The Charlie Kirk Show - In Defense of America

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

00:00:09.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.

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

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

00:00:18.000 I want to thank Charlie.

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

00:00:20.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

00:00:29.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

00:00:37.000 That's why we are here.

00:00:40.000 Thank you guys.

00:00:42.000 Honored to be here.

00:00:42.000 Please sit down.

00:00:43.000 I see some Cubs jerseys in the back.

00:00:45.000 So good to be from Chicago, not in Chicago.

00:00:50.000 We'll get into that throughout the speech.

00:00:51.000 I want to thank Brock, Madison, Rachel, and Holly for planning this event, South Dakota College Republicans.

00:00:58.000 Thank you, and I hope that I'll be able to convey more wisdom than most college classes will teach you nowadays.

00:01:04.000 So we're going to have a fun time together.

00:01:06.000 It's an honor to be in South Dakota.

00:01:08.000 I'm originally from Illinois.

00:01:09.000 Our office is in Phoenix, Arizona at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action.

00:01:15.000 And it's hard for me not to travel.

00:01:18.000 I travel typically when things are normal, whatever on earth that means now, 350 days a year.

00:01:24.000 So I basically perpetually travel.

00:01:26.000 And for the first time since high school, I was basically locked down in Arizona for, I think, 10 weeks without traveling.

00:01:34.000 That was a very bizarre experience.

00:01:36.000 But throughout the entire lockdown, I kept looking to South Dakota.

00:01:39.000 I was like, why could I not live in South Dakota during all this?

00:01:43.000 And, right?

00:01:44.000 And I want to talk about a lot tonight, but leadership is a very hard thing.

00:01:52.000 Leadership means you're going to endure criticism.

00:01:54.000 Leadership means you have to put forth a vision.

00:01:56.000 It means you have to be able to read people correctly and organize them effectively.

00:02:00.000 Leadership 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.

00:02:07.000 And you have a leader as a governor of South Dakota, and you should be very proud of that because she did the right thing.

00:02:13.000 And I could tell you, she's been proven correct throughout this entire circus of locking down our entire country.

00:02:20.000 And 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.

00:02:35.000 Everyone'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.

00:02:43.000 And they tested 1,200 people in Teton County.

00:02:46.000 They couldn't find one case of the Chinese coronavirus.

00:02:49.000 I do call it the Chinese coronavirus.

00:02:49.000 And that's right.

00:02:51.000 So thank you very much.

00:02:52.000 So 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.

00:03:03.000 So, but leadership is hard.

00:03:05.000 And your governor, Christy Noam, and I consider her a friend, and I always considered her to be courageous.

00:03:10.000 But what she did to just say, look, the data is not there to lock down my state.

00:03:16.000 I trust my citizens that if they want to stay at home, they have the liberty and freedom to do so.

00:03:22.000 We are going to protect and help people that need the help that want to stay at home.

00:03:26.000 Call your church, call your local government.

00:03:28.000 We'll supply you if there's something that you need.

00:03:30.000 But I'm not going to use the power of the state, basically threaten to arrest you at gunpoint if you dare leave your home to go to church.

00:03:41.000 Like, it's just not that hard of a concept to understand.

00:03:44.000 And even some of these neighboring states to South Dakota, they were just so afraid that the media was going to call them bad names.

00:03:50.000 And South Dakota really was the only state in the country that did not offer a draconian shelter-in-place order.

00:03:56.000 And there are some other states that say they didn't do it.

00:03:59.000 This revisionist history just makes me so sick.

00:04:01.000 I was just in Wyoming and I had to hear from, let's just say, other governors.

00:04:05.000 Let's just put it that way.

00:04:06.000 We're not going to say any names.

00:04:07.000 And they're like, yeah, we didn't shut down.

00:04:09.000 I'm like, only Christine Noam could say that and South Dakota could say that.

00:04:13.000 So, but look, here's the very important thing that we have to recognize when it comes to leadership.

00:04:17.000 When it comes to leadership, you have to make a vision, convince your citizenry, hopefully.

00:04:24.000 And 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.

00:04:35.000 What does Christine Noam do?

00:04:37.000 She stands strong. 1.00

00:04:39.000 And I'd say to the entire Republican Party that's just perpetually afraid that the media is going to call them bad names.

00:04:46.000 I say, Christine Noam, boy, I have to be a little bit, I know we're live streaming.

00:04:50.000 So I'm going to say this as nicely as I possibly can.

00:04:54.000 She has more of a backbone.

00:04:56.000 Let's put it that way, okay?

00:04:58.000 Let's use that attribute, okay?

00:05:01.000 You guys can fill in the rest, right?

00:05:03.000 Let your creativity run wild.

00:05:05.000 I always try to make things PG, but boy, do I want to just be able to...

00:05:08.000 Anyway, 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

00:05:22.000 Everyone lives within like a couple hundred acres of the next person, okay?

00:05:25.000 And I love South Dakota.

00:05:26.000 By the way, the state's awesome.

00:05:27.000 Like no income tax.

00:05:28.000 You all love liberty.

00:05:29.000 Everyone owns firearms.

00:05:30.000 Like a MAGA hat's considered like a good thing in South Dakota.

00:05:32.000 It's amazing, right?

00:05:34.000 So, 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.

00:06:02.000 And let's just talk about this because now they're trying to shut down the country again.

00:06:05.000 And you see Republican governors that are going along with it.

00:06:07.000 And so I'm a data guy.

00:06:08.000 I'm a science guy.

00:06:09.000 I love statistics.

00:06:10.000 First of all, they say, well, there's a record new amount of cases.

00:06:13.000 Well, why is that?

00:06:15.000 Well, you can't walk into a hospital now without being mandatory tested.

00:06:19.000 You can't.

00:06:20.000 And 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.

00:06:29.000 So you walk into any doctor's office with symptoms or without symptoms and they're testing you, right?

00:06:34.000 So they're testing you.

00:06:36.000 And by definition, when you increase the testing pool, you're going to have more people that are testing positive.

00:06:42.000 But they're not telling you that in every single state except Arizona, which for its own reasons is an outlier, deaths are going down.

00:06:49.000 Intensive hospitalizations are going down.

00:06:51.000 The media says, well, the ICUs are totally packed.

00:06:54.000 Well, 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.

00:07:02.000 And so you add this kind of nuance.

00:07:03.000 You're like, oh, well, I didn't think of it that way.

00:07:05.000 Well, maybe you should start thinking in general when you start to make very important public policy decisions.

00:07:11.000 And I'm looking, I'm not minimizing and saying the virus is nothing and you shouldn't take it seriously.

00:07:15.000 But for a country that was founded on this frontier mindset that this state in particular was founded in negative 30-degree weather, right?

00:07:23.000 Homesteading, I think that we can handle a virus.

00:07:26.000 Like, I think that's probably pretty fair.

00:07:28.000 And when you have freedom, this is a very important thing we do not communicate to young people.

00:07:32.000 It's fun to say freedom, right?

00:07:34.000 Like, yeah, freedom and liberty.

00:07:35.000 You could do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it.

00:07:37.000 It's impossible to have freedom if you don't have responsibility.

00:07:42.000 It's impossible.

00:07:43.000 So, 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?

00:07:51.000 So, and by the way, this is the infantilization of our country that's happening real time, right?

00:07:56.000 The left wants the entire country to become like a daycare that they take care of us all the time.

00:08:00.000 Seriously, like, seriously, you can leave here, you can't leave there, just look to us.

00:08:03.000 Nanny State's going to take care of you all the time, right?

00:08:06.000 Where I actually want to live in a mature society.

00:08:08.000 I 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?

00:08:13.000 If 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.

00:08:21.000 And then to add insult to injury to this entire thing.

00:08:23.000 They lock down all of America.

00:08:25.000 And 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.

00:08:40.000 And I'll get into it.

00:08:41.000 But fine, people should have the right to express their own First Amendment.

00:08:44.000 I'm completely supportive of that.

00:08:45.000 But I was like, I thought we're locking down the country.

00:08:47.000 Like, I thought that was a thing, right?

00:08:49.000 I mean, you guys sent out armed militias to prevent us when we were trying to protest the lockdowns all across the country.

00:08:57.000 And you have 200,000 people in Brooklyn, New York, or 150,000 people in Philadelphia, or 100,000 people in Los Angeles.

00:09:06.000 And all of a sudden, we're supposed to just say, oh, it's okay because they're protesting something good. 0.95

00:09:10.000 This is the wokest virus I've ever seen in my life. 0.84

00:09:13.000 Apparently, it doesn't infect you if you're protesting racial injustice.

00:09:17.000 Like, it's very strange.

00:09:18.000 And then they're like, well, I wonder why the cases are increasing.

00:09:21.000 Again, 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.

00:09:29.000 And the media is like, oh, well, and then you have 1,400 health professionals that are saying, well, it's okay to go protest.

00:09:36.000 I kid you not, this is a real thing.

00:09:37.000 They say, you can go protest in the streets because the threat of white supremacy is greater than COVID-19.

00:09:44.000 So I was like, okay, if you could find a cause great enough, I guess the virus stops mattering or something.

00:09:49.000 It's very strange.

00:09:51.000 And so that's why I respect your governor here in South Dakota, because leadership is by definition being a contrarian.

00:09:57.000 If 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.

00:10:08.000 It's that simple.

00:10:09.000 And Governor Christy Noam could have done what every other governor did.

00:10:13.000 She could have said, that's right, don't call me bad names. 0.97

00:10:15.000 We're going to kind of sort of lock down the state. 0.94

00:10:17.000 And these other neighboring governors are trying to make it seem like that's what they did.

00:10:21.000 Like, you're the only state that stood up against the mob, that stood up against the swarm.

00:10:24.000 And you said, I actually trust my citizens.

00:10:27.000 I trust the 800,000 people in the state of South Dakota.

00:10:29.000 That's what a mature society does, by the way.

00:10:32.000 When you have freedom, you also have responsibility.

00:10:34.000 So we should give it up for Christy Noam because you guys are so blessed with a terrific governor.

00:10:38.000 It's incredible.

00:10:40.000 And now she's being proven correct.

00:10:45.000 And people are that's the other thing that the Republican Party has to learn: that leadership will be rewarded.

00:10:51.000 That it's really hard when you're going through the thick of it.

00:10:54.000 But people need leaders now more than ever.

00:10:57.000 We do not need more people that do the Democrat-light thing, right?

00:11:00.000 They're like, well, we can sort of shut down our state.

00:11:03.000 And, you know, I guess we can give less free stuff than the Democrats.

00:11:07.000 And 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.

00:11:18.000 Like that's not what we're looking for, right?

00:11:21.000 We 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.

00:11:34.000 Like we want a government that's going to protect our history.

00:11:37.000 We want a government that's going to teach it correctly to the next generation.

00:11:40.000 And 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.

00:11:51.000 They just have.

00:11:52.000 And South Dakota is probably one of the most Republican states in the country, one of the most conservative states.

00:11:58.000 And 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?

00:12:10.000 I just, I don't understand it.

00:12:11.000 It's just, I mean, it'd be one thing if like, oh, I'm worried about losing re-election.

00:12:16.000 Like, you represent South Dakota, okay?

00:12:18.000 I 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.

00:12:23.000 In fact, I think you'll win by more.

00:12:25.000 In 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?

00:12:38.000 By the way, we need a renewal of courage in our country.

00:12:43.000 Again, it's very hard to find, though.

00:12:46.000 And this is why, and again, they're tearing this stuff down.

00:12:49.000 The left destroys everything they touch.

00:12:50.000 If there's one thing, it's probably one of the more dark things to remember from my speech.

00:12:54.000 But if there's only one thing to remember, it's the left.

00:12:56.000 They destroy everything they touch.

00:12:57.000 They've never built anything, okay?

00:13:00.000 They're metaphorical locusts, let's put it that way, right?

00:13:04.000 No, seriously, they destroyed Hollywood.

00:13:06.000 They destroy our movies. 0.61

00:13:07.000 They destroy our school system.

00:13:08.000 They're destroying the National Basketball Association.

00:13:10.000 They're destroying the National Football League.

00:13:11.000 They're destroying the Boy Scouts.

00:13:12.000 I'm an Eagle Scout. 0.69

00:13:13.000 They have girls and Boy Scouts, and they have all the strange new things about social justice and racial diversity.

00:13:20.000 And I'm like, I remember when the Boy Scouts were actually about developing strong men because our country needs strong men.

00:13:25.000 Like, what an incredible topic that we actually need strong men and strong women.

00:13:30.000 And I think the hyper-feminization of America has been one of the downfalls of our country because you actually need that balance.

00:13:35.000 And 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.

00:13:41.000 And society is no different, by the way.

00:13:43.000 And a society that gets too masculine also is not good either.

00:13:45.000 Don't get me wrong.

00:13:46.000 You get strong men, authoritarians, and no checks and balances.

00:13:49.000 But 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. 0.61

00:13:59.000 And that's when you start to see the entire family structure decay.

00:14:02.000 So 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.

00:14:10.000 And 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.

00:14:21.000 That's their new thing.

00:14:22.000 So they've told me to shut down. 0.55

00:14:24.000 Literally, I've had people in the media to say, Charlie, just shut up and listen. 0.99

00:14:27.000 So I've been louder than ever because I don't take to that crap. 0.99

00:14:30.000 Like, I don't do that. 0.99

00:14:32.000 So, I mean, truth is truth regardless of skin color.

00:14:38.000 One of the crowning achievements of our country was when Martin Luther King said we should judge people on character, not color of their skin.

00:14:45.000 Like, I completely agree.

00:14:46.000 That's a biblical concept.

00:14:47.000 That is a Western society concept.

00:14:49.000 And it took us a long time to actually achieve it and fulfill it.

00:14:52.000 Now 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.

00:15:05.000 And so let's talk about this because a lot of young people in schools all across the country are now experiencing this.

00:15:09.000 And they say, well, Charlie, you have to go apologize for the institutional racism that your skin color embodies.

00:15:17.000 First of all, you don't know my family's history, and I'd be happy to educate you on that.

00:15:20.000 Second of all, since when do we have like 12th century feudal blood guilt?

00:15:23.000 Like, since when is that the way we run our country?

00:15:26.000 I'm a completely separate entity than my father and then my grandfather.

00:15:30.000 I am related.

00:15:31.000 They brought me into the world, but I can make my own decisions.

00:15:33.000 I can make my own choices. 0.92

00:15:35.000 In fact, the Christian ethic is the one that built our society, where it's like, your father cannot atone for your sins.

00:15:41.000 You must have an individual relationship with Christ.

00:15:43.000 And we take this for granted a lot, but it was the Bible that actually taught us that every single individual is what?

00:15:49.000 Made in the image of God.

00:15:50.000 That it's not your tribe. 0.84

00:15:52.000 It's not where you were born.

00:15:53.000 It's not your last name.

00:15:55.000 It's actually, you have to find your own surrendering personal salvation through Jesus Christ.

00:16:00.000 And no matter how good of a person your mother is, she can't save you for you.

00:16:05.000 She can try to guide you in that direction.

00:16:06.000 She can try to instruct you.

00:16:08.000 And so we built an entire society around this idea around the sovereignty of the individual, that you matter, that you matter, that you matter.

00:16:15.000 But you must have your own personal connection with the Almighty.

00:16:18.000 It didn't work that way a thousand years ago.

00:16:21.000 The 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.

00:16:28.000 Seriously.

00:16:29.000 They did blood guilt punishment.

00:16:32.000 Whereas 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?

00:16:40.000 That was the way that they used to punish people.

00:16:42.000 Like, oh, no, please do anything to me, but don't do that to my kids.

00:16:45.000 And that's a pretty bad thing, right?

00:16:46.000 I mean, could you think of something more evil?

00:16:48.000 Because you're, by definition, than punishing an innocent, right?

00:16:50.000 And so, Western society, and this is where we get common law from, derived from the Bible, is like, that's not fair at all.

00:16:55.000 Like, punish the person as severely as you need to, but don't punish the kids.

00:16:59.000 And we all accept this, right?

