00:01:04.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:10.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:58.000To actually take the church's proper role of leaning into the community, leading on these issues, and not being cowards and being courageous and being bold.
00:02:14.000This is why they had to lock down the church for a couple years when they took all your freedoms away and they tried to mandate a vaccine and they did all these different things.
00:02:23.000The American church is the greatest threat to tyranny.
00:02:28.000You being here tonight, pastor speaking out boldly.
00:02:32.000You see, the American church founded America.
00:02:35.00055 of 56 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Bible-believing church attending Christians.
00:02:42.000This nation was founded by people that prayed and fasted for the welfare of their nation.
00:02:48.000The American church, whenever there is a crisis, stands up and preaches and proclaims the word boldly and truthfully.
00:02:57.000And I believe that's exactly what we're living through right now.
00:02:59.000Hey, this is encouraging to me just to see the demographics of this evening here.
00:03:04.000I got my 92-year-old mom right here on the front row right here.
00:03:45.000And, you know, this is unusual for us to be able to do events where we're so warmly welcomed.
00:03:52.000And it's necessary, though, because one of the accusations people say is, oh, Charlie, when you speak at churches, you're speaking to the choir.
00:04:09.000But thank you for supporting Turning Point USA.
00:04:12.000I think it's the most important thing happening in America for the next generation.
00:04:16.000And we are, without a doubt, as of right now, the most targeted and attacked organization in America, especially youth organization.
00:04:25.000And honestly, we wear that as a badge of honor.
00:04:27.000The fact that when we go to Davis or we do San Francisco State University and they hold our speaker hostage, the fact with the death threats and the violence and them ripping up Bibles at our events, that means that we are leaning in where it matters the most.
00:04:42.000And, you know, many of you, you might say, Charlie, you know, where's the hope?
00:04:48.000Turning point USA has hundreds of thousands of 15, 16, 17, 18-year-olds that are starting chapters that are fighting for virtue and righteousness and goodness and liberty and freedom and American exceptionalism when it is not the popular thing to do.
00:06:44.000And I think this is the issue because I think so many of the other topics that we see can just kind of be found within this moment of gender dysphoria and mental delusion.
00:06:56.000Because the T and LGBT stands for tyranny, not for trans.
00:07:01.000It's about telling you how you have to think.
00:07:06.000For years, there were people that suffered with the mental delusion.
00:07:10.000Now, mind you, understand my language, suffering.
00:07:13.000These are people that are struggling with inner turmoil and torment.
00:07:17.000These are people that have an issue, and I hope they get care.
00:07:20.000And care is not chopping off the breasts of a 13-year-old and putting them on Lupron.
00:07:26.000Care would be cognitive behavioral therapy.
00:07:29.000Care would be telling them the truth, to love them enough to give them the treatment that they as a son or a daughter of the divine of God made in the image of God deserve.
00:07:39.000Not saying that we're going to put the most irreversible, quote-unquote, medieval medical procedures towards you.
00:08:32.000Is that all of a sudden, the people that had those issues that are legitimate, gender dysphoria, they decided because they were tormented and because they were suffering to all of a sudden create a movement where to deal with their torment and their suffering is that they must make you change your behavior.
00:08:51.000These people are cultural imperialists that they try to invade our customs, our traditions, our sports, our companies, our language, how we raise our children.
00:09:01.000So it's not enough that Thomas, the swimmer, thought that he's a woman.
00:09:07.000It's not enough that you can think you are a woman and still compete in male sports.
00:09:46.000Is now that the ordinary and the normal and the proven and the traditional is now categorized as hateful and intolerant because of a minority, a hyper-minority of people that are tormented tell us that we have to change our traditions.
00:12:31.000Anyway, so quote me accurately for your own sake.
00:12:39.000So I want to make sure this is clear, which is that in the moment that we're in today, when it comes to the trans stuff and their kind of imperialist conquest.
00:13:18.000There's worse things that can happen, but they were there for three hours.
00:13:21.000The police decided to do nothing until the San Francisco police come in.
00:13:25.000But the most horrifying thing is not a bunch of delusional people that are on testosterone replacement therapy that are acting erratic and aggressive, right?
00:13:33.000That's what happens when all of a sudden you put 22-year-olds that have mental problems on just pharmacological agents.
00:13:41.000Shouldn't be surprised when all of a sudden you're on a routine of TRT and human growth hormone and benzodiazepines and Zoloft and Prozac.
00:13:48.000All of a sudden they start punching people.
