The Charlie Kirk Show - Saving America: A Roadmap to Victory in a Zero-Sum Game

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00:00:28.000 Today in the Charlie Kirk show, my unedited remarks from the Southwest Regional Conference that we had at Turning Point USA in Phoenix, Arizona.

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00:01:05.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:02:36.000 I want to just say first, thank you to our amazing Turning Point USA staff.

00:02:40.000 They do such an unbelievable job.

00:02:42.000 They really do.

00:02:43.000 So what an amazingly professional operation, you know, and I started this right out of high school.

00:02:50.000 I didn't quite think this is what was going to happen.

00:02:53.000 Thank you.

00:02:54.000 And we love you too.

00:02:55.000 We have your back, most importantly.

00:02:57.000 We're going to talk about that.

00:02:58.000 But no, our events team does such an incredible job.

00:03:01.000 Our field team is incredible, is truly remarkable.

00:03:04.000 Our media team does wonderful.

00:03:07.000 And I'll tell you, our Turning Point USA team, they work so hard.

00:03:12.000 And we just had a whole other event happening simultaneously while this was happening.

00:03:16.000 And so it's really something.

00:03:20.000 So I want to thank you guys for being here.

00:03:21.000 It's nice to be here in person, right?

00:03:23.000 Not locked down watching things on our screens all day long.

00:03:27.000 And so I want to talk about a couple things and I want to get to questions because that's actually the most important thing.

00:03:33.000 So I want to learn from you.

00:03:34.000 I want to hear what you're seeing on campus.

00:03:36.000 And then if I'm able to share some wisdom, I'd be happy to do that.

00:03:41.000 First, let's talk about what's happened in the last year.

00:03:44.000 There's been three inflection points, three things that happened that impacted all of our lives.

00:03:48.000 And generally, those of us that love America as our home, not just America as a colony, not just America as a temporary place.

00:03:57.000 No, this is our home.

00:03:59.000 We have seen our country go in the wrong direction.

00:04:01.000 Three things.

00:04:03.000 First was, of course, our reaction to the Chinese coronavirus.

00:04:08.000 Now, why do I word it that way?

00:04:10.000 It wasn't the virus.

00:04:12.000 It was the lockdowns in response to the virus.

00:04:16.000 I can't stand when people say, you know, 40% of small businesses disappeared because of the virus.

00:04:22.000 I said, no, Our reaction to the virus caused those small businesses to disappear.

00:04:30.000 The virus is a very real thing.

00:04:33.000 We have more than enough information now to be able to handle that, to be able to make good choices.

00:04:38.000 And so here was my position early on, and it hasn't changed.

00:04:43.000 That you have a virus that has a death rate in Ventura County, you guys heard from Rob McCoy, with a 99.87% survival rate.

00:04:51.000 Because that's a real thing.

00:04:52.000 That means some people are going to die.

00:04:54.000 So you need a really, really, really good reason, in my opinion, to just shut down all of American society.

00:05:00.000 And so I don't know what the number is, but the number is not 0.03%.

00:05:06.000 To all of a sudden say schools, businesses, public gatherings, family members, all of that stuff, we're just going to turn off as if the American economy is like a winter car you could put in your garage.

00:05:16.000 We're like, we're going to go turn this on later.

00:05:19.000 As if all of this was something that we could just easily restart.

00:05:23.000 It'll go down as the worst mistake in American history.

00:05:25.000 I truly believe that, what we did with these lockdowns.

00:05:28.000 The human cost is beyond anything that we'll even be able to comprehend.

00:05:33.000 And so the virus did come from China. 0.85

00:05:36.000 And we refuse to mention the fact that it is probably a biochemical weapon that was developed by the Chinese Communist Party. 0.93

00:05:44.000 And we're not going to forget about that. 0.96

00:05:46.000 Meanwhile, our current government sits down with the Chinese Communist Party and basically is like, you know what, we are? 0.80

00:05:51.000 We are actually terribly racist and we're terrible people. 0.98

00:05:54.000 Meanwhile, they're the ones that unleash an epidemiological Pearl Harbor on the world. 0.98

00:05:58.000 And then we decided to lock down while China reopened their economy last summer. 0.91

00:06:03.000 So China is richer and more powerful than ever before.

00:06:06.000 And we did this to ourselves. 0.90

00:06:08.000 We need to explore together today why we did that because I don't think anyone's able really to articulate it.

00:06:13.000 Because we all just kind of accepted it.

00:06:15.000 You guys didn't.

00:06:16.000 You guys fought back.

00:06:17.000 You deserve credit.

00:06:18.000 But generally, would you agree?

00:06:19.000 We kind of just allowed this to happen to us.

00:06:22.000 We said, you know what?

00:06:23.000 We're going to allow an ideology of safetyism to dominate our life.

00:06:28.000 We're going to talk about why that is.

00:06:30.000 The second inflection point, which was one that I got more, even more vocal about, because I really have zero tolerance for this at all. 0.94

00:06:39.000 And this is this ridiculous idea that America is a racist country. 0.87

00:06:43.000 You know, and I actually was able to pinpoint it the other day. 0.97

00:06:48.000 It was all the race riots, the George Floyd stuff, all of that. 0.99

00:06:51.000 And you guys remember all the black square posting people, look how good of a person I am, all that garbage, right? 1.00

00:06:56.000 Like, you know, if only I could be as good of a person as you one day. 1.00

00:06:58.000 Virtue signaling, all signaling, no virtue.

00:07:01.000 And which is what that's the way you could steal that, by the way.

00:07:04.000 And so I realize why I get so angry about this is because when you call my country my home racist, you're basically calling me a racist.

00:07:16.000 Like, no, part of who I am is my nation.

00:07:19.000 Part of who I am is the flag, is our anthem, is our history, is our.

00:07:24.000 And so when you go out of your way and you're like, oh, actually, your nation is bigoted to the core. 0.98

00:07:30.000 I'm like, screw you. 0.97

00:07:31.000 No, it's not. 0.99

00:07:32.000 Like, we're the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:07:35.000 Like, no, I'm not going to take that anymore.

00:07:38.000 Like, that, and again, I have to say this for the Apparatchs that are watching on social media.

00:07:43.000 There are racists in this country.

00:07:45.000 But as my brilliant friend Douglas Murray says, we have a supply and demand problem with racism in America.

00:07:50.000 There's an incredible demand to find the racists, yet no one can find them.

00:07:54.000 It's true.

00:07:55.000 In fact, there are so few racists, we have to come up with these race hoaxes and they immediately become national news instantaneously.

00:08:03.000 Like Jussie Smollett or the Bubba Wallace thing, but to a lesser extent, he didn't make it up, but he totally played into it, despite the fact that he probably knew better that it wasn't a noose hanging.

00:08:13.000 I don't know, maybe that's a garage pull.

00:08:15.000 You didn't need nine FBI agents to tell you that.

00:08:17.000 Or our Turning Point USA chapter leader, Avery, don't know her last name in Minnesota.

00:08:22.000 I don't know if you guys saw this story or not.

00:08:24.000 It's unbelievable.

00:08:25.000 God bless her.

00:08:26.000 She has courage, which you guys have too.

00:08:28.000 I want more adults to have the courage that Turning Point USA students have.

00:08:31.000 Truly, we'll get into courage.

00:08:33.000 I'll do a whole thing on courage because it's so rare.

00:08:35.000 So Avery wants to start a Turning Point USA chapter.

00:08:38.000 And then out of nowhere, she gets accused for sending all these ridiculous messages, very racist messages.

00:08:44.000 She denies it. 0.98

00:08:45.000 Doesn't matter. 0.80

00:08:46.000 The entire school does a walkout.

00:08:48.000 The teachers encourage it.

00:08:49.000 It's just a mess, right?

00:08:51.000 And she gets pinpointed and blamed for it.

00:08:53.000 It ends up being a complete and total hoax, of course.

00:08:55.000 And no one has to apologize.

00:08:57.000 There's no repercussions.

00:08:59.000 I can go through five different examples of hate crime hoaxes in the last couple of weeks.

00:09:03.000 I want you to ask yourself a question.

00:09:05.000 When the Democrats were running the American South and they started the KKK, we'll get through that whole thing too, if there's interest, because the party's never switched.

00:09:13.000 They just changed the way they exercise their deeply held beliefs, which the Democrats still are the racist party. 0.51

00:09:19.000 They just do it differently.

00:09:21.000 And we can get into that.

00:09:22.000 And so, is that when blacks were getting lynched in the American South, do you think that there were fake lynchings?

00:09:33.000 Do you think people went out of their way to all of a sudden create a hoax?

00:09:37.000 Of course not, because it was legitimate and it was real.

00:09:41.000 Now we have a supply and demand problem where we are such a decent country.

00:09:45.000 Anytime we find anyone that says something terrible becomes national news immediately.

00:09:48.000 Like immediately.

00:09:50.000 And what doesn't get portrayed is actually how awesome we are to other people, regardless of their skin color.

00:09:57.000 This short experiment that we have in America right now is a multiracial, multilingual experiment.

00:10:04.000 And when I grew up in America, which was 10 years ago, and any high schoolers out there, I don't say this like, I wish you could have grown up when I did. 0.89

00:10:12.000 I actually do.

00:10:13.000 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.

00:10:16.000 I feel like I'm talking about the 1950s.

00:10:19.000 It was actually a different country.

00:10:20.000 You want me to tell you what would happen when I was in high school?

00:10:23.000 If I would have told any one of my teachers that I think skin color has any sort of bearing on who you are as a human being, I would have gotten suspended from school.

00:10:33.000 If I would have told anyone of my teachers that skin color matters, I would have had an intervention with the head of students.

00:10:41.000 And they would have said, what do you mean skin color matters?

00:10:43.000 We care about character at our school, not skin color.

00:10:46.000 And I went to a very multiracial school.

00:10:48.000 It was a 53% English as a second language, Hispanic, Wheeling High School, suburbs of Chicago.

00:10:52.000 Some of you might know the area.

00:10:53.000 Now the school is completely different. 0.99

00:10:55.000 Now it's all about race, and the school's a mess.

00:10:57.000 Everyone hates each other, walking out, protests, taking knees.

00:11:00.000 No one talks to it.

00:11:01.000 Everyone's talking about race all the time.

00:11:03.000 And let me just be very clear.

00:11:04.000 If you're thinking about race all the time, you're actually doing a disservice to your humanity.

00:11:09.000 There's like a much more beautiful, wondrous, rich life to live outside of people's skin color. 0.99

00:11:15.000 Let me just tell you, it's like a really boring way to live. 1.00

00:11:18.000 Like, oh, I'm going to organize people based on how you look.

00:11:21.000 Really, that's extraordinarily tribal.

00:11:25.000 And dare I say evil, because we actually broke out of that.

00:11:28.000 And so the racial issue is one I've spoken out against more than ever.

