The Charlie Kirk Show - Not All Cultures Are Created Equal: My Speech to Missouri State University

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, happy Sunday.

00:00:01.000 My conversation in Missouri, all about immigration.

00:00:05.000 Why we need closed borders, less people coming into the country. 0.93

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00:00:41.000 Here we go.

00:00:42.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:44.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:46.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:49.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:52.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:53.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:54.000 His spirit, his love of this country.

00:00:56.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.

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00:01:03.000 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.

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00:01:24.000 Wow, thank you, everybody.

00:01:27.000 Thank you.

00:01:29.000 Thank you.

00:01:30.000 Wow, what a group.

00:01:31.000 This is great.

00:01:32.000 You know, that is not always the welcome I get on college campuses, I have to tell you.

00:01:37.000 If you saw some of my recent visits, that is not the case.

00:01:40.000 First, I just want to say thank you to our amazing Turning Point USA chapter.

00:01:44.000 They're doing such a great job and they're working so hard.

00:01:49.000 I'm glad you heard from my friend Will Sharf.

00:01:52.000 He's doing amazing.

00:01:53.000 I'll tell you, he's one of the smartest legal minds out there on our show.

00:01:56.000 Anyone watch our show?

00:01:57.000 By the way, thank you guys.

00:01:59.000 Anytime I want a very strong legal opinion, I have Will Sharf come on and he does a great job.

00:02:05.000 I'm very, very happy that he's helping represent our president against that terrible witch hunt.

00:02:11.000 He's doing a great job.

00:02:12.000 So, Will, thank you for sharing some words.

00:02:15.000 So, I'll talk for a little bit and then we'll do some questions, which is honestly the most fun.

00:02:22.000 I think that's why you're all here, right?

00:02:23.000 It's ask questions.

00:02:24.000 And if you disagree, you can go to the front of the line and we'll have some fun from there.

00:02:28.000 We had 10 protesters outside.

00:02:30.000 You guys can do much better than that in Springfield, Missouri, okay? 0.98

00:02:34.000 Look, I want to be nice, but that was pathetic, okay? 0.96

00:02:40.000 You got to send your leftists to Berkeley for a couple weeks to learn how to really protest, okay? 0.97

00:02:46.000 You know how I know it's not a big deal.

00:02:48.000 I walk on campus here and they say, Oh, yeah, there's really no police or all this.

00:02:52.000 I said, Wow, you know, this is this really is God's country, right?

00:02:55.000 Because I got to be honest, that's a good sign, it really is.

00:03:02.000 I'm so used to the SWAT teams and snipers on the roof and helicopters, and it's Missouri.

00:03:08.000 So, I think we got this handled, right?

00:03:10.000 It's uh, it's great.

00:03:12.000 So, a couple things I want to talk about.

00:03:14.000 Uh, 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.

00:03:21.000 It'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.

00:03:30.000 Turns out the hospital was not bombed.

00:03:32.000 They said 500 people died, turns out 500 people didn't die, and Israel didn't do it.

00:03:36.000 Everything about it was a lie, and it impacted our geopolitics.

00:03:39.000 And 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. 0.98

00:03:53.000 But 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. 0.88

00:04:05.000 And 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. 0.97

00:04:17.000 There'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.

00:04:24.000 That is about loving your nation.

00:04:27.000 And 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.

00:04:51.000 We need to take responsibility as a nation and say, what the heck are we doing and letting into our own country? 1.00

00:04:58.000 And I received a lot of backlash for this, and I'm not here to fear monger. 0.54

00:05:02.000 I'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.

00:05:11.000 And we're going to go through the numbers because they're really unbelievable.

00:05:15.000 And the left drives them nuts when you say this, that all men are created equal in the eyes of God, all men and women.

00:05:22.000 But not all cultures are created equal.

00:05:25.000 And to say that, you get attacked from every direction.

00:05:27.000 But 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.

00:05:39.000 And if you come to this nation and you are at odds with that, that's a problem.

00:05:47.000 And let's just take a couple people, for example.

00:05:49.000 We could talk about the Harvard.

00:05:50.000 We could talk about today, it's unbelievable, these young high school kids in San Francisco.

00:05:54.000 Did you see this?

00:05:55.000 They're marching through the streets in San Francisco.

00:05:57.000 They chant, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, which is just code for genocide, just so we're clear, right? 0.96

00:06:02.000 Basically saying we don't want the state of Israel to exist, chanting through the streets of the high school.

00:06:07.000 And those are kids that have been taught that behavior.

00:06:11.000 But 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.

00:06:23.000 They took advantage of how big our hearts were.

00:06:26.000 And one of those individuals that we must isolate and we must talk about is Elon Omar.

00:06:32.000 Elon Omar was born in Somalia, in war-torn Somalia.

00:06:38.000 She 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.

00:06:52.000 Eventually runs for Congress, wins.

00:06:55.000 And 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.

00:07:07.000 She's talking more about foreign adversaries than our own nation.

00:07:10.000 And now, it's easy to pick on Elon Omar, and we should.

00:07:12.000 She should be deported. 1.00

00:07:13.000 She hates the country. 1.00

00:07:14.000 She's a terrorist sympathizer. 0.97

00:07:15.000 But we also must be very clear, though, because that's easy.

00:07:20.000 Well, it's not easy because our politicians should do that.

00:07:22.000 But what is more important is why did we allow that to happen?

00:07:28.000 And that's the introspection that we need to have.

00:07:30.000 And honestly, it's because people in both political parties, conservatives and liberals, they wanted mass immigration over the last 30 or 40 years.

00:07:39.000 And I'm the first one to acknowledge, I used to be very naive on this topic.

00:07:43.000 And 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.

00:07:51.000 And some people do come to this country and they have that.

00:07:54.000 But you look at Minneapolis and you look at what happens when you have 400, 500, 600,000 people.

00:07:59.000 This is a question.

00:08:01.000 Has America changed Elon Omar or has Elon changed more of America?

00:08:05.000 That's a serious question.

00:08:07.000 And they're actually changing America more than America is changing them.

00:08:12.000 And 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.

00:08:23.000 And we see this with Rashida Talib, who happens to be born here, but we'll get to her in a second.

00:08:27.000 But Elon Omar, her first gut reaction after what happened in Israel is to side with the terrorists.

00:08:35.000 And she's a card-carrying member of Congress.

00:08:39.000 And, no, I totally agree.

00:08:41.000 And by the way, President Trump was right when he said send them back to the country they came from. 0.91

00:08:46.000 He was 100% right.

00:08:46.000 I'll tell you what.

00:08:49.000 100% right.

00:08:51.000 And I don't care what the media says, and you shouldn't either.

00:08:56.000 Because 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.

00:09:07.000 If 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?

00:09:20.000 And the numbers are shocking.

00:09:22.000 And so in addition, by the way, I'm not even talking about the southern border, which is an outright invasion of our country.

00:09:29.000 And let me just pause.

00:09:30.000 The 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.

00:09:39.000 It is a moral disgrace.

00:09:42.000 But the numbers are unbelievable when you look at it.

00:09:47.000 And I'm not even just talking about the illegal.

00:09:49.000 We're talking about two and a half to three million illegals invading our country every single year.

00:09:55.000 That's just the illegals. 0.98

00:09:56.000 We don't even know the exact number.

00:09:58.000 But let's just talk about the legal immigration.

00:10:00.000 Did 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?

00:10:14.000 Are you bringing a skill set?

00:10:15.000 Are you bringing something?

00:10:16.000 It's, well, I'm related and it's almost, in some ways, affirmative action by immigration.

00:10:22.000 And the unpopular but necessary argument that needs to be communicated time and time again is that if you get immigration wrong, your country collapses.

00:10:34.000 If you get immigration right, your country survives and thrives. 1.00

00:10:38.000 It is the civilizational altering question.

00:10:42.000 And our leaders just kind of punt and they don't always want to talk about it for two reasons.

00:10:46.000 On 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.

00:10:57.000 That 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.

00:11:08.000 And they don't want to actually have to pay you an honest wage.

00:11:10.000 But 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.

00:11:16.000 They want to change the country permanently.

00:11:18.000 They want to change it demographically.

00:11:20.000 They want to change it politically.

00:11:21.000 And in fact, they think borders are inherently racist.

00:11:24.000 They think borders are terrible, even though they live in gated communities and they walk around chauffeured cars all the time.

00:11:30.000 They're the ones telling us that your nation can't have a border.

00:11:32.000 How about this, Nancy Pelosi, or any one of you?

00:11:35.000 How about you take down your big hedges outside of your home in San Francisco and you tell us that you don't want borders?

00:11:43.000 So 22% of Americans don't speak English at home.

00:11:49.000 22%.

00:11:50.000 Let me just speak about the English and the language thing.

00:11:52.000 You know, I got in a debate with somebody.

00:11:54.000 They said, oh, Charlie, why does the language thing matter?

00:11:56.000 Here's why.

00:11:57.000 When you cannot communicate with your fellow citizen or your person in your country, you are a nation of strangers.

00:12:04.000 And what I learned during COVID is when we are unfamiliar with our neighbor, you become nastier to your neighbor.

00:12:11.000 When you can't see the face of your neighbor, you're less likely to have something in common.

00:12:16.000 I want us to be a country, not a colony, as a nation, where we have a shared story and a shared ethos.

00:12:22.000 When 22% of the country does not even want to learn the language, you know what really upsets me about this?

00:12:27.000 Is 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.

00:12:35.000 And a very simple ask is that if you come to the country, then you have to learn the language.

00:12:42.000 The language that our Constitution is written in, our Declaration is written in, our Federalist papers are written in.

00:12:47.000 44% of people in America don't speak any English at home, any English at home.

00:12:54.000 And we must understand, you know, there's this mythology that immigration has always been very, very high in America.

00:13:02.000 In 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.

00:13:11.000 We only let in like tens of thousands of people a year.

00:13:13.000 Now, why did we do that?

00:13:15.000 We 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.

00:13:25.000 What I'm getting at is there's a social contract to the American citizen, not the foreigner. 0.96

00:13:29.000 You 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. 1.00

00:13:37.000 And people say, but Charlie, aren't we a nation of immigrants?

00:13:41.000 An immigrant is something that comes to a nation that is largely already built. 0.99

00:13:41.000 Think about it. 0.99

00:13:46.000 It'd be more fair to say that we're actually a nation of settlers and founders.

00:13:50.000 Now, hear me out.

00:13:52.000 In Missouri, this beautiful state, it was, you know, not exactly a lot of civilization when the first people came to Missouri.

