00:01:03.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:12.000So, a couple things I want to talk about.
00:03:14.000Uh, yesterday, we did our campus tour at University of Texas, San Antonio, talked about how the media is trying to get us into World War III.
00:03:21.000It's inexcusable what the media did in the last couple of days, completely lying about what happened in Israel, taking Hamas's narrative of a hospital.
00:03:30.000Turns out the hospital was not bombed.
00:03:32.000They said 500 people died, turns out 500 people didn't die, and Israel didn't do it.
00:03:36.000Everything about it was a lie, and it impacted our geopolitics.
00:03:39.000And one thing I want to talk about tonight is going to be the central part of my message, is immigration, because immigration is something that is obviously you become the country that you import, you become the country of some of the parts that you let into the nation.
00:03:53.000But I think many of us are looking at what's happening domestically to the response of what happened in Israel as a reminder of how stupid and insane our immigration policies have been in this country.
00:04:05.000And one of the reasons, one of the we're going to talk about this rather bluntly and plainly, because I think people are afraid to talk about this because they're afraid of being called a racist or a xenophobe.
00:04:17.000There's nothing racist or xenophobic about loving the country so much that you don't want people who hate your country to come into your country.
00:04:27.000And when I see, I'll give you example after example after example, when I see members of Congress, not just fringe people, that are parroting terrorist talking points, when I see 31 student organizations at Harvard, days after Jews are butchered and slaughtered and killed, saying the most vile things, that's more than a foreign policy debate.
00:04:51.000We need to take responsibility as a nation and say, what the heck are we doing and letting into our own country?
00:04:58.000And I received a lot of backlash for this, and I'm not here to fear monger.
00:05:02.000I'm not here to try to make people afraid, but it really makes me wonder how many sleeper cells are in this country right now that we have let into America.
00:05:11.000And we're going to go through the numbers because they're really unbelievable.
00:05:15.000And the left drives them nuts when you say this, that all men are created equal in the eyes of God, all men and women.
00:05:22.000But not all cultures are created equal.
00:05:25.000And to say that, you get attacked from every direction.
00:05:27.000But excuse me when I say that Western civilization is the best that humanity has produced, an outgrowth of the Bible, of the eternal truths that all men should be created with dignity.
00:05:39.000And if you come to this nation and you are at odds with that, that's a problem.
00:05:47.000And let's just take a couple people, for example.
00:05:55.000They're marching through the streets in San Francisco.
00:05:57.000They chant, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, which is just code for genocide, just so we're clear, right?
00:06:02.000Basically saying we don't want the state of Israel to exist, chanting through the streets of the high school.
00:06:07.000And those are kids that have been taught that behavior.
00:06:11.000But let's focus on one person in particular, because we must understand that our over-generosity and our benevolency and our charity has been taken advantage of.
00:06:23.000They took advantage of how big our hearts were.
00:06:26.000And one of those individuals that we must isolate and we must talk about is Elon Omar.
00:06:32.000Elon Omar was born in Somalia, in war-torn Somalia.
00:06:38.000She fled to a Kenyan refugee camp and was rescued by Americans and was able to come to our beautiful country, grew up in Minneapolis, educated in American schools, and was raised in the American culture.
00:06:55.000And when she runs for Congress, her message is not one of gratitude, one of how amazing this country is, but her message is that this is a racist country, that we're systemically racist down to the bone.
00:07:07.000She's talking more about foreign adversaries than our own nation.
00:07:10.000And now, it's easy to pick on Elon Omar, and we should.
00:07:15.000But we also must be very clear, though, because that's easy.
00:07:20.000Well, it's not easy because our politicians should do that.
00:07:22.000But what is more important is why did we allow that to happen?
00:07:28.000And that's the introspection that we need to have.
00:07:30.000And honestly, it's because people in both political parties, conservatives and liberals, they wanted mass immigration over the last 30 or 40 years.
00:07:39.000And I'm the first one to acknowledge, I used to be very naive on this topic.
00:07:43.000And we need to say that, wow, I used to think, you know, they come here and they'll assimilate and they'll learn the language and they'll start to adopt our culture.
00:07:51.000And some people do come to this country and they have that.
00:07:54.000But you look at Minneapolis and you look at what happens when you have 400, 500, 600,000 people.
00:08:07.000And they're actually changing America more than America is changing them.
00:08:12.000And you must understand that when certain cultures come into conflict, for example, certain strains of Islam, it's more of a political ideology than a religious ideology.
00:08:23.000And we see this with Rashida Talib, who happens to be born here, but we'll get to her in a second.
00:08:27.000But Elon Omar, her first gut reaction after what happened in Israel is to side with the terrorists.
00:08:35.000And she's a card-carrying member of Congress.
00:08:51.000And I don't care what the media says, and you shouldn't either.
00:08:56.000Because when something you love is being insulted and abused by people that were welcomed by our generosity, we should be unafraid to say, it's clear you're not happy here.
00:09:07.000If you come to our party, our nation, and you do nothing but you try to undermine, you try to destabilize, you try to non-stop create issues, we need to ask ourselves the question, what the heck are we doing exactly?
00:09:30.000The fact that our leaders in both parties are more focused on what's happening in Ukraine than our southern border is a moral disgrace in our country.
00:09:58.000But let's just talk about the legal immigration.