00:11:33.000 And I've been told, Charlie, you can't speak about it because you're a white Anglo-Saxon straight male, which is exactly why I speak out about even more.

00:11:39.000 Like, no, I can say whatever I want, regardless of my skin color.

00:11:42.000 Truth transcends color.

00:11:44.000 It doesn't matter what your skin color is.

00:11:46.000 I'm going to say things that are true.

00:11:52.000 And I encourage you all to take that tact as well.

00:11:54.000 And so that was the second inflection point.

00:11:57.000 And our country just decided to all this, just run to the hills.

00:12:01.000 Like, we're not allowed to talk about these issues.

00:12:04.000 And I think some of it was rooted in good intentions, I think.

00:12:08.000 I think.

00:12:09.000 But I think most of it was weakness.

00:12:11.000 I think most of it was that, and there's something that dominates all of your life and you know this.

00:12:17.000 There's something that you don't always identify.

00:12:20.000 I want you to think deeply about this for a moment, that all of you are afraid at some level of being called the R-word.

00:12:27.000 You're all afraid of it.

00:12:28.000 And some of you say I'm not, and you've done the right thing because you've decided not to care, but most people, because that you actually do certain things or you don't do certain things because you do not want to be popped with the scarlet letter of a racist.

00:12:43.000 The fear of being called a racist is the most powerful cultural weapon in America today.

00:12:49.000 It creates corporate contributions to go billions of dollars in a direction otherwise wouldn't.

00:12:54.000 It creates young people to say things they don't actually believe.

00:12:57.000 And it silences decent people. 0.89

00:13:00.000 And what's hilarious is that legitimate racism gets completely ignored from one whole viewpoint where I always love this whole thing, with this whole issue of immigration, which I've been very outspoken on recently, especially since the pandemic, which is that we should shut off our immigrations and put our college graduates first before people across the planet. 0.54

00:13:20.000 But it's have loyalty to our fellow countrymen. 0.66

00:13:24.000 And so it's people like, well, Charlie, we need immigrants because who do you think is going to go pick your lettuce?

00:13:29.000 I'm like, that's an unbelievably racist thing to say, like that immigrants are only good to pick lettuce.

00:13:34.000 Like, who's the racist in this equation, right?

00:13:37.000 Like, you think that they're nothing but low-wage laborers and workers.

00:13:40.000 And that's kind of a really parochial way to view human beings.

00:13:44.000 Anyway, so how do we break through that and how do we break past that is a question we're going to wrestle with today.

00:13:54.000 So it's really important.

00:13:55.000 The third inflection point was obviously the election.

00:13:58.000 And, you know, we're a 501c3.

00:14:01.000 We have a 501c4 that does all of our political stuff.

00:14:03.000 But on a C3, I'm just going to talk about this culturally from a nonprofit perspective is that one of the, we got to fix the way we do elections in our country.

00:14:14.000 And if there's any politician in your life, just look at them clearly in the eyes and say, until you fix elections, I don't care what else you do.

00:14:19.000 Like, because elections matter more than just a little symbolic exercise.

00:14:24.000 Elections are a reflection of your values into representative government.

00:14:28.000 And insofar that we have broken elections with broken voter registration methods and broker ballot practicing methods and machines and all this sort of nonsense that we've seen in this state and other states, then what are our leaders good for if they can't fix our elections?

00:14:41.000 And they're doing the opposite.

00:14:43.000 They're trying to pass HR1, which would actually further destroy our elections in our country.

00:14:47.000 So here's an interesting question that your political science professors should be asking you.

00:14:51.000 Why do we have elections?

00:14:52.000 That's a pretty interesting question.

00:14:54.000 And the answer that most people will give, which is not a complete answer, is like, well, so we can have representatives in our government.

00:15:02.000 That's not the complete answer.

00:15:04.000 You see, the natural progression that human beings go through is I get really mad about something or I get upset about something and I need a pressure release valve.

00:15:15.000 I need something I can look forward to, a date I can circle, something where I believe that outside of me just screaming at my television every time Tucker Carlson has a segment that's true, which is like every night, that there's something I could do about that, right?

00:15:31.000 It's actually really helpful to keep the peace to have elections that we trust.

00:15:35.000 No one wants to talk about this, right?

00:15:38.000 This is the third rail of politics, but it's true.

00:15:40.000 It's that without elections, then decent people are all of a sudden become rather indecent rather quickly.

00:15:46.000 Elections are the way that we're able to say, here's what I believe, and here's what I see reflected.

00:15:51.000 And also, if I get really mad about something, I can run for office, I can collect signatures.

00:15:55.000 If you have elections that are broken, then all of a sudden you break that entire system.

00:15:59.000 Then all of a sudden, people are not going to listen to their leaders.

00:16:02.000 And what's so amazing is that the left did this back in 2016.

00:16:07.000 Remember, the left did this after they said, oh, he's actually a Russian agent.

00:16:10.000 He didn't actually win voters over.

00:16:12.000 He's an illegitimate president.

00:16:13.000 They didn't listen to anything he said.

00:16:15.000 And now we have actually legitimate questions about our elections, and our leaders don't want to talk about it.

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00:17:16.000 So those are the three inflection points.

00:17:18.000 So we could talk about the election separately.

00:17:20.000 I'm actually the least interested in that.

00:17:22.000 I'm actually more interested in the lockdown issue and the race issue. 0.68

00:17:26.000 Why?

00:17:27.000 The great Andrew Breitbart, may he rest in peace.

00:17:29.000 He's just the best.

00:17:31.000 He said, politics flows downstream from culture, right?

00:17:31.000 He said it best.

00:17:34.000 So the cultural battles that we're having, the Black Square posting, you know, bumper sticker, you know, yard sign people. 0.87

00:17:42.000 Like, have you seen these ridiculous signs, by the way? 0.50

00:17:44.000 The sign that says like, love is love, and immigrants are welcome, and science is real. 0.60

00:17:48.000 Like, you know, and I, I just, I just, I, I, I want to do something so badly.

00:17:52.000 And I want to get Benny Johnson on this.

00:17:54.000 I want to bring a cartel member to their door and say, yeah, just bring them in.

00:17:58.000 Just, it's, it's yours.

00:18:00.000 It's like, right in.

00:18:03.000 Like, they're welcome, right?

00:18:05.000 Open borders.

00:18:06.000 That's what you voted for.

00:18:07.000 It's, and, but it's all, it's all, again, it's, it's this kind of moral Olympics of I'm going to prove to my neighbors I'm a better person than you because I post the correct slogans and I give $250 a month to Patrice Culler's real estate empire.

00:18:22.000 Like that's somehow how good of a person I am, right?

00:18:26.000 And you all know those types of people, right?

00:18:28.000 And by the way, let's just be very honest.

00:18:29.000 BLM Incorporated is mostly an upper middle class white movement.

00:18:33.000 It's not a black community movement.

00:18:34.000 And it's not at all a Hispanic or Latino movement. 0.60

00:18:37.000 In fact, the Hispanic and Latino communities are repulsed by this entire conversation, which is why Republicans and Donald Trump did so well with Latino voters this last cycle.

00:18:46.000 And the left can't even understand how that happened. 0.93

00:18:48.000 They're like, how did that happen?

00:18:49.000 That's weird.

00:18:52.000 We can explore that further.

00:18:53.000 So let's go first to the lockdowns, okay?

00:18:55.000 Because at turning point, I've told our team, I said, we got to go do more content, more exposés on how these lockdowns actually were happening.

00:19:02.000 And so I'm going to be honest with you guys.

00:19:04.000 I was wrong about something.

00:19:07.000 I thought the American people weren't going to tolerate this.

00:19:10.000 I thought we actually loved liberty more than we did in our country.

00:19:13.000 I did.

00:19:14.000 And I was going to anywhere and anyone that was fighting against this stuff.

00:19:18.000 And I was like, come on my podcast.

00:19:20.000 I mean, Rob McCoy, you guys heard from him.

00:19:21.000 He opened up his church fully.

00:19:24.000 And he's courageous for doing that.

00:19:27.000 And let me just, just so you guys know, you know, the lockdowns had zero bearing on your health, right?

00:19:33.000 The states that locked down did not do any better than the states that were fully open.

00:19:38.000 In fact, they did worse.

00:19:40.000 How many of your friends are kind of a mess with alcohol and drugs and social isolation?

00:19:47.000 I know a lot of people like that because of these lockdowns.

00:19:51.000 How many people took their own life?

00:19:52.000 More young people took their own life in California than died from the Chinese coronavirus.

00:19:56.000 So, what was really happening here?

00:19:58.000 Well, number one, people wanted a false promise that they were going to be taken care of.

00:20:04.000 So, I'm going to say something that is not exactly an easy concept.

00:20:10.000 Liberty is a really hard thing.

00:20:14.000 It's actually, you cannot have liberty without virtue.

00:20:17.000 Let me tell you what liberty isn't.

00:20:17.000 You can't.

00:20:19.000 Liberty is not what a lot of your college professors make it seem.

00:20:23.000 Liberty is not smoking weed and doing drugs and seeking pleasure.

00:20:28.000 That is not liberty.

00:20:30.000 It's not.

00:20:31.000 That is, you're eventually going to be obedient to any single one of those biochemical short-term releases.

00:20:38.000 That is not liberty.

00:20:39.000 It's not.

00:20:41.000 So, what is liberty, right?

00:20:44.000 Well, liberty, as the founding fathers articulated it, is the pursuit of the good.

00:20:50.000 It's the pursuit of what actually matters in the world.

00:20:52.000 Is that the government's not going to get in your way to go after what really is significant, which isn't just the next marijuana kick?

00:21:01.000 It's not just the next 3 a.m. night.

00:21:04.000 No, no, it's actually, what does good even mean anymore?

00:21:08.000 Your professors tell you there's no such thing between good and evil.

00:21:13.000 Or there's, it's all your own truth. 1.00

00:21:15.000 What a bunch of garbage that is. 0.99

00:21:16.000 If any of your teachers are telling you that, man, just take the Hillsdale online courses and you know, that's all I could say. 0.99

00:21:25.000 But so, what is the good?

00:21:27.000 Well, I only have 42 minutes and I do want to get to questions, so don't have a lot of time to get into that.

00:21:33.000 But let's break it down.

00:21:37.000 Let me put it this way: the pursuit of virtue.

00:21:40.000 I think we all know somebody in your life that would be in the hero category.

00:21:46.000 So, what is a hero?

00:21:47.000 That's a good question.

00:21:48.000 We don't talk about heroes anymore.

00:21:50.000 How about a hero is someone who is daring, takes risks, and is bold for something that is bigger than themselves and something that doesn't just help themselves, but helps the society, helps a family, helps a community.

00:22:04.000 And so, liberty, the ability to be able to pursue the good, was completely shut down this last year.

