The Charlie Kirk Show - Speaking the Truth When it Hurts — LIVE from We the Patriots

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, happy Wednesday.

00:00:01.000 My conversation, my speech at We the Patriots USA, great organization in Boise, Idaho.

00:00:06.000 I think you'll really enjoy it.

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00:00:16.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:17.000 Here we go.

00:00:18.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:19.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:22.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:25.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:28.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:29.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:30.000 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.

00:00:39.000 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.

00:00:47.000 That's why we are here.

00:00:51.000 Please take a seat.

00:00:52.000 Thank you so much.

00:00:53.000 Honor to be here.

00:00:54.000 Thank you.

00:00:55.000 I love Idaho.

00:00:56.000 Great to be back.

00:00:58.000 I think this is my fourth or fifth visit to Idaho this year.

00:01:02.000 So I requested that I talk for a little bit, then we do some questions.

00:01:06.000 If that's okay with you, I think that's actually the most fun.

00:01:08.000 And I know there's probably some things that we want to talk about.

00:01:11.000 I love Idaho.

00:01:12.000 It's amazing as I'm driving through the streets here at Boise.

00:01:15.000 This feels like a conquered city, though, doesn't it?

00:01:18.000 I mean, you see the gay flags all throughout the city. 0.73

00:01:21.000 What is going on in Idaho? 0.80

00:01:23.000 And I've been warning for quite some time that the idea pathogen, the social contagion of leftism, it knows no bounds.

00:01:32.000 It will come to red states. 0.93

00:01:33.000 It will come to every single nook and cranny and corner.

00:01:37.000 In fact, this is something we've been talking about as I'm developing my next book, How We Actually Beat the Woke and How We Beat These People.

00:01:44.000 You know, one of the things that I think we're starting to learn, because it's not all bad, but it's just so insulting.

00:01:50.000 I mean, you're driving down the streets of Boise and it's as if you're a conquered country, right?

00:01:54.000 That's what people do when they take over a country. 0.95

00:01:57.000 They flip the flags, right?

00:01:58.000 You know, like, who's in control of Berlin?

00:02:01.000 And that's how it feels like.

00:02:02.000 It's like, okay, now we're in charge.

00:02:05.000 As if the people of Idaho want that and they tolerate it.

00:02:08.000 It's just bizarre to me.

00:02:10.000 But it's as if we, for far too long, one of the things I want to chat with you about is I think we have this misunderstanding that we don't want to be mean to the other side or that we don't want to be called intolerant.

00:02:26.000 Now, I've never really subscribed to that.

00:02:30.000 If you follow my work, really don't care.

00:02:34.000 And I also would make an argument that tolerance is not a Christian value.

00:02:39.000 We should not tolerate evil.

00:02:41.000 We should not tolerate children being targeted.

00:02:49.000 And so you have a whole month dedicated to this.

00:02:51.000 And we know what it's all about, right?

00:02:54.000 It's not about somebody who feels as if they're disenfranchised.

00:02:59.000 The whole world is rigged for them now, right?

00:03:01.000 For people in that particular lifestyle, every corporation, every athletic competition, every major influencer, it's all about pride.

00:03:10.000 And, you know, I got myself in so much good trouble, which I encourage you all to do when I tweeted out that pride is a sin on June 1st.

00:03:17.000 You're not allowed to say that.

00:03:19.000 It is the deadliest of all the sins.

00:03:24.000 It's an important reminder.

00:03:27.000 And it feels so forced, doesn't it?

00:03:30.000 Now, mind you, this is the, you know, somebody said the other day, well, Charlie, we're winning because now Major League Baseball got rid of their gay paraphernalia and they went back. 0.79

00:03:40.000 And I said, well, that's a good thing.

00:03:41.000 We're making movement, but it's not winning to go back to the logo we grew up with.

00:03:46.000 Okay.

00:03:46.000 Let's not try to convince ourselves that that is some sort of victory.

00:03:50.000 In some ways, it's actually trying to convince us that even getting back to square one has taken all this effort.

00:03:56.000 But there's something changing, and it's a positive, I have to say, because we're going to talk about plenty of the challenges in front of us.

00:04:02.000 You feel the challenges.

00:04:03.000 Something has changed.

00:04:04.000 And I think the trans thing, I think the alphabet mafia coming after all of us. 1.00

00:04:09.000 I think the rainbow-haired jihadis coming after our children has really kind of changed how we engage here because where were we three years ago? 0.51

00:04:19.000 Three years ago, we were locked down.

00:04:21.000 We were told to be masked.

00:04:22.000 We were under this pharmaceutical fascism.

00:04:25.000 that Steve Dace does a better job than I do talking about and articulating.

00:04:29.000 And then we had right literally three years ago, you remember Floyd Apalooza, right?

00:04:33.000 Where we'd burned down our country based on a bitter lie from the pit of hell that America is systemically racist.

00:04:39.000 Corporations were pledging hundreds of millions, billions of dollars to fight systemic racism, you know, the altar of BLM.

00:04:48.000 And so where are we three years later?

00:04:50.000 The country's in an awful place.

00:04:52.000 The country's not in a better place, macro.

00:04:54.000 But there is a change, and it's happening finally, where corporations are realizing that they're not completely and totally untouchable.

00:05:03.000 I am thrilled to see that Target is now judged as a bearish stock.

00:05:08.000 And that's a great thing.

00:05:10.000 They're down 15%.

00:05:14.000 And Target doesn't understand, well, what did we do wrong?

00:05:16.000 And the media, but this is a very important thing as we enter more into the deadliest sin that there is month, which is that when you go, their operating procedure is our reaction.

00:05:35.000 So they almost try to provoke us to act so above and beyond.

00:05:35.000 Okay.

00:05:39.000 I'm going to show you example after example after example of how they try to make us seem as the unreasonable one to create a misrepresented viral moment that makes themselves more powerful, right?

00:05:51.000 You guys all don't trust the media, but what I, what I want to encourage you is to go a step further into the step further into the belief that some people are afraid of, that you're actually living through an intentional, I think, sometimes intelligence agency funded operation to make you actually outraged and believe a certain thing you shouldn't believe.

00:06:12.000 Now, for you, that's a bridge too far, but eventually you'll get there.

00:06:16.000 So, and but, and I'll prove it to you.

00:06:19.000 From Kyle Rittenhouse to Nicholas Sandman to January 6th to George Floyd, these situations are designed in a certain way to misrepresent something, prey on your emotions to make them more powerful.

00:06:33.000 We are living in the era of clipped, misrepresented, viral moments that are then used with cushy soundbites to make the intelligence agencies and or their power grabs more successful, more powerful.

00:06:46.000 But our reaction to a certain event is where they really get their true power.

00:06:52.000 Okay.

00:06:53.000 So what does that mean?

00:06:54.000 My good friend James Lindsay, who I encourage you guys all to research and to follow, he came on my program.

00:06:59.000 I love it.

00:07:00.000 And so I want to always give attribution to people that come up with these things.

00:07:03.000 He said they're going to try to create a drag Floyd situation in the month of June, you know, drag queen George Floyd, where somebody acts in a certain way where, you know, they're grooming kids, you know, acting like perverts and somebody acts in the way they shouldn't where, you know, you punch a drag queen or something like that.

00:07:19.000 Same exact thing on the New York subway, right?

00:07:21.000 Where it gets totally misrepresented and blown out of proportion.

00:07:25.000 So we should obviously continue to stay peaceful in everything that we do in every way possible.

00:07:29.000 But the reaction is then, it wouldn't be about the fact that they're grooming kids or that they're perverting seven-year-olds or they have tuck-friendly swimwear or they have any of this stuff.

00:07:38.000 No, no, it would be all about a single instance of, oh my goodness, look at those right-wingers.

