The Charlie Kirk Show - How We Win—LIVE From Godspeak Calvary Chapel

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00:02:08.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:02:10.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:02:12.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:02:15.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:02:18.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:02:19.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:02:20.000 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.

00:02:29.000 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.

00:02:38.000 That's why we are here.

00:02:40.000 Thank you so much.

00:02:41.000 Thank you, everybody.

00:02:42.000 It's great to be here on a Saturday evening.

00:02:44.000 We are doing five church services in 24 hours here in Southern California.

00:02:50.000 And, you know, I use the California example quite a lot.

00:02:56.000 And I talk about this church quite often as I travel the country.

00:03:00.000 I was just in Michigan, and everyone said things are so terrible here in Michigan.

00:03:03.000 I said, well, let me tell you about California.

00:03:06.000 It's not as bad as you think it could be.

00:03:08.000 But then I say, listen, I've been coming to this church for a couple of years now, and Rob is my pastor.

00:03:14.000 And Mikey is, he is the Swiss Army knife of our operation.

00:03:18.000 He's running around here somewhere.

00:03:19.000 And Ryan helps us out in a lot of different ways.

00:03:21.000 And the whole McCoy family has been amazing.

00:03:25.000 And I've been hearing over the last couple years how California has been in kind of perpetual decline.

00:03:32.000 And all of you and this church refuse to take that for an answer.

00:03:37.000 And I hope you understand how much this church has impacted the geopolitical climate as now the eyes of the planet and the world are now on the California recall race.

00:03:51.000 And you made that happen here in this church.

00:03:54.000 It really.

00:03:55.000 And I mentioned this for a reason.

00:03:59.000 I mentioned this for a reason, because it would have been very easy for all of you to be too cynical to collect signatures, too cynical to think that someone like Newsom could be challenged.

00:04:10.000 Now, this is one of the reasons why I think we're going to win, and we're going to talk about that tonight.

00:04:14.000 So, if you had to title tonight's speech, you can call it how we win, three words.

00:04:19.000 Because I'm sure all of you want to know how, but then I'm going to also tell you what it's going to cost you because it's not a free admission, unfortunately, because a good rule for life, things that are beautiful and good and true, almost always come with a price.

00:04:34.000 It's basically one of the rules of life.

00:04:36.000 And so, one of the reasons why I think we're going to win, I'm kind of jumping ahead in my remarks, is that the other side, because they do not have one of the fruits of the spirit, self-control, they're very prone to reckless error.

00:04:51.000 Now, many of you remember that the signature recall effort against Newsom was trending okay until a certain meal happened.

00:05:00.000 When Gavin Newsom, who is so self-righteous, he is so full of pride that he decided he was going to go eat with a $10,000 bottle of wine at a $2,500 a person meal, breaking his own mandate for lockdown without a mask in a restaurant with the biggest windows in the history of the Western Hemisphere, right?

00:05:24.000 And as soon as that one picture was taken, it changed the course of the recall.

00:05:29.000 It went from a recall that might have made it to they had more signatures than they knew what to do with.

00:05:34.000 They couldn't toss out those signatures at whatever rate they could be.

00:05:38.000 Now, however, the recall ends up, and I personally am backing Larry Elder, and I think that he really is doing a great job.

00:05:44.000 And however, and regardless of your own opinion, I think everyone here is going to vote, yes, recall Newsome.

00:05:53.000 I think that's yes.

00:05:54.000 Is that right?

00:05:54.000 Is it sometimes they play word games where it's like, no, I don't want him.

00:06:00.000 Like, okay, you know what I mean?

00:06:01.000 So it's yes, we want to recall him.

00:06:04.000 Where all of us can agree on that question and the replacement you guys can figure out yourselves.

00:06:09.000 I feel like I'm kind of a transplant through California.

00:06:12.000 I spend more time here than in Arizona, which is where we technically live.

00:06:15.000 And because there's so much energy happening here, but I want to first encourage you, and then we get into kind of the deeply real stuff.

00:06:23.000 I don't want to say depressing because it's just real, is that there's a remnant here in California that is fighting for every single inch.

00:06:30.000 And you are sending a message to the rest of the country that this nation is worth fighting for, that impossible fights can go all the way up to where all of a sudden that an untouchable Democrat governor is now fighting for his political life and having to spend nine figures of money to justify his failed governorship.

00:06:47.000 Did you see that press conference that Gavin Newsom did where he just blew up on the reporter?

00:06:52.000 He's worried, which goes to show the other reason why I think we're going to win is because they are the most paranoid winners that I've ever seen in the history of American politics.

00:07:03.000 Is that you're angrier after you won.

00:07:06.000 Like, that's kind of weird, right?

00:07:07.000 Your whole life was about destroying the orange man because he was going to bring us to nuclear war or whatever, right? 0.94

00:07:13.000 And then you get really angry after you win.

00:07:15.000 Maybe there's something deeper that's wrong.

00:07:18.000 Anyway, that's a different question that we could talk about.

00:07:20.000 They all need salvation truly with Jesus Christ and they need to commit their life to a higher purpose.

00:07:24.000 They'll actually find life to be more enjoyable than just kind of these political power games they always find themselves in.

00:07:29.000 And because of this, there's a lot of different ways we can incorporate this, is that I do believe we are going to win, and then there's a big if.

00:07:37.000 So I'm going to go through this speech in three ways.

00:07:39.000 I have no notes here.

00:07:41.000 I've only given this speech kind of half before, but I'm actually writing a three-part essay on this.

00:07:46.000 So all of you guys get kind of the preview of this.

00:07:48.000 But this is the number one question I get.

00:07:50.000 Charlie, what do I do?

00:07:52.000 How do we win?

00:07:53.000 I'm tired of just buying a pillow and watching Tucker Carlson, right?

00:07:56.000 There's got to be more to life than that, right?

00:08:00.000 And by the way, promo code Kirk for all of you that Giza dream sheets, the slippers are very good.

00:08:12.000 Phenomenal slippers, okay?

00:08:14.000 Promo code Kirk.

00:08:14.000 Write it down.

00:08:16.000 There is more you can do, and we're going to talk about that.

00:08:18.000 Okay, so now let's first talk about what is winning.

00:08:22.000 This will be a three-part speech.

00:08:23.000 The first part, what is winning?

00:08:26.000 Well, someone will say it's taking back the House, you're taking back the Senate.

00:08:29.000 That's not winning, okay?

00:08:30.000 Those are momentary political victories that we should aim for, by the way.

00:08:33.000 And just so all of you know, you're going to play a big role in that in the House of Representatives fight.

00:08:38.000 Because a lot of these House districts are going to be right down the street that are going to dictate the balance of power. 0.99

00:08:42.000 So don't feel as if you're disempowered in that fight.

00:08:46.000 But that's not what winning is, right?

00:08:47.000 We've controlled the House of Representatives before, and what do we get?

00:08:49.000 Corporate tax cuts, pandering to big tech, giving pharmaceutical companies whatever they want, keeping the borders wide open, giving China kind of the reckless advantage that they kind of purchased through our elites. 0.67

00:09:01.000 Now, I still think we should try to get political power because at least we could play some form of defense and maybe have some sort of oversight.

00:09:07.000 But just winning another federal election is not what winning looks like.

00:09:10.000 So if we were here in a sport, kind of like a sporting kind of preseason meeting, winning would be like, well, it's winning the Super Bowl.

00:09:18.000 It's raising the Lombardi Trophy.

00:09:20.000 It's winning the World Series.

00:09:21.000 It's winning the NBA Finals.

00:09:23.000 Then you work backwards from there.

00:09:25.000 Winning very simply for us is restoring the American way of life.

00:09:30.000 And I can say this generationally, I feel like I'm a boomer now when I say this.

00:09:34.000 I want my country back.

00:09:36.000 I want the country I grew up in back.

00:09:38.000 And there's tremendous political power actually in nostalgia.

00:09:45.000 And this is something that we don't talk about enough, is that the left, because they're soulless and godless and ugly and degenerate and rather unsettled people, they always are trying to make us believe in the cult of progress.

00:10:00.000 This comes from a German historicist view of the world that eventually things are going to get better.

00:10:05.000 We know this is not true, right?

00:10:07.000 We know that just because you have airplanes and TikTok and Twitter, life is not going to all of a sudden suddenly improve.

00:10:13.000 Is the moral condition of a nation actually improving?

00:10:16.000 Are people living lives where they can balance liberty with licentiousness, which is one of my favorite words that the founding fathers use time and time again.

00:10:24.000 And if we're honest with ourselves, America post-1960s, we have failed in almost every single regard as far as moral decline, as far as how we kind of gauge our own fiscal policy in this country.

00:10:37.000 And so restoring the American way of life, there was a moment, though, that I think was better, obviously, than we're living through right now, which was the country I grew up in, like 2005, 2006, which is that if anyone dared talk about skin color, you'd be run out of the room. 0.60

00:10:51.000 It's like, no, you're a bigot and you're a racist.

00:10:52.000 We're not talking to you. 0.59

00:10:54.000 It's where there is this accepted upon kind of American creed, which was very simple.

00:10:58.000 You work hard and play by the rules, your life will get better and your children's life will get better.

00:11:02.000 It was generally accepted in the early 2000s, the country I grew up in, that having children was an objective moral good.

00:11:09.000 That families need to be preserved and protected.

00:11:12.000 And that our history as a country and a nation is something we should be proud of.

00:11:16.000 All of that has now been put in jeopardy.

00:11:17.000 And so I want you to think about this deeply, that in the last 10 years, we have lived through a cultural revolution.

00:11:24.000 And most people don't even realize it.

00:11:25.000 This is what I call the silent revolution, is that you look back kind of 10 years later, and all of a sudden you see and you realize that after 10 years, you're living in a completely different country.

00:11:38.000 And how did this happen?

00:11:39.000 Well, we can go through the root causes we all know about.

00:11:41.000 It was the gutless wonder leaders we sent to Washington, D.C., academia, the pharmaceutical companies, the corporate companies.

00:11:47.000 But also, we never did a good enough job as Christians and conservatives articulating what success looked like.

00:11:53.000 And instead, We were worried about things that mattered more than politics.

00:11:59.000 Building businesses, building churches, raising our kids, kind of developing our families.

00:12:05.000 Those things are way more important than politics.

00:12:07.000 But guess what?

00:12:08.000 Because we took no concern about politics largely, it's now been moved up the hierarchy.

00:12:13.000 You see, for the other side, they've never valued creating things out of nothing.

00:12:18.000 So they don't really value family creation as an ultimate good.

00:12:21.000 Building churches is not a necessity to them.

00:12:23.000 Building a business is kind of a side project.

00:12:25.000 Instead, they believe that taking over political organizations is the highest form of value.

00:12:32.000 And they've been really good at it over the last 30 and 40 years.

00:12:34.000 So when we ask ourselves, what does success look like?

00:12:37.000 It's very simple.

00:12:39.000 I want children to be more excited about our country than their parents.

00:12:42.000 I want a nation where you don't have to lock your doors anymore.

00:12:44.000 I want to restore the American creed and promise.

00:12:47.000 And we should be very clear about that.

00:12:48.000 And we also should be realistic and not delusional that it's going to take a great cost for us to get there.

00:12:53.000 Is that it's not going to be one election or just turning on the switch.

00:12:56.000 It's going to take the long march through the institutions.

00:12:59.000 Some of you will never see that in your lifetime.

00:13:02.000 That's a hard truth for you to realize.

00:13:04.000 If you're over the age of 50, you'll probably not see that.

00:13:07.000 You will not get your country back in your life. 0.86

00:13:09.000 It's going to be my generation that when I'm 50, we might have a fighting chance to do that.

00:13:12.000 It took them 60 years to destroy this.

00:13:14.000 You think we're going to restore it in five years?

00:13:16.000 Of course not.

00:13:17.000 It's going to take long form movements, rebuilding infrastructure, person-to-person persuasion.

00:13:22.000 Now, we can play defense very well.

00:13:24.000 We can stop the bleeding.

00:13:25.000 We can win referendums and win elections and implement things that are meaningful.

00:13:30.000 But I love you guys too much to lie to you.

00:13:34.000 And people have been lying to you over the last 10 years.

00:13:36.000 Give me political power and everything is going to get better.

00:13:40.000 Instead, you have to buy into this.

00:13:41.000 And it's not for the faint of heart, by the way, because we live in an instant gratification culture where you get things as soon as you want them, right?

00:13:48.000 That's not this.

00:13:50.000 This is now, and this is a provocative thing to say.

00:13:53.000 America's gone through three foundings before.

00:13:55.000 The first founding in July 4th, 1776, some people say 1787, whatever, that period of time.

00:14:01.000 I would say that July 4th, 1776 was the true founding of the American Republic.

00:14:06.000 The second founding was post-Civil War.

00:14:08.000 Lincoln re-founded the country.

00:14:10.000 The third founding, which no one wants to talk about, was the 1960s.

00:14:13.000 We changed everything through the Civil Rights Act regime, through the sexual revolution, through importing cheap labor, through changing our immigration policies. 0.79

00:14:21.000 We refounded the country in the 1960s, and we're now living through the results 60 years later.

00:14:26.000 We now have to refound the country.

00:14:28.000 We have to go through a fourth founding.

00:14:30.000 And I would say that the founding that we should try to re-embrace is the founding of Abraham Lincoln, is the founding that embraces these unique American values: I care about your character, your soul, and your spirit.

00:14:41.000 I don't care about your skin color. 1.00

00:14:42.000 I care about people being able to rise regardless of how they look or where they were born.

