The Charlie Kirk Show - June 25, 2023


My Opening Speech to the Young Women's Leadership Summit


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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, happy Sunday.
00:00:01.000 Young Women's Leadership Summit, tpusa.com.
00:00:04.000 If you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, my opening remarks, email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:10.000 It's my opening remarks.
00:00:11.000 No advertisers.
00:00:12.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:13.000 Here we go.
00:00:14.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:15.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:17.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:21.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:24.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:25.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:26.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:00:28.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:35.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:00:43.000 That's why we are here.
00:00:46.000 Give it up for Alex.
00:00:48.000 That's not easy to open up a conference like that.
00:00:50.000 That is not easy.
00:00:52.000 You know, I told Alex backstage, I don't know what that is.
00:00:57.000 I told Alex she should have picked more controversial topics to open a conference with.
00:01:03.000 It's coming out on birth control and daycare.
00:01:07.000 He said, wow, that takes a lot of courage and a lot of gusto, Alex.
00:01:10.000 You deserve a lot of credit for that, I got to tell you.
00:01:15.000 That's really something.
00:01:17.000 Welcome to our eighth annual Young Women's Leadership Summit, everybody.
00:01:22.000 This is a very special event, and I have to make sure I do this every time we gather.
00:01:32.000 We have to thank the tireless efforts of our Turning Point USA staff that make this all possible.
00:01:40.000 And I tell you, they have been here all week, from the graphic designers to the video editors to the AV team to people that are doing just the muscle work of putting all this together.
00:01:53.000 They have worked so hard to make sure you have a memorable couple days.
00:01:58.000 And so when you see them, thank them.
00:02:00.000 Who here, is this your first ever Young Women's Leadership Summit?
00:02:04.000 That is so amazing.
00:02:05.000 First ever.
00:02:06.000 Okay, so I'm going to ask another question because like Alex, I'm going to have some homework, but I'm going to be even more direct, okay?
00:02:12.000 Who here traveled and you don't know anybody in this room?
00:02:15.000 Raise your hand.
00:02:16.000 Okay, so keep your hand up.
00:02:18.000 If you do know somebody, go find somebody at their hand up and introduce yourself.
00:02:24.000 Because here's what we're not going to do, okay?
00:02:26.000 You know, we have a men's summit now at Turning Point USA.
00:02:30.000 And it's very different than our women's summit.
00:02:33.000 It's very different.
00:02:34.000 It's in the woods and we deprive them of calories.
00:02:37.000 There's no disco ball.
00:02:39.000 It's a whole thing.
00:02:41.000 I will say, though, that our women's summit is different in a couple different ways.
00:02:46.000 I'll tell you about it.
00:02:47.000 One of the things is that it tends to be a little clicky.
00:02:51.000 You ever see mean girls?
00:02:53.000 Okay, that's what I mean.
00:02:54.000 We're not going to do the clicky thing, okay?
00:02:57.000 So I am telling you to go out of your comfort zone, if you are here with a friend, to go find someone that does not know a soul here that was bold enough and courageous enough to travel halfway around the country, and you're going to go introduce themselves so that tomorrow when I ask that question, no one raises their hand, okay?
00:03:17.000 We're going to do that tonight, and you're going to act on that, okay?
00:03:20.000 Now, we do some of the biggest events in the whole country, right?
00:03:26.000 We do our AmFest, AmericaFest in Phoenix, which has become this amazing event.
00:03:31.000 You should all attend.
00:03:32.000 It's incredible.
00:03:33.000 It's very interesting, though, because at the Women's Summit, it's very different than AmericaFest.
00:03:40.000 You know, I read audiences.
00:03:42.000 I've given a couple speeches in my life.
00:03:44.000 And at AmFest or at SAS or any one of our events, the young ladies and the young men, you know, they're paying attention, but their heads are kind of moving to the side a little bit.
00:03:57.000 Are you looking at me?
00:03:58.000 And you know, okay, good.
00:03:59.000 I'm looking at you.
00:03:59.000 Got it.
00:04:01.000 And at the women's summit, you guys are just focused on the speaker.
00:04:06.000 And what an amazing thing to show that this idea of women gathering together shows that there is such a thing as a woman.
00:04:20.000 What an idea.
00:04:22.000 Now, we have a lot of press here, and welcome, by the way, to all of our media and our press.
00:04:29.000 We mean that.
00:04:30.000 We hope you learned something.
00:04:31.000 And we know why.