00:13:49.000Like, yeah, maybe you shouldn't be putting these mind-altering substances into a 22-year-old that already has some predisposition towards mental illness.
00:13:58.000Probably not a good idea, but no one ever wants to say that out loud, but it's true.
00:14:23.000They kidnapped her, held her hostage, and assaulted her and our turning point members.
00:14:27.000In fact, they said, if anyone needs counseling services for the damage and the trauma that you had to endure, that's the leadership of San Francisco State University.
00:14:43.000The left, if they are left unchecked to run our society, they convince people that they are victims, which they're not, and then they get a moral license to become the victimizer.
00:14:54.000They are then allowed to do whatever they want to do against you.
00:14:59.000They're allowed to hold you hostage, assault you, call you names, intimidate you, get you fired from a job because they say, I deserve it because of how terrible I've been treated because you haven't accommodated it, accommodated my mental struggle.
00:16:22.000Without parental consent, they go to a doctor and all of a sudden these medieval torturers that call themselves medical professionals put them under a knife and prescribe them unbelievably damaging prescription.
00:16:33.000Now, we can get into the why of this, but the point that I think is important is that we must talk about this as a social contagion.
00:16:43.000Most conservatives and Christians are afraid to say the obvious part out loud, which is that it's not normal to see a 10,000% increase in a decade of kids that think they are the other gender.
00:19:05.000And we say as a community, not just one church, but as a community, that's not going to happen here.
00:19:12.000And so the question is then, what do we do about it?
00:19:15.000Let me just add one more thing and then we're going to talk about it because we have to have a total attitude change on this or else this thing is going to just capture Western civilization like all these other social contagions.
00:19:26.000And we were going to wish that we were more bold when that guy came on a weeknight and told us about it.
00:19:31.000I'm telling you, this thing is accelerating.
00:19:34.000It is financed by corporate America, to your earlier point.
00:19:37.000It is supported by oligarchs, by billionaires.
00:19:40.000Okay, but let me just close one point, which is an obvious, an obvious wrinkle that even the medical professionals that support this, it's the best way to counter it.
00:19:50.000They'll say, well, it's the loving thing to do because the kids want it and it's going to help them.
00:19:55.000Millions of young girls in the last couple of decades have suffered from anorexia, okay, believing that they are overweight when in reality they are not overweight.
00:20:05.000Emphasis on reality because you have to always come back to reality.
00:20:08.000If an anorexic teenager goes to a doctor and says, I want liposuction, which is forcible fat removal, if the doctor administered liposuction, he would lose his license and possibly kill the patient.
00:20:23.000Instead, the doctor should say, you're suffering under a delusion.
00:20:28.000It's unloving for me to actually go suck the fat that doesn't exist.
00:20:32.000You're believing something that is not true.
00:20:35.000And that's exactly the same way that we should handle on the trans thing medically and professionally.
00:20:40.000Okay, secondly, what do we do about it?
00:20:45.000Look, I think we have to have a total attitude change.
00:23:03.000Anytime this trans garbage comes across your life, don't put up with it.
00:23:08.000If there's a young person that happens to be trans, keep them away from anyone that might try to chemically alter them and get them to an actual medical health, mental health professional that does cognitive behavioral therapy and does not engage in this gender affirming nonsense.
00:23:40.000You go through a process, you ask them questions, it's clinically proven, but something changed.
00:23:44.000No one was getting more powerful when all of a sudden gender dysphoria was getting healed.
00:23:48.000So they decided to say, Let's weaponize gender dysphoria and turn it into a tyrannical weapon against the decent and the ordinary because these people never stop.
00:23:57.000All they know is how to take more terrain and take more ground and to accelerate.
00:24:01.000Because it wasn't enough that they were able to upend traditional marriage in the States.
00:25:07.000And finally, from a spiritual aspect, this is where I think the church has to lean in and we have to rebuke this evil, which is this is a war on God's design.
00:25:16.000This is an intentional, all-out campaign and crusade.
00:25:29.000And then finally, the one that is the easiest.
00:25:31.000I mean, I think it actually goes deeper than this, to be perfectly honest, but it's the one that we can all agree on: is you know, don't teach it to kids, don't put it, you know, in kids' classrooms.
00:25:40.000I think transgenderism, the ideology in general, actually is bigger than just teaching it to kids.
00:25:45.000I think it's a social contagion that spans all ages.
00:26:26.000So, let's talk about the church and its role.
00:26:31.000And I think COVID was the great revealer.
00:26:35.000It showed what the church, the soft underbelly of the church.
