00:00:20.000His 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.
00:00:29.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:44.000And I want to talk about a lot tonight, but leadership is a very hard thing.
00:01:52.000Leadership means you're going to endure criticism.
00:01:54.000Leadership means you have to put forth a vision.
00:01:56.000It means you have to be able to read people correctly and organize them effectively.
00:02:00.000Leadership means you're going to do what's right, even though you know there's going to be a backlash, the likes of which you couldn't expect.
00:02:07.000And you have a leader as a governor of South Dakota, and you should be very proud of that because she did the right thing.
00:02:13.000And I could tell you, she's been proven correct throughout this entire circus of locking down our entire country.
00:02:20.000And I visited some of these lockdown places, and it doesn't, when you lock down a society, and for those of you that have been here in South Dakota, I'm sure you had various degrees of this, but nothing even close to being even, I was just in Jackson Hall, Wyoming, and I felt like it was something out of Chernobyl.
00:02:35.000Everyone's wearing, four-year-olds are wearing masks, and no one's happy, and they're all angry at each other, and the stores are only open two hours a day, and they're closing things down.
00:02:43.000And they tested 1,200 people in Teton County.
00:02:46.000They couldn't find one case of the Chinese coronavirus.
00:02:52.000So I think that if you call it Ebola and you call it all these other things the place of origination, I think it's only fair to label what closed down our society the last four or five months.
00:04:07.000And they're like, yeah, we didn't shut down.
00:04:09.000I'm like, only Christine Noam could say that and South Dakota could say that.
00:04:13.000So, but look, here's the very important thing that we have to recognize when it comes to leadership.
00:04:17.000When it comes to leadership, you have to make a vision, convince your citizenry, hopefully.
00:04:24.000And as you are putting forth the decisions that you are trying to make, and the entire mainstream press comes after you, the entire national media comes after you.
00:05:05.000I always try to make things PG, but boy, do I want to just be able to...
00:05:08.000Anyway, she has more of a spine than the entire Republican Party combined because the fact that we are supposed to shut down our entire society, especially in a state like South Dakota, where you're basically already socially distanced, let's just be honest, okay?0.99
00:05:22.000Everyone lives within like a couple hundred acres of the next person, okay?
00:05:34.000So, and the fact that this state was supposed to abide by what every other authoritarian maniac was doing, I just think is a, first of all, in this beautiful state where you have Mount Rushmore and you have the champions of freedom and you have the champions of liberty so beautifully positioned, you know, just 30 minutes south of here, I think it would be a disservice and it would be a moral outrage to shut down this state when we have so many people that sacrificed for our freedom and liberty.
00:06:02.000And let's just talk about this because now they're trying to shut down the country again.
00:06:05.000And you see Republican governors that are going along with it.
00:06:20.000And so for all the elective surgeries, for all the visits and the doctor's visits that were postponed during the lockdown, all of a sudden they're all being rescheduled.
00:06:29.000So you walk into any doctor's office with symptoms or without symptoms and they're testing you, right?
00:06:36.000And by definition, when you increase the testing pool, you're going to have more people that are testing positive.
00:06:42.000But they're not telling you that in every single state except Arizona, which for its own reasons is an outlier, deaths are going down.
00:06:49.000Intensive hospitalizations are going down.
00:06:51.000The media says, well, the ICUs are totally packed.
00:06:54.000Well, they're totally packed because people are going to the ICUs now for what they call elective surgeries for the first time in a long time.
00:07:03.000You're like, oh, well, I didn't think of it that way.
00:07:05.000Well, maybe you should start thinking in general when you start to make very important public policy decisions.
00:07:11.000And I'm looking, I'm not minimizing and saying the virus is nothing and you shouldn't take it seriously.
00:07:15.000But for a country that was founded on this frontier mindset that this state in particular was founded in negative 30-degree weather, right?
00:07:23.000Homesteading, I think that we can handle a virus.
00:07:26.000Like, I think that's probably pretty fair.
00:07:28.000And when you have freedom, this is a very important thing we do not communicate to young people.
00:07:43.000So, for example, if you think you could just have limitless freedom and do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it and not take responsibility for your actions, that's what petulant children do, right?
00:07:51.000So, and by the way, this is the infantilization of our country that's happening real time, right?
00:07:56.000The left wants the entire country to become like a daycare that they take care of us all the time.
00:08:00.000Seriously, like, seriously, you can leave here, you can't leave there, just look to us.
00:08:03.000Nanny State's going to take care of you all the time, right?
00:08:06.000Where I actually want to live in a mature society.
00:08:08.000I want to live in a society that trusts us with firearms, that trusts you to be able to make informed decisions, to say, you know what?
00:08:13.000If you want to go to church on Easter Sunday, you can go to church on Easter Sunday, and we are not going to lock you down to prevent you to go to church on Easter Sunday.
00:08:21.000And then to add insult to injury to this entire thing.
00:08:25.000And then you, and I'm going to get very, very into this throughout the speech, but you have like half a million people that storm the streets, some of which are not wearing masks, most of which aren't wearing masks, not socially distanced because of the protests for they call it racial injustice.
00:09:18.000And then they're like, well, I wonder why the cases are increasing.
00:09:21.000Again, testing is one of the reasons, but maybe it was the 100,000 people that were in the streets on Memorial Day weekend protesting without a mask right up against each other.
00:09:29.000And the media is like, oh, well, and then you have 1,400 health professionals that are saying, well, it's okay to go protest.
00:09:51.000And so that's why I respect your governor here in South Dakota, because leadership is by definition being a contrarian.
00:09:57.000If you're going along with the flow, especially the flow of the left-wing collectivist, in my opinion, anti-American narrative that is stemming all across this country, to dare say you disagree with that, they are going to try to destroy your life.
00:10:45.000And people are that's the other thing that the Republican Party has to learn: that leadership will be rewarded.
00:10:51.000That it's really hard when you're going through the thick of it.
00:10:54.000But people need leaders now more than ever.
00:10:57.000We do not need more people that do the Democrat-light thing, right?
00:11:00.000They're like, well, we can sort of shut down our state.
00:11:03.000And, you know, I guess we can give less free stuff than the Democrats.
00:11:07.000And what I think the American people are actually looking for right now, as evidenced by your governor and evidenced by the few truth tellers that are out there, is that we don't want like a nicer, more moderate form of Chuck Schumer.
00:11:18.000Like that's not what we're looking for, right?
00:11:21.000We want something that actually re-embraces the founding commitment to our country, that defends our citizens, that does not allow the icons of our founding, like George Washington, to be torn down violently.
00:11:34.000Like we want a government that's going to protect our history.
00:11:37.000We want a government that's going to teach it correctly to the next generation.
00:11:40.000And I get the feeling, and I'm incredibly vocal lately about this, is that you like it or not, the Republican Party has completely squandered this opportunity in the last couple of weeks.
00:11:52.000And South Dakota is probably one of the most Republican states in the country, one of the most conservative states.
00:11:58.000And so why you guys do not have national leadership screaming at the top of their lungs on the floor of the U.S. Senate or the U.S. Congress while our statues are being torn down while they're threatening to take down Mount Rushmore?
00:12:11.000It's just, I mean, it'd be one thing if like, oh, I'm worried about losing re-election.
00:12:16.000Like, you represent South Dakota, okay?
00:12:18.000I know that Christine Noam was in a tough governor's race, but it's probably pretty fair to say that you're going to keep on electing the incumbent Republican.
00:12:25.000In fact, I think if you come out and you say, if any Democrat wants to see what happens when you try to take down Mount Rushmore, you're going to be met with, let's just say, a lot of angry South Dakotans that let's just say they love their Second Amendment, right?
00:12:38.000By the way, we need a renewal of courage in our country.
00:12:43.000Again, it's very hard to find, though.
00:12:46.000And this is why, and again, they're tearing this stuff down.
00:12:49.000The left destroys everything they touch.
00:12:50.000If there's one thing, it's probably one of the more dark things to remember from my speech.
00:12:54.000But if there's only one thing to remember, it's the left.
00:13:13.000They have girls and Boy Scouts, and they have all the strange new things about social justice and racial diversity.
00:13:20.000And I'm like, I remember when the Boy Scouts were actually about developing strong men because our country needs strong men.
00:13:25.000Like, what an incredible topic that we actually need strong men and strong women.
00:13:30.000And I think the hyper-feminization of America has been one of the downfalls of our country because you actually need that balance.