00:07:43.000 They can't control themselves. 0.99

00:07:44.000 Those are domestic terrorists.

00:07:46.000 You see, they're almost, they are going so above and beyond.

00:07:50.000 I believe this is part of the program.

00:07:51.000 They almost want us to lose our mind.

00:07:54.000 And in fact, our secret weapon, which is a fruit of the spirit, is our self-control to not actually fall for the bait when they want us to.

00:08:02.000 I really believe that.

00:08:04.000 Because absent us staying disciplined, staying peaceful, actually, they do not have any path forward.

00:08:11.000 They don't.

00:08:12.000 They need us to act in a certain way.

00:08:15.000 And again, the misrepresentations, what happened on January 6th is a great example of this, right?

00:08:21.000 Where we don't know how many feds were there and re-ups and all that sort of stuff.

00:08:24.000 But instead, they are then able to criminalize an entire American political movement based on a certain circumstance or action, right?

00:08:32.000 So we're living through this month now.

00:08:35.000 And there, for the first time since Pride Month, has become kind of a bigger deal than Christmas in this country.

00:08:41.000 It is.

00:08:42.000 It's a secular religious ceremony, right?

00:08:44.000 There's more ceremony, more corporations, more outward evangelism, more zealotry, more influencers that, you know, literally, you go down downtown Boise or Hollywood, there's more lead up.

00:08:57.000 There's more celebration, right?

00:08:59.000 It is the new state-run religion, which is really something to think about and pray about and hope for, honestly, forgiveness for.

00:09:07.000 So, but as that is happening, this is the first time where finally there's quote unquote some backlash, finally, where not just the target thing, but I think that regular ordinary people are starting to finally wake up and realize that it's never been about tolerance, right?

00:09:23.000 Because like, I think the temperament of a lot of you here, I believe marriage is one man, one woman.

00:09:27.000 We never should have redefined marriage.

00:09:29.000 One of the biggest mistakes the Supreme Court ever made.

00:09:31.000 And I know you guys feel the same.

00:09:33.000 I think some of you, though, I think that many of you, especially baby boomers, I don't mean this negatively, right?

00:09:39.000 You have a temperament of, okay, live and let live.

00:09:41.000 And that's fine, right?

00:09:42.000 I think that's actually admirable.

00:09:44.000 That means that you don't want to overly police people's personal decisions because you would never want someone to police your own, except it was a false bargain.

00:09:50.000 We knew that the whole time, right?

00:09:51.000 It's that they don't want their personal decision to be policed, but they're going to police yours, okay?

00:09:56.000 So it's the complete opposite.

00:09:58.000 It's live and let us rule.

00:09:58.000 It's not live and let live.

00:10:00.000 It's the opposite of what you could ever imagine, right?

00:10:02.000 And so it goes through a very simple progression.

00:10:05.000 Matt Walsh came up with this and he does a great job of articulating.

00:10:08.000 He starts with, okay, you must tolerate it.

00:10:10.000 And you're like, okay, well, I don't want to tolerate it because I don't believe it.

00:10:14.000 So you must go from, you must tolerate something to you must accept it.

00:10:17.000 And you're like, well, I don't want to accept it because it's against my deeply held beliefs.

00:10:21.000 And then you must celebrate it, mandatory celebration.

00:10:26.000 Well, I don't want to celebrate it because like I said, I don't believe in it.

00:10:29.000 And if you don't celebrate it, they're going to oust you and ask you, where is your sticker?

00:10:33.000 Where's your flag?

00:10:34.000 Because you're not celebrating alongside of us.

00:10:34.000 Why are you a bigot?

00:10:36.000 But that's not enough.

00:10:37.000 Then it's mandatory participation.

00:10:39.000 And if not for you, mandatory participation for your kids.

00:10:43.000 And this is one of the reasons why I kind of cringe when people say, you know, we're, I'm a classical liberal.

00:10:50.000 And I say, okay, well, be very careful with that because this is the arch of liberalism without the wise restraints of what I call biblical conservatism, right?

00:10:58.000 If you are constantly always going to the idea that everyone is going to leave each other alone at all times, you're living under a false construct.

00:11:06.000 And look, I think your temperament is you want to live in the country you grew up in.

00:11:09.000 Same, I do too.

00:11:10.000 I temperamentally believing marriages between one man and one woman.

00:11:15.000 It's like, okay, you do you.

00:11:16.000 That country's dead.

00:11:18.000 Now it's all about totalitarian.

00:11:19.000 The T and LGBT stands for totalitarianism and tyranny, which is I am going to make you and make your children go through the certain practices to believe a certain thing. 1.00

00:11:31.000 And, you know, I say this and people laugh, and I don't mean it as a joke, but it actually is kind of funny.

00:11:35.000 You know, we have the gayest generation in history, right?

00:11:37.000 And that's not happening just because all of a sudden young people feel more comfortable to be gay.

00:11:43.000 It's because this is a lifestyle that actually is considered to come with points and privileges and rewards, that you actually are able to become more important.

00:11:52.000 In fact, you're able to claim some sort of progress on the oppression Olympic ladder.

00:11:58.000 I get a gold medal if I am trans or lesbian or gay or whatever.

00:12:04.000 And that's a social contagion.

00:12:08.000 That is not a condition or a lifestyle choice or a behavioral choice.

00:12:13.000 That is a social contagion that goes to seek converts.

00:12:17.000 In fact, this really fires up a lot of pastors. 0.64

00:12:19.000 I say the gay lobby in America right now is much better at winning people for their agenda than most Christians are. 1.00

00:12:25.000 And that is 100% the case.

00:12:27.000 It's 100%.

00:12:29.000 They are more effective.

00:12:30.000 They have more conviction.

00:12:31.000 They fear the enemy less.

00:12:33.000 And most pastors are like, well, I just want to get along to get along.

00:12:37.000 I'm like, man, this is wartime Christianity. 0.89

00:12:39.000 If you don't want to get along with it, you got to go find something else to do because the country and the Republic's fallen apart and we could talk about that.

00:12:45.000 So look, the other thing I do want to make sure that is conveyed to you, because I know a lot of you are wondering, how do we win that were so overwhelming against us?

00:12:55.000 So one of the most liberating things, and this is easier said than done, that you can do in your own life is you have to understand that the names they will call you will not mean anything.

00:13:07.000 You might say, oh, Charlie, of course that's the case.

00:13:09.000 You would be shocked at how many good people are afraid to take virtuous and courageous action because they're afraid of being called a racist.

00:13:18.000 And they have weaponized name-calling to put you into a permanent paralysis in such a powerful way, unlike anything we've ever seen.

00:13:27.000 The number one complaint that, no, no, number piece of feedback I get in my email inbox from our amazing, and I know some of you listen to our podcast and watch Unreal America's Voice.

00:13:36.000 Appreciate that.

00:13:36.000 Thank you.

00:13:37.000 Thank you.

00:13:38.000 Is the number one piece of feedback we receive is, Charlie, I wish I could speak out like you.

00:13:43.000 And I get that to a certain extent.

00:13:45.000 You're right.

00:13:45.000 You know, we have a whole staff and we have legal protection and the Lord has blessed us so much and we've been pretty amazingly protected.

00:13:55.000 I mean that.

00:13:56.000 But why can't you speak out?

00:13:58.000 Because I'm not exactly sure I'm understanding.

00:14:00.000 Well, they say I might lose my job.

00:14:02.000 I might lose my friends.

00:14:04.000 Okay, the career, I'm not here to tell you to go lose your job intentionally, but you are not a free citizen of America if you have to look over your shoulder every time you have to voice your opinion.

00:14:15.000 You're already living in a totalitarian country.