00:26:39.000And so this is just accelerating that reveal of how weak the American church is, how compromised the American church is, and how we have embraced the doctrine of tolerance.
00:26:52.000That we think it's a God thing when we tolerate a behavior.
00:26:57.000So, you know, and we went through this thing with this pastor, this fake pastor.
00:27:04.000I don't know if there was more than five ministers in this area that spoke up.
00:27:11.000You know, my wife and I were talking about this.
00:27:13.000It's like you see all these social movements that create all kinds of energy and they show up in masses and they make noise, but the church sits on its hands.
00:29:05.000And that's so salt and light are two things that change the environment that they come in contact with.
00:29:11.000And Jesus used those metaphors for a reason, so that we have to go into environments that do not look the way that we want them to look and change them to brighten them up, to make them saltier, to make them more in the image of what God desires for his people here on earth.
00:29:27.000And so, look, I am encouraged by how many pastors are out there that are taking a stand, but they're not a vast majority.
00:29:34.000Now, I'm going to challenge some of you here tonight that if this is not your home church, maybe it should be, maybe it shouldn't.
00:31:20.000Confront them and say, either you're going to start to be a man of God or I'm leaving and I'm going to make sure that other people leave as well.
00:31:26.000This is not the time for the vanilla middle.
00:31:28.000This is not a time for the people that say, I only preach the gospel.
00:31:31.000Yeah, you know, Jesus loved children too.
00:31:33.000So why don't you talk about children being perverted by drag queen story hour?
00:32:15.000They're exactly the same attitude that Eric Metaxas lays out in his amazing book, Letter to the American Church, of when the Nazis were taken over and German churches said, ah, I don't get involved in politics.
00:32:26.000Hitler's Hitler, but we're just going to do the gospel.
00:32:29.000You know, the Holocaust, not my problem.
00:32:32.000And I say this and the media goes nuts when I say this.
00:32:36.000I never, in eighth grade, I remember the teacher that taught the Holocaust and she did a brilliant job.
00:32:40.000Mrs. Thomas, and she moved me and it was informative and it was emotional, but it bothered me because I said, because I actually thought people were naturally courageous, you know, useful naivete.
00:32:49.000And I said, how could people let this happen?
00:33:00.000I mean, it is, it doesn't, the human norm is to sit idly by while evil marches.
00:33:05.000It's the Christian who stands against evil and says no more.
00:33:09.000And right now it's the Christian that some Christians that are saying, please give me more, or some of the Christians that say, I want nothing to do with it.
00:33:16.000And so, but all of you play an active role in that.
00:33:19.000This room and the overflow rooms, I guarantee you, some of you are connected to a cowardly pastor in this community.
00:33:25.000Confront them lovingly and ask them a series of questions.
00:33:28.000Ask them, why didn't you celebrate the reversal of Roe versus Wade?
00:33:32.000Why don't you teach us anything meaningful of how what we're doing connects with the news?
00:33:35.000Why don't you tell our local community what's going on with the social contagion of trans?
00:33:39.000Why don't you talk, just ask five or six questions?
00:33:41.000And if you get a bunch of gobbledygoop or a bunch of just beta male responses, say, see you later, I'm going to destiny.
00:33:46.000Like, I'm not going to keep on doing this.
00:33:48.000Or go to one of these amazing churches.
00:34:41.000But here's the good news, though, Greg.
00:34:42.000And I have to say this, that California has some of the healthiest, most engaged, most involved, most, the most just incredible churches of the entire country.
00:34:54.000I've now had a chance to speak at well over 100 churches across the country.
00:34:58.000And there is no place like the remnant here in California.
00:35:01.000And you are all actively involved in that.
00:36:10.000And so we announced we were doing an event in New York City and we ran radio ads and all of that and we had like 22 people RSVP'd in a city of 7 million, right?
00:36:19.000And, you know, we kind of like a rumor goes out that I'm going to Orange County.
00:38:36.000But when I come here and I see thousands and thousands of people show up to our events, and I see some of the most amazing people that are in California preaching the word and people giving their life to the Lord.
00:38:45.000And I see people that are not leaving and they're still starting businesses and pouring in, despite all the trends that Nineveh, not Sodom, two totally different cities in the Old Testament that God had plans for.
00:39:50.000Rooted in repentance is humility, recognition of the divine, recognition of his perfect order, right?
00:39:56.000Repentance is what the founding fathers were called to do by Jonathan Edwards, sinners in the hands of an angry God that led them to creating the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:40:05.000That's why I love the Nineveh example: repentance can lead to righteous action.
