The Charlie Kirk Show - How Trump is Beating Biden in the Battle for the Black Vote

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00:02:47.000 Charlie, so yesterday, it was a crazy day.

00:02:52.000 You have been doing three or four events a day.

00:02:55.000 We've been crisscrossing the country.

00:02:57.000 We started yesterday in Chandler, Arizona.

00:02:59.000 Went to Chino Hills with Jack Hibbs, and we went to Hemet, which was something.

00:03:03.000 And then we went up to San Jose.

00:03:09.000 And then we went down to here.

00:03:11.000 And look, we're working really hard.

00:03:13.000 We're doing two podcasts a day, two hours of radio a day, speaking on average three to four times a day.

00:03:17.000 You know, Samuel, my dear friend here, he's like, hey, do you want to add an 8 a.m.?

00:03:21.000 I said, I want to just go all out because right now, this is the time to do it.

00:03:26.000 Right?

00:03:30.000 I just feel called that God has given us this platform.

00:03:34.000 God has given us this time and this moment.

00:03:36.000 And, you know, we want to go as hard as we possibly can.

00:03:40.000 And so it's been an amazing blessing.

00:03:42.000 You know, we wake up every morning just so thankful that we get to pour into something where we see ourselves moving the dial even slightly towards something that is good.

00:03:52.000 And that is a fulfilling life.

00:03:53.000 And so We are just so blessed to be here today to be able to unpack some of these ideas, kind of give an update of what's going on, talking about why church is essential.

00:04:04.000 By the way, it's amazing to see all of you gathering in person here today.

00:04:10.000 So, Charlie, you know, people say, well, you know, the church should disengage from politics.

00:04:17.000 And yet when I came from Australia to America, I found that the entire political system in America was birthed out of faith.

00:04:28.000 Amen.

00:04:29.000 And let's go even further back.

00:04:32.000 Some people say that the church should be completely separate from politics. 0.60

00:04:36.000 Well, when Tyndale started to translate the Bible into English, which was the language of the peasants, he went back to the Koinier Greek.

00:04:43.000 And he found out something really interesting that was not necessarily being interpreted towards its original meaning.

00:04:51.000 So the word church was kind of a placeholder term for the term that Jesus himself used called ecclesia.

00:04:57.000 Now, what is an ecclesia?

00:04:58.000 Now, some people say it means gathering.

00:05:00.000 That's not incorrect, but it's not the full picture.

00:05:03.000 See, Jesus, when he said, on this rock, we all say build my church.

00:05:07.000 He said, on this rock, build my ecclesia.

00:05:09.000 And so I felt so moved by my pastor, Rob McCoy, to go into a real deep dive of where does this word come from?

00:05:15.000 Why did Jesus use a secular term?

00:05:17.000 He didn't use synagogue.

00:05:19.000 He didn't use temple.

00:05:20.000 He said ecclesia.

00:05:21.000 It's because ecclesia was a real thing that existed during that time.

00:05:24.000 It was a Greek gathering that was the closest thing you could possibly have towards a political meeting.

00:05:31.000 It was a democracy.

00:05:32.000 It was all voting age individuals that would come together unified around two principles, a Greek word called ella eutheria and isonomia, freedom and equality.

00:05:44.000 So Jesus said, on this rock, build my ecclesia.

00:05:48.000 He said, on this rock, build my gathering of active, engaged, involved, aware people that are not walled off, that are not compartmentalized, instead, that have a comprehensive Christianity.

00:06:00.000 It's so interesting because when Jesus said that, he went up to the mouth of the Jordan River and all the pagan religions were screaming their heads off as he said this. 0.63

00:06:07.000 And he said, all of those will perish, but on this rock, build my ecclesia.

00:06:11.000 And he used that term, I think, intentionally because Jesus never wanted the church, in my opinion, in any sort of theological deep dive when you go into the Greek words that were used to be walled off.

00:06:22.000 He never wanted the church to be something that's like, we have the truth, you don't.

00:06:25.000 We're not going to go contest in this sphere of influence.

00:06:28.000 And so now here we are in a country that was founded on the two words of ellautheria and isonomia, freedom and equality.

00:06:34.000 We're in that country.

00:06:35.000 We're in the country that Jesus said, on the rock, build my ecclesia.

00:06:39.000 And what a gift we have because most of the rest of the world does not live in that kind of a country.

00:06:43.000 And I believe that we've been given this incredible gift, truly from God, inspired by activist preachers that founded this country.

00:06:50.000 Albeit we've made a mistake, but America is not a mistake, everybody.

00:06:53.000 This is a gift from God that we live in this country.

00:07:02.000 So the ecclesia, the marketplace, the place of ideas, obviously there was contention.

