00:00:28.000Today in the Charlie Kirk show, my unedited remarks from the Southwest Regional Conference that we had at Turning Point USA in Phoenix, Arizona.
00:01:18.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:26.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:04:52.000That means some people are going to die.
00:04:54.000So you need a really, really, really good reason, in my opinion, to just shut down all of American society.
00:05:00.000And so I don't know what the number is, but the number is not 0.03%.
00:05:06.000To 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.
00:05:16.000We're like, we're going to go turn this on later.
00:05:19.000As if all of this was something that we could just easily restart.
00:05:23.000It'll go down as the worst mistake in American history.
00:05:25.000I truly believe that, what we did with these lockdowns.
00:05:28.000The human cost is beyond anything that we'll even be able to comprehend.
00:07:55.000In fact, there are so few racists, we have to come up with these race hoaxes and they immediately become national news instantaneously.
00:08:03.000Like 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.
00:08:13.000I don't know, maybe that's a garage pull.
00:08:15.000You didn't need nine FBI agents to tell you that.
00:08:17.000Or our Turning Point USA chapter leader, Avery, don't know her last name in Minnesota.
00:08:22.000I don't know if you guys saw this story or not.
00:08:59.000I can go through five different examples of hate crime hoaxes in the last couple of weeks.
00:09:03.000I want you to ask yourself a question.
00:09:05.000When 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.
00:09:13.000They just changed the way they exercise their deeply held beliefs, which the Democrats still are the racist party.
00:09:50.000And what doesn't get portrayed is actually how awesome we are to other people, regardless of their skin color.
00:09:57.000This short experiment that we have in America right now is a multiracial, multilingual experiment.
00:10:04.000And 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.
00:10:20.000You want me to tell you what would happen when I was in high school?
00:10:23.000If 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.
00:10:33.000If I would have told anyone of my teachers that skin color matters, I would have had an intervention with the head of students.
00:10:41.000And they would have said, what do you mean skin color matters?
00:10:43.000We care about character at our school, not skin color.
00:10:46.000And I went to a very multiracial school.
00:10:48.000It was a 53% English as a second language, Hispanic, Wheeling High School, suburbs of Chicago.
00:11:25.000And dare I say evil, because we actually broke out of that.
00:11:28.000And so the racial issue is one I've spoken out against more than ever.
00:11:33.000And 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.
00:11:39.000Like, no, I can say whatever I want, regardless of my skin color.
00:12:28.000And 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.
00:12:43.000The fear of being called a racist is the most powerful cultural weapon in America today.
00:12:49.000It creates corporate contributions to go billions of dollars in a direction otherwise wouldn't.
00:12:54.000It creates young people to say things they don't actually believe.
00:13:00.000And 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.
00:13:20.000But it's have loyalty to our fellow countrymen.
00:13:24.000And so it's people like, well, Charlie, we need immigrants because who do you think is going to go pick your lettuce?
00:13:29.000I'm like, that's an unbelievably racist thing to say, like that immigrants are only good to pick lettuce.
00:13:34.000Like, who's the racist in this equation, right?
00:13:37.000Like, you think that they're nothing but low-wage laborers and workers.
00:13:40.000And that's kind of a really parochial way to view human beings.
00:13:44.000Anyway, so how do we break through that and how do we break past that is a question we're going to wrestle with today.
00:14:01.000We have a 501c4 that does all of our political stuff.
00:14:03.000But 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.
00:14:14.000And 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.
00:14:19.000Like, because elections matter more than just a little symbolic exercise.
00:14:24.000Elections are a reflection of your values into representative government.
00:14:28.000And 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?
00:14:54.000And the answer that most people will give, which is not a complete answer, is like, well, so we can have representatives in our government.
00:15:04.000You 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.
00:15:15.000I 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?
00:15:31.000It's actually really helpful to keep the peace to have elections that we trust.
00:15:35.000No one wants to talk about this, right?
00:15:38.000This is the third rail of politics, but it's true.
00:15:40.000It's that without elections, then decent people are all of a sudden become rather indecent rather quickly.
00:15:46.000Elections are the way that we're able to say, here's what I believe, and here's what I see reflected.
00:15:51.000And also, if I get really mad about something, I can run for office, I can collect signatures.
00:15:55.000If you have elections that are broken, then all of a sudden you break that entire system.
00:15:59.000Then all of a sudden, people are not going to listen to their leaders.
00:16:02.000And what's so amazing is that the left did this back in 2016.
