intimately know what drives them.

00:36:43.000 They don't want the same country we do.

00:36:45.000 If I have to hear this one more time, you know, Charlie, we both want the same thing on the left.

00:36:49.000 We just have a different way of getting there.

00:36:51.000 You know, we just dropped a debate where I was debating a rather nice guy, Dr. Rashad Ritchie, left-wing professor.

00:36:58.000 And I'm not saying he's a bad person, but he has a totally different vision of the country that he wants.

00:37:02.000 He believes America is systemically racist.

00:37:05.000 He thinks masks on children is perfectly fine.

00:37:07.000 I can go through the list.

00:37:08.000 I don't want that.

00:37:09.000 I think these things are awful and terrible.

00:37:11.000 In fact, I think it's child abuse and especially against the child's will.

00:37:16.000 And so what I'm getting at is that we've kind of been paralyzed in the last decade of thinking as if the opposition party, the Democrats, they kind of want the same sort of America we want to live in.

00:37:26.000 That's not true.

00:37:27.000 We have two fundamentally different visions of the type of country we want to live in and what we want to see happen.

00:37:34.000 So I hope that someone answered the question.

00:37:36.000 So next question.

00:37:37.000 Charlie.

00:37:38.000 Where are we at here?

00:37:40.000 Okay.

00:37:42.000 Democrats are going to do what Democrats do.

00:37:44.000 They're going to say what they're going to say.

00:37:45.000 Right now, MSM is enemy number one.

00:37:49.000 Democrats are what they want.

00:37:50.000 They're no different than what they've been.

00:37:51.000 I mean, they're worse, but we have two realities that are diverging.

00:37:55.000 And no matter what crazy thing happens, the MSM paints it in a certain way.

00:38:01.000 If it's horses with reins, it's guys with bull whips driving people into the water to drown.

00:38:07.000 If we did all these things you say to do, they're good things and we need to do them.

00:38:11.000 MSM will merely paint them in such a way that everybody who listens to the five horsemen of the apocalypse is going to see it entirely different.

00:38:21.000 So?

00:38:21.000 Now, MSM is supposed to, you know, Bernie Goldberg and O'Reilly say this is the year that MSM dies.

00:38:28.000 But until we get these two realities back together, we're just spinning our tires in the mud.

00:38:33.000 What brings these things back together, Charlie?

00:38:35.000 You see any sort of path to do that?

00:38:37.000 No.

00:38:38.000 No.

00:38:40.000 The only way to challenge it is to understand that they're going to have 10 to 11 million people that still subscribe to the New York Times, still watch CNN, still watch that.

00:38:50.000 And we just have to have more people than they do.

00:38:53.000 The different realities is not going to change.

00:38:56.000 It's just not.

00:38:56.000 So the question is, what do you do about it?

00:38:58.000 You do the right thing.

00:38:59.000 You build consensus.

00:39:00.000 And then we have to build our own lines of communication.

00:39:02.000 That's why I do podcasting.

00:39:04.000 That's why I do three hours of radio a day.

00:39:06.000 And I share your concern.

00:39:07.000 The concern is that half the country is living in a completely different country than we are.

00:39:12.000 And Sarah Silverman said out loud something that should horrify everyone, but it's where we're headed.

00:39:18.000 If Texas doesn't act and do what I think needs to be done, and I went into great length about that, here's where we're headed.

00:39:24.000 And this is something that I don't want to see happen.

00:39:26.000 The media is so dishonest.

00:39:27.000 They act as if I'm advocating for this.

00:39:29.000 I think this would be tragic.

00:39:30.000 But this is where we are headed.

00:39:31.000 We're Sarah Silverman, who's like this comedian, I guess, who's not very funny, but she's a far left.

00:39:36.000 She's a card-carrying member of the leftist industrial complex. 0.99

00:39:39.000 And she said on her podcast, she said, you know, I hate unvaccinated people and I hate conservatives.

00:39:47.000 Why am I living in the same country as them?

00:39:51.000 Well, hold on, hold on.

00:39:52.000 And guess what?

00:39:53.000 When I visited Bandera, Texas for their deal, they say, I hate the left.

00:39:58.000 Why are we living in the same country as them? 0.63

00:40:01.000 In a decade, this country will separate.

00:40:03.000 I hope so.

00:40:04.000 Well, and that's what we're seeing, right?

00:40:07.000 Is that we have very little in common with a regular person in San Francisco that doesn't share our story, doesn't share our values.

00:40:14.000 There's a way to fix that.

00:40:15.000 We can fix that by getting back from the brink and building a 60 or 70% consensus amongst the normal men, which I still believe is possible.

00:40:23.000 In fact, I think it's there if our elections were done correctly and if we were able to communicate.

00:40:29.000 But the only thing I would say is we have to completely dismiss what the other side will say about us.

00:40:36.000 And then you do the right thing.

00:40:38.000 We shouldn't worry about how it's going to be branded on the nightly news or how the New York Times is going to write about it.

00:40:43.000 I'll give you one final example.