00:07:10.000 What happens if the church steps back from the ecclesia?

00:07:14.000 If we just step into hiding behind the walls of the church, disengaging?

00:07:19.000 Well, what happens is California, where all of a sudden the church saw an incredible surge of growth.

00:07:27.000 Jesus movement, Calvary Chapel.

00:07:28.000 There's more Calvary Chapel south of Anuys than Dunkin' Donuts.

00:07:31.000 You flip over a stone, you got a Calvary Chapel in Southern California, right?

00:07:35.000 10,000% growth, that's not transfer growth, that's conversion growth, right?

00:07:40.000 But Calvary Chapel always believed we don't do politics.

00:07:42.000 We don't get into that stuff.

00:07:43.000 And they were trying to bring people out of Eastern religions and drug use, 60s and 70s.

00:07:48.000 I kind of get that to an extent.

00:07:49.000 But as the church grew, did California become a better place to raise a family for middle-class incomes?

00:07:55.000 California has aborted more babies than the entire population of Canada.

00:07:59.000 California is the author of No Fault Divorce, Transgender Bathrooms, the most graphic and awful anti-Christian, anti-biblical sexual education curriculum you could possibly imagine, most homeless, hardest to start a business, most unequal.

00:08:12.000 You guys all know it, gas tax, highest income tax you could possibly imagine.

00:08:15.000 So as the church was being built, the left was doing ecclesia.

00:08:18.000 While the church was gathering and going towards conversions, not disciples, the culture around us was tearing around.

00:08:24.000 And I attribute this to two things.

00:08:25.000 Number one, understandable eschatology.

00:08:28.000 Some people think that Jesus is coming next Thursday.

00:08:30.000 What's the big deal?

00:08:31.000 Church is on fire. 0.89

00:08:32.000 Let's get the kids out.

00:08:33.000 I'm like, why don't you put the fire out?

00:08:35.000 Exactly.

00:08:36.000 Exactly.

00:08:38.000 The house is on fire. 0.87

00:08:39.000 Let's get the kids out.

00:08:40.000 Number two is that people are afraid to contest on issues that might make them lose friends, might make them lose social status, or that they might not be that well versed on.

00:08:40.000 Put the fire out.

00:08:52.000 And so what happens is you have a state right now where in the midst of a pandemic, tens of thousands of businesses that are going under, schools that are closed, you've lost more people to suicide under the age of 30 in this state to the virus.

00:09:05.000 What is Gavin Newsom's priority?

00:09:07.000 His priority is to pander to the pedophile lobby to pass SB 145 signed into law that now if you're a pedophile in the state of California, if a judge gives you the authority to do so, and there's plenty of activist judges in this state, you do not have to register in the sex registry.

00:09:22.000 That is in law.

00:09:23.000 So while the world is burning, BLM is marching through the streets, pastors are going to prison, Gavin Newsom says, I know I want to go give a gift to the long-desired pedophile lobby in this state.

00:09:36.000 That is what happens when the church doesn't engage.

00:09:38.000 The church saw a renaissance the last 30 years in this state, but the state declined.

00:09:44.000 And so only half of church-going Californians that are evangelicals are registered to vote.

00:09:49.000 Only half of those vote in presidential years.

00:09:52.000 Most people that go to the church and raise their hand and say, Jesus Christ is Lord, they don't contest at all in the political system.

00:09:58.000 And I believe that we are going to be called to account in every sphere of influence, from civic, governmental, and everything that we do.

00:10:07.000 Well, let's drill down on that.

00:10:08.000 You know, Proverbs says that when the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

00:10:14.000 God gave dominion over the earth to man.

00:10:17.000 So God is not going to choose who he wants.

00:10:22.000 He's basically given us.

00:10:23.000 He says, hey, if you want this guy to be the leader, then that's the leader.

00:10:27.000 But understand, whoever you elect, you're going to live under their policies.

00:10:30.000 So there's a lot of contention that, well, you know, Donald Trump is, he has, you know, crazy tweets. 1.00

00:10:40.000 He's a racist. 1.00

00:10:41.000 He puts people in cages. 1.00

00:10:43.000 And you've traveled with him.

00:10:45.000 You know him.

00:10:47.000 Tell us from the inside what the media is saying.

00:10:50.000 How accurate is what we're hearing on CNN, MSNBC?

00:10:54.000 Yeah, let's unpack each of those.

00:10:56.000 So let's just start with the kids in cages.

00:10:58.000 It's an absolute bitter lie.

00:11:00.000 It's just, it is a pathological lie.

00:11:02.000 The entire idea that children are on the southern border intentionally being put in cages.