00:22:12.000 Why?

00:22:13.000 It's because being safe and being taken care of is way easier.

00:22:19.000 And by the way, we're not the first civilization to ever grapple with this.

00:22:22.000 In the Bible, it says, you know, so Moses freed God's chosen people from Egypt.

00:22:28.000 They leave slavery and they go to they're in the wilderness and they start complaining.

00:22:36.000 They have everything provided if they're eating well, but they start complaining and they say, Moses, we want to go back to Egypt.

00:22:42.000 They want to go back to slavery.

00:22:44.000 Because they say, At least we ate meat.

00:22:44.000 You know why?

00:22:47.000 At least we had better food when we were slaves.

00:22:51.000 So they had liberty and they're like, nah, we're not eating as well.

00:22:55.000 We're not as filled with pleasure.

00:22:57.000 So the natural human condition is to reject the pursuit of virtue and seek pleasure.

00:23:03.000 Do you see that happening all around you with your friends?

00:23:05.000 Of course you do.

00:23:06.000 Do you see that happening with just kind of all of pop culture?

00:23:09.000 Like, no, don't actually put restraints on yourself.

00:23:12.000 Go do what feels good.

00:23:13.000 And you guys all know that.

00:23:15.000 I mean, if you don't, you will, that eventually that's a miserable way to live your life.

00:23:19.000 Instead, the pursuing of the good is actually putting restraints on yourself.

00:23:23.000 So what if I told you that the law rules for yourself is actually what will keep you free?

00:23:33.000 Huh?

00:23:34.000 So there's a great quote at the Harvard Law School.

00:23:34.000 What?

00:23:37.000 The law is the wise restraints that keep men free. 0.78

00:23:41.000 So what you restrain yourself from doing actually keeps you free. 0.53

00:23:45.000 So the last year we shut everything down.

00:23:47.000 Most people didn't clamor or fight in opposition to this.

00:23:52.000 And for those of us that love our nation and love our home, it was incredibly frustrating to see leaders that quite honestly were doing this for a very simple purpose.

00:24:02.000 And their simple purpose was to get power that they never wanted to give up, crush the middle class, close small businesses indefinitely, pander to a corporate oligarchy, which I will get to, and quite honestly, recondition you to not question authority.

00:24:21.000 So, how do they do that?

00:24:23.000 Well, they know that people wouldn't listen to politicians.

00:24:26.000 So, they decided to create a new type of person on TV, the medical expert.

00:24:32.000 What is that?

00:24:34.000 I'm sorry, what's like medical?

00:24:35.000 I've never heard like this whole like new organism of political commentator started to pop up.

00:24:40.000 Like Dr. Fauci, who should have been fired like on day one from anything in any leadership position.

00:24:47.000 So, Dr. Fauci gets up.

00:24:49.000 I was always so just taken back by just his condescending tone.

00:24:53.000 Like, everything about him bothered me.

00:24:55.000 I was like, the Constitution was written just for people like you, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

00:25:00.000 Like, the founding fathers had a short, angry tyrant in mind with a raspy voice, like when they wrote the United States Constitution, like you, Anthony Fauci, is the reason why we have the Bill of Rights.

00:25:13.000 And so, as you can tell, I'm not exactly a fan.

00:25:16.000 And so, he goes on television, he's wrong about everything, but he engages in your worst fear to control you so you sacrifice your own freedom and liberty.

00:25:30.000 And of course, we saw the contradictions unfolding in front of us, right?

00:25:33.000 Marijuana stores and abortion clinics were open, and yet churches were closed and schools were closed.

00:25:38.000 You're allowed to riot in the streets, right? 0.67

00:25:41.000 BLM Incorporated, allowed to do whatever they want, but if you dare have 10 people over to your house for Christmas or Easter, you're trying to destroy the entire community.

00:25:51.000 And so, we're finally almost breaking out of this. 1.00

00:25:55.000 The fact we're able to have this in-person event is a very big deal.

00:25:58.000 And we at Turning Point have been leading on that.

00:26:00.000 And that's a very big thing.

00:26:04.000 And so, the lockdown.

00:26:07.000 So, let's get to the race thing.

00:26:11.000 I mentioned this briefly.

00:26:12.000 I'm going to build this out for a little bit more, which is this.

00:26:16.000 Well, first of all, I think that the people that wish to divide us have tried many different strategies.

00:26:23.000 They've tried economics, they've tried gender.

00:26:26.000 There's something about the race issue that just kind of paralyzes most Americans.

00:26:32.000 It just kind of people don't want to talk about it.

00:26:35.000 And quite honestly, I would prefer not to talk about it.

00:26:38.000 It's somewhat irrelevant, and it should be irrelevant.

00:26:41.000 But when you actually get into the discussion of it, you realize that this is not about what they say it's about at all.

00:26:48.000 Of course not.

00:26:49.000 This is about trying to have the entire country obey an ever smaller group of people to take your freedoms and liberties away and to try to remake America in their image.

00:27:00.000 So they do this through critical race theory. 0.66

00:27:02.000 They do this through BLM Incorporated.

00:27:03.000 They do all these sorts of different things.

00:27:05.000 And what's been most stunning is how the corporations have pandered to this set of ideology.

00:27:12.000 So if there's only a couple things that you remember that I say, remember this, which is that those of us that love America as our home and we love freedom and liberty and we want a pro-human agenda, right?

00:27:23.000 Not some technocratic, weird, like identity politics agenda, is that there are two major threats to America right now.

00:27:33.000 And I would argue one of them is actually bigger than the other currently.

00:27:36.000 There is a corporate class and there's a government class, and they're working together to crush you.

00:27:42.000 And something that is hard for conservatives to talk about because we say we love free markets and we do, but we love free markets because we love people and we don't love corporations.

00:27:53.000 It's a big difference.

00:27:54.000 Special corporations don't act in our interest.

00:27:56.000 And so when you have Delta and Coca-Cola coming out and waging economic warfare on our own citizens, all of a sudden we should ask ourselves the question, whose side are you on?

00:28:09.000 What nation do you actually represent?

00:28:11.000 And so here's the big question, right?

00:28:13.000 Is America a colony or is America our home?

00:28:17.000 If America's a colony, who cares what happens here, right?

00:28:20.000 Maximize the profits, make as much money, we're going to get out.

00:28:24.000 That's what the CEO of Delta Airlines believes.

00:28:27.000 That's what the CEO of Coca-Cola believes.

00:28:29.000 He's literally a foreign national.

00:28:30.000 But for those of us that are kind of stuck here in America, right? 0.98

00:28:33.000 For good reason, like, hold on a second.

00:28:35.000 You control an airline that was bailed out by the U.S. taxpayer.

00:28:40.000 You control an airline that's basically sanctioned by the U.S. taxpayer.

00:28:43.000 And then we have to be lectured by you, Ed Bastian, that showing ID is not in Delta Airlines values.

00:28:50.000 Huh, that's interesting.

00:28:52.000 How do you board an airplane exactly in our country?

00:28:56.000 Yeah, how do you even get through an airport without a form of identification, Ed Bastion?

00:29:01.000 He's lecturing us on this.

00:29:03.000 And I think what's happened here, though, is that, and all of you have seen this, is the college campus has taken over the entire country.

00:29:10.000 Is the ideology that you guys are fighting every single day now runs Delta Airlines?

00:29:15.000 It's true.

00:29:17.000 Is that Ed Bastian being a selfish, quite honestly, anti-American colonialist, and that's what he, I mean, he's just, he's basically an imperialist.

00:29:27.000 He doesn't care about America at all, only about making $17 million a year.

00:29:30.000 That's all he cares about.

00:29:32.000 He's going around from Delta saying this voter ID law in Georgia.

00:29:35.000 And by the way, it's not even voter ID.

00:29:37.000 It's if you have a mail and absentee ballot, you have to prove your identification.

00:29:40.000 Like you can't give water to people voting in line.

00:29:42.000 What are you talking about?

00:29:43.000 Of course you can give water.

00:29:44.000 But is voting really that dehydrating?

00:29:47.000 Like I'm really trying to understand, like is it Navy SEALs training in Coronado?

00:29:51.000 Like I don't understand like this whole like weird bizarre thing we're talking about when it comes to voting.

00:29:56.000 It's as if like people are passing out in line because they don't have water.

00:29:59.000 Like no, you can still give them water. 0.64

00:30:01.000 Anyway, and so what's happened here, and this is the second inflection point, is this hyper-racialization of our country. 0.84

00:30:10.000 If we do not take bold and decisive action, all of you, to stand up against this garbage, the country is done. 0.92

00:30:17.000 It's that simple.

00:30:18.000 This is the threat in front of us.

00:30:20.000 The threat in front of us right now is this, either the cowardice or the incompetence of the people in charge of our country that are refusing to either contest or fight on this entire issue of race in our country.

00:30:34.000 And I'm just going to go through it.

00:30:35.000 As I mentioned earlier, we're the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:30:39.000 We've taken in more human beings than any other country in the last 50 years.

00:30:43.000 In fact, we've been more generous, more benevolent, more forward-thinking, more accepted than any other nation ever.

00:30:48.000 In fact, in America, we've had 3 million black people legally immigrate to America since 1980.

00:30:56.000 3 million from Africa and the Caribbean.

00:30:59.000 How racist could we be if 3 million black people voluntarily came to America?

00:31:05.000 Why does the caravan go north to America and not south to Venezuela? 0.99

00:31:08.000 If we are so racist, why do so many people of color want to come into our country? 1.00

00:31:13.000 If we're so bigoted and backwards, why do so many people all of a sudden want to come into this terrible country? 1.00

00:31:17.000 And so, and I could go through the statistics and the facts and the arguments of all this, but I'm sure all of you see this.

00:31:23.000 It's a discussion ender on your college campuses, right?

00:31:27.000 You might be talking to a liberal friend of yours, but the moment they say, oh, that's a racist thing, that's racist, they end the discussion, right?

00:31:33.000 It's like, it's over, it's done, there's no more talking.

00:31:36.000 And then all of a sudden, you're on defense.

00:31:37.000 You're like, no, no, I'm actually not racist.

00:31:39.000 Trust me, I'm not racist.

00:31:40.000 And so, I have a couple thoughts on this.

00:31:42.000 Number one, I think we got to start playing offense.

00:31:45.000 I think anyone that starts bringing up the race issue, the moment they bring it up, you say, Oh my gosh, and don't use racist anymore.

00:31:51.000 Get it out of your mind.

00:31:51.000 Use bigoted.

00:31:52.000 It's a much better word.

00:31:53.000 It's true, because that's what they are.

00:31:54.000 Say, oh my gosh, you're so bigoted.

00:31:57.000 Like, you're a bigot. 0.95

00:32:00.000 And look at them.