00:14:18.000 And that's something you could decide to change today.

00:14:22.000 That is not something you need a legislation passed.

00:14:24.000 You're like, oh my goodness, I hate the debt ceiling bill.

00:14:26.000 I hate this.

00:14:27.000 I hate that.

00:14:28.000 Like, okay, fine, totally.

00:14:29.000 We could talk about that.

00:14:30.000 Totally get it.

00:14:31.000 But are you speaking freely?

00:14:33.000 And maybe most of you are, right?

00:14:34.000 Or else maybe you wouldn't be here.

00:14:35.000 I'm probably talking to one of you right now.

00:14:37.000 You're like, boy, I work for this local hospital.

00:14:40.000 And if I spoke my mind or if I did something on social media, they would come after me.

00:14:45.000 You're already living in the Soviet Union.

00:14:47.000 It's already there.

00:14:48.000 But you could choose to change it.

00:14:50.000 And I could tell you right now that the most liberating thing you could do for yourself and for your kids and for your community is to say, I'm going to say the truth, the spoken truth, the logos.

00:15:01.000 And whatever they do to me, I don't care.

00:15:05.000 You will be happier if you do that.

00:15:08.000 And this alone, this alone, if every single person who agrees with what we're saying does that, the country radically changes overnight.

00:15:20.000 Their power is the power we give them.

00:15:24.000 That's a provocative take because people do not like it when I say that.

00:15:28.000 I get angry emails.

00:15:29.000 They say, Charlie, I don't give any power to the left.

00:15:33.000 I even give power to the left sometimes.

00:15:35.000 All of us do.

00:15:36.000 But we disempower them when we say, look, I'm actually going to keep on watching this podcast or this person, even though you tell me that person's a racist.

00:15:44.000 I know they're not.

00:15:45.000 I like what they have to say.

00:15:46.000 I'm going to keep on shopping at this store, even when you tell me not to do that.

00:15:50.000 I'm going to keep on speaking my mind about every topic and I'm not going to live under the Orwellian tyranny of political correctness.

00:15:58.000 And I say, you know, I do some of these segments and people say, Charlie, you're really going to get it.

00:16:02.000 It takes so much courage.

00:16:04.000 Because I get so much feedback and I love the emails and I love, and I just, I'm perplexed.

00:16:09.000 I say, what kind of country are you living in where just saying something super simple, like, I don't know, grooming children in elementary school should land you in prison.

00:16:18.000 That's considered like a courageous thing to say.

00:16:21.000 And it shouldn't, right?

00:16:23.000 And that's one of the calls to action I give in every single audience is because the Marxist totalitarian despots and tyrants, they are very worried that the American Patriots, this great organization, that we're about to leave our cage that they built for us.

00:16:45.000 Okay?

00:16:47.000 That they're very worried. 0.99

00:16:50.000 And then some moron that works from Media Matters is going to say, oh, Charlie's inciting violence. 0.96

00:16:54.000 No, no, I've actually explicitly done the opposite earlier in the speech, as you guys all remember. 0.98

00:16:59.000 What do I mean by that?

00:17:00.000 It means that we're going to voice our opinions regardless of what you do to us.

00:17:05.000 It means that we're not going to pay a tithe to the golden calf of the LGBTQ mafia. 1.00

00:17:10.000 We're not going to do that, okay?

00:17:12.000 We're not going to use your approved language of pronoun usage, or we're not going to re-segregate society based on race.

00:17:21.000 We're not going to say that white people are the enemy in our country.

00:17:25.000 In fact, we're going to say there's a war on white people in this country and it's deliberate and it's concocted and it's serious. 0.93

00:17:32.000 And if that sort of stuff makes you uncomfortable, then you're already an unfree person. 0.65

00:17:36.000 You just haven't noticed it yet.

00:17:38.000 Now, there's things you can do.

00:17:41.000 There's things you can complain.

00:17:42.000 You're like, well, Charlie, these laws I don't like and these things.

00:17:46.000 There's two types of tyranny.

00:17:47.000 And I've come to realize this.

00:17:49.000 There's a tyranny that is passed by a legislative body or a corporation and a tyranny that's going to require protest and elections.

00:17:57.000 And then there's the tyranny that we agree to.

00:18:01.000 And a free people has to first liberate ourselves from the shackles of the tyranny that we have voluntarily agreed to because we're afraid of losing the comfort of a country club membership or a neighbor.

00:18:16.000 Now, I'm not saying you have to be incendiary.

00:18:19.000 Be the nicest, sweetest person.

00:18:20.000 I mean that.

00:18:21.000 In fact, your charm will win more people over.

00:18:25.000 Be pleasant.

00:18:26.000 Be loving like Christ would.

00:18:27.000 But the part that I just, I can't, if I had to be honest, I think American Christianity gets the loving part of the gospel done pretty well and gets the truth part of the gospel miserably.

00:18:39.000 And guess what?

00:18:41.000 Love without truth is not complete love.

00:18:44.000 It's not.

00:18:49.000 And nothing but truth without love can come across as cruel.

00:18:53.000 It's the same side of the coin.

00:18:54.000 It's a two-sided coin.

00:18:56.000 It needs to be necessary.

00:18:58.000 And so there's a way, for example, you can look at the videos that I do when I go to college campuses and I'm debating students and kids under the trans delusion will come up and they'll say, I think I'm a man and all this.

00:19:11.000 And I refuse to affirm it.

00:19:12.000 I say, no, you're under a torment of a mental issue that I hope you can get treatment so you can get liberated from the torture that you have to put yourself through.

00:19:23.000 You see, people say, I'm being unloving.

00:19:24.000 Do you know what's unloving?

00:19:26.000 Unloving would be to affirm a lie and to keep that person to go on a series of decisions and steps where they then mutilate themselves.

00:19:34.000 They go on antidepressants.

00:19:36.000 They then all of a sudden go on chemical castration drugs.

00:19:39.000 That is unloving to do such a thing.

00:19:44.000 So The movement as it's going right now is very promising.

00:19:50.000 The country's in awful shape, okay?

00:19:52.000 We're about to go through the bloodiest primary in the history.

00:19:54.000 By the way, Trump's going to be the nominee, everybody, just so we're clear, okay?

00:19:58.000 So, and I, and I, and some people love that, some people hate that.

00:20:03.000 Good luck.

00:20:04.000 You want to talk about a lion that you don't want to go up against?

00:20:07.000 That guy is going to eat everybody up and everything.

00:20:09.000 And it's just the way it is.

00:20:11.000 And I love Governor DeSantis.

00:20:13.000 I love a lot of these guys.

00:20:14.000 I'm not going to say negative stuff.

00:20:15.000 I'm not.

00:20:16.000 I don't do that. 0.97

00:20:17.000 I'm just going to be, look, those, you argue with reality, welcome to hell. 0.97

00:20:21.000 Okay. 0.97

00:20:22.000 You could argue with reality all you want.

00:20:24.000 Okay.

00:20:25.000 I'm just telling you the facts of the game as they are.

00:20:27.000 And if I'm wrong, I'll be the first one to acknowledge I'm wrong.

00:20:27.000 Okay.

00:20:29.000 I was wrong in 2020 when I made a bold prediction when I said the church was going to lead the charge against lockdowns.

00:20:34.000 Boy, that was a terrible prediction.

00:20:36.000 So, and I fully acknowledge that. 0.95

00:20:38.000 So, you could sound bite me and clip me, and then you could say, oh, Charlie said Trump was going to die.

00:20:43.000 I will fully acknowledge and repent if I'm wrong, and we'll see what happens.

00:20:48.000 So, however, we're about to go through this bitter primary.

00:20:51.000 Here's the thing that I care about most.