00:14:46.000 And this is, by the way, very popular when presented to the American people.

00:14:52.000 And this is something that when most people actually hear this, this is what they want.

00:14:55.000 So that is what success looks like.

00:14:57.000 And also, I'm just going to kind of talk about brutal politics.

00:15:01.000 I want the left to be on defense.

00:15:03.000 That's what success looks like.

00:15:04.000 I want us to be marching through city council races and referendum races.

00:15:08.000 I want us to be so perpetually on offense, they don't even know how to launch a Connor of counteroffensive, which is, goes to my second kind of bracket of this speech of kind of how we win, is we need to do a threat assessment of what we're good at and what they're good at, what we're bad at and what they're bad at.

00:15:26.000 You know that if you sit down with most Republicans in the U.S. Senate, they would not be able to tell you a threat assessment against the left.

00:15:33.000 Think about how unbelievably short-sighted that is.

00:15:36.000 If I sat down with the coach of the Los Angeles Rams before they were going to play the Las Vegas Raiders, I guess that's what they're called now, he'd be able to tell you which one of their corners has trouble going deep, which linebackers have trouble tackling going horizontally.

00:15:48.000 They have a full scouting report of every single person, play, and head.

00:15:52.000 I'm here to tell you right now, the Republican Party has no scouting report for who we're up against.

00:15:57.000 We are flying blind.

00:15:58.000 So let's talk about it.

00:16:00.000 What are we good at?

00:16:00.000 What are we bad at?

00:16:01.000 What are they good at?

00:16:02.000 What are they bad at?

00:16:02.000 Okay, let's start with their side.

00:16:04.000 Okay.

00:16:05.000 Their side, what they're good at.

00:16:06.000 They have a lot of money and they're willing to spend it.

00:16:09.000 They also have a willingness beyond anything that we have seen.

00:16:14.000 They want the destruction of this country and they're willing to do whatever is possible.

00:16:17.000 They are enthusiastic about using political power.

00:16:21.000 They're okay with ruining your life in pursuit of what they consider to be the right thing.

00:16:26.000 You don't want to take the vaccine? 0.86

00:16:27.000 We will fire you and humiliate you. 0.99

00:16:29.000 You don't want to fly the black flag? 1.00

00:16:31.000 We will humiliate you and mock you. 0.99

00:16:33.000 They are willing to use the apparatus of power to crush you. 0.92

00:16:36.000 Now, you might say, well, Charlie, that's a negative.

00:16:38.000 No, that's a positive for their side because that used to be an un-American value.

00:16:42.000 It used to be an un-American value to use the apparatus of political power to go after your enemies.

00:16:47.000 That's what Nixon resigned for.

00:16:50.000 Nixon resigned because the accusation was he used the office of the White House and the presidency to go after people he didn't like.

00:16:56.000 What else are they good at?

00:16:57.000 Well, they're very good at taking over cultural institutions and they're incredibly good at moral blackmail, the best.

00:17:04.000 They are an institutional moral blackmail industry.

00:17:07.000 Hollywood, sports, basketball, schools, they will get to the highest levels of institutions and say, if you dare question us, we will call you a bigot publicly and cancel you.

00:17:17.000 They're also very good at hanging together, aren't they?

00:17:19.000 They refuse to cancel their own.

00:17:21.000 Hunter Biden is allowed to sell $500,000 pieces of art that look like vomit on the best possible day.

00:17:29.000 And I got to give the left credit.

00:17:30.000 This is another thing they're good at, is that they're very good at knowing how to game the system, right?

00:17:39.000 So I get to see the meeting right now.

00:17:41.000 You know, Joe Biden and Ron Clain, they're like, okay, how do we launder money legally to our family?

00:17:46.000 They're like, well, you know, real estate has like some objective value.

00:17:51.000 We tried that with the Chinese and the hedge fund, but like Hunter, you know, started to do cocaine. 0.85

00:17:55.000 And like someone's like, well, like, okay, so Hunter is a degenerate. 0.62

00:17:58.000 He impregnates women all over the world. 0.99

00:17:59.000 He's a drug user. 1.00

00:18:01.000 You know, he lies, he steals, he cheats. 0.98

00:18:03.000 Like, what kind of archetype?

00:18:04.000 Oh, he's an artist, of course.

00:18:05.000 Like, that makes sense.

00:18:06.000 You know, that's what they do, right?

00:18:09.000 It's kind of perfect.

00:18:10.000 You know, like, if you're an artist out there, don't mean to offend you.

00:18:13.000 Like, stop taking yourself so seriously, okay?

00:18:15.000 So it's a general truth that if you're in the artistic community, you're into psychedelics.

00:18:19.000 Like, that's part of what the whole thing is.

00:18:22.000 And so they're like, okay, how do we get money from Saudi King A to the Biden family?

00:18:28.000 Like, well, let's go pick the one industry where value is completely subjective.

00:18:32.000 Art, right?

00:18:33.000 I mean, they have like signed urinals being sold for $6 million at this, that's true, like literally a signed urnal.

00:18:39.000 And they're like, okay, well, you know, let's have Hunter Biden just like go paint a couple lines and go sell him for half a million bucks, and that'll hold up in court.

00:18:45.000 And that's what they did.

00:18:46.000 And so the Biden family now has at least a million dollars a month coming in of Hunter Biden's art.

00:18:52.000 You got to think about it, right?

00:18:52.000 It's pretty genius.

00:18:54.000 And who, what Republican attorney general would dare indict that?

00:18:57.000 Well, if Donald Trump Jr. did that, he would be indicted that afternoon.

00:19:01.000 If he even thought about doing it, it's a conspiracy to defraud the art community.

00:19:06.000 How dare he go after the great postmodern art community?

00:19:11.000 Okay.

00:19:12.000 So they are, I'll finish with kind of their positives.

00:19:15.000 This is not an exhaustive list, but I will say this, is that at the current state of affairs, their other positive is that they value their form of victory more so than the continuity of the country.

00:19:32.000 And again, that might be something that you consider a negative, and it could be considered a vulnerability.

00:19:37.000 But generally, that means that they are willing to sacrifice in great numbers and reputationally for this.

00:19:44.000 Okay, so what are the vulnerabilities, right?

00:19:47.000 So those are the strong spots.

00:19:49.000 And what are the weak spots of the people we're up against?

00:19:52.000 Well, I kind of foreshadowed it.

00:19:54.000 Number one, they're incredibly paranoid, right?

00:19:56.000 Number two, they're very likely to fight amongst themselves.

00:19:58.000 You're already seeing this.

00:19:59.000 In fact, I spoke here.

00:20:01.000 I spoke here back in January, and I predicted that they will eat their own.

00:20:01.000 Remember, Rob?

00:20:05.000 Cuomo is gone, and Newsom's about to be gone.

00:20:07.000 Prediction made, prediction fulfilled.

00:20:09.000 They eat their own.

00:20:11.000 And that's only starting.

00:20:15.000 They do not have self-control. 0.99

00:20:16.000 And just a very obvious thing about one of their weak spots is that since they have no self-control, they embrace the stupidest ideas ever, and then they repeat them on television and triple down on them. 0.98

00:20:28.000 And so I'm going to kind of take a little side note here and kind of talk about the way that all of you need to explain Afghanistan to all of your friends, okay? 0.96

00:20:36.000 This has very little to do with the military and everything to do about what you're fighting every single day.

00:20:41.000 So we've done a lot of podcasts on this.

00:20:43.000 We just talked to Keith Rose about this, which is this, which is critical race theory is a seemingly kind of like out, like distant academic theory, right?

00:20:53.000 It's like, okay, you know, it's probably going to create a bunch of racists, but like, you know, we'll fight a little hard on this.

00:21:00.000 This is the best argument against critical race theory I've ever seen.

00:21:03.000 You see, when you value diversity over competency, you get that press conference that we saw at the Pentagon of Dumb and Dumber of Mark Milley and Lloyd Austin, who are staring like deers and headlights, who are saying the following.

00:21:19.000 We don't know how many Americans are in Afghanistan.

00:21:21.000 We do not have the ability to get them out.

00:21:23.000 We are caught flat-footed and we didn't see the Taliban coming. 0.94

00:21:26.000 Now, Lloyd Austin, when he was chosen as the Department of Defense Secretary, the AP News, Associated Press News, said that Lloyd Austin, first ever black Department of Defense Secretary, for him, racism is a personal fight and struggle.

00:21:41.000 And so I remember reading this article.

00:21:42.000 I covered it.

00:21:42.000 I said, okay, has he ever won a war?

00:21:46.000 Is this guy smart?

00:21:48.000 What's his IQ?

00:21:49.000 You know, is he willing to do what's necessary and not leave Americans behind?

00:21:53.000 He's a diversity pick, of course.

00:21:54.000 Like, first, I don't care if he's the first black guy to do it. 0.60

00:21:56.000 Okay, if he's competent and black, then congratulations. 0.93

00:21:59.000 Then he, like the Clarence Thomas, like we picked him because he was competent, not because he was black. 0.94

00:22:04.000 But it's so obvious Lloyd Austin is not ready for this.

00:22:07.000 Then you have Mark Milley next to him. 1.00

00:22:08.000 He's the dumber and the dumb, right? 1.00

00:22:11.000 Who, and again, this is a total side note. 1.00

00:22:13.000 I'm going to get totally canceled for this.

00:22:15.000 Okay.

00:22:16.000 Actually, I'm not. 0.98

00:22:18.000 Enough with the fat generals, okay? 0.96

00:22:20.000 Like, what is this all about? 0.97

00:22:21.000 Okay.

00:22:21.000 No, seriously.

00:22:23.000 We're here to win wars, okay?

00:22:25.000 It's not old country buffet.

00:22:26.000 It's unbelievable.

00:22:28.000 No, seriously.

00:22:30.000 And this is, it's a real.

00:22:33.000 And this goes to a, I mean, it's an embarrassment.

00:22:36.000 And you have the side angle of these guys, and you're like, we're supposed to take these guys seriously?

00:22:44.000 Anyway.

00:22:50.000 So, back to the non-controversial speech of tonight.

00:22:56.000 You have Mark Milley, who's the only type of white male that this regime will accept, who's self-hating, clever, and obedient, and willing to climb the ladder to do what is necessary, right?

00:23:07.000 Where he testifies in front of Congress in June while the Taliban was planning a takeover of Kabul.

00:23:13.000 He says that we need our military members to learn about white rage, read Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility, and Ibram X. Kenny's How to be an Anti-Racist.

00:23:19.000 That's the head of your military.

00:23:22.000 So you have that press conference where they don't know how many Americans there are.

00:23:25.000 They saw the Taliban take over in 11 days.

00:23:27.000 You were humiliated and I was humiliated.

00:23:30.000 We are still being humiliated.

00:23:31.000 And people are asking the question, why?

00:23:34.000 How did this happen?

00:23:34.000 The answer is very simple.

00:23:36.000 This is the coming attractions trailer of critical race theory for your country.

00:23:42.000 This is the 30-second preview of a five-hour slaughter film of what's about to happen in every single department.

00:23:50.000 I'll give you critical race theory when we pick airline pilots, which is how the military is doing that now.

00:23:55.000 It's not on competency.

00:23:56.000 It's not on how good of a pilot you are.

00:23:57.000 It's on skin color.

00:23:59.000 Now, I'm sure you, like me, couldn't care less about what the color of the skin of somebody is when they fly the plane.

00:24:04.000 They're doing that now for doctors. 0.96

00:24:05.000 We need more black doctors. 1.00

00:24:06.000 No, actually, we need competent doctors. 0.82

00:24:08.000 We need people that know what they're doing.

00:24:10.000 And so it's all fun and games.

00:24:11.000 It's all like bumper sticker type activism with BLM kind of yard signs until all of a sudden you see in vivid terms, a city fall in 11 days and 30,000 Americans are held hostage.

00:24:22.000 Then all of a sudden it's really something that all of us are like, maybe we shouldn't teach our children this.

00:24:26.000 And that's the proper way to explain what's happened in the last couple of days.

00:24:30.000 So the Biden regime, they're paralyzed.

00:24:32.000 They don't know what to do.

00:24:32.000 You know why?

00:24:33.000 Because they didn't pick anyone competent to be around their White House.

00:24:36.000 It's because they don't have anyone that actually knows what to do under pressure.

00:24:40.000 There's a great quote by Plato, which I prefer Aristotle, but Plato was great too, where he said, power shows the man.

00:24:47.000 You want to find out who a person is?

00:24:48.000 Give them a bunch of power, resources, funding, and put them in pressure-filled situations.

00:24:52.000 You'll find out who that person is really quickly.

00:24:55.000 And you see in Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley, they did not earn those spots.

00:24:58.000 No, they were willing.

00:25:00.000 They were willing and able to be obedient placeholders for a very destructive agenda in the United States military.

00:25:07.000 The military, everybody, the one place that should be the most competent institution.

00:25:12.000 But then all of a sudden, what happened back in February?

00:25:14.000 We were told that men who think they are women need to be in the United States military.

00:25:19.000 They would look at the military as a social engineering project.

00:25:22.000 And all of these trends have now played into this.

00:25:26.000 So I kind of go back to what their weakness is.

00:25:28.000 This is part of their weakness.

00:25:30.000 Is the weakness that they have is their ideas are so awful and terrible.

00:25:36.000 They also don't prudently implement them, right?

00:25:39.000 So I'll give you another example.

00:25:40.000 I'm writing a separate article about this, where I think the day that we won the next election and where the conservative movement got permanently invigorated against the corporate class was not January 6th.

