00:00:49.000I'm also thrilled to announce, and we're going to mention this quite a lot, the official rollout of Turning Point Faith.
00:00:56.000We are here to help you as Christians and pastors and churches to be better equipped and educated to gather and to be able to activate for goodness in the public square.
00:01:09.000If you want to learn more about it or get your pastor involved in this network alongside Pastor Rob McCoy, Pastor Jack Hibbs, Pastor James Cadiz, Pastor JĂźrgen Matusias, and others, go to tpusa.com slash faith.
00:01:26.000That's tpusa.com slash faith to get engaged and get involved.
00:01:34.000And if you have a pastor, if you're on an elder board and you want to make a recommendation, you can do it there.
00:01:38.000And also send us an email, freedom at charliekirk.com, if you so choose.
00:01:43.000This episode and this speech, I was told by Keith Rose and Rob McCoy, is one of the best speeches that I have given.
00:01:49.000And we had a great Q â A afterwards.
00:01:52.000So I encourage you guys to listen to the whole thing through.
00:02:20.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:02:29.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:19.000And Ryan helps us out in a lot of different ways.
00:03:21.000And the whole McCoy family has been amazing.
00:03:25.000And I've been hearing over the last couple years how California has been in kind of perpetual decline.
00:03:32.000And all of you and this church refuse to take that for an answer.
00:03:37.000And 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.
00:03:51.000And you made that happen here in this church.
00:03:59.000I 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.
00:04:10.000Now, this is one of the reasons why I think we're going to win, and we're going to talk about that tonight.
00:04:14.000So, if you had to title tonight's speech, you can call it how we win, three words.
00:04:19.000Because 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.
00:04:34.000It's basically one of the rules of life.
00:04:36.000And 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.
00:04:51.000Now, many of you remember that the signature recall effort against Newsom was trending okay until a certain meal happened.
00:05:00.000When 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?
00:05:24.000And as soon as that one picture was taken, it changed the course of the recall.
00:05:29.000It went from a recall that might have made it to they had more signatures than they knew what to do with.
00:05:34.000They couldn't toss out those signatures at whatever rate they could be.
00:05:38.000Now, however, the recall ends up, and I personally am backing Larry Elder, and I think that he really is doing a great job.
00:05:44.000And however, and regardless of your own opinion, I think everyone here is going to vote, yes, recall Newsome.
00:06:04.000Where all of us can agree on that question and the replacement you guys can figure out yourselves.
00:06:09.000I feel like I'm kind of a transplant through California.
00:06:12.000I spend more time here than in Arizona, which is where we technically live.
00:06:15.000And 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.
00:06:23.000I 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.
00:06:30.000And 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.
00:06:47.000Did you see that press conference that Gavin Newsom did where he just blew up on the reporter?
00:06:52.000He'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.
00:07:18.000Anyway, that's a different question that we could talk about.
00:07:20.000They all need salvation truly with Jesus Christ and they need to commit their life to a higher purpose.
00:07:24.000They'll actually find life to be more enjoyable than just kind of these political power games they always find themselves in.
00:07:29.000And 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.
00:07:37.000So I'm going to go through this speech in three ways.
00:08:30.000Those are momentary political victories that we should aim for, by the way.
00:08:33.000And just so all of you know, you're going to play a big role in that in the House of Representatives fight.
00:08:38.000Because a lot of these House districts are going to be right down the street that are going to dictate the balance of power.
00:08:42.000So don't feel as if you're disempowered in that fight.
00:08:46.000But that's not what winning is, right?
00:08:47.000We've controlled the House of Representatives before, and what do we get?
00:08:49.000Corporate 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.
00:09:01.000Now, 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.
00:09:07.000But just winning another federal election is not what winning looks like.
00:09:10.000So 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.
00:09:38.000And there's tremendous political power actually in nostalgia.
00:09:45.000And 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.
00:10:00.000This comes from a German historicist view of the world that eventually things are going to get better.
00:10:07.000We know that just because you have airplanes and TikTok and Twitter, life is not going to all of a sudden suddenly improve.
