The Charlie Kirk Show - Keep Texas Free—LIVE from Texas

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00:00:31.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:33.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.

00:00:35.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:39.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:42.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:43.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:44.000 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.

00:00:52.000 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.

00:01:01.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:04.000 Welcome, everybody.

00:01:05.000 You guys had a great day, I'm sure, right?

00:01:08.000 So thank you for your attention and your time.

00:01:10.000 That's the most valuable thing you have.

00:01:12.000 I'm only going to talk for a couple minutes, then we'll do questions.

00:01:14.000 I think that's the most fun.

00:01:16.000 The reason we wanted to do this and why we're doing the work here in Texas is I believe that Texas is special.

00:01:24.000 I'm not from here.

00:01:25.000 I wasn't raised here.

00:01:26.000 But I feel as if you're losing this state.

00:01:29.000 And I think a lot of you would agree.

00:01:31.000 Harris County, in particular, where we are, is not the same place that it was 10 years ago.

00:01:36.000 A lot of liberal influences, a lot of bad ideas coming into this state.

00:01:39.000 And if Texas falls, the country falls.

00:01:41.000 It's that simple.

00:01:42.000 And so we need to ask ourselves the question, what makes Texas so special?

00:01:46.000 Why is it that Texas has been one of the most prosperous states, one of the most freest states, and then the envy of the people that are fleeing California?

00:01:55.000 Where do they want to go?

00:01:55.000 They want to go to Texas.

00:01:56.000 Well, first of all, I think that as Texans, you guys have an attitude that I hope doesn't go away.

00:02:02.000 It's an attitude of self-government, of self-sovereign.

00:02:06.000 I get a kick out of it.

00:02:07.000 I don't know if we have it here tonight, but you guys do.

00:02:09.000 Oh, yeah, you do.

00:02:09.000 You always do the Pledge of Allegiance, then you do the Hail Texas flag.

00:02:14.000 And it's the only state to be its own sovereign territory before becoming a state.

00:02:19.000 And that's a really important thing, right?

00:02:21.000 Because this question of sovereignty is under attack every day.

00:02:24.000 Now, personally, I wish your governor took the invasion at our southern border more seriously, but call me old school.

00:02:30.000 Why the Texas National Guard is saying not another person crossing into our state?

00:02:35.000 But we get a lot of excuses.

00:02:37.000 I guess that's why.

00:02:39.000 But the other thing is that Texas has embraced the principles that have made America a great country, private property rights, free enterprise, freedom of speech.

00:02:48.000 But also in Texas, you guys, and you're losing this, I'll be honest.

00:02:52.000 There always was an attitude of we're not going to put up with nonsense.

00:02:55.000 We're not going to put up with evil.

00:02:57.000 We are going to have a cowboy type spirit that, you know, move, you know, move out of the way, lead follower, get out of the way.

00:03:04.000 And that is being lost.

00:03:06.000 And it's not just Harris County.

00:03:08.000 Obviously, a lot of it started in Travis County with the nonsense in Austin.

00:03:11.000 But, you know, it used to be that, oh, yeah, Charlie, it's like tomato soup with a little blueberry.

00:03:15.000 It's a lot worse than that.

00:03:16.000 You guys know it.

00:03:17.000 This is spreading all across Texas.

00:03:19.000 In fact, I don't know if you saw the Texas school book textbook that was rewritten.

00:03:23.000 I talked about it on my show, where they rewrote the Second Amendment.

00:03:27.000 And this is in Texas.

00:03:28.000 They rewrote the Second Amendment where it is not, you know, a right of the people to be able to own arms.

00:03:34.000 It now says people can own weapons only if they're in a state militia.

00:03:37.000 That's in Texas textbooks all across the state.

00:03:40.000 And the main kind of message I want to convey to you is you have to get back to the attitude of we are Texas and we're not going to allow coastal values to come in here and destroy our home.

00:03:54.000 And they might call you intolerant.

00:03:56.000 They might call you all these names.

00:03:58.000 But honestly, they by their own movement prove that this place is desirable.

00:04:03.000 And I have a contrarian opinion.

00:04:05.000 I don't think you guys should welcome all these Silicon Valley companies to Texas.

00:04:08.000 I think it's a big mistake.

00:04:11.000 I call these people, you know, they're ribbon cutters for the sake of ribbon cutters.

00:04:15.000 I love job growth.

00:04:16.000 I love economic progress, but you must balance all things, right?

00:04:19.000 Is economic growth the only thing you're supposed to desire?

00:04:23.000 Because then you bring all these trashy politics alongside of it, right?

00:04:27.000 And I mean, more Elon Musk's, I'm fine with that, but Google now says they want to start to build data centers here in Texas.

00:04:34.000 Why do you think that is?

00:04:35.000 Why do you think that Toyota and all these companies want to come here out of California?

00:04:39.000 And then they come here and tell you what to do with your government.

00:04:42.000 So they flee the totalitarian states of California.

00:04:45.000 They flee these unfree states.

00:04:47.000 They come here and then they start nickpicking.

00:04:49.000 Like, actually, you've lost your right to complain.

00:04:52.000 You come here as a refugee from totalitarianism and from tyranny.

00:04:55.000 I'm not going to reaccommodate our entire state to fit, you know, this idea that you want men to be able to go and compete against women in women's sports. 0.87

00:05:03.000 Like, we're not going to do that.

00:05:05.000 And I find this tension, which is Texas is almost too good of a state, that you're so attractive to people from these other states that haven't thought very deeply about these ideas that it might actually end up being the death of Texas.

00:05:19.000 And we're seeing this with Georgia.

00:05:20.000 We're seeing this Arizona.

00:05:22.000 Now, the only difference is why are you not seeing it with Florida?

00:05:25.000 Well, you're not seeing it with Florida because they have a really good governor that tells these liberals, like, you're not welcome here.

00:05:29.000 I'm sorry.

00:05:30.000 Like, this is where woke goes to die.

00:05:31.000 You have a problem?

00:05:32.000 Go back to New Jersey.

00:05:33.000 That's the attitude I wish Texas had.

00:05:36.000 Where is that?

00:05:36.000 I don't understand.

00:05:39.000 And by the way, you get more popular when you have that kind of attitude.

00:05:42.000 People then resonate deeply with you.

00:05:44.000 Like, wow, you're leading us towards something good.

00:05:46.000 And I'm not to say it's all bad from the governor's mansion here.

00:05:49.000 He's done a lot of good.

00:05:50.000 Obviously, I'm not here to try to make an anti-Abbott speech, but I think we all could agree that Texas deserves even better than what you're currently getting, right?

00:05:57.000 I'm not trying to make it seem that it's all negative, it's all bad.

00:05:59.000 He does some good things, but I think Ron DeSantis has set the bar of what is possible here to actually do.

00:06:06.000 And so Texas is at a critical place.

00:06:10.000 And I think the education system is largely to blame, but also this inward migration of people that do not share the common values. 1.00

00:06:17.000 And I mean, I'm driving through Harris County here stuck in traffic.

00:06:20.000 And I mean, it used to, I say this and people kind of get fired up when I say this, and I hope so.

00:06:25.000 It's like it's just culturally and aesthetically unrecognizable.

00:06:29.000 Like, why do you guys have so many like soul cycles and yoga bar?

00:06:33.000 I don't understand.

00:06:33.000 Like, this is, you guys are bringing all the worst cultural aspects of San Francisco.

00:06:38.000 I mean, I saw like big billboards, like meatless restaurant.

00:06:41.000 Like, this is Houston.

00:06:42.000 Like, what are you talking about a meatless restaurant?

00:06:45.000 And you might say, oh, that's, that's irrelevant.

00:06:47.000 No, it's actually really relevant because with this sort of cultural takeover comes really bad politics, right?

00:06:54.000 And so what are you to do about it?

00:06:56.000 Well, that's why Turning Point USA is making it a mission to make Texas our number one state.

00:07:01.000 We want Texas to be our number one state.

00:07:04.000 And most high school chapters, most college chapters, because we're going all in on Texas.

00:07:11.000 I love this country so deeply, but our founding fathers gave us a states-based model.

00:07:16.000 Praise God they did that, right?

00:07:18.000 That the states created the federal government, the federal government to create the states, did not create the states.

00:07:23.000 And Texas in particular is going to be a deciding point.

00:07:27.000 And it's going to take a new generation of leaders.

00:07:30.000 It's going to take taking back school boards.

00:07:32.000 I think a revival in actually how we do education in this country.

00:07:36.000 And I mean, just a great example.

00:07:37.000 I mean, if I were to kind of list complaints of what I think the governor could do differently, for example, Ron DeSantis has said no CRT in our schools and he's taken over a university, a public, I don't know if you guys know this.

00:07:48.000 He took over a taxpayer-funded university and he says, we're going to make it the most conservative school in America.

00:07:53.000 Why doesn't Texas do that?

00:07:54.000 I don't understand.

00:07:56.000 Like Greg Abbott could do that.