00:20:53.000 We could talk about elections if you want, which I have a lot of strong opinions about how the RNC is a waste of rations and should be totally downsized and is lying to you and doing terrible things and all that stuff, right?

00:21:05.000 But that's another separate issue if you guys want to address.

00:21:08.000 More importantly, is an attitude shift.

00:21:11.000 What is the attitude of the right is actually what is going to change things?

00:21:16.000 It's an attitude that just if elections don't go my way, I don't care.

00:21:20.000 I'm going to keep on building.

00:21:22.000 Even if I do not like a way a certain thing acts, I don't care.

00:21:26.000 I'm going to become a better version of myself.

00:21:28.000 I'm going to become a better father.

00:21:30.000 I'm going to become a sovereign citizen.

00:21:31.000 I'm going to try to free myself of any addictions I might have.

00:21:34.000 This sort of stuff disempowers tyrants.

00:21:37.000 They want you to eat crappy processed food. 0.98

00:21:39.000 They want you to be overweight. 0.94

00:21:41.000 They want your kids to be addicted to screens.

00:21:43.000 They want you to be a serf of Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson.

00:21:47.000 They do not want you all of a sudden to be asking critical questions of, well, maybe there's homeopathic ways to solve these things.

00:21:53.000 Maybe are every one of these single vaccines necessary for every single kid?

00:21:58.000 You can't ask that.

00:21:58.000 They're going to call you these terrible things.

00:22:00.000 And by the way, I don't even have that strong of opinions on that stuff.

00:22:03.000 Here's what I do think is interesting.

00:22:05.000 I can't ask questions about it without every major newspaper trying to call me anti-vax.

00:22:10.000 I'm like, again, I'm anti-mRNA gene altering shot, 100%.

00:22:14.000 But like, on the other thing, I can't even ask questions.

00:22:17.000 And I know there must be some truth there, right?

00:22:18.000 It's kind of interesting how you have to smear and slander me.

00:22:21.000 And look at how they're treating RFK Jr., right, for running at the presidency.

00:22:25.000 It really makes you think.

00:22:26.000 It's like, hey, if your victory was necessary, why do you have to smear and slander us so much?

00:22:31.000 I mean, it was inevitable.

00:22:32.000 Why do you have to smear and slander us so much?

00:22:34.000 But it's an attitude shift.

00:22:35.000 It's an attitude shift that the game has restarted.

00:22:40.000 And I think President Trump deserves a lot of credit for starting this line of thinking, a lot of credit.

00:22:45.000 The game has restarted where we are now going to start from zero and build up with the language, with the decisions, with the behavior that we know to be true, as if the left did not exist at all.

00:23:00.000 Does that make sense?

00:23:01.000 Because so much of what we do is under the paradigm of the rules of the road that we've inherited from a Marxist, postmodern globalist regime over a couple decades.

00:23:14.000 And so when you kind of build back from square zero using the scriptures, using the classics, using our reason, using the natural law, all of a sudden like, oh, okay, now I know how I can talk about these issues.

00:23:26.000 Because how often I hear is, well, Charlie, this wouldn't have been controversial 20 years ago or 10 years ago or five years ago.

00:23:34.000 Or, I mean, the fact that 90% of American colleges are teaching men can give birth, right? 0.93

00:23:40.000 This is not going to improve.

00:23:42.000 It's not.

00:23:44.000 Right?

00:23:44.000 At that point, you have to say, okay, are we Nineveh or Sodom?

00:23:47.000 And it's like, I don't.

00:23:49.000 And for those of you that don't get the reference, you have some homework to do, okay?

00:23:54.000 And for those of you that get the reference, they're like, wow, that's pretty cruel.

00:23:57.000 So, okay, Jonah, it's called to make people repent in Nineveh.

00:24:02.000 And the crazy thing is they actually did.

00:24:04.000 It's like the one story you tell people to repent, they actually do it.

00:24:06.000 Sodom had its own problems.

00:24:08.000 So let's just put it that way.

00:24:10.000 Those are probably better known.

00:24:13.000 Which one is it?

00:24:14.000 And I will close with this, and then we'll do some questions because I know we have a lot of believers in the audience here.

00:24:20.000 And I know that Bill Federer, my great friend, is speaking at Calvary Chapel tomorrow, which I think is a sister church of Jack Hibbs, right?

00:24:28.000 Who I think the world of Jack Hibbs, he's amazing.

00:24:30.000 And look, I believe Jesus is coming and he's coming back and he's going to return to his throne.

00:24:37.000 I know a lot of you believe in a very clear pre-tribulation eschatology.

00:24:41.000 Some of you don't believe in it.

00:24:42.000 But let me just please, I'm pleading with you because I see this happening and it's troubling me.

00:24:47.000 And Jack agrees with me 2,000%.

00:24:50.000 Is do not allow your eschatology to be an excuse to not fight.

00:24:55.000 I receive hundreds of messages.

00:24:59.000 I receive hundreds of messages of people that say, Charlie, what's the point?

00:25:03.000 Our only salvation is Jesus coming back.

00:25:06.000 And I say, boy, that is not what the scriptures tell you.

00:25:08.000 First of all, the hour and the day is unknown.

00:25:10.000 Occupy until he comes.

00:25:12.000 What do you want to be caught doing when Christ returns?

00:25:15.000 Yes, you should have hope.

00:25:17.000 At the same time, you also should have faith that what you do matters and that you need to push back against darkness as an act of obedience and duty to the divine.

00:25:27.000 Not just that, hey, you know, can you zap us up?

00:25:30.000 Because things are getting really tough.

00:25:32.000 Blessed are we that we're persecuted.

00:25:34.000 Blessed are we that things are actually so consequential.

00:25:38.000 Because if you are so sure of Christ's return next Thursday, then do not eat anything till next Thursday because you better fast and pray if you know what's happening.

00:25:47.000 The point is, yes, the signs are pointing towards things that, you know, that the end of history, as you will, will be there.

00:25:55.000 However, out of an act of faith and duty, we're not going to allow that to be like, hey, house is on fire.

00:26:01.000 Let's get the kids out.

00:26:02.000 Let's just run to the hills and wait for the rapture, right?

00:26:05.000 It's not just like, hey, the house is on fire.

00:26:07.000 Let's put the fire out, right?

00:26:09.000 And then let's go hold the people accountable that were the arsons that lit the house on fire, right? 0.63

00:26:16.000 That's the better way to address it.

00:26:20.000 So, all right, let's do some questions.

00:26:23.000 And I really enjoy being here.

00:26:25.000 So, and I'm happy to go a little bit over time if you want or whatever.

00:26:29.000 So, if you guys want, if there's other programming, I don't want to get in the way.

00:26:33.000 So, Charlie, thank you for coming back to Idaho.

00:26:38.000 Thank you.

00:26:38.000 Has the Durham report changed anything?

00:26:46.000 Sorry, you caught me.

00:26:47.000 That was, I have to compliment you.

00:26:49.000 That was the best question ever.

00:26:50.000 It was like eight words.

00:26:51.000 Usually, when people ask questions, they're talking about how they're running for dog catcher and how they're, you know, all this stuff.

00:26:57.000 So, everyone, take notes.

00:26:59.000 That was one of the most impressive things I've ever seen.

00:27:01.000 You see, I was getting ready to drink water and, you know, look around the room.

00:27:07.000 And it's just, I'm so blown away.

00:27:09.000 It was really impressive.

00:27:10.000 So, no, the Durham report has not changed anything.

00:27:14.000 Look, the political hope of the country is not going to come from Washington, D.C. James Comey, Hillary Clinton, Andrew McKay, Bruce and Elior, these people should all be locked up in prison a long time ago, but it's not going to happen.

00:27:28.000 Okay?

00:27:28.000 This is a crime syndicate.