00:25:54.000 It was January 9th.

00:25:55.000 Does anyone know what happened on January 9th?

00:25:57.000 President Trump got banned from every social media site at one moment.

00:26:01.000 So I've done a lot of thinking about this, and I believe that moment was all of a sudden all of you no longer needed convincing that a small collection of companies were rigged against you to try to destroy the country.

00:26:13.000 That's a big deal because we used to have to persuade you about that.

00:26:16.000 Free markets, low taxes, entrepreneurs, as if we need to defend Mark Zuckerberg's right to destroy our lives, right?

00:26:23.000 And all of a sudden it's like, no, they banned a sitting president from social media channels.

00:26:29.000 And you're trying to tell me that these companies want our best interests?

00:26:33.000 A sitting president while he was president.

00:26:34.000 So what did that do?

00:26:35.000 What they did is they failed the boiling frog experiment.

00:26:38.000 So if you're trying to boil a frog, you do it incrementally before it realizes that it's being boiled to death.

00:26:43.000 So they went straight to 10 out of 10.

00:26:45.000 Frog's like, it's really hot.

00:26:46.000 I'm going to jump out.

00:26:47.000 And that's exactly what they did all of us.

00:26:49.000 This is one of their weak spots, is they have no prudence.

00:26:52.000 They have no ability on how to, they've gotten very, because they have no patience, which is a fruit of the spirit, and they don't have that, is that they do not know how to micro-dose their radicalism anymore.

00:27:04.000 They used to be able to do this.

00:27:05.000 They were really good at micro-dosing radicalism in the 70s and 80s and 90s.

00:27:10.000 Best example of this was the gay marriage thing. 0.99

00:27:13.000 They micro-dosed that, right?

00:27:15.000 It was like, it's all about equality.

00:27:16.000 It's all about love.

00:27:18.000 It was really hard to fight back against that, wasn't it?

00:27:20.000 Because it felt as if they were always taking the moral high ground and they were willing to be patient and they were willing to win in one place, San Francisco, and then Los Angeles and then California.

00:27:28.000 And then all of this next thing you know, it's the law of the land by one stroke of the pen by a Supreme Court justice.

00:27:33.000 They have lost that.

00:27:34.000 They might say, Charlie, why have they lost that?

00:27:36.000 It's because Trump kind of broke them, quite honestly, is that Trump has made them believe they are running out of time and they have to implement everything right now, regardless of how insane it sounds.

00:27:47.000 And that's one of the longest-lasting great legacies of President Trump, quite honestly, is that he has revealed these people for who they truly are.

00:27:54.000 And so I can go into this further, but if we're talking about a threat assessment report, their positives, they're negatives.

00:28:04.000 If you guys have questions about that, we can talk about it.

00:28:06.000 Okay, let's talk about our side, which is kind of what we can, you know, do.

00:28:09.000 Let's talk about our negatives first.

00:28:11.000 Then I'll get to our positives because the negatives far outweigh us.

00:28:14.000 We're not as willing as they are.

00:28:17.000 The most important word that we don't like to talk about is willingness.

00:28:21.000 Now, this is changing.

00:28:22.000 I want to encourage all of you.

00:28:24.000 This is changing.

00:28:25.000 But how many people do you know that have significant net worth are willing to commit 95% of their resources right now to change or save the country?

00:28:33.000 Anyone?

00:28:33.000 Probably no one.

00:28:34.000 I know of no one.

00:28:35.000 George Soros did that without blinking an eye.

00:28:37.000 George Soros dedicated $19 billion.

00:28:40.000 It's my wonderful wife enters. 0.78

00:28:41.000 Everyone, give her a round of applause.

00:28:49.000 Where George Soros dedicated $19 billion of his $21 billion to the Open Society Foundation that we have to fight every single year.

00:28:57.000 Republican donors gave a lot to the 2020 election.

00:29:00.000 Mark Zuckerberg gave $400 million that we know of.

00:29:04.000 They're willing to use their companies to politicize things.

00:29:07.000 Now, I'm not saying that we all have to give all of our money away, but there is a question of where's the willingness on our side?

00:29:13.000 It's almost as if the willingness to take the hill overturns the willingness to keep the hill.

00:29:19.000 Why is that?

00:29:20.000 Because all of you need to break out of this.

00:29:22.000 Immediately, the country you grew up in is dead.

00:29:25.000 It's gone.

00:29:27.000 It's not coming back anytime soon.

00:29:29.000 You're going to have to recreate it and re-found it and be optimistic and build it back up from the bottom.

00:29:34.000 And it can be done.

00:29:35.000 Because all of you deep down think that, well, you know, I just have to go on one more vacation.

00:29:40.000 When I come back, it's going to get better.

00:29:41.000 Or I don't want to upset my stock portfolio, right?

00:29:43.000 Because that's the most important thing.

00:29:45.000 Or my social status.

00:29:46.000 I'm here to tell you right now, and this audience, you guys will agree with me.

00:29:50.000 Some audience, someone heckled me the other day.

00:29:52.000 They're like, no, this is extreme.

00:29:55.000 Like the other side isn't as bad as you think.

00:29:57.000 I'm like, really?

00:30:00.000 Maybe you're on that side.

00:30:01.000 Like, what side are you talking about, right?

00:30:04.000 And so that's actually very comforting.

00:30:07.000 I know it sounds like it isn't, right?

00:30:09.000 It's comforting because for a lot of you that think that we're going to all of a sudden return to how things were, not going to happen anytime soon.

00:30:19.000 So the doctrine that we must embrace then is that we must get back to this kind of World War II mentality. 0.56

00:30:27.000 I'm not saying that we're in a physical combatant war, okay?

00:30:30.000 Please, the media is so dishonest.

00:30:31.000 That's not what I'm saying.

00:30:33.000 We're in a much different type of struggle.

00:30:36.000 We're in World War II.

00:30:37.000 It was like, yeah, we're going to do whatever's necessary.

00:30:39.000 National debt to 144% of GDP.

00:30:41.000 Okay.

00:30:42.000 Turning every factory into a place to go make munitions.

00:30:44.000 That's fine.

00:30:45.000 Got to go draft another 3 million people to go storm the beach.

00:30:48.000 Okay.

00:30:49.000 Whatever the question was, the answer was yes.

00:30:50.000 The will was the number one driver of why we won World War II.

00:30:56.000 We had capacity, but all of a sudden the will got raised up.

00:31:00.000 Whatever it takes, drafting entire villages out of rural Iowa, got to go take Berlin. 0.68

00:31:06.000 It's what we got to do.

00:31:07.000 Now, I'm not asking you to do anything even close to that.

00:31:10.000 What I am asking, though, is why is it that it seems that the 75 million people that voted for Trump, that all of a sudden so many seem to just kind of disappear until the next election, right?

00:31:23.000 And so the victory will come down to who is willing.

00:31:27.000 And that's how I'll end the speech.

00:31:28.000 The other thing that we're not so good at, and I'll kind of just be very honest, is the Republican Party is not an opposition party.

00:31:36.000 We have a one-party rule in Washington, D.C., with a couple exceptions.

00:31:40.000 We are ruled by Democans and Republicrats that lie to you every single day and expand government and keep borders wide open and pander to corporate oligarchy. 0.75

00:31:51.000 We need to retake the Republican Party and make it a legitimate pro-American party, pro-freedom party, and pro-liberty party.

00:31:59.000 And I will prove it to you.

00:32:02.000 So, exhibit A as to how this works is Florida.

00:32:08.000 Ron DeSantis, who's phenomenal, has given all of us a blueprint on how to win.

00:32:16.000 I know I'm way over time, but I'm just going to, okay, yeah.

00:32:19.000 So, a blueprint on how to win.

00:32:21.000 Ron DeSantis has banned critical race theory.

00:32:24.000 He has signed an anti-rioting bill.

00:32:26.000 He has refused to close down schools, no mask mandates, no vaccine mandates, and 0% income tax corporately, 0%.

00:32:35.000 And anytime the media comes after him, he punches back twice as hard.

00:32:39.000 And so, Ron DeSantis has showed us that there can be a new era of Republican leadership, that there can be a new type of Republican.

00:32:51.000 And guess what?

00:32:52.000 Florida is not a comfortably Republican state.

00:32:54.000 At least it never used to be.

00:32:55.000 And you know what's amazing?

00:32:57.000 With every new measure he puts in, Florida becomes more Republican.

00:33:01.000 Here's the amazing thing: is that people actually want leadership, Democrats included, is that when Ron DeSantis implements something and two weeks later, life is actually really nice in Florida.

00:33:12.000 They're like, I like this guy.

00:33:14.000 I know that's a weird thing for Republicans to hear, is that people actually can be led to follow Republican politics.

00:33:20.000 Not everything is all of a sudden set in stone.

00:33:23.000 And Ron DeSantis has the missing ingredient, which is courage.

00:33:27.000 But I just want to say, Ron DeSantis is in the vast minority of Republican leaders across the country.

00:33:32.000 Most Republican governors right now are instituting mask mandates, vaccine mandates.

00:33:37.000 They're shutting down businesses again, and they're pandering to the pharmaceutical lobby, and they're doing joint press conferences with tech companies moving to their states.

00:33:44.000 And they're saying the most important thing they need to do is go welcome more refugees from Afghanistan.

00:33:48.000 I can name three governors that are doing that right now.

00:33:51.000 And so that starts with all of us.

00:33:53.000 We have to retake the Republican Party and change the Republican Party.

00:33:56.000 And that's one of our negatives.

00:33:58.000 Okay, I could go through the negatives more, but let's go to our positives because that's a good thing, right?

00:34:02.000 Is this, which is we have the greatest untapped potential of any political movement in the history of human beings.

00:34:08.000 I have never seen a movement that does so little, that can do so much, and still has a chance to save the country.

00:34:14.000 It's rather remarkable.

00:34:17.000 That we have so much more power than we realize.

00:34:20.000 I'll prove it to you.

00:34:21.000 I'll prove it to you right now.

00:34:23.000 We could end Coca-Cola by the next shareholders' meeting.

00:34:25.000 We'd have decided we don't want to do that.

00:34:28.000 Why haven't we done that?

00:34:30.000 Now, some of you might have individually done that, right?

00:34:32.000 And we're calling to do it.

00:34:34.000 What I'm saying is that we have so much consumer power.

00:34:38.000 We have so much sway over our local communities.

00:34:40.000 If you want a business, you are in power.

00:34:42.000 You have a lot of power in that way.

00:34:44.000 And you look at the 75 million people that we know that voted for Donald Trump.

00:34:48.000 There's a lot of untapped potential there.

00:34:51.000 We're starting to see this a little bit in the school board uprising, a little bit, where now parents are flooding school boards all across the country organically, and they are starting to say no more.

00:35:02.000 And so another positive we have, which is the most obvious positive we have, is that we happen to have truth.

00:35:11.000 Here's a good rule for life.

00:35:12.000 Be on the side that's talking about things that are true.

00:35:16.000 Generally a good rule for life, right?

00:35:19.000 And they don't, where we are actually able to talk about things that are objectively beautiful, good, and true.

00:35:26.000 That we could talk about things that benefit people's lives, that actually fit the idea of natural rights self-government.

00:35:32.000 This is a big deal.

00:35:34.000 Is that when this collision happens, which it does, is that we actually get to then communicate and persuade to people that are unconvinced things that are eternal and that are true.

00:35:45.000 And so, I kind of summarize all that together in the second part of this talk, which is a realization as we get to the last part of this, which is we are not in a conversation with the other side right now.

00:35:56.000 This is a hard thing for Christians, especially to admit and to want to internalize.

00:36:02.000 This is not a coffee shop debate with your liberal friend.

00:36:06.000 They mean business and they're willing to use the political power to destroy your life.

00:36:10.000 So, now it goes to the third part: what do we do about it?

00:36:12.000 Well, then it comes down to willingness.

00:36:14.000 And Rob's talked about this: every single one of you are going to have to sacrifice something meaningful in the coming 12 months if we're serious about losing the country.

00:36:23.000 Could be reputational, could be income, it could be friends, it could be something.

00:36:28.000 And someone's like, Well, Charlie, I don't know what I have to sacrifice.

00:36:31.000 I'm like, get in the arena, you'll figure out really quick, really quick.

00:36:36.000 In California, that could be tough, right?

00:36:38.000 Let me give you one example, okay?

00:36:40.000 Go through your credit card statements over the last two years, go to secondvote.com, 2ndvote.com, where they rate every single company in the country based on their woke-ism score.

00:36:51.000 Circle every company that you spend money with voluntarily that represents the Democrat Party and stop spending money with them.

00:36:57.000 If every single person did that in this church, that's millions of dollars of purchasing power right now.

00:37:02.000 That's it.

00:37:05.000 That's the simplest example, right?

00:37:08.000 Not to mention, and you said, What's the website?

00:37:11.000 It's 2ndvote.com.

00:37:12.000 You can use promo code Charlie, and it's like 25 bucks a year, it's nothing.

00:37:16.000 And they do a really good job.

00:37:17.000 It rates every company in the country, by the way, just so you guys know: from Coca-Cola to Delta to Home Depot to Lowe's, based on their contributions and their CEOs.

00:37:26.000 And then the other part is this, which is supporting people that are courageous, like Rob.

00:37:32.000 Keep on attending church and supporting churches like this one and getting behind movements like this.

00:37:40.000 But then it's also asking the Lord to give you guidance of where you need to be a leader.

