00:00:53.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:02.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:53.000In fact, over 350 people now on staff.
00:01:55.000We have TP USA Faith, Blexit, our high school program, our college program, Turning Point Academy.
00:02:02.000We have the biggest names in the movement, reaching more people on social media and online than any other nonprofit out there, the most viral organization out there in the conservative movement.
00:02:13.000And so we bring together our top donors.
00:02:16.000Now, mind you, we are so incredibly thankful.
00:02:18.000We have 300,000 donors at Turning Point USA.
00:02:50.000I start with a two and a half hour presentation where I go through all the different departments presenting to our what we call investors at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action, going through everything that we're doing and then meetings all day and then our gala, which is incredible.
00:03:04.000And I'm just left with an overwhelming sense of gratitude.
00:03:07.000It was without a doubt one of the most difficult economic financial environments to put on a fundraiser of this magnitude.
00:03:16.000A lot of people came to us and said, Charlie, I had the worst year that I've ever had.
00:03:21.000It's really hard to make money right now.
00:03:25.000And despite that, I'm just blown away, blown away by how our donors at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action stepped up and stepped up in a remarkable way.
00:03:38.000There were a couple people that came up and a couple opportunities to match donations.
00:03:44.000And what I was, I have a couple takeaways and understand that this room, this group of people, they're very, many of them are very comfortable financially.
00:03:54.000Some of them would get looped in if you didn't, people that know better as being kind of part of the American elites.
00:03:59.000But what, and it struck me as I saw, you know, the commitments of support pouring in for Turning Point USA and our incredibly important work that this counterrevolution, this movement, transcends income and wealth.
00:04:18.000There were people that were there that might be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, that have the same urgency, the same worldview as many of you.
00:04:31.000This is no longer just, oh, you know, the elites are against us.
00:04:37.000And I got to tell you, everybody, you know, we hear, oh, you know, the donor class versus this.
00:04:44.000I can tell you, we had 850 major donors and they see things the way you do.
00:04:50.000When one of our donors came up and he said, hey, I'm going to give a big number if we can match it in this room to support ballot chasing and turning point action.
00:04:58.000He said, and by the way, don't give money to the RNC.
00:05:01.000The whole room does a standing ovation.
00:07:03.000We're going to be showing you pictures and videos, the ballot chasers that we are hiring in Arizona and Wisconsin.
00:07:08.000Hopefully we'll be able to add on to Georgia.
00:07:10.000And I, you know, there were donors that would come up to me, and I felt as if I was talking to just a grassroots activist.
00:07:19.000And they said, Charlie, what can we do?
00:07:23.000In fact, you know what I heard more than anything else is they said, Charlie, you know, Turning Point gives us a vehicle, a vehicle that shows us that our resources, our money, is moving the dial.
00:07:38.000And we're starting to see this momentum churn and churn and churn.
00:07:44.000And having raised a record number from this, and our team did such an amazing job.
00:07:51.000You know, I know donors there and many might be watching right now.
00:07:55.000And I just want to express my gratitude that gave sacrificially, that gave above and beyond.
00:08:35.000I said, no one's going to work harder.
00:08:37.000No one is going to work harder than Turning Point Action and Turning Point USA, myself, Charlie Kirk, going into this next year.
00:08:46.000And it's time for all of us to do more.
00:08:48.000I know some of you might be watching, but Charlie, you know, I can only give $50.
00:08:53.000Maybe for $50, that might be when the scriptures that for the widow's might who gives $50, that might be actually giving more than somebody else.
00:09:08.000But I want all of you in the grassroots to know this, and this is the takeaway, is that sometimes it feels like since we become the working class movement, that you say, where all the elites are against us.
00:09:21.000No, most of the elites are against you, but not all of them.
00:09:28.000There are a lot of very wealthy people this last weekend, praise the Lord, that are just as concerned, they're just as frustrated, and they're just as motivated to save the country.
00:09:42.000That should give you energy because it feels like we're outgunned, Soros, Mark Benihoff, Lorene Powell Jobs.
00:09:54.000This is a movement of the plumbers, the welders, the business owners, the entrepreneurs, the pastors, the rabbis.
