The Charlie Kirk Show - How to Save Texas

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, here are some remarks I gave in Dallas, Texas about Californians moving into Texas, about the Uniparty, and about what you can do about it.

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00:01:31.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:01:33.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:01:35.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:01:38.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:01:41.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:01:42.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:01:43.000 His 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.

00:01:52.000 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.

00:02:01.000 That's why we are here.

00:02:04.000 Thank you.

00:02:07.000 Thank you, Grant.

00:02:08.000 That's terrific.

00:02:09.000 I love watching your Newsmax show.

00:02:11.000 I usually have it on mute just because we have a whole panel of television.

00:02:15.000 But you do a great job.

00:02:16.000 And alternative media is more important than ever.

00:02:18.000 And I'm going to talk about that.

00:02:20.000 I want to shout out our Turning Point USA chapter leaders and students that are here tonight.

00:02:25.000 These students are doing the most courageous work in the country.

00:02:30.000 Seriously, it is hard.

00:02:32.000 And if you want hope, and I see some amazing Turning Point alumni here, talk to these Turning Point USA young college campus conservatives.

00:02:43.000 What they have to go through on a daily basis is unbelievable.

00:02:47.000 And, you know, I talk to audiences all across the country.

00:02:50.000 I probably give 300 speeches.

00:02:51.000 I do three hours of radio a day.

00:02:53.000 Actually, you can hear me every day on the local Salem station.

00:02:55.000 It's a.m. 660 every day.

00:02:58.000 And people come up to me and they call in and they email.

00:03:02.000 They say, Charlie, it's really hard.

00:03:04.000 I'm afraid my neighbor is going to say something mean to me.

00:03:06.000 I'm afraid a family member.

00:03:08.000 I say, you think you have it hard?

00:03:09.000 Go talk to the young people that self-identify as conservatives publicly.

00:03:13.000 They're basically saying to the world, you know what, I'm okay with potential career, family, friendship penalties for standing for what's right.

00:03:24.000 So the college conservatives and the high school kids here, they deserve your applause because it's harder than ever to be a young person and be conservative.

00:03:31.000 It truly is.

00:03:33.000 So absolutely, that's right.

00:03:39.000 I want to thank Carol Adams.

00:03:41.000 You're amazing.

00:03:42.000 And I'm honored to be part of this.

00:03:44.000 I love local involvement.

00:03:46.000 I am one of my biggest critiques is how nationalized the conservative movement has become.

00:03:53.000 We need to get more local.

00:03:54.000 We need to get more focused on the races that actually impact our way of life.

00:03:58.000 Congress really means nothing right now.

00:04:00.000 It doesn't.

00:04:01.000 It's a PR stunt.

00:04:02.000 And I'm going to talk about the Uniparty because we have to understand that there's really just one party in DC and then there's people on the edges.

00:04:09.000 We're going to talk about that.

00:04:09.000 It's so important you recognize that.

00:04:11.000 And I think people are waking up.

00:04:12.000 Grant, you do a great job of covering that.

00:04:14.000 But where the differences are actually made right now is where George Soros is spending his money.

00:04:19.000 And that's in the local races.

00:04:20.000 It's the DA races.

00:04:21.000 It's in the school board races.

00:04:22.000 And we as conservatives have been distracted.

00:04:25.000 We've been saying, we've been, oh, our salvation is going to come on Air Force One.

00:04:29.000 And look, I love national politics.

00:04:31.000 I'm going to talk about national politics, but we've just gotten steamrolled on the local level for the last 10 years.

00:04:36.000 And it's largely because we as conservatives, the most important thing in our life is not politics.

00:04:42.000 It's family.

00:04:43.000 It's church.

00:04:44.000 It's our business.

00:04:45.000 Therefore, the liberals, the leftists, because there's a difference, and we'll talk about that too, they obsess about taking terrain.

00:04:52.000 That's all they care about: am I in control of more things this year than I was last year?

00:04:57.000 For us, that's really not what drives us, right?

00:04:59.000 I mean, for us, it's, are my children developing with good character?

00:05:03.000 Is my church flourishing?

00:05:05.000 Am I getting in a closer relationship with my creator?

00:05:08.000 Is my street safe?

00:05:09.000 Am I doing well at my job?

00:05:10.000 Like, that's what we care about, right?

00:05:12.000 And we should.

00:05:13.000 Instead, the leftists, they say, none of that really matters.

00:05:17.000 Am I taking over terrain?

00:05:19.000 And then you look after 10 years, and I have to tell you, I've been coming to Dallas for probably 12 or 15 years, and it's an absolute disgrace, and it's reprehensible what's happened to Highland Park.

00:05:30.000 No, it's actually a tragedy. 0.59

00:05:33.000 And when I have to walk around, when I walk around the neighborhood today and I see BLM incorporated signs, one after the other, which basically is a sign that says I'm a better person than you are. 0.70

00:05:42.000 Look how good of a person I am. 0.69

00:05:44.000 It's this ridiculous sign that I saw today on this probably $35 million home. 0.81

00:05:49.000 You know, we believe in Black Lives Matter.

00:05:51.000 Science is real and love is love.

00:05:53.000 I mean, you see these signs?

00:05:54.000 It's basically this big thing that says, look how good of a person I am.

00:05:58.000 And maybe one day I could be as good of a person as you.

00:06:01.000 And I say, that's Highland Park, Texas.

00:06:04.000 And there's a reason why that happened.

00:06:05.000 We'll talk about that.

00:06:07.000 And then Tarrant County is now a battleground county.

00:06:09.000 Used to be one of the most, you know, center, not just center right, but Republican stronghold counties in the country.

00:06:15.000 And I love these energetic new candidates that are running.

00:06:19.000 And that's one of the things I do want to just commend all of you before I get into some national commentary and some ideas and some things I can do is you have to obsess about the local politics.

00:06:29.000 And it's actually really interesting because the local races are actually the ones that are most consequential, most controversial.

00:06:37.000 And for whatever reason, we're least likely to get involved in them.

00:06:39.000 And I think it's because that's really when politics gets to be really kind of flesh on flesh.

00:06:45.000 It's eyeball to eyeball.

00:06:46.000 It's all of a sudden the person that you're carpooling with, you have to really tell them why you believe what you believe, where you can kind of be the silent Trump supporter, right?

00:06:55.000 Where in local politics, it really impacts you.

00:06:59.000 And so you have to take over your school boards.

00:07:01.000 You have to maintain control in your city council. 0.99

00:07:03.000 This is where this pile of garbage and nonsense is being implemented all across the country. 1.00

00:07:09.000 Critical race theory, transgender nonsense, the attacks on the church, which is just unbelievable. 0.99

00:07:15.000 And so what this group is doing to try to take over local groups is terrific.

00:07:20.000 I want to congratulate you and just I hope this group expands even more so because it's so incredibly important to get involved in local politics.

00:07:28.000 Okay, so as I mentioned, Congress basically really is not what it used to be.

00:07:35.000 And in some ways that's a good thing.

00:07:37.000 In some ways it's a really bad thing.

00:07:39.000 And so the question is, the question that Grant asked was, what are they doing?

00:07:43.000 What is Lindsey Graham and what is Adam Kinzinger?

00:07:46.000 And what are all these pro-amnists, you know, Rick Scott who I have a good relationship with, but he's just such, he's been such an unbelievable disappointment.

00:07:53.000 Because according to him, the most important thing is granting amnesty to lawbreakers.

00:07:57.000 Like, that's what the Republican Party should be focused on, which is just stunning to me.

00:08:01.000 It's like, let's not listen to one thing the voters have told us the last decade.

00:08:06.000 We're just going to ignore the will of the people.

00:08:08.000 Every election, voters are voting for stricter immigration, stronger borders, and quite honestly, less people coming into the country, both legal and illegal. 0.99

00:08:17.000 And we should be for legal immigration, but we have way too many people coming into the country right now. 0.99

00:08:22.000 And we should be unafraid to say that. 1.00

00:08:23.000 And there's nothing racist or bigoted to say that we care about the wages of our workers, the welfare of our communities, the safety of our streets, and bring, and Grant, I'll correct you on one thing.

00:08:35.000 These are not children coming to the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Center.

00:08:38.000 These are cartel young men.

00:08:40.000 Okay, you got 3,000 15, 16, and 17-year-olds, okay?

00:08:44.000 And you look at pictures of them.

00:08:45.000 I mean, these guys are built.

00:08:46.000 I mean, these are not children.

00:08:48.000 I mean, these are guys, and again, I'm sure there's some good people in there, but you look at their tattooed up, and there are studies that are showed.

00:08:55.000 Look, you've got some cartel members that you're bringing right into the Kay Bailey-Hutchinson Center.

00:08:59.000 So I have a proposal: every Hindland Park liberal that voted for Biden should have to take a cartel member into their home.