00:04:32.000 We know many.
00:04:34.000 By the way, I mean that.
00:04:35.000 I know why they're here, and I'm glad they're here.
00:04:37.000 They're here because they're curious and they're fascinated and they're also confused how on earth 2,500 young conservative women will go into their bank accounts in the middle of a summer to voluntarily want to come for faith, for freedom, for family, for virtue, for the country.
00:04:54.000 Right?
00:04:55.000 They don't quite get it.
00:04:57.000 That's all right.
00:04:59.000 But all of a sudden, people talking about being moms and being members of society and saving the country from this Marxist degeneracy that we're living under.
00:05:08.000 They're trying to understand it.
00:05:08.000 Like, where does this come from?
00:05:11.000 But more than that, they're curious about how we're going to handle, which is the kind of third rail issue.
00:05:17.000 And if you know anything about Turning Point USA, boy, Alex certainly set the standard.
00:05:21.000 If there is a fourth rail, that's where we begin, right?
00:05:24.000 So, and it's obvious because all of you are living through it.
00:05:30.000 All of you see it, right?
00:05:31.000 All of you have to experience it on your high school or college campuses or on TikTok.
00:05:37.000 And this is new.
00:05:38.000 When we had our first ever Young Women's Leadership Summit in the suburbs of Chicago, we had 70 or 80 young ladies.
00:05:46.000 And if I would have done the following thing, I said, and we know what a woman is, people would have been like, yeah, okay.
00:05:53.000 Eight years ago, it would have been incomprehensible.
00:05:56.000 So what changed?
00:05:57.000 What changed is that an outgrowth of modernity, and we're living in this postmodern, post-structuralist, everybody gets to decide their own truth for themselves, this social contagion that is spreading the country at a rapid pace that disguises itself as transgenderism.
00:06:16.000 And it is accelerating.
00:06:18.000 It is not slowing down.
00:06:19.000 You see it on equal footing outside of this hotel.
00:06:22.000 I tried my best to take down the flag, everybody.
00:06:24.000 I tried my best.
00:06:25.000 I failed.
00:06:25.000 Okay?
00:06:26.000 I'm sorry.
00:06:26.000 I tried my best.
00:06:28.000 I know you are all thinking it, right?
00:06:30.000 What is that all about?
00:06:33.000 By the way, this hotel better do something or we're going to find another hotel because I'm not going to come back.
00:06:38.000 This is ridiculous.
00:06:42.000 Right?
00:06:46.000 Here I am.
00:06:46.000 I see the American flag, the Texas flag, and the LG, the whatever thing.
00:06:51.000 And I say, this is not right.
00:06:55.000 This is an insult to all of us to our traditions and our customs.
00:06:59.000 This is not right.
00:07:03.000 So, Lauren, don't sign that contract for next year, okay?
00:07:06.000 You listening?
00:07:07.000 Yet, let's see what we can do.
00:07:09.000 I'm not putting up with this, and you should either.
00:07:11.000 And so, this is spreading.
00:07:17.000 And let's be clear: many of you probably have a temperament like I do on the gay or lesbian issue.
00:07:23.000 Look, first of all, I believe marriage is one man, one woman.
00:07:25.000 I'm very clear about that, okay?
00:07:28.000 And but I think many of you probably have a built-in temperament.
00:07:31.000 I'm not here to over-police your personal life if you're an adult.
00:07:34.000 I don't agree with it.
00:07:35.000 I don't believe it's right, but live and let live.
00:07:37.000 That doesn't exist.
00:07:39.000 Live and let is dead.
00:07:40.000 It's live and let us rule, is what we live under now.
00:07:44.000 It's live and give me power to come after your children.
00:07:49.000 And if you don't agree with me, and if you don't allow me to come after your kids, you're a bigot.
00:07:56.000 And what we are seeing in this last year, which is why this Young Women's Leadership Summit is one of the most important gatherings in the history of Turning Point USA, if not the most important, is even since last year, when some of you were there, we have seen an all-out, deliberate, concentrated, non-stop, relentless assault on women in this country.
00:08:22.000 Even more than just individual women, but on the idea of a woman, on the truth of what a woman is.
00:08:31.000 In fact, we have creepy, narcissistic freaks who think they are men wearing dresses to compete in sports against many of you.
00:08:40.000 We have men who are terrorizing young ladies in locker rooms, and we have to accept it and tolerate it, or else they call us names.
00:08:51.000 You're going to hear from some of those speakers that was exposed to that, like Riley Gaines.