00:13:35.000And it talks about that in the Bible, that it becomes one flesh, that there's attributes of the feminine and the masculine that are needed.
00:13:41.000And society is no different, by the way.
00:13:43.000And a society that gets too masculine also is not good either.
00:13:46.000You get strong men, authoritarians, and no checks and balances.
00:13:49.000But a society that totally discounts the role of the masculine, that's why you have 77% of black children being born without a stable father in the home.
00:13:59.000And that's when you start to see the entire family structure decay.
00:14:02.000So in the last couple of weeks, for those of you that might follow my social media or not, and thank you for those of you that you do, I have been more vocal than ever.
00:14:10.000And for whatever bizarre identity politic reason, the left believes, and this is a postmodernist reason, and I'll dive into this, they think that if you are not the right skin color, you are not allowed to comment on issues.
00:14:32.000So, I mean, truth is truth regardless of skin color.
00:14:38.000One of the crowning achievements of our country was when Martin Luther King said we should judge people on character, not color of their skin.
00:14:49.000And it took us a long time to actually achieve it and fulfill it.
00:14:52.000Now we have a very strange and dangerous and malevolent and pernicious digression where we're now judging people on the color of their skin, not on the content of their character, where you have people that are going around and being forced to take an E because of the color of their skin.
00:15:05.000And so let's talk about this because a lot of young people in schools all across the country are now experiencing this.
00:15:09.000And they say, well, Charlie, you have to go apologize for the institutional racism that your skin color embodies.
00:15:17.000First of all, you don't know my family's history, and I'd be happy to educate you on that.
00:15:20.000Second of all, since when do we have like 12th century feudal blood guilt?
00:15:23.000Like, since when is that the way we run our country?
00:15:26.000I'm a completely separate entity than my father and then my grandfather.
00:16:08.000And so we built an entire society around this idea around the sovereignty of the individual, that you matter, that you matter, that you matter.
00:16:15.000But you must have your own personal connection with the Almighty.
00:16:18.000It didn't work that way a thousand years ago.
00:16:21.000The way they used to punish people, because they only lived till they were like 35, was like, if you did something bad, they're going to banish your next five generations out to the hills.
00:16:32.000Whereas if you did something bad, your children's children and your children's children's children will live in the outskirts and will be peasants forever, basically, right?
00:16:40.000That was the way that they used to punish people.
00:16:42.000Like, oh, no, please do anything to me, but don't do that to my kids.
00:17:31.000No mature or advanced society should ever build anything around that.
00:17:35.000With that being said, people say, well, Charlie, don't you understand that white individuals have benefited tremendously out of the systems that were built completely for them?
00:17:44.000Now, if that was true, let's just take that argument and just defeat it because lies need to be defeated early and often so they don't spread into widely held public opinion.
00:17:54.000This is one of the big things, the big issues I have with the Republican Party is they're like, oh, yeah, I'm going to allow my colleagues to call our country an awful place and eventually, you know, people won't believe it.
00:18:02.000Next thing you know, 62% of young people think America's an awful place.
00:18:06.000That's what happened when you don't speak out and you don't defeat the lie.
00:18:08.000So they say this: well, the country was built for you, for white people.
00:18:12.000First of all, no, but let's look at the data.
00:18:16.000If that was true, why is it that the average white family earns $72,000 per year annual income and the average Indian American family earns $123,000 per year income?
00:18:25.000Average Taiwanese individual, $118,000, and all the way down.
00:18:30.000So was the Constitution written in Hindi or written in Korean?
00:18:33.000Like, maybe it's not the color of your skin.
00:18:46.000If you were raised by a mother and father in the home, you have a higher likelihood to succeed than almost any other guiding metric.
00:18:52.000Now, with that being said, single mothers do a phenomenal job in our country and they should be rewarded as such.
00:18:57.000But the nuclear family that is prescribed in the Bible and has been defended over the last 2,000 years still to this day creates a socioeconomic safety net that more than likely will create a country that is really what Tucker Carlson calls, and it's brilliant, a colorblind meritocracy, where I don't care about the color of your skin.
00:19:16.000Work hard, play by the rules, and have good character.
00:19:19.000To succeed in America, you need to do three things.
00:19:21.000And the fourth is pretty obvious, but the three things that are not so, they should be obvious.
00:19:25.000Graduate from high school, get married before you have kids, and get a job, any job.
00:19:30.000The fourth thing is don't commit crimes.
00:19:50.000Well, yeah, nothing says remembering the legacy of George Floyd, like pillaging the Gucci store.
00:19:55.000Like, okay, yeah, that's, it's, and then people are trying to justify it on television.
00:19:59.000But here's a very interesting statistic.
00:20:02.000A black individual in America who's raised by a mother and a father is far more likely to succeed than a white individual raised by just a single mother.
00:20:09.000And I find a lot of just disappointment so repulsive that we are engaging in these kind of, well, this skin color therefore gives you, by definition, a higher likelihood to succeed.
00:20:21.000And having actually driven through Appalachia, which is 98% white, and having to look at opioid clinics that do not have the capacity to service white America, having driven through rural America and understanding how we just shipped our manufacturing jobs overseas, which overwhelmingly impacted the white working class, I think it's very fair to say that it's more than fair to say that if we just continue this balkanization of what group is the most oppressed in the country, that is so anti-Western.
00:20:49.000And so their whole argument is, well, Charlie, what would you attribute then for why black America is not doing very well?
00:20:56.000Because I think it's fair to say that it's more than fair to say the statistics show that.
00:20:59.000And first of all, if we are such a racist country, why is it that 2 million people voluntarily have immigrated from Africa since the 1980s?
00:21:08.000So why is it that more people have voluntarily came from Africa since the 1980s than came here as slaves?
00:21:13.000If you were such a racist country, who on earth would do that, right?
00:21:28.000I think that most interactions that people have of individuals that look different than them, I actually think they're rather congenial, mutually respect.
00:21:36.000I think that actually it's hard to find the indecency.
00:21:40.000I think you actually have to create it.
00:21:42.000I mean, you have to find a garage door opener that you think's a noose.
00:21:46.000You have to make up some sort of crazy story in downtown Chicago where you said that two people wearing MAGA hats in negative 10-degree weather said this is MAGA country and they threw a noose over you.
00:21:56.000And by the way, that Justice Smollette thing is one of my favorite stories to talk about because it was just so fraudulent.
00:21:59.000I knew it was nonsense because I've lived in Chicago almost my whole life, go-cubs.
00:22:03.000And as soon as I heard the story, I was like, two people in negative 10-degree weather.
00:22:07.000First of all, you guys know what negative 10-degree weather actually is.
00:23:21.000But when you start to look at the incidents that are just created and concocted, it does beg the question, why do they do that?
00:23:29.000They do that because you get a special currency and you get treated differently if all of a sudden you're a victim.
00:23:35.000And all of a sudden, they like desire the victimization.
00:23:37.000It's like, I'm going to be glorified and glamorized if I get that kind of oppression Olympics medal.
00:23:44.000And we're a country of victors, not victims.
00:23:46.000We're a country that overcomes adversity, not one that wants to just overly focus and just, in some ways, I think it's incredibly dangerous to do this and try to build an entire society of who's the most oppressed victim group.
00:24:00.000And I'm not saying that certain people have not gone through hardship, but if I went through this room right now and I asked people what they're going through that they might not publicly proclaim, it's incredible the amount of suffering that is in life.
00:24:10.000In fact, I think that's one of the most agreed-upon universal principles, and it's a Christian one and it is also a Buddhist one.
00:24:19.000And if we all of a sudden start to get to become a society where you should be rewarded more because awful things have happened to you, I think that is how you start to have a gateway to Marxism and socialism in a very, very dangerous way.
00:24:30.000And so to kind of put a whole kind of button on this is that I call the movement BLM, by the way.
00:24:35.000First of all, I know BLM is not very favored out in the American West.
00:24:38.000So I think that's probably, but I call it BLM Inc.
00:24:41.000And I say this for a couple of reasons because the statement, they're very good at messaging.
00:24:44.000Black lives matter, and they do matter.
00:24:57.000And so, but the statement is 100% true.
00:25:02.000But the organization and the movement is malevolent and Marxist and trying to deconstruct our countries.