00:10:00.000Did you know on top of that, we're giving away 1.2 to 1.5 million green cards and family chain migration citizenship on top of that, of which the criteria is not exactly, you know, do you love the country?
00:10:16.000It's, well, I'm related and it's almost, in some ways, affirmative action by immigration.
00:10:22.000And the unpopular but necessary argument that needs to be communicated time and time again is that if you get immigration wrong, your country collapses.
00:10:34.000If you get immigration right, your country survives and thrives.
00:10:38.000It is the civilizational altering question.
00:10:42.000And our leaders just kind of punt and they don't always want to talk about it for two reasons.
00:10:46.000On the conservative side, far too many of them are either idealistic, like I used to be admittedly, or they're making a lot of money off of cheap labor to make sure you American-born workers don't have to be paid as much.
00:10:57.000That the plumbers, the welders, the electricians, the muscular class of this country, the people that work with their hands, that shower before work and after work, they want to try to bring down your wages.
00:11:08.000And they don't want to actually have to pay you an honest wage.
00:11:10.000But part of it on the other side, and we must be very clear, is that they're not that worried about the economics of all this.
00:11:16.000They want to change the country permanently.
00:11:18.000They want to change it demographically.
00:11:57.000When you cannot communicate with your fellow citizen or your person in your country, you are a nation of strangers.
00:12:04.000And what I learned during COVID is when we are unfamiliar with our neighbor, you become nastier to your neighbor.
00:12:11.000When you can't see the face of your neighbor, you're less likely to have something in common.
00:12:16.000I want us to be a country, not a colony, as a nation, where we have a shared story and a shared ethos.
00:12:22.000When 22% of the country does not even want to learn the language, you know what really upsets me about this?
00:12:27.000Is that the Irish and the Polish that came here 100 years ago, they made it a priority in their communities to learn English when they came to America.
00:12:35.000And a very simple ask is that if you come to the country, then you have to learn the language.
00:12:42.000The language that our Constitution is written in, our Declaration is written in, our Federalist papers are written in.
00:12:47.00044% of people in America don't speak any English at home, any English at home.
00:12:54.000And we must understand, you know, there's this mythology that immigration has always been very, very high in America.
00:13:02.000In fact, it has been in the modern era because you might not remember, going back to World War II and post-World War II, we basically had an immigration moratorium in this country.
00:13:11.000We only let in like tens of thousands of people a year.
00:13:15.000We did that because we had a moral obligation to the people who fought in World War II that were coming back to America to prioritize their livelihood, their wages, and their jobs.
00:13:25.000What I'm getting at is there's a social contract to the American citizen, not the foreigner.
00:13:29.000You do not have to keep on importing the third world or people that want to come in and they don't have the best necessary dreams or ambitions.
00:13:37.000And people say, but Charlie, aren't we a nation of immigrants?
00:13:41.000An immigrant is something that comes to a nation that is largely already built.
00:14:07.000And you guys probably have grandparents that nearly died in those harsh winters, nearly died in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and the 1940s.
00:14:14.000Now, I'm not diminishing people that are immigrants that go to cities, that go to places already built, but you must not conflate the two.
00:14:21.000America was largely built on a frontier spirit of going to places that were undeveloped and building something new, not going to a place that already existed.
00:14:30.000Those are two completely different things.
00:14:33.000Now, immigration is by invite only, meaning that we want you in the country because you can what?
00:14:41.000And when I see in New York City, you know, tens of thousands of people with masks on celebrating Hamas, I can't help but think, I say, boy, if this continues as is, and it might already be too late, and I hope it's not too late.
00:14:53.000We will have committed suicide by our ideals.
00:15:07.000You know, it's nice to say that you can open up the entire country to the entire world and everybody can have a great time and everyone can be there.
00:15:14.000Or you can check your feelings and your emotion aside and use your brain and use reason.
00:15:19.000You understand that we're the only country in the world right now, major country, that allows anybody from around the world to come into this country, anybody.
00:15:27.000And you look at our, you know, the people that were competing, and I think China's an enemy, but look at, you think China's allowing that?
00:15:37.000But honestly, I'm willing to take a lower economic growth number if I can have a country for my daughter to grow up in, not an unrecognizable third world hellhole.
00:15:52.000So, by the way, we have the best team on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:15:57.000Literally five minutes before, I was like, what am I going to talk about?
00:15:59.000I said, let's talk about immigration, you know, just out of nowhere.
00:16:43.000With that even being said, though, with the amount of people coming in, there should just be a massive pause before we say, wait, what are we actually doing here?
00:16:55.000Because we are allowing guilt-ridden politics, guilt-ridden narratives to dictate the nation.
00:17:02.000You cannot survive at this current rate.
00:17:04.000And the good news is that you guys are starting to wake up.
00:17:07.000The media wants you to co-sponsor the suicide of America with guilt.
00:17:12.000The good news is that the everyday American, you right here, are no longer putting up with it.
00:17:19.000And by the way, some of you college kids, you might say, but come on, how does this impact me?
00:17:22.000I'll tell you exactly how it impacts you.
00:17:24.000If you're studying engineering or computer science, why should a foreign student be prioritized over an American-born, American-educated student?