00:16:07.000Remember, the left did this after they said, oh, he's actually a Russian agent.
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00:18:07.000It'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.
00:18:22.000Like that's somehow how good of a person I am, right?
00:18:26.000And you all know those types of people, right?
00:18:28.000And by the way, let's just be very honest.
00:18:29.000BLM Incorporated is mostly an upper middle class white movement.
00:18:34.000And it's not at all a Hispanic or Latino movement.
00:18:37.000In 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.
00:18:46.000And the left can't even understand how that happened.
00:21:50.000How 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.
00:22:04.000And so, liberty, the ability to be able to pursue the good, was completely shut down this last year.
00:23:37.000The law is the wise restraints that keep men free.
00:23:41.000So what you restrain yourself from doing actually keeps you free.
00:23:45.000So the last year we shut everything down.
00:23:47.000Most people didn't clamor or fight in opposition to this.
00:23:52.000And 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.
00:24:02.000And 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.
00:24:49.000I was always so just taken back by just his condescending tone.
00:24:53.000Like, everything about him bothered me.
00:24:55.000I was like, the Constitution was written just for people like you, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
00:25:00.000Like, 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.
00:25:13.000And so, as you can tell, I'm not exactly a fan.
00:25:16.000And 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.
00:25:30.000And of course, we saw the contradictions unfolding in front of us, right?
00:25:33.000Marijuana stores and abortion clinics were open, and yet churches were closed and schools were closed.
00:25:38.000You're allowed to riot in the streets, right?
00:25:41.000BLM 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.
00:25:51.000And so, we're finally almost breaking out of this.
00:25:55.000The fact we're able to have this in-person event is a very big deal.
00:25:58.000And we at Turning Point have been leading on that.
00:26:49.000This 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.
00:27:00.000So they do this through critical race theory.
00:27:02.000They do this through BLM Incorporated.
00:27:03.000They do all these sorts of different things.
00:27:05.000And what's been most stunning is how the corporations have pandered to this set of ideology.
00:27:12.000So 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?
00:27:23.000Not some technocratic, weird, like identity politics agenda, is that there are two major threats to America right now.
00:27:33.000And I would argue one of them is actually bigger than the other currently.
00:27:36.000There is a corporate class and there's a government class, and they're working together to crush you.
00:27:42.000And 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.
00:27:54.000Special corporations don't act in our interest.
00:27:56.000And 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?
00:28:09.000What nation do you actually represent?
00:28:11.000And so here's the big question, right?
00:28:13.000Is America a colony or is America our home?
00:28:17.000If America's a colony, who cares what happens here, right?
00:28:20.000Maximize the profits, make as much money, we're going to get out.
00:28:24.000That's what the CEO of Delta Airlines believes.
00:28:27.000That's what the CEO of Coca-Cola believes.
00:29:17.000Is 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.
00:29:27.000He doesn't care about America at all, only about making $17 million a year.
00:30:20.000The 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.
00:30:35.000As I mentioned earlier, we're the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:30:39.000We've taken in more human beings than any other country in the last 50 years.
00:30:43.000In fact, we've been more generous, more benevolent, more forward-thinking, more accepted than any other nation ever.
00:30:48.000In fact, in America, we've had 3 million black people legally immigrate to America since 1980.
00:30:56.0003 million from Africa and the Caribbean.
00:30:59.000How racist could we be if 3 million black people voluntarily came to America?
00:31:05.000Why does the caravan go north to America and not south to Venezuela?
00:31:08.000If we are so racist, why do so many people of color want to come into our country?
00:31:13.000If we're so bigoted and backwards, why do so many people all of a sudden want to come into this terrible country?
00:31:17.000And 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.
00:31:23.000It's a discussion ender on your college campuses, right?
00:31:27.000You 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?
00:31:33.000It's like, it's over, it's done, there's no more talking.
00:31:36.000And then all of a sudden, you're on defense.
00:31:37.000You're like, no, no, I'm actually not racist.
00:32:38.000They're trying to end all meaningful discussion in our country right now by trying to make you afraid by calling you the R-word.
00:32:46.000The thing they fear the most is if their bigotry actually starts to get exposed.
00:32:50.000What 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.
00:34:22.000You're going to be called these awful things, okay?
00:34:24.000And 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?
00:34:30.000Do 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?
00:34:42.000You want to have a discussion about that?
00:34:49.000But 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.
00:35:08.000Do you want to know what gives me hope?
00:35:09.000What gives me hope is that all of you have to deal with this garbage every single day.