00:25:07.000That's why I call it BLM because I'm just trying to distinguish the two because I don't want ever to be my words chopped up or to hear as if I'm dismissing the statement, which is, of course, true.
00:25:16.000And the way they message it is 100% intentional.
00:25:18.000They try to have that kind of mix-up happen.
00:25:20.000But BLM, if you read the website, I encourage all of you to do this.
00:25:24.000Their mission statement, one of the first things, like, oh, wow, that's really interesting, is to disrupt and destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family.
00:26:36.000People say, oh, the police are so rotten.
00:26:38.000Show me one institution that's not rotten.
00:26:40.000I can show you a church that's rotten.
00:26:42.000I can show you a food bank where someone's probably stealing something, right?
00:26:44.000There is not anything that involves human beings that, by definition, you're not going to find certain people that are self-interested, greedy, sinful, and are going to give a bad name to that institution.
00:27:23.000Someone from a university had to come up with this idea, right?
00:27:25.000Like there's no way that anyone that was not in it.
00:27:29.000And I mean that because you have to be spending 16 to 18 hours a day in a university, not living in the world to come up with something as absurd, nonsensical, and honestly immoral as that.
00:27:37.000It sounds like someone who lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and teaches at Yale and has private security and comes up.
00:27:42.000I wonder what the world would look like without police.
00:27:44.000You need to just teach Aristotle and just stop teaching, right?
00:27:47.000Like, stop trying to act like you're the smartest person in the world because you're not, right?
00:27:50.000And so, but you're like, so we have an example of this, though, right?
00:27:53.000So, the insurrectionists, that's what I call them, they created a new country in our country, 156 country Chaz or CHOP or whatever they call it, right?
00:28:01.000And they took over seven city blocks in downtown Seattle.
00:28:03.000So, at Turning Point USA, we're on 2,000 high school and college campuses across the country.
00:29:04.000And so, two teenagers die in CHOP or Chaz or whatever.
00:29:07.000But if getting rid of police gets rid of all the sin, then it should have just been this wonderful place, right?
00:29:11.000It should have been harmonious, everyone should have been getting together.
00:29:14.000But no, you get rid of police, thugs are going to take over.
00:29:17.000And it's either you believe that hierarchies exist or you don't.
00:29:21.000And these people, for whatever, I mean, just again, it's you have to spend time, you have to get like a doctorate from Brown to believe this because no real, that's why I love South Dakota.
00:29:28.000You guys actually live in the real world, you act in the real world, you have real communities and churches, and it's just incredible.
00:29:33.000And you go out east, everyone has gone to some prestigious Eastern, you know, East Coast school where they live in a utopia, which means nowhere.
00:29:41.000And they think that they can socially engineer and design the country when in reality, of course, they can't.
00:29:45.000And so, Seattle is a great example of this.
00:29:48.000But if black lives matter to BLM, why on earth are they not outside every single abortion clinic across the country, first of all?
00:30:08.000I think that we in the pro-life movement need to do a better job of consoling and being compassionate to individuals that have had abortions and not be condemning and not be accusatory.
00:30:32.000And so, happy to get into the science and the morality of all of it.
00:30:37.000However, so let's just look at who actually is getting the most abortions in the country per percentage of population.
00:30:43.000So, we have a million abortions a year, which is outrageous.
00:30:45.000The abortion rate in the black community in the city of New York is greater than the birth rate.
00:30:50.000So, if you see a pregnant black woman in the city of New York, she's more likely going to Planned Parenthood than to Manhattan general to have the child.
00:30:57.000Like, that's they always said that, by the way, the left always said this would never happen.
00:31:01.000They said that it would be rare and was it cheap, rare, and I could never get the three words right.
00:31:06.000Anyway, they say that it would, it would be very rare and not be widespread.
00:31:32.000And I guarantee you that the census numbers will be just about the same portion of the population because the black birth rate just basically has remained the same since the 1960s because of abortion, right?
00:31:41.000So 13 to 14% of our country is African American or black.
00:31:47.000About half of that are infant-bearing age.
00:31:50.000So 3% of our entire national population accounts for 47% of all the abortions.
00:31:56.000And so if you wanted to stop a birth rate from increasing, my goodness, you should be like the biggest planned parenthood advocate across the country.
00:32:04.000And by the way, if black lives mattered to BLM, wouldn't they be in Chicago where over 120 people were shot in just the last couple of weeks and two teenagers, two black teenagers were gunned down in a convenience store because they asked another black individual, hey, how tall are you?
00:32:23.000I have their names in here, but we don't know their names because those particular deaths do not fit the narrative that BLM wants to accomplish, right?
00:32:31.000And so I said from the first time I saw the video to the ninth to the hundredth time I saw the video that it's inexcusable what Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd and he should be held criminally accountable.
00:32:41.000And yet the media said, we're divided over this.
00:32:44.000I have never met a human being and maybe you guys have, that defended what Derek Chauvin did.
00:32:50.000In fact, I don't think we weren't divided.
00:32:52.000We were actually more united around that video than ever before.
00:32:56.000And yet they used a very emotional video to fit into a narrative that simply does not exist.
00:33:02.000And then they tried, then they're extending this into the most outrageous things imaginable, one of which is the 1619 project.
00:33:08.000The 1619 project, anyone know what this is?
00:33:10.000They're probably teaching your kids this unless you're homeschooling.
00:33:20.000So one of the, and by the way, some conservatives are repeating this on television, and they get some very strongly worded emails from me afterwards.
00:33:26.000And one of the lies of the 1619 project is that America is actually 400 years old, right?
00:34:00.000Anyone who participates in it should be held criminally accountable here domestically, internationally, and also before the eyes of God.
00:34:07.000I can think of maybe something even more evil than that, but it's probably one of the most evil things a human being could possibly do, which is enslave another sovereign, innocent life.
00:34:15.000It's been around on earth for 5,000 years.
00:34:17.000It's an uncomfortable conversation to have.
00:34:19.000But everyone from the times of Jesus Christ, there were still slaves that walked the earth, to the prophet in the faith of Islam, he owned slaves.
00:34:28.000And that's a different conversation for a different time.
00:34:30.000But how the media just conveniently does not mention that, I think is incredibly hypocritical.
00:34:36.000Anyway, so but then we were under British colonial rule.
00:34:38.000And there were a lot of freedom-seeking religious individuals that came to our country from Scotland and from Ireland, and they founded the United States through 13 pseudo-religious colonies, right?
00:34:49.000And in fact, there was already tension in the early 1700s around is slavery really biblical?
00:34:54.000And you go to early writings of who ended up being the founding fathers of the country that were kind of challenging it.
00:35:00.000And so then what happened in 1774, you have the conflict between Britain and the colonies really start to come to a head.
00:35:06.000And in 1776, we wrote our birth certificate.
00:35:09.000This is what we celebrate this coming weekend, by the way.
00:35:11.000This is not just like a date on the calendar where you grill hot dogs and get really drunk and watch fireworks, right?
00:35:17.000This is a time in history where everything changed.
00:35:20.000And the left will never teach our children this.
00:35:21.000And this is why we celebrate and we do celebrate our country.
00:35:24.000I shouldn't diminish it, but we should really understand why this date is special because this was when we put an absolute turn in the ground, a pivot away from all of human history.
00:35:34.000And you read the birth certificate of the United States.
00:35:37.000It says so clearly that when in the course of human events it comes time to dissolve ties, like, whoa, this is a rebellion, folks.
00:35:44.000Like, we don't believe in what you're doing anymore.
00:35:48.000And that wasn't just, we don't believe in your taxes, because that's the cheap way of describing it, right?
00:35:53.000It was the authoritarian boot on the neck of the freedom-loving Americans.
00:35:58.000And then you see it so clearly in the laws of nature and nature's God.
00:36:03.000So it was the recognition that we have natural rights that are given to us by God.
00:36:07.000Now, the 1619 project and the radical leftists, they'll never teach our children this, but in 1777, a year after that was sent off to King George, and the heroes of our country, Hancock, Jefferson, they basically signed what should have been a death certificate.
00:36:24.000Like, come and find me and kill me and hang me in front of my farm and burn everything down.
00:36:29.000That's how much they were committed to the cause of liberty.
00:36:31.000Like, we have no comprehension of that, right?
00:36:35.000And so then in 1777, the first sovereign state, Vermont, abolishes slavery.
00:37:46.000Our positives have always been unique.
00:37:49.000The country that articulated what it means to express yourself freely, defend your family, the idea of locking in natural rights.