00:09:05.000 Every single one of them.

00:09:09.000 And so I'm going to go knock on the doors.

00:09:13.000 And you've got, you know, this is a great thing, Carol.

00:09:14.000 You got to do this.

00:09:15.000 Star Patriots.

00:09:16.000 Go knock on the door of these people that have these virtues signaling, look how good of a person I am signs, right?

00:09:21.000 And say, hey, I got a guy from Honduras, and we know nothing about him.

00:09:26.000 He could be wonderful. 1.00

00:09:27.000 He could be terrible.

00:09:28.000 You say that your doors are open.

00:09:30.000 And we didn't vote for this.

00:09:32.000 You have this wonderful sign.

00:09:32.000 You did.

00:09:33.000 And just look at their true racism shine through, right?

00:09:36.000 Because that's really what it is.

00:09:38.000 It's look how good of a person I am until it hits home.

00:09:40.000 And so it's actually fitting that 3,000 young men are coming to the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Center because unfortunately, this area has been voting in that way.

00:09:50.000 At least Highland Park. 0.98

00:09:51.000 Genevieve Collins should have won by 10 points, okay, in a normal race.

00:09:55.000 And this place has changed dramatically over the last couple of years.

00:09:58.000 But you asked the question, Grant, which is really a good question, is what are they doing?

00:10:02.000 Well, they're serving their corporate donors, is what they're doing.

00:10:06.000 And this goes to a broader point that we as conservatives have to get really precise about.

00:10:11.000 And it's actually a really exciting time to be in the movement.

00:10:14.000 So when I first got involved in politics in 2010, it's a Tea Party movement.

00:10:18.000 It was a lot of fun.

00:10:19.000 A lot of you guys remember it.

00:10:21.000 It was grassroots.

00:10:22.000 It was authentic.

00:10:22.000 It was a little wild.

00:10:23.000 It was wacky.

00:10:24.000 But it was awesome.

00:10:25.000 And the great Rush Limbaugh, may he rest in peace, a friend of mine, he was a huge reason why that thing caught on the way it did.

00:10:32.000 And Mark Levin, and I'm sure there were a lot of Tea Party leaders here in this room.

00:10:36.000 And the Tea Party movement, in essence, was: okay, Obama is overreaching.

00:10:43.000 Big government is going to infringe on our liberties and freedoms.

00:10:46.000 Stop spending.

00:10:47.000 Deficits are debt and deficit is bad, right?

00:10:49.000 You remember this, like national health care.

00:10:52.000 And that was a really good ethos for the time.

00:10:54.000 And we lost that debate generally.

00:10:57.000 We might have won back the House in 2010, but then we had John Boehner that basically got elected and did the opposite of what his voters wanted.

00:11:05.000 And then Donald Trump ran for office in 2015 because what the media wanted us to basically sit down and tolerate, what we were supposed to just sit down and shut up and accept, was another Bush versus Clinton matchup.

00:11:19.000 Like that's what we were supposed to have.

00:11:22.000 Jeb Bush against Hillary Clinton.

00:11:24.000 And Jeb Bush is a nice guy, but not presidential material at all.

00:11:29.000 And I'll get into the bushes, which I'm not allowed to do in Dallas, which is exactly why I do it.

00:11:34.000 And so, no, it's true.

00:11:38.000 We should be unafraid to call balls and strikes on this stuff.

00:11:40.000 And I'll get into that.

00:11:43.000 So I'm making tons of friends here in North Texas.

00:11:46.000 Actually, it's amazing how many people actually think negatively about the Bushes.

00:11:49.000 They're just afraid to say it around here.

00:11:51.000 They really are.

00:11:51.000 It's amazing.

00:11:52.000 And so then I come in, and it's actually pretty incredible.

00:11:55.000 So I'll talk about that.

00:11:56.000 So we're supposed to just accept, okay, Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, which, by the way, Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton agree on basically every issue except corporate tax rates and school vouchers.

00:12:09.000 They agree on open borders.

00:12:11.000 They agree on unrestricted pro-Chinese trade. 0.52

00:12:15.000 They agree on corporate dominance over our economy. 0.85

00:12:18.000 There's really no difference between the two.

00:12:20.000 It's part of the Uniparty, which is this false choice that we've been given, where our Republicans talk a good game on guns and pro-life, and we say they're the lesser of two evils and we vote for them.

00:12:31.000 And by the way, most times that's the right choice because we have no other choice.

00:12:35.000 And so I'm going to tell you that that's still the right thing to do when you're presented with that option.

00:12:39.000 But that also means we didn't do our work before that option presented itself to field good candidates.

00:12:43.000 I'll get to that in a second.

00:12:44.000 And so what Donald Trump represented is he comes onto the scene and basically he meant something different to every person, but the one unifying concept was that he was a throbbing middle finger to the Uniparty that was lying to us on trade, immigration, and kind of these corporate insider deals of people that quite honestly took advantage of you for 30 years.

00:13:04.000 They took advantage of all of us.

00:13:06.000 And they never got anything substantial done.

00:13:08.000 And we kind of liked the fact that he was a little off the cuff and he was unafraid to say the things we were all thinking.

00:13:14.000 And we made excuses for good reason for all of his indiscretions because he was this persona of what I called the bodyguard of Western civilization, which is a guy who's unafraid to stand in the doorframe and defend your family against, quite honestly, criminal vigilantes that want to destroy our country.

00:13:30.000 Like that's that's who we hired for a reason, because he was unafraid to pick that fight.

00:13:34.000 When you hire a bodyguard, you don't care about his tweet history.

00:13:37.000 You care about is he willing to fight?

00:13:39.000 Is he going to win when the fight comes, right?

00:13:41.000 Like that's why you hire a bodyguard.

00:13:44.000 And that's lost on establishment Republicans, obviously, because they're under this false idea that we're still in a policy debate in our country, which we're not.

00:13:52.000 We are not in a policy debate.

00:13:53.000 We're not.

00:13:54.000 This is a brass knuckle fight for power.

00:13:56.000 It's that simple.

00:13:56.000 I wish it wasn't the case.

00:13:58.000 I wish we were having these wonderful Socratic dialogues about the meaning of the proper role of government and economics.

00:14:06.000 I wish that was the case.

00:14:07.000 This is as simply as this: Do you control more seats on the other side?

00:14:11.000 And if you do, we're going to rule with an iron fist.

00:14:13.000 It's that simple.

00:14:14.000 And so the establishment, they want to go back to the Uniparty.

00:14:18.000 And so what Trump did and why they hated him, they hated him a little bit because of his style and he irritated.

00:14:23.000 It gave them extra reason to hate him. 0.84

00:14:25.000 But they really hated him because of three policy choices that policy positions that he was relentless on, which is we have to end these stupid endless wars of foreign occupation overseas where they're not making us richer, they're not making us wealthier. 0.94

00:14:39.000 We're sending our young people in the middle of nowhere to go fight for sand and death. 0.73

00:14:44.000 And as Sun Tzu, who literally wrote The Art of War, said, a nation perpetually at war gets perpetually poor.

00:14:51.000 It's a phenomenal quote.

00:14:52.000 He had another quote and he says, a nation perpetually at war never, and you never get an advantage from that.

00:14:57.000 So Trump was like, why are we still in Afghanistan?

00:14:59.000 Like, what does success look like?

00:15:00.000 And by the way, let me be very clear.

00:15:02.000 This is by no means a slight to the heroes that fought in these wars.

00:15:05.000 In fact, it's the opposite.

00:15:06.000 I think that your sacrifice and your commitment has been thrown around as chess pieces by the political elite that don't know what it's like to actually serve in these wars.

00:15:14.000 So let me be very clear about my commitment to the veterans and the people in this room.

00:15:19.000 And so the second thing is Trump comes on the stage and he says all these trade deals have actually been hurting us.

00:15:26.000 And that was the beyond third rail.

00:15:31.000 I grew up in a conservative movement where you were not allowed to say that at all.

00:15:36.000 Like free trade always, no questions asked.

00:15:38.000 It's awesome that we get piles of plastic coming in from China.

00:15:41.000 Fentanyl is great.

00:15:43.000 That's basically the ethos of the old Republican Party, right?

00:15:46.000 That's the Bush Republican Party: all that matters is how rich people are doing.

00:15:51.000 It doesn't matter if we make things anymore.

00:15:53.000 Who cares if our families are getting broken?

00:15:55.000 Who cares that church attendance is down?

00:15:57.000 Don't you understand we need 5% GDP?

00:16:00.000 And then Trump says, okay, but what about the 7 million manufacturing jobs that are lost?

00:16:06.000 What country has ever been great and stayed great without having people make stuff with their hands?

00:16:11.000 And that is the kind of common sense instinct that was completely lost on the Bush class and the people that ran our country.