00:07:57.000 Why has Greg Abbott put left-wingers on the border regions?

00:08:00.000 I don't understand.

00:08:01.000 Like, maybe there's something I'm missing.

00:08:02.000 You guys can fill me in.

00:08:04.000 Every one of these small things you might think that doesn't matter matters.

00:08:08.000 That's what I'm trying to tell you.

00:08:09.000 Texas used to be comfortably conservative, where you were able to have a Marxist here and a trans activist there, and you kind of shrug your shoulders, like, oh, we're Texas.

00:08:17.000 We're always going to be.

00:08:18.000 You have to drop that and have a sense of urgency.

00:08:20.000 You're losing your home.

00:08:22.000 And as an Arizonan, I could tell you all about left-wing conquest.

00:08:26.000 That's all they do, right? 0.99

00:08:27.000 And they do it through the schools, they threw it through culture.

00:08:30.000 And, you know, I want to kind of emphasize, you know, one of the most important points here, which is, you know, we're living in a very strange time where the revolution is coming top down.

00:08:39.000 It's not coming bottom up, where the powerful people are bludgeoning the normal people and they're not stopping and they're not going to stop anytime soon.

00:08:46.000 And I remember I was in a dinner about two years ago here in Houston.

00:08:50.000 And it was just the trans stuff was a little bit, you know, on the periphery, but I have had and continue to have very strong opinions about it.

00:08:57.000 And this was a wealthy Republican donor.

00:08:59.000 If I said his name, many of you would know him, right?

00:09:01.000 He gives millions of dollars to causes, lives here in Houston.

00:09:05.000 Very nice person.

00:09:05.000 But he said, Charlie, I think what we should try to do is embrace the trans thing as a Republican.

00:09:10.000 He said, you know, these people are nice as long as they stay within their lane.

00:09:15.000 And I don't think it should be a big issue because he heard one of my speeches and I said that transgenderism is going to corrupt our children. 1.00

00:09:21.000 It's from the pit of hell. 0.98

00:09:23.000 And he was really offended by that.

00:09:24.000 He said, come on, Charlie, we have to be equal and we have to try to have towards equality or whatever kind of one line all that stuff is.

00:09:31.000 And I disagreed.

00:09:32.000 I said, well, first of all, you don't know the arc of the left.

00:09:35.000 These people never stop.

00:09:36.000 They're activists.

00:09:36.000 You can never give them enough.

00:09:38.000 They take over institutions and they are coming for children next. 1.00

00:09:41.000 And his response was, there's no evidence that they're going to be coming for children.

00:09:45.000 I said, well, just wait a couple of years, man.

00:09:47.000 Well, unfortunately, I was right.

00:09:48.000 It's everywhere, right?

00:09:49.000 And not only is it everywhere that if you do not do exactly what the trans activists want you to do, they're going to try to destroy your life. 0.73

00:09:56.000 They've kidnapped speakers at turning point USA events, Riley Gaines.

00:10:00.000 The death threats we get every single day is unbelievable.

00:10:02.000 They come at our events with weapons.

00:10:04.000 Not to mention, they corrupt our textbooks and they get to play the oppressed card while they get some of the biggest corporate deals for millions of dollars.

00:10:15.000 And they get a whole month dedicated to them and we have to be told that these people are oppressed.

00:10:19.000 I think a lot of you have an attitude.

00:10:20.000 And to defend this individual that was said this a couple years, I think the attitude that we wish for is the country I grew up in.

00:10:27.000 Your own imagination is not my problem.

00:10:29.000 This is the way we have to frame the trans thing.

00:10:31.000 Your imagination is not my problem.

00:10:33.000 Your actions can become my problem.

00:10:36.000 Those are two different things, right?

00:10:37.000 I'm not going to police your imagination. 0.98

00:10:39.000 That's silly. 0.91

00:10:40.000 It's unrealistic. 0.89

00:10:41.000 If you think you're something, you're not.

00:10:42.000 If you think you're an otter, a fish, if you think you're a different gender, like I'm not here to police your imagination, okay?

00:10:48.000 But if you make me all of a sudden have to repeat your imagination as a fact, we have a very serious problem.

00:10:56.000 And that's a completely different thing.

00:10:58.000 And so some people say, well, Charlie, you know, I wish we could just have a live and let live society.

00:11:04.000 So do we.

00:11:06.000 We were doing live and let live.

00:11:08.000 And they're the ones that came into NCAA sports.

00:11:12.000 And they're the ones that are now showering with teenagers in high schools.

00:11:16.000 Don't believe me.

00:11:16.000 Look at the Wisconsin story that came out two days ago.

00:11:18.000 18-year-old man went into a female locker room, shouted at 14-year-old girls, school covered it up, said it's progress.

00:11:23.000 It's equitable.

00:11:24.000 And we don't have to, you know, we don't have to inform any parents.

00:11:27.000 This is not going to stop everybody.

00:11:29.000 But you know what?

00:11:29.000 The only way you stop these people is if good people stop them.

00:11:33.000 And that's exactly the same thing you have to attitude you have to have towards Texas.

00:11:36.000 There is a temptation to get passive.

00:11:39.000 You know why?

00:11:40.000 Because I lived in a short window of this, but a lot.

00:11:43.000 And this is the biggest thing I have to deprogram with boomers. 1.00

00:11:46.000 And I love boomers, but I find a problem here with it, right? 1.00

00:11:49.000 Is they did grow up in America for 20 or 30 years where you were able to take it easy, where you wouldn't spend your afternoons at events like this, right?

00:11:57.000 You raise your kids, you go to church out.

00:11:59.000 America's dead, okay? 0.53

00:12:00.000 I didn't kill it, you didn't kill it, they killed it.

00:12:02.000 Let's try to resurrect something that's recognizable.

00:12:05.000 And they don't like it when I say that.

00:12:07.000 They say, Oh, no, no, Charlie, this is just a temporary, it's a temporary divide.

00:12:11.000 No, no, it's not.

00:12:12.000 They've taken over the entire country.

00:12:13.000 You are on enemy-occupied territory.

00:12:15.000 I don't find any joy in saying this.

00:12:17.000 These people can be defeated, I think, quicker than we realize, but they will only stop if we stop them.

00:12:22.000 You know, somebody said, Well, Charlie, you know, isn't it, isn't this stuff going to backfire?

00:12:26.000 In Colorado, it's not backfiring.

00:12:29.000 In Colorado, they made themselves the trans surgery sanctuary state.

00:12:33.000 Same in California.

00:12:34.000 That if you are in a state that does not allow the medical mutilation of a 12-year-old, Colorado will pay for your flight.

00:12:40.000 You can go there and get a taxpayer-funded medical mutilation surgery without telling your parent at 12, 13, or 14 years old.

00:12:46.000 Does that sound like a state that's going to backfire anytime soon?

00:12:49.000 Or how about in California?

00:12:50.000 Massachusetts is doing the same thing.

00:12:52.000 Minnesota is about to do the same thing.

00:12:54.000 And so the essence of it is that you have to stop these things early.

00:13:00.000 I would imagine this stuff is actually pretty far advanced here in Texas, more so than we can realize. 0.92

00:13:05.000 And so, but that sort of Texas attitude is exactly what we need to get back, which is like, you're a pervert if you go after my kids, and I'm not going to put up with this. 0.80

00:13:14.000 You might say, well, Charlie, that's kind of mean. 0.97

00:13:16.000 Yeah, they're evil for going after kids.

00:13:17.000 Excuse my tone.

00:13:19.000 And I don't yearn to be nice to freaks, and nor should you.

00:13:26.000 And that's what we're dealing with here: that people that have a concerted, deliberate campaign to go after children.

00:13:33.000 And there are three types of people in the world.

00:13:35.000 Okay, the Bible tells us this: there are infants, the protectors of infants, and predators.

00:13:41.000 Okay, this is the entire story at the beginning of Exodus.

00:13:44.000 Okay, so you have predators, like the king of Egypt, a Pharaoh, right?

00:13:49.000 Where it says, and then there was a king that came over Egypt that did not know Joseph, right?

00:13:53.000 Forgot the Jewish people, turned them into slaves. 1.00

00:13:55.000 Then there's infants, firstborn child, and then there's the brave midwives that stood up that were the protectors of infants.

00:14:03.000 You get to be one of three categories.

00:14:05.000 Now, if you want to remain a child the rest of your life, we've done a good job of that, actually.

00:14:10.000 We tell our teenagers to never grow up, they could do drugs all the time.

00:14:13.000 That's bad for society.

00:14:14.000 That comes with a different form of problems.

00:14:17.000 But even worse than that is becoming a predator or an ally of a predator.

00:14:22.000 Here's the norm that is hard for people to agree with, but human history tells us that predators will keep on going unless they are stopped.

00:14:32.000 And the Bible, so what did it take to eventually stop the predator in any of these biblical stories?

00:14:39.000 Is that a courageous person who is bold, filled with the spirit to go stand up against the evil?