00:17:00.000 Like, this is something that is so obvious to us, we call that what?

00:17:03.000 Those two words, common sense, right?

00:17:06.000 And that's why Trump won is because he was saying things that are within our spirit, it's within our nomenclature, it's in our story.

00:17:11.000 So when we say those two words common sense, we just kind of dismiss it, right?

00:17:14.000 But common sense isn't that common now at all.

00:17:17.000 In fact, it's like rare sense.

00:17:18.000 In fact, if you dare say something like this, they call you the worst things that you can call someone. 0.99

00:17:23.000 They say that, oh, you're a racist, you're a bigot, you're a homophobic. 0.97

00:17:25.000 So let's be perfectly clear. 0.93

00:17:26.000 No person should be judged on what their father or their grandfather does.

00:17:29.000 Period.

00:17:30.000 End of story.

00:17:31.000 No mature or advanced society should ever build anything around that. 0.97

00:17:35.000 With 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? 0.54

00:17:44.000 Now, 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.

00:17:54.000 This 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.

00:18:02.000 Next thing you know, 62% of young people think America's an awful place.

00:18:06.000 That's what happened when you don't speak out and you don't defeat the lie.

00:18:08.000 So they say this: well, the country was built for you, for white people. 0.52

00:18:12.000 First of all, no, but let's look at the data. 0.72

00:18:12.000 Okay, fine. 0.72

00:18:16.000 If 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? 0.81

00:18:25.000 Average Taiwanese individual, $118,000, and all the way down. 0.51

00:18:30.000 So was the Constitution written in Hindi or written in Korean? 0.54

00:18:33.000 Like, maybe it's not the color of your skin.

00:18:35.000 Maybe it's the choices that you make.

00:18:37.000 Maybe it's the ultimate privilege in our country, the number one correlation is whether or not you were raised by a mother and a father.

00:18:45.000 That is it.

00:18:46.000 If you were raised by a mother and father in the home, you have a higher likelihood to succeed than almost any other guiding metric.

00:18:52.000 Now, with that being said, single mothers do a phenomenal job in our country and they should be rewarded as such.

00:18:57.000 But 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.

00:19:16.000 Work hard, play by the rules, and have good character.

00:19:19.000 To succeed in America, you need to do three things.

00:19:21.000 And the fourth is pretty obvious, but the three things that are not so, they should be obvious.

00:19:25.000 Graduate from high school, get married before you have kids, and get a job, any job.

00:19:30.000 The fourth thing is don't commit crimes.

00:19:31.000 That shouldn't be that big.

00:19:32.000 That one's for, like, don't, like, don't burn down your neighborhood.

00:19:36.000 Like, you know, don't go steal a 72-inch screen TV and say you're doing that because you're remembering George Floyd.

00:19:41.000 Like, no, you're a criminal, okay?

00:19:42.000 Like, just because you got a, oh, yeah, everything's on sale.

00:19:46.000 Like, it's not a sale.

00:19:47.000 You're stealing it.

00:19:48.000 Okay. 1.00

00:19:48.000 You're a thief. 1.00

00:19:49.000 Okay. 1.00

00:19:50.000 Well, yeah, nothing says remembering the legacy of George Floyd, like pillaging the Gucci store.

00:19:55.000 Like, okay, yeah, that's, it's, and then people are trying to justify it on television.

00:19:59.000 But here's a very interesting statistic.

00:20:02.000 A 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. 0.88

00:20:09.000 And 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. 0.83

00:20:21.000 And 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. 0.80

00:20:47.000 It's anti-America.

00:20:49.000 And so their whole argument is, well, Charlie, what would you attribute then for why black America is not doing very well? 0.64

00:20:56.000 Because I think it's fair to say that it's more than fair to say the statistics show that.

00:20:59.000 And 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?

00:21:08.000 So why is it that more people have voluntarily came from Africa since the 1980s than came here as slaves?

00:21:13.000 If you were such a racist country, who on earth would do that, right?

00:21:16.000 I mean, like, right? 0.73

00:21:16.000 Like, why would anybody do that? 0.73

00:21:18.000 It's just counterintuitive.

00:21:19.000 Like, I wouldn't want to go to that country, right?

00:21:20.000 Like, don't actually know.

00:21:22.000 It's actually, we're a very decent country.

00:21:23.000 They say we're systemically racist.

00:21:25.000 I think we're systemically decent.

00:21:28.000 I think that most interactions that people have of individuals that look different than them, I actually think they're rather congenial, mutually respect.

00:21:36.000 I think that actually it's hard to find the indecency.

00:21:39.000 I think you have to look for it.

00:21:40.000 I think you actually have to create it.

00:21:42.000 I mean, you have to find a garage door opener that you think's a noose.

00:21:46.000 You 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.

00:21:56.000 And by the way, that Justice Smollette thing is one of my favorite stories to talk about because it was just so fraudulent.

00:21:59.000 I knew it was nonsense because I've lived in Chicago almost my whole life, go-cubs.

00:22:03.000 And as soon as I heard the story, I was like, two people in negative 10-degree weather.

00:22:07.000 First of all, you guys know what negative 10-degree weather actually is.

00:22:09.000 Okay, I say this story in California.

00:22:11.000 They think it's cold.

00:22:12.000 Like, no, it's like hell, okay?

00:22:13.000 It's not cold.

00:22:13.000 Okay.

00:22:14.000 It's completely different.

00:22:15.000 And so they say, oh, well, I was like, first of all, I've never seen anyone wear a MAGA hat in Chicago.

00:22:20.000 Okay, first of all, let alone in negative 10-degree weather, hunting down Jussie Smollett at 1.30 in the morning.

00:22:25.000 And as soon as I knew it was a hoax, as soon as I saw the police video where they walk into his apartment, right?

00:22:32.000 And Jussie's there.

00:22:33.000 He's crying.

00:22:33.000 He's got the whole melodrama, right?

00:22:35.000 And he still has the noose on him, right?

00:22:38.000 Like, who does that?

00:22:40.000 And so then the first thing the police officer is like, why don't you take the noose off?

00:22:44.000 So, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry.

00:22:45.000 So I was like, that's like probably someone's about to kill you, right?

00:22:48.000 Like, that would probably be the first instinct to take the noose.

00:22:51.000 Anyway, so then also hate crime hoax 101. 0.98

00:22:54.000 Do not hire black Nigerian brothers if you're trying to pull off a racist hate crime in downtown Chicago. 0.97

00:22:58.000 Like, probably, and then also, don't write a check. 0.99

00:23:01.000 Like, that would be a bad idea.

00:23:03.000 You know, right?

00:23:04.000 Like, don't write like mugging supplies, right?

00:23:08.000 It's what he did.

00:23:09.000 And finally, he's being held accountable for that.

00:23:12.000 But our country is such a decent country.

00:23:15.000 In order to try to prove the point, they have to conjure this stuff up.

00:23:18.000 And I'm not saying that there aren't real incidents of this.

00:23:20.000 I'm not saying that.

00:23:21.000 But when you start to look at the incidents that are just created and concocted, it does beg the question, why do they do that?

00:23:29.000 They do that because you get a special currency and you get treated differently if all of a sudden you're a victim.

00:23:35.000 And all of a sudden, they like desire the victimization.

00:23:37.000 It's like, I'm going to be glorified and glamorized if I get that kind of oppression Olympics medal.

00:23:44.000 And we're a country of victors, not victims.

00:23:46.000 We'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.

00:24:00.000 And 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.

00:24:10.000 In 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.

00:24:16.000 But life is suffering.

00:24:17.000 Like it's really a hard place.

00:24:19.000 And 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.

00:24:30.000 And so to kind of put a whole kind of button on this is that I call the movement BLM, by the way.

00:24:35.000 First of all, I know BLM is not very favored out in the American West.

00:24:38.000 So I think that's probably, but I call it BLM Inc.

00:24:41.000 And I say this for a couple of reasons because the statement, they're very good at messaging.

00:24:44.000 Black lives matter, and they do matter.

00:24:46.000 All lives matter.

00:24:47.000 And by the way, you should all be unafraid to say all lives matter.

00:24:49.000 The fact that this has become like hate speech, all lives matter.

00:24:52.000 It's a biblical concept.

00:24:53.000 It's an American concept.

00:24:54.000 I say it all the time.

00:24:55.000 You guys should say it.

00:24:56.000 There's nothing wrong with it.

00:24:57.000 And so, but the statement is 100% true.

00:25:02.000 But the organization and the movement is malevolent and Marxist and trying to deconstruct our countries.

00:25:07.000 That'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.

00:25:16.000 And the way they message it is 100% intentional.

00:25:18.000 They try to have that kind of mix-up happen.

00:25:20.000 But BLM, if you read the website, I encourage all of you to do this. 0.71

00:25:24.000 Their mission statement, one of the first things, like, oh, wow, that's really interesting, is to disrupt and destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family. 0.79

00:25:31.000 Like, that's their opening shot. 0.63

00:25:33.000 Like, wow, okay.

00:25:35.000 That's the organization that hundreds of millions of dollars has flowed to.

00:25:39.000 Abolish prisons.

00:25:41.000 That's not a good idea.

00:25:45.000 Abolish police.

00:25:46.000 You've heard that one, right?

00:25:47.000 Defund police.

00:25:48.000 By the way, it's just so predictable, right?

00:25:51.000 So the Minneapolis City Council, I don't know if you've guys seen this video in the last couple of days.

00:25:55.000 They're granting and they're raving, defund the police, get them out of our communities.

00:25:59.000 And yet they are paying $4,600 a day for private security, right?

00:26:02.000 Because they're so worried about the threats against them.

00:26:04.000 And so it's a wonderful socialist mindset.

00:26:07.000 It's very French revolution-esque.

00:26:09.000 Like, we're going to be the ones that pioneer the revolution. 0.93

00:26:11.000 We'll get the spoils.

00:26:12.000 We'll get the treatment.

00:26:13.000 We're going to protect ourselves, but you guys, not so much.

00:26:16.000 And then we're just going to keep on causing problems in your communities to keep us in power.

00:26:19.000 The left is always in a relentless pursuit of perpetual power.

00:26:22.000 If you understand the left, you understand that all they care about is non-stop, dominant political power.

00:26:27.000 And so the Minneapolis City Council, they're trying to defund the police.

00:26:30.000 So let's just talk about police in our country because they get such a bad rap.

00:26:33.000 And of course, there's bad cops.

00:26:35.000 There's bad everything, by the way. 0.71

00:26:36.000 People say, oh, the police are so rotten.

00:26:38.000 Show me one institution that's not rotten.

00:26:40.000 I can show you a church that's rotten.

00:26:42.000 I can show you a food bank where someone's probably stealing something, right?

00:26:44.000 There 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.

00:26:53.000 It's impossible.

00:26:54.000 And if you think otherwise, then you believe in an incredibly flawed view of human nature where you think human beings are naturally good.

00:27:02.000 And that's a Rassoian view of human beings.

00:27:05.000 And I can get into that later if anyone's interested in the deeper philosophy of it.

00:27:10.000 But so they, by definition, they think, well, we can get rid of the police, people's lives are going to improve.

00:27:16.000 And so it's just like, well, hold on a second.

00:27:19.000 That's absurd.

00:27:22.000 And in fact, it's so absurd.

00:27:23.000 Someone from a university had to come up with this idea, right?

00:27:25.000 Like there's no way that anyone that was not in it.

00:27:29.000 And 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.

00:27:29.000 No, seriously.

00:27:37.000 It sounds like someone who lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and teaches at Yale and has private security and comes up.

00:27:42.000 I wonder what the world would look like without police.

00:27:44.000 You need to just teach Aristotle and just stop teaching, right?

00:27:47.000 Like, stop trying to act like you're the smartest person in the world because you're not, right?

00:27:50.000 And so, but you're like, so we have an example of this, though, right?

00:27:53.000 So, 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?

00:28:01.000 And they took over seven city blocks in downtown Seattle.

00:28:03.000 So, at Turning Point USA, we're on 2,000 high school and college campuses across the country.

00:28:07.000 We play offense.

00:28:08.000 We're very, very aggressive because we do it with a sense of urgency because we feel like we're losing our country.

00:28:12.000 If you feel like you're losing your country, we agree with you and we're trying to do something about it.

00:28:16.000 And so, thank you.

00:28:17.000 I completely agree.

00:28:18.000 And so, we sent our video team into Chaz or CHOP or whatever they call it, right?

00:28:25.000 And the videos have gone viral.

00:28:28.000 You guys can check it out.

00:28:29.000 You guys have probably seen it.

00:28:30.000 I mean, the drug usage, the feces, you know, all this sort of stuff.

00:28:32.000 It's very typical left-wing governance.

00:28:35.000 What's so interesting, though, is if the no-police thing works so well, and this is tragic.

00:28:39.000 I mean, we can laugh at it and kind of we should, but two teenagers have died in CHOP in the last two weeks.

00:28:45.000 And so, they just took it over finally, like what a concept.

00:28:48.000 And by the way, the only reason they've disassembled this new sovereign country is because they just started to protest the mayor's house.

00:28:54.000 If you actually follow the story, is that the leader was like, These people are the worst.

00:28:58.000 Like, no, you were calling it the summer of love three weeks ago.

00:29:00.000 Seriously, she was calling it the summer, it's like the summer of blood, okay?

00:29:03.000 Not the summer of love.

00:29:04.000 And so, two teenagers die in CHOP or Chaz or whatever.

00:29:07.000 But if getting rid of police gets rid of all the sin, then it should have just been this wonderful place, right?

00:29:11.000 It should have been harmonious, everyone should have been getting together.

00:29:14.000 But no, you get rid of police, thugs are going to take over.

00:29:17.000 And it's either you believe that hierarchies exist or you don't.

00:29:21.000 And 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.

00:29:28.000 You guys actually live in the real world, you act in the real world, you have real communities and churches, and it's just incredible.

00:29:33.000 And 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.

00:29:41.000 And they think that they can socially engineer and design the country when in reality, of course, they can't.

00:29:45.000 And so, Seattle is a great example of this. 0.61

00:29:48.000 But if black lives matter to BLM, why on earth are they not outside every single abortion clinic across the country, first of all? 0.61

00:29:56.000 So, let's just talk about this.

00:29:56.000 Okay?

00:29:58.000 So, I'm very vocal on abortion.

00:30:03.000 I think it's one of the most unspeakable tragedies in our country.

00:30:06.000 I believe life begins at conception.

00:30:08.000 I 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.

00:30:17.000 I think that's a huge mistake.

00:30:18.000 So, I want to preface it by saying it.

00:30:20.000 But I think that we have to understand that life does begin at conception.

00:30:24.000 Life in the womb should be equally protected under the law.

00:30:26.000 And that a million abortions a year, which is what we have every single year, is a moral outrage.

00:30:30.000 It just is, pure and simple.

00:30:31.000 It's just a moral outrage.

00:30:32.000 And so, happy to get into the science and the morality of all of it.

00:30:37.000 However, so let's just look at who actually is getting the most abortions in the country per percentage of population.

00:30:43.000 So, we have a million abortions a year, which is outrageous.

00:30:45.000 The abortion rate in the black community in the city of New York is greater than the birth rate.

00:30:50.000 So, 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.

00:30:57.000 Like, that's they always said that, by the way, the left always said this would never happen.

00:31:01.000 They said that it would be rare and was it cheap, rare, and I could never get the three words right.

00:31:06.000 Anyway, they say that it would, it would be very rare and not be widespread.

00:31:09.000 That's, of course, not the case.

00:31:10.000 It's now become a form of birth control, which is just unspeakable. 0.57

00:31:15.000 So, 450,000 of those million abortions a year are black individuals.

00:31:21.000 But let's talk about how actual, how this is actually how outrageous this is.

00:31:26.000 So, black people make up about 13 to 14% of the American population.

00:31:30.000 The new census numbers will come out.

00:31:32.000 And 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?

00:31:41.000 So 13 to 14% of our country is African American or black.

00:31:46.000 So about half of that are female.

00:31:47.000 About half of that are infant-bearing age.