00:32:01.000 If they all of a sudden want to have a values debate, then okay, you care about skin color. 0.98

00:32:06.000 You would have been a phenomenal KKK member, the best. 0.95

00:32:09.000 You want to have a values debate? 0.94

00:32:10.000 I care about character.

00:32:12.000 You care about resegregating American society, bigot.

00:32:15.000 That's the offense that you have to have with these people.

00:32:24.000 And all of a sudden, they're like, oh, well, you don't know who I am.

00:32:27.000 You don't know anything about me.

00:32:29.000 It's like, oh, now you know how it feels, doesn't it?

00:32:31.000 Maybe we should have a discussion of ideas.

00:32:33.000 Maybe we should actually talk about things that are meaningful.

00:32:35.000 I am for one.

00:32:36.000 I know what they're trying to do.

00:32:38.000 They're trying to end all meaningful discussion in our country right now by trying to make you afraid by calling you the R-word.

00:32:46.000 The thing they fear the most is if their bigotry actually starts to get exposed.

00:32:50.000 What they actually fear is that their ideology, which is a racist ideology, dividing people based on skin color, actually gets brought to light because they're actually preying on your best intentions.

00:33:00.000 They are.

00:33:01.000 They're preying on your intentions that you say, well, what if I actually am a really racist person? 0.98

00:33:06.000 What if I actually have done all these terrible things and I didn't realize it, like this ridiculous white fragility book? 0.99

00:33:11.000 Anyone have to read that garbage in class? 0.99

00:33:13.000 Oh my gosh. 0.99

00:33:14.000 1619 Project, Robin, White Fragility. 0.99

00:33:18.000 And so that's the only way that this is going to end.

00:33:20.000 It's the only way that this is going to end.

00:33:22.000 Because this constant retreat of like, we're going to keep on like, trust me, I'm not a racist.

00:33:27.000 Please read this paper.

00:33:28.000 It's not going to work anymore.

00:33:28.000 I'm not a racist.

00:33:29.000 Trust me.

00:33:30.000 The only way is that we start playing offense.

00:33:32.000 Like, okay, Columbia University, you are more bigoted than most cities that were run by the KKK in the 1960s.

00:33:41.000 You have a black-only graduation and a Latino-only graduation.

00:33:44.000 By the way, we should sue them for a violation of the Civil Rights Act for the fact that they're segregating people based on race.

00:33:56.000 And so let me encourage all of you: the next time you get called this, don't let it phase you.

00:34:03.000 Just get it through your mind.

00:34:04.000 If you're going to be involved in politics for the next five years, this is their one and only weapon.

00:34:09.000 They will not have discourse with you.

00:34:11.000 I'm talking about leftists, not liberals.

00:34:12.000 Liberals are ever decreasing.

00:34:14.000 There's more leftists because they realize they don't have to have a discussion.

00:34:16.000 They can just have a blunt force object and kick you off the chessboard by calling you the R-word.

00:34:20.000 So just get it through your mind.

00:34:22.000 You're going to be called these awful things, okay?

00:34:24.000 And then when you have to confront it, you have to be able to play off and say, Do you want to have a discussion about these ideas or not?

00:34:30.000 Do you want to talk about what's actually best for the black community, which is more police and school choice and closed borders and actually rebuilding the black family and stopping the slaughter of what's happening in Planned Parenthood across the country every single year?

00:34:42.000 You want to have a discussion about that?

00:34:46.000 Of course not.

00:34:49.000 But then we have to get to this idea, and this actually doesn't impact you, but this is where you could be an inspiration to people that are older, which is really exciting, which is that the adults, and we've all been impacted so positively by so many adults, but I'm talking about the CEOs, like the people in charge of our country, they don't really know how to handle this moment.

00:35:08.000 Do you want to know what gives me hope?

00:35:09.000 What gives me hope is that all of you have to deal with this garbage every single day.

00:35:14.000 You have to go see the propaganda on Twitter and TikTok and Instagram.

00:35:17.000 You see what we're up against, right?

00:35:19.000 You feel it.

00:35:21.000 We have these amazing, you know, minority conservative turning point USA leaders that are called white supremacists all the time.

00:35:27.000 You guys know how vicious these people can get.

00:35:29.000 For Ed Bastion, the head of Delta, he's like, I don't understand what's happening.

00:35:33.000 Everyone's calling me a racist.

00:35:34.000 I don't know what I have to do.

00:35:36.000 And so there's a moment now where the courageous are going to win if we hold the line and we push forward.

00:35:44.000 So here's really what's happening here. 1.00

00:35:46.000 And the good news is we have truth on our side and the people are totally behind us is that the wokesters, as I call them, they're making a very, very big mistake, is that they're deciding that they want to take over the nation in what I call a flagless revolution. 1.00

00:36:05.000 It's the first time anyone's ever tried to take over a country and say, I hate the country I'm trying to take over. 0.99

00:36:11.000 Think about how weird that is, right?

00:36:14.000 I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with the Cuban or the Nicaraguan or the Honduran or the Argentinian or the Venezuelan revolutions, right?

00:36:21.000 The people that usually take over the nation usually have something nice to say about the country they're about to govern, right?

00:36:26.000 Like usually, usually it's not like, oh, give me power.

00:36:29.000 I'm Vladimir Lenin. 0.51

00:36:31.000 By the way, I hate Russia. 0.99

00:36:32.000 People have been like, screw you. 1.00

00:36:32.000 We're not giving you power, Vladimir Lenin. 1.00

00:36:34.000 Instead, he took the Russian flag.

00:36:35.000 He said, I'm more Russian than the Romanovs.

00:36:38.000 And people gave him power.

00:36:40.000 So they're making a huge mistake.

00:36:42.000 Their biggest mistake is they're trying to say, give me more power and I'm going to try to destroy the country.

00:36:49.000 So here's the opportunity, right?

00:36:51.000 And the opportunity for those of us that are conservatives is we can't just focus on what we're against.

00:36:57.000 Trust me, we have a whole thing on anti-socialism, anti-big government sucks.

00:37:01.000 I love all that.

00:37:02.000 But now we have this opportunity to be like, okay, we can build a multiracial, value-centric, working-class movement that is focused on America as our home, not a colony.

00:37:14.000 That America that we want to have stronger families, increased church attendance, lower opioid deaths, where it just basically disappears in our nation, stricter immigration and stricter borders to put college graduates above some person from China that wants to come to America and cut all of your wages instantaneously, that we want to end these ridiculous, endless wars, and that we believe America's greatness is in its people, not all of a sudden in these ridiculous internationalist agreements that we were somehow succumbed to.

00:37:43.000 And so we have to talk about what we are for.

00:37:46.000 And we have an answer to that, a really popular answer.

00:37:50.000 And so there's an energy flowing through politics right now.

00:37:53.000 I'm telling you, it's going to be in some ways, it's going to be, it's going to be something that I don't think we're going to understand immediately.

00:38:00.000 But you guys are on the cutting edge of this.

00:38:02.000 You really are.

00:38:03.000 Where the identity politics, woke industrial complex is getting less popular by the day.

00:38:11.000 They're louder and they control everything, but all of a sudden, they're going to realize they do not have a sizable constituency for here.

00:38:19.000 So the question is, what are we going to be able to put in response for that?

00:38:23.000 And it kind of starts with the reason why we're all here, which is strong and flourishing families, which is a country that says, you know what, maybe we should bring down the divorce rate and bring up how many American born children are happening every single year and fix the fertility crisis that's happening in America.

00:38:40.000 Like maybe we should have more American born children, not less American born children.

00:38:47.000 These sorts of things is what's going to give people excitement and energy and enthusiasm.

00:38:53.000 Of course, we could talk about what we're against all day long.

00:38:55.000 Of course we can.

00:38:56.000 And so I want to close with this and we'll do some questions, is that what you're doing on the college campuses is the most important work.

00:39:03.000 It is.

00:39:04.000 And high schools as well.

00:39:05.000 I know it can feel lonely.

00:39:06.000 I know that you can feel you're under attack.

00:39:08.000 We understand all that.

00:39:09.000 We are here to assist and support you.

00:39:11.000 But the decisions you're making right now as a 15, 16, 17, and 18-year-old are going to have such a consequential impact on not just your trajectory, but who you are as a person.

00:39:26.000 Most colleges don't talk about one of the most important words, which is the word character.

00:39:33.000 Character comes from a Greek word which means imprint, tattoo.

00:39:36.000 It's like imprint.

00:39:37.000 It's into who you are.

00:39:39.000 Every decision you make will be reflected in your spirit and your soul.

00:39:45.000 So that's it.

00:39:45.000 Here's the question.

00:39:46.000 Are you going to stand up and cross-examine the professor when they say that critical race theory is the greatest thing ever?

00:39:54.000 Now, if you say no, you say, I don't know, well, that's okay.

00:39:59.000 Maybe it's the right decision.

00:40:00.000 But that's going to play an impact on it, and it will.

00:40:04.000 And so, I'm not a positive one.

00:40:07.000 And so the decisions you're making today will be incredibly consequential for the rest of your life.

00:40:15.000 And that's what we are here at Turning Point USA trying to do every single day.

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00:40:34.000 In fact, I get emails from people.

00:40:36.000 They say, Charlie, how can I help you?

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00:41:16.000 All right, let's get to some questions.

00:41:20.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:41:21.000 So I'm majoring in journalism.

00:41:23.000 I graduate in about a year.

00:41:24.000 My question for you is with media being completely controlled by the left right now, what do you think or how do you think that future journalists that are conservative can save the journalism industry?

00:41:40.000 Because that's something I'm thinking about right now.

00:41:41.000 I graduate in a year to find a job.

00:41:43.000 How am I going to go into an industry that is completely dominated by the left?

00:41:47.000 And do you think it's even possible to save the industry right now?

00:41:51.000 It's a great question.

00:41:52.000 Let me start with this.

00:41:54.000 Let me start by saying, if you get into journalism, have the daily mission to change journalism, don't let journalism change you.

00:42:01.000 I've seen this happen to a lot of young conservatives that graduate and they go work for some of these big institutions.

00:42:06.000 And then they're all these woke, they're like wokesters a couple years later.

00:42:10.000 First of all, there's a lot of great conservative journalism outlets that are popping up a lot.

00:42:14.000 There's Daily Wire, Daily Caller, Breitbart, and many others.

00:42:18.000 But be unafraid to go into these liberal institutions and be a journalist first.

00:42:24.000 Everyone has ideology, right?

00:42:26.000 But go try to restore what journalism should be, which is the purveying and the communication of facts, going and ask very much in-depth questions.

00:42:35.000 I'll give you a great example of a journalistic piece that hasn't been written.

00:42:40.000 It's a pretty interesting piece.

00:42:41.000 Who's paying for all of these t-shirts that the illegals are wearing on the southern border that says Joe Biden, let me in?

00:42:48.000 That's a pretty simple question, right?