00:16:17.000 And the third thing is immigration, where Trump came in from the first time he came down the escalator, whether he realized it or not, but he hit the issue that we felt the most betrayed on, right?

00:16:27.000 The issue that everyone talks a good game on, and yet we see this continuous trend of open borders and the consequences of it.

00:16:36.000 Wages going down, crime going up in certain communities, guns falling into our country, women getting sex trafficked.

00:16:42.000 And we said, okay, this guy who's literally a builder might be able to build something that actually can solve this problem.

00:16:48.000 And the UNA party hated him.

00:16:50.000 And right, so UNA obviously comes, you know, it means of one.

00:16:54.000 And what we're in right now is the UNA party wants to get things back the way they used to be.

00:17:01.000 So they so sorely want, and it's less about Trump.

00:17:06.000 I only use him as an example, but it's about you.

00:17:09.000 And this is what's so incredibly boring about watching cable television outside of your show, Grant.

00:17:16.000 No, I always give the correct carve-outs.

00:17:20.000 But it's so boring because it has nothing to do with Trump.

00:17:24.000 It's about the voters that put him into office.

00:17:26.000 That's what it's about.

00:17:27.000 It's about the concerns of the people that showed up for the first time to vote in 30 years.

00:17:31.000 He was just merely a hired gun.

00:17:34.000 He was an employee for people that felt so upset.

00:17:37.000 And you know what the really good news is?

00:17:39.000 That if he never runs again, you could find a candidate who can represent those ideas as well.

00:17:44.000 It's unlikely, but he was nothing, not nothing more.

00:17:48.000 He's more than that because he has persevered and all that.

00:17:49.000 But what he really represented and what the boring activist corrupt media misses is that there's still about 75 to, I think even more, 80 to 85 million people that want changes in those three categories.

00:18:06.000 Those three things, they say, okay, what are we supposed to do exactly with the 7 million people that used to work in these beautiful manufacturing plants?

00:18:15.000 We traded manufacturing jobs.

00:18:17.000 We worked with our hands for opioids. 0.99

00:18:20.000 And they say, well, no, it's wonderful because we get all of this cheap garbage from China. 0.95

00:18:26.000 Now, I can prove to you that their own case is wrong. 0.86

00:18:29.000 How many people here have seen the dollar stores all over the DFW area?

00:18:34.000 Do you value anything you get from those dollar stores?

00:18:36.000 It's like they're placeholder, they're trinkets, right?

00:18:38.000 How many people have had a garage sale in the last five years?

00:18:41.000 We have so much stuff we're asking people to take it away from.

00:18:41.000 Of course.

00:18:44.000 You know the fastest growing real estate market in the country is self-storage.

00:18:49.000 We have so much garbage, we don't know what to do with it. 0.96

00:18:52.000 Like get it out of my house type garbage. 0.87

00:18:54.000 And meanwhile, we go take a drive through rural Oklahoma and Missouri, Kansas, and Ohio, and those communities are really suffering. 0.73

00:19:04.000 And what our leader should have done, what George Bush should have done, which he didn't, because he was told a lie.

00:19:09.000 And look, I love free markets.

00:19:11.000 I love economics, but there's externalities to everything.

00:19:14.000 And the externality to free trade is that you're going to displace millions of people.

00:19:19.000 And be careful how quickly you do that.

00:19:21.000 And if you're just going to get piles of textiles of stuff you're never going to wear that you're not going to value, then somehow you're transferring money for a nation.

00:19:29.000 And I don't like that.

00:19:30.000 And that's what Trump really represented.

00:19:32.000 And so, and what we should talk about more.

00:19:35.000 And so the really interesting thing that's happening right now, and this is why we lost Georgia.

00:19:42.000 We lost Georgia for a variety of reasons.

00:19:43.000 We lost Georgia, obviously, because of the mail-in balloting shenanigans and the worst governor in America, Brian Kemp, who's an absolute disaster. 0.99

00:19:49.000 He's very corrupt and he's not very smart.

00:19:51.000 And he signed this consent decree with Stacey Abrams, basically allowing completely relaxed signature standards with more ballots coming in. 0.98

00:20:00.000 And he lied to a lot of people.

00:20:02.000 And we very well should have won those runoffs.

00:20:05.000 But we also lost because Kelly Loffler and David Perdue, by the way, I was campaigning for them.

00:20:09.000 I was helping them any way I could, but they weren't helping their case.

00:20:12.000 And here's why.

00:20:13.000 And here's the provocative thing I'm going to contribute to tonight's evening, which is we're either going to win or lose with our ability to handle this paradigm.

00:20:21.000 Is that every time Kelly Loeffler got up on stage and every time David Perdue got on stage, they said, elect me or else we are going to become a socialist nation.

00:20:29.000 And I said, wait a second, that's not the complete argument right now.

00:20:32.000 It's not.

00:20:33.000 Like socialism is a huge threat.

00:20:35.000 I literally have an organization dedicated to fighting socialism.

00:20:38.000 But, and we should care about it.

00:20:40.000 But to act as if this is a binary choice, like it's either going to be socialism or capitalism.

00:20:45.000 No, there's another threat out there that people are really worried about.

00:20:48.000 And that's the woke industrial complex that's running our country.

00:20:52.000 And so when Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, and I'm picking on them a little probably too much, because I really hoped they would win, and I tried to get them to win, but their messaging was terrible, fed by the same Bush GOP consultants that have been losing races for the last 20 years because they don't talk to their voters, is like, just tell people you hate socialism and you're going to win.

00:21:08.000 I'm like, no, it's actually not that simple.

00:21:10.000 No, actually, the people in Southeast Georgia hear Raphael Warnock promise them a $2,000 check and they're going to go vote for that guy.

00:21:17.000 Unless you give them an argument that you're going to go declare war on the factory that just closed in Savannah, Georgia.

00:21:23.000 And here's the interesting third thing that could be happening, and it is happening in our country.

00:21:27.000 And I can make a pro-conservative, pro-liberty argument for why this is the greatest existential threat in our country, which is the UNIPA wants to defend the woke industrial complex and the very dangerous, scary rise of corporations that are more powerful than our government.

00:21:43.000 And this is the one thing that if you, and Grant, I want to say the wisest commentary I've heard from a speaker in the last couple of weeks is what you said.

00:21:50.000 And everyone should listen very carefully what he said.

00:21:52.000 When you see an elected official, be kind, be gentle, but be direct and say, why do you defend the corporate class in DC so much?

00:21:59.000 Why do you take money from Google?

00:22:01.000 Like these are things you, if you get in there, I see this all the time.

00:22:04.000 People talk a good game and then they're like taking selfies with these guys.

00:22:06.000 I'm like, what are you doing?

00:22:07.000 Like they work for you.

00:22:08.000 If they start to hear negative feedback from you face to face, and again, don't make a big scene.

00:22:13.000 You have to film them.

00:22:14.000 You don't have to do what the left does.

00:22:15.000 But be direct and say, no, I don't like the fact that you're doing this.

00:22:19.000 And so to go back to the point, though, is that there is, and this is something that conservative movement gets really nervous about talking about, is that private companies are more powerful than our government right now.

00:22:31.000 Google is more powerful than our government.

00:22:33.000 And no one likes talking about it.

00:22:35.000 And so until we're willing to recognize and realize that there are two threats to our liberty, one that's in the government and one that's in Menlo Park, then we're not actually having an honest conversation with what we're up against in our country.

00:22:50.000 And what happens is that the corporate class only wants you to talk about the threat of the bureaucrats.

00:22:57.000 I don't like the Employment Prevention Agency, the EPA.

00:23:01.000 I think they do terrible, you know, the Environmental Protection Agency.

00:23:04.000 I thought in Texas, that would probably be a big thing.

00:23:06.000 And so I understand the threat of the heavy hand of government.

00:23:12.000 But I can make an argument that corporations are destroying more people's freedoms and liberties in the government right now.

00:23:18.000 The founding fathers always feared centralized power and control for good reason.

00:23:23.000 But they never envisioned a set of companies that could have as much power as the government, if not more power.

00:23:30.000 Google is exponentially more powerful than our own government.

00:23:33.000 Now, you might say, Charlie, Google can't put you in prison.

00:23:37.000 Well, you're right.

00:23:38.000 That's correct.

00:23:38.000 They can't.

00:23:40.000 But if the Department of Justice shows up to somebody right now and they say, hey, I'm going to indict you, you know what you get?

00:23:47.000 A lawyer.

00:23:49.000 You know that it's illegal.

00:23:50.000 They do it anyway for the government to spy on you.

00:23:52.000 It's not illegal for Google to spy on you.

00:23:53.000 They do it all the time.

00:23:54.000 And then they sell your data.

00:23:57.000 You know, you could sue your own government.

00:23:59.000 Can't sue Google.

00:24:01.000 Can't.

00:24:02.000 Not when it comes to free speech violations or practices.