00:40:44.000 My friend, Larry Elder, was running for the governor's race in California. 0.70

00:40:48.000 On the front page of the Los Angeles Times, they said that Larry Elder is the black face of white supremacy.

00:40:56.000 Is that a reason not to run for governor?

00:40:58.000 Of course not.

00:40:58.000 We know what they're going to do, right?

00:41:00.000 I mean, it doesn't matter if it's Trump.

00:41:02.000 We acted as if they only got outrageous at Trump.

00:41:04.000 They were outrageous with Mitt Romney, who's practically a Democrat, right?

00:41:08.000 They said that he like straps dogs to the top of cars.

00:41:10.000 And like, remember all this?

00:41:13.000 I mean, they were, the point is that they hate us.

00:41:17.000 And honestly, I don't hate them.

00:41:19.000 I mean, I have a strong dislike for some of them, but I don't, I really don't.

00:41:23.000 Instead, my belief is that you need to do the right thing.

00:41:28.000 And that, like, once the truth is allowed to spread, time and time again, conservatives win elections and we win arguments when we do the bold and courageous thing, regardless of what we think the papers are going to write about us.

00:41:42.000 Thank you.

00:41:43.000 I'm not, I could take a couple.

00:41:45.000 I can go a little over if you want.

00:41:47.000 So I don't want to ruin your schedule.

00:41:48.000 I can go for as long as you want.

00:41:51.000 Hey, Charlie, thank you first for giving the opportunity to Youth Random Connect to go to all your events.

00:41:56.000 Thank you.

00:41:57.000 The question is, my son is the president of the Turning Point Kingwood chapter here in Houston, and it's very strongly condensed with Republicans and conservative children.

00:42:08.000 But today we held a meeting right before this one, and only two boys showed up.

00:42:13.000 So what advice do you have for us to be able to invigorate the communities and have young people just kind of like flock to us and say, hey, you do have a place where you can be a conservative and you can be, you know, a young teenage, you know, Republican and there is no repercussion and there is absolutely nothing that is going to happen to you.

00:42:31.000 So what advice do you give us as community and as parents to embrace the children?

00:42:35.000 I mean, what can we do?

00:42:36.000 I know that Stormy said, hey, we're going to send you pizza and stuff like that.

00:42:40.000 So thank you for that as well.

00:42:41.000 But I mean, look, and then first of all, they shouldn't lose spirit or lose momentum.

00:42:47.000 There's more conservatives than that out there.

00:42:48.000 And I'm sure there might have been logistical reasons, other sports or things that were happening.

00:42:53.000 But I will say this, that the fact that they're even bold enough to try to start a turning point USA group, that's something that they deserve to be applauded for, is that they're in high school and they're willing to be a vocal and outspoken conservative.

00:43:06.000 I don't care if two people or 200 people show up.

00:43:09.000 And if those two people, by the way, this is something that I think we need to get a little bit better at.

00:43:13.000 And at Turning Point, I say all the time, I care about the quality of the leader I'm rising up.

00:43:17.000 The quantity will follow, right?

00:43:19.000 Is that maybe those two people are the Churchill and Lincoln we're looking for, right?

00:43:23.000 The point is that that will grow as long as they don't give up.

00:43:27.000 We've dealt with this a lot.

00:43:28.000 If they keep on persevering and they keep on organizing, and I'm happy to meet your son and encourage him as well.

00:43:34.000 Is he here?

00:43:35.000 Oh, don't give up.

00:43:37.000 I will give it up for you no matter what.

00:43:39.000 I think it's a great thing.

00:43:40.000 And so, and I guarantee you that there's more people in your high school that share those values and that want to be associated with that.

00:43:49.000 So, all right, thank you.

00:43:50.000 Next question.

00:43:50.000 How are you doing?

00:43:51.000 My name is Cody.

00:43:52.000 I'm from the College of Republicans at UH.

00:43:54.000 And I have a question.

00:43:57.000 I have a question from a lot of us students.

00:43:58.000 We are doing a lot of campus activism and bringing in the students.

00:44:02.000 But one question we fail to have a tactic for is how do we plan to hold our professors and the administration accountable for teaching these very progressive policies on campus?

00:44:13.000 So thank you, by the way, and thank you for your courage for speaking out.

00:44:19.000 Yeah, I have some very contrarian views on college.

00:44:22.000 We were discussing it briefly before.

00:44:24.000 I think we have way too many people going to college in our country.

00:44:26.000 I think college is a ripoff for most people that go and a scam, quite honestly.

00:44:32.000 With that being said, you're in college.

00:44:34.000 That doesn't help your question at all.

00:44:36.000 But you even talk to college students.

00:44:38.000 They're being forced to take classes they don't want to take.

00:44:39.000 They're not going to retain a lot of the knowledge.

00:44:41.000 It's becoming this automatic kind of credentialing exercise.

00:44:45.000 Do you guys know that 41% of kids that go to college don't graduate?

00:44:48.000 41%.

00:44:50.000 I know a ton of people that dropped out of college.