00:10:02.000It is about the decent versus the indecent.
00:10:05.000And I am just left this last weekend with gratitude.
00:10:08.000And thank you, thank you, thank you for in this very tough, hyper-inflated, high-interest rate environment.
00:10:15.000What we were blessed with as a gift from Almighty God at Turning Point allows us to get back into the trenches, to replenish our munitional lines, metaphorically, and fight to win.
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00:13:55.000Is this the war room posse or is this a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago?
00:13:59.000And if you can't tell the difference, that is interesting, isn't it?
00:14:03.000When you have war room posse that is saying the same things and thinking similar things as a group of 800-plus biggest donors in the conservative movement, something is changing everybody.
00:14:15.000And there is a framing that is correct.
00:14:29.000I don't even think it's a majority of the donors anymore in the movement.
00:14:32.000I'd say that 50 plus donors in the conservative movement are in agreement and alignment with a conservative renaissance, playing to win, sick of losing.
00:14:42.000If we would have took a straw poll, which actually would have been very interesting, we probably should do that next year.
00:14:47.000Now, how many of you would vote for Nikki Haley?
00:14:48.000I don't think there would be a single person.
00:14:50.000I don't think there'd be a single person.
00:15:23.000By the way, everyone's going to do their part.
00:15:25.000For some people that were at the gala this last weekend, you know, in their 80s and early 90s, and the Lord has blessed their business, their way of giving back is to give $50,000, $7,500, $100,000 to the effort.
00:15:37.000For some people, it's money and resources and wealth.
00:16:17.000The same thing, by the way, if I would have just, if I would have just went 20 miles away to a local GOP meeting in, you know, Jupiter, Florida, it's almost, I wouldn't be able to tell what room I was in.
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00:18:32.000Now, neoconservatives and neoliberals, their playbook is always the same.
00:18:36.000Baseless, fear-mongering, telling you that you have to pay more money, send more of your kids to go fight in foreign adventurous wars, or else the entire civilization will collapse.
00:18:48.000But then you say, hey, wait a second, our civilization is collapsing.
00:19:04.000It was off the record, and I got a little bit aggressive.
00:19:07.000I know what you say, Charlie, getting aggressive.
00:19:08.000It doesn't fit, but I got a little aggressive.
00:19:10.000And I said, why is Ukraine in our national interest?
00:19:13.000And they say, well, as you well know, they're trying to reconstitute the Soviet Union.
00:19:17.000I said, enough talking points, enough automatic programming from neoliberalism.
00:19:22.000Tell me specifically, while our nation is wide open, our border is wide open, we have 12,000 people coming into our country every single day, why you can't lift a finger to do that, and why Ukraine and the furtherance of this no-win war of a family dispute over a border that is irrelevant to the nation of the United States is our concern.
00:19:45.000Well, Zelensky is in D.C. today and he's scheduled to visit the White House and speak to the Senate tomorrow.
00:19:51.000Zelensky is looking to secure another $60 billion in military aid of your money, your money.
00:19:57.000And that's equal to the entire budget of the Department of Energy.
00:19:59.000It's higher than the entire Department of Justice and the FBI.
00:20:03.000It's more than we were spending on the war in Afghanistan in the final years of that conflict.
00:20:09.000Now, a reminder: Zelensky has given interviews where he threatens that Ukrainians will engage in violence and terrorism against the West if they don't get their money.
00:20:17.000We haven't covered this in much detail because there's been so many other stories, but that no good pimp who is called Zelensky is coming here and saying, yes, sir, my people will riot if you don't give us money.
00:20:29.000Lloyd Austin, in one of the biggest news stories the last couple of weeks, Department of Defense Secretary said, oh, yeah, American kids might have to go fight this war soon.
00:21:04.000I think it's Kiev, has been calling out Zelensky as an authoritarian.
00:21:09.000The magazine did a major article a month ago where leaders in Ukraine government are saying Zelensky has become delusional, thinking Ukraine is winning when it's not.
00:21:18.000Maybe that's why Zelensky has a bunch of trans people working for him.
00:21:22.000Delusion runs deep in the Ukrainian government.