00:40:11.000So, let's because our time, we're going to go some yeah, we're going to do some QA uh with the audience here, but uh, you know, we want to know what you think about the indictment of President Trump.
00:40:27.000What is 2024 going to look like in the Republican side of things?
00:40:35.000You know, our organization is a 501c3 educational organization.
00:40:38.000We also have a 501c4 turning point action, and so I just want to make that very clear for the 87,000 IRS agents that are watching our broadcast tonight that would love to shut down our operations.
00:40:50.000So, everything we do here is educational, talking about things that are eternally wise.
00:40:53.000We also have a 501c4 turning point action.
00:40:56.000We follow the laws very carefully and closely, unlike the left.
00:40:58.000So, but I'm curious, I'm just curious.
00:41:05.000And I mean this: just be as honest as you feel comfortable because I, you know, you guys are kind of if the if the primary held today, how many of you would vote for Donald Trump?
00:41:46.000Donald Trump has only grown in popularity and he's grown in support since this indictment.
00:41:52.000Um, this indictment should infuriate you, regardless of your own personal opinions of Donald Trump.
00:41:57.000Okay, I don't care if you don't like him, I don't care if you don't like his tone, I don't care if you think he's a bad guy, I don't care.
00:42:03.000I don't know, it means absolutely nothing to me.
00:42:06.000The question is: is it acceptable that a local DA can use the legal system to indict and interfere with the presidential election over an absolute fictitious fabricated crime?
00:42:19.000And so, there's multiple takes on this.
00:42:22.000I think Donald Trump will end up being the nominee.
00:42:24.000Um, I believe that he absolutely can win the White House.
00:42:31.000When people say he can't win, I laugh.
00:42:32.000He said, Well, he won before and he won again, so he'll have to win again.
00:42:39.000And so, yeah, why can't he win exactly?
00:42:43.000So, I always laugh when people say that, but I could go through all of it.
00:42:46.000I talk about it frequently on my show.
00:42:48.000I believe we could learn something from you guys here in California, we being the national conservative movement, of how you guys have successfully ballot harvested, voted early, and actually played the Democrats' game against them.
00:43:00.000I think you guys have done a brilliant job there, and I think it actually has really proven to be fruitful in a lot of ways.
00:43:06.000But look, the 24 race is going to come down to machinery, it's not going to come down to the candidate, it's going to come down to do we have free and fair elections?
00:43:14.000I live in Arizona, my goodness, are we fighting tooth and nail for it?
00:43:20.000Every day we are fighting in the legislature.
00:43:23.000Every day we're fighting in the courts.
00:43:24.000Every day we're trying to help Kerry Lake and all of them try to fix our broken elections because there is no Republican president without Arizona, right?
00:43:32.000I live in the state that is going to be the most critical, the most important.
00:43:36.000So please, I mean it sincerely, pray for us and pray for an intervention of God in Arizona because we absolutely and totally need it.
00:43:43.000But the race is going to be largely decided on machinery.
00:43:47.000But I also want to take a step back from the politics of it and talk about things that I think are more immediate and more important.
00:43:53.000Even than that, I'm very worried that this intentional group of gangsters that call themselves the American government are trying to destroy the American currency and put us towards a centralized bank digital currency.
00:44:03.000This is the biggest issue that I wish the opposition party that calls themselves Republicans would talk about instead of sending money to Ukraine.
00:44:10.000Instead of sending money to Ukraine, can you guys talk about how we're losing the world reserve currency status?
00:44:40.000So I'm incredibly, I'm concerned about that because there's so much ineptitude from our leaders.
00:44:46.000And there's very little we can do about it.
00:44:48.000Very little, except try to be self-reliant and invest in things that really matter.
00:44:55.000If a currency collapse actually comes and we might see an even further run on the banks because the Federal Reserve needs to be abolished completely in its current form.
00:45:04.000What they have done to our currency is an absolute nightmare.
00:45:13.000I don't want us to be overly focused on the macro political.
00:45:17.000My bigger call to action is actually on the micro, is actually on what are you doing daily to become a better and stronger activist and patriot, a better child of God, a better father, a better friend.
00:45:32.000You know, what are you doing to take terrain?
00:45:34.000And then yes, when elections pop up, do your thing, because I think we're too focused on the macro.
00:45:41.000And I think the macro, the bad macro news can create a lot of fatigue and depression and cynicism and disengagement, where if you're doing small daily tasks, as it says in the book of Nehemiah, Zarebabel says these are the days of long and hard work, of righteous work, when they were trying to rebuild the temple and they were discouraged, then the macro shouldn't impact you as much, right?
