00:00:36.000And so maybe you are a young woman and you want to come to our Young Women's Leadership Summit and see Candace Owens and Kaylee McKinney and more.
00:00:45.000That's tpusa.com slash ywls to come to our young women's leadership summit.
00:00:50.000Or maybe you want to come to our student action summit in Tampa, Florida, where we now have President Donald Trump confirmed in Tampa, Florida in late July.
00:01:35.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:43.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:04:02.000I mean, and I don't know, a lesser extent here in the Central Valley, but in Orange County, they always say, but the weather is worth the 13% income tax and the terrible politics.
00:04:12.000But look, I look at California as an opportunity.
00:04:22.000And look, California obviously has its problems, but it also has its fighters.
00:04:27.000Looking, you know, I live in Arizona, looking into California, I see the most brave and courageous pastors in America, one of them on stage with me, by the way, are here in California.
00:04:38.000I see people that are fighting, even though they've been told there's no way they can win, that the cost is overwhelming.
00:04:45.000And so, look, as an onlooker to this beautiful and this wonderful state, I understand that it can be frustrating, that you might be outnumbered, but we're called to continue to fight.
00:04:56.000We're called to hate evil and to do good.
00:04:59.000And look, California has its own wackiness, obviously, its own corruption embedded in it.
00:05:05.000But I could say this: that America would be a substantially less free country as a whole if it wasn't for the heroes and the fighters in the grassroots here in this beautiful state.
00:05:17.000So, let me give you my theory, since you didn't ask for it, but I have the microphone.
00:05:23.000So, we had our governor, when he was the mayor of San Francisco, stand up on the steps of City Hall, San Francisco, and say, as goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
00:05:35.000Sadly, we kind of saw that because we saw California values, San Francisco values, migrate to Washington, D.C. Everything from the Speaker of the House to obviously with the vice president and several of the staff that was here in Sacramento now has migrated there and become a part of the administration.
00:05:55.000But with those policies that have been implemented, it seems with the change that is happening now across the country, and people then are rejecting those policies, and thus what we're going to see in the midterm election.
00:06:08.000Do you think that now is going to come back to California?
00:06:11.000That as goes the rest of the nation, so could go California?
00:06:25.000There's a great verse in Nehemiah, I think, which is, do not belabor the days of long work.
00:06:31.000You know the verse I'm talking about when they're rebuilding the temple under Zeribbabell's leadership, and they're like, This is taking forever.
00:06:38.000And it's like, well, that good things take a long time.
00:06:41.000And look, California was not lost in an election, and it won't be retaken in an election.
00:07:03.000No exaggeration, super dark place, spiritually dark in a lot of different ways.
00:07:08.000But look, I think that in order for California to be a freer state, it has to start local.
00:07:15.000I think that, you know, kind of making some appropriate changes here on the city council level in Fresno would be a good start, especially for the incredible story here of another church that's being totally targeted by the local city council.
00:07:31.000If you're not aware of this story, I encourage you to check it out.
00:07:34.000It's just terrible what the local city council is doing.
00:07:36.000So we need to focus on the hyper-local first and foremost.
00:07:40.000And I think that this city in particular is being misrepresented by a lot of the people in City Hall here.
00:07:46.000But look, I'm asked all the time, Charlie, do you think there's any hope for California?
00:07:50.000And my answer is always the same: we have to make our own hope happen.
00:07:54.000There, we have to obviously fast and pray for the nation and the land that we're in, but we also have to do things that actually make a substantial difference.
00:08:03.000No longer be a spectator, but be a participant in that.
00:08:06.000And in some ways, that is against where a lot of conservatism has been in the recent years, where some people think that, hey, we just win a presidential election.
00:08:16.000I can kind of take it off and I'm just going to kind of watch the rest on TV.
00:08:27.000I'm starting to see after the initial shock that you're not going to get your country back in just 18 months.
00:08:32.000Now I see conservatives putting their working boots on.
00:08:35.000Now I see people that are willing to get into the trenches, into the grassroots, and say, look, this might take 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 years, but I'm willing to do that because my grandkids are worth it because liberty is worth fighting for.
00:08:46.000And I could tell you this, though, and we'll dive into this throughout the conversation kind of more nationally.
00:08:54.000I don't call myself an optimist just to say it.
00:08:59.000I have been an optimist for a long period of time because I traveled the country and I see that we have the greatest people on the planet sacrificing so much for their values.
00:09:08.000And I've been saying this since February of last year, that there was a rumbling, that there was a stirring in our country.
00:09:17.000But I said, there's something happening that will be a reaction to this regime, you know, criminalizing moms and dads showing up to school board meetings across the country.
00:09:26.000There will be a reaction about pushing a vaccine on a population that does not need it, particularly students and young people.