00:37:56.000You fight a civil war inspired by what party actually was the party that came up with the abolitionist party, founded in 1816 and ripe in Wisconsin, the Republican Party, very convenient.
00:38:05.000The Republican Party has always been the party of liberation.
00:38:08.000We should be unafraid to tell the entire world this.
00:38:10.000And for whatever reason, we have Republicans running to the hills.
00:38:12.000Like, we should embrace this conversation around race in our country because the Republican Party's always been on the right side of race in our country, always.
00:38:54.000On Independence Day, on independence from tyranny and authoritarian rule.
00:38:59.000And yet so many kids today that I talk to in college, they have no grasp or no understanding at all whatsoever of why this country is the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:39:09.000Now, mind you, America has made mistakes, but America is not a mistake.
00:39:16.000Without America, the world would be much darker, much just unspeakably different.
00:39:22.000And yet it's all being put in jeopardy right now.
00:39:25.000Right now, our entire country is in a cultural crisis, where a majority of young people that go to college think that this flag is a flag of hatred.
00:39:32.000They think our history is something to be ashamed of.
00:39:34.000They think that our country is bigoted, homophobic, colonialist, all these awful things.
00:39:41.000None of which are true throughout the course of our country's history.
00:39:45.000And so I think you all understand the cultural moment that we're in.
00:39:49.000But if we do not speak louder than ever before and call out the lies as we see them with truth, we're not going to have a country anymore.
00:39:57.000Like we could sustain it for probably another decade or two.
00:40:00.000But when you have, and I kid you not, the poll came out today.
00:40:03.000When you have 44% of college kids that think America is a good country, you cannot, that's not sustainable.
00:40:09.000Like eventually, that will result in voting, result in behavior, and it will deconstruct the country.
00:40:15.000And the left has been incredibly patient, by the way, for decades and decades and decades.
00:40:19.000The last power source that we have, like it or not, is the Republican Party.
00:40:24.000The Republican Party is the last political force that needs to find some backbone or some courage at some point to be able to denounce exactly what's not just denounce, but clarify.
00:41:43.000And now and more so than any other time, we need people to rise up and say that is not true.
00:41:49.000This is why our country is so exceptional and why we need to essentially articulate what it actually means to be an American again, which is just, I never thought we'd have to get to it.
00:41:59.000I do want to get to some questions, but let me finish with this, which is, if we don't recognize the mistakes we've made in the last 90 days and we just re-lock down our country and we're okay with that, I'm afraid for the soul of our country.
00:42:15.000So I was asked today, I say, Charlie, what are you most worried about?
00:42:18.000Like, what should I be most worried about?
00:42:22.000I said how the ruling class hates our country.
00:42:24.000It's a really important and very interesting thing to study.
00:42:27.000Like, we had a ruling class in the early 1900s that had way too much power, and they were broken up by Teddy Roosevelt.
00:42:32.000I think correctly, generally, overdid his power sometimes, the Sherman Antitrust Act.
00:42:36.000But Andrew Carnegie, I'm sorry, Andrew Carnegie and Mellon and J.P. Morgan and Rockefeller, they're actually really pro-American.
00:42:44.000Like say what you will about the amount of wealth that they accumulated, they love their country.
00:42:47.000Now we have a ruling class that hates our country.
00:42:50.000Like you have Jeff Bezos and you have Sergey Binn and you have Larry Page.
00:42:55.000You have guys that are the wealthiest people on the planet in our country that are actively trying to destroy our country.
00:42:59.000It's a really important thing to point out, that our ruling class actually doesn't want what's best for America.
00:43:04.000But the thing that actually has bothered me the most in the last hundred days, despite the fact that we've seen our entire country get put on referendum and put in jeopardy without people speaking out against it, is how willingly our country abided by the lockdowns.
00:43:19.000To be honest, it horrifies me, actually.
00:43:22.000I saw a little bit of spurts here of people protesting.
00:43:25.000I was like, where's the 200,000 people, right?
00:43:46.000And people say you got to wear masks and all this.
00:43:48.000Look, I think the, first of all, for those of the people that are wearing these like handkerchief masks, I don't mean to offend anyone that's wearing one right now, has no medical utility at all whatsoever.
00:43:56.000You know, if you're going to wear a mask, just get an N95 mask.
00:43:58.000Don't do this thing where you make it a handkerchief.
00:44:35.000Like, if you shoot yourself in the foot, like, it's your responsibility at that moment, right?
00:44:40.000You go get that hunting license to say, hey, I'm willing to take responsibility for whatever happens at this point forward.
00:44:45.000Like, if you incorrectly load a rifle and it explodes in your face, like, well, that's kind of, I'm sorry, like, but you signed up for this program, right?
00:44:52.000Like, we, we have, we have, I, we have examples of how we operate under this idea of dangerous liberty all the time.
00:45:01.000What kind of society have we come in where we just convince ourselves we can just be safe all the time?
00:45:24.000And I want to say this: unlike BLM that run around like cowards, if you read Henry David Thoreau's thesis on civil disobedience, I will take the punishment.
00:45:46.000And there's a lot of the fact that people burn down the inner cities and they still haven't arrested the amount of people that did it, and they're arresting Christians that were just going to Easter church is incredible to me.
00:45:56.000I just, it just shows the priorities of the ruling class and the governing class in our country.
00:46:02.000And so, that's something that honestly really concerns me.
00:46:05.000And you guys, as I mentioned at the beginning of my speech, you have a governor that articulated it.
00:46:09.000Because I'm telling you, if they can just lock us down out of fear that quickly, God forbid what else they could do to mind manipulate and to hypnotize our country.
00:47:30.000Because I want to, I know a lot of students came in from six or seven hours away.
00:47:34.000Hi, my name is Claire Reidberg, and I just graduated high school.
00:47:37.000So, my question for you is: I have been told by multiple people this year that I'm a racist because I am white and a Trump supporter, and I try my best to respond to it in the best way I can, but I just wanted your opinion on how you think I should.
00:47:49.000Yeah, well, first of all, I thought you were going to say, Do I think it's true?
00:47:52.000I'm like, No, I don't think it's true.
00:49:15.000They might say, no, I think your intentions are awful, that you want to see people burn and suffer and die.
00:49:20.000Then there's not even a conversation to have when you think about it, right?
00:49:23.000Now, if you can agree with them that you're actually a pretty decent person and that you want what's best for human beings to flourish in a strong America, then you can get into the conversation.
00:49:34.000But if they immediately, their opening shot is because you wear the shirt of Donald Trump, of which I'm a massive Donald Trump supporter, unapologetically, by the way.
00:49:41.000And just because of that, you're a bad person, then the conversation, I mean this as accurately as I could, it's not even worth having, to be honest with you.
00:49:54.000Like, at that point, disengagement and prayer is the only, because if they're going to label 63 million Americans as indecent or deplorable, then they're the indecent, deplorable people.
00:50:05.000And some conversations at that point are not even worth engaging.
00:50:07.000Now, if you can get them to be like, oh, you're not an awful person, like, no, that's not good enough.
00:50:11.000Like, do I want what's best for the world, yes or no?
00:50:14.000And if they just will not concede it, you're done, right?
00:50:18.000Because understand, this is a very important thing.
00:50:20.000And I actually go a step further than this, but the left, we think they're wrong.
00:51:24.000And that's just have a little bit of peace that they wouldn't be calling you those names if you were not saying something that threatened their authoritarian power over the entire country, okay?
00:51:50.000Look, I mean, if you read Marx, and then you read Jacques Derrida, and I got his name wrong, French philosophers, they get everything wrong included in their names.
00:51:58.000In the 1960s, so you read Marx, everything's about class struggle, right?
00:52:02.000Everything's about the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat, communist manifesto, the rich people versus the working class, all that sort of stuff.
00:52:56.000So the economic warfare argument embedded in communism is not the best way to take over a very wealthy, productive country like America.
00:53:06.000So they took six years and they rebranded as BLM.
00:53:09.000What they realized is because of what they taught in the school system, white individuals were taught to be guilty for an immutable characteristic of how God made you.
00:53:21.000And by the way, I want to make something perfectly clear.
00:53:22.000If anyone in this room or anywhere has engaged in the sin of racism, you should atone to your creator and atone to the person that did it.
00:53:30.000It's an unspeakable thing that you could do.