00:08:55.000 You're going to hear straight from her.
00:09:00.000 Who has the courage to speak out against it?
00:09:03.000 And it's amazing because this woman's summit is now something where we have the largest gathering of women in the country on these ideas and these values by far, right?
00:09:15.000 And it's about, of course, femininity and freedom and the country and all this, but it's also about sending a message through all these speakers and through you back in your communities to say something very clearly that I could tell you what a woman is because you're looking at one.
00:09:35.000 And if you are not one, stop wearing woman face and pretending to be something that you are not.
00:09:46.000 You see, women are more agreeable than men.
00:09:52.000 They are.
00:09:54.000 Women are less likely to ask for raises, less likely to get into debates.
00:10:00.000 They're less, it's a fact.
00:10:01.000 And that's not a negative thing.
00:10:03.000 Men and women are different.
00:10:05.000 And praise God they're different.
00:10:08.000 However, creepy men that have deep-seated mental problems that need treatment, okay?
00:10:16.000 They need treatment.
00:10:17.000 They need help.
00:10:18.000 By the way, help is not more pharmaceuticals from Pfizer or AstraZeneca or Moderna or Johnson and Johnson.
00:10:25.000 Help is not surgery to have them go medieval on them, okay?
00:10:31.000 Help is talking to a council that could tell them the truth, find out the root trauma, and get them back into reality.
00:10:38.000 That's what help looks like.
00:10:41.000 Now, is that those people are preying on you?
00:10:47.000 Transgenderism, in its current form in America, is nothing more than weaponized, tyrannical patriarchy to come after women.
00:10:59.000 I have to hear, oh, the patriarchy, the patriarchy.
00:11:02.000 You know what the true patriarchy is right now?
00:11:05.000 Men wearing woman face in female sports.
00:11:08.000 That's the true patriarchy.
00:11:11.000 Now, we're doing our best at turning point to speak out against this, to call it what it is.
00:11:18.000 This has to be a female-led movement, though.
00:11:21.000 And by the way, it will only be successful if it is a female-led movement.
00:11:29.000 And so what exactly does that look like?
00:11:31.000 You have to be disagreeable on this topic.
00:11:35.000 And you might say, oh, well, you know, Charlie, it's tough and they call me names.
00:11:40.000 Yes, they will.
00:11:41.000 And so what?
00:11:45.000 They will call you names.
00:11:47.000 You are on, you are in the arena.
00:11:50.000 They're trying to frame this as a civil rights issue.
00:11:53.000 They're like, oh, well, this is the same thing as Martin Luther King.
00:11:55.000 What an insult to Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement.
00:12:00.000 What an insult to the woman's suffrage movement.
00:12:03.000 No, no, this is the same old game that is repurposing itself and is replaying itself, which is there are three types of people in the world.
00:12:12.000 There are infants, there are predators, and the protectors of infants.
00:12:17.000 Predators will always be there, but it is the people that are supposed to protect infants from these ideas, from these social contagions.
00:12:26.000 And right now, we are living under this fake religion of tolerance, and we are allowing them to steamroll our customs.
00:12:33.000 You know, the Texas flag is equal to the gay flag.
00:12:36.000 Where in San Francisco, they are raising up the American flag and the gay flag up simultaneously.
00:12:41.000 But we were told you have to tolerate it.
00:12:43.000 It was never a tolerance, was it?
00:12:45.000 No, because then it's about acceptance.
00:12:47.000 We're like, well, that's weird.
00:12:48.000 And then it's about celebration, mandatory celebration.
00:12:52.000 And then it's about participation.
00:12:54.000 And if you're not going to participate, they're going to make your kids participate.
00:12:58.000 You see, what you have here right now in this room, the combined power on your campuses, on your social media, this right here could move the fight so considerably against the trans social contagion in a generationally impactful way.
00:13:14.000 This room can make the difference.
00:13:16.000 If each and every single one of you went to social media and back in your communities, in your conversations, one truth teller can speak for the other people that are afraid that says, you know what?
00:13:25.000 Get out of my locker room, creep.
00:13:27.000 Get out of my locker room.
00:13:30.000 I'm not going to put up with this.
00:13:37.000 You know, more than anything else, people say, you know, you got to embrace your womanhood and all that.
00:13:44.000 I agree.
00:13:44.000 How about let's embrace reality?
00:13:47.000 We are on team reality here.
00:13:50.000 And 1960s feminism, which Alex did a great job indicting and attacking, was all about the power of the woman.