00:11:07.000 First of all, that policy, if at all it existed, which has been sunsetted, was from the prior administration.

00:11:11.000 Any of the photographs, any of the videos happened under the Obama administration. 0.97

00:11:15.000 And so if you were silent during the Obama administration, you're tweeting about kids in cages all of a sudden because you don't like the current president of the president, then you're kind of a hypocrite, to be perfectly honest with you. 0.91

00:11:25.000 And the second thing is this, which is, and so I find that entire line of reasoning, I hear it all the time. 0.97

00:11:30.000 And I just, it is so incredibly pathologically untrue that Donald Trump is like ordering young children to be put into cages.

00:11:40.000 In fact, there's a new story.

00:11:41.000 You guys could look it up that they're being put in hotel rooms now.

00:11:44.000 I mean, that's, that's, that, to try and at least have some sort of transition process.

00:11:48.000 That's number one.

00:11:49.000 Number two, the racist thing.

00:11:50.000 Let's just get into this.

00:11:51.000 Someone does not magically become a racist just because they decide to run for the presidency.

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00:12:47.000 And so let's look at the life of Donald Trump.

00:12:50.000 He gets, he's in 128 rap songs.

00:12:53.000 I'm in zero rap songs, okay?

00:12:57.000 He was honored by Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, black community.

00:13:00.000 He owned a sports team.

00:13:02.000 He drafted Herschel Walker, who he let babysit his kids.

00:13:05.000 Herschel Walker, who won the Heisman Trophy, one of the greatest college athletes of all time, says that Donald Trump is one of the most decent, amazing human beings ever.

00:13:13.000 So someone doesn't magically all of a sudden get the wickedness in their heart because they go down the escalator.

00:13:19.000 What it is, is a cheap, baseless attack to try to silence discussion.

00:13:24.000 That's what it really is.

00:13:25.000 And quite honestly, let's just look at the policy portfolio.

00:13:28.000 If this guy harbored those sort of resentments in his heart, why did he give record funding to historical black colleges and universities?

00:13:35.000 Why did he go out of his way to sign prison reform, the First Step Act, which all of us as Christians should say, you know what, people do deserve a second chance at life.

00:13:44.000 People do deserve redemption.

00:13:45.000 And it's President Donald Trump who, not Barack Obama, not Kamala Harris, who championed that through the U.S. Congress and got it signed into law, which has now allowed over 1,000 mostly black inmates successful reentry back into society when they had very, very harsh prison sentences.

00:14:05.000 And these are people, by the way, that had become pastors of prison ministries.

00:14:08.000 I mean, they had an incredible track record, but they were not allowed out because of prior crime bills that were written.

00:14:15.000 And President Trump said, this doesn't make any sense.

00:14:17.000 How about opportunity zones, which has brought billions and billions of dollars to the black community across the country?

00:14:24.000 And then you just look through the, and the other picture is this, which is that I really find it to be disappointing.

00:14:33.000 In fact, maddening and really dangerous when we use a term that has so much weight as racist and we just throw it around like a frisbee.

00:14:42.000 Because here's the problem, is that there are people in this country that are racist.

00:14:46.000 But I always say that we have a supply and demand problem with racists in our country.

00:14:50.000 There's an incredible demand by the mainstream media to try to find racists.

00:14:56.000 The problem is there's just not that many of them.

00:14:58.000 Like we have a lack of supply.

00:15:00.000 And like when you could... 0.80

00:15:01.000 I mean, Jesse Smilet had to hire two black guys to pretend there were white guys. 0.61

00:15:06.000 In the antebellum South, you didn't fake hate crimes.

00:15:09.000 Like they happened all the time.

00:15:11.000 When there is a fake hate crime industry out there of which there's hoaxes, maybe we're actually a lot more decent than we give ourselves credit for.

00:15:18.000 And I'm not saying there's not people that harbor that resentment.

00:15:20.000 I'm not saying they don't exist.

00:15:22.000 I'm saying they're nowhere near as widespread nor institutionalized.

00:15:25.000 And so here's what happens when you have this incredible amount of demand and a low level of supply.

00:15:30.000 Anyone that says anything racist becomes an instantaneous celebrity overnight.

00:15:34.000 Just look at Richard Spencer or David Duke.

00:15:36.000 We know these people because there's such an incredible demand and low supply.

00:15:40.000 They become overnight celebrities.

00:15:42.000 If they were everywhere, we would have to have that kind of like that kind of tension.

00:15:46.000 The second part about is this, which is, I'm a big believer that speech and dialogue is really what prevents us from tearing each other apart.

00:15:56.000 Christ was the ultimate, the ultimate communicator.