00:27:30.000 They cover for one another.

00:27:31.000 They hate Donald Trump so much that they spied on his campaign.

00:27:34.000 They illegally lied about it.

00:27:35.000 They covered it up.

00:27:36.000 Peter Struckstroke Smirk and Lisa Page, the two lovers that had those text messages to use and abuse the power.

00:27:42.000 And I really, I believe this.

00:27:44.000 I said this on our radio program and I got attacked by the media very ferociously because I said what they did is far more evil than most burglaries or assaults or every.

00:27:57.000 I didn't say it's worse than murder, and let me tell you why, because actually abusing governmental authority, I think, is one of the highest thresholds of evil a human being can do, because the government has ultimate power to do things that even the mob can't do, that just a local run-of-the-mill criminal can't do is you have access to secret courts, to surveillance.

00:28:18.000 I mean that right, there is the collectivization of treacherous and evil behavior, and so I think there needs to be an equal and opposite punishment for that.

00:28:27.000 It's not going to happen.

00:28:29.000 The crooks got away with it.

00:28:30.000 Yeah, the Durham report is everything that we quote unquote conspiracy theorists were saying.

00:28:35.000 Four years ago, I lost my Twitter account social media for a while because of saying the things that are now described in the Durham report, and so the more important thing that I really want to emphasize, though that we talked about uh, on my podcast is they're going to do it again.

00:28:55.000 Yes they're, they're already doing it right now.

00:28:58.000 They did it in 20.

00:29:00.000 By the way, the 2020 election was a drive-by shooting of the United States Constitution Zuckerboxes.

00:29:05.000 You have the tabletop exercises at the Aspen Institute, FBI with Yoel Roth standing meetings, going to Mark Zuckerberg and threatening that if they do not then go after Russian disinformation, then they're going to have special uh.

00:29:20.000 They're going to have special uh punishment from the government.

00:29:23.000 This was all a setup, the Hunter Biden laptop, the cover-up, the 50 intel agencies with Tony Blinken that's all bad.

00:29:29.000 That's all bad.

00:29:30.000 I'm afraid though, that far too often, we look into the past and then we look into the future.

00:29:37.000 Who's going to be the nominee, who's going to win?

00:29:39.000 Wow, that was really bad.

00:29:40.000 And I say, aren't we looking into the present?

00:29:42.000 Because they're actively doing it right now, and so my advice to Jim Jordan is, hey, I care about that.

00:29:49.000 I actually care more about active investigations into what is currently being done, and this is why this is again.

00:29:55.000 That fourth branch of government is so unbelievably evil, in my opinion untouched unelected, unconstitutionally chartered is.

00:30:01.000 They always say, well no, we can't give you information on active things, like hell, you can't, you're commissioned by the Congress.

00:30:09.000 Okay, and again, you want to see how uh corrupt Washington Dc is?

00:30:14.000 So they're going to hold Christopher Ray in contempt of Congress.

00:30:17.000 So where does that criminal referral go?

00:30:19.000 Goes to Christopher Ray.

00:30:20.000 So you're trying to tell me he's going to indict himself.

00:30:23.000 I mean, what a crock right we?

00:30:26.000 We need a special Church AND PIKE Committee 2.0.

00:30:30.000 And again, this is where the right has to get out of its cage.

00:30:33.000 Okay, do you guys have a Republican attorney general here in Idaho?

00:30:38.000 Okay good good good, have have has.

00:30:42.000 Have they and have they in.

00:30:43.000 Are they good, good has has have.

00:30:47.000 Have they indicted the leaders of BLM for charitable fraud?

00:30:50.000 Why okay no, but that that that should be one week.

00:30:56.000 No, think about it.

00:30:58.000 They indict Steve Bannon and Steve Colfedge for the charitable stuff.

00:31:03.000 Why don't we go after the holy Sancho Sanct thing that took hundreds of millions of dollars from corporations?

00:31:07.000 You might say, well, Idaho has no jurisdiction.

00:31:10.000 Of course it does.

00:31:10.000 There was a donor from Idaho that was defrauded.

00:31:12.000 They had donors from all 50 states.

00:31:14.000 Purplewalked Patrice Colors.

00:31:15.000 They stole $80 million that was supposed to be for BLM.

00:31:19.000 This is how we have to start to think.

00:31:21.000 We want, by the way, why isn't there not an act of criminal investigation into Peter Strzok for violating the Idaho Constitution?

00:31:28.000 Why can't states start, and then this is aggressive stuff?

00:31:31.000 Now, I love Raoul.

00:31:32.000 He's great.

00:31:33.000 I know he's only been there for a little bit, but we have to hold people to the highest possible threshold, right?

00:31:37.000 Because we have to start looking at our own AGs, how the national AG should operate.

00:31:42.000 There is no reason why Hillary Clinton cannot be indicted under Idaho law.

00:31:45.000 Figure it out.

00:31:46.000 No, I'm serious. 1.00

00:31:50.000 She ran an international crime syndicate organization. 1.00

00:31:53.000 If our own federal government won't do it, the states have to start doing it. 0.64

00:31:57.000 The states created the federal government, the federal government, to not create the states.

00:32:00.000 We have been betrayed by our own government.

00:32:02.000 Here's the thing: they laugh at us.

00:32:04.000 The left thinks they're untouchable.

00:32:06.000 They won't be laughing all of a sudden when their holy charities start to get indicted.

00:32:10.000 They will not be laughing when all of a sudden Mark Zuckerberg has to all of a sudden be criminally indicted for manipulating the 2020 election.

00:32:16.000 Were there Zuckerboxes here in Idaho? 1.00

00:32:19.000 Oh, interesting.

00:32:20.000 Has he been indicted yet?

00:32:23.000 Next question.

00:32:26.000 Hello, Charlie.

00:32:28.000 Thanks for coming to Idaho.

00:32:29.000 My name is Austin Rose, and I'm the president of the Turning Point USA chapter at Eagle High School.

00:32:33.000 Amazing.

00:32:34.000 Thank you, man.

00:32:40.000 Thank you.

00:32:42.000 With the huge amount of election fraud in 2020 and the increasing amount of ballot harvesting, what do you think Republicans can do to secure a victory in 2024?

00:32:50.000 Yeah, that's a great question.

00:32:51.000 Thank you.

00:32:51.000 So stop giving money to the RNC.

00:32:53.000 We're all in agreement of that.

00:32:54.000 No more money to the RNC.

00:32:55.000 Good.

00:32:56.000 Okay.

00:32:57.000 So here's the number.

00:32:58.000 So let me just prove to you why.

00:33:00.000 If anyone is an RNC defender here, please, I would love to meet you.

00:33:03.000 But here's the, why does the RNC have an office in Washington, D.C.?

00:33:08.000 The RNC is not a lobbying organization.

00:33:10.000 So why, how many voters are they going to win over in Washington, D.C.?

00:33:14.000 Zero, none.

00:33:15.000 Close it down, sell the building.

00:33:16.000 Oh, well, because they're a D.C.-focused organization.

00:33:18.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats and the Soros groups, in my home state of Arizona, they're spending $250 million to do all this stuff, and they're barely eking out, I think, treacherous victories against the amazing patriots like Kerry Lake and so many others, who should be governor of Arizona, by the way.

00:33:34.000 So let me walk through it.

00:33:35.000 Okay.

00:33:36.000 So the RNC has to be downsized.

00:33:38.000 Our money has to go to support groups like We the Patriots or Turning Point Action or whatever, right?

00:33:42.000 Local, local, local, grassroots, gritty, scrappy, real organizations, not this type of nonsensical DC overhead that's been so frustrating to witness and look at.

00:33:52.000 Okay, so a couple things.

