The Charlie Kirk Show - June 10, 2023


Saving Arizona: My Speech to the Republican Women of Prescott, AZ


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Learn English with Charlie Kirk. On this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk talks about his speech in Prescott, Arizona, and takes questions from the audience. He also discusses the importance of passing down conservative values to the next generation.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, my speech in Prescott, Arizona.
00:00:04.000 I take questions in the audience and we talk about the stakes that are in front of us.
00:00:08.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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00:00:16.000 Get involved with TurningPointUSA today at tpusa.com.
00:00:21.000 That is tpusa.com.
00:00:25.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:26.000 Here we go.
00:00:27.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:29.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
00:00:31.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:34.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:38.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:39.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:40.000 His 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.
00:00:48.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:00:57.000 That's why we are here.
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00:01:09.000 Thank you, everybody.
00:01:09.000 Please take a seat.
00:01:11.000 What a wonderful introduction that is.
00:01:12.000 And great to be here, everybody.
00:01:15.000 And that was a fabulous speech.
00:01:17.000 You know, I got to be honest with you.
00:01:19.000 Somebody told me, they sent me an email.
00:01:21.000 They said, Charlie, you know, Lindsey Graham is introducing you.
00:01:27.000 I said, oh, really?
00:01:28.000 Can I get there early and ask the senator a couple questions?
00:01:32.000 I said, Lindsey Graham really is going to come to this beautiful part of Arizona and introduce me.
00:01:40.000 I said, let's just do a debate.
00:01:41.000 I'd love to ask a couple questions, Mr. Graham.
00:01:45.000 But I told her, she's got to change her name. 1.00
00:01:47.000 Oh, he's got to change his name because he's no good, I'll tell you.
00:01:51.000 He's got big problems.
00:01:55.000 Anyway, great to be here.
00:01:57.000 Lots we can talk about.
00:01:59.000 We're going to do some questions tonight, which is actually my favorite and the most important.
00:02:03.000 I first want to relay my gratitude for all of you that support us at Turning Point USA.
00:02:10.000 Look, I'm a little biased, but I believe that the work that Turning Point is doing is the most important work in the country.
00:02:17.000 If we do not pass down our values on high school or college campuses, the country is over with.
00:02:25.000 You know, look, we're going to talk about election integrity.
00:02:28.000 We're going to talk about elections.
00:02:30.000 We're going to talk about a lot of things.
00:02:31.000 But the long-term game is what the Marxists have been doing against us for quite some time.
00:02:36.000 We have to pass down our values to the next generation.
00:02:39.000 It's not happening at all.
00:02:41.000 In fact, the opposite is happening.
00:02:42.000 They're teaching young people that the flag is colonialist, racist, misogynistic, bigoted.
00:02:47.000 And Turning Point USA believes we are the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:02:51.000 We believe in the promise of the Declaration and the Constitution, and we're not afraid to go against the left.
00:03:01.000 You know, there's a lot of timidity sometimes in the conservative movement.
00:03:05.000 We go to the places where we're not always welcome.
00:03:07.000 But you know what's amazing?
00:03:08.000 We finished our campus tour, and we do so much at Turning Point USA, and it's a movement bigger than anything I could have ever imagined.
00:03:15.000 The biggest problem that we had this last semester, whether it be bringing Riley Gaines, who's amazing on campus, or Candace Owens, who works with us at Turning Point USA.
00:03:26.000 You know what the biggest problem we had is we could not find rooms big enough to fit all the students that wanted to attend our events.
00:03:35.000 And look, we're not always a majority on these campuses, but there's a lot more conservative, patriotic young people out there than the media would ever lead you to believe.
00:03:46.000 And they're not, and you know, it's amazing.
00:03:48.000 Sometimes, like, for example, I spoke at UC Davis, and this happens every so often.
00:03:52.000 You know, Antifa comes with their weapons, and they come with their mostly peaceful approaches of bashing windows and all that nonsense.
00:04:02.000 And the administrators come after us.
00:04:05.000 The chancellor of the university, UC Davis, comes after me and attacks me personally and slandered me and just attacked me personally.
00:04:14.000 And you think about it.
00:04:15.000 Here's an optional voluntary event for 90 minutes where I allow anybody that disagrees to go to the front of the line and have a microphone uninterrupted and say whatever they want to me.
00:04:27.000 And you got to wonder, okay, you have four years with these kids.
00:04:32.000 I get 90 minutes and you guys lose your mind.
00:04:36.000 Maybe it's because you're afraid that I got something to say to these kids and you might lose your ideological monopoly on me.
00:04:43.000 90 minutes.
00:04:44.000 Give me 90 minutes with a student and I'll at least get them to think differently.
00:04:49.000 And again, you know, we say to anyone that disagrees on these campus events, and again, if there's someone that disagrees tonight, you're welcome to ask a question.
00:04:56.000 You know, the rule applies everywhere, but I think in this beautiful part of Arizona, it's mostly warm and welcoming, but we'll see.
00:05:04.000 Again, whatever, it's an open invitation.
00:05:08.000 And it really all of a sudden puts them on defense.
00:05:11.000 They say, you know, we're not used to having somebody have to challenge our beliefs and our values.
00:05:16.000 And again, we go into these hostile environments.
00:05:18.000 And there's a couple things I want to mention tonight.
00:05:20.000 Look, this beautiful part of Arizona, Yattapai County, is under attack from the left.
00:05:24.000 You know this.
00:05:25.000 This place is changing, okay?
00:05:27.000 And something the left does very well is they constantly play offense.
00:05:31.000 Arizona is my home now.
00:05:32.000 It wasn't originally.
00:05:33.000 I grew up in Chicago.
00:05:35.000 Anyone as a refugee from Illinois?
00:05:36.000 Anybody?
00:05:37.000 A couple people?
00:05:38.000 Yeah, wow, a lot of hands.
00:05:41.000 And Illinois used to be a great place.
00:05:43.000 That's not a joke.
00:05:44.000 Chicago used to be a great, it used to be a great city.
00:05:47.000 That is not a joke.
00:05:48.000 It's a laughingstock now.
00:05:50.000 It's a third world hellscape dystopia.
00:05:52.000 And I don't say that with delight.
00:05:54.000 I used to love that place.
00:05:55.000 And I'm tired of running.
00:05:57.000 I'm tired of having to flee a city.
00:05:59.000 I don't want to have to live here.
00:06:00.000 I have a daughter.
00:06:01.000 I want to raise my kids and my grandkids here in this state.
00:06:04.000 But let's be honest, the way this state is going, we're all going to have to leave.
00:06:08.000 It's not going in the right direction, everybody.
00:06:11.000 It is rapidly becoming a Colorado or a California.
00:06:15.000 And we got to talk about it.
00:06:18.000 Now, this part of the state, you guys have got your act together.
00:06:20.000 You believe in law and order.
00:06:22.000 You guys are voting very ruby red.
00:06:24.000 And you guys, whatever you're doing, you need to do more of it.
00:06:26.000 But of course, they're coming into the teacher unions and the local school districts.
00:06:30.000 These people don't stop.
00:06:31.000 They're trying to infect the local institutions here.
00:06:34.000 And I only know some of the specifics, but I get so many messages and emails.
00:06:38.000 And again, it's so interesting, right?
00:06:41.000 That the left, they leave the Bay Area and they start doing research and they say, oh, yeah, you know, the crime and all this stuff.
00:06:49.000 Let's go ruin Prescott. 1.00
00:06:50.000 Like, okay. 0.97
00:06:54.000 They come with this parasitic ideology, right?
00:06:57.000 I mean, look, I live in Scottsdale, and Scottsdale is not the Scottsdale of 10 years ago.
00:07:02.000 I mean, it is changing rapidly.