00:37:45.000 And when that moment comes and you get that email from your boss, get vaccinated by next Friday or else you're going to lose your job, your number is getting called at that moment.

00:37:57.000 And I'll be honest, there's a lot of brave people here.

00:38:01.000 There's more cowardly people than brave people in America.

00:38:04.000 I get more emails from people that say, Charlie, I reluctantly took it because I didn't want to lose my job.

00:38:08.000 And I'm not there to tell them that they made the wrong decision.

00:38:11.000 I'm saying they made a cowardly decision.

00:38:14.000 I mean, sometimes the cowardly decision can be the right decision for your family, right?

00:38:17.000 Who am I to say that I want to take income away from your children, right?

00:38:20.000 How dare I say something like that, right?

00:38:23.000 But relenting and bending the knee, I mean, that's their whole game plan, right?

00:38:30.000 That's the whole ballgame.

00:38:32.000 And so then here comes the second part, which I think the other thing that we can do is we need to build a much better support system.

00:38:38.000 This church has done a great job.

00:38:40.000 And we did this at Dream City Church when we did our event, where two young ladies came up, they said, I'm going to lose my job next Friday because I'm a nurse and they're forced to get vaccinated.

00:38:50.000 They both had job offers at clinics that didn't require mandatory vaccines within 48 hours.

00:38:55.000 Great support system, right there, right?

00:38:58.000 And so if all of a sudden we kind of build this community network that becomes immune to cancellation, all of a sudden their penalties are going to mean a lot less.

00:39:10.000 And I will kind of segue back for a second why the only reason this mandatory vaccine thing is happening is because the Republican leaders that you send to Washington, D.C. have betrayed you, just so you know.

00:39:20.000 I've seen this firsthand is that Republicans, that even some that we only, the one that's been amazing is Rand Paul.

00:39:26.000 I got to give him credit.

00:39:27.000 He has been really great.

00:39:29.000 He's been phenomenal.

00:39:30.000 Is that they're taking money from AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Johnson Johnson, and Moderna.

00:39:36.000 And they're the ones that are pushing quietly for these companies to do this.

00:39:39.000 They're okay with it.

00:39:40.000 They're like, yeah, whatever.

00:39:41.000 We're not going to die on this hill.

00:39:42.000 Meanwhile, military service members are being forced to get vaccinated and nurses are being forced to get vaccinated.

00:39:48.000 You know where the vaccine isn't required?

00:39:49.000 In the Biden White House?

00:39:53.000 Do you know that it's optional to take the vaccine if you work in the White House press secretary office, but not optional if you're a service member?

00:40:01.000 And certain Western militaries, I'm still trying to confirm which one it is, they're putting red bans on unvaccinated service members now.

00:40:07.000 Not American yet, but I think it's either Australia or Britain or one of them.

00:40:10.000 They're putting red bans.

00:40:11.000 Australia is now under martial law.

00:40:13.000 You know, just so you guys know, if we were kind of had a media in our country, they'd be covering that.

00:40:18.000 So it's going to cost everyone something.

00:40:20.000 And then here's the final part of that, and I'll tie all of this together with an example and then we'll take some questions, which is now you have to embrace the life as a dissident.

00:40:32.000 You guys have all heard from Joseph Bondarenko, who was a dissident.

00:40:36.000 We don't like thinking this way, right?

00:40:38.000 Because we, quite honestly, conservatives have lived in delusion the last 10 years.

00:40:43.000 We've continued to convince ourselves there's more of us than them.

00:40:46.000 Yeah, there are, but we control basically nothing now, right?

00:40:49.000 So now all of a sudden you have to think of yourself as a Soviet dissident.

00:40:53.000 Kind of like Lekwalessa.

00:40:54.000 How is he able to bring everything down?

00:40:56.000 And that's a hard realization because that's a crushing blow to the ego of a generation that thought that they were the caretakers of this nation.

00:41:05.000 That we're not in control anymore.

00:41:07.000 Now that can change, and it should change, and it will change if we commit ourselves to it.

00:41:11.000 And the sooner you realize that you are a dissident, you have to win here and win here and launch a counteroffensive, the sooner you can actually have real success.

00:41:19.000 Because one of the narratives that we are told is: well, Charlie, we're just one election away from turning all this around.

00:41:24.000 We know that's not true.

00:41:26.000 They control the FBI, the CIA, the intel agencies who spied on Tucker Carlson illegally, the IRS that targets their political opponents and strips the nonprofit status of churches they don't like.

00:41:37.000 They control Google that can kick people off immediately if they say things they don't like.

00:41:41.000 They control every major university.

00:41:43.000 They control the NIH, the CDC, the FDA.

00:41:46.000 And just so you know, the vaccine that has a 42% efficacy rate, Pfizer, in July, is going to get FDA approval probably on Monday morning, just so you know.

00:41:54.000 It will get FDA approval.

00:41:56.000 They control the FDA.

00:41:58.000 And so all of a sudden, you say, well, there are more of us, but we just don't control anything.

00:42:04.000 You know what that sounds like?

00:42:05.000 The Soviet Union.

00:42:07.000 It sounds all of a sudden that the sooner you realize the limited freedoms we have have to be used in the lifetime you have left to actually preserve liberty, that's actually the mentality we have to get into, right?

00:42:18.000 And the delusion conservatism is telling you, like, no, no, no, it's all going to be fine.

00:42:24.000 Like, just give us this power.

00:42:25.000 No, we have to go rebuild these new institutions, and it is going to be a long march.

00:42:29.000 So I'm going to tell you about a story from 1975.

00:42:31.000 Who was alive in 1975?

00:42:32.000 Anyone?

00:42:33.000 All right.

00:42:33.000 So it's one of my favorite stories.

00:42:36.000 So, and it shows that we can win.

00:42:40.000 You all want to know how to win.

00:42:41.000 Here's how we win, right?

00:42:42.000 I'll give you an example.

00:42:44.000 Gerald Ford, the only president never to be elected to become president, he was House Majority Leader, Huss Minority Leader in Spear Agenu, resigned and he got put his vice president, Richard Nixon, resigned, and he got become president.

00:42:56.000 He's like, you know what?

00:42:57.000 I understand that there's inflation.

00:42:58.000 The country's divided over Vietnam, race riots, civil rights era type hangover.

00:43:02.000 You know what my big plan is going to be?

00:43:04.000 I'm going to unite with the international community to get America on the metric system.

00:43:07.000 Anyone remember this?

00:43:09.000 Raised billions of dollars from Congress, went on a whistle-stop tour across the country, and his big, ambitious dream was to try to get us on the same sort of measurement of the rest of the country.

00:43:20.000 They had committees and implementation plans.

00:43:22.000 If you think mask mandates were bad, imagine all of a sudden if you use the traditional system that we embrace, you'd be fined and penalized, and you could potentially lose your job.

00:43:32.000 But Gerald Ford was a little bit of a naive politician.

00:43:35.000 He didn't realize that in the heartland of the country and in places like this, people were pretty upset with all of a sudden having to get rid of their arbitrary foot that they were told that they had to use.

00:43:45.000 They didn't want this kind of European invasion into their country.

00:43:49.000 And all of a sudden, what started to happen as like the committee for the globalization of the metric system implementation, which is like a real committee, right?

00:43:56.000 Billions of dollars, they started to put up speed limits that were in the metric system.

00:44:00.000 They'd come up the next day, they were gone.

00:44:01.000 They disappeared, right?

00:44:02.000 They'd have these new orders for businesses that did public-private partnerships to all of a sudden do things in the metric system.

00:44:08.000 So it's kind of like a mask mandate, and they'd come back the next week and it'd be all still in the same system we have: inches and feet and yards, not in millimeter, centimeters, and meters.

00:44:17.000 And Gerald Ford couldn't believe what was happening.

00:44:19.000 He's like, why won't Americans accept this sort of kind of immersion into the international community?

00:44:26.000 And if any of you have been to London, they're on the metric system now.

00:44:30.000 They're on the metric system because they said, okay, and they implemented and no one fought back.

00:44:35.000 And then after two years, Gerald Ford famously issued a press release.

00:44:38.000 He said, Look, Americans, through mass noncompliance and civil disobedience, they don't want the metric system, and we're done pushing it.

00:44:45.000 I'm telling you that if enough of us rise against this kind of power, they will give up.

00:44:51.000 And I know it's like a silly example, but it's a real example. 1.00

00:44:53.000 It was stupid. 1.00

00:44:54.000 It was dumb. 1.00

00:44:55.000 It was. 0.98

00:44:55.000 But it was a shot against them that all of a sudden deflated their confidence that independent people rising up against these sort of power structures can make a difference. 0.98

00:45:07.000 So the question is, how do we win, right?

00:45:09.000 How do we win and what do I do?

00:45:10.000 Well, look around.

00:45:12.000 You are now an American dissident.

00:45:14.000 You are a minority in your own country. 0.99

00:45:16.000 Not as that there's not as many people as you do, but every institution that you grew up loving and admiring has been taken over by them.

00:45:22.000 We have to go take them back, build new ones, support the good companies, and stop supporting the bad ones.

00:45:27.000 And as I said, the positive on our side, we have so much more power than we realize.

00:45:32.000 And the moment that we start to use it and wield it, then we can start to take this country back.

00:45:36.000 Okay, let's do some questions.

00:45:37.000 Thank you guys.

00:45:39.000 That's great, Travis.

00:45:47.000 Wasn't that awesome?

00:45:54.000 So if you have a question, you can text it.

00:45:56.000 And that way we don't have to listen to your lengthy introduction and all the things that you want to talk about.

00:46:01.000 We've kind of figured out the system at this point.

00:46:06.000 And before we do the questions, I just want to say that the illustration you had of World War II and the will.

00:46:14.000 And God's not looking for ability, but availability.

00:46:17.000 And if any of you have ever gone to see the Queen Mary, I don't think it's that way now, but it's in repose in Long Beach Harbor.

00:46:24.000 And they have it equipped on one side as a troop transport ship, which it was in World War II.

00:46:29.000 And on the other side, they have it equipped as a luxury liner.

00:46:32.000 You know, seven around a table, resplendent silverware, an aluminum tray and one spoon, and bunks that go to the ceiling.

00:46:43.000 That's the contrast.

00:46:45.000 What takes a luxury liner from this resplendent beauty to this military transport?

00:46:49.000 It's one thing.

00:46:50.000 It's called war. 0.94

00:46:52.000 And until we awaken and realize that we have to equip our resources for combat, and meaning ideologically, when you commented that nobody's willing to sacrifice along the lines of the world.

00:47:05.000 But some people are.

00:47:06.000 And this church is full of people that are.

00:47:08.000 But this is a broad, just you guys know, you're in the minority of the minority of the country where more people than not are doing things they don't want to do to try to keep a life of luxury and convenience uninterrupted.

00:47:21.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:47:22.000 So I would just say in this county, we're in a fight with a supervisor who deliberately attacked our First Amendment freedoms.

00:47:34.000 We're pushing for a recall.

00:47:37.000 If you haven't participated in that, why?

00:47:41.000 And that's a question.

00:47:42.000 We have a school board that's implementing critical race theory at every level.

00:47:46.000 If you haven't engaged in that, why?

00:47:52.000 We're watching as this state has the opportunity for the citizens to push back.

00:47:59.000 And then every one of you should be supporting, all of us should be supporting our first responders.

00:48:05.000 They are in a fight for their lives.

00:48:07.000 This used to be the darling of the Democrat Party, the police and fire.

00:48:11.000 They're our heroes, but they were the poster child for the Democratic Party.

00:48:15.000 Every Democrat that would run for office would have police and fire endorsement.

00:48:19.000 And now they're coming around and they're saying, we need your help.

00:48:23.000 And we need to do this.

00:48:25.000 So all of us have to weigh in and show the rest of the country how to do it.

00:48:30.000 We're the example.

00:48:31.000 No one else is coming.

00:48:32.000 And I'm proud of each and every one of you and so blessed by y'all.

00:48:36.000 All right, we'll take this.

00:48:38.000 Let me just say.

00:48:40.000 And I'm proud to call this my church, my pastor, amongst all of you.

00:48:44.000 And I want to encourage you even further.

00:48:46.000 Mikey and I were just, we were in Michigan.

00:48:48.000 That's right.

00:48:48.000 We were in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

00:48:50.000 And three people came up to us.

00:48:51.000 They said, I wish that I had a church like Godspeak in Michigan.

00:48:56.000 And you would be amazed at, because of all this tyranny, how many good churches have popped up here in Southern California.

00:49:05.000 And I don't know if you guys appreciate that.

00:49:08.000 In Knoxville, Tennessee last night, someone just moved to there, and they said, look, all these pastors are saying that we have to abide by Romans 13 here.

00:49:17.000 And it's just like, there's no spirit.

00:49:19.000 That's Knoxville, Tennessee, everybody, right?

00:49:22.000 And so you might think you got it bad, but look around.

00:49:25.000 You have a pastor and a community and a church that is standing for righteousness.

00:49:30.000 That's something to be thankful for.

00:49:32.000 Thank you.

00:49:35.000 Want to recognize Greg?

00:49:36.000 Greg Denham?

00:49:38.000 Oh, we got a question here.

00:49:40.000 I'll read the first question, but a pastor that stood with us, and I've known him for years, and he drove all the way up from San Diego.

00:49:45.000 He's a pastor of Rise Church, fearless.

00:49:48.000 Stand up.

00:49:48.000 Pastor Greg Denham.

00:49:49.000 Greg, stand up.

00:49:50.000 Bless you, man.

00:49:55.000 All right.