00:33:53.000 There has to be a lawfare strategy. 1.00

00:33:55.000 I know Jenna Ellis has been working on a lot of this stuff.

00:33:57.000 This is not my point, so I'll let her answer it later, of what we could do for lawsuits and all this state.

00:34:02.000 That's not my thing.

00:34:03.000 All I know is Mark Elias is just making total, a joke of us, honestly, with what he's doing with lawfare.

00:34:10.000 Here is my thing, though, and it is something that we have to start to embrace, and we have to start to realize and recognize that there is a rather unfortunate pill to swallow, a less than desirable set of circumstances, but we have to get into that arena if we actually want to win.

00:34:25.000 So, okay, in the 2024 election, the electoral map has changed a little bit.

00:34:30.000 Okay, it has changed a little bit.

00:34:32.000 The Sunbelt has increased in population.

00:34:35.000 Blue states have decreased in population. 0.79

00:34:37.000 Therefore, it's actually easier for a Republican to win the White House in 24 than in 2020.

00:34:42.000 By the way, the RNC should be talking about this, but obviously they're not.

00:34:45.000 Okay.

00:34:45.000 If Donald Trump's the nominee or if DeSantis is the nominee or whoever, they will win Iowa, Ohio, North Carolina, and Florida, okay?

00:34:52.000 Those are solidly red states in presidential years.

00:34:55.000 So then it gets down.

00:34:56.000 Guess what?

00:34:56.000 And you take all the other red states like this one in South North Dakota and Kentucky and Alabama, Mississippi, et cetera.

00:35:02.000 You just have to win three more states: Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia.

00:35:06.000 That gets you right to 270 electoral votes.

00:35:08.000 The entire presidential election will be decided in three states and really eight counties.

00:35:13.000 It'll be decided in Maricopa County, in Pima County, in Pinal, in Yavapai, in Fulton, in Cobb, in Gwinnett, in Kenosha, and Eau Claire.

00:35:21.000 It's that simple.

00:35:23.000 If your people in charge are not constantly saying this daily, for those of you that listen to the Charlie Kirk show, you're probably sick of hearing this by now.

00:35:30.000 I literally say this like an incantation every day.

00:35:32.000 Because I've said, look, I'm a Trump guy, and that's fine.

00:35:35.000 I actually care more about whether or not we're investing in early state infrastructure, early in voter registration, law fair, signature verification, and yes, ballot chasing and getting our low-propensity voters to vote within a 30-day window.

00:35:50.000 Now, this is where I get a little bit of pushback from people, but I think I can win you over, okay?

00:35:54.000 What I saw with Kerry Lake change my opinion.

00:35:56.000 I'm a game day voter.

00:35:58.000 I'm going to keep on voting on election day.

00:35:59.000 That's how I'm wired.

00:36:00.000 It's how I was raised.

00:36:01.000 I'm not going to change my behavior.

00:36:02.000 However, when I went to go vote on game day in Scottsdale, Arizona for the Great Kerry Lake, there was a two and a half hour waiting line because those machines literally melted down and a five-hour thing where no one could cast ballots and thousands of great patriots were not able to vote at all.

00:36:17.000 That is an intentional sabotage because we broadcasted our play and said, Hey, all you have to do is, hey, it'd be a shame if that 12-hour voting period got harder for us to vote.

00:36:27.000 Okay.

00:36:28.000 So we can either repeat the same mistake again or we can change up our strategy a little bit to say, is there a way to get some of our voters that can't wait two and a half hours in a 90-degree heat in Phoenix, right, to be able to vote early in person, still somewhat secure?

00:36:44.000 Again, it's all there's a whole lawfare side that needs to happen to this, but it's better than not voting at all, right?

00:36:50.000 Is there a way to do this?

00:36:52.000 And so I think that we have to embrace a ballot chasing, in-person, early, low-propensity voting machine strategy.

00:37:00.000 We're trying to do this at turning point action.

00:37:01.000 Again, the RNC should be doing this, but they won't because they don't know how and they're not interested.

00:37:05.000 But this is the type of grassroots work that really needs to happen in eight or nine counties, okay?

00:37:10.000 Forget Pennsylvania.

00:37:11.000 I think it's a waste of time.

00:37:12.000 People get mad when I say that.

00:37:14.000 If they can elect John Fetterman as a U.S. Senator, I'm done.

00:37:17.000 I'm not kidding.

00:37:18.000 I have put that state to rest.

00:37:19.000 I don't think it's going to.

00:37:20.000 I think we have to go all in on three states.

00:37:22.000 Again, what I say in private is what I say in public.

00:37:24.000 I was talking to the president the other day.

00:37:26.000 He said, Who do you think I should have for vice president?

00:37:28.000 I think you should have Senator Ron Johnson for two reasons.

00:37:31.000 Number one, he had courage on the vaccine issue when other people faltered and ran to the hills.

00:37:36.000 Number two, number two, I grew up in northern Illinois, like 20 minutes from the border.

00:37:41.000 Wisconsin's a very tribal state.

00:37:42.000 Anyone from Wisconsin, they will elect one of their own, right?

00:37:45.000 If you have a Wisconsinite as VP, they will go that way.

00:37:48.000 I think you could almost ensure that you would win Wisconsin, which then really makes it a two-state presidential race, Georgia and Arizona.

00:37:54.000 Arizona, I could tell you how to win.

00:37:56.000 Georgia is a crooked state. 0.94

00:37:57.000 I don't know.

00:37:58.000 That one is going to take a lot of prayer, a lot of work, and a lot of grit because that place is, I think, one of the most corrupt places on planet Earth when it comes to elections.

00:38:06.000 Arizona is bad, but it's actually, I think, more manageable.

00:38:09.000 That's it.

00:38:10.000 That's the whole election.

00:38:11.000 So you might say, Charlie, what about the Senate, the House?

00:38:13.000 Honestly, I think all eyes have to be on winning back the White House.

00:38:17.000 Day one of the White House, you could close the border.

00:38:19.000 You could hold China accountable. 0.96

00:38:20.000 There's so much you could do, right?

00:38:21.000 We're in an era now where there's more power than ever in an executive.

00:38:25.000 I don't love that.

00:38:26.000 It's the way it is.

00:38:26.000 You don't love that.

00:38:27.000 We have to have someone get in, break up the FBI, break up the Department of Justice, hold these fourth branch of government account, do real things, right?

00:38:35.000 So, and so my number one macro focus is: okay, the primary is going to be nasty and bitter and awful and personal and cruel.

00:38:43.000 I already don't like looking at it.

00:38:45.000 It's just not really enjoyable for me.

00:38:47.000 It's just not.

00:38:47.000 But what, so therefore, all my time and attention instead is like, okay, why don't we then go to the place where we should be focusing on?

00:38:54.000 And again, I'm incredibly frustrated when I see these people that are totally, in my personal opinion, what's the best way to word it?

00:39:04.000 I'm usually not really politically correct. 0.99

00:39:06.000 Other losers running for the U.S. presidency. 0.89

00:39:09.000 And I mean, you got Chris Christie running for the presidency, and you got, I mean, one after the other. 0.96

00:39:13.000 And I think, honestly, I mean, you could have a conspiracy side of it, or you could just have the truth of it.

00:39:17.000 It could be an ego, or it could be just make this so expensive, make it so bloody, make it so difficult for Trump to enter cleanly where he has to fight on so many different, and he might still get through it, that then there's zero investment in Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona.

00:39:33.000 So, look, here's the good news: these crooks, what they've done in Arizona and Georgia and Wisconsin, they've lied and steated.

00:39:40.000 We're still falling like 9,000 votes short.

00:39:43.000 We're falling like 11,000 votes short.

00:39:45.000 We're falling like 7,000 votes short.