00:16:00.000 He engaged in difficult dialectics intentionally.

00:16:05.000 And Aristotle said that we are the speaking beings.

00:16:08.000 Like we as human beings, we need to be able to talk to get things off our chest, to get our deep thoughts articulated, and we can then wrestle with these ideas.

00:16:17.000 And from a utilitarian standpoint, as soon as you stop talking, that bridge from silence to all of a sudden tearing each other apart happens like that.

00:16:26.000 There's only two ways to govern human beings.

00:16:28.000 Two ways.

00:16:29.000 You can organize every single government system in the history of the world in one of these two ways.

00:16:33.000 One is by speaking, talking, and persuasion.

00:16:35.000 That is the American system.

00:16:37.000 You have to make really good arguments.

00:16:38.000 You have to win people's trust.

00:16:40.000 You have to use logic and reason.

00:16:42.000 And hopefully you're able to do a good job.

00:16:44.000 And if not, you're kicked out of office.

00:16:46.000 The other way is by force.

00:16:47.000 That's it.

00:16:48.000 That's the only two ways to govern people.

00:16:50.000 And so my fear is that when we just throw around that term, you're a racist. 0.99

00:16:54.000 You're a racist. 1.00

00:16:55.000 Like, wait a second. 1.00

00:16:56.000 What you're doing is you're trying to stop people from talking.

00:16:59.000 Because understandably, no one wants to be called that.

00:17:02.000 No one wants to be called that.

00:17:04.000 And as soon as you are, you run to the hills.

00:17:06.000 I don't want to be called that awful name.

00:17:06.000 You're like, I'm done.

00:17:08.000 And it is an almost political paralysis that people get.

00:17:13.000 They stop.

00:17:14.000 As soon as you get told that, all discussions end, you're like, I'm disengaging.

00:17:18.000 I don't want to interface anymore.

00:17:20.000 And I think that we have to get past that moment in American politics.

00:17:23.000 And this is something I've learned, which is that I'm a conservative and I think that the left is wrong.

00:17:28.000 They think we're bad.

00:17:30.000 They think we're actually really bad people.

00:17:33.000 And as soon as you think the other side is bad, that gives you justification to all of a sudden have a moral license to do things you otherwise would not do if you just thought they were incorrect on policy.

00:17:44.000 Wow, that's incredible.

00:17:47.000 You know, a lot of the videos that I've seen and one of the things that really highlighted you as a Joshua to our generation is your courage.

00:17:59.000 And I love how you've gone into the schools.

00:18:01.000 Now, one of the saddest things is I know that Harvard, Veritas Truth, used to be the bastion of being a theological seminary to train people up with a biblical worldview.

00:18:12.000 And I think, again, while we were building the church walls, they were doing ecclesia going into our colleges.

00:18:20.000 Talk a little bit about what you're so passionate about, because it's literally every time I see it, you're in the lion's den.

00:18:25.000 They're screaming and they're.

00:18:28.000 And I love the comparison to Daniel, by the way, of just not myself, just in general.

00:18:33.000 And I'll get into that in a second.

00:18:34.000 I think we have some turning point leaders here, by the way.

00:18:36.000 The turning point USA leaders are American.

00:18:38.000 God bless you guys.

00:18:39.000 God bless you.

00:18:42.000 And so, look, I guess we can, I should probably go backwards a little bit.

00:18:47.000 Eight and a half years ago, I started Turning Point USA without going to college.

00:18:51.000 I took a gap year.

00:18:52.000 Yeah, I started with 18 and a half.

00:18:52.000 19.

00:18:55.000 And it's been eight and a half gap years.

00:18:58.000 And it's kind of awesome.

00:19:01.000 And look, I'm a very outspoken critic.

00:19:04.000 And I think a little bit, I push the boundaries on this topic intentionally because I think that we as human beings want, we need our presuppositions challenged.

00:19:13.000 I think as soon as you don't challenge any sort of preconceptions you have, then all of a sudden you get into dogma and that's a bad thing.

00:19:19.000 And that's why we as Christians should be unafraid to contest about the gospel or about the authenticity of the Bible.

00:19:25.000 Because the more that I believe we dig into the archaeological and the historical backing of the Bible, the more your faith will be strengthened.

00:19:36.000 I really believe that.

00:19:36.000 And so I encourage you guys to not get away from those conversations.

00:19:40.000 The same goes for college.

00:19:41.000 And so because it's completely built on lies.

00:19:45.000 I mean, I'm just going to be very honest with you guys.

00:19:47.000 And the entire way we do higher education in this country, when you look at it, I'm about to tell you some numbers and I'm going to make an argument.