00:13:59.000 Is that an immigrant or a settler?

00:14:01.000 It's more of a settler.

00:14:02.000 It's a mindset of going to the frontier.

00:14:04.000 Homestead Act, you get the land that you could see.

00:14:06.000 That's a tough life.

00:14:07.000 And you guys probably have grandparents that nearly died in those harsh winters, nearly died in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and the 1940s.

00:14:14.000 Now, 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.

00:14:21.000 America 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.

00:14:30.000 Those are two completely different things.

00:14:33.000 Now, immigration is by invite only, meaning that we want you in the country because you can what? 0.99

00:14:40.000 Help the motherland.

00:14:41.000 And 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.

00:14:53.000 We will have committed suicide by our ideals.

00:14:58.000 I want you to think about that.

00:14:59.000 We will have killed ourselves because we put this utopian ideal over reality.

00:15:05.000 And you have to balance the two.

00:15:07.000 You 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.

00:15:14.000 Or you can check your feelings and your emotion aside and use your brain and use reason.

00:15:19.000 You 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.

00:15:27.000 And 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?

00:15:32.000 Of course not.

00:15:33.000 Japan doesn't allow that.

00:15:34.000 And there's some negatives to that.

00:15:35.000 There's some economic growth negatives.

00:15:36.000 There's some things.

00:15:37.000 But 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. 1.00

00:15:52.000 So, by the way, we have the best team on the Charlie Kirk show.

00:15:57.000 Literally five minutes before, I was like, what am I going to talk about?

00:15:59.000 I said, let's talk about immigration, you know, just out of nowhere.

00:16:02.000 So I had them look at this.

00:16:02.000 In the 1960s, immigration opened up again and it's never decreased.

00:16:07.000 Right now, the percentage of Americans born abroad is nearly 14% of the country.

00:16:11.000 But that's assuming that we're massively undercutting the amount of illegals that are in this nation.

00:16:16.000 And you are the sum of who you allow into your country. 1.00

00:16:19.000 And so let me kind of summarize this and then we'll do some questions.

00:16:22.000 We need to have a reckoning in this nation of are we a colony or a country?

00:16:26.000 And so people that are conservatives, they largely get the illegal immigration question right.

00:16:31.000 But let me be very even more precise in my language.

00:16:33.000 It's not immigration to border jump into America.

00:16:36.000 That's an invasion that is breaking in line and that is an insult to anyone that came here legally into the country. 0.96

00:16:36.000 Okay? 0.96

00:16:43.000 With 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?

00:16:55.000 Because we are allowing guilt-ridden politics, guilt-ridden narratives to dictate the nation.

00:17:02.000 You cannot survive at this current rate.

00:17:04.000 And the good news is that you guys are starting to wake up.

00:17:07.000 The media wants you to co-sponsor the suicide of America with guilt.

00:17:12.000 The good news is that the everyday American, you right here, are no longer putting up with it.

00:17:19.000 And by the way, some of you college kids, you might say, but come on, how does this impact me?

00:17:22.000 I'll tell you exactly how it impacts you.

00:17:24.000 If you're studying engineering or computer science, why should a foreign student be prioritized over an American-born, American-educated student? 0.79

00:17:33.000 Why on earth would that be smart?

00:17:35.000 It shouldn't be.

00:17:38.000 And the American Project, we became excellent, not because we opened up our doors to every single person.

00:17:49.000 By the way, you know, people say, but Charlie, what about Ellis Island?

00:17:51.000 Do you ever read the disclaimer at Ellis Island?

00:17:53.000 That if you hate the country, you go home.

00:17:55.000 No, no, you actually should read it.

00:17:57.000 There 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.

00:18:08.000 Could you imagine if we did that now?

00:18:10.000 Elon Omar never would have been allowed into the country.

00:18:13.000 And so the final point I'll make is this, which is a broader point.

00:18:17.000 I'm excited about it.

00:18:18.000 It's amazing how many smart, simple things we don't do because we're afraid of the names that we'll be called.

00:18:25.000 And you could connect that to so many things, right?

00:18:28.000 We allow the chemical castration of children in our country because we don't want to be called transphobic.

00:18:35.000 We allow the invasion into the country because we don't want to be called xenophobic. 0.85

00:18:40.000 We allow ourselves to be called evil and white privileged because we don't want to be called racist.

00:18:47.000 We like go above and beyond not to be called racist.

00:18:52.000 If 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.

00:19:03.000 It's an oversimplification, but I've been doing this for 11 years.

00:19:05.000 I 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.

00:19:16.000 If 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.

00:19:32.000 And it goes to every single one of you.

00:19:36.000 Not care if your neighbor calls you a bad name.

00:19:39.000 Not 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. 0.92

00:19:45.000 You know who you are.

00:19:46.000 You know your morals.

00:19:47.000 You know your values.

00:19:48.000 And hilariously, they're the ones that usually harbor the feelings that they throw on you, just for the record, okay?

00:19:54.000 They're the ones that are arguing for black-only dormitories. 0.94

00:19:57.000 Not even exaggeration.

00:19:59.000 For black-only, like, well, we need to re-segregate society because segregation is anti-racism. 1.00

00:20:05.000 No, it's a real thing.

00:20:06.000 It's a real thing.

00:20:07.000 I 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.

00:20:12.000 I'll tell you what in Columbia.

00:20:13.000 That place is really.

00:20:16.000 That place is really tough.

00:20:20.000 That place has got a lot of problems.

00:20:22.000 I'll tell you what.

00:20:23.000 So, in closing, ordinary people that see their country disappearing and collapsing, there's a lot of reasons for it.

00:20:32.000 There's a cabal of people running the country.

00:20:34.000 But 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.

00:20:43.000 And 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.

00:20:57.000 I was struck when I was reading about Soviet literature.

00:21:00.000 There's a lot of people in the 80s and 90s that visited the Soviet Union.

00:21:03.000 And 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.

00:21:14.000 That's exactly what happens if you go into a Starbucks in America today.

00:21:19.000 Could 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? 0.97

00:21:33.000 By 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.

00:21:44.000 But no, that's, and but here's the point. 0.97

00:21:45.000 I'm not saying that when you walk into the Starbucks, you have to say, men can't give birth.

00:21:49.000 Well, 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. 0.99

00:22:00.000 It's amazing how, I mean, again, it's overused.

00:22:03.000 It's overused.

00:22:04.000 It's overused, but it's overused for a reason.

00:22:06.000 If 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.

00:22:15.000 They don't just control your language.

00:22:17.000 They're getting down to controlling your thoughts, to controlling and policing how you actually analyze certain situations.

00:22:24.000 And 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.

00:22:36.000 I believe it at my core.

00:22:38.000 And 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.

00:22:56.000 Said differently, you will be the same person in private as you are in public and vice versa.

00:23:02.000 That you're not going to have to put on a uniform and pretend to be somebody that you're not.

00:23:06.000 This makes them weaker.

00:23:11.000 And it puts them on defense.

00:23:15.000 One of the reasons they have a cultural hold on us is that exactly.

00:23:19.000 And our secret weapon is to release the everyday rank and file person to speak their mind regardless of the cost, regardless of the cancellation.

00:23:28.000 It is easier said than done.

00:23:30.000 Some of you might lose your job.

00:23:32.000 Some of you might get different grades and lower grades in class.

00:23:34.000 But here's my one guarantee: you'll be able to look at your kids and your grandkids and say, I was not a coward when it mattered most.

00:23:41.000 And that is much more important than anything else.

00:23:45.000 All right, let's do some questions, everybody.

00:23:47.000 All right.

00:23:51.000 All right, so we're going to line up here.

00:23:54.000 And we're usually do a line.

00:23:55.000 If you disagree, you can go to the front of the line.

00:23:56.000 Let me just kind of lay some ground rules.

00:23:59.000 So make them questions, not statements, because we want to get to as many questions as possible.

00:24:03.000 Also, obviously, this is a predominant conservative audience, right?

00:24:09.000 Can tell.

00:24:11.000 That's the line right there if you guys want to start lining up.

00:24:13.000 But let me just mention a couple things.

00:24:17.000 Since it is a predominant conservative audience, please give respect if you hear something wacky or goofy from a liberal questioner.

00:24:27.000 Don'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.

00:24:36.000 Okay?

00:24:38.000 All right, let's do some questions.

00:24:43.000 Good afternoon, Mr. Kirk.

00:24:45.000 My name is Kevin.

00:24:46.000 I'm a student here, volunteer, and veteran.

00:24:50.000 And my question is: If you could run, or if you were old enough, would you run for the presidency in this election?

00:25:04.000 No, no, I would not.

00:25:05.000 No, thank you.

00:25:06.000 I'm flattered.

00:25:08.000 Look, people say, I just turned 30.

00:25:10.000 I'm getting too old for this stuff, I got to tell you.

00:25:14.000 People say, Are you going to run for something all this?

00:25:16.000 I have the greatest job in the world.

00:25:17.000 I get every day to see the fruits of my labor.

00:25:19.000 Minds changed, people motivated, patriots encouraged.

00:25:22.000 Every single day I get to see it.

00:25:24.000 Every single day.

00:25:26.000 And I was very, very good friends with Rush Limbaugh before he passed away.

00:25:32.000 And boy, we miss Rush, don't we?

00:25:33.000 What an unbelievable patriot and hero.

00:25:35.000 And a Missouri product, might I add.

00:25:40.000 And 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.

00:25:58.000 And look, our show is growing like crazy right now.

00:26:01.000 I never would have imagined it.

00:26:02.000 We're filling out auditoriums.

00:26:04.000 And then the second, so that's number one.

00:26:05.000 I want to try to help fill that void to be a teacher and an encourager and a truth teller.

00:26:09.000 And the second part of it is I'm an entrepreneur and an organizer.

00:26:12.000 Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action have grown beyond our wildest imaginations.

00:26:16.000 We're on thousands of campuses across the country.

00:26:19.000 Our pastor outreach program at TPUSA Faith, we have 2,000 pastors and church partnerships now at TPUSA Faith, some right here.

00:26:26.000 And so that's what I feel called to do.

00:26:28.000 People ask me to run for office.

00:26:30.000 You think I want to run for office to be part of that circus?

00:26:32.000 They can't even pick a speaker of the house.

00:26:34.000 They can't become speaker of the house.

00:26:36.000 Meanwhile, 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.

00:26:49.000 But most importantly, bring the fight to the country.

00:26:52.000 Bring the fight where it matters most, especially the next generation.

00:26:55.000 God bless you, men.