00:46:07.000It means if you're young and if you're a college student, if you're a high school student here, you know, save yourself for marriage and get married and have a beautiful family.
00:46:15.000That's something we should talk more about.
00:46:17.000That's important regardless if the White House is won or not.
00:46:21.000If you're an entrepreneur out there and you run a business, I hope you're able to scale your business to huge limits and become a George Soros and give all that money away so that you can fight these bad guys because we need really rich Christians to go pour hundreds of millions of dollars into these communities, right?
00:46:38.000What I'm trying to say is that the macro is important, but it's not everything.
00:46:45.000There's so much we can do from homeschooling our kids to building institutions, from just being a beacon of light and truth in local communities to starting more small groups, to praying for our friends, for fasting for our nation, for honoring the Sabbath, for honoring our parents.
00:46:59.000I have seen a disturbing trend that I'm trying to push back against.
00:47:02.000Anyone watch us on Real America's Voice, by the way?
00:47:06.000I love the Real America's Voice audience.
00:47:08.000They're hyper-engaged and they're the most opinionated of all of our audiences.
00:47:11.000And I got a disturbing couple emails, Greg, where a group of people, 70 plus, were emailing me saying, Charlie, I don't think people should have children because things are so dark and they're so terrible.
00:47:22.000I wouldn't want children to come into this world.
00:48:22.000And so 2024 election matters, but more important than that is an attitude that must not change of, I'm so thankful, Lord, that you have given me breath in such a time as this.
00:51:19.000Okay, yeah, this doesn't look good and this is bad and that's that.
00:51:21.000So if you're if you're fatigued, I encourage you to adopt the blessing that God has right in front of you that is biblical, that works, that I have worked in my own life.
00:51:31.000People say, Charlie, how do you keep up this schedule?
00:52:07.000Now, I'm not telling you you're bound by the law.
00:52:09.000I'm not saying that, but I am saying that it's probably a blessing that you're not picking up.
00:52:14.000And I could say this from my own personal life experience, that all of a sudden, those other six days, you have more energy, you have more vitality.
00:52:21.000And so imagine for those of you that are fatigued, for those that feel worn down, oh, Charlie, I'm too busy for that.
00:54:54.000A device that you use for other things can easily distract you when you're trying to learn, when you're trying to dive into the word and trying to come in contact with the eternal and with the divine.
00:55:06.000Secondly, I know that my Bible has a feel, a texture, a weight to it that nothing else has.
00:55:12.000And I want that dedicated to that, the sword, the gift, the door that the word represents.
00:55:19.000And then finally, I want to be able to be held accountable by my wife and by my family that if I'm actually, are you really reading the Bible or are you texting people?
00:56:48.000And if he doesn't, I had a Republican on my show and he didn't seem too convinced of this.
00:56:53.000They should hold him in contempt of Congress and send a criminal referral to the Department of Justice, just like they did to Steve Bannon.
00:56:59.000They might not do anything with it, but the rules should equally apply.
00:57:03.000Alvin Bragg is a bad dude, pure and simple.
00:57:06.000He's funded by George Soros, just like Chesa Boudin was and Kim Fox is.
00:57:11.000We can do a whole thing on George Soros if you want, but I'm not sure if he's going to show up.
00:57:17.000I'll go a level deeper, and it's time for us to realize that we're in a very uncomfortable moment in America right now.
00:57:25.000One side is outwardly and brazenly and proudly using political power and one side is not.
00:57:29.000They're not going to stop unless they're stopped.
00:57:31.000And the way to stop them is not just subpoenas or house oversight.
00:57:34.000The way to stop them is Republican attorneys general and Republican DAs and they start indicting leading members of the American Democrat Party and they need to start to go to jail.
00:57:44.000I do not say this in any way that gives me joy or delight.
00:58:45.000I'm a political constituent here in California.
00:58:48.000I've been at the Capitol multiple times fighting evil bills.
00:58:53.000How do we handle a governor who makes up his own rules, who uses the school system, our innocent, vulnerable children whose brain is not developed until they're 21 to groom them and to tell them and feed them lies?
00:59:33.000And I spoke against it because they lied.
00:59:37.000These Democrats, excuse me if you're a Democrat, these liberals told these college students over 200 college girls showed up and they told him it was the same thing as taking an aspirin to remove.
00:59:52.000And now we had to pay, we have to pay millions of dollars in taxes for abortion clinics at colleges.
01:01:00.000The answer is the 10,000 churches in California.