00:17:57.000There were all these requirements that if you have diseases or infirms, you know, all this, and you read it, you say, one of them was, if you had absolute hatred of, if you don't share the values, don't come in.
00:18:18.000It's amazing how many smart, simple things we don't do because we're afraid of the names that we'll be called.
00:18:25.000And you could connect that to so many things, right?
00:18:28.000We allow the chemical castration of children in our country because we don't want to be called transphobic.
00:18:35.000We allow the invasion into the country because we don't want to be called xenophobic.
00:18:40.000We allow ourselves to be called evil and white privileged because we don't want to be called racist.
00:18:47.000We like go above and beyond not to be called racist.
00:18:52.000If you stop allowing the names they call you to determine what you do, all of a sudden the very simple things that you know are right can be done very, very quickly.
00:19:03.000It's an oversimplification, but I've been doing this for 11 years.
00:19:05.000I got to tell you, it is remarkable how many people in power in this country don't do the simple thing they know is right because they're afraid of the names that the media will call them.
00:19:16.000If there is one lasting legacy, one lasting legacy of Donald Trump, just one, it's that he empowered the everyday rank and file American to no longer care what the media says about them, to no longer care that you are called all these names.
00:19:32.000And it goes to every single one of you.
00:19:36.000Not care if your neighbor calls you a bad name.
00:19:39.000Not care if you're in a college course or a college class and someone says, oh, you're a racist or you're a bigot.
00:20:07.000I wouldn't be surprised that University of Missouri, I don't know if they're doing it here, but University of Missouri, they're really, that is Stalingrad up there.
00:20:23.000So, in closing, ordinary people that see their country disappearing and collapsing, there's a lot of reasons for it.
00:20:32.000There's a cabal of people running the country.
00:20:34.000But the one thing you can do is break free from the language manipulation, the language control that other people have over you because of the names they might throw on you.
00:20:43.000And if you find yourself thinking differently or behaving differently, and it happens to me even sometimes, happens to all of us, because of what you might be called, then you're not living in a free country and you're participating in the destruction of the country.
00:20:57.000I was struck when I was reading about Soviet literature.
00:21:00.000There's a lot of people in the 80s and 90s that visited the Soviet Union.
00:21:03.000And they said, one of the things, if you went to a coffee shop in the Soviet Union and you were going to say anything political, you'd always look over your shoulder to make sure you're not being listened to.
00:21:14.000That's exactly what happens if you go into a Starbucks in America today.
00:21:19.000Could you go into a Starbucks in America today and say that men are men and women are women without being afraid that some purple-haired jihadi is going to come and throw a thing of coffee on you?
00:21:33.000By the way, I have two types of jihadis that want me dead now, like actual jihadis and the other type of jihadis, you know, religious zealots by different means.
00:21:44.000But no, that's, and but here's the point.
00:21:45.000I'm not saying that when you walk into the Starbucks, you have to say, men can't give birth.
00:21:49.000Well, that would be nice, but what I am saying, though, is don't allow your thoughts at the fundamental level to be controlled by the bullying and the tattarianism that occurs.
00:22:00.000It's amazing how, I mean, again, it's overused.
00:22:04.000It's overused, but it's overused for a reason.
00:22:06.000If you actually really study 1984, which I'm a student of that book, I think it's ridiculously prophetic, is how they don't just control your behavior.
00:22:15.000They don't just control your language.
00:22:17.000They're getting down to controlling your thoughts, to controlling and policing how you actually analyze certain situations.
00:22:24.000And the good news is that I truly believe at its core that we're under an occupation of an illegitimate regime in this country, and that there's still so much fight and so much goodness left in this country.
00:22:38.000And one of the ways, it's not the only way, but one of the ways that we defeat that, one of the ways that we shed that, is by people saying, I'm not going to change my language, change who I support, because of the bullying and intimidation of what you think you can take away from me.
00:22:56.000Said differently, you will be the same person in private as you are in public and vice versa.
00:23:02.000That you're not going to have to put on a uniform and pretend to be somebody that you're not.
00:23:15.000One of the reasons they have a cultural hold on us is that exactly.
00:23:19.000And our secret weapon is to release the everyday rank and file person to speak their mind regardless of the cost, regardless of the cancellation.
00:24:11.000That's the line right there if you guys want to start lining up.
00:24:13.000But let me just mention a couple things.
00:24:17.000Since it is a predominant conservative audience, please give respect if you hear something wacky or goofy from a liberal questioner.
00:24:27.000Don't mock, don't laugh, just sit respectfully because we as conservatives want to give the left the respect they never give us here tonight.
00:25:40.000And I mean, I'm never going to be rushed, but if I could have a fraction of the impact Rush had, I believe at my core, that's what's missing most in America right now: is to help fill that void of a teacher, an encourager, a truth teller, someone that calls balls and strikes, someone that lifts you up when you need it the most.
00:25:58.000And look, our show is growing like crazy right now.
00:26:30.000You think I want to run for office to be part of that circus?
00:26:32.000They can't even pick a speaker of the house.
00:26:34.000They can't become speaker of the house.
00:26:36.000Meanwhile, I get to speak to all of you amazing patriots, hear your concerns, teach something that I might have learned through my 11 years of study and research and thousands of hours I've dedicated to this.
00:26:49.000But most importantly, bring the fight to the country.
00:26:52.000Bring the fight where it matters most, especially the next generation.