00:26:56.000 Thank you.

00:27:02.000 Hey, I'm Jay Dobs, and I identify as a woman.

00:27:05.000 Oh, yeah.

00:27:06.000 I was going, women's abortion. 1.00

00:27:09.000 I was going to like, I know you're against it and everything, but it's like their right.

00:27:14.000 It's like their body, like not yours or mine. 0.95

00:27:17.000 And it's obviously their choice.

00:27:19.000 And I just think that it's okay.

00:27:21.000 And I know that you don't.

00:27:23.000 So I guess what's your point?

00:27:27.000 Cool.

00:27:28.000 When did your life begin?

00:27:30.000 Whenever I was born.

00:27:32.000 Okay.

00:27:32.000 So, it would have been okay to terminate a baby all throughout gestational period up to 39 weeks.

00:27:38.000 Yeah, 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.

00:27:50.000 Got it.

00:27:51.000 So, is it okay to murder your six-month-old? 0.84

00:27:53.000 Um, no, why?

00:27:55.000 Uh, because that's a whole entire kid, but I'm talking about like plan C. Hold on, repeat what you said.

00:28:01.000 I didn't hear what you said.

00:28:02.000 That's like a whole kid.

00:28:03.000 Oh, six months, but you have a whole kid at 38 weeks, too.

00:28:06.000 So, starting at 32 weeks, a baby can survive outside the womb.

00:28:09.000 So, I'm just trying to understand your position: why the moral worth of a baby changes at 32 weeks versus six months.

00:28:15.000 So, it's like instead of like plan B, it's like plan C, like the coat hanger.

00:28:21.000 You know what I mean?

00:28:22.000 No, I don't know what you mean.

00:28:25.000 I was just wondering, honestly, this is my take, and it's like my opinion and stuff.

00:28:30.000 Like, I'm a transgender woman, so I wanted to just see what you would say about abortion.

00:28:36.000 Okay, got it.

00:28:37.000 Yeah, so, but again, so when does life begin objectively?

00:28:42.000 Um, well, honestly, I have another question for you.

00:28:44.000 I'm trying to pretty important, right?

00:28:46.000 When does life begin?

00:28:47.000 Uh, when you, I guess, you're born out of your mom's womb.

00:28:50.000 Okay, what if you were born at 28 weeks?

00:28:52.000 That's okay.

00:28:53.000 I mean, you can't be born at 28 weeks, right?

00:28:55.000 Yeah, you can.

00:28:56.000 Yeah, you can.

00:28:57.000 She was born at 28 weeks. 1.00

00:28:58.000 It's called a cesarean section.

00:29:00.000 I have no idea what that is.

00:29:00.000 Do you know what that is?

00:29:02.000 Okay, got it.

00:29:03.000 So, it's called the C-section, right?

00:29:04.000 It's actually one-fourth of all deliveries in America are done by cesarean section.

00:29:08.000 So, let me ask you: fingerprint, heartbeat, brain waves, how is that not a life?

00:29:14.000 Yeah, I don't know.

00:29:15.000 So, what if they don't know?

00:29:17.000 Exactly.

00:29:17.000 What if they got sex-trafficked?

00:29:19.000 Don't you think it's important then to protect every life, regardless of how bad you want that life gone?

00:29:25.000 For sure, yeah.

00:29:26.000 What if they got like sex trafficked and then like they had a kid, but they didn't want it?

00:29:30.000 Is that still like not okay to get a so?

00:29:32.000 There's no such thing as an unwanted human being in this country.

00:29:35.000 We have twice as many people on the adoption list than we have abortions in this country.

00:29:40.000 And so, that the language that you are using, the language you are using of unwanted is no different than eugenics or Nazi Germany, correct? 0.71

00:29:52.000 Yep.

00:29:53.000 So, you would agree with Hitlerian eugenics when it comes to pregnancies. 0.99

00:29:57.000 Yep.

00:29:58.000 Okay.

00:29:59.000 Your position is clear.

00:30:00.000 Thank you very much.

00:30:02.000 You changed my life.

00:30:02.000 Thank you.

00:30:04.000 Great.

00:30:05.000 Thank you.

00:30:06.000 Best of luck in future employment.

00:30:11.000 Hold your applause.

00:30:13.000 Please.

00:30:13.000 Don't do drugs.

00:30:14.000 Don't do drugs, guys.

00:30:16.000 How's it going, Mr. Sir?

00:30:18.000 Thanks.

00:30:18.000 Good.

00:30:20.000 So is Obama white or black?

00:30:23.000 Is Obama, is he white or black?

00:30:23.000 Say that again.

00:30:26.000 I can't hear you.

00:30:26.000 Slow down.

00:30:27.000 Is President Future or past President Obama?

00:30:31.000 Half and half.

00:30:32.000 He's half and half.

00:30:33.000 Yeah.

00:30:34.000 According by his own admission.

00:30:35.000 A lot of people say he's black, but if he has a white parent and a black parent.

00:30:40.000 I said he's half and half.

00:30:40.000 Okay.

00:30:41.000 But the take is that if they want to keep the white primacy pure form, so they want to say that he's black.

00:30:41.000 Okay.

00:30:50.000 Yeah, I honestly haven't thought very deeply about the racial composition of Obama.

00:30:56.000 If you get a pizza from dominoes, okay?

00:30:59.000 Yeah, again, I mean, no, no, no.

00:31:01.000 This is relative.

00:31:02.000 This is probably stopped.

00:31:03.000 This is relative, unlike you.

00:31:04.000 Trust me.

00:31:05.000 Okay.

00:31:05.000 Trust you?

00:31:09.000 If you get half pepperoni and half cheese pizza, it's not a cheese pizza.

00:31:15.000 Right.

00:31:16.000 So cool.

00:31:22.000 Like I said, half white, half black, half cheese, half pepperoni.

00:31:26.000 What's the point?

00:31:27.000 Where are you getting at?

00:31:28.000 Why is everybody laughing at me?

00:31:31.000 The lack of self-awareness is shocking.

00:31:33.000 Thanks for being here.

00:31:41.000 Okay, Missouri State starting strong, everybody.

00:31:44.000 I got to tell you.

00:31:49.000 Okay.

00:31:50.000 Mrs. Charlie, it's an honor to meet you.

00:31:52.000 I'm a huge fan of you, Candace, Ben Shapiro.

00:31:58.000 And for someone that looks like me, if I even say I'm a conservative, I often get a strange look.

00:32:04.000 So how do I stand up and say I'm a conservative?

00:32:08.000 And then without people saying, oh, how can you be a conservative?

00:32:11.000 And often they refer to saying like, oh, how can you be conservative and be black?

00:32:15.000 And 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.

00:32:37.000 Anybody who says that is no better than a KKK activist from 150 years ago.

00:32:42.000 Exactly.

00:32:42.000 Because they believe that if you have a skin color, you must believe a certain thing.

00:32:46.000 The answer is you don't have to explain yourself.

00:32:49.000 And I know it's tough, but I would throw it right back at them.

00:32:52.000 I think you should say, excuse me, why do you think you know my value system based on the melanin content in my skin?

00:32:59.000 Why are you judging me?

00:33:01.000 Why are you putting me in a box?

00:33:03.000 Webster definition of racism is prejudging a person based on the melanin content in somebody's skin.

00:33:10.000 Now, I don't throw around the racist term like a frisbee because I'm not a leftist.

00:33:14.000 But 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.

00:33:27.000 Let me also say this, though. 0.93

00:33:32.000 People like you give me hope.

00:33:34.000 People like you that are fighting back and that are standing up.

00:33:37.000 I am so disturbed by the American left's occupation of black America.

00:33:44.000 Black 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. 0.73

00:33:53.000 So God bless you and thank you so much.

00:33:55.000 Thank you.

00:34:04.000 Great.

00:34:06.000 If you disagree, come to the line.

00:34:08.000 Yes, next question.

00:34:09.000 Good evening, Mr. Kirk.

00:34:10.000 Pleasure to have you here.

00:34:11.000 My name is Nicholas Pruitt, and I'm from Southwest Baptist University.

00:34:14.000 Cool.

00:34:15.000 I just wanted to hear your comments on what Mike Pence called the siren song of populism.

00:34:20.000 That is to say, an epidemic that's sweeping the left and the right in this country.

00:34:23.000 Because I think it's pretty clear the founding fathers were against populism.

00:34:26.000 I mean, John Adams said that the Constitution was created for a moral and religious people and is wholly inadequate for government of any other.

00:34:32.000 Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers against the passions of an unrestrained people.

00:34:38.000 And that's why he advocated for a strong central government.

00:34:41.000 And I tend to be against populism myself.

00:34:43.000 I think it's pretty damaging for the country and its core institutions.

00:34:45.000 But I wanted to hear your thoughts on it.

00:34:47.000 It sounds to me like you're a populist.

00:34:48.000 I don't want to speak for you, but just to hear your thoughts on that, sir.

00:34:51.000 I'm definitely a conservative populist.

00:34:53.000 I think populism can go too far.

00:34:54.000 I mean, obviously, I agree with my founding fathers in that regard.

00:34:57.000 But 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.

00:35:06.000 One in particular is immigration.

00:35:07.000 We did a whole speech on that tonight.

00:35:09.000 If 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. 0.96

00:35:18.000 Sometimes when the people are yelling and trying to tell you something, we should listen.

00:35:22.000 The best way I could summarize populism in its most healthy way that Mike Pence does not hold.

00:35:27.000 And I don't know.

00:35:28.000 I don't know if you guys are Mike Pence fans, but that, I don't know.

00:35:32.000 Is this listening to your voters and not despising them and ignoring them when they're telling you something is amiss?

00:35:43.000 When 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.

00:35:58.000 At the same time, the passions of a populist can go too far, right?

00:36:01.000 We shouldn't just give reparations because a bunch of people want reparations.

00:36:05.000 But 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.

00:36:19.000 So there's parts of me that are very populist.

00:36:21.000 I'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.

00:36:32.000 And 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.

00:36:44.000 You should say, why are you hurting?

00:36:46.000 And how can I fix it?

00:36:47.000 And that is populism at its best.

00:36:49.000 Thank you so much.

00:36:50.000 For the record, I support Mike Pence, but I also see your criticism.

00:36:53.000 Say that against him.

00:36:54.000 I support Mike Pence, and I think he's a very honorable man, but I can see your criticism.

00:36:58.000 Don't boo him.

00:36:59.000 That's all right.

00:36:59.000 Thank you.

00:37:00.000 Thanks.

00:37:05.000 My name's Jackson Deal, and I'm from SBU.