00:07:04.000 They're doing queer theory in the schools, critical race theory, the vagrancy, the homelessness. 1.00
00:07:09.000 And again, I don't want to ruin your night, and I don't dwell on this except for the point that it's a fact.
00:07:15.000 A person that was hypnotized by trans ideology murdered a 29-year-old girl on a hiking trail at 10 a.m. in the morning.
00:07:23.000 Did you see this story?
00:07:24.000 In Scottsdale.
00:07:26.000 Like, this is not Tucson, all right?
00:07:28.000 Tucson is not my favorite place, okay?
00:07:31.000 But I mean, no offense.
00:07:33.000 It's fine, but if they built the wall at Pima County, I don't think anybody would be the same.
00:07:45.000 I'm going to be honest, when the voting results came in, I think that if you were going to audit one place in Arizona, you got to audit Pima County.
00:07:52.000 I just do not believe.
00:07:54.000 Another 30,000 votes, another 40, forget it, okay?
00:07:57.000 Maricopa is worth auditing, but Pima County, give me a break.
00:08:00.000 Anyway, if I offended you and you're from Pima County, stop taking yourself so seriously because the place is not great.
00:08:10.000 So, but this young lady, she's 29 years old walking her dog in Scottsdale, and she gets murdered, stabbed 15 times.
00:08:18.000 That's not the Arizona we remember.
00:08:20.000 Scottsdale, are you kidding me right near the Mayo Clinic?
00:08:22.000 By a guy who's trans, by the way.
00:08:24.000 He comes out and he says, I wanted to be her.
00:08:27.000 They, them pronouns.
00:08:28.000 Has the media covered that?
00:08:29.000 Has the media covered that a trans person murdered a 29-year-old on a hiking trail in Scottsdale?
00:08:35.000 Where's Katie Hobbs, by the way? 1.00
00:08:36.000 She's probably doing some trans parade thing. 1.00
00:08:40.000 Now, she's a coward and she shouldn't be. 1.00
00:08:40.000 Right? 1.00
00:08:42.000 She's an illegitimate governor, if you ask me. 1.00
00:08:44.000 She shouldn't be going this state.
00:08:52.000 And so, look, the state is changing.
00:08:54.000 I mean, you know that.
00:08:55.000 I just have to little things to remind you.
00:08:58.000 But what frustrates me the most, and I think what animates you and why you're here tonight, is that I still think we're the majority of this state.
00:09:07.000 I think decent people still outnumber the indecent. 0.99
00:09:10.000 I'm tired of these labels.
00:09:12.000 By the way, I know this is a Republican event.
00:09:14.000 I don't associate with most Republicans.
00:09:16.000 I don't. 0.98
00:09:17.000 I think most Republicans are a waste of rations. 0.98
00:09:20.000 I really do. 0.95
00:09:21.000 Now, you might say, well, Charlie, you know, what about, of course, they're better than Democrats, but I'm sick of the Mitt Romneys, right?
00:09:27.000 I'm sick of it.
00:09:29.000 I'm sick of it.
00:09:31.000 Right?
00:09:32.000 I want fighters.
00:09:33.000 I want people that are actually going to listen to their voters and stop protecting the uniparty consensus and acting like everything is great.
00:09:39.000 I think it's a listen to your voters.
00:09:44.000 One of my favorite speeches, one of my favorite books ever written, and a speech given by Victor Frankl, who wrote Man's Search for Meaning and Yes to Life.
00:09:52.000 It's more of a philosophical book.
00:09:54.000 It's amazing, by the way.
00:09:55.000 Every young person should be required to read it.
00:09:57.000 He said, look, he went to a concentration camp, nearly lost his life.
00:10:02.000 And the point is that he said, look, there's really only two types of people.
00:10:05.000 There's the decent and the indecent.
00:10:07.000 And I think that's really powerful.
00:10:09.000 I think there's more decent people in Arizona than indecent people. 0.90
00:10:12.000 Katie Hobbs is not a decent person. 1.00
00:10:14.000 She's not a decent person. 1.00
00:10:16.000 And yeah, it manifests itself politically at times, right?
00:10:21.000 But I don't think this state is ideologically or politically as far gone as it feels with these results.
00:10:30.000 Okay?
00:10:31.000 So then what is there to do?
00:10:32.000 Well, you guys got to keep on.
00:10:34.000 You guys have been doing a pretty good job up here.
00:10:36.000 In Maricopa, we got a whole mess of stuff to fix.
00:10:38.000 But, you know, you guys are able to get your results within a week, which is amazing.
00:10:43.000 For us, it's like an all-quarter affair, right?
00:10:47.000 20,000 votes here, 30,000 votes.
00:10:49.000 The whole thing is a mockery.
00:10:50.000 It's a joke.
00:10:51.000 And look, I'm an outsider coming into this state.
00:10:53.000 Again, I'm still learning how to pronounce all these beautiful counties.
00:10:56.000 It's like, you know, on my live stream, oh my goodness, when I first said Prescott, oh my goodness, it was.
00:11:07.000 I had to repent.
00:11:09.000 It was, so I never made that mistake again.
00:11:13.000 I got 20,000 emails, I think, from some of you with the phonetic spelling and some other very salty language.
00:11:22.000 But the point was taken well.
00:11:26.000 So I'm still learning the state.
00:11:27.000 I'm an outsider, but here's what I could tell you.
00:11:29.000 I've traveled all 50 states.
00:11:30.000 I've had a chance to travel the world a fair amount.
00:11:34.000 I'm young.
00:11:34.000 I've seen a lot.
00:11:35.000 I've learned a lot.
00:11:36.000 I love this country.
00:11:36.000 I love this state.
00:11:38.000 And we're not going to win back the state by doing the same thing we've done over and over again.
00:11:43.000 It's not going to happen.
00:11:46.000 And what does that mean, right?
00:11:48.000 Well, look, I think this state is at its best when we call out that part of our problem has been Republicans in this state.
00:11:59.000 Part of our problem, not all the time, but part of the time.
00:12:02.000 That part of the problem is that people don't see necessarily the differences.
00:12:07.000 They don't see the clear fighting for their values.
00:12:11.000 You know, they don't always see the contrast between Democrats or Republicans.
00:12:17.000 I do believe this state is a center-right state.
00:12:20.000 And here's also the exciting thing for so many of you.
00:12:22.000 You probably say, Charlie, how are we going to win the White House in 2024?
00:12:26.000 Now, look, I'm honest to a fault.
00:12:28.000 I'm brutally honest.
00:12:29.000 I'm also a very positive person, right?
00:12:31.000 So it's very difficult to be both at times, especially when your country is under enemy occupation of an illegitimate president and illegitimate governor.
00:12:39.000 So it's very hard, right?
00:12:40.000 Very hard.
00:12:41.000 But you got to be positive, right?
00:12:43.000 Life is not worth living if you're perpetually negative, especially if you're a religious person.
00:12:48.000 You have to be positive.
00:12:49.000 I think if you're a Christian, it's necessary because you should have ultimate hope.
00:12:53.000 I think that that's without saying.
00:12:55.000 But things are not looking good for 2024.
00:12:58.000 We got to be honest.
00:12:59.000 Just not, okay?
00:13:01.000 And it's not, there is just one thing you remember.
00:13:05.000 I'm a Trump guy 100%.
00:13:06.000 If you're not a Trump guy, I really, just whatever.
00:13:09.000 I'm not here to tell you to be a Trump guy or not, because I'm not going to say, okay, well, maybe you're all Trump people.
00:13:14.000 There you go.
00:13:15.000 So, and I've got to know the man very well.
00:13:15.000 Sure.
00:13:21.000 He's got, look, we all have flaws, but boy, does he have virtues?
00:13:25.000 Here's my one piece of advice to you.
00:13:26.000 Anytime anyone tells you about how flawed he is, say, can you name one virtue of the man?
00:13:32.000 And if they can't name one, they're intellectually dishonest and they're an intellectual coward because he has a lot of virtues.