00:31:50.000 So 3% of our entire national population accounts for 47% of all the abortions.

00:31:56.000 And 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.

00:32:04.000 And 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? 0.82

00:32:19.000 Kills them both. 0.95

00:32:20.000 Did you not? 1.00

00:32:21.000 Happened in Chicago last weekend.

00:32:22.000 You probably don't know their names.

00:32:23.000 I 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?

00:32:31.000 And 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.

00:32:41.000 And yet the media said, we're divided over this.

00:32:44.000 I have never met a human being and maybe you guys have, that defended what Derek Chauvin did.

00:32:50.000 In fact, I don't think we weren't divided.

00:32:52.000 We were actually more united around that video than ever before.

00:32:56.000 And yet they used a very emotional video to fit into a narrative that simply does not exist.

00:33:02.000 And then they tried, then they're extending this into the most outrageous things imaginable, one of which is the 1619 project.

00:33:08.000 The 1619 project, anyone know what this is?

00:33:10.000 They're probably teaching your kids this unless you're homeschooling.

00:33:13.000 By the way, God bless homeschoolers.

00:33:14.000 We have to double our homeschooling population in the next five years.

00:33:17.000 Like one of the most important things.

00:33:18.000 Big fan of homeschooling.

00:33:20.000 So 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.

00:33:26.000 And one of the lies of the 1619 project is that America is actually 400 years old, right?

00:33:32.000 That our birthday is not July 4th.

00:33:34.000 It's either in February, April, or whatever the day.

00:33:36.000 Actually, it might be whatever it is, August, in 1619, when the first slaves arrived to America.

00:33:42.000 This is their argument.

00:33:43.000 And so I see a lot of conservatives all of a sudden saying, yeah, we're 400 years old.

00:33:46.000 Like, you have no idea about American history.

00:33:49.000 So let's walk through it.

00:33:51.000 We were under British colonial rule.

00:33:53.000 We did not invent slavery.

00:33:54.000 Slavery is one of the sickest sins that a human being can do in the eyes of God.

00:33:57.000 Let me make that perfectly clear.

00:33:59.000 It's outrageous.

00:34:00.000 Anyone who participates in it should be held criminally accountable here domestically, internationally, and also before the eyes of God.

00:34:07.000 I 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.

00:34:15.000 It's been around on earth for 5,000 years.

00:34:17.000 It's an uncomfortable conversation to have.

00:34:19.000 But 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. 0.92

00:34:26.000 Like Muhammad owned slaves. 0.85

00:34:28.000 And that's a different conversation for a different time. 0.95

00:34:30.000 But how the media just conveniently does not mention that, I think is incredibly hypocritical.

00:34:36.000 Anyway, so but then we were under British colonial rule.

00:34:38.000 And 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?

00:34:47.000 And we did not invent slavery.

00:34:49.000 And in fact, there was already tension in the early 1700s around is slavery really biblical?

00:34:54.000 And you go to early writings of who ended up being the founding fathers of the country that were kind of challenging it.

00:35:00.000 And so then what happened in 1774, you have the conflict between Britain and the colonies really start to come to a head.

00:35:06.000 And in 1776, we wrote our birth certificate.

00:35:09.000 This is what we celebrate this coming weekend, by the way.

00:35:11.000 This is not just like a date on the calendar where you grill hot dogs and get really drunk and watch fireworks, right?

00:35:17.000 This is a time in history where everything changed.

00:35:20.000 And the left will never teach our children this.

00:35:21.000 And this is why we celebrate and we do celebrate our country.

00:35:24.000 I 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.

00:35:34.000 And you read the birth certificate of the United States.

00:35:37.000 It says so clearly that when in the course of human events it comes time to dissolve ties, like, whoa, this is a rebellion, folks.

00:35:44.000 Like, we don't believe in what you're doing anymore.

00:35:48.000 And that wasn't just, we don't believe in your taxes, because that's the cheap way of describing it, right?

00:35:53.000 It was the authoritarian boot on the neck of the freedom-loving Americans.

00:35:58.000 And then you see it so clearly in the laws of nature and nature's God.

00:36:03.000 So it was the recognition that we have natural rights that are given to us by God.

00:36:07.000 Now, 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.

00:36:24.000 Like, come and find me and kill me and hang me in front of my farm and burn everything down.

00:36:29.000 That's how much they were committed to the cause of liberty. 0.99

00:36:31.000 Like, we have no comprehension of that, right?

00:36:35.000 And so then in 1777, the first sovereign state, Vermont, abolishes slavery.

00:36:41.000 Whoa!

00:36:43.000 So one year after the Declaration, we abolished slavery.

00:36:46.000 So 1776 is the founding of our country, which inspired the abolition of slavery.

00:36:51.000 Not 1619, which was British colonial rule that embraced it and tried to push it on the throats of the American people.

00:36:58.000 We were rebelling against these sinister practices.

00:37:00.000 Now, mind you, in the Constitution that was ratified in the late 1780s and it went back and forth, we set forth a very ambitious goal. 0.92

00:37:07.000 Now, mind you, our founding fathers were hypocrites, some of them. 0.98

00:37:10.000 Who on earth is not a hypocrite on this earth? 0.99

00:37:12.000 Show me the first of you that say one thing and does not do it themselves. 0.96

00:37:16.000 However, many of them atoned and denounced their own holding of slaves, and some of them didn't hold slaves as widespread, if at all. 0.81

00:37:26.000 However, they still shot that North Star that all men are created equal. 0.56

00:37:30.000 Show me another country that shot that sort of goal forward and then sacrificed so much to attain it.

00:37:36.000 Understand that the downfalls of America or the less than desirable parts of America are universal.

00:37:43.000 Every country had our downfalls.

00:37:46.000 Our positives have always been unique.

00:37:49.000 The country that articulated what it means to express yourself freely, defend your family, the idea of locking in natural rights.

00:37:56.000 You 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.

00:38:05.000 The Republican Party has always been the party of liberation.

00:38:08.000 We should be unafraid to tell the entire world this.

00:38:10.000 And for whatever reason, we have Republicans running to the hills.

00:38:12.000 Like, 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.

00:38:20.000 And so then we fight a civil war.

00:38:23.000 Bloody, brutal, 600,000 Americans die to try to eradicate a moral stain on our country.

00:38:29.000 This is a history we should be incredibly proud of because for over 1,900, 2,000 years, human freedom was flatlined.

00:38:38.000 Basically, the course was there is slavery, get used to it.

00:38:43.000 It took the offspring and the shoot-up of America to disrupt that and to change that.

00:38:48.000 And that's what we celebrate this weekend on the independence.

00:38:51.000 I hate calling it July 4th because I think it's just so cheap.

00:38:53.000 It's just like another day.

00:38:54.000 On Independence Day, on independence from tyranny and authoritarian rule.

00:38:59.000 And 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.

00:39:09.000 Now, mind you, America has made mistakes, but America is not a mistake.

00:39:14.000 That America is a country.

00:39:16.000 Without America, the world would be much darker, much just unspeakably different.

00:39:22.000 And yet it's all being put in jeopardy right now.

00:39:25.000 Right 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.

00:39:32.000 They think our history is something to be ashamed of.

00:39:34.000 They think that our country is bigoted, homophobic, colonialist, all these awful things.

00:39:41.000 None of which are true throughout the course of our country's history.

00:39:45.000 And so I think you all understand the cultural moment that we're in.

00:39:49.000 But 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.

00:39:57.000 Like we could sustain it for probably another decade or two.

00:40:00.000 But when you have, and I kid you not, the poll came out today.

00:40:03.000 When you have 44% of college kids that think America is a good country, you cannot, that's not sustainable.

00:40:08.000 It's just not.

00:40:09.000 Like eventually, that will result in voting, result in behavior, and it will deconstruct the country.

00:40:15.000 And the left has been incredibly patient, by the way, for decades and decades and decades.

00:40:19.000 The last power source that we have, like it or not, is the Republican Party.

00:40:24.000 The 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.

00:40:24.000 Like that's it.

00:40:35.000 Like I would love to have one Republican senator do this.

00:40:38.000 The Republican Party has always been on the right side of history.

00:40:41.000 The Democrat Party has always cared about people's skin color.

00:40:44.000 The Democrat Party cared about people's skin color in 1860.

00:40:47.000 The Democrat Party cared about people's skin color in the 1920s.

00:40:50.000 The Democrat Party cared about people's skin color in the 1960s.

00:40:53.000 And the Democrat Party cares about people's skin color today.

00:40:56.000 The Republican Party passed the Civil Rights Act, passed the 13th and 14th Amendment, fought a war successfully to eradicate slavery.

00:41:04.000 Literally the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln that they're trying to take down right now.

00:41:08.000 The Republican Party passed women's suffrage, which we celebrate and the left tries to act as if that was the Democrat movement.

00:41:12.000 It was the Republican movement.

00:41:13.000 The first black senator in the U.S. Congress was a Republican.

00:41:17.000 Actually, the first 14 representatives that went to Congress were all Republican. 0.58

00:41:21.000 The Republican Party is the party of liberation.

00:41:23.000 The Democrat Party is the party of perpetual low expectations and bondage.

00:41:29.000 Which future do you want for our country?

00:41:30.000 Like, I would love to hear a Republican articulate that, but they get scared.

00:41:33.000 And they're afraid that people are going to call them bad names and all that.

00:41:36.000 Here's one.

00:41:37.000 They're going to call you bad names no matter what.

00:41:38.000 Okay.

00:41:38.000 Here's just like an honest truth.

00:41:40.000 They're going to call you the worst things you can possibly call a human being.

00:41:40.000 Okay.

00:41:43.000 And now and more so than any other time, we need people to rise up and say that is not true.

00:41:49.000 This 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.

00:41:59.000 I 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.

00:42:15.000 So I was asked today, I say, Charlie, what are you most worried about?

00:42:18.000 Like, what should I be most worried about?

00:42:19.000 And I listed things off.

00:42:20.000 I said our education system.

00:42:22.000 I said how the ruling class hates our country.

00:42:24.000 It's a really important and very interesting thing to study.

00:42:27.000 Like, we had a ruling class in the early 1900s that had way too much power, and they were broken up by Teddy Roosevelt.

00:42:32.000 I think correctly, generally, overdid his power sometimes, the Sherman Antitrust Act.

00:42:36.000 But Andrew Carnegie, I'm sorry, Andrew Carnegie and Mellon and J.P. Morgan and Rockefeller, they're actually really pro-American.

00:42:44.000 Like say what you will about the amount of wealth that they accumulated, they love their country.

00:42:47.000 Now we have a ruling class that hates our country.

00:42:50.000 Like you have Jeff Bezos and you have Sergey Binn and you have Larry Page.

00:42:55.000 You have guys that are the wealthiest people on the planet in our country that are actively trying to destroy our country.

00:42:59.000 It's a really important thing to point out, that our ruling class actually doesn't want what's best for America.

00:43:04.000 But 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.

00:43:19.000 To be honest, it horrifies me, actually.

00:43:22.000 I saw a little bit of spurts here of people protesting.

00:43:25.000 I was like, where's the 200,000 people, right?

00:43:29.000 And I'm going to be, I tweeted this.

00:43:31.000 They will have to arrest me this time.

00:43:33.000 I am not going to follow this nonsense.

00:43:34.000 It's just not going to happen.

00:43:36.000 Like, you're going to have to put me in handcuffs.

00:43:38.000 I'm going to live my life.

00:43:39.000 That simple.

00:43:40.000 Well, that's what people say.

00:43:42.000 I won't get arrested here.

00:43:46.000 And people say you got to wear masks and all this.

00:43:48.000 Look, 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. 0.95

00:43:56.000 You know, if you're going to wear a mask, just get an N95 mask. 0.76

00:43:58.000 Don't do this thing where you make it a handkerchief.

00:44:00.000 It has no medical utility at all.

00:44:02.000 I'm not huge on masks.

00:44:04.000 I think it dehumanizes people, and I think God gave us a face for a reason.

00:44:07.000 But I guess it could be debated whether or not it helps slow the spread of the virus.

00:44:10.000 But with that being said, I just don't like the idea that I have to wear one.

00:44:14.000 I'm just, you know, call me an American rebel in some sense.

00:44:18.000 Like, I think that liberty is a pretty special thing, and that that's just maybe how I'm built.

00:44:23.000 I think it's a uniquely American concept that you could take responsibility for your own actions.

00:44:27.000 And what's so amazing is we do this all the time.

00:44:29.000 Like, there's a lot of hunters in this room, right?

00:44:31.000 A lot of hunters.

00:44:31.000 I'm sure.

00:44:32.000 You guys get a hunting license.

00:44:34.000 You go off the grid a little bit.

00:44:35.000 Like, if you shoot yourself in the foot, like, it's your responsibility at that moment, right?

00:44:40.000 You go get that hunting license to say, hey, I'm willing to take responsibility for whatever happens at this point forward.

00:44:45.000 Like, 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?

00:44:52.000 Like, we, we have, we have, I, we have examples of how we operate under this idea of dangerous liberty all the time.

00:45:01.000 What kind of society have we come in where we just convince ourselves we can just be safe all the time?

00:45:05.000 That sounds awful, by the way.

00:45:06.000 That sounds like prison.

00:45:07.000 Like, it does.

00:45:08.000 Like, do you want to be three meals a day and not just be in kind of a cushioned environment?

00:45:13.000 I guess.

00:45:13.000 I mean, that's not the country I want to live in.

00:45:16.000 That's not the country I'm going to fight for, and I'm not going to abide by it any longer.

00:45:20.000 I'm telling you, these authoritarian governors that come after it, it's not going to happen.

00:45:23.000 It's just not going to happen.

00:45:24.000 And 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.

00:45:32.000 Like, it's very important. 0.98

00:45:33.000 If you are going to disobey a law, don't be a coward. 0.97

00:45:36.000 Go turn yourself in. 0.92

00:45:37.000 So, I'm telling any governor across the country, if you have a problem with me disobeying your thing, fine.

00:45:42.000 Lock me up. 0.99

00:45:43.000 I will take the punishment to show how ridiculous it is. 0.99

00:45:43.000 I don't care. 0.99

00:45:46.000 And 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.

00:45:56.000 I just, it just shows the priorities of the ruling class and the governing class in our country.

00:46:02.000 And so, that's something that honestly really concerns me.

00:46:04.000 You guys got it right.

00:46:05.000 And you guys, as I mentioned at the beginning of my speech, you have a governor that articulated it.

00:46:09.000 Because 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.

00:46:17.000 Seriously.

00:46:18.000 And I mean, I'm going to be honest, I get more things right than I get wrong.

00:46:24.000 But when I get wrong, I'll tell you when I get something wrong.

00:46:26.000 As soon as they lock down the country on March 13th-ish, I was like, this is not one week.

00:46:31.000 People are in the streets, like waving flags, not going to happen.

00:46:35.000 Like, everything is desolate.

00:46:37.000 April, everything is desolate.

00:46:39.000 Palm Sunday, no backlash.

00:46:41.000 Easter, like five pastors speak out and half of them are arrested.

00:46:44.000 I was like, wow.

00:46:46.000 Okay.

00:46:48.000 This is Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan.

00:46:50.000 If you have read it, it's like fear can just keep people crippled.

00:46:54.000 And I'm not saying it's not a real thing.

00:46:56.000 I'm not saying any of that.

00:46:58.000 What I'm saying is that the threat of government authoritarianism should terrify people a lot more than COVID-19.

00:47:07.000 It just should.

00:47:09.000 And that's some of the lessons of the 20th century.

00:47:13.000 So I don't know how we're doing on time.

00:47:15.000 I love questions the most.

00:47:17.000 And I want to have a dialogue.

00:47:18.000 Yeah, we have time.

00:47:19.000 We have tons of time.

00:47:20.000 So just, yeah, let's have a conversation.

00:47:23.000 I do want to say, let's get some of the younger people to ask questions.

00:47:28.000 Let's do one every other.

00:47:29.000 Is that fair?

00:47:30.000 Because I want to, I know a lot of students came in from six or seven hours away.