00:24:05.000 Google has 25,000 full-time employees that work nights and weekends with an IQ that is double that of anyone that works in the federal government just working on Google search.

00:24:15.000 Just working on manipulating what you and your children are processing on the internet every day.

00:24:19.000 Show me a government agency that has that much power.

00:24:22.000 Now you might say, well, the military has that much power.

00:24:25.000 You're right.

00:24:25.000 Totally.

00:24:27.000 I agree.

00:24:27.000 Potential power.

00:24:28.000 I mean, they have weapons, they have ammunition, they have all that.

00:24:31.000 It's also probably like, I used to make this argument, and then they're militarizing DC and they're doing all this.

00:24:37.000 I still think that even with the federal Department of Defense, and I think it's unlikely that the military is going to be used against the citizenry anytime soon.

00:24:44.000 I just do.

00:24:45.000 I don't think that the troops would go for it, and I think that's an unrealistic thing.

00:24:48.000 I do think it's realistic that Google is going to make their big offensive, and they already are, to make America in their image.

00:24:54.000 Or Mark Zuckerberg, a private citizen, put $400 million into this last election, and no one talks about it.

00:25:01.000 So what I am submitting to you right now is considered to be an illegal thought process in Republican circles.

00:25:09.000 But it's the most important thing happening, which is that the wealthiest people in this country got $600 billion richer last year.

00:25:15.000 And that's just the billionaire class.

00:25:18.000 And they hate you.

00:25:20.000 Most times, the wealthiest people in our nation shared the values of the rest of the nation.

00:25:25.000 You can say what you want about Rockefeller, Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, but they actually wanted what was best for America.

00:25:30.000 They were patriots.

00:25:31.000 They were too rich and too powerful.

00:25:32.000 We broke them up.

00:25:33.000 Good reason.

00:25:33.000 Teddy Roosevelt did a great job, and I'll debate anyone on that because there's this whole like weird libertarian revisionism that we should never have broken up standard oil.

00:25:40.000 Way too much of a nuanced issue, but not worth the time for tonight.

00:25:44.000 The point is that we should, I'm glad we broke them up.

00:25:47.000 But even with that, Carnegie and Rockefeller wrote extensively about how they love their country.

00:25:51.000 Zuckerberg and these guys, they write extensively about how much they hate their country.

00:25:57.000 And so what's really happening here, and this is something that Republicans have to get really serious about, is that this is not like an anti-government movement of the Tea Party, right?

00:26:07.000 It's not.

00:26:08.000 It's not.

00:26:08.000 It's, okay, we have to take a step back and we say, what do we control?

00:26:11.000 We don't control the colleges.

00:26:12.000 We don't control academia.

00:26:13.000 We don't control civil service.

00:26:15.000 We don't control the corporations.

00:26:16.000 We don't control media.

00:26:17.000 We don't control Hollywood.

00:26:18.000 Say, okay, that's horrifying.

00:26:21.000 And so all of that is part of this kind of new woke industrial complex.

00:26:25.000 But the institutions that matter most, the two things that we still have some touch, hopefully to, is the American family and the American church.

00:26:34.000 Those are the two things.

00:26:35.000 And I'm not going to overly religialize this speech, but if we're not serious about activating the American church, we might as well give up.

00:26:42.000 It's that simple. 0.90

00:26:43.000 And there is no institution, there is no group of people left that believe in what we believe in generally as small C conservatives that could possibly help turn this thing around.

00:26:53.000 It's impossible.

00:26:54.000 And so as we look at the landscape, this is where it gets really exciting for us, because we're on the right side of history.

00:27:01.000 If you believe the assessment what I just gave, you might disagree.

00:27:04.000 And I will give credit where credit's due.

00:27:06.000 This is a growing movement of the commentary thanks to Tucker Carlson and people like him that have been warning about the wealthiest people getting so much richer, not sharing your values and using their resources and their wealth to pummel our country into non-existence.

00:27:19.000 And he's really been a pioneer in this regard, and he deserves credit for that, because he pushed the boundaries and was mocked a couple years ago.

00:27:25.000 If you might remember when he went after Amazon, and now everyone agrees that Amazon's a garbage company and should be broken up into pieces and has destroyed American small business nearly permanently.

00:27:35.000 And that's the other thing.

00:27:36.000 And I was a huge critic against the lockdowns.

00:27:39.000 I think the lockdowns will go down as the worst mistake in American history, no doubt.

00:27:42.000 There was no science behind it.

00:27:44.000 It was anti-liberty, anti-freedom, not trusting the city.

00:27:47.000 We should be not afraid to say that.

00:27:49.000 But the obvious question is never asked.

00:27:54.000 Why did the lockdowns last so long?

00:27:57.000 And the sloppy answer is, oh, because of the signs.

00:28:00.000 Like, no.

00:28:01.000 Let's go back to what we know.

00:28:02.000 What do we know?

00:28:03.000 That rich people get what they want.

00:28:06.000 That's what we know.

00:28:07.000 Bezos was making an extra $50 billion every quarter that we were locked down.

00:28:12.000 Why?

00:28:13.000 Because we were all ordering stuff on his product service because all the small businesses were shut down.

00:28:17.000 Rich people get what they want.

00:28:19.000 So the wealthiest people love the lockdowns.

00:28:22.000 Zuckerberg went from a $65 billion net worth to $135 billion net worth.

00:28:27.000 Doubled.

00:28:29.000 How many small businesses had a year like that last year?

00:28:31.000 Probably not a lot.

00:28:33.000 Small business owners out there, you probably got crushed.

00:28:35.000 And if you survived, God bless you.

00:28:37.000 And we should do more to support the backbone of the small business person in this country.

00:28:42.000 And so the lockdowns were designed for and by the wealthiest people in our country.

00:28:47.000 And I'm all for wealth creation.

00:28:49.000 Trust me, I'm a free market guy.

00:28:52.000 But when you create wealth by forcibly shutting down the rest of the country, it's not a market.

00:28:57.000 It's extortion.

00:28:59.000 Like, what?

00:29:00.000 I mean, here's a great example.

00:29:02.000 So, and then we do exactly the wrong thing, and Republicans just surrender. 0.99

00:29:05.000 They're just, they're just absolutely, most of them are absolutely worthless.

00:29:08.000 And so they say, oh, yeah, I'm going to go spend another $1.9 trillion even though we haven't spent the $1 trillion before it.

00:29:13.000 And so anyone have trouble getting an Uber lately?

00:29:15.000 It's like a new phenomenon.

00:29:17.000 In Arizona, it's a huge deal.

00:29:18.000 You want to know why?

00:29:20.000 Because when you send people $1,400 checks, why would anyone want to go drive Uber anymore?

00:29:26.000 So the price of Uber has tripled in the last couple of weeks, at least in the Phoenix metro area.

00:29:30.000 It's a really simple, if you subsidize inactivity, you're going to get more of it.

00:29:34.000 Some small businesses say, you know what?

00:29:36.000 It was fun.

00:29:37.000 I'm done.

00:29:38.000 Never doing this again.

00:29:39.000 That is not a good thing for the country.

00:29:41.000 It is not.

00:29:41.000 I'm just going to be very clear.

00:29:43.000 I'm a free market guy.

00:29:44.000 I am not going to live in a country where we have 10 companies to choose from.

00:29:47.000 And they all have each other's back at all times.

00:29:50.000 When Amazon has the servers to kick off Parlor, to have Twitter's back, and Google has the App Store and Apple, that's a really sick state of affairs.

00:29:59.000 And there's nothing free market.

00:30:00.000 There's nothing capitalist.

00:30:01.000 And guess what?

00:30:02.000 Your Republican lawmakers are terrified to say what I just said.

00:30:06.000 You know why?

00:30:07.000 Because they're funded by those corporations.

00:30:08.000 That's why.

00:30:09.000 Because they celebrate big ribbon cuttings when these, and let me be very clear.

00:30:13.000 And this is, and I, and by the way, what I'm saying is very provocative, intentionally so, because I know it's right.

00:30:21.000 You guys got to stop accepting all these California companies into Dallas.

00:30:26.000 Like, how many more ribbon companies?

00:30:28.000 I mean, what do you think?

00:30:30.000 Oh, well, it's going to help with GDP.

00:30:32.000 Enough, okay?

00:30:33.000 So property values go up for rich people in Tarrant County. 0.52

00:30:35.000 Then you bring in 45,000 communists to go do computer engineering in Dallas. 0.53

00:30:40.000 Is that going to make Texas more free?

00:30:42.000 If I have to look at one more social media post of a ribbon cutting with your governor of a tech firm, I'm going to lose it.

00:30:48.000 Like, stop inviting these companies to Texas.

00:30:51.000 Stop it.

00:30:53.000 And people say, well, it creates jobs.

00:30:55.000 Well, first of all, it creates jobs if you conform to their woke ideology.