00:10:13.000Is the moral condition of a nation actually improving?
00:10:16.000Are 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.
00:10:24.000And 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.
00:10:37.000And 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.
00:10:51.000It's like, no, you're a bigot and you're a racist.
00:10:54.000It's where there is this accepted upon kind of American creed, which was very simple.
00:10:58.000You work hard and play by the rules, your life will get better and your children's life will get better.
00:11:02.000It was generally accepted in the early 2000s, the country I grew up in, that having children was an objective moral good.
00:11:09.000That families need to be preserved and protected.
00:11:12.000And that our history as a country and a nation is something we should be proud of.
00:11:16.000All of that has now been put in jeopardy.
00:11:17.000And so I want you to think about this deeply, that in the last 10 years, we have lived through a cultural revolution.
00:11:24.000And most people don't even realize it.
00:11:25.000This 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.
00:13:41.000And 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?
00:14:10.000The third founding, which no one wants to talk about, was the 1960s.
00:14:13.000We changed everything through the Civil Rights Act regime, through the sexual revolution, through importing cheap labor, through changing our immigration policies.
00:14:21.000We refounded the country in the 1960s, and we're now living through the results 60 years later.
00:14:28.000We have to go through a fourth founding.
00:14:30.000And 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.
00:15:04.000I want us to be marching through city council races and referendum races.
00:15:08.000I 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.
00:15:26.000You 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.
00:15:33.000Think about how unbelievably short-sighted that is.
00:15:36.000If 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.
00:15:48.000They have a full scouting report of every single person, play, and head.
00:15:52.000I'm here to tell you right now, the Republican Party has no scouting report for who we're up against.
00:16:57.000Well, they're very good at taking over cultural institutions and they're incredibly good at moral blackmail, the best.
00:17:04.000They are an institutional moral blackmail industry.
00:17:07.000Hollywood, 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.
00:17:17.000They're also very good at hanging together, aren't they?
00:18:33.000I mean, they have like signed urinals being sold for $6 million at this, that's true, like literally a signed urnal.
00:18:39.000And 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.
00:19:12.000So they are, I'll finish with kind of their positives.
00:19:15.000This 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.
00:19:32.000And again, that might be something that you consider a negative, and it could be considered a vulnerability.
00:19:37.000But generally, that means that they are willing to sacrifice in great numbers and reputationally for this.
00:19:44.000Okay, so what are the vulnerabilities, right?
00:20:16.000And 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.
00:20:28.000And 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?
00:20:36.000This has very little to do with the military and everything to do about what you're fighting every single day.
00:20:41.000So we've done a lot of podcasts on this.
00:20:43.000We 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?
00:20:53.000It'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.
00:21:00.000This is the best argument against critical race theory I've ever seen.
00:21:03.000You 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.
00:21:19.000We don't know how many Americans are in Afghanistan.
00:21:21.000We do not have the ability to get them out.
00:21:23.000We are caught flat-footed and we didn't see the Taliban coming.
00:21:26.000Now, 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.
00:21:41.000And so I remember reading this article.
00:22:50.000So, back to the non-controversial speech of tonight.
00:22:56.000You 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?
00:23:07.000Where he testifies in front of Congress in June while the Taliban was planning a takeover of Kabul.
00:23:13.000He 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.
00:24:11.000It'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.
00:24:22.000Then all of a sudden it's really something that all of us are like, maybe we shouldn't teach our children this.
00:24:26.000And that's the proper way to explain what's happened in the last couple of days.
00:24:30.000So the Biden regime, they're paralyzed.
00:25:40.000I'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.
00:25:55.000Does anyone know what happened on January 9th?
00:25:57.000President Trump got banned from every social media site at one moment.
00:26:01.000So 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.
00:26:13.000That's a big deal because we used to have to persuade you about that.
00:26:16.000Free markets, low taxes, entrepreneurs, as if we need to defend Mark Zuckerberg's right to destroy our lives, right?
00:26:23.000And all of a sudden it's like, no, they banned a sitting president from social media channels.
00:26:29.000And you're trying to tell me that these companies want our best interests?