00:47:34.000 Hi, my name is Claire Reidberg, and I just graduated high school.

00:47:37.000 So, 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.

00:47:49.000 Yeah, well, first of all, I thought you were going to say, Do I think it's true?

00:47:52.000 I'm like, No, I don't think it's true.

00:47:54.000 So, let's start with that.

00:47:56.000 You seem like a very decent person.

00:47:57.000 Okay, so first of all, look, this is a tactic of the left, okay?

00:48:01.000 And how many other people experience this in one way or the other, okay?

00:48:05.000 So, first of all, this takes a sloppy and lazy mind to say this.

00:48:09.000 For good reason, we have said that the worst thing you can be called is a racist in American society, right? 0.58

00:48:16.000 It actually cripples people.

00:48:18.000 It's like it's you could call people a lot of things, right?

00:48:22.000 But as soon as you say that word, it's like paralytic.

00:48:25.000 It's like, I can't even function now because I'm definitely not.

00:48:28.000 Because it's actually, in some ways, that's actually a positive thing because we're so repulsed by the accusation, right?

00:48:35.000 Because we're like, there's no way that's true, right?

00:48:37.000 I actually am a pretty decent person.

00:48:38.000 All this, so first of all, how you respond is: first of all, you have to come up with ground terms, okay?

00:48:44.000 So, this is what I always tell people.

00:48:46.000 When you're communicating with a leftist, which is, I do professionally, so I don't know if I recommend it or not.

00:48:51.000 It's a very interesting experience, you know, life, life journey.

00:48:55.000 Is first, you have to create ground terms.

00:48:57.000 It's very important.

00:48:58.000 So, listen carefully.

00:48:59.000 You guys probably have leftist relatives or friends or whatever.

00:49:04.000 So, you have to get them to agree that your intentions are good.

00:49:09.000 It's a very important ground rule because, or else you're just going to be talking past each other, right?

00:49:13.000 Now, they might not give you this.

00:49:15.000 They might say, no, I think your intentions are awful, that you want to see people burn and suffer and die.

00:49:20.000 Then there's not even a conversation to have when you think about it, right?

00:49:23.000 Now, 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.

00:49:34.000 But 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.

00:49:41.000 And 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.

00:49:54.000 Like, 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.

00:50:05.000 And some conversations at that point are not even worth engaging.

00:50:07.000 Now, if you can get them to be like, oh, you're not an awful person, like, no, that's not good enough.

00:50:11.000 Like, do I want what's best for the world, yes or no?

00:50:14.000 And if they just will not concede it, you're done, right?

00:50:18.000 Because understand, this is a very important thing.

00:50:20.000 And I actually go a step further than this, but the left, we think they're wrong.

00:50:25.000 They think we're bad.

00:50:27.000 Right?

00:50:27.000 So, like, we're like, oh, yeah, leftist policies don't work.

00:50:31.000 Like, okay, that's all true. 0.98

00:50:32.000 And they're like, Republicans are evil. 0.98

00:50:34.000 Well, I go a step further.

00:50:36.000 I'm like, leftists don't want what's best for America.

00:50:38.000 I actually say that their worldview is immoral.

00:50:41.000 I go that far.

00:50:42.000 That's not everyone's comfortable doing that.

00:50:44.000 But I think that if you are Alexandria Casio-Cortez or Elon Omar, you do not want what's best for America.

00:50:50.000 It's just that simple.

00:50:50.000 Like, your worldview is so backwards.

00:50:53.000 And so, but I don't necessarily recommend that for you.

00:50:55.000 I'm just saying, like, that's something that I'm willing to stake that.

00:50:58.000 But if you're able to have a consensus on decency, that you both want what's best for people, then you can have a conversation from there.

00:51:06.000 And I just want to give you some confidence and some reassurance.

00:51:10.000 Don't believe those accusations.

00:51:12.000 Don't let them get personal to you.

00:51:14.000 You're talking to someone who's been called everything under the book by every single platform in the world.

00:51:18.000 I've had every single publication you can name come after me and everything, and they're still coming after me, right?

00:51:22.000 Because I dare to speak truth.

00:51:24.000 And 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?

00:51:41.000 He has to hold on to it.

00:51:42.000 Thanks. 0.52

00:51:43.000 Is it accurate to say that BLM is the spear point of communism?

00:51:49.000 It is one of them. 0.98

00:51:50.000 Look, 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.

00:51:58.000 In the 1960s, so you read Marx, everything's about class struggle, right?

00:52:02.000 Everything's about the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat, communist manifesto, the rich people versus the working class, all that sort of stuff.

00:52:09.000 He got some stuff right. 0.98

00:52:10.000 Most of the stuff is absolute nonsense, gibberish garbage, balderdash. 0.99

00:52:14.000 I can keep going, right? 0.98

00:52:15.000 And this is what they teach a lot of our kids in universities.

00:52:17.000 What's changed, though, is that they realize that the economic struggle, it actually falls on deaf ears.

00:52:23.000 So let me explain this to you, right?

00:52:25.000 So like just dividing people based on income, we called that class warfare, right?

00:52:30.000 So how successful was the Occupy Wall Street movement?

00:52:34.000 Not very, right?

00:52:36.000 So they tried this.

00:52:37.000 It's a very important point.

00:52:39.000 Think about this, right?

00:52:40.000 We had a, it was kind of similar, right?

00:52:42.000 They took over city blocks.

00:52:44.000 They were organized in messaging, but it kind of fell apart.

00:52:47.000 You know why?

00:52:48.000 Because people said, yeah, I guess that's unfair, but I'm still getting a paycheck and my life's not that bad.

00:52:54.000 I got to pay a mortgage.

00:52:55.000 We're going to move on, right?

00:52:56.000 So the economic warfare argument embedded in communism is not the best way to take over a very wealthy, productive country like America.

00:53:06.000 So they took six years and they rebranded as BLM.

00:53:09.000 What 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.

00:53:21.000 And by the way, I want to make something perfectly clear.

00:53:22.000 If 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.

00:53:30.000 It's an unspeakable thing that you could do.

00:53:32.000 However, if you didn't, then you have nothing to apologize for.

00:53:36.000 You're your own sovereign individual, right?

00:53:38.000 So 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.

00:53:51.000 And for whatever reason, at the right period of time, BLM is nothing new.

00:53:56.000 This has been around for four years, right?

00:53:57.000 And I've been going back and forth.

00:53:59.000 It's just in this period of time, it was the perfect storm.

00:54:02.000 You guys ever see that movie?

00:54:04.000 It literally is.

00:54:05.000 It'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?

00:54:12.000 It's just very angry people that are unemployed.

00:54:14.000 By the way, if you look at most successful socialist revolutions, it's when unemployment is above 15 or 20%.

00:54:20.000 It just is.

00:54:21.000 It's our direct correlation with socialist revolutions and high unemployment.

00:54:24.000 This would not have happened in January when unemployment was 3%.

00:54:28.000 They're like, this whole like stealing a big screen TV thing sounds nice.

00:54:32.000 I got to get to work tomorrow.

00:54:33.000 But 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?

00:54:50.000 All that's gone?

00:54:52.000 Well, yeah, revolution sounds pretty good, right?

00:54:54.000 It gives you purpose.

00:54:55.000 And by the way, it's even worse because then if you post a picture on social media, you feel like a really good person, right?

00:55:01.000 Like you get to say, like, look how good of a person I am.

00:55:04.000 I'm a white person protesting racism. 0.92

00:55:06.000 Like, you're not that good of a person. 0.72

00:55:07.000 You literally just did an Instagram picture of you with a cardboard sign.

00:55:10.000 Like, okay, stop acting like you're a messianic figure, okay?

00:55:13.000 Like, go do something useful.

00:55:15.000 And we reward this, like, somehow that they should be given entry into, you know, saint, you know, like the sainthood of the Vatican, right?

00:55:23.000 Like, no, you're just basically a social media activist that's apologizing for something you didn't even do, right?

00:55:29.000 And so all this was a confluence of events.

00:55:32.000 And so now their goal is the same as it was in 2011, is Occupy Wall Street.

00:55:36.000 But they have us in a paralysis, right?

00:55:39.000 Because we're so afraid to engage on this issue.

00:55:42.000 And because we're afraid of being called the worst thing that you could be called, they're gaining ground.

00:55:46.000 Does that make sense?

00:55:47.000 And 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?

00:55:55.000 And they've already written all these stories about me.

00:55:57.000 And I've been going to college campuses.

00:55:59.000 I visited over 150 college campuses in the last five years.

00:56:02.000 I'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.

00:56:10.000 I kid you not, I've debated a pro-Stalinist guy.

00:56:12.000 It's brilliant.

00:56:12.000 You should look it up on YouTube.

00:56:14.000 He's like, he's a Stalinist truther.

00:56:16.000 He thinks Stalin didn't kill anyone, and he was this wonderful guy.

00:56:18.000 It's like, really interesting.

00:56:20.000 And so for me, it wasn't a surprise when this came on the scene.

00:56:24.000 So then we spoke louder than ever, and the explosion and what we've done digitally has really been rewarded that way.

00:56:29.000 And I think that we as conservatives have to just say, I know who I am.

00:56:33.000 I know who God says that I am.

00:56:36.000 And 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.

00:56:48.000 And we've convinced ourselves we can, and I sympathize for some of these people.

00:56:54.000 And 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?

00:57:04.000 You actually feel like there's 600 people outside your house.

00:57:08.000 It's a very difficult psychological thing to go through.

00:57:11.000 You're getting a text message every other minute.

00:57:13.000 They're writing local articles in the local newspaper about you.

00:57:16.000 You're like, my whole world is collapsing.

00:57:18.000 Make it stop.

00:57:19.000 It's like, make that noise in my head get out, right?

00:57:22.000 And we think we could just throw them crumbs, right?

00:57:25.000 Like, oh, we'll just rename these bases.

00:57:27.000 Like, that'll make them go away, right? 1.00

00:57:29.000 Sko.

00:57:30.000 Well, we'll just get rid of these statues.

00:57:31.000 Like, that'll make, like, that makes them stronger, actually.

00:57:34.000 That makes them know that their extortionist boycott tactics can get after things that really matter to us.

00:57:40.000 And I know it's hard.

00:57:42.000 I get it.

00:57:42.000 I've been through it.

00:57:43.000 But 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?

00:57:53.000 And 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.

00:58:04.000 It's a very important thing because a lot of young conservatives are like, I lost all my friends.

00:58:08.000 I lost all my friends because I spoke out.

00:58:10.000 And that's a very serious thing, right?

00:58:12.000 I mean, we kind of say it, we kind of dismiss it.

00:58:14.000 But if your entire social circle blows up when you're 15, that's everything to you.

00:58:19.000 That's like losing a business.

00:58:20.000 That's your life.

00:58:21.000 You spend a lot of time building it, right?

00:58:23.000 You spend summers developing these relationships and just you say one thing about Trump and you lose all your friends.

00:58:29.000 And we shouldn't just dismiss that and throw it under the bus.

00:58:31.000 And 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.

00:58:41.000 And it is textbook through deleting our history, destroying our icons, and creating an insurgency within America.

00:58:47.000 And so appreciate the question.

00:58:49.000 Thank you.

00:58:50.000 Next question.

00:58:54.000 Hey, Charlie, thanks so much for coming.

00:58:56.000 So quick question.

00:58:59.000 Essentially, my brother and I, we actually run our own show called Buck and Bronco on social media.

00:59:03.000 You should check it out.

00:59:04.000 But quick story about us.

00:59:06.000 We graduated from USC not too long ago, engineering and broadcasting.

00:59:11.000 Southern California?

00:59:11.000 Exactly.

00:59:12.000 Yeah.

00:59:13.000 And then we came back.

00:59:14.000 And once we graduated, it was actually really difficult to find jobs.

00:59:18.000 And it was really pretty interesting.

00:59:19.000 And the interesting thing is that we really couldn't find really solid work until we actually got back to South Dakota.

00:59:26.000 And 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.

00:59:34.000 And so people from around the country really seem to be coming here to escape the prisons of COVID and everything else.

00:59:41.000 And 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.

00:59:48.000 Yeah, you got it.

00:59:49.000 Well, 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.

00:59:54.000 So understand when you're a beacon of freedom, what does the left do?

00:59:57.000 Destroy everything it touches, right?

00:59:59.000 Just ask Arizona, just ask Nevada, just ask Colorado.

01:00:02.000 Previously, yeah, Seattle, but those three states in particular, look, the left, they're moving eastward from California, and South Dakota's on their rate.

01:00:09.000 They've destroyed Montana.

01:00:11.000 Montana is now like a purple state.

01:00:12.000 Who knows what's going to happen there?

01:00:13.000 If you know Montana, you know it very, very well.

01:00:15.000 And this is on their radar.

01:00:17.000 And so you guys better be very vigilant about what a Republican means in the state.

01:00:21.000 I mean, by the way, just so you understand, your tax code is incredibly attractive to a lot of people.

01:00:26.000 And so you are going to see, and you will air this video in 10 years from now, and I will be proven correct.

01:00:31.000 You have 800,000 people more or less today.

01:00:33.000 You'll have 1.2 million in 10 years.

01:00:35.000 I'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.

01:00:42.000 I hope it does not change the state.

01:00:44.000 I've talked to probably 10 people that say they're moving out of the major cities or going to South Dakota or somewhere.

01:00:49.000 Or they're moving from Montana, which has like a really, really high tax, higher than here, and they're moving.

01:00:54.000 And they will hopefully not bring their values with them.

01:00:56.000 But I'm going to brag as much as you possibly can because you guys got a great governor and great people and a really good culture.

01:01:01.000 Just please protect it, guys.

01:01:03.000 Protect good things.

01:01:04.000 The Bible tells us to do that.

01:01:05.000 Protect your state, seriously.

01:01:07.000 He said that it's better to purchase.

01:01:09.000 No, that's right.

01:01:11.000 I mean, by the way.

01:01:13.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:01:15.000 You guys have these beautiful advertisements, right?

01:01:17.000 Like, what is it?

01:01:18.000 South Dakota, the land of liberty, or something is this beautiful advertisement.

01:01:22.000 And I see it everywhere.

01:01:23.000 I'm like, stop it.

01:01:24.000 Take this down.

01:01:24.000 Like, the left is going to come very soon.

01:01:27.000 Like, stop it.

01:01:28.000 They look at, they take these things very seriously.

01:01:30.000 What is it?

01:01:31.000 Yeah, build the wall.

01:01:32.000 That's right.

01:01:33.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:01:34.000 Protect what is good.

01:01:36.000 Oh, my gosh, they'll destroy it.

01:01:37.000 Okay. 0.77

01:01:39.000 Okay, so my question is, being a conservative woman on a liberal university campus can be difficult.

01:01:48.000 What would you say is the best advice you have for someone like myself or the rest of us college Republicans or turning point USA leaders?

01:01:55.000 How can we approach those liberal professors and liberal friends of ours on campus when we return in the fall?

01:02:04.000 So are you Madison, Rachel, or Holly?

01:02:07.000 Madison.

01:02:08.000 Okay, thank you for helping plan the event.

01:02:09.000 You should give it up for them again.

01:02:10.000 So it's great.

01:02:11.000 So, sorry, thanks.

01:02:15.000 So I get this question a lot.

01:02:16.000 Let'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?

01:02:24.000 Would you think that's a fair thing that sometimes you go through?

01:02:27.000 Yeah.

01:02:27.000 And so I'm sure other young people are afraid of that.

01:02:29.000 So I get this question a lot.

01:02:31.000 Charlie, what do I do?

01:02:32.000 So you got to make a decision early on.

01:02:35.000 And there's no right or wrong answer here.

01:02:36.000 There just isn't.

01:02:37.000 I have a lot of respect for Ben Shapiro.

01:02:39.000 We disagree on this, just so you understand.

01:02:41.000 He's in the other camp than where I am.

01:02:44.000 He doesn't disagree with my analysis of it.

01:02:46.000 He disagrees with what he did and what he would do.

01:02:49.000 So 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.