00:30:59.000 That's number one.

00:31:00.000 Number two, it's going to destroy your local communities.

00:31:02.000 These people are like locusts, okay?

00:31:04.000 They don't all of a sudden like, oh, yeah, they're going to start wearing cowboy boots and like cowboy hats.

00:31:08.000 Like, no, they're going to come in, and all of a sudden, in your city council meetings and your school board meetings, you're going to have to have gender pronouns.

00:31:15.000 You're going to have soul cycle in every corner, and everyone's going to be vegan, and kale will be everywhere.

00:31:20.000 It's going to be awful, okay?

00:31:21.000 No, seriously.

00:31:22.000 And next thing you know, like, what happened in my Texas?

00:31:24.000 Like, when you were cutting the ribbon for Google to come to Dallas, that's what happened to your Texas.

00:31:29.000 And don't be surprised when all of a sudden, you're like, oh, yeah, Texas is a center for free enterprise.

00:31:33.000 And that's great.

00:31:33.000 Instead, why don't you start the next conservative Google here, governor of Texas, and stop ribbon cutting with whatever that is.

00:31:41.000 And again, I'm intentionally pushing the boundaries here because do you guys feel like Dallas is changing quickly?

00:31:48.000 Of course it is.

00:31:50.000 Because you're inviting this entire machine into your wonderful state.

00:31:55.000 Like, oh, we're going to change them.

00:31:56.000 Yeah, you should try.

00:31:58.000 But these people went to Berkeley.

00:32:00.000 Okay, it's not exactly minds for molding, okay?

00:32:05.000 And they're earning $600,000 a year to go work for some miserable company that brings in plastic from Wuhan or something.

00:32:13.000 Like, okay, fine, great.

00:32:15.000 Instead, we should be much more serious about what do we as conservatives stand for.

00:32:21.000 And what we stand for is strong, functioning, flourishing families, the rule of law, being able to speak your mind without fear of retribution, be able to own firearms and weapons if we so choose for our own protection.

00:32:34.000 And God forbid, if we ever have to use it against usurptatious government or corporate power, God forbid if that would ever happen.

00:32:40.000 And most importantly, out of all of it, we recognize that we're actually in a theological debate right now.

00:32:46.000 And we believe two things: that there is a God and you are not him.

00:32:51.000 It's that simple.

00:32:54.000 The tech people that you're bringing in from wherever Menlo Park don't believe that.

00:33:01.000 They're like, well, it depends what you mean by God.

00:33:03.000 I'm like, well, I might be him.

00:33:05.000 You know, if I am able to create myself into some Facebook oculus-wearing whatever that they're trying to do.

00:33:11.000 No, I mean, by the way, everything that the tech people are doing right now is literally trying to push against the laws of nature.

00:33:17.000 It's very sick and it's not healthy.

00:33:21.000 And Texas should be like, I read this.

00:33:23.000 It's like scripted by the Chamber of Commerce, who you guys, by the way, they're against all of your values, all of them.

00:33:30.000 And the criticism, someone would say, is, well, Charlie, you're anti-growth, and what about the local jobs and all this?

00:33:35.000 And I think that's fair.

00:33:37.000 The provocative way I would respond is: I don't care. 0.97

00:33:41.000 I think that the cost of always worshiping the dollar and economic growth at every single turn, while we have 52% divorce rates and 75% fatherlessness in the black community and 40,000 drug overdoses a year, maybe we should slow it down a little bit. 0.74

00:33:59.000 Like a little bit, right? 0.95

00:34:01.000 And that's, and this comes to the other part that Republicans are terrible.

00:34:06.000 By the way, if Republicans talked like this, we'd win every election by like 80%.

00:34:10.000 And it's not because it's just, I know this is popular.

00:34:14.000 Because what I just said right there, most Bernie Sanders people could agree with most of it.

00:34:19.000 And they're the only ones that talk about corporate criticism.

00:34:22.000 Their solution is to nationalize everything.

00:34:24.000 Their solution is to get rid of private property.

00:34:27.000 But there is an anxiety that's growing out there, isn't there?

00:34:30.000 Yeah, why do what happened to Harry's coffee shop?

00:34:33.000 Oh, lockdown destroyed him.

00:34:35.000 What happened to John's auto shop?

00:34:37.000 Well, not around anymore.

00:34:39.000 And somehow we just are supposed to accept the fact that 10 or 15 companies are going to rule everything.

00:34:43.000 Okay, and so then that's really what comes to this is that and we're stuck in this false debate, is really what I'm trying to say.

00:34:49.000 And I'm here to just liberate the American debate. 0.56

00:34:52.000 And I might be wrong on some of this, but if I got people talking about it, then that's the right thing to do, which is this false debate of like either we're going to live in Marxist Russia or Somali like capitalism is just a false paradigm.

00:35:06.000 We got to shred that apart.

00:35:07.000 Instead, it's, we have to say to the world what we stand for.

00:35:10.000 We want functioning and flourishing families.

00:35:13.000 We want to protect those that cannot protect themselves, especially in the womb.

00:35:17.000 We want to be able, we believe that we should be very clear about our goals.

00:35:25.000 We want church attendance to go up.

00:35:28.000 We want divorce rates to go down.

00:35:30.000 We want more young people to get married younger.

00:35:33.000 We want people to value their children's character more than whatever, you know, how many plastic packages you're getting every single year from Amazon.

00:35:42.000 And I'm just submitting a modest critique of commercial society.

00:35:45.000 I think commercial society can be very healthy, obviously, because you have innovations and products.

00:35:51.000 But we've been in this kind of very strange corporate prism, and it's time to break out of it.

00:35:58.000 And so what we're really in right now is a values debate in our country.

00:36:02.000 And that's one that we're going to win if we're unafraid to articulate it.

00:36:06.000 But this is where you come in, and you have to demand this out of your leaders.

00:36:10.000 And your leaders and your Republican leaders, because they're mostly funded by the corporate types, they're afraid to talk like this.

00:36:16.000 They're afraid that all of a sudden the Chamber of Commerce is not going to endorse, or whatever it is, right?

00:36:21.000 But this agenda, most Americans are looking for a political party to be able to articulate this.

00:36:28.000 And the other side is giving us a gift.

00:36:31.000 The other side is literally saying it's the most bigoted ideology imaginable.

00:36:36.000 Critical race theory, race matter.

00:36:38.000 Somehow race is like the most important thing.

00:36:40.000 I'm actually of the belief most people don't walk around every day just thinking about race, nor is that a healthy thing for our country.

00:36:45.000 Like, oh, I'm a white black. 0.51

00:36:47.000 Bigots do, okay? 0.98

00:36:48.000 I don't care about your race, about your character, okay?

00:36:51.000 I care about who you are as a person, not what you look like.

00:36:53.000 At least that's how I was raised and what we should tell every one of our young people.

00:36:56.000 Instead, we're telling them the opposite.

00:36:58.000 We're eight-year-olds are saying, you know, your race really matters a lot.

00:37:00.000 Well, really?

00:37:01.000 What kind of 15-year-old?

00:37:02.000 What kind of 30-year-old do you think that's going to lead to?

00:37:05.000 Probably a really dysfunctional society, which is exactly what they want.

00:37:09.000 They want the collision.

00:37:10.000 They want the conflict.

00:37:11.000 They want people to be torn apart.

00:37:13.000 They do not want to look at people's humanity.

00:37:15.000 They want to look at people's melanin content, which is inherently a bigoted way to view the world.

00:37:20.000 I actually think that's super unpopular.

00:37:22.000 I think that as it reveals itself, it's going to give all of us an opportunity to articulate exactly what we're for, and with it, the Republican Party.

00:37:30.000 And when we're given that chance again, if we're just the like anti-socialism party, it's not going to do it.

00:37:37.000 But if we're the party that's like, you know what?

00:37:39.000 Small businesses should have been the massive recipients of any sort of public policy decision over the last year, not corporate America.

00:37:49.000 And we should be unafraid to say that it's not a good thing when the wealthiest people are $600 billion richer.

00:37:53.000 That's not a good thing for the country.

00:37:54.000 So I want to get to some questions.

00:37:57.000 It's really, it's a really important conversation to have.

00:38:00.000 And I just want to say one or two other things on this, which is you guys matter more than you might think.

00:38:06.000 So one of the biggest lies ever told by the enemy whispering in your ear is that your action, your voice, does not matter.

00:38:14.000 Let me be very clear.

00:38:15.000 If every person in this room did one point of unified action a week, it would blow away a lawmaker, elected official, whatever, employee, whatever grant, you tell me what the right word is, okay?

00:38:28.000 Employee of the citizens.

00:38:30.000 How about that?

00:38:30.000 Okay, great.

00:38:32.000 It would blow them away.

00:38:33.000 You have more power than you might think.