00:26:33.000A sitting president while he was president.
00:26:47.000And that's exactly what they did all of us.
00:26:49.000This is one of their weak spots, is they have no prudence.
00:26:52.000They 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.
00:27:18.000It was really hard to fight back against that, wasn't it?
00:27:20.000Because 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.
00:27:28.000And 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.
00:27:34.000They might say, Charlie, why have they lost that?
00:27:36.000It'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.
00:27:47.000And 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.
00:27:54.000And so I can go into this further, but if we're talking about a threat assessment report, their positives, they're negatives.
00:28:04.000If you guys have questions about that, we can talk about it.
00:28:06.000Okay, let's talk about our side, which is kind of what we can, you know, do.
00:28:25.000But 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?
00:30:01.000Like, what side are you talking about, right?
00:30:04.000And so that's actually very comforting.
00:30:07.000I know it sounds like it isn't, right?
00:30:09.000It'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.
00:30:19.000So the doctrine that we must embrace then is that we must get back to this kind of World War II mentality.
00:30:27.000I'm not saying that we're in a physical combatant war, okay?
00:31:07.000Now, I'm not asking you to do anything even close to that.
00:31:10.000What 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?
00:31:23.000And so the victory will come down to who is willing.
00:31:28.000The 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.
00:31:36.000We have a one-party rule in Washington, D.C., with a couple exceptions.
00:31:40.000We 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.
00:31:51.000We need to retake the Republican Party and make it a legitimate pro-American party, pro-freedom party, and pro-liberty party.
00:32:57.000With every new measure he puts in, Florida becomes more Republican.
00:33:01.000Here'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.
00:33:14.000I know that's a weird thing for Republicans to hear, is that people actually can be led to follow Republican politics.
00:33:20.000Not everything is all of a sudden set in stone.
00:33:23.000And Ron DeSantis has the missing ingredient, which is courage.
00:33:27.000But I just want to say, Ron DeSantis is in the vast minority of Republican leaders across the country.
00:33:32.000Most Republican governors right now are instituting mask mandates, vaccine mandates.
00:33:37.000They'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.
00:33:44.000And they're saying the most important thing they need to do is go welcome more refugees from Afghanistan.
00:33:48.000I can name three governors that are doing that right now.
00:34:44.000And you look at the 75 million people that we know that voted for Donald Trump.
00:34:48.000There's a lot of untapped potential there.
00:34:51.000We'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.
00:35:02.000And so another positive we have, which is the most obvious positive we have, is that we happen to have truth.
00:35:34.000Is 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.
00:35:45.000And 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.
00:35:56.000This is a hard thing for Christians, especially to admit and to want to internalize.
00:36:02.000This is not a coffee shop debate with your liberal friend.
00:36:06.000They mean business and they're willing to use the political power to destroy your life.
00:36:10.000So, now it goes to the third part: what do we do about it?
00:36:12.000Well, then it comes down to willingness.
00:36:14.000And 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.
00:36:23.000Could be reputational, could be income, it could be friends, it could be something.
00:36:28.000And someone's like, Well, Charlie, I don't know what I have to sacrifice.
00:36:31.000I'm like, get in the arena, you'll figure out really quick, really quick.
00:36:36.000In California, that could be tough, right?
00:36:40.000Go 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.
00:36:51.000Circle every company that you spend money with voluntarily that represents the Democrat Party and stop spending money with them.
00:36:57.000If every single person did that in this church, that's millions of dollars of purchasing power right now.
00:37:17.000It 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.
00:37:26.000And then the other part is this, which is supporting people that are courageous, like Rob.
00:37:32.000Keep on attending church and supporting churches like this one and getting behind movements like this.
00:37:40.000But then it's also asking the Lord to give you guidance of where you need to be a leader.
00:37:45.000And 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.
00:37:57.000And I'll be honest, there's a lot of brave people here.
00:38:01.000There's more cowardly people than brave people in America.
00:38:04.000I get more emails from people that say, Charlie, I reluctantly took it because I didn't want to lose my job.