01:02:57.000 And therefore, I can influence conservative opinion.

01:02:59.000 Very respectable idea, right?

01:03:02.000 I'm going to say what I have to say.

01:03:03.000 I'm going to write all this leftist nonsense on my paper.

01:03:06.000 I'm going to graduate as quickly as possible with straight A's, and then we're done, right?

01:03:10.000 So that's what's, I take a different view.

01:03:12.000 This is my, I actually think grades are somewhat immaterial.

01:03:16.000 Mind you, I have to preface this.

01:03:18.000 I never went to college, so I'm sort of anti-academy as it is.

01:03:21.000 So that's just kind of, and I'm not like anti-college.

01:03:24.000 I just, anyway, that's so Ben Shapiro goes to Harvard.

01:03:28.000 I don't go to college.

01:03:28.000 You can kind of see how we came at these answers, right?

01:03:30.000 So a little bit different.

01:03:33.000 So I don't think there's a light switch that you could turn off and on of when you fight for truth and when you don't.

01:03:41.000 I think that's a really dangerous game to play, honestly.

01:03:44.000 Some people can do it.

01:03:45.000 Some people have demonstrated it.

01:03:46.000 Ben 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?

01:03:57.000 And I have a lot of respect for him for that.

01:03:59.000 I'm not really wired that way.

01:04:00.000 I can't just sit idly by and let false things be said and let professors bash our country.

01:04:07.000 So that's the first thing.

01:04:08.000 And so then if you decide, it's a very important precondition.

01:04:11.000 If you decide to go into schooling or into these environments saying, yes, I'm going to fight for truth.

01:04:18.000 I don't care what happens to me.

01:04:21.000 You might lose all your friends.

01:04:24.000 You might get kicked out of fraternities and sororities.

01:04:26.000 You might be called the worst things in the world.

01:04:28.000 And I don't recommend that.

01:04:30.000 I'm just warning you, right?

01:04:31.000 That 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.

01:04:42.000 I mean, they will tar and feather you metaphorically.

01:04:45.000 They will post about you on social media.

01:04:47.000 They will call your future employers and try to have them not hire you.

01:04:50.000 They will make sure that they cancel your internships.

01:04:52.000 They will do scorched earth life destruction.

01:04:56.000 So that's why I try to speak out as loud as I can to try to be a shield for young college kids.

01:05:00.000 So just like attack me, don't attack them type stuff.

01:05:03.000 But they still get in trouble for me.

01:05:05.000 They share my stuff and then they get deleted.

01:05:07.000 Like, come on.

01:05:08.000 And so then, could you not?

01:05:10.000 Someone got in trouble and almost got kicked out of school because they were liking my posts, not even sharing them, right?

01:05:15.000 And this is the type of stuff that people have to go through.

01:05:18.000 And so that's a very important thing.

01:05:20.000 And I know that's not an answer.

01:05:21.000 It's just kind of more of a two options.

01:05:25.000 But I'm not going to lie to you.

01:05:26.000 There is no way to thread the needle where you can stand in this environment right now and say, I love Donald Trump.

01:05:34.000 All lives matter. 0.99

01:05:34.000 White privilege is a racist, divisive lie. 0.99

01:05:36.000 You can't say that and then just kind of like squeak idly by and then keep all your friends. 0.99

01:05:40.000 Like not going to happen.

01:05:41.000 Sorry.

01:05:42.000 I'm not going to lie to you.

01:05:44.000 That's not a world that exists right now.

01:05:46.000 But I will say, it's incredibly liberating once you lose all those friends.

01:05:51.000 I've been through it.

01:05:52.000 It's actually, it's a freeing experience.

01:05:55.000 I highly encourage it, by the way.

01:05:57.000 No, it's, it's, because I was almost like, I was almost like in bondage to these prior relationships of people that hated our country.

01:06:03.000 And no, I'm going to say what I believe and I'm going to make new friends.

01:06:07.000 And I have, and it's awesome.

01:06:08.000 And so yeah, that's kind of part of my advice there.

01:06:11.000 But if there's one takeaway, just understand it's going to be brutal.

01:06:14.000 If you decide to engage in it, it will be brutal and it will be personal.

01:06:18.000 But keep fighting.

01:06:19.000 We got your back, okay?

01:06:20.000 So thank you.

01:06:23.000 Yes, I have a question.

01:06:25.000 Before I came here today, I was at an ice cream shop down here and I was getting standing in line for an ice cream.

01:06:32.000 There's four little teenagers over here, two guys and two girls, and there's about 50 other people standing around.

01:06:38.000 And the gentleman, young kid, dropped his ice cream comb, and it flopped on the top of it and went on the ground.

01:06:46.000 He got on his hands and knees and bent over on his belly and went to get and lick it up while the girls were laughing.

01:06:54.000 And then the other fella went over and did the same thing.

01:06:59.000 So I'm looking at this and I'm saying to myself, well, wait a minute.

01:07:04.000 Okay, I'm 67.

01:07:05.000 Maybe I'm a little too old.

01:07:07.000 And this is just, you know, kids do these things.

01:07:11.000 But 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.

01:07:21.000 Am I just too old?

01:07:22.000 So my question is to you.

01:07:25.000 I'm 67, like I said.

01:07:27.000 You're probably 40 years younger.

01:07:29.000 What's your answer that a kid this day would do something like that? 0.96

01:07:36.000 You 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. 0.93

01:07:45.000 So my question again, you're a lot younger than me. 0.94

01:07:48.000 What's your explanation?

01:07:50.000 What's your thought on something when you see that?

01:07:52.000 I wanted to say something, but I said, nah, don't do it.

01:07:55.000 Yeah, I mean, God forbid I try to get into child social psychology tonight.

01:07:58.000 I mean, how much time you got, right?

01:08:00.000 I mean, but look, I mean, why did they do that?

01:08:04.000 Because their parents didn't smack them on the head and tell them, don't eat ice cream off the floor.

01:08:08.000 That's why they did it.

01:08:09.000 I mean.

01:08:12.000 His mother was sitting in the car watching that.

01:08:14.000 Right, that's what I mean.

01:08:15.000 She didn't smack him across the head and tell him not to do that.

01:08:18.000 I mean, that's why.

01:08:20.000 I mean, look, this goes back to the fundamental disagreement we have in our country, where the left will value the primitive over the civilized.

01:08:28.000 They'll value the infant over the mature adult.

01:08:31.000 And I'm not just, I don't know about you.

01:08:33.000 I didn't witness your example, but it doesn't surprise me.

01:08:36.000 I mean, parents want to be kids' friends today.

01:08:38.000 They don't want a parent.

01:08:40.000 I mean, I could go on for a long time about this.

01:08:43.000 I'm happy to because I could teach a whole parenting class.

01:08:45.000 I've never been a parent, but I deal with the byproducts of bad parenting all the time.

01:08:51.000 It's called the left.

01:08:53.000 And so we should teach our kids self-control, not self-esteem, first of all.

01:08:58.000 This 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?

01:09:06.000 In 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.

01:09:15.000 I 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.

01:09:26.000 Self-esteem, you're just perfect the way you are.

01:09:28.000 And like, if I'm perfect the way I am, can I just skip the tests and just like not come to school anymore?

01:09:33.000 Like, 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.

01:09:38.000 Example, I can't get into the left unregulated, children will do incredibly foolish things.

01:09:45.000 That's why we have parents. 0.99

01:09:46.000 Left unregulated, the left will do incredibly foolish things. 0.96

01:09:50.000 That's why we have an opposition party, right? 0.92

01:09:53.000 And it's the exact same thing.

01:09:54.000 I mean, so you try to reason this.

01:09:56.000 We have standards.

01:09:57.000 We have moral codes.

01:09:58.000 We have rules for our society. 0.90

01:10:00.000 And Rousseau talked about this, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the foolish French philosopher from the 1700s.

01:10:06.000 And 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.

01:10:14.000 In 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.

01:10:25.000 I mean, he argued in a lot of different ways.

01:10:27.000 And 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.

01:10:38.000 Like, no, there's actually something really good about not defecating in the street.

01:10:41.000 Like, that's a really good thing that we achieved as a country.

01:10:45.000 Like, the public drug usage, another thing that we probably shouldn't have allowed happen.

01:10:49.000 Also, this idea of legalizing prostitution should never be allowed to happen.

01:10:54.000 I'm also, we used to be on the wrong side, not the wrong side, on the other side.

01:10:58.000 I used to be kind of like libertarian about this.

01:11:00.000 I'm so against the legalization of marijuana.

01:11:02.000 I can't even tell you.

01:11:02.000 I just, I see it.

01:11:03.000 It has incredibly disastrous and destructive side effects.

01:11:07.000 And people say, well, Charlie, don't you let people do it?

01:11:09.000 And I say, hold on.

01:11:09.000 What kind of culture does it create, though?

01:11:11.000 Like, okay, find the usage of it, whatever.

01:11:12.000 I'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?

01:11:19.000 And I say, absolutely not.

01:11:21.000 Like, I think it does the exact opposite. 0.71

01:11:23.000 And 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. 0.96

01:11:32.000 But 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. 0.89

01:11:40.000 And 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.

01:11:50.000 And by the way, was it Gwen Stefani or what was the girl that Charlize Theron?

01:11:55.000 Right, that's kind of close, right? 0.99

01:11:56.000 Charlize Theron, complete and total rubbish fool, right? 0.99

01:12:01.000 She's letting her adopted son become a girl, right? 1.00

01:12:06.000 Something like that. 0.97

01:12:07.000 It's child abuse.

01:12:08.000 It just is like no kid, you know what happens like when a kid goes and starts eating dirt?

01:12:12.000 You're like, stop doing that, go back inside.

01:12:14.000 Like 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.

01:12:25.000 The aged wisdom of a parent is there for a reason.

01:12:28.000 You can get wisdom in two ways in life: from the Bible or from experience.

01:12:34.000 That's about it, right?

01:12:35.000 So just read the Bible all day long or live a long time and you're going to become really wise.

01:12:39.000 What do you do with wisdom?

01:12:40.000 You impart it on young people, right?

01:12:42.000 Like that's what you do.

01:12:43.000 Like, this is not a good idea.

01:12:45.000 Don't do this.

01:12:47.000 And like, then you do it again.

01:12:48.000 And then you do it like louder and then you force it on them.

01:12:51.000 And then eventually they might get the message.

01:12:53.000 That's why we had a functioning society for the last hundred years.

01:12:56.000 It's why it worked.

01:12:58.000 That'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.

01:13:07.000 It just doesn't happen that way.

01:13:08.000 Just doesn't.

01:13:09.000 And so, yeah, that doesn't surprise me at all.

01:13:12.000 God bless you for being a role model for the young people.

01:13:14.000 Oh, that's very kind of you.

01:13:15.000 Well, thank you.

01:13:19.000 I guarantee you I'm just as flawed as everyone else.

01:13:22.000 But yeah, next question.

01:13:24.000 So my question is: let me kind of start with.

01:13:27.000 So I'm a pretty outspoken guy.

01:13:30.000 And I enjoy kind of sharing my conservative views.

01:13:34.000 And I find it that I'm speaking for the good.

01:13:36.000 But like, for example, my history class, I attended public school this last year.

01:13:40.000 My history class, there was myself and one other person.

01:13:43.000 We were the only conservatives.

01:13:45.000 And when I would speak out, I almost felt like it was creating more of a divide.

01:13:50.000 And, 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.

01:14:01.000 But at the same time, I know I can't be silent.

01:14:03.000 Yeah.

01:14:04.000 And, you know, it's the whole thing is kind of impacted a lot.

01:14:07.000 Like, for example, I enlisted in the military about two months ago.

01:14:10.000 And 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.

01:14:19.000 I mean, I don't know how many, you know, what kind of balance.

01:14:22.000 Like, do I be silent?

01:14:23.000 Do I speak out?

01:14:24.000 Because then I just worry that it's going to create more of a divide.

01:14:27.000 So where's the balance?

01:14:30.000 Good, good question.

01:14:30.000 First of all, thank you for you said you enlisted for your service.

01:14:33.000 Thank you for that, by the way.

01:14:34.000 Thank you.

01:14:37.000 Let's work through this together, if that's okay.

01:14:39.000 So why is a divide a bad thing?

01:14:45.000 I think it would be great if our country could kind of like, I don't know, isn't it bad that our country would be divided?

01:14:53.000 But let's say one side wanted to destroy the country and one side wanted to have the country succeed.

01:14:59.000 Wouldn't a divide be necessary?

01:15:03.000 I mean, yeah, it would.

01:15:06.000 But I don't think that everybody on the left wants to destroy our country.

01:15:10.000 So who's doing the dividing when you speak truth?

01:15:10.000 Okay.

01:15:13.000 You or them?

01:15:15.000 They are.

01:15:16.000 So that's not your problem.

01:15:18.000 But I don't want to contribute to the divisiveness.

01:15:23.000 So I'll ask one question.

01:15:25.000 So I do think the left wants to destroy our country.

01:15:27.000 I don't think every leftist wants to, right?

01:15:29.000 But let's work through it.

01:15:30.000 Sometimes divides can be very healthy and good.

01:15:32.000 In fact, I think we need a choice, not an echo, right now in our country.

01:15:35.000 I think that when people actually can have dividing lines, it's actually the healthiest way to be able to come through a cultural crisis.

01:15:44.000 I think just like the vanilla middle in a lot of ways is very, very dangerous.

01:15:49.000 So for example, I think it's a really good thing if someone says something like, I don't believe I think murder is bad.

01:15:55.000 And someone says, I think murder is okay.

01:15:57.000 That's a division, right?

01:15:59.000 Someone says, I think America's awful.

01:16:01.000 I think America's good.

01:16:02.000 That's a division.

01:16:03.000 So I'm not necessarily saying it's that black and white.

01:16:05.000 However, don't necessarily think a division is a bad thing.

01:16:11.000 It's not.

01:16:12.000 In fact, it could be very healthy.

01:16:14.000 In fact, this is why we have dialogue and why we have a First Amendment.

01:16:17.000 Because the way that you actually are able to work through those divisions is through saying, well, that's a really bad idea.

01:16:23.000 And you're only able to expose that idea if you're willing to divide yourself, right?

01:16:28.000 And 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.

01:16:36.000 In 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?

01:16:46.000 Where all of a sudden you guys just leave it all on the line.

01:16:48.000 The same is for a country, though, right?

01:16:50.000 Like 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.

01:17:01.000 And so you have a really good heart.

01:17:02.000 I can sense that.

01:17:04.000 But 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.

01:17:12.000 In fact, that dividing line where you protect the truth around that line, I think is actually necessary towards advancing it.

01:17:20.000 Because 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?

01:17:27.000 So that's, again, it's more morally on them than you.

01:17:29.000 Again, if you're engaging in like, oh, this, and people say, well, I just want everyone to get along.

01:17:34.000 That's not going to happen, okay?

01:17:36.000 That is a, that is, in this state, in our country, we are so far apart, just philosophically and diametrically. 0.83

01:17:44.000 So where we have some people that will say, America's a bigoted, homophobic, racist, colonialist country.

01:17:49.000 I can't negotiate with that, right? 0.69

01:17:51.000 Like that's, I'm going to divide from that.

01:17:54.000 And so I think that's a really important thing.

01:17:56.000 I'm not saying you should seek it either.

01:17:57.000 It's a very important point, right?

01:17:59.000 I'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.

01:18:10.000 But I understand that for you, it's uncomfortable because you want to bring people together, right?

01:18:15.000 Unfortunately, when you have such opposition that's committed to untruths, unity is a byproduct of the collision that needs to happen from there.

01:18:23.000 Okay?

01:18:24.000 Thank you for being here tonight.

01:18:25.000 I appreciate it.

01:18:26.000 Thanks.

01:18:31.000 I'm Chantel Johnson.

01:18:32.000 Thank you for coming to South Dakota, by the way.

01:18:34.000 You're amazing.

01:18:35.000 Oh, thank you.

01:18:36.000 I'm a Native American, and I get in trouble at school a lot, and from my liberal relatives for sticking up for my race.