00:13:59.000 And now you have Katanji Brown Jackson, who is a United States Supreme Court justice, who is asked a question by a sitting U.S. Senator, what is a woman?
00:14:10.000 And she was unable to answer.
00:14:15.000 She said, I am not a biologist.
00:14:22.000 A Supreme Court justice that cannot ask what a female is or what a woman is.
00:14:27.000 She had a great opportunity.
00:14:28.000 She could have said, you're staring at one, Senator.
00:14:30.000 It would have been a viral moment.
00:14:31.000 But no, she's captured by this trans ideology.
00:14:34.000 You see, we are all currently held hostage by a small, small group of deranged people.
00:14:42.000 That's what it is.
00:14:45.000 Decent, ordinary people.
00:14:46.000 We now have to live to their customs, and I will prove it to you.
00:14:50.000 I'll prove it to you because it's not about having sympathy, which we should all have.
00:14:54.000 It's not about tolerance, which is a fake pagan god of our era.
00:14:58.000 No, no, no, what it really is about is re-accommodation.
00:15:02.000 Why is it that we have to change our norms, our language, our customs, because one person is struggling with something?
00:15:15.000 Why is it that Thomas, the man who's living under the delusion who thinks he's a woman, why couldn't he still play dress up and take those weird drugs and go finish 185th against men in competing against people with his own bone density and muscle mass?
00:15:37.000 Why couldn't he do that?
00:15:40.000 He could still identify, but just compete against someone with your same chromosomes, dude.
00:15:48.000 The answer is because he's a cheat.
00:15:53.000 Because he stole it.
00:15:56.000 And we let it happen.
00:15:57.000 All of us, myself included.
00:16:00.000 We're allowing the strong to prey on people that do not have the same sort of ability to compete in either an athletic arena or otherwise.
00:16:10.000 And it's only going to continue.
00:16:13.000 So that's really the question I think in front of us right now.
00:16:15.000 Many of the questions.
00:16:17.000 And I want you to lean in these next couple days and ask the tough questions.
00:16:22.000 I want you to meet people outside of your comfort zone and listen to all these speakers.
00:16:25.000 Or anything else, I want you to understand that this is a jumping off point and a starting point to be able to make a generational impact.
00:16:33.000 There is no other event like this.
00:16:38.000 There is no other gathering like this where you're going to hear what you're going to hear and you have this kind of combination of speakers.
00:16:45.000 This is a rarity.
00:16:47.000 This is the exact opposite of what you're going to hear on the Oscars or the Golden Globes or in any of that garbage that they put on television.
00:16:54.000 It's the exact opposite.
00:16:55.000 But you know what?
00:16:56.000 I think this is actually more popular with the American people than that trash that they're putting on television.
00:17:08.000 So I want to make a couple actual technical announcements.
00:17:12.000 Reminder to find somebody who doesn't know anybody and introduce yourself and to make sure that nobody raises their hand when I ask tomorrow.
00:17:21.000 This is a special event.
00:17:24.000 We do this every year.
00:17:25.000 We're going to have a couple giveaways.
00:17:28.000 We have an opportunity to be able to have a roundtable with my wife, who I think is amazing, but I'm a little biased.
00:17:35.000 And I know many of you do too.
00:17:36.000 So a couple giveaway opportunities.
00:17:39.000 If you are motivated by something I say or Alex says and you say, okay, now what?
00:17:44.000 Go immediately to the turning point USA table out there and start a chapter.
00:17:48.000 Raise your hand if you're a high school or college chapter or chapter leader.
00:17:51.000 Raise your hand.
00:17:53.000 That's awesome.
00:17:54.000 I want every hand to go up by the end of this conference.
00:17:57.000 We need you to go say, you know what, I'm going to start a chapter.
00:18:00.000 I am going to be my campus leader.
00:18:03.000 Here's what I can guarantee you.
00:18:07.000 If you start a turning point USA chapter, your life will get harder.
00:18:12.000 Okay?
00:18:15.000 It will not be easy, but your life will get better.
00:18:23.000 You will no longer live a shallow life.
00:18:26.000 You will live a deep life.
00:18:29.000 Here's something that you will learn throughout the next course of the days, I hope, is that the beautiful things require work.
00:18:35.000 So yes, if you start a turning point chapter, they're going to call you names.
00:18:39.000 But then look to your left and look to your right.
00:18:41.000 You're not alone, not even close to being alone.