00:14:44.000 That's the only thing that stops evil.

00:14:47.000 And because there is this accelerationist view where some people say, well, Charlie, there's no way that this stuff can keep on getting as insane as it is.

00:14:54.000 No, it will.

00:14:56.000 You know, I tell you, I know this is a fact because I see how insane they want it to be.

00:15:01.000 You can say, how can you see into the future?

00:15:03.000 Because I spend time on college campuses.

00:15:06.000 You want to see the future?

00:15:07.000 Go to a college campus.

00:15:09.000 It's five years the country is going to look like is what's happening on a college campus.

00:15:14.000 Black-only dormitories on hundreds of college campuses.

00:15:18.000 You didn't know this?

00:15:18.000 Hundreds, right?

00:15:20.000 Whites get lower grades than blacks on hundreds of campuses. 0.97

00:15:24.000 Okay? 0.96

00:15:25.000 This is five years from now.

00:15:27.000 Widespread reparations, widespread private property confiscation.

00:15:30.000 I'm not coming here to tell you all the problems.

00:15:32.000 I'm telling you how we defeat these people.

00:15:34.000 And this will be my final thing, and then we'll do some questions.

00:15:36.000 If you look at America as having an immune system to bad ideas, I think that's a healthy analogy, right?

00:15:42.000 So bad ideas are nothing new.

00:15:45.000 Idea pathogens, as I call them, right?

00:15:47.000 The wokeism stuff.

00:15:48.000 There are two things, though, are the greatest and most important pinnacles to create antibodies against pathogens or viruses that come in, because we're all experts on viruses now after the last couple of years.

00:16:00.000 It's truth and justice.

00:16:02.000 And when those two things are suppressed, all of a sudden you have tumors and viruses and bacteria that replicate and take over your entire society.

00:16:10.000 Truth and justice are the only two things that have been proven to be able to fight back against viruses trying to take down a civilization.

00:16:18.000 Those things are suppressed.

00:16:19.000 So you need to become a truth teller in every possible way.

00:16:23.000 Now, you might say, well, what about justice?

00:16:24.000 Justice, actually, in my opinion, cannot happen unless you first have truth.

00:16:28.000 And I'll prove it to you.

00:16:30.000 Somebody in a court of law cannot be properly convicted if the judge or the jury does not believe in absolute truth.

00:16:37.000 It's impossible.

00:16:38.000 And we're seeing this, by the way. 0.99

00:16:39.000 In Chicago, if you are a black person, you get way more privileges to go loot and to plunder and to steal than if you're a white suburban person. 1.00

00:16:47.000 It's happening all across the country. 0.98

00:16:49.000 So you need truth before you have justice, okay?

00:16:52.000 And so, but here's the amazing thing.

00:16:53.000 And I'm sure we're going to have some questions about censorship.

00:16:56.000 Charlie, I'm so tired of being shut up.

00:16:57.000 I'm being tired of being suppressed.

00:16:59.000 I agree.

00:17:01.000 I think that the social media companies suppressing us is a big deal.

00:17:04.000 I think that we're seeing a lot of censorship.

00:17:06.000 But the number one form of censorship, and Stalin wrote about this in his private journals, he says, I do not have to shut up anybody if I can get people to shut up themselves.

00:17:14.000 And that's what's happening.

00:17:17.000 You know how you know you're living in a totalitarian country?

00:17:19.000 The amount of times people come up to me at a coffee shop, but they have to look over their shoulders before they say anything.

00:17:26.000 They look over and they look over.

00:17:28.000 I was listening to an old tape of Dennis Prager in 1995.

00:17:31.000 He said, boy, when I visited the Soviet Union, it was a mark of totalitarianism because people were over his shoulders.

00:17:37.000 In 1995, he said, I'm so glad in America we don't have that.

00:17:40.000 Oh, we do now.

00:17:43.000 So every one of us can make a decision that we're going to be the same person in public that we are in private.

00:17:47.000 And I'm going to preempt the inevitable question.

00:17:49.000 But Charlie, what about my grades?

00:17:50.000 What about my job?

00:17:51.000 What about my friends?

00:17:52.000 If those things matter more than your civilization than truth, then fine.

00:17:56.000 Lie your way through your existence.

00:17:58.000 Okay?

00:17:59.000 I think telling the truth matters a lot more than having fake friends, grades that do not matter, or maybe a temporary income where you can end up finding a job where you can actually be who you are.

00:18:09.000 I think that's more important.

00:18:10.000 Now, you might disagree.

00:18:11.000 You might say, Charlie, I have to provide for my family than you do you.

00:18:14.000 I'm not telling you what to do.

00:18:15.000 I'm simply creating the binary.

00:18:17.000 They win when we shut ourselves up.

00:18:20.000 That's why they have to keep on trying to get us to stay quiet.

00:18:24.000 And they're trying to invoke our surrender, which is a whole nother speech I can give.

00:18:27.000 Let me close with how I started.

00:18:29.000 We are investing tons of resources here in Texas.

00:18:31.000 We had an amazing year here in Texas.

00:18:33.000 We hit amazing high school chapter goals, incredible college chapter goals.

00:18:37.000 I love this state.

00:18:38.000 I want the attitude to come back.

00:18:39.000 I want the woke to say, I'm not moving to Texas.

00:18:42.000 That place is not in line with my values.

00:18:44.000 You know what that's what they're saying about Florida now?

00:18:47.000 You know that people in Florida are leaving, but they're probably coming here into Georgia.

00:18:52.000 It starts with the grassroots.

00:18:53.000 It starts with you.

00:18:54.000 It starts with you staying engaged, staying involved for the homeschool moms, the school boards.

00:18:58.000 And it is an uncomfortable truth that I communicate when I speak at these events because every so often I'll get a question maybe today, but Charlie, then when do we get our country back?

00:19:07.000 And my answer is an uncomfortable one.

00:19:10.000 I don't know when.

00:19:11.000 And I don't even know if.

00:19:13.000 I'm not a fatalist and I'm not an optimist.

00:19:16.000 I see the positive, but I also see the negative.

00:19:19.000 Here's what I could say is that it's rather uncertain.

00:19:22.000 Here's what's in our favor.

00:19:25.000 Their ideas are really bad.

00:19:27.000 In fact, they're outright evil.

00:19:29.000 Here's what's in their favor.

00:19:31.000 They have more money than us.

00:19:32.000 They have the whole media.

00:19:34.000 They have the whole culture.

00:19:35.000 They have every major government institution and they want it more than we do.

00:19:39.000 They just do.

00:19:40.000 They want it more than we do.

00:19:41.000 They work harder.

00:19:42.000 They put in more time.

00:19:43.000 They take over institutions.

00:19:45.000 So the question is who's going to win?

00:19:47.000 The people with the truth that we do outnumber them, make no mistake.

00:19:50.000 There are more decent Americans than not decent Americans who think it's insane to teach a seven-year-old that men can give birth, right?

00:19:58.000 You laugh, but if you send a kid to any public school, they are going to hear that, right?

00:20:02.000 And maybe even to obviously the college.

00:20:04.000 It said men can give birth is considered to be a fact on a college campus.

00:20:09.000 So, the question is, what do we do about it?

00:20:11.000 I know for one that if any people know how to fight for what's good, it's Texans.

00:20:15.000 And I hope we can help you guys do that.

00:20:17.000 All right, let's do some questions.

00:20:18.000 God bless you guys.

00:20:19.000 Thank you.

00:20:27.000 Hi, my name is Ferris from UT San Antonio.

00:20:29.000 I wanted to ask: what do you think about all the money managers and Wall Street investment bankers coming down from New York to Texas and Florida?

00:20:37.000 Like Kenneth Griffin runs like Citadel and he's moving to Miami.

00:20:42.000 So what do you think about all that?

00:20:44.000 Yeah, I think that Florida and other states have to be careful.

00:20:47.000 I mean, it's going to result in a mass.

00:20:50.000 I mean, Ken Griffin is a conservative.

00:20:52.000 So that's one example.

00:20:53.000 But most of those guys in that community is not like Goldman Sachs is moving, right?

00:20:56.000 For example, I don't celebrate it.

00:20:59.000 I don't.

00:20:59.000 I mean, Florida is not desiring for more economic growth right now.

00:21:04.000 But Florida has managed it because of leadership, right?

00:21:08.000 Florida just signed in a six-week abortion ban.

00:21:10.000 Florida has said that Disney no longer gets special tax privileges, and that's being disputed in court.

00:21:15.000 Florida is leading the way in a lot of this stuff.

00:21:18.000 And now you have left-wing companies saying, I would never want to move to Florida.

00:21:22.000 That's a good thing, actually, okay?

00:21:25.000 And there's nothing the left does that we cannot also do, right?

00:21:29.000 Now, this is important: the left is really good. 0.99

00:21:32.000 They're like parasites. 0.99

00:21:32.000 They're good at taking over things. 0.99

00:21:35.000 We're much better at starting things.