01:01:04.000The answer, I appreciate everything that you're doing, but if the pastors of our churches in California would speak and mobilize their church, Gavin Newsom would not be our governor anymore.
01:01:46.000So since I go to an all-girls Catholic private high school, I've had incidences where teachers are very specific on their opinions, you know, very one-sided, you know, do not like other sides of political views, you know, can't be conservative.
01:02:05.000Had a theology teacher who prayed for a special rosary for the 2016 election.
01:02:33.000The earlier you make this choice in your life, the freer and happier you will be.
01:02:37.000So you have the Charlie Kirk opinion and the Ben Shapiro opinion.
01:02:40.000And I think the world of Ben Shapiro, okay, but we see this completely differently.
01:02:43.000Ben's position, and I'm not misrepresenting it.
01:02:46.000He went to Harvard and he mentions that, right?
01:02:49.000And he says, look, just lie and tell them what they want to hear and write the paper as they want to hear it and just pander to the liberal thing, get the best grade, and then you have the credential and then you can influence.
01:03:02.000I don't think grades really mean anything.
01:04:21.000Most parents tell their kids to say things that are not true because in most suburban conservative households, getting a good grade is more important than being ethical.
01:04:48.000Hey, yeah, Charlie, so I'm the senior leader of a Christian ministry to LGBTQ.
01:04:55.000And so, and that's what I came out of.
01:04:57.000And so, of course, I have the compassion for how it feels, you know, to be trapped in a world where you feel one way and you read that the Bible says you should feel another way, right?
01:05:09.000And so my, but I'm agreeing with, I mean, we've got to rally the church to the truth.
01:05:15.000We have to not be allowing drag queen story hour, et cetera, because that's leading people into deception and pain.
01:05:22.000So my question is, how do we rally the church like you're doing, like you did such an amazing job at, to the truth?
01:05:30.000No, because what I know is that therapists can help these people, but there are so few.
01:05:36.000The best solution to LGBTQ is a healthy church.
01:05:40.000So how do we rally the church to stand up for these things and to push back the evil, all of the things you're rallying without getting a church that's so angry about this issue that they run over all of the many people that are dealing with this?
01:05:54.000There was a beautiful question earlier of, you know, are we lifting up the ideal as well, right?
01:05:59.000So for everything we condemn, are we also elevating the beauty?
01:06:02.000And I'll be, you know, I got married two years ago.
01:06:04.000And I'll be honest, you know, it might not be cautious, but, you know, I was doing a lot of church tours when I told people I was getting married.
01:06:11.000And, you know, people would be like, oh, well, you know, you're about to go to your funeral and your old life is over.
01:06:19.000The way that the Christian world treats marriage is kind of like your free self is dying.
01:06:26.000And you guys might not know you're doing it, but we do not celebrate the idea of biblical marriage for young people well at all.
01:06:35.000And I mean, part of it is because, you know, I, thankfully, my parents never divorced, but I mean, most marriages I knew in my local area fell apart and divorced.
01:06:43.000So that's just kind of like a cynicism there.
01:06:45.000But there's beauty in a man and woman coming together in a covenant, right?
01:06:55.000And so I think that has to be part of it.
01:06:57.000I will say, though, that we have to be careful.
01:07:00.000And I don't think this was your question.
01:07:01.000We have to be careful not to pander to the sensitivities of the alphabet mafia.
01:07:05.000You know, at times, you know, there'll be gay or transgender people that will say, well, Charlie, I just don't like the tone coming out of the church.
01:07:13.000There's men in thongs dancing in front of eight-year-olds.
01:07:15.000Like, yeah, my tone gets a little heated.
01:07:17.000Like, I'm not going to like tamper down my language because excuse me when I get a little righteous indignation Old Testament on you, right?
01:07:24.000Because you guys are chopping off the parts of a 10-year-old, right?
01:07:28.000So I think we have to be careful not to take cues.
01:07:31.000At the same time, I think I try to strike a balance of making it clear that we do love these people, but we truly hate what they're doing to themselves.
01:07:43.000And that's a very important distinction.
01:07:59.000Being a 501c3, how do you navigate between what you can say from the pulpit and endorsing a candidate versus what the Johnson Amendment says?
01:08:13.000So, I mean, churches handle it differently, right?
01:08:15.000I mean, Jack Hibbs and Pastor Rob McCoy, they'll bring, you know, they'll bring candidates up, endorse them on stage, film the entire thing and send the sermon to the IRS asking the IRS to come after them.