00:37:08.000 And I was going to ask: so, do you want Trump to be in office in 2024?

00:37:13.000 Okay.

00:37:14.000 I'll answer this on my personal capacity now on behalf of Turning Point USA.

00:37:18.000 Oh, yes, I am 100% behind Donald Trump in 2024.

00:37:21.000 100%.

00:37:24.000 So I'm looking at the numbers, and I think, like, just of all the candidates, I'd vote for Trump.

00:37:32.000 But 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.

00:37:40.000 So 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.

00:37:53.000 Trump was saying rational things.

00:37:54.000 He was right, but he hurt a lot of people's feelings. 0.99

00:37:57.000 And yeah, it's like, it's ridiculous. 0.87

00:38:01.000 And I'm just thinking, like. 0.94

00:38:06.000 Yep.

00:38:07.000 It's just like.

00:38:08.000 So let me, you're coming at it from a good place.

00:38:11.000 I disagree, though. 0.76

00:38:12.000 So this is a silly statement, but it's necessary.

00:38:15.000 Trump is the only person running for president that has been president before. 0.73

00:38:18.000 So the fact that he can't win is just laughable, right?

00:38:21.000 He was a great president for four years.

00:38:23.000 So obviously he got there somehow.

00:38:24.000 But there's also this mythology about the 2020 election.

00:38:27.000 And 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.

00:38:35.000 Let me just say that.

00:38:38.000 Zuckerberg 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.

00:38:48.000 And with that, with that, there is this belief that, oh my goodness, Trump got blown out of the water.

00:38:54.000 Trump fell 9,000 votes short in Arizona.

00:38:57.000 He fell 10,000 votes short in Georgia and 22,000 votes short in Wisconsin, despite every major institution being against him.

00:39:07.000 And I actually think I have a different opinion.

00:39:09.000 I 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.

00:39:18.000 People that are disaffected, low-propensity voters.

00:39:21.000 These 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.

00:39:29.000 And 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.

00:39:37.000 But we must be very clear.

00:39:39.000 People say, oh, he got blown out in 2020.

00:39:42.000 Even with all the deception and the garbage and all that stuff that we saw, even with it.

00:39:49.000 You're talking about cumulatively in three states, you're talking about 40,000 votes out of 150 million cast.

00:39:59.000 So let's not rewrite history.

00:40:00.000 This 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?

00:40:09.000 He was on the margins of the margins of earning another term despite everything they threw against him.

00:40:15.000 One final thought.

00:40:15.000 We'll get to the next question.

00:40:16.000 Yeah.

00:40:17.000 So, yeah, I definitely agree.

00:40:18.000 Like, the numbers are very suspicious.

00:40:21.000 And 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.

00:40:29.000 I'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.

00:40:35.000 Yep.

00:40:36.000 Wins.

00:40:36.000 Yeah.

00:40:37.000 And you know what?

00:40:38.000 I'm going to take the harm.

00:40:39.000 Still, I'm going to see.

00:40:41.000 I like to analyze stuff.

00:40:42.000 I want to see how they all kind of play out.

00:40:44.000 But I definitely like that perspective and think.

00:40:47.000 Cool.

00:40:48.000 Thanks, man.

00:40:49.000 Appreciate it.

00:40:50.000 Thank you.

00:40:58.000 All right, Charlie, I got a question for you here.

00:41:00.000 Sure.

00:41:01.000 So, sorry, I'm not very used to impromptu speaking, so I can't.

00:41:05.000 Take your time.

00:41:06.000 The Republican Party has been choosing to replace the values of white America with the values of minority groups that are foreign and progressive.

00:41:15.000 As time goes on, the conservative movement has continually given up ground on positions that were once unacceptable to most Americans.

00:41:23.000 This has progressed to a point where Republicans choose to take liberal positions in order to bander for votes.

00:41:30.000 Middle-class white America is opting out of American politics because they are being shamed for their identity and their voices are being ignored.

00:41:38.000 They are left to choose between a political party that hates them and a political party that does not care for them.

00:41:45.000 Why do you think this is happening?

00:41:47.000 Why do I think they're disengaging or why do I think they're not disengaged?

00:41:50.000 Why do you think that the system is currently targeting them?

00:41:53.000 That's a good question.

00:41:54.000 There's a lot of people at the top of the ladder that are plagued with white guilt, to be honest.

00:41:57.000 White guilt is a major thing. 0.94

00:41:59.000 You guys should read Shelby Steele's book on it.

00:42:01.000 He'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.

00:42:08.000 But 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?

00:42:19.000 And so let me give you an example.

00:42:21.000 The 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. 0.91

00:42:32.000 What 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.

00:42:42.000 And why the leaders want that?

00:42:44.000 That's an intention question.

00:42:45.000 I can't answer intention questions unless they reveal it bluntly and plainly and repeatedly.

00:42:49.000 But 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.

00:43:01.000 It 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.

00:43:10.000 So 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.

00:43:19.000 And yeah, that's the best answer I can give that.

00:43:21.000 Thank you so much.

00:43:22.000 I appreciate it.

00:43:23.000 Thank you.

00:43:31.000 All right, Mr. Kirk.

00:43:32.000 So as you know, our opposition has a habit of redefining language and changing the meaning of words in order to, well, trick people.

00:43:43.000 And that's why it's very important, I think, to define our words, especially when talking about things like immigration.

00:43:48.000 So I wanted to know your opinion.

00:43:52.000 Setting 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?

00:44:15.000 It depends.

00:44:16.000 It depends.

00:44:17.000 I think it's more of a value question, right?

00:44:20.000 I mean, I wouldn't go back 10 generations.

00:44:22.000 I mean, I'll give you an example.

00:44:23.000 If 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.

00:44:31.000 Or I'll give another example.

00:44:32.000 If 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.

00:44:43.000 Because I do not think America in its core is a racial makeup at all.

00:44:49.000 I 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.

00:45:02.000 And I'll add to this, though.

00:45:03.000 So, and I don't want to put words in your mouth, but let me just say that there's no guarantee.

00:45:09.000 I mean, because let's just take a state that is one of the oldest states in the country, right?

00:45:13.000 Vermont.

00:45:14.000 Okay?

00:45:14.000 Vermont is a very white state.

00:45:16.000 Vermont has a lot of people that have been there for eight, nine, or ten generations.

00:45:19.000 Vermont is one of the least free states in the country, right?

00:45:22.000 And 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.

00:45:31.000 In fact, they're embracing some of the goofiest and wacky ideas.

00:45:33.000 Bernie Sanders is the senator from Vermont. 0.97

00:45:35.000 Burlington, Vermont is one of the most insane places imaginable.

00:45:39.000 But no, I do think that a country can go way too far.

00:45:42.000 And Vermont is full of Mayflower descendants that then have abandoned American values. 0.99

00:45:47.000 And let me say something provocative.

00:45:49.000 When 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.

00:46:18.000 Well, thank you.

00:46:19.000 Thank you for that.

00:46:20.000 I just wanted to add a quick follow-up.

00:46:21.000 Do you believe your opinion would be the same as those who founded the country and settled the country?

00:46:28.000 I mean, you'd have to read what they wrote.

00:46:28.000 I don't know.

00:46:31.000 Yeah, I mean, generally, the American founders believed in a Latin phrase, e pluribus unum.

00:46:36.000 Do you know what that means?

00:46:38.000 Out of many, one.

00:46:40.000 That's part of the American Trinity.

00:46:42.000 The American Trinity is liberty in God we trust and e pluribus unum.

00:46:46.000 And e pluribus unum de-emphasizes race, tribe, and sectarian ideology, and it prioritizes character, action, and values.

00:46:54.000 And that's the country I want to live in.

00:46:56.000 Thank you very much.

00:46:56.000 Thank you.

00:47:04.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:47:05.000 I just wanted to appreciate you coming out here to talk.

00:47:08.000 And I agreed with both your points as a conservative and Christian.

00:47:11.000 I liked what you had to say tonight.

00:47:13.000 My question isn't really about what you talked about, but I was just wondering if you've ever looked into flat earth before.

00:47:19.000 The earth is not flat.

00:47:22.000 Have you ever genuinely gave it a good look in 30 seconds, and then I learned to do math and flow in a plane and saw a spherical earth?

00:47:32.000 Yeah.

00:47:32.000 Did it?

00:47:33.000 Okay.

00:47:33.000 I mean, I'd say maybe it's worth giving another shot at.

00:47:38.000 A good YouTube channel is Eric Dubay on YouTube.

00:47:42.000 I just think you maybe should give it another shot.

00:47:45.000 Thank you.

00:47:46.000 Thank you.

00:47:46.000 All right.

00:47:53.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:47:54.000 I'm Robin True Love.

00:47:56.000 I remember you saying that we should not accommodate our society based on mental delusion, yet you let all of them in front of me in line. 0.71

00:48:02.000 Oh, that's funny.

00:48:04.000 That's a good point.

00:48:07.000 That's a good point.

00:48:08.000 Okay?

00:48:09.000 That's a good one.

00:48:17.000 My question is about favoritism in schools.

00:48:20.000 I have a coach that's had his foot on my mighty football player's neck for three years now.

00:48:25.000 He plays his coach's friends and their friends and their friends.

00:48:30.000 And I want to know how to get around that.

00:48:32.000 I said something to him, and he tried to get me kicked off of the school.

00:48:37.000 And I didn't incite violence or anything that I wasn't supposed to do.

00:48:42.000 So I looked it up on Google, and you're supposed to go to the coach.

00:48:47.000 And when I went to the coach, he tried to have me exited from the school.

00:48:51.000 My son's a very good player.

00:48:52.000 He's not a player that shouldn't be there.

00:48:55.000 So there's only one way to solve it because I actually experienced this firsthand.

00:48:59.000 Your son has to handle it himself.

00:49:01.000 You can't fight that battle.

00:49:02.000 Your son has to pick the fight with a better player and challenge him publicly.

00:49:05.000 It's the only way.

00:49:06.000 They tell him to practice.

00:49:07.000 Nope, you got to hear me out.

00:49:08.000 And you have to publicly say in front of the team, I'm a better player than you, and I will prove it.

00:49:12.000 I will prove it every single day.

00:49:14.000 There is no other way.

00:49:16.000 You will expose the favoritism.

00:49:17.000 Now, that's ballgy because your son better be the better player.

00:49:19.000 No, he is.

00:49:21.000 No, listen.

00:49:22.000 They tell him to practice at 50% at practice and will not even let him do that.

00:49:28.000 Can I give you some advice?