00:13:37.000 He's courageous.
00:13:38.000 He works his tail off.
00:13:40.000 He's exposed the deep state.
00:13:41.000 I mean, again, this Durham report is such a joke, right?
00:13:44.000 But now, do you need more evidence that this guy has been unconstitutionally targeted from every possible direction?
00:13:52.000 I mean, every direction.
00:13:53.000 So, okay, but if you're a DeSantis person or if you're a Nikki Haley person, I'd love to meet you because I haven't met one yet.
00:13:58.000 But if you're any one of these people, right?
00:14:00.000 Whatever.
00:14:02.000 It's actually not the point of my speech here tonight.
00:14:05.000 Primary will play itself out.
00:14:06.000 I think the primary should largely be ended because the point is this.
00:14:10.000 The day of candidates mattering as the most important thing is over.
00:14:14.000 It is done.
00:14:15.000 If you believe that, you're living in an antiquated electoral and political system, okay? 0.99
00:14:20.000 Just look at John Fetterman, who, all jokes aside, is a brain-dead person. 1.00
00:14:24.000 He's brain-dead. 0.99
00:14:24.000 Okay? 0.99
00:14:25.000 I'm not trying to make light of it.
00:14:27.000 He literally cannot talk in sentient sentences.
00:14:30.000 Okay?
00:14:31.000 That's not a joke.
00:14:32.000 It's a real thing.
00:14:33.000 Elected as senator.
00:14:35.000 And you might say, oh, Charlie, how can Joe Biden possibly?
00:14:38.000 It's not about the candidate.
00:14:40.000 It's about the multi-billion dollar machine they come in to harvest ballots and chase ballots and register voters and relax signature verification requirements.
00:14:49.000 So what I'm trying to get at in the philosophy, if I can communicate, if you're like, boy, we got to win back the White House, I agree, right?
00:14:55.000 And so I think Trump's going to be the nominee either the hard way or the easy way.
00:14:59.000 I hope we take the easy way, okay?
00:15:00.000 The easy way is the other candidates decide not to go through the chainsaw and have their political career ruined, okay?
00:15:07.000 I said that's very expensive.
00:15:09.000 A lot of people are going to get rich and there'll be a lot of entertaining television and Trump's going to have to do the Trump thing where he decides to destroy one political career in slow motion on TV after another.
00:15:17.000 I'm sorry, that's what he does.
00:15:19.000 You might not like it, but then great quote from St. Augustine.
00:15:23.000 If you argue with reality, welcome to hell.
00:15:25.000 If you think that you can beat Donald Trump in the gutter, like you're done. 0.99
00:15:30.000 The guy is a Brooklyn street fighter and he's going to beat you.
00:15:30.000 I'm sorry.
00:15:33.000 Okay?
00:15:35.000 You might not like it.
00:15:36.000 The guy will beat you.
00:15:38.000 And you might say, well, Charlie, you know, I don't like it.
00:15:42.000 Again, you don't get, there's things in life you get to choose and not choose.
00:15:46.000 What you do get to say is he's better.
00:15:48.000 If you don't think he's better than Joe Biden, then that's besides the point.
00:15:51.000 Here's what I'm going to tell you, though.
00:15:53.000 You might say, but I don't like him because I don't think he can win.
00:15:56.000 Anybody can win.
00:15:58.000 By the way, he already won.
00:16:00.000 Okay, so he might, either in 16 and 20. 0.63
00:16:03.000 So don't like, it's a silly argument.
00:16:05.000 But I do acknowledge that, yes, a lot of people hate him.
00:16:08.000 Okay.
00:16:09.000 A lot of people are going to be motivated to cheat and lie and steal and all that sort of stuff.
00:16:12.000 Okay, fine.
00:16:13.000 But even with all that, all the baggage, they're going to indict him another three times.
00:16:16.000 It doesn't matter to me.
00:16:17.000 It shouldn't matter to you. 0.96
00:16:18.000 It's all a bunch of nonsense. 0.77
00:16:20.000 And they're going to do all this stuff.
00:16:21.000 Here's what matters or does not matter.
00:16:24.000 Do we have a political machine that can get our low-propensity voters out?
00:16:28.000 Do we have an election integrity machine?
00:16:31.000 Are we actively trying to replace the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors?
00:16:36.000 That matters a lot more to me than whether or not Donald Trump's going to have 52 or 60% of the delegates.
00:16:43.000 That's not interesting to me, okay?
00:16:46.000 It will be entertaining to me.
00:16:47.000 Maybe in the evening, great for ratings, by the way.
00:16:50.000 Our podcast is taken off because of the horse race.
00:16:52.000 It's not good for the country because you know why?
00:16:54.000 The Democrats are going to laugh at us.
00:16:56.000 They're going to have a complete, okay, Joe Biden, Cenal and all that.
00:16:59.000 Doesn't matter.
00:17:00.000 They're going to put him into a multi-billion dollar machine where they're going to sue like crazy in Arizona.
00:17:04.000 They're going to make it easier to cheat, easier to steal.
00:17:07.000 And what are we doing?
00:17:07.000 We're bickering over delegates?
00:17:10.000 It's a recipe for disaster.
00:17:13.000 So I've called for an end to the primary, not just because I'm loyal to Trump, because he's a friend of mine, but because I believe that if we do not win the White House in 2024, boy, I hesitate to say what many of you are thinking.
00:17:26.000 We're going to be in really rough shape.
00:17:28.000 Okay, because I know some of you are probably saying the country's over.
00:17:30.000 I'm not going to say that, but we'll be closer to that precipice than ever.
00:17:35.000 With Title 42 being invaded 5,000 people a day, there's only so much we could take.
00:17:39.000 I think we agree, right?
00:17:40.000 There is no country that is unbreakable.
00:17:42.000 Boy, we've showed a great amount of toughness as a country having to deal with this, you know, this regime currently.
00:17:49.000 But it's very winnable.
00:17:51.000 So, what does that mean on the macro?
00:17:53.000 On the macro is it'd be nice if we had a Republican national committee that actually did their job.
00:17:58.000 The RNC is a complete waste of time.
00:18:00.000 Please stop giving money to them, okay?
00:18:02.000 Waste of time.
00:18:03.000 They don't spend your money well.
00:18:05.000 They're not investing in the key states.
00:18:06.000 They haven't invested in this state.
00:18:08.000 Okay, I make no friends by saying this.
00:18:09.000 I get attacked by them.
00:18:10.000 By the way, all of you guys agree, which just is confirmation of that.
00:18:13.000 Here's the point.
00:18:14.000 In this county, in Maricopa, here's what we're doing at Turning Point Action.
00:18:17.000 Okay?
00:18:18.000 We are going to do everything we possibly can to try to make change at the Board of Supervisors.
00:18:23.000 And here's the one thing that might not have full agreement, but Maricopa County in particular.
00:18:28.000 I think it's a mistake to tell everybody to go vote on one day.
00:18:32.000 I'm not saying to vote by mail, but in-person early voting needs to be entertained.
00:18:37.000 Why?
00:18:39.000 They, we broadcasted our play.
00:18:41.000 The great Carrie Lake said, hey, we're going to have everybody show up on Election Day. 1.00
00:18:45.000 And that smug little twerp, Bill Gates, and Stephen Richer said, oh, really?
00:18:50.000 You're going to have everyone show up on Election Day?
00:18:52.000 So you're broadcasting us your number one play?
00:18:55.000 It'd be a shame if all the machines in Anthem didn't work till 2 p.m.
00:19:01.000 It'd be a shame that in Wickenberg, the reddest part of Maricopa County, that they have three-hour waiting lines.
00:19:08.000 And you might say, well, Charlie, the solution is to get, you know, precinct-based voting.
00:19:12.000 I agree.
00:19:13.000 Not going to happen anytime soon.
