00:00:00.000Hey 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.
00:00:09.000I also take some questions from some audience members, and this is exclusive only to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.
00:01:43.000His 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.
00:01:52.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:32.000And if you want hope, and I see some amazing Turning Point alumni here, talk to these Turning Point USA young college campus conservatives.
00:02:43.000What they have to go through on a daily basis is unbelievable.
00:02:47.000And, you know, I talk to audiences all across the country.
00:03:09.000Go talk to the young people that self-identify as conservatives publicly.
00:03:13.000They're basically saying to the world, you know what, I'm okay with potential career, family, friendship penalties for standing for what's right.
00:03:24.000So 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.
00:04:02.000And 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.
00:05:19.000And 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.
00:05:33.000And 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.
00:06:07.000And then Tarrant County is now a battleground county.
00:06:09.000Used to be one of the most, you know, center, not just center right, but Republican stronghold counties in the country.
00:06:15.000And I love these energetic new candidates that are running.
00:06:19.000And 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.
00:06:29.000And it's actually really interesting because the local races are actually the ones that are most consequential, most controversial.
00:06:37.000And for whatever reason, we're least likely to get involved in them.
00:06:39.000And I think it's because that's really when politics gets to be really kind of flesh on flesh.
00:06:46.000It'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?
00:06:55.000Where in local politics, it really impacts you.
00:06:59.000And so you have to take over your school boards.
00:07:01.000You have to maintain control in your city council.
00:07:03.000This is where this pile of garbage and nonsense is being implemented all across the country.
00:07:09.000Critical race theory, transgender nonsense, the attacks on the church, which is just unbelievable.
00:07:15.000And so what this group is doing to try to take over local groups is terrific.
00:07:20.000I 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.
00:07:28.000Okay, so as I mentioned, Congress basically really is not what it used to be.
00:07:39.000And so the question is, the question that Grant asked was, what are they doing?
00:07:43.000What is Lindsey Graham and what is Adam Kinzinger?
00:07:46.000And 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.
00:07:53.000Because according to him, the most important thing is granting amnesty to lawbreakers.
00:07:57.000Like, that's what the Republican Party should be focused on, which is just stunning to me.
00:08:01.000It's like, let's not listen to one thing the voters have told us the last decade.
00:08:06.000We're just going to ignore the will of the people.
00:08:08.000Every election, voters are voting for stricter immigration, stronger borders, and quite honestly, less people coming into the country, both legal and illegal.
00:08:17.000And we should be for legal immigration, but we have way too many people coming into the country right now.
00:08:22.000And we should be unafraid to say that.
00:08:23.000And 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.
00:08:35.000These are not children coming to the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Center.
00:08:48.000I 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.
00:08:55.000Look, you've got some cartel members that you're bringing right into the Kay Bailey-Hutchinson Center.
00:08:59.000So I have a proposal: every Hindland Park liberal that voted for Biden should have to take a cartel member into their home.
00:09:38.000It's look how good of a person I am until it hits home.
00:09:40.000And 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.
00:10:57.000We 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.
00:11:05.000And 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.
00:11:19.000Like that's what we were supposed to have.
00:11:56.000So 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.
00:12:11.000They agree on unrestricted pro-Chinese trade.
00:12:15.000They agree on corporate dominance over our economy.
00:12:18.000There's really no difference between the two.
00:12:20.000It'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.
00:12:31.000And by the way, most times that's the right choice because we have no other choice.
00:12:35.000And so I'm going to tell you that that's still the right thing to do when you're presented with that option.
00:12:39.000But that also means we didn't do our work before that option presented itself to field good candidates.
00:12:44.000And 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.
00:13:06.000And they never got anything substantial done.
00:13:08.000And 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.
00:13:14.000And 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.
00:13:30.000Like that's that's who we hired for a reason, because he was unafraid to pick that fight.
00:13:34.000When you hire a bodyguard, you don't care about his tweet history.
00:13:37.000You care about is he willing to fight?
00:13:39.000Is he going to win when the fight comes, right?
00:13:44.000And 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.
00:14:14.000And so the establishment, they want to go back to the Uniparty.