00:27:32.000So, it would have been okay to terminate a baby all throughout gestational period up to 39 weeks.
00:27:38.000Yeah, if they, like, I guess if they got pregnant and they didn't want to, like, if my mom got pregnant and my dad just like, you know, did it and like she didn't want to, and then like I was born, like, I feel like that would be her like choice to do so.
00:29:26.000What if they got like sex trafficked and then like they had a kid, but they didn't want it?
00:29:30.000Is that still like not okay to get a so?
00:29:32.000There's no such thing as an unwanted human being in this country.
00:29:35.000We have twice as many people on the adoption list than we have abortions in this country.
00:29:40.000And so, that the language that you are using, the language you are using of unwanted is no different than eugenics or Nazi Germany, correct?
00:31:50.000Mrs. Charlie, it's an honor to meet you.
00:31:52.000I'm a huge fan of you, Candace, Ben Shapiro.
00:31:58.000And for someone that looks like me, if I even say I'm a conservative, I often get a strange look.
00:32:04.000So how do I stand up and say I'm a conservative?
00:32:08.000And then without people saying, oh, how can you be a conservative?
00:32:11.000And often they refer to saying like, oh, how can you be conservative and be black?
00:32:15.000And which is like something I often struggle to respond to because I don't know why my skin color even plays any part in being what part of politics I stand.
00:32:37.000Anybody who says that is no better than a KKK activist from 150 years ago.
00:33:03.000Webster definition of racism is prejudging a person based on the melanin content in somebody's skin.
00:33:10.000Now, I don't throw around the racist term like a frisbee because I'm not a leftist.
00:33:14.000But anybody that says that or gives you a weird look or says you can't be a conservative because you're black is just as racist as a grand wizard from the American South from the late 1800s.
00:33:34.000People like you that are fighting back and that are standing up.
00:33:37.000I am so disturbed by the American left's occupation of black America.
00:33:44.000Black America needs to rise up and needs to reject these Marxist, liberal, left-wing influences, and it's going to start with people like you.
00:33:53.000So God bless you and thank you so much.
00:34:15.000I just wanted to hear your comments on what Mike Pence called the siren song of populism.
00:34:20.000That is to say, an epidemic that's sweeping the left and the right in this country.
00:34:23.000Because I think it's pretty clear the founding fathers were against populism.
00:34:26.000I mean, John Adams said that the Constitution was created for a moral and religious people and is wholly inadequate for government of any other.
00:34:32.000Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers against the passions of an unrestrained people.
00:34:38.000And that's why he advocated for a strong central government.
00:34:41.000And I tend to be against populism myself.
00:34:43.000I think it's pretty damaging for the country and its core institutions.
00:34:45.000But I wanted to hear your thoughts on it.
00:34:47.000It sounds to me like you're a populist.
00:34:48.000I don't want to speak for you, but just to hear your thoughts on that, sir.
00:34:51.000I'm definitely a conservative populist.
00:34:54.000I mean, obviously, I agree with my founding fathers in that regard.
00:34:57.000But honestly, in recent times, I'm really thrilled with the populist movement because it has exposed some issues that old school conservatives like Mike Pence have been ignoring.
00:35:07.000We did a whole speech on that tonight.
00:35:09.000If you would have just gone through doctrinaire old school conservatism, they say, well, just allow as many people as possible into the country and sit down and shut up.
00:35:18.000Sometimes when the people are yelling and trying to tell you something, we should listen.
00:35:22.000The best way I could summarize populism in its most healthy way that Mike Pence does not hold.
00:35:28.000I don't know if you guys are Mike Pence fans, but that, I don't know.
00:35:32.000Is this listening to your voters and not despising them and ignoring them when they're telling you something is amiss?
00:35:43.000When your voters are saying our wages are going down and the dollar is decreasing in value and our kids are not sharing our values, Mike Pence should not, in an elitist way, smugly look down on them and say, I know better than you.
00:35:58.000At the same time, the passions of a populist can go too far, right?
00:36:01.000We shouldn't just give reparations because a bunch of people want reparations.
00:36:05.000But we have gone so far out of whack that what they call conservatism is actually neoliberalism masquerading as conservatism, where it's actually left-wing values that have inserted itself into the conservative movement.
00:36:19.000So there's parts of me that are very populist.
00:36:21.000I'm more of a nationalist than honestly a populist because I love my country and every single decision our leaders should make is what is best for the nation, what is best for the citizens.
00:36:32.000And if populism is a constructive means to that end, if people are screaming in pain, you don't give a speech and say, sit down and shut up.
00:37:24.000So I'm looking at the numbers, and I think, like, just of all the candidates, I'd vote for Trump.
00:37:32.000But I think, in my opinion, he's the least likely, or he is, if Joe Biden had to go against someone, Trump would be the best person to beat.
00:37:40.000So compared to other candidates, and again, I'm going to vote for Trump if he makes it, but I'm just genuinely worried just how just as shown in the first election, the rationality.
00:38:24.000But there's also this mythology about the 2020 election.
00:38:27.000And let me just be very clear: that election was a drive-by shooting of the U.S. Constitution and was one of the great injustices that has ever happened in our country.
00:38:38.000Zuckerberg with $400 million, the censorship of a Hunter Biden laptop, mass mail-in voting, taking days to count ballots, signature verification issues, all that stuff.