00:09:32.000And so we were always complaining, like, will there be a price to going woke and all these sorts of things?
00:09:38.000And my goodness, in the last couple of weeks, if you just kind of take a step back, you say, wow, like Disney, they're down 20% of their market share, their market cap.
00:09:50.000Netflix is down 40%, which is a total woke company.
00:09:54.000CNN Plus lasted two scaramuccias, which is like 21 days.
00:10:00.000Just gone, multi-billion dollar project.
00:10:03.000And I know we all have mixed opinions on this individual.
00:10:07.000There's some things I really disagree with him on, but it's just, it's nothing, it's definitely entertaining.
00:10:13.000I think it's very beneficial where the world's richest man decides to come in and just buy Twitter.
00:10:21.000And not only that, but self-describe himself now as a conservative.
00:10:26.000He did that today on Twitter, saying that free speech is a fundamental human right.
00:10:30.000There's something happening here where all of a sudden the people in charge, the power brokers, the ruling class, the elites, they're not going according to plan.
00:11:05.000They know there's a chance they could lose.
00:11:07.000In fact, they know there's a greater chance that they're going to kind of lose their entire current monopoly over power here in our country.
00:11:16.000And how is one supposed to get the news out?
00:11:33.000These are a revolution in a peaceful and a meaningful way, not the type that the left always tries to throw at us, but one that is one where we're building things and we're unafraid to proclaim the truth.
00:11:45.000And so you're just beginning to see the early stages of what I believe will be a first a couple year, then a multi-decade citizen rising movement where all of a sudden the game gets changed permanently.
00:12:02.000We feel thankful that we get to live through this.
00:12:05.000And it's the things that it's a thing that historians will write about for generations to come.
00:12:10.000So what were some of the catalysts that you think that brought about this change that motivated what we're seeing everywhere from entertainment to media?
00:12:30.000The enemy sows chaos and our Lord is a God of order.
00:12:34.000So when an organization or a movement, a celebrity decides to sow chaos against order and they institutionalize it, that will not be rewarded by the laws of nature and nature is God.
00:12:45.000No, a simple law of nature that we believe in is the law of gravity, right?
00:12:48.000So you try to just throw yourself into the Grand Canyon, it's not going to work well, right?
00:12:52.000Well, also when you try to all of a sudden say men can become pregnant, or if you say things as ridiculous as America is the most racist country in the world, that's unsustainable.
00:13:01.000It might sound good in a talking point on MSNBC, might make you feel good, but eventually there will be a reaction to not making yourself bound to those pesky shackles of reality, right?
00:13:15.000And that's part of it is just, I just kind of call it civilizational gravity, that you cannot build an entire organization and insist that you can't tell me what a woman is, like Katangi Brown Jackson.
00:13:26.000I'm not a biologist, so I can't tell you what a woman is.
00:13:29.000Like that's not a winning formula for success.
00:13:33.000Or trying to tell an entire country that where we have our beautiful veterans that serve so much for our flag, that actually you want to go fight for something that's colonialist, homophobic, racist.
00:13:44.000Like that's actually not really popular.
00:13:46.000People want to be proud of where they're from.
00:13:47.000They want to be proud of the flag that they see.
00:13:51.000They're not dumb, but they also don't want to just be beat over the head as if you're some sort of terrible person because you stand for the flags and you don't take a knee.
00:13:58.000And so part of this is kind of this force of gravity, but it's a combination, right?
00:14:03.000So whatever goes woke will go broke because actually no one wants to go watch the Netflix series called He's Expecting.
00:14:11.000Like no one's like, yeah, you know, that's why I'm a Netflix subscriber.
00:14:14.000Like, no, that's why they lost 200,000 subscribers.
00:14:16.000And honestly, this is also exactly why many of you are now against Disney because they're pushing an incredibly radical sexual agenda on five-year-olds.
00:14:27.000And that's just a very basic moral question, regardless of when you think sexual education should be talked to kids.
00:14:33.000Any decent person, not five-year-olds, or like maybe a teenager, maybe 12, 13, I think it has no place in our schools whatsoever.
00:14:39.000I think it's a parental issue, but you might have some nuance in it, right?
00:14:44.000Like maybe it's for 12 or 13, but like no one in their right mind says a five-year-old should be learning about puberty blockers, lesbian sex, and a transition closet, which is what's happening in many schools.
00:14:54.000But then the second part of why it's not just the force of gravity, but then it's those of you that have been pushing back against their seeming monopoly over our kind of institutions, which is you've decided, many of you, to do what is right more than what is popular.
00:15:10.000And that really is the winning formula, right?
00:15:13.000It is impossible to get the country back and all the while win all approval all the time by the newspapers, by social media.
00:15:20.000You're going to have to make some people irritated or annoyed.