00:18:44.000 If you start a turning point USA chapter, you're going to be on the front lines of actually making a difference for something that is bigger than yourself.
00:18:53.000 It's a big deal.
00:18:56.000 So if you want to get into a contest to win a roundtable with my wife, Erica, you can start a chapter.
00:19:02.000 And that's important.
00:19:02.000 You should start a chapter regardless of the sweepstakes, but that's just the way to hopefully get you to do it.
00:19:06.000 We want to get every single one of you to say, you know what, I'm going back to my high school.
00:19:09.000 I'm going to start a high school chapter.
00:19:10.000 I'm going to start a college chapter.
00:19:13.000 A couple of the thoughts here.
00:19:14.000 The country's in trouble.
00:19:15.000 You're going to hear that a lot.
00:19:18.000 What is exciting to see, though, is that this event is growing like crazy and is how all of a sudden the conservative movement is so different than how the media likes to portray it.
00:19:30.000 They say, oh, that's just a male-dominated thing.
00:19:34.000 And again, which is hilarious because they don't believe in like male men or women.
00:19:37.000 They use it.
00:19:38.000 The whole thing's not insane.
00:19:39.000 So, and by the way, I would be so insulted if I was a woman, if like this Mulvaney weirdo, who If he all of a sudden thinks that he could fully understand women by like act, by the way, you know what's even creepier about that, dude?
00:19:58.000 No, he acts as an eight-year-old, as an infant.
00:20:00.000 That's even weirder, right?
00:20:02.000 It's like very serious mental problems, but Fortune 100 companies seem to like that right now.
00:20:07.000 I would be so repulsed by that.
00:20:09.000 Be like, you think that you can appropriate what a woman is just by dressing differently and by acting that way?
00:20:18.000 I think it's so repulsive.
00:20:19.000 But it's the situation in front of us is this.
00:20:29.000 Here's what's so cool, is that we're starting to see things change.
00:20:33.000 Everybody boycotting Target alongside me, am I right?
00:20:42.000 There is now a cost to doing this.
00:20:46.000 And we're never going to forget.
00:20:48.000 For all the companies that are watching out there, you embrace the social contagion.
00:20:52.000 We will make it hurt.
00:20:55.000 Financially, of course.
00:20:58.000 And then we're going to support the good guys.
00:21:00.000 We're going to support the companies that take these stands and are willing to stand for what is right.
00:21:06.000 Okay, one other announcement.
00:21:08.000 We are filming something very exclusively on the Charlie Kirk Show tomorrow.
00:21:12.000 We have slots for eight people if you're interested.
00:21:16.000 We're not going to call on hands, but it's going to be really fun.
00:21:19.000 It'll be kind of like a roundtable type thing.
00:21:22.000 So basically, I think there's going to be something coming up on stage.
00:21:26.000 You email us if you're interested, freedom at charliekirk.com if you want to participate, but you have to email us proof that you're just subscribed to our podcast.
00:21:34.000 And if you're not yet subscribed, just follow the QR code that's up on the screen or coming up on the screen.
00:21:38.000 It's going to be really fun.
00:21:39.000 It's going to be unscripted, and it'll be a chance to kind of hear from you what you're experiencing on the front lines and what you're going through.
00:21:47.000 And so hopefully we can get that up there.
00:21:49.000 And if not, just please subscribe to our podcast and email us, freedom at charliekirk.com, if you want to get engaged and get involved in that.
00:21:57.000 So if that comes up, great.
00:21:58.000 If not, we'll do it a different time.
00:22:00.000 All right, I'll say this in closing.
00:22:03.000 Take this all in.
00:22:05.000 This event changes lives if you want it to change your life.
00:22:10.000 If you are open to the career opportunities, the friendships, the networking opportunities, there might be someone right here might be dealing with a lot at home, depression or anxiety, isolation, loneliness.
00:22:24.000 And all of a sudden, you might hear a one-liner from a speaker that might change your life.
00:22:28.000 And we are here at Turning Point USA to serve you, to help make those moments happen.
00:22:35.000 And if you're going through something difficult, please go to a staff member.
00:22:38.000 We'd love to help you through all that.
00:22:40.000 And a positive, optimistic, but also tough female conservative movement is the left's worst nightmare.
00:22:53.000 And that's why we're here.
00:22:54.000 God bless all of you.
00:22:55.000 Thank you so much.
00:22:56.000 Thank you.
00:23:00.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:23:01.000 Everybody, email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:23:04.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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