00:49:56.000 First question, Charlie, how do we fight weekly COVID tests after getting religious exemption for the vaccine?

00:50:03.000 We've done this all weekend.

00:50:04.000 Yeah, I'm going to swim in my lane.

00:50:07.000 Tactically, I don't really know.

00:50:10.000 Pray the Lord helps you find a job with an employer that is rational and reasonable.

00:50:15.000 Somebody asked me the other day.

00:50:16.000 They said, Charlie, are you going to require the vaccine at Turning Point USA?

00:50:20.000 He's like a reporter.

00:50:21.000 I said, look, you don't work for me. 0.99

00:50:24.000 But if you did, you'd be fired for asking such a ridiculous question.

00:50:30.000 And yeah, I don't, maybe you can help with that. 0.54

00:50:34.000 How do you fight it?

00:50:35.000 I mean, I don't know.

00:50:36.000 That's going to be their new kind of social check system, right?

00:50:39.000 Here's what I can't understand.

00:50:40.000 Again, this is when you remove absolute truth, you're ruled by the insane and the wicked.

00:50:44.000 Remember that?

00:50:44.000 That's a good rule for life.

00:50:46.000 As soon as you remove Christ as the center of your life, which is what used to be the center of American society pre-1960s.

00:50:51.000 Again, I keep on going back to the 1960s when everything changed.

00:50:55.000 It really did.

00:50:56.000 It's when we lost our footing post-war.

00:50:58.000 We had such an amazing victory and we just kind of fell.

00:51:01.000 And because of that, anyway, removing absolute truth.

00:51:06.000 How on earth, if you have an antibody test that shows you already had COVID, does that not satisfy?

00:51:11.000 I had this conversation with a doctor, and he's like, oh, no, no, that only holds you over for eight months.

00:51:16.000 So, what kind of crazy, like, witch doctor science are you doing?

00:51:20.000 I mean, every independent study shows that's not the case.

00:51:24.000 Um, but yeah, I mean, you guys have gone through that in great length.

00:51:26.000 I don't mean to, you know, filibuster on.

00:51:28.000 So, we had a number of folks, and we've covered this, so you can look at a previous broadcast.

00:51:33.000 But a number of folks are saying, Don't do the religious exemption because you're giving them authority to violate what is already a First Amendment right.

00:51:44.000 You don't need a religious exemption.

00:51:45.000 Just say, I'm not taking the test.

00:51:47.000 They're going to fire you, but let them fire you.

00:51:51.000 Stand and weekly testing, I have the antibodies.

00:51:57.000 And the idea: does the vaccine are they going to be required?

00:52:01.000 Just push, keep pushing.

00:52:04.000 That's our job.

00:52:05.000 That's probably didn't make you happy, but there you go.

00:52:08.000 All right.

00:52:09.000 What are the best reasons to keep having kids in this world?

00:52:12.000 We hear, I don't want to bring them into this mess.

00:52:16.000 Yeah, I mean, I hear that.

00:52:17.000 I'm not persuaded by that, to be honest.

00:52:20.000 I mean, the Bible's very clear about being fruitful and multiply, regardless of how awful things are around you.

00:52:27.000 Yeah, I also think that it's, if you look at the question, it's like, I don't want to bring kids into this world.

00:52:34.000 That was the question, right?

00:52:35.000 Who cares what you think?

00:52:36.000 What does God want?

00:52:38.000 Your own opinion is completely irrelevant in the matter.

00:52:40.000 He wants you to keep on having children and turn them into Christians so maybe that they can actually see the fruit of the fight that you're engaged in right now. 1.00

00:52:47.000 Maybe things can get better.

00:52:49.000 I mean, what kind of it's such a fatalistic attitude?

00:52:52.000 I got in a debate.

00:52:53.000 They're like, Charlie, things are so bad.

00:52:54.000 I don't want to enter children in this world. 1.00

00:52:56.000 They said, Well, you know, I wouldn't put you as an optimist, that's for sure.

00:52:59.000 What if I told you that, you know, what success looks like?

00:53:03.000 New York Times heading is 2050.

00:53:06.000 Surprising conservative Christian revival in America, led by homeschooling community and dissident churches traced back to coronavirus.

00:53:15.000 I want that headline, don't you?

00:53:18.000 And that's the long-term thinking. 0.99

00:53:19.000 30 years from now, I want the New York Times to be stunned that all of you kept on having children, educating them, that you stood strong, that all of a sudden that tyranny failed just like the stupid metric system did. 0.96

00:53:30.000 That all of a sudden, that all the mask mandates fell apart.

00:53:33.000 I want the historians that write that book, they're like, you know, mask mandates and vaccine mandates kind of fell flat after the central planners everything they could because of mass civil disobedience and questioning from a network that kept on pushing truth despite social media censorship and social pressure.

00:53:49.000 I want that headline, and that's what we're going to get.

00:53:53.000 You'll like this one.

00:53:56.000 In your Bibles, every great leader, Moses, they were children that were born in the most miserable seasons, adversity.

00:54:07.000 The Hebrew midwives were trying to protect from killing all the children. 0.96

00:54:12.000 Moses was put in a reed basket.

00:54:14.000 You want to bring a child into slavery? 1.00

00:54:15.000 He changed the world.

00:54:17.000 Children born in adversity make the greatest leaders.

00:54:21.000 And the way that they make the greatest leaders is their parents set the example because they're the ones contending against tyranny.

00:54:27.000 So have them and set the example for them, and the world will change.

00:54:36.000 The website.

00:54:37.000 So, what's the website?

00:54:39.000 The website mentioned.

00:54:40.000 So, I'm going to reiterate the shameless plug.

00:54:41.000 If you guys could subscribe to the podcast, it really does help us out.

00:54:44.000 It's how we are able to boost our numbers against all the clampdown.

00:54:48.000 It makes a huge difference.

00:54:49.000 It really does.

00:54:50.000 Thank you.

00:54:51.000 The website is 2ndvote.com.

00:54:55.000 That's second vote, but it's not spelled out second.

00:54:58.000 It's 2ndvote.com and promo code.

00:55:01.000 I think the promo code is Charlie.

00:55:02.000 Mikey's around.

00:55:03.000 Brian, what is the promo code?

00:55:04.000 Can you ask Connor or Andy?

00:55:05.000 We'll get a few.

00:55:05.000 We'll find out.

00:55:07.000 It's literally two bucks a month to help pay their overhead.

00:55:10.000 They research every company in the country that is publicly traded and some private companies.

00:55:15.000 And so you might be like, man, what is debt like Denny's or IHOP?

00:55:19.000 Which one is more conservative?

00:55:20.000 Right?

00:55:21.000 REI or Dick Sporting Goods.

00:55:23.000 Don't go to Dick Sporting Goods, by the way.

00:55:25.000 And so I believe for $2 a month, which is a rounding error for a lot of your expenses, it's worth being able to have a tool to know that the tens of thousands of dollars you're spending on other things are in alignment with the kingdom first and foremost, and then with the country.

00:55:43.000 Because then you'll see, oh, wow, McDonald's gives money to Planned Parenthood.

00:55:48.000 So it's secondvote.com 2ND.

00:55:50.000 Can we get the promo code?

00:55:51.000 Yeah, you're asking for it.

00:55:52.000 It saves you money.

00:55:53.000 That's the only reason.

00:55:54.000 It cuts it in half.

00:55:56.000 I've used this a lot for Turning Point USA purchases.

00:55:59.000 So they have a really good grading score.

00:56:01.000 Again, we've searched far and wide for this service, right?

00:56:04.000 And we found that they were the best because they have full-time staffers and researchers that do nothing but rating their contributions and their statements.

00:56:13.000 So Delta Airlines gets a really low ranking from them, whereas American is a little bit better, but not a lot.

00:56:21.000 And it was really helpful for us at Turning Point USA because we're doing massive volume of purchases for campus events.

00:56:28.000 It's like, okay, you're not doing these 15 companies.

00:56:30.000 It is now not allowed.

00:56:32.000 And for those of you that run big companies, I guarantee you there's tens of thousands of dollars a month you're spending on woke companies that could be on others.

00:56:39.000 Now, I do want to say this about the company thing.

00:56:41.000 Sometimes you're left with no choices, okay?

00:56:44.000 If you're flying to New York City, you're going to have to fly in a woke airline. 1.00

00:56:47.000 I'm sorry.

00:56:47.000 Okay.

00:56:48.000 But when it comes to soft drinks, there's a lot of choices, a lot, and ever-so growing.

00:56:53.000 When it comes to coffee, there's a lot of choices, right?

00:56:56.000 And those are the ones that actually have the tightest margins, believe it or not.

00:57:00.000 And especially Coca-Cola.

00:57:02.000 Coca-Cola's margins are super thin.

00:57:03.000 So, anyway, I'm really big into the corporate warfare thing of kind of how we can push back and kind of show these companies our combined power.

00:57:11.000 It's a passion project of mine.

00:57:12.000 Sorry, Rob.

00:57:13.000 Promo code Charlie, is that right, right?

00:57:15.000 Yeah.

00:57:15.000 Promo code Charlie.

00:57:16.000 We're guessing that.

00:57:17.000 Mikey confirmed it.

00:57:18.000 It is promo code Charlie.

00:57:19.000 It saves you guys money.

00:57:20.000 It's literally $2 a month for a year.

00:57:24.000 And people say, Charlie, why isn't it free?

00:57:26.000 Well, they have 15 full-time people.

00:57:27.000 They don't have advertisers on their website.

00:57:29.000 And you guys get for $2 a month, I think, something that could really bless you.

00:57:33.000 Yeah.

00:57:35.000 I want to share with all of you, we're making a difference.

00:57:40.000 My wife and I were flying back.

00:57:42.000 I won't say from where to where.

00:57:43.000 I won't say what airline.

00:57:45.000 The attendant on that flight said, You don't need to wear a mask.

00:57:49.000 You're good with us.

00:57:50.000 The most precious attendant you could ever met prayed with my wife.

00:57:55.000 This person is on fire.

00:57:56.000 They're making a difference in the company they work for.

00:57:58.000 And I'm not going to have them stand because I don't want the video to pick them up and then get them canceled.

00:58:02.000 But they're here tonight.

00:58:04.000 And God bless you.

00:58:05.000 And let me say something.

00:58:13.000 I have a soft spot for flight attendants.

00:58:15.000 That is the hardest job.

00:58:17.000 And they are nothing but insulted and thrown around.

00:58:21.000 And I have so much respect for flight attendants.

00:58:23.000 And I will say, they're a radical bunch of right-wingers.

00:58:26.000 I'll tell you, those flight attendants.

00:58:27.000 They're on fire.

00:58:28.000 I mean, whoa.

00:58:29.000 And I'll tell you why.

00:58:30.000 I have a whole theory on this: their whole life is about order in the face of chaos, right?

00:58:36.000 Boarding on time, following protocol, and they see societal chaos and they know how things are supposed to work.

00:58:43.000 So they naturally become super conservative, right?

00:58:46.000 They're like, if this door is not closed, people are going to die.

00:58:49.000 If you don't have your seatbelt on, this is going to happen.

00:58:51.000 And so then they see these kind of slovenly, you know, unwashed people coming on the airplane.

00:58:55.000 If you guys have flown recently, you know what I'm talking about.

00:58:58.000 And they're like, this is not okay.

00:59:00.000 And I could always tell if we have a conservative flight attendant based on how they read the mask mandate guidelines.

00:59:06.000 If they say it's a law, liberal.

00:59:09.000 If they say new executive order, that is a temporary measure signed, I was like, oh, we got a right-winger.

00:59:14.000 It's like, it's great.

00:59:15.000 So.

00:59:18.000 Total side.

00:59:19.000 I love it.

00:59:20.000 Charlie, I get the question.

00:59:21.000 Are you going to run, asking me, are you going to run for accounting supervisor?

00:59:24.000 Are you going to run, blah, blah, blah?

00:59:25.000 I get it all the time.

00:59:26.000 What I don't get, I'm 57.

00:59:28.000 What I don't get at 57 is what you get at 27.

00:59:30.000 Are you going to run for president?

00:59:31.000 That's the question.

00:59:36.000 I have no plans to run for anything.

00:59:38.000 I'm 27 years old.

00:59:39.000 And I will say this.

00:59:40.000 I sat with a group of senators and I asked them, I said, do you guys think you're making a difference?

00:59:46.000 And they're like, not really.

00:59:48.000 I said, well, that's where you and I are different.

00:59:50.000 I know we're making a difference.

00:59:52.000 I know the work we're doing at Turning Point USA is making a difference.

00:59:54.000 I know the work we're doing at Turning Point Faith is making a difference.

00:59:58.000 I know that the radio stations run.

01:00:00.000 And thank you for listening to us on KRLA 10 to 12 p.m. every night.

01:00:04.000 Thank you.

01:00:05.000 Hopefully they give us a better time slot soon.

01:00:05.000 Love you guys.

01:00:07.000 We're working for that.

01:00:08.000 And also on KTIE all the way down in the Inland Empire.

01:00:12.000 I know we're making a difference through that.

01:00:13.000 And that's the most fulfilling thing for all of us, right?

01:00:16.000 Why would you want to go being a senator or a congressman?

01:00:18.000 You can pay me enough.

01:00:19.000 You can blackmail me into doing that.

01:00:21.000 I mean, just to have to go into that city and just give endless speeches about nothing and full of hot air.

01:00:28.000 I believe more than ever that the new founding, that fourth founding we've talked about, right?

01:00:33.000 Which is that New York Times article in 2051, that's a success working backwards, right?