00:44:52.000 I'm sure you know plenty as well.

00:44:55.000 So here's the question, right?

00:44:56.000 So the only way to hold your professor accountable is to be willing to get a lower grade.

00:45:03.000 And so I think grades mostly don't matter, but I'm different.

00:45:08.000 And I'm not saying that's the right thing for you.

00:45:12.000 So a friend of mine, who's all of you know, has a different view on this, right?

00:45:16.000 Ben Shapiro says, lie your way through college, right?

00:45:20.000 And go get the best grade and go to graduate school.

00:45:23.000 I think lying is terrible, even small lies.

00:45:27.000 And I would rather have a generation of courageous C students than cowardly A students, right?

00:45:33.000 And so I'm not saying, and by the way, people say, I got to get a good grade.

00:45:37.000 Why?

00:45:37.000 Does that create good character?

00:45:39.000 Now, again, maybe that's a good thing, a good reason for you.

00:45:41.000 I got to go to nursing school.

00:45:42.000 I got to go to law school.

00:45:43.000 Fine.

00:45:43.000 Terrific.

00:45:44.000 That's not my world, right?

00:45:45.000 I'm not here to tell you.

00:45:46.000 Again, I'm not here to impose it on you.

00:45:47.000 I'm just asking a question kind of about that.

00:45:49.000 I know I'm getting the hook.

00:45:50.000 But the final thing is this, though.

00:45:53.000 If you're willing to get graded down, confront them directly and record them every single day.

00:45:59.000 Now, you will be treated differently.

00:46:01.000 You will be kind of marked down.

00:46:02.000 And so, but I would encourage that.

00:46:04.000 So, okay, can I say one last thing?

00:46:06.000 Okay.

00:46:07.000 I love Texas, everybody.

00:46:09.000 I come here quite often.

00:46:11.000 I hope that what I shared tonight can be shared with people that can make it happen.

00:46:15.000 And I hope Texas embraces this opportunity and really kind of make some aims and measures towards it.

00:46:22.000 I personally, as I mentioned, do two podcasts a day.

00:46:24.000 If kind of the way we communicate has interested you, we'd love to kind of become one of your go-to news sources.

00:46:30.000 We're constantly under cancellation threat from Apple and Facebook and all these people.

00:46:35.000 You guys can easily subscribe on your phone.

00:46:37.000 Every phone has a podcast app.

00:46:39.000 You just type in Charlie Kirk Show.

00:46:40.000 It would really bless us if you did that.

00:46:42.000 If you don't know how to do that, ask our Turning Point USA High School student.

00:46:46.000 I'm sure that he could guide you through that.

00:46:47.000 I'm deputizing you like the governor should deputize many people to secure the board.

00:46:52.000 I'm deputizing you to become the go-to to help people subscribe to the podcast.

00:46:56.000 But let me end with this, which is there was only one person that was smiling on the morning of December 7th, 1941.

00:47:05.000 The only person smiling was the greatest man who lived in the 20th century, Winston Churchill.

00:47:09.000 He walked into his war cabinet with a thing of whiskey and a cigar at 7 a.m. in the morning.

00:47:14.000 And his war cabinet was sullen, demoralized, and without sleep.

00:47:18.000 He was chipper, cheerful, and ready for action.

00:47:22.000 He goes in and he says, why the long faces?

00:47:25.000 We have won the war.

00:47:27.000 And someone says, what do you mean we've won the war?

00:47:30.000 And he says, Pearl Harbor was bombed.

00:47:32.000 We've won the war.

00:47:33.000 And someone has the courage to challenge the prime minister.

00:47:35.000 Bad idea.

00:47:37.000 And they say, what do you mean we've won the war?

00:47:38.000 We barely just got our troops out of Dunkirk.

00:47:41.000 The Royal Air Force is losing 250 planes a day.

00:47:45.000 They just bombed a hospital in northern London.

00:47:48.000 They are planning a ground invasion in Brighton.

00:47:50.000 an amphibious invasion.

00:47:52.000 And we don't have an ally as far as the eye can see.

00:47:54.000 Our Navy is a joke.

00:47:56.000 Our army is questionable at best.

00:47:58.000 And your greatest political rival, Neville Chamberlain, is already filing papers for your removal and him to become prime minister.

00:48:04.000 What do you mean, Mr. Prime Minister, we've won the war?

00:48:07.000 And he smiled and chuckled and took a puff of his cigar and a sip of his whiskey.

00:48:10.000 He said, ah, I know the Americans quite well, and I've studied them intimately.

00:48:15.000 You see, the Americans, they have awoken.

00:48:19.000 And once Americans are awake, the battle is over.

00:48:24.000 And everybody, I'm telling you right now, once we awaken and you awaken, we are going to win.

00:48:31.000 God bless you guys.

00:48:32.000 Thank you so much.

00:48:37.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:48:39.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:48:42.000 God bless you guys.

00:48:43.000 Speak to you soon.

00:48:46.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - October 03, 2021

How Texas Can Save America—LIVE from Houston

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