00:19:15.000 So you got to play with the hand that you're dealt, right?
00:19:16.000 Precinct, by the way, we should have only one day of voting in the ideal. 0.68
00:19:20.000 I'll make sure my position is very clear, right?
00:19:22.000 One day voting, precinct-based, get rid of this mail and stuff, get rid of this absentee.
00:19:26.000 That's 100% what we need to work towards.
00:19:29.000 100%, right?
00:19:30.000 But, but, but, you got to deal with reality, right?
00:19:33.000 We got this awful situation ahead of us in 24.
00:19:36.000 So you have it.
00:19:37.000 We have a decision to make, right?
00:19:38.000 The decision is: do we do what we did in the midterms and in 2020 again, which is try to tell everyone to go vote on one day?
00:19:46.000 Or do we try to at least spread it out with the highest level of integrity possible?
00:19:51.000 Nothing's 100%.
00:19:52.000 Where I'm not a fan of mail-in.
00:19:54.000 I will never mail in a ballot.
00:19:55.000 That's just me personally.
00:19:56.000 If you do it, you have more trust in the system than I do.
00:19:59.000 But you know what I will do?
00:20:00.000 I'll go vote in person a couple days before, in person early.
00:20:04.000 Okay.
00:20:06.000 I don't feel as secure, but it's something.
00:20:09.000 You know why?
00:20:09.000 I will encourage someone because I get these emails from people.
00:20:13.000 Charlie, I couldn't vote because I'm disabled and I had to wait two hours in the sun and I wasn't able to cast my vote.
00:20:20.000 And I say to myself, it would have been better for that person to have been able to vote early the Saturday before the election than have to deal with that circus that the Maricopa County of cartel criminals put on election day, right?
00:20:32.000 It would have been better.
00:20:35.000 And so this is the way we have to start thinking.
00:20:38.000 And then we have to be filing blitz Kriegs of lawsuits.
00:20:41.000 Again, this is not my, we got enough stuff going on.
00:20:44.000 Where's the RNC, MIA? 1.00
00:20:45.000 We need a, let me say it again, a blitz Krieg of lawsuits to try to make it harder to cheat. 0.93
00:20:52.000 And again, it's got to be more than just carry and more than this.
00:20:54.000 We need stone-cold killers of people that do nothing but election integrity, lawfare.
00:21:00.000 And I'm telling you, this is not happening the way it should.
00:21:03.000 The Democrats sue 50 times for every time we sue.
00:21:07.000 They non-stop sue.
00:21:08.000 And it's like little stuff, you know, signature verification, nerdy stuff you might not think, but it adds up.
00:21:15.000 And you might say in this, oh, Charlie, you know, it doesn't make a difference.
00:21:17.000 I'm not convinced.
00:21:19.000 Okay, we have an awful, and I believe illegitimate attorney general right now because we said the little stuff does not matter.
00:21:32.000 That's 250 votes.
00:21:34.000 And let's just call it for what it is.
00:21:35.000 There is no way the votes that came out of Apache County were ethical or clear, okay?
00:21:43.000 Fraud on the native reservations is just well known.
00:21:46.000 No one wants to say it out loud.
00:21:48.000 They're all afraid of it.
00:21:49.000 They double vote, they triple vote.
00:21:51.000 And I'm still learning this: Navajo Nations in Apache County.
00:21:54.000 The whole thing is very confusing, not in Navajo County.
00:21:57.000 Anyway, but did you notice Abe Hamaday and Chris Mays are right there, neck and neck, and the projection show Abe Hamaday should have gone up by 100 votes.
00:22:04.000 And they just discover a bunch of votes in Apache County.
00:22:08.000 But guess what?
00:22:09.000 That was the result of many decades of lawsuits trying to make the native reservations untouchable.
00:22:15.000 All that lawfare added up.
00:22:18.000 All those little things.
00:22:19.000 I'm more interested in that than who can say a better one-liner on some Republican presidential debate in October.
00:22:27.000 I'm a lot more interested in the plumbing, the boring stuff, the clipboard and tennis shoes type stuff.
00:22:33.000 That's what's going to win the state.
00:22:34.000 Okay, so I'm going over time here and we'll go to questions, but I know all of you agree this great panic that's happening in the country.
00:22:42.000 I get it.
00:22:42.000 Okay?
00:22:44.000 Here's my other fear, and I want you all to agree to help remedy the fear.
00:22:50.000 We cannot disenfranchise ourselves.
00:22:54.000 You're never going to have 100% turnout, right?
00:22:59.000 But there is a trend that is manifesting of how much we have talked about the illegitimate election is people saying, well, then what's the point?
00:23:09.000 How should I vote at all?
00:23:11.000 That is an awful idea.
00:23:13.000 You need to stomp that out. 0.97
00:23:15.000 And anybody that says that, you need to say that is wrong.
00:23:18.000 That is giving the enemy what they want.
00:23:21.000 You have a duty and an obligation to continue to vote and to make voting more secure.
00:23:27.000 Because what the numbers are showing us is that there's a tapering effect of people say, well, you keep on talking about a stolen election.
00:23:37.000 What's the point?
00:23:39.000 That's not good, everybody.
00:23:41.000 That is a Democrat dream to have our best voters say.
00:23:46.000 And I'll tell you right now, the exact numbers, you know, in Yavapai, there were at least tens of thousands of voters that came out for Trump in 2020 that did not come out for Kerry Lake.
00:24:00.000 In Maricopa, it was, I think, well over 180,000 to 200,000.
00:24:04.000 Kerry Lake, I refuse to say the word lost.
00:24:07.000 Kerry Lake fell short of 17,000, 18,000 votes.
00:24:11.000 So who are these people?
00:24:12.000 Again, it's presidential year, but you got to wonder, were some of these people saying, forget it.
00:24:19.000 Forget it.
00:24:20.000 I'm done.
00:24:22.000 And I can prove part of it because we have a very active audience, and this is very perplexing to me on our radio show.
00:24:28.000 Anyone will listen on Real America's Voice if you guys do.
00:24:30.000 We love you guys.
00:24:31.000 Thank you.
00:24:33.000 The perplexing thing is people say, Charlie, I watch your show every single day.
00:24:37.000 And they email us and they prove it, right?
00:24:40.000 And I refuse to vote.
00:24:41.000 I say, really?
00:24:41.000 You spend time watching my show and you won't do like a seven-minute thing.
00:24:47.000 That to me, I have not figured out.
00:24:49.000 Thousands of emails, everybody, I received post-midterms of people in this state that said, I refuse to vote.
00:24:58.000 I can show you the emails.
00:25:00.000 We got a big problem.
00:25:02.000 We got to make sure we fix that in whatever way possible because the dream of the Democrats would be to have the Patriots stay home so that the bad guys can just waltz to victory.
00:25:16.000 We got to be vigilant about that all times.
00:25:18.000 Let me close with this and then we'll do some questions, which is Arizona can go one of two ways.
00:25:23.000 I'm committing my life and my career in the immediate to turn this state in an unexpected direction, to make it look much more like Florida and less like Colorado.
00:25:37.000 It can be done.
00:25:40.000 It can be done.
00:25:41.000 Somebody said, Charlie, you're running for office?
00:25:42.000 I said, no way, no way.
00:25:45.000 I said, I'm having way too much fun impacting millions of people, by the way, on what we're doing on our show.
00:25:51.000 And by the way, you want me doing this, not being some rink-a-ding senator or congressman.
00:25:55.000 That's boring.
00:25:55.000 You know what's interesting?
00:25:57.000 Getting millions of young people to love the country again.
00:25:59.000 That's interesting, right?
00:26:05.000 They win, though, when we surrender and we give up.
00:26:08.000 Their recipe, their equation, their formula is us saying, what is the point?
00:26:15.000 Yuri Besminov, who I encourage you all to become familiar with, was a Soviet KGB spy who then became a whistleblower and told us what the KGB playbook was.