00:21:37.000 So let's have a revival of entrepreneurship, right?

00:21:39.000 This is why I can't stand this whole idea of sending kids to go to college.

00:21:42.000 If you want to kill the entrepreneurial spirit, send a kid to go to college, right?

00:21:46.000 It absolutely destroys the entrepreneurial potential, in my opinion.

00:21:49.000 I always laugh when someone says, I ask, what are you studying?

00:21:52.000 They say, I'm studying entrepreneurship.

00:21:53.000 I said, you don't study entrepreneurship.

00:21:55.000 You do entrepreneurship.

00:21:56.000 No offense if anyone's studying entrepreneurship.

00:21:59.000 You do it.

00:22:00.000 You take a risk.

00:22:01.000 You get into the market.

00:22:02.000 So I'm generally not a fan of left-wing enterprises because you know why I'm not a fan of it?

00:22:10.000 I'm not a fan of it because now if they have an idea, ideological shift, then that's great.

00:22:16.000 Like if these left-wing Goldman Sachs firms say, you know what, we're leaving New York because of the crime, because of the vagrancy, because of the schools, because of the taxes, and we're going to Florida, and now we see the world differently.

00:22:26.000 It's the opposite.

00:22:28.000 These people leave these states and come to Texas with zero self-awareness as to why this state is more attractive than the hellscape that they actually voted for.

00:22:39.000 So that really bothers me, and it should bother you too.

00:22:41.000 Thank you.

00:22:45.000 Thank you for your show.

00:22:46.000 I've been listening since 2020 and just been more active.

00:22:49.000 It's really changed my life, actually.

00:22:50.000 So, anyways, I had a question more theological in nature.

00:22:55.000 I'm part of the Bible in 365 with your wife, Erica.

00:22:58.000 And the live stream QA with Pastor James Cadiz that you did in March, you made this statement, our thoughts don't matter.

00:23:06.000 And I, anyways, so I was just had a question just because, you know, we know Jesus was tempted without sin, but also just I had a problem with that with Proverbs, you know, the thought of foolishness is sin.

00:23:17.000 And then also, as a man thinketh in his heart, and then Jesus and the new covenant, as we're called to a higher standard, as New Testament believers, Jesus talks about you shall not commit adultery, but also if you look on a woman, it's less after her, whatever.

00:23:29.000 So could you just expound more what you meant by that?

00:23:32.000 Yeah, that's a great, that's a beautiful question.

00:23:34.000 So this is, I get into a lot of heated debates and the fact you're asking it publicly, I'll get into even more.

00:23:40.000 I think that the, Let's say the rigid interpretation of these verses have created unnecessary mental torment for a lot of Christians because they know very little about psychology. 1.00

00:23:53.000 So, the way psychology works, we know this, is there's something called unwanted intrusive thoughts or automatic negative thoughts.

00:23:58.000 Every single person in this room has them.

00:24:00.000 You're driving on the side of the street, you say, Oh, what would happen if I would pull my car over to the side of the road?

00:24:04.000 You can't control these, they pop up, they're weird, they're strange.

00:24:08.000 The improper interpretation of those verses is somehow those ideas are part of your identity. 0.61

00:24:13.000 That's rubbish, they're not.

00:24:15.000 It's the thoughts that you act on and that you associate that matter. 0.93

00:24:19.000 So, what I'm trying to do by saying that is I'm trying to make Christians that might have, let's just say, ADHD-type tendencies that have sticky thoughts, thoughts they can't get out of their head, where all of a sudden they're in these thought loops. 0.93

00:24:31.000 By the way, it's millions of Christians are told by their pastors that those thoughts are demonic or satanic.

00:24:36.000 The thoughts might be, but they actually are probably in a negative thought loop pattern.

00:24:41.000 It happens to all of us, by the way, that all of a sudden they're thinking they're in a sinful pattern when it's their behavior or the thoughts they identify with that matter a lot.

00:24:51.000 So, let me be even more precise.

00:24:53.000 If I had a thought that I thought was interesting and I wanted to do that, I wanted to all of a sudden pull my car over and run somebody over.

00:25:01.000 That's not good.

00:25:01.000 But if you have a thought and it's against your values and you attach to it, oh my goodness, that thought scares me.

00:25:08.000 God is not holding against that you at all. 0.95

00:25:12.000 And so, most pastors get this totally wrong because they don't understand, first of all, that people have garbage thoughts, and we call them garbage thoughts in particular. 0.94

00:25:22.000 But here's what they really don't understand: you have garbage, unwanted, intrusive thoughts that are sticky and remain sticky about things you care about. 0.91

00:25:32.000 And that you say, What do you mean?

00:25:34.000 The reason they become sticky in your mind is you think the thought is actually a threat to the thing you care about.

00:25:41.000 So, for example, I guarantee every Christian here has had an unwanted, intrusive thought before, sitting in church being like, I could blurt something out right now.

00:25:48.000 And that thought, right?

00:25:49.000 Everybody laughs, right?

00:25:51.000 Why?

00:25:52.000 Because you consider the ceremony holy and that thought scared you because you wouldn't want to do that.

00:25:59.000 Is that thought your identity?

00:26:01.000 No, it's what you do with the thought that matters.

00:26:04.000 You should laugh it off, scoff at it, right?

00:26:06.000 And so, there's a ton of psychological literature to support this, but I can't tell you how many young people email me and they say, Charlie, my pastor says I have to, you know, I have to really repent for these terrible, awful, negative thoughts I'm having.

00:26:21.000 I don't even want to have them.

00:26:22.000 Well, that pastor is misleading his flock.

00:26:25.000 The better way to approach it is, what are your values? 0.99

00:26:28.000 Not what are your garbage thoughts that might pop up every so often. 0.98

00:26:32.000 It's what you do with those thoughts. 0.98

00:26:34.000 And happy to expound on that more.

00:26:37.000 There's some great books that talk about this.

00:26:39.000 Dr. Amon, the whole book, Overcoming Unwanted and Intrusive Thoughts.

00:26:43.000 And the Christian world is ill-equipped for dealing with mental health in such a terrible, awful way. 0.99

00:26:49.000 And I'm happy to build that out even more.

00:26:51.000 I see this because I get hundreds of emails a week from young people.

00:26:54.000 Charlie, I'm dealing with suicide.

00:26:55.000 I'm dealing with depression and anxiety.

00:26:57.000 My pastor just says pray and do all these different things.

00:26:59.000 I'm getting no guidance.

00:27:01.000 I have been so underwhelmed at how the church has no idea what they're doing largely with these topics and these ideas because they'll cherry-pick a verse with no context and understanding exactly what it is.

00:27:11.000 If you have a weird or crazy thought that you don't agree with, there's nothing wrong with you.

00:27:16.000 In fact, that's as normal as a weird commercial showing up on a TV screen.

00:27:20.000 It's what you do with that thought that ends up mattering.

00:27:22.000 Thank you.

00:27:25.000 I'm going to go about 10 or 15 minutes longer.

00:27:28.000 Is that okay with you guys?

00:27:29.000 Okay, great.

00:27:32.000 Hi, my name is Lindsay.

00:27:33.000 I go to Texas AM.

00:27:34.000 And my question is: is there anything that the Conservative Party is doing wrong?

00:27:39.000 Oh, yeah.

00:27:42.000 Yeah.

00:27:43.000 Yeah, I'll take all 15 minutes on that.

00:27:46.000 Yeah, I mean, I do want to first celebrate what's going on.

00:27:51.000 I've been in this for 11 years now.

00:27:53.000 The conservative movement has changed a lot, largely for the better.

00:27:58.000 We have a lot thicker skin now for when the media tries to take out one of our own.

00:28:04.000 James O'Keefe would have been ostracized 11 years ago, and now he's been embraced warmly after they've tried to destroy his life.

00:28:11.000 That's a good thing.

00:28:13.000 I think we're now understanding the campaigns of obliteration and smear and slander.

00:28:17.000 I think that's really positive.

00:28:19.000 I'm not a fan of neoliberalism.

00:28:21.000 Neoliberalism is three big ideas that are combined together, which is that we should invade the world, invite the world, and import unlimited amount of foreign products.

00:28:31.000 And all three of those things simultaneously are good for us.

00:28:34.000 There's some truth that maybe some parts of trade can be helpful for you, but largely the unlimited free trade policies have been bad for the American worker and the American purchasing power.

00:28:45.000 Our immigration policies are absolutely insane and destroying the fabric of our country. 1.00

00:28:50.000 And in my personal opinion, I think it's a tragic mistake to get engaged in this Ukrainian proxy war against Russia.

00:28:57.000 I would rather see that money spent on the southern border.

00:28:59.000 That's my personal opinion.

00:29:00.000 Not everybody agrees.

00:29:02.000 Obviously, there's some agreement there.

00:29:04.000 So neoliberalism, here's the problem, is neoliberalism is largely rejected by all of you, but it's largely embraced by the people you send to Washington, D.C.

