00:00:49.000If you want to get involved with Turning PointUSA, go to tpusa.com where we play offense with a sense of urgency to win America's culture war, tpusa.com.
00:01:14.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:21.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:56.000I really believe that we moved the dial in a positive direction yesterday in San Diego, San Marcos in particular.
00:03:05.000And I just want to say, Pastor Jurgen, you're incredible.
00:03:08.000All the people of Awakened Church, you guys are being led very well.
00:03:12.000And if any of you are in Southern California in that part of the world, Juergen's Church does a phenomenal job.
00:03:17.000And there are a lot of questions that were asked last evening.
00:03:21.000And one of the questions was, Charlie, what do we do about these mask mandates?
00:03:27.000What do we do about the mandates that are coming down that are requiring our children to wear masks, that are requiring us when we go into stores to wear masks?
00:03:43.000And we discussed this and we explored it together.
00:03:46.000And it's not an easy question because there's obviously Penalty if you do not abide and obey by what the people in charge are telling you.
00:03:59.000Now, we've talked a large amount, a fair amount, I should say, about this rise of safetyism in our country, where people are retreating to what makes them feel safe and feel good instead of embracing liberty, which is the pursuit of virtue, to live meaningful and quiet and peaceable lives.
00:04:22.000And so now I guess the new debate is whether or not you should wear a mask outside.
00:04:31.000So I thought this was largely settled.
00:04:34.000Again, I'm not one to say that I know everything epidemiologically when it comes to masks.
00:04:41.000I've said for a while that I'm mask agnostic, which means it's without knowledge, agnosis.
00:04:48.000Gnosis, the Greek word for knowledge, ag without.
00:04:51.000That's where we get the English word agnostic from.
00:04:55.000I personally am not a fan, and I'm willing to take my own chances.
00:05:22.000Here's some questions for you: Does it make you and other people more decent to one another?
00:05:30.000Does it make you more likely to trust other people when all of you are wearing masks?
00:05:37.000Do you think that we are appreciating each other's humanity more or less?
00:05:43.000Do you think that children are being raised in the best possible scenario and situation when they think that the normal state of being is walking around with a piece of cloth on their face?
00:06:01.000The discussion when it has come to masks has been almost done with a religious zeal from the medical experts and the American left.
00:06:14.000People, by the way, who have been wrong about everything since this started.
00:06:19.000So now the New York Times has a new story out.
00:06:22.000Summer camp advice: keep masks and distancing.
00:06:29.000Children going to camp this summer can be within three feet of peers in the same group settings, but must wear masks at all times, federal health officials say.
00:06:36.000The only times children should remove their masks is when they're swimming, napping, eating, or drinking.
00:06:41.000They should be spaced far apart for these activities, positioned head to toe for naps, and seated at least six feet apart for meals, snacks, and water breaks.
00:07:01.000To have a six-year-old have to wear a mask and be six feet away from other children.
00:07:05.000They are not at any significant risk of dying from the Chinese coronavirus, but they are now at risk of being socially programmed into something we have never done before.
00:07:18.000Now, of course, our leaders, the people in charge, they relish in this opportunity.
00:07:24.000They embrace the opportunity to believe human beings are malleable, that they can change human nature.
00:07:34.000The New York Times continues by saying, all people in camp facilities should wear masks at all times, with exceptions for certain people, or for certain settings or activities, such as while eating and drinking or swimming.
00:07:45.000So here's just a very basic scientific question.
00:07:48.000Maybe one of the experts would like to come on our program.
00:07:51.000I would love to have Dr. Fauci come on our program or Dr. Burks.
00:07:55.000I'd love just to ask him a very simple question.
00:07:57.000Dr. Fauci, why is that the states that repealed their mask mandates and opened up their states have better virus rates and death rates than the states that had mask mandates and shut themselves down?
00:08:09.000Can you point to a single county or city that had mask mandates and did significantly better with objective data than those that didn't have mask mandates?