00:38:48.000And with that, with that, there is this belief that, oh my goodness, Trump got blown out of the water.
00:38:54.000Trump fell 9,000 votes short in Arizona.
00:38:57.000He fell 10,000 votes short in Georgia and 22,000 votes short in Wisconsin, despite every major institution being against him.
00:39:07.000And I actually think I have a different opinion.
00:39:09.000I think he's the most likely of any of the candidates because he brings out voters that Republicans otherwise have never been able to reach.
00:39:18.000People that are disaffected, low-propensity voters.
00:39:21.000These are patriots, police officers, veterans, as I talk about the muscular class, people that believe the system is rigged against them because they're right.
00:39:29.000And if President Trump is able to rebuild that type of coalition, you always want a high-energy candidate that can drive tons and tons of turnout.
00:40:00.000This is a guy that was on the margins of the margins with the COVID death counts and the coup from Fauci and Burks and all the ways that they crossed him, right?
00:40:09.000He was on the margins of the margins of earning another term despite everything they threw against him.
00:40:18.000Like, the numbers are very suspicious.
00:40:21.000And I really like your argument saying that go for the best one, because I do think Trump is the best one out of all of them and is the most outspoken.
00:40:29.000I'm just, again, I'm just still shocked that someone like Joe Biden, I call him Captain Alzheimer's, I'm not going to lie.
00:41:06.000The Republican Party has been choosing to replace the values of white America with the values of minority groups that are foreign and progressive.
00:41:15.000As time goes on, the conservative movement has continually given up ground on positions that were once unacceptable to most Americans.
00:41:23.000This has progressed to a point where Republicans choose to take liberal positions in order to bander for votes.
00:41:30.000Middle-class white America is opting out of American politics because they are being shamed for their identity and their voices are being ignored.
00:41:38.000They are left to choose between a political party that hates them and a political party that does not care for them.
00:41:59.000You guys should read Shelby Steele's book on it.
00:42:01.000He's a black philosopher and economist, where he says white guilt has been the number one driver of bad political decisions over the last 50 or 60 years.
00:42:08.000But honestly, even more than the race thing, I just think that American values are under attack from a hyper-academic elite that say that certain things are quote unquote whiteness, right?
00:42:21.000The Smithsonian Museum, the Black African American History Museum, the Smithsonian Museum, said that showing up on time, doing mathematics, speaking with proper grammar is quote unquote whiteness.
00:42:32.000What they're really getting at is they're trying to say the values that are not necessarily white or black that built the West are evil and toxic.
00:42:45.000I can't answer intention questions unless they reveal it bluntly and plainly and repeatedly.
00:42:49.000But it is true, and I've said it before, that whether it be affirmative action, hiring practices, or the quote-unquote racial reckoning that happened post-Floyd of Palooza, there is an institutional war on white people in this country.
00:43:01.000It is harder for a white student to get into a university and a college than a black student or a Hispanic student with similar grades or even lower grades.
00:43:10.000So why it's happening, that's speculation that people can fill in the dots for themselves, but it's 100% happening, whether it's through immigration or other ways.
00:43:19.000And yeah, that's the best answer I can give that.
00:43:52.000Setting aside things like paperwork, you know, like your government status, your citizenship status, do you believe that people who migrate to America from any part of the world can claim to be Americans in the same way that, say, someone who perhaps founded and settled this country, you know, 10 generations ago can?
00:44:23.000If you came in the wave of immigration in the early 1900s as an Irish or a Polish immigrant and you assimilated to the country and learned the language, yes, you are an American, absolutely.
00:44:32.000If you're a Cuban that fled Castro's communism in the 1960s and come to America and you learn the language and you hate Marxism and you're fighting every single day for a freer country, yes.
00:44:43.000Because I do not think America in its core is a racial makeup at all.
00:44:49.000I do think, though, that if you ignore the history and the tradition of the country and try to change the country too dramatically, then and you ignore its roots, well, then you're committing civilizational suicide.
00:45:16.000Vermont has a lot of people that have been there for eight, nine, or ten generations.
00:45:19.000Vermont is one of the least free states in the country, right?
00:45:22.000And so there's not necessarily a one-to-one correlation of, oh, my goodness, these people have been around for so long and they're necessarily embracing the right value system.
00:45:31.000In fact, they're embracing some of the goofiest and wacky ideas.
00:45:33.000Bernie Sanders is the senator from Vermont.
00:45:35.000Burlington, Vermont is one of the most insane places imaginable.
00:45:39.000But no, I do think that a country can go way too far.
00:45:42.000And Vermont is full of Mayflower descendants that then have abandoned American values.
00:45:49.000When I go down the streets of Burlington, Vermont, and I'll meet a 19-year-old with purple hair that believes men can give birth, that might be an 11th generation or 10th generation descendant of the Mayflower Compact, or if I walk the streets of Miami and I see a second-generation Cuban that loves liberty and loves freedom, honestly, the person who's a second-generation American in Miami is much more of an American than the person that's been here for 11 generations on Burlington, Vermont.
00:50:09.000And there's no guarantee that that will even work.
00:50:11.000But at the very least, there's a risk that you can call out the corruption because it's the same rule in favoritism of sports that it is in politics.