00:29:15.000 And we call them sometimes neocons.

00:29:18.000 I prefer the term neoliberal.

00:29:20.000 Neoliberalism has proven to be an ideological construct that is better for the people that already have power, wealth, and privilege, and not the people that want to try to make some power, wealth, and privilege for themselves.

00:29:36.000 And I'll prove it to you, right?

00:29:38.000 If you own a mega company, it is in your best interest to try to get the lowest wage labor possible, okay?

00:29:45.000 I don't necessarily fault them for it, but they want relaxed immigration standards for that.

00:29:50.000 It's not the best for you, though, especially even those of you that might have gone to college and you're $100,000 in debt, and now you have to go into a market to go compete against a foreigner, right, that didn't spend the $100,000. 0.96

00:30:03.000 And so some people might say, oh, that's a free market.

00:30:06.000 Yes, it is, but markets should point towards some good, right?

00:30:10.000 And when you don't get the good you're desiring, you should have the courage to say, let's put our own graduates first because we have $100,000 in debt and we have a moral obligation to the 19-year-old American more than the 19-year-old person from India. 0.85

00:30:22.000 The 19-year-old person from India is probably a very sweet person, but our own citizens should get priority over the foreign citizen. 1.00

00:30:28.000 That is the mantra of America First, right?

00:30:31.000 And it has proven to be a very popular political slogan, obviously, but it's philosophically and morally correct, in my opinion.

00:30:40.000 So what can the conservative parties that are conservative movement do better or what we're doing wrong?

00:30:46.000 Yeah, look, here's my number one thing is I don't think we have, I don't, okay, let me word it this way.

00:30:57.000 That I still deal with far too many people, not you, that believe we're dealing with an opposition that means well.

00:31:06.000 If there was just one takeaway I could give, I hear it all the time.

00:31:09.000 People say, Charlie, you know, we all want the same thing.

00:31:13.000 We just have different ways of getting there.

00:31:16.000 If you believe that lie, then I think you make a hundred other bad decisions after that.

00:31:21.000 You're willing to negotiate in bad peace.

00:31:23.000 You're willing to do all the in bad faith and all that.

00:31:26.000 But instead, if you believe they want something completely different, which is the fundamental transformation of the American Republic with no borders, a destroyed currency, you know, trans ideology everywhere and cultural Marxism, you should be more skeptical all of a sudden one of the dealing with them, right? 0.90

00:31:41.000 And again, to defend my parents' generation, we used to live in America where both sides wanted the same thing.

00:31:48.000 They had different ways to get there.

00:31:50.000 That country has changed, right?

00:31:52.000 It has been altered significantly.

00:31:55.000 Again, I don't delight in that, but you would never, no one in this room would ever do a business deal, get into a covenant, get into a relationship, or do a home transaction with somebody you knew that was dealing in bad faith.

00:32:10.000 Someone that you have a proven track record where they're not actually trying to accomplish the same mission that you are, whether it be the purchase of a home or a marriage, you'd say, I don't trust you because you want something different than what I do.

00:32:22.000 And that is the left.

00:32:23.000 They want something different.

00:32:24.000 And I'll prove it to you.

00:32:26.000 We want a closed border.

00:32:27.000 They obviously want 5,000 people coming across every single day.

00:32:31.000 And they celebrate it.

00:32:32.000 We believe that children should not be taught LGBT trans ideology. 1.00

00:32:36.000 They believe in it and they celebrate with it.

00:32:38.000 We believe that skin color means nothing and character means everything.

00:32:42.000 They believe skin color matters. 0.55

00:32:44.000 We believe in free markets and private property and low inflation.

00:32:47.000 They believe in the obliteration of free markets and private property and high inflation.

00:32:52.000 I could go through every single topic.

00:32:54.000 These are not policy disputes.

00:32:56.000 These are philosophy differences now, right?

00:33:00.000 Where we view the existence of man and God and the relationship between them.

00:33:05.000 And the final one, I'll say this.

00:33:06.000 Everyone in this room believes that there is a God and we are not him.

00:33:12.000 Regardless of your own religion, almost nobody on the left believes both those two things.

00:33:17.000 They might believe there is a God, but I am him.

00:33:20.000 Or they might believe that if there was, there is no God, but I'm in charge of everybody.

00:33:25.000 So the suitor conservatives realize we're dealing with the other side that does not share your worldview and does not want what you want, I think it'll be very liberating in more ways than one.

00:33:35.000 Thank you.

00:33:36.000 Appreciate it.

00:33:39.000 Hi, my name's Emily Williams.

00:33:41.000 I'm a sophomore in high school.

00:33:42.000 You started TPUSA in 2012 and you were fairly young.

00:33:46.000 What inspired you to do so?

00:33:48.000 It's a great question.

00:33:50.000 So I had great mentors that helped me, but I was motivated.

00:33:54.000 And believe it or not, I thought our country was falling apart in 2012.

00:33:58.000 I was like, wow, this place is falling apart.

00:34:00.000 We're going to lose this great place.

00:34:03.000 And yeah, imagine starting an organization now, right?

00:34:07.000 Well, the Lord has blessed us significantly over the last 11 years.

00:34:10.000 But I was motivated.

00:34:11.000 I mean, I went to public high school in the suburbs of Chicago.

00:34:14.000 It's a really sad tale.

00:34:15.000 It's Wheeling High School.

00:34:18.000 It was a great place to go to high school.

00:34:20.000 Lots of Marxist elements, but it's way worse now.

00:34:23.000 But it was mostly focused on economics. 0.91

00:34:25.000 Rich people are bad.

00:34:26.000 All the same sort of stuff.

00:34:28.000 But the high school got one thing right.

00:34:30.000 And I'm going to tell you how much the country has changed in 11 years.

00:34:33.000 It was 53% Hispanic high school.

00:34:35.000 So as a white man, I was in a minority, and no one talked about race.

00:34:40.000 It was one of the most racially diverse high schools, blacks, Polish, South Africans, Vietnamese, you name it.

00:34:46.000 And no one talked about race.

00:34:47.000 We won football games together.

00:34:49.000 We won basketball games together.

00:34:50.000 We did some great things.

00:34:51.000 No one cared about race.

00:34:52.000 There might have been an off-color, insensitive joke here or there.

00:34:55.000 And then you throw one back and that's it.

00:34:56.000 You're 17 years old.

00:34:57.000 Like, who cares?

00:34:58.000 The whole high school's been destroyed.

00:35:00.000 CRT, white privilege walks.

00:35:02.000 And I have seen the regression of a beautiful institution.

00:35:05.000 Sure, it had its problems, but I raised, I never felt anti-white.

00:35:09.000 I never felt anti-anything.

00:35:10.000 It was about character.

00:35:11.000 We had signs.

00:35:12.000 They took down the signs, by the way.

00:35:13.000 They had a whole statue that said character matters.

00:35:15.000 They took it all down.

00:35:17.000 Because it does not matter anymore.

00:35:19.000 Character is not important.

00:35:21.000 Skin color is important to the Marxists. 0.96

00:35:24.000 So it motivated me.

00:35:25.000 I thought we were losing our country.

00:35:26.000 But I'll be honest, I was so naive to actually what we were up against 11 years ago.

00:35:31.000 I was trying to warn audiences about overspending and too big of government.

00:35:36.000 I mean, that's a problem, but that's just one of several problems now.

00:35:39.000 And so, but look, the attitude I had 11 years ago is the same attitude I have today, which is what I do matters.

00:35:46.000 And I don't sit still well and I don't sit on the sidelines.

00:35:48.000 So you got to do your part.

00:35:49.000 The Lord has blessed us and me in a way where we're now playing a very big part, right?

00:35:55.000 But if you are saying, oh, and here, the only part of the question I want to make sure I clarify is that sometimes people say, but Charlie, I can never make as big of a difference as you.

00:36:05.000 Well, I actually don't know if that's true.

00:36:08.000 Because if I would have had that belief 11 years ago, when then, I don't know, Newt Gingrich was talking, well, then all this amazing work at Turning Point would not exist, right?

00:36:17.000 Yes, we are the rarity.

00:36:19.000 Yes, we are the exception.

00:36:21.000 Yes, but it was a lot of work, a lot of blessing, a lot of grit, but also a commitment that what I do matters.

00:36:30.000 I hope everybody leaves with that attitude, that my own individual action is incredibly important to the saving of Western civilization.

00:36:38.000 Thank you.

00:36:42.000 Hey, Charlie, my name is Howard Barker, and I'm with the Harris County Republican Party and the Party of Texas.

00:36:48.000 I really want to thank you for what you're doing here to help us out in Texas.

00:36:52.000 I also want to let you know that we have a formal program to try to promote and support conservative clubs on high school campuses like you're doing, and we're available to do that.

00:37:02.000 I wanted to try to pick up on an earlier question that asked, what specifically can we do to change things, to help things?

00:37:12.000 And they asked for four or five things.

00:37:15.000 And I think the first thing we can do is to join a Republican group.