00:42:51.000 Like, who's manufacturing those shirts?

00:42:53.000 Who's paying for them?

00:42:55.000 Who's shipping them?

00:42:56.000 No journalism journalist dares ask that.

00:42:59.000 And so I want to encourage you, though, we need more conservatives going into the journalistic field.

00:43:05.000 It's going to be tough.

00:43:06.000 You know that.

00:43:06.000 You're going to be called names.

00:43:07.000 You're not going to be hired on certain things.

00:43:09.000 But if you have perseverance through that, it's going to matter more than ever before because there's so many journalists that feel as if they're being silenced.

00:43:18.000 They feel as if they're being shut down and they're not able to do the work that they need to do.

00:43:22.000 And so journalism should be A practice or a profession where the truth is finally given an opportunity and a fair hearing.

00:43:34.000 It's the opposite right now.

00:43:35.000 It's an activist media where their mission statement is to destroy us and destroy our way of life.

00:43:41.000 So I want to commend you and I want to just say it's have perseverance and have courage and it's going to work out for you.

00:43:48.000 Okay?

00:43:49.000 Thank you.

00:43:51.000 That's you on the hole.

00:43:53.000 Okay.

00:43:54.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:43:55.000 I'm Lane.

00:43:56.000 I go to Thunderbird High School here in Phoenix.

00:43:58.000 Awesome.

00:44:00.000 And I just want to know, here, I pulled up my, I wrote down my question.

00:44:04.000 I was wondering what I can do to help the other students at my school to understand that not everything's racist.

00:44:08.000 Oh, my gosh.

00:44:10.000 It's gone so far that they're changing our mascot because what was your mascot?

00:44:14.000 The Chiefs, and it's racist now.

00:44:18.000 And they're even trying to change the fact that we have SROs or student resource officers at our school because all cops are bad now.

00:44:27.000 And I was even called a racist on Thursday.

00:44:31.000 Yeah.

00:44:32.000 Because I said that George Floyd was a criminal.

00:44:35.000 Of course he was.

00:44:36.000 Yes.

00:44:38.000 And I just want to know what I can do to help everyone at my school understand how not everything is racist and how that's going to happen.

00:44:44.000 Yeah, so I want to ask you a couple of questions.

00:44:46.000 What town is your high school in?

00:44:48.000 It's here in Phoenix.

00:44:49.000 Okay, but what part of Phoenix?

00:44:51.000 It's on 19th Avenue in Thunderbird.

00:44:53.000 So it's downtown Phoenix or kind of.

00:44:55.000 It's like Chandler.

00:44:56.000 I don't know Phoenix that well.

00:44:57.000 I'm just trying to figure out what it's like northern West Phoenix?

00:45:00.000 Yeah.

00:45:01.000 Okay.

00:45:01.000 Like, okay.

00:45:03.000 So do you have a turning point USA group?

00:45:06.000 They said they wouldn't be able to start it like this year, and most of the people in it are seniors this year.

00:45:11.000 So I just started the Phoenix Activism Hub.

00:45:14.000 Good.

00:45:14.000 That's terrific.

00:45:15.000 I want to encourage you and thank you for, because look, and I, again, I want to reinforce this point.

00:45:22.000 If you get involved in this, you're going to be called a racist.

00:45:24.000 How many people have been called a racist recently?

00:45:26.000 Raise your hand.

00:45:26.000 There you go.

00:45:26.000 See?

00:45:27.000 There you go.

00:45:28.000 Yep.

00:45:29.000 But do you know what the?

00:45:30.000 Don't cheer.

00:45:35.000 But do you want to know the tragedy of that is?

00:45:37.000 Is that there somewhere is a real racist, and then he gets looped into all of us?

00:45:44.000 And then, yeah, exactly.

00:45:45.000 And then the word ends up meaning nothing, right?

00:45:48.000 The word literally means nothing when every single person in the room's hand goes up, but they actually believe it.

00:45:53.000 Look, that saddens me.

00:45:55.000 Let me first say that.

00:45:56.000 It saddens me because that is an anti-critical way of you.

00:46:03.000 It's like it's an anti-critical thinking way of looking at the world.

00:46:05.000 So your question was: how do I convince my friends?

00:46:08.000 Just in my school, really.

00:46:09.000 Yeah, your school or anyone that not everything is racist.

00:46:14.000 I guess you have to ask what racism is, and they really aren't able to define it.

00:46:18.000 So there's two definitions of racism.

00:46:20.000 There's one that's true and one that's completely false.

00:46:22.000 The true one is that one person discriminates another person based on skin color.

00:46:27.000 That's what racism is. 0.55

00:46:28.000 We all agree with that.

00:46:29.000 They think racism is a power struggle.

00:46:32.000 They think racism is everywhere.

00:46:33.000 It's in the air, it's in the sky, it's in the light, it's in your clothes. 1.00

00:46:37.000 This is complete and total rubbish. 1.00

00:46:39.000 It's garbage. 1.00

00:46:41.000 So unfortunately, and I hope all the adults are listening to this. 0.99

00:46:46.000 Would you say your high school is mostly of that viewpoint?

00:46:48.000 They think everything's racist.

00:46:49.000 Apparently, it's a public high school.

00:46:51.000 So that makes it even more swing.

00:46:55.000 I'm curious, have any parents ever gotten involved in like standing up to things in your school?

00:47:00.000 They actually just created, the school created a safety thing so that it's easier to report racial insensitivity.

00:47:11.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:47:13.000 Yeah, I know that if I go to that and say, hey, this person called me a racist, they'd kind of just brush it off.

00:47:19.000 Of course they do.

00:47:20.000 Yeah.

00:47:20.000 Because it's not about that.

00:47:23.000 So yeah, I guess my best piece of advice is that it's about the conversations, not the conversions.

00:47:28.000 And I guess I would ask the question, can you just show me anyone who isn't a racist?

00:47:35.000 I guess that's probably a pretty good way to start.

00:47:37.000 I don't know if they'd even be able to say it.

00:47:39.000 And I can't reinforce this point enough, everybody.

00:47:43.000 If we do not win on this issue, this will break the back of the American Republic in the next five years.

00:47:49.000 Like we have to play offense on this issue because what you're telling me is in a high school in Phoenix, Arizona, a very consequential state, an entire high school thinks everything is racist.

00:47:59.000 That's the negotiating point.

00:48:01.000 And so we have to be more vocal and louder.

00:48:04.000 And you have the right opinion.

00:48:06.000 Yeah, they call me a racist, whatever.

00:48:08.000 You're going to be more free than anyone else because of that because you're like, your insults mean nothing to me.

00:48:12.000 I know who I am, and I'm going to keep on acting accordingly.

00:48:15.000 So I want to encourage you for that.

00:48:16.000 I want to also just say, do not, they're going to get more vicious.

00:48:20.000 That these people are very, they're going to personalize politics.

00:48:23.000 They're going to call you the worst things in the world, but stand strong.

00:48:26.000 And there's more people with you in your high school than you might believe.

00:48:28.000 I will say, there's probably a lot of people that are like, oh, I like that, but I don't want to.

00:48:31.000 It takes one courageous person to be able to spread truth.

00:48:35.000 Thank you.

00:48:37.000 Also, I'm involved with a lot of the arts, which makes it even worse because like theater, choir, just everyone surrounding me is in like extreme left-wing.

00:48:50.000 Yeah.

00:48:50.000 Which really sucks how that's.

00:48:52.000 Well, guess what?

00:48:52.000 You're going to make a lot of friends here at Turning Point USA.

00:48:55.000 These will be real friends.

00:48:58.000 Thank you for being here.

00:49:00.000 Thank you.

00:49:01.000 Hi, my name's Victoria.

00:49:03.000 Hi.

00:49:06.000 So I wanted to ask you first, how do you see America in 10 years?

00:49:12.000 And what are your thoughts on ending polarization in this country, like in our political climate?

00:49:17.000 Yeah, it's a great question.

00:49:20.000 You know, I hear people that say all the time, oh, yeah, we're too divided as a nation.

00:49:25.000 I kind of just chuckle.

00:49:26.000 I'm like, wait a second, is it the people that are like burning down our cities that are dividing us?

00:49:30.000 Or is it the people that just want to raise their family and go to church that are dividing us?

00:49:34.000 And so I just kind of chuckle.

00:49:37.000 Here's the one thing I will say, though, and this is not something people want to hear, quite honestly, but it's the truth, is that we're entering this moment where it's either they're going to win or we're going to win, right?

00:49:50.000 And I hate to be this binary about it.

00:49:52.000 They're playing for keeps.

00:49:54.000 You guys know that, right?

00:49:55.000 I mean, they're trying to pack the Supreme Court, add D.C. as a state, add Puerto Rico as a state, abolish the Electoral College.

00:50:02.000 This is not a policy debate, right?

00:50:04.000 This is not like, oh, we're exchanging ideas.

00:50:06.000 They're like, we have power.

00:50:08.000 We're going to use it until you guys have no voice and your ideas are permanently in the minority, right?

00:50:15.000 So where do I see America in 10 years?

00:50:19.000 It is completely dependent on what everyone in this room does and what everyone at home does.

00:50:27.000 It's an unknown.

00:50:28.000 So some people ask the question, you didn't ask this way, so I'm not saying you.

00:50:32.000 They say, hey, Charlie, do you think we're going to win or lose?

00:50:35.000 I get this question all the time.

00:50:37.000 And I say, huh?

00:50:38.000 Are you asking because you want me to give you permission to give up?

00:50:43.000 Because if I said, hey, I think we're going to lose, would you fight any less?

00:50:48.000 Is this all of a sudden a probability Vegas oddsmaker game where now our activism and our involvement is based on whether or not we think we are going to win?

00:50:57.000 So what is courage?

00:51:00.000 Courage is doing the right thing when you do not know how it's going to work out.

00:51:06.000 What's a great example of courage in American history?

00:51:08.000 Storming Normandy Beach.

00:51:10.000 No idea how that day was going to work out for them, but they did it anyway for a moral good.

00:51:16.000 And so it's completely and totally dependent on what we do.

00:51:20.000 Let me tell you how we can win and let me tell you how we can lose.

00:51:24.000 Here's what we have working for us. 1.00

00:51:25.000 The wokester are deciding they want to take over a country they actually hate. 0.92

00:51:29.000 It's going to be a really tough thing to do. 0.99

00:51:30.000 I actually think that they're going to reach a ceiling and they're going to collapse from there.

00:51:34.000 Here's where we have working for us.

00:51:36.000 They're working against, yeah, it's working against us, but it can eventually work for us.

00:51:40.000 The left is trying to create more racism.

00:51:43.000 Remember the supply and demand thing, right? 0.79

00:51:45.000 There's such a low supply of racism in America. 0.99

00:51:47.000 They're trying to create it.