00:15:24.000Not because that's what your heart is.
00:15:26.000Your heart should never be to annoy people.
00:15:28.000But if it's a byproduct of telling the truth, that's not your problem.
00:15:33.000And so if you look at it, the left, if you will, the secular left, they have weaponized name-calling in our country to such a, so brutally, where the way to get someone to stop fighting for what they believe in is to call them a bad name.
00:16:26.000But I think we'd all agree the greatest power they have over us is that we're afraid to speak our mind because of public approval or sentiment or not being invited to a certain party.
00:16:43.000We get it because they're going to be the first one to be like, that's a racist thing to say.
00:16:46.000Like, I don't have the patience, right?
00:16:48.000But in reality, when we cross that Rubicon, when we take that leap of faith as our faith actually instructs us, that is what weakens them and empowers our cause more than anything else.
00:17:29.000I do three podcasts a day, three hours of radio a day, traveling the country always.
00:17:34.000And I know a lot of other people in media and they work for certain organizations and they're always reaching out like, wow, Charlie, like you really speak your mind.
00:17:42.000I say, yeah, because I don't have to report to somebody if I say something wrong.
00:17:48.000Like I'm not going to like to have to, you know, if I say something incorrect, I'll be the first one to apologize to you.
00:17:55.000But if I say something true and you don't like it, like, all right, whatever.
00:17:59.000There's a sense of freedom and a sense of peace that I want for all of you in your life, where all of a sudden you do not care about what they could do to you.
00:18:08.000And that's not to say that you might not be in that situation right now.
00:18:13.000There might be somebody that might be threatening.
00:18:15.000But I do not believe that's how God actually wants you to live his life.
00:18:19.000You know, the story of the Old Testament largely is God giving abundant grace and delivering God's chosen people from tyranny into freedom, even though they didn't deserve it.
00:18:29.000And it's kind of kept on getting messed up because God's chosen people kept on going through the cycle of sin of getting freedom, not wanting it anymore, complaining about who brought them.
00:19:41.000You just choose that speaking your mind or doing what is right matters more than whatever the earthly, momentary or quickly vanishing social acceptance might get you.
00:19:52.000I've noticed in obviously watching what you do when those that come to confront you and they have the talking points that they've heard and everything.
00:20:02.000But then when you simply respond to them, they usually don't have a follow-up.
00:20:07.000It's very shallow what the left is doing.
00:20:11.000And if we just have that, like I say, just do it.
00:20:15.000Do it in love, but do it with boldness.
00:20:18.000Let me ask about the education system because one of the things that the strength of the left has been what they've done to our children and what they've done to education, what is now not education, but indoctrination.
00:20:31.000That seems to be, though, where they have lost the battle or another one of the catalysts is because they overplayed their hand in what they've done in education that has caused parents to rise up.
00:20:45.000And so I had a mom activist that came up to me the other day and she said, Charlie, I never cared about politics, but as soon as I found out that they were distributing puberty blockers in my kid's school and that my kid was asking questions of whether or not he could be a boy or a girl, I really didn't do much thinking.
00:21:08.000Just kind of this inexplicable primal instinct kicked in.
00:21:12.000And I don't really remember what happened after.
00:21:16.000And I thought to myself, what another dumb move by the left to activate something that truly is primal, right?
00:21:24.000Where when we were not as civilized as we are now, and the men were out hunting and gathering and the moms had to defend the children against an invader or against a threat, right?
00:21:36.000That sort of God-given protective instinct has all of a sudden now been activated amongst millions of people all across the country.
00:21:45.000And so when you see the kind of like the San Francisco men's choir, an all-gay choir, come out and they say, we are going to convert your children.
00:21:56.000Literally, that's their singiness over and over again.
00:21:58.000Like, I don't think that all of a sudden we need like a long form Socratic debate over whether or not, I just think moms all of a sudden say, I know this is wrong and you're not going to, you are not going to take the innocence of my child.
00:22:42.000But they know what's wrong when they see it.
00:22:44.000And many of them, and this is an unintended blessing and benefit of the Chinese Fauci coronavirus, is the fact that many parents all of a sudden started to hear what their kids were learning in Zoom class.
00:22:59.000And they're like, that teacher has no idea what they're talking about.
00:23:03.000And I'm not going to, so they sort of show up at school board meetings like, hey, excuse me, why is this teacher, you know, this 27-year-old punk, telling my eight-year-old that like, if they want to, they could chemically castrate themselves.
00:23:16.000And the school board's like, get the police officer, this person's spreading hate speech.
00:23:20.000And like, yeah, the next month, the mom shows up with like 500 moms, right?
00:23:25.000And for whatever reason, it perplexes me, the left can't quite figure out where this has come from.