00:37:19.000 Get current information on a regular basis.

00:37:21.000 There are lots of clubs that meet weekly and monthly.

00:37:24.000 You can do that.

00:37:26.000 Find your precinct chair.

00:37:28.000 They need a lot of help.

00:37:30.000 There are a lot of things they don't do because they don't.

00:37:32.000 Or become one.

00:37:33.000 Yeah.

00:37:34.000 That's right.

00:37:35.000 When they try to find a precinct chair, they may find there is none.

00:37:42.000 There are a lot of unregistered voters, and there are a lot of voters who don't vote.

00:37:45.000 Get out there, have those difficult conversations, and find some unregistered voters.

00:37:49.000 And finally, try to encourage those discouraged voters who are opting out of the system.

00:37:56.000 I mean, they're so frustrated they don't want to vote.

00:37:58.000 They're afraid their vote's going to be stolen.

00:38:01.000 Let's change those minds because we can't lose our base that we have right now.

00:38:05.000 We have to grow it.

00:38:06.000 God bless you.

00:38:07.000 It's a great list.

00:38:08.000 Thank you for your leadership.

00:38:12.000 Hi, I'm Caitlin, and I would like to ask you a question about puberty blockers specifically because I was on them for a several amount of years for a different medical condition.

00:38:22.000 I wanted to know, how do we erase and remove these usage, the usage of puberty blockers?

00:38:30.000 If you don't mind me asking, would you agree they're pretty savage pharmacological agents?

00:38:37.000 They've left me with permanent irreversible damage.

00:38:39.000 So yes, yes, they are.

00:38:41.000 Yeah.

00:38:41.000 Well, God bless you.

00:38:42.000 We're here to support you, and thank you for saying that.

00:38:48.000 Well, we need more people to speak out against it.

00:38:51.000 Look, I don't, there's a lot of fights going on.

00:38:54.000 You know, the left, they came after me.

00:38:56.000 They said, oh, Charlie is overly obsessed with child medication.

00:38:59.000 I mean, they could spin anything, right?

00:39:01.000 No, I'm not overly obsessed, but I mean, you take one puberty blocker, for example, which it's an off-label use, Lupron.

00:39:09.000 I was on that.

00:39:09.000 You were on Lupron.

00:39:11.000 Okay, so do you know what Lupron is used for usually?

00:39:14.000 Chemical castration.

00:39:15.000 It's used for prostate cancer.

00:39:17.000 It's used for off-label for endometriosis.

00:39:20.000 And it was used for precocious puberty, which is what I had.

00:39:23.000 Yes.

00:39:24.000 And the first one that you mentioned, rapists used to be given Lupron.

00:39:30.000 And the ACLU and left-wing groups came in and said it's inhumane to give people that are rapists Lupron.

00:39:38.000 Also, the pharmaceutical company has been sued many, many, many times.

00:39:41.000 Abby V, the rest of the pharmaceutical companies that have came over and took over Lupron as a drug, they've been sued several times.

00:39:48.000 Degenerative disc disease, infertility, endometriosis, you name it.

00:39:54.000 People are having it.

00:39:57.000 I'm just kind of speechless at your courage because so to get, just so you understand, tens of thousands of young girls are being prescribed these every quarter that we know of, right?

00:40:11.000 For what probably is just misdiagnosed puberty anxiety, probably, right?

00:40:16.000 That could be rectified with counseling or time or patience.

00:40:20.000 And so this is not a small, isolated thing.

00:40:22.000 But so Lupron, even if somebody has prostate cancer, it basically brings your testosterone production down to zero and suppresses all your natural hormone production tendencies.

00:40:35.000 And so I'm going to actually have you answer the question.

00:40:38.000 What would your message be then to the world where they say, but it's the loving thing to give a 13-year-old Lupron?

00:40:48.000 It will ruin your life, period.

00:40:51.000 Point blank.

00:40:54.000 Well, damage your body, leave you permanently infertile.

00:41:01.000 It is terrible.

00:41:03.000 Well, God bless you.

00:41:05.000 And you have a community here of people that support you and thank you for speaking up, okay?

00:41:09.000 God bless you.

00:41:14.000 Just so you guys know, this is not some isolated thing.

00:41:17.000 We're going to have a generation of no exaggeration, anywhere between 500,000 to a million young women.

00:41:23.000 That's the rate that we're at right now, 10 years from now, that will say, what do you mean I can't have kids?

00:41:29.000 What do you mean?

00:41:29.000 Can I go back?

00:41:31.000 It is irreversible damage.

00:41:32.000 I cannot put into words.

00:41:34.000 If you do not believe me, go look up how severe and how savage Lupron is.

00:41:39.000 And that's one of a cocktail of 15 pharmaceutical agents that they are giving to teenage girls right now without parental consent.

00:41:49.000 They're doing it without ever telling the parents.

00:41:51.000 Yes.

00:41:53.000 Yes, my question is.

00:41:55.000 Decades of coups and corruption around the world, our politicians put us in the wrong side of history.

00:42:01.000 All the traumas created by drugs, alcohol, abuse, and peer pressure got us into a timeline of lies and illusions.

00:42:07.000 Damaged lost souls are driving our country with the iron fist.

00:42:12.000 It's not many cheeks we can turn.

00:42:15.000 It's not time to be silent.

00:42:17.000 The secrets of the universe has been known.

00:42:19.000 We will win in truth.

00:42:21.000 How are we going to address the cartels feeding our government?

00:42:25.000 We are a trade road in Houston.

00:42:30.000 What can we do?

00:42:31.000 And what can I do about that?

00:42:33.000 Great question.

00:42:34.000 Thank you.

00:42:35.000 So look, there's 87,000 kids that we know of that have gone missing in the last 90 days in the interior of the United States.

00:42:42.000 And I have to be lectured by the left that America had slaves 200 years ago.

00:42:47.000 Yeah, we have slaves now that you guys are facilitating on the United States southern border.

00:42:50.000 Majorcas wants it.

00:42:51.000 Biden wants it. 1.00

00:42:52.000 Kamala Harris wants it.

00:42:53.000 They're enthusiastic supporters of the new, forget the, you know, forget the Atlantic slave trade. 0.88

00:42:59.000 We now have the Southern Triangle slave trade that is coming through America. 0.67

00:43:03.000 87,000 kids that are in sex trades, prostitutes working in factories right now.

00:43:08.000 Look, what you can do, and you guys, I don't understand the excuse why Greg Abbott has not put a middle finger to Joe Biden and has militarized the Texas National Guard, had 100,000 people with tanks.

00:43:20.000 Do you have tanks?

00:43:21.000 Build them.

00:43:22.000 Tell the federal government they're no longer a sovereign.

00:43:24.000 Secure the border.

00:43:24.000 I've been saying that for those of you that follow my podcast, I've been saying this for a long time.

00:43:28.000 And we always get excuses.

00:43:31.000 Here's people say, well, Charlie, when will you be happy?

00:43:33.000 When it is zero people a day crossing through the Rio Grande sector.

00:43:37.000 Why is the governor of Texas not doing that? 0.97

00:43:40.000 And I'll be honest, it's just, he's a wuss. 0.92

00:43:43.000 He's a nice wuss. 0.98

00:43:44.000 He's a pleasant wuss. 0.99

00:43:45.000 He's not a liberal wuss, but he's a wuss. 1.00

00:43:49.000 And you guys are being invaded, and kids are being sex trafficked. 1.00

00:43:52.000 He is overseeing the greatest slave trade in modern America. 0.94

00:43:56.000 There is no other, you might say, well, Charlie, what would you do if you're a governor?

00:43:59.000 It's not that hard.

00:44:00.000 You mobilize the citizen army and deputize them, give them weapons and training for three weeks.

00:44:06.000 You make the entire National Guard to the southern border.

00:44:08.000 If Joe Biden tries to reclaim the National Guard, say, no, we're a sovereign state.

00:44:11.000 We control our own borders. 0.73

00:44:12.000 You're being invaded every day by the cartels.

00:44:14.000 This could be fixed in a month, but we do not have political leaders that want to fix it.

00:44:19.000 Thank you so much.

00:44:23.000 Hey, Charlie, I've been listening to you for like maybe two years now.

00:44:26.000 A lot of podcasts, but I come from Collin College in North Texas.

00:44:31.000 And I made the mistake of dropping out maybe a month ago because I decided to take teachers that I didn't know would be leftist.

00:44:43.000 And my mom had a huge sheet of teachers that she said to take.

00:44:46.000 I just decided to not listen to that.

00:44:49.000 And some of the classes we had to do, in the first week, we had to talk about our political affiliation in front of the class.

00:44:56.000 And I thought it would be fine until after I spoke that I was a conservative and I didn't believe in all the leftist pushing that schools are teaching today.

00:45:05.000 I would not be taken seriously ever again in that class in any of my classes.

00:45:10.000 And so, I mean, I decided to drop out.