00:53:32.000However, if you didn't, then you have nothing to apologize for.
00:53:36.000You're your own sovereign individual, right?
00:53:38.000So what they did is they preyed on this through a manipulation of data and through very emotive storytelling to young children who graduated, who eventually became college activists, and they convinced us something that is just not true.
00:53:51.000And for whatever reason, at the right period of time, BLM is nothing new.
00:53:56.000This has been around for four years, right?
00:54:05.000It's the perfect storm where you had people very pent up in urban cities that have no sports, no gyms, no ways to socially interact, right?
00:54:12.000It's just very angry people that are unemployed.
00:54:14.000By the way, if you look at most successful socialist revolutions, it's when unemployment is above 15 or 20%.
00:54:33.000But when there's no work tomorrow, all of a sudden, and there's no school because they closed the schools, and the Yankees aren't playing, and the Red Sox aren't playing, and they canceled March Madness, and all the social structures we have, going to the gym to see your friends, going to see a movie, going to blow off a little steam, right?
00:55:15.000And we reward this, like, somehow that they should be given entry into, you know, saint, you know, like the sainthood of the Vatican, right?
00:55:23.000Like, no, you're just basically a social media activist that's apologizing for something you didn't even do, right?
00:55:29.000And so all this was a confluence of events.
00:55:32.000And so now their goal is the same as it was in 2011, is Occupy Wall Street.
00:55:36.000But they have us in a paralysis, right?
00:55:39.000Because we're so afraid to engage on this issue.
00:55:42.000And because we're afraid of being called the worst thing that you could be called, they're gaining ground.
00:55:47.000And so, and I, for me, I just happen to be in the right place because they've already called me all these mean names, right?
00:55:55.000And they've already written all these stories about me.
00:55:57.000And I've been going to college campuses.
00:55:59.000I visited over 150 college campuses in the last five years.
00:56:02.000I've debated every single leftist of every single stripe you can imagine, from the secular atheist to the anarcho-communists to the socialists to the Stalinists.
00:56:10.000I kid you not, I've debated a pro-Stalinist guy.
00:56:36.000And I'm not going to take this incredible tampering and destruction of my country without me standing up and giving everything I possibly can to it.
00:56:48.000And we've convinced ourselves we can, and I sympathize for some of these people.
00:56:54.000And I want to be very clear here because this is not an easy, it's easy to say, it's hard to do because when the mob comes after you, and if any of you have experienced this, you know what I mean?
00:57:04.000You actually feel like there's 600 people outside your house.
00:57:08.000It's a very difficult psychological thing to go through.
00:57:11.000You're getting a text message every other minute.
00:57:13.000They're writing local articles in the local newspaper about you.
00:57:16.000You're like, my whole world is collapsing.
00:57:43.000But at some point, we have to, in the hierarchy of what matters to us, we have to rank truth and the fight for it higher than being called mean names from the left, okay?
00:57:53.000And that's why I'm a big believer in what's being happened tonight in the College Republicans are doing and Turning Point USA is doing, because young people need those kind of social structures of people that are still going to be their friends, no matter the mean names that are going to be thrown at them.
00:58:04.000It's a very important thing because a lot of young conservatives are like, I lost all my friends.
00:58:08.000I lost all my friends because I spoke out.
00:58:10.000And that's a very serious thing, right?
00:58:12.000I mean, we kind of say it, we kind of dismiss it.
00:58:14.000But if your entire social circle blows up when you're 15, that's everything to you.
00:58:21.000You spend a lot of time building it, right?
00:58:23.000You spend summers developing these relationships and just you say one thing about Trump and you lose all your friends.
00:58:29.000And we shouldn't just dismiss that and throw it under the bus.
00:58:31.000And so to close your point about the Marxist side of it, yeah, I mean, they are, it is a Trojan horse to try to bring in Stalinist, Maoist ideas into our country.
00:58:41.000And it is textbook through deleting our history, destroying our icons, and creating an insurgency within America.
00:59:19.000And the interesting thing is that we really couldn't find really solid work until we actually got back to South Dakota.
00:59:26.000And the funny thing, I took a job at a hotel, and we're selling out virtually almost every night, and it's been that way since May.
00:59:34.000And so people from around the country really seem to be coming here to escape the prisons of COVID and everything else.
00:59:41.000And so I'm just curious if you could, I mean, you've already alluded to this a little bit, if you could just keep bragging about South Dakota.
00:59:49.000Well, it comes to the price, though, guys, because you're going to have a lot of people that want to change your state that are going to be coming here very soon.
00:59:54.000So understand when you're a beacon of freedom, what does the left do?
00:59:59.000Just ask Arizona, just ask Nevada, just ask Colorado.
01:00:02.000Previously, yeah, Seattle, but those three states in particular, look, the left, they're moving eastward from California, and South Dakota's on their rate.
01:00:35.000I'm telling you right now, you will see a population explosion in this state, the likes of which you are not ready to undertake, and it will change.
01:02:16.000Let's start with a kind of a tangent of that, where people say, Charlie, I'm afraid I'm going to be graded differently because I'm a Trump supporter and I'm a conservative, right?
01:02:24.000Would you think that's a fair thing that sometimes you go through?
01:02:37.000I have a lot of respect for Ben Shapiro.
01:02:39.000We disagree on this, just so you understand.
01:02:41.000He's in the other camp than where I am.
01:02:44.000He doesn't disagree with my analysis of it.
01:02:46.000He disagrees with what he did and what he would do.
01:02:49.000So you have to either say, what matters most to me is getting good grades, getting out as quickly as possible, and getting into a good job.
01:02:57.000And therefore, I can influence conservative opinion.
01:03:46.000Ben is one of the people that demonstrated it, where he brags about how he wrote all the leftist nonsense throughout Harvard, got straight A's, graduated magna cum laude, and then became a super outspoken conservative, right?
01:03:57.000And I have a lot of respect for him for that.
01:04:31.000That the cost that the left puts against you, if you dare support our president right now, is incalculable if you look at what young people have to go through.
01:04:42.000I mean, they will tar and feather you metaphorically.
01:04:45.000They will post about you on social media.
01:04:47.000They will call your future employers and try to have them not hire you.
01:04:50.000They will make sure that they cancel your internships.
01:04:52.000They will do scorched earth life destruction.
01:04:56.000So that's why I try to speak out as loud as I can to try to be a shield for young college kids.
01:05:00.000So just like attack me, don't attack them type stuff.
01:07:07.000And this is just, you know, kids do these things.
01:07:11.000But here is there's this corona epidemic and they're licking off the ground and then the other one does it and I'm saying to myself, well, wait a minute, something's not right here.
01:07:29.000What's your answer that a kid this day would do something like that?
01:07:36.000You know, and God knows I've done some pretty stupid things in my life to impress girls, but I thought licking the ice cream off, and then the other guy does it and they're laughing at him.
01:07:45.000So my question again, you're a lot younger than me.
01:08:20.000I mean, look, this goes back to the fundamental disagreement we have in our country, where the left will value the primitive over the civilized.
01:08:28.000They'll value the infant over the mature adult.
01:08:31.000And I'm not just, I don't know about you.
01:08:33.000I didn't witness your example, but it doesn't surprise me.
01:08:36.000I mean, parents want to be kids' friends today.
01:08:53.000And so we should teach our kids self-control, not self-esteem, first of all.
01:08:58.000This whole idea that you're like the greatest person in the world and you're eight years old or 12 years old, then why the heck are they going to school if they're perfect, right?
01:09:06.000In fact, it creates a false construct and it creates kids that will immediately rebel because they can never live up to the expectation of what they've always been told in the self-esteem generation.
01:09:15.000I always, I remember I got in huge fights with my teachers because they had these ridiculous posters that they thought would like lower the depression and suicide rates, but actually contributed to them, where they had these ridiculous big emoji smiling faces.
01:09:26.000Self-esteem, you're just perfect the way you are.
01:09:28.000And like, if I'm perfect the way I am, can I just skip the tests and just like not come to school anymore?
01:09:33.000Like, seriously, I mean, if I'm per it's first of all, it's just not, it's not fair to kids to say that.
01:09:38.000Example, I can't get into the left unregulated, children will do incredibly foolish things.
01:10:00.000And Rousseau talked about this, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the foolish French philosopher from the 1700s.
01:10:06.000And he wrote very simply that we have to have a return to infancy, that he thought the industrialization and this idea of mature dialogue was not good.