00:24:28.000Biden budget director Shalanda Young says by insisting Congress secure our border, quote, our sons and daughters are at risk of being part of a larger conflict.
00:24:37.000She's obviously not a very smart person.
00:24:38.000She reminds me of President Gay of Harvard, obviously affirmative action diversity pick, not exactly a bright person.
00:26:40.000How does that react to a Molotov cocktail?
00:26:42.000That's basically what Zelensky is saying: that if you don't give me money to fight this no-win war, which is completely and totally militarily delusional, Ukraine is losing and has been losing for quite some time.
00:26:53.000Russia is just ramping up their war effort.
00:27:25.000And the Russians are going to roll them over.
00:27:27.000So instead, why don't we try to put a peace deal on the table?
00:27:32.000Because Joe Biden is pandering to the defense contractors that want another $60 billion the same way Joe Biden got the vaccine manufacturers paid.
00:27:40.000Johnson and Johnson, Moderna, Asterit, Zeneca.
00:28:05.000I think this is one of the most dangerous moments that I've ever faced in American politics, and I wish Republicans weren't holding Israel aid and aid to Ukraine hostage to the resolution of immigration reform.
00:28:16.000Oh, who said anything about immigration reform?
00:28:46.000Why another $60 billion on top of $200 billion?
00:28:49.000Please email me freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:28:55.000For years, we've been talking about how our nation's public schools have been captured by progressive ideologues.
00:29:01.000They teach things that directly contradict the values of millions of Americans.
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00:31:09.000These colleges have been severely and significantly damaged and they command less awe and respect from the general public as incubators of future elites.
00:31:18.000Actual Jew haters get exposed and held accountable.
00:31:22.000The university's obscene financial dominance declines and we need to make it further decline.
00:31:29.000Jewish Americans are waking up to the dangerous radical left-wing ideologies and the extremism that is substantially enabled by DEI and bureaucracies and affirmative action and missions.
00:31:39.000And some Jewish donors, like Bill Ackman, regret ever donating and subsidizing Jew hatred and the decline of the West.
00:31:48.000Donor pressure discouraging the hiring of radical faculty and the creation of these joke-politicized classes in favor of actual ideological diversity and merit.
00:31:58.000And I just want to make sure that we're not over-celebrating and that we see that there is a subterranean, almost invisible movement here that is really concerning.
00:32:10.000It seems as if, as a reaction to the Jew hatred, to the calls for genocide, there very well might be a new leviathan that is put in that makes speech even harder on campus for conservatives.
00:32:28.000We never engage in quote-unquote hate speech.
00:32:31.000And I hate that term because it's so abused.
00:32:57.000But as someone who runs the largest conservative campus organization in America, we fight this battle daily.
00:33:04.000There are already too many restrictions on speech and more than enough for any motivated administrator, and we deal with it every day, to censor and silence groups like Turning Point.
00:33:14.000It would be a super letdown and a tragedy if all of this positive energy only leads to more speech codes, more censorship, and more retaliation against freedom-loving activists.
00:33:27.000I want to play, of all people, Fareed Zakaria, who actually captured this beautifully on CNN, play cut 29.
00:33:33.000American universities have been neglecting a core focus on excellence in order to pursue a variety of agendas, many of them clustered around diversity and inclusion.
00:33:44.000It started with the best of intentions.
00:33:46.000Colleges wanted to make sure young people of all backgrounds had access to higher education and felt comfortable on campus.
00:33:54.000But those good intentions have morphed into a dogmatic ideology and turned these universities into places where the pervasive goals are political and social engineering, not academic merit.
00:34:17.000Three university presidents came under fire this week for their vague and indecisive answers when asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews would violate their institutions' codes of conduct.
00:34:28.000But to understand their performance, we have to understand the broad shift that has taken place at elite universities, which have gone from being centers of excellence to institutions pushing political agendas.
00:34:46.000As Paul Tuff has pointed out, the share of young adults who said a college degree was very important fell from 74% in 2013 to just 41% in 2019.
00:34:59.000Praise the Lord, the fields we have been laboring in for a decade, it's starting to harvest.