00:38:35.000 And this lie of apathy that I'm trying to push back against lovingly, that I, Charlie, what can I actually do?

00:38:42.000 Does it actually matter?

00:38:43.000 Stop it.

00:38:44.000 All of it matters.

00:38:45.000 Your activism matters more than ever.

00:38:48.000 And the fact that we're able to draw 200 plus people when things look as bleak as they do right now is awesome.

00:38:55.000 And that should be the starting point.

00:38:57.000 And it goes the full gauntlet from how you educate your kids to contacting lawmakers to being unafraid to voice your opinions, all those sorts of things.

00:39:04.000 And then before you realize it starts to multiply into further action from people.

00:39:09.000 And this is something the left has been phenomenally good at is they've actually believed more than us that their action makes a difference.

00:39:16.000 Go figure.

00:39:17.000 They've believed it and they've been very, very dedicated at what success looks like.

00:39:21.000 And they've taken the education of our children very seriously.

00:39:23.000 We generally haven't.

00:39:24.000 We've kind of been just kind of indifferent.

00:39:26.000 I can give a whole spiel on college.

00:39:28.000 Happy to if you guys are interested in that because it's a whole different part of this.

00:39:31.000 But you guys matter more than you might think.

00:39:34.000 And so for every person out there, creating a specific action plan of, you know what, I am going to knock on doors.

00:39:41.000 I am going to support this great organization.

00:39:43.000 I am going to run for local office.

00:39:45.000 The precinct committee people, you know that half of precinct committee positions are empty in the Republican Party nationwide.

00:39:52.000 Empty.

00:39:53.000 Half empty. 0.91

00:39:54.000 Now, you might not know what a precinct committee position is. 0.88

00:39:56.000 Just you're in charge of getting your neighborhood out to vote when it comes to election day.

00:40:00.000 That's it.

00:40:01.000 It's usually three or four blocks at most.

00:40:03.000 It could be as low as one block as big as 10 blocks.

00:40:05.000 And you get materials from your local county party because you guys have a great Dallas County party that I know.

00:40:11.000 And I know some people that help run that.

00:40:13.000 And you get your materials and you go knock on the doors and you say, you know what?

00:40:17.000 I know these people are going to go vote and you're responsible for that.

00:40:20.000 What if every person here went and signed up to be a precinct committee person?

00:40:22.000 It's not a lot of work.

00:40:24.000 It's the minimum amount.

00:40:26.000 So before we say we've exhausted all options, Charlie, really half of precinct committee positions nationwide in the Republican Party are vacant.

00:40:34.000 Democrats have 80% full.

00:40:36.000 So they just want it more than us.

00:40:39.000 And now they also have the teacher unions and local labor, so it kind of helps.

00:40:43.000 But that's a really easy action step.

00:40:45.000 You say, well, how do I do that?

00:40:46.000 I guarantee you there's people here that can help you sign up for precinct committee positions, right?

00:40:50.000 Guarantee it.

00:40:51.000 But I'm going to be very honest with you.

00:40:52.000 Being a precinct committee person is hard in one sense.

00:40:54.000 You're going to have to talk to your neighbors about politics.

00:40:58.000 Stuff, I know.

00:40:59.000 It's like, I'm, Charlie, I'm on board for everything except that.

00:41:02.000 Like, okay.

00:41:04.000 But the Democrats are unafraid to go wear four masks with a BLM Incorporated sign and knock on your door and say, you know, please, they do that with bold conviction.

00:41:16.000 And the one thing, and they harvest ballots and all that, and I will tell you one other piece of advice: the fear that you have in your head of the potential retribution and backlash, the fear is far, it's actually not even close to actually how good those conversations can go.

00:41:32.000 And so dismiss that fear in that sense.

00:41:35.000 And so I want to do some questions.

00:41:39.000 This is a very exciting time because there's a new energy that's all of a sudden flowing through the conservative movement, and we owe Trump a lot of thanks to that.

00:41:46.000 We're having real discussions about real things finally, as we just talked about here, where it's not just vote for us because we're not the other side.

00:41:54.000 And by the way, that could have been my speech tonight.

00:41:56.000 When I go to college campuses, that's mostly what I focus on because you have to deprogram these people from all the nonsense garbage that they're losing, you know, critical race theory and everything's racist and climate change is getting on the earth and the plan.

00:42:07.000 Okay, got it.

00:42:09.000 We could talk about that if you want to, but you're already converted.

00:42:11.000 So I don't have to tell you how bad the left is.

00:42:12.000 Instead, I'm here to tell you how bad the right is.

00:42:15.000 And that's a harder conversation sometimes to have, but a more necessary one.

00:42:19.000 And if we have that specific pro-family, pro-person agenda, I'm telling you right now, you win every single election in the landslide.

00:42:26.000 And then you say, you know what?

00:42:27.000 I have guiding principles, but I have priorities.

00:42:31.000 And I'm going to put my priorities first.

00:42:32.000 And when I see those priorities start to be challenged, then I'm going to put those always first, including the nation, our home, our family, and of course, our rights as human beings.

00:42:42.000 And so I'm thrilled to be in this right now because if we do what we're supposed to do, we're not just going to win a little bit.

00:42:49.000 We're going to win huge, massive, by 70 to 80%.

00:42:52.000 Now, we could screw it up because Republicans are experts at that.

00:42:55.000 Like, phenomenal.

00:42:56.000 Like, we actually specialize in messing things up.

00:42:59.000 And I could give you 50 different ways that we could screw this up.

00:43:03.000 But if we don't massively screw it up, we're going to win the midterms decisively.

00:43:07.000 And this agenda will be a forefront agenda.

00:43:10.000 And the Democrats won't know how to counter it.

00:43:13.000 And I think that it's a really phenomenal opportunity for all of us.

00:43:18.000 Okay, you want to do some questions, Carol?

00:43:20.000 Is that okay?

00:43:21.000 Okay, great.

00:43:27.000 Charlie, thank you for being here.

00:43:29.000 Really appreciate you having this opportunity.

00:43:32.000 My question really is around the outreach to the minority community.

00:43:36.000 You're seeing a lot of minorities who are now starting to come out and really understand what's really going on.

00:43:41.000 Me and my brother debate quite a bit about the historical nature of the Democratic Party, what they've done, how they've impacted the minority, particularly black communities, in a very, very negative night.

00:43:52.000 I grew up in Compton and Watts, California.

00:43:54.000 I grew up doing the gang eras, lost a lot of family members.

00:43:58.000 I lost and seen the death of so many things happen.

00:44:02.000 What I've also noticed is the miscommunication steps that the Republican Party has done to the minority community.

00:44:10.000 They've never done a great job of saying, look, let me explain to you what welfare does.

00:44:15.000 Let me explain to you what drugs do in your community.

00:44:17.000 The question is, is how do we get the word really out?

00:44:20.000 How do we get them to understand and know, like, look, these people are not your friends.

00:44:24.000 They have been your enemies for decades.

00:44:27.000 They've destroyed your community.

00:44:28.000 They've destroyed your families.

00:44:30.000 They destroyed your businesses.

00:44:31.000 They destroyed everything in, and they continue to move forward.

00:44:34.000 It's a great point.

00:44:34.000 And look, Republicans have to show up, and I think you would agree with that.

00:44:37.000 And Republicans don't do that enough.

00:44:40.000 The biggest fear that dominates American politics today, almost every single public policy decision on the Republican side is either made or not made, and more so in culture, out of fear of being called a racist.

00:44:51.000 It is the most powerful tool in American politics.

00:44:54.000 And so I get called that every single day by the activist media.

00:44:58.000 So I just say whatever I want.

00:44:59.000 So I really don't care.

00:45:01.000 And you guys shouldn't either, because that word, unfortunately, has lost all of its meaning because there are literal racists in the world.

00:45:07.000 And now we're all getting like grouped together.

00:45:09.000 Every human being on the center right gets grouped together with the most disgusting people you can imagine, which is too bad because there's no nuance and no precision in that.

00:45:19.000 But look, what you also say is absolutely true.

00:45:22.000 And Candace Owens, who worked with us for years, a couple years at Turning Point USA, she does an amazing job.

00:45:29.000 My friend Rita and I have got to know Candace very well.

00:45:33.000 And Candace was our communications director at Turning Point USA.

00:45:37.000 We had a lot of fun on college campus, as I can tell you.

00:45:40.000 She talks about the most important need, in her estimation, is getting the truth out about how the Democrat Party has never changed.

00:45:47.000 They've just changed their tactics.

00:45:49.000 So the Democrat Party went from the plantation to intimidation to entitlement.

00:45:56.000 Same sort of mentality of controlling people, just changing the method that they went about it.

00:46:01.000 And look, it's not going to happen overnight.

00:46:05.000 Trump made massive gains in the black community, but I have a contrarian view here.