00:35:14.000You have to go see the propaganda on Twitter and TikTok and Instagram.
00:35:46.000And 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.
00:36:05.000It'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.
00:36:14.000I'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?
00:36:21.000The people that usually take over the nation usually have something nice to say about the country they're about to govern, right?
00:36:26.000Like usually, usually it's not like, oh, give me power.
00:37:02.000But 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.
00:37:14.000That 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.
00:37:43.000And so we have to talk about what we are for.
00:37:46.000And we have an answer to that, a really popular answer.
00:37:50.000And so there's an energy flowing through politics right now.
00:37:53.000I'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.
00:38:00.000But you guys are on the cutting edge of this.
00:38:03.000Where the identity politics, woke industrial complex is getting less popular by the day.
00:38:11.000They'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.
00:38:19.000So the question is, what are we going to be able to put in response for that?
00:38:23.000And 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.
00:38:40.000Like maybe we should have more American born children, not less American born children.
00:38:47.000These sorts of things is what's going to give people excitement and energy and enthusiasm.
00:38:53.000Of course, we could talk about what we're against all day long.
00:38:56.000And 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.
00:39:09.000We are here to assist and support you.
00:39:11.000But 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.
00:39:26.000Most colleges don't talk about one of the most important words, which is the word character.
00:39:33.000Character comes from a Greek word which means imprint, tattoo.
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00:41:16.000All right, let's get to some questions.
00:41:24.000My 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?
00:41:40.000Because that's something I'm thinking about right now.
00:42:26.000But 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.
00:42:35.000I'll give you a great example of a journalistic piece that hasn't been written.
00:43:07.000You're not going to be hired on certain things.
00:43:09.000But 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.
00:43:18.000They feel as if they're being shut down and they're not able to do the work that they need to do.
00:43:22.000And so journalism should be A practice or a profession where the truth is finally given an opportunity and a fair hearing.
00:44:38.000And 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.
00:44:44.000Yeah, so I want to ask you a couple of questions.
00:47:23.000So yeah, I guess my best piece of advice is that it's about the conversations, not the conversions.
00:47:28.000And I guess I would ask the question, can you just show me anyone who isn't a racist?
00:47:35.000I guess that's probably a pretty good way to start.
00:47:37.000I don't know if they'd even be able to say it.
00:47:39.000And I can't reinforce this point enough, everybody.
00:47:43.000If we do not win on this issue, this will break the back of the American Republic in the next five years.
00:47:49.000Like 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.
00:48:37.000Also, 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.
00:49:37.000Here'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?
00:49:50.000And I hate to be this binary about it.
00:50:38.000Are you asking because you want me to give you permission to give up?
00:50:43.000Because if I said, hey, I think we're going to lose, would you fight any less?
00:50:48.000Is 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?
00:51:48.000They're trying to have people always think racist thoughts, and then they're trying to create legitimate racism to justify their power grab.
00:51:54.000Here's what I think is going to actually happen, though.
00:51:56.000There will be an element of that, but that's only going to be a small part of the story.
00:52:00.000In addition to that, I think a massive, multiracial, value-centric, decent political movement is just waiting for representation right now.
00:52:10.000I think that 70% of the country is going to say, you know what?
00:52:16.000We 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.
00:52:52.000And so they don't want you to talk about it because people are like, of course I want a strong nation.
00:52:56.000You guys ever, you guys drive through Scottsdale or Paradise Valley here, you'll see people with American flags.
00:53:02.000And you notice that flag means something to all of us, right?
00:53:07.000And 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?
00:53:14.000It might mean a police officer that goes to work every single day to keep us safe.
00:53:18.000This flag also might mean how we abolish slavery and pass the Civil Rights Act.
00:53:22.000This flag means something to everyone else, something different, right?
00:53:25.000The 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.
00:53:40.000But 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.
00:53:53.000And that's what we must contend for every single day.
00:55:33.000And my question for you is: what is your one?
00:55:36.000You 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?
00:56:48.000That means that things might change around you materially, but human beings do not.
00:56:53.000So 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.
00:57:02.000What does it mean to live a good life?
00:57:03.000How do you handle yourself under pressure?
00:58:38.000But the only thing I will say that's good about these phones is you should catalog and memorialize your conversation with your grandparents.
00:59:22.000We're always in a hurry and for good reason.
00:59:23.000I 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.
00:59:36.000I 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.
00:59:51.000And it's been such a, it's actually why I love what I get to do.
00:59:55.000I 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.