00:51:48.000 They're trying to have people always think racist thoughts, and then they're trying to create legitimate racism to justify their power grab.

00:51:54.000 Here's what I think is going to actually happen, though.

00:51:56.000 There will be an element of that, but that's only going to be a small part of the story.

00:52:00.000 In addition to that, I think a massive, multiracial, value-centric, decent political movement is just waiting for representation right now.

00:52:10.000 I think that 70% of the country is going to say, you know what? 0.90

00:52:13.000 Screw you, angry, woke leftist.

00:52:16.000 We want a country based on the goodness of America, restore to American greatness and self-sufficiency and strong families, and we will not be governed by you. 0.99

00:52:23.000 It's not going to happen.

00:52:25.000 And so that is waiting to explode in a good way, I'm telling you.

00:52:30.000 But it has to be focused.

00:52:31.000 And people say, like, oh, you can't say the word nationalism.

00:52:34.000 Like, why can't I say the word national?

00:52:35.000 I don't understand.

00:52:36.000 Like, we want a strong country.

00:52:40.000 We don't want this like temporary pleasure-seeking colony, right?

00:52:44.000 And so you always should care about the welfare of the nation of which you are in and care about the countrymen around you.

00:52:50.000 That's a very popular thing for people.

00:52:52.000 It is.

00:52:52.000 And so they don't want you to talk about it because people are like, of course I want a strong nation.

00:52:56.000 You guys ever, you guys drive through Scottsdale or Paradise Valley here, you'll see people with American flags.

00:53:02.000 And you notice that flag means something to all of us, right?

00:53:07.000 And that flag means something because to each and every one of us, it might mean a family member that went and fought in a war for this country, right?

00:53:14.000 It might mean a police officer that goes to work every single day to keep us safe.

00:53:18.000 This flag also might mean how we abolish slavery and pass the Civil Rights Act.

00:53:22.000 This flag means something to everyone else, something different, right?

00:53:25.000 The point is that if you do not have a unifying political ethos that is like, you know, we're actually about restoring our home and we're just about cutting corporate taxes, which conservatives have been focused on the last 20 years, then of course you're going to lose.

00:53:40.000 But there's a moment right now, the populist energy can either go towards a Bolshevik revolution or it can go towards a pro-human, people-centered, value-centric, conservative movement, unlike anything we've ever seen in our country's history before.

00:53:53.000 And that's what we must contend for every single day.

00:53:56.000 Thank you.

00:54:00.000 Man, you ran over there quick.

00:54:02.000 The reason why I ran over there is because I have something very special to show you.

00:54:07.000 But first, I want to start off.

00:54:09.000 I want to thank you so much for being here.

00:54:11.000 What you've done for this country is absolutely amazing.

00:54:15.000 It's absolutely thank you.

00:54:18.000 We sure miss number 45, don't we?

00:54:20.000 We sure miss it.

00:54:24.000 My question is, do you think that critical race theory is an element of black supremacy?

00:54:33.000 Is it a black supremacist ideology? 1.00

00:54:36.000 That's very good. 1.00

00:54:37.000 You even say the words in the right way.

00:54:40.000 I have to say, that's actually a very good thing.

00:54:42.000 There's an element of that.

00:54:43.000 Of course there is.

00:54:44.000 Yeah, I mean, Ibram X. Kendi has said that.

00:54:47.000 I think it's actually worse.

00:54:48.000 I think it's actually more white guilt-centric than black supremacist-centric. 0.54

00:54:52.000 I think it's more about white people feeling sorry just because they exist and never underestimate the power of white guilt ever.

00:54:59.000 And that's what Shelby Steele wrote.

00:55:01.000 But yes, there is an element to that, but I don't think that's the driving force.

00:55:04.000 I think Ibram X. Kendi and I think that Patrice Khan Colors, I think that they focus on it.

00:55:09.000 And that's a pretty good impression, I have to say.

00:55:10.000 It's very, very good.

00:55:11.000 So well done.

00:55:13.000 That's good.

00:55:14.000 Thank you so much, sir.

00:55:15.000 God bless you.

00:55:16.000 God bless you.

00:55:18.000 It's good.

00:55:19.000 We got time for one more question.

00:55:22.000 We'll take one or two.

00:55:23.000 We get one or two more.

00:55:24.000 Yeah.

00:55:25.000 Thank you so much, Charlie Kirk, for your talk.

00:55:27.000 I really loved it.

00:55:28.000 And I also loved your talk and the whole thing at SAS.

00:55:32.000 Thank you.

00:55:33.000 And my question for you is: what is your one?

00:55:36.000 You don't have to just give one, but what is your one takeaway about life in general and about your experience around many different people at your time at turning point?

00:55:49.000 Yeah, boy, what's my one takeaway?

00:55:53.000 Look, I'll tell you this.

00:55:54.000 Here's a couple pieces of advice for young people.

00:55:59.000 Try to seek to be wise instead of being right.

00:56:02.000 It's a very important thing.

00:56:04.000 So what is wisdom?

00:56:06.000 Most of your schools don't teach you wisdom.

00:56:07.000 Does any school actually teach wisdom anymore?

00:56:09.000 Do they actually do that?

00:56:11.000 One hand goes up.

00:56:11.000 Are you homeschooled?

00:56:13.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:56:14.000 Does anyone teach wisdom?

00:56:15.000 No?

00:56:15.000 No, of course not.

00:56:17.000 No, but they'll teach anger.

00:56:18.000 They're really good at teaching that.

00:56:19.000 What is wisdom?

00:56:21.000 Anyone can tell me what wisdom is?

00:56:23.000 No, thank you.

00:56:23.000 That's it.

00:56:24.000 Thank you.

00:56:25.000 That's not true.

00:56:26.000 Wisdom is the knowledge of things that never change.

00:56:32.000 You listen to my podcast, don't you?

00:56:34.000 Good for you.

00:56:35.000 God bless you.

00:56:36.000 Well done.

00:56:37.000 Let me say that again.

00:56:38.000 Wisdom is the knowledge of things that never change.

00:56:45.000 If there's only one thing you remember, remember that.

00:56:47.000 Now, what does that mean?

00:56:48.000 That means that things might change around you materially, but human beings do not.

00:56:53.000 So wisdom is your ability, and there's a whole book in the Bible written around it, Proverbs, is your ability to have the knowledge of how human beings act.

00:57:02.000 What does it mean to live a good life?

00:57:03.000 How do you handle yourself under pressure?

00:57:05.000 Should you always tell the truth?

00:57:07.000 What is integrity?

00:57:08.000 What is beauty?

00:57:08.000 What is goodness?

00:57:09.000 What is wonder?

00:57:10.000 How should you proceed when all of a sudden everyone is against you?

00:57:13.000 Believe it or not, that's what your school system should be teaching you.

00:57:16.000 They don't.

00:57:17.000 Instead, they teach you they're filled with practical knowledge, if even that.

00:57:21.000 So there's two types of analogy: eternal knowledge and practical knowledge.

00:57:24.000 Practical knowledge is who's the governor of Arizona, all that stuff changes.

00:57:27.000 Eternal knowledge never changes.

00:57:30.000 And so, what is a mark of a wise man?

00:57:34.000 And I don't pretend to be one, by the way.

00:57:35.000 I don't.

00:57:36.000 Maybe one day.

00:57:37.000 But what is a mark of a wise man?

00:57:39.000 A wise man is easily and happily corrected.

00:57:43.000 You should write that on the top of every single one of your notebooks every single day.

00:57:49.000 Even when you go to school and learn from a bunch of people that don't know what they're talking about.

00:57:52.000 Maybe like I might be corrected on one thing.

00:57:54.000 A wise man is easily and happily corrected.

00:57:58.000 What a great way to go about life.

00:58:01.000 If you show me a happy man, I will show you a wise man.

00:58:03.000 The more you seek wisdom, the more rich of a life you will live.

00:58:07.000 So you might say, well, Charlie, where do I find wisdom?

00:58:09.000 Well, the Bible's a good place to start, obviously, but it's not there.

00:58:14.000 The MAGA doctrine has some wisdom in there.

00:58:16.000 I have to say, there's some good wisdom in there.

00:58:17.000 Thank you.

00:58:18.000 But also, you can seek wisdom from people in your life that have lived a very rich and good life.

00:58:24.000 Grandparents in particular are a wonderful source of wisdom.

00:58:27.000 And take it, these phones are destroying our country, by the way.

00:58:31.000 I become very anti-technology.

00:58:32.000 The only thing that, I know, I've like this whole pro-Luddite speech.

00:58:36.000 I could give it at a different time. 0.81

00:58:37.000 But that's true.

00:58:38.000 But the only thing I will say that's good about these phones is you should catalog and memorialize your conversation with your grandparents.

00:58:44.000 Trust me, please.

00:58:45.000 Go save hours of footage with yourself, voice memos, and videos.

00:58:49.000 I'm telling you, do this.

00:58:51.000 You're going to want that footage later in your life and you're going to learn from it.

00:58:55.000 There's something very special about a grandparent's wisdom to a grand.

00:58:59.000 It's something intergenerationally magical.

00:59:02.000 I think you can all agree at that in one way or the other.

00:59:04.000 So take that very, very seriously.

00:59:06.000 So, and I guess the final thing I'll say is this.

00:59:10.000 I wish that when I was in such a hurry to build all of Turning Point and all this, I wish I would have slowed down a little bit more.

00:59:16.000 I know that's hard for me to say because, I mean, I give 300 speeches a year.

00:59:19.000 Year.

00:59:19.000 We do two podcasts a day, two hours a radio day.

00:59:21.000 We're always in a rush.

00:59:22.000 We're always in a hurry and for good reason.

00:59:23.000 I wish I would have slowed down a little bit more and really thought even more deeply about the origination of these ideas and the wealth of knowledge that preceded my own involvement in this space.

00:59:36.000 I know that that might not make a lot of sense to you, but in the last two years since we've started the podcast, I've just gone on a wonderfully satisfying and rich journey of rereading the great books of the West and re-exploring the timeless philosophical ideas.

00:59:51.000 And it's been such a, it's actually why I love what I get to do.

00:59:55.000 I get to host two hours of podcasting every day, and I do two hours a day of learning where I turn off my phone and I read a book or watch a lecture or listen to a deep podcast and I take meticulous notes and it's the greatest time of my day.

01:00:08.000 And I get to dive deeper and I get to really understand the world, hopefully in a better place.

01:00:12.000 And the more I know, the more I realized how little I knew when I thought I knew it all.

01:00:17.000 And that's something that I hope some of you will take away.

01:00:19.000 The last thing I'll say is this: is just when you're young, ask questions.

01:00:23.000 That's a great thing to just ask questions of everyone all the time.

01:00:26.000 From taxi drivers to Uber drivers to people, people are way more interesting than I think we give them credit for.