00:49:28.000 Great.

00:49:29.000 You're way too involved.

00:49:30.000 You're way too involved.

00:49:32.000 Your son's got to fight this battle and you've got to disengage.

00:49:34.000 I know you love your son because I dealt with something similar in high school.

00:49:38.000 Best thing my parents did was not get involved.

00:49:40.000 Have to pick your own fight.

00:49:41.000 And guess what?

00:49:41.000 I didn't win.

00:49:42.000 I wanted to play quarterback and I didn't.

00:49:44.000 So, well, I made a good career.

00:49:46.000 But I know this is a tough, tough love.

00:49:48.000 You should not get involved in that.

00:49:49.000 You got to tell your son, like, look, fight your own battle.

00:49:52.000 Call it out.

00:49:52.000 Pick it out.

00:49:53.000 Go to the coach and look him in the eye and say, why are you favoring people?

00:49:55.000 Like, I'm not going to let off of you.

00:49:57.000 Like, I'm the better player.

00:49:58.000 I'm going to be respectful.

00:49:58.000 I'm going to show up on time.

00:49:59.000 I'm going to do my weights.

00:50:01.000 And if you are the better player, and then you start to get other players engaged or involved in that.

00:50:05.000 But there's no easy fix.

00:50:06.000 Favoritism is part of life, unfortunately.

00:50:08.000 It just is.

00:50:09.000 And there's no guarantee that that will even work.

00:50:11.000 But 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.

00:50:18.000 When you see corruption and you see insider deals or secret societies, you must shine a light on it.

00:50:24.000 And it's best if it's shown a light on it internally.

00:50:26.000 So I know that might not be the message you want to hear, but can I say something you might not want to hear?

00:50:32.000 You're probably hurting.

00:50:34.000 Okay, well, you're very smart.

00:50:35.000 So I want to say that.

00:50:36.000 I'm just telling you that if, as mom involved, it will only make the coach less likely to accommodate the.

00:50:44.000 I 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.

00:50:52.000 I will definitely do that.

00:50:53.000 And I wanted to, in closing, say that life begins before we are born.

00:50:58.000 God said he knew us before we were in our mother's.

00:51:00.000 Jeremiah, amen.

00:51:01.000 Thank you.

00:51:12.000 Hi, Mr. Kirk.

00:51:13.000 Thank you for taking my question.

00:51:15.000 First, I'd like to begin by saying that America is the best country in this world.

00:51:18.000 Yes, it is.

00:51:21.000 I love this country, and I love my God.

00:51:23.000 I'd like to say those two things.

00:51:25.000 You talked a lot about how immigration, especially illegal immigration, is changing the culture of the United States in a negative way.

00:51:33.000 Yep.

00:51:34.000 And I think a lot of the importance of that is remembering what makes America great.

00:51:38.000 And so, my question to you is: could you just elaborate a little bit about what makes America the best country on earth?

00:51:43.000 Yeah, well, first of all, we have a unique founding.

00:51:46.000 The founding of America is one of the great miracles in humanity ever.

00:51:49.000 And understanding what led to the founding is also important.

00:51:52.000 A religious revival led to the greatest political accomplishment in human history.

00:51:58.000 It 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.

00:52:13.000 Deuteronomy was the most cited book in the founding of the nation, secular or religious.

00:52:19.000 So we were great because we went to eternal principles.

00:52:22.000 We are great.

00:52:23.000 Hopefully, 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.

00:52:33.000 When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that have tied them to another.

00:52:38.000 That's an eternal question.

00:52:40.000 That 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.

00:52:49.000 But it goes on that the Constitution derived certain bedrock, eternal principles from the scriptures and they built a whole government around it.

00:52:57.000 That all men are created equal, separation of powers, checks and balances, independent judiciary, three branches of government.

00:53:04.000 Now, 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.

00:53:12.000 Look at Liberia.

00:53:13.000 Liberia has an American flag.

00:53:16.000 Their capital is Monrovia.

00:53:17.000 They 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.

00:53:26.000 And what I'm getting at is that there were four major religious revivals in this country that have kept the country free.

00:53:32.000 In 1 Chronicles, it says, my people will turn their face to me and repent.

00:53:37.000 I'm afraid we have not done that in a long time in this country.

00:53:40.000 And so, secondarily, beyond that, though, there is a uniquely American ethic and ethos: delayed gratification, private property ownership.

00:53:50.000 I'm going to go above and beyond so that my children can live a better life than I live.

00:53:55.000 Intergenerational stratification is a very wordy way to say it.

00:53:59.000 That if you believe that what you do will make dividends for your kids or grandkids, you're willing to do the right thing.

00:54:05.000 If 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.

00:54:14.000 That's a long answer to a very good question, but it's not just the form, but it's the matter.

00:54:19.000 And if you import matter into the country that is at odds with the form, then the form ceases to exist.

00:54:26.000 When 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.

00:54:43.000 And finally, the reason why the country is also collapsing is we're becoming a less religious country.

00:54:48.000 Alexander Social Nitson said, In the Gulag Archipelago, all of these atrocities happened because people forgot God.

00:54:55.000 It is a direct correlation.

00:54:56.000 As America has become more secular and less religious, we become less free.

00:55:01.000 Thank you.

00:55:06.000 Okay, if anyone disagrees, we'll find you to the front of the line, guys.

00:55:09.000 And yes, yes, ma'am, I like your hat.

00:55:12.000 Thank you, Mr. Kirk.

00:55:12.000 Thank you.

00:55:14.000 My name is Mitzi.

00:55:15.000 I'm 64 years old and I'm a retired nurse.

00:55:18.000 This past year has been, I'm going to say it, hell for me.

00:55:25.000 I'm a faithful, godly Christian woman, and I do have a question.

00:55:32.000 I lost my daughter.

00:55:34.000 She would be 36 years old three days before Christmas last year to fentanyl.

00:55:44.000 Me and my husband now have our 18-year-old grandson living with us, trying to turn his life around.

00:55:52.000 He lost both of his parents.

00:55:55.000 I 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.

00:56:06.000 What 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.

00:56:22.000 I want to know what we can do to help that.

00:56:28.000 Yeah.

00:56:28.000 Well, first of all, I'm very sorry for your loss.

00:56:30.000 I want to say that.

00:56:31.000 And God has a plan for your life, and you have a very important project to make sure that 18-year-old has a great life.

00:56:37.000 So don't be discouraged.

00:56:39.000 Okay?

00:56:39.000 That's the first thing.

00:56:41.000 Well, we can close the border.

00:56:41.000 What can we do?

00:56:43.000 That would be nice.

00:56:44.000 And we could stop the flow of fentanyl into this country.

00:56:47.000 I'm curious, how many of you know somebody that died because of fentanyl?

00:56:50.000 Raise your hand.

00:56:51.000 Yeah, I mean, how many of you know someone that was killed by a Russian?

00:56:55.000 I know.

00:56:56.000 Nobody.

00:56:57.000 Yeah, a couple veterans raised their hands.

00:56:59.000 Fair enough.

00:57:00.000 That's fair.

00:57:01.000 The point is this.

00:57:02.000 Why the heck are our leaders more concerned about Vladimir Putin than they are about fentanyl? 0.98

00:57:07.000 That is a disgrace. 0.99

00:57:09.000 It is a disgrace.

00:57:12.000 Fentanyl impacts every single person in this room.

00:57:16.000 So what can we do?

00:57:17.000 Look, what's so sad about the fentanyl issue is you isolated it.

00:57:23.000 It 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.

00:57:30.000 I, by no means, I'm an expert on it, but here's what I could say.

00:57:34.000 The Chinese Communist Party is the manufacturer of a lot of this fentanyl, also the prerequisite ingredients for it, at the very least. 0.52

00:57:41.000 Why on earth we are not doing everything we can, have sanctions and tariffs on the reverse opium wars against the West is beyond me. 0.91

00:57:50.000 The Chinese Communist Party released a deadly virus on the entire world. 0.98

00:57:53.000 We locked down.

00:57:54.000 We destroyed our currency over it.

00:57:55.000 They were never held accountable.

00:57:56.000 And they pump in fentanyl that kills over 100,000 people a year in this country.

00:58:02.000 Our elites are captured.

00:58:04.000 And 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.

00:58:16.000 I just want to give you one statistic.

00:58:19.000 She was in Washington State.

00:58:23.000 The coroner from the Seattle, King County coroner, called me, and I asked him, and he said they were getting 400 a day.

00:58:35.000 And it took 21 days to cremate her.

00:58:39.000 It is a.

00:58:40.000 They were so backed up, and it's all from fentanyl.

00:58:43.000 It's a massacre, and I wish our leaders cared.

00:58:45.000 I certainly do.

00:58:46.000 God bless you.

00:58:47.000 We have to get the next question.

00:58:48.000 Thank you.

00:58:51.000 Hello.

00:58:53.000 So I understand that you are anti-abortion.

00:58:57.000 I want to know at what point do you consider a person to be a person?

00:59:02.000 Conception.

00:59:03.000 Okay.

00:59:04.000 So then a follow-up question.

00:59:08.000 Would a miscarriage be considered an abortion by God?

00:59:11.000 No.

00:59:12.000 Why?

00:59:13.000 Well, first of all, we don't question God's plans when it comes to life or death.

00:59:16.000 Only he, the author of life, know the purpose.

00:59:19.000 But it's an accidental death.

00:59:20.000 Yeah.

00:59:20.000 I mean, it's a tragedy, but no, it was not an abortion by God.

00:59:24.000 So we don't question God's decisions, but we don't accept that he could kill us.

00:59:29.000 No, you should question them.

00:59:30.000 Okay.

00:59:31.000 You could question them all you want.

00:59:32.000 To wrestle with God is biblical, but to usurp him is not.

00:59:36.000 To wrestle with questions that are very difficult, it's totally understandable, especially people that have dealt with miscarriages.

00:59:43.000 God is sovereign.

00:59:44.000 God has a plan.

00:59:45.000 And it doesn't comfort people.

00:59:46.000 But I will say this, that it is tempting to dwell on the mysteries of life, of evil.

00:59:54.000 Now, there's two types of evil.

00:59:56.000 Evil that humans do and evil that just happens for inexplicable reasons.

01:00:01.000 Evil that humans do, I can understand.

01:00:04.000 We are rotten to the core.

01:00:06.000 For example, somebody says, Charlie, the Holocaust made me lose faith in God.

01:00:10.000 I say, no, the Holocaust made me lose faith in humanity, not in God. 0.93

01:00:14.000 Big difference.