00:19:54.000 We have been doing this so incorrectly for so long, it's time for us to completely rethink how we educate our children post-high school.

00:20:01.000 Only 59% of kids that go to college graduate.

00:20:04.000 59%, 41% of kids that go drop out.

00:20:08.000 How many of you know some of that dropped out of college?

00:20:10.000 Almost everyone does.

00:20:11.000 And those kids have their self-confidence ruined.

00:20:14.000 They're in debt.

00:20:14.000 They're without direction.

00:20:16.000 They never should have gone in the first place.

00:20:17.000 We have way too many kids going to college.

00:20:19.000 Way too many kids.

00:20:20.000 Now, out of the kids that graduate, out of the kids that graduate after 10 years, the New York Federal Reserve said, how are they doing?

00:20:27.000 Like, let's try to measure our success.

00:20:29.000 44% of the kids that graduate, they got the piece of paper.

00:20:32.000 44% are employed in minimum wage jobs that don't require a college degree.

00:20:37.000 So why did they go in the first place?

00:20:38.000 Put simply, they're borrowing money they don't have, they study things that don't matter to find jobs that don't exist.

00:20:44.000 And so we interview thousands and thousands of young people at Turning Point USA.

00:20:49.000 My favorite question to ask a recent college graduate is, what's your skill?

00:20:53.000 And they said, well, I went to Stanford.

00:20:54.000 I said, what's your skill?

00:20:56.000 And they said, no, I studied political science.

00:20:58.000 What's your skill?

00:20:59.000 What can you do that a high schooler cannot do?

00:21:03.000 And they said, well, I know all this stuff.

00:21:05.000 I said, that's not a skill. 0.94

00:21:06.000 And you probably, the stuff you learn is probably mountains of trash anyway.

00:21:10.000 So like, what's your skill?

00:21:12.000 And they've never been asked that question because college is not about skill development, right?

00:21:17.000 It's about an ideological pursuit of nothingness.

00:21:19.000 And let me just be very clear.

00:21:20.000 College is, college is not what you guys think it is.

00:21:26.000 It's not.

00:21:27.000 College should be.

00:21:28.000 And by the way, I'm a huge believer in the idea of the academy.

00:21:31.000 The academy should be this.

00:21:33.000 You've got a sixth, seventh, or eighth grader, and you start them on this journey and you tempt them a little bit.

00:21:37.000 You look at them in the eyes and you say, there is truth and there's goodness in the world.

00:21:41.000 Try and find it.

00:21:43.000 That's what the academy should be.

00:21:44.000 You tempt them.

00:21:45.000 You challenge a young person. 0.62

00:21:46.000 They're like, okay, that's where they start reading Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas. 0.89

00:21:51.000 They dig and they dig.

00:21:52.000 And as soon as they start drinking from the streams of liberty, guess what?

00:21:55.000 They're going to want to go find its source, Jesus Christ.

00:21:57.000 And then that's why Western classical education, it all comes downstream from there, right?

00:22:02.000 All these guys were drinking from the streams of liberty because remember, liberty is not man's idea.

00:22:06.000 It's God's idea.

00:22:07.000 Now, here's the problem, though, is that we don't do that in higher education.

00:22:13.000 We have done something that is so immoral and so awful.

00:22:16.000 We say there is no truth.

00:22:18.000 There is no goodness.

00:22:19.000 Let's go complain nihilistically for the next four years.

00:22:24.000 And they don't learn about Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Classics, Augustine Aquinas, Burke, Hume, the incredible amount of literature that built our country and our civilization, Shakespeare or any of that.

00:22:36.000 Instead, it's grievance-based literature about everything that is wrong about the world around you. 0.99

00:22:41.000 And it creates really unhappy, foolish people. 0.98

00:22:45.000 And so you're paying an exorbitant amount of money for kids not to pursue truth. 0.99

00:22:49.000 And even worse than that, if anyone dare disagree or contribute one piece of information that might be contrary, the dogma says, you're a heretic.

00:22:59.000 I need my trigger warning, safe space, throw them off campus. 0.99

00:23:02.000 We're going to burn this place down.

00:23:04.000 And so college should be about the pursuit of goodness, the pursuit of truth, like almost tempting and challenging that young freshman to go on that journey.

00:23:14.000 So by the time they graduate, that certificate means that I'm a little bit closer to be able to articulate what is good in the world and if there is some form of truth, right?

00:23:24.000 That is what classical education is supposed to be. 0.87

00:23:27.000 Instead, we now create young people to become experts at complaining.

00:23:34.000 And like we have created a professional complaining class where instead of becoming stronger to be able to endure the inevitable and suffering of the world, right?