00:50:18.000When you see corruption and you see insider deals or secret societies, you must shine a light on it.
00:50:24.000And it's best if it's shown a light on it internally.
00:50:26.000So I know that might not be the message you want to hear, but can I say something you might not want to hear?
00:50:36.000I'm just telling you that if, as mom involved, it will only make the coach less likely to accommodate the.
00:50:44.000I know that's a provocative thing to say, and I know I'm going out on a limb here, but you may have to take a step back and let your son fight the battle for himself.
00:51:34.000And I think a lot of the importance of that is remembering what makes America great.
00:51:38.000And so, my question to you is: could you just elaborate a little bit about what makes America the best country on earth?
00:51:43.000Yeah, well, first of all, we have a unique founding.
00:51:46.000The founding of America is one of the great miracles in humanity ever.
00:51:49.000And understanding what led to the founding is also important.
00:51:52.000A religious revival led to the greatest political accomplishment in human history.
00:51:58.000It was Jonathan Edwards and Jonathan Mayhew and George Whitfield preaching thousands and thousands of sermons asking for repentance along the eastern seaboard that led to the prerequisite for the people of the nation to want liberty, which is God's idea, not man's idea.
00:52:13.000Deuteronomy was the most cited book in the founding of the nation, secular or religious.
00:52:19.000So we were great because we went to eternal principles.
00:52:23.000Hopefully, we're losing our greatness, but we need to go back to what made the founding so interesting and so unique and exceptional was you look at the promise of the Declaration of Independence.
00:52:33.000When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that have tied them to another.
00:52:40.000That any people at any time deserve liberty and self-government if you can handle it, as Adams would say, because the Constitution is written solely for a moral or religious people.
00:52:49.000But it goes on that the Constitution derived certain bedrock, eternal principles from the scriptures and they built a whole government around it.
00:52:57.000That all men are created equal, separation of powers, checks and balances, independent judiciary, three branches of government.
00:53:04.000Now, the form itself is not everything, though, because you could take the American Constitution and put it in a random country and they are not free.
00:53:17.000They actually have a pretty robust constitution, and they're not a free country because it's not just the form of government, but it's also the matter of the people with the form.
00:53:26.000And what I'm getting at is that there were four major religious revivals in this country that have kept the country free.
00:53:32.000In 1 Chronicles, it says, my people will turn their face to me and repent.
00:53:37.000I'm afraid we have not done that in a long time in this country.
00:53:40.000And so, secondarily, beyond that, though, there is a uniquely American ethic and ethos: delayed gratification, private property ownership.
00:53:50.000I'm going to go above and beyond so that my children can live a better life than I live.
00:53:55.000Intergenerational stratification is a very wordy way to say it.
00:53:59.000That if you believe that what you do will make dividends for your kids or grandkids, you're willing to do the right thing.
00:54:05.000If you think what you're going to do makes no impact, well, then you live in a country like India where you feel as if you're in a caste system and you'll never be able to move up.
00:54:14.000That's a long answer to a very good question, but it's not just the form, but it's the matter.
00:54:19.000And if you import matter into the country that is at odds with the form, then the form ceases to exist.
00:54:26.000When you import hundreds of thousands of Elon Omar that don't believe in the First Amendment, they don't believe in the Second Amendment, they don't believe in states' rights, they don't believe in E pluribus unim, they don't believe in id God we trust, and they don't believe in liberty, well, then those bedrock principles fail to exist because they want to impose their own in there.
00:54:43.000And finally, the reason why the country is also collapsing is we're becoming a less religious country.
00:54:48.000Alexander Social Nitson said, In the Gulag Archipelago, all of these atrocities happened because people forgot God.
00:55:55.000I have seen, and I have dealt in the nursing field, I have dealt with fentanyl myself with patients, and I know how to do that.
00:56:06.000What I'm seeing come across the border is very scary, and I am really afraid for everybody here that somebody's going to get fentanyl by accident and die.
00:56:22.000I want to know what we can do to help that.
00:57:17.000Look, what's so sad about the fentanyl issue is you isolated it.
00:57:23.000It can be done by mistake, is that people have a different intention at time to do a drug that is not as hard and they could overdose on it.
00:57:30.000I, by no means, I'm an expert on it, but here's what I could say.
00:57:34.000The Chinese Communist Party is the manufacturer of a lot of this fentanyl, also the prerequisite ingredients for it, at the very least.
00:57:41.000Why on earth we are not doing everything we can, have sanctions and tariffs on the reverse opium wars against the West is beyond me.
00:57:50.000The Chinese Communist Party released a deadly virus on the entire world.
00:58:04.000And I'm very sorry for your loss, but it was co-sponsored by three different things: the Chinese Communist Party, the cartel, and weak conservative leaders that have kept the southern border porous and wide open.
00:58:16.000I just want to give you one statistic.
01:01:24.000But how do we keep a balance of letting people in who are passionate about our country while also keeping an open political discourse alive?
01:01:33.000The main question is, how do we let people in who are patriotic about this nation, but also have an open political discourse with multiple viewpoints, even if there are Ian Omars?
01:01:43.000So how do we let people in with multiple viewpoints?
01:02:26.000I would pick from countries that, for example, allowing Cubans into the country, you know, if they love the country and they want to assimilate, that's proven to be actually a pretty good idea.