00:46:10.000 And I think that the corporate agenda towards Republicans, that Republicans have had, is why we are not able to win more black voters.

00:46:18.000 Let me give you an example. 0.89

00:46:19.000 If a Republican went into the black community and talked seriously about the value of church, pro-life, rebuilding the American family, and saying the most impacted communities when it came to the manufacturing decay was the black community. 0.97

00:46:35.000 So we shut down all these manufacturing plants, and some of these manufacturing plants had 30 to 40% of their workers as black workers, which was a multiple of their proportion of the population. 0.76

00:46:46.000 And so when you shut down these manufacturing plants, the displacement largely targeted minority communities.

00:46:52.000 And so I look at Turning Point USA, we do a black leadership summit.

00:46:55.000 We have our Hispanic Latino leadership summit coming up in April.

00:47:00.000 So if there's anyone that wants to attend that, it's going to be phenomenal.

00:47:03.000 And so we're trying to lead by example in that regard.

00:47:06.000 And I've been, and one thing, it's so funny, Donald Trump got attacked by every way.

00:47:11.000 No person has ever been called a racist more than Donald Trump.

00:47:14.000 I think that's probably a fair thing, right?

00:47:16.000 Even more than David Duke, which is so unfair if you actually think about it.

00:47:20.000 And he did historically well with black and Hispanic voters.

00:47:25.000 In fact, we were competing in the Rio Grande Valley, as you well know, in seats that we've never gotten even close to thanks to that.

00:47:32.000 Now, why was Trump able to resonate with those voters?

00:47:35.000 Well, first of all, he had a no-BS, authentic way of speaking.

00:47:39.000 And I know this from a lot of Hispanic people on our staff.

00:47:44.000 And they said, Charlie, in the Hispanic community, you guys could correct me if I'm wrong, you must go with the heart first and then with the head.

00:47:49.000 You must be emotional. 1.00

00:47:50.000 I think you would probably agree with that.

00:47:52.000 And Trump, he was a performer at heart, right?

00:47:54.000 And he was able to all talk about that.

00:47:57.000 Strict immigration too, the border wall was a very big thing. 0.89

00:47:59.000 And then also, finally, he was able to diagnose the threat of socialism, which so many Hispanic families in South Florida, especially, which is a very different culture, and we should be very careful, you know, conflating them, have lived through. 0.80

00:48:12.000 And so, what I'm saying, though, is there's actually a movement in that direction, believe it or not. 0.52

00:48:15.000 That I believe firmly, the paradigm that I've always talked about is: here's the, everyone says America's so divided.

00:48:21.000 I'm like, let me tell you who's actually the divide is here.

00:48:24.000 The divide is between the Zoom and the Skype class and the muscular class.

00:48:29.000 You know who the muscular class is?

00:48:30.000 The amazing people right now that are helping us eat our dinner.

00:48:33.000 We should give it up for the people that work.

00:48:34.000 And it really is.

00:48:36.000 And so the people that are wonderfully serving us dinner and preparing dinner, they have to wear a mask.

00:48:45.000 They work so hard.

00:48:47.000 They want to work.

00:48:48.000 As soon as the American economy reopened, they want to be back doing this.

00:48:54.000 The muscular class has been punished.

00:48:56.000 And you know who is in the muscular class the most? 1.00

00:48:59.000 Black and Hispanic families.

00:49:01.000 They have the highest representation in the muscular class in our country.

00:49:05.000 Do you guys know what I mean by the muscular class?

00:49:07.000 I say that, some people don't understand it.

00:49:08.000 They work with their hands.

00:49:09.000 They work at their, they don't just open up a laptop two minutes before work starts and they're able to zoom in every day, which is fine if you're part of the, I'm part of the Zoom class.

00:49:17.000 I fully admit it.

00:49:17.000 I get it.

00:49:18.000 But we have just, our whole economy, from the truck drivers to the people that offloaded and unloaded trucks to the delivery people, we just ignored that whole portion of the American society and acted as if these things happen naturally.

00:49:31.000 Trump gave them a voice for the first time in a long time.

00:49:34.000 And we have to also say that the rise in automation in our country is going to come at a cost.

00:49:41.000 We're going to be able to get products cheaper.

00:49:43.000 We're going to be able to get products there faster.

00:49:45.000 We also could potentially disenfranchise 40, 50, or 60 million people.

00:49:50.000 And that's something that really we must get very serious about.

00:49:53.000 So I'm actually really optimistic about our chances, but currently Republicans are massively screwing it up.

00:49:57.000 Why?

00:49:58.000 Because they go back to the corporate agenda, right, Grant?

00:50:00.000 They go back to open borders.

00:50:01.000 They go back to what does the Chamber of Commerce want.

00:50:04.000 And if I may talk about immigration a little bit further, this is the one issue that the Democrats and the Republicans can agree on, the establishment types.

00:50:11.000 Democrats want open borders.

00:50:13.000 Why?

00:50:13.000 Because the 3,000 young men at Kay Bailey Hutchinson Center are future voters.

00:50:18.000 Republicans want open borders.

00:50:20.000 Why? 1.00

00:50:20.000 That's cheap labor to bring down wages so you don't have to pay Americans black families higher wages. 1.00

00:50:27.000 So Republicans have done a deal with the devil where they're like, you know, instead of paying black workers $18, $19, $20 an hour, let's get the black families on welfare, and then we'll bring in illegals and we'll pay them $10 an hour. 0.72

00:50:40.000 And that's been awful for every single community in America. 0.64

00:50:44.000 And yes, prices will go up a little bit.

00:50:47.000 And I'm not, I know, I know economics, a wonderful woman running for mayor from Plano.

00:50:52.000 I've read all the same books.

00:50:53.000 I get it.

00:50:53.000 What I'm saying, though, is that a small price adjustment so we might have a little pay a little bit more with rising wages and flourishing families is a trade-off I am willing to accept.

00:51:03.000 And that is something that we must say.

00:51:05.000 We've gone way too far in the other direction.

00:51:07.000 And I believe firmly that minority families want to work, they want to actually see their lives improve.

00:51:14.000 And when given the option, they can do that.

00:51:16.000 And school choice is also another very successful issue.

00:51:19.000 Okay, I took way too long on that question, but it was worth it.

00:51:21.000 It was terrific.

00:51:22.000 Okay.

00:51:24.000 Thank you so much for coming down here today.

00:51:28.000 Hello.

00:51:29.000 Yeah.

00:51:29.000 Thank you so much for coming down here tonight.

00:51:32.000 One of the things that I find most troubling is that the left has imposed this idea on everyone, especially corporations, that we have to be as politically correct as we can.

00:51:43.000 You know, sorry.

00:51:45.000 And so my question to you tonight is, how do we stray away from this idea that we have to be politically correct no matter what our opinions are?

00:51:58.000 Yeah, that's a great question.

00:51:59.000 And so, mind you, the political correct thing only works in one direction.

00:52:03.000 They could say whatever they want about us, no matter. 0.99

00:52:05.000 I mean, you have the talentless Kathy Griffin who has a decapitated head of Donald Trump, and she keeps her career.

00:52:12.000 Snoop Dogg is allowed to show himself shooting Trump. 0.55

00:52:14.000 Madonna says she wants to blow up the White House.

00:52:17.000 But if you dare make an off-color joke from 20 years ago, your entire life is over.

00:52:23.000 And so how do we push back against it?

00:52:25.000 Number one, you must make the left live up to their own rules.

00:52:28.000 And so if they're all of a sudden going to be the political correct police, then we must say, oh, wait a second.

00:52:32.000 And we could do it kind of lovingly and jokingly.

00:52:34.000 But why haven't you fired this person for obviously violating your own set of rules?

00:52:37.000 That's number one.

00:52:39.000 Number two, I believe political correctness is one of the top, the biggest threats of tyranny in our country.

00:52:44.000 And it is so unbelievably dangerous.

00:52:48.000 And where does this come from?

00:52:50.000 Where does political correctness?

00:52:51.000 You should ask that, where did political correctness come from?

00:52:53.000 It came from the universities.

00:52:56.000 What happens on college campuses does not stay on college campuses.

00:52:59.000 It will go on the halls of Congress and in corporate boardrooms and the rest of our culture.

00:53:03.000 College campuses are destroying our country.

00:53:05.000 And that's the, should be the title of my next book, actually.

00:53:09.000 It's close to that.

00:53:10.000 It's way more provocative, basically telling young people they shouldn't go to college.

00:53:14.000 Happy to talk about that if people want to before the parents say that my time is up.

00:53:18.000 But the, and I can make the, I could actually probably convince half the room, the other half would still think I'm wrong.

00:53:23.000 But these campuses have an out, we basically have turned our entire country into a college campus is what we've done.

00:53:28.000 Our entire country had been taken over by the college, by college campuses, where these corporations are basically part of the woke industrial complex.