01:08:37.000They might be understaffed or they might be afraid the Johnson Amendment might actually be unconstitutional and that a test case like Jack Hibbs could actually go to the U.S. Supreme Court and it's against religious liberty protected speech.
01:08:52.000Some of you, some pastors out there are inheritors of a church they did not found and they want to be stewards of that church and I totally appreciate that.
01:08:59.000There's a lot you could do within 501c3 guidelines that is still safe harbor.
01:09:25.000As a church, you could start a sister organization as a 501c4 that could be called, you know, Destiny Political Action.
01:09:32.000And that's the one that is, you know, more vocal and more forceful on that.
01:09:35.000It's all based on kind of your tolerance of how aggressive you want to be, right?
01:09:40.000At Turning Point USA, you know, we are extremely stringent on those regulations and rules for many reasons because they're the rules and the regulations.
01:09:48.000But also we have a 501c4 that is able to be just bold and clear.
01:09:52.000So there's no reason to even get close to that line.
01:09:54.000So we, if you're educational in nature, you're able to follow that.
01:09:57.000But a lot of this is fear that the church is believing that quite honestly, there's a lot more that the church can do that they don't even recognize or realize.
01:10:06.000And finally, Kamala Harris in a broadcast to hundreds of black churches right before the election was brought to speak and give political speeches.
01:10:15.000Left-wing black Democrat churches violate the Johnson Amendment on a weekly basis.
01:10:21.000I'm not saying to do that, but that is something that people don't even recognize or realize.
01:10:26.000So that's my best answer to that question.
01:10:29.000I would say, you know, like we had Larry Elder here.
01:11:08.000Next week, we're actually hosting John Root at San Francisco State.
01:11:12.000And needless to say, our students are feeling the pressure because they're receiving numerous hateful messages, and the school has been less than helpful.
01:11:20.000And in fact, they're actively trying to shut down the events.
01:11:23.000So I was wondering if you had any words of encouragement or advice for our brave students at San Francisco State and any words for San Francisco State itself.
01:12:21.000But you're going to now have the metaphorical muscles to be able to deal with a tough life.
01:12:25.000You're going to now know what it means to be under stress, to not sleep the night before, to have to, you know, adrenaline pumping through just because you're having a guest speaker, have to stand for your beliefs, go up against a tyrannical authority.
01:12:46.000Finally, my message to San Francisco State University: you better not cancel the event because you guys are bound by the First Amendment, and you better believe we got great lawyers that would love to file a lawsuit if you guys try to block our event.
01:13:03.000I'm a parent of four kids, two of which are in public high school.
01:13:08.000And I would like to know what you would say to Christian parents of kids going to public school here in California.
01:13:16.000Is it time for Christians to take their kids out of public school?
01:13:31.000I'm going to give you some ways that you can help your kid, right?
01:13:33.000But if you have the financial means to do it, if you're able to even stretch a little bit, take your kid out.
01:13:38.000Now, let me challenge the premise, okay?
01:13:40.000If you are willing for your kid to go into debt to go to college, why aren't you willing to take on debt to have your kid go to a private Christian elementary school?
01:13:51.000I'm just trying to just lovingly challenge a little bit because I would argue the elementary and high school is actually more important to go into debt for than the college.
01:15:01.000Like the amount of willingness in the Christian world to help make it happen is extraordinary.
01:15:06.000But it takes you to have to check the pride to have to go to tell the pastor that you might need a little financial help to get over the hill.
01:15:14.000There is no other reason to keep your kids in government schools.
01:15:24.000I mean, or they say that I want them to be a ministry to other kids in the local high school.
01:15:30.000Okay, first of all, they're still developing.
01:15:32.000Okay, education is about to lead forth.
01:15:34.000If you want your 15-year-old to go on a mission trip, send them to Zambia.
01:15:38.000Okay, like that is not what high school should be about.
01:15:41.000I say this lovingly: 99% of Christian parents that send their kids to high school thinking it's a mission field ends up realizing that all of a sudden it is filled literally with landmines.
01:15:53.000And they're like, oh my goodness, my kid's unrecognizable.
01:15:55.000So, but if you have a kid in government schools, then you have to all of a sudden become the teacher.
01:15:58.000You have to be actively involved in deprogramming.
01:16:01.000Every time they come back, you have to take Hillsdale online course.
01:17:18.000I think he can, you know, do pretty well and finish second.
01:17:22.000But Trump is, Trump's an unstoppable force.
01:17:26.000There was three minutes of that Tucker Carlson interview that was one of the wisest, deepest foreign policy monologues that I've heard of foreignly.