00:23:32.000And I think it is something that deserves our appreciation and our pause when all of a sudden you see a revival of parents prioritizing the education of their children to such an extent that they don't care of the consequences.
00:23:53.000This is why homeschooling has quadrupled in the last couple of years, a year and a half.
00:23:59.000It's a phenomenal thing, the quadrupling of American homeschooling.
00:24:03.000And so, look, the government education system, I don't even call it the public education system because it doesn't serve the public good anymore, whether it be the lack of literacy, the lack of math, mathematical ability, or scientific ability in some of our nation's schools.
00:24:16.000These are government schools for the aim of trying to create obedient government technocrats in the future.
00:24:22.000If it served the public good, I would call it that.
00:24:24.000And even some private schools aren't so good anymore, as I'm sure many of you know, unfortunately.
00:25:09.000And so it was called the Parental Rights and Education Bill.
00:25:12.000And so this passes, and Disney acted as if that somehow this was like a Jim Crow 2.0 against trans people or whatever.
00:25:20.000And they start running these advertisements, like this is a war on trans people.
00:25:23.000Like, excuse me, like, how is not teaching five-year-olds about these very, albeit confusing and highly politicized radical matters, an attack on trans people?
00:25:34.000And then what was amazing is you saw so many teachers come out and be like, I will not know how to teach my kindergartners anymore about math.
00:25:41.000Like, that tells me a lot about what you were actually doing in math class.
00:25:45.000If you're not allowed to talk about like, anyway, I don't even want to talk about it in public.
00:25:50.000It's like really disgusting, honestly.
00:25:52.000Like, that's what we used to have words for people like this.
00:26:32.000And he said, okay, Disney, you're losing your $200 million a year tax bonus from the special carve out from the people of Florida.
00:26:39.000Like, okay, you're now going to go after the children of Florida and act as if we're the enemies.
00:26:43.000In Disney now, they say that 50% of their characters are going to be trans or gay in their children stuff by the end of this year on Disney Plus.
00:26:51.000They've come out and they've said they're going to dedicate hundreds of millions of dollars to transgender programming over the next couple of years.
00:26:57.000And that when you go to Disney World, they're not going to say, welcome boys and girls.
00:27:00.000They're going to say, welcome people of the world, right?
00:27:03.000They're not going to say that women have birth, but they're birthing people.
00:27:23.000So when you turned on Disney Plus, you assumed it was innocent content and you were able to maybe get some work done or, you know, maybe make dinner while your kids were watching Disney.
00:27:32.000And they robbed you blind while you gave them your trust.
00:27:36.000And I believe that's where a lot of our anger is.
00:27:38.000I think a lot of our anger is rooted in the fact that they got rich while we thought they were the family-friendly safe zone.
00:27:45.000And honestly, there deserves to be a price for that.
00:27:48.000That is a very immoral thing to do, to get rich while benefiting off of parents trusting you.
00:27:55.000So look, DeSantis got rid of their $200 million loophole in that.
00:27:58.000And so I could dive further in education.
00:28:01.000I could dive what the purpose actually is into it if you want.
00:28:04.000But this is one of the most important fights happening in America.
00:28:06.000So you mentioned during the pandemic that suddenly parents got an opportunity via Zoom to look into really what their child was because now instead of asking the teacher, they're turning to mom and dad and asking these questions.
00:28:21.000And then we saw the transgender movement and what they were doing with our athletes of saying, wait a minute, a guy can compete against a girl.
00:28:29.000And just the total unfairness of that, lack of justice in that, has been the thing that has caused the American people to rise up, moms and dads, to say, no, wait a minute, you're not going to do that to my kid.
00:28:41.000So I think, again, that they overplayed their hand and interjected that now into the workplace.
00:28:47.000Yeah, I mean, and look, I always say this before I go into the trans issue.
00:28:53.000I don't recognize like a lot of this nonsense around this issue, but I want the best for all people.
00:29:00.000I want nothing more than people that are living under this delusion internally to try to find Jesus Christ and realize that they are living under a delusion and they need grace and compassion.
00:29:21.000So, however, I will say this, though, regardless of all of that, the whole kind of bargain around the trans thing was supposed to be like, let us live our life and you live yours and we'll leave each other alone, right?
00:29:49.000Well, you have the 462nd best swimmer in the country who's a man, who transitions to be a woman and then wins the NCAA championship, therefore disenfranchising the other women in the NCAA championship, right?
00:30:04.000And we're supposed to put up with this.
00:30:05.000And so someone asked me, well, Charlie, what do you think the solution to that is?
00:30:09.000Well, I think the solution is pretty simple, right?
00:30:12.000Which is, you know, make the person compete against their own biological sex.
00:30:17.000Like he could think he's a woman all day long, but you still got to compete against men.