00:23:44.000 How are you able to create a more, let's say, a better capacity of a metaphorical muscle system to endure the suffering that will come on your shoulders that all of you know that is inevitable, right?

00:23:58.000 The pain, the unexpected, the divorce.

00:24:01.000 It all happens, right?

00:24:02.000 College should be like, I have an 18-year-old by the time they're 22, I want them to be a stronger, better prepared person.

00:24:08.000 We don't do that.

00:24:09.000 Instead, we say, we're going to train you to be able to complain, to try to remove the suffering from the world, to try to say, we're going to turn you into an activist so that you can then go scream louder and mobilize into the streets so that you can eventually get the suffering around us.

00:24:24.000 We as Christians should find huge problems with this because we know we live in a broken world, that we're depraved by nature, and the only salvation is Jesus Christ.

00:24:32.000 We know that.

00:24:34.000 And so if the entire ideological kind of direction of the academy is like, we're going to create a small set of people to go then mobilize in the streets, we say, time out, what are we doing here?

00:24:46.000 And then, so, and then even beyond that, let's go a level deeper.

00:24:50.000 If you send your kid to college, you're going to play Russian roulette with their values.

00:24:54.000 They might go to college and they're going to come back somebody that you do not recognize.

00:25:01.000 In our fast-paced world, it's time to make reading a priority.

00:25:04.000 At least it used to be.

00:25:05.000 A new app called Thinker.

00:25:06.000 You guys have heard me talk about it, thinker.org slash Charlie, T-H-I-N-K-R, has solved that problem by summarizing the key ideas from new and noteworthy fiction, giving you access to an entire library of great books in bite-sized form.

00:25:17.000 Reader listened to hundreds of titles in a matter of minutes, including old classics like Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People.

00:25:23.000 If you want to challenge your preconceptions, expand your horizons at what?

00:25:26.000 Become a better thinker.

00:25:28.000 Go to thinker.org slash Charlie.

00:25:30.000 That's T-H-I-N-K-R.org slash Charlie to start an extended free trial and put your mind in motion.

00:25:40.000 I tell this story quite often.

00:25:42.000 You know, it's the, let's just use this neighborhood for example, because I'm sure a lot of you can resonate with this, right?

00:25:47.000 It's the Del Mar mom.

00:25:48.000 She got all the tutors.

00:25:50.000 And I don't mean any offense to anyone here, by the way.

00:25:52.000 It's just the stereotype that exists, okay?

00:25:54.000 And it's 100% true. 0.97

00:25:56.000 So, right, it's the Del Mar mom, got all the tutors for the kid, gets into Stanford, gets the Stanford mom bumper sticker, right?

00:26:04.000 She's wearing Stanford everything, the grocery store to bed, like working out at the gym.

00:26:08.000 She can't, she tells everyone that her kid got into Stanford, right?

00:26:10.000 It's like breaking news in the community.

00:26:12.000 And that's fine.

00:26:13.000 You know, I couldn't get into Stanford.

00:26:14.000 It's a big deal.

00:26:15.000 They go up to Palo Alto, right?

00:26:16.000 They move their kid in.

00:26:18.000 All of a sudden, they start to see things that are a little weird, right?

00:26:20.000 They all of a sudden see that there's like, I don't know, boys, girls, and girls' dorms next to each other, no such thing as genders.

00:26:26.000 They get a little confused.

00:26:27.000 Their kid goes in to study history, right?

00:26:30.000 And they say, okay, have a nice time Thanksgiving.

00:26:32.000 Kid comes back for Thanksgiving, says, hey, honey, how was your first couple semesters?

00:26:37.000 Well, actually, I'm non-binary now, and I have no gender.

00:26:41.000 And I changed my degree from history to North African lesbian poetry.

00:26:46.000 And by the way, that turkey on Thanksgiving, did it consent to being killed?

00:26:50.000 Because I'm vegan now and that's a point of exploitation. 1.00

00:26:53.000 And this is Indigenous People's Day.

00:26:56.000 And the Stanford mom is like, what just happened?

00:27:01.000 Like, we live in Del Mar.

00:27:02.000 Like, you're a boy.

00:27:03.000 Like, no, I'm not.

00:27:04.000 And you're like, what?

00:27:05.000 Like in 90 days or less.

00:27:07.000 And I mean that.

00:27:08.000 And again, it's an intentionally provocative narrative.

00:27:10.000 I don't mean to, I really do not mean offense, but I say that because it resonates on a very deep level that when you send your kid off to college, all of a sudden they might become somebody completely different.

00:27:19.000 And so I think we have to completely rethink the way that we do higher education.

00:27:23.000 And I'll tell you this, that we need way more people to go to become plumbers, electricians, HVAC, carpenters, entrepreneurs, you know, take risks in the marketplace, police officers, firefighters, go into the military, all these sorts of things.