00:39:47.000 So we're right within the margins where it's, if we do any of this a little bit better, you know, I think we can overcome it.

00:39:55.000 And then some of you, the cynical, will be a Charlie, they'll cheat no matter what.

00:39:58.000 Please knock that attitude off, okay?

00:40:00.000 If that was possible, he never would have won in 2016.

00:40:03.000 Okay.

00:40:03.000 I agree with you.

00:40:04.000 They are going to cheat no matter what, but there's a breaking point to evil.

00:40:08.000 I really believe that.

00:40:09.000 And if there's enough faithful action by truth seekers, you could break through that darkness.

00:40:14.000 I really believe that.

00:40:15.000 Okay, one or two more.

00:40:16.000 You want me?

00:40:16.000 Okay.

00:40:21.000 Yes, Daniel Murphy here.

00:40:24.000 Our medical facilities are overflowing with illegal aliens, the Medicaid that we have now in expansion in Idaho, plus people who have jobs and they get medical insurance.

00:40:38.000 I asked this question of you about two years ago when you came to Idaho, and I just wanted to see if you changed your mind.

00:40:44.000 Are you still for forcing us veterans out of our veterans' hospitals into the medical industry that's not the veterans' hospital?

00:40:59.000 Because here in Boise, we have a great VA.

00:41:02.000 And my second question is: have you visited the VA?

00:41:05.000 And are you up on that?

00:41:08.000 That's a real tricky way to word what I said, forcing veterans out. 1.00

00:41:13.000 No, what I said is that you're definitely the outlier.

00:41:16.000 Most veterans hate the VA.

00:41:18.000 In fact, they find it to be awful and terrible.

00:41:20.000 So I'll let you guys debate it amongst yourselves.

00:41:22.000 Yes, I have visited a VA and it was an insult.

00:41:25.000 So to be clear about my position, it was actually pro-veteran, as I said, they should all get a Medicare for all card to be able to go to any hospital they want at any time to get world-class service.

00:41:34.000 That's my opinion, right?

00:41:36.000 And so, but if you have a great VA, let's just talk realistic.

00:41:40.000 None of this is going to change anytime soon, right?

00:41:42.000 But my intent, which doesn't always matter in life, it can, was actually a pro-veteran intent, which is that when veterans are calling the VA hotline like happened under Obama, the suicide hotline that wasn't checked for six months, right?

00:41:56.000 And I thought my motivation was to give them a Medicare card so they could shop around so that our veterans are treated the best.

00:42:03.000 That was always my driving motivation.

00:42:05.000 But if you guys have a wonderful VA hospital here in Idaho, I have learned something new.

00:42:14.000 If you care, go ahead.

00:42:16.000 I like you mentioned zucker boxes. 0.96

00:42:19.000 I like your new word.

00:42:21.000 I think we should invent more of those new words who died and put them in charge of language, like calling them oppressives.

00:42:27.000 They like to be called progressives, but they're not.

00:42:30.000 Everything they do is oppressive.

00:42:32.000 We have to reclaim the language, right? 0.99

00:42:35.000 And so these people are tyrants and totalitarians and Marxists.

00:42:39.000 And I like the term Marxist.

00:42:41.000 It's a good catch-all term. 0.99

00:42:43.000 But they're also just thugs. 0.99

00:42:46.000 These people are thugs. 0.83

00:42:47.000 And you do not beat thugs just by playing nice and having happy talk. 0.95

00:42:52.000 Okay.

00:42:54.000 Charlie, they've got a plan and they're executing it beautifully.

00:42:58.000 I mean, never before in this country have we had government, corporations, entertainment, medicine, education, all working so cohesively together.

00:43:10.000 And it's working.

00:43:11.000 I mean, you have to admit, it is.

00:43:13.000 And it feels so oppressive to go up against.

00:43:16.000 You don't have to worry about me fighting.

00:43:17.000 I will fight.

00:43:19.000 I only have 500 Facebook. fans.

00:43:22.000 I don't know how much I can do, but I do it and they all know I do and they all message me secretly because they're afraid to like my posts and I'm very careful about what I do.

00:43:30.000 But it's hard for us to have a plan because they took the media away from us.

00:43:35.000 And especially my generation, we still believe, I don't, I worked in broadcasting for 22 years.

00:43:42.000 I was there when Clinton deregulated.

00:43:44.000 But a certain generation still believes you can turn on the news and get the truth.

00:43:50.000 And when Trump first started saying mainstream, I mean, fake news, I even thought, oh, boy, fake news.

00:43:58.000 But it is fake news.

00:44:00.000 And I think a lot of us know that now.

00:44:02.000 Yeah, what's the question?

00:44:03.000 I'm so sorry.

00:44:03.000 My question is, how do we get a plan out that we can all feel cohesive?

00:44:07.000 I mean, we can all follow you.

00:44:09.000 We can follow, you know, a lot of different conservatives, but how do we get a nationwide cohesive plan?

00:44:15.000 Great question.

00:44:16.000 Okay, that's not going to happen anytime soon.

00:44:18.000 I'll tell you why.

00:44:19.000 Two reasons.

00:44:20.000 Temperamentally, it's really hard to get all of us to work together.

00:44:23.000 We are not hive-minded.

00:44:24.000 We're not collectivists.

00:44:25.000 We're not the left, by definition, looks at themselves as part of a the Star Trek episode of The Borg is honestly the best.

00:44:34.000 And I know that might not resonate with some of you, but it's a collective body.

00:44:38.000 They take over things.

00:44:39.000 There's no individual thought.

00:44:41.000 Now, as far as a centralized plan, there is a place for part of it.

00:44:45.000 This is one of my frustrations, is we do not have an opposition party in this country.

00:44:50.000 We don't.

00:44:51.000 Our opposition party has merged with the Uniparty for the exact, they don't care there are borders open.

00:44:56.000 They make a bigger deal that Zelensky is not getting his $5 billion wire transfer every other week, which by the way, I couldn't care less about what happens in Ukraine while our own border remains completely and totally wide open.

00:45:11.000 And please, at the next time your U.S. senators have a town hall in the state, you need to show up.

00:45:17.000 They are voting for this stuff, okay?

00:45:20.000 In fact, one of them is one of the active spokespeople for further involvement.

00:45:25.000 So you're like, okay, what do I do?

00:45:27.000 Show up at that town hall and start screaming and being like, why are we sending one red penny to Ukraine while the U.S. southern border is open?

00:45:36.000 They have town halls.

00:45:37.000 I don't, so please do that.

00:45:39.000 So here's the thing.

00:45:40.000 I see some positive.

00:45:41.000 Number one, information consumption habits are changing.

00:45:44.000 I'm sure a lot of you have changed how you get your information.

00:45:47.000 Please do more podcasting, more rumble, right?

00:45:50.000 Steve Bannon is a great option.

00:45:52.000 Matt Walsh is a great option.

00:45:53.000 Maybe we can earn a place for that.

00:45:55.000 There's some amazing podcasters out there that are going after the truth and telling the truth.

00:46:00.000 That's just outside of the easy to watch mainstream media.

00:46:02.000 If you don't know about Real America's Voice, please, it's a really good network, everybody.

00:46:07.000 And it's an all-star network.

00:46:08.000 You got John Solomon.

00:46:09.000 You got Ed Henry, right?

00:46:11.000 You got Bannon, myself, Jack Pasobic.

00:46:13.000 It's pretty good.

00:46:14.000 And it is after the truth all the time.

00:46:16.000 It's called Real America's Voice.

00:46:18.000 But finally, as far as the plan, the American right right now is in the time being, and I'm just going to warn all of you because I could see it happening already on Twitter, which is not real life, but you could see it.