01:00:38.000 That's not going to come from the halls of Congress.

01:00:40.000 Let's be honest, right?

01:00:41.000 That's going to come going from church to church, campus to campus, right?

01:00:44.000 Podcast to podcast, talking person to person.

01:00:47.000 That's the consequential fight of our time.

01:00:49.000 Not some sort of Hall of Congress debate over, you know, whether or not we should have, you know, make the Delta smelt a protected, you know, make a museum dedicated to it or whatever they talked about nowadays.

01:01:00.000 That's very good.

01:01:02.000 This question is, how do we protect small children from masks and vaccine mandates?

01:01:07.000 First of all, it's probably going to come from the school.

01:01:10.000 So just take them out of school.

01:01:15.000 And yeah, go ahead.

01:01:16.000 I have another plug.

01:01:18.000 So we have all these great partnerships of things that I have found that hopefully can bless you, right?

01:01:21.000 If you guys want to use a museum, this one's free of charge, which is the best learning institution in the country is run by a friend of mine, Dr. Larry Arn.

01:01:30.000 It's Hillsdale College.

01:01:31.000 They do an amazing job.

01:01:33.000 And Micah, can we put this URL up to you?

01:01:37.000 It's charlieforhillsdale.com, CharlieForhillsdale.com.

01:01:41.000 So let me tell you about, it's a little bit different than the question, but it's about homeschooling, right?

01:01:47.000 So I love homeschoolers.

01:01:48.000 Thank you guys for homeschooling.

01:01:50.000 But I know a lot of parents can't homeschool, and that's okay.

01:01:54.000 And I want to give you an idea and challenge you and encourage you about something, how everyone can homeschool.

01:02:00.000 And that is doing an hour for liberty every week.

01:02:03.000 Now, I want you to think about doing this.

01:02:05.000 If you go to charlieforhillsdale.com, they literally have 75 of the best courses you could take on everything from the founding of the country to Federalist Papers to Natural Rights to Theology to Winston Churchill.

01:02:20.000 And I want to encourage those of you that have children, and if you're grandparents especially, take some of these courses.

01:02:25.000 It's free of charge.

01:02:26.000 And this one goes directly to a special course that is all about the great American story.

01:02:32.000 And what if you had one hour a week you spent with your kids on Sunday after dinner before they go to their iPads and iPhones, where you teach them what you just learned from those Hillsdale online courses?

01:02:43.000 My challenge to you tonight is do that one hour of liberty every single week.

01:02:47.000 You might not be able to homeschool full time.

01:02:49.000 I get that.

01:02:50.000 There is no excuse to say you can't spend an hour a week with your kids to all of a sudden tell them about the beauty of our country.

01:02:55.000 Where do rights come from?

01:02:56.000 Who is Plato?

01:02:57.000 Who is Aristotle?

01:02:58.000 And you could go as basic or as advanced as you want.

01:03:01.000 And you might say, Charlie, I don't know any of that stuff.

01:03:04.000 What the cool thing about these Hillsdale courses, and we've partnered with them, is that you watch the video, it's 30 minutes long, and then you take a quiz afterwards.

01:03:11.000 So there's a retention component to it, right?

01:03:13.000 So you know the most important parts to do it.

01:03:15.000 There's a study guide and all of that.

01:03:16.000 So I'm a big believer in empowering you to teach your children and not have the government do it.

01:03:23.000 I have been so frustrated the more I've traveled the last couple months where parents are like, the teachers are doing all this.

01:03:29.000 I say, well, what are you teaching your kids?

01:03:30.000 Well, I don't teach them anything.

01:03:32.000 I'm like, what?

01:03:34.000 What kind of hypnosis are you under that the state is somehow some sort of authority?

01:03:40.000 They're like, well, I can't homeschool.

01:03:41.000 I said, that's not what I'm talking about.

01:03:43.000 I'm talking about adding kind of an addendum of one hour a week.

01:03:47.000 And I want to encourage and challenge all of you guys to do that.

01:03:50.000 It will change your family.

01:03:51.000 If you do 52 of those throughout a year, one a week, you'll be so immensely blessed, and your children will all of a sudden be better equipped to go back to maybe their bad education and actually know the true facts about what's happening.

01:04:03.000 Good word.

01:04:09.000 You started watching the Hillsdale videos, and you called me, or maybe we were in contact.

01:04:15.000 And you said, that's where you got all this stuff.

01:04:16.000 Yeah, you said, I found your source.

01:04:18.000 I'm like, yeah, it's keeping it a secret.

01:04:20.000 So all of a sudden, I was like, oh, wow, Dr. Larry Arn says, you know, liberty is not man's idea.

01:04:24.000 It's God's idea.

01:04:25.000 I was like, huh, who said that before?

01:04:27.000 And all of a sudden, Dr. Larry Arn said, Aristotle said that politics is the highest form of community because it combines morality and sociability.

01:04:34.000 He's like, huh, who said that one before?

01:04:36.000 That actually wasn't Larry Arn, but yeah, go ahead.

01:04:38.000 Yeah, but anyway, he did say it in one of the videos.

01:04:39.000 But anyway, the point is, like, I was like, I found the source.

01:04:43.000 And so it was really kind of fun.

01:04:45.000 And it was novel, but the reality is, all I did was sit down and do it myself.

01:04:52.000 And you can do it.

01:04:53.000 And it's, that word's great.

01:04:55.000 We love it.

01:04:56.000 Free.

01:04:57.000 All right.

01:04:59.000 Charlie, the question is: what would you tell an individual who refuses to support the Republican or Democratic Party?

01:05:06.000 The person votes for the Libertarian Party and/or Independent.

01:05:11.000 Yeah, I mean, that's just, that's a non-starter, quite honestly.

01:05:16.000 Look, I'm the biggest Republican Party basher that you could find, right?

01:05:19.000 My program literally day after day is: where are the Republicans?

01:05:22.000 Where are the Republicans?

01:05:23.000 And yet I will still vote for a Republican because using prudence, which is practical judgment, which comes from a Greek word prudentia, is that there's nothing prudent about voting for a party that's not going to win, okay?

01:05:33.000 Instead, try to influence that party, try to get better candidate selection.

01:05:37.000 And there is an argument to vote for the lesser of two evils.

01:05:41.000 That you can make a moral argument for that, right?

01:05:43.000 That there is a moral argument to say that kind of a milquetoast Republican that'll be with you for 50% of the issues and maybe vote for judges is better than someone like Bernie Sanders or Kamala Harris, right?

01:05:54.000 And so third-party voting, albeit can be admirable, kind of bragging to your friends about how you're fighting the system or about kind of how principled you are, but I don't think it's very prudent.

01:06:04.000 I don't.

01:06:05.000 Instead, go try to influence the Republican Party in the image you want.

01:06:08.000 That's what I am trying to do, right?

01:06:10.000 Is that Donald Trump knew this too?

01:06:12.000 Donald Trump knew he couldn't run as a third party, that he had to run within the Republican Party.

01:06:16.000 And guess what?

01:06:17.000 He changed the Republican Party.

01:06:19.000 The fact that the Republican Party was changed permanently thanks to President Donald Trump.

01:06:24.000 And especially in California, as we're facing the recall and you've got over 50 candidates, people miss the good because they seek the perfect.

01:06:32.000 And Christian.

01:06:34.000 Oh.

01:06:35.000 All right.

01:06:36.000 We'll get to that in a second.

01:06:37.000 I'll segue into it.

01:06:39.000 But we miss the good because we seek the perfect.

01:06:42.000 And Christians have a litmus test that, you know, if you don't fit this, this, and this. 0.85

01:06:46.000 And I've been telling people, as you came out in support of Larry Elder, I tell people, you know, Donald Trump in 2015 didn't have pastoral support and churches didn't know what to do with him.

01:06:55.000 I mean, he had a Playboy lifestyle, pro-choice track record, and married three times, twice divorced, and the greatest defender of religious liberty and the defender of Western civilization.

01:07:07.000 So, you know, Larry, the front person gets beat up, and we've got amazing candidates that we brought into the church, and they're good guys.

01:07:15.000 They're not great candidates because they don't register in polling, and that's where folks are divided.

01:07:20.000 It's interesting.

01:07:20.000 They don't know how to win.

01:07:21.000 I mean, Larry's a friend of mine first and foremost, so I tend to support friends when they run for office.

01:07:26.000 And look, this is a really important kind of thing that we have to use more of.

01:07:30.000 The Lord gave us practical judgment, okay?

01:07:33.000 So you just kind of look at how things are, not how you wish them to be.

01:07:36.000 So, how they are is that Newsom probably won't survive the yes-no question.

01:07:40.000 So, it's either going to be Larry Elder or some sort of weird Democrat YouTuber, right?

01:07:44.000 And like, that's just kind of what the numbers are.

01:07:47.000 You can wish it to be different, or you can use your practical judgment and weighs the costs and benefits to try to impact it more positively.

01:07:54.000 So, this next question is: how do we ensure California elections are honest?

01:07:59.000 I'll just tell you on a grassroots level, we have a number of folks in the fellowship who have actually gone and spoken with Mark Lund, and they have gotten an agreement to have Republicans in specific polling places that were questionable.

01:08:16.000 But we're looking for volunteers to do that, and there aren't any.

01:08:20.000 And you have to be vigilant.

01:08:21.000 You've got to do these things.

01:08:23.000 And we also have a central committee, Republican Party, that isn't all that well organized.

01:08:28.000 So, it's a grassroots-level issue.

01:08:31.000 And I would certainly take your ballot right down there and deliver it. 0.58

01:08:38.000 Any other way, frightening.

01:08:39.000 And the fact that they're printing them off the computer to do, you know, folks, we just got to do the best we can with this one and push.

01:08:46.000 And yeah.

01:08:47.000 Yeah, I only asked Rob to answer that one because I really don't know the California election system being anything other than corrupt and broken.

01:08:56.000 So I don't have much to contribute to that.

01:08:58.000 But be poll watchers, be vigilant.

01:09:01.000 If you see voter fraud happen, film it, which just happened in Orange County, and it went totally viral.

01:09:06.000 And so, yeah.

01:09:08.000 You used this story about your grandmother that voted Republican her whole life, and then she died and has been voting Democrat ever since.

01:09:16.000 It's the same with my mother.

01:09:17.000 My mother and father in California, they've always voted Republican.

01:09:21.000 Now they're voting Democrat.

01:09:22.000 All right.

01:09:22.000 That's right.

01:09:23.000 Why isn't anyone talking about the filibuster?

01:09:25.000 It's being attacked and could be the single policy keeping America from completely failing?

01:09:30.000 Yeah, we've talked a lot about it.

01:09:31.000 That's a great question, whoever asked that on our podcast.

01:09:34.000 The filibuster is kind of a legislative tool.

01:09:36.000 It's more of a nuanced question.

01:09:37.000 I'm happy to get into it if people are interested.

01:09:40.000 But the way it works in the Senate is for major pieces of legislation.

01:09:43.000 It takes 60 votes to move that legislation forward.

01:09:48.000 They currently don't have that unless they got rid of the filibuster.

01:09:51.000 And currently, Kirsten Cinema and Joe Manchin have said they're not willing to get rid of the filibuster.

01:09:56.000 Therefore, bills like HR1 and HR5, which are two of the worst bills that have been proposed, are probably not going to pass this legislative session, praise God.

01:10:05.000 And so, and this kind of goes back to just kind of managing expectations.

01:10:10.000 You better believe it's a positive thing for all of us to take back the House of Representatives for none other reason than to make sure we don't have to wait up at night that HR1 is somehow going to be passed, right?

01:10:19.000 Because that is a republic-ending piece of legislation.

01:10:23.000 I don't say that lightly.

01:10:25.000 It is mandatory mail-in voting for any voter that has lived in any area in every state across the country over the last 20 years.

01:10:32.000 It's a federal takeover of our elections.

01:10:34.000 Yeah.

01:10:35.000 And we're not going to let that happen.

01:10:37.000 My son wants to go to college to become a history teacher.

01:10:40.000 Should he do that with everything going on?

01:10:43.000 It's a great question.

01:10:44.000 I try not to give specific advice to specific questions.

01:10:47.000 I don't know all the pretext of people's lives.

01:10:50.000 A lot of you know, kind of my stance on college, which is that I think it's largely a waste of time for most people.

01:10:55.000 Uh, it can be a good thing for some people, and also can be a really bad thing, is that we have a social kind of currency expectation for people to go to college, and that if they go to college, somehow there's going to be this kind of be this reward on the other side.

01:11:10.000 And we have seen, quite honestly, the exact opposite: that only 59% of people that go to college graduate, 41% drop out.

01:11:19.000 We have seen massive student loan issues of young people that are borrowing money they don't have to study things that don't matter to find jobs that don't exist.

01:11:27.000 And I say this to every parent that wants to send their child to college, which is be prepared to play Russian roulette with your children's values.

01:11:34.000 That's a Dennis Prager line, which it's not something to joke about.

01:11:39.000 And if you send your child to college, they might not come back recognizable.

01:11:43.000 If they want to be a history teacher, yeah, make sure they go to the right college.

01:11:46.000 I mean, obviously, Hillsdale would be my choice.

01:11:49.000 There's only like, just so you guys know, there's like 10 or 12 schools I would trust to teach history correctly.

01:11:56.000 And there's a specific way that we're not teaching history.

01:12:00.000 And here's how it works: the way history is taught in most schools is that if it wasn't written in your lifetime, it's not a good idea.

01:12:08.000 So, anything that wasn't written your lifetime, we will read from a negative lens.