01:02:36.000They're some of the most reliable, conservative people in the country.
01:03:09.000My next question would be: historically, like when the Irish and the Germans were coming in, a lot of people thought they would lead to reduced wages for Americans here at home and a lot of cultural upheaval.
01:03:19.000And long term, it seems to have kind of worked out.
01:03:22.000So, what's the distinction between that historical immigration and the current immigration we're seeing now from the southern border?
01:09:08.000And the idea that carbon is plant food is great, but the reality is when there's 40 billion tons being emitted a year by a network of global factories and global tailpipes, that absolutely has an impact on climate.
01:09:20.000So I'm disappointed that this is the reaction to the question, honestly, because I don't know how you all, we're in an agricultural area.
01:09:44.000They've studied them, and it's not due to anything other than the emissions, to my understanding.
01:09:49.000Okay, so not solar flares, global tilt.
01:09:52.000Well, they've accounted for those, and they've found out that those are not the main drivers of the climate change that we're seeing.
01:09:58.000Okay, so you trust, I just want to make sure I understand, you trust consensus from scientists that put forward reports.
01:10:05.000No, I trust ExxonMobil's own scientist who found this out in the 1980s and hid the findings for decades so that they wouldn't lose money.
01:10:12.000So excuse me, just as a kind of side note, I'm unbelievably skeptical when I hear scientists say, especially after I had to hear that a vaccine is safe and effective and closing down schools and putting masks on kids was a good answer.
01:10:50.000You know, if we could just filter out the carbon, it's the carbon that's doing it.
01:10:54.000So, I don't know about living off the fossil fuels, but if we could get a lot of people who are not going to be able to do carbon, the amount of certainty you have in a planet that is so massive with such unbelievable biodiversity to immediately act that we the humans are the only reason that global temperatures might be going up, I think is a flawed hypothesis.
01:11:14.000Because if you're wrong, then we might try to find a solution that actually might be more about private property confiscation and wealth deterioration, aka Marxism, not actually solving the problem.
01:11:26.000That's why I challenge the hypothesis: is what else might be contributing to it?
01:11:31.000So, let's just ask some, you know, ask some very basic questions.
01:11:35.000So, if carbon is the problem, would you support planting one trillion trees?
01:12:59.000I've been studying architecture for four years.
01:13:00.000I've been studying a little bit of urbanism, too.
01:13:03.000It's not taking away your freedoms, the fact that you get to go to a grocery store and a library and a coffee store within a 15-minute walk, folks.
01:13:10.000That's actually independence from the automobile.
01:13:12.000But that's independence is being able to go where you want to go when you want to go there.
01:13:35.000And so we have a built-in healthy skepticism over the last decade that we are being constantly lied to by the same amount of cabal of criminals, and at the very least, exaggerating the threat, okay?
01:13:48.000Exaggerating the threat, where we are told we must take our freedoms and liberties away.
01:13:56.000And I'll be very honest with you: that with all of the pressing challenges that face humanity, like the most suicidal generation in history, the most drug-addicted generation in history, the most alcohol-addicted generation in history, the fixation on an abstraction of rising global temperatures is an academic distraction from real material suffering that people have when the activists, not necessarily you, but the loudest activists,
01:14:23.000AOC, Rashida Talib, Elon Omar, Bernie Sanders, they want to get rid of fossil fuels.
01:14:28.000They want to disenfranchise millions of people of work.
01:14:31.000And they want to basically put the entire grid in an unrealistic solar, wind, and turbine type model.
01:14:37.000Mr. Kirk, you sound so much like the liberal coastal elites that you rail against because the reality is the first year that my family bought cows, 2012, we had a record-breaking drought and hay had to be trucked in from Oklahoma or Texas.
01:14:49.000The following spring, it rained so hard and so much it broke records and the bridges washed out and my mother couldn't get to work.
01:15:05.000You could talk to any rancher or farmer here in Missouri.
01:15:07.000Unpredictability is part of the agrarian lifestyle.
01:15:11.000To act as if you could perfectly model it, but here's the one thing about climate change that drives me crazy, and I'll just close with this: is that no matter what happens, it gets warmer, it's climate change, it gets colder, it's climate change, it's a tornado, it's climate change, it's sunny, it's climate change.
01:15:23.000It's the one thing that confirms the hypothesis regardless of the results.
01:15:27.000And so it's the perfect thing to argue for.
01:15:30.000I don't think you are that rising global temperatures are necessarily tied to human activity.
01:15:35.000But every solution I hear, every solution would obliterate the American economy and destroy our ability to use our greatest asset, which is fossil fuels, natural gas, liquid natural gas, and oil.
01:15:55.000I fell for the college scam when I was in my 30s and for the past decade have found myself working in the tech sector.
01:16:03.000And I just wanted to know what you thought about us staying in that sector and planting where grow where we are planted, or should we try to reskill and connect to the patriot economy?
01:17:53.000I was an infantry Marine who was discharged due to the vaccine mandate.
01:17:57.000And then I worked for a Republican in U.S. Congress after that.
01:18:01.000So we agree on a lot, but we disagree on one key topic, I would say.