00:46:30.000 We're about to go through an incredibly fractured, divisive, unnecessarily brutal primary that's going to make any sort of plan.

00:46:41.000 So that's why I am clear about who I'm supporting, but I'm trying to build things and building things is hard.

00:46:48.000 And so that's where my platform and what I'm trying to do, because there will be a day after the primary.

00:46:53.000 That day will exist. 0.88

00:46:54.000 And it's going to look like Nagasaki in the Republican Party, like an atom bomb went off.

00:47:00.000 And we're like, well, we got 90 days where we have to go against Joe Biden.

00:47:04.000 But at least, you know, Trump got 53% of the delegates instead of 61% of the delegates.

00:47:09.000 It's going to be a $1 billion primary, everybody.

00:47:12.000 And the better question is, why are Republican donors going to put hundreds of millions of dollars for a personality contest when we desperately need that money in Georgia, Wisconsin, and Arizona?

00:47:23.000 That's a more important question.

00:47:24.000 Okay.

00:47:25.000 So one more question.

00:47:27.000 Sorry, don't be disappointed because we still have a few remaining tickets, not many, but a few remaining tickets for the dinner tonight.

00:47:35.000 So hang on after he leaves.

00:47:37.000 Don't all rush out of here.

00:47:38.000 Taryn's going to tell you how you can get those last few tickets if you want to see him at the VIP fundraiser dinner tonight.

00:47:44.000 One last question.

00:47:47.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:47:47.000 This is Eric from Our Liberty Voice.

00:47:50.000 My question for you is, how do we encourage our friends to break out of their comfort zone and speak and act against the spirit of the age?

00:48:00.000 Boy, that's hard.

00:48:01.000 The zeitgeist, the spirit of the age.

00:48:03.000 Yeah.

00:48:03.000 So look, courage begets courage, and you have to act in a certain way, and people will start to follow that action.

00:48:09.000 It's a great question to end on, actually.

00:48:11.000 So I know some of you were probably, you know, this is a little bit to the earlier question, which is great, but it wasn't said this plainly.

00:48:19.000 But I get asked a lot, Charlie, are we going to win or are we going to lose?

00:48:23.000 Are you optimistic or are you pessimistic?

00:48:26.000 Now, if I told you I was optimistic, you would go home and say, I don't have to do anything because Charlie's optimistic that we are going to win.

00:48:33.000 If I told you I was pessimistic, you would go home and say, I don't have to do anything because the whole place is falling apart.

00:48:38.000 And then you'd get really big into the rapture stuff, right?

00:48:42.000 And instead, I'm going to tell you, I always tell you the truth.

00:48:46.000 That is my commitment to you, the audience.

00:48:48.000 I always tell you the truth.

00:48:50.000 I have no idea how this thing's going to end up.

00:48:53.000 It's conceivable this country is done in 10 years.

00:48:56.000 There is no guarantee we win.

00:49:00.000 Any person that comes up and tells you is dealing hopium and should not be on a stage.

00:49:06.000 Okay?

00:49:07.000 We're going to win in the end.

00:49:08.000 Okay.

00:49:09.000 And the ultimate end, Jesus is coming back.

00:49:11.000 The country, I have no idea.

00:49:13.000 At the same time, anyone who tells you that it's for sure over is equally deceiving you.

00:49:20.000 That's actually this like really weird middle ground we're in right now.

00:49:24.000 I see some positives.

00:49:25.000 Parents are rising up.

00:49:26.000 Homeschooling is increasing.

00:49:27.000 You guys are showing up to events.

00:49:28.000 We're seeing an increased enlightenment happening in the country, a elevated frequency happening.

00:49:34.000 At the same time, we see the degenerate stuff.

00:49:36.000 We see they're going after kids.

00:49:37.000 We see the corporations.

00:49:38.000 We have leaders that hate us.

00:49:40.000 They control everything in D.C.

00:49:41.000 So how do you put that all together?

00:49:43.000 And the answer is we don't know.

00:49:45.000 So the more important question is than what do I do, right?

00:49:50.000 Talked about an attitude shift.

00:49:52.000 Well, some of you are probably here, and I could tell by some of the body language, like Charlie, I already have done everything that's been asked of me.

00:49:59.000 Okay.

00:50:00.000 I used to watch Tucker Carlson's show.

00:50:04.000 I bought the pillow.

00:50:06.000 I have.

00:50:09.000 By the way, promo code Kirk at mypillow.com, just so we're clear.

00:50:15.000 I've done everything that has been asked of me.

00:50:20.000 And I kind of chuckle and I say, well, no, you haven't.

00:50:23.000 I have not done everything that's been asked of me.

00:50:25.000 Okay.

00:50:26.000 It's been an amazing 11.

00:50:27.000 I've been doing this for 11 years.

00:50:28.000 Turning Point USA is now on thousands of high school and college campuses.

00:50:33.000 I believe we've really done an amazing job.

00:50:34.000 In fact, New York Times article comes out two days ago.

00:50:37.000 Millennials are 35 points more conservative than they were 10 years ago.

00:50:42.000 Okay?

00:50:43.000 35 points.

00:50:44.000 It's almost 50-50.

00:50:47.000 And again, I'm not, I mean, Ben Shapiro deserves credit.

00:50:50.000 Matt Walsh deserves credit, but Turning Point also deserves credit, okay?

00:50:54.000 Turning point deserves credit.

00:50:55.000 And it's a group effort, okay?

00:50:57.000 So then what is it to do?

00:50:59.000 Is that we must view our action.

00:51:02.000 This is the one, the biggest takeaway: action as an obligation, not as I'm going to engage in the betting odds.

00:51:12.000 Somebody says, Well, Charlie, I don't know if I'm going to act as much, you know, if I don't think we're going to win.

00:51:18.000 That's actually not relevant.

00:51:20.000 What's relevant is why do you do it?

00:51:23.000 You do it because it's the right thing to do, you do it because the Lord commands you to do it.

00:51:30.000 Jeremiah 29:7, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.

00:51:37.000 And I could guarantee you they win if we surrender and we give up and we do not do our job and we do not lean in.

00:51:44.000 And so, how do we get other people to wake up, kind of close it all together?

00:51:48.000 Is that you have to look for moments of courageous action?

00:51:52.000 You have to get in the arena and not be a spectator, which I know so many of you people are doing.

00:51:58.000 And then you have to be honest with yourself: Am I giving all I can?

00:52:01.000 Am I learning something new every day?

00:52:03.000 Am I being the best family leader that I possibly can?

00:52:07.000 Am I getting my church to speak out on these issues?

00:52:10.000 Am I educating my kids on these issues and my local school board on these issues?

00:52:15.000 And you might say, Well, Charlie, my little impact will not make a difference.

00:52:19.000 Again, it doesn't matter.

00:52:20.000 You're doing this as a direct act of worship.

00:52:22.000 But if I said that when I was 18 years old, 11 years ago, or 11 year birthdays on Monday, then Turning Point USA would not exist.

00:52:31.000 You're right.

00:52:31.000 When I first started Turning Point, one 18-year-old kid in the suburbs of Chicago, not going to college, trying to get kids to love, did not make a difference until it did make a difference.

00:52:42.000 And that's, you have no idea how the Lord will use your action.

00:52:47.000 If you do, then you are playing God, and none of us are called to do that.

00:52:51.000 And so, are our best days ahead or are our worst days ahead?

00:52:55.000 It's actually wholly dependent on what we do.

00:52:59.000 And together, we'll find out.

00:53:01.000 God bless you guys.

00:53:01.000 Thanks so much.

00:53:06.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:53:07.000 Everybody, email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:53:11.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

00:53:15.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - July 05, 2023

Speaking the Truth When it Hurts — LIVE from We the Patriots

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