00:14:18.000And so what Trump did and why they hated him, they hated him a little bit because of his style and he irritated.
00:14:23.000It gave them extra reason to hate him.
00:14:25.000But 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.
00:14:39.000We're sending our young people in the middle of nowhere to go fight for sand and death.
00:14:44.000And as Sun Tzu, who literally wrote The Art of War, said, a nation perpetually at war gets perpetually poor.
00:15:06.000I 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.
00:15:14.000So let me be very clear about my commitment to the veterans and the people in this room.
00:15:19.000And so the second thing is Trump comes on the stage and he says all these trade deals have actually been hurting us.
00:16:00.000And then Trump says, okay, but what about the 7 million manufacturing jobs that are lost?
00:16:06.000What country has ever been great and stayed great without having people make stuff with their hands?
00:16:11.000And that is the kind of common sense instinct that was completely lost on the Bush class and the people that ran our country.
00:16:17.000And 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?
00:16:27.000The issue that everyone talks a good game on, and yet we see this continuous trend of open borders and the consequences of it.
00:16:36.000Wages going down, crime going up in certain communities, guns falling into our country, women getting sex trafficked.
00:16:42.000And we said, okay, this guy who's literally a builder might be able to build something that actually can solve this problem.
00:17:34.000He was an employee for people that felt so upset.
00:17:37.000And you know what the really good news is?
00:17:39.000That if he never runs again, you could find a candidate who can represent those ideas as well.
00:17:44.000It's unlikely, but he was nothing, not nothing more.
00:17:48.000He's more than that because he has persevered and all that.
00:17:49.000But 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.
00:18:06.000Those 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?
00:19:11.000I love economics, but there's externalities to everything.
00:19:14.000And the externality to free trade is that you're going to displace millions of people.
00:19:19.000And be careful how quickly you do that.
00:19:21.000And 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.
00:19:30.000And that's what Trump really represented.
00:19:32.000And so, and what we should talk about more.
00:19:35.000And so the really interesting thing that's happening right now, and this is why we lost Georgia.
00:19:42.000We lost Georgia for a variety of reasons.
00:19:43.000We lost Georgia, obviously, because of the mail-in balloting shenanigans and the worst governor in America, Brian Kemp, who's an absolute disaster.
00:19:49.000He's very corrupt and he's not very smart.
00:19:51.000And he signed this consent decree with Stacey Abrams, basically allowing completely relaxed signature standards with more ballots coming in.
00:20:13.000And 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.
00:20:21.000Is 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.
00:20:29.000And I said, wait a second, that's not the complete argument right now.
00:20:40.000But to act as if this is a binary choice, like it's either going to be socialism or capitalism.
00:20:45.000No, there's another threat out there that people are really worried about.
00:20:48.000And that's the woke industrial complex that's running our country.
00:20:52.000And 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.
00:21:08.000I'm like, no, it's actually not that simple.
00:21:10.000No, 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.
00:21:17.000Unless you give them an argument that you're going to go declare war on the factory that just closed in Savannah, Georgia.
00:21:23.000And here's the interesting third thing that could be happening, and it is happening in our country.
00:21:27.000And 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.
00:21:43.000And 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.
00:21:50.000And everyone should listen very carefully what he said.
00:21:52.000When 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?
00:22:14.000You don't have to do what the left does.
00:22:15.000But be direct and say, no, I don't like the fact that you're doing this.
00:22:19.000And 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.
00:22:31.000Google is more powerful than our government.
00:22:35.000And 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.
00:22:50.000And what happens is that the corporate class only wants you to talk about the threat of the bureaucrats.
00:22:57.000I don't like the Employment Prevention Agency, the EPA.
00:23:01.000I think they do terrible, you know, the Environmental Protection Agency.
00:23:04.000I thought in Texas, that would probably be a big thing.
00:23:06.000And so I understand the threat of the heavy hand of government.
00:23:12.000But I can make an argument that corporations are destroying more people's freedoms and liberties in the government right now.
00:23:18.000The founding fathers always feared centralized power and control for good reason.
00:23:23.000But they never envisioned a set of companies that could have as much power as the government, if not more power.