01:00:15.000 There's other types of evil, though.

01:00:16.000 Natural disasters, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes.

01:00:19.000 Those are tough.

01:00:20.000 We, as religious people, miscarriages.

01:00:21.000 We have to explain those, and I'm not the first person to get that question.

01:00:25.000 And there's been an unbelievable amount of writing.

01:00:27.000 However, the atheists or the secularists, they have a lot of explaining to do because they got to explain everything else.

01:00:34.000 They got to explain how that baby was formed in the first place.

01:00:38.000 They have to explore DNA, explain DNA.

01:00:40.000 They have to explain life, breath, our immune system, how we're able to communicate with one another.

01:00:45.000 What I'm getting at is, and you're touching on something that is fundamentally one of the great mysteries of life.

01:00:51.000 And the inexplicable, I think, tests the faith of the believing.

01:00:56.000 And anyone who gives you a great answer to that question, it's just probably full of bluster.

01:01:00.000 But does it question my faith?

01:01:01.000 No, it actually makes me attach more to an almighty God that gave us existence and life and the universe.

01:01:08.000 Thank you for your question.

01:01:09.000 I appreciate you.

01:01:10.000 Thank you.

01:01:17.000 My first question would go toward your comment on kicking out Ian Omar.

01:01:17.000 All right.

01:01:21.000 Now, she has issues.

01:01:22.000 I agree with everybody here on that.

01:01:24.000 But how do we keep a balance of letting people in who are passionate about our country while also keeping an open political discourse alive?

01:01:30.000 Okay, just say the last part again.

01:01:32.000 I'm sorry.

01:01:33.000 The 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?

01:01:43.000 So how do we let people in with multiple viewpoints?

01:01:46.000 Yeah, okay.

01:01:47.000 Yeah, without letting multiple viewpoints without undermining our own nation.

01:01:51.000 What was the balance of that?

01:01:52.000 Yeah, so doing immigration in a sane way would be helpful.

01:01:57.000 Right now, we should put all immigration on pause and stop it. 1.00

01:01:59.000 We've let way too many people in this country way too quickly.

01:02:02.000 It's like eating three big meals.

01:02:03.000 You got to let it digest, okay?

01:02:05.000 We got to put the American citizen first. 0.86

01:02:07.000 But if we were to reopen immigration, the first question is, how will it benefit the American homeland the best?

01:02:14.000 Now, first, you should pick from countries that historically have been unbelievably pro-American and share our values, right?

01:02:21.000 And to be honest, like, you know, Somalia would not be at the top of the list.

01:02:25.000 It just isn't, right?

01:02:26.000 I 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.

01:02:36.000 They're some of the most reliable, conservative people in the country.

01:02:38.000 They're family-oriented.

01:02:39.000 They love liberty.

01:02:40.000 So you have to have a criteria, what that criteria looks like or what it is.

01:02:44.000 That's up for policy experts.

01:02:45.000 But I could tell you what we're doing now doesn't work at all.

01:02:47.000 What we're doing now is benevolency-based immigration.

01:02:52.000 Chain migration.

01:02:53.000 You're related to this, and it's not working, right?

01:02:56.000 Instead, we should be, okay, what are you here to offer?

01:02:59.000 What can you do if we were to open up immigration? 0.50

01:03:02.000 And most importantly, do you share our values?

01:03:05.000 All right, one more quick question and then a shout-out.

01:03:08.000 Yes.

01:03:09.000 My 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.

01:03:19.000 And long term, it seems to have kind of worked out.

01:03:22.000 So, what's the distinction between that historical immigration and the current immigration we're seeing now from the southern border?

01:03:29.000 Yeah, that's a good question.

01:03:31.000 I will say, well, we did pause that old immigration too, just so you know. 0.98

01:03:34.000 We paused it after that wave.

01:03:36.000 But the Irish were largely Catholic or Christian, right?

01:03:39.000 They assimilated.

01:03:41.000 And the Irish in this country also, after the pause, it took a lot of digestion.

01:03:46.000 And so, what I'm getting at right now is digestion, see where we're at as a country.

01:03:50.000 Can we get wages up?

01:03:51.000 Which they're not outpacing inflation, right?

01:03:54.000 Can we prioritize American workers?

01:03:57.000 And most importantly, prioritize American students.

01:03:59.000 And let me just focus on this in one particular.

01:04:02.000 It is harder than ever for young people to buy a home.

01:04:05.000 Harder than ever.

01:04:06.000 It is out of reach for so many young people.

01:04:08.000 We should do everything we possibly can to make homeownership possible for young people.

01:04:12.000 It makes them more conservative.

01:04:14.000 It makes them happier.

01:04:15.000 Homeownership is completely out of reach for the next generation. 0.93

01:04:19.000 I don't think bringing in a bunch of third worlders is making it easier for students at Missouri State University to be able to own homes. 1.00

01:04:27.000 So we've got to figure that out.

01:04:28.000 I got to get to the next question.

01:04:28.000 Thank you so much.

01:04:31.000 I got to get to the next question.

01:04:32.000 A quick shout-out.

01:04:32.000 I got a shout-out.

01:04:33.000 No, but okay, you have a shout-out?

01:04:35.000 Yes, to my parents.

01:04:36.000 Thank you for raising me homeschooled.

01:04:37.000 Public school is not going well right now, and I'm very proud to be raised homeschooled.

01:04:41.000 Thank you so much.

01:04:42.000 Thank you.

01:04:51.000 Charlie, Kirk.

01:04:54.000 My name is Jake Pingston.

01:04:59.000 How do you recruit younger people to run for office?

01:05:02.000 Because every time we recruit one, the establishment does not seem to get behind them or be supportive of them.

01:05:10.000 Another thing, I'm going to say, I've been interested in politics that I was eight years old.

01:05:16.000 I knew every president, every war movie.

01:05:20.000 I was always very patriotic when I was growing up.

01:05:24.000 And by look at my generation, I'm not like them.

01:05:29.000 I'm just not.

01:05:31.000 And I just, when I was with my friends, they all kind of agreed with me.

01:05:35.000 And they might see on the news, they seem like a different total people.

01:05:39.000 But when I'm in my community, they're all like me here.

01:05:43.000 Yep.

01:05:44.000 And how do you recruit younger people to run for office?

01:05:47.000 That was the thing, without the establishment stabbing them in the back.

01:05:50.000 I just felt like it's been going on.

01:05:52.000 Yeah, so we need to re-thank you for being here.

01:05:55.000 We need to reconfigure our politics to be grassroots-oriented.

01:05:55.000 Great question.

01:05:59.000 And we need to get rid of the old boys' club of central meetings and put the people back in charge of how we select candidates and how.

01:06:08.000 But I want them going to hand the office.

01:06:11.000 And you might say, how do we do that?

01:06:12.000 That's where you come in handy.

01:06:14.000 Become a precinct committee man.

01:06:15.000 Get involved in your county party.

01:06:16.000 Get involved in your state party.

01:06:18.000 These meetings are insufferable, but they're necessary, okay?

01:06:22.000 You got to show up.

01:06:23.000 You have, right, Will?

01:06:24.000 I mean, they are just, they're awful.

01:06:26.000 They go for nine hours and they're about like little, it's terrible.

01:06:29.000 But the grassroots outnumber the oligarchs, everybody.

01:06:33.000 And a call to action is that's how we start to draft better people to run for office.

01:06:36.000 God bless you, man.

01:06:37.000 Thanks for being here tonight.

01:06:38.000 Thank you.

01:06:45.000 Hello, Charlie.

01:06:46.000 I have a quick question about founding documents.

01:06:50.000 Yep.

01:06:51.000 Us as Americans, we talk a lot about the importance of our funding documents.

01:06:55.000 For example, the Declaration of Independence.

01:06:58.000 My question is, I want your opinion on when those documents become irrelevant, such as the Naturalization Act of 1795.

01:07:08.000 Yes, that's not in the Declaration.

01:07:10.000 That's a piece of legislation passed after it, right?

01:07:13.000 So, and what you're talking about is a piece of legislation that prioritized white Americans, right?

01:07:18.000 Founders, yes.

01:07:18.000 Is that?

01:07:19.000 Yes, got it.

01:07:20.000 So, well, you asked two different questions.

01:07:22.000 So, when does the Declaration become irrelevant?

01:07:25.000 Never.

01:07:26.000 No, that was not my question, sir.

01:07:28.000 My question is: founding documents.

01:07:29.000 When do they become irrelevant?

01:07:30.000 Well, I wouldn't say that a piece of legislation passed after the Constitution Declaration is a founding document.

01:07:37.000 So, I'd be careful giving that designation, right?

01:07:40.000 But let me ask you, if that was a core value of the founders, where does race appear in the Declaration or the Constitution?

01:07:51.000 No answer, sir.

01:07:53.000 Right.

01:07:54.000 Because it was not a core value.

01:07:56.000 It was a political impulse in the 1790s. 0.79

01:07:58.000 The core values was to try to create a society where skin color was de-emphasized.

01:08:04.000 Have a good one.

01:08:04.000 Thank you.

01:08:11.000 Hi, Mr. Kirk.

01:08:13.000 I think climate change is a much more serious issue than the conservative movement gives it credit for.

01:08:18.000 And so my question is, what common ground can we find regarding climate action?

01:08:22.000 And how can we get more conservatives in on the movement?

01:08:24.000 What can we find that we agree on?

01:08:26.000 Cool.

01:08:27.000 I just want to make sure I understand where you're coming from.

01:08:30.000 And this is not a trick question.

01:08:31.000 Can you define what you mean by climate change?

01:08:34.000 Primarily reducing carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases.

01:08:37.000 Got it.

01:08:38.000 So is your argument that rising global temperatures are tied to carbon emissions?

01:08:43.000 To my understanding, the scientific consensus is quite solid on that, yes.

01:08:46.000 Got it.

01:08:47.000 Okay.

01:08:48.000 So again, not a trick question.

01:08:51.000 What is carbon?

01:08:57.000 It's not a trick question.

01:08:58.000 Okay.

01:08:59.000 It's an element.

01:09:00.000 Carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere.

01:09:00.000 Yeah, right.

01:09:02.000 Right.

01:09:03.000 So carbon is life, right?

01:09:05.000 So carbon.

01:09:06.000 You can't have life on that.

01:09:06.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:09:07.000 I've heard this before, though.

01:09:08.000 And 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.

01:09:20.000 So 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.

01:09:20.000 Right.

01:09:27.000 We're seeing it worse every year.