00:30:21.000Like it's your own delusion is not my problem, right?
00:30:26.000It's not, and it shouldn't be your problem either.
00:30:29.000But instead, what we've done is we've completely redesigned society to wrongly Platform and to wrongly kind of readjust to what people feel is right.
00:30:39.000And so there's a lot, there's a lot wrong with this, obviously, on its surface level.
00:30:44.000But what's so hilarious about this, which got me banned from Twitter originally, I'm back now.
00:30:55.000And so, no, this is what got me banned from Twitter, which is asking where are the feminists in this whole thing.
00:31:00.000I mean, I remember just a couple years ago, I was there on the streets of Washington, D.C., when these like these bus filled of late teenage, early 20-something women from Ivy League schools with signs were screaming at the top of their lungs that Brett Kavanaugh's the war on women and all they're screaming in my face.
00:31:44.000I'm like, that happened really quickly.
00:31:46.000Like, you went from the political movement from like biological women must be protected against like angry men to now we must allow like terrible men to be able to abuse women.
00:31:55.000Like, where did that happen, actually?
00:31:57.000I actually kind of missed the feminists.
00:31:59.000At least I agreed with them on a lot of different things, right?
00:32:03.000At least I agreed that women was something that was biologically true.
00:32:07.000And yes, men and women have different needs, wants, desires, and those differences must be appreciated.
00:32:13.000And now all that's, now I have to be told, like, actually, men and women are exactly the same.
00:32:17.000And this is taught in our schools, taught in our institutions.
00:32:20.000And look, this is the deeper question is, what do we think of cheating, right?
00:32:26.000Thomas, the swimmer for University of Pennsylvania, is a cheater.
00:32:31.000It's that if you are going to use a structural advantage, a chromosomal advantage, and switch categories because you feel it, then feel that way, then you're cutting in line.
00:32:41.000And so it's a very simple question, which is, do you believe you get to determine your own existence?
00:34:20.000Like, he's like pushing for like the decriminalization of psychedelic mushrooms.
00:34:23.000Like, not exactly a right-winger from Alabama.
00:34:28.000By the way, a lot of respect for Joe Rogan.
00:34:29.000I think what he did on COVID took a lot of courage.
00:34:32.000I have a lot of respect for Joe Rogan.
00:34:34.000Also, on team realities, Elon Musk helps to have the world's richest man, who, by his own admission on his tweet today, he said, I used to identify as a liberal, but everyone moved and I didn't.
00:35:23.000And honestly, I'm glad that he's on our team, right?
00:35:26.000And so, and what I believe right now is this consolidation of those of us that don't have to overthink our positions, right?
00:35:33.000We know that a certain certain fundamental Western values are good, such as separation of powers, consent to the governed, freedom of speech, constitutional rights, that these things deserve to be protected and preserved.
00:35:44.000And the other team, they're just, they're getting more animated and they're getting, they're almost further entrenching their very radical position.
00:37:05.000That means the next time a tyrant rears his head and tries to do something irrational, Twitter can now be an open market for ideas to compete.
00:38:38.000Man, I got so much I want to talk to you about.
00:38:43.000So it's amazing that the people that we can see over the last few years, you mentioned now with what Musk is doing, and then Donald Trump, which so many rejected. but yet became literally the catalyst that brought us.
00:39:02.000And now we've got Musk, which again, well, he's not one of us, but yet is bringing that out.
00:39:08.000Do we need to open our eyes to see perhaps the deliverers that are coming?
00:39:13.000Well, the Bible talks about King Cyrus, who was not a Christian, but did moral and righteous and courageous things to bring God's chosen people back to Israel.
00:39:20.000So we should be open-minded to non-Christians fighting for liberty.
00:39:58.000And so instead, they just kind of focus on what they believe is good or what needs to be fixed, and they'll go about it regardless of the arrows or the slings that are thrown at them.
00:40:07.000It is very rare to find someone who is accepted by the world in all ways and is not labeled as eccentric and will also do something largely, unexpectedly heroic.
00:40:18.000All throughout history, Churchill was very eccentric, like extremely eccentric.
00:40:23.000Lincoln, whoa, like very, very eccentric.
00:40:26.000In fact, there were musings like they were like, the word wasn't weird.
00:40:29.000It was something similar to that back then.
00:40:34.000And so, but look, to your point, I think it should be kind of a wake-up call for Christians, right?
00:40:40.000Where it's like, hey, you have secular people.
00:40:43.000And I'm not saying Trump is secular, but he said he's a Christian, and he said as such, but he certainly doesn't talk about his faith, I think, as openly as others.
00:40:53.000But he's, I think, been the greatest friend to Christians as a president, more so than anyone could have possibly imagined.
00:40:58.000But some people say he's not a Christian.