01:10:14.000In fact, right here, he says, I prefer the primitive or the civilized, the child of the adult, the passionate over the calmly given, the calmly loyal spouse.
01:10:25.000I mean, he argued in a lot of different ways.
01:10:27.000And the Rousseauian thinking is so instructive to the left that somehow that we have to stop all these societal norms, start to make sense how you get a place like Portland and Seattle all of a sudden.
01:10:38.000Like, no, there's actually something really good about not defecating in the street.
01:10:41.000Like, that's a really good thing that we achieved as a country.
01:10:45.000Like, the public drug usage, another thing that we probably shouldn't have allowed happen.
01:10:49.000Also, this idea of legalizing prostitution should never be allowed to happen.
01:10:54.000I'm also, we used to be on the wrong side, not the wrong side, on the other side.
01:10:58.000I used to be kind of like libertarian about this.
01:11:00.000I'm so against the legalization of marijuana.
01:11:09.000What kind of culture does it create, though?
01:11:11.000Like, okay, find the usage of it, whatever.
01:11:12.000I'm not saying you should lock someone up for 10 years, but the legalization and glamorization and commercialization of it, does that create a very healthy country?
01:11:21.000Like, I think it does the exact opposite.
01:11:23.000And so, I don't want to set a policy that's going to do something I think that will make our country weaker and not more able to compete against China and hopefully defeat them in one way or the other.
01:11:32.000But the close, I can't answer the question of why the kids do that, except the fact that there was a poor parent that was watching idly by and supervising and not parenting.
01:11:40.000And so, if we want, if I'm happy to get into parenting all throughout this, but I think that this state probably has more good parents than bad parents just because of the ethos of this.
01:11:50.000And by the way, was it Gwen Stefani or what was the girl that Charlize Theron?
01:12:08.000It just is like no kid, you know what happens like when a kid goes and starts eating dirt?
01:12:12.000You're like, stop doing that, go back inside.
01:12:14.000Like you, this idea that you should just let your kid be whatever they want to be, it's actually, it creates really unhappy, miserable people, is what it ends up.
01:12:25.000The aged wisdom of a parent is there for a reason.
01:12:28.000You can get wisdom in two ways in life: from the Bible or from experience.
01:12:58.000That's why we had men that said, I am going to go into the machine gun turret on D-Day Beach and sacrifice for something that is good and righteous and noble.
01:13:45.000And when I would speak out, I almost felt like it was creating more of a divide.
01:13:50.000And, you know, I appreciate what you do, but sometimes I find that my narrative that, and kind of all of our narratives, are creating more of a divide.
01:14:01.000But at the same time, I know I can't be silent.
01:14:04.000And, you know, it's the whole thing is kind of impacted a lot.
01:14:07.000Like, for example, I enlisted in the military about two months ago.
01:14:10.000And part of the reason I did that is because I worry that if I had gone to college, you know, so many people are thinking the opposite way that I'm thinking that.
01:14:19.000I mean, I don't know how many, you know, what kind of balance.
01:16:14.000In fact, this is why we have dialogue and why we have a First Amendment.
01:16:17.000Because the way that you actually are able to work through those divisions is through saying, well, that's a really bad idea.
01:16:23.000And you're only able to expose that idea if you're willing to divide yourself, right?
01:16:28.000And so, but the unwillingness to ever say we can never be divided, in a lot of ways, does not allow bad ideas to be defeated and good ideas to rise up.
01:16:36.000In fact, some of the most, and you know this from arguments you guys probably have in your personal life, sometimes the greatest fruit can come out of the most intense conversation you can have with somebody, right?
01:16:46.000Where all of a sudden you guys just leave it all on the line.
01:16:48.000The same is for a country, though, right?
01:16:50.000Like if we're not willing to say, I'm going to stand irrefutably on this and I don't really care if it put, eventually the truth will win and the good ideas will win.
01:17:04.000But don't, in my opinion, don't allow the idea that division is going to be the worst possible thing for the pursuit of truth.
01:17:12.000In fact, that dividing line where you protect the truth around that line, I think is actually necessary towards advancing it.
01:17:20.000Because if we had more people that were unafraid to say, I don't really care what this ends up happening, and you said it yourself, they're the ones doing the dividing, right?
01:17:27.000So that's, again, it's more morally on them than you.
01:17:29.000Again, if you're engaging in like, oh, this, and people say, well, I just want everyone to get along.
01:17:59.000I'm not saying you should go forth and try to divide people, but instead say what is true, and then whatever happens from that point forward, just surrender to what, you know, to the flow of conversation and then hold your ground.
01:18:10.000But I understand that for you, it's uncomfortable because you want to bring people together, right?
01:18:15.000Unfortunately, when you have such opposition that's committed to untruths, unity is a byproduct of the collision that needs to happen from there.
01:19:05.000If there's parts of American history we should be very ashamed of, our treatment of Indigenous people is not something we should be very proud of.
01:19:12.000Generally, I'm just saying that there's a lot that I think is highly questionable.
01:19:16.000And also, especially with you look at Native American reservations now, we added insult to injury by just pushing forth unbelievably dangerous and corrosive government programs, the Native American reservations, that have destroyed the spirit and destroyed the entrepreneurial capacity.
01:19:31.000And just quite honestly, it's immoral what we did through public policy to the Native American reservations through the amount of help that we put forward, which ended up not helping at all.
01:19:41.000So, interestingly enough, you can use identity politics against the left, right?
01:19:52.000Well, so because of that, I love your Trump shirt, by the way.
01:19:56.000Because of that, if you understand the laws of the left, like I do, you can use it against them.
01:20:02.000So, because you're an Indigenous person on their hierarchy of oppression Olympics, a Native person is inherently oppressed.
01:20:12.000So, therefore, they're not allowed to say anything to you, and that you have the moral high ground.
01:20:16.000Then you can kind of blow up the absurdity of it by saying this, right?
01:20:19.000And the fact that they're calling you those names just shows how incredibly racist the left actually is, by the way.
01:20:25.000The fact that they go out of their way to say that.
01:20:29.000And this is something that, you know, we play these games with the left all the time where Candace Owens says, you know, why she's terrific and she was with us at Turning Point USA for a couple of years and incredible, where she's a black female, right?
01:20:40.000And according to their hierarchy, she's supposed to be oppressed, right?0.99
01:20:43.000She's supposed to be an oppressed individual.
01:20:46.000I'm actually, you know, very happy to succeed in this country, all these sorts of things.
01:20:50.000And so, first of all, don't let it get to you, okay?
01:20:53.000Fight harder and know what you believe and why you believe it.
01:20:56.000And I'll say this final thing: unfortunately, if you are in one of the oppressed categories of the left and you're not part of the left, they are more vicious to you than they'll ever be vicious to me.
01:21:09.000And it's a very hard thing to talk about.
01:21:12.000The most blatant racism is towards black conservatives, towards Hispanic conservatives, towards Native American conservatives and Trump supporters.
01:21:21.000So know that they are calling you those names because you're a disruption to their matrix, right?
01:21:27.000That you actually show that their ideas are morally bankrupt, that any person can believe anything, that no one has to believe anything because of the color of their skin.
01:21:37.000And so for you, you should speak louder and get a bigger platform than ever before because people like you are going to blow up the left in this country.
01:21:44.000You really will, because you are living evidence that no matter what your skin color or where you come from, you can believe in conservative values.
01:24:32.000I completely agree with your concern on it.
01:24:34.000So here's a really interesting thought exercise, and this will become the most important issue.
01:24:38.000And for young conservatives out there, we understand the issue of tech censorship very well because we interact so much with the tech companies.
01:24:45.000What is more powerful, Google or the government?
01:24:47.000Now, conservatives will usually say the government no matter what you say.
01:24:51.000And so let's be fair to the argument, right?
01:24:54.000Like, what can the government do that Google can't do?
01:25:30.000Google knows all of your preferences, medically and otherwise.
01:25:33.000And if you don't think they know, they know.
01:25:37.000And you're just like, oh, I don't use that stuff.
01:25:39.000If you've even visited a public place, they have facial recognition with all the corporate stores, everything, credit card history, more so than the government couldn't dream of the kind of super state that they've created.
01:26:18.000They've internal emails leaked from Google show their bitter hatred for America about how they have to do more to try to make sure Trump doesn't win and all these sorts of things.