01:18:07.000With every projection pointing to a Trump primary victory and Trump repeatedly claiming a stolen 2020 election, which I agree with him on, how can Trump supporters be optimistic about a 2024 general election and be certain that the same thing won't happen again since no federal election integrity reform has taken place and Trump hasn't given us a reason as to why the outcome will be any different?
01:18:29.000Doesn't it seem like Trump campaign is just playing along with the system that they believe is rigged against them without expecting a different result and without giving a reason why the result would be any different?
01:18:38.000It's kind of the definition of insanity.
01:19:41.000So there's some laws in Wisconsin or Georgia better.
01:19:44.000But I think you're making a good point that they still control the voting systems, and we have not nearly reformed enough of it nor launched the proper lawsuits.
01:19:51.000And do you think RFK has a potential to blow the whole system apart?
01:19:56.000RFK has the potential to get Joe Biden another term.
01:20:01.000And I have been one of the few people that believes that RFK helps Joe Biden far more than he helps Trump.
01:20:08.000And the answer, first of all, is like if you go around this room, I bet more people have a positive opinion of RFK than a negative opinion.
01:20:14.000That's changing now that you're learning that he's a liberal Democrat and that he wants reparations, gun control, and all sorts of stuff.
01:20:20.000But with RFK, he communicates to low-trust voters.
01:20:25.000Donald Trump also communicates to low-trusted government voters.
01:22:08.000They do not want to acknowledge that there is a power above them, an almighty that breathed them into existence.
01:22:13.000That they want to be God and they want to be in charge of their life and they do not want an eternal moral standard or structure above them.
01:22:18.000So it's up for you to witness the best you possibly can.
01:22:21.000Witness with truth and love and understand that it's not your job to win all of them over.
01:22:26.000It is your job, though, to present the truth and allow the truth to work on them or they're going to harden their heart and reject it.
01:22:54.000If and when renewables such as nuclear, solar, and wind overtake fossil fuels in terms of efficiency, is the conservative movement's answer to that to try and stop that movement, or will it be to adapt?
01:23:06.000Well, I reject the premise that it's inevitable because experts in 1990 said all fossil fuels would be phased out by 2020, and that certainly is not the case, right?
01:23:48.000I'm just going to talk more broadly, okay?
01:23:50.000If the environmentalists truly care about carbon emissions, lifting people out of poverty, and lowering utility and a quote-unquote bridge, they should be embracing liquefied natural gas.
01:23:59.000LNG is abundant, it is clean, it employs so many people.
01:24:03.000And in the state of New York, they have outlawed all LNG exploration for no other reason than ideology, right?
01:24:18.000I have an idea on how to bring conservatives more into quote-unquote environmentalism is to actually focus on actual conservation.
01:24:26.000Like if you want to say it's the Illinois River, which is completely infested, Illinois River, excuse me, is completely infested from the corrupt state of Illinois.
01:24:45.000Like, what is your opinion on bringing more conservatives in to guess caring for the environment in the terms of conservation?
01:24:52.000Yes, but I want to make sure the morals are always right.
01:24:54.000And it's my job to slow down mass media movements that can lead us astray.
01:25:00.000The separation between man and nature, as set out in the first 11 books of Genesis, I believe is the prop, obviously, it's the truth, it's the proper way.
01:25:08.000We do not worship nature and we do not serve nature.
01:25:31.000But yeah, conservation, I'm all about conservation, obviously.
01:25:35.000But I'm also about when the question needs to be asked, which happens more than you might think, do we explore natural gas, fossil fuels, or coal to help people, or do we not do that to preserve some butterfly that we've never seen?
01:25:54.000And the unpopular but true argument is that fossil fuels that get demonized by every person have lifted more people out of poverty and allowed us to have a sustainable level of living that was unthinkable 200 years ago.
01:26:07.000And most environmentalists literally want what happened in Europe last winter, rolling blackouts and people freezing to death, all because of an ideological green agenda.
01:26:33.000I personally have never gotten any of the shots ever.
01:26:36.000I'm surprised I've even made it this far.
01:26:44.000Just because of how new it is and everything.
01:26:46.000But because it's become so polarized, what would your advice be about when to trust the vaccine, say for if I have future children, especially since it is mandated in like some parts of our society?
01:27:20.000So I'm not going to get into that because I'm by no means an expert, but there's a lot of literature out there that has been banned and censored that makes some pretty compelling cases that there have been more adverse events to vaccines and more side effects than popular media would ever lead you to believe.
01:27:39.000What the extent of that, I do not know.
01:27:41.000But here is what I am most suspicious about from pattern recognition.
01:27:45.000The ferocity and the silencing that the pharmaceutical companies tied in with the media and the social media use to silence anybody that asks questions about vaccines is very suspicious because it feels as if there is a profit-seeking agenda that is above actual the health of the American people or the health of our children.
01:28:08.000And I will say this, that there are way too many vaccines on the child vaccination schedule.
01:28:17.000Everybody needs to make their own decisions as a parent, as an individual.
01:28:22.000But when you look at the, you look at 75 shots that you are putting into a young baby, at some point, I know this might sound silly to some people, that should just be a gut check.
01:28:32.000And you should probably be like, that's probably too much, right?
01:28:56.000Turning point USA and Turning Point Action are the two most important things happen in the country.
01:29:00.000I'm very biased, but we're doing this every single night all across the country, reaching millions of people online, educating the next generation.