01:18:39.000Focus on that Tucker Carlson interview, Mr. President, is my advice, right?
01:18:42.000Focus on how you could do better deals with Macron and end the war in Ukraine and hold the CCP accountable and keep us as the world reserve currency.
01:18:48.000That's going to make you more popular than ever before, right?
01:19:03.000But anyway, everyone, you guys can have your own opinions.
01:19:06.000My personal opinion is: let's not try to have a long, drawn-out, contentious primary unnecessarily.
01:19:11.000Let's instead invest as much money as possible into a robust early voting ballot chasing operation in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin.
01:19:19.000Build a machine that can compete with the Democrats.
01:19:22.000Make sure we have ethical and fair and transparent elections in Wisconsin and Georgia and Arizona and coalesce around a single candidate.
01:19:29.000I think that candidate will and should be President Donald Trump.
01:19:32.000Do everything we can to get him focused on the messages that resonate, which is trade deals, international geopolitics, ending wars, strong borders, national sovereignty, and America revitalization.
01:20:16.000I'm discouraged by what I saw in the 2020 election and the 2022 that gave us Biden in the White House, Senators Raphael Warnock, John Fetterman in Pennsylvania, and even the reelection of Gretchen Whitmer.
01:20:31.000And from what I can tell, this all went down in six very strategic states, the fraud, the massive amounts of fraud.
01:20:39.000Those six states were Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia.
01:20:50.000My question to you is: what is the pushback?
01:20:53.000What is the fight to curb all of this fraudulent voting in those six states?
01:20:58.000If you can break them down, at your level, you would know more than the rest of us.
01:21:02.000So I try to zero in on even three less.
01:21:04.000It just is going to take Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, if we win Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, and Iowa, which we will win.
01:21:10.000And again, I'm speaking personally, not on behalf of Turning Point USA.
01:21:13.000You guys can laugh, but these maniacs are out of control at the IRS.
01:21:37.000There were 500,000 people that did not even bother to show up in the 2022 midterms that voted for Donald Trump to go vote for Herschel Walker.
01:21:46.000There were 280,000 in Arizona that did not bother to show up to go vote for Kerry Lake.
01:21:50.000Yes, some of them were disenfranchised because a day of.
01:21:54.000And some, but some also, because I learned this, we received thousands of emails, and they're not fake of people that say, Charlie, I'm done voting.
01:22:02.000I intentionally did not vote in the midterms.
01:22:46.000I'm worried we're going to see the greatest self-inflicted voter suppression operation happening in 2024 because people will say, you know what?
01:22:53.000Why should I vote if the system's broken?
01:22:55.000The second thing we have to do is, and I'm very underwhelmed by the RNC.
01:23:11.000We need to get lawsuits filed the same way Mark Elias filed them in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin and get rid of the drop boxes and get signature verification.
01:23:21.000Realistically, it's probably not going to happen in a lot of those states.
01:23:24.000We just lost a critical Wisconsin Supreme Court justice seat in Wisconsin, and most people don't even know it.
01:23:29.000So look, here's the honest truth is we're going to have to ballot harvest.
01:24:28.000Anyways, the question I have is, you're a guy that loves to look at things realistically and deeply with optimism.
01:24:35.000And for 30 years, I have struggled with what I've seen with the destruction of our American economy by mostly the demon krauts.
01:24:43.000And this thing you mentioned earlier about our dollar value freaked me out when I saw Brazil, South Africa, these other nations go away from using our dollar.
01:24:53.000I'm much more worried about the digital currency thing.
01:24:56.000I'm thankful DeSantis, at least in his state, doing the right thing there.
01:25:12.000We don't know how this is going to end, but I believe this is an intentional sabotage campaign by the great reset crowd to end the dollar as the world reserve currency.
01:25:20.000And that will impoverish every single person in this room in a way I cannot put into words.
01:25:24.000You will have 25% inflation overnight because all of a sudden all the dollars will become flooding home and they'll say, oh, we don't need these dollars as our reserve.
01:25:31.000We're going to send them back to America.
01:25:32.000You will have 25% inflation overnight.
01:25:36.000Wait all of a sudden until every industrialized country sends back the dollars they have as the reserve, as the barter, as the ability to be able to do transactions.
01:27:58.000The second thing is: if you guys can help me personally, this is something that I would love to have you guys do: I'd love the chance to earn my favorite word in the English language, earn the chance to become a daily news source for you.
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01:29:13.000And it is easy to despair, but remember, despair is a sin.
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