00:41:01.000But the point is this, is that whatever you believe Trump to be or whatever you believe Musk to be, he certainly possesses the courage that I would love, both of them, that I would love to see every pastor and Christian have, right?
00:41:14.000And that's something I think we must pray and think about.
00:41:17.000So let's talk about that then with the landscape that you have painted for us where the left is basically self-destructing and turning on themselves because they don't know what to do.
00:41:29.000Is this now one of the greatest opportunities that the church has to rise up and to be light in the midst of this darkness?
00:43:33.000And only the church will be able to get it back into alignment.
00:43:36.000And so we must understand at this particular moment as we see our country, I mean, absent a musk and a Trump that comes in, the large swath of the activity has to stem out of the church.
00:43:48.000And it is this kind of moment, this period of time, where I think God is patiently waiting to see what is the church going to do.
00:44:49.000And so to go deeper than that, though, which I think is really important, is the kind of cowardly church will kind of back away from the fights, even though their congregation is asking them questions, right?
00:45:01.000They're like, hey, how do you feel about this?
00:45:05.000When moms are coming in tears to pastors saying that my 11-year-old is transitioning to be a girl, the pastor says, oh, we don't do that around here.
00:45:13.000That is a disservice to your flock to not inform them and empower them with the Bible has to say.
00:45:19.000But then there's the complicit church.
00:46:23.000You're going to do a lot better than just saying that Jesus was 100% God, 100% man, and all of a sudden say that has that's gender dysphoria.
00:47:51.000No, and I definitely think I mentioned that in my remarks briefly.
00:47:56.000Yeah, so this is something where if I ever get the chance to meet Elon or talk to him, I'll challenge him a lot on this.
00:48:04.000And I'd love to see him discontinue and collapse that entire division of his company.
00:48:11.000So, I'll explain what it is to everybody first.
00:48:14.000So, he has a company called Neuralink.
00:48:17.000The company strives to first try to solve dehabilitating disorders, nerve disorders stemming in the brain of people that are paralyzed and they think they could fix it.
00:48:29.000But it's a lot deeper and I think a lot more insidious than that, right?
00:48:33.000He aims to be able to upload human consciousness to a computer.
00:49:17.000Okay, it is wrong to try to merge human beings with machines.
00:49:22.000And so, I will continue to be a vocal and outspoken critic of Musk's Neuralink project.
00:49:29.000I find very little to any redeeming value outside of maybe being able to fix people's nerves disorders that are paralyzed in the waist down, but you and I both know it's not going to stop there at all.
00:49:39.000It's going to get to the place where he has said openly he wants to be able to drill a hole in the side of the brain and be able to put a machine in there and upload all of consciousness, and that you will be able to dictate machines to your will based on what you think.
00:50:06.000So, but my praise of Musk remains because not of that project, but because what he's done to preserve speech, which I believe is a fundamental right in the West that is so mercilessly under attack.
00:50:35.000This 400-mile stretch of the Central Valley produces a fourth of the nation's fruits and vegetables, including fourth of the nation's nuts, including 40% of the fruits and vegetables here.
00:50:45.000As an American, I'm proud to be a part of that.
00:50:48.000I didn't get home until 2 o'clock this morning from working a 15-hour cattle sale, contributing to the beef in our food supply chain.
00:50:54.000Right here, where we stand is, in my opinion, the best and worst place to live.
00:50:58.000Our ag is great, but our politics are trash.
00:51:01.000We face the possibility to see a disruption of our agriculture production.
00:51:04.000Inflation and the state's overreach on our water rights have the power to diminish our small farmers and ranchers here in California.
00:51:10.000With woke culture's attack on the idea that cattle are killing the planet and animal agriculture is the leading cause to climate change, which let me add the EPA put out that agriculture only contributes to 9% of that and three of that is animal agriculture.
00:51:24.000Knowing the significance of this and the simple fact that agriculture sees no race, color, or sexual orientation, whether you're green, white, gay, purple, or even identify as a cat, because whether it's obvious or not, we all have to eat.
00:51:38.000We need our farmers and ranchers in order to stay in that human being.
00:52:18.000I want anybody to tell me why on earth so many food processing plants are blowing up all of a sudden in the last couple of months, like weird, bizarre plane crashes, arson, like really weird stuff, which directly impacts the ability to distribute and process food.
00:52:33.000But look, there is a campaign to try to make America less self-sufficient.
00:52:38.000We are the envy of the world that we do not have to import a lot of our food.
00:52:43.000In fact, we're able to export a lot of it.
00:52:52.000But the water rights thing, I mean, this is one of the reasons why I think it's unrealistic, but it's also important that this part of California should, I mean, separate from the rest of California or whatever.