01:09:28.000 It's getting why the conservative movement insists on resisting the scientific.

01:09:34.000 I'm asking what carbon is.

01:09:35.000 Okay, so let's make sure we're clear on what I'm saying.

01:09:38.000 Do you think there could be other explanations as to why global temperatures are rising?

01:09:42.000 Yes.

01:09:43.000 Such as?

01:09:44.000 They've studied them, and it's not due to anything other than the emissions, to my understanding.

01:09:49.000 Okay, so not solar flares, global tilt.

01:09:52.000 Well, 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.

01:09:58.000 Okay, so you trust, I just want to make sure I understand, you trust consensus from scientists that put forward reports.

01:10:05.000 No, 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.

01:10:12.000 So 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.

01:10:12.000 Right.

01:10:25.000 But let's pretend you're right.

01:10:26.000 Okay, let's pretend that climate change is an existential threat.

01:10:29.000 Would that be something that you say?

01:10:32.000 To our existence, to the human species?

01:10:34.000 Probably not.

01:10:35.000 I imagine the rich will always find an arc to live in while the rest of our crops fail.

01:10:38.000 You have some nuance, so that's fair.

01:10:40.000 So let's talk then about, let's pretend you're right.

01:10:44.000 Let's say that there's some solutions.

01:10:46.000 What would be a solution?

01:10:47.000 Should we get rid of fossil fuels?

01:10:50.000 You know, if we could just filter out the carbon, it's the carbon that's doing it.

01:10:54.000 So, 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.

01:11:14.000 Because 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.

01:11:26.000 That's why I challenge the hypothesis: is what else might be contributing to it?

01:11:31.000 So, let's just ask some, you know, ask some very basic questions.

01:11:35.000 So, if carbon is the problem, would you support planting one trillion trees?

01:11:41.000 Yes.

01:11:42.000 We agree.

01:11:42.000 So, that would be.

01:11:42.000 Okay, good.

01:11:43.000 I'm not thinking carbon is part of the solution.

01:11:45.000 I think there's a broader set of solutions than what the Democratic Party specifically has been bringing to the table.

01:11:50.000 But again, this resistance by the conservatives to just acknowledge that this carbon is an issue.

01:11:55.000 Why do you think we ask questions?

01:11:57.000 Or why do you think? 0.99

01:11:57.000 Because we're dumb? 0.99

01:11:58.000 Skepticism with good reason. 0.97

01:12:00.000 No, but at some point, in looking for the answer, you need to acknowledge that the answer can be found.

01:12:00.000 Okay, good.

01:12:05.000 And the answer has been found.

01:12:07.000 People have spent their lives and careers studying this for decades.

01:12:10.000 It's been over 100 years ago since people were first talking about the idea that carbon was trapping heat.

01:12:14.000 So this is not a new idea.

01:12:16.000 Do you have any fear that the solution might be worse than the problem?

01:12:20.000 Sure, some.

01:12:20.000 What solution?

01:12:21.000 Yeah.

01:12:22.000 Yeah.

01:12:22.000 Like, for example, mandatory electrical vehicle, electric vehicles.

01:12:26.000 No, electrical vehicles will mine the ocean to death before we get everyone electric cars.

01:12:30.000 Well, yeah, I mean, that's also cobalt's really, really bad for the environment.

01:12:34.000 Yeah, we need to go car-free and build walkable communities again, actually.

01:12:38.000 No, that's a very bad idea.

01:12:39.000 See, now we're getting somewhere, okay?

01:12:41.000 Bad idea.

01:12:43.000 Cars are freedom, right?

01:12:45.000 Without a vehicle, you are a captive of the government in an open-air prison, right?

01:12:49.000 And so, just look at San Francisco.

01:12:51.000 It just means you can walk to the grocery store without needing a vehicle.

01:12:55.000 Right.

01:12:55.000 That's a 15-minute city model.

01:12:57.000 But no, this is important.

01:12:59.000 I've been studying architecture for four years.

01:13:00.000 I've been studying a little bit of urbanism, too.

01:13:03.000 It'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.

01:13:10.000 That's actually independence from the automobile.

01:13:12.000 But that's independence is being able to go where you want to go when you want to go there.

01:13:16.000 That's what independence is.

01:13:18.000 But let me just.

01:13:21.000 Here's the one thing that I want to make sure.

01:13:22.000 I don't get this from you because you're coming at it from a good place.

01:13:25.000 The panic over climate becomes such a priority by people that also have the solution in mind.

01:13:33.000 I'm not saying it's you, right?

01:13:34.000 It's fair.

01:13:35.000 And 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?

01:13:48.000 Exaggerating the threat, where we are told we must take our freedoms and liberties away.

01:13:53.000 We must reconfigure our life.

01:13:56.000 And 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,

01:14:23.000 AOC, Rashida Talib, Elon Omar, Bernie Sanders, they want to get rid of fossil fuels.

01:14:28.000 They want to disenfranchise millions of people of work.

01:14:31.000 And they want to basically put the entire grid in an unrealistic solar, wind, and turbine type model.

01:14:37.000 Mr. 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.

01:14:49.000 The 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.

01:14:54.000 So this is very much a real issue.

01:14:56.000 Let me ask you: in the last 50 years, have there been irregular weather patterns in the 60s, 70s, or 80s?

01:15:01.000 Yes.

01:15:03.000 I would just close with this.

01:15:05.000 You could talk to any rancher or farmer here in Missouri.

01:15:07.000 Unpredictability is part of the agrarian lifestyle.

01:15:11.000 To 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.

01:15:23.000 It's the one thing that confirms the hypothesis regardless of the results.

01:15:27.000 And so it's the perfect thing to argue for.

01:15:29.000 You might be right.

01:15:30.000 I don't think you are that rising global temperatures are necessarily tied to human activity.

01:15:35.000 But 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.

01:15:45.000 Thank you so much.

01:15:46.000 I got to get to the next question.

01:15:47.000 Thank you.

01:15:53.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:15:54.000 Thanks for being here.

01:15:55.000 I fell for the college scam when I was in my 30s and for the past decade have found myself working in the tech sector.

01:16:03.000 And 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?

01:16:14.000 Wow, that's a great question.

01:16:17.000 I don't know the answer for you.

01:16:18.000 I can see it both ways.

01:16:19.000 Grow where you are planted.

01:16:20.000 I like that.

01:16:21.000 I'm going to use that.

01:16:21.000 That's really smart.

01:16:23.000 We need a lot of conservatives in tech.

01:16:25.000 There's a brain drain right now of conservatives in the technology field.

01:16:29.000 It all depends on whether or not you feel as if you're advancing your values.

01:16:32.000 For example, if you work for Salesforce, probably not a good idea.

01:16:36.000 You should probably cut bait because Mark Bennyhoff is a card-carrying Marxist communist Stalinist.

01:16:41.000 I don't work for Salesforce, but I'm a Salesforce administrator.

01:16:44.000 Oh, well, I guessed right.

01:16:46.000 So I saw your segment with Michael Sefert last year.

01:16:49.000 Yeah, no, I know.

01:16:50.000 I happen to pick on Salesforce a lot because they deserve it.

01:16:53.000 And so, not a good company.

01:16:55.000 Only you know the answer to that.

01:16:56.000 But the question is: do you feel as if you're moving the ball forward for your values?

01:16:59.000 I don't.

01:17:00.000 Well, then you know the answer.

01:17:01.000 Okay.

01:17:02.000 Do you have any advice on how to get connected to tech leaders in the patriot economy?

01:17:07.000 Yeah, public square is a great way, right?

01:17:09.000 Publicsq.com.

01:17:10.000 You guys got to all download the public square app.

01:17:12.000 They're amazing, right?

01:17:13.000 Aren't they great?

01:17:14.000 And in addition to that, just make yourself available.

01:17:18.000 If you have tech talent, you will be hired.

01:17:20.000 There is such a need in these tech conservative companies to find people that share their values.

01:17:26.000 And so make your, you know, send your resume around.

01:17:28.000 Find Michael Seifert.

01:17:30.000 He could definitely, you know, public square is kind of become in this one-stop shop for entrepreneurs and businesses.

01:17:34.000 It's amazing.

01:17:35.000 So happy to help with that.

01:17:37.000 Thank you.

01:17:37.000 Thank you for that.

01:17:38.000 Appreciate it.

01:17:39.000 All right, we'll do a couple more.

01:17:40.000 And again, if you disagree, we'll try to get through.

01:17:42.000 Yes, sir.

01:17:43.000 Good evening, Charlie.

01:17:44.000 I'm assuming my question is not going to gain me a lot of popularity with both Republicans and Democrats.

01:17:50.000 That's the best kind of question.

01:17:52.000 My name's Chase Boggs.

01:17:53.000 I was an infantry Marine who was discharged due to the vaccine mandate.

01:17:57.000 And then I worked for a Republican in U.S. Congress after that.

01:18:01.000 So we agree on a lot, but we disagree on one key topic, I would say.

01:18:07.000 With 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?

01:18:29.000 Doesn'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?

01:18:38.000 It's kind of the definition of insanity.

01:18:40.000 Okay.

01:18:41.000 That's a pretty good question. 1.00

01:18:42.000 Yeah, I mean, I have Georgia minorly fixed their laws.

01:18:46.000 Wisconsin had some good decisions for Mark Zuckerberg drop boxes, but not nearly enough, nearly enough has not been done.

01:18:54.000 So, I mean, what certainty can I give?

01:18:57.000 Just one sec, guys.

01:18:59.000 Come on.

01:19:00.000 Okay, great.

01:19:01.000 So, please, look at this, guys.

01:19:04.000 Okay, cool.

01:19:06.000 The censorship's a little better than before.

01:19:08.000 We have Twitter now, and we're allowed to say what we want on Twitter.

01:19:08.000 I can say that.

01:19:11.000 So, that's one good thing.

01:19:12.000 Last time we weren't able to do that.

01:19:13.000 It's not X.

01:19:14.000 It's Twitter.com.

01:19:15.000 Okay, this whole X thing drives me crazy.

01:19:18.000 I'm still not adopting it.

01:19:19.000 It feels weird.

01:19:20.000 The whole thing is very bizarre, right?

01:19:21.000 I don't like it.

01:19:22.000 I don't like it at all.

01:19:23.000 I call it Twitter, and I always will.

01:19:24.000 It's like the Sears Tower in Chicago.

01:19:26.000 I still call it the Sears Tower.

01:19:27.000 It's not the Willis Tower.

01:19:28.000 I will die on that hill, okay?

01:19:30.000 Anyway, and it's like Kamiski Park in Chicago.