01:18:44.000 And also when I say all lives matter and for supporting my President Trump, they all call me racist.

01:18:50.000 Can you help me with some points on what to say and how to stand up for myself?

01:18:54.000 Well, first of all, thank you for being here tonight.

01:18:55.000 God bless you.

01:18:56.000 So and I am, I say this every time.

01:19:05.000 If 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.

01:19:12.000 Generally, I'm just saying that there's a lot that I think is highly questionable. 0.95

01:19:16.000 And 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. 0.98

01:19:31.000 And 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. 0.99

01:19:41.000 So, interestingly enough, you can use identity politics against the left, right? 0.51

01:19:47.000 So, you are a Native American, right?

01:19:49.000 You said? 1.00

01:19:50.000 Yeah, shiny or resume.

01:19:51.000 Awesome.

01:19:52.000 Well, so because of that, I love your Trump shirt, by the way.

01:19:56.000 Because of that, if you understand the laws of the left, like I do, you can use it against them. 0.99

01:20:02.000 So, because you're an Indigenous person on their hierarchy of oppression Olympics, a Native person is inherently oppressed. 0.97

01:20:12.000 So, therefore, they're not allowed to say anything to you, and that you have the moral high ground. 1.00

01:20:16.000 Then you can kind of blow up the absurdity of it by saying this, right?

01:20:19.000 And the fact that they're calling you those names just shows how incredibly racist the left actually is, by the way.

01:20:25.000 The fact that they go out of their way to say that.

01:20:29.000 And 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?

01:20:40.000 And according to their hierarchy, she's supposed to be oppressed, right? 0.99

01:20:43.000 She's supposed to be an oppressed individual.

01:20:46.000 She's like, I'm not.

01:20:46.000 I'm actually, you know, very happy to succeed in this country, all these sorts of things.

01:20:50.000 And so, first of all, don't let it get to you, okay?

01:20:53.000 Fight harder and know what you believe and why you believe it.

01:20:56.000 And 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.

01:21:09.000 And it's a very hard thing to talk about.

01:21:12.000 The most blatant racism is towards black conservatives, towards Hispanic conservatives, towards Native American conservatives and Trump supporters.

01:21:21.000 So know that they are calling you those names because you're a disruption to their matrix, right?

01:21:27.000 That 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.

01:21:37.000 And 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.

01:21:44.000 You 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.

01:21:53.000 They don't think that.

01:21:54.000 They think, and Joe Biden said this.

01:21:58.000 If you don't vote for me, you ain't black.

01:22:00.000 First of all, could you imagine if a conservative said something like that? 0.99

01:22:02.000 Incredibly racist.

01:22:04.000 They think your skin color is tied with your political affiliation.

01:22:07.000 I don't believe that.

01:22:08.000 I don't think anyone has to believe anything based on the color of their skin.

01:22:12.000 I think that if you're decent, you should be a conservative.

01:22:14.000 And anyone of any skin color could be decent, right?

01:22:16.000 I think that's actually the division in America is decent versus indecent, but that's a whole different conversation, right?

01:22:20.000 I think it's the left versus reason.

01:22:22.000 Different conversation, too.

01:22:23.000 Anyway, so, but if you're reasonable and decent, you could believe in anything.

01:22:27.000 And that's why we as conservatives believe in one of the parts of the American Trinity, right?

01:22:32.000 So there's the Holy Trinity that those of us in the Christian tradition know.

01:22:36.000 And then Dennis Prager articulates the American Trinity, which is in God we trust, liberty, and e pluribus unum.

01:22:43.000 Now, e pluribus unum, you could use this to your friends, right?

01:22:45.000 To make you sound like really smart because you're a conservative and they're not.

01:22:49.000 So on all of the presidential seals, there's a Latin phrase called e pluribus unum.

01:22:57.000 And it's a Latin phrase that says, out of many, one, that we're all made in God's image.

01:23:02.000 All come together no matter our background, our race, our creed, our tradition.

01:23:05.000 You should ask your friends, do you believe in that?

01:23:09.000 And if they say yes, then they should never call you those names, right?

01:23:12.000 If they say no, they don't believe in the core trinity of our country.

01:23:16.000 And that's a beautiful thing because not every country has a founding value of that.

01:23:20.000 Not every country has a founding value of, I actually care more about your worldview and not about your skin color.

01:23:26.000 But I know it's tough.

01:23:27.000 I know you get a lot of names called at you.

01:23:29.000 Hold the line and we have your back, okay?

01:23:31.000 God bless you.

01:23:32.000 Thanks for being here.

01:23:39.000 Hey, thanks for coming.

01:23:41.000 My concern are these big tech companies.

01:23:45.000 We have YouTube, Facebook, and these companies are bigger than anything Teddy Roosevelt ever had to break up.

01:23:54.000 They're more powerful, too.

01:23:55.000 They're more powerful.

01:23:55.000 They're global.

01:23:56.000 They're getting involved with the government, which is really the classical definition of fascism: government and private industry.

01:24:03.000 But they're censoring people, demonetizing people, but yet they're so important to get the message out.

01:24:11.000 And we have certain outliers like the Blaze where they're independent, but you have to subscribe to them.

01:24:19.000 And it's kind of like they're preaching to the choir.

01:24:22.000 So I guess my question would be then: how do we deal with that?

01:24:26.000 And where do you see that going?

01:24:28.000 Does government have to change rules on that?

01:24:31.000 Thank you for the question.

01:24:32.000 I completely agree with your concern on it.

01:24:34.000 So here's a really interesting thought exercise, and this will become the most important issue.

01:24:38.000 And for young conservatives out there, we understand the issue of tech censorship very well because we interact so much with the tech companies.

01:24:45.000 What is more powerful, Google or the government?

01:24:47.000 Now, conservatives will usually say the government no matter what you say.

01:24:51.000 And so let's be fair to the argument, right?

01:24:54.000 Like, what can the government do that Google can't do?

01:24:56.000 Okay.

01:24:57.000 The government can lock you up, right?

01:24:59.000 The government can audit you.

01:25:00.000 The government can tax you.

01:25:03.000 But even in all those things, you have rights to due process, right?

01:25:06.000 You can sue your government if you think you've been wrongly criticized, not wrongly criticized, but wrongly prosecuted.

01:25:14.000 So there's actually checks and balances there.

01:25:16.000 Not to say that abuse of government abuse is something I don't care about.

01:25:19.000 Trust me, I just spent the last hour on it.

01:25:21.000 But what can Google do that the government can't do?

01:25:23.000 Ooh, that's an interesting question, right?

01:25:25.000 Google knows where everyone is right now.

01:25:28.000 Google knows everything you've bought.

01:25:30.000 Google knows all of your preferences, medically and otherwise.

01:25:33.000 And if you don't think they know, they know.

01:25:37.000 And you're just like, oh, I don't use that stuff.

01:25:39.000 If 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.

01:25:49.000 Couldn't even get close to it. 0.73

01:25:52.000 Google can topple a government. 0.86

01:25:54.000 Google could manipulate search results, manipulate public opinion, put certain videos up higher, certain videos down lower.

01:26:00.000 What ideas matter more?

01:26:01.000 The government does not actually have that power.

01:26:03.000 In fact, the government has the impartial power to say, let all speech happen, you know, whatever.

01:26:08.000 It's kind of scary, isn't it?

01:26:09.000 So Google works 24-7, seven days a week.

01:26:12.000 Thousands and thousands of very, very smart, anti-American employees that work in Menlo Park and other places.

01:26:18.000 And it's true.

01:26:18.000 They'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.

01:26:26.000 So like, wow, that's so then what do we do about that?

01:26:29.000 Okay, so let's take a step back.

01:26:30.000 We as conservatives, we don't like government.

01:26:31.000 We don't like using government.

01:26:32.000 I'm right there with you.

01:26:33.000 Trust me.

01:26:34.000 I don't, it kind of bothers me that we could even talk about a private company that powerful, but it's just the way it is.

01:26:40.000 It's not just them, by the way.

01:26:41.000 It's Google, it's Amazon, it's Facebook.

01:26:44.000 It's all they all have incredible power and mind manipulation, pseudo-hypnotic stuff that they're able to do, right?

01:26:50.000 Okay, so then you look at the Federalist Papers.

01:26:53.000 Let's go back to our roots, right?

01:26:54.000 Federalist papers written by the founding fathers, a P word is repeated many times throughout the Federalist Papers.

01:27:01.000 We're worried about power, centralized power, centralized power.

01:27:04.000 And 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.

01:27:11.000 So the founding fathers were worried about power before they were worried about government.

01:27:14.000 Of course, the greatest power they could imagine was a government power, right?

01:27:17.000 It was the 1780s.

01:27:18.000 The question is: what happens when a power gets more powerful than the government?

01:27:21.000 And this question has never, ever happened in American history.

01:27:26.000 In the early 1900s, the only close thing that could get to it is when J.P. Morgan bailed out the federal government twice.

01:27:32.000 And as a reaction to that, we created a national bank, basically, right?

01:27:36.000 We created the Federal Reserve, which I think was a big mistake, right, right in 1914, 1915, 1917, I can't remember.

01:27:42.000 Federal Reserve Act.

01:27:44.000 So it's a real serious question.

01:27:45.000 And here's where my opinion is.

01:27:47.000 First of all, Republicans, including any Republican in the state, should not take any money from the tech companies, period.

01:27:52.000 They should not take any sort of political contributions from Google or from Twitter or from Amazon.

01:27:56.000 They should not have their political campaigns funded by the tech elites that want our entire country to go in a different direction.

01:28:02.000 That's number one.

01:28:03.000 Number two, I think we have to have a serious conversation of platformer versus publisher.

01:28:06.000 We really do.

01:28:08.000 I 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.

01:28:18.000 I have a lot of questions.

01:28:19.000 That's a real legally technical thing.

01:28:22.000 But just so you understand, if Google doesn't want Trump to win, Google will win.

01:28:26.000 Just so you know.

01:28:27.000 We can canvass, we can get the polls closer.

01:28:29.000 Google has so much power, they could be like, oh, your polling place is actually here.

01:28:34.000 Or 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.

01:28:53.000 Independent 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.

01:29:06.000 In fact, it's the federal government that goes to Google for information.

01:29:08.000 It's the federal government that hires Google for information.

01:29:11.000 And 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.

01:29:18.000 I can't sue because they're protected by Section 230, the Communications Decency Act.

01:29:23.000 I'm not saying we have to regulate them, but I'm saying at what point do we?

01:29:27.000 That's a good question, right?

01:29:29.000 And if we don't have an answer to that question, then we love the idea of a free market more than we love our country.

01:29:35.000 I'm just going to be honest with you.

01:29:36.000 And 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.

01:29:46.000 So, but I cannot be as serious as I am about the threat of tech tyranny in our country.

01:29:52.000 It is incredibly important we all rise up to it.

01:29:54.000 And again, you wonder where a lot of these ideas are made valid.

01:29:59.000 As 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.

01:30:20.000 And so that stuff makes a difference, not to mention the promise of the algorithm and the delisting and the demonetization.

01:30:25.000 It goes on and on.

01:30:26.000 I could talk about it at length.

01:30:27.000 So you guys should ask your Republican senators what they're willing to do about it.

01:30:31.000 And if they don't think it's a problem, my goodness.

01:30:34.000 The tech companies are more powerful than any foreign government or our own government.

01:30:38.000 So anyway, thanks for the question.

01:30:39.000 Next one.

01:30:43.000 Hi, thanks for coming.

01:30:45.000 I'm standing here for a long time trying to get my question properly worded.

01:30:50.000 And then I just get to the bottom line.

01:30:53.000 The 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.

01:31:12.000 I was in China in 89, and there was one hotel there, and the rest of it was agrarian and rural.

01:31:21.000 There was nothing there.

01:31:22.000 Okay, and that was 89.

01:31:24.000 That's not too long ago.

01:31:25.000 My sons are like 25 or whatever.

01:31:27.000 And now it's... what it is.

01:31:30.000 So it took Trump to come in to smash things up, you know, to like, oh, hey, hello, this is happening.

01:31:37.000 We don't make anything here.

01:31:38.000 All we do is push information.

01:31:40.000 That's right.

01:31:41.000 And people are all drugged out because they don't have jobs.

01:31:44.000 So 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.

01:32:00.000 Okay, so I'm a psychologist, but I haven't always been only for 20 years.

01:32:05.000 Before that, I was in business.

01:32:06.000 Okay.

01:32:07.000 So just look at humans, human beings, and they're fear-driven and they're afraid not to be liked.

01:32:15.000 And then they have, you know, like family issues from the ground up, you know, problems from, you know, from Zero to five.

01:32:22.000 I know.

01:32:23.000 I know.

01:32:23.000 I'm going to stop.

01:32:25.000 But what are we going to do to get the people riled up?

01:32:31.000 What's going to happen when Trump leaves?

01:32:32.000 We're going to get another GOP swamper.

01:32:35.000 Well, so awesome question.

01:32:38.000 First of all, thank you.

01:32:39.000 So I'm a massive Donald Trump fan.

01:32:41.000 And 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.

01:32:50.000 The contempt they have for you, no matter what kind of parade they put on, is unbelievable.

01:32:55.000 Both parties, by the way.

01:32:56.000 They don't care about their voters. 1.00

01:32:58.000 They don't care about the states they come from.

01:33:00.000 This is a ruling class kingdom of Washington, D.C.

01:33:03.000 It's like they go to Washington, they come somebody completely different, right?

01:33:07.000 And it's almost in the water there.

01:33:10.000 And there's some good ones.

01:33:11.000 There's some really good ones.

01:33:13.000 Senator Tom Cotton has been terrific.

01:33:15.000 Congressman Matt Gates, and they should be applauded because that part of psychology is rewarding good behavior, right?

01:33:21.000 Like, good job.

01:33:22.000 Keep doing that.

01:33:23.000 However, 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?

01:33:37.000 And if you can go through a little Republican Party history, this is nothing new.

01:33:40.000 There 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.

01:33:48.000 Collision 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.

01:33:58.000 I'm sorry, loses to Carter in 1976.

01:34:00.000 And who becomes the nominee?

01:34:02.000 Then in 1980, Ronald Reagan, right?

01:34:04.000 Reagan was detested by the Republican establishment.

01:34:07.000 People hated Ronald Reagan.

01:34:08.000 He was a cowboy, couldn't talk right, all these sorts of things.

01:34:10.000 And Ronald Reagan was the voice of forgotten America.

01:34:13.000 He was the voice of silent America, the silent majority.

01:34:16.000 Nixon used that phrase, but Reagan really was.

01:34:18.000 The Reagan Revolution was something that was uniquely American, and he represented all people.

01:34:22.000 Now, mind you, who was the chief of staff for Gerald Ford?

01:34:24.000 The establishment, Gerald Ford?

01:34:25.000 Dick Cheney.

01:34:26.000 We'll get back to that later.

01:34:27.000 So in 1980, Ronald Reagan wins the presidency.

01:34:31.000 Big mistake.

01:34:32.000 He makes H.W. Bush his vice president.

01:34:34.000 Never should have happened.

01:34:34.000 Awful mistake.

01:34:35.000 Huge misstep.

01:34:36.000 Never should have let them back into the Republican Party.

01:34:38.000 Should have said goodbye, go be Democrats.

01:34:40.000 You guys basically are anyway, right?

01:34:41.000 And so Reagan serves incredibly eight years. 0.96

01:34:45.000 H.W. Bush on the Reagan Revolution in 88.

01:34:47.000 This is when the party really changed for the worse.

01:34:50.000 We had a lot of good people-based momentum that was grassrootsy.

01:34:54.000 And then H.W. Bush basically quells all the rebellion and is like, just vote for me in 88 and wins in 88.

01:35:00.000 Bush undid a lot of Reagan's successes in the first couple months, a lot of it, through civil service, through all of that.

01:35:06.000 And they didn't like each other very much.

01:35:08.000 They always talked nice about each other in public, all this.

01:35:11.000 Reagan had a philosophically different worldview than George H.W. Bush.