00:26:27.000 He said, the most critical thing to turn a free country into a Marxist country is demoralization.
00:26:37.000 You are living through a deliberate, planned, concocted, and intentional demoralization and propaganda campaign.
00:26:48.000 That's what Title 42 is all about.
00:26:50.000 That's what Afghanistan was all about. 1.00
00:26:52.000 They want you to be like, man, whatever, I'm done.
00:26:57.000 And you turn off the TV.
00:26:59.000 We got to do the opposite.
00:27:00.000 We got to get more involved.
00:27:02.000 We have to stay more prayerful.
00:27:03.000 We have to be obedient regardless of how overwhelming things seem.
00:27:08.000 And, you know, people ask me, they say, well, Charlie, do you think we're going to win or we're going to lose?
00:27:13.000 And my honest answer, because I'm brutally honest, I have no idea.
00:27:18.000 I can't stand when people at events like this just, in the end, we're going to win.
00:27:21.000 Yeah, okay, in the ultimate end, I believe Jesus is on his throne, of course, obviously.
00:27:25.000 But I have no idea.
00:27:26.000 I have no guarantee this country will survive another decade.
00:27:29.000 No guarantee.
00:27:32.000 But I do know that I and you have an opportunity to do something about it.
00:27:38.000 I know that it's not for certain the collapse and it's not for certain the survival.
00:27:44.000 It is in this unknown middle.
00:27:48.000 That's exciting to me.
00:27:50.000 It's exciting because I get to be in a live at a time where every word I speak and every speech I give and everything I do makes a monumental generational difference.
00:28:02.000 And I hope all of you join me in that fight.
00:28:04.000 Okay, let's do some questions.
00:28:05.000 And thank you for letting me riff a little bit, everybody.
00:28:10.000 Yes.
00:28:13.000 Instead of a question, I have an axiom that you want to test because I know you test many claims that come by you.
00:28:18.000 Okay.
00:28:19.000 The first one is: when the culture offers no adventure, the only adventure left is to destroy the culture.
00:28:29.000 And the second one, you can respond to that if you want to answer that question.
00:28:32.000 Sure, no, there is some truth to that.
00:28:35.000 The other one is: there are no political solutions to spiritual problems.
00:28:41.000 That's interesting.
00:28:42.000 And all problems are spiritual problems.
00:28:46.000 I do agree with that.
00:28:47.000 So, however, so I try to stay away from phrases that are too absolute, except truth, because truth is absolute.
00:28:58.000 So, let's think about that.
00:29:00.000 There's no political solution to spiritual problems.
00:29:03.000 Does that mean that people that are spiritual should not act politically?
00:29:07.000 No, that's a mistake.
00:29:09.000 So, let me kind of push.
00:29:14.000 I'm a very outspoken and proud Christian.
00:29:16.000 I hope you are too.
00:29:18.000 And all problems in the physical are spiritual that manifest.
00:29:25.000 But when we, for example, contest at our local school board to try to protect an 11-year-old from being taught trans ideology, that's spiritually good for society and necessary.
00:29:39.000 Now, does that solve the spiritual rot?
00:29:41.000 No.
00:29:42.000 But politics and getting involved in the civic arena is a place where good people can fight evil people, and we should.
00:29:52.000 And so, this is some people will say, well, Charlie, it's all spiritual.
00:29:56.000 Politics has no place at all.
00:29:58.000 We just need to try to win souls over.
00:30:00.000 We need to do that.
00:30:01.000 But that is so morally troubling.
00:30:05.000 If that was the case, why does it say in Jeremiah 29, 7, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in, because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare?
00:30:13.000 If that's the case, what are we supposed to make of Daniel or Esther or Mordecai, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Joseph, who were counselors to the king trying to fight for goodness?
00:30:23.000 So we should make, we'd be very clear, politics will not lead to any sort of salvation.
00:30:28.000 It will not lead towards any sort of ultimate redemption.
00:30:31.000 But politics matters a lot.
00:30:34.000 It matters a lot to how we're ruled, how we treat the innocent, whether or not church is deemed essential or non-essential.
00:30:41.000 It matters whether or not the unborn are protected.
00:30:44.000 It matters whether or not 14-year-olds are able to chemically castrate themselves without parental permission.
00:30:50.000 It matters a lot whether or not you could send your kid to the school of your choice.
00:30:54.000 It matters a lot whether or not you can own firearms.
00:30:58.000 And so I would make the argument that the basic reason I'm a conservative is for spiritual reasons.
00:31:05.000 But we also must understand that there is an invisible game around us that is constantly playing, that is playing out.
00:31:12.000 But remember, Satan is the prince of this world.
00:31:18.000 And I believe that we are called to push back against evil.
00:31:21.000 Psalm 97:10.
00:31:23.000 My favorite Bible verse, everyone has their own favorite Bible verse.
00:31:27.000 If you love God, you must hate evil.
00:31:31.000 I think Christians have done a great job of building big churches.
00:31:36.000 Good job of having very well-produced televangelism series.
00:31:44.000 I think modern Christianity has failed in the regard of hating evil.
00:31:49.000 I think we've done a very poor job of that.
00:31:51.000 Thank you so much.
00:31:56.000 Thank you, Charlie, first of all, for coming out.
00:31:58.000 It's very stimulating, and I enjoyed listening to you.
00:32:02.000 I'm going to speak on behalf of, I'll just call myself the average Joe.
00:32:06.000 Sure.
00:32:07.000 What can I do in a kind of an impactful way to help keep Arizona red?
00:32:13.000 It's a great question.
00:32:14.000 First, you have to believe that every decision you make matters.
00:32:18.000 The enemy and the opposition will try to disempower your micro decisions towards the macro.
00:32:25.000 First of all, I'm a big believer in duty and obedience to doing what is right regardless of how you think things will turn out.
00:32:32.000 I believe it morally and I believe it spiritually.
00:32:35.000 I think far too often Christians and conservatives wager their activism based on whether or not they think things are going to go their way.
00:32:43.000 I think that's wrong.
00:32:44.000 That goes against the core tenet of duty, which is I'm going to do what is right always, routinely, regardless of the kind of wagering odds.
00:32:53.000 So that's number one.
00:32:54.000 You have to commit to that.
00:32:55.000 And then I'll just remind you from a very concrete example.
00:32:58.000 If we would have been able to get 300, let's just say 500 other people statewide, we might have a Republican attorney general that could be actively suing this Democrat governor.
00:33:10.000 And so I know people that emailed me, my vote does not matter.
00:33:15.000 It does not matter.
00:33:17.000 Yeah, I have over 400 of those in Arizona, and they didn't vote.
00:33:21.000 And it just pains me.
00:33:22.000 I was like, my goodness, am I not getting the message across?
00:33:24.000 Am I not?
00:33:25.000 So I did a lot of soul searching.
00:33:27.000 Yeah, thank you.
00:33:28.000 And so that's one thing.
00:33:31.000 But what can the quote-unquote average person do?
00:33:33.000 Well, I don't believe in anything such as the average at all.
00:33:36.000 I think every person can act in heroic and beautiful in big ways.
00:33:40.000 Number one, you got to pray for your nation, fast for your nation, get your spiritual disciplines right.
00:33:44.000 I think that's really important.
00:33:45.000 The third thing, if you're not a precinct committee person, I encourage you to become a precinct committee person.
00:33:49.000 It's incredibly important.
00:33:51.000 It's the backbone of the Republican Party here.
00:33:54.000 Get involved in the Republican Party, which again, it might appear that I'm contradicting myself because I'm like the number one critic against the Republican Party.
00:34:02.000 But again, I live in reality.
00:34:04.000 I don't live in dreamland.
00:34:06.000 The Republican Party has to be a vessel for grassroots American patriots.