01:00:08.000And I get to dive deeper and I get to really understand the world, hopefully in a better place.
01:00:12.000And the more I know, the more I realized how little I knew when I thought I knew it all.
01:00:17.000And that's something that I hope some of you will take away.
01:00:19.000The last thing I'll say is this: is just when you're young, ask questions.
01:00:23.000That's a great thing to just ask questions of everyone all the time.
01:00:26.000From taxi drivers to Uber drivers to people, people are way more interesting than I think we give them credit for.
01:00:53.000I'm actually going to let this young man ask the question, but I wanted to thank you for coming to Dream City Scottsdale.
01:00:59.000It'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.
01:02:08.000So I just had one quick question for you.
01:02:10.000It'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?
01:02:42.000We need a value crusade in our country to get people to care more about pursuing truth and embracing self-control instead of self-esteem.
01:02:50.000We need parents to be much more involved in their children's lives to become their children's parent, not their friend.
01:02:56.000We 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.
01:03:07.000All those things need to happen, but they can happen in tandem together.
01:03:11.000What I think, though, is that the conservative movement can lead on these issues.
01:05:25.000They want you to just become a cog in the machine, right?
01:05:27.000Go 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.
01:05:37.000And maybe one day you can be happy and say, you know what?
01:05:40.000No, I have an ambition to start a nonprofit to solve this.
01:05:43.000Or I have an ambition to start a business to do that.
01:05:45.000Or I want to build a really good family.
01:05:48.000That's a good thing to do too, by the way.
01:06:15.000Instead, it's like, no, actually, just release yourself of all of those energy flows and maybe you can go create and build something new.
01:06:23.000Go build with a little bit of a daring risk, right?
01:06:25.000Like go put yourself out there a little bit.
01:06:28.000Go 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.
01:06:33.000That whole belief system is lacking in our country so much, isn't it?
01:06:37.000And by the way, all of you can do that.
01:06:39.000I'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?
01:06:45.000Right place, right time, great mentors, generous people behind me.
01:06:48.000And the only thing I did better than anyone else is I outworked everyone.
01:07:10.000No one is going to put in more hours than I can.
01:07:12.000Now, 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.
01:07:20.000Maybe 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?
01:07:27.000Maybe I have to stop doing that substance.
01:07:29.000Maybe I got to stop visiting those websites.
01:07:31.000Maybe 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.
01:07:39.000I'm not going to allow the other person to get in the way of the person I could be.
01:07:44.000And that is something that I think there is so much untapped potential in our country.
01:07:51.000I meet, that's why I love high school kids because high school kids still have a little bit of this.
01:07:54.000By the time some of you are in college, I love you guys to death, but not anyone in this room, of course.
01:07:59.000But like some of you guys, it feels like you've been in like some sort of like war industrial camp.
01:08:03.000Like, man, I don't know what I'm going to do.
01:08:42.000I study at international relations at the University of Maryland.
01:08:45.000So right now, our college campus is under attack.
01:08:48.000We 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.
01:08:58.000We have teachers who pretty much they fail me because I'm using the logic, because I'm questioning them.
01:09:04.000So, and this is really dangerous for the mind of the future of America.
01:09:07.000So 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?
01:10:29.000That 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.
01:10:46.000Like, 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.
01:11:01.000If 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.
01:11:31.000I'm for free speech in our society and all these sort of things.
01:11:34.000If 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.
01:11:53.000No, I'm talking about bold and decisive action.
01:11:56.000I'm talking about finally we have to use the political power that was given to us to save the country.
01:12:01.000So this is, we're going to break up the tech companies from a state level.
01:12:04.000Like 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.
01:12:10.000Because here's what's going to happen.
01:12:11.000If 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.
01:12:19.000We're like, oh boy, well, we won the debate, but we lost the country.
01:13:14.000I 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.
01:13:22.000You'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.
01:13:47.000You're not going to be left to fight it alone.
01:13:49.000All of a sudden, there'll be an infrastructure, a staffing support to be able to support you in all of that.
01:13:54.000And 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.
01:14:03.000So it might be the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.
01:14:06.000And 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.
01:14:39.000We are at a turning point in our nation.
01:14:44.000It's kind of funny how that works, right?
01:14:47.000And 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.
01:15:03.000Because that's what you're living through right now.
01:15:05.000I have other descriptors for it, but it's not the roaring 20s, let me be clear.
01:15:10.000So 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?
01:15:18.000Because 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.
01:15:28.000What are you going to be able to answer?
01:15:29.000Well, you have the really good answer.