01:00:31.000 They're like infinitely interesting.

01:00:33.000 And there's more wisdom, by the way, in plumbers than in professors.

01:00:37.000 Remember that.

01:00:38.000 There's more wisdom in American plumbers than in professors.

01:00:42.000 All right.

01:00:43.000 I took too long on that answer.

01:00:44.000 We'll try to get to one or two more.

01:00:45.000 Okay, next question.

01:00:46.000 Thank you.

01:00:47.000 I know I'm over time.

01:00:48.000 I got it, Lauren.

01:00:48.000 I know.

01:00:49.000 Thank you.

01:00:49.000 Okay.

01:00:49.000 Mind if I hold it?

01:00:50.000 Yeah.

01:00:51.000 Hey, I saw you at Dream City Church today.

01:00:52.000 Yes, sir.

01:00:53.000 I'm actually going to let this young man ask the question, but I wanted to thank you for coming to Dream City Scottsdale.

01:00:59.000 It's my childhood church, and it was really crazy in my life to be coming back to the Lord and to do a 360 and to see you at my childhood church.

01:01:07.000 And thank you.

01:01:09.000 Thank you for briefly approaching my friends and I after and signing my copy of the MAGA Doctrine.

01:01:14.000 And I hope to be seeing you on May 4th, Turning Point Faith.

01:01:19.000 God bless you.

01:01:19.000 What's your name?

01:01:20.000 My name is Samuel Justice.

01:01:21.000 Samuel, God bless you.

01:01:22.000 Your last name is Justice.

01:01:23.000 My middle name is Justin, but I'm going to start using Justice.

01:01:26.000 Did he say Justice or Justice?

01:01:28.000 I like Justice.

01:01:28.000 Just go with Justin.

01:01:29.000 Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying.

01:01:30.000 You probably couldn't read the last name.

01:01:31.000 God bless you, Samuel.

01:01:32.000 Thank you.

01:01:33.000 Thank you, Charlie.

01:01:33.000 Appreciate that.

01:01:37.000 Hey, Charlie.

01:01:38.000 How are you doing, man?

01:01:39.000 Good.

01:01:39.000 My name is Ishmael.

01:01:41.000 I'm actually.

01:01:42.000 That's a great name.

01:01:43.000 Thank you.

01:01:43.000 I appreciate it.

01:01:44.000 I'm from Illinois.

01:01:45.000 What part?

01:01:45.000 Westmont?

01:01:46.000 Where?

01:01:47.000 Westmont.

01:01:47.000 Yeah, of course.

01:01:48.000 Yeah.

01:01:49.000 So, first of all, thank you very much for hosting this sort of event.

01:01:53.000 Thank you.

01:01:53.000 I came here from Westmont, actually.

01:01:55.000 We got our TPUSA chapter recognized at University of Illinois Chicago.

01:01:59.000 Awesome.

01:02:00.000 That is a very liberal school.

01:02:03.000 So Bill Ayers still teaches there, right?

01:02:05.000 Yeah, I believe so.

01:02:06.000 Yeah, Bill Ayers is a professor at UIC.

01:02:08.000 All right.

01:02:08.000 So I just had one quick question for you.

01:02:10.000 It's, do you believe the modern conservative movement that we are all proudly a part of today is going to be enough to save our country from the extremism that the left brings?

01:02:21.000 No.

01:02:22.000 This is part of it.

01:02:23.000 We need a couple other things to happen.

01:02:25.000 First of all, thank you, Ishmael, for running the group.

01:02:27.000 It's terrific.

01:02:27.000 And that really touches me because UIC is just like, it's a den of thieves.

01:02:32.000 It's just a terrible place.

01:02:33.000 And so I love hearing from our turning point chapters.

01:02:37.000 It just gives me hope for our country.

01:02:39.000 No, it's not going to be enough.

01:02:40.000 We need strong families.

01:02:42.000 We need a value crusade in our country to get people to care more about pursuing truth and embracing self-control instead of self-esteem.

01:02:50.000 We need parents to be much more involved in their children's lives to become their children's parent, not their friend.

01:02:56.000 We need to get away from these ridiculous devices that are turning us into quasi-sideboards that are dehumanizing our interaction, seeking the next dopamine rush as if your values, how many Instagram likes you get.

01:03:07.000 All those things need to happen, but they can happen in tandem together.

01:03:11.000 What I think, though, is that the conservative movement can lead on these issues.

01:03:14.000 I really do.

01:03:15.000 And what I think is we're starting to see is that we're seeing community here today.

01:03:19.000 Because Aristotle said that politics is the highest form of community because it blends morality and sociability.

01:03:27.000 But no, it's not going to be enough.

01:03:29.000 We need to build new businesses.

01:03:30.000 Any entrepreneurs out there, anyone that wants to start a business, Ishmael, you said, go do it now.

01:03:35.000 Just like, just please, we need big risk takers right now.

01:03:39.000 Just shut off the rest of the world and go do it.

01:03:42.000 I don't know if I would have had the cultural permission to start a business like I started Turning Point USA back when I was 18.

01:03:54.000 There's so many people that say, don't do that.

01:03:56.000 Just go to college, sit down and obey, just get a job and all this.

01:03:59.000 We need risk takers.

01:04:01.000 We need to build new stuff.

01:04:03.000 Anyone want to start an airline?

01:04:04.000 Anyone?

01:04:07.000 Anyone?

01:04:08.000 Airline.

01:04:09.000 It's yours right there.

01:04:10.000 Okay?

01:04:11.000 Done.

01:04:11.000 How about a soft drink company?

01:04:13.000 Anyone?

01:04:13.000 $40 million.

01:04:15.000 Yeah, here's the thing, though.

01:04:16.000 You got 75 million customers waiting for you like that.

01:04:19.000 And so the point is this: think really big.

01:04:22.000 We need, I want you to dream.

01:04:24.000 No one tells young people to dream anymore.

01:04:26.000 So they tell you to obey.

01:04:28.000 They don't think, they don't tell you to dream.

01:04:29.000 They're like, oh yeah, go do what you're told and put on the mask and turn on the Zoom call. 0.98

01:04:33.000 You're a terrible person. 1.00

01:04:34.000 You're racist and all these. 1.00

01:04:35.000 No wonder why we have a mental health crisis in our country. 0.99

01:04:37.000 Of course we do. 1.00

01:04:39.000 You're being lectured all the time by miserable people. 0.85

01:04:43.000 And instead, you should be like, you know what?

01:04:44.000 No, you can go start that business, Ishmael, whatever that business might be.

01:04:47.000 It might be a restaurant.

01:04:49.000 It might be a railroad.

01:04:50.000 And you're going to come up against opposition.

01:04:52.000 You're going to come up against hatred.

01:04:53.000 But in our country, we're really good at figuring out problems.

01:04:57.000 We always have been.

01:04:58.000 It's part of our entrepreneurial spirit.

01:05:00.000 We can never lose that.

01:05:02.000 And so, no, it's not going to be enough, but it can be part of it.

01:05:06.000 And I just wanted to mention that one part about thinking big and taking risks.

01:05:09.000 If I could tell you the biggest problem I have with the conservative movement is how small we think.

01:05:14.000 So who are the ones that are supposed to be pushing that forward? 1.00

01:05:16.000 Young people, you guys.

01:05:18.000 Our whole system is built right now of trying to get you to sit down and not dream and think. 0.95

01:05:23.000 They want you not to dream and think.

01:05:25.000 They want you to just become a cog in the machine, right?

01:05:27.000 Go into debt, go get your degree, and go work for some miserable Fortune 100 company and go be like in a 2,000 square, like a 1,000 square foot apartment in downtown Chicago.

01:05:37.000 And maybe one day you can be happy and say, you know what?

01:05:40.000 No, I have an ambition to start a nonprofit to solve this.

01:05:43.000 Or I have an ambition to start a business to do that.

01:05:45.000 Or I want to build a really good family.

01:05:48.000 That's a good thing to do too, by the way.

01:05:49.000 That's a noble and a great thing.

01:05:52.000 And so I am encouraging you right now, tonight, privately, to allow yourself something that the school system does not do.

01:06:01.000 Allow yourself to dream a little bit.

01:06:04.000 Stop being so, like, everything around us is so unbelievably negative all the time.

01:06:08.000 All the time.

01:06:09.000 Everything's burning.

01:06:10.000 Everyone's racist. 1.00

01:06:11.000 Cops are there to kill you. 1.00

01:06:12.000 You can't go for a jog of your black person. 1.00

01:06:13.000 Ridiculous thing to say, of course. 1.00

01:06:15.000 Instead, it's like, no, actually, just release yourself of all of those energy flows and maybe you can go create and build something new.

01:06:23.000 Go build with a little bit of a daring risk, right?

01:06:25.000 Like go put yourself out there a little bit.

01:06:28.000 Go all of a sudden and say, I don't know all the answers, but I know that I'm going to have the ambition, the drive to do it.

01:06:33.000 That whole belief system is lacking in our country so much, isn't it?

01:06:37.000 And by the way, all of you can do that.

01:06:39.000 I'm going to tell you right now, the only thing that separates me, people say, well, Charlie, what was the key to success at Turning Point USA?

01:06:45.000 Right place, right time, great mentors, generous people behind me.

01:06:48.000 And the only thing I did better than anyone else is I outworked everyone.

01:06:51.000 It's the only thing I did.

01:06:52.000 So I put in more hours, I made more phone calls, did more meetings, took more trips.

01:06:56.000 That's the only thing I can actually say.

01:06:58.000 Guess what?

01:06:59.000 That's 100% at your disposal.

01:07:01.000 It's not a talent thing.

01:07:03.000 Talent's whatever.

01:07:03.000 Talent comes and goes.

01:07:05.000 But you can make a decision today.

01:07:06.000 You're like, you know what?

01:07:07.000 I am going to be the hardest worker in the room.

01:07:09.000 I am.

01:07:10.000 No one is going to put in more hours than I can.

01:07:12.000 Now, by the way, once you decide that, then all of a sudden you're getting to the next level and you're going to say, man, now I'm going to have to hold myself to a higher standard.

01:07:20.000 Maybe I'm not going to be able to go out and drink every Friday night or Saturday night or Sunday night or Monday night or Tuesday night or Wednesday night, right?

01:07:27.000 Maybe I have to stop doing that substance.

01:07:29.000 Maybe I got to stop visiting those websites.

01:07:31.000 Maybe I have to act a little bit more upright because if I'm going to be the person and dream, I'm not going to allow other things get in the way of my dreams.

01:07:39.000 I'm not going to allow the other person to get in the way of the person I could be.

01:07:44.000 And that is something that I think there is so much untapped potential in our country.

01:07:51.000 I meet, that's why I love high school kids because high school kids still have a little bit of this.

01:07:54.000 By the time some of you are in college, I love you guys to death, but not anyone in this room, of course.