00:27:36.000 Huge believer in gap years.

00:27:38.000 And so, and I'll be honest with you, there's way more wisdom in the American plumbing community than from Stanford or Yale.

00:27:49.000 Yesterday, I thought I'll just take a little bit of a break.

00:27:52.000 And I hit my 80s classic music.

00:27:57.000 And Michael Jackson, I'm starting with the man in the mirror, came on.

00:28:03.000 I'm asking if he'll change his ways.

00:28:06.000 And the problem with critical race theory is that, and this is what's permeating our colleges today, is that critical race theory basically gets me to look out and America is bad, society is bad, and therefore I need to become an activist against these things that are kind of almost ethereal out there, as opposed to up for the longest time, education was about me working on my character,

00:28:36.000 realizing that the way to change the world out there has to begin with me.

00:28:41.000 And so we have people screaming for equality.

00:28:44.000 Yesterday, I was watching a video of a beautiful black man in San Francisco marching for conservative values.

00:28:52.000 Black man got beat up by white NT for BLM activists, where they knocked one of his teeth out and his mouth is all bloodied. 0.95

00:29:00.000 And I'm like, you do realize you guys are meant to be Black Lives Matter and you just white people just beat up a black guy because that's the problem. 0.97

00:29:08.000 Because when I think that the problem is out there, I can get hate out there and it doesn't begin with me. 0.96

00:29:14.000 And that's the great tragedy.

00:29:16.000 So as we're coming into all of this, and just we've got a few minutes left in this, tell us what are some of the biggest issues that you see that are at stake in this election?

00:29:26.000 Why do we need to go beyond just, hey, go out and vote your values?

00:29:29.000 Why do we need to vote Bible values? 0.88

00:29:31.000 Absolutely.

00:29:32.000 So look, not all elections are created equal.

00:29:36.000 Wow.

00:29:37.000 Not all elections are created equal.

00:29:40.000 A lot of you guys, I was born in 93, and my parents were kind of part of this generation.

00:29:46.000 My parents saw the wall fall.

00:29:49.000 You have a personal, amazing story that I heard last night about the incredible difference of what politics can do to humanity and the moral call we should have between East and West Germany, where you can go to church or you can go to a gulag.

00:30:07.000 It's that simple.

00:30:08.000 And so then the wall fell.

00:30:10.000 And in kind of in a way that I don't think was intentional, I think a lot of middle-class Americans kind of took a deep breath and kind of was like, now I could take the next decade off.

00:30:21.000 And I get it.

00:30:22.000 They were doing bomb drills underneath their desks in the 70s and 80s.

00:30:26.000 They were being told throughout the Reagan administration there was going to be a nuclear warhead going in New York.

00:30:30.000 And like when that wall fell, it was a moment of celebration, but it was also kind of an entrance into complacency.

00:30:36.000 And I'm not saying that critically.

00:30:38.000 I'm saying that just honestly. 0.85

00:30:40.000 When you go through a couple decades of the Soviet Union is going to take you over and you win, you kind of enter that post-war phase. 0.93

00:30:40.000 Because I get it. 0.93

00:30:47.000 And I don't think we've ever articulated the 90s as a post-war phase the way we should.

00:30:51.000 We talk about the 50s as a post-war phase, right?

00:30:53.000 But the 90s was also kind of a post-war phase.

00:30:56.000 And what we didn't realize and what we kind of just took our eye off the ball is that the Marxists, they didn't all disappear as soon as that physical wall fell, everybody.

00:31:06.000 I mean, Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis, they got to work and they re-infiltrated a lot of these institutions.

00:31:13.000 They started to go to the seminaries.

00:31:14.000 They started to go to the schools.

00:31:15.000 What we've kind of seen here, and it's just manifested itself politically quicker because of Donald Trump's style.

00:31:22.000 It's just an accelerant on what already existed.

00:31:25.000 And I want to be very clear.

00:31:26.000 People say he's dividing the countries.

00:31:28.000 No, no, no.

00:31:28.000 He's just put an exponent on what was already happening for the collision course that was inevitable.

00:31:34.000 Okay.

00:31:34.000 And so, and in some ways, in a very unusual way, that he's probably the only one that could have probably ever had the capacity to endure what they threw through.

00:31:45.000 But the kind of moral pietism that people throw at Donald Trump is exhausting to me because, like, I'm such a better person than Donald Trump.

00:31:52.000 How could you possibly vote for somebody like that?

00:31:55.000 And man, I come from a church background where we're all sinners in need of Jesus Christ, right?

00:32:00.000 And we're all broken.