00:45:12.000 And like, there are a lot of conservative kids at Collin College that they can't be, like, they just can't speak out because they don't want to be targeted by the majority of the leftist students there.

00:45:22.000 And there are a huge majority there that are very violent.

00:45:26.000 And they, like, if you say something that they don't agree with, they will, like, they will assault you.

00:45:30.000 It has happened there before.

00:45:32.000 So I will be going back in the fall to the technical campus.

00:45:32.000 That's what they do.

00:45:36.000 And I will be a college student again.

00:45:38.000 The first thing I want to do there is start a turning point chapter there.

00:45:40.000 I love it.

00:45:41.000 Because people there need to be represented.

00:45:43.000 And if it's not fair that these students are being shut down, because there's nothing you can say.

00:45:49.000 If you say anything that's different than what the teachers push, you'll be shut down and you'll be told to leave the classroom.

00:45:53.000 So that's why I want to start a turning point chapter there to represent the students who can't voice themselves. 0.54

00:45:58.000 So here, let me just give you, I love it.

00:46:00.000 We're going to support you.

00:46:01.000 But let me kind of challenge you for one thing.

00:46:04.000 Become so good that you can win over your classmates.

00:46:06.000 And you might say, well, Charlie, what does that take?

00:46:08.000 20,000 hours of study.

00:46:10.000 Get started.

00:46:11.000 Listen to my podcast.

00:46:12.000 Listen to Matt Walsh.

00:46:13.000 Listen to Milton Friedman.

00:46:14.000 Read Thomas Soule books.

00:46:15.000 Take the Hillsdale online courses.

00:46:18.000 Within a couple hundred hours of study, you're going to become really sharp.

00:46:21.000 And then all of a sudden, you're going to know the right questions to ask.

00:46:23.000 And that's the other thing.

00:46:24.000 Never tell a left-winger, a liberal, or independent what you believe.

00:46:28.000 Ask them what they believe.

00:46:29.000 And use the questions as a guide towards truth.

00:46:31.000 Why do you believe that?

00:46:32.000 Does that work?

00:46:33.000 Well, then, what's your definition of truth?

00:46:36.000 So make it a challenge as you return to class this fall to be super 20,000 hours is not physically possible before the fall, but you get to 2,000.

00:46:45.000 I think so.

00:46:46.000 Now it gets 200.

00:46:48.000 But it's the 20,000-hour rule.

00:46:50.000 People say, Charlie, how do you get so good at this?

00:46:52.000 I've been doing this for 11 years, right?

00:46:54.000 I've given 4,000 speeches.

00:46:56.000 I've done 2,000 radio broadcasts, right?

00:46:59.000 1,500 television interviews, not to mention the study in between.

00:47:02.000 You do that, you start to master a subject, right?

00:47:05.000 And you start to see patterns and you can predict things ahead.

00:47:08.000 So become so convincing you can win those people over that think they hate you.

00:47:12.000 We got your back.

00:47:12.000 Yeah, thank you.

00:47:13.000 Thank you for starting the chapter.

00:47:14.000 God bless you, okay?

00:47:15.000 We'll do two more.

00:47:16.000 These will be the last two.

00:47:19.000 You hold it?

00:47:22.000 Hi.

00:47:23.000 My name is Mariano.

00:47:26.000 I am from Texas' favorite country, Mexico.

00:47:31.000 But yeah, first of all, I want to say thank you because you have really been an inspiration.

00:47:38.000 You really speak the truth.

00:47:40.000 And I think that's important because we are living in very difficult times, as the other speakers have said.

00:47:47.000 Like there's evil forces out there trying to battle humanity and end up all the good that we have.

00:47:55.000 I feel that it is important for me to represent because as a Mexican gay immigrant that lived five years in San Francisco, and I used to think of myself as a liberal person, I can really say that they are no longer, even though I do think that most Democrat people are good people, I do think that they don't know anymore what they are defending.

00:48:17.000 And because let's just say, they say that grooming children and telling them that changing their gender is correct and then mutilating their body is correct. 0.85

00:48:28.000 That is not correct, and that is not the solution. 0.77

00:48:31.000 So that's where I draw my line as a gay person.

00:48:35.000 As an adult, you can do whatever.

00:48:37.000 But anyway, this is a long discussion, I know.

00:48:40.000 My question goes more related to in the last two years, we have seen a lot of news and mainstream media trying to censor the truth in many, many, many fields.

00:48:54.000 Medical professionals and people in all areas.

00:48:58.000 And if you don't go along with the narrative that they want to do, they are going to censor us.

00:49:03.000 But that, if I understand correctly what I understand of this country, goes against the amendments, right?

00:49:09.000 So how, why haven't we really been able to protect our rights?

00:49:14.000 And why haven't we been able to stop the authorities when they are not following the rules?

00:49:19.000 So great question.

00:49:20.000 And God bless you.

00:49:21.000 And thank you for being here.

00:49:22.000 So, and I would hope to agree that 90% of the country could believe grooming of children is wrong.

00:49:29.000 I hope you're right.

00:49:30.000 So really quick.

00:49:31.000 So yes, the First Amendment, Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion or freedom of speech or freedom of assembly.

00:49:38.000 However, if you're a private company, you're not, that doesn't apply to you.

00:49:42.000 Where it gets tricky, though, and what we need to then emphasize, why did the federal government then, why were they allowed to then shut us up?

00:49:48.000 That's illegal.

00:49:49.000 Remember, the Constitution are not rules for us.

00:49:52.000 The Constitution are rules for the government.

00:49:54.000 It's completely different.

00:49:56.000 It's the first form of government ever where they decide to restrain government before they ever do a law for the people.

00:50:02.000 It's a pretty remarkable thing, right?

00:50:04.000 The Bill of Rights is a Bill of Rights reasserting God-given natural rights for you for what the government can't do.

00:50:10.000 So, for example, you might say, oh, Charlie, that's an exaggeration.

00:50:13.000 No, it's not.

00:50:14.000 When the Federal Bureau of Investigation actively went to Twitter and met on a weekly basis to shut up my Twitter account, that's against the law.

00:50:22.000 That's the government breaking the law.

00:50:25.000 And that needs to be exploited in the courts.

00:50:27.000 And people need to go to jail for a very, very long time for what they did.

00:50:31.000 Because the government is not allowed to shut you up.

00:50:34.000 They're not allowed to shut you up through proxy or through ally or through a wink and a nod or through an affiliate.

00:50:40.000 They cannot do that.

00:50:42.000 And so, but this leads to a broader point.

00:50:45.000 They need to censor us, though.

00:50:47.000 Censorship is a key ingredient in the formula for the totalitarian takeover.

00:50:54.000 This is why you might love him or hate him or think I have a very, I think, nuanced view where I find things objectionable about him, but also interesting and important.

00:51:03.000 Elon Musk buying Twitter is without a doubt a glitch in their censorship matrix.

00:51:08.000 It is.

00:51:09.000 And Rumble being on the scene and being a YouTube competitor is a very good thing.

00:51:16.000 They need to be able to stop dissident ideas.

00:51:19.000 They call dissident ideas disinformation, when in reality, it's information they don't like.

00:51:25.000 It's ideas that don't fit their narrative.

00:51:28.000 It is, I believe, a crime against humanity that we for years were not able to have a robust discussion online about early treatments for the Chinese coronavirus.

00:51:39.000 We weren't allowed to talk about it.

00:51:41.000 Is ivermectin?

00:51:42.000 I don't know, does it work?

00:51:43.000 Vitamin D levels, any sort of correlation, right?

00:51:46.000 IV therapy, baby aspirin.

00:51:49.000 Are there any sort of cross-blind clinical trials?

00:51:51.000 You were not able to mention that on social media.

00:51:54.000 I wasn't.

00:51:54.000 I had my social media obliterated because I tweeted out, wow, this is interesting.

00:51:58.000 Looks like there might be a cocktail of drugs, which actually ended up being the case.

00:52:03.000 And now I have to watch March Madness or football.

00:52:06.000 What do I see nonstop?

00:52:07.000 Pax Lovid brought to you by Pfizer as an early treatment.

00:52:10.000 Oh, now we can talk about treatments after you made your billions of dollars mandating the vaccine that doesn't work and isn't safe and is not effective.

00:52:18.000 Now you guys can do early treatment saves lives.

00:52:21.000 I mean, this is criminal, evil, diabolical type behavior that this regime has engaged in.

00:52:28.000 But the censorship thing drives me nuts.

00:52:31.000 But the censorship of the 2020 election, the censorship of Hunter Biden's laptop, right?

00:52:37.000 We were not allowed to talk about Hunter Biden's laptop for a whole month leading up until you might say, Charlie, what do you mean not allowed to?

00:52:43.000 I lost access to my Twitter account because I mentioned the Hunter Biden laptop.

00:52:49.000 I could not get into my Twitter account for two weeks because they said I was a spreader of disinformation.

00:52:54.000 They said it's not true that Hunter Biden left the laptop in Delaware.