00:34:11.000 The third party is not going to happen. 1.00
00:34:12.000 It is a silly, stupid idea. 1.00
00:34:14.000 It's not going to happen, okay? 1.00
00:34:16.000 It will fracture ourselves.
00:34:17.000 Trust me.
00:34:18.000 So let's make the Republican Party people-centered, grassroots-centered, become a precinct committee person.
00:34:24.000 It matters more than you could ever imagine.
00:34:26.000 And then finally, you know, when it becomes time for when ballots go out, you know, volunteer as a ballot chaser and try to get low-propensity voters that have a likelihood of being disenfranchised on election day, and particularly people that can't stand in line for two hours for two reasons.
00:34:45.000 Time because they have a lot of kids or because of physical issues to try to vote the most secure way possible so we do not have a redux of the 2022 midterm election.
00:34:56.000 My hope is that we have a system, we're trying to develop it at turning point action, but if somebody else wants to do it, if the AZGOP will do it, praise God, I'll happily step aside, where millions of average Joes, don't like the term, but that's your term, right? 0.92
00:35:12.000 Ordinary people can feel empowered to do 30 minutes of activism a day to try to win back Arizona, right?
00:35:20.000 And I know that so many of you are going to say, Charlie, put me to work, but we need to find a way to put all of your energy to work in the best possible way.
00:35:28.000 And I think that way, quite honestly, is learning the lesson from the mess of the midterms of 2022 and not allowing the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to try.
00:35:40.000 You think I'm mad because they disenfranchised Carrie Lake? 0.88
00:35:43.000 Imagine if the whole country comes down to Arizona and we fall 800 votes short.
00:35:48.000 Oh my goodness.
00:35:49.000 Could you imagine?
00:35:50.000 We got to do everything we possibly can to not let that happen.
00:35:53.000 God bless you.
00:35:54.000 Thank you so much.
00:35:56.000 Are we going in?
00:35:56.000 Where are we going?
00:35:57.000 We're going here.
00:35:58.000 The next question is from Linda Gray, former senator of Arizona.
00:36:03.000 Eric McTaska, in his book, Letter to the American Church.
00:36:09.000 I would like your analogy of his book and pastors who are afraid to preach God's word, the penalties, and yet the love for people who ask for forgiveness.
00:36:23.000 How do we get pastors to get involved, speak the truth, and get away from separation of church and state and allowing pastors to go ahead and speak about different candidates and policies?
00:36:38.000 Yeah, first, I just had Eric on the show.
00:36:40.000 He's terrific, and I love the book.
00:36:43.000 We have a pastor summit, actually, at TPUSA.
00:36:46.000 We're doing next week.
00:36:47.000 We have a thousand pastors coming to our pastor summit, the largest in the country.
00:36:52.000 Isn't that amazing?
00:36:54.000 So we got a lot going on at turning point.
00:36:56.000 We see a problem, we try to fix it.
00:36:58.000 That's why we're in the game, right?
00:37:02.000 So I analyze this as there's three different types of pastors and churches.
00:37:10.000 I will first talk about the courageous.
00:37:12.000 There are some amazing courageous pastors.
00:37:15.000 I hope you have some here in this local area.
00:37:16.000 I'm sure you do.
00:37:18.000 These are people that, for example, praised God and thanked God for the reversal of Roe versus Wade.
00:37:24.000 Just thanked from the pulpit.
00:37:26.000 Do you know that 95% of American pastors didn't mention the reversal of Roe versus Wade from the pulpit?
00:37:33.000 I had a pastor come up to me and he said, Charlie, when is God going to make a move of grace and intervention in the country?
00:37:39.000 I said, oh, he did.
00:37:41.000 The reversal of Roe versus Wade is nothing short of a miracle. 0.95
00:37:47.000 Nothing short of a miracle.
00:37:50.000 And 95% of his brides said, meh, not impressed, God.
00:37:56.000 Stop praying for a miracle if you don't thank God when they happen.
00:38:00.000 So most pastors are indifferent towards God's miraculous moves.
00:38:04.000 So that's a problem.
00:38:05.000 But there are courageous ones.
00:38:07.000 Jack Hibbs is a great pastor, for example.
00:38:09.000 He does a beautiful job.
00:38:12.000 The church that we do so much stuff with, beautiful friends, Dream City Church down in the valley.
00:38:16.000 I don't even know about the Barnett family.
00:38:18.000 They do a great job.
00:38:19.000 They're courageous.
00:38:20.000 They're bold.
00:38:21.000 They're awesome.
00:38:22.000 And Mark Driscoll's doing a great job at Trinity Church, too, in the valley.
00:38:27.000 And it goes across theological denominations, which is great.
00:38:33.000 And then there's the complicit churches, which I call out.
00:38:39.000 I believe that they are doing essentially what it said in 1 Peter.
00:38:43.000 They're false prophets. 0.99
00:38:44.000 These are the gay pride pastors. 0.99
00:38:46.000 These are the trans, the LGBT, the CRT, the racial justice. 0.99
00:38:51.000 I have no patience for these pastors.
00:38:53.000 They are not a majority.
00:38:54.000 They're about 5% to 10%.
00:38:56.000 But you know what I'm talking about.
00:38:57.000 I mean, what has happened to the Lutheran church, by the way?
00:38:59.000 I mean, I was in Sedona the other day and I drove by, and there were more gay references outside of this Lutheran church than about Jesus.
00:39:11.000 I couldn't believe it.
00:39:11.000 And the Methodist church and Episcopalian, it's just where mainline Protestantism has gone in this country.
00:39:17.000 It's just, it's sick. 0.97
00:39:18.000 It really is.
00:39:19.000 But then there, and I made a promise to a friend.
00:39:23.000 So I'm going to try to not break the promise. 0.88
00:39:25.000 I promised I wouldn't call these pastors cowards, so I'm not calling them cowards. 0.87
00:39:30.000 So they're the most, the biggest group, right?
00:39:37.000 So we know what they're not, but they're opportunities.
00:39:40.000 They're moldable.
00:39:41.000 These are the people that we need that are 70 to 80 percent of pastors.
00:39:48.000 And a lot of them are great people.
00:39:50.000 They're in it for the right reasons, but they'll say something of this garden variety of nonsensical, anti-biblical jargon.
00:39:58.000 Okay?
00:39:59.000 I only preach the gospel.
00:40:02.000 Or we don't do politics around here.
00:40:05.000 Or that's too divisive.
00:40:08.000 Now, lovingly but truthfully, because Jesus was both, love and truth, 100% of both, you should say that's a bunch of nonsense.
00:40:15.000 Hold on.
00:40:16.000 You only preach the gospel?
00:40:18.000 What does the gospel say about harming children?
00:40:21.000 Tell me.
00:40:22.000 Do you preach that? 0.99
00:40:23.000 Because we're harming thousands of kids, millions of kids, with this pornographic transgender nonsense in our schools across the country. 1.00
00:40:31.000 He mentioned that. 0.99
00:40:33.000 How about this?
00:40:35.000 I only preach the gospel, is what they say.
00:40:38.000 Well, what is the gospel?
00:40:39.000 Tell me.
00:40:40.000 And if the gospel can be understood, why did Jesus quote Deuteronomy more than any other book?
00:40:44.000 You know, Deuteronomy is the most quoted book, secular or religious, that the founding fathers cited in the creation of our government.
00:40:52.000 If you do not have a pastor that can even spell Deuteronomy, he should resign.
00:41:00.000 They're almost like they're repulsed by the Torah, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
00:41:04.000 Yeah, they're tough books.
00:41:05.000 Learn them or get out of the ministry.
00:41:08.000 Go learn Hebrew.
00:41:09.000 Get into it.
00:41:10.000 You have no place preaching the word of God if you do not understand what the laws of Moses have to say and why Jesus was taught not just as in the Torah, but referenced it as a way towards our ultimate salvation.