01:26:26.000So like, wow, that's so then what do we do about that?
01:26:54.000Federalist papers written by the founding fathers, a P word is repeated many times throughout the Federalist Papers.
01:27:01.000We're worried about power, centralized power, centralized power.
01:27:04.000And then at the end of a lot of the essays, I think it was Federalist Paper like 187 or something, they say, and the greatest power is government.
01:27:11.000So the founding fathers were worried about power before they were worried about government.
01:27:14.000Of course, the greatest power they could imagine was a government power, right?
01:28:08.000I think that Section 230, the Communications Decency Act, allows Google and all these companies to act with total immunity to be able to kick, to basically say, oh, we're a platform, we're not a publisher.
01:28:27.000We can canvass, we can get the polls closer.
01:28:29.000Google has so much power, they could be like, oh, your polling place is actually here.
01:28:34.000Or they could say, the amount of mine, I encourage all of you to watch the movie The Creepy Line, if you haven't seen it, where it goes into the sophistication of web browsing history, of how they're able to, in instant nanoseconds, see how one letter, one color makes a difference in favor of a certain candidate or in a certain person or party.
01:28:53.000Independent analysis done by a guy named Robert Epstein, not that Epstein family, don't worry, but Robert Epstein, Democrat, Dr. Robert Epstein, wrote extensively about how Google is basically 100 times more powerful than the federal government.
01:29:06.000In fact, it's the federal government that goes to Google for information.
01:29:08.000It's the federal government that hires Google for information.
01:29:11.000And when Google decides to delete YouTube videos like they have with me and just kick you off the platform sometimes, I can't hire an attorney like I can with the government.
01:29:18.000I can't sue because they're protected by Section 230, the Communications Decency Act.
01:29:23.000I'm not saying we have to regulate them, but I'm saying at what point do we?
01:29:36.000And I love the free market, but if we don't have a line that when it's crossed, like this is when we use the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, then I think we have to, we're not being honest with ourselves.
01:29:46.000So, but I cannot be as serious as I am about the threat of tech tyranny in our country.
01:29:52.000It is incredibly important we all rise up to it.
01:29:54.000And again, you wonder where a lot of these ideas are made valid.
01:29:59.000As soon as the BLM thing started, half of the front page of YouTube, which is unbelievably incredible, so valuable real estate to rent out, half of the page was, we know that America needs racial justice reform, like non-stop for, I mean, we're talking about hundreds of millions of hits every single day, seeing that.
01:30:20.000And so that stuff makes a difference, not to mention the promise of the algorithm and the delisting and the demonetization.
01:30:45.000I'm standing here for a long time trying to get my question properly worded.
01:30:50.000And then I just get to the bottom line.
01:30:53.000The bottom line for me is that President Bush and Clinton and Obama, you know, for as long as I kind of followed more politics, have really not spoken, you know, up for American values.
01:31:12.000I was in China in 89, and there was one hotel there, and the rest of it was agrarian and rural.
01:31:41.000And people are all drugged out because they don't have jobs.
01:31:44.000So you alluded earlier that the GOP doesn't, you know, you didn't say necessarily per quote, but I feel that the GOP is so out of touch and that they haven't ever, ever, you know, stood up and they're not going to stand up.
01:32:00.000Okay, so I'm a psychologist, but I haven't always been only for 20 years.
01:32:41.000And the more I spend time in D.C., the more I spend around time around senators and congresspeople, not to say any names, the more repulsed I am by the entire system.
01:32:50.000The contempt they have for you, no matter what kind of parade they put on, is unbelievable.
01:33:23.000However, look, the Republican Party for a long time was made in the image of George Rockefeller and the descendants of there, not George Rockefeller, Rockefeller in the 1960s and George Romney in the 1960s, okay?
01:33:37.000And if you can go through a little Republican Party history, this is nothing new.
01:33:40.000There was a collision point in the 60s when Barry Goldwater ran for president and he got clobbered and the establishment wanted Goldwater to lose and he did lose.
01:33:48.000Collision 0.2.0 happens when Gerald Ford ran for president, the only president ever be elected as president of the United States in 1980, runs for the office in 1976.
01:36:11.000We're not going to stand on principle.
01:36:13.000Starting in the 90s, thanks to Clinton and others.
01:36:16.000We started to have a huge deindustrialization push in our country.
01:36:19.00089, you said you saw that hotel in China, right?
01:36:22.000We just, we were convinced by people in the Republican Party that we're going to be richer because we're going to shut down our manufacturing plants and send them to Shanghai.
01:36:30.000I grew up in this conservative move, that conservative movement.
01:36:32.000I used to have the white papers from people in D.C. that would be like, you don't understand.
01:36:39.000We're going to get all this stuff in return.
01:36:41.000While there is some fundamental, there is some little truth in that, it never looks at the whole picture.
01:36:46.000When you shut down a manufacturing plant in Vermillion or in Aberdeen with 200 jobs, and those 200 people, half of them end up going on opioids or on government benefits.
01:36:57.000I don't care how much cheap plastic you bring in from China.
01:37:00.000That does not make our country richer or better.
01:37:37.000Like the fact that that incredibly dangerous political family never got into the White House again is like an incredible gift to our country.
01:37:47.000He could have resigned and we would have said, God bless you and thank you for all you did for our country because you prevented those people from ever getting into leadership, right?
01:37:56.000You guys can fill in the blanks there.
01:37:58.000And then what happens the moment he gets okay?
01:38:00.000I get his tone, his style, his tweets.
01:38:04.000What is he doing for the people of our country?
01:38:06.000And then he gives his inaugural address, which is like, whoa, he did something we're not used to, especially some of your politicians here in South Dakota.
01:38:38.000Like, no, Like, yeah, you just talk a good game, get elected, and you come to D.C. and serve the lobbyists and then, you know, do a little thing and throw a little crumbs to the conservatives, make sure you don't take their guns away or abortion, because that gets them really mad.
01:38:50.000And then you go back and run for your election.
01:39:52.000Like, yeah, and then they say, who's going to run for president after this, right?
01:39:56.000And yet he continues to do what he said he's going to do, continues to double down.
01:40:00.000And then on top of that, they actually impeach him because of a phone call, right?
01:40:03.000Like, oh, now one phone call with the Ukrainian president where you asked, like, how the election is, is now justification for impeachment of the president.
01:40:10.000We forget, by the way, that our president was impeached like six years ago.
01:40:13.000And what they were doing is they were impeaching all of you.
01:40:15.000What they were really saying is, sit down, citizens.
01:40:18.000Let us, the ruling class, make the decisions.
01:40:21.000This is what happens when you try to rise up against us.
01:40:39.000It's, we don't have a country if Joe Biden, Joe Biden, my goodness, becomes, I don't even think he knows what he's running for, to be perfectly honest for you.
01:40:46.000I don't think he's like, he doesn't know.
01:40:47.000Seriously, I mean, he's like, am I president yet?
01:40:51.000Anyway, to close the point, all of us have to recognize that the leaders we send to D.C., as you articulate it, they're actually a lot of them.
01:41:18.000They're going to have a very consolidated 40% of the country.
01:41:20.000However, for a Republican, that does not say we are going to close all trade with China within five years and bring back jobs to South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming.
01:41:29.000They're serving the interests of the lobbyists and the ruling class.
01:41:31.000For people that are not willing to stand up to Huawei, stand up to TikTok, which I can get into that for a whole different thing.
01:41:37.000They are harvesting all your kids' data and you don't even know it, by the way.
01:41:40.000If you're using TikTok, the Chinese are listening to everything.
01:42:01.000But if we reelect him, we can send a message to all of these people that we're actually still in charge.
01:42:09.000And that's nothing could be more important, in my opinion.
01:42:12.000Because if we allow them to win after all this, it really should put a lot of things in question whether we still have the country we think we have.
01:42:23.000The impeachment, the spying, all of this.
01:42:26.000And they're cheering for recession and all this.
01:42:28.000And so I'm optimistic, but I think that, and then, by the way, there are Republicans right now, some of which may or may not represent states that are close to this or this state, that are cheering and hoping that this Trump thing just ends and go back to business as usual.
01:42:43.000My goodness, I'll tell you right now, if there's any state that should run these people out of office, it's this state.
01:43:03.000And we're very happy that you're here.
01:43:06.000You have reiterated a lot of the history that I was thinking of in terms of Goldwater's conscience of a conservative and the silent majority.