00:23:30.000Google is exponentially more powerful than our own government.
00:23:33.000Now, you might say, Charlie, Google can't put you in prison.
00:24:02.000Not when it comes to free speech violations or practices.
00:24:05.000Google 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.
00:24:15.000Just working on manipulating what you and your children are processing on the internet every day.
00:24:19.000Show me a government agency that has that much power.
00:24:22.000Now you might say, well, the military has that much power.
00:24:28.000I mean, they have weapons, they have ammunition, they have all that.
00:24:31.000It's also probably like, I used to make this argument, and then they're militarizing DC and they're doing all this.
00:24:37.000I 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.
00:25:33.000Teddy 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.
00:25:40.000Way too much of a nuanced issue, but not worth the time for tonight.
00:25:44.000The point is that we should, I'm glad we broke them up.
00:25:47.000But even with that, Carnegie and Rockefeller wrote extensively about how they love their country.
00:25:51.000Zuckerberg and these guys, they write extensively about how much they hate their country.
00:25:57.000And 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?
00:26:21.000And so all of that is part of this kind of new woke industrial complex.
00:26:25.000But the institutions that matter most, the two things that we still have some touch, hopefully to, is the American family and the American church.
00:26:35.000And 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.
00:26:43.000And 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.
00:26:54.000And 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.
00:27:01.000If you believe the assessment what I just gave, you might disagree.
00:27:04.000And I will give credit where credit's due.
00:27:06.000This 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.
00:27:19.000And 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.
00:27:25.000If 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.
00:29:44.000I am not going to live in a country where we have 10 companies to choose from.
00:29:47.000And they all have each other's back at all times.
00:29:50.000When 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.
00:31:04.000They don't all of a sudden like, oh, yeah, they're going to start wearing cowboy boots and like cowboy hats.
00:31:08.000Like, 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.
00:31:15.000You're going to have soul cycle in every corner, and everyone's going to be vegan, and kale will be everywhere.
00:32:15.000Instead, we should be much more serious about what do we as conservatives stand for.
00:32:21.000And 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.
00:32:34.000And God forbid, if we ever have to use it against usurptatious government or corporate power, God forbid if that would ever happen.
00:32:40.000And most importantly, out of all of it, we recognize that we're actually in a theological debate right now.
00:32:46.000And we believe two things: that there is a God and you are not him.
00:33:37.000The provocative way I would respond is: I don't care.
00:33:41.000I 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.
00:34:39.000And somehow we just are supposed to accept the fact that 10 or 15 companies are going to rule everything.
00:34:43.000Okay, 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.
00:34:49.000And I'm here to just liberate the American debate.
00:34:52.000And 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.
00:35:30.000We want more young people to get married younger.
00:35:33.000We 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.
00:35:42.000And I'm just submitting a modest critique of commercial society.
00:35:45.000I think commercial society can be very healthy, obviously, because you have innovations and products.
00:35:51.000But we've been in this kind of very strange corporate prism, and it's time to break out of it.
00:35:58.000And so what we're really in right now is a values debate in our country.
00:36:02.000And that's one that we're going to win if we're unafraid to articulate it.
00:36:06.000But this is where you come in, and you have to demand this out of your leaders.
00:36:10.000And your leaders and your Republican leaders, because they're mostly funded by the corporate types, they're afraid to talk like this.
00:36:16.000They're afraid that all of a sudden the Chamber of Commerce is not going to endorse, or whatever it is, right?
00:36:21.000But this agenda, most Americans are looking for a political party to be able to articulate this.
00:36:28.000And the other side is giving us a gift.
00:36:31.000The other side is literally saying it's the most bigoted ideology imaginable.
00:37:13.000They do not want to look at people's humanity.
00:37:15.000They want to look at people's melanin content, which is inherently a bigoted way to view the world.
00:37:20.000I actually think that's super unpopular.
00:37:22.000I 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.
00:37:30.000And when we're given that chance again, if we're just the like anti-socialism party, it's not going to do it.
00:37:37.000But if we're the party that's like, you know what?