00:41:22.000 It has a lot to say about civil government.
00:41:23.000 And then finally, the other things they say is, well, we don't do division around here.
00:41:27.000 And this is the one that just drives me the most nuts.
00:41:30.000 Look, if you got into the ministry to unite people, you got into the wrong line of business.
00:41:38.000 You should try to love all people.
00:41:39.000 You should try to heal people.
00:41:41.000 But in Luke 15, it says, I did not come here to unite.
00:41:45.000 I came here to divide, to literally turn brother against brother and father against son.
00:41:51.000 Look, folks, when you're talking about the issues of eternity, it is by default divisive.
00:41:58.000 Truth in a world of lies is necessarily divisive.
00:42:04.000 Since when do we allow the word divisive?
00:42:08.000 Instead, we should say, you know what it is?
00:42:10.000 No, it's clarifying.
00:42:12.000 What you call divisive, I call liberating, because I can see distinctions between good and evil, the holy and the profane, between man and woman, between man and nature, between man and God.
00:42:24.000 What you call dividing, I call distinctions, which is what keeps us from the chaos of the loss that Satan wishes for us.
00:42:30.000 If your pastor is repeating that jargon, should lovingly go find something else for that person.
00:42:36.000 There's a lot of things they could be called into.
00:42:39.000 You know what we need?
00:42:40.000 We need a Bonhoeffer brigade in this country.
00:42:43.000 That's what we need.
00:42:45.000 We need pastors that are willing to say, you know what?
00:42:48.000 I'm going to stand bold and courageous.
00:42:51.000 Most important thing is winning the souls for Christ.
00:42:53.000 The second most important thing is to make sure you can do the first thing.
00:42:55.000 If we don't get this right, oh, Charlie, I don't like them because they're Calvinist.
00:42:58.000 I don't care.
00:42:59.000 I don't like them as a Pentecostal.
00:43:00.000 I don't care.
00:43:01.000 I don't like them as they're Presbyterian. 0.99
00:43:02.000 I don't care.
00:43:02.000 You know what?
00:43:03.000 You don't get your act together.
00:43:04.000 We're going to be having these theological debates from prison.
00:43:08.000 We allow the church to be shut down and strip clubs, marijuana dispensaries, and liquor stores to remain open.
00:43:12.000 The church was deemed non-essential, and they took Pentecost and Easter from us.
00:43:16.000 And we just kind of sit down and sit idly by.
00:43:18.000 No, no, no, no.
00:43:18.000 The church is just waiting to be reawakened.
00:43:22.000 And I can see it in your eyes.
00:43:22.000 I can see it in your reaction.
00:43:24.000 You're probably saying, Charlie, why is my pastor not doing this?
00:43:27.000 Because they're afraid.
00:43:29.000 Challenge them, love on them.
00:43:31.000 If they don't course correct, leave that church.
00:43:34.000 Thank you so much.
00:43:35.000 Next question.
00:43:40.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:43:40.000 I'm Deanne Bennett.
00:43:42.000 I just moved to Prescott, Arizona, 10 months ago from Las Vegas, Nevada.
00:43:46.000 My question to you is: how do we keep Marxism out of our churches and out of our Christian schools?
00:43:54.000 The left has gone after accreditation organizations to get to our Christian schools because they would never be able to do it one at a time.
00:44:02.000 And I had to leave a church of 5,000 in 2020 because they were teaching my children white privilege, white passing, things like this on a youth group.
00:44:12.000 It was a seven-week YouTube series, and I was devastated by this as a Christian woman who loves Jesus.
00:44:18.000 What can I do?
00:44:20.000 I can sense you love Jesus, and thank you for the honesty.
00:44:23.000 So, what can you do?
00:44:28.000 Since, where in the Bible does it say that tolerance is a virtue?
00:44:34.000 It doesn't.
00:44:36.000 Why do we allow secular religions to dictate how we run our churches? 0.98
00:44:41.000 I'm told by pastors we have to be tolerant.
00:44:43.000 I say, why?
00:44:44.000 And then you know what I say?
00:44:45.000 I say, what's the Greek word for tolerance?
00:44:48.000 And they say, I don't know yet, because there really isn't one, because it's not in the New Testament.
00:44:54.000 I could tell you the Greek word for love, for compassion, for long-suffering, for sympathy, but for tolerance.
00:45:03.000 No, no, no, the opposite is actually said.
00:45:06.000 You should not tolerate evil.
00:45:08.000 You should not tolerate lies.
00:45:11.000 You see, we conflate love with acceptance of bad worldviews, unbiblical beliefs, and the two totally different things.
00:45:21.000 And I'll prove to you the best example of this, okay?
00:45:24.000 Because you might say, well, Charlie, how does this manifest?
00:45:27.000 The woke pastor, like Andy Stanley, for example, who's a disaster, right, from Georgia, very popular, he brings up a trans person on stage, and he says, this person is the bravest person I know and is wonderful.
00:45:42.000 And we need to affirm this person and affirm how they see themselves.
00:45:45.000 Big pastor in Georgia, right?
00:45:49.000 Because he says we have to be tolerant.
00:45:51.000 Now, not doing this on stage, the proper way to handle it would be a pastor saying, I love you so much, I'm not going to allow you to think you're something that you're not.
00:46:02.000 I'm not going to affirm this seed of darkness that is manifested in your soul.
00:46:09.000 I love you so much, I'm going to tell you that what you're doing, you're on a path for self-destruction, of annihilation, of self-hatred, and possibly even suicide.
00:46:17.000 I love you so much that I know that God's plan for you is greater than the torment that you feel.
00:46:22.000 And let's try to get to the root cause of that and liberate you, which only Christ can do.
00:46:28.000 Now, that is called intolerant.
00:46:33.000 Oh, yeah, it's intolerant.
00:46:36.000 Why is that a bad thing?
00:46:37.000 It's intolerant of the evil, but it's loving of the person.
00:46:41.000 So, how do we reject Marxism all this?
00:46:43.000 First, we have to understand what Marxism is.
00:46:45.000 CRT, very simple.
00:46:47.000 Call everything racist till you control it.
00:46:48.000 That's what CRT is.
00:46:50.000 Okay?
00:46:51.000 Your friends probably ask you, what is CRT?
00:46:53.000 You could just say, Charlie Kirk told me, call everything racist till you control it.
00:46:56.000 Okay?
00:46:57.000 It's that simple.
00:46:59.000 It's about power.
00:47:01.000 What is Marxism?
00:47:02.000 Take other people's stuff and pretend you hate the rich, right?
00:47:04.000 When in reality, they want to be rich.
00:47:07.000 It's not that hard.
00:47:09.000 But said differently, Marxism is just the satanic idea of trying to turn classes against one another.
00:47:15.000 That's what it is.
00:47:16.000 It's just classes or people against one another.
00:47:18.000 So, how do we get it out of our churches?
00:47:22.000 We as Christians need to stand up against this and be unafraid to excommunicate the evil.
00:47:28.000 And guess what?
00:47:29.000 This is what one pastor once told me.
00:47:30.000 They don't talk to me much anymore.
00:47:31.000 Open line, by the way.
00:47:32.000 They can always come on the show.
00:47:35.000 And by the way, most pastors don't know the Bible very well.
00:47:38.000 One of the biggest things I ever learned is amazing.
00:47:40.000 And he said, well, Charlie, my attendance might go down.
00:47:45.000 I said, there's nothing wrong with trimming your congregation down to a manageable size in the pursuit of truth.
00:47:58.000 If your church is a TED Talk with an ask for money, with a rock concert wearing skinny jeans, you, my friend, are in the wrong line of business.
00:48:12.000 You are in the truth-telling business.
00:48:14.000 And if you don't like the truth-telling business, go find something else because we need warriors, we need a Bonhoeffer brigade, not the Vichy French. 0.93
00:48:25.000 Thank you so much.