01:19:33.000 It's not U.S. Cellular, it's Kamiski.

01:19:35.000 Any Chicagoans, you know exactly what I mean, right?

01:19:39.000 So censorship is better.

01:19:41.000 So there's some laws in Wisconsin or Georgia better.

01:19:44.000 But 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.

01:19:51.000 And do you think RFK has a potential to blow the whole system apart?

01:19:55.000 No.

01:19:56.000 RFK has the potential to get Joe Biden another term.

01:20:01.000 And I have been one of the few people that believes that RFK helps Joe Biden far more than he helps Trump.

01:20:08.000 And 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.

01:20:14.000 That'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.

01:20:20.000 But with RFK, he communicates to low-trust voters.

01:20:25.000 Donald Trump also communicates to low-trusted government voters.

01:20:28.000 So does Donald Trump.

01:20:29.000 Joe Biden runs a high trust in government type campaign.

01:20:32.000 So yeah, RFK at its current trajectory could end up giving Joe Biden another term.

01:20:37.000 Thank you.

01:20:37.000 Thank you very much.

01:20:40.000 Yeah, not a lot of people applaud that.

01:20:42.000 You shouldn't applaud that.

01:20:44.000 Yes, ma'am.

01:20:44.000 We'll do a couple.

01:20:45.000 We'll get through the line.

01:20:46.000 Yeah.

01:20:46.000 Hello, Mr. Kirk.

01:20:47.000 My name is Carly Hamlin.

01:20:48.000 I want to say thank you for being here first and foremost.

01:20:52.000 At another school, the one I was at before this, I was often told that God is not real.

01:20:57.000 And I even had a guest speaker come in and say that Jesus is in fact Satan.

01:21:02.000 I have always been very firm in my faith, but many of my peers after that talk faltered in their faith.

01:21:08.000 So my question is: how do you stand firm against the people who tried to stomp on you and twist the truth, especially about your religion?

01:21:15.000 Was that a religious school that you went to?

01:21:17.000 No.

01:21:18.000 Okay, good.

01:21:21.000 That would be really something.

01:21:22.000 Look, you have to be strong and courageous, as it says in Joshua 1.9, right?

01:21:27.000 And one of the most important things that we as believers need to do is understand that the results are God's, but the obedience is ours.

01:21:36.000 And that expressing our faith, regardless of how hard it is, is our moral obligation and a duty to the divine.

01:21:42.000 So when someone says God is not real, honestly, you should just play with them, right?

01:21:45.000 Which is you say, look, without God, there would be no atheist. 0.79

01:21:48.000 Drives them crazy, right?

01:21:49.000 When you say that.

01:21:50.000 And I got a lot more than that.

01:21:54.000 But look, if you want to go on the atheist part of it, Augustine's proofs for God are the best.

01:21:59.000 That's not Augustine.

01:22:00.000 Aquinas' proofs for God's are the best.

01:22:02.000 But more than that, look, some people will not be won over to God just on reason alone.

01:22:06.000 They have a hardened heart.

01:22:08.000 They do not want to acknowledge that there is a power above them, an almighty that breathed them into existence.

01:22:13.000 That 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.

01:22:18.000 So it's up for you to witness the best you possibly can.

01:22:21.000 Witness with truth and love and understand that it's not your job to win all of them over.

01:22:26.000 It 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.

01:22:33.000 Be strong in your faith.

01:22:34.000 God bless you.

01:22:35.000 Thank you.

01:22:35.000 God bless you too.

01:22:41.000 Hey, Charlie, how's it going?

01:22:43.000 Good.

01:22:43.000 How are you?

01:22:43.000 Hey, you know, I'm doing pretty good.

01:22:45.000 Thank you for asking.

01:22:46.000 Just to add on the debate on carbon, no matter how hard we try, we can't stop progress.

01:22:52.000 And renewable energy is the future.

01:22:54.000 If 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?

01:23:06.000 Well, 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?

01:23:15.000 I'm glad you put in nuclear, right?

01:23:17.000 A lot of environmentalists don't like nuclear, so I'm glad you like nuclear.

01:23:20.000 Isn't that wild, isn't it?

01:23:21.000 I agree, it is wild.

01:23:22.000 And so that's some common ground that we can have, right?

01:23:25.000 And I think nuclear is something that is, yes, renewable.

01:23:28.000 It is abundant, it can be abundant, and we should embrace.

01:23:31.000 But honestly, I want to say this: that if the renewable wins the market, then so be it.

01:23:37.000 But do it without mass subsidies and force and coercion, right?

01:23:40.000 Do it without the government coming in.

01:23:42.000 And it's a clumsier fight than some people realize.

01:23:46.000 And the environmentalists need to be honest.

01:23:48.000 I'm not saying you.

01:23:48.000 I'm just going to talk more broadly, okay?

01:23:50.000 If 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.

01:23:59.000 LNG is abundant, it is clean, it employs so many people.

01:24:03.000 And in the state of New York, they have outlawed all LNG exploration for no other reason than ideology, right?

01:24:11.000 And so do you have a comment?

01:24:13.000 To add to the previous gentleman who was up here talking about climate change, is why I came up here.

01:24:18.000 Sure.

01:24:18.000 I have an idea on how to bring conservatives more into quote-unquote environmentalism is to actually focus on actual conservation.

01:24:26.000 Like 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.

01:24:36.000 Sorry.

01:24:38.000 You see pollution in our cities.

01:24:39.000 It doesn't take, you know, it doesn't take a scientist to say that there is just outrageous pollution.

01:24:44.000 So that's what I'm saying.

01:24:45.000 Like, what is your opinion on bringing more conservatives in to guess caring for the environment in the terms of conservation?

01:24:52.000 Yes, but I want to make sure the morals are always right.

01:24:54.000 And it's my job to slow down mass media movements that can lead us astray.

01:25:00.000 The 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. 1.00

01:25:08.000 We do not worship nature and we do not serve nature.

01:25:11.000 Nature serves us.

01:25:12.000 But we must try to conserve it so other people can also enjoy it, so human beings can flourish.

01:25:16.000 That's an important moral statement that not every environmentalist believes.

01:25:21.000 Some environmentalists believe the humans are the toxin in nature, that they are the invaders in nature.

01:25:28.000 That's a really bad blame.

01:25:29.000 I'm not saying it's you, right?

01:25:30.000 So we have to get our morals right.

01:25:31.000 But yeah, conservation, I'm all about conservation, obviously.

01:25:35.000 But 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?

01:25:49.000 Human beings must always come first. 1.00

01:25:52.000 We must have a human-first agenda.

01:25:54.000 And 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.

01:26:07.000 And most environmentalists literally want what happened in Europe last winter, rolling blackouts and people freezing to death, all because of an ideological green agenda.

01:26:18.000 Thank you very much.

01:26:19.000 We've got to wrap it up.

01:26:19.000 I really liked it whenever you were on, Tim Cast.

01:26:22.000 IRL.

01:26:22.000 They had a lot of really good arguments.

01:26:24.000 Thank you.

01:26:24.000 All right, last question.

01:26:26.000 Hi.

01:26:28.000 My question is about the COVID vaccine.

01:26:30.000 Yes.

01:26:33.000 Sorry.

01:26:33.000 I personally have never gotten any of the shots ever.

01:26:36.000 I'm surprised I've even made it this far.

01:26:44.000 Just because of how new it is and everything.

01:26:46.000 But 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?

01:26:59.000 That's a really good question.

01:27:00.000 I'm by no means an expert, but I will say this.

01:27:03.000 If you're a parent, you need to make an informed decision to understand everything in life is a risk.

01:27:07.000 Everything in life has a risk with it.

01:27:09.000 Not vaccinating comes with a risk.

01:27:10.000 Your kid could get whooping cough.

01:27:12.000 That's a real risk.

01:27:13.000 But also taking the TDAP vaccine comes with a risk that they won't tell you.

01:27:16.000 So you have to weigh both together.

01:27:20.000 So 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.

01:27:39.000 What the extent of that, I do not know.

01:27:41.000 But here is what I am most suspicious about from pattern recognition.

01:27:45.000 The 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.

01:28:08.000 And I will say this, that there are way too many vaccines on the child vaccination schedule.

01:28:14.000 There are way too many vaccines.

01:28:17.000 Everybody needs to make their own decisions as a parent, as an individual.

01:28:22.000 But 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.

01:28:32.000 And you should probably be like, that's probably too much, right?

01:28:35.000 That's probably not a good idea.

01:28:38.000 And that's the CDC that is pushing it.

01:28:40.000 So everyone has to make their own decision.

01:28:41.000 And honestly, pray for the God.

01:28:42.000 He'll give you, pray to God, he'll give you wisdom.

01:28:44.000 James 1.5, he'll give it to you generously.

01:28:47.000 God bless you.

01:28:47.000 Thank you so much.

01:28:48.000 Thank you so much.

01:28:50.000 All right.

01:28:50.000 In closing, everybody, first of all, thank you for all the questions.

01:28:55.000 It was great.

01:28:56.000 Turning point USA and Turning Point Action are the two most important things happen in the country.

01:29:00.000 I'm very biased, but we're doing this every single night all across the country, reaching millions of people online, educating the next generation.

01:29:08.000 We will lose if we surrender.

01:29:12.000 We can win if we keep on fighting.

01:29:14.000 Some of you came here tonight.

01:29:15.000 You say, Charlie, I've done everything that's been asked of me.

01:29:18.000 I knock on doors.

01:29:19.000 I've run for office.

01:29:20.000 I bought the pillow.

01:29:22.000 I've done everything that has been asked of me.

01:29:26.000 By the way, promo code Kirk at mypillow.com, just so we're clear, okay?

01:29:30.000 Write it down.

01:29:32.000 Write it down.

01:29:34.000 You must commit tonight more than anything else that you will not allow them to break your resolve.

01:29:40.000 To despair is a sin.

01:29:44.000 I want you to think about that.

01:29:46.000 If you are despairing, you are sinning because you are questioning the sovereignty and the plan of God.

01:29:51.000 Do not despair.

01:29:53.000 Your prayer should not be God, save us.

01:29:56.000 It should be God, use me.

01:29:58.000 Use me.

01:29:59.000 Get to work.

01:30:01.000 Fight for liberty.

01:30:02.000 I love Missouri.

01:30:03.000 God bless you guys.

01:30:04.000 Thank you so much.

01:30:10.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:30:11.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:30:15.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - November 05, 2023

Not All Cultures Are Created Equal: My Speech to Missouri State University

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