00:53:01.000The fact that your water continues to subsidize the elevated lifestyle of those people that don't share your values, your politics.
00:53:09.000I don't think it's realistic to break California in five parts.
00:56:25.000I think he'd be a great president again.
00:56:27.000But let me say this about DeSantis, though.
00:56:30.000With that being said, because I'm a loyal person and I take that very seriously, especially in politics where loyalty is not a currency always found, I think Ron DeSantis could be a once-in-a-generation statesman.
00:56:54.000His ability to pick tough fights, to win them, to build consensus.
00:56:58.000He does it with wit and with charm and with incredible godly wisdom, whether it be the pro-life legislation he just signed into bill, his anti-riot legislation, his parental rights legislation, the stuff for against vaccine mandates and mask mandates.
00:57:14.000He was best on the lockdowns in the country, considering he had the most elderly population in the country per capita was Florida, yet he enthusiastically reopened Florida.
00:57:24.000And Florida had a better death rate, infection virus rate than here in California, where you guys did long, drawn out lockdowns.
00:57:33.000And so I'll be very honest when it comes to Ron DeSantis.
00:57:36.000I went on, I started a project a couple months ago.
00:57:41.000The project was, there must be something wrong.
01:00:00.000I think you shouldn't put your name to something that's untrue.
01:00:02.000Not only is that unbiblical, it's also just a bad rule for life, right?
01:00:05.000So you just got to know what you want.
01:00:07.000But also know that if you decide to challenge a professor, challenge a student, your grade will probably suffer.
01:00:13.000Your friendships will suffer, and it'll be tough.
01:00:15.000But waiting on the back end of that will be an incredible sense of freedom that I think will just open your eyes in a profound and a magical way.
01:00:25.000And so you have to know what you want.
01:00:28.000And for me, it's always just been truth first and whatever the consequences are, like so be it.
01:00:35.000Now, you don't have to do it in a reckless way or a bombastic way.
01:00:40.000You can do it magnanimously, which is one of my favorite words written a lot about by Aristotle.
01:00:45.000But at the same time, if I personally, this is the way I'm wired, I wouldn't be able to get an A while not challenging a professor for just spreading rubbish.
01:00:55.000I will have felt as if I just saw the truth go through a drive-by shooting and I let that happen.
01:01:29.000When I read Revelation, and it's talking about the end times, the new world order that we keep hearing about in the news, the mark of the beast with the microchip, I can't help but think that Christ is coming back.
01:01:42.000I know we can't, you know, we don't know.
01:02:49.000So we cannot allow our eschatology to turn into an excuse for inaction.
01:02:53.000I know that's not why you're asking it, but a lot of people will say that, like, hey, Charlie, this thing's, it's not falling apart, it's falling together.
01:03:34.000I'm up here to talk about the immigration and people coming into our country.
01:03:39.000We're here as Christians to show God's love.
01:03:43.000For people that are taking 10 years to do it the right way to come into our country, it gets frustrating for them, for the people that are coming in illegally.
01:03:55.000Where from God's point as showing God's love and giving to everyone?
01:04:01.000Where does it come to like we're doing it the right way?
01:04:07.000So the Bible talks extensively about immigration.
01:04:10.000Every time immigration is mentioned or the kind of flow of people from one place to the other, assimilation is also mentioned alongside of it.
01:04:17.000I believe that immigration can and has been a positive in our country's history, but also anything that's a positive in life can also be a negative if it's not done correctly.
01:04:27.000And the fact that I say that out loud and people find that to be disagreeable, I think is patently insane, right?
01:04:32.000So first and foremost, we must look at our political leaders.
01:04:35.000Our political leaders have a moral obligation to their fellow countrymen and to the country that they govern.
01:04:40.000They do not have an obligation constitutionally to another country.
01:04:53.000I believe that's cutting in line and disenfranchising the legal immigrants from Vietnam or from Iran or from any other country to try to come into America because they have a closer proximity, right?
01:05:18.000You can go look at the rape tree of girls as young as 10 years old that are raped as they come across the southern border.
01:05:23.000How about the opioids flowing into our country?
01:05:26.000Over 100,000 plus opioid deaths, not including the fentanyl deaths.
01:05:30.000And so we as Christians must balance the commandment to love our neighbor with also understanding what is the damage of our own policies doing to our own neighbor here when you see the overdose death because we allowed the fentanyl to pour into America, when you see the increase in crime or the deterioration of wages.
01:06:06.000The 1950s went down and kind of stayed there for a little bit because why?
01:06:10.000We wanted to make sure that every single World War II veteran was able to enter into a robust and booming economy because we had a moral obligation for the men that stormed Normandy Beach and fought at Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal that they would be able to have a booming wage economy and not have to compete against others for that.