00:38:08.000And I'm not there to tell them that they made the wrong decision.
00:38:11.000I'm saying they made a cowardly decision.
00:38:14.000I mean, sometimes the cowardly decision can be the right decision for your family, right?
00:38:17.000Who am I to say that I want to take income away from your children, right?
00:38:20.000How dare I say something like that, right?
00:38:23.000But relenting and bending the knee, I mean, that's their whole game plan, right?
00:38:40.000And 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.
00:38:50.000They both had job offers at clinics that didn't require mandatory vaccines within 48 hours.
00:38:55.000Great support system, right there, right?
00:38:58.000And 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.
00:39:10.000And 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.
00:39:20.000I've seen this firsthand is that Republicans, that even some that we only, the one that's been amazing is Rand Paul.
00:39:53.000Do 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?
00:40:01.000And certain Western militaries, I'm still trying to confirm which one it is, they're putting red bans on unvaccinated service members now.
00:40:07.000Not American yet, but I think it's either Australia or Britain or one of them.
00:40:13.000You know, just so you guys know, if we were kind of had a media in our country, they'd be covering that.
00:40:18.000So it's going to cost everyone something.
00:40:20.000And 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.
00:40:32.000You guys have all heard from Joseph Bondarenko, who was a dissident.
00:40:36.000We don't like thinking this way, right?
00:40:38.000Because we, quite honestly, conservatives have lived in delusion the last 10 years.
00:40:43.000We've continued to convince ourselves there's more of us than them.
00:40:46.000Yeah, there are, but we control basically nothing now, right?
00:40:49.000So now all of a sudden you have to think of yourself as a Soviet dissident.
00:40:54.000How is he able to bring everything down?
00:40:56.000And 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.
00:41:07.000Now that can change, and it should change, and it will change if we commit ourselves to it.
00:41:11.000And 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.
00:41:19.000Because one of the narratives that we are told is: well, Charlie, we're just one election away from turning all this around.
00:41:26.000They 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.
00:41:37.000They control Google that can kick people off immediately if they say things they don't like.
00:41:43.000They control the NIH, the CDC, the FDA.
00:41:46.000And 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.
00:42:07.000It 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?
00:42:18.000And the delusion conservatism is telling you, like, no, no, no, it's all going to be fine.
00:42:44.000Gerald 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.
00:43:09.000Raised 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.
00:43:20.000They had committees and implementation plans.
00:43:22.000If 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.
00:43:32.000But Gerald Ford was a little bit of a naive politician.
00:43:35.000He 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.
00:43:45.000They didn't want this kind of European invasion into their country.
00:43:49.000And 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?
00:43:56.000Billions of dollars, they started to put up speed limits that were in the metric system.
00:44:00.000They'd come up the next day, they were gone.
00:44:02.000They'd have these new orders for businesses that did public-private partnerships to all of a sudden do things in the metric system.
00:44:08.000So 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.
00:44:17.000And Gerald Ford couldn't believe what was happening.
00:44:19.000He's like, why won't Americans accept this sort of kind of immersion into the international community?
00:44:26.000And if any of you have been to London, they're on the metric system now.
00:44:30.000They're on the metric system because they said, okay, and they implemented and no one fought back.
00:44:35.000And then after two years, Gerald Ford famously issued a press release.
00:44:38.000He said, Look, Americans, through mass noncompliance and civil disobedience, they don't want the metric system, and we're done pushing it.
00:44:45.000I'm telling you that if enough of us rise against this kind of power, they will give up.
00:44:51.000And I know it's like a silly example, but it's a real example.
00:44:55.000But 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.
00:45:07.000So the question is, how do we win, right?
00:46:52.000And 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.
00:47:06.000And this church is full of people that are.
00:47:08.000But 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.
00:48:51.000They said, I wish that I had a church like Godspeak in Michigan.
00:48:56.000And you would be amazed at, because of all this tyranny, how many good churches have popped up here in Southern California.
00:49:05.000And I don't know if you guys appreciate that.
00:49:08.000In 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.
00:49:17.000And it's just like, there's no spirit.