01:12:12.000 Whereas the more Straussian way of reading texts or the classicist way of reading texts is that you must read it in the time and the context and the conditions of the author's time.

01:12:22.000 And this is biblical, right?

01:12:23.000 So, in Genesis 6, it says that Noah was a good man and a righteous man amongst the people of his generation.

01:12:31.000 So, all of a sudden, you're like, wow, why does it say that Noah is a good man amongst the people of his generation?

01:12:35.000 It doesn't say that Noah is a good man.

01:12:37.000 It says that if you compare him to his contemporaries, he's a good man.

01:12:40.000 But maybe if you compared Noah to Joseph, he wasn't that great of a man.

01:12:43.000 The point is that the Bible is telling us in Genesis 6 that the correct way to view history is in the time and the context of how people lived and when they lived.

01:12:51.000 For example, Aristotle has a lot to teach all of you, and they're not learning it in most colleges.

01:12:56.000 Most colleges have completely removed the Greek classics almost altogether.

01:13:01.000 So if they want to be a history teacher, yeah, there's a path, but just be very careful.

01:13:06.000 Can I say something provocative?

01:13:08.000 Anything you want to say?

01:13:09.000 No, I'm sorry.

01:13:11.000 We've already done the fat general thing, so I could do all sorts of things.

01:13:14.000 That was a good one, by the way.

01:13:16.000 That guy has his own zip code.

01:13:17.000 Oh, yeah, exactly.

01:13:21.000 I want all the parents out there to pray about this if you have high school kids that are going to be college-aged soon, which is if it's about your ego more than your child's future, then that's not a good reason to send your kids to college.

01:13:34.000 And that's the number one.

01:13:36.000 I just was at Turning Point Kids in Tennessee.

01:13:38.000 I said, Do you guys want to be in college?

01:13:39.000 All of them, no, our parents forced us.

01:13:42.000 And sometimes parents know better.

01:13:44.000 But sometimes, what if the kind of what if all of a sudden they want something for a wrong reason?

01:13:48.000 Here's the test: Are you willing to go see your neighbor in the local grocery store and say that, yeah, little Johnny is not at Stanford.

01:13:56.000 He's not at UCLA, he's a plumber.

01:13:59.000 Are you okay with that?

01:14:00.000 Most parents aren't.

01:14:01.000 Most parents wait up at night thinking, anything but my kid working construction.

01:14:07.000 If my kid works construction, he's a failure.

01:14:10.000 Not that if my kid's a good person, not if my kids love the Lord, not if my kid has character, but no, he needs a four-year college degree, and I need the Stanford mom bumper sticker on the back of my Range Rover to have some sort of social currency amongst my neighbors.

01:14:25.000 Like, that's kind of screwed up.

01:14:26.000 Yeah, that's one of the main, that's one of the reasons we're in the mess that we're in.

01:14:30.000 There's nothing controversial about what you said.

01:14:32.000 Thank you.

01:14:32.000 As a matter of fact, my son is his Swiss Army knife, and he did, I don't have the bumper sticker of Stanford.

01:14:38.000 Well, and I can tell you that, you know, Mikey went to Oaks Christian, right?

01:14:42.000 And we hired him right out of high school, and it was great.

01:14:42.000 Yeah, Oaks Christian.

01:14:45.000 It was right after one of our church services about a year and a half ago, right?

01:14:48.000 I want to say, yeah.

01:14:49.000 And he was driving me down, and I was obviously impressed with him.

01:14:52.000 And I love the McCoy family.

01:14:54.000 I was like, oh, so what's your plan?

01:14:56.000 I didn't ask where you're going to college.

01:14:57.000 That's how you all need to ask that question.

01:14:59.000 I said, what's your plan?

01:15:00.000 He's like, oh, I'm going to go to college.

01:15:01.000 What do you guess that?

01:15:02.000 Political science.

01:15:03.000 I said, oh, why are you going to do that?

01:15:05.000 He's like, oh, to go find a job in politics.

01:15:06.000 I said, what if I said I offer you a job in politics right now?

01:15:10.000 And he's like, well, I don't know.

01:15:11.000 I got to talk to my parents.

01:15:12.000 I said, I said, you got a job if you want it.

01:15:16.000 And the McCoy family deserves so much credit because they practice what they preach.

01:15:21.000 They said, Mikey, you can go move to Phoenix, get your own apartment, go work a job.

01:15:24.000 And I'll tell you, some of our best employees are just high school graduates.

01:15:28.000 They are the most eager to learn.

01:15:29.000 They are hungry.

01:15:30.000 They pursue wisdom.

01:15:32.000 So Mikey's kind of body man, par excellence, travels with us.

01:15:35.000 And I can tell you right now, every single person that graduated amongst them an Oaks Christian, they are not having the same experiences.

01:15:43.000 He's meeting senators and billionaires and all this because their parents were willing to all of a sudden buck the trend, reject the social currency, know that it's just a meaningless piece of paper most times, and all of a sudden be more creative and trust the Lord.

01:15:56.000 It's a great success story.

01:16:05.000 We'll go a couple more here for 10 minutes.

01:16:07.000 Yeah, 10 minutes.

01:16:07.000 Okay, for the recall election, I believe we can win the battle in 2021, but how can we win a general election in 2022?

01:16:16.000 Yeah, you probably can't, but that's not the point.

01:16:18.000 The point is, are you going to send, first of all, here's the thing.

01:16:21.000 If Larry Elder wins the governorship, or whomever, right, who's a Republican, I don't want to get people upset.

01:16:28.000 So whoever wins, let's say Newsom gets Larry, doesn't bother me.

01:16:31.000 Yeah, okay, good.

01:16:32.000 So I just don't, I don't like telling people in the state I don't live in.

01:16:36.000 I have a really kind of non-imperialist mindset about this, which is I don't tell people in their local community what to do.

01:16:43.000 I just try to trust people that are there.

01:16:44.000 But anyway, Larry's a friend of mine.

01:16:46.000 So, first of all, he could pardon David DeLeiden, which would be an amazing thing, who's the guy that filmed all the Planned Parenthood Tapes, is going to go to jail for a decade.

01:16:54.000 It would be a game changer and a death blow to the Kamala Harris Attorney General regime. 1.00

01:16:59.000 That alone is reason enough to do that, right?

01:17:05.000 Which no one's talking about, right?

01:17:07.000 Which is a really important thing.

01:17:08.000 But yeah, the broader question is, I'm telling you, if you guys win this recall, you've no idea the message that we'll send nationally.

01:17:16.000 I mean, the only comparison I can give, and it would be bigger than this, is all of you kind of your political historian.

01:17:22.000 Do you remember when Scott Brown won the Senate seat in Massachusetts for Ted Kennedy's, when Ted Kennedy, the lion of the Senate, the philanderer-murderer who died in 2010, right?

01:17:34.000 Anyone can say Chapaquittick?

01:17:36.000 We can't around here.

01:17:37.000 When he died, all of a sudden, it was in the most Democrat state in the country.

01:17:41.000 Republican Scott Brown won that seat, and it shocked the world.

01:17:44.000 Now, Elizabeth Warren ended up beating him, but it laid the groundwork for what was the Tea Party revolution, and it laid the groundwork for what Donald Trump eventually picked up and won the presidency with in 2016.

01:17:57.000 So, yeah, 2022 is going to be tough, but that's not what's in front of us, right?

01:18:01.000 The Lord says, do not worry about tomorrow, right?

01:18:05.000 Has his own care.

01:18:05.000 Worrying about 2022 is the definition of worrying about tomorrow.

01:18:09.000 What's in front of you today is 2021 and the recall on September 14th.

01:18:13.000 It's a big deal.

01:18:14.000 And I could tell you right now that the polling and the date, I'm telling you, Newsom is nervous, guys.

01:18:20.000 I've seen all, I've spent a couple hours going through.

01:18:24.000 I called every political consultant I knew in California.

01:18:27.000 And the consensus is it's a coin flip.

01:18:30.000 Like, this guy's on the ropes, and they never thought it.

01:18:34.000 Don't be surprised.

01:18:35.000 Kamala Harris is going to be here soon, probably campaigning. 0.99

01:18:38.000 I don't think they want to bring Joe Biden in.

01:18:40.000 I think if they bring Joe Biden in, that will make sure that he doesn't get recalled.

01:18:47.000 But it's also a turnout thing.

01:18:48.000 I don't, Democrats are not going to turn out in record number to go defend a governor they don't like.

01:18:53.000 Every one of you are going to vote.

01:18:54.000 I know that.

01:18:56.000 And so, yeah, that would be a political shockwave, the likes of which we could not even comprehend.

01:19:03.000 So forget about 2022.

01:19:04.000 Worry about what's in front of you, and then we'll worry about the challenges.

01:19:06.000 Good.

01:19:10.000 I can answer this one.

01:19:12.000 The question is: how do we support the firefighters and the police?

01:19:15.000 And I assume the question is in regards to the first responders event we had here that are trying to do a movement here in the county.

01:19:23.000 Captain Pellikai from Honolulu, Hawaii, we brought him in on a Skype, and he's been a firefighter his entire life as an adult.

01:19:36.000 His father was a firefighter, and he refuses to get the vaccine.

01:19:40.000 And the governors and the mayor of that area, he's going to get booted.

01:19:45.000 But he's standing strong and he's suing and he's fighting back.

01:19:47.000 I said, How are you paying for it?

01:19:48.000 He said, out of my own pocket.

01:19:50.000 And I said, this church is sending you $5,000.

01:19:59.000 As a fellowship, our commitment to the firefighters, a religious liberty issue, the First Amendment issue.

01:20:07.000 The government's authority ends where our skin begins.

01:20:10.000 We're not pro-vax or anti-vax.

01:20:12.000 We're pro-liberty.

01:20:13.000 And that is God's idea.

01:20:15.000 And we're contending and defending for it.

01:20:18.000 So whatever those firefighters need, we'll give it to them.

01:20:21.000 And if you want to earmark it and say, hey, want to do something for the fire, I'll make sure it gets to them.

01:20:25.000 How's that?

01:20:30.000 Any tips?

01:20:32.000 So we'll do two more?

01:20:33.000 10 minutes.

01:20:34.000 Good.

01:20:34.000 Yeah, we're good.

01:20:35.000 Okay.

01:20:35.000 Any tips for current college students to effectively fight back on their campus without being completely canceled?

01:20:41.000 And we introduce the.

01:20:42.000 Yes, absolutely.

01:20:43.000 So we have two tables out there that I want all of you, especially if you're younger out there, to check out.

01:20:48.000 I want to have our Turning Point USA students stand up that are here.

01:20:51.000 Come on.

01:20:52.000 If you're involved with Turning Point USA, stand up.

01:20:54.000 Get up for these freedom fighters.

01:21:02.000 So you guys can see, thank you guys so much.

01:21:05.000 So our work every single day is we play offense with a sense of urgency to win the American culture war.

01:21:11.000 And these are American heroes.

01:21:13.000 And people say, Charlie, what do I do?

01:21:15.000 I say, at the minimum, you need to be as courageous as what these students are doing in high school and college.

01:21:19.000 Let me tell you why they're so courageous.

01:21:21.000 They've just made a decision when they get involved with Turning Point USA that they're willing to risk job opportunities, social status, friendships, and any sort of social media favor they might have to go stand for truth and righteousness among above worldly things.

01:21:36.000 So people say, Charlie, what does that look like?

01:21:39.000 Very simple.

01:21:40.000 Be the same person in public that you are in private.

01:21:43.000 Most people aren't.

01:21:44.000 And that's actually unbiblical.

01:21:46.000 You are living a lie, if that's the case.

01:21:48.000 If you're okay wearing a Make America Great Again hat to church, but not to the grocery store, to a family dinner, then you're not who you are at all times.

01:21:55.000 Be the same in every environment.

01:21:57.000 And one of the reasons that this regime is succeeding is the plague of self-censorship.

01:22:04.000 It's the number one form of censorship in the country.

01:22:06.000 So censorship is a massive problem.

01:22:09.000 But the biggest form of censorship is you shutting up you.

01:22:13.000 Is that you're less likely to speak out in a certain way because their tool of mockery and ridicule, sarcasm, it's effective.

01:22:22.000 It works.

01:22:24.000 And what Turning Point USA is doing with these amazing young patriots is they're like, you know what?

01:22:28.000 I am willing to be courageous and bold, even though my parents or grandparents think that I shouldn't do that because they say, you got to go get a good job.

01:22:35.000 You have no idea how many Turning Point USA students email us every single day.

01:22:38.000 They say, my parents think I'm too involved and too political.

01:22:41.000 They say I just got to get a good job.

01:22:43.000 And what did I say?

01:22:43.000 The country they grew up in is dead.

01:22:46.000 They're thinking of a 1980s America where you go get a nice job at Goldman Sachs and things just get back to normal and things keep on getting better.

01:22:53.000 They know better.

01:22:54.000 And so I tell students: don't ever disobey the commandment to honor your parents.

01:23:00.000 Instead, lead your parents.

01:23:02.000 You know how many parents we have coming to us, they said, Charlie, I was uninvolved in politics before my kids started to get involved with Turning Point USA.

01:23:09.000 I want you to think about this.

01:23:10.000 How many parents out there, you customize your time and your preferences to your kids.

01:23:15.000 Your kids might like soccer more than football.

01:23:17.000 They might like track and field more than swimming.

01:23:19.000 And you want to support them in that.

01:23:21.000 And all of a sudden, you have these students that are telling their parents, you know what I care about most, saving the country.