01:06:26.000And then we increased immigration in the years that followed as our economy in the country necessitated it.
01:06:33.000At other times, I think it was appropriate.
01:06:34.000I mean, there's an amazing Armenian population here in Fresno that have been incredible benefit, you know, to the people here in the valley, right?
01:07:13.000And that's actually my question for you.
01:07:15.000We know when it comes to politics, money runs politics.
01:07:18.000I mean, even when it comes to getting your name out there, I mean, the guy that I'm running against, he has $150,000.
01:07:25.000I'm a grassroots guy, so it's very difficult for me to get my name out there.
01:07:30.000So when it comes to the public getting their considerations for who they should vote for, a lot of them are coming to the church, but they are some of those complicit, cowardly churches that you spoke about.
01:07:46.000One, what would you recommend to the people to actually get the best recommendations for who would represent them the best when it comes to local politics?
01:07:56.000And two, for me as a candidate, what can I do to actually overcome that hurdle?
01:08:01.000I think this church is led so well that if you have any questions about local political matters, I would always just say ask your pastor, right?
01:08:08.000And if your pastor doesn't answer, then you might have to find a new pastor, right?
01:08:12.000If they're not going to tell you to vote for.
01:08:14.000But look, I first just want to encourage you: we need more people to run for local office.
01:08:27.000I've seen time and time again the harder-working candidate on a local level can beat a lot of money.
01:08:32.000And so, look, you got to work the business community, you got to work the local area, right?
01:08:37.000And then finally, to kind of your other question, which is what is it going to take, you know, to get more people engaged and involved in all of this, especially as a candidate who's just trying to build name ID and all that?
01:08:48.000Look, it requires a commitment to have a message that resonates, not care about what the local press is actually going to say about you or push back against you.
01:08:57.000And then work events like this, right?
01:08:59.000It's going to be a lot of early breakfasts and late nights.
01:09:02.000But I just want to make a comment on the complicit and the cowardly church.
01:09:06.000They have to, they have, they are going to have to be held accountable at some point for being quiet for the deterioration of this city or the region, right?
01:09:16.000We're stewards, and the church needs to be the moral clarion call for what needs to happen in a local area, state, or region.
01:09:24.000And so, just God bless you, man, for running for office.
01:09:39.000One way you could help me and help us.
01:09:41.000So, I traveled 330 days last year on the road.
01:09:45.000We still do three podcasts a day, three hours of radio every single day.
01:09:50.000And so, for those of you that have been to our events before, you know exactly what I'm going to ask you to do.
01:09:54.000So, all of you guys have smartphones, right?
01:09:56.000This is free of charge and a way that you can help us and bless us, which is, so one of the ways that we're able to kind of stay immune from censorship and cancellation is when audiences like you subscribe to our podcast.
01:10:49.000This should become your church home, everybody.
01:10:51.000And what we are doing at Turning Point USA is we are trying to empower the everyday person, the citizen, to be able to take back their country against the regime.
01:11:03.000I want all of you to make a decision tonight that you're going to be part of this historical movement that's not going to happen overnight.
01:11:10.000It's not going to happen in a moment, but the good things take a long period of time, as we talked about earlier.
01:11:24.000We are going to be in the movement of optimism while they're depressing and they're pessimistic.
01:11:28.000I truly believe that there's this remnant in this country that's going to continue to light these flames of liberty.
01:11:33.000One of my favorite quotes by a founding father, Samuel Adams, you all know him from other fame, but Samuel Adams, he said, all it takes for a country to go back to freedom is not a majority, but an irresistible, not an irresistible, I'm sorry, a restless minority to continue to light flames of fire in every single corner they go.
01:12:00.000That's Samuel Adams, who did that himself.
01:12:03.000And so, yes, you might feel outnumbered.
01:12:04.000You might feel as if that the forces against you are overwhelming, but that's where you guys come in.
01:12:09.000And tonight, I know there's someone that needed to hear that that can start an organization.
01:12:13.000I started this when I was 18 years old, everybody.
01:12:14.000No money, no connections, no idea what I was doing.
01:12:16.000And it's the favor of the Lord and the Holy Spirit that has just spoke through us now for a decade.
01:12:21.000Somebody in this audience could start something as exciting or more exciting as Turning Point USA, a business, a movement, whatever it might be.
01:12:28.000And we're on high school and college campuses all across the country and now churches.
01:12:32.000And we're building that coalition where maybe in one year or five years or 10 years or 20 years, all of a sudden, you're going to look around and be like, wow, this country is freer than it was when we were in that kind of church together.
01:12:45.000And it's going to be because of the work that you put in today where that output's going to happen tomorrow.
01:12:51.000And it's going to be worth it for our grandkids and for future generations.
01:12:54.000Remember, liberty, it's not man's idea.