00:50:56.000It's when we lost our footing post-war.
00:50:58.000We had such an amazing victory and we just kind of fell.
00:51:01.000And because of that, anyway, removing absolute truth.
00:51:06.000How on earth, if you have an antibody test that shows you already had COVID, does that not satisfy?
00:51:11.000I had this conversation with a doctor, and he's like, oh, no, no, that only holds you over for eight months.
00:51:16.000So, what kind of crazy, like, witch doctor science are you doing?
00:51:20.000I mean, every independent study shows that's not the case.
00:51:24.000Um, but yeah, I mean, you guys have gone through that in great length.
00:51:26.000I don't mean to, you know, filibuster on.
00:51:28.000So, we had a number of folks, and we've covered this, so you can look at a previous broadcast.
00:51:33.000But 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.
00:52:38.000Your own opinion is completely irrelevant in the matter.
00:52:40.000He 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.
00:53:19.00030 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.
00:53:30.000That all of a sudden, that all the mask mandates fell apart.
00:53:33.000I 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.
00:53:49.000I want that headline, and that's what we're going to get.
00:55:23.000Don't go to Dick Sporting Goods, by the way.
00:55:25.000And 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.
00:55:43.000Because then you'll see, oh, wow, McDonald's gives money to Planned Parenthood.
00:55:56.000I've used this a lot for Turning Point USA purchases.
00:55:59.000So they have a really good grading score.
00:56:01.000Again, we've searched far and wide for this service, right?
00:56:04.000And 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.
00:56:13.000So Delta Airlines gets a really low ranking from them, whereas American is a little bit better, but not a lot.
00:56:21.000And it was really helpful for us at Turning Point USA because we're doing massive volume of purchases for campus events.
00:56:28.000It's like, okay, you're not doing these 15 companies.
00:56:32.000And 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.
00:56:39.000Now, I do want to say this about the company thing.
00:56:41.000Sometimes you're left with no choices, okay?
00:56:44.000If you're flying to New York City, you're going to have to fly in a woke airline.
00:57:03.000So, 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.
01:00:41.000That's going to come going from church to church, campus to campus, right?
01:00:44.000Podcast to podcast, talking person to person.
01:00:47.000That's the consequential fight of our time.
01:00:49.000Not 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.
01:01:18.000So we have all these great partnerships of things that I have found that hopefully can bless you, right?
01:01:21.000If 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.
01:01:50.000But I know a lot of parents can't homeschool, and that's okay.
01:01:54.000And I want to give you an idea and challenge you and encourage you about something, how everyone can homeschool.
01:02:00.000And that is doing an hour for liberty every week.
01:02:03.000Now, I want you to think about doing this.
01:02:05.000If 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.
01:02:20.000And I want to encourage those of you that have children, and if you're grandparents especially, take some of these courses.
01:02:26.000And this one goes directly to a special course that is all about the great American story.
01:02:32.000And 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?
01:02:43.000My challenge to you tonight is do that one hour of liberty every single week.
01:02:47.000You might not be able to homeschool full time.
01:02:58.000And you could go as basic or as advanced as you want.
01:03:01.000And you might say, Charlie, I don't know any of that stuff.
01:03:04.000What 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.
01:03:11.000So there's a retention component to it, right?
01:03:13.000So you know the most important parts to do it.
01:03:15.000There's a study guide and all of that.
01:03:16.000So I'm a big believer in empowering you to teach your children and not have the government do it.
01:03:23.000I have been so frustrated the more I've traveled the last couple months where parents are like, the teachers are doing all this.
01:03:29.000I say, well, what are you teaching your kids?
01:03:51.000If 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.
01:04:25.000I was like, huh, who said that before?
01:04:27.000And all of a sudden, Dr. Larry Arn said, Aristotle said that politics is the highest form of community because it combines morality and sociability.
01:04:34.000He's like, huh, who said that one before?
01:04:36.000That actually wasn't Larry Arn, but yeah, go ahead.
01:04:38.000Yeah, but anyway, he did say it in one of the videos.