01:07:59.000 But like some of you guys, it feels like you've been in like some sort of like war industrial camp.

01:08:03.000 Like, man, I don't know what I'm going to do.

01:08:05.000 I got all this debt.

01:08:05.000 I'm like, what are we doing?

01:08:07.000 Like, just, you should have the most ambition at that age, right?

01:08:11.000 To seek further and to take new and to be daring and bold.

01:08:15.000 And you guys can do that still in this country.

01:08:17.000 That's going to be part of what saves us.

01:08:18.000 It's a new, energetic, aspirational, entrepreneurial generation that says, we're going to start new stuff.

01:08:23.000 We don't care.

01:08:23.000 We're going to do the impossible.

01:08:24.000 And that's always what has made America different.

01:08:26.000 So thank you, Ishmael.

01:08:27.000 I'm inspired by you.

01:08:28.000 Okay, I am way over time.

01:08:31.000 I'm sorry.

01:08:32.000 And so we'll do one last one.

01:08:34.000 Thank you, Ishmael. 0.84

01:08:35.000 And then the team's going to kill me.

01:08:36.000 Okay, last one.

01:08:37.000 Hi, how are you, Charlie?

01:08:38.000 My name is Simon.

01:08:39.000 I'm originally from Venezuela.

01:08:41.000 I study.

01:08:42.000 Awesome.

01:08:42.000 I study at international relations at the University of Maryland.

01:08:45.000 So right now, our college campus is under attack.

01:08:48.000 We have academic president who is pandering with students, who is using critical race theory, who wants to use the BLM politics to defund the campus police.

01:08:58.000 We have teachers who pretty much they fail me because I'm using the logic, because I'm questioning them.

01:09:04.000 So, and this is really dangerous for the mind of the future of America.

01:09:07.000 So I want to ask you, what would be the legal challenge and the legal strategy to forbid leftist professors, to forbid presidents of universities to have this radical agenda?

01:09:19.000 What school?

01:09:20.000 Who did you go to?

01:09:21.000 University of Maryland College Park.

01:09:23.000 Wow, so you traveled a long way to be here.

01:09:25.000 From Washington, D.C. That's amazing.

01:09:26.000 Thank you.

01:09:27.000 And so, can I ask you a question?

01:09:31.000 Did you grow up in Venezuela?

01:09:33.000 I was born and raised in Venezuela.

01:09:35.000 I came here six years ago, and I'm really proud to become an American citizen.

01:09:39.000 We're very happy you're here.

01:09:40.000 It's a very good time.

01:09:45.000 And I'll tell you.

01:09:49.000 We need more people that love our nation like you do.

01:09:51.000 I just wish that more people in America did.

01:09:53.000 Let me ask you a question.

01:09:54.000 Do you see similarities between what's happening here and what you saw happen in Venezuela?

01:09:58.000 Pretty much I see the same thing, radicalism.

01:10:01.000 You know, there is no future. 0.90

01:10:02.000 In Venezuela, the educational system is totally destroyed by the Maruji regime. 0.99

01:10:06.000 And right now, I see that I'm afraid that it will happen in America if we do not do something. 0.92

01:10:11.000 Yes.

01:10:12.000 So you asked about a legal challenge.

01:10:14.000 This is something that makes some conservatives uncomfortable.

01:10:18.000 And I'm going to say this as bluntly as I can.

01:10:23.000 I am not going to oversee a managed decline of this beautiful gift we've been given to by God.

01:10:28.000 So what does that mean?

01:10:29.000 That means that we have to use whatever political power that we've been given from the people to start pushing back and launching a counteroffensive against the left.

01:10:38.000 So what is that actually?

01:10:39.000 Some conservatives are okay.

01:10:41.000 I am not one of them, to kind of just be in this position of managed decline.

01:10:45.000 Like, we have the right ideas.

01:10:46.000 Like, we're going to win the debates and the arguments in the coffee shops, but we're going to watch the country around us because we're unwilling to do what's necessary.

01:10:54.000 So here's what we need to do.

01:10:55.000 By the way, we didn't start this fight.

01:10:56.000 They started the fight.

01:10:57.000 They are intruding on our values.

01:10:58.000 Let's just be very clear.

01:10:59.000 But here's how this works.

01:11:01.000 If you're a governor of a state like Kansas or Oklahoma or Missouri or Kentucky or Tennessee or Florida, DeSantis are doing a great job and he's starting to do this, but we have to be more aggressive.

01:11:11.000 Say, hey, you know what?

01:11:12.000 We're all for free speech.

01:11:14.000 That's fine.

01:11:14.000 You're actually not.

01:11:16.000 And so you're going to teach Western civilization in every single one of our schools.

01:11:21.000 We're going to teach the values of the American nation.

01:11:24.000 And by the way, if you don't, as a professor, you're going to be fired.

01:11:27.000 Now, some people say, well, Charlie, that's anti-free speech.

01:11:29.000 Let me be very clear, okay?

01:11:31.000 I'm for free speech in our society and all these sort of things.

01:11:34.000 If you're even teaching kids fundamental American values and you're like not doing something about it under the guise of freedom of speech, at some point that feels like an excuse rather than a reason, especially when every single one of you are being indoctrinated every single day by your teachers and your professors and the conservatives in charge are like, well, we can't do anything about it.

01:11:53.000 No, I'm talking about bold and decisive action.

01:11:56.000 I'm talking about finally we have to use the political power that was given to us to save the country.

01:12:01.000 So this is, we're going to break up the tech companies from a state level.

01:12:04.000 Like we're going to say, you know what, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, that if you're going to keep on silencing conservative voices, there will be a price to pay for that.

01:12:10.000 Because here's what's going to happen.

01:12:11.000 If we do not do things quickly and we don't act fast and boldly, all of a sudden we're going to lose with all the right ideas.

01:12:19.000 We're like, oh boy, well, we won the debate, but we lost the country.

01:12:23.000 I'm not okay with that.

01:12:24.000 And so there has to be a legal price to pay and there has to be a political price to pay.

01:12:28.000 How do you deal with bullies?

01:12:30.000 You punch them back twice as hard.

01:12:33.000 And right now, the left is, they are poking us in the eye and they are saying very clearly, oh, why are you taking it?

01:12:41.000 Why are they taking it?

01:12:42.000 Republicans are terrified of using political power.

01:12:45.000 Democrats are enthusiastic about using political power.

01:12:49.000 And how did we get the political power?

01:12:50.000 Did we take it?

01:12:50.000 Do we say JQ?

01:12:51.000 No, we actually got elected.

01:12:53.000 So people elected us to protect their value system.

01:12:56.000 It's about time we actually start doing it.

01:12:59.000 About time we start making these measures policy so that you can actually enjoy America as the republic, not the soon-to-be Venezuela. 0.80

01:13:08.000 God bless you.

01:13:09.000 I'm so glad you're here.

01:13:09.000 Thank you.

01:13:10.000 So, sorry, guys, we have to run.

01:13:14.000 I just want to say you guys are heroes because you have courage, because you're doing the right thing, even though you don't know how it's going to work out.

01:13:22.000 You're doing the right thing, even though you might get kicked out of your fraternity, kicked out of your sorority, lose your friends, have a less than desirable job resume, as if that really matters.

01:13:32.000 You have courage.

01:13:34.000 Don't lose it.

01:13:36.000 Be even more bold in your coming weeks and months.

01:13:38.000 Because guess what?

01:13:39.000 We have your back.

01:13:41.000 We have your back when all of a sudden you become under huge backlash from university.

01:13:46.000 Turning point USA has your back.

01:13:47.000 You're not going to be left to fight it alone.

01:13:49.000 All of a sudden, there'll be an infrastructure, a staffing support to be able to support you in all of that.

01:13:54.000 And then arm yourself with the resources and commit yourself to say every 10 minutes a day, I'm going to learn something new about our beautiful country.

01:14:03.000 So it might be the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

01:14:06.000 And by the way, if you're not yet subscribed, if this whole room subscribed at once, everyone took out their phone, and we would beat Rachel Maddow on the podcast charts, which I would just love to be able to say that this room did that.

01:14:17.000 And it's very easy.

01:14:18.000 Let's do it.

01:14:18.000 I think that's a great idea.

01:14:19.000 Don't you think that's a good idea?

01:14:20.000 Everyone has a podcast app on their phone.

01:14:23.000 Apple is preferred, but if you have Spotify, that's whatever.

01:14:26.000 But anyway, I would be blessed by that.

01:14:28.000 Thank you.

01:14:30.000 Well, then you're a great American, my friend.

01:14:32.000 So thank you.

01:14:34.000 But let me close by this.

01:14:35.000 I have to do the shameless self-promotion thing at least once.

01:14:38.000 Let me close by this.

01:14:39.000 We are at a turning point in our nation.

01:14:44.000 It's kind of funny how that works, right?

01:14:47.000 And so You guys right now, 20 years from now, when you have kids, 20 or 30 years from now, when you have kids your age, they're going to ask you what you did at that moment that's written about called the uncertain 20s.

01:15:03.000 Because that's what you're living through right now.

01:15:05.000 I have other descriptors for it, but it's not the roaring 20s, let me be clear.

01:15:10.000 So your kids and grandkids are going to ask you, what'd you do in the 20s when all this stuff kind of happened at once, right?

01:15:18.000 Because when historians write the books, they're going to be like, oh, wow, there were race riots and tech companies and the January 6th thing and the election and the fraud and like all this stuff happening.

01:15:28.000 What are you going to be able to answer?

01:15:29.000 Well, you have the really good answer.

01:15:30.000 You're like, you know what I did?

01:15:32.000 I stood my ground on a college campus.

01:15:34.000 I didn't take their BS or their nonsense.

01:15:36.000 I persuaded other people.

01:15:37.000 I inspired positive change.

01:15:39.000 I started a group and I'm really proud of that.

01:15:42.000 And guess what?

01:15:43.000 That's what actually is going to matter in your life.

01:15:45.000 That's the stuff that actually lives forever.

01:15:48.000 Not these like silly friendships that all that's that stuff goes away.

01:15:52.000 It does.

01:15:53.000 What really matters is a person doing the right thing when it's hard.

01:15:58.000 That lives with you in eternity.

01:16:00.000 That thing never changes.

01:16:02.000 And so pursue that and commit yourself to that.

01:16:04.000 And together, we, I'm telling you, our generation, we're going to save this nation together.

01:16:10.000 Our home, America the beautiful.

01:16:13.000 Our home.

01:16:14.000 Thank you guys so much.

01:16:19.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:16:20.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:16:23.000 And please consider supporting us at charliekirk.com slash support.

01:16:27.000 God bless you.

01:16:28.000 Speak to you soon.

The Charlie Kirk Show - April 20, 2021

Saving America: A Roadmap to Victory in a Zero-Sum Game

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