00:53:36.000 And so how do we push back against political correctness?

00:53:39.000 Here's an action item for you.

00:53:40.000 The next time a family member, a friend, a neighbor, a business leader gets targeted for cancellation, go stand up for that person, please.

00:53:51.000 Just like, please, unless it's something that like they were actually part of the KKK when they were growing up, and they might, please defend them, okay?

00:53:59.000 I'm giving that asterisk because I got to see the New York Times.

00:54:01.000 Charlie Kirk, you know, says defend people at all costs.

00:54:03.000 Okay.

00:54:05.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:54:06.000 Please defend the silence from conservatives.

00:54:09.000 Like, oh, I guess that's kind of bad.

00:54:10.000 Like, stop it.

00:54:11.000 If they say that, and they don't even have to, they owe you no apology.

00:54:15.000 That's the other thing, too.

00:54:16.000 Like, oh, they haven't apologized.

00:54:17.000 Like, why do they owe you an apology?

00:54:19.000 30 years ago, he made a bad joke.

00:54:21.000 So what?

00:54:21.000 He didn't make it to you.

00:54:23.000 He doesn't owe you an apology.

00:54:26.000 If he says he's moved on from and he's matured, that should be perfectly sufficient.

00:54:29.000 I'm so sorry.

00:54:30.000 They want an apology because they want submission.

00:54:33.000 Cancel culture only works because we've allowed it to work.

00:54:36.000 Now, the people that push back against it, the ultimate person who never allowed himself to be canceled is Donald Trump.

00:54:43.000 He's just like, yep, I'm just going to keep on going to work and keep completely unfazed by threats to destroy, like completely, you know, not allowing him ever to get touched by that.

00:54:52.000 And so what we call cancel culture is only going to stop when we say no more.

00:54:57.000 We're not going to allow you to do this anymore.

00:54:59.000 We're not going to allow you to expel members from Congress.

00:55:02.000 We're not going to allow you just to kick people off.

00:55:04.000 It's not going to happen.

00:55:05.000 And we've tolerated it for far too long.

00:55:07.000 And they prey on our best instincts.

00:55:08.000 Like, oh, well, you know, we're more woke enlightened people.

00:55:12.000 Like, oh, you're not.

00:55:12.000 You're a bigot.

00:55:13.000 And you don't want other people to agree with you.

00:55:15.000 And you just want power.

00:55:16.000 That's all you want.

00:55:17.000 You just want to destroy everyone in your conquest for power.

00:55:20.000 And so we have to do everything we possibly can to draw the lines around that, most definitely.

00:55:24.000 Okay, next question.

00:55:26.000 Hey, thanks for coming tonight.

00:55:28.000 I've listened to you a lot.

00:55:29.000 I used to listen to you on Fox a lot.

00:55:30.000 I don't watch Fox anymore because of election night, but it's good to turn me on to Grant.

00:55:34.000 And I love your show.

00:55:35.000 Thank you.

00:55:36.000 I agree with most everything you said tonight.

00:55:39.000 There's one thing I'd like to take issue with a little bit.

00:55:41.000 And it's something that a lot of people on your level who have kind of dismissed election night and this whole election.

00:55:49.000 And we're not going to go fix it.

00:55:51.000 I know I'm a lawyer and I deal in Discovery.

00:55:53.000 You can't prove that stuff.

00:55:53.000 You can't prove it in four months.

00:55:55.000 It's never going to happen.

00:55:56.000 If there was fraud, if there was fake ballots.

00:55:59.000 But we all sat at 1045 here in Dallas-Fort Worth.

00:56:02.000 We watched the election.

00:56:03.000 I've watched the last four elections.

00:56:04.000 We saw 1045 Trump with seven to one, Vegas-odd, European, Vegas odds.

00:56:08.000 Those things are never wrong.

00:56:10.000 And then we watched six counties, the ones they targeted.

00:56:13.000 They knew they could flip those.

00:56:14.000 They knew they were turning in their votes last.

00:56:16.000 We saw them all simultaneously stop counting.

00:56:19.000 And then everyone here knows what happened.

00:56:22.000 And then we watched these people come forward and tell us about all these other little, all their testimony from the states and everything.

00:56:29.000 But I think in Georgia, it doesn't matter what Leffler and Purdue said.

00:56:33.000 I said on election night, if they don't change what happened there with the mail and COVID ballots and getting away with those targeted areas, they can flip the states, those big metropolitan counties.

00:56:44.000 And nobody talks about it.

00:56:45.000 And you say, okay, we can get out, we can vote.

00:56:47.000 But people are logical thinkers.

00:56:50.000 But let me push back.

00:56:50.000 700,000 people didn't show up that were Trump voters.

00:56:53.000 700,000, they didn't show up.

00:56:55.000 So they didn't shred 700,000 ballots.

00:56:58.000 That's the point.

00:56:59.000 Okay, that's fine.

00:57:00.000 But they have more than one way of cheating.

00:57:03.000 It wasn't, oh, we'll cheat in this way. 1.00

00:57:04.000 They had the whole shit, but they were not going to let Trump win. 0.99

00:57:06.000 I hear you, but your view is too cynical for me. 1.00

00:57:08.000 I think that they cheat, of course.

00:57:11.000 I've done 50 podcasts on it.

00:57:13.000 They cheat on the margins.

00:57:14.000 We won races in these states in certain districts that they thought they were going to.

00:57:20.000 The point is they didn't cheat everywhere.

00:57:21.000 They cheated in very targeted areas.

00:57:23.000 So you believe we won Florida, right?

00:57:25.000 Yeah.

00:57:25.000 Okay, so we won Florida.

00:57:26.000 They didn't cheat there.

00:57:27.000 How about Texas?

00:57:28.000 No, that's the point.

00:57:29.000 It's like, if you think it's like all broken everywhere, it's not true.

00:57:33.000 Why didn't they stop counting in Florida, in Texas, in Cleveland, and other big states?

00:57:36.000 Why do they only stop the stop county?

00:57:39.000 I can't get past the stop counting at 1045 and all this.

00:57:41.000 No, I hear you.

00:57:42.000 No, and I actually agree with you that this was interfered with.

00:57:45.000 But the Georgia runoff, we lost largely because 700,000 rural Trump supporters stayed at home.

00:57:52.000 700,000.

00:57:54.000 And I hear you.

00:57:54.000 Like, I went out of my way to go, and I'm not trying to be adversarial, right?

00:57:58.000 Like, if you'd like, you know, I'm going to validate your argument here.

00:58:03.000 What we witnessed this last election, we can never allow happen again.

00:58:06.000 Whether we're going to reform it or not, I don't know.

00:58:10.000 But, and let me platform this.

00:58:12.000 Like, and so I'm going to agree with you on this.

00:58:15.000 And I've done a ton of, I haven't been like some of these other guys that have been silent on this.

00:58:19.000 We've had the guests, we've had Mike Lindella, and he's fun, on our podcast.

00:58:24.000 And I'm less convinced on the machines, to be honest with you.

00:58:28.000 I'm more convinced on the signature verification, the ballots, and you probably agree, right?

00:58:33.000 And so the ballot drops in the middle of the night.

00:58:36.000 And here's the best argument I have for it, is the fact that we had a record number of mail-in ballots.

00:58:42.000 We don't know how they were counted.

00:58:44.000 We don't know the standards that were used to count them and the signature verification.

00:58:48.000 And we had these ballot drop boxes in these certain counties where we don't know who was putting the ballots in them.

00:58:53.000 They're using places like ballot harvesting.

00:58:55.000 So Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, they either have Democrat governors or weak governors, right?

00:59:03.000 And so that's what they have in common.

00:59:04.000 And they had legislators that did not step up and make the changes.

00:59:07.000 So I'll totally agree with you.

00:59:09.000 I'm just saying that on the Georgia runoff, we were right there.

00:59:12.000 And here's why.

00:59:12.000 Let me tell you why.

00:59:13.000 David Perdue won on election night that you're talking about.

00:59:18.000 He just barely narrowly got below the threshold.

00:59:21.000 The point is that we had the maxim to get, we had the voters to get there.

00:59:25.000 They didn't stay at home.

00:59:26.000 I think It was multifaceted, and I hear you completely.

00:59:33.000 But I also, my other argument, though, is that I'm not doing my job if I only talk about election integrity and I don't talk about other things that we can fix.

00:59:42.000 Because then, then I'm saying, then everyone's like, well, we got no choice except like, no, we made other mistakes as well.

00:59:48.000 So I'll agree, and I'll say this: we lost Georgia for a variety of reasons: bad candidates, bad messaging, poor election practices, mail-in voting, and a weak governor.

00:59:57.000 I think we can both agree on that.

00:59:58.000 Okay, cool.

00:59:59.000 Great.

01:00:03.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:00:04.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - March 28, 2021

How to Save Texas

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