01:04:39.000But anyway, the point is, like, I was like, I found the source.
01:05:23.000And 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?
01:05:33.000Instead, try to influence that party, try to get better candidate selection.
01:05:37.000And there is an argument to vote for the lesser of two evils.
01:05:41.000That you can make a moral argument for that, right?
01:05:43.000That 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?
01:05:54.000And 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.
01:06:19.000The fact that the Republican Party was changed permanently thanks to President Donald Trump.
01:06:24.000And 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.
01:06:39.000But we miss the good because we seek the perfect.
01:06:42.000And Christians have a litmus test that, you know, if you don't fit this, this, and this.
01:06:46.000And 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.
01:06:55.000I 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.
01:07:07.000So, 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.
01:07:15.000They're not great candidates because they don't register in polling, and that's where folks are divided.
01:07:21.000I mean, Larry's a friend of mine first and foremost, so I tend to support friends when they run for office.
01:07:26.000And look, this is a really important kind of thing that we have to use more of.
01:07:30.000The Lord gave us practical judgment, okay?
01:07:33.000So you just kind of look at how things are, not how you wish them to be.
01:07:36.000So, how they are is that Newsom probably won't survive the yes-no question.
01:07:40.000So, it's either going to be Larry Elder or some sort of weird Democrat YouTuber, right?
01:07:44.000And like, that's just kind of what the numbers are.
01:07:47.000You 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.
01:07:54.000So, this next question is: how do we ensure California elections are honest?
01:07:59.000I'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.
01:08:16.000But we're looking for volunteers to do that, and there aren't any.
01:08:47.000Yeah, 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.
01:08:56.000So I don't have much to contribute to that.
01:09:08.000You used this story about your grandmother that voted Republican her whole life, and then she died and has been voting Democrat ever since.
01:09:37.000I'm happy to get into it if people are interested.
01:09:40.000But the way it works in the Senate is for major pieces of legislation.
01:09:43.000It takes 60 votes to move that legislation forward.
01:09:48.000They currently don't have that unless they got rid of the filibuster.
01:09:51.000And currently, Kirsten Cinema and Joe Manchin have said they're not willing to get rid of the filibuster.
01:09:56.000Therefore, 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.
01:10:05.000And so, and this kind of goes back to just kind of managing expectations.
01:10:10.000You 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?
01:10:19.000Because that is a republic-ending piece of legislation.
01:10:44.000I try not to give specific advice to specific questions.
01:10:47.000I don't know all the pretext of people's lives.
01:10:50.000A 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.
01:10:55.000Uh, 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.
01:11:10.000And we have seen, quite honestly, the exact opposite: that only 59% of people that go to college graduate, 41% drop out.
01:11:19.000We 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.
01:11:27.000And 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.
01:11:34.000That's a Dennis Prager line, which it's not something to joke about.
01:11:39.000And if you send your child to college, they might not come back recognizable.
01:11:43.000If they want to be a history teacher, yeah, make sure they go to the right college.
01:11:46.000I mean, obviously, Hillsdale would be my choice.
01:11:49.000There's only like, just so you guys know, there's like 10 or 12 schools I would trust to teach history correctly.
01:11:56.000And there's a specific way that we're not teaching history.
01:12:00.000And 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.
01:12:08.000So, anything that wasn't written your lifetime, we will read from a negative lens.
01:12:12.000Whereas 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.
01:12:23.000So, in Genesis 6, it says that Noah was a good man and a righteous man amongst the people of his generation.
01:12:31.000So, all of a sudden, you're like, wow, why does it say that Noah is a good man amongst the people of his generation?
01:12:35.000It doesn't say that Noah is a good man.
01:12:37.000It says that if you compare him to his contemporaries, he's a good man.
01:12:40.000But maybe if you compared Noah to Joseph, he wasn't that great of a man.
01:12:43.000The 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.
01:12:51.000For example, Aristotle has a lot to teach all of you, and they're not learning it in most colleges.
01:12:56.000Most colleges have completely removed the Greek classics almost altogether.
01:13:01.000So if they want to be a history teacher, yeah, there's a path, but just be very careful.