00:52:58.000 This is Russian disinformation.

00:53:00.000 And they did that in the critical, and then as soon as the election ended, everyone's like, okay, it's over.

00:53:03.000 We got what we wanted.

00:53:04.000 And so how do we fight against it?

00:53:08.000 I have a lot of ideas.

00:53:09.000 I talk about it on my show.

00:53:11.000 I certainly don't have time here, but I would love to see some Republican attorneys general to start use handcuffs and subpoenas and perp walks for these criminals that have abused their power.

00:53:21.000 God bless you.

00:53:21.000 This will be the last question.

00:53:22.000 Thank you.

00:53:24.000 Sorry, we just got to get to the last one.

00:53:25.000 Thank you very much.

00:53:26.000 Hi, I'm Hannah Gibson, and I go to Bradley's Port College.

00:53:31.000 And thankfully, I was homeschooled.

00:53:33.000 Praise the Lord.

00:53:34.000 So it was quite a culture shock going to community college.

00:53:39.000 And my first semester, I'm a theater major, and my theater class is showing I'll be clean and say drag shows and saying this can be your job and showing my sociology class will show picture of a nude man and saying this is the culture of this tribe.

00:54:01.000 And I have a classmate who has a professor who has weed growing in their classroom. 0.91

00:54:09.000 How do we stop these crazy liberal professors? 0.95

00:54:13.000 I mean, look, I'm going to keep on saying the same thing. 1.00

00:54:14.000 You guys have a wuss as a governor. 1.00

00:54:16.000 These schools should be defunded a long time ago.

00:54:18.000 Why are they receiving, I don't understand, like, make the argument for me, okay?

00:54:22.000 You are actively allowing the bacteria of liberalism to take over your state.

00:54:27.000 Use some antibiotics, right?

00:54:29.000 Which is called courage.

00:54:31.000 Courage is the great antibiotic.

00:54:33.000 No, you're not allowed to grow weed in a classroom.

00:54:35.000 Go do something else freak.

00:54:36.000 Like, seriously, that's just weird, okay?

00:54:38.000 I mean, it might work in Austin, I guess.

00:54:40.000 And I mean, people might say, well, Charlie, isn't that, you know, too heavy-handed?

00:54:44.000 I'm sick of losing beautiful places in America.

00:54:47.000 And I'm sick of losing Texas and Georgia and Arizona because they are the ones that are allowed to be forceful.

00:54:54.000 And they're the ones that are allowed to push this ideology.

00:54:56.000 Now, you mentioned something very interesting.

00:54:58.000 I used to make fun of theater majors, no offense, of that you'll never be able to find jobs.

00:55:02.000 With the new drag queen thing, I actually think the left is going to have a lot of jobs for theater majors now. 1.00

00:55:09.000 I mean, think of all the libraries that kids need to have, you know, people torque in front of them.

00:55:14.000 Yeah, no, it's a boom industry, actually.

00:55:16.000 They're shutting down the Permian Basin, but they're going to replace the jobs, all the fossil fuel jobs gone with men in thongs in front of 11-year-olds, which is happening thousands of times across the country, by the way. 0.96

00:55:28.000 So, look, thank you for being involved, and I'm glad you were homeschooled.

00:55:34.000 We need actually conservatives in theater.

00:55:35.000 So, we do.

00:55:37.000 It's going to be a tough road, though, if you ever tell people your values because they're very totalitarian.

00:55:43.000 The T in LGBT stands for tyranny. 1.00

00:55:48.000 It is not enough that you say, because again, all of us, I think, are comfortable within America where you make your own personal decisions.

00:55:56.000 And I don't want to overly police that, right?

00:55:58.000 We all agree with that.

00:55:59.000 Now, laws are a separate discussion, obviously, but it's never about that.

00:56:03.000 It's not about tolerance.

00:56:05.000 And that tolerance quickly becomes that you must personally accept it, even if it's against your values.

00:56:11.000 And then you must celebrate it, where they say, Where is your pride flag in your window for a whole month?

00:56:16.000 Why aren't you showing up for the parade?

00:56:18.000 Like, I thought this was about tolerance.

00:56:19.000 Now it's mandatory celebration, and then it's mandatory participation.

00:56:26.000 That you must actively be engaged in participating in the exercise of whatever type of thing they're doing.

00:56:34.000 We here love freedom, we love liberty, so we actually don't think a lot of our mind space is not dominated by people that disagree with us halfway around the world, right?

00:56:45.000 But right now, right now, there are groups of trans activists in San Francisco that are super worried that 300 people are meeting in Harris County and why they don't see the world the way they do.

00:56:57.000 These people have more evangelistic zeal than Christian missionaries did in the 1800s about finding lost indigenous tribes for the gospel.

00:57:06.000 The only problem is that they're not selling the salt and light and the good word.

00:57:11.000 These people are selling things from the pit of hell.

00:57:13.000 Yes.

00:57:15.000 These people are coming and trying to make you believe to conform in a certain ideology.

00:57:18.000 So, God bless you.

00:57:19.000 Thank you.

00:57:20.000 Really appreciate it.

00:57:21.000 So, in closing here, everybody, if my language is too forceful, hopefully, I woke you up because it's the country you're living in.

00:57:29.000 And we need grassroots people to rise up and to do something.

00:57:33.000 So, let's just recap what you can do.

00:57:34.000 If you're a student and you are not yet running a turning point chapter, please do that and start a turning point chapter, high school chapter, or college chapter.

00:57:43.000 If you are a parent, I implore you that if you can, if you can, if you can, to take your kid out of government school, I'm not telling you what to do, but if you send your kid to government school, you're playing Russian roulette with their values.

00:57:56.000 We're not going to send our daughter to government school.

00:57:59.000 If you have to send your kid to government school, then you got to be a 24-7 operation overseeing curriculum, running for school board.

00:58:06.000 And that's fine.

00:58:07.000 We need all fronts.

00:58:08.000 We need to occupy all lanes.

00:58:10.000 And then finally, I want to just reinforce the spiritual disciplines, right?

00:58:14.000 You need to pray for your nation on a regular basis.

00:58:16.000 You need to fast for your nation on a regular basis.

00:58:19.000 And then finally, you need to learn about your nation on a regular basis.

00:58:22.000 We, I think, do a pretty good job on our podcast.

00:58:24.000 I'll put up a QR code if you guys want to listen to it.

00:58:27.000 We do three podcasts a day.

00:58:28.000 There's other great podcasts too you guys can listen to that you could, but that which you do not understand, you cannot save, okay?

00:58:36.000 And the key, I think one of the keys to saving America to turning around this country is going to be millions of people that do not know each other, but believe that there's other people that are doing the same thing as them that are doing dutiful action every single day, doing the hard work, the long work.

00:58:56.000 You know, I get asked often, they say, Well, Charlie, the country is falling apart.

00:58:59.000 What is the point?

00:59:00.000 And I say that attitude is exactly why we're in the mess that we are in.

00:59:04.000 Martin Luther famously said that even if the world was ending today, I would still plant an apple tree.

00:59:09.000 Even if you believe the country is falling apart, which is past the point of salvation, which I don't believe it is, you would still do the thing that will help the next generation be able to thrive and succeed.

00:59:19.000 To end on a spiritual note, many of you believe in a God that loves you, but also a God that expects something from you.

00:59:28.000 As an act of worship to that God, I implore you to read the scriptures correctly, that God cares whether or not you fight for the community around you.

00:59:40.000 Liberty is not man's idea.

00:59:42.000 It's God's idea.

00:59:43.000 God has intervened time and time again in this nation.

00:59:46.000 The question is, are we going to step up with courage and boldness?

00:59:51.000 What do you want to be caught doing when Jesus comes again?

00:59:54.000 It's a good question, right?

00:59:56.000 And if it's just kind of be sitting around and run into the hills, then so be it.

01:00:00.000 We have a beautiful nation.

01:00:02.000 It's the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.

01:00:04.000 The Constitution's the greatest political document ever written.

01:00:08.000 Am I a pessimist and am I an optimist?

01:00:11.000 It depends wholly on your action.

01:00:13.000 Some of you probably say, Charlie, I've done everything that's been asked of me.

01:00:16.000 I watched Tucker Carlson on Fox News.

01:00:18.000 I bought the pillow.

01:00:19.000 I've done everything that has been asked of me.

01:00:22.000 By the way, promo code kirk at mypillow.com, just so we're clear.

01:00:27.000 Every day, it's a long slog.

01:00:29.000 It's the little work that matters.

01:00:31.000 And together, we will have a fighting shot.

01:00:34.000 I do not come with easy answers.

01:00:35.000 I do not come with a guarantee of temporal victory.

01:00:38.000 Here's what I can guarantee, though, is that we haven't lost and that victory is possible if we rededicate ourselves to it.

01:00:46.000 God bless you guys, and thank you for supporting Turning Point USA.

01:00:49.000 Thank you.

01:00:52.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:00:53.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:00:56.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

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