01:43:22.000I'm not sure that the Republican Party has moved very far from that.
01:43:28.000And the reason I say that is that we have seen recently an opportunity for the left and the, whether we call them anarchists or the left liberals, rise up all of a sudden over an opportunity.
01:43:50.000That opportunity had nothing to do with their real cause.
01:43:54.000They had organized and been funded and sat back and waited for the opportunity.
01:44:01.000And I'm speaking about Mr. Foreman or Mr. Floyd's death.
01:44:08.000Why is it that the Republicans, now you've given good provision and ideas to our young people, but why is it that we as a party collectively just sit back and wait?
01:44:23.000And then when it happens, we go, oh my God, isn't that terrible?
01:44:39.000That conservatives and Republicans, the most important thing for us is not political wins.
01:44:44.000It's building our family, strengthening our church, acting morally and ethically, and serving our God.
01:44:49.000And so when societal revolution happens, it surprises us because we're not involved.
01:44:55.000That's not the most important thing to us.
01:44:56.000In fact, if all of us could just make sure the government doesn't totally destroy our country and erode our freedoms, we would happily just go do something that we actually have a greater passion for, which might be helping out a church or growing a business or something that's very productive building, right?
01:45:13.000Where the left, all they care about is politics.
01:46:38.000Integrity and honesty is the most important.
01:46:40.000But I don't think that if you have integrity and have honesty and you don't have courage, then why even have integrity and honesty, in my opinion?
01:46:48.000Just what are you going to be honest to yourself in your room alone?
01:48:07.000We have to have a no-tolerance policy for anyone that does not abide by very certain, very easy-to-follow instructions as Republicans, right?
01:48:15.000And stop crowing government, stop borrowing money, only nominate justices that will interpret the Constitution.
01:48:22.000I see the Convention of States people, they do a great job trying to represent these states and many others.
01:48:27.000And so, that's my final point to that.
01:49:53.000And if you step out of accordance with it, if you do something they don't like, like David Petraeus, then they'll go after you on some sort of technicality crime.
01:49:59.000Like, that's just, that's what they do.
01:50:06.000Obama and Biden personally oversaw the targeting of Flynn to destroy his life.
01:50:10.000Now, Peter Strzok, who's not a rocket scientist, never hire that guy if you're going to do a bank robbery because he'll write down exactly what you do after you do it.
01:50:21.000And like, okay, all he's like, thank you for the exculpatory evidence, my goodness.
01:50:26.000But no, that's not going to happen anytime soon.
01:50:28.000I'm sorry to depress you, but no, I wanted to hear your opinion.
01:50:31.000Yeah, that's just, and if it does happen, I'll be the first one to say that I'm wrong, and I'll be celebrating at Mount Rushmore with all of you guys, right?
01:50:38.000So, all right, we'll go to Cubs Jersey, then we'll do the last one, I promise, okay?
01:50:41.000I have a special place in my heart for the Chicago Cubs.
01:50:44.000All right, so do I. Is that a Ron Santo jersey?
01:50:50.000I just wanted to ask real quickly, where do you feel in all these issues that we talked about tonight, where do you feel the church has succeeded?
01:50:58.000And where does the church need to step up?
01:51:25.000But I go out of my way always to mention Liberty.
01:51:27.000So let me first stay with this with the church.
01:51:30.000I don't know if this is the case in South Dakota.
01:51:32.000I think I got an email from someone in South Dakota recently that did say this was the case.
01:51:35.000But one of the main reasons why BLM has grown in power and credibility is because the church has aided, funded, and supported it.
01:51:42.000And I say the American church broadly, but I could point to 10 mega church pastors with over 500,000 followers on Instagram that have posted the black squares, said America systemically racist, and are actually driving donations towards blacklivesmatter.com, which as we went through their pro-sex work, all these sorts of things.
01:52:04.000Well, look, to be honest with you guys, if you look at all the pillars of what Soros is funding, what these people are doing, one of their primary focuses is the infiltration of seminaries in the American church.
01:52:14.000They've done this for years, and the American church has been co-opted.
01:52:17.000It's been corrupted by radical left-wing, let's just say, liberation theologists.
01:53:50.000Here's where we stop, though, as Christians.
01:53:51.000We don't tell people the second most important thing, to make sure you can do the first thing.
01:53:56.000To make sure you could still do the first thing, make sure your kids can do the first thing.
01:54:00.000To make sure your country allows the first thing to happen, to make sure more people are doing the first thing, to make sure the first thing becomes not condemned, but accepted.
01:54:10.000We kind of like lost that whole thing.
01:54:12.000So what happens is the Bible clearly states to make disciples of all nations, not converts of all nations.
01:54:18.000So what ends up happening, and I don't know if this is the case in South Dakota as much, but I'm sure because it's generally the case, is you have these really, really big churches, and they do cattle calls for conversion almost every week.
01:54:28.000People raise their hands, they come forward, they commit their life to Jesus Christ.
01:54:31.000Then they come the next week and they see other people do it and they come the next week, they see other people do it.
01:54:34.000And then they'll say, well, but I don't really know how to interact with the rest of the world, right?
01:54:38.000And especially when it comes to civics and politics and decisions that are very personal, the church is like, well, we don't want to deal with that sort of stuff.
01:54:46.000And they just say it's Romans 13, right?
01:54:48.000Romans 13, like God, God says he appoints people of all authority.
01:55:05.000And so we actually have a duty to get involved in every single civic engagement.
01:55:09.000You can imagine in 1 Timothy, it says, pray for every single leader by name, what they're going through, and why they're doing it.
01:55:14.000How many people here, probably not, not trying to make you feel bad, know every school board member and what they're going through and pray for them by name every night?
01:55:28.000Like, first of all, what's not messy in this world?
01:55:30.000Like, I'm going to show you a megachurch that's pretty messy, okay?
01:55:33.000Number two, we, as the people that know ultimate truth, Philippians 4:8, right before Philippians 4:13, which is one of the most famous verses in the history of the gospel, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
01:56:02.000And the church's abdication and their complicit behavior in these movements is what is going to be the downfall of this country if we don't correct course.
01:56:12.000The reason why socialist Marxist movements always have fallen flat in America in the 60s, in the 70s, and the 80s was because of the American church.
01:56:20.000It's because there were pastors that would say, let's gather around absolute truth, right?
01:56:27.000And then all of a sudden you have something to compare it against, right?
01:56:30.000But what happens for six weeks, eight weeks, 10 weeks, and you don't have church in person anymore, and you lack ecclesia, which means the gathering of believers, and you're just watching it through a Zoom camera, which again, I appreciate the church's innovation, but I think we all agree it's not the same thing.
01:57:36.000So there are all sorts of talk online right now about all the tickets that were put into the lottery and all the people who aren't showing up and all the people that are going to flip it off to Trump.
01:59:26.000Paul went out of his way in the book of Hebrews to mention Samson in the hall of faith when he was like XYZ begat him and Elijah begat him.
01:59:34.000Like, wow, that was such a powerful story to the people of Israel and the people fighting for truth because Paul was under attack.
01:59:39.000Remember, Paul did not exactly have, let's just say, a seamless ministry.
01:59:43.000Like, you sort of had the ultimate persecution.
01:59:46.000And we have to recognize right now that we are in a drawn-out conflict for what is good and what is true and what is beautiful in this world.
01:59:57.000Number one, the young conservatives that are rising up are tougher, smarter, and more committed to fight than almost the entire U.S. Senate of Republicans.
02:00:14.000It's because they were not raised as activists.
02:00:16.000They were raised in a college Republican atmosphere where you got along with the Democrats and you loved each other and you just had policy disagreements.
02:01:30.000Now I'm a conservative because of something you said.
02:01:32.000I might not agree with everything, but now I understand why you have the structure of thinking that you do.
02:01:37.000And so if you have the truth, you have a moral prerogative to live it out and to fight for it every single day because you have something that the rest of the world is looking for.
02:01:45.000And of course, we have ultimate truth, those of us that are Christians, but from there, we fight for the truth of first principles and the freedom of markets and private property and all those things, whatsoever be true.
02:02:52.000It's not going to happen overnight, but I'm telling you, if we stick together as conservatives, as patriots, the left is terrified of a unified conservative movement.
02:03:01.000That's why they've tried to infiltrate us.
02:03:02.000That's why they've tried to weaken us down with all this.