00:32:01.000 And I also say, we could dive into that in the next service, but I will say just generally about the election.

00:32:07.000 Just think of this and people say, I don't like the fact that it's, you know, so binary, that it's one person or the other.

00:32:13.000 And I kind of, I say, well, first of all, that's how it is.

00:32:17.000 So your wishful, you know, kind of interjection into the conversation is completely irrelevant.

00:32:22.000 But also, I kind of like it.

00:32:25.000 And this is, I'm in the minority opinion here.

00:32:27.000 I kind of like that for the first time, we have a choice, not an echo.

00:32:30.000 Where it's like, this guy spoke at the March for Life.

00:32:33.000 This guy wants post-birth abortion.

00:32:35.000 This guy moved the embassy to Jerusalem.

00:32:37.000 This guy gave billions of dollars to Iran. 0.59

00:32:39.000 This guy is ending child sex trafficking.

00:32:41.000 This guy did nothing about it. 0.73

00:32:43.000 This guy held China accountable.

00:32:45.000 This guy literally made millions of dollars through his son by China.

00:32:49.000 This guy is unafraid to be prayed over by evangelical pastors and has a vice president who has introduced more pastors into the White House than any other president in the modern era.

00:32:59.000 This guy.

00:33:00.000 And so I think that if this election goes incorrectly, I'm not going to say it's the end of the country or anything like that.

00:33:08.000 But I will say that it is a worldview that will then be given the biggest platform of a superpower.

00:33:13.000 And these people, they judge their success based on how much power that they obtain.

00:33:19.000 We do not.

00:33:20.000 We actually judge our success by the fruit, by also conversions, by ideas.

00:33:25.000 That's who we are as Christians, right?

00:33:27.000 Power is completely kind of like an earthly thing that we don't care that much about.

00:33:32.000 And I'll close with this because I know we're running over time, but it best articulates what the other side wants.

00:33:38.000 Because I get asked this question all the time.

00:33:40.000 They say, Charlie, what does the left want?

00:33:42.000 I don't get it.

00:33:43.000 It's like what they're doing is trying to destroy things.

00:33:45.000 And I was reading The Art of War, which I encourage all of you guys to read.

00:33:48.000 It's a phenomenal book.

00:33:49.000 It really is.

00:33:49.000 Tons of wisdom there by Sun Tzu.

00:33:52.000 And it just popped out at me.

00:33:53.000 I said, that's exactly right.

00:33:55.000 It says, some people are willing to burn the country down around them just to rule over the ashes.

00:34:02.000 And that's not a prophetic word for now, golly.

00:34:05.000 And I was like, that's exactly that.

00:34:07.000 That is, and for some people, they're completely agnostic to the condition of humanity around them.

00:34:14.000 They just want to be the person in charge of that.

00:34:17.000 And so we know that the stakes have been higher than ever before.

00:34:22.000 We feel it within us that all of a sudden that this is not just another election, right?

00:34:27.000 And for believers out there, I mean, we know that the courts are incredibly important.

00:34:32.000 You have Kavanaugh Gorsuch and now Amy Coney Barrett in just three years.

00:34:36.000 Incredible.

00:34:37.000 And so I know we're over time, but I'll close with this, which is that the government that you have is just like looking in a mirror.

00:34:48.000 It's a reflection of the citizenry, right?

00:34:50.000 And so politicians are just reading the script that we gave them.

00:34:54.000 And so when you don't show up, you don't get active and you don't vote and you don't do these things, they're just going to reflect back on it. 0.77

00:35:00.000 And this is a hard thing to say, but yeah, the pedophiles and their lobby, they worked harder than Christians did in the state the last 20 years. 0.87

00:35:07.000 It's true. 0.90

00:35:09.000 That's why pedophilia in this state has been deregulated.

00:35:13.000 And it's hard for Christians to hear that.

00:35:15.000 It's like, whoa.

00:35:16.000 It's like, yeah, they're up in San Francisco walking precincts.

00:35:19.000 They're donating to candidates.

00:35:21.000 They're making phone calls.

00:35:23.000 And I hate to be that graphic, but that's a real thing that's happened just in this state, where pastors are being arrested, but Planned Parenthoods are being opened.

00:35:30.000 And so Benjamin Franklin said it's a republic if you can keep it.

00:35:35.000 Yes.

00:35:36.000 It's completely in your hands.

00:35:38.000 And so that's what's really on the ballot in this election.

00:35:41.000 Wow.

00:35:48.000 This is the most important election of our lifetime.

00:35:52.000 Our values, our security, and our future are on the ballot.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - October 30, 2020

How Trump is Beating Biden in the Battle for the Black Vote

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