00:48:29.000 I think we have time for a couple more, right?
00:48:31.000 Yeah.
00:48:32.000 Okay.
00:48:32.000 Hello, John.
00:48:35.000 What, in your work with the younger demographic, what percentage of that demographic would you say have come to believe their rights come more from government and less from God?
00:48:46.000 And do you see a market change going forward as a result of your interaction with them that they may come to believe their rights come more from God and less from government?
00:48:56.000 You know, the majority of young people definitely, you know, this is, I actually don't think the emphasis on rights is helpful.
00:49:07.000 Yes, we, and I, this is a much longer speech.
00:49:10.000 I think it's a little bit of a vocabulary hijacking that's happened in modernity.
00:49:16.000 I actually think obligations matter a lot more than rights.
00:49:20.000 This is a deeper conversation.
00:49:21.000 And so, for example, people say, I have a right to this, I have a right to that, I have a right to that.
00:49:25.000 Now, in the natural rights theory of government, it is true that you have a right to speech, right to assembly.
00:49:31.000 However, I would rather emphasize what a human being ought to do than what a human being can do.
00:49:38.000 I actually think that's a much better way to communicate to a young person because if you emphasize the idea, and they emphasize it incorrectly, right?
00:49:47.000 Where they say, well, you have a right to this, you have a right to that, you have a right to this.
00:49:51.000 And in reality, it ends up becoming a hyper-narcissistic way of viewing your own existence.
00:50:01.000 And again, this is not an easy fix, right?
00:50:04.000 But forget who they think the rights come from.
00:50:07.000 They look at themselves as the centerpiece of all decision-making.
00:50:13.000 And this is one of the reasons why we're seeing birth rates plummet, why suicide is increasing, depression has increased, alcoholism increased, drug usage, pornography rates.
00:50:23.000 If you think you are the only and most important thing ever to exist, it creates manic and miserable people.
00:50:32.000 We know the happiest people, the most fulfilled people, are ones with purpose that have a tie to an obligation that is larger to themselves.
00:50:41.000 A duty-based society is actually more desirable than, quote-unquote, a self-rights-based society.
00:50:50.000 But with that being said, where do they think rights come from?
00:50:53.000 Definitely not from God.
00:50:54.000 Many of them don't even believe in God, tragically, which is something I'm trying to solve.
00:50:59.000 And everybody here tonight has lots in common, obviously.
00:51:02.000 Two of which is we believe there is a God and we are not Him.
00:51:05.000 Very simple things, right?
00:51:08.000 And that hierarchy to our existence, and I say this and it drives the Marxist absolutely nuts, which is the Marxism is a war on religion, whoever asked the question earlier.
00:51:19.000 It's an unrepentant crusade against religion.
00:51:22.000 You might be here tonight and you might not like all the religion talk.
00:51:25.000 And that's fine.
00:51:26.000 I mean, I own it.
00:51:28.000 I'm not here to cut any corners.
00:51:33.000 But it is a fact.
00:51:34.000 And you must acknowledge this, that if you have a society that no longer believes in God, then you cannot have an absolute good or absolute truth.
00:51:46.000 My only ask of you, for those of you here tonight, you say, Charlie, I'm not a Christian.
00:51:51.000 I don't like this stuff.
00:51:52.000 Okay, I hope you change that, but you must be honest, intellectually honest enough, to believe in the necessity of God.
00:52:02.000 Because your whole life, you've probably heard about the excesses of religion.
00:52:06.000 Hyper-religious fanatics. 0.70
00:52:08.000 Have you ever heard a CNN special or a Time magazine article about the excesses of secularism?
00:52:17.000 What happens when a society becomes too secular?
00:52:21.000 The Soviet Union, that's what happens. 0.75
00:52:23.000 Mouth China, that's what happens. 1.00
00:52:27.000 Yes, you can go too far in a hyper-religious fanatical way.
00:52:31.000 That's a complete, we are nowhere near that in this society.
00:52:35.000 We're on the opposite.
00:52:36.000 We are towards a hyper-secular society.
00:52:40.000 If you remove God, people need to find a place of meaning.
00:52:43.000 And they're trying to find that meaning in government or in some sort of social cause or whatever it might be.
00:52:49.000 And so that's why it's a spiritual war, my friend.
00:52:52.000 Appreciate the question.
00:52:53.000 Thanks so much.
00:52:54.000 All right, I think this will be the last question, right?
00:52:55.000 Okay.
00:52:56.000 Thank you for being here and congratulations on the new baby.
00:52:56.000 All right.
00:52:59.000 Thank you.
00:53:01.000 My favorite amendment is the Second Amendment.
00:53:03.000 And I'm just going to ask you, first, I think you should know that Yavapai County was the first county to claim to be a Second Amendment sanctuary.
00:53:13.000 Oh, I love that.
00:53:13.000 That's great.
00:53:14.000 Yeah, so that, that, yes.
00:53:16.000 So what I'd like to ask you to do through TP USA is if you can maybe form a young person's youth organization for shooting, trap shooting, skeet shooting, pistol shooting, and engage the NRA and all the gun industry to help you.
00:53:35.000 I think they would.
00:53:36.000 I love that.
00:53:37.000 I love that.
00:53:37.000 Thank you.
00:53:38.000 And I love the Second Amendment too.
00:53:41.000 And I get so much trouble when I say this, but you guys are going to love it.
00:53:45.000 So I said this, and boy, the internet blew up, and I stand by every word.
00:53:50.000 So one of the reasons why our Second Amendment is under attack is because weak Republicans are afraid to go on TV and go in front of people and say why we have a Second Amendment.
00:54:00.000 And so let's just remind ourselves, it's not for hunting.
00:54:04.000 I love hunting.
00:54:05.000 It's great.
00:54:06.000 It's not for trap shooting.
00:54:08.000 That's also great.
00:54:09.000 It's not for self-defense.
00:54:11.000 It's not.
00:54:12.000 It's for a free people to be able, to hopefully it never happens in our lifetime to be able to defend themselves against a tyrannical government.
00:54:35.000 And if you do not make that argument, then you concede, well, then why don't you just have a shotgun if it's just for self-defense?
00:54:42.000 If it's just for target shooting, why don't you just have a single bolt action rifle?
00:54:47.000 No, It's about the protection of liberty.
00:54:52.000 And we must also simultaneously acknowledge that anytime you have liberty, whether it be driving, going out to restaurants, you're going to have externalities and costs that are not ideal.
00:55:04.000 That is called life.
00:55:05.000 You want to get rid of 50,000 auto-deaths a year?
00:55:08.000 We have decided as a society, the benefit, the net benefit of driving is worth the societal cost, right?
00:55:08.000 Banned cars.
00:55:19.000 We need to be also clear on the Second Amendment that some lunatics are going to act in ways we do not support.
00:55:24.000 We don't like it.
00:55:26.000 We don't support it.
00:55:28.000 But we have a Second Amendment because the Second Amendment protects all the other amendments.
00:55:32.000 The Second Amendment is the Guardian Amendment. 0.87
00:55:36.000 There is no first without the second.
00:55:39.000 And that's why they got to get rid of it.
00:55:40.000 Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pol Pot, they always disarm the citizenry. 0.83
00:55:47.000 Always.
00:55:48.000 And it starts with a little trimming on the edges.
00:55:52.000 Do you think for a second that the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, would have annexed Hong Kong if every single one of those freedom protesters had an AR-15 around their back?
00:56:02.000 No, no, no, no.
00:56:04.000 The CCP would have said, we don't want the bloodshed.
00:56:06.000 We don't want it.
00:56:07.000 It actually keeps you from conflict.
00:56:10.000 When people have weapons, all of a sudden, the tyrants do not have complete and total control over the society.
00:56:16.000 That's why we have a Second Amendment. 1.00
00:56:18.000 Thank you.
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