00:08:22.000Can you point to any sort of school or community where masks played a significant role in stopping the spread of the Chinese coronavirus?
00:08:34.000Dr. Fauci or Dr. Burks, has the Chinese coronavirus had a significant impact on young people from deaths to infections.
00:08:44.000Because I can tell you that this nonsense and this garbage has contributed to a mental health crisis in our country.
00:08:51.000We have lost more young people to suicide in California than to the Chinese coronavirus.
00:08:56.000And just if you guys are looking for something to do, go fill out a freedom of information request to your local government for how many suicides have happened in the last year.
00:09:12.000Most people don't even know what FOIA is.
00:09:14.000You have a constitutional right to ask your government for emails, text messages, financial data, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act.
00:09:23.000You can FOIA your state, local, and county officials and say, how many young people have died of suicide in Riverside, California or in San Francisco or at Seattle?
00:09:33.000And then compare that to the Chinese coronavirus statistics.
00:09:37.000Aristotle, the great philosopher, studied things that do not change.
00:09:43.000He believed in eternal knowledge, as do I.
00:09:50.000Tyrants preserve themselves by not letting there be any schools or other collegial gatherings for leisured pursuits and do everything that will keep all people as unknown to one another since familiarity breeds a greater degree of mutual trust.
00:11:20.000And for the adults out there, why are you guys putting up with this?
00:11:26.000I hear plenty of complaints, and we talked about this last evening in San Marcos, California.
00:11:33.000But I'll tell you that the parents are not making nearly enough noise right now.
00:11:39.000We are allowing an entire generation to be abused by the permanent medical establishment to treat your children in a petri dish in a massive social conditioning experiment.
00:11:51.000It's only going to stop when parents and adults rise up and say no more.
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00:13:01.000This is what started this entire thing.
00:13:03.000Actually, my grandfather was a Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
00:13:08.000And they issued a study that the activists don't like.
00:13:11.000Remember, narrative is the most important thing according to the left.
00:13:16.000We have a preconceived notion of how the world works, and facts and data will not get in the way of our revolution.
00:13:24.000So they want people locked down permanently.
00:13:26.000They want people to sit down and obey.
00:13:28.000They want people wearing two masks when they shower.
00:13:31.000And if you dare question them, you are trying to massacre the American population.
00:13:39.000Now, MIT came out with this study saying that the six feet rule is actually inadequate.
00:13:46.000Quote: We argue that in the context of airborne transmission in a well-mixed space, the benefits of the six-foot rule are limited.
00:13:55.000As everyone in the room is breathing the same air, they share the same risk.
00:13:59.000Social distancing may thus be giving you a false sense of security.
00:14:02.000However, we note the six-foot rule is valuable in limiting transmission by respiratory jets, which pose a heightened risk when people are not wearing masks.
00:14:12.000And so the MIT study starts to say, why are we actually engaging in the six-foot dogma?
00:14:26.000The activists are saying, even if you're vaccinated, which we're supposed to believe the vaccine works, you must still wear a mask, if not two masks, and keep 100 feet away from each other.
00:14:41.000So the great Tucker Carlson called nonsense on this last evening.
00:14:44.000He is the number one trending topic on social media.
00:15:54.000And for years, conservatives, including myself, would make the argument, I'll make it again, that it's immoral with the Islamic fundamentalists due to women all across the Middle East.
00:17:00.000Inside every liberal is a totalitarian waiting to get out.
00:17:05.000They've always dreamed of being in control and in charge of your life.
00:17:11.000And now under the excuse of medical experts, they are now more important than ever.
00:17:19.000Let's go to cut 30, Tucker Carlson, on how children's having to wear masks is child abuse.
00:17:24.000And again, it's pretty amazing because Tucker and I were saying the same thing thousands of miles apart to different audiences.
00:17:32.000Seems as if just hit a logical breaking point in the last 24 hours play tape.
00:17:38.000As for forcing children to wear masks outside, that should be illegal.