01:35:15.000 H.W. Bush was a CIA station chief in China.

01:35:18.000 He was a CIA director before he was vice president.

01:35:21.000 He's a very globalist-minded deep state individual.

01:35:24.000 He just is.

01:35:24.000 He built the deep state.

01:35:25.000 H.W. Bush was the author and the perfecter of the American federal government deep state.

01:35:30.000 He was.

01:35:31.000 You're not CIA director in the 1970s without basically designing everything that we now know is unbelievably corrupt.

01:35:38.000 Here's the problem: 90s, waste of time.

01:35:42.000 W. Bush, nice guy.

01:35:44.000 That's how we got John Roberts, $5 trillion in debt, Medicare Part D, no child left behind.

01:35:50.000 And quite honestly, I love the service members that have served overseas. 0.83

01:35:53.000 I think the Iraq war was a disaster. 0.99

01:35:55.000 We never should have done it, be perfectly honest.

01:35:56.000 I think Donald Trump won because he was unafraid to critique the Iraq war.

01:36:00.000 Here's the problem: Republicans, we grew so fat and lazy over the success of Ronald Reagan for 20 years.

01:36:06.000 Our country was kicking tail.

01:36:08.000 We were creating wealth.

01:36:10.000 And we just said, Yeah, whatever.

01:36:11.000 We're not going to stand on principle.

01:36:13.000 Starting in the 90s, thanks to Clinton and others.

01:36:16.000 We started to have a huge deindustrialization push in our country.

01:36:19.000 89, you said you saw that hotel in China, right?

01:36:22.000 We 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.

01:36:30.000 I grew up in this conservative move, that conservative movement. 0.58

01:36:32.000 I used to have the white papers from people in D.C. that would be like, you don't understand.

01:36:36.000 It's comparative advantage.

01:36:37.000 It's so good.

01:36:38.000 Like, we're going to get richer.

01:36:39.000 We're going to get all this stuff in return.

01:36:41.000 While there is some fundamental, there is some little truth in that, it never looks at the whole picture.

01:36:46.000 When 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.

01:36:57.000 I don't care how much cheap plastic you bring in from China.

01:37:00.000 That does not make our country richer or better.

01:37:03.000 It doesn't. 1.00

01:37:03.000 In fact, it makes our country weaker and more dependent on a flow of garbage that we don't even need from China. 1.00

01:37:10.000 And so what we've done is we intentionally and deliberately deindustrialize our country. 0.95

01:37:14.000 What Donald Trump did, Donald Trump was a throbbing middle finger to the ruling class.

01:37:19.000 He was. 1.00

01:37:19.000 He's like, all of you are corrupt, like all of you. 1.00

01:37:23.000 And he talked differently. 0.99

01:37:25.000 And I don't care.

01:37:26.000 People are like, oh, well, Charlie, I don't like the way he talks.

01:37:28.000 He should be on Mount Rushmore just for the fact that Hillary Clinton never became president.

01:37:33.000 Like that alone should be a crowning achievement.

01:37:36.000 Seriously.

01:37:37.000 Like the fact that that incredibly dangerous political family never got into the White House again is like an incredible gift to our country.

01:37:47.000 He 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?

01:37:56.000 You guys can fill in the blanks there.

01:37:58.000 And then what happens the moment he gets okay?

01:38:00.000 I get his tone, his style, his tweets.

01:38:02.000 Forget it.

01:38:04.000 What is he doing for the people of our country?

01:38:06.000 And 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.

01:38:13.000 They don't do this ever.

01:38:14.000 He did what he said he was going to do.

01:38:16.000 Like Christy Noam did it, but boy, some of the people you guys send elsewhere, it's like they become different people.

01:38:20.000 And he was like, you know what?

01:38:21.000 No, actually, we're going to hold people accountable on trade.

01:38:24.000 I'm going to nominate these people to the Supreme Court. 0.78

01:38:26.000 I'm going to hold China accountable. 0.87

01:38:28.000 And people were like, wait, I thought, you know what the Republican establishment did?

01:38:32.000 It's like, no, that's not what we do.

01:38:35.000 We like, we say that when we campaign.

01:38:36.000 We don't actually do that.

01:38:38.000 Like, 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.

01:38:50.000 And then you go back and run for your election.

01:38:52.000 That's what they think of you.

01:38:53.000 And Trump was like, I am serving as an insurgency candidate to save our country.

01:38:58.000 Screw all of you.

01:39:00.000 Now, that did not come with no price. 0.98

01:39:03.000 He gave that inaugural address where he said, we are going to bring our jobs back.

01:39:08.000 We are going to nominate these justices.

01:39:10.000 We are going to make our country strong and great.

01:39:12.000 And they tried to warn him.

01:39:14.000 And Chuck Schumer went on MSNBC January 6, 2017, right before the inaugural.

01:39:18.000 And Chuck Schumer said, I wouldn't keep critiquing the intelligence community.

01:39:22.000 They have 10 ways to get back to you from Sunrise.

01:39:25.000 They kind of like said, you better stop, Mr. Incoming President.

01:39:29.000 Don't do this.

01:39:29.000 We're going to make sure you pay for this.

01:39:32.000 They did.

01:39:32.000 And guess what?

01:39:33.000 They spied on him.

01:39:34.000 They had an internal coup in the Federal Bureau of Investigation against him.

01:39:37.000 Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, James Comey, all of them are in on it.

01:39:40.000 They concocted a fake impeachment through Bob Mueller, which ended up not even materializing into an impeachment.

01:39:46.000 Three years, all of his friends go to prison.

01:39:48.000 His kids are investigated.

01:39:49.000 His businesses have to get shut down.

01:39:50.000 His net worth goes down by 80%.

01:39:52.000 Like, yeah, and then they say, who's going to run for president after this, right?

01:39:56.000 And yet he continues to do what he said he's going to do, continues to double down.

01:40:00.000 And then on top of that, they actually impeach him because of a phone call, right?

01:40:03.000 Like, 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.

01:40:10.000 We forget, by the way, that our president was impeached like six years ago.

01:40:13.000 And what they were doing is they were impeaching all of you.

01:40:15.000 What they were really saying is, sit down, citizens.

01:40:18.000 Let us, the ruling class, make the decisions.

01:40:21.000 This is what happens when you try to rise up against us.

01:40:24.000 They hate all of us.

01:40:25.000 And there's a couple good ones there, but I've seen the contempt and the anger they have for us.

01:40:30.000 And this is why I just, I do everything I can to defend the man.

01:40:32.000 And I understand that all of these people be like, oh, I don't like this.

01:40:34.000 I don't like, just, it's very simple.

01:40:36.000 It's Democrats versus the America, right?

01:40:38.000 It's like, it's that simple.

01:40:39.000 It'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.

01:40:46.000 I don't think he's like, he doesn't know.

01:40:47.000 Seriously, I mean, he's like, am I president yet?

01:40:49.000 Is that a thing?

01:40:49.000 Like, I don't know.

01:40:50.000 He doesn't.

01:40:51.000 Anyway, 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.

01:41:00.000 They are people pleasers.

01:41:03.000 Like, we have to give them very clear instructions as to what they can do.

01:41:07.000 No, seriously.

01:41:08.000 And this is why an active Republican Party is so important.

01:41:11.000 Again, I'm not saying that we shouldn't have a Republican Party.

01:41:14.000 I think, unfortunately, we live in a binary system.

01:41:15.000 You're not going to have a third party.

01:41:16.000 It's just not going to happen.

01:41:18.000 They're going to have a very consolidated 40% of the country.

01:41:20.000 However, 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.

01:41:29.000 They're serving the interests of the lobbyists and the ruling class.

01:41:31.000 For 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.

01:41:37.000 They are harvesting all your kids' data and you don't even know it, by the way. 0.80

01:41:40.000 If you're using TikTok, the Chinese are listening to everything. 0.99

01:41:42.000 They have a back end to everything. 1.00

01:41:43.000 It's awful.

01:41:45.000 Here's the point.

01:41:47.000 We have an opportunity to defend this president and re-elect him.

01:41:49.000 If we re-elect Trump, and I know that things don't look good, I don't believe they're as bad as people say.

01:41:52.000 Polls are nonsense, but I don't think things are trending positively.

01:41:55.000 I just don't.

01:41:56.000 I think that he has to have a little bit of a pivot right now.

01:41:58.000 And a lot of it's not his fault.

01:41:59.000 Almost most of it is not.

01:42:01.000 But if we reelect him, we can send a message to all of these people that we're actually still in charge.

01:42:09.000 And that's nothing could be more important, in my opinion.

01:42:12.000 Because 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.

01:42:21.000 Look what they did against him.

01:42:23.000 The impeachment, the spying, all of this.

01:42:26.000 And they're cheering for recession and all this.

01:42:28.000 And 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.

01:42:43.000 My goodness, I'll tell you right now, if there's any state that should run these people out of office, it's this state.

01:42:48.000 This is a decent state.

01:42:49.000 This is a liberty-loving state.

01:42:50.000 And there's no room for people like that in the Republican Party.

01:42:53.000 Period.

01:42:57.000 I know we're running late, but whatever.

01:43:00.000 Thank you for coming to Rapid City.

01:43:01.000 We love our town.

01:43:02.000 We love our state.

01:43:03.000 And we're very happy that you're here.

01:43:06.000 You 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.

01:43:22.000 I'm not sure that the Republican Party has moved very far from that.

01:43:28.000 And 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.

01:43:50.000 That opportunity had nothing to do with their real cause.

01:43:54.000 They had organized and been funded and sat back and waited for the opportunity.

01:44:01.000 And I'm speaking about Mr. Foreman or Mr. Floyd's death.

01:44:08.000 Why 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?

01:44:23.000 And then when it happens, we go, oh my God, isn't that terrible?

01:44:27.000 So two answers on that.

01:44:28.000 I'll give you the answer that is pretty magnanimous, and then I'm going to give one that's pretty harshly critical.

01:44:35.000 How about that?

01:44:36.000 So the magnanimous one is that we're actually really decent people.

01:44:36.000 Okay.

01:44:39.000 That conservatives and Republicans, the most important thing for us is not political wins.

01:44:44.000 It's building our family, strengthening our church, acting morally and ethically, and serving our God.

01:44:49.000 And so when societal revolution happens, it surprises us because we're not involved.

01:44:55.000 That's not the most important thing to us.

01:44:56.000 In 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?

01:45:13.000 Where the left, all they care about is politics.

01:45:15.000 They eat, they breathe, they sleep.

01:45:17.000 All they do is activism.

01:45:18.000 That's it.

01:45:19.000 That's the magnanimous answer.

01:45:20.000 Here's the harshly critical one.

01:45:22.000 There's an incredible crisis of courage in the Republican Party.

01:45:26.000 And I've seen it.

01:45:28.000 I've been around it.

01:45:29.000 And the best thing I could possibly tell you is that a lot of Republicans run because they want to be loved.

01:45:39.000 Wrong thing to do to run for office is to be loved, first of all.

01:45:44.000 Secondly, a lot of them are, and I can dive into this historically, they're very afraid to take it on the chin for the country.

01:45:53.000 It's kind of like, yeah, I'll kind of say something, but not me type deal.

01:45:57.000 That's what makes Trump so different.

01:45:58.000 He just throws it all out there, right?

01:46:02.000 And they will try to destroy you.

01:46:04.000 Like, I'm perfectly, I don't do this without mincing words.

01:46:08.000 Like, they will come after me.

01:46:10.000 They've come after my family.

01:46:12.000 They will audit your businesses.

01:46:13.000 Like, this is not a game to them, guys.

01:46:15.000 This is not like, oh, a policy debate in the U.S. Senate.

01:46:18.000 And that's what they think this is.

01:46:20.000 They think this is like something that you can kind of submit amendments to.

01:46:24.000 Like, no, this is a brass knuckle war for the future of America.

01:46:28.000 Like, are we going to have a country?

01:46:29.000 And so there's a crisis of courage.

01:46:32.000 And so courage is the hardest to find of the good traits.

01:46:36.000 It's not the most important.

01:46:38.000 Integrity and honesty is the most important.

01:46:40.000 But 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?

01:46:48.000 Just what are you going to be honest to yourself in your room alone?

01:46:50.000 Like, come on, right?

01:46:52.000 Courage is standing up above your current status and willing to sacrifice something that you care about for an ultimate truth.

01:46:59.000 That's the party we have to demand.

01:47:01.000 So, here's what you do: you give your Republican elected officials very clear instructions.

01:47:07.000 The psychologist said it best, she was very people don't want to be hated.

01:47:12.000 So, tell them if they do certain things, we'll applaud them of it.

01:47:15.000 If they do other things, they'll be condemned.

01:47:17.000 For example, if you don't show up to be with the president on July 3rd at Mount Rushmore, we're going to primary you.

01:47:24.000 If you do show up, we're going to think you're great.

01:47:26.000 So, if one of the U.S. senators doesn't show up there to greet the president to visit South Dakota, look very carefully.

01:47:31.000 I'm hearing lots of things.

01:47:33.000 He should be primaried.

01:47:34.000 If he's there, he should be applauded.

01:47:36.000 I think that's a pretty agreeable position.

01:47:38.000 So, you guys can kind of guess who's going to be there and who's not.

01:47:41.000 I'm hearing lots of different things that people might not be showing up because, whatever.

01:47:45.000 I don't know what could be more important on July 3rd if the president visits your home state.

01:47:49.000 I know Christy Noam will be here there.

01:47:51.000 That's how much I know.

01:47:52.000 Very clear instructions, right?

01:47:55.000 The left does this really well.

01:47:57.000 If you dare cut abortion funding, we will primary you, right? 0.60

01:48:01.000 And so, this is not in our nature, it's not in our fiber as conservatives, but we got to get like it. 0.69

01:48:06.000 We just do.

01:48:07.000 We have to have a no-tolerance policy for anyone that does not abide by very certain, very easy-to-follow instructions as Republicans, right?

01:48:15.000 And stop crowing government, stop borrowing money, only nominate justices that will interpret the Constitution.

01:48:22.000 I see the Convention of States people, they do a great job trying to represent these states and many others.

01:48:27.000 And so, that's my final point to that.

01:48:30.000 So, thank you so much.

01:48:31.000 I do appreciate it.

01:48:32.000 So, last question, okay?

01:48:34.000 Well, I wanted the Cubs one, so maybe we'll do two of them.

01:48:36.000 So, really quick, though, really quick.

01:48:37.000 Really quick.

01:48:38.000 This is a question on the Durham report.

01:48:40.000 Do you think that there will be repercussions for these Democrats that have done all this, or will they just fly away?

01:48:48.000 Do you want me to answer this honestly, right?

01:48:50.000 Yes.

01:48:50.000 I'm incredibly cynical.

01:48:52.000 Okay.

01:48:52.000 So, I don't think that, I mean, you might see a couple slaps.

01:48:55.000 The question was about the Durham report, if you guys didn't hear it.

01:48:59.000 I'm very cynical.

01:49:00.000 I don't think people will be held accountable for what they did.

01:49:02.000 If they are, they'd be a slap on the wrist and maybe a little bit here and they'll sacrifice it up.

01:49:07.000 When you're in politics enough, you realize the ruling class almost always protects their own.

01:49:13.000 And Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, they're within that kind of circle, if you will.

01:49:18.000 And I do not see anytime soon they're going to be perp walked for what they did to our country.

01:49:22.000 Even Hillary?

01:49:24.000 Even Hillary will not go to prison in our lifetime, trust me.

01:49:28.000 That should never be said again, okay?

01:49:29.000 Just not going to happen.

01:49:31.000 Like, no.

01:49:32.000 And I know that's depressing for a lot of people.

01:49:35.000 Just get it out.

01:49:36.000 If that makes you cynical, then so be it.

01:49:38.000 Just not going to happen.

01:49:40.000 There is an agreement between the ruling class right and the ruling class left that you do not go after certain people.

01:49:46.000 You don't go after the Bushes.

01:49:48.000 You don't go after the Clintons.