01:13:21.000I 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.
01:14:01.000Most parents wait up at night thinking, anything but my kid working construction.
01:14:07.000If my kid works construction, he's a failure.
01:14:10.000Not 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.
01:15:32.000So Mikey's kind of body man, par excellence, travels with us.
01:15:35.000And I can tell you right now, every single person that graduated amongst them an Oaks Christian, they are not having the same experiences.
01:15:43.000He'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.
01:16:46.000So, 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.
01:16:54.000It would be a game changer and a death blow to the Kamala Harris Attorney General regime.
01:16:59.000That alone is reason enough to do that, right?
01:17:08.000But 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.
01:17:16.000I mean, the only comparison I can give, and it would be bigger than this, is all of you kind of your political historian.
01:17:22.000Do 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?
01:17:37.000When he died, all of a sudden, it was in the most Democrat state in the country.
01:17:41.000Republican Scott Brown won that seat, and it shocked the world.
01:17:44.000Now, 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.
01:17:57.000So, yeah, 2022 is going to be tough, but that's not what's in front of us, right?
01:18:01.000The Lord says, do not worry about tomorrow, right?
01:21:13.000And people say, Charlie, what do I do?
01:21:15.000I say, at the minimum, you need to be as courageous as what these students are doing in high school and college.
01:21:19.000Let me tell you why they're so courageous.
01:21:21.000They'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.
01:21:36.000So people say, Charlie, what does that look like?
01:21:46.000You are living a lie, if that's the case.
01:21:48.000If 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.
01:22:24.000And what Turning Point USA is doing with these amazing young patriots is they're like, you know what?
01:22:28.000I 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.
01:22:35.000You have no idea how many Turning Point USA students email us every single day.
01:22:38.000They say, my parents think I'm too involved and too political.
01:22:41.000They say I just got to get a good job.
01:22:46.000They'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.
01:23:02.000You 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.
01:23:44.000She's amazing, but I want to talk about Turning Point Faith.
01:23:46.000And 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.
01:23:58.000And 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.
01:24:11.000Because if we're honest with ourselves, it's only going to be the church that saves this country.
01:24:16.000And what we need, I want you to think about this vision: a thousand God speaks.
01:24:20.000A thousand churches like this will save the country.
01:24:24.000And you'd be amazed at how many pastors are coming out of the woodwork.
01:25:13.000So 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.
01:25:29.000And he could tell this kind of guard was a little bit demoralized.
01:28:43.000First by hunger and earthly needs, and then two others under the principalities and the dominions of the earth.
01:28:49.000Satan was wrongly quoting scripture back to Jesus, right?
01:28:53.000Trying to get him to misstep and fall.
01:28:54.000And 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.
01:29:10.000Because Genesis tells his nature, and Revelation tells you how it's going to end.
01:29:15.000Satan getting thrown into the pit of fire.
01:29:17.000All 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.
01:29:25.000All of you are prone targets for Satan to try to come after you.
01:29:29.000I don't want to talk too much on this, but I could just riff on a little bit more.
01:29:32.000Three ways that Satan tries to attack you: through your environment, through earthly vows, and through certain fleshly sins.
01:29:40.000Are 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?
01:29:47.000You are the combination of the people you spend the most time with.
01:29:51.000The five people you spend the most time with, that is who you are.
01:30:40.000And it says in Romans to love what is good and hate what is evil.
01:30:43.000And 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.
01:31:00.000He even calls on the name of the Lord.
01:31:02.000And 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.
01:31:09.000We must, through intercessory, prayer, and fasting and praying, know the true hierarchy here.
01:32:07.000And 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.
01:32:19.000And 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.
01:32:28.000And Charlie presented the gospel similar.
01:32:44.000There was literally two people, one that flicked me off, one person that was, you could say, vexing or whatever.
01:32:50.000And it was overwhelmingly physical, right?
01:32:54.000Because remember, Satan deals in the flesh, right?
01:32:57.000So you're vulnerable in the flesh in that moment.
01:32:59.000And 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.