00:17:41.000Your response when you see children wearing masks as they play should be no different from your response to seeing someone beat a kid in Walmart.
00:17:56.000It's child abuse, and you are morally obligated to attempt to prevent it.
00:18:00.000Now, the reaction from the activist press and the gatekeepers on Twitter has been rather impressive.
00:18:07.000Because Tucker a couple weeks ago talked about how Democrats have been bragging that they want more people to come to America for a political purpose, and they wrongly accused Tucker Carlson of peddling some sort of replacement thing, which he actually denounced on air while he did it.
00:18:23.000They got very angry, but no, they're much more angry at him now.
00:18:26.000So now I'm starting to realize the hierarchy of the leftist religion as it is.
00:19:43.000If it was about science, Fauci and Kamala Harris would be happy to hear, for example, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, discuss the science behind mask mandates with a Harvard professor.
00:20:04.000The motivations are instead to continue a permanent power grab on the livelihoods of the American people.
00:20:14.000And so one person who's effectively fighting back against this, and this is a great example of this, and if everyone got a little bit of Dana White in their daily routine, the world would be a better place.
00:20:25.000Dana White is the president of UFC, and he had an event with 25,000 people in Tampa, Florida.
00:20:34.000Let's play cut 35 of Dana White saying it's time to get back to normal.
00:20:42.000And I know a lot of you guys in the media don't feel exactly the way I do about a lot of things, but you can't deny it felt pretty good to be in Florida this week and be normal.
00:20:56.000If you want to wear a mask, wear a mask.
00:20:59.000If you don't want to wear a mask, don't wear a mask.
00:21:02.000And when I saw people wear a mask, I didn't say anything to people wear a mask.
00:21:05.000When people saw people that weren't wearing a mask, nobody said anything to people that weren't wearing masks.
00:23:39.000When I watch sports, I mean, everything I do is politics.
00:23:42.000It's the one time I actually want to enjoy watching people excellent at a competition.
00:23:48.000The Olympic team, I think they have some new guidelines saying the Olympic team is not allowed to protest using BLM Incorporated taking a knee and raising a fist.
00:23:59.000But some of the athletes say that when they go to Tokyo this summer for the Olympics, they're still going to do that.
00:24:06.000If you're an Olympic athlete that while wearing our flag on the international stage, that you take a knee and you do some sort of ridiculous thing, I hope you lose.
00:24:16.000For the first time in my life, I will be cheering against America at the Olympics if you decide to take a knee and you decide to make a fool of our country on the international stage when we are the most generous, benevolent, forward-thinking, accepting country ever to exist.
00:24:32.000That I have to go watch you go to Tokyo and go take a knee during the national anthem?
00:27:18.000When the children go out into the community, you want them to continue to wear masks when they're interacting with groups from multiple households.
00:27:30.000You see, everything I'm saying, I'm just going to say it differently next week.
00:27:34.000So basically, look, just don't ever leave your home, okay?
00:27:40.000And then he said this back when it was about masks last year, Cut 37.
00:27:46.000Right now in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks.
00:27:51.000You're sure of it because people are listening really closely to this.
00:27:54.000Right now, people should not be walking.
00:27:56.000There's no reason to be walking around with a mask.
00:27:59.000When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is.
00:28:14.000This Constitution I have in my hand was written to save us and protect us from people like Fauci.
00:28:24.000Did he run for office, collect signatures, go through the process of being vetted?
00:28:31.000This unknown bureaucrat who runs the fourth branch of government, the medical establishment, who, by the way, did you know Fauci is the highest paid employee of the federal government?
00:28:41.000That guy is the highest paid employee of the federal government.
00:28:46.000The Constitution says clearly that the consent of the governed is how we must build this compact, this cooperation, this system of government.
00:28:57.000And Dr. Anthony Fauci has more power than a Roman Caesar.
00:29:03.000Dr. Anthony Fauci would make Napoleon generous with how much jurisdiction he has over people's lives.