01:49:49.000 You don't go after the top levels of the FBI or the CIA.

01:49:52.000 Just doesn't happen.

01:49:53.000 And 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.

01:49:59.000 Like, that's just, that's what they do.

01:50:00.000 They'll find some procedural thing.

01:50:02.000 Like Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, he was warned.

01:50:04.000 He was warned.

01:50:05.000 He was warned.

01:50:06.000 Obama and Biden personally oversaw the targeting of Flynn to destroy his life.

01:50:10.000 Now, 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.

01:50:17.000 I mean, he writes on a 302.

01:50:19.000 We entrapped Michael Flynn.

01:50:21.000 And like, okay, all he's like, thank you for the exculpatory evidence, my goodness.

01:50:26.000 But no, that's not going to happen anytime soon.

01:50:28.000 I'm sorry to depress you, but no, I wanted to hear your opinion.

01:50:31.000 Yeah, 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?

01:50:38.000 So, all right, we'll go to Cubs Jersey, then we'll do the last one, I promise, okay?

01:50:41.000 I have a special place in my heart for the Chicago Cubs.

01:50:44.000 All right, so do I. Is that a Ron Santo jersey?

01:50:47.000 Yeah, actually.

01:50:48.000 Jeez, that's a throwback, my gosh.

01:50:50.000 I 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?

01:50:58.000 And where does the church need to step up?

01:51:00.000 Thank you.

01:51:01.000 Thank you for mentioning it.

01:51:02.000 So I have a project at one of the few colleges I put my name behind.

01:51:04.000 I think most colleges are just rotten to the core.

01:51:07.000 But one of the colleges I put my name behind is Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

01:51:11.000 Terrific school.

01:51:12.000 It's unbelievable.

01:51:13.000 We have a project called the Falkirk Center for Faith and Liberty.

01:51:16.000 Heavily involved in it.

01:51:17.000 One of the fellows, Eric Kof, happens to be my girlfriend, is also here.

01:51:20.000 She's terrific.

01:51:21.000 And Liberty's amazing.

01:51:23.000 And Hillsdale's great too.

01:51:25.000 But I go out of my way always to mention Liberty.

01:51:27.000 So let me first stay with this with the church.

01:51:30.000 I don't know if this is the case in South Dakota.

01:51:32.000 I think I got an email from someone in South Dakota recently that did say this was the case.

01:51:35.000 But one of the main reasons why BLM has grown in power and credibility is because the church has aided, funded, and supported it.

01:51:42.000 And 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.

01:52:02.000 Like, how could a church do that?

01:52:02.000 It's incredible.

01:52:04.000 Well, 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.

01:52:14.000 They've done this for years, and the American church has been co-opted.

01:52:17.000 It's been corrupted by radical left-wing, let's just say, liberation theologists.

01:52:22.000 Let's put it really nice. 0.91

01:52:23.000 I don't know if there's any Catholics out there. 0.59

01:52:25.000 You know exactly what I mean if I'm talking about liberation theology.

01:52:28.000 However, for the Protestants out there, you probably know what I mean. 0.61

01:52:30.000 It's basically the argument that Jesus was a socialist.

01:52:33.000 Jesus was a Marxist.

01:52:34.000 This is taught to a lot of young Christians.

01:52:36.000 When I go to Christian campuses, I'm met with more hostility typically than when I go to secular campuses, not always the case.

01:52:42.000 But you would be amazed at how radical young Christians have become.

01:52:47.000 So it would be one thing if the church was complacent. 0.98

01:52:50.000 I pray for complacency because they're complicit.

01:52:53.000 And that's the problem, is that they're funding it.

01:52:55.000 They're marching in the streets alongside of it.

01:52:57.000 They are engineering this kind of social activism.

01:53:00.000 And the left knows exactly what they're doing.

01:53:01.000 Just, I'm an evangelical Christian.

01:53:03.000 I believe, by the way, I have this radical view that I think the Bible should be taught in every single classroom across the country.

01:53:08.000 And if you don't teach the Bible, you should be defunded.

01:53:12.000 That one was for you, Huffington Post.

01:53:14.000 They love writing about that.

01:53:16.000 They say, oh, separation of church and state.

01:53:17.000 Yeah, show me that in the Constitution doesn't exist.

01:53:20.000 A single letter by Thomas Jefferson in 1803 to the Danbury Baptist Convention.

01:53:24.000 However, I rest my case on that.

01:53:26.000 It's incredibly important.

01:53:27.000 I mean, I get very upset when I see churches that care far more about social activism than, first of all, the kingdom of Jesus Christ.

01:53:33.000 And secondly, what they can socially do.

01:53:36.000 And so I have a long shtick on this, so I'll do it as quickly as I can.

01:53:40.000 Most important thing you can do in your life is commit yourself, accept Jesus Christ into your life.

01:53:46.000 Most important thing you could do, right?

01:53:47.000 Surrender yourself to Christ.

01:53:48.000 Most important thing.

01:53:50.000 Here's where we stop, though, as Christians.

01:53:51.000 We don't tell people the second most important thing, to make sure you can do the first thing.

01:53:56.000 To make sure you could still do the first thing, make sure your kids can do the first thing.

01:54:00.000 To 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.

01:54:10.000 We kind of like lost that whole thing.

01:54:12.000 So what happens is the Bible clearly states to make disciples of all nations, not converts of all nations.

01:54:18.000 So 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. 0.90

01:54:26.000 And I support that. 0.89

01:54:27.000 It's biblical.

01:54:28.000 People raise their hands, they come forward, they commit their life to Jesus Christ.

01:54:31.000 Then they come the next week and they see other people do it and they come the next week, they see other people do it.

01:54:34.000 And then they'll say, well, but I don't really know how to interact with the rest of the world, right?

01:54:38.000 And 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.

01:54:46.000 And they just say it's Romans 13, right?

01:54:48.000 Romans 13, like God, God says he appoints people of all authority.

01:54:53.000 Who's the authority in our country?

01:54:55.000 We are.

01:54:56.000 See, when Paul wrote that, the sovereign was the Caesar.

01:55:02.000 The sovereign is now we, the people.

01:55:05.000 And so we actually have a duty to get involved in every single civic engagement.

01:55:09.000 You 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.

01:55:14.000 How 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?

01:55:20.000 Probably not.

01:55:20.000 And that's okay.

01:55:21.000 And I'm just saying the left does it differently.

01:55:24.000 The point is: this is that we as Christians, we stay away from politics.

01:55:28.000 It's too messy.

01:55:28.000 Like, first of all, what's not messy in this world?

01:55:30.000 Like, I'm going to show you a megachurch that's pretty messy, okay?

01:55:33.000 Number 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.

01:55:33.000 Number one.

01:55:46.000 Right before that, Paul says, fight and contest for whatever be true, whatever be beautiful, whatever be good.

01:55:54.000 America's beautiful and good and true.

01:55:57.000 And so we should fight for all things that are true and stand for those things.

01:56:01.000 The gospel tells us to do that.

01:56:02.000 And 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.

01:56:12.000 The 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.

01:56:20.000 It's because there were pastors that would say, let's gather around absolute truth, right?

01:56:24.000 Here's what's good in the world.

01:56:25.000 Here's what's right.

01:56:26.000 Here's what's just.

01:56:27.000 And then all of a sudden you have something to compare it against, right?

01:56:30.000 But 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.

01:56:43.000 It's just not.

01:56:44.000 That's the perfect time to strike a social revolution when church is canceled, right?

01:56:48.000 Is that not the perfect time to burn everything down when church is not gathering?

01:56:52.000 You couldn't have designed a greater moral gap to go.

01:56:55.000 All of a sudden, people are not meeting with their pastors.

01:56:56.000 They're not around their fellow Christians.

01:56:58.000 They're not comparing notes. 0.98

01:56:59.000 And then these pastors are going through the live stream saying, We're a racist, bigoted, homophobic country. 0.75

01:57:03.000 He doesn't have to look at any of the reactions of the people in the room, right? 0.52

01:57:06.000 They just say it with total and they just walk off stage.

01:57:08.000 And then people are like, well, maybe we are.

01:57:10.000 I don't know.

01:57:11.000 And we as Christians have a moral obligation to fight for this country.

01:57:15.000 We do.

01:57:16.000 We have a moral obligation to fight for truth. 0.58

01:57:18.000 And I have been so saddened and let down by how many Christians have not just not fought, but they've aided the other side.

01:57:25.000 And so I hope that's a clear message to everyone in this room.

01:57:28.000 All right, last question.

01:57:30.000 It's about Mount Rushmore.

01:57:31.000 So we are decent people, but we are fighting against other indecents.

01:57:35.000 Yes.

01:57:36.000 So 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.

01:57:44.000 And this is our state.

01:57:45.000 Do we just show up?

01:57:46.000 Because there should not be an empty seat there.

01:57:49.000 Yeah, I mean, look, I could tell you this.

01:57:51.000 I hosted the president last week, 3,400 students through our 501c4 turning point action.

01:57:56.000 It was incredible.

01:57:56.000 Every single seat was filled.

01:57:58.000 We had 59,000 ticket requests for 3,300 seats to give an idea of the malevolence of the left.

01:58:04.000 We gamed that out.

01:58:05.000 We factored it in and we were able to see which tickets were fake and which weren't.

01:58:09.000 That's above my pay grade.

01:58:10.000 I'm not involved in that.

01:58:11.000 But I could tell you that, and that's a really important point.

01:58:15.000 I wish I can give you concrete recommendation.

01:58:17.000 I'm sure all of you would show up if you got a ticket.

01:58:19.000 But what I could tell you is this: we are not dealing with a force that just thinks that this is a fun debate.

01:58:26.000 They want us destroyed.

01:58:28.000 Seriously, they do.

01:58:29.000 And I don't mean to be so dark.

01:58:31.000 It's like it sounds so depressing, but it's just true.

01:58:34.000 It's just what they want.

01:58:35.000 And so I do want to end on an optimistic note.

01:58:38.000 I wish I could be more helpful with that.

01:58:39.000 Sorry.

01:58:39.000 I would love to tell you to show up, but then I'd hate to have you show up if it's packed, right?

01:58:42.000 So we have to realize, too, that we're not fighting a decent fight.

01:58:47.000 No, we're not.

01:58:48.000 Well, so yeah, let's talk about that biblically, right?

01:58:50.000 So God calls people to do fights that the Israelites didn't want to do all the time.

01:58:55.000 And so people say, I don't like Trump's tone.

01:58:56.000 I don't like the way he talks.

01:58:57.000 Well, then just take, just do me a favor, get scissors and take the entire story of Samson out of your Bible.

01:59:02.000 Like, please.

01:59:03.000 I can't even repeat the story of Samson to a Bible school class.

01:59:07.000 I can't. 0.97

01:59:08.000 God came to him in a prostitute's bed, and then right after that, he took a jaw of a donkey and killed a thousand Philistines. 0.99

01:59:13.000 Like, that's pretty graphic, right? 0.93

01:59:14.000 Like, we're going to not do that one in Sunday school today.

01:59:17.000 But why did God call Samson? 0.55

01:59:19.000 Because he was willing to fight unlike the Israelites at the time, right?

01:59:23.000 And Paul went out of his way.

01:59:24.000 We think Paul wrote Hebrews.

01:59:26.000 Paul 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.

01:59:33.000 And then he says Samson.

01:59:34.000 Like, wow, that was such a powerful story to the people of Israel and the people fighting for truth because Paul was under attack.

01:59:39.000 Remember, Paul did not exactly have, let's just say, a seamless ministry.

01:59:43.000 Like, you sort of had the ultimate persecution.

01:59:46.000 And 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.

01:59:53.000 Here's the optimistic point.

01:59:54.000 Let's end on some good news, right?

01:59:56.000 Here's the first thing.

01:59:57.000 Number 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.

02:00:05.000 That's number one, okay?

02:00:06.000 They just start.

02:00:07.000 And I'm going to tell you why.

02:00:08.000 And it's not necessarily because the Senate Republicans are weak.

02:00:12.000 You can come to that conclusion.

02:00:14.000 It's because they were not raised as activists.

02:00:16.000 They 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.

02:00:22.000 They went to the Senate.

02:00:23.000 It was basically the same.

02:00:24.000 And now they're basically getting their political education in the activism that's happening on the campus.

02:00:30.000 Now that the whole country has become a college campus, these senators are like, what?

02:00:34.000 Like they're following me into the elevator.

02:00:36.000 They're filming me.

02:00:37.000 Like, I don't like this.

02:00:39.000 Wasn't it nice and we just kind of were all friends?

02:00:41.000 Like, that's not the case anymore.

02:00:42.000 It's just not.

02:00:42.000 The young conservative generation, they're tough.

02:00:45.000 They're smart.

02:00:46.000 They're clear-eyed and they're ready to fight.

02:00:47.000 It's incredible.

02:00:48.000 I have so much optimism for what I'm seeing.

02:00:50.000 And I would rather fight like Gideon's army with 300 people up against a huge army than 30,000 weak people that want to retreat back.

02:00:56.000 I'm not kidding.

02:00:57.000 I would rather have people that are clear-eyed and ready to fight.

02:00:59.000 The other optimistic point is this.

02:01:01.000 The left has the tech companies.

02:01:02.000 They control our government.

02:01:03.000 They control the deep state of our government.

02:01:05.000 They control a lot of our own party.

02:01:06.000 They control the media.

02:01:07.000 They control all this stuff.

02:01:08.000 But we have one thing that they're always going to be trying to find.

02:01:11.000 Bezos's $150 billion can't get it.

02:01:13.000 Google's Monopoly can't get it.

02:01:15.000 We have the truth.

02:01:15.000 And one sentence of truth can deflate and defeat 40 years of lies.

02:01:19.000 I can't tell you how many times through my podcasting, my speaking, I'm speaking to young people.

02:01:24.000 And one sentence that I say destroys a left-wing view.

02:01:27.000 I mean, I see people all the time.

02:01:29.000 They message me.

02:01:29.000 Charlie, I was a liberal.

02:01:30.000 Now I'm a conservative because of something you said.

02:01:32.000 I might not agree with everything, but now I understand why you have the structure of thinking that you do.

02:01:37.000 And 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.

02:01:45.000 And 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.

02:01:55.000 And so my optimism is this.

02:01:57.000 I know that an active and robust conservative movement could just end all of this immediately.

02:02:02.000 As soon as we stop being dormant and become active, we win.

02:02:06.000 When we play offense, we win.

02:02:08.000 Think about it.

02:02:09.000 When we are pushing forth our policies, when we're pushing forth truth and we're contesting for it, we win elections.

02:02:14.000 We win confirmation fights.

02:02:15.000 We get Kavanaugh confirmed, right?

02:02:16.000 When we hold the line, when we're playing defense, we lose the country.

02:02:19.000 And so we have to be offensive.

02:02:21.000 We have to be very focused on what success looks like.

02:02:23.000 And then we'll be able to save our country.

02:02:25.000 So one way that you guys could help me, I have a podcast.

02:02:27.000 If you guys want to subscribe to it, it would bless me greatly.

02:02:30.000 I do two shows a day.

02:02:31.000 I do 14 hours of podcasting a week.

02:02:33.000 If you type in Charlie Kirk show, your podcast provider, all of you have it in your smartphones, by the way.

02:02:37.000 If you don't know how to do that, just ask one of the college kids.

02:02:39.000 They'll be able to walk you through it.

02:02:41.000 And then you hit subscribe.

02:02:42.000 But look, I'm going to be around.

02:02:44.000 I'm really blessed to be here.

02:02:45.000 You guys have a terrific state, terrific people.

02:02:48.000 Fight for your state, fight for our country.

02:02:50.000 We are going to win this fight.

02:02:52.000 It'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.

02:03:01.000 That's why they've tried to infiltrate us.

02:03:02.000 That's why they've tried to weaken us down with all this.

02:03:05.000 But when we fight, we win.

02:03:07.000 And so I'm blessed to be with you guys and thank you guys for being so great.

02:03:10.000 So thank you.

The Charlie Kirk Show - July 04, 2020

In Defense of America

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