01:23:24.000 And that inspires and it challenges parents.

01:23:27.000 They're like, man, my 16-year-old wants to do this?

01:23:29.000 What have I been doing?

01:23:31.000 Well, that's a good question.

01:23:32.000 And now you could do something about it.

01:23:34.000 So, what can be done?

01:23:35.000 And I also just want to be, you know, and Teresa, Maddie, Madison, Michaela, and Jacob.

01:23:42.000 Talk about Jacob.

01:23:43.000 Michaela's here.

01:23:44.000 She's amazing, but I want to talk about Turning Point Faith.

01:23:46.000 And so we have just launched Turning Point Faith, where Rob is the co-chair, the national co-chair of Turning Point Faith, and everything that we are doing, which is going to be a movement to strengthen churches across the country.

01:23:58.000 And Greg Denham and his wonderful church is going to be part of this to support the courageous pastors, find more of them, and help and support churches to speak boldly out about the moral and cultural issues that are happening in our nation.

01:24:11.000 Because if we're honest with ourselves, it's only going to be the church that saves this country.

01:24:16.000 And what we need, I want you to think about this vision: a thousand God speaks.

01:24:20.000 A thousand churches like this will save the country.

01:24:24.000 And you'd be amazed at how many pastors are coming out of the woodwork.

01:24:29.000 Charlie, I want to do more.

01:24:31.000 Charlie, I want to speak out.

01:24:32.000 We were in Eden, Oklahoma with wonderful Pastor Wade Burlinson last weekend.

01:24:36.000 And he's speaking out wonderfully and courageously.

01:24:38.000 We have Pastor Steve Smotherman.

01:24:40.000 They are coming out of the woodwork and they want to stand and they want to proclaim.

01:24:45.000 But I'll tell you what, you know who's been an inspiration for a lot of them?

01:24:48.000 This guy.

01:24:48.000 You have no idea how many pastors nationwide are like that Rob guy, he puzzles me.

01:24:57.000 He speaks so clearly, and yet his membership grows and he defies authority.

01:25:02.000 And what it shows me is the old Soviet thing. 0.90

01:25:05.000 How did the Soviet Union fall?

01:25:06.000 Well, it's an interesting story.

01:25:08.000 Well, how much time do you have?

01:25:12.000 Yeah, right.

01:25:13.000 So the Berlin Wall fell by accident, actually, where there was a Soviet guard that had the night shift, and an East German in East Berlin really was getting sick and tired of this. 0.64

01:25:29.000 And he could tell this kind of guard was a little bit demoralized.

01:25:32.000 And he just ran through.

01:25:34.000 And the guard just kind of just lost his lack of enforcement.

01:25:39.000 And then 10 people ran through.

01:25:41.000 Then 100 people ran through.

01:25:43.000 And then 1,000 people ran through.

01:25:45.000 And then 10,000 people ran through.

01:25:46.000 And then 100,000 people ran through.

01:25:48.000 Rob is that first guy through the gate.

01:25:50.000 Rob is the first guy through the gate where all of a sudden thousands of other pastors are like, oh, wow, we can do that.

01:25:55.000 I didn't know that.

01:25:56.000 We can open up.

01:25:56.000 No mess, no social distancing.

01:25:58.000 So I want to commend you, Rob.

01:25:59.000 You're doing a wonderful job.

01:26:00.000 You really are.

01:26:00.000 Thanks, Charlie.

01:26:03.000 A really good example of what you were saying about the young people leading their parents.

01:26:08.000 You're speaking there, John Randall.

01:26:10.000 Yeah, and that's tomorrow night.

01:26:12.000 So if you guys want to get an extra dose of everything we're talking about, it will be different talk, I promise.

01:26:17.000 Calvary Chapel, San Juan Capistrano, tomorrow night at 5 p.m.

01:26:21.000 Yeah, but tell them what happened there, can you?

01:26:23.000 Yeah, I'll kind of paraphrase it.

01:26:25.000 But yeah, the Randalls are amazing people, and their kids kind of were aware of me.

01:26:30.000 And they're like, hey, we got to have Charlie come speak at the church.

01:26:32.000 And we did.

01:26:33.000 And man, they just had Erica speak at their women's conference.

01:26:36.000 They are a Godspeak type church, everybody, down in San Juan Capistrano.

01:26:41.000 Just so you know, it's growing and it's multiplying.

01:26:44.000 We have Greg's Church down in Rise of San Marcos.

01:26:48.000 We have Juergen's Church.

01:26:51.000 I'm doing four services together.

01:26:52.000 Joe Peddick.

01:26:52.000 Yeah, James Cadiz at Calvary Chapel, Signal Hill.

01:26:55.000 We have Joe Pettic at Calvary Chapel of the Harbor.

01:26:58.000 We have Jack Hibbs, obviously, which is kind of the legend of all.

01:27:02.000 And it's growing.

01:27:03.000 And that's not an exhaustive list.

01:27:04.000 I know I'm forgetting people.

01:27:06.000 But it really, there's hope, everybody.

01:27:08.000 And what we want to do at Turning Point Faith is we don't want to recreate the wheel.

01:27:11.000 We don't want to tell people.

01:27:11.000 We're not going to argue eschatology or theology.

01:27:13.000 Here's the big thing: build a coalition for liberty.

01:27:16.000 Build a coalition of liberty between different parts to try to preserve God's idea because it's on fragile footing right now.

01:27:22.000 And I believe the church has to step up and do more in that regard.

01:27:26.000 That's a good word.

01:27:27.000 Maybe two.

01:27:29.000 Yeah, I don't want to end on this one.

01:27:31.000 It's not a fun one.

01:27:31.000 I mean, I don't want to insult the person who said it, but just it doesn't inspire me.

01:27:35.000 Let's go to the next one.

01:27:36.000 Well, we got to answer it.

01:27:38.000 Or you want to skip it?

01:27:38.000 Okay, skip it.

01:27:39.000 Next one.

01:27:43.000 Oh, that's a good one.

01:27:44.000 Yeah, that's a good one.

01:27:45.000 That's a good one to end on.

01:27:47.000 That's a good one.

01:27:48.000 Yeah, all right.

01:27:49.000 What is your favorite scripture that gives you strength in the hard times?

01:27:53.000 So, yeah, if I could kind of riff a little bit on spiritual warfare, which we are all in a spiritual war, not in a material war.

01:27:59.000 And we all know that.

01:28:00.000 Satan wants nothing more than for you to overemphasize the material and de-emphasize the spiritual. 0.99

01:28:07.000 Satan is a liar. 1.00

01:28:09.000 He is a thief. 1.00

01:28:11.000 And it says in 1 Peter, he prowls the earth looking for someone to devour. 0.99

01:28:16.000 Satan is also limited.

01:28:17.000 Satan does not have unlimited power.

01:28:19.000 In Matthew 4, one of my favorite scriptures is right after a high watermark, right?

01:28:23.000 So Jesus Christ gets baptized.

01:28:26.000 It's the best picture of the Trinity in the entire Bible.

01:28:28.000 God the Father says, This is my Son, and I am pleased.

01:28:32.000 The Spirit comes upon Jesus Christ, the Son.

01:28:35.000 That's the Trinity kind of in action.

01:28:36.000 And then all of a sudden, Jesus Christ, led by the Spirit, goes into the wilderness.

01:28:40.000 Driven.

01:28:41.000 Driven by the Spirit.

01:28:42.000 Tried three times.

01:28:43.000 First by hunger and earthly needs, and then two others under the principalities and the dominions of the earth.

01:28:49.000 Satan was wrongly quoting scripture back to Jesus, right?

01:28:53.000 Trying to get him to misstep and fall.

01:28:54.000 And one of my favorite scriptures in the entire Bible is when Jesus says, and it was kind of the mic drop moment, the Bible says, do not put your Lord your God to the test.

01:29:02.000 My favorite pieces of scripture.

01:29:04.000 Satan hates two books more than any other books of the Bible, more than anything.

01:29:09.000 Genesis and Revelation.

01:29:10.000 Why?

01:29:10.000 Because Genesis tells his nature, and Revelation tells you how it's going to end.

01:29:15.000 Satan getting thrown into the pit of fire.

01:29:17.000 All of us must realize that as you get into this fight, that you are going to come across doubt, cynicism, all of a sudden guessing yourself.

01:29:25.000 All of you are prone targets for Satan to try to come after you.

01:29:29.000 I don't want to talk too much on this, but I could just riff on a little bit more.

01:29:32.000 Three ways that Satan tries to attack you: through your environment, through earthly vows, and through certain fleshly sins.

01:29:38.000 Your environment.

01:29:38.000 Who are you hanging around?

01:29:40.000 Are you around people that are filled with the spirit, optimism, that actually want to pursue righteousness, or people that are negative, people that are worried about earthly and worldly things?

01:29:47.000 You are the combination of the people you spend the most time with.

01:29:51.000 The five people you spend the most time with, that is who you are.

01:29:54.000 Number two, earthly vows.

01:29:56.000 Jesus says very clearly that you do not make vows.

01:29:59.000 Let your yes be yes and your no be no.

01:30:01.000 Why?

01:30:02.000 It's because if you try to make a vow, like I will never drink again, all of a sudden Satan knows exactly what to use against you.

01:30:08.000 What's the proper way to say it?

01:30:09.000 Only thanks to the grace and mercy and power of Jesus Christ will I never take another drink again.

01:30:14.000 Let Jesus fight the spiritual war for you.

01:30:16.000 And then finally, through flesh and sins, it says very now.

01:30:20.000 Paul called Satan, its theologians are divided on this, the God of this world.

01:30:27.000 Jesus never said that.

01:30:28.000 He said that Satan is the prince of this world, that we are in enemy-occupied territory.

01:30:32.000 And guess what?

01:30:33.000 We have to launch a sabotage campaign against Satan's dominance here in this world.

01:30:38.000 What does that look like?

01:30:39.000 Be insult and light.

01:30:40.000 And it says in Romans to love what is good and hate what is evil.

01:30:43.000 And so I love all those verses, but my favorite of all of it is in the book of Titus, if I'm not mistaken, Jude, the book of Jude, where even the archangel Michael himself, when he goes to fight Satan, he doesn't fight it himself.

01:30:57.000 You know what he says?

01:30:58.000 Lord, rebuke you.

01:31:00.000 He even calls on the name of the Lord.

01:31:02.000 And what that tells me and should tell all of you is that you're not going to fight this battle alone, and we're not going to fight this battle alone.

01:31:09.000 We must, through intercessory, prayer, and fasting and praying, know the true hierarchy here.

01:31:14.000 The battle's already won, everybody.

01:31:15.000 And right now, the manifestation of the material is because of a spiritual sickness.

01:31:20.000 And we must understand that.

01:31:21.000 And that gives me great comfort and peace because we have truth, enlightened righteousness on our side.

01:31:27.000 Do not let Satan trip you up.

01:31:28.000 He tries to wage war on your mind, but your heart and your soul is born new thanks to the grace, mercy, and truth of Jesus Christ.

01:31:35.000 And that gives me great comfort.

01:31:41.000 That's so good.

01:31:47.000 You sent me, you sent me a link to a lady who was praying.

01:31:53.000 He said, this is a cool prayer.

01:31:54.000 Isn't that cool?

01:31:55.000 And I got to tell you, when I started listening to him, I'm like, this is what Charlie's listening to.

01:31:59.000 And it was, I mean, this was a fervent calling on the Lord.

01:32:03.000 It was an intercessory prayer.

01:32:04.000 This woman is bringing down heaven. 1.00

01:32:07.000 And you don't step into the middle of the prince of this world's business and shake it up and think you're not going to get attacked.

01:32:19.000 And Charlie takes on political forces, but when you did the altar call at Smotherman's Church, and he said, I want you to call people to Christ.

01:32:28.000 And Charlie presented the gospel similar.

01:32:30.000 I mean, he did such a good job.

01:32:32.000 And people that night, there was a move of God's Spirit.

01:32:35.000 And I watched him.

01:32:37.000 He came in.

01:32:37.000 You almost fainted.

01:32:39.000 It was so crazy.

01:32:40.000 I've never seen you.

01:32:42.000 It was a Spurgeon-type moment.

01:32:44.000 There was literally two people, one that flicked me off, one person that was, you could say, vexing or whatever.

01:32:50.000 And it was overwhelmingly physical, right?

01:32:54.000 Because remember, Satan deals in the flesh, right?

01:32:57.000 So you're vulnerable in the flesh in that moment.

01:32:59.000 And there was so much spiritual warfare happening at that moment of people finding eternal salvation that Satan was doing everything he possibly could to try to launch a counteroffensive.

01:33:09.000 It's a very real thing.

01:33:10.000 Understand, higher levels, higher devils, right?

01:33:13.000 Those of you, you think you're going to get into this fight and you can live the same life you lived before?

01:33:17.000 No, it's going to all of a sudden take you living in more alignment with God's commands, living more obedient.

01:33:21.000 It says in the scriptures that you have to wall off the vectors for Satan to attack you.

01:33:26.000 That's why God gave us our rules for life.

01:33:28.000 That's why God gave us the decalogue.

01:33:30.000 That's why God gave us the fruits of the Spirit.

01:33:32.000 It's not because he hates us, because he wants us to be protected against the enemy and rebellion from his ways.

01:33:38.000 That's so good, Charlie.

01:33:39.000 All right.

01:33:41.000 So God bless you guys.

01:33:42.000 Thank you so much.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - August 29, 2021

How We Win—LIVE From Godspeak Calvary Chapel

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