00:29:12.000And until people act like Dana White and they call this stuff BS and nonsense and push back against it, Fauci's going to be running our country.
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00:30:21.000You know, I've really been enjoying reading Benjamin Franklin lately.
00:30:41.000You could see the founding fathers as they were beginning to wrestle with this idea of representative government because the Constitutional Republic was a great leap forward.
00:30:53.000And the founders were living in somewhat Puritan, Quaker, Protestant America.
00:31:01.000And people were starting to ask really important questions because no one had really tried it to this extent before.
00:31:06.000There was the Roman Republic, but it was different.
00:31:09.000The Roman Republic was nowhere nearly as representative as what the American project embarked upon.
00:31:18.000And Franklin realized that the way that you unify the Quakers and the Puritans and the non-Christians, and there weren't that many of them, but there were there, was this idea that the unifying doctrine of natural rights, of liberty and property, the pursuit of virtue, trying to make yourself a better person, that you must have the freedom to be able to come in contact with your creator, to assemble, to write,
00:31:47.000to think, to communicate, to defend yourself, not be spied upon, not have soldiers quartered in your home.
00:31:53.000That those are actually the unifying principles.
00:31:59.000Now, as John Adams famously said, he said, the Constitution was made solely for a moral and religious people.
00:32:10.000It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
00:32:15.000So as I hold this document, the United States Constitution, the greatest political document ever written, you want to know why liberty is eroding.
00:32:25.000You want to know why people are retreating to safetyism.
00:32:28.000It's largely because the system we have is only going to work insofar that the citizens are able to self-regulate their own behavior.
00:32:38.000If the citizens are not able to prevent themselves from seeking pleasure over virtue, then of course they're going to do what they're told and put on the mask and shut down the schools and stay at home indefinitely and wait for their stimulus payment and seek the next dopamine rush instead of trying to live a fulfilling life.
00:33:01.000And so as we wrestle with these ideas of how do I deal with these mask mandates?
00:33:07.000How do I deal with my children not going to school?
00:33:10.000What we're really talking about here is the need for a constitutional reset.
00:33:16.000And something we are going to explore on future podcast episodes here on the Charlie Kirk Show is this question.
00:33:23.000Are we a nation of laws or are we a nation of political will?
00:33:29.000Steve Dace on our program did an interview that will be aired soon where he goes after Dr. Fauci.
00:33:35.000And he submits the argument that we are a nation of political will.
00:33:41.000Do you want to know why the courts almost never stand up to the political majority?
00:33:45.000It's because the courts are filled with human beings too.
00:33:49.000Alexander Hamilton famously predicted this.
00:33:51.000He said, the Supreme Court and the courts will never go against a massive political majority in the country.
00:33:58.000And he has been right in every decision.
00:34:01.000That's why Dred Scott had that awful decision it had.
00:34:04.000That's why Brown versus the Board of Education righted many of those wrongs.
00:34:07.000That's why Roe versus Wade had that decision.
00:34:10.000It's why with the gay marriage decision with Anthony Kennedy, the courts actually are more in the direction of the people than the law.
00:34:18.000So what is that the lesson for all of us?
00:34:22.000It's that we have to go win more people over.
00:34:25.000That if we do not have the political will or the political majority through a constitutional republic, this beautiful document, this constitution, this firewall will eventually be shattered.
00:34:39.000And that means challenging the tyrants and the despots like Anthony Fauci.
00:34:43.000That means we need courage like Dana White.
00:34:52.000And we need people to start all of a sudden to take back this citizen government.
00:34:56.000Citizen comes back, it comes from a Greek term, which means co-ruler, one that oversees alongside.
00:35:03.000Over the last year, have you felt like you have been used and abused by a centralized government authority?
00:35:09.000Sit down and shut up and lock down our country and the lockdowns never should have gone further than two weeks.
00:35:15.000If your children is, if your child is being required to wear a mask, if all of a sudden you are vaccinated and you're still subjected to these rules and regulations, understand that you are participating in their power play.