00:37:39.000Small businesses should have been the massive recipients of any sort of public policy decision over the last year, not corporate America.
00:37:49.000And we should be unafraid to say that it's not a good thing when the wealthiest people are $600 billion richer.
00:37:53.000That's not a good thing for the country.
00:38:15.000If 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?
00:38:48.000And the fact that we're able to draw 200 plus people when things look as bleak as they do right now is awesome.
00:38:55.000And that should be the starting point.
00:38:57.000And 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.
00:39:04.000And then before you realize it starts to multiply into further action from people.
00:39:09.000And this is something the left has been phenomenally good at is they've actually believed more than us that their action makes a difference.
00:40:26.000So before we say we've exhausted all options, Charlie, really half of precinct committee positions nationwide in the Republican Party are vacant.
00:41:04.000But 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.
00:41:16.000And 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.
00:41:32.000And so dismiss that fear in that sense.
00:41:39.000This 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.
00:41:46.000We'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.
00:41:54.000And by the way, that could have been my speech tonight.
00:41:56.000When 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.
00:42:27.000I have guiding principles, but I have priorities.
00:42:31.000And I'm going to put my priorities first.
00:42:32.000And 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.
00:42:42.000And 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.
00:42:49.000We're going to win huge, massive, by 70 to 80%.
00:42:52.000Now, we could screw it up because Republicans are experts at that.
00:43:29.000Really appreciate you having this opportunity.
00:43:32.000My question really is around the outreach to the minority community.
00:43:36.000You're seeing a lot of minorities who are now starting to come out and really understand what's really going on.
00:43:41.000Me 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.
00:43:52.000I grew up in Compton and Watts, California.
00:43:54.000I grew up doing the gang eras, lost a lot of family members.
00:43:58.000I lost and seen the death of so many things happen.
00:44:02.000What I've also noticed is the miscommunication steps that the Republican Party has done to the minority community.
00:44:10.000They've never done a great job of saying, look, let me explain to you what welfare does.
00:44:15.000Let me explain to you what drugs do in your community.
00:44:17.000The question is, is how do we get the word really out?
00:44:20.000How do we get them to understand and know, like, look, these people are not your friends.
00:44:24.000They have been your enemies for decades.
00:44:40.000The 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.
00:44:51.000It is the most powerful tool in American politics.
00:44:54.000And so I get called that every single day by the activist media.
00:45:01.000And you guys shouldn't either, because that word, unfortunately, has lost all of its meaning because there are literal racists in the world.
00:45:07.000And now we're all getting like grouped together.
00:45:09.000Every 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.
00:45:19.000But look, what you also say is absolutely true.
00:45:22.000And Candace Owens, who worked with us for years, a couple years at Turning Point USA, she does an amazing job.
00:45:29.000My friend Rita and I have got to know Candace very well.
00:45:33.000And Candace was our communications director at Turning Point USA.
00:45:37.000We had a lot of fun on college campus, as I can tell you.
00:45:40.000She talks about the most important need, in her estimation, is getting the truth out about how the Democrat Party has never changed.
00:46:19.000If 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.
00:46:35.000So 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.
00:46:46.000And so when you shut down these manufacturing plants, the displacement largely targeted minority communities.
00:46:52.000And so I look at Turning Point USA, we do a black leadership summit.
00:46:55.000We have our Hispanic Latino leadership summit coming up in April.
00:47:00.000So if there's anyone that wants to attend that, it's going to be phenomenal.
00:47:03.000And so we're trying to lead by example in that regard.
00:47:06.000And I've been, and one thing, it's so funny, Donald Trump got attacked by every way.
00:47:11.000No person has ever been called a racist more than Donald Trump.
00:47:14.000I think that's probably a fair thing, right?
00:47:16.000Even more than David Duke, which is so unfair if you actually think about it.
00:47:20.000And he did historically well with black and Hispanic voters.
00:47:25.000In 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.
00:47:32.000Now, why was Trump able to resonate with those voters?
00:47:35.000Well, first of all, he had a no-BS, authentic way of speaking.
00:47:39.000And I know this from a lot of Hispanic people on our staff.
00:47:44.000And 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.
00:47:50.000I think you would probably agree with that.
00:47:52.000And Trump, he was a performer at heart, right?
00:47:54.000And he was able to all talk about that.
00:47:57.000Strict immigration too, the border wall was a very big thing.
00:47:59.000And 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.
00:48:12.000And so, what I'm saying, though, is there's actually a movement in that direction, believe it or not.
00:48:15.000That I believe firmly, the paradigm that I've always talked about is: here's the, everyone says America's so divided.
00:48:21.000I'm like, let me tell you who's actually the divide is here.
00:48:24.000The divide is between the Zoom and the Skype class and the muscular class.
00:49:09.000They 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.
00:49:18.000But 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.
00:49:31.000Trump gave them a voice for the first time in a long time.
00:49:34.000And we have to also say that the rise in automation in our country is going to come at a cost.
00:49:41.000We're going to be able to get products cheaper.
00:49:43.000We're going to be able to get products there faster.
00:49:45.000We also could potentially disenfranchise 40, 50, or 60 million people.
00:49:50.000And that's something that really we must get very serious about.
00:49:53.000So I'm actually really optimistic about our chances, but currently Republicans are massively screwing it up.
00:50:01.000They go back to what does the Chamber of Commerce want.
00:50:04.000And 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.
00:50:20.000That's cheap labor to bring down wages so you don't have to pay Americans black families higher wages.
00:50:27.000So 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.
00:50:40.000And that's been awful for every single community in America.
00:50:44.000And yes, prices will go up a little bit.
00:50:47.000And I'm not, I know, I know economics, a wonderful woman running for mayor from Plano.
00:50:53.000What 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.
00:51:03.000And that is something that we must say.
00:51:05.000We've gone way too far in the other direction.
00:51:07.000And I believe firmly that minority families want to work, they want to actually see their lives improve.
00:51:14.000And when given the option, they can do that.
00:51:16.000And school choice is also another very successful issue.
00:51:19.000Okay, I took way too long on that question, but it was worth it.
00:51:29.000Thank you so much for coming down here tonight.
00:51:32.000One 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.
00:51:45.000And 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?
00:53:10.000It's way more provocative, basically telling young people they shouldn't go to college.
00:53:14.000Happy to talk about that if people want to before the parents say that my time is up.
00:53:18.000But the, and I can make the, I could actually probably convince half the room, the other half would still think I'm wrong.
00:53:23.000But these campuses have an out, we basically have turned our entire country into a college campus is what we've done.
00:53:28.000Our entire country had been taken over by the college, by college campuses, where these corporations are basically part of the woke industrial complex.
00:53:36.000And so how do we push back against political correctness?
00:53:40.000The next time a family member, a friend, a neighbor, a business leader gets targeted for cancellation, go stand up for that person, please.
00:53:51.000Just 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?
00:53:59.000I'm giving that asterisk because I got to see the New York Times.
00:54:01.000Charlie Kirk, you know, says defend people at all costs.
00:54:30.000They want an apology because they want submission.
00:54:33.000Cancel culture only works because we've allowed it to work.
00:54:36.000Now, the people that push back against it, the ultimate person who never allowed himself to be canceled is Donald Trump.
00:54:43.000He'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.
00:54:52.000And so what we call cancel culture is only going to stop when we say no more.
00:54:57.000We're not going to allow you to do this anymore.
00:54:59.000We're not going to allow you to expel members from Congress.
00:55:02.000We're not going to allow you just to kick people off.
00:56:14.000They knew they were turning in their votes last.
00:56:16.000We saw them all simultaneously stop counting.
00:56:19.000And then everyone here knows what happened.
00:56:22.000And then we watched these people come forward and tell us about all these other little, all their testimony from the states and everything.
00:56:29.000But I think in Georgia, it doesn't matter what Leffler and Purdue said.
00:56:33.000I 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.
00:59:26.000I think It was multifaceted, and I hear you completely.
00:59:33.000But 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.
00:59:42.000Because then, then I'm saying, then everyone's like, well, we got no choice except like, no, we made other mistakes as well.
00:59:48.000So 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.